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A SERMON Delivered, in the Methodist Episcopal Church on Sun day Morning, Nov. 2 Oth, by the Pastor REV. W. G. CONNOR. ECCL. VII-X. “S iv not thou, what is the cause that the former days were better than these 1 Forthoudost not enquire wisely concerning this. Nothing is more common than the complaints with which discontent rails against the present. Idleness and improvidence see all their misfortunes in the evil of the times, and justify the poverty of their homes, in verdicts against the providence of God. Restless avarice frets and raves in its impatient haste to be rich, and condemns the means of accumulation as poor and insufficient. Selfish* ness meets the appeals of benevolence and turns away from the wants of the unfortunate, by parading the list of its own calamities. “Hard times,” “hard times,” are heard alike amid sunshine and rain, as well in the bloom of spring, as in the blight of winter. The joyous flow of life, instead of reflecting the beauty of the scenery around and mirroring the image of the sky above, is poured along in one wild noisy stream, marring its surface and wasting its strength in useless war with the shoals. The happy song which i should be thrilling the heart of age and shouted from the ; lips of childhood, is converted into loud jeremiads against j the degeneracy of the times. With almost superstitious reverence, every form of the past is foisted on the faith ot the age, and reason and religion are both called to worship their highest developement in the opinions and dogmas of antiquity. The great effort of the croaker, whether in the social, intellectual or religious world is to twine the ivy and cypress for our homes, and inscribe Ichabod on the portals of our temples. Is it true that the past is better than the present I This is a j question difficult to decide. The want ot information with reference to both periods must be felt by all. History with its partial representations cannot be fully trusted. With so many vices and evils ignored, with so many exagerations of its virtues, with so many partizan leanings who shall be j prepared to admit unquestioned its testimony. And then we are partial judges, when called to sit in question on our privileges and blessings. Smarting under the blunders of , ignorance, writhing under the sense of our passionate wan- | derings, or exhilerated with our triumph, we shall have in- ; juries to revenge, or victories to celebrate at the expense of the age which produced them. But since the comparison between the past and the present has been instituted, let us listen to the claims of the one, and the answer of the other. The past claims precedence, because it was our teacher ; and surely the pupil need not expect to surpass the master. To this we answer, that each scholar has, in addition to the knowledge of the teacher, all the talent which he himself possesses. We begin our learning where the ancients left •fF. We are asked for our poets and philosophers. We point to the songs of our Orphan Asylums for the inspiration of j the age, and direct the attention to the engine beam for the j philosophy of the times. It is said again in the beginning was innocence and purity. | To this we answer that in the beginning, truth was as a grain of mustard seed, which time only can dcvelcpe.— ; Growth is the law of its constitution, time only can effect its growth. Then the longer it is nourished, the higher it rises and stronger its body. Then it is urged that every thing is best in youth. The spring is fairest in budding; life divinest in childhood ; j spring may be beautiful, but autumn is rich in the treasures j of all the year. Childhood is lovely, but manhood strug gling with difficulties, armed against foes, triumphing over dangers, stands forth sublime. It is not the flourish with which the age begins, but the results which determine the claim to honor. It is said that the present, is age in decrepitude. The la- ; bors and struggles of six thousand years must have broken its energies and wasted its resources. To this, we say God’s j works never wear out ; not a particle of the universe has been destroyed by use, but each period of our history shows the transition of nature from a lower to a higher order of creation. In the moral world we are to look for the sab bath of religion in the last day of our history. Thus we see all that may be claimed for the past, has its ( offset in some advantage of the present, and at the most we : stand on equal ground. But may we not advance to higher positions, and claim for our age blessings never enjoyed be fore. 1. The means and resources of wealth have greatly in creased. Once agriculture was the only avenue to .opu lence. Shut up to this one pursuit, with few arts to aid even in its toils, there was great labor without a great return of comfort. Commerce at the most, was confined to a few neighboring islands, until the compass led through the mys tery of the seas to the wide realms of earth. Even then capital would soon find itself fettered and profitless with only two outlets for investmeut. Then, too, labor would overcrowd the market, and the poor often be starving with a will to labor. New fields of labor, new instruments for work, new enterprises for capital, give greater facilities for wealth and comfort. Who will dare to say, that we have not advanced in agriculture, because the plow of the present age employs the horse instead of a dozen peasants. We will say that we have not ad vanced the interests of all, by making fire our pack horse, and the lightening our post boy. Who will say that arts are not blessings, when they have set wood and iron to do the work formerly accomplished by the hands and arms of man. Manual labor has been facilitated in all its toils, and the results of labor multiplied an hundred fold. 2. The circle of human enjoyment has been enlarged.— The social element has been freed from the restraints of feu dalism. Aristocratic monopoly has been taken off. The •ontempt thrown upon man by the long servitude of tyran ny, has been changed for respect and affection. Commerce with its interchange of visits, and exchange of interests, has expanded the sympathies of men. Republican institu tions, by bringing together the elements of society on anew principle of equality have broken the old barriers of caste, and drawn the cords of humanity within the bonds of a brotherhood. But more than all else, the increasing light of the Gospel has been shining in the dark places of the ••rth, and filling its inhabitants of cruelty with love. Its doctrine of immortality has redeemed man from insignifi cance by placing the rich and poor together as companion •aints in eternity. Thus a circulation of life is established in whose flow, eternity sends hack upon time a weighty sense of its importance, and fills the incidents of every hour with undying interests. Under these influences charity must fill the heart and benevolence the hand. Not only is the social element thus strengthened, but its field is enlarged. The rapidity with which the world may be visited in the new facilities of travel, makes the earth one great palac* home, in which our continent is but the tenement for free men and patriots ; our States and cities, but parlors and rooms through which we move in an evenings enjoyment. In the world of letters and sciences too, we live in a more joyous and happy day-learning no longer like perfumes of t e the ehasted luxury of wealth, comes no was fr* as the breath of morning or the odor of flowers. The hum blest, the poorest, may learn and be happy. The masses have now what wealth only could purchase in another day. No wherein society is the evidence of our increased hap piness most to be seen than in the domestic circle. Greece had her temples and groves of learning—her Parnassus and Delphi—but there was no home for her sons and daughters. Egypt had its libraries and sciences, but no priestess in the domestic sanctuary whose heaven commissioned ministra tions gave peace and joy. Under the guidance of religion, civilization has given woman her place in the home and heart of man ; and she in return has blessed his toiis and brightened hisjoysr 3. The advancement of religion has not been less than the progress of arts and civilization. Here and there, are still to be found defects in the church of Christ: but no one - - - can look upon the increase of religious knowledge, but will be forced to see, that these are better days than the past.— Nor is this claim rested upon increased light cn the hack neyed themes of denominational controversy, but light on the great questions of divine inspiration of the Bible. Gia matlcal and rhetorical construction of the original lan guages, manners, customs, prejudices of the nations, all have conspired to make in Hermeneutics valuable contributions to the knowledge of the Christian. The sciences too have through all their persecutions by the church in other ages, proved to be the hand-maids of truth. Take chemis try, for instance, and the light which has been thrown upon the general eonfligration of the world as recorded by St‘ Peter. Now the objector and the bible-interpretator agree in the rendering. Philosophy is not compelled to acknowl- edge that the world is utterly destroyed, and the bible is sus- j tained, that the “elements shall melt with fervent heat.”— The changes which have been proved to be the action of fire, show us a future revolution by fire, in which all that is written in the word of God, will surely be fulfilled. So also, of the resurrection of the body. It is said that the body once in the grave is dissolved to its original elements, and the particles scattered to the winds, entering new com binations and even forming other bodies of men. But these ! eeiences teach us that the identity of the body consists not in the sameness of particles, but in the same kind of ele mentary matter, in the same proportions, and having the same form and structure. The body of the old man is the same as that of the boy, though the particles have several ! times changed. What but science could thus vindicate a ’ most precious doctrine of revelation. Meteorology too has lifted the veil of the atmosphere, and instead of a hollow sphere of solid matter above containing the rain, we see the vapor suspended in the air, and con densed into showers. Now we readily under.-tand what is meant by the windows of heaven, and read the bible, assured that it speaks of natural appearances, and not of natural phenomina, scientifically explained. Again, until the time of Copernicus, no opinion was thought more established than that the earth was fixed and i the sun moving round it. Fortified by observation and their : interpretation of the Bible, they were ready to defend it i against all the world. What though the philosopher stood ■ ready with diagram and formula, to demonstrate the mo tion of the earth ; as long as the bible said God had “es tablished the foundations of the earth so that they could not be removed forever.” In our present knowledge, we smile at their simplicity, and pity the zeal that forced upon the world the interpretation of ignorance. Now we know that the bible did not come to teach us ecience, but addressed man in language most readily com prehended. Its great burden is moral precept, and it was important that nothing should draw the mind from the one great object, God’s will revealed to man. Therefore, is its language adapted to nature, as it seems to be, and not as it | is scientifically proved to be. So also in the new science of Geology. A lew years ago, a prurient philosophy went forth with pick-axe in hand, hoping by the up-turning of a single rock, to read the I scriptures were false. But each record of its facts is cor responding more and more with the record of goodness and wisdom in the God of the Christian. Many of its facts are considered unsettled, but enough to throw light upon the sacred pages. In the language of Dr. Chalmers, “those rocks which stand forth in the order of their formation, and are each imprinted with their peculiar fossil remains, have I been termed the archives of nature, where she hath recorded the changes that have taken place in the history ot the globe.” They are made to serve the purpose of scrolls or inscriptions, on which we might read the great steps and successions by which the earth has been brought to its state.” In a future day, when these archives are faithfully read one loud hallelujah will he shouted through all the eaves and caverns of earth, giving glory to the God of the Bible. None need fear to face to the light, no eye need blink, no heart need fear, hut look that future will be as the past ; each science a lamp by which the great truths of revelation shall be read. Along with the increase of knowledge is f< und a high er development of religious principle. Through all the dust of denominational controversy, we see clearer than ever, the great essentials of the Gospel. The practical exemplification of these, is the mission of the Church in our day. “Love to man” is no longer the pretentious philanthropy, of “be ye fed and be clothed,” nor even the ghostly charity of indoctrinations and baptismals, but is personated in homes for the orphan, in asylums for the blind, the deaf, and the lunatic—it stands by the side of the sin burdened heart and lifts the tearful eye to a Sua viour that taketli away the Bin of the world. A higher state of morality too may be claimed for our age. Intemperance and profanity have been driven from the church and much abated in general society. Injustice and oppression towards poor hears a louder'eondemnation from the pulpit and press. Everywhere virtue is sought as a real blessing, and even its graces are counterfeited by the vile and profligate. So highly is the religion held, that all seek to posess its treasure or else to profess its wealth. With this the standard of society, who shall say that “former days are better than these.” Then, too, in the great missionary enterprises of the day, we see the brightest development of the age.— Throughout oar own country the evangelizing spirit has spread and added its converts by thousands. No year in onr history has been recorded amid so many blessings as the present. Throughout our prosperous State, from the mountains to the seaboard, has been heard the sourr of the harvest and waiving crops have smiled upon fertile fields. In the Polyglottal State of the Pacific, the ■tory of the cross has been caught by every tongue, to be carried by light and immortality to the nations of Pagan ism. In the Celestial Empire too, a religious revolution is burning up the gods and temples of the old idolatry and carrying the Christian religion to the capital of the Empire. Soon the sword of revolutionists will be ex changed for the Bible and ten thousands missionaries will lead their benighted brethren t# Chrit. Verily a nation shall be born in a day. Let not the leeson of this subject be forgot, but let it live in the grattitude of our hearts for the increased priv ileges of social and religions life in oar age. Let not the voice of murmuring or discontent break the harmony of our songs, let no dissatisfaction waste our time and talents, but let all appreciate their blessings and thus add to their value. He that rails at the Present, but applies a vulture to his wound, sharpens the thorns for his feet and presses thelndian fig leaves to his body by violent wrestlings. What it our blessings are small, dissatisfaction makes them less. Smile on your blessings and they will smile in return on you; throw the cloud of your melancholy around them and they darken on your pathway. Above all the rest let none forget that they have light enough to know their duty to'God. If the present means of grace are not enough we would not believe though we had heard the morning ■tars when they sang for joy and the sons ot God when they rejoiced over the new creation.” If they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will they be persuaded though one arose from the dead. Let every heart then be lifted up to the light of revelation, and every spirit be changed into its glorious image of purity and love. ant) Sentinel COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. SATURDAY EVENING, NOV. 26, 1853 [editorial correspondence.] Milledgf.ville, Nov. 25. The afternoon of Wednesday was consumed in the House, in the discussion of the bill to pardon Elijah Bird. Mr. Rucker, of Elbert, a young member of promising talents, made his debut in a strong speech in favor of the prisoner. lie was followed on the same side, by Messrs. Reynolds and McDougald. The vote was then taken and the bill was lost, by ayes 43, nays 64. To-day, however, the House reconsider their ac tion of Wednesday, and Bird still has a chance for his j life. Yesterday was a day of thanksgiving. The two ! Houses assembled in the Methodist Church, and were | entertained and instructed by an able sermon, suited to j the occasion, from President Talmage. His discourse, j we presume, will be published. An iuoide 7 1 occurred ; during the services, not unworthy of record. The j Divine gave a brilliant description of the blessing enjoy- j ed by the American people, and closed with pious wish- j es in favor of the perpetuity of the Union, when, to j the surprise of every body, the house rang with ap plause. It was usual in the days of Chrysistrom, for congregations to cheer their pastors, but we have not heat'd of any thing of the sort till now, since the days of John Calvin. On motion of Mr. Sturgis, on Wednesday the Senate amended the rules of the Senate, so as to limit the num- j b< rof clerks in its employ to seven. This morning, the Senate reconsidered the matter, and left the old rule untouched. The President announced the following committees. Religious Societies ; Mtssrs. Dunnagan, Cochran and McConnell. Election Precincts; Messrs. Dunnagan, j Trammell and Green. To change names &o. ; Messrs. 1 i Dunnagan, Trammell and Lawrence. New Bills. Mr. Greene ; A bill to facilitate trials at Law and in Equity. Mr* Lawrence ; A bill to extend the corporate limits \ of Marietta. Mr. Lambert: A bill to change the line between j ’ r ; Floyd ami Polk counties, also a bill to fix the time al j lowed clerks to attach process, and copy declarations &0., and for Sheriffs to serve the same. Several locals bills were introduced. Miscellanious. I Mr. Dunnegan’s bill, to prevent corporations, except I in Sea Port Towns and Ports of Entry, from enforcing any laws not contained in the Statutes of the State was taken np and its consideration postponed indefinitely. A message was received from the House, informing the Senate that that body had concurred in the resolu tion to appoint a sub-committee to examine the State Road. Mr. Morris, introduced a resolution to instruct the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the expediency of reducing the Judges of the Inferior Court to one, and to give him a salary. Mr. Dunnagan, introduced a resolution to refer the punishment inflicted for manslaughter to the Judiciary j Committee, with instructions to report thereon. Emigration—fts evils as incident to Georgia, A more restless, roving race than ours, can be found no where among civilized peoples. Embarrassed almost, with Nature’s favors, which present in every phase, the most inviting inducements to enterprise and effort, we wander almost aimless from one avocation to another, and from settlement to settlement, and from State to State, cocking to “better our fortunes,” re gardless of present com for ort future consequeces. We gather up our households and chatties, and with the same indifference, that a Calmue Tartar would remove his Hocks toother pastures, we sunder the ties of family and friends, to settle in distant territories, but to re j more again as soon as by dint of unremitting toil, we i begin to realise the comforts and conveninoies of a ■ H'imk. We thus often find that the inclination for change does not cease with the reasons which first jus- j tified it. But he who, while penniless, and a member i of a community thickly settled, and the field for mere i exertion without capital, consequently limited, was in I consequence, induced to seek new and unimproved re- j gions, where labor was synomimous with capitol this i one, after reaping a goldeu harvest, instead of spending his latter dnysfin improvement and embelishment, we ! oftentimes find resting his aged form, in wilderness regions, m comfortless, as eager to accumulate, as when young and without fortune he commenced the world. Instances are not wanting at our very doors, indeed, f not a day passes but we see or hear of cases which cm- ! brace the characteristics we liar* portrayed. These \ thoughts were induced in part, while looking over the i exchanges, our eye fell upon the following paragraph i from the Alabama (Wetumpka) State Guard.* “On I Tuesday last, a number of einegrants from Troup eoun- j ty, Georgia, passed through our city, on their way to j lexas. I hey are leaving a good home to seek a> better.’’ Well might the Editor remark, that they were lea?- ! ing a good home to seek a better. Now, why should the planter, in comfortable circumstances, desire to leave Georgia for the wilds of Texas ? The resident of n State, comprising every variety of soil and climate, rich in minerals, progressing as rapidly as any State in the Union in the development of her boundless resour ces, advancing works of internal improvement with an enterprise unsurpassed by no other State, projecting educational systems with a zeal and liberality common dable in any people in any age—holding a social, finan eial and political position among the prodest and weal thiest and most influential of her sister States, second to none, and which makes her citizens wherever they go in the New or the Old World, proud to avow them selves as Georgians. With a citizenship whose alle giance thus embraces mmunities in all the avenues of greatness that centre in a State, what blindness, thought lessly and almost recklessly, to cast them aside and risk the chances of Fortune ! But Georgia, with all her incomnarrabl. re !0 *ec 3 and inducements to labor in erery form, has soars noon’ her surface which shows too sensibly, the exhaustion to which she has been subjected. While there are vet millions of acres of virgin lands adopted in the highest degree to the culture of cotton, rice and other cerial plains, jet millions of acres also lie idle and exhausted 16 res “ 1 ul 3 s J stt, n of agriculture, which would make ■ waste of Eden. What were once the most fertde lands in the State are now barren wastes. A system of tillage has been pursued upon the principle of “ki ling” lands and clearing others, which while to-day it makes the “wilderness to blossom as the rose/’ 10-morrow pre sents a devestated region, abandoned to the wlid brier and weeds. When will our people learn to value a homestead ? how long ere the application of science to agricultural labor will be appreciated and adopted ? Why will they not cultivate those blessings of society, which only an exercise of our best natures can refine and enlarge, thus making home indeed a home with its countless joys and pleasures ? Wby will they no. bring around them those gentler influences which so tend to elevate our natures, to better our hearts, to in tensifiy our affections, to cultivate our intellects ? Mr. Everett has so beautifully portrayed the charms and and advantages of such a course of file, that we cannot forbear quoting him. Tho man who stands upon his own soil, who ieels that by the law of the land in which he lives—by the law of civilized nations—he is the rightful and exclusive owner of the land which he tills, is by the constitution of our nature under a wholesome influence not easily imbibed from any other source. He ieels—-other things being equal-more strongly than another, the character ol a man as the lord of an inanimate world. Ot this great and wonderful sphere which, fashioned by the hand of God, and upheld by His power, is rolling through the heavens, a part is his—his from the centre to the sky. It is the space on which the generation before moved in its round oi duties, and lie ieels himsell connected by a link with those who follow him, and to whom he is to transmit a home. Perhans his farm has come down to him from his fa.hers. They have gone to their last home! but he can trace their footsteps over the scenes of his daily labors. The roof which shelters him was reared by those to j whom he owes his being. Some interesting domestic tra- j dition is connected with every enclosure. The favorite 1 fruit tree was planted by his father’s hand. He sported in ! boyhood beside the brook, which still winds through the j 1 meadow. Through the fields lies the path to the village i school of earlier days. He still hears from the window the voice of the Sabbath bell which called his father to the 1 house of God ; and near at hand is the spot where his pa rents laid down to rest, and where, when his time has come, he shall be laid by his children ; these are the feelings of the owner of the soil. Words cannot paint them. They flow out of the deepest fountains of the heart, they are the file spring ofa fresh, healthy, and generous national charac ter. i What a charming picture ! What pleasant reflec tions does it not bring up to soothe the hardest heart ? Let us even then live accordingly, and show our ap preciation of the means which theall kind BENEFACTORhas placed at our disposal. Let us aa citizens of a noble ; State, show a proper appreciation of our heritage, by i becoming preservers as well as producers ; artists, as well asartizans; intelligent, as well as industrious; home abiding, as well as home-seeking. Assault ami Battery—an alleged attempt at Robbery. On Wednesday night last, while the exhibition of Price’s “Dissolving views” were progressing, a despe rate character, by the name of George Martin, as we learn, made an attack upon the ticket sedler, with a butcher s clever, cutting him very severely in the head, besides inflicting other serious injuries. The ball was of course darkened, as the exhibition requir ed— the audience had assembled, the ticket master was about leaving his post, when as reported by him, this man Martin, entered, after observing him place his pocket book in his side pocket, commenced the difficulty, and in the melle, caught at h : s coat, tear ing ii entirely down from the arms, but too far behind, to touch the pocket. Some then came to his assistance, mean while, Martin was taken off’ by his friends and serened from arrest. There were no police in atten dance, but some two or three individulas had imposed /themselves upon Mr. Price, as being such. No arrest 1 . we believe, lias yet been made, nor so far as we know, has any been attempted. Price and bis company left about thirty-six hours after, his business not allowing him to remain, in order to prosecute the case. These are the facts as repre sented to us. We suppose they need no comment to convince our citizens, that, when such a daring and desperate attempt can be made, while hundreds are within six rods, and the offender finds friends to rescue him—our poliece system is not only very ineffi j cicnt, but that the city is greatly in need ofa thorough ; efficient one. This is only one of several eases, not j quite so bad, but very nearly approximating it, which ! has come to our knowledge, within the past few weeks, j W r e have some lacts in our possession, which will soon be j forthcoming, in order that the people may know what j sort of a population we have, and how they are govern- i ed—whether govered at all or not ? The Celebrated Railroad Circus Company and | CRTrrAL Amphitheatre. -This magnificent establish j ,nent wil! be in our city shortly, and will give a series of i ! bt 'ir unequaled entertainments. The company coni | P rise * some of the most celebrated equestrians and ring ; Performers in the world. Not least of whom, is M’dle | Rosa, a most elegant and accomplished equtatriene. Stdne, the celebrated Clown—Burte, the renownd ri der, and others, for whose qualification and feats, we lefer to their advertisement in another column, the bare reading of which, will secure all the “front seats” and jam the “pit.” Thk Minstrels on Monday night. —Remember the “Kunkels’’ commence their Concerts on Monday sight next. We have already called attention to the world wide fame of this Troupe, and it increases wherever they go. °* We S' ve to *day, able and elequent Sermon, in a condense form, delivered by Rev. W. G. Conner! B was listened to by a large and attentive auditory, and we are sure, it will b penned wilh equal interest. Gov. Foote -The Vicksburg Sentinel, referring to the defeat of Gov. Foote in the late election who had •ombined with the Whigs, comforts him in the following manner: ° TV e are surprised to learn, that our Governor take* the defeat of the late coalition Very much to heart. If our information be correct our classical friend mno > read the Tuseulan Disputations, and 4 y Novel” m’ hllle purpose. For our part, we cannot see why ho should not be as merry as a cricket, or a free toad in „ rain • a- ■ Now that the Union party has burstel hi- ir u ‘ 4 - ought to feel as happ/asfhe man dM i’hem thc^S had found he had no money on tjiat bank r ” hope the Governor will cheer un Thin u ■ i . of a broken heart should be letfMo f-.: r “ n ° f j. ymg that strong minded we commend ,t to the Governor’s consideration : ’ Should be without regard : A Vei ” of tin ore is *>■<• ‘o I>*ve been disocneren lately in Clearfield Cos., Pa. animal Regatta between the L 1 and announced to come off at Charleston S. C„ on the 25th inst, for prizes amounting to upwards of $30,000. 1 The Steamboatmen and the Planter. Quite a strike has taken place on the Alabama river by the Steamboatmen whi h has caused the business 0 f Mobile to suffer greatly. The merits of the affair are thus succintly set forth in the Mobile Evening News. The Steamboat Controversy. At the earnest request of a number of the principal merchants of our city, we this day reproduce the various articles bearing upon the steamboat question. The plan tors and the up country merchants are, not unnaturally, greatly iudiguant at what they supposed was an attempt on the part of the Mobile merchants to impose a heavy tax upon them, at a time, too, when they could least afford it. To remove this impression is the anxious desire of eur business community, and we trust the wide circula tion of our epitome of the whole subject will have the* de sired effect. From the perusal, our country readers will perceive that the merchant and the ■public of Mobile op posed the movement from the beginning, and do so yet. They are perfectly willing that tfio steamboat owner shall charge a fair rate for bis services, and they do not ques tion his right to fix h's own rate of charges ; but what they are not willing he should do is, to make a sudden advance of 50 per cent upon the price they had previous ly been content to ask and receive. Against this they have protested, and still protest,and they wish their friends in the interior to know and understand this. For ourselves we trust our part in the matter is com pleted, we (unlike some others j did ‘feel called upon to discuss the question,” it being one of \ital concern to our city and having now laid the whole ease before the peo ple, shall h ave it in their hands for settlement, only hop ing an amicable arrange ment will quickly be effected. By the couise v\e have taken, or subscription list and adver tising columns have suffered in one direction—but we are proud to confess the less has been more than eountcrlal aneed by the acquisition of new subscribers and adver tisements from ihepuolic at large. O’ It will be recollected that Mr. Webster, while Secretary of State, expressed an opinion adverse to the right of the opinion of the Peru vian Government to levy toll for Guano taken at the Lobos Islands. Thereupon some Boston and New York merchants fitted out a fleet of vessels, but, before they reached their destina tion the opinion of the State Department was changed, and upon their arrival they were left to the tender mercies of the Peruvians, and compelled to pay, as others, for what they took away. The upshot of this matter is given in a letter from Washington, which says : The Messrs. Benson, and other parties, con cerned in the importation of guano from the Lobos Islands in 1852, have applied to the State Department for an idemnity tor the loss incur red through the failure of this Government to suoport them in taking the article from the is lands without paying tribute to Peru. The j amount of claim is stated at a million dollars. I The claimants would no doubt compromise for i a very moderate per centage on there demand. The New York Expedition for Liberia. — j The colonization expedition, which has been ( fitting out in New Xork city under the auspices j of the New York State Colonization Society, [ set sail on Thursday for Monrovia, calling at ; Gambia—the bark Isla de Cuba having been chartered for the purpose. The number of era | igrants who went out in her was fifty-three in cluding thirty-two from Pennsylvania, four from Connecticut, and one from New Jersey 7. Two of the number are clergymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church, viz : Rev. S. Williams of Phila., and Rev. D. H. Peterson, from the inte rior of New It ork, who goes out partly for ex ploration. Abraham Caldwell, another of the emigrants, is reputed to have property in New York city to the amount of SIO,OOO, but, hav ing formerly lived in Liberia, he entertains for it a superior attachment. Another emigrant is | named Augustus Washington, from Hartford a daguerreotypist by prafession, well educated. | Another is Stephen Ajon, schoolmaster from • Newburgh, New York .—Baltimore Sun 12th. Information Wanted.— ls James K. Ste ■ phens. a Printer, who left Wetumpka, Ala., about the 20th ot July last, and the last heard ot, was in Mississippi, will address the Editor ol the Sentinel, Selma, Ala , he will learn some thing to his advantage. Will our brethren ot the Press pass around this notice and confer a favor upon a typo in luck. Selma, Nov, 12. ! Boundary bet wen Georgia and Florida. — I The Tallahassee Floridian understands that i this ease is set for hearing before the Su j preme Court of the United States on the second ; Monday in December next. The Hon. Rever j dy Johnson has been retained on the part of Flo i rida. Ihe State Attorney General of that State will also probably be present at the argument. Hon. John M. Berrien and Hon. George E. Badger will appear on the part of Georgia. i O’ James S. Wells succeeds the late Hon. C. J. Atherton m the United States Senate from New Hampshire. [From the Savannah Georgian.] THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA. Liverpool, Nov. 12. COTTON IMPROVED— BATTLE FOUGHT. New York, Nov. 24. The British Mail Stamship Canada, with Liver- pool dates of the 12th inst., arrived at Halifax this morning. The n#wn is highly important. Cotton was firm. Advices from the East say that considerable fighting had taken place, in which the Turks had pro ven victorious. The sales of Cotton for the week, in the Liverpool market, had been 4 5,000 bales; of which speculators took 9,000 bales, and exporters 3,000, at the following quotations, viz.: Fair Orleans. 6 3-4 Fair Uplands. G3 8 Middling Orleans, 6 Middling Uplands. 5 3-4 4he demand was good, and prices stifFer, especially on the middling qualties. No alteration, however, in quotations. In Havre the sales of the week had been 6,000 bales, the market closing with moderate sales to the trade. Charleston Cotton Market—The Boat Eace. Ch A RLESTON, NiOV. 24. The sales to-day foot up 1,500 bales—for the week 9,000 bales. The market closes at extremes of 7 3-4 to 11 cents. Quotations range from 1-4 to3-S advance on those previously given. Middling Fair and Fair stand at 10 5-8 to 11 cents. Receipts for tbe week have “been 13,000 bales. Tho Comet was the winning boat in the race to day.