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QLxmts ixriJi? Szrdmzi. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1853. 00-We have on hand several communications which have been unavoidably crowded out. But they shall appear in our next. Hardihood. The Alabama Journal has a very sharp and reada ble article (a rather unusual occurrence) headed “hardi hood,” in which it is pleased to compliment us with the assurance that we have a goodly share of this strong quality. Oar modesty compels us to yield the palm to our cotemporary in this regard. Our hardihood is great, we acknowledge ; we dare sometimes to cross the river and stir up the wild beasts of the Journal office ; hut we are not like Peabody in the Strawberry culture, “pre-eminent;” we have l( ritals” in Montgomery. Our hardihood has never led us to leap over the pale of truth—the Journal has accomplished this feat, and long will it wear the doubtful honors of the achievement, if it expects us to contest the glory with it. The Journal says : “The Times and Sentinel in alluding, some time since, to the names of several gen tlemen as suitable candidates for Congress, took parti cular pains to pass by the claims of every Union Demo crat in the District, and to recommend none but Southern Rights men, including in the list even aSouth ern Rights Whig, who did not support Gen. Pierce.” Now this is the quintessence of hardihood. It is not only untrue, but has lieretoforo been pronounced untrue in our columns. The only Union Democrat in this district who has any claims to the office, or who is even thought of in connection with it by any respecta blo number of citizens, has been time and again held up to the party as eminently fitted for the office in the columns of our paper ; and we have been actually se verely reprimanded by some of our friends in the publio prints for our moderation in this regard. In one respect we acknowledge that we even surpass the Journal in hardihood. When we commit an error, we hasten to correct it. We presume the Journal has not the hardihood to do that. We shall see. The Journal took us to task some time since for pre suming to “meddle” with the local politics of Alabama. We thought its hardihood in that instance reached the sublime heights of effrontery. What shall we say then when that paper has boldly crossed the Chattahoochee and without invitation or apology reprimands the De mocracy of Georgia for passing by the claims of ono of its friends, and actually suggests to them who they shall run for Congress ? Our hardihood has never ven tured beyond a friendly suggestion to our own party friends. The Journal would dictate to its political ene mies ! Is that hardihood, or effrontery, or impudence ? It is one or the other, and isabsolutely sublime. Again, we quote the Corner Stone —“lf pre-eminence consti tutes greatness (the Journal) is the greatest (paper) now on the face of the globe. It is the only (paper) j that we know of who stands confessedly without a rival ! in the world” in hardihood. But that the gentleman endorsed by the Journal may have the full benefit of th^Journal' s praise, we ex tract its eulogy. Heretofore commended by the Geor gia Citizen and the Columbus Enquirer , and now eulogised by the Journal , he of course will be the Democratic nominee. We would, however, respect- i fully suggest to those papers that all wrong might be j repaired and the country possibly enjoy the benefits of their friend’s “talents and worthiness’’ if they will com mend him in the same high tones to their Whig friends that they throw away upon dull headed Democrats, I who seem determined to heed none of their advice.— j Here is the article. The Journal says : “Now, why was this? We know a Union Demo crat in that District who occupied a prominent position in the support of Gen. Pierce—who is popular with the i people, and whose talents and worthiness entitled him to some consideration— we allude to Col. Morton, of Columbus—yet, he was wholly passed by, and the names of others less prominent, less able, and less popu lar, were arrayed in the columns of the Times as worthy the consideration of its party iu the selection of a can didate.” Charles J. Munnerlyn, Esq, We regret that this gentleman feels it his duty to withdraw his name from the congressional canvass in this District. Mr. Munnerlyn is a gentleman of ex alted character and fine abilities, and we should have been proud of him as the Representative of the Demoo racy of this District in Congress. He declines, how ever, and much as we should have been pleased to honor him, we recognise his right to withhold his name, ! and therefore submit to his decision. Our Correspondent “Macon*” We do not feel at liberty to decline the article of our i conespondent Macon ; and yet we cannot fully endorse j his positions. David Clopton has no warmer friend in liis district 1 than we are ; we knew him in boyhood, when his heart was young and open as the face of day. He is a true ! man, a sound politician, and would adorn any position to ‘ v hieh his ambition aspires. We knew that our cor espondent Patron entertains the same opinion of him, 3nd would gladly see him elevated to a positioß worthy j of bis character and talents. But in politics, the voice ; of friendship itself must be disregarded if its demands ! are inconsistent with sound policy or the interests of the country. That is the aspect in which this question 1 ought to be viewed, and to that phase of it we invite the attention of of Macon, and of all others who are in favor of opposing Capt. Abercrombie in his race for Congress. ! We do not feel called on to answer this question ex cathedra , and cheerfully leave it in the hands of our friends in the district. Democratic Meeting in Savannah. At a meeting of the party lately held in Savannah, Messrs. Richard D. Arnold, Thomas Purse and Jno. M. Millen were appointed delegates to the Democratic convention which will assemble in Milledgeville on the and Wednesday in June, to select a candidate for Gov ernor and to nominate a candidate for Congress for the Savannah District. Life Insurance. The Life Department of the Southern Mutual Insur ance Company are making this year a dividend of ten per cent, in cash, on their premiums for 1853, and we understand tliat their business for the current year lias been so successful that they anticipate declaring a still larger return premium for 1854. Before our citizens visit the North and expose them stives to such catastrophes as the one that recently oc curred on the New Haven Rail Road at Norwalk, they cannot do better than take out a policy ou their lives for the benefit cf their families, unless they have already accumulated a competence to support them in eomfort and independence. Clerk Superior Court. Gen. James N. Betiiune has been appointed Clerk of the Superior Court for Muscogee county, vice John . R. Sturgis, deceased. Temperance Convention in Alabama. The friends of Temperance assembled in Selma on the 18th May. There were 140 delegates in at ten j dance. Price Williams, of Mobile, was elected chair man, The convention disavow any intention of inter mixing the Temperance cause with the politics of the day, but resolved not to vote for any candidate who will not pledge himself to vote for the passage of a law referring the question of license to the people. Com mittees were appointed to correspond with candidates for Governorship and tlio Legislature, and ascertain their sentiments on this question. The convention have recommended that the 4th July be celebrated as a Temperance Jubilee. Annexation of Mexico. General Arista, one of the ablest and purest patriots in Mexico, in a reply to aletterfroni Tornel announcing his banishment, uses the following significant language : ’*T should remark that notwithstanding my federal ideas and the sympathies that I have for the North Ameri can institutions, I have committed not the slightest act that should cause the punishment of exile to be applied to me. 1 desire the happiness of my country, and to attain it I see no road but through federal institutions , and, if it be desired, annexation to the United States, in which Mexico id ill meet an inexhaustible fountain of riches and prosperity , notwithstanding she may lose that grand enigma , that squaring of the circle, called by Santa Anna, Nationality. The day will arrive i when this will happen. Jn the meanwhile I must pro test, and 1 protest solemnly, against the act of tyranny which falls upon me, and at the proper time I will de mand reparation due for the injuries inflicted on me.” God, &c., Mariano Arista. To his Excellency the Minister of War, Mexico. Muscogee Rail Roatl Company, ) Columbus, 26th May, 1853. $ All persons who design accepting the invitation of the citizens of Savannah to the festival, to be held there on the SECOND OF JUNE, will oblige the undersigned by reporting their names at the office of R. Patten, Esq., at their earliest convenience, in order that suitable provision may be made for their accommodation on the Special Train to start from here at 5 o’clock, A. M. on Wednes day the Ist of June. DANIEL GRIFFIN, President. | Odd Fellows ’ Celebration. —The annual celebration !of this order took place on Thursday last. An address i was delivered by the Rev. Thos. F. Scott, of Columbus, | Ga. It was a plain, practical commentary on the principles of the order. ! There was no attempt at display, but the address was replete with good sense and sound advice, and well worthy the attention and observance not only of thoso for whom it was specially intended, but also for all those who regard the duties and relations of life, of a bind ing character at all. There was a goodly number out, and the order seems to be in a very flourishing con dition at present. With their usual liberality and good taste, they threw open tbe'r Hall at night, having pro vided abundant refreshments for all who desired to participate in a social festival. There was a large num ber in attendance, and each one present seemed to pass ; his moments in the height of social ! glee and enjoyment. Long live the order !— Spirit of the South. Small Pox. —The Small Pox having appeared on the plantation of Mr. William Freeman, near Glennville, Barbour county, Alabama, a quarantine has been es tablished by the Commissioners’ Court, and a Board of Health, Health Officer, guard, &0., appointed. The most prompt means having been adopted from the first to isolate the disease, there is little reason to appre hend its spread. The Board of Health is also empow ered to establish a Hospital and adopt such regulations as they may see fit. We learn that the disease vva9 contracted in Russell county by some of Mr. Freeman’s negroes, aud that no oase has yet proved fatal. — Spirit of the South. [FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.] Our political “Patron” tends to abandon principle, (that is if he is a Democrat, and he writes like one.) The Democratic press of Montgomery is complained of by Pat ron as making desperate efforts to get out an opposition to Capt. Abercrombie, who boasts of Whig consistency of 30 years’ standing. Sir, if Patron be a Democrat, what sort of consistency can he boast of ? Sir, I hold that the Dem ocratic press of Montgomery is consistent with itself, and the principles it advocates, in not only trying, but in bring ing out opposition to Capt. A., in bringing out a candidate tliat will refleotits sentiments and that of the Democratic j party, and a man too that will sustain our present admin- j istration. Sir, the Democratic press at Montgomery proves its consistency by its integrity for principle and its ! fidelity to honor ; truth is truth, and principle is principle ; j truth crushed to earth will rise again—the eternal years of i God are hers—so sings the poet. May I not add, princi ple crushed to earth will rise again to re-assume her throne, and hurl traitors to the lowest depths of political obscurity. Patron then turns whig orator as it were, and ‘ seems to implore whigs to be reconciled to Capt. A.; asks many questions and then answers them to suit himself. Patron will pardon me while I ask him a few. Did you vote for Col. Cochran two years ago? If so, were ) r ou right then, and that against this same big Captain, and that without any change in him or Col. Cochran up to date ? If you were right then you must be wrong now: unless it is right to right about face. The big Captain says he has not changed for thirty years. I do not think he ha?, for he skirted wrong, in my judgment, then, and has held his own remarkably well. When he says he lias not changed, Patron would not be safe in telling him he had. Methinks the big Captain would feel for Patron’s throat or maul him some. The question naturally arises—what has Capt. A. j done to please Democrats, or what principle lias he sur rendered, or what principle does he hold in common with them ? Echo answers none ; Capt. A. answers none.— True, he did not go for Gen. Scott; many M bigs good and true did the same. Did he go for Pierce ? Iso. It seems to me, sir, that there would be no consistency or reason in the conduct of the Democratic party were they to run the old Captaiu. They war for principles, not men. That Capt. A. will sustain the administration of the pres ent chief magistrate no sane man will, for one moment, believe. Therefore, if he has opposition, I hope it will come from the Democratic ranks, that Gen. Pierce’s ad ministration may be sustained. Patron assumes a spiri: of dictation to his party. All true Democrats think tl r | themselves, and will act accordingly. lie also atstirais :© know who are in a hurry for preferment. I think he is right in his allusion to the talented gentleman, but would it not be more kind iu him to have given the talented gen tleman time to have gracefully retired ‘ Does not I atrou seem to say to him, you had better retire, or you have leave to do that same 1 Sir, I hold that if Patron votes for a Whig of thirty years’ standing from policy or otherwise, when he might vote for a Democrat, he not only deserts ° \ ! Democratic principles, but stultifies his own act and that j of his own party. In short, i! Patron voted for Col. Goch j ran two years ago, and would, under any circumstances, j vote against a Southern Rights man now, he cannot he true to himself, his party or his country now, or he was not then. I leave him in a predicament. MACON. [FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.] Decatur, Ga., May 23, ]SS3. 1 Messrs. Editors : 1 noticed in your paper of the 10th j iust., a communication from a Baker county Democrat, , suggesting me as a candidate for Congress from this j district, and having received some private oommuniea- j tions from other portions of the district to the same j effect, you will please permit me, through the medium ! of your paper, to say to my friends that I cannot be- j come a candidate, f feel highly complimented by their , partiality, and if I had nothing more to prevent my en listing in the publio service than the strong repugnance j I entertain for such service, would make an effort to meet their wishes, however much I might doubt my ca pacity to do credit to the high position. But I have private duties incumbent upon me of a nature too sacred 1 to be neglected, and that congressional fife would ut- j tel ly place beyond my power to discharge. Without being more explicit, my friends will receive i this as sufficient, and dismiss me from their considera- j tion in the matter. I beg they will, however, retain the sense of my profound gratitude for their kind wishes and intention. I am, very respectfully, yours, CIIAS. J. MUNNERLYN. Southern Ladies’ Book and its Prizes. —The Delta announces that, at the request of numerous j friends of the “Southern Ladies’ Book,” the ! time appointed for the adjudication of the prizes offered by the proprietors, viz.: S2OO for the best Ston r , and SIOO for the best Poem, the scenes of which are to be located in America— has been changed from the first of July to the first of August next. This arrangement, it is hoped, will enable distant competitors to have a fair chance, as, according to the previous one, equal time and warning were not given them, as to those nearer home. The following gentlemen have been selected and agreed to act as the committee of decision: j Alexander Walker, Esq., of the Delta ; E J Car- J rell, Esq., of the Crescent ; E C Wharton, of the Picayune ; W il Paxton, Esq., and J B Robertson, Esq. ‘Hie names of the foregoing gentlemen are sufficient guarantee against favoritism of any sort. The proprietors, however, request all competitors to direct their Stories and Poems, without the name of the author attached, to the j “Committee of Decision, Southern Ladies’ ! Book, New Orleans,’’ and label them on the j envelope, “Prize Story,” and in a separate envel- | ope, to place the name of the Stories or Poems j offered, together with the name of the author, j and direct the letter to the “Southern Ladies'* j Book, care of Messrs. Carson & Armstrong, 59 ; Camp-st., Nev Orleans.” The envelopes so directed will be kept sealed j until the award has been made—early in August i —when they will be opened, and the money paid j to the persons whose names are attached to the Story or Poem corresponding with those the j Committee have decided to be the best. - New York State Agricultural College. —We ! are pleased to announce that the Legislature ! passed a bill incorporating the New York State Agricultural College, the day previous to the ad journment. The Trustees named in the charters are John Delafield, of Seneca; Henry Wager, of Oneida; B. P. Johnson, of Albany; William Kelly, of Dutchess; John A. King, of Queens ; N. B. Kidder, of Ontario ; Joel W. Bacon, of Seneca; William Buell, of Monroe; Tall madge Delafield and Robert Swan, of Seneca. We understand that the act gives the incor poration all the rights and privileges enjoyed by any other institution in the State. The plan of! instruction is to embrace practical and scientific j agricultuie, chemistry, mechanics, mathematics, surveying, engineering, geology, botany, the practical management of the farm, of the dairy and farm stock. This is an institution greatly needed in this country; and from the known character of the gentlemen engaged in it, we cannot doubt that efficient measures will be adopted to put the in stitution in operation with the least possible de lay. That it will be filled with the sons of our farmers, mechanics and citizens generally, we think can admit of little doubt. We should be also pleased to make the same announcement for our own State, and should j then feel that she was equipped for the race of j | usefulness and high fame, in agriculture, com merce and manufactures. —Albany Journal. Trouble at Cambridge College.— The slavery question, it is stated, has created some trouble among the students at Cambridge College, in ! Massachusetts. On Friday last, it is alleged, a student from New York made an anti-slavery speech of 2 1-2 houi-3 in leng/h, which so offend ed the Southern students that one of them, from Maryland, sent him a challenge. The faculty, however, immediately took the affair in hand, and succeeded in restoring quiet and order. i Our Relations with Mexico. —Col. Gadsden, the newly appointed U. S. Minister to -Mexico, in a letter to a commercial house in New York, expresses a strong desire to have our trade with Mexico increased, and adds: “Free and uninterrupted intercourse, commer cially imd socially with Mexico, will accomplish moreinharmonizingthedisturbing disagreements between the two countries, than all the treaties and negotiations which diplomacy may accom plish. They are the great panaceas of peace on earth and goodwill towards mankind; the fore shadowing of the Christian millennium.” A New Paper.— lt is stated that anew paper is about being established at Milledgeville, as j an organ for the re-organization of the Whig party in Georgia. her News by the Franklin —Mrs. Stowe — ‘ China. The authoress of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was, on the 7th inst., welcomed to Stafford House by the Duchess of , Sutherland, where, in the midst of an assemblage of the j rank and aristocracy, and a considerable muster ol pub- j lie men, she was presented with the long talked of ad- ■ dress of the women of England. Mrs Stowe was on this occasion petted and lionized by a whole bevy of ‘ duchesses and countesses. > It was reported in London that letters had been re : ceived from Shanghae to the 3d March, of five days’ j i later date than received by the overland mail, contain ing an announcement that the British residents had provisioned their ships, and were prepared to embark in ease of emergency ; that the Chinese authorities had j applied to the British Consul for aid to enable them to i protect Nankin and to quell the rebellion, and that the ’ Consul had referred the matter to the colonial govern ment. Additional Per Europa. New York, May 25.— England. —A jubilee meeting was field at Lambeth, to encourage Kossuth. France. —France has re-established the death penalty for political offences. Turkey has acknowledged the independence of Montenegro. From Havana. —The steamship Empire City has arrived at New Orleans with advices from Havana to the 18th inst. The news is not of much moment. The ! Jesuits are building anew college within the I suburbs of Havana. This order was expulsed j from Cuba many years since, but are now ad mitted by a royal order, and with their accus tomed energy and promptitude have commen ced the erection of a large college on the north side of the Paseo ofTacon. The plan was made for them bv the army corps of engineers and ap proved by the Government. Several ship loads of Chinese colonists had ; arrived in the island. The following is a list of articles which may i be imported into St. Jago de Cuba free of duty according to an order from the intendant of the department : Pitch pine boards, plank and scantling ; sleep ers of hard wood ; shingles, tile, bricks, chalk, nails, locks, padlocks, door bolts, hinges and ovens; corn and corn meal ; beans, white and black ; potatoes, rice and fish. Later from California. —The U. S. mail steamship Falcon arrived at New Orleans on Saturday from Aspinwall. She brought advices to the 30th ult. but no news of any interest. A daring robbery was committed at the bank ing house of Page, Bacon & Cos., Sacrament©, on the afternoon of the 19th ult, While the cashier was attending to a crowd of customers, the thief reached over and took from a shelf un der the counter a bag containing 190 ounces of gold dust, valued at $3,300, and the loss was not discovered until making up the cash ac count. Dry Heather. —From every part of the State we have the cry of Dry Weather, but mostly from the eastern section of it. The crops are consequently suffering for want of rain. Wheat and oats had mostly ma tured before the drought set in, and will turn out well ; but corn and cotton are suffering.— We had a sprinkle here on Monday night, but it did not avail much.— Atlanta Intelligencer May 20 th. Refreshing Rain. — After a drought of sever al weeks duration, relieved only by two slight showers on the Bth inst., we had on Monday night a refreshing rain, which has been to our j city a most welcome visitor. It was not near j sufficient, however, for the gardens and crops in this section* We understand that the rain extended but a short distance, there being little or none on the Sand Hills and in that direction. During the shower, an unoccupied house on Watkins street, near the new Depot, was struck j with lightning, and the chimney shattered, and a portion of the plastering was knocked down. No other damage.— Constitutionalist Republic May 25th. Outrageous. —A letter from Milledgeville, : dated 22d inst, informs us, that on the night | previous a diabolical attempt was made to mur der Mr. Hawkins and his family. It appears, in the morning Mr. H. had chastised a negro woman ofhis for impudence given to her mis tress, who threatened to kill one of his children, if he repeated the whipping. In the afternoon, Mr. H., his wife and daughter, started for their plantation out of town, but after proceeding about a mile he turned back, feeling sick. He | sent for a barber to shave hup; and while under going the operation, negro fellow by the name of Toby, (formerly the property of Mr. Tinsley,) the husband of the woman whipped in the morning, stepped to the door and said he wished to see his afaster. (Jn Mr H. going out, Toby asked him why he whipped his wife, and made'at him with a knife, threw Mr. 11. (to the ! floor, and cut his throat from ear to ear, without, | however, severing the wind pipe. He also cut ! Mrs Hawkins slightly in the back, and Mrs i Hawkins sister, Mrs Baily, in the side, on the ’ face, andin the thigh. He would have killed | Mr. Hawkins had notone of his negroes run from I the stable and caughthis arm. The wounds inflic ted by him on all are serious, but not dangerous. Toby and his wife are both in prison, and will, no doubt, receive speedy punishment for the of fences committed. Great excitement was caused in Milledgeville as soon as the circumstances became known. Stabbing. —A case of extreme violence and ruffianism occurred yesterday afternoon. A gen tleman was walking with a lady’ in Water street, near Newhouse’s store, when a man, said to be a Spaniard, and supposed to be crazy, not only offei • I some'offence to the lady, but severe ly stabbed the gentleman. On being pursued, he ran for shelter to the coffee shop of pe tronovich, on Government street, where, for a time, he held all at bay by his formidable bowie knife, but was eventually knocked down and secured in the guardhouse. His Honor will elicit more particulars this morning. Mr B. is severely injured.— Mobile Register. That Cake.- Not the least of the interest incidents of the recent celebration at Colun )'' ” ! was consumated yesterday afternoon at Hall. Our readers have not lorgotten th ■ | whilst the delegation of gentlemen from this cit<- ! were enjoying the hospitalities of Columbia ! the ladies of that city were not unmindful ! their sisters of Savannah. A beautiful cake was presented on behalf , ! the ladies of Columbus, by Major How.vu and received by Col. S. S. Sibley, on behalf i the ladies of Savannah. The cake having arrived iu this city on Tues day last, it was-yesterday afternoon presented to the ladies by Col. S. in a very handsome speech, in which he gave a very happy deserin tion of the ornamental work, and exhibiting \\ appropriateness to the occasion. The following ladies were appointed a committee of receptioir Mrs Dr YVavne, Mrs Charles Mills, Mrs Isaac Cohen, Mrs Philbrick, Mrs W T Thompson Mrs Charles Grant, and Mrs. Crane. We understand that it is designed by the la dies of Savannah, to reciprocate the compli ment of the Columbus ladies, and that the tables I at the coming celebration in this city, are to be graced by these friendship offerings of the ladies ! of both cities.— Sav. News. A New British Protectorate —lt is stated that the question ol a British Protectorate over the Republic of Liberia, in Africa, Ims been mooted in political circles in Washington, The proposition to our government is, to consent that Liberia shall in future he “protected” !n j England, and by this plan obviate the necessity for direct diplomatic relations between Liberia and the United States. Florida Paint Root. —This root grows in great abundance in the flat woods, near the streams, and in the savannahs of the Counties of Levy, Marion, Sumter, and perhaps many other Coun ties of East and South Florida. It has a top similar to the flag and a root about the size of a man’s thumb, of various lengths, running hori zontal, not far below the surface. It is very juicy, and of a deep red color. Hogs are ex ceedingly fond of it, and fatten on it rapidly, if they are black, or have black hoofs. It is said by the old settlers that hogs with white hoofs seem to founder, and their hoofs come off, which causes them to perisli unless fed well till they recover. Even where the animal has only one white hoof, the others black, the white hoof comes off. The root colors the flesh, bones and marrow, of hogs that feed upon it. There is no doubt this root may be substituted for madder , and become a source of no inconsiderable traffic, to the people of Florida. Like the arrow root or cotnptu, it grows spontaneously in great abundance and may be cultivated, if thought advantageous. [Ocala (Fla.) Mirror. The Dahlia is a native of the marshes of i Peru and was named after Dahl, the celebrated I Swedish Botanist. It is more than 30 years since its introduction into Europe, and is now the universal favorite of florists. The number of known varieties isTSOO. I # ’ ! Mrs. Fillmore's Religious Faith. —Some of our exchange papers are giving the religious faith of Mrs. Fillmore and her family, and some have her a Baptist—others an Episcopalian arid others a Presbyterian. She was a member of the Unitarian Church, in Buffalo, and was a good woman. Her father, Rev. Mr. Powers, was a Baptist : minister. She was in early life a School teacher ; and an honor to the profession. Mr. Fillmore is not a member of any Church, we think, though he was raised a Methodist. Several members of his family were Methodists, and one of his brothers is a Methodist travelling Preacher, in one of the New England Conferences, arid has been for more than thirty years a most excellent man. Mrs. Mowatt. —We learn from the Boston Transcript, of the 14th inst., that Mrs. Mowatt arrived in that city on the l*2th inst., accompa nied by Wm. F Ritchie Esq., editor of the Rich mond Enquirer. In fulfilment of a promise of long standing, Mrs* M. will appear in the char acter of Desdemona, for the benefit of Mrs. War ner, the accomplished English tragedienne whose severe indisposition and many trials have greatly enlisted the sympathy of the public. — Mrs. Mowatt will not appear again during this season, her own health not being quite re-esfab lished. In September she will commence a ! round of farewell engagements in the principal cities of the Union, and early in the spring she i will lay aside her stage attire for the bridal robes, j and retire to Richmond to private life. Her last j engagement and final farewell of the stage will take place in Boston, where also her nuptials with Mr. Ritchie will be celebrated. The editor of the Mountain Signal says he has weighed Wofford and Hillyer (politically we presume he means) and has found Wofford the heaviest. W e should not be surprised if a Whig should slip in just before the election, and out weigh them both, nor would it be much matter either. I Idolatry. —The Chinese Company, lately ar rived at New ork, before they would decide to perform on Friday night at Niblo’s, tossed up their wooden God, Josh, (heads or tails,) to learn whether they could do so with impunity.— “Josh, ’ like loaded dice, came down favorably. Ihe attempt to pay oft'the incumbrances on the estate oi Daniel Webster has been abandoned. Ihe Penny Subscriptions in England, to be placed in the hands of Mrs. Stowe, already amouut to $6,000. I he examination of the Cadets at West Point will take place on the Ist of June. i The Professional Man who dares wear a threadbare coat until he is out of debt was in I town yesterday. Avery good looking but mel- I ancholy sort of man he was, and no wonder, j At the book store the salesman suggested the | advantage of cash payment, and taking the packagehome one’s self, over trusting it to bung ling porters who don’t know how to inakechango properly ou delivery. The sexton of the church he attended gave him a back seat, and spoke of