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A loafer's Soliloquy—A Wild Cat Buli —Loxfpr snlilnquiseih:—Let s see; where ‘im I ? 7 hi* l ip—ronl I m iHyin on. flow'd- I Bis here ? (reflects.) yes, I mind now. Was coinin’ np—met wheel-barrow, fell over m p, nr I fpll over flip wheel-barrow—and one on ns fell in flip rellar; don’t mind liich now guess it must have Upph mp. Inin a nicp min, I hie, Im tore! tight ! shot ! drunk! Well, I ran’t help it—'taint my fault; wonder whose fault ’lis? Is it Jones’ fault? No. Is it mv wi'e’s fault?—'lis. No-o. leV the wheel, barrow’s fault! Has lie a large ‘amity ? Got nfany relations? All poor I reckon! I think I-wnn’t own him any more. 111 cut his ac, v qtrainbinoc—l’ve had that notion about ten | years, and always hated to do it for fear of hurt I in’ his feelings—l'll do it now—l tnink. Li quor is injurin’ me. It’s a spoilin’ my temper. Sometimes I get mad, when lin drunk, and abuse Betz and the brats—it used to be Lizzie and the children—that’s some time ago; Lean just mind ; when I ns< and to cotde home evenin',, she used to put her arms round my neck and J call me her dear William. When I come home i now. she takWher pipe*out of her mouth, and j puts her hair nut ol her eyes am! looks at me and somethin’ like—Bill, you drunken brute ! shut }he door alter you, we’re cold enough, havin’ no tire, ’tliont lelliti’ the snow plow in | that way. Y’ S, she’s Betz and I'm Bill now ;Ii ain’t a good Bill nnther—think I am a counter- | fell won I pass,—a tavern ‘thout going in and getting a drink. Don’t know w*hat Ba klin ■ Oh—shouldn’t wonder il l was on wild cal hank—the At'nnta—Bank of Milk (Igeville, or Merchants’ Bank ol Macon—l fejl rattier wild ; last Sunday I was on the river hank, drunk. I stay jjrettlate now, sometimes l’/n out all night—lad is'. I'm out pretty lunch all over out of fMooi[>?*~uui of pocket—out at the elbows aid knees, and always outrageously dirty, so Betz says—but then, she’a no judge, for she’s never ciaajj herself. I w aider why she din’l wear good'dot lies—may he slip hasn I got em ; wlin-o fault’* that? Taint mine—it must be whisky’s. Sometimes I’m in, t-owr-ver—l’m intoxicated now, and in somebody's coal cellar. I nere’s one good principle I've got—l won’t go in dehl; I ‘never could do it. There, one of my coat tails is gone—got tore ctT I Vpect wheu 1 fell down lure. I’ll have to get anew suit 6oon. A lei, low told me the Other day I’d make a good sign for a paper mill; il he wasn’t so big Ida licked him. I've had this shirt on for nine days, and I'm a'raid it won’t come off w ithout larin’. Peo ple ought In respect me more’ll ‘hey do, for I’m irt liotcly orders. 1 ain’t a dandy, though mv clothessre nearly all greaseian style. 1 guess 1 lore this winder shutter in my pants, behind, the other night, when I set down on tfie wax in j Ben Slingg’s shop. I'll have to get it mended np nr I'll ci Id—l ain’t very stout as it is, though 1 am full in ilie lace—as the boys say I’m ’bout as fat as a match and as healthy as the small pox. My'bosl hat slandin’ guard for a window pane that went nut the other morning at the in vitation of a brickbat. It’s gitten’ cold down here ; wonder how I'll get out ; I ain’t able to climb. Il I had a drink I could think belter— let’s see ; I hain’t got no three cents —will I was in s tavern, I could sponge one. When anybody treats, and says “come up fel ers,” I always think my name’s fellers, and I’ve got too good ms oners in refuse. Well, 1 must leave tiffs, or they’ll arrest ine lor an attempt at burg lary—l ain’t mine to that yet, toy how. It waa the wheel-barrow done tin 1 harm, tint me. Origin of the Term, “ Old Domin ion."—Few things are so well calculated lo a Waken in the mind ol tin 1 proud Virginian, when wandering in foreign lands, lunching rnnini-oen ces of Inline and kindred, as the simple mention of the “Oil Doylkion.” And yet there are com paratively fewP'wlin are aware ol the origin o! ‘lie term which has sv long and so generally been applied lo Virginia. It originated ‘bus; Dur ing the Cromwell, the colony ol VW I vvle< lire lav ; n —I unit declared itset) nnfMnHHhjHHHPRmM when Cromwell thre'ateiionhisenv^ni'ef-and ar- j my to reduce Virginia lo subjection, the alarmed Virginians sent a messenger lo ( buries 11., w ho was then an exile In Flanders, inviting him to re turn in the ship with the messenger, and be king of Virginia. Charles accepted the invitation, and was on ihe eve of embarkation, when lie was called lo the throne of England. As soon a, lie was fairly seated im his throne, in gratitude lor the loyally of Virginia, lie caused lie coat of arms to be quartered with those ol England, Ire land and Scotland, as an independent member of the empire,—a distinct portion of the ‘•olddounn ion.” Ili-iire a rose lhe origin of ihe.tenn. Cop per coins of Virginia were wMitid, even as late as the reign of George-IH.. wliiClVbore on one side ibe roais of arms ol -Eiijflund, Scntland, Ireland and Virginia. ’ , Tullow 4<l l.:vril. —l’ appeirs from a ioLoi'ess circ.ukui mi’ £s.v-wyw, Wallace &, Cos., New York, that-thiy import of tallow last year into England Ir on Jgii-'sia amounted lo 95,000,- 000 lbs , being 72 jter cent nl the entire imports from <ll count ries, and equivalent to ab ml 350,- COO barrels and tierces lard. The present war ir.iVii ol enuf-fc cut ofT.all trade between the two , belligerant powers, ltns-ia and England. Tal low has already consequently gone up lo a very \ high price, and in view therenl, lard—American j lard —will have to be substituted to a considerable | extent, a- it has been heretofore under the scar- ; city Hnt! high price of tallow. Il would requite j not less than 4.000,000 lings to produce the large ] quantity 01'350,000 barrels and tierces of lard, and this is neatly double the entire products of tins Country for commercial purposes. It appears al-o that England and rives from Russia 75 per cent, nl linseed and flax-seed lor oil purposes; and nearly equal in quantity to tallow. \\ hat is hketi lo be the value of these articles in our mark-is in view of these laet-, tlio.-e conversant with the trade are best able to judge. Fot'l!iro:niir; Oavclopmciita.-We hive seen tue proof sneets of Ine •• Biographies o! Hermit’s Washington Caritin Birds”—the men w in collect filth, in this cil}. for the 11-fald in which a perfect daguerreotype of each indi vidual is given. When this publioalUut is given to live public, an expose of the tnanrlef in vv liich —rill'll I ra-ieavbr In gel news will be seen, that ,;\t be perfectly a-touLdijig—some t'ling heretofore unequalled in the annals ol news gathering. —Was.'iington Si ir. “ My’ friend;” said the keeper of a hnfr! to an over voracious boarder. “ you eat so much that I shall have to charge you an extra hall dollar.”— “ An exira half dollar,” replied his boarder with his emnneii nice lire very picture of despair; “ for goo Ine-s sake don't do that, I’m most dead now eiting three dollars’ worth, and if you put on an extra half do'lars’ worth, I shall certainly burst —1 shall. Ah agriciFfufikt, who lias tried the experiment eatuta m irily, says thvt a fe-v seels of tnmtlo drop ie I into the hill with cucumbers, or a toma to set oil', wliic.ti he says is tlie belter m ide, will keep ~ff til.,-It fi -as and striped bugs, as they dislike the fiivnr ol the tomato. Th* Leiw Muskets no vat New Orleans, are Slid t > have h*eo in'eiide.J f.r the Fullibosiers under Oip'. VV ilker, (nil as ilm Caniain is now a little under the weu’li-* , the inu-kets are held to abide the course of events. English Cotton Shirts with a synopsis of the K ‘ran pri lled otftlieui in blue letters, are eager “ ly sought for hv the Tu'ki-h sol her-*, who con sider them is Tvtu il pre*ui <-.i'.ivei f, j q (ijiioe-, a th? IV yh u's o v . rj... THE COURIER. I ALBANY. GEORGIA. Saturday, April 29, 1&54. ETA -School Teacher’s” Enigma is much too“nii-cel!anedbs,’’besides beiligtoo personal for , publication. The “Weather.—One extreme follows’ another. Last week we seemed in tl* midst of winter, white ‘during- the present we have had ultra summer Weather. We’ate yet without rain and ilia* crops'hie suffering for want of it. ltain —On Thur.-ilay allernoon we wer p visited wi.fi a gentle and refreshing shower, the fiisi fur several week*. It was very grateful and “good as far as it uenl” which was not more ihan a couple of inches below the surface. Mr. L. H. Durham has laid upon our table an ear ol corn in full silk. It was picked from his garden, where tn< re of the same sort are growing. Dcatll of Judge Sturgis.— The Hon. Jo-epli Sturgis ol Columbus, died in the city ol Washington, on the I7ili instant, after a very protracted illness. Mr. Sturgi waslhe Senator from Murcogee in the late legislature, lie was a man of mark in the Slate, and his load will be deeply fell. Fatal Accident.—VVe regret to learn ! that a lad by the name of John Carter, aged twelve or fourteen years, sou of Mr.Tuomas Car ter oflhis county was thrown from Ida hor-e on Friday of last week, ands > seriously injured that he died in a fe.v hours. His skull was fralured by the tail, and he was nearly sensiless tc the lime of his death. Foilgrcss.— This body is doing little of gen eral interest or importance. The Senate has so stricken out, amended and patched np the Gads den Treaty, tlmi its own fat her would not recog nise it. lis fate is stiil very doubtful. II it ev er gets out ut the Senate alive in any sba|>e, it is doubtful il Santa Anna will accept it. In the House tlie Nebraska bill still lingers, and it is doubtful when its fate will be decided. We give a synopsis of all Congressional doings of interest for the week in to-days paper. That Carpet Hag ( a c. We published l ist week a statement of the facts of this case which was then sub judice. — Since then a Court of Justices at Atlanta have decided that the passenger who carried his specie overlhe road, must pay the legal rale (one tenth of one per cent ) for the transportation of specie or bullion. Ar< ordingly he paid S4O under pro test—that being the anfounffclaimed by the Com pany Now the inconsistency of the thing seems to us to lie here. It was’ admitted by all parlies j that it the money had been lost the Company i would not have been responsible (or it. Why l lliert'Compel a pasW'gV; lo pay forty dollars lor which no equivalent w>as given—why oblige him lo pay for taking his own risk This may be law, bet it looks to us to be very one sided jns- I is The defend*lit appealed from the dee.isinnxaod Ofi v. —vjqf fhigher tiibunul, and the law which governs ti, settled. j Tlie t'oiiniicrcial Convention. It must bi* a source of gratulation and pride to eVerv right-minded man that the proceedings of the late'Convention in Charleston were'char acterized bv so mneh moderation. Nothing cal culated to irritate or to provoke sectional preju dices was said or done, and we believe the dele gates left the Convention with a ‘sir< nger feel ing of good will towards all sections of our country than they entered it with. Socially, the Convention was no doubt a good thing. Judging ‘from the ‘ published reports of the dhiners &c., we think the delegates must j have had’ a good time of il. Moreover, ihe in* ; terchange of opinions between eight hundred intelligent citizens (rora'all parts of the South, cannot fail to have a good effect. Perhaps,too,the : tacts adduced, and the suggestions brought for ; ward may waken our people to their own inter-’ > e-Land set them to work earnes'ly in the right ! way. So far then iheConveution may have done I some good. But That any of its long resolutions for hailH iiur Railroads establishing lines of steamers, ‘opening new channels of Commerce, &.C., w ill j amount to anything we do not suppose for a mo j ment. If the Convention had hid the money so ; buck all these very good resolutions, we should hope for “practical results,” but as il was, the ! resolving was done by one set of nicp, but the | carrying out will fall to the lov ol quite a.iotlier ! class. On'the whole, as an organized, formal body we think the Commercial Convention pretty ’ near a failure, but as a social, informal gatlier ! iug of Southern gentlemen, it was both pleasant ami instruc'ive,and will not be without benefi j cial resuils. i ITIr. Fillmore.—Ex-I’iesidenl Fillmore’s | progress through Ihe Southern Stales rseinble’ an j ovation more than anything else. Every where he lias been received with enthusiasm:"At Lou isville, Memphis, Vickshnrgh, Natchez. New Orleans, Mobile,Selma, Montgomery, Cnladibus, 1 Macon, and Savannah, lie lias heerl received as live guest of ;h“ pe"ple, and greeted with a war -1 mer welcome than would be accorded to many of ! our public men. On Tuesday morning he left Savannah for Charleston ‘ After spending a few days in that city, it is understood that lie will pass through Augusta oil his way lo Nashville, and that he wrlf return lo his home by wav of Washington city. The heartiness ol his wel come demonstrates clearly that our people re member and appreciate h.s efforts when at Ihe bead ol the nation to maintain the rights of every section <>f our country against faction and vio* lence.and that Ids policy then meets with their highest approval. All this innsi he and is highly grati f ying to the Ex President, the more so as it was by no means expected on his part. Mr. Fillinureas we saw him alew weetcssinCe 1 is a fi ie, halo, noble looking gentleman, plain and republican in his dre-s and manners, who looks as it he could yet do go and ba'tie in the ser ■ vice of hi* country. Taking it Cooly. The last Columbus Times is out with a long editorial in which it attempts to account philoso phically for the very great and general defection in the Democratic par*y from the Administration i * ‘ o’ President Pierce. After refering to th politi cal stain# of ihe country at the commencement of ihe* last Presidential campaign the ’Times says : . | “F.verv hungry politician from the Atlantic to Hie Paeifir.enli.-ied under the Pierce banner and went howling over the country like roaring lions i •‘dragooning’’ the people into his support; or blow ing bugle blasts upon every hill lop jp his praise. Well, we have no desire to debate this point with ourcotempory. Very likely he speaks the truth. But more un this point soon. After the election the it was found that there were more “dogs than bones”—which we have no doubt was the fact. Consequently the disappointed ones have turned against the Administratirin and now rank with its bitterest enemies. Now see how the Times sucks the honey of consolation out of this: ■——*^ “Their desertion has weakened the Adminis tration in numbers, but what the party has losi in numbers il has gained in honesty, ana we are, therefore, contenl to lose them, and will, if it is necessary, give them a lift, in the rear, as they run.” Now supposing that the disa seekers had been (tie successful applicants—sup posing they had got what the Times says they hur raed lor Pierce for, i.e. office and its emoluments, how would the case hsrie been then? of course they would have fawned on the lianmihat fed them, and would have been to day the most servile and unscrupulous tools of the President. If the hope of office could have caused them tp enlist with such eagerness under the banner of the Brigadier Candidate, the possession of it would have kept them, the “true and honest” friends of democratic principles. They would have been just what the present office hoTdere are, and would have been placed by the Tunea in the catagory of honest deinocq|jj^. We cau draw but one inference from the Time’s ariic.le riz'—that tne one greiVcohering power that keeps iti party together, is thß sp6it.i.‘ A large faction (if it includes all the deserters since; Might solely for when they lound they were disappoint’ and in this, an I that there was no prize money lor them, Ihe only bond that held them to Ihe party was severed, aud'they flew v-fT in a tangent. This is a sorrowful picture to contemplate,and one which we hardly thought the Tim s was candid enough to sketch of its own political brethren. Rail Hoads. A Vvcek nr two since the <Xk" ,,9VV,< 'k'NEWs ‘ announced that the Bfhnswick & Florida and the Savannah, Albao'y & Gulf Railroad Lonipa nies had united; and that alter each company had built its own road irdin the two Atlantic ter -1 mini to a common point, they would join their ■ forces and construct a road in the direction of Florida, which should be the cvi'mVnoii property of Doth companies. Now knowing’how easy it is to he mistaken in the Railroad alLirs of South ern Georgia, we were inclined to regard this announcement as apochyphal, especially as we could not ascertain who hud acted as the a-ents “of the high cvliiUaWmi^^j^oJijJtaJL^-jb .oVC-U alt 01, hut we have very good reasons tor believing that nothing definite has, or at least had at that lime,’ been done towards effecting it. Nor are we by any mean* convinced that such a move ment is one which the citizens of Dougherty, Baker, Thomas and adjoining counties ro-uld regard with favor. We know something of the interest and feelings of Savannah, aniFwc should fear that AaVo'n's rod would swallow up all the lesser rods, and having digested them, would have tilings pretty much its uw n Way. However, if after reaching the point of junction (say some where near Wayusville) the consolidated compa nies should run a common road through the sea board counties, so as lo eiiter Florida “ as far.to the eastward” as possible, and thus leave the counties mentioned above, ccknjMe'lely off the line, it might bring affairs to a crisis. We of South western Georgia should then have some thing tangible and certain lo act upon. We should know (which is more than we have ever yet done) exactly where we stood, what oor pros pects were, and instead ol waiting year alter year like Mr. Micawber for something “ tu luri: 6p” from Savannah or Brunswick, we- should seethe necessity of going to Work so help ourselves. We need a Railroad, and every year the need is becoming tndrs ‘manifest and imperative ; and we believe if our people were once thoroughly convinced that the only way to get ctil* is lo build it ourselves, that we should have one in three years. But hs long as we rely on the prom ises of other parties’ to build a road for us, we deserve (and we are pretty likely to get our des erts) to he compelled to “ box” our cotton down Ihe river, or to haul it forty to sixty miles to a Railroad, and to get alt our supplies Irom market in the same slow-coach way. Nor can we blame the“othei party.” If Savannah nr if the Bruns wick company, or if companies ei'lter North or South see it for their interest to build a road to our doors, they will do il, but if they do nvjyso see it, they w i.l most assuredly not do it, aojJ if they are men of sense we cannot expect it of them. The fact is, as every one krtmvs, we have had altogether too many railroad schemes. Our feel • ings, ourt'energies and our mrttvey have been di vided atlt? split up “Hope deferred has madtTthqi heart sick,” and. already our “people’are confidence, and look w ith distrust on all. If the public feeling and interest had bedii Concentrated on one roud it would have been built, but by'be ing distracted into so many channels il became weak, and nothing apparently has -resulted. Now what is Ihe prosp et ol a Railroad to Soutli-We6tern Georgia. On this subject vve do : nut pretend to speak ex cathediia. We con fess ourselves very much in the dark, and would be thankful for any reliable informvtion. But one thing is plain. The Brunswick & Florida company are dning-Hllle or rtothing-towards com” pleling their road to TliotnasviHe, and very many •jf the strongest friends ol the road agree that it will never be built under the present contract.—* Tire TlnmvvsvtUe Watchman, of last week, after : siat'iig that the beliel ilia’ the road would be | built had been general iu its section, continues j thus; *’ It would have been better, Imd they them selves (the friends of the enterprise) known it, to have told them [the people] plainly and emplia(- i icully, at the start, tnal unless they pul in their money the road could not, and woujd not, be built. But this'idea'has never lolly entered the minds of the people. The master tfaa arrived at that point now, however. If we get a railroad to Thomasville at all, the peqpte of Thomas emm’ y must do that which they have never done—aub scribe for more stuck and pay in their money.” The prospect of the road’s reaching Thomas ville, then is rather dimq and if it should come there, Dougherty and Baker are exiiocted to sub scribe stock enough to bring it to this point if they expect to be benefitted by it. As to Ihe Savannah, Albany and Gulf Road we need only to reter to the extract from a Savannah paper quoted last week by our correspondent “ Kincha foonee” to show that very great doubt hangs over that enterprise, also for the present. Novt’we are favorable to both the shove pro jects. We have waited patiently to see them realized, and would rejoice to know that there was a reasonable certainty that either or b >th roads would be built. But there is, to say the least, much doubt hanging over both, and the public are ignoront of the plans and designs those who control them.’ Under such circumstances would it not be better to turn our attention, in another direciion to a scheme less magnificent, but one_ which is not of such leviathan proportions, bul that wb can manage it ourselves. We can build a road from Aitiericns to Albany if we will". Sue!: a road would answer our wants for the present, and if a demand rpally exists for roads in ollier'direc tions, this is the,-very way of all others to find it out, and >o build them. We shall recur to this subject again next week, and we will gladly open our columns to commu nications oil the subject. The following good toast was given by the President of the Press Association at their meet ing in Charleston, during the session of the Commercial Convention in that city : Thf. h’ouTHF.KM Press. —May it ever be em phatically the Cotton Press— and hold it to be its pride and its duty, at once, to impress South ero principles and express Southern sentiment; and to resist every attempt either to oppress Southern interests, to depress Southern staples, or to repress Southern enterprise. He added : “ Let us bul do this, and ’hen ev ery true Southron will dwell under his own vine and under Iris own fig tree, none daring to make him afraid—permitted, in peace and prosperity. In press lo his heart the girl he Hdores, or the wile that he loves.— Charleston Mercury. From Washington.—The correspond ent of the N. Y. Tribune, writes: The impression now is that a Treaty may pass. Mr James, of Rhode Island moved the reconsideration. Mr. Douglas claims credit among the “Hard” for the defeat of Angel as Consul at Honolulu, and says that if any more Freesoilers come before the Senate they will be served in the same manner. Cuban affairs remain in statu quo, but Ihe Ad ministration is determined lo give the Spanish authorities a'Severe overliaiffing. Nothing has yet ben done with Col. Forney, but it is snll said he will be ariaigi.eil. It is confidently asserted that Mr. Belt’s amend- t men! to the Gadsden Treaty, recognizing Ihe , j Sluo Grant will be carried and the treaty saved. re tost a1 e I tribute grants of public 1 land; fur insane person* passed the House of Representatives yesterday, alter a strenuous hut unavailing opposition, by a triumphant muj >ritv ; and,lt no.v culy requires approval of the I’resident to bee-nine a !aw. We certainly a j ‘ice in the success of Ibis beneficent measure fenithe sake of the comfort and relief it is destinedlvybring to the most’ pitiable I’ofiii of human iiusrfry ; hut we.-dt'rive from its passage unleigned plea.-ure, and - pride ufsu for the hotiof abjeproot it offers hi ttaFwofld ol the humane sentiment of the national representatives. We might find also a source of deep satisfaction in the inexpressible happiness it'brings to the heart of the gentlewoman “Iq wlinse mild energy, un vveiried pcrsevercnce, fcnd persuasive influence the country and humanity are, after ail, indelped lor this noble act ol legislation.—-'National Intel ligencer, 20th. Tlris bill which has* been before Congress for sometime, has hem known as “ Miss Dix’s Bill.” Orheriffirts the'lntelligencer -ays: Thus have the labors of Mi-s “Dix, the perse vering patron of this beneficent act, been crown ed with triumphant success. She pursued Ite olij cl with unflagging z-ai, yet with a womanly grace that was irresistible. How many afflicted iamilies will pour mil their thanks lor her heroic efforts, and send uptneir prayeis for her temporal and eternal happiness ! The Late Storm -Shipw reck*. The New York Herald.nl Thursday, contains some further particulars of the shipwrecks that have lately taken place on the Nor hern coast, caused by ihe recent violent gale Tl.p passen gers ol the packet ship Underwriter, ashore at Squam Beach, have all'arrived in safety at New York.’ Assistance has’ nee’n despatched tu the vessel, a,ml it is thought she wiH'begift off!’ The ship Humboldt, Paulson, with passengers, Irohi Hamburg for New York, is reported to be the ves.-eh ashore at Bafnegai. The ship IVwlist ten, of Baltimofe, Irom Havre for New York, which went on shore early on Sunday morning, near Egg Harbor light, as slated in out ‘despatch, was completely destroyed. She hau about 200 German emigrants on board,every soul of wh->.n perished. Fiity-eighl bodies have been cast up on the beach of Abescnm. The schooner Man hattan, of B-rngor, was also lost irt the same neighborhood,''anil art on board, save fine man, dr. wued. There are reports of many other ves sels being on shore, and the loss ot life cun hard ly. be estimated. This has been a season of i disasters anparalleled in the history of our com merce. The destruction of vessels and their ‘i cargoes, during the past w inter, in which Ame ricans ate interested, involves, it is believed, a loss of between two and three millions of cellars. [Sav. News, 25:h inst. The fdltnwihg Territories now rem in to be organized into States: Square Miles. . New Mexico, 119.774 Indian or Kansas, 187.171 Mjnnessota, 83,000 Oregoifand Washittglon, 341.468 Utah, 187.923 NebraskaMnd Notthwestern, 72; ,261 Total, 1,336,650 Accounted For.~The New Haven Register, says, this unseasonal le weather esn he>only accoMined for, on the- sorpoeitinn that Ihe persons in search of Sir John Ffanklin have gone through the North-west passage, and ne glected to shut the door a!ter them. NEWS ITEMS, &c. How. Edward Everett was eixiy year* old or> theHth. He was born April lltli, 1794. The observance of Lnt took place in Eng land tor the tirsl time in 640. The English quarter- of grain, it is said, is ‘equal to 8) of our bushels, not 8 bosliels, as is generally supposed. The Columbus, Columbia county, Wisconsin Reporter, toist* the name of Gen. Houston as a candidate tor President in 1856. A bloomer is a woman who pasts for noto riety. It is reported that Monsignor Benini has been appoimed the Papal Nuncio in Spain. The Archbishop of Paris has addressed a pas toral letter to the clergy and people inviting that prayers be offered tor success to French arms in the Eastern war. The real estate of New York city is valued at $488,000,000. Tse increase during the past year is estimated at $87,000,000. A telegraphic agent has been imprisoned in France, one month and fined 1000 francs, for publishing a false repoit of the price of consols. Cholera is re-appearing at various points on the .Missouri and Upper Mississippi river. At Keokuk, lowa, twelve etnigrauts have died. hi France, it is said, good printing paper has be£ii made out of wood, ground M> an impalpable j powder and mingled w ith a suiallwjuropurlioii of ! rags. The Geological Survey of Illinois, now in pro- j gress, has developed the fact the Southern ll'i- j unis is rich in marble of the most valuable varieties, both variegaied and black. A line of four steamers has been established between Boston and Baltimore. Miss Mary J Reynolds ha 9 been appointed j Light House Keeper, at Biloxi, Miss., at S4OO : per annum* It is stated that since the first of November last $200,000 worth of tobacco has been sold at Louisville, Kv. Foricgn stems. The untoward nccurance at Cuba connected with the Black Warror has had its share also in disturbing the comparatively quiet bubbling of ihe political cauldron. The strongest sympathies are every where expressed lor the rights pi Airier ica.anil the idea of any quarrel spr iigtr.g up be between her and France, no matter what the al liance, is looked upon as a thing ton terrible in think 01. The predominant feeling is a devout i hope that the Spaniards may be soundly brought to book. Tlip passage of the Danube by the Russians near Ibraila and Gala x has caused an alarm lest they should arrive at Consiantiiiople belnre the arrival of the anglo French army. It appears to be the general opinion that Outer Pacha liasbeen deceived; that alter having stimulated sharp at tacks on Kalelsi, and drawn to that place the greater part of the Turkish forces, the Rns sians succeeded in causing the Lower Danube to lie lell undefended, and profi’ed thereby. They have still, however, to force the passage of the : Balkans,ol which Varna anil Schwmla lorm the double key ll is clearly evident that there is an em my a foot alike lor., idnble truin its numbers and its perseverance. There is evidently some significant prepara tion going on at the Au-trtan frontier. An or der has boon given to form a moveable headquar ters at Buds. Simmers full of troops and can iidii, are daily moving down the Danube, as tlio’ a military emigration were taking place. The army numbers it is said, a I ready* 159.000 men. As lor Pi ussia, the only’ interesting circum siauce is that her king is convalescent. Had it |1..'1"1 I< nit mi. Sw’ w * lS >’ Wrtn■l'Srter iniglu . have been the gain of, many a better man. It appears that while strolling in his park a gust us wind Jure iffHie bough of a thorn,which, striking the king beneath the eye, ruptured an artery and erysipelas ensued. Really serious consequences were apprehended, and hence the issue of bulletins. A version lias been given to the assassination of the Duke cl Parma of a romantic character The Duke had invited several favorite officers to his table, and while the wioe was freely cir culaliivo ho- permuted himself to mention thp name of a lady—lorgelling that she was the sis ter ol an officer present—with something more than lightness. A reiractibn was demanded, which the Duke met by a blow, and the officer immediately seized a knife from-ntl'tlie table and stabbed him. His escape was connived ait by his j confreres.—[N. ‘f’T Herald. The Black Warrior affair iu Eng land. The London Gaze'tle commenting on what it calls II e’“iinjiifeiifiahle treatment of the Black Warrior at Havana, intimates pretty plainly its belief, that the Untied States will make this a plea lorthe long desired acquisition of Cuba, and speaks nt the highly favorable oppportunuy how offered for the consummation of that design, while England and France have their bauds lull in the Ea-t. It then proceeds to denounce roost bitterly, the o< induct nt Sjpain ‘ln perpetuating the African Slave Trade in disregard of her treaties with England, and even perhaps',’ with the very mon ey which England has paid to her as indemnity tor relinquishing Bd profitable but inlamous a pursuit. “Politically,” says the Globe “it would be wmng to let the United “Stales possess Cuba ; but morally and commercially it cannot too soon change masters.” It declares its beliel that the acquisition bv the United Sta’es is positively cer ‘lain; and though it does not actually reccom ir.end it, or deny that in some respects it would pretermit to see it, yet it will nevertheless rejoice to tee the Island lost to Spain,“a country which he.s'nelllier moral worth, nor poli'ical ii fluence td command respect or consideration.” In short the Globe’s article is decidedlV litlibusterish,and will doubtless give great aid and comfort to the fillibusters in this country. Severe Bale—Vessels Wrecked on the Coast—Eoss of Lffe. The late storm waa- very severe at the Dela ware Breakwater. Houses on the main land were mirooled, and several ves-ws\vere driven asliore at Ahsecnu Beach. Forty dead bodies have been washed ashore, supposed to have be longed to soma emigrant ship. The underwri ters believed that the ve-sels will be got off at high water, with tjre assistance of steam tugs. Loss of the Emigrant Ship'?*owhattan — 200 Persons I’ekished — l W# vessel lost on Ab-econ Beach was the ship Powlmttan, from Havre, bound to New York. She went ashore at three o’clock on Sunday morning',- with 200 passengers, all of whom perished. Tfte ship has gone to pieces, aud uot a vestige of her is to be seen. Speed'of IHormoimin. —The Mormons are exulting at the'spread ot their doctrines.— The Desert News says twenty-five years ago Morinonism was unknown! Now, like the tribe of EphraitA, it is among “a multitude of nations in the midst of the earth.” At Cape Town in Africa, at Madras, Bombay, Poouah, Calcutta, and other pJdce&in India, and in many of the principal cities and boroughs of Europe, as well as the islands of the sea, it “spreads undivided and ojerates unspent,” The Administration. No Administration ever started under brigh-’ ter auspices—none has in so short a ir redeemable ruined itself. It is a clear eaje of felodese. Its pariy is a small portion of the Democratic Partys proper, which grows small by degrees and beautifully leas, and promises to become as small as that band of desperate men who followed the desperate fortunes of John Ty ler. Its policy is so shuffling and so vacillating and so contradictory that it would trouble the’ most ardent Administration man to give a simple and plain exposition of it, which would be inteV ligible to the uninitiated. The material of winch this Administration is compo ed, fiom its chief’ down to the lowest officer of its appointment was not such as to command at the outset, the un-- donbting confidence of the people of this coun- \ try, and they have done nothing since their as sumption of office to.dese.rve it. There is no man in office under the Administration,at home ot abroad, with the solitary exception of our Min ister to England—James Buchanan, of Pennsyl vania, who has any hold upon the confidence or affection of t.ie entire people of this Union—who’ is not tfte representative of a class, a clique, aj faction or a section ; and there is no prominent salient point in its policy, upon which the people, can be rallied to its support The people have learned one facjkfrom the history of this Admin istration, which they cannot forget or overlook. ~~ and that is ’llrat General Pierce has systemat ically and deliberately, attempted to consolidate an Administration party upon the bassis ot the spoils, and to make jluuder the bond o; its union-, j irrespective of * platforms, principles or adminis i trative policy. His own parly Repudiate bis ba-. | sis of political organization, and it is all together , too narrow forthe people to stand upon. , , But overlooking the policy of its appointments, what has the Pierce Administration done to de serve our admiration or respect? Governor Marcy signalised his entrance into the State Department, by issuing a circular upon diplo ma tiff costume and naval beards—important de j velopments of his peculiar American. System. Then came front the Secretary of,4he Treasury, the assertion of the right of the Federal Goverti- I mein to control the appointments of its subordi- I nates, and the decapitation of Bronson, lh,e Coj lector of New YorlCbocai'se he would not rec ognise Free Sellers as D.enmfijtaJ* iu a w ay which would carry conviction wuth.it, i. e. by giving^ them office. Then came the Ko-ta letter—a-- clever electioneering documeut, which dragged Ko-ta unwillingly from his home to starve in Hie streets of New York. Then can e the Black Warrior message,as weak as ill- watered milk which Gothamites drink, And on the lapis,yet , are the Gadsden Treaty, and the Nebraska Bilt the one altered in ibe Senate until its own spon sors could not recognise it. *"d then killed— tho other virtually killed in the House where tne , ! Democracy have a eohtninriig'majurily. This is Hie brilliant programme of Hie present Admin istration, and we are so ob’u-e, that we cannot see in it anything which should bind us to its support. —Journal &, Messenger. Culm iu Parliament.—An interest ing debate iu Parliament upon the war message, and a discussion upon the relation of Great Brit ain aud the United . States to Cuba, are the chief points of interest iu the news from Great Britain. In the course of lire Cuoaii discussion,a Mr. Baillie made this remark : ,• • . “ Most assuredly, unless she (Spain) fultTferl her engagi inents with us, and look care ‘hat Cuba should on longer be ..the grand, and indeed, . sole seat ol the slave trade, which she had mi- . deriaken to suppress, sbe could not latrly coins . plain it England took no, measure In prevent . Cuba from lulling m'o the hands of the Ameri cans.” ; - • r< To which Sir James Gr ham officially re sponded : , “ That though he could not at all concur in lho proposition that, by way of collateral argil j meni, we “ere to hand over Cob* to the U. |f States, thp epdyyjfrs of our erdisers, bo’ll on ihe coast oTUuWfstid on the coast of Alripa, should be. il possible, augmented, and every, means used for securing tho real co-operation of the authorities of Cuba.” [Hear ] Mr. Ciibden took up the defence of his col league, and made the following emphatic decla ration : “ Without saying one word about the expedi- . ency of giving Cupa to the United States,.or assisting that country to take possession of the’ island, he lliniight il would be greatly for Hie interest of humanity if the U. Slates, or any oth er power that would a together discountenance ihe slave trade, should possess il.” [Cheers.] Spectacle.*. —Reader, has the rapid rail- , road of lose wPvrled yaiu past the 50th or 60th ■ degree of the norm latitude of age? I'nen you are mine frigid regions,ol manhood, and your optical lens HTe flaliened and oblate, and goiaJ English is ail Greek to you, without toe aid of convex assistants., ,Was you ever in a situation without your ‘ sfjirintacles,’ that you would give_ a dollar to Ire able to see, read or * rite, as well as you could in the days ol your jnkenalily ? If’ so, read the lollowing discovery, ptcf‘yepd the money to the primer, for the benefit cf any cnari— ty you plea-e. Make a pin hole throngit a glip of ootnmoiy playing card, or an address egrd or even siiti let- t ter puuer, and place it clo-e to the eye, shilling’ the other, and with a good light the vision is as perfect as in youth. It is a device that 1 litva often availed myself o!, to my great advaoKigec A correspondent ol the R'tfral’ New Yorker writes as above. As we cannot, unaided by sp-etacles, read even a line of Ling Primer cap itals, we tell inclined to try this experiment.— Sure enough, we cntHd make out the smallest print, though not without causing the eyes to ache with the effort ol a few seconds. As to. reading aud writing as well as in youth, by merely looking through a pin hole, to that we de- • mur most decidedly, Asa temporary expedient! to be u.-ed lor a few moments, it is worth know ing; but, beyond that, lire strained vision would’ rebel.—Arthurs Home Gazelle. The Gadsden Treaty. —The following appears to be the present posiliott of this treaty’ in the Senate : That the territory shall be only sufficient for*--’ railroad route, and that the compensation shalb be reduced to seven millions. A total omission- ’ of the private claim clause; A total abnegation, of the eleventh article of the Treaty of Gouda loupe Hidalgo nod a retease of the United Staten from all claims set up under it. Tire provision for the Garay claim was strucktful unanimously. ! An effirt to incorporate the priheiple of the Con kling Convention is pending with prospect of success. This proposition amounts to.a protec torate over the Tehauntepge wotk, whether. Plank ’ Road, Railroad, or Canal.’ The beet informed persons believe that Saiita Anna will accept, { those terms. The Carpet Bag Case.—The case to wliichf 1 we alluded in our last, as pending between the State Road and a passenger named in regard to the carpet bag detained by the offi* ! cer6 of the Road upon tire refusal of its owner to pay the regular rate of freight on thb specie”’ it contained, was decided in favor of the Road. Mr. H., we understand, received his property trom the officers by paying the amount of freight * demanded by the Road, which he paid under 4 protest. We understand that he intends carry- ’ ing the case into the United Stales Court.— • Atlanta Intelligencer. Nebraska Indians. —Nineteen Indiana of the Deleware and Shawnee tribes accompani ed by two interpreters arrived at Wasbingtoi<onu Thursday, the object of their visit being to maker treaties.