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doesn’t write. I feel so puzzled every time I think about the hurry in which he left us. Sometimes I get to thinking about it when I am sitting alone over my work, and then I fail to count my stitches correctly, or forget to number them at all. Yesterday I had to take out half a yard, f do believe, of that dif ficult double-stitch work, which you learned me how to do Ellen, and l de clare! I got so impatient and troubled that I came near throwing it all away. Mr. Alston and I lived here so long a lone and undisturbed that anything like confusion now quite upsets me. I get so flurried I don’t know what to do with ! myself. I never would have believed I j could have enjoyed a trip to the Springs, so much as l should have done, had you and Mr. Alston been well, but I liked Mrs. Bates and her daughter Fanny so much. The Doctor, too, was a very kind, good hearted man. I wonder if we shall ever, meet with them again ! It isn’t much likely that I ever shal’, unless Fanny shall take it into her head to vis it us, as I hope she mav ; one of these days.” __ _ / The Parisian Ladies in Winter. The Paris correspondent of the Courier ties Etats-Unis, in his letter of February 1, writes ns follows : The rigor of the season brings out new proofs of the valor of the Parisian ladies and the robust energy which enables them to brave and support the most violent temper ature. These ladies so frail in nppernnee do not allow themselves to be conquered eith er by the cold or the fatigues of winter. You will see them pass ten nights in succession at balls without missing a contra dance, and enter as lightly into the last waltz at 4 o’clock in the morning, as they began the first at 10 in the evening. You will meet them at ten degrees of cold, if they have any occasion to go out on foot, tripping with a light step over the ice and meeting the se verity of the atmosphere with a gracious and smiling face. This is the so called weak sex. When the men wrap themselves up in thick paletots, and plunge their faces into large comforters, (cache-nez) fortifying their feet with a double covering of leather and indin rubber, the women envelope themselves only j as much as they can without marring the I elegance of their figures, or injuring their ; fine proportions. The most cruel tortures J would not make them adopt a shoe or boot \ which would increase the size of their feet. ! As to the face, it remains always completely ‘ uncovered, thanks to the little hat they wear j under the head, and they will scarcely from j time to time venture to rub their noses with i their fur cuffs to prevent freezing them. A philosopher of the school of good sense. ; inquired lately why the Paris ladies did not bring up again an old fashion and wear masks to preserve them from the cold. He j was told that in the first place the Paris la dies were never cold, and then they had too ■ much benevolence to hide their charming j faces. ] Later from California. The great feature of the news since the j sailing of the last steamer is the failure of! the several Banking Houses When the news first came of the failure of Page & Ba- j con of St. Louis, a run commenced at once : on Page, Bacon, & Cos., which was kept up all that day, and over £.40,900 was with-| drawn from the bank. The ne.Tt day the ; ruu ceased, and matters apparently were moving on as usual, till the morning the 22J, when their bank was not opened .at usual hour, and shortly after handbills j were sent all over town, announcing that ! they must suspend. It seems that quite nj deep run had been going on all day, till their j specie was reduced to less than SIOO,OOO. i and they feared to keep open any longer.— ‘■ Owing to the fact that it was a holiday, but; little business was done that day; yet it | seems that over $200,000 was drawn out du- j ring the diy from Adams & Co's. That ev- | *sning the steamer arrived with news that i Page, Bacon & Co's, drafts had all been paid j it was then supposed that the excitement i and trouble was over. j stthe next morning Ad tun & Cos , an -1 Bounced they too must susp ml, and shortly softer WidLa, Fargo Cos., followed suit.— , Tw© ®uiaStl Affairs cal Savings Banks did the Siitoe, *ad then cau>e a general run ou | all that remained open. The greatest run j was epun Drsxel S ither & Church B Da- ! vidso* and Lseats, Turner Sr Cos . Tall uni & i Wilde SajiAerc & Cregba.n, suffered lit- . tie frost .tbe paasie, aud paid o.T their depos itors. Palmer, Cook k Cos., were not affec ted by tbe imju iat ihbe least, but paid every Claim ae peveseniei. Tkk house, which has been most ffereely imsuied during the past y*r for pwtizaa purposes, sod ever. 7 means both fair sund ut£ir, (taken .o impa ir its j credit, wkea the Kour f trial canto it was ; found stronger titan aay hou.ua iu the ity, i and able ta lend a helping hand to its neij.’h- | bor. On Saturday the ram-OMitiuued, thong.’ j most of the atnall dcsptitr had withdrawn ( their depositor a the day beCw*- Various I rumors have been in circulation relative to | the affairs of the differeat bouafts, bat we can assure people of notbiag mare than has I transpired Page, Bacon will rmme, it is said, on the 28th, their rredittft* kav- ■ ing given them an extension on n large a- f mount of their indebtedness. Weils, Fargo & Cos., give strong promise of an early re- j Bumptiou; and Adams & Cos., iu our paper of this morning, tnuke a statement iu regard to their affairs, which represent them to be able to go on again, if sufficient leniency is showu j by their creditors. i The steamer George Law arrived at New York on Saturday with California dates to the first inst., and $318,000 in Gold, Cot. , Fremont is a passenger. Wells & Fargo had j resumed payment. Adams & Cos. filed ape- j tition of insolvency which shows a schedule of, SIOO,OOO in their favor. Kobinsou & Cos. is a bad failure. 1 A New Ordkh.—A secret political asso ciation has been organised in Ohio in opposi tion to the Know Nothings, the members of which are called * Wild Cats.” Cincinnati is the head quarters of the society ; and it if said that the *< qualification of members ■hall be native born or residence of five years in the United States, and to have adopted the United States as their homes, freedom from any alliance with any religious politi cal society or organization,” John Adams, a Nebraska democrat, has been elected Mayor of Galena, 111. • THE STANDARD. ! CASSVIL.LE, GEO. THURSDAY MORNING: MARCH 29, 1855. | DEMOCRATIC MEETING. The Democracy of Cass County are requested to meet, in Cassville, on Tuesday next, (sale day) to nominate ’ Candidates for the Legislature and j delegates to the State and District Conventions to nominate Candidates for Governor and representative to Congress, for the fifth district. Mch. 29—It. _ Pay your Postage. i Remember—all unpaid letters after next ■ Sunday will be left in the office, where they | are mailed. No Steamer Yet. At the time we go to press, we have no in- I formation of the arrival of the Atlantic—the | next steamer from Europe, which was due j at New York on Thursday last. ; Stop the Thief! j We desire to direct attention to Mr. Brant- I ly's advertisement in another column. We | sincerely hope that the scoundrel of a thief i may be taken. If our brethren of the press j will make an editorial item of the matter, ! with description, &c., they will confer a fa vor on a worthy man and an old typo, who j has been for half a century at the business I Come brethren, pass it along. The Weather. Since our lust issue, the weather has been playing all sorts of pranks. We nave previ ously notated something about, that untime ly frost, which we fear has done more dam age than < doth now appear.” It has friz several times since then—rained a little— bloivrd a good deal and on Tuesday morning we found the ground, house tops, &c., cover ed with snow, giving our town—to use the elegant and poetic language of a cotempora ry a little further up the road—*< very much the appearance of pictures of Lapland, we have seen ’ We don't pretend to say it looked like Lapland—mark that. Col. Chastain’s Letter. To the almost total exclusion of editorial matter, we give place this week, to the able letter of our representative, lion. E. W. Cham ain, defining bis position on the sub ject of a District Convention. It is just what we expected from him—bold, open and j manly, and shews him to be, what we have ; always claimed for him, true to the princi- I pies of the party. We have never doubted j for a moment that he would cheerfully yield j a ready compliance to the expressed will of j rt majority, and his letter sets the whole nia.’er at rest. In ti.bj connection, we beg to draw atten tion to the ‘‘•all for a meeting of the Democ racy of this county, to be held in this place on next Tuesday—April 3J. Let it be large ly attended, and ict our opponents see that we are determined to meet them with a bold front—-fully and properly organized, and j ready for tbe fight. The of this j county and district need not fear defeat, if; they are true to themselves. Thrice arm- . ed is he whose cause is in the right.” But we : have a wily and sleepless enemy, and it be- i hooves every mnu to be found at his post with j his armor on. and, above all, in the regular ! lines Israel lost favor in the sight of the Almighty when she sought other gods—let j the Democracy take warning. The country j is swarming with false gods. Keep away from them— be true to first principles, and the victory is ours. The New Regiments. Thu Washington Union of the 20th inst., contains the list of appointments of Captains and Lieutenants In the four new Regiments, The names of the following Georgians oc cur : First Regiment or Cavalry. Captain ! —George T. Anderson, of Georgia ; second ; lieutenant Georgia mounted volunteers in war with Mexico. First Uvntenant —Alfred Iverson, jr., of | Georgia ; second lieutenant mounted volun- ; teers in war with Mexico. Tenth Regiment ue Infantry—Ri himkm, First Lieutenant —Alfred Cum min g, <*f Georgia; second lieutenant 16th | July, 1860, seventh infantry, active service ;cm It’diftu frontier. First commissioned, ! 18-17. TJie two former are appointments from civ il | jf,.—the last is a promotion of an office in the regular service. Most of the appointments made are of civ ; iliauts. Savani'AH Morning News.— W. T. 1 Thompson, I’.eq. who has beeu its editor from ; the first has purchased the interest of his Jste partners iu this excellent daily and will, in future both edit and publish it. r Gen. A. C. Garlingten, of 8. C. t has been 1 elected Commencement Orator, to deliver | the Address before tbo two Literary Socie • ties of the University of Goorgia, in August, 1850. At about one o'clock Saturday the town ! 1 of SaudersviUe was visited by a most, des tructive conflagration, which consumed the greater part of the town, iuoluding the Court House, Rost Office, Central Georgian prin ting office, Masoui<\ OJd Follows, Knights : of Jericho Lodges, together with their re | cords. Now is •* sugaring time” in Vermont, and the Vermouters are lull of work and sport, i The amount of sugar annually made in that I State is 6,000,000 pounds, worth #650,000. j Our Book Table. Out of Doors at Idlewild, or the Shaping of on the Banks of the Hudson, by N. P. Willis. New York: Charles Scribner. We read these delightful letters as they appeared in the Home Journal. They are written in the author's happiest style, light, dashing and brilliant, while, at the same time, there is running through them a vein of deep, true feeling, which shews them to be from tbe writer’s heart—the true breath ings of an invalid whom disease cannot rob of ft native kindliness for his fellows, and ft good natured perception of every day affairs in his neighborhood. The work is handsome ly gotten up, and docs credit to the publisher. ; The price is $1.25 in cloth binding, or .75 | in full gilt. Life and Beauties of Fanny Fern. New York. H Long & Brother. Cloth Bind ing, SI.OO. Our readers are well aware that we are no admirer of Fanny Fern. We consider her a coarse, vulgar and thoroughly unfeeling woman—possessing a considerable amount of a kind of talent, which she has prostituted for her own selfish ends. Entertaining this opinion of her, it will scarcely be expected that we should become her apologist. We have no such intention, but candor compels us to say that we like the book before us infinitely less tlion any one of her acknowl edged publications It professes to shew up the renowned authoress in a true light, and is, we doubt not, in the main ft pretty cor rect history of her life. But it is character ized by so much undisguised ill-feeling, is so full of envy and contemptible fault finding, and betrays, throughout, such a disposition to give only the darkest side of the picture that even Fanny’s enemies will turn from it with a feeling of dissatisfaction if not of dis gust. Books conceived in tbe spirit which evidently gave birth to this one, are never productive of good The work is well print ed and handsomely bound. Harper's Magazine, New York, Harper & Brothers. Our thanks are due to Mess. S. O. Cour tenay & Cos. of Charleston, for the February and March numbers of this widely known periodical. They are both good .. Virgin ia Illustrated,” commenced in the December and continued in the February number is capital, both as to letter press and illustra tions. Abbott’s Napoleon Bonaparte.” which has been dragging its weary length through the work for the past two or three years, is at length concluded in th : s num ber. We are glad of it, nnd 83, we douht not, are three-fourths of Harper's readers, i* Glances at our Moral and Social Statis tics*’ is valuable, and the remaining articles are good, so many as we have been able to read. The leading paper in the March number is an illustrated account of Lieut. Strain’s .. Darien Exploring Expedition ” We hav’nt yet had time to read it, but we dare say it is worthy of Mr J. T. Headley, whose name appears in connection with it. We are pleased with the article on Rattle snakes, though we should hate to have to swear to the truth of some of the stories.— Thackeray's * Newcorues,” is continued, nnd is likely to be, we should think, to an indefinite period. Some weeks ago we re published from the Montgomery Mail a pretty severe criticism of the course of this Magazine towards the South. Subsequently, friend Hooper has had occasion to change bis mind, and we cheerfully give place to what lie says : <, It is proper for us to state here, that we have been induced to change our views some what in regard to Harper. A valued friend assures us, that whatever inimical to South ern institutions appeared in the work, was A purely accidental intrusion. He pledges his word to us that the proprietors are themselves conservative men, entertaining none but friendly sentiments to our people. Our friend's opportunities of knowing these facts leave no room for mistake, ami liis judgment, integrity and devotion to the South are alike unquestionable.” The Schoolfellow: A Magazine for Boys and Girls, Edited by Win. C Richards and Mrs. Alice B. Neal. New York : J. S Dickerson. The March number of our little favorite conies to us richly freighted as usual, with the most charming stories and poems for the little folks. We are really sorry to see that our number comes in a wrapper to itself. Won’t some of our little friends let us send on their names for it, so that our School fellow can have company on his voyage ? Remember it is only one dollar a year, for twelve numbers, each one almost worth the price of subscription. Our Bill says it beats all the Magazines for young folks within the circle of his acquaintance, and lie's been at the printing business two years and is << posted up.” We will cheerfully send on the names and money, for any one or more of our young acquaintances. Who speaks first.’ Treatise on Dentristy, by James J. Da vid, Dentist. Atlanta, Ga.: Ilauleiter's Job office A useful little pamphlet, containing much valuable information relative to the teeth. The uuthor deals some pretty hard blows at a certain class of tooth carpenters, who with nothing to recommend them but impu dence, circumlocute all over the country, to the great injury of the profession and of the public health. The typographical appear ance of the pamphlet displays the good taste and excellent workmanship of our friend Hanleiter, who stands at the head of his profession. • Kate Aylksford.”—This is the title of a now work, about to be issued by T. B. Peterson, Philadelphia. n A story of the Refugees” i and, as the prospectus states, i a true tale of the times that tried men's souls.” It gives a•* faithful picture of tho manners of ’76” These opinions having been expressed by some of the leading Edi-” tors of the day, wo look forward, with some interest, to the appearnnoc of the work. The author, is Mr. Chan J. Peterson; the price will be, in paper-, sl.; iu cloth, $1,25. Missouri owes fiur bonds burned on her own account #802,000, Bho has loaned her cred it by endorsement of the bonds of railroad companies to the amount of #8,250,000. Tho venerable widow of President IlnrrL ■son has rucovcredhnr usual health. Letter from Hon. E. W. Chastain. i To THE Editors of the Standard : Gentlemen : During the past few months I have received numerous letters from vari ous portions of tbe sth Congressional Dis-. trict, soliciting an expression of my views as to the propriety of holding a Convention for the nomination of ft candidate for the suf frages of the people at the coining fall elec tions. I have adopted this mode of answer ing these letters, not from any want of cour tesy to the writers, but because the subject; being one on which every voter in the Dis- j trict enjoys an equal right to know the opin ions of his representative, as well as to en tertain and express his own, I have deemed I it best to make known those opinions through j the medium of the public press. It cannot be denied even by the most bit ter opponents of the cherished principles of our common political faith, that the pros perity of our country at home, and the bigli | position it now occupies amongst the first and most powerful nations of the world, im pose increased responsibilities on tbe De mocracy of the nation, through whose policy and principles this national greatness has been achieved. From thirteen States, con taining a population of a little over three millions, we have become a mighty nation, dispensing all the comforts of life uud all the blessings of equal liberty nnd equal rights to upwards of twenty-five millions of inhabitants. We have extended our terri tory from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and have thrown open the countless acres of our vast domain to the capital and industry of the oppressed of all nations, under whose skilful toil the wilderness disappears, the forests are felled, and the log cabins of the hardy and adventurous settler give way to the cities nnd towns and villages, which spring up as if by magic, enlarging the area j of freedom and multiplying the blessings of! civilization, religion and liberty. We have, in a word, become a mighty na tion, powerful in all the elements of moral and political greatness, and it is due to the truth of history, and should not therefore be deemed offensive or invidious by those not of our political faith, to proclaim, as I now j do. that all this is the legitimate fruit of j Democratic ascendancy in the administration i of onr happy Government. We have added Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and California to the constellation of States, and Minnesota, New Mexico, Utah, Kansas and Nebraska will soon be knocking at the doors of Congress for admission into our glo rious confederacy. I refer to these acquisi tions not to dwell upon the advantages which they have conferred upon the nation at large, but to remark that that they are tributes which the Democratic party have laid upon the altar of cur country, in the face of the most uncompromising hostility from those opposed—no doubt honestly-—to our pe culiar party. In this march of national progress the De mocracy of Georgia have not been idle spectators. We have not been laggards on the way, nor shall we commence the back ward movement now, when our country can so favorably point to the many triumphs of our measures and policy—achieved alike in peace and war—in the cabinet and in the field. The increased responsibilities already al luded to. will, I am confident, be fully met by our Democratic brethren throughout the State. It only remains for me to add that my confidence is no less strong, that the gal lant Democracy of the sth will prove them selves worthy of their past achievements. On one tiling they may rely—that whatever may be the position they shall be pleased to assign me, whether as their standard bearer or as a orivate in the lines, they will find me willing, prompt, unflinching, fighting with them side by side, wherever duty calls, in the defence and maintenance of our glo rious principles. There is one point more on which it is nec essary to say a few words The enemy have already commenced the contest, but, unfor tunately for the success of their plans, they have made them known too soon—at least they have afforded us sufficient time to de feat and thwart them. They dread concert of action, unity of council; in a word, they deprecate a submission to the will of the people in the choice of candidates for their suffrages. This is their characteristic poli cy—indeed, it is one of their cardinal prin ciples to concentrate power in the hands of the few. by withdrawing it from the hands of the many. This is effected in sundry ways, but in the particular case in which they recommend it to us, they would desire to accomplish it by repudiating any direct reference of the question to the people, nnd stimulating the ambition of those who, to cari’3’ out their own selfish and corrupt or i perhaps traitorous purposes, (because indi rectly to divide and defeat our party and principles,) would proclaim themselves lead ers, regardless of the wishes of those whom they would pretend to lead. Among such, I shall never be found Before I would con sent to filch from my party a single vote, or rob my principles of a single defender, I would retire forever from public life—con- Bcious that by so doing I would attest my fidelity to a principle and party whose past and present chnllengo the admiration ofev* ery American patriot. The Democracy', therefore, have only to bo truo to themselves and to their principles. Let them spurn from their preaenco the intriguer and the time-server; let thorn spenk their opinions and express their proferenoo through the time-honored medium of a Convention, and be those opinions nnd preferences in whose favor they may, the candidate of their clioico [shall fiud none moro true in his support more active in li its success than Your grateful and obedient fellow citizen, E W. CHASTAIN. The Eldorado Outrage --Tho special Washington Correspondent of the New York Times, under date 19th inst., writes as fol lows : •* It is rumored that orders go out to Havana for tho naval foroo there to scok re paration for tho Eldorado -outrage. The Steamer Princeton. with ten heavy guns, is already there; the steamer Fulton, with five guns; the frigate Columbia, with fifty guns; and the sloop Falmouth, with twenty guns, are either there-now or will be very soon They are all under the command of Commo dore Newton- There is an additional foroe of fifty four guns at Norfolk ready, if want ed, at short notice.. ’ Tefik Pasha, the son in-law of Qmer Pasha ! has died of fever at Eupatoria. * B -- ■ -- -• Sebastopol in Georgia. We are greatly diverted at the . quill and ink battles* now being waged in the newspa per Crimea. Gov. Johnson represents Se bastopol, beleaguered by a host of allies whose efforts, we shrewdly suspect, will be about as successful ns the TUrkey-Bull-Frog alliance has been against the Russian bat teries. The Whigs nre the Turks whose pos sessions are menaced, and who cry out .Whig gery is Whiggery and Dawson is its proph et !’ Th< Know-Nothings i ptly represent , the English, and with my lord Ragland, } . Sum’ Jenkins, at their head, are digging j trenches which only serves ns common graves ’ for themselves. —The * League’ represent the j French, and, like their illustrious proto type* they stand cold weather and cold wa -1 ter infinitely better than their allies. With an Overby, they will perhaps buy over a ftw malcontents and inefficient deser ters from the hostile armybut these were never known to fight well, and at the first j charge they are cither unhorsed and cry for, ; quarter, ora shot in the back while retrea ting from the field. . Sain’—the Invisible Prince—is skulking about in the dark cor ners, wheedling some, cajoling some, bully ing others and humbugging himself with the 1 idea that secrecy is the the loadstone of pa triotic action. The Emperor Napoleon Ste phens. is at head quarters issuing orders : and dictating to three secretaries at once, leaving Canrobert Knowles to do the fight ing There will doubtless be bloody times before Sebastopol ere it is captured', if that I doubtful event ever does take place. South 1 Western News. The Mystery Solved! It is known that the Know Nothings uso figures to express certain ideas, instead of letters. This new alphabet commences with I the first letter in our common alphabet, and ; runs with odd numbers from 1 to 25, then with even numbers from 2 to 26. Take this key and apply it to their ideas as ex pressed in figures, aud we will guarantee that you have Know Nothingism stripped of all the mystery that has been thrown around it. For instance, take this question which { is frequently asked in Know Nothing papers I —Do you know 12, 1, 25 ? Now apply the ! key, and when interpreted, the question will stand —Do you know * Sam !’ Here is the key : ABCD EFGHI 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 JKLMNOPQR 19 21 23 25 2 4 6 8 10 S T U V W X Y Z 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 This is the animal, reader, horns and all! President Pierce, and the New Hamp shire Elections. A correspondent of the Boston Post, wri ting from Concord, March 14th, says ; . I have been permitted to copy the fol lowing high toned sentiment from a late private letter of our patriotic President to a friend in this city, which is pertinent to the point. The letter is dated about a week ogo. Gen. Pierce says— i .4 I am naturally anxious about tbe re- ! suit of the election in New Hampshire. But tell my friends that if, after a contest con- j ducted with the ability, honor, and courage, : ; with which this has bean, we are defeated. } ! such defeat, under such circumstances, will \ ! , 1 never disturb me for a moment. If you i could have carried the State witn the aid of any one of the isms, by a majority of 20,000, 1 aud would have consented to do so, I should. 1 in my feelings, have sounded the depths of i humilliation. As it is, no disappointment ; can depress me.” ’ Ju Dover, where J. P. Hale belongs, if : any where in New Hampshire, the Democrats j ! gained fifty nine votes. In Congress in | 1852, Hale solemly declared that, so long as j there should flow iu his veins the blood of; bis mother, who was the only child of an i Irish exile named O'Btien, so long nu Irish ! emigrant should never want words of en couragement or sympathy from him. If lie i ; had an impulse or a passion, he said it was j j when an appeal was made to his heart for ! nil Irish exile. Now his blood appears to be j a mere decoction of k n. pepper. —Boston Post. Gen. Scott, on Foreigners. The following is extracted from a speech delivered by General Scott at Elizabeth town. New Jersey, immediately after the j termination of the Mexican war. What a commentary this furnishes upon the course , a large majority of his political friends have I since then adopted with reference to our for ! eign boru citizens : j • You have been pleased, sir, to allude to : our adopted citizens. I can say that the i Irish, the Germans, the Swiss, the French, j the Britons, and other adopted citizens, j fought in the same rank, under the same colors, side by side with native Americans, j exhibiting like courage nnd efficiency, uni j ing at every victory in the same enthusiastic shouts in honor of ou> flag and country : From Vera Cruz to the capital of Mexico there i was a generous rivalry in heroic daring and j brilliant achievements Let those who wit nessed that career of valor and patriotism | sny, if they can, what race, according to j numbers, contributed most to the general successs nnd glory of the campaign. In the I many hard fought battles, there was no room i for invidious distinction. Jill proved them- j j selves the faithful sons of our beloved coun- , | try, nnd no spoctator could fail to dismiss : any imaginary prejudice he might have en j tertained as to the comparative merits of j Americans by birth aud Americans by adop- I ,ion - Nicholas held his throne by the right of direct doswwt from the founder of tho iinpc- i rial house, Michael’ Romanoff, who was eleo i tod hy the national council nnd crowned at Moscow in April 1618. In the course of tho two hundred nnd forty-two years that have since elapsed, Russia has had thirteen mo narchs of that family. The order of their j succession was as follows; Ist Michael; 2d | Alexis; 8d Feodor; 4tli Peter the Great; ! 6th Catharine I; 6ih Peter II; 7th Anne ; j j Bth Elizabeth ; 9th Peter III; 10th Cathe- ; rino II; lltli Paul; 12th Alexander ; 18th Nicholas. No More Expresses.—We learn from i , the Journal, that at a recent meeting of Railroad proprietors, (of lines between this city and Washington ) a resolution was a- j dopted, to stop the Express Business , after next July The reasou alleged is that the Expresses make too much money, while tho ! Railroad companies iloall tho work l—Mont. i Mail.. The Methodist Book Concern. The Cincinnati Gazette of the 19th an nounces as follows, the amicable settlement of a long disputed question between the Northern and Southern branches of the Methodist Church : The Southern Methodist Church suit a gainst the Methodist Book Conrcern, in this city, was on Friday last settled amicably by the joint commissions, now in session in our city, which is thus composed : For the South, Rev A L P Green, W L Smith, and C. B. Parson. For the Cincinnati branch of the Book Concern, Rev. J. F. Wright, M. Maily, E. Thompson nnd the agents, here, Swormstead & Cos. The terms of adjustment, we learn nre ns follows : The Book Concern is to pay the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, eighty thousand dollars in stock, and balance in cash—fiftec n thousand down, and the remainder in install ments ot two, three, four, five and years It j is undei stood that the Book Cotnern pays the i taxable costs yet due, nnd thnt they indoise the debts and notes of the Southern preach ers without recourse. As to all other cost 9, each party pays its I own. The final decree will be published be | lore long. How to Build up a City. The Richmond Examiner, in an excellent I j article on this subject, makes the following I truthful allusion : 4 Newspapers are to a town what its ad- ) vertisements are to its merchants. They do for a town gratuitously what advertising does for a man of business at a high cost. — They concentrate public attention upon its buildings, its sights, 4 lions,’ and wonders, its attractions of every name and class, up permost to the public mind. They go into every hook and corner of the surrounding country, into every mans door, and to every man’s fireside; they go abroad to greet dis- j tances, into other communities, among . strangers, exciting an interest among its con 1 ccrns, and spi ending information of its trade ! and attractions wherever they go. Tbe more the public at large hear and read of a town or country, the more they are tempted to see. visit, and explore it. What would a mer chant be if his name were unknown to the public, and his business were as obscure ns his name! What would a merchant’s sign board over the street door of his store do in attracting trade, if he did not send it with a catalogue of his wares, in newspaper, to ever man's door ? Who would be tempted : to visit a town that had no newspapers, and which they should hear only accidentally and once in a year or a life time ?’ A good newspaper gives more importance to a town than all other agencies combined. What passion is more universal than the pas sion for reading newspapers and learning tl.e news ? What disposition is more general and uncontrollable, than the disposition to visit places that we hear of and road in eve ry newspaper that comes to our door ? Compliment* from the President to Col. Benton A letter from Washington says : j 4 Perhaps a reconstruction of the Cabinet i may be necessary. Os that, however, there | is nothing absolutely known, hut the ap- I poiutments of late clearly pointed to anew j and bettor state of things at hand. When j Col. Benton, was being tried in the furnace j of affliction, the President called on him and tendered to him a home and the bospitali ! ties of the White House. Th'S was too much ; : for the stern old Roman, who could defy ! ! a world in arms against him, but melted to 1 j tears at such considerations and kindness 1 j from the President. He declined, with sui | table expressions of gratitude, accepting, i ; however, the proffered use ot library and ! manuscripts. A San Francisco editor, F. C. Ewer, rc i cuntlv prepared a fictitious sketch deserib i ing the sensation of a dying man. Fie, as | the best mode of overcoming all difficulties I involved in such relations, made his hero [describe bis death from the spiritual world. | The author was recently surprised to find | that Judge Edmonds, of N Y., had used his j fictitious narrative as the production of a veritable spirit and the Judge wrote to the i author to acquaint him with the fact that he had several spiritual interviews with this defunct hero,” who never had any exis- i fence except in Mr. Ewer’s brain. Mr Ew- j er’s letter is rather an amusing proof of the exceeding credulity of the Judge, nnd the ludicrous absurdities ill which the pro- j fessed spiritualists involve themselves, by taking leave of common sense, and ignoring j the well established moral and physical law of the universe, Terrell Professorship. —We learn j from the Athens Banner that Dr. Lee, the i recently elected Professor of Agriculture in ! tlie University of Georgia, lias formally en tered upon the discharge of his duties The Introductory Lecturo was delivered on the 6th inst., at tho Presbyterian Church in that place, in the presence of a large and j intelligent assembly. It is said to have been a most interesting production. The regular lectures will bo delivered twice iu each week—on Tuesdays and Thurs- 1 days. j William and Mary College- -Tho South- j ern Literary Messenger mentions among the Alumni of William and Mary College, the following distinguished names : Theodriek 1 Bland, Peyton Randolph, Carter Braxton, [ George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, Jno Puye, ; Edmund Randolph, James Monroe, John Marshall, James Barbour, Philip P. Bar- ! hour, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, Chapman Johnson, John Randopli, of Roanoke, Speu cer Roane, Littleton W. Tazewell, Win. C. | Rives, J. J Crittenden, W. S. Archer, John j Nelson and Winfield Scott. : ‘ ,?. . .. . ‘ ’ ■ , . > ‘ I The sale of Daniel Webster’s estate at j Marshfield has been poetpoued until the2Bth inst., in consequence of the late snow at the East. Father Mathew writes frtim Modem, Jan uary 22, that hie paralyzed limbo are much i improved by the genial climate. Morse’s telegraph is tho one which is to be usid in the Crimea, to couueot with the pre sent European, line. Baby show.— Barnum advortises another * grand national baby show,” to take place at his mueewn, in New York in June. Report says that Hon. Abbot Lawrence, of Bostons is going to erect a oollego at Law- ; renoe city, Kansas, in tho spring. Joseph Hurno, the great English Radioal Reformer, is dead. Ho was born at Montrose 1 Scotland-! iu 1777.’ ‘ .. . j Col. Benton has been nominated f or Presidency by a meeting in St. Louis. ‘ Putnam's Magazine, it is stated I been sold for $12,000. ‘ as Anew Sunday liquor law went into on ration at Louisville on Sunday Inst ° 6 Rev. F. T Gray, who died in Boston j a>l week hnd his life insured for $40,000 ! Navigation hns opened on the Wabash and j Erie Canal. j Thomas B. Collins, Esq., died at Spnrtnu j burg on the 12th inst. j Wikoffs Courtship is said to have already ’ reached a sale of 15.000 copies. Wm. Tufts, an old merchant of New (j r leans, died on theßth inst. Ship building is said to be becoming q u j tc active at East Boston. Fanny Smith Bullitt, wife ot A C Ilulliu of the New Orleans Picayune, died on tl,e 11th inst. A report has been marie in the Boston Legislature against any change in the i Buiy 1 1 ws Dr. T. J. Eltlins, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., had 152 bales of cotton, and 5,000 bushels ol corn destroyed by fire last week A convention of Presidents and Fujtrin tendents of the Rail Roads of the U States met at Pittsburg on Tuesday. The statue of Franklin, which is now being modelled by Greeaougk for parties in Boston, is nearly completed. The Governor of Massachusetts has desig nated the sth of April as a day of fasting and prayer in that State. The Ohio Farmer says the wheat croj looks well throughout all parts of that State. Mr. Mason, U. S. Minister at Par a. w K learn by the Pacific., was recovering l,jg health rapidly. John Bradford, E-q . an old hardware merchant of Boston, died suddenly on mon day. The New Orleans Picayune of the 10th inst acknowledges the receipt of a basket of sprim* cucumbert. On Monday, the steamer Tropic left Pitts burg for St. Joseph s, Mo., with a number ol Kansas emigrants. Mr. 11. J. Price was killed at Gallatin. .Miss , on the 28th ult., by three brothers of ! the name of Norton. Gen. Wm. Trousdale, of Tennessee, is put up by the Summer Flag for the office of Pres ident of the United States. Arrison the condemned ulema! machine ’ man, at Cincinnati!, has been detected in i scheme to effect his escape. George W. Williams, E;-q., declined being the ennidate for the temperance party t r governor of Kentucky. Captain Henry Terry, for thirty years i commissioner of the revenue in Halifax ,■ county, Ya , died ou Sunday last, | The Connecticut river is now said to lie entirely tree from ice. aud na*igrtti> n is again coinmetic ng. General E. C. Carrington, au officer of the : war of 1812, ded suddenly at Fiucastle. ■ Virgiua, ou the 7tli inst. i Gov. Stevens, of Washington Territory, lias lately made several important treaties ■ with the Indians. i Strawberry juleps are among the luxuries i they were indulging in at New-Oilcans lasi week j The University of Edinburg is hoping t< ; induce Professor Aga.-s z to accept its vacant, chair of natural history. Liteahy Item.- The sale of Putnam* Magazme was nut an absolute trawler Putman still retains an interest in it. Judge Douglas and Mr. flulsemann. the i Austrian minis,er, arrived at Richmond. Va., on Thursday last. The minister of finance of the new K ng ol i the Sandwich Islands, irtlie lion E H A - leu, formerly member of Congress Id out the j Penobscot District, in Maine The Emperor of Japan intends to have the whole of his dominions intersected by tele graphic lines. Our operators should study ; Japanese A rail road has IkSTO projected iu Liberia. Ito connect the Junk settlement with the Montserrade river, a dist.-iue- of only ti ur miles. Parson Brownlow intimates it as his belie! that two thirds of the Methodist clergy be long to the Know Nothing organization - the parson is of course a member. Juan Page, recently corvicted of man slaughter at New Orleans for having killed a man iu a duei, has been sentenced to thir ty days’ imprisonment iu the Slate prison Advices from Port au Prince to the 17th ult., state that the yellow fever was raging there, and all the vessels in port, had lost more or less of their crew's. The Rhode Island Legislature appropria ted SIO,OOO lor the insane ; £4,0.00 to the Normal School; $15,000 additional to pub lie schools ; aud $25,000 to the State pri son- The latest new society spoken of iu Cali fornia is the Pay Nothing. It ts said to he alarmingly prosperous. The pass-word is 44 Lend uie a dollar,” —the response is Broke.” Brownlow's Whig, of tho 17th inst., uo tices the arrival in Knoxville of the distin guished patriot, John Mitchell He is ac eompauied in his visit to Knoxville by his turaily, consisting of a wife aud five children, announces his intention, to purchase a tarm in the vicinity of that ci'yaud to settle upon it permanently. CONSTANTLY INCREASING.-The num ber of persona, physicians, merchants, and oth ers who add their testimony to the good effects ’ produced by Stablers’s Anodyne Cherry Expec torant and Diarrhau Cordial, is in crease. The names which can be adducul aiu . ! those of persona well know and of nudouhle.r standing iu the community, for piobity uni ve racity. Such being the case, no one cau for a moment, refuse to use or administer these rea'- ly excellent medicines. 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