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CHRONICLE & SENTINEL BY WILLIAM S. JONES. erriCK IN RAIL ROAD BANK BUILDING. •AIM) TRI-WEEKLY fc WEEKLY. VKKM9—Daily Paper, to city subscribers, per annum, in advance - 96 Daily Paper, mailed to the country 7 Tri-Weekly Paper, “ “ “ “ •• 4 Weekly (a mammoth sheet) “ “ •• 2 CASH SYSTEM.—In no case will an order for the paper be attended to, (unless aceornpanied with the money, and in every instance when the time for whieb the subscription may be paid, expires before the receiot of funds to renew the same, .the paper trill be discontinued. Depreciated J funds]received it I ralue in this city. 1 1 nrrmraiirr> t ii nnr*Tff [ r nr"~ l ~ i iiiCr'TkFfa^> j r nrtrfSMr-rgiiTM Ecligious. THE GREAT TRUTH AND ITS EVI DENCES. A SERMON, By Rev. Chanaeey Richardson, A. M., of e Texas Conference. —President of Ruthers• ville College. Without controversy great is (he mystery of God liness ; God was manifest in the flesh, justified in thp spiiit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gen tiles, believed *on in the world, received up into glory.—l Tim. hi. 16. St. Paul, in this eloquent passage, an nounces the most interesting, sublime and stu pendous truth ever published to the world— ▼i* : That “ God was manifest in the flesh.” This truth constitutes the absorbing theme of Divine revelation to man—it is the vast hinge upon which the moral government of the uni verse turns —it is to the moral system, every thing that ihe sun is to the solar system, the center around which all pure and generous affections in all created beings revolve—the sourse of light and life to a benighted and dy ing world, attracting to itself every eye and every holy emotion in the universe. The eyes of all Saints in all ages and in all lands have been gladdened by its light ; while their hearts have been cheered and warmed by its life-giving influence. It is the truth on which angel and arch-angel have from its ear liest foreshadowings been continually fixing their regards, and which in this manifestation in the fulness of time inspired among their celestial ranks anthems of bursting praise. It will be the grand source of joy and felicity to all the redeemed and glorified spirits, and the prominent object of their contemplation, admiration and praise to all eternity ; being the embodiment of the august plan'of human redemption. This is the truth of which the Church is the pillar and the ground of which every brti"chof the Gospel Church is a mon umental pillar, bearing the imperishable in scription, “ God was manifest in the flesh.” This truth the Apostle declares to be without eentroversy a great mystery. It is therefore worthy of our most serious and mature con sideration. I. In the Mystert or its Principles. 11. In the Amplitude of its Evidences. I. In the Mystery of its Principles. The declaration, “ God was manifest in the flesh,” is eminently descriptive of Jesus Christ, and is by universal consent applied to Him. It in volves, 1. His Divinity. He is God. I am aware that an effort has been made to impugn the authority of this inspired declaration, but it has proved a failure. There are several manuscripts, which read “ who was manifest in the flesh ” —instead of “ God was manifest in the flesh ” —and one that reads “ instead of “ God ” Os the iaskings in those manuscripts, ilet it bo jobser j J.vthat the first, - “who was rabnifest.’/if uikiaiical; the' relative • who ” has. no antecedent;- the word “godliness” is in the original, of the feminine gender ; and the Greek for mystery, is of the neuter gender ; whereas the relative “who” is of the masculine gender; so that it cannot agree with either ; therefore it can have no antecedent. This most palpable absurdity destroys the authority of “ who.” If we read “ which ” instead of “ God,” its antece dent must be, the mystery; for it cannot agree in gender with “ godliness ” The sense of the latter clause of the verse would then be, the “ mystery.” which was received up into flory. This reading makes the Apostle utter most ridiculous nonsense ; and is consequent ly inadmissible. There is a vast preponder ance of evidence in favor of our English translation of this passage. An immense ma jority of manuscripts and versions confirm its accuracy. The passage, then, stands in its full force in proof of the divinity of Jesus Christ. And if there be ons doctrine of the Gospel of greater importrnce than another, it is that of the divinity of Jesus Christ. For that is the chief corner stone of the foundation laid by the Prophets and Apostles, on which towers in fair proportions, in moral beauty and grandeur, the house of God, the church of the living God -.—that is the tree of life in the Christian Paradise, whose leaves are for the healing of the nations :—that is the glorious sun that illumes and beautifies the Gospel fir mament ;—that is the key atone to the magnifi cent arch of revealed truth; take it awey and the arch tumbles into ruin. It is not, however, expedient in this discourse to intro duce the full series of demonstrations ofthe truth of this essential doctrine of the Gospel, of which it is susceptible. I shall, therefore, content myself with a single demonstration predicated upon the divine title “ God,” by which he is designated in the text. Christ is re peatedly called God. St. John says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Wo d was God.” The lip of inspiration pronounced his name to be, “ Emmanuel, which being interpreted is God , with ns ; ” or more literally, “ The strong God with us.” No other than God himself , dwelling with us in human flesh. The , Apostle Thomas, therefore, might well exclaim . to him, “My Lord and my God.” And this \ exclamation was the spontaneous language of i conviction. St Paul represents the Father as , sayrng to the Lord Jesus—“ Thy throne, O t G..d, is for ever and ever.” St. Paul speaks , of “ The doctrine of God our Saviour ; ” He whom ha declares to be “ Jesus Christ our Saviour;” using also the phrase “ The kind- { ness of God our Saviour.” These clear and forcible citations present irrofragible proofs that Jesus Christ was truly and properly the , Supreme God. liul to make the demonstration of Christ’s \ divinity complete and above all cavilling, the t pen of inspiration has called Jesus God in ( connection with epithets, ihat confine its mean- | mg to one Supreme and Eternal God. Ho is f styled the true, the great, the only wise, the j roiffhty, the supreme and ever blessed God. ( He is called the true God. St. John de- j dare?, “ And we know that the Son of God | is coma, and hath given us an understanding j that we may know the true one, and we are in | one, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.” Here the pronoun “this” (meaning this persor \ has Jesus Christ for its immediate anteced dJ ft as must ue obvious to every persen. / eBU « Christ, therefore, is called the true God. He is denominated the Great God. di nn |, a »-*SLP«". -for ,h« bi „ Md «nd the glorious appearing of lh „ J ond our oo.iour i. r Cbri.. * *^£3 ° a ' Saviour Jesus - A. G?e*: t J Go U !!-• , from several eV,dent 1 tn res 1S «« appearing* to I Script r Ihe To~ ‘J* ' w *>rld Thi« n«oo a Savtoor of the c -.Jto^}ofef“'r G 'o3” d j - d * e ■■ i He i« styled the only win® God. Says St. b Jade, “ Now unto him that is able to keep < you from falling, and to present you faultless c before the presence of his glory with exceed- £ ingjoy, to the only wise God our Saviour, be t glory and majesty, dominion and power, both ' now and ever.” 1 Christ is designated the Mighty God. The i evangelical prophet Isaiah predicting the com- I ing of the Messiah, says, “ His name shall be i called the Mighty God.” i He is denominated the supreme and ever blessed God. “ Whose are the fathers, and of < whom as concerning the flesh, Christ came I who is over all; God blessed for ever ; ” or ' more literally, “Who is God over all blessed ' for ever.” No criticism or argument can < evade the force of this inspired declaration,— ] Christ is God—He is God over all—He is God I blessed for ever. These several passages of i the living Oracles teach the divinity of Christ with the clearness of a sun-beam. For if they call him God—the true, the great, the only wise, the supreme and ever-hlessed God, then he must be very and eternal God, “ The everlasting Father.” It followsthnn, that Jesus Christ was “ God manifest in the flesh.” This declaration involves 2. His Humanity. He is God manifest in | the flesh. The doctrine of the proper humanity of Christ was denied by Marcion, Valen tinus, Apelles, and many ancient heretics. But that Christ had a real human body, and not a mere human shape, is amply sustained by both the Old and the New Testament. Isaiah says, “ Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign : Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” Also in reference to the same glorious person age he proclaims, “ For unto us a child is horn, unto us a son is given ; and the government shall be upon his shoulders, and bis name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, and Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.” Again the same Prophet declares, “There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. Be hold. the days come, saiih the Lord, that I will raise unto -David a righteous branch, —and this is bis name whereby be shall bs call ed, The Lord onr Righteousness.” Zachariah declares, “Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying: Behold the man whose name is The Branch; and he shall grow np out of bis place, and he shall build the Temple of the Lord: Even he shall build the Temple of the Lord ; and he shall bear the glory.” Now it is undeniably evident that all the e passages, also numerous others of a like char acter, refer expressly to Israel’s promised Mes siah ; and it is equally manifest that they in volve the true humanity of that Messiah. In deed, the language of the prophets is too ex plicit to admit of any other interpretation. Far indirect reference to the glorious Messiah, whose divinity is so clearly proclaimed by his exalted titles, they call him “the child born— the son given—the rod coming forth out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch growing up out of his roots the man whose name is the branch, growing up out of his place.” The Evangelist John affirms “ That the Word,” who was in the be ginning with God, and was God, “was made flesh and dwelt among us. Says St Paul, “Who, being-in the form of God thought it not robbery to be eqnal with God ; But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him tha form of a servant, and was made in tkh likeness of man, and being found in fashion as a man, ho humbled himself.” For as much _aa the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part ofthe same. “Concerning his son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David ac cording to. the flesh, and declared to be the son of God’ with power according to the Spirit of holiness.” The inspired penmen represent Jusus Christ as eating, drinking, seeping, walking, work ing, and as being wea?ty—as groaning, bleed-, ing and dying upon the cross. Perfect man hood, therefore, embracing body and soufl was assumed by the Eternal Word. Hence we are told, that our “ Lord grew in wisdom as well as in stature —that his soul should be made an offering for sin—should be poured out un to death—that he should see of the travail of his soul, and should be satisfied ; and hence his capability of that sore amazement and sor row unto death, and numerous other acts of grieving, feeling, rejoicing, desiring, willing and loving ascribed to him by the sacred writers, Therefore, when we read that God was manifest in the flesh—that the Word was made flesh—partook of flesh and blood—came in the flesh—had a body prepared for Him, we must remember that the whole human nature is in tended. It follows thenwith the clearness of noon-day that Jesus Christ is very man as well as very God. Another principle of the truth involved is, 3. The union of true divinity and perfect hu manity in L-hrist Jesus, He is emphatically “ God manifest in the flesh.” The Divinity being an object entirely above the grasp of the human miad, a full comprehension of the mode ofits union with flesh cannot be expect ed. For who can launch out into the unfath omable deep of his perfections, or travel across the unlimited spreadings of his life-time, er Walk the circle of his dwelling place ? Who does not feel his highest energies quail before the immensity and Magnificence of Divinity ? It is sufficient, however, for all practical pur poses to maintain the general .ruih ofthe Union o r the Godhead with the manhood, against its numerous enemies, who have sought by all the arts of subtlety and sophistry to overthrow I it. “We must not,” says a learned author, j “ with Arius, deny the Saviour to be truly God, because he became man ; nor assert with Apoilinaris, that he was not really man because he was aiso God. We must not with Nestorius. rend Christ asunder, and di vide him into two persons ; nor after the ex ample of Eutycbes, confound in hi- person those natures which could be distinguished. 1 These were the four capital errors, which, in I the earlier ages, harrassed and distracted the Christian Church on the point of the incarna tion ; and in opposition to which, the fo most ancient councils of Nice, Constantino Ephesus, and Chalcedou, werlfSjHled. V *’ ever was by them decreed, either in S tion of chiristian belief, or refutation o ■J* c * ara * may all be combined in four wo Jf » perfectly, iudiviaibly, distinctly;- , -j’ perfectly man, indivisibly one pe God, two natures. distinctly Within the compass of w’ • . , affirm that all the heresies v 1 tru,y son of Jesus Christ, (wlu i ,. tOU ? h Per in the la ter days, or in * her the £ have risen may, with great facility W age heretofore,) themselves.” St. Pr . brought to confine carnation, says, “F A’, 1 , 0 speaking of tbe in itio nature ofar ,J r . TsI ,y u hel0 ° k “°* h,ra seed of Abrahp he . 100k 11 on him the keth not hold _*?’ ° r . moro ' I tera ,| y-“He ta the seed of hut. ha taketh hold of lake to i j Abraham.” Christ did not under take n * angels, consequently he did not race -P on “ ini theirnature. It was the human whom he undertook to redeem and save, . jnce he look upon him man’s nature —came in the line of Abraham’s posterity, according to the ancient promise made him. He took, or assumed, the manhoodinio union with the God head. As the reasonable so ui and flesh consti tute one man, bo God and o lan constitute one Christ. The soul is not turned into, nor com pound with the body, yet th eytwo, though dis tinct in nature, form one mi in. Neither is the divinity turned into a comj »ound with the hu manity, yet they two, thougl 1 distinct in nature, form one Christ In reaper t both to man and Christ, the natures are pres* trved without con fusion, the person is entir* : without division. The doctrine of the union of divine and hu man natures in the persoi 1 of Christ, most beautifully and forcibly harn ionises two great classes of inspired description s of Jesus Christ; one class teaching his diviui ty, the other his humanity. The Scriptures describe him ar rayed in all the attributes of -divinity, and yet iieing raised to a kingdom and glory-—reigning on a throne, and yet being anointed with the a oil of gladness above his fellows—to be God, e and yet by a human birth to be God with us— s ' to be supreme, and yet a servant —to be equal 81 with the Father, and yet subordinate to the j! Father—to be greater than the angels, and yet ' made lower than the angels—to be the Crea- a ; tor of all things, and yet manifest in the flesh— n raising himself from the dead, and yet being raised by the God of peace. Now these very different and apparently t contradictory statements respecting Christ per . fectiy harmonise with the great truth that, He was God manifest in the flesh; but they are 1 wholly unintelligible and utterly irreconcilable c on aay theory, which denies to him a real and t personal divinity on the one hand, or a real humanity on the other. 1 Chronicle ano Sentinel* 1 AUGUSTA, Gr A • 1 * SUNDAY MORNING , OCTOBER 6. 1 - - -■ -■ , - i MESSRS. STEPHENS & TOOMBS. We are requested to state that these gentle men will Address the Citizens of Richmond county, at the City Hall, in Augusta, na MONDAY next, at 3 o’clock, P. M. The Rev. Ireson L, Brooks, of Soutttl Carolina. The communication of this gentleman w»a_ , sent in several days since, and would have ap peared at the time, hut for a severe indisposi tion uuder which we were laboring at the time, and which prevented our accompanying it with the necessary remarks. The Rev. gentleman sets out by staling that we “presented him to the readers of the Chronicle if Sentinel in rather an unfavorable light.” To this wa reply: we presented him to oar readers as ha presented himself to the meeting in Appling ; we desired “ nothing to extenuate, or set clown aught in malice;” and upon a calm review of the matter, after read ing his letter, we cannot take back anything we then said. He says that, by italicising our remarks in reference to how he came to be present at the meeting, we “ insinuated that his representation was insincere.” Most assuredly we did. It was not, however, at the sugges tion of Mr. Shockley, who introduced him to the meeting, but from his own remarks, wa learned that he was there by accident. Mr. Shockley spoke very low, and we were at some distance from the stand at the moment, and consequently did not hear distinctly what he said. Mr. Brooks, however, left us in no doubt as to how he happened there,. and we venture to assert that nineteen-twentieths of the people there, who heard hia remarks, were under the impression that the gentleman had never heard of the meeting before he reached the village. Such was the very frank and ap parently candid manner in which he made his statement. Wo doubted his statement, for we believed that the Rev. gentlemen had made it convenient to be present on that particular day, because it was the day of the meeting; and his own admission in fals communication' proves that wo were correct in our suppo a j. tion. For he says that he “did select that ktime to go up on my o«her busimSJT*" r The Rev. gentleman was at 3ee«t fcuilty of suppressing a part of the truth, an d we com mend to hia consideration Pharaoh/„ ra buke to Abraham for a simitar offence, j n Genesis xii. 18 and 19. Agaia, he says, “ you tell jrour readers, with apparent emphasis, that I ad vocated the disso lutionof the Union. I supp use you concluded that this sentiment, together with my being from South Carolina, would render me quite odious to such of your subscribers (if there any) as are submissionists.” Submissionists.' Submissionists ! If by submissionisls he mean* i a people who are advocates of law and onfor, who will submit to and abide by the consti tuted laws of the land, then the great mass of i the subscribers to the Chronicle if Sentinel may be called submissionists ; for w e believe that they are essentially a law-abiding people, and ! opposed to mobocracy. But. if by the asser tion, the Rev. gentleman means that as a class ofpeople, they would submit to anything that was clearly wv Qa g and unconstitutional, the insinuation « utterly unfounded, and be asserts that ah, w hich he knows nothing. But how the knowledge of the fact, that he | was from South Carolina, was to brieg odium , on iiim, we are at a loss to divine—unless it is I the fact that a majority of the people of that State have heretofore rendered themselves ri diculous, not to say odious, in their gasconade about the questions that have agitated the South. If so, we are glad the scales have falleu from the eyes of one ofher citizens, and ho# an see how the citizens of other contiguotlft'States look upon him. He complains that we did not report his sen time-jts on disunion correctly. We stated that advocated a dissolution of the Union as a remedy for the ills and evils that we labored under. We cannot be mistaken in this; and to be sure of the fact, we have submitted our re marks to several friends who heard him, and they all agree that we reported him correctly. One word in relatim to the California ques tion, about which he thinks he confounded Gov. Crawford, and "thepeople laughed" at it. Want of perception is sometimes a source of happi ness, and this is one of the instances; for we venture lo say that Mr. Brooks was the only man present that did not know that the people were laughing at his ignorance of the subject on which lie was pretendiugjto enlight en others—nay, there was scarcely a reader of the Chronicle if Sentinel present, but who could have informed him precisely what Gov. Craw ford did, namely that he only carried out tbs view? and orders of Mr. Polk’s administration in reference to California. But for fear that the Rev. gentleman may never see the docu ments, we will give him a few extracts from hem. And first, from President Taylor’s mes sage to the House on the 24th January, 1850 : “On coming into office, I found the military com mandant of (die department of California exercising the functions of civil governor in that Territory ; and left, as 1 was, to act under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, without the aid of any legislative provision establishing a government in that Territory, 1 thought it best not to disturb that arrangement, made underlay predecessor, until should take some action on that subject. I therefore did not in terfere with the powers of the military commandant, who continued to exercise the functions of civil go vernor as before; but I made no such appointment, eonferr 1 no such authority, and have allowed no increased compensation to the commandant for his services. “ With a view lo the faithful execution of the treaty, so fitr as lay in the power of the Executive, | ind to enable Congress to act, at the present session, 1 with as full knowledge and as little difficulty as pos sible, on all matters sf interest in these Territories I T tent the honorable Thomas Butler King as cearer’ of m Jespatches to California, and certain oflfcers to Cali - fornia and New Mexico, whose duties are particular- “ ly defined in the accompanying letters of instruction si addressed to them severally by the proper depart- t* m.'.nU.” 11 w Can anything be plainer than this 1 but to ei make the matter plainer, if possible, and show t( that Mr. King had no hand in it, (and, by the 0 way, Mr. King has positively denied that he 0 did, over his own signature) we'give an ex- e tract from Gen. Pxrsifer F. Smith’s letter r , to the Secretary of War, dated, San Francisco, [ June 20,1849, which settles the question en lively: h “ Under the hope that some act of the last Con- i] gress had provided, or at least defi .ed, the govern- ■ memos California, it was thought prudent to await ll -intelligence of the close of the session; and then, if n nothing had been done at Washington, to put in ac- h tion the macfßnery of the laws already existing here, and at the same time propc-e to the peeple of Cali- v fornia to form a State constitution and present it at the C next session ot Congress, when their admissien into the Union as a State would at once solve so many dif fixities, and, while it removed a cause of disagree iSfH? at hom* would give them an opportunity of ll le,twisting for themselves. r “The steamer Edith has been sent to Mazatlan 11 and, on her arrival a revenue law ‘Title election of the o®?ero under the existing laws, and recommending ttmhe same time, the election of delegates *oa con- s vent ion to form a State constitution. Mr. King ar- 1 rived at the time these proclamations were about be- 1 iug i. -ued; and it was matt *of great congratulation ! that the government, by anticipation, approved of the * latter measure. Every means will be used to give ; the people of California an opportunity of oxpressing 1 their wishes on this point, and of bringing the matter to a happy conclusion.” rrj t With tbeae extracts we dismiss the subject, and 1 the Reverend gentleman—at a loss which to ( commisaerate moat, his want of perception or i his excessive vanity ; for we have rarely, if ever, seen a man on belter terras with himself; and, if we mistake not, he has presented him- 1 self to our readers in a more unfavorable light , than we did. But of that they are the best 1 judges, and to them we submit the matter. Qovi Quitman’s Proclamation. As a part of the history of the times, we pub lish the proclamation of Gov. Quitman, con voking the Legislature of Mississippi in extra ordinary session, to take into consideration what action the State will adopt in reference to the late action of Congress on the territorial and slavery questions. We opine the Legis lature of that State was elected with reference to no such contingency, and their action upon the subject will have little influence in or out of the State. The L.ord in his Wisdom permits much foolishness about these times. Proclamation. ■r John Anthony quitman, governor of the STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. r h>ereas. The people of Mississippi have re peatedly, in public meetings, in popular con- T ®’ation», and by Legislative resolves, claimed f .nd asserted their equality of right with the other States of this Union, in and to the free use and enjoyment of the territory belonging in common to these United States; and have frequently and publicly declared their fixed at all hazards, lo maintain these : rigb*!, so ssafentisl to theiiv freedom and equal- < «*y- - Andtehereas, By recent acts of Congress the people of M issiasippi, in common with the citizens of all the slaveholding States, have been virtually excluded from their just rights •a the greater portion, if not all, of the vast and rich territories acquired from Mexico ia i the late war; and thus, by unjust and insult icg discriminations, the advantages and bene fits of the Federal Union, have been denied to them. And iohtreas, The abolition, by Congress, of The slave trade in the District of Columbia, v’rtd other acta of the Federal Government,done and threatened, leave no reasonable hope that the aggressions upon the rights of the people of the slavehelding States will cease, until, by direct or indirect means, their domestic insti tutions are overthrown: Now, therefore, that the proper authorities of the State may be en • abled to take into consideration the alarming state of our public affairs, and, if possible, j avertthe evils which impend over us ; that the i State may be placed in an attitude to assert her overeignty, and that tho means may be pt'wided to meet any and every emergency wnicb may happen: -I, John A. Quitman. Governor of the Slate of Mississippi, exercising the powers in ms wwted by tbe Constitution, do hereby convene the Legislature nf this S;ale, and do appoint Monday, the eighteenth day of November next, for the meeting of both Houses at the Capitol in Jackson, tne seat of government of this State. Ir testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of the State to be affixed, at the city of Jackson, the 26th of September, A. i)., 1850, and of the sove reignly of Mississippi, the thirty-fourth. By the Governor: J A. Quitman. Jo. Bell, Secretary of State. “Another Failure.” The “Maes Meeting at Stone Mountain” was a most sad discomfiture to the disunion isie* -perhaps the most complete failure that has over cowned the efforts of any party in Geo gia, that attempted to get up a Mass Mealing- All the reports we have from there it ns overwhelming even to ihe most ultra. Aledleal College of Louisville, Kentucky. Ti e vacancies of Drs. Bartlet and Gross, in th.) Medical Department of the University of Louisville, have been filled by the election of Dr. Daniel Drake, to the Professorship of Theory and Practice of Medicine, and Dr. Paul F. Eve, to that of Surgery. The course ofLectures wilt commence on the first Monday (sth) of November. Exchange papers in the South and West, are respectfully requested to extend this notice, as it is now too late for an advertisement. Enlargement of the Capitol.— The Com mittee on Public Buildings of the U. Slates Senate,offer a premium ofssoo for the best plan 'or the extension of the Capitol at Wash* ingtort. It is required that the plans and es- - timates shall provide for the extension of the Capitol, either by additional wings, to be placed on the north and south of the present building, or by the erection of a separate and distinct bui Iding, within tho enclosure to the east of the building. The new steamship Florida, intended as a packet between New York and Savannah, made a trial trip from the former port on Mon day, and' her performances are said to have ( fully come up to the expectations of her own- j ere. I Mx. Webster and his Early Friends— ! Phe following correspondence, says tbe Balti □ore Patriot, has been furnished us by a riend at Washington. It will be read, we are I are, by all our readers, with great pleasure fi it ia a tribute to the patriotism of Mr. Webster, ti vhich he may well cherish among the proud- n 3st recollections of his life. He is the man, too, jj ;o cherish it. How grateful must these words r jfthanks and encouragement from the friends >] of his early life fall upon his ear f They but , echo the general sentiment of the country in t regard to bis great effort in the cause of the t Union,to which they particularly refer, but still £ they are the words of the friends of his boy- £ hood days, and they awaken associations which t it is always pleasant to remember. As such, , they bring with them a satisfaction which will ) more than compensate for any wrong he may j have suffered, for any censure which others j were disposed to visit upon him for what the ( country gave him praise. Salisbury, (N. H.,) August, 1850. i lo the Hon, Daniel Webster: —It has occurred , lo us, the undersigned, that white commendation ia reaching you from all quarters of our common coun try for your recent exertions in behalf of the Union a token of rememb: .nee and grati tude from the place of your birth, from tbe home of your youth, and the scenes of your earlier profession- would not be unacceptable. mmnot ailow this occasion to without as suring you of our unfaltering confidence and respect; without assuring you that your old neighbors and their descendants are as ready to perform their con stitutional duties as to vindicate their rights; that wa »re devoted to tho Union as it is ; that we adhere to the whole Constitution; and that while we trust in its protection, we will uphold its power. Your recent labors to remind a distracted people of the duties which they owe to a common country and the blessings which they derive from ,a common con stitution, are, in our judgment, as important as any which you have perfc med in a long public service, crowned as that service has baen with unsurpassed ability and success. To you, more than to any statesman of modern times, do tho people of this country owe their national feel ing, which we trust is to save their Union in this its hour of trial. We have carefully considered wha: you bare said end proposed; and, as wt understand the matter, you ore now uj on tho same ground as when, twenty years ago, you crushed nullification. Now, as then, in spite of local prejudices and fac tions, sound constitutional and national principles will prevail; and if tbe voice of general commendation is occasionally broken by impotent censure, It will not disturb you, because it must remind you that it is faction, and not the Union, which is overthrown. Respectfully, your friends and fellow-oitizone, Erknrzbr Price, m Enoch Corsbr, Abraham Burnham, Thos. Pettenoill, Nath, Bouton, Hszek’h Fellows, Edward Buxton, David Ames, and one hundred and twenty others. Mr, Webster 3 s Reply. Washington, September 21, 1850. Gentlemen : I have received your letter of lest month, expressing your approbation of my public po litical conduct, and especially of my efforts in Con gress to settle questions which have long agitated the country and disturbed its peace. Happily, gentlemen, those questions are now, I trust, disposed of, and better prospects open upon the country. Tho thirty-one American States stretch over a v*st extent of country, running through several degrees of latitude and longitude, and embracing many varie ties of soil, siimate, institutions, habits, and pursuits ; yet over all the Union and tho Constitution still stand, every where giving protection and security, and every where cherished at tbe present moment, with general and warm patriotic regard. The interests of the dif ferent parts of the country, though various, are not opposite; flowing, indeed, in diverse channels, hut all contributing to'swell the great tide of national I prosperity. Undef the operation of the Constitution, we ha’ve now beers for sixty years irec and happy; civil and religious liberty have stood firm end un shaken; popular education has received a new im pulse and a wider spread ; and moral and religious instruction has become characteristic of our age ; agriculture, commerce, and manufactures have been steadily encouraged and sustained; and, under tbe blessing ol Providence, general competency and sat isfactory means of living have every where reward ed the efforts of labor and industry. And, in the mean time, gentlemen, tbe country has attained to such a degree of honor ami renown, that every patri otic man, in addition to his own individual means of enjoyment, derives a positive pleasure from parti cipating in the reputation of his country. Os what other country upon earth can this be said, with so much truth? Who, then, w -uld undermine this Union 7 Who would raise bis hand against this Con stitution ? Who would scoff at those political and social blessings which Providence has never before seen fit to vouchsafe, in such abundance, to any com munity of men ? Self love, our hopes for the future, national pride, and gratitude to God, all conspire to prompt us to embrace these institutions of our native land with all the affections of our hearts, and to de fend them with all the strength of our hands, la a critical hour, and not without some personal hazard, I have discharged my duty and freed my conscience, toils very depth, in public efforts to maintain them, limited only by the measure of my ability. And, since these efforts are regarded as having contributed something to the adjustment of dangerous controver sies, and to tho establishment of peace and harmony among fellow-citizens and brothers, I desire no re ward but the cheering voices of good men, and the approbation of my own conscience. And now, Friends and Neighbors, I could pour out my hearUn tenderness of feeling for tbe affectionate letter which comes from you. Approving voices have been heard from other quarters; other commenda tions have reached me, high enough and warm enough to demand, as they have received, my moat grateful acknowledgments and regard. But years comes from home; it comes from Chose whom I have know, and who have known me, fiom my birth. It is like the love of a family circle; iss influences fall upon my heart as the dew of Hermon. Those of you who are the most advanced in age have known my father and my family, and especially that member of it whose premature death inflicted a wound in my breast which is yet fresh and bleeding. Some of you were ray companions in the country schools; with others I have part-ken in the sports of youth, the cheerful labor of the field of agriculture, and in the associations and exercises of early man hood. I see on the list learned and now aged and venerable clergymen; professional gentlemen and magistrates, of my own age, whom I have long hon ored and esteemed ; and others of all classes and all pursuits in life. There are on the list, alca, not a few who bear my name and partake my blood. What I was in early life you all know; towards what I may have done at subsequent periods for the good of the country, you have ever manifested Buffi eiently favorable and partial regard ; and now, after 1 have been called upon to act a part in a mors impor tant crisis, perhaps, than any other of my life, your kind regard, your neighborly recognition of former times and former friendship?, and tbe affectionate terms in which you express yourselves, make your letter a treasure, precious in my esteem, which 1 shall keep near me always while I live, and leave for the gratification of those who may come after me. Your obliged friend and neighbor, Daniel Webster. To Rev. Ebenezer Price, Rev. Abraham Burnham, D. D., Rev. Wm. Patrick, Rev. Caleb B. Tracy, Rev. Nath’l Bou on, D. D., Rev. Asa P. Tenney, Rev. Edmund Worth, Rev. Enoch Corser, Hon, Parker Noyes, Hon. Thomas H. Pettcngill, Hon. George W. Nesmith, and others. The Washington correspondent of ihe N. Y. Tribune states that the Hon. T. Butler King, of Georgia, has been appointed Collector at San Francisco, California, in place of J. R. -Davis, of Penn., who declined the appoint ment. Dnhloneoa Mint.—A. W. Redding hat been appointed by the President and confirm ed by the Senate as Superintendent; Robert H- Moore to be Coiner; and Mathew F. Stephenson to be Assayer, of the Branch Mint at Dahlonega. The ship Tarquin, Capt. Moody, of Boston, from Quebec for London, with a cargo of deals, foundered at sea on the 11th ult., and the Captain and crew taken off and carried into Halifax. The T. was insured in Port land for f 17,000. < ■ ■ • - —>% Academy of Richmond County. Mr. Editor: —With those who, like the writer, owe much of what they know to the Richmond Academy, it id truly gratifying to find that me Trustees of this venerable institu tion are awake to the true interests of the com munity in regard to education, and that they have by a new organization, made this equal, if not superior to any Academy in the South. The four departments into which it is divided, will enable each teacher to discharge bis duties most efficiently, and the scholars 10 study to the best advantage. Each class will be distinct, and the confusion usually arising from the as semblage, in the same apartment and under the same teacher, of scholars of every grade, will be avoided. The arrangement is certain ly most excellent, and should ensure a very full school, especially as the terms are exceed ingly moderate, and the teachers are gentlemen of acknowledged abilities. Tne election of Mr. A. W. Church, (the worthy son of the distinguished President of Franklin College,) to the new department of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, cannot fail Tto meet with general approbation. Richmond. Correspondence of the Chronicle If Sentinel . Warh nctos Citt, Oct. 1.1850. Dkar Sir: —Most of the members of Con great have left for their with all the powers of the great invention of Fulton, they are hurrying to their families and iheir fire sides. The scenes they hi’ve just left have been of the most exciting character, yet I do not re member ever to have witnessed *uch kind feel ing before among the members at their de parture What they have done will be judged of by the country, and what they have omitted to do will be charitably acquiesced in, on ac count of iho peculiar circumstances that have surrounded this session of Congress. Your Slate may well be proud of her Rep resentatives. Among the most talented men in Congress, they exert perhaps the greatest influence. The Speaker, the Hon, Howell Cobb, has made for himself an imperishable fame. His own party friends may denounce him at home—prejudice may withhold from him his just dues—but the services he has ren dered his whole country will bo appreciated and remembered. No Speaker ever occupied the Chair under more trying circumstances; none ever discharged its duties with more honor to himself and more satisfaction and use fulness to the Republic. lam not extravagant when I assert the belief, that not one political opponent in the House.- but approved his course, and acknowledged his superiority.— While many of his own political friends differ ed with him upon the exciting topic of the ses sion, they surrendered to him purity of motive and an impartial administration of ids offi.-o 1 have never seen any officer of this Govern ment receive such universal approbation—and certainly no one ever occupied the position' under a state of feeling eo inconsonant with the hopes and prospects of successful legisla tion. But it is not in the faithful discharge of duty that Mr. Cobb shines brightest—his noble determination to stand by the Union has built up tytr him a solid fatric of remeatbraaco that 1 can he destroyed only with the Union itself. The casual observer, perhaps, has no: ap preciated his position upon the exciting sub ject that for a time alarmed the whole nation. If Mr. Cobb had been governed by any other than patriotic motives, he could easily, from his position, have kept his views to himself.— He certainly had no indication from his own party press in Georgia that his views would be acceptable to his former political associates ; and by making public his sentiments lie was sundering ties tiiat too often influence men for evil. He, however, believed the path of duty led bin? to the course he pursued, and though he might bo sacrificed by his party, he rose above its influence, and to-day his friends may rejoice in the fact that his name and his fan*# are borno upon record in the hearts of ih& American people. As for the attitude of Mr. Cobb in Georgia, with his party friends, I have nothing to do. H© will no doubt be able to render to them at* ac count of his stewardship. Rut, ns a Georgian, receiving as he has, the universal praise of both political parties, in ose c f the most) trying positions of public life, I can but feel—and which I am sure is shared by every citizen of your State—-that commendable State pride that should make us sensitive to the fame and rep utation of her public men. “ Ak Obsiryrr.” For the Chronicle !f Sentinel. Mr. Editor: —l noticed, yesterday, in? your paper of Sunday, a reference to the meeting of the 13th iust., at Appling, in which you have presented me to your readers in. rather an unfavorable fight. I suppose, whem you inculpate a man in your column*, you allow him the privilege of setting himself* right. You say the Rev. Iveson L. Brookes; from South Carolina, who happened by the merest accident, of course, to be present , was introduced to the meeting, and made a speech, &c. As to your italicising say being there incidentally—as the gentleman introducing me suggested—as if to the repre sentation was insincere, I will say, if it may be satisfactory to you, that I wanted to see a man of that county on business, who I ex pected vv.vjfd be at. Court, and I had heard that Mr. Toombs, to whom, with Mr. Craw ford, a dinner was to be given at the Court House on that day, would address the people of Colombia county, and having heard Mr. Stephens and Mr. Crawford, I wished to hear Mr. Toombs, and did select that time to go upon ray other business. But on learning that Mr. Toombs wonld not be there, and no tearing to bear Mr. Crawford’s sentiments reiterated, I expected to dine at the tavern and proceed homeward. I was, however, about the dinner hour, politely called on by the Committee of Arrangement, and kindly invited to attend the public dinner, which 1 would have thought uncourteous to refuse* I was solicited by different persons to address the meeting, as I had been writing on. South ern rights, and, though reluctant to appear before the meeting as a speaker, a sense of doty impelled me to advocate what I conceived to be the cause of Southern rights; and on be ing introduced to the meeting by a member of the Committee, I made the speech to which you have alluded, and “which,” you say, “was well delivered.” lam glad; there was some thing about it which was acceptable to you. With this explanation. I hope you will cease to consider me an insincere intruder upon the meeting. You tell your readers, with ap parent emphasis, that I advocated the disso lution of the Union. I suppose you conclud ed that this sentiment, together with my being from South Carolina, would render me quite enough odious to such of (if there be any)