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the weekly times. JOHN FORSYTH EDITOR J. FORSYTH, R. ELLIS & CO., PROPRIETORS. Th* WEEKLY TIMES in published every Tutsx 4,iy Morning, a $2,50 per annum in advance, >or Thrf.e Ohll v * at the end of the year. THE TRT-WEEKLY TIMES, Published everv WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY Mornings, and SATURDAY Evenings, Office on he Wet aide of Broad Street, nearly opposite Winter,’ Exchange. BRMg> Five Dollars per annum in advance, or Six Dollars after six months. No paper will be discontinued while any arrearages are due, unless at the option of the proprietors. , VovERTistMENTs conspicuously inserted at One Dollar per square lor the first insertion, and Fir tv Cents for every subsequent continuance. toy Obituary Notices exceeding one square (or eleven lines) will be charged as advertisements. the times job printing office Cvery description of Job Work, either Plain, in Colors or Bronze, elegantly and promptly execu -Bd, Such as Hooks, Pamphlets, nuslness Cards, Visiting Cards, Blit Heads, Notes, Receipts, Bills of hading, Bank Checks, Circulars, Postesx, Hand Bills, Ball Tickets, Dray Receipts, kc The office having been lately furnished with a l.rge stock of NEW TYPE, comprising some of tlis most elegant designs, we are prepared to exe cute all kinds o< Job Work in a style not to be ex celled. We particularly invite the attention of our mer |,anti and others who have heretofore ordered heir work Irom the north, to our specimens. c,,.r prices are fixed at the lowest possible rates. Orders from our country friends will be promptly attended to. yy Blank Legal for ms of every description, kept on hand and for sale. GEORGIA MILITARY INSTITUTE, MARIETTA, GA. Tlllrt Institution will be open for the admission of CAe DETS, on Muxday the 7tii or Jrl.v, 1851. The Institution is ownod by stockholders, and is under the control of n Hoard of Trustees. The Faculty elected consists of Mat. A. V. Brumby, Geu- James W. Armstrong, Maj. D. H. Hill and Thomua Steward, son, M. D. The Superintendent, Maj. Brumby, is a graduate of West Point. He coinesto us with the best recommendatious from the Academic Staff of that Institution; and, also, from the Faculty of the University of Alabama, where he taught Ma thematics and Civil Engineering several years. Gen. Ann strong and Maj. Hill are also graduates of West Point, and Hre experienced teachers. The latter is at this time Profes sor of Mathematics ill Washington College, Va. The course of instruction, regulations and discipline of the U. a. MiliUiry Academy, so far as they are applicable to a Hlatc Institution, have been adopted, and w ill be published In pamphlet form. Tlie Institution is organized U|on the usual plun of foui Collegiate Classes. By reference to the following SYNOP SIS OF STUDIES, Parents and Guardians can, at once, see what are the requirements for joining either class. FOURTH CLASS. Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, English Grammar, Geog raphy, Composition and Declamation. French. Titian class. Trigonometry, Mensuration, Surveying, Descriptive Geom etry and its applications. Analytical Geometry, French, Draw ing, Composition, Rhetoric, History. SECOND CLASS. Differential and Integral Calculus, Natural and Experimen tal Philosophy, Astronomy, Chemistry, Drawing, Evidences IChrislianily, Moral and Mental Philosophy. FIRST CLASS. Natural History, Mineralogy, Geology and Physiology, I'o- Economy, I .aw of Nations, Civil mid Military Engi neering, ami Civil Architecture, Infantry Tactics, Science and Practice of Artillery. No Cadet will bo admitted who is less than fourteen or more than twenty-live years of age; or who is alllictcd with any disease or infirmity which would render him unfit for military duty. The Cadets will be occupied about one hour and a half euchflay in military exercises; but at such times as not to interfere Kith thir regular studies. ixisnui, KUO mil eu-f-metue ............ UNIFORM, FURNITURE, AC. The Uniform conaistsol a light gray cloth coatee, trim lu “ u with gilt convox buttous and black cord—whilo vest,and white Russian drilling pantaloons, without trimmings—to summer. For winter, gray cloth vest and pantaloons,trimm ..l to suit the coat—black'slock, white gloves aud white belt —Monroe shoes and a Forage cap. No other dress Kill be Kern ; aor vill Cadets be allotcrd to keep other clothig in their rooms. Each Cadet from a distance must provide him wlf with a mattress and bedding for a single bed, mattres cover and bed-strap—one trunk, one clothes bag and six towels. Each Cadet will unite witli his room-mates in pur chasing, for their common use, one pine table, one looking glass, one wash pan, one pail and one broom. In view of the following regulations, parents and guardian* sending their sons and wards to this institution, are advised to deposit with the Superintendent, or with some friend in Marietta, a sum of money sufficient to purchase the above articles, and to cover all necessary expenses for one Session; or the Superintendent should be authorized, in writing , to allow the Cadet to make an accouut for a specified sum. The regulation referred to is as follows, viz: Every Cadet shall keep a small blank book, in which shall be charged every article lie mav purchase. This book shall be turned over to the Superintendent for his inspection at the end of every month. Any Cadet who shall eontracl a debt without per mission of the Superintendent, or be furnished with any ar llcje whatever, by nnv storekeeper or other person, without such permission, or whose parent or guardian shall pay otv debt contracted bv him during his connection with the In stitute, and in violation of this regulation, shall be dismissed. TERMS. Tuition, Board, Washing. Fuel, Lights, Field Music, and oil oilier contingent expenses, [per Session of five months,] SIOO 00 Tuition alone, [for rtfeident Cadets,] per Session, 25 00 Field Music and other contingents, ... 200 Anv Cadet entering the institute after the commencement of s session, will be charged in proportion to the above rates. These charges must be paid in advance for all expenses ex cept the fee for tuition. Every Cadet leaving the Institute • before the expiration of the period for which he has made an advance, shall receive the unexpended balance. trgrTlie Editor'of anv newspaper in Georgia, South Cnr - olina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi or Tennessee, by insert ing this advertisement in his paper, and sending a copy reg ularly to the “Georgia Military Institute,” shall be entitled to tuition for one Cadet, or his draft at the rate of twenty-live dollars per session, payable in tuition, and in favor ol any “Cadet, will be accepted. DAVID IRWIN, jtme 5, 1851.—jv 18] I’roVt Board Trustees. WATCHES. A FEW fine Watches, just received and J S for sale by mavHtw C. REPS & CO FOR RENT, M THE double two story BRICK DWELLING on Ogiethorpe street, nearly opposite tiie Oglethorpe Hotel, now occupied by Mr. Win. Perry, as a Board ing House. Possession given first of i ictolier next.. Apply to H. H. EPPING, julylittwtf Bank of Brunswick. LACES AND EMBROIDERIES. Af A I.INK and Louis Napoleon Laces, Capes, Paris work .>1 inl Collars and Cutfe, Lace Under Sleeves, Jaconet and Pw iss Kaffirs, Thread and Valenciennes Laces—just received , ? febß-wfctwtT BROKAW. CLEMONS le CO T. J. COLQUITT, attorney at law, Huerta Vista tia., ‘ll'ILI. practice in the Court* of urion and Stewart, in the Chattahoochee Circuit—an Macon, l.eeand Sump er, iif the Southwestern Circuit. RErsRKNi e—Hon. W. T. Colqci’ , Columbus, Ga. |nly 15—ts MERIWETHER WARM SPRINGS ‘I'MIIS establishment will be ready for the reception ol the 1 public, on and after the first day ot June next. Meriwether Spring* are situated on the north side of tne Pine Mountain, about IHtH) feet above the level of the sea ft fountain gushing forth 1400 gallons of water per minute, of9o degree* tomporature, supplying six pools, or baths, 10 feet square, cacli, three of which are kept exclusively tor ladies snd three for gentlemen, and a separate bath is kept for servants. . . The proprietor deems it unnecessary to say more m roia- I tton to the medicinal properties of these Springs, as they are *rtl known to hundreds of invalids who have been beneut u*d bv the use of this w ater in the cure of Rheumatism. Rout’ Dyspepsia, bronchitis, Jaundice, lU*irrha\ Dysentary, I all dim-runes of the skin and kidneys—in fact, most all diseas- I ** to whiah the human family is subject, for the proof ot I which he has scores of certificates of individuals as well as I of some of the most eminent Physician* of the Ptate. in ad- I diiion to the Warm springs, there is fine Chalybeate and I Sulphur Water on the premises. Visitors will at all times find a ready conveyance at t.rcen- I ill*, or at Pleasant Hill, to take them to the Springs, at I uimierate charges. There will be a regular communication I by poAt coaches, between Columbus and the Springs, dur- I ‘nc the season. Those who may prefer travelling by pn- I ? atc conveyance, can at all times get tine accommodations I ritherofthe liverv stables in the city of Columbus, at I ro.Mmte charge*. There will also ho hacks and other con- I T *yancos kept at the Springs so the accommodation ot the The subscriber takes this occasion to return his thanks to I ihr numerous patrons of the Warm Spring*, and to assure mem that he will exert himself to please—that he has made I ample arrangements for more accommodat ions aud hope I 10 wceive and merit their patronage. J. 1* Mt I hinrltV-w&twtf. Proprietor. CHALYBEATE SPRINGS, Mirrlwether County, „ U'ftO rr.KT tmivi thi i.ievki. or thk sea. I llr. unit, he"s leave lo int'onn hie friend* and Ih , J'ahlic, lliat he ha become the Proprietor ofthiseelebra “Ivrmn Place, ami will be preqared to receive visitors •on the -illth ~f May. v It is needles* to speak of the “Chalybeate” a? a summer resort. The salubrity of it* climate, aiid the powerful medi rm.il virtues of it* w aters, have been enjoved and tested bv *nilS* •’ Proprietor has only to add, that in additiod these lirst requisites of a summer residence, he has spare. . el ™’ !s to add all the eomforts and luxuries of a qood Hoi 1 best cooks, servants and fare that the country wil : :l fine band of music, and all the amusements usually ni t at such places, have l>een provided, ii* terms will he moderate.—All he asks is a trial, ruscntjcrs on the stage route from Itarnesville to Colum can reach the Sprint's by taking hack at Pleasant Hill, are situated six miles from the stage road. The dis tance front Greenville is about 12 miles. -"PnTO-w&.iwtf JAMKS WOOTEN. INSURANCE AGENCY. PROTECTION insurance company, OF HARTFORD, CONN.: FIRI AND MaUISB —fit ARTE RED IN 1825 Capital— paid in—B3oo,ooo. S 'CAROUS4 MUTUAL LIFE IN’S.CO, RALEIGH, N. C. Slaves may he Insured at low rates, for two-lhirds their Kentucky mutual life iws. co., COVINGTON, Ky. Guaranteed Fund, SIOO,OOO. . JOHN MINN, Agen t ‘olqtnbus, Ga., Tib Jnlv , 185 L, [tw 6m iHlje §Ho In tit li u s (Hitties® VOLUME XI. | ROCK ISLAND FACTORY, IS now manufacturing Writing Paper of ail the va rious kinds,—suclt as Letter, Fools-cap, Hat-cap,Folio and Commercial Post, (ruled and unruled,) Mediums, Demys, &c. Also, News-print, Book and Colored Pa per, Post-office and News Envelopes and Wrapping Pa per of all sizes; ail of which will be sold on as favor able terms as can be purchased in any market. Orders for any of the above kinds of Paper, addressed to D. ADAM?, (Treasurer; or the undersigned, will meet with prompt attention. G. B. CURTIS, Sec’y. FIRE PROOF COTTON WAREHOUSE COLUMBUS , GA. RUSE, PATTEN A BRICE. \XTE renew the tender of our services to our friends T V and the Planters and Merchants generally, for the Storage and sate of their Cotton during the ensuing season, and trust that our previous efforts to give satis faction, will ensure to us a continuance of their patrol age. Our ur divided attention will he given to this business in all its departments, pledging our best endeavors to promote the interest of those who may entrust their Cotton to us. We will with pleasure, furnish our customer* with B AGOING and ROTF., at the market price, and will procure for them any other articles they may require, on the Lowkst Terms at which they can he bought itere. We nr also prepared to advance lilierally to Planters on their Cotton stored with us. or on consignments to our correspondents at the North or iu Europe. RUSK, PATTEN & BRICE. Columbus, August 16, 1851. w&twtf FOUR month* after date application A will be made to the Inferior Court of Early county when sitting for Ordinary Purposes, for leave to sell the Real Estate of Tito’s, j. Ward, deceased. July 30, !HsL—w4m JOSI.IH VINSON, Adm'r PLANTATION FOR SALE. I OFFER for stile my Plantation situated in Talbot county, about six miles north of Waverly Hall, adjoin ing Harris, consisting of three hundred acres seventy live of which are open and in a state of cultivation with welliinproved Lot, Out-houses &.C., complete. For terms Ac., apply on the premises to -IF.BBE MOORE, jidylz—w2t-p’d FREEMAN, HODGES & CO., 5 8 Liberty Street, Between Broadway and Nassau Streets, near the Post- Office NEIV- YOB K. TATE are receiving, by daily arrivals from Europe, VY our Fall and Winter assortment of RICH F.ISH IONABLE FANCY SILK AND MILLINERY GOODS. We respectfully invite all Cash Purchasers thoroughly to examine our Stock and Prices, and as interest hov ers*, we feel confident our Goods and Price* will in duce them to select from our establishment. Particular attention is devoted to MILJ.INER Y GOODS , and many of tlie articles are manufactured expressly to our order, and cannot he surpassed in beauty, style and cheapness. Beautiful Paris Ribbons, for Hat. Cap. Neck, and Belt; Satin and Taffeta Ribbons, of all widths and colors; Silks. Satins, Velvets, and Uncut Velvets, for Hats; Feath ers, American and French Artificial Flowers; Puftiings, and Cap Trimmings; Dress Trimmings, large assortment; Embroideries, Dane Collars, Undersleeves and Cuffs; Fine Embroidered Reviere and Hemstitch Cambric Hand kerchiefs: Crapes, I.isses, Tarietons, Illusion and Cap La ces ; Valcneiones. Brussels, Thread, Silk, and Lisle Thread Laces; Kid, Silk, Sewing Silk, Lisle Thread, Meri no Gloves and Mitts; Figured and Plain Swiss, Book, Bishop Lawn and JaconetMttslins; English, French, American and Italian Straw Goods. July 22.—w3t WATCHES. -ca G. &H. ZUCKER, Lumpkin, Ga. keeps con- VPyy, stuntlv on hand for sale, a largo assortment of (C-/ At superior gold and silver Watches; together with G&i-atS a splendid lot of Jewelry of every description, which they offer a; very low prices, and warrant to be as represented. JuueCOtf. Fresh Arrival of Books, &c. HURRY-GRAPHS, Willis.—Frenclt Revolution, Car lye—Artists of America —Rejected Addresses, Hor ace and James Smith. Life and Works of Goldsmith—-Pryor. Ship and Shore—Colton. Mellvilies— Series. Barnes’ Notes. Hyperion—Spanish Student —Longfellow. Divine Government —M'Cosb. Do. Abbott’scoiuplete series, the Epicurean—Moore. Vhe Censers —Dc Quincey. j .eather Stocking—series—Cooper. Noble Deeds of American Women. Living Authors of England. The Lorgnette. Reveries of a Bachelor—lk Marvel. Linda—Rena—bv Mrs. Hentz. t3T Also, Drawing Paper anil Pencils, Letter Paper, Commercial and Mourning—Transparent Mottoes, Visit ing and Printing Cards, &c. Ac., for sale at augfitwtf A. C. FLEWELLEN A CO’S Book Stor ~~ THIRD ANNUAL. PAIR OP TIIE SOUTH CAROLINA INSTITUTE. fl'MlK Third Annual Fair of the South Carolina Insti L tute, for the promotion of Art, Mechanical Ingenui ty and Industry, will be held in Charleston, S. C., open ing on Monday, 17tu November, and continuing during the week. Specimens in every branch of Mechanism, Art and In dustry ; also of Cotton, Rice, Sugar, Tobacco, and all other Agricultural Products, are solicited, for which suitable premiums w ill be awarded. The following special Premiums are offered: for the six best specimens of Steel made from Spar tanburg or other Iron, the product ofa Southern State, and manufactured into Edged Tools ot any kind -A Gold Medal. N.B.—A Specimenofthe Steelin Bars to be sent with tlie Tools. For tile largest quantity of Cocoons raised on one plan tation, not less titan Ten Bushels—A Gold Medal or SSO. For the largest quantity of Spun Silk, the produce of any one plantation, not less than Ten Pounds—A Gold Medal or Premium of SSO. For the best Sea Island Cotton Gin, on some new principle, superior to that now in general use; or for any real nnd important improvement oil the present one—A Gold Medal. For the Invention of a suitable machine for Pulver isingßed Pepper—A Gold Medal. For the best Steam Engine—A Gold Medal. For the best model Steam Fire Engine—A Gold Medal. A large and commodious building has been selected for the Exhibition, and every care will he paid to the reception and car*’ of Articles sent to the Fair. All Specimens must be iu bv the 13th November. Contributors to tlie Fair are respectfully requested, w hen they forward Specimens for Exhibition, to send full descriptions ofthe Articles, and such information in general as mav be of use, and proper for publication. Ad dross .1. H. TAYLOR, Clt’n. of june2Btf Com. on Correspondence. GIGANTIC SCHEME. TO lie published September 12, uo 1 of the ties! and cheapest family Illustrated papers in the world, to bo continued weekly at one dollar per year. All tlio events of tlie day, view s, sketches, scenes, designs, inven tions Ac, u ill be beautifully delineated in the best style of wood engraving, and monthly the largest picture will Kn “PRINTED IN COLORS” nn orn in tlie history of the press hitherto unattempteci. fcVnd on vonr subscription* :it once to the publishers or the “People’s Pictorial,” DREW & ROBINSON, 149 Fulton St.New York. nug22twlt VESTINGS. T>T. \CK and fanev tie tired Silks and Satins: white 1) and fanev party Silks and Satins : embroideml Cas simere Cashmere and Marseilles: plain an.l figured white and buff Marseilles: fancy and tiguivd and plaid Mar seilles; plain and fancy Linen : mid a variety that can not fail to please the tastes of all gentlemen—ready made “JgST" 1 ” >U U>C * DANIELS. , OTTON AND WOOLLEN FACTORY THE Coweta Fall* Manufacturing Company at Colum bus, Ga” is regularly engaged in the tnantitacture of Osuaburgs ,hall pound to the yard : X OsrmbHrg*: Yarns from 2: Cotton Lapping and llattmg, lor Quit.* n I MaUrasses: heavv . eofd.) Kinseys of Georgia and Alabama Woo!; %<\6. ; Wool Rolls: Dot.hle and single Cotton Mat trasses; They also manufacture Customers Wool into Mils and finsevs. They are ulacture Cotton Stri|ies of various patterns, and a good ari iele of Woollen Jeans, suitable torgentlemen s clothing The goods made within the last 60’ days. are far s i norior to anv ever turned out by his Mill—and it is the {lesignof the Proprietors to keep them up to the present M than a hale (600 yards') including all at any one purchase, cannot be sold at the Factory. 58,000 Pound* Wool Wonted, tor Cash, at market prices, or in exchange for Goods. All orders will bo promptlv attended to B ‘® Address, “COWETA FALLS t ACTOR I. Coin..thus, f-a. dry goods in CHARLESTON, s. c. direct importations. C Tr ?Mi'S Dress Goods and Domestic Fabrics, in every T! Of A>irre cloths. Blanket and Plantation Dry Goods. Will be found free from any m guaranteed to prove as represented. Tsr'ms Cash or ERR,BON A CO. 909 Northwest comer King & MariteUstreets. Charleston, Sept 1. ’sl. BRING IN YOUR WHEAT!! * aug22twif bran and shorts. TF voq want to ve “ 1 tSSJ#* re wStm bTakack mills. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING SEPT. 10, 1851 A PARALLEL. Look here, upon this picture, and on this; Tlie countesteit presentment of two brothers, See, what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion’s curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like A/ars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald .Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indued. Where every god did seem to set his seal. To give the world assurance ofa man; **-*#• Look you now, what follows ; Here is * • • • • Hamlet. We thank our correspondent, “ A Union man in 1533, and a Resistance man in 1851,” for his communication. Tlie article in tho Savannah Re publican to which it is a reply, had attracted our attention as well as excited an almost irrepressible desire to respond to it. It was a latiorcd .and ful some parallell drawn between the late lion. John Forsyth of Georgia and the lion. Howell Cobb. W e were restrained by feelings of delicacy from d : snooting that parallel, although we felt to tho liot tom of our soul, that the public lives of those two sons of Georgia afforded far stronger bolder and more marked outlines of contrast, than of com parison. Oitrcorrespondent has kindly taken tli duty off our hands. The bhnid that tingles in our veins speaks in tho eloquent language of nature in denial that the Union candidate for Governor, bears any resemblance in his composition as a man, or It's conduct as a stateman, toJ.be revered dead to whom lie is likened. Indeed, we hardly can imagine two characters more dissimilar—John Forsyth Sr. was never a politician in the popular sense of the word. His history as a public man was a remarkable one. He attained the liighes t honors in the gift of his State, as an involuntary homage ofthe people to his character and talents. He never in his life made a stump speech; he nev er once stooped to flatter and fawn upon the peo ple—he never turned on his heel, or raised a finger to electioneer —It was a sentiment of his soul and an inflexible rule of his life, that public office ob tained by the low and debasing means usual with demagogues, was utterly unworthy the possession of an honorable man—that a resort to these de basing means was pritna facie evidence of the unworthiness of tlie candidate who resorted to them. We never shall forget an expression of his on this point. When just arrived at majority we one day sat with him in the office of the State Department, just on the eve of the meeting of the Baltimore Covention, at which Mr. Van Buren was nominated—His name was spoken of for the Vice Presidency. He remarked to us that if he chose he had no doubt, he could procure the ination. We asked, why do you not choose? Ilia reply w: s, “ I have been trying, till my life, my son, to prove to my country that I was worthy of its respect, its confidence and its honors—l Jo not choose at this period of my life, to show that I am not,” The answer left an indellible impres sion on our mind. It marked out at one bold dash of thought a line of conduct for our own guidance, which struck our young inind as noble and sub lime. and which the maturcr thoughts of increas ing years have strengthened and fortified into con viction. So that although we have been for four teen years, a warm and interested participant in the political discussions aud events of the country we have never been a candidate for popular elec tion. We never will lie, where we have to hang upon the necks of corrupt voters, ]iour poisonous whiskey into their mortal stomachs, aud buy their corrupt votes with money, hats and brogans. “By heaven. 1 had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any Indirection.” From the same noble example whence we de rived this principle, we derived that haired of oppression, and love of the South, which hoin inspired our resistance to the compromise abomi nations of the Federal Government. Well do we know that our correspondent speaks truth, for every drop in our veins is articulate in proof of it, that “ submission was not an element” in liis character. His public life testifies it. The greenest spot in his public reputation, upon which the chivalry of Georgia has always most loved to rest, isthat mo ment in his career, when in Congress he bearded the power of the Federal Government and stand ing by the gallant Troup, proclaimed to the as bled House that “ Georgia teas always ready for , trial.” And at no time of his life was he not ready to defend Georgia in the trial. Georgia, then made the issue, forced cn the trial, hung Tassels in the flashing of Federal bayonets and triumphantly interposed her sovereign right of jurisdiction over her own soil. If llowcll Cobb and his colleagues in submission had been anima ted bv’the spirit,'to which —“Satyr to Hyperion”— he is vainly likened: the voice of Georgia in the Congress of ‘f>o would again have been potent to obtain from the Government a just settlement of the vast controversy then up. Rut instead of proclaim ing her “ ready for trial"—they proclaimed her ready for submission. When iirr champions— the Ajax and the Achilles of the “ Empire State” of the South quailed all was lost. No sooner were a few Southern Senators and Representa tives secured to give bond that the South would keep the peace in abject submission, than the Northern majority passed the Compromise.— which for ten months they had been debating : which ten months? before they had the power to have passed, but which they never would have dared to pass in tern thousand years, if they had not succeeded in bringing over to them these Southern men, who sent them to defend the South, ended by betraying her. And now where is the parallel between the solieming, calculating, cold-blot sled ]“ ditician.tram poosing over the State, splitting hairs on plain con stitutional questions, which oau be answered yea or n ay —uttering Delphic nonsense on State Ricl'ts, ar.d in the same letter and breath, affirm ing and denying the right of secession. Wha 1 parallel between the rollicking, sleek and good humored Boniface, the popular wag, the acute schemer, and a man who having taken his ground and affirmed his principles, left his popularity to take,care of itself, looked never to consequences, and defied a world in argument and in arms? When did John Forsyth ever write a letter that had to be “ suppressed” and hustled out of sight bv his friends ? When did he ever make a speech that required a volume of subsequent commentary for its interpretation ? When did ho ever have to defend himself against the charge of plotting with the Free Soil enemies of his State ? But we must be done—we have said perhaps more than was becoming our relations to the sub- but the voice of nature would speak out, and in the name of justice and truth we baptize it and give it to the public. The words of Hamlet force themselves to our expression. but no more like my father, ybap I to Hercules ; “THE UNION OF THE STATES AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.” THE CONSUL AT HAVANA. We learn from tlie True Delta (a paper op posed to the Lopez expedition) that the con duct of Mr. Owen American Consul at Ha vana, was severely censured by a meeting of the passengers of the Cherokee on the voy age from Havana to N. Orleans; over which the old Hero, General Lane of Indiana, pre side. Gen. Lane was en route by Chagres from Oregon, and happened at Havana in time to witness the end ofthe tragedy. It is understood that he made extensive enquiries as to the state of affairs in tlie Island and will publish the result of his observations. Gen. Lane is a delegate to Congress from Oregon. We have no disposition to do injustice to Mr. Owen and shall not pronouneo upon his conduct until the vindication which lie must make, shall make its appearance. , Since writing the above, the proceedings of the meeting on hoard the Cherokee have come to hand. They will he found in anoth er column. Col. E. D. Floyd of the N. Orleans True Delta, and agent for Doßow’s Com mercial Review is in this city, and at tlie Ogle thorpe House for a few days, where he may bo found hv persons desiring to subscribe for these works. Wo are pleased to learn from him, that Deßow’s valuable journal is in the full tide of success its value ns a medium of important information being highly appreciated bvthe Southern public and sustained accordingly With the principles of the True Delta, we do not accord. Its unionism is altogether too strong to comport with our convictions of the true policy ofthe South audits public press ia a crisis, where the South and her great in terests are in far greater peril than tho Union Its ability is unquestioned, aud to those, with whom an abstract and crazy sentiment of unionism is paramount to all tho vast con siderations connected with the alarming con dition of the assailed and persecuted South, no journal can be inoro aeceptable than the True Delta. jggfThe correspondence published to-day by James M. Srnythe. Esq., one of the editors ofthe Constitutionalist & Republic, was in ! dueed by a communication, signed “Doctor | in the Chronicle & Sentinel, highly personal i and offensive in its character to Mr. Smythe. We perceive in the Washington Un | ion of 2d inst a notice to the effect that if | the heirs or legal representatives of Captain ! W. H. Cary and his brothers and sisters, (if | any he had,) who removed from tho State of I Virginia to (it is believed) the State of Geor j gia or South Carolina, will address “Redfield,’ 1 at tho city of New York, they will hear some thing greatly to their advantage. The Union observes that if tho Editors of this State, Richmond, Virginia, Savannah and j Augusta, Georgia, and Montgomery, Ala j bama, will call attention to the above facts, in I their respective Journals, they will probably he doing a deed of charity to some orphan family. Hayti. —A late report says that the diffi culty between the Hayticn Empire and the Dominican Republic, has been adjustod. A Loudon correspondent of the Now-York Commercial thinks it altogether unlikely that Great Britain would meddle in any way witli the, Cuba business. FOR TIIE TIMES. Georgia, Aug. 1851. My attention has been called to an article in the Sa vannah Republican of the 17th inst., signed, “A Union Democrat of 1833 and 1851.” Coming into the world as I did, a Democrat from the hand of God, I shall never be anything else. In 1833,1 was a Union man, in 1851 lam s resistance man. The Hon. John’ Forsyth and myself were shoulder to shoulder iu 1833, and were Tie now liv” ing, I feel assured, that we should be firmly united iuthe cause of the South in resisting Northern aggression.— For no man had less of the element of submission in his composition, than John Forsyth. To use the name and character of Mr. Forsyth, as lias been done in the article under consideration, to bolster up the sinking fortunes of Howell Cobb, is too bad. The character and public ser vices of Mr. Forsyth need no eulogy to place his name in the front rank of southern patriots and statesmen, ex cept what may be found conspicuously written on the °flicial records of the country. From ahout the year 1810 to his lamented death, the records of the country e ntify his name with every interest, to Georgia and he Union, which agitated the country for upwards of 30 years. .He not only participated in all {great matters of State, but it was conceded to him hv all his Federal opponents as well as tiisl Republican friends—that he was Great, amongst the greatest statesmen. Kike all other public men, he was sometimes abused and his char acter traduced by his political opponents. But never was he accused of abandoning tiis principles and party for the sake of office ; nor of being a Southern man with .Vorth ern priitciplts ; or of courting freesollers or abolition ists, to obtain the Speaker's Chair. No man thought him a traitor to the south, or believed'that lie would sell her Interest for a little higher pmmotion. His distinguished talents and public services atone, promoted him to the high honors and offi-es, in which he sustained himself with signal ability. Mr. Forsyth, with myself and many others, who were rpp'sed to the protective Tariff system as much asonr fritnds in South Carolina, or any where else, did not believe that South Carolina nullification was the proper remedy for the evil complained of.— While wc conceited the right of a State to secede from the Federal Union, we could not admit the right of a .state to resist the laws of the Union while she remained in the Union. While we considered the protective tariff oppressive, and violative of the spirit of the constitution, we did not think the system had been carried to the point of becoming intolerable and beyond further endurance. Therefore we looked to the sober second thought of the conntry and to argumen'. and furtner light on the sub ject, and time has proved that we were not mistaken in our views; yet South Carolina, however she might have erred on the subject of nullification, may justly claim much distinction for the noble part she acted in modify ing the odious Tariff, and awakening the public mind of *he country to just views on the subject of State rights. No State has a right to resist the execution of the laws of the Union while she remain* in the Union. It Is true that Mr Cobb has been Speaker of the House of Representatives, and this office is a highly distinguish ed one. But it is equally true, that in all governments of every form, the most unfit and unworthy men have oc - casionally been thus elevated. At the present time, will any intelligent man dare to say, that high official station is any certain evidence of either merit, talent or integrity of character? An Ahab may become the successor of a Solomon. What has Mr. Cobb done for his country or State, to merit the distinction which he has already re ceived, or to which he further aspires ? What has Mr. Cobb done to place him by the side of our noble Forsyth as an equal in fame, honor and usefulness ? We have no disposition to abuse or detract from the character of Mr. Cobb. H* baa from childhood'been a social, friendly, eourte- [-WMT JE2 as JHL. ~wr • ] ous, ready-witted, aspiring fellow. Few men of his age have spent more money than ho has, to make himself popular. He has made great proficiency In the book ofhuma nature. When he has a work to accomplish, he is judi cious in the selection of his tools. His tools are to him labor-saving machinery, llis gift of speech is such as to enable him to say even more than he knows. But with „11 these advantages, I now seriously ask, what public service lmsihe ever rendered to the State of Georgia ? What service ha* lie rendered to the Union ? W'ith what measure of public utility is hi* nume identified? What Important measure has lie ever originated or supjiorted by his public efforts ? During the eight years of his Con gressional life, while the rights of the South were con stantly assailed in Congress ; where shall we And his speeches, or other efforts In defence of Southern rights? Wbut Important re he”ever made from a Com mittee of Congress ? What effort has he ever made to paralyze the uplifted hand of abolition ? Why is he a fa vorile.with northern abolitionists and freesoilors? Why ptd he refuse to sign the Southern Address calmly setting forth the aggressions of the north upon southern institu tions ? Why did bo vote for the IViiSlot Proviso admitting Oregon as a Staid into the Union ? Why oppose every tiling connected with the Nashville Convention? espe cially when that body yielded to his own compromise lino of 30. 30. ? Why yield his assent to tho Omnibus Bill, when the south might have done better, if he and his southern friend* had stood firm to tho rights of their constituents? Why now liavo tlie hardihood to say, that the odious compromise measures secure to the Southall that is just, fair and liberal? when every school boy in the country knows better. Why laud tho fugitive slave law, for enacting over the plain provision of tho constitution ? Especially when it is known, that it provisions will not and cannot be executed? Why cry peace, peace to the people, when Mr. Cobb knows there is no peace ? Why got behind tlie masked batiery, and cry Union, Union! when the essentials of the Union aro atready in shreds and tatters ? Where is our Equilibrium in the Union? Where our equality? Whero i* the broth *erly, the Christian love of the two sections ? Let lie who can, auswer the foregoing questions, and then let tho writer in the Savannah Republican again ut tampqhls parallel between tlie characters of tlie late John Forsyth and Howell Cobb. If fairly done, the contrast will fair excel any that can be found iu Plutarch’s lives of the Ancients. Forsyth, |ustly holds a place in impartial his tory, amongst tlie first of American statesmen of his day He Is gone! He is done with earth I and justico will now be conceded to him by all. Howell Cobb is yet a young man. We have seen his commencement, but not hi end. I should like to be pointed to the first act, in his brilliant career, that gives him the slightest claim to the character of patriot or statesman. He is entitled to the distinction which ho has gained, of being a I'Prickstier, a politician —a successful gambler for office. If he is elected Governor of Georgia, he will likely lie tho next Vice President. And his organ thinks the next step will be to tlie Presidency. But my own sober opinion is, that will never happen. Before that happens it wit be acknowledged, that our Federal system has failed, and those who are alive will bo cugugod in new forma tions. In conclusion, as a Georgian, who was over proud of tlie character and standing of Mr. Forsyte as a states man—l protest against tlie urtiflee of attempting to blend tho name of such a inan as Howell Cobb withtthat of John Forsyth—and especially claiming parallels of character, Which shall placo a mere puff of noisy breath, us tlie equal of our most eminent statesman. It is too bad. I deny that Mr. Cobb has rendered the country any scr r>c—and beliovo all that is claimed for him by his ad mirers, ia his Unionism. His Union efforts, with a view to hi* own promotion X consider tlie great crime of his life; moreover, that these efforts are rapidly tending to the destruction of teal very Union, that ho professes so much to love and ven erate. How could a man with a southern heart; how could a Georgian continue lit Congress for the last eight years, and never attempt even to rebuko the rovilor* of th* Sou tli ? But what t* more strange still, Is, to ascertain how auy inan in Georgia could, nt tlie present crisis, have the political confidence and support of northern freesoiler* and nbolitioniata. If the south Is saved from ruin by tlie efforts of Mr. Cobb, it will bo his succoss as a beggar.— He will never vindicate the rights of the south in that manly, elevatod tone of statesmanship, whicli character ised tho whole public life of John Forsyth. A Democrat and Umox max or 1833. Axn a Resistance max or 1851, THE CUBAN TRAGEDY”. The Mobile Register gathers fiom a passenger by the Cherokee, the follow ing melancholy detailsof the conclusion of the Lopez drama: The Spanish forces having prosecuted their operations most vigorously against the invaders, the latter were soon redu ced to the most destitute and suffering condition. They were compelled to fly in every direction through the country; their ammunition gave out, and they were left for sixty eight hours totally without provisions. The Creoles of the island so far from affording them any re lief, actually destroyed every species of food which might fall into their hands. At length Lopez proposed to such men as were still with him, that they should disband ana each shift for himself. This policy was at once adopted ; hut the Spaniards were so rapid in the pursuit, chasing the fugitives with blood hounds, that they soon captured a large num ber. Lopez himself in attempting to make his way to the mountains, was overtaken by the blood hounds, and having no weapons was at once made prisoner. He was almost naked, famished and broken down with fatigue. He was taken into San Christobal, on the 30th ; conveyed to Havana ajh the 31st, and publicly executed by the garote n the Ist inst., at 7 a. m. The execution of Lopez was witness ed by an immense concourse of citizens. The General although he was from the sufferings he had endured, in a most pi tiable condition, being covered with rags, and greatly reduced in strength and body, by the starvation he had en dured, conducted himself in a most firm and heroic manner at his execution. He declared that his motives looked up to the libertv, happiness and advance ment of Cuba. After he was placed in the chair, and the fatal yoke or collar, forming the garote, was placed about his neck, he uttered his dying words, “ADIEU, DEAR CU3A!” A passenger by the Cherokee witness ed the general proceedings of the exe cution, but from the density of the cr >wd, could not see the General’s face, at the instant of his death, and does not know whether his face was covered or not.— He saw the body after death, in the ga rote, and says that the face, from the suffusion of blood and the strangula tion, ltad become perfectly black, that the neck was broken, and that the whole spectacle was most painful and revolting. Thus perished, by the most ignominious process known to the Spanish law, a fearless and aspiring spirit, who had through a long life, mostly devoted to military adventures, passed safely through all the hazards of war and who, instead of dying as a felon, would if he had been successful, taken his place, among the renowned heroes and captains of history. Besides Lopez, one hundred and fifty-five of his followers, nearly all Americans, were made prisoners. It is reported that they are condemned to work in the mines for life, and are to be transported to Spain. Like their leader, they were, when captured, in a most woful and suffering plight These men with the fifty-one under Crittenden, previously ex ecuted, and those who have been killed, in the several fights, formed the greater part of those who left on the Pampero. TUESDAY SEPTEMBER IG, 1851, It is said, however, that there is still a foree of 600 or 700 insurgents in the mountains, near Principe. These are said to be under tlie command of a distinguished Hungarian officer. Three of Lopez’s followers succeeded in eluding pursuit, and by some means made their escape on tlie Cherokee. In the battle in which Gen. Enna was killed, it is said that Lopez's men fought like demons, and that 700 Spanish soldiers were slain. Gen. Lopez, shortly before his execution, asserted that he had received little or no aid or countenance from the Creoles, and that in this respect lie had been greatly deceived. Among the passengers on the Cherokee, came Gen. L-ine, on his way frotnOregon via California, who stopped some days nt Havana, and witnessed the execution of Lopez. He made the most extensive enquiries and obser vations, as to tlie state of affairs in Cuba andall tho operations that'had taken placo.— These we tire informed, he has written out for publication, and we expect that they will be iu the New Orleans papers to-day. They will give a full and accurate account, we an ticipate, of all these melanchoylly events, and we look for them with the deepest interest. ARKANSAS ELECTION. TRIUMPH OF SOUTUEHN tttOUTS 1 We have, at length, by way of New Orleans, election returns from all but three counties in Ar kansas. Tlie result is a glorious triumph of the doctrine of secession, and an indignant rebuke, by tire people of that State, of the Clay. Foote and Cobb compromise. Johnson, the Democratic and Southern Rights candidate lias a majority as fur as reported, of three thousaud one hundred and six teen over Preston, his Federal Whig, and Com promise opponent. Johnson, in the last Congress stood forth umong tlie most faithful of tlie South ern delegates. llow his opponents regarded the late contest aud its issues, may be inferred from the following extract from the Little Rock Whig, leading Federal paper of Arkansas, written about tlie time of the election : “A few days will tell the tale, and when told, the public effect of the vote in Arkansas will either be n committal or non-committal, so fur as Arkan sas is concerned, to the damnable doctrine of se cession.”—Sav. Georgian. Teiuudlk Gale at Apalachicola.— We letam from an Extra of the Commercial Advertiser, that the Gale on the 23d ult. occasioned immense destruction of property in Apalachicola, and has almost left that town in ruins. At an early hour in the morning, the lower floors in Water street had five feet of water in them, and the wind blew with such fury, that nothing could be done to save either tlie stores or their contents. Not a single building on Water street escaped serious injury, litany having their roofs and others, including the Exchange buildings, the offices over the Hydraulic press, the store of Thomas Orman, and tlie build ing occupied by the Charleston Bank Agency, being totally destroyed. The store where the Custom House was kept was almost thrown down, the lower block of buildings nearest the Bay, is in ruins, and from that portion of the town every house on Front or Commerce streets, is entirely swept away, including those of Mrs. Grierson, and Judge Semmes. The Presbyterian church was completely, and the Episcopal, partially destroyed. Every house in town was more or less injured, and the trees and fences aro pros trated. The Light Houses were all blown down, and at Cape St. Jilas, a Spanish brig-of-war was stranded, and several lives li >st. The steamer Fal con was driven by the wind and tide some dis tance up the river, and capsized on an island. The entire loss at Apalachicola is estimated at from two hundred thousand, to half a million of dollars. [From the Augusta Constitutionalist & Republic.] DB WILLIAM S. JONES. Circumstances have made it necessary for mo publicly to expose Dr. William S. Jones, for bis prostitution of the press under his con trol, his equivocation, and his cowardly de nial of satisfaction to me, for a wilful, delib erate, and aggravated wrong done, of which no honorable gentleman would have been guilty. He has admitted three articles into the Chronicle Sentinel, of which paper he is the proprietor and publisher, against my self, which have been characterized by stu died misrepresentation, and seldom equalled for their malignity. Dr. William S. Jones ■was aware that the principal grounds upon which the writer of “Doctin-,” based his charges of falsehood against myself, were the unintentional errors of another gentleman, and found their way into the Republic with out my knowledge, or consent. He was per fectly aware that those errors had been cor rected through the same channel in which publicity had been given to them. He must have known that there was an immense dis proportion between the errors themselves, supposing them all to have been committed and unexplained, and the charges made a gainst me by the author ox “Doctor.” Ho was aware that the author of those false and scurrillous articles, thrust himself forward as a volunteer in detraction and falsehood, to assault me for reasons which found no justi fication in his personal connection with the matters treated of by him. He became an officious intruder in the first place and a ma licious assailant in the second. I do not deem it necessary to publish the article of “Doctor,” upon which I founded my call upon Dr. Jon 3s, which will he seen below. The public has already seen it in the prostituted columns of the Chronicle tj- Sen tinel, and portions of it in the Constitutional ist df- Republic. I charge Dr. Wm. S. Jones, for inserting it, in his co'nmns, with sinking his paper in the lowest, and meanest, and foulest depths of licentiousness. It was dis graceful to him as a public journalist and a man, and was utterly inconsistent with the profession which he has publicly made as a member of a respectable church. The stigma, of tlm foul transaction, will re main upon him, at least, until ho shall ac knowledge the wrong ha has done me, and make atonement for it. I will take this occasion to observe that I have frequently declined publishing articles in the Republic, which I formally edited, be cause of the harsh expressions they contained against political opponents. I have subjected myself for it. on several occasions, to the complaints and censures of personal friends. The dignity, honor and fairness of the press, should be always maintained. Its true value is impaired, and even utterly destroyed, when it cuts loose from the moorings of decency and virtue, and its trroat object, the dissemination of useful information, to permit individual character to be falsely assailed, and that too in the lowest terms of the blackguard. The Chronicle (f- Sentinel has been degraded to this base purpose, and must henceforth, with out an adequate purgation, take its rank a mong the lowest and vilest publications in the land. I submit the following correspondence with a few words of comment. Augusta, Aug. 29th, 1851. Dr. Wm. S. Jones: Sir : —Considering the article signed “Doc tor,” which appeared in the Chronicle <Sp Sen tinel of this morning, of such a character as to make you, as the publisher of that paper, a party to the outrage, I demand of you that satisfaction, for inserting it in your columns, which is due from one gentleman to another. This will be handed you by my friend, James Gardner, Jr., Esq. Respectfully yonr ob’t. serv’t. Jamis M. Smythe. This letter was received by Dr. Jones. On Tuesday, the 2nd instant, the following note was handed to my friend, Mr. Gardner, to be delivered to Dr. japes: | NUMBER 31 Augusta, Sept. 2nd, 1851. Dr. Wm. S. Jones: Sir : — A reasonable time having elapsed since the delivery to you, on Friday last, of my note of that date, I take occasion to call your attention to it, and inquire when I may expect a reply ? Respectfully your ob’t. serv’t. James M. Smythe. The card, of Mr. Gardner, below, will ex plain what occurred on that occasion. Suf fice it for me to say, Dr. Jones declined to receive it for the reason assigned by Mr. Gardner. On the 3rd instant, the following note was conveyed to him by the hands of my friend, Wm. W. Montgomery, Esq. Augusta, Sept. 3rd, 1851. ‘Dr. Win. S. Jones: Sir : — Considering tho article under the signature of “Doctor,” which appeared in the Chronicle £s• Sentinel, of last Frld; y morning of such a character as to make you, as the publisher of that paper, a party to the out rage', I demand of you, for inserting it in your columns, that satisfaction which is duo from one gentleman to another. This will be handed to you by my friend, Wm. W. Montgomery, Esq. Respectfully your ob’t. sorv’t. James M. Smytiik. This he declined to receive, alleging iu sub stance, that ho had nothing to do with the matter; that the author of “Doctor,” was res ponsible for its publication. It will be seen, from the card of Mr. Gard ner, that Dr. Jones objected to receiving a third note from mo, through his hand, (for the reason assigned,) after ho had previously re ceived two neither of which had been to this moment returned. It will be seen, further, that Dr. Jones stated, if I wished to make any communication to him, I must select another person to c jnvey it to him. I did so, and the card of Mr. Montgomery will show what response he made to my note of the 3rd instant. This establishes his cow ardly evasion of the responsibility which res ted upon him in the premises. I now leave the conduct of Dr. Wm. S. Jones, with the publication of this correspon dence and the foregoing remarks, to the judg ment of the public. JAMES M. SMYTHE. Augusta, Sept. 4, 1851. Mr. James M. Smythe: Dear Sir :—ln comp] i ineo with your re quest, I state that I called on Dr. W. S. Jones on tho 3rd instant, and handed him a commu nication from yourself—a copy of which I believe, had been previously handed him by Mr. Gardner—which communication he de clined to receive, upon the ground, as I under stood him, that he did not consider himself in any way responsible for the attack upon your self, contained in the article in the Chronicle dj- Sentinel, under the signature of “Doctor.” Very respectfully, yours, &c. W. W. MONTGOMERY. AUGUSTA, Sept. 4th, 1851. James M. Snythe, Edq.— Dear Sir :—At your request I state, that on the 29th ult., I bore two communications to Dr. W. S. Jones. To tho one first pre sented, he wrote a reply and handed it to me at that interview. The second he received and read in my presence. While reading it I said to him: “it will be proper for you to answer that through your friend.” I then withdrew. No answer having been received to that communication, on the 2nd inst. I called on him at his office with another communication from you. This he declined to receive. Ho stated that if you, Mr. Symtho, desired to make any communication to him, you must do it through some other channel, as he would entertain no communication through me. He assigned in that interview as his reason for declining, in reply to an inquiry to this point from me, the terms of enmity existing, and known to you to exist, between him and my self. This reason, if sufficient on the 2nd of September was equally so on the 29th of August, as no change had taken place in the relations existing between Dr. Jones and my self between those two dates. The sufficien cy of the reason I am content to leave the judgment of honorable men. Yours respectfullv, JAMES’ GARDNER, Jr. MR. COBB’S LETTER. J3F*The Hon. Howell Cobb, coalition can didate for Governor of Georgia, has written ft letter on compromise, secession, and collateral questions. As this is the latest declaration of faith for the new party in that State, we will present it at length to our readers to morrow. The first part of the letter is devoted to a defence of the compromise.—a task which has troubled the wits of the submission men from the first, and has never yet boen performed. Mr. Cobb is a gentleman of considerable ingenuity in dealing with popu lar passions and prejudice, and it is worth while to consider his latest effort—the result of his recent discussions, reflections and im proved knowledge o r popular sentiment. Mr. Cobb begins by telling us that “the bills establishing territorial governments for Utah and New Mexico, rest on the great con stitutional principle” of “the right of the peo ple to determine for themselves whether or not slavery shall constitute a part of their social system.” Now, wc deny the practical correctness of this position. The laws creating territorial governments for Utah and New Mexico were not passed, and could not be passed, until it was ascertained that the whole of seaboard California was to be admitted as a non-slave holding State, and also that a large portion of Texas was to be purchased and annexed to New Mexico, so as to give her sufficient Mex ican population (which has already pronounc ed against slavery) to ensure her anon-slave holding State. And as Utah is accessible only through New Mexico or California, (the transit of slaves through either of the latter being thus immediately or speedily cut off) it became almost inevitable that Utah would he non-slaveholding. Congress therefore did not agree to the principle that the peoplo of these territories had the right to decide the slavery question for themselves, until measures has thus been taken to ensure a decision against slavery, by rendering Utah inaccessible to slavery, and New Mexico an ti-slavery, by annexing to her the anti-slave ry portion of the Texas population. To concede a principle on paper or in words, and yet to render it impracticable by law, is afraud and mockery. And this hits been done. Mr. Cobb proceeds: “The biil to settle the disputed boundary between the United States and Texas, rests upon equally sound and constitutional principles. Its provisions simply contain a proposition from the general government to the State of Texas to settle the boundary between the territory of the United States, and the State of Texas by adopting a certain line as that boundary; and in consideration that Texas will yield the claim which she had made to the seceded territo ry, the United State* agrees to pay her the sum often mill ions of dollars. There was no threat, no coercion, on the part of Congress, to compel acquiescence in their projio sition. It was ;t matter for tho calm and patriotic judg ment of the people of Texas to determine; and the terras were agreed to by her with unparalleled unanimity. It is equally untrue and unjust to the brave and patriotic people of Texas, to impute their action on this subject to the fear ol federal power, or the equally offensive consideration of bribery and corruption. As I would not tolerate such an imputation upon the citizens of our own State under similar circumstances, I will not in dulge in the ungenerous and unfounded reflection upon the honesty and integrity of our young and prosperous sister.” This is the most intrepid experiment on the meaning of words we have lately seep. When the Texasbonndary bill was pending it was understood that the California bill would pass and that the North would thereby acquire a great augmentation of itfl previous territorial preponderance—and that it would also acquire a majority in the Sen ate, the only law-making branch of the gov ernment where the South possessed even a nominal equality of power. In tho House of Representatives, and in the electoral colleg es. there was an overwhelming majority, against her. Yet this was the hour whom her power of self-defence in the government was about to be wrested from her, by an out rage that deprived her at the same time of all her share of the countless gold of California —this was the hour selected to pass a bill to. relinquish a vast territory in Texas, in coo sideration of a wist sum of money. It is said that she had only a chum to this territo ry. Well, whatever right Texas had, was a right to territory. And by the bill it was ad mitted that this right was worth ten millions. Now, why was not ten million’s worth of tho territory relinquished to Texas, instead of paving her that much money? It w r as because it would have defeated the project of making a free-soil State iu New Mexico, and would have left tho South the means of forming one more State than she can now. Why,, when the South had been, and was to be stripped of such countless and priceless ter ritorial domain, why was this bill so framod as to deprive her of a vast quantity boaidoa? Why for the obvious design of destroying her political power. Mr. Cobb treats this transaction as if ft concerned Texas alono. It was vital to the South. And is there anything sound In prin ciple, or in policy, or in precedent, for the federal government, (already controlled by the North) to enter the market to buy of au. embarrassed Southern State the elements of’ political power, and transfer them to the North? Mr. Cobb says that thiswusa more proposition to Texas without a threat tromi Congress. But everybody knows that there was an Executive threat then hanging over Texas, that if she dared to exercise jurisdic tion in any part of a territory, to which this vory bill acknowledged she had a right to the extent of ten millions, she would bo visited with the sword of the federal government. Under these circumstances, the declaration of Mr. Cobb that Texas was not influenced by fear or by money in accepting the terms of the bill, is simply a rhetorical flourish, to om belish, to disguise to conceal tho deformity and enormity of the whole transaction. As for the attempt of Mr. Cobb to show that this transfer of territory from Texas to the federal government enlarged, instead of diminishing the slaveholding area, it is too forlorn. It gave to New Mexico the territo ry to make a State, and the population that had already pronounced against Afrieun slave* ry. Mr. Cobb proceeds: “The only remaining bill affecting our territorial ocqot altiori was tile U nc for the admission of California as a State into the Union. This measure was objectionable to Southern men though it finally received tho support of nearly one-third of the representatives of the South, la common with a majority of the South, I entertained ob jections to tilts bill’.l preferred that ;a territorial govern ment should have been provided for California, n was done for Utah &N. Mexico. It would have beeu a more regular & appropriate mode of disposing ofthat portion of tlie territory; but the failure to do so t uo not regard as violation of the Constitution or the rights of the South. In the admission of California Congress exercised a pow er expressly conferred upon it by tho Constitution, “to. admit new States into the Union:” and though our judg ments do not wholly approve of tho exercise of that dis cretionary power in this instanco, it constitutes no such cause of complaint against the government as wouldjua tlfy the resistance which has been indicated by the ouo mics of the compromise and the advocates of disunion. The principle 11)1011 which California was admitted in to the Union, with her constitution prohibiting slavery, has ever received the sanction of Southern statesmaia The orinciple denies to Congress tho right to lojk Into the constitution of a Slato asluug for admission into the Union further than to see that it is republican iu its form of government. Whether slavery shall exist there Is * question not for the consideration of Congress, but to he he determined by the people when they frame their State constitution. This doctrine was dearly expressed iu the following resolution introduced bv Mr. Calhouu Into the Sonant of the United States in 1847. It was the annunclullou -f a sound constitutional principle, and 1 am prepared ns maintain its correctness: “ Rcsnlved, That, as a fundamental principle In oar po litical creed, a people, in forming a constitution, hare the unconditional right to form and adopt the govern ment which they may think best calculated to secant liberty, prosperity, and happiness ; and that In con formity no other condition is Imposed by the federal constitution on a State, In order to her admis sion into this Uniqn, except that its constitution he re publican; and that the imposition of any other by Con gress would not only be in violation of tho Constitution but In direct conflict with the principle on which oar pe lltical system rests.” ButMr.CoBU con aiders whethor it wold be his duty, if governor of Georgia, to obey a requisition of the federal government for troops to put down a seceding Stato. He says he would call a convention of tho peo ple of Georgia and submit tho question to them. This is one of the most curious eva sions by a candidate of an issue that wo have seen. Mr. Cobb is a candidate for governo* —a neighboring State talks of secession— Mr. Cobb denies the right, or admits the right of reducing her to submission by force. The people of Georgia want to know if Mr. Cobb would call on them to engage in that business and he declines to answer by say ing he will submit the question to them when the crisis arrives. But if there is a right in the federal government to call on tho gover nor of Goorgia for troops in such a case, would it not be rather inconvenient to wait until a convention could be culled in Georgia? And after all, what on earth would Governor Cobb or die people of Georgia do, if Congress were to pass a law to draft them to war a gainst a sister and neighbor State? But wc need not pursue the subject furth. cr. Mr. Cobb’s admissions are fatal to his position—and these admissions were extort ed by the state of opinion in Georgia, and by the inexorable deductions from the princt pies of our government. Now Mr. Cobb does not stato at all the main objection made by tho South to (ha bill admitting California; and we are compelled to conclude that lie was afraid to do it, be cause that objection is overwhelming and un answerable. It is that the territory allowed her in the bill is enormous ly greater than Congress ever before permitted any one State to appropriate from the public domain. A sea. coast nearly a thousand miles long!—and, with Oregon, giving to the North the monopoTy of all our Pacific seaboard, down to a latitude below Charleston, South Carolina, and with a cli mate warmer than the Atlantic coast! Wo know the case of admitting Texas with a large territory is cited ns a precedent for that of California, but the Texan territory was al ready her own, and had not been bought or paid for by the federal government. Besides provision was made for dividing Texas, and giving to the North all her territory above 36. 30; and this provision was proposed by the South as to California, and refused. And by thus surrendering all California to the North, the Southern people were deprived of tbs right of emigrating thither with their proper ty, and the vast region of southern California was forever prevented from determining the question of slavery for itself. Yet Mr. Conn coolly tells us California was admitted on constitutional principles, and Southern prin ciples, onlv, perhaps, a little too soon! Taking the circumstances all r together, we consider tho act for the admission of California one of the greatest outrages that history h-Ji recor ded. And we did regard the pretexts and pretences on which it was done as a snnerad ded insultto the understanding of the fSontb. But when we see prominent South-rn men going about to excuse and palliate the trans action. we are constrained to confess that the understanding of the South is not worthy of the high respect to which we thought it enti tled. Mr. Cobb excuses the act emancipating slaves brought into this District for sale, by telling us that Maryland did the same thing about sixty years ago. That was when Ma ryland was menaced with the influx of slaves from the Northern States then emancipating and the object of the law was precisely the reverse of the recent act of Congress. And the same thing may be said of the laws of Georgia to prevent the influx of slaves. But if it be assumed that Congress has the same jurisdiction over slavery in the District that the States have within their own borders, Congress may emancipate, at pleasure. Mr. Cobb denies the right of secession.— He thinks it would have been absurd for the framers of the federal Constitution to provide, in the very organization of the government, for its own dissolution. Well, if this is an argument against the right of secession, is it not equally opposed to the right of revolution which Mr. Cobb as serts? He denies the right of secession, bft cause it is not declared in the Constituiion.— Why, the right of sec as si on is a State right; and whoever took it into his head, before Mr.