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QLxmts anb Sentinel.
” COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. j
SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. 13, 1854
Alabama News Item* with appropriate Com
ments.
Gubernatorial —Hon. Ilenry W. Hilliard is an
nounced as an indpendent candidate for Governor of
Alabama in the columns of the Alabama Journal.—
Thi is done with the knowldge of Mr. Hilliard, who
will very Boon “address the people, giving his views
on the subjects now at issue iu reference to Slate pul
ley.” In the present disjointed state of public affiirs
there is a chance for his election ; and, where this is
the case, his opponents had better te wary, or ho will
lurn their flank and win the victory. iVe know no
Whig in Alabama who is so popular with the masses,
and no politician of any party in the Stale who is so
thoroughly master of the game of politics, or has so
tharrning an elocution.
Alabama and Florida Railroad —The Green
ville Alabamian states that “the work on this road lias
commenced in good earnest. Energetic workmen are
now engaged on the line ahout two miles north of
Greenville, working in this direction, smoothing down
and clearing away the obstacles on the rugged face of
mother earth, preparatory to laying the track cn which
the iron horse will soon thunder along in his headway
course.’’
This is a matter of some interest to Columbus.—
Greenville is the eastern terminus of the second divis
ion of the Mobile & Girard Railroad, and is that part
of the line which the city of Mobile has pledged herself
to complete. As soon as it became probable that the
Mobile & Girard Railroad would be built, the city of
Montgomery, fearing that she would lose not only
the trade of the rich prairie landsaround Union Springs,
but the principal part of the river trade and travel of
Mobile, subscribed $500,000 to the Alabama and Flo
rida railroad, which crosses the Mobile & Girard Rail
road at or near Greenville, with the hope, doubtless,
either of forestalling the connection of Mobile and Cc
'unibus and thereby killing it, or of opening anew chan -
nel for her trade at the noble port of Pensacola. These
hopes now begin to assume form and shape. ‘"Ener
getic workmen are now engaged on the line abjut two
miles north of Greenville.” Let our our capitalists
and business men note the fact, and by a liberal sub
scription, push our own cherished enterprise to a speedy
completion. Once the Mobile & Girard Road is fin
ished and it can and will defy the competition of the
Alabama and Florida lino.
Increase or the Liauoii License. —The corporate
authorities of Montgomery have raised the price of li
cause to retail spirituous liquors from S2OO to SSOO--
We understand that the City Council of Columbus fol
lowed, lango inlervallo , in the wake of Montgomery,
having raised the price of license from S3O to SSO. —
We hope, however, that this difference in price will not
induce the liquor dealers in Montgomery to emigrate to
Columbus. We have got just as many as we can sup
port. In GO yards of our office there are five as good
bars as any man need wish to drink at, and the other
parts of the city are nearly as well supplied.
Literary Society. —There is in Montgomery a Litera
ry Society which holds weekly meetings, patronised by
the best part of the community, at which lectures are
delivered by the best talent of the city, after which a
subject is debated by the members of the society. Is
not this example worthy of imitation ? Columbus is
crowded with brilliant orators, learned scholars, and
cultivated ladies. Why cannot they organize a Literary
Society for mutual improvement and instruction ? Will
not the younger members of the learned professions
take the matter in hand and set the ball in motion.
State Agricui.turai. Society, —We are pleased to
notice that the people of Alabama arc not only doing
much which is worthy of imitation, but are nobly
emulating whatever Georgia has done most worthy of
praise. The Agricultural meeting for the organization
of a State Agricultural Society convened at the Court
House in Montgomery, on the 10th inst. The Journal
says :
After the usual temporary organization of the meeting
a committee was appointed to a draft a Constitution for
the Society, which was done and adopted by the So
ciety. Under the Constitution, as adopted, the follow
ing named gentlemen were elected officers of the
Society :
President —Col. Isaac Croom ; Secretary —Dr. N.
B. Cloud ; Treasurer —Col. C. T. bollard.
Vice Presidents. —Dr. N. B. Powell, Macon ;
John Goldthwaite, Cocsa ; Judge B. S. Bibb, Mont
gomery ; Dr. Wm. S. Price, Marengo j Absalom Jack
son, Autauga ; T. B. Bethea, Mobile ; and Gov. H.
W. Collier, Tuscaloosa.
Executive Committee. —E. A. Ilolt, Chairman ;
K. T <\ Ligon, Dr. C. Bellinger, R. 11. Powell, John
M. Cheney, E. E. Montague, Col. Lewis Owen, M. A.
Baldwiu, P. T. Graves.
After making the preliminary arragements for a
State Fair in the hill the Society adjourned to its next
annual meeting, to be held during the Fair.
Periodical Literature.
Brown son's Quarterly Review (a- January con
tains ihe following articles :
1 Gratry on the Knowledge of God ; 2 Ritter’s
History of Philosophy ; 3 Radowitz's Fragments ; 4
Luther and the Reformation ; 5 Russia and the West
ern Powers ; 6 The Know Nothings-, 7 Literary No
tices and Criticisms. Terms : $3 per annum.
He Bow's Review for January contains 144 pages
of choice reading on Agriculture and Farming, Com •
nierce and Statistics, Mining, Manufactures Inter
na Improvements, and Education, besides a number of
J j terary and Miscellaneous articles. I'. is the design
of the editor to devote himself exclusively to its con
trol and management. Published monthly in New
Orleans and Washington City, at $5 per annum in ad
vance. Address either city.
Jiik Southern Literacy Messenger for January,
contains 1 Sketches of our volunteer officers ; 2 The
Two Mottoes ; 3 Types of Mankind ; 4 The last days
of Gaston Phoebus ; 5 The Angels of Epic Poetry ; f,
A Sketch Parson Wimbles ; 7 Shade and Sunshine ;
8 Politics in the Pulpit ; 9 Original Poetry • 10 Editor’s
Table ; 11 Notices of New Works.
Columbus Races*
By reference to our advertising columns the patrons
of the turf will see that the first aunual races over this
course will take place on Tuesday oth March next.
We take pleasure in con ni nding the Proprietors, the
Messrs. Pryor ot this cky, as get tUmen worthy of
the public confiden-c. Se ad.eriken.ent lor further
particulars.
A Solvent Town.—The iucome o” the Town of
Washington, Ga., last year v a < 1,182 85 j expenditures
$981.33 ■ balance on hand $201.52,
Columbus Local Items.
Protestant Episcopal Cburcil— The Rt. Rev.Ste'-hfn
Elliott, ot the Diocese of Georgia, will preach in Trinity
Church on Sunday next at 11 o'clock. The rite of Baptism
will be administered in the afternoon, and that of Confir
mation in the evening of the same day.
Other Churches. —The Pastors of the various other
churches will fill their respective pulpits on Sunday as
usual.
Muscogee Superior Cotrt. —The trial of the youth,
John Deaton, charged with jobbery, was concluded cn
Thursday last and resulted in a verdict of Guilty. —
William F. Payne, charged with forging the name of
Stewart, Gray & Cos , was put on his trial on Friday, and
in Ins case also, the jury brought in a verdict ot guilty. A
verdict of guilty was also rendered in the case of the State
vs. James Robinsou, indicted lor an assault with intent to
commit murder. The punishment imposed upon all these
crirne3 is imprisonment in the Penitentiary.
E. Barnard & Co— This enterprising firm have moved
into the new brick store on the north west corner ol Broad
and Randolph streets, where they keep all kinds of Groce
ries except bad kinds, which they will sell on as good terms
as any house in the city. Their cellar lias peculiar attrac
tions. Call and examine.
I"* New Music. —Horace Waters, the great Music
Publisher, Manufacturer, and Dealer in Piano Fortes,
of No. 33d Broadway, New York, has sent us the fol
lowing sheets of pupular Mubie, published by him:
The Rush of Waters ; Birdling my Messenger ; The
Rippling Brook.
Mr. Waters'vvill present as a New Years Givt for
1855 One Dollars worth of Music, to be selected from
his extensive and popular catalogue, to all who purchase
of him the same amount previous to the 25th of January,
and will forward both Gift and Purchase postpaid. A
most liberal offer ! One, however, characteristic of the
great Publisher and Dealer, and of which we would
advise our readers by all means to avail themselves.
Merchants Bank of Macon. —The Journal
Messenger, of the 10th insf., says the failure of Wads
worth & Sheldon of Now York does not effect the
solvency of the Merchants Bank of Macon “and it is
as strong to wage an offensive or defensive warfare to
protect itself, or to carry the war into Africa, as it was
before* that failure occurred.”
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Southern Theatricals. —Miss Agnes Robinson
after filling a very successful engagement at Crisp’s
Atheneum has gone to Mobile and has made quite a sue
eessful debut on the Mobile boards. The News pro
nounces her “the most versatile and charming actress
of the age.”
Mrs. Charles Howard has arrived in Savannah and
appeared at the Atheneum as Lady Teazle. The Re
publican says “her personation v.as admirable, and es
tablishes her claim to be ranked with the most success
ful actresses in her particular role in the country.”
Will Mr. Crisp never come back to Columbus
again ?
Nebraska Territory. —N. B. Giddings, late of Mis
souri, and a Benton democrat, has been elected to Con
gress from this Territory. The o.ipitol of the Territory
has been located at Omaha.
Complete returns show the following result : Giddings,
Ai\ti slavery dem., 439 ; .Johnson, dem., 345 •, Chap
man, deni., 117 ; Dyson, 43 ; Hollister, 15.
Ex-Governor David Johnson. —The Columbia Times
of Tuesday 9th says: *
‘‘We regret to learn, through a letter received at this
office yesterday, (dated Limestone Springs, Jan. 3d,)
that Ex-Governor David Johnson lies dangerously ill,
and but little, if any hope, is entertained that he will
recover.”
An Englishman s “Platform .’’—Sir Charles Napier
is a candidate for Parliament in the borough of Marl
bone. Ilis programme, forwarded per telegraph, is—
“ War to the knife with Russia—extensive refoim—
vote by ballot—shorter parliaments—and general edu
cation/’
A Patriotic Nobleman. — It is said that the Eail of
Ellesmere is about to send out his capacious and swift
sailing yacht from England to the Crimea, filled with
provisions and clothing for the army.
The Kinney Expedition. —A dispatch dated at
Washington, Saturday 6th, states that a captain of
volunteers in the Mexican war, is in that city enlisting
recruits for the Kinney Central American expedition.
Many young men were preparing to join ; they receiv
ing a bounty of fifty dollars in advance.
“A King of Shreds and Patches. —A gentleman
in a private letter from the Sandwich Islands, speaking
of King Ivamehanieha, says ; “He loafs around the
town of Honolull peeps into a tavern, and is ready to
take a ‘nip’ with any body that asks him. Ho isn’t
worth a ‘ct nlinental/ and auctioneers won’t take his
bid at an auction.”
Mississippi, Gainesville and Tuscaloosa Railroad. —
The Gainesville Independent of the 6th inst., says
contracts for the grading and masonry on that portion
of the Mississippi, Gainesville and Tuscaloosa Railroad,
lying between Gainesville and the Mobile and Ohio
Road, were awarded in that place on the 88th ultimo.
Masonic Convention. —The Masonic Convention at
Washington adjourned on Thursday evening, 9th.—
We learn from the SeUtinel that they adopted a plan,
which, if approved by twenty or more of the Grand
Lodges of the United States, will establish a eonfedera
tion of Grand Lodges, to which any difficulties originat
ing among the Brotherhood in any masouic jurisdiction
can be referred for settlement.
Gold Mine in llart. —A correspondent of the Au
gtista. Chronicle cj- Sentinel , gives an account of a
wondeiful discovery of gold recently made on l.is own
laud by Mr. James Brown, of Hart county. He says
the vein is five feet wide and yields $lO to the bushel
of ore, some portions of it yielding as higji as §2O
and SSO to the bushel.
As Mr. Brown is a poor man, says the Wilkes Re
publican, with a wife, twelve sons and eight daughters,
we hope the statement is true, though we have heard
nothing of the discovery, ourstlf.
Hard Times . —The sales of negroes in this place,
Tuesday 9.th inst., c-ould hardly be adduced as proof of the
hard times of which we hear so much complaint. Men
brought from §950 to $1000; a girl 16vars of age,
field hand, $859, another 18 years of age §SJO; a
woman and four children, the oldest apparently not
over 5 years old, brought near §2,300. These sales
were on a credit of twelve months, but they show that
our people are not so desperately apprehensive about I
“the wolf,” after all. — Wilkes Republican .
BY TELEGRAPH,
Expressly for the Times and Sentinel.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL 0F Tllt *
STEAMSHIP BALTIC.
Another Decline in Cotton —Important Meeting at Vi
enna— Napoleon asks for Five Hundred Million of
Francs to help carry on the War!
New York, Jan. 12.
The steamship Baltic has arrived.
Fair Orleatu Cotff n declined one-eighth. Fair Orleans
SiJ.; Middling sd. Sales of the week 29,000 bales.
Bread: tuffs unchanged. Consols 91L
War news unchanged. The Russians contnued to make
soities upon the Allied forces.
The Allies are largely reinf’ored.
An important meeting of Representatives from the Five
Powers has been held at Vienna. Result not known.
Napoleon’a speech to the French Legislature is very
warlike. lie asked for a loan of Five Hundred Million
francs, which was unanimously voted.
FURTHER ADVICES.
Liverpool Cotton Market.
The sale, of Cotton in the Liverpool maiket, for the
week ending on the 29th, comprise 29,000 bales, of which
1,000 were taken on speculation. Tho demand was fair,
but prices were lower, chiefly, hewever, on lair qualities.
The quotations are as follows: Fair Upland 5i ; Middling
Upland 4id.
Provisions. —Flour and Corn remain unchanged since
the last report. Beef and Lard remain unchanged. Poik
had advanced one shilling.
London Money ?*1 arket.— Consols closed at 9H (a) 91L
American securities were very active, especially Virginia
bonds. The bullion in the Bank of England, had increas
ed 103,000 pounds sterling.
From the Seat of War.
The affairs before Sevastopol remain unchanged. The
Russians continued to make frequent sorties; from the city
three had lately been made, and one by the fleet from the
harbor.
The ‘allies had received 18,000 reinforcements. The
weather in the Crimea was more favorable.
There is no change in the attitude of Austria or Prussia.
The British Foreign Enlistment bill has become a law.
The British House of Parliament has adjourned.
Southern Commercial Convention.
New Orleans, Jan. 11.
The Commercial Convention today discussed the Pacif
ic Railroad Bill.
Albert Pike, Esq., of Arkansas, offered similar resolu
tions to those which he advocated at the Convention at
Charleston, in April last. „
Resolutions were adopted calling on Congress for ap
propriations for the construction of the road across the pe
ninsula of Floiida.and asking liberal appropriations from
the States bordering on the Atlantic and Gulf. Also, in
favor of a material modification of the piesent tariff, re
commending the Southern members in Congress to vote
for an entire abolition of the present duties on rail road
iron. Also in favor ol establishing a Navy Yard at IWem
phss. All of which were referred. The convention then
adjourned.
Political Matters.
Washington, Jan. 11.
Harlan, whig, has been elected U. S. Senator iroin lo
wa, in the placed Mr: Dodge, whoso term expires the4th
of March.
Senator Norris, of New Hampshire, is lying dangerously
*ll in this etty.
In Pittsburg the Know Nothing candidate for Mayor
has been defeated by a combination of whigs &, democrats.
The Political Campaign in Virginia. —The Hon. H.
A. Wise opened the.political campaign in Virginia, on
Wednesday evening, 10th inst., at Norfolk, in a two hour’s
speech. It was reported that the Hon. Kenneth Ilayner,
of North Carolina, was theie, and would make a speech
in reply, on Thursday evening.
Criminal. -—There were throughout the Union during
the past year, says an exchange, 682 murders and Si
executions. New York furnished the largest number
(74) of murderers, and California of executions, (15.)
There were no executions in Delaware, Florida, Geor
gia, Indiana, lowa, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Vermont.-
Delaware, Rhode Island and Vermont had but- one mur
der each.
Falling off in the Revenue. —lt is stated that the
entire receipts of customs for the month of December,
are estimated at the Treasury Department at not more
than two millions of dollars, against four millions and a
half for December, 1553. The available surplus in the
Treasury has fallen off already seven millions of dollars
since September. The payments of this month will fur
ther reduce the surplus five millions of dollars.
New York Legislature. —Bil s are before this body j
to give additional security to depositors in Savings i
Banks ; to prohibit the vesting of real estate in Catholic j
Bishops; taxing non-residents; providing fer a registry !
law and a mechanics’ hen law ; to suppress gambling
and lotteries ; making it a fine of $3,000, and imprison
ment in the penitentiary of from three to seven years,
for the fraudulent issue of stocks; making ten hours a
day’s labor, and to prohibit entirely the sale of liquors.
Interesting to Remitters. —The Memphis Eagle hrg
been requested by the post office authorities of that city
to caution the public against making any remittances
which may have to pass through the mail on the route
between Nashville and Cincinnati, as a great deal of
money has recently been lost between those cities. Be
tween Memphis and Nashville remittances through the
mail, it is said, will be safe enough. It is only beyond
Nashville that any danger is apprehended.
State Aiid.—Some of the papers in Alabama_are
pressing the subject of the State affording aid to Railroads
with considerable force, with the purpose of bringing
the subject to bear on the mxt Governor’s election.
If they will elect a man who will aid the State in getting
out jjnf dibi, for the State needs more aid in this
matter than any other, it will be time enough to talk of
State aid to Railroads, and the subject will bo more
ccptable to the people than now.— Wvodsaicycr.
O” The Presbyterian Church in Thirteenth street,
near Seventh Avenue, New York, in which the Rev.
Dr. Burehard, officiated,—a superb edifice—was entire
ly consumed by fire on Monday morning, Btb. The loss
is estmated at $30,000, upon which there is an insu
ranee of §17,000.
For the Times & Pontine’.
Illustrations of Mechanics.
BY IKE AXEL.
Messrs. Editors: — As the graduates from the schools ct ■
the present day are sadly behind the times in a knowledge j
of Mechanics, and have no realizing sense of its vast impor
tance, I propose to show up a few of the principles of that !
science, with its connection with the aflars oi every day life. ;
And, to begin with a quotation from a celebrated au- j
thor, “Mechanics, (says Weisbach) is the science which |
treuts of the laws oi the motions ol Material bodies. ’ I o
think that any science of such importance as the one un
der consideration, should so'far forget itself as to ‘ treat,
by which is generally meant purchasing liquor lor ones
friends at a bar, is a mistake we should not for a moment
labor under. Mechanics only treats of the laws which go
vern the motions of liquids and solids, and those laws are
as well exemplified and illustrated by showing their oper
ations in every day life, as by the most difficult formulte of
the author above quoted. And first, let us attend to forces:
“Force is the cause of motion”—as seen in the ejection oi
a disagreeable intruder from the house by an irritable old
gent in cowhides. ‘"Forces are in equilibrium when no
motion is produced”—as exemplified in an angry driver
and an obstinate mule, who refuse to stir, which two cases
show us how forces are divided into ‘moving forces/and
‘resistances:’ ‘moving forces/ such as a case of cholera in
an omnibus, in which case the effect of the force is gener
ally seen in a sudden movement of the passengers towards
the door ol t lie vehicle; and ‘resistances/ as when a man
walking rapidly in the dark, brings his pioboeis into violent
contact with a lamp post. Inertia, or “resistance to a
change of state,’ is observable in the case of a fat man af
ter dinner, or a board of .Aldermen at a feast; which two
ca'-es naturally lead us to the consideration of “Specific
Gravity, ’ which is the relation ol tho density of some body
to the density ot some other, generally water, though the
liquors sold by the dealers have a specific gravity so re
matkably near that of water, they may with equal propri-
ety be taken as the standard. Some bodies have no spe
cific gravity, such as the various political speeches of the
present day, which cannot be even compared in density to
the most volatile gases, though they are delivered to the
people with commendable ‘gravity/ Gravity leads us to
the consideration ol gravity as a force acting upon falling
bodies, which sometimes produces “irregular motion” with
out a direct descent of the “body”—as in the case of an
unfortunate gent who has been called to perform the mel
ancholy duty of “setting upjoith a sick friend,” return
ing home with a ‘brick in his hat;” the foice of gravity act
ing upon the brick, causing some very irregular motions
and also causing‘gravity’ to be. seen in the face of his wile
a3 she helps him up stairs.
Jhe “centre of gravity’’ is a mathematical point, but is
distinctly visible in the countenances < fa board of Bank
directors, holding a meeting over an empty treasury. “If
we could remove the forces acting upon a mass in motion
it would move on uniformly without ceasing.”. This is
not always the case, as a mad cfog in a crowd may set a
mass in motion, which will cease moving when the force
is removed. “ The descent of a lulling body in space” may
be shown by the descent ol an editor who comes in con
tact with a barrel rolled down the sidewalk by a delin
quent subscriber ol vvhctn he is in pursuit, or of the vic
timized man who tries lor the first time a pair of skates.
But not to weary you with too many “Illustrations of
Mechanics,” I will close. Should this be worthy your no
tice I may continue in other articles, to climb to the various
branches of that tree of mechanical science ol which we
are now only digging at the roots. Hoping your bodily
organs are in a proper state of “equilibrium” I will sub
scribe myself, yo urs truly. Ike Axle.
Alabama Medical Association. —Dr. Anderson
President of the Alabama Medical Association, has
published a circular, addressed to the Fellows of the
society and calling earnest attention to its approaching
session in Mobile on the first Monday in February next.
Important business is expected to come before them,
and especially a resolution, laid over at the last meeting,
which provides that the “head-quarters of the Associa
tion” shall be permanently established at Mobile. It is
in the eighth year of its existence, and numbers nearly
one hundred and fifty physicians.
New Version of the Bible. —A Rev. Mr. Davis
informs the Atlanta Examiner , that anew version or
i evised edition of the Bible is soon to bo issued under
the supervision of Drs. Anthon, Diily and Conant,
three of the most distinguished scholars in the United
States. The first is an Episcopalian, the second, a Pres
byterian, and the last a Baptist.
The work, continues the letter, is the work of no
sect, or party, but a great dissideratum demanded by the
progress of the English language. There is in the
Bible, he assures us, no less than one thousand obsolete
words, and under the rules of King James, a portion
of it has never been translated only transferred.
Change of Name. —The name of St. Lucie county,
Fla., has been changed to Brevard. This name has
been given to it in memory of Dr. Ephraim Brevard, of
North Carolina, the author of the famous Mecldenbur”
Declaration of Independence. The name is most
appropriate. The Brevards acted an important part in
the revolutionary struggle.
LF* The partial accession of Mr. Everett, to the
principles of the Know Nothings is announced, lie
goes no further than to advocate an extension of the
period of natural zation, which he regards as the con
servative ground for the whig party to stand on.
O’ The gross receipts of the Wilmington and Man
chester Railroad for the last twelve months foot up three
hundred and thirty thousand dollars, and the net profits
one hundred and forty thousand dollars, being equal to
seven per cent, upon the whole cost of the work, stock
and loans included.
O’ The next Term of the Commissioners Court of
Russell county, Ala., will set on the second Monday in
February next. At this term of the Court, Overseers
of all the roads in the county will be appointed for the
regular term of two years, and we are requested to say
that it will greatly aid the court if some well informed
person in each Beat will suggest to the court the names
of the most proper men to be appointed overseers in
their respective Beats.— Woodsawyer.
The Legislature of Arkansas has passed a bill
prohibiting the circulation of bank notes of a less de
nomination than five dollars.
Death of Col. Muse. —New Orleans, Jan. 10.—Col.
Muse, Secretary of Suite of Mississippi, died at Jackson
Miss., on Tuesday 9th.
Passage oj a Bill in the Illinois Legislature Re
pealing the License Laws.— Chicago, (111.) J an . 6
1855.—A bill passed in the House of Representatives ol
this Stare, to-day, repealing all license laws, by a vote of
51 to 21.
Congressional.
Washington, Jan. t>, 1855.
The Senate discussed to day the Judiciary Refoim Rill.
The House \vvas occupied in debating the Pacific Rail
Road Rill.
Washington, Jan. 10, 1853.
In the Senate to-day the’debate on the Judicialßeform
Bill was resumed.
In the House (he bill amendatory of the Land Gradua
tion bill was discussed. A long delate ensued on Mr.
! Dawson’s amendment, giving a homestead of 1 GO acres,at
| 11 c uts per acre, on condition of actual settlement, which
was eventually njoeted. The substance of the Senate bill
was then also rejected.
Letter from Mobile Bay—Crews in Irons.
Lower Fleet, Mobile Bay, Jan. SJi, 1855.
The ship “Monterey” hasall her crew in irons for dis
obedience of orders and bad conduct. Cnpt. Oliinger was
on board on Fiidav and will call alongside this morning
as the cutter passes her on her way to sea.
Tne British ship “Speed” is iu the same fix or ntueh
worse, for In r men have not only refused to do their duty
but broke the irons and threatened the Captain. At his
request four of the ringleaders have been taken on board
the cutter in double irons. They are hard fellows to man
age and deserve punishment. Since they have been taken
from tlie ship the seamen on board have become obedient
to their officers and returned to their duty.— Mobile
Register.
No Silver in Tallapoosa.
Professor Tuomey, State Geologist, has recently exam
ined the so-called Silver mines in Tallapoosa : and in a
letter, published in the Montgomery Advertiser, he says,
that he is obliged to say, that his searches were not re
warded with any encouraging results, though lie fit und a
rich bed ot soap stone.
County Elections.
Chattahoochee County. —T. W. llowdl lias been
elected Tix Receiver in this county, and Edward O’Neal,
Tax Collector.
Talbot County. —Col. A. 11. Brown has been chosen
Tax Collector in this county, and John E. Mershon, Tax
Reveiver.
Executive Committee Room, s. c. a. s. )
Augusta, Ga., Dee. 6th, 1854. S
The Secretary of the Society, having laid before the
Executive Committee a letter received irom Dr. Win.
Terrell, of Sparta, tendering his resignation as one of that
Committee.
Col. Davidson of Woodville, moved that Messrs. Benj.
E. Stilt s, Win. M. D’Antignac and J. S. Linton, be ap
pointed a Committee to respond to the address received
from Dr. Terrell, and to prepare i;t solutions expressive of
our regret, for his resignation. The Committee reported
the following resolutions which were unanimously adopt*
ed.
Resolved , That we deeply regret the ill health of our
late, much respected chairman, Dr. Wm. Terrell, and de
plore the providential cause which lias deprived us of his
wise admonitions, and valuable services.
Resolved , That Dr. Wiii. Terrell’s letter of rcsigna*
tion be published in the city papers • with the request,
t'aat all Gazetes friendly to the great interests of the South
will copy, that the Southern Stabs may be enlightened
by the wise admonitions he so clearly sets forth.
James Ca.mak, Sec. s. c. a. s.
Alabama Matters. —By the way, friend Register ,
don’t you really believe that the Governor stands a bad
chance, with the temperance men, the State-aid men,and
the vvhigs, and them Know Nothings as you call call ’em,
against him.— Selma Reporter.
Not a bit of it, if the democratic party is true to itself.
The democratic party can whip any tiling in Alabama ex
cept itself. If it pitches into itself, of course the fur will
fly. If the Isms —we care not bow many cf them are
fused—will not come into our fold and steal some of the
silly and credulous lambs, the democrats can bang the
whole array of factions you have named and its “weight
in wild eats,” besides. Give us a stand-up fight and no
gouging, and we are not afraid of the issue.— Mobile Reg.
ister.
Arrival of the North Star. — New York, Jan. 10. —
The steam ship Norili Star has arrived from Aspinwall
with over $1,000.000 in specie, and advices from San
Francisco to the 16th ult.
Cassius M. Clay in Boston. —The Boston Post has
the following items concerning Mr. Cassius M. Clay’s re
cent anti-slavery lecture in Boston :
Ci.ay.—During Mr. Cassius M. Clay’s lecture on
Thursday evening ho had much to say about the “tripods
of the press.” Old Mr. Dusenbury, whose hearing is a
little obscure, whispered to his neighbor, “What is he
saying about the dry pods of the press? He must allude
to the fact that the press has given him beans.”
“How do you like Mr. Clay’s oratory ?” asked one of
another one. “It sounds,” was the reply, “like Mr.
Knockdown, the auctioneer, selling about seven dollars
and a halt’s worth of second hand furniture, asking his
customers if they can conscientiously allow the buggy
bedsteads to go so low.”
Pronouncing the word elite as if it were spelled elyle,
Old Roger remarked that “its pronunciation was all in
his i.”
That was a great figure of his where he spoke as one
above parties, “looking down upon the checker-heard of
politics that is played,”
As Mr. Clay was berating the press soundly, and say
ing that all were bad, a repo: ter of very venerable aspect,
said, half aloud, “Save me } Cassius.” The respectable
appearance of the individual alone prevented his being
kicked out.
Supposed Insanity of the Duke of Cambridge.—The
London correspondent of the Boston Post writes as fol
lows :
Madness, like murder, will out, however; and the
young scion of Royalty proves the purity of his blood, by
getting crazy, like his grandfather. It seems that some
strangeness of conduct was noticed after the battle of tfie
Alma, in the Duke of Cambridge, but nothing of a de
cided character appeared until after the defeat of the Rus
sians at Inkermann. Riding across the battle field and
observing a wounded Russian endeavor to shoot an En
glish soldier, instead of running him through on the spot,
the Duke began to reason with him, and his aids coming
up, they overhead hint saying : that he should use all his
influence at head quarters to have him hanged ! As the
dead were being carried by, the Duke began to remark—
‘‘That man is not dead,set li in oil his legs, he’ll walk ;”
and upon Lord Raglan’s remonstrating with him*upon
the ill time for such buffoonery, he replied, “Buffoonery,
my Lord ! lam am; zd. The man is not dtad. I niy_
self, saw him alive, and talked with him this very morn
ing !” Measures were instantly taken to report the Duke
as an invalid, and to remove him from his command.
The industrious old lady who waikt and all over Lon
don with a can in her hand to pi t cure a piut of the “milk
of human kindness,’’ has been more suco ssful in getting
a little jam out of the jar of a door. She got the jam on
her fingers.
“It is affirmed by scientific gentlemen,” says the
Boston Post, “that the pressure of the times, if it could be
used as a propelling power, would force a vessel across
the Atlantic in twenty-'four hours.”
The sensitive actor, who couldn’t sit in the same
room with a tea-urn on account of its hissing, has just
been killed by a “burst of applause.”
Married.
In Milledgvillo, on Monday evening, the Bth inst., by
the Rev. S. K. Talmage, President of Oglethorpe Universi
ty, Charles P. Crawford, Esq. of Americas, and Miss Mar
tha Williamson, daughter of William Williamson, of the
former place.
In this city on the morning of the 11th inst. by Rev.
.Tno E. Dawson, Dr. Rami. 8. Law, and Miss Georgia W.
Hardin, daughter of Major Edward Hardin, of this city,
In this city on the evening of the 11th, by the Rev. John
F. Dawson, Mr. Samuel R. Branon, and Mus Mary A.
illiame, all ol Columbus.