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The Awl'ul Cruelties Practised on White Slaves in Great Britain, Tlie Stafford House meeting, at which the ‘•Christian affectionate” address of the ladies of Great Britain to their dear sisters in America was adopted, with the name of the Duchess of Sutherland at the head, followed by her two daughters—of Argyle and Blantyre—Duchess of Bedford, Lady Travellyan, and many others, has excited not only disgust on this side of the water, but disgustand something worseathome. The liberal journals are out on them in terrible i sarcasm; but the most scathing invective we have seen is a letter from Donald M’Leod, in which, after adopting from another writer the rebuke of “Look at Home,” he proceeds as fol lows : “ But I must go further, and instruct the American ladies in what they should tell their English sisters to look at home. They can meet this feminine, English, Christian, affectionate appeal with the same argument that the Canni bal Queen met a French philosopher when he was remonstrating with her upon the hateful, horrifying, and forbidden practice of eating hu man flesh, and recommending her to discontinue and forbid the practice in her dominions.— “Well,” replied the Cannibal Queen, “Voltaire, what is the difference between your people and us? You kill men and allow them to rot; we kill men, and to drown our victory we eat them, and find them as good for food as any other i flesh; besides, our laws demand of us to eat our enemies.” Now, sir, though two blacks will never make a white, yet the American ladies j may justly reply and ask their English sisters, “What is the difference between you and us? We buy black African slaves; but when we buy them, we feed, clothe and house them. No doubt some of us whip them at times for disobe dience or for our own caprice ; but we heal their stripes, and take care of them, that they may work our work. But you, English sisters, you make white slaves paupers and beggars; and when you make them this, by depriving them of all means to live by their own industry, then you turn them adrift—you raze, plough up, or burn down their habitations, and allow them to die (in hundreds) the agonizing, lingering death of starvation on the road sides, ditches, and open fields. Dear sisters, look at the his tory of Ireland for the last six or seven years, and you will see how many thousands you have allowed to die by hunger; and consider how many thousands more you would have allowed to die a similar death, had we not come to their rescue, and sent them food until we could re move them from your tender mercy and from your territories, to feed, clothe, and house them, and to find employment and fair remuneration for their labor among ourselves. Look for one instance at an Irishman arraigned at the bar of justice for sheep-stealing, and his counsel offer ing to prove that before he stole the sheep, three of his children perished for want of food, and in the case of the last of them who died, a sucking infant, the mother peeled the flesh off of its legs and arms; she boiled it, and both she and her husband, the prisoner, ate it to save their own lives, and the mother died soon after. At this time you, our English sisters, were riding upon the chariots, rolling smoothly over your exten sive, uncultivated, depopulated domains, upon the wheels of splendor and cushions of the finest texture, and your husbands, sons, and daughters sharing of your festivities, luxuries, and unne cessary grandeur ; expending more money and human food upon useless dogs and horses than would have saved thousands of the poor useful Irish (with the image of God upon them) from a premature agonizing death. We have read with horror of one of your husbands urging with might and main upon the government (who be stirred themselves at the time, for fear the fam ine might cause a disease among the Irish land lords,) to feed the people with curry powder ; and you must recollect, when the curry powder scheme of destroying the Irish could not be ap proved of, that Sir A. Trevellyan was sent over to Ireland with the test starving commission, and conducted the Irish destruction with more hu manity, for he allowed one pound of meal as meat and wages for every starving Irishman, who would work ten hours per day at making roads, draining, and improving the estates for Irish landlords. Ah! English sisters, though we could bring no more against yon, the public will iudge and decide that you should be the defenders, and not the pursuers, in this case > but since you began to expose us, we will ex pose you to the letter, for there is no case or cases brought out against us in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” with all Harriet Beecher Stowe’s capa bilities of coloring, that is equal to this. We you emphatically, that our law would neither sanction nor tolerate such inhuman treatment— our religion forbids it; and any man or number of men who would be guilty of such would be branded with infamy and chased from our States and from our societies as inhuman irra tional, irreligious, and immoral monsters, un worthy of Christian society, or to have a voice in the civil or religious government of our coun try. But by taking a retrospective view of the history of your Christianized nation, we find that inhumanity, oppression, cruelty, and extor tion, are qualifications revuired to fit a legislator, commander, commissioner, or any other func tionary to whom you may safely entrust the law making, the law administration, and the gov ernment ot your people ; but qualifications spe cially required to entitle them to dignified, high sounding titles and distinction, as will be shown afterwards. “Uncle .Tom’s Cabin’’ has aroused the sym pathy and compassion of the Duchesses ofSuth erlatid, Argyle, Bedford, and Ladies Blantyre ] and Trevellyan, and many thousands of the wo- ! men of England, over the fate of Ham’s black children. But we would seriously advise the Duchess of Sutherland and her host to pause until L ncle Donald M Leod’s Cabin comes out, j and until he himself comes across the Atlantic with it among the thousands of those and their ! offspiing who have fled from their iron swav I and slavery to our shores. He, poor man, has been expostulating with you for the last twenty ! years against your cruel, unnatural, irrational,! unctuistian, and inhuman treatment of the brave, athlebc, Highland white sons of Japhet; but no Lnglish 01 Scottish duchesses and ladies took any notice ot him, nor convened a meeting to | sympathize with him, or to remonstrate with j Highland despotic slave-making proprietors to | discontinue their uniighteous depopulation of the country and their ungodly draining away of the best blood from the nation. Hence we aver that these ladies would never convene a sym pathizing meeting for the benighted Africans, should their own African chiefs, kings, and i queens, destroy them by the thousand; but be-; cause they sell them, and we buy them and take | care of them, English feminine hearts sympatize j with them. This is a fine opportunity for Don- j aid M’Leod. Let him now speak out and make j haste, and we promise him a quick and an ex tensive sale of his Cabin of unvarnished faets. The Dutchess of Sutherland got very warm j on the subject. After she read the sympathiz ing, remonstrating address, (which need not be j quoted here being long ago before the public,) she with great empasis, said, “I hope and believe that our efforts, under God’s blessing, will not be without some happy result; but, whether it succeeded or fail, no one will deny that we shall have made an attempt, which had for its begin ning and end, “Glory to God in the highest, on J earth and peace and good will to all men.” It seems that effrontery is become very lofty and high-voiced, under the protection of high-sound ing English titles, when the Dutchess of Suth erland could presume to mix such notorious hy pocritical winnings as these with “Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace and good will to I men,” for no other cause or design than to i whitewash from some public odium already out, or to screen from some that is expected, come j from what quarter it may. Surely this cannot be the Dutchess of Sutherland who pays a visit every year to Dunrobin Castle, who has seen and heard so many supplicating appeals pre sented to her husband by the poor fisherman of Golspie, soliciting liberty to take mussels from the Little Ferry Sands to bait their nets —a lib erty which they were deprived of by his fac tors, though paying yearly rent for it, yet return ed by his Grace, with the brief deliverance that he could do nothing for them. Can I believe that this is the same personage who can set out Dunrobin Castle, (her own Highland seat,) and, after travelling from it, then can ride in one di rection forty-four miles; in another direction (by taking the necessary circuitous route) sixty miles, and that over fertile glens, valleys, straths, burst jug with fatness, which gave birth to, and where were 1 eared forages thousands of the bravest, the most moral, virtuous and religious men that Europe coule boast of; ready, to a man, at a moment’s warning from their chief to rise in de fence ot their king, queen, and country ; anima ted with patriotism and love to their chief, and irresistable in the battle contest for victory— But these valiant men had then a country, a home, and a chief, worth the fighting for. But I can tell her that she can now ride over these extensive tracts in the interior of the country without seeing the image of God upon a man travelling these roads, with the exception of a wandering Highland shepherd, wrapped up in a gray plaid to the eyes, with a colly dog behind him as a drill serjent, to traid his ewes and to marshal his tups. There may happen to travel over the dreary tract a geologist, a tourist, or a lonely earlier, but these are as rare as a peli can in the wilderness, or a camel’s convoy cara van in the deserts of Arabia. Add to this a few English sportsmen, with their stag-hounds, poin ter dogs, and their servants, and put themselves and their bravery together, ajid a company of French soldiers would put ten thousand of them to a disorderly flight to save their own carcass es, leaving their ewes and tups to feed the in vaders ! The question may arise, where those people who inhabited this country at one period have gone ? In America and Australia the most of them will be found. The Sutherlands fami ley and the nation had no need of their services ; hence they did not regard their patriotism or loyalty, and disregarded their past services,— Sheep, bullock, doer, and game became more valuable than men. Yet a remnant of them, or in other words, a skeleton of them, is to be found along the sea-shore, huddled together in motley groups upon barren moors, among cliffs and precipics, in the most impoverished, degraded, subjugated, slavish, spiritless condition that hu man beings could exist in. If this is really the lady who has “Glory to God in the highest, . peace on earth and good will to men,’’ in view, and who is so religiosly denouncing the Ameri can statue which “denies the slave the sanctity of marriage, with all its joys, rights and obliga tions—which separates, at the will of the mas ter, the wife from the husband, the children from the parent.” I would advise her, in God’s name, to take a tour round the sea-skirts of Sutherland, her own estate, beginning at Brora, then to Helmsdale, Portskerra, Strathy, Farr, Tongue, Durness, Eddrachillis, and Assynt, and learn the subjugated, degraded, and impoverished, un educated condition of the spiritless people of that sea-beaten coast, about two hundred miles in length, and let her with similar zeal remonstrate with her husband, that their condition be better ed; for the cure for all their misery and want is lying unmolested in the fertile valleys above, and all under his control; and to advise his Grace, her husband, to be no longer guided by his Ahi thopel, iMr. Loch, but to discontinue his depopu lating schemes, which have separated many a wife from her husband, never to meet—which caused many a premature death, and that sepa rated many sons and daughters, never to see them; and by all means to withdraw that man date of Mr. Lock, which forbids marriage on the Sutherland estate, under the pains and penalties of being banished from the country; for it has been already the cause of a great amount of ! prostitution, and augmented illegitimate connec tions and issues fifty per cent above what such were a few years ago, before this unnatural, j ungodly law was put in force. When the Dutchess will do this, then, and not till then, will I believe that she is in earnest regarding the American slaves. Let her and the other ladies who attend the Stafford House meeting be not like the believers followers of Jupiter, who were supplied with two bags each, the one bag rep resenting their own faults, the other their neigh bors’ faults—the one representing their neigh bors’ faults suspended before them, and the one representing their own faults suspended behind them so that they could never see their own faults, but their neighbors’ were seen at all times. Ah ! ladies, change your Jupiter bags, that yo i may discern your inconsistency, and connectio i , with those to whom you oweyour position, you. - grandeur, your greatness and all your enjoy- ‘ ments. <£! )t 2fSt££ imb Bmtmd 2 _ COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. SATURDAY EVENING, FEB. 19, 1853. TELEGRAPHIC. Telegraphed Expressly for the Times & Sentinel. LATER FROM EUROPE. . • i ARRIVAL O ¥ jgjg||jjg TII K ST E \M R R A M ERICA. Mobile, Feb. 19, 5 o'clock, I*. M. New York, Feb. IS.—The steamship America, ar rived at Halifax yesterday, with three days later intel ligence. Liverpool Market firm, with a fair demand. Sales of the week amounted to 65,000 bales; 19,000 were taken by speculators, and 9,000 by exporters. New Orleans Middlings fid., Middling Uplands 5 3-4d. Havre Market active with advanced prices. Sales o’ the week reached 12,080 bales. New Orleans Market was active yesterday, and 6,~ 500 bales sold, principally for Europe. Up to 2 o’clock, P, M., to-day, 5000 bales were sold ; prices are un changed ; Middlings 8 3-4 e. In Mobile, 4000 bales were sold at previous quota tions. [We did not receive the following dispatch until 10 o’clock on the night of 17th instant, though it bears date Mobile, 5.20, P. M. We will be obliged to our agent at Mobile if be will give instructions to the Tele graph oflice not to burthen us with the expense of dis patches, unless they are forwarded by 6 o’clock :] Mobile, Feb. 17, 5.20 P. M. General Pierce left Boston yesterday for New York, and will go to Washington to-morrow. The Senate has passed the Bill giving California 300,000 dollars, it being the amount collected by the government of the United States for duties previous to her admission into the'Union. \ iee President King’s health is improving, and lie expects to return to Washington in April Cotton declined l-4c. in our market yesterday. Sales, however, are active, though confined to a few buyers. We quote Middling Fair, 9 l-2c.; Good Middling, 9 l-4c.; Middling, 8 3 4c. ; Ordinary, 7 1-4 io 7 3-4 e. Fair demand for Cotton in New Orleans. Slavery and the Westminster Review. CiifFeeism, like the frogs of Egypt, has entered “our houses, our bed chambers, and the houses of our ser vants.'’ It has become a nuisance, so that, in the em phatic language of scripture, the land stinks by reason thereof. The Westminster Review contains an elaborate no tice of Airs. Stowe’s bad book, in which all the horrid pictures ot that wild fiction are endorsed as liberal fucts upon the testimony of Douglass and Brown, both of whom are fugitive slaves, and by a book issued by the Executive Committee of the American anti-Slavery Society! who prove to the entire satisfaction of the Review : 1 hat the slaves in the United States are treated with barbarous inhumanity; that they are overworked, under led, wretchedly clad and lodged, and have insufficient sleep ; that they are often made to wear round their necks iron collars armed with prongs, to drag heavy chains and weights at their feet while working in the field, and to wear yokes and bills and iron horns; that they are often kept confined in the stocks day and night for weeks together, made to wear gags in their mouths for hours or day3°; have some oi their front teeth torn out or broken off’, that they may be easily detected when they run away ; that they are frequently flogged with terrible severity, have red pepper rubbed into their lacerated flesh, and hot brine, spirits of tur pentine, &c., poured over the gashes to increase the torture ; that they are often stripped naked, their backs and limbs cut with knives, bruised and mangled by scores and hun dreds of blows with the paddle, and terribly torn by the claws of cats drawn over them by their tormentors; that they are often hunted by bloodhounds, and shot down like beasts or torn to pieces by dogs ; that they are often sus pended by the arm, and whipped and beaten till they faint and when revived by restoratives beaten again till they taint, and sometimes till they die ; that their ears are often cut off; their eyes knocked out, their bones broken, their flesh branded with red-hot irons; that they are maimed, mutilated, and burned to death over slow fires. * * * *’ * * That such deeds are committed, but that they are frequent; not done in corners, but before the sun ; not in one of the slave States, but in all of them ; not perpetrated by brutal overseers and drivers merely, but by magistrates, by legislators, by professors of religion, by preachers of the Gospel, by Governors of States, by gentlemen of prop erty and standing, and by delicate females moving in the ‘highest circles of society.’ ” Admitting these false assertions to be true, in the face of the testimony of the whole South, and of all Eng lishmen who have travelled among us, the writer in the Review well says, “we have found that which has convinced our judgment as much as it has sickened our heart.” If the black picture here presented were a faithful and true daguerreotype of Southern society, degraded in deed would be the South ; and no civilized people could mourn over her desolation. Such savage barbarism would justify a holy crusade against us; and the Christian na tions of Europe are recreant to the claims of God and man in neglecting so long to sweep through our borders with fire and sword. It is useless for us to deny the false and calumnious charges of the American anti-slavery Society. It is true that slaves are sometimes murdered by their mas ters, but not more frequently than children arc murder ;ed by their parents. It is true that slaves are some times dreadfully abused and maltreated by their mas ters, but not more frequently than apprentices are abused and maltreated by theirs, in the city of West minster. We are absolutely amazed at the unblushing falsehoods of our revilers, and of the gullibility of the Public, foreign and domestic. Did it never occur to these men that self-interest, with most men, is the controlling motive? that slaves are bought be cause their labor is valuable ? that a well-fed and kindly u.-_ed man is more able to make wages than a poor, starved, maimed, scarred creature ? AA T hy, horses and dogs are not used as badly in the South as the abolitionists say the slave is. Has it never occurred to these fanatics that strong and life-long attnehments are formed between slaves and their masters, dating back to the days of early boyhood, when they played a.nd romped together by moon-light, and all distinction ot color was wholly unknown, which results in after lite in filial obedience on the part of the slave and pa ternal solicitude on the part of the master ? Indeed, it is common tor slaves to descend from fath er to sou for generations, and it is not at all uncommon to find slaves now in the same family to whom their ancestors were sold by the British slave-traders. We may as well once, for all, assert that next to his own family, a Southern man’s nearest and dearest friends are his slaves. We trust them with our money and our keys; we place our wives and children under their protection. All the horrid fears which, in the excited imaginations of abolitionists, disturb the slumbers of the master, are purely imaginary. We Ive in peace and quiet on our plantations, we sleep with our doors and windows open, and fear no evil. But we are repeating a twice told tale. i , The Westminster Review boldly advocates an urges upon the South the emancipation of the blacks. Tins, certainly, fen very impudent recommendation in the face of the experiment in Jamaica; and the damning fact, that most of ilie so called ltee either have or are attempting to pass laws forbidding free negroes to imigrate into them. But we will not pursue this subject further. M e de sire merely to call the attention of the public to the abolitionism of the Review , and to proscribe it as a bad book for circulation in the South ; and more espe cially to condemn the notice which we clip from the Savannah Courier ! “The Westminster Review, tor January, has been hand ed us by Col. Williams. It is needless to say anything in praise of this conservative periodical. The present num ber has very interesting articles on Daniel Webster, Histo ry and Ideas of the Mormons, American Slavery and Emancipation by the free States, Mary ludor, ar.d tie condition and prospects of Ireland.” We cannot believe that the Editor of that Journal was aware of the character of the Review , or of the very objectionable character of the article under review. The Westminster is not conservative , but destructive and radical. It is certainly needless to say anything in praise of it, unless Southern men wish to sow the seeds of abolitionism in the South. M e hope our pub lic journals wi'l be more particular in their complimen tary notices *f periodicals. More Galphinism. Towards the end of last month, General Houston was placed at the head of a committee, instructed to ex- | amine into charges of fraudulent practices in the erec- j tion of the new wings of the capital, The Union says j that, acceordingto the evidence, inferior materials have j been used and their use concealed ; defects in the work j have been covered over ; government property misap- ! plied ; implements and laborers used for private pur- j poses ; an extensive system of embezzlement acted out, by which large sums of money have been drawn for | work never rendered; and laborers have been employ- I ed at extravagant wages, under the agreement that they 1 ! should give up a large portion of those wages after they ; were drawn from the pay agent. This system has been s carried to such an extent, we are informed, as to swin -1 die the government out of about three hundred tliou ! sand dollars —one half of the entire appropriation. If I this be true, there has been no parallel to this fraud in the history of our government; for it is formed of a larger number of items, extending over a longer period of time, and convicts a larger number of individuals of carelessness and corrupt practices, than any wlf.eli has preceded it. We hope to be able, in a few days, to lay the evidence which lias been adduced before the Com mittee of Investigation before our readers. We are | unwilling to begin its publication until we can continue jit regularly. Surely no civilized country lias been out i raged by such an administration as that which has, since the 4th of March, 1849, alternately mortified the pride of the nation and outraged the public morality by an alternation of imbecility and fraud, unrelieved by a single instance of manly efficiency or sterling integrity. Temperance Movement in Muscogee. At a meeting hold in ibis city a few days ago, the following named gentlemen were appointed delegates to the Temperance Convention, to be held in Atlanta on the 22<1 inslant: Messrs. Dr. A. M. Walker, Hon. G. E. Thomas, Dr. M. Woodruff, J. Early Hurt, Dr. Jno. J. Boswell, N. Nuckolls, James M, Chambers, Rev. J. E. Evans, Rev. Thos. F. Scott, Dozter Thornton, and Dr. Lovick Pierce. Temperance Movement in Harris. At a meeting held in Hamilton, Harris county, the following named gentlemen were appointed d< legates to the Atlanta Temperance Convention : Rev. J, G. Cotton, Rev. J. J. Little, J. E. Borders, Dr. P. T. Trammell, Jere. Reese, Rev. W. Mosely, F. J. H. Per ry, Cos!. C. B. Black, A. DeLoaoh, “W. B. Stribling, C. Carter, H. Kimbrough, Geo. A. B. Dozier, T. J. Dozier, J. A. Collier, J. McGehee, L. Pratt, W. Pru itt, Dr. Pitts, Rev. W. Snell, Dr. E. E. Hood, Wm. Worrell, W. E. Farley, Rev. W. D, Atkinson, Mr. Everett on the Fishery Question. The President lias communicated to Congress a let ter from the Secretary of State in regard to the pro gress of the negotiations with Great Britain for the set tlement of the Fishery Question. Mr. Everett thinks the Fishery Question might be easily settled upon terms satisfactory to both parties. The proposition is to give to American fishermen a general freedom of fishery on the waters of the British colonies, and also the permission to dry and prepare their fish on the adjacent coasts, on condition that like privileges be granted to British colonists on our coasts, and that the products of the British fisheries be ad mitted to our markets free of duty. Small Pox in Oglethorpe. We regret to learn that the Editor of the Demcarat is confined to his room by a severe attack of small pox. We are somewhat surprised to find in the same pa per in which the announcement is made, a certificate from three physicians that there is no case of small pox in Oglethorpe. They pronounce the disease merely an aggravated form of chicken pox. The democratic Review. | Mr. Sanders, the fast, Editor of this fast journal, has run his race in fast time, and offers to sell it. We hope a slow man, with better bottom, will become the purchaser. The American Giant Girl. M e visited this young Lady during her stay in this city- She is the largest mass of flesh we ever loosed . upon, and conies fully up to the description given of her in the bills. Admirers of the strange and monstrous productions of nature, will be gratified with a sight of her. O’ The Mississippi Democratic State Convention, to nominate State officers and a member of Congress will meet in Jackson on the Ist Monday in May next. 0“ Twelve hundred men are now employed on the Ohio and Mississippi Rail Road. O” The Town Council of Milledgeville have invited Mr. Fillmore to visit them, and tendered him the hos pitalities of the city. Gov. Foote, of Mississippi, has offered reward of S3OO for the apprehension and delivery to the sheriff of Warren county, ot W esley Wallace, who stands charged with the murder of a negro man belonging !o Gen. G. D. Mitchell, wiioe overseer W aiiace was. It was first ttiought that the negro was killed by a log roliii g over li m ; but the corner’s inquest has fix a i the charge of murder on Wallace, who has fled, lie i j fro n North Carolina, and is supposed to be making his way back there. 1; The number of communicants in the Florida Confer ence of the Methodist E. Church, as ,shown by statistics submitted at the session of the Conference, is 5,567 whites, 3,534 colored—making in all, 9,184. Increase the past year, 680. Number of local preachers, 83. Col. Charles A. May, of the U. S. Army, was married in New York, outlie Bth inst. to Miss Josephine, daugh ter of George Law, Esq., the well known steamship owner. Under the head of “Bills introduced,” in the offi cial report of proceedings in the Indiana Legisla ture, tve notice the following hint to those concern ed, on the subject of “extending the area of social relations “By Dr. McDonald of Louisiana, a bill to com pel old bachelors of thirty years of age to marry, nr pnv a fine of SSO a year into the treasury, to go to the benefit of the first lady who shall marry after the first of January. The provisions of the bill apply to widowers of one year’s standing,” The ways of the transgressor are hare. Grace Greenwood. — The last bit. of gossip trom Italy mentions the probable marriage ot Gmce Greenwood with a wealthy American, whom she | cap ured in Rome. • From the New York Herald. Highly Interesting from Washington. Gomjlele cabinet for Gen. Pierce—Nominations fer Foreign missions, Etc. Washington, Feb. 12, 1853. There has been for some days past, a good deal of tribulation amongst the hunkers and barnburners, bothin New York and in the dele gation here, in consequence of the statement of Mr. D. E. Sickles, who had been to Concor t, that General Pierce spoke very much as it he had determined to place Gov. Marcy, with the “patch,” in his cabinet. At the solicitation of the New York junta, even the barnbuners in. Congress united, day before yesterday, in a protest to General Pierce, couched in the strongest language, against Gov, Marcy’s nom ination. But a despatch received this morn ing has restored harmony: It appears that General Pierce has offered Mr, A, C, Flagg, the present able Comptroller of the city New York, the post of Secretary of the Treasury, and it has leaked out inconse quence of Mr Flagg’s consulting his friends as to his acceptance, and consequent resignation of the Comptrollership, The appoinment has : given unbounded satisfaction to the barnburn i ers delegation, who met in caucus this morn | ing upon it, 1 stated early in the winter that Gen. Cass had been asked to recommmend a Cabinet officer, and that he had presented Governor McClelland, of Michigan, for Postmaster Gen eral*. It is ascertained on unquestionable au thority that he has been offered the position, and also thatMr, Buchanan has performed a similar service, with like success, for Judge Campbell, of Pennsylvania, Here, then, with Mr. Cushing for the State Commodore Stock ! ton, of New Jersey, tor the Navy, M. Dobbin, ofNorth Carolina, for the War Department, the fog is removed beyond all doubt. A letter has been received from General Pierce stating that entire Cabinet is formed, and from Mr; Flagg's selection; it is evident it goes upon the basis of recognizing all shades of the party. The President has sent in several nomina tions for foreign missions. The Senate has determined not to act upon any of them.— Among the number is that of Theodoye Fay, Secretary of the Berlin Mission, charged to Switzerland. X. Y. Z. The First Congressional District. A correspondent writes to the Savannah Repub lican, from Montgomery county, as follows : “At the convention of the Constitutional Union party of this district held at Holraesville, on the 18th of June, 1851, it was resolved among other matters that the same party should meet in conven tion at that place, on the 18th of June 1853, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for member of Coni'r ss. That the party was too late in ’sl in bringing out its candidate, is, I think, sufficiently manifest. “Would it not, therefore, be wise in us to profit by that example, and hold our convention, and bring out our candidate at an earlier day—say first Mon day in April 1 In the convention ot 1851, many of the counties were not represented. This was owing in pa it to the season of the year m which the convention met. It. is a season when the time of planters are entirely absorbed in their farms, and if we wait until the crops are made it will be too late for the candidate to canvass the and strict, which isyio small job, owing to the size of it.” *This is tho first indication that we have seen of a purpose on the part of our opponents to run a candidate for the office of Representative from the first District. That they would oppose tho election of the Democrat c nominee, whether Col. Jackson or another, we have not doubted. It is even now uncertain what form the opposition is to take. Do our Whig friends intend to go into the canvass as Whigs or as Constitutional Union men 1 Wjllihe Republican inform us I The Democratic party will, of cour.~e, in due time— perhaps the earlier the better—have their candi date in the field. If Col. Jackson will consent to run, he will doubtless be accepted as the candidate by the unanimous voice of ihe Democracy of the District. Whether he can be induced to serve again we know not. He will doubtless, in due time, an nounce his purporse to his const.tuents. lu case he positively declines running, which we hope he will not do, it wiil then be necessary to assemble a con vent ion to make a nomination. The Democrats of New Hampshire. —The Democrats of New Hampshire, in Gen. Pierce’s own district, who lately nominated Geo. A. Morri son for Congress, in Convention adopted resolutions endorsing the resolutions recently ottered by Gen. Cass, in the Senate of the United Staley re-aflirm hg the Monroe doctiine. The Jury in the case of Cobb, another of the Jerry rescuers, have failed to agree, and been dis charged. Church for Deaf Mutes. — The Rev. Mr. Gal laudet, son of the late Mr. Gallaudet, of Hartford, Ci has commenced a Sunday service in the Uni versity Chapel, New York, for deaf mules. H s congregation now number ab<>ut sixty 5 and it is therp are not less than one hundred ed ucated mutes in the city. The plan is. to build a house, and organize a church of this interes ing alass of people. Trinity church has appropriated c handsome sum for the first yeaP- experiment. We were gratified to notice last evening the arrival in this city, of the Hon. Matthew Hall McAllister, in good health. Mr. McAllister has been absent from this city for nearly three years, during which period he lis resided at San Francisco, California. We learn that he will remain in Savannah for a few days, and then proceed to Washington City.— Sau. News Feb. 17th.