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[From the London loader, April 2 ] A Story of a Dress. Among the sights of London I encountered one that I little expected to see, and it may not l>e uninteresting to some of our readers down SoTith. I was looking at the Palace of the Kings, not at all equal to the White House, which is open to every citizen—and it was there that a sight struck me which was not quite pleasant for one of uncle Sam’s nephews. > bevy of fair ladies were leaving a great house with a crowd of folks looking at them, and pn lice to keep order. The ladies had been attend ing a meeting to sympathize with Uncle Tom— that benighted and maundering old nigger, whose jargon helps to prevent our real states men from making the men of the South even listen to reason. The poor ladies, however, looked more fit for a ball or morning concert than for any political work in earnest; and their countenances were guilty of nothing worse than a little holiday bustle, newly spiced with black pepper. But something was to happen besides this “Uncle Tomerie.’’ In the crowd I saw a young couple who were waiting out of more than mere curiosity. You could see that by the eye of the girl. The young man also watched the ladies as they came out, but evidently his care was the girl. At last a lady issued from the door—a tall, handsome woman, with fine aristo cratic features, bold 3’et delicate; a very vo luptuous countenance, if the sensuous look had not been rendered harsh by a slight habitual sneer of scorn, very common with English peo ple of ‘ high birth ;” her face being also, if it is not rude to say so, a littte hardened by time. She must have been a glorious creature, and she looked to think herself still so. She was in no hurry—haste would have spoiled her cos tume. I wish I could describe it, but that would need a less republican pen than mine. Her noble throat rose out of a wide expanse of delicate and brilliant silk, softened with a large white shawl and a variety of lace, or whatever else it was ; but the taste of the arrangement disposed the mass of soft strips so as to display and not to disguise the grace of her tall and rather slender figure. “That gown,” said I to the young man, “cost more in the making than the stuff.” “It might in 3’our country,” he answered, turning round sharp to look at mo—though I did not know that I had any peculiar accent; “but in this country the labor is the least part of the cost, except to the laborer.” Ho had an accent not quite English. “What have all these fair ladies been doing, sir!” 1 asked. “Meeting about Uncle Tom ,’’ said he. “I wish they would look to the slaves in their own country.” “We don’t get up abolition meetings for the white niggers of Manchester, sir,” said I. “No,” said he ; “I wish you did. But Man- Chester is not our South. There are worse, places than that not so far off.” The fine lady came down the steps, and then the young woman, who had not attended at all to us, stepped close to the lady and spoke to her. A policeman came forward to remove the girl; and my blood boiled to see a fellow in a glazed hat attempt to touch a female ; but the Tatty herself stopped him with a wave of her hand. The girl repeated what she said, but I did not hear it. The lady looked—not surprised, she was too proud for that, but unbelieving. The girl again spoke ; and the lady again replied ; and then the lady motioned to the girl to get into her carriage. They both got in; and after a few words to the footman—a fine gentleman, in a lovely, delicate blue coat, with white gloves, and cheeks like a girl’s—the carriage drove off. The young man looked for an instant into my face, and then asked me if I could run.— Without reply I joined him in following the car riage. We ran barely a mile, and then we ar rived at the door of a poor house, in a small street before the carriage. The young man fol lowed the woman, and I followed him, nobody stopping me, I suppose, because I did not look as if I expected they would. A sense of silence came over us as we went up stairs, and the rust ling of the fine lady’s dress was the loudest noise as we crept up. We all entered a small room, and as we did so, a child began to crv. The woman took it from another who held it, to suckle it, and so to stay the little voice which disturbed the quiet room with its healthy discon tent. The silence lav thickest at the further end, on a narrow, white bed, which the lady ap proached, and gazed upon. On it lay a young woman, but undressed, ghastly pale, with her eyes olosed. By her side, with its head pillowed on the arm that partly clasped it, lay a little child ; like its uufther in paleness, like her in its closed eyes, but unlike her, whose breath was scarcely heard, in its short and painful breathing, which would have been loud had it not sunk to the hurried whisper of de parting life. We all gazed for a minute in silence and in reverence for mortal suffering, which calls alike republican and aristocrat, rich and poor, to ac count. The lady looked at the sick woman and then at the darkled young girl who had brought her, and who kept her eves fixed on the lady : the proud woman’s looks seemed to ask why she had been brought there. “Jessy wished me to fetch v’ou,’’ cried the happier mother, for she could nourish and quiet her child. I noticed that there was no ring upon her finger, however. “Poor thing! But I would have assisted her without ’’ and the lady put her hand into her pocket for her purpose. “No, it is too late for that. You must do something else for her, and you are bonnd—you are doubty’ bound.” Again the lady’s proud eves looked a question. There was no fear in her face, but her glance around implied a challenge of the right to keep her there. “It was your haughty haste that killed her; it was yours that brought her so near death.— Yes, Lady Julia, I do not mean to offend you, but you ought to know the truth —such as you ought to know it. That is a beautiful dress you have on, very beautiful, far too beautiful for poor Jessy to wear. But when did you order l “ ere tin™ for human hands to make | ore “you must have /t,’* for this very day ? n d who set the finish to that beautiful dress ? Whose aching fingers put the last work into it ? 1 Jessy’s, there ; and when I took it from her last j night, she lay down to die !” The proud lady was silent; her eyes bent upon the dying woman, without retort, and her . haughty features sottened to a gaze of reflecting j sorrow ; for these English women have hearts in their bossoms, haughty and as they j seem—at least some have. Suddenly the lady's | manner altered, as if she threw oft* some mantle ! >f pride and restraint, and turning once more to rhe girl whom brought her, with a blow, simple, j lirect way of speaking, she said : “And what j can be done now ?” “One thing—to let pride of luxury come,and do homage to want and misery, when death raises the lowly above the high.” “I have done that that.” “Next, to bring justice and consolation to parting life. On that bed lies, half conscious,; the poor seamstress who died at her needle—it is a common enough. But that same woman— not half your age—do you see her child?” The lady bowed. “How much would ymu rate it3 life worth ? Why is it there at all? Why come into the; world only 7 to loek for a few uncertain days up- i on its misery ? Who called it ? “The girl paused, as a sigh from the dying , woman summoned her attention ; but she went on, bent to make out the retribution where re demption conld not come. “Lady Julia do you know what it is to have j temptations—hopes of the heart where no straight path of hope appears? You cannot.— If ever you are tempted—and you are. —and you yield, your face tells it—you have not been | driven by total wretchedness and despair.— I I Love never visited you in misery, and privation, ! and endless toil ; never came from a distant; 1 world of pleasure and power ; never whispered i ’ into your wearied car, that pleasure might in it | self be a release from slavery ; never won you to one short dream of delirious delight, and ; then left you back in that nightmare of pleas ureless toil, to await the consequences of pleas ; ure taken, pleasure granted without bond exac j ted. But it did come so to poor Jessy, there.” The lady began to look impatient. I notice ; of these English that they can never listen to any narrative of sufferings save when they tell it of themselves. “You are looking at my hand,” said the girl, holding it out, to confess by the act that it was | ringless : “but I was not deserted. Trouble [ and sorrow have I, but not despair. Bertrand, , take the darling/’ She gave her own baby to the young man, and stooped over the other’s child. “Now, Lady Julia, look closer, and see if in this poor death stricken little creature’s face you can trace a proud likeness. Jessy, jon her deserted death-bed, lias conceived a i longing to see the father of her child. Both will*be gone soon, and why should not that lit- \ tie wish be gatified ? Would the father grudge that trouble ?—he took more to persuade Jessy out of her hard poverty into bis pleasure ! Would he bo too much of a coward to visit this poor room where suffering and ghastly death have succeeded love ?” Lady Julia looked as if an answer was ex pected to answers that seemed so abstract. “Do not be amazed, for it is you only can j answer. Poor Jessy’s last toil was to finish the gown you wear. The father of her child j is your son.” A dead silence followed this somewhat j startling announcement, and the girl evidently ; took a pleasure, which Bertrand shared, in ! driving home the knife. Doubly 7 had poor Jes sy’s life been sacrificed to the pleasure of La dy Julia’s blood. The lady stooped down and kissed the child, not hastily ; and then stooping lower, she kiss ed the moveless band of its mother. “Send for him,” said the girl. “I will fetch him,” said Lady Julia, rising. < “I see the likeness. But take this, my good j girland she tried to force her purse into the | reproacher’s hand. “It is too late.” “I hope not —skilful aid ; and,” she added, I yielding to the hopelessness plainly written on ; the aspect of that cheerless room, “if not for j them , at least for yourself and your—.” An Indian's Joke. —ln the time of Indian troubles, a friendly Indian visited the home of Governor Jenks of Rhode Island, when the Governor took occasion to request him, if any | strange Indian should come to his wigwam, to I let him know it. This the Indian promised to 1 do, and tho Governor told him that when he | should give such information, he would give him | a mug of Hip. Some time after the Indian came 1 i again, and on meeting the Governor, said— -1 “Well, Mr. Gubernor, strange Indian come to ; 1 my house last night.” “Ah,” says the Governor, “what did he say.” i “He not speak,” replied the Indian. “What! not speak at all inquired the Gov ernor. “He not speak at all.” i “That looks suspicious,’’ said his Excellency, and inquired if he were there still. Being told ; that he was, the Governor ordered the promis ed mug of Aid. When this was disposed of, and the Indian was about to depart, he mildly said, ! I “Mr. Gubernor, m3’ squaw have child last night.,’’! and the Governor finding the strange Indian was anew born papoose, was glad to find there was no cause of alarm. —— “Betsy, get up, and get me something to eat.” ! “Why, John, there’s nothing cooked.” “Well get up and cook something.” “There’s nothing to cook.” “Nothing at all ?” “No.’’ “Well, get up, and get a clean knife and fork— ! I’ll go through the motions anyhow.’’ (£T The Litchfield Republican says that I Henry Ward, a compositor in that office, wrote i | the beautiful hymn commencing, “I would not j I live alway.” It has been attributed to Bishop * ! Heber. Anew supposition has been started in regard j to the lost Tribes of Israel. The Affganistan people are now supposed b3 r some to be a rem nant of the Ten Tribes. They are said to call themselves Bannie-Israel, and it is alleged that oneof the tribes is called after Joseph, and anoth er after Isaac. (Times nub StvdmtL COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL, 29, 1853. _ _ 1 - - ■ ■ - Tim Coalition. We have heretofore indicated that there was a fixed j purpose on the part of certain Union Democrats who ; refused, in the last election, to support the Democratic j Pierce and King electoral ticket, to form a coalition with j Federal Whiggery. This, however, is not their avowed j purpose; but their covering with which they at- ; tempt to disguise their designs is perfectly transparent. The Union humbug is to be kept up, the profession of Democratic principles is boldly to be persisted in—but j the votes of tho faction are to be given to the nominee j of the whig party at every election, when a State Rights man is the candidate of the Democratic party. We have no word of expostulation to throw away i upon the leaders of this movement. They are blinded by passion, enraged by defeat, and are more intent upon vengeance than solicitous for the success of their prin ciples or the good of their country. Rut to the honest voters, whom these men are trying to mislead, from the old Democratic track, into the devious courses of whig- j gery, we desire to make an earnest appeal, and to ad- j dress a word of warning. What is whiggery ? It is very hard to describe the I camelion, as its hues change with every phase of public ! I sentiment. At one time it was in favor of a National Bank, a High Protective Tariff, the abolition of the Veto Power, a general system of Internal Improvements by the Federal Government, the distribution of the proceeds of the sales of the Public Lands among the States—all of which measures had a direct tendency to merge the : States as separate sovereignties into agreatand corrupt ; national consolidated government, to transfer all power ; into the hands of the northern majority, and to build up ‘ the north out of the spoils which they could, by devious j legislation, wrest from the south. This was Clay whig gery, this was Webster whiggery, and this is northern j whiggery to-day. Against this corrupt policy the • great budy of the j Democratic party has waged unceasing war for 20 years —and the very leaders of this new coalition party have | i won ali their laurels in opposing it, in the terrible party ! | eonllicts which it has engendered. And now they coun- j | sel the following of Jackson who gained iiis political re- j novvn by vetoing internal improvement bills and crush -1 ingthe National Rank, and reducing the tariff, and in 1 : the exercise of the veto power, to insult the memory of ! the old Hero by co-operating with a party which op ! posed him in every act of his administration and follow ! ed him with Hyena instincts even to the grave ! Un blushing, indeed, is their effrontery, to make such a pro position to honest men. Rut this is not all. The Northern whig party is fa- ! tally tainted with the leprosy of abolition. Ail its great | leaders are either abolitionists or Freesoilers. There is I not an exception in tho party north of the Potomac.— ! Nay, even the National convention which assembled last year to nominate a candidate for President, selected a man whom the great body of the whig party at the south regarded aa unsound on this vital question, and thousands on thousands of as devoted party men as ever lived, actually refused to support him. So striking is the contrast between the Democratic and Whig parties in this regard, that distinguished whig; politicians who have devoted the strength of their manhood in advocating whig principles, now actually spurn the proposition to reorganise the whig party. They see and lament that the arch-demagogue and abolition ist William 11. Seward is the leading spirit in the or ganization, and will in all probability be the whig can didate in 1856. Can Union Democaats prefer such associates to the State Rights Democracy of the South ? God forbid ! Rut it is alleged in extenuation that State Rights Democrats are Nullifiers and Disunionists. What then ? Has not the good whig State of Vermont nulli fied the Fugitive Slave Law ? There are whig nullifiers as well democratic nullifiers ; whig disunionists as well as democratic disunionists ; with this difference, that the whig nullifiers and disunionists are endeavoring to rob the south of her property, while the democratic nullifiers and disunionists are attempting, it may be rashly and indsiereetly, to preserve and defend it. It is further alleged that the Union democrats are in a minority in the democratic party, and that the spoils of office will be monopolised by the fire-eaters. This is a miserable appeal to a very sordid motive. Shall a man give up his principles because ho cannot obtain ! office ? The argument ought only to be addressed to Arnolds and Judases, Rut we deny the allegation. 1 The Southern Rights Democracy are not proscriptive, j Even now the most prominent candidates for the nomi- i nation for Governor of Georgia, the highest office in j the gift of the people, are Union Democrats, and lion- J orable mention has been made of another in connection i with Congress in this district. If the party has erred at j all it is in the facility with which it has forgotten tho j defection of 1850, and the cordiality with which it re- ; ceived back into the wigwam, its truant members. — [ The gentlemen who make th charge are too well ex- j perienced in party history not to know that one fight ; and victory conciliates all enmities, and caneils all re- i collections of former feuds. The history of Georgia j abounds in instances “to our purpose quite.” But will the Union Democrats acquire the ascendancy in the whig party by their treason to the Democracy ? Will Toombs and Stephens give the truncheon of polit ical power to Ilolsey and Wofford ? Nay, further, can the- feeble band of Union Demo crats push Seward, and Corwin, and Fillmore from their seats, and infuse into the corrupt system of northern whiggery,'the pure and healthy blood of the De mocracy? The task were as hopeless as to revive the decay ing corpse by a few drops from the veins of a healthy man. The result of the coalition cannot be doubted. All histo ry proves that the larger political body will infuse in- j to the smaller, its principles and sentiments. In view : of these stubborn facts, we entertain no fears as to the i result of the movement now being made to effect a coalition with the whigs. No honest democrat, who is not blinded with rage, can entertain the proposition, and the end of the moment will be that a few fishy leaders : of the Union democracy will go over to the enemy, ; while the great body of the party will stand firmly by ; their time-honored standard. Nominations for Congress. The Enquirer publishes the statement of the Citizen , j that we have mentioned the name of no man in con j nection with Congress in this District, who was not known to be a Disunioniat. The statement is untrue, and we are surprised that our neighbor should give cir culation to it. We have held up to the people of this District the name of Marshall J. Wellborn, a Union Democrat, in connection with others, as a suitable can didate for this high office; and we now say once for all, that we will support any honest man for this or any other office who endorses tho Baltimore Platform, in its “plain meaning and import” and entered cordially into the support of Pierce and King. Will the Enquirer and Citizen bo liberal enough to publish this article. # Reply to <# A S. of T.” We were no little surprised to find “AS. of 1.” \ objecting to our article about Temperance Hall, and de nying the position that it would revert to the Grand j Division in case the charter of the Subordinate Division j were forfeited. Our article was written at the request and upon the information of well informed Sons of Tem perance, in the hope of stimulating active efforts to li- : quidate the debts hanging over the Hall, and securing j the use of it to the community. And by reference to i the By-Laws of the order page 08, Section 6, we find ! that our statement was literally true. The following is j a copy of the by-law referred to : Section G. Whenever a Subordinate Division is sus i pended,or its charter declared forfeited, it shall be the I duty of the last installed officers, on demand , to surrender | to the Grand Worthy Patriarch , the Deputy Grand Worthy Patriarch, or a special Deputy, all books, pa~ perß , property and funds belonging to the Division ; and every officer refusing to make such surrender, shall thereafter be perpetually excluded from membership, even though the Division to which he belonged, shall be re stored to good standing in the Order. The words italicised are too explicit to be misunder ! stood. It makes it apparent that if the Subordinate j Divisions forfeit their charters, that “all the property,” : aye, even “the funds” of the Subordinate Divisions, | must be surrendered to the Grand Division, i We are very much gratified at the assurance o{ “A S. ofT.” that there is no danger of a forfeiture of char ters here. Still this does not lessen our obligations to aid them in discharging the heavy debt which they have I assumed for the benefit of the community. We hope our suggestions will not fall to the ground without fruit. j Louisiana I r . S. Senator. A dispatch received from Baton Rouge to-day, says , that the Democratic Caucus nominated lion. John Sli dell, for U. S. Senator, to succeed Hon. P. Soule, i ! by a majority of three votes, COMMUNICATION roil TIIE TIMES AND SENTINEL. I Messrs. Editors :—Allow me to suggest the name of i Maj. Alfred 11. Colquitt, as a suitable candidate to : represent this Congressional District in the coining elee ! tion. We need a candidate who is personally popular, and is an able stump speaker. The contest will be a severe one, and all the talent of the Whig party will be brought into the field. Johnson, Warren and Crawford must be met on thesturnp and vanquished. Who can do it ? In my judg ment Maj. Colquitt is the man. He ardently sympathises S with the masses, and is a special favorite with them whe-rev” |er known. His services in Mexico lias proven to the peo ■ pic that his professions of patriotism are not all empty words j signifying nothing, but the true utterances of a noble heart which is ready to make any sacrifice of himself for the good of the country. He is, besides, a brilliant orator, and has perhaps no equal in the District, in this regard, except his inimitable father, whom he much resembles in | character and gilts, lie is also a true hearted Southern [jnan, identified with the Southern people in interest and | feeling, and from a child has been taught the principles of ; Democracy. | With these shining advantages we are sure Maj. Col- I quitt will be able to command the whole strength of the party and lead our cohorts to victory in the coming elec* tion. Many Voters. ;• J Executive Department, Ga., / Milledgeville, April 26, 1853. \ 1 ‘Hie melancholy intelligence of the death of | the Hon. William R. King, late Vice President | of the United States, has been received at this i Department. Asa testimonial of respect to j to the memory of a worthy man and distinguish ! ed statesman who had just been called by the I voice of his fellow-citizens to the second highest ; office of the Republic : i It is ordered, That guns be fired on the Capi tol Square on to-morrow, (Wednesday) from sunrise to sunset, at regular intervals of half an i hour. 2nd. That the various offices of the Execu- j tive Department be closed on that day. 3d, That the entrances to the Capitol be ! hung in mourning for thirty day’s. 4th. That the different Executive Officers | wear crape on the left arm for thirty days; and I that it be recommended to all the officers of j the State, both civil and military, to wear the ; like badge for the same period. HOWELL COBB. j By the Governor: j Arthur Hood, Sec’y, Ex. Dep’t. j The Southern Rail Road. —The distance j ; from Savannah to Vicksburgh, a nourishing i town on the Mississippi River, is about 670 i miles, according to the late estimate, and of j this distance 410 miles of Railroad have been built. A road from Vicksburgh to Jackson Mis sissippi, and thence 14 miles easterly to Bran don Mississippi, in all 60 miles, shows what has been done up to this time, at that end of the line j towards reaching the Atlantic, via Savannah. A road westerly from Savannah to Montgomery Alabama, (not quite done, but so nearly, we j may safely speak of it as completed) will give J an idea of what has been done at this end off the line towards reaching Vicksburgh. The whole distance of railroad now finished between the two points, is 410 miles, leaving unfinished a distance of 100 miles yet to be built, from Brandon to the Alabama line and 124 miles from the Alabama line, to Montgomery, before Savannah and Vicksburgh will bo fairly con nected by Railway.— Sav, Journal. Judge oj the W estern Circuit. —We learn that the Governor of Fla. has appointed the Hon. J. J. binley of Jackson County to the vacancy on the bench of the Western Circuit occasioned by the resignation of Judge G. S. Hawkins, ap- j pointed Collector of the Port of Apalachicola, j Mr. Finley has represented Jackson County in the Senate ot this State for the last two sessions of the General Assembly. He is a gentleman of pleasing manners, an effective speaker, with a fair reputation at the bar. —Floredian 4* Jour nal. There are, it is said, one hundred applicants for the consulship at Honolulu, among whom are nine ex-Governors. Mrs. Howard of Louis Napoleon Notoriety— The following extract of a letter from a Balti more correspondent of the Ne w Orleans Cres cent, gives some interesting particulars of this celebrated woman : ‘fhe late marriage ot the Emperor of France, ! and the putting away of Mrs. Howard, as she is called, his former mistress, has a peculiar inte j rest here. This Mrs. Howard is the daughter of a distinguished family in this city, but has long been considered by them as dead. When j young, she was distinguished for her beauty and j wit, as well as her extraordinary amorous pro | pensities. She went to England, and was in troduced into the highest society there by tho daughter of a Maryland family, who is now one of the brightest ornamentsof the British nobility. There she was married to a titled gentleman, and after committing a number of indiscretions and giving her friends an infinite degree of trou hie and anxiety, finally irretrievably disgraced I herself by eloping with a gay young officer, j After being in succession the mistress of several j noblemen, she attached herself to Louis Napo ; leon, with whom she has remained a number of I years. A real affection is said to have existed j between them, several children having been tho fruit of their connection. Her banishment to England and her rumored abstraction of impor tant secret papers from the Emperor’s private ! apartment, is the last phase in her eventful life, i After her fall, finding her reclamation impossi | hie, her friends here announced her dead, and | even went through the ceremony of interring | hersupposed remains in Green Mount Cemetery, ! and to them she is, to all intents, morally, if not j physically, dead. i Britain's Happy Family. —The Queen, Alex andria Victoria, was born May 24, 1819. Prince Franc’s Albert Augustus Charles j Emanuel of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, was j born August 26, 1819. The twain were married at the age of 21, on the 10th of Fobruary, 1840. The isssue has bemi: Victoria Adelaide Mar}’ Louisa, horn Novem ber 21, 1840. Albert Edward, born Movember9, 1841. Alice Maud Mary, born April 25, 1843 Alfred Ernest Albert, born August 6, 1844. Helena Augusta Victoria, boru May 25,1846. Louisa Caroline Alberta, born March 18, 1848. Arthur William Patrick Albert, born May 1, | 1850. A sou not yet named, born April 7, 1853. Eight children—four sons and four daughters— j in thirteen years, and all alive and well. [N. Y. Tribune. t An Incident. —A few mornings since, just as { the cars had started from the depot, a gentle i man, his wife and daughter, were observed at ’ a distance up the street, running with great | speed towards the depot, One of the agents of I the railroad, or some other person, observing i the efforts of the party, started after the train, ! and succeeded in giving the engineer a sign to I stop for passengers. As it was the acsommoda 4_tion train wasjrtopped some distance j on the road, and waited of the man, his wife and daughter. They were all pretty much exhausted by the long and hard run they had, but they reached the location of the train, and, by anew effort, climbing a small pile of plank close at hand, they stood looking at the cars, and commenced remarking upon the ap , pearance of the vehicles. The man gave something like a combination .! of a blow and a grunt, and said addressing liis wife: “Well, I don’t think they look so very danger ous, do you ?” “Why, I don’t think they do,’’ responded the lady wiping her face, “they look rather safe and comfortable.’’ “La, mother,” said the daughter, “ain’t they pretty coaches—so many seats and windows, and so pretty painted,” taking a short breath, | and fanning herself with her hankerchief. ! “Jump in, jump in !” said the conductor. I “Oh,” said the old gentleman, “we don’t want ; to get in— we only want to see them /”— Albany Dutchman. Brunswick Stock.— Among the sales at the Stock Exchange at New York on the 21st inst., we notice 100 shares of the Brunswick Land Cos. 30 days, at 15 1-2 dollars per share. Some time since this stock was quoted at 17 a 18 dol lars per share, previous to which, at auction, sales had been made at $22. —— | Professor William G. Allen, a colored gentle | man, has consummated his purpose of marrying j Miss Mary E. King, a white girl, the daughter | of the Rev. Lyndon King, an Abolitionist of Ful ton, New \ot k. The parties are the same whose case created great excitement at that place a month or so ago. We learn from the Savannah Republican that I the Railroad from Macon to Columbus has re | ceived a contract for carrying the U. S. mails |at SIOO per mile. This contract applies of I course to the Southwestern Road, as far as | Fort Valley, to its extension thence towards Ct.lurnbus, and to the Muscogee Road. j A correspondent of the Apalachicola (Fla.) Advertiser advocates the planting of vineyards in that State for the production of wine, for which the soil and climate are both favorable. He says wine, dried figs, and raisins can all be produced in abundance there. An Attempt to set fire. —Yesterday afternoon about five o’clock an attempt was made to burn down the Old Methodist Church, situated on the corner of South Broad and Lincoln streets.— [Sav. News, 2Qth inst. The Athens (Tenn.) Post says that the Ensf Tennessee and Georgia Railroad have decided to take the entire stock of the Chattanoga and Cleveland or Charleston Railroad. Os one thousand men who formed the New York regiment in the Mexican war, only sixty are now alive, and but about forty are able to > earn their living, What a commentary on war. Lamartine is dying ; his physicians have no hopes of him.