corre6ponjence ofthe journal vi commerce a glimpse at the sl.'l.dli col'rt j!'d_es washington jan 25th 1845 a short visit to the supreme court since my last gratified my curiosity a while nothing strikes a visitor to the judicial department ot the capital more forcibly than the air of quiet ude that prevails so different i-t it from a nisi prius common plea or criminal bench you 1 k in vain lor the jury box the witness stand — aaxious clients incessantly whispering mthc advocate's ear or accused prisoners noques tion of " guilty or not guilty is there heard few spectators ar seen in the court unless there happens to he an argument of general in terest or a speaker i extraordinary celebrity and even he must have an important and pecu liar case to manage or his audience will he ihin there has been no very crowded court since webster and bin ney measured dialectics last winter on the girard will case on a pleasant day however when squads of ladies with their whiskered attendants are moving a bout the capitol gliding from the house to lhe senate chamber and thence down to the su preme court mom which is under the senate chamber the few cushioned seats are filled — attention and politeness ate hen enjoined by jaw or custom servitors employed hy he go vernment pay special attention to the ladies al ways directing them if necessary to seats and never failing to clear the seals of the sterner sex if they are wanted for ladies now and then a colored servant wait here and there to anticipate the wants of the judges or open the door for visitors to pass out in the appearance of the gowned gentleman on the bench there is much dignity without stiff ness or constraint if an acquaintance comes into court whether an official character or one of the people he receives a how of re cognition from his friend on the bench as il it were a sort of recreation to indulge a friendly emotion ami)l tin severe labors ofthe law in the centre in the chair of jay ellsworth and marshall sits taney a profound lawyer it is said hut never to be lorgoltcn as gen jack son's pliable secretary well rewarded for his easy submission to lhe commands of his master who would not rather be william j duane iu private life with an independent soul than — but i will not speak evil of dignitaries whal is written is written judge taney is tall and slender in form — stoop-shouldered as one that has pored much over black letter ofa swarthy ; tawney .') complexion his head surmounted with un uncomfortable wad of angled black i hair and the nasal organ liberally supplied and \ painfully oppressed with rappee on his right j may he seen the shorter person of judge story i a story at least shorter in nature with a liter ary face a classical air and eminent judicial qualifications lie is the oldest judge on the bench the pride of massachusetts and an honor ' lo his country no observer can fail to be fa vorably impressed with his appearance many indulge the thought that he should be in the ! chief seat on the lefl of the chief justice is i seen the manly form ol mclean of ohio who j is remarkable for the graceful crectness of his position while in his open face and expansive brow read the lines of intelligence that truly reflect the inward mind a mirror is that large and expressive eve which does not deceive — he is a man of unrelaxing intellectual energy and deserves to be president of the republic inflexible integrity is a prominent constituent of his moral composition on the right of story may he found the georgia judge — wayne — a genteel looking man with easy southern man ners and in size lhe smallest of the judicial as semblage he seems less intended tor a judge than for a convival bon honour and one cannot help wishing him a paler face and sercner brow more scantily over hung with hair which ifl ever combed back in ils luxuriance would much \ improve the general expression of his face i ! understand him to be a man of very respectable abilities next him sits catron of tennessee whom the yankees would call a chunky man presen ting nothing striking in his aspect but seeming to bend laboriously to the duties of his arduous profession the remaining justices are mc kinley of alabama and daniel of virginia who are not considered i believe to have at tained a very exalted height in the temple ol justice though ihey plod along in excellent com pany and no doubt arc well thought of by their personal friends + * * * * it seems but yesterday since marshall thomp son barbour and baldwin filled those seats now occupied or to be occupied hy others on the opposite side of he court facing the living judges arc three marble busts ofthe dead one of jay representing his classical face the pro portions of which are very fine and in excel lent keeping with his character on the right ofthis is that of ellsworth a homely but stroii and expressive countenance with a prominent sharp nose and hooked chin no unmeaning in dicators of his intellectual acuteness the re pose of marshall's face is majestic why will modern men abandon every thing of an exter nal kind lhat so well became their fathers . — alas the dignified cue ceased with marshall the grave has closed over it if taney would but dress his hair and let it be elongated after the manner of his predecessors it would be an immense improvement the court sits daily from 11 a m to :. p m or a little later its decisions cover a broad and interesting field in which numerous individuals companies and states are concerned 4 present rich and rare — one cold rainy night of last week mrs white wife of mr white of the firm of walker __ co heard tin cry of a child what could it mean . there was no 4i crying babies " about the premises but the cry of a child was clear and distinct .* no mistake the maid was ordered to open the outer door when lo ! within the limits ofthe yard upon the door step in a basket laid a bright smart girl baby about two or three months old — the rain from the caves dropping directly into its face no wonder it cried — mrs white had the child taken into the house and wc understand that mr and mrs white having no feminine babies intend to adopt it us'their own accompanin the present was a note stating that poverty had drove the parent to take the course but god would reward them if they took care of it | there i3 ever so many seem to want it think ing it the easiest way to get a bula — concord new hampshire courier polk am dallas — hebrew definition — a hebrew scholar informs us that the word polk ' jn the hebrew tongue is division and the word dallas in the same language is poverty so division and poverty are henceforth to predom inate at least for a period of four years in our heretofore happy country — y //• palladium santa anna a writer in the new orleans tropic sketch es some of the recent events in mexico ; among them are the following « i stated in my last that the general enthu siasm which prevailed was intense it perva ded all classes of the community i wondered bow the smothered fire could have been so long pent up individuals were every where specu lating upon the inevitable fate of santa anna and the appropriate punishment that should he meted to him seme were fbr shooting him immediately upon his capture which now ap peared certain ; others more inveterate scoin ed so lenient and honorable a death and pro claimed that he merited to be hanged in the plaza mayor on a gallows as high as haman's while others wound to the intensest degree of hatred and detestation announced it as their o pinion that he fully deserved to he burn alive a widow lady it seems animated with an intense detestation of the dictator published a document and caused it to be affixed to the cor ners oflhe principal streets in it she invoked the co-operation of her sex ; she remarks : al ihough we are not able to lire a musket or a pistol we can throw scalding water and boil ing oil upon our enemies ; we can tear up the bricks of our ground floors and throw at their heads i call upon my countrywomen resumes she no longer to submit to the misrule of a rob ber " a curious incident occurred during the pre valence of the anti-santa anna excitement in one of the principal streets there was a large store figuring in golden letters with the inscrip tian of tienda de santa anna shop of i santa anna the obnoxious sign soon attrac ted the observant eye of the multitude and it was only upon the solemn assurance of the pro prietor to immediately effect a metamorphosis that his house was saved from destruction i ' passed about two hours after and saw that the owner had verified his pledge for the hated sig , nature was already effaced and it is now rejoic i ing in the tar more welcome one of " tienda de libertad — shop of liberty • " the conduct of the chiefs ofthe revolution certainly demand some notice did we not know that winds and waves are stability itself when compared with the mexican character we might wonder at the recent conduct ofthe gen erals cortazar and bravo to read the profes j sions of attachment and devotion to the cause of santa anna emanating from these distinguish ed individuals olio would have been inclined to ascribe to them lhe attributes of milton's ab diel — amij the faithless faithful only they unshaken — auseduced " but no sooner had lhe public voice declar ed itself against the general-in-chief than they gave their loyalty to the four winds of heaven and no doubt will reap a rich reward " it is an event to be held in perpetual re joicing by the mexican people that they have shaken off the deadly incubus that has so long oppressed them for years past mexico has groaned under the iron misrule of one who car ed nothing for her welfare ; who has been heard to say in the language ofthe tyrant of antiqui i ty the mexicans do not love but they fear me "' general theological seminaiij of the episcopal church — the banner of the cross says : " as many unfounded rumors bave lately been put in circulation in con nection with an investigation into the state ofthe seminary by the faculty — such as that an extensive romanizing combination existed among the students who were in regular correspondence with bishop hughes c — it may be proper to state the simple facts as we have them on un doubted authority some two or three of the young men bad taken it into their bends that the seminary's course of in struction was of too protestant a charac ter and were endeavoring to produce dis satisfaction with it among their fellow stu dents ; which being reported to the itev professor ol the ecclesiastical history dr ogilby he at once laid the case be fore the olber members ofthe faculty and a thorough investigation was determined on including every student — two weeks were thus occupied and the result was the dismission of two students the admo nition of another and reserving for fur ther consideration the case of a fourth — it is to be hoped that such decisive pro ceedings will satisfy the most sensitive that the general theological seminary is determined to countenance no views con trary to the doctrine of the protestant e piscopal church sing i'lau fatality we t egret to state that mr eli parker of this county received a severe beating about live weeks since a few days afterwards he was attacked with a disease in the head term ed by some st anthony's fire aud by others the black tongue ; on the seventeenth dav from the time he received the beating he died mr parker lived with mr james eiiinor about a miles from this place ; and mrs ellinor in at tending upon mr parker imbibed the disease in a small scratch on her hand her arm inflam ed and in a few days she died mr edward c thompson a shoemaker working for mr ellinor attended upon mr parker and shortly after his death he was attacked with a disease and died in a few days during lhe inflamma tion of mrs e's arm mr e's shaving brush was used to put some ointment on it and after wards he used the brush in shaving himself tii neck and head inflamed and in a few days he died the wife of mr benjamin anderson visited mrs ellinor — she took the disease and now lies dangerously ill : her husband and four or live children are also ill with the same dis ease the wife of mr parker mr josiah el linor and several other persons white and col ored have been attacked with the same disease hut are recovering mr thompson died iu this place which is the only case we have had here these sudden deaths have spread consterna tion through the surrounding country ; but as it is confidently believed that this fatal disease has been arrested we trust the alarm will soon subside — tarboro press religion in morocco — the religious fes tivals of the moroccians are real satunalia and occur after the fast more or less pro longed all give themselves up to intem perance or to yet more shameful lusts — during these moments of disorder chris tians and jews remain shut up in their houses ; for if they should set loot out of doors they would be in danger of being put to a eruel death i wondepvful discovery sew york january 30 1845 considerable sensation has been produced ! among our engravers by the news of a d.scov ' ery which is not only likely to affect their in terest to a great extenl but which if general ly-made known must lead to consequences af fecting the paper currency of the civilized world the importance of which it is hardly possible to exaggerate i am indebted to mr chapman the well-known artist for an account ofthe in vention and a specimen of the plate produced through its agency ... the discovery consists in a process by wnich an elaborate line engraving of any size maybe so accurately copied thai there shall be no per ceptible ditference between the original and the copv : by which an engraving on steel or cop per may be produced from an impression ofthe print — the original plate never having been seen by the copyist and the copied engraving being capable of yielding from ten thousand to twenty thousand impressions the producer wiil un dertake to supply a bank of england note so exactly copied that the person who signed and issued it should not be able to swear which was the original and which the copy many guesses have been made as to the mode by which this marvellous process is effected but as yet without result the process does not even infer a necessity of injuring the print de livered as a model which is returned unscath ed the inventor is an englishman and an engraver by profession he has taken out no patent neither does he think it expedient to do so inasmuch as if he does any unprincipled person may at once adopt it with little proba bility of the inventor being able to prove that his process has been the medium by which the print has been produced a friend of the au thor ofthe invention says with justice there ' is no knowing to what extensive changes in legislation it may conduce ; for if any printed ' or written document can be forged with so much ease and certainty as to defy detection the ' consequences may be more appalling than we ' care to anticipate the invention embraces the capacity to re produce any form of letter-press or any quality of print drawing or lithograph iti an unlimit ed quantity in an inconceivably brief space of time for instance from a single copy of the intelligencer plates might be produced in twen ty minutes from which impressions could be worked off with the ordinary rapidity of the steam-press the finest and rarest engravings maybe reprinted ad infinitum : banknotes may be reproduced iu facsimile without the slight est point of difference ; and last though not least books may bo reprinted as from stero types in unlimited quantity indeed the vari ous mechanical and oilier interests affected by this remarkable discovery have not yet been half enumerated — nat intelligencer death of the oldest preacher in scot land — the rev thomas jolly minister of dunnet in the county of caithness died in the manse there on monday the 2nd ult at the patriarchal age of ninety-one mr jolly was the oldest preacher in scot land having been upwards of sixty-five years at dunnet he retained his facul ties to the last and preached regularly till within a few weeks of his death with all the vigor and clearness of his early youth when the disruption of the church of scot land took place the venerable minister addressed a letter to dr chalmers on the subject which was acknowledged to be one of the ablest of the vast mass of let ters and statements which that unfortu , nate secession called forth thin shoes and consumption — notic ing an article with this title the bridge ton n y chronicle says — " let parents look well to this matter ; let them see that their daughters wear good thick shoes and stockings during cold and damp weather let them compare their own thick boots with the low thin shoes of their daugh ' ters and they will more fully realize the insufficiency ofthe latter and let the la dies not suppose that a sensible man is l more pleased with a pale and feeble wo man than with one blooming with health vigor and beauty — with a small foot than a good judgment for the one who is over anxious about tbe former must certainly have an insufficiency ofthe latter hemp — casting our eyes along the ex port columns of the new orleans bulle ; tin we notice the cargoes of two ships for havre and one for hull england all sailing in one day were composed in part of hemp an article which once seemed as much of necessity the produce of russia ; alone as guano is of some of the small islands of the pacific american hemp now begins to vie in quality and very near ; ly in price with that of russia settle up — the editor of a country pa j per says he wishes it distinctly understood that he will receive wheat buck-wheat pancakes corn oats sugar bacon lard almanacks hoes tallow sherman's loz enges boots little shoes and stockings tur nips rakes wood and indeed all other kinds of produce except promises in pay ment for his paper niagara falls — a correspondent of the cincinnati gazette furnishes the following an ecdote which occurred in naples : " vesuvius had been belching forth its flame and smoke all day making the mountain trem ble under the fierce blows of its terrific engine and as night approached began to light up the heavens with its lurid glow when a neapoli tan accosting an american traveller exclaim ed well have you any thing like tha in america no replied the yankee but we have a mill-dam thai would yut it out in jive minutes " marriage — a bachelor in search of a wife can have needful assistance rendered him in paris if we may judge from the tenor of the following advertisement in a paris paper : " persons desiring to marry can with perfect confidence address themselves to madame de st marc her relations with high society put . her in the way of giving information concerning widows and young ladies having dowries and fortunes up to two millions ancient house st marc under patent from the government the clergyman and skeptic — if we are to live after death why don't we have some certain knowledge of it ?" said a skeptic to a clergyman *• why didn't you have some knowledge of this world be fore you came into it ?" was the caustic ' reply , and dumb asylum we would invite public attention to the i advertisement of mr cooke contained in ! this paper announcing that an institution 1 for the instruction ofthe deaf and dumb will speedilv go into operation in this city at the recent session of our legislature an act was passed appropriating five thousand dollars a year from the school : fund for the education of the deaf and ' dumb and blind the president and di i rectors of the literary fund to whose dis cretion the appropriation was committed have engaged the services of mr william d cooke a gentleman every way quali fied for the task and whose testimonials ; are of tbe very highest order to snperin , tend the instruction of the deaf mutes no arrangement has yet been made we believe for the education of the blind and it may perhaps prove most advanta • eous for the present at least to send j them out of the state to be instructed — all that now remains then to carry the beneficent and praiseworthy intentions of ! our legislature into full effect is that the ; friends of the enterprize and of the unfor ; tunatc class of our fellow beings for whose i benefit it has been devised should exert ! themselves to procure pupils and induce i them to avail themselves of the opportu nities now placed within their reach raleigh register the consul at galveston — the xew orleans | picayune of the 23d gives the following conso ; lation with regard to the startling mailer of withdrawal of the acknowledgment of our no ; torious consul at galveston by the president of . texas ; " it is consoling to know that the repeal of gen duff green's recognition as d s consul at galveston will not prove prejudicial to ame ; rican commerce in that port as to the best of , our knowledge and belietj he has not deigned i to transact any business connected with liis ap ! poiutment whilst he employed his time in supervising the legislation of texas and dis charging the duties ot volunteer cabinet to pre sident jones the interests of our commerce had to take care of themselves ; since the recall of | his exequatur therefore matters are in statu : quo " we regard the difficulty that gen green has brought upon himself as extremely unfor tunate at this juncture the whole affair and ■ especially his publications in explanation have ' a most awkward appearance and wiil furnish food for cavil as well as give a color of justifi ; cation to such governments as desire to tamper i with texas to the prejudice of our interests in j lhat quarter there is something very green j in the whole proceeding morse's telegraphic alphabet — the , telegraphic alphabet represents each let ter ofthe english alphabet with the nu merals by which any amount of writing correspondence may be conducted in all . the details of letters and words of the com . mon mode of correspondence or writing alpjiahet numerals b — . . . 2 . .— .. c i . . . 1 . . . — • d — .. 4 — e . 5 f . — . 6 ii * 8 — ..." '. i .. 0 — ..— i ___£' °'~~ "' m n — . o .. p .... q . . — . r ... 5 ... t — u . . . — v . . . — w . x . — . . y z 6 note — the telegraph register strikes three copies of each character as below by means of three points by which the possi bility of a failure in any of the characters is avoided which might occur if a single point only was used alfred veil ass't sup't of u s telegraph texas — ho — the following preamble and resolutions are respectfully submitted to congress whilst engaged on the subject of annexation " whereas a goodly number of former citizens and mostly good democrats too — have at sundry times and from sundry places " left their country for their coun try's good and gone to texas desiring there to live where none of the inconven iences of law should interrupt or molest their quiet — may be again constrained to remove in the event of annexation — are entitled to consideration therefore resolved that in annexing texas to the union — the law of the united states shall not extend to the punishment of crime which may have been committed anterior to annexation by persons found wil bin said territory resolved that the territory of texas if annexed shall be separated into three slates — one to be called free labor slate — one slave labor slate and the third abscon ders slate — and the latter state be allow ed the full enjoyment of the privileges and immunities stated in the first resolution g t t a widow once said to her daughter " when you are of my age you will be dreaming of a husband yes mama replied the thought less girl " for a second time __ i love — " what is love clara ?" said bill the | other night as he sat by the side of his sweet heart ; " love ! bill i hardly know what it is ; j but suppose it must be getting married and kiss j ing little babies bill fainted > spain alas for spain from what ' a towering height has her people fallen ! — consider spain as she presented herself to the eyes of the world under charles the fifth spain was then acknowledged to be the foremost power among europe an nations with the peninsular milan and the baleric islands in europe : with mexico chili peru and her insular pos sessions of cuba and puerto rico in ame rica and with manilla and its dependen cies in oceanica ; her territories present ed a surface of no less lhan 68,000,000 square miles or land enough to constitute nearly one hundred and sixty states with territory as large as tbe average of that of the states of this union this moment out of all those magnificent possessions on which the sun never set sbe can count as her own only that part of the peninsu la which included is in spain and the three or four islands in the sou'h sea and the carribean honeing razors — we notice that soap and water has been highly recommended in place of oil to be used upon hones in setting razors and other steel instruments it is some years back that the trials of it were first made in england but from the certificates given of its superior cleanli ness and efficiency it would seem desira ble that it should be generally adopted _■_-_-_-___—— ■ , j ha ha — tisn't often i et to show __? my face to so large a part of the world ; but in the course of affairs between the printer &- paper maker this exalted privilege has come to me old men and women will lay off iheir spectacles at the sight of me and we'll take an ardent gaze at each other such as begets love among young folks they'll have no hard thoughts against me i'm sure unless ihey chance to be mat ri agble old uns and then i'll " ketch it quick for gentle reader it's a remark able fact that those " ancients " have op tics keen : it is said they can see cambric needles a great way off and read diamond print by the light of the glow-worm to them and to politi cians i have an apol ogy to make for my appearance in this week's c watchman to wit : the editors failed to receive their regular supply of pa per until late in the week and were con sequently hindered a day and a half in their business : to make up for a part of this time they have con ferred upon me the honor of a place in their columns i am most respectfully great primer salisbury \. c february 1 u we are authorised to announce jami \ as a candidate for ibe county court ('..-... \ c^^^yc return our thanks to 4 tl e ]\ jrl ip m amum w b haywood of : land 1 m bari.ixgi and t i ( v>f the house for sundry public doc weather kc last week we had weather aim . enough to freeze up every thing j fa the time of oor writing wed . mild as a may day yesterday was j > ami as we pass along ihose streets ford a view of lhe gardens the lad - be seen busily engaged in planting onions sowing lettuce mustard beet rage seed and arranging flowers 1 perceived the change and always pi taking time by the forelock or - march on ..... winter while she slecj .. the little birds also those sweet harl<i:i spring are behaving themselves just mt nesting-time had really arrived it n if " captain jack " should not arous repose an 1 re-assume his reign — li - compared with former times its tru ing down the sofi approach of •• geatli _ and from the chamber of tho north > his " riitiin blasts to ravage earth : he prove thus imgaliant and stay his ten days longer many a tender plant ish ami man a beauteous precious eg died anti-rent convention from die inibnnation received relative t ings : t tenants on iln ren-beted i york we supp -•! the whole mattei appears we were mistaken an anti-ri was held on the i5di ultimo in which >•• - eleven counties and a large number of ass the conventi in wi of schofa ii ie resolutions hi rensselaer and columbia b . ing their determination to adhere to : ; . and candidates were adopt i tbe ■ s hn ! to petition the legislature '. a committee to wee i in as • on tbe .*>:.': instant and remain in au leg s_atun i vlf adjutant general of the s to the captain of die albany burgess - his company in readiness at a momenta wai mors of a large assemblage of anti-renters lation but it is probable noaii trailed the albany advertiser says that onw sistance wus made to constable ' th scr.i e of a ! ench warrant ii ted leader of the anti-rent r . i we by six men armed and disguised a indians a p ison as chief under the cognomen i :. but whose real name is kale — who threat :>. the officer if be attempted to take !.<•, quence of his resistance the pn ■ - but our informant states that constabli ' - - in capturing red jacket and s .■ jail at troy • i thursday last anti-tux as cl invention a state conventi ti of the people i i m numbering about one thousand i anm xation i texas was held in b - day and thursday ihe 29th and 30th ,,| j among tbe delegates present were boi talented and respected citizens of thi with whom were intermixed howevei - litionists the mos - was william lloyd garrison who into tion to the effect that if texas should i i nion must be dissolved thia im ■ ■: s-'iliti,,n so prominent iu tiie resolution and offered it was calmly and tern hon linus child a tor from w moved that it be laid on the table whii b was many of the speeches made during :! -' s;id to have been very eloquent the address issued by the convi nti is a dignified and able paper bave moles got eyes ' we notice in the m no of seats 1 i very pretty story concerning moles * panied with a beautiful engraving oftl representing them as other respect is good bul tbe ry part we admit of criticism tin eye is represented lar and is fringed with rye-lather i ■ 1 with the mole the picture w mid -• hut there is certainly an error in give it an observations on this subject an i th ir friends compel us to the o in hurr nn eyes p s since writing the above a friend shown us a mole which he caught wbil across the side-walk of one of our beck mi subjecting t :•> a very close examine - have got eyes but they ar - - well off to have none the picl ire refi b ive ;• iragraph is undoubted in there is no externa appearance of i - hundn i would detect unless very j ... amination white mice grinde1 a french < ymbal i r i i ■ - town ihis » up here ai thrown to him by the a imirers of ! - rious about him or his instrum very peculiar ; but he had a ; ii mice — something new is these parts to be ot french extraction and we ai gain say it indeed they seemed a if ior they were very polite and genteel tails were ju-t iike the tails of common mi they were white texas ix the senate we still hope says the xeic york trxmtnt adderame assurance that the annexation pr has pesaed the boose cannot !»• got thn our latest count of the members ol that • them thus : for annexation — messrs woodbury dk dianan sturgeon rives haywood mcdun colquitt lewis bagby henderson w hannegao sett-pie brcecc atchesoa serier 20 against annexation messrs evans ' ho francis simmons hentingtea ph-fee i r ... miller clayton bayard menick peeree.arcbet guin berrien crittenden moreheed tv white porter woodbridm — w