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From the Savannah Courier.
Letter from Abroad*
Rome, Dec. 26,1852.
Teeterda? being Christmas I had the pleasure
•f seeing die Pope. I had seen him many times
before, but never in important functions. He is
a good-natured, pleasant looking man and repu
ted to be so among the people by whom he is
much loved. The liberality of the government
fa 1848 is credited to him ; its returning despot
ism to the influence of others who overruled him.
It may be doubted if he have the wisdom, decis
ion and nerve necessary to a good ruler. His
goodness, love and sympathy with all men make
him unsafe and imprudent. All say that, did it
depend upon him, the people would have every
thing they desire. He is thought to have very
little to do with the present government. The
Cardinal Antonelli, Secretary of State, a pale,
•ilent, thoughtful man is the ruling spirit.
The Pope apparently fifty years of age, about
five feet nine inches high, of full habit and round
fat face. If it have an v expression it is that of
extreme good nature and simpleness of heart.—
Worldly cares are doubtless irksome to him.
He is precisely what you would expect a good |
man to be who, as priest, bishop and cardinal,
had spent his life in close retirement in the little
town of Sinigaglia. His election was so unani
mouee that, considering each vote in the holy
Conclave was giving without the knowledge of
the other, it is quite miraculous. The Pope was
oeither rich nor of high birth and, a plain, simple
man, makes no claim to aristocratic pretensions,
flis family relatives and early friends and neigh
bora, however, ara said to be ambitious and con
tinually pressing him to do something to put
them on an equality with those of other Pope’s.
Though kind, he is said to be quite unwilling to
indulge them in a course of fashionable folly
and profligacy. He has, however, done much
for his native town in encoraging shools and
Mtablishing a college.
The lommon Popal dress is a white flannel
gown, with sieves of the same material, not un
like a morning-wrapper, and fastened around
the waist with a wollen cord. The stockings
are of coarse wollen also, white and well knit.
The shoes are of good thick leather fastened
with a buckle and marked with the sign of the
Cross. His head is shaved in token of prest
hood. A small skull cap covers the part shav
ed. St. Peter’s ring is on his finger and the
keys of heaven and hell hang from his side.—
The whole wardrobe of his holiness would not
®ost fife dollars. This is his common daily
dress when receiving visitors and meeting the
Conclave in his Cabinet. He drives out each
afternoon, escorted by outriders and a troop of
horse. The Cardinal Antonelli is generally
with him, also his private Chaplain and Secreta
ry. All poople seeing or hearing the Papal
eortege coming, kneel and with bare heads bow
1 6 the earth till it is past. The Pope blesses the
erowd on one side with two fingers; the Cardi
nal Antonelli salutes those on the other with a
gracious bow. His Holiness is very fond of the
oountry. I suppose when a few miles out he
descends from the carriage and picks flowers
tnd does like other men. He is said to be a
good botanist.
The proper state dress of the Pope is very
gostly. The triple crown is the richest known.
It is in shape like a cone and has three circles of
precious stones, set in a ground of white silk.—-
In the entire one is very costly ruby, though not
so large as that in Queen Victoria’s; in the up
per circle a precious amethyst. The robe is of
white silk very richly embroided and flowing
gracefully to the ground. The train is carried
by two or four priests, sometimes by Cardinals.
Sis slippers are of white silk, richly worked
aad marked with the sign of the Cross.
From the N. Y. Evening Post.
The Art ol Social Intercourse.
Oar author lays down, as a general principle,
to “avoid the appearance of form.” The tone
of modern society is easy and unceremonious.
Never undertake to go through with a bit of
fine manners when the intention is transparent
one should be natural, acting always as if one
could not have done otherwise. Perhaps the
great secret of a good manner is to forget your
self. Conspicuous people must find it hard to
•void awwkardness. One formality is practised
in this favored land to a fearful extent. The
further south you go, the worse it is. We mean
that of introducing. Smith of Mississippi, meets
his friend Brown of Alabama,walking with Jones
of Tennessee. Brown instantly cries, “Mr.
Smith, Mr. Jones of Tennessee!” They ad
vance, shake hands, fall back and touch their
beavers. Come, gentlemen, let’s take a drink!
What shall it be ? All drink. Jones then sees
Thompson approaching—Mr. Smith, Mr.Thomp
son, of Texas—more shaking of hands, more
tWching of beavers, more drinking, and so on
through the entire thirty States. A traveller
ftnee told me that he had undergone fourteen in
troductions and fourteen invitations to “liquor”
in one evening at a club in a southern city- At
the north, he gets off by the shake of the hand—
another odious custom. The hand should never
be given except to a friend or a pretty woman.
“The true rule is never to introduce unless there
is an express reason for making two people ac
quainted.”
We must add, on our own authority,
that present is the proper word for this kind of
aequaintance-making.
The MS. is discursive on the subject of con
jugal relations. We will quote an extract or
t*o:
<# A bachelor is a person who enjoys every thing
and who pays for nothing. Nevertheless, most
men marry, at least in this country. Being
married, they should never trouble the enjoy
ment of the bachelor by fondling their wives in
his presence, or bestowing any manner of pub
lic tenderness upon them. There is nothing in
worse taste. The bystanders are sure to be
either envious or unhappy, for it is a bitter thing,
as Shakspeare tells us, to look at happiness
through another man’s eyes; or they think the
sentiment misplaced, and are disgusted. Every
Benedict should economize the exuberance of
his affection, and keep it to sweeten tete-a-tetes.
He will want it before he gets to the end.”
And we add our directions to the •‘afflicted,’’
•ever to talk about Mrs. in public, nor about
any other near relative. It is a secondary form
of egotism, and equally repulsive.
*Th system of making a parade or proces*
sion of a marriage; going to Philadelphia in a
white bonnet, wearing orange flowers and bridal
lace to balls after the wedding, is unmercifully
quizzed by French people. I think with great
justice. It is very well for John when he mar
ries Susan, to take her to Jersey City and back,
for a “pleasure ride,” as the Westerners call it,
to sit with her hand in his all the way over and
back again, but gentlemen ought to know better
and stay at home,
“But the way, too, my countrymen, when you
send out your wedding cards, do not put your
name and hers in the left hand corner of the
paste board—as if you had entered into a com
mercial arrangement, and wish to give the names
of the firm.
“If a man has to convey his wife and mother
in-law, (poor fellows!) thereby making what is
called in Massachuseetss, a Lynn couple, “two
, gals and a feller,” let him beware of offering an
arm to each, and walking sandwitch between
them. An offence against appearance which
could not be tolerated, even in a serious male,
accompanying two strong minded sisters from
an anniversary meeting at the Tabernacle.
“The French have a happy phrase for this me
thod ; they call it going en panler. The allusion
is to the ass between his two loaded baskets.”
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1 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
SATURDAY EVENING, FEB 26, 1853.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Telegraphed Expressly for the Times & Sentinel.
Mobile, Feb. 26, 4 o’clock, P. M.
New Orleans Market.— Sales yesterday 14,000 bales;
market closing firm. The demand to-day has been limit
ed. Sales up to 1, P. M. amount to 1000 bales. We quote
Middling at 9c.
Mobile. —Mr. Sands, post office clerk, who was prose
cuted by the government on a charge of embezzlement,
was released this morning, and O. S. Bears, Postmaster,
has been arrested; examination takes place on the 14th
March.
Cotton Market. —The enquiry has been light— 2000
bales sold at prices a little easier.
The Southern School Journal.
The second number of this inestimable Journal is
on our table. We use a strong adjective, for no other
will convey our meaning. In a Republican Govern
ment, the education of the people is a matter of indis
pensable necessity. The people, whether educated or
uneducated, moral or immoral, pious or wicked, are the
depositaries of all power. Our lives, our liberties, our
property, are iu their keeping. They pass upon them
at the ballot box ; they give them or take them in the
jury box. Go where you will and you are in the hands
of the people. They press upon you in all the avenues
of life—in trade, in business, in social intercourse, in
the court room, in the legislative hall, they give “form
and pressure” to all the issues of life. Our families,
our school houses, our churches, cannot be elevated
above the reach of the people. They constitute public
opinion, of which we may well say the highest is not too
exalted to brave its power, nor the lowest too abject to
escape its notice. It envelopes us like the circumam
bient air. A debased people ! how terrible in anger ;
how mean in calamity; how grovelling in lusts , how
abject in purpose ! To-day they will parade the head
of a monarch on a pike ; to-morrow they will kiss the
foot of a victorious despot; to-day—but read the history
of the reign of terror in France, and learn to dread a
debased people.
It is the fashion in this country to attribute all vir
tue, all wisdom, all purity, to the people ; and none are
more ready to do so than the heartless demagogue
who makes no pretension to either. Os course there
are many good and many wise men in the U. States ;
but it is a lamentable truth, that there are a great many
bad and silly people between the two oceans. Indeed,
there is an amount of ignorance at the South which is
alarming. In our own State of Georgia, containing in
her borders 408,694 white inhabitants, there are about
50,000 who can neither read nor write; and only 24,-
061 pupils in all the schools and colleges in the State
or something less than 1-7 of the children between 5
and 20 years of age. This is ample guaranty that the
race of uneducated and ignorant people will not decrease
iu the State unless she put her shoulder to the wheel
of public education and propel it to a successful issue
with the indomitable purpose which sent the steam en
gine from the seaboard to the mountains.
Let us compare the condition of Georgia with that
of Massachusetts and New York.
The amount expended by the State of Georgia per
annum, for the education of the people, is $23,096. The
amount expended by the State of New York per an
nam, for the same purpose, is $1,681,316. In Geor
gia, there are only 1-7 of the children between 5 and
20 years of age who are receiving the benefits of an
education. In New York 1-4 of the entire popula
tion are receiving the education that is to fit them to
perform their duties as eitizens of the Republic. And
in Massachusetts, it was the boast of Gov. Clifford, in
his last message, that there was “no child of the two
hundred thousand living within her borders who mav
not, and there are few who do not, receive in the com
mon schools of the State, the rudiments of a common
education at the public charge.” It is thus apparent
that Georgia is literally doing nothing for the education
of her children, worthy of her high character, and that
her present system is utterly inadequate for the wants
of her people.
What shall or can be done ? This is the great and
important question which the Southern School Journal
proposes to answer. We must know what our wants
are; what are the defects of our system ; what other
States have done in the cause ; and what success has
crowned their efforts. On all these important points
we have found very valuable information in the two
numbers of the Journal which have been issued ; and
look with confidence to the subsequent numbers for a
full and complete developement of the whole matter.
We verily believe that the success of the efforts now
being made for the education of the people of Georgia,
is involved in the circulation of the School Journal.
It is, therefore, the duty of every patriot, of every Chris
tian, of every business man in Georgia, to become an
active agent in the circulation of the work. It is published
in Columbus, Ga., and is edited by the Rev. Tiros. F.
Scott, to whom all communications must be addressed.
Price, $1 per annum.
Jethro Cotton.
Twenty-two bales of Jethro Cotton, from the planta
tion of Wilds Robb, Esq., of Morgan county, were
sold in the Augusta market, on the 21st Feb., for 16
oents per lb.
Peculiarities of Northern Society.
We notice that Miss Antoinette Brown has been
stumping the State of New York in favor of the Li
quor Law.
Singularly strange must be the state of society which
cau tolerate so wide a departure from the laws of na
ture and of manners as is implied in a woman’s becom
ing a stump speaker. We will suppose that Miss
Antoinette is a blooming virgin, with dimpled chin and
cheek, and on the sunny side of twenty whoso ; smiles
and tears can win admiration or elicit sympathy ; whose
beautiful tresses are adorned with flowers, and whose
voice trills with melody as her ivory fingers trip over
the keys of her piano. What a pity that such a crea
ture should desert the hearthstone and all the quiet
joys of home, where her affections would bless father
and mother end her kindly care guide the tender hearts
of the little ones to purity and love ; and fling away
the modesty which is the chiefest ornament and the
maidenly reserve which is its greatest attraction
of her sex; and burning with rage, contend with
bearded men before a rude populace, which can but
laugh at her folly, insult her helplessness, and rob her of
her fair fame and gentle virtues by their rude jests
and brutal sarcasms ! And what cau she hope to ac
complish by her eloquence ? “A woman moved, is
like a fountain troubled, muddy, ill-seeming and bereft
of beauty.” True, crowds will assemble to witness her
performance, not, however, to be instructed by her logic,
or persuaded by her eloquence, but to laugh at her im
pertinences and mock at her failures. The just and
good who truly reverence woman can but hang their
heads and weep, that there should be an end of all per
fection.
There certainly is a class of women at the North,
who are stark mad- Not content to wear the hat and
pantaloons which belong to the male sex by immemorial
usage, they have seized upon the scalpel of the
physician, and the stump of the demagogue ; and we
presume they will not be satisfied until they clothe
themselves in the ermine of the judge and the robes of
the Senator, and their husbands put on the flowing
skirts and rock the baby’s cradle.
Thank God ! our Southern woman is content to occu
py the place assigned her by nature, as the presiding
genius of home and the Queen of hearts.
God bless every one of them, and give them hus
bands, fathers, brothers and children, worthy of their
love and heritous of their virtues ’ As long as the Bi
ble is read and respected among us, we may have no
fear of this most loathsome of all fanaticism.
Stir among the Mechanics.
The City Council of New Orleans, some time since,
imposed a corporation tax of $lO upon the mechanics of
various kinds residing in the eity.
On the night of the 21st instant, a meeting was held
in the Arcade to organize opposition to the measure—
such a meeting as was never seen before in the Cres
cent City.
* The resolutions adopted pronounce the tax unjust,
unequal, oppressive and in violation of the true princi
ples upon which taxation should be based—unjust, be
cause it taxes labor—unequal, because it confounds the
poorest workman with the richest manufacturers —op-
pressive, because it takes from the poor man a portion of
the pittance he has earned, and which is barely suffi
cient for his support. The resolutions further assert
that in all civilized States of the present enlightened
age, the taxation of the labor of the artisan who has no
capital has been abolished!
We confess that these are novel, strange and unre
publican doctrines to us. The fundamental principle of
freedom, and upon which our fathers founded this fair
Temple in which we live, is, that taxation and represen
tation are correlative rights. The man who votes must
pay his taxes, is as sound an axiom as that the man who
is taxed shall vote- “Unjust because it taxes labor!”
and is not all property the result of labor and’ its repre
sentative ? How are fortunes made but by brain-sweat
or body-sweat ? How can you tax any one without
taking from him a portion of his earnings ? The doc
trine of the resolutions of the mechanics of New Orleans
are agrarian, if not Fourieritish. Once assert the
principle that a man must be taxed because he is rich,
and must not be taxed because he is poor, and you
destroy the bulwarks of property and place the hard
earnings “of every honest industrious citizen in the hands
of the dishonest and lazy vagabonds who would do
nothing but vote if thereby they could transfer their
neighbors’ money into their own pockets.
We will not deny that the tax may be too high. We
cannot say whether this is the case or not in reference
to New Orleans. Such a tax is now levied, on a dif
ferent principle however, upon the mechanics of Geor
gia, and like good citizens they have cheerfully borne
the burthen the State has imposed. A man who will
shrink from his share of taxation, will surely love his
own pitiful self too well to bear the brunt of battle if he
is ever summoned to the field. The right to pay taxes
is part of our heritage of freedom. It was won at Bun
ker Hill and Yorktown. We would as soon refuse to
■upport our father or mother as to refuse to
pay our taxes. It gives a man consequence. He feels
that he is a citizen and that the tax collector’s recipt is a
certificate of citizenship. lie is useful to the State.
Shame on the mechanics of New Orleans !
The Stature of Men.
N. P. Willis, in a very graphic description of Sa
vannah, indulges in the following remarks in reference
to the relative size of Georgians and Cubans:
“Beginning with mine host of the Pulaski, who would
cut up into quite a committee of the largest men in Cuba, I
was immediately struck with the contrast between Havana
and Savannah, in the stature of the men. A few minutes
after our arrival, the gong sounded and the crowd poured
from all quarters of the house to the Sunday evening ‘tea
and the sudden change in the average level of the heads I
around me, affected my comparative consciousness, in a
way which, for a moment, I was at a loss to understand.
I felt suddenly pulled under, like a cork with ‘a bite.’ It is
curious how soon the general angle with which one looks
at people becomes a habit. Most of the faces I had met
for a couple of months had been teen down a declivity of
forty-five degrees. I now felt strange at being obliged to
look off at my own horizontal and above it—almost every
man in the house standing six feet and over, in his stock
ings. The Georgians are doubtless a tall race —walking :
rifles to the little pistols of Cuba—and, with so slight a dis- 1
ference of latitude and longitude in the respective soils
that produce them, it would, by the way, be a pretty study
of physiology to inquire into the reasons of the contrast.” i
South-Western Circuit.
The Albany Patriot fays; “While we believe that
we have in the Circuit many other gentlemen of the
legal profession competent to fill the office with credit
and ability, we think a better or more judicious selec
tion could not have been made. Mr. L)'on is emi
nently a sound and practical lawyer, and an honorable,
high-minded man—every way worthy the trust which
we believe will soon be committed to his hands by the
voters of the South-Western Circuit.”
Death of Col. N. L. Griffin.
This estimable citizen died at his residence, in Edge
field District, S. C., on the 19th instant. He was high
ly esteemed, and at the time of his death, represented
his district in the Senate of South Carolina.
Jenny Lind,
It is announced in the New York Commercial , that
Jenny Lind will visit the United States next season,
and remain here two or three years, giving concerts in
the principal cities.
Homicide.
A dispute about a trifling affair between Capt. Jones
and Col. Ware, both of Greenville District, S. C., re
sulted in the death of the former. Ware was his son
in-law.
Thackeray.
This distinguished writer will deliver a series of lec
tures in Charleston, S. C., on the 7th, 9th and lltli
March next.
Texas Items.
The Legislature has adjourned sine die .
The apportionment bill has become a law with
out the signature of the Governor. The internal
improvement bill was indefinitely postponed—ayes
28, noes 26. A bill was passed making an appro
priation for improving the principal rivers in the
State. This law will have to be ratified by a vote
of the people, at the next August general election,
before it can go into effect. Several new railroad
charters were granted.
The Legislature refused to pass the bill allowing
S4OOO per mile to railroad companies for each mile
of road built ; but raised the land donation to six
teen sections, each of 640 acres, or 10,240 acres
for each mile of railroad actually constructed. —
This is certainly a munificent donation, and must
tell favorably on our internal improvement
questions.
The Light house at Matagorda Pass, sixteen
miles from Indianola, is noA\ seen at all hours of
the night. It has been seen, we learn, at the dis
tance of thirty miles. The light revolves, and is
seen about once per minute, to distinguish it from
the light at Galveston, which is stationary.
Later from Havana.
Baltimore, Feb. 23. —The steamship Black
Warrior has arrived at New York from Mobile via
Havana. She leftjthe latter port on the 18th inst.,
and was fired at as she was going out before she
could hoist her colors. The bark Martha Ann, from
Savannah, for Havana, was fired into off Cuba by
the British frigate Vestal, on suspicion that she was
a slaver. The general health of Havana was good.
The Hon.W. R. King was no better. He had
gone to Matanzas, and despairs, it is said, of recov
ery. Prior to his departure he had a slight mis
understanding with the Captain General, who, waiv
ing etiquette, agreed to visit him, and appointed a
time for the interview, but failed to keep his ap
poir.tment; whereupon, Mr. King reminded him of
the circumstance, and General Canedo immediate*
ly called, but was refused admittance. Before Mr.
King left for Matanzas, however, cards were inter
changed, thus settling the difficulty. The contract
for the erection of a Telegraph line in Cuba, has
been a warded to Mr. Kennedy, of Philadelphia, at
$225 permile*, Thedemand for Sugars a.t the
departure of the Black Warrior was good, and the
stock on hand comprised 30,000 boxes.
Baltimore, Feb. 22.
The brig Emily, Captain Davis, from New York
for Charleston, has been ashore off Sandy Hook*
She was got off, however, on Tuesday, and her
cargo is not damaged.
Baltimore, Feb. 22.
The President Elect. —Gen. Pierce keeps him
self very retired in Washington He was closeted
on Tuesday with Messrs. Guthrie, Douglas and
Everett.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
LATER FROM EUROPE*
Insurrection in Austria.
Baltimore, Feb. 23.—The British steamship Arabia,
Capt. Judkins, has arrived at New York from Liverpool,
which port she left on the 12th inst.
The Liverpool Markets. — The demand for Cotton
has been moderate, and prices since the 4th inst. have
declined nearly one eighth of a penny. The fine qualities
however, were unchanged. The sales during the week
comprised 50,000 bales, of which speculators took 20,000,
and exporters 3000. Fair Orleans was quoted 6 l-2d,
Middling Orleans at 5 7-8d ; Fair Upland at 6 l-Bd, and
Middling Upland at 5 5-Bd.
Flour had advanced 6d. per bbl. of 196 lbs. Rice was
in moderate demand, and prices were in favor of buyers.
The Money Market was unchanged. Consols were
quoted at 99 1-8. Another dispatch says, 98 1-8. We
presume this decline was caused by the Austrian news
mentioned below.
Havre Cotton Market. —Cotton is unchanged, and
the sales comprise about 2000 bales daily. Middling
Orleans was quoted at 91 francs.
Austria. —An insurrection took place in Milan on the
6th instant, which lasted uutil the 9th. The Austrians
eay that the revolt was quelled with the loss only of five
of their soldiers. The insurgents, on the contrary, affirm
that 300 Austrians were killed, as they attacked the bar
racks and massacred the garrison. Proclamations from -
Kossuth and Mazzini were posted in the city. The latter j
has gone to Switzerland to watch events. A rising is !
looked for elsewhere. Austria and Franee are sending
troops to Lombardy and Rome.
The latest advices state that order had been restored.—
I Many arrests had taken place, and three persons had been
shot. The M linese generally took no part in the insur
j rection. The Commercial Treaty between Austria and
Prussia has been ratified.
England. —Advices received in London state that in
addition to the insurrection at Milan, risings had taken
place in other towns in Italy. Consols in London were
quoted at 98 1-8.
Turkey. —lt is believed that the Montent gran war will
be speedily ended by negotiations.
India —The British have formally annexed Pegu, and
threatened to take Ava, and depose the Burmese Mon
arch, if he do not quietly submit. /
Later from Mexico—Resignation of the President”*
Recall of Santa Anna.
News has been received from Mexico up to the 9th inst
M. Santiago Blancj resigned his post of Secretary ofW tr
on the 2d inst. On the 31st ult., Generals Robles and
Uraga met at Arroyozarco, a town some miles from the
capital, and agreed upon a plan for governing the country
On the night of the sth, they entered the city of Mexico
and repaired at once to the Palace toeonfer with Cevallog
The garrison of the city having ascertained the nature of
the conferences, sent a commission composed of Blau*
co, Carrera and Revilla Y. Pedrequera, toeonfer with th.>
Generals. After long conferences, the parties came to an
agreement, and proclaimed the Guadalajara pain, with
additions of the following purport:
That the Executive to be elected under this convention
will enjoy, until the promulgation of the.’new Constitution
the powers requisite to re-establish social order, to organ
ize the public administration, to create a national treasury
and mark out the powers of the judiciary, without altering
its independence. That a popular election will take place,
and the Government will, before the expiration of a year,
convoke the National Convention alluded to in the Jalisco
plan.
Juan B. Cevallos, President of the Supreme Court of
Justice, is to have charge provisionally of the Executive
power, and on the 17th of next March he is to count the
votes for President.
As soon as the Provisional Government will be estab
lished, the article in the Jalisco plan, which solemnly re
calls Santa Anna, is to be put into execution.
A general armistice is granted for all the purely politi
cal offences committed up to the day of the signing.
In case Juan B. Cevallos refused the mission given him
under this convention, the Generals of Divisions are to
meet and appoint his successor.
The garrison at Mexico, which had promised to support
the government of Cavallos, abandoned him by sanction
ing this plan, and Cevallos refusing the semblance of powd
er thus given him, presented his resignation on the 7th,
and retired to his home as a private citizen.
On the night of the 7th, Uraga, Lombardini and Robles
proceeded to the nomination of a President ad interim in
place of Cevallos. Lombardini voted for Theodosio Lares
and Uraga and Robles voted for Lombardini, who entered
upon the discharge of his duties on Shrove Tuesday, and
is to continue in office for forty days.
On the 7th, Uraga issued a circular to all the Gover
nors and military chiefs, informing them of the events of
the 6th, and, on the Bth, the firing of cannon and milita.
ry parades celebrated in Mexico the installation of Lom
bardini.
Vera Cruz has pronounced for Santa Anna, and the
garrison to accept. Nothing will be done in
Mexieo until his return. Anew commission to recall
Santa Anna left Vera Cri z on the 7th.
From a private letter received by the editor of the Nue
ces \ alley, from Chihuahua, via El Paso, we are in pos
session of some important news. The Jalisco movement
or the plan of Guadalajara has not been acted upon there.
The sentiments of ninny Chihuahuans of weight and in*
fluence are favorable to peaceable annexation, and perhaps
some movement of the kind will be acted upon in a short
time. The crops have not been very favorable. The
Indians, fia ye, been very troublesome. In Durango they
-bsvcr'appeared in greater, than their usiyilnumbers.
Further by the Steamer Pacific.
New York, Feb. 23.
The advauce reported by the steamship Ameri
ca in the Liverpool market has been lost, and the
cotton market is again quiet. The sales for the
three days previous to the sailing of the Pacific
amounted to 20,003 bales, of which speculators
took 6000 and exporters 1000. The quotations
are, Fair Orleans 6£, Middling Orleans fid.
Trade in Manchester had slightly declined since
the departure of the America.
The demand for cotton in the London market
had been active, with prices rather in favor of buy
ers, although quotations are unchanged.
The Havre cotton market has undergone no quo
table change since the last advices. The sales ok
the sth inst. comprised 2000 bales. Good Mid
dling Orleans was quoted at 92 francs, and Mid-\
tiling Fair at 95.
Thackeray , the Author.— The Richmond Ex
aminer gives the following description of Thack
eray :
He is about as tall as Gen. Scott, with a fair
round waist, long ugly legs, arms too short,
and hands too small for his size. His gestures
and attitudes are awkward and slow. His hair
is grey, he wears spectacles, and when first look
ed at, one might think him verging on sixty,
though a more deliberate examination wouid
place him ten years nearer the cradle. The head
and lace are large, and the bust would be great,
but for the most unfortunate little nose that ev
er was surrounded by massive features, and set
over an ironjaw. It is almost incredible that na
ture has stuck such a nasal organ on such a coun
tenance. His forehead is not very large or re
markable, but the back-head is powerfully de
veloped. On the whole, however, the impression
made by the external man would not be pleasant,
but for the dignity, sobriety and independent
manliness of his carriage and presence. These
are very remarkable—verging, perhaps, onhau
teur—but not tinged with the slightest shade of
impertinence or affectation.
He reads his lecture in a deep but not strong
| or clear voice, which did not vary enough for
j the shades of his ideas at first, but which be
| came more expressive though not less quiet and
i composed as he proceeded. Its cadence fre
j quently had a melancholy tone, and it never
! expressed gaiety, either good or ill-humored,
j Both in contempt and admiration it was equally
serious and grave. Indeed, Mr. Thackeray, in
person, is the least like a “funny man” of anv
person that we ever saw. He looks and speaks
like one who has been rather disappointed than
pleased with his past life, and who has no ex
travagant hopes for the future, but who is too
much of a man to become either maudlin and sen
timental, or careless and indifferent.
I*.Vou don’t wish to get angry, never argue with
a blockhead. Remember, the duller the razor the
more you cut yourself and swear.