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iTHE_ TIMES & SENTINEL. TENNENT LOMAX & BOSWELL ELLIS, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. THE TRI-WEEKLY TIMES A SENTINEL la published E VERY WEDXESDA Y and FRIDA Y MORX -IXO and SATURDAY EVEXIXO. THE WEEKLY TIMES A SENTINEL Is published every TUESDA Y MORXIXO. Office on Randolph Street, opposite the Post Office. TERMS: TRI-VVEEKLY, Fit* Dollars per annum, in advance. WEEKLY, Two Dollars per annum, in advance. IT Advertisements conspicuously inserted at'Omc Dollar per square, for the first insertion, and fifty crnts for every sub sequent insertion. Liberal deduction will be made for yearly advertisements. 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 ** “ wJF£ to” U,< ’ D ™ s Slore of * Nao.t, J *“- ,833 - . wlttwtt >