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Fashionable Dances. The last number of Blackwood has an inte resting article on the subject of “Club and in which we find some bold words respecting the fashionable dances of the day i “The waltz as we dance it,” says the writer, ‘‘was decent of its kind, but its character gradu ally became changed. From a graceful rotary motion it degenerated into a Bacchi movement, j | similar, no doubt, to the first Thespian per ; formances, which were intended, as scholars tell | us, to he in honor of the young Lams.” j “You saw an infuriated-looking fellow throw his arm round a girl’s waist, and rush off with [ lier as if he had been one of the troop of Rom lulus abducting a reluctant Sabine. Sabine, i however, made no remonstrance, but went along with him quite cordially. They pursued a | species of bat like race round the room—jerk i ing. flitting, backing, and pirouetting, without [ rule, and w ithout any vestage of grace, until I breath failed them, and the panting virgin was pulled up short on the arm of her perspiring partner. Ghost of Count Hamilton! shade of De Grammont! has it really come to this? You know, in your day, something about the Castlernaines and others; but never did you witness, in public at least, such orgies as Brit ish matrons and mothers now placidly contem plate and approve. “This, however, called for a reform; and it was reformed. By what ? By the introduction of the polka—the favorite dance, and no vvon jder, pf the casinos. View it philosophically, land you find it to he neither more nor less than I the nuptial dance of Bacchus and Ariadne.— j Our mothers or grand-mothers were staggered, land some of them shocked, at the introduction |of the ballet in the opera houses. What would they say now, could they see one of their fe male descendants absolutely in the embrace of some hairy animal—fronting him—linked to him—drawn to him—her head reclining on his shoulder, and he perusing her charms—execu ting the most ungraceful of all possible move ments, at the will of a notorious Tomnoddy ? No doubt everything is innocent, and the whole dance is conducted—on one side'at least— with perfect purity of idea. But somehow or other, these grapplings, squeezings, and approx imations, look rather odd in the eyes of the un prejudiced spectator; and we, who have seen the feasts of Egyptian Almas almost surpassed I in British ball-rooms, may jae pardoned for ex- I pressing our conviction, that a little—nay, a good deal more of feminine reserve than is pres ently practised, would be vastly advantageous to the young ladies who resort to those haunts which they have been taught to consider as the matrimonial bazaar. “We abuse not dancing—we simply contend against its abuse. The effect of it is just this, that the most inveterate devotees of the polka have the least chance of being married. No man of refinement likes to see the object of bis affections prancing wildly in the arms of anoth er. Cupid, as the Americans say, is ‘a skeary critter;’ and a very little matter indeed is suffi cient to make him take wing.” Hamilton and Knox. ORIGINAL REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENT. The New Haven Courier gives the following account of the siege of Yorktown, in 1781, whit h lias never before been in print, and il lustrates the difference between theory and practice: W ith Hamilton, Knox and others, there were present behind a redoubt of hogsheads and pipes of sand, about 400 American troops. A gene ral order had been given, that when a shell was seen, they might cry out a shell— hut not to <fry a shot , when a shot was seen. The reason of this distinction was, that a shell might be avoi ded, but to cry a shot, would only make confu sion and do no good. T his order was just then being discussed, Colonel Hamilton remarking that it seemed unsoldierlike to halloo a shell, ” bile Knox contended the contrary, and that the order was wisely given by General Wash ington, who cared for the lives of the men. . I he argument thus stated, was progressing with a slight degree of warmth, when suddenly spat! spat! two shells fell and struck within the redoubt. Instant!v the cry broke out on ail sides, “a snell! a shell!” and such scrambling and jumping to reach the blinds and get behind them for defence. Knox and Hamilton were united in action, however differing in words, for both got behiods the blinds; and Hamilton, to be yet more secure, held on behind Knox, (Knox being a very large man, and Hamilton a small man.) Upon this. Knox struggled to throw Hamilton off, and in the (Knox) rolled Hamilton off towards the shells. Hamil ton, however, scrambled back again behind the blinds. All this was done rapidly, for in two minutes the shells burst, and threw their'deadly missiles in all directions. It was now safe and soldierlike to stand out, “Now,” said Knox, “now what do you think, Mr. Hamilton, about crying out “shell,” —but let me tell you not to make a breast-work of me again.” Mr. Mon son added that on looking around and finding not a man hurt out of the more than 400, Knox exclaimed, “It is a miracle !” A Funny Commercial Transaction. —The ! Mining Register says, “it will be some tim-W; not longer, before we shall awaken thee choes of our quiet sanctum with a laugh so irrepressi ble as a guffaw which has just escaped us, at a mercantile anecdote inimitably related by a German friend An old fellow living at Frankfort-on-the-Main, sent to a business correspondent at Frankfort* on-the-Oder, a large consignment of cotton stockings, and at the same time, to another cor respondent at the same place, an equally large consignment ot cotton nightcaps, the product ot his own manufacture. He wrote to each the price at which they were to sell, hut the sum . esignated was found to be too large, of which t°°k occasion to inform him. He v ieided a httle in his demand, hut still there v\as no ( ffer (or his fabrics. Again he writes in lep \ to other letters of his correspondents, naming a }et smaller amount; but weeks elapse, ■md yet no sales. At length hs wr Us to each r e r n C!l * Vl ma^e some disposition of his •nu actures, it they can’t get money for them, n exc,lHne them > no matter at what tier’ll ’ * -* Cnfice ’ f ° r any ot 9 goods. Lin. t e instructions, the stocking factor calls upon the nightcap agent, both unknown to each other in connection with their principal, and “names his views;” he wishes to exchange a lot of superior cotton stockings for some other goods; he is not particular what kind, as the transaction is for a friend, who is desirous of closing his stock.” The man at first can think of nothing which he would like to exchange tor i so large a supply of stockings; hut at length a bright thought strikes him. “I have,” said he, “a consignment of cotton nightcaps from an old correspondent, which I shall not object to ex change for your stockings.” The bargain was soon closer). The stocking factor wrote hack at once that he had at length been enabled to comply with the instructions of his principal. He had exchanged his stockings for “a superi or article of nightcap,’’ in an equal quantity, which he was assured were likely to be much in demand before a great while! The next day came a letter from the night cap agent, announcing his success, and append ed to the letter was a big bill for commissions! As Yellowplush would sav, “Fanzy that gent’s feelitiks!” StwiimL COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL, 22, 1853. Death of William R. King. Intelligence was received by telegraph in this city, on the 19th inst., that William R. Kino, Vbe President of the United States, breathed his last, at his residence in Dallas county, on Monday night, the 18th inst. Although the country had been looking for this sad event for some lime past as a probable contingency, yet we never have been enabled to realize fully its effects until now that he is gone. Alabama feela that she has lost almost her father, and her heart throbs sad and heavily “at the portals of his grave.” For thirty odd years—ever since her admission into the Union—Col. King, excepting a very brief interval, lias been in the service of this State ; which is a sufficient commentary upon his devotion to her interest and welfare. Without possessing the first older of talent, his high and honora ble bearing—his ehivalrio and gentlemanly deportment —his integrity, honesty, and loe of truth—which leave his character without a spot or blemish, gave him a very high rank with those with whom he came in contact and acted ; for few men in the Senate exerted as much influence upon all grave and important subjects as he. It is not necessary that we should enter into a biog raphy of Col. King. This task was amply performed during the late canvass, and his li e and public services are too well known to our whole people to need repeti tion. Full of years and full of honors he ha3 gone down to the grave. The places that lattly knew him, will know him no more forever; but his memory will be long cherished in the hearts of the people of his adopted State, and in those of the people of the whole country. Would that this truly good man and unyielding patriot j could have been spared to wear the honors so recently J bestowed on him by his grateful countrymen !— Adver- User Gazette. Uncle Tomitudes—North and Month, Were we disposed to do so. we might fill our columns with details of horrible murders, at the recital of which the hair of many of our readers would stand on end, and their che, ks olanch with fear. It ia a lamentable fact, that while the whole civilized world is weeping in an agony of grief over the fictitious woes of Uncle Tom the horrid cruelties which are of daily occurrence in the land, are barely mentioned in the spare corners of the daily press. James Shirly has been recently convicted at Hollidays burg. Pa., of the murder of his wife ; John Murphy, of j Fall River, Mass, lately seized his wife, and aft r tying I both her hands and feet, poured oil of vitriol down her throat, and thus murdered her; a man named Nears, in the city of New York, deliberately took a mallet and beat his wife’s brains out in the presence of his chil dren ; a few days ago a man killed two women in Philadelphia, in the most barbarous manner. We might enlarge this fearful listed infinitum; for every paper that we open contains the report of some such dreadful tragedy. Nor is the South exempt from scenes of bloodshed and murder. There were no less than seven capital cases on docket at the last session of the Superior Court at Decatur ; and our own docket will present a fearful array at our next term. Hardly a month passes over our lovely city that is not stained with blood. Here is abundant food for thought, for sympathy, and reform. In the presence of the unnumbered dead whose blood was shed by the hand of violence, it is wicked to spend our energies and tears over imaginary woes. Crime has increased with fearful rapidity within a few years in the United States, What is the cause of it? whet is the cure of it ? These are grave questions which address themselves with urgent force to the Legislator and Clergyman, and which we are incompetent to answer. Unquestion ably the increase in tippling houses and the habit of drinking immoderately, which has increased to a fearful extent, notwithstanding the supposed triumphs of the Temperance Reform, are prolific sources of crime. The ] doors of the Gin Palace are open day and night, and even the stillness of the Sabbath morn is disturbed by the drunken orgies of the devotees of the wine cup. They are the only places of publio resort, and thither the tired laborer and the homeless inhabitants of our oity collect together where the labors of the day and week are ended. By frequent draughts the passions are excited, the reason dethroned, the means of living squandered, and the poor victim of appetite falls beneath the stroke of his companion, or reels to his desolate home to vent his rage upon the helpless beings he has degraded and impoverished. We have carefully noted for some time past the precedents and circumstance which accompany crime ; and in almost every instance the grog shop has either been the cause of violence, or the place last visit ed by the murderer. If, therefore, the grog shops were closed, much would be done to reform society in this regard. Whether it is constitutional and right to do so, we will not now un dertake to say. That question is not now in issue. Much unquestionably may be done to counteract their influence, and refine and harmonise the rising genera tion, by a change in the manners and habits of our pie. Too much liberty is allowed to boys ; aa soon as they leaoh their teens, they generally throw off paternal au thority, and may beseeu swaggering through the streets, in the hotels and bar rooms, not uufrequently smoking segarsand drinking liquor, not only at night but daring the Sabbath day—with pockets loaded with powder and shot and pistols. The end of children bred under such a system is inevitable ruin. Before they reach man ho<*d, they are drunkards, gamblers, 3nd not unfrequent ly murderers. , Another reform is equally needed children must not only be kept at home, but home must be made at tractive. A writer in the Delta very pithily says— the secret way to close the bar, is to open the parlors. So oial relations must, therefore, be cultivated ; tbs sexes be broug'. t into frequent association ; s'd innocent sports encouragt and ; nay, even the dance tolerated withih cer tain bounds ; the taste for music and poetry careful.y cultivated ; and above ail a reverence for femaie char acter and love for female society sedulously developed. It is almost impossible for a man or boy truly in io*e with a virtuous woman to do a mean thing. As society is at present organised, nothing ia done to humanise the youth of the land —except at the enureh. Each familj lives alone and shirks the amenities of life. The father confines himself to his counter and the moth er to her household cares. No thought is given to social intercourse, and even the occasional visits of a friend are not unfrequently regarded as an intrusion. We content ourselves with giving one Party a season, and think we have thereby done our part in the work of social improvement. This is unquestionably all wrong. But we are treading on ticklish ground, and must, there fore, close this artiole with the assertion, that without a heartier and habitufcl social intercourse, we have no hope that our future will be any brighter then our present. Anti-Slavery Literature. RENEWAL or THE ABOLITION AGITATION. Are v/e never to have peace ? Will the abolition agi tation uever end ? We believe not, at least until the Southern people shall cease to wage war upon one an other, and turn their eeriied array in full front upon the foe. The success of Uncle Tom’s Cabin has induced the author to publish 80,000 copies of a “Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which, In the language of the New York Herald, “open* the door and discloses to our mortal vision such scenes of herror, atrocity and heartless cruelty in southern slavery, as are without a parallel in the most chilling atrocities of the Romans, the Spaniards in South America, the Turks, or the piratical Beys of Algiers.” * * “In this view of the subject,” says the same paper, “we apprehend the people of the South may prepare for a more ferocious, systematic and des peratc warfare upon the slavery question than anything which they have heretofore experienced from the wrath of the abolitionists. Heretofore, the war upon South ern slavery has been more largely directed against its political tendencies and influences in the legislation of Congress, than against its imaginary enormities as a social and domestic institution. But, hereafter, the criminal records, of the South, their statistics, their newspaper reports, their neighborhood traditions, their current stories and rumors of murders, outrages, and cruelties of all kinds, real or fictitions, inflicted by slave holders and slave drivers, upon men, women and chil dren, are to b trumped up, and, with all the exaggera tions that may be required to render them appalling to the last degree, they are to be published in catch-penny pamphlets, to glut the ravenous stomachs of English and Northern abolition ph lanthropy, and to fill the empty pockets of unprincipled hucksters upon popular credulity.” —, ‘’ . ‘ 1 ‘ 1 1 “communications FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL. Pierre Soule. The Editor of the Enquirer fairly confesses that he has stood by and witnessed the distribution of the pat ronage of the Democratic administration, just aa long as ilia human Whig patience stand it; and is now forced to vent his bile in one yell of savage passion over the appointment of the gallant and accomplished Soule, of Louisiana. We are told that he has stood still and seen the guillotine falling on the necks of his faithful allies with “an unblincking and tearless eye;” (we have heard of blinking eyes and blanched cheeks—but nev er before of blinching eye or cheek ;) but now a point has arrived when he can no longer keep silence, and when his political virtue forces him to express his pro found cissatisfaution at the appointment of the Minister to Spain. Now, it ia a question for the curious to de cide, whether or no, it is because Mr. Soule is the “Jacobin, Filibuster and Disunionis!,’* for which he denounces him, or is it because Mr. Soule belongs to a aehool of Southern State R ghts patriotism, into whose sacred portals that Editor has never dared even to peep, that this anathema is thundered from the Whig Vatican at Columbus, Georgia ? It ia a question, whether the appointment of the spotless and fearless Jeff. Davis to a seat in the Cabinet, was one whit less distasteful to this Editor ? whether he liked the signs of the timefy” better, when the pure and upright R. M. T. Hunger was the first man whom the President elect/called to his confidence, on the threshold of the great trust th® American people had confided in him? It is Pierre Soule’s political color that is gall and wormwood to your neigh bor—hinc ilia lachrymqr— and he is pounced upon, and Davis and Hunter were not, precisely because, in the one case there was hope of making a point against a gallant foreigner , the adopted son of this Republic ; while the other two, in their native strength, but with no brighter personal and political escutcheons than Pierre Soule, stood far beyond the reash of the pigmy shafts of this professional grumbler. And now, who is Pierre Soule, in whose appointment to the Court of Spain, this Government has forfeited the respect of the Columbus Enquirer ? By long odds, one of the most remarkable men now moving en the great stage of publio life in America—an unrivalled ora tor ; in person, spirit and manners, by far the most ad mired Statesman who sits in either branch of the Ameri- i can Legislature ; no lees remarkable for his polished intellect and shining parts, than he has been for his strangely adventurous and romantic life, and his undy ing love of liberty and right, whether in his native or adopted country ; a man of energetic action, as well as brilliant speech; in short, a man almost without ap proach, whether you regard him in the character* of orator, statesman or gentleman. And now what is the crime of this man ? A “Jacobin,” because his hatred of, and resistance to oppression made him an exile from his own country ; a “Fillibuster,” because tike every true American, he finds it impossible to behold that choice garden of the earth, lying at our very doors, on the highway of our domestic commerce, the key to the nar row door which affords the only passage to connect the Eastern & Western slopes of tHs great republic ; acoun try, too, inhabited by a race, who are dozing away their lives in unconscious ignorance of the mighty talent which nature has intrusted to their care, and living under a government more oppressive than any people even of their own degenerate blood have ever borne ; a “Filli buster,” we say, because he cannot look abroad upon this peerless landscape, this necessary appanage to h.s country, without coveting its possession, and without wishing to open it to the march of freedom and theblesa ings of our own institutions j and a “Disunioni; t,” be- cause, when cowards trembled, traitors held back and politicians trimmed, he threw himself with all his soul into the arena of 1850-1, in defence of the constitu tion. Too late, Mr. Editor, to talk ab >ut the disunionism of the Southern Rights party. The light of time has put the very ghosts of that humbug to flight, and it is a hardened political hack, blindly confident in the gullibility ofhis party, who in 1853, will recall to the “glimpses of the moon” the gaunt spectres with which they frightened the nation in 1850. There ia no proposi tion more true or demonstrable, than that the political combat of 1850-1, strengthened and gave permanency to the Union, invigorated the constitution and put back for a quarter of a century the Vandal hordes who, as sailing from without, were let in from within by the timid and time-serving of the South. And, if the/rw, who composed the Southern Rights party have been able by courage and devotion to effect this much, wnat, I ask, in the name of God and my country, might not have been accomplished, if the South had stood &a one m in, in defence of the constitution and the rights of the States! The case is a short one, and lies in a nutshell. The North assailed the constitution and the feebler States, the Southern Rights party rushed to the rescue of both, and the Union party not only refused to defend the citadel, but abetted the aggressors. Pierre Boule belonged to the band of defenders ; his eloquence, his political fortunes, his whole energy of soul were thrown unreservedly into the fight—and now when a New Eng * land President—a State Rights Democrat from the granite hills and frozen atmosphere of New Hampshire, comprehending the motives and appreciating the spirited patriotism that struek bo nobly for the States of his sec tion and the rights of the whole— what is the surprising contrast tosee a Georgia Editor, a man born away down in a latitude where a hot sun is supposed to breed a natural geniality of sympathy for patriotic effort to resist wrong and uphold the right, taking the Northern Presi dent to task for honoring tho Southern Patriot ? F. FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL. Messrs, Editors : —I notice in your journal of the 12th inst., under head of “Second Congressional Dis trict,” some remarks in reference to our candidate for the next campaign. This ia well enough, as wo should begin to prepare for the contest. And I am glad to know that in your editorial, to which I allude, you are able to number in the ranks of our party such gentle men as you have there been pleased to mention. Yes, every Democrat, every true-hearted Southern man in the District, should be proud of tho brilliant names of Benning, Lawton, Tucker and a host of othere. Now, without dictating, or saying anything at all against the weii merited worth of other gentlemen spoken of, suffer me to any, that hundreds of the party in this section would be gratified to see, after the nomi nation, every Democratic newspaper in the district headed with (“For Congress”) the name of John A. Tucker, of Stewart. It is not my purpose at preseni to herald forth his claims ; suffice it to say that to the interest of his party none are more awakened, to the South none more devoted. But as unanimity of action is requisite to ensure success, reat assured that if lie is 1 not nominated, the boya in this beat w ill give the par ty’s nominee, be he who he-may, a unanimous support. 1 South-West. FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL. Temperance Hall. Mesjsrs , Editors : —I see in your Tri-Weekly of the 16th inst., that you make an appeal to the Ladies for aid to pay off the balance of the debt now standing against the Hall, which debt I should be much pleased to see paid off. My object in this communication is not to throw any obstacles in the way that you propose, but to correct an error that you were authorised to make, viz.: that in the event of a forfeiture of our charter, the Hall reverts to the Grand Division. There your infor mant is in error—the forfeiture alluded to in article 5, ’ section 6, of By Laws of Grand Division does not con template real estate, but only minor property belonging to subordinate Divisions. I have no fears about a for feiture of our charter ; we have s large brotherhood, besides the constitutional number that are determined to hold on and to hand the good cause of Temperance down to our posterity, A S. of T. The Town Council Temperance Hall, At flie meeting of the Town Council held on the 22d inst, the following action was taken in re ference to Temperance Hall : By Aid Matheson, Resolved, That the mem orial of the Sons of Temperance, with the re port and resolutions of the Committee to whom said memorial was refolded be taken up and dis* posed. The same being read, Aid Daniel, offered the I following resolution : Resolved, That this Coun cii appoint a Committee of three, to meet and j confer with a similar committee of Sons of Temperance and see if they will sell the lower part of the Hull, and if so, for what price and on what terms. Whereupon, Aid. Wilking, offered the follow ingas a substitute : Resolved, that the appropria tion of 83000, asked by the Sons of Temper ance, be referred to the people of City ; and that the Clerk be instructed to call an election on the first Monday in May next, for that pur pose ; those persons in favor of the appropria sion, voting on their ticket, “appropriation’’ and those against: ‘tno appropiation,” said call for an election, to be advertised in the city papers until the day of election. Whereupou, Aid Robison, offered the follow as a substitute for the whole : Resolved, That | the Council decline making any appropriation | for the Tempesance Hall. Whereupon. Aid Williams, offered the follow ing as a substitute for each of the foregoing : Resolved, that the amount arising from the sale or granting of Retail License in this city, for the term of four years, next ensuing, be and is hereby appropriated and granted to the two Divisions of the Sons of Temperance, in this city, to be appropriated to the payment of the debt now existing against the Temperance Hall. Resoved, That in consideration thereof, the proper authorities of said Divisions shall convey the legal title of said Temperance Hall, to the Mayor and Council of the City of Co lumbus, to hold the same forever. In trust how ever, that said Divisions shall have and retain the free use of their present Division rooms and the main Hall shall be used as heretofore, free lor the people, on all public occasions; and in trust further, that the revenuesarising from the Hall, and rented rooms shail be equally divided between the City of Columbus and said Divi sions. Resolved, That the Committee on City Im provments, meet a committee to be appointed by said Divisions to arrange the details of said contract and report to Council as early as con venient. On motion of Aid Williams the whole subject was laid on the table till the next meeting t Council. ° An American Ship Fired at by a British Man of I War Steamer. We learn from Captain Otis, of the ship Rar iet irrived yesterday from Havana, that on his pHs>.i-> e out from Sivannah to H ivnna, <*n the 3lst M reh when about thirty miles to the westward (l s Double Headed Shot Keys, at seven A. M., he db. covered a steamer some five or six miles to tlie h e ward, and near a hermaphtodife i>rig. The Ntemn er was ru ning various courses, and tina'L ran down j to the brig, and stood to the eastward ; she then clia-igc and her course to the southward, and kept off to the so ithwatd and westward, running on the same , ci-urse with the ship, and being some six miles in the leeward and from six to seven miles astern - She then set all sand! and put on steam, and g i ie d on the Harriet. While in chase of the ship, s | lP fired two guns at her which fell short sometuonr 1 three miles. All on boatd the ship saw them strike in the water. Captain Otis then hove his ship to . and lrtu ed up his courses, and was boarded by two , ‘-dicers from her Majesty’s man-of-war steamer De vastation. They stated that their business was to ascertain whether Cai>t. Ot's was carrying out the treaty stipulations. C.ipt. O. replied that his color ! was a sufficient guarantee for him. They then in > sisted on his showing h's napers, and after examin -1 ing the ship and papers, finally left. Captain Otis first took the steamer to be a Spanish war vessel f cruising off the Harbor of Havana.— True Della. [ i [From the Savannah News.] t Railroad Junction, Under this caption the Journal and Messen * ger concludes an article as follows : “In this connection, we would inquire if noth ing is to be done to signalize the completion of ! the line of Railway between Savannah and Co lumbus. The Muscogee and South-Western ‘ Roads will be connected, we understand, by the 1 Ist of May. Will Savannah goto Columbus, 1 or Columbus to Savannah, or both come to fraternize at Macon, or all stay at home ? We do not know.” 1 “We are sure the citizens of Savannah and Macon will receive more than one shout , if they ‘ vvill honor us with a visit on the first of May.— We beg leave to remind the Mayor of what is 1 expected of him on the occasion. But if the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the mountain. A trip to Savannah would be exceedingly pleasant at that season of f the year ; and as compromises are the order of * the day, we propose that each city visit the 1 other by turns, and that the nuptials of the Chattahoochee and the sea be celebrated by ? three parties instead of one: What say our 1 cotemporaries ?— Columbus Times. We have no objection to the latter sugges tion, especially as the season entitles us to the first visit. Let our upland friends come to see us no.v, and celebrate with us ti e nup.ials of the Chattahoochee with the Savannah, and we will visit them in the sultrv months, when it vvill be delightful to get away from the heat, and the mosquitoes. We expect to some of our Augusta friends here on the first of May, and we ; would extremely happy to greet large dvlega -1 tions from Macon and Columbus at the same t time. We promise them a hearty welcome, As our cotemporarv of the Times h .s said, in ’ a recent editorial, that he looks “forward with pleasure to the time when Brunswick will be come the rival of Savannah,’’ we would very ’ much like to have an opportunity to convince him that though the new seaport may rival us on paper, neither it nor any other city in the State can excel us iu hospitality. * ft!?” We regret from a friend that ! Mr. James C. Tvsoi| ‘fDeKalb, killed a man by the name of Spear, during the recent term of the Circuit Court of Kemper. The facts are briefly as follows, as we learn them from a re . liable source : It appears that Spear had some difficulty about puttingup his horse in the liverv stable, and threatened to whip Tyson about the matter. He visited the stable several times in a rude manner, and the last time with bis hand on his knife, which he had taken neaiiv out ofhis pantaloons pocket. Mr. TANARUS; apprehend ing that he was about making a deadly assault upon him, seized a hoe and struck him with it. which blow caused the death of Spear in a very | short time.— Paulding , Miss., Clarion, 2 d inst. . Arkansas Intelligence. —We learn from the Little Rock Whig that 82045 hane been offer ed as a reward for the arrest of William Rue bottom, charged with the murder James Mur phy, in Johnson county, Ark., on the 24th ult., in an affray. Col. E. A. Warren, of Ouachita county, (form erly of Salem, Miss.,) has been nominated by the democracy of Clark county, for Congress Hon, A. B. Greenwood has been nominated j by the democracy of Benton county, for Con- j gress in the First District. Henry Heffiington is a candidate for Sena- ( tor from the Second District, composed of the | counties of Conway 7 , Jnckson and White. — \ Hon. W. C Scott is a candidate for Senator in | the same District. The Judge is a democrat. Grand Indian Council. —We learn, says the j Fort Smith Herald of the 2d instant; that the [ Grand Indian Council of ail the Indian tribes is , to be held on the South side of the Canadian. $ in the neighborhood of the Red Hills, ahoui b three hundred miles from this place, about the I middie of May, The Keechies came into the Creek Nation, a few days ago, to give notice | of the time appointed by the wiid or roving S tribes of the prairies, It will be a grand affair g f-'j Articles for exhibition at the New York Crys- gj tal Palace are begining to arrive quite freely.— ij The packet ship Helvetia, which yesterday came in from Havre, brought fifteen packages of good- P to be placed in the fair. The bark Rhodes. j| from Savannah, also broght a number of ar ij tides. __ 0A distinguished showman expresses In.- skepticism about the legend of Joshuas blowing g lown the walls of Jericho with a ram’s horn.— g He has taken unnumbered horns more power |j #il, without even being able to bring down !i| bouse. M