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£inus attb _ COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH 14, State Democratic Convention. The Federal Union endorses our views in respect to an early call of a State Convention, and suggests Thurs day sth June , as a suitable day. W e yield our prefe rence for an earlier day, and urge upon our Demo cratic friends to select their truest and beßt men to attend the convention. The party has reached a crisis. The present struggle has had no parallel in a party aspect since the days of Jackson. The great funda mental principles of Amerioan liberty are in jeopardy from the midnight plots of tho Know Nothings. Let all good men aud true, then, rally around our time hon ored flag and bear it in triumph over an insidious foe. Theatre-—First Appearance of Mrs. Howard. The Theatre was opened on Monday evening 12th inst., and tho Columbus public had the pleasure of wel coming the lovely Mrs. Charles Howard upon our boards. The house was a full one, and we were grati fied to see present so many of the fairer portion of creation. The press has not been extravagant in its estimate of Mrs. Howard’s excellences. Her acting is pleasing lather than great. She is better suited to raise a laugh than to draw a tear. In genteel comedy she has very few superiors, ‘Her perfect form and lovely face lend un irresitiblo charm to her easy and graceful acting. She is a most charming vocallist and renders our popu lar melodies with captivating brilliancy. Her success was decided on the night of her first appearance, and we anticipate a most successful engagement. We gladly welcome Miss Jane Dickens back to Co lumbus. Her smile is as arch and her laugh as con tagious as of yore. Miss Jessey Crisp’s gentle face has lost none of its bloom. The inimitable Mr. Fuller is also here again, and is as droll as ever. Mr. English is also on the boards and is, we are glad to see, improving. In addition to those old acquaintances, we have Mr. Charles Howard, a gentleman of fine person and manners; and Mr, Lo mas, who has a streak of fun in his composition, and several other stock actors of fair promise. With these attractions we are free to commend the company to public patronage, and hope this engagement will be profitable to the manager, pleasant to the actors, and entertaining to the publio. Conoert Hall has been enlarged, and very comforta bly fitted up by Mr. Crisp. Visitors will find the room quite pleasant. The performances will be continued throughout the week. A capital portrait, in oil colors, of Mrs. Howard, may be'seen at the Jewelry Store of Mr. S. B. Purple. The Day Book—Mrs. Lydia Foster. The Columbus public are aware that the Day Book is a most reliable news and commercial journal, published in the city of New York. But what more nearly concerns us, it has been a bold, and consistent advocate of Southern Rights, and is, therefore, entitled to the confidence and support of the Southern people. A correspondent and agent of this excellent paper has lately arrived in our city in the person of Mrs. Lydia Foster, who is now stopping at the Perry House, where she will be pleased to see such persons as desire to become subscribers. Mrs. Foster comes highly commended as a lady of refinement, taste and talents. We have read her com munications to the Day Book with much pleasure. We hope her short stay in Columbus will be made pleasant, and that she may bear away with her some substantial memorial of our appreciation of her own worth and of the efficient aid we receive from the journal she rep resents. Mrs. Foster has private and personal claims to our liberality, which she will make known to such as feel interested in her enterprise. The slavery agitation is now at the flood in the Nor thern States. The coming elections will mainly turn upon this issue. Many of tho leading papers in that section of the llepublio are committed to the advocacy of abolition. We owe it to ourselves and the Union to proscribe all such papers, and to give our patronage to our friends. Prominent among these is the Day Book. We, therefore, suggest that all our citizens who pat ronize Northern papers that have flinched before the storm of fanaticism, transfer their names to the sub scription list of the Day Book. Inaugural Address of Professor McCay. Wo are indebted to the author, we presume, for a copy of his Inaugural Address, delived in the State House of South Carolina on the 11th December, 1854. The subject is The Pre eminent claims of Physical science in a liberal Education , and is handled with ability aud taste. The learned Professor startes out with the assertion that “the end of a College education beiDg to improve the mind, the fitness for this end is the prime consideration in the selection of the studies.” He then discusses at some length the fitness of the various classes of studies pursued in the College course to this end, and very justly gives the highest place to the physical sciences. Sixth Congressional District. —“Many voters’’ have suggested James P. Simmons, Esq., of Lawrence-- ville, a9 a suitable man to succeed Junius Ililiyer as a member of Congress from the Sixth District. This indicates that Ex-Governor Cobb does not intend to run for the vacancy, or that there is opposition to his nomination. Rev. Wm. M. Crumley. —The friends of this gentle man were gratified with a visit from him recently. lie has always been a favorite iu Columbus, and by his he roic conduct during the last summer in Savannah added greatly to his cha: aoter as a man and Christian. Though he came among us on a begging expedition, he was cordially welcomed, and raised about S4OO. The money will be expended in repairing the church in Savannah, which was damaged by the storm last summer. Accident on the Opelika Branch Road, —Just after the cars left Columbus on the morning of the 10th inst., they came in contact with a two horse wagon and team, instantly killing one of the horses and tearing the wagon to pieces. The owner, Mr. Coleman, was sittiug in the wagon at the time of the accident, snd providentially escaped with very slight bruises. The ears were not jostled. . Southern Literary Messenger. —We are in receij t of this admirable Southern Monthly. It is filied with its usual variety of interesting matter. Published ia Richmond, Ya , at only $3 a year. m a Tobacco. —An excellent article of chewing tobacco i cu be hid at the store of P. MoLareu & Duck. State Agricultural Fair. We learn from the Atlanta Intelligencer of the lOtli inst., that the Executive Committee of the Southern Central Agricultural Society met in Augusta on the 6th inst., and decided to hold the next State Fair at Atlanta ; and that in future all the Fairs of the Society will be held in that city. We regret that one Fair could not be held in Columbus before this policy was agreed upon : but it is our fault that this privilege was not extend ed to us. The following suggestions from the Intelli gencer are sound and opportune and meet with our hearty concurrence: First of all we think that the large amount of tolls and receipts are so disbursed as to amount to very little. A bronze medal or a diploma costing a tithe of what even the trumpery cups and pitchers now distributed cost, would be as honorable, indeed, far more honorable dis tinction than the plate now almost uselessly thrown away in a little piece here and there, This thing ought to be reformed forthwith. Again, we have for years sought and in vain, to enlist the favoring countenance and pro tection of the State in behalf of agriculture in Georgia. We want a geologist, or at least, one who can analyze our soil-*, and we stand about as much chance of an appropri ation, as things now stand, for this object as we would do if we asked State aid to secure a chunk of the green cheese of which we believe the moon is made. Let the State Agricultural Society have done with tills baby house show of egg shell cups and spend the money, or at least $3,000 of it in keeping a first rate man here at his post making analysis of soils —testing agricultural implements, seed, stock, mode of cultivation and a thousand and one new suggestions that are offering all over this great country, and we will engage that the effects of this plan will extort the co-operation of the State in less than no time. We want large means to do all this—a new and far more general organization of county societies, but, yet, these will all come in due time if the parent society is only effectively managed. This is a large field to occupy and we may return to it again. Municipal Elections in New York. The municipal elections in the various cities and towns In the State of New York, came off on the 6th inst. They are important as showing the strength of the Know Nothings in the Empire State. The following is a brief summary of the result in the larger towns. Auburn, —Know Nothings elected by 200 majority. Oswego,—Know Nothings defeated by the deserter Littlejohn, by 500 majority, though they spent, it is said, S3OOO. Utica, —Whig Mayor elected by 400 majority. Al dermen divided between Whigs and Democrats. Troy,—A Democrat aud Anti-Know Nothing elected by 200 majority. Rochester, —Know Nothing elected by 100 majority. Syracuse,—Democrats and Fusionists elected by 400 majority. Elections in other States. Detroit, Mich., —Democrats elected by about 600 ma jority. Massachusetts. —The Know Nothings have main tained their ascendency. They carried 40 out of 50 towns heard from. Maine. —The town elections have resulted in favor of the Know Nothings as far as heard from. New Port, Ivy.—The Know Nothings defeated. Handsome Testimonial. The presentation of a service of plate, says the Na tional Intelligencer , on Tuesday evening, by the May or, Aldermen, and Common Council of this city to Senator Dawson, of Georgia, is said to have been a very agreeable affair. The present consisted of a splendid silver pitcher, two goblets, and a solid silver salver, handsomely finished at the establishment of the Messrs. Galt. The testimonial was made as a small token of the gratitude felt towards the honorable Senator for his attention to the affairs of the District of Columbia, and as an evidence of their appreciation of his gentlemanly and courteous bearing in all his intercourse with our citizens. The sentiment of regret at his leaving the councils of the nation is universal. Mr. Dawson re ceived the company with great cordiality, and acknowl edged the testimonial in neat and appropriate terms, pleading that he had merely done his duty, and that he was but the organ of the Committee of the District of Columbia Fancy Paintings. The lovers of the fine arts will find a very superior collection of paintings, by our townsman, Mr. Antrobus, on exhibition at the Music Store of Messrs. Truax & Vanden Burg. They will be disposed of by lottery, and a c-hance is thus offered to secure a splendid paint ing at very small eost. Consult the advertisement of Messrs. Ayer & Wilkins for particulars. The “Hebrew Children in Captivity,” is, it strikes us, a painting of very great excellence. Others of better taste, perhaps, award great merit to the “Boat Scene,” while others still prefer the “lee Scene.” All are admirable. Go round and examine for yourself. Rain. —A heavy shower of rain, accompanied with hail, thunder and lightening, fell iu this city on Mon day night, 12th inst. It lasted only au hour. Next day, the sun came out as bright as ever and there was no trace of the 6torm except that the streets were wet. Rev. Mr. McMahon, of the Catholio Church, preach ed in this city on Sunday 11th inst., to a large and at tractive audienoe. He is from Ireland and is engaged in raising funds to complete a church in honor of St. Patrick, at Armah, Ireland. A Portrait. Commend us to the Boston Post for a living likeness of a political opponent ‘ The Know Nothing candidate for governor in New Hampshire is thus sketched and framed in the columns of the Post : “Ralph Metcalf was so much opposed to secret societies that he was an anti- Mason iu the crusade against that veuerable and respectable institution, Freemasonry. He is now the Know Nothing candidate for governor of New Hampshire. We appeal to the editor of the Albany Jour nal particularly, if there can beany lower depth of deg radation for the politician than that which this kuow noth ing anti-Nebraska, anti slavery, temperance candidate has dived into. One little month ago he was a lespeot ab!e democratic supporter of the compromises, the fugi tive law, aud the Nebraska act, and a staunch and prac tical opponent of Jaws against liquor and other sumptuary Jaws.” Falling into Line. Gradually, but very perceptibly, the Whigs of Geor gia are falling into the embrace of Know Xothingism. Every whig p iper in the Bta'e [so far as we have seen) with the excepti in of the Columbus Enquirer the Chron icle fc Sentinel and the Journal tt Messenger, has opt li ly t.udorstd the Know Nothings. llow long these pa* pers will resist the current, time alone can tell. Even Mr. Jenkins, as we are told by tho LaGringe Reporter, looks with favor on the principles, of the Know Nothings. The Whig party, or at least that portion of it which has ever been ready to sell its principles for a “mess of pot tage,” is already part and parcel of the dark lantern or der. The Democracy of Georgia, opposed as they ever have been to secret political conclaves, to intolerance and proscription for religious opinions, must burnish up their arms for the fight. Standing forth, in the sight of God and man, on the principles they have heretofore publicly maintained, they except the issue of their opponents, aud invite them to the ffedd.— Fed. Union. Painful Apprehension—Government Steamer supposed to be blown up. We learn from the Tampa Peninsular of the 3d inst., that the Government steamer “Texas Ranger” has been expected at that port for more than two weeks past, trans porting munitions of war for Fort Myers in Florida. Her non arrival has created much uneasiness and conjecture that she has met with a serious accident somewhere be tween Tampa and New Orleans. The painful aprehen s'on intrudes itself upon the minds of some, that her in flammable cargo of powder, &c., has ignited, and that the shock experienced on the 27th ult., and accredited to an earthquake was none other than the report of the explosion of the supposed ill fated steamer. The strange noise came from the channel entrance from the Gulf into Tampa Bay. Opening of the Suspension Bridge at Niagara. Niagara, March 8, 1855. The locomotive London, with a tender attached,crossed the suspension bridge at half-past three o’clock this P. M. She had on board John E. Robeling, W. O. Buchanan, with a number of other invited guests. The engine was driven bv William Harrison, superintendent ofthe machine shop. There is great rejoicing on both sides of the river. ■ p ijlw Socialism in Texas. The Austin State Gazette views with disfavor the prospect of having a socialist colony in Texas under the auspices of Victor Considerant. That paper has the fol lowing article on the subject : “We are always \ leased to have industrious immigrants come among us. Plenty of work can be found by me chanics and laborers, and there is room in all our towns for more enterprising merchants and business men. There is one class, however, that we are opposed to, and have no disposition to hold out to them inducements to settle among us. This class is of that Propagandist school which in France and iu parts of the* United States has and is seeking to sap the foundations of society. The so cialist desires to destroy individual rights in property, and if he is not a very intelligent and moral man —a rare thing—we may have in him a neighbor who will rob and plunder us whenever he can get the chance : for he holds it as a primary principle in his creed, that no individual has a right to accumulate proper for himself, and all above wdiatis necessary to sustain him belongs to the rest of society. Again, the socialist is an abolitionist every where. He would not be less opposed to slavery by liv ing in Texas than iu France or in Ohio. It is part of his creed. Now we are told that John Allen, of Ohio, and Mons. Victor Considerant, propose bringing out from France to western Texas a oolony of socialists. This move for the purpose of building up a sect opposed to our political institutions may well be regarded with jealousy, and the founders may rely upon it that they will not be suffered to tamper with our institutions. The whole prin ciple of colonization, where men of a peculiar caste in religion or politics seek to array themselves together in particular sections of the country, both as landholders and tactionists, is at war with all the elements of society, and cannot be carried on without creating bitter and un relenting prejudices and aniinosties among our native cit izens. We note this advent of socialism in Tex is as fore boding us no good ; and we wish them to hive a fair understanding before they reach our soil that as a f opti cal sect our whole people are against them.” M Cotton Burned —Collision on the Central Railroad. We learn from Mr. Wells, the Superintendent of the Muscogee Railroad, that three cars loaded with cotton, at some point on the Central Railroad, were destroyed by fire on Saturday night last. Jn consequence of this ac cident, the upward train was thrown out of time, and un' 1 fortunately came in collision with the down train, doing considerable damage to the ears—but, so far as known, injuring no person upon either train. The delay caused by the collision was considerable, leaving only 3£ hours’ time between Macon and this place. The trip was, how ever, made without accident —although a speed of forty miles an hour was requisite for a portion of the distance. — Col. Enquirer 13 th. <m The Philadelphia Slave Abduction Case. Philadelphia, March 7, 1855. Police officer Johnson has returned from Harrisburg, with a warrant from Governor Pollock to remove R. Warwick, charged with the abduction of a female slave from New Orleans. Mayor Conrad, however, has determined not to permit Johnson to go to New Orleans with the prisoner, who will be retained here until the arrival of an officer from that city. Fire in the Woods. Columbia, S. C., Mar. 10. There are tremenduous fires in the woods all around us. Near Lexington, Houses, Mills, Fences and a vast amount of property has been destroyed. At the last accounts, the town of Lexington was threatened with destruction. On the Charlotte Railroad the woods for many miles are on tire, and many Saw Mills and Dwellings burned. The track of the Road is on fire, interrupting travel on the Cam .den Branch Railroad. A number of Houses and many telegraphic poies have been burned, thus interrupting com munication with the North. On the South Carolina road, the woods on both sides of the track are on tire. A car load of cotton was burned near Gadsden. It was found, yesterday, that the track would take tire. The woods are also burning on the Green ville road. The tremendous gale, yesterday, rendered use less all the efforts made to stay the flames. Banking Laws of Indiana. Cincinnati, March 6, 1855. The Indiana Legislature has passed the State Bank bill and the Free Bank, bill over the Governor’s veto, and they are now laws. Democratic Mass Meeting in New York. New York, March 7. The Union mass meeting in Tammany Hall to night was very largely attended. Senator Douglas, oflilinois, was absent, in consequence of illness. Resolutions w T ere adopted taking strong and open ground in favor of the ac quisition of Cuba, and putting it forward as an article of democratic faith. They also denounced the Know Noth ings, and when Senator Stuart said that no good democrat could belong to the Know Nothings, there were a number of hisses. Railroads in Egypt. —The railway between Alexan dria and Cairo, a distance of 130 miles, is now complete, with the exception of the three bridges on the two branch” es of the Nile aud the Delta Canal. The communication between the two towns may be kept up by the line of railroad by crossing the river in boats, but it will not be available for traffic and passengers until after the bridges are completed—five or six months hence. The most im portant bridge is the tubular one which crosses the Dami etta branch of the Niie at Beuha, and which is well ad vanced towards completion. South Carolina Railroad. —The cars due yesterday after noon at 4 o’clock, says the Constitutionalists Republic of the 11th inst., did not arrive until half past 9. The delay was caused by the burning of the track in two places.— When the cars arrived within thirteen miles of Aiken, the woods were on fire, and a portion of the road destroyed. Alter sueceeding in passing this point, and when within’tive miles of Aiken, they found the road again destroyed bv fire. At one time the cars were surrounded by fire, and the pas sengers suffered much liom the smoke. The fire in the woods was still raging when the cars left. The amount of damage done, we did not learn. Georgia and Florida Boundary —We notice in ‘the proceedings of the Supreme Cuort at Washington, in the ease of the State of Florida vs htate of Georgia, on the j motion of the Attorney General to inteivene on behalf of ! the United States, Chief Justice Taney delivered the opin- | ion, granting leave to the Attorney General to adduce evi- : (fence, either writen or otherwise, to examine witnesses, ! &c., to establish the boundary clamed by the United States. —Charleston Mercury, 10 th inst. Anew Colonising Scheme. —Major Jamrs McMahon is engaged in Alabama in an attempt to form a co'ony to s tt eon the eastern side of ihe Gu!t of Cal t< rnia, at a point known as Ad er bay, thir y ni-les touih of the Gads* ; den treaty boundary. Death of an old Army Officer. —Samuel Devins Har ris, formerly lieutenant-colonel of dragoons in the United States army, and who served ae a volunteer captain under Gen. Scott at the battle of Chippewa, died in Bos on on the 22d ult. The Catholic Vote in 1862—Letter from Gen. Scott. The New Hampshire Patriot publishes the following letter, written to some New Hampshire people:— New York, March 1. Gentlemen —l have just received, through the Hon. Mr. Hibbard, M. C., at Washington, your joint letter dated the 24th ult., in which you say to mo that, in some recent political address delivered in your neighborhood, and in your presence, the speaker declared substantially that in the last Presidental canvass— •‘Bishop Hughes, of New York, proposed to Gen. Scott to sell the Catholic vote, who hesitated to reply ; when the proposition was made to Gen. Pierce, and ac cepted, and a Jesuit was placed at the head of the Post Office Department. “That Bishop Hughes’ demands were assented to by the party to whom he first proposed, except that he de manded a Cabinet officer, upon which you hesitated, and the proposition was made to Gen. Pierce, and he assent ed.” And your letter to me is thus concluded : “Believing the statement to be false and basely calum nious of the fair fame of yourself and the other distin guished gentlemen implicated thereby, we would respret ully request of you to imform us, at your earliest conven ience, whether the statement of Mr.——, far as relates to you, is true.” I hastin to say that the statement or statements I have quoted from your letter, as above, are, in respect to my self, absolutely false, ar.d I have no doubt they are equally so in respect to my political friends and opponents in the canvass alluded to., I remain, geuthmen, with .great respect, your obedient servant, WINFIELD SCOTT. Gen. Cass at home. Detroit, March 8, 1855. Gen. Cas3 arrived here from Washington last night, and was received with a salute of thirty-two guns. The Pennsylvania Senatorial Question. Harrisburg, March 8, 1855. A series of resolutions was offered in the State Senate to-day to annuel the vote of adjournment of the conven tion of both houses till October, and fix ; ng the adjourn ment to the 20th of March. The resolutions were refer red to the Committee on the Judiciary. New Jersey Legislature—Report of the Bribery Com mittee—Bank Charters Refused—The Appointments. Trenton, March 8, 1855. The bribery committee have reported that one thousand dollars was offered to Mr. Decker, to influence his vote upon the bank question, bu t refuse t j disclose names. The report was ordered to be printed. Four special Joank bills have been killed, lacking four votes —Mount Holly, Camden and Cumberiind. The two first were reconsidered. There is rather apc or show for special charters. The House is ready to go into joint meeting, and the nominations are all made, but the Senate refused to go in. The disappointment among the candidates is very great. Know Nothing Rejoiceings in Chicago. Chicago, March 7, 1855. The Know Nothing majority for Mayor in this city is 344. This morning the order formed a long procession, and, headed by a band of German musicians, inarched through the streets, shouting in triumph. No disturbance of the peace took place. Municipal Election. Milwaukie, March 8, 1855. At the charter election to-day, the whole democratic ticket was elected. J. B. Cross is Mayor by about 1,400 majority. Great Excitement among Indiana Politicians. Cincinnati, March 8, 1855. Considerable excitement has prevailed among politicians at Indianapolis since the adjournment of the Legislature. The Governor yesterday appointed several State officers, but the Secretary of State refused to administer the oath of office, consequently the places remain vacant. Riot on the N. E Railroad. —We understand that on Wednesday last a number of laborers on the Northeastern Railroad struck for higher wages, and not satisfied with this, compelled a large number of others to cease work also. A warrant was issued for the arrest of the offenders, and the Sheriff, accompanied by the President of the Road, proceeded on Thursday to the scene of the disturbance, 18 miles from the city, for the purpose of executing it, but were resisted by the rioters, with threats of violence if any- attempt was made to take them. The Sheriff then returned to the city, and summoned a posse, among whom were three oi our military companies, but from some cause or other, after promptly assembling, their services were not put in requisi tion, and they were dismissed. We are informed that the contractors, Messrs. Nye, Wil liams & Cos., after waiting until 4 o’clock in the afternoon, in expectation of the arrival of the Sheriff and his posse, made terms with the rioters, by which they are to be paid off this morning, and discharged. —Charleston Mercury, 10 Destructive Fire —A fire started in the woods, about fifteen miles from the city, night before last, and spread with great rapidity along the line of the Railroad, till, at our latest information last evening, it had reached the Five Mile Pest. Th 9 fire was exceedingly violent and destrac tive, and has done great injury to the farms on its route. A train, loaded with Cotton taken in at Kingsville, caught fire yesterday from the current of burning flakes, and two cars, containing eighty bales, were burned. The remainder of the train came on to the Five Mile Post, when, finding it impossible to pass without extreme risk, they returned to the Seven Mile Post, and the engineer came to the city for orders. During a great part of yesterday, the city was com pletely shrouded in smoke. —Charleston Mercury , 10 th. Supreme Court. —We have frequently been asked of late whetiier Judge Starnes, w’hoseterm expires next winter, will be a candidate for re-election. We have for sometime known that it was not his inten tion to be a candidate ; but as the information was at the time confidential we did not feel at liberty to make it pub lic. We are now, however, authorized to say that Judge Starnes does not desire a re-election, and will not be a can didate. After his term expires he will resume his practice at the bar. His career, as a judge, has been honorable and distin • guished, and he will retire with a judicial reputation second to no man in the State who has occupied a seat on the bench.— Con. if Rep. 10/A. . Life in New York. —A correspondent writes : “A grand thieves’ ball was given at the hall, corner of Henry and Ooliver streets, on Thursday evening. The principal parties on the fl *or, together with the manager and committee, men, the police say, were composed of protessiona! gamblers, pickpockets, and abandoned women, with a fair sprinkling of jail birds of the most case-harden ed description. The police entered the hall just as the first quadrille was commencing, and took nine of the par ties prisoners. The others scattered sans ceremonie. The next morning the persons arrested were all sent up to the penitentiary as vagrants.” COMMERCIAL. COTTON STATEMENTS. 1* ■ o 3 i o.; ®oi < !g* x <HT .-S’*-3 on < 3' 2. r- < 3 £ hand - this | M iSi 4 ’j 43 561 61005 61G09 2129 48427 50556 11005 I ~ 1855. *’,2771 1167 54169 58107 3583 39073 42656 15151 Columbus, March 13. COTTON—The demaud continues good and the prices of tur'last report are fuliy maintamed. We continue to quote 6 a 8 cents. New Orleans, March 9. COTTON—There has been a limited demand for Cotton to-day, at previous rates, and the sales have com prised 2500 bales. The sales during the week have reached 28,000 halts. The receipts at this port are 40 •. 000 bales less than they were at th same time ast year. The stock of Cotton on hand, including that on shipboard, amounts to 110,000 bales, of which only 40,000 bales are on sale. For the Times & Sentinel. THE MODEL HUSBAND. [BY MRS. C. A. L. O,Mr. Blane, where have you been? My heart is nearly breaking— To come to bed at four o’clock, When you should just be waking. Come, hush my dear, aud you shall hear, Why I so long have tarried,— The first night I have spent from home Since dearest we were married. Yes, Mr. Blane, some good excuse I know you will be making; To smooth the matter o’er with me, Some pains you will be taking. Stop, love, a moment, let me tell The reason why I tarried, I met a friend I knew before My pie and mo were married. You’ve made a blunder, Mr. Blane, To night, that is quite shocking, For out the pocket of your coat, There hangs a snow-white stocking. Deuce take the thing, how came it there? My friend has sure been joking; 1 wish that he would not on me Such funny things be poking. He thought a laugh he’d get on me, The merry, wicked fellow, He’s full of just such pranks when’er The wine cup makes him mellow. Ah! Mr. Blane, you think that yap Sand in my eyes are throwing, But when you left I saw the way Sweet Mr. Blane was going. I saw you stop at Ida Bell’s; Perchance, ’twas there you tarried, Was she the friend you knew before Your pie and you were married ? Well, if I did a moment stop, Must 1 with her be flouted: I merely called , and Mrs. Blane, My word must not be doubted. By zounds! such chat, I’ll tell you now, Has far enough been carried; I’ve heard enough to make me curse The day that 1 was married. To quit a habit long indulged, No jealous wife can make me, I’ll spend an evening with my friends, When’er such notion takes me. I’ve acted verdant, Mr. Blane, Your pardon don’t refuse me, I’ve been a wife but six short months, I hope that will excuse me. I’ll con the lesson which is learned, By many a married woman, That roving husbands now-a-days, Are things that’s most uncommon. My sweet, when you that theory learn, To practice have it carried, And then my smiles will always bless The angel I marriied. Washington Irving has nearly completed a life of Gen. Washington, upon which he has been long engaged. Open American Organization. —The Know Noth ing paper in Bosion has come out in favor of an open or g inizution of its party, and declares its belief that for the safety and perpetuation of the American party such a course is an actual necessity. Green Peas, one of the most delightful luxuries of the early spring, have made their appearance at Tampa, FTa. Married, In Clayton, Ala., on the morning of the 4th inst., by the Rev. G. It. Talley, Air. R. T. Ransom of Eufaula, and Miss Mary A. Henly of Columbus Ga. At Waveland, Va., on the Ist instant, by the Rev. C. H. Shield. Col. Wm, B. Gaulden, of Liberty county, Ga., and Miss Laura G., only daughter of lion. Bedford Brown, for many years a distinguished member of the United States Senate, from North Carolina. OBITUARY. In Griffin, Geo., on the 2d inst., at the residence of her mother, Laura Bethune, daughter of Mrs. Janette Bethune, in the 14th year of her age. In Glennville, Barbour county, Ala., on Sunday, the 26th ultimo, after a short illness, Dr. James T. Bay, for many years a resident of Washington (a., leaving a dis consolate wife and two sons to lament their irreparable loss. BY AUTHORITY. LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. [Public No. 49.] AN ACT to provide for the payment of such creditors of the Idle republic of Texas as are compiehended in the act of Congress of September nine, eighteen hundred and fifty. \ Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of Me United States of America in Congress as sembled, That in lieu of the sum of five millions of dol lars, the State of Texas in five per cent, stock of the United Stages, by the act entitled “An act proposing to the State of Tfc;as the establishment of her northern and western bounderjes, the relinquishment by the said State of ail terijfory claimed by her exterior to said boundaries, and of all jfer clairqS'upon the United States, and to establish a territmial lor New’ Mexico,” passed Septem ber Mnth,ifghteen\hundred and fifty, the issuing of which stoc* the first proviso, to the fifth propo sitioV'ffontained in the first section of said act, the Secreta ry of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and di rected to pay to the dwdi tors ol the fate republic of Texas, who hold such bonds, or <>ther evidences of debt for which the revenues of that republic were pledged, as were reported to be within the provisions of the said act qf Sep'ember 9th eighteen hundred and fifty, by the report of the late Secre tary of the Treasury, to the President of the United States, and approved by him on tire thirteenth fay of September, eighteen hundred and fiity4pne, or wiiifch came within the provisions of said act, according to the qpmion upon the Tex as compact of the present Attorney General of the United States, addressed to the Secretary ot’ the Treasury, under date of September twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fit ty-three, the sum of seven rnilljouf seven hundred and fifty tliousa id dollars, to be apportioned among the said holders prorata: Provided, That the idlest on th 1 debt embraced in this act, shall be determined tifr the existing laws of the State of Texas. Sec. 2. And be \it further Jeweled, That in all cases , where the State ot Texas ma/hafe paid any portion of the | debt de?c;ibed in this act, th;y said: Secretary shall refund j to the proper officer of said JState the amount actually so I paid by the State upon the presentation at the Treasury Be ; part men t of the evidence est said debt, on which the said j State may have made suoh payment; Provided, The said j sum shall not exceed tjjfc proportioji which would have I been allowed to the creditor or creditors, i! such payment ■ on said evidences had not beet\ made by the State j of Texas; and sum thaiunay he refunded to the state oi Texas by the provisions section is less I than the proportioni/vhich would have been allowed under | this act to the hciifrs of such evidence-ssef debt, had such I payment not them such hold® - ? shall he entitled \ to receive the difference between said sum and tiie propor tion they woulTmaVe received under this ect if no payment had been and where Jany original crititicates or other evidences of debt have !t en stolendeied to the State of Tcjms, and new certificates issued therefor by said Slate of Texas, such new certificates snail be teceived as evidences <Jt the original amount of the ciaim. Src 3 .JAnd be it further enacted, That no payment shall be made under this act to any hoiderypf raid securi ties, or evidences ot debt, unless the said bolder shall first executar’to the United States a receipt for the said payment, in w hich said holder shall forever itlease all claim against the United Slates for or on account of the said securities o T