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on* knew before, that the appropr.at.on.
reported i * cud to the aggregate, the large
and asloundiug estimates. /
New York Herald contains a
complete list of the articles shipped on
the frigate St- Lawrence for the World s
F a ir. There are about 360 contributions
besides which about 150 were on their
way from B-ston—The frigate was de
tained in waiting for these latter.
Hr Here is a refreshing specimen of
the way they electioneer in California:
Notice- —I am a candidate for Justice
of the Peace and request the support of
my friends. Voters will call at the Un
ion and drink at my expenae until alter
election.
Neveda, Oct. 10, 1850 Majok Brown.
The something is done here, bat not by
public advertisement.
Cowhiding Extraordinary.- An extra
ordinary caseof cowbiding came off at
Bank's Aicade yesterday morning. We
did not hear the names of the distinguished
parties. We learned, however, that the
cowhided was a gentleman high up in the
pictures, and the cowhider a lady of the
upper ten,—f.V. O. True Delta.
lir The St. Louis Union, commenting
upon Mr. Foote's account of the Union
party he is so busy forming, s •♦compos
ed of all the best men of both the old ones.”
says: This reminds us of Randolph's ac
count of the “Union party” which w*s at
tempted during Thomas Jefferson's sdmin
istration. After Randolph had (alien out
with Jefferson, lie was invited to attend a
meeting or caucus at Washington, to be
composed of the “honest men of all par
ties.” Randolph says he wna late getting
nnd when he got there
chair!
fiTTlie Washington letter of the Char
leston says that recent and reliable
private advices have been rceived from
California, which throw doubts upon all
the statements made in the California
papers, as to the prosperity of the country
The prices current are exaggerated. Every
statement is made forVfiect upon the Atlan
tic slates and intended t promote the
schemes ol desperate speculators. Labor
of the harde.-t kind does uot average
ndollar and a hall a day. The surface gold
is ao far exhausted, that it ceasra to reward
labor, ns has been the uniform experience
of all uujiferous countries. The'prolessions
are overstocked. State credit is at a low
ebb, her bonds not worth forty dollars in
it hunded. This is a poor shew for ElDora
do
Thk Free-Colored Population.—
The Philadelphia Bulletin has devoted
several articles lately to the dircussion ol
the condition of the colored population of
that city, and the necessity of their remov
al. The Bulletin comes to the conclu
sion that there is no hope of the impiove
ment of this race at the north, while in con
tnct wtih the Whites, and earnestly re
commends their colonization in Africa.—
Northern philanthropy has then this end!
They compass heaven and earth to induce
one slave to run away, and when they have
him, they make him, by their own con
>fessioi, two-fuld more the child ol hell than
themselves. For the Bulletin shows from
the criminal records of the past year that
the colored people of that city furnish an
enormous disproportion of offenders a
gninst the laws. It is clear then, that the
blacks have no chance, in contact with the
philanthropists. Their whole progress,
after crossing Mason and Dixon’s Line, is
downward both in morals and in comfort.
The course of instruction which the north
ern people gives the blacks, embraces four
principle stages — 1, liberty; 2, rowdy
ism; 3, destitution; 4, the jail;—-to which
they now propose to add a fifth, to wit,
expulsion out of their borders.—[Charles
ton Mercury.
mv 1 AtlglUU Coniiitutitiatliat.]
TOO LATE, TOO LATE.
When Louis Phiffippe’s prime minis
ter, just as the revolution which dethroned
his Royal master in February, 1848 wa*
about to burst in all its fury, announced in
the Chamber of Deputies the willingness
of tin* King to make concessions to popu
lar rights xvhich had been too lung obstin
ately refused, an ominous voice cried out
from the gallery—Too late ! Too lute !
The efforts now tardily made by Mr.
Fillmore and Mr. Webster, two of the
tht high priests of northern anti-slavery,
lo allay the storm they so materially aided
to raise, are now greeted in the same om
inous language. They helped to make
capital for the Whig party, and for them
selves out of the prejudices of the north a
gainst slavery. They helped to stir up
strile between sections, and to swell the erv
among northern voters against the “arro
gant domination of the slave power.”
They helped to crush and trample down
the northern democrats whamanfiillv stood
up in the midst <>t the wild storm of fanati
cism and boldly advocated the equal rights
of the slave lu.ld ing south in the confeder
acy.
Mr. Fillmore truckled to the abolition
society of Erie county, and courted its sup
port by subscribing to all their abolition
views as far back as 18:18. He won his ‘
way to office and power in New York by !
abolition votes. Whether he was then, j
and is now, in hi* inmost hearts hater of i
the institution of slavery and a bitter loe to i
the slave power, or hypocritically pander
ed to an abolition spirit he wished to pro- !
fit by, and dared not rebuke, wc leave now :
to the speculations of curious moralists.
But it may be well said that these men,
Fillmore and Webster, with glowing pro-,
lessions of love tor the Union warm on j
their lips, and zeal for the inaintainance of I
the rights of the south guarantied by th*
Constitution, are 100 lute. The disease i
they helped to engender in the public i
mind ol the north is now too deep seated.
The Savannah Georgian, commenting
on the President's proclamation, and Mr.
Webster’s unionism, concludes thus f.,rci- j
bly and truly. ’1 he speech quoted from !
was delivered by Mr. Webster in-Abing
ton, Mass, in 1848.
No ! Mr. Webster! Mr.Fillmore !your i
exertions, however honestly put forth* are !
too late! You see now ripening around
you, the frui's of your own past doing*.— |
You have sown the wind, you *re now ,
reaping the whirlwind, You have raised
a stonn which you can neither calm nor
guide. You have aroused a spirit which
will not don'll! at your bidding. You,
and your friends, first called into being,
then excited, nnd then pandered. to, and
profitted by, this abolition feeling; until
now, it has become utterly uucontrolabl*
even by yourselves.
Do we speak unadvisedly when we say
this? Let Mr. Websler himself be our
witness. Hear how complacently, yea,
with how proud a boast, he referred in
1848, to the success of himself and friends,
in exciting the north against the extension
of slavery? The render needs not be told
that hostility t,. the Fugitive Slave Bill,
are part and parcel of the same feeling.——
Mr. Webster said:
“But by this time, 4 '* the time
when Texas was annexed*/ the efforts of
the Whigs ALONE liad raised a strong
excitement in the north against .the annwk
ttion of slave territory. I say the WHIGS
LONE, for nobody belonging ta&he otb
partv, north or south, east or wesCatir
a finger in that cause; or if ike*re
any, they weie so few as sot to he
nahln in the mass until the WHIGS
of New England, Ohio and other middle
Statet HAD ACCOMPLISHED A
GREAT EXCITEMENT, anew feel
ing in the public mind. And then this
portion of the democracy of New York,
now denominated the Barnburning party,
seized upon this state of excitement thus
brought about by Whio effort, and at
tached this principle to their creed, to
give them a pre-eminence over their riv
als.”
There it is, in Daniel Webster’s own
well chosen words; a statement made to
the credit of northern whigs, that this ex
citement owes its very birth and being,
its growth and maturity, to them and their
efforts.
We know where it began, but where it
is to end, who shall say ?
Will 13, the pantelette, connois ,ur shirt
collar oracle, and critic de chemist, announ.
ces that there is aoon to be anew style of
gentlemen’s hats. He boldly intimates
that Beebe, a Broadway hatter, will intro
duce at the World’s Fair, next summer, a
fashion of hats with no right angles. The
clown is to be “rounded oft” like the end
of a pumpkin, and Hogarth’s line of beau
ty preserved throughout. This style, Mr.
Willis thinks, is destined to do away with
the prevailing order of hats—which he
Calls the “segment of a stovepipe” style
Verily, we have fallen upon strange times.
[Hartford Times.
_ Slimes.
Colambaa, Qa., Sunday Morning, March 2,1851.
TELEGRAPHED
EXPRESSLY FOR THE TIMES.
ARRIVALQF THE P-nnnPA
Charleston, 9 o’clk. 15 m. P. M. )
Feb. 27th, 1851. j
The Steamer Europa has arrived, and
brings Liverpool dates to the 15th inst.
Colton had declined } to |d. Middling
uplands six-three quarters; Mobile 6?d.;
Orleans 7|d.
Sales of the week, twenty thousand and
ueven hundred bales,
Sales tor Friday, four thousand bales.
The market closed with less disposition
to sell.
above dispatch is not very in
telligible—we print it as written.
cottok!
Our Telegraphic dispatch shows another
tumble of prices in the Liverpool market.
A panic has struck cotton, and “ no mis
take.” That it is a pome and nothing else,
we fully believe. The world at peace,
money and credit easy, manufacturing
prosperous, and the raw material scarce,
there is not a solitary sound reason for
the decline of 3 or 4 cents within the past
six weeks. No one we believe, except
Mr Gwathmey estimates the crop over
2,200,000 bales. He sticks to his extrava
gant figures. And be he a true or a false
prophet, he has the ruin of hundreds of
families to answer for. When the world
gets over its fright, when the English have
dipped pretty deeply into the market, and
reason and facts resume their legitimate
sway over the minds ot men, prices will
halt in their downward tendency and re
act. They may go still lower before this
happens; for when confidence is lost
there is no telling to what figure it will
drop. But the pendulum must swing back
with the same force and momentum with
which itswings forward. Mes ntime, plan
ters who are not obliged to sell, had bet
ter not increase the panic by forcing their
crops on the market.
„oiiny Lina is sick in xsew Orleans;
so much so as to make it necessary to sus
pend her concerts. We expect Barnum is
sicker.
AMUSEMENTS.
(£7- Madame Wood gives an entertain
meqfat Temperance Hall, on Monday eve
ning, in Necromancy and Legerdemain.
A “female enchantress” is nothing new in
> every day life ; but on the stage she will
attract attention.
Panorama of the Mediterranean,
a grand picture of the sea and shores of
this classical sea ,is in town and will be
exhibited next week.
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
On the Boston riot will be found in our
columns. It is rather long, but the sub
ject is of universal interest. It is admit
ted by all parties that the fugitive law is
the test question of Union. Even the sub
| missionists say they will not endure the
| non-execution of that law. It is all im
! portant then 10 know how the law is be
ing enforced, and what the Government is
doing h the premises. Mr Fillmore is
doubtloss doing his best to roll back the
black tide which he has had so large an
instrumentality in setting forward. He
will find it harder to stem than to start.
H rode on it to high orfice, and high of
fice will not enable him to arrest it. “It
is too late.” The sketch of the debate in
the Senate on the message will be read
with interest.
Mr Fillmore’s apologies for and com
pliments to “the Boston people” is simply
ridiculous. Their whole history falsifies
his apologies and proves that they do
not merit hjs praise. Boston is a most
law-loving and law-abiding place in refer
ence to all laws that suit her interests and
whims—but she has never tailed to kick
tip at those she did’nt like. Give her a
bounty on her calicoes and she will go
her death tor law and order to maintain
the tax on her neighbors; but beware how
you touch her pocket, or her prejudices,
for presto ! comes nullification. Witness
the Hartford convention, and the Mexican
war, to say nothing of the burning of the
Catholic convent a few years ago. We
■predict that Boston will not justify the
Treaidential application of “soft soap.”
Krlt is too funny to read the compro
mise and submission papers on the Boston
Row. It seems to affect them, like exhtf
erating gas. in bringing out the idiosyn
crasies of temper of the subject- 7 under its
influence. An editor of a choleric tem
per raves and foams with passion ; while
it takes a doleful turn in the melancholy
mind. Indignation and tearful regrets,
sway them to and fro. What most affects
the bile of some of them is, that it is such
a nice nut for the fire-eaters to crack,—
Some abuse the deputy marshal, some the
Bostonians, generally; but none of them
lay the blame where it belongs, at the door
of a compromise patched up on false prin
ciples; and on the submission spirit of the
south which has taught the abolitionists to
believe they can violate laws and trample
on southern rights and feelings with per
feet impunity.
Th* Augusta Chronicle is driven almost
to the verge of “treason to the Union” and
thtw darkly bints at the remedy of the fire
eqteTs:
“We are not among those who regret
the occurrence of the case, and we hope
that others will continue to occur through
out New England and the free States, that
we may test the sincerity of the profes
sions of iheir people, to their plighted
faith and their devotion to the government
It presents a tangible issue, which will test
the power of the government to enforce a
constitutional law ; and we desire to have
the question settled, whether we live under
such a government, or fanaticism rules
the hour, and puts at defiance the consti
tutional law 1 We desire to know this,
that we may prepare to meet the conse
quences, if the latter be true, as American
citizens and freemen ; that ire may take the
initiative in separating from a people who
are faithless to their professions and the con
stitution, while affecting the highest regard
for the constitution and law.
It did not need this Boston row to con
vince us of the necessity of “ taking the
initiative” referred to. It only requires
time to bring the whole south to our con
clusions—that we cannot live in peace or
safety with a people, deeply dyed in abo
lition fanaticism; and more especially if
submission to all their insolent aggres
sions is the governing policy of the south.
Time is a great teacher; and we hope to
live to see him prove that we are a proph
et.
Painful. —The Athens Banner says :
“ It becomes our painful duty to an
nounce to our feilow-citizans, that on the
15th inst., another riot and rescue of a
fugitive slave (named Williams) / occurred
in the citv of Boston and state of Massa
chusetts/’
Whereupon the “Banner” indites some
thing very like an epitaph on the “ Peace
Measures.” From acquiescing, the Banner
has almost got to requiesemg.
A Changf.—After a week of, for f)ie sea
son, very close and warm weather, it com
the w r ' J _ ‘
fires and overcoats are needful.
Tar vote rou Com. Htooktox.— The follow,
ing i the rote ly which the New Jersey Legisla
ture elected Commodore Stockton, U. S Senator,
Stockton, Jem., 39; Lt iyton. whig, 32; Fo-d, 3,
Randolph, 2. Messrs. Hoisey, whig, and Win.
Whitehead, independent were absent. Mr. Mays
Hew whig. Toted for Mr. Stockton. All the State
office vacancies were also filled by democrats.
Ganunii Yasrs.— The Savannah Republican
•*yo: The steamer:Metcalf, on h> r las* trip down
the riser from Augusta, hrought379 hales ofYart s
for the Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York
markets. These yarns came from the Augnsta
mills, hut yarns and domrstics are now received
hare sonstantiy from various manufactories of the
interior.
Legislature of lowa has passed
a law prohibiting the emigration of ne
groes, and requiring them to leare the
State upon three days notice of the law
under certain penalties.
The streets of Nashville were light
ed with gas for the first time on the 13th
inst.
Large Cargo, —The ship Meridan clear
ed at New Orleans on 19th 11 It., by Messrs.
Giflney & Lowell, for Liverpool, with
4200 bales cotton, 140 hhds. and 871 box
es bacon, 22 tierces beef, and 7000 staves,
equal to the bulk ol 5000 bales cotton, be
ing the largest freight ever cleared out of
that port: The ship and cargo is estima
ted to be worth $350,000.
Large Business in Cotton. —The N.
O. Crescent of the 21st inst., says “A ref
erence to our commercial column will show
that there has been a heavy business done
in Cotton since the Africa’s news fully
19,000 bales having changed handsdtiring
the last two days, nearly all of which is on
. ........ *j’ o effect these large
sales however, f,ciors nave been obliged
to submit to a reduction of fully half a
cent from the rates current ut the close es
the last week.
The Bolton Rioters.
Boston Feb. 19.
It is n well ascertained fact that in ore
warrants have been issued lor the arrest of
fugitive slaves.
The colored citizens are aware of this
state of things, and it is believed are thor
oughly organized and armed.
Anew military association is about be
ing formed here, to he cal'ed L bertv
League. More than 100 of the most in
fluent.al and able-bodied young me., in
the city are pledged to j in it. The As
sociation is opposed to the Fugitive Slave
Law and the aggression of slave hunting.
From the Richmond Examiner.
The reader will find in this day’s news
paper two very remarkable documents—
the resignation of Gen Quitman, and the
Proclamation of President One
is the last res-ult of the Cuban
the other is the final issue ol northern abo
lition. Never were the prominent features
ol a Fed oral administration more strongly
brought out than by the light and shadow
ol the tran-actions to which thee docu
ments relate.
Early in the year 1850, the grand ju ry
at New Orleans, engaged in the investi
gation of the Cuban affair, found a bill
against Gov Quitman, ol Mississippi, fora
participation therein. So long as there
was a probability that Mississippi would
secede Irmu llie* Union, the Federal au
thorities took no action. But the magna
nimity of President Fillmore and the valor
of Daniel Webster, according to the wont
of the latter especially, arose in proportion
to the distance of the danger ; and a few
weeks ago the Marshal of the District re
ceived orders to arrest Gov Quitman, of
Mississippi, and carry him to N Orleans.
The Governor explained that in a few
months his term of office would expire;
and that as so long a delay had been giv
en to the procedures against him, the pub
lic good could not be jeoparded bv the
very short time which would be necessary
to prevent the insult to the dignity and
sovereignty of the State, which would ne- j
cessnrily result from the rii'mcemrnt of
the proposed measure. But no notic** was
taken ol his remonstrances; and as it
would be impossible lor him to permit the
rights and pride ol the State to be tram
pled under foot by the nrr-st of its Gov
ernor, to prevent the consequent collision
and civil war, l.e has very properly resign
ed his office and gone to New Orleans to
stand his trial.
Ever, if convicted, the punishment is
naught but a slight fine and a month’s
imprisonment. No proof has been brought;
nothing beyond mere rumor has come to
the knowledge of the Federal Government,
to justify this outrage. It is impossible,
therefore, to believe that so gross and re
markable an outrage has been undertaken
solely on the ostensible grounds before Hie
public eye.
It is not far that we have to look, how-
we would find the causes. In the
first place, the State ui Mississippi is itself
under the ban of our Federal tyrants. It
was in the State of Mississippi that the
Nashville Convention originated, and it
furnishes the northern administration a ma
licious satisfaction to throw into the face
of its people the most grievous and unne
cessary affront that it could devise. Se
condly, the case in which it is the Prosecu
loi, is one which excites to the utmost the
anger and jealousy of an abolition Govern
ment. Our history is full of instances in
which the people have sympathized in the
disturbances es neighboring States to an
extent far more important than the late de
monstration of assistance to the patriots of
Cuba., Texas was a parallel case. Clay’s
efforts for the South American Republics
was another. Cass’s interference in Aus
trian affairs was a third, and Mr Secretary
Webster has defended the principles in a
letter which his toadies ha7e not yet fin
ished eating. But the Cuban affair was an
effort to add another slave State to the Un
ion, If Cuba entered the Confederacy,
she came with her slaves. Hence the
wrath at Washington. Hence the blood
thirsty rigor with which the trifling politi
cal offence of sympathy with the proposed
invasion has been dogged and hunted.
If any proof was wanting to establish the
fact that the motives of these prosecutions
are not the desires of the present adminis
tration to enforce the laws of the land, it is
ready in the two slave cases of Boston, —
When have laws and regulations of any
country been so wholly nullified and de
stroyed. set at defiance, and hooted out of
sight, as in the New England States dur
ing the last two months ? It is needless to
add that the Federal administration has
done naught but encourage trie outrage by
the feeble show of displeasure with which
it has sought to cover its perjury from the
rest of the nation The issue of civil war
or degrading submission ,vas forced upon
Mississippi ; but a preaching paragraph
about the dignity of the laws and the duties
of good citizens is the punishment of out
law Massachusetts.
CONGRESSIONAL.
From the Charleston Meicurv.
THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS—2d Session.
Washington, Feb. 21, 1851.
SEX.ITE.
A message was received from the Pres
ident of the United States, in response to
Mr. Clay’s resolution ciiUi*w.Jent case of
resistance to the law in Boston. The mes
sage was read as follows :
Executive Department J
February 19, 1851. y
To the Senate of the United States :
I have received the resolution of the Se
nate of the 18th instant, requesting me to
lay befoie that body, if not incompatible
with the public interest, any information I
max possess in regard to an alleged re
cent case of a forcible resistance to the
execution of the laws of the United States
in the City of Boston,and to communicate
to the Senate, under the above conditions,
what means I have adopted to meet the
occurrence; and whether in my opinion,
any additional legislation is necessary t*
meet the exigency of the case, and inert
vigorously execute existing laws.
The public newspapers contain an affi
davit of Patrick Riley, a deputy marshal
for the district of Massachusetts, setting
forth the circumstances of the case, a copy
of which affidavit is herewith communica
ted. Private and unofficial communica
tions concur in establishing the main (acts
of ibis account, but no satisfactory official
information has as yet been received, and
in some important respects the accuracy
of the account has been denied by persons
whom it implicates. Nothing could be
more unexpected than that such a gross
violation of law, such a high-handed con
tempt of the authority of the United States
should he perpetrated, by a band of law.
less confederates, at noonday, in the City
of Boston, and in the very temple of jus
tice. I regard this flagitious proceeding
as being a surprise, not unattended'by some
degree of negligence nor do I doubt that,
if any such act of violence had'been ap
prehended, thousands of the;good citizus
of Boston would have presented them
s-lves, voluntarily and promptly, to pre
vent it; but the danger does not seem to
have been timely made known, or duly ap
preciated by those who were concerned in
the execution ol the process. In a com
munity distinguished lor its love of order
and respect for the laws; among the peo
ple whose sentiment is liberty nd lu>.
r .\y wiinoui In a - , nor above the
law, such an outrage could only be the re
suit of sudden violence, unhappily too
much unprepared for to be successfully
resisted. It would he melancholy, indeed
if we were obliged to regard this outbreak
against the constitutional and legal autho
rity of the Government,as proceeding from
the general feeling of the people, in a spot
which is proverbially called “the cradle of
American liberty.”
Such, undoubtedl)', is not the fact. It
violates, without question, the general sen
limeiit of the pi ople ot Boston, and ol a
vast majority of the wule people of Mas
sachusetts, as much as it violates the law,
defies the authority of the Government,
and disgraces those concerned in it, their
aiders and abettors.
It is nevertheless, my duty to lav be
fore the Senate, in answer to its res dution
some important lacts and considerations
connected with the subject.
A resolution of Congress, of Sept. 23
1789, declared :
“That it be recommended by the Leg
islatures ot the several States to pass laws,
making it expressly the duty of ihe keep
ers of their jails to r< ceive and safe keep
therein, all prisoners committed under the
authority of the United States until they
shall be discharged by the course of tin
laws thereof, u alrr the like penalties as
in the case ot prisoners committed under
the authority of such States respectively;
the United States to pay for the use and
keeping of such jails, at the rale ol fifty
cents per month for each prisoner that
shall, under their au.hority, be Committed
thereto, during the tune such prisoner
shall be therein confined, and also to sup
port such ol said prisoners as shall be com
mitted lor offences.”
A further resolution of Congress, of the
3d ofMarch, 1791, provides that, “where
as Congress did, by a resolution of the 23d
day of September, 1788, recommend to
the several States to pass laws making it
expressly the duty of the keepers ol their
jails to receive and safe keep therein all
the prisoners committed under the autho
rity of the United Slates; in order, there,
fore, to insure the administration of jus
tice.
“Resolved by the Senate and Home of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled. That, in
case any State shall not havecoinpiied with
the said recommendation, the marshal in
such State, und* r the direction of the judge
of the district; be authorised to hire aeon,
vement place to serve as a temporary jail,
and to make the necessary provision for
thesafe.keeping of prisoners committed un
der the authority of the United Suites, un
til permanent provision shall be made bv
law for that purpose ; and said marshal
shall be allowed his reasonable expenses,
incurred for the above purposes, to be
paid out of the treasury of the United
States.
And a resolution of Congress, ofMarch
3, 1821, provides that, “where artry State
or States, having complied with the recom
mendation of Congress in the resolution of
the twenty-third day of September 1788,
shall have withdrawn or shall hereafter
withdraw, either in whole or in part, the
use of their jails for prisoners committed
under the authority of the United States,
the Marshal jn such Slate or States, under
the direction ofthe Judge of the district
shall be, and hereby is, authorised and re
quired to hire a convenient place to serve
as a temporary jail, and to make the ne
cessary provision for the safekeeping of
prisoners committed under the authority of
of the United States, until permanent pro
vision shall be made by law for that pur
pose; and the said Marshal shall be allow
ed his reasonable expenses incurred foU
th above purposes, to be paid out of ihe
triisury of the United States.” These va
rious provisions of the law remain unre
peled.
By the law of Massachusetts, as that
lav stood before the act of the Legislature
o that Slate of the fourth of March, 1843,
tie common jails in the respective counties
vere to be used for the detention of any
prsons detained or committed by the au
brity the Courts of the United States,
a well as by the Courts and Magistrates
0 the State. But these provisions were
airogated and repealed by the act of the
Legislature of Massachusetts, of the 24th
ofMarch, 1843.
That act declares that “no Judge of any
Coirt of record of this commonwealth, and
nojusiice of the peace,shall hereafter take
cognizance, or grant certificate, in cases
that may arise under the third section of
an act of Congress passed February, 12,
1783,and entitled “An act respecting fu
gitive* from justice and persons escaping
From the serrice of their masters to any
person who claims any other person as a
fugitive slave within the jurisdiction of the
Commonwealth.” And it further declares
that “no sheriff, deputy sheriff, coroner,
constable, jailor, or other officers of l be
Common wealth, shall hereafter arrest or
detain, oraii in tht arrest, or detention,
or imprisonment in any jailor other build
ing belonging to this Commonwealth, or to
any county, city, or town thereof of any
person lor the reason that lie is claimed as
a fugitive slave.”
And it further declares that “any jus
tice ol the peace, sheriff, deputy sheriff,
coroner, constable, or jailor, who shall of
fend Against the provisions ot this law, by
in any way acting directly 7 or indirect
ly under the power conferred by the third
section of the act of Congress aforemention
ed, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one
thousand dollars for every such offence,
or the use of the county where said of
imprisonment, not exceeding one year, in
the county jail.”
This law. it is obvious, had two objects,
the first was to make it a penal offence in all
olficers and all magistrates of the common
wealth to exercise the powers conferred on
them by the act of Congress of the 12th of
February, 1793, entitled “An act respect
ing fugitives (rom justice, and persons es
caping from the service of their masters,”
and which powers they were fully compe
tent to perform up to the time of this inhi
bition and penal enactment; second, to re
fuse the use of the jails of the State for the
detention of any person claimed as a fu
gitive slave.
It is deeply to be lamented that the pur
pose of these enactments is quite apparent.
It was to prevent, the laws of Congress
passed for the purpose of carrying into ef
fect that article of the Constitution of the
United States, which declares that “no per
son held to person held to service or labor
m one State under the laws thereof, escap
ing into another,.shall, in consequence of
any law or regulation therein, he discharg
ed from such service or labor, but shall be
delivered up on claim of the party to whom
sush service or labor i>;ay be due,” from
being carried into effect. But these acts
of Slate legislation, although they may
cause embarrassment and create expense,
cannot derogate either fiom theduty or the
authority of Congress to carry out fully
and fairy the plain and imperative con
stitutional provision for the delivery of
persons bound to labor in one State and
escaping into ano'her, to the party to whom
such labor may he due. It is quite clear
that, by the resolution of Congress of third
of.March, 1821, the Marshal of the United
Slates, in any State in which the use of
the jails of the State have been withdrawn
in whole or in part from the purpose of
the detention of persons committed under
the authority of the United States, is not
only empowered, but expressly required,
under the direction of the Judge of the
District, to hire n convenient place forth* 1
safe keeping of prisoners committed under
the authority of the United States It will
be seen, from papers accompanying this
j - cuti.in. that the attention of
! the Marshal of Massachusetts was dis
tinctly called to this provision of the
law by a letter from the Secretary
ol the Navy of the date of October 2Stii
last. ‘There is no official information that
the Ma rslial has provided any such place
for the confinement of his prisoners. If
he has not it is to lie regretted that this
power was not exercised by the Marshal,
under the direction of the District Judge,
immediately on the passage ol the act of
the Legislature of Massachusetts, of the
24th March, 1843; and especially that it
was not exercised on the passage of the
Fugitive Slave law of the last session, or
when the attention of the Marshal was af
terwards particularly drawn to it.
ft is true that the escape from the depu
ty marshals in this case was not owing to
the want of a prison, or place of confine
ment, but still it is not easy to see how the
prisoner could have been safely and con
veniently detained, du ring the adjournment
of the hearing, for some days without sucii
place of confinement. If it shall appear
that no such place his been obtained, di
rections to the Marshal will be given to
lose no time in the discharge of this duty.
I transmit to the Senate the copy ol a
proclamation issued by me on the 18th in
stant, in relation to these unexpected and
deplorable occurrences in Boston, together
with copies ol instructions from the De
partments of War and Navy relative to
the general subject. And I communicate
also copies of telegraphic despatches trails- :
milted from the Department* f State to the
district attorney and Marshal of me Unit
ed States for the district of Massachusetts,
and their answers thereto.
In regard to the last branch of the inqu.
ry made By the resolution f the Senate,
l have lo observe that the Constitution de
clares that “the President shall take care I
that the laws he fiithfully executed,” end !
that “he shall he Command ■ r-in-chief of I
the army and navy of the United States, ;
and of the miilitia of the several States. |
when called into the actual service of
the United States,” am! that “Congress
shall have the power to provide for calling
forth miilitia to execute the laws of the Urn |
ion, suppress insurrection, and repel invn- j
sions,” From which it appears that the
army and navy are, by the Constitution, I
placed under the control of the Executive !
and pro ably no legislation of Congress :
could add to or diminish the power thus j
given, but by increasing or diminishing or 1
abolishing altogether the army and navy- j
But not so with the miilitia. The Presi. j
dent cannot call the millitisdftpto service,
even to execute the laws inva
sions, but by the authority efacts of Con
gress passed for that purpose. But when
the miilitia are called into service, in the
manner prescribed by law, then the Con
stitution itself gives the command to the
President.
Acting: on this principle, Congress by
the act of February 28, 1794, authorized
the President to call forth the militia to
repel invasion, and “suppress insurrec
tions against a State Government, and to
suppress combinations against the laws
of the United States, and cause the laws
to be faithfully executed.” But the act
proceeds to declare that, whenever it may
be necessary, in thejudgment of the Pres
ident, to use the military force thereby di
rected to be called forth, the President shall
forthwith, by proclamation, command such
insurgents to disperse, and retire peica
bly to their respective abodes, within a
limited time. These words are broad e
nough to require a proclamation in all ca
ses where militia are called out under that
act, whether to repel invasion or suppress
an insurrection, or to aid in executing the
laws. This section h&sjconsequently cre
ated sblficf doubt whether the miifitia"could
be called forth to aid in executing the laws
without a previous proclamation. But yet
the proclamation seems to be in words di
rected only against insurgents, and to re
quire them to disperse, thereby implying,
not only an insurrection, but an organized
or at least an embodied f° *. ®
proclamation, in aid ofthe ciyi ant ori )
would often defeat the wht.U* object bj
riving such notice to persons intended to
arrested that they would be enabled to
fly or secrete themselves. The force may
be wanted sometimes to make the arrest,
and also sometimes to protect the officer
after it is made, and to prevent a rescue.
I would therefore suggest that this section
be modified by declaring that nothing
therein contained shall be construed to re
quire any previous proclamation, when
the millitia, are called forth, either to repe i
invasion, to execute the laws, or suppress j
combinations against them; and that tie
President may make such call and place
such millitia under the control of any civil
officer of the United States to aid him in
executing the laws or suppressing such
combinations; an I, while so employed
they shall be paid by and subsisted at the
expense of the United States.
Congress, u"t probably adverting to the
difference between tlie millitia and the
regular arinv.bv tile net of .March 3. ISO 7
authorized the President to use the land
and naval forces of the United Suites tor
the same purposes hu which he might
call forth the militia, and subject to the
same proclamation. But the power of the
President, under the Constitution, as com
mander of the army and navy, is general;
and his duty to set* the laws, litrliluliy ex
ecuted is general and positive; and the act
of 1807 ought not to be construed :ts evin
cing any disposition in Congress to limit
or restrain this constitutional authority,
per greater certainty, however, it may
be well that Congress should modify or ex
plain ibis aet in regard to its provisions
the United Stales.as well as'that in regard
to calling lot th the millitja. It is suppos
ed not to be doubtful that ail citizens, wheth
er enrolled in the militia or not, may be
summoned as members of the posse coin
bains, either by tbe marshal or a commis
sioner, according to law, and that it is their
duty to obey such summons* But perhaps
it may be doubted wbethet ihe marshal of
commissioner can summon as the poses
comitatus an organized militia force,acting
under its own appropriate officers, without
the'eonsent of such officers. The point may
deserve the consideration ofcongress
1 use this occasion to repeat the assur
ance that so far as depends on me the laws
shall be faithfully executed, and all forcible
opposition to them suppressed; and to this
end lam prepared to exercise, whenever
it may become necessary, the power con
stitutionally vested in me*to tbe fullest ex
tent. lam fully persuaded that the great
majority of tbe people of this country are
warmly and strongly atsached to the Con
i s*.itution,“the preservation of the Union.
I the just support of the Government, and
the maintenance of the authority of iaw.
1 am persuaded that their earnest wishes
and the line of my constitutional duty en
tirely concur: and I douqt not firmness,
moderation and prudence, strengthened
and animited by the general opinion of
the people, will prevent the repetition of
occurrences disturbing tbe public peace
and reprobated by all good men.
MiLLABD FILLMORE.
Mr Clay moved the message be referred
to the committee on the judiciary. He
addressed ihe Seriate m terms denunciatory
of the conduct of those who took part in the
affair at Boston, particularly white men
unaer whose instigations and inducements
the deluded negroes were urged to take
these steps He. denounced in no very meas
uretl terms, the proceedings, of Mr. Geo-
Thomson, of England.
Mr, Hale followed pronouncing the
proclamation of the President an impolitic
unwise unnecessary*!utile, idle, weak pro
ceeding.
Mr. Clay replied, and Mr. Hale rejoin
ed with much warmth.
Mr Mason said the duty of rendering fu
gitives from labor and service was a duly
imposed by the Cons:itution. It was pa.t
of the compact subscribed to by all the
Stales upon forming the Union. He would
take issue with the Senator from Kentucky
on the question whether tins law was ex
ecuted or not. He considered that the
law, so far as its practical execution was
concerned, a dead letter. He bad lull be
lief in the declaration of the President; that
he would execute the law if he could. He
considered, however, that tile President
had begun wrong. In the first case,
where the Crafts escaped, the slaves were
lost to their master because of the evasions,
prevarications, delays, and equivocations
of those whose duty it was to enforce the
law and admin sler justice. It was the
duty of the President immediately to have
dismissed the Marshal. The law, if it was
to be enforced, must lie executed wth
alacrity, zeal and cordiality. It must be
• Xt cuted with a desire, on tbe paitof’tlie
people among whom it is executed tofiave
it carried out because it is tin* law, and
without any obstacles or obstructions being
thrown in me way of its execution, hi
this case the party was arrested ; time was
given, properly, perhaps, to him for his
defence ; there was no place prepared to
confine him, it being tfie intention to keep
hi'> in the court room from Friday to
Tuesday. How could his rescue have
been prevented ? The laws of Massachu
setts prohibited the imprisonment of par
ties arrested under this iaw in the jails of
that commonwealth. He thought it wrong
to denounce the population of Boston,
when, by the laws of Massachusetts, it is
made a penal offence for any of that popu
lation to aid in the arrest or imprisonment
ol the fugitive. ‘The Senator from Ken
tucky was right iri denouncing the conduct
of'those engaged in this open resistance
hut he should have gone one step further
and denounced the State o< Massachusetts
as false to her federal i bligatious. She
was foist* to those obligations, for making
which she received a consideration. She
agreed to this compact to surrender these
fugitives, and received a consideration.
Her legislature lias been in session since
the passage of this law, and these laws pre
venting the execution of the Constitution
si ill stand on r lie statute book. The Sena
tor from Massachusetts said the other day
that the people of that State were a law
abiding people, and would not resist the
execution of the law, He would ask the
Senat r whether those citizens, by not for.
ciblv resisting the law, were discharging
their fed eral obligations to render up fugi
tives from labor or service ? If they were,
it was keeping the word of promise to the
ear, but a failure in complying with its
demands.
When the Senator from Kentucky said
the law was generally executed, if he
meant that it was executed without open
resistance, he was correct; but il he in
tended to say it was executed with the ala
crity or in the spirit of the federal com
pact, he was mistaken. Mr. M. then de
tailed the circumstances of the Harrisburg
cases, where the expenses amounted to
$ 1,450, and the negroes when sold brought
$1,500, thus making a balance in favor of
the master ofsso,
In the Long case, which occurred at
New Yerk, the expenses amounted to
nearly the value of the siave; besides, the
claimant was subjected to several vexa
tious suits. He would respectfully call
the attention of the appointing power to
the various delays and evasions of duty,
and would recommend that the least evi
dence of this should be cause for instant
removal.
Mr. Dickinson said that the Senator
was mistaken about the case of Long, in
that case mere were no suits brought
against the claimant. In that case he con
sidered that the issue was fairly made up
and tried between those who desired that
the law should be executed and those who
intended peaceably to resist it. The latter
had been defeated. The case of Long
did much to prove that this law could be
executed. After the long and patient
hearing given that cas-, none other will
be likely'to arise which will produce dif
ficulty. The law was to be tested, its
force was to be tried, and ihe question hav
ing been judicially settled, will not be
again idly agitated. The law vvasdenounc
ed at that time as unconstitutional, and as
suspending the habeas corpus. This was
the cry of every demagogue and fanatic.
This case of Long showed how untrue and
groundless were those declarations.
Mr Cass agreed with Mr Clay. He
justified the acts of the President, and
had no fear but he would do Ids duty.
Mr. Clay continued the debate with Mr
Hale.
Mr. Butler contended that the law was
worthless as a;.y law would be. The
North had determined relentles war upon
the institutions of the South, and no legisla
tion could avert the certain doom of the
South.
Mr Davis of Mass, contended that the
affair at Boston was one of those cases
which might arise anywhere.
Alter further debate, tbe message was
referred to the Committee on the Judici
ary and the Senate adjourned.
There is some talk in Philadelphia of
making a tunnel to New Jersey under the j
Delaware liver. _
Frazier’s Magazine has gone over to the j
free-trade party.
Bishop Hughes a Cardinal, — A letter
from Rome says that there is considerable
talk ol making Bishop Hughes a Cardm-
A Fleet.—On the 12th inst. sixty-j
eight vessels entered the harbor ol New j
York. Forty-two of them were square- |
rigged.
First trial by Jury in A ienna.— The
first trial by'Jury took ph.ee in Vienna a
few weeks since, and a large cr<>wd was
present to see how it worked.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Ktw Yoiik, Fell. 21.
Comrnodoje Stockton, Democrat, has been elect
ed United States Senator, from New Jersey.
A duel is anticipa'ed between Stanley, of No-th
Carolina and Inge, of Alabama, inconsequence of
offensive language uttered by Inge in debate on
Wednesday. Stanley was arrested for challenging
on Friday, but released fur want ol proof. Inge
and Gov Brown, of Mississippi, who his
friend, are among tbe missing.
New Yoiik, Feb 22, 8 i*. m.
Business has been suspended for tbe celebration
lof Washington’s birth day. An oration was de
livered by Senator Foote- Grand Illumination to
j night.
The steamship Ohio has arri veil with $200)000
ingold and 126 passengers.
More of the Boston Rioters have been arrested ;
fugitive slave has been captured at Salem, in the
midst cf much excitement. -
Washington’, Feb. 21.
The President sent a message to the Sen ate to
day, recommending that the Ex’culive be author
izrd to call out force so execute the Fugitive Slave
Law. without previous proclamation. A warm
debate ensued, hut no question was taken.
Second Despatch.
Washington, Feb 21, 10 r. m.
Fillmore yesterday sent a message to the Sennte
|in relation to the Boston riot. He is decider) in
| favor of sustaining the laws. To-day the Senate
| passed the bill making appropriations for lire Mili
| tn r y Academy, and then went into a debate upon
tbe President’s Message.
J ho Ho ise passed the Post Office Appropriation
Bill, aurl laid the Fortification hill on the table.
[Telegraphed for the Charleston Mercury.]
New YonK. Fell 20, 6 i*. M.
The steamship Cambria ha., arrived with the
Atlantic's cargo.
Thompson, the British Abolitionist, has been
pelted with rollen eggs at Springfield, Mass.
Washington, Feb 20.
The S :nalc has passed n bill granting land to
the Slate of Mis-ouri to build a Railroad. ’Pile
Postage hill, with uniform rate of 3 cents, and
! abolishing the franking privilege, has been voted
down.
In the House the Navy Pension, anil Indian bill
has been passed.
Arrival of the Baltic.
Washington, Feb 20. 4 i*. vr.
The English and French news is unimportant.
Gen Ryilhicres had met with a serious accident
In descending i* stair case he made a false step,
and was precipitated on his head, and was taken
up insensible.
The Baltic sailed at 2 o’clock on the Bth. The
Cambria sailed on the 4ih. and is not yet in sight.
Washington, Eeb 20.
The cabinet has been in session all day upon
the President’s message concerning the Boston ri„
ot. Orders have been issued to make Charlestown
Navy Yard a depot for prisoners under the fugitive
law, who are b> he placed under a guard of ma
rines.
We have been favored with tha following des
patch by tlie President of the S C Railroad com
pany.
Columbia, Ft>b 20, 7 t*. m.
There is a great freshet in the Wateree. and the
river is higher than ever before known. The wa
ter i< up to ihe cross ties or the trestle work for
two or three hundred yards, but not over them. It
is deemed prudent, however, not to allow the trains
to pass for the present. They will go over, how
ever, on Saturday as usual.
About three hundred feci of the Georgia State
Road has been carried away at O* stauaulee, but I
was told by a passenger at Augusts this morning
that it would he repaired immediately, and in the
meantime passengers will he transported between
the trains in head cars.
I hope Ihere will he little if any serious inter
ruption to business either on the Camden or Atlan
ta roads.
Reported for the Constitutionalist.
Washisoton, Fen 2i.
The Fortification Bill has been rejected by the
House. The civil and diplomatic hill is now under
consideration.
A duel has been fought between Stanley and
Inge. Two shots were exchanged and the matter
settled.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Latest dates from Liverpool, Feb S
Latest dates from Havre, Feb 6
Lateift dates from Havana, Feb 22
DEPAIITUIIB OK STEAMERS.
CUNARD LINE.
FROM LIVERPOOL. FROM NEW Yorr. FROM BOSTON
Asia,.. .March 1... ..March 2t>
Canada, March 15 April 9..
Africa, March 29 April 23
America, April 5 April 30..
Asia, April 12 ,May 7,......,
COLLINS LINK.
FROM LIVERPOOL. I FROM tfEW YORK.
Saturday, March Sth |
Saturday,. ...March22d I Wednesday.. .MarcliSth
Saturday,... .April sth | Wednesday, .Mar. 19th
NEW YORK AND HAVRE LINE.
FROM HAVRE. FROM NEW YORK.
Franklin, March 12..
Humbolt, April 9 MarchS.. j
Franklin, Mav7.. April 6.. |
PHILADELPHIA .AND i.IVERPO ‘L LINE. j
LEAVE LIVERPOOL. LEAVE PHILADELPHIA j
COTTON STATEMENT,
Week ending Alaich 4, 1851.
Old Stock on hand,,. ••••• 63*
Received this week
Received previously
60680
Shipped this week, ‘jj®?
Shipped previously 31900--2800
Stock on hand, BrSO
COTTON MARKET.
Correspondence of the Times.
Apalachicola. Feb 2*2",
Prices in this place have settled down to 11J f“r
Middlings; and at this figure there are moresellar*
than buyers, though the sales for two days have
been respectable in amount, and have probably
reached 12 to 1500 bates. Our receipts have ma
terially fallen off for the last ten days. anti it ia fair
to pre ume that the same causes that operate to
produce this result here, will cause them to fall off
elsewhere, at the usual time for ploughing ant!
planting early crops This may cause a recovery
of prices, though 10$c will probably be the figttro
for Middlings before they touch bottom.
Engagements have been made to Liver
pool at jj. and $e continues to be the ruling rate
coastwise. I notice the arrival of the steamer Pal
metto. Copt McMlister, in 27 hours from Colum
bus, deducting four hours for stoppages; it may be
put down as tbe crack trip of the season. Some
ai'xietv is felt for the Bark Providence,
now due three weeks. She has probably gone
ashore on the Florida Reef or Bahamas.
“ DAGO.”
New Yoiik, Feb 20.
The cotton marked is unset 1 led and depresses!
by the Baltic’s accounts, as is also Flour ami G<i n
Washington, Fell 20. p. **•
The steamship B illie has arrived from Liver
pool with dales to the Bth filet.
Cotton hail declined | ; Fair uplands. 7j| ; fair
” *=•- *vt • TV.ir Orleans, 7|. The sales of •>*
. week amounted to 23.000 bales. The market
j closed firmer than it had been during the week-
The money market was easy. Con ols. 96i
96J. American stocks were in better demand.
Savannah, Feb 22.
Cotton.—Yesterday the market was in favor of
buyers. Sales 448 bales, as follows ; 11 at 10 ;
46 at 10$; 212 at 11, and 179 at lljc per pound.
New York Cotton Market.
The Circular of Messrs Talcott and Cos., of
Tuesday week says :
The Africa’s unfavorable advices have depressed
our market $c per lb at which decline 1200 bale*
nave been sold ; the market closing weak, with a
downward tendency. The decline in Liverpooj
was caused by the advices emanating from a few
individuals on this side, in ‘elation !o the crop, es
timating the growth of the prer*nt season at 2,300
to 2,500.000 bales. At same time, Liverpool lrt
| ter writers state that nine tenths of their corres
| pondents on this side write that the crop will range
from 21 a 2,150.000 bales; but the opinion of tbe
remaining one-tenth being more congenial to the
taste of spinners, is adopted in Manchester; and
the receipts at the ports being lar-e it is a favora
ble moment to adopt such opinions and depress pri
ces. Let planters, therefore, continue to huriy tba
balance of their crops to market, and they will con
firm spinners in their convenient opini ns regard
ing the extent ol the crop, and aid them in drprrss
\ ing prices to a point at which operations may be
! safety made on tin* basis of their estimates—name
; *y, 23 to 2,500.000 hales.
New Yohk. Feb 21.
Colton has declined from J to jj since ihe arrival
| of the Baltic.
Chahlkstox, Feb. 24. p. m.
Cotton. —The market is depressed, and the
lower grades easier than they have yet been. Sale*
to-day 1300 bales at oto 114 rents.
Augusta, Feb. 24 I’. M.
Cotton.—- Little oi nothing done o-dayineeU
ton. The few rales made have been at very irreg
ular prices, which tanged from 9 :o 11 cents.
Savannah. Feb 24.
The sales of cotton ta-dav amount to 1739 bales,
i at 111. The quotations are lor good Middling,
■ 11; Middling Fair, 1 lj-; Fair, 114; Strict Fair,
; 123.
Colum bus, Feb 28
j Cotton.—There is next lo nothing doing in
j cotton, ami we cannot give quotations. The la-*
: accounts have depressed Ihe price about of a ceut.
Corespondence of the Times.
Apalachicola, Feb 25.
The annexed report shows the decline in our
! market up to Monday noon, but on the a “counts
per steamer Bailie, since then there has t>con a fair
! amount of business doing at to for Mid..
Idling, the latter figures lor strict classification. I
I saw a lot that was sold this morning which was a
very lair grade of Middling, at 10 1-16 —a planter*
crop. It is difficult to buy Good Middling at 10$,
hough it is said that some sales were made jester*
day at that figure. “ DAGO.”
Augusta, Feb 27.
Cotton. There has been a belter demand to-
I day, ami prices are more uniform The sales reach
| bout 500 bales—Good Mid!|;ng at 10 cents.
Exchange.—The rate on New York is $ pr
cent prem for Sight Checks, and on Charleston and
Sivannah, par.
Fhkights.—Th° River is in good navigable or
der. No change to notice in rates.
Chahlkston, Feb 27.
Cotton.—We have no new feature lo report in
tbe cott.m Market. Tin* transactions yesterday
were ‘imited to 1000 hales, at irregular prices. The
sales may be classed as follows :—IOO bales at 9$
130 at 10$; 120 a 10j; lIS at
and 149 bales at 1 lj.
Cu.tULKvrox, Feb 25.
Cotton.—The tnarkrt depressed and
unsettled. Pices are in favor of buy ers, 1600 bales
sold to-day at 9 to 12 cents.
Augusta, Feb 26-
Cotton. —Our lasi weekly review left the ijiarko
in n quiet and unsettled stale, and so it has remained
during the present week. The Babie’s advice*
came to hand on Thursday last, and being unfa
vorable, sei in- to have destroyed confidence ill aU
parties, end ihe limited sales since made have beeq
at a decline of lull one cent from the prices current
previous lo her arrival. There is not much cot I, n
offering, aed the prices paid are very irregulnf
The highest p-ice that could l>e obtained yesterday
foi Good Middling, was 10 cts. A sale was made
yesterday of 444 bales damaged cotton, quality
Middling to Good Middling, at an average ol about
9J cents. It was ourcnased by parties interested
and brought more Ilian it otherwise would bare
done. In tbe present uuse lied slate of the market,
we again omit quotations.
RECEIPTS CF COTTON.
From lift September, iBSO, to Intent dates received
1851. 1850.
Savannah, Feb 18 212.526 237,755
Charleston, Feb 21 256,430 253,591
Mobile, Feb 14 307,333 202,715
New Orleans, Feb 18 655,915 570,494
Florida, Feb 10 95,510 111 -432
Texas, Feb 4 14,561 15,625
Virginia, Feb 1 11,156 5,275
North Carolina, Feb 8.... 8,099 5,5)5
Total Receipts.... 1,561,520 1,452,432
1,472,432
Increase of Receipts tins year 17,191
STOCK OF COTTON.
Remaining on hand at the latest dates received
Savannah, Feb 18........ 51,662 69,745
Charleston, Feb 21 66,614 63,299
Mobile, Feb 14 163,593 134,021
New Orleans, Fib IS 290,320 2!8,308
Florida, Feb 10 48,035 46,972
Texas, Feb 4 2,758 1,926
Augusta, Hamburg,Feb 1..65,758 64,948
Macon, Feb 1 18,781 24,858
Virginia, Feb 1 1,800 750
North Carolina, Feb 8 600 500
New York, Feb 18 71,654 88,952
Total 782,075 714,179
714,179
Increase in stocks... ‘.6 7 &36