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Santa Anna. Among the numberless wonderful celebrities that our sister Republic has given birth to in her brief but stirring history, heroes of a single skirmish, statesmen of a small diplomacy, im mortals whose eternity of fame has reached its occultatiun in from nine days to a year, there has been no one so prominent, so able or so fortunate, as the one-legged hero of San Jacin to—that marvel of military science, who, in his later conflict at Cerro Gordo, stuck to and strengthened the old maxim— “He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day.” There may exist much latitude of opinion with regard to the bravery, the skill, the states manship and the patriotism ofSanta Anna. It may be doubted whether he loves Mexico and it may be?doubted whetherMexicoloveshim. Os one thing, however, there can be no doubt, and that is that the life he has led from the time he first embarked in a revolution against Iturbide to this present, has been remarkably eventful and'lull of incident. He has seen all social positions from the low estto the highest; all political positions from insignificance to practical imperially ; 11 military positions, from a foot soldier to the commandership-in-chief. He has climbed to the topmost heights only to be knocked off and driven out the country. He has returned and taken up his old rank asifithad been resigned by his own volition. He has made revolutions and crushed revolutions. He has banished and been banished. In his person two great extremes of fortune have met and struggled.— As yet it is undecided which w ill come off vic torious ; it is uncertain whether Santa Anna will die at home or in exile, on the throne or on the scaffold. We said that his life has been eventful, and so it has. There are probably few men living whose histories will exhibit a web of so strik ingly contrasted colors, who have been so high and so low as the ex President. Starting in life with a name wholly obscure and unknown, he has rendered it familiar in all corners of the world. Commencing as a royalist, he has been a republican, a fe Jeralist and a centralist, a democrat and an aristocrat, as the emergencies of the moment seemed to require. In 1821 he assisted in expelling the royalists lrom Vera Cruz, and obtained the command of the city under Iturbide. In 1822 he was deposed, and began war against his late superior, and succeeded in overthrowing him. Foiled in his personal aims by the final results of this movement, he retired, but only to fo ment another. In 1828 he supported Guerrero against Pedrazza, and was made commander of the army. In 1830 he went over to the side of Pedrazza, foughtjand conquered his former friends, and intrigued for the Presidency. In 1833 he obtained the office ; he sought, and was recognized as President. Thus far his life had been successful—his objects gained— his ends secured. The changes he made in variably redounded to his benefit. The bat tles he fought were always won. The party he favored were sure of success. Ilis political tergiversations were inexcusable, but they were gilded by victory. His treacheries were startling, but few cared to talk about them. He was the favorite of the army, and the army was sovereign. In 1835 the reform party, under the leadership of Lacatecos. proclaimed against him, and four provinces joined the insurrec tion. Lacatecos was conquered, the reform party annihilated by death or exile, and Santa Anna became Dictator. His star was still in the ascendant, but it soon waned. The adhesion he gave in to the central party, and the subse quent abrogation of thelibeial constitution of 1824, inducedthe American colonists in Texas to proclaim their independence. Os the re sults of that movement we need not speak. The success which had hitherto invariably attended the military movements of Santa An na failed him in the efforts he made for their subjugation. At San Jacinto he was conquered and captured. Out of the gloom of defeat and captivity— marvelously preserved from a death he richly merited—this political changeling emerged on ly to recover the supremacy he had lost and increase the fame he had won. The mutilation he suffered at Vera Cruzredouned tojhis good and has ever since remained the incontestible and incontrovertible evidence of a patriotism that never existed, and a bravery that was with out being, In 1841, after a series of incidents that would be deemed improbable in Perce Forest, or the Romance ot the Cid, he again reached the Presidency and ruled imperially for four years. The revolution of Paredes hur led him from power, and the Administration of Herrera made him a fugitive. The American war recalled him to rank and importance. Its close drove him once more into exile. An other revolution has paved the way for another recall,and Santa Anna may to-morrow sit su preme over the fortunes of Mexico Indeed all the indications tend to give assurance of his speedy recall. From Chihauhah to Yucatan, the sun shines only on the “broken and dishonored fragments of a Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds” and distracted with diverse councils. The demands of Guad alajara lor diminished taxation and a removal of prohibitions has been made by State after State, city after city, regiment after regiment. Gen. Uraga, the acknowledged leader and head of the revolution, isja strong friend of Santa Anna’s ; and Wool, who commands Vera Cruz, is his Jknown confidant. But be yond all these things, his return is rendered probable by the conviction of the Mexicans themselves', that he is the only man whose hand can educe order from out such a chaos, and restore public tranquility. That he is loved we do not pretend to say. Indeed he is feared • but the choice of two evils will reseat him in the Hall of the Montezumas. Upon the whole we rejoice at it. Santa An na is a man possessed of some positive traits and qualities. He may be a liar, a rascal, a gambler, an assassin—he may be whatever his enemies proclaim him to be —and we are in clined to think that they are not far from the truth. But he allows no one else to rob—he strings up all other murderers and assassins. He rules by means that are reprehensible, for ends that are selfish, through tools that are dyed in rascality ; but he maintains a Govern ment,'makes wars and treaties, quells revolts, and gives to the nation a nationality she has never possessed under other rulers. Our own interests in the Tehuantepec and other ques tions compel us to look with favor upon the re turn of Santa Anna, however it may be achiev e<Vhatever may be his future, ahd who dare prophecy its course, the past has been to him crowded with incident and fraught with adven ture • to-day on the throne, to-morrow in ex ile now fighting armies and now fighting chickencocks: plunged into obscurity and raised into prominence : the ruler of miUions the master of hardly a dozen dependents.— In all these numberless vicissitudes and chan ges of fortune he has so conducted himself that it can hardly be determined whether he is pos sessed Boflthe real elements of greatness or only aided and helped.onward by the force of circumstance. — Delta Life Like.—A certain lawyer had his por trait taken in his favorite attitude—standing with his hands in his pockets. His friends and clients all went to see it, and everybody ex claimed, “oh ! how like ! it’s the very picture of him!” An old farmer only dissented.— “’Taint likel” everybody exclaimed, ‘just show us wherein ’taint like.’’ “’Taint, no ’taint,” responded the farmer ; “ don’t you see hehas got his hands in his own pocket I ’Twould be as like again, if he had it in somebody else’s ” ■inimi la—— <TI)C (Linus .ant) Smimd COLUMBUS, GEORGII SATURDAY EVENING, FEB. 12, 1853. TELEGRAPHIC. Telegraphed Expressly for the Times & Sentinel. Mobile, Feb. 12,4 o’clock, P. M. The Mobile Cotton Market is dull. Sales up to 2 o’clock amounted to 1000 bales. We quote Middlings at 8 3-4 to 9 cents. Sales for the week readied 19,- 000. Receipts for the week amount to 21,710, New Orleans, Feb. 12. The New Orleans Cotton Market is active, and the demand good. Sales to 2 o’clock amounted to 4000 bah s. Our Steam Power Press. Wo are happy to announce to our patrons and friends that henceforth the Times Sentinel will be printed on a Steam Power Press. Our Engine was constructed by Mr. E. Mersiion, a young Machinist of this city, and is as perfect a specimen of workmanship as ever was constructed. It is a little tiling, but does the work of four strong hands in quicker time and much more elegantly. Mr. Mersiion is a native of Columbus, and has just reached his 21st year. He has mechanical genius of a very high order, and richly deserves the patronage of the public. We take great pleasure in commending him to our brethren of the press who are in need of an engine. We would not exchange our engine for the best negro fellow in the market. Hereafter our paper will be better printed than heretofore, and mailed at an earlier hour, so as to secure its arrival regularly and in good time at distant post offices; ■provided , always, that postmasters do their duty. Ours is the first Steam Power Press ever erected in Western Georgia, and we hope our enterprise will be appreciated and rewarded by our enterprising fellow citizens. We would not object to a large increase to our subscription list, as it would not be a burthen to us to publish 10,000 copies on our new and elegant press. The Young Marooners. Mr. D. F. Wilcox, will please except our thanks for a copy of the above work. It is written by F. R. Goul den, formerly of this city. We have read it from be ginning to end with increasing interest, and do not hesi tate to pronounce it one of the very best fictions which has been issued from the American press this season. The only earthly objection to the work, is that it is modeled ■pon Robinson Cruso. In simplicity and perspecuity of style, it is fully equal to that renowned book. There is nothing forced in the incidents ; all the characters are natural, and the ro mance of the story consists entirely in the incidents. Dr. Gordon, was the father of a lovely family. The only draw back to their happiness was that Mrs. Gor don was in feeble health. A change to a warmer cli mate was recommended. He accordingly determins to move to Tampa bay, and goes in advance of his wife to prepare a suitable residence for an invalid, accompanied by his two sons, a daughter, and nephew. After his arrival he prepares to go on a Marooning excursion, and j ust as he had got all necessary preparations for such a frolic, and the boys and girls were on board, he was suddenly called back to his cabin. In the mean time a shoal of devil fish rushed into the bay, and one huge fellow seized Hold of the anchor, and before assistance could be rendered, sped the little craft with its precious cargo out into the gulf. During the succeeding night the boys drove the boat upon a deserted Island. In the mean time a storm arose, and forced the craft from her mooring, and the children are left for weeks in a howling wilderness, surrounded by savages and wild beast. Their devices are quite as ingenious as Robinson Crusos. and to us, by far, more interesting. The amount if information intended for children, conveyed in this little book is very great; and we hope to see it in the hands of all our little folks. It will be a source of instruction, and of amusement to them ; while it inculcates self reliance, heroism, and an humble trust in Providence, The book can be had at D. F. Wilcox’s Book Store, and is worth double the money. In these days of Uncle Tomitudes, it is a great relief to find a novel writer who looks up to the starry hea vens with admiration and sees somewhat to admire in the green woods —who discribes mau as he is, and is content to leave him in the position which God has as signed him—such a work is “The Young Marooners.” Improved Patent Spring Candle Stick. ‘ We are indebted to Mulford & Cos., of this city, for an improved patent candle stick. The stick is a brass tube into which the entire candle is inserted, and as the candle is consumed, a concealed spring forces it up to the mouth of the tube. All running of the spurm ! is thus prevented, and the light is kept up at the same position. It is said that one candle in this stick will last as loug as two in the ordinary stick. It is also a very tasty pattern, and will indeed ornament even a fashion able parlor. Call and see them. New Music. Mr. J. L. Truax will please accept our thanks for a Polka, composed by himself and dedicated to Miss Julia Flewellen, called “Carnival de Nouvelle Orleans and for “The Look-Out Mountain Waltz. 1 * A musi cal friend of ours is much pleased with the composi tions, particularly the first piece, and upon his judgment we recommend them to the public. Valentine’s Day. The 14th of February is consecrated to St. Valen tine. It is an old notion that on this day the feathered songsters chco3e their mates, and hence, perhaps, arose the custom of interchanging love tokens on this day among those young persons whose hearts are touched with the tender passion. Testimony of an Infidel Ruled Out. —The trial of Loring Prince, of Douglass, charged with the manslaugh ter of John L. Howard, was suddenly terminaied at Worcester, Mass., a few days ago, by the ruling out of the dying declarations of the deceased, on the ground that he was an infidel. News of the Day. The Bill to reorganize the navy has passed the Senate ; and also a bill granting land to Arkansas and Missouri for rail road purposes. The slaver Venus, lately captured at Havana, was sentenced to be burned. No one claimed her. It is said that Canedo, Governor of Cuba, a short time since had a meeting of the principal slave traders, and urged them in future to observe greater secresy in the disembarkation of negroes from Africa, so as to es cape the vigilance of the English. The steamer Fulton returned to Key West on the 29th ult., for the purpose of conveying the Vice President elect to Havaua. General Lopez, commander in -chief of the Mexi can naval forces, died in Havana on the 23d ult., in destitute circumstances. His funeral expenses, amount ing to S3O, were paid by the Mexican consul. It is reported that 600 slaves were lately lauded in Cuba westward of Havana. Vessels from Charleston and New Orleaus are sub ject to quarantine at Genoa. A company lias been organized at Genoa to run steamships from that city to New York and South America. The reported death of Francisco Madiai has been contradicted by the Tuscan papers. The total receipts for the Washington Monument for the last month were $2,452 86. It is the opinion of gentlemen of the highest intelli- gence, in Charleston, says the Constitutionalist , that there is no necessity for the Rabun Gap Rail Road, and that it will not be built. The subscriptions for the Brunswick and Florida Rail Road Company, along the line, amount to $830,- 090, and the subscriptions in New York and Boston amount to $1,250,000. A locomotive and a quantity of platform cars will be shipped for Brunswick in Feb ruary, to meet the first cargo of iron from England. Local Items. * The sale of goods per annum in Eufaula amounts to $450,000. The Alabama law against the circulation of small bills is likely to prove a dead letter, A negro named Moses entered the house of the Misses Cook, of Twiggs county, on the night of the 29th ult,, and made a murderous assault upon the young la dies and was only prevented from committing murder by the timely interference, of another negro from an ad joining plantation. The villain has been apprehended, confined in jail, and now awaits his trial. Apalachicola, up to the latest dates, had received 83,- 900 bales of cotton, it being an increase of 26,269 over last year. Total exports 43,107 ; on hand 40,793 bales. News from the West. Mexican dates have been received up to January 15th. Congress has granted to Ceballos the extraordi naary powers refused to Arista. The first use he made of his power was to release a number of political pris oners incarcerated by Arista. The Governor of San Luis Potosi has been publicly assassinated in the streets of the capital, by six armed men ; and the rumor was current that Prieto, provision al Governor of Tamaulipas, had been killed in Victor!*. It is thought that nothing short of an absolute change of government, such as is desired by the revolutionists, who now embrace two-thirds of the population, includ ing a majority of the army, can allay the present dis turbances. The revolutionists have succeeded in overthrowing the Federal authorities in Matamoras, and the whole State is revolutionized. This is a distinct move ment from that which Carvajal has for some time, been carrying on. His is regarded as a filibuster or free booting effort. On the 22d ult., he had, after an ex cursion into Tamaulipas, in which he had pillaged many trains of merchandise, and carried off large stocks of cattle, returned to the American side of the Rio Grande, crossing at Reynosa, and taking up his position at the village of Cruillas, near San Francisco, at the head of a considerable force. He was holding some Mexican of ficers as hostages against the execution of his men, in the hands of General Avalos. Later from Mexico. The schooner Aquilla arrived, at New Orleans from Vera Cruz on the 11th inst. We learn from the New Orleans papers, that Ceballos, President of the Repulic of Mexico, made a coup d'etat on the night of the I9th ult., and closed the Congress after the manner of Crom well. The Senor Marin entered the Hall with one hundred soldiers of the National Guard and cleared the seats at the point of the bayonet. The members after- I wards met at the Convent of Espirtu Sancto and drew up a manifesto and protest. The President has ordered the Federal Troops to cease hostilities with those of Gen. Uraga. Two papers at the Capital urge the recall of Santa Anna. Advices had been received in Vera Cruz that the city of Mexico had pronounced in favor of the plan of Guadalajara ; and the Castle of San Juan de Uloa was firing a salute in honor of the event when the Aquilla was leaving the port- O* We have been requested to insert the following i communication, which we do with pleasure : “The Managers of the Parochial School of Trinity I Church desire to present their most grateful acknowl | edgments to the honorable society of ‘E Clampsus Vi j for their liberal and timely gift of $25 00- They also beg leave to add their unanimous and hearty good I wishes for the benevolent institution to whom they are ! indebted, that they may receive in return a hundred j fold of all manner of blessings, and may fully realize the truth of our Divine Master’s own words: ‘that it is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ” Feb, 9th, 1 853. The Lemon Slave Case. —The committee of the Virginia Legislature, to whom was referred the docu ments in relation to the Lemon slave case, have repor ted that inasmuch as the decision of Judge Paine is about to come before the Supreme Court of New York, and as the legislature of the latter State nas a bill before it to repeal the law upon which the decision is founded, they deem it unadvisable to express any opinion on the merits of the decision at issue, bu recommend that the Attorney General of Virginia together with such coun sel as the Governor may direct, prosecute the appeal taken to the New York Supreme Court. The joint resolution reported from the Committee on Printing, to provide for the execution of the printing and binding of the returns of the seventh census, has been discussed and passed without amendment. j Site of the Pulaski Monument.— Robert E. i Launitz, Esq., the contractor for the erection of the I new Pulaski Monument, left Savannah on Satur day f>r New York, having come for the purpose ! of selecting the site of the structure. Governor Hebert, of Louisiana, is said to be conval escent, Mr. Stiles and the Democratic Review again. Col. S. T. Bailey, denies in extenao, the accuracy of the communication which we published last wee , reference to Mr. Stiles and the Democratic Review. His letter will be found in the Savannah Courier of the 9th, inst. . After doubting the alleged charge, that the Editor ot the Review threatened toskinn Mr. Stiles book, unless he would consent to vote for Douglass, he suggests that “a work which has called forth the approval of the Tory press of England, and has been thought worthy above all other Southern books of an elaborate and com mendatory article in that Federal Abolition Journal, the North American Revieio ,” could hardly escape, 4 • the vataghan of this terrible old cossaek, who seems to entertain a fixed belief, that he ha* a special call from heaven, which he may not eschew, to make bloody and fiery forays into the sleepy territories of old Fogydom.” Col. Bailey, then denies the facts ot the communi cation in the Courier as follows: “It is error to say that the Southern Rights delegates numbered twenty in that Convention, it should have been twenty one. It is utterly untrue that seventeen ot that Delegation, or anv other number at Baltimore, “ had (in the beginning) expressed themselves favorable to Judge Doug lass as their choice with a determination to support his nomination.” „ .. It is utterly untrue that the Union Democrats were alto gether in favor of Mr. Buchanan. It is utterly untre that “Mr. Stiles and two others, therefore held the vote in their hands.” The truth of the matter is thus presented by Col. Bailey. It is certainly true that personally a large majority, per haps, “all but three” of our delegation preferred Judge Douglass to any one, believing the safety of the South re quired his nomination, and we still have no doubt that fu ture events will amply vindicate our judgment. Yet we, looking to the lamentable division in Georgia felt that we were bound to so act, so far as in us lay, as to bring about the triumph of the Democratic party in this State and as Mr. Buchanan was very favorably known to the people ot Georgia, as one of the ministers of the lamented Polk, and for whom many whigs had pledged themselves to vote if he were nominated ; as Judge Douglass was especially ob noxions to the Union leaders, we believed Buchanan the strongest man ; and in a meeting of our Delegation at Bal timore, early on Monday evening before the Convention, at which neither Mr. Stiles nor the Union Delegates were present, we resolved unanimously to vote for the nomina tion of Buchanan, until all hope of his nomination should fail, and then to determine who should be our next candi date, and the Journal of that Convention funishes ample proof of our fidelity to that resolve. For four wearisome days, and though thirty-four ballotings, we repeated the name of “James Buchanan,” and yet there was no moment in those tour days in which we did not have it our power, if we had chosen, to vote for Douglass; “ Mr. Stiles and the two others” to the contrary notwithstanding ; for there was no time when we had not a clear majority of at least one. Our Delegation being 21, deduct “Mr. Stiles and two oth ers’* 3, leaves 18, to that add Judge Morton of the Union Delegation, the warmest Douglass man from Georgia and it gives to us 19, and leaves them 16, from which deduct Col. Kennan who was dropped before the committee on credentials, on account of his being an open and avowed Scott man, and it leaves them 15, to which add “Mr. Stiles and two others” and they have 18 to our 19. Who then Mr. Editor has had the impudence to inform you that “Mr. Stiles and two others held the vote of this State in their hands.” P Now as to the assertion, “the Union Delegates being al together for Mr. Buchanan,” I can only say that your in formant was either not at Baltimore and knows nothing of what took place there, or else is totally regardless of the truth. It was well known to everybody at Baltimore that a majority of that Delegation were all the time and “alio together” for Gen. Cass. On Saturday morning, when all hands despaired of Mr. Buchanan, both Delegations met to consult as to who next was to be run. We proposed Douglass, the Union Delegates and perhaps our “ Three ” objected. They rernarkea that we were aware that Cass was’their favorite,and yet we prevented them from giving him the vote of the State, and they thought as a compromise we should yield our favorite Douglass, and take a third man and proposedjMarcy ; we replied that the established maxim o Democracy is that the majority must govern, that we had th* majority, yet were not acting for ourselves; t*t for the majority of the Democratic party of Georgia, and we knew that majority prefered Douglass to any New York politician, and that they must suffer us to vote for him nevertheless, out of regard to their feelings, after three ballotings for Douglass, and his prospects should not brighten, we would then take up Marcy. This was agreed to, and yet when Judge Morton announced the vote of Georgia for Stephen A. Douglass, Judge Jackson happened upon a bench and proclaimed what he termed the protest of the Union Delegates and the people of Georgia against that vote, adding that they, and the people of Georgia wished the nomination of Gen. Cass; this of course surprised the Convention and called forth a counter protest from Judge Morton, and he was the only one of that Delegation who uttered ony dissent to Jackson, assertion. S.T. BAILEY. South Carolina Rail Road and the Sabbath* At a meeting of the stockholders of the South Carolina Rail Road, lately held in Charleston, Messrs. Wightman, Smith and Cross, a committee on behalf of the Melhodist Annual Conference, presented a memorial touching the desecration of the Lord s Day on the Road. The following reso lutions were thereupon adopted by the Company : Resolved , That it is expedient that one day in se ven should be a day of rest from labor and from bu siness pursuits. - Resolved , That it is the sense of this meeting, that all Sunday labor on the So* Ca. R, R. and its branches should be discontinued, except as regards the carrying of the public mail and other cases of emergency, and that the Directors be requested to effect this desirable end as tar and as soon as prac ticable. Dismissed from the Army.—A dispatch from Washington says that the President has dismissed Major Kingsbury, of the sixth Infantry, and Lieu tenant Hawkins, of the Mounted Riflemen, for neg lecting a settlement of their public accounts. Col. May, U. S. A., who distinguished himself in the Mexican war, is about to marry one of the mostjwealthy and accomplished daughters of New York—the scion of one of our steam kings. Report on Commerce and Navigation.— The annual report on commerce and navigation, shows that fourteen hundred and forty-four vessels have been built the past year in the United States, meas uring three-hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and ninety-four tons, and that our aggre gate tonnage is now four million one hundred and thirty-eight thousand tons. Maine built last year three hundred and fifty-four vessels, measuring one i hundred and ten thousand and forty seven tons. Di\oece Cases.—Forty applications for divorce are now entered on the docket of the Massaehu setts Supreme Court—almost equal to Connecticut. Anew establishment for the manufacture of bonnets has been organized on an extensive scale in Foxborough, Massachusetts. It is calculated to turn out ten thousand straw bonnets a year. It employs 2,000 females and 150 men ; but not more than one-fourth of them work in the factory, they being raid by the piece. It appears from returns just made, that the to tal number of destitute juveniles, including infants, in all Ireland, was 83,000, of whom a very large proportion permanently resided in the work ouaea. Spirit RappinGS.— According to the report of the Superintendent. of the Ohio Lunatic Asylum, there are at present confined in that institution twen ty-six victims of thel“spirit rappings” delusion, the number being equally divided between males and females. The latest intelligence from Concord is to the effect that Medary, of Ohio, will not go into the Cabinet. Forty-five penalties, of S2O each, have been im posed on the Erie Railway Company, for \ iolation of the statute requiring the engine bell to be rung at the crossings. The complaint was entered by a citizen of Corning. The Hebrews and Ijouis Napoleon. —It is stated that Louis Napoleon has publicly recognized the right of the Hebrews to the full and unrestricted enjoyment of their religious opinions and ceremo nies in France. Extending the Area of Freedom. —ln the Senate of Ohio a series of resolutions have been recently introduced, from which we take the follow ing as the most important : Resolved , That if it be Heaven’s will, as we think it is, to consecrate the whole continent, with the islands of the sea adjacent thereto, to freedom, and to place them under the protection of our flag, true American citizens will not murmur at the de crees of Providence, but on the contrary, with ali other good Christians, will say, “God’s will be done.” Four Hundred and Twelve Students were enter ed at the University of Virginia the present session— twelve more than ever before, of whom nearly one hun dred are professors of religion. Mr. William Pitts, an eminent lawyer of Wheeling, died very suddently in that place on Wednesday. In consequence of the scarcity of small change, the merchants of Portland, Me,, have resolved received and pay out United States postage stamps. It is said that magnets or bits of load-stone are now used in countries subject to earthquakes, to in dicato their approach. At such times the mag net loses its power of attraction in a great degree. Senatorial Election in Maine.— Portland , Feb, 2d. —A vote was taken to-day in the Legislature for IT. S. Senator. .In the Senate, on the first ballot, Fessenden, whig, received 18; Clifford, dem 13. In the House, Fes- Dana, dem., 70, scattering 12—no choice. Monumental Movement.— Harrisburg , Feb, 2. — The State Legislature has finally passed a bill making an appropriation to aid in the erection of a Monument in In dependence Square, commemorative of the original thir teen States and the signers of the Declaration of Inde pendence. Caloric Engines. —The New York Express says that Captain Ericsson ha* received orders for about 300 of bis caloric engines, but it is not aware that he has consented to supply any large number at present. - The Augusta, Ga., Banks have advanced the rate of northern exchange and are now asking half per cent premium for sight checks on New-YorlTand other north ern cit ies. Occupation of Samana by tiie French.— Official in telligence from Mr. Rives declares the story destitute ot foundation, and that the French government denies anv knowledge of the supposed transaction which had taken place in its name and by its authority. There was no French vessel-of-war at Samana at the period when the occupation is alleged to have happened. Mrs. General Gaines, it is said, is about to enter another suit to recover the largo amount of prop erty claimed by her in Louisiana, The suit will be based upon the will of her father, the late Daniel Clarke. The French Empress. — A correspondent of a Northern paper gives the following history of the lady who succeeds Mrs, Howard in the affections of the present occupant of the Tuilleries: “A worthy Scotchman, by the name of Wiliiam Kirkpatrick, was for some time the Ametican Con sul at Malaga, and, failing in business, was succeed ed by George G- Barrel, as a United States Consul at Malaga. This was, I think, under President Monroe’s administration. “Mr. Kirkpatrick’s eldest daughter Maria, or ‘Mariquita/ as she was familiarly called and known by all Americans there, was a very fine, dashing, lady, and married the Count de Teba a younger brother of the celebrated Palafoix, who behaved so gallantly at the siege of Saragossa, and who in reply to a demand of surrender, declared he would continue the defence by ‘War to the knife.’ The 1 alafoix family embraced numerous titles, and was singularly brave and noble. “This husband of Maria Kirkpatrick (Count de Teba) was a gallant soldier and so cut up by wounds as to be unable to mount his horse without aid, and when in the saddle looked more as if he was hooked on than seated there. “The new Empress of the French is no doubt the daughter of this Countess Teba, 4 Maricjuita Kirkpatrick,’ who was the daughter of William Kirkpatrick, late United States Consul at Malaga— not British Consul—not Fitzpatrick— and not Irish. “The British Consul at Malaga was William Laird, another Old Scotch gentleman, and he was followed by Mr. Marks, an Englishman. ‘‘lf the new Empress of France was Countess Teba, as stated, then her mother is dead, as also is her father, and she took the title of her mother.— The name Montego, under which she passed in Par is, is perhaps one of the family names or titles of the Palafoix family. 5 ’ Dan says his sister is a membeTofthe Non-Resis tance (Peace) Society, and she is so tender-hearted that she can’t be even persuaded to strike a light. ‘‘Where there’s a will there’s a way,” says the old proverb, and Shakspeare’s marriage was a cu* rious proof of ihisj for in the days ot the great poet it might have been said, Shakspeare is the Will, and his wife Hath-a-way ! Taking the Veil.—At the convent of the Sis ters of the good Shepherd, yesterday forenoon, two young ladies were received as novices, and u third entered the final vow of the Order. The Archbishop prefaced the ceremony with an appro priate lecture. Many ladies and a few gentlemen, of various creeds, were present, and the ceremo nies are said to have been exceedingly touching. [S7. Lou in Republican 2(kh lilt.