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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. - - r • ) JAMES GARDNER, JR- T E 11 31 S . Daily, per annum, Tri-Weekly, per annum, ... . , . ' . 3 00 U paid in advance j W eekly, per annum >( j If paid in advance, “ SCTAII new subscriptions must be paid in advance. Postage muat be paid on all CuniinunicalK ns and Lefers«»fbusiness. Xhc Family kittling. We are all here ! Father, .Mother, Sister, Brother, All who hold each other dear, Kach chair is filled, we’re all at home To-night let no cold stranger come; It is not often thus around Our old familiar hearth we’re found; Bless then the meeting and the spot, For om e by cvpry care forgot Let gentle peace assert her power. And kind affection rule the hour; We’re all—all here. We’re not all here. Some are away —-the dead ones dear ! Who thronged with us the ancient liearta And gave the hour to guileless mirth, Fate, with a stern, relentless hand, hooked in and thinned our little band; Some like the night-flash passed away. And some sank lingering, day by day; The quiet grave yard—some lie there, And cruel ocean has his share — We’re not all here. We are all here ! Even they—the dead—though dead go dear, Fond memory, to her dm y true. Brings back their faded forms to view. How life-like through the mist of years, Each well remembered lace appear-; We see them as in times long past, From each to each kind looks are cast. We hear their words, their smiles behold, •They’re round us as they were ol old — We are all here. We are all here ! Father, Mother, lister, Brother, You that I love w ith love so dear— This may not long of us be said, Soon must we join the gathered dead, And hy the hearth we now sit round. Some other circle w ill be found; O then that wisdom may we vow, That yields a life of peace below; So in the world to follow this, May each repeat, in words of bliss, We're all—all here ! A Rosy Child went forth to IMay. BV REV. JAMES GILBOUNK LYONS, L. L. U. A rosy child went forth to play. In the first Hush of hope and pride. Where sands in silver beauty lay, Made smooth hy the retreating tide; And kneeling on the trackless waste, Whence ebb’d the waters maiw a mile, He rais’d, in hot and trembling haste, Arch, wall and tower a goodly pile. But when the shades of evening fell, Veiling the blue and peaceful deep, The tolling of the vesper bell Called the boy-builder home to sleep. He pass’d a long and restless night. Dreaming of structures tall and fair— He came with the returning light, And lo! the faithless sands were hare. Dess wise than that unthinking child. Are all that breathe of mortal birth, Who grasp with strivings warm and wild, The false and fading toys of earth. Gold, learning, glory—w hat are they Without the faith that looks on high? The sand-forts of a child at play. Which are not when the wave goes by. [Reported for the Baltimore Sun.t TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. SECOND SESSION. Washington, Feb. 16, 1817. SENATE. Mr. Atchison presented a memorial of the Legislature of Missouri, asking Con gress to adopt measures for enabling the owners of slaves escaping from that State into Canada lo recover them. It was referred to the committee on foreign rela tions. Mr. Allen presented a resolution of the Legislature of Ohio, in favor of the ex clusion of slavery from any terri.ory that now is or may hereafter be annexed to the United. States Mr. Cameron presented a similar res olution of the Legislature of Pennsylva nia. Mr.Corwin presented resolutions pas sed by the legislature of Ohio, expressive ®f their confidence in the bravery, skill and patriotism of Major Generals Scott and Taylor, and in favor of their being continued in their present commands. Mr. Benton, from the committee on Military Affairs, reported a bill making provision for an additional number of general officers and for other purposes. The bill provides that the ten regiments recently authorized may be organized into brigades anddivisions —no brigade to con sist of less than two regiments, and no division of less than two brigades—and the President is authorized to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, the requisite number of major-generals and brigadier-generals, who are to be discharged immediately upon the close of the war. The President is authorized to accept, if he deems proper, the services of such of the volunteers now in Mexico as shall, at the expiration of their present term of Bcrvice, voluntarily engage to serve during the war, atid to organise them into companies, &c.., and commission the officers thereof. The Resident is also authorised to ac cept the services of individual volunteers lofili up the ranksof the corps now in Mexico, and also lo fill the vacancies in the officers of the same by regular pro motion, or by causing elections to he held. The lien heretofore enjoyed by sutleis upon the pay of the soldiers, and their right to receive the same from the pay master, is abolished. On motion of Mr. Renton, the portion of the President’s message of Saturday relative to tea and coffee, was relerred To the committee* Tne naval appropriation bill was then taken up. The first question was upon agreeing •to amendment proposed by the finance committee, to limit the lime fur the com pletion of the dry dock at Brooklyn to three years from next October, and its entire cost to 1,500,00. After some de bate the amendment was rejected—yeas, 15, nays 29. ,ii ii i ~ The next question was upon agreeing to amendment proposed by the same com mittee to strike out appropriation for dry dock at Philadelphia. After some de -1 hale this amendment was rejected —yeas | 7; nays 39. The bill was then laid aside. The three million bill was then taken up, and Mr. Badger proceeded to address the Senate at considerable length. Ihe j I first portion of his speech was devoted to j the recent case ofthe editor of the Union, and he charged that it was the policy adopted bv the administration and its or gan to denounce every statesman who i ;ght be presumed to be in the way of j the re-election of Mr. Polk. Mr. Badger spoke for upwards oft wo hours. When he had concluded, Mr Chalmers obtained the floor, and the Sen ate then went into Executive session, and afterwards udj )urned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The bill for the admission of Wiscon sin into the Union was passed. B Us were reported—making appropria ■ lions for naval pensions for the year end ing 50th of June, 1918; tocreat the office of surveyor general; and grant donation rights lo actual settlers in Oregon; to au thorize the appointment of an additional | j judge of ihe United States District court j in Louisiana; to authorise the marshal of ; I the District of Columbia to serve supoenas i ! in certain cases, issuing from the courts j | of Maryland read twice and referred, j Mr. Dillard gave notice of a bill to ; regulate the diplomatic intercourse ofthe ! U. States. i Mr. McClernand, from the cornmiteo j on public lands, repotted an amendatory bill, to graduate the price of the public lands to actual settlers. Resolutions were presented, from the Legislature of Ohio,complimenting Gens. Taylor and Scott, and recommending an j increase of the pay of volunteers, and \ providing for the families of those in in- j i digent circumstances. Mr. Carroll, from the military com- , - miltee, reported back the joint resolution j j of thanks to General Taylor, officers and j men, and the amendment of the Senate, j 1 with a recommendation that the amend- ! meet be agreed to. Mr. Thompson, of Mississippi, moved to amend the resolution as amended by directing the President also to present gold medals, with suitable emblems, to Generals Butler, Dendeison, Twiggs, Worth.. Quitman, and the nearest relative of Gen. Damer, and to express lo the lat ter the deep regret of Congress at the death of Gen. D. After considerable debate the amendment was adopted, 151 ; to 21, and the amendment’agreed to. ‘ [By an awkward error, the amendment j of Mr. Thompson comes in after th e first, | instead of the second resolution; that is, j after the sentence expressing the regret of I Congress for the death of General Damer; ! so that the resolution presenting the thanks of Congress and a gold medal to Gen. Taylor for the “splendid achieve , menl” at Monterey, follows immediately I after the expressions of “regret for Ihc j dealk of Gen Hamer’ ' —making tin’s last sentence the antecedent to the “splendid f' nchievemelit!” And this cannot now be corrected until the Senate shall again : act upon the resolutions, as amended by f I the Douse.] ; Mr. Ficklin presented the resolution of the Illinois Legislature, in favor of an amendment lo the Constitution, so as lo change the tenure by which Judges ofthe United States hold their offices. Bills were reported—from the military 1 committee, to regulate enlistments in the army and marine corps—and from the naval committee, providing for anincreas j ed number of surgeons in the navy. . Committed to the committee of the whole on the stale ofthe Union. A great number of reports, not of gen eral interest, were made. 7 # i The bill to regulate the mileage of | members, was taken up, but without action thereon, the Douse adjourned. Bflic-f fo r CrtTaucl. At the great meeting held a short time j , since, in New. Orleans, for the relief of j j the suffering Irish people, eloquent speech- ! es were made by Mr, Clay, Gov. Johnson, and S. S. Prentiss, The latter, one ofthe most beautiful specimens of the I kind in our language, has been some days ! laid by for publication, without our being able sooner to find room for it. Mr. Prentiss’ Speech. Fellow-Citizens —lt is no ordinary cause ! j which has brought together this vast as j semblage on the present occasion. We have met, not to prepare ourselves for po litical contests, nor to celebrate the achievements of those gallant men who have planted our victorious standards iu j the heart of an enemy’s country. We have assembled not to respond lo shouts of triumph from the West, but to answer , the cry ol want and suffering which comes ; from the East. The Old Word stretches out her arms to tiie New. The starving parent supplicates the young and vigor ■ ous child for bread. There lies upon the ' other side of the wide Atlantic a beautiful j island, famous in slofy and in song. Its j ! area is not so great as that of the State of ! Louisiana, while its population is almost ; half that of the Union. It has given lo the : world more than its share of genius and of i greatness. It lias been prolific in states men, warriors and poets. Its brave and I generous sons have fought successfully i all battles but their own. In wit and i humor it has no equal; while i:s harp, like I its history, moves to tears by its sweet but ’ melancholy pathos. Into this fair region j God has seen fit to send the most terrib’e I of all those fearful ministers who fulfil his inscrutable decrees. The earth lias failed ! to give her increase; the common mother I,as forgotten her offspring, and her breast no longer affords them their accustomed nourishment. Famine, gaunt and ghastly | szzzrrz-jrz: j ■vi'-r.r .? famine, has seized a nation will* its strang ling grasp; and unhappy Ireland, in the sad woes ot the present, forgets for a moment the gloomy history of the past. We have assembled, fellow.citizens, to express our sincere sympathy for the suf ferings of our brethren, and to unite in efforts for their alleviation. This is one of those cases in which we may, without impiety, assume, as it were, the functions of Providence. Who knows but what one of the very objects of this great calamity is to test the benevolence and worthiness of ns upon whom unlimited abundance : has been showered. In the name, then, . of common humanity. I invoke your aid in behaif of starving Ireland. lie who is able and will not give for such a sacred purpose, is not a man, and has no right to wear the form. 110 should be sent back to nature’s mint, and re is-ued as a coun -1 terfeit on humanity oLnature’s baser , : metal. j Oh! it is ten ible, that in this beautiful ’ world, which the goad God has given us, j and in which there is plenty for ns all, j | that men should die of starvation! In these I j days, when improvement in agriculture i and the mechanical arts have quadrupled i the productiveness of labor; when it is manifest that the earth produces every year more than sufficient to clothe and feed all her thronging millions; it is a shame and a disgrace, that the word star vation has n )t long since become obsolete, i or only retained to explain the dim legends of a barbarous age. You who have never been beyond the- precincts of our own | favored country; xou, more especially, who have always lived in tin’s great valley of the .Mississippi—-the cornucopia of the 1 world—w ho see each day poured into the lap of your city, food sufficient to assuage | the hunger of a nation, can form but an imperfect idea of tlie horrors of famine; of the tenor which strikes men’s souls when they cry in vain for bread. When ! a man dies of disease, he alone endures | the pain. Around his pillow are gathered i sympathizing friends, w ho, if they cannot • keep back lire deadly m rssonger, cover his face and conceal the horrors of his visage as he delivers his stern mandate. In battle, in the fullness of his pride I and strength, little recks the soldiers O’. u bother the hissing bullet sing Ids sudden 1 requiem, or the cords of Jifo arc sever i ed by the sharp steel. But he who | dies of hunger, wrestles alone, day after i day with In's grim and unrelenting ene* : mv. lie lias no friends lo cheer him in | terrible conflict; for if he had friends iiow could he die of hunger? Me has not the I hot blood of the soldier lo maintain him; j for his foe, vampire like, lias exhausted ' his veins. Famine comes not up like a brave enemy, storming, by a sudden on j set, the fortress that resists—Famine be sieges. He draws Ids lines around the j doomed garrison; he cats off his supplies; ; ho never summons to surrender, for he | gives no quarters. Alas! for poor hu ! man nature, how can it sustain this fear ful warfare! Day by day the blood re cedes; the flesh deserts; the muscles re lax, and the sinews grow powerless. At last the mind, which at first had bravely nerved itself for the contest, gives way under the mysterious influence which i govern its union with the body. Then j lie begins to doubt the existence of an overruling Providence; he hates his fel low' men, and glares upon them with the longings of a canibal, and it may be, dies, blaspheming! Who will hesitate to give Ids mite, lo ! avert such aw ful resul s? Surely not you, citizens of New -Oi leans, ever famed for vou deeds of benevolence and charity. Freely have your heart and purses open ed, heretofore, to the call of suffering humanity. Nobly did you respond to oppressed Greece and struggling Poland. Within Erin’s borders is an enemy more , cruel than the Turk;more tyrannical than ' the Rus ian. Oread is the only weapon i that can conquer him. Let us then load I ships with this gloiious munition, and in | the name ofour common humanity, wage i ! war against this despot Famine. us, ! I in God’s name, “cast our bread upon the ; ! w aters,” and if wo are selfish enough to j desire it, we may recollect the promise, i that it shall return lo us after many days. If benevolence be not a sufficient in- I centivc to action, we should be generous : from common decency; for out. of this I famine we are adding millions to our fortunes. Every article of food, of which we have a superabundance, has been I doubled in value, by the very distress we are now called upon to alleviate. We i cannot do less in common honesty, than | to divide among the starving poor of Ire- i land a portion of the gains.vve are ma king out of their misfortunes. Give then, generously and freely, llccollect that I in so doing you are exercising one of the , most god-like qualities of your nature, | and at the same lime enjoying one of the I greatest luxuries of life. Weougiit to thank our Maker he had permitted us to exercise equally with himself that no blest of even the Divine attributes, bene- j i volence. Go home and look at your j family, smiling in rosy health, and then j think of the pale, famine-pinched cheeks j ! of the poor children of Ireland; and 1 | know vou will give according to your ! store, even as a bountiful Providence has given to you—not grudgingly, but with an open hand, for the quality of benevo- I I lence, like that of mercy. “Is not strained, i It droppe-th like the erentle rain from Heaven j Upon the place beneath: It is tw ice blessed, j It blesses him that gives, and him that takes.” j Let me now refer to the words of one ' to whom Ireland lias given birth. With a genious prolific as her own luxurious soil, in whom ail tiic fine atnibules ofthe soul are blended in harmony; a rich silk j of varying dyes, show ing some new color in every tint of light and shade, and un | der every hue of heaven. Music, elo j qucnce. and the sweet tide of song flow' from his soul in quick succession, in some new- beauty, some new melody, in each caprice of fancy, and under every change of circumstances. That son of Ireland has said— “ The baby was sleeping. It’s mother was weeping.” Can we not, from the magic mirror ofthe imagination, conjure up the fair young infant hashed in sweet repose —the hag gard, anxious, tender gaze of the poor mother o’er the smilling face of her child, with squalid misery before her ami guant hunger stalking around to tear it from n o her love. ’Tis said that in tropical climes a lovely flower sometimes springs from the ruined and withered trunk of a tree blasted by the lightning from Heaven; tenderer and dearer is that flower to those who look upon it, and observe in its open ing petals the signs of a premature tie cav, which it caught from the source of | its existence; and may we not apply in * that beauteous fancy of the poet, the An- I gel’s w hisper to the sleeping babe, and assume that it is telling it of this been i teous land, of the love and charity of its people, the rich productions of its teeming valleys, wafted on the internal waters of the country lo the mighty marls of com ; merce —that it whispers, too, of noble and l generous souls collected here to-night to chase that haggard hunger from the weep ing mothers of “poor old Ireland.” Then it will be realized in fact as well as fan cy, that each of them may— “ While closely caressing, Her child with a blessing, Say, ! “1 knew that the Angels were whispering to thee.” [CorresponJence of the Charleston Mercury.} Washington City, Feb. 15, 1847. You will perceive by the report of Con gressional proceedings that in the House of Representatives the Wilmot proviso bad been attached lo the Three Million Bill, by a vote of ayes 115, noes 106, and the bill was then passed by a similar vole, i. e. 115 ayes, lUG noes, though some who voted No on the pre vious vote, voted Ay on the second, and n’ce , versa. It had been.thought for some days past in this city that this mischief-breeding proviso would have been defeated, so that considera ble surprize was manifested at the result. It is w orthy of remark that the South was true to itself on this question, with one ex ception —and that was John W. Houston, of Delaware, who voted for tiiis Wilmot provi j ho, although representing a Slave State. Every other representative from the South ern States piesent toted against the provi so. and but one was absent from his scat— William F. Giles, of Maryland. The following is an analysis of the vote on 1 agreeing to the proviso. For the proviso. Against it. Not Voting. D. W. D. W. U. W. Maine j G 1 New Ilampshirc,3 Vermont, 1 3 Massachusetts, 10 Connecticut, 4 Rhode Island, 2 New York, 20 13* 1 New Jersey, 2 3 Pennsylvania, 6 12* 5 1 Delaware, 1 Maryland, 3 2 1 Virginia, 14 1 North Carolina, 6 3 South Carolina, 7 Georgia. 5 3 j Alabama, 6 1 Florida, 1 Mississippi, 4 Louisiana, 3 1 Texas, 2 Arkansas, 1 Tennessee. 6 6 Kentucky, 3 7 Missouri, 6 lowa, 2 Illinois, 2 13 1 ; Indiana, 5 2 2 If Michigan, 2 1 Oaio, 8 8 5 55 CO 82 24 6 Native, fThe Speaker. RECAPITULATION. Dem. Whigs. Total. For the Proviso, 65 60 115 Against it, 82 24 106 Not voting, 6 G Vacant,(New Hampshire,) 11 , 144 84 228 The following are the members from the free States who voted against the proviso: New York —Strong. Pennsylvania—Black, Broad head, Erdman, Charles J. Ingersoll, McCJean. Michigan—Chipman. Indiana —Owen, Wick. Illinois —Douglass, Ficklin, McClernand. Ohio—Cunningham, Morris, Parish, Saw ver, St. John. Total seventeen —all Democrats of course. Those who did not vote were, Hastings and Leffler,of lowa, both present in their seats. Leib, of Pa., in the city but not in his seat, j Robert Smith, of 111., not within the bar i when the vote was taken, and the House re- ; fused to allow his vote to be recorded, had : he voted it would have been in the affirma tive. Giles of Maryland, absent. The vote on the passage of the bill, al though in numbers precisely as that on the i proviso—ayes 113, noes 106, yet differs in its constituent parts. I have therefore made a 1 similar analysis on the passage of the bill, j which is as follows: For the Passage. Against it. Not voting. D. \V. D. W. D. \V. Maine, 6 1 }N. Hampshire, 3 Vermont, 1 3 Massachusetts, 10 Connecticut. 3 1 Rhode Island, 11 New York, 21 12* 1* New Jersey, 2 3 Pennsylvania, 10 12* 2 ! Delaware, 1 ; Maryland, 3 2 1 i Virginia, 14 1 I N. Carolina, 6 3 S. Carolina, 7 Georgia, 5 3 Alabama, 6 I Florida, 1 Mississippi, 4 Louisiana, 3 1 Texas, 2 Arkansas, 1 Tennessee, 8 5 Kentucky, 3 7 j Missouri, 5 lowa, 2 Illinois, 1 4 11 Indiana, 71 Ilf Michigan, 2 1 Ohio, 11 3 2 4 1 66 49 72 34 5 1 *lncludinor Natives. fThe Sneaker. RECAPITULATION. Dein. Whig. Total, i For (he Passage of the Bill, 66. 49 115 Against it, 72 34 IU6 Not voting, 5 1 6 Vacant, 11 144 S 4 228 | All the Southern members present voted I against the bill. Whig and Democrat —the : only one absent being Mr. Giles ot Maryland, j With them the following members trom the Northern States voted against the bin, (Whirrs in italic, Natives in small caps, Democrats in Homan characters) ; Rhode Island— Cranston. (Connecticut —Truman Smith. New York —NN OODKUFF. Ohio — Harper, Parish, Sawyer, Schenck, Vance , I inton. Indiana — McGaughey. Illinois —Ficklin, Henry , lloge, McCler nand, Robert Smith. Total 16.—Eight Whigs, one Native, and seven Democrats. ; Those not voting on the passage of the bill i were Douglass of Illinois, Foster and Leib of Pennsylvania, 1 Giles of Maryland, Tiiden of Ohio. It can hardly be doubted but that the Sen | ate will strike this proviso from the bill.— Whether the House will then recede or dc : feat the bill remains to be seen. parjg tnx mamsaa m—— -m g mi m mammm taaaaren ; ' AUGUSTA, CKO.. SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21,1847. Kr Only one of the Northern Mails due last j evening came to hand. The «4<! Ftbriiarr. We have heard of no preparation for the celebration of this dies J isli in our city. It is melancholy, not to say' ominous, to see into what neglect and contempt the few i days acknowledged as national festivals have fallen among u». It. is not for us to lecture, j We have no time for pumping up public emotions. The Americans cannot be rea j soned into social cheerfulness, and it’s of no use to throw away good whistling, on any of your stiff refractory molestions. W e won’t argue. It won’t pay. Ay! there's the rub with our fellow-citizens. Be cause the celebration by a social, happy cominglement of all hearts on a day when : “domestic feuds, foreign levy,” and all re- I ligious and party strifes are forgotten—don’t j pay, why the whole thing is passed over. 1 a? they say in the Senate—informally. Let us ask, should it be, that the day i that gave birth to the good, the great— | to him whose memory “lime cannot wither, j nor custom stale should be passed in com -1 mon working day-drudgery ? Can’t the i laboicr forget bis toil, the merchant his cash book, the speculator iiis next Liverpool ac- I counts —to give his heart for one day, in re verence to him who lived to bless his country by the exercise of every virtue that adorns humanity ? But some prim grave man, who ; comes “so smug upon the mart,” will turn sharp upon you and ask, what is the rise i of these celebrations ? And will run you a i parody upon Fallsfaff’s reasoning of honor. | “Can it set a leg—Xu; or an arm—No. Can it pay losses on Cotton ? No.” A celebration i hath no skill in figures then, No—but “man does nut live by bread aZcme,” and the argu ment might do if we lived in a warehouse in stead of a great Republic. The truth is that it is with nations as with individuals, the hab- I it of outward observance of respect for virtue will beget something of the sentiment.— j The ceremonial which tons may be dull and unimposing, becomes in after years an honor- , ed custom, and gives to fame its true uses— ! I an example to revere and imitate. Charleston Kacc». Friday■ - Purse SGOO —two mile heats. There were five entries fur this purse, and the race resulted as follows : O. I’. Hare’s ch. f. Marietta. 4 years by Priam, dam Canary, by Bir Charles 3 11 John Singleton’s h. f. 4 years, by G.mo, 5 4 2 j J. R. Han Lon’s ch. f. Rosalie, 4 years by Boston, data imported Emily, 12 3. John 31. Bryan’s gr. f. 4 years, by Hard luck, out of Vashti, 4 5 4 W. Lowndes’gr. f. Della, 4 years, by Pacific, dam, by Sir Richard, 2 3 5 Time—3:l9*; 3:51); 3:52*. The second race was won in two straight heats by 3lr, Harrison’s Bellamira, beating Aurora, — Time—3:s'Jl; 4:08. 1 The following horses were handi-capped fur j Saturday’s Purse S6O0 —3 mile heats: Maid of Lodi, 6 years; Castanet, 5; Patsey An- j | thony, 6; Revenue, 3; Shark Colt, 3; Rio Grande, j 3; Rosemary, 3. Singleton's b. f., 3; Anti Tariff, :5; Protection,4; John Alexander, 4; Marietta, 4; Gano, filly, 4; Rosalie, 4; Delta, 4; Bryan’s gr. f» L ’ Health of Elixoa El. hcwli. The Washington correspondent of the j Charleston Courier, under date of the 15lL I inst. writes :—“lt is very doubtful whether { Mr. Dixon H. Lewis will be able to attend to his Senitorial duties again at this Session, if ever. His health is in such a condition that he may linger for some time, or may die at any moment. It is not generally known that Judge Mc j Lean is entirely a self-made man. His fa i ther was an industrious Irishman, who came to this country just before the war of the ! revolution. The son John, was born in New Jersey. Thence his father removed to Virgi nia; thence, again, to Kentucky, and finally to a farm in Ohio, where the present Judge worked as a laborer. By industry and fru gality he saved«fcnough to pay for a tolera ble education. He I lien studied law, held | several state offices, was elected to congress I —became postmaster general, and finally | was transferred to the the supreme i court of the United Slates. Mexican Privateer*. The .Boston Advertiser says of the thre - Mexican vessels at London, that they were reported in Lloyd’s list as steamers, and as having arrived from the river at Deal, on the 1 jib, and sailed on the same tlayHbr .Manil la. The London Shipping Gazette states, in i addition, on the authority of a telegraphic re port from North Foreland, the pas&ii#|' of “three men-of-war brig steamers'to the south ward.” On the 15th, two American vessels sailed from Deal for the United States. The New York Express says the under ■ writers there are in suspense in relation to | Mexican Privateers, said to have been fitted j out al London. Private letters, from the best sources, are entirely silent on the subject, j The steamer to arrive in a few days will, however, settle the question, whether priva teers arc out or not; it is the impression that these and similar reports, which have proved groundless, have been put alloal to injure American vessels, and to benefit those of foreign nations. [From the Macon Messenger.] Bu;il'cuic Court. At the sitting ot the Supreme Court, in this city, the following among oilier deci sions were made ; j P^ vu > ( Libel for Divorce in 3lonroc Superior Head,) Court> The Libel charged that the wife had left the bed and board of her husband, without cause or provocation on ihe part of the husband, and prayed for a Divorce, a venculo matrimonii. Held by iheCouit below insufficient. The Supreme Court in delivering their opinion in this case said, “The words” Legal principles, signify ihc principles of the common law, as ruled in the Ecclesi astical Courts of Grent Britain, adopted by our statute. And by the common law, abandonment nor even adultery, was a sufficient ground to authorise a Divorce, a venculo matrimonii. Judgment below affirmed. Hun. A. M. D. King, for Libellant. There must be an entry by the proper officer, once in every seven years on a fi. fa. or the judgment becomes dormant. Judgment below affirmed. Hicks, Sh’ff of Crawford, I RULE MSI. as. ' To pay over money in Moore and others. ) Crawford S. Conn. The Sheriff in answer lo the above stated rule showed fur cause, that he had legally accounted for all sums ot money received from defendants property, ex cept the sum of 61100, or thereabout, which he claimed for the per diem allow ance of certain negroes, levied on by vir tue of sundry attachments. Issue was joined on the answer of the Sheriff. The Circuit Judge charged the jury in substance, that if they believed the Sheriff hud hired out the negroes, and collected the hire, or used them on his farm, and hud the benefit of their labor and that their services were reasonably worth their ; board, that then the sheriff was not en j titled to the usual per diem allowance for j board. i Judgment of the Court below affirmed. Ifu ke, I Prom Monroe Superior Court— Flf.wellen. ) motion to dismiss appeal. it is not absolutely necessary that the appellant should sign the appeal bond.— He must give security for the eventual condemnation, money and costs, and if the security sign the bond, it is sufficient, provided the Court can be otherwise sat isfied that he intended lo appeal within the time allowed by law. h is, however, more regular that the appellant should sign the bond, that the appellate court ipjav see that it lias jurisdiction. ; Judgment below affirmed. | e are requested toslate that there will lie | a collection taken np after service al the Catholic j Church, This Morning, for the relief of the sufftr j ers in Ireland. ; Feb. 21 2 120 CELEBRATION OF THE “BIRTH DAY OF WASHINGTON.” The Convention of the fcth Congressi* nal dis trict Temperance Societies will meet in tins i city on Monday, the 22d instant, j The meeting will be held at the Presbyterian : Church, commencing at half past 10 o’clock, j Jn Ige O’Neal, of South Carolina, Hon. Jotin ii H. Lumpkin and H<#i. Mr. Nf.seit of Georgia, | are expected to deliver addresses appropriate to ilie occasion. Delegates of the Washington Total Abstinence Society of Augusta, and other delegates from So cieties within the district, are desired to assemble al the Lecture Room of Presbyterian Church, at 10 o’clock of that day. The friends of the cause of Temperance, and ; the public generally, are respectfully invited to i attend. By order of Committee of Arrangements. IN M. IIAINES, Sec’y. Feh. 20 • 2 119 SFT The following gentlemen have been ap pointed DELEGATES to represent the Washing ton Total Abstinence FocieCy of Augusta, at the Convention to be held on MoaJty next, 22d inst., viz : Rev. Wm. J. Hard, Dr. Daniel Hook, I Rev. Wm. T. Brantley, Dr. J. A. Eve, Rev. Mr. Evans, Dr. L. I). Ford, Wm. 11. Pemberton, Dr. H. F. Campbell, W in. II nines, Judge W. W. Huh, . Hawkins Huff, Robert Campbell, James Harper, E. E. Scofield, ! James Godhy, Daniel B. Plumb, j M. 31. Dye, Lawrence -Minnas, • James V\ ado, O. Danlbrth, 'J hos. S. Metcalf, V. LaTaste, John R. Dow, James McCaflerty, Jesse Kent, Henry Reeves, Benj’n. Hall, J. H. Crump, J. Whitlock, Porter Flemming. By order of Committee. Feb. 20 2 120 RELIEF FOR IRELAND. Mayor’s Office, ) February 13, 1817. y At the suggestion of the Committee of Five, ap pointed under resolution of Council, for receiving subscriptions for the sufferers in Ireland, that their number is inadequate. 1 hereby add to that Com mittee the follow ing citizens, with the request that they will serve: John Kerr, Daniel Hand, John C. Carmichael, John Foster, William Walton. Feb. U L. D. FORD, Mayor.