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[From the German of Richter.]
The New Year’s Night.
An old man stood at his window at twelve
o'clock of the night which ushered in the New
Year, and gazed with a look oflong despair up
into the fixed, starlit heavens, and down upon
the still, clean white earth, whereon now there
was no one so joyless and sleepless as he. For
his grave stood close by him, only concealed by
the snow of age, not by the green of youth;
and he brought with him out of a whole rich
life nothing but errors, sins, and weakness, a
body in ruins, a desolate soul, a breast full of
poison, and an old age full of remorse.
His ber utilul youthful days returned to him
now as the spectres, and brought him back
again to that fair morning on which his father
placed him at the diverging point in life’s road,
which to the right leads upon the sunpath o
virtue into a wide and quiet land full of light, ful
of harvest, full of angels; and which to the left
leads down into the mole-tracks of vice, into a
dark cavern full of dripping poison, full of ser
pents ready to dart on their prey, and full of dis
mal, close exultations.
Alas ! the serpents hung around his breast,
and drops of poison were upon his tongue, and
he knew now where he was.
Madly and with unspeakable grief he called
out to Heaven: “Give me my youth again!
Place me again at the diverging point, that 1
may make a different choice!”
But his father and his youth were past long
ago. He saw will-'o-the-wisps dance upon the
marshes and become extinct over the burying
ground, and he said : “They are my foolish
days.” He saw a star shooting from heaven,
glimmering in its fall, and vanishing as it reach
ed the earth. “That am I!” said his bleading
heart, and remorse sunk its serpent fangs deeper
into his bosom.
His disordered imagination pointed out to him
spectres walking upon the roofs, and the wind
mill raised its threatening arms to crush him,
and a mask which had been left in the empty
charnel-house gradually assumed his own fea
tures.
In the midst of the conflict, the music for the
New Year suddenly flowed down from the tow
er as a church hymn heard in the distance. His
mind became calmer, he looked around the ho
rizon, and over the wide earth, and he thought of
the friends of his youth, who now, happier and
better than he, were teachers of the earth, fath
ers of happy children, men whom the world call
ed blessed, and he said, “0! I could also have
slept this first night of the year with dry eyes,
as you do, if I had willed it. Alas, I could have
been happy, dear parents, had I fulfilled your
New Year's wish and teachings.”
Amid these feverish remembrances of his
youth, it appeared to him as if the mask which
had assumed his features in the charnel house
stood up, and through that superstition which on
New Year’s eves sees ghosts and future events,
it was at last changed into a living youth.
He could see no more ;he covered his eyes;
a thousand hot tears streamed forth, disappear
ing in the snow; all comfortless and despairing,
he sighed gently, “Come again, O! my youth,
come again !”
And it came sgain ! For the fearful experi.
ence was only a dream of the New Year’s night-
He was still a youth, his errors had been only a
dream. But he thanked God that he, still young,
could turn aside from the filthy courses of vice,
and enter upon the sunny path which leads into
the bright land of harvest.
Turn with him, young reader, if thou standest
upon the error road. This frightful dream will
one day become thy judge; but if thou shouldst
once, full of anguish, call out “Come again, beau
tiful youth,” remember it will not come again.
Peruvian Luxury.
Mr. Curtis, the author of a very pleasing
work upon Peru, informs us that in the almost
inaccessible regions of the Cordilleras, every
imported luxury is very dear; but the nec
essaries of life, including lama mutton, are
reasonable enough,—with the exception of
fuel. But the came con is the great luxury of a
South American gourmand , which is thus descri
bed The moment a bullock is killed, the flesh
on each side the spine is cut out, with enough of
the hide to meet or lap over, so as to prevent the
juice from escaping ; it is then covered with em
bers, and roasted like a potatoe.” Sausages,
hams, and bacon, though imported, are much in
use. Sweetmeats and rum are served together
at dinner-parties. Tobacco is in universal use;
all smoke cigars, but a person is not expected to
accept one from the mouth of another, as is the
case in Mexico (even from the mouth of a do
mestic,) where the declining of such a compli
ment is a grievous offence against friendship
and good breeding ; but you must accept with
grateful acknowledgment the remains of a
glass of rum; the more lips it has touched the
more cordiality in the dram—oft* with it! and be
ware of wiping your mouth either before or af
ter it. Should you be induced to wipe the brim
of the glass before drinking, or turning it be
tween j’ourself and the light to seek a little
space from humidity, your reputation is gone
forever? When a, lady selects a gentleman
from the company, by beckoning or calling him
to take a glass and sip after her, the compliment
is then highly enviable ; and whether her lips be
pale and shrivelled by the wintry effects of years,
or cherry-ripe and pouting in the fragrance of
summer, he is bound by the well-understood
laws of respect, etiquette, gallantry, love, and
all their little jealousies, to imprint his own lips
upon the precise spot where those were placed
who preceded him, and then to take off the very I
last drop in the glass.|
At the time Mr. Peale was exhibiting his
jicture of the Court of Death, in Boston, he sent
the Rev. Dr. Osgood a ticket, on which was in
scribed, “Admit the bearer to the Court of Death.”
The old gentleman never having heard of the
picture, was utterly confounded. “I expected
to go before long,” said he, “but I was not pre
pared for so abrupt a summons.”
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<l\u (Times mitr Sentinel,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. 22, 1853.
NOTICE.
Finding it impossible to attend to my office engage
ments, and colleot my bills also, I have placed all the
city accounts of the Southern Sentinel office in the
hands of R. Watson Denton, for collection, who is
hereby authorized to receive and receipt for the same.
Persons having bills against me will present them
‘ immediately for payment.
TENNENT LOMAX.
The Infant Drummer.
We are requested to announce that the Infant Drum
mer will shortly visit our city, and afford us an oppor
tunity of witnessing his wonderful performances. We
cannot speak advisedly as to his capacity, but the con
current voice of the press is eulogistic in the highest
degree. Wo refer our readers particularly to the fol
lowing flattering notice of his performance in Savannah :
The Infant Drummer —ls a prodigy beyond a shad
ow of a doubt. On Saturday evening, at St. Andrew’s
Hall, we could imagine that Old “ Dominie Sampson ,”
could he have stepped out from the “wizard’s page”
which records his history, into the form and perception
of a living man, would have articulated “pro-di-gious !”
with an energy and frequency that would have taxed his
antiquated jaws to the utmost of their power. In truth,
the child’s every performance is prodigious ; in the geni
us exhibited by this mere baby, just from his mother’s
arms, in his perfect command of time ; Iris kindling en
thusiasm under the inspiration of music ; in the torrents
of sounds, (and sound that is ever melodious) which are
drawn from the drum by his tiny arms. We are com
pletely at fault; we do not understand it; we can not de
scribe it ; we could not have believed it had we not seen it.
The child is a wonder ! He is something more—he is a
study for the mental philosopher. Reader, if you are
desirous, once in your life, to behold an unquestionable
prodigy, go and see the Infant three year old Drummer.
Savannah Georgian.
Temperance Movement.
A meeting of the friends of Temperance washeld in this
city on Friday, 21st inst., for the purpose of appointing
delegates to the Convention, to be held at Atlanta on
the 22d February next, with a view of petitioning the
next Legislature to repeal the present license law, and of
leaving it to the voters of each county to say whether
intoxicating drinks shall be sold in their respective
counties or not. The meeting was organized by calling
Rev. Dr. Lovick Pierce to the chair, who, in a brief
speech, explained the objects of the meeting.
After a few remarks from Rev. James E. Evans, a
motion was made and carried to appoint ten delegates
to represent the county of Muscogee in said Conven
tion, whom the Chairman was directed to appoint, at
his leisure, and report to ap adjonrned meeting, to be
held in Temperance Hal\ the Bth February next.
Change Bills.
We are informed that a large number of change
bills, of the denomination of one dollar, are in circula
tion on the river below us. Some of them have found
their way into our community. They purport to be
issued by the Winsted Bank, of Connecticut. These
little strangers are a long way from home, and the
sooner they return the better for our community. The
parties engaged in issuing them, would do well to await
the issue of the State of Georgia, &c. vs. the Bank of
St. Mary’s before they proceed further in violating the
laws. It is astonishing that this community will en
courage a shinplaster currency. It is a great nuisance
and ought to be abated.
The Southern School Journal.
We are much gratified to announce that this valua
ble Monthly has been laid upon our table. We hail its
appearance as an omen of a brighter day at the South,
We are not only cursed with hundreds of thousands
of citizens who can neither read nor write, but with many
teachers whose intellectual and moral want of culture
wholly disqualifies them for the important trust confided
to their charge. There are also many imperfections in
our system of education; the right things are not taught,
and often wrong things are taught in the wrong way ;
defective and often injurious books are used as text
books, and false impressions are made upon the suscep
tible mind of youth, whioh are never removed. But
worse than all, a large part of our population are de
prived of the opportunity of acquiring education ; there
are no schools convenient, and they have not the means
of availing themselves of the advantages offered by dis
tant institutions of learning.
To all these defects in Southern society, the School
Journal will earnestly devote itself, and point out not
only the evil, but the remedy.
The School Journal is published in Columbus, Ga.,
and edited by Rev. Thomas F- Scott, than whom a
more enlightened, publio spirited and competent person
does not live in the South.
It is, with him, a labor of love ; but we hope it will
prove a harvest field from which he will reap not only
golden opinions from the philanthropic and good men of
the South, and that silver dollars will fall into his pock
ets in “Bachanal profusion.” Let every lover of good
order, public virtue, wholesome government, sound ed
ucation and Christian morals, sustain this noble enter
prise, by sending “up his name and dollar to the School
Journal.
It is a very handsome octavo, of sixteen pages. Price
one dollar, invariably in advance.
Death of Judge W. H. Cabel.— lt is with regret that
we’have to record the death of Judge Cabel President of the
Court of Appeals. He died on Jan. 13th, at his residence
in Richmond Ya. On receipt of tidingsjof his demise, both
Houses of the Legislature, as a mark of respect for his
memory, adopted resolutions of adjournment. He was an
able jurist an da most valuable citizen; his death will be
mourned by'all who knew him.
The Small Pox. —The Vade 3 Meum, published at
Buena Vista, Ga., in its issue of the 13th, says : We
understand that the report is current in some sections of
the country that the Small Pox is .in this place, and eo
great is the alarm in some neighborhoods, it is said that
a citizen of Buena Vista would not be allowed to enter
their houses. The report is entirely false, and so far at
we know 7 or believe, there is not the slightest foundation
I for it.
Senator Hunter—Mr. Pierce’s Cabinet.
The correspondent of the Charleston Mercury says :
“Speculation, so long on tip-toe in reference to Senator
Hunter, has at last been set at rest, by the assurance of
his positive refusal to go into the Cabinet. It is well un
derstood that the post of Premier was tendered him on
his visit to Boston, at the call of Gen. Pierce. It is now
understood that he then and* there declined it; and al
though it is not known yet, it is believed that his decision
W3s to a considerable extent swayed by the action of a
portion of the Virginia Legislature, who sent a round
robin for Mr. Barbour. This fire in the rear a man of Mr
Hunter’s shrinking sensnbility would feel most keenly, for
his is not an iron nature. lie excels more as a coun
sellor than as a leader, and those who fired the gun calcul-
ated well thedistancee and the vulnerable spot. But
they did not calculate the recoil. The State Rights party
generally may well feel both indignant and disappointed
at such an issue to such an offer. Mr. Hunter was selec
tee as their Representative man, infinitely more than as
the Representative of Virginia, and his refusal not alone
embarrasses President Pierce, but may react disastrously
on the party. Having passed this high compliment, and
thus indicated his confidence in them, Gen. Pierce may
now (if he pleases,) consistently turn elsewhere for the
aid and comfort denied him there and his late sore afflic
tion will not tend to reconcile him to the additional annoy
ance this refusal gives him.
For any disastrous consequeuces to the State Rights
party that may accrue from this refusal, Mr. Hunter of
course will have to bear liis share of responsibility ; but
his State, that served him as Cimon was, must bear the
heavier burden. Mr. Hunter was the head of the State
Rights party at his choice. He has waived the succession
to Calhonn, for all who navigate the troubled seas of poli
tics, should know the truth of the saying.
Pilots who wonld the vessel save,
Leave not the helm when storms are on the wave.
If they do, stronger hands and more sleepless eyes must
succeed them, lest shipwrecks ensue. There are, how
ever, within the ranks of the State Rights party several
eminent men equally well adapted intellectually, better
fitted otherwise, than Mr. Hunter to occupy the post
which he has declined. Whether it has been tendered
twice in the same quarter, is another question —though
doubtless some positions in the Cabinet must be filled by
Representatives of that powerful party.
Letters from Athens, Greece, state that Rev. Dr. King
is pursuing his missionary labors in quietness, preaching
every Sabbath as formerly.
Monuments in Independence Square.
We are indebted to the Hon. M. J. Wellborn for a
copy of the proceedings of a convention held in Inde
pendence Hall, sth and 6th July last, for the purpose
of erecting Monuments in Independence Square, Phila
delphia, in commemoration of the Declaration of Indepen
dence, and in honor of the signers thereof. We will
not trouble our readers with the names of the officers or
the dry detail of the proceedings of the convention.
It was resolved, at this convention, to ereet a monu
ment with thirteen sides, united upon an entablature,
upon which the Declaration of Independence shall be
cut into the solid stone, surmounted by a tower ; the
thirteen faces to contain such inscriptions and embla-
Tonings as each State shall direct, commemorative of
some citizens of her own who took part in the respon
sibility of that Declaration.
Georgia was represented by Hon. Marshall J.
Wellborn and Hon. Asbury Hull. No other South
ern State was represented ; an ominous fact, which the
North, so zealous to commemorate the heroism of the
past, would do well to note. The occasion was a glori
ous one ; the associations were hallowed ; the spot was
consecrated ground. Virginia, Maryland, North Caro
lina, South Carolina had cherished memories there,
and their gallant sons were not backward in ’76 to
show tbeir faces either in Independence Hall or to the
foe. It is in vain to give other excuses for their ab
sence. They did know of the convention. They did
not attend because they felt in their hearts, that by ac
quiescence in the compromise they had submitted to
wrong, and could feel no joy in the memories of Inde
pendence Hall. But we will not pursue this subject
further. We heartily approve the labors of the con
vention, and shall zealousy advocate the objects propos
ed to be accomplished. The convention resolved that
each of the old thirteen States may contribute to the
monument in proportion to its Representation in the
House of Representatives.
We invite the attention of our readers to the follow
addresses, which bear upon the subject already alluded
to. The spirit and eloquence of Mr. Hoffman are
genial and kindling. The reply of Mr. Wellborn,
though it does not contain all that our “ardent and
sensitive” feelings would have dictated in response to
the splendid allusion to the “old Maryland line”—“to
that noblest of our land, whose statue stands before us”—
and to the “descendants of the Sumpters and Ma
rions,” who “swept the fiery footed Tarleton from
their plains,” is judicious and appropriate, and sparkles
with an eloquence worthy of the time, the place, and
the occasion:
Mr. Hoffman, of New York, spoke as follows:
Mr. President and Gentlemen :—l beg to detain the
Convention a few moments more, while I advert to one
or two topics connected with this occasion. You, sir,
on the part of the State of Pennsylvania, have declared
her wish and her pleasure that she stands on this great
occasion in union with her sister States, with no higher
claim, and no other voice. The city of Philadelphia has
pledged itself that it seeks no more. I am persuaded
that I do but echo the strong conviction of every Dele
gate present, when I utter my faith in the sincerity of
these declarations, and the hope that no invidious
thought or feeling will mar the harmony of all in realiz
ing the grand conception we have discussed. Sir, there
can be no place where a memorial to Independence
should be raised, but on the spot which was its bith
place!
Sir, when we look upon this stong delegation from ten
of the confederated States, we may well feel the inspira
tion of hope, and hail an augury of success. Yet our re
joicings must be mingled with regret, as we look upon
the places of three great States unfilled, whose services
and traditions should have made them among the fore
most here. We will not say with the poet, as he gazed
upon a star-covered sky, without a moon,
“Non mi lie quod absens,”
But we may deplore that those Southern lights which
shone so brightly when the stars of Independence were
first set in the heavens, are now veiled from our sight.
The children of the old North State should be here with
the story of her sorrows and her struggles in the cause.
The decendants of the Sumters, and the Marions, should
be here to tell us that the spirit which swept the fiery
footed Tarleton plains, still lives. The sons of
Maryland should not be wanting to attest that the stun
resolution now dwells in them, which, amid the disasters
and shame of Camden, covered the Maryland line with
a glory exceeding that of the victor. And where is Vir
ginia 1 Me thinks I sec the brow of that noblest of our
land, whose statue stands before us-that same majestic
brow, shaded with regret, and the mantle raised to con
ceal bis sorrow.
Sir —All the Grecians who fought at Platen, sent de
puties to the feast of Liberty annually held on the battle
field, to commemorate their deliverance, and to annoint
the tomb-stones of the dead. Let us invoke the spirit
of Union which seventy-six years ago on this spot, so
reverenced by Liberty, hushed every other feeling, to
make us united now.
Mr. Wellborn, of Georgia, next occupied the floor,
and said:
Mr. President :—The course the discussion has taken,
has induced me to depart from the silence I had pro
posed to mvself. The gentleman from New Vork who
has just concluded his remarks, (Mr, Hoffman) has ex
pressed in kind terms, his regret that so many of the
States of the South are unrepresented here. Allow me
in reply, to hazard the opinion that the fact is not owing
to opposition either to the object of the Convention, or
to the union of the States—an apprehension possible to
arise, I regret to say, in the known condition of public
feeling. It should be remembered that the project be
fore us has been but lately proposed, very little discussed,
and indeed, throughout the country has received only a
degree of attention, far below the weight and solemnity
of it. It may be allowable to add, moreover, that as a
young people we are not much accustomed to enterpris
es of the kind. I shall not affect to conceal, however,
that a certain distrust pervades the minds of many of
the citizens of the section referred to by the gentleman
of New York, of the power to continue the connection
of the States now embraced within the Union, without
subjecting a portion of them to intolerable wrongs, if not
final overthrow. Yet, were the assurance attainable
that our public affairs would be administered by the Fede
ral authorities for the future as favorable to all parties
as they have been in the past, even, there is little reason
to doubt that a large majority of every State in the con
federacy would be found favorable to its indefinite con
tinuance, while its overthrow, if foreseen, would constitute,
infmy humble judgment, no argument whatsoever against
the work we are invited to enter upon. It is manifest
that no necessity exists in the nature of the case for
such an event, and that it can be brought about only by
bad faith to the Constitution on’the part of unscrupulous
members of it. This much, Mr. President, seemed to me
proper to be said in answer to what, though not express
ed, is perhaps implied in the circumstances by which
we are surrounded, and the remarks made upon them.
If I be not mistaken, when the address to the legisla
tures and people of the several States interested, and
prepared in the strong and burning language of the
respected Chairman of the Committee, shall be read by
them, an unanimous concurrence of opinion and senti
ment as to the propriety, fitness and utility of the work*
will be found to exist.
There was a period, Mr. President, in our history, I
beg to say, when the doctrines and events of revolution
ary times met with something more than a cold and un
speaking assent on the part of the people, and were de
fended, allow me to add, at somewhat heavier cost than
trivial contributions of superfluous wealth. We read of
times, too, in American history, when there was em
phatically “no North & f no South,” —Washington holding
up in his giant arms the strong heights of the
Hudson against the invaiding armies North and East—
the well intentioned, though unfortunate Lincoln, of Mas
sachusetts, heading a perilous attempt to recover the
lost Capital of Georgia from the desecration of a foreign
enemy—and the able, disinterested and faithful Greene,
of Rhode Island, displaying some of the noblest examples
of American valor and tactics on the Plains of the Caro
linas. The language of a reply on one occasion to a sug
gestion made him to save himself and army by retiring
and abandoning South Carolina to the occupation of her
enemies, must ever excite the gratitude of her ardent
and sensitive population,—“l will recover South Carolina,
or die in the attempt.”
Allusion, Mr. President, has been made to the par
ticipation of the colony of Georgia in the proceedings of
the Revolution. The youngest of her sisters, containing
a population one might almost hold in the hollow of one's
hand,| skirted on three sides by hostile tribes of In
dians, threatened by Spain, and courted by the Crown,
she gave notice, prior to the event of the Independance,
of her concurrence in the justice of it, and in the policy
of a concerted movement of the Colonies to effect it, —
She communicated, at the same early period, supplies
of gun powder, arrested by her citizens from a British
ship in the Savannah river, at the peril oF a Royal hal
ter, to the famed Boston Patriots, Feeling practically
little of the presute of Royal authority upon her inte
rests, she was a severe sufferer in a common cause.
Now, in prosperity and peace, she stands by the princi
ples of the past—rejoices in revolutionary memories,
revolutionary events and revolutionary sypathies. She
stands in good faith to the present—true to the Consti
tution, true to the Union, true to her confederates, and
true to herself. She has brought you one proof of this
in the promptitude and gratification with which she met
the invitation of the city of Philadelphia to unite with
her original allies in the noble and praiseworthy work
before us,
In surveying closely, Mr. President, the principles and
events of the Revolution, they are seen to teach a deeper
and weightier philosophy than the simple right of the
people to resist oppression and misrule. Indeed, this
right, happily for man, is laid in instinct. The great
moral of the new and American school of politics is found
in the alleged right of self, or popular government, af
firmed in the Declaration of Independence, and illustra
ted by the historical triumphs and final success of the war
of the Revolution. The stress, in principle, of the con-
test between Great Britian and the Colonies, turned,
then, mainly, not on the right to resist the abuses of a
government geographically foreign to them, but on their
righ, inherent and underived—numbers, wealth enligh
tenment, and power conspiring—to choose and enforce
whatever government might be found in correspondence
with their own will. The existence of the right found
its solution, it is conceded, in the sword. If limited to
the power to make it good, it is at all events co-exlen
sive with the power itself. The contest over oppressions
and abuses, then, affirmed on the one side and denied on
the other, was carried on over the surface. The grand
movement that bore the colonies to independence was
supported on the strength of a more secret but more
powerful current and carried forward upon the impulse of
a higher, nobler, and more inspiring principle. It is
this essence of revolutionary history, now become a liv
ing principle, we may symbolize and consecrate by the
material structure proposed.
Touching the cost, I will say nothing. It could be
raised, probably, by contributions from the friends of
free principles in the most despotic state of Europe. I
conclude, Mr. President, with the sentiment that —due
to the past, were we without a future, the work should
be done.
Fraudiilent Claims.
Tim discussion upon the Bill, which makes it a Peni
tentiary offence, for a Cabinet officer, or member of Con
o-ress to trade in claims upgn the Government, elicited
some* curious facts and opinions, from members of
the House.
Mr. Preston King, stated that Mr. Corwin, purchased
one fourth of the Gardiner claim, before he went into
the Cabinet, and it for SBO,OOO. Mr.
Stanton of Tennessee, thinks Mr. Corwin, ought to re
fund the money ; and is informed that he lias expressed
his willingness to do so, whenever the claim is proven to
be fraudulent. Now that the proof is made, we wait
with some anxiety to see whether lie will redeem his
pledge. We hope he will not be another example of
the homely maxim,
•‘A man convinced against his will,
Is of the same opinion still.”
Mr. Johnson of Tennessee, who it seems, is a plain
spoken man, asked, “whether, if it should turn out that
the whole claim was fabricated, Mr. Waddy Thompson,
would return the $42,000 of stolen money which he now
has in his pocket?” That is a plumper, which it is
right hard to get round. Mr. Orr, who is Mr. Thomp
son’s immediate representative, “vvas not prepared to say
what course Mr. Thompson would pursue; but hia opin
ion was that Mr. Thompson ought to return the money,
if the claim turns out to be a fraud.” ,?r
----“Turns out to be a fraud,” now that is rich. Mho
doubts it now, but the parties who have fobbed the
money ? And if they are not yet convinced, we fear
“they would not be convinced, though one rose from
the dead.’’ “They have Moses and the Prophets ; let
(them) hear them.”
Not a few bright reputations have been sullied during
the short rule of Federalism, in the White House, —
Crawford, Corwin, Thompson, and many others not
so distinguished, indissolubly associated their
names with Galphin and We wiling qtsay
that they have participated in fraud all iforar*
able men, but the suspicion of foul play lias seized upfri
the public mind ; and “ all the perfumes of <\rabiur£’
will not remove it. With the passageof the law above
referred to, and the incoming of a purer administration ;
we may look for better times; and a closet* wateh upon .
the public treasure.
Melancholy Death.
John Calvin, who was so severely wounded in the
affray with Col- Spivey, died on the 21st inst.
The New York journals publish a dispatch from Cin
cinnati, announcing that John Petit has been elected
United States Senator by the Indiana Legislature, to fill
the unexpired term of Mr. Whitcomb, deceased.
By the recent lamented demise of his father, the
Hon. Charles C, Atherton, of New Hampshire, will come
into possession of a fortune of about $200,000.
lion. Richard Rush is named for a seat in the
cabinet of Gen. Pierce. lie was Attorney General un
der Madison, Secretary of Treasury under |Monroe and
Adams—Minister to England in 1823, and Minister to
France in 1847.
Miss C. W. Barber, the lady who has for som e
years, presided over tlie; literary department of the
Madison Family Visitor, has withdrawn, Miss Barber is a
lady of fine"attainments, and has adorned her columns
with many excellent things. Our best wishes attend her
through life.
E'W Mr. Cabel, of Florida, received a dispatch the*
other day from Richmond, announcing the death of his
venerable father, who was formerly Governor of Virginia.
The Organ. —An exchange paper says : “Senator
Douglas has no connection with the movement tor the
purchase of the Republic. Whether this purchase he
consummated or not, the organ for the incoming Adminis-
I tration is to established immediately. The parties now
negotiating the affair are from Concord. The new paper
is to be General Pierce’s mouth-piece, and will be under
ilie editoral supervision of the preseut editor of the New
Hampshire patriot*
Tae Religious Test. —The resolution|against the “re
ligious test,” which passed the New Hampshire Senate
unanimously, passed the House also by a vote of two hun
dred and nine to twenty-nine.
It is stated that there is water on board the Pennsylvania
nearly seventeen years old, and that it is better now than
when first received.
The Mexican Revolution. — New Orleans, Jan.
18.—The news from Vera Cruz is highly important,
• is reported that the forces in the Castle of San Juan de
Ulloa have declared in favor of the Insurgents, and ar
rayed themselves against the Government of Herrera.
03“ A Gentleman having called a ticket-porter
to carry a message, asked his name; he said it
was Russell. “And pray,” said the gentleman,
jocularly, “is your coat of arms the same as the
Duke of Bedford’s?” “As to our arms, you
honor,” said the porter, “I believe they tire niucl
alike, but there is a great difference between j
our coats.'” 1
What’s in a Name ?—One of our exchange I
papers, speaking of the candidates for the Leg- fl
islature, in one of the counties of Wisconsin, I
says that J. M. Root is the Democratic, IL-h ‘t
Hogg the Free Soil, and T. H. Dye the Whig I
candidate. So, with the voters we suppose n fl
will be Root , Hogg or Dye —and no mistake I
QO~“Say, Joe , when you served in Mexico
wasn’t you very ambitious?” “Well, yes— rat' 1 ’
er so ! why V* “Because when vour com pa ! .
had to kill those Donkeys for provisions* 1
thought you indulged in great ass-pie-rations
{£rA Barber desired a groggy customer j
his one Sunday morning, whose breath sm
of alcohol, “to keep his mouth shut or the es>
lishment might get indicted for keeping a
hole open on Sunday.”
i iii ■mi imrrrm 111 ’ • 1 ‘ ; iihwii iiin hi imh h ‘’
4 dministratrix’s Sale. —Agreeably to an
jA. Ordinary of Muscogee county, will be sold at the h■ =■ . ~
of Benjamin JeTerson, deceased, in \\ ynnton, in .-an - y
Friday the4th day of February next, the personal y ■ j re:* |
said deceased, consisting ot household and kitchen •* !
flue lot of farming utensils, wagons and carts, sow s am 1 ~ i)V r.
fine mules and three good dray horses, oue fine > u *v.iiJi >r *
cows and calves — some fine milchers —goats, corn •* .
potatoes, &.c., &c. And at
A. K. AYERS AUCTION ROOM,
In the citv of Columbus, on Saturday the sth of
- large scales, a lot of tobacco, hardware, wooden w (lU jd
lery, and many articles too numerous to mention. “ a tin „ed
not be sold on the days above named, the sale to Dt o
<rom dav to day. Terms made known on the day o .
Columbus, Jan. 19-tds lIARRIE f JEFFERSON, Ai