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DGEFELD C. H -sd-'n Maitaes Rak 2 EDGEFIELD ' H1. %VI MV~'sAY, MARCH 3S 816 _7 ~ ---Ytawand Magistrates Blanks every description. on good Vayeeatly printed, and for sale at this office, at 50-cents the ngle quire, and less by the q tity4 2U 11 imtcr.-During the past week, we 'had ..reqnent showers of-rain, and on Fri. day night we had thnuder and lightning, and then a heavy shower. On Saturday the sun _,shone out,. and the temperature was quite cool. The Court of Common Pleas.-This Court adjourned on Saturday last. Judge Evans lit bored with grent.industry and faithfulness, and -,'many important ecses were tried. Yucatan.-The people of Yuentan are de sitrois ofeoming under the protection of the Inited States, and it is stated, thit they have set't delegation to Washington on this bust ness. -3 s outhern UdIticator.-This valuable Ag rfinitural journal is publishrd at A ngusta, Ga., by Messrs. Jones,of the Chronicle & Sentinel, and edited by Mr. James Camak, of Athens Ve iegrct to learn,that there is a probabiliy rits .discontinuatce, from the want of ade %tiate patronage. It is a monthly paper. and is published at the low price of one dollar per year We call attention to the subjeined ar tirk, wielappeared in the ast nunmber. The Southern Gdliiator.-The pub lishers of this work, without desiring to obtrude upon its friends, deem it due to - iemseies, no less thau to all those who feeL an.interest.in a.the sucoess of the -pa per,.to-state tihat, 4.1s far, he patronage exteideil to-it, iswholly inadequate to its p.port-ndt sufficient to paly tie actual ,.1v tseif iublication. Thepublishers base no.appeals.tonako % .to aith ; y -have entered upon a eon-. tract1 wI tl intend to, and tcll. ful-; IPAotIe ub "e ifie publicationi or the 41 Volume That- done, their contract W , iidiinly be renewed - ess ery d iretfefeelin be exhibited f IV y Ia~r~ li ose to h ose, - uested- eri:0 -qi l i'an inserii, tin accompa -'i 1 iti4 Eo rcommteflts as they deem they -dib :Poper.. - ata of dAonernorif Deletare.-'hes6. Gtetn(overor of. Delaware, died re .cetl e 5 sddialy at New Castle, whilst engfaged in conv ersation. Thbe, vacancy in the' gnbernoatorial chatir of - Delaivare,. oceasionied by the dleath of the Go veiner (vilf be filled agreeably to the Consti )iid;-y Dr...Joseph' M~anll, presidinig officer * oite Senata: .Tias --General J. P. Hen'derson is elec ted Go-:ernor of' the new State ol Texas, and *. has entered upr n oflice. Genteral Darntell is - elected Lieutenant Goyernot. Generals Hoius ton and Ruskc aro elected .U. S. Sentors. As Texas has now becomeo one ot' the States - of-thaetnien; letters may be transmitted to any part of that State, without the pre-paymnent opostage. Gr~t.at .Britain and Indlia.--From pa pers bear nii date, London. Feb. Ot's and 7th, by packet -- p Tor'onte, we learn that the Amnglo Intdian .rmeetfor the anncxationl of the Punijaub. the conusry lying between the tributaries ot' die Indns,.has been put in a !train of annexatkon. *notby theo conserntof both parties. a.s it may well be bel'ieved, but by means of snperior c~rel the otto- sde, aund crel suff'ering on itbd other. WVe make the following brief ex .' act from an exchange paper. India.--The Bombay Times of the 1st MjfJanuary containts the following: The long expected crisis in the affairs of the runjaub has at last taken place. The-Sikli army anxious for plunder, c rossed the Sutlej to the number of30.O0 men with 70 pieces of artiery. -Their ebiarp..shooter's fired upon sotr~e E~nglish soldiers senlt to reconnostrc and jheir main botly attacked our camels. Thtus war wvas declared, and the entire territory on the left bank of the Sutlej, - reducing a revenue of ?75,000, has beeni tunifibcated and annexed to' our domn netojs. - "Ouwr Alexandria correspondent writes nthe 22d.Jaguary t War has cornmenced -n the Pmjaub. Lettera from Suiez states hat the Sikhs'attackted the British army ,55'O00man said iM0'piece~s of artillery, on thie 21s:i M'Vcember. *&.4a T' The fighting *as not yet over when the express left.on thte3d' A great numbher ,f ilis'ere killedl: 55 pieces of cannon fidallen ini' the" hands of thie English, Siih6falso mufrered considerable loss. Sceieai'.Littler itas 'repulsed r, 'the 41oaet,,u b the effourts of Sir Henry H'ardli - ~.,. e ad4~ir* H. Gough changed' the fate ~i he 'caj i6 f(tvor of the Engiish army, *~ L~ believed that the Sikhe wer'eobliged - ,j3,-Sutlej othea (allowing day, -' ~ ofDecember." ~~ ~ '~ atjor Donelson lhas been nm -. ~~ ni ter to 'Austria..n place uf.ir. i fTrpasry. tl aeto der:'. the -B k of Hamburg,on. the 9tIiistantth ro lowiag gentlemen were elected Directerfra H.- Hutchinson. W. W. Stark, J.W. Stoker, G. W. Garmliny, Ge'o. Paniott, D. L. Adams; and J. J. BlackWool. At a meeting of the Board on the I11h, fl. Ijntcljison, Esq.,.was unanimtously re-elected Tretsident. Captain Fremont.-Some-of our exchanpges a short time sinee,-contained.a short biographic sketch of this able officer. Captain Fremont is a native of South-Carolina, -and it is-said,-that in early -youth encoanutered difficulties. By his genins apd his indomitable perseverance, he has overcome them. 'His expeditions beyond the Rocky Mountains have given.him ade seivedly high reputation. 'He wili rark with the boldest explorers of our Western wilds. The I'cekly Chronicle and Sentmel.-This paper published at Augusta. Ga., by Messrs. Jones and Smythe, is of the largest size, and: printed at the low price-of two dollars per an num. It generally presents an agrecamfe mis 'ellaity. The politics ofthe paper are Whig. The Petcrsburg -Republican.-ThIs- sterling Democratic journal, published at Petesoig, Va., by W. 11. Drinkard. hoas recently come out in a new dress. Its appearance is much improved New State Ilouse of Alabama.-The citi zens of Blontgonery have held a mteeting,and. appointed a committee to supecintend the building of the new State House. For the Advertiser. 1ar. Editor.-4 psceive, by a notice in one of my papers, and have also.learnt from an an. thenic source, that Rev. W. P. .Mill, a Miii. ister of our Association, has received from the Southern Baptist Board of Domestic Missions. the appointment of Agent for South Cerolin. This brother is known most favorably to the Churches of the Aa-sociation, as- one of its-wor .thy.and .efrective ministers,.anid I doubt not, that as Ie travels abrough the State. in the duties nf his agency the thietbrea and others will take pleasnie in receiving, and aiding, him- in the important service, which will soon conmand ia eforts. The Domestic Mission Board has under its sapei-visionte regions of the Sotrth -nnd So:tth W est of the United States. 'Its especial dutty is to send Missionaries to the destitute places in these regions, that the Gospel may bd preached to " the people that sit in darkness," and to them that sitlin the region and shadow of death." But to lierforit this ditty, means. an1d wenl mnst.be aforded by thle hurches. The appedl is about to be made lo you 1bretb real, tie.members of the Churches nith"Sitate, fro aid in this good and grem work. - - The Gospel was commanded by tire Sa vior -to be prearhe'd in all the .worl. beginning at J.irusalein. Our country, therefore, shonid claim ourfrsmzattention, oiarfirst e-irts. And whatm 4a1hl -for this attention, for dhese efforts does our country present Th' Macedonian cry -Come over and help is? reaches our ears-from .naearly every_ -ar t -fthe land. Espoecially from.Tezas Florida,.New Oleans, and Oregon-moes thiscry cane' up.and,in ac-, eents..that nFotatt i .o disr d, adit. irck the Gospeh 'to a .Iuiioins." hilst -thenwe are diligently cultiviting the home f 4dd,weire prepaed toetdtavise with -greater- effect theferign fe. -ield. It i's obvious,then, ihiat the .96o:abti Board .occpjies atn im portant position. WItI tihe agent oft*he Convenuaon frcarrying out the noble designs of the denomination in the lenagth and breadth of the liand But that this positirni may be occupied advantageously, the miem bers of the denominaation must cotne tup to its aid. They must furnish tho necessary instru mntnalities to this Agent, or thd Agent will he ineffective. South Carolinia, that had one hun dred delegates in the Cnvenion at Augusta, anid thiat has santctioned the dozngs of that body, must tnot be hiackward int suastaiing thoase da' ings. Alkaw me, thuen, dear brethren, to ax haart yoiu to liberaility ina your cotributions to the Agent of theo Botard. 1 atm-aware of-the pressnr~e in the pecuniary affairs of ite contary. Butt is net - the earth and its fuliese the Lord'ai." And has He not cmanded '-Brinig ye all -the tithes into the sore-htom,e. that .there mnay be mteat in may house. .and prove me now therewith, sailh the Lord of H osts, if I will ntot opaen you the widowrfhleaven,and pouryou out a bles sing. th-st thtere shall nt be room enough to receive it" Does He not also say. H e that wateretha shall 4se watered againi." "Thiere istatascattereilh and yet inicreaseth-" "It is moru- blessed to nive thtan tat receive." May the Lord i'nclinte your htearts to devise. and yeat hands .to giv'e, liberal thittgs, that by libmeral tinigs you may rstatnd. .d P. S.-The Month Carolina Baptist, Bibli cal Rtecorder andl Charistiant Intdex wvill p lease copy this~. WV 1- 3. [CornrusreAmu.] Sunv's CitEE, March 10th, '18d6. Mr. Durisoc : Your palper has heretofore bin thout of with ta great desire oin Shtat ' reek, but as5 you has giv up so mnuchi room in your itnvaltuable paper to them anr adlver:ise mns of-\1r.~ Robert's. end Tibbet t's, and Blessing andl Cohtent's, it-aint thou: mtucha of as yet tnow -a-days in these parts. As-for myself, I live nearer 1o Aiken thart the Court House, and you oeed'nt trubble yourself about putlin in ihemar aidver tisments in my paper, for I can buy them articles rmuch cheaper in Aik en than the Coturt House. Aiken is another sort of a place to thte Court House, any way you can fix it, for they. htas the Rlail Road carts comin thtar every day, a bringin in goods fair Mr. Fowkc, and Stedham and somte more of em, that sells goods cheaper than Raoberts or any one else does at the Court House. I wish you wvould come down thar antd-set up a paper. It would bena great convenience to us, and you would'.ut be trubbled with themi ar adver -tisements, and you wounld have more room for your own ritings and polytics, and the intertanment of the District gen erally wvould .be cet ahead. If you will brigdowni your . printian tools and -set to work in right earnest. I'll warrant yu-'J1 get a good~rade.of all the printin. husi ness thats .gwine.n I am a grate .friend to Rail Road., for living as l..4t6 ntear Ai ke;.1 has "experienced :the. good, of one, and I was. glad to beir- that. .yois were gwinde to have one made .at thea Court House, andI would be glad giyps ould ptntlabhut t in oyour papg|s- i:4.1 ou wukd flitla:mayoh reaigrit toritaki~ tb6Iedagdoeiiad1And qot.be affei 4w . two~ ~~Po 411~ii ~T~y il jest sbet his eyestsh etton w Some pIfge oa s v'.6te goti , but tudil you cang seL ~ hA%[fsQtamP you bijd belier layg.o iadik at themit GrevAwille id:Ne Iherv fellIat1andar a lesson-tio 0iite Irai if yon wale 1o bring jour.pr aimi. idols-do40enthe Rail .Roadt .wil.l..donglimelteoro we shall seeSoyuin.Aiken.- '--" - P1N WOO)S - ingont -for uthe '3egL iwlur .ai L. will git ypu to. prit.it in your paper-, but you mus'a. let the .peo.pe .k . I Putt it Forthe . Advertiser. ISLAND op ADAco, F. 19 1846. In -eleven dtys af0er the.departure of our rig toi jhe Port 'rf TNres5, we arrived at,-the Island of Abpco. qe6gra pliers well know that this isliand belong. to GreanBritain..and is one o4 ihe Bala tnas. Tow ards the norliern, extrent~y of this western-a cbipelago, is this dreary island -of he. Atlantic. In ihiSjeggo.n, are- congregated- several la is9ndu, condneted'by key or sond hUJ ithheT and there a lonely.paliipj 3 ,CPiSpOa tree, growing upon its hare'ntiin , This island is principally inhalbitil ,fsher men and free negroes. rLhere ' sma4 village on theisland, whh.. maniy inhabitantsns there is in Eilw e d village. The soil of Abico-is so barren, that the inhabitanti do 'not-pi-etetid it ultivie'it Besides fishermen, manyrof ]qhe iit arns are sailors,-wh. belonftretkers vessels whose -sole, Itustme . icruise round thcfe islinds,.'in s,. fro and to relieve any V sol whichniy be iabs tress. Alany vesse! tie.'s ed on the Bahamah Banks, act -.r Abaco. Our Captain. isan ot.pPe" enced-sailor, informed ut L DO passage in the krown- wW flm9t ' e? n gerous than 'this;' . Ji lfs o many wrecked vessels. Th as been recently erected- on tie sil ight ouse, -for the guid~ance of ,rineW thro' that perilous .passage Ny Po et well- describes -the of a light-beaconu at sea; when Thocene was more'beatin c1 Myes. Than if diy in its pride Iad e at The laud breeze blew. iild',andl'azure arch edsky Looked pure as the spirit-th al tal The murmur rose soiltas; On the-blue wave. playfl . : Fron the dim distanti4lanit tif acon-1re Sbilaz'd Liue-astar in the midstof h e Ce.eehnence of the Char ont pur ier. WASnrcro ch 7. Neit.her 1ouse or C gr 1111 sis sion today-,. - -' Many absurd-Tumori e broad as to the condition.dfAhe qenou. It has been. asserted;jll lk ias assumed. he .iisa.tie negnta -o)va r ,treoty thatb e ali.iao - 25ih Feb.. fif I hun's rearks, maddenitie dI;&b you wilfesce thii he %niettitre&n such idea You rill see a bhn-tdie bGW, i . at the initiative~(3 beogeusb , aGvrn; ment. and 'he press g1thgaupuoa.of aIr. Colquit t e' proposition. fnr: ipu rpose tl* inviting a conciliatory proposiumn from the British:.GovernmettViadi-Vho same time, of ossuring -the Prestda a id ha ne would have the support-oflthe Senate. in makinj; a treaty notiht 49ft. The agitation that prevails,.amtonO the. ulra Oregon party-their s-.eritio tht "the country i-s shId".that the flndorfity of the Senate have ceeiin un in rigue with the Britibo Mtiter, and all that, go to sorstain Air Hitywuoda .ch. ration that Mr. Polk stands Upon 49- a' ll concede that, and nothling inure. The 49th is the point of cotroversy Aer. That is the -utmiost that w ill be conceded y theo Senate. Some slighit variations fromt it .may be conceded, and I wihl name them.. .as f.llows:-ie whiole of Vancouver's island-Ibe tenmporary use of the navigation of the Columbia rier, asnd Cotpensationl to the Huldson's iay Com-' pany, -for the loss of their valuable inter ests south of 49.. .which they purchased from the Russian Fur Company, uder a guaranty from the Britisli Goveriiten t, and also ft-om Mr. Astor's Company. Some offer of: this-lkid'isexpected to come from the British Governmeat. .'The longer it is :postponed.. the greater -1will be the difligul'y of efecttog any.cotapru mise. The Tariff' arrangements contemplated by the two governmenis. will ha've little influence over the quetion. Our T ariff will be reformed, at all events, unless it should become necessary to augmnent the revenue. The relaxation of the British TariOf, is not ciosidered bmy ;any of tl-e utra Oregon .men, as an equjivalent for any cocssion.on our part. of any rights in Oregon ; though they regard the relax tion of (iur.own..as an inducemment Do to Great Brityin. to yield thseir iter--sin that territorf., As -to the Lilt ra protetive men, they woiuld, lake war in preference to isse adoption 'of Mr. Walker's Tariff. We are looking wiih great anxiety, for the packet which left England on the 4th of this month..- 't may bring us "'an ont rageous debate in Parliamnent,'' but it is, also, expected to bring us some overture from the British Government. - Correspondenceo ie Emening News .. March, 9. [a the Senate,. !oday, as sonias the jourial wvas read, Mi. Colquitof Geor gia, brouight to- the noice of the body an article in the Washington "uies," re fleeting upon a nmjority of the Sejnre, and charging theta with an inirigue with the British Minit& to cococ! a- schemne for the adjustcife'n Y1 ii Oregoai question by compromise. The article cliargCe, in the most positive terms. that;tihe Whein Senators and a rv. of the. omnoCrats held a caucus at the..Brlisief Minister's own tablolwjtye soaed doors,;,.for lispuir pose. Mr,r Coiquiti said-that.,be -was nevqr atthe Minister's house did not k6iio him, and had ttendedehatone eq~ts~i~ssspi~ wic h AScal 44 couldse .wbid ret hisctju cicne~ .htirpj, PL i: Djeeyg -tA I[:'lt' ;bietfi'iid .lie' (M. C') nmiillinas firi iis Vikct.culd exteud. pronoulto hiu an ilp afmous liar. ir Criotenddn said a few words in Con :itmAtion of 3Ir.'olqtitt's remarks, and :.complimen ted that Senator., .ir..vas comnmenceda speech onl tie Oregoit question. and went into a .iescrip lion of the title, which, as-he argued with -great-ability, was OUL clear and utiques tionable, -u * The-chief topic of coarvereation out of doors and -at the Caritol :today, has-heen rhecourse of the Senate yesterolay in re lationi to the offensive .article :in 1he ' Times" of 'this city, -charging that M r. Colquiit's Oregon amendment had been Scotcoeted nt -the house of the Britisit Minister, anti plainly intimating that c6rtainSenators had sold their integrity, ee. - Many are of opinion that the editor ought-to havo been brought -Io-the bar of the Senite, and dealt with in a summary mamhner', while others contend, that such a enttrse' would have been. treating the niatter with too mnch importance, and fils, es give a color to the- idea" that the ehtirges had seone foundation. I the Senate this morning, after 'the mileellaneous business, the consideration of the Orego resolution'was resucted by ritEtvans. He-argued itn favor of a set -Iutert -upon the basis of the 49th -deg.; but sail he wouki ui vote for the ivotione in any shdpe, until it should be known whether 1he lisident regarded it as a peace or war ineasure. The remaindet of the day was spent in E xecutive Session. Air. Johnson of Md. -has the -floor to morrow. .Ins the House. after many ineffectual sruggles, a resolution was at length pro viding for a termination of all debate on the Harbor Bill on Toeseay next. The voic was)OG to 66. As every item will then be voted upntti separately, it will he impossible for the uhr internal improve ment to-do as they have heretofore. The new rule is anything but palatable. la -the Stnae this inor. omg th, gul terit., were crouided at an early hour by pa.tsons of both sexes, who step posed that the Stnate would take some action ilative'to th,- reply of tlh edi tr ol' .h. Times -to the speech of M C...lquit., bu. they were disatppoined, as Io noitliet whatever was taken of li ;,rtwice.': -Ti eItot is very sever: utioti th.. Reverend Senator, and t erterates the charge, that at a dinn-t- given'by tile BritishNii-ter to the- Whig Se:ai. tors, .a <.Otnprpmidt- on the Greglan questin Wdas it. .ubject of discour alo it WhVig Sentatoys. havi beeii stvetegaing and- retutnting fion th eCAi renice af Mlt -P ck-nian in thn.e Ii~st UQU - _a_5 'ad-e .iong and -e4hqUuot spae-ide h tvoi n ay c itlitatory polc'fy t(d Scttismesi *tpet lie. 49th .basis . W.-t sd iogy for thar ung-ndme n oh M.''rttend-t;iwitlh, twi vee ; a queti - iaioti thtat-- :he noirce ought -tat be g~ivene or- the 1s: i6~Jtune, or at any utie ti afweia utthe discretio. of *tie Tho Ldondhon.Tjimtes of thce 7Vh It ha an art ee upon Mr. Calnuitnt'4 potsi.i . not only mn respect to the Oreg~ona autject,. but to that otf Free Tratde and.( Ante ricain polt t's e:. genirarl. lie is said to have -suhsalt ned the coadclct ad temntper of a stat ;enmtet lfor1i.- extruva*-.gtint and iih dI ret-c ted pa..ino ul ofee tttultitude. ' I Ie t. compelld inc this pacific ecourse, in the tta fl the Tuetrs, by the p~eculiatr emer ets of whinch tc es thte represtanveY. - Uptn lhts ptio tu~ t regaird to thle general poites oif the Uni'ted di ateS, te Timnes rearks (c On most other ponintt' but especially with .reference to thoese trutts ofrome til poltev which are; this iiime wotrking~ suchl vast and ineciculabtle chtanges to the social ecotnomty ol I fis cour try, and sin our relatioons with other commitunes abroad, titere is a strotng conformiity of tlerst antd optmion leet weetn the views of Mt. Calhtoun and those now prevalent amog-.t us. The p. .nL-tples of Free Trade, ine defece of which he threatened in 1833 to retnd the Union itsell, tend to nullit'y itesupremie eaws of the Common wealth, are now tumophing in the world. The democratic paerty itn Amreiica has acieved a victory which leaves its lead ieg statesmen no en~ use focr not -catryiug into lull e-tfect Ste great ptriictples of thteir pobacnal fait h. Ii I iroe that mn PetnnsylI vaat and smnet itt the Northtertn States, Mir. Polk's party took~ advantage or the oiscuri ty o1 chew cametinitte to pass him off' as a supplot ter o1 the existing tartif; leut tho c~hrar end able piaragraphes 'in.is Message. ott te subejeci of cotrnercial :estrctioits have removed all doubt on this subhject, and [lhe Atnoricaui Governt tameiC is- advancin~g almost its rapidly as our ona to a pure cystem of revenue du :ti'es. Texas haed already added two votes to tte causo of' free tade, und to the do 'fence of Seou~hern meterests in the Senate; and heisregnyclinald resolution can have b een rata.nicn Cotigress the particulars of Sir It. Peel's maeaisures w ill have been rculted in every, lpar! of the Untun. eeEverythting consplires to make Mir, Calhoun at thi 'crisis the must important, and perhaps die most powerful manc in the country. HeI is evieiently conitendineg for the P'restdenitshiip of the Untited States at the- electione of 1848. 'lThe triumph of tte democratie party in .if44 has already broken. ibo. strenegth of the whtigs. TIhte antexatten of Texas has established be yond all possibility of doubt the ascend ancy of the South. To place power' in tee hands of Mr. Calhoun and to carry into tfege his principles, is the just and ievitable,.consequence of - these acts of the nation,s We have tnever disguised-our regri't he .defeat rof Mr. Clay, -acid at t success ..f -the .aggressive oi yo M Tye assisresl by Mr C ,ili e y-' oe ST. pre iv , r dy; ai r i t 11ma pr 0etv Inune it Ua t n j ht ther Whole Avh:ig-parmy. in- ierica' Is a pacific party; iid it iW equally untr..1 that the party of' ieace is essentially'%! Mr. Clay is an oppoitiont of those re trade principles- which will prove in. te end the surest safeguard of peace.; .Ald amongst. the manutacturers of New Eug land it would be easy to point out soie of the least sincere friends of:.peace in thui Sthole4taiin. - Mr. Calhounion the oou iriary, representing hat is non called inl Amnerica-tho iiiddlr party, is essentiallyj pacif1c, hecause upon the maiititainance of' peace depend the success o llhe mnstaures he has lon- - ad vocated, and his own. chance of airiving at the Presidut''j chair. The line ofconduct lie has adnpt ed ti the senate is, tti relre, That which we had anticipated froi him." The Times then speaks of r. Cal houn's having defeated the absurd and inopportune resiolution of Mr. Allen, and siys'ttia-t he has shown, not odly mre tacl and prudence. but imore real 'ability in the discns,in of the partizatis of the West. lie is too experienced Ji to un derstand that the surest way of defealing the inientions of the Goverijincnt in re gard to Oregon, is to promulgate iem; and therefore tie .pursues a' 'ar sitore wise arcd judicious course; and, says the.Times, no one can I forget or deby that these cautiois tactics are far more diflicult for us to dleal with and defeat, that the mere bullying outcry of the populace."-Chag. Courier. T1,W1, TWIN COMETS.. This most unique of all astronormical phenomena first :liscoviercil by Lieut. Alaury at the Washington Observatory, -and supseqnently seen by Bond, of Cai bridge, and Walker of Philadelphia, has now become visi)le in smiller tclescipes. and will shortly in all porbability, tie ma nifiest to the ntaked eye. They are now in the constellation Ueti, inhe sonihwest part of theheh'evens. At 7o' clock in the evening, at present the most -fivorabl: hour for observing them, their direction is ivest southwest at an altitude of28 degrees. Here,.side by side, seemingly 'twins .at all points, they pursue undevia tingly the course of the rmlass, which it is thotght they ,riginally consttitt, viz: Biela'., Comet-ihe satne that esossed the earth's path in 1632, the predicifoin of which 6y Dr. Olbers. spre d so piatc consternation thriiugh Europe. Apjear' ances seem to indicate that there has ieen n the gaseous inass cf matter, a pilysical, di:nemberment-and that whih h-h iith' erto been, known as a single conset perfor riintregutlar journeys a'fotinid ehefse in periodsof634 yenis eacli,'consiss n of two, 'onstitutinlg a coinrraj, sys im and it will ever.be mueniorab le - , tq ahn* unals of a?.ronomy . b a ir e d i 'g e t with ncodru'.shfp glass il their esstre's sundeed u -orNii'ief an 'rtfi abouitone-shird'of file dntaies -rona life earth to the unoon;'ver lie eite rw'nT hli nuecleui sems to bie- in-.corifac t wiithe: other, the power~of'ilre- teiebpe i3.Sjf64 insutlietent tt detect aty spcise-betceen them. A abhrpstellas- point isnilternately visible tn each; as if inierchanageable; but notaotig ini 'onniexioni ni ih these sing'mlar vtiiturs is mtore strikiing than the perfect similarity ofibeir aippearance and mnotio. -Their nearest approacnt tn the stin, acecordting to, datanii's Ephimerk will be Onth i tclt h tnst. at the distantce af forty four tulliions of mites. Ttieir tgreattost proximoity to eatrt : ll be near thme iumidle of MaI rch; *hlen t heir distatnce tromh US wVill b)e ti fry sevenCi miilitons of1 mtiles; at n hortt time also they u.h illtave nattied tti'ir greitesi brilhaney; and a better oppo rtutnly will then he .di'orded to investigate thmis ttl wv tiderfl1 appearance. W hether ibis hodly hais hte~ etsepamed by nrm internal explosuive force, or b'y con taet natib somie solid hody. unknown to us; or whet her the one i.. the mere image ofi the oilier. reflected by, t he sutn's atmontsphere oir somlfe other medlino in which tt is im mersed, are qlUestionis which the hutman mind maty niever he permitted to mere conljecture thire is nio end.-Nantuckcet A4 Valuable Suggestion.-Whilst the steamner Hibernia was going up the Ohio river to Wheeling, sotme dlays ag'., she grounded in atbous eightt feet water.. The ice on her bottomn having become very thick, it was suggested to turn the scatpe pipe ito tier hold, wheni the steam after ,.tne time completely thawed the ice off. antd the boat proceedted on her wvay. In tloiciag this fact the Pittshurg Gazette mtakes the foitowrine remarks: "The idea of turning the steam inito the hol to clear her bottom tof ice, is. we believe, qtiite new. A gentleman latrgely interest ed in bioats, to whom we meriotned the eircums'ance. tlnought i would be a1 great improvemenit if all steamers were furnished with a pipe through which the holtd couild at an' moment he filled with steam. It occurretd to him on the Pales tine, when a fire "roke out in .her hotd, on 'lie Mississippi Some irom which wvas lying in the bottomn, became heated, atnd when water was thrown upon it, thie vapor created altmost instantaneously ex tinguished the fire. If in case of fire in the hold the hatches were batteniled down andi the steam turtned iin, it is chiion's that it must be- irrmediately smotheredf unless the dleek or side were -so far injured as 19 allow the steaum-to.escape. This is war thy the consideration of steamboat owners George Lafayette.-A Paris sorrespon dent of the Naitional I nitelligencer 'says: Having nmentioned Gen. Lafaysete,'.jray add .that his wuirbty sun. Georgenftre held 'f the ntierous and estiintabli..' niiy' possesses exee'llent lie iXi tends ton'he Chaib 'i h~i~ vote for all liberal; mcnti ui~ ar A A The amo1t brautott i a . s-DIe I aI tAr ,recupiton o mo yr~g towarS we b ei p r r9 an imme ise. anI= impressaie ea to D. regret, sinys. ihe i hat tien Baber, ofAlacol - - his decease-a We u. dur.dai drussicacid o: overcome so az the Doctor hi Ja'IM'6 froa'insdine 'blistfb~ proved ~to-jfein informed,' w l T-he-con nitn nv userul and istin-jq - ourselves-feel ;rf4-s'l Inng. antl i at Peaceto-is-OA d lationls lolldst fect 4ahsa ree.2% the circimengi mes mnan-.thosoitpf rp positiou und er...00 on _a .-tour, of ohion at Reester, ,ud a state :of. nt x large adiout r - can ilis. 'Te n2 pass.onte of.1-tp toveed t b~j~R-cuts - the scnrchnng u'ji topjon him, l)O.UW, hlids -hr4 d Upon'jhm ' narJs ; usedu,spread i ~t ~~~ ply it to the part-a~ns~ withI a netdle't letyjtf : Eclipses: for I846. will -be t wo eciifsee i'l The first is an entlieofF 2.5thof' A prill vigitulesni af Unied Stte'- The iif eclipse oif the sun, Obob~r~ ble in the Utited Slate. . A Belligerent Judje his legal -reinirntscenei1%lli many - enusi-ng dsr~tW which is 'he Maloi the incident *as a little'tdr banks of the Ohi. TiWI sessin, and -the- prestdi jffi 4 Col. P'-agsan of .gw~atros herculean, lamne. .A pre9.M cour t cabin, and .by hiZnOtDe il is prceedimns. Ue A5~a - - and the sheritT attemtuedt m but ;he put- himsaelf righits,' ;nd n ade spuch contest. .Cq.P~ decn bench,- coolly to -ni~s brawler a seversetmo~ ting im - ou~t of, the i garment antd hise A , legal functions.~' A son of he Eme,~sjI countryman whioaeaceq1 remtiembered, aftersIa said the Rentle.a responded Padily, ar I know two ould~i name. toats:i er.J''c Cotton jti' 1e have omnijred hQ~ (says ths..e rp produce fromn li.Xifhe see Riverw in rtlo 1 beginning'to i Charleston, Twf 9~i (30 bales) oti -e wasibro Etfd~t -ear tw h thtrty ilies atun elite r:e - ones --