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[for TllL TIM EH AM) SENTINEL.] The Bible as a Text Hook—Botany* “Think you my song too turbulent? too warm ? “Are pa.-sinns then the Pagans of the soul ? “Reason alone baptised ? alone ordained “To touch things sacred ? O! for warmer still f “O! for an humbler heart and prou er soul! “Thou my much injured theme with thataort eye, “Which melted o’er doomed Salem, deign to look “Compa sion to the coldness of my bream, “And pardon to the winter in my struin.” Young’s Night Thoughts. Mr. Editor.— Can I too much insist on the Bi ble ns a text book in the Methodist College ? Can I be too emphatic in denouncing the athe- 1 ism of its exclusion from our seats of learning ? Shall our Botany classes analyze the flowers, and not tmd enlolded in their beautiful leaves a lesson of sacred import? Who taught the rose to blush, and the tulip to glow, and what is the divine purpose in spreading their inimitable tints upon their silken ieaves? Are these exquisite I creatures all dumb and meaningless ? Or do they plead to every susceptible heart for the so cial virtues, the tender, the sublime Christian graces? Have they voices that swell in unison with all the touching, gentle, beautiful, heart j subduing, spiritual moralities of the sermon on ‘ the mount ? Who that kindly grasps in one hand the nosegay, the gift of beauty and inno cence, would madly seize the dagger of the as sassin with the other? Who meeting a stranger in the solitary mountain pass, buried w ith the wild flowers, would expect to be arrested bj T the salutation of the highwayman, “Your money or your life?” Does Avarice, the “she wolf that looks full of all cravings in her leanness,” that “after feeding, is hungrier than before,” shade her sunken, sullen, caressing, leaden eye beneath a garland of flowers? I am not sure, but that the language of the flowers is so distinct that someone may arise to construct a religious Flora, that shall express beautiful, sublime, true Christian sentiments The language of flowers is at least impressive; otherwise, it could not have happened that in the middle of the 17th century, tulips should sell for S4OOO, a piece, “and one of the variety called the Viceroi for $10,000” That “this ex traordinary traffic” had to be “checked by law/* a law prescribing, that no tulip or other Jloicer, should he sold fora sum exceedingsl7s! Pliny says, “the lily is next in nobility to the rose.” Linnaeus called the liliaceous flowers, “Nobles of the vegetable kingdom,” he also call ed the palm trees, “ Princes of India,” and the grasses “ Plebeians .” It is hardly a figure of speech to say that one “converses with the flowers.” Their language is not that of mute motionless matter. Jt changes with the season, with every breath of air that stirs their leaves, every shade of light that varies at once their hues and their expres sion. “Flowerets bv the nightly chillness, bend •d down and closed/ have one voice, and when they “erect themselves all open on their stems, and the sun whitens them,” they have another. I do not say we may not shut our ears to the mice of the flowers. Man who hearkens neither a the music, nor the thunder of the spheres, and lefies the utterances oi omnipotent mercy and ower of Olivet and Sinai, may he deaf to the gentle persuasions of the flowers. But the voice is none the less distinct, and he who humbly listens to its accents shall hear alike from the fading and the flourishing flower lessons of melting tenderness, and wooed,won,subdued,shall realize, and with a sacred, quiet rapture exclaim. “My Father made them all!” Why are trees thought to resemble men ? I Great public characters are often described by reference to them. When Mr. Calhoun died, it was said, the erect, lofty southern “Pine” had fallen. When Mr. Clay died, it was the wes tern “Elm.” When Mr. Webster fell, it was the “old century Oak .” Gen. Jackson was the Hickory tree, the “old Hickory.” It is not be cause there is any physical resemblance between men and trees, but the proportions, the strength, the durability, the verdure of trees, suggest ir resistibly to the mind, high, moral and intellec tual qualities which make up great public char acters. When we reflect that all these qualities that are estimable arc like the attributes of God , are so estimable because of thi3 similitude, and that Christ gave the world the only perfect manifestation of these qualities, it is not diflieult to perceive that every tree in the forest is a Po et, and a Christian Preacher, that the whole ma terial universe is but a vast concave law, inten ded to concentrate and pour hack in a tide of burning glory upon the brow of Deity, the rays ofHis own supreme excellence which His mercy has radiated on the human consciousness for the purification—the happiness—the elevation of Hi s intelligent creatures. Without flowers or fruits, the “beauty of naj tore” would be a barren field for the PtVet and Orator. From Chaucer to Thomson, tiie Eng lish classics, if not an absolute blank, would lose half their charms. Mont Plane might remain “the Monarch of mountains,” but Auburn, “sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,” would be a desolation. The Holy Scriptures abound in the most sublime and touching allusions, to flowers and trees which verify the preceding observations and strikingly illustrate them. Does Christ wish to rebuke the vanity of Royal magnificence and teach the trusting troubled heart to rely on divine Provi dence ? “consider,” he exclaims, “the lilies of the field.” “Even Solomon, iu all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these.” Hear Isaiah. Is there no pouef in this preaching? “All flesh is grass, and all the j goodlrness thereof is as the flmver of the field.— i I'he grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the spirit of the Lord blow el h upon it: surely the people is grass. Thegrass withereth. the flower Jiideth: but the wordnrf-our God shall stand for t.-yer/’ “The roses of Sharon” and ft Damascus,” tv* voices of import. The “Palm tree,” and “Cedar in Leanon” are made to express the pros perity of the lighteous while the “ungodly'’ is seen “flourishing like a green bay tree.” “The Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair j branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature ; and his top was among the \ thick boughs. The waters made him great, the j deep set him up on high with her rivers running j round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field. Therefore his height was exulted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became u>i“3r, bocaus® of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth. All tue fowls of Heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field | bring Forth their young, and under his shadow ; dwelt all great nations- Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches, for his j root was by great waters. The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him. The Fir trees were not like his houghs, and the Chestnut | trees w r ere not like his branches; nor any tree in j j the garden of God was like unto him in his beau ty. 1 have made him fair by the multitude of ! his branches ; so that all the trees of Eden, that ; were in the garden of God, envied him.” “Lcba ’ non mourned for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.’’ The “nations” God made, “to shake at the sound of his fall.” Let | any man read the 31st chapter of Ezekiel, from which this is extracted, and say there is no the ; ology in the trees. . The garden of Eden— what would be our con ception of it without its fruit trees and flowers? j It was among these that our innocent first pa* j rents were placed, that angels visited them. j Os Christ it is said, “His countenance is as ! Lebanon, excellent as the cedars ’’ “He feedeth among the liiies,” “my beloved is gone down j into his garden to the beds of spices—to feed in ! the gardens, and to gather liiies.” “This thy statue is like to a Palm tree.” “His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers, his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.” How appropriately da we plant trees in memo ry of the dead, and flowers on their graves.— Even John McDonough’s conception of the or phan,visiting his grave to plant flowers, half em halms his memory and ennobles his strange character. I Moses cast a tree into the waters of Marah to sweeten them. 1 need ring no changes upon “the tree of Liberty,” of which Mr. Webster said it had “shot its roots so deep into this hemisphere, i that the bolt that dislodges it must rend the ! orb.” O! who does not hunger for the fruit that grows upon the “tree of life ?” whose diseased humanity does not faint for the application ot those “leaves which were for the healing of the n t ons Now, Mr. Editor, this is what I intend to sav The science of Botany is something more than the analysis and classification of flowers. It is a high, spiritual, Christian study, and when we in Oak Bowery Female College, like Solomon, “speak of trees from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall,” we shall give them voices, deep, emphatic utterances of Christ , who is as truly the sum of all science as he is of salvation. If you allow me, 1 may extend this train ol thought into other fields, in forthcoming Nos. Respectfully, WM. F. SAMFORD. 21) e 2iin£s tmt) Sentinel CULUMBL'S, GEORGIA. SATURDAY EVENING, FEB. 5, 1853. Blackwood’s Magazine and Southern Slavery. Wo have received the January numb r of this popu lar magazine. Its first and leading article is entitled “Slavery and the Slave Power in the United States.” The article is labored and long, but as full of err- n. aye, of slanders upon the South, as are Uncle Tom's Cabin and the White Slave, which the writer is fool enough to quote as authority. We wid p iut out a few of his many errors. He gravely states that the white population of the slaveholding States was 7,290.719 in 1840, and only 6.393,758 in 1850 ; thus gravely proving by the Aimr ics* Almanac for 1852, to which he refers, that the population of the Southern States had decreased nine hundred thousand m the last ten years, though Texas j was in tho meantime annexed. There is some excuse j for this mistake, as the figures are given as he found ! them in his authority. But if he had been solicitous i for the truth, ho would have informed his readers i that the returns of the census of 1850 were confessedly I incomplete at the date of the publication of the Ameri can Ahnauao, and that the publishers distinctly state this fact in the very section from which he quotes. The facts are, that the free white population in the slaveholding States was, in 1840, 4 632,640, and in 1850, 6 22c,-109 ; which shows an increase in Un years of 1.589,76 ,or 3a per cent. Indeed, deducting the foreign immigration into the Northern States, and the census returns will show a gr< ater increase of popula tion at the South tfian at the North, i Into these statistical errors the writer in the magazine I might have been betrayed by his authorities. What will our readers say to tiie following extract ? “We suppose it is upon some such calculation as this that Mr. Hildreth founds his statement that ‘at least half of those who call then wives Ministers of the Gos pel. sedulously inculcate that the negroes are, in nature. , mere animals, intended to be used as horses , !o be kept ! forever under the yoke, and not capable of being anv | thing but slaves.’ ” The authority quoted, we are sorry to say, is Ameri i can, and though granted to be an exaggeration by the ! writer in the Magazine, yet he draws a most uufavor | able influence as to the purity and the fid lity of the : American pulpit, from the fact that an author can ven ture to publish, and a wide American public can read and approve of, such statement as these. And this in the face of the untiring labor of South ern Missionaries among the blacks ; of ihe comfortable accommodations which are provided for the negroes in all our county churches 5 and of the large and commodi ous African churches which adorn ail our cities, which are filled weekly by the purest and wisest of our cler gymen. Such unmitigated lies weary out our patience. The next slander which we shall notice is the gross misrepresentation tfhich the writer in the magazine makes of the poorer class?* is South. Ihe writci says; “Manual labor is beneath the dignity of a white man, so that if he is too poor to buy land and negroes, on.v the u}eu)cst pursuits of life aio open to him, aii and he gradually sinks into misery and degradation, and Ini children info a brutal ignorance, which ftru only less ; profound than among the mass cf s!av.-s.” The whole history of the S *utb i* a refutation of this alauder. of our greatest and most and stingu.shed men were sons of very poor men, and labored with their owp hands for their daily bread. There • no man in the South who is too poor to buy laud. Such are the • wages paid for labor, that two years’ labor will secure a comfortable farm at ihajpouffi. ‘‘Manual labor is neath the dignity of the white man 1” W hat an ab surdity, when the great mass of our population live by it ! “Only the meanest and lowest pursuits of life are open to them.” It may be that the farm and the work shop are low and mean pursuits, and the boot-black, the waiter and the lackey are high and honorable mem bers of society. These are not American ideas ; and consequently the “poor man” at the South may bo found making fortunes in the first, and the free negroes and the slave universally filling the offices assigned to the latter. There are several other passnges of like character which we have marked for comment, and would like to expose, but our units are exhausted. Blackwood's Magazine, notwithstanding its Tory ism, has enjoyed a large circulation in the South on account of its literary merits. But now that it has j defiled itself with the pitch of abolitionism, we hope it will be excluded from every habitation, as a pestilent miasma, which will taint the purity of our social at mosphere. Mr, Stiles and the Democratic Review. We are n*t honored with an exchange with this fierce organ of Young America. We understand, however, that the January No. contains a very severe ; criticism upon Mr. Stilus’ work on Austria, in which ! “he is openly denounced as an old fogy, as playing i the sycophant to Royalty, as running with the hare and hunting with the hounds, as misrepresenting facts, and murdering the King’s English.” In explanation of this severe criticism, which our judgment, upon a hasty reading of the ponderous work in question, by no means sanctions, we give to our readers the following statements, which we find in the Savannah Courier , without vouching for their correct mss or sanctioning the very broad inferences drawn from them. The facts may all be true, and neither Douglas, or his friends generally, be at all b'.amcable for the very rash fc dishonest course of the Review, whose editor is evidently a mau of his own head and does his own thinking. [From tlie Savannah Courier.] THU DEMOCRATIC REVIEW. The article in question is evidently illiberal and unjust. The intention of the author is patent upon the face of the paper, and it is but an act of justice to expose the true mo tives of the writer This article developes a part ot the history ot the late Democratic Convention at Baltimore which ought to be placed plainly betore the honest men of a I p..rJes. We have not received the facts directly irom Mr. Stiles, but stand ready to sub.-tautiato the following statements. Tney explain the character of the article, and the motives of tiie writer. Mr. Btiles was one of the Baltimore Democratic Con vention in nominating the candidate ol the party for the Biesdeucy. Jt will be remembered that both wings of the Demociatic party of Geoig.a hud delegates in that body, viz. : The union Democrats, numbering 17, and the South ern Rights, numbering 20. it so happened that ot the South ern Right:- party there w ere 17 who had expressed them selves lavoiable to Judge Douulas a their choice, with a determination to support his nomination. Mr. Stiles (who was of the Southern Rights wing of the party) was mtavorof Mr. Buchanan as the nominee. The. Union Democrats were altogether in favor of Mr. Buchanan. Mr. Stiles and two others, thcrc-foie, held the vote in tlieir hands. It was during this period that the Editor of the Demo cratic Revieio, who, understand rig the positiou ot the Georgia delegation, approached Mr. Stiles, and in the p.etenee of Major Laiiy and Mr. F. Doyle, of Wash.ng ton, told Mr. Stiles that ho had wiitten and publish* and his woik on Aust.ia, that if Stiles would <ro for Douglas he would give it such a iavoraole notice and criticism as would ensure its entire success, but if lie peish-ted in the support 01 Buchanan, he would give him such a skinning that would damn his work forever. Mr. Stiles replied to him by in k ing the “ price of his skinning, which he would freely pay, being satisfied that his skinning would do his book 1110. e good tliau harm.” ’1 hb is the promised skinning, and it is a nice commen tary upon tiie eiia.actor of the Review and t:.e purity of the Douglas wing ot the Demociatic party. It is but proper to state that these articles are all written with great ability, and with a degree of fervor and unction well calculated to cofmnand public attention. Sale of Liquor to Slaves—Opening Bar Rooms on the Sabbath—The Retail Traffic. At the January Term of the Superior Court, the Grand Jury of Chatham county made tho following presentments : PRESENTMENTS OF THE GRAND JURY. The Grand Jury of the county of C hatham for January Teirn of the Find Panel, make the following Presentments and Recommendations : 1.-t. ‘J he public and unrestrained selling of” spirituous li quors to tlaves, in violation of the law's of the State, they present as a publ.e g. icvance, and as demanding more rig orous means tor the enforcement of the laws 2d. The opening of bar rooms and drinking houses on the Sabbath day, lor the sale of intoxicating drinks, as a violation ot the laws, and lecommead the enforcement of that law. 3J. The Grand Jury being sensible of the evils resulting from the retail traffic in intoxicating drinks, and the legal toleration ot bar-rooms and drinking shops, as the chief ro.-ouree ol riots, distubanecs, immoralities, crime and pau perism ; subjecting the community to heavy expenses and annoyances, a..d thm causing the largo majority to bear a burden and taxation for tho profit ot the lew who arc en gaged m tue traffic; recommend that active efforts be J made to have sucii laws enacted as may protect the eom- I numiiy from the burden and annoyances, consequent on ; the retail tiaffio of intoxicating liquois in this county. The G.and Jury re-peclluliy leqiest that the e present iments and recommendations be published in the Public ! Gazettes. WILLIAM KING, Foreman. I aac D. Laßoehe, John M Palm, James Ale Henry, Chas. F. Hamilton, Win. ii. Ver.-tnle, Win. H. Smith, j Chas. ii. Gatnpiield, Win. B. Giles, Samuel Phiilnck, John W. Nevitt, Chas. Van Horn, Frauds Trnohclut, David B. Nichols, James M. Jones, David Veaaei, Thomas J. Buiiuch, George 8. Nichols; Wm. 11. Miller. The C'orner Stone. We welcome to our sanctum this new candidate for public favor, and hope it will receive a libera! share of 1 public patronage. We were somewhat surprised to find one of tho two i leading articles devoted exclusively to ourselves; and were forcibly reminded of a playful witticism of on of our friends in reference t® this new enterprise. On i hearing that General Betiiune had determined to start a paper, he asked what would be its name, and on be ing told, suggested that The Battering Ram would be a much more appropriate appellation. The specimen number conviuees us of the pro priety of the suggestion ; and rs the Publishers will excuse the liberty, we would respect I ully ad ! vise them to substitute The Battering Ram for The Corner Stone, and to pr>oure an illustrated head with appropriate embellishments. In the notice taken of the Prospectus, which we cheerfully published in our columns, we designed to give no offence. We expressed, in as few words as possi ble, the true character of its politics, commended the Editor, and quoted from the Bible a passage which we thought peculiarly ap roprute to designate an Editor, who stood on his bottom against the world. We have neither time, space nor inclination to enter into the wide Seld of discussion, which the article re ferred to opens to us. W have no disposition to throw an obstacle the way of the success of the Corner j Stone. tVe have other uses sor our columns. | Bm if the E-Jiffi;* of raluablo paper hin need of “a j text fur a commentary J’ we have no ear ijijy ,pbj*ctkn**lo j his so using anything we write, Richard F. Lyon—South Western Circuit. A Democratic Convention of the South Western Circuit was held in Albany, Ga., ou the Ist inst., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Judge. Ail the counties composing the Circuit were represented ex cept Sumter. The Convention was organized by call ing Col. Thomas Coleman, of Randolph, to the chair, and appointing M. E. Williams, of Lee, Secretary. The utmost harmony prevailed among the members of the Convention, and Richard F. Lyon, Esq., of Ba ker, was nominated by acclamation. We have already given our opinions as to the policy of such conventions. But objections to the mode of a candidate’s nomination, will constitute no objection to the candidate himself, if he is worthy. In this instance, we believe, the selection is eminently judicious. Mr, Lyon is a lawyer of experience, and a man of high ! character, on whoso shoulders the ermine of justice will bo preserved without spot or stain, and in whose hands the scale of justice will be fairly and firmly held. No higher testimonial could be given to his worth, than the spontaneous selection of him as a candidate tor so high and responsible a trust, in a convention composed indiscriminately of intelligent men from ail portions of the Circuit, whose local prejudices would havo inclined them them to urge the claims of their neighbors, in preference to those of any other, unless his qualifica tions were pre-eminent. Marion Kail Road. The people of Perry county are moving energeti cally, for the construction of a Rail Road from Marion to the Alabama River. A meeting was held on the 24th ult, which at once subscribed SBO,OOO, the amount deemed sufficient for the completion of the work. The stockholders organized by electing W. N. Wyatt, Esq , President, with a strong Board of Directors. The route, heretofore surveyed and partly graded, for the Marion and Cahaba Rail Road, was selected as the route for the new Road, to the Cathey plantation,* and | the President was instructed to secure the right of way. Committees were appointed to select the site for a depot, and to ascertain from the Alabama and Missis sippi Rivers Rail Road Company, the terms upon which the two Rail Roads can be united. The stockholders are to pay three per cent, of their subscriptions on til© Ist of March next. —Mobile Register. The Bank of St. Mary’s. It will be seen, by reference to the abstract, of the de cision in the case of the State of Georgia, upon the infor mation of P. A. Clavton, against the Bank of St. Mary’s, published in our columns to d>y, and for which we are indebted to the politeness of Chief Justice Lumpkin, that the Supreme Court has reversed the decision of the Court below, by which a judgment was rendered against the Bank for $47,500 dollars. Another Musical Festival. The Infant Drummer will be in town on the 7th inst., and commence a series of Concerts, assisted by Madame and Prof. Louie. lion. Howell Cobb and others have pronounced this Infant Prodigy the eighth wonder of the world. His performances have been greeted everywhere with rap ture. Madame Louie and Prof. Louio are represented as accomplished musicians, and will vary the entertain ment w f ith comic and sentimental songs and instrumen tal music. Everybody, of course, will attend and give encouragement to Georgia’s little Prodigy. Liter from Buskos Ayres. Baltimore, Feb. ‘2 —9 P. M. Advices have b:*en received at Boston from Bue nos Ayres, to tie- 23 l of December, which state sh *t political ass. r.s arc very much disturbed. Ur quiza has deposed the Governor of S r.t i Fe, m.d appointed General Gal an as his successor. A hugi forco Ins teen sent from Buenos Ayres to Rio de Janeiro, to stir up an invasion against Urquiza Produce was scarce and high. Congressional. — la the House of Representa tives, Mr. Stanly, from the C mimiHee of Ways •ir.d Means, has reported the bill to authorize the Secretary < f the Treasury to deposit with the sev eral States, the sou :h installment of the surplus r venue, as dir. cted by the act of June “1836. This bill proposes, a ! so, to distribute $9 36 211, to be i applied to the transportation of the free blacks in ! sevei&l States to Liberia, education, Sec. The coin i | tnitteo directed it to be reported with a recommen j dation that it do n>t pass; and the House laid it | upon tire table—yeas 105 ; nays 60. Homesteads.—Seventeen States have passed home stead laws. Os the Southern States, Georgia exempts twenty acres, not exceeding in value $350; Florida exempts forty acres, not exceeding in value s4uo ; Ala bama forty acres, or house and lot ia town, S3OO ; Texas two hundred acres, SSOO ; California, SSOO ; South Carolina, forty acres, SSOO. At a meeting of tne i)e nocratic citizens, Mctn | hers of Congo ?8, and others, a- the United States Hotel, Washington city. B. B. French presiding, it i was decided notto hold the customary In •uguration | Ball oil the 4th of March, in eonseq aence of the j late domestic nfH ct on of the President and the j con inued illness of the Vice President elect. At | will be made, however,on the pait of I the ci izens, to give Gen. P e>ce a becoming reccp- I :ion on his ar ival in Wasi Lijpon. Mr. Bedell, the you ig g.mtleuian who was so ’ seriously wounned by the accidental discharge of a pi-tol at -he Fag e and Phoenix Hotel, vve arc grat ified to learn is improving, and high hopes are now entertained tint one and perhaps both eyes may be s.vod to him. We sincerely hope ,t may be so.— Chron. df* Sentinel. Maine Senator. —A despatch from Bangor s’a es that Wm. Pitt Fessenden ha* been nominated by the Wbi.e for U .ited States Senat r in place of I Mr. Bradbury. Hamlin’* friends will support him, ! I and be m ybe elected. The Democratic members ‘ of the Senate had nominated N tthan Clifford, and ! those of the House, John \y. Dana, for the same | office. The A Mexican Bible House, in Nassau street, N. Y., was sold at the Merchant’s Exchange, ou the 2Tth ult., for $105,000. N. C. Platt was the purchaser. The So ciety Library builiing was also told. It brought i 1 500, and John Lakarok w the purchaser. Mr. Uw a stiert time ago. purchased it tor sl l J,OOO. WAim\gton Rumors.—t is tuuiorcU Uut fo r Rives is about to return from France, aqd Mr. Crit tenden to succeed nun. Messrs. Bright, Cass, Bedhead and others -- /% * U ’ ® | pushing D;dlas fur the Cabinet, to counter's, t Buchanan. The Demoer i’s of the Tennessee del egation have unanimously recommended A, 0 p Nicholson for the Cabinet. Relief for Madeira.— The barque Nawilu sai'e J from Boston on the 28th ult. with 200 bbl* flour and a large quantity of mm, contributed by the citizens for the relief of the starving inhabit ants of the Island of Muleira. A *itnilar expedi tion Will leave New York in a few days. The members of the Co-n Exchange have sub. scribed SSOO for the sufferers. The Jerry Re cue Case — Heed found TheAlbmy N. Y. Journal of Sit unlay, states tha the jury in the ease of Reed, on trial fir being con- * eerned in the rescue of Jerry, rendered a verdict I this morning of guilty. Slaves Emancipated —G !cs Fitzhugh, Esq., s I wealthy bachelor, arhis re*.dent*e in Fauquier, I Va., on ihe 14th ult., aged 80. It is stated that,by I the provisions of hi* will, some eighteen or twenty ] slaves are liberated, The C olera in Persia. —Letters from Tauiis, I Persia, of Nov. 10, state that the cholera wasra- I ging violently in Persia. At Tauris, the number of I deaths per dnv was not less than one thousand. L -.VI Sii.lima.n Ives, the Bishop of North Carolina, I who h;is seceded to the Catholic Church, was the twenty fifth Bishop in the order of appointment, of the Episcopal I church of the United States. lie is a native of Vermum and was originally settled, as a minister, over a Conercga tionalist Society, in the county of St. Lawrence, N. Y. Sickness of the Governor of Louisiana.- New Orleans, F bruary *2.—G wernor Hebert, of Louisiana, has had a relapse and is again danger ously sick. The U- S. Agricultural Society.— Baltimore February 2. —On Wednesday, the annual meeting of the U- S. Agricultural Society at Washington was largely attended. The negro Richard Neal, charged on the oath of Commodore Mayo and others, with enticing at va rious times a number of slaves from AnnaArundd county, Maryland, has been di-charged by the Su preme Court at Philadelphia. Highway Robbery by a Woman —A woman i New Yo r k, named Hesier White, met man | dusk on Monday evening, in an open street in i/ia; j c ty, knocked him down, and rifled his pockets ts ! $23. There is a fellow in California so extravagant that he kindles the fire with bank notes, and skates on ice-cream. The N. York 7 ims calls “Billy Bowlegs” “Mr William Cruikshanks.” This is carrying politeness, j some considerable and star ce. ! Neal Dow lecturing in Philadelphia and ILil ! timore with great success. He is arousing a feeling | >n favor of legal prohibition of the liquor traffic i which will not he easily allayed. i The Sugar market of Havana during the week ending on the 29 U was firm at previous rates. It is rumored at Havana that Gen. C.nciohns | been removed, which has given rise to some cxe.te* ! men*. j The Supreme Court. The Bank of St. Mary’s, Appellant, w. i The State of Georgia on the information of P. A. Clay* | ton, Appellee. In the Supreme Court, of the State of Georgia, at Cos. J lutubus, January Term, 1853. ] By the acts of the Legislature of 1832, and 1835, * i penalty of SSOO was imposed on Banks lor issuing “r and *- j trbuiiug • hange Bills; the issuing or circulating each ! Bill, to constitute a separate and distinct offence; to 6 | recovered in an a-tion at the instance of any informer in j the name of ‘he State—one half, when lecuveied. logo u ■ the State, the other sh-re to the informer. Under tiles* j Statutes, a su t was brought in the Superior Court, c: j Muscogee county, in ti e name of the State on the in* S formation of P. A. Clayton, and a recovery had at the j last Term for $47,500. Before the judgment was rcii* | tiered, the Legislature repealed the acts under which th J ease was brought, ami l emitted ail the penalties impost by the same. Held, by the Court, Judge Lumpkin de i livering the opinion, tin t the repeal of the law creating j the offence belorc trial .and tiie remission of the j.eun■ >’ 1 incurred by the Defendant was, at law, a bar to theca# i and no judgment could le awarded Against the party. Ericsson Engine. ; The proprietors of the New York Evening ! Post have contracted with Capt- Ericsson j furnish them with a caloric engine, and it is ak I ready, they say, in a state of considerable t\ir ward ness. The patterns have been prepared by Capt. Ericssoti, and the machinery is being by Messrs. Hogg & Delamater, of New forfe it is to have sufficient power to drive one ut Hoe’s rotary presses at the rate of 10,000 ia 1 * pressings an hour, and four job office presses with a reserve force of two or three horse po"’ er, and yet it is occupy only the space enclose® in a cast iron box six feet square and betwf ei '’ five and six feet high. It is to be finished ;l,lu I in operation by the middle of April, Should 1 ! experiment succeed, and there seems to be doubt that it will, the proprietors of the V” York Evening Post will be entitled to tne thai s of the entire press of the country for their ; strumentality in introducing some substitute— 10 use their own words—“for the Tartarean f ul ” ace and boilers which now make hideous 111 vaults of all our larger printing offices.” * great simplicity of the machinery, which “'7 render fewer repairs necessary, and the an d - 1 ished consumption of fuel are also advaiih'r which “iff he duly appreciated by the fiatei’ i'he Post promises, moreover, promptly to * ll aiiowti the success or failure of the expeM ,u 0