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mti) dtufinel* COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. 20, 1854- m ■'■£* ~ ., ~~, - -- ■ : ■ ■ ~~=’ feou.n side View of Slavery. We are indebted to J. W. Pease, of this city, for a copy of this very interesting work. It is, as most of our readers are aware, the production of Nehemiah Adams, D. D., of New England, to whom Mr. Wise, of Virginia, addressed recently his very able and widely circulated letter in defense of slavery. The Reverend Author wasone of the 3000 New England Clergymen who protested so impiously against the passage of the Nebraßka-Kansas bill by Congress. Forced, just after he had signed this protest, to visit the South for the benefit of a very near relative, he spent three months of the past year in the Southern States in contact with the slave and his master, lie gives in this book a very readable account of what he saw, felt and thought under these new circumstances. It is hardly necessary to say that the result was a complete revolution of senti ment and opinion on the subject ofSouthern institutions. The Southern people know that the African occupies a a higher social and moral position in a state of slavery at the South than any of his progenitors ever occupied in any other state or country. There is, therefore, noth ing new or startling in the discoveries of Dr. Adams’ voyage of discovery in Southern seas. But as a means of making the two extremes of the Union better ac quainted with the true character of the inhabitants of each section ; of softening tbe asperities which have been produced by the agitation of the question of slavery; and of thereby opeuing the way for a restoration of the cordial sympathy which once existed between the North and the South, the South Side View of Slavery is an admirable production aud comes out at tho most op portune moment. We have read the work with unal loyed pleasure, aud take pleasure in commending it to our readers. A Fact worthy of Special Notice. A number of persons at the South have been induced to favor the secret oligarchy, known as the Know Nothings, by the argument that the relative strength of the North and South in Congress will be equalized by the disfranchisement of foreign immigrants. This, how ever, is a mistake. By the third paragraph of the 2d section of the Ist article of the Constitution of the United States, it is provided that “Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States, which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers, which Sir all be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, includ ing those bound to service for a term of years, and ex cluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons.” It is thus apparent that in determining tho number of Representatives to which a State may be entitled in Congress, all European immigrants are counted, their wives and children, and that by disfranchising foreigners we do not lessen the strength of the North in Congress, or decrease the power of Abolitionists. This question of Know Nothmgism is, therefore, purely a Northern one, with which the South ought to have nothing to do. If the foreigu vote is troublesome to our Northern brethren, let them manage it as they best can. Their intermeddling with our domestic affairs has given them no peculiar claim to our sympathies or good offices. Muscogee Superior Court. The State vs. The Manufacturers and Me chanics Bank, Columbus Ga.—ln this oase a Quo Warranto was issued against the Bank by the Solicitor General. Messrs. Jones & Jones submitted a motion as Counsel for the Bank to quash the writ. The mo tion was sustained by the Court aud the Quo Warranto quashed. Wonder if this judgment of the Court do mesticates this Wild Cat ? Tiie State vs. John G. Winter.— ln this case the defendant submitted a Rule to set aside a judg ment nisi on scire facias. Tho Court overruled the motion, and the judgment was made final. The State vs. Thomas Green and llezekiaii Heath. —The parties were found guilty of Riot and sentenced to confinement in the common jail of the County for 25 days. Master in Equity. —Benjamin Y. Martin was ap pointed Master in Equity by the Superior Court of this County on the 19th inst., vice Adam Foster, re signed. This is a most excellent appointment. Mr. Martin is not only a thorough bred lawyer, but a most affable gentleman, and will * ho important station to which he has been appointed ah credit to himself and benefit to community. National Men. The Savannah Republican of the 13th, has the fol lowing : “Now, it is known, not to mention any other State, that ‘every successful candidate’ in Massachusetts was not ‘the avowed champion of abolitionism.’ Mr. Gard ner, who was chosen Governor of the State by the Know Nothings, is known to bo national in his feelings and opinions.” The Charleston Courier of the same date gives the following as an abstract of a passage in the message of this Know Nothing Governor : “The repeal of the Missouri Compromise is regretful ly referred to (in the message) and the duty of the North is stated to be to manfully demand the restora tion of this broken compact. In connection .with this, it is submitted whether additional legislation is not re quired, to secure still further the rights of habeas corpus and trirl by jury to fugitive slaves.” If *’ i are the first fruits of the triumph of this se -ehy, what will the full harvest bring forth ? “Ove himself “national in his feelings and -ging the re-establishment of the Mis- Is it proof of nationality to urge the jury to the fugitive slave in the Let the Republican speak out. 1 late Rev. John Newland ■n effort to raise means ® mrer his remains. ‘o the Legislature civil rights to nay hereafter an has hich Telegraphic News Items- The Southern Convention.— New Orleans, Jan. 16. The Southern Convention adjourned to-day, subject to the call of the Committee of Arrangements. Congressional. — Washington, Jan. 17.—The Sen ate to-day debated the Judicial Reform Bill. The House was occupied in discussing the Pacific Railroad Bill. Alledgcd Cause of Mr. Soule’s Resignation. — Washington, Jan. 17.—1 tis stated in diplomatio cir cles in this city, that Mr. Louie was chilled into his resignation ,as although in all bis official incourse with the Spanish authorities, he received the most marked attention that thorough breeding and politeness could dictate, yet himself and family both as regarded the of ficials and the leaders of fashionable society in Madrid, were socially entirely isolated. Important from Washington. — Washington, Janu ary ]7.—The President has decided to reverse bis poli cy relative to new territorial acquisitions, and will now go against all the annexation schemes —even the Sand wich Islands and Cuba. Mob Law in Pennsylvania. —The Eastern (Pa.) Argus, Democratic, publishes an exciting account of a mob which collected at Mooresburg, in that county, and broke up a meeting of a Know Nothing Lodge. The members of the secret organization assembled quietly in an upper story of a publio house, and while transacting their business, the mob of opposing politicians gathered around the exterior of the house, armed with a fifty-six pound cannon, which they fired off until it broke all the window glass in the house. Every man in the mob, not engaged in loading and firing the cannon, was armed with 6orne noisy musical instrument, such as a horn, bugle, trumpet, or bass drum with which they a’l kept up such a deafening noise that the lodgu was obliged to disperse.’ Another Veto. —Gov. Bigler has vetoed the bill re lieving the Ohio and Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company from fines to the amount of $70,000, incurred by these companies in passing small notes contrary to the small note law of Pennsylvania. It will be remembered that several individuals passed con stantly along the line of these roads noting all viola tions of the law, until the penalties had accumulated to the amount of $70,000, when t they brought suit. The whole affair, it is alleged, was a speculation on the part of the informers. The bill vetoed did not relieve the companies entirely, but consoldated all the suits into one against each company, with one penalty of SSOO in each case. The Senate has sustained the veto. The informers were convicted of conspiracy sometime since, and sent to the penitentiary. Southern Manufactures. —An article in the Galves ton Commercial, shows the increase in Southern Manu factures. It appears that in the Southern States the consumption of cotton for the last four years was as follow- ; 1851 —66,000 bales. 1852—75,000. 1853 90,000. 1854—105,000. These facts must be grati fying to every friend to the prosperity and commercial independence of the South. Death of a Distinguished Citizen. —We have to announce the distressing intelligence of the death of John S. Barbour, Esq., of Culpeper county. He died on the 12tk inst., after a short but severe attack of pneumonia. Mr. Barbour was one of the most distinguished citi zens of Virginia. He was successively a member of tho Legislature of the State, of the Constitutional Convene tion of 1829 ’3O, and of the House of Representatives in the Federal Congress. In every sphere he exhibited uncommon powers of intellect. Ofconspicuous presence, of large and liberal culture, of easy and graceful elocu tion, he was not excelled as an orator by any publio man of the day.— Richmond Enquirer. Subscription among the Slaves for the Northern Poor. — Mobile, Jan. 16, 1855.—There is in process of organization here a general subscription among the black population—tho slaves—in aid of the suffering poor of New York and the Eastern cities. This is a fact, and you will soon find it out. Mr. Meagher's Lecture in Charleston , in Aid of the Calhoun Monument.— Columbia, (S. C.) January 16, 1855.—Mr. Meagher’s lecture in Charleston last night in aid of the Calhoun Monument Association was a grand effort. Over two thousand tickets were sold, and one of the largest audiences ever known in that city assembled to hear him. Virgin Leai^Tobacco.— We havereceivedfromGrastry & Gordon, Danville, Va., a sample of this superior article of chewing tobacco. It is grown on virgin soil and henoe its name, and every leaf is picked and sponged. For sale at Bella Union, Oglethorpe Bar and elsewhere in the city. The Railroad Troubles at Erie. — Buffalo, Janu ary 15, 1855. —The railroad bridge at Erie has been rc-built, and the track at Harbor Creek relaid. The cars commenced running regularly again this morning. Strong measures have been taken to prevent future outages. John Mitchell at Cincinnati. — Cincinnati, Janu ary 15, ISss.—John Mitchell was received at the Bur net House this morning by the Mayor, the committee of the City Councils not attending. A mass meeting was held at Greenwood Hall to-night, at which the members of the City Councils were denounced for their action in welcoming Mr. Mitchell to the city. The Milwaukie Fugitive Slave Case.—Milwau kie, Jan. 15, 1855.—5. M. Booth has been found guilty of assisting in the escape of the fugitive slave Glover. North Carolina Legislature. —The 110 use of Com mens, on the sth inst, passed, by a Urge majority, a bill to incorporate the Wilmington and Charlotte Rail road Company. The bill provides that the State shall endorse the bonds of the company. Political and War News. —The London Times ad vocates the immediate discharge of Lord Raglan, from the command of the English foree-s on the ground of his incompetency. It also bitterly assails the ministry. It says that Lold Dalhousie, the present Governor of India, is ihe only fit person to have charge of the war department. Rangers. —The Texas Rangers have all been mus ed iuto the service of the United States. The •antes commanded by Captaius Walker, Henry and have been sent to Fort Clarke. Those com by Captains Boggcss, Fitzhugh and Rogers, ent to Fort Chadburne.— Texas Stale Ga - Changes in the Cabinet. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald under date of the 15th fast says : The dangerous illness of Mr. Mason in Paris and proba ble vacancy in the mission, has hastened the completion ot the programme which has for some time been iu contem plation lor a change in the Cabinet. Very recently Mr. Buchanan was wiitten to to exchange places with Mr. illarey, who has determined to leave the State Department, and for the last six months has only been looking for a safe retreat in a first class mission, and Air Mason’s illness will probably furnish an opening sooner than could be piovided by Buchanan’s return. It is known that BuchaDan will not accept the State De partment, his lriends alleging that he is much too smart to allow himseli to he the'legatee ot Marcy’s blunders. Mr. Guthrie will also go out. This change in the State and Treasury departments in volves, of course, a complete re-organization ot the Cabinet. What further has been determined upon we are not at liber ty to state in detail, but the following changes are not im probable, viz: , That ex-Governor Seymour, ot New York, now here, and ex-Governor Cobb, ot Georgia, will fill the vacancies, and should Cushing be provided with a mission, 1 oucey, o. Conncticut, wiil also be called upon. Mr. Cushing is struggling for the State Department, but Pierce alone is favorable to him—all the leaders ot the de mocratic party desiring that he should leave the Cabinet. If both the English and French missions become vacant it is more than probable Cushing will receive one ot There is no doubt that strong Buchanan influence is at work here, and these are some of the results. The change in the Cabinet carrits with it a ohange in the foreign policy of the administration, which now, owing to Marcy’s influence, is anti-progressive, anti-Cuba, and anti inaugural. Mr. Slidell,upon seeing the announcement in last week s Herald, of Mr. Soule’s resignation, became alarmed, ancl at once posted for Baton Rouge, to look after his re-election to the Senate. Mr’ Soule having written to his friends to present his name, Slidell’s chances are minute. Important from Washington—The Pacific Railroad Project of the Senate Committee. Washington, Jan. 14. The Senate special committee on the Pacific Railroad met yesterday to consider the two projects presented by Se nators Douglas and Rusk, and finally determined to report to the Senate and urge the adoption of Mr. Douglas’ bill, with slight amendments. The bill provides three routes, viz : the southern route, from the western border of Texas to the Pacific ; the cen tral route from the Western border of Missouri or lowa to the Bay of San Fancisco ; the nmthern route, from the western border of Wisconsin, or Minnesota, to the navi gable waters of the Pacific in Oregon or Washington TerritoJy. The bill sets apart alternate actions of land for ten miles on each side of each route, and doubles the minimum price on the reserved sections. It also authorizes a mail contract for fifteen years from the completion of the road, at a rate not exceeding S3OO per mile, which is the price now paid on first class railroads ; and also authorises con tracts to be made by the Secretaries of War and Navy for the same period, for the transportation of government sup plies, at a rate not exceeding in the aggregate the sums now paid for the same service. No money to be paid from the Treasury of the United States until the service shall have been performed ; and no lands to be deeded to the companies until one hundred miles reserving the other fourth until the completion of the suc ceeding 100 miles, and so on, throughout, The Secretaries of War and Navy, and the Postmaster General, are required to issue an advertisement for sealed proposals separately on each route. No proposals to be accepted which does not guarantee the completion of the road within ten years, aud a deposit of $500,000 with the government, in the United States or other par stocks, which sum may be refunded in amounts of $5,000 as soon as that sum shall have been actually expen ded in the construction of the road. This plan places the three sections of country on an ex act equality, and leaves capital, enterprise, and nature to decide which route will be first made. Mr. Rusk’s plan, which was not agreed to proposed that the United States should loan to each of the compa nies its bonds to an amouut, the interest of which would pay for transportation of mails and government supplies. This would have required a loan for the three routes of about sixty millions. Massachusetts Politics. Boston, Jan. 15. Much onposition is manifested to the nomination of Henry Wilson to the United States Senate, both in and out of the Legislature. In the ward a r and town couniils of the Know Nothings the subject has led to warm discus sion and bitter personalities; and it is said that many of the prominent members of the order have withdrawn from it in consequences of differences of opinion. The following printed circular was circulated in the House to-day : “To the Members of the American Order in the Mouse of Representatives : All members of the House of’ Representatives who be lieve in the freedom of debate, who refuse to sanction a high handed course of political action, and who are op posed to the election of the Hon. Henry Wilson to the United States Senate, are requested to meet in caucus, in the Green Room, on Monday, the 15th inst., immediately after the adjournment of the House.” In compliance with the above call, about 100 members of the House went into the Green Room of the State House this afternoon, when, after a brief discussion, it was voted unanimously to postpone, if possible, the election of the United States Senator for one week from to-morrow anp pressed into an election to-morrow to vote for the Hon. Alex. H. Bullock, of Worcester, for Senator, in opposition to Mr. Wilson. The Charleston Mails Again. We are surprised to learn that althongh the South Caro lina Rail Road Company are now faithfully performing the duties demanded by the Department, and running night and day trains for the conveyance of the mails, the Department has not made any arrangements for the transportation to and from Charleston of the mails that should arrive here in the morning, and that in consequence of their being no mail agents on the night trains,and no one authorized to receive them at Branchville the Northern and Western mails for Charleston are forwarded to Augusta and Kingsville, and returned by the day trains on which there are mail agents. We trust that the Department will forthwith have this matter attended to, as it is of great consequence to the mercantile community, that the promise of a double daily Northern and Western mail should be kept to the letter.— Charleston Courier. The JCotton Crop—Failures. New Orleans, Jan. 15. It is now conceded, by all parties, that the cotton crop cannot exceed three millions of bales. The calculations of New York and Liverpool Houses were extremely er roneous. The liabilities of Houses, which failed Satuaday, amount to two millions and a half. The assets largely exceed this and the Houses will probably resume. Messrs. Page & Bacon, of St. Louis, will also probably resume. Know Nothing Defeat. Atlanta, Jan. 1 6. The Know Nothings are completely routed in the City Elections. The People’s Ticket victorious. Capt. Ali son Nelson is the Mayor elect. Fatal Accident, cr Suicide. We regret to learn from our Reporter, that Daniel Mc- Redmond, a citizen of Savannah, shot himself dead last evening, in Harris, near Montgomery street, the pistol ball penetrating the region of the heart. It is difficult to tell whether it was accidental or designed ; —it is believed the former. — Sav. Georgian , 18th. A Serious Accident. Judge Robert V. Hardeman was thrown from his buggy on Sa'urdav last in Jones county, and so seriously injured, that for a lime he was thought to be in a very critical con dition; We are much gratified to learn that his injuries are not as serious as they were at first supposed to be, and that he was so much better oh yesterday morning, that his physi cians considered him out of danger. The Judge has a host of friends in this community who have manifested very great concern about his condition, and who will be very much re lieved by this information. — Journal Messenger, 11th. Volunteer Companies of Foreigners Disbanded. —ln compliance with tiie recommendation of Governor Gard* ner, the Know No hing Governor of Massrchustt's, in his message to the Legislature, tire following m l tary companies, composed of foreigners, have been disbanded, viz:—The Columbia Artillery,Capt. Cass; Webster Ar tillery, Capt. McKenney; Shields Artillery, Capt. Young; and Srrsfi-ld Guards, Capt. Hogan, of Boston; Jack on Musketeers, Capt. Procter, of Lowell; Union Guards, Capt. Lineham, of Lawrence, and Jackson Guards, Capt. Driscoll, of Worcester. A True Man. If I shall deser baa living man, a man that hath that life that distinguishes him from a fowl or a bird, that which gives him a capacity next to angels ; we shall find that even a good man lives not long, because it is long before he is born to this life, and loDger yet before he hath a man’s growth. “lie that can look upon death, aud see its face with the same countenance with which lie hears its story ; that can endure all the labors ot his life with his soui supporting his body ; that can equally despise riches when the hath them, and when he hath them not ; that is not sadder ii they lie in his neighbor’s trunks, nor more brag if they shine round about his own walls ; he that is never moved with good fortune coming to him nor going from him ; that can look upon another man’s lands, even ly and pleasantly as if they were his own, and yet look up on his own and use them, too, just as if they were another man’s ; that neither spends his goods prodigally, and hke a fool, nor yet keeps them avariciously and like a wretch; that weighs not benefits by weight and number, but by the mind and circumstances of him that gives them ; that never thinks his charity expensive if a worthy person be the receiver ; he that does nothing for opinion’s sake, but every thingJor conscience, being as curious of his thoughts as of his actings in markets annd threatres, and is as much in awe of himself as of a whole assembly ; he that knows God looks on, and contrives his secret affairs as in the presence of God and his holy angels ; that eats ana drinks because he needs it, not that he may serve a lust or load lus stomach ; he that is bountiful and cheerlul to h : s friends, and charitable and apt to forgive his enemies; that loves his country and obeys his prince, and desires and endeavors nothing more than that they may do honor to G>d this person may reckon his life to be the life of a man, and Compute bis months, not by the course of the sun, but by the zodiac and circle of his virtues ; be. cause these are such things which fools and children, ant. birds, and beasts, cannot have. These are therefore the actions of life, because they are the seeds of immortality. That day in which we have done some excellent thing, we may as truly reckon to be added to our life, as were the fifteen years to the days of Hezekiah. — Bishop Taylor. How Republican Governors Conduct Themselves. The Mobile Tribune, in discussing the question “Who will be the next Governor,” givis the following touch off: “Speaking ot Governors, we may say that we have one already among us —one endued with the robes of office. We mean Governor Winston. A less unostentatious man is not within the town. There he goes constantly along the streets on his business, rather reserved in man ner, but greeting those who bid him “good day”—notin a “demonstrative” or extravagantly cordially manner, but with such signs of democratic sincerity that one can hardly believe that it is not the true expression of his na ture —aud every man has his nature, which, if it be lion-’ est, no other man has a right to quarrel with. We have no doubt that Governor Winston despises those trappings by which high office is made respectable in the older countries. The Governor of a British province as large and important as Alabama, would have on his breast a half dozen insignia of titulary honors. lie would go out io his carriage and four. 110 would have his subordi nates done up in glitter, around him in all public places. When he went to the provincial theatre, a box would be fitted up for his especial reception, and the Orchestra would play “God save the Queen,” or the “Governor’s March,” or something else indicative ot the object of the playing. That man, too, would have an income of £5,000 or £7,000 —$25,000 or $35,000, reduced to’fed eral currency. Fie would also be an Earl, or a Count, or something else, perhaps of no account. How striking is the difference between the usages which surround such a man ancl those which sur round our Governor. Mr. Winston goes along the streets like any other citizen, claiming nothing of pop ular homage for his office, lie goes to the theatre like you or me, taking what seats we can get, and never ex . pecting that the orchestra is to perform anything in our honor. Miss Bremer. —We have been favored by our amiable friend, Mrs. Levert, with the privilege of extracting’ from a letter, recently received from Miss Bremer —a lady as benevolent as gifted, whose declining days have all the green freshness and sunlight of calm autumn. Stockholm, sth Dec. 1854.—Thank you a thousand times my sweet Octavia for your letter. Perfumed with the sweet breath and flowers of Alabama, it reached me amidst the snows and darkness of my own land, but brought to my heart all the summer, light and life of yours. God bless you—and He will, for that warm and gentle heart of yours, that spreads its atmosphere of happi ness on all around. Stern cares and duties, dear Octavia, have filled the thoughts and hours of the last two years from the terrible malady of mind and body that afflicted my poor dear mother ; but after six months struggle with death, life has prevailed ; and though palzied, she is, thank God, free from pain. So peace is again in my heart, and I can think of pleasant scenes, of happy hands, and much loved friends. And you, my rose of Alabama, are over the sunniest o! my southern memories. When you were near me, the dread cholera forbade me to wish your presence. It left in Stockholm alone, more than five hundred destitute orphan children, and the formation of a society of ladies to take charge of these poor babes has given me, with great labor, much interest and enlivening life. I have also entered into several simi’ lar enter prizes not only for poor children, but for old and destitute womefl. We are also forming a fund and asy lum for aged governesses —rnueh needed in my land I know, and fear it us so in most. * * * * Thus dees this amiable woman exercise womanly benevolence. Fame cannot spoil a nature like hers. The piety that breathes throughout her letter is too pure to be paraded here, but as a sample of her domestic habits we made another extract. * * * * “But the quiet evenings at home are gracious to me. At twilight, which comes now about three o’clock, the files are lit up in the cabins, the parlors, and drawing room, and 1 walk from each to each, or si lently sit and enjoy their warming and illumining flames. At seven comes my little Gertrude —the lamp is lighted —and the good and sensible girl reads to me until ten. One day in the week another comes for the same purpose and reads general history to me and Mathilda : and thus time passes on bringing me many a pleasure iH the inter est I take in the advancement of some good girl. The world, my dear Octavia, is rich and full of treasures, @nly vve cannot or will not see them. The war, the great, growing, terrible war—so near my country —is matter of earnest interest: and it seems a uni versal opinion here that we shall be in it before the next summer. lam sorry for it—but may be the result will be a blessing to the cause of humanity, indeed I believe it, and will not repine, but trust love and good will bloom the more richly, and hasten on the day of grace. Meanwhile, our Sweden has enjoyed a peaceful time— the Diet has formed good and useful laws—and erected bronze statues to our old heroes and Kings.. Christas too, is coming ! Christmas, the great festival of the year throughout all Sweden, when earnest joy and charity light up every heart. Gcd has fixed it in the midst of dreary winter that benevolence may feel the strongest stimulus to deeds of mercy. God bless you, my sweet rose of Florida! my dear, good, and lovely Octavia : ever assec'ated in my heart and memory with all that charmed me most in the eunnv south of America.” — Mtbile Register. Fredrick Bremer. Moral of the Bahy Shows. —The London Times has solved the moral of the Baby Shows in tins country. It is quite apt —perhaps true—although flour now is top dear to make the motive quite prudent. Says the Times: “We, at our cattle shows, give prizes to the mui who produces the best lood f r the people’s eating. The Americans give prizes for the mouth’s best adapted to eat the food which is so bountifully prepared for them on their vast Continent. The two nations typify their diff-rences in this matter. Our great desire is to find anople food for ! our population. The Americans are only desirous of a large population to consume their food.” Conundrum. —Why was Cowper in debt? Because he “Oh’d for a lodge in some vast Wilderness.” We suspect that Cowper was not rut to serious incon venience, being like the Christian of Bryant’s Thanatop sis— ‘•►sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust .” The Statue of Washington. —The ship Quebec, which i -rived yesterday from Leghorn, via Philadelphia, liars on board the statue of the illustrious Washington, executed by Hiram Powers for the State of Louisiana, and which is intended to be the proudest ornament of our Sfeito House. * The people of Louisiana owe their gratitude to Messrs. A. 11. Ashbridge & Cos., tho consignees of the Quebec, for having transported this work of our distinguished coun tryman from Italy, free of charge. The act proves their exalted patriotism and publ.c spirit, and should not be* un acknowledged by our Legislature when it next assembles. [Louisiana Courier. General Wool's Correspondence with Secretary Davis. —“General Wool has placed himself in a very un enviable attitude by his recent eomspondence with tho War Department, complaining cf persecution, Ac., &e. It is charged that the unfortunate frame of mind which has led him into this scrape, is in part the result .of jeal ousy of the Secretary of War, excited during the Mexican war, when General Taylor placed little reliance upon or confidence in General Wool, but continually availed him self of the ready practical ability of the then Col. Jeffer son Davis of the Mississippi Rifles. This conti oyersy of Wool’s with she Secretary of War is reviving the disa greeable whisperings formerly current relative to ihe Gen eral’s'conduct at the battle of Buena Vista, where he is charged with having eonselled a disgraceful retreat, la reply to his reported cry that our at my was whipped, old Zach. thundered out : “No 1 No<! No ! we’ro not whip ped. Give another blizzard, boys ! —press ’em a little !” We all know the result. What it would have been had Wool commanded our ‘-oops on that day, was forcibly indicated by that historian of the war who said that if the last; ball fired by the Mexicans on the field of Buena Vista had killed General Taylor, the country would have witnessed the very remarkable occurrence of two armies in full retreat from each other! Gracefully said, bat shockingly severe. The New Light at St. Augustine.—On the night of the 2d inst., the old lamps at the St. Augustine light House, were replaced by one of the 4th Order of Fres nel Lens Light. This light is fixed as heretofore tut varied by flashes which are remarkably briliant. The flashes occur once m three minutes. ..aO i3Bg— Railroad Iron. —The ship Willian A. Cooper, from Cardiff', has arrived at this port consigned to Messrs. Brigham, Kelly & Cos., having 5,543 bars of roaiiroad iron on board, for the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad. [Aar. Georgian , 18fii. Dead.—Cspt. Terry, of the schooner Silva, died at tb Hospital last evening. It will be remembered the Silva was towed into port a few days since with several persona on board sick with some disease resembling cholera, among whom was Capt. P.— Sav. Georgian , IS th. Louisiana U. S. Senator. — New Orleans, January 17. The Legislature of this State will go into an election lb: U. S. Senator on Monday next. Later from Havana—Supposed loss of Steamship Fal con.—New Orleans, Jan. 18. —The Steamship Black War rior hasanivedat this port from Havana, wlience she sail ed on the 15th inst. Nothing had been heard of the steam ship Falcon, running between that port and Panama, and it was feared that she was lost. “Mrs. Partington, reading an account of a railroad ac cident, was much surprised to learn that the locomotiva had been driven off’the track by one of the switches. ‘Shu shouldn’t have thought,’ she said, ‘that the great iron -engine would mind such a little thing as a switch.’ “Yes, but you must remember mama,” said Ikc gravely, “the locomotive lias a tender behind ?” “Oh, that indeed,” replied the old lady, resuming her paper, “well, you need’nt talk about it, my son, go on. with your lesson.” An unsophisticated youth from the country, who felt an ambition to play the gallant, approached a lady yesterday in Camp street and very politely’ informed her that her bonnet had fallen back off* her head ; he had not, 4 of course, before seen the latest fashions. ! The lawyer who “filed a bill, shaved a note, cut an * quaTtauce, split a hair, made an entry, raised a haul, got I up a case, framed an indictment, empannelled a jury, put them in a box, nailed a witness, hammered a judge, 1 chiseled a client, and bored a whole court,’’--all in one 5 has since “laid down the law'” and turned carpenter - somewhere on the Banhs of the Ohio rivei. I Bitter Courtesy. —That was a pretty courteous stroke ’ of satire in the Enq eror Nicholas, transmitting to Sir Charles Napier under a flag of truce before his depart ure from the Baltic, a hamper basket full of letters j which had arrived at the St. Petersburg Pest Office, directed to officers attached to his squadron. These letters, written by anxious mothers, wives and sweet hearts in happy Albion, were not received or opened by those to whom they were addressed until they had returned to England. “Come, Bill, it’s ten o’clock and I think we had better be going, for it’s time honest men were at home. I “Well, yes,”Was the answer. “I must be off, but v A needn’t hurry on that account.” pgr We thought we had heard of a good many green! people in our time, but; there is a young lady in SciieJ nectadv, that beats our time considerably. She got mar-1 ried the other night, and the next day appeared before i magistrate, to enter a oomplamt ag.inst her husband I “taking liberties with her.” Our hat is at the disposal i the first person that calls. One Comfort. —Hardly our poor fellows may fare i I the Crimea; but the Emperor of Russia won’t have I; I Turkey this Christmas. gggp” No professional man lives so much from hand tel mouth as a dentist. A young lady who took the eye of everybody,!;: I been arrested for stealing. It is chiefly young ladies of narrow understand!! .I who wears shoes too small for them. Holloway's Pills, a certain Cure for derangements of tl I Stomach and Bowels, Liver Complaints, Loss of Appe’ I and Biliousness. These Pills have a wonderful eficct r; fl disorganized system, immediately they are taken hvWB Patient they aetso directly upon the human fame, that i I most disordered or impure blood becomes changed. Y sons who use them for a few weeks corinot fail to be tl: ■ ■ oughly cleansed, they cause the appetite, however impair; I to become good, and those who are affected with disagi -H able or offensive breath cannot do better than avail th. ■ selves of these invaluable Pills. INVALUABLE DISCOVERY. | The inventor cf M’Lane’s Vermifuge having dispose"I*'’ 1 *'’ 1 his right to this great remedy, the p: opyietors, Mesr rs.-K ‘ &Cos beg leave to offer it to the American public as the! .J remedy for Worms ever offered. It has been tiied in . parts of the country, and j n cases which had defied f'ljj exertions of the best physicians, and never without t ,; l most complete success. We. caution parents againft<Np lay. 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Dyspepsia,heartburn, loss of appetite, nausea nervous tremors, relaxation and debility, &e., are*reli(eved| by the Bitters in a very short space of time; and a perse verance in their use never fails to work a thorough cure. _ AGUE AND fEVER of three years standing CURED.—Mr. John Longdeu, now living at Beaver I ,;i A Hanover county, near Richmond, had ague and fever f r | three years,most of the time he had chills twice a and rarely less than once; he was parched with fevers u soon as the chill left him; and alter trying physical. nine, most of the Tonics advertised, and everythin commended to him, was about to give up in despair, “ Vie jW Carter’s Spanish Mixture was spoken of: he got two !n ;‘ ties, but before he had used more than a single one, he k perfectly cured, and has not had a chill or fever sin § Mr. Longdeu is only one out of thousands wlm ‘TI been benetiited by this great tonic, alterative and I purifier. See Advertiseinet, j ail *’ I