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About The Tri-weekly times and sentinel. (Columbus, Ga.) 1853-1854 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1853)
THE TIMES fc SENTINEL. ! T. LOMAX AND R. BLUB. ■MITOX9 PROPMXTORt. ■II VXI-WIKKLT Till! * IKIVIIII. ts pubiik*d XVIET WKDJVESDA Paiid FRIDA T MORJV JATQvx4 SATURDAY irtJtlMQ. TXI WIIKLT Tim * MlVlfll. 4* f ukliahttl ®rj TUESDA T MORJfIXQ. OSes ob Xaadelpk Str**t, opposite tka Pott ttßoo. TERMS : TRI-WBEKLT, Firs Do&aaxs per um, ia advaae®.’ WEEKLY, Tiro D®u.ab# per annual Ib<*4tuc. X3T Advertisement* conaplcueuilf inserted at Orb Poliak per square, for Ue ftrst insertion, and mftv cbrts for erery a*l>- eequeut insertlea. Liberal dedactioa will be made for yearly adrertlsemeau. IFOR THB TIMES AND SENTINEL-] To a Flower. Yes! I can cherish thee, bright flower, ■right gift from Heaven to this cold earth, ME For well I know thy magic power To quell unfitting grief or inirth. I know thy certain doom to perish, Know yet awhile and thou must fade, Know, too, how long thy love to cherish, That all but nature's changing made. I*ve seen bright pleasures bud in promise, And with a’thoughtless, eager start, Stretched forth a hand to pluck the blossom And hid it in my selfish heart. But ah i some unseen arrow flying, Had snapped the brittle stem of joy, And at my feet I saw it dying, The golden bud, a worthless toy. Yea! ever from my childhood’s hour, I’v© Eeen each fondest hope decay. And wondered why no earthlv power Could make the dreamed oT pleasure stay. And well I’ve learned why all is fleeting, And transient as the merning dew ; It is to bid the heart be seeking Joys from on high, forever new. Then let roe cherish thee, sweet flower, Awhile, and chide me not for this; I nlucked thee in true nature’s bower, Where man can read of “heavenly- bliss.” Thou’rt all on eai th I’ve leave to worship, For God has said trust none but Me, And thine’s from Him, the one great purpose. To mind me of his strong decree. Beals. Columbus, Jan., 1853. KF* The following verses are going the rounds of the pgsa. They are quite as applicable here as in the city, wherever it may be, in which they originated : If a buggy meet a buggy Cornin’ down the street, Ir it right to run together When these buggies meet? Brer j driver hw his failings, They’re but wo uj hit, But coinin’ up or going down, Should they drive so fast i When a buggy meets a buggy Should these buggies race, And run over civil footmen In a public place ? Let the driver speed like lightning, Lashing neck and flank, But let them mind that human flesh ’Aint covered o’er with plank. Jtfferson Davit. The Washington correspondent of the Picay une, referring to Mr Pierce’s Cabinet says : •‘The rumor about Jeff. Davis wax net extire’ ly without foundation ; but l believe there is ne longer any cause for such apprehensions. Now voile quilt es pour la pmr.'’ There is but one person at the North vrho vrouid dare to write, and but one paper in the South that would venture to publish such a re mark respecting a statesman, gentleman, and soldier so universally honored and respected by friend and foe as Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi. The writer tries to conceal bis sneer in French; but there are few of our readers who do not un derstand him as expressing a feeling the very Opposite of that entertained by every nigh-mind *<J citizen in the Union. Many of our citizens may differ, from the political views entertained and expressed by Jefferson Davis ; but there does not exist an honest man who ever knew him, who ever closely observed bis eondust ami bearing, who ever saw the flashing of his eagle eye, and the dauntless expression of his noble and manly countenance, who ever watched his eareer as a citisen and gentleman, or who re members the services he has rendered on the bloodiest battle-fields of our country's history,, who could experience aught but pride and satis faction at the prospect of securing such a man for a Cabiuet office. Nothing but the bitter malignity of a personal foe, writhing under the remembeance of deserved punishment, could Induce the expression used by the correspon dent of the Picayune. Amid the most violent conflicts of party, and and despite an off-hand frankness, which is not calculated to propitiate foes, Jefferson Davis has never failed, in every position he has occu pied, to preserve the respect and confidence of all good citizens. He is one of those men of whom the whole South is justly proud, and in whose defence every true Southerner should be proud to break a lance. —Delta. Appointment sby the Governor* Gov. Cobb has appointed the Hon. Edwin R. Brown, of Americas, Judge of the Superior Court of the Southwestern Circuit, vie* Hon. William Taylor, deceased. (Ad election of a Judge by the people of the Circuit is ordered to take place on Monday, the 28th day of February next) Lewis Zachary, Prin, Keeper, Penitentiary. Jaa S. Gholston, Book Keeper 44 James Polk, Inspector “ Dr, C. J. Paine, Physician “ Rev. F. Blake, Chaplain “ J. E. Stirke, Military Store Keeper, Savannah. Beni. Cook, “ “ Milledgeville A. Newsom, Captain State House Guard. Board of Visitors to Military Institute,— Hon. John W. Anderson, Col. N. G. Foster, Col, W. S. Rockwell, Capt, B. F. Ross, Dr. Wm. H. Felton and Col John Milledge —Re corder. Highly Prouctive. —Not long since, two tailors, passing by a tailor’s shop, observed a tailor at work with his waistcoat patched with different colors of cloth, when one of the tars cried out to the other— “ Look ye, Jack, did you ever see so many •erta of cabbage grow on one stump before. fcST Dobbs says that a man behind time should feed on ketch-up. Mrs Partington says that her minister preacb ed about “the parody of the probable son.’* If a poiiee officer is after you the best thing do is to lock the door and then boh The witty editor of the Springfield Re publican, noticing the assiduous announcements in the Boston papers of Gen. Pierce’s where abouts, whenever he happened at the Tremont House for an hour or two, says, “General P’erce attended the Bey. Dr. Kirk’s church on Sunday, and visited the public schools on Mon day. We await with breathless anxiety the re port of His doings on Tuesday, and hope that he wU not do anything terrible on Wednesday, for the papers to announce on Thursday, and go in to testacies over on Friday, so that the world may get quietd down on Saturday sufficiently to be rble to keep Sunday in a proper and becom ing manner.” COLUMBUS. GA. SuDAY~MORNIITG^VAJTDrAJtY7~77"ISS3, The Muscogee Rail Road. This Road extends from Columbus to Butler, a dis tance of fifty miles, wher* it joins the Fort Valley Branch of the South Western Road- The cost of the Road and equipments was $651,797 11, or $13,035 94 per mile. The net profits of the Road during the past year were $7,311 38—a most astonishing fact, as th* Road was in on unfinished state and disconnected at either end. The connection with the South Western Road will be completed during the coming Spring, end with the Montgomery Road during the next eighteen months. In the mean time the Girard Road will pen etrate the rich prairies of Alabama, and vre may from thenceforward anticipate a glorious future for the oity of Columbus. The President of the Road, John H. Howard, Esq., (to whose untiring energy the community is indebted for its early completion,) tenders his resignation of the oftioe he has so ably filled from the beginning of the enterprise. His parting advice deserves attention. He recommends that the stock of the Muscogee Road be merged in that of th® Central Rail Road. The only objection to this course is, that it wjil destroy th® control of this city over the Road. This objection, w® incline to think, ia rather specious than solid. If it be come necessary to the designs of the Central Road, it can readily buy up the stock of private stockholder*, and thus gain a controlling influence in the Muaoogee Road. The whole history of Rail Roads in Georgia demonstrates the impossibility of resisting Rail Road connections. Private interests will yield to public con venience. Besides, it would be unwise in the stock holder® of the Muscogee Road to engage in a contro versy with the Central Road, It will be impossible to carry on i infill mb lilt i ceiipy 10 lirgi, influential and monied, Conciliation i our true policy, If the Central Road is once in the entire route to this city, it may be that w* could derive im portant aid from that quarter, ia extending our great Road to the Gulf. We are not ao familiar with this subject *s to justify us in spanking authoritatively upon it. We throw out these suggestions in the hops that they will elicit discussion from batter informed sources. Central Rail Road and Bankiag Company. Th© eighteenth annual Report of the President and Superintendent of this Company is on our table. The total cash receipt* from Road and Bank for the year ending 7th December, 1852, are $1,009,801 83. The cash expenditures have been $745,502 51 ; leaving a surplus of $264,299 32. The reserve fund is $281,- 057 03. Since the last Raport the Company has paid up its subscription to th* Augusta and Waynesboro’ Compa ny, and the sam of $58,554 83 on account ‘of tha Fort Valley Branch of the South Western Road. The Board has agreed to take th® Eaton ton Road and work it for $14,000 par annum. Tha Eatooton Raad will ba finialied by the first of February. Tha Waynesboro’ Raad will be #pened to Augusta by th* Ist November. The Branch from Fort Valley to Butler, will b* finish ed by the Ist April, when Savannah and Columbus will be in conneotieu by Rail Road. The Road from Opelika to Columbus has all bean placed under contract, and early in next year the con nection of Savannah and Montgomary will b* complete. The South Western Road will be extended to Amaricus arly in 1854. Tha business of the Road is increasing so rapidly as to make it necessary to place 100 mor# cars on tha track. Fiften thousand dollars will cover all expanse incurred by the late freshets. The President, R. R. Cutler, recommends that $30,000 b® set apart, annu ally to meet the expense of repairs. Fifteen thousand three hundred and seventy-seven through passengers, and forty-three thousand four hundred and fifty-nin* way passengers, have been carried over th* Road th* last year ; and two hundred and thirty-one thousand two hundred and ten bales of cotton. The Road has earned for freight and fare, $945,508 28. The Florida Legislature—-Florida Rail Roads* The present Legislature is fully aliv to the great interests committed to their care, aud is actively en gaged in the passage of acts and the development of measures which will elevate the State to her proper position as a member of the Confederacy, and’ supply the demands of commerce. On th* 29 th ult., acta were passed incorporating the “Pensacola and Georgia Rail Road Company,” and the “Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Rail Road Company.” The first act pro vides for constructing a Rail Road from Pensacola to any poiut en the Western or Southern boundary line of Georgia. The second provides for the construction of a Rail Road in a direct line through the centre of the State, from the Atlantic to the Gulf, at some point west of the Apalachicola river. It cannot be doubted but that by the time Florida shall have completed these two Roads, the South Wes tern Road will have been extended to the junction of the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers, and that the Sa vannah and Pensacola Rail Road will shortly afterwards reach the same point. When these magnificent schemes are completed, South Wintern Georgia and Middle Florida will attain to great wealth, and add materially to the trade of our Atlantic cities. A free banking law, on the principle first adopted in New York, has passed both Houses of the Legislature. Mr. Hjlto.n, the accomplished Editor es the Savan nah Georgian , in a letter from which we have collect ed the foregoing facts, says : The winter in Florida has, thus far, been exceedingly mild. Several days of last week were too warm to be comfortable. The gardens are still blooming with flowers. Affray. On th night of Wednesday last, two men, named John Calvin and Wm. Stains, of Girard, Ala., we are informed, made a murderous assault upon E, B. AV, SrivET, of this city, with pistols, Iu the melee, Mr. Spivey’s son brought him a double-barrelled gun, with which he shot both his assailants. We are told that they are both in a dying condition. Mr. Spivey receiv ed a ball in the hand and another on the head. He is not seriously injured. Terrible Accident. A gas pipe exploded at No. 409 Broome st., New York, lately, and the coal vault of Edwin B. Clayton became densely filled with gas. One of the servants of the house, followed by Mr. Clayton, entered the vault, with a lamp ; the gas immediately exploded, and severely burnt them both. The servant was in a dying condition at last accounts, and Mr. Clayton was much disfigured. TXe Supreme Court and the Fugitive Slave Law. The Supreme Court of the United States, in a late decision, sustained the law of Illinois, which prohibits, under psnalty, any citizen from harboring or secreting fugitive slaves. The decision of Prigg vs. the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania, has been generally inter preted as affirming the exclusive jurisdiction of the Uni ted States in the whole matter of fugitive slaves, and has formed the excuse of all the Northern States for en actments refusing the use of their jails for the detention of fugitives, and prohibiting all State officers for assist ing in their oapture. In the late decision, the Supreme Court limits the decision in that case to such laws as obstruct the enforcement of the United States law, and impede the master in the recovery of his property, and condemns, in language most unequivocal, all State legis lation impeding and obstructing the assertion, by the ow ner, of his right to his slave. The Cabinet. The friends of Mr. llcjnter, who, not long since, w®re opposed to haviug him go into the Cabinet, says the correspondent of the Standard, are now satisfied that he cannot, with propriety, decline, so general is the demonstration among the Democrats of Congress in fa vor of his acceptance. Hr, Hunter left Washington on the 29th ult., for his home in Virginia, and will doubtless indite his acceptance from that point. The feeling against the appointment of Mr. Slidell to a Cabinet appointment, seems to be strong among the members. This is the result of his very ultra Buchan anism before the nomination, Senator Downs is much preferred to him ; they are both Union Democrats. South Carolina College. On® hundred and eight students have applied for and received dismissals from this institution. The cause of offence is, that the Trustees have refused to abolish the Commons Hall of the College. They profess their wil lingness to return, if their request is complied with. They seem to prefer the “flesh-pots of Egypt” to Casta lia’s fount. Baptists in Mississippi. Tlwre are 40,000 Baptists in tie State, it a late Stats Convention the sura of $30,000 was subscribed towards the ®ndo\vment fund of SIOO,OOO, proposed to be raised for the Literary and Theological Institution located at Clinton, Mississippi. Justices of tthe Inferior Cour. At the election held on Monday last, the following is the official return of the votes cast: 9. ej E g H S- TJ A “ O ? & ~ 3 £ : ■ g §. • . • . o ; i ; a Bethune* 515 3 61 60 639 Weems* 520 52 16 31 6fJ Ragland* 495 50 30 21 596 Flewellen* 443 44 32 26 545 McGuire* 272 3 80 58 413 Clark© ...339 1 ‘ 29 42 411 Williams 303 2 45 57 407 Torrance 286 44 33 23 386 r Eelbeck.. 214 39 67 13 333 Duncau 183 2 64 75 324 Patterson 173 15 51 18 257 Ferguson 192 8 7 15 222 Bugg 20 TAX COLLECTOR. Noble* 475 14 51 38 578 Mitchell 884 23 Ray 66 16 61 63 206 TAX RECEIVER. Rees** 656 13 22 39 730 Morrison 149 33 53 333 •Elected. Last Hours of Walter Scott. From Donald Macleod’s life of Waller Scott, just published by Scribner, we take the follow- j ing passage, the passage of Scott from this world to th© next Amid kindest attentions from all whom they met, or dealt with, they went on their melancho ly road, and the invalid was placed again in his carriage on Wednesday, 11th of July. For the first two stages he lay torpidly upon his pillows, but as they descended the vale of Gala, the old beloved scenes aroused him ; he murmured “Gala Water ; Buckholme ; Torwoodlee and when they rounded the hill at Ladhope, and the outline of the F.ildon hills arose before him, his heart leaped up within him; and when in a few more moments he saw the towers of his own Abbotsford, he sprung up and uttered a cry of j°y* The river was in flood, and not being able to eross the ford, they were forced to take the lon ger road around by Melrose bridge, and while within sight of his home, it took the strength both of Lockhart and the doctor to keep him in the carriage. Past the bridge, the road loses sight of Abbotsford for a couple of miles, and during these he relapsed into the state of torpor ; but when they reached the bank that looks up on his homo,his excitement returned and he be came almost ungovernable. Mr. Laidlaw was waiting at the porch, and helped to carry him into the dining-room where he sat half-stupefied for a moment, and then as his eye rested on his old friend, he cried, “Ha, Willie Laidlaw ! O man how often have I thought of*you!” Then his dogs came round him aud fawned upon him, and licked his hands, and the broken old knight sat there caressing them, sometimes with smiles, but oltener wi.h tears ; and so he fell asleep. The next day he was better, and they wheel ed him in a Bath chair out into the garden, sur rounded by his grand-children and his dogs.— The flowers and trees which his own hand plan ted and trained, seemed to infuse new life into him, and, when he had enjoyed them for a while asked to be taken to his room again. So they wheeled for an hour or so about the great halfamd library, he saying more than once, “I have sben much but nothing like my ain house ; give me% one turn more. - ’ He was very gentle and lay disown again as soon as his watchers thought that he had need of rest. Next morning being still better, the exercise was renewed), and after it, he sat for awhile in his great arm-chair looking from the window out upon the l\weed. He asked Mr. Lockhart to read to him. \From what book, Sir Walter V* “Need you ask said the old man, “there is but one.” Then he listened with gentle devo tion to thosif sacred words chronicled by the Beloved Disciple : “Let not your heart be trou bled ; ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In my Father’s house there are many mansions ; I go to prepare a place for you.” When he had heard the whole chapter he said: “Well, this, is a great comfort; I have followed you dis tinctly, and I feel as if I were yet to be myself again.” In reading to him some poems from his old fa vorite Crabbe, on the third day, it was perceiv ed that he had lost his memory, even of verse. Poems that he had known by heart were now perfectly new to him ; and so on the following day. But he remembered well all that was read to him from the Bible, as well as some little liymns from Dr. Watts, which his little grand son repeated, standing by his knee. In the af ternoon, it was on Sunday, after Mr. Lockhart had read the evening prayer of the Episcopal Church, he bade him add the office for the visita tion of the sick. Monday found him very feeble, and he remain ed in bed, but revived on Tuesday, and was wheeled out into the sunshine once more.— There he soon fell asleep, and so remained for half an hour. Then starting up he flung the plaids from his shoulders, and said “This is sad idleness. I shall forget what I have been think ing of, if I don’t set it down now. Take me in to my own room, and fetch the keys of my desk,” The instinct of labor was upon him, and he would take no refusal; so they carried him up and placed him in his old position at his desk. He smiled and thanked them, adding, “Now give me my pen and leave me for a little to myself.” His daughter put his pen into his hand and he strove to close his fingers upon it, but the work of those fingers was finished; they refused their office ; the pen fell from the hand that could no longer wield it, and dropped upon the paper. He sank back in his char, and, out from under those thick gray brows, the big tears swelled and rolled fast and heavy down his cheeks. He motioned to be taken back into the gar den, and when there, dropped asleep. When he awoke, Laidlaw remarked to Lockhart, “Sir Walter has had a little repose.” The poet look ed up ; again the tears gushed from his eyes, and he said, “No, Willie ! no repose for Sir Wal ter but the grave !” Then a little after, “Friends, don’t let me expose myself ; get me to bed ; that’s the only place now.” He nover left his room again. For a few days lie was able to pit up for an hour or two at noon; and then that passed, and he lay still upon the pillows. Then followed some days of painful irritation and forgetfulness of friends.— Only once a well-known voice aroused him and he said, “Isn’t that Kate Hume ?” But the hour was at hand when “the golden bowl must be broken.” He gradually declined, and his mind wandered back to an earlier stronger day.— Sometimes he seemed administering justice as sheriff’; sometimes giving directions about his trees, and once or twice his fancy was at Jed burgh, and “Burk, Sir Walter!” came sadly from his lips. Generally his mutterings were holy words ; words from the Bible or Prayer book ; psalms in the old Scotish version, or bits of the mag nificent Catholic hymns. Oftenest of all, the watchers heard the solemn cadence of the Dies irce, and last of all came from those fading lips these lines: “Stabat Mater Dolorosa, Juxta Crucem lacrymosa, Dum pendebat Filius,” “Broken hearted, lone and tearful, By that cross of anguish tearful, Stood the Mother by her Son.” Often he blessed his children and bade them farewell, and so lingered on until Monday, the 17th September, when the eye grew clear and the calm sense returned for the solemn adieus to earth. When Lockhart was called from his bed to at tend him, he said, “Lockhart, I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man; be virtuous ; be religious ; be a good man.— Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.” He paused, and his son in-law inquired if he would see his daughters.— “No, don’t disturb them,” he replied. “Poor souls, I know they were up all night; God bless you all !” He never spoke again ; scarce showed any signs of consciousness, but gradually passed away. His sons arrived on the 19th, but too late to be recognized, and so they kept their mournful watch until the noon-day of the 21st Then slowly, gentle as ‘the setting of a calm sun, without pain or sense of suffering, lie breathed his soul imperceptibly away. At half-past one “the silver cord was loosed ;” the mirror, held before the lips, was taken back untarnished; and the warm sun shone through the open windows ; and a soft autumnal breeze just sighed amid the foliage of Abbottsford ; and the ripple of the Tweed rose with distinctness to the ears of the mourners, as they knelt arcjund the couch, and Walter bent down over the jbodv of his father and kissed and closed his eyes! Curiosities. j The Gothamite brings into market the fallow ing among other “new curosities just recei^ed.”-- A pie made from the currents of electricity— hot. j Some of the chickens that were counted be fore they were hatched. A grind stone used to grind the faces of the poor. j Some of the hair from the heads of a dis course. The skin of a flint, and the man who skined it. A piece of the mantle of the night—a little worn. A pair of breaches belonging to the Erie Can-/ al. / A short view of a Steeple Chase—Steeple ahead. Some crab apples supposed to have grown on the cross-trees of a ship. Falstaff. —The RevMr. Hudsor, ;in a lec ture before the Brooklyn Institute, thus “cuts it fat,” upon this famous Shakspearean char acter: “The animal susceptibilities of our na ture are in him carried up to their highest pitch His several appetites hug their respective ob jects with exquisite gust. His vast plumpness is all mellow with physical delight and salis- faction, and he converts it all inio thought I and mirth. Moreover, his speech borrows ad ditional flavor and effect from the thick foldings of flesh which it oozes through; therefore, he M glories in his much flesh, and cherishes it as being the procreant cradle of jests ;it his body ■ is fat, it enables his tongue to drop tatness; H aud in the chambers of his brain all the pleas~ urable agitations that pervade the structure below, are curiously wrought into mental de lectations. With how keen and inexhausti- ■ b'e a relish does he pour cU>wn sack ! as if he tasted it all over, and through his body to the ends of his fingers and toes! Yet who does not ■ see that he has far more pleasure in discours ing about it than in drinking it ? And so it is ML through all the particulars of his enormous fl sensualities.” In 185*0, the labor ofthe South gave those elements, with out whicn American commerce at the North could not ex- ist a moment, in the following enormous quantities: ■ Rice, 215,312,710 pounds. Tobacco, 199,752,646 pounds. 1 Cotton, 2,270,000 bales. , m Sugar Cane, 247,531,000 pounds. B Molarses, 12,700 606 gallons. Wiliiaip Henry Trescott, Esq., of South Carolina, J was confirmed on Thursday by the U. S. Senate, as Secreta- 1 rv of Legation at London. High-Priced Breadstuff. —Flour has been selling at | $-12 a barrel, with a possibility of going higher, as it is near ‘_, I j ly all in the hands ofspeculators.— Cal. Observer. W Florida Liquor BiVi>.—A bill has passed the Senate o if the Legislature of Florida, authorizing the qualified in each Justice’s district to determine, by ballot, whether licenses for retailing spirituous liquors shall be grant&n in | that district. This bi|P, said, will also pass the Hpuse. The Vermont liquor 1 ’ law provides that any intoxi cated man may be arrested and committed to prison until he is in a condition to tell where he got his liquor, and if ho refuses to divulge, is ldckedfup till he relents. This law is to be voted upon by the pe jfplo - Large quantities c|f hogs, slaughtered in Columbus J and Cleveland, Ohio, and shipped to New York by railroad jl have been entirely spoiled Jay warm weather. Twenty-eight car loads in one man bec/ame so putrid, that the stench was an intolerable nuisance to the villages that they had to pass through. / te4egraphic. LATER PROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM E R PACIFIC. 1 New York, Jan. 1, 1853. The American steamship Pacific has arrived, bringing Liverpool dijites to the 15th December. Liveipool Cotton Market. ‘Menrs. Brown & Shipley quote cotton steady, and Mid dling advanced lof a penny. Other qualities remain un changed. The sales on Saturday the 11th, were 3,000 bales; on Monday the 13th, 6,000 bales, and on Tuesday the 14th, 6,000 bal is, making a total of 15,000 for the three days.— A Speculators took 3,500 bales. y , The jpificial quotations are, Fair Orleans 6d.; 5!d.; Fair Upland and Mobile s#; Middling sid. Wf: ‘France. —The salary of Napoleon 111 has been fixed, aw, twenty-five million cf francs. The princess will be allow ed a donation of a million five hundred thousand francs. Fonld has been appointed Minister of State. England and all the Continental Powers have recognized the Eiinpire. Eight hundred political prisoners have been liberated. i The Kaffir War. —Advices from the Cape of Good ! Hope state that there is no prospect of the termination of the Kaffir War. England.—The opposition to the English Ministry is in creasing. The debate on the budget had been postponed until Thursday the 16th ult. The aspect of European affairs is pacific and satisfactory. Later per Pacific. Liverpool, December 15,12 M. The demand for Cotton in thi3 market has been good, and prices have adyanced an eighth of a penny per lb. The sales for - lie four days have composed 21,000 bales, of which speculators navet aken 5000. Fair Orleans is quoted atGfd; Middling Orleans at sid.; Fair Upland at 5H.; and Mid dling atjitd. Western Canal and Ohio Flour is quoted at | 28s. Cd.per 196 lbs. Yellow Corn is worth 345. per j Lard commands 645. per cwt. Consols are quoted atjrorn j 100 rS> 100 L i Our ndvices from Havre are to the 12th inst., and state | that the Cotton market had undergone no quotable change ’ ginee our last, although it is more active, the demand good and prices stifier. Quotations, however, are unaltered. Later from the Rio Grande. New Orleans, Dec. 31. i Advices from Brownsville, Texas, have been received to I 18th December, which state that civil war was still raging in j the State of Tamaulipas. Gov. Cardenas and nine mern j bers of the Legislature had been made prisoners. Ilia ad j herents also had been carried as prisoners to Tampico. The j whole State had declared its acquiescence in the new Pro | visional Government. The Mexican war steamer State of Mexico, which had secretly left Brazos for Vera Cruz, anti the war schooner Nationale had both joined the Insurgent: at Tampico, which event was considered to be the death blow to the maritime force of the Government on the Gulf The city of Matamoras, however, still held out, and the Commandant was busy in fortifying and barricading, and making every preparation for a determined resistance to the insurgents. From the Alabama Journal. ‘ (f Great Excitement at Havana, Mobile, Jan. 5 —5, p. m. T.he steamship Black YV arrior has arrived at this port. : bringing intelligence of a great excitement at Havana ; caused by the capture of three Spanish vessels by tht British frigate Vestal. It appears that a brig called the Venus, was fitting for the coast of Africa contrary to the regulations of the port, and got under way and left the harbor at night, when the Vestal pursued and took possession ol her and brought her back. The Vestal also captured two schooners off Cardenas, which were fitting out for the slave trade. Arrival of Steamship City oj Glasgow at New York, Telegraphed exppessly for the Alaborna T ournal. New York, January 3, The steamship City of Glasgow has arrived at this port, bringing intelligence irom Liverpool to the 15m\ ult. The sales of Cotton in the Liverpool that day reached 6000 bales, and the market was firy™
