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.WW; -y VJlV v BY: TELEGRAPH.-3. ?r - : -. r. " i - -.4K i K" ' fi .. v-J . i . 1 J JOHK JL JLOILI3G; EDITOR. TUT? I tnvu p Tin Am iipw rrr - - w llybo, as gantly on my breast, Tram infant sportthou sink'st to rest, And on my hand I feel thee put, In playful dreams thy little foot, The thrilling touch, sots every string Of my full heart a quivering, t -..- 1 For ah ! I think what chart can show- j ' The ways through which ,tlus foot ?may go lfs print will be, in childhood's Lours..,, ' Traced in the garden round the flowers; . . Dut youth will bid it leap the rills' Bathe in the dews tf distant hills " RtMii erlhcliilIs, and venture out, When riper years would pause and doubt; . Nor hrare tlio pass, nor try the brink, "Where youth's unguarded foot may sink. But what, when manhood tints thy check, "Will be the ways thy foot may seek ? Is it to lightly pace the deck? - To helpless slip from off Hie week ? Or wander o'er a foreign shore, Returning to thy home no more, Until the bosom now thy pillow, .: Is low and cold beneath Hhe willow! J Or is it for the battle plain ? ? . ' Beside the slayer and theslain, ' ' J Till there its final step be taken ? ' - Tiicre sleep thine eyes, no more to waken ? - Is it to glory or to shame, . , - - To sully or to gild thy name, Is it to happiness or to wo. ' Tins little foot is made to go ? i- .Butwheresoe'er its lines may fall, - . Whether in a cottage or a hall; ' Oh ! may it crcr shun the ground - .! "Where'er His foot hath not been found, "Who on his patli below bath shed A living light, that all may tread ..--Upon his early step, and none - ' '"' E'rdash the foot against the stone. Yet if thy way is mark'd by Cite, As guilty, dark and desolate ' r If thou must float by viceand crim , A wreck upon the stream of time, Oh ! rather than behold that day, I'd know this foot in lightsome play, "Would bound with guiltless gleo -r , Upon the clod that shelters me. Fatiesisg Cattle in Stalls and Siieds. An' experiment ha3 been made in Scotland to try the comparatire value of these two modes of fattening cattle. Ten animals having been chosen were di vided as equally as possible; five were put in a sheltered court, with plenty of shed room, and the others into boxes. At the beginning of October it was soon found that those in the court ate one hun dred and thirty-four pounds per day, while those in the boxes ate only one hundred and twelve pounds, or twenty-two pound less, thus proving that a cer tain degree of warmth is equivalent to food. After several months, toward the end of April, they were all slaughtered, and the following results were found: Cattle fed in boxes: beef, 3,2G2 pounds; tallow, G,G78 pounds. Cattle fed in courts: beef, 3,416 pounds; tallow, 6,054 pounds. These results show the superiority of feeding in boxes. It is thought that in a less mild winter they would have been more striking. In the course of the experiment the thermometer rose to fifty degrees, and the cattle under cover seemed to sutler from being too warm. It was found a trifling ex pense to comb them regularly, which speedily pro duced a very marked jmprovement Such suggestive facts as the above should bo duly considered by all graziers. Wool Grower. DniLLiNO Wheat. Edward Stabler, in his ad mirable essay on the advantages of drill seeding, states that after examining its results on some eight hundred or a thousand acres, besides a large expe rience on his own land, he finds there is not a sin gle instance where it has not proved the most prof itable first, in the saving of seed, and, secondly, in the increased product of the grain, amounting to from one to six or seven bushels per acre. Ho thinks five pecks of seed drilled are equal to two bushels sown broadcast. He .has known the in crease, in one case, by careful comparison of the two mode3, to amount to nine bushels per acre in favor of drilling. He relates an interesting inci dent: A vender oflcred a drill for the increase in a crop of fifty acres of wheat to be determined by sowing a few strips broadcast for comparison. But before harvest the farmer preferred paying the hun dred dollars, the price of the drill, with interest On carefully ascertaining the increase,(he found it to be one hundred and fifty-tree bushels. Covering Wheat with Straw. The Prarie Ikrmer details an experiment with covering wheat -with straw, to prevent winter killing. The straw is spread about the thickness of flax, when subject to JTrottlng. This was to preserve the moisture of the soil and. protect the crop from the dry freezing weather toward the close of winter, so destructive to wheat. The straw quickly settles close to the ground, and the wheat springs up through .it. A ridge of land on which the wheat had been uni formly killed -was treated in this way, and excellent crop3 of wheat the invariable result A good story is told of an eecentric old gentle . man, -who, although occasionally addicted to the habit of swearing, was still punctilious in regard to saying grace at his table, and this duty he never ' omited on any occasion. The story runs that on a certain occasion the old gentleman invited a sea captain, a jolly old weather beaten tar of his acquaintance, to dine with him. They sat down to dinner, and the old gentleman, according to custom, commenced saying grace ; but the captain, whose attention had been diverted for , the moment, hearing the old gentleman speak, 'thought. he was addressing him, and turned to him Nvith "What did you say, 'squire ?" ' "Why, d n it, man, Tm saying grace I" , I don't say Mr. Judge, that the defendant was drunk. No, not by no means; but this I will say when I last seen him he was washing his face in . a mud puddle, anddryingit on a.door mat Wheth er a sober man would do this, in course I can't say." The Court thought he wouldn't The consequence was, the "defendant" went up for sixty days. A Statist, in speaking of the females who pass through Catham street, says the majority of them are sewing girls, "while a few of them earn a living by straw-platting, or something else: In Broad 'way, it is just the other way a few work, while ike majority do "something else." To be agreeable in society, a man should not be so learned as entertaining. The person who talks glibly about ephemeral nothings, will be popular .even with the taciturn while the Naturalist who goes his length on the social habits of the Mdsta don, will be voted a bore even by the scientific. The Captain of the Horse Marine was presented on Tuesday, with, a satin beaver curry comb. Tho ..gffair came off at the "Pewter Mug." "Does the Court understand you to say, Mr. ones, that you saw the editor of the Augur of Free dom intoxicated ?" 'CtTot at all, sir, I merely said that I have seen him frequently so flurried in his mind that Jie would undertake to cut out copy with the snuffers--that's alL" A. friend informs us that split gold dollar pieces are rapidly .circulating, and cautions us to be on the lookout for them, but we prefer "to bo on the look out" for those which are-not split An Irishman was once, brought before a magis trate charged with marrying 8ix wiy.es. The mag istrate asked him how he could be so hardened a villian. "Plaze your -worship," said Paddy, "I was trying to get a good ?un." Horace Mann says he has only one objection to women preaching, religion, and that is, they can make' more by practicing, . Wbero's aster.Smith? WEDNESDAY MOKNIJfG, JAIWJAR1T 5, 3 CUBA. The Banner, of yesterday, contains liberal extracts -from a recent debate in the Huiled "States Senate in reference to Cuban matters. Our attention is particularly invited to the following extractfrom I Mr. Mason said : It has been the established policy .of this country, made known in the most open, frank, and undis- guised manner, to all the powers of Europe, thai while the Island of Cuba remained a province; a de pendency of Spam, we should never interfere with it; but that, if ever any ambitious or grasping po tentate should attempt, either by rapine or by trea ty, to take the Island of Cuba from the possession of Spain, it would become this country, cost what it might,to interpose and to preyent it The Banner asks what wc think of the declara tion that "while a dependency of Spain we should never interfere with it (Cuba)?" We do not as sent to the proposition here laid down, in its broad est sense. Occasions may arise which would make interference, on our part, in the affairs of Cuba both necessary and just If, for example, the authorities, of that island were' to loose the slave population, and thus create a servile Avar, in order to put down a rebellion on the part of the whites, we think this government should interfere. Humanity as well as self-interest would justify such interference. We 'could never stand idle spectators of a scene in which sixty thousand slaves were turned loose, in all their natural ferocity, to butcher their masters. The ef fect of such an occurrence on the southern States of this Union would be such as we care not to contem plate, even in imagination. To prevent it, at all hazards, would be a duty which this government could not disregard without inviting self-destruction. If it had a right to interfere in the affairs ofHayti, on the plea of humanity and we think it I had without combining with other powers it would have a double right, backed by the cause of humanity and the law of self-preservation, to inter fere in the affairs of Cuba, in the case supposed. Butif Mr. Mason simply means (as is most prob able) by his declaration that ourgovernment should not, under ordinary circumstances, interfere to wrest Cuba from the dominion of Spain, we subscribe, without reluctance, to his position. The policy of our government should be, and has been, to pre serve Cuba from the grasp of any one of the great European powers. In the hands of a great power it could be made the means of great injury to us. In the hands of a weak power like Spain, however, it can never become a source of much mischief Next to its being independent,, we think the posses sion of the island by Spain the most advantageous to us. With the sentiments here expressed we have never taken any position in conuicc. in tneir struggles against their Spanish tyrants, the natives of Cuba have had our warmest Sympathy, and we have fervently hoped to see them an indepedent and self-governing people. We have thought, too 'that it was scarcely reasonable to expect the people of the United States to look upon these struggles wi tli indifference, and have cherished a large share of charity for those gallant spirits who, under the im pulses of the moment, rushed to the rescue of the oppressed against the oppressor. But farther than this wc have not went, nor do we intend to go. We have not maintained that our government should interfere in a revolutionary struggle in Cu ba, while conducted according to the rules of civil ized warfare and in a manner so as not to affect us. We have not maintained that it should shield those of its citizens whose sympathies led them to Cuba during the last rebellion in that island. We have thought, from, the first, that these men toolc all the hazards, andcould rightfully askfor no thing but that our treaty stipulations and the rules of civilized warfare should be observed towards them. We have opposed the monstrous doctrine that these men were pirates, and therefore out of tho pale of our treaty stipulations. We opposed it at the time of its annunciation, because it was then frought with the greatest danger to the rights of alt our cit izens traveling upon the high seas. It gave to the unscrupulous authorities of Cuba a dangerous and fearful power. Under it, as practically exemplified by Mr. Fillmore, these authorities had but to arrest our citizens on the high seas and declare them pi rates, in order to debar them ?heir stipulated rights and the humanities of civilized warfare. The par ticular instance in which this doctrine was acted up on by the Spanish authorities only partially exem plified its monstrous character. Fifty Americans were arrested on the high seaSj in an effort to re turn to their own country, and without trial were shot down in cold-blood and afterwards treated in the most revolting manner. Thus were our trea ty stipulation violated as well as the rules of civil ized warfare. But the Spanish authorities might have went farther, and exhibited to Mr. Fillmore his criminal folly in a more startling light They might havo captured any American vessel on the high seas, and, assuming, as they did in the case of these men, that the persons on such vessel were concerned in the revolutionary movement in Cuba, might have executed them without the slightest 'form of trial In order to guard against such an occurrence as this, we maintained that it was the duty of Mr. Fill more to inquire into the massacre of Crittenden's men, and promptly to demand redress for the viola tion, in their persons, of our treaty stipulations. We maintained that he owed this, not so much to the men themselves, as to our national honor and the security of our peaceably disposed citizens on tho high seas. Such have been our vieAVs in this matter. Wc look upon them noAV Avith pride, and could not be induced to recant them though every democratic Senator in Congress should express opposite ones. But Ave have not yet seen anything from a demo cratic source in conflict with them. We trust Ave never may. The sentiments expressed by Messrs. Cass and Mason, in the debate alluded to, are cer tainly not But if they AA'ere, these gentlemen would only be taking grounds against the entire democratic press and party of the country. In that event their opinions would be more a matter of con cern to them than to us. Central Democrat. We have received the first number of a neAV democratic paper bearing the above title. It is neatly gotten up, and from the first num ber bids fair to be a valuable auxiliary in the dis semination of democratic principles. We congra tulate our friends in Benton and Carroll in having the services of two sue? men as Messrs. Doherty & Greer to prosecute this enterprise, and we hope j they will extend to the paper a liberal support It is published at Camden, Tenn., at 2 per annum. Allison's Abuse of the U. States. A letter from Washington, says: Of all the abuse and mis representation ever recorded by English prejudice against the United States, that which is embodied in Allison's introduction to his continuation of the history of modern Europe, is decidedly the worst The moral,- social and political, condition of what Oueen Victoria calls the "great republican," is rep resented by the popular and elegant historian m i . .J .1 TIT 1 T 1 J TT i? '1 darker colors than Mr. tv aisn ass pamiau jiayu. tfie6fiee. yesterday; 'Oar nffchbor whi' elector in tte late canvass: and bemt? fabri aood lawyer, his opinion is c&i'Ued, to Weight. with hla Dartv " with his party TnE Tick Pkesidenct. A new 'and' singular question has been mooted by the politicians. rt'is this who. would tfe Vice President, in'case of the -death; of Hon. W. B, King, Tvhose'health seems1 to be no,w extremely precarious, previous to the an nouncement of the electoral vote by the President of the Senate? It occurs to us that this question is rather sinrular..tlian difficult The Constitution provides for the election of President and Vice y rcsiuent ana ine ume oi max. cnoico. jluul elec tion has already taken place. The electoral col leges have long since declared, in the Constitution al way, the votes of their respective States. These ballots have been transmitted to Washington, and are-now probably in the keeping of the govern ment Nothing now remains to be done, but the announcement of this vote by the President of the Senate. The States have doae all they had the power to do. They have made the election. The simple declaration of their- choice by the President of the Senate cannot alter or control the election. Wm. R. King has been constitutionally elected. Though he should die immediately, this fact could not alter the official announcement oi the. vote. Tn the .discharge of his duty, the President. of the. Senate will have no official knowledge of the death of the Vice President elect as that fact is not dis closed by the hallots and certificates themselves. And, though he did know this fact officially, yet it occurs to us, that he would be compelled to an nounce that Wm. K King had received a majority of the votes of the electoral colleges, and was con stitutionally elected. It would then devolve upon the Senate to. elect Ids successor, in the usual way. We do do not presume to expound the Constitu tion upon "all occasions, but it seems to us that this is. the only construction, that can be given to those portions of it, that seem to have excited the inge nuity and doubt of not a few political editors. ' Deeds of Violence, in Mississippi. The DeKalb (Miss.) Gazette of the 11th inst, contains a sad chronicle of crime in that vicinity: The first records is of a serious affray between two brothers-in-law-named Wright and Turner, on account of a difficulty in the division of some family property. The parties were separated and bound over to the next term of the Circuit Court Bryant was severely cut, but it was thought he would re cover. The Gazette then describes a murder committed on Tuesday evening previous, by John Edwards, a youth about eighteen years of age. The name of the victim was Samuel Aiken. The circumstances are thus detailed: "Edwards passed through town (DeKalb) on Tuesday, with a load of Cotton for Gainsville. He met Aiken at the residence of Mr. Broadway, some four miles from this place, high words passed be tween them, of -what nature we have not been able to learn; they parted, however, without an encounter, and Edwards drove on: after driving some distance lie remarked to one who accom panied him, that he intended "to go back and kill the d d scoundrel." He did return, and to use the language of an eye witness, "deliberately proceeded to cut him to pieces. Jid wards continued his journey to Gainsville, without molestation. Aiken was not dead at the time of writing this article, l ..l ? l nl . ' dug mere is no nope oi ms recovery. The ink was scarcely dry with which the fore going was penned when the editor was called upon to describe another dreadful deed of blood. He says: "The particulars of one bloody crime are hard ly narrated ere our heart is sickened by the details of a most cowardly assassination, scarcely paralleled by the most horrible exploits of the desperadoes of the feouthwest The victim was Col. das. H. Sims. and the bloodthirsty fiend Avho perpetrated the fonl deed, was " John J. Edwards, the notorious desper ado who lied iroin Alabama some years ago for the commission of a similar crime. It seems thatDevil Jack the sobriquet given the assassin years ago for his deeds of blood started from home on Wed nesday morning to accompany and place John Ed wards, his nephew, who on the evening previous had murdered Mr. Aiken, out of the reach of the law. In passing through DeKalb he induced CoL Sims to accompany him for the puipose of counsel ling John m regard to the allair. They wero riding along together in the Scoober Swamp, about 11 miles from this place, having caught up with the wagons, and wero-conversing amicably together, when Edwards drew his pistol, and with out a word of warning, shot Sims through the head from behind. The particulars are from one who witnessed the dastardly act Sims lived until Thursday morning and died in tho presence of his wife and father. "Two beautiful children are made fatherless, a wife is bereaved of an affectionate husband, and a father of a beloved son, by this murderous deed. Read TnE Advertisements The New York Day- Book has an excellent article in a recent issue, en titled the "Mistakes of Advertising." It points out the erroneous views which exist in the public mind, m regard to the time policy of advertising, and con demns the bill-posting and placarding system, and closes with the following sensible remarks, which we commend to the attention of our readers : The Avhole cause of the false notions in regard to advertising is fundamental ; it arises, on the part . -A- "Crying Evil." The Albany Register men of advertisers, in a total misconception of the value tin3 with the utmost complacency the fact that a of even a single line. That line may go into everV kdy of that city, recently presented her "lieire section of the country, and bring custom to the ad- vertiser, long after he has forgotten it Every re- mane produces an impression ot some kind; and in a noAvspaper it meets the eyes of hundreds Avho take the papers for business as well as instruction. The day of old fogyism is past; posting bills Avould do very Avell in the country, Avhere passers so sel dom see anything neAV that they AA'ill stop to read them ; but in the city, Avhere the eye is Avearied .Avith an endless succession of them, there is just as much probability of a business man stopping in the street to read them as there is of him .stopping to Avhittle. Newspapers are the great ifeatures of the day; the man Avho neglects them or undervalues them has not one spark of tho 19th century in him. He is a mistake from beginning to end; he should have been born, have lived, and gone tho Avay of all the earth, years and years ago. The Lopez Affair in Cuba. Mr. Sullivan, an Jiinglishman, wc author ot a recent book, of traA'els in America, mentions the following as one of the causes of the failure, of the Lopez expedition ; "When Lopez's expedition Avas first mooted, and the Creole population affected to sympathize the Governor General gave the Avhole-of the population Avithin ten miles of Havana, three days' holiday, that the whites might be able to form some idea of their numbers, strength and ferocity, and take a wholesome warning against favoring any agitation Avhich might bring about the horrors of a slave ris ing. "It is said that the sight of these fifty or sixty thousand African AA'arriors SAvaggering through the streets, and the knowledge that the same struggle which liberated them from the Spanish rule, might also liberate the blaoks from their3, did more to quench the rising feeling in favor of 'Libertad' among the Creoles, than any dread of the soldiers of Tin T, . oia opam. ao was a uckusn proceeding on the part of the Governor General, and Avould have been scarcely Avarranted, but for the presence of twenty thousand men under arms the Avhole time, and the possibility of the slaves procuring arms being strict ly guarded against" Inquirer. There lives near the mouth of the Great Miami, a colored man named Prank Mabon, .who has walked from New Orleans to Cincinnati seventeen times! Before the application of steam to purposes of navigation he folloAved the nilntinir nf fWhnofa and keels doAvn the river, and invariably walked back. On one occasion when returning he carried with him a skfllet, handsaw and an axe the whole distance. He was one of the first settlers on the tract of land known as Symmes' purchase, and wit- nessedthe erection of the first building on the site which Cincinnati now occupies. No man, perhaps, ever enuureu greater hardships and lived to.reca his age. Another year and ho will have seen his hundreth. -Ikrar $565a5i66; but little TSj&ss poik $19; ipnme lb; auu. gjj lr CrNCTNNATi, Jan. 3. The river has fallen four feet I since Saturday; flour "4 50. IJto.sales in other ar- ueies. IiOUisviLLB, Jan: j3. River falling fast It has been snowing since morning. ' ' Pittsburg, Jan. 3. River 10 feet 4 inches in the channel and falling. Weather damp. Later from the Bio Grande. New Orleans, Bee, 31. We " have dates, from Brownsville to the 18th. Civil war was raging in the State of Tamaulipas. Governor Cardinal was made-prisoner by the insurgents, together -with nine members of the. Legislature. - His adherents have been carried prisoners to Tampico. The whole State declared acquiescence in new professional gov ernment The steamer "State of Mexico" which secretly left-Brazos, and a National war schooner, b6th joined the insurgents at Tampico, which act is con sidered as a death blow to the maratime ibrce of the government on the Gulf of Mexico. The city of Mataraoras still holds out, theCommandmentthere was fortifying, barricading, and making every prep aration for a determined resistance to the insur gents.' - .- SteamboatHuntsville' arrived. THE LATE J. B. BOOTH. The Eastern papers, in noticing the deathjof the great tragedian, Bodth, generally speak of his tal ents, character and history. He was believed by many to be equal to the elder Kean, while others thought him only second to that eminent perform er. His readings and conception were , good; his enunciation clear, and even audible, even to the lowest tones of his voice, and his gesture, besides being natural and graceful, was such as might be expected from a man who frequently forgot his own personal identity, and yielded himself up to tho passionate portrayal of the character he repre sented. The New York Evening Post, differing somewhat m its estimate, gives the following out line of his life and of his qualities as an actor fc r -ii lt. i -r i .. ir. j3ouin was uorn in jxmuon in the year 1796, and was consequently in the fifty-sixth year ' TT 1 T 1 ,i L . . 1 ' . oi ins age. jie uegan ms ineairicai career at JJept ford, near London, under the management of Pen- ley and J ones; then went to Brussels, where he performed with considerable success, and afterwards appeared at Jovent tiarden m" opposition to Kean. in Richard the Third, with which that distinguished artist was dazzling and storming the town. But the opposition to his appearance in the character rose to such a height that one of the most excitinsr theatrical riots on record grew out of the affair. Mr. Booth was not allowed to appear again in that city, lie came to this country, and made his first appearance at Petersburg, Virginia, in the year 1821, under the name of James H. Caldwell. His kindly reception determined him to pursue his proles sion. "The next year he performed at the Park Thea tre, in this city, the "character of Richard III, in which he was vociferously applauded, and by many of the critics compared with Kean. This was a judgment so directly in the face of the London de cision that Booth was encourgeS to make a tour of the Union, in the course of which he visited nearly all the largest cities and towns. He made money byhis'various.performances, and purchased a house and farm near Baltimore, where, with the excep tion oi occasional proiessional absences, he has since resided "Booth was an actor of extraordinary power and extraordinary defects. His voice,- figure, and gait were all, against him; and yet the intensity and ve hemence of his impersonations overcame the unfa vorable impression which these created, and ren dered him popular with even refined audiences. His Pescarf, his bir Giles Overreach, and his Rich ard were, at times, most vigorous performances; but Jiir. isooth was so eccentric in his habits that he never could be depended on, so that at other times they were the most wretched. "The theatres are filled with anecdotes of the ir regular life of this actor, which will no doubt some day be collected into a biography." The New York Tribune, in speaking of his pro fessional ability and personal qualities, remarks: 'Small in stature, not well formed, and with bad i - i i . i ' .... Points m f113 raanne h.e a( manypersonal disad- vantages to contend with in his profession, but such was the electric quality of his mind, that he over came them all., He lost himself in the part he was performing to such a degree that it became for the time-being a sort of insanity, Avhich Avas sometimes dangerous to his antagonists in the play. Thus his acting had a stamp of enthusiastic reality which re mained even after misfortune and irregularities of life had broken him doAvn.. The victim of circum stances and of a false social state, there Aas ever in him a manly and respectable element; and none Avho knewhim ashewas and ashe might have been will refuse" a tear ofpity for his memory." "Julius, what's der Malstrom?" "Der Malstreim, Mr. SnoAv, is der circular motion what gives rotundity of do arf." "What's der rotundity- of do arf?" "Why thecarcumsphcricaltAvist, on which they Avind up de equnoxcital line Noav don't bodder dis child Avith anv more of vnnr d d fnnlilinfaa " 'ord" with three fine, healthy children at a birth. Ane Begister man appears to be mightily tickled at lue occurrence, out we n bet five yards of light col- ored flannel that if he was the unlucky father of the musical trio, he'd "laugh out of the other side of his mouth." If there is, in this tolerable Avorld. anything Ave cordially detest, it is this making fun of other people's misfortunes. Buffalo Rounh. Notes. If too" ever feel like committinsr suicide, iust take a razor aud shave yonrself. Do Ihis, and two to one you postpone the job. What people imagine dispair is very-often nothing but lack of cleanliness. Shaking Hands. An exchange says ,that at a recent duel near Vicksburg, tho parties discharged tneir pistois Avitnout euect, whereupon, one of the seconds interferred, and proposed that the combat ants should shake hands. To this the other se cond objected as unnecessary, for, said he. their hands have been shaking this half hour. A Printer's Wrr. The New York Star, emits the folloAvinfr beam : "A correspondent entered an office and accused the compositor of not having punctuated his com munication, when the typo earnestly replied: 'Tm not a pointer, I'm a setter." J"Gen. Harding and R. N. Williams will speak at the Court-House, on Thursday night, upon the proposition to take stock in the various railroads. COMMERCIAL. " Nashville, Jan. 4. Cocton. Very little doing to-day. Sales of small lots at7,7 497 50. Nothing new in Groceries. 4 River falling. STEAMBOAT REGISTER. Aebivals. 3, Odd Fellow; Padncah. Departures. 3, Embassy, Memphis; Senator, "Waitsboro: 4 Huron, Pittsburg; Envoy, Cincinnati; Odd Fellow, Pa dncah. T?OR MEMPHIS U.S. MAIL PACK J? ET, SLIGONo. 2. will leave Nnshvill f?1!1??!3.?11 Thursday, at 6 o'clock, P. 3 in Umce. DAVIS. TTOR SALE. Two Small Frame Tcnemens, with throe room3 each',?? 9wfid street, between High and Vine .ifSSSS n M street, near Market street. Terms liberaL jan5 WILLIAMS & GLOVER, Agents. T ARD !. LARD ! 1200 barrels Lard wanted for Li wnicn tnc highest market pneo will bo paid, either in urucenea ur wisn. uec isa ojuvArxua. SMITH Jc CO. Mi ' . t a..MivhMa Mara I ;arw UmbadlM,I)MHtimnuact3i3and merchandise nerally,wpv&psomptaiid undiTfed attention to aU Duiiraea entrusted to hiacare.- - -And. J. DnxcAN has in store a large stock of nbboi? bouna - Bed Btankete: Birth and Cradle Blankets;heaAAvhif dMack inaw Blankets, BlanketGoating, Beaver,. Pilot and Felting Cloths, Georgia Kerseys und Xiuseys, Cloths, Cassnnana anc! Sattinetts, Flannelsj Sec Fashionable Angola and Kossnth Hate;-Baote,'Snoes, &c, &c Also, A large lot of Oznabupgs, Drilling, Brown ' 3Inslihs, and a general stock of goods, Avhich I will sell very low to close consignments. . j,in5 Am J. DUNCAN. ! 1 8 5 3. IflAVIES Daily Hegisters and Pocket Remembrancers, for 1853 Also; The German, United States, Crockett's and Comic Almanacs for 1853. For sale by ' jilSr " v" JOUNiYORK & CO. IjEDGERS, Journals, Cash Books, Day Books, Invoice Bocks, Record Books, full sets, of every style of ruling and binding, some handsomely paged and warranted of the best Linen paper. Forsaleby j:ai5 ' JOHN YORK & CO. "WRITING rtnc . ARNOLD'S Writing Fluid, a superior article ; ilaynard &.Noyes Ink ; Carmime Ink ; for sale by jan'o - JOHN YORK & CO. GOLD PENS. JOHN YORK & CO., Union street, has just received a gi-ext variety of superior Gold Pens, large and small, in sil ver and gold.holders, or single. Ecerypen wirranted. WRITING PAPER. LETTER, Foolscap, Notaand Bill Paper for r.ccounts. Commercial-Note Paper, Yellow and White letter. Envelopes, Note Envelopes, Avith Paper to match. Forsaleby jau5 ' JOHN YORK & GO. s TExVMBOAT BOOKS A-full stock, for sale by jau5 JOHN .YORK & CO. FOR RENT. A Brick House on Church street, next door to Francis B. Fogg. Also Five Rooms over W. Freeman's Furniture store, opposite Sewanee House. Also A Brick House on Front street, above Droad street. Also A two story Log House in Edgefield, oppose Capt Miller, with three ncres of ground attached. Also A Frame House in Edgefield, near Captain Miller's good garden, &c Also A large Frame House in Edgefield, near the Galla tin Turnpike, with seventeen acres of hind attached. jan5 WILLIAMS & GLOVER, Agents. ODD FELLOWS' HALlT MRS. EMMA G. BOSTWICK, of New York, vjf , RESPECTFULLY iuforms the citizens of Nash 4Bjiw A'ille, andher friends that she will give her first Sp GRulND CONCERT, On Monday EA'cning, January 10, 1853. Assisted by the following eminent artists: Tire Distinguished Vioixlist, MR. HENRY APPY, Solo Violinist to the Kingof Holland. The Celebrated Solo Flctist, MR. JULIUS SIEDE, First Flute Professor of tho Royal Conscrratorie, Leipsiq MISS ANNE OLL1VER, La Petite Filla du Itegiment, only nine years of age, the wonderful performer on the Con certina, daughter of the Band Master of her Majesty's Regi ment at Montreal; HURR TIIILLOW, Solo Pianist to his Royal Highness, the Duke of Coburg Gotlia. jgrTickets 1 each to all parts of the Hall. To be had at the principal Music Stores and Hotels; aud at the door on the Evening of the Concert (ggrDoors open at 6 o'clock Concert to commence at 74 o'clock. iggReserved seats .can be secured, without extra charge, jan t td F. THIES. Agent D HS. FORD & McCOMBS liave associated in the practice of Medicine. jan-i lm CINCINNATI, LOmSYlLLEand NASHVILLE PACKET. THE unsurpassed fast running passenger pv jw steamer ENVOY, Tuos. Roucers, Mas- ? ,i;gr ter, has taken the place of the steainerHMS&Kv Mattiu Wayne and will make regular trips in the above trade during the season. Leaving Cincinnati every other Wednesday, at 4 o'clock, P. M. Nashville every other Tuesday, at 4 o'clock, P. M. Tht: above boat is entirely new and for speed and accom modation is unsurpassed. I will be thankful for all orders, and respectfully solicit for her a share of public patronage. JAMES CLAIUOUNE, jan l a ex Agent, Front St $200 REWARD. I "WILL pay the above reward for the arrest and delivery to me ot a yellow girl name NELLY, who runaway in June last, and is supposed, from information recently re- 1 1 HT 1 Til- il " ? ?i 1 . - ceiveu, 10 oe in ruasuviiio or me vicinny anu unuer mo pro tection of a white man. The girl is about twenty-one years old, .small and delicately formed, dresses neatly, speaks sprightly and steps accurately, she has bushy hair, white tectti ana very imnasome leatures lor a negro, ane was formerly owned by Chas. A. Turley, Esq. janl Gt WESLEY WHELESS. AUCTION SALE OF GROCERIES, &C. BYliEK Jf. NOEL & BRO. ON MONDAY MORNING, January 10th, 1853, we will offer for Sale at Auction, a very large assortment of Groceries, Wines, Liquors, &c Ao, viz: t rts. Til -V r . 4 Ill I I luo nuns .new cugar; ivu urns Aurora wnisKy; 300 Ilbls Molasses; 100 Wclshires do: 150 Sacks Rio CotTee; 30 50 Dags Java & Laguyra, do; 30 1000 Bags Salt; 100 100 Kegs Nails, assorted; 50 250 Boxes Glassware, ass'td; 50 200 Dbls St. Louis Mills Flour 20 50 " Ohio Flour; 20 50 Rags Pepper & Spice; 50 Manongahala do; D. Distilled do; American Brandy; Vinegar; Malaga Wine; Port Wine; New England Rum; waiKers Ale; 800 Reams Wrapping Paper; 5 Pipes French Brandv: 100 Boxes Star Candles; 100 Bxs Tobacco, ass. brands; 500 Cans & Kegs Oysters; 50 Bales Cotton Yarns; 200 Dxs,f x. X bxs Raisins; 50 Bxs Tallow Candles; 100 Dozen Buckets; 50 Bhls Crackers, 50 Poxes E. Dairy Cheese; 150 Bxs W. R. Cheese; Together with indigo, Madder, Pepper, Spies, Ginger, Salenitus, Brooms, Pint & Quart Flasks, Plough Lines, Buckets, &c., &c jan 4 BEN M. NOEL, & BRO. NEW, ARRIVALS OF SEASONABLE BOOTS AND SHOES. LADLES' Welt Boots, Walking Shoes and Excelsiors, " French Moroc. Boots, thick and thin soled, Kid Pans Ties " soled, French Lasting Gaiters, thick soled, Italian Cloth Pump soled Gaiters, English Kid " " da. Tapestry, Velvet and Prunella Slippers. " French Mora., Kid, Buckskins and Excelsiors Misses' " " " WeltBoots, Child's Kid bk Boots, 4c, Ac Gents' Super. Calf Pump soled Dressr Boots, " '.' ' Dress Water-proof Booti, " " " Pump soled peg'd do. " Goat Slippers, large sizes, " Calf dress water-proof Shoes, Just "opened by Jan4 RAMAGE & CHURCH. OVER SHOES AND CORK SOLES. Just re caived. another sunnlv of Ladies' Gum Sandals. Slin- pers and Buskins; Ladies' Gum Boots, lined; Gents.' Gum Sandals and Overshoes; Boys' and Misses' Overshoes, a fine supply just opened by jan4 RAMAGE & CHURCH. TO STOCKHOLDERS. THE, PLANTERS' BANK OF TENNESSEE has this day declared a dividend of Four Dollars per share on the capital stock of said Bank out of the profits of the lost six months, to be paid to stockholders on demand. . January 1, 1853 lw U. 1SW1NG,-Cashier. W. n.CORDOK, a B. BRTAX. W. H. GORDON & CO., AUCTION & COMMISSION MERCHANTS. For the sale of Merchandise, generally, jan 1 XASUVILLE, TENX. SUGAR. 150 hhds. prime new Sugar for sale by jani W. if GORDON &CO. M' OL ASSES. 200 bbl3 prime new Molasses, for sale by jana y. tu (juuuuj & uu. NAILS. 2000 Kegs Shoenberger's Nails, all sizes, for sale by jan3 W. H. GORDON & CO. TOB ACCO. 150 Boxes Keen & Co., Stony Mill's To bacco; 50 Boxes Keen & Co., buncured Tobacco; i 150 do Stubblefield do; 150 do Boaz do; 150 do Godwin's do: Forsaleby jan3 W. H. GORDON !fc CO. O IGARS 5 Cases LasTre3Mareas Rcralia Curars: 5-, cases La National do do 5 do Jenny Lind do do do do do do Wandering Jew do do Spotted Cathedral do do La Fiel do do Monte Crista do do 50,000 Davs Melee do do Forsaleby jan3 W. H. GORDON & CO. aLJiSSWARE. 200 Boxes P?nt Flasks; 100 Boxes Quart do; 5)0 do Tumblers, assorted for sale br jan3 W. H. GORDON & CO. LOUGHS. 100 Hall's Peacock Ploughs, for sale-by-jao3 W. H. GORDON & CO. H OliS. 100 Dozen Weeding and Grubbing Hoes, for sale by jan3 w. IL UUKDON & CO. s AFJ2TY FDZE.- -100,000 feet Safety Fuze, for sale W. H. GORDON & CO. by jan3 SALT. 1000 Bbls No. 1 Kanawha Salt for sale by ja3 W. H. GORDON & CO. FOR, SALE. A likely Negro man, 25 years old; 2 ' boiB. 19'years old; a" woman and two children, trend cook, ironer and washer.- .Low for cash .or good baDW-. at short date; Apply to JOS.W.DABBS, dec22'' n - Cedar Etreot, Nashville. DEB03Y& RESOURCES OF THE-SOUTH. WEST. W. T. BERRit&COt have jnst received, plete in 8 volumes The Lidnstrial Resources, et the Southern and Western States. Embracing a yiew of their Commerce, Agriculture, M nlactdres, Internal Improvements, Slave and Free Lai Slavery Institutions, Products, etc, of the South ; tcgetl with Historical and Statistical Sketches of tho ditTcn States and Cities of tho Union Statistics of the Unit -States Commerce and Manufactures, from the earliest $ riods, compared with other leading powers the resultsf the returns of the different Census Returns since 1790, ai returns of the Census of 1S50, on Population, Agriculture aij General Industry, etc, with an Appendix. By J. B. D. 1 Bow, Professor of Political Economy in the University 1 . Louisiana, etc. 1 The volume embraces the following general subjects, al ranged alphabetically, with copious indexes : t History, Population, Geography, Statistics of the Sow and West; Agricultural Products of Cotton, Sugar, TohaJ co, Hemp, Grains, Naval Stores, etc, etc Manufactures detailed accounts, statistics and history of all branches. ! tcrnollniprovemenis; complete statistics of Rail Roads suits, prohts, expenses, costs, advantages, miles in pi tion. construction, completed, etc, Plank Roads, Navigation, etc Statistics of Health and Diseases. -i- $ and Progress; Relative Condition, Whites and BW-ASySlavf - Laws ana Statistics, Management and Amelioratlln ot staTU" 1 ry, Origin, History and Defence of Slavery and Saarelnsti tutions; the valuable treatises of Harper, Hammond, Drew on Slavery, etc; Commerce nftheSowth and West in all t its minute particulars, etc, together with an Historical am Statistical Sketch of each of the States and Cities the Dc mestic and Foreign Trade, Resources, Manufactures, etc, o the United States the Census Returns from 17U0, with th. statistics of the census of 1S50- ' "W. T.B. & Co. Lave also just received,- The American Almanac for 1353 Cersin's History of Modem Philosophy Sir William Hamilton's Discussions on Philosophy anc T . 1 TT IT 1 TT - . . - Liiieraiure, riaucauon anu university Keiorm. . jan3. FIRST LARGE SALE OF DRY GOODS, &c. BY A. J. DITXCAX Tuesday and Wednesday, January ISlh, and 19$, 1S53. ' ON Tuesday and Wednesday, 18th and 19th January, I will sell without reserve a very large stock of entire ly New and Desirable Goods, embracing a great variety of English Goods (of this Fall's Importation) and of American Goods, all of the-latest and handsomest styles. Anion"-them will be found Wool-dyed Black and other Cloths, Cassmic? Erminetts, Imperial Cloths,Beavertecus, heavy, black, ble and Oxford mixed, brown and Cadett Satinetts SteubeuTiHc and Eastern Jeans, Cashmere and Satin Vestings; French Shapes of new and beautiful styles, fancy Prints, black and second Mourning Prints, rubrand orange Prints, Cashmeres and Mouslin de Laines, black Silks, superior Silk Handker chiefs, Patent Thread, Silk and Twist, black and adored Lamb's-wool, Merino, and Cashmere Hgs and Half Hose, Kid, Silk and Woolen Gloves, Irish Linens, (of direct impor tations) of superior quality, Lamh's-wool and Merino Shirts and Drawers; large stock of Wrappings, and general Trim mings; Spool Threads, Buttons, Needle, Pins, ic; colored Cambrics, Paddings, scarlet, white aud orange Flanuels, Al paccas, English and French Merino, bleached and brown Drill, 3-4, 7-8, 4-4 and 5-4; bleached and brown Domestic, 3 4, 4-4, 7-S wide, of Southern and Western manufactures, Ac, &c, ALSO. 50 Cases Boots, Shcea and Brogans, now in store, comprising Men's Kip, Calf and Seal Boots, thick Booti, Kip and thick Brogans; Ladies', Misses' and Boys' Shoes. WITH ILVTS, CAPS, UMBRELLAS, Ac, &c The stock is large, comprising the greatest variety, and well worth the attention of country and city buyers, SSTTertna will be made accommodating. AND! J. DUNCAN FUTURE SALES.-1853. Feb'y 15 and 16, March 15, 16 and 17, April 12, 13 and 14. janl Mar 17. IS and 19. June 14, 15 and 1G. July 12, 13 and 14. A. J. D- FIRST SALE OF DRY GOODS, &c, BY J.F. DTJNTON. ON TUESDAY and THURSDAY, 11th and 13th Janua ry, 1853, 1 will sell a large and desirable stock of Dry Goods, entirely new styles, both French, English and Do mestic conbisting in part of Black, Blue, Green and Blown CLOTHS; Casimeres, Jeanes and Fancy Pant Goode, Satin, Cassimeres and Woolen Vestings; Cashmeres, De Laines, French Ginghams, Alpaccas, plamBIack and BrocadeSilks; a very fine assortment of TalliUi and Konnet Ribbons; a large assortment of Black and Fancv Silk Cravats; Silk Handker chiefs, Silk Mantillas, Opera ("leaks, &c; a fine assortment of all-wool Tweeds, Cassmetts and Cassimeres, Blankets and Beaver Cloths and Petersham, Scarlet, White and Orange Flannels, Black and Brown Do mestics, Bleached aud Blown Drills, Bleached full-width Shcetiugof superior quality; best article of Tickings; French, English and American Fancy Prints; a very fine and large assortment of Suspenders, fine Shirting Checks, worsted and silk Surges, Scarlet and White Merino Drawers and Under-shirts, Silk, Cassimerc, Merino Hose, Merino and Lambs Wool Hose, Sewing Silk, Patent Thread and Spool Cotton; Kid, Cashmere and Heavy Gloves; a large and desirable lot of Pearl and Agate Shirt Buttons, Pant, Vest and Coat Buttons, Needles. Pins, Hooks and Eyes, a very fine assortment of Pocket Knives and Tahle Cutler-, Ac. jan3. FUTURE. SALES February, 8 & 10 22 & 24 March, 8, 9 & 1022 & 24 April 5 & 719, 20 & 21 May, 8 & 521 & 23 23 & 30 June,7 & 921 & 23 23 & 30 July, 5 Sc 719 & 21 2G & 27 NOTICE. Mr. Charles B. Bryan lias this day be come interested in our business, which will be con ducted as heretofore. jan 1,853 W. H. GORDON, & CO. FOIC RENT. A good lodging room, furnished, in a pleasant part of the city. Apply at this office, janl lw. TTrssnusE for sale. WILL be sold, on .Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock all my Household and Kitchen Furniture. The sale will take "place at my residence on Cedar, between Cherry and Summer streets. MRS. LAWRENCE, janl td s ton nrictrs januarj-1, 1853 TIME SALE OF GROCERIES. ON WEDNESDAY the 12th January, 1353, we will offer on liberal terms at Public Sale : 150 Hogsheads Prime New Sugar; 200 Barrels do do Molasses; 50 Packages Loaf and Crushed Sugar; 500 Kegs bhoenberger's Nails, all sizes; -500 Boxes Glassware, assorted; 100 Boxes Wooster's Axes; -100. Dozen Weeding Hoes; - 500 Boxes 3lanufactured Tobacco, all "Tades" - 100,000 Regalia and Principee Cigars So- ' 50,000 Melee do . 100 Bales Cotton Yarns, all Nos; 100 bbls Rectified Whisky; 50 Packages Wines and Brandies; 200 Boxes Star Candles; 100 do Tallow do 100- do Palm Soap With various other articles. Tho goods will be put up in our usual quantities, and wo would invite the attention of tha trade generally. Terms of Sale. All sums under 200 Cash. AH sums over$200, four months for. approved endorsed notes paya ble in one of the city Banks. jan3 W. H. GORDON & CO. NOTICEI have appointed Mr. A. V. S. LINDSLEY myAttornevin fact, with full powprsto make Deeds, sell property, make collections, and attend to any and all bu siness I have in Davidson county. He is authorized to A - i. I, T , , . " r . . represent me as iuny as i couiu ao were 1 present to act for myself. N. B. All persons holding Title Bonds from me for prop erty purchased in Edgefield are earnestly requested to come forward and complete their property, and receive Titles or their debts will be sued at once. ' janl lm M. W. WETMORE. UNDERWEAR AT REDUCED PRTfTFS A1 o we are preparing to go .hast, lor our Sprinj we are preparing to go East, for our Spring supply, we will sell the remainder of our stock of TTniWrom. at greatly reduced prices. It consists of cm , Tr?i r - . ouaser jvnii anirisana Drawers, Shaker Flannel do " do, Cashmere do " do, Marino do " do. Silk do " do, Shaker Socks, Lambs' Wool Socks Cashmere Socks, With a good assortment of Underwear for Ladies all of which we will sell low. dec-31 MYERS fc McGLLL BUGGY AND CARRLiGE BLANKETS. We have a few superior Blankets left, which we will sell very low. decSl MYERS Jt McGLLL. GLOVES I GLOVES I ! Also an assortment of Winter Gloves, at very low prices. dec31 MYERS k McGILL. OUTSIDE SCARPS AND MUFFLERS.--For Ladies and Gentlemen, consisting of Chanile Cashmere, and Zephyr woosted. MYERS & McGILL. ' Ladier and Gentlemen's Jeurmshing Store, College St, one door-from the Square. dec31 FOR SALE. A Negro Girl, well qualified for pastry cooking, washer and ironer, and warranted to be a first rate seamstress Also; two likely Negro Boys nine years old. Apply to JOSEPH W. DABBS, dec30 Cedar street. O. MACQRECOR, Jf. E. alloway; j. baxxhead. MACGSEGOR, ALLOWAY & CO., COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 55 St. CiunLEs Street, (third Store above St. Charles Hotel,) New Orleans. N. E. ALLOWAY & CO., Nashville, Tenm, are a t all times prepared to make liberal cash advances on ship ments to us. seplC RANBERRIES. 30 bbls Cranberries; 15 bbls do 15 yi bbls do. Just received br dec 23 R. & J. NIXON. SPLENDID FLOOR OH. CLOTHS, JUST RECEIVED. SOME of which are the same kind that took the first pre mium at tho World's Fair, which will be sold very low cut to fit dcc20 W. 4 t: H. GREENFIELD & CO. : V f . YCAMORE COTTON YARNS A full supply of Sycamore Yarns, kept constantly on hand at Fac- for Cash. RAMAGE & fiHTIUnJI i V 4,1 ;s; til ai Mirt.nt-W n J