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* f vernation on the important subiect of the
a P j
We see nothing in heavy receipts to in
duce people to increase their estimates of
crops—our figures are unchanged* and
* want more light than is yet before us to
The panic in the cotton nr larket on both
sides ot the Atlantic,^ as produced a de
cline in prices—we v vere little prepared
for—and we think a month or two—will
induce many to reflect and ask themselves
“what frightened them.” We believe Liv
erpool has not seen its lowest, and think
prices will yet go back to 7id. for Middling
there. N Orleans wont have over 90uM.
bales—nor Mobile 425,000, and at this port
50,000 bales Frosted Cotton will be re
ceived —which high prices alone induced
planters to pick out—of this, more than
half wiil not be saleable—some sales of it
have been made at 6} cts.
Tite-rivers above are all rising and an
inundation of the low lands on the Missis
sippi &c. is expected as in past two years
-His said a crevasse has already occur
red on Dr Duncan’s plantation near Natc
hez. Os the cotton offering, few tables but
have a tail to them. Middling is worth 10
cts., and Middling Fair llj cts—there
must yet be a good deal of the better cot-
tons amongst the large stock here—pres
ent prices will keep tack cotton in the In
terior.
Receipts will lessen soon in the Gulf
ports —or we must change our figures—
Sales yesterday 6,000 bales.
Freights are dqll, Br. ships fd. to Liver
pool—Stg. Ex. 7* to Bfo
*21,00 M. given iri November last.
It is stated that Congress failed to
make any appropriation for the printing
of the Census returns. They will (there
fore be two years old when they are print
ed for general circulation.
A joint resolution has passed in Con
gress authorizing the President to place a
National vessel at the service of the unfor
tunate Hungarian Patriot, Kossuth. Mr
Bodisco, the Russian Minister, was in the
House when the vote was taken.
An unfriendly feeling towards Russia is
said to exist in Congress.
—■
(gr Senator Benton was ill with the
small pox at last accounts.
THE IAMEsTfAIR
will take place at Temperance Hall on
Tuesday evening the 18th inst. On that
occasion the whole building, including the
spacious hall below, and the Division room
and the Columbus Guards’ armory room
above stairs, will be thrown open. The
upper rooms to be used for the fair, and
the lower hall for the Supper Room. We
understand the ladies are exerting them
selves to make a brilliant affair of it. Our
country friends, who feel disposed to aid
the object the ladies have in view and to
spend a pleasant evening, we hope will
make it convenient to be in the city on
that occasion. There having been some
doubt about the precise objects to which
the avails of the fair are to be devoted, we
r are authorized to state that they are to be
used for the purchase of a passenger car
to be presented to the Muscogee Rail
Road Company. It is intruded both as a
compliment to the present energetic di
rectory, and as a testimony of the interest
tho ladies of Columbus feel in au enter
prise that, has cost their husbands, and
fathers, brothers and lovers so much labor,
#a*iety and effort.
iOur correspondent (touches on the sub
ject, and we hope with him, to see a very
brilliant and successful fete.
Locomotives. —The steamer Retrieve
has arrived from Apalachicola with two
Locomotives, and,a hundred car wheels
for (the Muscogee Road. This looks like
doing something. The first twenty-five
piiles’fef the road on this end will be open
by the first at July.
Nell, of the steamer “ Retrieve”
lias placed the coinpany and the com
munity under obligations to him by the
prompt, obliging and successful manner,
ip which he has undertaken and accom
plished the task of transporting the iron
rail aod equipments for the road.
Rock Island Factory, )
March 7, 1851. j
Messrs Editors of the Times —
Gentlemen: Please accept this small
package of papers, made t our factory,
examine and try (hem, and see if they are
much inferior to that class of papers made
at the North.
Please show them to your friends as
I do not send them as samples of what
we can do, but only of what we have done.
‘lks! B. CURTIS, Ag’t,
papers referred We are writing this
* \ ~ & 4U
it is firm, substantial paper’ pleasant to
shortest in point of time from New
j mistaken, by at least 36 hours. The short
est running line between N Orleans and
N. York (unless men get to travelling on
| lightning rods) is by Mobile, the Girard
| Road, and thence east, by the Savannah
| steamers, or the roads of the two Carolinas.
A passenger over this last route, could get
half way to New York, before he could
reach Memphis from New Orleans by
steamer. There is no comparison in the
two routes for time ; and a glance at the
map will show that no other roufecan com
pete with the great Southern line passing
over the Mobile and Girard contemplated
road.
The second meeting addressed by Mr
Jones in N Orleans, was thinly attended ;
and his errand does not seem to be receiv
ed with much favor by the citizens. The
N Orleans Courier thus speaks of it:
“No man ever came upon a more ridi
culous mission. If all the eloquence of
the present era was concentrated in the
Tennessee orator, he would find it an up
hill business to persuade this community
of the value to them, of a railroad from
Memphis to Charleston. The effect of
that railroad will be to carry to the latter
city a large portion of the cotton of Arkan
sas, North Mississippi & Tennessee, which
now comes to N Orleans for sale or ship
ment. The proprietors of that road, des
tined to be so injurious to this city, want
money to complete it, and they come to
ask it. It is the most impudent mission we
have ever heard of. Every dollar contri
buted here to that road is so much contri
buted to the injuiy of this city.”
SEINPLASTERS.
Some of the Alabama papers are dis
cussing the question of Mr Winter’s Shin
plasters (or change bills) and the Mont
gomery Advertiser protests against them
as an unsound and illegal currency, and
as a nuisance to the public. We can state
for the information of our cotemporary,
that we animadverted pretty strongly on
this subject, several years since, and tried
to induce Mr Winter to withdraw them, or
the people to reject them. We had our
labor for our pains. The people would
and will take them, and Mr Winter finding
it profitable, very kindly continues to ob
lige them. Such will be the result in Ala
bama. Where responsibility for an error
is divided and sub-divided, and where pres
ent convenience pleads against precaution
against future losses, sound principles will
not be regarded. While Mr Winter lives
and prospers, it will all be right, no doubt.
But Mr Winter is not immortal; nor is he
exempt from the vicissitudes of Fortune.
The discussion has brought out a card
from Mr Winter Senior and his sons, heirs
and Junior partners, in which they bind
themselves for the redemption ot their
bills, so long as either of them shall live.
The “Advertiser” publishes the card with
these comments.
“Shinplasters Again.—We insert the
communication of the Messrs Winter with
pleasure. It is certainly creditable to
them, that they are and have been issuing
these bills with the determination of re
deeming them in good faith now and here
after. But all this does not meet the ob
jections to this species of currency. It is
issued, as we said before, without authori
ty of law any where; it is based on no
capital, as other bank bills are; and issued
by a private individual. These bills are
put out as money, and Mr Winter receives
the interest on them, as such, while in
reality they are literally nothing, and rep
resent nothing. They are of a denomina
tion not allowed, by the laws of our State,
to be issued by any of our own Banks or
corporate authorities. Their circulation
is utterly indefensible, and the Messrs Win
ter show their good sense in not attempt
ing it.”
We have entertained and expressed
these opinions these seven years past;
and with the most friendly dispositions to
wards Mr Winter and his sons, we still en
tertain them.
THE SOIL OF THE SOUTH’
The first number of this Agricultural
Monthly has made its appearance; and we
congratulate the enterprising proprietors
and editors on its neat typography, and
the taste, industry and talent display
ed in its columns. We commend it to
the zealous supportofthe Southern Plant
ing public.
The paper is published under the auspi
ces of the Muscogee and Russell Agricul
tural Society, and is under the editorial
charge Col James M. Chambers, andCkarles
A, Peabody, Esqr. Each number contains
sixteen pages quarto size and
at one dollar per annum in advance.
Wo wish the Editors every success and
congratulate the Plante-s of the South ou
an acquisition so useful and instructive to
them.
- m aEj
A FINE CCW.
YVe happened in yesterday morning, at
the barn yard of the Kentucky House of
Mr. Perry, to look at his fine milch stock.
The process of milking was going on, and
to gratify our curiosity Mr. Perry sent for
• a gallon measure to ascertain the quantity
given by one of the animals. This was a
fine lookingcowot light red color, with oc
casional white marks; a clean coat and
full flesh, short legs and a most amiable
expression of countenance ; which by the
way, sookey belied before we completed
Hook in upon Mr. Perry’s cow-pen —it is a
] seelpp delight their Bucolical tastes, as
j the and iscipies of the amiable Mjsro. We
flake it there is no magic in ring such
J cattle. Any and every family tony
j such milchers. It needs only a little at- j
I bodily* com tom. i„ .iMtaT To
| *"• resull,. A COW
I that yields 24 quarts of milk a day makes
a rich return for the expeqsp of high feed
ing fnd personal attention. There is no
J better investment pf the same amount of
II money. Mr. Perry feeds op tlje cow-pea.
’ / * ;■( ’ v - ■ .... t . .
boiled, and mixed with bran or shorts, and
cut hay or shuci'3. This food is occasion
ally varied with green food, when it can
be had, and potatoes, turnips on other edi.
b!e roots.
Reader, do you want a good cow? Go
and do likewise. The commonest cow of
the country can be fed up to u gaiion to a
gallon and a half at a milking. A starved
cow will no more give milk than a starved
horse will run a four mile race.
Fire Arms. —An official communication
from the Secretary of War, laid before the
Senate on Tuesday, exhibits the number
of muskets, rifles, and pistols belonging to
the United States armories, arsenals, and
ordnance depots, together with an estimate
of the number which the materials now on
hand would be complete. The statement
shows the whole number as follows :
Whele number of muskets fit fir service
of every dascri[ition. 511,249
Number usservicible, 8,918
Whole number of rifles of every kind, (51,891
Number uns< rviceable, 9,166
Whole number ot pistols of every descri|>
tion. ’ 25 374
and Number unserviceable, 1.915
The estimate is that the materials on
hand will serve to complete 26,300 mus
kets and 4,200 rifles.
Democratic Review. —The March num
ber of this welcome periodical is at hand
and has the following table of contents.
The American Bar; John Randolph, life of,
by Hugh A. Garland; Women of the Revolu
tion; A Country House scene; The Decline
of England; The Veto Power of the Presi,
dent; English Policy;} The last of the Pe
quods, Lawrence Kearney l). S. N; New-
York Finances ; Financial and Commercial
Review; Notices of Neio Books.
(gj~ J. J. Mayo, and R. M. Lawrence
are advertised as no longer agents for this
work.
Harpers New Monthly Magazine.—
Mr. D. F. Wilcox booseller, hasplaced up
on our table the March number of this
work, with a rich table ot contents. The
Messrs. Harpers cater for this work with
remarkable taste and discrimination,
They fill it with the cream of the British
periodical literature; and for $3 a year,
give, the choice matter of the Scotch and
English magazines jo the amount of near
ly 2000 pages.
The present number opens with Thomp
son’s beautiful Poem of Spring;
Come gentle spring, etherial mildness come;
And from the bosom of yon and ropping cloud,
While music wakes around vail’d in a shower
Os shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
This.poem is embelished with fifteen
beautiful illustrations.
The present number contains twenty
six articles, besides notices, and compris
es 142 neatlyprinted pages, price 25cents,
or s3,ooper annum.
F. r ihe Times.
LADIES OF COLUMBUS,
MUSCOGEE RAIL ROAD CAR THE FAIR
F.NTERPRIZE EXCITEMENT, fcC.
When the proposition was made ashor
ime since, to hold a Ladies’ Fair, and to
invest the proceeds in a splendid passen
ger car tor the Muscogee Rail Road, some
supposed it could not succeed. The ques
tion was wilh them, who will aid in it T
who will attend! It now is, who will not 1
The excitement is rising and spreading as
if Jenny Lind, or some such distinguished
personage were about to visit us. The old
and the young, the married and the un
married are looking forward to the occa
sion as one of high pleasure and enter
tainment. Preparations are being made
on a grand scale. The ladies have organ
ized themselves into committees and sub
committees, and the method and system
of their operations, would do credit to a
commanding officer preparing for a short
and elegant campaign. Congress spends
a whole s< ason in talking . and not unfre
quently several hundred members are en
gaged for many hours, sometimes for a
whole day or two in listening to one mem
ber. Thus a whole session is spent and
but little or nothing done. Not so with
the ladies to whom we have referred. —
Their motto is, action! action! When
they meet to'discuss a question they do it
fully, but they economize time, by all
speaking atonce, and all listening at once.
This is accomplished by the cultivation of
an activity of attention of which the mind
of a stall-fed politician is incapable-—-just
such an one as would smile at this remark
as a jest. Much has been said in praise of
the ladies of Columbus—much of what has
been thus said, may not have teen credit
ed to the fullest extent; but they who
know them well—they who know what
they have done already, know that they
have done a great de.al, and that when
they say that they intend to jfiit a ball in
motion, it is just as well to consider it as
already rolling, whether the design be to
drive j| down the smooth inclined piane
or up the rugged hill. That car had just
as well consid itself on the track, for “it is
bound to CiQfne.”
Whn the ladies of .Columbus and of its
vicinity lead in such anenterprize, who is
it that v il| not follow j who is it thift will |
whose beauty and accomplishments can
I cast a spell of enchantment upon features
| of care and anxiety and mould them into
soft expression and blandest smiles ! No.
Those daughters themselves! Oh no. The
unblest gentleman, upon the door of whose
heart are chalked the word “to let” in let
ters so plam’that she who runs may read!
Certainly not. The modest and interesting
Tyoung lady who they say
has I”! No| |The traveller who has sur
the stage from Columbus to Barnesvile !
No. Whp then will stay away! Why the
man who ought to wear crape for the death
of all his* sensibilities—the mi ui who has
lately bepn put upon friendly terras with
the lady he adored, and has sworn to her
mitize himself—the man jwhq is tired of
himself, his friepds, his wife, his childre <>
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and his country—the man who is setting
snares for his unwary neighbors—and
more especially the addresses
every sixpence that falls -within the scope
of vision in the language of the poet, “come
rest in this bosom”!
These are the views of many who will
attend the Fairfor many reasons, any one
of which is sufficient.
WYNNTON.
From the Augusta Constitutionalist.
CROWDING THE MOURNERS.
We take from the New York Herald, the
fr flowing piquant account of its Washing
ton correspondent, of the caucus of the
Democratic Senators upon the River and
Harbor Bill. “Crowding the mourners ,”
is a happy expression to describe the pre
dicament in which many prominent Dem
ocrats aspiring to National honors ot the
hands of the Democratic party, are placed.
They are in a perplexing conflict between
democratic principles, as heretofore profes
sed by the party, and the wishes of their
constituents in reference to the appropria
tions.
The res’oratfon of the pure old demo
cratic creed of strict construction, and rig
id adherence to it, can aione satisfy the
southern wing of the party. Whether thera.
is any hope for the honest practice of that
creed in the face of the corruptions sf the
day, the selfishness of sections, and the
strong consolidation tendencies ol the Fed
eral Government, whether controlled by
Whigs or Democrats, must be left, as yet,
to conjecture. One favorable augury of
the continued vitality and power of demo
cratic principles may be drawn from the
defeat of the River and Harbor Bill by de
mocratic votes. But the southern Dem
ocrats will be very wary of committing
themselves in advance to a National or
ganization, which might, in tne end, put
upon them a Free-soil candidate for the
Presidency voted in by anti-slavery Dem
ocrats.
The southern Democrats will have no
further use lor the political trimmer, Gen.
Cass as a candidate, particularly since his
relusal to vote for the Fugitive Slave Bill.
• [Corraspomlence of the New York Herald.]
Washington, Feb. 27,1851.
Rivet and Harbor Bill—Democratic Se
natorial Caucus—A Very Nice Ques
tion for the Presidency—Singular Re
sult of the Conclave.
A democratic caucus of the Senate was
convened in the Capitol this mornrng, up
on the River and Harbor Bill, the impor
tant question lo determine being nothing
more nor less than this : Is the principle
ot appropriations to rivers and harbors a
democratic principle, or not? or is it a part
of the democratic platform? or will it do to
stand on for the Presidency? or will it b”
satisfactory to the ultras of the south? or,
what are vve to do?
Dr. Sturgeon, of Pennsylvania, was cal
led to the chair. He goes for protection,
and for rivers and harbors; but above all
things in heaven and earth, he goes for the
democratic platform. He is not a man to
make any display of his democracy ; but
lei Baltimore lay down the creed, and that
is the Bible of the Doctor. The fathers
of tho democratic church are his apostles,
and Berks county itself is not a more stead
fast exposition of democracy than Dr.
Sturgeon. Therefore was he called to the
chair. Besides, it was something ot a
compliment to Pennsylvania.
Mr. Jeflefiod Davis, in behalf of the ul
tras of the south, constituting the majority
of the party in many of the southern States
flat-footed ly demanded that opposition on
constitutional grounds, to internal improve
ments by the federal government, be made
a democratic principle ; and that the Dem
ocrats who wished to unite the part}', could
not do better than lo begin the good work
by voting down the River and Harbor Bill
in the House. ,
Mr. Rantoul, while his observations had
been confined to Massachusetts, had enter
tained the idea that appropriations to riv
ers and harbors were all for Buncombe ;
but recently he had travelled on the West
ern lakes and rivers, and had learned
somelhingof storms on those “inland seas,”
which empty themselves, like an ocean,
into the St. Lawrence, and of snags, saw.
yers, and sand bars in the Mississippi and
bis mighty tributaries, and he was decid
edly ot the opinion that rivers and harbors
were first-rate practical doctrines, especi
ally all over the Western country*.
General Shields put in a strong speech
in support of the constitutionality of river
and harbor appropriations, ridiculing the
idea that to remove a snag or sand-bar by
paying for it out of the federal treasury is
lo violate the constitution of thff United
States.
General Cass—who, it is to be suppos
ed, wisiies to conciliate the southern ul
tras, in view of the chances for 1852— mis
in such a position, amid the “noise and
confusion,” that “circumstances” placed
it out of his power to understand all this
business. He was in favor of rivers and
harbors, m a national point of view; but
really he thought the test proposed by the
Senator from Mississippi was crowding
hard upon the mourners.
Judge Douglas, who is also looking up
to.the White House, via the Baltimore
Convention, was of the opinion that there
was a great deal too much hair-splitting a
rnong our southern friends: but he was
willing to do any thing reasonable to please
tnem. f§
And what was the upshot of the whole
matter?,,., ‘
W by, bless you, ais a compromise, it j
was agreed to appoint a committee of three
to fix up such amendments in the bill as
j would send it back to the House, as the
i lect responsibility of defeating the bill;
j ar.d so, by us defeat, to make it up with the
Pne expect a biow-out upon this busi
| ness ih the Senate to-morrow.
Correspondence of the Courier.
Washington, March 5.
The session terminated in a manner
more fortunate and creditable for the Sen
ate and *ho country than was anticipated,
eight hours before its close. The parties
to ibe River aDd Harbor conflict continued
their unava ; linog strife till half past four o’
clock in the morning, each party oeingex
asperated, and unyielding. Prior to this
timej.Mr.Gwm made an appeal to the
Senate in favor of dropping the subject.—
He said, what every one bail long known
jjaiv— for, even if it passed the Senate, it
couki not go to the president for bis signa
ture, because, on the last day, it requires
unanimous consent, under the rules, to
send a bill to the President. It was evi
dent, as Mr. Gwin remarked, that the par
ties were contending merely for a point of
honor—each being committed to its course.
But even After that appeal, the Senate re
fused to lay aside the bill.
| n-.j ? c ‘til
j arms. They laid the bill on the table—
but to bo taken up at 8 o’clock—and when
eight o’clock arrived, they had recovered
from their infatuation and continued .o
prosecute the public business. The bills
from the House were dispatched in a great
hurry, and scarcely any examination and
no discussion. Among these were the
Civil and Diplomatic, the Army, Navy
and Post Office, and Li£ht House Appro
priation Bill. The Cheap Postage Bill
passed.
The Bill making Land Warrants assig
nable, passed by a large majority, but was
accompanied by an amendment embracing
additional classes of volunteers. The bill
was sent to the Houie for concurrence in
the amendment, and did not reach the
House in time to be acted upon. But both
Houses having manifested by large majo-
rities, their wishes on the subject, the
doubtful construction of the Bounty Land
Act by which the Secretary of the Inte
rior rendered the warrant unassignable,
will be abandoned.
The special session of the Senate, call
ed, for .Executive business, commenced at
12 o’clock. Several of the new Senators
elected appeared. Twenty-one Senators
commenced their teYin yesterday—but
many of them were re-elected.
It is understood that Mr. Schenck of O
hio, goes to Brazil ; Mr. Kerr, member
from Maryland, to Bogota ; and Mr. Duer,
of N. Y. to the profitable Consulate ofVal
paniiso. The members of Congress gen
erally get the lion’s share ot the Govern
ment patronage.
The. Appraisers at large are to be Mr.
Edgar ot N. Y.,Uharta* Bradley, Boston,
Mr. Riddle, Philadelphia, Mr. Kerr, Bui
timere.
The noted character known as “One
Ey’d Thompson” who committed suicide
in the New York prison on Sunday even
ing, left the following letter directed to the
Coroner. The deceased was 35 years of
age.
“There is nothing extraordinary in m
end. From my b&yish days, so far back
as my memory serves, 1 have had a dispo
sition to commit suicide. Surrounded by
a mystery above ray comprehension, and
one that no theory promulgated Dy others,
appeared to me to be a solution of, I have
desired death as either the means#>f a bet
ter com prehension or of a state eternal quir
ot. For a long time I have lived only for
others, those, that I could not but love, and
was bound to protect.
“Os my perfect ability to confound
the new charge to ir*y prejudice, I am
aware, but why should Ido so. The his
tory of the past is an index to the future,
and the hope of being of further service to
my family has departed. So long as a
man be useful to those he is bound to pro
tect. the act of suicide is selfish, criminal
and cowardly—but l cannot conceive it
either when his continued existance is like
ly to be continued with no good effect; for
reasons and from causes not necessary for
me to explain, but apart from any danger
that may now be supposed to threaten my
liberty, for none such exist.
“1 feel that it is my duty to die. My
death may serve those I am physically
and merit ily incapable offurther benefiting.
All men live only in the future and those
most gifted and wise, would not like to live
I their past life over, so little is life worth.
So far as my ability allowed I have been
all that a man could be to his children.
Their reputation with that of my wife is
unstaine'd and to the charitable and good,
I commend them.
“The unthinking and malignant will
persecute them on my account. The cow
ardly and base will endeavour to make
capital by publications to my injury.
“For money they will outrage the feel
ings of an inoffensive virtuous woman,and
hei helpless children. Who knows what
the morrow may bring forth, or what father
can foretell-the fine of his children. The
interposition of the kind and virtuous I
again implore. Let not ny imputed sins
be visited too heavily upon my children.
Let my sufferings atone for all they should
be sufficient—l beg the forgiveness, and
’ die forgiving all, without malice, or for any
other justifiable views. I solemny declare
that the Drurya are guilty of all with which
they had been charged.
“This 1 assert from positive knowledge.
The theory that Warner had any knowl
edge of Utf torpedo previous to its explo
sion, is Wte. Gales mistaking!}’ swears
to my'being in Nevv-York at the time he
speaks, at 7 o’clk. On the evening in
question, I left my house, as several will
testify, at half past seven I was in the drug
store of Mr Rice, and from there 1 return
ed home and went out with my wife.
“The disposition made of my body,, to
me can be of- no consequence, yet so far
as lean, I desire lo spare the feelings of
those wholoved me while living oh their
account to prevent mutilation that would
increase their suffering. I s’ale that my
death was caused by 32 grains of the Ace
tate of Morphine. I procured it without
the conmvfmce of any.”
W H. THOMPSON.
The Atlanta axd West Point Road.
We understand that the work upon the a
bove road is progressing rapidly. On
Saturday last, the cars commenced running
regularly from Atlanta to Palmetto, a dis
ta nee of twenty-five miles. Between Pal
metto and Newnan the work is in such
a state of forwardnes, as to justify the be
lief that the cars will reach Newnan in the
early part of 1 the summer. The great
mail has already been transferred to thi*
route, over which it will probably be car
ried, at least until the completion of the
Grirard aod Mobile Road. By the way, it
is but justice.to Mr. Grant, the B jeer
and to the stockholders ol this roadtoscy.
that it is one of the very best structures of
the kind in the State, The embankment
is ample, the superstructure substantial,
ar.d the iron very feayy and well laid.—
This is the judgment passed upon the road
by an engineer of decided ability, who re
cently examine<La large portion of the line.
—[ Macon Messenger.
Filibusterian Jubilations.—Yester
day, salvos of artillery were fired Ly the
friend/ of Cuban liberty in this city, tp cel
ties to procure convictions ■to lh? Up|te4
sympathised with the oppressed people of
in the effort to achieve tfo-.r ii3epetulence.
Thirty-one guns were fired in Lafftyette
Square for the several States of the Union,
and one additional for Cuba. At the time
the salute was being’fired, the splendid
band of the United States Artillery played
on the square a number of beautiful natioji
* * ‘.* ‘, i
Hutchings’ Panorama of the Seas
and Shores of the Mediterranean has been
very liberally patronized by our citizens.
It will be exhibited only two more eve
nings, this evening and to-morrow evening.
Those who have not seen it, will find it an
agreeable and instructive exhibition,
THE ENQUIRER AND THE MOB.
Nothing is easier than to conduct an ar
gument and arrive at plausible and con
vincing conclusions, where the party mak
ing it, is left free to choose and create his
own premises. Archimedes declared he
could move the world by the power of the
level', it he could only find a fulcrum. So
the Enquirer can convince the world and
“the rest of mankind” that the President
is not only right, but may do some good
by darting his proclamation straws against
the fury of a fanatical storm, and ordering
the Army and Navy in readiness at Bos.
ton to put it down ; provided you grant
him the very important premise that a
Boston mob ofblacks and whites embra
ces the whole scope of the evil. This we
denied in our last article ; and put the En
quirer on the proof. The Enquirer does
not find it convenient to meet the issue,
because it knows it cannot. It prefers to
thread on the old string of its false prem
ises, the self-same sophisms which we jse
plied to it for tho purpose of combatting.
We repeat;then, that the Enquirer has not
stated the question fairly, nor has it pre
tended to cimbat-our assertion to that ef
fect. We say that it is not a Boston mob
that the power of the Government is called
on to crush— ifthat were all, itwould need
no such interposition—a braes of consta
bles and a posse coinitatus would be all
sufficient. And in this connection ihere
is nu similitude between this case and the
Whiskey rebellion which Gen Washing
ton put down by force—that was a rebel
lious faction, and not the whole people as
well as the State Government of Pennsyl.
vania.—Gen Washington never raised the
strong arm of the Federal Government in a
menacing attitude against a Sovereign State-
In this case it is Massachusetts, and not
a Boston mob, that defies and resists the
Fugitive Law. The mob was doing no
more than actively carrying out the prin
ciples and spirit of unrepealed Massachu
setts legislation on this very subject, and
when the Federal arm was raised against
that mob, it struck at the Sovereignty of
Massachusetts, and would inevitably have
involved the State in the conflict, unless
she backed square out of her own resolves
and refused to defend her own legislation.
Massachusetts has signified her purposes
in the most deliberate and solemn manner
not to permit a law of ihe Union, which is
offensive to her prejudices, to be executed
within her limits. This is a fact— this is a
fact that the Enquirer choosbs, neither to
admit nor to deny. And with this impor
tant fact unanswered and unremoved,
we are told by our neighbor that he is “at
a loss sometimes to know what the Times
would have the President do in the case of
the negro mob in Boston, where the laws
of the United States were openly put. at
defiance,” See.
We would “hav? the President do” just
as he pleases. But we say whatever he
may do in the premises, will be barren of
results lor good. His proclamations are
empty wind; his army and ravy when
used, will be but the gloomiest proofs that
the AmencanJUnion has failed, and wheth
er he writes or fights, he cannot enforce the
Fugitive law in Boston. What we coin
plain of is, the disingenuousness that ob
stinately refuses to see and admit the
great facts that stand out in bold relief on
the face of all these proceedings ; and that
is, that a’Sovereign State has openly nul
lified a vital article of her compact with
her sister States ; that she has nullified the
constitution, set it at defiance and driven
the Federal Government to the alternative
of admitting th at the Union is virtually and
morally dissolved by her contumacy ; or,
what is worse, of resorting to force to re
duce her to obedience. Yet, all this time,
the hypocritical and false cry goes up
from the compromise press, that peace
smiles over the land, and the peace mea
sures have healed all the bleeding wounds
of the country. While we see one State
at least, standing in open and successful
defiance of the only one of these measures
of the least benefit to the South.
We repeat again, if it wer e only a mob,
the President might, without a breath from
us, sweep it away at the mouth of the fly
ing artillery, at his command. But as it
is Massachusetts— Sovereign Massachu
setts, we deny to the President the right
and the power to flash the Federal bayo
nets in her face. We can never admit this
power. We shall resist it with all our
might. We shall never consent to open
that Pandora's box, when we know that
the evils to spring from it, will cluster in
deadly volume around our own southern
hearthstones. Grant*that power to the Pre-
sident, and as sure as God is great, in ten
years, abolition will use it, to enfotce its
dogmas upon refractory southern States.
So dangerous do we deem the principle,
that if we had to draw the clvord between
the Federal Government and Massachu-
I setts in such a contest, our duty to the
south, to right, and to a sense of true con
stitutional interpretation would oblige us
to draw it on the side of Massachusetts; for
in defending the of Massa
chusetts, we should be throwing a shield
over the Sovereignty of Georgia and the
south. The “ Enquirer” is dealing delu
[ s.vely, if not disingenuously with this sub
| ject. Its object is to convince the people
jof two things that are not true—of (to use
Ia solecism) two false facts— the first is, that
j p csiix cufo 00 tho “j*
j ***£ truth, and jt is altogether alien to the
it and will not, from the “Constitutional
Union Party.” Its cue is mystification,
because its basis is a bed of sand. Massa
chusetts and the Fugitive clause are gaunt
spectres that stand up evermore to rebuke
their dissimulation .& falsify their declara
tions, and mingle discordant notes in the
syren seng of peace and union which they
are pouring in the southern ear.
03“ The Hon. Howell Cobb has reached
Macon, where a public dinner is to be given
him on Saturday by his “ Constitutional
Union” friends. We should not be sur
prised if a Presidential ticket were arrang
ed over the wine that is to fipw on the oc
casion. Fillmore and Cobb! How will
that do, Georgians? We suspect it was the
odor of this coalition that alarmed the
olfactories of Judge Wellborn. By the
way, the Macon Messenger is very severe
on the Judge for not “joining.” We shall
publish the article. These “family jars”
are not comely. j
Thf. Ca T an Trials, in N. Orleans have
ended in smoke. A Nolle Prosequi has
been entered in all the cases. In Gen
Henderson’s case 11 ofthe Jury were for
acquittal and one for conviction. Gen
Quitman has been forced out of the Chie
Magistracy of Mississippi, on a charge so
frivolous that not even a probable case I
could be made out against him. Thai
Government had not proof enough to go
into a trial. These facts are worthy of
being remembered.
03” The Rev. John E. Dawson will
vpreach a sermon at the Baptist church on
next Sabbath morning addressed to Pa-
Jenny Lind. —The proceeds ofthe Night
ingales’ thirteen concerts in New Orleans
amounted to $170,000.
03” W. N. Tiffany, an opulent merchant
of Baltimore, died on the Tth inst., of ‘dis
ease ofthe heart.
03” Cotton has advanced in the United
| States markets.
The Hon John M Clayton, of Dela
ware, has lost his only son, James F Clay
ton, aged 26 years.
£3“ The Maryland convention have
adopted a provision disqualifying persons
engaged in a duel from holding office.
Nominations before the Senate. —lt is
stated that Mr Duer, of N York, has been
nominated by the President as Consul to
Valparaiso, and Mr Owen, of Georgia as
Consul to Havana. There are also four
private Land Commissioners (salary S6OOO
per annum) nominated for California.—
Their names are S. R. Ingersoll, ot Pa., J
Harlan, of Ky., and A F Hopkins, of Ala
bama. The Hon George Evans, of Maine,
has been nominated as Charge de Affairs
to Nicaragua.
Blockade by the English of all the
Pacific Ports of San Salvador and Hon
duras. —Advices from Central America,
down to the 10th of January, put us in pos
session of the fact that the port of Tiger, in
Honduras, as well as all the ports in the
Pacific belonging to San Salvador and
Honduras, have been put under blockade
by the British. Nicaragua, also, was threat
ened, and is probably, at this moment
subjected to a similar wrong and outrage.
GFA new steamship to be called the
Winfield Scott, to be commanded by Capt
Win. Slciddy, is now receiving her engines
in N. Y„ and will, with the Union, com
mence the ne-v line of steamers between
N. Y, and New Orleans.
Mr. T. Butler. King’s nominatio n
to the California collectorship has been
confirmed by the Senate.
INTERESTING STATE DOCUMENT.
THE ONSLAUGHT OF GEN. SAM HOUSTON ON
SOUTH CAROLINA.
THE KEPJLY OF GEN JAS HAMILTON.
Boston, Feb 22, 1851.
To the Hon Sam Houston, of the
Senate of the United States —
Sir —l have just seen in the New York
Heraldoi the 11th inst.,an article in which
you have honored me and the State of my
birth and allegiance, with a notice certain
ly somewhat distinguished, proceeding, as
it does, from a gentleman who occupies the
position you do before the country.
I can take no exception to the inoffen*
sive reference which you make to myself;
I have as little desire as you express, to
enter into any personal contioversy with
you. Whatever may have been our for
mer relations, they are now respectful and
kind. By a tacit, and, I hope, mutual
consent, we have buried the hatchet, which
is sanctified in its interment by those chari
ties which belong to the best feelings of the
human heart. Therefore, if you had confin
ed your animadversions either to the mis
chief or inutility of my invocation to'the
State of Virginia, (in my recent letter to
MrCheevesj to interpose her counsels and
mediation in this crisis in the affairs of the
South, so lull of peril and anxiety, I should
ha-re been silent, and have allowed the
letter which you addiessed to your rela
tive, to have passed for exactly as much
as it was worth, without any attempt on
my part to depreciate its value. But you
have thought proper to assail the people of
South Carolina, whom it is far more easy
to abuse than to convict of dishonor, or of
a want of an euliglrtengd and courageous
loyalty to the constitution of their country.
In reply to your censorial strictures, I
will do better than affirm. I will prove
that South Carolina has done as much to
wards the formation, stability, and renown
of this Union, as any one of the States in
the whole confederacy. This, perhaps,
is scarcely according to her the measure
of justice to which she is entitled. You
may regard these words as net lightly said,
l will establish them before we finish this
discussion. I desire to indulge in no unrj
meaning generalities. You will peijait j
me now, in a summary as compendious as j
I can make it, to give you a brief recital of 1
what South Carol,na was-of what she is:
and, recurring to that phiiagophy whicn |
teaches )>y experience, what she will be, j
h*,? 0 “fforf Ir'i’urauceTfof I
J.•, ‘ • j
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; yyr preiiim&ary per* *
uavaiitrs oi J-mgianu. i ney nave, irom
that day to this, never lost one feature of
in the beauty and heroism of his charac
ter, our gallant Marion was but the coun
terpart ol that glorious Huguenot chief,
Plessis de Monmi, whom Ihe setting stars
found upon his horse, and the rising sup
saluted on the bailie field.’ Jf ‘he English
portion of the enrly colonists pf South Car
olina retained the chivalry of the stpek
from which they sprung, thgy exchanged
the politics of their fathers under the
teachings of MiHoh, Hainpden v and Sid
ney. The greatest and most gifted of her
sons the American revolution found fash
ioned in the best schools of England to the
performance of the hieh duties which that
eventful crisis had imposed on the country.
To the first Congress which assembled at
Annapolis, after the passage ol the sla trip
Act, no Colony sent a higher contingent 01,
public virtue and talent than South Caro
lina. Although she had been dandled it*
the arms of the mother country, os the
most favored and petted of all the
she was among, the first to strike heroical
ly for liberty and independence.
When the old colony oi Massachusetts;
Bay and Sagedahock meditated revolu
tion, where did- she send her youthful,
her chivalrous, and her gifted missionary,
Josiah Quincy, a stripling oi 22 ? To South
Carolina. Yes, old Massachusetts sent hei;
favored son to South’ Carolina, to know if
she would back her in stern and resolved
resistance to British tyranny. If is, pci
haps, a remarkable fact that on Ajlr GLuui
cy’s arrival in Charleston, where he was
received with open arms, the most influeu
tjal men in the then colony met him at the
house of Miles Bruton, who was the large i
merchant in South Carolina, engaged in
the African slave trade, than whom a more
sterling patriot the American Revolution
never produced. Here, in the hospitable
abode of this gentleman, wSs held the first
federative conclave of rebellion. Here,
South Carolina, tyithout one interest of her
own touched by the mother counjtry, one
oppression to complain of, tiiiough het;
chiefs threw down the gage of battle, and,
told young Quincy to go back and tell Jno.
Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams,
and the whole retinue of the patriots of
Massachusetts, that South Caioln sy would
stand by her in the peril and the. i
lion of the corning storm. Let pause
for an instant, to ask what has baqtjWte-gfi
the descendants of these men ? They
surely cannot be among those who seek
now to fire the temple of concord in this
once happy Union.
This, Gen Houston, is the first item to.
the credit of South Carolina in the history
of this confederacy.
Let us now proceed. Where did she
stand in the wnrof the revolution ? What
were her battles, her sacrifices, and ; her
sufferings 1
The first vittoiy of thqt Revolution was
announced from her own cannon-—for Ban
ker’s Hill, although a glorious struggle,
was no victory.
On the 28ih of June. 1776, our gallant,
Moultrie repulsed one of the best appoint
ed British fleets that ever visited, ourcoasts.
After this event South Carolina resisted
the whole blandishments of Rnifish diplo
macy in the endeavour to win her from her
alliance with the other colonies. The only
reply she made to the solicitations were
made at Camden, the Gowpens, Lutaw,
and the Hanging Rock.
This is the second item, Gen Houston,
to her credit, in the history of this confed
eracy. She fought for independence an,4
for union.
After the termination of this war, so, the.
success of which sho so powerfully you*,
t buted, what next was her conduct * She.
went into the convention which formed the
constitution of these United Stales, more
thoroughly devoted the formation ol u
national constitution than any one of the
Siates. There were no stars in the firma
ment of that great assembly which shone
with greater Brightness than those ah,e
sent, ft is a fact beyond ail dispute ifiPt
her de'egation most zealously sustained
every provision in the constitution calcu
lated to strengthen the national govern
ment,
This, Gen Houston, is the third'item tq
the credit of South Carolina, in the liisto
ry of this confederacy.
Although her public men were intimate
ly associated with the “father of our coun
try” in the war r:f the and
shared his confidence, nqd esteeip to an
unbounded extent, yet, when the dangers.,
the great body ts her people deserted their
ancient leaders. <snd declared their adhy
sion to the principles which Virginia hqcf
announced in her celebrated manifesto, of
1798, and which was signalized by the
victories which Thoptias Jefferson and
James Madison won in the civil history of
our countjy, Be it rcmeaibored- too, that
when she voted for Thotiias|s|eflerßon, she
could have made ope of tllplps&st beloved
and gifted of hersons,. President of these
United States, by her own vote, if she had
consented for one moment to fiavq com
promised her principles.
This, General Houston, is the 4th
item iri the history of this confederacy, to,
the credit of South Carolina,
From tlrs period to the war pf 1812 her
nationality and loyalty to the Union wen
as conspicuous as the ability and genius of
sustaining it. Although we had scarcely
a seaman to be impressed, or a ship to be
molested on the ocean by Great Britain,
we-went in for the national honor of the
counfry, with unpremeditated gallantry,
which was staked on that war. jNo ac
cursed blue iight made ‘•night hideous”
on our coast—-our treasury w^spoured in
to the exhausted treasury of the Union
and our sons bledon ihe sea, and on al
most every battle field on the land.
This is the sth item, General Houston,
in the history of this confederacy, to the
After the lamination of this wav, her
loyal attachment to'thp Uf)iou continued
without abatement. Great as was her in
tiy a .jysMjia ot ii.ot npot,
odious as it was tyrapmcai.
flttrictjtm rvf lice a* r 1
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