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HAPPY DAYS. —BY CHARLES MACKAY.
Come back—come back—thou youthful time!
When joy and innocence were ours,
When life was in its vernal prime,
And redolent of sweets and flowers.
Come back! and let us roam once more.
Free hearted through life's pleasant ways,
And gather garlands as of yore,
Come back—come back—ye happy days!
Come back—come back— I ’twas pleasant then
To cherish faith in love and truth,
For nothing in dispraise of men ,
Had sour'd the temper of our youth;
Come back! and let us still believe
The gorgeous dream romance displays,
Nor trust the tale that men deceive,
Come back—come back—ye happy days!
Come back, oh freshness of the past!
When every face seemed fair and kind,
When sunward every eye was cast,
And ail the shadows fell behind.
Come back! 'twill come: true hearts can turn
Their own Decembers into Mays;
The secret be it ours to learn.
They come —they come—those happy days!
Too Willing by Half
A BOARDING HOUSE SKETCH.
Many of our readers will recognize the point
of the following joke, which we beard related
a long time ago, but which we never saw in
print. It's a good ’un, and will bear re-tel
ling.
While General Jackson was President of
the United States, he was tormented day af
ter day by importunate visitors, (as most
Chief Magistrates of this “ green country”
are,) whom he did not care to see—and in
consequence, he gave strict directions to the
messengers at his door to admit only certain
persons on a particular day.
In spite of this peremptory order, however,
the attendant bolted into his appartment du
ring forenoon, ?n 1 informed the General that
a person was outside waoiu he could not con
trol, who claimed to t>ce him, orders or no or
ders.
“By the Eternal!” exclaimed the old man
nervously, “I won’t submit to this annoyance.
Who is it?”
“Don’t know, sir.”
“Don’t know? What's his name?”
“Beg pardon, sir, it’s a woman."
“A woman! Show her in James ; show her
in,” said the President, wiping his face; and
the next moment there enterel the General’s
apartment, a neatly clad female of past the
“ middle age,” who advanced courteously to
ward the old man, and accepted the chair prof
• red her.
“Be seated madam,” he said.
“Thank you responded the lady, throwing
aside her veil, revealing a handsome face to
her entertainer.
“My mission hither to day General,” con
tinued the fair speaker, “is a novel one, and
you can aid me, perhaps.”
“Madam,” said the General, “command
me.”
“You are very kind, sir. I am a poor wo
man, General ”
“Poverty is no crime Madam.”
“No sir; but I have a little family to care
so am a widow, sir; and a clerk employ
ed in one ol the departments of your adminis
tration is indebted to me for board to a con
siderable amount, which I cannot collect. I
need the money, sadly, and come to ask if a
portion of his pay cannot be stopped, from
time to time, until this claim of mine—an hon
est one, General, of which he had the full
▼alue —shall be cancelled.”
“I, really—Madam—that is, I have no con
trol in that way—how much is the bill?”
“Seventy dollars, sir; here it is.”
*• ‘Exactly; I see. And his salary, madam?”
“Is said to be SI2OO a year.
“And not pay his board bill?”
“As you see, sir, this has been standing five
months unpaid, T|ire/e days hence he will
draw his monthly pay; and I thought, sir, if
you would be kind enough to-^”
“ Yes, I have it; go to him again, and get
his note to-day for thirty days.”
“His note, sir! It wouldn’t be worth the
paper on which it was written; he pays no
one a dollar voluntarily.”
‘‘But he will give y ( ou his note —will he
not, madam?”
“Oh, yes —he would be glad to bsve a res
pite in that way for a month, no doubt.”
“That's right, then. Go to him and obtain
his note at thirty days from to-day, give him
a receipt in full, and come to me this eve
ning."
The lady departed, called upon the young
lark, dunned him for the amount —at which
he only smiled —and finally asked him to give
her his note for it.
“To be sure,” said he, “give a note —sart’a,.
And much good it may do you mum/'
“You’ll pay it when it falls due, won’t you,
sir—thirty days hence?”
“Oh, yes —aart’n, of course I will; I always
pay my notes, mum, I do,” and as the lady
departed the knowing young gent believed he
had accomplished a neat trick once more.
“I wonder what the deuce she’ll do with
the note? Gad ! I’d like to settle some of the
other accounts the say way. Hope she’ll have
a good time, getting the money on that bit of
paper. John Smith is rather too well known
for that!” And he turned with a chuckle to
his books again.
The poor boarding-house keeper called again
upon the General a few hours afterwards.
“Did you get the note, madam?”
“Yes, sir, here it is.”
The President quickly turned it over, and
with a dash of his pen wrote the name of An
drew Jackson upon the back of it!
“Take this to the bank to-morrow morning,
madam, and you can get the money for it,” be
said hurriedly.
The lady acted according, and found no dif
ficulty in obtaining the cash for it at sight.
A week before that month’s term ination.
Mr. John Smith received a note to the follow
ing effect.
Bank o* Washington, —*■, 1532.
Sta : Your note for seventy dollars is due
on the 27th inst., at this bank, and you are re
quested to call and pay the same.
( —, Cashier.
“Ha, ha!” screamed John, upon reading
this brief note. “A capital joke, that. Can't
come it, mum—can't no iwwj Scare cow—
left for collection—l un'atand—won't do—no
go?” and John very »ooa torgot it.
But “pay day” c<*rue round again—And
John took his monthly stipened once more,
SIOO from the cashier of the department as
usual. As he passed down the avenue, the
.unpaid board bill suddenly entered his head.
“ Who the deuce now has been fool enough
to help the old woman in this business.—
I wonder?” said John to himself. “Gad! I’ll
go and see. It is all a hum, I know; but I’ll
like to know if she is really fooled any body
with that bit of paper; and entering the Bank
he asked for the note “left there for collection
against him.”
“It was discounted said the Teller.
“Discounted, why, who in this world will
discount my note?” asked John, amazed.
“Anybody, with such a backer as you have
got on this.”
“Backer ! me—backer, who ?”
“Here is the note; you can see,” said the
Teller, handing him the document —one which
John instantly recognized the bold signature
of the President of the United States.
“Sold—by Moses!” exclaimed John, draw
ing forth the money with a hysteric gasp —for
he saw through the management at a glance.
The note was of course paid, and justice
was awarded to the spendthrift at once.
On the next morning, he found upon his
desk a note which contained the following
entertaining bit of personal intelligence:
To John Smith, Esq.—Sir : A change hav
ing been made in your office, I am directed
by the President to inform you that your ser
vices will no longer be needed in this De
partment. Yours,
—Secretary.
John Smith retired to private life at once,
and thenceforward found it convenient to
live on a much smaller allowance than twelve
hundred a year.
Minutes of Points of Law-
Decided by t e Supreme Court of the State of Geor
gia, at Talbotton —January Term , 1851.
Brooks vs. Ashburn: from Macon. —1. The
Judiciary Act of 1799, requiring the answer
of defendant plainly and distinctly to set forth
the defence relied on, supercedes the provisions
of the Patrol Laws of 1765 and 1770, authoris
ing any defence to be given in evidence under
the general issue.
2. Where two or more patrollers, enter upon
premises for the purpose of disbanding slaves
collected together, and one of them, without
the knowledge, consent or countenance of ths
others, acts in excess of his lawful authority
as a patroller, whereby damage accrues to the
owner of the slaves, he alone is liable for such
damage, and the others cannot be sued as co
trespassers.
3. Where interrogatories are sued out for a
witness on the ground of his being “unable to
attend Court from bodily infirmity,” and it
appears to the Court that at the time the com
mission was sued out and executed, the wit
ness was actually in attendance upon the
Court, the depositions are inadmissible, al
though at the time they were offered in evi
dence, the witness was unable to attend, from
bodily indisposition.
S Miller and Hunter, for Plaintiff in Error
—L S Smith, for Defendant.
Hoadley vs. Bliss: from Early—l. Where to
avoid the statute of limitations, anew promise
is alleged; to prove which, a letter from defen
dant, purporting to enclose a su a of money,
(without specifying the debt on the same is to
be creditable) is given in evidence; otner le -
ters, written prior to this, and at a time too
remote to take the case out of the Statute, en
closing other sums to be credited on the debt
sued on, are inadmissible in evidence.
2. Where a note is made payable at a char
tered Bank, demand and notice are necess.ry,
in order to charge the indorser; such a note is
not included in the provisions of the Act of
1826, dispensing with notice to indorsers in
certain cases.
Downing for Plaintiff in Error —McDougald
and Carithers for Defendant.
Durham vs. The State: from Dooly. —l. When
a defendant demands a trial at the Term at
which the indictment is found, and at the next
term thereafter; when the case was called and
the defendant announced ready, tne Sol. (Jen.
entered a noli prosequi, and then preferred a
new bill, upon which the defendant announc
ed ready, and demanded a trial, which was re
fused by the State: held, that the defendant
was entitled under the Statute to a judgment
of discharge, from the offence charged in the in
dictment.
S T Bailey and Harris for Plaintiff in Error
—B. Hill, for defendant in Error.
Harrisonetalvs. Thornton : from Sumter, —1. A
return by the Sheriff, on an execution that a
levy “was sold for $lO6, and waa paid to
costs,” is indefinite and insufficient. The re
turn of the Sheriff should specify what posts
are due, and upon fas , and how much
to each fi fa.
2. It is error in the Court in its charge to
the Jury to instruct them on facts if there is
no proof.
B Hill, representing Sullivan & Brown, for
Plaintiff—H Holt, representing Dudley and
Crawford for Defendant.
Gov. for the use, sc. vs. Howard et all from
Baker.— l. The fact that a Sheriff’s Bond is
given more than thirty days after his election
is prima facie evidence that the office was va
cated under the Statute, but the delay is open
to explanation by proof on the part of the
Sheriff, that it did not arise from his neglect.
2. The fact that a Sheriff’s is attested
by only two of the Justices of the Inferior
Court, does not necessarily exclude other
proof, that the Bond was approved by a majori
ty of the Court.
$. A Sheriff’s Bond is good, although in the
condition thereto, he is not in express terms
bound for the acts of his deputy. The law
makes him so liafile as a part of his duties as
Sheriff.
4. And this is true, although the Bond may
be a voluntary and not a statuary bond.
S T Hailey and B. Hill, for Plaintiff in Error
—J B. Hines, for Defendant.
Gleg/pom vs. the Insurance Bank, Sfc.: from
Baker.— l. The principle that joint creditors
have a priority of lien in equity, upon the
copartnership effects and separate creditors
upon separate effects in the distribution of as
sets, does not apply at law, wnere the creditor
is pursuing his lien under*his fi fa, without
asking the interposition of a Court of Equity,
R. K. Hines, Jr. for Plaintiff in Error—
Carithers and McDougald for Defendant.
fullijf vs. Frances', from Sumter. —1. An entry
on a fi fa, by g magistrate for a constable, in
his name, by his direction, and in his presence,
is as the act of the constable.
2, Where it appears to the Court at any
time during the progress of a cause that one
ot the parties is dead, and unrepresented; it is
the duty of the Court to arrest the proceed
ings until parties are made.
B. Hill for Plaintiff in Error—J B Hines for
Defsndent.
Flynt and wife vs. Hgckett:from Harris. —1. A
refusal by a Trustee to settle with the cestui
Qite trust, alleging that the latter had been paid,
if not such a repudiation ot the trust, as would
Gauee tfce statute of limitation to commence
running.
2. The saving in the Statute jm
coverts, applies to cases brought by the hus
band, for the benefit of the wife, during the
coverture. _
H Holt end B Hill, for Plaintiff in Error—
Ingram for Defendant.
The State ew rel Strange vs. Bell, from Marion.
_l. Where by an Act of the Legislature,
Commissioners were appointed, to assess the
depreciation to property, caused by the re
moval of a county site, and requiring them to
give certificates thereof to the property own
ers, which were made debts upon the county
Treasury; held, that the county Treasurer
cannot resist the payment of one of these cer
tificates, on the ground that jt was not issued
to the proper owners.
2. When a statute requires certain duties
of a public nature to be|performed by a definite
number of individuals, a majority may act
without the co-operation of the others.
Hill and Worrell for Strange—Benning for
Bell.
Lowe vs. Murphy, from Harris. —1. An ae
knowiedgement in writing, that a certain
sum was due and unpaid to another person
for “the price of a tanyard and the amount of
a lost promissory note,” is a due bill, and
may be declared on as such.
H. Holt, for Plaintiff in Error—Benning for
Defendant.
Paraham vs. the Justices, from Decatur.
—l. The statute of 1799 authorizing the In
ferior Court to open new public Hoads oyer
the unenclosed lands of a citizen is unconsti
tutional because it makes no provision tor
compensating the citizen for the private prop
erty taken for the public use.
2. Otherwise, as to enclosed lands, as the
statute makes provision for compensation in
SUCh C&S6B*
S. T. Bailey for Plaintiff in Error —B. Hill
representing Law and Sims for Defendant.
Harrison vs. Young, from Randolph. —l. A
grant from the State to a tract of land lying on
a river or other stream, does not convey the
right of public Ferriage;
2. Such a grant does convey the right of
private Ferriage, as an appurtenance to the
fee.
3. Where evidence is admitted to the Jury
without objection, and no motion is made to
withdraw the same from the Jury, on the
ground of its being illegal; it is not competent
to request the Court to charge the Jury, that
the same is illegal, and not to be considered
by them.
4. In estimating the value of the land taken
for the abutment of a bridge, for the purpose
of ascertaining the damage done to the owner
of the land, it is competent for the owner to
give in evidence, the adaptation of the land to
a bridge site —or for any other legitimate pur
pose, with a view to increase the damage.
5. It is also competent to consider the own
er’s right of private Ferriage in estimating the
damage done —but not to consider such dam
age as enhanced by the public franchise.
Benning for Plaintiff in Error—H. Holt for
Defendant.
The Appkoach op the Rail Road.*— The
rapidity with which the work is now progress
ing upon the East Tennessee and Georgia
rail road, is well calculated to bring up before
the minds of the people of East Tennessee
the results which are to flow immediately
from the completion of this road. Much has
been written and spoken with reference to the
impulse which this improvement will give to
every branch of industry and trade, but each
day adds new features to the importance of
the work. By the completion of this road we
will not only be brought in communication
with the markets of South Carolina and
Georgia, and the seaports of Charleston and
Savannah, but in a year or two a citizen of
Knoxville may visit Nashville and Memphis
by rail road, and perhaps in equally as short
a time as will be required to complete
roads, the Selma and Tennessee river rail
road may be finished, and thus throw open
the entire market of Alabama to East Ten
nessee produce. Verily the skies are brigh
tening over our heads, and our intelligence
from every portion of this division of the
state leads to the conclusion that the people
are cheered by the prospects which lie before
them, and are putting forth all their ener
gies, that they may reap bountifully from the
advantages which are now presenting them
selves. — Knoxville Register, 6th inst.
Suffocation in New Yobk. —An article in
the Sunday Dispatch—which by the way, is
one of the most practical and interesting
weeklies in the city—m which a comparison
was drawn between London and New York,
forcibly arrested our attention. It appears
that, with a population of about 2,300,000,
London contains 300,000 dwellings, or an
average of 8 individuals to each; while New
York, with a population of 520,000, contains
but 37,000 dwellings, or an average of 13 per
son to each. This is a startling fact, and
furnishes a striking liiqstracion qf the com
plaints which we have all for years been
making of the want of space and breathing
room for the middling and poor classes of our
population. The reckless selfishness and dis
regarded ot the decency, health and lives of
their poor tenants, displayed by the landlords
and house builders of Ifew York, together
with the toleration of slaughter-houses, pig
peas, boae-boiling and distillery nuisances in
the subUt\f&>, h&v e ocuuie of three quarters of
the city a Gehenna tekor, Uteti, sbomina
tion and death. What with ftte poisonous
milk from the distillery cows, upon which sb
many thousands of infants and young children
are fed? the cellar life of our underground
population,and the suffocation and filth of thos
who are crammed into insufficient house room,
it is a wonder that so many children survive,
or that the whole population has not degener
ated into some new and more monstrous form
of Cretinism—the awful type and punishment
of want of free air and cleanly life.
[N. Y: Day Book.
The Honey Bee. —A lecture on the Honey
Bee was recently delivered before the Smith
sonian Institute at Washington, by Dr.
Morris, A correspondent of the .Nationalln
telligemcer, in noticing the lecture, makes
gome interesting statements, and furnishes
some practical hints. Bees, said the lecturer,
are villainous thieves. They enter the hive
an 4 steal away tfce honey. never pay
complimentary visits. A bee never lights
upon the platform of a hive not its own with
honest intentions. The careful observer will
instantly detect a stranger bee. It is well
known as an enemy by the guard at the en
trance to the hive, for a guard, day and night,
is stationed there of sufficient force to repel
intruders, and will certainly do it if this en
trance in size is properly adjusted to the use
qf the community. Attention to this subject
will prevent robberies among bees. Where,
however, the entrance is of an unnecessary
and unreasonable size, enemies will effect an
entrance in spite of the guard. Then a war
of extermination or subjugation ensues. It is
fierce and dreadful. Reinforcements on both
sides are rapid, and many bees are slain.
The battle is soon determined, ueariy' always
in favor of the assailants. —The strong are
most likely to attack the weak. The van
quished party then unite with the conquerors,
assist to carry away their own honey, and go
with it. Such is the war of bees. The fol
lowing its the best way to manage robbing
bees. Close the door of the hive five minutes;
in this time the robbers will have obtained
their loads, and will be pressing to the door.
Open it,, and let them out, and as soon, as the
hive is emptied of these intruders, close again
so nearly as that but a single bee can pass at
a time. With so small a space, the robbers
will soon give over, alter open gradual
ly. When robbers are thus suddenly check
ed, they of en attack adjacent hives with a
rush which the guard cannot resist.—
This should be looked to, and it well be pru
dent, at the time of closing the entrance to
the hive first ettackefi, also greatly to reduce
the width of the entrance to ail tfie hive
stands ne.r, until this danger is past. The
directions are given on the presumption that
thto hive is ventilated, as every nive should be.
With no ventilation, in a hot day, five minutes
exclusion of the atmospheric air may be dan
gerous or fatal. In this case caution must be
used, but upon the same principle the intel
ligent apiarian can still succeed.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
2lujg[ttsta, (Sfoorgia.
THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 113.
New-York Day Book, Again
We publish the following averments of the
Day Book , in reference to its Editors, and are
quite willing our readers shall receive them
as true, until the contrary appears. We take
occasion to state, however, that we received
by the same mail an envelope from New-
York, post-paid, inclosing this printed edito
rial of the Day Book, on the margin of w hich
the writer, who signs himself “ John Brown,
the Ferryman ,” in pencil, contradicts several
of the statements of the Day Book, as regards
Mr. Stimson. We say to the writer, should
he see this, and to the Editors of the Day
Book, that we attach no value to anonymous
statements. We do not allow our paper to
be made the vehicle of their attacks upon
others. " John Brown, the Ferryman ,” is a
worn de guerre in the N. Y. Evening Post. The
real name is, no doubt, at the service of those
entitled to it, and who properly demand it at
that office. But “ John Brown, the Ferryman ,”
written to us in pencil, stands for no name
known to us, and unaccompanied with any
responsible name, is entitled to no credit:
“ Not Quite Satisfied. The Augusta
(Ga.) Constitutionalist is not satisfied with
Mr. Foster’s denial of the Evening Post's as
sertion that he carried food to G. Thompson
in Arthur Tappan & Co.'s store. It wants
him to deny that Stimson & Foster tried to
merge the Day Book into the Tribune, and
that Stimson was ever a clerk for A. Tappan
& Co. As to the first, we will deny it in any
terms the Constitutionalist wishes, as such an
idea never entered our heads. But to the
charge against Stimson of being a clerk for A.
Tappan & Co. we must plead guilty. That
part of it though which charges him with
carrying bread, butter, or food of any kind to
Thompson, we repudiate : that is not so ; al
though he had intimation from Mr. Lewis
Tappan, that he ought to respect and love the
martyr enough to do him every service. He
was then a boy under twenty, but his princi
ples which were precisely chose promulgated
in the Day Book, were well known to the
firm, and were ultimately the cause of a quar
rel with Lewis Tappan—the Co. of that firm—
which euded in his leaving their employ. Mr.
Stimson has often stated this fact both pri
vately and publicly, and John Brown, the
Ferryman, knew it, if he knew any thing.
“ It was at Arthur Tappan & Co.’s that he
saw abolitionism in its native state and natural
colors. It was there he became acquainted
with that suppleness of H C. Bowen, of the
firm of Bowen & McNamee, who was over
ready to do Lewis Tappan’s bidding and
which terminated in his getting twenty-five
thousand dollars from John Rankin, Lewis
Tappan’s particular abolition friend. It was
then we learned the character of Wm. Lloyd
Garrison and the rest of his hypocritical crew.
It was there that we learned to put no faith in
the professions of abolitionists, and not only to
believe, but to know, that many of the reli
gious abolitionists were lying knaves. We
endured the slavery of a clerkship with Lewis
Tappan for about three years, when receiving
the commands of our master that we must no
longer indulge in reading books of the char
acter of the one then found by one of his
spies and toadies—(the book was Moore’s
Jjalla Rookh)—we told him plainly that we
would read what we pleased, and he might
help himself. An eruption ensued, and we
quit. This is the whole story ; we never were
tainted with abolitionism in any degree, but on
the contrary, inherited a strong dislike to all
such meddling characters, and were early
taught to believe that slavery was an institu
tion with which we had nothing to do. Do
not remember qf eyer hearing it pronounced
sinful or contrary to the laws of God or man.
We went to A. Tappan & Co., a boy and an
anti-abolitionist; we came away a man and a
hater of abolitionism. Our disposition and
character for independence, and do as we had
a mindetiveneßß, was about the same as if. is
now, and it will probably remain so,
whether the Constitutionalist likes it or nqt,”
Basque Glenburn.-— The Charleston Cou
rier says: “We are happy to announce the
arrival, in the offing, of the American barque
Gtaburn, Cape. Sampson, after a passage of
88 days fromlA'Vt'njool, \io &t. Thomas. A
note from Capt. Sampson feUtes that three
other vessels which sailed abont the same
time with himself, had also put into St. Thom
as in distress, viz : ship Sarah Purrington,
Capt. Purrington, 85 days from London, for
Boston, under repnirs ; and barque Sylphide,
Lowry, which latter cleared at St. Thomas’
for Boston, 29,th ult. The brig Carribee, Me*
Clintock, from Rio Janeiro, repairing, 29th
ultimo,’*
Sporting Intelligence Extraordinary.-
We learn (says the Mobile Register) that two
of the greatest match races ever thought of
jn the Southern country, have been made on
Mr. R. Cotil’s Grey Eagle. One of the matches
is a race ten miles out, against the celebrated
racer Lady Mar, for ten thousand dollars; the
other matchs against Time,in which he enters
Eagle, to perform the extraordinary feat of
goin| one hunfired miles in ten hours. This
is the first time South, that such a match
againt Time has been made, and its results
will be regarded by the whole sporting world
with considerable interest. These great
matches were made by C. S. Ellis of New
Orleans, where Grey Eagle is in all his glo?y.
Communicated]
ttlagnetic Telegraph Oat-done.
In the Southern Literary Gazette, publish
ed at Charleston, there has appeared, for
months past, a paragraph headed, “ The Trav
eller's Guide," which states that, of the two
c \ **
routes, from Charleston to JJew-Qrleans, that
by Augusta occupied 123 hours, and that by
Savannah, 77 hours —a difference of 46 hours
in favor of Savannah.
Now, according to the schedules given, the
two routes unite at Opilaka, and from that
point, are one. The gain, then, is between
Charleston and that place. From Charleston
to Opilaka, by Augusta, the whole time is
less than forty-six hours. The other route being
forty-six hours shortest, it follows that you
travel from Charleston to Opilaka, by Savan
nah, 47Q miles, in something less than no time,
without any allowance for difference of longi
tude ! ! The telegraph has never done that,
yet. Progress.
A Great Microscofe. — A German, named.
Hasert, residing in Cincinati, has manufactur -
ed a miicrosoope for the World’s Fair, which
has a magnifying power of 6,900. The Times
sayb of its powers:—
“A very minute particle of dust from the
wing of a jimea, measuring only one-five
hundredth of an inch in length, and one
thousandth of an inch in width, the number
of scales is found to be 84,000, which would
give the enormous sum of 42,000,000,000 to
one square inch. We observed, also, large
6i*es of the eat and common houses flea, the
eye of a fly, and a wing of a small bug —the
latter presenting the most brilliant colors and
beatiful shawl pattern we ever beheld, with
a magnificent border elaborately ornament
ed.”
{Reported for the Baltimore Clipper.')
Thirty-First Congress—Second Session.
Washington, Feb. 8, 1851.
SENATE.
Mr. Clay presented petitions from Pennsyl
vania for a modification of the tariffof 1816.
Mr. Davis, of Miss., made a report from the
committe on Public Buildings, upon the ex -
tension of the Capitol— a plan in conformity
with their own views.
A bill was reported by Mr. Pearce, provid
ing for a distribution of the books called ‘The
Annals of Congress,” and it was passed.
The bill reported by the Naval committee
to enforce discipline and promote good con
duct in the naval service of the U. States, by
eubstitutng other punishment for flogging in
the Navy, was taken up, and after an imma
terial ameamennt, the bill was ordered to be
engrossed for a th.rd reading.
The consideiation of the question whether
Mr. Winthi op was entitled to a in the
Senate, was resumed; and sfter further debate,
the whole subject was laid on the table.
A bill authorizing the Treasurers of the U.
States Mints to appoint their own clerks, and
a bill granting to ihe New London Railroad
Company the right of way over the Custom
House grounds in New London, was taken
up and passed.
The Senate then took up the bill appropri
ating SIOO,OOO lor the benefit of the captors
of the frigate Philadelphia.
Mr. Berrien proposed an amendment that
Commodore Decatur’s share shall be distri
buted among his nieces, together, with his
widow.
A debate ensued; and the Senate adjourn
ed.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. Newell asked leave to introduce a reso
lution, instructing the committee on Agricul
ture to inquire into the expediency of estab
lishing a Bureau of Agriculture, and also in
to the expediency of purchasing Mount Ver
non for an Agricultural School or Model
Farm. Objection was made and the resolu
tion was not received.
The House resolved itself into committee of
the Whole on the State of the Union (Mr.
McLane, of Maryland, in the chair,) and re
sumed the consideration of the bill to estab
lish a Board of Accounts, to consist of three
Commissionnrs (to adjudicate claims against
the Government, thus relieving Congress from
tais duty—or rather performing ihe duty
which Congross neglects.)
Messrs. McLean, of Kentucky, and Ewing
spoke in favor of the bill, and.
Mr. Daniel against it.
Mr. Bayly briefly called the attention of the
committee to the condition of the public busi
ness. But one of the general appropriation
bills, he said, had passed the House (the de
ficiency bill,) and it would come back from the
senate with various amendments: All the
other general bills, involving expenditures to
the amount of forty millions of dollars, had
to be acted on. Hence the necessity of mak
ing them the special order until they shall be
disposed of. He should make an effort on
Monday to so provide, and to protract the
daily sessions of the House. If any of the
measures failed, the responsibility would not
rest on the committee of Ways and of
which he is the chairman.
At least an hour and a half of the time was
consumed in debate about fixing the salaries
of the Commissioners, and this was not set
tled when the committee rose,
And the House adjourned.
Arrival of the Georgia
The California Mails.— The steamship
Georgia, from Chagres, Via Havana, with the
California majlq to the Ist of January, arrived
at New-York on Saturday,
The Georgia brings three hundred and fifty
five passengers, and $105,000 in gold dmst on
freight, and $700,000 in the hands of passen
gers.
The steamship Philadelphia sailefi from
Havana on the Ist for Chagres., with about
one hundred passengers.'
?he dates from Havana, are to the third.
There is a great deal of complaint made about
the authorities detaining the steamers, not al
lowing them to enter or leave the harbor after
sunset.
Major Hobbie was still at Havana. He will
await the return of the steamship Georgia be
fore he proceeds to Panama. He has, we learn,
succeeded in makings very favorable arrange
ment for the transmission of the mails be
tween the United States and the West India
Islands by the way of Havana-
A large number of Americans were winter
ing at Havana.
The steamer Columbia had arrived at Pa
nama from the United States.
The following persons died on board of the
Georgia during her passage here i—Jan. 30th,
Samuel Kenyon, of EllisbUrg, Jefferson coun
ty, N. Yi; Feb. sth, Clement Horton, of Mar
tha’s Vineyard, Mass.; Feb. 7th,Henry Smith,
of New York.
The G. sailed from Chagress qn the 28th
ult;, with 375 passengers—22q of whom were
transferred at Havana to the Falcon, for Few
Orleans. The G. arrived at Havana on the
night of the Iss, but oould not enter until
/morning; sailied again on the night of the 3d,
at half past eight o'clock, by special permis
sion, and made the run to New York in four
days and three hours. The run to Hatteyas
was made in sixty hours, being the quiokest
every mad by any steamship. Before doub
ling Cape Hatteyas, she encountered fresh
gales from the north and west, which lasted
till she arrived off Barnegat.
State Convention Election. —The polls
for the election of members to this conven
tion closed yesterday, and the Managers will
meet this morning to ascertain the result. The
following is the whole number of votes given
in the Parishes of St. Phi Hip and St. Micha*’ .
• Ward No. 1 to
ward No. 2
Ward No. 4
TJpper Wards—Upper Poll, 62
Lower Poll, 116
Total, 873
[ Charleston Courier, 12 th inst .
Fatal Rencounter. —A Rencounter took
place in East Macon, on Saturday night, be
tween William Edwards and— — West, which
resulted in the death of the latter—Edwards
had just been pardoned from the Penitentiary,
where he had been confined for an assault
with intent to murder; He has made his es
cape.—Macon Telegraph, 1 \th inst.
Three lovely young ladies were yesterday
baptised by immersion in the Hudson river at
the t foot ot Twenty ninth st, by Rev. William
Bradley. It was snowing fast during the
ceremony, which was made practicable only
by cutting a hole through the thick ioe.
IN. Y . Day Book, 6th inst.
(Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier .)
Baltimore, Feb. 10.
JV<w York Market. Feb. 10.- Cotton isi dull,
three hundred bales sold at unchanged prices.
EX Congr%iLll.™i:he Senate has engrossed
the deficiency bill.
Death of a wealthy Citium of
James Wilson, the wealthiest Merchant ot Bal
timore, died to-day.
New Orleans, Feb. 11, 9,30 A. M.
Four thousand bales Cotton sold y este^ay,
at prices in favor of purchasers. (Middling
Hi.) Coffee has declined £to £ cent, sales
of 6000 bags Rio at 10|. ,
The splendid steamer Autocrat, bound to
Memphis, came in collision with the Magnolia,
Wormer, sinking her—supposed 30 lives lost.
Cleared, schooner G. C. Gibbs, Gibbs, tor
Charleston.
New-Orleans, Feb. 9 —P. M.
New-Orleans Market , Feb. 8.—500 bales Cot
ton were sold to-day, prices unchanged in
terior qualities plenty and much depressed.
The stock amounted to-night to 270,000
bales.
The choice of seats for Jenny Lind’s first
concert, were sold by auction. Mr. Darcey,
hatter, paid 240 dollars for the first choice.
The whole proceeds amounted to upwards of
$20,000.
Cleared for Charleston to day, brig W. P.
Safford.
We are highly gratified to see that a cotn
p cny has been formed for the purpose of man
utacturing Paper on a large scale in our own
State.
We learn that the company have purchased
a most favorable location on Horse Creek, a
few miles below Graniteville, and within one
hundred feet of the rail-road track, and have
secured what is of the utmost importance , an
abundant supply of pure spring water. The
Mill is to be of the largest class ; and the ma
chinery of the most approved kind.
The Superintendent is a gentleman of large
experience in the business, having been suc
cessfully engaged in the manufacture of paper
for many years. The work has been com
menced already, and will be completed in
about six months, and ready for operations.
We are rejoiced to see this enterprize in
progress, and have no doubt it will
fully carried on, and that they will be able to
manufacture paper as good and cheep is the
best Northern article. — Charleston Courier ,
12 th hist.
Meeting of Council. —At a special meet
ing of Council yesterday, Amin Bey was
made the guest of the city during his stay
here. A committee, composed of Messrs.
Cumming. Griffin, and Turner, waited upon
Amin Bey in accordance with the resolution
of Council, and tendered to him the hospitali
ties of the city. He received the Committee
with much courtesy, and appeared highly
gratified with this mark of attention.
It is che intention of Council to place at
the disposal of their guest the means of visit
ing Fort Pulaski to-day. Lieut. Gilmer, en
gineer officer on this station, is instructed by
the War Department to promote, as far as he
may, the objects of this visit.
[SaeawtoA Republican, Wth inst.
Death qf Ryninoer, the Wire-Walker.
Herr Ryninger, the celebrated wire-walker „
who performed his feats with so much ease in
this city about Christmas, lost his life while
attempting to walk the wire suspended from
the top of the State House to the Market
House at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Tues
day evening >he 4th inat. When about mid
way, one of tfie props gave way, by which the
wire let down, and the unfortunate man
was precipitated to the ground with such
violence as to fracture his skull, from which
he died in about forty minutes after the oc
currence.
He has left a wife and two children, who
are in this city, to mourn his untimely end.
[Montgomery Advertiser, 10 th inst.
A Double Header.— lt is well known that
the Eagle of Austria is represented with two,
heads, one of which is supposed to keep its ey&
out upon Hungary, and the other upon Lom
bardy. The ex-Emperor, previous to his ab
dication, and for aught we have heard to the
contrary, in his present retirement, derived all
his ideas of ornithology from his own coat of
arms. On one occasion he was presented with
a magniheeiU eagle, alive and k eking, and
with all b/ t s feathers flying. His Maieatv ah
solutely ignored the bird, 0 declaring
was no eagle, as he had but one head. He waa
probably correct; at least, there can be no
doubt that he will regard the American Eagle
m its recent doaaonatration upon Mr. Hulse
Drowned.—W© learn from Capt. Gould of
the steamer Oregon, arrived yesterday from,
Augusta, that he passed the steamer Metcalf
yesterday morning on her upward tiip~ and
was requested to report that the mate', Mr.
Joseph Refile had fallen from the Wheel
lhouse on feunday night, and wai drowned.
We have not yet learned any further partiou
lars.—Savannah Georgian, Wth inst.
married, *
1 °“ t S e J d - December last, by the Rev. Dr
James R. bmith, of Sandersville, Dr. James H
Oliver, to Miss M. Jane Kellam the formerof
aenven, the lat er of Laurens county, Ga.
1 he Maoen Journal &. Messenger, Southern Re
corder,and Macon Tribune, please copy
In the city ol Mac m, at the residence’ .
by the Rev. John M. Field, on Thursday - an<i
the 30th January ult. Henry G. Ross tf sa
of the Superior Court ot Bibb couitv ,'o M.
Amelia T. boss. county, to Miss
In Jones county, on the 4th inst. by the p
C. R. Jewett, Air. Ihqma* H. Morr, Sj t 0 m
Harriet M.,eldest daughter ofMaj. Le'- ov i
gleton, Jones oounty, Ga. J -°ycnu
!n Macon on the l°th inst, by the. Rev r , lr
Hooker, Mr. L L. lilunghast, to. Miss Lcchit’
tiasCunningham. both of that city Lccre ’
Ou the third instant, by K. J. t i P
001. Duncan Cox, to Miss Er izabetW T« Esq *’
all of West Point Ga Thomas,
, , .. OBITUAKY.
Departed life, oa the li:n ult., at his re*i
dencctn IV tni u county,the Her. Abner Stubbs
SrSP "* t ' reac , her for “ years, aged upwards
years, after an , llne9s of two days r Qf tfae
Died, oi’ Pulmonary Consumption, at Dub in on
the 31st ult Mrs. Margaret S. Yorr, consort of
Jeremiah H. Yopp, Esq., m the 44. h year of her
age.
On the 14th December last, Mrs. Elizabeth
Savage , at her residence in Richmond countv
Ora., m the 82d year of her age. ounty,
This amiable lady won the'regards of all who
knew her, by her gentle courtesy, and unafferV*?
kindness. 1 hough not a professor of religion it
is believed that she was not a stranger to its now
er and Us consolations : she left this world P Z~
tamed ny a hope, that will not be di«u.noinSS
we trust,in tbe judgment of the great day, j* *
H A fu«* a IL”b^ GAZINE for
feb7 THOS. R CHAKDS & SON.
lhe Life and Correspondence of Robt. Soathev
complete. " »
’lhe ec^ne Popery and its eauaee.
land * Queens 0f Scotlaad > 1, by Miss Strict.-
The Bards of the Bible.
Home Influence, by Grace Aguilar
Withering Hights, by author of Jane Eyre