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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. “James Gardner, jr. TERMS. L’aily, per annum, in advance #8 00 I ri-Weekly, per annum...,! 5 00 Weekly, per annum, if paid in advance.... 2 00 These terras are offered to new subscribers and ;o old subscribers who pay up all arrearages. In no ease will the weekly paper be sent at #2, unless the money accompanies the order. in no case will it be seat at j. 2 to an old subscri oar in arrears. (£j» When the year paid for at $2 expires, the p iper.if not discontinued, or paid for in advance, will be sent on the old terms, #2,50 if’ paid at the -dice within the year, or #3 if paid after the ex piration of the year. Ifjr* Postage must be paidoi all eommunications and letters of business. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. One square 12 lines, 50 cents the first insertion, and 37£ cents for the next 5 insertions, and 25 cents lor each subsequent insertion. Contracts m ide by the year, or for a less period, on reas tnabie term.. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT. Sheriff's Levies, 30 days #2 50 per levy; 60 days, #5, Executors, tdministrators and Guardians Sales Real Estate,(per square, 12 lines) #4 75 Do. do. Personal Estate 3 25 Citation for Letters of Administraiiaa 2 75 « “ Dismission ......4 50 Notice to Debtors and Creditors .....3 25 Four Months N0tice5.....................400 Rules Nisi, (monthly) #1 per square, each inser tion O’ALL REMITTANCE* PER MAIL are at our risk 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 HhL v- . - "■"»»' 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