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AFGVSTA MARKET.
OmcßorTHi Republic, )
April 25, 1850. j
COTTON—The market <m Tuesday was
quiet. Holders asked a full half per cent ad
vance, hut holders would not operate, as the
advance of Monday was not sustained on
Tuesday in Charleston. Yesterday the market
closed quietly, as holders would not offer their
stocks but sparingly. The sales of the two
days were about4oo bales,at Ilf for middling,
12 cents for good middling, and 12} cents for j
strictly fair. The total of the decrease in re- '
ceipts is now 572,289, Mobile having fallen off:
6,205 bales during the last week.
EXCHANGE. —Checks on the North are |
firm at} per cent. prem.
From the Constitutionalist.
BY TELEGRAPH:
Charleston, April 23.
The cotton market is quiet to-day, only 223
bales at prices from 10} to 12fc. The ad
vance of yesterday is fully sustained.
New York, April 23.
A heavy business has been done in cotton
at small concession. 2000 bales at 12 cents,
for Middling uplands.
Floor firmer. Wheat $1.30 Jo $1.31.
Yellow corn 61. Provisions dull and declin
ing. 2000 bags St Domingo Coffee sold at
Scents. Government securities unchanged.
Cincinnati, April 23.
The boilers of the steamer Belle of the
West, on her way to St. Louis, with Califor
f nia emigrants, exploded near Warsaw, at one
o’clock, and one hundred lives were lost.
Further Mews by the America.
k In France, although apparent order prevails
in Paris, political matters have assnmed a
Io the A** cmbly a
"" for
-’••tjjbpeoplo of France to vote definitely on the
formation of a National Government, by in
scribing on the ballots, at the next general
election, either “ Republic” or “ Monarchy.”
This startling proposition was received in si
lence, until it was found that it waa not se
conded, when the mountain members vocifer
ated Vive la Republique, and the affair ended.
• Advices from Van Dieman’s Land have
been received, with dates to the last of Novem
ber. The Irish patriots, O’Brien and his as
sociates, had arrived there. From Ireland we
learn that the repeal agitation is again revived
in some degree. The Government of Eng
land, it is stated, contemplates transferring the
Judiciary Courts from Ireland to London.
Angry communications have passed be
-—(WBfiU AtSfrTa, Russia, and Prussia, about
what- is not stated. A serious rupture has oc
curred between the governments of Prussia
and Wirtemburg, and the Prussian ambassa
dor has been recalled.
It is stated that negotiations have been com
menced between the Central States of Ger
many and the United States, for the purchase
of American vessels completely equipped for
The last advices from Constantinople state
that preparations are making to conduct Kos
<; strth and the other Hungarian refugees to
J; Wallachia, in Asia, there to be confined for
-- five years.
On the 29th March an insurrection at Bourne
/ was extending and increasing in strength.
> Ten thousand Turkish troops had been defeat
by the insurgents and compelled to evacuate
j the fortress of Bangulka.
The prospect of a speedy reconciliation be
ll tween the English and Spanish governments
S is confirmed by thia arrival. The condition
, of affairs in Cuba causes the greatest solici
tude on the part of the Spanish government.
From Greece we have intelligence that
Sir William Parker bad given up eleven of
I the captured vessels.
* Italy. —Return of the Pope. —A recent
> number of the Roman Observer says, that the
return of the Pope to Rome has been definite
ly fixed for the 6th inst. The speedy return
of his Holiness appears to give general satis
faction. «
Ireland.—ln addition to the abolition of
the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, it is stated that
Government to abolish
I transfer
Ireland to
iff ftFIuUVIL
A Suspicious Vessel.—Capt. Mygatt, of
the smack Majestic, at this port, from Savan
nah, saw offßt. Helena Light Boat, on Satur
day last, about 11 A. M., a schooner with a
British flag at half mast; on nearing her,
found she had the name of Adelaide, of Balti
more, on her otern, painted black, with paint
ed ports, rope rail round the quarter, black
mast heads arid very long top masts —was,
apparently, deep—-her crew, as far as could
be seen, consisted of one white man and six
negroes—the latter all being on the quarter
deck. The former hailed the smack in very
bad English, and wished to know if they were
near Cape Hatteras, when they were informed
that they were about twenty-two miles north
of Tybee Light. On receiving this informa
tion, they went about and run in for the land,
for a time, but soon after stood out again,
keeping the same course with the smack un
til near Stono, when they stood off South
East. Those on board the schooner did not
appear to understand working a vessel, and
were probably ignorant of the coast and of
navigation. Had not appearances been against
her, Captain Mygatt would have endeavored
to have gone alongside, but as it was, thought
it beat to keep r.t a respectable distance.—
Charleston Courier.
The Truth.—We take the following ex- i
tract frem the Mobile Herald. It Is the truth
every word. We commend it to the consi
deration of the real friends of the South, the
constitution, and the Union.
“The greatest enemies to the South now
are the freesoil papers o( the South. Turn
them into the rivers adjacent to their offices of
publication, and we could soon extort from
the North all that justice and the constitution
demand.
The truth is, from the beginning, the ap
parent disunion in the South is mainly attribu
table to those pestilential and miserable ‘or
gans,’ which, under the hypocritical guise of
meekness, play nothing but the most discor
dauutunes.
Let the South control her own press, and
within a twelvemonth there will be among us
a degree of unanimity which shall have no
example any where in all the chronicles of
nations. There is everything among us to
produce this condition; and the only obstacle
to it is the dangerous enemies we nurse and
■'•-rcstfatiow own hearthstones.”.
'3 ~— ~ i
Tta Wmat Crof.—The newspaper repre
sentations respecting the forthcoming wheat (
crop, i» Ohio, western New York, Indiana,
Michigan, and all the States bordering on the
lakes, are uniformly favorable, unless we ex
cept the northern portion of Illinois, where
the winter wheat has received considerable
injury from the open weather. In Michigan
it is predicted that, if nothing occurs to change
the present prospects, the crop will be
double that of last year. As to this State,
the Buffalo Commercial Adv« says, reports
from all the farming sections give flatter
ing scconnta of tho prospects for ajarge crop.
—-N. Y, Journal of Commerce.
Souvkn Superior Court-—We under
stand from a gentleman of this place, that
Judge Starnes has adjourned Scriven Court
over to the fourth Monday in May, being
unable to attend this week m consequence of
the extreme illness of some member of his
fatuity,—Central Geor.
Washington, April 19.
Dtrsr. Prevented. —Two candidates of the :
Virginia Legislature, from Culpepper county,
(Mears. Barbour and Greene,) were arrested
hereto-day for a contemplated duel, and bound
overfo keep the peace.
Me Barnum, of the American Museum, has
engaged apartments at the Irving House, New
York, for Jenny Lind, Julius Benedict, Esq.,
SigW Belletti, and their suite, to be held in
reaifiaess on and after the 10th of September
next. _______
Mr. Linn Boyd, the oldest member, al
though not the oldest man in the House, lias
thought proper to take unto himself a wife.
Sb' $ a widow lady named Dickson* n >■
a reaffUule fact that widows get married
mucheasier tlxn maiden ladies. W eller says,
it» baeause they know by experience the weak
•potato men.
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VOLUME 111.
Augusta, <®a.
Thursday Morning, April 25,1850.
Agent for the Republic.
Having engaged the services of Mr. Joseph
Barton as a Travelling Agent for the Republic,
we commend him to the kind aid of our friends.
He is authorized to receipt for subscriptions
and advertisements.
O’ Mr. WolH. Pilcher is an agent for the
Republic, and authorized to receipt for sub
scriptions and advertising. We ask the kind
aid of our friends to Mr. P. in his efforts to
increase the circulation of the paper.
The Reminingtoit Bridge.
We would direct attention to the advertise
ment of the Agent of these Bridges in this
day’s paper.
(ETThe alarm of fire which called out the
engines on Tuesday night, arose, we under
stand, from the bursting of a camphine lamp
in the bakery establishment of Mr. Hahn on
Bridge Row.
Rascality Detected.
On Monday evening last, two men were ar
rested in this city on the charge of passing
gold coin upon our merchants which was ev
idently counterfeit. The spurious money con
sisted of Mexiaan doubloons and gold pieces
of the value of two dollars and a half.
They had in their possession, when arrest
ed, quantities of this spurious coin, together
with bank notes on the Louisiana Bank, Banks
of Charleston, Mobile Bank, and a few Geor
gia Bank notes. Some of these bills were
genuine.
One of these counterfeiters attempted to
get change for a Mexican Doubloon at the
Clothing Store of J. D. Crane St, Co., which
was suspected to be spurious, and was sub
mitted to the the touchstone at the store of Mr.
J. W. Freeman, and pronounced counterfeit.
Then informed of the fact, the man, who at
tempted to pass it, who calls himself William
Trawick, professed a “ pious horror” of the
charge, and was loud in his protestations as to
the genuineness of the coin. Officer Lind
say, being immediately informed of the case,
promptly set out in pursuit of Trawick, and
took him into custody.
The other counterfeiter, who, it appears,
confined his efforts to pass the spurious mo
ney in the lower part of tfie city, while his ac
complice (no doubt) was as busily engaged in
the upper part, was arrested by the Deputy
iim i if miwiu twnvwnr
Mouse, andgSve his name as James Hamilton.
After being in custody a few minutes, he broke
loose from the strong arm of the law and
gave leg bail out towards the City Hospital.
Being pursued by the Deputy Sheriff in a bug
gie, he was soon overtaken and lodged in the
“calaboose.” His saddle-bags, which were
left at the Livery Stables of Mr. J. M.
Simpson, were examined, and the name
of Stanton was written upon them. It is
more than probable that he has given in a fic
titious name. A record book was found upon
his person containing a list of the coin he had
passed at different times and places.
Both of these men, who are supposed to be
from the West, came to this city on horseback,
and are, no doubt, accomplices in this wicked
scheme.
On Tuesday, a gentleman from Washing
ton county, arrived in this city in pursuit of a
person who had passed spurious gold coin,
Mexican Doubloons, in that county. He was
recognized in the street, and, being arrested,
gave his Mme as John Thomas. We
have not learned that he attempted to pass any
of the base coil in this city. He will there
fore be tried for the crime in Washington
county, whither ie was conveyed by officers
yesterday.
Honors to Mr. Calhoun's
Remains.
The funeral cerenonies in honor of Mr.
Calhoun, it is well known, take place this day
in Charleston. The programme of arrange
ments, which is publidied in the Charleston
papers, embraces every individual in the com
munity, called into requisition to do honor to
all that remains of one wio has been honored
beyond all others by SouthCarolina.
The body of Mr. Calhom, accompanied by
the Senate committee, and the committee of
25 appointed by the citjpens of Charleston, is
expected to arrive in that city thia morning at
10 o’clock.
In speaking of the arrangements, the Cou
rier saya-Y-'• ' i
Every organized Association has been call
ed out. The Civic Authorities—tie Firemen
—the Masonic and Odd Fellows S»cieties—
the Benevolent Societies—the Military—eve
ry thing that can add to the mournful pagean
try of grief, has been called into requisiion, to
demonstrate, by all outward feeling, the deep
regret which inwardly pervades every member
of our community on this solemn occasion.
We have no disposition to dilate on tie
subject, but cannot restrain an expression <f
approbation at the course that has been pur
sued by those having in charge the duty of
making the arrangements proper on the mel
ancholy occasion. They have judiciously giv
en a place for all, and there is not one that
would not desire “ a place in the picture" that
will represent a mourning, a disconsolate city,
for the loss of the brightest jewel of the State.
Resting Place of Mb. Calhoun’s Re
mains.—Gov. Seabrook, in reply to a note
from the Mayor of Charleston, on the subject
of the final resting place of Mr. Calhoun’s re
mains, says that, in his opinion, they should
be conveyed to the capital of the state and de
posited there.
“ As Columbia is the seat of the Legisla
tive Assembly of South Carolina, and its Col
lege, it is peculiarly appropriate that the fra
mers of our laws, and the youth of the state,
should be unceasingly reminded of their res
pective duties by the elevated associations
which the grave of him, who is ever to be sc
much revered for his virtue and wisdom,
would be so well calculated to inspire.”
North Carolina.—The Whig State Con
vention, for the nomination of Governor, is to
meet at Raleigh on the 10th of June.
Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen was unan -
moualv elected President of Rutger's College,
New Jersey, on the 9th inst.
The Chronicle—Mr. Calhoun —
Disunion.
We were surprised yesterday, to see the ef
fort of the Chronicle and Sentinel, to connect
the name of Mr. Calhoun with a scheme for
the disselution of the Union through the
Southern Convention, to be held at Nashville.
Scarcely have the first deep impressions of so
lemnity and sorrow, at the death of that great
and good man, lost their intensity, before this
attack upon him. His honored re
mains are expected this day to reach Charles
ton, to be interred in the soil of the State he
so much loved, and which has so deeply loved
and honored him in return. Is this the time
for a press to breathe its party, political or fa
natical spleen ? If we intended to draw a
sword of extermination against the fame of
Mr. Calhoun, or the friends of the South, we
would, at least, conceal its point, till the sacred
tears of weeping and mourning friends had
been shed over the cold remains of him,
who, in council, had no superior, and in
all the relationships of life as a husband, father,
friend and citizen, was a bright pattern of fi- :
delity, purity and patriotism.
Let the Chronicle turn to its own editorial
remarks, of April 2nd, upon the death of Mr.
Calhoun, and reconcile them, if it can, with
this .effort to prejudice him in the public mind.
Then, Mr. Calhoun was represented as hav
ing possessed “ pre-eminent moral rectitude
and elevated integrity in all the relations of
social and private life.” The Chronicle also,
then, referred to the justice which posterity
would do to Mr. Calhoun’s fame. Was the
Chronicle feigning grief and “ weeping cruel
tears” at his death ? How much more befit
ting the times of danger to the South be
the incense of honor and sorrow, which this
day, will arise in Charleston over the man
who, from youth to his grave, has loved his
whole country with a patriot’s affection, but
especially, of late, his beloved South, because
of the danger into which false friends have
beguiled, and opeq enemies have placed her.
Honor to the memory of John C. Calhoun,
and sacred be his resting place and his fame!
Tennessee River.
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Register announ
ces the arrival at that place of another new
steamer, the “ Union,” intended to ply upon
the Tennessee River above the Muscle Shoals,
and also upon the Elk River.
There are now nine steamboats plying on
Tan.nMmJhM.iigyvajjia
is expected that the number win soonbe In
creased to sixteen or eighteen. These facts
speak well for the increasing trade of East
Tennessee. ■*
Mew Post Office.
In the list of new Post Offices established
by the Post Master General during the week
ending April 13th, we find the following in
Georgia:
Caverider’s Creek, Lumpkin county, R. P.
Houge, P. M.
Frankliu College.
We have received from some attentive friend
a catalogue of the officers and students of
Franklin College, University of Georgia for
1849-60.
We are gratified to find from an examina
tion of the catalogue, that the Institution is in
a highly prosperous and flourishing condition.
It is a matter of sincere pleasure to us to see
our home institutions securing the patronage
and enlisting the sympathies of the friends of
liberal education in the South. The liberal
support afforded to this institution, is richly
deserved—every advantage which can be af
forded in a Collegiate Course being eminently
enjoyed at Franklin College.
There are 24 Seniors, 33 Juniors, 44 Soph
omores, and 30 Freshmen—making the whole
number of students in attendance 131.
The terms of admission, together with the
names of the able Board of Trustees and the
highly qualified and faithful Faculty, we pre
sent below.
Trustees.—Adam L. Alexander, Esq.,
Hon. John McPherson Berrien, Col. John
Billups, Hon. Absalom H. Chappell, Hon.
Howell Cobb, Hon. Mark A. Cooper, James
Hamilton Couper, Hon. William C. Dawson,
Hon. Charles Dougherty, William Dougherty,
Esq., Right Rev. Stephen Elliott, Jr., D. D.
Tomlinson N. Fort, M. D. Hon. George R.
Gilmer,Thomas N. Hamilton, Esq., Gen. Jep
tha V. Harris, Hon. Junius Hillyer, Hon.
Charles J. Jenkins, Col. William H. Jackson,
Hon. William Law, Hon. Wilson Lumpkin,
Hon. Charles J. McDonald, Leonidas B. Mer
cer, M. D., William L. Miteheh, Esq., David
A. Reese, M. D., Hon. William Schley, His
Excellency, George W. Towns, Hon. James
M. Wayne, John Wingfield, M. D.
Asbury Hull, Esq., Secretary and Treasur
er of the College.
Faculty.—Alonzo Church, D. D. Presi-.
dent, and Professor of Political Economy,
Moral and Mental Philosophy.
James Jackson, A. M.; Professor of Natural
History and Modern Languages.
James P. Waddel, A. M., Professor of An
cient Languages.
Charles F. McCay, A. M. Professor of
Mathematics, Astronomy and Civil Engineer-
in».
•nhn LeConte, M. D., Professor of Natural
Philosophy and Chemistry.
Rev William T. Brantly, A. M., Professor
of Belhs-Lettres, Oratory and History.
Hon. Jos. Henry Lumpkin, Professor of
Law.
Nahum.H. Wood, A. M., Adjunct Profes
sor of Mathimaties.
M. C. Fur O n, A. M.,Tutor in Ancient Lan
guages.
T. G. Pond, A. 8., Tutor in Mathematics.
James Jacks»n, Librarian.
W. T. Brantlj <fc J. LeConte, Secretaries
of the Faculty.
Terms of Admission.—For admission into
the Freshman Class, a candidate must have a
correct knowledge of Cesar—Cicero’s Ora
tions—Virgil—John and Acts in the Greek
Testament—Graces Mivora, or Greek Reader
Latin and Greek Prosody—English Gram
mar—Geography—Arithmetic, and Algebra
through Simple Equations.
An intimate acquaintance with Arithmetic
is indispensable to success in a large part of
I the College studies.
IThe man who never took a newspaper was
seen in Cincinnati lately. He was inquiring
the way to the poor-house.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MOR KING, APRIL 30, 1850.
Meteorological table for Feb. 1850, kept b jE. M. Pendleton, m. d.
At Sparta, Ga. Lat. 33“ 16' N. Long.—from Washingfyn 6 9 8’ W. Elevation above
tide 424 feet.
§ BAROME- THERMOME- nesV| fc ’ o^® . of R ? iD | ?
S TER. TER. iO “J • REMARKS.
o Sun 3 o’cl aj I« fi fi « ad-'j’ Sun , e# . I , '
d Rise. P. mJ ad z S X rise. 3rM -
1 29.85 29.85 47167 20 957 SIN ENW T
2 ‘‘6s “525861 314 59} 00S SE 0 68“HigK wiutf at night.
3 “50 “5247 51 431 49 11 NWNW I High wind.
4 “88 “ 90 19 34 15 13 26} 10 10 NW NW Ice.
5 30.04 30.05 21 39 18 13 30, 8 4NENE lea Severe frost.
6 “ 08 “062647 21 15 36} 10 10 N E N Elev and frost.
7 29 88 29.89 32 55 23 11 43} 10 10 N E N E Frost and ice.
8 “75 “614466 22 655 2 1 E SO 2
9 “19 “1660 63 328 54} 0 1 S NW 0 34
10 “29 “31355722 25 46 5 9 W W
11 “59 “67325826 22 45 10 10 NW NW Frest.
12 “72 “67 3661 1448} 6 9 E S E Heavy frost.
13 “45 “104760 13 18 53} 0 0 E S E 0 94 Thunder, distant.
14 “03 “0442 40 2 341 0 OSW SW Spi; snow. High wind.
15 “22 “24 37
16 “44 “ 64 28 53 25 20 40} 10 10 N W N W Fust and ice.
17 “62 “593356 23 15 44} 410 S E S Hatvy frosk
18 “40 “2741 47 613 44 9 OSWN W 0 38 High wind.
19 “35 “60345218 17 43 10 10 NW NW
20 “63 “623562 27 11 48} 10 BSESW Hetvy frost'.
21 “55 “57 51 72 19 14 61} 3 2SWSW
22 “43 “ 55 59 50 9 13 54} 0 0S W N E Thermometer fell 19* in afout one
23 “77 “793755 18 846 4 5 E N E . [hour at noon.
24 “60 “4647 55 8 551 0 0 E SEO 55
25 “42 “3760 71 11 11 65} 3 4SW SW 0 88 Thunder and Lightning.
26 “38 “40 62 72 10 12 67 0 4SWS W 0 68
27 “45 “43607412 20 67 0 51 W S W
28 “42 “ 35'54 72 18 363 0 2|NESW |
Sfean temperature for February, 49.4 i Quantity of rain in inches, 4.27
Mean of Barometer, 29.55 I N. B. The other tables will appear quarterly.
[communicated.]
Cheap Postage—'Pre-paid Let
ters, &c., &c.
Messrs. Editors :—ln this day of reforms
and cheapness, allow me to offer the following
views in relation to the subject of Cheap Pos
tage and matters thereto connected. It has
long since ceased to be an experiment, that
where inducements are held out by reduction
of fares on Railroads, there is a large increase
of revenue, and so has it been in the reduction
from the old rates of Postage, and, so it will be
in a still farther reduction of the existing rates.
Let there be a uniform rate of 5 cts. any dis
tance, or a substitution of 3 and 5 for the 6
and 10 and I feel assured that an increased
revenue to the Government would be the ul
timate result. With this reduction, however
(and this should be required even if the pres
ent rates are continued) no letter should be
sent through the mail not having a pre-paid
pcio wu UU».| II .. I——
requiring a Post Bill, with each package, and
the “ accounts of mails received and sent”—
all the account necessary would be a plain
debit and credit between each Post Master, and
the Post Office Department, of the amount of
stamps furnished to each, and the amount
sold at the end of each quarter! By this ar
rangement, thousands of dollars now paid for
printing these Blanks, would be saved, and
thousands of dollars now paid for advertising
dead letters, as well as the postage on them.
Advertising Dead Letters as well as the pos
tage on them, would be also saved! Why
are letters advertised at a cost of 2 cts. each 1
Because the Department wish to collect the
postage on them if possible. If all are pre
paid what matters it, if they are never taken
up ? The charge for transportation has been
pre-paid, and there the interest of the Govern
ment ends. I have had some experience in
the machinery of this branch of the public
service, and I feel assured, that, if these sug
gestions were carried out, the present modi
of conducting Post Office business, would b
greatly simplified, the revenue greatly increa
ed, and general satisfaction would be given '
all classes of community. As circulars, <f
are now required to be pre-paid, so should ■■■
letters be. Heretofore thousands pf cards r
circulars were sent through the mails r.
were not taken out, new those that are i 1
taken out, having been pre-paid are of no con
quence whatever I So would it be with lett
so-called dead ! Let ns then have this refot i
and with my best wishes for its success, la:
Yours Respectfully,
An Ex-Assistant Post Master.
Lexington, Ga., April 12, 1850.
The Trial of Professor Webster.—Th<
intelligent Washington correspondent of the
Pennsylvanian, in his letter of the 7th instant,
writes as follows in relation to the opinion
entertained by the Washington public, and
especially by eminent lawyers, of the Court
and Jury on the trial of Professor Webster.
That opinion, we hardly need say, is fully par
ticipated in by the most eminent of the legal
profession here:
The public JHHMiafeWaihiagab n m, up to
this time, as much excited upon the subject
of the Webster trial, as at any moment since
the jury was sworn in the case. You know
that, at this season, we have a large number
of the first lawyers of the country here, not
only in Congress, but attending the Supreme
Court, prosecuting claims before the different
branches of the Government, &c. So the
opinion of the Washington public, on questions
like those involved in the verdict and charge,
iu this case, is of peculiar interest. I there
fore write you, that there is really no division
of sentiment. From the Judges of the Su
preme Court, (who have all taken occasion to
remark, in conversation, that there was no
evidence adduced to justify the verdict,) down
to the merest third rate county court lawyer
in Congress; all condemn the court and jury,
for having committed a greater crime against
the integrity of the trial by jury, and the prin
ciples of the English criminal law, than has
been proved against Webster. The celebrated
Walter Jones, I hear, declares that this is the
first instance on record, in this country, in
which die judge, in charging on circumstantial
evidence, has failed to say to the jury, that the
accused was entitled to the benefit of any
doubt arising in their minds. If I may judge
of what is being said by the many eminent
legal gentlemen, I meet hourly, the execution
of Webster bids fair to become notorious as
the most glaring case of judicial murder ever
written of in books of history, or law; writers
of the latter being very chary of inditing
records, making against the public confidence
in the infalibility of the ermine.
A person who was fond of relating his
dreams, observed in the presence of the late
J. Randolph, that he dreamed last night of
Lice I “ That was very na« ural,” replied Ran
dolph, “ for a person almost invariably dreams
by night, of what is running in hia head all
day!”
British Rational Debt.—The national
debt of Grelt Britain does not vary material
ly from £810,000,000, or four thousand mil
lion dollars! The Baltimore American has
an interesting jetice of this immense burden.
“Some apprehensions,” it says, “are express
ed in high quarters in England that reductions
of the revenue may be attempted without re
ference to the good faith due to the public
creditor.
“A school of repudiation is growing up
amongst us,” says the London Times, “and
day by daygaining new converts, warning us
that if now—only one generation removed from
the war—we make no effort to liquidate our
debt, and are coolly scrutinizing the obligation
it will probably be much worse in the time of
our children and our children’s children.”
“Mr. Cobden declares that neither he nor
the mass of the people will endure a shifting
of the burden from property to industry; and
the Times admits that ‘it would hardly be
safe to put an ounce more on the broad back
of industry.’”
“ The financial prospects of the British gov~
omy in expenditure and the appropriatjtsiiof
two millions sterling annually to the redaction
of the national debt, present but a slow mode
of final liquidation. It has been calculated
that the investment of two millions annually
at three per cent, would pay off £780,000,000
in eigbty-aix years. But when it is remem
bered that the national debt has increased
£27,000,000 during the past twenty years,
during a general peace in Europe, the proba
bility of a regular annual saving without a
great reduction of expenditures seems very
slight. It is true that of the £27,000,000 ad
ded to the national debt within twenty years,
twenty millions went for emancipation in the
British West Indies and some seven millions
for the relief of Ireland. Yet a nation, having
such extended and complicated interests as
Great Britain, can hardly expect to get through
many years without contingencies involving
expenditures. A margin of two millions
would disappear upon the occurrence of any
difficulty in the east, in Canada, or in any
other part of the world where England has
possessions, or in the event of any maritime
dispute with a foreign power.
“A suggestion was once made in one of the
British Reviews, the Westminster, that the
best mode of liquidating the national debt
would be to convert the funded stock of the
'government into terminable annuities forape
■iod so long that the present value of the stock
ius converted, would not be impaired. The
radual decline of the value would not bring
rious loss to any class of holders.”
Remarkable Coincidence.—The Wash
jton correspondent of the Louisville Courier
i a recent letter, says:
There wrts a remarkable coincidence that
eceded the death of Mr. Calhoun a few hours,
i was the death of his fathful body servant,
.•ho, for forty years had been unfaltering in
.is devotion to his master, and, in administer
ing to all his personal wants. The infirmity
of years was upon him, and during the last
illness of Mr. Calhoun, his fatigue and duties
had been most arduous. He was taken sick
a few days since, and last night the brittle
thread ot life gave way, and his spirit, in its
journey to the other world, preceded its earth
ly master’s but a few hours.
New Discovert.—The Galveston (Texas)
News of the 15ih ultimo has an aecount of a
process by' Mr. G. Bardon, of that
place, for making what .a called •‘meal bis
cuit." The biscuit,“’as prepared, have much
the appearance of the ordinary kind or of
pilot bread. It is estimated that by this pro
cess all the nutritive properties of meat are
concentrated into less than one-fifth of their
original bulk or weight. The meat in this
form can be preserved for almost any length
of time without trouble, expense, or injury.
No salt, no other condiments whatever are
put into it, so that it is always as fresh, and
as those who have triediit assert, as finely
flavored as meat just killed.
Arrest of a xate Post Office Clerk.—
Officer Russell yesterday arrested Thomas
Jefferson Hough, late Clerk in the Phila
delphia Post Office, upon a warrant, charging
I him witk purloining letters, containing money,
from the mail. The prisoner was taken be
: fore the United States Commissioner, and was
: required to enter into recognizance in SSOOO
i for his appearance before the United States
District Court to-day, to undergo an examina
' tion.
The accused stands cbaiged with a series
of peculations from the mails, amounting to
several thousand dollars, and extending over a
period of some three years, during which
time he was employed in the Post Office. He
was removed by Mr. White, the present Post
master, a few weeks ago -(Phil. North Ame-
rican, J 9th inst.
’Eke Compromise Committee.
The following are the names of the Sena
tors who have been elected members of the
Compromise Committee under Mr. Foote’s re
solution:
Mr. Clay, chairman; Cass, Dickinson,
Bright, Webster, Cooper, Phelps, Mason,
Downs, King, Mangum, Berrien and Bell.
Correspondence of the Advertiser & Gazette.
• Washington City, March 31, 1850.
Sir—At twenty minutes after seven o’clock
.this morning, John C. Calhoun breathed his
last; and in the adjoining apartment, to that
in which I write, ail that remains of the states
man and patriot reposes in death. The man
ner of his death was a fitting close to a career
which illustrated all that was pure in mo
rals, elevated in purpose, disinterested in
jj B rMtled in the eloquence
ms' t ‘j>fb'lract ea public ser
vice. He met death in the same spirit
with which he had encountered the conflicts of
life—“without fear.” 'Without a groan, with
out a struggle, and without external evidence
of suffering, his great spirit passed to the pre
sence of his Maker. May we not confidently
cherish the belief, that one, whose every, “end
was truth’s, God’s and his country’s,” has gone
to meet “the reward of tlfe just made perfect?”
The whole country will feel his loss. The
South will weep over his tomb.
His public life is full of instruction to his
surviving countrymen—and his warning and
admonitions, heretofore uttered, though often
unheeded, will yet be listened to, as though
they came from the grave. For upwards of
thirty years, he has been prompt to raise his
voice against every act, which seemed to
threaten the constitutional rights of the South;
and fearing that our Government, like all
which had preceded it, would end in some
form of despotism, he has been incessant in
his opposition to every assertion of executive
or legislative authority, which indicated an
enlargement of its powers. It may be truly
said of him, that America has produced no
Statesman more watchful of the rights of the
Government or more jealous of those in au
thority. His strong republican tendencies,
therefore, led him constantly to seek, not how
a government could best get and maintain
power, but rather, how liberty and equality
the great objects of government, could best
be preserved to the people. That he may
have erred in the long period of bis public
life, his best friends would not deny—and who
has not? But if he erred, his erro<s were
those of the head— not those of the common
place, calculating politician which lead to
union with the strong, “that thrift may come”
—but such, as were the offspring of an over
active zeal in defence of the weak against’ the
strong, and found their excuse in the noble
impulses in which they originated! In a
struggle like this, he fought to the last—and
like a war horse, fell with the harness of bat
tle upon him.
Mr. Calhoun was scarcely able to be pre
sent when his speech, written out for him,
upon the great question of the day, was read
in the Senate. From that hour he began ra
pidly to decline, and ought never again to have
appeared in his seat. But such was his soli
citude for the honor and interests of our in
jured section,he would not cohsent to be absent.
He went again to the Senate, and with a will
and purpose, equal tqihat of his hotter days
entered the eweiting arena‘ofde%atefn <let®™wT
of his positions. In this renewed struggle,
the sad spectacle was presented of one, upon
whom the hand of the common destroyer had
for weeks been dealing blows; feeble, worn,
and emanciated, defending himself against
the attacks of health and strength. A triumph
even if it were claimed, in such a case as this
would yield but barren honors; and be counted
as nought, when the impartial judgment of the
public shall have rendered its verdict.
I discover from the press of the South, in
in some quarters, as well as in the North, that
the suggestion of Mr. Calhoun, that to settle
the questions between North and South effec
tually, the Constitution should be amended, to
enable the South to protect itself, as it could
do before the equilibrium was destroyed in the
Senate, has met with disfavor. Ido not my
self believe that there is any necessity for
such an amendment, so long as the govern
ment is administered according to the true
intent and meaning of the Constitution. But
from the sentiments daily put forth by the
men of the North, one would almost begin to
doubt the security which is furnished by mere
parchment guarantees. The constitutional
right of Congress to legislate on questions of
slavery ; the will of a majority without refe
rence to, and in defiance of the constitution ;
the ascendancy of Mexican law in our acquir
ed territory, over the great public law of the
land, the constitution; a fancied responsibili
ty on the part of the government for the sin
of slavery, and a corresponding obligation to
get rid of it; and the supremacy of an ideal
divine law, enforcing the same duty, are
among the crude heresies, which are being
taught as catholic, and claimed as the means
or sources of power, to make war upon our
institutions. If these doctrines become fully
established, and a wild fanaticism, or the lust
of power .seeks to enforce them, I would ask,
if, in view of the dangers which menace us,
something of the sort would not be indispen
sable to our safe'y ? In such an event, which
may God avert! but three alternatives would
be presented to the South—either to insist
upon new safeguards, or to submit to the threat
ened wrong, or cease to look for protection
longer to a government which had failed of
its objects. “To this complexion, must it
come at last,” unless the public sentiment of
the North is reformed, and a returning sense
of justice shall resume its sway in the coun
cils of the nation. It was in this aspect of the
case that Mr. Calhoun made his suggestion,
and 1 am persuaded that, viewed in that light,
no friend of the South will differ with him.
But be the case as it may, whether the
South is to triumph or be overthrown, the
scene as to him has closed forever. God
grant that the spirit which animated him while
in life, may never be extinguished in the heart
ot the South! For the straggle is not yet
ended, and I fear will never be, so long as
the growling fanaticism of the North has food
to feed upon. But henceforth, those who
seek to degrade us, must cease the foul slang
with which our purposes were assailed. They
can no longer charge every man who would
defend the institutions of the South with hav
ing no higher motive than to make John C.
Calhoun the “ President of a Southern Re
public.” The scene will now be changed—
the passion and the prejudice which were in
-1 volved in the fierce party conflicts in which
he performed so conspicuous a part, will all
1 pass with him to the grave. And those who
survive him, in that spirit of charity, which
1 is due to the dead, will seek for his motives
' through his public acta and recorded opinions
—and borrow from them new supplies of pa
-1 triotism, to fight the battle of constitutional
' liberty. Truly yours,
1 S. W. HARRIS.
1 Col. J. J. Seibles.
A young and beautiful damsel near Frank
fort Ky., having two lovers, and not knowing
which to prefer, settled the matter by marry
ing one and eloping with the other.
Living Without Brains.—As the late Pro
fessor H. was walking near Edinburgh, he
met one of those beings usually called fools.
“Pray,” says the Professor, accosting him,
“how long can a person live without brains?”
“I dinna ken,” replied the fellow, scratch
ing his head—"how long have you lived your
self sir?”
NUMBER 18.
Oitorial (Jorreapaniime.
Macon, Ga., April 20,1850.
It is no easy matter towrite a readable let
ter from Macon to Augusta. This city and
its environs have been sketched in letters to
Augusta until it has became a thrice told
tale, and there is nothing left for me to tell
you, with which to redeem my promise, to
<give you the JncHents of interest that might
enliven my trip. There is^me prominent
fact, however, that fascinates strangers with
Macon, and were it told “ a thousand and one”
times, it would even then deserve to be repeat
ed. I allude to the fact, universally admitted,
that to Macon belongs the very best hotels in
Georgia. lam unable to say any thing about
the Washington Hall and its attentive and
gentlemanly proprietors, but it is bound to be
an excellent house. No other kind of a house
could compete with the Floyd. This hotel
has the reputation of being the best kept hotel
in Georgia. It contains eighty rooms, and
Mr. Bufbrd informs me he can entertain three
hundred people. There is but one way jus
tice can be done to the table ; that it is to set
down to it, and then one is very apt to do great
injustice to himself. A better idea can be had
from Messrs. Buford & Williams’ table of
what our country can and does produce, than
the market house can give at the best market
hour. Then the cooking is done up “ brown”
•r “ rare,” “as you like it.” The servants
are always where you want them, and whether
in the ordinary or elsewhere, are drilled to per
fection. No man, however fastidious, can
fail to be pleased with the reception he meets,
and the attention he receives at this house.
A new hotel, to be called the Lanier House,
will be opened here in about three weeks.
This building cost $28,000. The furniture
cost SB,OOO. It is perhaps got up in a style
superior to any thing of the kind in the State.
A telegraph communicates from the office
with every room in the house. The ordinaries
are unusually large. It contains 90 rooms,
with a Bath House attached to it.
The parlors are spacious and elegant, and
the house from the garret to the cellar admira
bly constructed for convenience and comfort.
When this splendid establishment gets in full
blast, competition wil 1 doubtless run so high
it will be dangerous for a stranger to land at
the depot at all, for while one man is fishing
for him in the politest manner imaginable, an
other might gig him. He can always however
I was at Thomaston at court last week, arid |
on Tuesday evening last attended a tempe
rance meeting, and heard his Honor Judge
Stark and his ex-honor Judge Floyd address
the people on the subject. Judge Stark Is
full of fun to the brim, and whenever he opens
his mouth it has to eorne. Notwithstanding,
he handled the subject with dignity, solemnity,
and marked ability, yet he kept the house in a
continual roar for an hour and a half. Judge
Floyd was brief, practical and happy. His
remarks too met a dordial welcome, and were
answered with repeated rounds of applause.
P. S. I cannot omit to mention the differ
ence between the Georgia Railroad and all
other Railroads in Georgia, or any where else.
The cars between Augusta and Atlanta are
the best in the United States, and they are in
the command of as polite and attentive, and
vigilant officers as a traveller ever meets with.
The conductors are pleasant gentlemen, and
we have frequently noticed them manifesting
a great solicitude for the comfort of a single
passenger. This is unusual with men deal
ing with thousands of strangers daity. D.
[For the Republic.]
Lines in Absence.
BY THOMAS J. TINSLEY.
Far ever intervening space,
My heart seeks thine, sweet Abra, now;
In dreams last night, I saw thy face,
And prest my lips upon thy brow.
But woke this morn to notice only,
That dreams can leave us yet more lonely.
The minstrel sweeps his Dorian lute,
And maidens touch the softer lyre ;
But music and its charms are mute,
To such my pulse will beat no higher.
In every pause of raptured strings,
yy thoughts speed back to dearer springs.
Hope smiled upon our parting gaze,
And bade each secret pang abate—
And henceforth her magic phase.
Through all the tuiata ot clouded late.
Yet hope! for every rolling year
Brings home the loved and lost more near.
I feel no change upon my brow,
Mid passing scenes so gay and vain,
I think of thee, fair Abra, now,
And hope for happier hours again.
Oh ! Time, with all your gifts so fair,
Link close her heart to mine that breathes for
it in prayer.
Stripping to it. —A Western-New-York
correspondent of the N. Y. Spirit of the Times,
does not think “that any of the lost stories,”
for which that capital journal is so famous,
“can beat ene told by Justice G—of the Sixth
District. He was holding the summer circut
in Chenango County. The day was very hot
and sultry. A very fa>. old lady was caned
upon the stand as a > liness. She took a seat,
pulled out a handkerchief, and tried to wipe
off the perspiration from her face, but the
more she rubbed, the redder her face grew, and
the faster the great drops of sweat rolled
down. At length, in a perfect agony of heat,
she began to untie her bonnet-strings.buther
“fingers were ail thumbs,” and she only suc
ceeded in tying a hard knot. Finally she
turned to the judge, who is celebrated for his
urbanity and kindness to the sex, and asked
him to untie it for her, which of course he
did.
“‘There, thank ye, Judge,” said the old lady,
with a profound courtesy; “when I have any
thing to do, I always like to strip to it!”
The court immediately took a recess.
A “stuck up” sort of genius entered a shop
not lon, since and turning up his nose at
some apples in the window, exclaimed—
“ Are these apples fit for a hog to eat ? ”
“ I don’t know; try them and see,” was the
instant reply of the shopkeeper.
J. .J. Hooper, Eos).
This gentleman, who was called upon some
time since to show cause why he should not be
“showed up” in Barnum’s Museum, by the
side of the fat girl and Boa Constrictor has
become wrothy on the subject and comes out
in the last number of the Chambers Tribune,
of which paper he is Editor, in a long ‘leadet*
in defence of his outward man. Wb con
fess that he has made a clear case of it and
would recommend that he be honorably ac
quitted of the charge of supreme ugliness
which was brought against him by ‘Big Ugly?
He says, “our features, figure and dress
have been so much ridiculed, reviled, satyrized
burk squed and misrepresented, that we are
not certain enough of our personal indentity
to undertake our own defence. Verily we
have fallen upon evil days—we have been as
sailed by graceless vagabonds—grinned at by
men far uglier than ourself—pointed at by
urchins with protruded tails of white domestic
—and lastly, even the quadrupedal canines,
taking their cue from the biped, “bark at ns,” •
as we go “halting” by.
’ We will make one remark, in sober earn
estness, on this subject, and that is, that more
ugly men have been rejoiced by these carica
tures of our poor self, than we could ever have
imagined resided in the State. They have
been brought out of their hiding places, by the
rumor of a man uglier than themselves. All
around the Circuit, they have thronged the
Court Houses—the wall-eyed, pug nosed and A
humpbacked, the halt and the maimed, the®
pop-eyed, the brandy nosed and the hogjawed J
—To see us! We are tired of paying postage®
on diplomas from “Ugly Clubs” and congra-fl
tulatory letters from men who “respect their®
fellows” without regard to looks,” and from®
ladies who “have been considered plain by®
many of their acquaintances.” We are not aV
candidate, and so do not need the votes of tha||
former—and not being a bachelor we are not[
permitted to solcce ourself with the sympathy •
of the latter. 7
We have been worried enough, albeit wr
as welt as the best. We ard willl
ing to be quits; bitt if wc are to bp torments®
forever, then wo tell our persecutors they!
had better never play cards or follow any oihes
loose practices in the Ninth Judical Circuit—!
if they do (as old Stephen O’K y used to
say) may we “be , if we don’t make it
salty on them.” %
Responding to the set; fa\, we come into
court here, and say that Judgment final should
not go against us in this behalf—because tho*
confessing to a moderate degree of ugliness
we are by no means the satyr we have been
represented to be; that we are a “fair average”
as to looks, of the editorial fraternity; and that
our traducer, Clitherall, is far more worthy of.
Barnum’s manipulations, than ourself. We
therefore ask to be discharged: and if the ugly
monos the State want to elect a flag-bearer,
we beg leave to put in nomination the afore
said Aleck—a gentleman whose features are
so defiant of ail analogy, that it may be said of
them, they have “ no likeness in the Heavens
above, on the earth beneath, or in the waters
under the earth.” The monsters of classic
fable become mere insipid crudities when ex
hibited to the imagination of one who has seen
him; and wherever he goes, it is a work of
supererogation to “turn loose the Gyaacutus.”
Bigamy.—The California Widow.—
From the New York Express we take tbe fol
lowing as a queer case already briefly men
tioned :
Two ways of Telling a Story.—First. —
Some time since a person named Mott, went
to California, leaving behind him a wife and
three children at Newark, N. J. Mr. Mott,
was successful, realized $25,000, and at va
rious times remitted the sum of S7OO. Sat
isfied with his acquisition, hareturned home,
but found a Mr. Jackson married to his wife,
and living in the upper part of the city. Both
were at once arrested ; the lady for bigamy,
and the man for felony. This occurred on
Tuesday.
Second.—About two weeks ago Mr. Mott
returned from California, and founds gentle
man named Jackson, too intimate with hist
wife, at Newark, and forthwith put him out of
his house. After some conversation, howev-t——
er, with his wife,Mr. Mott, signed the follow
ing document:
Newark, N. J., March 12,1860.
This is to certify that I, Henry Mott, of Sag
Harbor, L. 1., do hereby agree to disunite my
self from my wife, Harriet Elvenia Mott, as
Sis either of us may live, I having broken,
never to put myself in her way, never to "visit"
her, whenever she may see fit to reside, as she
is clear of the name I bear in the sight of God
and man; I promise never to correspond with
her, except in forwarding drafts of money,
which I promise to pay her until the sum of
ten thousand dollars be paid. This I faithfully
promise to pay in consideration of Harriet El
venia Mott, keeping dormant certain secrets
known to her. Henry Mott.
In presence of C. H. Halsey, Jr.
On the strength of these documents, which
certainly were a kind of roving commission,
the lady come to this city, and would have bad
no trouble probably, had she not chosen to get
married again. There was some difficulty in
proving the bigamy, so she was discharged.
Mr. Jackson was, however, detained.
Another Warning.—We had occasion,
some months since, to remonstrate against the
dangerous practice of allowing the .use of fire
arms to boys toe young to understand their
danger and guard against it. We have now
to record another instance of the fatal conse
quences of such indulgence, and as the cases
for its application are abundant, we hope it
will not go unheeded. A young lad, the son
of Mr. John Florence, of this county, on re
turning from a hunt, on Friday last, went into
the field where the negoes were at work to ex
hibit his game. Wb ie doing so, one of the
negroes, a valuable man, discovered that the
gun was fully sprung, at the same time ad
vancing to aid him in letting down the ham
mer. When within a few feet the gun went
off, and discharged its entire contents into the
breast of the negro, which caused his imme
diate death.—Washington (Wilkes Co.) Gaz.
A negro woman, the property of Mr, John
Barnett, of this county, wus drown&d on Sat
urday last.—lbid.
Couldn’t cure Hpu—A good story is told
in a Philadelphia paper of the treatment of a
drunken husband by his amiable spouse.
Yfter trying various expedients, all to no pur
pose, to cure her husband’s habitual drunken
ness, she at last bethought herself of another
plan for making a reformed drunkard of her
lord. She engaged a watchman, for a stipu
lated reward, to carry Philander to the watch
house, while he was yet in a state of insensi
bility, and to frighten him a little when he
recovered. Injjqpsequeryje, of This arrange—
ment, Philander waked up about eleven o’clock
at night, and found himself lying on a pine
bench in a dim and strange apartment. Rai
sing himself on one elbow, he looked around
till his eyes rested on u man seated by a stove
smoking a cigar.
“Where am I?” said Philander.
“ In a medical college,” answered, the cigar
smoker.
“ What a doing there ? ”
“ Going to be cut up.”
“ How comes that ? ”
“ Why, you died yesterday, while you wera
drunk, and we bought your body ’to make
anatomy.
“ It's a lie; I’m not dead.”
“No matter; we bought your carcass front
your wife, who has a right to sell it, for it’a
all the good she could ever make of you. If
you’re not dead, that’s not the fault of the doc
tors, and they’ll cut you up dead or alive.”
“ You will do it, eh ! ” asked the old sot.
“ Ay, to be sure we will; now directly,’*
was the resolute answer.
“ Well, can’t you let me have a little Some
thing to drink before you begin ? ”
.. speech salisfi,,d ‘he watchman
that 1 Inlander was a hopeless case; and as
his reward was dependent on his successful
treatment of the patient, ho was not a little
chagrined at the result; so with no gentle
handling he tumbled the irreformable inebriate
out of the watch house.
Death of a Revolutionary Soldier!—
Died, in Clarke county, on the Bth day of April,
1850, Joshua A. Elder, Sen., in the 89th year
of his age.
He was born in the State of Virginia, and
served as a soldier in the war of the Revo
lution-having been engaged in several of the
ever memorable battles of that period, and
having had the satisfaction of assisting in the
capture, and witnessing the surrender of Corn
wallis.