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€nggtitatimmligt K Xtjiuhlir. JAMES GARDNER. JR . ) and 5 Editors. JAMES M. SMYTHE, ) THE WIFE'S APPEAL. »r miss sarah i. ci.ark I'm thinking, Charles, tin just a year- Ur will he very soon — Since first yon told me of your love, One glorious day in June. All nature seemed to share our Miss— The skies hung warm above— The winds from opening roses bore The very breath of love. tVe sought tho still deep forest shades, Within whoso leafy gloom Few ardent sunbeams stole, to kiss The young buds into bloom. The birds caught up our tonos of lovo in song not half as sweet, And earth’s green cariict, violot flower'd, It scarcely felt our feet. Rut, apropos of carpets, Charles, I looked at some to-day. Which you will purchase, won t you dear, Before our next soiree t And then, remember you, how lost In love’s delicious dream, Wo long stood silently besidu A gently gliding stream '■ Twas nature’s mirror; when your gate No longer 1 could bear, I modestly cast down my eyes, Yet but to meet it there. And, apropos of mirrors, lovo, The dear gill of your mother, Is quite old-fashioned—and, to-day, I ordered home another. Ab, well do I remember, Charles, When first your arm stole round mo; You little dreamed how long your soul In golden chains had bound me. Hut. aiiro|sis of chains, my own, At flank s store, last week, I (mind the sweetest, love !—so rich, ■So tasteful and unique I The workmanship is most superb— The gold most fine and pure 1 quite lung, Charles, to see that chain Suspend your miniature. ( heard sad news while you were out; My nerves are much affected ; You know the navy officer I onco for you rejected '! Driven to despair by your success. Made desperate by my scorn, Ho went to sea, ami him been lost In passing round Cape Horn. Ah, apropos of capes, uiy love, 1 saw one in Broadway, Os lace as fine as though twas wove Os moonlight by n fay. You'll purchase me the exquisite thing, Twill suit your taste completely ; About tho heart that loves you, Charles, Twill rise and fall so sweetly. | From the Washington Union | Kossuth and tho Administration. In another part of our pa|ier our readers will find, copied from the National Intelligencer of yesterday, three articles in relation to the illus trious Hungarian patriot, which arc of great in terest and importance. They arc : a violent and defamatory letter against Kossuth, written by an "attarhr in government service abroad ;” the com ments of the New York Times, written in regret and censure ol that letter, and accompanying its publication; anil, finally, the comments of the National Intelligencer, accompanying the trans fer to its colinns of the whole publication from the lime.. A --L-i—Al-llj- position to the Times, both the spirit and pnr|>oit ol the letter and its publication ! The appearance of these articles in the oldest and most influen tial central organ of the whig party and the whig administration must he taken m connexion with the fact that both ol the whig organs here have refused to publish, or in any way to notice, the noble Address of Kossuth to the American Peo ple, which some two weeks since we issed in our columns, and which, as published by us, lias been circulated all over the country by the leading de mocratic presses, and hailed with enthusiasm by the democratic sentiment of the country, while the original of the document is designed and des tined to he deposited among the archives of the representatives of the people at Washington. These facts, as we conceive, fully prove that the administration not only refuses to sympathize with the view taken by the |ieople of the 11 un gariui! hero and his cause, hut has determined to set its face against this eminent niaa, whom Congress has invited to our shores, and to lendits countenance to those who denounce him as a re bel. a demagogue, and a desperate disturber of the public peace! In connexion with all this, there prevails an mipluasant, though apparently au thentic rumor—we shall he gratified if it turn out to lie only a rumor—that both the Austrian and Prussian governments have signified to their able and distinguished representatives here, that those governments will regard as offensive any demonstration in favor of Kossuth by' the execu tive government of the United States, and espe cially that their jwsports must he demanded, should a public reception he given to Kossuth by llie President. In this state of th<; ease—and while these re buts of foreign menace in this matter are out standing and not contradicted—the administration sees fit to put forth, in the columns of its chief organ, in connexion with a letter of unmeasured official or semi-official abuse of Kossuth, the fol lowing explicit declaration that the invitation to him by our government to c me to this country, and the offer ol a public ship to convey him and his companions hither, are not to be taken as any evidence whatever of sympathy in his heroic efforts, or approval of the cause with which his name is so gloriously identified, but are, on the contrary, merely acts of mercy and compassion, in view ol his past and prospective “persecution” and sufferings as a prisoner! ’Ti the object of the offer by Congress to Kos suth and his associates of a passage to the United Mates was anything more than to afford them the means of readmit; an asylum from persecution a home in which, identified with the native repub licans of the United States, they might become respected and protected citizens—which, the Times appears to intimate, would ‘indicate a gross misapprehension ol the character and position' ol Kossuth—why, then, we must say, uv hare entire ly misunderstood both the mot ire and the action yf Congress, and the feeling of the people of the Uuited States , an that matter'' We apprehend that it will soon fully appear that the administration, in using this language in regard to the coming ol’Kossuth to this coun try, has most gravely and completely ■‘misun derstood” in this matter ‘‘liotli the motive and the action ol Congress, and the feeling of the people.” Certainly, as the Intelligencer alleges. “Congress never intended to enlist this govern ment or this people in any scheme of Kossuth and his associates for revolutionizing Europe.” There is no pretence or suspicion of any such “intention” on the part of Congress; and nothing that has been done, either by our government or our people, makes any such formal disclaimer in the slightest degree necessary. But we appre hend tfiat by its public action in this case Con gress did intend to mark, and did most signally and rightfully mark, its deliberate approval of a public cause, and its sincere and admiring sym pathy with the patriotic heroism of a public mau. Such, too. the admiration will find to be “the feeling of the people in that matter.” They feel that while despotic Russia could fatally inter vene, with the armed hand, to throttle the nas cent republicanism of Hungary, the United States were in no way forbidden, either by pub lic policy or public law, to honor, to cheer, and to < console its illustrtious though unfortunate champ- l ion. They feel, too, that Washington, in warn ing his countrymen to avoid “entangling alli ances” with Eurpean powers, never uttered, and could not have been brought to utter, any sentiment repugnant to such a demonstration of American interest in the cause of public liberty j throughout the world. They feel, finally, that ■ the action of their representatives in Congress to- ; wards Kossuth has been a befitting, and no more than a befitting, manifestation of our national 1 sense lioth of the merits ofhis great cause and of our right as a nation to he heard abroad in rela tion to it; and when the administration, through ' the columns of its organ, or in any other form, at the dictation of Austria and Prussia, or at any ! other dictation, seeks to lower the tone of that ! action of Congress into a mere act of mercy and j compassion towards a presecuted and suffering ! prisoner, the administration in so doing utterly fails to resjiond to the popular sentiment, and to uphold the national dignity, and is recreant at once to the cause of free institutions, to its own character, and to its constitutional obligations as the executive representative of the American people. Filial Affection. A few days since, as 1 was carelessly passing through the beautiful cemetery at Cleveland, and reading the silent memories of the dead, my at tention was arrested by a monument represen ting a beautiful little child that hail fallen asleep while strewing flowers on the grave of its moth er. The affecting tale was depicted in the sculp tured marble too plainly to he mistaken. 1 inquired of the Sexton the reason of the de sign, who informed me that the mother of that child died w hen she was hut six years old. Her father, at the earnest solicitation of his sister, finally consented to part with his little daughter, and let her go and live with her aunt in Machi gan. sad foreboding told the widowed father it. would lie the last parting; and as the little girl hid litre well, and stepped on hoard the steamboat \ that was to carry her to her new home, the tears coursing down the lather’s cheeks, told of a sor- : rowful heart. The little child, as the boat left the moorings, seeing the distress of her lather, 1 called to him—don't cry, pa, 1 will come hack soon.” Scarcely had she reaehed her new home when she was seized with a sickness so violent and i rapid m its termination that the same mail that informed her lather of her sickness also brought the sad intelligence of her death. Just as the rattling throat gave warning notice of the death struggle, the little sufferer looked up , into the face other aunt, and evidently was j anxious to say something which her feelings lather Ilian her weakness prevented. Her aunt j asked her what she wanted to say. “Oh, it's no matter,” said the little sufferer; ■‘but when /am dead, tell pa to bury me by the side of mother.” I This was the last struggle of nature—she was 1 dead. “That child,” said the Sexton, as he brushed a tear from his eye, “was my little daughter.” The Man-Balloon. Our lively French friends extract from out ol everything, generally at the expense of that un- ! fortunate being; the husband of his wife; a being, | whose mission in France seems to lie to supply j the journalists with an inexhaustible subject of lidicule. Everything is twisted into this some- j what demoralizing channel of public instruction. ! Latterly the lialoou mania has furnished a large j quota of lively anecdotes illustrative of the weak- j ness and follies of Parisian Benedicts. As a specimen, we select the following as it is told by I*. Fiorento in the pages ofLe Phare. Whilst an immense balloon was filling in the Champ de-Mars, the impatient crowd were amus ed, by the sending lip of a small figure of a man, the perfect resemblance ot'M. Thiers without the sectaries. The little man being filled with gas, rose majestically into the air. and was soon lost to view amongst the clouds. His adventures, which became known the nextday, were curious. Thanks to u strong and favoring gale which im pelled him on his course, the little Imlloon-muii arrived the same afternoon in sight of a line country house in the neighborhood of Biovre. It was near the hour of dinner, and the lady of the mansion, who naturally thought herselt perfectly safe in her own chamber, was occupied in the mysteries ol her toilet. It was a warm day. and she had opened one of the windows, which look ed out upon the park, and was sale from any pryingeyes. Whilst tranquilly engaged by the assistance of a corset lacing, in reducing her waist to a size and shape that w ould reflect credit on her husband's tasle, she was suddenly startled by a blast of wind followed by a strange noise, anil immediately tho casement was thrown open, and our little balloon man enters her chain her, unan nounced. The lady utters a cry of terror and throwsa shawl over her shoulders; the little man driven by the wind throws himself uiion the unhappy woman, who screaming louder than ever, pushes him off nml he conceals himself un der the bed. Just as the wife, in a supplicating voice, says to this novel DoiiJuan : “Aid Monsieur, go, go away, or you will ruin me!” The husband, furious, rushed in, crying: “Ah! the wretch 1 have him now.” And goes in search of his sword to run him through the body. The wife, more dead than alive reiterates in the midst of sobs: "Fly, fly! Monsieur, and spare me the sight of a bloody tragedy.” The husband arrives armed to the teeth, fol lowed by his whole household, who seek to mollify his anger. “Ah! where is he? where has the coward con cealed himself?” \\ liilsl two ol his irieuds hold the husband. , a third stooping down perceives our little friend. who, for good cause, utters not a word, and catchig him by a leg drags him forth from Ins concealment, when lo Monsieur Balloon, no longer held down by the bedstead, raises him self majestically to the ceiling, to the immense amusement of the spectators, whilst the jioor jealous husband slinks away sword aud all heartily ashamed of his causeless wrath. Advice to Youno Merchants.— Prove by your life that a merchant can live a life of love ot truth aud heaven. There is nothing intrinsi cally wrong in wishing for pecuniary success, and it is otten a good feeling at bottom which stimulates it. All young men wish to obtain an influence, to gain a standing in the community : all their hopes of usefulness rest on that. There tore they wish to stand well at everv point; to come up to all the current standards' to have no body look down on them on any ground. Even a wise man feel something of this. If one went to teach a savage nation, who had no standard of merit but skill with the how aud arrow, one would naturally like to lie found a good marks man ; first equal or excel them on their own ground, and then lead them a step farther. So a young man in this community, wishing to do as others do, belongs to a military company or an Odd Fellows’ Lodge, or is a vote distributor every November, or gets chosen to General l ourt, il possible—hut aliove all makes money ——and then he has earned his freedom, stands on his own foundation, and no one need look down on him. He has gained “an independence” li- : terally. So far so good, hut the danger!—the danger is ! that the end is forgotten in the means, and by j the time lie has got money, he has forgotten how j to use it; he wauls general enlightenment, thought, reading, observation, knowledge of so- j ciety, practical beneficence, faith in any new > idea. Poor creature! he has staid underground j in his gold mine till his eyes are blind as the sightless lislies of Mammoth Cave; and so, find ing that lie can not escape out of money making ' into anything else, he goes back to that again and burrows a little more. But the story (you say) this disastrous change : will never come to me. 1 will not he one of those ; old men yonder, who have spun their souls into gold, and point to that as the only result of their life's career.” But do you know that every one of those old men said the same thing when he 1 was young! Few men are born as base as the j exclusive love of money-making renders many. Guaid against the temptations which have made them what they are. Remember these stern strong words of Old Scripture: “As a nail sticketh fast between the stones of a wall, so doth sin stick | close between buying and selling.’’ Buy and : sell with your inner eyes open as well as | your outer—lest while you protect yourself from being cheated by your neighbor, you cheat your self out ol something more precious than he can ever get from you. Among the ancients it is j said that Plutus, protector of merchants, was also God of lies, and he still teaches his followers to ■ deceive themselves quite as often as they deceive ! each other. I R well to be independent; but it is a sham j independence which is bought with money. It : is well to show what good can be done with | wealth, but it is better to show what good can 1 | be done without it. Whence liave come the great example of this world thus far, lrom the rich or from the pool' Ponder the answer of i St. Thomas Aquinas to the prelate who once i exhibited to him great vessels of precious coins, and said: “Behold, Master Thomas, now can the Church no longer say, as Peter said, ‘Silver and gold have 1 none!’ ” “Is true,” replied the holy j man, “neither can she say what immediately fol lows, ‘ln the name of Jesus Christ, rise up and walk!’ ” — Hunt's Merchant's Magazine. AUGUSTA, GA. SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 16. THE LA.RGEST CIRCULATION IN THE STATE. 1 ET* We received no papers by last evening’s mail from offices North of Charleston. .Mr, Toombs—The Democrats. | We furnished, yesterday morning, a few ex | tracts from Mr. Toombs’ speech of July Ist. 1 IS 18, to show how he darkened into rage when ; democracy was his theme. We propose, this ! morning, to lay before our readers a few more elegant extracts from the same speech. For these honors, heaped so lustrously anil lavishly j upon the democrats, lie scarcely expected such I honors as democrats have aided in heaping iqion him. Did he win them by the truths, the ! wisdom, and the fairness of that speech of forty eight? Democrats certainly stood by their prin -1 ciple and their llag, as faithfully after it was de livered, as before ' What did he charge u|>ou you ? Foul, dark, fell corruption. He charged j you with betraying liberty—the most uublush ; ing imposture—the foulest deception and hypo- I cricy—and with a course of policy calculated to sink the character of the nation, and endanger its existence. Whatever bolts for evil Mr. Toombs | possessed, he hurled at democrat* in all the fury :ol his wrath. Some of you have listened to j him in days past face to face. If he did not I wound you then, it was because he could not do | it. The vocabulary atlbnls no epithets of | abuse that lie did not heap upon you. You re ■ member it well, some of you ' There were no I supposed errors in your principles that he did not drag forth deformed, carricatured, to your face, to mock and insult you. Your motives were iui|ieaclied, your integrity impugned. You re member it. The democrats of Georgia cannot j forget these facts, and they will sooner stand by , their tried trieuds than selfish adventurers, who, i , having scorned, now flatter them for their votes. • Mr.Toombs said: Those now lielore me have the distinctie , characteristics ol their predecessor*! strongly de , volopcd. It will be abmitted by all lair and ••un did men that party creeds, if made at all, should , be certain and explicit; should be iqion points of difference between parties, and should plainly , and distinctly set forth the opinions of those I who promulgate them, upon the questions of I which they speak. Any ambiguity in them. . j fairly referable to design, is conclusive evidence ,I of a fraudulent intent. Tested by these plain I and obvious and just principles, 1 shall proceed to show that these Baltimore resolutions are dis graceful to their authors, and insulting to the in telligence of the people: that they were inten ded to be ambiguous—to cover up, under con venient generalities, the discordant sentiments of the Democratic party, in order that they might be expounded differently in different sections of the Union—upon at least the three greatest i questions ol national policy and popular excite ment —the questions of internal improvement , | by the General Government, the tan It; and i slavery in the territories. i : Here Le charged the representatives of the I great democratic party of the Union with iiUcn | ttonal fraud,nm\ declares the resolutions passed by i 1 them as 'Ungraceful to their authors and insulting 1 .to the intelligence of the people. This charge will’ j. I ol course, apply to the whole democratic party, j tor they all, in mass, rallied under and supported . j those resolutions. Again he said : > j The first affiirms what nobody denies; the | second denies what nobody affirms; and the ■ : third asserts what nobody tielieves. I do not | say that the classification is altogether accurate , I tor there is scarcely a truth in them without a :> subtle admixture of error. 1 therefore submit i \wth the «jualitication that‘'mixed masses are " ; to be denominated by the greater quantity” > the first resolution belongs to the last elassifica - j tion; it asserts “that the American Democracy • j place their trust in the intelligence, the patriot r i ism, and the discriminating justice of the Ameri , | can people.” The second affirms the first to be a distinctive feature of the politcal creed of De mocracy, and charges adverse opinions to these iqion their opponents. It was ever thus with > deceivers! Judas betrayed with a kiss; and fawn ing and llatterv have ever, in all ages and in all ’ climes, been the weapons with which syco phants and demagogues have won their way to place and power. In a popular government, the confidence of the people must be won before they • can be betrayed;and flattery is a ready expedient I to those who have no solid claims to that confi ; deuce. Ihe third resolution contains an “infinite t : de »* ol nothing;” and is, perhaps, only intended .■' to herald in with a ilourish the nine Delphic ' I teets. * Thunder and blazes! Why Mr. Toombs was i , certainly thinking then of the serious saying that | man is born to die, and bethought that, a good ’ ; time to abridge the political lives, at least, of | the democrats. Demotrats and Judas put together ! I W liy, democrats, can you follow such a ccinmen- I tutor upon your acts ? Those of you that can, j ought to subscribe to build a monument to your ! own shame. He said further: Local prejudices, and supposed sectional inter ests, are their ordinary guides in constitutional ; construction, but Executive interpretation seems i to he their only infallible rule. These self-styled i strict constructionists have, with singular unaui i mity, supported the whole foreign policy of Mr. t Polk, a policy nraiked at every step by the grossest and most unwarrantable usurpation of powers not conferred iqioii him by the Constitu tion. | Am I uncharitable, then, in saying, at least as far as this resolution is concerned, that it was j not intended to settle, but to tolearte differences: ; not to assert a principle, but to cover a tick; not to be understood, but expounded to suit the dif ferent tastes ol internal improvement and anti internal imrovement men! The Democrats of Georgia are against these improvements; the Democrats of Illinois and Indiana, and other States, are favorable to them. Neither could yield anything upon the question, without in juring the party at home. This resolution is the child of that necessity: as their constituents could not agree, they determined to cheat them. There it is, democrats of Georgia. Tricks, and cheating! Why in Mr. Toombs' opinion, de mocracy must have been the worst pimp of pow er, the most unblushing prostitute to spoils and office, that ever disgraced the political annals of the world. Mr. Toombs’ candidate so wise and firm, and lofty of character , illustrated in the end his saga city in aiding in his election. What a mighty fait was there! But a few short months, after his elevation to the Presiden tial chair, Mr. Toombs publicly pronounced him in Georgia to fie a traitor! That was a very fioor beginning “to settle this Wire legacy of democratic misrule, ” (fc. We close with this, the extracts from]this ce lebrated anti-democratic speech of Mr. Toombs. They afford only a moderate idea ol his opinions of democracy. His genius never shone more brightly than in its keen and fiery assaults upon the democrats, except in his celebrated speech of the 27th of February, 1850, in defence of South ern rights. His wits have been put to the test to justify his backing out from his positions then, and we think they will fail to suggest a good reason why he should either seek, or secure, the support ol his dearly beloved friemls the democrats. The Democratic party, since the day that the breath of life was breatlied into it by Mr. Van Buren, have never held power a single year without creating a new national debt, or enlarg ing their own unpaid old one. Let the people remember Mr. Van Buren's administration. There is nodariger in their forgetting Mr. Polk’s. The tax-gatherer wiil keep him green in the recollection of this genaration at the least. Let us unite and throw overboard the authors of this mischief, and elect our candidate; his wisdom and firmness, his lofty character and un sullied purity, will be a tower of strength to prudent and conciliatory counsels. Then I doubt not, by looking to the past as a guide to the fu ture, and emulating the spirit which brought our fathers together to frame that Constitution we sit here to-day to administer, we shall be able to settle this bitter legacy of Democratic misrule upon a basis honorable to ourselves and our constituents,and which will secure the peace, harmony, and prosperity of our country. Gditorial Correspondence. Mim.edgevii.le, Nov. 13, 1851. l’he Legislature was not in session yesterday, both branches having adjourned according to custom, to enable tbe members to attend the Commencement Exercises of Oglethorpe Uni versity, which took place yesterday. The day was raw and cold, but notwithstanding, the occa sion was honored by the presence of nearly the usual number of ladies and gentlemen, sedate matrons and gay belles and beauties, grey haired lathers and dashing young men. Among the distinguished citizens present, we noticed Ex-Governor Gilmer. Upon the stage were Gov. Cobb, Rev. Dr. Geo. F. Pierce, Judge Johnson, Judge Sayre, Judge James Jackson, ami other gentlemen of less distinction. The following young gentlemen of the Gradu ating Class, delivered oiations: C. T. Bannerman, Florida. Subject“ The Weight of H un/*.” I bis was a sensible oration, indicating in the speaker, the possession of a sound, reflecting, ami original mind. Andrew Bowie, Lowndes county, (Ala.) Sub ject “ ’37* Pride that pulls the Country do len.” S. A. Calhoun, Macon, (Ga.) Subject“ The Idol of the JtgeP This was a too sweeping denunciation of the passion for money-making as the too prevalent vice of the age. The speaker charged, that it contaminated, to a feartul degree, every portion of society. Could half be true of the demoral izing influence of this passion on all classes and pursuits, which this young orator asserted, then indeed, in the language of Fallstalf “ There is no virtue extant.” But we opine that he will modify bis opinions ere he is many years older, and it he be not a votary, to some extent, of this occupa tion, so fascinating to those who have the good luck to be so employed, he will, at least” be charitable to those who find in it alike a neces sity and a pleasure, tt hath its virtues, and also its blessings to society. An enlightened spirit ol pecuniary gain gives individual energy, and is the mainspring of great enterprises and na tional progress. Samuel Hunter, Macon, (Ga.) Subject:— “ The Pilgrim Spirit." 1 This orator’s countenance at once indicated talent, and as soon as he appeared, the audience were led to expect something fine: nor were they disappointed. He is a pleasant and grace ful speaker. His oration indicated an enthusi astic turn of mind, with a strong religious bias. His political affinities were disclosed in a warm and beautiful tribute to the lamented Calhoun, which was rapturously applauded. The orator forcibly i>ourtrayed the triumph of the pilgrim spirit when properly directed, in past times, in religion, in literature and in government. His de nunciations of the fanaticism which had been exhibited at Boston, at Christiana, and Syracuse, brought down thunders of applause. His closing remark was to the following effect. As a son of France, dying on tbe battle-field, in the days of her Republican existence, exclaimed, “Let me perish, but let the Republic live,” so let every Southern man exclaim, when the final issue is made, “ Let the Union perish, but let the South live.” 1 his little flash of the fire-eating spirit quite electrified the house, and the applause was stormy and prolonged. The outburst was so hearty and continued such au unusual length, as to amuse, while it surprised many who did not join in it.' It proceeded partly from the body of the students present, who are mainly unanimously on the Southern Rights side in politics. They may be all counted on as rising young Democrats. u Jotm McLeo<3 > Pike county, (Ala.) Subject: ‘ Instability of Public Opinion Henry Pratt, Roswell, (Ga.) Both of these were creditable performances in the matter ot the orations and style of the de livery. F. H. Bowman, Greensboro’, (Ga.) Valedic tory and first Honor. Subject“ Misdirection 1 of Intellectual Kncrgies.'i 'I lie oration of this young gentleman was ! well written, ami the delivery gave indication of ; considerable oratorical gifts. It received marked ! favor from the audience. The valedictory to the President and Professors, and that to his class mates, were conceived in good taste and deliver ed with effect. These exercises being concluded, aud before the degrees were conferred, Rev. Dr. Geo. F. Pierce presented the two prizes for excellence in declamation, to the successful competitors of the Sophomore Class. The first prize was awarded to Mr. Johnson, son of the Hon. H. V. Johnson. The name of the other successful competitor I am unable now to give. Dr. Pierce prefaced the presentation with some beautiful and appropriate remarks on “Elo quence," which were exceedingly well received. We have rarely, if ever, heard so much applause bestowed on so short an address. The Rev. Mr. Rogers delivered the Annual Oration, which closed the Exercises. As the writer is an admirer of Mr. Rogers, he had no predisposition to underrate this effort. In sact t he anticipated lrom him a very superior produc tion, in appropriateness, beauty and force. It fell short of the expectation. The oration, cer tainly, displayed talent, and was interspersed with many beauties. As a Sermon, it would have been much admired by any audience of taste and discrimination. If, in fact, not a regu lar Sermon, it came so near it as to provoke, in our hearing, the remark, rather innocent per haps, that the orator did not, for the occasion. “ sink the shopp The subject was—“ The claims of the Bible for its literary merits upon the at tention of the Scholar.” This University is now in a prosperous condi tion, and its prospects of increased patronage are cheering. It is doing its full share in the great cause of education. The subject of education, especially of Com mon School, is beginning now to occupy much of public attention, anil it is reasonable to expect that the Legislature will give it a portion of their time and of their serious deliberation. Rev. Dr. Geo. F. Pierce delivered, at the State House, on Tuesday evening, an able address on this subject, which may not lie wholly without its good fruits. Legislative Proceedings. Milledgeville, Nov. 13, 1851. THE HOUSE. The greater jrart of the forenoon was consumed in discussing the merits of the bill to ynend the Rent Laws ot this State. Mr. Trippe offered an amendment, which was agreed to, providing, that the agent, attorney at law, or attorney in fact, shall, of his own knowledge, know that the debt for rent was contracted, and was due, before he can Ire allowed to make altidavit before the proper officer, for a distrain warrant. The bill was advocated by Messrs. Henry, Stephens, Tift, and Trippe; aud opposed by Messrs. McDougald, Russell. Thurmond, and Wofford. It was finally passed by a vote of G1 yeas, to 60 nays. A re consideration will probably be moved and carried to-morrow. The bill to exempt Preachers of the Gospel from Road duty, was passed by yeas 110, nays lit. Also, the bill to incorporate the Union Steamboat Company of Georgia and South Caro lina. The several portions of the Governor’s Mes sage were referred out to appropriate committees. Mr. Bellinger, from DeKalb, laid on the table a resolution to ascertain the will of the people in regard to the Seat of Government, by vote, at the next biennial election for members of the Legis lature. The bill provides that the people, at the next general election, indorse on their tick ets. Macon, Atlanta, or Milledgeville, according to their preferences. The Chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, in the matter of the contested seats for Raluin and Scriven counties, made a re port lavorable to the sitting members from those counties. SENATE. The following bills were read the first time, in , the Senate: Mr. Slaughter—To lay off aud organize a new County from Paulding and I’loyd. Mr. Foster—To amend the Ist section and 3d article of the Constitution. Also, to amend the Statute of Limitations. Also, to point out and define the mode of ser vice of writs of Scire Facias. Also, to regulate the practice of the Supreme Court and Superior Courts, and for other pur poses. Mr. Hardeman—To lay out a new County from Franklin and Elbert. Mr. Knight—To provide means for the con struction ofthe Brunswick and Florida Railroad, and to authorize the Governor to subscribe for stock, in the name ofthe State. Mr. Calhoun submitted resolutions in regard to the Seat of Government, similar to those in troduced by Mr. Bellinger in the House. Some debate sprang up on the bill to organize j a new county from the counties of Pike, Henry and Fayette. The bill was, pursuant to a me i morial, presented by a committee appointed for the purpose, at a meeting of the citizens of Grif fin, settin g forth the great inconveniences of the present arrangement, particularly to the citizens of Griffin, who are now compelled to attend Court at Zebulon. The population of Griffin is stated at 3000, and the fact, also, that most of the litigation crowding the dockets of Pike county, is furnished by that flourishing little commercial city. It was moved by Mr. Moseley that the blank in the bill for the name, be filled by “ Spald ing,” in compliment to the late Hon. Thomas Spalding. Mr. Simmons moved as an amend ment, “ Polk,” in honor ol the late President of the United States. But on the assurance that Spalding was the name generally desired and agreed upon by the inhabitants of the proposed county, the amendment was withdrawn, and the name first proposed was adopted. The bill was advocated by Messrs. Moseley and MeCune, and opposed by Messrs. Moon and Simmons. It finally passed—yeas 30, nays 14. Pay as you Go. The famous rule laid down by John Randolph, for promoting prosperity and fortune, is perhaps the simple secret for effecting the entire reform o* social society. Pay as you go! Pay what? Your debts?—well? These debts include, not only w'hat you owe to man, but to your country; —not only what you owe to your country, but to yourself;—not only what you owe to yourself but to God, the greatest of all creditors. Pay your fare; your tailor, your washerwoman : and, before all, your printer 1 Your debts to society are included in the virtues ot forbearance, chari ty, public works; to your country, patriotic self sacrifice, aud the devotion of your mind, body , 1 and time, on all occasions of public exigency To yourself, in doing justice to your natural en dowments, your concience and all proper and pure sensibilities. To God, for all that you have according to the laws he had prescribed. Prayei forbearance, love to your fellows, faith in the world's great Governor, and a perfect resignation to his will! Properly considered, this rule,-Pay as you Go," —involves all the duties to yourself, to society, to the country, the laws anti religion. The Biver. We have the pleasuse to announce that our river has risen about twenty inches, and was still rising when we went to press last evenin- Fatal Accident. We understand that the locomotive James I Petigru, attached to the Express Freight Train, which left Hamburg on Friday evening for Charleston, when about seventeen miles below Aiken, met with a serious accident by the burst ing ofthe boiler, by which accident the Engineer, Mr. Philip School, and two Firemen, whose names w-e could not learn, lost their lives, A horse, on one of the Freight Cars, was also killed. We further learn that some five cats were seriously damaged by the explosion, and the posts and wires of the telegraph were also destroyed, so that communication between this city and Charleston has since been interrupted. Mons.^Adrien.' This celebrated Magician, who has been per forming to lull houses since his arrival in this c *l}% gives two more entertainments, viz: on Monday and Tuesday evenings. His programme, it will be seen has been changed, and he will introduce several tricks never before performed in this city. Something of a Fotatoe. We have received from Capt. David M. Dun bar, of Barnwell District,a sweet Potatoe weigh ing eight and a half pounds for which he will please receive our thanks. If any of our sub scribers have a larger one, they will please send it along. Gallantry of an American Captain. A London pajier mentions with approval, and as an illustration ot “American gallantry,” that Capt. Nye, of the U. S mail steamshp Pacific, was the first to commence firing a royal salute of twenty-one guns on the instant of Queen ictoria s embarkation at Liverpool. Death of Count dk Bouaume.— An Arkan sas i>uper,of recent date, announces the death on the 14th ultimo, in Arkansas county, of M. J Julien de \ isart. (Count de Bocarme.) an old and esteemed citizen of that county. As M. Yisart, his name would have attracted little attention this country, hut as Count de Bocarme it recalls associations of painful interest. He was the la ther ol Count de Bocarme, recently executed in Belgium for the murder of his brother-in-law. 1 and it is thought that his death was hastened by the w retched termination ofthe life of his son. Hons.—The Louisville Journal of Thursday says:—The market continues quiet—buyers still refusing to come up to the views of holders. We , hear of only one sale—l,4oo head, from 60 to 70 miles in the country, at S 3 25 gross. 1,000 , head were also offered at this price and found no takers. If the weather continues as cold for a t day or two as it was yesterday, some of the packers intend to commence operations. ! Sad Affair. —A party undertook lately, at Ottumwa, lowa, to charivari a newly married i couple, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ralston. Mr. K. I aud his father-in-law attempted to drive them ■ off, when some one fired and the paper wad en ■ tered Mr. Ralston’s heart, causing his death. The U. S. steamer Erxm arrived at Pensacola on the Sth inst. from Moble, having on lioard Commodore F. A. Parker, 11. S. Navy, and Captain Serocolel, of tire 66tlr Regiment, British Army. | It is stated that the Spanish Minister at Washington has been instructed by bis gov ern inent not only to withdraw himself, but to with draw all the Spanish Consuls in the U. S. un less his demand for public satisfaction relative to . the New-Orleans affair be complied with. We learn from our New-York exchanges, that on Sunday afternoon. J. Kearney Rogers, M. IV. one of the most eminent surgeons in the United States, suddenly died at his residence in that City. ! We learn that the Academy at Society Hill, S. C. recently occupied by E. M. Griffin, Esq , w*as burned to ashes a few days since. The fire occurred during the recess at 12 o’clock. The Washington and New Orleans Tel egraph Lr.NE. —Promptness and efficiency, we are gratified to perceive, seems now to be the order of the day on this line. We observe from a notice in the MobileJAdvertiser that on the 7th inst.,it having been necessary lor the operators to change their office in that city, in two hours after the wires were taken down’ they were up and ready to work in the new office. Mr. C. C. Buckley the energetic and efficient Superinten dent of this line, whose important improvements in the instruments used for writing by telegraph we noticed a short time since, has one of his D'J eently invented instruments permanently placed in the Mobile offiee, which enables New-Orleans to transmit messages direct to Montgomery, avoiding the necessity of through business being done in Mobile, whilst a separate wire between Mobile and New-Orleans, erected last winter, with a separate instrument, is demoted entirely to the local business between the two cities. Mr. Buckley has used his invention successfully fora year on various parts ofthe line, but not in Mobile until since his late visit. It is his inten tion to so place bis instruments as to communi cate direct from Wasington City to New-Orleans during the approachihg session’of Congress. He is confident, by putting his instruments on the different lines, that messages can be sent direct from Halifax to New-Orleans.— Char. Conr. Convictions in the tJ. S. Court. In tlreU. S. Circuit Court, yesterday, a young man named Robert Melton, about 17 years of age, and a native of Alabama, was tried for steal ing from |the U. S. mail, a letter containing a draft of $62. There were three counts in the in dictment, and the jury found him guilty on the third, which charged him with stealing from the mail. He was a mail rider between Darien and Hawkinsville, in this State. On Tuesday last, H. L. Kimbrough, of Co lumbus, in this State, was tried, charged with embezzling six thousand dollars, from the i*>st office in Columbus, some time in December last. The jury found him guilty. At a previous term of the Court, this young man was tried, but the jury' did not agree upon a verdict. We are informed that sentence will be passed upon them to-day. The prosecution on the pa it of the Government was conducted by Henry- Williams, Esq., U. S. District Attorney.—Savan nah News.