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THE TIMES & SENTINEL. TENNENT ~LOMAX & ROSWELL ELLIS, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. THE TRI-WEEKLY TIMES & SENTINEL is published E VERY IVF.DXFSDA Y and FRIDAY MORX IXO and S A TURD AY F.VKXIXO. THE WEEKLY TIMES & SENTINEL lpublished every TUESDAY MORXIXG. Office on Randolph Streep opposite the Post Office. TERMS: TRI-WEEKLY, Fite Dollars per annum, in advance. WEEKLY, Two Dollars per annum, in advance. KT Advertisements conspicuously inserted at One Dollar per square, for the first insertion, and fifty cents for ever)’ sub sequent insertion. Liberal deduction will be made for yearly advertisements. Mr. Calhoun on Cuba. We extract from Mr. Venable’s excellent speech the following paragraph in reference to Mr. Calhoun’s opinions on the annexation of Cuba to the U. S.: And here, sir, 1 would with pious and rever ential care, perform a duty which I owe to the memory ot a distinguished statesman, whose unclouded and unequalled mind constantly re flected upon and studied the interests of his country generally and his section in particular —whose pure heart to its latest throb was filled with love to his country, and whose matured judgment made him the safest guide. I refer to the great South Carolinian, who but two days before his death charged me that should he be misrepresented upon this subject, to give to the world his true opinion. It has been said that Mr. Calhoun was in favor of the annexation of Cuba ; that he was for annexation at all events. This is not true. I feel bound by a promise made to him to correct the statement. He said if Cuba ever comes must be by treaty, honorable and satisfactory to both countries; otherwise itis forbidden fruit to the United States. This was said in reference to the indirect mode of acquiring it by annexation after a revolution, rendered successful chiefly by adventurers from this country. The conversation related to an interview with certain persons, inhabitants of Cuba, who called upon him a few days before. A gentleman now present in this House was with me when they called on Mr. Calhoun ; we rose to leave the room ; he requested us to remain and witness the conversation. They spoke to him of the expected revolution and the operations of Gen Lopez; he said what we all know to be true—“ Gentlemen, you are mistaken ; Cuba is not ripe for revolution ; her people are not rea dy for such a state of things ; and if Lopez in vades Cuba the enterprise will be a failure, and under no circumstances can this Government be complicated with this revolution.” He of ten said to me—Cuba, from her situation, can never be alienated to any other power than the United States, and Spain, the owner, is the best stakeholder ; best for us and best for the world. Nothing but unavoidable necessity could justify force in taking it. The purchase is improbable, and we now have most of the commercial ad vantages without the expense of administering the government. These were the words and opinions ot one whose bright name will ever ir radiate the pages of our annals. Pure, wise, patriotic, and just ; one who cherished no nar row views, and whose opinions and conclusions were the result of profound thought and impar tial investigation; a statesman as contradistin guished from a mere politician ; a man who had the firmness to be just amidst the out breakings of senseless clamor, and whose expectations of the future almost amounted to prescience. Yankee Doodle. Watson, in his “Occurrences of the war of Inde pendence,” says—This tune, so celebrated as a na tional air of the revolution, has an origin almost un known to the mass of the people of the present day. An aged and respectable lady, born in New England, told me she remembered it well, loug before the Revolution, under another name. It was then uni versally called “Lady Fisher,” and was a favoiite New England jig. It was then the practice with it, as with “Yankee Doodle ’ now to sing it, with va rious impromptu verses—such as : Lydia Locket lost her pocket, Lydia Fisher I‘ound it— Not a bit of money in it, Only binding round it. The British, preceding the war, when disposed to ridicule the simplicity of Yankee manners and hilarity, were accustomed to sing airs or songs set to words, invented for the passing occasion, having tor their object to satyrize and sneer at the New Englanders. This, as I believe, they called \ r ankee Doodle, by way of reproach, and as a slur upon their favorite, “Lydia Fisher.” It is remembered that the English officers then among us, acting un der civil and military appointments, often felt lord ly over us colonists, and by countenancing such slurs, they sometimes expressed iheir supercilious ness. When the battles of Concord and Lexington began the war, the English, when advancing in tri umph, played along the road “God save the King,” but when the Americans had made the retreat “so disastrous to the invaders, these then struck up the scouted Y'ankee Doodle, as if to say, “See what we simple Jonathans can do!” i rora that time the term of intended derision was assumed throughout all the American colonies, as the national air ot the liberty, even as the Methodist—once reproachfully so called—assum ed it as their acceptable appellation. Even the name ot “sons ot liberty,” which was so popular at the outset, was a name adopted from the appella tion given us in Parliament, by Col. Barre, in his speech. Judge Martin, in the histoiy of North Car olina, has late given another reason for the origin of “Yankee Doodle,” saying it was formed at Albany, in 1755,(by a Br.tish officer, then there, indulging his pleasantry on the homely array of the motley Ameri cans, then assembling to join the expedition of Gen. Johnson and Governor Shirerly. To ascertain the truth in the premises, both his and my accounts were published in the gazettes, to elicit, if possible, further information, and the additional facts ascer tained, seemed to corroborate the foregoing idea. The tune and quaint words, says a writer in the Columbian Gazette, at Washington, were known as early as the time of Cromwell, and were so applied to him then, in a song called “Yankee Doodle,” as ascertained from the collection he had seen of a gentleman at Cheltenham, in England, called “Musi cal Antiquities of England,” to wit: \ ankee Doodle came to town, Upon a little pony, With a leather in his hat, Upon a maccaroni. The term “feather,” &c., alluded to Cromwell’s going to Oxford on a small horse, with his single plume, fastened in a sort of knot called a “maccaroni.’ ibe idea that such an early origin may have existed seems strengthened by the fact communicated by an aged gentleman of Massachusetts, who well re membered that, about the time the strife was en- j gendering at Boston, they sometimes conveyed j muskets to the country concealed in iheir loads of j manure, &.r. Then came abroad verses, as if set | forth from their military masters, saying : Yankee Doodle came to town, For to buy a firelock ; We will tar and feather him, And so we will John Hancock. COLUMBUS, GA l SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. 15, 18^. “Still liarping on My Daughter.” The Washington Republic , the organ of the retiring administration, finds its chief pleasure and political profit (?) in liarping on the incongruities of the Democratic par ty, about inaugurated to be with Gen. Pierce as its head. llow, exclaims the Editor, with tender solicitude for the welfare of the President elect, can he bestow his favors on the “Soules, the Forsyths and the A ena bles” on one side, and the “D;xes, A an Burens,” &c,, on the other ? Ilow can he bring a Northern Union Democrat like a Gorman into friendly union and fel lowship with a Southern man like a Davis or a Mc- Donald ? AA’e can tell the Editor how it will not be d one —to wit: by consulting the Whigs; and it will be done without giving him the least trouble or respon sibility in the doing of it. The Republic looks at this question with Whig eyes—jaundiced eyes. 4nd he regards it with an utter obliviousness of that mighty pa nacea which lately compromised all differences, and in augurated that political millennium wherein the lion and the lamb lie down ill peace together, and the Unionists and Fire-eaters are as friendly, soft and docile as cooing doves. That should be the Republic's way of account ing for it, for we think the compromise owns that paper as one of its architects. But we have a better way of meeting the difficulty. Gen, PiERCi will not be em barrassed by, or persecuted with, the importunities of Southern Rights Democrats for office. Os the gentle men named by the Republic , and whom it always holds up in conjunction, (and an honorable group itis,) we ap prehend that none of them will condescend to ask Gen. Pierce fora place. Senator Soule is too well content to be the honored Senator of a sovereign State to become a mendicant at the White House. Who that knows Jef ferson Davis will suspect him of bending the dignity of his noble character, that “thrift may follow fawning?” Mr. V t enable, of North Carolina, too, will appear in an entirely new phase of character when he joins the beg gar throng that importunes for Presidential favors. And, in respect to our predecessor, Mr. Forsyth, we happen to know what are his views; and they are that there is not a post in the gift of the President elect, high enough or lucrative enough to tempt his asking, under present circumstances. He supported General Pierce from motives of patriotic duty and at the prompt ings of principle, and he does not choose to forfeit the right to assert that fact, by waiting in the ante-room of the Presidential Mansion with a petition in his hands. And he is right. Office loses all its respectability when sought after and intrigued and bargained for. It be stows honor only when it seeks the man. But, with the lights before us, the Republic may make itself easy on the score of the prospects of the State Rights wing of the Democracy. AA r e claim Gen. Pierce as “one of us;” and it is certainly “sugges tive” that the only gentleman now certainly known to have been offered a seat in the new Cabinet, is one of the best and brightest spirits in the State Rights school. Where R. M. T. Hunter is Premier, there is little dan ger of a Cabinet in which loyalty to the rights and sovereignty of the States will be held a crime. The Soil of the South. The January number of this periodical is on our ta ble, AA r e notice several important improvements in this volume. It is greatly enlarged—its form jsehang- | ed to that of an octavo —and its pages increased from six teen to thirty-two. AVe are please and to notice that Iverson L. Harris and J. A t an Buren have commenced their regular contributions to the Horticultural department. Such accomplished writers cannot fail to add materially to the value of the work. We do not find Dr. Camak’s name among the list of contributors, We hope to find him in the next number. The table of contents is very large, and nearly every article is original. The accomplished Editors, Messrs. Chambers and Peabody, have entered upon the new year with com mendable zeal and energy, and their editorials will he j read with great interest. The article from the pen of i the Agricultural Editor, on the subject of “Guano,” j contains valuable suggestions, and will be read with ! interest. AVe hope to hear from him again on this subject. AVe cannot convey an idea of the value of this num ber in any other way so well as by giving the Table of Contents: Agricultural. —Letter from Prolessor Liebig; Premi um Essay on Draining, by Nelson Clayton; The Clovers and Grasses ; Clover at the South,by Benjamin Whitfield ; Crab Grass, by Benjamin Whitfield ; Letter from Cass County ; Letter from S. W. Burney; Negro Houses; Brick Making ; Culture of Rice, by Wm. Henry Dudley; Bermuda Grass-; Lucerne ; A Lasting Screw,by E. J. Co pell ; enquiries about Guano ; Chills and Fever's, by E. J. Copell; Colaparchee Agricultural Society ; Cotton Pre mium Georgia and Alabama Agricultural Society; Warmth Promotes Fat; Testing Building Stones. Editorial. —The New Year; Work lor the Month; Hauling out Manure; Oats; Rye ; Winter Plowing; The Application of Guano ; N. S. G ; Use the Present Means ; Advice to Young Men ; The Right Spirit; The Southern School Journal. Horticultural. —Fruit—Flowers ; Letter from Iverson L. Harris ; On the Culture of Fiuit at the South ; Premium List Chunnenuggee Fair. Editorial.— The New Year; Garden Woork for Janua ry; The Fruit Orchard and Garden; American Pomo logical Congress; Transplanting Trees; The Beauty of Art and the Beauty of Nature; A Tall Cabbage ;'The Sun Flower. Domestic Economy- —Mosquito Bites ; How to make Canaries familiar ; Recipe for Cholera; How to pack Fir kin Butter; Preserving Eggs; How to make Vinegar ; Su gar of Whey ; Potato and Rice Bread ; Carolina Rice and Wheat Bread; Minute Pudding; Cranberry Pie; Indian Bread. The Publishers have been compelled to resort to the cash system, Old subscribers who do not receive their “Soil” in the next few days, mav take the hint and send on their dollar. China Trees, We desire to call the attention of the public authori ties to the condition of the China Trees in the middle of our streets, They are ornaments to our city, and are articles of prime necessity to us swelter in the dust and heat of the city during the long summer months. We notice that horses are frequently tied to them, and that many of them are sadly injured by be ing barked, A few boxes would save them yet, if put up in time. Re-Election of Douglas. The vote stood, Douglas 75, Gillespie (whig) 19 ? Cullens (free-soil) 1. This is a very signal proof of the popularity of the “Little Giant of the West,” as his peculiar friends delight to call Senator Douglas, in his own State. ITT The Supr'vne Court of Georgia, which has been in session at Savannah, adjourned on the 13th instant. There was a full bench and bar, but a small number jof cases. This reminds us of an anecdote of Judge II , now of California, which occurred when we rode the Circuit. He was observed to get up hastily ; from his breakfast, on the first morning of the Court, I and order his horse. He was an old stager, and gen erally held on to the last. This movement, therefore, created surprise, and one of his friends called to him : “110 ! judge, which way now ?” “I am off for Talla- I poosa,” replied the judge; “there are more dogs than bones at this Court.” The remark is true of most courts that we have attended. Congress. The House has laid on the table, by a vote of 74 yeas to 73 nays, Air. Cobb’s motion to reconsider the vote of the last session by which the House had rejected the Bill allowing certain rail road companies in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Ten nessee a credit of four years for the duties on rail road iron. Mr. Cass and other Senators have taken occasion to explain that, if they had known that Secretary Clay ton had excluded British Honduras from the operation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, they never would have voted for it. The Bill creating a retired list for disabled officers in the army has passed the Senate. New Paper. AA T e observe, by the Rome Courier , that Mr. D. H, Mason proposes to publish a Tri-weekly paper in that flourishing young city, under the name of Rome Ad vertiser. Mr. Mason is one of our most accomplished writers, and we wish him abundant success in his new enter prise. Methodist Conference. The South Carolina conference commenced its session at Sumterville, S. C,, on the sth inst., Bishop Capers presiding. There were 104 preachers in attendance. The utmost harmony prevailed. The Southern Circuit. The election for Judge of the Superior Court of the Southern Circuit, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of his Honor Judge Hansell, took place on the first Monday of the present month. The South ern Recorder contains the following returns, which leave no doubt of the election of Peter E, Love, Esq., who at present holds the office under an appointment from Governor Cobb : Love. Morgan. Platt. Pulaski, 401 30 : Telfair, 131 4 I Jjaurens, 279 ; Irwin, 261 7 6 Lowndes, 137 15 —- ; Thomas, 398 8 Col. Jefferson Davis, it is confidently said, will get the AA r ar Department under the new Administration.— Senator Hunter may decline, and in that ease, Gov. Floyd will have a Cabinet place. The Steamship Alabama Put In to Norfolk. i AA'e learn from a dispatch to the Agents in this city, | last night, that the steamship Alabama, hence, for New j York, put into Norforlk short of coal, on the 6th inst., 1 having encountered a heavy gale on the 3d. The steam er was obliged to lay to under sail between Egg Harbor afid the Light Ship, during which time her machinery was stopped. She lost her sails, but sustained little or no other damage. The gale lasted thirty-six hours. The Alabama in every encounter proves her superior | qualities as a sea boat. By mail we learned that she had not reached New York on Thursday afternoon at two o’clock, and though no apprehension was felt for her safety, our readers will be gratified to learn that she lias suffered no serious injury by the storm. As she would be una ble to reach New-York in time to leave for Savannah on her regular day, we will have no steamer to-day.— Sav. News . The Caloric Ship. —The Caloric ship Ericcson re— i turned to New York on the afternoon of the 6th inst. from j her trial trip down the Bay, having exceeded the antieipa | tions'of those interested in her. She left Williamsburg be ! tween 9 and 10 o’etoek on Tuesday morning, passed the j flag staff on Governor’s Island at 9h. 56m., and passed I abreast of Fort Diamond at 10h. 30m. 30s. ; thus making a distance of 7 3-8 miles iu 34 1-2 minutes. The stock of cotton in Liverpool on the 17th Decem ber, 1852, was 453,976 bales; 3851, 384,661. Im- j j ports into Liverpool from Ist January to the’ 17th De | eember, were 2,064,68 ; Consumption, ] ,829,190 ; ! 1,536,049. Though the stock has increased in com parison with last year, it has not done so in the same proportion as the consumption. M. de Marcoleta, the Nicaraguan Minister, whose recall has been requested by our Government, has writ ten a letter to the editor of the Courier des Etats Unis , in v\ hich he says : “I have done nothing but follow 7 the instructions of my Government to the very letter, and that with all possible respect; one day, my correspon dence will be published, and justice will be'done'” Newspaper Boys.— The New Hampshire Patriot , the leading Democratic paper at Concord, says the printing office of that paper has been the graduating school of a Governor, a Senator in Congress, several Representatives to Congress, many editors, some minis ters, and many other young men. who have filled at va rious times numerous responsible stations in the com munity. Louis Napoleon. —“Louis Bonaparte,” savs Victor Hugo, is a man of middle height, cold, pale, slow in his movements, having the air of a person not quite awake. He has published, as we mentioned before, a tolerable treatise on artillery, and is thought to be ac quainted with the manoeuvering of cannon. lie is a good horseman. He speaks drawlinglv, with a slight German accent. Ilis histrionic abilities were displayed at the Englinton tournament. He has a thick mous tache, covering his smile, like that of the Duke d’Ar to!se, and a dull eye, like that of Charles IX.” The Illness of Vice President King. —A letter from Washington, dated the 6th inst., says : “Hon. W. R. King has made his will. He was born in 1786 : owns 5,000 acres of land in one body in Dallas coun ty, Alabama, and upward of one hundred slaves. His entire estate is worth about 8150,000. He is a humane master.— He told me some years since that he never sold but one slave in Iris life, and he was compelled to sell him because he was a terror to the neighborhood. Col. King cannot possibly recover. His physician has sounded his lungs with the stethoscope, and declared that one ot his lungs is entirely gone and the other partly so. Col. K.’s neice, Mrs. Ellis, is with him.” A Commendable Rule.— The Democrats of Phila delphia city and county have adopted a neat set of rules to govern their primary elections in June nex , and among them is the following: “If any candidate for any office, by offers ot gift* ot drink, money, or any valuable flung, is found guilty o tempting, directly or indirectlv, to influence the vote o any Democratic citizen at the election on the ? ® co , Monday in June, or of any conferee, his name is to stricken from the list of candidates by the conference, and any votes cast for such candidate will not be coun Refusal of Billy Bowlegs to leave Florida. —The National Intelligencer confirms the report that Billy Bowlegs has been compelled by his followers, particu larly his sister and Sam Jones, to refuse the compliance with his promise to leave Florida. He had taken to the everglades, and as a regiment of “Cow-boys” or “Crackers” is being raised in Florida, to pursue him, we may expect to hear soon of the commencement of another troublesome Indian war. Amos Lawrence. — A post mortem examination ot ; the body of this gentleman, who died suddenly in Bos ton, has been made; and it is stated it was found that the deceased’s heart was largely ossified ; and what was very remarkable, his brain weighed two ounces more than that of Mr. Webster. The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty.-- Conflict be tween Mr. Clayton and Vice President King. Some days ago, we stated that Senator Cass had asked intormaiion from the Executive in regard to new colonial lodgements made on the coast ot Cen -1 iral America, in defiance of the Claytou-Bulwer treaty of the sth July, 1850. The broad terms of that document are alleged to be, in part, as fol lows : “The Governments of the United States and of Great Britain agree “that neither will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the ship channel which it is designed to construct;” and, futhermore, that “neither will ever erect or maintain any fort ification commanding the same , OR IN THE VICINITY THEREOF, or OCCUPY 01’ fortify, OT colonize , or assume to exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any fart of Central America This explicit language, entirely unmodified by any subsequent clauses in the treaty, disclosed the fact that GreatJßritain, aswell as the U. States, was not to “ maintain' ’ dominion over “any fart of Cen tral America .” But the following “declaration” of Sir Henry Bulwer, and “memorandum” of Secre tary Clayton, which, it is alleged, were not com municated to the Senate at the time of the ratifica tion of the treaty, rind, indeed, passed between these functionaries after the ratification cf the treaty, seem to give a very different coloring to the whole affair: DECLARATION. In proceeding to the exchange of the ratifications of the convention, signed at VVashignton, on the l9ih of April, 1850, between her Britannic Majes ty and the United States of America relative to the establishment of a communication by ship canal be tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the under signed, her Britannic Majesty’s plenipotentiary, has received her Majesty’s instructions to declare that her Majesty does not understand the engagements of that convention to apply to her Majesty’s settle ment at Honduras, or to its dependencies: Her Majesty’s ratification of the said convention is ex changed under the explicit declaration above men tioned. Done at Washington, the 29th day of June, 1850. H. L. BULWER. To this, Mr. Clayton, replied, a the last mo ment on the sth of July, by the following; Memorandum. Department of State, ) Washington, July 5, 1850. ( The within declaration of Sir 11. L. Bulwer was received by me on the 29th day of June, 1850. In reply, I wrote him my note of the *4t.h of July, acknowledging that I understood that British Hon duras was not embraced in the treaty of the 19th day of April last, but at the same time carefully declining to affirm or deny the British title in their settlement or its alleged dependencies. After signing my note, last night, I delivered it to Sir Henry, and we immediately proceeded, without any further or other action, to exhange the ratifications of said treaty. The consent of the Senate to the declaration was not required, and the treaty was ratified as it stood when itwas made. JOHN M. CLAYTON. N. B. The rights of no Central American State have been compromised by the treaty or by anyi part of the negotiation. This accordingly, was a formal and most signi ficant part of the treaty ; modifying its meaning, and striking out, in fact, the very essence of its worth. In his letter ofthe 4th of July to Sir Henry, Mr. Clayton also remarks : “The chairman of the committee on Foreign Re latiuns of the Senate, William R. King,informs me that W/ie Senate perfectly understood that the treaty did not include British Honduras .” With these official papers before the Senate, Mr. | Cass addressed that body on the 6th instant, in op j position to Mr. Clayton 5 * construction, and made 1 the following declaration, on the authority of the ! Hon. VV. R. King, whose indisposition prevented j him from attending the session : “Colonel King informs me,” he said, “tin's inorn j ing that he had made no such, statement ; that when | Mr. Clayton cabled on him, and informed him cf | the qualification pul in the treaty by Great Britain and asked if it should be sent to the Senate, he (Mr. | King) told him that if it were sent to the Senate it ■ would not receive a single vote ; but that he had I better dismiss the qualification entirely and let the \ treaty stand without it. Until the present time he (Mr. ! King) believed this to have been do ne. 5 J Mr. Cass thought that it was proper to have thus stated, publicly, that he never understood the trea ty as did Mr. Clayton, and if he had, he never would have voted for it. On the other side, the National Intelligencer ’ of Saturday contains the following no:e from Mr. Clayton : Wilmington,, (Del.) Jan. 7, 1853. Messrs. Gales and Seaton: I was very much astonished to-day oil reading the attack made on myself in the Senate yesterday. I have a letter from Mr. KiDg, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, wriiten to me on the day of the exchange of ratifications of the British Treaty, the 19th of April, ]BSO, stating in the very words of my | letter to H. Buhver, what the Senate perfectly un derstood, that the treaty did notjnclude British Hon- I duras. I will hereafter send you the original co- I pie of the correspondence between Mr. King and myself. My letter informs Sir Henry Bulwer that the tin tie to Honduras was left as the treaty left it, with out denying or affirming or meddling with it. The British title to the Central American States \#| recognized by President Polk in sending a con- { sul, Christopher Hempstead, who remained in British Honduras under the protection ol the British flag, and by virtue of an exequatur obtained by Secreta ry Buchanan from the British Government, nearly three years, tid I recalled him to prevent the possi- j bility of any charge against President Taylor’s Ad ministration of having recognized English authority in British Honduras. JOHN M. CLAYTON. Mr. Clayton to Mr. King. July 4, 1850. Dear Sir —I am this morning writing to Sir H. L. Bulwer, and while about to decline altering the Trea ty at the time of exchanging ratifications, I wish to leave no room for a charge of duplicity against our Government, such as that we now pretend that Central America, in the Treaty, includes British Honduras. I shall therefore say to him in effect that such construction vva- not in the contempla tion of the negotiators or the Senate at the time ot confirmation. May I have your permission to add that the true understanding was explained bv you as Chairman of Foreign Relations to the Senate be fore the vote was taken on the Treaty. I think it due to frankness on our part. Very truly, yours, J. M. CLAYTON. To Hon. W. R. King, U. S. Senate. Mr. King to Mr. Clayton. July 4,1850. My Dear Sir—The Senate perfectly understood that the Treaty did not include British Honduras. Frankness becomes our Government, but you should be careful not to use any expression which would seem to recognize the right of England to any por tion of Honduras. Faithfully, your ob’teerv’t, WM. R. KING. [The above is a correct copy of a letter of W. R. King, now in possession of Hon. John M. Clayton. J. WALES. P. S. JOHNSON. W. R. McCLEES. Mr. Clayton and Mr. King, President of the Sen ate and late chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, are thus at a dead issue. FurtheiyParticulars of the Accident to Gen. Pierce and Family. We gather from tde New York papers some ad ditional particulars of the rail road accident by which Gen. Pierce and wife w ere injured and their son killed: The train was composed of a baggage and passen ger car only, The exact cause ot the accident is not definitely ascertained ; one of the axle trees is supposed to have broken ; some say it was the journal on whieh a the wheel plays, The day was very cold—the thermometer pointed at zero—and the accident was doubtless owing to the frost in the iron works ofthe ill fated car. Mrs. Pierce and the de ceased son had been ab sent four weeks on a visit to relatives in Boston and Andover. The accident happened near the latter place. General Pierce went to Boston on Tuesday morning, and with them attended the funeral of Mrs. Pierce’s uncle, Hou. Amos Lawrence, on the same afternoon. They remained at Mr. Aiken's, in Andover, whose lady is a sister of Mrs. Pierce, and were expecting to return in the evening. The train in which they went left Boston at noon on Thursday, and the accident happened just after it left the ATidovor depot, twemy-mdes from Boston, at about one. They had not been in the ears five minutes. Gen. Pierce, after the accident, appeared com posed, but Mrs. Pierce was taken away in a very high state of mental anguish. Her screams were agonizing. The little boy was their only child n oldt r bn ther having died some ten years ago. At the time of the accident, Gen. Pierce was con versing with Mr. Young, the superintendent of the new Mills at Lawrence. Professor Packard, a rela tive of Gen. Pierce, was in company with Mrs. Pierce and her son, and the party occupied the for ward part of the car, which was divided in the mid ,dle. They were all thrown into a heap, one over *a other. Master Pierce lay upon the floor of the car, with his skull fi ightfully fractured. The cap which he had worn had fallen off, and was filled with his blood and brains. A little girl of Mr. Newall, of Hillsborough, had her foot crushed, and it must be amputated. Mrs. Newall was badly injured, and Mr. News 11 had a leg brokers Mr. Horace Chifu’s, .bridge builder, of Henniker, was badly but not seriously bruised.— | Several women were severely bruised. J The car is said to have broken near the middle-.- j The baggage car in front was not thrown off. A ! brakeman stood on the end cf it and witnessed the accident unharmed. j A dispatch, dated Concord, Thursday evening. | says: ; Considerable apprehension is felt here lest tiffs 1 melancholy fatality may prove serious in its conse* ] quenees to Mrs. Pierce. She has been for several years in delicate health, caused pari ly by the loss of her first child. The boy killed by this accident was almost idolized by his mother and father. The announcement of the accident, at 4 o’clock, caused i great excitement in the House. A member came in and T said that General Pierce himself was dead. The floor I .and galleries were crowded—the charge of bribery against j .Judge Butler being under consideration. The Governor. Council, and most of the Senators were present. Instantly every member was on his feet, nud exclamations of re gret were heard from every one. The veteran Ichbabod Bartlett, of Portsmouth, the oldest member —a political opponent, but stronfi personal friend of Gen. Pierce —was observed to weep like a child. Others were much affected. The house adjourned instantly, and the members rush ed to the hotel and telegraphed office, and the most intense anxiety to obtain particulars has prevailed ever j since. The little boy was a great Javarite with our town j people. He was rgreeably, kind, and generous, and ! much beloved by his playmates. VV hen asked the other day, “Well Benny, how do you expect to like living at I the White House ?” he replied, “I don 5 t know about i going there to iive at ull. 1 would rather go out to liAe j on a farm.” Further Particulars, by Telegraiih. ’ Boston, Jan. 7.—Gen. Pierce and lady are now stay ! ing at the house of .John Aiken at Andover. Neither of | them have received much physical injury, but Mrs P. is prostrated with grief at the loss of her son. Mr Newell, of Cambridge, one of the passengers isin ! jured beyond the possibility of recovery. SECOND DISPATCH. j Boston, Jan. 7.—Gen. Pierce and his lady are still at j Andover, suffering slightly from their injuries, and over whelmed with grief at the loss of their only child. The funeral will take place at Concord to morrow. iff?” Wanted. —One young married lady, who is willing to begin housekeeping in the same style in which her parents began. Wanted. — Twenty fashionable young ladies, who dare to be seen wielding a dusting brush, or darning their brother’s stockings, if a gentleman should happen to make an early morning call. Wan- j ted. —Twenty independent young ladies, of ‘ ! “good families,” who dare to wear their last ; winter’s bonnets to church on a clear Sunday. Wanted. —The same number of young ladies, ; “who are anybody,” who dare to be seen in Broadway, wearing shoes with soles thick enough to keep their feet warm. Wanted. —The same number of young ladies, of sufficient age “to go into company,” who dare confess they ever made a loaf of bread. oy~ “Madam” said old Roger to his board ing-house keeper, “inprimitive countries beef is often a legal tender; but, madam said, he, emphatically, thrusting his fork into the steak, “all” the laws in Christendom couldn t make this beef tender-” He looked around the board for encouragement, and found it in the fact that ah the boarders who ate the beef held their jaws