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f Corresponds nee of llie Nat’ Intelligencer ]
Proposed Colony in iSie JJcsqnito
Territory.
National Hotel,
Washington, Jnn. S, 1855.
Gentlemen : Certain public journals
nini ilieir correspondents have, within
the last montli or two, made frequent
references to the ‘•Centra! Amejrican
Company/’ nscribin” to it designs un
true and unjust, and purposes wholly
foreign toils true objects; and having
observed in your paper also some ob
jcc'icns and allegations on the part
of an official representative near our
Government, betraying tniscohcep
tions, the undersigned, in the, abfeence
of the President of the Company, begs
leave to deny explicitly all sucb
rious imputations, and to make know n
to the American public the true ob
jects, purposes, and hopes of the com
pany.
The objects >f the comyar.y is to
take peaceable possession of its lands
honestly and peaceably acquired, for
the purpose of developing their abun
dant agricultural, mineral, and com
mercial resources. In doing so, it is
disposed to infringe no man’s rights
nor to offend against any law. It will
carefully respect alike the rights, ter
ritory, and property of States and in
dividuals. Its objects arc till peaceful
and, in the judgmen tof ihe undersign
ed, can only be successful by a poac
ful prosecution of them. The com
pany, viewing the, subject in the same
light, has in-tructed him to use his
best efforts on all occasions to culti
vate amicable and peaceful relations
with till with whom, in the discharge
of his duties, he may be brought into
contact; and, as the lands embraced
in the company’s gran arc wholly un
occupied by adverse claimants, there
will be scarcely a chance of collision
unless brought about by such intern
perate and unfounded charges as
those which characterize the New
York publications to which 1 have
prefered.
lithe writers, instead of adopting
the idle gossip of the newspapers or
listening to interested suggestions and
making them the foundation of charg
es which arts at once ridiculous and
untrue had sought informations of
the officers or agents of the company
they would have received assurances
which would have quieted their alarm
ed apprehensions and instructed them
fully as to its true objects.
In conclusion, I have only to repeat
that the objects of the company are
peaceful, incompatible with none of
the duties which its members owe
to theirown Government, and design -
ed to violate no law of their own coun
try or ntiy other. Its objects are such
as good men everywhere can approve.
AdoUghtful Ctfmatc, rt noil teuu>iu,g
with more than tropical abundance
a location unrivalled in its advantag
es, but all of which, until now, have
remained unused and unimproved are
inviting the hand ofentorprize to sub
due and bring them under the domin
ion of industry and civilin itio i. To
do this —to take peaceable possession
of dieirown lands without prejudice
“to the rights of persons or a violation
of any principle of the public law—
is the object of the company, and it
baa no other. Yours, very respectfully,
11 L. KINNEY,
General Agent C. A. Company.
An Item of History. —The first
American who discharged his gun
on the day of the battle of Lexington
was Ebenezcr Lock who died at Herr
ing, New Hampshire,about fifty years
ago. He resided at Lexington in
1770. The British regulars at the or
der of Major Pitcairn, having fired
upon the few rebels ”on the Green
in front oft ho meeting house, killing
some, and wounding others, it was the
signal of war. “ Lite citizens,” writes
one “ might bo seen coming iroin all
directions, in the roads, over the
fields, and through the woods—each
with his rifle in his hand his powder
horn slung to his side, and his pockets
provided with bullets. Among the
number was Ebenozer Lock. The
British had posted a reserve of infant
ry a mile in the rear, in the direction
of Boston. This was in the immediate
neighborhood of Mr. Lock, who in
stead of hastening to join the party at
the green, placed himself in an old
cellar, at a convenient, distance for
doing “ execution.” A portion of the
reserve were standing on jiij* bridge
and Mr. Lock commenced bring at
them, there was no oiher American
in sight, lie worked valiantly for
some minutes bringing down one of
the enemy at nearly every shot. Up
to this time not a gun had been fired
elsewhere by tile rebels.
We hear a great deal of Imrd limes
and scarcity of money, (says the Sel
ma. Ala., Reporter.) but when proper
ty is offered “in tins section of country
the prices given le id to a different
conclusion. At the sale of the prop
erty belonging to the estate of John
Dorrah, late of Perry county, which
took place a few days since, we learn
that some negroes, field hands, sold
as high as eighteen hundred dollars,
and some of tiie land as high as fifty
dollars an acre.
True. —ls you want to gain a wo
man’s affections don’t appeal to her
head but to her feelings. One squeeze
of the hand or press of the lip is worth
more than all the speeches you can
make from t> to 12. Calico is an in
stitution of touch, and not logic. Or
der a sample and judge.
the comm
ALBANY, (IGORUA.
Thuisduy, January £B, 1855.
U* Col. Zadoc Jackson is authorized Agent
for obtaining subscriptions am! advertiiempiits,
and collecting accounts tor tbe Courier at Amer
cus.
FOR - SALE.
ONE HALF OF THIS OTFICE.
To a practical matt who can take entire charge
of llie Business Department a most desirable op
portunity in ottered. For particulars address
either personally or by letter, lion. Lott War
ken, Albany, Gi.
December 14th, 1851.
O'We are indebted to I lon. id A. Douglas for
a copy of his speech delivered at a public dinner
at Chicago,.Nov 9th 1854.
O’ Notice the advertisement of the “American
Pick,” published by Joseph A. Scovill, N. York.
It is a comic afFiir, abounding in good tilings.—
Terms *1 per annum.
Strawberries,
Reader, you are fond of Strawberries and
cream. Os course you are. That man who
can sit down to a dish of rich, ripe luscious berries,
smothered in that portion of die milk which is
found on the lop of the pan, all just showing their
plump, saucy, mottled red faces—and not feel
that “there is nothing on earth half so sweet,”
is yet to be discovered.
Yes, you love strawberries. Then whv don't
yon raise them ? List year when your kind
neighbor sent you a quart of “Hovey's Seedlings,”
you resolved that you would have a nice bed next
year, and when the week after you sent to him
to ask another quart, “as lie had so many” and
he declined to duplicate the favor, you passed a
mental resolution unanimously, that you would
show your little-souled neighbor that you could
raise Strawberries as well'as be.
And why doiit you do it. Now ia the time to
attend to the Strawberry bed, and a few week s
lost ut this season cannot be regained during the
year. There is no country where the Strawberry
can be bad in so gieat abundance for so large a
part of the year as in our own. And it requires
no great labor or expense.
Don’t you know bow to do it ? Then ask your
neighbor who lias done it, and wiio dee* know
how. lie will prefer telling you how to grow
your own Strawberries lo growing them for you
on liis own bed. Or what is better lake the “Boil
of the South,”and learn the whole science of
the Slawherry euliure, from its Horticultural Ed
itor, Mr. Peabody. If you will half follow his
directions you will have Strawberries enough,
and perhaps a quart or so to spare now Hiid then
toyour less fortunate or more lazy neighbor.
ITT We have received the first nnmberof the
“Southern Statesman” published at Calhoun, (ia ,
and edited by J. W. Dodd. The Statesman is a
good looking sheet, and says it commences exist
ence with a large circulation. It claims to he
of no political party, hut goes for Southern Rights
and Georgia R’ghts in particular. May success
attend its ctForts.
Accident on tint Hacon & Western
Ktiilroail.
A correspondent of llie Savannah News says,
that the train which left Macon for A'lnnta, on
the evening of the 11th inst., when about six
miles out of Forsyth, came in collision with u
freight car, which had been loft standing on the
track. The engineer did not see it in lime to
stop the train, and the consequence was that the
engine was thrown ofF llie track and a firemin
badly injured. None of the passengers were
hurt.
The MeroJjaiit’s Blank off Mncon.
We learn that this Bank continues lo redeem
its bills as fast as they are presented at its coun
ter. All the drafts on Wadsworth & Shelton,
which have been protested in New York, are also
promptly paid by t c bank. This is good new s
for the bill holders, and wo presume they wil
lose no time in exchanging the bills for substan
tial gold and silver.
We know nothing about the bank, its strength
or liabilities, except what we have learned during
llie Bank war which has for some time been
waged by the up country press, and of course
do not pretend to speak by authprity. We do
not knowhow large the circulation of the insti
tution in the north-west may be, but it is believed
Hie bank can and will redeem its Georgia circu
lation if ptesented soon. That ft can redeem its
entire circulation so far as we know, nobody be
lieves.
klUl'fi I’ilUtM
Heavy failures ami suspensions arc of frequent
occurrence in all our cities. During the past
week failures in New York, R iston, St. Louis
i anil New Oilcans have been reported. Ar.d as
j none but heavy and well known firms are report-
I ed,the public, of course, are aware of bill few as
comcaretl with me trtal number. For every
house whose operations are heavy
carries down, in its fall, numerous spialler ones,
where fate is not chronicled.
But the commercial papersspeak more hopefully
ol the future. They think the monetary crisis
has reached its height, and that belter times may
be confidently looked lor. We hope so. Better
; times, not for capitalists and money lenders on
ly, but for the people on whom the real pressure
i of “hard times” chiefly falls.
O’ The Savannah papers announce the death
! of Capt. Samuel-Plnlbrick, well known to the
commercial community of that city. He remain*
i ed throughout me epidemic last summer,answer
ing every call from the sick and suffering. He
i passed through the severest part ot it
but at last the fever seized upon him, and he
. never recovered from its effects.
IT The Supreme Court of Texas recently laid
down the rule that, in the trial of all criminal
cases, when it shall appear that ardent spirits in
any quantity whatever were used by the jury,
the verdict shall be set aside,
i Decidedly a good rule that. We wish all
; courts would “lay down” a similar ona, and en-
I force it, in all cases whether criminal or not.
Hew Hooks, Maaie, &c.
Ruth Hall; A Domestic Tale of t lie present
Time.—By Fanny Fern. Mason 4i Brothers,
New Yurk, 1854.
To those •* ho have ro o d Fern Leaves, the style
of this book, would at o: :e betray its Auihoress,
though her name were iwtjt in the title page.—
Fanny Fern lias had a l. st of imitators, but they
are as easily detected a- a bogus half—and by
the same means—viz: T ie tone.
Asa work of art, Rutt Hail has many faults.
There is little plot to the story, and what there
is, is wrought out with r.o great degree of skill.
But the great spot upon ::;e beauty of the book
is, that from the first page to the last, thre is
mani'ested a spirit of-bitterness and vindictive
resentment towards her foppish brother, Hyacinth
Ellet, and his (no longer her) entire family,
which is piiiiful to witness, especially when we
recollect that the writer fa a woman. True, her
wrongs were great, and equally true that she has
so portrayed them as lo gain the sympathy of the
reader. But hud site si. wn that siie could,
som-times forgive a wro:g, we are sure she
would Imve lost nothing, i; sympathy, while in
many ottier respects she wiuld have been a gain
er. Perhaps the expose she lias made was
deserved, but was hers the and to raise the veil
that covered the deformities of those nearest her
by the ties of nature? Wf think not.
But there is a power in the book, and we be
lieve no one can read it, without learning more
heartily to despise the hollow hearted, rotten,
inhuman conventionalism oft modern society.—
We have seldom read a more fascinating work of
fiction (which, however, ills scarcely can be
called) and we think it may Jo good.
VV e are indebted for a cop; to L. E. Welch,
who has the work for sale.
The Life of P. T. BarnCtm —written by himself
—Kedtield, 110 and lld Nassau street, New
York, 1856.
VVe have read Barnum’s I.fe—we have—and
the result is, tli it we think Iris of B triium, as a
man, than we ever did be fore. Ei her tie is not
frank in bis professions and emfessions, or lie is
afflicted with a moral obliquity of feeling per
fectly incomprehensible, ftlccarding to his own
showing almost bis whole life lias been one ser
vice of Lir.s, either spoken, tvrilten or acted, and
yet helakls religion and til-ratify like a parson
—and pretends not toseeany harm in the crook
ed ways he so freely owns to—as it was all in
liiu way of business. But life attempts to vvrile
up tiis moral character in his Book have signally
(ailed. VVe believe many pc Lon., will rise from
the perusal of bis life with tin] feeling that I*. T.
Bar mi in is not only a liumbuj but pretty near a
rasen 1 .
Asa literary production tbd book is below crit
icism. VVliat it was ever written for we don’t
know. We suppose Brar.dreth, Townsend,
Moffit, Jaynes, &c. will courf out with an auto
biography next. They have made as much mon
ey us Bum mu—and made it by humbug, looj
and the public would possibly like to know how
they did it.
fSticb, “m few,” are our impressions of the
“ Life of Barnuin, written by himself,” and sold
for #j;75,000.
Finally, wo advise everybody to buy tire book
and read it so they can leel satisfied that they
too have been humbugged by the Great Show
man. It is for sale by L. E- ‘ r ,
ILF Harper, lor January, ha- Been sometime
on our t.ible. The lirst article is a .-ketch<)fThe
life of Andrew Jackson, and is worth more than
the price of the number. .Wbotts NSpoieon is
concluded this month. The) Editor’s Table, Ed
itor’s Busy Chair, Rdtior’s D;awer,are interest
ing and spicey as usual. For a list of the sub
jects on which articles for the coming’ year are
in a course of preparation, lie., see our adver
tising columns.
The Soil of the South.— The January r.utn
bar of this monthly is on our table. It contains
much seasonable advice, both fur the lann and
the garden. Now is the time lu commence gard
en work, and the hints contained in this single
number tirade orlli mote that the tl charged lor
a years snb-oription.
Wm 11. Chambers, former editor of the Senti
nel, has become associate editor ot the Agrtcul
tural department.
VVe have received, through L. E. “Welch, (lie
following new Music from the publisher, Horace
Waters, 333 liroaddMpi. V.:
“ Sebastopol”—March, dedicated to the
Allied armies. ™
‘ VVlten the Morning in gladness”—A ballad.
“I will not deem thee Faithless."—Romance.
“Little Nellie’s Sleeping.”—Sung & Chorus.
“Lucia Hi Lammermoor.”—Fantasia.’
“Recollections of Grisi.”
“Lucia.”—Echo Iruin the opera.
“Tbe Strawbory Girl.”
“Introduction & Variations on Our Girls.”
Florida
This body, alter a session el six weeks, ad
journedon {Saturday of last week. The session,
says the Floridian, will be memorable for’lhe
importance of its action in originating a system
of Internal Improvements by which tlie large
land funds of the State is proposed to be subject
ed toa legitimate purpose—t.uit of llie construc
. tiua olß.ilroads through JUf Ujo vari *sections.
obedi-nee ton requiring
a census to be taken, and istw apportionment of
representation to be made this year.
03* Here is another rumor about lire Kinney
expedition. We give it for what it is worth:
‘ Nicaragua —Tlfe New York Times’ corres
pondent says : The discussion of Col. Kinney’s
Central American Colonization project, in confi
dential circles, lias broughtlout the knowledge of
the fact that the (■ ovenmiept of Nicaragua lisr#
long been and still is desiring of ceding the eft
tire territory of that republic to the United
in order to secure good gnrt nment and the vari
ous advantages, political and commercial, flowing
therefrom. Unless ! amni/smlormed, the proffer
i of cession has been made to the President as di
rectly as the circumstances of the case would
permit.
There is nothing surprising in this, although
there is much that is novel. Tne internal dis
orders which have distracted Nicaragua lately—
tiio encroachments of Great Britain, under cover
of its privileges at the Baize, and under its as
sumed Mosquito Protectorate—its border diffi
culties with Costa Ilica, and the defiance of its
authority by the inhabitants of Gfeytown—have
all doubtless, contributed to create the feeling of
disquiet and (ear o’ failing into anarchy or de
cay, which lias prompted ilie proposed cession of
territory and sovereignty.
National Convention of the Sol
diers of 1813.
On the Bth inst., the anniversary of the battle
of New Orleans, the Delegates to the Old Sol
diers National Convention met ajid organized at
Washington. The occasion was one of great
interest. All business was suspended, and Con
gress adjourned over till the next day. The fol
lowing brief extracts, ali we have room for, are
from the Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun :
About eleven o’clock thp convention was called
to order by Col. J. S. Williams.
On motion of the Hon. James Madison Porter,
of Pennsylvania, Hon. Joel B. Sutherland, of,
Pennsylvania, was unanimously chosen President
of the convention.
Rev, Mr. Sunderland, pastot of the church in
which the convention is sitting, addressed-the
Throne of Divine Grace in an appropriate man
ner.
A large and imposing pageant, enlivened and
beautified with a number ol fine bands of music,
several splendid national flags and banners, and
one bearing the miito“Free Trade and Sailor’s
Rights,” took tip the line of march from Four-and
a-lialf street of Pennsylvania avenue;- thence to
the Executive mansion. On arriving at the east
gate the military escort wheeled outward from
tiie centre of companies, and the united hands
playing Hail Columbia, the procession passed
through and into the East Room of the Mansion.
On the East Room a scene was presented which
during a space of twenty years,jt have never wit
nes-cd before. Every foot ol that spacious room
was crowded. There were several old cormno- i
dores and other officers of the navy—time-honor- j
ed veterans of the second war of Independence, !
of the regular and volunteer forces. At the low- ;
est calculation not less thau 1600 brave men filled
the room. Order being proclaimed, the Marshal
irt-chiel, Col. Win P. Young, introduced to the
President of the United States the Hon. Joel B.
Sutherland, president of the convention.
Mr. Sutherland touk great pleasure in introdu
cing this vast body of the bravo veterans, each of
whom bore an honorable part in the war wi ll
Great Britain.
After the conclusion of Mr. Sutherland’s very
happy remearks, President Pierce replied in a
truly eloquent speech, of some fifteen minutes.
Wen. Scott, and several other officers, were pres
ent. After three cheers for the President, three
for the country, and three more for Gen. Scott
the Convention withdrew.
Os the further proceedings ol the Convention
we find the fulluwing account in the National
Intelligencer of the 10th inst:
The Convention ol Old Soldiers held a further
meeting veslcrday to close tlie business in hand
Me asures were adopted in reference to future
movements, and another meeting is to be held in
Washington on the Bth of January next.
CollillN iiud Cuilttrd Steamships.
The steamers of the Collins line, in their trips
between New York and Liverpool, have as usual
made better time than the Cunardcrs during the
past year.
The average lime is officially given as follows:
WE.-TEKN PA-SAGES.
D It. M.
Collins Steamers 13 3 35
Cunard “ 13 15 40
In favor of Collins line 1 13 5
EASTERN PASSAGES.
n. it. m.
Collins Steamers 11 6 6
Cunard •’ 11 14 56
In favor of Collins I ne 0 8 50
In 1853 the Collins vessels were ahead on the
we.-mm --a only,
imtilGN NEWS.
From the) Savannah Republican.
* LATER FRO.TI EUROPE.
Arrival of tin: Steamship Baltic.
Columbia, Jan. 12.
The steamship Bailie has arrived at New York
with seven days later intelligence from Europe,
The sales of Cotlon at Liverpool were 29,000
bales, of which speculators took 1,000. The
demand was fair but prices were lower ; the de
cline being most felt of firmer qualities. Quo
tations:
Fair Orleans 5 1 - 2d.
M iddling do 5 —d
I air Upland 5 3 8.1.
Middling do 4 3-4d.
Prices of flour and corn are unchanged.
Consols are quoted at 91 1-4 to 91 38. Amer
ican securities very active, especial'y Virginia
Bonds. The Bullion in the Bank has increased
108,000.
Beef and Lard unchanged. Pork has advan
ced one shilling.
Political aii',l War Xeivs.
The chief event of the week is Louis Napole
on’-speech to to the L'gislature of France.—
It was very war-like in its tone ; the Emperor
made no mention of any hopes ol peace, and con
cluded his address by asking a loan of live hun
dred millions Francs, which was immediately
voted.
An important meeting of the representatives cf
England, France, Turkey, Austria and Prussia,
had been held at Vienna. The result of tlreir
deliberations bad not yet transpired.
Affairs belore Sevastopol remain unchanged.
The Russians continued to make sorties, having
made three from the city and one from the harbor.
The Allies had received 18,000 reinlcrcements-
The weather was more favorable at Sevasto
pk
* There had been no clumge iu the attitude of
Austria and Prussia.
The foreign enlistment bill had passed the
British Parliament and become a law, and par
liament had adjourned.
Important from Bogota.
TILE AMERICAS CONSOL FIKFI) ON
; • Nsw York, January 13.
Ia Private letters to the New York Courier state
that (he residence of the American Consul at
Bogota, iTmMreeaattackedand tired on by a parly
of soldiers. The Consul escaped uninjured, but
bis servant bad an arm broken by a ball. Tue
Consul has forwarded full particulars of the af
fair to Washington.
FURTHER News by the BALTIC.
The American Minister at Paris
Seized with Paralysis.
The New York Evening Post has private lcl
ters-by the Baltic, stating that Mr. Mason, the
American Minister at Paris,had heen seized with
paralysis on the 37th. The Tribune says he
was dead, but the latest advices received at
Washington City, dated Paris, the 23th, repor
him still alive, but in a very critical situation.
CONGRESSIONAL,
Saturday, January 6.
The Senate was not in session to-day.
In the House of Representatives, Mr. Bocock
presented a letter from the Secretary of the Navy
relative to the increase of the navy of the Unit
ed Spates, w ich was ordered to be printed.
Mr. Maxwell asked leave to submit a resolu
tion requesting the President of the United States
to furnish a statement to lire House of the num
ber o: foreigners employed, in the different de
partments of the government, and the number
which have been appointed since the 4th ofMarch
1353 ; leave not granted. _ .
Mr. Ciingmarn made a personal explanation, I
p.xcu patipg himself and other members of the
Gummilteeon Foreign Affairs from ‘he intention
o! pressing the medi ton of the United S’ates to
the powers engaged in the Eastern war, alter be
ing informed by the proper department that such
a measure was d-enied inexpedient.
On motion of Mr. Ready, ihe bill providing!
pavinent for property destroyed by the enemy
during the war of 1312, was macs the special
order for imxt Tuesday woek.
Mr. Ready introduced a joint resolul'on to
exclude the public printers of the two Houses ;
of Congress from receiving additional compensa
tion under the provisions of the bill approved
July 20, 1853. . j
The House then proceeded to the consider
ation of bil-son tire private calendar, and alter- I
maturing and passing several, the House ad
journed over until Tuesday next,
Jinttary S.
On the opening of the Senate a resolution was
adopted,on motion of Mr. Cass, inviting the offi
cers and soldiers it the war o! 1813, in conven
tion in this coy, to vi -it the Senate, and tender
ing them the privileged seats..
Aniong tUe'important repoYts made to the Sen (
ate was one by Mr. Shields from the Committee ,
on Mili ary A hairs, of the bill to increase the
pay and reorganize the army, with certain amend
ments, which it is understood were agreed
upon by lire committees of the two Houses,after
consultation with distinguished military officers
A bill was int.educed by Mr Douglas to au
thorize the construction ot a Nhrthern, a
ern, and a Centra! railroad and magnetic tele”
graph to the Pacific ocean.
The hill to recognise the judicial system of
the United Slat :s was further discussed, but the
Senate adjourned without ate-t vote upon h.
In the House of Representatives tire consider
ation ol the bill to amend tire graduation act of
the last -ession was resumed, when Mr. Dawson
sup] ot'd an amendment hereto!>re off’ r-'d, to a •
‘ovthe.n r : of'puVic ta. ds at 14 Jcei.tr per acre.
Before the subject was disposed ot the House
went into ronrnittce on the Pacific Railroad bill,
and Mr Lath un made an hour's speech in favor
ot establishing a line of mail steamers between
San Francisco and Shanghai, mucking at the
Sandwich L lands and Japan. The committee
then rose, and Mr. McD-mgall, front the Com
mittee on the Post Office and Po.-t Roads report
ed, with an amendment, the Senate bill, propos
ing to establish such a line of mail steamsh'ps as
had just been advocated by his colleague.
January 10.
In the Senate Mr. Cars stibmiied resolutions
reported on a former occasion, in reference to
tiie enjoyment of religious liberty abroad, and on
his motion, they were made a special order for
the firr-l Monday in February. The bill to re
form the Judiciary of the United Stares was the
principal topic of the sitting. No decision war
had, arid an Executive session closed the pro
ceedings.
In die House of Representatives several hills
were introduced to provide for harbor and river
improvements The t*i!l to amend the 1* nd grad
nation act ol lire last session.was the prominent
subject under consideration. Mr. Dawson’s a
ineudinent, in the nature of a homestead, the lands
to be sold to actual settlers at fourteen and a
hall cents an acre, wastlie pending question, and
a:esj.a--:on. Family. this amendment
was r- jccterHLy u .--*o -t032 t- QS, uul „fi.ir -
greeing to a sir stilnte r< ported by the C imiui:-
tee 1 n Public Lands, the bill was rejected:
Yeas 68, nay - 93.
Januarv 11.
The Senate assembled at the tr-nal hour, and
after reading tire journal ol yesterday.
Mr. Benjamin appeared and took his seat.
Mr. Rusk n'ro.luced the Pacific Railroad bi'l.
Tire but to increase the pay of Judges and . tii
cersol the Supreme Court, was taken upand de
bated.
The House of Representatives met at noon,
and after going through the usual preliminaries,
M r. l'Yrk'.n ■ oil. un-tana, made a speech in favor
of the Coon! u'-dip'miiatic reform bill, lie was
quite 1 toquent and entered into details.
Mr. Chandler, of Pa., got the fi .or and made a
long spec, h .gainst the Know Nothing Organi
zation. and in ne'e nee of the Catli li: s
ITEMS.
The anniversary of tiie American Colimiza. ion
Society w;h h.- hr din Washington on Tuesd iv.
the 22J inst.
One your : lad: in Mbany, N. Y., received
480 call- on X -w Year’s day, nut counting heir
military companies, one fire company, and a host
of poor relatives.
The Cotton Csor.—Prof. McCay, of South
Carotins, estimates that the cotton crop of this
year will exceed that of 1851 by 270,000 hales.
The Directors of the New Haven Railroad
Company have offered $5 000 reward for the ap
prehension ol R.ci'-'it Schuyler.
The population of London, it is said, increases
at the average rate of 50,000 souls a year.
The I,’gis! iture of New York have agroad to
go into Convention for the election of a U. S.
Senator on the 6 h of February.
A T. Stewart & Cos, of New York, have
opened a s-mp kitchen in the ba-emei.t ot tln-ir
store, on the Rcade st. side, where a large caul
dron of -..tip is prepared and dealt out by a de
tachment of tho clerks, toall who apply, between
twelve and two o’clock.
The tax of Nicholas Longworlh, Esq , of Cin
cinnati, am unt, rfejpyear u> ihfriy tbon-aqri three
hundred and twefily-eight dollars. Tint is the
amount he has paid iniiHlie treasury this year,
as a lax upon his properly.
- It is said that the Russian war has already
made eleven thousand w idows in England.
The slave trade continues tivflourisli in Cuba.
There have been three or four slave cargoes
landed recently at. different points of the Island.
The city of Boston has voted to have a steam
fire engine, at a cost of SB,OOO.
Change of Name. —The name of St. Lucie
county, Fla , has been changed to Brevard.
A street preacher has appeared in St. Louis,
who proclaims that he is Joe Smith, ot Mormon
memory, come to lilc again to Murmonize the
worid.
(Great distress is said to prevail in Nashville,in
consequence ol the unparalleled scarcity of coal.
Mortality.— The deaths in four cities doring
the last year, were as follows : In New York,
28,422; Philadelphia, 10,722; B .ltimore, 5,746;
80.-ton, 4,430.
Cuban Annexation.— The Philidelphia Sun
announces the marriage of CarlosE. Murrell, ol
Cuba, to a daughter of the veoerab.e ex-Vice
President Dallas.
Gold fiu-m California.— The steamer North
Star, which arrived at New York, Wednesday,
brought $1,119,623 in gold.
SostlEcru CoiireiiUon.
New Orleans, January 18.
Resolutions were off -red in the Southern Com
mercial Convention to-day, and referred to the
Committee, declaring that the ucquishi.in of the
Island of Cuba was necessary for the protrc'ioD
and sfcuii’y of tire Southern coast, and urging
the immed ate action of Congress for obtaining
it. Also recommending It at reciprocal treaties
be made w ith Spain and Mexico for the repeal of
the laws suppressing the slave liade, also, in fa
vor of building a Railroad from Notfolb, Va., to
the mouth of the Ohio river. Mr. Marshall, of
Mississippi, made a report, declaring that every
1 thing of value had its origin in the institution of
slavery, and that slavery was the only institution
of divine origin. Speeches were made on tho
Pacific Railroad, alter which the Convention
adjuirued.
Boundary between Georgia and
Florida.
111 ihejininutes of the proceedings of the Su
preme Court of tiie United States, on Friday,
January sth, furnished to the National Intelli
gencer, is the following:
No. 3, (original docket.) The State of Flori
da, compiainant, vs the State of Georgia. Thtf
argument on the motion to intervene in this
cause, in behalf of tiie United States, was com
menced by Mr. Attorney Genera! Curbing.
A brie: report, we observe, lias been made on
the subject in the Florida Legislature, from a
special committee- Tire committee says :
Your Com mttee find that file Supreme Court
of tiie United States had ordered a joint commis
sion to examine the puints in dispute, as to the
true source of St. Mary’s river and to'run a iiue
or lines thence to the junction of tiie Flint anct
ChattahoocTlie rivert? That Commission pro
ce ded in (Ire discharge ot the duties prescribed
by the order of tiie Court, and had nearly corn
ple'ed the same when the commissioner and sur
veyor nam d'herein by the State of Georgia,
withdrew trom further co-operation to bring their
labors to a close, at the instance and under the
orders ol .lie Governor of G orgia, whichjjnecea
sarilly suspended furl her operations on the part of
tin se named by the Stale of F orida;
Y<>ur committee deem it unnecessary to erlt'ey
into a discussion of the can-es of this suspen
sion, further than'o say that they approve atidi
sustain the action of tin- Governor of this State,-
and ol Cot Cenj F. Wintrier, the Commissioner
ot Fiorid.i, in the discharge of l:is delicate and
important trust, and the committee think them in l
nowise responsible that the order ol the Court)
was not fully completed.
The Commissioners Maj Allen, nn the part of
’ Go ,rgia, an 1 Col. W.'.itmr, in-behalf of Florida,
were very lar from agreeing as to the dividing”
: line ol the two States Maj. Allen thought its
East rn terminus should be lar'her South, ami
; Col. Wi.itner, perhaps, considerably North of
th it hitherto recognised in the maps. The rnat--
ter it is Imped, will be soon definitely settled by
; the Supreme Court ot the United States.
Wmuever may have b en tiie original fights’
of tin; parties, we think the interests of the peo
ple along the lino require that existing relation*
shouij tie as little disturbed as possib e. Witle
them we believe, there is very little dispute a te>
bo inda-y. They have mid’e their settlement*
with reterence to the line laid down upon thrv
maps. The establishment ot another at this ilayy
considerably north or south of it, would cause
no little dissati; faction to those affected by it.
disturbing, as it would, the titles to their lands,
their political relations, and many existing asso
ciations. Besides in tins country nothing is
more abhorrent to our feelings than the violent
transfer ot tree men and women from one sover
eign to another, whether by the absolute will of
king or court. While therefore it is important
the question at issue should be definitely settled,
it is much more important that it sh mid be set
led in accordance with the leelings of the people
along the line than in accordance wiih the orig
inal rights ol the litigating Slates.—Sav. Journal
and Courier.
Florida va. Georgia.
Supreme Court of the U S —Monday",
Jan sin.—No 3, (original docket.) The State
oj Florida, complainant, vs the State of Georgia.
Fhe argument on the motion of Mr. Attorney
General Cuming to intervene in this cause in
b-hab of the United States was continued by
Mo li: ger, counsel for the respondent, and
by Mr. VVe tcott,counsel for the complainant, in
opposition to the motion.
The morion of tiie Attorney General to inter
vene in this cause in behalf of the United States,
is probably founded on the tact that the line set
up by c-corgi a as the 1 rite houmts.-ry, it establish
ed, will bring into this Elate lands which have
bceiysotd by the General G ivernmenl as includ
ed to b ioraJa. It these lands shall by the Court,
be determined lobe within the jurisdiction of
Georgia, trie Li. S. then become bound 10 in tko
restitution tothe purchasers. In other words the
Alt rney-General, we presi me seeks to establish
the line recognised by tire United States Survey
or and Land Officers. While the opposition of
the c iiin-i-l ot both complainant and respondent
to the motion ‘-'o intervene,” indicates that m&ra
is claimed and expected to be recovered on each
side than is given ey that hue.
Aliiiottphcric Mail.
Mr. Mallory of F.orida, on behalf of the Spe
cial Committee of tiie Senate, savs the Charles
ton Mercury, has recom needed an appropriation
tortlie purpose of experimenting in a propused
Atmo-p ertc Telegraph, cr Mail, the inven
tion of Mr. J. S Richardson, who it appears,
has preached his project fur five years, and
no man regarded him T m Senate Com
mittee seem convinced that there is substance
and good promise in this invention, and pr pose
that it be tortliwith tested on some established
Mail route. It is suggested that the route be
tween Baltimore and VVashinglou should be the
scene of trial.
We protest continues til? Mercury, agiin-t
titis route, with ail our hands and feet. They
have very good mail facilities there already.
They arc in no distress for improvements. They
can wait. Butin South Carolina there is an
admirable opening for experiment. The track
is clear. Anything which will outrun a cart
horse, will take tiie premmm. Let oe have ’.lie
experiment tried between Kirigville ami Char.-.,
lesion, and if it succeeds, we can promise the in
ventor not only a statue and all immortal remem
brance, but a barbaeue of 1 lie lean steeds that
now plod across this desolate course. Imagine
the change foreshadowed in the following pas
sage ol the Committee’s Report:
‘•The mail between Washington and New
York is now carried upon railroads in 12 hours
If your Cuinmitlee do not greatly err, the same
mails may becarri and between these c ties in two.
hours by the proposed atmospherle telegraph, and
the expenditure now necessary for the transmis
sion ot one set of mails, would enable the Post
Office Department to send six sets of mails every
12 hours. The impulse which sucli a frequent
rapid and certain delivery of tiie mails between
distant points, would give to all the business of
the country, is incalculable ; operating with as
much safety and unering certainty in night as in
daylight. Unaffected by change of season or
weather, and exempt from liability to those mis
chances, delays, which are daily
retarding the delivery ol the mails throughout
the country, the atmospheric telegraph seems
destined to become the exclusive mail carrier of
the age.”
Miss Courrs.—lt is said that a commission de
lunatico has been sent out by the family of Alisa
Colitis, and that Marco hasjgiren fits deposition
that she is ammo maniac.