The Tri-weekly times and sentinel. (Columbus, Ga.) 1853-1854, February 25, 1853, Image 2

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    . A Victim of Love.
* Simon Girty, what brought you here?” said
the Mayor to an inebrated individual, this
morning, as he closed his trials.
“A watchman, please your Honor,” replied
Simon.
‘ What did he bring you fori”
“Ah, sir, that is more than I know. Since j
I have become a victim of ”
‘‘lntemperance 1”
4 ‘No, sir, not of intemperance, although I of- j
ten drown my sorrows in the bacchanalian
cup—but of love — of love sir — since I have be- j
come a victim of love, I trouble myselt but
little in regard to what becomes of me.”
“Are you in love, Simon!” j
4 Oh ! please, sir, don’t pierce my heart with j
such an inquiry ! lam a viciim—a heart-bro- i
ken victim to that strongest of all passions
which rakes the human heart.”
“Can you not tell us your tale of sorrow,
Simon?” kindly asked the Marshal, “we may
have it in our power to relieve you. Here
(pointing to the reporters) are a number of
gentlemen of the press, and If you only excite
their sympathies, they might do something for
you,”
“You|that have tears to shed prepare to shed
them now,” responded Simon, as he learned
against the table, as if he intended to tell a long
as well as sorrowful tale, ‘ You see gentle
men,” he proceeded, 4 that lam a fallen man.
The fire of energy no longer lights my eyes,
the rosy hue of health blooms not upon my
cheeks, and my hair is assuming the color of
old age. Gentlemen, lam the victim of love,
and would be obliged to one of you for a chaw
of tobacco.”
He wassupplied with the weed.
“Two years ago, I first met Mary Mayfield,
and oh ! heavens, how it makes my heart trem
ble to mention that name. S’he was matchless
in beauty, a queen in action, and was most
lovely to look upon. Ah ! gentlemen, need I
tell you that she stole my heart ? That my
whole soul was wrapped in her endearing charms
and that I forgot all things, saw nothing, felt
nothing, save sweet Mary Mayfield ! Driven by
desperation, I threw myself at her feet, begged
her to take me as her slave. Tears were in my
eyes, and bowed before her queenly person, \
felt utterly powerless. Imagine, gentlemen, my
compasion, my horror, my torment, when she
gave me a slight push with he delicate foot, and
said to me—‘Go ’ long , you dirty scrub you , aint
got money enough for this child ? ’’
Simon here covered his face with his hands
as it to hide his agony. Recovering in a few
moments, he proceeded :
“I instantly resolved to drown myself, and
proceeded at once to put my resolution into
operation. Having from my childhood days a
dread of the external application of cold water,
I resorted to the slower but more agonizing
mode of drowning myself by the internal ad
ministration of liquors more congenial to my
sense of feeling. I have drank, drank and drank,
but as yet have not succeeded. lam now out
of means, and if any of you gentlemen could
furnish me with the dimes to purchase a few
more drams, I think I will be able to accom
plish my purpose. Can't you lend a fellow a
picayune ?”
Parties and Fashions this Season.
The Home Journal discourses upon social
parties and fashions this winter, after the follow
ing manner:
Grand parties are less in vogue, while enter
tainments of a more domestic character, partak
ing of the “Come and spend the evening with
us,” with some of the features of the ball, are
greatly in favor both in New York and London.
Such parties are called in London and Paris,
“Thees dansantesf and they are recorded in the
Court Journal and Morning Herald with in
creasing frequency. The company assembles
rather early in the evening, tea is provided, but
no supper, and the affair is over by eleven o’clock.
Matinees —a kind of party which we admire less
than any other—are still in fashion. This exclu
sion of the cheering light of day, and the substi
tution of the sickly glare of gas, are in question
able taste, particularly in a country where eve
ry gentleman has, or is supposed to have, or at
least ought to have, something to do in the day
time. Dinner parties are more numerous than
formerly, and the dining hour recedes further to
wards the large hours of the evening. The
furniture and decorations of the dinner-table are
becoming truly regal in their costliness and
splendor, particularly the porcelain and plate.—
Republican simplicity is a phrase which finds no
illustration at the banquets of our “merchant
princes.” “Receptions” are the rage—ladies se
lecting a morning, gentlemen an evening, upon
which they are invariably “at home.” The
custom is, in some respects, a highly convenient
one, though it frequently becomes not a little
ridiculous, as it involves a question not always
easy of solution. The question is,—What de
gree of elevation in the world of fashion justifies
a lady, and what degree of consequence in the
world generally warrants a gentleman, in insti
tuting a weekly “Reception ?” A mistake on
this delicate point not unfrequentlv detains a la
dy “at home” in solitude, and deprives a gentle
man of entertainment abroad, which the non
reception of any guest at all, prevents his en
joying “at home.” Doubt on this point, howev
er, as in science, can be settled only by experi
ment. With regard to dress, splendor and mag
nificence are emphatically the order of the day.
Diamonds sparkle in every parte of the room ;
and there is far more variety, and perhaps origi
nality, in costumes, than we have ever before
observed. We fancy that Madame Sontag’s
example may have had an influence in this heigh
tened taste tor magnificence; also the unprece
dented number of ladies who have visited Eu
rope, within the last year or two.
The kind of dancing which has beenjoeoselv
styled the “affectionate,” is getting into disrepute,
and the more formal and elaborate dances of the
olden time are returning to favor. We trust the
insipid polka and the sehottisch will not be much
longer preferred in good circles. Unless we are
greatly deceived, society is becoming more re
fined, more easy, and more rational. The
“Lorgnette” was not written in vain. There is 1
a decided inclination to earlier hours, less eating I
aud drinking, more conversation, and smaller’
companies.”
An English gentleman attached to the Em
bassy a t Madrid, sought the hand of the Coun
tless leba, and was so confident of success,
that he offered to bet five to one that she would
refuse Louis Napoleon !
Wiiat is a Sxob. —Thackeray, in one of his
lectures, said there were not as many snobs in
this country as in his, but there were some. If
the reader will follow us through his definition
of a snob, and then look round upon the com
munity, he will begin to think that the class is
“large and respectable.” Said Thackeray :
“ A Snob is that man or woman who are
always pretending, before the world, to be some
thing better—especially richer or more fashion
able —than they really are. It is one who thinks
his own position in life contemptible, and is al
ways yearning and striving to force himself in
to one above, without the education or charac
teristics which belong to it ; one who looks
down upon, despises, and over-iides his infe
riors, or even equals, of his own standing, and
is ever ready to worship, fawn upon, and flatter
a rich or titled man, not because he is a good
man, a wise man, or a Christian man ; but be
cause he has the luck to be rich or consequen
tial.”
(Tljetlxwcs mtfr Smimd
~ COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 25, 1853.
The Incoming Administration—What we may
Expect.
We confess that the incoming of anew administra
tion fills us with unalloyed pleasure, as it leads us to
hope that the ship of State will be put on the old Re
publican track ; that corruption will hide its horrid vis
age from public view ; that economy will be introduced
into the departments ; that the rights of the States will
be respected 5 that the power, patronage and influence
of the Federal Government will be curtailed ; that abo
litionism will be rebuked and silenced in its senseless
clamor ; that the conservative principles of State Rights
Democracy will control the administration ; that the
sterling republicanism of Monroe will guide our con
duct with foreign nations and rebuke the insolence of
despotism. If this shall be the case, then can a South
ern man hold up his head and feel again his manhood.
Nor are the signs unpropitious. Gen. Pierce is a
Repubtocan without a spot on his escutcheon. Pie nev
er gave a vote which tended to enlarge the sphere of
the Federal Government, or to circumscribe the power
or lessen the dignity of the States. Pie has, consistent
ly and sternly, resisted all extravagant expenditures.
He has exposed his own person to the bullets of the
foes of his country, and will not shrink from collision
with foreign nations if the honor or interests of tl?e
Union demands a resort to arms. He chose Hunter,
of Virginia, for his Premier, from the long array of dis
tinguished men who aided in his election, and would
have been proud to link their names with the glories
of his administration. Cushing, of Massachusetts, and
Davis, of Mississippi, will probably be members of his
Cabinet—names as distinguished in the Senate as they
are terrible in the field—and who will as sternly oppose
the advances of Federalism, of Abolitionism, of corrup
tion in the Government, as did the gallant Mississippi
regiment stem the tide of battle at Buena Vista.
The only cloud of doubt which blackens this fair hor
izon, is the Flagg of freesoilism which hangs upon the
horizon of New York. And even if this one undistin
guished and influential freesoiler shall, under a mistaken
policy, be allowed a seat in the Cabinet, we may still
congratulate the country upon our happy deliverance
from the rule ©f Scott, under whom, in all human
probability, a majority of the heads of Departments
would have been freesoilers and some of them down
right abolitionists.
The 4th of March will put an end to these specula
tions, and turn our rejoicings into weeping or confirm
our most sanguine expectations. Till then, let us rest
in hope.
Washington Rumors;
The correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says, that
the selection of Caleb Cushing, as Secretary of State,
gives general satisfaction.
Mr. Flagg, he says, has informed his friends that he
has been offered the Treasury Department, and has
consulted them upon the expediency of accepting it.
YVe publish, in another column, an extract from the
Savannah Courier , in which the nomination of Mr.
Flagg is highly approved, and he is said to be free from
the taint of Abolitionism. The Sun’s correspondent
is of a very different opinion. He says: “This selec
tion is resisted, and the nomination, if made, will proba
bly be rejected by the Senate. Neither the State Rights
or Hunker Democrats of the Senate will advise and
consent to this nomination.
“Mr, Flagg was a free-soiler upon principle and con
viction, whereas Mr. Dix was a free-soiler from policy,
Mr. Flagg led his party, while Mr. Dix followed it,
Mr, Flagg is honest in his course, though Mr.
Dix might be willing to compromise his principles
and abandon his free-soilism. If Mr, Dix was strongly
objected to, on account o{ his free-soilism, it is not like
ly that it will be considered a recommendation of Mr.
Flagg. It is admitted that Mr. Flagg is a man of in
tegrity and some abilities, though an old fogy sexa
genarian.”
Telegraph to the Pacific,
Mr. Henry O’Reilly proposes to erect a line of tele
graph from St. Louis to San Francisco, without any
compensation from the government either in land or
money.
His plan is for the government to establish a chain of
stockades from St. Louis to the Pacific, twenty miles
apart, and protected by United States dragoons. The
soldiers will convey the mail, and protect emigrant
trains. A line of telegraph is to be constructed on this
route by Mr. O'Reilly, without any compensation from
the government, either in land or money. This project
can be completed in a twelvemonth.
Cabinet Rumors Again.
The very latest Cabinet reports assume the following
shape : Secretary of State, Caleb Cushing; Secretary
of War, Jefferson Davis; Post-Office. R. McClelland ;
Interior, James Guthrie, —which are regarded nearly
certain. The Treasury lies between Messrs. Marcy,
Flagg and Dix ; the Navy between Com, Stockton and
James C. Dobbin ; and the Attorney Generalship be
tween Judges Campbell and Black.
W. B, Wynn not Dead.
The Florida Sentinel , by mistake, published the
death of the Senator from Calhoun before his time had
come. We are very much gratified to see him in our
city, this week, quite as well as usual, though a little
saddened by the melancholy news from Tallahassee.
Our friends in Florida will be pleased, also, to learn
that they may still command the servioes of a distin
guished citizen in the office he has adorned.
The Escape of Mrs. White.
We learn through Dr. Green, the Superintendent,
that Mrs. White, formerly of this city, has made her
escape from the Asylum by means of a rope-ladder,
which she manufactured secretly. She is still derang
ed and is as desperate as ever. The community may
look out for her arrival.
Thirty Negroes for Sale.
Our readers will notice in our advertising col
umns, that Messrs. Howard, Sons & Cos. will sell, on
the first day of March , in front of C. S. Harrison &
Co.’s Auction Rooms, in this city, thirty likely negroes,
some for cash and some on time. A more favorable
time to purchase this kind of property will hardly again
occur this season.
Destructive Fire in Charleston.
Charleston, Feb. 20, P. M.
A fire broke out at 3 o’clock this morning at the
Northeast corner of King and Mary streets, by which
Cook’s Grocery Store, Ilafkenschield’s Bar-room, in
the same building, and Hummel’s Apothecary store,
were consumed. Cook’s building was also insured.
Mr. Cook was insured S4OOO on his groceries in the
Agency of the Protection Insurance Company', and S2OOO
on the building in the South Carolina Insurance Com
pany. The bar-room was insured for SSOO in the
South Carolina Mutual Insurance Company. John
Tolle’s building, occupied by Mr. Hummel, was insured
for $1,500 in the South Carolina Mutual Insurance
Company, Mr. Hummel’s stock was insured. Mr.
Cook's dwelling was insured in the South Carolina of
fice for SIOOO, the full amount necessary for repairs.
The front of the building on the northeast corner of
King and Morris streets, owned and occupied by Levi
Moses, is much charred. The building is insured in
the Georgia Mutual Insurance Company'.
Mr. F. A. Bonneau, clerk of the Board of Fire Mas
ters, and Mr. T. 11. Whitney, Fire Master, was injured,
but not seriously.
Letter from Oxford, Ga.
Emory College—lts Progress and Prosperity—Judge
Ijongstreet y <Jc.
Messrs. Editors : Do you never grow weary with
the noise and confusion of “the pent city where men
do congregate,” and long—if not with Cowper, for “a
lodge in some vast wilderness”—yet for a quiet sojourn
in some sequestered village, where you may enjoy both
the rus in urbe and the urbs in rure ? Does frolic
Fancy, while she essays in her sportive gambols to cheer
the flagging spirits of the men of “the scissors and the
quill,” never decoy you from your sanctum, and conduct
you to some such blissful retreat, where tranquility
reigns undisttrbed—the presiding genius of the sylvan
scene ? And when the printer’s call for u more copy ”
awakens you from the fond reverie, are you tempted to
abjure the wanton maid and “all her vagrant train”—
to deny that there is such an Elysium on earth—affirm
ing, with a sigh, that not in all the land of your idola
try —not in all the broad and sunny South—can such
a delightful spot be found ? If so, visit but once our
quiet town of Oxford, reposing in undisturbed calm
amid her forest groves, and tarry long enough among
her classic shades to imbibe the sweet and sacred in
fluences of the place ; and your correspondent pledges
that you will confess and deny not ; but confess that in
our own Empire State exists a village fully realizing the
poet’s idea—nay, outrivalling in attraction even Gold
smith’s fancied Auburn. But “the village of shade,”
unlike that of “the plain,” has found as yet no inspired
bard to publish its praises to an admiring world. We
indulge, however, the hope that its beauties will not
long remain unsung, How we would rejoice to be hon
ored with a visit from the accomplished Editress of the
Literary Department of the Times ts- Sentinel! Gifted
as she is, with a refined aud discriminating taste, and
readily susceptible of impressions from the beautiful in
both the physical and moral world, she could not, on
such an occasion, fail “to strike her harp.” We should
hear “entranced,” and our Oxford be “married to im
mortal verse-’’ In the notable phrase of the Masonic
Brotherhood, your correspondent exclaims, ex animo—
“so mote it be !”
Oxford is, as you are doubtless aware, the seat of
Emory College. This institution, founded in 1837,
owed not its origin to the millionary bequest of an in
fidel Girard, nor to the liberal donation of a pious Mer
cer. Its projectors, recognizing the necessity of its ex
istence, remembered the injunction of the Wise Man of
Old, and did not “despise the day of small beginnings.”
They commenced operations not only without an en
dowment for the support of but even with
out the necessary buildings for the use of the students.
But the enterprise was consecrated to God, and it lived
—lived through years of dark disasters—and lived to
bless the people who cherished and jwpported it, in sup
plying the country with cultivated minds—the children
of the coming generation with able teachers—the State
with worthy Legislators —the church with exemplary
Ministers, and the Missionary field with ardent and de
voted laborers. The Colleg* is now in full and success
ful experiment, and with no fear of future failure to
shackle its energies and retard its progress, bids fair
soon to rival the proudest institutions of the land. The
first President of Emory College was the Rev. Ignatius
A. Few—a man of vast erudition, but of child-like do
cility and sweetness of temper. The great statesman,
John C. Calhoun, was wont to say of him, that in va
riety and profundity of learning, he had, in his day, no
equal south of the Potomac. But, notwithstanding his
wonderful acquirements, he was a poor financier, and
fortunately for the College on this account, his adminis
tration was one of short duration. After his resigna
tion, Doctor Few removed to Athens, Ga., where he
deceased a few years since. At his request his re
mains were interred in the Oxford burial-ground. The
Masonic Fraternity of the State of Georgia have erected
a beautiful marble monument to his memory, which,
tastefully enclosed and suitably inscribed, constitutes an
imposing, and, at the same time, a chaste and appropri
ate ornament to the College ground. His successor to
the Presidency of the College was the Rev. Augustus
B. Longstreet, LL. D.—the politician and the lawyer,
the scholar and the Divine—a man of versatile genius,
simple manners and eccentric habits. An encyclope
dist in learning, he was an admirable critic in every
department of study. Accurate in his knowledge and
felicitous in its communication to his pupils, he was an
excellent teacher. Under his able supervision, the in
stitution rose rapidly in public favor. Attracted by his
fame, students flocked to the College from nearly, if not
all the Southern States, to listen to his teachings and
learn lessons of wisdom from the counsels that flowed
from his lips. Disciplined in mind and heart—trained
in intellect and morals by his wonderful skill and un
der his fostering care, annually went forth from the
halls of Emory, young men who were to become at
once ornaments and blessings to society. These are
and will continue to be his “epistles of commendation,”
and as “bright and burning lights in church and State,”
will speak his praises and green his memory long
after his venerable form shall have passed away from
earth and mingled with the dust of the valley! Ilis
honored name is one which his pupils “will not willing
ly let die.” In the summer of 1848, Judge Longstreet,
in obedience to what he deemed an imperious necessity,
resigned the office of President, and the Trustees im
mediately proceeded to supply the vacancy by the election
of the Rev. Geo. F. Pierce, D. D., to that important
trust. This was, without doubt, a judicious selection.
Insinuating in manners, and yet dignified in deport
ment, accomplished in person and yet more richly en
dowed in intellect, Dr. Pierce is one of the few gifted
beings, of whose genius fame is an inalienable birth
right, and of whose every enterprise success is the un
failing guerdon. Captivating without effort, and great
without exertion, the students love and obey, the coun
try honors and admires, and the church almost idolizes
this talented gentleman and eloquent divine, Under
his popular administration, Emory College has gone ou
from prospering to prosper until it has attained its pres
ent position. At the opening of the present term, one
hundred aitd thirty students crowded the College prop
er, the Preparatory Department numbers thirty or forty
more, and we are told “the cry is, still they come.”
With the village of Oxford and the prosperity of
Emory College are inseparably associated the name and
fame of yet another distinguished worthy of Georgia—
a great and good man, the honor of whose acquaintance
and friendship we have had the highly esteemed privi
lege of enjoying for many years, We allude to the
Professor of Physical Science, the Rev. Alexander
Means, A. M., M. D. Facile in manner, eloquent in
speech and kind in action, this accomplished gentleman
and Minister of God wins and retains the love and ad
miration of all, who are so happy as to come within the
sphere of his influence. An enthusiastic devotee at
the shrine of Religion and Science, the altar whereon
were laid the earliest offerings of his genius; and with-
al, modest and unassuming as he is gifted and good,
Dr. Means has uniformly declined to ocoupy other posts
of honor than those which he has so long and ably
filled. A nomination of Representative of this District
in the American Congress, has, if we are not mistaken,
been more than once tendered him, and the Trustees
of Emory College have repeatedly solicited his accep
tance of the Presidency of the Institution, of which he
has been an abiding pillar of support and a constant
ornament from its earliest infancy to the present hour.
Prompted by motives of duty and impelled by the force
of circumstances, the gifted Professor, endowed with
every quality of mind and heart to adorn either station,
has resisted the importunities of devoted friends, and
continued with untiring zeal to investigate the arena of
science and unfold the strains of unrivalled eloquence,
“the laws which lead from Nature up to Nature’s
God.”
There are other residents of our wood-land village,
who are not unknown to fame, and whose characters
and lives are well worthy of a sketch from a more
graphic pen than that of your correspondent. The citi
zens generally are noted for their piety and intelligence,
and are eminently sociable and hospitable. There are
in all some 45 or 50 families—not dwelling together in
a crowded space of a few acres, but scattered over an
area extending from three-quarters of a mile in one
direction to half a mile in the other. The streets are
broad and adorned with shade trees of native growth.
Each lot has its grove of forest trees, and when Spring,
“veiled in a shower of shadowing roses, on our plains
descends,” or ardent summer crowns the world with
glory and beauty, no lovelier village can be found than
our own rural Oxford. SIGMA.
Col.CincinnnatusTrousdale, nephew we believe of Gov.
Trousdale,"bf Tennessee, died at Helena, Arkansas,’ on
the 3d inst., after a long and painful illness, aged thirty
two years. lie was a native of Tennessee, but had re
sided in Arkansas eleven years, where he had won high
position as a lawyer and at an exemplary citizen. He
served with distinction in the Mexican war and was
honorably mentioned in the official reports of tke battle
of Buena Vista.
Carolina Liberality. —The Charleston Mercury an
nounces that the City Council have liberally contributed
the sum of SIO,OOO, towards the building of a Hall of
Exhibition for the South Carolina Institute, and also an
additional sum of fifteen thousand dollars, as a loan for
the same purpose. This, together with the sum of
$lO ,000 previously granted by the State, is deemed am
ply sufficient to carry out the contemplated design.
National Prize Poem. —R. W. Latham, Esq., the
Well known banker of Washington city, publishes a card
in the Washington Union of Saturday last, in whioh he
offer* a prize of SSOO for the best national poem, ode or
epic, to be determined by a committee of gentlemen,
comprising the President of the United State*, members
of the Senate, House of Representatives, press and clergy,
of Washington city.
o*The Supreme Court of Georgia was opened in this
city on Monday morning, and adjourned over to Tues
day, by Judge Nisbet, on account of the non-arrival
of J*dges Lumpkin and Warner. On Tuesday morn
ing all the judges were in attendance, and proceeded
with the business of the term. There are thirty-two
cases on docket, and the Court will be in session pro
bably for two weeks. —Journal Messenger.
Mr. Randall, of Athens county, Ohio, has recovered
a verdict in the Superior court at Cincinnati, of $1,500
damages against the New Orleans Telegraph Company,
for personal injuries caused by his being thrown out of
his carriage, the horses having taken fright at the tele
graph wires, which had fallen across the road.
Two monks of the Order of St. Benoit—MM. Ulrick
Christine de Strauz and Beda Conner-—have left their
convent of Notre Dame d’Einsiedten, at Paris, to go to
New York. They are called to the State of Indiana,
to establish a convent in the same style as that in Switz
erland.
Gov. Reid, of North Carolina, has appointed Hon.
Jas. C. Dobbin, U. S. Senator, in place of Mr. Mangum,
whose term expires on the 4th of March. The Legis
lature failed to make a choice at the recent session.—
The validity of the appointment will, it is said, be con
tested.
The Louisiana Conference of the M. E. Church South,
at its recent session, reported a membership of 4,872
whites, and 4,790 colored. Its missionary contributions
amount to upwards of sll,ooo—which is considerably
over $2 for every member within its bounds.
Col. Jack Hays, of “Texas Ranger” notoriety, now
sheriff of San Francisco, is a passenger on the steamship
Ohio, now due at New Yoak. He is en route for Tex
as, the old scene of his daring exploits, via Wash
ington.
’.The Raleighy,(N. G.) Standard , of Wednesday,states
“on the very best authority, that Gov. Reid has made
no appointment of a Senator tosuceeel Mr. Mangum.”
Census of Stewart County.— The census of Stewart
county for 1852 is as follows:
Total number of whites, 9gig
Slaves, 8081
Free persons of color, 7
Lunatics, 3
Deaf and dumb, 3
Gen. Blake has returned to Washington from Florid a
It is understood that he anticipates no serious difficulties,
with the Indians.
The new Code of Alabama requires every planter to
have his initials, and the initials of his county, upon every
bale of cotton he sends from his gin.
A curiosity, in the shape of natural “gas works,” has
been discovered in Holmes county, Ohio.
Mr. Micou, of Louisiana, has been nominated to the
vacant Judgeship on tire Supreme Bench by Mr. Fill
more.
General Pierce's Movements. —General Pierce is
staying in Philadelphia, and will no* reach Washington
before Monday, 21st.
England. —Viscount Melbourne is dead.
The venerable Bishop Soule left Nashville on
the 9th inst. for California.
[From the Charleston Courier-] ,
Washington, Feb. 16.
We have rumors of General Pierce’s Cabinet
arrangements, every day, and they are very con
tradictory. The truth may be that nothing is
yet definitely settled. Mr. Flagg and all other
freesoilers are abandoned, and the New-Yorkers
here offer to bet that General Marcy will re
present New-York in the Cabinet. Others again
believe that Mr. Hunter is to change his deter
mination, and accept the Department of State.
In this case, it is said that Mr. Cushing will take
the post of* Attorney General. Mr. Campbell,
of Penn., Mr- McLelland, of Michigan, Mr.
Dobbin, of North-Carolina, and Mr. Jefferson
Davis, of Mississippi, are all talked of as promi
nent candidates for places in the Cabinet.
The nomination of Mr. Micou, of Louisiana,
for the vacant seat on the bench of the Supreme
Court will be laid on theftable. Mr. Campbell,
of Mobile, a Democratic State Rights man, is
recommended by the Democratic representatives
of nearly all the Southern States in Congress,
to Gen. Pierce, for the vacancy. Although Mr.
Dennis has been also recommended for the sta
tion, it is thought that Mr. Campbell will be the
nominee of Gen. Pierce. The Northern Senators
say that they will not vote for him, and to avoid
the difficulty would prefer to confirm Mr. Bad
ger.
General Pierce is to be here on Monday. He
sent for General Shields to meet him in New
York, and the General is there accordingly.-
This is supposed to show that the Cabinet is not
yet settled.
Washington, Feb. 17.
The Pacific Rail-Road bill reported by Gen
eral Rusk, finds so much favor in the Senate,
that it will probably pass that body to-morrow.
The bill is defective in detail and will be found
impracticable. Still, so strong is the feeling in
favor of some measures for the establishment
of a road, through our own Pa
cific, and so many the difficulties of maturing a
better plan than Gen. Rusk’s, that the Senate
will take it as it is. The House, acting under
the same influences, may also pass the bill.
Capitalists will be found, in the present plentiful
condition of the money market, to subscribe for
the stock, the Company availing themselves of
the loan of twenty millions from the govern
ment, and of a liberal donation of public lands
on the line of the road.
The bill would have passed the Senate to
day, had not its own friends occupied too much
time in its support.
Still the road will not be immediately com
menced under this bill. It will require a year or
more for the President to obtain a survey and
location of the road in conformity with the act.
The Cabinet—A, C, Flagg.
If tiie latest Cabinet conjecture be well found
ed, New York States still to be represented in
the Executive Councils. Mr. A. C. Flagg would
honor any Cabinet He has long been known
as a safe and skilful financier, an honest, plain
republican. We believe he is a native of North
tahlUhTd \ ’ !n P i attsbur g’ h e first es
tablished himself as an editor. With an ex
tended acquaintance among the people his im
fluence grew. He was returned to the Assem
bly. We believe it was then he became ac
quainted with the lamented Silas Wright with
whom lmwaß on terms of intimacy to the day
of his death. Mr. Flagg, as Comptroller, had
the management of the finances of New York
during a long and critical period. After leaving
Albany he was chosen cashier of the Hudson
Kiver Railroad, but some jealousy arising, he
resigned his post. He has been living the last
three years quite retired. We believe the finan
ces ot our country can safely be trusted to his
honesty and ability. He has been tried in re
sponsible positions, is not involved in the far
turns of New York, is a plain repVblicm, Tot
ashamed to confess that he was once a poor
wood-chopper. We hope the day is not diitanl
when such hard-working, unpretending men
true servants of the people, shall be placed in
responsible positions at Washington. We might
not then be reminded from time to time of ivhai
that Mr.Flagg V Frfeso!ler° r °This webXeve
:^sii^r onal and
otVer“o7thf ,^ £oe *-T h ® Richmond En
werJt/ u 6? Suffer,n S from want of food, and
Zr ° PrOCUIe vvork - Three others,
who ran off at the same time, were also anx
l.° returii > but were prevented by the abo
litionists, who forcibly detained their children.”