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THE TTMES^SENTINEL. TENNENT LOMAX & ROSWELL ELLIS, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. THE TRI-WIEKI Y TIMES fc SENTINEL is published E VERY WEDJfKSDA T and FRIDA Y JHORN IJiO and SATURDAY EFEJfIJYO. THE WEEKLY TIMES &. SENTINEL is published every TUESDAY JI IORNHYO. Office on Randolph Street, opposite the Post Office. TERMS: TRI-WEEKLY, Fite Dollars per annum, in advance. WEEKLY, Two Dollars per annum, in advance. tdT Advertisements conspicuously inserted at One Dollar per square, for the first insertion, and fifty cents for every sub sequent insertion. Liberal deduction will be made for yearly advertisements. 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