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(From the Southern Tribune.)
Messrs Editors : I send you a copy of the
moat popular song in my latitude about this
time, trusting jou will look upon it as one ot
the decided HITS AT THE TIMES.
burial of the whig party.
Not a d um was heard, not a lunerai note,
A» its cor»e to the graveyard we hurried :
Not a scribbler discharged his farewell shot,
U er tne place where our Party was buried.
We buried it darkly, at head of night,
l »e s ids with our H imilcak turning.
By the struggling moonbeam’s misty light,
And thelamers dimly burning.
No usel ss hist’ry was laid on its breast,
Nor in a leei nor *u shroud we wound it,
But it lay like a h >bby taking its rest,
With its tattered coat around it.
Few an J short were the prayers we said,
And we spoke not a word f sorrow,
But we hastily covered the face of ihe dead,
And we eagerly thought of the sorrow.
We thought as we hollowed its narrow bed,
In th t pleasant and hope-giving hour,
That *• Union’’ wend break the Republican head.
And carry us straight into power.
Lightly they’.l talk of the name that is gone,
A n 1 o er its cold ashes upor-id it,
But little we’ll reck, ii the} let it sleep ou
In the grave wnere its lollies hare laid it.
But half of our joyful task wis done,
When ALfcCK told the hour for tetiring; •
And we heard bv the distant random gun
That the foe was suddenly firing.
SwTily and glad y we laid it down,
Fr >m the field ot defeat fresU and gory;
We c i ved not a line, we raised not a stone,
But left it—minus its glory !
New Year’s Day in New York*
A graphic description ot the peculiarities of
a New Year’s Day in New York, is contained
in the following letter to the National Intelli
gencer :
New Year’s Day in New York half a cen
tury ago, when the entire population of the
city din not exceed a tithe of what is now;
when the regions “above Blaecker” were a
desolate waste, and Chelsea the ultima thule of
civilisation; when the northernmost limit of
od society” reached a point which
aow-a-days would be regarded as hopelessly
“down town;” when dinners in mansions
which are warehouses to-day, and balls under
roofs which have covered notoing but mer
chandise tor this many a >ong year were pre
valent hospitalities ot the time—in that re
mote period, the memory whereof is growing
fainter and fainter with every returning cycle
—New Year’s Day may have been a very hap
py, comfortable, and altogether saustactory
anniversary.—Then the interchange of civili
ties, and cordial greetings, and fiiendiy visits,
which tne day demanded, were matters easy
If of accomplishment, and calling for little ex
f ertion beyond that of being agreeable and giv
| iug your neighbor the benefit of it.—New
V Year’s calls weie substantial affairs; hospitality
*opened the front door for tne visiter; good
eheer awaited him in the parlor, and he went
sway, if not a wiser and n better man than
when he came, at least a much fuller and
warmer one. 6ucii was New Year’s “once
upon s time.’*
But what a destiny is that wnich awaits the
New Yorkers on the first day of the year in
these latter days. All the unpaid social uebts,
ail the unacknowledged courtesies and unre
quited hospitalities of the past twelve months
it heavy on his sjul. The reckoning must be
wiped out betore nignt; now is nis oniy
chance, and wo to the man who neglects it, if
he wishes to keep h.s place in the realms of
gentility. There is a score of families in
Brooklyn, a good four miles off—there a ne
glected relative at Williamsburgh, another
quarternion of miles —there an interesting
colony of acquaintances at Jersey city, several
blocks beyond the Pmiadelpma depot —to say
nothing of his New York triends dotted along
at convenient distances tr.oin the Battery to
.Fortieth street, and spink led over the four
quarters of the city on the awt impartial sys
tem of social distribution. Poor may! the
New Year appears to him in the shape of a
horrid mons’-er, of whose caprice he is to be
the foot-bad, and who U going to begin his
tyranny by sending him of an hundred eirands
all at once.
The truth is, the city has outgrown this New
Year’s custom of visiting, so very agreeable in
theory, but apt to be *o very much the reverse
in practice. With a census of over half a
million oi inhabitants*, and an area proportiona
lly large, it is next to impossib e to keep up
as a universal fashion, one which depends so
much on locality and convenience. One ot
these days our posterity will laugh at this
strange notion ot their ancestors.
Eighteen hundred and fiity-one opened with
a keen ooid wes eriy wind, wnich brae d up
our nerves pretty well for the duties of the
day. A slight tail of snow on New Year's
eVB had covered the ground with about three
quarters of an inch ol snow, on the strength
of which the sleighs and sleigh bells were out
in great force, and by high noon tne streets
began to look as gay as a Carnival. Then it
was tfaa. a quiet observer, with an eye to the
ludicrous and n genial sympatuy with the cur
rent humor of the da*, might have found am
ple aliment for his digestion. o*d gentlemen,
making up and down high steps, and in and
out ot iront doors, evidently determined to
get the better of Time ou the first day of the
year, and not only **take him by the fore
lock,” but shske him into the bargain; young
gentlemen with desperately fast horses and
dashing sleighs, fired with a great ambition to
dazzle waoie neighborhoods, bewilder their
pedestian friends, and “do up” a score of calls
in as many minu:et; quiet citiaens of a sociable
disposition, with pockets full ot bonbons for the
children, bent upon making themselves at
homo away Irom home; consciencious worthies
trudging along lor innes t .getner with a care
fully prepared “list,” condensed from their
wives’ cata ogue of gossips and their owncom
merciai “connexion-;" very prerna ure beaux
making vigorous pushes for social recognition,
and introducing themselves into fashionable
parlor* to the great disgust of veieran men of
the two or three years the r senior, and
b ilea of tneir own a g ( 'J and lIOW and then
some gentleman of a convivial turn of mind,
with contused notions of etiquette, who, after
great difficulty in finding the door hell and
being conveyed into the drawing room, dis- ■,
€ overs that he A* in the irrong house, and cov-
ers hu embarrassment by “taking a little some
thing, and retreating very flushed and with
a perplexed stagger.
All this outside—but within, under the
enchantment of becoming light, elaborate toi
lets, and nonpareil of good humor and sweet
smiles, how much more to admire. The state
ly old lady who receives you with historic
dignity just as she did somebody else thirty
years ago, and who has a confused idea that
you are your father or uncle, the blooming
young lady, the very young lady, who is a
perfec'. aspen of bewitcheries, and diffuses af
fability from the tips of her fingers and the
ends of her curls; the maiden lady who knows
every body and grows confidential on the
compliments ot the season,’ and the charming
mamma who introduces the youngest daugh
ter to all the world, and thinks really, afier
all, it is a delightful custom, and what should
we do without it?
Happy the man who has a diplomatic at
tache, or a Senator in Congress, or a Repre
sentave, or an officer in the British army, or a
French Count, or an English author vvhotn he
can pioneer to the parlors of his friends and
bask in the sunshine of his celebrity. What
a stir it made yesterday when Mr. James, the
novelist, was known to be abroad ondu y as a
caller, under the wing of a friend, positively
nos for the purpose of collecting materids for
a new work, but simply as a looker on in Vien
na. A lion is twice a lion on New Year’s day,
and wears his blushing honors thicker than
ever. If he wou dwm immortal renown let
him enter the lists —of visiters on New Year’s.
Some people, very s ily ones, to be sure,
have a fashion, which is fast being put down
as an absurdity, of excluding the daylight
from their drawing rooms and lighting up the
gas with all the brilliancy of an evening soiree
—this is partly for the sake of tneir complex
ions, and partly for the sake ot the little eclat
which anything out of the way is supposed to
confer. But gaslight is a wretched substitute
for daylight. The suushne creens through the
cr vices ol the shutters, and now and then,
the gas happening to grow dim, or go out, the
expelled daylight muit be admuted like an
unwelcome guest.
New Year’s is a dreadful day for very bash
ful gen lemen and very near-sighted ladies,
especially when the two are in conjunction,
the very bashful gentleman has no sooner
crossed the threshold than he is overwhelmed
by an uncomfortable conviction that he is
somewhere where he is not wanted, and ought
not to be, while the very near-sighted lady is
penetrated with the belief that he is alto
gether a different person from himself, and
-taggers him at once into an abnegation of his
own identity by overwhelming him with com
pliments which he knows belongs of right to
somebody else. Tne very hashful gentleman
then undertakes to sit down, with ages ure
which the very near-sigbted lady mistakes for
a retiring bow; the very near-sighted lady
then offers a cup of chocolate which the very
bashful gentleman at first declines, but after
wards thinks he will take, and caps the cli
max by upsetting it on the Wilton carpet, and
oreaking a china vase with his cane, in the
effort to pick it up; the very near-sighted
lady now begins to see very clearly who she
has been entertaining, and the very bashful
gentleman gets clumsiiy out of the house, and
goes home in a state of mind bordering on de
lirium.
Towards night every body gets tired; even
the door-belis seem to have grown fatigued
with ringing, and the in-door belles yawn
during the more frequent intervals ot solitude.
The gentleman who has made his two hun
dred visits comes home , clamorous for slippers
and brandy and water; the frisky old veieran
of the morning thinks the day much more
fatiguing than it was thirty years ago, for some
inexplicable reason; the “fast” going man haß
serious thoughts of giving up society as un
worthy of such laborious cultivation. New
Year is generally voted a bore, except by the
quiet individual, who, in spite of the prevail
ingfurore, pursued tne even tenor of hia way,
ana made a rational holyday es it for his own
amusement.
Such is New Year’s in New York now-a
daya.—The seasons be praised that it comes
but once a year.
Abstract of the Annual Report of the 0010
niaation Society.
Since the last annual meeting, four of the
i Vice President have died, viz : John ICerr, M.
D ,o* Natchez, Mississippi; Hon. Jonathan
Hyde, of Batn, Maine ; Rev- C. <J. Cuyier, D.
I D , of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; and John
McDonogh, of New Orleans.
Six expeditions, with five hundred and ele
ven emigrants, have been sent to Liberia.—
Thisjis a larger number of emigrants than have
been sent in any one preceding year, except
j 1832.
The receipts of the Society have been $64,-
973 91, which is considerably above any tor
i mer year.
The Legislature of Virginia have appropri
| ated thirty thousand dollars a year for five
j year 3, to aid in colonizing the free colored peo
ple of their own State. The law limits the
amount appropriated to each one to twenty
five dollars lor an adult, and 15 dollars for a
I chiid. This will not cover half the expense
| of ts eir transportation, and their support for
six months in Liberia.
The Legislature of Ohio have passed reso-
I lutions urging the recognition of the mdepen
| dence of Liberia by the United States Guv
ernraent. It is thought they will make an
appropriation to aid th-; Colonization Society.
The money spent by Onio in legislating lor
and taking cpre of her free people would more
than send them ail to liiberia. Many of the
very best colored people in the State are pre
paring to go to L bena Mem irta s from all
parts of the Slate have been sent, praying the
adoption by the General Government of some
efficient plan lor carrying on colonisation.
The Legislature ot Indiana have taken
strong ground in favor of national action to ad
vance colomxition and tne suppression of the
slave trade, and the recognition of the Inde
pendence of Liberia by the United States Gov
ernment.
An appeal, signed very numerously by citi
zens in Kentucky, has been presented to the
L -gislature ot that State, for an appropriation,
which it is thought will be made.
The subject has also been discussed in
Tennessee, and wiii come up beiore the Legis
lature at its next meeting.
The New Jersey Colonization Society has
petitioned the Legislature ol that State fur
an appropria ion- Ihe Missouri Colonies i n
Society has petitioned (he Legislature of that
6tate; and the New York Society are about
to do the same thing.
The sentiment is oeeoming general, that the
several States must make appropriations for
coioniztng their own ftee people.
The Sta eof Maryland in 1832 appropria
ted $200,000, and has planted a colony at
Cape Talmas, which is in a prosperous condi
tion.
The steamship project now before Congress
is one of the most popular measures in ail
parts of the country which has ever been pro-
P °The report of the ftev. R. R. Gurley of his
mission to Liberia, has beeu published by the
U. S. Benate, and is replete with important
information.
Ihe Massachusetts Legislature have char
tered a board of trustees for establishing a
college in Liberia, and the effort meets with
much favor.
Jhe Alexandria High School, at Monrovia,
gone into full operation, and increased at
- ' 1. j : ' j
tention is paid to the subject of education in
Liberia.
Extensive purchases of territory have been
made adjacent to Liberia; the most important
of which is the Gallinas, that noted slave fac
tory. How beautifully conspicuous does the
influence of Liberia stand out here ! Galli
nas has been for years the principal slave fac
tory on the Western Coast of Africa. It is
now a part of the Republic of Liberia. The
traffic in slaves is abolished, and lawful com
merce substituted. The last Slave Factory
between Sierra Leone and Cape Palmas has
eiven place to institutions of civilization and
Christianity !
{Correspondence of the N. Y. Evening Post')
Washington, January 22.
A Mouse Trap. —Tne congressional mouse
trap has caught, of the New York delegation,
Bokee, Brooks,Duer, Rose and Schermerhorn,
and three others, wnose names have escaped
my memory. The Speaker of the House has
taken the place of precedence and danger in
this formidable demonstrition against incen
diarism and disunion. In so doing, he has
nut shown his accustomed sagacity. He has
probably fallen into tne ditch dug lor him by
his more astute colleague, Toombs, who, after
bellowing disunion and sedition through the
greattr part of the last session, apparently for
the pure love of the thing, now seeks to re
cover tost ground in thJ practical cotton
spinning and railroad making,as well as plant
ing state of Georgia, by striking a lew lusty
notes upon the Union key. It is pretty well
kno*n that i look upon Cobb and Toombs as
cocks of the same leather. Cobb would have
menaced disunion as fiercely as Toombs, but
that he had hopes of the Speaker's chair;
while Toombs duds it now exceedingly con
venient to expurga.e him elf from the charge
o; being more oia disuniouist than some other
men.
In the first proscription upon which any
Roman consul, celebrated or ooscure,is known
to have made any remarks, the tables of tne
proscribed were hung up on the street corners.
Tne plan of proceeding is now somewhat
changed; the names of all thus posted indicate
*he persons of those to be spared. The Seward
men faugh at the lolly and arrogance of these
conspirators. They say the power of proscrip
lion, »f not the wifi to exercise it, belongs to
the more numerous party. The proportion of
the "Union and harmony" faction in New
York, lor example, they say, is pre ty well
snown by the eight signatures to this paper,
and the twenty-four who have refused. What
is very strange, tne document has never been
piesented far the approval and endorsement ol
Mr. Seward, nor Mr. Benton, nor John Davis,
nor Jefferson D »vis, nor any of the outsiders
on the compromise, at all. This looks strange.
Are they given over to evil thoughts and
hardness of heart? It is the sck and not the
whole which have need of a physician?
A Private Caucus. —It appears that du
ring the first montu of the present session,
while the Union was tottering to its fall, and
evidently upon its very last legs, two or three
nigger cases being pending here and there, a
private meeting or caucus was held in a small
committee room adjoining the Supreme Court,
and there an extraordinary effort was resolved
upon, to meet the crisis. Two different pa
pers Were drawn up and put into circulation,
me first of which was a flaming call tor the
Union Convention of the 22d February.
Neither of them obtained any considerable
number of names, and the milk and water
concern published in the Intedigencer this
morning, was substituted. Clay and Foo e,
the horn blowers on the part ot the Senate,
have “boldly and proudly*’ avowed their
agency in this business. The result is, a
parcel of seedy politicians, most of them quite
done over belore, have made themselves the
laughing stocks, and that the “incendiaries
and i natics are more powerful than ever,"
to use the phrase of one of the drum-majors—
to the opposite class. X.
Bold Robbekt.— About half past II on
Wednesday night, the iron safe of Messrs.
Adams & Co.’s Express offLe, was rifled of
several packages of money, viz: SI,OOO in
notes of ihe Exchange Bank, Washington:
$365 in Baltimore notes, and about S2OO of
various denominations and Banks. A package
ot SSOO was s.rangely left untouched. We
have nut seen the ground, but learn from one
who has looked into the matter, tnat the rob
bery must have been committed by some one
fami iar with the premises. The lock (acorn
mon one) was not injured—but traces of gun
powder were seen at the bottom and around
the safe, so as to conceal the tr ue mode of get
ting it open. The windows in the from and
in the rear were shivered by the explosion—
but as both these exits were fastened inside, it
is prooabie that after rifl ng the property, a
slow match was applied, and the thief escaped
through a trap door and cellar opening on
14th street. The night was dark and murky,
and most favorable for evil deeds. A large
and faithful dog was in the room, and as he
did not give the alarm before the Explosion,
the suspicion is strengthened. The office is in
the basement of the Exchange Hotel, opening
on 14th street, not far from the post office.—
Richmond Enquirer.
We any expect, in a short tune to see pre
parations commenced for rebuilding the St.
Charles, and we presume it will not be jlong
before the unsightly and shapeless ruins that
now encumber the streets will begin to disap
pear or assume a more regular from. We
ardently hope soon to hear the ring of the
trowel and the hammer, g ving assurance ot
the speedy reappearance of our magnificent
edilice. How anxiously will we look for the
commencement ot trie work, and how ardent
lyjwateh its progress trom majestic portico to
airy cupola!
We perceive that workman are already en
gaged on the runs of Ciapp ? s church, prepara
tory, we suppose, to rebuilding that structure,
which it is a fair inlerence is he intention ot
the pubiic spirited and enterprising proprietor
Mr- Touro. No better site for a chuich could
be selected in .he city, and indeed its long
dedication to that service has endeared the
place to our citizens and engendered associa
tions which cannot easily be dispelled. To
change its purpose now would seem almost
like polluting the sanctuary.—A T . O. Picayune ,
23 d inst.
Lahcbny. — a young man, named William
Neyle, alias Benjamin Neyle, who had been
employed about tne store of Messrs. Hoyt &
Co., was arrested on Saturday morning last,
on the charge of taking money from the safe.
Some of the money being identified, h« was
sent to jail to awai. his trial, it appears that
Neyle was in the habit ot getting drunk, and
was theretore discharged op Friday morning.
He is supposed to have secreted himself in an
upper story of the store, and to have begun
operations after the store was closed for the
n ight, as he is known to have used the key
of the safe, which he obtained by breaking
open a desk in the e< unting room.— Savannah.
Republican , 27 th inst,
The party of the Tbople.— ln~ 1848 the
governors of twenty of the States were demo
cra ic—nine were whig. In 1849 nineteen
were democrats and eleven whigs. In 1850
twen'y-four were democrats and seven whigs.
In 1851 there ares twenty-six democratic gov*
ernors and five whigs. The latter are:' \\ il
liama, of Vermont, (minority governor;) 4n
thony, ot Rhode Isiand; Hunt, of New York,
(elected by a few hundred majority;) John
ston, of Pe nsyivania, (a democra ic Stab-;)
Brown, of Florida; and Helm, of Kentucky.
[Albany Atlas. \
Walter Colton.—lt is our painful duty
this morning to record the death of the Rev.
Walter Colton, of the U. S. Navy, who ex
pired at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon, at his
residence in this city. Mr. Colton was, in
1841 and ’42, connected with the old North
American, as its principal editor; and we
have, therefore, to lament the loss of one
having claims upon us as a predecessor, as
well as those stronger claims which attach to
us in common with all his acquaintance and
friends. He was a man of much talent and
great worth, which he exhibited in various
stations, private and public. His professional
career as a chaplain in the Navy, endeared
him to his brother officers, and afforded him
an opportunity of usefulness which he was
caieful to improve. Called, by an exigency
of war, from this peaceful position to the re
sponsible post of Alcalde, or chief magistrate,
of Monterey, in California, he di ; layed ad
ministrative abilities of a high order, and per
formed his several functions of judge and
governor with an energy, fidelity, and tact,
which won for him tne regard of a conquered
people and deserved the approbation ot his
country. His late volume on California, de
scribing, in a genial spirit his residence, la
bors, and travels m that land of gold,—and
his “ Ship and Shore,” and other literary pub
lications, all evinci.e ot talent and a peculiar
gay and blithesome humor, with a tertain sa
tirical turn, will long give him an additional
claim upon public recollection.— Philadetp ia
North American.
We understand that in the lottery of the
Art Union, recently drawn in New York,
Powers’ beau iful statue of the Greek Slave
was drawn by our fellow-citizen Mr. D’Arcy,
the fashionable hatter, corner Canal and Char
tres streets, surnamed by some Count d’Orsey.
— N. O Delta.
The river is in good order for cotton-box
and flat-boat navigation, and cotton is going
forward by these conveyances. The river is
now too low for sate steamboat navigation.—
the steamor Albany is below waiting a rise.
Weather warm and cloudy with light rain.
—Albany (Ga ) Patriot, 2 ith inst.
The African Squadron. —Lieut. Henry P
Robertson, attached to the U. S. brig Porpoise,
of the African Squadron, died on the 4th of
November, and was buried at Porto Praya,
with customary honors. From being impru
dently on shore, he contracted the lever oi the
country, of which he died.
Mr. Lynton lately made a communication
to the Asiatic Society ot London, descriptive
of a mode of punishment, peculiar to the cri
minal code of the Celestial Empire. A Chi
nese merchant, accused and convicted of hav
ing killed his wife, was sentenced co die by the
total deprivation of sleep. The execution
took place at Amoy, in the month of June
last. The condemea was placed in prison
under the surveilance ot three guardians, who
relieved each other at every alternate hour,
and who prevented him from taking any sleep,
night or day. He lived thus for nineteen
days, without having slept for a single minute.
At the commencement oi the eighth day, his
sufferings were so cruel, that he begged, as a
great favor, that they would kill him by stran
gulation.
Printers and Printing —J. T. Bucking
ham, in his senes of reminiscences, in course
of publication in the Boston Courier, speaks
of the importance of the printer to authors, as
follows ?
i( Many who condescend to illuminate the
dark world with the fire of their genius,
through the column* o/ a newspaper, little
think of the lot of the printer, who, almost
suffocated by the smoke of a lamp, sits up till
midnight to correct his false grammar, bad or
thography, and worse punctuation. I have
seen the arguments of lawyers, in high repute
as scholars, sent to the printer in their own
hand-writing, many words—and especially
technical and foreign teims—abbreviated,
words mis spelled, and few or no points, and
those few,if there are any,entirely out of place.
I have seen the sermons of divines sent to the
press without point or capitals to designate
the division of sentences; sermons which, ii
published with the imperfections of manu
scr pt, would disgrace the printer's devil
if he were the author. Suppose they had
been so printed. The printer would have
been treated with scorn and contempt, as an
illiterate blockhead—as a fellow better fitted
to be a wood-sawyer than a printer. No
body would have believed that such gross
and palapable faults were owing to the ig
norance and carelessness of the author. And
no one but the practical printer knows how
many hours the compositor, and after him the
proot-reader, is compelled to spend in redu
cing to a readable condition manuscripts that
the writer himself would bepuzzled to read.”
We understand that thf jury in the case
of Knight, indicted for the killing of Hughes,
at Macon, have, after being out more than
twenty-four hours, returned a verdict of vol
untary manslaughter.— Savannah
28 th inst.
Another Case of Larceny.— Yesterday
Capt. Shefcall, ot the City Watch, arrested
two men named Connell, and Cousin, c r arged
with entering a room, and breaking open a
trunk in the house of Mr. Patrick Reily, in
the Eastern part of the city,near the Fort, and
stealing therefrom $197. They were commit
ted to jail, and will to-morrow morning, un
dergo an examination before Justice P. M.
Russell.— Savannah News, 28 th inst .
A Telegraphic despatch from New Orleans
says—The Teller of the Bank of Louisiana
has absconded with eighty thousand dollars,
but the gieater portion of the money has since
oecn recovered. — lb.
Tub Printers’ Banquet.— Among the vol
unteer toasts presented at the Printers’ ban
que«, in New York, on Friday evening, was
the f diowmg, by General George P. MorrE:—
“The American Union”—A. nobl e folio work
of thirty one pages , by the best authors in the
Republic of Letters—set up, stereotyped, printed
and bound mu form that will last lorever.
Additions, not erasures , may be made', but follow
the original copy—even 'if it goes out of the
window! ’ ' ’
Col. Hall, of Bridgeport, wno has taken
some pains to investigate the “spiritual knock
mgs- in btratford, and e sewhere, is giving
pubiic lectures on the “art,” Re can ‘*rap ’
out sounds similar to those made by the
spirits.
Arrival of the Southerner —We learn
from a priVute despatch received in this city,
that the steamer Southerner, Capt. Dickinson,
arrived at New-York, at 8 o’clock, yesterday
morning.. Charleston Courier, 29.
( Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.')
New Orleans, Jan, 27, 4 P. M.
The Market. -The Cotton market has been
very dull since the arrival of the steamer Arc
tic-only one thousand bales sold this morn
ing. Strictly middling 124; low middling 124
Pnme Molasseß 23 t 0 24 * Whisky
The barque Cherokee, Getty, for your port,
cleared this morning.
ihe Southern Enterprise published [at Ft.
Gaines, Early County, was aiscontiued on the
4ch inst. she Editor proposes to commence
the publication ot his paper in Oglethorpe at
an early day.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
SlttQttata, ©Torgia.
THURSDAY MORNING. JAN 30
No mail received last evening from of
fices North of Charleston.
Whale Fishery of the Pacific.
The business of whaling is attracting some
attention in Cali.ornia. It is by no means
improbable, that at no distant day, San Fran
cisco will become a formidable rival to
Nantucket and New Bedford, if it does
not wholly supersede them in the business.
The New-York Herald has lately been specu
lating with much plausibility upon this result
as probable. Some of the superior advan
tages of San Francisco, and some other Paci
sic ports, over those of the Atlantic, are brief
ly sketched in the following article, which we
take from the San Francisco Journal of Com
merce.
This little namesake of the great New-York
paper, comes to our office, and we welcome it
on our exchange list. It presents a neat and
tidy appearance, and is well edited.
Whale Interests of San Francisco.— This
may appear to many among us to be an outre
caption tor an article in a San Francisco Jour
nal, professing to treat of her commerce and
commercial prospects of this early period of
her existence as a city. Our fellow citizens
ot Nantucket and New Bedford, will, we
might well imagine, start with astonishment,
not at newspaper speculations about our fu
ture commercial connections with their whale
fisheries, but the annumcation of the fact
that a whale fishery adventure is already set
on foot in San Francisco , —and the first
step actually taken iu the establishment of a
whale fishery interest and commerce at the
emporium of the Pacific.
It was, indeed, quite a surprise to ourselve-.
to learn that a firm in this city are tienng out
a ship, to be manned and owned here, and to
be employed in the whale fishery on their
own account as citizens and merchants of San
Francisco. But this surprise arose exclusive
ly from the i.oielty of the enterprise itself,
lor a moment’s consideration assured us not
only of its feasibility as one of profitable
promise to the owners, but of the success of
whale fishery establishments in San Francisco,
equal, if not superior to that of those of the
places on the Other Side to which we have
referred.
In the first place, we are from ten to four
een thousand miles nearer to the great whal
ing grounds of our Western and Northern
seas, the common resorts of the whale fleets
of nations engaged in that business, one very
important consequence of which is, that in
stead of outfits for voyages of three or more
years, these can be narrowed here to the lien
its of a twelve months cruise. And instead
of the habitual, nay, almost exclusive resort
of our whale ships to the islands of the Paci
fic fur supplies, they can obtain them with
equal facility, and with, perhaps, as little loss
oi time at this port. This would result in an
immense saving of time and expense, besides
the further advantages of furnishing these
supplies at the hands of tiadesmen here, and
| thereby contributing to the rills that make up
the sum of a city’s wealth,—not to mention
the convenience and saving, on the score of
repeirs, that would be realized to the owners,
»nd the profits of labor accruing therefrom to
s! ip carpenters and others.
Again, there is already a considerable and
growing demand on this side for the products
of these fisheries, especially oil, the use of
which is among the wide spread and increas
ing wants of California and the North-Pacific
coast. But,independently of this demand, when
we connect the marine and traffic created by
these Francisco Whaling enterprises, with
her commerce and intercourse inevitably about
to spring up with China and the whole of the
“ Eastern,” now made to Americans the West
ern world, we may anticipate an almost entire
absorption of these products in our trade with
those countries.
We might greatly extend our remarks on
this subject and its commercial and political
connections, but we will content ourselves
to conclude by adverting to the very interest
ing and important fact, that whereas, six
months ago, it was impossible to keep crews
from deserting their ships on their arrival
here, and ships themselves were considered as
for the most part lost to commerce, things are,
in the lapse of this brief interval, so far
changed by continual influx of immigration of
all classes from all quarters, including sailors,
or seamen bred, that it is no longer difficult to
obtain a ship's crew at reasonable California
rates, and already it is become common for
vessels to be equipped and manned at short
notice, for all descriptions of commercial and
other maritime enterprizes in which our peo
ple are now, and have, for some time, been
engaged.
Complimentary Dianer to Col. Hoe-
On the evening of the 28th inst., a Compli
mentary Dinner was to have been given at the
Astor Hou*e, by the Messrs. Beach, Proprie
tors of the New- York Sun, to Col. Richard M.
Hoe, in compliment to his fertile genius in
inventing fast printing machines, and more
©specially for the complete success which, has
attended the operations of the monster steam
press, manufactured and recently ereoted for
them by Messrs. Hoe & Co. The dinner
was doubtless an elegant affair. We will take
further notice of it when the description of it
reaches us. It is a well deserved tribute, alike
honorable to the distinguished guest and the
liberal minded proprietors oi this monster
Press. This press is <ne of the world’s won
ders in mechanism, and Col. Hoe has estab
lished for himself an enduring fame by his
useful labors. The press is the great civilizer
of the world —the handmaid of peace, intelli
gence and freedom. To this country, at least,
if not the whole world, Col. Roe has proved
himself a benefactor, by multiplying the ca
pacities of machinery for supplying rapidly,
reading matter to the human mind.
The dinner was to be preceded by a private
exhibition to the invited guests of the Steam
P ress in operation at the Sun office.
We take this mode of acknowledging th?
compliment of an invitation from tlm Messrs.
Beach, to this dinner.
It have us great pleasure to
attend, had it been in our power.
Free-Soii Regrets
The New- York Evening Post, a hot anti
slavery paper of New-York city, says •
The Defeat of Col. Benton. —The tele
graph announces the election of Henry S.
Ghjyer, of Missouri, a Whig, to the Senate of
the XI. States, in the place of Thomas H. Ben
ton, whose term expires at the close of the
present session. YVe need not tav that we
record this intelligence with profound regret.’
No doubt of it! May it have many more
such, as, successively, Southern men unfaith
ful to their section, are made “ to walk
pU.nk.”
New Publications-
We are indebted t > the Publisher-, for a
number of new and attractive works. We
can do little more at this time than call at
tention to them by their names.
Practical Mercantile Correspondence —A
collection of mode-n Letters of Business, wnh
Notes, critical and explanatory—an index and
Appendix, dec. By Wm. Anderson. An Eng
lish book—American edition.
This is a very useful book to the young
merchant. For sale by Geo. A. Oates & Co.
Bards of the Bible—By Geo. Gitfillan, Dun
dee. American edition.
The Mother’s Recompense: A Sequel to Home
Influence. By Grace Aguilar: New-York.
To Love and be Loved— By A. S. Roe.
Shannondale—By Emma D. E. N. Bouthworth.
Appleton’s Mechanics’ Magazine, and En
gineer’s Journal. January number—No. 1,
Vol.l. 7
This last work is a new candidate for pub
lic favor, and seems to be full of useful ar
ticles to the scientific and practical mechanio.
The above are all from the press of Apple
ton & Co., New-York, and for sale by J. A.
Carrie & Co., and Geo. A. Oates & Co., Au
gusta.
The Charleston Weekly News.
We have received the first number of the
** Weekly News and Southern Home Journal,” a
new paper, devoted to news, literature, the
arts, &c.—published at the office of the Daily
Evening News , Charleston, (S. C ) It is a
large, handsome and well filled sheet. It is
the first effort of a Charleston daily paper
office to issue a weekly. It commences un
der favorable auspices. We predict for it,
and cordially wish it, great success.
The Evening News is edited with ability and
taste.
Dime Cotton*
We understand five bales of the above Cot
ton, from the Plantation of Col. R. T. Willis,
of Greene county, were sold in this city yes
terday by Messrs. Dye & Heard, for fifteen
and a half cents, to Geo. W. Lewis, of Provi
dence, R. I. This speaks well for this new
description of Cotton, and should encourage
its production.
A private letter from Washington city bays;
“ The politicians are scheming for the next
Presidency. Some of them art* trying to get
up a Union party pledged to support no man
who is opposed to the Compromise. Among
these, I understand are Olay, Foote, Houston,
Toombs and Cobb. A written pledge to this
effect has been circulating the H. use to-day,
and has been signed by many Northern, and
Southern whigs, and some Southern demo
crats. General Cass, and his friends, includ
ing old Ritchie, won’t go it. They will have
a beautiful split soon. They say here that
Cobb, is to be your next Governor.”— Savan «-
nah Morning News.
We suppose the writer meant to say Mr.
Cobb will be a candidate for Governor.
Fatal Accident.—The Charleston Mercury
says—A most melancholy casualty happened
in the vicinity of Duncanaville Barn well Dis
trict, on the evening of the 23d instant. As
Dr. A. D. Boone was riding on horseback near
his residence, the horse took fright, and dash
ing through the woods precipitated his rider
against a tree, fracturing his skull, and there*
by causing almost instant death. Thus perish
ed in the prime of life, and in a sphere of much
usefulness, a man beloved by all who* knew
him for his many social virtues, ' An & highly
esteemed for his professional abiVity.
The Protestant Episcopal of
Florida, adjourned at Tallahassee, on the 9th
instant. Among the ao*,s was the election as
Bishop of the Diocese of Florida, of the Rev,
F. H. Rutledge, D. D. Rector of St. John’s
Church, Tallahassee.
Is aval. Capt, Tatnali having returned to
Noifork from Washington, on the 23d inst..
the Saranac was to have taken her departure
for the West Indies, on Saturday last.
Election of IT. S. Senator —The 4th of
February has been selected on the part of the
New-Yotk Assembly, for the election of U.
S. Senator,
Census of Gwinnett County-
Free inhabitants 939
Slay es 2^295
Deaths U 9
Families who live separate 1,610
Farmers who raise SIOO worth and over 1,278
Products of industry, clearing $300.... 37
Three Academies, na\ving 60 pubils.
One Classical School, witn 30 students.
Twenty Country Schools, with 500 scholars.
Three Presbyterian Churches.
Twenty Methodist Churches.
Nineteen Baptist Churches.
Fifty-four twin children—in two families
four each- '
Forty-five distilleries, where t\ ie j uice
the apple is tortured into alcohol, and many
good fellows have the bottle placed to their
snouths until their nakedness is plain, ana
their eyes, the master wo- k 0 f their Creator,
are (so Bays Habakkuk.)
2,028 dogs in the county.
6 835 sheep. I place one over the other,
that the wise men, when they assemble again
may have a word on it, and no farce—the
Jackson member to the contrary notwith
standing. Theie was one fine boy burnt to
d*ath in this county. I asked his mother
how or why. She said for lack of a wollen
soat; and the cry with her and roost other*
was, that the dogs had destroyed their sheep,
thereby placing it out of the power of her and
Toany others to prepare a woollen coat to save
the lives of many promising children, There
ire many fine children lost every year by mad
Jura and for lack of woollen clothes.
I was oyer four months in taking t v 4ie Cen
sus, in which time I was assisted hy good tel*
ows, and well fed on beef ar.fi butter, hot
Jakes and coffee gratis, for which I return my
iest wishes to th*m and, Col. Wm.M. Brown.
D N Pittman. As*‘r. \i*.«h 1 rj s
MAHttUIO,
At "Forest Home.” Russell county,. Aft., 00
he 16th inst., by the Rev. Gei jp Cibiman #
L ctor of ‘* St. John in the Win,ernes Co. Ja§»
Turner, of Philadelphia, to Miss Elizabeth
sarnes.
DIED,
Departed this life,on Saturday, the eleventh of
anuary. JBs>, at his res.dt nee in Putnam county,
pencer HURT, Sen , in the sixty fourth year of
is age.
■O THE STOCK RAISEKS CFAL
ABAMA, NORTH CAROLINA, & c .
TED, in the Charleston Markets, from
ItT 01,1,1 the of July, from
X) to 7 (K) head of BEEF CATTLE, fat to be
ilivered here in lots from. 15 to 40 head n a lot.
etters of communication, a dressed to the sub
riber. statj -g the agri» t the quality, the pri e,
so when delivered' will be answered wtth pre*
won by D. KENNEDY, Beef M-rket.
jauld tu