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From tlie Baltimore Son. Thirty-* irsi Washington, June 25, 1850. Sknatk.?Mr. Davis, of Mass., presented memorials from citizens of the United States, stating that the cotton and woolen and calico printing establishments have suspended or are running without profit; also, that the iron establishments of the United States are much depressed or are actually stopped. He enlarged upon the fact that large importations of railroad iron were to come in, and the price would rise, as it would meet with no competition here. The United States lost twice as much by the substitution of foreign iron for American irou, as the actual value of the amount imported, ir Dnnnc?iV9n;? ]OSf K million of dollars by | Aft X Vllllo Y4?U??? M V V the destruction of her iron works, it followed that the amount of home productive industry, was to be paid for, in an exchange of commodities. The result would soon be?and had already happened?that the country would be drained of specie to pay for importations. The necessary consequence of persisting in this pol icy, would be universal poverty and distress. He would pursue this subject at a future time. After other memorials had been presented, Mr. Jefferson Davis reported a bill to provide for the classification of clerks in the military boreaus, and the equalization of their salaries. Mr. Rusk introduced a bill for raising two * * * * = rpfpprpd to the aaauionai regiments ui Mm..; committee on military affairs. The adjustment bill was taken up. Mr. Soule's amendment pending. 3fr. Soule pursued his argument in regard to public domain of California, showing that while ail foreign nations would have access to the riches of California, the United States would alone be deprived of them. He referred to the Spanish law as existing in Mexico, in order to ahow that the miues would be open to all nations, if those laws were not repealed. He contended, iu the second branch of his fw . nf dividing California into AlgUIUVU^ III twwa ^ two parts, that the limits assumed were extravagant To the new States that had come in an average of 44,000 square miles had been allotted, and three times that area was given to California. He showed also that the representation in the Convention was skillfully contrived to give the non-slaveholding policy a predominance. Utah was therefore excluded from the Convention. He argued that the whole of California was equal to the support of a population of nearly twenty millions. In a few years?some ten or twenty?California would possess an overpowering influence in m other House?with her forty or fifty Representatives. Mr Douglass took the floor, and, after spend: in Sessioi). JUg a BUVM V ? f The Senate adjoarned, Washington.June 26. Senate.?Mr. Wailes presented a memorial from citizens of the State of Delaware, in favor ot the passage of the adjustment bill. Mr. Hale presented two memorials from citizens of Norlti Carolina, asking Congress to provide for the removal to Liberia, of free persous of color wishing to go, and a provision for their support there for one year. Mr. Foole offered a resolution calling on the President for information as to the rumored proceedings in New Mexico, the call of aeon* vention bjr the military governor of New Mexico ; the authority under which the proclamation of Major Monroe for an election of delegates was issued, <fcc. Mr. Footedid not wish to assume, without proofs that the administration were responsible for the act, of usurpation committed by a military officer. But some one had been guilty or a gross and violent act of usurpation, and hod undertaken to settle by the sword a question that was before this body for adjustment, lie hoped the friends ofthe administration would not oppose the consideration of the resolution at this time. At the suggestion of Mr. Webster, who expressed a hope that nothing would be allowed ' ?SL eiikidnt !m fnri> f f]A to interfere wuu mu o?>giv. ...... Senate, tbe resolution was laid over. The bill to authorise appeals from the Circuit Courts of the United States, in certain cases [meaning the Van Ness case,] was taken up, discussed and laid aside. At one o'clock the adjustment hill was again taken up?Mr. Soule's amendment pending. Mr. Douglas replied to the argument of Mr. Soule on the subject of public domain, snowing i that the rights ot the United States are tully protected by the bill before the Senate. The whole argument of the Senator was, he said, baised on a sorry state of facts, and was not sus. tnined by any American authorities or prcce. dents. The ordinance of the Convention of California, Mr. Douglas said, was a' refutation ot the other half of the Senator's argument?that the Convention premeditated a seizure of the lands. Now in this ordinance California cedes the lands to the government, only asking for a small ~ - r . J ? portion of them tor ine purpose 01 euuuuuuu. i Mr. Webster took the floor, and gave way to a (notion logo into Executive session. Mr. Clay proposed that the Senate hereafter j meet at 11 .o'clock. He said it was the duty j of the Senate to the body and the country that the Senate should decide this question and pro ceed to other business. He cited the example of the French Chamber, in which the bill regu. lating elective franchise was passed in ten days, Mr. Hale said be should vote against the mo* lion to meet at 11. Mr. Clay. That wo know. Mr. Hale objected to this modo of mixing up measures in one bill. That was the cause of the delay. The example of the proceeding in the French Chamber ought not to be cornmnndpd to us. II thev had kept that bill under consideration for a longer time, it would have been bettpr for the people. , Mr. Clay said the Senator was laboring in his vocation. At every stage and on every point be had opposed the bill. He denied that the form o( the bill was a cause of delay. But if measures were incongruously put together, was it any reason that there should never be a decision. Mr. Hale. Would not have said a word on this subject had w > not so often been charged with delaying the public business. He (Mr. H.,) was laboring in his vocation ; he would tell the Senator thai this?the Senator's vocation in lecturing him?was good for nothing. He a as not opposed to taking the vote on this bill. He would be. willing to set here all night to get the question, Hnd wotiid sleep the belter, the next day, for giv ng u vote against this bill. The motion to meet at 11 o'clock was agreed to?yeas 30, nays 19. The Senate went into Exective session, and afterwards adjourned. June 27.?Mr. Cass offered a resolution for an inquiry into the expediency of prohibiting, by law, any military officer from exercising any civil function. Lies over. The bill gianting lands to the Slate of Mis. sissiftpi in aid of llie completion ot a railroad, was passed. VIr. Foote's resolution calling on the President for full informaiion in regard to instruc lions and (acts connected with late events in New Meiico, was adopted. The hill respecting the prompt printing and distribution ol the commerce and navigation documents was discussed, and passed. The adjustment hill was taken up. Mr. Soulc's amendment still pending. Mr. Webster addressed the Senate at length in reply to Mr. Soule'a arguments. He dwelt on the expediency oi admitting California at once, unless some insuperable objections should be urged against it. The various objections urged by Mr. Soule he stated, and proceeded to reply to them in detail. The honorable Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Soule) had followed a precedent which had been uauro umi U'hflll f llM MmP OCl lie I O OUIIIC I HCIIIJ JII4IO UpW, ,? I.v? principles as to (he public domain were argued here and refuted, and the question settled. The honorable Senator had argued the question with learning and ability; and had, like his predecessors, placed his argument on principles of public law. He showed that the doctrines of Vattel and other writers on public law did not apply to this case. The United States owned California?it was their acquisition ; and another State or power could not divert her from the possession. He showed, however, that the distinction was recognized by Vattel. The United States could hold laud in California?but only for one pur. pose, to sell?and as soon as it was sold, it fell under the municipal sovereignly whose it was, with certain exceptions as to taking power.? 'PU? ..A.I,.., /.I tko Smtrtifiio fTmirt luc jiiaiiuiiiiun uci.laiuii >uv was that the compacts with the States reserving the title of the United States to the lands were useless, and that the title of the U. States was good without them. They bad been omitted in regard to many States. He hoped the honorable member from Louisiana would look to the laws and judicature of the country, and review his opinion. He appealed to the honora ble gentleman to aid in the work of admitting California. To the other objections of Mr. Soule, Mr. Webster replied, and especially to those relative In the boundaries of California. A better bonn. darv lie showed, could not be found than that which California had taken. Mr. Foote spoke with a view to explain his position, inasmuch as the vote was to be taken to-day. He explained the reasons why he should vote for the Missouri compromise, as in. volved in this amendment, though he was confi dent that the amendment would not meet the sanction of a majority ol this body or the other House. Mr. Barnwell rose and expressed some reluctance to engage in debate, having long been out of practice in public assemblies, and feeling under embarrassment in succeeding so distin* gu'shed a Senator as his predecessor. It was ' -!.L impossible lor any one associating who mm Senator (Mr. Calhoun) to avoid the influence of his opinions in nmny respects. His position as to the Missouri Compromise was, he presumed, the same as his own. He claimed for the South equality of rights. To their intellectual and moral excellence he might appeal as being such as warranted no exclusion of them from a participation in the common privileges ot all the Slates. He went on to rerile. the miseries which the South had endured from the Northern people? not lunatics, but celebrated and intelligent men ?members 01 Congress. The territorial queslions were only indications of this disease, so deeply rooted. He argued that slaves were property, and bad been claimed as such by this <* - -? . _r u. government?reierrmg m sunn: ui mi. umj ? stale papers. He was not so well acquainted with the current history of the question as others were, but he would review the grounds taken by the North on the territorial questions, and see what right they have to say that slaves, as property, should not be admitted in any territory of the United States, us well as any other species of property. Ha rt^rlured, in conclusion, that the South would atssent to the Missouri Compromise, as a recognition oftho equal rights of the South, but they would demand that South of the line slave, ry should be protected. Mr. Koote commented on the inexpediency of asking legislative protection for slavery. Mr. Butler explained Mr. Calhoun's doctrines - - . - .1 as to non intervention. His wish was tnai me people should form their constitution without any dictation as to the Missouri compromise.? Mr. Calhoun was, before California assumed her position, willing that the Missouri line should be drawn by those whose doctrines would allow them to vole tor it, though he did not vote lor it himself. Mr. Jefferson Davis rose and addressed ths Senate, declaring that from the moment when he ascertained that the amendments he desired tiu nliialnarl ho rlalormilieH IU IIIC Mill tuuiu IIU1 l/V VUKIIIIVU, uv w?.w. to say no more till the bill reached its final stage, lie proceeded to vindicate his position in regard to this bill?bis ultimatum which he had an* nounced before his constituents, and which the Nnnlivillft f'nnvpnlion had Hnnrtionerl. Mr. Davis alleged that, from ihe beginning of the session, tho country had been filled with missives abusive of Senators and of all who sus tained tho right of the Souih ; newspapers were employed and tho more base instruments of let* tor-writers, to brand every Southern man as a disunionist, who opposed the compromise. One letter-writer, he said, the basest Hessian of them all, was flow receiving pay, to traduce him and other Southern men, as disunionist6. If any espcctable person would say that he was a dis unionist, he. would answer him in monosyllables. He bad a superstitious reverence for the Union. Mr. Fnote replied. Mr. Darjs again took the floor, but gave way to a motion to adjourn, and the Senate adjourn.ed. June 28.?The Senate, on motion of Mr. Hale, went into executive session for a few minutes. When the doors were opened, The adjustment bill was taken up, and Mr. T.ac r,?: I..J.JL! ? JtMiei sun i^avis cuiiciuum Ills epccuu jcowi uoj commenced. He contended tlmt in California, south of the line of 30 30, slaves might be prof* itably employed. Mr. Soule reinforced his argument in support his amendment and replied to Mr. Webster and was tike i and resulted as follows: Yeas 17. Nays 30. Mr. John Davis of Massachusetts addressed the Senate at length in opposition to the bill. Mr. Davis, without concluding, yielded to a motion to adjourn. Mr. C'fay liojied that the Senate would agree upon a day to tike the question upon the engrossment of the bill. He suggested Wednesday next. Mr. Bell objected. He wished to give his views. He and others would not bo able to ad dress the Senate it so early a day was nxea. Mr. Yulee laid on the table an amendment to the bill. After an Executive session, the Senate adjourned. _TFHIE CAMDEN. S. C. TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 2, 1850. Our Market The cotton season being pretty well over, our quotations for that article are nominal,"ranging from 10 to 11$. Corn is very scarce, and sells, from the wagons, at 85 to 87c?at retail, $1. Bacon 7 to 9; Flour, 5$ to $6; Fodder, $1; Beef 5 to 6c.; Lard 8 to 9c. Yesterday the Thermometer, in the deep shade, was at 95 deg. Our New Senator. As will be seen by our Congressional Proceedings, Mr. Barnwell took occasion on Thursdaylast, to define his position on the "adjustment'' bill now before the Senate. The Southern Press pays, "he defined his position and that of the South with equal zeal and eloquence. Mr. Barnwell is a very impressive and dignified speaker?clear and concise in his statement of facts, logical in his reasoning?and very decided in the expression of his opinions. He took strong Southern ground, hut expressed his willingness, for the sake of concord, to accept the Missouri Compromise bill." Moultrie House. We take pleasure in calling attention to the advertisement of Mr. Hurst, who has leased this fine establishment on Sullivan's Island. Mr. H. is well and favorably known as'one of the conductors of the Planter's Hotel in Charleston, where he made made warm triends of all who have witnessed hi^ endeavors to make his guests comfortable. / 5SPDr. Carlisle takes this methoa ofreturning his thanks to the people of Camdeli and its vicinity, for the liberal amount of their subscription to the Washington Monument, and informs them that he is still here, and ready to receive the subscriptions of all who may wish to subscribe. This is a fine object upon which to display national pride. The highest Monument it; the world is the Pyramid of Cheops, in Egypt, (599 . \ Til - ltr_ M ...211 U leel.; J lie ??a.MllIlglUll UJUUUUICIU nil! ug hundredJUL Let us build it, then plant our batteries on the other side and tell the North they may stand in the distance and look at the monument of the "Illustrious Southerner," but that the ground about its base is too sacred to be polluted by their footsteps. Ed. Adjustment Bill. We sometime ago expressed our belief that this Bill would pass the Senate, and stated as our only nfitu foilnro thp Rnppfh nf Mr. Smile. This IIU|/& WJ lio lOltwiV) W|#w? v. gentleman has made his speech, and we are glad to perceive, has drawn over four Senators against the Bill. The present difficulty in Texas may drive the two Texan Senators to oppose it, and if so we are safe. We fear yet however, there will be a small majority in favor of it. To the Teachers of South Carolina. The 12th July is the day set apart for the meeting of the Teacher's Convention. Of the many subjects which may be brought up before that body, we shall only notice one. " The character of the Text Books recommended for our schools." This has been a subject too much neglected heretofore. The impressions which are made upon the Schoolmi,,a Kv tho sentiments contained in the UVJf D IIIIIIU) Maw books be reads at school, are like those made in the soft rock, just in the process of formation.? The "bird tracks" of the Geologist, if you please, it is easily made, but a few months the softness becomes of rocky hardness?and the track is as if some mammoth bird, by his weight, had left his footsteps upot) the eternal rock. And thus with the sentiments the school-boy gathers?transient at first, but soon become fixed principles. The Teacher should particularly notice this, in connection with morals, science, &c. But the point we are at now is, to tell the Teacher, and the Father too, to let no book tinctured with Abolitionism, or "slavery is an evilism," or " freesoilism," or in a word, "Northernism," enter their schools. It is " ? 1- u perfect folly to say, " mis oouk, uiuugii u 10 lined North, has notliing anti-slavery in it." We tell you every School Book that is published North has. Iiook at Mandeville's series, held up as the book published in the north and altogether free from Abolitionism?look at (we believe) page 264 ofOrator and Reader, and there, hid away in the corner, is the doctrine of Abalitionism in its most insidious form. Recollect in the Academies of today, are the Legislators and statesmen of to-morrow?and if we still continue to teach our children Abolitionism,* as is now done in almost every I school, from the fact that we have northern books, how can we expect the Institutions which we so warmly defend and cherish, will be perpetuated, j Teachers, think of this. In your approaching c Convention, pass resolutions that there shall no t northern text book be admitted in the schools of y South Carolina?and let him who is nearest abo- ^ litionism be the first to vote against the resolution. 8 < The Progress of Usurpation. ( The Baltimore Sun. under its telegraphic head, has the following important news from New Mex- * ico: Santa Fe, May 25, 1850.?A Convention, of Delegates has been called and held, which formed * and promulgated a Constitution for the government of the State of New Mexico. The Conven- t Jion assembled at Santa Fe on the 15th of May, ( and the session lasted eight or nine days, in which ; time the Constitution was framed, which would go . ' into operation about July. The boundaries of the : ! State were'defined, and slavery prohibited. 1 The Constitution was adopted on the 25th of | May; in fifteen days afterwards an election was to p i take place for members of the Legislature. Two ? | Senators and Representatives in Congress would \ ! also soon bp elected, and efforts would be made to 1 take their seats during the present session. | Mr. St. Vrain, Judge Otero, and Henry Connel- ^ Iv, are among the most prominent candidates ror ? Governor, and Capt A. VV. Reynolds and Major R. H. Witman, for Senators. It is supposed that * Hugh N. Smith, the present delegate in Congress, 1 would be elected to the House of Representatives. The present Administration may be termed a * steam machine for making States. Col. Monroe's J Proclamation, bearing date 23d April, calls an election for Delegates, on the 8th May, to the Conven- . tion to assemble at Santa Fe on the 15th of the r same. They were in session one week?passed t their Constitution?had it adopted?and elected a i State Legislature under it. And that in New 1 Mexico, where the only mode of conveyance is be I stride a inule over mountains, unbridged rivers, j 1 and deep morasses. It is manifest the whole affair ' was from the inception to the terminus, a Santa : Fe piece of work?not New Mexico. It cannot i fail to arouse deep iudignation throughout the South?and in Texes something deeper than in- 1 dignation. Tue following extract from the 3font- * gomery Advertiser, gives the correct language: " Is any man so blind as not to see what must necessarily flow from this order of the Military 1 Governor of New Mexico, authorizing and direct- < ing the handful of people of that territory, together 1 with a portion of the Slate of Texas, to form a State ' Government? A people which Mr. C!av recently showed in the Senate were totally unfit for a State 1 Government?but some ten or fifteen thousand in ' number?speaking a foreign language, entirely ie? < norant of our institutions and laws, stupid, .semi- ' barbarians and savages, a large portion of whom * inhabit the domnin of a sovereign State of this ' Union, as is inamtest by tins proclamation. <^an ' it be supposed, lor one moment, that Texas will submit to such an outwfge? Why, if we werp to j judge from the torip'of her press, and of her Gov- i emor and other phblic officers, she has now on the , road to Santaor is organizing fot that purpose, j a military torce, designed to take possession Of, and defend her soil?a .part of the very territory j that the^President of the United States has order- j ed to be fonned into a State. Is it not as clear as the/fioon-day sun, that if the plan of the President iycarried out, that civil war must be th? result? ' ^And if a finishing touch were wanting to the enor- 1 mity of this usurpation, it may be found in the 1 fact, that it is perpetrated during the session of Congress, and while the question of an organiza- < tion of a Territorial Government for this territory, i atid a .settlement ofboundarv with Texas, is under \ consideration in that body. And all this is done by a President, with the declarations and.pledges ot non-interference with the appropriate duties of ' Congress stereotyped upon his hypocritical lips.' 1 We cannot believe Texas will submit to this? how can she? And we fee! sure, too, that what- ' ever course she may pursue, against such auda- ' cious usurpation, the rest of the South will gupi port her. The battle has to be fought?and now ( i while our helmets are gleaming?our shields slit- | tering, and lances poised, is the time to decide the issue. Let it commence, if not at Santa Fe, some | place nearer which we can reach sooner. i T.mt.?r from EuroDe. The American mail steamship Pacific arrived , off Halifax on Saturday last, bringing four days ; later intelligence. The Liverpool cotton market 1 remained firm at the quotations by the previous steamer. During three days, fifteen thousand j bales had been sold. The commercial news is favorable. ] Mr. Soule's Substitute for the California Bill, reported by the Committee.?The Substitute J?-? i? k,. Mueniiri (Inmnrnmisfi , (IIVIUUS l/UUlui inn uj tue { j line, extended to the Pacific?remands her con- t stitution back to tlie convention for a reduction of limits, and an ordinance saving the public ^ domain from forfeiture aud escheat, and organ- { izes h new territory upon the Pacific coast, to ' be called " South California, &c. i We learn tliat this substitute is the order of ! the day in the Senate, for 12 o'clock this day, , J the 24th inst.?and that Senator Soule, of Lou- ( [ isiana, has the fioor. t | As the Missouri Compromise line stretched to < I the. Pacific, is that line of adjustment which the 1 universal South greatly prefers at this time to 1 all others, as it is the idtimatum of the Nashville Convention, and will probably have the support of every Southerner, in both houses of Congress, and as the whole prospect of an adjustment mainly hangs on this issue, the debate on it will doubtloss uttract a larger and uiore anxious interest than any other discussion upou the great questiou has brought forth. Virginia and North Carolina Wiibat Chop.?The Norlblk Argus learns from various sources that the wheat crop, uot only in North Carolina, but the fertile counties of Princes, Anne, Elizabeth City, Warwick, and, indeed, in most of the ,lide water counties, has been ' utterly blighted by the rust. The prospect ' " ... . j*_ lor a rich harvest was very promising a lew j weeks since, hut now everything iooks cheerless in the extreme. This sad change was j caused by the continuance of cool weather, g which was succeeded by a long continued drought. The weather at present is exceeding, ly hot and dry. *] . 1 "That's a pretty bud," said a little boy.? g "Yes," replied the old dame, "he never cries." f ' That's because he's never washed," rejoined a the youngster, t V EDITORIAL GLEANINGS, ' Table Rock, on the Canada aide of Niagara ?alls, fell 011 Sunday with a tremendous crash. A :arriage and B)i persons were passing over it at be time. The persons escaped, but the carriage vas taken over with the rocL Dr. Webster has written a letter to Gov. Briggs, tcknowledging that be killed Br, Parkman, hut' ieclares he did it in sej?defenee, and prays for ? :ommutation of his punishmeilt : * * We learn by a note from Washington, thaUe# ;e E. Dow, Esq., has almost entirely recovered rom his paralytic stroke. Permanent rest is not to be expected on the road, >ut at the end of the jour.ley. ; ^ Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh, is to go as a represents^ ive of the-North American Indians, to the Peace* Convention in Germany. The locusts, after an absence ofseventeen-lifers, lave appeared again in the neighborhood of Leva stown, Va. The Hon. R. W. Barnwell, who has been sp-minted by the Governor ofSouth Carolina, U. Sisenator, in the .place of the late Col. Elmore, arrU red in Charleston oil Thursday and proceeded to? iVashington immediately. The Grand Jury lias found true bills against 3en. Quitman, (Governor of Mississippi,) Geti. ienderson, Gen. Lopez, Gen. Augustine, Mr. Si' " ;ur, Mr. O'Sullivan'and 10 others, for having been. :oncerned in the recent enterprise against CubaA Post office has been established at Packsvifle*Sumter District, S. C., and H. Kelly appointed Post llaster; and another at Indian Hill, AbbevilleDisrict, and Thos. J. Lyons appointed Post Master* Washington, June 24.?The aspect of things s unfavorable to the speedy passage of the adjustnent scheme of the Senate. It will rub through he Senate if Messrs. Hunter, Morton and Berfiph,'ole for it, and Messrs. Bradbury and Borland iblige us by prolonging their absence till the Senitors are tired of making speeches. It is evident that the ultimatum proposed by the Nashville Convention has been embraced by", a lumber of members of the House, aiid that thus he defection among Southern members is iticreiis* i, while, on ihe 'part of the Northern members, here is no likelihood of a corresponding accession o the number of the friends of the scheme. The N sill cannot pass, ifit lose many Southern votes hi :he House. A New Wat to Make a Cent.?In front ofthe rribune office, New York, an enterprising young speculator has established a swing chain suspended from a spring scale, the clock free of which is surmounted by a red and white umbrella, looking ike the American flag knocked into a cocked hat. As you pass along the crossing the chair touches L'onr kiiPPA. and vnn ran hardlv rmist ttw* nntli,, nvitation to "just sit down and be weighed?1?tdy jue cent." In th'wceigh the little fellow picks up i good many pennies, and will doubtles live to occupy a front sofa at the Opera, with his daughter, and see his wife flaunt through Broadway iu her larriage. rv-Herd's Grass.?No grass has succeeded so well iu Georgia as the Herd's grass. It flourishes oh ivet soils and reclaimed 8Wamp?,bnt will thnte jn most soils: makes au excellent spring and winter pasture, and caii be mown twice in on* year, rilis valuable grass is more extensively cu tiyatffi . in Habersham county than any other sectiou of the State.?OoulhtTH ('uttiialar. . iContf>criout.?A covrhiding affair has occurrsd it Baltimore. The cause, interference In family matters. When a man and his wife-quarrel* other men had better keep out of the difficulty. Father Mathe\v administered the. pledge on the 2d inst., in Vicksburg, to about one hundred. The jrand total is now nearly five inifiiou'eightliuiiJred thousand. Chnlrra at \iishriU*.?-Tllere were 14 th-atbeby iholera at Nashville during Weduesday, Thursday and Friday last, of which 8 died oii'Fxiday. Balti.moke, June 2$, 6 p. m.?Wilinm^LWat'<ins was murdered here last night, by. a uegro -triki. g him on the back of his headU 'Tbe-inurierer has not yet been arrested- ' The St Louis City Hospital is so full of patients, lliat the small pqs pest house has been brought into requisition. Somebody says the body lately unrolled by Mr. Grliddon, was undoubtedly thai, of Spuriwt Mumnius, the intimate friend of one gf the Scipios, The Crop* in Georgia,?The Columbus Times says we regret to hear continued gloomy accpuuts if the growing crops. We liearrt an old planter say the other'day,since he liad'beeti aman, hehad lever seen so bad a prospect for a cotton crop. Mount Vernon.?The Alexandria . Gazette says: Large numbers of peroous, from alt quartern tf the Union, now pass through this place to visit the omb of Washington, at Mount Verubu^dmly-? Svery year the number of visitors increase qon *iuerauijr. McDonald, the veteran toper?numbering KM rears of age?was on the 1st instant fined by the Recorder of St. Louie for drunkenness, and sent to he Work-house. - ' The Returns of the Assessors show thus fin a rery marked increase in population in almoetev>ry town of Massachusetts, since the year 1810. rite increase in LoweU has been ueariy 12,000, or ifty-eeven per cent. . West Point.?We are pleased to notice the ar i val of Professor M. J. Williams who has been absent for some time.attending the annual examinaion at West Point Military Academy. The Board >f Visitors, of which .Pro? Williams was Chairnail, completed its labors, and adjourned jou the 17th insL?South Carolinian Wit.?Shrink not to aim the shafts of wit. At all that's mean or narrow, But oh! before you bend the bow, Wo cnm it KnUo neenm f ' Man wants but littlo here"below, Nor wants that little long: , 'Tis not with rae exactly so, But 'tis so in the song. " Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew?the dog will hare his day." %r % '' $; A-Btjiikan. Professor Sarti, the anatomist, savs that in per ect health we receive into the iuugB nine pints of tir with each inspiration. We presume that these ire the unine pints," of the physiological law, the jossession of which make a pretty strong cose. The Connecticut Legislature, enable to elect i Senator, has postponed die choice to the next tession Prussia.?The Kimr is ranidlv recovering. rhe contest of the Germans for free trade aud mity proceeds with bat little prospects of a ipeedy and successful issue. Vast warlike pre>arations are said to be in progress, but they ire supposed to have reference more to interna, ional than to external defence,