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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. ■ GARDNER, JR. (From the Federal Union.) A PARAPHRASE. Howell, 1 did not think to shed a tear In alln% miseries ; but Jane Young forced me 'Out of he* murderous phiz to play the woman. I'll dry ray eyes : and thus far hear me, Howell; And 1 am sacrificed, as I shall he, And sleep in deep oblivion, where Democrat Nor Whig can hear more of me—say 1 taught thee ; Say, Holsey, that once trod the ways ot gior>, And sounded%dl the depths of Consolidation, Found thee away out of his wreck, to rise in A sure and safe one, though thy mentor missed it. 1 Mark bdt my fall and the hag that ruined me. Howeil, I charge thee fling away Ambition. By that sin Van Buren fell. How canst thou, then, The image of Kinderhook,hope to win by’i f Love thyself last; avoid “A lick” and Bob Toocnbs. Submission wins not more than Resistance. tStili in thy right hand carry Honesty, To silence injured fiiends. Be just and keep cool: Let all the eud9 thou aim’st at. be thy Country's, Thy Friend's and Truth's; then if thou fali'st, O Howeil, Thou fali'st like me, a martyr. Serve the South. And.p ythee, lead me in. There, take an inventory of all I have, To ihe la9t red cent—'tis the South’s; my robe And my fidelity to thee, is all 1 dare now call mine own. Howell, Howell, Had I but served the South with half the zeal ' I served the North, 1 would not be the victim Os Jane Young, supposed to be from Tugaloo. Shakspeark, Jr. 1 r (From the Federal Union.') JLetter of Gen- Haralson- Lagrange, Ga., May 14, 1851. Gentlemen: I have just received yours of the 12th instant, and hasten a replv. I thank you for your kind assurance of friendship and support for the last < ight years, and although I am not now your Representative, nor expect to be a candidate for re-elec-ion, I recognize your right to ask and assure you of my plea sure in responding to the several matters sug gested in your letter, as fully as if my relation to you as representative still existed. I am thankful to my constituents for for confidence with which they have so long honored me. Although I have never concealed but free’y spoken my political views, I am not surprised that my position should be variously repre sented in different quarters. The letters I wrote in answer to invitations to attend public meetings last fall, did not find their way into the public prints. 1 have not obtruded my opinions, uncalled for, on the public, and am ready to confess that differing as 1 did and now do in certain par.iculars with some of my political friends, I was the more -reluctant to force my views on the public attention. Al though! disapprove of the action of the last Congress, known as the Compromise, and be lieve it unjust to the South, I was not and am not in favor of secession as the proper remedy. —Maintaining our position in the Union, other remed es must be looked to. X believed and still believe there are others, constitutional, ef ficient and certainly worthy of trial before re sorting to secession which ought to be the very last. Considering it impolitic and suici dal to the South as long as there is any rea sonable desire to preserve the Union of the 1 have not been and am not n w in fa- V vor pf orgam** ions of parties purely and ex- sectional. —W hen that state of things upon us, if it ever should, which re quires dissolution as the only proper remedy —these sectional parties will be both politic and proper, but not until tnen. While we remain m the Union, and rely on votes under Che constitution for the election of officers and to sustain our constitutional righta, we ought not, in my opinion, to refuse the aid of Nor thern inends proffered in good faith. Nor is it answer to this, to say, we have no northern ; trends, I know better. We have too lew it is | true. Many of them nave quailed before pub- I * lie opinion in their own section, while others : have been prostrated; but there are some true and noble spirits sustained by equally true ancl noble constituents, who not only admit our ; constitutional rights but who are ready to j vote lor them. If he is true to correct prinei- I pie, acknowledges our rights and stands ready to sustain them, I cannot see why such an one being a candidate might not be as readily and fully sustained as if he resided in the South. The South ought not to be the first to abandon such men upon these two proposi tions. I have not agreed with some of my po litical friends and some of the Democratic presses in our State. On these accounts I suppose 1 have been represented a Constitu tional Union Man. Well, if to be truly a - % friend to the Constitution and of the Union constitutes me one, then I have received no injustice by such designation, but if it is in tended to represent me as deserting or intend ing to desert the democratic party as long as it exists and holds to its principles—he who does it but little understands my attachment to those principles. I deny that secession has ever been insisted upon by the mass of the democratic party, or that it has ever constituted any part of its creed. I have believed that in our present condition, it would "cost more than it came to,” and I have no doubt as to our true policy when the way is opened to other remedies, tending greatly to our prosperity at the cost the North and thus visiting their injustice * to us on their own heads. Among these, may be mentioned the establishment of direct trade between cur own Southern sea-coaat cities and foreign ports, manufacturing the material - grown by our own labor at home—shipbuild ; y ing amidst: our own. immense forests of live X oak and southern pine, using our own ships, encouraging and sustaining our own mechan -4 icß. Private enterprise might be greatly aided \y>) in some of these employments by legislative action, without even drawing upon the funds of the State. I have about as little faith in the durabili ty of the Constitutional Union Party of Geor gia as I would have of any other sectional party. I believe it is no where doubted that the effort to form a National Constitutional Union Party was a failure. It was counten anced by comparatively few whigs in Con gress, and fewer democrats. To the North ern whigs it was not so important a matter as it was to their Southern brethren. The ad ministration of Gen. Taylor did not promise to them so much disaster as to the whigs here. Three hundred slaves had proven a poor guarantee for Southern rights, A new party was necessary for Southern whigs to evade the torrents of disappiobation they rightfully anticipated from an indignant people. Tne ground must be shifted. The public eye drawn off from the transactions of ’4B and the administration then put into power. But as were many honest and patriotic men who suppomd General Taylor under the belief that his administration would be safe for the South, I refrain any further remark on that subject than to say, that he put himsef under in fluences averse to the interests of the South, * and that before his death, there were few in the South so poor as to do his administration teverence. To escape from this responsibi i tv it was most convenient for the principal actors in the scenes of '4B to seize upon ih# pretext afforded by the extremity heer, hide themselves behind the battery of the U men and amidst the false alarm they might create and the cry of Union, divert public litter tion from these fearful reminiscences. In Concert with many honest democrats who really believed the Union in danger even af |*r the November election, as mistaken as they were, they formed the Constitutional Union Party of Georgia. It will probably last until another Presidential election or nomination and then be abandoned or absorbed in some other party. Either the National Whig par ty must go over to them, which is not proba ble, or they must go over to the National Whig party, which is more likely, or they must maintain a separate lccal organization or join the democrats in supporting a demoera cratic candidate for the Presidency. This last alternative I hope but do not expect to see.— The wonder is, not that this trap was set, but ■ that good hi nest and patriotic democrats ! should have been caught by it. I regret that I some of my own political friends contributed in part to furnishing this pretext. There is no one I suppose who is not in favor of Con stitutional Union. The fear is that in the general outcry for the Union, we may forgef the constitution and its provisions and disre gard the rights of the States. This, itself may produce a greater necessity for extreme measures. We ought to be cautious that we do not strengthen the hands of those who have already done us injustice. Although I may not choose to cut the throat of him who deals me a blow, I have no taste for licking his hand. It may encourage him to outrage. You will observe, Gentlemen : that I have mentioned two particulars in which I do not agree with some of our political friends. If these shall be considered so important as to overrun all other considerations by the Con vention to be held in Milledgevillc the last of this month, I must meat the alternative pre sented, and act according to the convictions of my best judgment under the circumstances which may exist. But I trust and believe no such alternative wilt be presented, that not even a temporary separation from my party, or a suspension of hearty co-operation in pro moting its success may be caused by the adop tion of any such new and extreme measures. The loregoing, I suppose would be consider ed a full answer to your letter, but as you may prefer direct answers to the questions you propound, I proceed to give them. To your first question, whether I approve of the late action of Congress on the subject of slavery, known as the compromise, I an* sewer, I do not. To your second question, as to whether I believe the South had justice done her in the compromise, I answer, I do not. To your third question, respecting the con stitutional right of Congress to legislate on the subject of slavery in the District of Co lumbia and the Territories, I answer, I do not believe Congress possesses that right. To your fourth question, respecting the purchase by Congress of a part of Texas, 1 answer, that measure received my disapproba tion expressed by my vote, and by a speech de livered in the House of Representatives du ring the pendency of the question on the 10th of August, 1850, to|which you are respectful ly referred, and a copy of which I herewith send you. It will also be found in the Ap pendix of the Congressional Globe, vol. 22, part 2d, Ist session 31st Congress, page 1065. To the fifth question, respecting the organi zation of the Constitutional Union, I have only to say in all respect, to the n» doubt hon est motives of many, the most pressing neces sity for it I can see, is found in the prostra tion of the whig party in Georgia. In conclusion, Gentlemen: permit me to remind you that as early m my elec'ion to the last Congress, I expressed my wish to retire from office of representative in Congress at the expiration of that time, and now my fami ly obligations and private interest demand of me a surrender of the position I have occu pied into the hands of some other. I may be allowed also, in this connection, without os tentation, to allude to certain other sugges tions made through the public press. While I prize as highly perhaps as any person the | good opinion of others, and can but feel flat- I tered at the mention of my name in 6uch | high connection, I have no aspiration so strong as for. the enjoyment of the quiet of my own home, where free from the respon sibilities and labors of office of any kind, I | may follow pursuits more congenial to my J feelings. Very respectfully and truly, Yours, &c. HUG A. HARALSON. Messrs. Wm. U. Anderson, T Joseph T. Brown, > Committee. Joshua P. Shropshire. ) Newnan, Ga. Manchester Circular. This time last year we knew pretty accu rately our fate, as to the extent of the supply j of American Cotton, and we said in our trade report of the Ist of May, 1850, “our spin ners and manufacturers have made up their minds to a supply proportionate with a crop of about 2 to 2,100.000 balesan estimate which subsequent facts fully confirmed. The prices of Cotton Yarns and Goods, which had i before been fluctuating, assumed then an up- j ward tendency, and business, which had been : dull, became more active; the foundation upon which trade could thenceforth be car- ' ried on, was in fact, a safe one. Neither con sumers nor merchants objected to a higher range of prices, which seemed justified by the deficient supply. The dullness of trade here, since the be ginning of this year, has been ascribed to va- ! rious causes, all of which have, no doubt, been instrumental in bringing about this state of things ; but our friends may rest as sured that want of confidence in the main tenance of prices, which had been raised to a point too high to be permanent, proves the chief impediment to a more speedy return to an active state of commerce, whilst the usual mildness of winter, both here and abroad, made shop-keepers averse to increase their stock, by purchases of cotton fabrics at com paratively high prices, and thus acted as an additional cause 1 What is named in some of the letters of our Liverpool friends as an un favorable feature of trade —namely, the cer tain prospect of a more ample supply of Cotton than was expected there.is exactly the circum stance upon which we ourselves build hopes of a speedy return to a more healthy state of trade. *Ve deplore the individual losses which mu3t arise from the sudden reaction in the Cotton market, hut we cannot help considering it a fortunate circumstance that the case at issue, between the consumers of Cotton and the speculators, has turned out to the advantage of the former. Our spinners and manufac turers have kept free from stocks of high priced Cotton, and will continue to do so whilst the present disproportion between the value of the raw T material and that of manu factures continues to exist. It is true Cotton has already receded |d. to Id. per lb. since the beginning of January, but, great as this fall may seem, Yarns and Goods are dispro portionately lower at the present moment; h race the determination of some of our pro ducers to adopt “short time” working, which we hope will not now be had recourse to ex tensively, although some of our manufactur ers assure us that they would at once adopt this course, if the approaching Whitsuntide holidays did not offer an opportunity of re ducing the production, should circumstances make it desirable. We shall be very much disappointed if from this time forward, —although upon a differ ent basis and in a contrary direction, —the present month do not prove like that of last year; the starting point of a more extensive and regular business than we have hitherto enjoyed in 1851. Many of the large buyers in this miirket have been quietly waiting the | issue oi the conflicting American Cotton re i ports, equally prepared to buy at higher prices should another deficiency of the raw material occur; or at proportionately lower rates, if a more ample supply and the near approach to another crop should cause a reaction down wards. The lat’er has already taken place to some extent, and it seems that a crop of 2,- I 300,000 bales is now pretty generally calculat led upon here. In our Trade Report of the | Ist of January, we mentioned this as proba- I ble, and although there are parties who still ; adhere to a much smaller yield, the course • the markets have latterly taken certainly i favor the former estimate. We are informed by some of our American friends, on whose | statements we can rely, that the consumption J of Cotton; which was last year 486,000 bales, | would probably not exceed 400,000 bales this ! season in the United States, and that, conse quently, a larger quantity would fall to our share from this circumstance. Business in the U. States of America has as ! sumed rather a better aspect as regards the sale of English fabrics, although prices are still named as unsatisfactory for most articles, and particularly for the coarser descriptions of Domestics and other home made goods; it is evident that the American manufacturers have suffered even more than our own from the anomalous state of prices of the raw material and goods. It seems that the producers, as well in America as here, do not prosper with Cotton at relatively high, prices; but as this article in price about 15 per cent, since December last, we trust, they will soon be in a better position. The condition of the mass of the people in this country continues satisfactory, and, al though we do not question that the home trade has suffered momentarily from an ac cumulation of secondary and almost unaccoun table circumstances, we have no doubt it will gradually improve. Symptoms of improve ment are already, if we mistake not, dawning upon us; ind ed, there has been more inquiry and more business done at the low prices which our spinners and manufacturers have been obliged to submit to during the last two days. Some of the poorer foreign markets will again be able to take our Cotton goods at moderate ly low prices. It must be borne in mind that, with our present quick communications, the same necessity for keeping stocks as formerly does not exist, and that any demand spring ing up abroad will immediately be felt at the source of production. We are, indeed, sur prised to see the alarm which has got hold of some people who, but very recently, ere the most sanguine. We hear that great scrutiny is exercised in London and elsewhere in tfcie discounting of bills, but as trade has, on the whole, been carried on with prudence, and money is still plentiful, we hope that this mistrust will not add another impediment to the progress of business.—Du Fay $ Co. (Telegraheded for the Baltimore Sun. ) Further Per Baltic. New- York, May 24, 9 P. M. The steamer Baltic arrived at 6 o’clock, bringing four days later intelligence from Liv erpool. The West India mail steamer Great West ern arrived at Southampton, on Thursday, with nearly $1,000,000 in specie and gold dust. The whole was dispatched to London in four wagons. On the way three boxes, containing gold dust, worth upwards of $26,- 000, was stolen from one of the wagons. One box has sincebeen recovered worth $6,500. Accounts from the Cape of Good Hope I state that the Kaffir war is still raging. It is reported that the King of Naples is dead. England. —The debate on the Eoelesias i tical Titles bill has been deferred to the 16th. The Property Tax bill has passed the House i of Commons. The world’s Fair progresses satisfactorily. The average daily receipts are £BOO. j The steamer City of Manchester, to run be tween Philadelphia and Liverpool, is to be launched in June next. I Viscount Melbourne is in such a precarious state of health that but slight hopes are en ! tertained of his recovery, i Lady Franklin’s vessel, the Prince Albert, , is to sail for the Arctic regions about the 15th of May. Letters from Australia state that Smith i O’Brien has appealed to the English Govern ment in reference to the petty tyranny prac i ticed upon him by the Provincial authorities. France.—M. Dupin has been elected Pre i sident of the Assembly, and Gen. Baduc, Vice ; Piesident. I It is said in some quarters that Louis Na ! poleon will socn resume hi£ journey through the departments, and this time will proceed south. M. Leon Faucher, the Minister of the In terior, hau ordered the prefects of eighty-six departments to come to Paris, and at a private meeting he developed to them a plan of the campaign in behalf of Louis Napoleon. The festival on the 4th of May, had not met with much enthusiasm in the provinces. Great indifference was manifested to the display made by the Mayors and Prefects. The President has appointed Gen. Pelissiei Governor at Algeria, in place of Gen. Haut poul. A proposition for an income tax has been submitted in the Assembly. , Italy. —Letters from Rome to May Ist, | state that the President of the Propaganda, Cardinal pranconi, has just issued an appeal to all Italy, calling on all good Catholics to subsc-ibe funds for the erection of a Roman Cathedral in London. The Pope, question- i ed as to,the right of the Spanish government to sell church lands, has signed a concordat, which makes such sales legal, j A telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna, 7th, says that the principal bankers of the capital, including M. M. Rothschild, feina Schaup and Koenigswarter, had a conference with Baron de Kubeck, President of the Council of the Empire, to come to an understanding on the financial arrangements necessary to carry out the ministerial projects. The Council of the Empire has decided upon opposing all politi cal measures, so long as these pecuniary em barrassments continue. Letters from Venice, of the Uth instant, an nounce the arrival in that city of the King of Greece and paity. King Otho has taken up his residence at the palace of the Duke of Modena. Sfain.— Queen Isabella had the misfortune to break her leg in descending from her car riage, at Aranjuex. Portugal —The new Ministry is not deem ed likely to b@ of long duration. Public opin ion is in favor of an administration of which Count Savardio, Viscount Nenderia and M. Caivallo should form part, on account of the respectability of these men. Germany* —Count Bille Brahe has been appointed to the piesidency of the Schleswig Holstein and Denmark Assembly. Austria. —The English government has signified its intention to regard the admission of all the Austrian Provinces into the Ger manio Confederation, as purely a German ques ion, provided the other German govern ments consent. This is regarded as tanta mount to a withdrawal of the English protest. ;,lA uniform system of weights and measures tor he who e Empire occupied the attention of the Chamber of Commerce. Prussia. —The journey to Poland of the King of Prussia is definit ly fixed. He will enter Warsaw on the 15th instant. It is doubtful whether the Emperor of Austria will be there at the same time. The Emperor of Russia will meet the King of Prussia, on his arrival, at Warsaw. The Prussian Chambers closed on the #th, in the White Hall of the Palace. Turkey.— The Journal de Constantinople states that Omer Pacha had attacked and dis persed the insurgents in Bosnia under Ali Keditch and C *di Capitc’n. A great number of rebels were killed and many taken prison ers. Among the latter were several foreign officers. Nineteen prisoners of the Province of Widden, and forty Samarians compromised in late events, have been pardoned by the Sultan. Greece. —Athens journals contain nothing in the shape of political news. Brigands had assembled in considerable numbers in the dif ferent provinces. In Arcania a band of fifty men had given battle to an armed force,, and the Mayor and five frontier guards were killed. Markets* Liverpool, May 14.—Cotton.—Since the sail ing of the last steamer,Cotton has declined from g to per lb. The sales for the four days are esti mated at 151)00 bales. The sales yesterday were 3,000 bales. Exchanges are unaltered. Brown, Shipley & Co/s Circular.—Liv erpool, May 13—The panic in Cotton does not abate, and a further decline of g a £d ha- taken place since our circular of the 9th, with a market so irregular that it is impossible to give coirect quotations. The nominal rates are, fa;r Orleans 6jd; Mobile s£dj Uplands s|d; Middling 5j asgd. The sales lor the four days are 15,C00 bales, of which speculators have taken 2000, and exporters 600. The large imports of Flour during the last few days has checked the slight improvement in tbe Corn market, which closes quietly at last week’s quotations. THE CONSTirUTIONALIsri 2lttcjttsta, Borgia. THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 2<>* See First Page. Col. Wm. J. Lawton.— The Savannah Geor gian says: This gentleman’s name having been mentioned through the Press and in a public meeting, in connection with the Congressional canvass in this District, authority was given by him some time since to say, that under no circumstances could he consent to become a candidate. But for neglect, the announcement would have been made here this. The U. S. mail steamship Arctic, Capt. Luce, left New York at noon on Saturday for Liverpool, with one hundred and forty-one passengers. She also takes out $424,500 in American gold, and £l6O in English silver. Among the passengers is Mr. Martin F. Tup j per, the celebrated English author. | The almbged Cuban Expedition.—The N. { York Express of Saturday, states that the i Grand Jury had on that day returned Bills of j Indictment against John L. O’Sullivan, Cap r tain Lewis and Major Slessinger, as being engaged in fitting out an expedition against Cuba, &c. Bench warrants were issued. Capt. i Lewis gave security for his appearance fc r trial, in $5,000, Mr. Charles O’Connor be coming his bail. Mr. Chas. O’Connor will it is said, probably also become baii for Major S. Mr. O’Sullivan was to have appeared on Monday, and entered into recognizances foir trial. A Trie to Europe via Galway.— lt is sta ted in some of our New York exchanges that efforts are being made to have the new steam ship North America—announced in our ad vertising columns, as about to make a trip from that city to Liverpool with visitors to the World’s Fair—sail for Galway on the West coast of Ireland instead of for Liver pool. If this be done, the merits of this | much-talked of route will be fully tested. S lectr o-Biolog-y • Professor Hale gives his last lecture on this interesting science, at the Masonic Hall, this evmng. Those who have not heard him and witnessed his wonderful experiments, should do so. I Qoncert Hall The “Drunkard” drew another crowded audience last evening. It will be seen that it is to be repeated this evening. It is one of the best pieces we have seen on our boards, this season, and to witness its performance will do more good than a dozen Temperance Lectures. [communicated.] Will our city officers have the goodness to inform us by what authority, or for what policy, a parcel of negroes are allowed, as has been the case for the past two or three weeks, to disturb the quietness of our city by this practice of beating drums and blowing “ ivory necked” fifes under our windows, at the top of their energy, as if an army of Mexicans, with Santa Anna at their head, was within cannon shot of us. The exhilirating sound of the drum and five on our public days r is certainly not objectionable: on the contrary, enlivening and inspiring ; but to be ding’d with it as we have been of late, night and morning, is to me, more a nuisance than a pleasure. Certainly the drumming up some twenty or thirty men to go through a few evolutions, cannot be a justification for what is but an annoyance, when emergency does not require it. I hope the colored gemmen may be required to display themselves where they cannot so easily be heard above all else but their dignified selves. New York Monet Market.—The Journal of Commerce of Saturday evening saysr We have no change to notice in the rates for Money, the market heing well supplied at previous quotations. As the heavy remittan ces to the other side, and the bulk of the heavy payments at home are nearly over, there is less inquiry for capital, both at the banks and in the street. The Artie sailed this noon, with $424,000 in American gold, and SBOO in British silver. Foreign Exchange closed rather heavily. We quote: Bills on London, a 110£; Paris. 5,10 a 5,082; Amsterdam, 4l| a 411- Hamburg, 362 a 36|; Bremen 79$ a 79k. * An Oed Printer list to-day includes the name of John Lintz, one of the oldest printers of the city. He was one of the original members of the New-York Typographical Society, having united with others in forming that association on the 4th of July, 1809. He has remained in member ship from that day to the time of his death— a period of nearly forty-two years. Os the founders of this society five only remain alive. One of them is George Mather, of this city, now on a visit to the World’s Fair at Lon don,— New- Toth Cmmersial Advertiser, 22, Mesmerism. —We learn from the London papers received by the Africa, that there is an infirma y in the metropolis, where diseases are treated wholly by mesmeric-processes. In the London Sun of the Bth, is a long account of the celebration of the first anniversary of the institution. The Earl of Ducee, the reg ular President being absent, the Rev. George Sandby took the chair. The Archbishop of Dublin and the Earl of Stanhope were vice pre-idents. Dr. Elliotson read the annual report, in which, alter giving an account of the establishment of the hospital, says, that nmety-four patients have been treated, the greater part successfully. Some of these were desperate eases, incurable by every other means. Thus: “On the 9th of last April, a man applied with an almost total inability to open his mouth, and an inability to swallow any thing but fluids, and he swallowed those with extreme difficulty, so that he feared being starved. He had received public and private medical several weeks,and had been informed that his complaint was palsy of the mouth and throat; so, indeed, it was but Irom cold, not from internal disease. On local mesmerization, by Mr. Capern, en abled him in ten minutes to swallow his salva and on returning home he ate a rasher of bacon, and by repetitions of the treatment he has been enabled to eat all solids at his meals, and to return to his work. “A very remarkable case is that of a dumb boy, fourteen years of age, who had been palsied from his birth, and totally unable to walk. He had been in many hospitals, and under many private medical gentlemen; and been refused admission into St. Bartholo- j mew’s Hospital from the conviction of the j medical officer that his caee was hopeless. He ; was first mesmerized on the 2d of February, and an improvement was discernible after the first mesmerizaton, After the 6th, he could positively walk across the room without as sistance; and on March 27, he walked from the infirmary into Tottenham-court-road.” The speakers on the occasion were the Hen. Capt. Scarlett, Mr. Janson, and JSurgeon Barker of Exter, the latter of whom stated that twelve hundred cases had been success fully treated in that city. £iV. Y. Evening Post. The weather during the week ha 3 been warm and dry—crops are needing rain. The i season for wheat has been good. A planter who has reaped 15 acres, says, it will average ‘ 16 bushels 10 the acre.— Albany (Ga.) Patriot, j 23d inst. J Fire. —On the 17th inst., at about 3 o'clock, i P. M., fire was discovered in the office of Drs. I Nelson & Byrd, on Broad street, adjoining the j store of Messrs. Smith & Long, on one side, j and the office of Messrs. Smith & Warren on j the other. A large number of citizens imme diately assembled, and by most praiseworthy exertions, and the fortunate circumstance cf a convenient and abundant supply of water, the fire Wcß soon extinguished. It was found by examination, that the fire had been kin dled by an incendiary under the sill between the tenements of Messrs. Smith $ Long, and Nelson & Byrd. A meeting of citizens was organized at the Council Room, and a committee appointed to investigate the origin of the fire. The result w as, that a negro boy, (eleven years old) in the employment of Drs. Nelson Sc Byrd, was implicated by a negro woman, and he finally confessed that he had placed shavings and sticks under the sills and fired them. He has been whipped, and branded with the let;„ er j ‘A’ (Arson) in the right hand, as a r'anish ment lor the crime.— Ibid. Still Later from TEXAB,-_By t b e arr i Ta i last evening of the steair snip Globe, we have Galveston papers to Vhe 19th inst. inclusive. ihe Houston Telegraph learns that a party of Tonkeway Indians had lately murdered "a iamily in Denton county, and that they had afterwards been captured by a party of U. S. Dragoons from Fort Gates. The Dallas Herald, in reference to the same ; matter, says that the Tonkeway's made no hostile demonstration, and that the tragical story had no foundation. A correspondent of the Journal, in refer ence to he ri‘ e in the Brazos river says: Nearly every plantation on the river that 1 have heard from is under water, but I believe the river is now falling, and good crops may yet be made. The same writer, who dates from Bellville, says: I learn that a man named Bowen was as sasinated in the town of Brenham last week. There is said to be a good deal of excitement about the affair, and some three or four per sons have been arrested as parties concerned in the murder.— N. O. Picayune, 23 d inst. Scientific.- A correspondent of the New- i ark Advertiser gives the following interesting i experiment: The Earth’s Diurnal Revolution Deir.omtrci- j ted.— In a recent number of the Advertiser, I j observed an article from a London paper, giv- I ing an account of the new method of proving the diurnal revolution of the earth, Having myself previously tried the Parisian experi- j ment, and obtained the same result, I thought I perhaps a brief description of my method, which is very simple, might not be uninter- ! esting to some of your readers. An ordinary 56-lb. weight, suspended by means of a small wire from the rafters of a barn, formed by pendulum* It was 30 feet long, and consequently made about 21 vibra tions per minute. In order that it might more with as little friction as possible, and aUo turn freely in a horizontal direction, J took a small tile, and having had one end turned up at right angles to its length, and well hardened, I made the point sharp and smooth, This I drove into the rafter, and on the point suspended a hardened ring, which had a small indentation on the inside to keep from slipping off the point. To this ring the wire of the pendulum was fastened. That the vibrations might be more readily traced along the floor, a small pointed rod was attached to the centre of the under side of the weight, nearly in a line with the wire and long enough to reach within an eight., of an inch of the floe;, 't he point on the floor immediately on the pendulum when at rest, Was taen ascertained, and twelve straight lines drawn through it, making with each other, angles or 1« deg. each. The pendu um was now set to vibrating along one of these lines ; for a short time the point of the rod seemed to be tracing the line backwards and torwards; but in less than 15 minutes had deviated perceptibly to the left of fehfl end next the observer. I tried it Uccessiv lv along several other lines Z T£oZ u.[dtiurl»d n , d w nd iU ever r t w !v, b d ’ that w deviated to the left; and the ° f eviation va «ed nearly as Ums» that is, the longer the time, the gr eater the deviation. To- day I again repea' ed the experiment. At II o'clock I se' :* vibrating along a line running nearly eae ’ ll West, and now, at 2, three hours after, J ‘ L aad moving N. W. and S. E.- sa nd it According to a well known law e a body once put in motion by , ot motion , continue to move in the dire'' J orce, will that force is impressed, until jtloa in which some other force tending tr ac . upon by ferant direction. Now iu *' * move lt in a di *- as we know of no foro* * P resen * instance, direction of the pendv i s change the fair to infer tha£ ® m °Hon, it seems sbso Ute divsctmp that it d« tSts'.g” 6 If this be true, the barn floor must have bet a turnm» round to the eastward, making during these three hours, one-eighth of a revolution ; and as the barn still has the same relative po sition to all external objects on the surface of the earth around it, we must conclude that it is the earth that is turning round at this rate, and that it will make a complete revolution in twenty-four hours. Kissino done by Rule. —Some young lady, whom practice has doubtless made perfect' lays down the following rule for kis ing : There is as much difference in kisses as in individuals, and I am sure that I should not like to be kissed by every one. No, indeed, for s'une would give such an overwhelming smack it would almost deafen one. Now kissing can be reduced to rules, one oir two of which I will give: The head should al j ways be turned slightly to the right, as such amotion gives grace, and prevents the con cussion of the olfactory organs. The lipa should then be pressed closely ar.d sweetly together, as you sip the nectar of the long kiss, but no smack should be heard. I speak particularly on this subject, because I con sider kissing part of our nature, and because few people appear to understand the value of a kiss, and the manner in which such saluta tion with the lips should be rendered. Young gentlemen should past th® above the crown of their hats, so that when tk 4 ey visit their Anna Marias, they may go through the motion by the improved rule. ( Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.) New-Orlbans, May. 27, 1i.20 A. M. Cotton is completely unsettled by the Bal tic’s accounts, and barely four hundred bales | have been sold to-day, buyers asking a de cline of half to three quarters of a cent. Ba con has declined—Sides being quoted at Bf, and Shoulders at 6|. Whisky is worth 18£ | cents per gallon. Coffee has improved, and | four thousand bags of Kio have been dispo|-» ! ed of at from 9 to 9s. {Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun.) Mead villi, P Ai , May 2 *. Severe and Disastrous Sail Storm A terrible hail storm occurred here yesterday doing much damage to the crops and fruit! The streams were also much swollen, mill dams carried away, and windows and other | property demolished. The storm was the | most severe that has ever visited us, g§ Ex-Secretary W alier!—The~ Washing ton. ; correspondent of the Charleston Courier says: j “It is understood that the Hon. R. J. Wal ; ker intends to sail tor California, on the 28th ; of June r ext. His professional services have : been engaged in two very important land | cases, which are to be argued at the coming term of the United States District Court for California.” Advertise. —-There is a sermon in that word. A sermon, too, full of the right doctrine, j preaches straight to the head, and pocket, Xhe man who makes it his principle watch i word is on the sure road of honor p ro g t . Sentimental ick swaina down east, alter one of those paUBeB Rhich somet.nes aStot Ca»-. a . 8 converts, held forth upon the following gt ra i ns> .“*s* P VB al aiost anything to hear Ole Bull,’* sa !fw a - iy,; ° her lover answered Tom, “Dad’s got an old br Vndle chap, and you can here him belier al ( most anytime.” Bally fainted—she did. MARRIED, On the 22d ißst.,at Darien, by the Rev. W. €T, Jones, Mr. Joseph H. Ladson, cf Savannah to Miss M.C Kockeniacgh, of the former p ace. At Cedar Rapids, lowa, on the Ist inst., by Rev Mr. Uazzard, Donald M. Mclntosh, ol Gf-cr gia, to Harleston Rutledge, daughter of the late Col. John Bryan, of South Carolina. T M DIED. In Macon, on the 24>ih iust., Mrs. Catharina i A., consort of Robt. A. Smith, Esq. She lived the life of a Christian and died the death of the righteous. SPECIAL NOTICES. A CAKI). My attention has been directed to an ' art icle in your paper of yesterday mornir,g in which I find a very free use of my na me made by a Mr. F. C. Adams, the Proprietor of the Theatrical Company now performing in your city. In the article referred to, Mr. A. thinks proper so say ,’nathe “ will make no* ©omment on my ‘‘solicitation to play’“ The Stranger,” or the authority which i> t had from ho less than three aspirants fox * f age notoriety, to use the name of “ a neman.'* Now, I have nothing T*h*' (eyer^ 0 do with the desires of o .hers to iww' 0rm ~ „ Th Stranger,” or any thing ete.. My bußineß , is e lm p !y to place the ,«'. s in their r shape, m order that »*« p; aWie mayd eterraL correctly, whether M”. A , . , k.. , 8 , , “ Adams was deceived Jived’the”ebb *' ‘' lt-Adamß deßi S nedl 5 f de- AdamJatTL ay evening iast * * *net with Mr. was h - U * S - H ° teU our conv ersation durin !v y m reference to the Drama, and enn ,/ conve rsarion I asked him if he Couadproduc 6 “The Stranger?” He replied t he could if he could get some one to per form the character of “ The Stranger,” and. remarked, that he would like to have me per form it as an amateur on his benefit night, * mca as ta ke place on the approaching Monday evening. I replied, that the play ' ‘‘The Stranger” was a favorite with °, perhaps I might feel disposed to un fsncy by personating “ The Stra* occasion, Mr. A. then £ e , . him, at Concert Hall, on e “ ~ 0 Cal ' 011 ing. 1 informed him the-.T / ' mg T"" consequence of eirc- JO sc; but m I expected to be ' ; °T a ' X in,cr PoSed evening r,)„ . 1 lrotr . town on Monday evening, night of * ' deemed a 00te of es . * dr * A - “ benefit ') »" d cessar - . „ planation all that was ne cessary to aßsure y v r,- 8 ur. A. that it was not conve nient lor me to ' .. Stranger ”o' “PP ear in the character of “The conveyed - a Monday night- This note was before 9 £ ° r * 0n Frida y norn^D S> a da y tentir n y announcement of an amateur’s in mp j,n *° personate “ The Stranger” was r de known through the press or hand bills, and yet it was currently reported throagh Augusta on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, that I was the person who was to perform “ The Stranger.” Mr. A. says, in the article referred to, that three others, “aspirants for stage notoriety,” gave him authority to use the name of “ m young gentleman .” Does he pretend to say that three others solicited permission to per form ** The Stranger ” for his benefit ? He does not, and yet he attempts to make it so appear. Jf such was the fact, why was not the names of others made use of as well as mine ? I wwit n o stronger proof than this