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gggi.u I 1 ,l'l Items Afloat and Ashore. Skrmoks.?u One sermon a week is as ?)t?ch a? any divine can preach with credit tp his reputation, and as much as any con gregatioaLis likely to digest into practice." Yet two, end often three, are demanded every Sunday, and they must be all tip-top Tgfo*. Wo milk and water?the energies rr.?t sever Sag; no allowance mads for trouble, sickness, for rtjind and bedy worn down from continual labor. If the sermons are not first-rate, splendid, superb, the xninLttr is llinncrlit tn Ha t skill p. r full in or. .1??i I ? ? ? O" Gcaious Fact.?Did my reader over notice the curioti* fancy that persons not quite rigbt in their minds have for stripes and chequers, ?r at least for parallel lines! Martin von ?utche)l U80(] to ride a striped pony. I saw a lunatic in Hanwell sit for hours counting and playing with the railings. Many insane persons are fascinated by a cboss-board ; and any one who has ever had a brain-fever will retnember the horrible attractions of a striped wall-paper.?F. Sala. What Would IIavis Become or us '(Tukn.-?Some editor says the destiuy of the world often bangs on the smallest trifles. At little miff between Charles Bonaparte and his love Letitia might have broken off a marriage which gave birth to Napoleon and the bnttle of Waterloo. To which tho Chicago Advertiser says : 14 Yes, that's a fact. Suppose a 44 little miff" bad taken place between Adam *nd Eve! What then?" Cure von Thirst.?When at sea on short allowance of water, and you feel thirsty, eat a pieco of hard biscuit with a lump of white shugar. In thirst, the salivary glands of the mouth are paralyzed, but restore their action by severe chewing, and immediately there will be relief. A friend who has been on shott allowance of water in warm latitudes, confirms the truth of the above statement. Ont. Good Turn Deserves Another.? A favorite rhajjpie, which had been accustomed to receive its dainty bits from the mouth of its mistress, ono day perched, as usual, tin herfdiolcle-, and inserted its beak btrtween her lips, not, ns it proved, to ro ceive, but to give or hide, for as ono good turn deserves another, the grateful bird dropped an immense green, fat caterpillar .nto the lady's mouth. .7 * * A Mormon*.?We are told on the most undoubted authority that there is in this city a man who lives with two wives, at the same time, and in the same house ! The two ladies seem to be excellent friends, and perfectly satisfied with the arrangement, while the husband bestows every favor upon them, taking tberu both with him to the theatfer concerts, ?fce.?Ar. 1*". J?xj>nss. Births Extraordinary.?There arc near Sotuervillc, N. JM three women who have given birth to eight children within a period of three mouths. The first presented her spouse with three children at a birth : the second, in less than a mouth after, gave birth to two boys ; nud the third was the mother of three girls. Brownuwv's Knoxvillo Whig says that the mother bank of the Dank of East Tennessee, in that place, is paying out gold for all bills payable at Knox villa?for none others. The fame paper says that the Ocoee Bank is ono of the safest institutions in the State. A man mot a daughter of Edmund Dorr in one of the streets of Albany, on Saturday evening, and attempted to place his hand over her inouth, but she turned her head | and screamed, and the villain fled, leaving | a plaster on her cheek of such strength that its removal brought the skin with it. Tub " females " of Albany, Athens county, Ohio, headed by a lady 00 years old, re- i cently marched into a tavern, kept by a man ' 1 t> 1 1 i 1 11.1 1 - . 1 nameu uecKer, ana snmsuea an me nonius, j jugs, tumblers, ?fec. Becker lias left forj parts unknown. The Galena (Illinois) Courier says: The ! night of tho snow storm, a loaded wagon was left on tho Plank ltoad, a feiv miles from this city, It was completely covered, and on digging it out, the snow was found to be full six feet over the wheels. I A drunkard, cdn fined in prison, at Ilarlisburg. fur breaking into a cellar to get some liquor, was found dead in his cell next morning, from having drank M burning fluid " in mistake for whiskey. A remarkable instance of longevity is rucutioned in the Mexican papers?that of a lady who died at Actotopal at the ago of 139 years. Gouoii, tho temperance lecturer, is still lecturing to crowded*,houses in Chicago. The anxiety is intense to listen to the great urato.. Mrs. Sarah B. Scott, the. last surviving daughter of Patrick llenry, died 011 the 10th inst., at " Seven Island," in Halifax county, Virginia. She was 77 years old. Tilie Missouri, Upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers nre gorged with ice, and tho nav igatidri suspended. 'BoAltrtiHa in Washington is f?ni<l to he vorv high this year, l'rohahly there is an exua charge made for killing waiters. Soys of thefcote)* in New York, now rerjuirtMheir employees to wear a uniform, wlierefrf they may be easily distinguished. !\ nrLL has been introduced info the Legislalure of North Carolina M to encourage and promote matrimony." Or the 2fl members of tho famous Hartford Convention, every one has passed to his gfffr. .. .. , . Hy eross breeding, a green reee lias been produced in eomc ol the Southern States. Witostpextf H. WVtv to compel I free negroes to leavo the State fs before the Alabama Legislature. It costs more to send an ounce le'tor to Europe tb?? it does to sead a barrel vLdoqr, ??' g? *-?? \)t Imttjjtru (gittfrprisp. n THURSDAY, JAN. 1, 1867. Thanks.?Messrs. S. G. Courtbxay <fc Co., Booksellers, No. 9 Broad-st., Charleston, will please accept our thanks for topics of a neatly piiutod calendar for 1857. Sle?t. Yesterday afternoon we were visited by quite a fall of sleet. The ground was covered, in many places, to the depth of an inch. The old year, after all, seemed determined to ride out in grand old style. To Correspondents. Our correspondent M S." will oblige by writing his letters one day earlier. Ilis last did not reach us until after our paper had gone to press. We intend making othor extracts from the letters of our Aiken correspondent. New Year's GreetingTun editor of the Eutorprise experiences a thrill of joy in being able to greet bis patrons upon the morn of another New-Year. The old year?laden alike with innocence and crime, happiness and misery?has passed away, forever. Last night when the hands of the clock, that ticks so unceasingly upon the mautle, pointed to the hour of 12, the old year died out, but dying left upon the altar of Time an offering bright and innocent. To day young Fifty-Seven enter* the calcni der of years. It rcinaiu-s to l?e seen what great events will render it memorable?what great enterprise will date its rise?what Nation's dawnfall be recorded; all ! may we not ask, whose lot will it be to have this year, as a last one, to mingle in the pleasures and enjoyments of the world ? Wo cannot tell. Notwithstanding, many kind fiiendahave beeu called away "Tojoin the innumerable caravan That moves to the paie realms of shade," and strangers till their places, wo arc glad to greet you. Wo liavo all had our sorrows i ititrta ?-wv i-K r> rvc !? *# V1IWIIIII\<I\<U MIIC1VI |'V-I , lev lliein l>e forgotten in the offurt to tnnke light the heart, in order, not only to enjoy " these times of rejoicing," hut enable us to bear with fortitude the 44 ills we have," and those which the year we've entered upon l will surely fetch us. We do nol express our heart's full desire when we wish for all a happy New-Year and a jol.'y time. May peace, prosperity, happiness, friends, and every necessary good, ' be the portion of each and every one. We enter upon the duties of the year with a firm detctinitiation to spare no effort to make the Enterprise an acceptable papct. To deserve the support which has been | kindly extended to us in times past, shall l>e our earnest endeavor. All classes are alike invited to the banquet that will he spread before our renders during the coming year. The Farmer, the Mechanic, the Manufacturer, tho liusiness-Man and Laborer, arc all urged to extend us their patronage, and we will strive to desere well their support and encouragement. * The Washington Union, of Saturday, says: "The message of John Ross, president of the Cherokee nation, is received. Affairs are in a prosperous condition ; civilization progressing steadily, and education receiving marked attention. He represents the urgent necessity for providing payment of the na tional debt, and nn increase of the school funds, and recommends, as a means of accomplishing these objects, a retrocession of the neutral land. Respecting the complaints against persons connected with tho American Board of Missions, of tampering with the slaves, ho says slavery, being recognized by the lawscf the nation, is entitled to pro| toction, and the agitation and disturbance of it bv the citizens of the United Slates, is 1 wholly unwarrantable." Albert Pike.?It has been recently stated that Albert Pike, of Arkansas, had received a fee of 8100,000 in an important law suit. Since that time lie bar announced his intention of retiring from the bar altogether, as his fortune is now sufficient to I enable him to live at ease. Mr. Pike was born and educated in the North ; is a near ,.t ?l.~ .1,1 1 1 vmuiB ui me vm uiiuiiiiviir. uiitiver, miu lit a most remarkable man in many respects. He can preach, pray and write most wonderfully. Besides this, he has few equals at the bar or in the field. II? upsets ordinary opponents with equal facility, whether the woapous be logic and law, pistole at ten paces, or bowie-knives band to hand. Idlic Observations; bt av Extremely InLis Man.?To receive well is almost as difficult as to give well. It is with life as with colfee, he who would drink It pure must not drain it to the dregs. A fool in an elevated position is like a man in a balloon; every* tgnly appears little to him, and he appears little to everybody. The author always the moat appreciated is he who is tbo author ol I h i# fortune. t a iw , ' i " , 1 1 i i Tlroli) " Oui* Cottespondeitfs." We vontlire to make some extract from the private letters of a friend, who, for the crake of health and pleasure, is sojourning during the winter at the delightful village of Aiken, S. C. The samo kindness "which prompted him to write, we feel assured, will pardon the liberty we have taken in gising what he has written (bttt which was not intended.) a place in that portion of our paper which wo have reserved for the use of our friends and correspondents. ; ' ? Aiken, December 25th, 1850. My dear Price :?lIaving finished a long letter to , at an hour too soon for bed, L took, a bad segar?a tolerable arliclo of llint luxury is not to bo bad in Aiken?and not wishing to poison the atmosphere of my room, I went nnd walked up and down the j piazza of the hotel, whic!? must be 200 or 300 feet long, and into which the windows of the ladies' drawing-room look. Here I walked up and down putting my segnr, nnd peeping into the windows of this drawingroom as I passed, looking at the ladies, aud pitying a sickly-looking young Yankee, who was doing the agreeable to a dozen women who sat around, effulgent in all the glory o' silks and hoops. " llow magnificently," to use the language of one of your fraternity, " the women put their clothes on nowadays," and how wonderfully does dress, when arranged by cultivated taste, add to the charms of even the best nnd most beautiful. Growing tired of the piazza, I returned, through a long, dark passage, to ths extreme end of the back wing of the building, in the end of which on one side of this passage, which opens on a turnip patch, is situated my room, and seating myself in the d^or of this passage opening upon this turnip patch, I began to gaze at the stars. It is a solemn tiling to have 011 your up-turned face the light of the st'nis, of the old, old stars ; of the stars which have been shining in Heaven so many myriads of years; of the stars, which have lajen gazed upon by so many millions of human eyes beaming with hope or dimmed with tears ; of the stars, which have been worshipped by men, conscious of| weakness, and vainly seeking in the dark for t\f fli4* clnifl llws aI.1 /vl.l ? ? - ?? ?vij v tuv ??n?io vi viiv vii11 i?iu ovam which, though they have looked down upon the vanishing pomp, and power of a thousand races of fleeting mortals, have, themselves, known no changes, but shone as serenely and unchangable upon Abraham sitting in the door of his lent in Mesopotamia, as they now shine upon inc. It is a solemn thing to look np at the stars and reflect that they will shine as brightly upon your unconscious dust as they now shine upon your head ; albeit it may bo illumed with light of genius and lifted proudly up with ambitious hopes. Coldly, serenely shining on from century to century, in their immutable courses, what wonder is it men have watched, worshipped, sought to fathom and fancied their destiny overruled by the stars. Jtyron who had a soul for all which is solemn and grand in nature und j I iu thought, has these beautiful lines which j you have doubtless much admired and may ' remember more correctly than I do. I quote without the book and your superior accuracy must correct mc: " Ye (tars, which are the poetry of heaven ! If in your bright loaves we would read the fate Of men and empires, 'tis to he forgiven Thnt in our aspirations to be great | Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state And claim n kindred with ye, for ye are A beauty and n mistery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, Thnt Fortune, Fame, Power, Life have named themselves a star." I have burned out my allowance of can 1 die, and will, therefore, have to defer the j conclusion of this until to*iuorrow, when, fortunately, as the stars will not bo shining, I shall not be expected to pursue that theme further. ? w, K, e. ?^ ? ClI a klk8ton, Dec. 22, 18j6. Dear Enterprise?At last, after wcoka of warm and changing weather?one day the therinoinetej: ranging at forty and the next at seventy degree*?we have real bracing weather, attended by rather rharp, cutting winds from off the Day ; still it is welcomed, after the disagreeable streets and rainy days of the post several weeks. The Commercial Convention adjourned lost week, at Savannah, without achieving anything very wonderful, wo believe, though a ivpaqI inunr fiiiA ( v? M ?,? vxv >umy M?1V ?VI iliu piVlllVliUIl of the Commercial interest of the South* were spoken of. Virginia nnd Georgia wore more fully represented than any of the other States?even as many or more than nil the others included. The number from South Carolina was very small, nor did we sed among the names any one to represent the growing importance of Greenville. This we are sorry to see, aa it is becoming a place of acknowledged claims, and as people, too, \ are opening their even to the fact that there ?# n rather fast young city of that name in 1 tbo npper portion of (lie Sute, render it a place of tod much' fittpdrtanei to be passed by, However, H may be Jliwt titers W?r? < ??>>' . a delegates from Greenville, as tho tut which wo saw was incompleto. Albert Pike, the western poet, and hero of many little transactions of business at twelve paces, paid our city a visit of a few days iu passing*through. During his stay he spoke on two occasions beforo the Masonic Lodges. In Savannah he ulso made a very savage speech against the revival of tho slave trade, and, taking the same views that uro entertained by some of the knowing onos of our own State, pointed out the folly and impropriety of the introduction of a commerce, which, at this late day, is not at all needed, nor could beof any earthly advantage to the South ; while, on the contrary, it would depreciate the value of the slave, and make the fortunes of the 44 freedom shriekers" aud 44 Douglassonians " of the North, by giving employment to their rfliip| ping. It is a move that is not ?t all Recond; cd here, nor at any p'ace from which we | have heard that has once experienced tho evils of it. We see tho London Times is giving vent to its wrath at the mere mention of it, and boldly declares that the combined powers of Europe would oppose it with their might, and crush it they certainly would, and, if uecd bo, they would crush America with it. The introduction of this trade is exactly what England wishes ; for it would not only immediately bring things to a crisis between the North and South, but would place the United States at variance with the worid, and in this position would bo a much easier mark for the grudge she owes presumplious America, and which she is afraid to undertake herself, but only in alliance with other powers, and which this opportunity would j oiler. The news in regard to certain alarming | movements in several States out West and in Florida, was at first discredited, but is now thoroiurblv confirmed, and nreonnlion I . -- ' O "V * ? I ! ary measures are being adopted throughout those sections. The papers generally were wisely cautious in fori tearing to mention it and make a public thing of it, which would only have had a tendency to incite insurrectionary movements where they were not before thought of. But danger from this quarter we need not fear, unless at the instigation of thoso tiendish "freedom shTickers" which they would willingly attempt. At a late meeting in Chicago, wo believe, at which the most respectable classes were assembled?ladies, as well as gentlemen? addresses were delivered by some of the leading fanatics. Fred Douglass was among the number, and in his speech said that Southern fathers and mo'.hers should dream of death and murdered children in their sleep, of poison in their food, and that deeds of violence should fill their thoughts by day. Surely when such sentiments as these are propagated throughout the land, it is time for us to be ou our guard. The city is ratlier lively in tbo way of I amusements just now. Agnes Uohcitson, j J the fairy star, and Bourcicault, have been I j playing, to crowded houses, pieces of the j latter'a own production, whinji never fail to call forth bursts of applause. Miss Hubertson, though a finished actress, has not the , foice nor the deep impressive style of Julia 1 Dean IJayne, and actresses of her class, but ; there is an innocence, a naivete of'manner, j that appeals direct, to the hearts of the audi euoe, liourcicHult also is one of llie first ac- I tors on the American singe. Jn England ' lie and Miss Robertson alias ilrs. Boiircicault played the snmo pieces upward* of one huudred consecutive' nights to overflow : ing houses. There is still another source, and rather of a different/character. Tho renowned Christy's Minstrels are here for two I weeks, playing at the Institute Hal!. Their | performance needs no praise more than to say it is enough to call forth smiles from a lamp-post. Yours, ' S. A Povk Auotrrixo on a Coitln*.?In Edinburgh, a few days ago, a respectable family in one of the quietest quarters of the city were thrown into mourning by the death , of one of their number, an elderly ladr. A i night or two after the cyent a strange noise was heard at the window of the room where j the coflin was lying. It seemed like the , flutteiing of tho wings of a bird against the window panes; and, when the maid-servant ! appeared at the window, fjr tlie purpose of raising it to examine into the cause of the noise, a beautiful white dove flew into the apnrtraont and alighted upon the lid of the coffin. It offered no opposition when they ' attempted to secure it, and is now in tho possession of the relatives of the deceased lady, who, from the singularity of the circumstances, have resolved to preserve it carefully.? Had the event happened in times past, when superstition held sway, it would undoubtedly have given rise to some strange imaginings relative to tho departed. [Edinburgh Kxpreaa. J)o You ENVir a Millio-vaih* f?Ye who are in possession of a " comfortable in dependence, and arojwt annoyed with the rise and fall of stock*, listen to the words of Oirard, the Philadelphia millionaire:?44 I live like a galley slave, constantly occupied, and often pasting the night without sleep. I am Wrapt in a labrvnlh of affairs, and worn put with caro." ft is as id that John Jiwob Attar's Ust words were 44 My life is a r'-? -- ---- The Carrier's New Year AddressLIkrk cornea the Carrier of the Knterprise, A Glad to meet friends everywhere; 8 With swelling heart and beaming eyos, ' U 3 lie greets the bright New-Year^ R The Christmas days have hurried past, H While all seemed glad and gay, w Aud e'er our thoughts are backward cast * \\r- ? - t i .1 . "... .I'M \r e greci r nnppter u?ty. l'" a New-Year comes?new change* too! And all.fresh plans invent; Some hope for better times to view, B ft .Some past events repent. ^ But I have come with larger views, With hopes exultant, high, tl And those who now iuv scroll peruse Will help mo while I try, * I watched the little girls and boys, Throughout the Christmas week; ^ I hearkened to their merry noise, t And thought their hearts did speak ; v Their sports 1 witnessed with delight, And this was all my cheer: ^ I'll strive with all my power and might, t To wait till comes new-year, r For well I know my friends will find i Some comfort that 1 prize, And each will boar mo in ltis mind ? The Doy of the Enterprise; ^ For well they know that once a week, i No matter whnt befalls, . c He will his friends and patrous seek, And inHko his usual calls, To cheer the lonely mother's hours, With reading rich and rare. To quell the raging mental powers, ,, Aud give the husband cheer. Then surely I will hopo that all i Will not my prayer disdain, i That these few hints will never fall * On listening ears in vain ; For who would be a Carrier Boy, } To troad fho village o'er, * And once a week long hours employ, 1 To reach each patron's door; J To meet tho rays of Summer's sun, To feel the Wintry blast, j Ami then to feel thai every one, a Would slight his pleas at last 1 ' But past experience cheers his luiud? Ho know? where friendship lives, And feels nssured that ho will find The friends who freely gives. Our friends Are blessed with health and pence, And plenty fills their store? * God grant their comforts may increase, 8 Till they may want no more. [ May every one do as they please, ^ So that they do it tight, Our town be rid yf hogs and fleas, Our lamps be lit at night, j Our sidewalks good and streets kept clean, ( Our clay roads filled with sand, And every rascal far and near, Be dtiven from the land. I May thoso who make, their piggies roam, And root at neighbors' fences, Be forced to keep them all at hujnet < And bring them to lUcit senses.' , May Zodoc, Coop, and patrols all, When rowdies are lot loose, i Givo each a pleasant, friendly call i To tho market calaboose ; May every body look to home, And mind their business too, ( Then they will never have to roam, ; i But find enongh to do. May Church and College soon be free From WinJet's freezing weather, And may our longing eyes soon set) Both inarching* on together. i With all'my 44 mays,* I hope I may i Indulge in ono or two ; ... And hope the words I have to say ! Will not bo lost on you. May every body?young and old? May every girl nnd boy, Not for a moment think it bold To wish the Carrier joy ; < . But give liiin what hi? woik demands A New-Year's present, rare, i And lie will bless the liberal hands Throughout the rolling year. January 1-, 1857. * , Intkkcstino AV11.1. Dkoisiokm.? The Surrogate of Nov Yorlr rrad^ a decision on Tuesday w in the matter of the estate of Daniel Hart, deceased," which is of considerable i importance as setting a point of law in re-1J lation to mortuary devices. Tho residuary clause of the will devised all of testator's residuary estate or properly to his five sis- i tors, to be divided equally among them. One ofthe said sisters was thon dead. ThoSur rogate was Asked to decide whether her share lapsed or went to hor next kin. He decided that it lapsed and went to the testator's next kin. The testator also made bequests to " his cousin, Paris Foecard," but he bod no cousin by that name. Parole proof was taken, specifying that Princella Peocard was the party designated in the will, and that the deceased had always addressed said cousin by the name used in the will. The Surrogate decide] that the parole testimony should be Admitted, Reordered the bequest to he complied with accordingly. ? - - J* f'? Fanny IlBnTON.-? A celebrated English actress,, being hissed in her youth, had boldness to come before the audience and ask." Which . do you dislike, my playing or my person P u ThtJiiUf ing! the playing P' was the call from ?flf aides. u Well, the playing can be l>ettewd, but ray person I cannot alter. Sho soon became the favorite of the pnb I JUl! ',fH Jill.. 1LLX | Fat-aiia Matiikw.?FaOw Mathew, the kpo^k ff Temperance, died at Cork on the 111 JUT4December. Theobald MHtihew wu& orn at Thomaaiown, Ireland, October IOV 790. lie waa left an orpbah *t an early ?e, Adopted by an .mint, ana educated in Kilkenny Academy and at Mavnootb. IIo ordained to the urjeetlujod at.liuU^u idopting the principle or total abstinence, e commenced a series of meeting, and noon wakened llie en tint i.wn of Iihdl nature * 1& jpUtimW lie travelledTrora town to town through ie inland. Ilta-jmrgraw wwwr ir+urrrpti , 1 march, lie administered the pledge to liousands at a time; at Jifenagh tp )tyentv * liousand in one day ; at OalwTiy'a hundred liousjuid iiU.?co.da>a^ljdt\vecii Galwayunl .ougnrea 10 nearly two liunnj;eu uipuaano.from Ireland he went tb Erfglaixl, where lie people were infected with a corrtepondng enthusiasm. Thence he came to tho Juited States, from which he returned in he autumn of 1851. Ilis labors and tri-* imphs licro will long ho remembered.? through nil this Herculean labor he war onstantly in i\ atate of )>ersQDal poverty. A'hen ho began his work his "brother was ho proprietor of a large distillery. lie tup* >orted Theooahl until his wonderful success lad ruined the distillery, and reduced the >wncr to bankruptcy. To moot tho wants >f the public benefactor the "British Govern r nent settle*] an annuity of ?300 upon him, vhich sum was sufficient to pay tho prefhi- * im upon an insurance policy held by his ireditors as security for their claims. Sinco lis return to Ireland, the weight of yenrs >nd the exertions of long lal?or have coinjelled his partial withdrawal from public ife. - Akrkrt or Supposed AnouTroKfrra.? I'hird Seigoanl Thomas I'rioe, of tho MountKl I'olicc, arrested in this city last evening, n the vicinity of I tray ton street, an individ- | ial named dames Marshall, who was deliviring an abolition speech. From his ap>earatico it was supposed that many imbi itioiis of Southern red eye fired up hit Northern feelings, spul he undertook tho reponsibiliiy of giving to a few little niggers lis opinions of Southern institutions. They vero very much amused At him, and when le was arrested gave three hearty cheers at lis success ju geltiug lodgings ut tho l'olivo iurrncks. Another gentleman of the same tiipo was also lines ted in tiie vicinity oflhe narkett uud was locked up. They will ho )uietly sent from the.city to their Northern ionics, and should ho thankful eacli at havng escaped r. coat of tar and feathers. [.SWarmo/i Gcorr/ian. Tiif.Mi880vhiC6mhiiomi3k.?The " Dred" irgumenUs are finished in tin? Supremo Colli t, ind the Washington correspondents nro |K Ciilating upon thorn. The Tribune corresH?n<lcnt writes?"The ]>o*ition of the Jourt on the question is quite goneially tin* lerstood to bo thus : Messrs. Curtis, of M isacini setts; Nelson of New York, and Me-oan, of Ohio, are in favor of the power, klessrs. Campbell, of Albania; Wayne, of Jeorgia ; Daniel, of Virginia, are against it. The Judges whose position is not so well denied are understood to be Grier, of Penult Ivania, Catron, of Tennessee, and the Jbief Justice Tenev. of Maryland." - * i Saiibatii Schools.?The whole church is concerned in the prosperity of Sabbath (chop!*, even in a secular point of view. As they increase, what is of infinitely greater importance, knowledge, good order and piety will intense, lienee it becomes every Lruo friend of a congregation, as such, .to encourage the institution, by oec.-uyptpd visit^ by the gift of suitable ^KHjks, which may pass from the Hablalh school library to a hqjt- g dred families; by appropriating sums of " money for incidental jsxpvuses ; by dpfeod-. iug tlio institution from the u'.tacks of ign<v rant and wicked men, and earnest prayer to God. Iktknsk Cold.?-"the James Iwivor is frozen at City Point, so us to prevent'tl^e iti-^ gress to and egress from that port. The' >tenmor Roanoke, which should havo(MiK<| yesterday for New(York, is ico-bound nt the * Point." Tho Appomattox is frozen top to Port "Walthall, ahd between that place and Petersburg, thero are alternate openings of water and closings of ice, which, of course^ makes the river, to nil business purposes, closed. Cold, so intense, has no precedent in this region, tor many years past, at this early period of winter.?Petersburg Intcili>'? gcncer, of Thursday. A Yi8itor prom IIayti.?The SouOt Side (Ya.) Democrat, says, that on Thursdnv " a colored individual, handsome, tall, aristocratic, military looking, and dressed to kill, passed throhgh tbf?* ity from the South, lie was such a darkey as any gentleman would giro about $1,000 for as a carriage driver or body servant. On inquiry, lest he might bo a * runaway 1 coming it stroncr. ho proved to be a no less personage than the Duke of St. Thorn, of Xlayti, particular friend and confidential counsellor of hi* tore no eminence Emperor Faindin the First, The Duko it on his way to New York* Ecijpoks in 1857.?There will be two eclipses this year, both of the tun. The first will occur on the 25th of March. It will be invisiblo in all that part of the U*>* ted Stales east of tho meridian of Washing* ton, and partial and visible west of Wasuingle**, The second is an annual eclipse of the sun, which will commence on the 17th of September, at -midnight in the United States, and, therefore, invisible in this country. It will be visible in it large portion of^ ^ Asia, a part of Africa, anil the whole of! Australia. Da. Movr, the ?debrated surgeon of New York, lately performed the difficult operation of tying the carotid artery for the forty^artk time. He did it without the aft af spectacles, which he doei hot use, though seventy-ope years ol ago. Ho is talked <<* for President of the Academy of Medici no, ?kl Q01ce ho*has once already filled. MBlMhtiiilitiMttiiAjheTri 'itiiA if t