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complicated errors in argument would neees-
sarily result. ADAMS.
Qasney, H., Jan. 12, 1853.
Personal and Political.
Lord 4acaulay has announced that he will
contne himself in future to his closet as his
torian, and take no further part in public life.
The bill in the Ohio Legislature to estab-
lish uniform rate Of interest at seven per cent.
and to repeal the ten per cent. Law. has been de-
| feated.
Gen. Quitman left sugar estate, the in
come Of which ranges from sc, 900 to $50. 900.
| It goes to his daughter, wife Of Lieut.. Lowell,
! of The Water Witch.
-Rorter'sz Spirit says. that Mr.3 Morphy,
| to silence all cavil in regard to the English
champion, has offered to give Mr. Staunton q
pawn and move, and play him for any sum be
plsases.
The Hon. T. s. Bingham, the newly elected
Senator from Michigan. is native OF Marcellus
onondaga County. New York. and removed
to Michigan about twenty years ago.
james Rowland, the last Of the Rhode
Island slaves, died January 81. at jamestown.
| Il. l., at the age OF 100 years. lie retained his
faculties unimpaired up to the hour Of his DEATH
MIR. BaEnum has made his first appearance
in London as q lecturer at St. James Hall The
hall was crowded 10 excess, and the newspapers
generally speak aatteringly Of Mr. Barnum's
essay. His theme WIS " Money Making''
the object Of which is to bring out Gov. Sey
mour IS q candidate for the Presidency, and to
secure him the vote Of New I ork at the Charles
ton Convention.
"A correspondent Of the Boston Transcript
says that Senator Jones, OF Iowa, expects d
chsllenge from Judge Douglas, and has gone
80 far in completing his arrangements for its
acceptance. aH to engage his second, who is men
tionipg the fact, in confidence, to almos. every
body he knows.
The Troy Times states that Col Fuller is
not going to establish cheap paper in England,
bu. after remaining abroad i've months, will re.
turn aud commence the publication id New
York Of daily fer which large sunni hare been
subscribed,
Robert J. Walker, late Governor Of ksnsas,
can6ida:e fur the United States Senate from
New Jersey. If elected. it must be as an anti
Lecomptou, antiBuchanan Democrat md BY
the aid Of Republican votes
The Boston Couritr states that the society
over which Theodore Parker has 30 long pre-
ad han ohop6 6ad Nd n;v mn Nunirrf Tall
which they have heretofore used on the Sab
bath; the illness md departure Of Mr. Parker
for the South being the cause of this move
ment.
The Hon. Sherrard Clemens arrived in
Washington City on Tuesday night, accompa-
MED By his brother, DR.. Clemens. and Mayor
Mayo OF Rchmand. lie is unable to move
without assistance, and Was conveyed to Viii
lard's Hotel on litter. He does not expect to
be able to attend Congress for month.
"a Washington letter says 1t is rumored
that the reason why the Tice.P President does
not furnish and occupy his magni6cs ut resi-
dencs, which has just been completed, is that the
bulk Of his private fortune was lost BY the fail
nre Of the OHIO Life sud Trust Company. Mr.
Breckenridge is NOW stopping at one Of the
hotels.
The Rock Greek Beptist Church Of South
Carolina have passed resolutions declaring their
readiness "to defend slavery with all the means
TINT God has given" them, but expressing their
unqualified disapprobatiou of importing more
negroes from Africa We thought that South.
ern churches "never iuterfered in polisics''
The ST. Paul lNianesotian says thasthe Fort
Smelling spectators have failed to pay up the
second installment Of $50, 900 due Government
On the purchase Of Fort Smelling and its re.
nerve; and that instructions hare been receiy-
ed to foreclose on their obligations aud resume
Governmental possession Of the premises. It
condoes with Ar. Frank Steele on his misfor.
tunes generally; and with Mr. Sibley in par
tcular, over The loss Of their nice specially Of
"thirty aeresr'
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says he cannot
spend time to correct the numerous false re-
ports Of his speeches that get isto the papers,
aud be asks the public 10 correct them accord
ing to this rule:
"Now, We beg to have it understood, hereaf.
ing what We ought not to have said, are IN.
doubtediy erroneous. Whereas, if the thing
reported is good, wise, safe and eminentIY
proper, let it be taken for granted that We
-Seuator Davis Of Mississippi. administered
g. .-.ah;ss rebaku to members Of the present
cabinet and others, yesterday, when discussiog
the report pf the Library Committee coucern.
ing admission to the Senate. He csid that,
during biz whole Office ~ Secretary Of War,
he never entered either House of Congress
while 1t WAS in session, except when the Cabi-
net attended the President, on the Last dsy, to
sign bills. In this course. be was governed not
only By sense Of personal propriety, bat of
duty to the public. Mr.. Davis properly re-
marked that Cabinet officers had no business in
Congress, and if they did their whole duty in
the Departments. they could not be there.
The Countess OF Caatiglione, says the Paris
correspondent Of the Philadelphia BuUttis,
who two years ago WAS the, brightest star in the
galaxy Of the Court Of France, and whose re-
turn to Italy WAS the subject Of numerous con-
lectures, has lately separated from her husband.
When the Count and Countess commenced their
visits 10 The courts Of Europe they possessed q
fortune Of between three and four millions of
francs. lu the course Of four yea1a they have
managed to spend nearly sll this fne fortune.
The countess returns To half ruined castle On
q small p.trimonial estate, where tho lovely
half: widow intends living the life OF recluse,
devotin9 herself to the education of beautiful
little son, seven years old, and reaeettng On the
vanity Of worldly pleasures.