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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
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THE FARMtR’S ELEGY.
On the green mossy knoll by the banks of the
brook,
That so long and so often hath watered his flock,
The old f armer rests in his long and last sleep,
While the waters a low lisping lullaby keep;
He has ploughed his last furrow, has reaped his
last grain ;
No morn shall awake him from slumber again.
The blue bird sings sweet on the gay maple bough;
Its warming oft cheered him while holding the
plough;
And the robins above him hop light on the mould,
For he led them with crumbs when the season
was cold.
Yon tree thit with fragance is filling the air,
So rich witn its blossoms, so thrifty and fair,
By his own hand was planted, and well did he say,
It would live when the planter had mouldered
away.
There's the well that he dug,.with its water so
cold,
With its wet dripping bucket so mossy and old;
No more from its depth by the patriarch drawn,
For the “ pitcher is broken"—the old man is gone!
*Twas a gloom given by day when the old farmer
p died;
The s out-hearted mourned, the affectionate cried,
And the prayers of tne just for his rest did as
cend,
Fot they all lost a brother, a man, and a friend.
For upright and honest the old farmer was;
His God he revered, he respected the laws.
Though fameless he lived, he has gone where his
worth
Will outshine, like pure gold, all the dross of this
earth.
Benton Defeat at St. Lonis-
We find in the St. Louis Republican of the
9th inst. the following spirited sketch of a
contest in that city, m which ex-Senator Ben
ton was a prominent participator, and met with
a signal overthrow :
The election for Municipal officers on Mon
day was invested with peculiar interest by the
circumstances attending it. Mr. Kennett had
proven himself an able, liberal and efficient
Mayor. He had done more for the city, and
its improvement, in his year’s service, than
the three previous Locofoco administrations
combined. The people generally were satis
fied with his course, and would gladly have
seen him continued in the office for another
year. But, months ago, Col. Benten proclaim
ed that the April election in St. Louis was to
be made the test of his popularity, and the be
ginning of a series of victories with which HE
was to overrun the State. His forces were
early marshalled for the contest. Money was
prodigally supplied to the common fund, with
which to increase tne chances of suucess. The
wards weie canvassed, and every man’s name
noted, and friends of Kennett among the De
mocrats were marked, as men to be watched
and bullied into submission to their dictation.
The Criminal Court was steadily employee' in
the naturalization o: foreigners, and on Mon
day more than two hundred received their
final certificates from the different courts, and
\ voted.
Newspapers of the most abandoned cast
were printed and circulated gratuitous! v, fora
week before the election, from the Union of
fice. No hmg, n short, was left undone, that
desperation or deprivity could suggest, to car
ry tne elec ion. Mr. Kennett was abused and
represented as worse than a penitenti ry felon
—his public conduct was misrepresented, and
his honesty impugned. Men with some pre
tensions to r< spectability did not hesitate to
asperse his character, in foul and libellous lan
guage that ought to have blistered their
tongues.b fore assembled mul itudes. To make
assurance doubly sure, Col. Benton was sum
moned here, from his residence m Washing
ton city. He signalized the very day of his
arrival by an exci ing speech in the Rcnunda,
intended to affect the election. Tne next day
he made two speeches in different Ward meet
ing*, indulging in false and scandalous char
ges againt tne cay Administration. On Satur
day evening, he again addressed his excited
partisans at the Rotunda, dealing m wholesale
Charges against Mr. Kennstt’s course in the
administration of city affairs—-a city, by the
wav, in wmcb he has no residence, no interest,
and does not even pay a poll tax—and he la
bored to make the contest turn upon the quea
... t:on of Benton or n Benton, a.ll th: day ut
Sunday was demoted to electioneering in*the
First and Second Wards. But ihe grand de
monstration was reserved for Monday morn
ing, and the Sixth Ward was made the theatre
of the display. It was announced that Coi.
Benton would make a speech in that ward
early in the day, and, as generally understood,
in ali the wards. He supposed, we presume,
that nobody would be there to reply to him,
but in this he was mucu mistaken. Mr. Ben
ton made his speech, repeating his charges
against the administration of Mr. Kennett,
and calling upon the Democracy to come to
his rescue. His name was identified wita the
result oi the contest, It was regarded by him
as an election of great moment, exciting
attention not only here, but abroad. It
would be transmitted with the quickness of
lightning, to every city and State in the Union,
and it would even be looked for with interest
in Europe. He put the election ou grounds
personal to himself, and in this light it was
viewed by nis partisans. The defeat o Ken
nett was to be regarded as a triumph of Benton ,
and was to be the precursor of a senes of vic
tories all over the State. His speech done,
Judge Mullanphy was oermitted to t flow him
on the same side, in a most lame and unfortu
nate harangue.
Mr Kennett replied to Lolonel Benton. He
took up every charge brought against him Ad
ministration, and he exposed and exploded it.
He bandied Colonel Benton without gloves,
thougn in * gentlemanly way.. Lpon ali the
accusations brought against him, he placed
himself fairly before the people, and with itl
effect. He carried them captive in his
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favor, and vanquished Col. Benton. It was,
very properly, arranged that the Colonel
should “face the music,” and he did so. He
then, instead of going to the other Wards, as
was expected, retreated to his friend’s house,
and there remained during the day. This dis
cussion aided very materially in incrasing Mr.
Kennett’s vote: those who heaid it were satis
fied with Mr. Kennett, and his friends were
animated and aroused by the successful man
ner in which be had vindicated his Adminis
tration against the charge; of Col. Benton.
The enthusiasm extended to the Fifth, and
there Mr. Kennett obtained an unexpectedly
heavy vote. From this hour, we had no fears
of the result.
One other incident connected with this dis
cussion, ought to be noticed, as a sign of the
times.—When the discussing between Col.
Bention and Mr. Kennett ended, Mr. Michael
A. Hogan, a stone mason, we believe, of the
Sixth Ward, rose to make some remarks. He
stated that he was a Democrat—a Bento.. De
mocrat —and would be sound votu g
with his party. But this was aO ty election,
and he avowed his intenti.n to vote for Mr.
Kennett, the poor man’s friend. He proceed
ed to give hie reason for so doing, and they
were so satisfactory to the people, as to call
forth decided marks of approbation.
Mr. Benton did not ag in appear at the poll
during the day. if he had done &o, Mr. Ken
nett, or outer gentlemen, would have been on
hand to respond to his accusations. Perhaps
the experiment ol the Sixth Ward wassuffi.
cient to satisiy him t.at he couid accomplish
little in turning the tide of public .eeling, so
thoroughly aroused, against Mr. Kennett. In
this conc.usion he was right. It needed oniy
speeches in the other wards to have swelled
the majority against him still greater. Lhe
people have a proper appreciation of their own
rights, and are always jealous of any invasion
of them, no matter who may undertake it.
Col. Benton’s interference on this occasion in
cur Municipal affairs—pushing himself for
ward, and making himself the chief personage
in the elec.ion—the hero of it, and the man
most benefittea by its results, if against Mr.
Kennett —has received a reprimand which
ougnt to last him for the baiiance ot his days.
Th ele- lion is over, and Mr. Kennett’s ad
ministration has been sustained by his fellow
citizens, by no equivocal majonty. Col. Ben
ton has been defeated. He goes from St. Louis
with the con .emnation of the people once more
put upon him. It is said that he intends to
make a perigvenation all over the State, with a
view to arrangements for some future political
race. Let him do so. His power is, and ougnt
to be, at an end. Hundreds will rise up now
to oppose him, where not a man could be
found to doit a year t-ince. His influence has
departed from him, and although the Fiee
Sobers of our city may sp« ak of him as the
“Angel of Democracy,” such contemptible
adulation will find no response in the inde
pendent i.nd high-toned people ot this State.
Kbbeisons’ Establishment—System and
Consistency. —ln passing tnrough one of our
l.rgest mercantile houses, Saturday, C. & E.
L. Kerrison & Co., corner of King and Market
streets, we were much struck with the regu
larity, order, and system prevailing in every
department, which in no other place th.-t we
have ever visited, is so conspicuous. The
complete absence of any thing like con
fusion in either of the departments, the per
f et discipline which prevails, would do credit
to any military establishment, and how much
more must it reflect upon the intricate details
and complicated associations of mercantile
transactions. The establishment is most ex
tensive; the retail department, which is divi
ded into various portions, numbering several
clerks to each, over whom is placed a chief,
and each article, as sold,is immediately check
ed and entered. To these are affixed the low
est rate of value for sale, subject, therefore,
to no variation, by which the youngest clerk
in the store is rendered as capable of selling
as the oldest. This standard is affixed to every
thing, and no confusion or delay consequent
ly attends the transactions of business. The
Hoods are of choice materials, select, and im
ported from European markets, when home
manufacturers could not supply them, and
Northern manufactures are in every possible
instance excluded. The yo.qng men employ
ed in the establishment are from our own
State, exclusively, with some few exceptions
in favor of Europeans. We have examined
several specimens ot Goods of European man
ufacture, and most beautiful in texture and of
choice fabric,imported expressly for this house,
and furnished at such rates as you can pro
cure them for in Europe. Many fair articles
of domestic manufactures, (adapted to the
wants of the planter, by which less lavorabie
articles, both in quality and price, have been
superseded,) we noticed among tnis extensive
and varied lot. It has been conceded by mer
chants and others, who have gone to the
North for the purpose of making purchases,
that with the excep ion of few fancy articles,
they have been obliged to return and make
their purchases at home. These gentlemen
have obviated all such necessities. As Caro
linians, consistent in every thing which de
notes the true feeling ot a native—as mer
chants whose reputation '.s most enviable, we
wish tnern a continuation of that mercantile
reputation and success, which has taken the
lead of competition, and which they so emi
nently deserve. —Charleston Sun.
How abe the Mighty Fa:lleh. —ln Janua
ry, 1849, if we are not mistaken, Virginia en
tered upon her legislative records, and sent as
an earnest ot her purpose to her Southern
sisters, the following resolutions :
“ Resolved That we regard the passage of a
law by the Congress of the United States,
abolishing *lavry or the slave trade in the
District of Columbia, as a direct attack upon
the institutions of the Southern states, to be
resisted at every hazard.
“ Resolved , That in the event of the passage
by Congress of the ‘ Wilmot Proviso, ’ or any
1 w abolishing slavery or the 6lave trade in
the District ot Columbia, the Governor of
this Commonwealth is requested immediately
to convene the Legi iature of this State, (*f it
shall have adjourned, j to consider the mode
and measures oi redress.”
Well, a law abolishing the slave trad- in
the District of Columbia, did pass, and the
Governor of Virginia did not call the Legisla
ture together. As the regular session, how
ever, was approaching, though our expecta
tions were dampened by the tone of the party
presses at Kichmend, we imagined Virginia
would not prove fa se to such a solemn de
claration as the above. Our readers know
bow tha “ Old Dominion,” “ the mother of
States, and tne stronghold of the cardinal
doctrines of republicanism and State Tights,
redeemed the pledges given in 1849. We*
gave for their information •• the mode and
measures of redress” recently udopted by the
Legislature. Wnere, in all the records of the
oit-taunted braggadocia of South-Caiolina
are to be found t«*o more high-sounding reso
lutions than the above ? Nownere; and yet
the same body who passed them and directed
them to he officially sent to tne States of the
South with alf the pomp and sanction of the
sovereign t&thority they represented, have
swallowed their own words, and have the ef
frontery to counsel others to submit to the
•* direct attack upon the institution of the
Southern states. ’
Virginia has drawn from the Federal presses
the compliments of “ loyal <o the Union,” an
" true to herselj,” but the honest and true
hearted, who believed that still some ember
of the ancient spirit of her patriot eons kept
alive among the rubbish of party cliques, re
gard her as having lost by the exchange. Self
respect being gone, as her own children must
acknowledge, how can she set up any claim
from respect from her Southern sisters, whom
she has so deceived and misled ? We write
in sorrow, more than in anger, and will be
glad to record the retrieval of the character of
our once proud, but now, fallen sister. —South
Carolinian.
Lato Foreign Items.
Amongst the most remarkable productions
from Birmingham, at the Great Exhibition,
there will be a pieca of iron wire for the pur
pose of the electric telegraph, a mile long.
Ti.is is the greatest length of wire that has
ever been drawn; it is from the mill of Mr.
John Cornforth.
The eccentric but talented Dr. Crofts, of
Coventry, u.tends at the opening exhibition
to set the Thames on tire in r ality. It ap
pears that he has invented a composition to
make water blaze on the application of flame,
and will experimentalize on a portion of the
Thames.
An eagle, worn out with age, was recently
killed by a shepherd and his dog in the woods
of JBaulac, France. It had on one of its legs a
copper ring, inscribed with hieroglypics,
which have not been decyphered. It is sup
posed to be ninety years old.
Among tne .umerous details published by
the Belgian journals respecting the Countess
of Bocarme, now in prison for murder, it is
ascertai ed that, when about twenty years of
age, she wrote a novel entitled “The History
of Miss Adelaide Harvey,” the scene of which
was laid in England.
A large number of the communes of the
C te a'Or have become so much alarmed and
their property injured by the ravages of wild
boars, that the prefecture and administration
of the forests have issued orders to the L eu
tenants de Louveterie to organize traques and
battues for the destruction of the wild boars,
wolves and foxes which infest the forests of
the neighborhood.
Mile. Fanny Elsler is about to taka leave of
the stage at Vienna, where her brilliant career
commenced.
The splendid winter palace of the Sultan's
brother in-law, Mehemit Ali Pacha, at Con
stantinople, has been consumed by fire. The
loss is calculated at £150,000.
A telegraphic dispatch irom Venice, of the
27th uit., announces the arrival in that city
ot the Emperor of Austria. He immediately
signed the patent constituting Venice a fee
port.
A proposition has been made in the Mexi
can Chaa b r of Deputies to prevent the erec
tion of convents, and to pa s a law prevent
ing any woman under 25 years of age taking
the veil.
The vestry of Cheltenham has voted the
sum of £2,000 to promote emigra ion amongst
the poor of the borough. Last year live hun
dred-paupers were sent to Canada and the
United States and they ere ail doing well.
The Duke of Brunswick and Mr. Charles
Green went up in a balloon from Hastings on
Monday, and arrived safely at Neufchatel,
about fight miles from Boulogne, after a pas
sage of live hours.
Mr. Kennedy, who takes charge of the ex
ploring party wnieh the Prince Albert will
take out in search of Sir. John Franklin, is a
“landsman.” and was thirteen years in the
service of the Hudson Bay C >mpany, eight of
which he spent on the Labrador coast.
A new difficulty has arisen in the glass
palace for the World’s Fair. Durng a violent
shower many panes of glass were broken, and
all the sparrows in Hyde Park, andSt 4 James’
Park availed themselves of the opportunity to
enter. It is estimated that there are at least
three hundred thousand of these birds in the
building, 3nd much alarm is entertained lest
they should damage the goods and annoy
visitors. To get rid of them is no easy mat
ter. To shoot them would be destruction to
the glass, and the Council of Supervision have
sent to Edinburgh, for thirty of the best fal
coners who will come to London in their na
tional costume. The chase is to commence
some days before the exhibition.
An absent-minded editor having courted a
girl, and applied to her father, the old man
said:
“Well, you want my daughter? What
sort of a settlement will you make? What
will give her ?”
“ Give her,” replied the editor, locking up
vacantly. “ Oh, I'll give.her a puff?”
“ Take her I” rc piied the father.
Tht Naval Court Martial, recently assem
bled at Washington, for the trial of Lieut Fa
bias Stanley, for challenging his superior of
ficer, have found a singular verdict—on the
first count “that Stanley falsely stated he had
challenged Capt. Johnson”—guilty.—-Second
count—“ Stanley actually challenged Capt.
Johnson”—guilty. The Secretary of the Na
vy, perceiving the Irishism of thus finding, has
remanded the case back to the court.
The Emperor of Russia, we learn, having
nearly completed the Railroad from St. Peters
burgh to Moscow, (420 miles,) is now about to
begin a Railroad irom St. Petersburg to War
saw, between 700 and 800 miles.
On the last trip of the atamboat Empire a
lady passenger, in attempting to step ashore
at a landing place, fell into the river. The
mite of the boot saved her. As she caught
hold of the rope he threw to her she called out
quite coolly, “Take care of my bonnet!’'— N.
O. Pic.
Sale op Prof. Webster’s Laboratory, &c.
The various appliances of the late Prof.
Webster's laboratory was sold at action, yes
terday, by Mr. Leonard, Tremont Row. A
mong this extensive assortment were unique
glassware, electrical machines, air pumps, bat
teries, and the thousand and one things usu
ally found in a chemist’s apartments. A great
many of the things were useless, having been
manufactured for experiments. The sale last
ed two hours, and the proceeds amounted to
something over SSOO ; being about one-third
their true value. The most notable article in
the collection was a magnet, onced owned by
the distinguished French chemist Lavoisier,
who, it is well knowp was beheaded during
the great French Revolution. After various
fortunes it came in o the possession of Prof.
Web-ter, by Whom it was highly prised. It
seemed to have been owned by men who have
met with a most unfoitunate end. The mag
net was purchased by Mr. Francis Alger, of
South Boston, for tne trifling sum of $5 25.
We understand Mr. Alger would not part
with it for S2OO. Its rare history gives it a
value entirely beyond any intrinsic value. —
In this connection we may state that at the
auction of Prof Webster’s Library, last week
his name was erased from all the books ex
cept one, which book is now in the posses
sion of the wed-known literary gentleman ot
this city who has oneot the largest collections
ot au ographs of ary person in the country.
I his book contains the Professor’s signature,
written in a bold and dashing manner. It
escaped the detection of the family by one ot
tne leaves adhering to the cover. —Boston Bee.
“What is the best attitude tor self-defence?”
said a pupil (putting on the gloves) to a well
known pugilist. “Keep a civil tongue in your
head,” was the significant reply*
the constitutionalist."
3Utgttsta, (fteorgtk
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL. 26.
Southern Rights Meeting.
The members of the Southern Rights
Party of Richmond County, are request
ed to meet at the CITY HALL , in the
city of Augusta , on TUESDAY , 6th of
MAY, at 4 o’clock, P. M ., to appoint
Delegates to the Convention to nominate a
Candidate for Governor at the ensuing
election.
Democracy in the New-York Legislature
Though anti-slavery fanaticism has demen
ted a large portion of the Democracy of New-
York, and anti-slavery demagogueism has
corrupted almost the entire remainder of that
once respectable party, it seems that on ques
tions not involving this ism, Democracy in the
New-York Legislature, holds to its ancient
principles, and its fid.lity to the rules of
Strict Construction. It bears in mind, that
the people are the true sovereigns, and that
legislators are but their Fervants, hedged
in by written authority. The Democratic
legislators pay due respect to those restraints.
But what is the course of Whiggery. True to
its ingrained propensities from the days of old
Federalism, by which name Whiggery, as it
is now called, once flourished, the Whig Sen
ators of New-York have shown no scruple in
marching over the paper barriers of the Con
stitution. As turning to be viser than the
people themselves, have attempted to legis
late in defiance of that instmment.
The following is the essential portion of
the protest of twelve Democratic Senators to
the bill for the enlargement of the Erie Canal,
accompanying their resignation of their seats.
This movement left the Senate without a
quorum, and caused the defeat of the bill, e,s
also of the appropriation bills, and an abrupt
adjournment.
Gov. Hunt has called an extra session, to
assemble on the 10th of June.
The elections to fill the places of the re
signing will take place about the
20th May. They deserve io be re-e.ected.
New York—Protest and Resignation of
Democratic Senators.
April 17, 1851.
Sih : The undersigned, memoers of the sen
ate of the State of New York, consider the bill,
now about to be put to the final vote,authoris
ing a loan of nine million of dollars on a
pledge of “ the remainder of the canal reven
ues in each fiscal year,” as a clear, direct, and
flagrant violation of the plain and intelligible
financial provisions of the constitution. The
12th section of the 7th article of that instru
ment, and which we were ail sworn to sup
port when we took our seats in this senate,
declares, that, except the debts specified in
the 10th and 11th sections of that article,
(which are debts to meet casual deficits or
failures of revenue, or for expenses not provi
ded for, not exceeding at any time one mil
lion of dollars, and to repel invasion, suppress
insurection, or defend th State in war,) no
debt shall hereafte: be contracted by or on
behalf of the people of this State, unless such
debt be for a single work or object, and a tax
be imposed t sufficient to pay the principal
interest within eighteen years from the time
of the contracting thereof; and that every law
authorizing a loan shall, before it takes effect,
be subnfitted to the people at a general elec
tion, and be approved by a majority of all the
votes cast for and against it at such election.
The sixth section of the same article de
dares that “the legislature shall not sell, lease,
or otherwise dispose of any of the canals of
the State; but they s tall remain the property
of the State, and under its management for
ever.”
The third section of the same article pro
vioes that “after paying the expenses o* super
intendence and repairs of the canals, and the
sums appropriated by the first and second
sections of this article, ($ 1,650,000 to pay
our existing State debt.,) there snail be paid
out of the surplus revenues of the canals to
the treasury of the State, cn or before the 30 ch
day of September in each year, for the use and
tenefit of.the general fund, such sum, not ex
ceeding two hundred thousand dollars, as may
be required to defray the necessary expenses
of the State; and the remainder of the reve
nues of the said canals shall in each fiscal year
be applied, in such manner as the legislature
shall direct, to the completion of the Erie
a na! enlargement and the Genesee Yailey
and Black River canals, until the said canals
snal. be completed.”
The bill referred to, <vhich is entitled u An act
to provide or the c mpletion of the Erie canal en
largement and the Genesee Valley and Blaca Ri
ver canals,” clearly notate.-, according to our un
derstanding, both the letter and spirit of tnese pro
visions of the constitution. It authorizes a loan
ot nine millions of dollars, without submi ting the
law to the approval ol the neop.e, and without im
posing a tax to pay the debt created, as the con
stitution requires. It author zes the cieation of a
debt of nine millions of dot ars, and pledges the
future revenues of the canals, which are by the
constitution to be applied to their completion for
its payment. It creates an obligation or pledge on
the pat to the State so to arrange and regulate
the toils on all of our canals as to produce "a sur
plus of at least eight hundred thousand dollars in
each year, until the Erie canal enlargement is
completed, and after that suffic ent to provide a
surplus of a» least one million of dollars in each
year, until a sufficient sum have been co.lected
and safely invested to pay the sum borrowed; thus
mortgaging the canals of the B ate, and binding
the State to impose tolls and taxes on ttansporto
tion on all our canals, so as to prod ice at least a
given amount of reven e to pay the mortgage,
however oppressive such impositions my be to the
lorwarders, or destructive to the trade and busi
ness of our canals. Such obligations, contracted,
on the part ol the State with as creditors, amount
to a condi>ional disposal of he ca als of he State,
and violate bot » the letter and pint ot that clause
of the constitution which declares that the iegis
luture snail not sell or otherwise dispose of the ca- j
nals, but they shall remain the property of the
State, and under its mane gem? it forever.
The bill also vio ates those provisions of the con
stitution which direct “ the remainder of the rev- j
enues of toe canais in each fiscal year” to be ap- I
plied to their completion.
It appro iriates for years to come a portion of
the remainder of the revenues of the cana s to the
payment of interest on money borrowed, instead
of ap, lying sucb remainder in each fiscal year tto
the completion of the canals. It pledges the re
mainder of the revenues in each fiscal year for
the payment of money borrowed, and which when
borrowed and placed m the State treasury may
be appropriated, with a less violation of good faith
than it is borrowed, to other purposes than the
completion of the canals.
The bill -Iso directs portions of the money bor
rowed, on a mortage or a pledge of the revenues
of the canals, to be applied to the payment of the
interest on the money so borrowed ; thus r<*coit
nizmg aud establish ng the principle that the Stale
may borrow mooey and create dent to any extent
m its power on a pledge of the future income of our j
canals, and may increase that debt by other loans I
on hke security, to pay interest on the money pro j
viously borrowed, and may bind itself fotever to
tax transportation on our canals to the extent ne
cessary to pay the debts thus contracted. The
establishment of this principle nullifies other pro
visions of the constitution which plainly and ex
pressly prohibit the legislature from contracting
debts without first obtaining the sanction of the
people, and from in any way selling or disposing of
the canals, and may, in its results, impose on the
otate the obligation to tax transportation on all
our canals by such high to Is as to destroy their
usefulness, by driving business into cheaper and
uutaxed channels of transportation, or else com
pel the Stat j to lay a direct tax on the people to
pay the money thus borrowed.
Augusta Canal Flour-
We witnessed, yesterday, an evidence of
despatch in business, creditable to the pro
prietors of Coleman’s Granite Mills. It was
a wagon load of flour proceeding to their Pro
duce Store, 205 Broad-street, ground at those
Mills, from wheat which was shipped last
Saturday, six days previous, from Philadel
phia.
understand there is a large quantity on
hand, in barrels and sacks, of this , flour—a
superior article.
Hutching’s Panorama-
This beautiful Painting will be be exhibited
at 3 o'clock to-day ; also again in the evening
at 8, which wll be the final exhibition in this
city. It is a very interesting and instructive
exhibition to young and old, and we hope the
opportunity of seeing it will not be neglected.
It is particularly worthy the attention of
tne pupils of our different schools, as it serves
to impress indelibly upon the memory much
classical and geographical information.
Death of C mmodore Barron. — We have
the melancholy duty to pertorm (says the
Norfolk Beacon of Thursday lastjof announc
ing the death of Commodore Jas. Barron,
Senior Captain of the United States Navy,
who expired at his residece in this c.ty, yes -
terday afternoon at 5 o’clock, in the 83d year
of his age.
There were 160 deaths in Philadelphia for the
week ending the 16th instant. During the
same time ‘here were 391 deaths in N. York;
of which 45 died of consumption.
Seventeen thousand two hundred and nine
ty-six immigrants arrived at New York during
the week.
[communicated.]
Boydell’s Illustrations of Shakspeare-
It is not, perhaps, generally known, that of
all the works which have ever been publish
ed since the art of printing was discovered,
the largest amount of money has been ex
pended, first upon the Bible, and next upon
Shakspeare. An investigation into this sub
ject, a few year: since, by an English clergy
man, resulted in ascertaining she fact, that up
to that period, nearly $30,000,000 had been
laid out in publishing Shakspeare’s works in
the English, German and French. The plays
of Shakspeare are less acted upon the stage
than they were twenty years ago, but they
are ten times more extensively read. In
deed, his writings are becoming text books in
all the principal colleges and academies of
England and the United States; lor, next to
the Bible, there is no work in the English
language, which so fully, powerfully, aud
graphically, delineates human feelings, mo
tives and passions, and from which such deep
and moving moral lessons can be drawn. In
proof of all this, we appeal to the fact, that
next to the Bible, Shakspeare is moie often
quoted from the pulpit than any other writer,
and the most learned and able Divines are al
ways the most familiar with his writings. To
understand and appreciate the works of Shaks
peare, nothing can be of greater importance
than striking and well executed Illustrations,
designed, painted and engraved, by superior
artists. Such, in every sense of the term, are
the Boydell Illustrations, now in this city. Go
and see them.
The Crops. —To those of us who have been
put upon short allowance for a year or two, it
is quite consoling to witness the fine prospect
every where presented of a good wheat crop.
Accompanied by an esteemed friend who is a
judge of such matters, we took a trip last week
through a portion of Floyd, Gordon and Mur
ray, and were informed that the wheat and
oat crops were never more promising in those
counties. This pn-spet of abundance is al
ready affecting the pries of corn, and we trust
that plenty will soon be found in all our bor
ders. A good wheat crop would add greatly
to the prosperity of Upper Georgia.—Rome
Courier, 24 thinst.
The Weather—The Crops. —For some
thing near two weeks back, the weather has
been cool and chilly, so much so that at times
we wire apprehensive, that a killing frost was
brewing, and several morning within the Dst
week, particularly on Tuesday morning last,
we had a smart sprinkling of Frost. The cot
ton that was up and some others of the more
tender species of vegitation have suffered
slightly. But the wheat, corn and oat crop,
still look well though checked in their growth
by the cool weather. —Griffin Unim,2ith inst.
Frost. —We were visited, on Tuesday mor
ning last, by a slight frost which, in some
places did consid rable damage to the cotton.
We have heard of no serious (lama :e to wheat
and other growing crops. Judging from pres
ent appearances, we should predict a short
cotton crop in this county. Independent ol
the frost, the late heavy .ainshave so incrust
ed the earth that i: is next to impossible for
that now in the ground to toiee its way
through the surface. Many of our planters
have ploughed up and planted new on this
account. Washington Gazette, 2Uhinst.
Dr. Piatt Croom, and M>. Pleasant May
w. o were engaged in the most distressing oc
currence noticed in our last week’s issue are
still suffering considerably from thuir wounds.
Mr. May’s case has been considered a very
critical one,—though we believe he is now
considered measurably out of danger. Their
situation, as yet, has not teen s ich as to al
low of their eing taken to Eutaw. Though
confined to their beds, they are strictly guard
ed, day and night, and will we understand, be
taken to Eutaw, for legal investigation, as
soon as their physicians think it at all safe for
them to be removed. —Greensboro Beacon.
A tiaveller in America records the follow
ing anecdote:
“ I heard a genuine Yankee story from one
of the party on deck: I was inquiring if the
Hudson was frozen up or not durihg thr win
ter? This led to a conversation as to the se
verity of the winter, when one man, byway
of proving how cold it was, said : ‘ Wh\ I had
a cow on my lot up the river, and last winter
she got in among the ice, and was carried
down tnree miles before we could get her out
again. The consequence has been that she
has milked nothing but ice cream ever since.' *•
Bp fHagnutu <2L*Ugrapl).'
Reported for the Const! tutiona list.
Charleston, April 25—P. M.
Cotton. —The demand to-day has been good,
•nd the sales 1900 bales, at 7 to lli cents.
The market is unsettled. Pair, nominally,
11 cents.
{Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.')
Baltimore. April 22.
Death of Bishop Ecthston.— Archbishop Ec
cleston died at Washington, at 6 o’clock this
evening. He expired tranquilly. His re
mains will be brought to Baltimore on Thurs
day, and buried on Saturday. The death of
this able Divine has cast a melancholy gloom
over the whole city.
Baltim re, April 24, 12.17 A. M.
Election of Massachusetts Senat r. —Sui ner,
the Free Soiler, was on the 25th ballot, elect
ed United States Senator trom the State of
Massachusetts, having received 193 votes.
Miscellaneous. —The steamship Ohio arrived
to-day, bringing 175 passengers, and $450,000
of gold.
The temains of Archbishop Eccleston have
arrived at Baltimore, and the funeral will take
place on Saturday.
The following gentlemen were last evening
elected officers of the Chatham Mutual Loan
Association :—Wm, Duncan, President; A.
A. Smets, Treasurer ; John Postell, Secretary.
Directors : Messrs. WaiJbuig, Charlton, Sni
der, Cruger, Luff burrow, and Williams.
The next meeting takes place on the first
Tuesday in May, when the first instalment is
to be paid in.— Savannah Republican, 24rA inst.
The Oceanic House Burnt. —This im
mense establishment at Coney Island was to
tally destroyed by fir? on Thursday morning.
While the inmates were at breakfast, fire was
discovered to be issuing from the upper story,
and an a.arm given. Mr- Itodgers, the pro
prietor, immediately found that the fire had
made such progress that it was impossible to
8 ive the building, and scarcely had he reach
ed the lower story, when the roof fell in, and
in less than three hours time the entire edi
fice was heap of ruins.— lb.
Sunk. —The steamboat Anthony Wayne,
from Council Bluffs tor St. Louis, with a full
freight and many passengers, struck a snag
and sunk in deep water, just below In epen
dence. No lives were lo»t. The boat will
be lost; her machinery will be saved.— N. O .
Delta , 20th mst.
Dry-Rot in Mr. Fillmore’s Cabinet.—
Rumors, gathering and thickening every day,
indicate the probiJity of a reconstruction of
Mr. Fillmore’s cabinet sometime before the day
of Judgment. The cause of this dry-rot in
the administration, which has been viewed,
on the whole, very favorably by the country,
does not lie very deep—only about as deep as
the chances of certain members of the cabinet
for the office of President —to which station
they seem to be aspiring. Mr. Fillmore pro
poses to take the field, and Mr. Webster has
fairly started, with three speeches and-a-half
and one coming—-and Mr. Crittenden hopes
to out-general both, thinking he can shew
leg and muscle with either—or with anybody
.else who is inclined to run. Tom Corwin and
the rest of the cabinet are not in such hot
haste. They are taking their pudding and
beef now, and will not go into spare diet and
training till the approach of the race for 1856.
We shall not be surprised if a catastrophe
befall the present cabinet, growing out of the
ambition and jealousies incident al to the hopes
of its members for the “ highest office. ” The
administration has been composed of very
sensible materials, but latterly has not exhi
bited so much talent as during the move
ment on the compromise measures. The Po9t
Office Dopartment was never 10 inefficient or
so bunglingly arranged as it is now, with Mr.
Hall as Postmaster General, and Mr. Fit*
Henry Warren as Postmaster Corponl. A
greater batch of absurdities was never known
than that which now disgrace tne department.
Everything is done at odds and Ends.— N. Y.
Herald.
Mysterious Murder in Hancock. County,
Miss. —The Monticelio (Miss.) Journal of the
12 h inst., gives the following account of a
mysterious murder recently committed in
Hancock county:
Hancock county is rapidly acquiring an ua«
enviable reputation. A lady was murdered in
her own ya. d, in the lower part of the county,
■week before last. A mystery is connected
with the affair. It is generally supposed, how
ever, that the viliians who committed the
murder, intended to rob the house, the hus
band of the lady having the reputation of be
ing a miserly man, with always plenty of mo
ney about his house. The design was frus
trated by the screams of the woman, who was
not immediately killed by the shot, and who
attracted the notice of her husband a short
distance from the house. The villians fled
upon his approach. She lived to say that she
did not know her murderer —that they wore
strangers to her, and she had no idea what
was their object in killing her. It seems that
about an hour previous to this occuirenoe a
man rode by the house and told the gentle
man that his fence was on fire several hun
dred yards from his dwelling house. He left,
and it was while he was engaged in extin
guishing the flames that the murder was com
mitted.
Death op Race Horses. —We regret to
state that Duncan F. Kenner’s fine race horse
r lorin, who so gallantly won the first heat of
the three mile raeeove the Metairie Course on
baturday last, in the remarkable limeoi 5:38|,
died about an hour after the rac . F.onn
was started for the second heat of the race
although without any expectation that he
would win it, as he was suffering severely
from cramps. It was thought that the ex
ercise of running might relieve him, bur it did
not, and spasms followed tr e cramp, causing
the oeath of the noble animal soon after be
ing led to the stable.
We have also just learned that the celebrat
ed last mile horse Jim Brown, owned bv Mr.
Augustus Brooks, of Mobile, died in that city
•n Saturday night. Jim Brown has been for
a long time considered the fleetest mile horse
in Alabama.— Picayune.
John, I d like to bet three to one, that I
can spell barrel with one letter.”
” Well, I’ll take you.”
“Now, then John, if you were tb write the
word yourself, and had but little room to do
it in, woulu’t you think a dare L would be
enough ?
On the 3rd inst., at Key West, an interest
ing little girl, about five years old. daughter
of Mrs. Demerrit, a widow Ulv. set tire : >
her clothing from a box of matches, with
which she was playing, and so severely burned
herself that in a few hours after she died
MARRIED,
In Madison .Morgan county, on the 2-d inst., br
the Rev. Mr. Wiuich. Mi. E. Horace
oi this cit , (la eof Mecklenburg eou..t\ Va. ) to*
.Miss Eliza R. Swift, of the urines place.
“ So smile the heavens upon their holy net
a»d let rich music’s tongue
Uuiold the imagin’d happiness that both
Receive —N