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 LONGEVITY N GnoReIA.-T TheSoath- ern Banner, printed at Athens, Geor- gia, states the rccentsdeath of Capt. T.. Cobb, of Columbia county. He was born ln Cumberland county, ' irgini;a, in l the year 7 i92, and s.w;is consequently in the one hundred and twenty or tvcn- ty-iirst year of his age at the time of his ldeath.7 He bore a commission of Cap tain of lnfaHtfy, in the Virginia De Itachment, that marched under Wash- fingtonaganst the forts Of the INenavha. Now, VIC beg the reader to mark the following facts: 'sIn the year l193, he removed to Georgia, and had resided from that time 10 the day of his death, in Columbia co. Naturally of an at,- parently weak constitution, afflicted with the asthma, and given up, to a considerable degree, to habits of dissi- patton, great age was not 10 have been expected. At the age, however, of 50 or 60, he chapged dHhis habifs; and his system, reiapigorated blythe 1eguldr eoausd 9 pursued bg hiai, qflersearas enabzca him to bear 7pithincreasfstg gfeass ils ( ea,as, ner t'oot aeas n truth sar7risipg. At the 1age of 80, and upwards, he several times rode from Georgia 10 Virginia performing journeys daily of 40 and 4a miles. When lo0 years of age, he was repeatedly known 10 visit his relatives at a distance of 10miles, going over tha1 distancelp lp a day; and, only four years baclz ,, r,,l 7, 3r A ,,rrs.e4 F., .t,,. h., .ll miles, The late JudgcT. Cobb (for merly Senator of the United States was his grandson, Ono of Captain c, children reached the age of So or 90. l The Athenian Banner states othel 1 proofs of the good old age to which otil CTS attain in Georgia. Itmcntions thai q few years ago, in a smaii compass not ! 100 miles apart, there were living ii Georgia six individuals, the youngest 7of whom was 100 years of age. One Iby tho natae of Warren, died four years ago, in BulIochcounty, aged I2f years, another, in l.aurens county, aged 100 by the name Of Robinson, born ontho Salt Ketchers, in South Carolina; an. lothcr, in the same county, who had been a soldiero of Washington's at Braddocls's defeat, then a man of middle age, by name Allen; another in Emanuel, by name Bedgeed, a Nirginian by biifttll, from the vicinity of Richmond, who di- ed in 1927 ors, aged He, another iii Richmond county, by name Mcintyre. l.died at the age of Iio; and lastly I('ay,t. Cobb. who died in Columbia co Erecently, at the extreme age of over one hundred and twenty years.

 Richmond Compiler.

 Tnn PoLns.-The New York Ame riean, speaking of the number of Polisi 5 cxiles in that city, says:

 [ sMany of them, af.er pledging tn ; few yalnables with which they escaped E from their country, have finally becl ] compelled tohaye erecoursetot their scan 0 ty wardrobes, and pawned their yer

 