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1 Description of Mr. Jefferson. In a scries of pen and ink portraits by Ed- j ward William Johnson of Virginia, v.e find the j annexed sketch of Thomas Jefferson’s personal ! appearance and of his conversational powers: Dressed within doors, as 1 saw him last, no longer in the red breeches which were once fa mous as his favorite arid rather conspicuous at tire, Lut still vindicating by a capacious waist coat bis attachment to that republican color; in grey shorts, small silver knee buckles, gray woolen stockings, black slippers, a blue body coat, surmounted by a grey specer; tall, and though lithe* of person and decidedly graceful and agile of motion and carriage, yet long and ill-limbed —Mr. Jefferson's figure was command ing and striking, though bad, and Isis face most animated and agreeable, though remarkably ugly. His legs, you perceive, by no means shunned observation ; yet they were scarcely larger at the knee than at the ankle, and had never been conscious of a calf. Still, though without strength, they had always borne him along with vigor and suppleness. These boui-j !y qualities and a health almost unfailing, he pre- ! served in a most singular degree, to the very 1 close of his life. At the time I speak of, when . he was in his eighty-first year, he not only moun- | ted his horse without assistance and rode habitu- I ally some ten miles a day, but, dismounting at a fence breast-high, would leap over it by only placing his hand on the topmost rail. He then walked not only well and swiftly, but with lightness and springiness of tread such as few young men ever have. It was a restless activity of mind,which performed all this unusual mobility of body; and the two, 1 think, were in him great ly alike. For his intellect had, like his person, more size than shape, more adroitness than force, more suppleness than solidity, and effected its ends by continuingin action, not bv mass of power, by manipulation not muscularity. You inay batter to pieces with a small hammer that which a cannon ball would not shiver. Ho was never idle; nay, hardly a moment still. He rose early and was up late, through his life, and was all day, whenever out on foot or on horseback, at study, at work, or in conversation. If his legs and fingers were at rest, his tongue was sure to be going. Indeed, even when seated in his library, in a low Spanish chair, he held forth to his visitors an almost endless flow of fine discourse; his body seemed impatient of keeping still, for his mind shifted his position all the while, and so twisted itself about that you might almost have thought he was attitudinizing. Meantime, his face, expressive as it was ugly, was not much iess busy than his limbs, in bearing it3 part in the conversation, and kept up, all the while, the most speaking by-play, an eloquence of the countenance as great as ugly features could well have. You have seen his portraits, his busts, the bronze statue —faithful enough except as to the limbs—which the Israelite Navy Captain bought in Paris at the price of old clothes, and offered to Congress, bat which it put by with disdain, as a stroke of speculation, meant to procure professional advancement not earned in any other way. From all these, one gets a just enough idea of the mere mould of his physiog nomy; but none, of course, of that mobility which was its only fine quality, nor the oddity of his complexion. There was much in its general tint of the color of cream; but as that substance is one of which you, good people of the great city of Gotham, conceive only as a modification of prepared chalk, let me explain by what they have oftener seen—the fruity part of a pumpkin pie. The face looked as if it were buttered with such a paste; but in addi tion to this ghastliness of hue, it was besprinkled with small-pox pits, all of which were of a live ly purple. Bad as was the color uncontrasted, you may imagine what its beauty became when set off by such a foil. As to the features, he had not one that was good, except the eyes; they were a greyish blue, clear and sparkling. His head was well set and well carried, but had the Jacobinical shape and air; his hair was originally reddish, but turned to an unbleached foxiness; his forehead was large, but well mo deled in those main frontal regions which be speak loftiness of thought and creativeness of imagination; it indicated clearness, not great ness. His brows were neither strong nor soft, but irregular and uncertain, as those of one who was wanting in will, and yet had not much feeling. His nose was mean—a small tube end ing in a sudden bulb; it was much cocked up, and derived from that shape a character of pert ness and vulgarity. His mouth was rather large, but the lips thin and not well cut; the expression sitting on them bland but not benevolent, conciliating, rather than kindly; its meaning assigned his emotions to the v *iers, not the heart—to policy, not the temper. The chin was like the forehead, broader than it was strong. Such was the line aments in detail; quite indifferent, separately; and yet, altogether, very expressive and agree able. As his motions, light and easy, were the contradiction of his ill made limbs, so was his pleasuring and animated countenance that of features, of themselves, ignoble apart. Lastly, 4fis conversation ; he certainly was one j of the best talkers I have ever listened to ; co- I pious in the extreme without ever growing tedi ous ; easy yet compact; flowing but never loose ; very variously, and to all appearance soundiy informed, and continually dealing out his infor mation, but rather as if to gratify you, not himself; his mind seemed to me, then, a greatl repository of the knotvledge that is gotten from j others, not ot tiie wisdom that must come out from one’s self. Trained in what was once its its best school, the Parisian saloons—he under* stood his conversation thoroughly as an art, and he made the most of it. as an engine of personal influence and for the propagation of his party opinions. Towards the inculcation of these, his conversation, whatever tlie subject, was usually bent except when a scientific matter was in question ; either he knew no literature, law, history, philosophy, morals, nor theology, or he could not talk of them, unless connected, in some direct or indirect way, with democratic theories. His power, indeed, of winning and controlling men always laid chiefly in his skill i of personal communication; for, even in public bodies, lie rarely made speeches, nor have we an y record of hia having ever shone as an orator. In short, not feeling strong to attack mfn’s con I victions by the front gate of manful eloquence, j he stole in by the private back door of address and of insinuation in private. <£i mts am) Smtmd. \ ! COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, i FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1853. j rrrrtrrnr ======^--- Onr Terms. We frequently receive orders for our paper unac companied with the cash. We regret always to refuse to enter names upon our books, But we are compelled to do so it) all such eases. We cannot afford to publish on the credit system. 1 All persons ordering our paper will please enclose Five Dollars for the Tri-Weekly and Two Dollars for | the Weekly issues. Free Soiler*. Our whig eotemporaric9 are making much noise over j the appointment of Free Soilers to office by President j Pierce. This is sheer hypocrisy. These ▼ry papers urged the claims of Daniel Webster and Millard Fill- j more for President of the United States, both of whom ! were Free Soilers—and the latter was an abolitionist as j late as 1838. They had not one word of reproof for \ Mr. Fillmore who had in his cabinet tho notorious i Thomas Corwin whose fame was acquired in abuse of j the south and her institutions. For four years these i I papers, whose zeal for the south is ho very conspicuous | at this time, were tho ready apologists of these men} and ; have only ascertained since a Democrat has been elected ; President, that the interests of the people compro milted by the elevation of such men to office. We : would like to know the name of the whig who resides j north of Mason and Dixon's lino who is not a Free ! Soiler—or who voted against the Wilmot Proviso. We | would like to know tho namoof a single officer under | Mr. Fillmore’s administration, north of the Potomac, j who was not a Free Soiler. Yet Mr. Fillmore’s ad- j i ministration has been lauued by these partisan editors as i i the purest and best with which the country has been I j blest since Washington’s. With what propriety, there ; fore, can such men bring railing accusation against Mr. j Pierce, the great body of whose appointments hate been’ ! made frost) the conservative wing of the Democracy I Did they not have faces of brass they would blush a j such a display of effrontery. We will Dot so far forget what is due to our princi ples and even section, as to approve of the appointment of a Free Soiler to any office, no matter how insignifi cant. Wo regard them as disturbers of tho public peace, and the enemies of a constitutional union; and we would brand every one of them with the mark of infa my. Justice to President Pierce, however, compels us to say, that he has appointed fewer Free Soilers to i office than any of his predecessors ; that the great ma- I jority of his appointments have been eminently judi | clous ; that he has conferred important office upon no man who is not pre-eminently distinguished for honestv and talent: that we firmly believe that the very few free soilers who have received office at his hands have given him ample assurance of a change of opinion ; and that the conservative men of the party control the whole policy of the administration. Another great source of complaint with whig editors, I is, that he has surrounded h : mself with men whom they j stigmatise as “secessionists.” Like Jim Crow, they i are “first on the heel on the toe.” They are ; angry and alarmed that he has appointed the enemies |of the south (Free soilers) to office. But they are furi : ous and mad because he has given the reins of his nd | ministration into the hands of the peculiar friends of the ; south, the secessionists, and pretend to apprehend the | immediate dissolution of the Union and the speedy end |of tho world, from their wicked machinations. We I apprehend they will have their labor for their pains, • and that the timid of their party, will not lose one moment’s sleep in consequence of their loud alarms. No southern man ean doubt the ability and patriotism of Jeff Davis and Pierre Soule—nor will any one be lieve that Dix, albeit he is a Free Soiler, will rob the Sub Treasury at New York. Rain. i j For five weeks past we have been suffering for rain in I this section of country —some damage waa done to the i growing crops by the long drought, and our city was rendered almost uninhabitable by the dust. On Wed | nesday morning, however, we were blest with copious i showers of rain ; the dust is effectually laid at present, j and every green thing rejoices in the bright sunshine which has succeeded. A pious friend suggests that ! the rain was sent in answer to prayers road in one of our churches on the preceding Sabbath. Mac Evoy’s Panorama. i W e are pleased to cail the attention of the public to j the fact that nigbtlv'exhibitions will be made of Mae Evoy’s Panorama of Ireland at Temperance Hall during the week. There is perhaps no country in the world more pic turesque than Ireland and every spot in “the gem of the ; sea’’ is hallowed ground ut least to Americans. We ’ ore informed that the Panorama is exceedingly beautiful j j and gives a strikingly accurate view of many of the ; | most noted spots in Ireland— others of the bay I and city of Dublin, the Giants’ Causeway, and the \ r ale ; I of Avoca. | The interest of the exhibition is varied by a faithful I i portraiture of Irish life and manners, which is said to I | bo particularly pleasing to the children. We are sure that a visit to the Panorama will give | great satisfaction, especially to Irishmen and their de- ‘ aoendants. Those who have attended speak of the performances j with rapture. Bishop Elliott. This eminent divine preached in our city last Sabbath, j and administered the rite of confirmation to twelve per i sous. Bank of the State of Georgia. At a meeting of the stockholders of this institution ; A, Porter was re-elected President- Geu. J. W. Ea ; bi n is the Director on the part of the State. 1 - Another Rai! Road. At a late meeting in Milledgeviils the people express led a preference for a Railroad from Warren ton via. I Sparta to Milledgeville, to any other route, and pledged | themselves to take stock in such an enterprise. Savannah River. At a town met ting held iu Savannah, May 4th, a resolution was unanimously passed recommending the | appropriation of $160,000 to improving the navigation of the river—the amount to be raised by the issue of 7 per cent bonds—and to be expended by officer of the United States. Alabama State Convention. This convention met May 2d, in Montgomery. Col. T. B. Bethea, of Mobile, was appointed President, and Battle, of Wilcox, and Pearson, of Tallapoosa, Seere- ; taries. Thirty counties were represented. Wo learn from the Advertiser and Gazette that the j j convention commenced balloting for a candidate for j Governor, May 3. J. A. Winston, Judge T. A. Walk : er, Hon. S. W. Harris, and Cel. J. L. Cottrell having been placed in nomination by their respective friends. The friends of Maj. Harris from Coosa desired to j I withdraw his name, as it was the wish of that gentle- j i man, often privately and publicly expressed, that he j i should not he placed in nomination. After several ballotings, the name of Col. Cottrell was withdrawn, and on the call for the eighth ballot, i the names of both Judge Walker and Maj. Harris were ; withdrawn by tho gentlemen who had placed them in ! nomination, when, | Col. John A. Winston was nominated by neelsma ’ tion. The Alabama (Whig) Journal says the “convention j was the largest and most harmonious in appearance which ever assembled here when the Legislature was j not in session, and representing a larger number of ; I counties. Many of the distant counties of North Ala- I | bama were represented by proxies, by letter, Louisiana. | This State has subscribed $ 1,600,000 to the stock of ; ! the New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Kail | Read Company/ $1,200,000 to the stock of the Ope j lousas Rail Road Company, and SBOO,OOO to the Vicks burg and Shreveport Rail Road Company, in nil $3,600,- j 000. Yale College once more. | The reply of “A Southerner” (God save the mark !) |to the article of Mr. Jambs Hamilton, in which j he exposed the abolition tendencies of tho Faculty of this time honored Institution, has called out another letter from our spirited townstr.au, in which the feeble defences of “A Southerner” are bartered to the ground, and a heavier and more effective charge of hot shot is thrown among the abolition teachers of southern youth. > The letter is too long for our columns, but the closing j I paragraphs contain so masterly a display of the evils of ! j northern education upon southern .students that we can- j j not resist the temptation to copy them, and urge them i : upon tho attention of our readers : An interrogatory, which “A Southerner” puts, | | and which seems an appropriate conclusion to the ! j whole matter, I shall now endeavor to answer. — j , “ What,” he asks, “h? there , after all , so terrible in I j this anti-slavery sentiment in Yale College ?” First: The immediate effect upon the whole College j | community. It is detrimental to that good feeling and har mony. which should exist among young men assembled I from all sections, in pursuit of one oounnon object.— I The one portion is held up as the inheritors end sup porters of a system of “injustice, wrong and barbarity” —the other, is taught to regard it as a sacred duty to wage war upon this system. A wrangling, contentious I opposition i3 thus fostered, which ends in animosity and : strife. Secondly : The effect upon the Northern Student. By the adoption of such views as have recently found ! expression on thi? subject through the professional chair, he becomes, after his advent into the world, an expoun j der of a fanaticism which has already well nigh sever- ! j edlhe Union. He carries with him into active life a ■ code of political morals, made up of empty abstractions ! and metaphysical subtleties, by which he is taught to I regulate, not only his own sense of right, but to force I its application upon society—no matter what may be I its forms and conditions. To treat slavery as it exists in | this country as an abstract question, and to attempt its government according to the idiocracies of individual i consciences, schooled in the dogmatism of sects, has j proved a dangerous experiment. To infuse into the minds of Northern youth such n sense of duty with re j gard to slavery, lias been the tendency of the recent ’ teachings on this subject by tho head of the College. Thirdly : The effect upon the Southern Student.— ’ Here the results are different, according to different : temperaments and a sea. The Northern Student, hav j ing no immediate ioeal interest in the question, may take : S but one view of it, while the Southern, by his very po . sition, is placed upon the defensive. In such a position, ; : different minds are affected differently. The youth, I j sent at a very tender age to a Northern School or Col- I j lege, knowing comparatively nothing of tho workings ! of the institution at home, hears the subject theorized ! and preached upon, and the duty of morality and obe dience to conscience so nicely elaborated, that he be- ’ comes almost bewildered, and in time ho may coincide I | almost entirely with those who assail the institutions of i his fathers, and nothing binds him to them but family I |or property ties. No other result could he expected. j | A conscientious and inexperienced youth, thus exposed, : is defenceless. It is no answer to say that he is taught > but the rules of common right and justice, and that he j i may apply them afterwards as circumstances may seem I !to require. No such jesuitiaal argument as this ean I j have any force. There is going on from the nursery i ; up. a constant tuition in some shape or other upon the j subject of slavery, and no occasion is omitted by its j | enemies to instill into the pubSio mind, and especially i into the mind of youth, a sentiment opposed to in far- I tber extension and existence. Bat the result is not ai- ; ways as I have just represented. “A Southerner,” ! s3yshe “is much more pro slavery now, than when he entered Yale College”—and ‘that this is the best school in the country for secessionists’ sons.” Admitting (for the sake of argument) such to be the fact—is such u school.ug desirable ?As n general thing, Students in College understand but very little of the practical b*itr- i ing of political duties, and to bo incensed into un ex- : trenjo opposition, through a coarse of persisted wrong J and insult, is condemnatory in the highest degree. I should be sorry to know that all Southern Student# ■ were driven by tho teachings they receive in Northern institutions to one or other of these extremes. But remember that such a course of instruction has began only within recent years. That the tendencies are such as I have portrayed, no one can deny. So that instead of the seeds of knowledge being sown, such es will j germinate and fructify to the honor and interests of our ! country, let there be a care, lest they prove dragons’ j teeth, that shall spring up into urmad rnen,and destroy one another. Finally: The effect of this anti-Slavery sentiment in Yale College, aside from the immediate injury it is working, assumes no little importance, ns a suggestive ’ commentary upon the influential agents it has in opera- j tion. When a College, which has stood for one hun i dred and fifty years—whose history is intimately eon- ! ; nested with the origin and growth of our nation—which • ; has exerted such a mighty influence over the national I mind, in £.ll the pursuit# of life—which claims the proud position of being the first institution of learning in the land, and boasts of the noble minds she has fitted for positions of honor and usefulness—which, by all these tics has been so closely connected with all quar* t< rs of our country, sad been honored by the whole country —loved and revered by the South, not less than the North—when such nn institution proves herself false to all these associations, plants herself upon section;.! I grounds, ond joins in the war of sections—her course suggests a train of thought, which leads to anything but security and confidence in the intelligence and patriot- ; ism of that greater portion, which is not bound by such tics of historical interest and association. But this is an age of progress—of progress in morals as well us in politics. This is a republican age. An age and a nation which guarantees freedom of thought i and of action. Such is the cry of men clamorous in re i form and philanthropy. They loudly vociferate about i their “rights of opinion”—and daily aggravate the i strife*, which exists between the two sections, by endea i voting to convince the world of their light to these | opinions. Who demands a sacrifice of these rights ? But they wiil exercise this right of opinion “Union or !no Union.” Now this is a right which rests upon severs! conditions. When a right which proclaims in- I terferenee with the rights o( others—when n too eager pursuit of what in the abstract they may term duty, in* i voives them in a violation of other duties, and “too warm | an embracement of one truth, leads to a disregard ol j other truths equally important,” they will find anything : but a submissive acquiescence in their self-righteous de mands. Now what justification is there for such con duct, particularly whan fraught with such dangerous consequences 1 Has our republican liberty degenerated j to eueh license, that each may constitute himself inde | pendent of the obligations he owes hia neighbor 1 And, I above all, has government become of such little avail, as | to bo discarded at pleasure, and each have a code of his | own making i Has the genius of our institutions become so liecentious, cs to sanction treason in its wildest forms ? to sustain and protect men, who even in legislative halls, with a lie upon their lips and treason iu their hearts, deny allegiance to the laws and Constitution ? If such fanaticism be not stayed—if laws prove not self* j protective—if obedience to the laws and spirit of the | Constitution be not enforced, how can we hope to real i ize the boundless find inviting future which seems to await r.s ? For the generous patriotism you have evinced, gen* ; tlemen, in giving my communications to the public, ■ please accept iny thanks, and believe me very truly ! your obliged friend and servant, JAMES HAMILTON. t j The Athens Herald proposes the publication of a tri i weekly paper in that classic place so soon as the nc i eessury assurances of success sro given. The editor i says it is to bo emphatically a newspaper, “free from the j straight laced, hard-shell, partisan bias which most pa j pere have assumed of late years.” State ol'Franklin. It is not generally known that there was at one | time a State in this country which bore the name jof Franklin. It lay west of the Alleghanies and originally was that portion of North Carolina, now | a part of Tennessee, lying between the Allegh mies ; and the Cumberland mountains. It parted from | North Carolina in 1784, and maintained its separate | existence and government until 1788—more than ; three years. j These facts are gathered from the work of Dr. ‘ Ramsay, the historian of Tennessee. TheCharles j ton Standard, which is entitled to the credit of j collating them, saya ; ! The Government of North Carolina was ihen en -1 tirely under the cont-ol of the middle and eastern | sections of that State, and her western inhabitants had become dissatisfied on account of alleged de lay in making arrangements necessary to their pro tection against the Indians. The old State passed ; an act ceding these new settlements to the Confed i ercy, hut provided therein for the maintenance of j her jurisdiction, until the Confederated States should signify their acceptance of the territory thus I ceded to them. At this time the hinges of the Con* i federationjwere very loose, and everything worked | bsdly and slowly. Meanwhile, the territory was ; exposed to the inroads of the Indians, and beginning | to take measures for their own protection, they en ; ded by resolving to form themselves into an inde- I pendent State. John Sevier, afterwards a member to Congress, and the first Governor ol Tennessee, j for tweive years, was the first and only Governor iof the State of Franklin. His first Gubernatorial! ! honors came rath u in the shape of a pack of trou- I ; bles for during the whole term of his administration j | he was in contest with the Indians, with old North j ! Carolina, and with the disaffected at home, who de- ! ■ sired a re-union to the old State, and as a finale to ! the whole, he was tried, or partly tried, for high! treason. Ramsey’s account of his rescue during the trial, may serve to give some idea of the bold spirit of the noMe mountaineers of Franklin. The defec tion of Cos!. Tipton, and of many others of their leaders who had returner! to their allegiance, and had accept© office under the old State, disorganized the State of Franklin, and quietly restored the juris diction of North Carolina. But when it became known to tho people that Gov. Sevier, for h s part in the secession was to be tried for treason, the mountaineer spirit refused to prmit it. He had been surprised and suddeutly carried to Morganton, where, it was thought, he might be tried without I fear of disturbance ; but tho Franks hid suffered with him, had fought under, and loved him, and the? were not the spirit® to be quiet when lie was in danger. They therefore gathered together, nnd the selected number, armed to the teeth, immediate ly commenced the pursuit, of which the manuscript I of William Smith, os cited by Dr. It&msev, gives the following brief account : “It was ascertained that the trial was to take | place at Morganton, and thither this daring baud ; bent their eager steps. Their plan was to obtain | his release by stratagem, and if that failed, the next step was to tire the town, and ia the hurry and eon- I fusion, burst tire prison doors by force, anil make ; their escape. Probably, at no time before, had the i quiet town of Morganton assumed such an air of ex* , citement and interest, a* the present; for the fame : of the unfortunate prisoner had gone before him, and the novelty of the scene had drawn together a large crowd “ The Franks had approached as near to the town as they deemed it prudent, where four of them con cealed themselves near the road, while two of their j number, James Cozbyand Nathaniel Evans, went i forward into the town. They rode to a convenient | distance trom the court house, tied their horses to a limb of a tree, near to which they hid their rifle?, and boldly entered the town, their capacious hunt ing shirts concealing the side arms thev had pre-1 pared in case need. Soon they had mingled with the crowd, ana easily passed off for countrymen, at tracted there by common curiosity. Evans had taken charge of Gen. Sevier’* celebrated race marc, and led her up in front of the court house door, the bridie carelessly thrown over her head ; he was apparently, an unconcerned spectator of passing events. Cnzby entered the house, and there, ar raigned at the bar, sat the object of their solicitude; there he sat. as firm and undaunted as when charg ing the hosts if Wyuea ou the Lookout Moun tain. ‘‘Slowly he turned his head, and their eyes met; Sevier kDcw the rescue was at hand, but he was restrained rn>m any outward demonstration, by a significant shake of Cozby’a head ; but it could not prevent the tear of gratitude, for he knew there were during spirits near, that would peri! their life’* blood in his defence. During a pause in the trial, Cozbv stepped forward in front of the Juege, and in that quick and energetic tone, so peculiar to him, asked the Judge if he was done w th t hat man ? The question, manner and tone, caused every per son to start to cas’ iheir eyes on the sp ( aker, then on the. Judge, all in amazement. In the memtime Sevier find caught * glimpse of his favorite mare standing at the door : taking advantage of the con fusion, he made one spring to the door ; the next, lie was safely in the saddle, and with the sjeed of thought, was borne from the wondering crowd;— I ‘Yes,’ cries a watgish voice, ‘l'll bed and if you I ain’t done with him.’ His comrades we r e not slow to follow in his wake, and, although immediate pursuit was made,a few minutes brought him to the I main body, who, with one wild shout of v ; e'orv, : closed in the rear, and bore him on in ’riumpb,— That night they rested at the house of a Irend, I abdut twenty miles distant ;from whence they made j an easy journey to their homes, content that they had gained a bloodless victory.” After this the Assembly of North Carolina pas*, sed an act of pardon and oblivion, but provided there in that tt should not entitle John Sevier to hold any office in the State. In the very face of this provi sion, the Franks immediately elected him to the Senate of North Carolina, and on his arrival at Fayetteville, this provision of the act was repeal ed. Thus ended the separate ex is ta nee of the State of Franklin. North-Carolina afterwards ceiled tho ’ same territory to the Union. It was erected, with | other territory in’o the State of Tennessee, and Se j vier, as before stated was its Governor for twelve ; years. So says Ramsey, in whose history of Ten | r.essee may be found spirited and interesting ae ! counts of many other incidents of the uew settle* | raents in that thriving State. | Alabama. —lt has been generally believed that j the Indian signification of this beautiful and sonorous word i?, “here we re“t.” It appears, however, to i he of Hebrew origin, a language proverbial for the j euphony andjmelody of its sounds. The Mobile j Tribune says: It will perhaps strike most persons as a little sin gular that the word Alibama—which is the spelling in some of our earlier histories—occurs in Josephus’s works— vide Book 11, Chapter /, —where it is de scribed “how Esau and Jacob, the sons of Isaac, j divided their habitation j and Esau possessed Idu* raea and Jacob Canaan.” Esau departed from the city of Hebron and left it to his brother, and dwelt jin Sire, and ruled over Idumea. There he became the father of five sone, of whom Jaus and Jalonms i and Coreus were bv one wife, whose name was Ali j bama.” I The name, if it be derived from Scripture history ! has a very respectable antiquity ; and if there be any ! of our readers skilled in Hebrew, or Syriac, or : Greek, or the kindred tongues, we should like them to solve its meaning for us. In the dictionaries of scripture names the word does not occur, although there are some therein which have a similar con struction. In the Greek we find Alala, Albana, Alabus, Alabandi, &e., which would seem to indi cate combinations of sounds similar to those of the i word Alabama. How easy it would be for Albana, or Alabandi to be, by a little mispronuciation, cor* i rupted into the name of our State! j The history of words sometimes throws great, light on the histories of men. Might not a thorough phiollogical investigation of thissubject help to show us something about the old opinion that America was peopled by the lost tribes of Israel 1 The Murderess, Agnes Andersen. — ijhis wretch | ed woman was brought Recorder Winte** ! this morning, on the affidavi* Deputy Coroner * Terrel! , who charged her witlifhe willful murder jof William Taylor. The affidavit was read to her. j and when asked what she had to say, she replied ■ in a loud voice, and in a most positive and deter mined manner—“ Yes, sir, I did murder him, tud j would do it again, under the circumstances. He j robbed me o’ my virtue, dishonored me, and ‘hen. |by bis ill-usage, endeavored to drive rue on the j town. My life has become a burden to me. A jury ; may convict me, hang me, do what they like with me, I care not. A few days ago he had me dragged i out of his mother’s house by two policemen. ID j has done nothing but ill-use me, and I murdered ! him. I confess it, and you may do what yon like : f care nothing for myself.” She was remanded tin ti! Thursday next. On leaving ; he C urt she re peated that she had murdered him, nod would do r. again if she had the opportunity. Her cheek w.ai unblenched during the whole of this scene, n<i “he stood in Court less affected than any one in Delia. CoMPULsanr Education.— ln many of the Euro- pea States parents jire compelled to send the-’ I children to school. In Prussia absentees are liabi ’ | to full school fees, and a tine or a day's labor in com ; pensation. In Saxony nothing is an excuse for ab sence from school but sickness, and attendance :•* j compelled by fines and imprisonment. In Hanover | the ecclesiastical authorities are charged with fio j inspection of schools, where every child from the* : ago of six is required to attend, unles3 sufficiently j instructed elsewhere: In Bavaria no child is allow ied to leave school till it has arrived at tire age of | twelve years, and then not without an examination and a certificate, which is necessary to apprentice* j shi* nnd marriage. In Austria ail the children, from the age of six years, must go to school till : they are twelve years of age. A commissioner from the French Government, who ha3 been examining the school systems of Germany, urges the neces sity of compulsory instruction—of some system which shall compel the attendance upon instiaction of 90ine kind of all the children of the State. If it is wise in the State taking authority out of parental hands, it is in such a case as this. Education mskos the citizen, and the evils of ignorance, or a misdirected edu cation, uo not fall simply upon indi viduals, but are entailed upon society, ) Mobile, May 3. —Circuit Judge. —the voting yesterday for Judge of Circuit Court was very quiei- I iiy done and the election pr.3sed off without any es ; citement whatever. Iu the city, the only precincts* heard from. Col. Rapier leads his opponent, Judge Cuthbert, by over 300 votes. fcjr T lie Delta says that four murders were committed in New Orleans last week. According to Mr. Harmon’s estimate, there ought to have been soven. Robbery. — The boose of the Reverend Svl- • van us Landrum, was entered last Saturday night and robbed of his watch, the halves of several hundred dollars, besides fifteen dollars in whole bills. Look out for the rascals. — Ibid. Hayden Articles foe the X Y. Fair.— Baltimoke, Mayi-AfeMel from I or i au Prince arrived at New Wk, brings several ! articles from (lie Emperor of Hajti, which are ! intended for exhibition at tho approaching World’s Fair in that city. Among them is a i log of mahogany weighing three tons. The whole parish of Suspenrode, in Nassau, Germany, consisting of fifty persons, has aban- • doned its home, nud emigrated to America.