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ThejJapan Expedition.
The following brief and explicit reply of the
Emperor of Japan to a letter from the King of
the Netherlands, requesting him to extend toall
foreign nations the privileges hitherto enjoyed
by the Dutch only, would seem to indicate that
the American exploring expedition to the do
mains of this barbarian is not likely to meet
with a hospitable reception. The emperor ap
pears to have a pretty correct conception of the
Anglo-American propensity for acquiring terri
tory, and takes warning from the fate of China
in permitting the “outside barbarism’’ to acquire
a footing in that Empire. We give the letter
entire:
The Emperor of Japan
to the King of the Netherlands :
I have watched with attention the events which
brought about the fundamental change in the
policy of the Chinese Empire, and these very
events, upon which you base the advice you gave
me, ‘are for me the most evident proof that the
kingdom can never enjo v a durable peace without
the rigorous exclusion of all foreigners. If
China had never permitted the English to estab
lish themselves on a large scale at Canton, and
to take root there, either the quarrels which
caused the war would not have taken place, or
the English would have found themselves so weak
that they would have at once sunk in the conflict.
But from the moment when China allowed her
self to be touched on one point she rendered her
self vulnerable on others. This was the rea
soning of my great ancestor when he granted
you the faculty of trading with Japan, and but
for the proof of friendship which you had fre
quently given to our country it is certain you
would have been excluded as all the nations of
the West have been. Now that you are in pos
session of this privilege, lam willing that you
should continue to enjoy it; but I will take
care not to extend it to any other nations, for
it is easier to maintain a dyke in good preserva
tion, than to prevent the enlargement of the
breaches which are permitted in it. I have
given orders to my officers in consequence, and
the future will prove to you that our policy is
wiser than that of the Chinese Empire.
Parliamentary Oration.
We are indebted to a gentleman who lias been
on a brief visit to the province, for the following
outlines of a speech, delivered by Mons in the
Provincial Legislature of New Brunswick, one ot
the colonies of B. M. Victoria :
(Reported for the Courier & Enquirer.)
Monsieur Govner and do peoples on dis House
et Monsieur Speakare—l’m very stranger on dis
places, and dis am premier time I am on dis
House ; but de peoples where I was belong gives
me his confidence so much zat I feel gratefulness
to dem for de honor dey refer on de top ob me.
Gentleman, you not spect great deal of learn
for one people dat only sto T ANARUS two years wid one
school on house him, derefore, you sail scuze my
Anglias very much. One ting I want to had a fair
play. You had one priest on dis House au jour to
make ade prayer, and dat time I wili he sail pray
on de French when he sail pray, as de reason are de
French prayer are non strong.
Some people was told me we was to get some
gold watch, and some gown for devise of zose as
belong to dis House ; and some little ting more, as
paper, de knife, de ting for pick tooth, and de ting
tor make smell good. I must have all dese little
tings.
1 wants to have my boy anew collars, and 1 w a nt
to pass one laws for stop de dam march and for
sharges so mosh ; mine oticle was told me oe
sharge was bomination high. De nex law I want to
make will be to stop dem dam witch ting—l forget
what you call de messerize—dat make de peoples
look as dies. Some people was told me dem feller
she’s able to make dead de people ; to make sing ;
to make talk ; to make told every ting on de House
—de money dat you had on your pocket: dey make
told some ting more as ten tousand mile. All wat
people wat make de morize, dat is surely one dan
ger ting, very, and for a law should make.
Well, dere is one more kind. You may depen
dem same fellar make rotten the potats, yes dis five
and six year; make lame de horse; make spile de
cow ; make not grow all the grain very mosh; make
kill all de peoples all same as one good doctor do it.
Now we must hang all the whole of it.
Now Monsieur Spekare, de next ting we sail in
hands in dis Road Rail dat is speak so mosh about.
I tink for me dey will tenancy for spile all de farm.
Atn tole dey will cut open all de farm where was
I belong: and de French people have small enough
already. Buts’pose you makde Road Reail you must
s.ophis damage, and only way you could done dat,you
must cut away all dem bits and let de water salt on
de mash, de mash all now stop for glow de glass.
My father was told me long as I atn born de hay
was gro vV so big, de cock not possible lor stay onde
mash. Dis are bad law.
Now, gentreman, I want you look on your consid
er, I tink we must try for stop de dam Yankee for
raise de wooden pig. My cousin was bough 1 , one
large shoulder behind ; I tink he weigh forty
pound; well, for look she’ll do pretty well, but for
eat she de devil. Spose de peoples have to eat dis
kind pork, dey not live much long. Dem rascal
Yankee musbekill.
Now dis tunder and lightnin road, some folks
was tell me was more fast you sail t see. I tink
dey will be great danger ting, suppose one people
have some steel on her pocket for contraction de
tunder, dey mus be kill right away. \ es, dey 11 be
made so noff one bail puff
I want to stop every ting as ma ke de peopie
kill; dis ting I make speak about, dem is de tmg
1 vote ; for f tole you all on de House I hole my
self responsibility to de peoples tor all de law made.
Gentremen, you. will I tank tor de contention you
been make upon me ; I’m lyal subjic and belong to
de free restitutions. Dat s all 1 could say dis
time.
The matrimonial affairs of Cincinnati must be
in a bad state. One hundred divorce cases are
now on the docket in that city.
May a Gentleman wear a Frock-coat at an
Evening Party?— The N. Y. Home Journal, in
a recent article upon changes in fashions, says:
“The disputed question—May a gentleman
wear a frock-coat at an evening party ? seems
to have been decided in the affirmative; and,
accordingly’, young gentlemen take particular
pleasure in wearing that long, obnoxious gar
ment, with the additional innovation of black
neckerchiefs. White waistcoats are generally
discarded, and white kids yield precedence to
gloves of color.”
Zlu (Times xmh Sentinel
CQUJMBPS, GEORGIA.
FRIDAY MOONING, JANUARY 28, 1853.
The Cabinet—Jephthah and the Ephraimites—
Mr. Cobb.
Mr. Pierce is a wise man; he keeps his own secrets,
No man can thereiore say who will be cabinet officers.
Still every body is on the qui vive ; and innumerable
are the guesses, predictions and positive declarations of
hopeful aspirants, and of disappointed grumblers. We
belong to neither and have waited patiently for
the developments of the future, resting with some con
fidence upon the prudence, good sense, and republican
instincts of the President elect. We are not disposed to
be captious. We do not expect the Southern Rigbts De
mocracy to monopolize all the loaves and fishes; we are
willing to see a Union Democrat get a slice. Some
of them are also hungry, and fought hard for the tri
umph of Democratic principles ard spoils.
There is however a class of Uuion Democrats, who,
when the Democracy under the lead of their Jepph
than went up to battle against their enemies, refused
like the Ephriamites to deliver them out of their hands.
These have no more right to office than the Ephraimites
had to share the rich spoils of the Ammonitish war. They
cannot pronounce “shibboleth.” We cannot believe,
therefore, that Mr. Pierce will elevate to office any Dem
ocrat who aided in distracting h'.s party by running op
position tickets, or who refused to take an active part
in the canvass. It is idle to suppose therefore that Mr.
Cobb, or any of that ilk will receive office at the hands
of the incoming administration. Indeed it would be the
sheerest folly in Mr. Pierce to cumber himself with any
politician against whom there exist well founded pre
judices among a respectable portion of his party, when
there are so many statesmen of equal ability, against
whom no such objections exist. The Southern Rights
party do not expect General Quitman to bo offered a
cabinet or any'other appointment. Yet he is as true
a Democrat as Mr. Cobb or Mr. Dix, and surely he is
their equal in point of talent, and by far their superior
in point of services. Why then should he be excluded,
and Cobb or Dix taken into the confidence of the ad
ministration ?
We do not mean by these reflections to proscribe Mr.
Cobb. We only object to having a horse m the lead
who has bolted. We believe and hope that in the fu
ture he may do good service at the wheel. And
when the time comes to test the honesty of the dec
larations contained in the Georgia Platform, we shall
proudly follow in his lead again, if he is then true to
himself, his State, and his section. There are a great
many worse men in the Democratic Party than Mr.
Cobb. Men who repudiate even the little leaven of
State Rights, which keeps the Georgia Platform from
spoiling. We would prefer to see him in office, to all
such sheep in wolves’ clothing. Among these are Dix,
Y T an Buren, and many of the wild men of the west,
who seem to regard the Federal Government as a great
Corporation, whose only use is to build rail roads, dig
canals, open rivers, and build up harbors for their ac
commodation.
The truth is that the appointment of any of these men
to responsible office will weaken the administration and
divide the party.j
Now Mr. Pierce is a State Rights man ; and if he
wishes his administration to harmonize with his own
political antecedents —to be a unit, around which all the
sound elements of conservative democracy may and will
rally, and a large body also of State Rights vvhigs—he
ought to appoint State Rights men to every office in his
gift, except those which are offices of profit; these he
might fling to the thousand hungry mendicants who will
besiege the White House, irrespective of party. In
this hope we advocated Mr. Pierce ; and hope the re
sult will not disappoint our expectations.
General Dix and the Cabinet.
Independently of his abolitionism, we have a very
high regard for Senator Dix ; he is unquestionably an
able statesman, a patritic citizen as exhibited upon the
field, and a good and true Republican. But the plague
spot of Abolition is on his brow, and like the leper, lie
should he excluded from the camps of our Israel as un
clean, until he is cured of his leprosy.
The slavery question is not settled ; every administra
tion will have some questions directly or indirectly con
nected with slavery, under its consideration. The
South therefore never ean givofull confidence to an ad
ministration which has a freesoiler in its confidence.
Now General Dix is known to be a freesoiler. In the
canvass of IS4B, he held quite as ultra positions on the
slavery questions as John Van Buren, though his de
meanor was far more dignified and gentlemanly ; and
no man doubts but that if these issues were again to
arise, that he would pursue the same course. We
therefore oppose his appointment, and warn the Democ
racy of the South against the ruinous effects of his dele
vation to the leadership of the party. There are Mar
cy and Dieinkson, in New York, quite as able and far
less objectionable than Dix.
Indeed we are surprised that any questionable man
has been thought- of for a cabinet appointment. All
such men will be dead weight upon the administration.
We utterly deny and reprobate the doctrine that any
party or clique, as such, have any claim to posts of
honor or profit in the Government. And we earnestly
hope, that Mr. Pierce will select only those men for of
ficers under him, of known ability and honesty, and
of the faith of Jefferson. Adherence to an “ism,”
ought to be a fatal objection, to an aspirant for office.
We confess that we look forward to the action of
General Pierce in the premises with much apprehen
sion, though not without hope. He is in a great strait ;
he is pressed from every side ; and by men who prefer
their own interests to the good of the country, or the suc
cess of his administration ; it will not surprise us if he
does not make some unfortunate appointments; but we
rely upon his Democratic Republican instincts to guide
him safely through all the perils and temptations that
beset him ; and look forward to a bright and prosperous
future. We are confident that if the dangers of the
coast navigation are once cleared, and the ship of state
is once out on the broad sea we shall have a safe, pros
perous and profitable voyage.
Sale of Nankeen Cotton. —Fourteen bales of Nan
keen cotton were sold in Savannah, on Saturday morning
224 inst., by Mr. C. A. L. Lamar, lor 15 cents per
pound.
Abolitiou Entertainment.
“Senator Seward, on Wednesday, gave a large din
ner party in Washington to Gen. Scott, John M. Botts,
Fitz Henry Warren, General Halo and others.”
We are not surprised that John P. Hale, the Abo
litionist, and Fitz Henry Warren, the desperate parti
san and office hunter, should sit down to the table of
William 11. Seward ; but we confess that we were cha
grined to see it announced in the publio prints, that Gen,
Scott, the leader of the armies of the Republic, and J. M.
Botts, the honored Representative of a southern State,
and both sons of Va., should partake of the hospitalities of
an areh-demagogue and Abolitionist. It is no excuse to
allege private friendship existing between the parties as
the cause of the intimacy. The existence of friend
ship between the parties, is the foundation of our cen
sure. An honest man cannot take the hand of a rogue ;
a patriot cannot receive a traitor to his bosom ; neither
can a sound true hearted southern man partake of the
hospitalities of an abolitionist, who unites in his own
person the traitor, the robber, and the incendiary; the
traitor, because he tramples under foot the constitution
and laws of his country, which guarantee the rights of
the south in slave property; the robber, because lie would
if he could, take our property away from us by violence;
the incendiary, because his schemes if carried out, would
convert this fair garden of the South into a parched des
olation. Can any man conceive of a thing so absurd as
Calhoun’s sitting down to a social board with Hale on
one hand, and Seward on the other! He never so
much as spoke to them. And why should Scott and
Botts feel less acutely, the foul wrongs and insults
which these men daily heap upon the South ?
It may be that these views will be regarded as nar
row and sectional, by some of our readers. We are
sorry if such is the case. We have been bred in that
school of Republicanism which regards an insult to our
country as a personal injury ; a wrong to our section as
a personal wrong; and the agents concerned in inflic
ting it as personal enemies with whom we are to have
no intercourse. And we confess that we doubt the
sectional soundness of any southern statesman who acts
upon different principles or cherishes, different feelings.
The sentinel who exchanges courtesy with the foe, is
derelict in his duty, and ought to be watched. He may
betray his trust.
Arrival of the Isabel.
Health of Mr. King—The Small Pox—Havanna
Market.
The Isabel has arrived, and brings dates from Havan
na up to the 22d inst. The Steamer Fulton arrived at
Key West the Saturday preceding, with Vice President
King on board, whose health is said to be better than
when he left Norfolk. He will remain in the city seve
ral days if the weather is congenial.
The returns from the Hospital of San Juan de Dios
show that the Small Pox is on the decrease in the city.
The number of cases in December were 71 ; and in
January, up to 21st inst,, only 26 ; of these 21 occurred
in the twelve first days of the month, leaving only five
cases for the remaining nine days.
We learn from the correspondent of the Sav. Courier ,
that Rice has advanced. The Galnaces cargo was re
tailed at 11 1-4 rials. The Sugar crop of the Island
is promising and anticipations are in favor of buyers.—
Sales of Lumber have taken place at $29 for scantling
and boards, and $26 for Timber.
Gas Light.
At a meeting of the Gas Light Company, held on the
27th inst., Mr, Henry T. Hall was elected President,
to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
John Forsyth, Esq. The Company will commence
operations immediately. The Engineer is in town, and
the greater part of the Gas works are now on the way.
We are informed that the city will be lighted with
Gas by the first of July.
Puplic Charity.
We are requested to call public attention to the cor
respondence between the Mayor, and the “Fakir of Siva”
•who proposes to give an exhibition for the Benefit of
the Factory operotors on Friday night, 28th, inst. We
would also invite attention to tha “Fakirs” advertise
ment for Saturday (29th, inst.,) night. He offers large
inducement to those who will attend his exhibition on
that occasion.
To His Honor , the Mayor of the City of Columbus :
Sir : —Having been informed that a considerable num
ber of male and female operatives lately engaged in the
Factories of your city, have by the serious calamity of
a freshet, and the consequent stoppage of the works,
been placed in needy circumstances, and learning the ac
tive part, the generosity and good feelings, that yourself
and the citizens of Columbus have taken in their behalf,
and ever appreciating the motives of kindness that have
prompted you thus to act, and to facilitate your opera
tions of Benevolence, I cheerfully tender to you in their
behalf, my professional services, any night this week
you may select as the most desirable or convenient to
give a Benefit for the above cause. With high conside
rations of respect, I remain, sir,
Respeotfully, your o’bed’t serv’t.
FAKIR OF SIVA.
Oglethorpe House, January 27th, 1853.
To the “Fakir of Siva” —Present.
Columbos, Jan. 27, 1853.
Sir : I acknowledge the receipt of your note of this
date, in which you generously offer a benefit for the
poor Factory operatives of this city, and desire me to
designate a night when the same shall take place.
I appoint to-morrow night for that purpose; and
shall select some of our citizens to act as a committee
and superintend said Charity Benefit.
With a due appreciation of the motives which have
induced you to make the tender alluded to,
I am yours, &c.
JOSEPH L. MORTON, Mayor.
Artificial Teeth.
We have been shown an entire jaw of artificial teeth,
the manufacture of Mr. Cushman, D. D. S., of this
city, which we thiuk worthy of special notice- The ease
we are told was a very nice one, and had been refused
on account of the peculiar difficulties tp he overcome.
There was great devastation of the bone of twe jaw, which
in the specimen was supplied by raising the bed in which
the teeth are set so as exactly to resemble nature. The
teeth are not riveted upon a plate, but each separate
tooth is firmly attached to a piece of gold which runs
up its side and gives great strength and finish to the
manufacture- Indeed we have never seen so finished,
natural and elegant a piece of dental manufacture as this
of Dr. Cushman, and cheerfully commend him to those
who need his services as a most skillful and finished
operator. This workmanship is natural, elegant, strong,
and scientific, and we take it upon ourselves to warrant
that a complete set of his artificial teeth will grind quite
as well and briskly as the best natural mill.
Opinions of the Press#
o~Soil of the South, This work for Jan. sustains it
good character, and merits the patronage of our planting
community, who no doubt will send on their dollar and
procure the work for 1852. — State Guard.
Soil of the South.
Our book table has been so crowded lately that we have
overlooked our agricultural visitors. But the Soil still
maintains its high character, and the high estimation in
which it is held. There can be no better time than the
commencement of anew year to commence a subscrip
tion to a good agricultural work, which every farmer and
planter should make it a point to subscribe for. They will
find the Soil all that it professes to be. The prioe is on
ly $1 a year, and we are glad to see that the publishers,
Messrs. Lomax Sc Cos., have determined “to adhere to the
cash principle. It is the only one that does well in any
thing, and it is the only one that will do at all in any sor
of a publication at one dollar a year. Reader, go and
subscribe for it. — Macon Republican.
Soil of the South.
The number of this periodical for January comes to us
with an aspect strikingly improved, and as both the edi
tors are engaged in the cultivation of the soil of the South,
as well as in the conduct of the journal that bears that
name, every Southern man will find it an invaluable com
panion,—Southerner.
The Soil of the South.
For January ofthe new year, comes to us in anew and
improved form, which speaks well for the prosperity of that
excellent We have hastily rtn through
its pages, and fiud it teeming with original articles from
home contributors. Now is the'time to subscribe'for the
new volume. $1 sent toT. Lomax & Cos., Columbus Ga.,
will secure the work.— Chattanooga Adv.
Soil of the South.
We have received the January number of the Soil of
the South. It is well filled with interesting agricultural in
formation, This paper cannot be too highly recommend
ed„to, or patronised by the southern farmer, and si o uihern
people. It is a work which strikes home to their interest.
Were we farmers, we Mould not be without the Soil
of the South for twenty times the price [of subscription.
As it is. we miss it from our table, when it fails to arrive
punctually, more than any of our exchanges It has been
enlarged and improved in form. The Soil gives informat'on
about gardening that should be secured and treasured by
every person who'desires to have fine vegetables and plenty
of them. Jas. M. Chambers, Esq., is the Agricultural
editor. Mr. Charles A, Peabody edits the Horticultural
department. Termes SI.OO per year in advance. Sub
scribe liberally ; deserves it.
JIINUTES OF POINTS,
Decided by the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia,a \
Columbus. January Term, 1853.
Rutherford, Receiver, vs. Jones, from Muscogee.
1. The Clerk of the Superior Conrt is not authorized to
demand the costs for making out the manuscript of the
Record, before transmitting the same to the Supreme court.
Dougherty for the Motion—H. Holt, contra.
Holliday & Wife, vs. Riordon, Gar., from Dooly.
1. A party can take no advantage from an agreement,
to which he was no party and under which he was to take
no beneficial interest.
2. The reference in a bill in Equity, to the records ofthe
Court, in which the Bill is filed, witnout making an exhibit
hereof, does not make such records a part of the Bill.
Strozier for Plaintiff—Lyon for Defendant.
Mercer vs. Mercer, from Sumter.
1. The action for use and occupation, does not lay ex
cept in cases of contract, either express or implied. In case
of a trespasser however, the owner may wave the trespass
and sue upon an implied contract. In such case the Plain
tiff must show his title—there being no proof of express te
nancy .
Sullivan, for Plaintiff in Error.
L.\ry vs. Hart, from Marion.
1. In an action for money, had and received, the Plain
tiff must show that the money, or its equivalent, has been
received by the Defendant or his Agent. Proof of culpable
neglect to the injury of the Plaintiff, will not authorize a
recovery in this form of action.
Downing, for Plaintiff—Worrill, for Defendant.
Gray vs. Me Neal, from Talbot.
1. In a suit upon judgments rendered in a Justices’ court
it is necessary for the Plaintiff to show, that the court ren
deling the judgments had jurisdiction of the cases. The
docket of the Justices’, under the Act of 1809, should show
the issuing of the summons, the service, the appearance,
plea, and judgment. If the docket fails to show these sev
eral facts, it may be supplied by parol.
Worrill, for Plff.—B. Hill, for Deft.
Andrews vs. Morphy and another, from Harris.
1. A deed describing property, as “a House and Lot in,
the town of Whitesviile, in the county of Harris, lying on
the fork of the road leading to LaGrange and West • oint,
and running back to Calhoun’s line,” is sufficiently certain.
2. Where land belonging to three tenants in common,
is levied on and sold as the property of one of th ern, the
purchaser obtains title only to the interest of the tenants,
the defendant in fi fa.
3. The fact that the other tenants in common, were also
defendants in the fi fa levied, does not convey to the pur
chaser their interest, which was never levied on or sola.
4. One tenant in common, may appeal to a Court of
Equity, to compel his co-tenant to account for the rents, is
sues and profits ofthe joint property. In such a Bill, the
defendant may be called on to accoentfor any waste com
mitted upon the common property —although he may have
committed such an ouster as would have entitled the party
to proceedat law:
Wellborn for Plff.—Rtynsey for D^l'c.
Collier vs. Vason, from Baker.
1. An advertisement describing the property levied on
by a Sheriff, as “Eight city lots in the city of Albany
number not recollected, but known as Joseph Shaw’s city >
lots—the same haying been sold at the February sales, anc/
purchased by David A, Vason,” &c.; may or may not be a
sufficient compliance with the statute requiring the Sheriff
to give a lull and complete description of the property le
vied on.
2. The statute requires the Sheriff to exercise ordinary
diligence, and to give as accurate a description as the cir
cumstances of such case will admit, so as to identify .the
property levied on. *
3. Whether the Sheriff has given such a description, is
a mixed question of law and fact, and should be submitted
to the Jury under the direction of the court.
Morgan, for Piff'.—R. Lyon, for Deft.
Searcy vs. Stubbs, from Talbot.
1. Where a Receiver for the Ocmulgee Bank, departed
this life, the Judge of the Superior Court had the risht, in
dependent ofthe Act of 1851, to appoint another Receiver
and cause him to be made a party to all pending litigation
Benning for Plff—B. Hill &, Worrill, for De?t. ° ’
Willis vs. the State, from Decatur.
1. A Juror, sworn on his voire dire, in answer to the
q estions prescribed by the Act of 1843, replied in the nega
tive, but from a knowledge ot his general character, he had
formed a had opinion of the man. Held, that this did not
disqualify the Juror,nor constitute a good ground of chal
lenge.
2. r i he presiding Judge, on request of counsel for prisoner
should instruct the triors—that the formation of a fixed
opinion, unfavorable to the innocence of the prisoner, tho’
the same had never been expressed, is not an imuartial Ju
ror.
r Morgan &R. Lyon for Plff—A. Allen & Sol. General
Lyon, for Deft.
Fredrika Bremer has in preparation a work entitled
“Homes in the New World,” giving her impressions of
America, derived fiom her recent visit to this country.
India rubber horse shoes are now manufactu: ed at the
North.
The census of the population of Prussia has just been
aken. It now exceeds 18.000,000.
The Captain General ot Cuba, by older oi the
has sent two millions of reals to be distributed among the
poor families who suffered by the late earthquakes.
Resolutions in favor ofthe immediate annexation of the
Sandwich Islands have been ntroduced into the Ohio
Senate.
O” The Southern Presbyterian, has been removed
to Charleston,S. C.
Health of Apalachicola.— The Commercial Ad
vertiser, published at Apalachicola, January 20th, inst.
says:
We are glad to chronicle the entire disappearance of
cholera in our city. The few cases which happened—
more aptly called oyster-cholera—gave rise to reports
of a most exaggerated nature, and were calculated to
alarm where the facts were not known.
No case of the kind has occurred for more than three
weeks, and the health of our city is uninterrupted.
Freights at Apalachicola. —To Liverpool. 5-Sd.
To New York, 5-Sc. a 11-16 c. • To Boston, 3-4 c.
Supreme Court Decisions. —We are indebted to
r. R. R. Cobb, Esqr., for head notes of cases decided
at the present term of the Supreme Court in this city. He
will please accept our thanks.
Augusta Items.
Patrick Dunlap has been arrested for stabbing his
wife, while in a state of intoxication; the wound was not
fatal.
There have been two attempts at snow, but both
proved decided failures. The Constitutionalist cf- Re
public hopes the next attempt will be more successful.
The stable and storehouse in the rear of P. A. Scran
ton, on Broad street, were consumed by fire on tho
night of the 21st inst.
Editorial Changes.— Mr. Ross has sold the Geor
gia Telegraph to 11. K. Green, J. M. Green and P.
Phe new Editors are said to be men of charac
ter and talent, and will defend Democratic principles.
Wo welcome them to the fraternity, and wish them
abundant success. T
Repudiation in Europe.—The Queen of Portu
gal has recently issued a decree virtually repudia
ting tne financial obligations of her Government
By Hus decree all the five per cent, and four per
cent, stock ol that kingdom is converted at a blow,
without compensation, into three per cents. That
a few new States in a Republican Confederacy
should dishonor their obligations has furnished a
iruittul theme for vituperative and
abuse against this country, as if a natural result of
republican institutions. We have no excuses for
the dishonor that attaches to these States : but, at
the same time, are curious to see what excuses for
regal repudiation will be found by those so prompt
tuhndm it an argument again-t free institutions.
I his blow will fall heavily upon the English stock
holders, who hold no less than fifty millions of dol-
tn these repudiated stocks, or more than half
ot the pub.ic debt of Portugal. —Boston Atlas.
Election of Postmasters by the People
The Deraocrats'of Zanesville, Ohio, helo an elec
tion on baturday last for a Postmaster, to bo re
commended to Gen. Pierce for appointment, which
resulted in the success of John B. Roberts over six
competitors. The democrats of Steubenville, Ohio
held a similar election the same day, when Thomas
Brashear led the poll.
Mortality in Congress.— Several members of
this Congress—three Senators and four Represen
tatives, and also one head of a department have
died since the commencement of the first session
bix were from Eastern States. Whitcomb, Web
ster, Upham, Rant .ul, Thompson, Fowler, and An
drews, are of the number. Vermont never before
lost a Senator in Congress who died at the Capital.
Evils of Smoking.— A leading medical practi
tioner at Brighton, England, has lately given a list
of sixteen cases of paralysis, produced by smoking,
which came under his own knowledge, within the
last six months.
A hotel is to be built at Cape Mav, which will
have tuirteen hundred apartments, and is desired
to accommodate two thousand five hundred guests.
Iwo of the parlors will be each two hundred feet
bug and eighty in width. The dining room will
Will ancn W b y wide, and
will accommodate two thousand persons.
(Kr The St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans ie
cently rebuilt on a most magnificent scale, was
opened to the public on the 24th ult.
3 £e ®'— The Mayor of the city of Ports
mouth. N. H. C. S Toppan, has given'to the city
his sdary for last year ($300) as a perpetual fund,
the income of which is to be annually expended
m extras for the Thanksgiving dinner for the in
mates of the alms house.
The Cuban Expedition.—A deputation of Cubans it
h^ 8 V ' Slted Washin g toI b and urged very strongly
that the Government would abandon its attempts to pur
ehase Cuba, for the reason that it will be abortive, and
that it discourages the exertions of these Cubans who
really desire to procure their independence.
TELEGRAPHIC.’
[Telegraphed Expressly for the Times & Sentinel.]
ARR I \ A L O F THE STE AM E R
ARCT I C .
Montgomery, Jan. 27, 1853.
The Arctic has arrived at New York, bringing Liverpool
dates to the 12th inst.
The Market is dull and in favor of buyers.
Sales lor three days amounted to 12,000 bales. Fair Or
leans, 6d. ; Middling Fair, sid. Flour is dull.
Nexv Orleans Market- }
Fair demand for Cotton. On yesterday, two thousand
bales were sold-to-day, 1300.
The Sugar market is steady. 800 hhde. sold at 4®4ic.
Molasses— One hundred bbls. sold at 22i (5, 24ic.
, Fl ™ n l dulL Salest °-day three hundred barrels-un
branded Ohio commanded $4 (Q $6,50.
Whiskey—One hundred and twenty barrels sold at 20c.
Bacon—Small sales at 9c.
Coffee—2loo Sacks Rio at 9 & 9i.
Mobile Market.
lhe cotton market is dull ; Middling 8 3-4 a 9
Col King arrived at Key West on “the 22d i'nst.-
climate proves agreeable to him. Ho will remain
there several days. His health is slightly improving.
I Dr. John E. Bacon,
HAff*? Bol<l , hi * hoase 011 f >ont street, mav be found at
theoW place, over McKendreeVstor? ‘ l,s office ** “
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