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THE TIMES & SENTINEL. tekeeht lomax & eoswell ellis, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. THE TRI-WEEKLY TIMES A SENTINEL to published EVERY WEDNRSDA Y and FRIDA Y MORN ING and SATURDAY EVENING. * THE WEEKLY TIMES A SENTINEL li published every TUESDA Y MORNING. o*c# on Randolph Street, opposite the Post Office. TERMS: TRI-WEEKLY, Fit* Dollars per annum, In advance.* WEEKLY, Two Dollars per annum,in advance. IT Advertisements conspicuously inserted at Ouk Dollar per square, for the first insertion, and fifty certs for every sub sequent insertion. Liberal deduction will be made for yearly advertisements. [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.” ’ “ ~9 “ <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