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JMISCELLANEOUS. - erreupoudence of the Charleston'Courier. sWAsHINLGToN, March 8. The Secretary of War. Mr. Marcy, the secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Walker; and Mr. Cave Johnson, Post Master Gem 94al,.-btered. upon the duties of their sev -ejil oilces to-day. .- 46Buchanan has not yet taken his post as Seeretary. or State. but will probably do sa early next week. It is now gener ally believed and asserted that Mr. Cal - oon- will accept the offer of the mission . i-8Egland. We shall. soon know, ror "omie one will. doubtless be nominated in tbe.cous'e of fortyeight hours. Some say tbat Mr. Calhoun has not peremptorily declined the offer of this mission, and that -he' will certainly accept it. It is positive ifat his present Chief Clerk, Mr. Cralle, .10f Virginia, will be appointed Secretary ofLegation. The rumor that Mr. Rush, of Pennsyl vania was to have the London mission was premature. if not anlerly uprfounded. If any one in Pennsylvania were to have is, it would be Mr. C. J. Ingersoll. The audmiaistration could -have no motive in selecting Mr. Rush, and he. none in ac cepting the office, for he filled it nearly a quarter of a century ago, wrote a book about it, and is too poor to go to so expen sive a Court. Col Butler, of Kentucky, has not yet been appointed to any place, but his will be among the batch ofnominations to come in on Monday. The Senate promises to be thin on Mon day, owing to the number ofrvacancies and absences,. . MIr. Baneroft's nomination as Secretary or the Navy will probably be considered and approved on Monday. f have heard of no deinite objections to him. It is genei ally said that Mr. Woodbury and- Mr. Fairfeld thought it would be improper to take a Cabinet Minister from a strong whig siate like Massachusetts. especially when men as capable could be found in the -States of Maine and Neiv llampshire. It is said, too, that Mr Bancroft is a Dorr democrat, and a little touched with fan -ticism in regard to slavery. This is, how bver, denied and explained by his friends. We -bear of many appoir.tments in pros pMct. As usual, the members of Congress some in for a strong share of the spoils. Several of them are to-have buieaus here among them Mr. Weller, ofOhio, and Mr. W. J. Brown, of Indiana. The Globe ad vocates the doctrine of rotation in office. The Madisonian complains-that the Globe won't take its own physic. There are in dications that there will be many remo vals. MARCH 11. - The Senate, to-day, confirmed the nom ination of Mr. Bancroft, as Secretary of the Navy. It is understood that the nom ination was unacceptable to the Senate in consequence of Mr. Bancroft's-peculiar no tions on the subject of existing institutions, and the, mode of altering them. But the Senate overcame their scruples, and finally coneluded to sufer Mr. Polk to have such a Cabinet as he night prefer. Mr. Polk's situation -is not free from embarrassinent. and he will have a difficult path to travel in other appoiitments. He needsalltti, - indlgence, therefore, that thqSent imay be willing to aford him. - The position of the Calhotn man and of Mr. Gass at the present time. is much that the ultimate majority in the Senate is by no means cert ain to be favorable to the silminihtration on all-nominations or mea sures. It is to .be presumed, however, that thenew S.n~ators frotn Iowa and Flo rida,- and Texas, ii in regard to most things, support the administratioi. I lei-" that some of the expected nominations of Mr. Polk will certainly be rejected.. He- will make no nominations immedi stely except for the -purpose of filling ac tual vacancies. No nominations were * made to-day, but a batch of them may be sent in to-morrow, and -among them that of.Mr. Armstrong, of-Nashvijle, as Consul at Liverpool. It has been suggested by some that -Mr. Calhoun would accept the London mission. But that -I find is-a mistake. He has been offered that mission or any thing else he might choose to take, and decidedly de clined taking-any thing. In reply to the .question where. Mr. Calhoun will go, the answer of his friends is, that he will gg to Fort Hill, they say, and be says that be. will not return to the Senate, for there lie 'wonld find all-parties hostile to- him, and * mocrals seeking to-entrap him, while * port. . ' tion would give him no sap. ThE Cabine * ngs onr the subject -one or two meet against the act of annexatt:- 's pretest testis said to have been drawn in a - . and moederate manner. -I have no doubt that ir will. soon, appear, not through the agenc'y of the Government, hut some-chn-~ nel or other. -In the mean time, it seems that-our Goverdiment ha. nothingi-o do but to await-the result of the "sober second 'thought " of the Mfexican Government~ t Corresondce of the Baktimore American 3K WAsHINGolo,'March II. No: noinations are understood to have .been confirme'd by the 0.8,. Senate toiday,' nor 'acted uipon, except ta be referred to . the-respective trdamittees.. It is said. and I have no' doubt the fact is so, that Mr. John Armstrong of Nasif * vill, ,Tennessee, has been nominated as Consul to Liverpool, and Mt.-John Davis, of Pennsylvania, a -few years since one of - the representatives in Congress from that - State, Surveyor of the port-of Philadel phia, is-place of Mr. Cooper, the tragedian, whose temporary commision to the samne ofie- had 'expired. There were various other' nomninations 'made; it is said, but I. believe they were for minor offices. This morning Mir. Buchanan, the new Secretary of State, entered upon the du .ties oftbls department. - - I ala (ear* that Mr. Bancrofi, recently consfrmed'by the Senate as Secretary of the Nay, commenced -the duties of 1gs offce tbis-morning,.and- was waited'upon by thecefrks and gentlemen having charge of -the-difihrent bureaus in the Navy De .parti~ He will to-morrow receive the mIvit, it is reported, of the naval offi ao here. in -l'al unlform. SENATE OF UNITED STATES. SPECIA.L SsstoN.. In-.Executive Session, March 10, 1845. Ordered, That the injunction of secrecy be removed from-the appointment of the Committees, and that they be printed for the ub of the Senate. Standing Cdmm-ttees. On Foreign Relations.-Messrs. Allen, chairman, Cass, Archer, Atherton, and Huger. - On Finance.-Mestrs. Woodhury, Mc Duffie, Benton, Evans, and Phelps. On Connarce.-Messrs. Haywood. Dix, Huntington, Johnson or Maryland, and Sevier. On Manufactures.-Messrs. Dickinson, Sturgeon, Simmons, Semple,and Speight. On Agariculture.-Messrs. -Sturgeon, Semple, Upham, Bates, and Barrow. On Military Afairs.-Messrs. Benton, Hannegan, Crittenden, Dix, and Phelps. On Military.-Mesrs. Atchinson, Sem ple, Barrow. Fairfield, and Corwin.' On Nval Afairs.-Messrs. Fairfield, Colqditt, MeDuffie, John M. Clayton, and ,Dickinson. (,n Public Lands. -Messrs. Breese, Speight, Ashley, Woodbri-ge, and Jarna gan. On Private- Land Claime.-Messrs; Han negan, Semple. Juhnson of Louisiana, Dayton. and Thomas Clayton. On Indian Afairs.-Messrs. Sevier, B-Igby, Phelps, Morehead, and Atchinson. On Claim.-Messrs. Bagby, John M. Clayton, Semple, and Dickinson. On Revotutiorary Claims.-Messrs. Semp'le, Jarnagin, Greene,-H annegan, and Colquitt: On the Judictary.-Messrs. Ashley, Hu ger, Webster, Berrien, and Breese. On the Post Offce audl Post Roads. Messrs.,Niles. Sturgeon. Simmons, Sem ple, and Johnson of Louisiana, On Roads and Canals.-Messrs. Ather ton. Lewis, Corwin, Sturgeon, and Wood bridge. On Pensions.-Messrs. Dix, Ashley, and Atchison. On the District of Columbia.-Messrs. Colquitt, Sevier, Johnson of Maryland, Miller, and Woodbury. On Patents and the Patent, Ofc. Messrs. Woodbridge, Hannegan, Stur geon, Speight, and,Lewis. On Retrenchment.-Messrs. Lewis.. A th erton. Dayton, Morehead, and Dickinson, On Territories.-Messrs, Baghy, Allen, Lewis, Evans, and John M. Clayton. On Public Buildings.-Messrs. Day-. t.on, Simmons. antd Bates. To audite and control the contingent er penses of the Senate.-Messrs. Atherton, Simmons. and. Semple. On Engrosscd Bills.-Messrs. Speight, Greene, and Jarnagin. SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. EXThA SESStON. Tuesday Match 4th, 1845. At 11 o'clock A. M. the Hon. Willie P. Mangum, President pro tern. of the Senate, called the. Senate to order. The following Senators Elect were call. ed by the President pro tem., and duly ij sworn Senators of the United States ror six years from this date: Hon. Thomas H. Benton, re-elected Senator from Missouri. fI66* Lewis Cass, elected Siiiator from Y Michigan, in the room of Hon. Augustus n S. Porter. whose term expired. Hon. John M. Clayton, elected Senator from Delaware, in the room of Hon. - H. Bayard, whose term of service expired. ~ Hon. Thomas Corwin, elected Senator I from Ohio,. in the room or IBon. Benjamin ~ Tappan, whose term of service expired. Hon. Wiliiam L. Dayton, re-elected-t Setnator fromn New Jersey. .Hon. Dantiel S. Dickinson. elected Sen- c atow- from New York. his election to rhe a residue of the 'ern1iof the Hon. N. P. Tral. 8 madge ~having expirea. Flona. John Fairfield, elected' Senator from Maine, his appointment for the pre-. vinus residue of a term expired. a t Hon. Albert S. Greene, elected Senator It frm Rhode Island, in the room of Hon. John B. Francis, whose term of service under appointment expired. Hon. Jabez W. Huntington, re-elected a Senator from Connecticut. Hon. Reverdy Johnson, elected Senator from Maryland, in the room of the Hon. - William B. Merrick, whose term expired. c H-Ion. Samuel S. Phelps, re-elected-Sen- h ator from Vermot. Hon. Jesse.Speight, elected Senator from Mississippi, in the room of Hon. i John Henderson, whose term expired. r H on. Daniel Sturgeon, re-elected Sena tor from Pennsylvania. . *Hon. Daniel Webster, elected Senator from Massachusetts, in the room of Hon.r Rufus Chboate, whose term expired. All the old Senators were in attendance, liiiitHon. Isaac C. Bates, ?confinedto Hon. JamigY evere. indisposition) and. quence a)f severe Irge (absent in conse The seats occupied pi~~his family.) of March by 'he Hon. Mesr. 14th- "I Tenntessee, Rives, of Virginia, and Whiite; I of Indiana, are vacant by -the expirationa ofetheir terms of service, and the omission I of those States to elect persons to fill their a places. ___* 1 I In the -Act making appropriations for etain fortifications of 'the United States, a for the year ending 30th June, 1846, we find the following: For preservation of the site of Fort I Moultrie, Charleston.harbor, South Care lina, twelve thousand dollars; . For dike to Drunken. Dick Shoal, Char- C leston harbor, South Caro~ina, thirty-Aive C thousand dollars; For Fort Sumter, Charleston harbor, I South Carolina, seventy thousansd doillrs; ~ For preservation of ni~e site of Fort.John son, Charleston harbor, South Carolina, one thousand dollar.. To Extinguish Fires-A correspondent .si of the Btuffalo Advertiser suggests the pro- oi priety of having reservoirs of water 9atur.a. -p ted with sl, and says:t "One gallon of el brine would be a-more,effectual damper of -B fire than four or even six-gallons of com- a mon water; and yet another advantage ft from the use of. brine - would be,. that in di the coldest weather of winter no difficulty gi would be experienced from the freezing of he ihn liquid in the hose." I The New York Correspondent of the Aarseston Courier, of a late date, says: ' You -have heard of the newdiscovery to - EPngland called Anastatic Printing, by thich letter-press line engravings, wood- i :uts, lithographs, &e: are reproduced in a t ew moments in plates capable of giving I ifteen -or twenty thousand impressions.- p V1r. Wiley received by. the- last. steamer a i French paper thus transfer d in a fe.. c ninutes. The typography, w cuts and til are precisely like the o al. Mr. c Niley has kindly given us an accurate s lescription of the whole procis by which h his is done. To make th eillustration c note simple, take the Chare ton Courier 6 or the sheet to be transferred to a plate. g Jpon a plate of polished zinc lay the sheet if the Courier spread out, so as to fit close' p y. Then with a sponge mooten it tho v oughly with dilute nitric acl.and the 1 Pork is done. The chemicln mposition il >f the ink resisting the actiou ofihe nitric . lcid those poriions of the plate covered by he letters are protected of course from it orrosion. while all the spaces between 11 ire eaten out. In a few minutes the acid d ias done its work, cutting away the zinc F vhere the ink does not proteciV On re- a noving the fragments of iieet the ii 'late presents a surface of )ated let- B ers, line for line, point for phti engrav- m ig for engraving, just as covelfed the face if f the sheet. In other words Uiprocess tr t just as simple as to put se blocks it f lead on to smooth ice and -t pour hot 1 rater over it. The lead wvpid protect ti lie ice: under it, while the intermediate ti paces would have melted away. On. re- r[ noving the blocks the rsurfnc bOld he tI aft unieven with points of ice pond- p ng to the shape of the block. 'I hnve ei voided technicalities in order to give it q ierfectly inte!!igible descriptioritef an in- p rentiqn Which has caused so much won ti ler, and yet been tnvolved in perfect myP a ery. You can .try the expeciment, and tl o can any one, with very little'expense. It l'he great difficulty is in the preis work- h he letters have such a slight elevsjinn from . he plate,. it requires a pecubagarrnnge nent to prevent 'he sheeffrnm meeting he plate between the letters, and thus dirty c he surface. It is a German invention, and a 3 already in operation in Germany. The Aondon Athenaum is thus tiansferred, mi(1 ifered toaubscribers for nine shillings ster h ing-a little'over 82 per year. The prin- -h er says he can afford it at this priee, with R inly three hundred subscribers.; The sub cription price in E ngland ii'about six 6 lollars per annuin. . This invention will n irobably supersede stereotype plates en- li irely,.and reduce the cost of priuting im- is nensely. Literature wtill be diffpsed at a f, ate that will bring it iithin tir reach of c very one who desires it. An engraver's 1 lete, which costs him months of labor, it an*thus be produced in a& -tter of an our. This will also mateU-iafl-Yeffect the opy right law-. It will give us a great ad equitable arrangement with foreign. P ations in coly rights, or it, wi1. destroy " bem altogether. The print!d pub * isher, by this invention are eqily in'er sted wthi the authoi in a copyright. very thing must be made secures or there . i no security whatever. ti Information Wanted.-The 4FBzst Ala E amian" says Some moorfis . sine,, a oiung man yiiioame of Jacob C. Kin- e edy, left this part of the countiry. and no C efinite intelligence has since been recei- t ed of his whereabouts.*. He went to the F 2lad Mines in Tallapoosa, and then into r 'lorida, and was said to have been lost v, -om Chattahooche river. Btit as very ir ttle credit is placed upon this intelligene., si is friends are anxious to make an efiort a >ascert ain where he is; if he still be-liv- a ig. He was about 21 years of age, fair se amplected, dark hair, blue eyes, v~eiahed I1 bout 160 pounds, and was abon' 5 feet a' inches in height. Will our fri-nds of the 'ress do an act of humanity. .by placing is notice in their columns ? Any communication may be addressed a his brother, George W. Ken ne.dy, Tat m idega Ata, -.-- ri The English A pprentice S~jstem.-WVe V bserve by the Demara papers the arrival e tBerbaice of the British ship Roger Stew- d r, -on the 20th of January, with 348 E sfricati ~Emigrants from Sierra Leone. ' 'he Berbice Gazette Pays: "the arrivttl rented a great sensation, and every face are token of the satisfaction the evett a.1 ecasioned." D~ouhtless, these are sotne r the free laborers the British are about n troducing in their colonies-the capita. fr ud, condemned and apprenmiced cargoes IL the slave vessels toaken hy. and after C ,nfinemen; at Sierra Leone, being resto- C id to those homes and that freedom froas: C hich philantropists allege they have. been I ra, are re-shipped across the ocean toJ il in British coloniee under the "name" rapprentice.-N. Y. Morn. Newes. Another SLT in the Firnmamern.- T he v" agnificient chandelier suspended in the tr alnl of Representatives supported twen -A ,.ilighta, the number of the Statcs,.atd . rh vg~Qe was ascertained ona' nother lig tim g xas qtuestion,. he galaxy, making twentyliJ5jadded to E oncidence hunters may also remark9,e. be vo in favoreof admission to the Seta te was twenty seven, being one for each Iia bate including Texas. It is also remark. . ble- that. a majority in the House otn the * nal passage is fifty six, being just four . mesa the numbe.i (14) of new states !hat h ave been added .to the-Union since'the Pt riginal confederation. -This may he in- r icative :of. the number yet totcome in. p .ike .Banquo's .glass it. reflects ?the lottg ii as of States that areye't to swell the Con- a ,deratiti.-Ibid. - u e Neto York to Newo Orleans in a Noment. t .The New York Sun is not extravagat predicting that in 1850, even at its pre tnt rate of progress, and without coming * t accelerating improvements, the dailyv " roceedings of Congress will be reported ich 'night at New Orleans, New York, oston, and the intermediate cities. Trhe a embers will hardly have -limg to pass am their seats, in the Capitol, to their N nner, before the gtiratcle-working Tele hi -ph-will have told n thaou.and miles off,. >w they have performed their morning's n,-ke .c THE NEW CABINET. In the formation - of the Cabinet there vere 'diffieubies to surmount.. perhaps, as rear as ever enviriandd the first Execu -I ive officer of the Union on his accession to his dienitty. M r. Polk lis overcome these ifficullies with equal judgment and im artiality. If he had nitemnpted to bal nee in his Cabinet the leading branches fthe Democratic party by appointing to ,e Secretaryship, a representative of ach, he wtuld have sownabroad cast the Reds of dissention. and reaped the full arves' of distracted councils. In the otposition of his Cabinet he wvas compell d to regard the claims of the four great eogrraphical divisions of the Union, with ut the sacrifice of other aims, and he ap ears in have had these leading objects in iew in the selection of its members. 1st. 'heir general reputation for ability and itegrity. 2nd. Their attachment to Con ervative Democracy. There can he no other principles of se iion for a President of the U. States in to fortnation of his Cabinet, elected un er the popular inflietices that placed Mr. Polk itn office. Mutch more importance is tiached to offidial -experienp than is due the choire of a new Cabinet. The ureaue are composed of practical tnen ell conversant with official routrine atid te details of administrntton. Of adminis ative ability no judi'einue President of ie United States will deprive himselfi'f y indiscriminate removals. The Execu ve branches of this Government always, terefore, remain in full effectiveness. 'he Heads of Dephrtmentt should possess ie competency that results from a com rehensive knowledae of the great inter tts of the country, and a thorough ac uainiance with the ceneral prineiples of dlitical science and administration. With to names of Biucfranan, Bancroft, Marcy nl Walker, the country is familiar. while te National councils have henefitted by ibors ard services of almost every mem or of the tiew Cahinet.-Chas. Patriot, larch 131h. The Cabinet Comp.ete.-Get-rae Ban mrtfl. Eq., anyA the National Intelligencer rlast Tuesday. was yeterday tinani miusly confirimed as Secretary of the [avy. The manner -of confirmation is ighly creditable to the S!ate. Mt. B. as an European reputation. His talents re equal, we think, to any emergency or -ill adqantely -fill any ltation -to which o might be called in the Federal govern tent. Th6 appoitmen'rit nust he pecu arly acceptable to the South. Mr. B. a statesman'(Ivoted to the principle.s of ee-trade, and a firm sopporter of those Dmpromises of the constitution that con :itute the guaranties of Southern rights, iterests and instituilions. Sessions of Congress.-The Boston Post ublishes n tale showing the time when ch session of Congress commenced, ,ded, qnd its -duration, since the first ses on in New York.. The sessior just osed, commenced Dec. 2d, 1844, and aa 92 days .long. There have- been 62 -ssions of Congress held since the adop on of the Constitution. Extra sessions 'ere called in 1790, 1998, 1810, 1814. 338. and in 1842. The sessionuE1841-2 ,as the longest ever held-269 days, the %sion of 1809 the shortest-38 ddys. ongress held its first ad second sessions nder the Constitution in New York - 'rom Decen.her 1790, in May 1800, it et at Philadelphia and on the.17'h No. ember IS00, cottmtencedl its first session i \Vtshing'ott. The dlays spent in se on. dturing 56 years. summed up. :nake period of 23 y ears atnd 115 'Iy. The rerage ttmnher of day s occupied by each issioni, is 153 dlays ; the Whiig sessioni of 341-42. wats nearly twice as long as Lhe verage seisions of Congress, Public :Meeting.-A large meeting of tizens tootk place- last night at the City all, for the purpose of making arrange-' e-nts to 'receive the H on. Joht C. Cal mtit with appropriate respect, oti his ar val in Charleston. from the Seat of Gom trnment. The Hon. Ke'r Boyce was illed to the Chair. amid .Major A. 0. An -ews'acted as Secretary. H enry BaiIay, sq.. ff'ered a Preatmbtle atid Resrlutitis, hicht he prefand by soine highby comn iroentarv remaurks to the - character of r. Calhoun. Several otlher gentlemen Idressed the meeting. among tshom were e - Hoan. Messrs Yatncey and Belser, embers of the House of Representatives lim Alabatma. 'rho. p;reamtb!e and reso tions' sere unanimously adopted. A omtmittee o1f fift) were appointed by the hair, to act with a Comm'nittee of the ity Council, to carry out the projects of e mteeting, and the meeting then ad urned.-Chkas. Patriat, Mareh 12th. A notice of the celebramiion of t he 22d ethruary, prepared for our last wasun didabily mitted. The day was nshsred by the discharge of a national saltute. 12 M., a processiotn moved, from the apitol, in the order previously published, the Presbyterian Chturcht. The Fare elI Auddress was read hy D. S. Walker, sq., and was followed .by an exceeding interesting discourse from the Rev. Dr, (m. B. Johnosoni. The subject was an ce oo~.thte moral and intellemnal char ietnts, whmicimdpton ;and the noble ele itutedi the g r e otmbinatiome, con tan, were sever-ally clea mmrad appily illustrated, by reference ttan rnate t-vents in his ever memorable ca per. The application was equally' sim le and forcible. Barely have we listened tan address replete with so much of'sound' ad enobling sentiment of practicallvyea able truth,.so well expressed.- A publ. ition, wes believe, was solicited, but like' e many other things good and trtue which: >mne from the same source, it lives only: the memory of those who heard it ; in her words, it. was entirely extempora ,ous.-Tallhasse (Pta.) Sentinel. EIAfi HUNG.-A Cherokee was hung Tahleq'uah, the capital of the Cherokee ation.-on the 9th inst., for the murder of: swife near thait place some three months' ie.. The name of the manwas Oo ta .DGEF1ELD C. H. WKDMESDiY, MAc.19. 1845. Xrr " We will ding to the Pillars of the Temple of Our Liberties. and if it must fall, we jiU-per ish amidst the Ruins." FIRE.-On Sunday night about 8 o'clock, a fire broke out in an outhouse of the lot occu. pied by Mr. Josiah D. Tibbets. of this town. This building and another, used for the pir pose of a crib and stable, were enveloped in flames, and were burned down. A large sta ble on the adjoining lot, of Mr. Butlet. was in imminent danger, but wassaved by grearef. forts on the part of certain individuals, and the Fire Company, which labored very effectually in arresting the progress of-the flames. A con siderable quantity of corn, fodder and hay, b. longing to Mr Tibbetts,was consumed. IAvY RAi.-On Wednesday night last there was a fill of rain at this place, and it continued almost without intermission throughout Thurs day. For sone days afterwards, we had cold and wintry we-ither. The Court of Commun.Pleas and General Sessions. for this District. adjourned oi the 16th instant after setting the whole week His Honor Judge Frost presided.- The greater portion of the week the Codrt wasengaged.in small State cases; the principal one of which was that of Joseph Richardson, who was con iicted of stealing a Mule, and' sentenced to two months imnprisonment. anad to receive fifty lashes. in five weekly in3talments,conxmencing on the first.Monday in April text. - An, Extra Court 'has been.ordered, to com. mene.on the 2nd Monday in July neit, to continue twO weeks. irties concerned will take due notiedi tiereof, and act'accordingly. FIRES -Numerous fires have recently oc curred in Southern Towns. Our readers will remember. that Wetuinpka, it. Alibama, was a short time since visited by an extensive con. flagration. Several attempts have been made to fire . Columbia. Charleston, Georgetown and Savannah, have also been visited by. fires, and nuch valuable property, principally Cot. E ton, has been destroyed. . Large rewards have c been offered in some of these places for the ap. prehension of-incendiaries,- who are supposed to-have caused the fires. South Carolina Rail Road.--From a state- ' ment published in the Charleston Courier, it appears, that these has been a increase in the ri amountbf btas(neqs and receipts 6f the..Rail 9 Road Companj. In the months of January and Feb., for the present year, -the amount of-busi siness' nid receipts actuilly exceeded those of 1844, by about five thousand dollars. The receipts for January and February 1844,-were $84;896 61. For February and March 1845, d S ,592 65. The Presidentof the United States has sent a Messenger to Texas, with a copy of the Joint Resolutins fnr Annexation, omitting theC amtendmnt which was introduced in the Sen. ato.. Mass Wssrza Aoms.-Miss Delia Webster t who was sentenced io thePenitentiary. in Ken Lucky, for stealing certain slaves, has been par iJoned lby the Governor. It seems that she'was rented with great kinidness,.net to say gallantry ns the prison. Site was not subjected, like. ~omnmn wretches, to the prison discipline. She a sas not required to wear the uniform of the e ~onvicts-her beautiful ritiglets were not shorn 'u >ff, ntor was she compelled tq perform servile asks. Shte has, - itce het liberationi. made her ( svay back to the North-perhaps to preach against slavery.-. - * We have read .a copy of an' Oration "on he necessity of popular nnlightenment."I by [-fenry L. Pinckney.' We will ~giveit a'mnore >articular inotice'hereafler. A short time since, we gave some notice of he. abomiinable mistakes which the. Devil1 nakes us .commit in the publication of~our I >aper. It seeums that the archt.enemy of men-1 inm recently been in the office of the Charles on Courier. HeI lately made a correspondenit c >f that paper say. that "aMrs. Polk, wife oIhhe President,'was devoid of affection." A most torrible calymny! ;This was altogethier a I 'alse readinig of the copy, wvhich the compositor: 'et 01p. It read thus-"Mis. Polk, wife of the P~residenti. is devoid of affectation"-".- We vould itot htav. lheiieved, that there was such,( mn utter watt of gallantry to the beautiful sex. a aven in the Devil haimself.! ti At the annual election, fiel in Charleston, a~ Be 12th instant, for Directors of the Union Ban '-atkharolina, the followinig. gentle'. men were eleeres,,o.uerve for 'the ensuing year: - Rtene tlodard,s Sanmel Chdi~ Alexander Brown. 'Otis Mills, C. Burek myer, A. Ottolengul, Win. Mazyck, W. C. Hichborn, - Smith Mowry, Jun -John I, Hedley.. A- Tobias, . Chas. N. Hiubert. Jos. A,'Winthirop, At-the annual~election,.held in.Cliarleston, a1 an the 12th intstant, fori .Dire~ctonrot the State F Bank. the following gentletmen were' re-elected to serve for the ensuitng yeari:- - - - lames Jervey, George Gibbon, hohn Wilkes, Thomas J. Kerr, * N. R..Middleton, Gedrge (M. Coffin,' V. B. Legare, . Edward Sebring, - I. H. Ladeon, ..E. W. Mathewvs, -9. R. Ripley- Andrew Moafi. For the E.geed Adcertiser. According to previous notice, in -!he Edgefield Advertiser. Delegates from sev ,ral,. Temperanc' Societies or Edgefield Dierirt, met in the Baptist Church of Edgefi'elde on the evening of the 11th Warch, for the purpose of forming a Dis riet Temperance Socierv. On motion of [tv.;Z.-Watk-in-!. MF.-E.Pstasil'f o the Chair, and .E. J. Mims appointed Serretary. The meeting ivas commenced with rayer by the Rev. J. M. Chiles. The Thair having explained the object of the reeting. the following Delegates enrolled heir names, with -those of their respective Societies. viz :. Rocky Creek W..T., A. :Society-Dr. i. Burt, Rev. Wm. Watkins. Gilgal T. A. Society-Rev. James M. .ThiIes.-L. De vne. - Edgefield, M. W. Society-Eev.. A. icQuordodale, E. Finn, Dr'-. . Mtimi. )r. H. Burt. Little Saluda-T.' A. Society-Re.~ Z. Walkina, Benjanlif1 ~Ethtidge, Joseph 1 ong. - Shiloe T. A: Sociely.4ames iervis, Eliram Jourdlan. Antioch Temperance .Society- Re UI. Ahney. P 'Brimus. n. Beach lsland -W. -T. .A. Society-S . 1u 3Ilark. J. M. Miller. - - - l.og Creek T. ArSociety-. Hghes, .aleb Mitchell. Good Hrope T. A Society-R.' Byasi Gazoway Temperance" Society-..H. Jill. On mo(ion .nf Dr. H. Burt. the dijair Lppointed the following Committe.of Five, o draught.a Constitution . for the: govern nent-of this: Society, viz-: Dr. H Bert, lev. James M. Chilet, Saiuel Clarke, lohert Bryan and Rev. M: M.,Abmey, During the recessoin'e Comnte, tfhe, neeling was addressed ii an loiquent.and ible manner by James Tuppe,.Esq.of tiken. The Committee ihen.'reported the tol owing Preamble and .Constitution, which vas unanimously adopted. Whereas, we the' Delegates. fri~m. the lifferent local Societies in the Distict or Edgefield. feel the need of more concen rated and efficient. action, for the 'p-rgmo ion of the Temperanoe 'cause, and havitag net for the purpose of devising and adop. ing some plan that may secure such ac. ion, do, now agree to 'form a District remperance Society,'and adopt tje fol owing articles as the Constit'ution, by vhich our operations shall be directed. Art. I. ThiS-Sheiety shall be known by ho name if the Edgellefd 'District Tem ierance Society. Art. II. This Society shall he composed fDelegnitesfrom the v'eriotis Tem terance Bocieties in the District of Edgefield. Art. III.* The object' of thir Society. hall he to advance the cause of Temper, nce in the District of Edgefield. by se uring grearer activity arid unanimity o' fort' among the individual Societies herein. Art. IV. The officers of -thi Soilety hall be a President, two Vice Presidents, Secretary and Treasurer, to be- 'chosen rom the Delegates, by ballot at each an ual meethig, who shall, with three other members. chosen at fht'e same time chri ritute an Executive 'Cornmittee . whiih hiall be entrusted with the general busi ess of the Society, except, when it' is it elf i session. Art. V. It shall lbe the dftiy ofrihe Pres lent, Vice President, Sm etary and Trem urer, te discharge the druties usually inc ent to such offices.. The' Kiecutive Com mitee shall he-reqtiired to furnish suitable cerona to address the meetings of the So. iety, prepare business for the same, and take such recommend Ations as they.may eem suitable and iroper. Art. VI. The regular- meetings of thris iociety, shall he held a t Edgefield C. H.,. r stuch other place, as the Society' may pipoint. on the first Tuesday evening', of lie terms of March,' June 'and October ~ourts, and on Christmas day. Art. VII. The Executive Comnmittee hall have power to enrll. extra meeting.. .benever the interests of the Society, in lieir opinmon. so -require. Art. VIII. This Constitution may be Itered or smended' by a vote of two liirds of thie-members' present, at any reg Jar moetmngs of the Society. The Societ y then went in a eletion of )llicers, which resulted as follows: Dr H. Burt.-President. -- -Samuel Clark, E-dmund- Pennl Viee residents.' E. J. Mims. Secretary and T reanrer. H. H. Hill, IRobert Bryan, 4Rev~.Z Vadkins; ExecutiveCoinmiee.,.. O~ffmotion of, Rev. Z. 'Warklis, siie lanki of' the Society. were. preserntedit~ lr.Tuppe!, for hiii.abje and eloquent ad.. Ons motion. of Rev.. Wm. Wa' line,- the 'roceedings of th' titettin'g were ordered be jirinted in-th'Edgeieia. Advertiser,~ -id the Temperance Advocate.. The 'ietig adjourned till 'firtuesday vening of Jutte Court. E. 3.' M IMS, Secret ary. DOEFIRI.D DrsTRmcT.TEMP~tkwCE. SQCtETy. Afgrch.39;1845. The Executive Commitieeqo. the Dis ict Temperance Socjiet'y met at Edgefield ~ourt House, and" by- nuanidiotis 'pontept, ppototed -'Mr. J. G.. Bo.wwman, Editor-of lie T'emperance Athocate, to address the egular meeting of the Societf 'id June, ud Tb'is 'Pope, Esq.,.his elfernate'." T Also, appointed the followiing-gendeta s Temperance Le'eturers,.in theiudespec-. ta uda Regent.-t)r. 8-urr, Pope' aorrisr Dr. Holland. : - Seventh Reguitcu.-A. itCaine, .F, ohnson;sJonipr Tuppel. -Nigth, .Regiment.-Rev-.~Mr. Brwi fortin.Holnes, George Blocker.. Rdigbled, That the.-Sectr'e~y.of the xecu tiyve Commtttee, publishf in The-Adi erriser the proceedings of the Committee, nd that the differe-ni locaiSpocietiesin the' )istrict be respectfully :tequested w"jilgfs imemetipg upon the proceedin'gs of die istrict rTemnperance Society, .aird-avant timtselves of the;Iabors' of the Temper. rtce Lecturers appoiunted, and' also siuch Lh.er Lecturers as. they may .choose .to' ileet.- - .- -- -E..MS,75 ec'ry xeutive nmainee