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Miscellaneous. From the Macon Teltgrap.h. BL.ooD HoUNDs--AF.CTING. IhcI bENT.--Governor Reid -has commiunica ted to the Legislature of Florida-a mes sage on the subject of Indian affairs. His E.rcelleacy thiaks two regular and two volunteer brigades, all enlisted during the war, would be sufficient to iring it to a successful close. lie suggests that the pay of cavalry or dragoons should be allowed them; and also a bounty oflaid of 320 a cres to each private, and to the officers in proportion-to be bestowed upon the final establishment of peace. The Governor introduc.es into his fes sage the deeply touching dnd affecting in cident which follows-this paragraph. Let the sickly sensibility and mawkish.senti nentalityof those- who -can -faint in the most approved- fashionable style, and wreathe tbemselv'es into romantic agony at the bare idea-of employing blood hounds agaiust "the- poor Indians" read it, and learn to feel, if they can: "Mr. Harlan's dwelling was burned, and his family murdered, in. the afternoon of the 29th January last. - Mr. H. was ab sent, and-an eye witnessgives the follow ing account of the return of the unhappy man, with an armed party,.on the day af ter the occurrence: ' On arriving at the spot, we found every house reduced to ash es, and at the kitchen door, the bones of a human being nearly burnt up; afterexam ing all around wo saw the track of moc casins making ingress rad egress the same course. On the trail not far off, we saw articles of clothing, potatoes and papers, dropped; about twenty-one persor.s, arm ed, now arrived from lola, amongst them Mr. Harlan, who, in a wretched state of feeling, proceeded to examine the burnt bones, which he believed to be those of his wife and son, whose knife he found amongsti them. One of the company in searching behind the gartfen, about one hundred yards oAf, called out, "Come here, Harian, here is your wife!" Joy immediately sprang to) my bosom, and I ran to-see the (lead come to life, where they was a gen eral rush, but, lo! I found Airs. Harlan lying prostrate on the ground, behind some pine logs, with her throat cut, a ball.shot through her arm, one in her back, and a fatal shot in the head, which must have been very near,, as the ball-patch. was. sticking in lier head. Her youngest son, any eight years old, lay near her side, with his Akull fractured by a pine stick whidh lay near him. le exhibited signs of life, and I had him carried to a shelter, voter given him, and his feet, which were cold, put in .warm water, and faint hopes are now entertained of his recovery. Had you witnessed the heart-rending sight of Mr. H., embracing his little son, and call ing him by his nick-unme, "Buddy! Bud dy! Buddy!" with the solemn sound of parental atfection, sunk to the lowest ebb of dejection ; and then running to the corpse of his wife, throwing his arms around her, crying out, "My Wife! My dear Wife!. 0: ny dear Wife!" I know your feelings %% *oq hv -ien wAy as mnine did; I had 1 4,)~s etasy Tflpt ti ,,v trc-v savages, but my heart now assumed a stern fortitude, foreign to its nature, aSd I felt like not leaving an Indian foot to mark a track in the ashes of the desolation they have made." Who can read this extract from the let ter ofa highly respectable gentleman,with out anguish? who can witness such aftro cities without admiiting it to be lawful to use blood-hounds? against such liell houn'is? The introduction of these animals is en tirely, it is believed, a Territorial measure. It is creditable to the ohleer with wthomn it originated, and -whose am plejnstification is the stern necessity whlich requtired it. A citizen, remarkable for his piety, in tegrity and intelligence, lat ely exclaim~l, in my presence, "1 would use devils if I could, against such an enemy," and I am compelled to yield assent to thme seutiment. In thme strait to which we are driven, the severest means are the best means; and whatever tends to the speedy termina tion of our protracted difficulties, wvill tend also, to the preservation -of human life, and to the advancement of the cause of humanity." Corresapondsnce of the Sawannah Georgian. FLORIDA WVAR. CAREY's FERRY, (Fa.) March 17. Dear Sir-Allowv me, through thme col umtis of your valuable paper, to assure the humane fanatics of the North, that little damage need be apprehended from the Cannibalistic "Dogs of War," lately brought from Cuba to rid this Territory of its honorable and much abtused aborigines (as some are pleased to term them.) Eleven of these Florida blood hounds, a lias Cuba curs, are now at this point, feast iug upon their six pounds of fresh beef each per day. They have been tried fre quently within the last few days, with ain ]ndian, a prisontier de guene at this place, and if they will take his trail, it would be hard to prove it by those who were pres ent. I have no confidence bowever, in them. As to their ferocity, it is all humbttg a child may fondle with them. They have been more grossly misrepresented thtan any set of anitnals in the world-the army not exceptedl. Col. Twiggs, with a large command of regulars, volunteers and blood hounds,will leave, here on-Thursday next, for a grand scout to the Ocklewaha country. You shall hear of their success. ST. A UG USTINE, March 20. hIdian Murders.-The express rider who arrivedl at Black Creek, on Wednes day morning last, 18th inst tant states, that the w agon train fromi Post No. 2, on its way to Micanopy for supplies,- escorted by some of Lient.. Hanson's Company, 7th Infantry, (Lieut. H. commands Post No. 2,) were attacked by Itndians-twvo of the escort, the teamster and one or two of the mules killed. The bodies of the men much mutilated.-News. Oftentimes, in perusing poetry, I have fancied the netes of admairation at the tor mination of the lines .as hiieroglyphics of the author's own admhiration at his own clsvrencse. Frn he New Orleans Picagjane, March 12. The followink items, which are the latest nas from Texas, we glean fromI a private -communication adrissed to'us by Colonel Geo. Fisher.. We regret that our limits will not allow s Ito publish more of his communication. "TheFederal Army of Mexico after making an unsuccessful attack on Mounte ry, retired to the towns'of Guerrero (Re villa) and Laredo, on ihe-Rio Grand. A convention was held at Larado (a town on the left. bank of ihe Rio Grand,) which declared its independence from Mexico, organized a provisional government for the 'RepublicofRin Grande,'and installed a General Council: Jests deGardenas, a lawyer by profession, and lately Political Chief of the Nothern department of Tam aulipas, was elected President of the Re public: Gen. Antonio Canales was inves ted with the command in chief of the army. "The new government is calling for volunteer aid, and expects to reciove it from Texas and the United States, it is said that it will be more liberal with the ,quantun of bounty land than any other government ever was. The property of the Church and-Convents, including their large landed estates, will be appropriated for the pay and the bounty of the volun teers. "The Convention at Laredo, declaring their independence from the Republic ol Mexico, and organizing the proviustoual Government ofthe Republic of Rio Grande cliam all the country formerly known as Tamulipas, as far as the Nueces, and Coahuila as the Mountains, (LaSierra Madre,) embra.cing New Leon, Zacatacas, Durango, Chihtiahun and New Mexico for which puriose they met at Laredo, within the limits of - Texas, according to the establisied limits of our laws. "The Central troops, under the com mand of General Mariado Arista, left Mounterey in pursuit of the Federalists, aud were marching in several small divi sions to Rio Grande. The Cumanche Indians, to the number of about 500 war riors, made an incursion into Mexico, and Penetrated so far as the "Real de Catrrce," (in the state of San Louis Po ost,) committing great depradations upon the lives and property of the Mcicans: On their return from the interior, they fell in at Salinas with a division of 200 infantry, of General Arista's force, and and attacked and killed every man. The Federal, or rather the Independent army at Laredo, Guerre ro and Cassa Blanca, amount to the number of from 1000 to 1200 man. General Arista's forte was, previous to the Indians attack, 800 men. Gen. Caualizo is still at Miatamoras. with about600 meuof the Central forces." NEw ORI4EAn-s March 13. From fcxico.-By the schooner Watch man, which arrived here on the 11th from Matamoras, we recieved a letter from our correspondent of the date of the 4th inst., which was not obtained from the post office 6ill yesterday. It was reported by the Central leaders at Maitamoras, that there was a probability of eflecting an amicable ,rrnnntent with the Federalists of Eas tern "exIco-that the leaders, .Lemu', and their followers, who were in possession of tie Centralists, had been marched to Vera Cruz, preparatory to the embarka tion of the former for Havana. [This degree ofgenerosity, we must be permitted to say, we believe the Mexican Centralists incapable of exercising.] That Gen. Arista had in his port folio 2000 indultos, (pardons,) to be given out as soon as the arrangement were completed between himself and Gen. Canales. That they hd learned from a Pole who had been captured, that Felix HJuston,. in conjunc tin with Gen. Anamya, waes deeply concern ed in the plot of overturning the Central sytem of Governmenmt. Otr correspondent informs us that in Matanoras atd the neighboring country, there wvere 9000 or 7000 troops-but he thinks that this large force is rather to rel~c aggression on Mexico than to invade Texas. Dfeart of Gen. Eclhagne.-We have, by a Rio Janeiro paper of Jan. 25th, oh wined by the Journal of Commerce, a confirmation of the news of the victory of President Rivera of Mountevideo. The action took place in the Buenos Ayres ~rovince onf Entre Rios, the Governor of which, Gen. Echague, was overtaken at Caganho, and completely routed by Rivera's army, of 5000 metn, leaving 800 dead otn the field. The remainder under Generals Echague and Lavalleja fled across the Rio Negro. Gen. Lavalleja arrived snon after in Entre Rios with a reinforcement o f 1000 men.-N. Y. Sta?. From the Louisville Publin Advertiser. We find in a late New Orleans Com nercial Bulletin the following remarks, in relation to .the exposed condition of the frontier of Louisiana: "The exposed condit ion of our frontier settlements on the West, has at tracted the tiotice of the Legislature o f the State. No ittle apprehension has for some time been felt for the safety of the parishes near the lexian boundary. The adjacent wvilder ness is occupied by turbulent trtbes,smar ing from the infliction of fancied wrongs, nd thirsting for revenge against the white men, who have driven them from their homes East of the Mississippi into the wvil lerness and wild exile. At present the rontir of Louisiana is in a defenceless state. Along its whole extent there is not isgarrison capable ofopposing the march >a thosand savages. In case of an in vasion, the only relinance of the settlers would be upon their own resources. The militia of the country are, no doubt, capa ble of defending themselves, if properly ganmzd, and prepared for hostilities. But the onsets of the Indians are always udden. Their plan of warfare is to take he enemy by surprise; and, after having pread havoc aod massacre through the settlement, to fly and make their escape, efore the inhabitants have an opportunm ty to gesembla a snfficment force to pursue etn. On that account a regular garrison is needed, which can furnish troops ready for sudden-emergencies. The process of asembling militia is slow and difficult [t takes time to complete their organiza lion; and, in the -meatiwhi-le, the enemy may do all the mischief, and fly beyond rachs. Forthis eann. and others that might be mentioned,-the estubliUnseat or i strong military post on .Red River,, in. thevicinity of Alexandria, becomes a mnat ter of no small importance." A MIssIssIPPI Ro)MUcF..-A corres pondent of the Natchez Courier, writing from the seat of government of Mississippi in a.long letter about banks and banking. gives currency to tho following story, of adventure: I turn from the legislature to give' an item which smacks of romance and nov elty. To-clay, there irrived in the stage, in company with Judge- Bodley, a fair faced and juvenile passenger in pantaloons arrayed, and on stopping at the mansion of Madam Dixon, the said personage was consigned to a room in company with Sen ator Thos. B. Rives. In a few minutes suspicions were set afloat that the. stranger aforesaid was a woman, whereupon Mrs. Dixon in curious trepidation, repaired to the presence of her new guest. "You are a woman," said Mrs. D. "I know I am," replied the stranger, "but listen to my story." .She then related an adventure that far eclipsed the dangers braved by the lover of Orlan do,ihe had been cruelly treated, her bus bond fled the country, and resolved to find him, she changed her dress, and went to the Mississippi River, where she secured a berth on one of the steam boats as cabin boy. This life she followed up and down the western waters for eight months; des pairing of the object of her auxious pur suit she is now on her way to the bosom of her family in one of the eastern coun ties of Mississippi. When her sex was discovered. several ladies and gentlemen recalled her acquaint aUce, and by the kindness of her friends, she was soon transformed and conducted to the parlor, glittsring in all the splendor of her sex. The stories she told were in tensely interesting and all true-while a cabin boy she had two or three fights, in all of which she came off victorious! Who will say the Mississippi ladies are not brave and do not love? We intend to write the history of this lady for one of the antnuals; the materals are ample, In her beauty, chivniry, devotion, and other heroic qualities! Look out for the history of the "cabin boy wIfe." Remarkable deleelion of a Murderer. The New Haven (Conn.) Herald of Tues day says: Amos G. Thomas, who Was acquitted before the Superior Court at Middletown, a few days since, on the charge of mur dering Mr. Jared Burr, of Haddam, and robbing him of a considerable sum of mog, we are informed has since been ar res and coin mittted to prison for a high way robbery. The money robbed of Mr. Burr was found on his person, concealed in his coat collar; and we are also informed that he has nk'w confessed the crime of which he was acquitted, and given the particulars attending the tragical affair, which were of the most outrageous and barbarous character. We refrain from giving the particulars which haved re lated to us, but they show that enity of the Jury which tried him has been hor ribly inisp aced. orth East Boundary.-The dispute between the United States and Great Brit ain, in reference to the Northeastern Boun dury, is attracting attention in England. 66If the course we pursue," says the Lou don Shipping Gazette, "in the dispute with China' be found to be injurious tO A merican commerce, there are elements al ready at work of a character sufficiently inflammable to render them not over fas tidiotas or pttnmeglions at finding out some real or imaginairy line oaf distinction to be drawn betweetn our proceedatgs and the French blockades in South America. We question, therefore, if we are over and a bove secure agaitnst being involved in a quarrel with the United States, if we pro ceed to the blockade of the ports of the Celestial Empire without declaring wvar. At all events, it will be wise in mtimiters to act with circluspection, and weigh well the probable consequences, before they are so far comtmitted, that they can not retreat without a sacrifice of principle. Fronm the South Carolinian. EL ECTION OF GOVERNOR. Exract of a letter to the Editor,--"The part I contemplated taking, itn the "Gu bernatoriatl Canvass," when I last wrote you was that of oppositlin to Judge John so, without particularly advocating either of the other candidates. I am opposed to Jttdge J. Ott the grounds; First, that I be lieve him: tohe a Federalist; Second, that he is virtually a Bank and Clay man; and; Third, that he now holds ofice under the gift of the Legislature, andI have alw ays ~een opposed to the right gtven to the Le gislature of this St ate, to make appoint tnents from its officers, while holding their commissions. The Georgia regulations, in this particular, are much better than ours. If Judge J. contittnes to he a can itate, and shall not first have resigned his Judgesi,he will be supported by all those who wish his place, without any regard to his itness for Governor; sod hence lie should be opposed, by every good citizen. era this ground, ifno other." THEa WE.aATHE.-We have had rai, almost every day since it commenced, near two weeks ago) till yesterday, when it cleared up very cold. On Wednesday we had snow, and sleet, mingled with rain, and at night a severe frost, which is said to have done much injury in the gardens. ce was seen yesterday morning as thick as a dollar. A few weeks ago, the Thermom eer vas as high as 86; (on Wednesday night 38;) and in consequence of the unusually warm weather for about two months past, vegetation is exceedingly forward-at least one month more so than usual-and we fear must suff'er greatly from the frost mentioned-the fruit espe cally.Soth Carolinian. PosT OFFtcE.-A Post Office has been established at Twelve Mile, Pickens District, S. C. and James H. Ambler, Esq, appointed Post PMaster. Washington S. Murphy, Esq., has been appointed Post Master at Cypress, Dar litgion District, S. C. Louis the 14th of France spent his life in,....inng a good, into a great name. From the CharItu Couicr, Feb. 13. THE PiRocEssloN AND THE EULOGY. Our entire community will-unite, this day without distinction of party, in doing hon or to the memory of a patriot and states man, U ho was beloved and admired, while living, and whose premature death, in the zenith fif'his usefulness and fame, is~a cause ofuniversal nourning and lamienta tion. The virtues of the'illustrious Hayne will be this day, commemorated too, by an eulogist, whom South Carolina ranks among the most gifted and true hearted of her sons. From the same, of Feb. 15. We made up our mind not to blemish our account of the grateful honors paid. yesterday to the memory of Gen. layno with the dissonance of even just complaint and it is with pain, and, far more in sor row than in anger, that we feel constrain ed in a separate article to make an unpleas ant allusion in.connexion with a subject from which above all others, we wished to exclude and exorcise the accursed fiend of party.' We think, however, that the members of the Union party have been treated with a singular and unaccount able want of delicacy and kindness, on both occasions when - they assembled, in amity and fraternal feeling, with their old political opponents, to pay a com mon tribute to the beloved and lamented object of the late imposing ceremonial. At the call of the City Council, the.citi zens of Charleston and the Neck, without distinction of party, met at the city Hall, in order to mingle tleir sorrow, and vote a joint tribute of respect, on the occasion, which had deprived our country. of such an eminent citizen as Gen. Hayne-one, who, but a short period before, had re ceived from our community, then recent ly emerged from a party conflict of un common fierceness and rancour, the ex alted honor of a unanimous election as the first salaried Mayor of the City. What then must have been the pain and mortification of one of the great divisions of that bereaved and mourning assembly, how deep.their blush of shame for others, not for themselves, when they found the occasion of common corrow, seized on for the intrusion of party politics, if not party feeling, and heard, in the preamble, sub mitted by the successor in office of the de ceased, acting as the organ ofa Council, a majority of which were, and are Union men, their unqualified assent challenged to the doctrine of State interposition, or nullifi cation, as the rightful remedy. against al ledged oppressions of the general govern ment, Respect for the memory of the deceased, an unwillingness to make his obsequies a scene of wrangling-an hon orable delicacy-kept their lips silent then although their bosoms boiled with a just indignation-therefore they forbore and they forgave-and they were eien willing to unite in further honors to the illustrious dead, in the hope, nay confidence, that they would not again be alike wounded and aggrieved. Yesterday, they came once more, in the full expansion of brother ly feeling, to lay a common oblation of grief and honor on the tomb of HAYX and we mourn to say it; that their feel ings were grated and their patieneg abused by a long and elaborate exposition and vindication of the doctrines of nullification. We charge on the Orator no exhibition of ill-feeling, no unkind intention; he thought perhaps, that he was but speaking history -but his taste and his judgment were sorely at fault, and misled him intoacourse necessarily offensive to a large portion of his audience, who went there to honor the dead, not to be instructed by the living in theories of Government or party creeds. This part of the Oration was-indeed most onoxiously out of place-as much so as if the Union party, on the occasion of the death of one of their distinguished mem bers, were to invite their once alienated, but now reconciled brethren, to com mingle their sorrows for the dead and the Union eulogist were to forget him self so much a6 to intrude into his dis course an exposition and vindication of Unionism, as the opposite of nulli fication. The doctrine advocated by Gen. M' Duffie, of course, meets now, as it has ev er met, our unqualified dissent. We op pose to it a doctrine hallowed by the shade of Washington, and embraced by an im rmensely preponderating majority of the States of the Union-and wve accept the tribunal, to whidh he refers the arbitre metnt of the question,-posterity. The past sends up its approbation of otur creed, from the graves of our illustrious ancestors, the present brings us the overwhelming approval of millions of freemen, and we court with confidence the award ofthefu ure. When his Eulogy shall be published as we suppose it will lbe, wve shall take oc casion to enter the lists more formally with General M'Dufle. In the mean time we beg leave respectfully to remind him that it was he who taught us. that "if, after the National judiciary have solemnly affirmed the constitutionality of a law, it is still to be resisted by the State rulers, the consti tution is literally at an end; a revolution of the Government is already accomplish e, and anarchy waves his horrid sceptre over the broken altars of this unhappy Union." We have written the foregoing remarks without any feeling either towards Gen. MDufie, or the other parties concerned: ur editorial, yesterday, shews the spirit in whih wve went to the funoral celebration, -and we repent that it is with unfeigned sorrowv that we find the necessity of this article imposed upon us by the injudicious course of others. But we also repeat that we can forgive much to brethren, and, however ungenerously we may have been served, we wvill not unbury the -hatchet at the tomb of HAYNE-on the contrary, we would rather enter into a generous rival ry with our opponents to see who can bury it the deepest. In relation to Gen. Hayne, wye must be permitted to say that we yield to none in esteem for his character, veneration, and gratitude for his virtues and services, and honor to his tnemory, and we add here, what under other circumstances, it may have been improper for us to pen,) so thoroughly were our party differences heal ed, that for a considerable period anterior to his death weo enjoyed the honor of his personal friendship and confidence. Quietness and peace flourish wvhcrc justice man rason govern. The Lug Cabin and 11ard Cider Can didate.-The Whigs haye called General Harrison, their candidate for the Presiden cy, " Log Cabin and Hard Cider." Sotse. body has said that he neer- did live :in a log cabin, or drink hard cider, whenever he'could get any thing better. I issedrce ly necessary to say, that his guod friends have bestowed upon him the title merely ad captanduii Vulgus. We copy the subjoined humorous re marks upon "Old Tip," and the virtues of hard cider, from the New York Eve ning Post. The.accomplishmint of drinking hard cider, possessed by oue of the candidates for the Presidency of the United States, is i still insisted upon in certain quarters with great enthusiasm. At one of the recent processiona of the friends of Harrison, the words hard cider wete conspicuously dis. played on one of the banners; the image of a cider barrel and pitcher has become a - favorite device with a certain.set of politi cians, and we are told of a certaii knot of them who ineet every evening at a tav ern which bears that sign. The Balti more Patriot, of yesterday morning, has a wood cut representing the dwelling of Harrison, with a barrel of hard cider be fore the door, and a huge pitcher in the window. It is intended, no doubt, by this expedi ent to obtain popularity for Harrison. I "Old hickory," was an appellation which 1 many of the admirers of General Jackson were fond of giving him. The Whigs are imitative, and ready to take any method of catching popularity except the true one, that of acknowledging popular rights.. They have doubtless considered that both hickory and hard cider begin with the let ter h, and that both are hard, and hence by an ingenious analogy, conclude that if General Jackson, under the appellation of I "old hickory," became President of the United States, Harrison will infallibly succeed by being called the "hard cider candidate." There is, doubtless, much virtue in hard cider, but it is worthy of inquiry whether ] it will impart the proper qualifications for j the Presidency, even to him who drinks it most diligently. "gCoffe" says Pope, ---".Coffee makes the politician wise And sle throtigh all things with his half shut eyes." . Hath hard cider not only a similar but far I superior potency 7 Can you make a I statesman out of a barber's block by put ting it into a pickle of hard cider? We are told by Ovid that Medea res tored Eson, her husband, when in the last stage of decay and decrepitude, to youth, strength and beauty, by filling his body with the pungett juices of herbs. I Fessenden has thus versified his account of the process: " MAedea cut the withered weasand Orsnperannuated Eson, Then filled him up with acrid juices Ofiettleto2s and flower-de-btces, When, frdh the defttnct carcase, lo! Started a dashing Bond-street bean." Could she have performed the same feat wiih hard c~jder? Can we take a foolish fend old man; Mute shined against, than sinning such as we believe Harrison to be, and by 3 soaking him in hard cider, transform him into a Nestor, subtlest of men, the wisest as well as the oldest warrior of the camp, whose faculties have only been made keen. er by age ? Has hard cider the property F attributed by Falstairto sherris sack, and I ascending into the brain," or to use a more V familiar phrase, getting into the head of a the WVhig candidate for the Presidency,. has it "dried there all the foolish, and I crudy vanrours which environ it? These r are important questions, and tmust not be pretermitted by the Whig party, if they intend to found the pretensions of their candlidate upon the fact of his drinking hat1d cider. 1 But even allowing the habit of drinking e hard cider to be thus beneficial to the in tellect, we have our doubts whether some thing more is not required in a President. ~ Is that accomplishment a suflicient offset I against a act of principles dangerous to r the public liberty and peace? Is it not || possible that flarrison, with his mind cul tivated and strengthened by the drinking of hard cider, may yet propose or assent e to bad measures atnd follow a pernicious p system of policy ? - Is it worth while, for the sake of promo ting to the Presidency, a man who drinks hard cider, to allow Mr. Clay and his par- d ty to govern the country according to their d plans ? Is it worth while to go back to e the burdens of a high tariff and a costly a system of internal improvement; to res tore the pernicious uinion of Bank and 0 State, receive depreciated bank notes for fi public dues, and tax the people to make y up the deficiency; to pay out of the Fed- C eral Treasury the enormous debts whicha the States, when their Legislatures werea under the control of the speculators, con- I tractedl with the London stockjobbers; to ti place in power a set of men whose policy It it is to accumulate power and patronage tI in the Central Government, and thus de- d ompose our democratic system; is it worth while to do all this for the-sake of a hard cider candidate ? We acknowledge our respect for hard cider, but we are tnot inite ready to sacrifice to that respect the welfare and happintess of the country. M C "First C/hop."-We have often heard D his word made use of in this countrynin 6; hort, it is a species of mercantile phi-ase, ni et it applies to any thing specially fine ut we could never get hold of its deriva ion. We presume now that it is of Chi ese origin. A 'chop' in Chinese, on the . uthority of a gentleman recently from hat quarter, means almost any thing; A ometimes a proclamnationi, or a hand-bill, r a letter, or a law; and chop-chop means e ery fine, or very strong, or first rate. ['here are various ways ini expressing pre- ce eminence, in various regions. In our South, if a man attains distinction, it is si aid that he is a huckleberry above his eighbors' persimmon ; in the North, if he ets fame, he is wvritten down as 'atuck ,e ip.' It would be entertaining, and not ninstructive, to touch the roots of these is, iiomatic odd sayings.--Phil. Gaz. There is in true beaqty somewhat that arow so. cn a n no ar er to adm.re- - EDG-E--El H THURsDAY,. APaIe2, 1840. We re'er our readersothii remarks of he Hon. Mli-Picki ir tli Ilew Jersey uestion.-- We'copy'theim froi.the Globe. ['hat paper makes the-llowing remarks pon them.: "The logical analysts w htch -Bas made fthe New Jersey case byColonel Pick nsof South Carolina, t.egery jhisholdj ins at last been followdoi byhi-Hoise a its recent action.' The questioi mi ht s well-have been decided. thin, -asJ".' ad would have been, but for "the i alitics and special pleading"-of t he county ourt attorneys of the Oppositidonsofrink le complains. We give the speehnow, - ts made out from the notesof-oui Repor-. er, taken at the moment, that dur readers nay see how invariably soand P'ioi ipproved by practice in tie end." The render will Snd in our paper, eers, ain editorial articles, which we were re luested, by- the Charleston Courier, to oublish. We will publish. another, and he last one sent us, in our next. Fsosr.-A pretty heavy frost fell in his District, on the 26th ult. Great des ructi on was made in the fruit. Peaches, Lpples, and Plums, are nearly. all cut of., The Court ofCommon Pleas adjourned in the 28th ult. There was one capital ase on the docket, which was tried. Mr. oseph P. Terry, was put upon his trial, or the alleged murder of Mr. John A. L'aylor. The case was opened by' Mr. ope, and argued by Messrs.-Wigfall and lurt, for the defendant, and the Solicitor, in the part of the State.- The Jury, irought in a verdict of acquittal. We are indebted to the Hon. F. W. Pickens, or copies of public Documents, and everal >apers. Beaufort A. Wallace, and JamesJ. Mj r, Esqrs., have been appointed Post Mae. ers. the former, at Edgefield C. H., and he latter, at Silverton, Barnwell Dist., 5o. Ca. Dr. Joseph Parish, a distinguished pby ician of Philadelphia, died on the 18th ilt. aged 60. Levi Long, charged with the murder of fr. Wells, of Liberty county, Ga. for rhose apprehension the Governorof Geor in recently offered a reward. was arrested i Camden County, Ga., on the 14th of larch. We are pleased to learn, by the com iunication of " A Graduate," the pros erity of the Georgia Medical College. Ve are not among those, if such there be, rho indulge an ungenerous jealousy of n institution dedicated to science, because :is established ip another State. We ds ot fear that the Georgia College will in ire our own excellent Medical Institution :Charlesion. There is need for both, in 'te Southern community. Both, it is oped, will vie in a generous rivalry'with ach other, in imparting the best instruc ion to those young gentlemen who are ngaged in the study of a high and res ,onsible profession. Both, we trust, will eceive the support of an enlightened pub c. But a few years since, there was no ledical College, we believe, in the South rn States. Our young men were comn elled to go to Northern Institutions, to re eive the instruction necessary for their rofession. These, excellent as they were, id not meet the wants of Southern Sta ents. A Medical College was establish I in Charleston, South Carolina, and for number of years, has been in successful peration. It is now ranked among the rst in the United States. Two or three ears since; another Southern Medical 'ollege was established at Augusta, Ga., ad young as it is, it has attained a high respectable standling among the institn Dne of a similar character. To use' the nage of our correspondent, we believe ist its "prosperity is placed beyond all ,ubt." MEDICAL COLLEGE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. At the Annual Commencement of the 'edical College of the State of South arolina, held March 19th, the degree of octor of Medicine was conferred upon iGentlemen. (We only'. publish the imes of those of this State :)-Ad,. R. E. Rice, Yorkville, S. C.-on Pili. tecac. Corn. Win. IH. Harrington, Newberry, S. C. -on Puer peral Fever. H. HI. Bacot, Charleston, $'. C.-on bnormal Stim, and Sedation. W. J. Jenkins, Beaufort-on .Epidemic ever. St. Julien Ravenel, Charleston-on En phaloid Tumour. Wmn. L. Templeton, Lanrens-on Ery Jno. J. McMahan, Union-on Dropaey A. E. Moorer, Colleton-on PuerpL.PFe r. Owen Richardson, Sumter-on PAiL a Pulmonalis. G. M. Gunnels, Greenvilld, S. S.-on yphilis. HI. G. Middlcton, Edgofild-on Blood-.