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Washington’s Courtship and Marriage. Beautifully situated on the banks of the Pau munkey, is the mansion known as “the White House.’’ It stands on the site of the one in which Washington was married. From Custis’s Life of Martha Washington, we extract the ac count of his courtship and marriage : It was in 1758 that Washington, attired in a military undress, and attended by a body ser vant, tall and militaire as his chief, crossed the ferry called William’s, over the Paumunkey, a branch of the York river. On the boat touch ing the southern or New Kent side, the soldier’s progress was arrested by one of those person ages vvhogive the beau ideal of the Virginia gentle man of the old regime, the very soul of kindness and hospitality. It was in vain the soldier urged his business at Williamsburg, important com munications to the Governor,&c. Mr. Chamber lay ne,on whose domain the militaire had just lan ded, would hear of no excuse. Col. Washington wasa nameandcharactersodeartoallVirginians, that his passing by one of the castles of Virginia, without calling and partaking of the hospitali ties of the host, was entirely out of the question. The Colonel, however, did not surrender at dis cretion, but stoutly maintained his ground till Cliamberlayne, bringing up his reserve, in the intimation that he would introduce his friend to a young and charming widow, then beneath his roof, the soldier capitulated, on condition that he should dine—only dine—and then bv press ing his charger and borrow ing of the night, he would reach Williamsburg before his Excellen cy could shake off his morning slumbers. Or ders were accordingly issued to Bishop, the Colonel’s body servant and faithful follower, who, together with the English charger, had been bequeathed by the dying Braddock to Major Washington, on the famed and fated field of Mon ongahela. Bishop, bred in the school of Euro pean discipline, raised his hand to his cap, as much as to say, “Your orders shall he obeyed.” The Colonel now proceeded to the mansion, and was introduced to various guests, (for when was a Virginia domicil of the olden time with out guests ?) and above all, to the charming wid ow. Tradition relates that they were mutual ly pleased, on this, their first interview—nor is it remarkable; they were of an age when im pressions are strongest. The lady was fair to behold, of fascinating manners, and splendidly endowed with worldly benefits. The hero was fresh from his early fields, redolent of fame, and with a form on which “every god did seem to set his seal, to give the world assurance of a man.” The morning passed away, even ing came, with Bishop, true to his orders and firm at his post, holding the favorite charger with one hand, while the other was waiting to offer the ready stirrup. The sun sank in the horizon, and yet the Colonel appeared not.— “’Twas strange, ’twas passing strangesurely he was not wont to be a single moment behind his appointment—for he was the most punctual of all men. Meantime the host enjoyed the scene of the veteran at the gate, while the Colonel was so agreeably employed in the parlor; and proclaim ing that no visitor ever left his house at sunset, his military guest was, without much difficulty, persuaded to order Bishop to put up the horses for the night. The sun rose high in the heavens the ensuing day, when the enamored soldier pressed with his spur his charger’s side, and speeded on his way to the seat of government, where, having despatched his public business, he retraced his steps, and, r ‘flie White House, the engagement took plact, with preparations for marriage. And much hath the biographer heard of that marriage, from the gray-haired domestics who waited at the board where love made the festal and Washington the guest. And rare and rich was the revelry at the palmy period of Virginia’s festal age; for many were gathered to that marriage, of the good, the great, the gifted, and they with joyous acclamations, hailed in Vir ginia’s youthful hero a happy and prosperous bridegroom. “And so you remember when Col. Washing ton came a courting of your young mistress?” said the biographer to old Cully, in his hun dredth year. “Ay, master, that 1 do,” replied the ancient family servant, who had lived to see five generations; “great times, sir, great times—shall never see the like again!” “And Washington looked something like a man—a proper man—hey, Cully ?” “Never seed the like, sir—never the like of him, though l have seen many in my day—so tall, so straight! and then he sat on a horse and rode with such an air! Ah, sir, he was like no one else. Many of the grandest gentlemen in the gold lace were at the wedding, but none looked like the man himself.” Strong, indeed, must have been the impres sion which the person and manner of Washing ton made upon the “rude, untutored mind” of this poor negro, since the lapse of three-quar ters of a century lias not stsfficed to efface it. The precise date of the marriage the biogra pher has been unable to discover, having in vain searched among the records of the vestry of St- Peter s church, New Kent, of which the Rev. Mr. Munson, a Cambridge scholar, was the rec tor, the ceremony, it is believed, about 1 /59. A short time after their marriage, Colonel and Mrs. W ashington removed to Mount A ernon, on the Potomac, and permanently set tled there. “This union,” says Sparks, “was in every re spect felicitous. It continued forty years. To her intimate acquaintances and to the nation, the character of Mrs. Washington was ever a theme ot praise. Affable and courteous, exem plary in her deportment, remarkable for her deeds ot charity and piety, unostentatious, and without vanity, she adorned by her domestic vir tues the sphere of private life, and filled with dig nity every station in which she was placed. Previous to his acquaintance with Mrs. Cus tis. Washington had been pleased with other ladies. Ihe author above quoted on this point says, that in 1756, “while in New York, he was lodged and kindly entertained at the house of Beverley Robinson, between whom and himself an intimate friendship subsisted, which, indeed, continued without change, till severed by their opposite fortunes twenty years afterward in the lfn° ba PP e,l * d Miss Mary Phil dv if ° f Mr * Rßobin.n *°n. and a young la accomplishments, was an inmats in the family. The charms of this lady made a deep impression upon the heart of the Virginia Colonel. He went to Boston, returned, and was again welcomed to the hospitality of Mr. Robinson. He lingered there till duty called him away; but he was careful to intrust his se cret to a confidential friend, whose letters kept him informed of every important event. In a lew months intelligence came, that a rival was in the field, and that the consequences could not be answered for, if he delayed to renew his visits to New York. Whether time, the bustle of a camp, or the scenes of war had moderated his admiration, or wnether he despaired of suc cess, i3 not known. He never saw the lady again till she was married to that same rival, Captain Morris, his former associate in arms, and one of Braddock’s aids-de-camp. “He had before felt the influence of the tender passion. At the age of seventeen, he was smit ten by the graces of a fair one, whom he called a‘low land beauty,’ and whose praises he re corded in glowing strains, while wandering with his surveyor’s compass among the Alle ghany mountains. On that occasion he wrote desponding letters to a friend, and indicated plaintive verses, but never ventured to reveal his emotions to the lady who was unconscious of the cause of his pains.” flimtß Mtir Bmtmd. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1853. The Athens Banner. The least attentive reader of the columns of the Athens Banner cannot fail to discover the deep seated discontent, with the condition of the things political of the United States and especially of the State of Geor gia, which breathes in every emanation of the mind that conducts them. “Uneasy is the head that wears a crown.” It is the opposite of this distress that chafes the spirit of the Athenian Editor. Ilis crown has been removed, his sceptre of political influence has been torn from his grasp. The gaunt figures of a broken union, a dislocated confederacy, once beautiful in its symmetry and glorious in its strength, “distinct as the billows, but one as the sea,’’ but now tossed in ruined fragments, a prey to anarchy, discord and civil strife, by the Evil Genii of Secessionism, no longer avail him to people the fancies of his susceptible countrymen with images of terror —to frighten them from fidelity to country to oraven submission to wrong, and from steadfastness to political principle into bargains and coalitions with polit ical enemies. The betrayer of the essence of State Rights Democracy in 1850—the recipient for a brief period of all the joys of a triumphant victory, which his successful coalition with the Whigs could give him— one master stroke of the Southern Rights Democracy, toppled down the ephemeral edifice which he vainly im agined was built on a rock, while at the same moment the refluent wave of Whig support which had mounted him aloft, left him high and dry on that barren shore of discontent, where he now “chews the cud of bitter fancies.” But the Banner’s Editor is a game politician. lie “lives in hope, though he may die in despair.” He fights on and fights ever, and mark our word for it, he is deeply revolving in his mind, at this moment, anew scheme of Whig coalition, and nurturing projects of treason against the integrity and supremacy of the Dem ocratic party in Georgia. His motives are as apparent as the proofs furnished by his oolumns are clear and ample to show his purpose. The motives are that his consolidation and passive submission Democracy is in a lean majority of the Democracy of Georgia, and he and his cannot rule ; and the proofs are that he openly and undisguisedly labors to widen the breaches in the De mocracy occasioned by the discussions on the compro mise, assuming as his pretext, the disunionism of the State Rights wing of it; and that he does not attempt to conceal his dissatisfaction with the appointments and the general spirit of Gen. Pierce’s administration. We allude to the Banner’s course, not to deprecate it—not to beg it to forego its purposes ; not to pray it to halt and ponder ere it takes these fatal steps that will for evei; separate it from the Democracy, aud lapse it irre trievably into Federal Whiggerv—but simply for the purpose of advising our political friends of its marked tendencies and warning them of the political abyss into which he will lead those who follow him. Either the Banner is moved by insane counsels, or it is rushing into the arms of the Whigs, and dragging as many Union Democrats as it can, in its train, with the palpa ble object of breaking down the administration and Democratic party in Georgia. “Forewarned is fore armed.” We have made the prediction—mark its ful filment ; and let the Banner remember the facilis de scensus Averni, and not forget the huge labor of retro gression. To show that we are not mistaken in the purposes of treason to the Democratic party, cherished by the Ban ner, we call attention to the spirit of the number of the 21st of this month. The leader of that day introduces and comments upon an article from the Rome Courier , highly defiant in its tone, and breathing nothing but malevolence to the Southern Rights men. In this arti cle, the Courier distinctly takes the ground that the “Whiggery of Clay, Fillmore and Everett” is less “odious” to its tastes, than “the abominable ereed of such open-mouthed disunionists” as the “Times” and its friends. This passionate language wins the eloquent and exultant commendation and endorsement of the “Banner.” The next editorial is a labored and ingeni ous argument addressed to the passions and prejudices of Union Democrats, to dissuade them from acting with the Democratic party ; and this argument is strung on the thread that runs through the whole political system of the “Banner” —hatred towards Fire eaters, and the unpardonable sin and indigestible fact that they are the controlling majority of the party. We have not space to-day for the extracts from the “Banner” to show its temper. Iu the next article we have a very distinct onslaught on Gen Pierce , in which the administration is smitten hip and thigh, with a two edged sword ; and doubly taken to task for favoring Fire eaters and Free-Soilers. After quoting from the New York Post , an abolition organ, an article evidently written iu a passion and under the same feelings of discontent with the administration, as those that afflict the Banner , the latter exclaims: “Thu# it is that Gen, Pierce is nursing within his bo som, a faction at the North that threatens a crusade against ; the slave property of the South if they are not shielded by the ASgis of the National Democracy, and allowed to pro pagate their doctrines under the cover of their guns. In order to sustain him in that policy, he has found it neces sary to subsidize the Southern Secessionists into a fatal and unprincipled coalition with them. By this course he has struck a blow against that Union which he professes so much to cherish, under which it is destined to reel and rook to its centre, at uo distant day. The event may not occur during his admiuistration, but he has rendered it sure by the policy he has pursued. W e see the cloud gathering in the distance—when the coalition between the two extremes shall have beaten down the middle grounded men—and when the two extremes will stand face to lace in mortal arbitrament. The only way to avert it is, tor the middle-grounded men to rally under a distinct organ ization, as they did in 1850 and 4 1851, that shall stand aloof \ from all national party conventions, upon a platform of J sound republican principles, and equally opposed to North- 1 ern Freesoilism on the one hand, and Southern Seees , sionism on the other. Here, in our humble opinion, is ; the true path of safety for all the friends ol the right# ot ! the States, and the union of the States.” Here, then, is the card of the Banner party —it is played openly and above-board, and it is clear to every eye that it will oppose the administration, because Gen eral Pierce did not put up at the “Union Hotel’’ instead of the White .House, and did not give the reins of his government into the hands of a set of soap-tail politi cians who flee from their principles as from a pestilence, whenever and wherever the experimentum crucis is ap plied to them. Here we have an open bid to the W bigs to help the sore-heads of the Banner clique break down General Pierce and the Democracy ; and a tender of the right hand of fellowship, cemented by a common hatred to State Rights men. And if any body will look at the Whig papers, they will see how the lead oi the Banner is followed. The Columbus Enquirer of yesterday, (April 26.) after a political starvation of long duration, jumps at the bait, like a trout at a fly, and spins us out an article,lugubrious with compromise woes, and rampant against the wicked administration that take* horrid Fire eaters into its confidence ! What a change has come over these men ! We remember how they both sneered and chuckled when a Southern Rights gentleman characterised Genera! Pierce as the “crea tion and choice’’ of his political party. We remember how they swore he was a compromise man, and a Un ion man, and how he would nick the necks of the vile Fire eaters. But there has been “von grand” disap pointment in all this. The President belongs to a dif ferent species of animated Nature from that very low one in which these gentlemen chose to class him. He is neither a jelly fish nor a sea urchin, but a strong-back ed and vetebrated animal, with the spinel column erect, and a soul under its ribs that cannot but admire men everywhere, who stand up for the rights of their firesides and altars. And now because he is this man , the whole tribe of jelly fishes are banding against him. He is to be hooted down because he will not do the bid dings of vengeance of a clique, fresh and reeking from the meretricious embraces of a Whig coalition, upon the true Democracy of Georgia who have never swerved from their State Rights integrity. We think the Athens Banner, on the whole, is one of the small stars destined to be lost to the Democratic constellation. It is traveling Whig ward, just as fast as the seven-leagued boots of passion and affinity can carry it. The sooner the better. Ten enemies beleaguering the citadel outside, in preference |to one Judas within. But while that paper can go to ; the Whigs, it is not Titan enough to compass the great | feat of pushing the King Demos from the throne. The | Democratic party will survive its defection, as it has doue that of many better men. Lucifer with his party storming the battlements of Heaven, had a hopeful time of it, in comparison with the Atheus Banner and its pigmy clique, shooting split peas as the bulwarks of the Great Democracy. The Vice Presidency. By ihe death of William Rufus Kwo. the Vice j * 1 Presidency is vacant, and will remain so until the next election for President and Vice President. Mr. Atchison, the temporary President of the Senate, is not Vice President; he continues in his office of Senator, and only receives his eight dollars per day 5 though if the President should die he would suc ceed him in his office. This is an anomaly in our con stitution, and i3 clearly a casus omissus. The Vice Presidency has been vacant before this time, on the following occasions, viz.: Twice by the death of the Vice Presidents, viz.: George Clinton, April, 1812; his term expiring March 3, 1813. El bridge Gerry, November, ISi-i ; his tejm expiring March 3, 1817. Once by the resignation of John C. Calhoun, December 18, 1832 ; his term expiring March 3, 1833. Twice by the death of Presidents Harrison and Taylor, and the consequent accession of Vice Presi dents Tyler and Fillmore to the Presidency—the for mer in April, 18ll; the latter in July, 1850—leaving the Vice Presidency vacant for the remainder of their respective terms, and the President of the Senate wiih the right of succession to the Presidency. The powers and duties of the Vice President aud the President of the Senate pro tern ., are precisely the same, except that the latter votes as a Senator and has the casting vote. Murderer Arrested. The Vademecum informs us that a man named Worsiiard, who lately killed Samuel Brannon in Dale county, Ala., has been arrested near old Fort Perry in Marion county, by a party of gentlemen from Alabama, who have taken him back to stand his trial. Worshard resisted the arrest and severely, if not mortally, wound ed a brother of Branuon and a man named Clark. Attorney General Cushing has made a report in re ference to papers belonging to the Census Bureau, which were seized by Mr. Kennedy, the last superintendent, under a writ of replevin; the report sustains Mr, Deßow in refusing to give up the papers, and denies the right of the court to grant a writ of replevin in the case. W ashinoton Items —F. Burt, Esq., of South Car olina, has entered upon his duties as Third Auditor of the Treasury. Gov- Foote has been mentioned as likely to be the new Minister to Franoe, Newspaper for Sale. —Messrs. Britain & DeWolfe advertise for sale the Advertiser and State Gazette. They represent it as having the largest circulation of any paper in the State, with a lucrative advertising pat ronage. Terms cash, or Us equivalent. It is said that General Arista, the farmer President of the Republic of Mexico, has arrived at New Orleans in a brig, the captain of which was bribed, for a large amount, to bring him to that port. The Norfolk Argus says it lias good authority for stating tlxat Mr. Robert G. Scott, of Richmond, Va., has received the appointment of Consul to Rio de Janeiro, j j It is said that the Hon. Solon Borland has declined the appointment he recently received of Governor of New Mexico, vice W. Carr Lane, removed. The Bey of Tunis is expected io Palis on a visit, iu j ihe course of next month. j George Morrow has been arrested in Hickman eoun* ; ty, Kentucky, on the charge of killing his own son. Gov. Far well, of Wisconsin, decline* are flection, j Washington Monument. This great work is steadily progressing to it* com pletion ; and it should be the pride of every citizen to contribute his mite to erect a monument worthy of the fame of him who is universally regarded as the first of mankind. We are pleased to learn that Messrs. Gray, PREEaand Wilkins have been appointed a committee to receive contributions for this purpose. They are all gentlemen of character .and will be safe depositaries of the donations which may be committed to their charge. Washington National Monument Office, £ April 19, 1853. $ The Board of managers of the Washington Fational Monument Society do hereby appoint Messrs. Wm. C. Gray, Peter Preer and F. G. Wilkins, of Columbus, Georgia, a committee to collect funds to complete the erection of the Great National Monument to the memory of the “Father of his Country,” and we most respectfully commend this Committee to our fellow citizens, as having given ample security for the faithful performance of their trusi and as patriotic men who do this work without fee or reward, GEORGE WATTESON, Sec’ry. Gin HouseTJiirnt. We learn from the Vade-mecum that Col. Y\ m. M. Brown’* Gin House, at his lower plantation in Marion county, was entirely consumed by fire, on Sunday night last, together with two valuable gins, a patent Mill, and a Thresher. As there had been no fire near the house during the day, it was evidently the work of an incendiary. - Nomination for Congress. The Georgia Citizen and Columbus Enquirer have | suggested to the Democracy that Hon. A, C. Morton is the fittest man they can run for Congress in this District. We imagine that they will receive small thanks from him for their deceitful praise, as nothing could befall him which would more surely defeat his aspiiatioiy* as a politician as to be pitted by two such backers against the other game coeks of the Democratic party. It is said that there are slight hopes of the recovery of Mike Walsh, Esq., who is lying ill in New York. COMMUNICATION FOR THE TIME* AND SENTINEL. Messrs. Editors :—Permit me to saj a word to the voters of Russel county, Ala., through your columns, which are extensively read here, though published in an adjoining State. Your August elections are approaching, and by the Legislature to be elected then, two United States Senators ore to be appointed. These Senators will either oppose or support the administration of General Pierce. General Pierce is now in office, has come before the American people with a programme of what we are to expect from him and,his administration. His constitutional advisers before taking office are said to have endorsed it. Are you satisfied with the showing he has made? Is it not in fall accordance with what those of you expected who vot ed for him ? Does it not perfectly agree with all his antc cedents? Has not this programme, declaring that South ern constitutional rights are of equal dignity and binding force with all other constitutional rights, provoked the dis pleasure of your enemies at home arid abroad ? You must ! have observed, Messrs. Editors, the gusto it seemed to give your neighbor to show to their readers in what con tempt our Democratic President is held in London on ac count of h's principles. Now I wish to ask the voters of Russel county if they are satisfied with their President, what is their duty in the premises ? Will you sustain him ? or will you passive ly permit, under the delusive cry of peace , peace , an or ganization formed for the purpose of hurling him from i office or checkmating him in the Senate ? Patriotism, gratitude, self-interest ali seem to me to forbid it. He is quite a stranger to party profligacy who does not know, that while abolitionists are assaulting him for these decla ! rations, ho wiil not be defended south but by his political I friends.. Then let them come up to the mark; let them rally to ; the standard of their patriotic and talented leader, and | show him and your political brethren that you nobly dare to espouse the cause of an American President in a just discharge of his constitutional duties, though the London Times may mock and Southern Editors re-cho the mockery. Let the young, the gallant, of the friends of Pierce come forward and show their mettle, not in Russel only, but in every county, and if we do not succeed in every countv, we shall have forced his enemies to unmask, and that is half a victory, for, from “masked batteries” good Lord de liver us. A Voter of Russel county. Kew Disco ery of Electric Influence. It is the general impression among scientific men, that only a small portion of the power and influence of electricity has yet been devel oped. One of its recent applications has been the lighting of cities. As one of the results of this new application, we notice the following statement which we copy from the Paris Cor i respondence of the National Intelligencer : Science, particularly electrical science, seems to be making fresh triumphs everyday. 1 We have now to record anew application of ; electricity by Dr. Joseph Watson, which is ex | hibitingin the neighborhood of Wadsworth. | The great feature of the invention is, that the | materials consumed in the production of elec- ‘ trical light, are employed lor a profitable pur-1 pose, independent of the illumination, and more than remunerating the entire expense ; so i that the light, which is rendered constant and I brilliant, is produced for nothing. Thus, while : the light is being produced by galvanic action, i materials aie introduced into The battery bv which pigments of the finest quality are obtain ed ; these are so valuable, that they considera bly exceed the entire cost of operation. Dr. Watson thus speaks of his invention in a pam phlet not yet published : -Our battery we have termed the chromatic battery and its produce is colors. It may seem difficult to imagine how any numbered galvanic arrangements can be made to yield a great variety of colors ; but when it is re membered that the real number of natural col ors is small, and that a difference of tint and shade imparts to each separate product a dis tinct commercial existence as a color, we may then be believed when we say, thut by the use of not more than five substances introduced in ! to our batteries, we are able to produce no less than one hundred valuable pigments, exceed ing in value, by a great per centage, the orig inal value of the article contributed toward I their production. Our mode of producing j these colors consists, not in any subsequent j mixing of the products resulting fronri the work ing of our batteries, but is the result of the ac tual development of the electricity in the bat tery.” The exact process cannot be made intclli gible by a short extract from the pamphlet, but the discovery is allowed to be the most valua ble, and its perfect accomplishment undoubted. Turkey. Retirement of the Russian Army — The French Army—The French Fleet—The Sultan and Napoleon—Movements of the Turkish Fleet. A despatch of the 28th ult., received at Paris from Constantinople, announces that Prince Menschikoff had submitted a dr ft of a con vention. He had received satisfactory assu rances from the vizier, and the Russian army had been ordered to retire fiom the Turkish frontier. From Trieste of the 6th inst. it is sta ted that the French fleet had been seen off Cape Matapan. The Paris Cons titutinnnel says :—“At the date of the last accounts from Vienna, an en voy extraordinary from ihe iSultan, charged with a special mission to the Emperor, was dai ly expected. He will be the bearer of an au tograph letter from the Sultan This envoy wiil be Mustapha Effiendi, one of the Sultan’s aids de camp and who enjoys the fullest con fidence of his sovereign, and his selection for this mission will be a proof of the renewal of a good understanding between Austria and the Porte ” ‘I he Turkish fleet has left Antivari and reti red to the other Albanian ports, to await or ders from Constantinople. fFrom the Daily Morning News.] Chflsea, April 22. Mr. Editor : —I see in your paper of yester day, this remark : “Alorganitic marriages are expressly sane* tioned in Germany by Frederick the Great, in his code of 1750. The word is said to be deri ved from the German Mongengabi , (morning git.”) Allow me, a little cracker girl, just to hint that when persons of unequal rank marry, it is call ed a morganatic marriage—from the fairy Morgana 1 s marriage with a mortal — and the.e is no such word as “Mongen” in the German language. Morgen means morning in my Ger man dictionary,—but I suppose that was a faux pas of your types —not in the habit of spel ling German. Very respectfully, M. A. B. Ogeechee River England and Australia. —The English pa pers regret the domestic feeling which is steadi ly growing up in the colony of Australia. The troops are insulted, and have little or no influ ence in the preservation of order. Everything done by the government seemed to be unpop ular. The people at large were impatient at being trammeled by laws imposed by authori ties 16,000 miles off; and it is mentioned as a significant circumstances that portraits of Her Majesty were almost unsaleable. The soldiers, too, are beginning to desert from the 40th regi ment, in Australia, and are off to the diggings. Upward of twenty are gone. £2 5 per head is offered for their apprehension. Birth of a Prince. —The Queen has given birth to another son, at Buckingham Palace, at a quarter past one o’clock P. M., of 7th inst. Mother and child are “as well as can be expec ted,” &c. Therf were present on the oceaaion, in thejQueen’s apartment, Pfijfce Albert,! Dr. Locock, and Mrs. Lilly, the nursb. In the ad joining chamber were Drs. Sir James Clarke and Ferguson, the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in-Waiting, the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Gran ville, Duke of Norfolk, Duke of Wellington, Duke of Newcastle, Marquis of Lansdovvne, Marquis of Breadalbane, Duke of Argyll, Lord Palmerston, and the Lord Chancellor. Editorial Change. —The “Nashville Banner” of the 20th instant, contains the valedictory of Gen. F. K. Zollicoffer. who retires in conse quence, we suppose of his having accepted the whig nomination for Congress in the Nashville District. Allen A. Hall, for many years con nected with the Political Press of Tennessee, has taken charge of the Editorial Department of the Banner. ] John A. Campbell. —We learn by the Mobile j Tribune, that a public entertainment was ten i tiered a few days ago to Hon. John A. Camp* ; bell by the members of the Mobile bar and oth j citizens, as a token of public respect, prior to his leaving to preside in the U. S, Court at New Orleans. It was declined for reasons which we have not heard. I Fun in Court. —We occasionally have some amusing incidents in the dull practice of the law ; recently an applicant for admission to the bar, undergoing an examination, was asked by one of the examining committee, how many per sons there were in law, very readily replied, “two.’’ “True,” said the examiner, “what are | they called?” “Women and men,” replied the j applicant. “No.’’ said the examiner, “in law ! the persons are either real or artificial. What | is an artificial person “A woman,” unhesi tatingly answered the applicant—at which some old disappointed bachelors pretended to be very much amused, and thought it an excellent hit. Judge Jeffries, ot notorious memory, point ing with his cane to a man who was about to be tried, said—“there is a rogue at the end of my cano. Ihe man to whom he pointed, looking at him, said : “At which end, my Lord ?” A lerrible Tragedy. —The Detroit Advertiser has an account of a terrible tragedy which late ly occurred at Decatur, Michigan. Simon O. Keeler, in a fit of drunkenness, murdered his wife and killed himself. Mr. Keeler was the son ot Judge Woolcut Keeler, and both he and his wite were educated and intelligent persons. Ihe New York Herald says that Foreign missions possess no attractions in the eves of Col. Benton. He is determined to serve his term ot two years in the House of Representa tives. A Protestant Church, at which the services are all conducted in Chinese, has been established in San Francisco. Within the last ten years the colored popula tion of New York has fallen from fifty to forty seven thousand! On the 30th, the Papal government conclud ed the loan with Rothschilds Brothers for twen ty million of francs.