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(Times mtiJ SeniineL “columbus7geokgia. SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1855. The Next Electicn in Georgia. Our old enemies, the Whigs, have disappeared from the field and if they again mingle in the fray it will be under the mask of Know Nothings. We at one time hoped that they would scorn the embrace* of the Ram* shade*, a* one of their leader* scornfully stigmatized th?in some three month* since. Three of the leading paper* of the party in Georgia maintained an ominous •ilenoe, for a long time, which they hare not yet broken fully ; and it was given out that Toombs and Stephen* looked upon the Order with an unfriendly eye. But a* soon as the Whig banner was lowered in Virginia and the blaek flag of the Ranshackles was flung to the i breeze, the tone of the Whig press changed ; favorable i article* began to appear in the Chronicle ij- Sentinel , ; Southern Recorder and Columbus Enquirer; it was given out that Toombs and Stephens, though not mem- j hers of the Order, sympathy and w ith them in many of; tln ir objects ; and it is no longer concealed that the i Whig* and the Know Nothings will unite their force*, | and make Common battle against the serried ranks of; the Democracy. The odds are fearful, but we will not : shrink from the battle. All that we have to dread is treason in our camp. There is attached to every party ignoble .Swiss who fight for the spoils and are : ready to desert and bell ay the losing side. It will not j At all surprise us, therefore, if a mixed ticked is run by j our enemies.. Let us be on our guard against the shel- j low device. No man can be a good and true Demoorat who ‘ will allow his name to be run by our opponent* against | the regular nominees of the party in State, District or ! County Conventions. When a man sympathizes with the Know Nothing* he is no Democrat. It has been j the b.iast of the Democracy in every age that the neci~ j dent of birth neither confers honor nor disgrace; and j that religious belief doe* not disqualify a man for any j of the duties or make him unfit for any of the honors of oitizenship. These are her* sis of the past age* when Kings and Autocrats lorded it over the people. With the American revolution anew era dawned upon the world. Foreigner* of every dime, religionists of every faith flocked to the standard of Washington “to crusade for freedom in freedom s holy laud. M V ictory crowned their heroic aehievmeaits—America was raised to the dignity ot a free Republic by their aid, and shall we now deny to them and their descendants the right to wor ship the God of their fathers. It was no objection Jo Lsbayette, DcKalb, Pulaski and Koseiusco in the darkest hours of the Revolution that they were foreigner# and catholics. Our fathers received them with joy and thankfulness and fought side by side with them the bat tle* of the revolution. Brandywine, Camden and Sa vannah were enriched with their patriotic blood. Is it not a burning shame that we, their descendant*, should proscribe men like them and deny them a participation m the liberties they helped to secure. We will not, wo cannot believe the American people are so lost to all the holy inemorits of the past. The Democracy at least cannot and will not desert their time honored colors; they cannot and will not desecrate the memory of their heroic dead. Let us, therefore, bunish up our armor for the com ing struggle and give no quarter to the foe. Our cher ished principles will be put in jeopardy by the success of the Know Nothings. It is treasou to the faith to par ley with the enemy. We can neither ask nor” receive favor at their hand*. In 1800 we crushed old John Adams and the Federal party, the authors and up holders of the Alien aud Sedition law*. Another Hydra head of federalism has grown to power and greatness in the secret chambers of the Know Nothings. It is our privilege aud duty to emulate the conduct of our fathers. We, therefore, prop.se that Conventions be held in every county in the State, and good and true rneu be selected to lead the Democratic hosts to battle and to victory ; that nominees be selected to till every office in the gift ot the people; and that we ostracise every Democrat who hesitates to give the ticket and the whole ticket a hearty and zealous support. This is no time to dally or delay. He that is not for is against us.— fundamental principles are at issue. The organization of the Democratic party is in peril. We may be com pelled io part fretn old triends; the victory nr.av not perch on our standard. But we must give up our triends and go for our country, and defeat in a good cause i* better than triumph in a bad one. But wo do # not doubt the result ot the struggle. Our cities may go for the new Order, but the honest yeoman of the country will not desert us in this death struggle for principles hallowed by the Revolution. freedom to worship God is a privilege they would die rather than give up, and what they claim for them selves they will guarantee to their fellow citizens.— They honor no man for the accident of birth, and will not proscribe a good citizen because he first saw the light in another hemisphere. They treasure the freedom they enjoy and will not surrender their dearest rights to a secret conclave which dares not avow i*s objects and principle* before God and man. They hold that i public servants are responsible to the people for the exorcise of their public trusts, and that the people are j the sources of all honor and power in these States. j They will not surrender these inestimable rights to tlu* j Grand Council of the Know Nothings, composed of they ! Roow not who, and located they know nut where. — ‘ Democracy with them is r.ol a convenient pass word to ; propitiate public favor and secure place# of honor and : profit to themselves, but an active, living principle, and the cuily safe guard of their lives, libel tit sand property. Relying upon them, w* iling our banner to the bretzt* and defy our enemies to the battle. God i* on our side, for we fight for freedom to worship him according to the dictates ot our own eonoienctes. The > eople are on our side, for we fight for their right, to select eandi dates for office and to hold them to strict account for • their faithtul performance of thtir public dutn*. The j holy memories of the past fight with us, for we contend ? for the principles hallowed by their sacrifices and their • blood. If we do our duty there is co danger <f i defeat. Conckrt or TIIK Phi i. harmonics. — The entertain men* given by this society on Thursday night last was minettiy succcesstu). The performances were highly creditable to the members, ami gar® gratfyir.g evidence of the faithfulness and competency of their instructor, J’rof. Sareni. W * have never seen a more apptecia tive audience in the city. We hope this will induce the Society to give the public trtqti. nt repetitions of these delightful entertainments. A little more I old nse and freedom on the part of the fHrtoriiurf;, ads greater diversity in the character of the pieces reU ed * gl) that ie needed to secure the unqaahti and apprr, %■ \ tfoo of t‘*e public, I Temperance In Griffin. At the recent ntuuieipa! election in Griffin, the coo trolling issue was the Temperance Question. The old Council had raised the price of lioeme from |SO to #SOO. The liquor dealer# and drinkers organized a ticket for repeal. The election resulted in their dtfeat. Thia i theproperway to legislate upon the liquor question. The friends of temperance cannot reasonably exffctthe peo ple to ignore the great national interests involved io general elections, and to vote for Governors, Congress men, and Legislators solely with reference to their views , upon the liquor question. It would not be patriotic to do j •o. In s municipal election, however, a lair test vote j can be obtained, and we incline to think that in such ; elections the popular verdict would be in favor of Tem peranee. We commend these suggestions to Mr. Ovetbv and bis supporters. i — Location of a Methodist College in Texas. The Board of Commissioners appointed by the Texas j Annual Conference to locate a University in that State, ; mtt in Galveston on the 2d inst., and selected Chappell | Hill as the site. Nearly $50,000 were subscribed by the citizenee of that plaoe to aid in forwarding the en terprise. j Excitement at Havana—Military Preparations, &c* Nkw York, April 7. A letter received here f r om Havana, dat* and the 3d j inst , states that great excitemenent existed there in | consequence of the frequent use of the garole. Extensive military preparations were continued for ! suppressing any revolt, and for meeting and destroying ! fillibuster expeditions should they reach the Island— I Many houses wero converted into drill rooms, by the j authorities, where Spaniards, Creoles and negroes were | being taught the use of arms. | The arrival of the steamer United States, from New Orleans, caused great alarm, it having been previously i reported that she landed men and munitions of war at i another part of the Island. She experienced in con j sequence many inconveniences during her stay in poit. j Trxas Christian Advocate.— The subscription list j of this paper lias been increased about 75 per cent since j it passed into the editorial charge of Rev. C. C. Gil | Sespie, late of Alabama. | Soushern Home Gazette —Another instance of the ! ruinous efieet of the credit system upon the newspap* I press of the South is furnished in the suspension of th's i valuable literary journal, published at Augusta Ga, and I edited by James M. Smythe, Esq. The loss of such a ! man from the Southern press is a publio calamity. We i J take our leave of him with the aincerest wishes for his i ‘ prosperity and happiness. t j i Education is Eastern Alabama. —The Corner Stone of a Methodist Female College was laid by the Masonic Fraternity in Tuskegee on the 10th inst. An t oration was delivered on the subject of Female Kdooa -1 tion by Henry W. Hilliard of Montgomery. A writer i in the Alabama Journal says it will be one of the most i imposing and beautiful structures of the kind in the i South, and that the site is admirably adapted to a full display of it# architectural proportions. The Rev. C. ; C. Giihspie is the author of this enterprise and procu ■ red the larger part ofthe subscriptions to erect the build logs. Abroad. —The many friends of Dr. Levert will learn ( with pleasure, that he arrived safely at Cadiz on the 2d tilt., with his charming wife and daughter. They had a delightful passage of 18 days, on board the Span ish utearner Fernando et Catolico. , Neu> Lottery in Georgia. —Mr. Swan of Montgom ery has accepted the agency of the Fott Gaines Lot tery in Georgia, and the first drawing will take place . at Atlanta, on the 24th of May. The fairness and in | tegrity shown by Mr. Swan, in the management of the i Alabama Military Academy Lottery, is an ample guar i any that his management of any similar enterprise, will be characterized by the same honorable qualities. Telegraph to Columbus. —The route of the tele i graph wires betweeu Columbus and Macon, is about being changed and made to follow the course of the Muscogee Railroad instead of the old stage line £8 for merly. The posts are up on almost the entire line, v and the desirable changes will be perfected in a short time. The Next Congress. —The New York Courier and Enquirer says :—“The elections in Connecticut j and Rhode Island complete the entire list of members | for Congress in the free States. In the last Congress j these States sent ninety Administration members and ! fifty-one opposition. In the next Congress the entire | number of Administration members elected from the ’ free States is —we believe we do not err in our compu | tation—twenty-three ; the entire number of opposition I members is one bundled and sixteen. Os the Admin ! istration members 1 comes from Maine, 5 from New York, 1 frotn New Jersey, 5 from Pennsylvania, two from Indiana, 5 from Illinois, 1 from lowa I from Wis i ’ . ’ . conein and 2 from California. It would be very dtffi ; eult to classify the opposition with reference to particu j lar party distinctions. Many were elected s* Whigs, i many as Free Soiiers, many as Fusion men, snJ many | as Know Nothings.” Liquor License —The Town Council of L : vings?on j Sumter county, Ala., has increased the license to $2,000 ! and prohibits the sale, otherwise than under a license in | a less quantity than 20 gallon;!. j Theatrical. —Mr. Crisp’s first presentation of his corps | enriched as it now is by late engagements, was a# fuc j cesstul as his warmest friendscould have de ired. Niiss | E! za Logan was received with a general hurst of ap j plause, that si oke the estimation placed on her by all who ; j had witnessed her effective displays, and those favorites o! ; ] longer acquaintance, Mr. and Mrs. Crisp, teuud a we! s ; come no less cordial.— Charleston Courier j More Columbia County Gold.-- We were shown vts* ; terday, another large lump of Georgia Gold. 1.540 peu. j ) nyweights, from the McCormick Leitner Gold mine ! iin Columbia Cos. It was only on the 30th of March we ; ! noticed a lump of 1775 pennyweights from the same j jni ne. This is counting up pretty fast, and proves this i ; mine one of the most valuable in the country. This gold j is from surface refuse ore. made productive bv the su- i ; perior machinery employed.— Constitutionalist Re \ j public IDA. Tornado in Houston County. —The Postmaster at j Wellborn’s Mills, Houston co.mly. states that that vicini- j ty was visited on Thursday evening last by a terrific ter- j nado, ace raponied with rain and hi il, which did immense i damage to the plantations over which it swept. A negro I man belonging to the Andersen estate had h>s th'gh fro- ■ ken, and a valuable mule belonging to J J. Gresham, { Esq ,of Macon was killed by fa.l.Dg trees : m;ks ot fen- j cing and thousands ct trees, weie prostrated and it j will occupy some of the sufierers berily for the next three j weeks to replace their fences, and remove the timbers j hiown down upon their land# which were under cuSlvß- j i l‘ot or prepared for seed. [ THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OK THE STEAMER WASHINGTON. Cotton Unchanged- New York April 12. The American steamship Washington has arrived from Southampton, bringing Liverpool date* to the 25th uit. Liverpool Cotton Market. Richardson’s circular quotes Cotton firm, and un changed in prices. The sales of the three days reach ed 26,000 bales of which speculators took 3,000 and exporters 2,500 bales. Provisions.— Breadstuff# remained unchanged.- Canal Flour is selling at 41s. 2d. ; new’ at 365. Su. ; Southern at 435. 4d. ; new 3Ss. a 41s. White wheat ia seising at 1 Is. lOd. a 12a. fid. Prime red 10.*?. CJ. a l Is. 3d. Corn steady at 42 a 435. Louden Money Market—Consols closed at 93. The Political New*. The latest accounts from Vienna state that the Con* \ ferencc is unsatisfactory. The Allies do not insist on j the demolition cf Sevastopol, but proposes disagree*- j ble terms to Ruseia. i On the 7th of March the Russians attacked the en • tire line of the Allies before Sevastopol, but were re pulsed with grea ilui-s. The actual e ndition of things at Sebastopol, re- J mains unchanged. The Russians have maintained j their position*. There had been considerable skirmish- j ing, but without any important results. Extensive preparations were be : ng made in Constan tinople for the reception of Napoleon. The first and second point# of the peace basis had been settled by the Conference’ The third, which it* said to be the most critical, will, it is thought, occupy Congress fur several day*. The London Morning Herald says Fir nee aglets to send 50,000 additional troops to the Crimea after the dissolution of the Conference, if England will furnisli the transportation. Sardinia is in the English market for a loan of two I millions. Sir Charles Wood it is said, intends, as scon as the ports of the Baltic and White Stas are open, to enforce a Btrict blockade in these seas. BY TELEGRAPH, Expreasly for the Times and Sentinel. LATEST FROM EUROPE. { ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP AMERICA. New York. April 13 — 6 p. m. Steamship America has arrived, with date* to the 30th. Cotton was active and firm. Sales of the week 83,000 bales. Speculators took 11,000, Exporters 15,- 000. Market closed buoyant, price# unchanged, j Breadstuff* except eorn a trifle lower. ; Money easier ; Consols 93 18d. j Nothing important from the Crimea. The Vienna ! Conference is in serions difficulty upon the third point, i although modified by the Allies j The matter was referred to St. Petersburg, and the . ! Conference postponed for a reply, but probably the j fourth point will, in the meantime, be discussed. Drooyn de l’Huys, the French Minister of Foreign • Affairs, h#s boon to London for conference wiih the ! British Government, was closeted with the Ministers, and had private audiences with the Queen. He stays iu Paris two days, and goes thence to Vien na bearing Use irrevocable determination of the allied Governments upon the third point. No favorable indications frotn St. Petersburg. | Spain.—Espartero has resisted the and maud for a | Democratic Modification Ministry. LATER FROM HAVANA. , i Arrival o? Isabel. ; The Steamship Isabel from Havana, via Key West, ar j rived at Tyboe, yesterday afternoon. She filings Havana | dates to 9th inst., and Key West of the same day. j We last evening met several intelligent gentlemen, pas j seneers by the Isabel, who have been spending some time in ! Havana. Their account* agree in picturing an unsettled and , | unhappy state of things. Concha is believed to have been ! frightened at hi* own shadow and has succeeded in work ling himself into a high state of alarm. His cowardice has I driven him to many acts of cruel barbarity towards individ uals, creditable only to the Spanish inquisition. Americans are watched with the greatest scrutiny, and the least thing confirmatory of even fancied suspicion, causes immediate arrest and imprisonment. But a few days since, we arc verbally informed, an American gentleman, an invalid, so journing at Puerto Principe, was suddenly arrested upon j some suspicion, iaktti to Havana, and is now a prisoner in i the castle His name was not learned. Prisoners are con . stantly arriving in Havana from the interior, and thedread -1 ed garrote is daily claiming its victims. The papers make ; no mention o! these facts, but we are assured of their realty I by an evewitness Cad.ilzo and Pineto have had their second trial, and loth are condemned to die by the garrote. — Sav. Rep Defeat of the Know Nothings in Hartford. Hartford, (Conn.,) April 9,1855. The democratic party here nominated a Union ticket i against the Know Nothings, which was supported by the i anti Know Nothing whigs in our city election to-dav.— ; This ticket i< elected with the exception of the old eieik. | Henry Francis, who succeeds * n personal eonsid* rat'ens j alone, by about one hundred votes. The union ticket csr ; ried four ofthe six Aldermen and thirteen of the twenty ! four Councilmen. making nineteen anti Know Nothings to j eleven Know Nothings in the joint Council. Th Knew ! Nothings have been routed in this city on a full vote. lowa and Wisconsin Elections. Chicago, April 9, 1^55. Sufficient returns have been received to show that the whig State officers for lowa have !>een elected by larger majorities than that given the whig ticket in August last. Cole, the whig candidate for Judge ofthe Supremo Court, has also been ejected tn Wisconsin. The Now Ctty Government cf Cincinnati, Cincinnati. April 9, 1855. i The now city government was organized and w ent into j operation to dav. Mayor Farran Arnoutv \in h : s hum ; j gural add rets, h's determination to enforce the e;ty it j dinaticc*. j The funeral of Monroe took pla<e yesterday, atu. p*3ed j toss quietly. About one thousand persors joined in the j ptoetssion. w Railroad ac-oss Florida. The Florida News informs us that Mr. Bangs, the ! • manag'ng contractor of the railroad across the Peninsoia i I of Florida, from Amelia Islund to Cedar Kt)s. has com- : ! rnenced operations. Contract* have already be* n made i for Palmetto t rnber for the w harves at Fernandina, also : for timber to bui'd bridges and piling for the adjacent marsh. A number of hands have already been employed, and it i the intention to push forward the work with en.- ■’ ergv and activity. Under these ■*;reumr*Hn < * i , the News, may we soon hear th • snort of be iron horse rr ong our in land pines, as he courses between the s’ ores of the Al lan. io and the A neriean Mediterranean. ———i An exchange btsg- much ot a uew rmtbod of ‘V ring*’ < hams. Mat.} o our cit'seb* wu and prefer being it lora . ‘ and of aoioc r ty croie pro vuriag th’. oi. i Hard Times. A sal? of laud known as the “Harris Hammock,” about seven miles from town, was made last Monday, under execution. The track contained 2132 J nerer, and was ; o!d in a bodv at S?I.OG per acre to Gtn. Win. Bailey. This is the laigest price that has been paid for land in Florida in many years. In 1836, the same fiaet was so and for s7jper acre—one fourth of the purchase money was paid down, and the balance ($14,000) has been running on interest for nineteen years. At the time of the sale, the principal and interest had amounted to $35 091. Verily, interest eateth as doth aj canker. — Tallahassee Floridian. Commander Ingraham on his way Heme. The Washington Star has received very 1- M e advices from Spezzia. The United States sloop-of-war St. Louie, Commander Ingraham, sailed from that port on the loth of March. uT, for the Uuitod Steles. The Cumberland and Saranac were there at that time. All were well on the three ships. At sunrise, on the Ist, Commander In graham hoisted the St. Louis flag, and Commodore Stringhsm housed his broad penant on the Cumberland —his flag ship. As the St. Louie sail’ and out ul port she was saluted with three hearty cheers from the crews of the other ships, which her crew vociferously returned. New Orleans Races. New Orleans, April 10. Brotcn Dick won the three mile raej to day, beating } Arrow in two straight heats—time 5 min. 331 sec. and i 5 min. 28 sec. —the latter being three seconds quicker j than the time in which Lexington performed the drat three miles of his great match on the 2d inst. Lecompte will probably recover, but will uot run ugaiutt Lexington I an the 14th inst. ostead Conferenco-Mr. Soule. New York, April 10. I The New \ ork Herald , of this morning, says that Mr. Soule is engaged in preparing a voluminous history of the Ostend Conference, to be immediately translated into the French and Spanish. The book, which will not appear i before July, will, probably, put an entirely new phase on the diplomacy in reference to Cuba ; and, it is said, will reveal scoretshiot generally surmised. Forignsrs Ineligible to Office in Massachusetts. Boston, April 9,1855. A resolution was passed in the Senate to-day, with but only one dissenting vote, that no foreigner shall be eligible to office. Municipal Election in Louisville. Louisville, April 9, 1855. j At our municipal election on Saturday, the Know | j Nothings swept the city fry a tremendous majority. Bar- I j ber, the Mayor, ne school trustee, and two councilmen j are Know Nothing ■. On the liquor question, the anti* j liquor party h large majority. The election passed off | quietly. In a Weaving Way. A parson, disposed make himself useful and earn liii I t. ary. has been sezid upon by the Bangor Know Noth* j Inge. We find the following in the Boston Times: The foliowing is a list of subordinate municipal officers oppointed by the Know Nothing City Council of Bangor: City Marshal—Rev Philip Weaver ! Superintending School Committee—Rev. Philip Wea ker !! Constable—Rev. Philip Weaver ’!! Tythiugman—Rev. Philip Weaver ! ! ! ! | The remaining city officers will be tilted at the next I session, and in order to keep everything in the “weaving way,” the Rev. Mr. Weaver has kindly permitted his name to be used for the occasion. Slavery in Cuba. Washington, April 9,1855. The “National Intelligencer publishes a letter from Lu7.uii.Tga, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the Captain General of Cuba, stating that the Cortes, on tiie Btb March adopt’ and a resolution to protect the slave property in Cuba, and that slaveholders there may feel as sured of their property under any change of government. British Soldiers’ Pay. The pay ol the offic rs is most liberal, that of the men rather seamy. They only get one shilling sterling per dry, for which four pence, h hi penny is deducted for their rations, so that they clear but seven pence haii peunv, or about fourteen cents. Montgomery and Wo3t Point Rail Road. The annual meeting ol the stockholders of this read was held yesterday. The reports of the President, Secretary and Superintendent were veiy satis ac'ory, and exhibit the following receipts for the year closing Ist March, 1855. Receipts from Passengers $141,066,63 Freight 84,432/41 Mail Pay 24,129,65 f Total $249,628,69 The expenses have been: l or keeping up the Road $135,301,60 Inteiest paid’ on loans 33,346,95 $168,651,55 Leaving net income 80,977,14 or 8 percent on the capital stock. | In the mouth ol March, this year, the receipts have been $28,131,62 Against March last year 21 922,19 Showing increase $6,209,43 The road has transported the past year, over it, Passengers 61,927 j The year previous- 57^821 Showing increase 4,106 j The receipts of the year previous were: Total, $230,- i 046,05; net income, $89,547,58. We reiterate wh?t we have said so often before, and what is exceedingly gratifying, that there are fewer failures on this road than any other in the Unitea States of equal length. It could not well he otherwise, in view of the pe culiar fitness, entire devotion and admirable arrangement ot Mr. Pollard, the President, and Mr. Jones, the Super | inrendent. The bonds of the company have appreciated within a tew days, and now command nitnty-five cents in i the maiket. A short time since, a tew’ thousand dollars of :it was so'd for 90 cents. About 1,000 tons ot T rail is : ! weekly expected, which will be immediately applied tore placing the defective bars on the road. Quite a large in j erea.-ein the Eastern freight business has occurred, andthis j kind of freight will soon eqjal the company's greatest ca pacity tor transportation— Ad Gaz. 7th. (■* - t The Philadelphia 31. R Conference and the Slavery I Question. —On the 9th day of the late tesnon of the Thil j adelphia Methodist Episcopal Conference held at Lancaa ; ter, Bishop Waugh presented the resolutions of the Wis- i : consiti Conference, and those also of the North Ohio Coif I ; terence, asking the concurrence ot this body in recoin 1 | mending to the next General Conference,resolutions touch j ing a change of the Disciplinary rule on Slavery. T he resolution of the Wisconsin Conference read as fol- j ’ lows-: Resolved, That w*e request the next General Conference ! ’ so to a iter the general rules in our Discipline on Slavery, j as to read —‘ ti. - . :ng, selling, or holding a human being I as a slave.*’ This tesolution i.ot concurred in by a vote of one ! hundred and thirty four—none tor concurrence, i hat of the Nouh Ohio Conference, reads follow: •'T he buying or sei'irg of any human being, with an ‘ mention to ern lave such person, or holding person in I slavety, when emancipation can be effected without injury I to the slave.” 3 j On this resolution, the the olio wing was the vole of the j body. Concurrence, eleven; non-concurrence, one hundred and i twenty-four. The present rule of the Dbeiplire on this subject against • slavery, reads as follows: “ i he buyi igor soiling of men, women or children, with ? an intention to enslave them.” Venerable Taper Money —The N w York Tribune haE r-eeivtd a.* dollar l-.li f Maivland currency of the y ear 1, 0. whicu it tau* de-cribis; It is a venerable ispcci oer. of pography and wood engraving, and its un c- u'h coarseness const/ a s. strangely with the neat and elegant p iper currency of ib- pres-i t day. The indorse*’ mtr.i informs tie that “so counter eit h death.” The Boston Rioters. New York, April 12 Dispatches from Boston state that Judge Curtis, of the Circuit Ccuri, has decided that tl*e ind ctmcnt aguim,; Theodore Talker, find others, concerned in the Bunts’ riots, are invalid. Important from Washington. Washington, April 12,1855. It is stated that despatches of the highest impoipmco have been forwarded from Havana to the United Stabs Government, which, however, have nut yet reach'd Washington. The nature of the despatches are unknown to the Cabinet. Scriveu County Academy Burnt. We learn that on Sunday night last, between twelve and one o’clock a fire was discovered in the cnpalo eftko academy iu Seri veil county. It burnt with great rapid.ty, and before sufficient aide uM U procured to cluck the flames, the t ntire building was consumed. Our informant could give us no furilnr information, and did not kin w if there w.- any insurance on the building. — Savannah News. Seriously Ivjmred. —A passenger who went on the Wednesday iffght train, in a state of into* cation, was miss ed from the cars when they arrived at the sixty mile sta tion. It in supposed that he fell from the platform of the car while the train was under way, as he was found near the road severity injuried. lie was brought to the city yesterday a ter noon, and taken to the hospital. IJe is a native of France, and was ou h:s wav t>> ( hailesion. [ Surannah News. Great Political Demonstration —First -more for the Succession. — The admirers of Heuty Cfoy intend tocee* brate the anniversary of Ins bittli by a festival at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr. Fillmore will be present on tit's occasion, and a speech will be made by lb n. J. lin P. Kennedy. This movemiiit for the re-ncminid.on of Mr. Fillmore wi 1 be the first demonstrat on to plaee a candi date in the field lor ill* Know Nothing vote. M rtin Van Bttren, Jr., died at Paris, on Tuesday, the 20th ult. A large number of Americans ace mpunitd bis remain* to their temporary resting place in the e. mo tet yol Mont matte. He had seated hmtsill i.t the dit.mr table when his head fell forward on his breast, and he expired without a word, without a gioan. Death. —Walter R. Jones, President of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company of Ntw 1 oik, Hitd suddenly on Saturday morning the 7th. A filtering it merchants was held in the afternoon to express their concent, and j sympathising with the family. j Yellow Fever. — Norfolk, April 5. Sixty-throe e: sis j of yellow fever wire sent from the Columbia to the naval | hospital, out of which there have been five deaths. Bounty for Seamen. —The, Washington Union says: The pressing want <d seaman for several of the squadrons to supp y the places of those whose terms of enlistment has expired, has indue* and the Secretary of the Navy, with | the approbation >t the President, in addition to the present i liberal pay, to < tier a bounu ...” mty dollars to all ecu j men, and fifteen dollars to all ordinary seamen, w ho shall I enlist for three yearn’fservice within the next sixty I days. | Fourth District. A Washington Correspondent of j the West Point Beacon suggests the name of Dr. 11. \. | Ramsay,late of the Atianta Examiner, for ouugrcss iu i this district in place of Mr. Dem, who declines a re.-vlec j tiou. Felix G. L’virgston whs murdeied in Madison village, j Fla., on Monday week, by a man named Peacock, of i North Carol na. The Massachusetts Nunnery Committee —According i to the testimony of the Lady Superior of the KoxburyCa tholie Sehool of the Sifters of Charity, the Massed,usitts Legislative ConuniUeklnspection have good cause to be heartily ashamed of their conduct at Mai as they appear to he. Their inquiry info the facts at.d the • proofs thus obtained show that this vising committee ac : ted neither as gentlemen nor Ohrdiane. i heir eotidia-t was rot only unlawful and unmannerly, but a violation of ! the principles of even common decency. The Kttow i Nothings of Massachusetts must do better than this or they ; will be repudiated by their brethren in other States, as bo ! gtn members of the order. The Koxbury Committie j ghouid be compelled to finish their tour ot convent land Catholic school inspections in jetticoat.- at.d j sun bonnets. In this wav they would be less likely to I frighten poor women and sick girls, with their coarse and • mooting curiosity, than in the dress ol bold ar.d impudent ! men. — N. V. Herald. j New Depot at Columbia —The Carolinian learns lk: t j the South Carolina Railroad Company are about ’oirui am w brek and pot at that,; i. ee. Its dimensions are obo i 285 by 50 feet, a portion of it to be two storits high, lor the use and accommodation o’ various officers'. It .s to be hu shed ly the Ist September next. Cuba —Tho United States. The N. Y. Time- publishes the following dispatch from j its special correspondent, which we give lor what it is : worth : Washington, April 9 —The President really has deter '■ mined to make a demonstration against Spain at last. ‘1 L ! selection ot l onrmiodore McCauiy to command the Golf i Squadron is significant, and the rumors ol an increase oi I the squadron, which 1 gave you some time since, are all i confirmed. As strong a naval force as can be spared tor i the purpose ha.s been oidered to cruise in the neishhoihood • of Cuba, in tiie Hack of our steamers, and future insults to j our flag seem likely to be promptly redtessed. Captain Genetai Concha is much frightened about the j F]} Dorado affair, and makes ail the ape logics in b.i.- power. ! The Tre.-ident l<as taken very decided ground in this mut ter, and assumed the tesponsibility of carrying out his ow i i views ol the measures proper to l e adopted. These, you ; may rest a--. urcd,ate vigorous and extreme. it seems that not only the L! Dorado and ihe Daniil Webster have b*en brought to on the high seas by Spam a | cruisers within the la.-t month or two, but the Illinois ai o was served the same way uot long ago. fehe did not it* i port the tact, how’er—such outrages without atonenierd, I having become too common to be deemed, in the estrnta ; tior. ot her officers, worthy of notice. ; There will be trouble w.th Spain soon, unless, with tho i usuai pusillanimity of tnsoieut imbecility, she tun Lies to her i knees at the first exhibition of spirit on the fart el tiie Lhii i ted States. Prompt atonement will doubtle.-s now be made | ibr tiie outrages upon the LI Dorado and the Daniel Web ■ ster. But they will beiepeated, doubtless, in the cases of other vessels. The Spanish Naval Command*rs r ejo ci ; j tn this opportunity ot indulging their hatred ot los Yunkets, I will doubtless insist that they cannot perfoim their duty without firing a shfit at our passing steamers, and pur u ng tlieir insulting searclt. They wji probably, tht-ieliuc! quite disregard General Concha's irightcued exhoitations lo greater propriety; fu- the next lime a Spani h cruiser brii gs to one of our mail steamers on the high sea-, it is iirtenoid that a United States war vet-sl shall be lu-ar efiouL’h to participate in the t-me-tatmnen; ly p<airing her l road side into the Spaniard forthwith. Mark the truth of this / he instructions to McCauley will confirm wi.at / say whenever they are public. Such a demon irat on * til make an ifsc.e not to be evaded; and we sha i then learn the tn c character of the seciet pret-etora e of Spain intinteimd by Uiigl&od aud France. What a capital | rivateer r!t- t our Cu ari Fdtiba-t- rs would lit out in the event ot a m r with Spain arising out of these events. Mr. Marey is Very lackwar-j about going into this bass Tiess ;so is Mr. Cush.ng. Messrs Gutnrie and McCleilanu are also understood to oppose extreme measures. But Hie Tresident has acted on his own impulses, although only Mr. Davis aud Mr. Dobbin warmly u.i - -xe. his course. S. Correspondence oj the Panamaa Star, 31arch 11. Effect cf Emancipation—Deplorable Condition of Plan ters. \ ou know that the slaves have all been liberated a: one full swoop or lull shock ol ari ignorantly direct , and •e u S hey now refuse to woik, and have destroyed niutfi | rop* e ty on the Haciendas, stealing ho.ses an t evejytning mv could lay their hands on, and cometin es even committing g eutet exces-ea. The owners of Hac'endas are reduced to a most det>lo rabie state, their eiops a e teady to eel, bntthe negroes will not wotk. ‘This will materially affect the count v, an i cause a demand fur the import of many articles formeily produced here in Bufficient quantity fi*r exportation. It is said that Elia- has obtained a priviiei ge for impnit ing Chinamen, but before they come ciops wuj be rotten, ■ ad why© they do come they age of little use,