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Local Affairs. A Leaf For Uncle Tom. —The fanatical ad mirer* of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe and her clique, wonld have been ranch astonished by the facts elicited on an examination of a breach of trust case, in Recorder Winter’s Court, yesterday. The parlies implicated in the affair were the mem bers of a negro Benevolent Society, as prosecutors and a free man of color, named Raymond Masse* na, jate treasurer of the body, as defendant. The charge was that the latter had com milted a breach of trust, by appropriating the subscriptions of the members to the amount of $268,20, It ap • peared that, in reality, the accused had no intention of committing a fraud, but, feeling somewhat hurt by the election of a rival in his place, determined to give the association some trouble in the arrange ment of their accounts, or, in his own words, “to make them dance a little,” ( les faire danser ) for the money. We were rather struck by this novel proceeding, and took the pains to read over the constriiution of the society, which happened to be introduced Id evidence by one of the counsel engaged in the case, ft was written in French, simply,clharly, and with a methodic correctness which would do credit to as sociations of fni greater, pretensions and repute. The title of the organ was—“ The Society of the Friends of Order, under the protection of Saint Eucher.” As we do not-profess to remember the list of canonizations accurately, we willjriot be certain that we have given the saintly appellation in its au thentic shape; but that is of little consequence.— The first rule was more intelligible. It provided that all sittings of the body should commence and close with prayer. The particulars of admission, membership, and official power, were then stated, and the amount of fines, subscriptions, and dues specified. The sntn necessary to he paid before in itiation was fixed, if we remember rightly at $6, and the monthly dues of each person amount to $1. — The society numbers at present some eighteen or twents members, varying in appearance from twi light to midnight blackness. And this in New Orleans, where such hideous cruelties are practiced in the noonday, and negroes are prevented from distinguishing one letter of the alphabet from another ! Occurring, too, without the assistance of that supernatural genius and piety which characterized our “friend and brother,” Un cle Tom, and actually regarded without astonish ment by a respectable Recorder in the most impor tant District of the accursed city ! What a pity th Duchess of Devonshire, and Mrs. C. Dickens can not get a copy of the Constitution, as a model for some such organization as a Starving Irish Peasants’ Benevolent Society, or a broken down Seamstress’ Relief Association, or the Miners’General Educa tional Committee ! It would create a sensation, and perhaps do some good. We have been in Ireland, and positively assert that such an effort of intellect and humanity, as the formation of the society existing in this city, to which we allude, having been attempted by the peasantry of Connemara or Skibberecn, at the present day, would make every landlord in the country stare, and every patriot become hopeful for the future. It is an evidence of education and kindly government, which could not be found out side of the Irish cities. You might look for it in the country districts in vain. And yet Mrs. C. Dick ens &. Cos. cannot understand the fact. We have been in New York, where ladies of the Mrs. Stowe class have sufficient opportunities lo realize their sentiments in practice and do some thing for the elevation of these nigriferous “friends and brothers” who are wallowing in the back streets and lanes of the city, but we have never heard that an association of this kind exists, or has existed in that quarter of the United States. On the con trary, we have seen the negroes in New York uni versally shunned—avoided like a pestilence—and confined to the filthiest and most criminal portions of the town. We have seen them reduced from the attitude of reasoning animals to that of the most currish brute—stunted in body and mind— without religion, education, food, or hope—and ig nored, as existences by the elegant authoresses who contrive to turn twenty-five thousand dollars by unscrupulous lies neatly bound in two volumes, and for sale at all the hook-stores. But it is useless to say more on the subject.— Our object in writing these paragraphs was to com mend the “Society of the Order,” which in despite of temporary troubles, shows every symptom of a long and vigorous existence.— N. O. Delta. Gkt Married. —Y r oung man, if you have ar rived at the light point- in life for it, let every consideration give way to that of getting mar ried. Don’t think of any thing else. Keep po king about the rubbish of the world, till you have stirred up a gem worth possessing, in the shape of a wife. Never think of delaying the matter; for you know delays are dangerous. A good wife is the most faithful and constant compan ion you can possibly have by your side, while performing the journey of life—a dog isn’t a touch to her. She can “smooth your linen and your cares” for you—mend your trowsers and perchance your manners—sweeten your sour momen ts as well as your tea and coffee for you —ruffle, perhaps, your shirit bosom, but not your temper; and instead of sowing the seeds of sor row in your path, she will sew the buttons on your shirts, and plant happiness instead of sor row in your bosom. Yes; and if you are con foundedly lazy she will chop wood and dig po tatoes for dinner; for her love for her husband is such that she will do anything to please him —except receive company in her every day clothes- When a woman loves, she loves with a double distilled devotedness; and when she hates, it is on the high pressue principle. Her love is as deep as the ocean,as strong &as a hempen halter, and as immutable as the rock of ages. She wont change, except it is in a very strong fit of jeal ousy; and even then it lingers as if loth to de part, like evening twilight at the windows of the west. Get married by all means. All the ex cuses you can fish up against doing the deed, ain’t worth a spoonful of pigeon’s milk. Get married, I repeat, young men! Concentrate your affections upon one object and do not distri bute them crumb by crumb among a host of Su sans, Mary’s, Lauras, Olives, Elizas, Augustas, Betsies, and Dorothies. Murder — An awful mnrder was committed in Atlanta, on last Friday night,2linst b v John R, Humphries. It seems, from what we have heard of this case, that Humphries had heard that Eli sha Tiller had threatend to kill him. They met oil the above mentioned evening, at James Kile’s grocery, when Humphries asked Tiller if he in tended to kill him. He answered that he did not, nor had he any thing against him. Humphries then requested him to look towards him ; and as he turned to look, he shot him with a double barreled shot gun. Tiller was killed so dead as not even to kick after he fell. Humphries burst the cap of the other barrel at Kile, the grocer, but the gun missed fire. —Christian Telegraph. Solid Rock Slide, on the N. & C. R. R. —On Wednesday last a mass of rock, in almost one entire solid form slid into one of ihe cuts on this road about seven miles out from this place, breaking iron, cross ties, and every thing found in its wav. On measurement by the Engiu eers it was found to contain over 4,000 cubic yards. At the time of the slide the report was heard in the entire neighborhood around. This occurrence will retard the tracklaying on this end of the road fully six weeks if not two months.— Chartanooga Ad vertiuer, 22 d inst. QL\\z &itt its ant) %mimd COLUMBUS, “GEORGIA” SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. 29, 1852. Wreckers at Key West. We find in the Sav. Courier, a very graphic descrip tion of the trade of Key West. It will be read with interest by our merchants, whose rich cargoes are so frequently exposed to the hazzards of the Florida Keys. Key West, Jan, 22,1853. Mr. Editor : —The wrecking season has set in and ships, brigs and shooners with their rieh cargoes are being brought down daily from the reef by the hardy wrecker, and we are begining to reap the benefit of their arrival by increased business and an unusual activity in every line of pursuit. The lawyer lias the salvage case to present to the judge and a good round sum is his fee. He in all eases receives the sum of sl7 for filing the libel, and then three per cent on every dollar of salvage decreed by the judge. In cases involving large amounts of property as high as SBOO falls to his share of the wreck. The Commission Merchant or Ships Consignee has many competitors in the field. He has friends on the wrecking vessels and the first boarder of the stranded ship presents to the master the claims of his merchant, and receives for his zeal a handsome reward if he se cures the consignment. The rates of wharfage and storage on a bale of Cotton are sl. The commission allowed for receiving and disbursing money on account of vessel and cargo is 5 per cent, and when the same is re-shipped or forwarded in the same vessel 1-4 per cent on the valuation of the cargo is always ruleable,— So the strife for these fat pickings sometimes rages high, even to a fighting pitch. The consignment of a ship now ashore on the reef will pay the Consignee over $9,000. The Clerk of the Admirality Court also gets his fees, which are large when salvage is great—he receiv ing as much as the lawyer. The District Attorney gets a fee. The United States Marshal, if cargo is sold, gets his per centage, and the mechanic is paid well for his work, and the laborers get $2 per day for storing the cargo. All classes of our population are directly or in directly benefitted by the wrecks; and when news ar rives in town that a ship is ashore you will see more happy faces than in Wall street when tho Fancies have advanced. A correspondent of the Sav . Neivs of the 23 and, states that within the past 20 .days, 10 vessels have been wrecked, or arrived in distress, which, with their cargo es, were valued at over $500,000, and that the larger portion of this amount will be saved through the instru mentality of the wreckers. He then very gravely an nounces that, “The new year has opened with an abun dance of fine wrecks, and our only fear is, that after those now’ in port are settled yve shall have no more.’’ Texian Items, Charles Fenton Mercer. The Galveston News urges upon the Legislature of Texas the propriety of paying this distinguished Gentle man for liis services to the State. Gen. Mercer is especially known to Texas as a con tractor with ist former government to colonize a portion of the territory of the State in the region of the upper Trinity, and who had faithfully complied with his con tract up to the day of his estoppel by tho constitutional authorities of the government for reasons of state with which no defalcation of his had any connection. Up to the period when he was prohibited from the further prose cution of his enterprise of colonization, he had introduced 9orne six hundred families, for which he was entitled to receive a certain compensation in lands, the titles to which have hitherto been withheld from him. General Mercer says the News, is now a poverty stricken, neglected sexogenarian, confined by diseas e to the garret of a third rate Hotel in Alexandria. Mobile and Ohio Rail Road. It has taken three years to extend this road thirty tw’o miles ; and though the road has received a magnifi cent donation of lands from tho Government of the United States, we learn from the Mobile Evening Jour nal that the company has determined to build the road gradually, surely, safely, by subscriptions, and then sell the land donated at a price equivalent to the whole cost of the road. There seems to us, to be a great deal more shrewdness than honesty in this determination of the company. The lands were donated because the early completion of the road was thought to be impor tant to the public ; and the company is therefore bound to hold and dispose of the public property for the ad vancement of the public interest by making it available in the speedy completion of the road ; and not in en hancing the private fortunes of the stockholders. If the work progresses in future, only at the rate of 11 miles a year as heretofore, the grand children of the present generation will hardly live long enough to en joy its benefits. Hon. Merideth P. Gentry, of Tenn. This gentleman has declined a re-election to Congress. He is a whig, but refused to support General Scott for the Presidency,and to his influence may attributed to part the amazing defection from the whig ranks during that election. A politicianean give na higher evidence of hon esty and patriotism than to refuse to support the nomi nees of his party for high offices. We therefore re gret to see Mr. Gentry withdraw from Congress ; as it is now evident that these are scarce qualities in the lati tude of the Federal city. Governor of Alabama. A meeting of the citizens of Autauga, was held at Autaugaville, at which resolutions were adopted, recom mending Col. Albert J. Picket as a suitable person to be run as a candidate for Governor of the State. Colonel Picket is the well known author of the “History of Alabama.” He is a sound and true South ern man ; is a native of the state, a planter, and posses ses every necessary qualification for the office. We know of no man whom we would prefer to see succeed the present incumbent. The new liquor law of Rhode Island, to take the place of the one declared unconstitutional by Judge Curtis, is full as stringent as the former law. Felo de se. —We learn from the Vade Mecum, that the corenors inquest, composed principally of Editors, which was held over the dead body of the South- W est Georgian, returned a verdict that the decease ! came to its death felo de se” by taking too a large dose of Cred it System , which, in the opinion of said inquest, is more poisonous to nevklpapers than arsenic and prussic acid combined. Another Rail Road. —The Virginia House of Dele gates, has passed by a decided vote, the bill incorpo rating the Board of Public Works for the construction of a rail road from Covington to the Ohio River, at a point not lower than the mouth of Big Sandy nor higher than Point Pleasant. The bill apprpriates a million of dollars for the purpose. Sleet in Savannah. The Evening News says, that there was a slight fall of sleet at Savannah on the evening of the 23d inst. We have enjoyed here a pure, bracing atmosphere, and “glorious” sunshine for a week past, Ice is abundant, but no Snow or Sleet. Bounty Land Act. We learn from a letter of Hon. Junius Hillyer to the Southern Banner, that the Commissioner of Pensions has reversed the interpretation first given to the act of 1552, so that the widows and minor children of officers and soldiers who died before the passage of the act, can now obtain bounty land upon making application there for. The following is the reply of the Commissioner to Mr. Ilillyer’s letter to him on the subject. Pension Office, Jan. 13, 1553. Sir : In answer to the inquiry in your letter of the 3d. inst. I have to reply that the act of March 22, 1552. has Jbeen construed by the Department to include th widows and minor children of deceased officers and rol diers, as under the act of September 28,1850. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your ob’t. servant, J. E. HEATH. Comm. Hon. Junius llillytu, 11. R. From the N. Y’ Tribune. The Electic Telegraph—Sounds vs Signs, The great feature of Prof, Morse’s invention, and that which distinguished it from the electro-magnetic tele graphs in England and other parts of Europe, called the “Needle Telegraph,” was this—the electro-magnetic bar or needle had been used merely to point to letters or make signs for telegraphic purposes. It occurred to Prof. Morse that the motion thus obtained might be used to make dots and straight lines of unequal lengths on paper, moved by clock-work, and that these marks might stand as representatives of the letters of the alphabet. The Company owning the Telegraphjrunning from Buf falo to Milwaukee, called “the Erie and Michigan Tele graph Company,” working under Morse’s patent, have for some times past discontinued the practice of record ing the signs produced by the process above mentioned, and have instead thereof received their messages by sound. This they have done for the last two years, without in terruption, having found that they could receive three messages by sound in the same time which woull be oc cupied in receiving two under the other system ;.and moreover, that in receiving by sound they made fewer mistakes than they were liable to in the use of the dots and dashes, and also dispensed with half the number of operators. The mode of receiving messages by sound is very sim<= pie, and one operator is sufficient instead of two, who are required when the signs are recorded. The operator sits by his table in any part of the room where the message is received, and writes it down as the sounds are produced.- The different sounds are made by the striking of the pen lever upon piece of brass: thus, three raps in rapid sue* cession are made for the letter A, two raps, an interval, and then two raps more, arc made for B, and so forth. [From the Chareston Papers.] rrival of the Empire City at New Orleans Later fsom Mexico, &c. New Orleans, Jan. 24. The U. S. mail steamship Empire City arrived at New Orleans at seven o’clock on Monday morning, from New York via Havana, with forty passengers. She left Havana on the 20th inst., but brings no news from Cuba, with the exception that the Secretary of the Captain General has been removed, and that his successor was expected by the next steamer. The Empire City brings us advices from Vera Cruz to the 12 th inst., which [state that Arista finding Congress re fused to grant him extraordinary power had resigned the left the city of Mexico Carvallos, President of the Supreme Court of Justice had been made President ad interim , and had named the following as Ministers : Gen eral Blanco, Minister of War ; Aterbide, Minister of the Treasury ;\J. Guerara, Minister of Foreign Relations, and laantey, Minister of Justice. The Goverment troops under General Mirer; had been entirely routed by Uraga, and the revolutionists were everywhere triumphant. The new Ministry will probably be of short duration In noticing the return of the Commissioners who were sent to Mexico to search for the mines of Dr. Gardiner and Mr. Mears, the Alexandria Gazette says : “We understand that “Lagunillias,” the township in which the pretended mines were located, lias been thor oughly explored ; and not only has no mine been discov ered, butjio person could be found who had ever heard of a mine of silver or queiksilver within the entire, De partment of Rio Verde, to which department the township of Lagunillias (less in extent than the District of Colum ba) belongs. The result of this mission confirms in every partielar the official'report of Mr. George W. Slocum, United States Agent, to the Department of State, on the 1 Tthof May Irst and recently published by the select Com mitteeof the House of Represetafives’” Shocking. —The Cairo. Illinois, correspondent of the Evansville Journal, relates the following : “Not many months ago, a small boy, belonging to a German family in this county, took sick and died. Ilis step-father purchased at the nearest store a b.x>t box in which to bury him. It proved too short by six inches, so one of the two things had to be done to make it answer—lenghten the box or shorten the corpse. The inbumau step father choose the latter alternative, and dis regarding the remonstrances of the mother, sawed off six i inches of the child’s legs? We will let the reader comment j Chamber of Commerce. At a meeting of the Apalachicola Chamber of Commerce, °held lllh inst., the following gen tlemen were elected officers for the ensuing year : THOMAS L. MITCH EL, President. C. G. HOLMES, Vice President. ('HAS. PRATT, Sec'y and Treasurer. Committee on Appeals. } Cos n't o f Arbitration. R. Salter, R. G. Porter, D. G. Raney, N. C. Robbins, N. J. Deblois. J. R- Sims, W. A. Kain, B. F. Noerse, D. J. Day. J. N. Cummings, I 11. B.Stoae, j W. T. Wood. Apalachicola, Jan, 13, 1853. The Edgefield Advertiser of the 19th inst., announces confidently to the citizens of the Fourth-Congressional District S C that the name of the Hon. F. W. Pickens is again before them for that branch of Congress in which he formerly served for a period of nearly eleven years. The widow of the late Wilbur Fisk, President ot the Wesleyan University, is now living in poverty. A sub scription has been proposed to raise two thousand dollars, ot’vvhich Mrs. F shall receive the interest during her life, and then the fuud to go the college. It is denied, on behalf of the Belgian Gsvernment, that absolute refusal was given to Kossuth to visit his dying mother. The Government conceded permission to vis it her, but on the condition that Kossuth should be under the surveillance of the police during his stay in Belgium. Kossuth refused compliance with the terms. The following is supposed to be the number of news papers in the world : “Ten in Austria, fourteen in Africa twenty-four in Spain, twenty in Portugal,, thirty in Asia, sixtyxfive in Belgium, eighty-five in Denmark, ninety, in Russia, and Poland, three hundred in Prussia, three hun dred and twenty in other Germanic States, five hundred in Great Britaiu and Ireland,’and eighteen huudred in the United States.” The will of Amos Lawrence does not confirm the state ment that he had left Mrs. Pierce $35,000. JjrThe Rio Grande is said to be almost entirely ex empt from Indian depredations, since the Texan Ran gers have been stationed there. o*Gen. Carvajal,has been sued by James II- Durst and H. Clay Davis, for supplies furnished his filibuster ing forces. [CP lion, E. Allen, agent for the Houston Rail road company, has succeeded in borrowing quito enough money to construct the road. Small-pox in Bastrop.—There are two cases of this disease reported in Bastrop. Correspondence of the Times & Sentinel. Washington, Jan. 22d, 1853. Although opposed, generally, to all projects of amal gation or coalitions, I cannot but congratulate you and your readers on the nuptials of the Times and Sentinel. For many reasons the union was a sensible and must be a happy one ; and though divided, both man aged not to fall, yet united, they cannot fail to stand strongly and in a healthy condition. The only regret which the change excites in the minds of distant friends, arises from the loss of one of the able Editors. To praise John Forsyth, or dwell on Ids high title to the re spect, confidence and admiration of every true hearted Southron, would be indeed superfluous. Though nev er filling so high a National position as his distinguish ed father, of whom he has proved a worthy son, lie yet has had the superior fortune of stamping his name and fame more permanently on the records of his own State and section, Ilis labors have filled even a wider space, and hereafter, when the fruits of this compromise quarrel more fully develope themselves, his labors, and those of the “few, but faithful,” who co-operated in the same cause will be properly appreciated. But though Mr’ Forsyth is out of the ring just at present, his South ern friends cannot permit him to remain so. Talents and acquirements, such as his, and an experience so thorough, would be wasted in the privacy of such a life as that he has chosen. Ilis political friends a.s well as the public, properly appreciate his services and his claims upen them. The mantle be has dropped will be worthily worn, we all know j but you will have a hard fight yet, though, apparently, the heat of the bat tle is over. Indications of this grow more palpable each day. Not alone do the abolitionists keep up their warfare witli a stubborn pertinacity in a political way, but that fell fanaticism gathers strength every day. Mrs. Stowe's book lias sapped and ruined some of our strong est supports. The Northern mind, as well as foreign sjfi]pstliicSj have been saturated with that poison ad ministered in all the honey of a seductive slyle. The re-action and recoil are already coming back upon us in the shape of appeals from the Ladies of Great Britain, of inumerable protests against slavery in foreign domes tic papers in the shape of critiques of Uncle Tom’s Cabin—-of public meetings in Ireland—of stampedes of slaves from the border States—and the denial of recog nition of the rights of slave-holders even during a passage in transitu through the “infected districts” of the entire North. This social danger is the deepest and it taints the actions of otherwise conscientious individuals in their private relations, while powerfully exhibiting it self in legislation. A proof of this is given in the recent attempts to in troduce some mitigation in the rule which was so strin-’ gently enforced in the Lemmon case. A Hunker Democrat in the New York Legislature, a Mr. Tay lor, as much for the purpose of embarrassing his Barn burner foes as for any other, introduced a proposition re-enacting the law abrogated during the Governor ship of Seward, allowing the right of pnssage in transi tu. But even he added a proviso that the limit of time during which the slave should be retained in cus tody if his master should be thirty days. If longer re tained within the limits of the State, he should be free. Thus denying the vital principle which alone was worth anything to us. But the Barnburners declaring it to be a mere political trick, played back in similar style. They introduced the resolutions of the Balti more Convention, denunciatory of a re-opening of any questions connected with slavery, and brought the Hunkers to a check-mate. And so things stand there. Even were such a resolution pa>sed, how ever, as proposed by Mr. Taylor, every sensible man in the South knows it would practically be worth just about as much as the Fugitive Slave law—the net val ue of which may be estimated at 0. Laws, in this country are not worth the paper they are written up on, if antagonistic to the settled convictions and senti ments of the communities which are to put them iu ex ecution. And so with all these slave-catching and slave-holding enactments of the North. Mrs. Stowe and Uncle Tom are “higher laws” than those of Congress, from Ohio, East, and from New* York down to Mason & Dixon’s line. One distinct indication of the condi tion of public sentiment at the North is afforded bv the palmy condition of the central Abolition press here— the National Era —which is now bolder and more in fluential than ever, while the Southern Press has been permitted to burn out for lack of fuel, and not even a glimmering spark can be raked up from its cold ashes— much less a Phenix—The lival press, the organ of Abo lition, has doubled its subscription list in the last year, and now numbers 28.000 paying subscribers, with daily increments and increasing popularity. One signifi cant fact may also be stated which may startle the more reflecting persons at the North. It is the fact, that its Southern circulation is steadily and rapidly increasing —and the last number contains not only correspondence from the South, but contributions also. Further than this, a native North Carolinian, now a resident of that State, answers a South Carolinian’s comments on Mrs. Stowe’s incendiary publication, and boldly preaches doctrines which would once have been dangerous for any Southern man to avow. This is progress with a vengeance. Yet we are daily called upon by the offi ciating High Priests, who sold us to our enemies, to offer up thanksgiving to them for the peace and safety their patriotic efforts hare given to the South—a id called on to denounce and proscribe the men who warned the South of the danger, and resisted the surrender to the last. Seed-time is well over, but harvesting has not come. When it does, we shall see and can judge of the actual character of the orop. The National Era , which now represents what calls itself the “Free Democracy,” made up of the Ilale and Chase coalition, backed by all the Abolitionists of all sects and colors, goes in for the indefinite extension of free territory. Its first grab is at Canada, Senator Ilale led off in a speech on the subject the other day, and said w’e must and would have it. The N. Y. Tribune waiving the question of extension, to which it is oppos ed. goes in for the choking process at home, and thus defines the Abolition faith, in an article part of which will suffice to show its spirits. The Tribune says : We have probably a hundred times disclaimed all right of Legislative intermeddling, whether by Congress or the Free States, with the domestic institutions of the Slave States. We have again and again explained that each State makes and changes its own Constitution and laws at pleasure, and that other States, having no control over its actions in the premises, are nowise responsible for the character of that action. We have as often remonstrated against the mischief and wrong, in view of the nature and spirit of our Federal Compact, of voting against a candidate for President because he resides in a Slave State, or even is personally a slaveholder. We have wor ried out the patience of some of our readers in explaining that we seek to exert no other than a moral influence up on Slavery in the States that cherish it, and that we only invoke Political opposition to the establishment of Slavery in Territories where it had previously no legal existence or the increase of its power in onr Union by the annexa tion of territory in which it is already planted. And thus concludes its confession of Faith : We never proposed to build up a national party on Sla very or Anti-Slavery. What we did and do insist on is, liberty for every Whig to hold such opinions respecting Slavery, as to him shall seem just, and to act on those opinions without being therefore, put under the ban of the p irty. Perhaps this in'av be refused, but we do not hope to live long enough to see the Whig party triumph on any narrower platform. Keep cool and see ! All that the burglar asks is the largest liberty of ac tion. We don’t want you to legalize house-breaking, but don’t “put us under the ban” of your laws—that’s all ! While our Northern “friends” are >novmg one way, taking steps forwards, our Southern friends are moving too—taking steps backwards, as usual, Virgin ia leads the van. She is showing symptoms of sliirki ness to the audacious and advancing enemy, by ignor ing the Lemmon case, and legislating against her own free negroes—poor devils that they are. The Union , of this morning, contains a pargraph to this effect : It is stated that the house of delegates of Virgiuia has before it a bill providing for the appointment of overseers, who are to be required to hire out, at public auction, all free persons of color, to the highest bidder, and to pay into the State treasury the sums accruing from such hire. These sums are to be devoted in future to sending free persons of color beyond the limits of the State. At the expiration of five years, all free persons of color remain ing in the State are to be sold into slavery to the h ighest bidder, at public auction, the proceeds of such sales to be paid into the public treasury, provided that said free per sons of color snail be allowed the privilege of becoming the slaves of any free white persons whom they may lect, on the payment by such persons of i fair price. “I can’t lick you,” said the aggressive urchid to his aggressor, “but I will make mouths at your sister! see if don’t ?” The State Road—The Chattanooga Ga zette, of the 25th inst., after noticing the resigna tion of Mr. Wadley, Superintendent of the State Road, says he will be succeded by Mr. Young, of Atlanta, a gentleman of some experi ence in the responsible duty that he will under take. Death of a student. —Died, suddenly, at this place on Sunday night 23. inst., Mr T. B. J. Lamar, of Bibb, a member of the Senior class of Franklin College. We learn that the de ceased attended prayers at the College Chapel on Sunday morning and died, at 1 o’clock of the night of the same day, from hemorrhage of the lunges. His remains were escorted on Tues day morning last by the Demosthenean Society to the Rail Road depot, to be conveyed to his relatives in Bibb.— Suu. Banner. • TELEGRAPHIC. [Telegraphed Expressly for the Times & Sentinel.] New Orleans and Mobile Markets—soo Texans Marching on Tamaulipas. New Orleans. Jan. 29. The demand for Cotton is good 5 sales, to 2 o’clock, amounted to 5,000 bales. Mobile, Jan. 29. The Cotton Marnet is dull at yesterday’s prices. There is great excitement in New Orleans in conse quence of a credited report, that five hundred Texas were marching upon Tamaulipas. Col. Ruffin, Rodrigeus and twenty-three National Guards have been shot at Tampico. Governor Reyes has been assaseinated at San Louis Potosi. —W—■BHB—BOIIHIIIII 111 WILLIAMS, OLIVER AND BROWN, Attorneys at Law, BUENA VISTA, MARION CO. GA. Will practice in the counties of Marion, Macon, Houston. Stewart, Randolph, A/uscopee, Lee, Taylor, and any adjoining counties where their services may be required. WM. F. WILLIAMS, THiDDEUS OLIVER, JAIL.. BROWN. January 28—5wly ■ cel® B ACCOM’S Sermons, for sale by A. e. FLEWELLEN, & CO.