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QLxmts anb Smtiral. ~ COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 6, 1855. The l laims of the United Slates against Spam— Spanish Version. In Ostknd Conference, etc, the Spanish Minister ol State, A. Calderon de la Barca, under dale ‘of May 2Gth, 1854, makes an abstract of all the claims, then pending between the United States and Spain. As the facts therein set forth were not denied by the American Minister, we presume they are in the main the exacl truth. The following is a very brief notice of them : Nlst. The Barque Zulette. Claim. On the 24th Member, 1853, the barque was fired into from the fort of Tarifa. Excuse—The barque refused to hois’ signal lights. 21. Heirs of Ilarang. Claim. The intendent o Poito. Rico had exacted $10,978 export duty on th< exportation of the inheritance of his father contrary t< the treaty of 1795. Excuse— llaraDg had become t naturalized Spaniard. 3d. 3he ‘Barque Godefroy. Claim. Confiscating 1188 empty bags and fining the Captain S3OO. Excuse Said bags were nut included in the ship’s manifest. ’ 4th. Imprisonment of Mr. West. Arrest aud impris. onment of Messrs. West and others, and seizure of hi property and papers on the Island of Cuba in .January 1854. Excuse—The Brig FEolian, consigned to Mt M est, contained 20 barrels of gunpowder. One of tin prisoners was confined only four months and was re leased on bail, without having suffered the least deterio ration of health. Another was confined only four days Mr. West was only prohibited from leaving town ; hit papers were seized and examined, but all had been re turned to him except some which had reference to tin cargo of the vessel. sth. Shipwreck of the North Carolina. Claim.— Harsh treatment of crew of the wrecked vessel at th< port of Mayaquez in 1850. Excuse—The . Captain c the port had been dismissed. The question of com pensation of the crew for losses and damages was pend ing, but as the minutes of the proceedings had beei sent to Havana to he decided upon by the highes Court in the Island and had not been returned, no ac tiun had been taken by the Snpreme Government. 6th. Persons taken at Contoy by the steamer Pizam Claim. The steamer Pizarro seized, at Contay, tw United States vessels, the barque Georgiana and th baig Susanna and took them and their erews to llavatu Excuse—The vessels were believed to be attacked t the Lopez expedition and the crews were regarded a pirates. Full reparation was made by the acquittal t some of the prisiouers and the pardon of others. Spai is willing to refer the questions of law involved to th decision of an umpire. 7th, The Crescent City. Claim. The Cuban au thorities prevented the supercargo of the Crescen City, Mr. Smith, from landing at Havana. Excuse Mr. Smith was believed to be the author of certai calumnious articles published in the newspapers of th United States against the authorities of the Island. O oath being made by Mr. Smith that he was not the au tlior of said articles, the Captain General allowed th Crescent City to enter the port and Mr. S. to go o shore. Bth. The schooner Manchester. Claim. The schoo necr Manchester was, on the 14th June, 1853, while ii distress oft’Cape San Antonio, was subjected to an exami nation by a Spanish cruser. Excuse—The cruiser hai sent hands on board the schooner to gve assistance and in consequences of suspicions, justified by the pecu liar condition of Cuba, caused a part of the cargo to b taken out, but not discovering any thing to justif; their suspicions, they left the vessel at liberty to pursu< her voyage and indeed rendered her valuable assistance No insult was offered to the American flag as the pow or of search in Spanish waters is a clear right of Spanisl vessels of war. 9th. Firing with ball at the Black Warrior, Claim A Spanish cruishor fired with ball upon the Uni tec States mail steamer Black Warrior while pursuing hei voyage from New York to Cuba. Excuse—lt is th< undoubted right of Spanish war vessels cruising in theii own waters to compel other vessels to show theii colors when called on to that effect. The authorities of Cuba were enjoined to require cruisers to exercise greater prudence in future in the discharge their official duties. * ♦ 10th. Non equalization of port and navigation duties for Spanish and American vessels in the ports of Spain and of the United States. Excuse—The question is pending before the Colonial department. 11th. Reclamations in consequence of the revocation, by the Captain General, of the order for the admission of grains and timber into the Island free of duty. Ex cuse—The order was made subject to the approval of her majesty ; but the Government is ready to provide equi table means for attending to this class of claims. From this resume it is very clear that there is no pending difficulty between the two Governments, leaving out of view the policy of Spain in respect to the Island of Cuba, that is not capable of easy adjust ment, except the right over and again asserted and prac ticed of detaining and searching American vessels in Spanish waters. This claim is intolerable. Avery large part of the commerce of the United States is compelled to seek the Atlantic by passing along the cost of Cuba and if this ‘claim of detention and search is allowed, our mercantile marine will be subject to continual detention; annoyance, and injury. The recent outrages upon the ElDorado and the Daniel Webster originated in this claim. Tile United States cannot submit to it, neither can we refer the principles involved to au umpire. The ease is a peculiar one and it would be impossible to obtain an impartial decision. The commerce of no other nation is exposed to like inconvenience. We, therefore, highly approve of the determination of President Pierce to bting our long pending controversies with Spain to au issue upon the principle involved in this claim, by ordering our steamers to disregard the summons of the Spanish cruisers and to repel force with force. When the ball is once opened, the heart of the nation will respond to the battle cry, and the country be saved from the disgrace of longer submission to the insults of a weak but insolent foe. Theatre To-night, Miss Elizx Logan appears to-night cs Margaret El more, in the great play of Love's Sacrifice, and as Sophia , in the Rendezvous , when she will introduce the song of the “Nice Young Man.” As it is her benefit night, it is hoped that her numerous friends will see to it that the llall is jammed. She will be sustained by tbe strength of company. Mr. Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer, Mss Dickens, Mr. Morton, Mr. Chippendale and the eharmiug Miss .4define w ill ail be on hand to , Jo their best to contribute to the amusement of the pub -Ic. Let us give them a merry farewell. Public Opinion at the North-Prospects of the South, In all the elections that have taken place in the i Northern States during the past season, the question of ! African Slavery has entered as a controlling element. No i party took very high ground in favor of the institution. ; The only issue that any party dared to make was that j the people of the States and Territories had the right j to the exclusive management of the domestio relations j of the inhabitants. In no single instance, however, was tbe party successful that stood upon this platform, j So far as this argument is concerned, it is not important j to say which party it was that made this issue with J our enemits, nor what claims it had to public confi- ! dence. The startling fact to which we desire to call I particular attention is that in every instance the party j that made it was crushed by popular majorities unequal ed in the previous history of political warfare—that i even in their Gibralters and Sevastopol they were una- | ble to make any resistance, but fell before their oppo j oents like ripe corn in the path of the hurricane. Ibis ; untoward result took place in no one locality—it was ino less uniform than it was universal. In the hills and ; valleys of New Hampshire, in the prairies of lowa, in the thronged cities of Massachusetts and New York, and in the rural hamlets of Pennsylvania and Ohio i. almost unanimous voice of the people has rendered a verdict against the South and her institutions. Those persons who represent that the virus of aboli tion fanaticism is confined to particular classes in certain localities are, therefore, most grossly decieved. The plague has inflicted the whole body of Northern society. If the South were disconnected with the North, we might view with indifference the ravings of its fanati cism. Connected in the close bonds of Federal'union, errors of opinion at the North are almost as fatal to our peace and prosperity as eirors of opinion at home.— Our laws ate based upon opinion, aud the controlling section giver the law to the rest of the Union. Now we take it that if a general election were to take place to-tnorrevy, that the majority in the electoral college, the majority of United States Senators and the majority | of Representatives in Congress would be in favor of re i striding slavery. We are protected from this calamity i by those provisions of the constitution which fix the | terms of office to six, four and two years. Very soon, i however, these offices will bo vacated aud must be filled i by men repiesenting the popular .feeling. If we are right in the opinion that the controling section of the ! Union is hostile to Southern Rights, then it cannot be ; long before the power and patronage of the Federal • Government will be wielded by our enemies. The threatened danger is imminent—the day of battle draw j eth nigh—it is even at the gate. In view of these appalling realities, what is the South j doing to meet the emergency ? Nothing, worse than 1 nothing. A large body of our most intelligent and ac j tive fellow pitizens are busily engaged in forming secret i societies to guard the Republic against the influence of foreign born and Catholic fellow citizens •, another large j body are denouncing tbe Democratic party and hs pa | triotic President, whose chief sin, in the eyes of our j enemies, is his too great friendship for the South ; and : the balance of us—what are we doing to guard our I hearthstones from the untold evils which will flow upon us in the event the abolitionists get control of the Fede ral Government ? Here and there, it is true, a faith ful watchman sounds a note of alarm, but he is scarcely more heeded than he who, in days of old, walked daily upon the walls of the city and cried, “woe, woe is Jerusalem.” Until this fatal lethargy is removed and the Southern people look their danger in the face, there is no hope for the South. She is sleeping in the lap of Delilah while her enemies are clipping tbe locks of her strength. God only knows what her recourse will be when she hears the appalling cry, “the Philistines be j tlpon the Samson.” Hook Notices. The Slave of the Lamp, by William North : 11. Long, No. 121 Nassau street, New York. , The sad story of the author of this work naturally excites a lively interest in its pages 5 but it does not j need to be known that the last line of MSS was stained | with the bloed of the unfortunate writer—drawn by his own hand—to attract the reader. The story itself is a good one, in its way ; but we question the moral in fluence the book and its history will have upon the public, whose morbid curiosity it will excite and feed. Aside from this, however, the characters are well drawn, and the story presents the attractive feature of an auto-biography, and will of course gratify the taste for such works, so fast developing itself in the American mind. Atlanta Examiner. May Middleton or the History of a Fortune, by G. W. Reynolds, author of the “Mysteries of Lon don,” &c. Those who admire the writings of Mr. Reynolds will be gratified with “May Middleton.’’ It is writ'.on in his usual impressive style, and abounds in pictures of all the deep passions he usually weaves into his stories—a feature which recommends his books to a class of readers partial to blood and thunder tales. But the present novel is less objectionable, to others, perhaps, than most of Mr. R’s productions, and can be read with interest by those who are not over nice upon the score of moral influence.— lb. For sale by J. W. Pease, Broad street, Columbus, Georgia. The Soil of the South. —The April number of ; this valuable agricultural and horticultural journal has | been received. Edited by practical Agriculturists and Horticulturists, the Soil is peculiarly adopted to the | wants of the South. Published by Lomax & Ellis, Columbus, Ga., for $1 per annum, invariable in advance. The Atlanta Examiner. —Dr. H. A. Ramsay, who has conducted this paper with so much spirit sinoe its I tirst issue, has retired from the editorial chair. He has | our best wishes for his happiness and succes in the quieter walk he has chosen. The Forth District. —The Cherokee Advocate sug gests that Hon. Hiram Warner is the most suitable man in the district to r?present it in Congress. Funeral of Bishop Capers. —We have been re | quested to announce that the Rev. Dr. L. Pierce will preach the funeral of the late Bishop Capers, in the j Methodist Church in this city, at 11 o'clock A. M. f on the 4th Sunday in this month. Fire. —On the morning of the 4th iu&t., the new and ; residence of the Misses Torrance, in the neighborhood of Columbus, took fire and was totally consumed, together with the furniture, bedding, books v.id clothing of the family. Insurance S2SO{L linpi isonincnt o f Women Illegal. —The Supreme, j Court of New York has decided that the sending of I women to the Penitentiary, as was doue under the re<eut order of rhe Mayor of that city, was illegal, and that they were o! course entitled to their liberty. They will, therefore, be discharged. Election Riot in'Cincinnati—Ten or Twelve Persons Killed. New York, April 4th. At the Municipal election at Cincinnati yesterday, there was great excitement, and a bloody riot occurred between the Amerioans and Germans. Cannons were used and ten or twele persons killed. In the 11th Ward the ballot box was destroyed. A fraud was dis covered in another ward. The election was close be tween Taylor the American candidate, and Faran, the Democratic candidate. Massachusetts Election. —Knaw Nothings have been elected to take the Census of Massachusetts, by a large majority. Ohio Election. —The Know Nothings have elected their candidate for Mayor at Cleveland, Ohio, beating Ex-Governor Wood, the Dtmocratic candidate, by 500 votes. Connecticut Election. — Baltimore, April 2—Re : turns from Connecticut show that the Whigs and j Know Nothings have elected all four of their Congress men, and twenty out of twenty-one State Senators, to i gether with a large majority of the Assembly. There jis no choice for Governor by the people. The vote I stands as follows : Ingham, Democrat, 27,000 ; Minor, Know Nothing, 25,000, and Duton, Whig, 5,00#. Great Fire at Memphis—Estimated Loss $100,000., We learn says the N. O. Picayune, from an extra is sued from the Memphis Whig office, that Memphis, on Sunday morning last, 25th ult., was visited by one ol the largest and most disastrous tires that has occurred in that city for several years, reducing almost the entire block between Monroe street and the alley north of it to ashes, and involving a loss of property amounting to over SIOO,OOO. It appears that the Appeal newspaper office, two livery stables, and several stores were destroy ed, also that 43 horses were consumed. Among the sufferers were the proprietors of three newspaper establishments. Appeal office saved most of printing materials and their s’ook ; lost their Job office and saved their Mammoth Hoe’s press. Loss estimated at $5,000 ; insured for $4,000. German paper saved nearly everything, but somewhat damaged by removal. Christian Advocate, [Methodist,] lost their'entire office. Loss and insurance not known. The Whig says there is no doubt but the fire was the work of au incendiary. Columbia S. O. Municipal Election. Columbia, April 2. Columbia having become to-day a city by the new act of incorporation, it devolved upon her citizens to select a Mayor and six Aldermen to take charge of hex affairs. — The following is the vote for the Mayoraiity : E. J. Arthur 342 Wm. May bin 211 T. H. Wade ill Mr. Arthur is claimed as the Know Nothing candidate, and Col Maybin as the Anti-Know Nothieg representa tive. The six Aldermen who were elected are also claimed to have been on the Know Nothing ticket. Further Examination of Gapt. Burch. Henry C. Burch, master of the schooner Susan Can non, whose arrest was noticed yesterday, on the charge of murder, in causing the death of James Baker , a cobred seaman, on the voyage to this port and back to Baltimore, was brought out before John ilanan, Esq , U. S. Corn-- missiouer, in Baltimore, on Friday morning, for a further examination into the alleged facts, and at the close of the examination Capt. Burch was committed in default of $3,- OOtJ bail to appear and answer the charge of manslaughter at the April term of the U. S. Circuit Court, which com menced yesterday. Capt. Burch belongs to Baltimore, as also dai Baker , the deceased man.— Sav. News. Messrs. Toombs and Stephens. The Macon Telegraph announces that both these gen tlemen are “open and avowed” in heir to Know Nothingism. With their well known influence with the whigs and the almost united opposition ol the Democratic party, our contemporary says there is nothing to be feared in Georgia as regards Know Nothingism. Major Colquitt does not decline. The Columbus Times <te Sentinel states, from a con versation w hich the editor recently had with Maj. Colquitt upon the subject ol his candidacy for the next Congress, | that he is in the hands of his triends, and if they see j proper to rufi him for re-tlection, he will not feel at liberty ! to decline, unless providentially prevented from making 1 the race. This announcement will be haihd with much ! pleasure by the Democracy of his District, for so far as | we have heard an expression of opinion he is the choice i of the party, and will secure the unanimous vote ot the ! Convention when it shall assemble to nominate a caudi ! date.— Advocate of the South. General Jail Delivery. On Monday night, the 2nd inst., six of the prisoners confined in the Bibb county Jail, in this City, effected their escape. It appears that a negro man, named Bill, from Houston county, confined upon the charge of an assault with intent to kili, succeeded in freeing himself from his irons and his cell and opened the doors of the cells of the j other prisoners. then cut a hole through the wall of the second story of the building, and with the aid of their blankets, descended to the ground, j Besides the boy Bill, those who are at large, are : Philips, convicted of forgery and sentenced to the Peni • ! tentiary for seven years. Churchill, charged with gambling with negroes. Powers, charged with larceny. Bertine, convicted of murder, and sentenced to be hung. Cain, a negro, charged with burglary. There are only two prisoners remaining in the Jail, one from Taylor Cos., who arrived on Monday, having been sentenced on that day to the Penitentiary lor th ee year*, : arid one from this city committed a few days ago for some petty offence. — Jour. c$- Mess. 4th. eta Death of Mrs- Cass. Mi's. Cass, wife of lion. Lewis Cass. .Jr., Minister ree : w j dent at Rome, died in that city on the 3d of March. Failures at St. Louis. Boston, April 2,1855. | Private despatches received at Boston mention the fail ure of Messrs. Page tfc Bacon of St. Louis. It is stated that several drafts drawn by Page 6c Bacon on parties in I New York have been protested. Exlensive Forgery. A despatch from Washington City states that a eleik in the First Auditor's offiee is reported to have forged ti e name ol tlie Secretary of War to notes amounting toslo,- 000 or S2O 000. Dr- Bealle. Philadelphia, April 2. The Suprt me Court of Pennsylvania has granted a writ of error in the case of Dr. Bealle, the dentist. Marine Disaster. Savannah, April 2. The brig Benicia , from Dir’en for Boston, has been abandoned at sea. The captain and crew have arrived at this port. A Newspaper in the. Crimea. A printing press for the army in the Crimea lias been embarked on board the Fxpress steamer at Lvns. On it was to be seen this in* seription ; ‘"Amice d'Orient—frn primer ic Imp trialed' 1 Two of the be*t composite rs of the Imperial p inting es tablishment of Paris accompanied it. The Great Hatch Against Time. New Orleans, April 2. | The races at the Metairie Course commencul to-day j with Mr. Ten Broeek’s match, for $20,000, that his horse j Lexington would beat the lastest time at four miles ever run, which he did do in seven minutes eighteen seconds and a half , exhibiting at the close no signs of distress 1 The first mile was run in 1:471, the second in 1:£0£, the third in 1:52, and the fourth in 1:48|. Arrow and Joe Blackburn ran with him to animate him in the contest. * Election in Kansas. Independence, April ‘2. Returns from the Kansas e lection show that the pro slavery ticket has succeeded in eight counties giving the candidates from two to six hundred majority. It is be lieved that no anti-slavery member has been elected to the legislature. The editor of the ‘"Free State*’ newspaper was ducked in the river by a mob, in consequence ofeer ; tain offensive expressions in a speech which he made on the election. War Department. Board of Visitors to I Vest Point. —The President has appointed the following board of visitors to the Military Academy at West Point: Hon. Amo Wis well, of Maine. Hon. Isaac Davis, of Massachusetts. Rev. Coit, of Connecticut. Rev. Francis Vinton, D. D., of New York. Colonel H. Shubert, of Pennsylvania. A. B Hanson, esq., of Maryland. , Stephen li. •, esq ,of North Carolina. Hon. E. W . Ciiastain, of Georgia. Hon. Geo. S Houston, of Alabama. Judge J. M. Howry, of Mississippi. Professor James Jones, of Louisiana. Professor W. W. Mather, of Ohio. John C. McGeliee, esq., of Florida. Charles Negus, esq. of lowa. Colonel Hans Crocker, of Wisconsin. } N'TEFIORj DEPARTMENT. Applicants for Bounty Lands. —We learn from the chief clerk of this office, Mr. Cole, that there is not the slightest diminution in 4 the number of daily applications under the new bounty land act. Since Monday last six teen thousand six hundred additional applications have been made under the act of March 3, 1855. Choctaw Indians. —The Secretary of the Interior lias notified the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that the President has determined not to interfere with the decision in regard to an application by the Choctaws for a final adjustment of their difficulties with the government and with the Chickasaws, made by the Interior Department and taken by appeal to the President. The decision was, that under the treaty of Dancing Rabbit the Choctaws have no legal right to the redress claimed, and that if they have equitable grounds for relief they must apply to Con gress.—This decision the President has determined not to disturbed.— Union. Lord Mahon.. —The death of Earl Stanhope has car ried a well known and able author into the House of Peers. Lord Mahon, the historian of England under the House of Hanover, is, by his failier’s death, Earl Stan hope. Those who know lim best, say that the dignity he has succeeded to, will not lessen his love of letters, or his desire to appear once more as a faithful and able his torian. T. F. Meagher. —The election for Lieutenant Colonel of the 60th Regiment of the New York State Militia, re sulted in the choice of Thomas Francis Meagher, fcsq , but Mr. M. has declined the honor thus conferred, on the ground that he is not a citizen. Mr. Meagher is en gaged in the study of the law, and dielines uniting with any political or military associations. “1 Die an American.” —This exclamation, attributed to Poole, the pugilist, shortly before his death, was seized by the Know Nothings, emblazoned upon a banner at his funeral, and was near leading to a riot on St. Patrick’s day. It was taken for granted that Poole had been mur dered by ‘‘bloody furriners,” and that his blood was to be avenged as Texas was to be annexed, “at the earliest practicable period.” It now turns out that all the parties implicated in the murder of Poole—Maker, Hyler, Van Pelt, Paudeen, McLaughlin, Irvin, and Morrissey -are native born citizens of the United States. There is not a foreigner among them. What is to be done now? As they are all Americans, we presume they are entitled to a procession for the heroism they exhibited in murdering Poole without any foreign aid.— New York Evening Post. Manufacturing Cottages for Kansas. —ln Cincinnati they are manufacturing portable cottages for Kansas and Nebraska, in large number. They have generally two rooms. No nails are and they can be put up or taken down in a few hours. The scarcity of timber on the prai ries makes it an object for a settler to carry with him r.ot only his furniture, but his house. It is stated that a cottage of two rooms requires about 3,000 feet of timber. The Camanches. —The Austin State Gazette is informed that the United States expedition against the Southern Camanches has started from Fort Chadbourn It is head ed by Captain Patrick Calhoun, and consists of two com panies of the second dragoons and three companies of ran gers. The men are all well equipped, and in excellent con dition to meet the Indians. A train accompanied the ex pedition, numbering sixty three government wagons, laden with supplies. When lat seen bayond Phantom Hill, the j expedition was making fine progress, and had as yet ex- ; perienced no trouble. ~ i Slight Misunderstanding. —“ Have you Blasted Hopes?” ■ asked a lady ol a green librarian, whose face was much | swollen by the tooth ache. “No, ma’am,” replied the youth, “but I’ve got a blasted | tooth ache.” John Mitchell, the Irish exile, has been selected to de , liver the commencement address before the two Literary I Society of the Mississippi University at Oxford. The Baltimore Patriot says that it is proper to state j that W. M. Burwell, Esq.,'is not the editor of th v South ern Quarterly Review, his connection with that journal having commenced and terminated with the January number. Mexican Statistics. —The Mexican papers have re* i cently been publishing a census of that country. From it j we gather that there are in that country 85 cities, 193 ; towns or large villages, 4709 villages, 119 missions, Ax*., 170 haciendas, and 606:2 farms dvre. Population 7,853 - i 395. Convention of Christianized Jews. —A convention of Christianized Jews is to be held in New York city in May next. A correspondent of the Rochester Advertiser says that a prominent matter to be brought before the Convention, is the consideration of the return of the Jewish people to Palestine, and to take measures to co-operate with the Jews in England (who have already moved in the matter) and other parts of the Eastern world. F. A. Duval,Erq., has connected himself with the Alba ny, (Ga.) Courier. Col. Kinney. —This somewhat famous gentleman ha, ft is said, sold his line tauch at Corpus Christi, Texas, to a French company for $15'),009 —cudr down SIOO,OOO. Plans and Specifications. —'l he Justices of the Inferior Court of Washington county advertise forproposals of plans and specifications for builuing a fire proof Court House, at ‘ Sanders vilie. Pre pay your L-ttirs. —The new Postage Jaw, which takes effect on the first of April, provides that letter postage must be pre-paid. The public should bear this fact in tuind, as letters on which the postage is not paid will not be for warded. A destitution without a diffirsnee —The following a li re us to be the distiru lion between two admirals who have ! not achieved much di.-t notion of any other kind: Naper i was expected to do something, and didn’t do it ; Dundas I was expected lo do noth big, and did it. Women's Bights in Illinois. —The following resolution I was adopted by the Hou.e of Representatives ofthe Illinois | Legislature : Resolved, That a fine of SSO) be hereafter imposed on J any lady who shall lecture in public in anv part ol the State, I ithout first putting on gentlemau’s apparel. Men and*Women Now-a Days. Somebody is reporting for the Boston Journal certain speeches of “Father Langly,” who is a very sensible old cove. The following is hisopiuion of the present net el ation: b “Failed has lie ? [ wonder they don’t ail fail ? For wlnu with the extravagance and good-for-nothinrmess .4 men and women now-a-davs, wherels it to end ‘ Call themselves ‘Sons of the Pilgrims !’ do th,y ? I vviHi \ 0 marev their old grandfathers could see diem ‘ They were true grit-real hearts of oak-but these nopin java are nothing m the world but veneering If we go on at th s rate, the race Will run out in an other generation—we shan't have nothing leftbuta mix ture ot coxcomb and monkey 1 The women, too, are no better uis just even. They are brought up fi r Whin” under the sun, but to put in a buffet. When I was a boy, it wasn’t so—the spinning wheel stood in the cor ner. They were set to work as soon as they could walk —they had no nursery maids to run afar them—then mothers weren't ashamed to tend their own babies. They could sew on a patch and rock the cradle b.side. The gals were good for, something in those times : they could spin and weave yvooi and linens, linsey o \volsi-y, ud and blue, and wear it too afer it was done. They could eat bean porridge with a pewter spoon, arid they were enough sight happier and better suited than ilie gals are now with their silk, gowns, their French messes, and silver forks ; yawning and moping about ; sillv, pale face things, with nothing to do. Set them to work. Put them at it ear ly. Idleness is the divji’s foreman ; and no chain is so strong as the iron ot habit. Watts was nobody’s fool, I can tell you. lie knew what was what. Folks don’t stand stiff in this world ; they are always going one way or t’other, it they ain’t drawing the sled up luff, they’ll be sliding down, Adam was a farmer, and Eve hadn't uo “Irish gal*’ nor “nigger wench” to wait upon lur.— V\ hat do these popinjays say to that ? Ashamed of the old folks, I’ll warrant. Adam wasn’t nobody —they ; know it all. j But they can’t work, they’re so delicate, so weakly.— ; What has made them weakly ? Send off your chamber, maids, your cooks,your washerwomen, and set your own gals about it. It made smart women of their grand mothers, and if the old blood ain’t run out they’ll be good for something yet. It used to be the fashion to be honest : if a man grit in debt he trit and to pay it ; if he didn’t public opinion set a mark upon him ; but it isn’t so now ; lie tries not to pay ; lie’ll lie, cheat and steal, [for what better is it than stealing ?) and the one that cheats the fastest is the b. st fellow. It is astonishing how slippery these fellows are. The}’ drive fast teams without bit or curb ; buy all they can and pay for as little as they can ; pocket all they ear ry ; make a smash ; snap their fingers at their creditors ; go to California or to grass—nobody knows which—and begin again. Good gracious, if some of these fellows had lived forty years ago, they’d have clapped them in prison and shaved their heads. I Col A. K. McClung. —The despatch published a j day or two since, stating that Col. McClung, “the duel list,” had committed suicide at Jackson. Mis s., referred to Col. Alexander K. McClung, a well known citizen of Mississippi, who served gallantly in tlio Mexican war, as a volunteer under General Taylor. He was the lieute nant colonel of the Mississippi regiment. It is said that he was first to scale the walls of the Black Fort at Mon terey, and for his intrepidity in placing the stars and stripes on its captured walls, was marked and pie read by the enemy with wounds under w hich he suffered the most agonizing pains for several months. Dm ing Gen eral Taylor's administration he was appointed Charge d’Affaires to Bolivia, in South America. lie was enga ged in several duels many years ago, and was noted for demanding and granting the most extreme terms of the falsely styled ‘‘code of honor,” His first meeting was in 1833 or 1834, with a man l-y the name of Allen. Tlio weapons, pistols, were tq be fired at ten paces while nd J vaneing nearer to each other, and then the use of Ihe howie knife. Alien fell. The second meeting was five years afterwards, with young Manifee, at Vicksburg, the brother nf Richard H. Manifee, member of Congress J from Kentucky, in 1838—’39. The Weapon, the rifie ; both j parties were excellent shots, but Manifee foil at the second j fire. He was also concerned subsequently in other duels, j lie was a man of fine talents and of much influence in i Mississippi. ! The Washington Union announces that it received a des [ patch from Concord, New Hampshire, on Wednesday, j conveying the painful intelligence of the death of Mrs. Efi ! zaheth A. McNeil, widow of the late General .Tthn McNiel, | and sister of the President of the United States, aged sixty | eight years. j Mr. Owen, the United States Chargd’Affaires at Naples, ; has just concluded a treaty with the Neaopolitan Govern | meat for the mutual protection of all goods o:i board neu tral bottoms. Chattahoochee County Nominations. Messrs. Editors. —Allow us, through your p a per, to s iggest a suitable ticket to represent our county in the next State Legislature: For the Senate, T. F. YVOOLDKJDGR. For the House, HON. CHARLES KING. This ticket is made without any regard to the Politics of the day, but we think will faithfully represent the interests of our own new county in all matters touching those in terests, and we trust that these gentlemen will allow their names to go before the people, for they can receive tho support of MANY VOTEERS. . by Authority. LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. | AN ACT i;i acts granting bounty land to certain soldiers who have been engaged in the of the United States. Be it coopted by th° Senate and House of Beprcsenia tires if tire United States of America in Congress as j semblfed/ Th attach of the surviving commissioned and non officers, and privates, wheth j er of regulars,volunteers, rangers, or mihtia, who were regularly mustered into the service ofthe United Slates, and every officer, commissioned and non-commissioned* seaman, ordinary seaman, mari. c, flotilla-man, eleik, and landsman in the navy, in any of the wars in which this country has been engaged since seventeen hundred and ninety, and each of the survivors of the militia, or volun teers, or Btate troops of any .State or Territory, culled into i military service,and regularly mustered therein, and whose i services have beenpaid by the United States, shall he enti tled to receive is certificate or warrant from the Depait ment of the Interior for one hundred and sixty acres of land; and where aay of those who have been so musteiod into service and paid shall have received a certffieate or warrant, he shall b entitled to a certificate or warrant tor such quantity of larfd as will make, in the whole, with what he may have heretofore received, one hundred and sixty acres to each jfich person having served as aforesaid : Provided, The persqn so having been in serViee shall rot receive said land warrant if it shall appear/by the muster | rolls of his regiment pr corps that he deserted or was dis ! honorably dischared from service: Provided further, That the benefits of this section shall he held to extend to vv'itgon masters and teamsters who may have been employed, fender the direction of competent au thority in time of war fin the transportation of military stores and supplies. \ Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case ofthe of any person, who, if liviifg, would be entitled to a certificate or warant asotforesaid under this act, having a widow, or if no widow, k minor child or children,cuch v\ id ow, or if no widow, such rnindr child or children, shall ! e entitled to receive a certificate or warrant for the same quantity of land that suefedecea.-ed person would be enti tled to receive under the divisions of this act if now liv - iug: Provided, ‘That a subsequent marriage ?hul not im pair the right of any surfi widow to such warraot if >be lie a widow at the time of mailing her application: And pro vided, further, That those shall be considered minors who are so at the time tiul act shfell take effect. Sec. 3. And be itfurther knacted, That in no case shall any such certificate or warrant f e issued for any service iess than fourteen days, except where the person shall ac tually have bewi engag'd in battle, and unless the pa ty claiming certificate or warrant shall establish his or he r tighten ereto by recorded evidence of said service. Bee. \. And be it further enacted, That said cer tificates or warrants, may be assigned, transferred and lo cated by the warrantees, their assignees, or their heirs-at law, according to the provisions of exiting laws regula ting the assignment, tians.cr, and location ul tuint) -Led warrants.