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-L. A 4 The Fate of Mexico. Curious Letter from a Suicide. From the Legislature. Thursday last was the time appointed for THE ASHEVILLE NEWS.

TflOS. w7 ATKIIV, EdWor. Madama Le Vert, in one of her cbartnin pictures of Cuban life, says the women there have a trait of character; 4tthey never speak ill of each other, but always find some palliation for-the errors of their own sex.M We are for immediate annexation; we want the Gem of the Antilles, its wealth of sugar plantations, and its jewels df women. A national convention of blacklegs assem bled in Chicago last week, delegations beiriff present from nearly every State in the Union. They are a splendidly dressed set of men, and' wear jewelry in great profusion.

The 'revision of Iloyle, and the Codification of the laws of poker, fec, are objects of the convention What next When Cortez cojiiuered Mexico, it was the first civilized State of the Westera Continent, even superior! to Peru, which was remarkable for the high culture of its pe6ple. Mexico had a complete fcyatem of policy, a powerful priestboocf, and a people skilled in all kinds of Useful and ornamental arts. All this has been overtimed by the corrupting influence of Spanish rule, which has weakened the resources and destroyed the manly virtue of every country where it has prevailed. The present state of the Government of Mexico is a standing warning to all who vould seek to prosper in spite of constant, systematic disregard of law. There was nothing in the original construction of the Mexican Government which could prevent its attaining as higjh a degree of prosperity as has been reached by the great North American Union.

It bail a complete republican constitution, which, if faithfully carried out, wDuld have made it prosperous and powerful. But it would seem that no form of government could avail to save the Mexican people from the national disorganization and ruin so naturally and inevitably resulting from their ceaseless restlessness, lawlessness, and dissensions. The evil is within themselves. With such a population, no country on earth, no matter hjw excellent might be its form of government, could even secure peace and prosperity. It must cure the inherent disease that consumes it, or still remain, as hitherto, weak and conteraptiblj.

The problem of iMexican politics bHs fair to be finally solved at no distant day, by the necessary intervention of foreign governments, for the protection of the lives and property of their citizans, now exposed to constant danger. As the London rema ks, our Govern- Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun. From Washington. Washington, Dec. 31, 1858.

The subject of the importation of African slaves into the Southern States, is likely to occupy the attention of Congress upon the resumption of the session. Several members, as I learn, are to bring it forward in the form of resolutions of inquiry. The facts of the case, so far as officially known to the Executive, will thus be elicited. In one of Mr. C.

L. Lamar's letters to Secretary Cobb, he stated thai it was his intention to violate the law prohibiting the slave trade, relying upon the public sentiment of tbe South for his justification. It ha been stated in a Southern journal upon authentic information, that the parties enlaced in the recent importation of Africans, as slaves, would avow and justify the The examination of witnesses pending in Savannah may also elicit such facts as will render it necessary for the United States Dis- trict Attorney to bring the subject before a Grand Jury. In the first" place, it may be impossible to obtain an indictment from the Grand Jury, as was lately the case at Columbia, in the matter of the Echo. But should a bill be found and a trial take place, Jury perhaps may not convict the defend-andts.

As to any opinion from the United States Court tbat the law prohibiting the slave trade is unconstitutional, no one can suppose that it will ever be rendered. The amount of the matter is, that those of the Southern States that may choose to be supplied with slaves from Africa will be supplied, any law of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding. The slavers only take the hazard of the arrest on the high seas by United States cruisers, and of being carried into some Northern port, where, possibly, the paTties arrested might meet the penalty of the law. The Federal Government cannot control juries in the South any more than they could in Che North. It may well be believed tbat the United States fugitive slave actvcanDot be executed in some parts of the North, and not long ago a case occurred in which the extradition of a foreign fugitive from justice was forcibly and successfully resisted.

That the African slave trade will be opened, is just as certain that they will find a ready Sale in the South. We have seen that northern enterprize has been extensively engaged in the slave trade between Africa and" Cuba, and there is no reason to doubt that it will continue to brave all dangers, if a slave market be opened fur it, at the There is scarcely a doubt that this suhjectj, in its various bearings, will occupy much atj tention in Congress, and furnit-h new issues for the coming political struggles. The committee appointed by the House, at the last session, to revise the rules, will report some changes of a character that will have a tondency to secure universal attention in dealing with the provocations to which thT ArriVals tlie Eagle HOWl. The Boil. John A.

Tucker who committed suicide a few weeks ago in Georgia, left behind him the following letter addressed "to P. H. Colquitt, Editor Col umbos Times." Dawsos, Gam Thursday, Dee. 16. I am about to do a thing which I have bad in contemplation since 1848 via: to rid the world of me, and myself of an existence useless to me and derogatory to others.

And Mr. Editor, how dare you or any of your readers say, il is weak, or wrong, or unmanly to perform the act that I am about to perform. Life is a burden to me has been for years. I am driven on by a destiny I have no power to control. Don't say to me, "It is your fault you could act differently." It is untrue.

I always wished to act differently I have prayed to act differently: I have prayed to God to help me to act differently. Lie knows my wish and purpose was to be a good man. This I have prayed for from boyhood; and yet I have not been a good man. ''There is a divinity that shapes our ends." There is a power that drives us on like a feather before the wind, and we have as little power to direct our course as the feather in the gale. Now, with all my Bins, follies and vices clinging to my skirts, I am going, unbidden, into the presence of ray God, to ask him why I am not the man I always desired to be; to what punishment I am to receive for knowing my duty, desiring to perform it, and yet not having the nerve to do it.

Don't say I am drunk either, for it is Dot so. I tell you Peyton Colquitt, that I ara doing this thing upon reflection. I lay all night thinking of it. I have looked at all the reasons for and against it. In some respect I have been a successful man.

As certain as the world stands, I would beat the race for Judge by more than the Democratic majority. That is not the thing with me. I would not live to be President of the United States, unlesss I could be the man I wish to be. From a boy, I wished to be a great and good man a man exerting a great salutary moral influence on mankind. But as it is, I an: shedding death shade and mildew from the high places in the land.

I would have waited till I got home, but I know-it would not do. I would then nevar have discharged the duty I owe to myself ard mankind. I could not part with my wife nud little ones. Several times in the last few years I have prepared myself for this event at home, when my wife knew nothing of it. But to look at the children and heir them say "Pa," or to look at a smiling affectionate wife, that anticipated my wishes tbst forgave a thousand follies that never did an unkind act I did not have the courage to proceed.

But believing as I do, that my departure from this life will benefit my family, as well as others, I am going to die here to day. I have plenty of friends who will be sorry for this; but to all of them I say, John A. Tucker never professed friendship to any one, that he deserted in the hour of trial. My wife aud ray little ones I commend to your care. TUCKER.

The Rescue. The Huntsville (Ala.) Democrat of the 15th instant, states that on the Saturday previous, Mr. J. Q. A.

Carter, of Whitesburg, Madison was arrested by the Sheriff of Madison, by authority ot the Governor of Alabama on a requistion from the Governor of Pennsylvania, fe was brught to Huntsville and delivered over to three Philadelphia police officers, who were about to secure him with hand when sveral riends of Carter, armed, walked into the sheriff's office and told Carter to go with hem. He did so, and the company mounted their horses and rode off. The Democrat says that about two huadred citizens were assembled, most of whom ap proved the rescue, on the ground that Northern States would not allow similar process to be executed tbere on tbe requisition of Southern Governors as in case of fugitive slaves', some threats against the Philadelphia police officers were intimated, and a citizen, to whom they brought letters, very properly took them to his house, until they could get off on the railroad cars. feer-ME Kiss Him for His Mother." The editor of the New Orleans Advocate has this incident about the ravages of the vel- ow fever in that city, related to him by one of the Methodist pastors "The preacher was called a few days since to attend the funeral of a young man. Before his sickness he was a stout, buoyant, manlv youth.

He was from the State of Maine, and had been here but a short time. He was attacked by yellow fever and soon died, with no mother or relatives to watcb by his bedside, or to soothe with tbat sympathy which none but those of our own 'dear kindred blood can feel or manifest. He died among strangers and was buried by them. When the fuieral service was over, and the strange friends who bad ministered to bim were about to finally close the coffin, an old lady, who stood by, stopped them and said, 'Let mg kiss him for bis mother I We have yet to find the first man or woman to whose eyes this simple recital has not brought tears." Raleigh, N. Dec.

30, 1858. On Christmas morning a number of board ers at the Yarborougtr House, in this city, awoke to find tbat they had been robbed, during the night, of all their loose change. One gentleman bad $300 and a gold watch stolen from him, and several others were relieved of smaller amounts. The robberry was doubtless perpetrated by some expert ft hotel thief, as all of those who were robbed found their doors locked in the morning just as they had left them upon retiring the night before. No clue to the perpetrators of the theft has vet been obtained that I have heard of.

A gentleman from one of the upper coun-les arrived here last evening, and never having had the pleasure of seeing the General Assembly of the Georgia Legislature, repaired to the Senate Chamber last night. He quietly waited till they adjourned, and left at the same time. This morning, being asked what he thought of it, he said he "had never seen anything like it but once before, and tbat was a breaking up of a negro camp meeting" Counterfeit fifties on the State Bank of South Carolina are now circulating extensively in Georgia. Some of them will be very apt to find their way into North Can the consideration of the bill removing the restrictions from the Charter of the western Extension Boad, and we expected to hear something by Tuesday night's mail, in regard to the matter. Disappointment, however, awaited us.

Ffora the reports in the Standard we learn that, in consequence of the ab sence of many of the friends of the measure, it was postponed until Tuesday last Itioiwf VERNON Some of the Ladies of Asheviile will give an Exhibition at the Town Hall this (Thursday) evening, at early candle light, consisting of a series of tableaux, The proceeds to be appropriated to the Mount Vernon Fund. Admittance 50 cents; children half price. Gentlemen, here is an appeal not only to your patriotism, but also to your gallantry. Who among you is so hardened in bachelorism as to resist an appeal made in such a cause, by such advocates i Not one, we are persuaded. Then go, and by your presence and your money reward the efforts of the fair and lovely who plead for the Home and Grave of the great Washington.

A Washington letter says the Sec retary of War has asked Congress for nearly four hundred thousand dollars, to pay the Florida volunteers, called into service by Gen. Ilarney aud Col. Looruis, during the years 1857 and 1858. It is said that colored students are now attending the exercises of Yale Medical School. We learn that Emory and Ilenry College is under deep religious influence.

Thirty-eight young gentlemen have professed conversion, and many are inquiring for the path of peace. From the Report of Comptroller Brogden, a copy of which was kindly sent us by Edward Cantwell, of Raleigh, we find the uumber of acres of land in the State, set down at 20,133,063 acres; Valuation, $86,075,771. Town Property, $11,766710. Total Real Estate, $97,842,481. Taxable white polls, Taxable black polls, Taxable free black polls, 2,594.

Captain Wilkes, of the navy, who was some time ago commissioned to make an examination of the mineral deposites in Chat-am county, North Carolina, with a view to the establishment of a depot of construction for the Navy, has made a report highly favorable to the object, having found the de-posites of coal of extraordinary richness and of inexhaustible extent. State Taxes. The following table of State expenses, prepared by Col. John H. Wheeler, we find in Hunt's Merchants' Magazine Total taxes.

Popltion. P'dbyeach. Alabama, $663,446 771,633 SO 86 1 53 0 97 0 61 1 39 3 00 2 21 2 85 1 22 2 31 0 62 2 63 2 35 0 94 0 61 2 28 0 79 1 88 Connecticut, 560,343 85,287 622.480 1.283 360 1 753 037 1.840.400 908 906 699,404 7,160 255 455,343 6,089.456 347,111 632,162 131,313 719,414 1,126:852 570,469 370.792 87,445 906,185 988,416 683 169 606 626 317,976 488.555 9.097.394 869.039 2,311,786 147,545 668,607 212 692 314.120 1,421,661 305,391 Florida. Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Mississippi, N. Hampshire New Jersey, New York, N.

Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, Total, S25.055.129 14,569,722 av. 1 72 The Inalienable Right of the Hus- mw VTT BAND TO JICK HIS WIFE OUT OF 13ED. The San Francisco District Court lately decided that a husband may kick his wife out of bed, if he has cause for jealousy, and the wife has no remedy in divorce. Ihis im portant decision advises wives to be prepared to sprawl, as jealousy may any night get into the head and heels of the husbands. Ibe same court, at an earlier time, decided that "unearthly snoring and grunting on the part of the wife may render the husband justifi able in seeking a decree of divorce.

Ihe next decision expected from tbat tribunal will detercQuretfae question as to whether a man, after kicking his wife out of bed, shall rise and kick her into the street. Three little girls, from seven to ten years of age, were arrested in Boston on Wednesday, for pocket-picking. Master M. T. Tucker, aged 14, of Todd county, Kentucky, measures 6 feet 6 inches in height.

Southern Gold Mines. According to the statistics published in the New York Herald, the gold mines in North Carolina have since 1838, yielded the snm of 223, and those of Georgia $7,579,052. "I know" said Tipsev. "water is a fine thing, but it is bo dreadful thin? Men, like books, have at each end a blank leaf childhood and old age. Indicted for Libel.

Tbe editor of the Paterson (New Jersey) Register has been in dicted for libel, for printing or publishing card upon which was the picture of a jackass alongside oi an excise uage. said a planter to a negro, 'climb up that tree and then cut the The negro showed no disposition to comply and upon being pressed for a reason, an awered 'Well, look heah, raassa, if I cro up dar and broke my neck dat'U be a thousand dollar out your pocket No, why don't you hire an Irishman to go up and den if he falls and kills hesef, dar won't be no lost to ASHGV1LII3 W. C. Thursday, Jan. 13, 1859.

I i County Matters. Our Worshipful County Court is now in session, with some 300 cases on the Docket. A considerable number of lawyers are in attendance, and a lively time generally being experienced in and about the "Temple where Justice" is dispensed, in larger or smaller doses, to suit the necessities of each case. The Select Court for the present year conflicts of the following Magistrates Jas. W.

Pntton, Chairman, Sawyer, Wm. R. Baird, John Burgin, and K. Blackstock. Tax for 1350, $1 15.

Last year it was 11 20. A. T. Summer, was unanimously reelected County Trustee a compliment well deserved for his faithful and efficient services. R.

V. Blackstock, was elected County Surveyor. Board of Common Schools: Montraville Patton, I. B. Sawyer, Alburtis Burgin, Thos.

T. Patton, J. G. I). Garrison, B.

J. Smith. The Trustee reports, the County clear of debt, and Buncombe "bonds" as good as a sight draft on the Bank of the Republic. Inauguration or Gov. Ellis.

lion. John W. Ellis was inaugurated on the 1st instant, in the Hall of the Ilouse of in the presence of the members of the General Assembly and a large concourse of spectators. The Governor delivered an mm admirable address on the occasion, winch we shall try to publish next week. After which the oaths of office were administered by Chief Justice Pearson, and subscribed in the presence of the Assembly.

Election of Judge Douglas. lion. Stephen A. Douglas has been re elected United States Senator, by the Legis lature of Illinois, by a majority of eight. AYVdo not endorse43ouglas in every particu lar, and in the issue between him and the Administration think he was decidedly in the wrong, yet in the Illinois contest and its crowning result, be has certainly achieved a signal triumph over the Black Republican party, an one which must in a greater or less degree enure to the strengthening of the constitutional rights of the South.

W. N. Railroad. We are under obligations to R. C.

Pear-ton, President of the above Road, for a copy of the "Reports of the President and Chief Engineer, for 1858." If is a valuable document, showing the entire transactions of the Company up to the close of the past The following extracts which we take from 1 the Report embody some gratifying facts: The grading from Statesville to the Catawba river, a distance of thirteen miles, is completed and ready for the iron, with the exception of one or two sections, and will be entirely fiuished by the 1st of January next. The masonry on that part of the line is likewise finished, with the exception of a single viaduct, which will be completed by the tame time. The grading and masonry from the river to a point near "Hale's Store," a distance of sixteen miles, is in a state of much forwardness, and will be completed early in the npirng. The iron has been purchased for laying the track to the point near "Ilale's Ftore," within twenty-three miles of Morgan-ton, and will be received in time to renew the operation of laying track by the 1st Jan-nary; but the operation may be, and is likely to be postponed until the spring opens, with a view to avoid the danger of imperfect construction occasioned by freezing weather in winter, and also to allow the roadbed time to settle. I feel assured that the iron will be laid and the road in full operation to a point within twenty-three miles of Merganton, by the 1st day of November next, if not earli-er.

The residue of the line to Morganton, twenty three miles, is under contract, and the grading and masonry thereon is progressing with despatch. The contract provides for the completion of the road to Morganton by the 1st of January, 1861, but the indications are that the work! to that place will be consumated within the time specified, probably by midsummer of 1860; indeed I am satisfied that no more delay will ensue in the progress of the work on the line than ought to occur, in order to secure a good and safe road bed a suspension of the lay ing of iron at the point near "Hale during tbe winter or lsoy-ou, or pernaps at a point some miles west, would be the part of wisdom whatever may be the progress of grading at that time, and a renewal of the operation of track laying tbe succeeding spring, will complete tbe road to Morganton by tbe earliest time indicated above. An actual location has been made of the line of the second section from. Morganton to a point 10 miles east of tbe western portal of the Swannanoa tunnel, and the estimated coat tbereot is being calculated with a view to open books for individual subscriptions as directed in our amended charter; the line thus located is even more favorable in point of coat than was tbe surveys were again made across the mountain section, accurately surveyed and the location made, and the cost is now being estimated in order that the same may be laid before tbe next General Assembly. I am gratified in stating that an actual location of the line of the mountain section has reduced tbe whole aggregate of tunneling to half a mile the main tunnel included, besides reduction of costs in other respects, thus proving beyond all question that the Swannanoa route is the cheapest railway route ever located across the A lleghanies.

The statistics of 1858 are being published The number of persons killed in the United States, last year, by railtfay accidents was 163, injured 22, The loss of life by steamboat accidents was 364. The loss bv fire in 1858, was $10,054,000, The vessels and cargoes lost in the storms of the year now gone, are valued at $4,471,000. Girls, never run sway from your parents till you are sure tVe young man you elope witn won runaway irom you. his advice is worth a year's subscription, but wo give it gratia. A Frenchman built a four story house adjoining his Dutch neigh bor's two story house.

Being on the roofs of their respective houses one day, the one on the low house, cries out to the other "What for you build so high tare To which the Frenchman replied "I)e ground ees very cheap up here. John Burgin, )wannanoa. W. F. Davidson, Swannanoa.

C. II. Burgin, Old Fort. Spencer Eaves, N. C.

Thomas Young, Samuel P. Young, Cane Creek. Lambert Clayton, Hendersouville. John E. Smith, Ky.

James L. Cain, Tenn. Caleb Molz andiadv, Lincoloton. Miss Scnter, Female College. Moore, Cain, "i S.

C. Bryson, Waynesvitte. W. M. Shipp, Ilendersonville.

J. M. Hamilton, Polk county. W. R.

Young, Sbufordsville. Thomas N. Stevens, N. John Burgin, Swannanoa. A.

Burgin, Dr. Stevens, A. M. Alexander, French Broad. S.n M.

Young, Swannanoa. C. T. N. D.vis, Rutherfordton.

Rev. S. Burnett, French Broad. J. P.

Jordan, Ilendersonville. W. R. Baird, Buncombe. Fletcher Fortune, Swannanoa.

Col. W. M. Hardy, City. CharleB Patton, Henderson county.

Pleasant Hurst, Buncombe. W. W. Battfe, Waynesville. Marcus Erwin, City.

L. Chapman, Leicester. M. P. Settle, Kv.

Mr. A. G. Ilaren, Buncombe. J.

H. Taylor, Baltimore. OBITTJABT. Mr. Editor We are placed under the painful necessity, of adding the name of Andrew J.

RamseyUo the sad list of deaths, whose earthly career ended at his residence on Walnut Creek, Madison county, 15 rain utes before 6 o'clock, a. of tle 27th instant, aged 34 years and 2 days. Brother Ramsey was born Christmas Day, 1824. He attached, himself to the Methodist Protestant church during camp-meeting at the "Ridge," in the fall of '50; after which time he exhibited a desire to be a participant in the enjoyments of the church triumphant. While upon the bed of affliction be expressed his readiness and willingness to die, if it was the will of God, in whose hands he entrusted his interest, both temporal and eternal.

Hope in Christ seemed truly to be an anchor to his soul in the dying hour. "Blessed are they that die in the Lord." He left a wife, six children, anda large circle of relatives to mourn (not as those who have no hope) a icss which can never be repaired. May the blessings of God rest upon the bereaved family. "His flesh will slumber in the ground, Till the last trumpet's joyful sound; Then burst the chains with Bweet surprise, Arid in the Saviour's image rise." Dac. 29, 'oS.

S. V. THEGROVER BAKER mwm mmm co. HAVING greatly increased, their facilities for manufacturing their Celebrated Family Machines, with all the recent improvements, have reduced their prices, and offer for sale A NEW STYLE MACHINE. sPBICB $50.

Hemmers a Extra It is no longer questioned that these Machines are the best in use for family se wing. They Hem, Fell, Xxather, and Stitch in the most superior manner, and are the only machines in the market that are so well and simply made, that they may be sent into families with no other instructions than are contained in a circular which accompanies each machine, and from which A Child of "Ten Years may readily learn how to use them, and keep them in order. They maKe Fifteen Hundred Stitches A Minute, and will do the sewing of a family cheaper than a seamstress can do it, even if she works at the rate oi Is there a husband, father, or brother in tbe United States, who will permit the drudgery of hand sewing: in his fam v. when a Urofer Raker Machine will do it better, more Tex peditiously, and cheaper than can possibly be aone oy nana Offices of Exhibition and Sale: 495 Broad way, New York. io summer street, isoston.

730 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 187 Baltimore Stteet, Baltimore. 68 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati Agencies in all the principal Ctltes Two in tAe United States. i-SEND FOR A anarchy and license prevailing throughout Mexico have naturally given rise. The time may not be far distant, and may even now be present, when forbearance nny be as unkind to the wretched inhabitants of Mexico as to our citizens residing there, and to lr people at large, so long wronged by the misrule that has defraude 1 them of their oecunia ry rights.

Yet it should be a strong provo cation that should induce us to seize and take under our protection any more of the territory jof Mexico. Certainly it would be a far greater favor to the Mexicans than to ourselves. The ground is good, but so miserably stocked wit biped brutes, that it would go hard with us to farm it without first replenishing it. England, as the London Times remarks, has a more direct interest inMexico thanl we have; for English capital has been largely invested in Mexican undertakings, and English merchants have carried their energies to Mexico for the joint advantage of both countries together. Now that the suicidal folly of the revolutionists has led them to impose penalties on who wcrj contribu ting to the resources of the State, and' chiefly on English' and Americans, it cannot be expected that England and America will submit Quietly to such outrages.

An English protectorate, for the possession and rule of the country till satisfaction should be exaefied for the losses of English subjects, is by no means impossible, oi improbable, inless We should put in operation the Monroe doctrine, and, by excluding Europeans, make more room for our own occupation. That Mexico will finally fail wholly into our hands we think hardly admits of a raa sonable doubt. Evn England wil1 find it to her interest to conniva atard a'd in appropriation of Mexican territory, first, obtaining from us "a guarantee of her sub jects claims. England as she is well aware, could never hold possession of Mexico, and would not long find it profitable it she could. The next best thing for her, then, is to let it fall into the hands of the a United States; and this, there is every reason to believe 6he is quite willing to do.

It is unlikely that what remains of Mexico will cost us near as much as what we have already obtained "by descent or by purchase." It will probably fall even more easily and naturally into our hands, either by gradual absorption, in installments, for the payment of the claims of our citizans, transferred to our Government for summary adjustment, or by voluntary submission to our territorial protectorate, to escape the evidently ceaseless evils which independence brings upon the demoralized descendants of the Spaniards, who seem equally unfit for monarchy and republicanism, and go to ruin alike under despotic rule and amid the anarchy and li cense of the so-called Spanish! Republics of America. Washington Globe. The Famous Dead of 1858. The necrology of 1858 is distinguished by many noted names, but upon tbe whole it may be remarked that Death has contented himself with fewer "shining maiks" than usual. Among American statesmen the most eminent deceased for the year was Thomas H.

Benton. With have departed" Senator Evans, of SouCh Carolina, Senator Henderson, of Texas, ex-Senator Bagby, of Alabama, General James Gadsden, of 8outh Carolina, John A Quitman, of Thomas L. Harris, of Illinois, and ex President Anson Jones, of Texas. Among lawyers have died Benjamin F. Butler andj Chief Justice Duer, of New York.

Ambng authors Wra. llt-nry Herbert, William Jay and Madame Ida Pfief-fer. Among merchants, Anson G. Phelps and Benjamin Marshall, of New York, and james Aager, oi onanesron. Among mechanics Isaac Newton and John P.

Allaire. Among scientific men, Bondland the natu ralist and -Robert Brown, the botanist. A- mong painters Ary SchaSir. AmDng the atrical characters, the great Rachel and La- blache the singer. Among soldiers, Field Marshall Radetzky of the Austrian army and Major General Persifer F.

Smith, U. Among naval commanders, Admiral Lord Lvons of the British service, and twn Ampr- ican ommnnnrpa. Mathpw P.rru anA Ap Catesby Jones. Among philosoDhers. Robert Oisn.

Amono- nmminant nhoro.tord t.thA Enron ItUWT tha TWlQea 7 7 i. leans Keclscbid Jacha, (rand Vizier of Turkey, and Baron Wafd, (the Yorkshire ostler,) Fnme Minister of Parma. The Emperor Japan also lately! died. Among other noto rieties, deceased, may be mentioned Soyer, the Prince of Cooks, Dred Scott, whose name will be a famous one in the annals of the country, and! Eleazer Williams, the repu ted Bourbon. The year has not expired, and there may yet be important additions to the of for private bills.

Ion. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court met in this city on Thursday last, present Justices Pearson, Bat tle and Ruffin. We learn the position of Chief Justice was tendered to Judge Ruffin, who de-hned it, and it was then bes'owed UDon Judee Pearson. A The following gentlemen were licensed ta practice in tne county courts oi tue otave: Nathaniel Allen, Warren, Cicoro F.

Lyon, Ilertford, Lucien D. Starke, Pasquotank, James L. Ball, do F. Vaughan, do 3. Wilson, Perquimans, A B.

Parker, Harnett, E.1S. Parker, Johnston, nanaoiDB, T.N. Hill, Halifex, G. W. Blount, Nash, T.

S. Kenan, Duplin; L. W. Howard, New Hanover, Ej J. Mclver, Moore, Hamilton C.

kernes, Rowan, S. M. Brinsob, Craven, C. W. Spruill, Warren, E.

Sprnill, N. S. Patterson, Franklin, J. Ralston, Missouri. Raleigh Standard.

JfcST'On Friday last, the following gentlemen were upon examination by the Judges of the Supreme Court, found to possess the proper qualifications to practice law in the Superior Courts, and granted licenses accor dingly J. B. Aventt, Craven. L. W.

Humphrey, Onslow. G. Whitfield, Edgecombe. T. W.

Brown, New Hanover. J. W. Roberts, Gates. Asa Ross, Brunswick.

E. J. Gaines, Montgomery. A. B.

McEachin, of Moore. J. W. Ellis Columbus. T.

J. Foote, of Warren. J. A. Hampton, Yadkin.

A. G. Watters, Cleaveland. J. Anthony, of Halifax.

J. W. Stevenson, Craven. J. Collins, Washington Co.

Raleigh Register. Later From Kansas. St. Loui3, Jan. 5.

Accounts from Kansas state that Capi Hamilton, at the head of a large body of desperate men, was committing depredations in the sduthern portion of the territory. A later dispatch states that Brown's band of jayhawks had entered the State of Missouri and burnt and plundered houses, and stolen horses. Gov. Medary had ordered out two companies of U. S.

dragoons and militia companies. He also has telegraphed to Washington for arms and ammunition. The whole of the inhabitants of the western portion of the territory are said to be divided into antagonistic marauding bands. Later From Utah. St.

Locis, Jan. 5. By the Overland Mail we have dates from Utah to 10th December. The United States Marshal had been forcibly prevented from serving process on Brigham Young, by his body-guard. It was thought it would be necessary to call in military assistance to enforce the order of tbe Court.

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