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Thu Inconsequence of Love.
What is the meaning of fidelity in love, and
whence the birth of it? Tis a state of mind
that men fall into, and depending on the man
rather than the woman. We love to be in love,
that’s the truth on’t. If we had not met Joan,
we should have met Kate, and adored her. We
know our mistresses are no better than any oth
er woman, no prettier, nor no wiser, nor no
wittier. ’Tis not for these reasons we love a
woman, or for any special quality or charm I
know of; we might as well demand that a la
dy should be the tallest woman in the world,
like the Shropshire giantess, as that she should
be a paragon in any other character, before we
begin to love her. Esmond’s mistress had a
thousand faults beside her charms; he knew
both perfectly well; she was imperious, she was
light-minded, she was flighty, she was false, she
had no reverence in her character ; she was in
everything, even in beauty, the contrast of her
mother, who was the most devoted and the
least selfish of jwomen. Well, from the very
first moment he saw her on the stairs at Wal
cote, Esmond knew he loved Beatrix. There
might be better women—he wanted that one.—
He cared for none other. Was it because she
was gloriously beautiful ? Beautiful as she was,
he hath heard people say a score of times in
their company, that Beatrix’s mother looked as
young and was the handsomer of the two.—
Why did her voice thrill in his ear so ? She
could not sing near so well as Nicolini or Mrs.
Tofts; nay, she sung out of tune, and yet he
liked to hear her better than St. Cecilia. She
had not a finer complexion than Mrs. Steele,
(Dick’s wife, whom he had now got, and who
ruled poor Dick with a rod of pickle,) and yet
to see her dazzled Esmond; he would shut his
eyes, and the thoughts of her dazzled him all
the same. She was brilliant and lively in talk,
but not so incomparably witty as her mother,
who, when she was cheerful, said the finest
things; but yet to hear her, and to be wite her,
was Esmond’s greatest pleasure.— Thackeray's
Esmond .
4 ‘And she was a Widow.”
A pale and pensive lady has just passed—she
is clad in “the weeds of profoundest wo”—
doubtless she is a widow.
A moment to imagine her history. He whom
she mourns had wooed her in her girlhood.—
I here is a Iragant nook, where a rivulet gur
gles which she never remembers save with
tears, wherein love’s blessed drama was perform
ed by their fervid lips, Months, perhaps years,
had departed—and then the shadow fell. He
blessed her amid the marches of the night, and
in the morning went out with the stars. The
earth is laden with such histories.
She was blithe and merry once. She loved
the customs of society, and adhered with a sort
of piety to the maxims of fashion. Gay and
happy was the world in which she dwelt. But
it is changed now.
It is a mournful thing to carry a dead heart
in a living bosom. It is a bitter thing for a lip
used to dainties to feed on ashes. It is a fear
ful thing for the living to know that their only
treasure is hid in the still and mouldy grave
beautiful life linked to repulsive corruption.
Her desires are written upon her meek face.
Its expression translates her muttered yearn
ing, She longs to join in the distant and better
country him who has gone before.
The welcome hour is nearer than she thinks.
They shall soon lay her beside her idol. How
lovely will be that dying smile, when the pray
erful lips shall close at the touch of death’s cold
finger, God grant that the drooping lily of
earth may become a fadeless amaranth in
Heaven. N
Negro Stealing.
Messrs. Searcy and Jenkins of this city, arrest
ed one Geo. M. Jones on Thursday last, near
Monticello, who had some twelve negroes in his
possession, one of which escaped after he was
apprehended. Said negroes belong to Mr. P.
Bailey of Double Wells. Warren co. Ga, Thos.
Mormon of Harris co. and Dr. W. A. Jarratt of
Baldwin co, excepting four, owned by the said
Jones.
Jones had camped near this city for several
days prior to the absence of Dr. Jarratt’s boy,
and it was suspected at once that he had stolen
him, having had the boy in his tent several times,
and having been known to have had a consulta
tion with said boy. Messrs Searcy and Jenk
ins were at once put on track of Jones, and ar
rested him without much trouble. Jones was
fired at the, ball gazing his scalp. The white
man and negroes are all confined in Jail, at
this place. Messrs. Searcy and Jenkins deserve
much praise for their vigilance in arresting the
said Jones.— Fed. Union.
The Saluda Factory.— We learn from the
Columbia Banner , that the negroes belonging
to the Saluda Manufacturing Company were
sold on Thursday for one-fourth cash the balance
in one and two years with interest, and avera
ged $599. Boys 16 to 25 brought S9OO to
SIOOO.
The Banner says that the building machinery
and privleges of the Factory were offered for
sale on the same day, but were bought in by the
.Company, and that persons who are desirous of
investing capital in this establishment can
treat with the company at private sale, on ac
commodating terms.
COLUMBUS. GA.
“janTsTSSST’
Putnam’s Monthly,
This is anew candidate for public favor, which owes
its paternity to the great publishing house of G. P.
Putnam k Cos., of New York. Harper has been
oharged with filling up his monthly with extracts from
the English Periodicals. The publishers of this month
ly, taking the hint from this charge, have engaged in
the hazardous enterprise of publishing “an entirely orig
inal work,” from the pens of American authors. The
most eminent American authors are announced as con
tributors, among whom are the familiar names of Ir
ving, Prescott, Paulding, Everstt, Longfellow,
Kennedy, Bryant, Emerson, llalleck, Hawthorne,
Sims, and a host of others less known to fame. The
enterprise is a noble one, and deserves the support of
the American people. The first number contains 24
articles upon as many different subjects. “The War
den of the Cinque Ports” is a very pretty poem upon
the death of the Iron Duke, which is attributed to the
graceful pen of Longfellow. The leading article is on
Cuba, and contains a very full history of the wrongs o.f
the Cubans, and earnestly advocates its annexation to
the United States. It is written in the vein of Young
Amerioa. We are sorry to find an article on “Mod
ern Spiritualism,” which endorses all the absurdities of
Mesmerism, Clairvoyance, and Spiritual Rappings. The
developments of diseased humanity often puzzle the
wisest philosophy ; but it is not less ridiculous than pro
fane to attribute the disordered manifestations of crazy
minds, to the interposition of spiritual agencies. Indeed,
the departed spirits of the just must have immensely
deteriorated from their earthly perfections, if, instead
of the silvery eloquence of the tongue, they are redu
ced to the slow, tedious, and senseless method of rap
ping upon tables, to communicate their burning thoughts
to their fellows. In such case, a mortal is a little high
er than an angel, and earth is better than heaven. We
are sorry that such fanaticism can find advocacy in a
respectable journal. Extracts —aye, even English ex
tracts —are preferable to such originality. There is also
a chapter on “Uncle Tomitudes,” not much to our
taste, though there is no rottenness in it. Otherwise
the “Monthly” is a readable periodical, and we doubt
not but that it will be immensely popular. Subscription
price $2. We are indebted to D. F. Willcox for our
copy, who is agent for the work.
Harper’s Magazine.
The January number of this popular Monthly has
been placed on our table by D. F. Willcox, who is the
agent for the work in this city. It is filled vvifli the
uncommon variety which has ever characterized this
periodical, arid which, perhaps, more than any thing
else, has contributed to its unbounded popularity. Ja
cob Abbott continues his “Memoirs of the Holy
Land,” and John S. C, Abbott has another article on
“ Napoleon Bonaparte.” “Bleak House,” and “My
Novel,” drag their slow lengths along, it may be to
the amusement of lazy novel readers, but greatly to our
discomfort. We have grown tired of the old captions,
and like a Methodist congregation at the end of anew
year, long to see anew face in every issue. The
“Monthly Record of Current Events,” “Editor’s Ta
ble,” and “Drawer,” are unusually full and interesting.
We are proud of “Harper,” as an American book, but
dread its overshadowing influence upon Southern enter
prise. Call and see the work at D. F, W illcox’s Book
Store.
Chinese in Cuba.
There are now said to be two thousand Chinese laborers
in the Island of Cuba, and six thousand more are on their
way there. They are exported at a cost of $125 a head,
and receive $5 a month tor the eight or ten years for which
they are bound to their employer, by whom the expense of
their exportation is paid. Those already in the Island, it
is said, have given great satisfaction by the industry and in
telligence they display.— Delta.
The above extract conveys to us a piece of very cu
rious information. The ends of the earth have come
together. The East is the hive of humanity, and more
than once has Europe been overrun with its teeming
millions. The times indicate another flood from this
quarter. The first wave has already reached the shores
of California. This is an interesting field for specula
tion ; but we have not room to enter upon it at pres
ent. We are more immediately interested in the im
portation of Chinese laborers into Cuba. The Beacon
of Cuba , concludes an interesting article on “Spanish
policy in Cuba ” with the following remarks, which
throw much light upon the subject, and will be read
with interest:
The other vice of the Spanish Government is the impor
tation of Chinese laborers. This is nothing more, appa
rently, than a vile speculation—a pursuit of filthy lucre.
But it is, in reality, another and quite different affair. The
officials of Spain are clearly convinced of the necessity of
providing among the blacks a greater degree of intellectu
al power than they themselves possess. This is sought for
among the thieves, land pirates and water pirates of the
maritime cities of Eastern Asia.
A contract has been made with an English house in Ha
vana to import three thousand Chinese. The agent and
partner in the transaction, a “canny Scotchman,” left Glas
gow for China some eighteen months since, and now the
first cargo under the English contract is daily expected.
But this is not the first cargo. The experiment was tried
a few years since, and succeeded to a charm. Several hun
dred Chinese were brought to Havana, as they said, under
contract to labor at so much per month. There they were
sold as slaves, and driven to the fields in gangs. The ex
periment was for a time doubtful. Could they be forced to
amalgamate with the negro ?
In several instances they obstinately refused to work, and
were brought down by starvation, the stocks and the lash
Some of the gangs killed their drivers; some turned runa
ways and robbers ; some six or seven expiated crimes up
on the scaffold, and a large number were sent to the chain
gangs. The rest have partially succumbed, and are now
in Cuba, occupying an intermediate position between the
white and black races. The first refuses to admit them in
to their circle, and they will not readily unite with the
black race, over which, at the same time, their intellectual
superiority has an influence, while an identity of interests
and position in relation to the Caucassian race, binds them
with strong ties.
This is the course of the Spanish Government. Can any i
sane man in this country advocate its continuance ? Can
any true hearted American contemplate it with indiffcr
ence? Can any freeman refuse his sympathy and aid‘to
the Cuban, when he shall rise such a Machiavel
ian policy ? We can never believeit.
Election of Directors,
The following gentlemen were on yesterday elected
Directors of the Mechanics’ Bank for the ensuing Year :
Thomas S. Metcalf, Artemas Gould, James B. Bish
op, Alfred Baker, Josiah Sibley, James B. Walker, F.
Blodgett, William S. Roberts, Jacob Danforth; and at
a subsequent meeting^of the Board, Thomas S. Metcalf
was re-elected President.— Const. dp Republic.
The North Carolina Legislature adjourned on the
27th ult., without electing a U. S. Senator to succeed
Mr. Mangum, whose term expires on the 4th of March
next. The Governor has no power to appoint under
the circumstances, and the consequence will be that a
vacancy wilt exist in the State’s Senatorial representation
for the next two years.
The Vice-President elect, Mr. King, is seventy-two 1
years of age.
An Apology.
We owe the Mayor and Town Council an apology for
not heretofore having published the election returns by
which they were elevated to office. We carefully hand
ed in the votes in time for our first issue, after the elec
tion, but by an oversight of our printei's, they were not
i set up They will be found in our columns to-day.
I * • . ; .*,
MAYOR.
James L. Morton*... .390 |S. A. Billing, 261
Aldermen, Ist Ward.
L. M. Durr, 211 I T. B. Slade, 170
F. G. Wilkins* 459 |W. B. Robinson * 389
2d Ward.
Wm. Perry* 501 IA. J. Robison,* 426
! Dr. Bozeman, 245 |
3d Ward.
T. M. Hogan, 334 O. Danforth,* 461
Johnson, 320 Beach, 43
Wright, 23
4th Ward.
George Pitts,* 5841 Wm. Daniel,* 606
sth Ward.
F. Jepson, 335 James Pruden, 260
John McCarty, 301 Wm. Williamson, 244
B. Wells, 20 T. Chaffin, 17
James Thomas, 32
6th Ward.
Wm. Matheson,* 530 I Wm. Brooks,* 440
‘I hos. Herringdine, 196 |
Clerk —Calvin Stratton,* 632 j
Treas'r.— J. L. Howell,* 484 |E. J. Hardin, 154
Marshal.
James M. Hughes,* 323 Robt T.Simons, 154
Geo. W. Martin, 150 John T. Walker, 29
Deputy Marshal.
A. M. Robinson,* 253 Green Sauls, 203
John Cleghorn, 133 Wm. Thompson, 57
Magistrates—Upper District.
J. L. Howell * 263 j J. J. McKendree,* 261
Lower District.
F. M. Brooks,* 280 I John Quin* 195
Wm. H. Grace, 174 |
Bailiffs. —James Lloyd,* William Nix,* John Tilly,*
and E. H. Calhoun.*
SCfThose marked thus,* elected.
Washington Items,
The Government steamer Falcon has been ordered
to go to Havana direct with Vice-President King, whose
health is so bad that his physicians have thought it dan
gerous for him to go in a crowded steamer,
John A. Campbell, of Alabama, has been recom
mended to Gen. Pierce by all tho States south of the
Potomac, except Louisiana and Texas, for Judge of the
Supreme Court,
The Hon. Graham N, Fitch has left Washington
for Indiana, to be about at the meeting of the Legisla
ture next week, and will be returned Senator for the un
expired term of the late Mr, Whitcomb. So say the
leading men from that State.
The Union lias a dispatch announcing the re-election
of George W. Jones as United States Senator from
lowa,
Cholera in Charleston.
The Board of Health reports twenty-two eases of
cholera in this city for the last week. The disease,
however, is not epidemic, but in every case originated
in the use of oysters or other unwholesome diet. The
editor of the Standard thus accounts for the disease :
This year, the body of fresh water has extended almost
to our harbor, and even there the fresh water predominates
much more than it usually does. Asa consequence of this,
oysters, which require salt, water, are diseased and dying;
many of them are dead weeks ago ; and yet from the midst
of these dead piles are gathered a portion of that which is
sold in our market as food for man. If the hungry could
distinguish between the sound and the unsound oysters,
there might be some excuse for their obstinacy in continu
ing to eat them, but when one does not know, whether he
is swallowing food or poison, his determination to eat at all
hazards, is little less than courting suicide.
The Soil of the South.
Not as a matter of form, but with real pleasure, do we
acknowledge the receipt of the December number of
this truly valuable agricultural paper, and earnestly re
commend it to the farming community. The paramount
value of the Soil of the South consists in the fact that it
is published near us—its Editors and most of its Con
tributors are men who cultivate soil similar in many
respects to ours. It cannot, therefore, fail to be of great
practical utility to us. It is published by T. Lomax &
Cos., Columbus, Ga.
P. S.—Any one desirous of subscribing to the “Soil
of the South,’’ who will deposit a dollar at this office,
we will be responsible for its forthcoming, and if after
having read it a year he will tell us he has not received
the full worth of his money, we will pay back his dol
lar with interest.— Clayton Banner.
SIOO Pitcher,
The Silver Pitcher offered by the Georgia and Alaba
ma Agricultural Society, for the best entire crop of
Cotton, was awarded to Wm. H, Mitchell, of this city.
To our unpracticed eye, there was scarcely a shade of
difference in his samples. B. A.. Sorsby and Mrs, Ann
C. Cook, were competitors not to be despised, but their
crops were not so uniformly good as Mr, Mitchells.—
We hope he will publish his plan of making fine cotton
in the Soil of the South,
523P 50 It is said that 140 members of the Virginia Legisla
ture have foimally recommended Hon. John S. Barbour,
of Virginia, for a Cabinet position under General Pierce.
In explanation of this movement, we publish a short
extract from the New York Tribune, without, howev
er, vouching for its correctness :
The call made by the President elect upon Mr. R. M.
I. Hunter, of Virginia, has raised a storm at Richmond.
I hough not the candidate of Young America, he is well
known to have been one of those originally urging the
nomination of Mr. Douglas, and the Young American
party are quite satisfied with the prospect of his appoint
ment to a cabinet place, Asa consequence, the army of !
disinterested Virginians who form a joint of the political j
tail of Mr. Buchanan, are already up in arms against his j
selection. I refer to those just now attending the Legisla- j
ture in Richmond, very few of the Virginia members of j
Congress being connected with the Buchanan clique. They
held a caucus,lt is said, a night or two since, and deter
mined, by way of heading off Mr. Hunter, to sign a round
robin in favor of the selection of Mr. John S. Barbour.
As this gentleman may be unknown to those who have not
been delving among the dry hones of a past political age,
I may mention that he is the venerable gentleman who rose
so frequently on crutches (which he has used for years) in
the Baltimore Democratic Convention, and exclaimed in
falsetto: “Virginia casts her thirteen votes for Jeans
Buchanan.”
Lanier House.
Those well known hosts, Messrs. S. Lanier & Son,
having withdrawn from the above named House, it will
henceforth be under the management of Messrs. Scott
& Dibble, gentlemen in every way competent to sus
j tain the fine reputation of the establishment. On Sat
urday last, the new proprietors signalized their inaugur
ation by a choice collation, which was heartily enjoyed
by a numerous company of invited friends. We be
speak for them a continuance of public patronage, being
well satisfied that they will spare no trouble in making
the Lanier House pleasant and comfortable to all who
may give them a call.— Georgia Telegraph.
O’ Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle !
Tom’s Cabin, having received a letter from Dr. Ward- !
law, tendering her, in behalf of a number of ladies and
gentlemen of Glasgow, an invitation to visit England at
their expense, has accepted the invitation, aud accom
panied by her husband will soon leave for England.
In Boston $16,000 have been subscribed towards the
Webster monument.
The Charleston Mercury on Newspapers.
The Valedictory of* Captain Forsyth lias called forth j
more compliments than so modest a man can well bear ; !
and were we not afraid of k”ling him with sweets, we (
would glad'y transfer to our columns, some of the glowing j
tributes which have been paid to his Editorial memory, i
This by the way. One paragraph in his valedictory j
has produced a profound impression on the publishing
corps, and which we are anxious to CllgTdVC upon I
the minds of our readers. Newspaper credits arc
twice cursed ; they curse him that gives, and him that
takes. To the one, in the language of the Mercury,
it brings “profitless toil and ultimate bankruptcy 5” to
the other an unquiet conscience, and often habitual fraud.
Last year our predecessor sent out about 1500 “Soils of
the South” on a credit. We have lost about one halt
of the amount due, and have resolved in future never to
let another number of that Journal go out of our office
until the cash is paid in advance, We hope our sub
scribers will oblige us by reading the following article.
It |is like Shakspears’ plays, Tragi Comic, If you
cannot weep over the detail of Printers’ woes, you will
laugh over Printers’ preplexities,
From the Charleoton Mercury.
To Our Country Subscribers. —*We have hith
erto delayed publishing the proceedings of the j. reus
Convention, which met in Columbia, during the
late session of the Legislature, because we desired
to give at the beginning of the new year a practi
cal endorsement to the leading feature ot its Con
stitution* The 3d section of the 4th article reads
as follows:
“Asa general rule, no papers shall be mailed
from our offices to new subscribers, unless at least
six month’* subscription be paid in advance, and
all papers will be discontinued (due notice having
been given to the subscriber) after the time paid
for has expired.”
We regard this article as the beginning of anew
era in the prosperity and efficiency of the South Car
olina Press. There is not a member of it who does
not daily feel the baneful consequences of the cred
it system. Indeed the history of journalism, wher
ever that system obtains, is for the most part, that
of profitless toil and ultimate bankruptcy. The
sympathies of the public are incessantly invoked
in behalf of papers on whose books stand credited
thousands of dollars, hardly and honestly earned,
but which, from the difficulties and expenses of col
lection. are scarcely worth the effort. Mr. Forsyth,
the able and distinguished editor of the Columbus
Times, in his valedieory, published a few days since,
thus forcibly remarks :
I cannot too strongly urge upon my successors the im
portance of one radical change in the newspaper system.
I give it as the deliberate result of fourteen years ot
newspaper experience, that the credit system to subscri
bers is the greatest of business follies and blunders. —
I have not space to dwell on the reasons which have
brought my mind to this conviction. I have sorely felt
their effects, and now, no longer interested in the question,
I declare it as my opinion that, low prices and cash inva
riably in advance for country subscriptions, is a system
infinitely better for both reader and printer, and a system
indispensable to newspapers success. I trust my successors
may have the courage to adopt it, and I know, if they do,
that in twelve months they will see and acknowledge the
wisdom of the policy.
The public have a deep interest in the establish
ment of the cash system as well as the Printer.—
Pecuniary embarrassment, and vigorous manage
ment, are necessarily incompatible. Place a journal
above this pressure, and it can speak and act in a
manner worthy of its elevated calling.
The present proprietors of the Mercury purchas
ed with the paper, its unsettled accounts. Os these
accounts, between fifteen and twenty thojsand dol
lars were owing in the country for subscription.—
During the year which has elapsed since the pur
chase, efforts have been made, by the employment
of travelling agents, at a liberal compensation, to
recover this large outstanding claim, and yet not
one-third of the amount has bet n collected. This re
sult is due to two causes. The first, is in the locations
of our subscribers. Composed for the most pars
of planters, they are scattered all over the country,
and live at long and inconvenient distances from eacli
other. The collector arrives in one of our country
neighborhoods, where the subscribers reside at in
tervals of one, three and five miles. In the morn
ing he starts on his tour. He finds this gentleman
gone on a visit, another just left for the city, a third
will settle the next time, aad so on, until night clo
ses his fatiguing and unremnnerative labors, and he
returns to his quarters, with a heavy heart and emp
ty pocket. This is the experience of all collectors ;
and it is the natural fruit of a system which requires
the creditor to travel after his dues, from those sit
uated as are the country patrons of the Mercury.
The second cause is in the remissness of the sub
scriber. We do not impute to the friends of the
Mercury an excess of this prevailing sin We know ‘
that we fare better than many others, Indeed, vvhen j
we remember how steadfastly the friends ot the
Mercury have stood by it through evil and good re
port, how warmly they have clung to it in the wars
ot party, and how almost without example, it has
been sheltered from the usual proscription of vic
tory, our heaits swell with mingled feelings of
gratitude and pride. We cannot, however, conceal
the fact, that | the present system of collecting in
volvesfgreat expense and little profit. In numbers we
believe that our list exceeds that of any paper in the
State; and for respectability and influence, we match
it against any in the land. On these we rely fur
the success of the coming change.
There is now due us from our subscribers out of
Charleston, upwards of $20,000. How can we re
duce this heavy amount without a resort to harsh
measures, with those who are dilatory ? There is
but one way—the cash system.
We are at a loss to conceive any reasonable ob
jection to this plan. There is not a subscriber to
the Mercury, to whom it is not just as convenient
to pay for his paper, at the begininng, as at the end
of the year. The small tax of five dollars, will be
scarcely felt, if paid in advance, and punctually on
the renewal of the subscription, instead of being
left to accumulate from year to year. And more
than all, he will be relieved from the unpleasanta
ness and inconvenience of being dunned.
We therefore commence the new year with the
new system, and our rules hereafter shall be
invariably as follows:
All orders for the paper out of Charleston must
be accompanied by the cash, or the paper will not
be forwarded.
At the expiration of his year, each subscriber
will be furnished with his account, and a failure on
his part to remit will be considered as a wish to dis
continue the paper.
All moneys remitted by mail are at our risk, and
a Postmaster’s certificate will ebdeemed a satisfac
tory voucher thereof.
Postmasters and others remitting S2O, will be en
titled to five copies of our tri-weekly paper for one
year.
We cannot doubt that this arrangement will
commend itself to our country friends generally, and
we rely equally upon their intelligence and genero
sity to sustain us in rigidly enforcing it.
Public Documents.
M e are indebted to Hon. J, Johnson and Hon. J, W,
Jackson, for valuable public documents,
During tlie year 1852, there were nineteen murders
in New York city.
The New Cuban Tariff —By late arrivals from *
Cuba it appears that “new commercial
have been adopted, by which the duties of importation
ave to be changed after the first of February next.
Pickled Fork is reduced from sl4 to sl2 per barrel;
jerked J3eef, from $7,50, the hundred pounds, to $0,50.
Hides, curled hair, linen handkerchiefs, cotton hose,
knives, linen shirting, lamps, coarse linens, Spanish oil,
wrapping paper, sheeting, steel springs, chains, chil
dren’s shoes, Croton oil, and many other drugs arc nil
reduced in their rates. Many other articles are increa
sed, while Indian corn, rice, tallow, candles, soap, and
the other chief domestic exports, remain as they were.’
Round Robins.
President Pierce is much troubled with these bil
lets, if we are to believe the news mongers, One hun
dred and forty members of the Virginia Legislation
have signed one in favor of Barbour. The Electors
j for Ohio signed one for Mr. Med ary. Dobbin s
i friends in North Carolina, signed one in favor ot
Judge Strange. Such letters are hardly more decent
| than “buckets,” and are only fit to be used in kind
j ling the fire.
Lord Frankfort, of England, who is m the
House of Correction, wears the prison apparel, and, it
is said, appears to feel liis degradation most keenly,
lie will be exempt from the task ot the tread-mill and
oakum-picking.
The Florida Legislature adjourned on the Ist
inst. The charter for the Pensacola and Georgia Rail
Road had passed.
French Empire to be Acknowledged. —lt is said
that dispatches have gone out from the State Depart
ment, directing Mr. Rives to acknowledge the Empire
as the Government de facto of France.
Military Depot Removed. —The Picayune learns
that Mhj, General Twiggs, commanding the Southern
Division of the United States army, has issued orders
for the breaking up and immediate removal of the mili
tary depot at San Antonio, and of the commissary and
quartermaster departments, to Corpus Christ!,
OO” Prior to leaving for Havana, it is reported that
the Hon. W. R. King, the Vice President elect, will re
sign his seat in the United States Senate. We are,
says the New York Herald , sorry to learn that appre
hensions still exist, that he will never recover.
Free Trade in the Post Office Business,— The
new letter envelppes, with the single and double stamps,
will soon be ready. Then every steamer, every Rail!
Road train, every express line, and every man, is made
a mail carrier by Congress. Letters, in the gov
ernment envelopes, can be sent in any way, by any
route, and by any conveyance.
Collision Between Steamer Palmetto and Brig
Ohio,— -The steamship Palmetto, Captain Jackson, has
arrived at Baltimore from Charleston. On Sunday
night, in the Chesapeake, she ran into and sunk the brig
Ohio, bound for Mobile, The crew, however, of the
Ohio were all saved. The Palmetto was slightly in -
jured.
Death of Samuel J. Ray, —We regret to announces
the death of Samuel J. Ray, Esq., editor of the Macon
Telegraph, lie expired at seven o’clock on yesterday
morning. He has been suffering for nrany motif i
from hemorrhage of the longs, and we presume W’ 1
a victim to that disease.— Sav. Courier.
The Italian stage has been honored by the debut of
Princess Donna Maria Piccoloniini, daughter of the
Prince of that name.
(com m uni catk and.)
i( E Clampsns Vitus.”
At the last meeting of this Ancient Order, the fol
; lowing persons were elected to fill thu principal offices ;
Maj. A. B. RAGAN, N. G. H.
Dr. S. A. BILLING, R. H. S.
I. T. ROBINSON, Re-elected Sec. k Treas.
ij The order is in its infancy in this city, but we learn it
already numbers 45 or 50 members. The Lodge room
is in Temperance Ilall. This being the first Lodge in
the State it is to be the Mother or Grand Lodge, also.
The Broadwayßailiioad in New York.—The
Board of Aldermen of the city of New York on
Wednesday night adhered to theit formei action,
and adopted the report for the establishment of the
Broadway Railroad notwithstanding the veto of
the Mayor. They also adopted a pteamable and
resolution disapproving the course of Judge Camp
bell in granting an injunction restraining them from
prooeeding in the matter. Judge Emmett has is
sued an orecr requiring all the resactory Aldermen
to show cause at special term to be held on the
secon Monday of January, why attachment should
net be issued against them for contempt of Court
in disobeying its injunction.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Gen. Pierce’s Son killed, and lus Wife se
verely! injured.
Boston, Mass., Jan, 7,
Gen. Pierce’s son has been killed by accident, and liis
wife severely injured. The General himself narrowly
escaped. Several Others were injured,
COTTON STATEMENTS?
io 9 HTja'g PO I £ iETo/i 1® stock
o 2. o ja s. i < ;-o *-3 on
~ S o o o £3> sts ~ o „„ i
p-g.s-i.4-a j : s-2-4-2. S~ >™
Jan. 10. ,L ’ • ! ’ ‘ * day
-1852. 860 2076 21917 24853 4323 10390 15213 9640
Jan. 8,
1853. 229 1269 35645 369142851 21611 24462 12452
remarks on the market for the week.
Cotton has been very active at prices a shade higher !
than last quotations. Sellers are very firm at their ask-:
ing prices; inside quotations being freely paid by buy
ers. We quote,
Middling 8% a 87-16; Middling Fair 8% a Bj£; Good Mid
dling 8% a 8% ; Fair 9 a 9.
~ , r . Savannah, Jan. 6.
~ yOTTON. Ihe Market yesterday continued firm, prices
lull andteimsin favor ofholders. The transactions amoun
ted to 1260 bales at the following particulars : 6 bales at
ix ;32 at 71- ; 31 at 8 ; 41 at 81 : 50 at 8i ; 14 at 8j : 11
at 8 11 16 ; 126 at 81 ; 130 at 81 ; 70 at 9 ; 198 at 9i ■
118 at 9f ; 105 at Vi ; 222 at 91 : 55 at 9 11-16 ; 48 at Vi ’
2 at 10. ’
■■ Augusta, Jan. 5, P. M.
Cotton. —The market to-day has been quiet, bujers be
ing kept out of the market by the stringent prices asked by
holders. Both parties awaiting the next steamer’s advices
now due.
From the Alabama Journal.
Mobile Cotton Market,
Mobile, January 7, 5:10, r. m.
We are enjoying good sales of Cotton in this mar- f
ket, at 8 l-2e. per lb for Middlings. t
