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THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, ’49.
! Cobb and Benton Democracy In Georgia,
The reader will find an able and searching
expose of the controlling influence of the Cobb
and Benton wing of the party in thia State,
at iu recent Convention for nominating acan
-1 didate for Governor, which we copy from the
’ Milledgeville Recorder. " Crawford” has done
the South good service in showing to the pub
lic, with a directness and truthfulness which
carry conviction to every mind, how deeply
the Democrats of Georgia are committed to
the views of Messrs. Cobb and Benton on the
slavery question—all tending to make the last
named gentleman the candidate for President
of the united Free-soil and Southern Demo
cracy in 1852.
Taking the party as a whole, the Free-Soil
ers outnumber all the other factions, that of
Mr. Calhoun included, more than two to one>
and as the northern Mountain will not come
to the Southern Mahomet, .Messrs. Cobb,
Lumpkin, Houston and BeNToN’see and know
that "Mahomet mugt go to the Mountain.’’ Os
course this necessity'is not agreeable to the divi
uity of riatithertl democracy ; but what else can
it do, in iislast forlorn and pitiable condition?
Common sense Southern Democrats fully ap
preciate the fact that, they must either join the
anti-slavery Van Buren and fiKSTON parly ul
timately, or unite with Southern Whigs and
support the patriotic Administration of the
Hero of Buena Vista. To adopt the latter al
ternative, requires an exemption from party
prejudices and party bitterness, far above any
thing ever displayed by the democracy, whuse
creed and practice have uniformly been, to go
with the majority of their political associates—
righ l or wrong.
This majority has, with due consultation,
erected the Benton platform, and repudiated
that of the Southern Address. The truth of
this statement can not be denied. Governor
Towns stands with Cobb, Houston, Benton
and Van Buren on acommon platform. Will
the people of Georgia sustain him ? We think
not. They will give Judge Hill a larger ma
jority than they did the Taylor electoral ticket.
Why should they desert the standard of a
Southern President, the man of their choice,
who is equal to any emergency, and true as
the immortal Washington to the best interests
of his whole country 1 The electors of Geor
gia who called Gen. Zachary Taylor to the
Chief-Magistracy of the Republic will stand by
his Administration till they have good reason
to forsake it When they want a sectional
Etecutine, they will divide the Union and elect
one to serve in that restricted capacity. So
long as the Whigs of the free States are willing
to trust their interests to the protecting care of
a planter who owns 300 slaves, the planters of
Georgia will not join hands with the Free-Soil
ers in the vain hope of doing better.
Ths WoolTbads or New Lisbon.—Our wool
deniers are rapidly gathering in their last purchase
for the season. The trade this year has been confined
principally to three bouses, whose purchases amount
as nearly as we can learn, to the following:
Harbaugh Zt Thompson, 50,000 lbs.
Hannas & Graham,ls6,ooo **
Thomas McC0y,220,000 ’*
426 000 “
The average price paid by our purchasers has been
between 27 and 29 cents per lb.; some lots rating aa
low as2o cents, and somn choice clips at 33 and 35.
—New Lisbon (O.) Patriot.
Wk ask attention to the price at which wool
is sold by the quantity iu the interior of Ohio.
Farmers who are not rich enough to do a profi
table business at raisiugcotton. may make them
selves so by growing wool in this State. The
U'riter has been slow in reaching a favorable
ojhnionasto the which one inav rea
’<b)ably expac- b; ahesp u. • .» ebJ
way, anywhere iy Jt is - ,
misbandry with twliC*
.fiatrA out bnxhoGAs———r-ta. .-y*— —
r>»» s , •'vsflioxt b''
stood.
Day before yesterday we took a drive over
the large plantation of Mr. William Eve near
this city; and among other things, we saw a
flock of 130 sheep which would be premium
animals in the State of New York, where over
six millions are kept The secret of their
being so healthy and fat, lies in their always
getting enough to eat aud drink, and a little
salt.
They run in a swamp pasture next to the
river, in which there is always fresh and sweet
feed, nine months in the year. We have seen
a number of flocks from Emanuel, and other
piney woods counties; but no good sheep.
They need sweet and abundant food every
day in the year, and will not do well without it.
The natural pastures of central and southern
Georgia, as well as those in the Cherokee
country, must be improved before wool grow
ingcan be rendered profitable in the districts
named. Indigenous grasses will answer doubt
less the be-t purpose, from their durability;
but they must be cultivated. This can be done
at a very small expense. Immediately after
the forest is burnt over, sow grass seed and
harrow, not plough the land. Use a light
•harp harrow (it is good economy to have all
harrow teeth steel pointed) and let the imple
ment be drawn by a strong and lively team.
All small trees should be cut down and burnt,
if the proprietor would have a choice range.
Any soil so poor as not to carry a sheep to the
acre, is not worth the labor of travelling over
it in the United States, where good lands are so
cheap and abundant. To have choice, valuable
stock, it is indispensable that one possess rich
and enduring pastures. To make such on
very poor, open, sandy soils, is no easy task.
But there are millions of acres ot unoccupied
lands in Georgia, which might be transformed
into grazing farms, to supply England in part
with wool, mutton, beefand pork.
All these enter British ports duty free. We
repeat, this is the business for men who are
too poor to plant cotton to the best advantage.
Land is cheap; sheep and cows are cheap, and
with good care they multiply rapidly. With
skilful breeding, good enclosed pastures, shel
ter in winter, water, salt, sulphur and wood
ashes always, one need not fail to make wool
growing and stock-raising a capital operation.
Let not the South depend on Gen. Taylor s admin
istration to protect her rights. Let her boldly de
clare, by her approaching elections, that she has no
confidence in a Cabinet composed of such materials
as Gen. Taylor's, and let her proclaim that she relies
upon, herself to resist all infractions of her rights “ at
all hazards, and to the last extremity.”—Constitu
tionalist.
Wk think as highly of “ self-reliance” as any
one, but it is fool-hardiness to attack friends
and convert them into enemies, w hen the South
has nothing whatever to gain, but every thing
to/oseby unjustly repudiating her own Son
at this crisis in her affairs. Why should
the “ South declare by her approaching elec
tions, that shas no confidence in a Cabinet
composed of suth materials as General Tai
lor’s?” When did Georgi W. Crawford
or Prkston of Virginia, Meredith of Penn
sylvania, or any member of the Cabinet, betray
the public trust reposed in him ? It is a foul
calumny to stigmatise as abolitionists men who
nominated, and voted for a Louisiana Plan
ter for President, in spite of all the anti-slave
ry influences which were brought to bear
against them. One would suppose that it had
come to be regarded as a crime of the deepest
dye for northern citizens to vole for a large
slaveholder which Southern Democracy can net
forgive!
The following very proper rule has been es
tablished at the Treasury Department. It will
doubtless be attended with the best conse
quences :
Trexsurt Departmext, ?
Second Auditor’s Office. July 25,1849. 5
Owing to the numerous applications and
complaints of claimants that agents and attor
neys have failed <0 pay over their dues when
collected, this office has established a rule that
no money will be paid upon a power of attar
ney to any agent or attorney who h*s been
charged, under circumstances to warrant be
lief, with withholding money due to a claimant
P. CLAYTON. Second Auditor.
Axothkr Govkrnhkkt Dkfact.tkr.-~The
Washington Republic says:—
It is now our painful duty to record the de
famation of Nathaniel Denby, late temporary
navv agent of the United States at Marseilles,
in France He is a defaulter to the tune of
>155.508 48, and suit has been commenced a
gainslhim for the amount. _
From Britisb GviWa.—Accounts have
been received from British Guiana to the Ist
instant. The cholera was prevailing extensive
ly on the »4and of Dominica, in consequence
of which the Governor of Barbadoes had es
tabhshed a quarantine on vessels from that
ntand.
Things In Washington.
Correspondence of the Chronicle St Sentinel.
Washington, July 29,1849.
Gentlemen; You have heard the incessant
howling of the Union and its echoes about pro
scription and the axe—and you are probably
aware that the Whigs regard this incessant din
as “ a great cry and little wool!” This cry is
pretty well understood. The senior Editor of
the Union— the pole organ—knows only a few
tunes, the notes for which are stereotyped, and ■
he has certainly played them often enough to .
render his performance purely mechanical.
It is understood that Mr. Ritchie is opposed to
the present administration! The junior Edi
tor —remarkable for the delicacy of his style
and the refinement of his ideas— as you know,
was turned out of an office which some gentle-.
inert thought he ought to have resigned; and |
he is now accused by the locofocracy in gene
ral, ofbeing employed in the ignoble effort of,
reducing his quondam friends “to his own '
level;" orof being actuated by that most curse
worthy feeling of a reprobate editor, which is
defined by the proverb that •' misery loves com
pany !’’ But there are those among his quon
dam friends that think he has not yet reached
quite to the '■ bottom and while they feel
inclined to believe that he wishes to have them
turned out with their wives and " nine chil
dren ” to starve, he is actuated only by a laud
able desire to swell the force of opposition by
calling the turned-out to his aid! Well, let them
settle that matter among themselves. If the
motive which actuates such violence of assault
be that which is shrewdly suspected and often
expressed by those who are “trembling in their
boots, ” there is at least one point on which the
Whigs and the junior are agreed. The oats and
the great turned-out can for once meet aud
shake hands.
Among the clerks in the Executive office at
Washington, when Gen. Taylor’s administra
tion commenced, there were only Whigs “ e
nough left for seed. ” For instance, as (am
informed by the best authority, in the Post-
Master General’s office there were, on the first
of the present month, only two Whigs among
forts’-eight clerks! Since that time the Post-
Master General has made some dozen remo
vals and appointments. In other departments I
the inequality may not be so excessive but it is
still very great. Mr. Ewing yesterday “butch
ered” about a score in the land office, with a I
view towards equalizing the “public burthens.”
Spiteful ravings are heard at the corners and
market-places by those who traduced General
Taylor before he was elected, and they can
now amuse themselves by cursing the “ second
Washington” at their elegant leisure. Amidst
these ravings wo sometimes hear the sobs of
wives and “nine children,” and then wish we
had an office for each of them, hut we are ena
bled to console ourselves by the thought that
good Whigs have as good wives and about as
many children as other people.
There are Whigs—"ultra Whigs”—who are
in favor of what is called a clean sweep. Like
Gen. Taylor, lam not one of these. lam now
speaking of clerkships at Washington. I think
and have advocated the opinion, that approx
imation to equal numbers, taken from the two
great parties of the country, might very pro
jerly be adopted as a principle. This would
>e equitable and therefore ought to be perma
nent; but even this principle should be held
subordinate to one still higher—no clerk ought
to be removed unless his place can be fully sup
plied by his successor. A due regard to the pub
lic service must be rigidly observed. So far as
I atn informed, under the present administra
tion this rule has been practically enforced.
I may have more to say on these subjects at
another time. Richmond.
From the Southern Recorder.
Messrs. Editors—From what I had heard
in Middle Georgia before the meeting of the
Democratic Convention. I had supposed it
would take high ground in favor of Southern
slavery and against Northern aggression. I
have read their proceedings to-day, and they
area pitiful rigmarole of cant, sound and sub
mission beyond conception-
Before the convention met it was a subject
of common remark, and one of my neighbors,
a delegate, told me the party intended to wipe
off ffie reproach which had been cast upon
them by supporting Lewis Cass last year, by
the manly stand which they would now take.
They intended to respond fully to Mr. Cal
houn’s Southern Address—to censure Lump
kin and Cobb for refusing to sign it—condemn
the approval of the Wilmot Proviso by Mr.
Polk—condemn the past votes of Cobb, Lump
’ —es, Chappell and Harralson in favor of
s < . ’ >he avowal in Mr. Polk’s last mes-
’ nith was not in favor of the ex-
\ it extend it if 1
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*ttru winuiTiO-’j'XTOi k <
tionistß. and formally td proc lai ntd
fr >m them.
Judge of my surprise this morning, when I
read in my neighbor’s paper the proceedings of
the convention, and not one word of all that
had been promised. The truth is, Calhoun and
all his notions had been thrown overboard, and
the views of Benton’s friends were adopted as
the sentiments of the convention. Instead of
censuring Cobb and Lumpkin, Cobb was the
master spirit of the convention, and ruled his
own opinions and views as those of that body.
The Calhoun men did not dare utter one word
in favor of the Southern address and its sign
ers, nor one word in condemnation of Cobb
and Lumpkin for refusing to sign it. They
dared not attempt to censure Mr. Polk’s ap
proval of the Wilmot Proviso, nor Cobb and
Lumpkin’s vote for it. Ifthey had, the movers
and supporters of the censure would have been
censured themselves. As to the Southern ad
dress. no party was ever so bullied on any sub
ject before. They wanted to stand by Cal
houn, but Cobb was there—he turned not his
back upon his foes, but boldly faced them, and
he shook in the face of the Calhoun men Mr.
Polk’s assurance to him of uncompromising
opposition to Mr. Calhoun’s southern address.
The strife in the convention was between the
friends of Benton and Calhoun; the former
triumphed, in the resolutions adopted; those of
the friends of .Mr. Calhoun were voted down
in the committee—Cobb triumphed, and the
platform of the Democracy was erected by Cobb
for Benton—Gov. Towns was nominated—
and he has heartily and fully approved the Cobb
resolutions, and goes before the Democracy the
representative and advocate of those sentiments
peculiarly held by the Cobb and Benton wing
of their party.
The resolutions adopted by the convention,
covering principles and measures, were decid
edly anti-Calhoun. The pill was gilded to make
the dose more obscure, but the bitter was still
there. The resolutions of the last Virginia Le
gislature were made the basis of their faith,
which are nothing but tame submission through
out to the Wilmot Proviso. The convention
says, that if the Proviso should be passed they
are prepared to co-operate with their friends
in resisting “ tfs enactment and enforcement on
the basis of the resolutions adopted by the last
Virginia Legislature '!" Now what is that
basis I First, in the enactment of the law (mark
the expression,) Congress has no control over
the institution of slavery "so as to impair the
rights of the slaveholder. Second, if Congress
in disregard alike of the "principles and spirit"
of the act admitting Missouri, in violation of
“ every consideration of justice, of constitutional
right and fraternal feeling," should pass the
Wilmot Proviso, Virginia will have no difficul
ty in determining whether she will submit or
resist. Third, if Congress should pass the Wil
mot Proviso, the Governor is requested to con
vene the Legislature "to consider the inode and
measure of redress."
Here is the basis on which Georgia Demo
crats intend to resist the passage of the Wilmot
Proviso aud its enforcement!! We assert it
is tame submission, and they might as well
have said so in their resolutions. In the first
place they declare that they will unite with their
friends in resisting the enactment and enforce
ment of the Wilmot Proviso ! Now who are
these friends with whom they intend to unite ?
We know that Southern Democrats call North
ern Democrats their “ natural allies" and
friends. Lewis Cass is one of their friends,
and all his supporters North and South are
their friends. Now who believes that those
Northern Democrats are ever going to unite
with the South to defeat the Wilmot Proviso,
when they are now uniting with the abolition
ists to pass it ? Then, unless tneir friends co
operate with them they will not resist. If they
did not mean Northern Democrats when they
spoke of friends, why did they not say that they
would co-operate with the other slaveholding
States in resisting it, as Missouri said ? But if
they had so spoken, the declaration would have
amounted to nothing. ForTexasand Missou
ri are both in favor of the Wilmot Proviso—the
Democratic candidate for Governor in Tennes
see is on the stump against resistance—Mr.
Polk whileat Washington and on his way home
actively opposed Mr. Calhoun's Southern
movement. So chat friends not consenting to
co-operate. Geortia Democrats would not re
sist—and friends will not co operate. They
did not intend to include Southern Whigs eith
er under U e name of friends, for in the com
mittee of thirty three a proposition was made
by a friend of Calhoun’s, by which Whigs and
Democrats were to unite in opposition to the
Wilmot Proviso. That was voted down, and
these Benton resolutions were passed in their
stead. The plain English of the whole matter
is, that the convention did not intend to resist
unless it was with their "friends
Northern and Southern Democrats, and in ex
clusion of any co-operation with Whigs. This
made resistance a party movement, and was a
virtual declaration of unequivocal submission!
And this is the Bentou platform of resistance.
But look a little farther: Even co-operation
with triends is not to take place unless Con
gress passes the Wilmot Proviso in disregard
of the " spint and principles of the act admit
ting Missouri! Here both the “ spirit and the
principles of the act have to be disregarded—
not either one, but fcoM have to be disregarded-
Now if the reader will turn to that act. he will
see that while the spirit of that act is compro
mise, yet the principle affirmed by it was, that
Congress had the power to restrict slavery in
the territories. The Bth section of the law* ex
pressly prohibits slavery, aud is word for word
the Wlmot Proviso itself, and the caption of
the act is io admit Missouri. Jfcc. and •• to
prohibit slavery tn certain Urritcries.' 9 [See 3
vol. Laws of U. S., page 545 ]
How can Congress "disregard' the princi
ples of this taw, when it copies it verbatim ?
and unless it does so, then the Georgia Conven-
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8. 1849.
tiou will not even think of co-operating with
friends, to resist!
But then the last condition of the Virginia
basis turns the whole subject of resistance into
t the most ridiculous farce The Legislature is
to be convened “io consider the mode and mea
, sure of redress, ”
’ | Well! well! well! Some of us remember
1 j what Virginia means by the mode and measure
d of redress. We tried her upon the tariff of
f 183*2. She ha* before spoken in the same
, tones she does now—and avowed if the tariff
of 1828 should ever be passed, she wouldresisi
I to the last extremity, and she called upon the
i Governor then as now to convene the Legisla
ture. The Law passed, and in due time the
Legislature met. No “ mode or measure of
1 redress” was adopted. In 1832 South Caroli
na nullified And appealed to Virginia and
other States to do likewise. Virginia replied,
you have adopted the wrong “ mode and meas
ure of redress !” When the legislature resists
j a law of Congress, it is by petition, remonstrance
1 and protest! ! ! If the State acts by a con
. vention and nullifies, then she dissolves the
} Union !! This is the Virginia mode and meas
ure of redress,” and the Georgia Democrats
have resolved to do likewise ! We all remem
ber that in 1832 States Rights men held that re
sistance was proper only through a convention
of delegates by the people. The Union party
held that resistance was through the Legisla
ture. The same mode and measure of redress
has now again been adopted, showing that the
old Union party p
s principles over
board. A friend of Mr Calhoun offered in
committee his principles as the mode and
measure ofredress, and they were voted down
and these ad opted in their stead.
"Well, if the Wilmot proviso should be pas
sed by Congress and Gov. Towns should not
change his notions, and should have the power,
our dignified Legislature will be convened,
to consider the mode and measure of redress !
They will say, “ Mr. Congress, we respect
fully petition against the passage of this law
and as in duty bound will ever pray.” Con
gress says nothing. “Mr. Congress, we re
monstrate stoutly against the passage of this
law.” Congress says nothing. “ Mr. Con
gress,we boldly and fearlessly, as independent
freemen, and as the representatives of a sove
reign State. protest against the passage of this
I law.” Congress says nothing. “ What! won’t
I yon listen to our petition, remonstrance and
protest? Will you do what you please, instead
.of what we please? Then go your own way—
we have exhausted the mode and measure of re
dress. You may go on as you have stated, and
we will go home. Mr. Polk said in his last
message, slavery was not a practical question
in California, and we think so too. He only
claimed south of the Missouri Compromise
line, and that has got no gold or any thing else
but bilious fever upon it.”
This will be the end of the Democratic mode
and measure of redress It is submission, un
conditional and unequivocal. And this is the
great farce which the great Democratic Con
vention have acted before a great people.
They had not independence to proclaim senti
ments of their own, but borrowed the “fuss
and feathers” of Virginia, with which to deco
rate their party ; and now they send out their
candidate for Governor to strut through “Me
jackdaw in the peacock's plumes." This was
the result of Mr. Benton’s friends being in the
majority. Had Mr. Calhoun’s friends been in
the ascendant, matters would have been greatly
changed; but perhaps no better. Benton and
Cubb have triumphed—Calhoun and Johnson
are biting the dust.
There is no true hearted Sou’hern man who
does not shrink in mortification at the timid,
time-serving policy of (he Democratic Con
vention. It was folly to have said what they
would do, until the emergency arose, but to
have threatened, and with such feeble mind,
has made them and their cause ridiculous. The
Whigs have acted with more wisdom. They
have made no empty ihreats, and have bor
rowed no other State’s thunder; they will nev
er skulk into the Legislature to consider the
mode and measure of redress— but when the
time comes, if it ever should, for action they
will proclaim to the world, through a conven
tion of (he people’s delegates, “that a nullifica
tion of the act, is the rightful remedy.”
But the Democratic Convention will b R
spared the exposure of their own disgrace
The slavery question will be settled to the satis
faction of the South through the influence of
that grey-headed old man, who fills the House
and the hearts of the people—he whom the
Convention have attempted to malign, and to
prostrate whom, Georgia Democrats and
Northern Abolitionists have united—a union,
as unnatural as it is perfidious.
-.Xhere was one point on which Benton more
signally triumphed over Calhoun in the Con
vention than any other, and it was Me great
point -the censure of the Union of Northern
,-Democrats Abolitionists. At Washington
yj. . - j (hat Mr. Calhoun’s
Vjr Tin-TTmnTrt/wr-ntT
flress, was to create a Southern party, to run a
Southern candidate, and thereby more effectu
ally ultimately to dissolve the Union. Hence,
the reason why Southern Whigs refused to
sign it, ami why Democrats from Georgia,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri. Texas and
other States refused to sign it. Mr. Benton
publicly charged Mr. Calhoun with this motive.
Mr. Polk openly opposed this measure for the
same reason, and busied himself to send for
members of Congress, and entreat them not to
sign it He was open in his opposition to it,
and for once agreed with the Whigs. At
Charleston, on his visit South, this Spring, he
declared he was willing to stand or fall with
(hose Democrats who did oppose it. In further
ance of Mr. Calhoun’s views, his friends in
the Convention intended to condemn the union
of Democrats and Abolitionists at the North,
and separate from them. But when the Con
vention met, Calhoun’s friends were not a cor
poral’s guard, and did not even dare to sug
gest the thought.
This last Convention has demonstrated most
clearly that Mr. Cobb is the master spirit of the
Democratic parly of Georgia, and that they
intend to sustain him and his course upon the
slavery question. The Southern Address and
its signers are dead in the ranks of the Demo
cratic party ; and Thomas H. Benton will be
the nominee and receive the support of the
friends of Governor Towns for the Presiden
cy in 1852.
Butmore: the proceedings of the Demo
cratic Convention wear a decided anti slavery
complexion. It adopted the Virginia resola
tions throughout, and they nowhere declare the
Wilmot Proviso unconstitutional; but when
they were before the Legislature of that State,
and a motion was made to declare the Proviso
unconstitutional; it was lost—ayes 18, nays
102. The first resolution declares that Con
gress has no control over the institution of
slavery, “ so as to impair the rights of the slave
holder." Now the clear inference is, that if no
right is impaired then such power does belong
to Congress, and they thus make the interfe
rence with slavery a question of policy, not of
principle. This is as good as Van Buren or
Giddings could desire. It is in truth, the affirm
anceofMr. Van Buren’s opinions as to the ab
olition of slavery in the District of Columbia.
Neither the Legislature of Virginia, nor the
Democrats of Georgia have declared such a
law unconstitutional. Both put their opposi
tion to such a law upon the ground of expe
diency. We did not believe that any party in
Georgia would have dared to give up the con
stitutionality of such a law. But the Demo
crats have done it boldly. Crawford.
Arrival of the Southerner. —Yesterday
forenoon, the steamship Southerner, Captain
Berry, arrived at this port from New York,
having left there on Saturday afternoon. She
look up her position at Quarantine Ground.
The Southerner had thirteen steerage pas
sengers on board, and under the Quarantine
regulations they are not permitted to come up
to the city, while the officers and cabin passen
gers are not detained. We have heard a very
general expression of opinion of the injustice
of this decision, and have heard no reason
given in justification. We trust this regulation
may be reconsidered and abrogated, unless
there is some good cause for the continuance
of the discrimination — Charleston Courier of
yesterday.
From Jamaica. Our last advices from
Kingston were to the 4th instant, at which time
the House of .Assembly was about to enter up
on the discussion of the dispatches from the
home Government. Now, by the arrival of
the Crescent City, we have Kingston papers to
the 20tb instant, inclusive; from which we
learn that the House adopted a resolution again
announcing its determination not to engage in
any legislative business until the people have
expressed their opinion on the course which the
Assembly had pursued.
The response of the Governor to this was
an immediate dissolution of the Assembly.—
The elections for the new House commenced
ou the 14ih; and it is expected that they will be
completed in time to permit the opening of the
session early in September.
The Butler Divorce Case.—We see it
stated, ou what we deem good authority, that
lhe terms of a divorce have been agreed upon
by the counsel in the case of Pierce Butler vs.
Fanny Kemble Butler, satisfactory to both par
ties. The principal conditions are. that Mr.
Butler is to allow Mrs. Butler $1,500 annually,
he to reta*n possession of their children, (two
daughters) excepting two months in each year,
which they are to spend with their mother
The arrangement was agreed to some mouths
since—both preferring it to a further contest
before the courts—and the daughters are now
with their modi er in Massachusetts, where she
purposes taking up her residence.— Philadel
phia News.
Accounts from Venezuela of alate dale. re
ceived via Kingston, Jam .make mention of an
other revolution which broke out in Venezuela,
against the tyranny and misrule of Monagas.
General Paez had’teen re called, and by lhe
latest advices was in the city of Coro, aud by
this time it ts likely he is again at the head of
the Government.
The Cholera in Carthagena was raging most
al ar m i ng ly.
The New Custom House. —Yesterday, the
titles to the property known as Fitzsimon’s
wharf, selected as the site for the New Cus
tom House, having been approved by lhe
government, were completed, and the money
paid over.— Ch. Courier.
A Sensible Max. —‘ Well, Robert, is there
any answer?’ Buttons: ‘ Yes,’m. Mr. Jolli
-1 boy’s compliments, aud he 11 be blest if you
eatch him at a party this weather—unless you
let him dance in his shirt deeves.’
2lugttgta, Oco.:
FRIDAY MORNING, 3, 1849.
A Day of Fasting, Humiliating and
Prayer.
It is not often that the people of the United
j States are “earnestly recommended” by their
Chief-Magistrate to observe a particular day,
named by him, as one sacred to religious wor
ship, and set apart to acknowledge their de
pendence on divine Providknce for life, and
all its blessings. Such an acknowledgement is
never unbecoming; but when a pestilence of
fearful intensity is abroad in the land, it is pe
culiarly fitting that a Christian nation should
bow simultaneously with one heart and one
spirit, in humiliation and prayer before the
Throne of Grace, confessing their transg res .
sions and seeking forgiveness.
We rejoice in the belief that this day will be
duly observed by millions of Americans. This
morning the people of thirty States will UQ > e
in a comrnon.prayer. How Sublime puri
fying thii voluMary act, performed it th *
suggestion of a public servant ? la
individual and national
’•p .4. rurgt L tne * ■ Giver of every
perfect gift;” and some visible, so
calamity seems necessary to humble car na
tural pride, and teach us our accountability to
the God that made us.
Kight Huiwlretl Thousand Fre% Demo
crats.
“The Boston Republican says : “ For years our
hopes of the triumph of the cause of emancipation
rested upon the Whig party. Since its Taylorization
at the dictation of the slave power—we have given
up all our hopes in it. The slave power and money
power now guide and control that party. The triends
of the slave will rejoice at its overthrow. We have
much to hope from the action of the 800,001/ Demo
crats of the free States. They are now emancipated
from their degrading vassallage to the South. We
trust that they will cast off the treacherous leaders,
who have deceived them, trample upon the dictation
of their Southern associates—spurn the advice of
the Washington Union—act according to the dic
tates of their own consciences and the convictions of
their own judgments; and make the Democratic
party the party of freedom, of progress. We see in
dications all over the free States of the movement of
the masses of the Democracy in the right direction.
We hail these movements with hope and cosfidence.
All looks bright and brilliant for the future.’
The Republican need give itself no uneasi
ness on the score that the Democratic party
will not be “Me party of freedom and if pro
gress" in the slaveholding as well as the non
slaveholding States. To make the read to
emancipation and universal “freedom” easy,
constitutional and proper, the Constitutionalist
and its affiliated presses in Georgia, are luking
extra pains to preach “the unqualified rqht of
alt men to revolutionize their governments.”
These journals go far beyond the tadical
democrats at the North in their attemptsto le
galize rebellion and revolution. With them,
law, order and constitutions are obsolett ideas
—things fit only for “tories,” “aristocrat”and
the “Algerine Chronicle Sentinel."
The eight hundred thousand NorlhernDem
ocratswho attacked and demolished the oU U.S.
Bank; who attacked and destroyed the Irotec
tive Policy, finding little left which tlwy can
level down to their notions of politics, and so
cial equality, beside slavery, have concentrated
all their enginery against this institution. They
ask only “the unqualified right of revdution;”
and this right, their Southern allies promptly
concede ! They contend that the relatior of mas
ter and slave is anti-democratic, is at w with
the principles of the Declaration of lucepend
ence, and qu : te as unconstitutional as internal
improvements, a protective tariff, or a United
States Bank. Nothing can be more plastic or
pliable than the Constitution and State Rights,
in the hands of Progressive Democrats. The
New Hampshire Patriot, speaking of General
Cass’ last letter says:
“ But while other portions of the letter are so sat
isfactory, we are sorry that what be sejrS upon the
Slavery question is as much die contrary. He ex
pressly reiterates the doctrine of his famous “Nichol
son teu.er,” which lost him the Presidency, that Con
gress has no Constitutional power to legislate upon--
'xu.* iieiiiv"*****—Normo<*ver d,id
tney supported hire, ten >wing to bo nw2n*>wat
but they did not thereby endorse those views; but as
that was not an issue in the election, and as they
knew him to be sound upon all the questions Inal
were in issue and all the great party questions, they
supported him in spite of that objectionable doctrine,
as they would again under like circumstances. The
democracy of this State are unanimous ialhe opinion,
so far as we know, that Congress Ims an 4 should ex
ercise the power to exclude Slavery from California
and New Mexico.”
Whenever the Democracy desire “power,”
no matter for what purpose, i? is taken. As if
in anticipation of the direction iu which Ben
tom, Houston, Cobb and Lumpkin would lead
the party at the South, the New Orleans Cou
rier made tho following pregnant suggestions
soon Gfter the election in November last:
“The same phenomenon occurs in other States—in
Alabama, in Mississippi, in Georgia— through the
whole Sooth, the most strenuous partizans of Tay
lor and Eillmore, have been the rich planters and
owners of slaves, with the exception of South Caro
lina, and even in Charleston, Holmes, the great nul
lifie.r, who refused to pay duties on a cargo of sugar,
was in favor of Taylor, although he could not swal
low Fillmore, and was re-elected to Congress in op
position to a Democrat, who was friendly to Cass and
Butler. It is a known fact that in the South
ern States, THOSE WHO ARE NOT OWNERS OP
SLAVES ARE GENERALLY DEMOCRATS— at least the
Democratic party in lhejSouth is composed, in a great
measure, of that description of persons. It is a curi
ous condition of affairs, at any rale.”
Democrats who are now so busy 10 sowing
the wind, in denouncing the “conservatism of
the Whigs” and the “Tory Chronicle Sf Senti
nel," may yet have to reap the whirlwind. Men
who have something to lose by the complete
triumph of both Northern and Southern radi
calism, cannot be too soon in joining the great
conservative Whig party of the Union.
Augaita Free School*
As this institution is dependant on voluntary
contributions, it is indispensable to its prospe
rity (hat our citizens refuse not to present the
Collector with the small sum which the law au
thorizes him to ask of the tax payers for its ben
efit. To relieve it of some embarrassment for
debt we are happy to learn that several gentle
men will give each five dollars, instead of one,
ortho usual sum. It would be difficult to find
an object more worthy of the public favor, or
private charity.
We cannot but express in this connection,
our regret that the only Free School in this
city should have to act the mendicant, in any
degree, fora support. If the amount needed
in addition to its own resources, were assessed
on the taxable property of the city as other
taxes are, no one would feel the burden, and
this miserable system of begging would cease.
We might as well carry round a hat or a con
tribution plate, for the support of our muni
cipal government, as to raise funds for a Free
School.
Packing; of Beef Witliont Bone*
The Dry Goods Reporter has the following
suggestions:
We made a suggestion a few weeks since in regard
to the packing of beef without the bone, particularly
for use at sea. which has met with considerable favor
throughout the country, several papeis having adopt
ed our remarks without any credit, a sure sign that
the recommendation is likely to prove a valuable one.
We renew the subject to offer some facts bearing on
the case. The law at present prescribes 2(K) lbs. of
beef as the standard for a barrel. The average weight
of bone in each barrel is a little over one-fifth, say 45
lbs., but in bulk the bone occupies one third of the
space, so that if it were removed previous to packing,
a barrel no longer than is used at present, would con
tain 300 pounds of pure beef.
This on 600 lbs of beef would save one bbl*.... 90
Cooperage, inspection and salt, 60
Average freight of each bbl of beef or voyage,.. 1 00
Total>2 50
Add to this the saving of room in provisioning for a
long voyage, and the superior quality of the beef,
which always becomes first tainted around the bone
and of course would keep sweeter without it, and we
have sufficient inducement to try the experiment.—
The grease and bone dust would more than pay for
the lar«or of extracting, and what is now wasted upon
the fishes would be spread abroad to enrich the soil.
There are many pieces of meat, in cutting
up the carcass of a bollock, which woold pre
sent a very bad appearance if all the bone were
taken out. Nor would the labor of dissecting
each rib and other bone clean, to avoid waste,
be any trifling job. The removal of all the
large bones would be good economy in pack
ing beef, if the rule were once fairly established
in the markets of the world.
Mediterranean Wheat.—A farmerinGreen
county, Ohio, who had this year 116 acres in
Wheat, states that the portion of it sown in
Mediterranean seed ha? made a heavy yield of |
excellent, plump grain, while the rest of the
crop is extremely light, and poor-
Mediterranean wheat is very hardy, but the
flour made from it is inferior in quality (white
ness) to that obtained from the white flint, or
common red chaff varieties. From the limited
observations which we have made during two
harvests in Georgia, of the several kinds of
wheat gown, we should prefer the Mediterra
nean to all others for safety in this climate and
I defective wheat soil.
Southern Medical and Surgical Journal
for August*
The number before us contains several val
uable articles. Dr. Jones, of Athens, famishes
the leader, which is a condensed review of se
veral theories as to the origin and causes of
malarious diseases. The writer discredits the
common opinion that intermittent and other
fevers are produced by malaria or gases gen
erated in the decay of vegetable and animal
substances; nor does he adopt the cryptogamic
theory of Dr. Mitchell. He inclines to re
fer them to unknown changes in the imponder
able bodies of electricity, light, heat, &c.
There is an elaborate paper on Epidemic
Cholera, by Dr. Page, of Louisiana, and a
number of interesting cases in Surgery report
ed. Terms $?3 per annum.
Early in the Field.—The Democratic A
merican published at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. has
the name of Thomas H. Benton at its head
as the Democratic Candidate for President in
1852.
Life Insurance.—A recent case in St.
jis strongly illustrates the advantages o f Life
**ohee
that city :
A few months ago, a young gentleman, a mer
chant of this city, married, and soon after took
out a policy of insurance on hislilelor SS,(JUU;
in favor of his wife. A few days ago he fell a
victim to the prevailing epidemic, but it was
to him and his friends a source of pleasant re
currence, that his foresight had placed his wife
beyond the reach of want. There is no pang
to the dying man more severe, than the con
sciousness that he leaves his wife and children
unprovided for; how much then is the feeling
relieved when they have been cared for and
guarded against.
Bequests of the late Mr. Lyman.—We
learn from the Advertiser that the late Mr.
Theodore Lyman bequeathed a legacy of fifty
thousand dollars to the Reform School at West
borough, of which he was the founder. He has
also given ten thousand dollars to the Farm
School of which he has been an active officer
for several years, and ten thousand dollars to
the Horticultural Society, in whose labors he
alw’aystooka deep interest.
Taylor Medals.—We were shown on
Saturday last at the Library ofthe War Depart
ment two beautiful copies, in Bronze, of the
gold medals voted by Congress to Gen. Taylor
in commemoration of his famous victories in
Mexico. The portraits of the General on both
of them are capital likenesses One of them is
in honor of Buena Vista, and, beside the appro
priate inscriptions and national emblems, con
tains a picture of that field of battle ; while the
other is in honor of the battles of Palo Alto and
Resaca de la Palma. They were executed at
lhe United States Mint in Philadelphia, and
are in the highest style oflhe an. We are al
so informed that the Hon. Secretary of War
has presented to the several members of the
Cabinet copies of the medal commemorative of
Buena Vista.— Nat. Int.
A correspondent of Holden’s Magazine tells
an anecdote of an old widow, who, when her
pastor said to her, “ God has not deserted you
in your old age,” replied, “ No, sir, I have a
very good appetite still.”
High Handed Outrage in Portland.—
The Port'and Argus of Thursday gives the fol
lowing particulars of a dastardly outrage which
was committed in (hat city :
“About three o’clock yesterday morning,some
scoundrel or scoundrels took a brass six pound
er from lhe gun house on Mt. Joy, placed it
some fifty yards in front of King’s house on the
hill, and after having loaded it with five balls,
attached to it a slow match. In due time it went
off. One of the balls passed through the head
board of the bed in which King, his wife and
child were asleep—cut lhe sinews and bones
on the back of the woman’s right hand.and went
out of the house on the opposite side. Dr-
Durgin, we understand, thought he might be
forced to amputate the hand, but hoped to
save it. Had the ball struck two feet further
to the left, it would have inevitably killed all
three. It was an exceedingly narrow escape.
Three other balls passed through the garret and
out at the roof.”
The inmates of the house which was assailed
bore a bad reputation. The Advertiser states
that Mr. King has several times had his house
assailed, on which occasions he has fired salt
shot at the assailants. On the night follow
ing the 4tli of July inst., several young men,
while carousing in the neighborhood, were in
jured by lsc^ar^ rom
’ —The Erie Annual Can
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
commenced its session at Fredonia on the 18th
instant, Bishop Waugh presiding The Cen
sor says that there were about 150 preachers
present.
The statistics of their financial affairs exhibit
an extended operation. The Book Concern
at Cincinnati, the report of which was present
ed to the conference, shows the amount invest
edin that city at $203,884, consisting of print
ing and binding materials, ($55,509) real es
tate, periodical subscriptions, &c. The New
York Book Concern shows on hand
Real estate,. *SI 15,541.83
Cash and State stock, 60,657.39
Periodicals,. 43,453 00
Snnday school books.. 180,179.37
Printing materials. 93,627.76
Foundry and bindery, 8,461.36
T0ta1,.5643,217.35
A most destructive fire occurred at Lunen
burg, Vt. on the 14th, by which some thirty
buildings, including the Congregational meet
ing house, Town House, tavern. &c.. were
consumed. The loss is estimated at SIO,OOO.
A Belle of the Olden Time.—The fol
owing picture of a belle in New York, in 1650,
s copied from a new novel entitled “The
Young Patroon.”
“Look now through the door-way which
partly reveals the mysteries of a half acre kitch
en, and tell me what you see. Ido not want
to know about the mountain of freshly friend
cookies on the hearth, or the long row of pale
and unbaked minced pies on the dresser, or the
depth of that Shadrach looking oven, glowing
with uncommon heat for the reception, but
rather—ah, yes see her now—crimping with
white fingers the edge of the 42 pie. and turn
ing around with a face bewitching in its uncon
scious beauty, to give a laughing word to a lit
tle brother on the floor. That round snowy
arm, upraised in playful menace, those soft
blue eyes, those glittering teeth revealed by
“chirrups,” and that brown glossy hair, scarce
kept by force from curling, are part and parcel
oi sweet little Jessie Van Corlaer. The golden
beams of the wintry sun streaming through lhe
window, are bathing her beautiful form in light
and casting her moving shadows ou the floor,
thrice strange and wonderousto the little learn
ed there. But Jessie has another sunlight em
anating from within, lhe perpetual product of
a joyous and innocent heart, gliding and per
meating all things with its beams ;
“She was made for happy thoughts
For playful wit and laughter,
Singing on the hills alone,
And echo singing after.”
Oregon.—A census of the inhabitants of
Oregon has recently been taken, and it shows
that the number of the population is 8,902,
including foreigners, who number upwards of
300. There are, according to lhe census,
2,503 voters; but in consequence of the ab
sence of many at the mines, the vote at the
next election will be much reduced. Gov.
Lane has issued a proclamation, fixing the
number of members of Council and house of
Representatives to which each county is enti
and ordering the election to be held for them
snd for delegate to Congress on the first Mon
day in June next There are six candidates
for Congress in lhe field.
The rageforgoldhuntingcontinued as strong
as ever at last advices, and both the newspa
pers published in Oregon had suspended op
erations in consequence of it.
The Portuguese Exiles.—Another arrival
of seventy-four exiles is noticed in the New
York papers, and a letter from Rev. Mr. Gon
salves, at Trinidad, announces the sailing of 150
more about the 13th instant.
Father Mathew in Boston The Boston pa
pers notice the great success which attends the
temperance labors of Father Mathew in that
city. During Friday and Saturday last he is
said to have administered the pledge to some
4000 persons, chiefly his own countrymen.
A Short History of a Short Man named
Short.—Sftert lived in Shortvdle, near Brief
town. Having married a sturdy dame after a
phon courtship, he found it necessary to pro
cure a short ladder for lhe purpose of ascen
ding to kiss her. In short, he lived a long
time with his wife, and long alter ber decease.
But death cut him short with a very short
summons. He was put into a short coffin,
lowered into a short grave, and a short sermon
was preached on the shortness of life. To
make this story short, Mr. Short was recollec
ted a lons time as having been the shortest
man in Shortville.
Religious Revival—The Centreville Times
of Saturday says: A religious revival has been
going on amongst our Methodist Episcopal
friends, at Busick’s Church, in the Upper Dis
trict of Queen Anne’s county for a week past;
abaut 40 conversions have taken place so far,
aud the meeting is still progressing under fa
vorable auspices. The revival was commenced
amongst the membership without any ministe
| rial preparation.
“ We understand that Patrick Collins, Sur
veyor of the Port of Cincinnati, recently re
moved by President Taylor, proves to be a
defaulter to a large amount. His defalcation
has been exposed by the exercise of the remo
ving and appointing power. It has been sea
sonably exposed. If he had been suffered to
remain in office a few months longer, his case
• woold have been that of one of President Tay
lor’s officers. The adoption and continuance
in office of an appointee of the late administra
tion is equivalent to an original appointment,
as far as Executive responsibility is concerned.”
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
Arrival of the Crescent City--Onc Month
Later Intelligence*
From the Baltimore American.
The steamer Crescent City. Capt. Stoddard,
from Chagres, July 16, and Kingston (Jamai
ca,) July 19, arrived at New York on Friday
o’u o’clock. She arrived out on the
Jin ot July, making the passage in 8 days, 16
hours, and 30 minutes. She brings San Fran
cisco dates to 20th June.
The steamer Oru, took off all the passengers
and landed them at Chagres. The majority of
them left the same day in canoes for Cruces
all well.
The whole amount of specie on board the
Crescent City is ¥231,994. and is consigned to
several New York houses.
By this arrival we have the gratifying intel
ligence of the arrival at San Francisco of the
ship Grey Hound, Capt. Claypole, and brig
Colonel Fremont, Capt. Pickett, from Balti
more. The ship Grey Eagle, Capt. Powers,
from Philadelphia, also arrived on the 18lh
May. Speaking of the passage of this Balti
more built ship, the Alta' California says
The American ship Grey Eagle, Captain
Power, which arrived on the 18th of May,
■
lour days nf Vat.». i>eauci-
'jog EhOse days, jCleavfes 113 days for the
running time of the vessel. This is lhe quick
est passage ever made by any sailing vessel
from the United States to
Tho British frigate Constance was at San
Blas Tune 30th, having on board $2,000,000.
bound for Mazatlan.
The steamship Panama left San Francisco
on the 20th June, with about 100 passengers
and about $500,000 in gold dust and specie-
She arrived at Panama on the night of the 11th
of July and would leave again for San Fran
cisco on the Ist of August.
The American barques Tasoand Ellen Fran
cis were waiting at Panama for passengers, to
go up to San Francisco. Several other small
vessels were alse bound up with passengers.
There seems to be but one opinion among
the passengers with regard to the abundance of
gold in California—it is still found in great
quantities, but it is only the hard working chaps
that can stand lhe fatigueof digging for it.
There was no sickness at the mines, and
everything was going ou quietly The num
ber of persons at the mines is estimated at be
tween 20,000 and 30,000 —about one half
foreigners.
Business at San Francisco was very dull,
and dry goods and provisions were selling be
low their original cost.
Lumber was still in great demand, selling
for three hundred and fifty dollars per M. feet.
Rents were enormously high and rather on
the increase.
The Oregon steamer was to leave San Fran
cisco on the Ist of July and expected to be at
Panama by the 20th.
Our Consul at Panama would not assume
the responsibility of sending the California
mail by the Crescent City.
There were about 100 Americans at San
Blas, waiting a passage up.
The Alta California of the 14th Junecontains
a proclamation by General Riley, warning the
settlers not to countenance “The Legislative
Assembly of the District of San Francisco,”
either “by paying taxes or by supporting or
abetting the officers” of that “illegal and unau
thorized body,” and calls on all good citizens
to assist in “restoring to their lawful keeper,”
the Public Records of the District of San Fran
cisco, which were “forcibly taken” from lhe
custody of the First Alcalde of said district.
The same paper contains a proclamation by
Gen. Riley, in which he states that he, “in ac
cordance with instructions from the Secretary
of War, has assumed the administration of the
civil affairs of California, not as a Military Go
vernor, but as the Executive of lhe existing
Civil Government.” He then proceeds to
call attention to lhe means which he deems best
calculated to avoid the embarrassment of the
present position of California, Congress hav
ing failed to legislate for it—and suggests the
inode of electing such officers as arerecogniz
ed by the Jaws now governing lhe territory,
among which are a Territorial Legislature; a
Superior Court consisting of four Judges and
a Fiscal, a Prefect and Sub-Prefect in each dis
trict, Alcaldes, &c.: and appoints the 7th day of
August next for the special election of Dele
gates to a General Convention, and of officers
of the Peace.
The Alta California condemns the terms of
Gen. Riley’s proclamation, and defends the
action of the Legislative Assembly alluded to.
The latter bods have published an address
in which they complain bitterly of the f ’’v.
by Congress to give them a for-v
ment, of its course in “laxin®.. „ el 2 r wnbo,lf '*U
givi‘ > ff* tireTn 'a government .u a ‘
of the '
mediae*, united «d d*-terra
the part of ti e n cople, the Assembly ‘ earn-Y
estXj reconitended to their f3119 w |
the propriety of electing at least
delegates from each district to attend a
general Convention to be held at the Pueblo
San Jose, on the 3d Monday in August next,
for the purpose of organizing a Government
for lhe whole territory of California.”
It is suggested that these delegates have dis
cretionary powers to form a Slate Constitution
or to adopt such other form of government—
subject to ratification by the people—as they
may deem advisable.
An enthusiastic meeting was held in San
Francisco on the 12th June, to consider the
propriety of sending delegates to a Convention,
&c., al which the Hon. Thos. Butler King
was present, and addressed the people.
Resolutions to carry the object of the meet
ing into effect, were presented, when an
amendment fixing the elections upon the days
appointed by General Riley, was opposed by
Col. J. 1). Stevenson, and finally rejected.
Messrs. Peter H. Burnett, W. D. M. Howard,
E. Gould, Buffum, and Edward Gilbert were
appointed a committee to make arrangements
for a Convention and the election of Delegates.
The Alta California of the 20lh June con
tains a circular, issued by the above named
committee, in which, for the sake of securing
unanimity of action—but “without recogniz
ing the least power, as a matter of right, in
Brev. Brig. Gen. Riley to appoint a time and
place for the election of delegates and the as
sembling of the Convention”—they recoin
mend lhe time for the elections appointed by
that officer. The committee condemn lhe ap
portionment of delegates made by Gen. Riley,
and virtually, disregard his declaration on that
point.
A meeting in reference to the same subject
was held by lhe people of the Pueblo and San
Jose, on the 3d June, at which Gen. Riley’s
proclamation was approved.
A dinner was given to the Hon. T. B. King,
on the 14th, at the Market House, by the citi
zens of San Francisco.
A subscription was on foot to survey and
buoy the Suisan Bay and the Sacramento Riv
er between San Francisco and Sacramento
City. Capt. Ringgold, U. S. N., has been em
ployed to make the survey.
A Merchants’ Exchange and Reading Room
are also about to be established at the former
city.
A letter from the Mockeiume Diggings, da
ted May 23d, speaks encouragingly of the suc
cess of the “diggers” Another, from the
Stanislaus diggings, complains of poor success
in consequence of lhe high waters. All, how
ever, agree upon one point—the plenitude of
the precious metal upon the spot, and the la
borious exertion necessary to secure it. Three
Americans, however, are said to have taken out
one piece of gold worth $2,780! Another
party of three Mexicans are said to have ob
tained $2,200 in one day !
The following vessels of war were in port at
San Francisco, at the latest date:
U. S. ship Warren, Commander Long, flag
ship of Com. Jones.
U. S. ship Southampton, Lieutenant Com
manding Handy, and several Quartermaster’s
Vessels.
H. B. M. ship Inconstant, Capt. Shepherd,
from a cruize; arrived June 14.
Only about eiaht or ten of the large fleet
which left this country last winter, with the gold
seekers on board, had reached San Francisco
previous to the sailing of the steamer Panama,
but the steamer Oregon, which was to leave
San Francisco about the Ist instant, for Pana
ma, will no doubt bring us tidings of a number
of them, of whose arrival at, and departure
from Valparaiso. Callao, <tc., we published a
few days since. Among the arrivals at San
Francisco we see the name of a little craft call
ed the Favorite, (about 46 tons,) which left
New Bedford in December, with a crew of six
persons.
Life in El Dorado*
A correspondent of the New York Express,
writing from San Francisco, under date of
June 15, says:
While I am about it, J may as well give you
a few extracts from the files of the Placer Times
and the Californian, which I have before me.
They will give you a pretty correct glimpse of
Life in El Dorado.
This is dated at the “Mockelumne” Diggins,
referred to above:
“ Here some forty persons are hard at work
washing out gold—some with machines and
some with tin pans: one man has a hole sunk
14 feet below the bank, and although obliged to
bail the water out of it every morning, he
makes from five ounces to a pound every day.
Those at work there are mostly young men
who came out in the volunteer regimenL They
are hard working fellows and deserve all they
can make. The current in the river is very
strong.”
Here is an interesting bulletin from the
1 Stanislaus Diggings.” They don’t get rich
very fast at Stanislaus, hard as they work:
“They have been hard at work the past
week, but with only tolerable success, ounce
per diem, though some have digged from three
to fourounces. However.tbey are in the minor
ity, the greater number finding the high stage
of the water baffle all their toil and skill. Large
stories are told of the Mormon and Sullivan s
diggings above, but on investigation I find that
although some have got out a pound and more,
• hat the proportions of the fortunes is about
the same throughout the mines.”
Monday, 14th May.—l have earned to-day
only sl2, and the prospects among the worktes
are rather disheartening. Three Americans,
however, below Jamestown, took out one
piece of cold worth $278’1 The news flew
like wild fire. Twelve California carts, with
four yoke of oxen each, past inis valley last
VoL.LXIfr -NEW SERIES VOL. XIII -NO. 32.
eve. and it was a scene of rural beauty, 1 have
seldom seen surpassed.”
The villanous Mexicans have been showing
the “ red flag :”
VVednesday, 16th.—Still digging with only
mediocre success, as are the majority about me.
The immigration for the last two days has
been less than usual. Now and then a party
appears on its winding way, composed princi
pally of Mexicans, with their lances and red
flags. A party of them encamped near James
town and hoisted a small red flag over their
tent, but a deputation of Americans waited
upon the gentlemen, and soon gave them to un
derstand that such a proceeding would be
looked upon as a national insult and challenge
direct, and they instantly hauled the offensive
banner down. This afternoon the line of
march seems to be resumed, and the apparent
ly interminable array is again in motion.
Long faces were beginning to loom up.
A large party from Tepic have been hard at
work for several weeks, with rather poor suc
cess till yesterday, when they struck a rich
vein, yielding the first day 3 lbs., and to-day
lbs. rhe vyoe-begone countenances have as
sumed a smiling appearance, though they fear
their good luck wjll bo duration.
Saturday, 19th—It is rit weeks since Ireach-
have been rendered
been Three Mexicans,
to—their-mine, others were getting
ounce. ”
All the treesntTHi-flowers, lately so beautiful,
begin to evidence the effect of the parching sun
of the “ dry season, ” and they look as ifthey
would whisper a blessing for one short Yankee
April shower.
Tuesday 19th.—Scores ofdispirited looking
objects are wandering up and down the Arroyo
to-day, with their pans and picks upon their
shoulders, showing plainly that their labors
have not been blest with success. One would
imagine that the mantle of good housewives
had fallen upon the sterner sex, and that they
were all hurrying to some grand “ clam bake,”
to which all the world except his wife, had been
invited, to see the pan-armed array moving to
and fro, only that their looks more surely in
dicated a famine than a feast. Slowly the
waters are still rising—they must fall before
successful operations can be thought of.
Letters from “Stockton” to the “Alta” with
dates to May 28lh, have been received, but
they did not corroborate a rumor that was
current, that two meu had extracted one hun
dred and fifty pounds ofgold dust in one day
on the Stanislaus.
Another letter says:
“The scene exceeds in life and bustle any
thing you would conceive. From sunrise to
its sitting, a continual tide of new comers pour
along the road, horse after horse, mule after
mule,pack after pack, bestraddled by men and
women, of every nation in this quarter of the
globe; though the majority are Lower Califor
nians and Sonorians. It seems as it the whole
world had mounted and was passing in review
before me."
The Sandwich Islands.
The Placer Times of Sacramento City, Up
per California, has the subjoined intelligence
from the Sandwich Islands:
Eight vessels have left that hot-bed of ro
guery—Sydney—for the coast. Tahiti is drain
ed of Frenchmen, and the gold fever is raging
among the Celestials by last accounts from
Hong Kong. The foreign population of Hono
lula seems inexhaustible, reminding one of the
hydra of old, for every one that goes a dozen
more are going.
The vessel, at present fitting out here for
California are the ship James Munro, whaler,
to sail about the 25th (April,) the brigs Seis de
Junio, Antonio Ramos, and Emma, schooners
Plymouth, John Dunlop, Papeete, Louisa, Jo
sephine, and a senre of smaller crafts that I can
not at present recollect lhe names of.
The political atmosphere is quite calm at
present. The mountain in labor has brought
forth a mouse. Judd remains in office, appa
rently despised and shunned by all except his
colleagues and the missionaries. His fellows
in office know his unbounded influence with
the King and chiefs, and therefore fear while
they hate him.
Mctisy at Sea.—The New York Courier
& Enquirer says: “ A serious mutiny by the
crew of the ship Meninon, bound from this
port for California, occurred at sea, off Monte
video, about the 20th May last. It appears that
the crew had given evidence of dissatisfaction
and mutinous feeling almost from the day the
vessel left port, which was exhibited in syste
juatic grumbling and scowling countenances;
.one of the men even lifted a hammer at the
.second mate, and ora ve him insolenctfv, and lhev
jv-Hnplained of thejk fi~d, and thre»<
irijhe oantain’s ‘
This was the causft of the outbreaks n» soun
der was this man put in irons than the crew rose
•K mutiny.
“ The second mate struck a Portuguese sail
or for insolence, when, in a flash, he drew his
knife, brandished it with the fury-of ademaa,
and ran at him. At this moment, Mr. Bracket,
the first mate, sprang to his back, pinioned his
arms, seized his knife, and broke it to atoms.
This fellow was ironed, and another, who had
been noted for his mutinous spirit. Then their
spokesman was called up to get his bracelets.
A general scuffle ensued between the officers
and men, blows were given, knives and belay
ing pins came into play, and the deck was
spotted with biood.
“ The fight ceased for a moment and the
spokesman, Tom Dennis, was taken: but while
the captain and second mate were about put
ting the irons on him, a strapping, sullen fel
low, named Loring, left the wheel, makings
tremendous blow at the second mate, but form
uately missed his aim and fell himself to the
deck, by the force and miss of his intended
blow; he then skulked away to the wheel,
trusting he was not observed.
“The fight was renewed, by the mutineers
making a rush upon the captain and mates. Mr.
Bracket, the Ist mate, got a cut on the crown
of his head, that felled him to the deck, sense
less. The captain also got a blow on the head.
The officers then rushed into the cabin for
arms. The passengers now retreated to the
cabin, armed for general protection; and wounds
dressed and pistols loaded, another rally was
made to the deck by the officets and passen
gers. Then, in perfect coolness and bleeding
as al) the officers were', the first and second
mates went forward with orders to fire and kill
any man who refused to come aft.
“ The crew finding that the officers and pas
sengers were all armed, gave up the contest,
and eight men were finally manacled and sent
below. After a consultation, it was decided to
make for Montevideo, instead of attempting to
go round the Cape with a mutinous crew.
The Memnon reached anchorage on the 26th
May, and the mutineers were sent on board of
the American sloop of war St. Louis.
“On the morning of the 27th. the rest of
the crew refused to do duty, aud it was said
that the Captain of the sloop of war went on
board and ordered them all to be seized up for
punishment.”
Paying Heavily for Looking Lightly.—
A short time ago, a £IOOO note of the Bank of
England was presented at the counter of that
institution for payment. The inspector ex
amined it, pronounced it all right, aud passed
it over to the cashier. The cashier observed
nothing wrong and passed it over to the pay
clerk. The pay clerk gave lhe applicant two
£SOO notes for it, as he was requested to do.
Subsequently suspicion was excited,, and the
note was more minutely examined. The lead
ing figure of the number, a 9, was found to
have been changed into a cypher. So well
was the alteration made, that not till after a
most searching scrutiny of two days, was the
alteration itself, and the manner of performing
it,discovered. AVhen it was found out, then
the Bank, like Any other great wiseacres, was
of opinion th<K was all very plain, that any
body might it, and as the poor clerks
did not see they must pay for it.
The cashier > Z// 'marked the note for payment,
was
out of fiy^i-agreed with the number of the
handed the note to the cashier as a
*’ .mine note. The clerk who gave gold for
the two £SOO notes, had to pay £IOO, because
he believed the person who came to be a bank
er’s clerk. The clerk who received ‘ James
street” as a sufficient description of the person
who presented the note, had to pay £IOO, be
cause he did not insist on a fuller description.
The clerk who originally lost the note, had to
pay £350. The fault he committed —and it is
the only one throughout the whole transaction
—was neglecting to wear the chain attached to
his pocket bookT Great care and caution is
absolutely necessary in conducting the busi
ness of Banks, but the above is carrying the
thing rather too far, and is a cruel exercise of
power, which, while not effecting the end de
signed, has a tendency rather to render the
Bank clerk more liable to mistakes, by causing
him to tremble with terror whenever a note is
presented for payment. — Police Gazette.
Immense Raft. —A correspondent of the
Maine People’s Press, writes from Moose
Head Lake, under date of June 20th, that he
has just succeeded in taking across that Lake,
a distance of 17 miles, a raft of pine logs, con
taining by actual survey twenty-one and three
fourths acres. These logs are taken at differ
ent landings upon lhe eastern shore of the
Lake, and towed by steamboats across to the
outlet of lhe Kennebec waters, by which they
are borne to market
Poetical, “Werry.”—l sat by the open
window on a fine dewy morning. The stars
shone out, and the moon flung her mild beams
over the rocks that bounded my view. The
birds had retired to rest—the wakeful frogs
made music in the neighboring marsh, and
the fire-flies bespangled the darkness. 1 look
ed out on lhe charming scene—l raised my
eyes to the milky way, and recollected that I
had not a clean shirt for Sunday !
The Paris Presse records lhe fall of an sero
lite of five kilogrammes in weight, at Tri
guenes, at the close of a violent stortn. It
was composed of crystal, sulphur, and a sub
stance resembling plaster.
The young thieves of London have adopted
a system of slinging a basket of oranges be
fore them, and pressing it against persons in
i the street, tbeir hands being left free underneath
t to pick their pockets.
From the Southern Recorder.
Senators Benton and Calhoun.
The public are likely to be amused daring
dog days with the quarrel now going on be
tween these political worthies. It appears that
Mr. Calhoun has hitherto impeached Mr. Ben
ton’s devotion to Southern rights, because he
voted for the passage of the Oregon bill, with a
provision against the introduction of slaverv.
Mr. Benton retorts upon Mr. Calhoun that he
is the father of the Wilmot Proviso, and has
been a more ultra Free soil advocate than ever
John Quincy Adams. At this stage of the
row, Senator Foote, who seems to be in no
way implicated in the quarrel, jumps into the
contest, and belabors Calhoun and Benton,
both, bnt mostly Benton. It appears that
sometime last year, in a personal difficulty.
Benton refused to recognise Foote as a gentle
man. Hence his desire to make Benton re
cognise or feel him now. Nor are tiis feelings
more kittd to . Mr. CiMttJUßFtfßar, when
that gentleman by his party at
Washington as fishy, ’as doubtful whether he
would suppwrtpeh.'Taylor or Gen. Cass, Mr.
Foote sail! of MVn, that “ he was as dangerous a
mmtoSrnitherii rights as Wilmot himself!'’
But Foote’s whole object scunut to be to pre-
andcaihoun both from being con
sideied as prominent and probable candidates :
*>i his party for the Presidency in I&>2 Mi*
for hi,
xtdnhneg no"tn.Xi.i .naeirentitlcd to the sue- '
cession. Beuton has, however, got the start
of both, and will, if he lives, get the nomination
of his party, and will receive the vote of every
Southern Democratic State—even the illustri-
ous State of South Carolina.
Foote charges Benton with a want of loyal
ty to the Democra ic party, and among other
facts, cites his opposition to Mr. Polk on the
Oregon question, and his doubtful acquiescence
in the tariff of 1846! Here is a stab more at
Calhoun than Benton; for Mr. Calhoun was
the leader, and Benton only a follower, in the
attack upon Mr. Polk and the whole Demo
cratic party. Mr. Polk was crushed beneath
the assaults of Mr. Calhoun, and the Demo
cratic party was compelled to eat their own re
solution at the Baltimore Convention that they
would have the whole of Oregon, or none.
And as to the tariff of 1846, Mr. Calhoun was
brought to its support with greater difficulty
than even Mr. Benton himself.
But the most laughable incident of this whole
farce is, that Foote should attempt to excite the
friends of Generals Taylor and Scott against
Benton, because he was willing to be made
Lieutenant General, when he, Foote, was will
ing to make him such, and when he voted for
the very bill he now so much condemns. Mr.
Calhoun has the advantage of both in this par
ticular, having opposed the whole scheme in
every aspect.
Without attempting to settle who has the
least claims to the confidence of the South,
either Calhoun or Benton, one fact is undeni
able, that Benton has higher claims to consis
tency than Mr. Calhoun; for he has from the
first maintained that Congress had the power to
legislate on the subject of slavery in the terri
tories of the Union. This opinion he formed
in 1820, when the Missouri question was before
Congress. He adheres yet to the same view
of it. And this is certainly the Democratic
view of it; for it has been sustained no less
than four times in Congress when the Demo
cratic party had the majority, and when the ma
jority of votes in favor of the measure wore
Democratic votes—and was approved by the
executive sanction of President Polk, and voted
for by A. H. Chapper,
Seaborn Jonks,
Howkll Cobb, and
Jobs H. Lumpkin, of Georgia.
In 1820, these wore the opinions of Mr. Cal
houn. When the Missouri Compromise bill
was before Congress, Mr. Monroe, then Presi
dent, submitted two questions to his cabinet—
“ Ist, Has Congress a right under the powers
vested in it by the Constitution,to make a regu
lation prohibiting slavery in a territory? 2nd,
Is the Bth section of the act which passed both
Houses on the 3d inst., for the admission of
Missouri into the Union, consistent with the
Constitution?” Mr. Calhoun was thena mem
ber of Mr. Monroe’s cabinet, and gave his
opinions in favor of both propositions!!! This
is stated upon the authority of Mr. Monroe and
Mr. Adams.
Thecaption of the act was to authorize the
people of Missouri to form a constitution, <fcc.
“and to prohibit slavery in certain territories."
The Bth section referred to is in these words: ,
“ That in all that territory ceded by France •«
the United States, under itie name us Louisiana,
which lies north of 30 degrees 30 minutes north
latitude, not included within the limits of the
State contemplated by this act;- slaverv and
involuntary servitude, otherwise than in punish- :
meat of, crime whereof the parties shall have 1
» . • • A J .L_ f» r. J I. vnn_ 4
"•> duly convicted, shall be, and ziereoj is, for-
ij ” .. iLirac-'XTWO"i^A <; r
:vr:. Mc.r#M,'Cnag<%» j'Bad tlio power to 'pass
suchjlawd!!
We look with perfect amazement at the po
sition of Mr. Calhoun. A member of tho
cabinet of a Southern President, mid advisirljj
the President to sign a law prohibiting the ex
istence of slaveiy in a territory in which it ex
isted by treaty ; advising him that Congress
possessed the power to legislate upon the sub
ject, and to prohibit slaveiy in the territories —
and now urging the South, if Congress should
act upon his principles, then to dissolve the
Union for a violation of the Constitution ! I
Mr. Benton makes another point upon Mr.
Calhoun—that the cabinet of Mr. Monroe was
divided upon the question of ceding Texas to
Spain, and that Mr. Calhoun was in favor of
the cession! Mr. Calhoun bad hitherto encou
raged the opinion that he was opposed to this
measure, and John Q. Adams in favor of it.—
It now turns out that their positions were re
versed. The position in which Mr. Calhoun
is now placed is one of infamy and disgrace.—
However infamous Benton may be, Mr. Cal
houn is decidedly more so. Benton charges
Calhoun with being an abolitionist—Calhoun
calls Benton one. Both we think are right
Both are undoubtedly abolition sts, and the
only difference is, that Benton is against the
dissolution of the Union, and Culhoun in fa
vor of it.
Merciful Justice! whathasthe South to hope
for when both leadersof the Southern Demo
cracy are infamous abolitionists? Mr. Ben
ton accuses Mr. Calhoun of the treasonable
purpose of a dissolution of the Union—and
there really seems to be truth in the charge.
Last year, when a bill was before Congress
for the compromise and settlement of the sla
very question, Mr. Calhoun voted against it,
when every other Senator and Representative
from the South voted for it. The South, tho
whole South, was in favor of it Why then
did he oppose it, unless from a desire to keep
the question open for agitation, in view of a
dissolution of the Union ? Mr. Calhoun has
in every speech he has made in Congress on
the subject of slavery, declared that all tho
South asked, was that the territories should bo
organized without any legislation on the sub
ject of slavery. When Mr. Walker’s bill came
up on its passage at the last session of Con
gress—providing for all that Mr. Calhoun had
ever asked—he sneaked out of the Seriate and
left the bill to be defeated ! Why this, if agita
tion, and that alone, was not his object ? But
we wipe our hands of both these Southern
Democratic leaders—they are too vile for our
support. Let them nestle in the bosom of
their abolition, that which they have cherished
and sustained.
But we ask again, what difference is there
between Benton and Calhoun? They both
testify that the other is an abolitionist: Benton,
we think, is the best of the two, for he voted
to pass the bill giving us a share of California,
and Calhoun voted against it. Benton is
therefore to be regarded more as the friend of
the South than Calhoun. But the friends of
slavery will have nothing to do with either.
We would not trust either—between such ene
mies of our institutions we have no choice.
A SusVBHOLDEK.
Port Spai,v, Trinidad, July 12.—Among the
agricultural and laboring classes, grumbling
and growling are loudly frequent, and the Go
vernment, both here and in the mother coun
try, are held in utter contempt. Although the
weather is most propitious, and the growing
crops look remarkably healthy and productive,
still discontent has grown io such a height that
nothing but emigration to the United States is
contemplated, and already some 250 planters
have sold out preparatory to embarkation.
Graphic.—Lord Byron describes a parly
with which he dined, as follows : “ Like most
parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky,
then argumentative, then disputatious, then un
intelligible, then altogethery, then inarticulate,
and then drunk. ”
A whaling ship lately arrived at Nantucket
which had been absent only one month less
than five years. But there is a ship belonging
near New Bedford that has been out more
tban five years.
Destructive Fire—About 1 o’clock on
Wednesday morning, a fire occurred in the
bleaching establishment of Mr. Mclntosh, in
16tb street, between 7th and Bth avenues, New
York, which, together with four frame build
ings, the same number of brick dwellings, and
a stable, in which were seven horses, were de
stroyed before the flames could be subdued.
The fire is supposed to be the work of an in
cendiary.
The Projected Line of Sleamere between Cadiz
and Havana.— The Faro of the 18th ult. states
that they are daily expecting to receive official
notice of the approval by the Metropolitan
Government of the establishment of this line of
steamer’s. “We are sure,” says the Faro,
“ that within the present year, we shall have
four steamer's, making semi-monthly trips be
tween this port and Cadiz, and in connection
with these, two others plying between Cadiz,
Barcelona, Marseilles and Genoa.”
The amount in the United States mint at
Philadelphia, July 23d, subject to draft, was
$710,000.
The way to make Benton President. —
A paper in Missouri says that the best way to
slop the slavery agitation in that State is to
hang Col. Bentos. A little talk of this kind
will get up a feeling in all the Free Slates
which will secure to him the consummation of
bis highest ambition.