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dimes StvdmL COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, JAN. 26, 1855. Will Kansas be a Slave Stale—Policy of the Administration. The Territory of Kansas lies broad side to Mis souri, and is said to be eminently adapted to slave labor. Among other evidences we extract the following from the Cleveland (Ohio) Hetald. It is a letter written by J. 11. Ilowe, the leader of the Emigrant Aid Band which left Cleveland for Kansas on the 23d Ootober last: Steamer on Missouri River. ) November 19th, 1854. ) “I made a very thorough exploration of tho country. It was one vast and unbroken prairie, almost destitute of timber —but the soil is of the richest character. Wa ter abundant, and plenty of stone, with some evidence of coal. “Time and money will enable men of the right stamp to possess these lands, subdue and cultivate them, and convert the country into a very good gar den—a farming paradise. Men without means can do nothing there at present. The country is eminent ly adapted to slave labor. Wealthy slaveholders can go there with plenty of “help” and means, and make money, subduing and cultivating these lands. “They will do so—and despite all efforts yet making or means yet adopted by the Free States to prevent it, Kansas is sure to become a slave State ! “The Emigrant Aid Companies (as they are term ed,) are doing very little indeed to accomplish their object. They have epdbujraged hundreds of poor well meaning and honest people to leave their homes and rush into the Territory without means to sustain them selves there, who must suffer everything but death, and, many of them, that if they remain—or leave the country, and go where they can provide for their families.” There can be no question, therefore, but that the South will “go up and possess the land,” unless the “powers that be’’ throw obstacles in her way. We have it from undoubted sources that the President is disposed to give us a fair showing, and that Governor Reeder was instructed not to meddle with the ques tion of slavery, but leave it with the actual settlers to regulate it as they chose. But there is some evidence that the Governor has not been an unmoved spectator of the rapid emigration from the South into tho Territo ry. Ilis conduct, at any rate, is looked on with sus picion by the Southern colonists. He has not received their remonstances with courtesy ; and his continued refusal to call together the Legislature of tho Territory affords strong proof that he allows his Pennsylvania prejudices, against the institutions of the South, to con trol his political acts. This matter ought to be sifted to the bottom by tho Representatives of the South in Congress ; and if the complaints against the Governor are well founded, they ought to bring the matter before the President, and insist upon his recall, Mr. Pierce cannot refuse so reasonable a request. lie is pledged to do justice to us and we believe he will do it. But the South must take care of her own interests.— Her Representatives must bring forward the proof of Governor Reeder’s insincerity and press for his remo val from office, and not leave it to the President to take the initiative in a movement which will damage his popularity, and redound to the benefit of the South.— Indeed, the position of the President and of the North ern Democracy upon the Nebraska-Kansas question is a very delicate one, and it is the duty of the South to relieve them as far as possible from the odium of taking the first step in a proceeding which is to benefit ex clusively the southern section of the Union. In this connection it may not be out of place to urge upon the South the necessity of sending a large emi gration to Kansas at once. The Southern press can do much to aid in this movement by keeping the public advised of the progress of the settlement of the territo ry and by laying before their readers such proofs as may come within their reach, of the fertility of the soil and the salubrity of the climate of Kansas and its adapted ness to slave labor. If the South is tru? to herself, Kansas will be a slave holding State and all the ef forts of Northern Emigration Societies will end in the ruin of their backers and the disappointment of the sil ly fools who allow themselves to be used as tools by the vile fanatics aud disorganizes who are at the bot tom of the movement. Whether Kansas shall be a slave State ought not to be left to chance to determine. If Kansas becomes a hireling State, there is very great probability that slavery will be driven from Missouri, surrounded as she will be on three sides by enemies of the institution. Sueh an event would inflict a serious blow upon Southern interests. Next Fair ot the Southern Ceulral Agricultural Society. At the meeting of Council on Tuesday night last the committee, appointed last year to solicit subscriptions from the citizens for the purpose of raising a bonus to be given to the society to hold its next Fair in this city, reported. They have obtained subscriptions from relia ble sources to the amount of about $2500. Alderman Ruse moved that the Council add SISOO. The resolution was referred to the Finance Committee : Also a letter from Mr. Stiles, the Chairman of the Executive Com mittee of the Society, to a member of the committee. The Campbell Minstrels. On Wednesday night the Campbell Minstrels made their appearance in Temperance Hall before a large and delighted audience. We were pleased to find that they have thrown aside the stereotyped jokes of former years and introduced an entirely new set, which never failed to set the audience in a roar. The songs of Prendergast, the “violin solo” by Fenton, and the Cavatina on “Cornet-a-Piston’’ by Frank Beler, were admirably executed and elicited deserved applause; but the “burlesques” of Dan Bryant, Newcomb and Demereet, brought down the house. The Minstrels will occupy the Hall during the week, and promise for each night an entire change of programme. Personal. —Thomas Franois Meagher, the Irish orator and patriot, passed through Columbus on the 24th iast., on bis way to New Orleans. Wreck op the Flirt. —The Batk Flirt, Capt. Calhoun, which cleared at Savannah on the 9ih inst., with a cargo of 663 bales of cotton went ashore near Free Port, L. 1., on the 20th. The underwriters have seut a steam tug to her assistance, but from the shal lowness of the water it is believed that she will become a wreck. The ca’oiu boy was lost overboard. There is an insurance of $20,000 on the bark, and $5,000 on the cotton ill New York. . —— cm* Secretary Guthrie. —lt is authoritatively denied that Secretary Guthrie intends to resign his seat in the cabinet. Base Coin. —The Washington Star says there is not one word of truth in the report, so industriously circulated by the Wrshington correspondent of the New York Herald, as to a misunderstanding in the cabinet of President Pierce, growing out of intrigues for the Presidency. A Duiljst Convicted. —Very recently a gentleman was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to the Penitentiary in New Orleans, for killing an antagonist in a duel. This is the first conviotion of tho kind eier had in the State of Louisiana. — Cherokee Insurance and Banking Company.- -The Chicago Press announces that the Merchants and Me chanics Bank, the agency in Chicago for the redemp tion of the bills of the Cherokee Insurance and Bank ing Company, has resumed specie payments, and that this places the bills of the Georgia Bank “upon the same footing in every respect whicl t enjoyed prior to the suspension.” Tbe Chicago Tribune says “the pub lic confidence in the Merchants and Mechanics Bank will now be entirely restored, and, indeed, it has never been shaken in the minds of those who were conversant with its resources, and knew the character of the men who controlled it.’’ Wfo give these statements for what they are worth. Capt. Abercrombie. —A writer in the Montgomery Mail suggests that Hon. J. Abercrombie would make a good Governor of Alabama. He is undoubtedly the strongest man in bis district, and could poll as many votes as any other man in opposition to the regular Democratic nominee. Dr. Graham not Drunk. —The Albany Atlas de nies that Dr. Graham got drunk on hospital liquor at Sing Sing. It is said that be was “drugged” by certain “officials’’ who were displeased because he was placed over them. Bank of South Carolina. —The circulation of the South Carolina Bank has decreased from January to December, 1854, $5,248,059 50-; while the decrease in loans is only $059,801 63 ; in specie only $642,- 472 23, and in personal deposits $696,920 12. By this means, says the Charleston Standard, they have greatly benefitted our business men and helped them much during the monied presure which has existed for the last few months. In this matter they have shown a commendable spirit for the interest of those doing busi ness near them. Lead Mine. —A lead mine has been discovered on tho lands of Col. Leightner, in Spartanburg District, S. C. A specimen of the ore weighing 119 lb., has been exhibited in Charleston, which yielded 103 lb. of pure lead. For the Times & Sentinel. The Younger Members of the Ear. Your neighbor ol the Enquirer seems concerned to know why the members of tho Columbus bar, and es pecially the younger members are not more regular in their attendance upon the Supreme Court now in session in this city. We are able to relieve his anxiety by sta ting that they have been very diligently engaged in their offices preparing cases for the consideration of the Court when they shall reaoh that part of the Docket which contains the writs of error from this Circuit.— Hope the information will relievo the anxiety of your neighbor. A Younger Member. For the Times & Sentinel. Extract from a New Novel. Messrs. Editors:— l have written a novel which is to be somewhat after tho style of G. P. fl. James, and 1 thougiit I would send you a specimen from the same in order that you might be the better enabled to judge of the immense run it must have when it shall appear in print.— The quotation is taken fromthefourth volume, four hundred and eighty-second page. “The night was dark and stormy, and as the leaden clouds blackened the heavens and the ruin poured in torrents, a lovely female lace might have been seen at a window peer ing out into the darkness like a school boy looking for a drowned fly in an ink bott'e. The heavy masses of raven hair falling around her alabaster neck and shoulders like ivory set in ebony ; reminding the beholder of the whites of a niggers eyes reflected from a newly blackened boot. And the fitful gleams of lightning lit up that lovely face with as wild an expression of alarm as that of a cat in a strange garret; all without is dark, and wild and cheerless, all within is as comfortable as flea in a blanket; but hark! she speaks and the words glide through her lovely lips as smoothly as a greased feline quadruped through a stove pipe, and their flute like accents float upon the air in beautiful harmony with the serenade of two cats upon the roof.” There sir, that will have to suffice until the volumes are published, when I should bo happy to forward you the whole five volumes improved, revised and corrected from the first edi tion by IKE AXLE. Phillips and Greeley. The anti-slavery lectures which have been delivered re cently in New York by the representatives of Boston and New York fanaticism, have been marked by greater ve hemence and more unbridled insolence than any of their predecessors. The most remarkable of the whole series were Greeley’s and Wendell Phillips’, both of which were worthy of the Dark Ages, though differing considerably in their programes of abolitionist action. One was in favor of propagandism—the other preferred the pistol. “Sup ply Northern men with means,” said Greeley, “to settle in the Si>uth and spread their opinions broadcast, and in a few years slavery will fall.” On the contrary, “the heart bounds,” said Phillips, “when a slaveholder is killed in Pennsylvania, and God bless the pistol that shot him !” j We will not undertake to say which of these gentlemen ‘is the better Christian and the more sensible man, but it must be confessed that the physical-force Bostonian is, at least, a more candid individual than the mealy mouthed New Yorker. “God bless the pistol that shot him!”— Assuredly, he is a pious man, this Wendell Phillips ! Havana, Jan. 10, 1855. Arrival of the First Cargo of Indian Slaves Furnished under Santa Anna’s Yucatan Contract. We had an arrival on Sunday evening, 7th inst., per the Mexican sjhooner Jacinto, Dorantes, Master, from Sisal, with forty of the poor and inoffensive Indians, conquered’ under contract made by Tito Vecino, Bavarian Consul at thfe Havana, with his Serene Highness, General Santa An na. The condescension of his Serene Majesty, to receive as his first fee, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, and immediately despatch an officer with a corporal’s guard, to do battle with unarmed men, women, and childreti, to ful fil his contact, is something new in the annals of civ ilization. The circumstances and the probable disposition of the prisoners now verified, was indicated in one of my letters, reporling the bloody batte with which the Dic tator was weaving laurels for his brow. The consignee of the vessel is of the well-known house of M. Santelices, and the names of all the parties interested in this nefarious speculation will be exposed in my next communication.— The Indians were brought here in durance against their will, having been forced on board of the small transport at the point of tho bayonet. The Monetary Panic Subsided at St. Louis. —St. Louis, Jan. IS.—The Republican says the monetary pan ie has subsided, and that there has been more money de posited in banking houses, than was recently withdrawn. The banking houses that suspended payment will shortly resume business. Thirty-third Congress—S:cond Session. Washington, Jan. 21. The Senate’s Military committee have agreed to report a bill in favor of raising three regiments of volunteers to sup press Ind'an hostilities. Washington, Jan. ~2. The House passed the Pacific Railroad bill by a majority of twelve votes, to-day. The Great Pacific Railroad and Tolelgraphic Bill on its Passage. Washington, Jan. 20. The House of Repre. intatives to-day, in Committee of the Whole, took up the Pacific Railroad bill, when Uie substitute of the Hon. John G. Davis,of Indianna, was of fered and adopted by a vote of 140 to 91. 1 his substitute provides for a grand trunk rail road and telegraphic line from some point on the Western boundary of lowa, Mis souri or Arkansas, with two branches, one running from Memphis, and the other from the Western shore of Lake Superior. The bill appropriates pub''C lands equivalent to alternate sections for the space of twelve miles on each side of the road, from the eastern to the western terminus. Ad vertisements are to be published, inviting proposals for the construction of the road and the telegraph, ihe bill was reported from the committee to the Hou-e, where it was passed to tho third reading by a vote of 104 to 97. Pendmg its final passage tho house adjourned. Know Nothing State Convention, Louisville, Jan. 18. A Know Nothing S f ate Convention is in session at this city,and a large number of delegates are present,including Hon. Humphrey Marshall, Col. John S. Williams, aud other political aspirants. It is reported that they have met to nominate candidates for State officers. The Know Nothing Nominee© for Governor withdrawn in New Hampshire. The Nashua Telegraph reports that the Rev. Mr. Moore the nominee of the Kuow Nothings for the offieeof Gov ernor of New Hampshire, after he had been down to Man chester, and formally accepted the nomination, found lie was ineligible, not having resided in the State for the last seven years, and has withdrawn. Illinois United States Senator. The Alton Telegraph gives the following insight into Senatorial calculations at Spiingfield Illinois:—Shields is now regarded as entirely out of the question, and Col Bis.- sell is the avowed candidate of the Nebraskaites. It is con fidently whispered that Col. Bissell has, within the last lew days, transmitted a letter hitherward, urging vigorously the claims of Gen. Shields; but in lease of an emergency, submitting his own name to the disposal of his friends. The arrangement has acted like a charm. The Nebraska party have now strong hopes of catching unwary members upon the bait thus arranged, it being generally believed that Bissell is most reliable in his Nebraska proclivities. Naturalization in New Jersey. A bill is betore the House of Assembly of New Jersey, with every prospect of an early adoption, which proposes to take the power of “making citizens entirely out of the State Courts, nnd permit it to be done only by those of the United States. This would have a tendency to suppress tho wholesale manufacture of voters previous to elections. Naturalization in Wisconsin; A resolution has been introduced in the Wisconsin Leg islature instructing the members in Congress to opposo any change in the naturalization laws. U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. Concord, Jan. 20. Hon. John S. Wells has accepted the appointment to the U. S. Senate, vico Norris, deceased, and left for Washing ton on Thursday. More Nullification in Massachusetts. The following order was adopted in the*Massachusetts House of Representives on the 10th inst:—Thai the Judi ciary Committee consider the expediency of reporting an amendment to the Constitution of the commonwealth, se curing to all persons on the soil of Massachusetts their in herent and inalienable rights, in all cases whatever, except as a punishment for crime; and that they shall not be de prived of said rights without trial by jury, and what is call ed “due process oflaw.” The Kinnny Expedition. — Baltimore, Jan 20, 1855.- - Ex-Governor Bell, ot Texas, is reported to have joined the Kinney expedition to Central America. Another Law Suit by Mrs. Gaines. — New Orleans, Jan. 19, 1855.—Mrs. Gaines': has commenced a suit here in the Probate Court, to establish herself as the legatee under the will of her lather, Daniel Clark. Reported loss of the Fulton Contradicted—the Tariff Bitl,etc. — Washington, Jan. 21, 1855.—The Union of this morning contradicts the report that intelligence has been received of the total loss of the steamship Fulton v* ith all on board. The amount of the public debt, redeemed at the Treasury last week, was $66,000. The Secretary of the Treasury has amended his project for the tariff) and Mr. Houston, of the Committee of Ways and Means, will report so nearly like it that it will probably be acceptable to both Houses, and to the Northern section of the country. — From the Columbus Enquirer. Minute of Points'"’ Decided by the Supreme Court of Georgia, at Colum bus, January Term, 1855 : Executors of Everett vs Towns —from Taylor. When the Complainants in an Equity Cause fail en tirely to sustain by evidence a material portion of their enso, the Court may withhold the same from the Jury and dispose of the cause. The case, to justify such in terference by the Court, must be such an one that the Court would grant anew trial, if tho Jury were to find a verdict for Complainants. Scarborough & Hunter, for PlfFsin Error. L. B. Smith & B. Hill for Deft, in Error. Molyneux et al. vs Collier —front Dougherty. An executory agreement to receive a smaller amount in discharge of a larger, is not enforceable, unless there be a benefit to the creditor or detriment to the debtor.— If there be “a legal possibility of benefit to the creditor” the agreement is valied. Morgan & Scarborough, for Plff. Clark & Strozier, for Defendant. Hamrick et al. vs Rouse et al. —from Lee. 1. The General Assembly have the right to change tho location of the Seat of Justice in any County in the State, and they do not thereby violate any contract or interfere with any vested right. 2. If the Act removing the Seat of .Justice provides for compensation to the lot holders at the old site, this compensation need not bo paid before the removal. Hawkins, for Plff- Lyon & Johnson for Deft. Watkins, Chappell <J- Cos. vs Smith —from Randolph. 1. Where, in entering an appeal, the Clerk mistakes the name of one of the parties the appeal will not be dis missed, but the mistake may bo corrected. And this may be done without the consent of tho Surety en the Bond. 2. In order to exclude an Attorney at Law'from testify ing in a cause, it must appear not only that he acquired his information during the existence , but also by reason of the relationship of Client and Attorney. Tucker & Beall, for Plff. Hood, for Deft. Creamer & Gresham vs Shannon —from Sumter. Where a Trader kept no Clerk, and his original Book of Entries is destroyed, a transcript from sueli Book, made by himself, and proven by his own oath, is not ad pfi-s ble in evidence. Tucker & Beall, for Plff. Hawkins, for Deft. Brady vs Hardeman tj- Hamilton —from SunLer. Where there is no original process annexed to the p - tition, and a waiver of “copy process” only, a verdict and judgment rendered in such cr.se is absolutely void. B. Hill, for Plff. Dudley, for Deft. Among the deaths at San Francisco we find the name of Mrs. Julia Stanly, wife of the Hon. Edward Stanly, formerly of North Carolina. The North-Carolina Legislature have granted a charter to the Spartanburg and Union Railroad Company for the continuation of the lino from Spartanburg, via Henderson ville and Asheville, to Paint Rock, where it will connect with the Kentucky Road, passing through the Cumber land Gap. Catholic Statittics. —The Catholic A-manac for 1355 , gives the following statistics of the Romau Catholic Ohrcn in the United State*: , There are 7 Archbishops, S3 Bishops, 2 Vicars Apostol ic, 1704 Priests, and 1824 Churches—showtng the inciea.3 of the p. year to have been 2 Bishops, 129 Piiests, and 112 Churches. There are also 698 Missionaty stations, 28 Colleges, 117 Female Academies, and 37 Theological Se minaries’which (including those who are studying abroad) are training up to the priesthood nearly 700 young men. Canadian Sympathy for the Allies.— The Montreal Commercial Advertiser says 5 that Lord Eglin cauies home with him the offer of Quebec Cavalry, immediately to proeeed to the seat of war; we believe the Montreal coins is willing and ready to do the same; it is saiu that Arthur Rankins, Esq., the honorable and gallant member for the county of Essex, has offered his cervices and Ms ior tunes to raise a battaliion in Upper Canada, and have them ready to proceed t o the East next summer. Michigan Legislature. —Strang, the Mormon Prophet, of Beaver Island, hs:. made a move in the Legislature to admit negroes to the right of suffrage. Mr. Hussey has offered a resolution instructing the Senators and requesting the Representatives in to mo their influence to grant actual setters IGO acres of public domain. Queer Matrimonial Freak. —A letter from a citizen of Livingston county, Kentucky, to the Danville Iribune, relates the following bit of family history in that neigh borhood : “A widow lady took an orphan boy to raise, quite small, and when he arrived at the age of eighteen she married him, she then being in her fiftieth year. They lived many years together happy as any couple. Jen years ago they took an orphan girl to raise. This fall the old lady died, being ninety-six years of age, and in seven weeks after the old man married the girl they had raised, he being sixty-eight years old, and she eighteen.” It is probable she will adopt some good looking hoy, to be ready for an emergency. Peas and u Pure Ground Coffee.”— A case came up for trial a few days since in New York, wherein one par ty sued another for the value of forty bags of peas. The plaintiff was a coffee roaster, and had contracted with the defendant’for 250 bags of peas, which, it appeared, were to be ground up with the coffee. Some curious develop ments came out in the course of the trial, showing the extent to which peas, chicory, and other substances are used for the article which is sold as pure ground coffee. Petrified ’Bodies. —Singular Discoveries. —The Day ton Empire, of Saturday evening, gives the particulars of several bodies having been found in a state of peti ideation in an old grave yard, on the .farm of John P. Loy, three miles from Germantown. The Empire says the body of Mrs. Loy was to bo removed, and her grave was opened for that nurpos3. She had been buried twenty-four years The coffin was perfect, but was so heavy that it required six men to lift it out. The shroud, and indeed, all ttie cover ing which was upon the body at the time of interment, 24 years ago, had disappeared; not a vestige of them remain ed. Tbe body was perfect, except the right log from the knee to the ankle-joint,'where the flesh seemed to have wasted away, and lay at the bottom of the coffin, in a sub stance, rc embling asbes mixed with sand. With this ex ception of decay, the body and limbs exhibited the same perfectness of exterior they did when life and animation were in the body. It was stone,of a drub color, with the smile on hex face which it wore when she gave up mortali ty- _ _ i&i cm i The Underground Railroad in Danger. —A bill was pro inted in tbe Illinois Legislature, on the 16th inst, to prevent the carrying of colored people on the railroads of that State, which was read twice, and referred, and will probably pirs the House of Representatives. Louisiana U. S. Senator. — New Orleans, January 18. Mr. Sliddeil has L in unanimously re-nominated U. S. Senator by the Democratic caucus of the Legislature, and there is little doubt of his re-election. Robberies in New York. —The New York Times states that for several weeks past that city has been infes ted by gangs of expert robbers, who have been doing a wholesale business. Only a few days ago the Merchants’ Bank, in Wall street, was robbed in broad daylight of $25,000 in gold coin ; and, although a reward of $3,000 had been offered for the recovery of the money, no clue has been obtained of either the robber or the plunder.- - During the last week a number of robberies of costly jewels, silks, satins, and other rich goods have been com mitted in Broadway,'Liberty streets and elsewhere, which, in the aggregate, will amount to $15,000 or $20,000. Shortly after the Bank robbery it was ascertained that a package of diamonds and other jewels, valued at SS,OOO or SIO,OOO, had been stolen from the large jewelry es tablishment of Messrs. Tiffany & Cos., in Broadway.- - Only one of these diamonds, valued ats3,ooo, has been r covered, having been found in possession of a person who loaned SSOO upon it without his knowing from whom it was obtained. Messrs. Fougne & Cos., in Broad way, have also been robbed of $2,000 of jewelry, con sisting of rich brooches, breastpins, rings, necklaces, sec., &c. _ Advertising—the Lever by which fortune is made. —At a banquet given to the:employees of a large estab lishment in New York city the owner of the establish ment, says the Sun, in the course of a brief history of his rise and progress rs a manufacturer, alluded to his in debtedness to tbe press rs the great medium by which he had made tho public acquainted with his busine s, aud drawn them to him as customers. He said he regarded the press, in this age of competition, as the groat lulcrum upon which the tradesmen rested his advertisement, and the means by which he overturned his adversaries. That he who advertises judiciously aud extensively was sore to reap the reward of triumph. If every man dealing wares to the public was guided by this truthful conviction of Ids interests as the manufactu rer, few would have to complain of small sales or ill suc cess in trade’ A few enterprising men of the various trades and professions have got hold of the great secret of success , and it is not strange to us that they rse to fortune and eminence, to the wonder and annoyance of their less sagacious and non-advertising neighbors. ihe Battle House and tho fae we saw There--Presi dent Lamar—Clark Mills—Dion Bourcicault —Agne3 Robertson. Among the geiU’emea whom wo met at the Battle House, vvrs the distinguished ex President of the late Republic of Texas, Gen. Mirabeau B. Lamar. A gen tleman of more engaging simplicity of address and kind liness of manner, we never had the good fortune to en c untor. His conversational powers are rare, and his “small talk” is so delicately humorous, with points so ex quisitely turned—the whole touched here and there with the poet’s “pencil of fight”—that we have no difficulty in accounting for the ease with which he is said to win all hear f s around him. The General is a much younger man—in appearance, at least—than we had supposed him to be. He can hardly be fifty ; and if we regarded the activity of his mind, the buoyancy of his spirits, and the playfulness of his fancy, wo should not write him above twenty five. Mr* Clark Mills, widely fam us for his equestrian stat ue of Jackson, was also there, and it was our good for tune to be made known to him. He has a rather square, plain face, with a great deal of character in its expression ; with the lines saying distinctly here are firmness, self reliance, united with a fine intelligence. We should take Mr. Mills to be between 40 and 45 years of age, and though his face is that of a man who has wrestled with Care and been thrown sometimes, it at once assures the stranger that there is a plenty of vitality—of endurance, game —leli, in that well-knit. muscular frame and that well formed, though only medium sized brain. Mr. Mills was on his way to New Orleans to consult the good people there on some matter connected with the statue of their “Hero,” which he lias undertaken for them. The subject of his great work being up, he kind ly showed us a miniature model, in metal, of tho horse. He cast luis to demonstrate the feasibility of making the horse balance upon his hind feet. It was perfectly suc cessful. The miniature is of solid metal, weighs only a few ounces, and is very beautiful in its general outline, though no pains were taken to make it perfectly accurate as to muscular developments. We saw it stand upon a marble slab, first on its hind feet in the attitude of rear ing to spring away —and then upon all the feet, but of course with a less natural effect. It thoroughly satisfied us (as it did all that saw it.) that the newspaper criticisms which sought to induce the belief that the equestrian stat ue is a humbug, were simply libellous. Mr. Mil's ha<? committed no sin, except to produce in a very simple v an artistio effect that no one had achieved before—for t Envy brings into play all its powers of detraction. Dion Bourcieault, Esq., author of “London Assurant, and tbe husband of “Miss Agnes Robertson,” whose';, rs an actress now reaches into the remotest regions wf, the English tongue is spoken, was among the guests the Battle House. Mr, Bourcieault is one of the most unassuming, p], ant little gentleman in the world, and as a'dramatic wfo his reputation is firmly fixed. As an actor, in a cert line at least, he cannot be excelled. Ilis delineation the aged, decayed French gentleman, Monsieur Touiv on, in “Bub Nettles,” is the most consummate acting , have ever seen. The very air of the poor dd geutfo appeals to the heart, with a pathos so subdued, so ?.*, • and so touching, that the tears will conic, do wbat r may. In the same play, Miss Robertson gives with solute perfection, the rollicking “larking, ‘ but hearted, school boy, Bob Nettles. Her rendering of . character —and of all such —leaves no rootn for improv, meat. Archness, piquancy, simple pathos unite u petite style of beauty, to give her the power ot “hew ing ’em,” and the longer we look, the more vve arc witched. The truth is, she and her husband are gems, of rare and beautiful brilliance. W e were defo! ed to learn from Mr. Bourcieault himself, that in theeou:, of a month or two, we shall probably have them in .U ■ gomery. Mr. B. proposes to give, in the South, a s.: of what we may call “ Evenings ,” in which his wife ai. himself (and by themselves,) will illus rate some of so peculiarities of English society, in dramactio sketches wr,>, ten by himself. It will, we feel sure, be the mostsu.. a cessfull thing of the sort ever projected in the SoutUert f States. —Montgomery Mail. Bank of Newberry, S. C. Our friends, not only at Tampa but throughout the l. I ion, are respectfully informed that vve are perfectly w. to receive at par, in payment of subscription or adverts; | accounts, as many bills ot the Bank ot Newberry a? , may be pleaded to “remit—the more the better. The ports prejudicial fto that institution, we are inform-( 1 good authority, have no foundation whatever.— Chari:. ton Courier, 23<Z inst. Resources of North Carol-na.— We notice in the > |i port of the financial committee of the North Carolina L_ tslature, that an assessment of 12s cents per one huucv l| dollars upon lands in that State will yield $120,000; jj that from poll taxes, money at interest, dividends on I bonds, &c.,an annual revenue will be derived of five hr,’ w pred and twenty one thousand dollars. Punches. The following lists are selected from the Almanac of so. ■ London Punch tor 1855. Truth for Teetotallers. —The porter tliaQis stout w ■ carry the biggest man beyond the bonds of discretion, 1 Information for Innocents. —When anybody j much about his trials, there is some reason to believe him m to be a thief. . A Real Blessing to'Mothcrs. —Couldn’t somebody .1 vent a soap which would enablo mammas to get the- si daughters oft’ their hands ? Memorandum for the Month of March. —To youtM ladies —Now make up your minds and choose your lover considering that you may have too many chaps on yours I hands. The Position of the Eyes in Man. — A sagacious uldM gentlemau remarks how fortunate it is that our eyes <i- ” not project like those of some animals, for if they di: what a number of boys we should see making faces at ui behind our backs! A Married Lover. —A hen pecked husband declare-: that the longer he Jived the more he was smitten. Rule for Young Housekeepers. —The smallest possible waste, without pinching. Hint to Householders. —Honesty may be tho best poli cy ; but the next best is a policy of assurance. Health and Beauty. —The young lady who is unable! to sport a riding habit should get into a walking habit. COLUMBUS PRICES CURRENT. 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