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THE TIMES & SENTINEL. TENNENT LOMAX & ROSWELL ELLIS, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. THE TRI-WEEKLY TIMES <JL SENTINEL. is published EVERY tVEDMSSnA Y and FRIDAY MO RX and SATURDAY KVKJYIJYO. THE WEEKLY TIMKS fr SENTINEL !s pub.ished every TUESDAY MORJYIJYO. Office on Randolph Street, opposite the Post Office. TERMS: TRI-WEEKLY, Fite Dollars per annum, in advance. WEEKLY, Two Dollars per annum,in advance, sir Advertisement*conspicuously inserted at One Dogear persquare, for the first insertion, nr.d titty cents tor every ut sequent insertion. Liberal deduction will be made for yearly advertisements. Picture of the Senate Worthies. A Washington Correspondent of the New York Mirror is sad because the great lights of the Senate have gone out and nothing hut farth ing candles are left. Over the absence of Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Grundy, l'orsyth, Southard, Buchanan, &c., he mourns like Rachel, and will receive no comfort. He then draws a picture of some ot the chief members, from which, without farther parley, we compile the following : The frosty head of John Davis is still visible ; but except in the dignity which gray hairs give to such a place, he adds but little to the useful ness or interest of the body. Near him sits Mangum—now almost broken down with high living. He has been a long time in Congress and is a brilliant debater; but has always been wanting in industry and re- search. General Cass- is almost the only one ot the men of national reputation who seems to hold j his own, in good condition. Old Judge Butler, of South Carolina, secures ! the respect of every one, for his learning, as a gentleman of the old school, and the sparkling raciness of his occasional speeches. Near him sits Hunter, of Virginia, who has much influence, rarely making long speeches, and always speaking to the point. With a great deal of Virginia and South Carolina abstraction ism, he possesses a clear head in examining busi ness matters, is always punctual in fulfilling his engagements ; and, if he cannot agree with you, gives you at least the satisfaction of a decided answer in the negative. His colleague, Mason, is a bitter Statesrights man, of very contracted views, and expresses himself occasionally, with fluency ; but he is des titute of any business habits, and really has very little influence. Bright, of Indiana, is a man of of fair abilities; ■ but a mere party politician of the most ultra kind, I and has no influence, except such as seven or eight years’ experience gives him in his own party. Borland, of Arkansas, is small potatoes in eve ry respect, and would be a fit companion for j Weller, of California, who must have succeeded in realizing his present position by sheer impu dence, of which lie has a plentiful stock coupled with the grossest vulgarity of manner and speech. Dr.Gwinn, of California, is a pleasant spoken gentleman. Those who have had business with him say that lie will listeij very attentively to all you have to say, and the next day be as igno rant of the subject as if he had never heard of it. Fish, of New York, is a thorough business man, a good writer, and very faithful in attend ing to Committee business; but is generally re garded as being destitute of all qualifications as a speaker, so that he cannot pilot a bill through, although he may understand it better than any one else. Seward is admitted, with all his demagogueism, to be a man of talent, but his voice is not adap ted for any large room, and hence what he says, though generally logical and concise, is not lis tened to with much attention. Bell, of Tennessee, always commands respect, j and is worthy of the station. Jones, his col- j league, is more made up of words than ideas. Dawson, of Georgia, makes a very respec table figure, as does also Badger, of North Carolina. Brooks and Adams, of Mississippi, Clemens, of Alabama, the two Dodges (father and son,) Brodhead and Cooper, of Pennsylvania, are all third rate men. The first looks like a bo}’, and speaks as if he were in a debating society. Pearce and Pratt of Maryland are both finished gentlemen and scholars. Douglas and Shields, of Illinois, always ap pear well in debate, and are generally well in formed on the business before their Committees, especially the latter—nothing one sees of the former would lead you to pick him out as a can didate for the Presidency, except his disposition to ride every hobby that may catch voters. Captain Stockton .should have remained in the navy. He shows his self-conceit in every thing he does, and is laughed at a little. Truman Smith, of Connecticut, is well inform ed, but very heavy in debate and rather testy. His colleague, Toucey, once Attorney General, is a better lawyer than statesman. Soule, always eloquent and brilliant, has rath er lost influence by the erratic nullification course he pursued on the compromise questions ; but he must always rank among the first. Mr. Morton, of Florida, is a tall, good-looking man, always sensible; but not particularly dis tinguished. John P. Hale is brimfull of humor, and has, on the whole, made a good figure, considering the fact that he had to fight almost alone. Chase is a good speaker—a good lawyer, but has little influence, owing to his free-soil ten dencies. Sumner is of the transcendental literary school, and will disappoint all his friends in Massachu setts, for he has few qualifications for the Senate. Although they average at a low figure for talents—that Senate—they do not make up for it by industry or attention to business. It is the hardest thing in the world to get a quorum of a Committee together; very hard to get a Senator to give serious attention so as to understand any matter of business, and whenj you have suc ceeded in that, it is harder still to get him to at tend to it. And so forth, and so forth, all of which looks like carping. But, really, the Senate has some what fallen both in dignity and public esteem. Practical Abolition. —Benjamin Walker, Esq., of Jamaica, writing to his brother in Char leston, S. C., uses the subjoined language. He is an Englishman who has resided in the Island tor many years, and after a personal investigation ot the Abolition operations of his own Government, says: “I hope and trust you will never be imbu ed with anti-slavery doctrines: and if many could witness the rui* of interest, both moral and ma terial, the misery of families, and the desolation of all which I now s3e aroud me, oceasioned by the emancipation of the negroes, there would be less agitation in your e ountry on that much vexed question- I hope the people of the South will “hold their own’” Emancipation means confis cation and misery to both races. Let people come to Jamaica and Judge lor themselves, and witness the white race driven from thier hearth and home by the destructive policy of the moth er country. A Exodus of the white race has already commenced, and I am preparing to join in the stream, and abandon a wortnless and ruined country/’ COLUMBUS. GA. JANUARY 21, 1853. Captain Ericsson 5 * Caloric Ship, We cannot content ourselves with a mere announce ment of the success of Captain Ericsson’s experiment in atm-Dspheric air as an agent, in propelling ships across the ocean. It is justly regarded as an invention equal to tile discovery of the expansive power of steam, and of the invention of the steam Engine. Our readers will doubt loss be [pleased to know who Ericsson is ; and the history of his invention. This information, we pro pose to supply in a very few words : Captain Ericsson is a Swede hy birth, but the United States is his adopted country. We are proud that he has identified his name and fame with our institutions, and that it is to the energy, judgment, and liberality of an ; American citizen, Mr. John B. Kitchino, of New York, that he has been indebted for the means to car ry out this great enterprise in a style corresponding to its importance. The late Professor Hawefeldt of Sweden, first suggest ed the idea of a Caloric ship to his mind, by declaring that “there was nothing in the theory of heat which proves that a common spirit lamp may not be sufficient to drive an engine of a hundred horse power.’’ Acting upon this idea, he invent his Engine. He exhibi ted his invention before the scientific world of London in 1833. With the exception of Ure and Faraday, nearly all the leading seen title men of the day united in condemn ing the principle, on which it was based as untenable, and tvoa Faraday, in f a public lecture acknowledged that he did not understand why the engine acted at all. Mr. Brunell, the constructor of the Thames Tunnel, was sent to examine the invention by the British Gov ernmeat, but he misconceive the motive power, it is said, and not allow himself to be corrected by expla nations. Notwithstanding these discouragements, Capt. Ericsson steadily persued his experiments, and after the labor of 25 years, of unappreciated and unproductive toil, he has succeeded with the generous aid of Mr. Kitching of New York, in seeing his labors crowned with complete sdcccss, in the late trial trips of the Er icsson, . upon the bay of N ew York. The advantages csf the invention are : Ist., that only one fifth the amount of fuel is needed, as is consumed by a steam engine of the same power : 2d., there is no danger from explosion, fire or the thousand other acci dents which beset navigation by steam. We learn from the Herald that Captain Ericsson will not accompany the ship in her first trip to Europe, but that he will remain in New York to superintend the building of other Calorie ships for the parties interested in the vessel already constructed. Council Proceedings—City Officers. We have not the priori!edge of printing the proceedings of Council officially. Nevertheless, we take pleasure in trans ferring to our columns such of their action as will be ol general interest. Mr. Wiley Williams has beera elected Alderman of the sth Ward, in which there was no choice at the general election. Edgar G. Dawson, Esq., elected City Attorney. Wm. Bosworth has been elected Clerk of the market. Jeremiah Terry has been elected Sexton. Dr. T. J. Brooks, do do City Physician. E. C. Bandy, do do Bridge Keeper. Burnett Ingram, do u.o Ilospiial Keeper. Thoms Ragland, do do City Printer. The salaries of the following officers have been raised by the present Council: Salaries for 1852. Salaries for 1853- Clerk of Council $550 Clerk of Council.... S6OO Treasurer 650 Treasurer 700 Marshal 650 Marshal 700 Deputy Marshal 650 Deputy Marshal.... 700 City Physician 350 City Physician 450 City Printer 150 City Printer 200 $3,000 $3,350 3,000 $350 It will thus be seen that tne salaries of officers are three hundred and fifty dollars higher this year than they were last; though we find the names of ten of the Council (the Mayor included) on the ticket headed— “ People’s Ticket—Low Taxes ! Free Trade and no Connection. ,> Now we are in favor of paying officers well, and am right ! glad that some of them will have 50 to 100 dollars more ! jingling in their pockets at the end of this year, than they j found there at the end of last year , but if this be the mean ing of “Low Taxes,” Mr. Webster has sadly erred in his j definition, and his publisher would confer a favor on the , public by issuing an amended edition of this standard work. “The Corner Stone.” Our readers will find in our paper to-day the Pros pectus of anew weekly Paper, which General James N. Bethune proposes to publish in this city, at two dol lars per annum in advance. We learn from the Pros pectus that the General claims fellowship with no par ty. He regards them all alike corrupt. He will ad vocate no measures of policy in the administration of the government, except such as will bring it into contempt. He will labor for its dissolution; like Ishmael, therefore, “ his hand (pen) will be against every man, and every man’s hand (pen) will be against him.” General Bethune has had some experience in the j business in which he proposes to engage; is a vigorous j writer ; a bold and independent thinker ; and will make, jwe doubt not, a very readable paper. We give him a cordial welcome to the Editorial corps; and wish him ! personally a long and happy and prosperous life. Additional Per Arabia. —The British ministry had | entered upon their official duties. Napoleon returned to Paris on the 2Sth ult., but was received with no enthusiasm. The Empire has not yet been recognized by Austria, Russia aud Prussia. lion. Win. 11, King and Mr. Clayton. The newspapers have been very busy in pushing before the puhjjo an issue of veracity between Messrs. Kino and CtatroN- We have been surprised that Col. Kino's friends have not long since given an ex planation of the misunderstanding. We are now pleased to find that the supposed inaccuracy of Col. King's statement to Mr. Cass, is fully accounted for in j the following letter from Judge Bragg, of Alabama, j which was first published in the National Intelligencer. “It is now clear that,” in the emphatic language of the Washington Union , “the commercial privileges which England has long enjoyed in a portion of Hon duras, fully sot forth by us yesterday, were only alluded to by Col. King when he wrote Mr- Clayton that the Senate did not understand that British Honduras was included in the treaty. Before writing that note he had informed Mr. Clayton that if the condition which the British government proposed was sent to the Sen ate, it would not receive a single vote. The course of Mr. Clayton in accepting the British condition, after | having received that information, is utterly indefensi ble 5 but not more so than the manner in which he has attempted to shield himself from the just responsibilities ! he has incurred.” * [From the National Intelligencer.] Washington, Jan. 10, 1553. Gentlemen : Knowing that several Senators had had interviews with Colonel King, since the statement made in the Senate by General Cass on Thursday last, and the pub lication in the Intelligencer of Col. King’s note to Mr. : Clayton of the 4th of July, 1850, in reference to the Clay ton and Bulwer treaty, I went to the’’ Senate this morning, confidently expecting to hear such an explanation ol the apparent inconsistency between the statement and the note as would be satisfactory to all parties, and place the whole matter in a proper light before the country. No such explanation having been made in the Senate, | (perhaps from a want of proper information on the sub | ject,) and it having been my privilege, as well as my duty, | to be very frequently with Colonel King during his present j distressing illness, and thus to have had opportunities to understand his views not open to others, it seems to me , that justice to him requires that there should be no longer j delay placing this matter in its true and proper posi tion. The propriety of this is deemed to be the more urgent | from the fact General Cass re-iterated, to-day, his state i ment in the Senate. It is as follows: “I conversed with Colonel King, and he authorized me to say that there is an entire mistake upon this point. He told me that alter this quasi ratification camo from Eng land, on the 29th of June, he had an interview with Mr. Clayton, who desired to know if the treaty should be sent back to Senate for its action upon this conditional ratifica tion. He told Mr. Clayton that if it came there for that purpose it would not get a vote in the Senate ; and that all this day he supposed the project of accepting this declara tion had been abandoned, and that the treaty stood upon its provisions. Colonel King further said he had some general idea of a claim in England to cut logwood in Hon duras, but lie never thought of its being set up as the foun dation ol a pretension to establish a colony.” The following is the note of July 4th: 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 recognise the right ol England to any portion of Honduras. Faithfully, your obedient servant, m T WM. R. KING. To lion. John M. Clayton, Secretary of State. Now, this whole difficulty is susceptible of explanation in a very few words. Col. King’s language to Mr. Cass was based upon a supposed statement of facts, very differ ent horn the facts as they actually exist. Alter the negotiation and ratification of the treaty by the Senate it was sent to England, and returned with a propo sition that it should be considered as ratified on the part of the British government, provided a condition should be an nexed to it recognising title and jurisdiction in that gov ernment over a certain portion of Honduras. Col. King -never saw the proposed provision in writing, but under stood it was insisted on by Lord Palmerston. He very promptly told both Mr. Clayton and Sir Henry Bulwer that with such a condition the treaty could not get a vote in the Senate. Mr. Clayton afterwards informed him that the provision had been abandoned, and he considerecd the treaty ratified by the British government precisely as it had been ratified by the Senate. When Gen. Cass called on Col. King for his recollec tions upon the subject, the latter supposed that the docu ments furnished by the State Department showed that Lord Palmerston’s demand had been yielded to in all its extent instead of abandoned, as he had been told by Mr. Clayton. Upon this supposition lie did say what Gen. Cass repre sents him to have said in his statement. In reference to British Honduras, Col. King was well aware, as every schoolboy is, that Great Britain has long had certain privileges there, and from these he did not sup pose, nor until very recently did he imagine, that anybody supposed, she was to be summarily ousted by the Bulwer and Clayton Treaty. In making this explanation, I have no desire to obtrude myself before the public. Senator Clemens, I learn, has been lor some time detained from his seat by indisposition, and Alabama has no representative in the Senate. The character of Col. King is too dear to his friends and his State for them to stand by and see it even remotely impli cated, without once coming to his vindication. Had it comported with parliamentary rules, this should have been done from my seat in the House of Representatives. As it is, I have to ask a place for this communication in your columns. Veiy respectfully, your obedient servant, J. BRAGG. Letter from Dr. Powell. Chunnenuggee, Ala., Jan. 14, 1853. Col. Lomax : I have now upon my table the amal gamated “ Weekly Times Sentinel, ’’ “They two are no more twain, but one.” That being the case,"all anticipate an improvement; and none would more regret a deterioration than myself, for reasons that have not hitherto been revealed. With the Editorial de partment of the new sheet, I am well pleased. I feel assured, from a knowledge of your magnanimity, my motives will be duly appreciated when informed of mv agency in establishing the first Democratic paper in Western Georgia, of which you are now the honored *head. Your immediate predecessor, in his graphic style, gave a history of the origin and progress of the Republican press of your city. So far as he was in formed, he knew the successive changes, its mutations, but had no knowledge of the original proprietors, for they have nearly all past away. “ The workmen are gone, but the work goes on And in the retrospec tion of the past, it is a source of pleasure to know, that the principles of that press have never been perverted, but have always advocated the doctrine of the Jeffer sonian school of politicians; and though not quite so ultra as your illustrious predecessor, none need doubt your orthodoxy in the Democratic creed. Having retired from the duties of a laborous profes sion, I left Monticello, and located in the county of Tal bot, in the year 182S ; soon after which, I entered the political arena. Your city then, almost in its infancy, was an inconsiderable frontier town, and tlie newly ac quired territory between the Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers but sparsely inhabited ; yet the natural advan tages possessed by Columbus rendered it famous, and to all discriminating minds, it was apparent that at no dis tant day, a great and flourishing commercial town would stand at the head of steamboat navigation. All who feel an interest in the prosperity of your city, must now deplore the policy pursued by lier authorities of depend ing alone upon her natural advantages 5 while other lo calities, less favored by a more enlightened and enter prising course, have far outstripped her. Ilad the counsels of her more enterprising citizens, such as How ard, Hall, Y> are, and others, been earlier heeded, things would have worn quite a different aspect; by this a bright day would have dawned upon the destinies of your city ; she would have been the great thorough fare between the empire cities of the east and west j that triangular route through the mountains via Atlan ta would never have been dreamed of. But it is never too late to do good ; like old RipJVan Winkle, your peo ple are waking up, and when once aroused, they go ahead. The completion of the Girard and Mobile Rail Road, uniting at the latter city with the Mobile and Ohio Rail Road, would yet place Columbus on the great high way of the nation—the direct route from Kew York via Mobile, New Orleans, and so on, to Cal ifornia, Oregon and the Western Pacific. But my purpose was to allude to the press, and not write an essay upon that favorite hobby of mine, rail roads. As before stated, having engaged in politics, the late Col. Blackmen and myself determined to establish a Demo cratic paper in the city of Columbia, to advocate the principles of the party to which we belonged. For sev eral years Cossam Emir Bartlett had edited, at the seat of government, a spirited partisan paper. We in duced him to leave the Capital and establish an inde pendent political journal in Columbus, which lie con ducted with great ability. He was an honest man, ra ther ultra, and impracticable, too much so for a politi cian ; like the storm Petrel, he rode the political whirl wind. lie wielded the pen of a Junius ; he asked no quarters of his political opponents and gave none, lie feared no responsibility and shrunk from no danger. In private life, Mr. Bartlett was altogether amicable, unas suming, retiring and modest; indeed it was difficult to realize the idea that one so mild, so pacific, could be aroused to such deeds of daring ; or that the heart of a lion throbbed in the bosom of one who evinced so ■much humility- I learn a great change came over the spirit of his dream, in which he was called to his to his accountability, and trust he has found a resting place in cur Heavenly Father’s mansion. Now, dr. Editor, as you have the control and man -of what was a pet of mine in its infancy, you may readily imagine that, even in mature age, the kindest feelings are still cheri-’’ed ; and suffer me to hope that your paper will be l iediurn of diffusing not only political intell q . >.he great principles of Morali ty, Temperance .aid >. ie. With my best wishes ibr on health and prosperity, I remain yours, • 11. POWELL. Sugar Manilla The following interesting acc e first attempt to make sugar in Louisiana, is f >si Report of the United States Patent Office for Judge Rost, in Ills add; j the Mechanical and Agricultural Association ‘ana, gives an interesting description of the h to make su gar in Louisiana, whichs lie ws fro;a ho beginnings the great crops now raised of this article hav proceeded. He says: How is it with the sugar-cane in Louisiana ? It was introduced here at an early day from the West Indies, and cultivated to a small extent at Terre aux Boeufs, and in the neighborhood of New Orleans, Nobody at first imagined that sugar could be made of it. The juice was boiled into syrup, which sold at extravagant prices. In 1796, Mr. Bore, residing a few miles above New Orleans —formed the desperate resolve of making sugar. He increased his cultivation, put up the necessary buil dings and machinery, and procured a sugar maker from the West Indies. The day appointed for the ex periment was come, and the operation was under way. The inhabitants of New Orleans and the coast had as sembled there in great numbers ; but they remained outside of the building, at a respectable distance from the sugar maker, whom they looked upon as a sort of ma gician.rl'he first strike came, and he said nothing; this thewPiought fatal, but still they remained fixed to the spot. The second strike was out; the sugar ma ker carefully stirred the first, and then advancing to wards the assembled crowd, told them with all the grav ity of his craft, “Gentlemen, it grains.” “It grains,” was repeated by all. They all rushed in to see the wonder ; and, when convinced of the facts, scattered in all directions greeting every body they met, with “It grains.” And from the Belize to the Dubuque, from the Wabash to the Yellow Stone, the great, the all absorbing news of the Colony was, that the juice of the cane had grained in lower Louisiana. It did grain ; it lias continued to grain ; it grained the last season at the rate of 215,000,000 pounds ; and if no untoward ac tion of the government prevents it, jn ten years it will grain to the extent of more than double the quantity. Gen. Pierce’s Cabinet. —The Washington corres pondent of the Baltimore Sun says: Enough is known of the Cabinet arrangements to show that Gen. P ieree lias been disappointed in obtain ing the services of some of those on whom he most re lied to give strength and consistency to his counsels 5 and that there is little probability of the formation of such a Cabinet as will either harmonize among themselves or give satisfaction to all the different interests of the Dem ocratic party. Meanwhile, difficulties are to be thrown in the way of the new administration by its own friends, in relation to foreign affairs, which it will hardly have strength to overcome. If the tone of the democracy in Congress and in the press be responded te by the administration, complication with foreign powers cannot be avoided. There is nothing to be feared as to the result, even of a war with England, Spain and France, but the question is whether we had not better “bide our time ?” Small Pox. The citizens of Fort Valley state, in a card published in the Telegraph, that there is no case of small pox in seven miles of that village, and assure the public that the authorities of Macon county have taken special care to prevent the sprea 0 the disease. ongress. The House lias ordered ‘“Ft bound copies of the Census Report to be publit Senator Gwin’s Pacific R i bill has been dis cussed in Senate. Messrs. B in, Miller, Cass, Davis, of Mass., Seward and 1 declared in fa vor of the project, though som 1 are of opinion that the bill is not in all respet ; ,t desirable mea sure which could be devised. a tier, of S. C. is opposed to the general mer O’ A dispatch to the Ch, mvier says that Vice President King left for iE ; 15th inst. The Beacon oj Cuba , so lately commenced in New Orleans, has gone the way of numberless new newspapers. The last number announces its demise, but Mr. Thrasher states that causes beyond his control •“render this (the suspension) necessary to the interest and true progress of the yause of Cuban emancipation.” Congressional Proceedings. — Washington, Jan. 14, —To-day John M. Clayton appeared, and took his seat after being sworn. P. L. J. May, Esq., has purchased the office of the South W est Georgian published at Oglethorpe and mer ged it into the Southern Democrat. Louis Napoleon’s Marriage, Ilis Mistresses, &<;, A letter dated Paris, Dec, 13. to the New York Express, says: You of course are aware, that it Lguis Na peleon marries, it is with solely political objects. He wants a wife that she may be a mother. The marriage of an emperor can be nothing but a State affair. It is natural, therefore, that the re tainers of the court, here, the aids-de-camp, the whole household, in fact, should allow themselves to talk and jest very freely upon the subject, and to speak of the Princess Wasa in a tone anything but respectful. I have heard ol sun dry epigrams at her expense, which are positive ly brutal. Information ot this has reached the lady concerned. But this is not all. A French doctor has been sent to Vienna charged with the very delicate mission of discovering whether she would breed. Os course he was to keep per fectly dark upon the nature of his errand. He penetrated into the intimacy of the lady, scanned her proportions, measured her length and breadth with his eyes, made up his mind, and finally reported against her. He gave in a ver dict of “Tendency to consumption, and general weakness in the chest and lungs.” This also came to the ears of Lady Caroline, and her in dignation and offended delicacy were very warm ly expressed. Thus tar there is no doubt of the veracity of the story. All thishas positively occurred. The conclusion of the matter is said to be a refusal to proceed on the part of Louis Napoleon, and a rupture on the part of the Princess, also. Add to this, that she has been of late rather frighten ed at the accounts of the licentiousness of her bridegroom—she herself is very straight laced —of the immorality of his court, and the gene ral laxity of morals that pervades the French capital. The match is said to be certainly bro ken off, and our Benedict is thought to be look ing towards the sister of the King of Naples.— He hankers after King Bomba for a brother-in law. In the meantime he is paying desperate court to a little Spanish Countess, who, with the usual Castillian type of feature and complexion, possesses very blue eyes and fair hair. The French go crazy over such combinations, and Louis Napoleon is French by his mother’s side. ‘he Spanish lady is a glorious horsewoman, and was in at the death of the wild boar, a month ago, at Fontainebleau. She is to make one of the party at Cunpieque this week. But she has already signified to his majesty that he cannot have her without marrying her. Ten millions even would not do. lam afraid the rebrobate will have to do without the Senora. Whether Mrs. Howard is influential in pre venting the Emperor’s marriage, I cannot say. I only know that she remarked yesterday that the Princess Wasa at’least, would not be his wife. It is not long since the American papers exiled Mrs. H., and later still an English correspondent narrated that she had been conveyed across the frontier and that all the French representatives in foreign countries had been instructed to de liver her no passports for France. And yet she was living then, as she is still now, in her simple yet comfortable house, in the llue de Cirque.— She is probably the only woman to whom Louis Napoleon was ever attached, and he is so still. They both bestow constant attention upon the education of their children, and she spends a large portion of her money in acts of benevo lence. She is as well known in the Hotel Dieu as ever the Little Blue Cloak 5 was and I under stand that Louis Nspoleon’s largesses to the poor are made at her persuasion. Her argu ment to him is that it will render him popular, but her own motive is that it will do a great deal of good. No one doubts that his purpose* in giving alms, is interested, but after all, it heals the sick and relieves tiie poor quite as much as if dictated by the purest self-forgetfulness. I wrote some six months since of certain pa pers, in the possession of Jerome Bonaparte, proving incontestably, the illegitimacy of Louis Napoleon, and his Dutch paternity. You know alredy what the corroborative and contingent evidence is, that Hortense had a lover before she was married, and by him a sou, the present Count de Dorn v ; that she had the famous Dutch admiral for a lover, after she was married, and that Louis Bonaparte and she lived apart for a long period. Add to this the well known Nelh landish phj’siognomy. The papers in question, constituting the direct evidence, T understand to consist in letters from Hortense herselt, in which repeated allusions are made to her ‘‘surrepti tious” son. Jerome is playing his cards well, and will make the Emperor dance to any tune jhe likes. It seems positive that he threatened him the other day, and he was imprudent enough to boast of having made him turn pale. I am astonished to find how many people have learned of the existence of the Queen’s letters. Every one knew the doubts thrown upon the birth of his Majesty, but few were aware upon what evidences, if any, they rested. From the Charleston Standard Jan. 18. A Movement for Florida. i A meeting of a number of the business men of Charleston, was held yesterday morning, at the hall of the Charleston Insurance & Trust Com pan v, for the purpose of considering a matter relating to our tiade with East Florida. W. M. Lawton, Esq., was called to the chair, and N. M. Porter, Esq., acted as Sectetary. Mr. Lawton, in opening the meeting, and explain ing the importance of the object before it, stated many interesting facts connected with our Florida trade, and showing the value, to us, of the proposed plank road from Jacksonville to Alligator. lie then introduced to the meeting M. Whit. Fmith, Esq., of Columbia county, Fla. Mr. Smith is one ‘ of the enterprising, go ahead spirits of that section, j He bore his hand there in the war, and since then, has considered it his adopted State for life. We have frequently before heard ot him upon the stump and there is no doubt if the fact that he is to oc cupy a Diromioent p< eitiou in all that concerns the interest of a large portion ot Middle and of East Florida. In his remaks before ihemeeting, he fully and more than substantiated all that we have here tofore said about the growing importance of the Florida trade. His statistics show that the slock of the proposed plank real must be profitable in itself aid would turn towards Cearleston a Dry Goods and Grocery trade, which now goes to New-\ork, of ovet $200,000, and 15t020 thousuid bags of Cot ton, besides other products. It would iurmsh to our steamboat line more than double the freight which it can receive from the wnole of the St. Jot n’s and also double the list if passengers. Mr. O. J. Chafee, who is a large stockholder in the Hamburg and Edgefield Plank Road, stated that he had a little experience in that sort cf stock,