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Newspaper Page TextTHE INDEPENDENT PRESS. eatonton, ga. SATPfWAY MORNING, JUNE 17, 1851. CLUB RATES : In order to extend the circulation of our journal 4 we wake the following reduction to t hose who form clubs. It is intended to apply only to new sub -o&ihcru Post-masters are requested to act as agents.— When any person makes up a club, and the money is paid over to him, it must lie at the risk of sub scribers, and not at outs. The person making up the club will be entitled to one copy gratis. “ £3TCLUB RATES...^3 3 Copies, - - $5 00 5 - - - 800 10 “ 15 00 15 '• - - - *_>o 00 20 “ 25 00 OUR SUBSCRIBERS. Our subscribers who do not live ip town, will please call at our office and get their papers, as we nte not allowed, by law, to put them in the Post Office. TO CORRESPONDENTS. E-iT Correspondents who live in town, or in the county, must drop their favors in our box at < lie Post Office. No notice will be taken of those which come Any other way. Wanted. Two boys, from 14 to 18 years of ago, arc wanted at this Office, to learn the art of printing. •Men and Parlies. 11k who believes that there is, with the massol mankind, any real meaning in the maxim ‘-Principles, not men,” is still in a condition of unenviable verdancy. It is a mistake to suppose dial the rank and file of partisan's base their political action upon well-under stood principle. They follow their leaders, rather. Previous to the presi dency of Mynroe, the American peo ple were divided into two great par ties the Federal and Republican, which had waged against edeli other the most uncompromising warfare. — Hamilton led the former, while Jeffer son headed the cohorts of the latter. •Conspicuous, and almost equal with Hamilton, stood the elder Adams, who received the mantle when Burr killed his antagonist, and almost, though not quite, stood Madison and others, the peers of Jefferson. Only one man, though, actually led each party, and the masses followed their respective leaders, and supported certain princi ples, not so much on account of the principles themselves, as because they ■were the principles of their leaders. After Monroe, in 1824, four profess ed Republican candidates presented their claims to the American people as •contestants for the presidential chair, namely : Andrew Jackson, John Quin cy Adams, \\ ni. 11. Crawford and Henry Clay. Neither being elected, the choice of a president from the three highest devolved upon the House of Representatives. The mind of Wil liam 11. Crawford having become much impaired, and Henry Clay having re ceived the lowest number of votes in the electoral college, the election of either of these was out of the question. The contest, then, was between Ad ams and Jackson. The former, prefer ring war, famine and pestilence to the election of a military chieftain, threw his influence to Adams, who was elect ed. Here commenced the bitter war fare which was ever afterwards kept up between'Clay and Jackson. Their quarrel absorbed everything else, and in the glare of the fires which gleamed from the concussions of their contend ing blades, sunk to comparative insig nificance the bright intellect of Web ;ster, on one hand, and of Calhoun on the other. Jackson grouped around him one party, and Henry Clay the other. Jackson was the Democratic party—Clay the Whig party. from 1824, down to 1848, a period •of twenty-four years, the spirit of An drew Jackson was the ruling element in the Democratic party. After his own two terms, his popularity carried evert Van Buren into the presidential chair for four years, and would have done so again, but for the singular co i ncidencc of ci rci 11 nstar tees which wou Id have defeated Old Hickory liirnsclf.— All this time, Henry Clay was the soul •of the opposition. And Ileury Clay, in reality, defeated Van Buren, in ’4O, though Harrison was elected. In 1844, tine spirit of Andrew Jack son elected James K. Polk in opposi tion to Henry Clay, and would have elected Cass jn *4B, had it not been for Van Buren’s treason. The death blow was given Henry Clay when Taylor was nominated. Yet a year or two more, and the ohl man eloquent, lay calm in death, his haughty spirit quenchet,! in the grave. Andrew Jack son had gone .before him, and Daniel .Webster C. Calhoun, of more talent than either of their more success ful peers, but ot less of that something which rules the. masses as Neptune rules the waves, soon followed to that last resting place of the mighty in in tellect, as well as of the humblest handiwork of the Creator of all. And thus passed away tfie second race of giants. ,01d issues have passed away, and new ones have arisen with the new heroes, orators mid statesmen, who now walk the boards, hi very measure proposed by Henry Olay as a partisan has been consigned with ]»im to the grave, and those adopted by Jackson ai.e* the settled policy of the Country, fully and finally triumphant. Vfith Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson, the Whig aijfl Democratic parties have passed, and are passing, away. The shepherds have been smit ten, and the flocks are scattered. V our Taylors and Kill mores and Pierces are mere time-servers, like mud i.n the chinks of a hovel, to fill tip t!.ic inter regnums of men royal in power and in tellect. The Israelites arc tired of the Judges. They are in commotion, look ing right and left, crying for a king— for some Saul of Tarsus, head and shoulders taller than the mannikins who are the post of the country. They want some i.ian to lead them against the Philistines- the enemies of the consti tution and the country. Hamilton and Jefferson were repre sentative men and rivals. Clay and Jackson were representative men and rivals. Fillmore and Pierce are rivals, but not representative men —mere school-boys that other urchins have set to making mouths at each other over the apple which they themselves could not get. And these two and their coteries imagine that they have been set to quarrel over the apple because they are liked so much better than others— whereas all the others hate them. But the present age has its represen tative men and these, as well as those , days have their giants. Present dc velopements are bringing them to light. The race of pigmies must make room for the fid race of giants. One mighty issue divides the country —the issue of whether our constitution is still to stand a monument of the wisdom of our fathers —carried out to the letter, or whether it is to be ethcrcalized into airy naught by the Jesuitical vagaries, and semi-crazed finessing of higher law—of learning run mad. There is no question as to who is the leader in the ranks of higher law. Win. 11. Se ward originated it, and to him oo the Northern hordes look for a strategetic, if not a bold, bearing of tlicir .standard. —“He seems For dignity composed, and high exploit, But all is false and hollow.' 1 But this resemblance, on his part, to one of the characters described by Mil ton, but fits him all the more for his vocation. Satan, who is the Demon of deceit, and the father of lies, is not better fitted for his infernal crown than William 11. Seward is to be the leader of the votaries of higher law —the for getters of moral obligation—the scof fers at the mandates of the bible—the ruthless assailants of the constitution — the incubators of murders, riots and treason —the hyenas who prey upon the memory of Washington-—all a liv* ing, moving mass of putridity and cor ruption—gilded over with the pretence of peculiar piety —shedding crocodile tears over negro shivery, forgetful at the same of those starving around them—expressing themselves in the purest English of the authors of the era of Queen Anne studded with gems from the classic pages of Greece and Rome—and being altogether as arrant, though gentlemanly, a set of rogues and cut-throats as ever escaped tempo rarily the confines of hell. Prominent among those who are an tagonistic to Seward and His crew, stand Stephen Douglas, and Rob’t. Toombs— the one an old Democrat, and the oth er an old Whig. To which of these will finally be assigned the task of lead ing the conservative men of the country remains to be seen. What storms of ambition may arise to blow asunder these two men we cannot fore see. But if they both continue to act upon the principle which lately tri umphed in the Nebraska bill, their paths cannot be divergent. They must act together. Douglas may be the body of this bill—he may have begotten it — but Toombs, as John Mitchell hand somely expressesses it, is the soul of it. We shall be disappointed in our ex pectation and our wishes if we do not see either anew party based upon the constitution with anew name, or the Dernoctatio party, like the Phoenix tak ing flight from its own ashes, bearing upon its eagle plumes its ancient prin ciples, with all its corruption and all its softness left behind. While the temple of the now-constituted party is passing away, its pillars tottering, and its arches crumbling, let Pierce plant himself upon the hard rock of the con stitution. Let him send Murcy home to his tailor, put Gushing in. his place, and call Toombs to the Attorney-Gen eralship. By this coup <V ctut, lie may produce as great a change upon the public mind with regard to liis capaci ty as Louis Napoleon did when he be came Emperor of the french. And then, too, the issue will be directly made between Seward and the friends of the country. And General Pierce can fill the balance of his term with re spectability, and be prepared to retire gracefully, when the Americans at their next election for the presidency place at the helm of the ship of State a skillful and bold mariner. The Cholera \mfu‘ h/is ceased m Mil ledgeville. SCENES IN THE PRINTING OFFICE A. ‘‘ * NUMBER 11. * OUR JjtKIGHBOIUS CA'j?. Ouce upon a time, when Kitting in, our nrthctuin, while were Hitting) O’er our mind, ko l>u*y thinking, jipt a score of things or more, Came aPusayj sotlly creeping, thinking, likely, \yc were sleeping, Like a sinner slyly peeping, peeping in onr sanctum door:—• ‘ “We will watch Miss l’ussy,” said w.e, as she clear ed our sanctum ddor— “We will watch her, nothing more.” Softly moved she onward, stealing, every step so gently fueling, Looking right and left about, her, while the people all below, Kept a laughing and a talking ; but Miss Pussy kept a walking Farther in, and never balking, thinking not a bit of woe, Or that she might-catcii a Tartar, if within she’d far ther go— That we’d toss her down below. Would you think it? —we were hoping, that, the Pussy, slowly moping, Spied the plagued little Mousey, that had gnawed our papers some— That she meant to catch him for us, and wo gladden ed o’er tlie chorus We would sing, when dead before us, lay the little creature dumb ; For we fairly wished the rascal blown to pieces by a bomb— Rut this pleasure didn’t come. For instead of catching Mousey, lo! the good-for nothing hussy Seized upon our only cracker, bought in Liven & Davis’ store, And back softly started, creeping, still believing we were sleeping, And before her slyly peeping, making for our sanc tum door; For she came in nothing having, but was going from our floor , With a cracker, nothing more. But our little negro, Thomas, happening in our door to come as She concluded she might safely leap from out our sanctum door, With his pocket full of roctses , lo! this eat of Mr. Coxe’s Went a tumbling o’er the boxes, with a shin or two made sore: Let. this learn each prowling Pussy, thnt her thiev ing should be o’er; Only this, and nothing more. SBQUEA Since the tale abov-j related, we have killed the mouse so hated; i*or :\e caught firm in our drawer, by a cracker there decoyed, And wo r.iashed him on our table,—then as fast as wo were able Threw him down upon Miki; Ghaybill, tho’ we aimed him at Tom F loyd : And this sequel has a moral: —Let no Mousey be decoyed Where he can be tints destroyed. Saturday Evening Post. We would not be doing our duty were we to fail to call the attention of our readers to a late article in the above paper, published in Philadelphia, and circulating by thousands at the South. The article to which we refer is an ed itorial in the issue of June 3rd, on the Nebraska bill. We give some ex tracts : “It is idle to suppose that the con gressional opponents of the Nebraska bill from the North, * will not appeal from the verdict of Congress,” &c. “The repeal [of the Nebraska bill] once carried, it is hardl y probable that [the Northern people] will stop short, if triumphant in their turn, of inter dicting the future admission of any State to the Union which tolerates the institution of slavery.” The Post sa3's that the truce which has existed between slavery and anti slavery for thirty years “lias at last been canceled”—speaking as if the North had ever regarded the Missouri Compromise, and had not been all the time warring against slavery. The whole tenor of the Post's article indicates that it belongs, so far as it dare give expression to its sentiments, to the class of abolition journals which are indulging in a fanatical crusade against the South. AY ere it professed ly an abolition sheet, or a political print, we should pass it by. But when it pre tends to be a purely literary journal, neutral in politics, and makes use of the circulation gained by this pretence to instil its poison, and inveigh against our institutions, we feel bound to ex pose it. Toadyism. We see in a good many of the pa pers which have lately a!lmscd the Washington Union for toadyism—for which we don’t blame them—a great fuss made about Mr. Fillmore’s being lately called on to serve as a juror, and his pleading, not that he had been Pres ident of tlic United States, but “pres sing engagements,” to prevent his serv ing. Now in the first place we don’t be lieve Mr. Fillmore was ever summon ed as a juror, for lie is a lawyer, and lawyers arc exempt from jury service. In the next place we know of no law which excuses cx-Presidents from be ing jurors, and even if Mr. Fillmore had pleaded his ex-Presideney, this would not have excused him, tho’ al lowing the fiction that he was summon ed. Why then make such a glorifica tion over nothing? The •Montgomery •Mail Is the title of anew miscellaneous Journal, published in Montgomery, alia., by Hotlifield and Hooper, at $2,50 per annum. It is neatly printed, and edited ably on the genteel order. In fact we could expect nothing else from Mr. Hopper, who as the author oi “Simon Suggs,” and other things, is favorably lcr;o\y|i all over America. Hit Urn •IgainU Tlni Editor of the Savanah Journal anil Courier, who is, we think, a Northern man by birth, thus throws stones at the New England clergy. Hurrah for Chapman! THK NEW ENGLAND CLERGY. 11 would seem as if the t hree thousand clergy of New England are going stark mad. During the late convention of Orthodox Congregations Clergy of the Eastern States, which assembled at Boston on the Ist of June, a sort ol side convention of fiOOconvened, to see “ what is to he done, in tltc present crisis of our national affairs. Professor Stowe pledged himself that his beard should fiot know the presence of a razor until the Fugitive Slave; law is repealed ! In the introductory address, Dr. Dwight made the following remarks: “To commemorate the principles of our fathers, we are not to look to any of those who have gone out from New England to any part of the country, and who have lost their manliness and are traitors to New England principles. To all such let us say, let condemna tion rest on them now, and oblivion forever.” 4 The Congregational Clergy of New England would do more credit to them selves and their profession if they would attend to their own business,— The sons and daughters of New Erm land who have gone to others parts of the country, have but one cause of shame when they turn their faces to wards their ancient household gods, and that is. theic preist-craft has taken the place of piety, and that knaves and hypocrites are filling the high places once occupied by lxonest men. There are thousands of them who would pre fer “ oblivion forever ” to the odium of hailing from a land where traitors and murderers are allowed to go unpunish ed and unhung. Farewell •Modesty. A correspondent of the Burlington Free Press gives an amusing account of a baby-sliow at Bytown, Canada, on the 2d instant: “The prizes were S6O each to the three largest, fattest, and handsomest babies in the town of March. There were but two babies presented—one sixteen, and the other seventeen months old, each of whom received a prize. After some appro priate speeches by the judges, one of the lucky mothers made the announce ment that “she should have another baby to show at the same time and place next year, if there was a premi um to he given,” which caused rounds of applause. Had not the Executive Committee of the Georgia Agricultural Association better announce an additional premium for the mother who will do and say as above, at the baby-show in Augusta next Fall ? Farewell female modesty! we bid you a long farewell. All who have not done likewise, had better do so soon ; for if they don’t, in these days of female colleges and baby-shows, the opportunity will have passed away forever. The Southern Cultivator For June is on our table. It is impos sible to make a better Agricultural jour nal than. this. If there is anything in Georgia in which we take more inter est than in all others, after the educa tion of the masses, it is to see the time when the old red hills of our native State shall be remanded to their origi nal fertility. To this end the Cultiva tor is bending all its energies. Geor gia farmers should consider it part of their patriotism to support the two ex cellent agricultural journals in their midst. The Cultivator is published in Aufjusta, Ga ., by Will ram. S. Jones , at $1 per annum. The National Era , In its chagrin and mortification at the rendition of Burns, talks about the Northern states’ leaving the Union. — When the infant forsakes its sugar pap, then we will expect the North to quit the Union. But the lira asks what the South will do when an anti-slavery adminis tration shall have grasped the reins of government, and sends on its soldiers here to enforce an obnoxious law. No law passed in pursuance of the consti tution will be resisted by us. But if soldiers are ever sent here to interfere with slavery, as intimated by the Era , we will hang them. Tint’s what we will do. Correction. We stated in a late number that the price of the “Tri-weekly Citizen” was $5 per annum. It is $4. The sub scription price of the “Knight of Jeri cho” is $1 per annum. Public Documents. We are under renewed obligations to Hon. Wm. C. Dawson, and Hon. Rob’t Toombs for valuable public doc uments. LOCAL ITEMS. James Wright, Jr., Esq., had the misfortune to have a valuable negro man drowned in Little River on Wed nesday. He bad gone in,''at 12 o'clock, j a» w ■ 1 to bathe, and drowning was the result. We learn that a negro girl some 13 or 14 years of age, about Uvq weeks ago, belonging to Win. Leyerctt, Esq., of Jasper county, drowned the infant of her lqaster in a spring. The child was very wakeful at night, and the ne gro having to sit up with it a good deal, was induced, on this account, to pornmit the fatal act. Map. A. A. Adams, who, we believe, is one of our most succsssful gardners, has sent us a very large beet, for \vhich we will very gratefully remember her to-day, at dinner. Tee .Circus of Mr. A. Turner, & Cos., exhibited here last Saturday, in, the day, and again at night. We were pot present at night, but learn that the per formances were better then titan in the day. We think that the proprietors might, with propriety, and advantage to their purses, teach some of their menials a little less insolence. The Town Marsh an will not be complained of by us for the complaint lie made to us because one of our boys threw out some paper in front of our office, provided he will complain , with equal effect, of some other things in the same locality, worthy of being com plained of. Let no one suppose we are out of humor, for the weather is too hot for us to get so. And speaking of Town Marshals reminds us to say that we think the town commissioners would do well to pass an ordinance against negro dri vers’ feeding their horses, mules, or ox en upon the public square. The rea son is obvious. We iiad a splendid rain yester day, and crops, we believe—cotton, corn, and grass, are flourishing, with promise of a fine yield. Many of the planters have gotten out their wheat, and we think there is not more than half a crop made. A Methodist protracted meeting has been going on in this place for nearly two weeks, and though there lias not been as much of a stir as we have seen, it is hoped that a holy in fluence has pervaded a part of our community, and that good has been ac complished. We sincerely wish it had extended to all. WEEKLY SUMMARY. FOREIGN. Arabia, Charleston, June 14. The steamship Arabia arrived at New York on Tuesday evening, with Liverpool dates to the 3d inst. Liverpool Cotton Market.—Mil ligan’s Circular quotes the sales of the week at 56,000 bales, 6,000 of which were taken upon speculation, and 7,- 000 for exportation. The market had advanced an eighth of a penny, the lower grades improving the most. .Dennistoun’s circular quotes Cotton much firmer, with more demand and less offering. The sales on Friday were 10,000 bales. Stock 883,000 bales, including 56,000 bales Ameri can. Fair Orleans 61-2(1., Middling 5 1-4; Fair Uplands 6 l-4d., Middling 5 1-8. Canal flour 37s 6d; Ohio 38s 6d.— Yellow Corn 395, White 40s. The trade at Manchester had improv ed. Consols 91 7-8. Havre, May 31.— I The sales of Cot ton for the week were 5,000 bales. — The market is quiet. European Intelligence. There is no news from the Baltic.— Silistria still held out. Eight thousand French landed at Pirtus and took possession. King Otho has accepted the ultima tum of France and England and sum moned anew Ministry underMavoror datz. The Anglo-French squadron had been ordered to the White Sea. Napier battered the outposts of Har go, but up to the 22d, it had not been captured. The main fortress at Silistria held out to the 27th. Omar Pascha was ad vancing to the relief of Starnaud. Omar and Lord Ragland held a council of war at Varna. It. is said that the Anglo-French forces will proceed to Adrianople. Omar Pascha in the mean time, will avoid a general action. A coup d'etat occurred in Denmark. Lord Palmerston will probably be appointed Minister of War in Eng land. Austria would despatch from Varna on the 2d April, a formal demand for the Czar to withdraw his forces from the Turkish teritory. There are doubtful rumors that the Czar would negotiate. The very latest intelligence says that immediately after the Council of war, Omar Pascha advanced with 90,000 men to relieve Silistria. The Independence of Georgia had been proclaimed. There was no news from the Black Sea. PROM "WASHINGTON. Acquisition of Cuba—Speech of Mr. Chastain.-— The House of Rep resentatives on Saturday went into committee on the Pacific-railroad bill. Mr. Chastain addressed the committee, advocating that immediate steps.be ta ken for the acquisition and Annexation of Cuba.' A Washingtpn dispatch to the New York Courier says: — “It is believed that the Democrats are designedly keeping the House and Senate without a quorum until the 12th inst., in order to enable the President to consult the Committee on Foreign Affairs respecting an Executive com munication to Congress in regard to Cuba.” We are assurred by the intelligent and well informed Washington cor respondent of the Charleston Standard that not only the annexation of Cuba, but also of the Sandwich Islands is cer tain to become the leading topics of discussion before the adjournment of Congress. Washington, June 13—Congres sional.' —In the U. S. Senate, on Tues day, Mr. Douglas introduced a bill to commence the sessions of Congress on the Ist of October. The House postponed the considera tion of the Pacific Railroad bill until next session. \Teleyraphedfor the Charleston Courier.] Washington, June 12.—Congres sional. —The U. S. House of Repre sentatives has adopted ajoint resolution, terminating the session on the 14th of August. The President’s message, relative to Cuba, is expected in a very few days. It is said that Gen. Cass will speak on Monday next, in the Senate, on the President’s veto. No man in the coun try understands the operation of our land system better than Gen. Cass, and none lias had greater experience in re gard to it. From Washington. —“ Jon," the Washington correspondent of the Bal timore Sun, says: A bill for the repeal of the slavery clause is in agitation, and is said to be prepared for introduction in the House. But as the Senate will present an ob stacle to repeal for some time, it is now, intended, in some of the Eastern States, to resort to nullification as the “right ful remedy.” A project of a law for nullifying the fugitive slave act, by way of retribution upon the South for the passage of the Nebraska bill, is contemplated in some of the Eastern States. Meanwhile, many speeches and peti tions on the subject will agitate the North. If such things would dissolve the Union, it would have been dissolv ed long ago. Asa set-off to the anti-Nebraska ex citement, we hear of a rising Southern opposition to the Canada reciprocity, and the Down East fishery treaty. It is said that when this treaty shall come before the Senate for ratification, a clause will be insisted upon by the South, providing Ist, that all the fugi tive slaves from the United States now in Canada shall be surrendered ; 2d, that their time, during their absence, shall be paid for ; and 3d, that a full compensation for all those fugitives who may have died in Canada, shall be made. With greater reason will these mod erate propositions be sustained, if it sffall be manifest that the American intimacy, now contemplated between Canada and the Eastern States, will lead torn, political connection. Cana da and CHiba, like Maine and Missouri, must come i’u together. On Monday morning, according to rumor, some of the debris of t ic Nebraska question will be brought up for the entertain ment of the House. The Steams: up City of Glasgow. —As the dates received by the steam er from Fayal, jre down to the 12th May, and noth! ig had been heard at those Islands of lie missing ship, the last hope of lieai ing anything of her in that quarter, h is vanished, and the painful convictic a is reluctantly forced upon us that the gallant vessel and ev ery soul on boar< l are buried in the deep ocean. Ycsterd ay was the hundredth day since she sai led from Liverpool. do: JESTIC. Cholera. —li i addition to the cases of Cholera her ffofore mentioned in New York, Bouton, Cincinnatti and Nashville, we nc flee, says the Charles ton Mercury , alh isions to a choleratic tendency in the ■ ipper portions of our own and the a iljoining States. In view of this tende new and as a matter of precaution, it l night be prudent to have on plantations, ready for prompt application in an emergency, the fol lowing prescript! Dn, which is recom mended by the Be ston Medical and Sur gical Journal: “Laudanum, two drachms, (two tea spoonsful ;) spirit* of camphor, one drachm ; sweet ti ncture of rhubarb, four drachms; a< pia anionia, (harts horn,) half a drachm : oil of pepper mint, 15 drops. Take a teaspoonful in hot sweetened water every fifteen minutes, to allay the'vomiting and pain. We learn by a (lispatch that Charles O’Connor, IT. S. 15 Strict Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and distinguished as a National Demo crat of the hardest kind, has resigned [ Journal & Courier. The Cholera. —We learn from the Shelby News that the cholera has aj> peared in Taylorsville, Spencer coun ty, Kentucky, and that several deaths have occurred. Rewards Offered.— I The mayor of Boston has offered S2OO reward for the apprehension of the murderer of James Bachcldcr, and the same amount for information which will lead to the arrest of the parties who assaulted Richard 11. Dana, in Court street, some days since. Another Riot in Brooklyn.— ln the Charleston Standard of Tuesday we find the following despatch, dated New York, June 11, P. M : As was anticipated, another terrific riot took place to-day in Brooklyn, between the Irish Catholics and the Know-Noth ings. Notwithstanding the proclama tion of the Mayor, and the fact that the authorities seemed fully prepared! for any emergency, the belligerents as sembled in large numbers, evidently armed for the purpose of maintaining their respective points, despite any force that could be brought against them. During the melee two men were shot, and several others were severely in jured. A large number of the ring leaders were arrested. Emigrants are flocking to all parts of the American continent at an aston ishing rate. During the present year, up to the 21st ult., 13,646 passengers had arrived at Quebec, which is an in crease of 7,655 over the corresponding period last year. Texas Pacific Rails*had. — Major Blanch, Chief Engineer of the Ameri can and Pacific RailroaJ Company, is now in New Orleans and on his way to headquarters in Marshall county, Tex as. He is at the head of nine assistant Engineers, and will immediately com mence operations on his-arrival at that place. Sixty miles of road will be fin ished in twenty moiitlia.Srom the pres ent time. Georgia and Florida Boundary. —Goy. Broome, of Florid”, lias ap pointed Col. B. F. Whitner, Jr., Esq., of Madison, Surveyor, to meet a like Commission on the part of the State of Georgia, to run the boundary line be tween the above named States. The Commission meets-on the twentieth of this month. From the Tropics. —A private let ter received by the Isabel informs us that the weather was extremely warm, at Ilavnnna last week. The writer says: “It is hotter here, despite dai ly thunder storms, than I have ever known the weather to be during a res idence of nearly a quarter of a centu ry in the tropics.” Cholera atNashville-TlicNash ville Union of the 10th inst., says:— There was but one burial at the city cemetery for the twenty-four hours pri or to 3 o’clock yesterday. That one was of a person dying of cholera. Tidal Observations. —Lieutenant Fairfield, U. S. Coast Survey, is now making observations at St. Augus tine, with the view of determining the Tidal indicia. Similar observations have been taken along the whole At lantic coast, and information of much value to the commercial community it is believed, will be obtained. 5 [ etiiodist Salaries. —Accord ing to the regulations of the Methodist Church South, single men are now to be allowed $l5O, married men S3OO, be sides family and travelling expenses,, children under 7 years of age $25, over 7, and under 16, S4O. New Hampshire Legislature.— The New Hampshire Legislature have refused to lay the anti-Nebraska reso lution on the table. Mayor of Philadelphia. —The new Mayor of Philadelphia has been inaugurated. He promises to appoint none but Natives to office. GEORGIA ITEMS. Boy Drowned in Macon.—On Sat urday evening, says the Citizen, about four o’clock, James Henry Carver, aged about 11 years, son of Mr. Robert Car ver, merchant of this city, was drown ed in the Ocrnulgee river, near the Ma con bridge, while bathing. Commission on Affairs of Dari en Bank. --This commission commenc ed its sittings in Milledgeville on the Bth inst., and is still in session. We have not had (says the Federal Union) the pleasure of hearing the learned ar guments of the,counsel pro, and eon, but we have been informed that they are exceedingly able and interesting.— Among the counsol for claimants pres ent, wc notice Col, Gardner, Mr. Cuy ler, and Mr. Warpl. All the gentle men comprising the Commission are present, as >vp|l as the counsel for the State, Judge Colquitt and Col. Clark. The Commission adjourned on Wed nesday. Tije Supreme Court, present their Honors Jos. H. Lumpkin, 11. L. Ben ning, and E. Starnes, was in session in this city yesterday. There was but a single case for the action of the Court,