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Ttie Central A* Iritllttral Society, to UwCoUM
Planters'Coiiiriillon. ufAlaanni#.
The Executive Committee of the Southern Agri- ;
cultural Soviet*' re*f*H.'t fully submits to the consul i
oration of Vie tuition Planters’ Convention, about
to a-*emble in Montgomery, Alabama, the quea j
tion of off,ring a sufficient Inducement to tucchi.nl
cai skill to supply a rimpie end effective machine |
to gin. curd and spin, on plantations from live to |
ten pound* of Cotton |#sr hour, m> a* to provide j
everv planter, who may desire it, the mean# of j
converting, on hia own pcamise*, into yarn or '
twi*t, every pound of Cotton which he dial] pro- \
ditco. The clement* of rucit a maniline already j
exist, and all that i* needed for it* production ia
the inducement which a liberal premium will sup- ,
ply.
In the progress of Society the object* of pursuit |
becomes mul.iplicd. The deficiencies o( yesterday :
arc auj plied l>y the ingenuity of to-day. Every
new combination, in supplying existing demand*, ,
erca c* new want", an fliveiition in fulfilling
one want create* another. Thin Uof the progress
of roeiety—fertila inexpedient* and rich in re
sult*.
Tne introduction of tile culture of cotton, in
Gfcorgia, as an export—for it had been grown in j
aevend of tlie Southern Colonies for domestic Die, ;
auppliedthe Haw-gin, the invention of Nathan Lv i
bus, to whose mind, the circular »aw, on a wooden
cylinder, watt suggested on seeing W uitney’* gin— |
wire teeth, in circle* around the wood Uylinder—
in operation in Savannah. For a time cotton was :
prepared by tool-gins for market one or more in a ;
county: next, the more enterprising planter would
have fna own gin and cleaning, perhaps, the cotton
of one or two of hit. neighbors as well as his own.
Now, the cotton planter considers a gin a necessa
ry element of lit* business and the cottou press
has become almost os indispensable a necessity.
Is this to Im the limit (the ultima thuls) in the
progress of the cotton planter ! _ Shall he remain
content with what ha* been achieved i And mul
tiplying hi* cotton bug*, end cansequently reduc
lng’thflr value, increase the proiiUofthe spinners
of his staple in the ratio of the reduction of hit
own! Hi* cotton has stimulated all the improve
ments in machinery which have rendered it so im
portant an element of commerce and civilization.
And this bus been the work of bat little more than
half a century. May he not participate in ali the
bench!*, who*# foundation* rest on hi* labors:
Why ahali be incur no much of the toils und partake
go se.tiitily of the advantages Incident to hi* staple
in it* vast ramuiflentions through society I
In a brief period in the laj.se of time, the annual
production of Cottou in the United State*, liu*
risen from u few thousand to near tlirce million of
bags, and in proportion to that increase lias become
the dependence of the great manufacturer, En
gland, upon our slave-labor for her supply of cot
ton—a dependence uiinost involving the existence
of Iter political, if not her undid condition. Stren
uous effort* have been made, and arc not yet aban
doned, to relieve herself from a dejiendcnce a*
mortifying to her self-love as dangerous to her fu
ture prosperity and independence. liut Great
Britain is not alone. The Cotton spinners every
where, out of the slave holding States, plofess to
be grieved that they are dependent upon slave
itibor for their Cotton, and it would scent, as Man
chester and Lowell tire the loudest complainants,
that the amount of grief felt at using our Cotton is
•bout in proportion to that of their profits, *o that
we tnsy estimate, with some approach to accuracy
the amount of income derivable in a manufacturing
district, from the use ofourstaple by the energy of
it* demiueiuUnn* of slavery. “Bed lncrct in latere
lcthali* arundo.” The love of mammon is not ex
tinct, and our slavery carries a silent consolation,
if not reconcilement to Pharitaical Philanthropy.
If our soil and climate do not, our slave labor
certainly doc-, place us beyond the reach of rivalry
i»» the growth of Cotton. When free labor is en
gaged in tiie production of uuy commodity, the
amount of labor directed to it is regulated by the
relative amount of reward or wages which the price
of the article supplies to that labor. In the slavc
holdiug States, the great amount of existing slave
labor is directed to the production of cotton, und
will be -o applied, almost independently of the
price of the article. Certainly, su long us Cotton
pays anything beyond the cost of production, pre
paration for and transportation to market, and by
cost of production is here meant the actual outlay
for the time, exclusive of the money value of the
laborer* nod land. The soli and labor being prop
erty, the pricooftbe product (cotton .) regulate* their
value and docs not, to any perceptible extent, af
fect the amount of labor engaged in its growth; and
Jiouen, the capacity of the slavcholding States to
derive from the European market the Cotton of
any other country, the product of free labor. The
character of our labor constitutes alike our strength
and our weakness—our strength to maintain pos
session of the cotton market—our weakness to re
sist combinations against, us, whom nil the world
denounce and cherish. 'Whilst our sluve-iubor se
cure* a market for our great staple, there is a great,
perhaps a growing, insecurity to remunerating pri
ce* to that labor. Whilst high prices will not in
creas* our production of Cotton much beyond the
natural increase of our slave population, they stim
ulate production abroad, where another kind of
labor is employed in its culture. And whilst low
prices exornse but little influence in lessening our
pro. faction of Cotton by free lubor. Tito future
condition of the Cotton planter, tinder these cir
cumatsuecs, then, must mainly depend upon his
own energies ami his own resources. Wlmt these
energies and resources are, the history of the past
apeak in distinct und emphatic language. How
ever nincli wears habitually culumuiutedabroad,
und whilst these erfumtlic* have given a sombre
hue to the lights through which ttmiiy of us at homo
look uiKiii the future of our condition, it is certain
ly true that the slave-holding States will not com
pare discreditably with other States under like
circumstances, in any age or quarter of tho world.
Thu States North ol'uh are estimated und judged
of by tile commerce und thrift of their cities und
t te number and noiso of their faotories, without
reference to the small percent, of thoir whole popu
lation, living mid laboring in thorn. Wo ure un
agricultural people—our wealth, ottf population,
our pursuits, out intelligence and our refinement
are of tho country ami in the country. It may ho
safely ultirmed, that the society annually presented
at the prominent watering place*, South ofMiison
ntnl Dixon’a liue, need not shun comparison with
any other, elsewhere, for decorum, propriety, In
telligence ami good taste. That society is essen
tially Southern and agricultural, and represents a
inito’h larger at home, which is stationary.
Our adversaries heard ill the public marts; they
All nptha highways; they oombino; they control
public opinion; they oomtnand tho press and ex
ercise not always, a just and wholesome influence
over the opinion oftlte factors who soli our orops.
They estimate our productions, and too often reg
ulate the prices upon data mad# for the occasion.
"We do not, pefhaps wo cannot, combine. We do
not despatch courier* through every district to learn
and report the amount of tho inootning crop. We
cannot, raise money upon our produoe, although
immediately it passes into the hands of tho mer
chant or speculator, no cun raise upon it the price
holms paid for it. If wo endeavor to investigate tho
prospects of future prices wo can grasp only the
f nfoi million which the speculator and the manufac
turer have prepared lor their own purposes, and
we sell our crops with tne haste of an auctioneer
getting oft'a out go of West India fruit on a frosty
day. If there bo not, within the power of the cot
ton planters, the means of protection against all
the dlsanvantages to which thoir position subjects
them, they ma\ yet do much to merease the re
turns on thoir Invested capital, and exercise a sal
utary influence upon prices—to somo extent en
hancing them, and to a greater extent divesting
them of their fluctuations, which taken in all its
bearings, Is perhaps tho greatest evil to which cot
ton planters arc subjected.
Great Britain habitually imports about one-sixth
mot e raw cottou than she manufacture#, and, ae
on rdln.? to Unities, in itis history of cotton Manu
facture, makes a profit of ton per cent, upon tho
exportation of a portion of that excess to Havre.
And she converts into yarn and exports about onc
flftlt more of the amount ofher imports of raw cot
toif. This ia not the place to enquire into the means
by which she i* enabled to monopolize so large an
amount of our raw staple, and to engross so largo
a profit bv n mere transfer of what sho cannot use
at home, ooross tho channel. Itis more gertnnin
to the purpose of till# paper to enquire if the cotton
planters oftlte United States may not, themselves,
spilt and export part of all of that excess of yarn,
which Great Britain spin* but does not make into
ninth! The more direct and practical proposition
is, may not the cotton planters look forward to tho
time when the exportation of raw cotton will bo tvs
rate .is tho exportation of seed cotton was thirty or
forty years ago ! .There are not as great difficulties
now to the spinning and exportation of yarns as
existed some sixty yotfrs ago to thoginningandex
portation of clean cotton. Then tho cotton gin was
in the hands of the patentees, who endeavored to
make a “great East India concern of it” by estab
lishing ginneries at numerous points in the cotton
region and coercing the planters to sell their cotton
In the seed, by refusing to sell rights to use thegin.
That scheme of monopoly, amounting almost to
fraud, was defeated by the ingenuity of Nathan
Lyons, who, as already stated, invented tho saw
gin. Now, ull the elements for ginning, carding
and spinning exist in machinery of almost perfect
. construction, and its adaption to tho planter’s wants
' is alone necessary to enable him to spin tis own
crop at his own homestead.
Tho spinning of Cotton—as was one time the gin
ning of it—is a distinct pursuit, employing a dis
tinct capital and creating a distinct and* antago
nizing interest to that of the planter. The same
ensrry that enabled him to unite tho ginning out
of his erhp with the production of it, will now unite
in id* own hands, the production,ginning, carding
und #p<inning. And he will find that lie will add
proportionally more to the profits of his investment
bv carding and spinning than he has by ginuiug
' hi* crop, ref the women and children may be read
ily taught to apju, in winter, what they have uided
in cultivating and gathering. But a few years
age it was a matter of doubt, in ttie minds of many
earnest friend* of slave labor, whether that labor
could lie successfully applied to what is called ope
rative service—that Is to attendance on machinery
engaged in manufacturing Cotton and Wool. But
more recent experience in Georgia, as well as else
where, lias fully proved that negroes utako very
good operatives. And they are now employed
anocessfully in many factories, and nowhere. It ia
believed, has there Veen a failure in the applica
tion of slave laltor to factory purposes. Many plan
ters have tWt tho importance of reducing tho pro
duction of Cotton ns tho best: if not the only means
of enhancing tho price. Tho chief difficulty has
been to supply to the planter a remuneration
eautrident to tlie loss supposed tobc sustained by
a rvdiu'Bon in the amount of his crop. To card
a&d suit, the cotton at borne will much more than
give that remuneration, should the reduction of
production account to twenty or thirty per cent,
upon his ordinal'/ e™p. The reduction in the crop
•would not be a neceeaury incident, though n prob
able one, on its conversion into v#rn at the homc
#to id. because it is eonaoently believed that the
planter would be prompted by a clear conviction
that he would find the greater profit m growing no
more Cotton than lie could convert into yarn by
hi* own force. unless, indeed ho shculu coll to hts
aid a portion of tho white, rural population, a
boundmg in all the Southern State*, whose condi
tion and comfort would be improved by becoming
operatives \u factories. These are, however, but
little more titan matters of detail, which every
planter will readily decide for himself.
The purpose of this paper being to suggest for
consideration, the incorporation, into the planta
tion system, of an important economical moment
eminently calculated to sustain that system a* is
humbly believed, and impart a new lift to it,
there is geareo occasion to present a systematic
course ot a- eument to the intelligence which is re
spsetftilly addressed.
In voncuition, it mav be remarked that whenever
Cotton planter* allail have added to the growth of
their staple, machinery to gin, card and spin it
for exportation, they twill as certainly bo enabled to
undersell distant tnaiuitiiaHirer* of yarns a* they
have undersold tho producer* of Cotton as free
labor and they will be in a position to dispose of
their varu* nt'prhvs which will supply an active
demand, witlrv.de juate remuneration* tor ail the
Cottou which they can produce.
On motion of Dr. Daniel of Savannah,
The fluctuations in tho price of Cotton have long
rs been felt ns a very serious evil to all the great in
terests of the country, and plan# have been suggest
ed to supplv more steadfast price*, to an extent
strongly indicative oftlie prevalence otthiscouvlc
tion. As # measure calculated in its tendencies to
exercise some influence in correcting these fluctua
tions, tho Executive Committee of the “Southern
Central Agricultural Society” recommend to tho
Convention of Cotton Planters to assemble in Mont
gomery, Alabama, in May next, to offer n premium
sufficient to stimulate the mechanical skill of the
world to supply a simple and effective machine,
calculated to spin any of the numbers in ordinary
uae of yarn about teu pounds of cotton per hour,
•which cotton planters m«v introduce upon their
plantations, to spin into yarn during the winter the
• cottou grown the preceding season.
8 W K. Terrel.
Chairman Executive Committee, B.C. A. 8.
J. V. Soma, Boe.S.C. A. S.
Tnr St. Loots Explosion. —One of the hands on
bo*rd the ill-fated steamer Glencoe has made a
statement previous to his death from the injuries
ho received.that when he first tried the guage, after
lb# boat had left Quarantine, ha found no more
than oo# halftb# water nec#s#ary to bring her to
cort. Afterward, when he (Tied it again, he found
ft red#cod to one third the quantity absolutely ne
cessary. The pressure of steam the boiler# carried
under i&g yircu ms twice*, astonishing*
From ike AVer Orleans Picayune.
Burning of (hr Pocahunti*.--lata* of life.
We arc indebted to Mr. L. 11. Hedges, one of
the officer# of the steamboat I’ocatiOnb.*, for the
detailsofthe lo**oftbnt steamer, bv fire, on Fri
day night, the HSth in.-tant, near Island No. 78. in
Choctaw Bend, thirty miles below Nspolcon. i
Tho Pocahontas wo# on her war to this city, her
last landing-place hating been Najy-leon, in Ar- ;
krnsa*. tier cargo consisted of 8,882 bales of
cotton, most of it insured. 20- » sack* of com, 2 ■*•
sack* pf cotton seed, and loo' bale* of peltries. >
Her former commander and jwirt owner. Captain j
Moore, left her at Napoleon, with the intention of
proceeding to Kt. Lout* to purchase another boat.
Mr. John Skile*, first clerk ami remaining owner, ,
then took command. There were fifty-eight per
sort* onboard, ofjeer*. crew and passenger*, after J
leaving Napoleon. Toe cabin passenger* were i
twelve in number, three of them little children.
Mr. Hedge* state* that a little after 10 o'clock at
night, whilst in the cabin, reading, lie wa* asked ;
bv tine of the passengers if he did not smell Some- j
tiling burning. He replied in the negative. Pre- t
sentiy however, be became aware ot tliis smell, |
and went on the hurricane deck to i-form the !
mate. The mate gave him a man, and they went j
below to search for the origin of it. Tlte’ wind '
was blowing bard out-ide, but in the cabin it was
ooprcaalvely warm. They did not go down on
the lower deck, and finding no signs "of fire in the
cabins, retired to rest. The cottou was piled up
very high on the guards, and a good quantity of
dry ash wood was stowed near the boilers.
At twenty minutes to 11 o'clock, the alarm of
fire was given from the lower deck. The passen
ger* immediately rushed from their state-rooms in
titeir night clothe*. Great confusion ensued. Mr.
Hedges immediately run for the hurricane deck
where he found the captain, who slept in the
“Texas,” and who had but just retired. Mr. Hed
ge* say* lie thought of returning to the clerk’s
office to endeavor to save the book*, paper* and
money. There were tß,(S*j in the .safe belonging
to the boat, a jiackagc of (8,000 addre.-*ed, Mr.
liege* thinks, to Mr. J. H. Heald, of the house of
Mo*e» Greenwood & Co., of this city, and sent on
board at Napoleon, also several othe.r packages of
money, amount not known.
Ju*t then a gush of flame ro*e np in front, near
the chimney*, and in a few minutes the forward
part of the boat was all on fire. The captain se
cond clerk, pilot on duty and a few of the deck
hand* being cut off from escape to the rear of the
boat, where most of the remainder of the passen
ger*, officers and crew were congregated, climbed
down the cotton bales, and got on the bow of the
boat, where they remained until the flame* were
about surrounding them. Tlte captain and clerk
then took one of the deck planks t used to run out
at landings) and jumped into the river with it,
Tlte pilot stood at the wheel until hi* tiller rojies
were burned. He directed the boat to the shore
at the first alarm; but she took n sheer und kept
.turning slowly in tho middle of the river, until the
engine stopped, when she drifted down. The pilot
escaped on a cottorubale. The crew in front es
caped, some by jumping into the river and swim
ming to drill logs, of which there were fortunate
ly many, othcra by seizing planks, Arc., and float
ing with the current uutil-pickcd up.
Tlte majority of the people gathered at the rear
of the boat Inal to do the same thing: jump into
tho river and run tho ri»k of drawing or catching
drift timber. Borne of tho crew threw one after
the other five hales of cotton into the river for the
chambermaid and Iter daughter, colored pfirsou#,
one named Maria the other Adelaide, resident*
of Little Bock. They could not taka courage to
jump into the river until the last bale was thrown
over. They then sprung in; hut when they rose
to the surface of tiie water t his hale was already
mote than twenty-five feet from them. As thev
could not swim, their late was sealed. Both were
drowned.
A number of the crew, officers mid passenger*
went jtshorc, on Island 78, in the yawl. The yawl
returned and saved nil who were in tho wuter
Clinging to plunks, logs. <fec. After all were brought
ashore their situation was distressing enough-
Almost naked, just outof the water, a cold and
heavy wind blowing, they wandered about tiie
island seeking for u house and fire. Finally some
fire was procured, Mr. Hedges say* he does not re
member how, and the survivors grouped mound
it until in the course of three hours the arrival of
the steamboat buxon, on her way up, put them out
oftrouhlc. They were taken on hoard, and officers
and passenger* received and treated them in the
kindest manner, sharing clothes and other heces
t-aries with them freely. They were landed at
Napoleon, end in a short time u number left for
this city on the steamboat Susquehanna; the others,
among whom wa* Mr. Hedges, came down last
night on the Magnolia, where they also received
every kindness. When they passed the scene of
their disaster, nothing of the Pocahontas was to be
seen, it is supposed that site had sunk. Tlte
clerk and some of the men remained in Napoleon
with the intention ot going to the w reck and cu
(dcuvoring to find the iron safe.
In fifteen minutes ufter the alarm was given tho
entire cabin forward of the wheels wn* in flame*.
In fifteen tniniite* more, tho boat wa* burnt to the
water’* edge. The wind was high and the boat
burned with singular rapidity and fierceness.
Be (tide* the chambermaid and Iter daughter, who
wore lost, n passenger named John L. .Tone*, long
sheriff of Arkansas comity, lately resigned, and
much respected, was drowned, lie was on his
Way from Arkansas to Alabama, and had about
hi* person the sum of (8,000.
A lady and Iter three children, passengers from
Little Bock to Vicksburg, wore drowned. A white
cabin boy, named Joe, and two firemen named
Douglas und Brown, have not since been heard of.
They arc believed to have been drowned.
VI ith the exception ot these ten, tho rest of the
officers, crew and passengers escaped safe and
sound, losing however all their clothing and other
pn p rty. They wore treated in the mostgenorous
manner by tho officers and passengers on tho Sax
on, tlte Susquehanna and the Magnolia.
The name* of sotito of those saved nre: .
(.'apt. John Skiles, John K. Amor, second clerk;
Alexander Melville and Elijah Whiting, pilots;
David I). Duncan, mate; Lemuel 11. Hedges, W.
J. Marshall, J. 11. Doruissonu, Antoino Burraqtte,
Francis A. Terrv, Absalom Boyd, Chita, W.Leudy,
A. Hall, John Brown, Win. Forbes, Kichurd 11.
Nolbys, Fred. Law. C. 11. I’ollard, Willis Herring,
James Dare, Joint McCullpgh, J. F. Fleak, W. C.
Newcomb and J. Frear.
Os these, four tiro the engineers of the Poca
hontus.
Tltc Pocahontas waa a now boat, in her second
year, of 800 or 9uo tons, and insured for $14,000.
Capt. Moore and (.’apt. Skiles were her owners.
Moses Greenwood & Co,, of this city were the
principal consignees of the freight on board. The
only cause assigned for tho tire is the heat from the
boiler sacting on tho cotton immediately in its vi
cinity.
The Explosion oi'tlu* Snlmla.
. The St. Louis Intelligencer of the 12th inst. con
tains some further accounts of the explosion of
the ill-fntcdSnhida. The I utclligcnoer Icarus from
the officers of the steamer Clara, that the explosion
occurred about 8 o’clock bn tho morning of tho
9th inst., just as b)ic was about backing out frfltn
tho landing at Lexington, Mo. Both boilers ex
ploded, sweeping the entire works forward of tho
wheel-houses down to the water’s edge. She filled
and sank immediately.
Capt Belt and Mr. Blackburn, the second clerk,
were standing between the chimneys on the hurri
cane roof, and were both blown over the ware
houses on shore, and half way up tho bluff. Both
were killed outright, but not badly mutilated.
The iron chest from the office was’ also blown
over the warehouses and fell near Capt. Belt’s
body. Mr. Charles Laburge and Mr. Louis Gar
rut, both pilots, were in the pilot house. Their
bodies wont in an opposite direction, fell the
water and have not been recovered. Persons on
tho opposite side of the river state that a large
number of bodies and fragments it bodies were
blown to appearance, many hundred feet in the
air, and falling back into tile water, disappeared.
The Isabel, bound up, had just landed, a short
distance below, and picked up a number of tho
dead from floating pieces of the wreck, and rescued
some of tile living ; nearly all the bodies recovered
were picked tip on shore.
Tlie Elvira, bound down, landed shortly after
the explosion. Capt. Dozier states dint it was the
most horrible sight lie evqr witnessed. Some
twenty odd dead bodies were spread out on the
binding and an equal number of wounded were
strewed over the floor of an adjoining warehouse.
Tlicgood people of Lexington, ladies and gentle
men were present, doing all in their power to alle
viate tho sintering and minister to the dying wants
of the wounded. The,boat was lying sunk at the
landing,every vestige ofthe cabin forward of the
wheels swept oil' and dashed in fragments and
tlie hull split open from tho bow all to about amid
ships.
The citizens of Lexington called a town meeting
on tho 10th, and in the evening the bodies of twen
ty were at one timo.oousigncd to the grave. The
greatest confusion and excitement prevailed, in the
midst of which Capt. Dozier states that it was im
possible to learn with any degree of certainty who
was dead, and who not, or the extent of tlie loss
oflife. Mr. Brockman, the first clerk, thought that
between 80 uud 100 were killed and missing, but
those ashore set the number down at from 126 to
130 souls. Up to throe o’clock on Friday, the yth,
twenty-four dead bodies had been recovered.
Jostah Olaneey, second engineer, on watch, was
blown ashore. Ho lived long enough to state that
he was tho cause of the explosion ; "that lie had no
water in tho boilers ; but that he acted in obedi
ence to Capt. Belt's orders. •
Just above Lexington tlie current is very rapid.
The evening previous to the explosion, tlie Saluda,
it is stilted, made several unsuccessful attempts to
stem tlie current at this point, and was forced to
drop down to the landing at Lexington, where she
remained all night. The morning following Capt.
Belt had some sharp words with his engineers, and
Mr. Claneev, whose watch it was, went below, ns
is supposed, and shut otftlic water from the boil
ers iu order to make all the steam possible. W lien
ready to start she had some difficulty in getting
out into the stream, mid made only one or two rev
olutions before she blew up.
Mr. Brockman, the first clerk, bad been standing
on the hurricane roof, conversing with Capt. Belt
and Mr. Blackburn, but a moment before the ex
plosion lie walked aft and escaped. One fine from
the boilers passed entirely through and literally de
molished a brick house on the landing. Heavy
fragments of tho machinery fell at almost iti
credible distances from the boat. Bat one man
belonging to the town was killed, a bntekey in the
habit of supplying the boats with meat. He had
just untied the line at the call of the mate, and
was instantly killed by a piece of the flying wreck.
From He Stic Orleans Picayune.
later from Mexico.
We have received a file of papers from the city
of Mexico to the Sd inst.
A report was very prevalent in the eltv of Mexi
co that a pronvneuimento had been made in Vera
Cru -, but it originated entirely in the fours of such
an event produced by the excited state of feeling
in Vera Cruz oil the tariff subject. The Govern
ment lias evidently become alarmed bv the deter
mined stand taken by Vera Cruz and Tampico,
and bv the energetic remonstrances proceeding
from these ports. Tlie efi'eel is to be seen in the
re-establishment of tho oi l tariff at Matamoros.
information of which, we have received from the"
Rio Grande. It is to be regretted that instead of
raising the tariff in Matamoros, Congress had not
extended tho annual ami * throughout the Re
public. Such a course would have done much
more to insure tranquility and prosperity thou the
one which has been adoj ted.
Seuor Ramirez, Secretary of Relations, has re
plied to tlie note of the foreign ministers pre test !
fug against the unequal tariffs then in operation. j
Tho reply shows that the foreign ministers have
noe{iuso’for interference; foreign merchants, ae- 1
cording to Seuor Ramirez, are compelled to sub- j
mit as Mexican citizens arc to tiic effects of the 1
political events of the country ; and they cannot j
fall back upon their separate nationality ter re- I
dress. The Y)reign ministers were neither com
pletely convinced, nor altogether dissatisfied with .
this argument. They were to hold a meeting at
tlie residence of Mr. Letcher, who was risen con- .
fined by illness, in order to decide on their future j
Vur<i’ot action. Tlie Trait d"Union thinks that j
Seuor Ramirez could uot have been serious in nd- i
vaneing such au argument as he did : "The i
foreign merchants demand no special privileges, 1
they simply ask justice, and to obt in it they are
forced t»v the weakness ofthe Government,'and
tlie bad disposition of Congress, to have recourse
to their ministers, whose duty it is to protect their j
interest.”
Senor Ramirez has also published a memorial,
in which lie shows tlie legitimate reasons which I
the Mexican Government has for not recognizing 1
the Garay grant, or its ees-iai to an Ana rivan
company. A rumor was afloat, in very emphatic I
terms, th .t Mr. Letcher had presented his ul:< ■ - I
turn to the Mexican Government, and that he would I
give Congress till the Sth of April to ratify tho '
treaty. The Trait d’Cuion says that there is net i
tho slightest truth in the report. T! e truth is, it
says, tliat the 23th January closed the term in j
which tho treaty could be ratified; but that it was I
extended by oomtucti consent to the Sih of April, i
Tbo opponents of tiie Administration insist that j'
Arista it going to astonish the vrerid by a coup
d'etat in imitation of hi* "groat aud good‘friend, !
Louis Napoleon. On the other baud, the organs
of the Administration declare that iu adversaries
are engaged in a grand eonspiraov to overturn the
Government. There is certainly a great resem
blance between this mate of affairs and that esist
ifig in Pari* prior to the fid December. i
‘ •
Fmm the WaMnyUm Union*
Facta Cnncerotai the Post Office.
1 June taken the peine to Mcertain from the
several report* of tlte Postmasters General, from
1 *43, the revenue and expenditures, the length of
the mail routes, and annuel transportation of the
mail*, and the number of post offices during the
last vear of the old dear rate* ot postage, and the
sami each year consecutively to the 3<)th June,
1851. By examining this statement we shall see
the Operation of the first redaction of postage;
ami trom this we may form an opinion of the
future effects of the present law.
No official report having been made of the num
ber of letters tyhich pass through the poet office,
we have to Utke the estimates which nave been
made from time to time. For several years prior
to 1845 the let’TT* remained stationary at aoout
twenty-four millions, but in 1851 the number has
been estimated-at eighty mM'wnt.
The following is an accurate statement of the
result* ot the reduction of postage bv the act of
tl eitnof March, 1845:
J,uif 30,1845 — Lant. year of the high rates of pottage.
Mail routes, 143.840 miles.
Annual transportation of the mails, 35,684,269
miles.
There were 14.003 post offices.
Expendffiures, (4.321,781.99.
Revenue, 44.2*9,841.90.
Deficit, (31,690.19.
Jane 30,1846— First ytar of the reduction of postage.
Mail routes, 149.679 miles.
Annual transportation of the mails. 87,398,414
miles.
>'umber of po*t office*, 14,7*3.
Expenditures, (4,084,296.
Revenue, (3,487,199.85.
Deficit, (597,096.65.
Lo*s of revenue compared with 1845, $802,-
6-12.45.
Diminution of expenditures compared with
! 1845, (237,435.99.
June 30,1847 —-Sf e»nd pear of the reduction of pottage.
Mail routes 158,818 wiles.
Aunual transportation, 38,887,839 miles.
Number ot post offices. 15,146.
Expenditures, (3,971,310.
Revenue, (3,945,693.
Deficit, (25,417.
Loss of revenue compared with 1845, (848.-
946.80.
Diminution of’ expenditures compared with
1845, (350,421.99.
Jurn 80,1648 Tk ird year of the reduction of pottage.
Mail routes, 163,20 s miles.
Annual transportation, 41,012,579 mil##.
Number of post offices, 16,159.
Revenue, (4,374,077.
Expenditures, (4,326,850.
Surplus, (47,227.
Increase of revenue compared with 1845, $84,-
235.20.
Increase of expenditures compared with 1845,
$5,118.01. 1
June 30, 49— Fourth year of the reduction of pottage.
Mail routes, 187,703 miles.
Annual transportation, 42.547,069 miles.
Number of j>o#t offices, 16,747.
Revenue, (4,705,176.28.
Expenditures, (4,479,049.18.
Surplus, (226,127.15.
Increase of revenue compared with 1845, $415.-
334.48. ’
Increase of exoenditures compared with 1845.
(157,317.19.
June 30, 1650 —Fifth year of the reduction of postage.
Mail routes, 178,672 miles.
Annual transportation, 46,541,423 miles.
Number of post offices, 18,417.
Revenue, (5,552,9-4.86.
Expenditures, (5,212,953.43.
Surplu*, (340,081.48.
increase of revenue compared with 1845, $1,263,-
143.06. ’ ’
Increase of expenditures compared with 1845,
(391,221.4-1. 1 ’
June .’O, 18:>1— Sixth year ofthe reduction of postage.
. Mail routes, 196,299 miles.
Annual transportation, 53,272,252 miles.
N umber of post offices, 19,6u4.
Revenue, $6,551,977.89.
Expenditures, (6,024,560.79.
Surplus, (527,411.10.
Increase Oi rcvetiuccomparod with 1845, $2,262,-
180.09. ’ ’ ’
Increase of expenditures compared with 1845,
(1,702,884.80.
Dost routes June 40, 1851, 196,290 miles.
J’ost routes June 30, 1845, 143,940 miles.
Increase in six years, 52,350 miles.
Annual transportation of tho mails June 80,
1851, 53,272,252 miles.
Annual transportation of tho mails Juno 80,
1845,85,634.209 miles.
Increase in six years, 17,637,983 miles.
Number of post offices June 80, 1851, 19,604.
Number of post offices June 30,1845,14,003.
Ihcrease in six years, 5,601.
Revenue June 30, 1651, (6,551,977.89.
Revenue June 30, 1845, (4,289,841.80.
Increase in six years, (2,262,186.09.
Expenditures Juno 80, lssl, (6,024,566.79.
Expenditures June 80, 1845, (4,289,841.80.
Increaseinsixyears, (1,734,724.99.
Estimated number of letters, June 80, 1852.
80,000,600.
Estimated number of letters, June 80, 1845,
24,000,000.
Increase in six years, 56,000,000.
From the llaltimore American.
Itcronnaissancc or the Seas Around Clilns and
Japan.
The Secretary of the Navy, in a paper commu
nicated to the United States Sennto on Tuesday,
in answer to a resolution of inquiry as t# tho “ex
pediency of a reconnaissance oftlte routes of fluvi
gation in the Northern seas, and in the China and
Japan seas, and whether any vessels belong to tho
service can he used for that purpose; and, also
whut would be the expenso of such a reconnais
sance”—slntcs, in answer to the first part of the
, inquiry, that he has “no hesitation in expressing
: tin opinion favorable to the measure suggested in
! the resolution, nor in recommending such a recon
| nnissanoe and survey its will establish accurately
the positions oftlte prominent capes, buys, head
lands and harbors.”
To show the importance oftlte objects to he at
tained by the proposed reconnaissance, und the im
mense value of the American commeroo in a por
tion of the scus, which ure to be the object of it,
the Secretary quotes from a discussion of the sub
ject by the Superintendent oftlte National Obser
vatory, of the date of December Sd, 1851, having
reference, however, only to tho value and impor
tance of the whale fishery in tho whaling grounds
iu tho regions around Behring’s Straits, known as
the Anadir, Ochotsk and Arctic Seas. From these
extracts it appears that the lives and {property at
stake in thc.-e seas for the years 1849 and 1850
were stated us follows:
1849. Number of American seamen 4,650
Value of ships and outfits, (4,650,000
Value of oil taken, 2,606,510
Value of hone, 814,112
1859. Number of American seamen, 4,32*.
Vuluo ofships and outfits, (4,320,000
Value of oil taken, 3,761,201
Volvo of bone, 1,260,630 *
, » (9,341,881
Total ships in two years, 299
Totul seamen, 8,970
Value ofships and cargoes, $17,412,453
“Tho losses during the year 1851 linvo been un
precedented, so fur as heard from. No less than
seven sails of this fine licet of 1851, the Ilonqua,
tho New Bedford, the Arabella, tho America, the
Armata, the Mary Mitchell, and the Henry Thomp
son, have been wrecked there and left behind as
monuments oftlie dangers, which meet these har
dy marines in their adventurous calling. There
are reports of other losses and wrecks: theso are
certain; and though several of them were lost, not
on shoals, but otherwise, yet these are enough to
tell of the imperfect hydrography, and to show the
national importance of looking to it; for it may be
so, that in case of loss in the ice, the knowledge of
a sheltered anchorage near, and which a survey
would give, would have prevented the exposure
to the ico which induced the loss.
“All our commerce with what is called ‘the
East’ is not so valuable as this was for 1849 and
I§so.
“We see by the above statistics that in these
two years more American seamen were engaged in
that small district of ocean than are employed in
our whole navy, at any one time; thut in these two
years these hardy mariners fished up from the bot
tom of the sea. ami by their own energy creutcd
and added to the national wealth, tho value of more
than eight millions ofdoliars. And we moreover
see that, owing to the dangers oftlie land and ice,
tiie hidden rock* and unknown shoals, that one ves
sel in every twenty that went therein during the
summer of 1851 lias been left behind n total wreck,
and that the lives oftheir crews, or of not less than
one man for every twenty engaged in tlmt business,
have been put in jeopardy, mostly for the want of
proper charts. No protection that our sqttndrens
can at this moment give to our commerce with any
oftlie States of Christendom can compare with that
which a good chart of that part of the ocean would
afford to this nursery of American seamen, and to
tiiis branch of national industry.”
To fix the positions of the rocks and shoals that
endauger the navigation of these seas, and toex
i amine the Fox or Aleutian Islands, the Secretary
says, would ho the work of two or three properly
j appointed vessels only for a short time. When the
season is closed for these latitudes, the same ves
i scls could be most beneficially employed in an ex
amination of tiie seas of Chiiia and Japan, and the
regions thereabouts, whose hydrography is so de
fective, mid uu accurate knowledge of which is be
coming every day of more and more importance,
la reply to the latter part of the inquiry lie states
j that the Department has not at its command the
I ■ esscls necessary for the contemplated service, un
less hv reducing the mini hers of our vessels attach
ed to squadron* on foreign service, but that thi
necessary vessels could be built or purchased for a
sum not exceeding (125,000, and that no addition
al appropriation beyond that sum need be made.
Orr. Indian Affairs.— Tho Indian relations of
the country form one of tiie most important topics
| of the day and any thing that has a bearing on that
subject, must be interesting toour readers; and
we, therefore, take pleasures in laying before
! them the subjoined information derived from a
friendinthe interior, being extracts from letters re
cently received from Tampa and other points in
'he neighborhood of the Gulf seaboard, and near
hcsecneof the negotiations of the Seminole dele
gr.tes from the West. Tho names and standing
c.'songs of the writers of the letters, from which
these extracts are taken, arc well known to ns and
command our respect.
EXTRACT 1.
“Gen. F.lake writes to me, that liis prospects are
good—that some of the delegation have been out
und wore kindly received, and that the Indians
came in and appear to be on good terms with tho
delegation.
extract 2.
“Gen. Blake has sent up word from Fort Myers',
that lie has the most flattering hopesof having the
Indians on their way westward by October next.
“So mote it be.
extract 3.
From Fort Meade April id.
“Tell yonr Florida Folks they need not be alarm
ed f.r the Frontier. Capt. Grafton's company is
already at the Kissimee, and the whole line will be
thoroughly protected.”
1 low far the General's pleasing anticipations are
to be realized, we must of necessity, “let him and
ehanco determine” the quiet removal of the red
man from our State, is certainly “a consummation
devoutly to be wished on everv account, and no
triend to Florida, can fail to desire for Gen. B. and
his party, speedy and perfect success, in their pres
ent undertaking, and we earnestly hope, no thwart
ing measures, on the part of our State authorities
n ;y he interposed.— At. Augustine Journal 17 th
met.
Aspinwau. and the Isthmus Railroad.— lt was
perhaps observed that our last advices from Cali
fornia. by the steamer United States, were received
from A' pin wall. Navy,Bay, instead of Chagres, as
heretotore. The- new town, named in honor of
one of the proprietors of the first steam linetoCal
ifoniia. i* situated at the terminus of the Railroad
which is in process of construction across the Isth
mus, and hereafter all passenger* are to be landed
a: that point. From Panama papers to the 4th inst.,
we learn that sixteen and a half miles oftlie rail
road are completed, and in about one week three
miles more will be added, which will reach Beuna
Vista. Titc time occupied on the road in transport
ing passengers to its present terminus is one hour
and a half, whieh saves thirty-six hours travel by
the river from Chagres. The ears do not run as fast
i * was intended, on account of the workingtrainaon
the road, w hich in the course of a short time, when
the filling is completed, can be dispensed with.—
The fare on the road is five dollars by boats to
Gorgona. The usual fare from Chagres to Gorgo
na was from six to ten dollars, and from one and
or.e mid a half to two dollars boat hire for lauding
from a steamer, with at least a small chance of be
ing drowned.
Two wharves are now completed at Aspinwall
for the accommodation of steamers and other vea
sels, and two m#re are soon to be constructed for
the American and British lines of moil steamers.
The demolition of Chagres has already oomm#no
ed, and the wharves at Aspinwall are Ailed with
materials of buildings removed from that plao#.—
MoUU HegUtor,
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Domestic Economy.— Cranberry Pie ; Fig Pudding ; Sweet
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Illustrations.— The Domestic Swan; Ayrshire Bull;
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Address WM. S. JONES,
Augusta, Ga.
Mr. B. F. Hallf.it, the Chairman of the Central
’ Democratic Committee, has written n letter to liia
friend, Mr. George W. Thompson, of Gabriel
’ speech memory, in reply to the remarks of Mr.
Bantoul, freesoil Democrat. Mr. Ilallctt says ho
cannot give the “reply direct" to Mr. Bantoul be
cause ho has not the floor—but he would “give the
best fee of his professional life for half an hour to,
* answer him faco to lace." This is very valorous,
but not to tho point. Mr. Hallett proceeds to sky
- that “he (Mr. Bantoul) has dishonestly seized upon
, part of a resolution which expressed an abstract
- sentiment as common to the North, and suppress
- ed the conclusion, which repudiated it as a political
1 tat." This is a distinction without a difference.
3 But why does Mr. Hallett suppress the resolutions ?
> Why does he charge Mr. Bantoul with suppression,
- and at the same iimo practice it himself! If he
3 had given the whole, tho public might have fornt
f cd a better opinion of the matter. But Mr. Ran
t touldid givo two resolutions, perfect and entire,
- and couched in language of the most extensive
f signification. We republish them:
“Bcsolvcd, that wo aro opposed to slavery in any”
form and color, and in favor of freedom and free
- soil, wherever man lira throughout God’s heritage."
“Besolvcd, that we are opposed to tho extension
-of slavery to froo Territories, and in favor of the
, exerise of all constitutional and necessary means to
- restrict it to the limits within which it does or may
- exist by tho local laws #f4he State.
r Thau the first ofthese, nothing can be more eom
- prehensive. It embraccs'e very thing—every corner
t of the habitable globe. The second covers tho Wil
i mot Proviso—tho political portion of the slavery ng
s itation. There is no retraxit of tho doctrines cm
t braced in these resolutions, in Mr. Ilallctt’s letter.
But a quantity of “stuff” and indignation against
Bantoul, for telling tales out of school.
One portion of his letter, however, is not un
worthy of notice. Holding the opinions avowed
in the resolutions copied above, hc yetdeclaras his
entire acquiescence in tho Baltimore Democratic
Platform Os 1848. This proves, what we have
often asserted, that any Abolitionist in the Union
could subscribe to that’Platform. —Richmond U7.ig.
It may not be improper to call the reader’s at
tention to the significant fact, disclosed by Mr.
llallett and his friend and associate in Frecsoil
ism, Bantoul, that notwithstanding their zeal in
the causo of Frcesoilism, they can cheerfully ac
quiesce in the Baltimore platform of 1848. This
platform, it will bo recollected, the late secession
its, tho now “Democrats,” par excellence, of the
South, are very willing to re-establish. Indeed,
they ask nothing more of their Democratic Frco
soil brethren of the North.
But a year ago thoy denounoed all parties at the
North as unsound on the slavery question, and
assorted that no Southern man could affiliate with
either without a betrayal of his section—commit
, ing treason to the South and lici interests. Now
we behold them going into Convention with the
Freesoilers, and only asking that the platform of
1848 may bo again adopted, on which they and
Bantoul, Hallet, Van Buren, father and son,
Preston Kino and the entire Freesoil party can
stand in fraternal embrace 1 W’hat a change, and
how suddon 1
Mr. Calhoun it was, we believe, who said some
thing about “the cohesive power of the public
plunder.” Does the reader imagine that he sees
in all this the effect of any of this peculiar proper
ty which Mr. Calhoun ascribed to tho “spoilt."
Florida Conventon.
The variegated Democracy, lato secession party,
of Florida held a State Convention at Madison a
few days since, and made the following nomina
tions :
For Governor—James E. Broome.
For Congress—A. E. Maxwell.
ELECTORS.
Western District—Jesse Coe —alternate, Dillon
Jordan.
Middle District—Caraway Smith—alternate, P.
W. White.
Eastern District—McQ. Mclntosh—alternate, S.
St. G. Bogers.
DELEGATES TO BALTIMORE CONVENTION.
For the State at Large—Hon. D. L. Yulee, Dr.
S. W. Spencer.
Western C. Yongo, Jno. Julian,
Jesse Coe.
Middle District—Ex-Gov. John Branch, A. K.
Allison, Jno. Weseott.
Eastern District—C. Byrne, Gad Humphreys,
J. G. Doll.
Southern District—W. W. McCall, M. C. Brown,
T. F. King.
The Convention, wo learn, passed four resolu
tions.
1. Affirms tho Virginia and Kentucky resolu
tions of 1798-’99 and Madison’s report.
3. Adopts and endorses Baltimore resolutions
of 1544-’4B.
8. Deprecates agitation on slavery question, or
revival of any past issues, os mischievous and cal
culated to introduce divisions among the people
and weaken the bonds of political fraternity.
4. Appoints fourteen delegate* to Baltimore,
without instructions.
We could not suppress onr risibles at the bald
humbuggery of re-affirmlng the Virginia resolu
tions of ’9S and ’99, and Mr. Madison's report
thereon.
These famous resolutions, like the Baltimore
platforms of 1844 and 1848, arc made by this party
to mean anything or nothing, and are adapted, as
the Almanac makers say, to any meridian, the
party may desire. For instance, there were in the , J
Florida Convention doubtless, as in the Virginia
and Georgia Conventions, which preceded it, men
who believed that these reaolu Ti on» and report sus
tain the right of secession, for any cause a State
may declare “euficient," while there are a large
majority of the party who believe that, they neither 1
contemplate such an emergency nor authorise i
such a construction. i
It may not be unprofitable to notice how careful 1
this Convention was to avoid any thing, or the ex- 1
pression of any sentiment that might give offence
to their Freesoil brethren, Bantoul, Wilmot, Hal- i
let, Prestcn King, the Van Bueens, <fec. Hence, 1
their ominous silence on that question in which is 1
involved the rights and property of the South.
This fact considered in conneetien with their re- i
“cent denunciations of the men of the North, of all t
parties, as too eorrupt for any man or party to £
affiliate with without dishonor and a betrayal of (
his section, is very significant, and illnstrates most
beautifully, Mr. Calhoun's conception of the “oo- <
hence power of the public plunder." 1
Let the intelligent and reflecting men of all par- I
ties at the South reflect upon these facts, and they £
will have little difficulty in determining into whose I
hands they may the more safely commit the pro
tection of their rights and property, this self-styled ,
Democratic party, or the Constitutional Union
P
♦ j
Valuable Plantation Tor gale.
Ws take pleasure in calling the attention of i
those who desire to purchase one of the most vain-
able plantations in the State, to the advertisement t
of W. W. Holt, Executor, offering for sale the fc
“ RoweU Place." This plantation has long been (
regarded one of the best on the Savannah river *
as well, on account of its location, whether consi- e
derad with reference to its facilities for the tnms- t
Donation of its products to market, or health, as Jj
for the great fertility of the soil.
The Hon. John C. Spencer of New Tork arrived fi
is this eity yesterday afternoon. tl
The Public Printing—'The Columbus Time.
The ; .relight developments at Washington in re
ference to the public printing—the (volitions sought
to be made, and those actually made, show how
wonderfully oozy a prospect off fingering the ape iti
can make certain persons, previously as tar asm?
der as the polls. These things have exeited the
just indignation of the intelligent and reflecting
everywhere, and the press, in many instances, has
not hesitated to speak out its condemnation.
Among others the Colmnbas Times has been con
spicuous—its tone of rebnkc to .the “ Union," 1 es
pecially, has been designed to be withering in the
extreme, so much so, that it was quite apparent
there was something more connected with the indig
nation of the Times than appeared to the uninitiated
—perhaps some feeling of disappointment or mor
tified pride, such as a lover feels who having
wooed most earnestly, meets the abrupt rebuff of
the object of his affections—hence tins chagriuc
and the merciless application of the lash.
After having previously assailed the Union most
bitterly for its coalition with the Republic, and
most earnestly essayed to weaken that journal in
the affections of its southern supporters, the Tones
returns to the assault, with an appetite apparently
whetted by the brief respite, and uncorks his bot
tled indignation in the following article :
Public Printing again. —The Union
itself against the charge of coalition with the Re
public, (in other words, with Mr. Filimpre,) for the
purpose of gettiug the printing speculation, by at
tacking the Southern Press. Stung on every side
like rascals, being “lashed naked through the
world,” it spirts the venom of detected hypoeracy
and treachery, from its fangless mouth, upon every
beholder of its iniquity ; but more especially does
it rave at the pointing finger of the Southern Press.
It seems really, to gasp in grasping at the chance
of making it appear, that the Press is no better
than the l nion. Just as a man about to be hung
for an infamous crime, would seek consolation in
the reflection, that a few at least had suffered the
same punishment f.r the same offence.
Bat it so happens, that the Southern Press, so
far from being liable to any charge for an impro
per participation in that sort of speculations, has
not been permitted to do that portion of the print
ing, which by law, it was entitled to do at lair pri
ces. For it will be remembered, that Mr. Fillmore
was directed by law, to give certain printing to
that newspaper in Washington City, having the
greatest cireultiou. The Southern "press lias it.
Yet Air. Fillmore— Waehington-lihe Mr. Fillmore
in violation of his oath [of office, but in keeping
. with that proclivity to do everything wrong, and
which lias cost the people of the United Status filly
two millions of dollars for the ordinury expenses
of the Government fur the lost political year, gave
this printing to others—us well as we recollect to
his own immediate organ, the Republic, to-be divi
ded perhaps between it and the Union.
In the torture which it is suffering from the lash
of honest men—stimulated by the uncertainty
which still hangs over the consummation of this
coalition project, the Union proclaims itself to be
of the State Rights school. State Rights indeed I
What right of any State does the Union believe a
State has the right to defend, in a dispute with the
General Government, except by resort to revolu
tion ?
While in one side of its mouth it holds the
bone thrown to it by Mr. Fillmore and his friends,
it snarls with the other, at wlmt it calls disnnion
ists. Well; if thero aro disunionists, but few .in
all this broad land, have contributed more to make
them so, than the Union. Tlic injustice, which for
the sake of the public printing speculations—glit
tcring in the sunlight of the future before the daz
zled eyes of the Union, it helped to fasten upon one
section of the country—the stabs which it gave
State Sovereignty, with dagger concealed beneath
the cloak of its pretended friendship, have done
more to make disunionists thus all the real dislike
of “the constitution as it is, and the Union as it
was,” since the last dayß of Arnold.
Oil, that once more, by the exhaustion of its
resources, its bankruptcy, or by other means, our
Government may lose the power and capacity of
corrupting, or of being corrupted—when “virtue
will not stund abashed, and vice be a candidate for
praise”—so that temptations and inducements to
change its form by the destruction of State Sove
reignty—by subjecting the creator to the rule of
the created, mar perish like plants from seed sown
upon stony ground.
This we are quite sure the reader will pronounce
a most violent and unmerciful application of the
“lash,” but whether he concludes that the following
disclosures made in the House of Representatives
by Mr. Gorman, a brother democrat, havo had any
influence in causing it to bo applied with such ex
traordinaay severity, mnst be a question of time
and for the meet deliberate reflection.
Mr. Gorman claimed the privilege of closing the
debate upon this subject, under the rule which
allowed this priviledge to the member reporting
any measure under consideration. He remarked
that the Committee oil Printing, under the law
which had been read to the House again and again,
had power to adopt such measures as they might
deom necessary to remedy any neglect or delay
which might occur in consequence of thq failure
of the public printer to execute his contract. The
Committee, as had been statod to the House in the
report which ho had made, unanimously came to
the conclusion that the publio printer bad failed in
every essential-particular to comply with his con
tract, and there was no remedy left the committee
but to adopt such measures as their judgment in
the premises might dictate. -Under the power
granted, they did exercise their judgment in the
best maimer they could, and mado the arrange
ments, which were contained in the report before
the Ilonse.
It had been asserted that the Committee on
Printing had acted with a view of accomplishing a
party purpose, and that Donelson & Armstrong
and Gideon & Co. had combined to plunder the
public Treasury. Now, whatever understanding
or conversation may have taken place among tho
proprietors, it never came to the knowledge
of the committee. He would say to the House
that the Committee on Printing never consulted
with or heard one word from Gideon & Co, on this
subject, and no person from the beginning to the
end had been consulted with, except Donelson &
Armstrong, so far as his knowledge extended,
unless some gentleman of the Whig party belong
ing to tho committee had consulted with the pro
prietors of tho Republic in private. If this had
occurred, it had nevor corno te tho information of
the committee os such, or to him individually.
It had beon further said the eommittoo hod un
dertaken to impose upon the House public printers
without consulting the House. This he denied,
for the committee had merely preposed to certain
printers in Washington that they should do that
portion of the work which the public printer had
tailed or noglected to execute.
He denied that the committee were influenced
by politicial motives in giving a portion of the
work to Donelson & Armstrong and Gideon & Co.
The first motive which actuated him was to dis
charge his duty to the country, and place tho
public printing before tho country. The next
duty was to ascertain who could perform that
work which tho public printer had failed to do in
obedience to the contract.
In reference to the assertion that a coalition had
i been entered into, tho committee could more read
ily have made a coalition with Borne other paper
than with the Republic. When gentlemen clinrg
-1 ed a coalition their own action should be clean. It
, was a saying in law, that when a person came into
a court of justice and asked equity, he must first
come in with eje:in hands. Now, to whom were
they to give this printing f The National Intclli
-1 gencer was a press of the Whig party. Tho South
ern Press was a kind of quasi organ of the States
Rights’ men, (and he believed this paper had ono
Whig and one Democratic editor.)
A voice. Which one is a Whig ?
Mr. Gorman replied that Mr. De Leon had always
been a Whig, ana he had never heard of his hav
, ing changed. If there had existed any disposition
on the part of the committee to enter "into a coali
tion, they could have accepted the ono tendered
them by tho Southern Press. He would state that
a distinguished Southern gentleman, the editor of
the Columbus (Geo.) Times, suggested that there
was an arrangement on font for the purpose of
making him the editor of the Southern Press.—
This editor was to come out and declare his ac
quiescence in the coinpramisc and in favor of the
nominee of the Baltimore Convention. And with
these words on his lips, this gentleman in conjuc
tion with Southern men, came and asked if there
could not bo an alliance ! could not part of public
printing be given to them 1 That gallant man,
(Mr. Armstrong,) who had fought in the service of
his country, and who bore upon his person marks
received from its foes, rejected such an arrange
ment. He (Mr. G.) proposed no allianco with
North, South, East, or West—he would have none.
The Committee could have an alliance witli the
editor of the Columbus Times, and if they had done
this, he should not have had to reply to the charges
of bargain and coalition preferred against the com
mittee. This was the origin of all this talk of coa
lition. He did not hear De Leon and Fisher make
any suggestion, but he understood that these gen
tlemen were quietly making propositions in tne
Rotundo, the National Hotel, and tho streets, sa
that the fact might creep to the ears of the gentle
men that thev would like to have a slice. He
never heard of this; but he did hear of the editor
of the Columbns Times, in Georgia, coming here
and proposing the coalition of which he had spo
ken. Mr. G. then referred to what he considered
a coalition between Southern Rights members and
Freesoil members to defeat the action of tho Com
mittee on Printing, and wished to know if any
would deny that the abolitionists in the House,
and gentlemen who occupied the position of the
gentlemen from Nortel Carolina, (Messrs.Clingman
and Venable) —such gcatlemcn as those who occu
pied extreme positions—were united togother for
the purpose of defeating the action of the commit
tee.
“The Chronicle <£• Sentinel used to be a welcome
vieitor in our Sanctum, but since we admitted into
our columns some articles favoring the Rabun Gap
Road, we have never received a number of that
paper.”
This is the first intimation we have had that the
Chronicle <t Sentinel entirely failed to reach the
“Sanctum ” of the Chattanooga Gazette. It may
astonish our contemporary, yet we beg to assure
it is nevertheless true, that we were not before
aware whether it favored or opposed the Rabun
Gap Road ; and, with all due deference to its po
sition, we really care less than whether the wind
to-day, (which happens to be very chilly,) blows
from the South or Northwest. If the Gazette
would reflect that those alone who are influenced
by petty and groveling considerations, are most apt
to suspect others of a like influence, it would pro
bably less frequently indulge its suspicions in as
signing a motive in others for any act.
An Uphill Business. —W e know not when we
ha\ t e seen any one impose upon themselves a task
which, to ns, appeared a mere perfect “uphill busi
ness,” than that of the Marietta Advocate, in its
efforts to make the impression on the public mind
that the Postmaster in that Village “was removed
because he was a Democrat.” Just think of it?
This administration, so distinguished for the ab
sence of every thing like proscription, charged
with removing a Postmaster in a country village
“because he was a democrat 1”
The conceptions is too absurd, too ridiculous,
and we venture the prediction that not an impar
tial, intelligent man, who is familiar with the policy
and course of the Administration, can bo found in
Georgia, who believes the charge true.
"We have no doubt Mr. Taylor was removed be
cause of his advanced age, and his physical ina
bility, for he was never a quick, active man in the
prime of life, to despatch the business of his office
as rapidly as the public, or the necessities of the de
partment required.
Marriage at a Fvnct Ball.—A fancy dress
ball was giTen at Syracuse N. Y., on the evening of
the Bth instant, when, among other incidents of the
evening, the following is related by the Syracuse
Standard:
“Among the most pleasing incidents of the even
ing was the marriage by Justice Johnson, of Mr.
James Doran, who appeared in the brilliant cos
tume of a knight of Malta, in which he appeared
to good advantage, to Miss Bartlett, a dark-Cyed
beauty, who was elegantly attired in the dress of a
Greek girl. The audience were requested to pre
serve order for a few moments, and to the surprise
of most of those present, the young, handsome and
elegantly-attired bride and bridegroom stepped in
to the middle of the room, and the marriage cere
mony was performed in the midet of a gay and
brilliant aeaerably of representative* from every
quarter of the globe. After the justice had pro
nounced them * husband and wife,’ be retired
from the room, and the donee went on merrily as
the marriage beds.”
The Whig Caucus
As this body sat with closed doors, wo aro de
pendent upon Washington Letter Writers, for
such information in reference to its action as they
have been enabled to “worm out” of the members
in attendance. Os coarse under such circumstances
strict accuracy is not to be expected, yet in tho
main, their reporta are probably tolerably accurate.
Wc give them for what they are worth:
lon a correspodeut of the Baltimore Sun, re
marks:—“The whig caucus v.as. inconsequence of
bad, weather, and perhaps an indisposition on the
part of some members to participate ill it, very
thinly attended. There were not present us
many members as at the caucus on tho ninth
inst. There are a hundred and sixteeu members,
and net more than sixty-three or four were at any
time present. Upon the first vote, which was con
sidered as a test of the disposition of the meeting
to adopt the compromise measures as a common
platform ofthc party, but 54 members answered.
Forty-six opposed the proposed pledge, and eigh
teen were in tavor of it.
It appears that when Mr. Marshall’s resolution
was ruled out of order, he and some other South
ern Whigs withdrew. Mr. Gentry offered a simi
lar resolution, but in a different "form, and that
being also ruled out, other Southern men with
drew, washing their hands of the whole affair.
Only ten Southern members remained as specta
tors or participants in the proceedings—all the rest
coming off scott-free. Mr. Stanly was very severe,
it is said, in his remarks on the seeeders.
All the speaking was among the Southern mem
bers. The Northern Scott mpu were as mum as
they desire their candidate to lie. But they did
the voting very promptly and efficiently.
The caucus fixed u/ion Baltimore as the place,
and Wednesday, the 16th of June, as the time for
the meoting of the National Whig Couvention.
Mr. Seward was not present in the caucus; but
he, with some associate leaders, were posted in an
anti-room as a reserved cc#ps. The meeting was,
in fine, declared to de exceedingly harmonious and
satisfactory, and atfording an lusurrance that the
auti-eompro nise men would have no difficulty
among each other in selecting a nominee. The as’-
seut of the Southern members was not expected,
nor deemed necessary. It is very doubtful wheth
er the Southern Whigs, after what has passed,
will support Gen. Scott,, even if he should otter
the pledges that his Northern Whig friends have
refused to give.
The day being fixed for both conventions, the
canvass will receive a new impulse. The result
w ill be to insire great confidence in the friends of
Gen. Scott, as a candidate.
From another Correspondent X, of the same pa
■ per, we clip the following :
The Whig caucus last evening was all that was
expected of it; neither more nor less. Whole num
ber of persons present, seventy-five.
Mr. Humphrey Marshall introduced a resolution
inviting the whigs to come out explicitly outlie
basis of the compromise as a finality. This was
voted down; upon which Mr. Marshall, Miss., Ca
bell and Morton, of Florida, Mr. Brooke, of Miss.,
Messrs Outlaw, Moore, Ac., withdrew.
A second attempt was made, .bv Mr. Gentry, to
pass a resolution to this effect: That while agree
ing to the time and place of holding the conven
tion, the members of the caucus should not be com
mitted to sustain the nominations unless the com
promise be recognised as a finality. This also was
voted down; upon which Mr. Gentry, with a num
ber of his friends, retired. The whole number of
members that withdrew from the convention was
seventeen.
Georgia was not represented at all; Missouri was
only represented by Mr. Borter; Maryland was not
represented, and Alabama was not represented.
It is understood that the whig members who re
mained will all place themselves on Mr. Marshall’s
flattorin at the Baltimore (whig) Convention. Mr.
owler was present.
Mr. Thaddeus Stevens was absent.
Ex-Governor Seward was not at the eauens ; but
present in an ante-room, to direct and superin
tend the operations by his aids-dt camp without
being seen. The coup d e'tat, as far as lie was con
cerned, was perfectly successful.
It is now supposed that a compromise candidate
and an anti-compromise candidate will be run for
President by the whigs.
The correspondent of tho Philadelphia Amcri
can lias furnished the following report of the pro
ceedings which took place in relation to the com
promise—after the original resolutions of Mr. Mar
shall, of Kv\, on that subject had been ruled out
of order and ho had declared tho caucus no place
for a Whig to remain:— •
After the withdrawal of Mr. Marshall, Mr. Gen
try, with much feeling, said lie would make one
more effort to save t lie unity of tho whig party,
and offered a resolution, which in substance de
clared that in fixing the time and place for bolding
the National Convention, the wings did not com
mit themselves unless the compromise were finali
ties.
s A long debate ensued, in which Messrs. Outlaw,
t Campboll, Brooke, of Mississippi, Strother, Moore,
f of Louisiana, Ewing, Cabell and Clingman partici
l pated.
r . Mr. Outlaw said he wished it to he understood
, that if the Compromise Kcsolutions were thrust
t out of the whig caucus, it was thrusting him out,
r and the wliigs whom he represented. Having said
> this, Mr. Outlaw withdrew.
> Mr. Moore, of Louisiana, said that such a acton
> ruled the Southern wliigs out of tho caucus;
> and then he and his colleague, Mr. Landry, with
i drew.
Mr. Brooke, of Mississippi, said ho would like
> to know, before lie went to tho Whig National
i Convention, what company ho was to keep : and
' he left also.
i Mr. Strother said that the wliigs of Virginia had,
in su'stance, instructed him to leave tho caucus
i when tho compromises were thrown out; and he
obeyed these instructions by taking his departure,
i Mr. Cubell said that tho decision of tho chair, at
i the previous meeting of the caucus, had caused
’ many Southern whigs to he absent to-night. He
and others came hoping for a reversal ot huoli de
: cision. The confirmation of that decision would
1 leave the caucus composed only of Northern men,
and eight or ten Southern Whigs, lie then left
i with Senator Morton.
Mr. Clingman, after some few remarks, left also',
1 with Mr. Williams, of Tennessc.
Mr. Gentry gave uttcrunce to some indignant re
marks and retired with others, so that of the Ten
nessee delegation there remained iu the chamber
hut Messrs. Cullum and Jones.
Tho excitement caused by tins secession was in
. tense. At the time tlicrff remained from the South
only part of tho North Carolina, Kentucky,' and
Tcnncsseo delegations, nil the other Southern
States being wholly unrepresented. 'lndeed, it
had become almost exclusively a Northern caucus.
Mr. Morehond, of North Carolina, said he had
staid behind only because he hoped tho Whig Con
vention would adopt the Compromise, aud it was
certain that North Carolina would vote only lor
known compromise men.
Mr. Dockery said he oudorsed his colleague to
the fullest extent.
Mr. Cullum said no man could hope to carry Ten
nessee unless lie was for the Compromise.
On motion of Mr. Saekott, tho time and place
was then fixed for tho holding of the National Con
vention.
Upon a division being takon between Baltimore
and l’ittsburg, the former received 31 votes, and
latter 18, showing but 49 members present, after
the Southern members had left.
Mr. Stanly defined his position at length, and
said that unless tho Whig party stood upon the
Compromise, no candidate nominated by the party
could receive tho Southern vote.
Previous to the adjournment, Mr. Mangum sviid
that he apprehended that a manifesto would bo
prepared by the Southern retiring Whigs, aud in
that case he desired the authority to reconvene the
caucus, and the authority was given.
A sharp controversy ensued between Messrs.
Brooks, Stanly, and Truman Smith, and the caucus
separated amid great excitement, aliout midnight.
Bank of St. Mary's.
We find in the Savannah Republican, of Friday
•vening, tho subjoined card of John G. Winter,
President of the Bank of St. Mary’s :
To the Public.— A very heavy and unprecedent
ed run upon the Bank of St. Mary’s for the month
past, aggravated and brought to a crisis by an un
necessary and probably vindicative publication in
the Mobile Tribune, and copied in tho Montgomery
Advertiser, without comment, of the ability of a
drawer to pay the Bank's draft for twenty‘thou
sand dollars, has, I am pained to say, forced her to
a temporary suspension of specie payments. It
affords me, however, pleasure to assure the public
that the institution is abundantly solvent, and re
quires only u little time to marshal her assets. In
addition to her own means, I will bring to her aid
my own ample fortune, until not n note shall be
left iu circulation. The means will be in u
f#w days provided to pay all her deposits, and
outstanding checks upon the several points drawn
will be honored on presentation. These assuran
ces to the public of the entire solvency of the in
stitution, are not given for the purpose of sustain
ing its credit, as the Bank will be wound up with
out delay and her charter surrendered to the power
that created it. The small notes of the Bank, as
well as my own, will he promptly redeemed with
out intermission, until the last dollar shall have
been returned. I will dose my financial connec
tions with the public with honor, even were it ne
cessary to part with every thing but its good opin
ions. John G. Winter.
The Columbus Enquirer published the card of
John G. Winter which was published by us Sun
day morning and adds:
“ Mr. Winter will, so soon ns ho can arrange his
schedule, offer at public venHue all of his real estate
in Columbus, aud a considerable portion of what
he owns in Montgomery, and receive the notes of
the Bank in payment. This will cover fully, ono
third or more of the circulation of the Bank,
which is about $350,000. Ilia flour mills in Co
lumbus and Montgomery will also receive the notes
in payment of flour and meal to small purchasers.
This, in connection with the receipts at his Iron
Works in Montgomery, will soon reduce the circu
lation toa very insignificant umount, and enable
the Bank to resume cash payment at an early day,
but he is resolved to ci«»e the atlairs of the Insti
tution and surrender the charter. To save trouble
he will arrange with several of the Agencies here
to redeem the small notes of the Bank and his own.
His estate is an immense one, and with his assu
rances that he will stand by the Bank, the pubile
cannot suffer more than a temporary incon
venience.”
Wo regret that Mr. Winter did not advertise to
sell his property for the hills of specie paying
Banks, and with them redeem the bills of the
Bank of St. Mary’s. He was the principal and, in
deed, almost the only Stockholder, and if the Bank
has been mismanaged or its fund miapplied, he,
alone, is responsible for it, because he conducted
the institution. It is not just, therefore, that he
should take advantage of his own wrong and spe
culate on the hill holders. If the Bank is as solvent
as he represents it, it can pay its liabilities, andjus
tice requires that the bill holders should not he
speculated on by the officers of the institution.
Mr. Winter will have cause to regret his determi
nation to sell his property for the bills of the Bank,
especially if he values his reputation as highly as
he intimates in his card. Wc care not what may be
his success in after life, there will attach to his name
an odium which will adhere to him like the shirt
of Nesus. There will be no escaping it.
“Costley Visits.” —Under this head the Wash
ington Globe famishes the following evidence of
the distinguished toadyism of some of the • Ameri
can people, among whom a majority of Congress
was Conspicuously pre-eminent.
The newspapers say that the bill presented to the
Pennsylvania Legislature for the entertainment of
Governor Kossuth and his euite, when at Harris
burg, amonnted to thirteen dollars per diem for
each individual. That would seem to be enough,
in all conscience, at a place where the highest ho
tel rate is not more, we suppose, than two dollars
per diem for each truest. Os course, on snch an oc
casion, there would be sundry extras, hut still we
can hardly imagine what could be eaten or drunk
so to inflame the bill. But we beat Harrisburg
here, as it was right we should do, this being the
great federal metropolis. Tho tavern bill here
amounted, we think, to about seventeen dollars
per dim for each of the Hungarians, men and
womeu lamped. As we did not audit the bill, or
pay any part of it, except as national tax payers, we
do'not'say whether it was extravagant or not; but
we believe that at the same hotel, the usual rate of
charging is two dollars a dav— argol, one Hunga
rian hero could do, or did do, as much execution
at table as about eight and a half people in general.
Os course they had all the “delicacies of the sca
eon,” and the most delicate wines; and they seem
to have done them all justice.
Had. Storsi.—Saturday night last, there was a
severe hail storm in Laurens county, in this State
The hail lay an inch and a half thick on the ground,
and the hail stones were u large as pigeons’ eggs.
Dr. Keichbark Again.
Some ten days or more ago, wo copiod from tho
Petersburg Intelligencer a paragraph charging Dr.
K. with having taken “ French leave ” oftbateiy
without paying his bills. The Doctor, who hap
pened to have stopped in this city, tho next dov
called at our office and lianded us a long reply, de
nying the trnth of the charge, and going into a de
tailed explanation of the circumstances of his arri
val at.ami departure from Petersburg. As we
were unwilling to occupy so much of our space with
a matter purely personal, and which we did not
fully credit, we condensed the Doctor's statement,
and gave only its substance. This statement of tile
Doctor’s seems to have aroused tho ire of our Pe
tersburg contemporary against tho unworthy disci
ple of Esculapins, and in copying it, lie is down on
tho Doctor with an avalanche of proof which con
clusively establishes the entire falsity of the whole
statement submitted to us. Indeed, it is quite ap
parent that about the only truths the Doctor's
statement contained were, that he arrived at Pe
tersburg on board the “ Urey Eagle,” boarded at
Mrs. West's, and left without making a settlement
with her.
We would oopy the entire article of the Intelli
gencer if “ the game was worth the candle.” The
Doctor took his departure from this city the day
after he left his reply, under circumstances that
satisfied us of the truth of the charges of the Intel
ligencer, but in consideration of his wife, who, we
learned, seemed to be an amiable lady, we forbore
any allusion to the fact.
Fire in Lawrenceville.
We regret to learn from the subjoined note,
from a gentleman in Lawrenceville, that tho exten
sive Tannery at that place, has been destroyed by
fire. We hope tho enterprising company will re
build it promptly and resume their operatious.
Such establishments are very much needed at the
South : and we trust the company will not be dis
heartened. Nothing like perseverance, ovou un
der difficulties and disaster:
Lawrenceville, Geo. April 21st.
“The Lawrenceville Steam Tannery” was dis
covered to be on fire at 3o’cloek, this morning—all
efforts toexteuguish the flames proved unavailing,
and it is now a heap of ruins. The probable loss
is 5 or 6000 dollars —none of which is covered by
insurance. It is not known liow the fire origina
ted.
Sew Books.
Notes explanatory and practical, on the Book
of Revelations. By Albert Barnes. New York:
Harper & Brothers.
Romanism at Home. Letters to the Hon. Roger
B. Taney, Chiol Justice of the United States; by
Kirwan. New York : Harper & Brothers.
Barnes’ Notes on tho Book of Revelation will be
of great service to Ministers of tho Gospel, Sun
day School Teachers, students of Scripture, and
all earnest and inquiring Christians, as they throw
much light on passages of obscure and doubtful
meaning, and evince great labor and a diligent
research into sacred writings.
Those who are fond of .religious controversy
(which wo are not) will find Kirwan’s Letters
spicy and piquant reading. They purport to have
been written from different points on the European
Continent, which the author visited for the purpose
of observiug the workings of the Roman Catho
lic Religion “at home” in its own stronghold, and
arc marked by great ability and tho most unboun
ded zeal against “Romanism,” which seems to
affect the writer with tho most horrible forebodings
and to brood over his imagination like the incubus.
We do not agree with him in the belief that our
institutions are in nny danger from the encroach
ments of Roman or any other ism ; and while wo
regard all discussion and controversy on points of
religious belief as worse than useless, we cannot
deny the present writer the appearance of great
candor and the possession of an unusually brilliant
and attractive style—qualities not too often found
in works of this character.
London Labor and tub London Poor. By llrn
ry Mayhew. Part 18. Harper A Brothers, New
York. *
Bleak House. By Charles Dickens. No. 2.
Harper & Brothors.
All the above may be obtained at tho Bookstore
of Jos. A. Carrie & Co.
Military Visit.— The Columbia, South Carolinian
in noticing the contemplated visit of tho '■'■Ogle
thorpe Infantry" to that city, as tho guests of tho
“Governor’s Guards,” remarks:
“Tho Oglethorpe Infantry, wo learn from those
who have had an opportunity of knowing, is n tino
compunv, and it gives us pleasure to hear of their
determination to visit our beautiful town. The
corps whose guests they are to be, kDow something
of the hospitalities of Augusta, and we are sure
that they, as well ns our community in general,
will not fail in this very commendable work of re
ciprocity. Such courtesies among the citizen sol
diers of the two States will form a stronger link of
connection between their people than even the
bridge and the rail of tho iron thoroughfare.”
Scarlet Fever. —lt is said that several Physi
cians havo tested the application of fat bacon in
cases of Scnrlot Fever. Dr. Lindsay of Washing
ton, upon whoso authority tho remedy was pub
lished about a year ago, says:
“My plan lias been to have tho whole body rub
bed with the inside rind of fat, uncooked Won,
during the whole course of the disease, and to de
pend upon the tincture of iodine, applied freely
once, twice or three times in the twenty-tour hours,
to arrest tho anginous affection. But one case
(and that left the city convalescent) terminated fa
tally, besides another one which.l saw in consulta
tion, in which this treatment wus applied.”
If there is any particular virtue in the applica
tion, it cannot bo too extensively -circulated, that it
may be generally reported to, to arrest this terrible
scourge, which so generally baffles tlic skill of tho
profession, as to bo regarded among tho most de
structive, in tho catalogue, to human life.
Green Cons! — First of the Season ! —Whnt will tho
Boston I’ost say ?—What will our own cittizens say
at the announcement of preen corn on the 20tli
of April? To-day we received from a friend’s
well known and celebrated garden in tho Third
District of the city, half a dozen ears of green corn.
While they are shivering with their snows and
cold winds in tho “ Athens of America,” here in
New Orleans wc are luxuriating in tho midst of
the rarest vegetable of summer.
The above paragraph, which wc clip from tho
N. 0. Picayune of the 20th inst., in connexion with
the following, which wo find in the same paper,
may servo to illustrato tho truth of the proposition,
(if nny ono doubta it,) that “ this is a great
country.”
Regular winter weather again—overcoat and flro
weather—weather iii which to speak of linen coats
and white pants, or even to whisper “iced lemon
ade" would convert your best friend intoan enemy.
There are at least three hundred and sixty-fivo
new suits of summer vestments ut the various "tailor
establishments, their owners waiting anxiously
for a fair summer day to make a dush in tho streets,
and the weather is continually cutting down their
ripening hopes. Could not a convention be got
up not only to change the constitution but tho
weather.
The Weather has recently been a frequent and
prolific theme for remark. Since Sunday last we
have been favored with alternate clouds and sun
shine, and continuous blasts from the North-west
that would have done credit to tho latitude of Maine,
or even Franconia. Altogether it has been a very
cold week fir the season, and throe years ago would
havo been regarded “ unprecedented in this lati
tude;” but it is rather a remarkable coincidence
that, for the last three years, wo havri liad just such
a “ cold snap” during the month of April. This
season, however, we have had less frost than either
of tho previous three years, owing probably to tho
prevalence of either tho winds or the clouds.
The Chattanooga Advertiser chronicles the freakP
of the week thus:
“ April showers this year arc mingled with April
Bnows. There was quite a sprinkling of snow in
this vicinity last Sunday, the 18tli. On the moun
tain, we understand, there was a storm of hail.
The gay livery of Spring’is retarded in its develop
ment by the lingering cold of slowly receding win
ter.”
The Griffin Union indulges in the following com
ments :
“ SriitNO.—This Fair maid has become quite co
quettish indeed. At the date of our last issue, she
looked upon us with smiles, and wc reallv fancied
that we were fully initiated into her good graces,
and promised ourself from thence to the summer
solstice, balmy breezes, and the rich perfume of
. vernal flowers. But since then she has turned to
us the “cold shoulder,” and given ns several
frowns from the Northwest, which has caused the
blood to run cold in our veins, und rendered over
coats and fires necessary for comfort. We havo
had no killing frost, but several light touches with
in the last week has kept us in continual dread of
one.
Block or Copper for the Washington Moxc
mkxt. —Mr. Andrew Harvie, to whom was entrust
ed the task of preparing the block of native copper
which the Legislature of Michigan has directed to
be placed in the Washington Monument at Wash
ington as the contribution of that State, in a com
munication to-the Detroit Advertiser announces
that the offering is now ready for transmission to
Washington. The block was taken from the cele
brated Cliff Mine, and is three feet long by twenty
one inches broad, nine inches thick, and weighs
two thousand one hundred pounds. The designs
on it arc in Michigan native silver, and consist of
the arms of the State of Michigan, with the motto,
“Her trust is in the Union.” It is believed that
nowhere out of Michigan could a mass of copper
suited to the formation of such a block have been
procured.
U. 8. Coinage.—During the lato month of
March the total coinage at ‘he Mint and Branches
was, in gold, $4,931,802; in silver, $37,108; and
in copper, $2,399.75. The number of pieces coin
ed was:—Gold, 430,879; Silver, 1,159,800; Copper,
239,975; —total number of pieces, 1,880,254.
Memphis and Charleston Bailboad.— We learn
from the Huntsville (Ala.) Advocate, that the iron
for the renewal of the Tuscnmbia and Deca
tur road, which now belongs to and will form a part
of the Memphis and Charleston rood, is arriving
freely at Tuscumbia from New Orleans.
The cross ties for the road are being delivered,
and after the Ist of June the reconstruction of that
road will be commenced, and it is thought be made
a first claea road in time for tho next full business.
Immigration Westward. —The St. Louis Repub
lican publishes a statement from which it appears
that between the 20th of April,'lßsl, and the Ist
of April, 1852, nearly- fourteen thousand immi
grants arrived at that city.
The farmers of the Scioto Valley, Ohio, and of
the country immediately adjacent, have formed an
association for the importation of improved blood
ed cattle. Nearly ten thousand dollars have been
already contributed by the members of the Asso
ciation, which it is contemplated to increase by
further contributions to fifteen thousand dollars. .
The Cincinnati Gazette estimates the amount of
material, land and labor which has been this year
devoted to the culture of the grape and the manu
facture of native wines, in the vicinity- of that city,
a) half a million of delfur*, ,
Oorrtepondehce qf ttie Chronicle and Sentinel.
'Washington Cut, Armi. 81, 1832.
Tiik first act in the political drama now being
performed before the American people is ended.—
The politicians of each political party luivo assem
bled, and resolved to meet in Convention at Balti
more, to nominate candidates for tho Presidency
I and Vico Presidency. The Whig Cancns, which
came off lust night, has dissolved nil connection
between the Northern nnd Southern Whigs.—
With the exception of Messrs. Mimguni and Stan
ley, of North Carolina, and Senator Jones, ofTcn
ncssec, l havo no idea (hut any other Southern
Whig will bo found willing to net with n party con
trolled by Seward & Co. liven tho Maryland
Whigs (a border State, as it w ore,) are indignant at
tho action of tho Caucus, and will have nothing to
do with thorn. Those Southern men whom I
have named, and who I consider by their
action have betrayed the South, were actuated,
1 fear, by improper motivos. The North Caroli
nians, it is suspected, havo lost the confidence of
their own people, and are looking to other utilisa
tions for preservation. The Teunessee Senator, it
is thought, is weak enough to hope that he might
be selected ns a candidate for the Presidency—and
hence lie will cling.to a party whose only objection
to President Filemoke is, that he has done his
duty; and the only fault they havo to find with his
policy is, that it lias given peaco to the country.—
if such men can be sustained at tho South, you
have sunk to a degree of infamy that rarely lulls
to the lot of any people.
In view of wliat has taken place, the good und
true men of both parties are moving upon this
subject; and the original design and object of tho
Union Party at the South must, and will, bo curried
out, or all that lias boon accomplished will be lost.
The South must now stand firm, or we will be
again cast upon that sea of agitation which, but
lately, well nigh dissolved the Government. I
think in a few days a move will be made here to
call a Convention fresh iVon» tho people, to place
before them suitable candidates, pledged to the
doctrine of peaco at home und abroad; aguiust
any farther agitation of the slavery question; de
manding a faithful oxcoution of the laws known
as tho Compromise, and ugitinst auy nud all new
fangled notions affecting tine peace of this country
in its foreign policy. 1 u other words, a more strict
adherence to the principles of the distinguished
Statesmen of tho Kevolutiou, both in our domestic
and foreign relations. We have soen but llttlo dis
position on tho part of tlis Whig or Democratic
parties to give peace and quiet to the country upon
the slavery question. The Caucus of the one cast
the Resolution upon tho table, and that of the
other ruled it out of order; and the sooner tho
people take things into their own bauds, and put
them both down, tho better for tho country.—
How can you expect the country to bo quieted up
on this vexed question, when the fact is prominent
that both the political parties at the North are con
trolled by tlie fVee-soil portion? in the Whig par
ty they are the majority. In the Democratic, they,
at least, and under the mostfavorable aspect of the
subject, control tiie action of tho party to such an
extent that tho conservative portion ure afraid to
east them off. Take, for example, such mon as
Cuss and Buchanan: what hopo can tho South
have from their influence, if, in their political asso
ciation, they fellowship men who would burn down
your dwellings, mid urge a servile revolt ?
The conservative men of neither party cun ever
give, or hope to give, a healthy tone to tho public
feeling at tho North, unless they will porno out
from, and dissolve all connection with, these fiend
ish political agitators. The People, then, must and
will demand, in the next Presidential contest, that
their voico shall bo heard. At tho South they have
determined, upon the sole condition of soenrity in
the future, that they would abide by, and main
tain in good faith, tho Compromise measures as a
final settlement of the Slavory question. The
question is, shall politicians defeat them in their
object? I think not. Men talk übont tho old issues
of tlio Democratic nnd Whig parties as-if they
were tho only questions worthy the notice of tho
people,—when the fuct is, that almost anything else
sooner attracts attention. Our ablest Statesmen,
in and oat of Congress, liny write or speak learn
edly upon tho Tariff, or the Bank, or. the public
lands, and yot they can scarcely get a bearing ;
when tho most insignificant mcmbei; of Congress
may convulse the nation upon this Slavery question.
The apparent faltering of the Union Party in
tho South, from their original position, lias in
soino measure weakened tho power they might
have heretofore exerted in organizing a Party who
would save tho Government. Tho opportunity is
again before them of doing great good to tho coun
try. The late disruption of tho Whig Party adds
another forco to their organization in some of tho
othor Southern States, that must he felt and appre
ciated. Let, then, tho wliolo South be tho actors
in the next act; and show to the North, that while
they were willing to witness in the first, wha tthey
would do, they wore not without interest or unso
licitous about tho performance. That tho Nortli
lias failed to give auy hopo that tho policy alone
upon which the South is willing to continuo tho
connection will be udopted by cither of their poli
tical parties, must now bo manifest to every man
of observation. The only prospect, then, is a
separate political party organization, based upon
tbe principles of tho Union Party. Now is the
appropriate, und, I fear, tho only, time to secure
such an object. Tho whole matter is in the hands
of the Southern people; tlioy havo only to will it,
to see it accomplished.
If they yield at this point, to partisan Presses
or politicians, to secure the public printing for
this or that party papor, or to elevate this or that
man to the chief magistracy, without regard to the
great objects for which men should be elevated to
such dignities, I coufoss that I see but little in the
future to cheer us witli tho hopo that our people
will be happy, or our country safe.
An Observed.
For the Chronicle and Sentinel.
The State Hoad.—Uencral Dlshop.
Chattanooga, Ai'itii. 17, 1852.
Mr. Editor— l dislike lo trespass upon your
columns, and would not to tlie extent I do, but
that matters of public import may be of interest to
many, if not all, of your readers. I would have
preferred a moro decisive, and loss public, mode
of alleging charges, if thoso whoso duty it was to
listen to them had manifested the least semblance
of enforcing justice. It Was not my intention, in
the offset, to have made the Prcsß the organ of
my attack; but, failing privatoly to obtain u hear
ing, I am compelled to the alternative—and wil*
not hesitato to bring it to my aid.
“The Atlanta Republican” comes clothed in a
semi-official garb, and hence is worthy of notice.—
Not so, the crowd of ten-penny sheets along the
Road, who, in testimonial of their gratitude for
privileges extended, bark because they hear bark
ing. That paper enquires why I declined the in
vestigation. I reply, it is not true that the inves
tigation has ever been declined. The question,
however, involves a plain statement, and hero it is:
As far back ns early in January, the writer be
came aware, from the public notoriety attuebed to
it, that illegal shipments were made from this point
by the Agent in charge, and in which ho (Agent)
was a participant in tho profits, as well as members
of his household. To such an extent had this
public report gained ground, that one of tho Edi
tors of this city (tho same who discredits now that
such things could exist,) signified his intention to
publish the same, and was only prevented from so
doing by the assurance, that when Mr, Wadley was
fairly in power, the state of things would no long
er exist.
With increased receipts and accumulation, these
transactions became more oppressive; yet Btill to
avoid a public exposure, tho writer addressed a
private letter to Mr. Wadley, (which he is at liberty
to publish,) inviting him to give his personal atten
tion to this office, and to restore some systematic
mode of transacting its business. After two weeks’
delay, Mr. .Wadley arrived in the city; when again,
in person, the writer urged upon him to look into,
and prevent, these causes of complaint. A few days
priqr to this interview, the Agent had requested
holders of produce to register in books tho dates
of arrival, in order, us stated, that it might be
shipped in same manner. Mr. Wadley’s attention
was drawn to this detertnination by the Agent—
“than which nothing could be more fair,” —and
upon his (Mr. W.) representation that he would
sc it enforced, the writer was satisfied. But, in
stead of being governed by the register in his
shipments, no greater farce was ever ployed before
a body of men styling themselves merchants.—
True, in a drawer in the office of the Agent are
these boolex of in which every one has the
right to register produce, and they do so; but in
no instance, to my knowledge, has ever an entry ■
been made upon tho opposite page, stating that
shipment has been made corresponding with it;
nor it there any clue by which the public may see
who have, and who have not made shipments.—
The Agent and his clerks have in their posscssien
the shipping checks, which arc not accessible.—
And it is a rule of recent construction, that no
person shall hold communication in the Office but
with the Agent himself.
The “Republican” says, and truly, “that if the
Agent docs his duty, nothing can bo more fair.”—
’ Tis of tho violation of duty I complain; as an
evidence, oiie single item may prove a wrong:
It is an incontrovertible fact, to my knowledge,
that one forwarding house rendered in the dates of
arrival of corn up to that time, first of March, as
being then on hand, to the amount of more than
16,000 bushels, of which more than a moiety had
arrived prior to the first day of February. That
house has, iucluding the shipment of this day,
been permitted, from tho first of March, to ship
an amount only less by 800 bushels than what was
on his hands on the first day of February.
On the 10th day of Mnreh, the accused house
commenced its business. Since that time, their
store has been comparatively, if not entirely, emp
ty ; and scarcely a day lias passed when grain has
been shipped, but that house has been favored with
*t, and it the books of the Depot reeord.tho ship
pers, it will be found that house has shinped more
grain since the date of its commencement than the
first house alluded to has inthe same space of time.
And yet the “ Atlanta Republican ” says it is all
fairl \\ hy, that very house has this very day been
compelled to buy com from a merchant (who has
been complaining, for weeks, of injustice done
him, for tho reason ho was not permitted to ship,)
because of their not having It in store, and because
they hgd the chance to ship. Daily, within tho
present week, have they shipped and sold corn,
and to parties for whom the writer had purchased
months ago.
Again: says the “ Republican, ” [I do not write
in answer to the “Republican, ” but to those who
have given him data for his editorial,] “the books
were placed in possession of the person complain
ing. ” The drawer, it U true, was laid open to him c
—but why were not all the book* there ? The ac
cuser sought fbr tiro only—those of favored hoiifos
—and tlioy were not there. Why were not all in
that drawer?
Had Mr. W odley remained in tlio liouso whore
he had invited me to meet lilm, he would havo
been shown tlio result of that investigation ; but
one who “is willing to hear complaints, provided
their time is not taxed by looking into them,”
(bis very words,) cannot consider claimaiuts would
expect justice from him. The invitation to tlio
Depot, and tho explanations of tlio Superintend
ent there, contradicting his own judgment of two
hours previously, was an insult too apparent—
nnd showed a trifling unworthy ono of his high
ofiieo. Jt showed, likowiso, a pro-judgment too
glaring, nnd u favoritism too strong, to prevent the
writor from handing him papers then in his pocket
—and. which identical ones, without an alteration,
are now in the bauds of tho Governor of Georgin.
The result of that investigation was sufficient to
, prove, that the Agent had acted not in accordance
1 with the registers then before me.
The Editor charges me with “ dodging the Gov- •
ernor. ” Surely he forget* the version': 'two* th*
Governor that dodged; for it was the purpose not
only of the writer, but of two gentlemen who were •
with him—men of the highest respeotabilitv, heads
of two houses iu Charleston, most deeply interested
in the well-mauugement of the Stale Road—it
was their purpose to meet him, and their amuse
ment through tlio day to speak how tho Governor
had dodged them, —for, although we were at hit
hotel, each prepored to render him our complaints,
wo found he hod avoided us by walking off from
a private door with his. company, and with them
he remained, privately, through the whole day.
Tho charges sent to the Governor are of a nature
which need not, for tlio present, be public proper
ty—nor Is it the will or tbe intention of tho accuser
to open a papor warfare. As a merchant, lie soeks
only tbe.riglits of one; ns man, he asks
that tlio charges be lookod into by business men;—
ho asks no favors—requires no privileges. If lie
has been wronged, lie wants the restoration of
justice; if ho lias wronged others, and it is so de
cided by those who shall be judges, lie will make
reparation. But upon the truth of his charges, ho
is willing to sacrifice all that he has held bright lor
the future, or sacred for the presont.
A Commission Merchant.
[communicated.]
That Letter from Ucn. Case! 1
Shakspearc, 1 think says, Borne mon are born to
greatness, othoni achieve it. To tho latter class,
bolong somo of our upper-cruet politicians living
less than u hundred miles from your city. A cer
tain delegate (wo spouk advisedly) having au un
quenchable thirst for fame, upon receiving tho ap
pointment to Baltimore, soizes tho favorable oppor
tunity to hand himself down to posterity, by
opening a correspondence with tlio throe promi
nent individuals whoso names are likely to bo sub
mitted to that body. Tho General has condescen
ded to reply iu specification of his olaims. This
honor thus sought toko uppropriatod, wo wish laid
before the publio. The letter ! the letter ! Gon.
Cass’ letter in reply to the delegate t ! !
Tar Bucket.
[communicated.]
Men who may be Relied Upon.
Soveral mercantile mon in the city Os New York
have recently presented to tlio Femalo Collogo at
Greensboro’, in this Stato, au excellent Ptylosophi-'
cal Apparatus, valued at about six hundred dollars.
Suoli instances of noble liberality on tho part of
Northern mon', are calculated to soften the asperi
ties of the times. Tho least wo can do, in return,
will bo to commend thoso gentlobien to the especial
patronage of our mercantile friends who visit the
city of Now York. Wo give their names ns
follows, viz:
Qroonwny, Bro. & Co. Perkins, Brooks & Co.
.1, R. Jaltray & Co. G. VV. & Juhiol Read.
Wolfe, Gillespio & Co. Fellows & Co.
Simuol Rosevelt. Lewis B. Brown, j
Gatlin, Leavitt & Co. Wm. Smith Brown.
A. R. Frothingham. Rankin, Duryee & Cos
Wm. Bryco & Co. Gregory & Co.
Ilnlsted, Haines & Co. Hnlsted, Brokaw &Co.
Ilurdmril, Northrop k do. Wilde, Bates <fc Taylor.
Lord & Brown, P. Schleljellng, Haines l Co.
(qark, Austin & Co. Also three ethers signed
1L M. Wliittock & Co. “Cash.”
Items.
Tho Legislature of New York adjourned fine die
on Friday night. Tlio most important of its on
actmonts relate to the enlargement of tho Brio
canal. Tlio validity of the contract entered into
for that work lias been affirmed, nnd offortivo and
immediate measures are to be taken for tho Com
pletion of tlio work.
Refinement ii* Language.—“ Go it, Bob-tail,
lie’s gaining on you,” is now rendered, or ought
to be—“Go it, Robert’s extremity, the gentleman
in the roar is Approximating to nn inoonvonient
vicinitudo of tlio longitudinal appondago which
subtends the lower extension of your caudel elonga
tion.
1 Cliildren should always be heard, and fairly and
1 kindly unswcrod, when thoy aßk after anything
they would know and dosiro to bo informed about.
Curiosity should be os oarcftilly cherished in child
ren as other appetites suppressed.
Mr. Bryant, in his ad'dross upon Cooper says :
“His character was like the bark of tho cinumon, a
rough and astringent rind without, and on intense
sweetness within.”
If you want a favor of a married woman, brag of
hor .baby. If you want to obtain her eternal
enmity, lot her turn round and catch you making
mouths at it. '
Bib John Franklin. —At latest advices from
England, tho small scrow-steumcr, fitted out by
Capts Beatson, to proceed in senroh of tho missing
Arctic expedition by tho way of Bhoring’s Straits,
was dcclurod ready for Baling. Tho proposed field
of search is enst of the moridan of Bhering’s Straits,
towards Roller’s discovorios in 1849, Herald Island,
and new Siberia. Capt. Beatson takoß out auto
.graph letters from tho Emporor of Russia, recom
mending the expedition to tho commanders of tho
Russian out-posts at Siberia, and other Muscovite
settlements, and desiring them to promote tho
object in view to tho utmost of their power.
Mrs. Snooks says there is no instance on rooord
of a wiso bachelor—thoy aro moro rational. Bo
long ns a man is single, sho observes, so long is
ho a nonontity—but with another flguro added—
,tho flguro of a woman, for instance—this cypher
becomes a roSpoctablo member of the human fami
ly, and proves himsolf a lover of his eonntry and
her “ institutions.”
A eouplo of verdant sons of the Emorald Islo,
dropped into n certain restaurant up town, tho oth
er day, and discovered a couple of gonts imbibing
mint juleps by the “ power of suction.”
“ Look nt thim fellye,” said one of tho Hiberni
ans ; “ they’re smoking grano tobacey loaves with
straw pipe stems.” \
To ascertain whether a woman is passionate or
not, take a muddy dog into her parlor, or squirt
tobacco juico oh her stove hearth. A wife may as
certain her husband’s equanimity, by nsing his
best clothes brush to clean her gaiters with.
A Curb for Warts.— Take a leaf of u plant cal
led a house-leek, which is quite common about
households, peel it, bind it upon a wart when you
go to bed. In the morning, the wart will bo soft
ened to BUch an extent that you may pmt half of
it off. Repeat tho application two or three nights,
and the excrescences will disappear, leaving no
mark behind.
The New York Courior <ft Enquirer publishes a
telegraphic dispatch from Washington, to the es
feet that information has been received, announcing
that Nicaragua has retired from the proposed Con
federation of the four Btates, and resumed her
original sovereignty. Mr. Kerr lias delivered his
credentials to the Nicaraguan authorities, and is
now probably admitted to the pending negotiations
with England. All questions, it is probable, will
be sooa accommodated.
A man with a largo family was oompluining of
the difficulty of supporting all of them. “But,”
said a friend, “you have sons big enough to earn
something for you now.” The difficulty is, they
are too big to work.
It is stated that in the town of West Newbury,
Mass., there were raisod and put up lost sear, of
marketable apples, fourteen thousand and nine
barrels, worth about $28,000.
Mrs. Iluldan Sparling died in the village of Os
wego, N. Y., on the Bth inst., aged one hundred
and ten years. She was born in Walpark, New
Jersey. She distinctly recollects tho old French
War, and the circumstances of horfathor and moth
er being driven from their homes, and she was
wounded by the Indians.
Care for Others.—A poor old man, busy plant
ing an apple tree, was rudely asked, “What do
you plant trees for f you cannot expect to eat tbo
fruit of them ?” lie raised himself up, and leaning
upon his spade, answered, “some one planted
trees for me beforo I was born, and I have eaten
the fruit. I now plant for ethers, to show my
gratitude, when I am dead and .gone.” Thug
should we think and aot foi the welfare of others.
Be Kind to tour Mother.—What would I give,
said Charles Lamb, “to call my mother back to
earth for one day, to oak her pat don, upon my
knees, for all those acts by which Igave her gentlo
spirit pain."
Tho true pusposo of education is to chorish and
■ unfold the seed of immortality already sown with
in us, to develop to their fullest extent tho capaci
ties of every kind with which the God who mado
us has endowed us. Then wo shall be fitted for all
eircu instances, or know how to fit circumstances to
ourselves.
To love anothor selfishly to expect reward rather
than rejoice in imparting good, is to offer the purest
feelings of humanity for sale, it is to forget and
practically to deny, that “it is more blessed Uygivo
than receive.”
“The sun is all very well,” said|an Irishman;
but in my opinion the moon is worth fwo of it;
for the moon affords us light in the night time,
when wc really want it; whereas, we have the sun
with us in the day time, when we have no occa
sion for it.”
Thoso days aro lost, in which we do no good;
those worse than lost in which we do evil.
Pay Yocn I’ostaoe I — A poet of extensive ‘busi
ness connections’ thus walks into a eertain doss of
correspondents too numerous to montion:
The man that now-a-days will writs
And not pre-pay his letter,
Is worscr than the heathens are,
What won’t know any better, »
And if you take a tine-tooth comb.
And rake down, all creation,
Youcnnaot find a meaner man, .
In tide ere mighty nation.
A new brake haa been placed on the Camden and
Amboy Railroad cart, which dispenses with the
usual number of brakemen, and works by a self
aoting apparatus, pressing upon tbe wheals of the
ears, when the engine lessens It* speed.