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Ciit m a vto %mtind. j; —— - COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. 21, Veto of the French spoliation Bill. As will be seen by a dispatch in another column, the j President hae vetoed the French Spoliation Bill. Thus again has this measure of justice been defeated. The facts, we believe, are briefly these: During the French Directory, and afterwards during the consulate of Napoleon, immense depredations were committed on our commerce (neutral) by French privateers and government armed vessels. The complaints and claims of those who suffered by this viola tion of the laws of nations, were assumed by our govern ment, and for years was the subject of negociation. During Gen. Jackson’s administration, the matter was settled as far as France was concerned — that nation paying a large sum of money to our government, which, by agreement,assum ed the payment of the claims of our citizens. This the claimants have been laboring for years to receive, and bills for that purpose have several times passed Congress, and have been vetoed on grounds not deemed sufficient by a majority of the representatives of the people. it is centended on the part of some that a portion of the claims are perhaps fraudulent, and some have passed from the heirs into the hands of speculators, On the other hand, it is contended that our Government has received the mo ney, and ought to pay it out to those to whom it belongs.— Daily Alabama Journul, Feb. 171 h. We have never, in the course of our editorial career, found, in a respectable journal, so gross a misconcep tion and perversion of the facts of history as is contained in the foregoing article, which we clip from an editorial in the Alabama Journal. It is true that the Charles ton Courier has asserted that our Goverment assumed the payment of the claims of our citizens upon the french Government for spoliations committed upon our commerce pcior to 1800 by the treaty of that date; and that this false assertion has been reiterated by most of the papers, Democratic and Whig, published at the commercial cities of the South. But the Alabama Journal enjoys the signal felicity of standing “solitary and alone” in the declaration that France paid a large sum of money to our Government during General Jaokson s administration in liquidation of these claims and that the United States, in consideration thereof, as sumed the payment of the claims of our citizens. would not expose the lamentable ignorance of the Alabama Journal if that paper had not taken oc casion to found accusation against the President upon this formidable battery of misconception. We hold that no man is culpable for want of information if he has used hie means and opportunities to the best advantage to acquire it; and this, we suppose, the conductors of the Journal have done. But when this lamentable ignorance is made the ground of condemnation of the the conduct of the President of the United States, it is Ho less our duty than our pleasure to lift the lion’s skin from those who wear it, without regard to the painful exposure it may occasion. Every person at all familiar with American history knows that the claims embraced in the French Spolia tion bill originated in depredations upon our commerce oommitted by French armed vessels prior to 1800: That in the treaty of that year France steadfastly de nied her liability ; that the second article of the treaty contained astipulation that in as much as the Ministers plenipotentiary of two governments could not agree “upon the indemnities mutually due or claimed, the parties will negotiate further upon these subjects at a convenient time; ’ that when the treaty was sent to the Senate for ratification, the said second article was stricken out; and that the treaty as retrenched was ratified by Bonaparte upon the express condition that the two States renounce the respective pretensions which are the object of the said article.” Wo refer the Journal to Benton's Thirty Year’s \ ievv, page 489, where the facts above set forth are given in the speeohes of Senators Wright and Webster. Also Webster’s Works, vol. 4, page 157. It is, there fore, apparent that instead of the Government “paying a large sum of money to our Government” in satisfaction of these claims, the two Governments respec tively “renounced’’ them. But the most singular error of the Journal is that these claims “were settled as far as France was con cerned, ’ during General Jackson’s administration. It is hardly neoessary to say in reply that the claims paid by France during General Jackson’s administration all arose subsequent to 1800, and that the money received has long since been paid to the claimants. The misapprehension that exists in reference to the French Spoliation bill is most glaring; and to this fact we attribute the favor it has met with iu the publio press. “Y\ e have heretofore fully disoussed its merits. If these claims are paid by the Government, then ought it to redeem the old continental money and make good the losses sustained by the men of the revolution in negroes stolen, houses burnt, crops destroyed, corn and meal eaten by the British in the revolutionary war. The one claim is as good as the other. We hope the Alabama Journal and other papers who favor this bill will review the history of the French Spoliation bill before they allow themselves to denounce the President for doing what was done time and again, but In a different form, by our fathers. A Chance lor a Printer. James M. Smythe, Esq., the Editor of the Southern Eclectic £ Home Gazette, published at Augusta, Ga., offers for sale a half interest in the paper to “a business, managing partner,” aud guaranties “to the purchaser a material, certain advantage of thirty-five per cent upon the capital invested, whieh may be increased to more than fifty.” The Eclectic ts- Gazette has 4500 sub scribers “with every prospect of going upward instead of falling back.” The objects of the Editor in puhlish ing the Eclectic Home Gazette are very noble and praiseworthy, and are thus forcibly put in a late num ber of the paper: We would arouse the Southern mind ; we would, as far as prwsihla, inspire Southern genius and effort. Abroad we are viewed as cattle who follow the tinkling of distant bells, and labor to fill the pockets of distant and foreign intellec tual masters. Shame upon the people of the South that they themselves should so act as to give colouring to this disgraceful pretension! Here in the South, where the sun is so resplendent, and the stars are so bright, and the skie* so blue—where nature exceeds art in the richness of its col ouring—where music should be as soft as our summer zephyrs ; where genius should climb to heaveu in its flights here, we say, the home—thß empire of intellect—should be brighter, richer, than in any other clime. It is a despicable state to eink down into gloomy ignorance, and abject de pendence upon other lands and climes, when there is an echo of glory in every breeze which fans us, and there are a thousand mines of mental wealth scattered over our love-’ ly land. Accident on the Muscogee Railroad. —Oo Mon day, 19th inst., the freight train from Macon ran off the track of this road about three miles from Columbus. Several cars were smashed by the accident, but no oao was injured. The obstrro'.ion was removed from the track Tuesday and all damage to tin t ack repaired. S nee the foregoing was put in type, we learn from President Gaiffin that the train consisted of 27 errgty freight ears. The boxes of 3 of the cars were totally and sttoved ; of one other badiy broken, but can be re paired ;of 9 others slightly injured. The engine howse was broken off by a car which split the tender in two and rau over the engine ; otherwise the damage to tie tßgine is slight. The total damage by the aecide it i estimated at £2OOO. The engine was thrown off of the track by a snake head just before the cars reached a trestle bridge, and the smash up occurred on the bridge. Georgia Magazine Literature. Blister & Critic. —This is a Medical Journal pub lished at Atlanta, Ga., at $1 a year, and Edited by 11. A. Ramsay, M. D. and W. T. Grant, M. D. We are better pleased with the selections and communica tions than with the editorial matter of the Blister cj- Critic. It may be a prejudice, but in a scientific work we do not like to see so much personality. Southern School Journal. —This monthly is the organ of the Georgia State Teacher's Association : published at Madison, Ga., at $1 a year ; and very ably conducted by Jno. G. Clark, and a corps of assistants, among whom are some of the first Teachers in the State. Georgia University Magazine. —This periodical is edited by Messrs. Bozeman, Scott, McGougb, Stanley and Walsh, members of the Senior Class of Franklin College, and published at Athens, Ga., at $2 a year.— Contents February No: The Debutante ; phy of an Actress ; The Bitter Night; The Mother less ; Musings in the Temple of Nature ; The Golden Day a Night of Gloom ; Twilight; Editorial Bureau. Oglethorpe University Magazine is edited by Messrs. Smith, Patterson, Harvey, Slaughter and Caa sels, of the Senior Class of Oglethorpe University, and published at Talmage, Ga., at $1 per annum. Con tents of the January No : Thomas Moore ; Americans •, B'ort Wilkinson ; Existence of God proved by the light of Nature; Study of Latin and Greek ; Tallulah Falls ; A Modern Child •, There is a Tear •, The Oracle, or a Southern Fireside ; Editorial. We feel a lively interest in the success of these too last mentioned periodicals, and, therefore, venture to make a suggestion or two in reference to them. If the Editors rely entirely upon under graduates for contribu tions, they cannot expect to obtain a very large circulation, nor to exert a very powerful influence upon the publio mind. However sprightly a boy may be, he lacks that maturity of thought and scope of observation which are essential to successful authorship. But if they can enlist their Presidents, Professors and Alumni in their enterprises and rely upon them principally for contri butions, we think these University Magazines may be made valuable co-hborers in the field of letters. In the Times gone by, has not the entire Northern body politic been cons gned to indiscriminate condemnation, as cheese eating, onion smelling reprobates and conspirators against the rights of the Somh, with whom as Southern men we could in no wise affiliate on the basis of national organization ?— Enquirer. Very clear of it. In the darkest hour of our destiny, the South had no stauncher friends than Paulding, of New York,-Brown, of Pennsylvania, Birdsall, of New York, Pierce, cf New Hampshire, Cushing, of Mas sachusetts, and a host of others, of whom the world is not worthy. And by reference to our files it will be seen that they stood in the iminent and deadly brush at the dark hour to which our cotemporary refers, while he aud his firiends were patching up the compromise finality.* We never failed on any occasion, nor did our predecessors to recognise Democrats as worthy co laborers in the cause of constitutional free dom. ig> Chattahooche River. —The recent raids raised the river some three feet, and on Saturday, 17th inst., the 6teamer D. J. Day , Capt. Van Veighten, arrived at our wharf with a cargo of 2000 barrels, mostly wet freight, part of which was on board a barge which the enter prising Captain had built in anticipation of a continu ance of dry weather. In the evening of the same day the Ben Franklin , Capt. Berry, arrived. Both boats unloaded at once and left next morning. The river ha ’ commenced falling, and we fear that navigation will be again obstructed. Washington’s Birth Day.— lt is the intention of our spirited volunteer companies to celebrate the anni versary of the B'ather of his country with appropriate military ceremonies. In the evening the Columbus Guards, Capt. Semmes, will give a military ball in Temperance Hall. While we celebrate the day which gave birth to the Hero and Patriot, let us not forget to imitate his virtues. The Opelika Branch Road. —We are pleased to learn that by the timely aid of the Central, South western, and Muscogee Railroad Companies, the Mont gomery and West Point Railroad Company will be able to avail itself rs the city subscription of $50,000 to the Opelika Branch Road, and that the construction of the bridge across the Chattahooche river will be commenced immediately. It is believed that the cars will cross the river by Fall. - ■ ■ - - Columbus Building and Loan Association. At the last monthly meeting of this Association $2,650 were sold for $5,600 at the following particulars : S6OO at 55, SI,OOO at 53, $2,000 at 52 1-2 and $2,000 at 52 per cent premium. The fall from 68 to 52 per cent indicates a very healthy reaction in our money market. Chatham Superior Court, January Term, 1855. Sentence Day. —The following sentences were pro nonneed by Judge Fleming, State vs. Samuel Wright.—Larceny from the 1 house.— Plea, not guilty. Verdict, guilty, and recommended to mercy. Sentence: three years at hard labor in the Peni tentiary. State vs. James W. Johnson —High misdemeanor. Plea, not guilty. Verdict, guilty. Sentence: two years at hard labor in the Penitentiary. State vs. James Shea—Assault with intent to murder.— Plea, not guilty. Verdict, guilty. Sentence: seven years at hard labor in the Penitentiary. State vs. Patrick McMahon—Assault with intent to murder. Plea, not guilty. Verdict, guilty. Sentence: seven years at hard labor in the Penitentiary. State vs. Wm. Bradley—Assault and Battjry. Plea, guil ty. Sentence: fined ten dollars. State vs. John Fagin—Cheating and Swindling. Plea, not guilty. Verdict, guilty. Sentence: thirty days impris onment in the county jail. State vs. George Clark —Assault and Battery. Plea, not guilty. Verdict, guilty, and recommended to mercy. Sen tence: fined $25 and costs. State vs. Amos Henderson—Assault and battery. Plea guilty. Sentence: fined SSO and costs. State vs. Charles Griffith—Murder. Plea, not guilty. Verdict guilty. Sentence: to be hanged by the neck, on the 13th day of April, between the hours of four and seven in the forenoon. State vs. Ishmael Hover —Stabbing, not in his own de fence. Plea, guilty. Sentence: ninety da vs imprisonment in the county jail.— Savannah. News, 18/A inst. Sad Affair in Charlestown.—The arrest of a den tist, Dr. Wetherbee, and fhis aiiedged paramour, on crim con. charge, on Wednesday evening, caused a great ex citement in Charlestown. He has been a resident of that Place for perhaps 15 years, was first a minister of the Free will Baptist Church, and has continued to be a sort of preacher, temperance lecturer, anti-slavery orator, and is now a dentist. His wife is an estimable lady; but fora long lime he aud Al -s Healey, the person arrested, have been intimate. She has been an occupant of his house,and whm arrested was corning from his room. The complaint was made by the friends of the injured wife. The parties a rested were taken to Cambridge jail. Miss Healey ob tained bail, but last evening Dr. Weatherbee remained in jail. —Boston Post . Great Britain to Chicago!— The Chicago Press savs: “Our enterprising fellow citizen, Mr. W. Kernaghan,’of No. 18i Water street, has made arrangements to bring freight from Europe direct to Chicago the coming season, by means of propellers, at such a promised rate of cheap ness as in some degree to tax our credulity. Bor instance —in sailing vessels, without transhipment, the price is only seventy five cents per hundred pounds—twenty live cents less than the usual charge between New York and Chica go! What wonders are we to have next in the way ot bringing the remote corners of the world together’” . [From the Columbus BJnquirer.J Messrs. Editors: I hope you will allow 7 me space in your columns for the following explanation, in reply to the enquiry of a “Stockholder,” seen in the columns of the Enquirer of the morning of the 17th iri3t., and another from James W. Warren, Esq., seconding the first, aud seen in the Times & Sentinel of the following evening. 1 consider that the circumstances, as understood by the writers, fuhy justify and even demand the inquiry. I learn also that they are generally so understood through town; and, discovsring in both communications a tern* perate spirit, which indicates an honest desire to arrive at truth, I answer by your first succeeding publication as follows: On the Bth inst., I met in Macon the Presidents of the Central and South-Western Railroads and the Engineer of the Montgomery Railroad, and while joiutly engaged on the subject of through freights from Savannah to Mont gomery, the portage by drays through Columbus was d:s • cussed, and it was there agreed to adjust the price at a fair value, which was decided to be, for weight goods, $1 50 per ton , or 7 cts. per hundred —and for measure ment goods, one cent per cubic foot. Aud I was author ized by the other parties to make tiie contract, with prop er stipulations and guards. As the price was fixed, of course there was to be uo bidding, although I and others had previously expec ted there would be. Therefore, I did not advertise, on my return home, but offered the refusal of the contract to the parties who wagoned the through freights to Ope lika last year, without annoyance or loss to the Railroad interests ; although there were some heavy reclamations for lost goods at Montgomery, which were deducted from the wagon contract, without complaint from the con tractors. My course in selecting these parties has given offence to other dray interests, and a bid has been offered at a meeting of the Board of Directors, and sent forward by me to Macon, Savannah, and Montgomery, for the con sideration of the other Railroad Presidents ; said bid is the one referred to in the communications I am now an swering—namely 75 cts. per ton for weight goods, and 5 cts. per cubic foot for measurement goods—the first being half the price we adopted in Macon, and the other five times as much The proportion of measurement goods going through to Montgomery is usually so largt that this bid is really much higher than the adopted price. I have replies from the Presidents interested, approving my course ; yet, as one*of them suggests that it may be best, under present circumstances, to avail ourselves of ali the competition this place can offer —and this course now meets my own approval—l shall cause notice to be given by placard at the City Post Office, that Proposals for this service are invited to be received at the Office of our Su perintendent, until sunset of Thursday next, and the con tract declared to the best bidder on Saturday morning following—when I now anticipate its being let much low er than the condemned contract, although it is decidedly lower than the proposal with which it lias been com pared. DANIEL GRIFFIN. [for tiie [times and sentinel.] Dray Portage at Coluntbas. Afier the explanation on the subject of through dray ser vice between the Columbus and Montgomery Railroads, (which appeared in the Enquirer of yesterday) was in press, and too late for further notice to be given in that paper, I was served with formal notice .by Messrs. Gammel & Brinsfield, that they had gone to much expense in prepar ing for the dray service, and that theyjwould hold the rail road companies responsible for the contract. I have refer red their notice to Col. Hines Holt, who holds their claim to be good. 1 have, consequently, suspended action on the proposed letting, and referred the whole subject to Messrs. Cuyler & Reynolds again. DANIEL GRIFFIN, President. Congressional. Wasiiingnon, Feb. 17. Mr. Jones, oi Tennessee, embodied resolutions declaring that Congress has not the power to regulate the Naturaliza tion laws, but that it is guaranteed to the States. The res lutions were laid over. The bill to give three years credit for duties on rail road iron was discussed. The President has approved the bill granting the rank oi j Lieutenant General to (Jen. Scott. The Mails. —The House passed the bill making appro priations for the transportation oi the U. S. mail by ocean steamers and otherwise during the fiscal year, ending the 30th of June, 1856. The bill appropriates for the transpor tation of the mails from New York to Liverpool and back $858,000. The bill also appropriates for the transportation of the mails from New York to New Orleans, Charleston, Savannah, Havana, and Chagres, and back, $261,000; for transportation of the mails from Manama to California and Oregon, and back, $328,350, and for carrying out the con tract entered into by the Post Office Department, under the provisions of the act approved on the 30th of August,lßs2, establishing a tri-monthly mail by steam vessels between New Orleans and Vera Cruz, via Tampico, $69,750; — and it further appropriates for transportation of the mails in two steamships from New York, via Cowes to Havre, and back, at $75,000 for each ship, under the contract with the Ocean Steam Navigation Company of New York, $350,- 000; for transportation of the mails between Charleston and Havana, a sum not exceeding $50,000, and for transporta tion of the mails across the Isthmus ot JPanama, $150,000. The Veto. —The President sent jiinto the House his veto on the B'rench Spoliation Bill. He says that the Coastitn tion does not compel him to sign any bill which he cannot approve conscientiously. The bill does not pay the claims, but only compounds them. If the claims are just at all, it is disgraceful to the Government to compound with clai mants for $5,00© ,000. Such a law would be a perpetual bar to justice. Moreover these claims were never deemed by any President worthy of recommendation. ** The veto message caused considerable excitement, but the House adjourned without having taken any action thereon. From Washington. “Washington, Feb. 16. Mr. Appleton, of Maine, has been nominated Secretary of Legatioa to London. Ia the Senate Mr. Mason reported the House bill re modeling the consular system. The House has been engaged in debating the amend ment to the Ocean Mail Steamer bill, giving Mr. Coliius’ line half a million of dollars. Washington, B'eb, 17. The President sent in his veto of the French Spolia tion Bill to-day. It is very long. Tiie President approves the Bill conferring the title of Brevet Lieutenant General upon Major General Scott. Rejection of Judge Loring, Boston, Feb. 16. —Judge Loring has been rejected as Law Professor of Harvard University by a voteof 20 to 10; supposed to be owing to bis rendition of the fugitive Burns. The Sunbury and Erie Railroad. Philadelphia, Feb. 12. A meeting of the stockholders of the Sun bury and Etie Railroad Company is being held at this place this morning, Hon. James Cooper has lesigned the Presidency of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad, and ex‘Governor Bigler ap pointed in his place. This appointment cannot but give satisfaction to ail interested in the road. Connecticut Democratic State Convention. New Haven, Feb. 14, 1b551*- The Democratic State Convention for the noniina'ion of Siate officers was held to-day. Hon. R I. Imrersoll was elected President. The ticket of last year was re nominated, with the exception of Julius Hotchkiss o H ateroury, vvho was dropped for Comptroller, and Th s. Cowles, ot Framington, nominated instead. Hon. Sain'i. Ingham, ofSuvbrook, is the candidate for Governor. The convention denounced the Know Nothings and the Maine 3 V, Anti-Nebraska Convention in New Hampshire. Manchester, N. 11., Feb. 14, 1855. A convention of the opponents of the Nebraska bill met at Manchester yesterday, to nominate a candidate for re presentative to* Congress from that district. William G. Means, presided, Mason W. Tappan, who had been pre viously nominated by the free soil party, was nominated by acclamation. Ex-Gov. Morton, of Massachusetts,^ was received to the communion of the Episcopal church, in Inunton, on the 4th inst., the sacrament was administered by his son-in law, Bishop Lee Extra Compensation to Cotnmodorc Perry. The Committee on Foreign Relations reported a bill appropria ting $25,000 to Commodore Perry, cn account ol his diplomatic services at Japan. Later from Havana—Great Excitement At the time the steamer (Empire City) sailed the in habitants cf Havana were in a state of much excitement in consequence of reports of a revolt at different points of the Islabd, and the alarming intelligence, officially communicated through the columus of the Gazeta, that a formidable expedition was arming in this country and about to sail from different ports sot tlie purpose of at tacking the Island. A great number of suspeeUd indi viduals, generally of respectability and high standing, had been arrested, and the Captain General had issued a proclamation, announcing that the severest measures will be adopted to prevent invasion from abroad and in surrection at home. He threatens any expedition that may effect a landing upon the shores of Cuba with im mediate extirmmation, and holds up the terrors of the law to those of his own people who may be inclined to break the peace. The following is the official account f the expedition, published by order of Gen. Concha : “The advices received yesterday by the steamer from New Orleans to the sth inst., in regard to the projected ex pedition against this island, are as follows: “The expedition is to be composed of from two thousand three hundred to two thousand six hundred men. The points of embarkation and the proportion of men are as follows: Galveston, Texas, from six to seven hundred men in the steamship Pampero ; Savannah, the same number on the Daniel Webster or the Prometheus, and the rest ironi New York k in the Massachusetts, of which wo shall speak further on, and a steamship which we cannot name. “in order to secure their departure from these points with out the interference with the Federal Government, the ru mor has been circulated that the destination of the expedi tion is Costa Rica, and it is the general opinion that the levelations to the contrary effect are due to one of the prin cipal chieis, who,in consequence of disagreements with the others, has completly separated himself from them. “The first interruption in New York has been the seizure of the steamship iViassachusetts, on board of which have been found arms and munitions of war to a considerable amount, and perfectly concealed. On this point we shall receive further details by the steamship which ought to arrive to-day, but on the departure of the last steamer from New’ Orleans the Courier des Elats Unis had been received there, referring to the ahair as one which had been consu inated, that is, the seizure. “The Pampero, that was running between Pensacola, Key West and New Orleans, left Key West on the last of January, not to return to New Orleans, but for some other unknown point—without doubt, in connection with the ex pedition. “The force is to be commanded by Colonel Kinney as commander-in-chief, who was lately in Washington, but the true chiefs and directors are the same that managed the Lopez affair: that is, Quitman and Henderson, who reside, with the directing commission of the entire enterprise, at Natchez, some eighty or one hundred leagues Horn New Orleans. “Men are being continually recruited at all points in the United States, seven hundred acres of land being offered to each soldier, and in proportion to the officers. “At the latest moment it was confidently asserted in New Orleans, in consequence of telegraphic despatches reeieved, that the President of the United States would issue a pro clamation against the expedition, as its military had become manifest.” The following British vessels of war were in port when the Empire city sailed: Brig of war Espeigle, Commander Hancock; the 70 gun ship of the hne Boscawan, William B. Glanville, Comman der, with Rear Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe, C. 8., in command of the North American and West India squad ron, and 650 men: also the screw propeller, 400 horse pow er, Colossus, of 80 guns, and 750 complement, Comman der R. S. Robinson, Esq. On the morning of the sth inst. a negro ran out of his master’s premises, near the Plazo del Vapor, having chains on his legs for punishment, with an old razor in his hand, with which he killed three persons and wounded severely more than twenty others.— N. O. Cresent, 16th Later from Cuba. New York, Feb. 17, 1855. The Steamship Cahawba, has arrived this morning from New Orleans, with Havana dates up to the 12th inst. She reports that arrests of parties implicated in revolutionaiy movements continued to be made on the Island, but brings no further intelligence in relation to the Filibusters. —a®— California News. The New Orleans papers of the 14th brought us the Cali- j fornia news by the steamer Prometheus. Her advices are j from San Francisco to the 24th ult. The news is oi little moment. The Legislature was in session at Sacramento, and the contest for U. S. Senator was going on. The twenty-first ballot, which was taken just previous to the hour of adjourn ment on the23d ult,. stood as follows: Boderick, 12;Gwin, 27; Edwards, 36; McCorkle, 13; McDougall, 5; M. S. Latham, 4; Burnet, 1; number ot votes cast, 108. The Sacramento Union thinks it a settled fact that Dr. Gwin canuot be elected, and it says that the prospect of any election at all was by no means bright, as each party ap peared determined to adhere to its own candidate. Mr. Joseph Heslep, Treasurer of Tuolumne county, was murdered iu his office and the safe robbed on the evening of the 19th ult. A man named E. C. Griffiths was suspected and arrested, and the money was found in hfe carpet bag at his boarding house. He confessed the whole affair, saying he was with Mr. Heslep, and asked to borrow some money which the latter refused. Griffiths said he took hold of a bag of money in a joking way, when Heslep struck him His blood being up, he seized an axe and continued to strike Mr. H. until he was dead. He (Griffiths) then took all the money he could find, but said he had no idea of dome so five minutes before. 3 , New York, Feb. 15. Ihe steamship Northern Light, from California, has ar rived. Death of Francis Kinlock Huger. —We announce with deep regret the death ot this venerable patriot and citizen, } who expired at his residence in this city, in the 32d year of his age, at i o’clock, yesterday afternoon. Col. Huger was the sou of Col. Benjaman Huger, of the revolution, who was killed before the lines of Charleston, and was the pupil of the celebrated Dr. John Hunter, and , fellow student of Dr. Physick, ©f Philadelphia. When a youn man and fully inspired with the ardor of American republicanism, he joined Dr. Ericßollman, ol Philadelphia, in hi3 attempt to liberate La Fayette from the Dungeons of Oimutz; an enterprise which led to the long incarceration ■ of the young patriots. The first landing of the Marquis De LaFayette on Amer ’ ican soil was on the plantation of the father of Col. F. K. Huger, in 1777. The .attempt of the young Huger and Bollman to rescue LaFayette was, therefore, a ignoble re cognition of hereditary and paternal hospitality. On his liberation and return to his native laud, the sub ject of this sketch was appointed a Captain in the United States Army of 1798. He resigned and retired soon after wards; but on the breaking out oftthewar of 1812, was called again from his beloved retirement and appointed to office, and soon received the command of a regiment of artillery attached to the Southern Division. Col. Huger served his native State in both branches ol ! the Legislature, and was aiwaysjready to serve her- in any f capacity, civil or military. He was a genuine Carolina gentleman of the old school endowed with high intelligence, chivalrous in character’ j replete with social and manly virtues, and fail of years he has been gathered to his fathers, leaving numerous rela- ; lives and iiiends and a sympathising community to mourn j his loss and pay the last sail tribute to departed worth. C heir. Courier , 15 ih inst. Avery green prig from the Emerald Isle entered a bo r a m shoe shop to purchase himselfa pair of “bregans. 1 After over hat ling h:s stock in trade w ithout being able to suit his eu tomer, the s’ opke; p r hinted that he would mako him a pair to order. ‘x\nd what will yer ax to make a good pair iv ’em ?” was the query. The price vvs named ; the Irishman demurred, but, after a “bating down, 5 the thing vs a trade. Paddy was about leaving the shop, when the other called after’ him, asking. “Hat • what sire shall [ make them, sir ?” “Och,” cried Pa idy, i niver mind about the size, at ail —make them, as large ! as you conveniently can for the money.” The Press. DY EBENEZER ELT.ICOTT. God said—“ Let there be light!” Grim darkness felt his might, And fled away; Then startled seas and mountains cold, Ehoue forth, ali bright in blue and gold, And cried—“ ’Tis day 1 ‘tis day !” “Hail, holy light!” exclaimed The thunderous cloud, that flamed O’er daisies white; And lo! the rose, in crimson dressed, Leaned sweetly on the lily’s bieatt, And blushing, murmur’d—“Light!” Then was the sky-lark born. Then rose the embattled corn ; Then floods of praise Flowed o’er the sunny hills of noon ; And then, in siient night, the moon Poured forth her pensive rays. Lo, Heaven’s bright bow is glad ; Lo, trees and floweisare clad In glory, bloom; And shall the immortal sous of God Be senseless as the trodden clod, And darker than the tomb! No, by the mind of man .’ By the busy artisan ! By God, our Sire ! Our souls have holy light within ; And every form ot grief and sin, Shall see and feel its lire. By earth, and hell, and heaven, The shr< ud of soul is risen! Mind, mind alone Is light, and hope, and life, and power! Earth’s deepest night, from this blest hour, The light of mind is gone. “The Press!” all hands shall sing; “Tne Press, the Press, we bring, All hands to bless; O, pallid want! O labor stark ! Behold, we bring the second Ark ! The Press ! the Pi ess! the Press!” Mr. Wise oa Know Nothingism—lts Origin and Workings. “What is it? Where did it come from ? What can it be ? Did it fail from the sky ? Did it rise from the sea ?” ‘ n I tell you that there is no wonder about it. I ted you that I know it from A. to Z. I know where it came from, I know where it was engendered. 1 know what it has done, and I can exchange with you, my 4 friend, every sign, every grip,every pass. (Laughter.) 1 know its whits triangles and its red triangles its red tops, and its white arrowtops. I know your odd numerals and your even numerals. I know )our ocus from A to M inclusive, and I know yu'ir evens from N to Z inclusive. (Laughter.) Now where did it come from? It is no new thing. It is no strange thing. Al though it is a wender here, it has been operating for years in old England. You that will go to a book store and buy Dickens’ novel of “Hard Times” will see a portrait ure of the tiling, and how it has operated in a country with an aristocracy and a Queen, with lord proprietors of factories and of lands,which they rent to middle men who grind down the operatives. There, in England, the se cret association oi the operatives against grinding capital, I grant you, has done much good. There, there is some necessity for it ; there, where men’s nos vs are held to the grindstone by oppression ; there, where all the luxu* rics are free, and ail the a necessaries of life are taxed ; there, where the operative is made to bear all the burdens of society ; there, where there is a crowned head and an aristocracy—there, dark-lantern, secret association, test oaths have brought forth some leforms. Well, seeing its effect in that country— Exeter Hall—-the abolitionists of England sent it over to the preachers of “Christian poli tics” in Boston and New Yoik to apply its machinery to the North and the non-slaveholding Stales. (Cheers and hisses.)They brought it over. They have tried it, and they i had it organized as early as June 4th, 1854. r lhey knew | its potency. They knew its effect. Therefore, it was, that Mr. Freeman Clarke could tell you that he knew that Ohio was wheeling into line. This thing was all planned all organized—and it did sweep Massachusetts and N. York, and Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and Delaware and Ohio, and Indiana and Illinois, and Michigan and lowa. It has swept them with tiie besom of destruction. (Cheers and Laughter.) Go now to Massachusetts and you find but on friend of the Constitution left. 62 of these preachers of “Christian politics” have been return ed to sit in seats once filled by such men as John Han cock. There, in the neighborhood of Faneuil Hall, in the land of steady habits—in the Sand of the Puritans —The® odore Parker, but the other day received 122 votes to be a chaplain. A man anti-Christ, so much devil incarnate that he can hide neither tail nor hoofs, receives iu a Massachusetts Legislature 122 votes to be a chaplain. Massachusetts ! Massachusetts ! the elder sister of Vir ginia, who in tiie night of the revolution gave her pass word for password, sign for sign, cheer for cheer, in the midst of our gloom? Massachusetts has thrown aside j her Puritanism, her Christian religion, her constitution, j and has given herself up to Know Nothingism and anti i slavery. (Tremendous cheering.) Let us see the work ing of Know Nothingism in Massachusetts. 1 hold in my hand, the official address of his Excellency Henry J. Gardner to the two branches of the Legislature of Mas sachusetts. You see lure upon one page of it, not “through a glass darkly,” but plainly, an intimation of of amalgamation itself. “It is a great problem,” he says, “in statesmanship, wisely to control the mingling of races into one nationality.” Can you give that the grip ? (Roars of laughter.) Another specimen of Know Nothingism is a recommendation in this message that the right of suf frage shall be limited to those who can read and write. Do the Know Nothings of Virginia give that grip too ? The only illustrious painting that this country lias given to the fine arts has beer the picture of the Saviour ot mankind healing the sick. This message recommends that the sick foreigner shall be tumbled cut of the hospi tal bed into the Calcutta hole of the emigrant ship, and sent baek again to Liverpool. This, then, is a sample of the charitableness and religion of Know Nothingism. But, gentlemen, here is the Governor’s doctrine in rela tion to the Nebrasba bill. Mr. Wise then read a passage from the message in re ference to the repeal of the Compromise, which the Gov ernor characterizes as “a violation of the plighted faith of the nation,” and declares that “the ultimete effect will be to determine us manfully to demand the restoration of this broken compact, and to jealousy guard each and eve ry right of Massachusetts.” That is in exact correspondence with the preaching of Mr. Freeman Clarke. But the Governor goes on : “while we acknowledge our fealty to the Constitution and laws, the oft-repeated cry of disunion, heralds no real danger to our ears.” Os those lights which Massachusetts is jealousy so guaid, j it seems the two cardinal ones, are the habeas corpus to take the fugitive slave out of the hands of the United States Commissioner, and trial by jury ; to have the title of the Virginia master, subjected to the verdict of twelve abolitionists. “It is submitted” says the Governor, “wheth er additional legislation is required to secure either of these to our fellow citizens.” Gentlemen that is not ail. This Know Nothing Le gislatuture has just elected one of the most notorious, one of the most inveterate, of their abolition leaders to tho j Senate of the United States, and 1 beg to read to you a ■ passage from a Boston paper which came to n,y hand this evening. It is the Boston Daily Chronicle, and I pre. sume noonew'iil say that it misrepresents the position of Know’’ Nothingism in the” State of Massachusetts : Mr. W, then read a long report of a lecture on “the evils of, and the remedy lor slavery,” delivered at the Tremont Temple, Boston, by Mr. Anson Burlingame, one of the Know Nothings elected to Congress, in which he took ground in favor of the repeal of the Nebraska bill. ’ the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law, the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, and the prohibition of slavery in the Territories of the United States. Speaking of the Nebraska 1 ill. this lecturer said : “One of its fruits was the election ot a, Sent tor at the State House yesterday (great appi use and eaiis for “W il son,” who was on the plhtform.l one who would take the place of one who w.s fuse ’<> freedom artel not true to the slave. [Thus denouncing Edward Eventt,] He, himself, on going to Washington should endeavor to so conduct himself as to truly represent hi? native pace.” The report continues : “After Mr. Bur.iugame had coae'udtd, Mr. Wilson