MISCELLANEOUS.
1.0VE U T8S BUK.VOODS,
" Or Ji:aay'adi!cVl'irst" Ciir$M.ip.
Talking o' sprees, lys. puts me in mind o' my
y.iung davs, 1 should rither guess I was in for
r -n:e. inyselt, the ra times! .
i'his was said by an old. man, whom we will
introduce, us ?dr, James Waddle, or rather as "oIJ
Jinmiey W;u!he." Every body knows him, (ex
cept the reader,) anil hid penchant for yarn spin
ning. It is the evening of a militia training day.
There was a pooiliy number, after the company
is 'dismissed from duty who are lounging around
the aforesaid old Jim, to hear his yarn to which he
has already begin the pr.dmle, and only awaits
aomeboi'.v to urge him to go on. This there arc
chough' to do. lie !hen interred what they would
Jjn-e "one o' his liuntiu' or coiirtin' sprees?"'
The bcy nnaKi;fi--!f1y demanded the latter. Then
after rerinestihtj that none .of , thetn should laugh
'till lie got through, with a few preparatory hems,
mi l mi assumption ot a comically grave lace, (J
- wi-h I con'd report in his language, verbatim et '
lit-rutim,) "Commenced.
When I"war a hoy., yoff know, daddy moved
'from Virginity to Kaintuck. I'd been, born and
fou'eh up on the frontoors, and Kaintuck was a
perfect paradise for me to hunt bu rs and injinis in.
Hut 1 fiiri.'ot-vuu want a emu-tin story, wen,
although J was always eutiin' up some deviltry
among the boys, vet some how, I was a leel'e shy I
nn 1 slviv.y amongst the gals. I liked the critters
.prodigiously, but about the only way I could man
age to show it, was by c-.i-tiu' sheep's eyes, in a
bnndaitce at Vui. We had mfoiiu's as well as
frolics, sometimes, Whik: the preacher was
prcacben' tsiider .'Fieartediies's, brotherly kindness,
nnd.liive, I wasn't tiiinklu' o! nolhin' else. I us
ed tos. tv.h -r : 1 could look tin? gal's iii the face
;U(u then iraze at some purty one till she'd blush as
r?J us a popper pod. Then I .fell so queer about
the gizzard, and wishtan airtli-quake would come
and throw me rlglit in her lap! 1 was in love,
but I could'nt tell who 1 loved most. Thar was
Peggy Masuuha miner, a 'mighty fine gal, even in
her tow linen frock, her cheeks wur as full as a
; china pig's, and lis red as a turkey gobbler's ; and
t'tenthar was Saliy Terkins, with her 'gloriously
.striped home-made cotton frock, beesides her bar
and eyes ae black as ink ; and then thar was dim
ple cheek 'd, blue-eyed . Lotto Smith, who alwees
toated her shoes and stoclin's in her hands tii!
she got in sight o' merlin'. Well, o' theca three
I could'nt tell for my life which I liked best
sometimes one, and sometimes another but aluz
the last one I lookt nt.
But when Squire Cfiimptnn come toourdig-
. pins, hi3 two gals tuck the shine off all the rest on
'cm; 'specially the oldest tine, Betsy. ' I shant at
tempt to describe her, but when 1 tell you (she
had a calico frock, with yaller flowers as big as
your hand brass ear-bobs, besides half a dozen
strans o' beads as large as the end o' your littie
finger, you may think she was a charmer I did
anyhow. Of all the magnHm bonum charmers
I'd over seed, she was the magnum bonumist!
And so all the young fellers saidtu. When I fust
seed her, it was at deacon Snook's meetin'. I
fastened my eyes on her til! her's met mine she
looked steadfastly then smiled a charmin' smile,
and blush't, and look't down. Lordy, but thar
was a flutterin', equal tu a saw mill, 'tween my
two jacket pocket3 ! I felt I was a gonner. From
that hour I was too big for my breeches, and of a
Sundays I borried dadd's breeches he'd been mar
ried in aforo th Revolutionary War, and came off
at his knees, but as he was tall and I warh't, they
come below mine three or four inches. Agin the
next meetin' I was prepared to cut a big stiff; Sal,
for the purpose, starched and ironed my new fine
shirt as stiff and slick as a sheet of new tin. This
shirt had the finest kind of flix-linen in the bo
som and collar, but the invisible part of it was of
coarse tow, with a hem that would cable a steam
boat. Now, while Sal was smoothing the wrink
les near the said hem with an Iron just ht from
the fire, down stairs tumbled one of the tarnal
hrats. knockin' the breath out'n it. It was Satur
day night, and sho was the only one up, and run
" to it in course, but afore it come tu, the iron had
very decidedly made its mark that is, burnt two
holes in the. extremity of my linen. Next morn
in I put it on as it was then dad's true blues
then the fust regular pair of shoes 1 d ever had
.' I was seventeen just, that Sunday morniii', and in
my -Sunday riggln' felt myself a man, and was re
solved if Betsy Crumpton was at meetin' to show
it. Well, she was thar, and I axed for her com
pany and got it ! Walkin by her side, I felt as
light a3 nolhin I skercely '.edit the ground 1
walked on. But I shant tell you the fine things I
thol' and said to her on the way, and more after
we got home. (0, yes, do! said several voices.)
Mo, you'll have enough without that you'ro to
.skim tho cream of the story yet. : .
... Sii3 kept mij up l ite, say two o'clock, and' spite
of the novelty (it being the fust time) I got sleepy.
Now the Squire had just come to tho parts, and
put up a one rtry, one room'd log cabin' and the
whole f.ttnilv, 'cept some o' the young'ens slop be
low. I was a lectio? bashful 'bout guine to bed
- I'mr.but I was threo miles from home, and it was
r linin' like blue blazes, and I had to do it, and did
without exposln' tho blanks in my linen. I resol
ved to be up afore any body else in the moniin' on
. : nnte account and some others.. ,
That was the last I knovv'd till wsken'd by the
hounds (half a dozen of which slept under the bed)
I illin' the kivcrsoffn me. Holy Jupiter! the aun
i a-8 hours high breakfast on the table, and me in
l-ed. Just as I was guine to spring out, in pop3
l ie old 'omin, with a plate of venison. It was
rog-days,you know, and shecooki in a shanty.
1 nossumed sleep till the wj?nt out again, then
1 jok'd for my trowsers thar. they wur in the jaws
i f the pups at the foot of the bed ! I made a migh-
. ty lunge over the foot-board to retake them, lot, O,
horrors !my bead down and my heels up! What's
the matter, thinks I but it rueht across me in i
" moment that the holes in my linen was over the
imal and tall post tu ! I kick'd and floimdcr'd
. ,nd flounced, but all to no purpose. I couldn't get
down; I strained to break the hem but it all was
no go. Jist nowalltliehoiindsMtiniencedyidlin'
to furiously tii cH 'onun and both g da come, run-
niii' in to stewluu was up, and when thry seed it
was mo they run out agin j one begin to hollor for
the Squire, while tothers, through the cracks, bat
tled with fishin' poles the cursed hounds (hat Wur
wtillin' me. Oh, I thought of Abselem and every
bnrly else that ever did hang, but he didn't bang
with the wrong end up, and that was a consolation
I hadn't ! I'd a cust my futo like Boston, but I
remember' J i belong'd to meetin', and it was agin
therules. 1 did howsomever, think some mighty
hard words if I didn't speak 'em ! But all that
didn't do no good. I couldn't make nothiu' by pul-
lin' down'ards, and so I thought I'd climd up the
post and unloose myself that way. I had nearly
succeeded, when one of the unmanerly pups at
tacked, mo in the rair, and loosin' my holt fell in
a knot decidedly pcelin' off my linen '.ho button
bursted oft', and I come out full length on the floor,
in precisely the same state of fix Job said become
into 'his world ! The next Hiiuit I was under the
bed where the overlastin' pups had dragged my
trowsers. I cuff't them off; every lime 1 put one
leg partly on, the infernal whelps would pull toth-
er off, I worried this way some time, when a
puncheon, gave way, and I fell through into a
trough of soiip.wider the house. Cosh ! I thought
Iwas in thevff ;tfrat was bottomless!. I sprung
for my life, but .in doing this I threw myself into
the faewflnd stomach of Squire Crumpton, who
was comin' on the run, 'epoetin' the injins was mas
sicreein' the whole family. The collision threw
him down tho hill, and I followed suit, heels over
cad, to the bottom. .. Hero I recovered my under-
standing, and without any apologies, or even a
word, 1 struck a bee-line for home jist as I was, in
my native purity, at ajspeed that split tlic winds,
my toenails, strikin' fire out'r the flints at every
jump! .
But, b'hoys, I never went within a quarter of a
mile of. Squire Orunipton's 'afterwards nor did I
ever cast sheep's eyes at iiotsy again, let alone
gallanting her home," . .,
WKSTKRN' K.UMirKWB.
The following is published as a specimen of wes
tern eloquence and jurisprudence. Here in the
Enat, tlic gentlemen of the green bag offer judges
pretty much the same incense, but never openly
pro ent the whiskey :. :'
" Judge,'' said the counsel for the defendant,
your time, I know, is preciou, as smst he the case
with so able and valued member of society. This
case is perfectly clear, and I know your larnlng
and lucid intelligence has pierced through it at tho
first glance. For me to argue, would not only be
a waste of lime, but an insult to your penetrat'on.
Much might be said, but nothing is needed. Be
fore any other Judge I might lay down the law ;
but here I know it has been deeply studied and
wisely understood. I look around mo and behold
an humble house of logs, yet see before me thespir
it of truth, the unpurchased distributor of law, and
the old tenement rises before my mental vision a
proud and majestic temple to justice. Judge I have
a bottle of prime old Monongahela in my pocket ;
for the respect I bear your character, allow me to
make you a presei.t of it."
" Verdict for the defendnni" said the Judge.
Flare cr in a Fashionable Boardino House.
A curious expose took place on Friday night
week at a fashionable Boarding house in Now
York, which threw the inmates intoa atate of great
excitement. It appears that a lady with a num
ber of trunks arrived cn Thursday night, and took
lodgings at the house in question. She gave the
name of Shel'y, and announced herself as the wife
of a wealthy planter at the South. Great atten
tion was paid her until she was introduced to some
of the upper ten and she was the hciresj of the
house until Friday night, when a gentleman who
had just arrived from the South happened to call
upon a friend who was a boarder in the same es
tablishment, and was shown into a room where the
planters wife was seated. Judge of his surprise
when he recognised in the lady the koeperof a house
of ill-fame at Augusta, Ga. The lady motioned the
gent to say nothing but he was not to be coaxed,
and calling the keeper of the house informed her
of the character ol the lady. The good landlady
was horror-stricken, and begged that the affair
might be kept secret ; hut the story had got around
the house, and the excitement was great. A po
liceman was sent for, but before he arrived the
matter was settled by tho lady expressing a wil
lingness to depart quietly. A carriage was sent
for, and the sm disant planter's wije departed for
mansion more suitable to her ejiJted station. .
FniaHTTL'1. LOSS OF LlFE IS A THEATRE. On
the night of Saturday, the 17th nltimo, the Thea
tre Royal, in Glasgow, (Scotland,) took fire in the
upper gallery, from a leakage in the gas pipes.
The first was soon extinguished ; but such was
the alarm of the people that in the rush to get out
sixty-five persons pershed. The panic was prin
cipally in the tipper gallery, where there were a
baut five hundred people, tho price of admission
being only three pence. The crowd rushed down
the stairs in the terror ol come undefined calamity,
and fell one over another at the foot, thereby ma
lting a barricade of a compact mass of prostrate
human beings against the only fnoans of egress.
Independent of the pressure of human beings Upon
each other, this flight of stairs soon became a sec
ond Black Hole of Calcutta, from the intensity of
the heat. The weak were trampled down by the
strong, the latter only to be trampled down in turn
by the furious crowd in the rear. The noise of
thetitfed cries and groans, and the struggles for
life which came from this horrid staircase, were
most agonizing.' Relief to the living was finally
obtained by cuttin? through the partition. Bv 9
o'clock all the rosrns in the Garrick Hotel, oppo
site the theatre, were filled with the dead. Scarce
ly any of the bodies presented external wounds,
They generally exhibited a placid aspect, and
seemed as if death bad been caused by pressure
on the heart. " .
There were many painful cases ; one was that
of a poor woman who found hor husband and two
children among the dead one of the latter a girl
only thfbe years of age. Sixty-five were taken
eut dead; several died on their way to the hospit
al, and many of the wounded will probably die.
To read and not to understand, is to pursue and
not to take.
THE TLANK ROAD.
It is gratifying to know that old Rip Van Wink
le is at length waked ap from his long sleep, to see
audnppreciate the importance of Internal Improve
ments in the old North State. The two political
parties bare coalesced in this good work, and are
pulling harmoniously together this augurs well
for the prosperity of the State. While Railroads
and Turnpikes and Xavigatisn are finding favor
amongst the peode, (and we wish them God
speed,) it is our purpose, at present, to say a word
for our projected Plank Road. There is no pres
tigious deception here it is a plain, practical
scheme, recommending itself, not only to the en
lightened patriot and intelligent economist, but to
all who will rigiitly weigh and consider the incal
culable benefits it will certainly confer on the
great mass of the people, and especially oh the in
dustrial portion of the community. It is no exper
iment now the thing has been fully tested at the
North and has been found not only practicable,
but the f heapest and the very best modo of trans
porting heavy articles to market, ever yet devised,
except by water. This has been proved by relia'
ble statistics, even to demonstration. It is calcu-
Lhvled that a wagon and team will transport on a
Plank Road four times as much as on a McAda
inized Road and eight times as much as on a
common gravelly road ; and this too without inju
ry to horses, wagon or gear, with a momentum
greatly accelerated this is surely a desideratum.
We understand that the subscription I st at this
piace iH about $55,000, wanting only 25,000 to ae
cure the State's subscription of $1 20,000, mak
ing an aggregate of $200,000, the estimated cost
of the Road. We think there can be no doubt of
filling the subscription. Wilmington will proba
bly lend a helping hand-her interests are identi
fied with the scheme. To Salisbury and that re
gion of country, it is all-important tho interven
ing towns, too, will bo greatly benefitted, and so
will the w hole country contiguous to the Road
their lands will be advanced in raluo at least 100
per cent. .'-
The wretched condition of our roads from this
to the Yadkin is well known : and they never will
be improved under tho County overseeing plan.
A log thrown across the road here, to turn the wa
ter and break a wheel, and a little brush thrown
thsre to fill up a hole and to decoy the careless
wagoner, is a sort of road statesmanship which
has paralyzed the energies of our honest working
men long enough. Let us see the largo wagons,
with their heavy tonnage, gliding smoothly down
to this place, to deposit their cargoes n the wa
ter the proper element and thence to be floated
down to Wilmington, our sea-port and oiirhoine
port Cvmmunkalor,
PLANK ROAD. i.
The book for subscription f Stock to tho Plank
Road to Fayetteville, has now been opened here
some two or three weeks, and will be closed about
16th of this month. Nothing lias yet been done at
this place of which we can afford to boast. The
people seem determined to stand off for the present,
nor can we predict, with any certainty, what will
be done, until the fate of the Rail Road project is
settled beyond a doubt. If there should be any money
left after that is properly cared for, it is likely that
those vs'ho may be the fortunate holders, will turn
their attention towards the Plank Road scheme.
However lukewarm the friends-of this meas
ure may be at this moment, we are still firmly of
opinion that it is bound to succeed ultimately. It is
a work which our people and the people of Fay
etteville need, and one which they must and will
have Car. Wttch.
EFFECTS OF RAILROADS UPON REAL
''. rKOfERTT..
A'correspondent of the Baltimore American re
marks that in estimating the value of projected
Railroads and Railroad stocks, few persons look
at the inevitable clianges produced in the condi
tion and in the value of property through which a
Road may pass. The immediate and the eventu
al results, remarks the writer, in the simple value
of property aru such as fully to reimburse a State
for the outlay in construction.
The example of Massachusetts is mentioned by
the correspondent of the American in which tho
increase is not confined to the mere termini, but to
all towjis and villages within tbe vicinage of the
Roady The population received an Impetes more
than commensurate with enhanced value of prop
erty. Thus, says thewriter, the census returns
in some of the, small towns id Massachusetts shew
the following rapid changes between 1810 and
1845, (only five years) in their population J
Roxbury, 67 per cent. Lowell 38 percent.
Brookline, 50
Cambridge, 33
Worcester, 56
Springfield, 33
Fall River, 59
Chelsea, 123
THE CONTINENTAL RAIL ROAD.
The Continental Rail Road is creating the most
enthusiastic excitement throughout the Western
and South Western States. A meeting of the cit
izens of St. Louis have seconded the bill of Sen
ator Benton, and expressed their confidence that
this great measure will be speedily carried out.
The Legislature of Arkansas, has passed a reso
lution CalliDg a convention 10 assemble at Mem
phis, Tennessee, on the 4th of July, to unite with
the citizens of Memphis in securing a road from
Memphis, via Little Rock, Arkansas. Other meet
ings have been held in various sections, and the
whole people arid press are moving earnestly and
unanimously to the work. ; 1
-ji.v.,
A DELICATE ANNOUNCEMENT.
An English paper has the following delicate an
nouncement:
It is stated that her .Majesty is in a condition
which holds out a prospect of her presenting the
country before long with an additional prince or
princess.
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THE SUGAR CROP.
Much injury is said to have been done to the
sugar cane in Louisiana, by the late cold weather.
The plant cane en many plantations had been al
most entirely destroyed, and in some Instances it
would be diificult fur the planters to obtain seed.
QUO BONO 7
Our South Carolina neighbors seem determined
to let the world know that there is such a State
South Carolina, and that she ii ready to cast the
ganntlet of defiauce in the face of all anti-slavcry-dom.
Her Press is groaning nndcr the weight of
the proceedings of public meetings, held to respond
to the " Southern Address," or in other words, to
renew their oath of fealty to John C. Calhoun,
and pin their faith "still tighter to him. Finry
speeches so hot you can almost hear them seethe
as you read them, rA dire resolves are the order of
the day.
Now we have as little sympathy for tho aboli
tion fanatics, and we depise them as heartily, as
any one in the world ; but we must confess we see
bo use in such carrying's on as our South Carolina
friends are indulging in. We have read the pro
ceedings and resolves of several of these meetings,
and still tho question recurs to us, quo bono what
good do they do ? Who doubts but that North Car
olina is as jealous of her rights and honor, and as
ready to maintain them, as South Carolina, or any
other State J and yet she is calm she is not was
ting her ammunition by firing into the air. It is
not he who makes the loudest protestations that is
always the bravest, or the most ready in tho mo
ment of action the noisy thunder is harmless, but
the silent lightning docs the execution. The mo
tives which prompt a majority of the abolitionists
to action are such that they feel gratified to per
ceive they are disturbing tho peace of the South.
Thousands of of them have no doubt gloated with
pleasure over these speeches and resolves, rejoic
ing at the idea that the Union is in danger.
The fact is South Carolina was jn a dilemma
between Cass and Taylor. She is glad the one
was defeated and sorry tho other was elected; and
she must now make a stir to get rid of her bile and
oalm her ruffled temper j and perhaps her present
course is as good as any she could adopt better,
at any rates, than to re-enact the Nullification
farce. Mountain Banner.
THE NEW ADMINISTRATION.
General Taylor has passed through a severe or
deal during the last three weeks. Engaged with
the high and solemn task of framing an adminis
tration, he has all the time been besieged by crowds
of visitors every one of whom desired the pleas
ure of exchanging a few words with him. Of all
who have approached him, wo have not heard of
one who was not favorably impressed with him.
His frank and honest simplicity of manners his
cordiality his good nature his apt replies to all
remarks have won the confidence of citizens of
every portion of the Republic, and impressed them
with the Conviction that he is worthy of the high
position to which the American people have eleva
ted him. . v
; The wisdom, which he has displayed in the se
lection of his Cabinet, is demonstrated by the gen
eral approbation with which their nominations have
been received, and by the cool deliberation with
Which they are proceeding in the execution of their
Important trusts. They are acting with the cau
tion and circumspection of experienced statesmen.
Altlio' they know that much in the past Adminis
tration, both as respects men and means, was wrong
and needs thorough reform they are moving slow
ly. They are surveying the whole field in order
that they may commit no mistakes, and every step
they take may redound to the good and glory of
the country.
Tho' no prophets, we venture to predict, that
Gen. Taylor's administration will be as popular
as that of Washington which he makes his mod
el. K. Whig. "
: GEtt. Shields Declared Ineligible. The U,
S. Senate, on Thursday, adopted the following res
olution declaring Gen. Shield to be ineligible to
a seat in the Senate s
Resolved, That the election of James Shields to
be a Senator of the United States, was void, he
not having been a citizen of the United the term of
years required as a qualification to be a Senator
of the United States at the commencement of the
term for which ho was elected.
On motion of Mr. Webster, the presiding officer
was requested to transmit to the Governor of Illi
nois a copy of the resolution.
On motiofi, the Senate, at early half past four,
proceeded to the qanstJeralion of executive busi
ness, and refctTed several nominations sent in by
the President to-day, during tho debate, in the
Shields' question and then, at nearly 5 o'clock,
adjourned.
SERVED HIM RIGHT.
A few days since, a man whose name we were
unable to learn, arrived here, from New York,and
rented a house in the neighborhood of Second and
Phcenix streets, Kensington, and with his lady sot
up a small trimming store. Affairs went on all
correct for a while, when it became rumored that
the lady was not the lawful participant of his do
mestic happiness, and that truly enough the man's
real wife arrived here yesterday afternoon from
Baltimore. She watched the house for several
hours, and after having caught her betrayer, she
whipped him in a style that places all of Tom Hy
er's nujrilistic'cxhibitisns in the shade. She after
wards gave the lady a lecture which far excelled
anything which can be found in Mrs, Caudle's
vocabulary. How the matter is to finally termin
ate has not yet transpired. Phil. Bui. ,8th.
GREAT FLOOD AT CHICAGO.
Ciiicaoo, March 13.
We have been visited by a terrible flood, which
has destroyed an immense amount of property.
Tbe damage done to commerce alone is estimated
at over $100,000.
It is impossible at this time to ascertain correct
ly the amount of damage to property in this vicin
ity. All kinds of vessels are jammed into each
other ; some are lying on the tops of others, and
all appear to be in the utmost confusion.
The water is still rising, and great fears are en'
tcrtained that the destruction will be increased
All the canal beats, with tlie exception of one
or two, are entirely destroyed, or have gone into
the lake. Several vessels have gone outside, aud
are now anchored in the lake. One or two live
have been lost by the falling of spars on boar J of
vcjsc Is in the harbor, , , ,Y ,
CHARGE AGAINST MR. CALHOUN.
Senator Houston, in a remarkable address to
hit Texan constituents, published in the Wash
ington Intelligencer, has come out on Mr. Calhoun
with a series of extraordinary charges, which, if
true, must strip tit great Southern oracle of the
respect and admiration he has to long and widely
commanded. He accuses Calhoun of an inordi
nate ambition, to which he is willing to sacrifice
the Union and to crown which, he hopes to break
(he Union and establish a Southern confederacy,
of which he shall be the head.
He charges him with sacrificing the South by
the compromise of his nullification scheme at a
moment when, as Mr. Clay told him to his confu
sion, but for that movement, the protective system
of the North was no more that it would have
been annulled at the very next session of Congress.
He charges him with fickleness and falsehood as
a politician asserting that Mr, Calhoun, ai early
as during Monroe's administration, concurred with
Mr. Monroe's cabinet in the policy of restricting
slavery from all territories where it had not been
authorized by law. He proves Mr. Calhoun an
other Wilmot upon the Proviso of 1787.
More and -vorse than all these charges, he ac
cuses him of taking advantage of his position as
a cabinet minister to abstract from (lie archi e
of the nation, his. -written opinion endorsing lite
restiidioh of slavery. At any rate all such esi
dencosofhis former opinions, have disappeared
from the files of the departments. We regard this
address with its charges, as the most remarkable
document of the day. It shows Mr. Calhoun in
an unenviable light as a man reckless of every
thing to serve hia ambition. What rejoinder it
will call forth remains to be seen it will hardly
be left, unanswered. .
CALLED SESSION OF THE SENATE.
. Wasjiinotok, March 15.
Some minor business being transacted, the coiv
sideration of the eligibility of Gen. Shields, was
again resumed. Mr. Halo's motion to communi
cate the General's resignation to the Governor of
Illinois was refused consideration, and Messrs.
Douglass, ef 111., Foot, of Mississippi, Hale of N.
Hampshire, Turner, of Tenn., Jefferson Davis, of
M iss., Berrien, of Georgia, R usk, of Texas, Downs,
of Louisiana, Butler, of S. C, Dawson, and oth'
ers, entered upon a four hour's debate.
The amendment Mr. Calhoun offered yesterday,
declaring Gen. Shields to have been ineligible on
the 4th instant, was adopted.
Jefferson Davis mads a motion to lay the whole
matter on the table, lost. Ayes 16 Nay 32.
Several amendments were proposed and rejected,
and the resolutions of the Committee, modified by
Mr. Calhoun's amendment, were finally adopted
unanimously.;
The Vice-President on Mr. Webster's motion,
was instructed to transmit a copy of the resolutions
to the Governor of Illinois.:
TOM CORWIN AND THE CABINET.
The following Letter is the reply t one from
Gen. Flournoy, inquiring of Mr. C. whether be
would go into General Taylor Cabinet :
Washington City, Jan. 20, 1849.
Dear General I received your note lut evening.
If I were much less modest than I really am, I should
blush still for the over estimate your partiality will put
on my poor abilities antl still poorer efforts. For the
friendship which thus abuses your better judgment, I
Cannot but feel grateful, nay proud ; I ouly regret
that I cannot fulhl the expectations which my friends
indu'gs.
I hive no more idea of going into General Taylor's
Cabinet than of a trip to the moon. In the first place,
if General T. is the sagacious gentle a I hope -to
find him, he will not have me there and secondly,
if he were to ask ou his beaded knees I would not
consent.
He will be attacked, by Southoni Democrats espe
cially, on his supposed position on the Wilmot Proviso.
A scat held by me in his Cabinet would be proof po
sitive against him on that poiut. I would uo more al
low him to be assailed through me, than I would
thrust a mau between my head and a bullet. Ia the
next place, tools and dema;Tues all over the Repub
lic could talk, and with effect, of my position on the
Mexican War. All these shafts, (if they fly at all,)
shall strike my own boto.n and no other. General
Taylor should select men to whom uo such positlvo
objfctieu exists. Let me hear from you often.
. Truly, your friend,
THOMAS CORWIN.
"A FACT BRIEFLY EXPRESSED."
Under this head the Savannah Republican re
marks, that one plank in Mr. Cass's Nicholson
platform was that the people in the territories
should be allowed to determine the slavery ques
tion for themselves, that Mr. Cass was run in
the South on this platform, and .hat Mr. Calhoun
mounted it so far as to permit South Carolina to
vote for hioi. The Charleston Mercury winked
at it, the Constitutionalist lauded it, tbe Macon
Telegraph said it was well, and the other Loco-
foco presses in Georgia cried out, Amen ! Well
several hills have been introduced this session, au
thorising the people of California to decide tho
question according to their wishes ; but Mr. Cal
houn says it will not do the Mercury sayl it will
hot do the Constitutionalist and Telegraph, not
having the Nicholson letter before their eyes, say
it will not do and the other Cass organs having
caught the tune, echo back it will nol dot They
say that neither Congress nor the people in the
Territories have the right to act upon and adjust
the subject. The power therefore to settle the
question exists no where I For what is all this
done ? Why, to keep the question open that they
may agitate I agitate ! and do nothing but agitate I
If it were settled, Othello's ocouTatlon would be
gone.
. APPOINTMENTS TO OFFICE.
It is understood in Washington, that there will
bo no changes made by the Administration in the
Foreign missions before June. At that time there
will be a thorough reformation and sever was
thre greater need of it for at no former period
has this country bocn so unworthily represented
abroad. '
Wc think tli suggestion in regard to Mr. Web
ster s accepting the mission to England, not likely
to be realized.-. That gentleman, if he goes abroad
at all, would more probably prefer a misa.oi to
the Germanic Confederation, ' ,
CAPE FEAR AND DEEP RIVERS.
The movements in favor of this scheme, under
all the circumstances of the case, are quite anima
ted in this section.- Indeed,- the great imporMnco -of
the work, in its effects on trade and commerce!
is becoming more and more apparent, as the re
sources of the country, connected with the im
provement, are examined. We have at no time
considered this as a scheme of secoAdary impor
tance. With this and the Manchester Road, now
progressing, and the Central Rail Road, we have
all we ought to desire all that the friends of In
ternal Improvements throughout the State ought to
ask for for the present, at least.
The most interesting item connected with this
subject, is the subscription to the Cape Fear and
Deep River Company, made in this town. It is
not probably loss than 13 thousand dollars, and will
not fall short of $1 $,000. Considering the pres
sure under which our community is laboring, and
the claims therefore made upon us and met by our
citizens, this is a very liberal subscription, and
speaks well for the unabated ardor of the citizens
of Wilmington in the first and best of causes, of a
temporal nature. Commercial.
Mr. Mackay, an English barrister, has publish
ed his travels in the United States. The follow
ing is an extract in relation to the beauty of A
nierican women :
There are two points In which it is seldom equat
led, never excelled the classic chasteness and
delicacy of the features and the smallness and ex
quisite symmetry of the extremities. In the latter
respect, particularly, the American ladies are sin
gularly fortunate. J have seldom seen one, deli
cately brought up, who had not a fine hand. The
feet are also generally very 9mall and exquisitely
moulded particularly those of a Maryland girl ;
who well aware of their attractiveness has a thou
sand little coquettish ways of her Own of tempting
ly exhibiting thorn. That in which the American
women arc most deficient is roundness of figure.
But it is a mistake to suppose that well ronded
forms are not to be found in America. Whilst this
is tho characteristic of English beauty, it is not sr
prominent a feature in America. In New Eng
land, in the mount linous districts of Pennsylva- '
nia and Maryland, and the central valley of Vir
ginia, the female form is, generally speaking, as
well rounded and developed as it is here; whilst a
New England complexion is, in nine cases out of
ten a match for an English one. This however,
cannot be said of tho American ladies as a class.
They are, in the majority of cases, over deli
cate and languid ; a defect chiefly superinduced
by their want of exercise. An English girl will go
through as much exercise in a forenoon, without
dreaming of fatigue, as an American will in a day.
and be overcome by tiro exertion. It is also true,
that American is more evanescent than English
beauty, particularly in the South, where it seems
to fade ere it has well bloomed. But it is much
more lasting in the North and northeast; a re
mark which will apply to the whole rep;-:. north
of the Potomac, and east of the Lake ; and I have
known instances of Philadelphia beanty as levoly
and enduring a any that our own hardy climate
can produce."
COL. BRAGG.
Col. Bragg, of Buent Vista celebrity, was at a
private party in this dty, one evening last week. A
mong the dessert, at Wupper, were some very fin
green graphs, tn which the CoIoboI for some time
paid assiduous court. After awhile however he
fought shy. This, a lady who sat near him, ob
served ; and, raising tho salver on which the favo
rite fruit was, and gracefully presenting it to tho
gallant Colonel, she said: "A little more grape,
Captain Bragg?"-N. O. Delta.
VT Nothing is mors dificult in Dramatic life,
than learning to die gracefully. It is equally dif
ficult, with one class of Politicians, either to bear
defeat, or yield up office, without unmanly lamen
tations. The parly with which Father Ritchie
has been forty years identified, have made the in
discriminate removal of opponents its paramount,
ruling feature of policy. In this respect no quar
ter lias been showu. And Whigs, unlike their
baby opponents, always submit without winning.
Eut Locofocos, Who have enjoyed the offices four
fifths of the time for twenty-four years, think it a
great hardship now to make room for other and
better men. Albany Evt. Journal, Lj, .
The Diplomatic Corps waited upon President
Taylof on Monday, and presented an address, con
gratulating him on his accession to the Presiden
cy. Gon. De Alvear, minister of the Argentine
Republic, being the oldest member of the corps ;
read an address, expressing their joy at President
Taylor's elevation to the executive chair, and de
claring their profound conviction that Itis adminis
tration will redound to the lienor and happiness of
the people. Gen, Taylor replied in a neat and ap
propriate speech, expressive of his gratitude for
the confidence thus displayed, and his determina
tion to pursue a pacific policy as far a possible in
the management of foreign affairs.
The Ambassador of the Emperor of Brazil,
Chevalier De Massedo, had a private audience
witb,the President before the genera. ljaudience, and
presented his credentials. Friendly addresses were
exchanged. . '
IT In Gon. Taylor's Administration, the whole
country looks for an advance in wisdom and pros
perity. It is sick to death of "Quattlehimery,''
and (eels that the honor and intorost of the great
est nation on earth have been tarnished and sac
rificed to tho Moloch spirit of party. His iwn
wisdom and patriotism, combined with those of
the cabinet he will draw around him, will untan
gle tho twists into which national affairs have ful
Ion, and set the Government upon it feet again.
This task will b as unenviable as meritorious.
He will find every thing Uipsy-tuny tbe nation
more than a hundred millions in debt, the Treas
ury in the last stage of eontumption-Ahe two
great geographical divisions of the country by the
ears political integrity at its lowest ebb, and con
fidence between the ruler and the ruled "clean
gone." Tbe task will be a Herculean one to set
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