Sumter County Whig from Livingston, Alabama • 2

V. The Beawin Tli Mark Xf iirrlor umetiNi indignation meeting was held sujiTiiii imtt Selling a club. Friend 1 propose' to give a alight sketch of tome of tha doings in 'modern FoHtioif Naw8.The Royal Mail Steam-nhipS from Werpool(o Saturday morning, the 25th of F'ebriiary, arrived at Halifax N. S. on the 8th iosu- bringing three days later news from Brown," Shipley Circular sayt, "Tbe certainty that this country is now at war Hat a depressing influence on business and we bave to report a dull quiet Cotton Market with a shade less firmness in prices" The tales of the week foot up 40,000 bales, of which 28,000 were American.

The atock in port is estimated at 616,000 bales including 308,000 bales of American. Breadstuff were active io the beginning of the week, but towards the close there was lest business, and prices slightly receded. Political Intelligence, No military or Naval action had occurred but political events of the highest importance are becoming developed. A significant announcement appears io the Paris Moniteur. sayinz "If the Flags of France and Austria are united in tbe East, France will not permit any attempt to separ ate them beyond the Alps." This is regar ded as an encouragement for Austria to declare berself on the side of the allies, afid i thieai to raise Italy and Hungary if she sides with Rhmu.

Tho same announcement says, that "France cannot suffer the integrity of lie Ottoman bin pi re to be broken by ag gressive act Irom Greece," and further, that France discountenances present attempts at revolution anywhere. The announcement is viewed as official and important. Meanwhile the attitude of Austria although vacillating is becoming more and more favorable to the allies. It was even said that she had announced her intention of formally joining with the allies if Russia continues ag gressive acts against Turkey. This is pro bably a premature announcement, but it gave firmness to the Funds.

At the same time Austria continues sending troops to the South-eastern frontier, but to allay apprehension, a manifesto is about to appear, stating that Austria continues her ef-foits in favor of peace, and the troops are merely to prevent disturbances spreading to Servia, Montenegro and Bosnia. The attitude of Piussia remains unchanged and unexplained. It was reported that a manifesto had been agreed to by France and England, having all the force of a formal declaration of war, and that it was to appear io a few days in the Mon iteur. It was- also rumored that England had sent a final announcement to the Czar, naming a definite time within which he must ev acuate the Principalities. The Greek insurrection had become for midable in Epirus.

The insurgents had taken the town of Arta, and besigned the Tur ine citaaet. inree inousaoa oi in gents were within ten miles of Albatlii? In reference to waf the Courier EBSwif 1 of the 9th uses this language Spring is coming welcotnt nial teason, flush with the1 fairest the year The fi.d.ilUoon he more; the tree, leafy verdurou, gardens blossoming and gay. Already Nature awakening froifi her sleep Alre.Jy is thera'. promif herbage, of tiny 4 flowers. The violet is peeping froro sy bed, gladdening many.

wild, many a secluded dell In garden md fiej' Southern Spring, 'says lhj; Georgia un Gazette, is no like that of N6rihro' loiig 1(w approach, witbHh bleak winds' of March, and -the fickle of April. The month of 'merry Msy'fj0(j Southern landscape, goldeo and glorious, v6, iu njrif (ivuucib ui uower and foli It finds our Sprinjr merging into Summer with a warmly-beaming un, aod bretth of flame in the atmosphere. It March that our Spring comes to revive lnJ gladden, as "a lady bright io the light of her owrj loveliness," lhered tngel, meek and mild. Shading her eye. with gieen and golden wingo.

We are amdng those who confess to love of bright-eyed, rosy Spring. It It the best the most genial of all the seasons. Wintry skies are too inclement, Summer heats Are too lifeless and enervating the Autumn day. Ir "melancholy and wear an air of and decay. Spring is a favorite with .11.

Every one delights in the budding trees, the first wee the glad songs of the bird, the soft south wind bringing in iti cool blea-sing through the open window. The great glory of Spring is never seen here in the city. It is only beheld in the midst of green fields, and wooded hills, and gardens lifting up their blossom-hands, and calling to us with fragranf and musical voicei. What days are the Spring-days for a walk into the fringing of the conntry, leaving the dull and circling walls of brick and mortar. What beauty bedecks the first delicate and graceful blossoms of the season, springing up everywhere in the valley, and upon the hills.

What fragrance would be found locked up in the sweetly-drooping jes. samine, and in the bunches of the bluest-eyed ot ail violets What music in the gentle rippling of clear waters, and in the breezy waving of the forest greenery What light to the eye, what strength to the body, what pleasure to lhe rhiud, is not connected with the thought For the Whig. er the act of the last Legislature, es- a system of i ree Schools id this Revolves upon the voters of each county, trelect two persons, who, together with the Judge of the Probate Court, shall constitute the commissioners of Free Schools for such county. Regarding tm election as a most important one and believing that none but capable men should be chosen for the office, we suggest thtf names of P. S.

C. Strother a-nd T. B. Wetm ore as fit persons to fill it. These gentlemen are known to be good scholars, to possess well cultivated minds, as well as the other qualities requisite? for the discharge of the duties pertaining to the office- We hope, therefore, that our fellow citizens may approve our suggestion and aid us io their electron.

MANY VOTERS. Extra Pav We hear it whispered about, that the members of the Legislature, who claimed mileage for going to and returning trom home during the Christmas recess, paid Sam. Rice, two dollars and a half each, to make the' pOirif before the Se-preme Court lhat ther pornt was rrta'de" aTld decided that they were entitled to the mileage and that they received. Alabama Reporter We would like very much to see published, a list of the members who claimed and re ceived- this extra pay from- the hard earnings of the' people, for services not rendered in order that their constituents may plate the seal of condemnation- on- such conduct-. Goon Farming in Georgia, A writer over the signature of ''an Overseer" in a communication' to the "Scii of the? South," states that last year, with forty hands, he made four hundred and eighteen bales of cotton, averaging 435 pounds per bale or, twelve bales to the hand, of which 300 bales cleared middling fair.

He also states that he raised and killed, twenty-nine thousand six hundred and eighty pounds of pork, leaving a fine far next rear, ano U.UV made a large crop oi oais, peas, pomive. olentv of corn ''to" self and to keep," on the same plantation, without using anything like severity among the hands. nBTnncTivE Conflagration at Little; Rock. A destructive fire occurred at Little Rock, Arkansas, on the 20th ultimo by which five large buildings, comprising the most valuable property in the city were consumed, one of which the Alhambra was owned by Bierne Bumside, of New Orleans. The offices ef two newspapers, the Gazette Democrat, and the Ttue Democrat were also destroyed together with all the eonterits, upon which there was no insurance." The contents rot tneoiner duhuius I nnn I the loss by this fire is estimated at $100,000.

on Iliursday night the lBth inst John Gayle, S. District Judge presided Trrfsisied by a number Vice Presi dents. The mevting was addressed by the Hon. Henry W. Hilliard of Montgomery, the Hon.

E. S. Dargan, A. B. Meek, Perry Walker, R.

H. Smith C. C. Langdon, and R. Howard.

-Esq. Tha Hon Joseph W. Leaesne, chairman of the committee appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the tense of the rheetifig, after making a' full ttttemertt of tbe facts irJ tbe case, offered resolutions calling upon the Government to interfere for reclamation The repoit and resclutions were unanimously a- dopted. In Congress, Mr. Phillips, Representative from the Mobile district, on the 10th called the attention of the House to the mat ter at follows Mr Phillips said, 1 desire the unanimous consent of the House to introduce a resolu tion of enquiry The property of a portion of my constituents has been confiscated by virtue of foreign power, under circumstances as they now appear, of great aggravation 1 hist is a question which concerns not only tny own constituents, but this government.

1 usk thai the resolution he read, snd I trun that its character will at once secure for the consideration its importance is, and that it ili be at oiKe passed TJ.e resolution was read us fallows Resolved, That he President be relieved (if not inconsistent with the public interest,) to communicate to this House any information he may have received relative to the detention of tbe Steamship Black Warrior, the seizure of her cargo, or tbe imprisonment of her offi- cers. Also, any other iniorrnation in reier-ence to any other violation of our rights by the Spnnish authorities. Mr Haven 1 hope the resolution will he allowed to pass. lhe resolution was passed unanimously. Mi.

Dean gave notice of his intention to introduce a bill to repeal our neutrality laws so far as they a applicable to Spain. Washington, March 14. Dispatches from the Cuban authorities have been received here, in which they express regret at the seizure of the Black Waimr. They allege that the act was committed under a misapprehen sion of orders hich certainly had teen issued, but which it was by no means intended should be executed wjth so much rigor. It is consequently inferred that the difficulty will be at once and amicably arranged.

It is be- ieved 'hat the Executive will effect the ar rangement without invoking the interference of Congress, and that the terms will be quite satisfactory to the Government, as afforded by the Cuban authorities themselves the payment of expenses and damages consequent upon the geiz-ire and detention of the vessel, cargo passengers, and an apology for the ofiensiveness of the act. Since the above was in type, we have re ceived tbe Charleston Courier of the 16th insi containing the following by telegraph The Black Warrior case settled. Baltimore, March 14, 5, P. M. It is stated thai the Cuban aulhorities have apologised for the Black Warrior allnir, and offered ample compensation, so that tha iat-ter will be settled without the intervention of From California.

The steamships George Law and Star of the If est, have arrived at New-York with $2,000,000 in gold. A revolution has broken out at Acapulco in Mexico, and Sta Anna is said to be o. arching with a large force to suppress it. Large Vegetables The New Orleans Picayune acknowledges the receipt of a regular "Drum Head" Cabbage considerably larger than a small nigger baby's bead, and quite as bard, weighing 22 pounds, grown on the plantation of Col. Maunsell White who writes to the editors that he has raised thousands of heads, of the "same sort" averaging from 10 to 20 pounds, ami beets weighing as much as 8 pounds.

Ship Canal across the Peninsular of Florida A correspondent of the Charleston Courier says "lam sorry to hear that the report ol Capt Smith will probably be unfavorable Thai it could be made is of course a fact, but tbr t-ijjense would be very great in compar son with the benefit to be expected from it Ship Canal across ih Isthmus of Da-ki en. Tbe accounts from the surveying parties prove the utter impracticability of a ship canal acioss the Isthmus. The French, English and American parties, so far as received, all agree that a mountafn chain traverses the country, whose summit rises some thousand left above the level of tbe adjacent oceans This is the third survey which has resulted in total failure. Smith O'Brien the Irish Patriot. Lord Palmerston, in answer to a question, replied that Smith O'Brien, having acted as a gentleman id reiusm-; escape at the expense of breaking li p.uole, is to be What is called the "largest porker" in the world is now at Cincinnati.

It weighs fifteen hundred pounds. UV1NGST0N, MARCH 22, 1854. Lottiht. Io toother column may be found the Lottery Adver.i.ament of Mr. Sam'i Swan, Montgomery, Alt.

Here a chance for those wishing to tpeculate in thii way. Mr- Swan furniahei high recommenda-looi at a suitable and proper person for tha management of the tame. The Mobile Advertiser of tha 17th inat containi a communication of a citizen of thii place, over tha tignature of Sumter, in rela tion to the N. Eastern and S. Western Rai Road.

We are pleased to tee that the Ad vertuer disclaims for itself, and for the city of Mobile, any hostility to this road. We deprecate sectional hostility in our nations affairs, and still more in our state pclicy, and refrain frem any comments, as the letter of Professor Garland, which we transfer to our columns from the Herald and Tribune, con tains an ample vindication of his course, an President of the North Eastern and South Western Rail Road. Mobile Chamber or Commerce A Cham ber of Commerce has been organized in Mo bile, John J. Walker was elected President, Daniel Wheeler first Vice 11 0 Brewer second Vice President, J. Secor Sectetary, and J.

A Ruff, Treasurer. The America Cotton Planter. We have received the March number of this val- uble agricultural monthly, published at Mont gomery, and edited by N. Cloud, of La Place, Macon county, Alabama The Cotton Planter is furnished at the low price of one dollar per year, and should be in the hands every farmer in Alabama. Mr.

Amos Travis of Gaiuesville, in this county, is one of the agents. Medical Journal. We have on our table this week, The Ameiican Medical Monthly," a new journal devoted as its name implies, and as appears its prospectus, to "the interest of Medica' Science and the profession of the country Though our country is already possessed of vast number of medical periodicals, we do not believe that the channels of medical knowledge have yet been all explored, and we welcome the "Medical Monthly" in the spirit which it has entered upon the work, "not rivalry but rather of friendly emulation," and hope that it will succeed in spurring "others as well as itself on to a moie correct advancement of the Science of The present number (80 pages) is made up entirely of original communications, reviews, Hospital records and editorials tbe "Chron icle of Medical Progess" being crowded out the want of space This seems to demand an enlargement of the journal, and it would then present us with a larger amount of monthly reading than any similar journal in our country, and the matter this reading is vouched for in tbe names which appear as conductors of, and contribu tors' to the journal. We notice among other articles, one from J. Marion Sims, D.

late Montgomery in our state, who although yet a young man has acquired for himself a reputation that might be envied by the oldest surgeons, of ibis or any other country; and who by his success in rendering curable one the most loathsonae and disagreeable mala dies to which females are subject, (vesicovaginal fistula,) and one which up to this time was one of the asprobria of surgery, under which many a noble woman has dragged out a miserable life of despondency and gloom, and found alleviation from her miseries in an flntimely grave, deserves the gratitude of eve human heart, and more particularly of evrj7 woman, He is an honor to out statf, wi'ch his triumph was made, and to his profession He has now removed to New-York ana' ejected an infirmary, so as to' extend the fielJ Vf his usefulness may he long live to alleviate sorrow and reap the reward his labors. This notice is already longer than intended, but we cannot close 1 1 without recommending the fearless and ca.idid manner in which the "review" department is conducted. This department io our journals generally been loo much of an advertising ot worK instead a candid review of its We Wish the proprietors of Monthly every success. Quick Work. The Rock Island and Chicago (Illinois) Rail Road is 181 miles long-Tte company was chartered in February 1851 in October of the same year a contract was made for its construction iD April 1852 the first payment for work was made; and now, tbe cars are runnine upon it from the Mississippi river Chicago having been completed in twenty two months.

By he contract, the road was to be finished on tbe 1st of June 1856, for the sum of $3,987,633, divided as follows $500,000 Cash ia capital stock, and $2,000,000 in mortgage and convertible bonds. We doubt whether tbe same length of Rail Road bas ever been built in, so abort a Imprimu, few evenings since there werek I vl VI ill veil vuuii vvmij is a room not far from Schoot atieet, who were puffing their regalias and descanting on the various lopica of tha day. Among tha crowd yoti could have seen the Old Un" and ''Ctailry Levi," and oilier honorary members'of the "Nibbler't Club." "Tarn F.w was there but Instead of joining in with the party, and laughing at the dry jukes which were cracked and passed round, Tarn tat in moody silence. In vain did bis (companions endeavor to cheer him up by pouring spirits down not a smile could thay bring upon hit countenance' Suddenly an idea's! ruck Boked D. J.

He had solved the mystery Tarn's wile had left two or three days previous on a visit to her frauds in Philadelphia, and he, pcor fellow, wai pining for the loss of his mate. "Then don't bother him," said one "Well, he haa I eoo married these five and twenty years, and the hooey-moon mast be over," quoth another. And thus they talked and jested, while Tern sat listening to them, yet he opened not kit mouth. Presently Major Dooley, of tho Exchange entered. "Ten to one," cried Dooley, "I can Wake Tarn talk.

"Tam," said Dooley, "we wnnt just five bottles of now tell us an original story, one that is not only good, but every word of it must be true, and 1 pay otherwise you shall pay." "Good shouted some half a dozen vol ces. "Very well," replied Tarn. I will give you an original and true story you can decide for yourselves whether it is good or not." "Gentlemen," said he, night before last 1 weut to my house, and after sitting before a comfortable fire until 11 o'clock, I retired to tiiy chamber. Presently 1 fell asleep; I dreamed that I was shipwrecked some one of you gentfemau was there, but which une 1 dare not say. We were among cannibals.

If appeared that One of us would be killed immediately, while the remainder would be reterved eventually to share the same fate. I was awakened from this horrid dream by Diddy, the old Irish cook, who was pound-ins; and shouting "Sure, sir, you're wanted there's somebody at the door." "I sprang ui. struck a liizht. was in the act of drawing on my unmentionables, wheo the chamber door opened, and in walked a young lady she rushed to she threw her beautiful arms aroundmy neck and on these lips she imprinted a sweet kiss, and said "Oh, Tarn, I am so glad to see you 1 rubbed my eyes and wondered whether it was reality, or was I still dreaming but I was a wake, it was real. "The girl that'stood before me, I had known in former years.

She was eighteen or nineteen years of age, and I have heard gentlemen who are now listening to my story, declare 'that the was, and is, very beautiful." "What brought you here this hour of the night I asked. 0h I'll tell you all about it. she replied I 'am going to the parlor and warm me, and then coming to bed. May I sleep with you, Tarn 1 don't want to sleep alone 'Certainly, my little darling, you may if joi wish was my reply. "Of course, of course," chimed in some half dozen voices "Well, gentlemen, I went back to bed and presently fell asleep.

When I awok in there lay the beauty sleeping soundly. I wanted to kiss her, but feared I should wake her." "Oh, you old sot," cried Dooley. ''Hacg me if I'd believe that of Tam, if he had not acknowledged it himself," quoth B. "Well, gentlemOD," continued Tam, "my impressioas are that the girl is as pure and vrrtuous as an angel." Bo you pretend to sa'Y that all you have told us is true, and there Cas no evil action done, nor a single though crossed your mind cried Moses. "I do," replied Tam.

"Will you take oath of that "I will "Friend is a justice of the peace; let us see if you will swear to it." Taro held up his right hand and swore The party looked rather blank, but, as Tam was relighting his cigar, he quietly remarked I don see anything to very strange in the matter. The girl is my daughter, and her mother slept between us High above the roars and shouts which followed, Dooley's voice was heard calling for the "cham," and swearing that he had been completely sold Toleration Siam. The following is the royal proclamation recently issued "The English and Americans who reside in the kingdom of Siam are allowed to enjoy greater privileges than formerly. They are allowed to travel to and fro in thekiugdom, wherever they please. They are permitted to the dictates of their own consciences in religious observances to erect chapels and cemeteries according to their wishes and in all respects they are allowed unrestrained freedom, so long as they do not infringe upon the customs and laws of the couLtry." A Prater to Congress.

There is now before Congress a petition frem Mrs. Eliza beth G- Smith, ol Missouri, who in 1846, under the assumed name of "Ben Newman," in the Mexican War, where she terved faithfully for ten months, when her sex was discovered aud she was discharged from the service. "Ben" has since married, and now applies for her pay and bounty land As the law. applies to soldiers and not to men, tbis female soldier may he successtul. Give "Ben" her pay with interest, and ber ladd too.

She is now probably raising up a set of little Bens" that will be soldiers indeed. From tbe breast of such a mother, the milk that flows, will neaer make cowards Exchange Paper. in a in of far of of of ry in of of 'AlBt fhe War between Russia and the Vestern Powers has ceased, to be "inevitable," i has actually begun. No formal declaration of hostilities has been made but the Proclamation of the Queen against the exportation of Materiel of War, and the speeches of tbe Ministers in Parliament in connection with the movements of vast forces to the theatre of War, have eodd the anomalous position which England and France have for months maintained and given them the complete character of open beDigerants Without doubt, aggressive operations will be commenced by the aNied forces immediately after reachiug the scene of action, and hostilities will be carried on with a military energy such as Europe has known nothing of for a generation. There is no mistaking the feeling which animates England in engaging in this struggle.

It pervades all parties and all classes, and utters itself as emphatically in the streets and the workshops- as in the Bouses of Parliament Lord Palmerston gave utterance' to the nrti-versal feeling of the English people when he declared in his place in Parliament, "It if painful to speak of a government Hke Russia in terms of censure or reprobation, but I am bound to say, on behalf of the English government, that the Russian government, by Use to and rts agents, ha throughout these transactions exhausted every of untruth, concealment, and evasion and ended with assertion of positive falsehood." England goes mfo the fight with a perfect assurance of the justice of her cause, and not only that, but with the profound conviction that she is vindicating her national interests, the stability of Europe, and tbe welfare of the civilized world. We eopy the following from the Mobile Evetriug News, of last Saturday Arrival of the Arabia. Destruction oj the Russian Fleet Decline in Cotton. There is a rumor in the streets to-day that despatches bav been received here, giving notice of. (he arrival of the Arabia, with accounts to the 4th inst.

The tenor of the news is said to be, that a decline of l-2d has taken place in cotton, and that the combined fleets in the Black Sea have destroyed the entire Russian fleet at Sebastapol. We give tbe rumor as w6 beard it. Lola Monies. Lola Montes is still in the mining region, and occasionally shows off, as appears by tho following paragraph, copied from the Neveda Journal of the 21st ult. On Tuesday, the countess of Landsfeldt paid our burg a visit, in a sled, with a span of horses, decorated with, impromptu cow She flashed like a meteor through the snow flakes and vanton snow balls, and after a thorough tour of the town; disappeared in the direction of Grass Valley.

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