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The following poem is an illustration of an
actual incidenc in the life of Thorwaldsen,
the great Danish sculptor. It ia told of him
that when found one day by a friend in a state
of despondency, he pointed to the statue of
Christ, and exclaimed, “that his genius was
decaying, as it was the first work he had felt
satisfied with, nor should be ever again have
■a
the thoughtful sculptor,
jjgPP**on the breathing stone,
s ~*cbaos of the marble
iike being grown j
gloom was on his forehead,
[epl v * iys eyo a drooping glance,
| t 6 the heavy sorrow
found utterance.
W .-.‘Holy Art! thy shapes of beauty
%}' Have I carvel, but ne’er before
j* * Reached my thought a faultless image—
s • Still unb )died would it soar ;
w Still the pure, unlouiu. ideal j
Would ensoul a fairer shrine
iny victory 1 peri h,
And no loftier aim is mine.”
oble artist! thine the yearning.
%Tbine the great, inspiring word,
By the sleepless mind forever
in its silent watches heard;
For the earthly i i» pleasure
Only earthly ends to gain ;
For the seeker of the Perfect
4 To the satisfied is pain.
mgy isions of an untold glory
„ Milton saw in his eel pse,
Bf! ’ Paradise to outward gazers
Lost, with no apocal) p«e ;
Holier Christs and veiled Madonnas
’ Painted were on Raphael’s soul;
Vpf he could not utter
7i» ? \ O’er Beethoven’s ear would roll.
an fl° at9 B l ® dim
P For before the longing eyes j
r Ever, as we travel onward,
JS Boundless .he horizon flies ;
IfeWl Not the brimming cups of wisdom
*
5 Can the thirsty spirit slake,
An 1 the molten gold in pouring
Will the mould in pieces break.
P Voice within our inmost being
Calling deep to answering deep,
Midst she life of weary labor,
Thou shall waken us from sleep!
All our joy is in our Future,
And our motion is our rest:
Sliilthe Tiue reveals the Truer,
Still the ood f <rete 1a the Blest.
(From the Baltimore Sun.)
Tender Hearted.
Our honest cousin of the Mobile Advertiser,
referring to the case of Rufus Greene, late
Secretary of the Fireman's Insurance Company*
of that city, who has just been arrested on a
charge of embezzlement involving more than
one half of its capital, says, that though in
formed of the facts, “we passed by it in yes
terday's paper unnoticed, because we had not
the heart to speak of it."
And this, we take it, is but an expression of
that false sentiment which prevails very gen-
throughout Christendom, and is doing
more to abuse the popular judgment with res
peet to the social relations than almost any
thing else. It is only when occurrences trans
pire, which in their particular character are
calculated to develop these sentiments, that we
are enabled to detect their prevalence and force.
The crime of Webster brought them out in full
and daring display, and no small portion of
the press proved the utter hypocrisy of its
professed confidence in the virtue of “the peo
ple,” by its obstinate rejection of the accumu
lated proof of the guilt of such a man, and
its gratuitous abuse of the representatives of
-~*~fhe law instrumental in his conviction.
In the case before us, the Register says of
the accused, that “no man ever stood higher
in public estimation, or enjoyed to a greater
extent the confidence of his fellow-men: —he
was an elder in the second Presbyterian church,
a member of the Common Counc i, &c., has
acquitted himself in his various offices with
distinguished honor, evincing talents and ac
complishments that command not only respect
but universal admiration.
Such is the man whose detection as a thor
ough scoundrel, if the charges against him
are true, has so wrought upon .he sympathies
of the press that the editor had not the heart
to speak of it. Yet, how deep and detestable
is the guilt of this man contrasted with that of
the poor and ignorant, who, urged by the im
pulses of vice and want, commit their depre
dations upon society, under the constant sur
veillance of the police. The accused in the
Mobile case has, through a considerable period
of time, pursued a systematic series of depre
dations upon an institution in whose service
he enjoyed unlimited confidence. His fradu
leat practices have *ed to the insolvency of
the concern; it has ceased business and called
in its policies, and it is impossible to say to
what extent the effects ot his dishonesty may
be felt. It is a roobery upon a wholesale plan,
by which hundreds, and possibly thousands,
are robbed by the same operation, while your
common thief rarely reaches more than one at
a time. It has been done under the exterior
aemolancee of morality and religion, yet there
has been an entire absence of moral and re
ligious prin iple. The man has had educa
tion, and popular confidence and respect on
his side; he has lived well, com ortably, per
haps luxuriously; yet an ungovernable lust of
some sort has been the actuating princip e of
his life. He has no doubt squandered the
money, and it is a rational conclusion that the
funds thus obtained have been discreditably
appropriated to the gratification of some pre
dominant appetite or passion, other than the
mere love ot money. Why, then, should there
be such “taking to heart," and such lively
■ympathies on account of what is called “the
fall" of such a man? It he fell at all from in
tegrity of principle, it must have been long
ago, he is now merely exposed. But it is very
quest’enable whether there is any fall in the
case. As we contended in the case of Web
ster, and as he himself subsequent y admitted,
there hai never been any subjugation and
control of the natural passions ot the heart.
So, we doubt not. it would prove in the case
before us, were the facts accessible, that the
accused has been the subject of some vice
which has been nurtured, guiltily, for his own
gratification and to ths hurt ot society. He
is a bad mag, and instead of having a claim
upon the sympathy of the world, those sym
pathies properly belong to a v<ry different
orade of offenders—or rather to that c ass
which, by the practical sympathies of the truly
philanthropic, may be rescued from the paths
of vice and delivered from the power of temp
tatian.
It is thought in the East that the perfec
tion ot happiness is to live among plants and
flowers, but they do not neglect gold or gems
either, for they are fond of describing the trees
not only at Paradise, but of their royal gar
dens, as having bodies of gold and leaves of
jewels. They seldom separate the idea of the
Deity from flowers and gems; a Persian poet
exclaims :
Whose pencil made the tulip glow
With colors of the rainbow’s hue ;
And on the rose bud hangs a row
Ot gems ail rich in diamond dew ?
Who placed in heav’n’s blue vault of night
A diadem of starry light;
And bade the ruby’s breast receive
The ruddy tint of sunlit eve ?
Who placed the silver moon on high ?
Who made the garden’s incense rise ?
Who spread out earth where water lie,
And formed bright pearls from weeping skies?
Birds are also associated with flowers and
gems, in Oriental images. “ See," exclaimed
and Indian ministrel, “ how motionless the
young heron, exquisitely white, shines on the
petals of the blue lotus ; he resembles a pearly
shell placed ou a base of unblemished sap
phire."
Woman’s Rights.— An English paper pub
lishes the following paragraph:
“ A curious trial was recently held at Mid
dlesex Sessions. Thomas Saveriand, the pro
secutor, stated that he was in the tap-room
where the defendant, Caroline Newton, and
hersister, who had come from Brimingham,
were present. The latter jokingly observed
that she had promised her sweetheart that no
man should kiss her while absent. It being
holiday time, Saveriand considered this a
challenge, and caught hold of her and kissed
her. The young woman took it as a joke, but
her sister, the defendant, said she would like
as little of that kind of fun as he pleased.—
Saveriand told her if she was angry, he would
kiss her also; he then tried to do it, and they
fell to the ground. On rising, the woman
struck him ; he again tried to kiss her, and in
the scufflishe bit off his nose, which she spit
out of her mouth. The action was brought
to recover damages for the loss of the nose.—
The defendant said he had no business to kiss
her; if she wanted kissing, she had a hus
band to kiss her, a better looking man than
ever the prosecutor was. The jury, without
hesitation, acquitted her ; and the chairman
said, that if any man attempted to kiss a
woman against her will, she had a right to
bite off his nose , if the had a fancy for so doing.”
A Damper to Bathing. —The last number
of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal ut
ters the opinion that “ once a week is often
enough for tne purpose of luxury or clean
liness. Beyond this, we co lairier bathing as
injurious. Flannels worn next to the skin at
all seasons is proper, ana infinitely more
healthful than all the daily baths now so
fashionable." The argument by which this
opinion is supported, is as follows :
“ The oil which is secreted by the sebace
ous glands of the skin’ serves the purpose of
lubricating its surface. Now, if this secre
tion is constantly removed as fast as exuded,
its destined object is thereby defeated. The j
excretary hueta of the perspiratory glands j
themselves require this unctuous matter of
the skin to keep them in action. T very fre- j
quent bathing of the body is practised, it must
be obvious that this matter cannot be long
present to perform its office. As to the assi
milation of the functions of the skin and
lungs, it will be apparent that when the skin
acts imperfectly, or ceases to aot at all, the
lungs have an extra amount of duty to per
form ; and it is generally in just such cases
that engorgement of them takes place, consti
tuting inflammation, or pneumonia."
Those Ninety-Five Delegates.— What
will become of those ninety-five delegates
the representation of the Constitutional Union
of Georgia—appointed, one from each
county in the State, oy Mr. President Wof
ford, the Governor that is to be ? W ill they
go? If they go, will they be able to find the
Constitutional Union Party ? If they should
happen to learn before the 22d of February
that the meeting to form a National Consti
tutional Union Party which they were ap
pointed to attend is “no go," perhaps they
would like to know the reason why. They
will, doubtless, be anxious to find out where
fore they have been left alone in their
giory. The explanation given by the corres
pondent of the Baltimore Sun and Philadel
phia Ledger shows that the thing was a mis
take. The writer says, “ the rumors circula
ted about a great National Convention to be
held in Washington on the 22d inst., are not
correct." “ I just learn that the leading men
ot both political parties are opposed to it in a
body.” How unkind in these leading men,
Whigs and Democrats, thus to burst up the
great Constitutional Union party movement!
—and especially how unkind to leave the
Georgia Convention and its delegates in the
lurch! The following from the Southern
Pressof the 7th, was not aimed exclusively at
the meeting in Marietta on the 7th*instant;
the coincidence in date is somewhat striking
nevertheless :— Marietta Advocate.
the fugacious party.
■ —“ Where, Oh wheie !
Has my High and Laddie gone ?”
The unfortunate recruits, drummed up by
diligent sergeants throughout the South to
swell the ranks of the Constitutional Union
Party ! must find themselves in a forlorn and
ridiculous position at the present time.
They will certainly have to take out a writ
to apprehend their fugacious leaders, who
have “ escaped from service and labor" in the
cause of this “ glorious"—Union Party, The
drum majors in se&uded places, in blissful
unconsciousness of new oiders from head
quarters, are still beating their rappel, and
endeavoring to enlist more men—but Fall
staff’s did not- prove a more ragged regiment,
than the remains of that orgtniza ion will,
when the words, flight about face! Dismissed /
are heard.
A Most Melancholy Occcrbnob.-- We learn
from Capt. James Bridges, who sails a schooner
from Bayside, Talbot county, that a most
melancnoly occurrence took place at that place
on Tuesday last, at the dwelling of Mr. Bal
lard Shores. The particulars are as follows:
On that day Mrs. Emma Jones had paid a visit
to Mrs. Shores, taking with her her infant
child. Sne was seated in the sirti.>g room,
with Mrs. S. and in a cradle a little son of
Mrs. S. about eleven months old, was lying,
while another little aged three years
was standing by the cradle, rocking it. In
another part of the room there was another
son of Mrs. S. aged about ewht years, who
unobserved picked up a loaded gun, which
had been imprudently left there. While in
his hands, the gun was discharged, the load
blowing the brains out of the little boy stand
ing by the cradle, killing the infant in the
cradle, and lodging several of the shot in the
person of Mrs. Jones, who was sitting in the
line of the shot. Her infant which wax in her
lap, was somewhat injured by the powder
from the gun. Mrs Shores sprang up and
seizing the child whose brains was blown out,
ran into the yard, and there finding him dead,
she ran back into the house. Here she found
her other child dead, and so great was the
shock, that she immediately tainted and has
been in almost a deranged state ever since.
Mrs. Jones, though badly hurt, was not con
sidered dangerous. This is another and a most
melancholy instance of the evil consequences
resulting from the extreme folly of placing
loaded fire arms within the reach of any but
those who know how to use them. —Baltimore
Sun.
(From the N. O. Picayune, Wth intt.)
Arrival of the Alabama.
The Alabama, Capt. Foster, the pioneer
steamer of the Tehuantepec Expedition, ar
rived last evening about 11 o’clock, from
Minatitlan the 28tfi ult., and Yera Cruz the
6th inst.
We have received by the Alabama a full
file of Vera Cruz papers to the day of her
sailing. We have also received a letter from
our correspoudent, dated Minatitlan on the
30th ult. We give it as containing the latest
intelligence from the Surveying Exoedition.
An account of the trip from Yera Crux to the
river has not reached us.
We regret to learn by the Alabama that
George W. Dunbar, Esq., Burve>or of the
Second Municipality, died on the 29th ult.,
at the mouth of the Coatzicoalcos river. He
was buried at that place.
Minatitlan, Mexico, Dec. 30, 1850.
Dear Pic. —Sinoe I last wrote you, the Sur
veying Expedition has been divided into th-ee
parties. The first, or hydrographic party,
was led by Lieut. Temple, U. S. Navy, chief,
and Lieut. Murphy, U. S. Navy, as principal
assistant. The other two were land parties,
headed by Messrs. J. J. Williams and Avery.
We have been detained here longer than we
expected when we landed, by reason of the
deficiency of the means of transportation.
We find the Alabama did not go up the river
so far, by twenty miles, as she could have
ascended with safety, and we were delayed
for want of boats. Everything is, however,
arranged now, and each party will have to
take care of itself hereatter.
The hydrographic party will commence work
to-day or to-morrow on the survey of the riv
er above and below this place,including are
survey of the bar at the mouth below, before
proceeding to the Pacific side. In a day or
two the land parties w ll proceed up the riv
er. Major Barnard left this morning for the
other side ol the isthmus, but will return
immediately, so as to meet the Alabama on
her return trip, which we look for about the
20th day January.
The major’s good qualities and superior
capacity for the duties of this expedition be
gin to display themselves, and have already
attached his associates to him. The company
in New O.leans may confidentlyrely on a just
administration of their affairs he re,and a faith
ful suivey and report. I have been attached
to the hydrograpnic party, and will have an
opportunity of communicating for you by eve
ry sreamer, so you may expect to be regularly
posted up.
Capt. Charles R. Webster, U.S. Consul at
Tehuantepec, accompanies Major Barnard,
across the Isthmus; also Thomas James, of
our city, who has been on the route before
and published a faithful account of the trip.
Capt. Webster has left Dr. Theard consular
agent at this place. The doctor is popular,
and the appointment is considered a good one.
Nothing new besides. The party is all in
good health.
The Grand Lodgh of Free and Accepted
Masons for the state of California closed its
semi-annu il communication lately, it having
been in session three days. From Dr. John
H. Gihon, Grand Secretary, we have obtain
ed the following particulars:—The Grand
Master being absent, the R. W. D. G. Master,
John A. Tutt, of Sacramento city, piesided
at the several meetings of the Grand Lodge.
Ten subordinate Lodges were represented.
The Order throughout the State was represen
ted as in a highly flourishing condition, and
its great usefulness exhibited in the reports
of the large amounts of money that have
been expended during the past year for chari
table purposes. In Sacramento c.ty alone, an
expense of $31,436 has been incurred in the
support of a chan.y hospital. Gen. A. M.
Winn presented to the Grand Lodge ten acres
of land, situa'ed within one mile of Sacra
mento city, with a view to the establishment
of a Masonic school. A beautiful Masonic
Hall, which cost ten thousand dollars, was
reported to have been erected and handsome
ly furnished at Benicia. The receipts of the
Grand Lodge were more than adequate to
meet all demands upon it, and one-half the
amount of fees from subordinate fLodges were
ordered to fie remitted. Much other impor
tantbusiness was transacted. —Savannah Repub
lioan, 16 Lh imt.
New Bank, in New-York. —The Bank of i
the Republic, chartered by the last Legisla-i
ture, has just been organized. G. B. Lamar, j
Esq., was elected President, Geo. Collins,
Vice President, and H. Vail, Cashier. The
gapital stock is $1,000,000, but the Company
had authority to commence business when
$600,000 was subscribed. The Directors de
termined, however, not to commence opera
tions until the whole amount was subscribed.
Such was the confidence in the board that the
list was filled up in four days. It is worthy
of remark that both the President and Vice-
President were once residents of this city;
Where they were distinguished as most enter
prising and far-seeing merchants. —Savannah
Republican .
£Thb Heroine, Mrs. Bailey, Dead. —We
are indebted to a gentleman who came pas
senger last evening in the steamer from New
London lor the sa l intelligence that this old
lady was burnt to death yesterday, at her resi
dence in Groton, opposite New London. This
fatal accident was caused by her clothes tak
ing fire while her attendants were absent.
Mrs. Bailey was renowned for her patriotism
in furnishing means for the prosecution of the
battles of he; country, and has received many
personal remarks of respect and consideration
from almost all the Presidents and distinguish
ed statesmen who uave visited New England
since the important event alluded to. We are
not fully aware of her age, but understand it
to be upwards of ninety.— N. F. Express , Jan.
11.
To Ma*e Fi.ne Cofvee.— Put a sufficient
quantity i. feoff ie into a pot and pour boi'ing
water on it, stir it and place it on the fire,
bring it to a boil, and as soon as four or five
bubbles have risen, take it off the fire and
pour out a teacupful and return it; set it down
for one minute, then pour gentiy over the top
one teacupful pf co d water, let. it stand one
minutg longer, and it will be bright and fine.
The cold water (.by rs greater density) sinks
and carr .es the grounds with it.
A. corresuondeut turm»,ies u* with the fol
lowing authentic version of an anecdote which
we copied lately: White Mr. Burchard waa
pre»chmg one of nis hottest sermons, (.at the
old Chatham street chapel, New York,) he
raised his eyes toward the door jqst at the
moment Col. Aaronßurr e itered, and exclaim
ed, there is the gory he ded sinner, I shall ap
per in judgment against him. Col. Burr walk
ed down the aisle with that bold, firm military
step, one peculiarly his own, until he had
reached the centre—with a low bow he ad
dressed the minister thus, “Mr. Preacher, I
have been a lawyer in this city for near half a
century, and of all the rascals it has ever been
my lot to deal with, none surpass that class
of criminals who turn state evidence. The
above may be relied on as correct. —Providence
Journal.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Augusta, ©eorgict.
SATURDAY MORNING, JAN- 18
' Masterly Inactivity.”
Those who are beguiled into the belief that
the free*soil fanaticism and the free-soil dema
gogueism have reached their culminating
point, and are no longer formidable, will not
be allowed to remain very long under the de
lusion. Those who, for party purposes, or
from a tame spirit of submissionism to any
amount of encroachment on the South for the
sake of peace and “glorious Union at all
hazards conceal the real strength of the ene
my, and seek to make capital for the submis
sion side out of the deceptive truce, will in
due time, have a heavy account to settle with
the people when they discover that they have
thus been trifled with.
The New York Journal of Commerce , a paper
whose * igh character is too well established
to need eulogy, a Union paper, one whose free
trade principles have always given it a South
ern leaning, contains a letter f>om its intelli
gent Washington correspondent, dated Janu
ary 11th, that thus speaks of “higher law’’
Seward :
“ I have occasion to speak of Gov. Seward’s
principles, as advanced so often and with so
much effect. People underrate him, if they
suppose he will not stand up to his princi
ples. He is the most potent man, at this mo
ment, ot all the public men in this country.
“He heads a movement which time is to
strengthen and advance. He is cool and cal
culating. He i 3 a Mirabeau in public —I dq
not mean to say in private —life. Mirabeau
always preserved his self-possession, and eva
ded the thousand duels into which it was at
tempted to draw him. He had his purpose,
and so has Seward. The course of Mr. Sew
ard at this session, is masterly.
“ The foothold which Mr. Seward will gain
in one matter will aid him in others. The
time is n t yet for the full developement of
his schemes.”
The comparative stillness of the free-soilers
in Co.igre&s this session, proves neither a di
minution of strength, nor a change of purpose.
It is a part of their tactics to be quiet at pres
ent. With a free-soil Senator from Ohio, one
from New-York, one from Massachusetts, and
with the re-election of that traitorous old
apostate to the cause of the South, Thomas
H. Benton, elected by a coalition of Benton
ites with the Whigs of Missouri, the free
soilers will display greater strength in the
Senate next Congress than they can now. As
in the case of Benton, so in other Southern
States, Presidential aspirations will win South
ern men to the free-soil cause. Under the
new apportionment, increased strength to
free-soilism will be obtained in the Lower
House. With these accessions of strength,
and the efforts of Southern politicians, under
the false cry of “ Union,” that ** masked bat
tery,” to weaken Southern resistance, the
hopes of Seward were never higher, nor his
prospects brighter, than now. The success
of the Southern Rights Party in the South
can alone defeat his machi nations.
An Example Worthy ov Imitation—Hud
son River Ins. Company.—Our readers will
recollect that we noticed a fire in our list Sat
urday’s pa;er, which broke cut in Messrs.
Ross & Smith’s store in River-street. We are
informed that the entire stock of goods own
ed by those gentlemen were destroyed. They
were insured in the Mechanics’, Mutual,
North-Western, and in the Hudson River Ins.
Company.
The fire occurred on Saturday morning ; the
Hudson River Insurance Company had notice,
informally, of their loss on Saturday evening.
On the following Monday morning, Col. Mor
gan called on Messrs. Ros 3 & Smith, and for
the Company adjusted and paid the loss. By
their charter, the Hudson River Insurance
Company were entitled to sixty days in which
to make their payment —thus anticipating
their engagements. Tnis promptness, and
cheerful compliance with their agreements
with the insured, is highly creditable to the
Directors of the Company. — Troy Daily Post.
This is creditable, and an example worthy
of imitation. We infer from the above, and
other remarks of the Post, that it is an example
not often imitated at the North; but that on
the contrary, when a loss occurs, the Compa
nies are in the habit of claiming their full
sixty days, usually allowed by their charters
to Insurance Companies, and that the insured
is required to comply rigidly with all the
formulas, often tedious and intricate, before
he can put himsetf in an attitude far recovery,
and even then is paid grudgingly, or perhaps
compelled to resort to an expensive law-suit
for his just dues.
This may be the fashion with Northern In
surance Companies. But the conduct of the
Hudson River Insurance Company, detailed
above as a rare merit, is an every day business
transaction at the Sputh. Instances of the
kind have been often brought to our knowl
edge.
With the Mutual Insurance Company, lo
cated at Athens, and having agencies here,
the uniform practice is to pay promptly and
cheerfully, every loss, as soon as clearly and
fairly established. The same course is pur
sued by Augusta Insurance & Banking
Company. We believe it is done by all South
ern Companies in Georgia.
This course is not only the dictate of liberal
views, but of a judicious and wise calcula
tion. It makes Companies popular—inspires
confidence—and attracts custom. Insurance
Companies are then looked upon, aB they tru
ly are when properly managed, a protection
and a blessing to society.
Disgraceful Hoax.
The Cassville Standard thus contradicts a
false report of which that paper was made
the vehicle by some petty blackguard. Such
tr fling with the feelings of families and
friends, is atrocious. We hope the perpetra
tor may be exposed to public scorn :
“In our paper of the second inst., we stated
that Edward Hull, son of Hon. Asbury Hull,
came to his death by the accidental discharge
of his gun white hunting near Athens on the
13th of December.
“ This was the information that we received
in a private letter, whose name we do not
now recollect, as the letter was destroyed.
Since then we learn that Mr. Hull is not
dead, and not a word of truth in the whole
statement of our correspondent.”
Heaviest Bale Yet- I
Phinizy & Clayton received at their Ware- j
house yesterday, from the plantation of Wm.
Byne, Esq., of Burke county, a bale of Cotton
of the enormous weight of 1,240 lbs.
This must be provoking enough to ware
housemen, draymen, wharfingers, and boat
men, as it wraps up two or three bales in one,
with corresponding loss of lees to them. They
will have to block the game by charging by
weight.
Census op New-York Citt. —The census
returns for 1850, show the population of the
city of New-York to be ....517,848
Population in 1845... 371,223
Increase in 5 years nearly 40 per ct. 146,626
If we add Brooklyn and Williamsburg,
which are a part of New-York in all but name
and city organization, the entire population
is about 650,000 souls.
Edgefield Advertiser. —This well con
ducted paper has undergone a change of edi
tors. W. C. Moragne, Esq., a graceful and
forcible writer has retired, and is succeeded
by Col. Arthur Simkins.
Tho Hungarians
Gave their first Concert last evening, at
Concert Hall. The Room was well filled, and
their performances gave general satisfaction.
Their second Concert will take place this
evening, at the same Hall.
The South Western Rail Road. —This
Road, we understand, (says the Savannah
News,) will be opened tor business about the
first of April next, under the general superin
tendence of George *V. Adams, Esq., who
leaves for Macon this morning, to assume his
duties there.
Our countryman, Hacked,the comedian, put
forth the following high sounding announce
ment, in the Liverpool papers, one morning
in December: “Amphitheatre Royal, Liver
pool. His Excellency, the Minister of the U.
States at the Coutt of St. James, has signified
his intention to honor this house with his
presence to-morrow evening (Friday, 13th
inst.,) to witness the famous representation of
Shakspeare's Falstaff by the distinguished
Americrn artiste, Mr. Hackett, who has ar
rived from New York, (being Mr. Hsckett’s
first appearance in England since his perfor
mance before her Majesty, by special desire
26th of May, 1845, at the Theatre Royal,
Haymarket.”
Well Off. — A gentleman in Henry county,
Ky. in a letter to the editor of the Shelby
News, gives the subjoinad interesting item: —
“There is in this county, a child of Mr. Gran
ville Goblin, who has six living grand mothers,
viz: one great, great, grandmother; three grea 1
grandmothers, and two grandmothers. Is
there another similar case?”
Important prom Central America — The
English Blockade. —By an arrival at New-York,
we learn that the President of Guatamala had
issued a proclamation in relation to the inva
sion of that Republic by the State of San Sal
vador ; and that the President of the latter
had also issued a proclamation calling upon
all Central Americans to resist the British
blockade. Mr. Chatheldis also out in a letter,
in which he says the invasion of Guatamala
by the troops of San Salvador and Honduras,
will not be viewed with indifference by the
British Government.
gJThe schooner John Mitchell, from Baltimore
for Savannah, was in the gale of the 3d inst.,
and lost all her sails and sprung aleak. Tho
day following, she went ashore on Cape Hat
teras and immediately bilged. The captain
and crew were saved, but the vessel is a total
loss, She was owned by Mr. William Apple
garth, and both vessel and cargo are insured.
The Steam Ship Ohio. —This vessel, was
(says the N. Y. Herald,) raised on one of the
berths of the Sectional Floating Dry Dock
Company on Saturday afternoon, in less than
two hours from the time the pumps weie
Started, When raised, it was found her hull
had received no injury from the effects of the
gale she had encountered, and that all which
would be necessary to put her in a good con
dition to resume her regular trips, was caulk
ing. She will also be coppered. The whole
of her repairs will be commpleted by Wednes
day, when she will be lowered and hauled
out of dock.
Secession. —The Senate of N orth-Carolina,
has rejected by a vote of 31 to 16, a Resolution
declaring that a State has a right to seceede
from the Union, in contradistinction to the
aight of revolution.
To Cprk Hams. — Cover the bottom of the
oask with coarse salt, lay on the hams with
the smooth or skin side down, sprinkle over
fine salt, then another layer hams, and so con
tinue until the cask is full. This ought to be
of the larger kind. A cask holding 54 gal
lons is small enough, and it would be better
if it he ? d 120 gallons. Make a brine in the
fallowing proportions: 6 gallons water, 9
pounds salt, 4 pounds brown sugar, 3 ounces
saltpetre, 1 ounce saleratus. Scald and skim,
and, when cold, pour the brine into *he cask
until the hams are completely covered. The
hams should remain m this pickle at least
three months, and a little longer time would
do them no harm.
The American Steam Ship Atlantic —This
steamer, which, doubtless, left Liverpool for
New York on the 28 h ult., had not arrived
yesterday morning, at 11 o’clock. We come
to this conclusion of the fact, that no tele
graphic intelligence of her arrival reached us
previous to that hour, at which time, as we
are informed, the wires were broken beyond
hayetteville.
The Atlantic is certainly beyond her time,
but we have no apprehensions as to her safety.
The British steamer Hibernia, which left Liv
erpool on the the 4th December,lß47, did not
raach Boston until the 25th of that month.
The case of the long passage was merely the
unfavorable weather she encountered, and
that probably has operated on the Atlantic, an
occuirance not unusual at this season of the
year.— Charleston Conner, 17 th inst.
Large Cargo.-— The British ship Lochma
ben Castle, Capt. Poole, cleared at the Cus
tom H mse yesterday, having on board 3,076
bales Upland a id 119 do S- I. Cotton, weigh
ing 1,391, 798 lbs . and 174 bbls. Rosin. Total
value of cargo, $183,16#.- — Saavnnah Republi
can 1 fith inst.
iij) JHagnetit (JeUgrapl).'
Reported for til 9 Constitutionalist.
Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL,
OFTHE
FRANKLIN.
COTTON lUUKKr l/N C SING ED.
MONEY IN DEMAND.
EXCHANGE ADVANCING.
ADVICES FROM INDIA FAVORABLE
NO NEWS OF STEAMER ATLANTIC.
New York, Jan. 16.
Ihe steam ship Franklin has arrived from
Liverpool, having left on the 31st December.
She brings advices up to the day of sailing.
The Cotton market was unchanged, and
former prices were firmly maintained. The
stock of cotton at Liverpool, was 454,800
bales.
There was more demand for Money.
Freights and Exchange had advanced con
siderably on Paris, Hamburg and Amsterdam,
checking the export of specie.
Commercial affairs firmer.
Affairs in India were favorable.
The Franklin remains at Quarantine until
this morning, and we can get nothing more
to night.
No tidings of the steamer Atlantic, and
fearful apprehensions are entertained for ner
safety.
This is all received; no dates from New
York of the 17th have come to hand yec.
Charleston, Jan. 17, P. M.
Cotton. —Prices to day are stationary, all
parties awaiting the steamer’s arrival. Tne
sales to-day reach 1400 bales at 12 to 134
cents.
Extent op Kail wax in thb World.—lt
been estimated by an English writer on the
subject, that in the beginning of 1849, the
total length of Railway in operation in various
parts of the glob , was 18,656 miles, on which
a capital of £368,667,000 had been expended.
Ac the same period there was in course of
construction 7,829 miles more, the cost cf
which would be £146,750,000. It is thence
concluded that the population of Europe and
the United States will have completed within
less than a quarter of a century 26,485 miles
of Rail-Road, at a cost of £500,000,000.
New York Monet Market.—The Journal
of Commerce of Monday evening says:
There is a fair degree of activity in the
money market, with no change in rates. A
considerable portion of the money loaned on
call belonging to importers, who had accumu
lated it to pay duties upon goods arriving this
month. As this is called for, its place is sup
plied without difficulty from other sources,
but the movement necessarily creates more
movement in the market.
Exchange is active, but irregular; bills on
London 110 a lii, Paris 5,12 a 5,10; Amster
dam 41J a 424; Hamburg 37 a 374; Bremen
80 a 804,
Weights op Distinguished Men.—The fol
lowing memorandum was found a number of
! years ago in the pocket-book of an officer of
the Massachusetts line :
August 19, 1783.
Weighed at the scales at West Point:
General Washington 202 lbs.
General Lincoln 224 “
General Knox...* 280 “
General Huntington 132 “
General Creaton. .166 “
Colonel 5wift..........» 219 “
Colonel Michael Jackson 252 “
Lieut. Colonel Huntington 232 **
Lieutenant Colonel Cobh 186 ••
Lieut. Colonel Humphreys .221
It appears from the above, that the average
weight of these eleven distinguished revolu
tionary officers was 214 pounds. Tae heaviest
weiaht having been General Knox, who "
weighed 280 pounds, and the lightest General
Huntington, who weighed 132 pounds. It is
somewhat singular that the biographers of
eminent men never, unless under circum
stances of a peculiar character, record the
weight or dimensions of the clay tenements
which were the abodes of their immortal
spirits .
What they say op us in Austria.—A cor
respondent of the Boston Transcript, writing
from Prague, under date of December sth,
says •
“ The newspapers of Austria have recently
taken unusual interest in American affairs,
and the beerhouse politicians have commenced
prophesying the future downfall of the United
States Government. They say to me, *Oh,
you will have a king yet.’ They know about
as much of America and its affairs as they do
of the Hottentots, and no more. Consequent-,
ly it ia downright waste of time to argue the
matter with them. The recent troubles caused
by the passing of the Fugitive Slave Bill they
look on as the germ of a great revolution. One
of these wiseacres thought that every man in
the United States, who could affjrd it, kept
slaves.”
MARRIED,
On the 29th ult, by J. A. Browning, Esq., Mr.
T. R. Loving, and Miss Susan Fambrough, all
of Clark county.
In Girard, on the 4th inst, by the Rev. Dr. M.
Woodruff, Mr. Jas, A. PaNDKKGRast, to Miss
Frances A. Portervine, both ot G.rard.
In Gordon county, on the Bih iust.. Mr. New
ton Trimble, to Miss Martha E. Chambers.
On tne 24th ult.. by the Rev. Mr. J. W. Yar
borough, Mr R D He >rd, of Greenville, to Mrs
Mary A McGehke, 01 Harris county
In T hot ton on the 7th inst.. by the Rev Mr
Jackson, Mr Russell E Harris, V, Miss Susan
C Snead, all of r I albot county.
In Russel county, Ala., 011 S nday morning, the
sth inst.. by P Garlick, Esq , M • Jas H Sikes, of
Macon, Ala., to Miss Susan Susannah Prince.
ot Russell county. Ala.
On the 19th of Dec., by the Rev Joel Trammel
Dr J W Pearce, of Columbus, Ga , to Mi>s Mar
tina McPherson, of Randolph county, Ala.
DIED,
Os Consumption, in the 29th year of his age, on
the 11th inst.. in Columbus, Mr. Geo. C. Sher
wood, a native of the city of New Yo k, but lor
the last 16 years a resident of Columbus
FOR iSALE.
A WOMAN about tweuty-oue years of age, a
superior Sempstress and House servant,
with her two children, one three years, and the
other two months old.
ALSO^
A WOMAN about thirty'six. an excellent field
hand, with her two chi dren, one three y, ars, i*nd
the other six weeks old.
These Negroes are sound ar,d healthy. En
quire at this Office. ts janll