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From the Washington Chronicle. 'EXTRAORDINARY OPINIONS. We find the following editorial article in the .last Boston Evening Journal: — “North versus South. It is universally admitted that the inhabitants of the Northern States arc a more industrious, enterprising and economical people, than those who inhabit the slaveholding States. They labor with their own hands, and each man strives to contrib ute, not only to his own happiness, and the happiness of a particular class, but to the gen eral good of sociefy. They exercise their in genuity in devising plans for the comfort and advantage of their fellow-citizens; and in no part of the world are to be found more cheer ful, smiling countenances, or less of human de gradation and absolute poverty, than in the Northern States. “Our brethren of the South are aware of this, and involuntarily contrast our situation with their own. The result is unfavorable to them, and causes those among them, who are disposed to enlist with Mr. Calhoun, under the the States Rights Banner, to cherish the most unkind feelings towards us. The cause of their discontents, which at times threaten to dissolve the Union, is not to be found in the oppressive nature of the tariff laws, or in the language which certain northern men hold with regard to slavery, but in \\\e prosperity of the northern States — a prosperity founded on industry, temperance and frugality—a ground work which nothing could shake except the folly and injustice of our government. “The hostility of the government to the banks, its war upon the credit system, is a tre inenduous blow, to the interests of the North ern States, and if the mad and vindictive: schemes of the government prevail, the effects ' upon the agriculture, commerce and manufac- ; lures of New England, will be as fatal as Mr. ! ■Calhoun, or any other thorough going nullifier could wish. Comments. — We hardly know whether the above is more remarkable for its folly or its falsehood. It is certainly entitled to distinc tion on both accounts. Mr. Webster lately laid claim to a most expanded patriotism, in his speech on the subtreasury bill, and drew a ve ry flattering contrast between his own political course and that of Mr. Calhoun The Editor of the Journal, it seems, would extend the com parison to whole communities. The people of, the “Northern States labor with their own hands, and each man strives to contribute, not only to his own happiness, and the happiness of-a particular class class?) but to the general good o f society.” The people of the ►Southern States, by implication act upon oppo site principles, to wit.- No one labors with his own hands, and each strives to destroy not on. ly his own happiness, and the happi. ness of a particular class, but also the “general good of society!” j-lgazM, the one “exercises their ingenuity in devising plans for the com fort and advantage of their fellow citizens;” and arc cheerful, smiling, and but little touch cd with “human degradation,” while the other, i “aware of this, involuntarily contrasts our sit-' nation with their own, the result of which is un favorable,” and hence most unkind feel ings towards us,” &c. Such is the miserable stuff prepared for the Northern palate by the Northern Nationals, jt displays a stupidity or a malignity, without parallel. To tell the people of ono section of this Union that they arc hated by those of an other, because they arc prosperous and happy, is a gross insult to the understandings of the I one, and a reckless libel on tho characters of the other. If the affections of the Southern people have been, in any degree, estranged : from their brethren of the North, it has arisen ■ from insults and calumnies like these. Front 1 the origin of the government to this time, the | Federal papers and politicians of the North have been the raisers and propagators of such libels. The people of the South arcobnoxious I to them because they will not submit to be hewers of wood and drawers of water. They have succeeded in many of the Northern States, and especially in Massachusetts, in making the “industry, temperance, nnd frugality” of the people minister to their indolence, indulgence and profusion. They would have perverted ; the powers of the Federal Government so as to carry the pernicious system throughout the whole Union; —but the Southerners met them, in limine, and drove them back. What were nil tho contrivauces of bank—Alien and Sedi tion laws, tariff, internal improvements, Ac. Ac., but means to lay the “industry, temper ance and frugality” of the people of the whole I nion under contribution, in order to advance their schemes of personal and political aggran. dizemenl? And because we would not sub mil to be ridden by those who considered them selves born, “booted and spurred,” for the pur pose;—because we would not consent to be made the. creatures of this system of fraud and peculation, wo are to be held up to the North cm people as inimical to them, on account of their prosperity? Can they permit themselves to be gulled and deluded by such a shallow, — such a miserable device? We tell the people of the North what are the feelings and opinions of the people of the ►South m regard to them. The recollections oi the common services and sacrifices of our ancestors, have not been obliterated in the bo soms of the Southern people. If thev have been weakened, (and doubtless they have been,) the reasons are to be found in the con duct of the old Federal party in the North, whose principles are aristocratic at least, if not monarchical Combined with this is the vile crusade of the Abolitionists against their prop, erty and lives—and the defamatory assaults {such as the above) on their feelings and hon or. In these are to be found the principal causesoi estrangement. > et, the South is not disposed to break with /the North, -nuthwithslanding these provoca tions. The Southern people know lull well that their interests, and the interests of the people— the real Republicans <A the North — are identical. The great, the leading maxim of policy which .should influence both, is that to which the minister oi Louis the Fourteenth has given a name—-“LET US ALONE!”— Give to labor the rewards ofits tod—and it is all that eitlier asks. But the monopolists-- the miflionaries—the men who live upon their labor, will not have it so. They must dwell in palaces—glitter in equippage—revel in luxu ry—and to do this, they must in some mode or other, subduct from the “industry, temperance and frugality” of the people, the hard earned rewards, wrung from a reluctant soil, by stur dy and sinewy hands. Hence the hundred contrivances selfish ingenuity to delude and plunder the people. In regard to the Federal Government, the opinions and principles of the Southern people are written in the history of the country. For forty out of forty-eight years, they have held the Administration in their hands.—ln all that time they showed no disposition to abuse their power in order to advance their local and sec tional interests. Their maxim was still— “LET US ALONE!” Believing the Consti tution was framed chiefly with an eye to our external concerns, they wisely construed it, in its most restricted sense; and maintained that individual concerns were not the proper sub jects of Federal legislation. They adopted the wise and just precept — “Everyman attend to his own business”— and upon this have they always acted. No man can doubt but that the same policy suits the principlesand interests of the people of the North; —but they have been put under hatches by the Federal monopolists, who have so long ruled them. They have been ground down, and trampled upon; and that they are not all beggars, is not because the Federal party have carefully tended their interests; —but because their “industry, tempe rance and frugality,” have overcome all obsta cles, and risen up in despite of their burdens. Yet there is a constant effort on the part of the Federal monopolists to oppress and ens’ave them. They would now use the Federal Go vernment to affect this; but the people of the South, ever true to their principles, and the real interests of the Northern people, will be found ready at all times, and willing on all oc casions, to unite together, in opposition to the scheme and the schemers. The great ques tion now at issue will test the virtue and intel ligence of the people of both sections; —and we trust the contest will end in the total route, and permanent overthrow of the Federal par ty in every State in the Union. They have deeply injured the country, and deserve to be crushed forever. From the Federal Union. UNION CONVENTION. The approbation manifested among the friends of the Union Party, as to the proposed Convention to nominate a Congressional ticket, gives evidence of the confidence of the party, and displays a becoming zeal and energy in thecause, which, if persevered in, cannot fail to secure the success of the Democracy in lhe >coming contest. Nearly every county in the State will send delegates. A large number of them have already nominated their mem members, and from what we notice of the pre parations making, most if not all of the others will have done likewise before the time arrives for the meeting of the Convention. Unanimity and zeal are essential to success, at all times. We hope this spirit prevails in every section of the state, and that our friends will be incited by its influence to renewed en ergy and perseverance. Circumstances make it indispensably necessary, in the present in stance, for us to go into the contest, with con fidence in each other, and in the firm res dulion to support the interests of our party. It is important that the ticket nominated by the Convention, should be selected with much prudence, judgment and discrimination, and without regard to selfish or sectional interests. The best talents of the State arc requisite, and the ticket selected to represent us in Congress, should be without suspicion, as to their firm and devoted adherence to the principles of the party. We want no United States Bank men, nor any who may be suspected of lending their support to any of the measures of the Whigs, Conservatives, or Federalists, in establishing a bank dynasty for the control of the Govern ment and ilkj people. So far as delegates have yet been appoint ed, we have no reason to complain as to their ability to judge and appreciate both the talents and political tenets ol those who may be sug gested for a nomination by the Convention. We have full confidence in their integrity and capacity to make a suitable selection. The following list embraces all the delegates wc have seen published: lialdwin. Gen. J \\ Sanford, Green Jor dan nnd N B Juhan. litbb. C J McDonald, Joseph Bennet and ‘ L (J riffin. Butts. A L Robinson, D J Bailey and J H Stark. Camden. Win T Tompkins, John Demur and H E W Clark. Carroll. Col Boggus, Dr Rogers and Sam uel Chandler. Clark. John IT Lowe, Jesse Robinson, Win. Epps and Howel Cobh. Coweta. \\ A Spear, fl Kellar anifThom as Watson. Crawford. G J Turner, W H Lowe and George K Hunter. Early. Wm S H ilson and Sterling W Sea borough. Fafette. S Whitaker, Asa Chandler and Gaincv \\ csthrook. Idw. I. A ra”cr< n arF J 1.,- ■ .‘ t r\ Forsythe. W H Ray and Mr. Hutchins. Gwinnett. AII Smith, K Rambo, N L Hutchins, J B Thompson, and S Lawrence. Harris. Col. It J Crews, P Ingram and A S Huey. Jackson. Thes Barnes, P E McMullen, B Chandler, John G Pitman. Jones R Hutchins, J W Gordon, A Oden, and Wm- G Smith. Lumpkin. R Obarr, G K Cessna. Mclntosh. Thos Spalding, Col N J McDo nald and C McCardell. Merriwether. O Warner, G W Chatfield, W D Martin. - Monroe. W Black, Jas D Lester, R W Wynn, Wilie Barron and J Whitfield. Muscogee. A McDougald, T W Watson, I II L Benning. i Pike. J L Blackburn, E P Daniel and W Harris. Putnam. (Jen R Bledsoe, Col David Ross, Wm Turner and Jas Whitfield. Randolph. S A Smith and D Rumph. Richmond. Gen V Walker, A Rhodes,Dr. J G McWhorter and Dr. D Hook. Talbot. Col J Riley, Gen Z White. Troup. James M. Flowers, William Hen sley, Mims Sledge. Twiggs. CofW W Wiggins, Maj J Pear son and Josiah Daniel. Union. E McHenry, J P Wellborn. Walton. R M Echols, O Stroud, C D Da vis and Joseph Moss. Warren. John Adkins, Q L C Franklin, G V Neal, Robert Fleming. Washington. FT Tennille, S. Sessions, Wm. Fish and Col S. Robinson. Wilkes. R J Willis, L S Brown, L M Hill and R Booker. WESTERN GEORGIAN- Rome, Klay 5, ■ The following named gentlemen -will act as Agents for the Western’Georgian: Howell Cobb, Esq., of Athens, Georgia. E. M. Johnson, Esq., of Gainesville, do. S. Ripley, Esq., of Jefferson, do. A. Erwin, Esq., of Cumming, do. John S. Bell, Esq., of Spring Place, do. R. M. Aycock, Esq., of La Fayette, do. Turman Walthall, Esq., of Cedar Town, Paulding County, do. Leroy Pattillo, P. M. Monroe, do. Charles Murphey, of Decatur, do. Dr. Hugh Quin, Chattooga, Flojd coun ty, Georgia. JAMES A. WRIGHT, Esq., has retired from the Editorial Department of this paper. [lls place will be filled as soon as circumstan ces wili admit. The following communication was received last week, but too late for insertion. Our fel low citizens of the Cherokee country, are ear nestly solicited to refrain from doing any act that might obstruct the peaceful removal of the Cherokees from among us, and especially to abstain from expelling them from their hab itations, until the government has time to effect that object. The request of the Commission ers, we have no doubt, will be cheerfully com plied with, by the citizens of the country, gen erally. COMMISSIONERS OFFICE, ) Cherokee Agency, Ten. April 25, 1338. $ In pursuance of instructions contained in the following communication, recently received Iroin C. A. Harris, Esq., commissioner of In dian affairs, we hasten to give the information required, and hope those who are interested in it will avail themselves of the short time that remains unexpired by the terms of the treaty, to transact their business in our office bcfbre»theirdeparture for the West. It is believed that doubts can no longer ex ist in relation to the intention of the Govern ment, to carry out the treaty in accordance with Its letter. And it is fondly hoped that our Cherokee brethren, who have heretofore refused to make arrangements for emigration, under a hope that some more beneficial ar rangement would be made for them, will no longer be deluded by false hopes and neglect to secure the benefits of the treaty, as it now and ever will exist. And we would most ear nestly and respectfully request our fellow citi zens who reside amongst the Cherokees, and especially those on whose lands Cherokee fam ilies may reside, to refrain from doing any act, that might obstruct the peaceful removal of them from amongst us,and especially to abstain from expelling them from their habitations un til the Government lias time to effect that ob ject. Any other course will create difficulties, and certainly be a reflection on the communi ty tiiat would cause or suffer it to be done. JOHN KENNEDY. JAMES LIDDELL. THOS. W. WILSON. W m Department, ) Indian A fairs, April 11, 1-38. \ Gentlemen:—l enclose a copy of general order No. 7, by which you will perceive that Major General Scott has been assigned to the command of the troops in the Cherokee coun try. It is his intention to be at Athens by the lOfli of May, and in accordance with in- structions, to put the Indians on the route lor the West at the earliest moment, after the ex piration of the time named in the treaty for their removal. You will disseminate this in formation generally, and exert yourselves to have all the arrangements committed to you completed, and to give effect to tho operations of the Major General. Very respectfully, Your most ob’t serv’t, C. A. HARRIS, Comnir. Messrs. John Kennedy. Thos. IF. Wilson, and James Liddell. We learn from the Cassville Pioneer of the 24th ult, that the ferryman at Donalson’s Fer ry, in the neighborhood of Canton, was shot at and badly wounded, on the night of the 19lh ultimo, while in the act of driving off a severe dog who was baying the assassin. lie states that he saw lhe Indian, a fellow by the name of Wind, from Tennessee, and who had been about Canton for the last three or four days. It is further staled that Col. Brooks, in com pany with one or two other individuals, had arrested a fellow by the name of Liege or Large, who some days previous, was seen to have in his possession, some three hundred dollars, in one hundred’s, and fifty dollar bills, on the State Bank of North Carolina, for winch,he could render no satisfactory account. We see it staled in the Augusta Constitution alist, that the Bank of lhe State of Georgia, had declared a dividend of four dollars per share on.the capital stock of that Institution, for the last six months; which is at the rate of eight per cent, per annum. Ihe New A ork Herald of April IGth says: “The Bank Convention have this day decided on the first Monday in January next, as a day of resumption. This was unanimous with the exception ofNew A ork and Mississippi; the former voting against it as too remote, and the lit ter as too early a day. Eighteen states vo ted.” It is further stated that the New York Banks will adhere to their former determina tion to resume on or before the 1 Otli inst. Gen. Scott, under the authority of the Uni ted States, has made a requisition on the Gov ernor of Georgia, for two Regiments, (ten com panics each.) of Infantry, for the Cherokee service. The Governor has recognized the same, by ordering through their respee live Colonels, one company from each regi ment in tho following counties.- Two con pan. ics from Hall, two from Habersham, one from Jackson, one Gwinnett, one Dekalb, one Campbell, one Carroll, one Coweta, one Fay ette, two Henry, one Newton, one Walton, one Clark, one Madison, two Franklin, and! one from Elbert, to be raised as volunteers or by draft, and rendezvous at New Echota as’ speedily as possible. The Columbus Sentinel and Herald of the 20th ult. says: “ vVc Icain that the United States troops, who have been ordered from Florida, will pass through this place, on their way to the Cherokee country, on or about lhe 10th ol May next. Large quantities of provis" ionsand amunition will also be forwarded by the same route. The Paymaster, Maj. Hein zelman. requests us to state, that on or before the middle of Afay, he will purchase or hire from sixty to one hundred wagons and teams. Here is another chance for our citizens to make a grab at Uncle Sam’s crib.” We learn from the same paper, that one of the soldiers belonging to Gen. Nelson’s Brfo o ade, died in Garrard a day or two since, of in flammation of the bowels. His name was W. Winters, of Marietta, Cobb county. There were also, five others sick, and under the care of Dr. Barron. Their names are William C. O’Neal, George Taylor, 11. Witzell J. Twiggs, and J. R. Andrews. The Augusta Constitutionalist of the 19th after quoting the extremes of the Colton Mar ket, at 6to cents, states, that 153 bales of cotton were sold at 10| cents; but adds the fol lowing judicious remarks:—“Our country friends must not consider the sale of 153 bales as any criterion of the present state of our market; for unless they take the same pains in growing,picking and packing their coton they cannot expect within a cent a pound of this price for such cottons as are at present sent to market.” A Practical Demonstration. Wc were high ly gratified to notice, that the merchants of Norfolk, A'a., in a few hours made up a cargo of cotton for Liverpool, to be returned in mer chandize direct to the same port. This is car rying out the views of the friends of southern commerce in the right way. Huzza for Nor- I S u HI VI A E£ V • 1- 1 j The Government House begins to make an i imposing appearance. When completed, it Swill we trust, as a public building, be eroditu ' ble io the State. —No. Recorder. 110-i.ae Trade. The Augusta Constitution 'alist says:—lt affords us much pleasure to i learn that a number of country merchants, ou their wa v north, have made a stop in this city and ascertained the prices of groceries, dry I goods, and hardware. If we are not mistaken on their return they will lay in the principal i part of their sleeks here. The Lexington (Ky.) Intelligencer, says— “ The notes of t’ie Mississippi Banks, are now !at a CIO to 50 per cent. Their ob iect is supposed ti > be, to produce as great <i depreciation as po. -’sible of their notes in circu lation, with a view of indirectly purchasing them on their own .account, at one halt or one fourth of their nominal value- The Fren ch residents of Philadelphia, have made arrangements lo give a public reception i and dinner t o the Prince de Joinvilfo, (young-' iest son of Louis Phillip pe,) on bis orrnrat in ! that city. >He was when last heard from, in Brazil, with the intention of next visiting the United State s. The House- of Representatives of tire Mass achusetts L egis’lature, has passed a bill, by a i vote of 22!? to 10G, prohibiting the sale of ar dent spirits m l ess quantities .han fifteen gal- I | onSj except* by licensed apothecaries and phy sicians for n. ledic'inal purposes, or foi the use ofmanufuctj ires and tho arts. Two men t’n th 9 neighlxn-hood ofNew Riv er, were rece itly killed by the Florida Indians they also sh ot through the arm the mail ear lier (Yom Fort Harvey to Micanopy, but he fortunately esca ptxi with bis life. It is said that U' l o most aggravated wounds of cattle are easil w ‘ ltl a portion ofthe yolk of eggs, mix’t in Florence spirits of tur pentine—Tp the the P arfs ‘‘bored Severn I times a day, and a cure u ' be eflected in 48 hours. The Supreme Cob ' rf - of Massachusetts has declared Abner Knee btud guilty of blasphemy, for denying the exists ace of God! He plead ed the peculiar circurn stances of his family, and sentence was postponed. At a dinner in New A r » previous to hrs departure for Liverpool, Francis Ht-ad gave as a toast the health Gen. Scott, which, lie prefaced with some upp\ ’oprialv remarks. Two United States vessels have gone to St. Domingo, to demand satisfac for . the if?, treatn ent of the United Stales Consul al Pori au Prince, who had been illegm '.Y incarcerated at that place. The Knoxville Register states 'r that in a neighboring county, shares in the CharkTJoa and Cincinnati Rail Road Compan v, has sold at a premium ofsix per cent. It is stated that the publishers of the- Pick wick papers, after paying all oxpens< have cleared £52,300, (nearly $250,090. ) Cl’lic author received 3,000 for the copyright*. Tlxs Governor of Tennessee has subsc fibed for that State, according to law, t.i.x hun»lr; s d and fity thousand dollars, in the stock of ;h Charleston and Cincinnati Railroad Comp.tm . The Now York American suvs—“This is the year for the re-appearance of (he seven year locusts, their last appearance having been in 1831.” In Cincinnati, on the Oth inst., Flour was selling at $4 Hog bacon 6 cents; Bacon, hams, 8 cents; and corn, 45 cents. Temperance politics. The elections going on for county commissioners in Massachusetts, turn almost exclusively on I’emporance. The candidates in favor of which it is said, succec ded in the counties of Bristol and Norfolk. The Norfolk llciaid states that tho U. S. ship Pennsylvania was taken into the dry dock at Gosport early on Thursday morning last, and before nine o’clock was resting on the blocks, securely shored in her upright position. Two murders lately took place at Mill’s point on the Mississippi river, in one day. A lawyer, named Rives, was shot by Mr. Fergu ' -on, a physician, A brother ofiV-r. Rives im mediately procured firearms, and killed Fcr j guson. The Madisqnian slates that the Connecticut delegation in the House of Representatives ‘ cods' ’ ; r the result of the late election in that ' Slate ns a decision against the Sub-Treasury j Bill, and will vote accordingly. The Lcgis- Chimney Sweeping. A lady has left a leg acy of £2OO to be presented to the inventor of such a machine asshall, to the satisfaction of , parliament supercede the work of climbing boys in cleaning chimney. Vibrations of the ground. The subject of the vibrations produced in the soil by lhe pas sage ol locomotives and coaches was discussed at a meeting of the Institution of Civil Engin eers, and several instances were mentioned in which the vibration ofthe soil was sensible at the distance ol one mile and a half during an i observation by reflexion. It was also stated, thxl a number of persons running down the : hill in Greenwich Park, produces a slight tre ! mor, which is quite sensible during an observa lion by reflection, and that the shutting of the i outer gate of the observatory throw’s an object i completely out of the field of tho Telescope?