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Seoiht-ni Right* convention composed of
deleftr* from the various Southern Right
twiublrd At Montgomery on
Toeedar. Nineteen Associations or Clubs
were represented, and among the delegates
we ik*ice the names of some of the ablest
mra of oar sistrr State. The convention j
hs met under the disadvantage of the
presence of the small pox in that city, ru
mor* of the extent of which are always ex
aggerated abroad. Otherwise the conven
tion trunk! have lieen much more full. It
is oevenbeleesa highly respectable body,
aad its deliberation cannot tail to do good I
tube gn at cause *1 Southern Rights, in
fmMin( organization for its defence and
amasino tne public mind to a sense ol
the j ril which threaten Southern Insti
t triton*.
Cot 7 komttta Hlttiama, was elected
President <-f the Board and Nineteen Vice
Prmdeats wen* appointed, one being se
lected tor each association represented.
* a able committee was appointed on Res
■Jaunns and n Address.
C iii-x', (.'•frr-pomloio.
Mobile, Feb. 1851.
Mr lHr Sir: If I have not coutiuued
regularly a currerpondencn which could
not have tailed to result greatly to my ad
vantage ia de valuable information to be
derived I ruin it, be fully assured that the
rmrnm ia not to be found in any abatement
es ray real and intense solicitude in the
cum which, as Southern born men, we
have both mi much at heart. On the con
trary, every intelligent and honest South
ern man must have perceived, nv the ob
aarvatioa and reflection of each succeed
tag day, that the desperate condition to
which the south hf* descended, calls alond
upon her wins ia every section, if they hare
aS abandoned the eouth to her fate, and
surrendered at discretion to our enemies,
le stand firmly at their posts, and resolved
i“’ rescue the sinking ship; or gluriunsly
perish ia the conflict At the same time
truth and candor compel the admission,
that the events which have occurred at the
south since the adjournment of the 2d ses
sion of the 31st Congress, have been too
Wi ll calculated to discourage and depress
oar hopes in the intelligence and ability
af our people to vindicate and maintain
their ngbts. This tendency, too, has been
materially increased in the minds of the
•outheru people by the conviction, be-
CMMBg now more and more apparent eve
ry day, that the south has been betrayed,
hsr rights bartered away—her equality in
tha Union basely surrendered—and her
honor tkmmetessty compromised by her own
sons; that she has *• nursed the pinions
which impelled the steel.” We have ac
customed ourselves to believe, that in a
cot test physical, moral or intellectual
with our “Northern Brethren” the south
could sustain her rights; notonly because
ran regarded our resources in these attri
butes aa equal to our antagonists—“breth
•a"a* they claim lobe, even to this day,—
hat ba we believe we had right and truth
•sd by consequence, God on our side,
la ail our conflicts with the north, in de
fence of our most vital interests, we have
•over calculated the home element of rot
taaacsa and treason, which, “like’a dead
ly blight, comes over the counsels of the
brave, and blasts them in their hour of
SMght.” We hsve weighed the northern
power ia a balance, and the southern pow
er ia the same without dreaming of disaf
fection, cowardice and treason, in our bo
mub. Yet the appalling fact now starts
aa ia the face at every turn in our walks,
that ia tba south “a Roman is almost a
stranger in Rome,” To be convinced of
thw, you have only to select an intelli
gent, warm hearted, and firm southern
gentleman who has a proper appreciation
of the questions at issue between the north
mad the south, and follow him through the
rtraets of some of our great southern cities,
New Orleans or Mobile, ex. gr. and he
scarcely meets the third inau in the streets
of hi* acquaintance before he is auswered
with derision and ridicule, if not scorn and
eoatempt, to anv remarks’ he may make
i indication of the seuthem cause. He
ia taU bM he is tiuMury, and “endeavor
tag to mislead the people —that the south
has had mil she had a right to claim; that
baa had a majority, largely, of the offi
cers of tint government since its com
mencement; that Mr Clay is a southern
man, and says the honor of the south has
’feta saved ta the late “Omnibus Bills” ot
and peace”; that these met
mwi A aow the law of the land, and
whowitl not submit to them is “a
Traitor, aad deserves a Traitors doom”
(asteg the slang ot Mr Clay, that southern
ms. m the Senate as applied to Mr
Rtertt,) ihas it ta, that before our South
ami Rights friend has passed his third sal
matiaa ia the streets of his own uative city
of tha south, he is branded, and possibly
too, by a lineal descendant of Bendic
Arnold, as a traitor. He is then reduced
in the alternative, ol stamping the mis.
esaaat ta the dost, and calling upon bis
devoted head a rabble always ready to
execute the behests at some artful scoun
drel who has wormed himself into the con-
Ml cl ass; or. be emunlts his
•■saannatron, hy suppressing his thoughts,
and thus refining the poison of treason
and disaffection to walk abroad in our
error swo oppose and and unpunished. The
rare!* et all is. then, that the south is over-1
ran sad rebdaed by a “malign influence,”
foreign in every useful sense, to her insti
mrions, her pence—her rights, and her
retety. The influence is becoming more
a *4 more daring aad intolerant day.
as developments are made atthi “Unio’u
festivals'” where the “stars and stripes,”
she “glorious un*H” aad “Washington's
farewell address” are administered by
rrafeera am ton, as a specific for ail the
** ** “** e
‘•a abolition!
‘** *° S*t up a “Union Con- 1
It was, too. apparently mail timed, to. enn^
I ‘.‘National Union Party” which shall be
organized to distribute the spoils of the
Federal Treasury, fitted to repletion by
southern labor and gullibility-
The most deadly blow which has been
dealt to Southern Rights and State Sov
ereignty within the past twenty years, has
been inflicted by the late Georgia conven
tion. And in dealing that blow, is it not
demonstrable too, that, paradoxical as it
may appear, the union cause must finally
suffer. For, I hold it to be a fixed prin
ciple of our system, that the union cannot
possibly long survive, unless the Federal
system is kept within the plain limits of
the constitution—and unless the majority
which administer the system, adhere to
the principles of justice and equality, in
reference to the action ot the system upon
the States. Indeed, if I were not quite as
firmly fixed as I am in the truth oT Demo
cratic principles, and consequently in the
capacity of the people for self government
the history of Georgia for the past year,
would induce a doubt in my mind as to
the soundness of that principle. Who
that has noticed the course of that State in
lines gone by could have believed that in
a great crisis in the affairs of the south,
when every southern State looked up to
her to act up to the proud position which
the occasion demanded, and to erect a
platform (1 almost hate the words, as it has
come to mean base submission to wrong)
upon which the entire south would have
rallied, and thereby saved the south and
(he constitution ; that so far from this, the
southern flag was ignobly and inglorious
ly struck to abolition, and a preamble and
resolutions adopted for its confessions and
avoidings—wheelings k turnings to avoid
plain conclusions; and political fanati
cism is unparalleled in our annals. The
actors in that farce may chuckle for a
time in the farce they have enact
ed in the face of the world, but I greatly
miscalculate, if they are not finally called
to a fearful account by the generation of
men now upon the stage of action. The
verdict ot posterity upon their conduct, it
may be presumptious to anticipate, but
canuot be uncertain. The moral effect of
the results of the convention upon the
southern cause has been risible and most
lamentable. The people of the south had
nearly resolved on assuming an attitude
promptly and firmly, which would have
secured their rights in the union, or their
perfect independence out of it. Georgia
faltered, and like a retreating regiment in
a great battle, caused the entire southern
army to pause. But let us not be dismay
ed. Truth, right and justice must finally
prevail. It is not possible to dim the spir
it ofthe hosts of true and brave native
southern men, who feel the wrongs the
south has suffered, and have resolved to
redress them. Men actuated by a spirit,
which is sustained by a consciousness of
pure atfd patriotic motives in a just cause,
will not be long depressed in spirit, by the
discovery that weak and treacherous men
have betrayed our people, and surrendered
to the enemy.
It is not possible that the southern peo
ple can ever be reconciled to the outrage
ous aggressions upon their plain and ac
knowledgt and rights, perpetrated by the
last Congress, through a numerical ma
jority, aided by a few southern traitors;
who contaminated their fingers by base
bribes in the way of hopes of federal offi
ces and national destruction held out to
them. Nor is it possible for an intelli
gent and brave people to acquiesce and
finally submit in silence, to these mon
strous enormities! Even the magic name
of union that ‘‘marked battery” of the re
nowned modern Hamilcar, will not avail
the enemies of our institutions in this war
upon our social, political and personal
rights. The day of retribution must come.
It is in the very nature of things, as sure
to come, as that the night succeeds the
day; when the south will be forced into
an armed resistance to vindicate and sus
ain her rights.
The elements composing the power
against which we are contending, are of
such a nature, as to forbid even the hope
of escape from this alternative. It can
not be evaded, nor compromised. The
time will come when even a truce will be
denied us. Shall we then, taking counsel
from such apologies lor statesmen as
Foote, Stephens, Toombs, Cobb and oth
ors madly fold our arms in fancied securi
ty, while we see the angry elements all
in commotion around us, and hear the
roaring of the thunders shortly to burst
over our heads .’ Or, shall we deliberately,
calmly and firmly prepare—in earnest, for
a contest which is as sure to be forced up
on us, as that we exist as a people. My
voice is for an earnest, early, decided
preparation by every southern State tor
the *‘ ultima ratio”—for to that com
plexion the affairs of our country have
come ; and he who does not see this, must
eituer shut her eyes to facts past, and facts
daily transpiring, or he must be a mad
man or a fool. ,
[From the Navanuah Georgian.]
GEN. SCOTT AltD THE PRESIDENCY.
The Pennsylvanian informs us th.it
there is a well umHtied plan, devised by
Seward. Weed, Greely &C<>. of N. York,
Tliad, Stevens and Gov. Johnson of Penn
sylvania, and others of the same stripe, to
make General Scott next President of the
United States. They think that by carry
ing the anti-slavery vote he can sweep the
entire north, and thus have to ask no fnv
ors of the south. Hut to make this doub
ly sure, it is proposed that the nominee lor
the Y T ice Presidency shall likewise come
from the north, and Gov Johnson is sug
gested as the fortunate man. The Penn
sylvanian says the proofs of this schen e
are “overwhelming.” It asserts that no
presidential candidate, who numbers a
tnonghis supporters such boastful and bit
ter foes of the south as Seward, Greely,
Stevens, and Weed can ever hope lt>. get a
’Southern electoral vote.
We would like to know upon what au
thority .this opinion is advanced. What
reason has the editor to believe that south
ern whig* will not pull in harness with-
Seward and Greely! Indeed what assur
ance has he that they would not support
Seward himself. Seward inrts uwer gone
so far a* to advocate the abolition of slave
ry in thejjfeetes. And every thing abort
of that, for instance the abolition of slavery
in the District and of infernal slave trade
had received the support of Fillmore long
before 184$, and we all know how ardent
ly southern whigs supported him then.—
Perhaps they have repented of the past,
and will do better a future ; but we con
fess that we have no evidence of the fact.
>We would guard our friend of the Penn
sykenlian against expecting toe much from
southern whig hostility to aati-siavery.—
Whatever he may think, Get*. Scott, if no*
V ®fh<g National Convention, j
whig politicians!
>AaoDI ASD Svppßoscit Witt visisl
Charleston at the latter part gj the month,
and give two concerts,
Columbus, Ga. Sunday Morning, Feb. 16, 1851.
DEATH OF JUDGE ALEXANDER.
It is our painful duty to announce the
death of the Hon. Robert B. Alexander,
who expired at his residence in this city
on Friday evening last at 7 o’clock.
Judge Alexander has departed this life,
in the bloom of manhood and in the full
developement of the intellectual, and the
many amiable and moral qualities which
adorned his life. He was but 39 years of
age. Born in Putnam county, he was edu
cated at the University of Georgia, read
his profession with the late Win. H Tor
rence, Esq. and was a citizen ofColumbus
for the last 15 years. Asa man of intel
lect, and as a lawyer lie ranked high
among his professional brethren. The
Legislature of Georgia testified its confi
dence in his ability and learning by elect
ing him Judge of the Superior* Court,
of the Chattahoochee Circuit, a position
which he held with credit and honor
until within a short time previous to his
death. In his decease, this community
has lost one of its most estimable and
eminent citizens—his family and friends a
bereavement which earth cannot repair.
The funeral services will take place this
day atlOj o’clock, A. M. at his residence.
THE COLORED RACE IN INDIANA.
The hypocrisy of northern negrophilism
meets with daily illustrations in the treat
ment which the Free Blacks receives at
northern hands. The foundation of their
system ot warfare on the south is, that “all
men are born free and equal”—that color
should make no distinction in the enjoy
ment of civil, political and social rights;
and that the Black Race is entitled by the
law of God and of humanity to instant
emancipation, and an admission to equali
ty with the whites in the blessings of Free
Government. But the trouble with these
philanthropists is, that they stop short in
the application of their theory, the mo
ment its practical hearings are to be ap
plied to themselves; and are only full ot
zeal when they artUo affect the south. —
Thus a fugitive slave is fostered and pet
ted, helped on his way and lionized by
these agitators, while the northern Free
Black is left to pine and suffer in squalor
vice and ignorance, in the b itter degrada
tion to which white antipathy to his caste
consigns him. Not long ago a con.stitu
tional convention of Ohio was petitioned
to banish all the colored people from the
confines of that abolition State. They
were regarded as an intolerable ruisisaiicc
—yet the policy of the people of that State,
and its active benevolence are constantly
exerted to encourage runaways from
southern masters to come among them.
We have now another casein point. On
the 24th of January, as we learn from the
proceedings in the Indiana State Sentinel,
the Constitutional Reform Convention of
Indiana concluded their action in regard
to the free negroes ofthat State as follows :
The first section, providing that no ne
gro or mulatto shall come into.or settle in
this State alter the adoption of this Consti
tution, was adopted by a vote ot yeas 94,
nays 39.
The second section, providing that all
‘contractsimade with negroes and mulat
oes coming into this State, contrary to
the provisions of the first section ot this
article, shall be void; and all persons
who shall employ or otherwise encourage
such negroes or mulattocs to remain in
this Slate, shall be fined in any sum not
less than ten, nor more than five hundred
dollars,” was adopted by a vote of 78 yeas,
nays 59.
The third section, providing that “all
fines collected for the violation of this
article, or which may be imposed by the
Legislature to carry it out, shall be appro
priated tor colonization purposes” was
adopted ; yeas 106, nays 33.
The fourth and fifth sections providing
that the Legislature shall pass laws to car
ry out tile action of the Convention in re
gard to tree negroes, and that the article
shall be submitted to a separate vote of
the people, were then adopted—the last
by a vote ol ayes 82, nays 54.
REMINISCENCES
In the year 1832, the spirit ofßesislance
to the Tariff ot 1823- the “bill of abomi
nations”—was burning to a white heat in
Georgia. “F.re-eating” was at a prem
ium, and to read the speeches and let'ers
and toasts of the anti-Tariff party ofthat
day, one would have supposed that the
Union would -tot last a week, and that
submission in Georgia was one of the na
tural impossibilities
In August of that year a great Anti-Tar
iff'meeting was held in Oglethorpe. The
following were some of the volunteer
toasts on that occasion.
The regulars were to the full as strong
and peppery.
VOLUNTEER TOASTS.
Bv M r Toombs, • f Wilkes: The Tariff’
System. Whether it he constitutional or
not, it violates the adhesive rights of South
ern freemen. If constitutional, let our op
pressors remember, that when revolution
commences, constitutions end ; and that
h e exactions of a British Parliament were
met by unsheathed swords ol American
Patriots.
By C. J. Jenkins, of Richmond* The
Union—Formed to be valuable; why should
not its value be calculated !
By Col Win. C. Dawson, of Greene. —
The'friends ofthe Tariff. In tiuth and in
candor we tell them, now, our iuruearance
is ended; the arguments of conciliation
and modification have been exhausted.
Do you think Georgia will submit l Rather
think the spirit of’76 never existed.
By Judge Dougherty, of Clarke. Resis
tance. to oppression, from any and every
quarter, at any and every hazard.
By James S. Calhoun, of Mill* dgeville.
Freedom’s Banner is again unfurled —one
effort more—Georgians, onward .’—relax
not your energies, until Justice shall re
sume her place, and your violated federal
constitution bo restored to its original
purity.”
Girard Railroad.— The Mobile Regis
ter of the 11th inst. says: We are pleased
to learn that the commissioners lor ob
taining subscriptions to the capital stock
of their noble enterprise, have succeeded
beyond their expectation, in NewOrleatts
After only three day’s effort, they receiv
ed actual subscriptions to the amount of
9200,000,*nd satisfactory assurances that
that city will do ail that is desired from
her.
Slate&y in Maryland. —The Maryland
convention for framing anew constitution,
has adopted unanimously, an article v that
the legislature shall not pass any law to
abolish ur change the relation of master
and slave as it now exists in that State.—
The cormmttdfe has been in session three
months, and this is the first article that has
been adopted.
o£jm?The Albany Knickerbocker says
Dr J. C. Ayer, proprietor ot “Ayer’s Cher
ry Sectoral,” has just been elected Mayor
of Lowell, Mass. If he makes as good a
Mayor as he does a medicine, the muni
cipal affairs of Lowell will be kept in a
health#! condition during his term oi of-
Washington’s Birthday.— The N York
Courjer says:—The Board of aldermen
adopted a resolution last evening appro- <
printing 825,000 to defray expenses at
tending the celebration of the birthday of
the immortal Washington.
A Rich Miser in Auburn, New York,
is to be buried in 0 wasco Lake, a beautiful
sheet of water near that town. He has a
stone coffin made, which takes twelve
yoke of oxen to draw it. He gives a man
a nice farm for burying him. He is to
take him into the middle of the lake and
sink him.
[From ibe N. Y. Ulole.]
STATE NON-INTEEC3TI-.E LAWS AND THE
DOMESTIC SLAVS TRADE.
Much has been said in the south by
statesmen, who, with laudable intentions,
have de sired to arrest the Anti-Slavery
agitation at the north—concerning the
power of certain Stotes to tax the products
of other States. Much has been said like
wise in the Abolition papers in favor of
Congress interposing to stop the migrntior
of slaves from one southern State to anoth
er. It has bet n taken for granted at the
north, that any Law of a southern State,
imposing a duty or tax on an article the
growth or manufacture,of a northern State
would be a palpable violation of the Consti
tution. It has also buen generafy sup
posed that Congress lias lull power, under
the clause in the Constitution conferring
upon it the power to regulate Commerce,
to inhabit the trade in slaves between the
seveinl Slates. In relation to Stale Laws
taxing products from other States, we have
heretofore intimated some doubt as to Ahe
[lower ofthe States to pass such Laws.—
Having rerenffy looked into some deci
i sinus ofthe Supreme Court of ihe United
States, involving the principle of such
L-nvs, we are free to declare, that as far
as we have examined the subject, that high
judiciary Jins fully and repeatedly’ recog
nized the principle upon which such laws
are founded. The Supreme Court has
likewise expressed opinions respecting the
reset ved rights of ihe States, totally incom
patible with the exercise on the part of
Congress of any power to interdict the Do
mestic Slave Trade.
‘1 lie southern S.alcs, according to the
opinions given below,Jiave a perfect right
to tax every sort of properly which maybe
found within their limits. They thus have
the means of retaliating to their hearts con.
tent on those States, which make war on
southern right and property. That this
conservative right will be exercised, un
less some intuits are derised at lhe uo r lb
t restrain the aggressions of the Anti-Sla
very agitators, we do noi doubt. Instead
of cotnpiaini..g ot its exercise for such
purposes, all true Inends ol the Union
should rejoice that a right so ample and
efficient exists, superceding in almost ev
ery conceivable case of aggression a resort
in secession or revolution, as a remedy for
intolerable grievanses inflicted by one por
tions ol the confederacy on another. *
The rights ofthe Stales to tax proper.ty.
and persons and to prevent the ingress of
persons into their limits, were treated very
1 u I ly by those Judges ol the Supreme Court,
who delivered their opinions in 1818, on
the cases of Smith vs. Turner and Norris
vs. City ol Liston. Tne Judges assenting
and dissenting from the decision of the
Court in those cases, appear to have all
concurred in the principles avowed hi the
following extracts:
Judge Catron . aid :
It is *lso iiihifdpi! that the Stales m.iv ‘ax all per
sons and property within llieir respective juristic.,
lions, except in cases where they aie affirmatively
prohibited. ‘J his is a truism not open to denial.
Chief Justice Taney said:
But it has always been held that Ihe power to
regulate commerce docs not givo to Congress the
power to tax il, nor prohibit the Slates from taxing
it in their own poit, and within (neir own juris
diction.
The grant of the power to regulate commerce,
therefore, did not, in the opinion ol Mr. Hamilton,
Mr. Madison, and Mr. Jay, prohibit ibe Slate-from
laying imposts and duties upon imports I rought in
to their own territories. It did nit apply to the
right of taxation in either sovereignty the taxing
power being a distinct and separate power from
the regulation of commoree, and the right of tax
ation in tile Slates remaining over every subject
where it before existed, with the exception only of
those expressly prohibited.
I conclude the sulijec* hv quoting the language
of Chief Justice Marshall in the case of Hill togs
vs. the Providence IJank, in t Pet SGI, where,
speaking upon this subject, he ->nyn:
“ Thai the taxing powci is of vital importance ;
that it is essential to the existence of government,
a e truths which it cannot he necessary tore-affirm.
They are acknowledged and assented to hv all. It
would seem that the relinquishment of such a
power is never to he assumed. We wib not say
that a State mav not relinquish it ; that a consid
c ation sufficiently valuable to induce a partial re
lease of it may nil exist ; hot as the whole con
uiiinity is interested in retaining it uiidiminishcJ,
that community has a right to insist that its aban
donment ought not to be presumed in a ease in
which the deliberate purpose of the Stale to aban
don i does not appear.”
Sut li Inis heretofore been the language of this
cunt, and I can see nothing in the powei granted
to Congiess to regulate commerce that shows a de
delihewilo purpose on the part of the States who
adopted tlie constitution to abandon any right ol
taxation except what is dir. cily prohibited. The
contrary appears in the authentic puhlieations ol
the time.
Judge Woodbury said:
‘On the extent of the cession of taxation to the
general government, and its r strict ion on the
States, in-re will he presented hereafter; hut in ull
cases of doubt, the leaning may well be towards
the Slates, as the geneial government has ample
means ordinarily by taxing imports, and the Stales
limited means, afier purling with that great and
vastly increased source of revenue connected with
irn|M>-ts.
The Slates may therefore, and do frequently, tax
everything hut expons, iinpmts, and tonnage, as
such. They daily tax things cor neetcil with for
eign commerce, as domestic trade. They can tax
the timber, cordage, and iron of which the vessels
for foreign trade aie made; tax their cargoes to the
owners as stuck in trade; lax the vessels as [imp*
erty, and tax the owners and crew per head for
their poll*. Their power in this respect travels over
water as well as laud, if only within their lorrito
rial limits.
It lihk ln-en conceded liy moist American juii.-tn,
and, indeed, may he regarded kh aeltlcd by tins
Court, that this concurrent power t,f taxation, cx
ce|>i,oti expo-tv, and impoit-r and tonnage, (tire
two la.t specially and exclusively resigned to the
gener.il governtnen,) hi< vital to the States, ami
still clearly ex<s's> in gem. In support of this may
ire seen the following authorities: McCulloch vs
Maryland, 4 Wheaton, 317. 415; Gibbons vs Og
den, 9 Wheat., l;by Chief Justice Marshall; Prov
Hank vs Billings, 4 Peters, 561; Brown us Mary
land, 13 Wheaton, 441; 4 Gill and Johnson, 132;
2 Story’s Comm, on Const., 437 sec.; 5 Howard,
588, case of Charleston city, 2 Pete.s, 448; ?io,
42 Federalist.
But the power of the State is manifestly as
great in a harbor within her limits to tax men and
property as it is on shore; and cau no more he abu
sed there than on shore; and can no more conflict
there than on shore, with any authority of Con
gress as a taxing power not on imports as imports.
Thus, after emigrants have landed, and are on
the wharves, nr on public roads, or in the public
hotels, or in private dwelling-houses, they could all
be taxed, though with less ease; and they could
•11, if the State so disposed to abuse the power, be
taxed out of their limits, as quickly and effectually
s have been the Jews at times formerly in sever
ai of the most enlightened nations of modern Eu
rope.
Judge Nelson said:
Jt is urged, ftowevet, in reply to what has jus
been said, that as the power to regalate commerce
and the right to levy taxes, are distinct and sub
stantive powers, that the first cannot be used to
limit the right of the State to tax, beyond the pjohi
bition upon them net to tax exports or imports.
- Tba -proposition is rightly stated.
It is clear from the foregoing opinions,
that the Supreme Court of the United
States will sustain the unlimited right of
the States, to tax all commodities within
their respective jurisdictions, whetherthey
be of foreign production, imported by ano
ther State, and subsequently brought into
the State taxing them, or whether they be
products fabricated or produced in anoth
er State. As such taxation will be borne
by the consumers, there is pn danger of
any State resorting to it,except in self-de
fence.
In relation to any power in Congwgs, to
’ admit or preclude from into the
j. States, any persons, judge Woodbury
says: * •
It would be not a little extraordinary to imply
i by construction, a power in Congress, to prohib
; it the coming into the States of others thap slaves
i or of mere aliens, on the oftbe alien part
of “the alien and sedition laws,” though it never
has been exercised as to others permanently; but
! the 3ta‘es recommended to exercise it, and seven
: teen ofthem are now actually doing it. And equal
. ly extraordinary to imply, at this late day, not on
j ly that Congress possesses the power, but that,
I though not exercising it, the States are incapable of
j exercising it concurrently, or even in subordination
; to Congress, But beyond this, the States have
! occupied it concurrently as to slaves, no less than
j exclusively in respect to certain free persons, since
| as well as before 1808; and this, as to their ad-
I mission from neighboring States, no less than from
i abroad. )See cases before cited, and Butler vs
!’ Hoffer, l Wash. O. C. 500.)
The power of the State in prohibiting, rests on
a sovereign right to regulate who shall be her in*
hahilants —a right more vital than that U* regulate
commerce by the general G ivewmcnt, and which
as independent or concurrent the latter has not
disturbed, and should not disturb. (15 Piters,
506 and 608.)
Judge Nelson said :
In the first place, let it be understood, that what
ever [ may say upon the power which Congress
has “to regulate commerce with foreign i.ations
onil among the several States, and with the the In
dian tribes,’’ that the internal fade of a Slate is
not mean', to lie included; that not being in any
way within the regulating power of Congress,
All the polical sovereignty of the United States,
within the States, must he exercised according to
the subject-matter up. n which it may lie brought
to hear, an 1 according to what was the actual con
dition of (he States in their domestic institutions
when the Constitution was formed, uotila Slate
shall please to alter them. When the Constitution
was formed, it was done by Sta es in which slavery
existed—not likely to tie relinquished; and>ofother
States in which slavery has been, hut where it hud
abolished; or for the prospective abolition of which
provision hod been made by laws. The undistur
bed continuance of that difference lielween the
Slates at that time, unless as it might be changed
by a State itself, was the recognised condition in
the Constitution for the national Union. It has
that, and can have no other foundation.
We commend to nil Abolition nnd Anti-
Slavery agitators the above extracts. They
wiil perceive from them that the south
have within their own ban Is a terrible
weapon ol punishment for those who per
sist in fanatic aggression on their rights and
property. The south, hymeans of its tax
ing power, can touch the pocket of every
Abolitionist of the north.
The Abolitionist may see likewise from
the opinions which we have quoted above,
that their agitation to abolish the Slave
trade between southern States, is a hope
. less task. That even if Congress were to
pass an act for its abolition, that the Su
preme Court would pronounce suclt act
unconstitutional and void. The Slates
have reserved to themselves ('except in
the case of slaves imported from foreign
parts) the right to admit or exclude who
soever they may so determine to receive
or reject.
[Final the Savannah Georgian.]
THE TARIFF -IRON.
The duty on imported iron, or in other
wools, the tax which lie who buys iron
brp.ugbt from abroad has to pay to our mild
and paternal Government, is 31) per cent.
Add to this 30 percent, more, the estima
ted cost of importation, and we have in
round numbers (iO per cent, as the “pro
tection” which the iron interest in the
United Slates now enjoys. With this im
mense advantage over those who attempt
to compete with them from abroad, one
would think the Pennsylvanians ought to
be content. Far from it. They have tile
“modest sssnranee” to ask Congress to in.
crease ilia tax from 30 to 40 per cent.—
Nor is this all. With the hostility to open
fair, Honest dealing, which has ever char
acterized these high tariff exactors, they
ask that the rate of duty may be assessed,
not on the present and current value of ir
on, hut upon its average valuation for the
last ten years. 1 hey well know that, on
account of the railroad speculations, the
average price of iron during that time is
far greater than its present cost. The pro
posed increase of doty, therefore, instead
ofbeing ten per cent., making in a l l a tax
of forty per cent,, ill probably be twenty
or thirty per cent., making a tax of from
hlty to sixty per cent, on this, one of the
prime necessaries of life. m
The average cost of iron rails, says Mr-
Kettell, the commercial correspondent of
the Uni n, this and the last year, has been
§4O 17 per ton. By the proposed increase
of duty, the price will he SOS 60 per ton
—an increase of something more than $25
per ton.
The immense demand for iron for the
purposes of the various and very extensive
railroad enterprises of this State, makes
any increase of its price, by augmentation
ol the duty, a matter of no little concern to
all our citizens. We shall,therefore, look
wi'h some interest to the vote of our con
gressional delegation when this matter
shall he brought before them. We wish
to see who of them are willing in aid the
north in her schemes of further aggres
sions and aggrandizement.
New York Senatorial Election.—
The Legislature of New York failed to
elect a Senator on the day set apart for thai
purpose. Hamilton Fish, though receiv
ing thirty majority in the House, failed to
obtain a majority in the Senate. One whig
Senator, Janies W. Beckmann, of New
York city,refused to vote for him, thus de
feating, for the time, the election of the
Seward candidate. Nearly all the other
“Silver Grays,” as we conjectured that
they would do, have repeated the Utica
Farce, nod come into the support of the
“Woolly Head” nominee. Is any other
evidence needed of the complete ascen
dency of the Sewardism in New York.—
More than this—The Commercial Adver
tiser positively asserts that Fillmore and
his Cabinet are in favor jof Fish, which
shows that Sewntd’s influence with the
Administration is scarcely Weaker than that
which he wields over his pariy at home.
Another sign—Senator Dickinson failed
even to receive a nomination from his own
parly, though an eflort was made to nomi
nate him. More than half the Democrats
in the House voted for that noted Free
Soiler, John A. Dix. These facts speak
for themselves.—f&io Georgian.
Rhode Island Senator. — We intima
ted the presumption yesterday that the
election of Gen. James was brought about
by another coalition between Free Soilers
and Democrats. It is gratifying to find
that such is not the fact. He received the
voie of fourteen Whigs which secured his
success. The result has thrown the Pro
vidence Journal, f Whig organ) into quite
a flutter of excitement. But as the vote
was by ballot it is not unknown who were
the bolters. Nearly two thirds of the
members of the Legislature are whips.—
The difficulty in the way of choosing a
Whig seems to have grown out of the old
free suffrage, Dorr agitation.—[Saw Geor
gian.
Silver Grays and Woolly Heads.—
The Wfsg caucus at Albany, N. Y., has
nominated ex-Governor Fish, as candidate
for the Senate in place of Mr. Dickinson.
The caucus was composed of 67 members,
leaving about thirty who stood aloof. The
Seward wing, or“\Vool!y Heads,”as their
opponents call them, were unanimous for
Fish. The “Nationals” or “Silver Grays,”
as they call themselves refused to attend*
the caucus; —it is not quite certain howev
er, alter their last summer’s Utica farce,
that they will not support the nominee.—
Indeed one of theirown organs, the Com
merual Advertiser.is imploring them to do
sc. It is clear that Seward’s power is ab
solute over his party in his own State.—■
The “Nationals” will have either to sub
mit to him, or quit the Whigs and make
common cause with the Hunkers. They
Will probably do the /uriuejr.—[76.
Ohio. —We have a private letter from
Columbus dated the 31st ult.—the day af
ter the attempt to electa U. S. Senator.
Noappioach was made to an election. In
deed, neither Mr. Griswold nor Mr. Paine
obtained the full vote of his own party ex.
cept on single ballot. It is considered mor
ally certain that neither of the original can
didates can be elected, and probable that
no one will he at this Session.
No chance for any but a decided and qpen
opponent of Slavery Extension,now or ever.”
— N. Y. Tribune.
Sure enough the Legislature has adjourn
ed without electing a Senator, The reason
ofahe failure to choose is that though the
candidates of the two parties were doubt
less anti-slavery men they were not suffi
ciently thorough-going in their abolition
purpo.es. So will it be seen that the Em
pire State o f the North and the Empire
State of the West stand side by side in
support ol Flee Soil principles, while the
Empiie State of the South is—what is he
doing ? We would raliter not be- called
to answer.— Suv Georgian.
Speak it out neighbor ,Georgia is “ac
quiescing ” —[Ed. Times
The Potomac river was closed hv ice on
Friday weeklost—the firstlime'thisseason.
The steamboat which plies between Alex
andria and Washington, was unable to
make her regular trips.
Death of the Wire Walker—The
following telegraphic despatch in the Pic
ayune, aun ainces the death of the daring
individual, who a lew weekssince perform
ed the remarkable feat of walking a wire
across our public square, in the presence
of a great number .of citizens:
Baton Rouge, Feb 4
Herr Ryninger, the c< lebrated wire
walker, was killed at this place about 4
o’clock this evening. While walking a
wire from the State House, one of the sup
ports gave way, by which the wire was
let down, and the unfortunate man was
precipitated to the ground. ‘The fall frac
Hired bis skull, and he died in about forty
minutes after the occurrence of the acci
dent. His wife was present at the time.
An account in the Crescent gives a few
more circumstances of the occurrence. It
says: His perilous feat was announced, •
and a large number of persons assembled to
witness it. He started on his perilous
walk at a’greal height,and commenced de
scending but before he reached the first
cross-tree, the framework broke, letting the
wire down six or eight feet. Asa matter
of course, lie lost his balance and fell to the
ground, sustaining such injuries that he
died in about forty minutes.— Mobile Reg
ister.
BLITZ IN AN OMNIBUS
A night or two since, Blitz, the renown
ed magician and ventriloquist, took a sent
in n omnibus, containing seven or eight
.passengers. The coach had only proceed
ed a couple of squares! when the driver
heard someone exclaim—
“ Hold up—hold up, l say!”
The horses were slopped, and John
looked around smilingly lor his passenger,
but none appeared. Wnil an immodest ex
clamation lie gathered up his reins and
said “get up”—Pretty-soon someone cri
ed out —
‘‘Stop, driver, stop!”
The driver again stopped, and looking
down into the coach, inquired whit was
wanting. The passengers eyed each
other, as much as to say, “I didn’t speak.”
Again the coach ndled on only to be
stopped at the next corner by the heart
rending squeaking of a poor run-over pig*
Instantly each head was thrust out of the
window ,to behold the death-struggles of
the grunter; but no grunter was to be seen.
In another minute someone exclaimed in
a gru.? - voice—
“ Keep off my toes!”
Every one looked around, but vain for
the man with the damaged toes. The
passengers were completely !ewildered._
At the next crossing the coach stopped to
take in a lady. Hardly had she taken her
seat’ before she exclaimed—
“ Let me he—keep your hands off me!”
The gentleman seated next to her, said,
very inmxenlly—
“l didn’t touch you, madam?”
And the driver looking down shouted,
‘Look-a-bere, in there; ifyou’re gentle
men, I’d thank you not to take improper
liberties vvitli the lady passengers —it wont
do!”
The lady made an observation, as the
coach rolled on, but she was not under
stood. They had scarcely gone a square
further, when tho passengers were start
led by the cries of an infant. Instantly
all eyes were fixed upon a middle-aged
gentleman, who had a carpet-bag on his
lap. The man blushed, and stammered out
a barely intelligible.—
“What the deuce is all this about?’’
“Let me out!” screamed a lady.
“Murder!” shouted a boy on the steps,,
while three <r four tugged lustily at the
strap.
“What is the matter in there?” inquired
the driver.
“Matter enough” replied a gentleman,
“lake my fare out of this quarter.”
Keep your hand out of my pocket,” pro
ceeded from someone.
“Did you addnss me, sir ?” asked an
other.
“I didn’t speak at all,” gravely replied
the man with the quarter.
“Because, sir, no one shall, with impuni
ty, accuse ”
Again the baby was heard to cry.
“Shame !” cried 50... e one.
‘Who would have believed it? remark
ed another, while a’third [Blitz of course)
shook the omnibus with a horse-laugh.
Thinking lie Had foil enough, the ventril
oquist paid his fare and jumped out of the
omnibus.—Scarcely liadjie reached the
side-walk, however, before the driver
heard the words “hold up!” from fourquar
ters ui as many seconds, but not a pnssen
ger could lie discern. Filled with won
der, lie hurried on his way. Blitz is a great
fello-.v.— Philadelphia City Item.
A Compliment. —The Washington Un
ion in commenting on one of our articles,
is pleased to introduce us to its readers as
a “most determined southern ultra.” In
these days of truckling politicians and re
creant editors, of vent ions and
Washington Compromises, it is no small
praise to be called a southern “ultra,” and
a determined one at that.’ To be ‘ ultra”
in defence of the rights of one’s country,
was not esteemed a crime in ’76, and true
patriots will hardly consider it so now.—
Mr. Ritchie does us honor over much.—
We are now but heaven be
praised, not a submissioiiisl.— [Spirit of
the Sooth: . , ,
Horrible Affair. —A gentleman re
cently from Holmes county, Miss., has de
tailed to us the particulars of a dreadful
scene, which occurred a few days since
near Lexington in that county. An en
gagement had existed for some time be
tween a Mr. Tate and Miss Shepperd in
the Harien Creek district, in that county,
to which however, the fatherof the young
lady refused his consent. The youngv
couple had agreed to run away for thy
puspose of getting mariied and for th/t
purpose were to start from a wedding n
ty heidin the neighborhood. We
not heard what intervened to excite’ the
youngs man’s passions. He met
ladv as arranged, at the party, and/asked
her publicly whether she was jtady to
felfill her promise and go with and on
her declining, he drew a pistol./shot her
dead in the room, and attempts/ todestroy
himself, but in this was frustr/ed, and is
now in Lexington jail oq charge of
murder. /
/
Washington, Feb 9,*5851
Gen Sam Houston says here that he
knows South Carolina will submit. To
some the scornful estimate of such a man
may si-em a matter of moment: hut fresh
as lie is from that bargain in which a part
of his own state was traded away to the
North for money, arid the power ot the
South in the Senate irrecoverably lost by
theadmission of California, He can hardly
be a good judge of what a brave and high
minded people will do. He says also that
he lasthe byst chance for the Presidency;
and in his he may be riglu; lor such a
Government ought to have just such a man
to preside o ’er it. He a tied to despoil
the South, and if she is weak enough to
submit to the robbery, why not finish by
submitting to him also? Houston’s chanc
es are, however, sadly darkened by his
being a Demofrat, at least in name. This
party is doomed, North and South. In
Massachusetts it has coalesced with the
Abolitionists, and in New York it has ta
ken as its candidaieior the Senate, Mr Dix,
a man thoroughly identified with the Van
Buren party. Between the Sewardite
Mr. Fish, and the Van Burenite, Mr Dix,
there is indeed no difference so far ns the
South is concerned. What sort of a Dem
ocratic party can be made out of such stuff?
On the other hand, at the South, the poor
Democrats who have been shouting for
the Union and the party, are, by these
events reduced to the last extremity. Their
Northern allies, for whose sake they de
serted the cause of their constituents, have
now thrown them aside, for the Fresoil
ers. Where can these Southern Unionists
take refuge ?
A distinguished general officer from
Lousiana, who has seen some service writes
to a member of Congress here, that the on
ly hope of the South is in South Caroli
na—nad that if she secedes, arid the
General Government shall attempt to co
erce her, thirty thousand men from the
Southwest will march to her defence and
the defence of the rights of the South, at
their own charge and expense. You may
rely on this, although lam not liberty to
mention names. Every gallant spirit of
the South is watching the course of your
Slate with eager hopr and interest. I
give you this as a set off to Gen Sam. Hi us
ton’s derisive judgment of your future
course.
Gen Hamilton is here, still after the
Texas Bonds. Another General from
your own Slate is also here, afier some
thing of thtj same kind, it is said. He is
cal ed Thompson—Wnddy Thompson, I,
believe, —a small man, and very brisk a
bout the lobbies of the House and Sen
ate.
Winter at Last. — Any one would
’have supposed that Winter had gome at
last, if he half vTsilefNfcrUattery this iftow
ing. A large field of ice drifted down the
North River and lodged between the Gov
ernor’s Island and the Battery, completely
stopping up the channel to the East River’
and compelling vessels to golhrough But
termilk channel.
A small sloop ran into the ice and 3 of
her crew walked to Whitehall. Both the
North and East rivers are vi ty ful 1 of drift
ing ice. II we cannot have ice of domes
tic manufacture, our neighbors up the
river seem to he very willing to send some
down.
P. S.—Since wrung the above our
news collector informs us that the ice has
parted bv the force of the flood tide and
has drifted into the East river.— N Y Corn’
Adv. 7th inst.
E3** The Hon, D. S. Kaufman of Trx
asVhosedeath has been announced by the
telegraph, appears to have died very sud
denly. He left the House about three
o’clock, oil the 31st. apparently in fine ro
bust health, and at bve was a corpse.
The cause was pronounced to have been an
affection of the heart, but the Union inti
mates that it was an effect of n bullet which
penetrated his right side. His wife and
family were with him at bis last moments.
He was born Cumberland county, Penn,
in 1813; gradim . and at Princeton in 1833;
shortly after removed to Natchez, and read
law with Gen Quitman ; in 1837 emigra
ted to Texas, and the year after was elect
ed to her Congress, of which two sessions
lit became Speaker. He was one of the
ablest advocates of annexation. In 1845,
he was sent as Charge to the United States
which office he held at her admission into
the Union. He was then chosen a Rep
resentative in Congress, which he retain
ed until his death. Gen, Rusk in the
Senate and Messrs. Howard, Morse, Mc-
Lanahan, and McClernard, in the House
paid warm tributes to the memory of the
deceased.
THE ATLANTIC.
A gentleman of this city who has friends
;n board the Atlantic, has just returned
from a visit to New York made with the
especial object of ascertaining from the
owners, the probabilities in regard to her
safety. We a:e enabled to lay before our
readers, briefly, the information thus ob.
tained, and we have no doubt it will ma
terially allay the general anxiety. It is
not generally known that, some time since,
the steamer Arctic, of the Collins lir.e took
fire during a voyage, and was in some
danger for a time. In view of this whenthe
Atlantic sailed from New York, tile last
lime, Capt. West had the whole of the fire
apparatus thoroughly overhauled and put
into the most perfect order. It is also the
ordinary custom to try this apparatus eve
ry day, so that it may be always in good
condition. Tins renders the destrm lion
of the ship by fire almost impossible.—
Another fact of importance is. Unit the
ship, when she sailed from Liverpool,
was provisioned for ninety days, wh.ch
removes all fear of a lack of provisions.—
Another piece of information was obtained
from an experienced sea captain of Boston,
who is familiar with ihe Azores to which
Islands the Atlantic is generally supposed
to have gone. It is that,although there is
abundance of coal there, yet the mode of
coaling—by means of lighters—is so te
dious, that it would require ten or twelve
days for such a ship as the Atlantic to take
on board a sufficient supply io bring lieu
to New York, Huv ng obtained her c.ivY,
the Atlantic would nmst probably, saika'-
rectly for New York, and we coul/ not
have not heard of her by the CaonJu nnd,
probably cannot hear of her by Africa,
due next week, It is most ry®" na ble to
suppose that the Atlantic wi/rt-’JRprt lier
selfat New York, before sj/ ,s beard of
from Liverpool, and all
the delay at the Azores/ r from an acci
dent to her engine, sli/" ,a y not arrive for
some time to come.- /Phita Bulletin,!Ill
inst, /
Death of H/rack Everett.— The Hon
H. Everett/fyo at his residence, Windsor
Vt., onthew f - alter anilines of 10 days
in the Wears of his age. He was one
of the >lest members <l the Vermont bar,
and ft 14 consecutive years represented
thedistrict in which h< resided in the
Gj/gress of the United States. / *
/ E3T Another steamboat disaster has oc
curred on the Mississippi. On Sunday
morning last about 5 o’clock thd steamer
Autocrat came in collision wiih tfce steam
er Magnolia at a woodyard near Bayou
Goula,one hundred miles above ‘New Or
leans, and was so badly injured Ihat she
immediately sunk and became a total loss.
She was bound !o Memphis heavly laden,
with a large number of passengewmost of
whom were asleepat the time. Tie iium
lost is not exactly known, but the fdtlewing
are mentioned. Capt. Grant or Toinesee,
Jas. FurgcTSon of Nashville Tennt and I
i child; A Goodyear 3d engineer; 5 Ulored
firemen* and a colored poripr of the boat#
It is thought f.om 20 to 30 persons wer#
drowned.
Distressing.—We regret to learn, (say*
the Macon Tribune of Bth inst.) that Mrs
Swinden and her four children were bnrnl
to death ih their dwelling house, which
) was consumed by fire in Vinevilie, near
this city, last night. Her husband died
about a month ago. When the fire was
discovered the building was nearly con
sumed, and we have been unable to as
certain how it originated. Thus a whole
family has perished within a month.
TELEGRAPHIC.
[Tcl'graphed for tbs Charleston Courier.]
Baltiroms, Feb a.
Miscellaneous. —The Georgia arrived tu-d*y
with 350 passengers and 800.000 dollar* in gM
Gr. Cass has* been re-elected Senator Irani
Michigan.
Baltimore, Feb
The steam’ r Ear;'ire City, ui rived at New
to-rlav, with two bundled and ten
one mni*.>ii in gold. * Atiilajl
Jfaui m
B A LT I/OR'Xe#/, H i
Adam*’ Express ear liotn
burnt last night, am) four tlnst-ond dollar* worth
of guilds destroyed.
Nothing baa been hee'd yet 6ie sfeamer At
lantic.
[Teleg-raplyd lor th.i Ulniilrstnn Mercury.)
additional by the Canada.
Wasnisgtox. Feb. *.
Thq/fbllowing are the latest jaJyiccs received by
thpGnneda.
At Liverpool on the morning of the 18th,
coUonmnrket wn firinir, the *! i u■ a i>rrr>f t<*
4000 li;cs. *
The British Ministry have decide I on ree.m iw
mrntlnig ti. PA-liaineitt an al> dition of tha win,
dow tax. Tha M irquis of S ruthsinptim is ilmt.l
The talked of Conference of monarch* at I)re*
den will not tike plaee.
Ad vires from Madiid to the 11th, stite that the
Queen had accepted the resignation of her Mini*-
ters. ‘♦*.
Palis Bourse. 95. 15.
[Reported for the Constitutionalist.]
Bai.timoup!, Feb. 7.
The steamer Empue City has arrived al New
York with later intelligence from California.
A fire had broken out at Laguna, which destroy'’
ed eighty houses.
Health in California was good, and the ehalttai
had disappeared. Tho Indians continue their
depredations.
Thu steamer Georgia has been burnt Th‘
steamers Calif rnia and Northerner arrived oa*
safely.
t 1
JRevortei! for the <l% ’ ‘'• Merrnry.)
I, anW. *’
The Senate have ordered the deficiency bill to*
be engrossed.
James Wilson, the wealthiest merchant in Bal
timore, died 10-ilay.
New Oiu.ii* vs, Feb 9.
The seats for Jenny Lind’s conceit were sold to.
dav at auction. The first choice was bought for
$240, nml the entire proceeds over $20,000.
New On lea vs, Feb 10.
The splendid steamer Aotocrat, from this port
for Memphis, came in collision with. Ihe steamer
Magnol-a, and the former was sunk. It is supposed
that thirty lives were lost.
New York, Feb It.
The steamships Southerner ha* arrived from
Charleston, and Ihe Florida, from Savannah.
Baltimowr, Feb IS.
The funeral of Mr Richardson, Attorney Gene
ral of Ihe Slate of Marvland, took place 10-dsv,
ond was very large. Unlit J Brent hne bees ap
pointed hi* successor.
W*siiivotov, Felt 13.
The Senate In s pasird a bill granting ten mil
lions of acre* of hind, for the *up|nirt of Imtitu
tions lor the insane. They hare also passed a bit!
creating the office of Lieutenant General, tnd tho
hill for supplying ilrficiencirs in the appropriations.
The House of Repr-sentatives has rejected tho
hill creating a Board of Accounts. A motion to
pay additional rnmpcn*; lion to the p inters of Con
gress is under di-russisn. ’
Sa t aw a ft, Feb
Tlie.stejmship Alabama arrived
hours from Pfew York. She experienced Iteavy
head winds the whole passage.
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PHILADELPHIA AND i.IVKKPOOL LINE.
LEAVE LIVERPOOL. I#*VE PHILADELPHIA
Citv <>f Glasgow,..Kell 12.. ’.Mirehl3..
COTTON STATEMENT,
fi'cek ending February J 5, 1851.
Old Stock on hand, ....638
Received this week, ..1272
Received previously. 4656
49168
4SSOB
Shipped ll*X week J4S3
Shipp.<D>vionsh 25761-1Q244
/Stock on hand, .....18562
Receipts to the same date last 530’t9
/ Stock on hand 26.’76
COTTON MARKET.
Correspondence of the Time*.
Apalachicola. Feb. 8, 1851.
This market has been quiet lor the -ast week
and under the telegraphic report, of r. decline of
i|e Jd per rteemer Canada, Ibe sales have been
light at irregular prices, until t'-dny, when quite
demand sprung up, mid the sales h.iv. reached, it
is said, 1000 hales at 11} lor Middlings, and 11}
for Good Middlings. In my last quotation ot rate*
of coastwise freigut* I intended to quote }e to all
coa*iwise po ts, —I notice it read }e. They remain
unchanged as well as tho rates to Liverp 001, thongh
there is a disposition to dema.id high rates for the
latter port. “ DAGO.”
r Nf.w York Feb. 7.
The cotton market w firmer, willi sale* of 2000
bales al yesterday’s prices.
Rice is active. Sales 600 tierces at 3J to 3
9-16.
Naval Store* firm. O her articles unchanged.
Charleston, Feb. 8.
Cottox.—l4oo hales have been sold to-day, a*
11 to 13 cenl*. Prices firm, with an upward ten
dency.
Aloista, Feb. 8. P- m -
Ctttox.—There has hern I cotton of
fering to-day and Ihe sales have been limited, auo
at yesterday’* price*. *
New York, Feb 10.
The cotton market to-day has been dull; tbo
sales amounted to 300 bales, prices unchanged.
6-telling I’ithanae 9As)O. <i