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i W w Bra 111 w ■ llilllli! I - w w 111 1 i H w 1 HI WILLIAM S. JONES. germs, THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL I» Publlah.dev.ry Wednesday, at two dollars per annum IN ADVANCE. TO CLUBS or INDIVIDUALS sending us Ton Dollar,, SIX copies of the Palter will be sent for one yaar, thus furnish: ng the Paper at the rate of ■IX COPIES FOR TEN DOLLARS. or a free copy to all who may i roeure us fixe sub scribers, and forward us the tnoaetr. THE CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL DAILY AND TRI-WREKLY, Are also published at thia .file., and mailed to sub scribers at ths following rates, via.: Daiit Parse, if sent by mail-•• -87 per annum. Tm-Wbmlt Paran 4 “ •• TERMS OP ADVERTISING. Im Wkbkiy.—Seventy-fire cents persquare (la lines orless) forthe first insertion, and Fifty cent for each subsequent insertion. /or Sale. Il—— " ...‘aJSS'- FOR BALE. TWO LOTS OF LAND, one in Pulaski oousty, containing Two Hun drsd two and a half (202|) Acres, known • as kA No. 148, in the Bth distriot of formerly Dooly county. Also. one in Deeater county, known as lot No. 363, in the 19th district, containing Two Hun dred and Fifty (250) Acres. Persons wishing to purchase the above Lota, will address the undersign ed at Augusta. The terms will be liberal. bl3-w8 A. W. RHODES. The Albany Patriot will please copy 8 times, weekly, and send account to this office. Savannah River Lands for Sale. MTII £ PLANTATIONS lying four miles below Augusta, on the Savannah River, known as LNOE CREEK TRACT, attaining about 500 acres, 150 of which are well timbered, with Oak, Beseb, Poplar and Hickory, Gin House, Screw, Negro Houses, Stables, Ac., are on the place. Aad the TURK NETT TRACT, containing 550 acres, 175 to 220 of whieh are well wooded, with Hiehory, Oak *nd Beech. Adjoining these tracts is a body of uncleared land, of about 100 acres, on whieh is a very seperi >r fishery, and which may bo iueluded in either tract. The cleared land is in a high state of cultivation, and is as well adapted to the suitors of corn and cotton as any lands on the river. They are protected from freshets by high and strong embankments thrown up with great labor and expense, and are drained by a large agueduct. It is deemed useless to particulariso farther, as persons desirous of purchasing can always examine for themselves, by calling on the subscriber on the premises. WM. J. EVE. Evelyns, Sept 9, 1851. Terms—Ono- third Cash; the balance one and two years, with interest. slfl-w3m - i LAND FOR SALE. I OFFER, a Tract of LAND for sale in Warren county, about a mile and a half from -X. Wrightsboro, and five miles from Thompson’s Depot, Georgia Railroad, commonly known as Wil- , liame's place, containing 977 acres, with a good por tion of good woodland. This may be purchased in two parcels, as it can bo divided into twe farms. This place is in good repair. Terms easy. s4-w4 JURIAH HARRISS. “ LAND FOR SALE. I OFFER a Tract of LAND for tale in Colombia county, lying on both ride® of the -A- road loading from Augnvta to Washington, which croeeoa Little River at Paecall’a Lower Bridge, containing a v >ont 1,200 Aereo, fully 300 acres of good wood land, and a sufficiency of young pine to furnish rails to keep op the fencing and supply the farm with coal wood. The place ia in good repair. Terms easy. *4-w4w JURIAH HARRISS. Columbia County Land. ■g-TMvft THE subscriber offers for sale fWs||| his PA KM in Columbia county, 27 W® HfMB- mile*above Augusta, on the Augusta -A. aad Washington read, containing Five Hundred und Twenty-one (621) Acres, nearly one-fourth wood land. Persons wishing to purchase, will please call an the premises, ,or address the subscriber at Win field, Ga. Eight Hundred Acres adjoining this land nan be bought an good terms. aulQ-wtf V. M. BARNES. EXECUTORS’ SALE. WE OFFER, at private sale, jr . ■nyrit that valuable PLANTATION of < the late Charles Cunningham, de ©eased, lying oa Kcckv Comfort Creek, in Jeffer son county, five miles from Louisville, containing if,697 acres, wbieh we will sell altogether, or divide into throe tracts. Tho Solitude tract contains* • • • 1,307 acres. ThsGranson do. ••<•1,120 do. TbeWoo’stock do. ...*1,270 do. All three es these tracts have good Dwellings on them, and a valuable Mill on one of the tracts, with Gin, running by water. We also offer 160 NEGROES, with MULES. STOCK, PROVISIONS, Ac., Ac. If not disposed of at private sale, we will positively sell tae Lands at public outcry, in Louisville, Jefferson county, on the first Teesday in December nail, and the Nemes, Stock, Prov Mons, Ac.. Ac., on the first Tueamy in January. Terms liberal. JOHN BONES, ) WM. J. EVE, Jftt’ts. OWEN P. FITZSIMONS J ' Auyue%M t Gmw., AOg. 2G. - FOR SALE. MTHE subscriber offers for sale his valuable PLANTATION con- W taining 839| acres, fti OMumbia eoun as from Auguste, lying immediately on the mad leading from Jas Luke’s, Seq., to Harden’s j Ferrv. Oa the premises is a good DWELLING ( HOUSE and all necessary out-buildings, with the beet kind of well arranged Negro Houses. There is | also an excellent Gin House and Packing Screw | There is also on the premises a good spring and well of water. The l*ands are fine productive eotton and j corn land, as good as in the county, and well situs- j tod. Terms made easy. J Any one wishing to purchase can get any <nforma- < ♦ ->n wished by addressing me at Eubank's P. O. j Cilumbia county, Ga. Any fsrsoo visiting the place, 1 will take groat pleasure in showing them the plaatatioa. aoB-tf A. C* JONES. Plantation for Sala. ' JU.-A THE subscriber offers for sale, P*eTß his PLANTATION, four miles eavt of Appling, Columbia county, and 20 miles from Augusta, containing about 97s acres, eno half of which is undented. On the place is a good comfortable DWELLING, with all the necee- i eery out buildings, including Negro Houses, Cribs, Barn, Gin House, Packing Screw, Ac., all in good < repair, and a mast excellent spring; and the wbsle tract is very well watered. Terms liberal, and pewswsion given by or befor the first of January, 1852. He can also supply th purchaser with 12 to 1600 bushels corn. Persons who dssire to purchase will please call and examine the premises. Jy26*wtf M. E. HEGG IE, FOR SALE. MTHK SUBSCRIBER offers for sale hie FAMILY RESIDENCE ia the Town of Marietta. It is looked in a de sirable part of town, ia well improved, contains abont two acres. Tho dwelling has nine ro» ma and one basement, all well finished. Possessiou oa ibe bad the first of July. Per terms, apply to Col. David Dobbs, Wm. P. Young, er John P. in the absence of Aul ap3o-w NELSON Bfo BENTON. PLANTATION FOR BALB THR UNDERSIGNED offers -mm SB bis PLANTATION for sale, containing Bp A- the rise of 3,700 Acres, 1,200 acres in the woods, the most of which is well timbered. Lit tle River runs through said land, equally dividing it. into Wilkes county, 9| mites from Washington, and Columbia county, 13 miles from Thomson Depot, i Georgia Rail Road; good improvements of every i kind, including Grist and Raw Mills. Price, 66 per acre, one-half to be paid on giving possession the . 2fith Dec. next, the balance free es interest twelve months following June 12, 1851. je!B»wtfJOHN Q. WEST. Valuable Land for Salo. q_ 4 I MOW OI’KER for SAk,E no. nf th. most de»rirabl. PAR M.S ia fl® Will Middle Georgia, and one of th * note baa al .ml delightful aitualione in all. the eonntry, aad *x .quelled by any place in lbs. Country for its eoavaateal amngamenU and fix' arw of nil kinds naeasaary for sots fort end oonvon' one., good water, and aa healthy ae aay place in Craorgia, It being and lying ia Dpenn county, on Tobi er*a Creek, eoartai n ing near eleven hundred aeree, wail watered, bbout half of th. lead open, aad a targe port mo of it fresh; liea well for oar country. That la the wood, well timbered ; has a good Mill Seal oa it, s large Gm House and Granary together, being M feet long and 82 foot wide. The lead has aotas axeelleM meadow, far graxieg. If desired, I will coll my crop of era, fodder, cats, Ac , which, notwithstanding the drought, will ha a plentiful supply mad., and ay stock of all kinds. T.rroe tear, aad to soil purchasers. JyM-wtf J. C. W, LINDSAY. CJ?^ l?raS » WOOL ' aad H«* '-’ .KDS of the above ealcbrotsd atempe, are <” “•'.quailed enslhy, sad wherere.iaMßda»<l. take «■'. place e# all othars. They are maaafeMuredaa Mir aew laqmred machinery. and each paw is war mated ia every roapeet. Our iafariar Cante—the oroamoa "Wbitiamore" stamp—an, at the usual well kaown quality. Sold by the Hardware bousM ia all the silica, and Coaalry Marchants, and to the trade, by the Manu faatorars. JOS. B. SARGENT, myio-wly* 24 <Yi/.street, York. asrannih Iron and Brass Foun DRY. IM COMSKMVEMCK of ioaroaaad f.cthde. together with the lane addniooe to thia Eetab- UshmaM. the eubeenbar » eaahled to furaiah, at the dbtetoM aouea possible, STEAM ENGINES of any woe aod power i HOI LEKS, of low sad high Pne sura; CASTINGS, erery deronpeioa, sad SHAFTINGS and MACHINERY io general, at iwteao slightly is adeaase of Non hem price*. Htoasa GV AGE COCKS, Steam aad VaetMua GDAGCB, GONGS and Swam WHISTLES, oa bawd at ©H iMMt. No. 1, SMtnh HG IRON, sad ateo Smith’s OOAU oa tend, aad for cate at th. towam mark* ■etea. A M. MILLER, It Eaaun wharf Saraaaab. ssobs, sbobs. THM eabeeritwrs tarito plaatore to call aad ax amiae thotr meek es beery HKOGANS. beaghc aapramiy far g* later's trad* E -*.r’ -a. FLEMING. *n— - hotels. FLOYD HOUSE, MACON GEORGIA. J Ar-.-.-A THIS W ELL known and popular Ho tel, having beeu recently repaired and pat .* 1 p'• U in complete order, is now open for the re- I cepnou of Boarders and Transient persons. The prof-rietcr pledges himself that nothing shall be want* ing on bis part, to make and continue it one of the i most popular Hotels iu ths South. 8 The Ladies’ Department is under the special care of Mrs. JAMES, formerly of Columbus, aud favorably ki»wn to the travelling community, who will see that nothing is wanting to make visiting La dies and Families entirely at home, their apartment having been newly and beatifully furnished. TH OS. WILLIAMS, Proprietor. , A. B. Hartwell, Superintendent. N. B.—An Omnibus will always be in readiness to convey Passengers to and from the Railroad De ' pots. rV The Alligator Line of Stages has its office per manently located at the Floyd House. jy3-w6m F. K. WRIGHT, Owner. MERIWETHER WARM SPRINGS. MTHIS establishment will be open for the reception of visitors, on and after the first day of June. Visitors will at all 1 a ready conveyance from Greenville, or Pleasant Hill, and a four horse Post Coach, three times a week from Columbus to the Spring. Th Proprietor will also keep Hacks and other convef antes at the String fre the conveyance of bis guests. myl3.wtOl J. U MUSTIAN, Prolifer. BRADFIELD S HOTEL SOUTH-EAST CORNER gijjl OF THB aHii PUB LIC SQUARE, LaGrange, Georgia* my24-w6m* FRANKLIN HOTEL, M BROAD STREET, Augusta, Ga., one square above the Globe Hotel, un the south side of Broad street, wIX D. B. RAMSEY, Proprietor. ALEXANDER FEMALE SEMIN ARY IN Alexander, Burke County, wilt be opened in October, under the charge of a competent male teacher, a Seminary for young ladies, iu which the course of instruction will bo divested to the arqui sitioa of a practical, polite end finished educatiou. With the branches usually taught in institutions of r similar character, will ba connected, a complete sys tem of oral iaatrnotions upop the Pestaioszian method. A circular will be issued hereafter, announcing the terms and course of instruction. Applications should be made to s 14 wlm JOS. A.SHKWMAKE. Sec»y. MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. rpuE TWKNTIETII COURSE OF JL LECTURES in ibis Institution will commence on the firm Monday in NOVEMBER next. G. M. NEWTON, M. D.—Anatomy. L. A. DUGAS. M D.—Surgery. L. D. FORD, M. D— Institutes and Practice of Medic -o. H. V. < MILLER, M. D.—Physiology and Pa thological Am ’omy. 1. P. GAR Vl.\ M.D. —Materia Medica aud The rapeutics. J. A. EVE, M.D.—- Iwtetries and Diseases of Women and Infants. ALEXANDER MEANS. M. D.—Chemistry and Pharmacy. H.F. CAMPBELL, M. D—Demoeatr i tor of Anat omy. ROBERT CAMPBELL, M. D.—Assi*Uut De- 1 monstrator. 1 A Coarse of Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence will be delivered by the Professor of Materia Modi- ( ca, and Clinical Lectures will bo given regularly at < the City Hospital. Ample arrangements have been | made for the study of Practical Anatomy. Professes Dd«AB and Mians are now in Europe, and will return before the beginning of tbo Course | with many valuable additions to the present means for demonatration in the various branches. Per any further information, application may be made to auy member of the faculty, or to G. M. NEWTON, Dean. 1 Augusta, July, 1851. jy3lw3m i Five Hundred Dollars Reward. 1 HAND’S Patent Upright ENGINE, and Porta- 1 ble SAW MILL, with Hoxie’s Continuous ‘ Peed. i These Mills are warranted superior to all others ia use, combining cheapness, simplicity and dura bility, white much groater speed is attainable, with little or no tendency to wear, there being no weight of (he follower or piston bond ou the cylinder, and no weight of cross head or connection rod on the elides, as with the horizontal Engine. The subscribers offer Five Hundred Dollars re ward to any one who will produce a superior Mill, or one of any other patent, that will perform equal to lhefe. Full drawings and specifications furnished applicants, with particulars as to terms, dtc. AH other descriptions of Mills are also manufactured at short notice, und upon reasonable terms, and war ranted. Superior Upright and Horizontal Fngines of from 10 to 50 horse power, constantly on band. Address, GINDKAT A CO., Agents Montgomery Manufacturing Com|«ny Montgomery, Alabama. s!4*3m ~cTeTgKENVI LLfT 6t CO. GENERAL COMMISSION MER CHANTS, OhiaAtmnwoga. T.uu. Vr~~"V WILL pay Uriel attention to the pur chase of Grain, Bacon, Flour, or Uhor articles of Tennessee produce. TboM articles being sold only for eash, Moicbsnte or Plsntem will remit the same in their orders, or jiro aqiliorit^to draw upon their lectors at Augnsta, Any information in regard to prices win nw gtmJ •I any tim.. aii24-lawd£wlow NEW STRAW COTTER. THM VMDERSIGNKD, Patentee for LEW IS’ STRAW and SHUCK CUTTER, bags leave to inform Planters, and the publie generally, tint he ia new manufacturing hie celebrated Patent Straw aad Shuck Cutter, at bis shop in Hamburg, and ia prepared to supply single Machins., or dis pose of County or State Rights, for making and vending the same. Thia Machine has been exam ined by many experienced gentleman who prononnee it superior to any Straw Cutlur hitherto introduced. It is well adapted to cut any kind cf food far proven der, and nuts any desired length with the greatest foallily. Ila slmpHsity of eonstrnotion, and the ra* udity with which it does its w.rk, commend it to *lanters as a most valuable invention. Perseus wishing single Machines may obtain them nt the Store of Benj. Piequet, Augusta, Gao., or al my Shop in Hamburg, S. C. je27-C*w3tn WILLIAM tte'.WlS. SURGICAL INSTITUTE. DKS. H. F. a R. CAMPBELL have estab lished an INFIRMARY in Augusta, for the <re h tin ent of b'Wrgtca/and Chronic Diseases. Here res fretfully call the attention of the Profeasion and the public to their Institution. Necessary Surgical operations will bo performed by Dr. Henry Camp - ■bll; all other treatment will be rendered by them jointly. Patients sent from the country will receive every necessary attention during their sojourn in our city REV J. W RETD'S SCHOOL IN WOODSTOCK, WILL be opened on the Bth inst. Those wish ing to become members of his school will do well to oome immediately. September 2st, 1851. w 3 TRUSTEES. DISSOLUTION. /pH IS is to certify that tho Copartnership here- JL tofore existing between lhe subscribers, has been this day dissolved by mutual coneent. WILLIAM CULBREATH. JONATHAN CAMP. Munroe, Walton county, Geo., August 30, 1851- 4-3 __ COPARTNERSHIP. 'piHK undersigned hating this day purchased of I John Clarke his interest in lb« late firm of Glarke A Ramey, will continue the GROCERY BUSINESS, under lhe firm of Ramey A Story, and ha ve now on hand a large and geieral nseort- Dienl of goods, which will be disposed of on the t'Soet acoummciating terms. JOHN D. RAMEY jy24-w3m SAM L. G. STORY. Augusta Canal. AT A MRKTISU ot lhe HoaiJ of Maoxger. of the A'lguxia Canal, held at ih.ir ofte., on th. 26th of Auguet, in*., lhe folinning R.rotmn n waapaeeed, and oriteret! lo be published : Kcsolvedj Thai from and after the first day ot Oc tober next, a 101 lof Four Dollars Im paid on each boat entering the Canal, to be collected by the Lock Keener al the tint, of entering. WiI.LIAM PHILLIPS, Seo. B. M. A. C. a«3l-w8 PLANTERS TAKE NOTICE. HAIIRY CAMP’S COMBINED CORN SHELLER, STRAW CUTTER and GRAIN THRASHER, ia now in eueceeebil operation at the Gin Hom e of Charlee DeLaigle, Eaq., near the Au gusta Machine Works. AU persons who feel inter steed in the those Machines are incited to call and see for lhomsel.ee, esory day. trom J to 4 o’clock, p. M. ad-wltn H. CAMP. JUST HKCKIVKD al the AGRICULTURAL WARE HOUSE, Augusta, alotofCltoice PLOUGHS, consisting of Double Mould Board, Hit Side Subsoil, Ka-jleSelfoeharpeeing ,andone and two Horn Ploughs, olall doscriplione. Also,Cylindrical Ghurns, Corn Shetlers, Corn Planters,ScrawCutiere Crain Cradlen, Road Scrapers, Manure Porkel Truck®, Ac., Ac. mhl9-w GARMIUHALL A BEAN. COTTAGE CHAIRS. 1 COINAGE CHAIRS— For safe I WLF at our manufactory al Cedar Shoete Factory, three mi’ea from Coviagteu Depot. We are prepared to fornivh every variety of finish of the above Chair, in any quantity, aa cheap ae any estab lishment in Georgia; feeling confident that we fiwiiities superior to any Chair Manufacturer® in thv South, we pledge ourealvee not to vex our patron* with unneceaeary Delay, aa i® too often the case ; o gentlemen send in your order® to Covington, New ton county, Ga , and let us furnish you inMantex with a cheap, neat and durable chair. aul2-wtit WM W. WOLCOTT A QO. TO PLANTERS’ TH K uiKteragned would reapeotfully inform the Pianiera that he » propaied u? furnish SMALL GRIST MILLS. W suitable tojbe at tached to Gin Gears, of differ ent sjxec, and es different patterns at the fewest pri ces. These Miffs t “* B «”•• ih * higbrat sadstac- TW~m—-• W tfo®, ssd exo be tL~i 4;-■ eempsrad with ... from the rtscss Piros, gise a n —■' Call before boy a« stoewte-re. Order* by mad promptly attested ta. WM. R. SCHIRMER, Baur Mitt Sows Mawafoesurar, Ataguata, Ga. falS-wJXCu fo.* WISKKLI I CHBONWLE ANI) SENTINEL TO MAJOR JOHN 11. HOWARD. No. 4. You wrote a latter not long ago, directed to Judge Nicoll, dated 20th July, 1851, whieh you no doubt intended, and expected to pro duce a sensation. With the exception of a few lines of adulation, penned by the editor es the Southern Sentinel, in which your article appeared, and dictated, I hare no question, by a spirit of kindness to the expectant author, I have neither seen it written about, commeut ed upon, or oven copied. How cruel—or rather ungrateful—must be the disunion press which fails to o unmend your piece, desigeed, I have no doubt, to do their cause much good, but destined to accomplish for it, as much harm as a tl ing eo harmless in its nature can do. How far wrung was Judge Nicoll not to reply to you through some public print? And how blind, (as you think,) to the interest of its cause, is the Union press not to devote the whole of its time and energies to attempting to refute the positions which you have so bodly laid down, and so clearly established. I am a man of tender heart; and ra'lier than you should bo disappointed in seeing your letter fall still-born from the womb of the press. I will galvanise into it a temporary lite by bestowing upon it a passing notice. I have no douht you consider itef much moment, that public opinion should be mould ed by a loiter from your pen, and therefore you wrote one, and put “John H. Howard’’ at the botton of it. “ ' ” nt anie, to see cue’s name in print.’* The editor of the Sentinel—with a due de ference to your own opinion, I suppose—calls on his subscribers to read “that letter”—not Wr. Cobb’s, but yours, (lor anxioas as the Disunion press was to have ‘-that letter” of Mr. Cobb, they now display some backward ness in publishing it)— saying of State aove reignty, that “Major Howard has studied thia question long and thoroughly, and is as well acquaiueld with it in all its bearings as any man in the State.” He who will impose upon himself the task of reading your milk-aad eiderieh affair, will— provided he is not far gone with the rabiee earoliiuneui, (the Carolina 1 maduoas, in plain English,) come Io the con- 1 elusion that you are ns little acquainted with J 'he subject of which you affect to treat, as any other man in the State. But i will proceed Io examine very briefly, some of your dicta. You say “we must have ndoiunity for the past and security for the fu ture." You mean by this, I suppose, that lhe federal Government must dismember Califor nia, a sovereign State. This was your policy in tho McDonald Convention. The resolu tion which you favored was very happily voted down. Why, my dear sir, don’t you know that Congress has as much right to dismember Georgia as tn partition California? What a Leailtl'ul pink of couaistency on the subject of Slate sovereignty are you! "We must unite in defence ol sound prin ciples.” J have Tory little hope that you will ever perceive, much lees advocate “seuud principles.” “It is unnecessary to talk of rights, unless wo have the power to defend and protect >honi. A tight is a blank without a renmly. If tve have no power, we have no right that we can enjoy or defend.” It ia very true, that “it it unnecessary to talk of tights unless we have the power to defend and prolwt them.” And I may hero speak a word in season, in reference to the right of Secession, over which you and your parly make so much noise. What is the use of “talking’’ of this “right” unless we have tho “power to protect and defend”it? And if we have lhe power to protect and defend it, when we have cause to exercise it, what matters it with us whether i boa peaceable right or not ? If it is not re cognised as a peaceable right, I suppose we must go to war ami force its recognition as such, and thus guarrel and fight for Secession in order to show that it is peaceable I “A tight is a bknk without a remedy ” This is lhe first lime I ever knew that a right required a remedy. I thought that wrongs re quired remedieo. Speaking of Ute Faderal Government, yon say "it has neither body nor soul.” Did you, or did you not gel ihis seuience from Gov. Troup? If yea, state why you did not stick on your quotation marks. Also state whether or not, you have plagiarized from divers and sundry other powers. "Much thou hast said which 1 know when And where thou stol’ut from other men, Whereby ’lie plain thy light and gifts Are all but plagiary shifts." You devote a good deal of labor to proving that there could be uo United States Govern ment without tho Constitution. You wou’d have been more profitably employed in prov ing that two and two make four. You must go on and favor us with extracts your letter, can now glory that wo have seen apart, if not the whole of the Constitution. After enumerating several clauaM of that inatrument, you favor ns with the knowledge that “there are other clamed of lhe Couiiitu tiou, equally obligatory as the foregoing.” In your next, plcaze give us the clauses which are not “equally obligatory as tho fore goiag.” You consider the Federal Government lhe creature of one iState. and not of all the States jointly. The man who thinks ao, must be so deeply in the fogs as to be pa«t the hope of ro demption. Why the very term “Secession,” which you are so fond of oeing, implies that lhe Federal Government ia the creature of all tho Slates acting jointly. Admitting your vagary to be true, what would a State Secede from —herselff Admitting it to be true, "So oession” is uot the term for you to employ. You should use the word “aunihiiation.*’ And when a State determined no longer to be un der the control of the General Government, you should say she that Government, and not that she Socothd from it. “The power of a slate, in its relation with the other states, has been compared to the feeb'e and humble relation which a county bears to a State.” Only those on one side, of the same mental calibre as some whem I might mention—caa you guess who T—on lhe other, assert any such doctrine. “The S'ate makes compac‘B with other States, and has the political power to enforce them.” Tho Union, you have stated, in a former part of your article, is a compact between the States If one state should disregard this compact by secession, have the balance the “political pow er to enforce” it! Ami if they have, may they do it through their common agent, the Federal Government—or how wonld you have it done ! Or do you mean that compacts aro to be ew foroofi between states only when the violating party ia willing to be fur cod t Or du you make some kinds of compacts capable ot^ being en forced, and others incapable of being enforced 1 if so, is the Union a compact of the former or latter class? My dear sir, you should be more definite, and, if possible, you should have clearer conceptions than you display of those things ol which you treat. Had you written an essay npon popguns and small-beer, pos sibly you might have treated your subject more lucidly. The direction of the Roman critic so spiritedly rendered by Francis wight be ol service to you in your next attempt at composition:— materiam vestrie, qut ecribilis <e ytto'n nninu." "Examine well, we witters weigh wilt) cere, What sails your genius -what your strength can boar.” “Having established, beyond doubt, the lim ited character of the government, and the tor ereignty nt each state, with its right of peacea ble eeceMton.” Had 1 been within hearing and seeing distance of you, when you penned thia sentence, I should probably have witnessed you elapping your hands and exclaiming, “Eureka, Eureka I—l huvo found it—l have found it.” Th-> right of peaceable secession is a futaelte resets—a vexed question—in American political ecieaee. It is one of the appnbria of polities. Perhaps 1 should have said that it sees, not w—oae of the ayprahria for you. Major Jack Howard I have solved the question. Waal |a pity it is Jeflerwn. Madison and Calhoun—he whom you worship —while in life, and he to whom you. with lhe rests! “the saints” ex pest to go after death, are not in life to rejoice with you and add their hosannahs to yours upon your “having established, teyoad doubt.” tho “right of peaceable secession.” ’Ti» true they were inclined to “ doubt’' any such aeaseeMh right. But then they bad not the benefit of yoar “ aalaMiafaMtU.’ Coaid they have only lived up to the 21st July, 1851. (the date es your letter.) each might have said ** Lord, now lettest thou thy se-vant depart tn peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation ! Mr. Madison, when Alexander Hamilton, lhe arch-federalist, proposed that New York should come into the Confederacy w.th lhe right to secede. »aid “The Constitution re quires an adoption in tolo. and for ever.” He alee informed Hamilton in a letter upon the subject, that “ the idea of reserving the right to withdraw, was started at Richmond, and con sidered as a conditional ratification, whieh was it self abandoned as worse than a rejection.’ The idea of secession then, did no! escape the vigilance of the statesmen in Virginia, the land where states rights first came into vogue,at the very time of adopting lhe constitution. George Mason was lhe father of states rights, and his opinion® found an able champ ton io tbe vl oquent Hettry. Jefferson east their opinions into anew mould, reduced their doctrines to a svnem. and formed the creed of the Repub lican party. And yet we are told by Madison, the “father es the Constitution,” and a leaner in that party, that the “idea of reserving the n hi to withdraw,” which u year doitnne of Mteaaron. was, in tn® cwa State, aod that of Jefferoon. Mason and Henry, -abandoned u worse than a rejection ” .Now. is it not a little strange that you Dtsunioniats. who pro fess to be the only simou pure republicans, overtook the feet that your secession notions were first inemted upon by the arah-federahsi VUGIISTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 24, LSSI J l / I Hamilton, and that they assumed a more tangible | form in the Itaitorous counsels of the Hartford Convention, during the dark hour of my—uot yoar— country’s peril! In Mr. Jefferson's inaugural of 4th March, 1801, hn gives what he considers the “ essen tial principles ”of our government. Among these he speaks of “election,” “a mild anc' safe corrective of abuses,” and of “ revolu tion where peaceable remedies are unprovi ded.” He mentions also, “ absolute acquies cence in the decisions of the majority,” “from whieh there is uo appeal but to force.” Mr Jefferson had to fight the hydra of seces sion in his day. both as a slate.man aud an offic al. In various places throughout hie writings, if you would only read them, you could find a plenty of other authority, besides that adduced, against your disorganising aud destructive doctrine. But perhaps you have been guided by the corrusoation of that bright luminary, D. C. Campbell, to look upon these views of Mr. Jefferson as “loose aad disjoint ed;’’ and that his opinions are given more compactly aud maturely in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, although the extracts to which I allude were penned subsequently to tbe said resolutions; and although no one, but you Disuniouis’s, can find any thing in those resolutions about secession. 11 Keen opties it requires I ween To see what is not to be seen.” In 1814, when the question of secession was rife in New England, John Randolph, the pur est and only consistent Republican arid States Rights man of his time, wrote to the people oftiiat section of our country, the very hot-bed of Federalism, dissuading them against this rash act, and urging them—using hie own words—“to resort to Conetitulumal means of redress only,” dearly showing, as the whole tenor of bis letter shows, that he thought se cession unconstitutional, and any thing but peaceable in its consequences. William H. Crawford, the Republ can can didate jjlbr the Presidency, in 1824, says that he knows of “ but one kind ” of “ constitu tional resistance ” which san be made to a “ law of Congress,” “ and that it by tleeliont.” He knows of but one other kind of resistance, “ but it it unktawie to tlu Coiutitution” “It is,” says he, “ an appeal to the sword, and by the sword must that appeal be decided ” In his letter written from Washington, 26th December, 1832, Onv. Troup says “The only constitutional remedy for unconstitution al laws is the ballot-box.” “Thera is no power given in tho Constitution to resist unconstitu tional laws.” By referring to Congressional debates, 1832 and '3, part Ist, p. 522 you will find (hat Mr. Calhoun, your political god, says, in speaking of pmoer aa divided between each Btate and tho Federal Government as lhe common agent, to “give to either party lhe exclusive right of judging, not only the share allotted to it, but cf that allotted io the other, wav to annul the division, and would confer the whole power on the party vested with such right.” On page 505 ho says, speaking of a resumption of delegated rights by a Slate, that it would be a “ breach of tho compact for which the Sla e, as a community, would bo responsible.” And yet in the teeth of all this authority, you have “established beyond doubt,” the “right of peaceable secession.” What a pity it is that Madison, and Jefiersou, and Mason, and Hen ry, and Randolph, and Crawford, and Troup, and Calhoun, did not have you for their politi cal Gamaliel ! You may be surprised that I have not attemp ted to answer the arguments by which you have “established beyond a doubt,” divers and sundry things. Had you presented a single argument, I would have treated it with the respect that had been due it. Finding none, 1 have taken the negative and supported it by the opinions of those who have weight with the Republican party— but never with the Federal party or the Disunion party. You leap to conclusions and ‘establish ments’ with as much agility as that displayed by a dandy jack in a circus. I commend your activity, but despise your logic. You ask, “ought not every good man, every lover oi law and order to pause, and with his hand on his heart, reflect and examine for him self 7” Whether it is necessary for him to place his hand upon his heart ot not, I shall not pre tend to say. Verily, every man should “pause,” and "reflect and examine for himself.” In these days of Jacobinism, disorganization and destruc tion, every man should reflect for himself, and stamp the mark of Cain upon every enemy of his country and his country’s Union and Consti tution. You very kindiy set out to prove to us that “we have a right to our slaves.” Had you not better favor us with proof that ‘ we have a right to our” horses? You eay your proof wifi be “satisfactory to all but abolitionists.” Do any but abolitionists doubt our right? Why prove the right to those who admit it ? Hud you net better bring forward ruch logic as will have some effect upon those who deny our right ? Or have you had the wisdom to see that you can prove only admitted facts? (( lf we were all upon one side, tho ballot-box would be ineffectual, a3 we are in the minority in Congress.” How then can you justify the folly of forming sectional parties, if you know the Northern sectional party will be stronger than the Southern ? You have a good deal tosny about the Com promisebeing “wise, liberal and just.” Now, don’t you imagine Mr. Cohb is dreadfully “used up” by your * ‘carrying on so,” is regard to his expression ? H«, uo doubt, considers himself “demoffahed,” and asks— “Can minds celestial, so much wrath contain.” very little logic in your piece, and very little really deserving notice. Ils only characteristics are bold and striking egotism, and assumption of “establishments,”’ together with verbosity put forth “ With all your flippant fluency of tongue, Most confident, when palpably most wrong.” Still charity demanded that your production should not pass altogether unheeded. For bring ing it again before the public, your most sincere thanks are due Anti-J acobis. for tha Chronicle St Sentinel. u Old Documents are dangerous Things.” BykeHEka and Toombs. Meserc. Editors :— lt is known to the coun try generally, that about three years since, there was a certain bill before Congress, com monly called the “Clayton Compromise Bill.” This bill did not repeal the law of Mexico in relation to slavery, that was thought by somo to exist iu California and New Mexico. It left the law aa it was, and if the Supreme Court of iha United States declared that it existed there, it was to remain to — for the bill prohibited the people or the legislative authori ty of lhe Territories from repealing the law if it existed there, and they wished it repealed, or passing any law “respec ing lhe prohibition or establishment of African slavery” in the Territories. Messrs. Stephens, Toombs and other Southern men, behoving that the Su premo Court of the United States would decide thatjthe law of Mexico did exist there, and as they could not gc’ Congress to repeal it. and seeing no chance of its ever being repealed with this prohibitory clause in the bill, they voted against it, and the bill was killed in the House of R>presentatives. All know how these gentlemen wore denounced by these assuming lo bo the peculiar and ex clusive guardians of the rights of the South. And uo meu were more free in their denun ciation of these gentlemen, than were certain gentlemen now calling themselves Sou hern Rights men out about Columbus. If my recolleelion serves me right, to ths proposition of Messrs. Stephens and T oombs, that it was tho duty of Congress to legislate upon the subject of el tvcry in ih» Territories so far as to repeal tho law of Mexico, and that it ought to have done so it was contended that the Clayton “bill granted not only all that was wssesrary. bnt all that Congress iu the exer cise of its constitutional authority could grant toes.” It was contended further th it “it has ever been lhe doctrine of the South, and it is a correct doctrine, that Congress has no right over the subject of slavery.” that “the Const! tutinn bad guaranteed it," Ac And this pro position was further objected to as a dengeroue doctrine—that if admitted, we “surrendered our rights," or yielded lhe question —for, said they, “if you admit that Congress c-iuldhave eetMtehmi ' slavery where it Joes not exist, “common honesty will admit that she eeold have prohibited it.” But how changed lhe tune of these gentlemen now, after they have gotten just what they then so earnestly con tended for. It is said that “truth t> stranger than fiction.” The reader, will think so after a little, if ho will just glaune with me over an “old document ‘ 'hat chance has thrown in my wav. I have said that among those who denounced Messrs Stephens and Toombs most, were many of the gentlemen out about Columbus, now calling thetneelrtw Southern Right* men, and who now cantend that the South is pro hibited or “eaciuded' 1 from going to ths Terri tories, when they themselves know (if they know any tb.ng about what they tolk* of so much) that noi only uo Wilmot proviso has been placed there, hut even the prohibitory clause iu lhe Clayton bill is not now tn the Territorial bills lately passed by Congress. The Columbus Times was most violent in its denunciation, and evea went so far as to term Toombs and Stephens “Traitors” to the South for their votes and views relative to the duty of Congress And so strong was the opposition to the ‘doctrine" of these gentle men. that a gentleman well known, (and to wham ail accord patriotism, honesty of pur pose. and boldness and tearlessuess in ex pre* sing his opinions) felt such au interest in the matter, and fearsng Masers. Stephens and Toomes might mtatecd their constituents, ac tually sent an address to oar District and to Mr. Tootnb’a District, to prove to us that these gentlemen were wrong—and that we ought to make them retract. Ac. That address was published in lhe Columbus Times, of Sep r feather UMS. and was signed “John Hancoek ’’ And the ma is were loaded with “sxtroa" sent to our districts. Chance has thrown that paper before me. and I bud the editor, Mr. Forsyth, endorsing it as follows: i -■ SrarasMa ana TUllage. —We invite atteaiioo ro the uaaosweraoie defonee of uouthorn Itighto, )' aad complete refutation of' the mischievo is surren j der doctrines of Messrs. S.ephciw and Toombs, by . our eoirespondeat. John Hancock, in to-day*<s “Tinies.” Now let us sej what our old friend ‘ John Ilanocek” says Hear him : ”To thb Whigs or thb Skvbbth and Eighth Como usg 3 ion al Disybiots. —I address myself to you, because you, as a portion o( uie people of Geor gia, alone can correct auy error which our Kepre ee Natives in Congress fren your Districts, may or have run into,” de. ♦ ♦ ♦ • • » “ As it is your peculiar privilege to select the Representatives from these Districts, who, when elected, represent the Slate, it w incumbent on you to examine into their conduct, and see to it, that they shall not pbbsbvbrb in a course which eur re ri ders the rights of our State and the common interests of tho South,” &c. Then again: “ You will not then complaia es me for lemon st rating with you against the motion of Mr. Stephens to lay the late Compromise bill upeu the question cf slavery, upon the table, and his even 7nore culpable conduct of surrendering our constitutional rights to tbe newly acquired Territories in the speech which ho made some time afterwards in defence of thia un looked for and unaccountable movement. Nor can you ojmplain of me for protesting against the con duct of Mr. Tocmbs, who is canvassing both dis tricts, openly defending and endeavoring to sustain the principles advanced in Mr. Siebens' speech. I repeat, that if these two gentlenien are wrong, it is the duty of these two districts t< Compel them to hktraot, or dismiss them from oar service,” &e. Now what was the great sit, of these two gentlemen, that is here alluded to ? It was nothing more nor less than their assertions (with the proofs they offered) that they believ ed the Supicma Coart weald declare that the law of Mexico iu relation to slavery existed in the Territories, and they contended that it was the duty of Congress to repeal Ac. Bat hear “John Hancock” again. saying “I propose to examine this tjuesuun with the im~ partiality of a patriot heart, a* t a mind limit cd to the search and exposition of truth,” he proceeds thus, viz : ; “It was fondly hoped when th£ b.’R. passed tbe Scuafo that lha expectations of tb. soni?" heads and patriotic ixaib*, who gave Oirtb oit re alized, and no doubt they Would have been but for the reckless imprudence of Mr. Stephens and a few other Southern men. He made the motion to lay tho bill on the table, according to bis statement, without consultation with bis colhagues, upon the responsibility of his own judgment. Admitting bis 1 canity to decide for hitßselfj against the opinions * of his Southern friends upon his own course, as I I am not prepared to deny tohim after the declaration, that both the North aud South were ‘profoundly ig norant’ of the question, it is still my purpose, not- ( withstanding his supjxwed fiat, to show that accord- i ing to the doctrines of the Constitution and the t South, the bill granted not only all that icas < necessary, but all that Congress in the exercise of i its constitutional authority could grant to us.” 1 ‘‘ Il is well known to all that iu thw organization 1 of California and New Mexico, the freesoil and abo- ’ lition members of Congress were making powerful 1 efforts lo fix on those Territories the Wilmot proviso t which all understand to be a proviso that slavery | shall not exist in them. The South has always con- I tended that we have a constitutional right to carry j slaves into the Territories, which I will directly j prove to the satisfaction ol every man or woman who g feels interest enough in the subject to read the argu- i ment,” dfcc. Here him again: “Woof the South, fully impressed with our right | under the Constitution, to emigrate to those Terri- t tcries with our slaves, believe even if the Wilmot proviso had boon passed, wo would not thereby have bad our rights impaired, tec. Hear him again ; ( “It bus ever been llio doctrine of the South, and < it is a correct doctrine, that Congress has no right t over the subject of slavery ; becauao the Conatitu- . lion has guaranteed it ; Congress could not have . done more for the South than by passing this bill, un- . lees the Scuth desired Oregon, too, lo be open to them, Congreea could not have established slavery in Now Mexico and C alifornia, nor made a deola - * RATION THAT TH»Y SHOULD BBMADB SLAVS STATES, 1 tor it cannot bo denied that" if Congress has the < power to establish slavery there, it has also the right I to prohibit it. Tbiw is and the South has al- ( ways insisted that Congress must leave the subject | to the controlling power of the Constitution. I { ack now ths question distinctly, What morn could ( Coiigresu do lor the South than wbh done by this . bill? If the answer is that she could have establish ed it, common honesty will admit that she could f have prohibited it. This, though, is a |>ower which 1 tho Constitution has wisely wiff:held from Congress,” < &c. fl Then again t “If the Compromise bill would have .done no good, it could not have done any harm, it coaid not have been prejudicial to the intereatß of the South, and wh have the opinions of all the members from Geor gia, as well as inoat of the memherß from lhe South ern States, of both political parties, except Messrs. Stephens und Toombs, that our slave interest* were greatly protected by it. opinions of South- era men are certainly enlitled to some consideration, when the Abolitionists and Barnburners, without exception, joined Mr. Stephens in defeating tho bill, upon the ground that the free soil question wks yield ed to the ala rcholders,” &c. Again, speaking of Mr. Stephens's speech, he save: “If he and Mr. Toombs are right, it is just and proper that we should yield our claim As <t South ern man 1 will not contend for any right, unless that right is well founded. Mr. Stephens and Mr. Toombs contend that tho CvhdUut 'ioa of (lie United States does not recognixe slavery in New Mexico and California, because the Government of Mexico doeanot recognixe slavery, but has prohibited it, aod in guppoit es tbfe extraordinary proposition, the former adduces authority which he insists is con- -‘*2. ofousflly effects which would result from the (Passage of the bill. I will advert to his authorities, and with due deference to the profundity of his loaming, I shall show all men of coiMnon sense (I mean such men as Berrien, Calhoun anti Webster, who have net, like Mr. Ste phens, a thorough knowledge of the Constitution and international laws, but who, at the same time, have had oome reputation in their limited intercourse with ilia world) that these auth 'ritieH fall short of sustain ing the positioo he has had the temerity to assume I’e lays down the doctrine generally “ that the laws of a conquered country continue in force until they are altered by the conqueror.” Ho insists that the law of Mexico prohibiting slavery is yet in existence, and he end Mr. Toombs both declare an act of Con gress, establishing slavery in the Territories, becomes necessary before we can enter those Territories with our slaves. This is un obiter dictum ts Lord Mans field in a case which I will presently show has not the slightest application to this issue, as the caw did not involve, in a single particular, any principle which is presented in this discussion.” John Hancock then proceeds to argue, and contends Cor the right of the people of the South, to go to the territories under the Con* itUutxon alone. He alludes to several cases, and brings his “authorities’* tosustai t his po sition. Be contends that both the Constitution and laws of the United S.ates ** tolerate and uteuMisAas slavery as part and parcel of our political system/’ and goes on to prove his position. And agreeing with Mr. Stephens “that the laws of Mexico are of force, except tho«e of the fundamental law of the conqueror, anil those of a political character,” he contends that “the laws and Constitution of the United States upon the subject,” are the “/un4amsiU al” law, and asks: ** H not then this Mexican law, iJ{>on which Messis. Stephens and Tcombs rent Ihsir argument to destroy our constitutional right to slavery, in conflict with the fundamental law of the United Mutes, even though i h«» Const itu'ion was silent up>n the subject? By the United States law providing lor removing slaves from one part to another of the United St ites, would any Court rule that the Bay of San Francisco, in California. was not a part of the United States? Those are hard questions. Messrs. Stephens and Toombs will have to deep up*n them before they venture an answer,” Ac. Then hear him again : “ The true ground is that which has ever been maintained by tha South, that slavery is a part of our system, incorporated in our Constitution, as a part of the political structure of our government — that it pervades al! the territory, and follows 'he ju risdiction of the government.-that it is not forced on independent States, that they can adopt or abolish the institution at pleasure, but that as it is recognis ed tn the Constitution, it is legal in the Territo ries, BECAUSE THE CONSTITUTION COVERS THE Territories, (ha) Congress has no power Crte : the Ae. Then again hear him, near his conclusion: “ Whenever from a conviction of the truth of the arguments of Messrs. Stephens and Toosabs, ar from any other cause, we tuay fall into their doctrines, [viz : ‘ That it is the duty of Congress, and we shall demand it, io legislate upon the subject, and repeal the law of Mexico.—J asp be.’] then, indeed, will the interests of the Sooth be surrendered. Ido not expect any such result from the error of the two tlemen; the people of Georgia and of the South, are awake to their interests, and are able to put dawn such doctrines" Ac. Then again, hear himt “ Vote for Taylor—vote for Case—vote for Pill more, if you choose —but 1 prav you when yau vole for Stephens and Toombs, don't commit yourselves upon this question, for their ways iu relation to this subject arc dark and full of ruin,” Ac. And then, hear him again, and for the last time, after glancing over five columns and a hail of the Columbus Times: “ Vole tor iheir.— Messrs. Stephane and Toombs if you please, but 1 pray you, for the inte«ent of your country and the ultimate peace of your fire eides, don’t let your personal and partv friendships lead you into the error in which they are so unfortunately in volved, of adopting the doctrine urged by them,” Ae., Ae. But this is net all. At the head of the Edi torials of this Columbus Times, was placed the following and other extracts, as advertisements to stand until after tha election, and byway ot showing iheir readers what they ware for, vix: “ We have neither the right nor the power to loach slavery where it exists —Gee. Cass. “ Leave to the people, who will bs affected by this question, to adjust it upon their own and in their own manner—Gee. Cass. “ 1 ain opposed to the exercise of any j urisdiction by Congress over the subject of slavery—Gen. Casa. u 1 do not see in the Constitution any grant of such a power to Congress —Gen. Cass.” And stiH this is not ail. Similar sentiments were attersd by some of the Whig writers in the Whig press; aud if you could get hold of the files of ah the Democratic press—the Au gusta Constitutionalist. Federal Union, Macon Telegraph. Savannah Georgian, Georgia Jef tersenian, Southern Banner, Cassvihe Stan dard, Cherokee Advoca e, Rome Southerner, and Albany Patriot, you will there find senti ments similar to those of the Columbus Times and John Hancock and all have sheafed excep. the Southern Banner and Cassville Standard. Amidst all these “turn shouts ” and * jump abosts ” of their political friends, press and politician?, these iwo papers have stood square upto “tile true ground ” sad “correct doc trine,” as the above extracts term it. And what was the result of ail this “ to do ?” We valued Messrs- Stephens and Toombs too ■ I much, mid had too much con fid once in their ’ fidelity to our interests, and the intores's of the 1 South, to give them up readily, and without n . fair hearing. We felt that if they had conimit i | ted an error, the intention was good, and that was to make us more secure in our rights; and while our “ personal and party friendships” lead us, in the Seventh and Eighth Districts, to vote for and elect Messrs Stephens and Toombs, we did as our Columbus “ Teach era” wished us to do—we d d not “commit ” ourselves to these doctrines. And twelve months afterwards showed that wa did not “ commit ” ourselves to these docirines. Our Legislature met, and Mr. Gartrell, and I reckon some of these gentlemen and others, fixed up resolutions in accordance with these views of “John Hancock ” and the Columbus Times; all of oar members of the Legislature voted for them, and I have been told they passed the Legislature unanimously. And what did Messrs Stophens and Toombs do? We did not a*k them to ” retract.” Many of us thought them too honest and independent to do that. But wo went es far as we felt we ought to or could go. We studied upon the matter twelve months, and the Representatives of our two districts, and tne Representatives of the whole people of Georgia, as good as told these gen tiemen, they ought not to “pkhsevkre.” Our Representatives in the Logivlature said, and the people m their primary meetings said, that “ Congress bad no rigid to legislate upon the subject.” A few months after the Legislature adjourned, the subject again came up before Congress, and our two Representatives then finding a chance to uecounnod&te us. and get ting a much better bill for us, they did cease to “persevere” in what wa< termed their own “ mittchievous surrender doctrines”—they done as “ all of us ” officially expressed ourselves they should do, and they fully represented us. Had they done otherwise, they would have represented themselves and not us. rind any man or set of men who advocates the doctrine that a Representative in Congress or the Legis lature, should represent himself in preference to wishes of his constituents, when he is officially and regularly informed of their will—such naeu who will abuse and cen sure a Representative, for obeying the will of hie constituents rather than his own, where there is no constitutional scruples in the way, these men who thus act towards a Representa tive, are not Republicans, but Monarchists at heart, and they are unfit to be trusted, politi cally, iu any manner whatever, in this Repub lican land. And ywt, I understand this editor of the Co umbue Titnea and “John Hancook,” who Rant the documents into our districts to an hghten ns and keep us from going astray— are now Fire Eaters. I learn they say we are “prohibited” or “excluded” from the territories, because Stephens and Toombs’‘ mischievous surrender doctrines” were not carried out by Congress. Impossible! 1 learn they were members of the Convention iu May, that nominated McDonald for Governor, and sup ported those resolutions where they say “we have been deprived by hand, of all inte rests in the territories acquired from Mexico,” that we have been degraded from our condi tion of equality in this Union.” Surely, sure ly this cannot be so ! I have looked at those bills, and I see no Wilmot Proviso there—but hey read just like the Clayton bill, except that where, in the Clayton bill, the people of the territories were prohibited fiom having slavery there, if the Supreme Court decided the law of Mexico to be of force there, the late bill lets the people do a« they please, ami even if the Supreme Court docide the Mexi can law of force, the day after the decision is made, the people of the territories can repeal it, and except, too, it is declared in the late bills, that the territories might come into the Union as States, with slave iy if the peop’o of ‘ho territories bo desired —which was not so declared in the Clayton bill. If it be so, if theue gentlemen really believe the South ‘‘ex cluded T iu the territories, it is because they have fallen in the “oven more culpable conduct of sunendering our conatitulioital rights”—for 1 understand that all that Mr. Stephans con tended for “in his speech” wbb, that it was the duly of Congress to repeal the Mex can law. If bo, it is indeed strange. For we ha v ebecn assured that “this question” was examined into in the fall of 1848, “with the impartiality of a patriot heart, and a mind I tinted to the search and exposition of truth. But. how ever it may bo—whether their change be ♦‘from a conviction of the truth of the argu ments of Messrs. Stephens and Toombs, or from any other cause,” one thing is certain, viz: If we ara in error now, and Messrs Stephens and Toombs did wrong in voting for the late territorial bills, and are still wrong iu not deairing a of the Union, on ac count of their passage—Although these gen tlemen and their friends may not have in fluenced us in differing from Mesarv. Ste phens and Toombs, and although they may not have influenced Messrs Stephens and Toombs to conform to our and Meir wishes— yet, aa they set themselves up in 1843-49, as our teachers, as they told uh these our Repre senntative* of the 7'h and Bth districts were then in ‘ error,” and were “surrendering our constitutional rights,” and that it was “Incum bent” upon ub to “see that they* shall not per smere” and as we have seen to it, and they did not “ifcrsevre,” but yielded to the voice of their constituents, to the voice of Georgia, and to the voice of the South; these Clayton Com promise men of Columbus and elsewhere, courso they have pursued— for they (and our Columbus ’eachers particularly) did tkeirbest to hens it so! They employed their lima and talents, and spent thrir mosey in printing and ■ending documents to us in the two districts, to enlighten us to correct the “error” of our Representaivcs. and to 4aa;> us to the “correct doctrine.'' Many of them that were not mom her, of the last Legislature, went to Milledge ville, and they and Mr. Gartreil fixed up reso lutions in accordance with these views of thia “John Hancock” and other Clayton Coinpro tnise men. And if wrong has been done the Seuih, if the South haa been “deprived by high hand of all interest in the territories.” as far as their influence and the influence of their friends went. THEY DID IT! For we not only got all they asked, but more than they asked for, or said Congress could, consti tutioually give us, in the late territorial bills. And for proof, reader, look to the exracts above ' and if you doubt what wo say ab.lut the bills, look to them. Seventh District. T j- Notlee--Kvery body read tills. —Dr. W. R. Mosklsv is still in Griffin, and continues to cure Cancers, Wens, Points*, and Ulcers of all kinds. Every person afflicted with Cancers, would do well to give him a call, and have (heir health re stored. He has, during the last twelve months, cured a great many cases of Cancers, that seemed to ba from their appearance, almost incurable; in fact, a number of them was of long standing, and had been under the treatment of the most eminent Cancer Doctors in the world. Dr. Moseley has now in his office some fifteen or twenty Cancersand Tumors, weighing from 2 toB oz. which ho has preserved lor a specimen, that those afflicted with the disease, may see and satisfy them selves that there is no bumlmggory in Dr. Moseley’s curing the very worst kind of Cancers. my23-wt HATS, HATS, HATS. FALL STYLE FOR 1851. ajjf If yon wish to look al some of the g> finest H ATS in the United Stales, just call £3. n at J. TAYLOR. Jr., ACO.’S, and examine their Pall Styles for 1850. Near the Poet Office corner. aul6 CHEAP READY MADE CLOTHING. Jjf J. M. Newby A Co., under the United Stales Hotel, will dis|>oeeof the SUMMER GO* IDS they have on hand, at prices 1-ss than they can ho bought for elsewhere. Those in want, can gst bar gains, by calling early. They have jost rec< ivo-t a large lot of fine Cotton and Linen SHIRTS, DRAW EKS, Ac.. &c., which will be etid low. j«29 O'We are authorized to announce RICH ARD W. ROGERS a£ a Candidate tor Sheriff of Burke county, at the ensiir.g election in January next. slO We are authorized to announce HEN RY SAXON »ea Candidate for the office of Tax Collector of Burke county, at the election in Janua ry next. a9-td o'We are authorised to announce JOHN V. DAVIS as a Candidate for the office of Tax Col lector of Patnaui county, at the ensuing election in January next. au27-td jyWe are authorised to announce A LFRED L. WILLIS, Esq , as a Candidate of the Conatitu tional Union party for the Legislature from Greene county, at the ensuing election. au27-w3 Dr. L. C. Belt, will be supported ae an Independent Candidate for the Legislature in Columbia County, at the ensuing Election by aulO Mxwr Voters. COLUMBIA COUNTY, GEORGIA SEPTEMBER TERM, 1851. Wo, the Grand Jury, chosen and eworn for the September Term cf Court, hare, through our Committees, examined the trcveral sub jects according to our duty ; and feel it our duty to •all the a. ten tian of oar fellow citizens to the dilapi dated condition of our Court House, believing as we do that it is unsafe. The Jail we find in good keeping and well adap ted to the ends for which it was btL'lt. We would eali the attention to the stale of the Treasury, which we hare examined, and find a balance of 3847.01 due the County. We would also call their attention to the Bridge over Uptons or Town Creek, adjacent to Wrights boro’ and recommend immediate attention thereto, the public are endangered in eraealDg it. We bare examined the Books of the Clerks of the Superior, infeoor and <3ourta of Ordinary, and find tbam nca’ly kept, reflecting credit upon the officers. We feel it to be our duty io recommend our Sena tor and Representatives io use their beat exertions for the passage of the Law prohibiting the intro duction of slaves into our State for the purpose of Traffic. We eongrat'ilatp the Court and County that we have no speeial Presentments to render. We would return cur thanks to his Honor, Judge Ftarnee, and the Attorney General, and other officers of the Court for their kind and courteous attention during the Term. We would request the Clerk to have the above pebliehe I in one of the public journals. On motion u! Attorney General, ordered to be published. WILLIAM B. TANKERSLEY. Esq , Foreman. Peter B. Sbort, Sherwood Roberts, James Fleming, Dr. L. C. Belt, Jackson Euoanks, Hanry P. Hampton, Joseph G. Marshall, James Burronghe, Hezekiah Boyd, Joshua B. Griffin, I Jame» Knox, Benj min Berry, John Smith, John Dozier, Jeeee Evan-, < Edmund Bacon, Dr. J- S. Hamilton, i John H. Beall, S. MamnaiL | P E. ■ News of tlje Week ZSHE •■ - ~ . ’’ *• From the New York Com. Adv., 13th ms I. | The Released Cuban Prisoners. , It wan mentioned in our podtecripl yesterday j that the steamer Winfield Scott, from New Orleans, brought as a passenger Mr. Phillip 8. ’ Van Veehten, who went out in the Pampero . asalieut. in the band of men commanded by t Lopez. Much excitement was naturally caus ed by this announcement, and Mr. Van Venh ten was e<rly besieged for the particulars of , the expedition iu which he had taken part, it ; seems that he was released at the special soli citation of Capt. Pratt, of the United United States aloop of war Albany, who. after receiv- ( ing the frank and cordial note of the Captain Genera?, already published, visited the prison* era and subsequently waited upon General Concha, asking thei surrender to the United Stales Government. To this request that ofli cer declined to accedo, justly remarking to Capt. Platt that the prisoners were amenable to the laws of Spain, and that after the repeat ed warnings of the consequence of invading her territory, there certainly would be no just ground of complaint if she now declined to surrender the captives. Bui on the continued solicitations of Capt. Platt, he consented to re lense any one of them in whom that officer might personally feel an interest and of whose Previous good conduct he had knowledge. Mr an Vechten, with whose parents, residents of Albany, Capt, Platt was acquainted, was there upon liberated, an aid of Gen. Concha taking mm on board the Albany, which was immedi ately taken out to sea by a Government tow boat and pilot. Col. Haynes and Capt. Kelly were released without solicitation. During yesterday, Mr. Van Vechten addressed a long letter to the Herald, containing what professes to be a truthful nsr caiive of events, the substance of which, we suppose, our readers will desire to know.— Having from the first honestly endeavored to write with canuor upon this mva-ion of Cuba —so disgraceful in its character and so distres sing in i»a results—we are bound now to say, dial although Mr, Van V.*e averments more than substantiate all that we have written, and though we know of no reason for doubting iu the least the intentional correctness of his views, yet he has been somewhat eudtUnly converted, and probably wri es under astrong revulsion of feeling. Little more than a month ago he was as eager, we presume, as the rest for the affray; but having tried the experi ment, and narrowly escaped the penalty of his crime, he now denounces the expedition as warmly as at first he espoused it. His testimo ny is, therefore, somewhat less to ourUtste than the brief but touching letter of Col Critten den, described as a geode ran of transparent integrity and lofty sense of honor/’ and who declared before he went to Cuba that did he not believe it was a genuine patriotic move ment—a response to the eager wishes of the Cubans themselves—-“he would scorn the en* terprize as a buccaneering adventure.” Mr Van Vechten’s confession would seem very plainly that the who'e enterprise deserved the scorn and the epithet which that victim to his ardent impulses would have applied to it had he lived to this hour. We are bound to add that almost every day new disclosures cor j rob orate Mr. Van. Vechten’s statements, and . the correctness of his present views. This letter is tua lung for publication entire, 1 nor is it all of equal interest and importance, i some of its statements being quite familiar to our readers. The additional intelligence which Mr. Van Vechten communicates is a narrative of proceedings from the moment of sailing from New Orleans to the landing a’ ' Bahia Honda He says: “1 became connected with the expedition at New Orleans, receiving, on the 30th day of July last, an appointment ws first lieut. of com pany B. of Colonel W. L. Crittenden’s regi ment, (Ist artillery,) commanded by Captain James Sandors On the morning of Sunday, ' the 3d of August, the Pampero was towed to I the mouth ot the river, our engine being out of ■ order. We remained in the river until Wed , nesday the 6th, and left through the Northeast | Paas at five o’clock P. M. of that day, for Key j West. The intention at that time was to go i t'» Key West, and there take on board a pilot l for the river St. Johns—at wh’ ; ch place we < were to embark a light battery of artillery, with ‘ caissons, ammunition and harness complete, * with a number of cavalry saddles—and thence 1 were to run to the South side of Cuba and 1 land as near as possible to Puerto Piincipe. We reached Key West, and anchored some t distance from the city, a' about three P. M. of t Sunday, the 10th ins:. While at Key West a < quantity of brandy and champagne was reoeiv- 1 ed on board, which was imbibed tolerably freely ( by Lopez and his staff. About duskof that 1 day, no pilot appearing, Lopez called acoun- J cil, composed entirely of the Cubans and Hun- t garians attached to his staff, (no Americans be- t mg called) who decided to give up going to a the St. John’s River, and run immediately for p tie coast of Cuba, which was Jone at about 10 j P. M. The next morning, owing to the varia tion of the compass from muskets being stack- 0 ed near it, we found ourselves in plain 1 of the Moro Castle, and about twelve J miles distant; the vessel was immediately head- ' ed o the Northward and Westward and run n out of sight of land. About 3P. M. of that t day, Lopez took the captain and mate out of a t At 1 P. M. we again stood in for the laud, l , and soon after dusk sent a boat to reconnoitre, which was hailed by a sentry on the walls of the fort, situated mar Bahia Honda, the ship t not being more than a mile from it. As soon I as the boat reported, lights were extinguished, t and a press of steam put on, the sh p running t to the Westward along (he land. About 10 t o’clock, while running under the charge of a 1 pilot, utudera press of steam, the ship »udden- 1 ly struck, and before the engines could be stop- J ped. had run more than her length upon a co- ( ral reef. After examining her situation, it was . found that she was lying in about eight feet of ? water, while her draft was over nine fee*; and t that it was necessary that the force should be t immediately landed, which was done about 2 < o’clock on the morning of the 12th of Augutt. i The first boat* which landed Were fired upon by a party of twenty men who fled on their fire be in? returned from »he boat which con tained Captain Gouti, (a Cuban commanding an American company,) Lieut. Laningham and about thirty privates of his company. Ono j of Gouti’s men was woundod in the arm, and returned in the ship, and the cap of the lieut . was cut into halves on hie head.’* Mr. Van Vechten was in Col. Crittenden’s I command, left to take charge of the baggage, ; ammunition, &c. He describes the colonel’s ' force as consisting of one hundred and thirty 1 men. They were only four miles from Los Posaa when attacked by Spanish troops. Af ter some hard fighting with varied success, the invaders were compelled to retreat. The fate of Col. Crittenden and his fifty one men is but too well known. The Olher survivors < formed a junction with Lopez. We resume Mr. Van Vechten’s narrative, only remarking that the numbers of the Spanish tr ops, and of their killed and wounded, are given with a precision and boldness scarcely reconcilable with his apparent opportunities for correctly ascertaining them, and do not agree with other accounts given by those, who. like himself, were participants in those conflicts. In such circumstances as those of Lopez and his band, men can scarcely avoid magnify in their dangers and their prowess. “At the hour that Crittenden was attacked at the hacienda, a body of the ene my, eight hundred strong, under General Euna, attacked Lopez at Los Posaa. After a Lard fight of over two hours the enemy re treated, leaving the Americana masters of the field, and over two hundred of their number (among whom were several of their highest officer* ) dead and wounded—the American lo -s being in killed wounded and missing, only about thirty men, among whom Col. D</Wnmaii and Lieutenant Labizan were killed, and General Pragay ard Captains Brigham and Gouti were mortally wounded. After lhe action, the Spanish wounded were brought in, and as well taken care of as circumstances would admit. Lopez rode entirely unarmed over the field, through the hottest of the fire, occasionally applying a red raw hide, with a great deal of vigor, to the shoulders of such men as he thought could be hurried into firing a little faster. On the morning of the 14th, at 2 o’clock, Lopez marched from Los Posasinto the mountains ’earing there seventeen wound ed Spaniards and thirteen of our side, ail es whom were bayoneted by the Spaniards, and their bodies piled in a heap, cross ways, at the foot of a hill. Two days after (on the 16th,) Lope* was again attacked by three hundred lancers and six hundred infantry, while encamped ala hacienda which formerly belonged to himself, but was confiscated some three years since. Here the action lasted from 11 lo 2 o’clock, on one of ihe hottest days I ever experienced. The enemy were again compelled to retreat, with a 10-s of three hundred and twenty men; and at the same moment that the retreat of the Spaniards inane direction was reporiel to Lopez, he issued an order to his own force to retreat iu the opposite, and actually,, that day, made a forced march of eighteen miles in five iiours, over a mountain roed. On the 19 h, being still on the mountains, we were over taken by a severe rain storm, which destroyed rhe greater portion of our ammunition, and rendered our guns entirely useless. We encamped, on the evening of that day, | at a ranchero at the fool of the mountains, about two leagues from Bahia Honda. We remained undisturbed that night; and were attacked just at breakfast time on the morn ing of «be 20'b, being taken by surprise, the sentry on the o Hpost having left his post to wash himself iu a ereek, where be was killed. Owing lo the unservieea Be condrion of their arms, the force under Lopez was completely routed, fljing to the mountains in all directions —Lopez himself barely escaping on horse back, with the loss of his raddle, pistols and spyglass—of every thing, in fact, but wb*t he wore. Thai night we encamped on lhe island of Cuba, exposed lo all the violence of a ter rific norther, without either shelter, fire or food. It is impossible form 3 to describe the suffer ings of that night. Heaven forbid that I ever pass such another. On the evening of the 21st, having been forty eight hours without earing, we killed a horse, which was d vided among one hundred and twenty five men, who were ail that now VOL.LXV- NEW SEKIES VOLJXV- NO- 39- ! remained wth Lopez. We wandered through I mountains, unable lo extricate ourselves, sub sisting on such leaves and routs us wa could find; until mid diy of Sunday, the 24th, when wo succeeded in reaching a road running frou Bahia Honda to San Cristobal, a long which we advanced until nearly night, when two Spanish lancers were discovered advancing* but fled on seeing as halt was immediately ordered, and an ex amination made of the state of our forces, whieh showed a total of one hundred and twenty five men, eighty muskets, about twenty of which were serviceable, and about forty dry cartridges. Under this state of affairs, it was deemed advisable to retreat, which was ordered, and a pursuit commenced by the enemy, who lay in ambush some few hundred yards in advance, with a force of nine hundred men On the approach of the enemy, the whole force of Lopez separated into small bodies, and dispersed through the mountains, throwing away their guns and every thing which could encumber them in their {flight— seven men only remaining with the general. A large number were overtaken and imme diately killed. I. myself, was one of a party of eight who had previously determined on leaving Lopez, and attempting to escape from the inland We remained in the mountains until the morning of Tuesday, the 26ib, when, having had but one meal in six days, and feeling that we could bear it no longer, we determined to go into the plains, considering that it would be better to be killed outright than die a lin gering death from starvation, which we cer iiinly would do in the mountains. We accordingly advanced to a house where we were treated with a great deal of kindness, and received a most excellent breakfast. An arrangement was made to procure a guide to tho South shore with provisions, &c , and we were about to leave and conceal ourselves until night, when, in Lie twinkling of an eye, we were surrounded by two hundred armed countrymen, who immediately bound us se curely and inverted our pockets, considering tbe contents lawful plunder. That day we reached Suu Christobal. Until we' reached 3an Chrhtobal we were under; the that we were to be itn media consolation being that we were to d e with full stomaohs. The eequal to this, the arrest of Lopez, his ex execution and the imprisonment of his followers, we need not recapitulate. Mr. Van V. says that all but twenty-two of the invading force are accounted for, and that these arc probably still in the mountains. As the troops are recall ed to Havana, he thicks some of these may yet escape and find their way homo. The prison ers are sentenced lo ten years’ labor on the pub lic works. We make now some quotations, necessarily brief, showing Mr, Van V.’s present views : “ When 1 received my appointment from Mr. Sigur, one of the editors of the New Orleans Delta, I was told by him that a revolt was regu larly organized among the creoles throughout the island of Cuba; that they had elected General Lopez as their leader ; that his landing was the signal for a general rising, and that within ten days after landing, he would be at the head of an army of ten thousand men; that there were also two whole regiments of Spanish troops to come over to him with their equip ments. The same story was told to all. Was it sol As I have already stated our first salu tation was a volley of musketry, instead of, as the Delta asserted, a large body of friends, with horses, stores, &c. for our use. Instead of find ing the creoles our friends, we found them eur most bitter enemies—far more so than tire troops —keeping the troops constantly informed olOur movements, and hanging on our skirts, putting to death without mercy all those who straggled on the march. Os the troops 1 cannot but speak in praise, without a single exception. They treated the prisoners with the utmost kindness giving them wine, sugars, bread, tobacco and aguadente, freely, and from their own small means. I imagine no one will say that we had any right to expect such treatment. Much has besn said relative to the execution of Crittenden and his men. Among all the prisoners now in Havana, much as they admired Crittenden, there is but one opinion, and that is, that that execution was justifiable—was merited. That they were deceived all know; but that was no business of the Spanish author ities. Surely the provocation received was sufficient to justify not only the execution of those men, but every man connected with the expedition. Where in the annals of the world, do you find a similar occurrence 1 Here four hundred and fifty men, without having received the least provocation, leave their homes, and in vade tho shores of a perfectly peaceful island, expressing a determination to take that island from its lawful owers, by force. Self preserva tion is one of the first laws of nature; and if the law will uphold and protect that American citizen, who, without hesitation, shoots down the midnight robber in defence of his property, certainly that law will uphold the officers of the crown of Spain in exterminating a band of men who attempt to wrest its brightest jewel from that crown. I consider that every man connec ted with that expedition deserved death. At the time 1 was made prisioner, I fully expected it, and, although the reflection was anything but pleasant, my own conscience told me that it was just. Much has been said relative io the mutilation of their bodies. Certainly I wast not present at the time, and cannot speak positively, but I can not learn from a reliable source that such was the case. I have conversed with the officers, of tho United States ship Albany on the subject. They are men of high standing in society, and they assure me that such was not the case—that they were shot in accordance with military "tlXT^rr^ sacll o^ c:l »fona and that the only thrown into carts by 'tKe*negroes orSoreiTlolSury them Lopez was probably as much or more deceiv ed than any man in the expedition. His am bition led him to be the tool and victim of heart less speculators. Avarice, not philanthropy, was tho main spring of this expedition. I now dis tinctly, openly assert that all those letters pur porting to be from Cuba, which wore published during the month of July last, and copied throughout the Union, were base forgeries, for the express purpose of deceiving the citizens of the United -"States, and advancing the sale of Cuban bonds. Knowing the ambition of Lo pez, and that strong disposition to extend the glorious boon of freedom which fills the breast of every American citizen, these speculators took advantage of their knowledge to further their own end. They well knew how Utile effort was required to start and keep alive this excitement. Cuban bonds were worth, or were selling at from 10 to 20 cents on a dollar, when this expedition left. Naturally they would increase in value as the prospect of liberating Cuba became more certain; and if this expedition succeeded, as they pretended to think it would, Cuba when liberated from what they denominated the tyran ny of Spain, would have been burdened with a debt of from fifty to one hundred millions of dol lars, at least fifty per cent of which would have been in the pockets of these would-be philanthro pists, who, active as they wished to be thought in the holy cause of liberty, took the best of good care to peril neitheir life no r their own liberty in its behalf. At the expiration of the war, and after Cuba had become free, it was to be annexed to the United States, and as a matter of course the payment of these Cuban bonds was to be assumed by that government. What do they care for the moth ers, wives and sisters of the gallant men that formed this ill-fated expedition, who have been rendered utterly wretched and miserable forever 7 They do not feel the chains, the anguish, borne by those one hundred and sixty noble fellows, doomed to spend the best ten years of their lives in a Spanish prison. No; they feel the money in their pockets, and laugh over the re sult of their speculation. They are the men to be punished. Heavy indeed must be their pun ishment when, at the last day an offended just Judge shall demand of them retribution. There have also been, I understand, some re flections made on the conduct of our consul at Havna, Mr. Gwens. At that time, Mr. Owens not only was unable to do any thing to assist them, but as 1 am informed and believe, was ac tually in danger himself, from the rabble of Havana, a guard of Spanish soldiers having been placed over his property and person by order of the Captain General.” We have only left ourselves room to add that the “ prununciamento,” sent round to the morn ing press of this city as the evidence of a revolu tion in Cuba, was written and printed here, as the National Intelligencer at the time suspected. And surely the public mind is satisfied as (o the nature of lhe whole enterprise. A hearty and unanimous disapproval of it by the press and the people would probably be the strongest in ducement to pardon the survivors among those who were the victims of such gross and heartless deceptions. Correspondence of the New Orleans Picayune. Tiie Lopez Expedition. Narrative of Major J. A. Kelly, one of the Amer ican prisoners in Havana. Havasu, Sept. 4, 1851. Capt. J. A.Kelly, one of the prisoners recent ly released by the Captain General, has given me the following statement of the events that followed the leading of the forces under the com mand of Lopez, from the period of their em barkation to that of his being made prisoner. Knowing how interesting it will be to your read ers, I give it as full as 1 can recollect. On the morning of the 12th of August, be tween 4 and 5 o’clock, the invaders landed at the little town of Mori! I os. Shortly after, Gen. Lo pez started for Las Pozas, at the head of the Cubans and Hungarians, ordering Col. Down man to take command of the American infantry and follow him. Col. Crittenden was ordered to remaiu at Morrillos until the stores were landed, and then to follow at all speed and join the main body at Las Pozas. Gen. Lopez was to send back transportation to Col. U. from the first ran cho on the road. He accordingly sent two carts with a single yoke of oxen to each. These were entirely insufficient to draw the heavily laden carts, and Col. C. sent one of the negro drivers fur mere oxen, who returned with two more and the party started. The cars were still too heavily laden, however, and the progress was alow. They left Moriiios about 11 o’clock, and only made five miles that night, the advance stopping at a tienda or store on the main road, and being soon after joined by the rest of the troops and the wagons. Col. Crittenden had previously sent a messenger to Gen. Lopes, who returned and met them here. Lopez ordered Col. C. to abandon hie baggage, ammunition, etc., and join him at once, as he expected a bat tle every moment, and wanted Crittenden to at tack lhe enemy in the rear and flank. The lat ter, however, was loth to abandon the ammuni tion, and while deliberating be was suddenly at tacked by a party of Spanish soldiers, who were repulsed. Col. Crittenden now determined to leave everything and join Gea. Lopez at once, but before they were ready to march they were again attacked by ahout 360 Spanish troops, as they learned from a wounded prisoner, who was brought in to have his wounds dressed. It is proper to state here that alter the fight all the wounded Spanish soldiers who could be found were brought in and their wounds dressed by Dr. Fourniquel, who was afterwards shot in »his [ city. CoL Crittenden had about 120 m»*n under his command of all ranks. After beating off the soldiers, Col. Crittenden took eighty men and started off to charge the enemy, leaving Capt. Kelly with orders to main tain his position until Ida return The men whom Col. C. took with him, Capt. K. states, were the elite of the whole command, and from that time forth Capt. K. saw no more of either Crittenden or hie men. The Spanish troops kept up a continual slow fire on Capt. K’s men. but the distance from which they fired was so great that their balls were mostly spent before they reached the tienda After waiting about three hours for Col. Crit tenden’s return, and seeing or hearing nothing of him, the men under Capt. Kelly’s command de clared their determination not to wait for him any longer, and some cl them started oft with the intention of making their way to the coast and returning to the United States. After much per tuasion, Capt. Kelly induced them to remain a little longer. Some time after, the men again nartedoff with the same intention, headed by two officers, Lieuts. Van Vetchten and Crafts. Capt. Kelly now gave up all hope of Crittenden’s return, and determined to joinLopeaat Las Poxas at once. He induced the men to go with him by threatening to abandon them and start off alone. He took a negro with hirn as guide, and started through the woods, to conceal his march and prevent being cut off The tienda was by this time nearly sarronnded by Spanish troops, and Capt. K. was obliged to commence his march in a retrograde direction, going towards the coast until he was out of sight of the soldiers, and then making a circuit through the woods. Just befote dark they arrived at a largo sugat estate and stopped at the house. Here they learned that a company of Spanish soldiers had passed a short time before, and were also in formed that a battle had been fought at Las Po zas, but the people on the estate did not know which side were victors. They hired another negro as guide and again started lor Las Pozos Whan within a short distance of the town they carne across the main road and saw several com panies of Spanish troops. They concealed themselves in the thicket and sent the negro into the town to ascertain who were the victors He returned and stated that all was quiet in the town,and the sentinels wore blue shirts. Capt. K. then sent Gonzales, who spoke Spanish, into the town for further information, and about 10 o’clock at night he returned with the Adjutant General of Lopez’s forces, Schwartzer, who. had succeeded Gen. Pragay, who had been severely wounded,in the battle of the morn lug. Ha gave Capt. Kelly the particulars of the battle, and stated that they bad best off ;»e e-emy with considerable loss. Capt. Kelly’s men were mostly asleep, and on being woke up and ordered .to march, three of them, named Frank Breedlove, John Trimble and Yard, were, as is supposed, left behind asleep, as they were not again seen. Capt. K. had given particular directions to his men to see that all were woke up, but it is thought that in the ex citement of the moment these men were over looked, and probably killed in trying to find their comrades the next day. On their march to the town Capt. K’s com mand passed over the battie field, which was literally covered with the dead bodies of the Spanish soldiers. Their loss must have been very great. They were challenged by th* senti nel, who in ids eagerness, forgot bis duty so far as to ask if they were Crittenden’s men. This was the first intimation Capt. Kelly had received that Crittenden was not with Lopez. Capt. K. immediately reported himself to Gen. Lopez, who approved of hie course and appeared extremely glad to see him. Capt. Kelly wished to go back and ascertain what had become of Crittenden, who had eigthy of the best men in the command with him. Gen. Lopez replied that he had sent two companies that afternoon to Crittenden’s relief, and that they had returned and stated that it was impossible to get through ; that his troops were already under marching or ders, and that it was absolutely necessary he should leave there tbal night, as he would be again attacked by the Spanish troops in the morn ing, with artillery. He Intended to make for the mountains, where he calculated to meet some Creoles who were said to be inarms there. Capt. Kelly suys that Gen. Lopez appeared to be very anxious to join with Col. Crittenden ; but it was absolutely necessary that he should leave his present situation before the Spanish commander could receive Ills artillery, as their position would soon be rendered untenable. Gen. Lopez had no artillery, nor did the Pampero bring over any a* reported. He expected to find a Creole force in the mountains with artillery, as he had been informed. Las Poxis is situated about twelve miles from the sea shore, and at the foot of the mountain forming the region? called the VuelUt Abajo. About twenty minutes alter Capt. Kel ly’s arrival, the whole command were on the march, and shortly after commenced ascending the mountains. About daylight they reached a house used as a sort of general post office lor the district, and about a mile fartheron they came across another house, where lhe men got break fast, which they ata with a right good will. They rested here until the afternoon, which was much needed, as Capt. K.’s men had now been on the march for two nights and one day. In the cool of the afternoon they again took up tho line of march, and arrived at a hacienda for merly belonging to Gen. Lopez about 8 or 9 o'clock on the morning of the 16th. While ta king breakfast, a party of about 200 lancer* chai god down upon them,but were soon driven back. Almost immediately afier, news was received that u large force of Spanish troops were in a field about a mile oft, and Lopez immediately inaiched thither, where about five hundred of the enemy formed to receive him. He immediately attacked them with his diminished force, and after a short but sharp conflict, completely runted them, they flying in all directions to lhe woods. In this light Gen. Enna was killed. After this, Lopez resumed his march and cross ed the mountains, passing through a thickly set tled country, until they reached a coffee estate, where they got something to eat. They con tinued marching about until the 21st, when their guide brought them to within a few ihiles of San Cfuistobal, where, as Gen. Lopez learned trorn a countryman, there were upwards of 1,300 Span ish troops. They proceeded to the top of a small exposed to a heavy rain,’ anß" id ’ star’ed back about fifteen miles, over a road ren dered very bad and slippery by the rain of tho night before. They again turned south, on their way to the houce of a friend, where they intend ed to rest and put their arms, which had been much damaged by the rain, in order. While taking breakfast the next morning, (the 23d.) they were attacked by a large force of Spanish troops, Capt. Kelly thinks between four and five hundred, and hero the invading troops mot their first reverse, owing to lhe bad condition of their arms. It was deemed advisable to retire to the mountains, and Lopez gave an order to that el feet. Some twenty or thirty men left the main body and made for the woods. Some of the oth , ers who remained with Lopez threw away their guns. By the time they reached the mountains, it commenced raining, and rained furiously for about 48 hours. This completely ruined their re maining guns, and all their ammunition, besides preventing them from making fires and getting anything to eat. When it cleared off, they killed and ale Gen. Lopez’s horse, tho |ast food they had. A consultation of officers was now had, and they demanded that Gen. Lopez should take them at once to where the Patriot forces he had spoken of were stationed, or at least reach the coast, where they might embark for Jamaica or Yucatan. I,opes consented to their demand, and they started for the Patriot rendezvous to tile south. The guide, however, mistook the road, and led them again to San Cristobal Here they found themselves in front of a largo body of troops, who ordered them to surrender, and on their relusal fired upon them, but the balls passed over their heads. The Americans at tempted to rotnrn the fire, when they found that not a gun in the command would go off. Before the Spanish troops could again load and fire, the invaders scattered in all directions and took to the woods. From this time until his arrest, Capt. Kelly states that he and the few men with him wan dcred about tho woods and rocks, living on the pith of the palmetto tree and mangoes. On the 26th. weak and half starved, they were overtaken and arrested by a party of country men, who informed them of the pardon proclaimed by tho Captain General. They were taken to Bahia Honda, placed on board the steamer Habanero a.id brought to Havana. Some of the datjsin the above statement may be wrong, as they are given from recollection, but the main facts are correct. Cept. Kelly states that to his knowledge but two Creoles joined them, and they were both killed. He and Col Haines both scout at the idea that Lopez put posely abandoned Crittenden and his men, and suy that he would have given his right band to have had them with him. Capt. K thinks that as j r Col. Crittenden left him, he concealed him self in the woods, with the view of drawing the enemy into an ambush, and that on his return, finding that Capt. Kdly had left tho tienda, and not knowing in which direction he had mar* lied, he and his rneu, being without guides through tlie country, had concluded to make for (he coast and put out to sea, in the hope of getting on board of some American or neutral vessel. That lie must have had some fighting is evident from tho fact that when he left (/’apt. Kelly lie had eighty men, and when arrested there were but fifty with him. What has become of the thirty others is a mystery that will probably never he solved. Decree of the Emperor of Austria. Subjoined is a translation, which has been furnished uh, of the Decree of th’ 1 * Emperor of Austria, which has created such great excite ment in Austria and throughout Europe, as noticed in our Telegraphic dispatch this morn ing: “My dear Schwarzenberg :— As the decreed responsibility of the ministry is deficient in le gal clearness and precise de’ignation, I feel it my duty, as Regent, lo extricate the Ministry from its doubtful political relations, and define that situ a.io n which it ought to hold as my council, and as my highest organ of adminin tralion, and to < eclare it responsible to the monarch and lo the throm alone, and irrespon Bible to every other political authority. In consequence of this principle, the following regulations will take effect : “1. The Miois.ry is obliged to fulfil all impc rial decisions and orders, and likewise to swear unlimited allegiance to me- “The Ministry in this new position wiilhave to deliberate and propose al! laws, regulations measures of government, <JEc , v htch they may consider necessary or available, or to the de liberation of which they may be summoned by me, and also lo execute all my decisions that may result from such deliberations. “3. The Ministry and each Minister io his department is responsible to me for lheexset fulfilment of the existing laws, and imperial regulations. Each minister remains entrusted with the business of his present departmeDf. But i reserve to myself to give in this respect more particular d rections. “ 4. The Ministerial countersign henceforth is to be limi.ed to the publication of the laws and imperial regulations, and will be executed below the imperial signature by the president of tho M.ni.try, or by that of tho.e of the Minutere to ««« department the eobjeet raav belong, or by the Chancellor of the ex chequer. 'fhe signature to te accompanied by [he words, “ on supreme decree.” Tr.e countersign given a guarantee that tin legal forms are observed, and that too imperia l decisions are Lieue-t correctly. ’ “5. Io the pabltaahon of the laws sod io>-