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’ Aaag^gSSSSBSSSSBBSffSSX ——— (gommeriiat Jutrlligencc. 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. Hll l I l It I E* J RI II if fj 11 Jj > It/Uli UlUJive n JAMES M. SMYTHE, Proprietor. ‘“XT WWcl 3 0<930U rUO I . bWOteb tO N C WO, politico, WFAS&T"* 1 - ■ . assistant editor. ®tnaol InteUtgence, agnntttua, tot. Trrm»-Two hollars a year, inrariabiy in advance. .Advertisements inserted at the custo- Or $2,50 if not paid within two months 4 Tri-Weekly, per annum in advance $4 JOO i’ ITIHI*V I’A'i’tf*® Or $5.00 if not paid within two months. '!■ e r ~« ... . jv, • 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.