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" h' ""' i THE DEMOCRAT. ,H. IX. WORTHING TOM, Editoi. ijOIIN F. SLIDE, Pcauaa- 1 - Team cawtta to tm vat tut , m iTtttkt tt or sob Ati mm, HI IRO WOWIDtD, WRITHES tl tUl aid ixse amib tut wotsmrrsx. CIILinBl'H, MI8ISHlIei. :FERRUAR 10, 1849. SATURDAY,:: trWt rt authorise t announe THOMAS B. BROOKS a t candidate forth office of A or of Tun fur Lownde County, t the ensuing leetioa in November next. UW are ititbortini to announce Dasui. Wuj iUms ui candidal fur re-election to the office o Clerk of the I'robate Court of Lownde County tt the November election. trSnmt A. Brows let candidate for the office ofClcrk of the Probate Court of Lownde County. Election in November next. Ht The Ladiei of the Bapti.t Church in ihii place will furoiih a collation on the evening of Ttierday an ! Wednesday next. See their nolic to the public in another column. A rich treat may be expected Let all, who can make it con. venicnt, attend. C3rVe are indebted to the lion. A. G. Brown tor a ropy of the tpeech of the I ton. R. K. Meade of Va., on the Paeheco lave caw; also for a pamphlet copy of the addre of the touth em membe rs of Congress to their constituent. Orr run L'aiivoknu I Tho last Monroe Democrat contain the Constitution and name .( the officer and mi'iiihert o a company who left Aberdeen on Saturday latl for the gold re gion in California. These gentlemen ccm to have gone about the butineM in the right way. They have evidently looked well and cauliouily fwiore thny idJd the leap. The Coniliiution I drawn up with much circumspection, and con lain? provision calculated to mart every tontin gency during their pilgrimage through the wilder, lien and after their arrival in the lend bl golden promise. It it tigncd bjr fifty nam, the com jilement Used by the lit article. We tend t'lem a "God pecd" in their adventuroui journey May good luck le e'er tho attendant on their way, and in iv all their bright anticipations be realized lu the valley of the Sacramento. OCT Emigration to the gold region of Call fornia lecmt to be the order of the day iu all parti of the country. Tho New York Herald give a lie) of 99 reiee la wbii.lt have tailed from the United Statei for California eince the 7ih of December Inst Thee vessel carried 0,719 passengers. 'J h i number, it aayi, added to thoie who have loit Oregon, the Sandwich Inlands, Mexico, Peru, Ate, will swell the aggregate ol adventurer at the 'illgglns" to about 10,000 It ii further stated fiat there art nqw advertised lor California nearly 150 vessel, nil of which will probably tail within the next ii week, carrying about 8,000 panenger. Within a few tnonthi, California will doubtlen contain a ml Hcient population to entitle her to come into the I'uion ai a Slate. CirJohn Smitii Imi gone to Californ'a. This, it ii laid, dipoe of one hard case; but there are many more "of the earn soil led." Attohnit Gnnkral. It feemi to be gene rally understood that the present able and accom plished Attorney General, John D. Freeman will not be a candidate for re-election. The Free Trader mentions, as candidates (or the office, C W. L. Smith, Esq., of Jackson, (formerly of this place,) C. E. B. Strode, Esq., of Aoxube, 3. F. Cufhnmo, Esq., of Lafayette, Gen. Joshua Whitmore of Marshall and Col. Wilcox of Mon. roe. These gentlemen, if they arc all aspirants forth office, will doubtless be willing to submit their names to the decision of a Stale Democrat ic Convention. CttT We are indebted to the Hon. W. S. Feath rrston for a copy of a military rocognoUance of California and New Mexico by Emory, Abert, Cooke and Johnson. Also to Messrs. Davis and Featheriton for copies of the President's last annual message with the accompanying docu. mcnt. The Tuns Ea.m.h aD I? - ':"- ' the name of a new paper recency started at W tsh" Inglon, Teaai, by J. Lancaster, Esq , formerly of this State. It It. a large and beautifully printed weekly, well filled with utetul and inter esting matter. The ditofAj vines both tal ent and industry. We very ehcerfully ptaca "tho Ranger" on our exchange lisj, and wish its en terprising proprietor every success. C5-Th Mobile Advertiser of Ike 311 ult. says Mrs. Taylor, wife of the President elect, ! ,, r C01lVPBrj That a fiiend of the Union, Col. Ilii and lady and Maj. Hunt and Udy ar- j we view with most sciious alarm the course of iied in that city on the du previous fiom New ; our Northern brethien iu relation to the que. ,. . J - ,., .' tii.n ufkkuerv, a course nh.ch marked by un. Urieau., ami loot passage, . . allj :Illlir, ,,a, air.,l!v. ' 1 - j' .- to a must uiiloruinata extent, weakened the IkhhU hkh unite them and us ; which if per. tinted in, in the same spirit, can only terminate " i'Loiuua its Lr noNfe w.:.ior VMS 1 HJ. The Lllo'rg resolution, ii.tfiduced by Mr. Blackburn, Clmirman of the House Committee on Ferferai Relations, have Urn unauimously pe,aed in each branch of the Florida LrgUiatur?. We rejoice at the unanimity t'aus exhibited. Let all the Southern States act m thie same spirit, and all the North will very soon teo bow far there are divisions among ourselves on these momentous questions : Resolved, by the Senate and House of Repre- sentHlives of the Atate o) Morula, in Uenerai ai . . r i V. the steam ioat xuraperorwr aioBijjimic, their way to Washington. . :9 C3r The . Naw Orleans Delta estimates tho number f applicants for sjfTice, includin? tho deput) ships, in that city, 'at 1470, just 147 for each office. WSlrflioNVESTION. Tlia Southern Patriot wishes to know our o. pinion as to the proper time and place of holding a Convention in this Congressional District. In matters of this sort, where expediency alone is involved, we are generally guided by precedent. In 1847, the Democrats ol tho district acted bar. moniotisly, and therefore widely, in selecting the 24h day of May as the time, and Greensboro' as tho plact of holding the Convention. We say then let us adhere to a precedent which has pro. ed to be good let the Convention be held at Greensboro' on th 24th (the 4th Thursday) of May next. Such is our humbla opinion, t nd the Patriot and the other Democrats of the District may take it for what it is worth. And while upon this subject, we would say further, as the Democrat of the District in 1147, nominated and elected W. S. Featheriton by a triumphant majority, and as there is no just ground of complaint against him thut wo knnw of, but on the contrary, as he has proved him sell a faithful and capable public aervaut, al ways truo to the principles of the Democracy, let them re-nominate and re-elect him, as we know thny can, and hope they will. Dut should ho declino running again, or from any other cause, should the Convention, in their wisdom, think proper to select some other good and truo Democrat as our Congressional standard beurer, we shall bo content, and shall give the nominee a decided and hearty (support. THE SOUTHERN ADDRESS. The address of tho Southern Delegates in Con ercss to their constituents, written by Mr. Cab huiin, is published in the Washington Imion ol the asth ult. We have read it with the deepest interest, and havo no hesitation in pronouncing it the ablest and most Important document of the day. As the Charleston Mercury says: " it ii full of power and dignity, and appeals to the Southern people on questions that touch not only their independence as sovereign Slates, but their safety as organized communities." Wo shall publish It in our next, when our readers will bo able to judge of its merits for themselves. It ! signed by 10 Scnatori and 38 Representatives, in fuithe.r alienttion, aud in the inevitable disso lution of the cmill-.teracy. Resolved, Thai the rcceully acquired territo. ry having been purchased by blood and treasure, ol w hich her full proportion was contributed by I ho South, she and her sons are entitled equally with any other portion of the Union, to the en. joyment of the same j this General Assembly, therefore, believing thai Congress possesses, uu. der the constitution, no nower to pass such a measure, ailoutinir similar language to that of the legislature of Virginia, hereby declare it as their opinion "that under no circumstances will the people ol this Mate be willing to recognise as binding, any enactment of the Federal Gov eminent, which has for its object the prohibition of slavery iu any lenitory south of the line ot tho Missouri Compromise, holding it to be the natu ral and independent right ol each citizen, of each and every Sine of the Confederacy, to reside with his property, ol whatever description, in a ny territory acquired by the arms of the United Stales, or yielded by treaty with any foreign pow. cr" Resolved, That in the abolition ol slavery in the District of Columbia, involving as it does, an exercise of power not granted by the consti tution, and designed at it is, as a means of affect ing the institution of slavery in the Slates, a gainst which it is aimed as a blow, should be re sisted on the part of the South, by whatever mean are best adapted to the protection of the Consti tution, the defence of herself, and the preserva tion of the Union. Resolved, That knowing no party names, or political divisions, on questions involving in their settlement and consequences, tho character, tho property and lives of those whom we represent, we are ready hi art and soul, with a united front, to join Virginia, the Carolina!, and tho oilier Southern Stains, in taking such measures for the defence of our rights and tho preservation of our selvra and those whom we hold dear, as the highest w isdom of all, may, whether through a Southern convention or otherwise, mggest aod devise. Resolved, Thut a copy oflhesa resolution! be transmitted to the Governor nf each of the slave States, with a renuest (hat thev be laid before tho legit-latures of such as are now in session. GENERAL TAYLOR AND HIS APPOINT. MENTS. The New Orient! Courier i the Jlst. ult., in an article in reference to appointments to of ficer under tho new administration, says : "Tho President elect on the very day he left Raton Rouge assured onie of liis military fiiends iu whom he places implicit confidence, that he would dismiss no man from ollice except for "I'KOilllUllOS OF SLAVES AS MF.R- LEGISLATURE. A meetiag of the cuiwns of Vernon aud vi cinity was held at the Masonic Hail this day. Dr. William L, Bailour was called to the chair, and George Stokes appointed Seeretary. The otijeet of the meeting wa stated by th Clairman, vi : to take Into consideration the exoediencT of immediately calling tho legisla- 1 tur of our State together lor the purpose of enact ing lavs prohibiting the tuitber ingress ot siavn into our State. On motion, th following petition to the Gov ernor (offered by Mr. W. 5. Denson,) wa read and unanimously adopted, as eipresive of the views of this meeting. The petition is siijiied Ly forty ciliiens of Madison county. Eo. Miss. To lilt Eirrlkncy, J. IV. Matthriei, Governor of tlte Stat f Mitsittippi: Th undersigned petitioners, your fi-!low. iii. z. ni, residing in the State, and leeling a deep interekl in your institution, and an abiding con fidence in 'he vision- iid iuv-iiy ' the func tionaries s'lectcd by ; sov.r-iii people to guard their interests, bf leav -so-st r.Mpeetfulh to remesent. that t!iev view i:i a!a':n, tho el- (.MM). II. VAlGHA.v. iT. H. BENTON ON" THE AGITXTTON OF, fil.ei-n ACI ami Colle.cr. THE SLA ERi QUESTION. TtiU'.u .-atcd m Co.'aaias. respect-ui,, ; .. In rebniarr. H31, m-ir thn eirt.'(wn II d r h serv.ces to the tio:ic generally a G.. a?o, in a eeba'e in the United StVes Sei.ae. ; le-tcrand General Agwst, and hoses by r.a attei Col. Benton uttered the following prophetic San-. txw to btiw to render taur. etUsUetion W J u " , .-,.,,. ;f ,U .lave ' who rr.v intra: h'in with their patronise, fuage IB retorence to th. ag.tatioa of the tave . t( Df gm,?msnt Dr qiietion. ! Columbu, Feb 10, 1819. m a a t n ti r. . I ! m m a - ' -I have, said -OI. Demon, iwni iuu, nm - fraid tediou. on the wbject of slavery. My a pooy mut le found in the extraordinary intro dupiron of this lor.ic bvthe Senator from Massa- chtuet' (Mr. Wbter.) I foreee that this tub Arlmlnl.trator- Notice. LETTERS of Administration havmg been frant od to t).e undersigned by the I'robate Court of Lond Cojnfy Miss., February tprm thfif i aia 0f en the estate of Dr. John Belton, deceased,a!i rrons jeet 1 IO aCl . sre ,n - r - - . iald ute are natedta- that it is to t made one m me in- , nme .jn tf .iK rtumtrv . stniments of a momentous movement, n I lor ai viding the Union something more practicable and mor damnable than that. The prevention of a world of wo may dnd upon the democra cy of the noti-slaveholding States. The preser vation of their own republican lilierties may de pend u;ion it. Never wa their sieadiW adhe. sion to the prin -iples they profe anJ to their natural allies, more necessary than at present. To them 1 have been speaking ; to them I con liou" to addresa myself. I beseech and i:n;!ore lliem t suffer their feeling against slavery to Im i-k nn ttfi'mft imnn ihpi T nnliiii-al condiict : to i foils now being made by the aUlitioaisti of the -n in m) combinations against the South fori among whom we are proud lo soo the names of ' conduct in office wa not liable tor eimne. Th Foote and Davis, and all our four Represent lives. Why any Southern member, bo ho Whig or Democrat, should reluse to sign this paper, we cannot imagine, for it states nothing but liicts, and is altogether iiaobjectioiiable both in its tone aud it urgumcnts. It is signed by ouly two Whigs Gaylo of Alabama, and Tompkins of this State. Tho Union also publishes Mr. Berrien's Ad dress, which was offered a a substitute for Mr, Calhoun's, and wa rejected. That is also a very able document, and is very similar to Mr Calhoun'i, adopting hi langungo in part. It diflera principally iu this, that it is addressed to the people of tho whole Union, whereas, Mr. Calhoun'i is an Address to the Southern people only. 11Y TELEGRAPH North, to interfere, by legiilation, with the rights of the South. They have een with feelings of deep mortification, an off irt to dissolve our riou Union, by abolishing alaverv in the trictof Columbia, and applying the Wilmot Pro. viso ol our territorial organization of New Mexi co and California. As the result of such action on the part of our brethren at the North, we have seen ellorts made by the border State ot the South to call conven tion and manumit their slaves by Constitutional laws, and preparatory thereto, holding out en couragement to their citiien to send their slaves to the South, in order that there may be as few negroe amongst them at the period of their le gal emancipation as posibl. The State of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Misotiri, wher slavery ha ceae I to be profitable, from the uncertain tenure by which they are held, ar e now throwing an immense black population on the extreme Southern Slates which i dejlined to increase w ith immense rap idity, until our S:ate will be overrun with a pop ulation that will constitute the moil dang-ro'j of all the enemies we shall havo to encounter. When the present border States f hall have emancipated their slaves, they will in time join the Northern Confederacy, until the day will tome when we or our children shall have to meet thi oucstion as citizen of a border State, and when, loo, the black population in our midst will present the mot appalling obstacle to our succes. If we are destined to be overwhelmed by our enemio, we do not desire to be driven from our home and the grave of our dead, which will be the inevitable consequence of an i.itie lobe met with the abolitionist in our rear, and a crowd of felon slave, which they have forced upon us, in our midst. To avoid this evil, we hold it to be our duty to keep those slave in the State north of us, in order to force those States to stand between us and those desperate fanatics w ho seem resolved to crush us. By forcing those State to retain their slave within their own border, tl.ey will never consent to manumit them, as they cannot permit them to remain amongst them as free negroes, and thus their interests will remain identified with ouis, and they will be forced lo sUnd by our side in the struggle for the constitutional right of the South. Impressed as we are with these views, and the importance ot some immediate action, we ..... i . t , 1 1 1 .. . . cause, and lliat tie saw no reason wtiy lie suouiu j respectfully request ol your excellency io convene noi renew trie? commissions oi miumiuimis wino irisiature ai us eariv a uay n iuainr, ' DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION. On our first page, wilt be found a well limed and well written article from the Miseiseippian, on the iiibjecl of a State Convention, to which we direct the attention ot the reader. At no pie vious time, within llie last ten or fifteen years, perhaps ba there been so urgent a necessity for the Democratic party of the State lo meet togeth er through their accredited agents, delegates freah from among them and fully informed a to their wishes and opinion in older to settle upon the plan of the coming political campaign, and select their Candidate for the various State officers. A State Convention must be held, and we entire ly concur in the recommendation made by the Democrats assembled at the Capitol last Decem ber, that the city of Jackson should be the place, and the Jirtt Tvesduy of June next the time of holding tbo Convention, and w believe that ' this recommendation will meet very generally with the approbation of the Democrat in this part of the State. The W hig party, notwithstanding our greatly diminished majority at th Presidential election last fall, know that they have no chance of car- rying the State but through our divisions. "Un. ' ion it tvrrtu." Let this be our motto, and with (he proper energy, and the spirit of concession ' jtnd compromise as to men, w hich a fairly organ red State Convention ii calculated to engender and uirTuse througu our tank, we may oafoly count upon a glorioui vleory next November- O'ltk-ll)' Line. ARRIVAL OF GEN. T.WLOR IN NASH VILLE. Nashville, Tk.u. 7, 1849, 3 o'clock P. M. Gen. Taylor arrived at 10 o'clock A. M. Al. though thousands from the country were deterred from being here mi account of the Cholera, he . . ..... i. i- was greeted uy ommisiasuc snouts ot a great multitude. Alter moving at llie head of a large procession through the city, he was received by Gov, Brown as the guest of tho State in an address, lo which (Jen. Taylor re sponded in a speech of 15 or 20 minutes, which w ai earnestly delivered but which we could not bear. He will leave to-morrow 8th on the Dan iel Boone iu expectation of meeting tho Court laud al Sir-ithland. . RANG iV CO. Mr. Calhoun was again taken yesterday with a slight fainting fit in the lobby of the Senate, aud was carried to the Vic President's room. Alter taking somethmc ol a itimulalinc charac ter, he was restored, and left tho copitol for hi lodgings. It is said that he has only overworked himsi li and will soon be well. Some of his friends, however, are seriously concerned at his condition. I learn this morning he is belter, and that tie passed a good night. Hi physician, 1 understand, prescribes absolute repose and ex. emption from all company and labor. Corrtipondtnt tfthe Charleston Mercury. Later accounts state that Mr. Calhoun had al moil entirely recovered, and though still feeble, was able to resume his seat in the Senate. Gen. Gbobgb McDcrna. The Charleston Mercury of the 30th ult. eayi : "We are much gratified in being able to state upon the authority of a letter from his physician which we have ourselrei seen, that the health of Gen. McDuffio i improving under the water cure treatment, to which he is at presont iub milting. The General is now at MiUedgoWlle, Ga., and bis friends entertain hopes ofa perma nent amelioration of hu health. course is approved ami recommended mm I'V mint of his molt intimate friend those whom h lrul and value tlie most. The sentiment which actuate these gentlemen, and which prompted General Taylor to adopt them as the rule of his conduct, cannot be felt or undotstood by tbo herd of office ieekrs who would bar gain fir an appointment with the same coolne and indifference that they would show in buying or elling a plug of tobacco or a pound of mgar. They cannot appreciate Gen. Taylor'i motive for refining to promie ofiic to them. There is no logic by w hich they can be madn to under hand them! You mieht as well talk heathen Greek to them a ay the Preidenl cannot make inch promises without a violation of propriety. Propriety indeed! that' a beautiful word to utlor iu the face of a man who wants lo bo collector of the port of New Orleans! You would have a better chance of being listened to if you should talk about propriety lo a hungry ox in a clover field! But stilt the rulesot propriety exist in the mind of every gentleman ot high and honorable teelingi, and although not uiiduistood by vulgar oul, thev are not going to be transgressed by General Taylor." A large amount of machinery lor the working of the gold mine of Major Hcissand Commodore Stockton, in V irgima, ha recently passed thro from Philadelphia. One of Fulton' patent di rect-action steam pumps has also been built and forwarded to the mines by him, from this city. It ii calculated to raise a ton of water two hundred fet from the bottom of the shaft per minute; and io limple ii the plan, that, to perform tin labor, it will require but a six-horse power head of steam: It is a beautiful piece of machinery, and has been constructed of bras. Rich. Enquirer. The above is not the only evidence we have that our former partner, ia taking himself to Vtr. ginia and leaving us here, has got th best of th bargain- e met a trind a day or two sine, who told us he had teen a certificate from the mint, of 99,000 worth of gold deposited as the result of five or six day wrk, with about as many hand, at the Whitehall mine in Virginia, of Messrs. Heiss, Stockton, dec. Six ntgroei, we learn from another entirely reliable source, had obtained thirty:fii pounds of gold from the 1st to the 6th or 7th of this month. "Tho last day' working of three negroe wa worth 91,014. "This," say our friend, "throws Caliloruia com pletely in the shade. But he had not then seen th last accounts from that fairy land, which leemi to hav endured the touch of Midas, leaving sin gle specimen weighing twenty-five pound of gold. We should be happy to see turned to th Old Dominion the thousand who ar now wending their way lo th far west; and if th above result be tho product ofa regular vein, ai w learn it is, who can foresee what a few week may not bring forth? Go on, gentlemen; w envy you not, but rather rejoice in your ucce-explore the hidden treasure ofthe Old Dominion, and she will be by all, as she is now "in our heart'i just estimation, prized abov all price. Washington Union. order that llie important matter may be tuiumit ted to them for the purpose of eliciting ruch action is llieir wisdom "ill dictate. Dis. J. VV. Phillips and ti. StmVi, by invita tion nddrcsed the meeting, and called on tho good people ol our State to meet tho criis calm ly and firmly. Pr. II. G. Blackmail offered il following : Resolved, That should the Governor refusw to call the Legislature together immediately, tho good people of lllis Slate be, and they are hereby requested to hold primary meeting, and express their view an litis all important subject. Reiolvcd, That the thanki ofthe meeting be tendered lo the gentlemen who have favored Us Willi aiMreMC.i to-iiav. '!. That ' .,, and W. L. B.U.I ml Fouthron ot tun State jlilish tho Ch'm. Re -df of Jar.iit who feel willing, above. Geo. Stokks, Six't. Vernon, Jan. 20, 1S49. Wmitic Plum, Greene County, Ga. Januarr t'st, 1&49. We the mideraigned, take pleasure in almoi n ing to the Public, for the benefit of those who are unfortunately laboring under that dire and dread ful disee known as Cancer, a well a Indo. lent Tumors and malignant Ulcer, that Dr. Burnham Shepherd, ia in possession of a lemndy that will in most cas thoroughly eradicate and cure, while in all, we believe it will do much for the relief of thoo affections, heretofore, to baffling and defying lo the (kill ofthe medical men. . Wa hav been personally acquainted with Dr. S. for 18 month, a well a intimate with his practice during that time, and believe him lo be that rails ' liave this whole busines to our- lelve. I think they can well let it alone upon every principle of morals or policy. Are they Christians ? Then they can tolerate what Christ and his Apostles cmild bear. Are they patriots ' Then they can endure what the constitution per mits. Are they philosophers ? Then they can bear the abstract contemplation of the ills which inflict others, not them. Aro they friends and sympathiser? Then they must know that the j wearer ofthe shoe knows best where it pinches and is most concerned lo get it off. Are they republicans 7 I hen they must see the downlaii of themselves and the elevation of their adversa ries in th tuccets of a crusade, under federal banner, againat their natural allies in tho South and West, Let the Democracy of the North remember. that it i the tendency of all confederacies t 6e generate into a ub-confederaey among the pow. erful, lor the government and oppression ofthe weaker member. Let them recollect that am bition is the root of these ub confederacies; ie. ligion, avarice, and geographical antipathies, the instrument of their dominations ; oppression, civ il w ars, pillage and tyranny, their end. So says the history of all confederacies. Look at them. Th Amphyrtionic league, the Germanic con federation, the seven United Provinces, the thir teen Swiss Cantons. Let llie Democracy of the North remember these things, and then eschew, as they would fly the incantations ofthe serpent, the siren songs ol ancient toe who would enlist llieir feelings in a concert of action which is to end in arraying one half of the States ofthe Un ion against th other. MOREOFT?1E The Washington Union publishes a letter from Gen. Persifor F. Smith, dated at Panama, Janu uary 7, which represent the situation of atTairs at California as "really most extraordinary," and that "no accounts we had are exaggerated.'" From good authority he learned that there had had been brought to Valparaiso and Lima, to be run into bars, gold to the amount nearly of $1, 800,000. The British ('omul told Gen. S. that he had forwarded 15,000 ounces from Panama neros the Isthmus; and Lieutenant Wood, of the British Navy, say that "the trnth is beyond ihe account we have." Gn. S. thinks "it will be impossible to pievent the troops from desert ing," Ac. Ho speak of the enormous difficul ties ol crossing tin Isthmus $211 a piece being aisked for mule loads of one third of the ordinary weight flour al 840 a barrel and "the inhab- j Hants of the town alarmed al ike prospect of pci- i lilcnce and famine." Another b tter inllie Union, d.ited 7ili Janua ry, from an United State officer, say that the passage across the Isthmus is "inconceivably i difficult" that five hundred emigrant are on I., ii. r.ii,....i5 ,i t,., i e, I.,,,, llieil rOlo" ot irinui'", wuu n.yuui iwui nun. dred passenger were wailing at Cnllao and Valparaiso for the steamer California, of which nothing had been heard. Seventeen hundred persons bad sailed Irom Valparaiso for Caliloruia up to the I9ib December, and the gold fever at Panama wa "awfully prevalent." The New York Herald publishes a loiter from Mazallan, of December UOlh, which stales that the washings in California had ceased, ow ing to (he cold weather the whole region being cover, ed a fool deep with snow. Soma had built log cabins, intending lo pass the w inter on the rpot. The letter say : "The richness ol the place, as well as ihe ex- tent, far surpluses any account yet published of ft gainst said est!e are notiried to present thesaaie, daf probated wntlnn th tme prescribed bv law or ttwy will be burred. A BR AM fiEl.TON, Ft-b. tola 1S49 3S-tw. AdminnlrttoT. List of Letters, REMAINING in the Post Offie at Calaaba Missiwippi.ou the lit day of Fi.BtAT, 18 li Abbey ME 2 Love It C 1 Mncy James 2 Lund John B Little John Lewis Sarah Lewis Richmond LidJIe George xa SM enchain R S 2 Moore Mr Eliza W Alf.ird Janw AKbrd Bret Alexander Fleming Aine Orson Andrew Win C Adams Miss Mary L Archibald Mr E Bonis Thu 2 3 0 3 8 3 Bigby Mi's Ophelia 2 Moody John M Bennett I'.t Micaj Mason John R Bennett Nathaniel Moody Hinchey G Barlholamew mis ifirltia.Masun h It Brown John C McKellar Ditgal : Butter Abraham Mangum MisC 3 Bray Mrs Polly Moore C S Ball Daniel E' Moore B F Biinnel James ThomaiMonson Ransom Cavanah Cul Win B 2 McLelland Miss Sarah Cheek John 3 Morris James P Conner Win Cook Win Cook Rev Tnj F Caldwell W A Caldwell Mrs Elenor Callahan T ho S Chandler Jbn M Campbell L C'atlin Mr Dobbins S TK Davis A S Erw in D G Esle major P Fotirecade Mr Lliza ASmith Augustine Morris Rolicrt Myalt William Moulton John S Minor Jame Mitchell Wm B Mitchell John D Pulliam Wm Pickelt S J 3 Parnell M D Queries P B Reufroe B F fl Rabbetis Mrs Maitha Richardson J W 2 2 o 2 Fx-lds John 11 Fitman J B Fulton Samuel Giay Tho A Greenlee Mn Nancy Glover L C Glenn Wm S Coyne Thos B Gee Sam'l I) Goynes John I' Hardy Henry P Hargrove W illiam Harvell Alexander Harris David E ll .bbs Jerusa Mrs Harper Mrs Nancy llazlcwood Laivui Hazlewood Mr Harris MM HosUins E B Homes E P llendi irks J fl Hicks Dr JchnC Harrington ('apt D II Hannah Wm U Hall Thomas Hemphill Wm. Hum Tims J. Keith Ja II Leverett Mi-s M.'iimli Leo Dr Francis I. t Leigh Rev Low ry It Uovl D M C LhvdCInt m Love X B II U Saiiiicrv.il Elijah Skinner J no Cr 2 Smith Jonathan Smith Mrs Jine N Sharp Min Mary Sharp Jno Sboiwell Robt Short Wm Sitton Mu 1) Scoggin Mrs Martha R Stevenson Jno Story M S Tiatuin Andrew K t Taylor B F Taylor Nelson Tucker V Brut Vitch Wm MarlluiValeiitirie Harrison Wairen Mrs II It Warren B C Ward Win Whiion Henry K Wood Lerov Wood David B West Win William Dr W L William Jesse Williams Esekid Watson Jane M CWibe Jas Warden (Un A Watson Mrs I. Wakefield Dr T A Watkin Wm II Wright Jno E Wright Sam IT Persons railing for the above letters, will pUan ay they ar Advertised. I). P. IU.A1K, I'. M. TstTiTNTcEirY July Kulce 181$. CaXiIforma Gold Gksa. A Yankee down eait ba invented this specific for the use of gold hunters : The operator is to greaie himself well, lay down on the top ofa hill, and then roll to ihe boUom. The gold, and " nothing !.," will Kick to him. Frice, ff4 per bi. centleman one who would not impose himself on anv community bv fale pretence. In testi Robert Jemison Jr. et, al, 5TS ii Samuel F. Bullerworth, Et, a!s. District Chan eery Court of tin Stale of Missis sippi held at Co lumbus. Upon opening the matter in this Bill contain ed, and it appearing to th atislaclioii of tin Court that ihe Defendent Sam. F. Butterwortl , ,.i m, inlinl.imnt nfiliis Slate, but retide be mid being found nearly a hundred milts south j r. h.riiuf ... .1.., ,lC 0I.(ina, v pro of the original disemrry. It is supposed that ; -. n- tli, c,wrt cann()t )e sf rvp,i ,,,,,, him about $4.00U,000 will have been extracted since ! h ,hl (,,-)rc 0;,1M.e(j Hint unless the laid De discovery. Thi appean to be too large; but, (i,mallt jj.Ji,tervirth appear on or before the firf judging from the number of persons working ; d o,t,itJ K(,xt ,rn H, lllis Cl,urf( (o l,e hoklct say five thousand and their average gam per j alJl)iR C(iUrl lUw ; the Town of Columbus r-i day, it will pass $9,b00,000. 1 the firt Mondat in November neit, and pla Immense numbers from that enat were pre. I n)l8Vl or or demur to the Bill of Complaint, th paring to leave lor the m ties but conveyance ! s(iV,a uRij, therein contained will bits were dilficult to be had; and Mr. Parrot. U. S. j ii(.n (or t-oiit"-sr!, and such order and deerf Consul, with important despatches for the Cover, j a(!(, ht,riin as,hi Yice chancellor may deci nor OI "bailiornia, oupu:ini) wsilllig lUI .,1.,lUl.l ,,,! ;,,( t -'I. - . - , , , . . I.. I. It is lurllier ordered ttiai a copy oi una ui"' - : ......I :.. ih l VI, Milium nimr.rt" a news from Honolulu (landwich Islands) alone, lor Sun ! ' ),1i)lull(,d j ,,e ,0w.i of Columbus Missis Francisco, with some 400 white passengers and ; . WMk (;,r m)e mom, ,Uccesivelj 000 native. some man-of-war to take them lo California. No less than twenty-seven vessels had sailed sioiu. a I.... Anl.f eV.tri ifio minutes. Oroiron is said to be nearly depopulated bv the ' . . ' a iinntim HUrk. .l.l e... .n.n 9 milt hnv nir ift. - r ... -- . mony of what we hav seen of hi practice, we i u,u Jl July I, lM'J-l-nw. certify that Mr. Dunn, residing in Greene Coun. I TO THE PUBLIC. ! - -' mtM-'a.t ty, Georgia, a lady ol high respectability, aged I The LaJiet of ,he rja,,igt Church, feeling du-1 HOWARD E I O lJ about 4y.an, '".'ffl" l?l1,e,,!, k imprasttd with thi libenlityof tbr (oliiibui.flmp.V,aUv SoYA Ox" Ct tobe a genuine Scirrhu luinor of the right , , , . C(ner,)llgi ,U9taiid them in I "WV-liavtt oviumi w j breast, from th year 1942 to the year IH47, du ring which time he comulted many Physiciam, all of whom regarded hr affection as purely can- . t ,A.r i - .1 c CarOil. in UCtoner IOl, lia'ioj; uuapancu ui receiving any benefit from the I-acuity, the was induced to consult Dr. S., and abeut the 1st of November thereafter, she wai placed under his treatment, which coniisted of both local and con ititutional. Ho treated her case about three months, during which time we were frequently with Mrs-D., and aw the Doctor making his application, and we can confidently say that at the expiration of the above stated lime, her gen eral health and spirits which had already much deciiaed, was greatly improved, and not a trace or semblance of the local malady remained. W e have often seen Mn. Dunn line (she being a lamily connection,) and consulted her on the iubjectofherdiae, a well ai examined her minutely, and hare obierved no tendency to a return of the dieae. All who aro acquainted with the true character of cancerou affection, know their great liibilitir to return even after iL.v hnA Kuan nnarentlv radically cured, par- tieularly when treated by the knife, but in her case no such disposition is manifest up to this date, and we confidently trust and believe that the thorough constitutional treatment to which ihe wai subjected, will tree ner irom lucn a na biliiy. E. W. ALFR1END, M. D. ; W. L. ALFRIEM, M. D. public llieir etlorts to provide lor ine necessities ot tneir 1 church, take this mode of returning their thanks : to their friends, and of notifying them that they i will, on Tuesday and Wednesday evening next, ! lurnish a collation lor the purpose ot ranting fundi to procure window blind for the church; ; ji0,r(i witloUt Lodging, at which time, they will oe more man nappy to. Man anii orse plr daT receive tnem anu commune again iu tneir social enjoyment for the evening. Admittance at the door, 25 cent. Feb'y, 8, 1848. Columbus. Mississippi II ales Board without Lwlging, per month, 910 00 Board with Lodsiac, Board with Lodging per w k NOTICE. WING to circumstances which the lubscii ber must control, he will wind up his earth ly concerns by the 1st of March. He ha been in the hands of the Philistine too long He desires to come out from among them. tTin.ll nuu s a v i jv pi uurj Man and Hors pw night, sup. d break Man per day, Single Meal, 15 00 4 50 3 00 1 33 1 0fJ C 87 15 M. J. HOWARD, Februar2, 154il-82-2w. nnO the customers of the Blacksmith Shop, JL near the City Hall, he would say that it i permanently established, with the best workmen and materials; and at much Iibirality of time and term as elseichere. The interest of the Re sponsibility is respectfully solicited. JO. COVINGTON. Columbu Feb. 10, 1S49. 33-31 A Freshnpplyof Laudrttliieelebrated Gardta Setdt I t. just recced by A. IS. iONi-i 4 Ce. i f rnp ef Jt. HOISK PAINTING 0( every tlcscrirtion, plain wnwijenta IMITATIONS OF WOOD & MAJlBlJBjdoi I in the neatest style, and on the ..""Jta term, and at the very shortest notice, by mo ,ig.'!cd- . i in Oktibbeha, Iwnd Our work can be seen in Uktiuw ., Noxulee, Monnnd Chickasaw, Mi-. ureen Pickens Counties, Alabama. . All persons wishing Pntirgdof, w. aid doa lo addres their letter, to either of us, at lornv Piekeni County Ala. Aottt8, 1848. 6-lj- E. R. BOWLES J VV.BOWLES.