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DAILY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL. " ■ —i y • ■.■*."fc^- BY WILLIAM S. JONES. orriCE IW RAIL ROAD BANK BUILDING. DAILY, TRI-WKEKLY & WEEKLY. fRRMS— DaiIy Paper, to city subscribers, per armaro, in advance• Daily Paper, mailed to the country ' Tri-Weekly Paper, “ “ “ “ “ * Weekly (a mammoth sheet) “ ___ -szsr. GASH SYSTEM^-—ln no case will an Order for I be paper be attended to, unices ac e cm pan ie m vvJ t1 •he money, and in every instance time for which the subscription may ce ;mul, expires before the receipt of funds ito renew 'be same, the paper will bedlsoondnaed. Deprecated funds received at ralue in this fteiigujufl. from the National Preacher. THE GOSPEL A SAVOR OF LIFE OR OF DEATH. By Rev* J. Manning Sherwaod, New York. “And Jeans said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see ; and that they which see might be made blind.” —John 9: 39. The gospel we preach is life or death—sal vation or enhanced perdition to all who come within the scope of its influence. As a sys tem of moral truths and influences, designed and fitted to accomplish a stupendous moral result, the gospel is never nugatory; it makes its impression ; its mission is made to honor its Author in the line of mercy or wrath. Every person that hears the gospel is made wise by it unto salvation, or is plunged into deeper spiritual darkness-—is converted, sanc tified, and finally eleveted by it to the felicity and glory of heaven, or he is confirmed in his wickedness, and thrust down into a deeper hell. Here is a feet, a startling and momentous fact, for us to ponder who preach the gospel, and for you to ponder who hear it. Christ came into this world exprenly to tave sinners. He has done all that is necessa ry to bring about so blessed a result. Ho has taught the world the way of life. He has made an all-sufficient atonement for sin. He has established the preaching of the gospel, and whatever other means <»ro necessary to bring sinners to repen’anco. He has sent the Holy Spirit into the world, and removed the last obstacle out of the way, and done all that can be done to secure the gracious end for which he leaves that system of truths, agen cies, and influences, to operate in the world and work out its amazing results, according to the fixed principles of God's government and the laws of the human constitution. And there is no power beneath the throne of the Eternal that can arrest the workings of this moral system, or prevent its achieving for •ach one of all the millions upon whom it acts a destiny of fearful interest and magnitude. It is the simple fact involved in this matter that Christ refers in my text. His coming in to this world is as really for judgment to those who reject him as it is for mercy to these who receive him. The mission and death of Christ in behalf of sinners; the revelation of God’s wilt contained in the Bible; the institution and operation of the means of grace ; and the putting forth of those spiritual and providen tial influences with which God pursues men in this life, as a matter of fact, are as certain to result in the enhanced guilt and ruin of some, as they are in the salvation and final blessed ness of others. This is the natural and neces sary result of Christ’s coming into the world, and of the preaching es the gospel. And these results will follow wherever the gospel goes. It will prove a savor of death unto death in every case where it fails to prove a savor of life unto life. There prevails a sad and often fatal delusion just on this point. Thousands cherish and act on the notion that they can have to do or not to do with the gospel, just as they please ; that it is optional with themselves whether the gos pel shall influence their course and affect their destiny or not; that if they choose they can think, and live, and die, and exist hereafter, just the same as if Christ had not come into the world, and there were no gospel; they hold their understanding, their affections, their character, their actions, their destiny in their own hands, and they’ll believe what they please, and shape their own course, and control their own being, and work out their own plans and wishes, and noth ing shall hinder them. But this is a mistake. It is a moral impossibilty, since Christ has com* into the world, to get beyond the scope or to resist the power of his mission. His coming into the world to save sinners is the foundation-fact of your probationary being —the foundation-fact of all God’s present dealings with you—the foundation-fact of all the agencies and influences that are operating to form your character and determine your destiny for the coming world. The mission of Christ is therefore necessarily influential upon every soul of man for good or for evil — for life or for death eternal. You are shat up to faith in (he gospel—salvation from sin and death by the cross of Christ, or you must take the fearful penalty due to those who despise the amazing grace of God the Saviour, it is net possible for yon to breathe, or think, or act out of that sphere which the gospel of Jesus Christ permeates in every line of thought and influence, character and destiny, and in which its power as a moulding and controlling moral force is supremo and uni versal. Men may disbelieve and reject the gospel ; they may shut their eyes to keep out its pene trating light; they may harden their heaiis against its influence, and thereby escape con viction and a troubled commence. They are at liberty to do this. But will this suffice to deliver you out of the hands es Jesus Christ? suffice to leave yon as free to work out the great problem of life as if this were not a gos pel world 7 suffice to save you from that accu mulated and overwhelming weight of guilt and wrath which is threatened against the unsaved? Will there be no advancement in the line of depravity; no enhancing of guilt; no in crease ofmoral distance from God, nottre&s uring up of wrath and the worst elements of fu ture retribution and misery, as the consequence of resisting and overcoming the entire system of grace? The fact is—and it is one that ought to weigh on us all and never be out of mind— that the gospel is as influential upon these who perish under it, as it is upon those who are saved by it; as influential ia the line of spir itual development and moral character; as in fluential in working out the pro! 'em of life, and upon ail the great questions r.t issue at the bar of God. The gospel acts as really, as universally, and as effectually upon the one class as upon the other; and it achieves re sults as stupendous and a!) lasting- It only operates in different directions, and secures results opposite one to the other. While the gospel is light to the saved it is moral darkness to the lost. While it impart? life to the believ | ®. r » 11 plunges into a deeper death the unbo- While it attracts and assimilates to ||k God the soul that it renews and sanctifies, it '£ repels and drives to the u'.most boandary of | spiritual alienation those who resist it, and iF quakes them tenfold more the children of tho Deyil. This is manifestly the doctrine of Christ as he speaks in the text; “For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see, and that they which see might be made blind." It was not the object of Christ’s coming into the world to blind and ruin sin ners; this result is wholly incidental. Nor is the Gospel of necessity a blinding and ruining power to any man ; it bttomes such only when it is resisted and perverted. Judgment is not used in the text thon in the sense of con demnation, for Christ expressly declares else where that he oaroe not to condemn sinners. He speaks simply of the effects or results of his coming into the world. He came from God to teach the way of Ufa and to die far sinners, and as tha result of his coming some will welcome the truth and be saved, while others, refusing the light of his teaching, and rejecting the benefits of his mediation, will be made more blind and wicked than they would otherwise have been, and so will perish under aggravated condemnation. The coming of Christ, therefore, and the preaching of the gospel, are simply the occa sion, not the responsible cause, of the en hanced blindness and damnation of those that finally perish. God forbid that the Gospel should be blamed, or held responsible for a rec lit so fatal end appalling. The gospel is honestly meant to save men. It is wisely adapted to this end. It is preached and made powerful to accomplish it. And every sinner who is taught the gospel would be saved by it if he did not resist; salvation would he the uniform and blessed effect and fruit of the gospel, did it every where act on witling and obedient hearts. God never influences sin ners contrary to the truth; he never puts forth an influence io harden their hearts and blind their eyes against the truth. Sinners are blind ed and hardened by means of the gospel; but the fault is theirs, not God’s, not tho truths— theirs, and God holds them responsible for a result so much against the design and spirit and nature of the system of salvation. It is al together owing to the perversity of their hearts and their active resistance to tha truth that any sinners perish under the gospel. They must therefore take the consequences. Such is the Gospel—such the nature of all moral influence—and such are tho laws ©four being, that if a remedial measure, like that of redemption, fail of its end through the wicked and obstinate resistance of those who are the subject of it, it will serve greatly io aggravate the evil and sin it was designed to cure. And there is no avoiding this terrible conse quence. The process and the result upon the lost in the line ofdarkness and enhanced per dition, are as natural, as legitimate, and mor ally inevitable as the opposite process and re sult upon the saved, in the line of light, glory, and blessedness. God will not interfere to counteract the legitimate tendencies, or to defeat the legitimate results of those moral truths, instruments, and agencies which he is employing for the salvation ol men. The gospel wields a mighty agency and influence wherever it goes, and achieves the most im portant result on the character and destiny of ail who come under the sway of its power; but the responsibility of determining the char acter of the resalt produced is wholly man’s. He may convert the entire influence and agen cy of the gospel upon him into a blinding and hardening power, and a means of ruin and wrath. If he will hate *and shun the light, God will not interfere to ward off that moral blindness which is the certain effect of truth resisted. If he will neglect so great a salva tion as the Gospel offers, God will not step in between him and that enhanced perdition which is the necessary consequence. Men are treated as free and accountable beings under the gospel. They are bound to receive and obey it. They are not at liberty to neglect it, and forego the blessings it offers. It lays up on them a tremendous responsibility which they cannot shuffle or evade. They cannot fail of life under it without incurring the guilt of eternal ruin. We have time to note but three of the fatal tendencies of the gospal upon those who re ject it. 1. The first is in the line of moral insensi bility. When a sick man is past feeling, or has lost the power of consciousness, the Phy sician begins to despair. So when sinners come to be insensible under the affecting ex hibitions of truth; when the Gospel has lost its power to arouse their moral feelings, and sin binds the heart with its icy fetters, they are nigh to perdition. And this moral lethargy is induced, sooner or later, upon all who habit ually resist the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is a common and legitimate eflect of continued violence offered to the truth and to our own moral nature. Man is a creature of amazing sensibilities, and powerful feelings ; and the gospel is adapted to work upon these; aid they most be moved or he will never repent. The gospel comes down to him warm with the love of that infinite heart which pities and seeks to save him; but he repels its tender ap peals, its afflicting motives, its subduing influen ces. He meets all that is moving and melting in the gospel in the spirit of opposition. He stifles his feelings, overcomes his convictions, and blunts the edge of truth. And he repeats this many times till he comes at length to hear the gospel with perfect indifference, if not with positive aversion. Is it not a fact, over which thousands of pastors have mourned, that sinners who grow old in our sanctuaries, in resisting the gospel, become more and more insensible under the preaching of the Word ? Sermons that moved them once, move them no longer. Years ago, under the power of a special appeal, or by the affecting scones of a revival, they could be made to shew some signs of life. But what appeal touches them now ? What scene has interest enough to melt their stubborn heart? You may lift up your voice and cry to them never so earnestly, but they no not hear you. You may preach to them in words that burn with emotion, but they rebound from their heart as if it were a wall of adamant. You may lay hold of them with the truth to pull them out of tho fire, but (heir only response will be, “A little more sleep —time enough yet.” Now tho Gospel has been “a saver of death unto death” to each. They have passed through a process which leaves their spiritual nature blasted, and the gospel nothing to act upon that has hope or life in it. They have arrived at that point where they can breast the whole mighty tide of redeeming influences without emotion and without effort. The very heathen show sensibility in mat ters of religion. The dim light of nature alarms their fears. They are anxious concern ing*»he futare. They perform the rights of their false faith often with affecting interest and solicitude. The very “devils,” vre are told, “believe and tremble.” They cannot be stupid or indifferent in view of what God is, and i& view of what he is doing in this world of ours to save sinners. But in the sanctaarics of this gospel world, how many sinners are there this day who are stupid and dead ! The gospel fails to impress them with the solemni ty of its affecting discoveries; it fails to awaken in them the desire to bo saved ; it fails to con vince them ofsin and their need of Christ; it fails to secure any heartfelt interest in the matter of their own eternal destiny. They are just as much at their ease as if no gospel worn sounding its message of life in their ears. With the Bible uufolding the wondrous system of mercy; with the gospel urging its powerful appeals up. ob reason, feeling and faith ; with all the mains which minister to salvation doing their utmost upon them; with the Holy Spirit striving; with all the monitions of providence which a suffering and a dying world can furnish ; with heaven inviting, and hell alarming, and tho bar of Ged confronting the soul, they are yet ««- sensible. Fear has no power to alarm, love uone to molt, truth none to sway. Heaven weeps for them, but their eyes are never mois tened. Pious hearts feel for them, but they are indifferent. The whole amazing system of mercy is active, working it* mighty agencies upon them, but it fails to rouse them from the sleep of sin. Oh ! it is affecting to contem plate this result of the gospel —to see those who ought to be made alive by it to God, plunged into a profimnder, nay, a hopeless insensibility. And yet this is the certain ten dency of the gospel upon all who do not obey J*; Though appalling, the thing is inevitable. There is no sinning against the gospel and es j taping this tvil. This deadening process is going on in your soul continually, so long as you resist, and you cannot hinder it. It will ruin you in spita of all God’s mercies—in spile •f all the gospel’s saving influences—in spite of all that naan can do to prevent it, unless you master this habit of insensibility, and arouse yourself from the lethargy of sin. Yon most open your eyes and look at the truth, or total blindness will be the effect; open your ears and hear the gospel message, or soon you will be past hearing; open yeur heart and let your feelings be touched and exercised, or quickly the power to feel will be gone. 11. A second tendency of the gospel, when rejected, is to a fearful augmentation of guilt. The system of mercy which God has introduced into this world, lays upon mankind a new and most weighty responsibility f It makes a new and affecting dh jvery of the Divine perfections. It gives a new and power ful sanction to the law of eternal rectitude. It urges obedience by new motives of a most in teresting and forcible character. It sheds new light on man’s future destiny; and brings all the moral force of love, mercy and grace to recover man to God. It is throughout a sys* tem of mercy, under which, on the ground of Cb: .si’s mediation, grace is shown to the guilty. G< . lays aside the sternness of offended majesty, and putting ou the compassion of the Father, Cornell down to man in the gospel, and solicits his love. He stays the execution of the law’s stern penalty, and tries the power of love, and all the winning attractions of Incarnate Mercy, and the strivings of the Spirit of all grace, to save if possible his erring children. The gospel, you perceive, then, moulds and gives tone and direction to all God’s dealings with men, both governmental and providen tial. It hence effects a radical change in our relations to God, in all the actions we put forth in those relations, and in the matter of moral character and eternal destiny resulting therefrom. Our relations to God are not merely the relations ofsubjects to a sovereign ; but also the relations of creatures to an un paralleled Benefactor—of perishing sinners to a provided and offered Saviour. A li'e of sin in us is, therefore, not simply a life of trans gression against sovereign authority, but a course of infinite ingratitude towards a Fa- i ther’s love and a Saviour’s death. Guilt must therefore be measured, not only by the justice and claims of God’s law sinned against, but by the light and mercy and privilege of the gospel I •f Jesus Christ. It is a fact of great interest and significance that we live under the gospel. We have grown up and received our education under its genial I instruction and influences. Our views of i truth and duty, our moral feelings, our whole i spiritual being, have been moulded and develop- I ed under the gospel. All our actions, therefore, I and our entire moral character, take their ira pression from the gospel. The gospel has brought us all into a stale and condition pecu liar, and devolves upon us immense obliga tions. it gives us a character possessed by no other beings. It will achieve for each a destiny unlike the destiny of any other part of God’s rational creation. lou perceive, then, that sin, under a system so benignant and gracious, is more inexcusa ble, more atrocious and odious, and carries with it a sorer condemnation, than sin under mere law. Sin on earth, where tho gospel reigns, is tenfold more sinful and ruining than was sin in heaven, when the angels rebelled— than is sin in h i ll, where the beams of Divine love and mercy have never fallen. A charac ter matured in rebellion and depravity, under the light and in spile of the pleadings and in fluences of the gospel, possesses elements and degrees of moral turpitude and halofulness to be found nowhere else. Living as you do un der the highest and best of all God’s dispensa tions, yoar impenitence and disobediecce have not a parallel in the universe. Your guilt is enhanced beyond the power of language to express. Against your ungrateful and sinful life, not only does a violated law thunder its anathemas, but the love of an incarnate Saviour, and the cross of suffering mercy, plead and protest. Every step you advance towards perdition is achieved by overcoming the many obstacles with which Heaven has obstructed the path of sin; by breaking through all those restraints which law and grace have united to impose on transgression ; by resisting ail ©f motive and of saving efficacy there is in God’s stupendous system of redemption. Here un der the full sweep of the Cross you live, and act, and sin, and pass away to your final desti »y- Your rejection of the Gospel does not affect one of the facts embraced in tho system, nor change your relations to it, nor prevent its influence upon you. Your life will bo meas ured, in its duties, in its sins of emission and commission, in its spirit and moral results, by the gospel which you enjoy but to neglect and abuse. A moral necessity is thus laid upon you. You are shut up to the gospel, and you cannot get away from its power. It is down upon you with the tremendous weight of its obligations, with the infinite pressure of its motives and influences, wherever you go, in every volition and act of life. You can do nothing to arrest the workings of that system upon you with which God has put you in con tact. You are every moment exposed to the fall sweep of its mighty power. Aad the des tiny which it is working out for you, will be one that shall honor its agency aad bring glory to God, whether it bo life or death. You may shut yeereyes and remain blin* 1 , bat the glo rious gospel will shine on. You may turn a deaf ear and refuse to hear, but the sublime message of life will still be announced. You may harden yaur heart and resist, but mercy will plead on, and grace flow down to you, and judgment be restrained, aiod the work of des tiny go an to its completion. And then for the consequences! The gospel of life will have exerted upon you the power of a fearful moral death. Your resistance to it and ruin under it, will not only have vastly increased the power of sin over you., and destroyed your moral susceptibilities, but enhanced your guilt as a sinner immeasurably. Hear what Christ himself says on this point: ‘‘lf I had notcorae and spoken to them, they had not had sin.” “This is the condemnation, that they have not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.” That is, tho guilt of rejecting the teaching and the salvation or Jesus Christ is so enormous in the sight of God, as to over shadow all other forms of guilt, and to «tand forth alcne to view in its unparalle’ed and su preme turpitude challenging Omnipotent wrath. 111. Finally. A rejected gospel will en hance the eternal ruin of those who per ish under it. As guilt is in proportion to the knqwlege, mercy, and opportunity einnod against, so future condemnation and punish ment will be measured by the same law. Just as high, therefore, as the gospel elevates sinful men above sinful angels, as it respects tho means and opportunities of spiritual life, just so much lower than they will it be the occa sion of plunging in everlasting shame and ruin thoie who perish under it. We shall bej udged at the bar of Jesus Christ according to a standard essentially different from that by which the heathen, and fallen an gels will be tried. They will be judged ou the ground of law, according to the measure of light given them. But sinners who perish from gospel lands will be judged and condemn ed on the ground of mercy as well as of law. Their guilt will be measured by the superior light and dispensation which they enjoyed—by the love and services of Christ to save them — by the greatness of the salvation offered to and rejected by them. The Judge himself will be tho merciful One who died to save them—who offered them pardon and life—who had done all that infinite love and power could do to save them from death, and they would not be saved. Even Jesns therefore will be con strained to pronounce sentence against sinners. Mercy herself will witness against them Not a voice will dare t© plead their cause. And the assembled universe will be amazed at the spectacle es the Lamb of God pronouncing the doom of eternal perdition against beings or whose salvation he made the mighty cir cuitsf the earth and the cross! But the retrospect of such as parish thus ! When the mists of earth shall all have cleared away, and the clear, calm light of eternity comes to settle down upon the soul; when time and probation are no more; and the judgment has settled all; and hope and merof have retired, and the pressure of eternal doom is felt, oh ! what shall be the reflections, the remorse, the self-upbraiding, the misery, of these who once had the gospel offer made to them, and who might have been saved and made for ever happy in heaven, had they only yielded to that system of grace which they stoutly resisted here on earth! Alas! the picture is too appalling to look upon. Merci ful God ! what shall the realization of it be ? How fearful is the responsibility of all who hear the gospel. The gospel never fails to do its appointed and appropriate work. It wields a supreme influence over every soul that it addresses. It is meant to bless you; it is fitted, it seeks to save you. But despise its instructions, refuse its offers, resist its influ ences, and there is no power in the universe able to prevent a result infinitely disastrous. You turn the very grace of God against you, You arm the Cross with thouders more awful than those of Sinai you pluck down upon yeur soul a ruin enhanced by the utmost guilt. And you cannot avoid this result, unless you repent. Christ has come for judgment as well as for morcy. Christ has died for you ; Christ offers to save you; the whole mighty system of mercy is in motion to bring you to obedience And you cannot alter these facts. You cannot turn them away from your hearts and lives. Influence you they must; decide your destiny they will, in spite of you. You must be saved by the gospel, or damned under it! You must reach heaven from the Cross, or it will plunge you into a deeper ruin. If you will not avail yourself of the benefits of Christ’s services in your behalf, you must take the ler-ible consequences which inevitably follow. Thero is no guilt in tho universe to be com pared with the guilt of rejecting the Son of God. There is no misery, no ruin to be com pared with the misery and the ruin of sinners who periah from tho sanctuaries of this gospel world. Better far that you had never been born—belter that Christ had never undertaken to save you—better that you had never enjoy ed the light and mercy of the gospel, than that | you should live and die in such a land as this, a rejecter of salvation. Chronicle emit Sentinel. ; . - . AUGUSTA, Gt A ; SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 33. NasSiville and Chattanooga Railroad. The following letter from tho President of this Road to the Mayor of Chzrleston, which we find in the Mercury, will be road with lively interest by every Southern patriot. The spirit of progress now abroad iu the land will, in its rapid advancement, sweep out sectional ism and disunionism, while it will build up and render the South independent: Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Office. Nashville, (Tenn.) March 17, 1851. To his Honor J. iScknierle, Mayor of Charles ton, »S. C.—Dear Sir :—Our woric is progressing finely. We have twelve miles of iron down, and about seven miles more of timber laid ready, and will in this way have within three weeks twenty one miles ready, iron and all, and be running over it. We had yesterday between 300 and 400 pas sengers on tbs read. I am satisfied that we will do an immense passenger business. We have a good prcipect now of a road to Louis ville, Ky., to Cairo, and to Memphis, Tenn., all of which will me t certainly be under way within the next twelve months. We find the whole valley of the Mississippi direct ing their main lines of improvements to Nashville, and by that hoping to reach an outlet to their sur plus products through Charleston; and I have con sequently watched, with interest, the movements of your State and City in preparing for direct ship ments and imports, by wh ch your City will be rais ed to a most enviable position in the country. If you will examine the census returns, you will see that the country immediately surrounding Nashville, say, Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, are growing with a giant stride unheard of in the anna!s of man, and our re .d, with the roads making and contemplated from all these directions, will place Charleston nearer to the prin cipal cities of these States than any Atlantic port North of it; and the disastrous casualties on tho waters of the Mississippi recently, contribute to de velope and forward this natural tendency to reach the Atlantic at tho nearest point, and we are at Nashville, preparing ourselves to forward this tendency by sub scribing liberally to improve the river, and to tho three railroads, one from Lousville, one from Cairo, and one to Columbia, Tennessee, and on the Big Bend of the Tennessee River. We have in every way paid out over fifty thous and dollars on what we now call your division of our road, and shall call on you soon through nur mutual friend, H. W. Conner, (who has advanced come money for carriage on iron) for the first quarterly instalment of forty-two thousand dollaia. We have just called for a like sum on the Georgia Road, and will, so soon as we learn they have paid, call en you. Our road ia going on finely at all points, and we will get sixty or eighty miles done this year. We expect to get ten miles of road done from Chattanooga, also, this year. Truly, Y. K. Stevenson, President. The Southern Press Begging. The following extracts from two Columbia (S. C.)correspondentsofihe Greenville Patriot, will be read with infinite pleasure by every true patriot in the South. N© man who values Liberty, the Constitation and Union, will re gret to hear of tho waning condition of this treasonable sheet, or fail to rejoice over its early dissolution: “ DeLeon, one of the editois of the Southern Press, is here, begging for funds to support its tot tering existence. I understand he says if $2,600 is not raised at once, it must go dawn. Well, the rc >n er the better, and so parish every attempt to dirsever our bio ad- cemented aad glorious Confederacy. Do publish the pre ;eedings of the Union celebration of Washington’s Birth D..y.” -v * ♦ * “ The Southern Press, the great disunion organ tit Washington, was going about tha stroe's of Co lumbia, a few days ago, bagging money to keep it afloat!! DeLeon was here himself, with a circular from our Delegation in Congress, petitioning ear nestly for charity, to save and pay the fiddlers! $2,5t 0 was borrowed—and then—and then, commit tees were ap; nt 1 for each Wbt-J, to rak) that amount, that the disinterested backeu might not suf fer any “detriment.” Mark ye! Be not surprised if the cry is heard from these patriotic editors. Keep all we have, and catch all we can—“every man for himself and the devil catch the hindmost.” Good pay and Saratoga—or, we quit the concern.” Free Negroes in Delaware.—The Le gislature of Delaware has been legislating on the subject of free negroes in that State. It is proposed to remove from the State the more worthiest of this unfortunate race, so as to stimulate others to self-elevation and im provement. The act also provides for the prevention of the incursion of the hordes of ne groes—«nder prentence of meeting,, preces s-ons, into Wilmington and one or two other towns of the State. Another and dis linct law provides for the binding out of ail free negro children between certain ages, to some useful avocation or trade, ao as to do away with the wretched manner in which it is said they generally are allowed to grew up in vice and idleness. The act provides for their relief from thair indentures, and all eases of cruelty or bad treatment, and ala© takes ear© es their support and comfort, and we believe til*o gives a stipulated compensation. Tcdeaco. Thk music loving world of Augusta, end vicinity, will be gratified to learn that the gift ed and accomplished Tedesco, will give two of her Operatic Concerts in costume, in this city on Taesday and Thursday evenings next, Dims Cotton.—A sale of ten bales of this Cotton, quality Middling Fair, grown by Gen. George R. Jessup, es Madison, Morgan Co., was made yesterday by Messrs. Dte «& Heard to Geo. W. Lewis, for fourteen cents per pound. Ohio and the Fugitive Act.—The House of Representatives of Ohio, on the 12th inst., passed the following resolution, relative to the Fugitive Slave Law by a vote of 40 to 20; •‘That oar Senators in Congress be instruct* ed and our Representatives requested, to use ail honorable means to obtain an immediate re peal, modification, or amendment, of the act of Congress, usually styled the Fugitive Slave Law, approved {September 18, 1850.’ From the Savannah Republican. State Finances, Public Debt, State Road, &c« We glean the following facts from the report of the committee appointed by Gov. Towns, under an act of the legislature, to examine into the state of the Treasury, Central Bank, Peni tentiary, and the public debt, during those years when the legislature is not in session. The gentlemen who constitute the present com mittee are Geo. D. Philips, J. L. Harris and Wna. W. Clayton. In regard to the financial condition of the State, the committee report: That there was in the Treasury on the 20thof October, 1819, $354,697 52 Which amount was increased by pay ments daring the fiscal year 1850, ••• 255,226 93 Making together the sum of $709,924 50 From this amount, disbursements were made during the same period, of-... 355,440 00 Leaving a balance in the Treasury, on the 20th October, 1850, of .'.... $354,484 50 From this sum may be deducted as un nvailabl* for Executive warrants* ••• 286,746 00 Leaving a balance of- §67, 738 50 Since the close of the past fiscal year, say the 20th October, 18j0, up to the 17th February, there has been paid into the Treasury, 282,182 07 Making an aggregate of. $349,920 57 The disbursements during the same pe riod have amounted to 145,672 75 Which being deducted, shows a bai lee of. $204,247 82 The assets and cash composing this balance were counted and (bund cor rect. The public, or Stale debt, amounts And the bonds have from 18 to 23 years to run. The rommiitee recommend that tba surplus in the Treasury be applied to “purchasing the residue of our sterling bonds sold by Reid, Irving & Co., of London, amounting to seventy-two thousand dollars, if it can be accomplished on fair terms.” If this cannot be done, then they suggest “the redemption of some of our home securities ” The “interest paid on the public debt, foreign and domestic,” (during the year, wo suppose.) amounts to“oie hundred and nine ty thousand and twenty-six dollars, sixty-four cents.” In regard to the “real condition” of the Central Bank, the committee ia unable to ar rive at any satisfactory conclusion. “They find no difficulty in arriving at the indebtedness of the institution, nor are they at fault as to the amount of assets shown by the cashier’s books, but what is au enigma to them, and will doubtless so prove to ail other#, is to as certain (he true amount of the available re sources of the bank.” Such are the words of the committee, and they proceed to say : “The bank has been in a state of liquidation for some ten years, and yet the amount of notes and bills of exchange discounted, reach the large sum of $370,838 32 at this time—the groat length of time which has elapsed, since this debt was created, in connexion with the vigilance of the officers to secure it, would seem to indicate, that ranch the largest por tion of this asset will become a total loss.” The Committee, after estimating that $123,- 612 77, being one-third of the above amount, may be realized, and stating that “all the 8 per cent bonds of the bank have been redeemed by the issue of 7 per cent, bonds, in accor dance with an act of the legislature of 1847,” and $125,000 of 7 per cent, bonds redeemed with cash, proceeds to give the following state ment of the condition of the institution : LIABILITIES. Bonds bearing 7 per cent, interest*.. *5390,000 00 Due Planters’Bank, Savannah *4,446 03 “ Individual Dep05it0r5......... 11,412 37 Bills in circulation 13,269 50 Total $419,147 90 RESOURCES. Notes and Rills of Ex change ( estimated gool) $123,612 77 Suspense acc’t (estima ted good) 2,616 17 Dae by Bank of Augus ta 14,759 33 Marine <& P. Insurance B’k Agency, Macon 173 89 Real Estate 2,377 49 Cash on hand 15,845 72-3159,385 48 Showing a deficit of $259,762 42 The Lunatic Asylum is reported to be in a satisfactory condition. The committee pro pose to examine and report noon the condition and prospects of the State Road the ensuing spring, in time' 1 they say, u to be presented to the people of Georgia before they shall have eleo ted representatives, who may be called on to act in reference to matters therein contained .” Tho operations of the Penitentiary for the last five quarter*, from Oct. 7th, 1849, to Dec. 31st, 1850, show a profit of $1,956 61. The assets of the institution are estimated at $42,845 84, and its liabilities at $11,321 23. The commit tee add : “ We feel constrained to suggest that your Excellency, if you concur in our views, should invite the attention of the Legislature to the classification of offenders, looking to the crimes which have placed them here for pun ishment, so far as to require them to bo dis tinguished by a difference of dress and to the species of employment to which they may be put. “As offences vary in moral turpitude and in public opinion, so should the discipline and treatment in reference to the prisoners.” The Ohio Constitution was adopted ia the recent convention of that State—year 76, nays 14. It is to be submitted to a vote of the peo ple on the third Tuesday of June, and, if ap proved, elections will taka place nnder it the second Tuesday in October, at which time a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Legislature, five Supreme Judges, a large number of Dis trict Judges, clerks of courts, and all connty officers are to be elected. Mortality on Shipboard.—-The De Wilt Clinton, which arrived at New York on Mon day from Liverpool, had thirty-one deaths during thewovage, and at present forty es her passengers are sick with the ship fever. Richmond (Va.) Congressional District. —Hon. John A. Seddon was unanimously renominated for Congress by the Democratic Convention, at Richmond, Virginia, ob Tues j day. - j | _ Tbe S T° I rm thb East.— The New York Commercial, of Tuesday evening, says; “Thestorm was severely felt last night on Staten Island. The road along the shore of Stapleton was submerged several inches. Nearly all tbe vessels at anchor off Staten Islanu di Jgged their anchors to a considerable distance. This morning they had all brought upend were riding out the storm safely. “ On the North and East rivers the tide rose above the docks last ever : ng. Much damage has been done on the north side of the city. In tho neighborhoods of Rector, Albany, Washington, West and other streets, several families have been driven from their houses. “On the Jersey coast much damage, we fear, has been done, for the storm must have been severe in that quarter.” The Tribune, of the same afternoon, says: “ About two o’clock this morning the storm of the past 24 hours finally assumed the form of snow. The Sound boats had not arrived at 12 o’clock to-day. Tbe boats from Albany came in about nine o’clock this morning. Tho shipping of the port, thus far, has not sustain ed much damage, but vessels ou the coast must bo in a perilous condition, for the air is so filled with snow as to render it impossible for any pilot to know his position. The predic tion of the old lady in Maryland, who, after forty years of silence, opened her mouth to give utters nee to the announcement that there would yt t be a fall of snow tight feet deep seems likely to be verified. “The steamer State of Maine, which left last evening for Fall River, has been obliged to put back on account of the violence of the storm od the Sound. “The Brother Jonathan aud Carribbean, steamers for Chagres have postponed their sail ing till to morrow. “We have aot had a single arrival from sea during tho whole day. The sea never ran so high as it did this morning in the rivers and barber in twenty years past.” Bank or Savannah.—Mr. Wm B. Tins ley, of Milledgeville, was yesterday elected Cashier of tho Bank of Savannah. He is at this time State Treasurer, and has held that position for seven years past.— Sav. Rep. The New Savannah Steamers.—We learn from Capt. Barden, recent y from New York, that the new steamers to run between this place and Charleston will be ready to take their places about the first of May, and the first of June. The work is progressing satis factorily, and it is expected when completed, that they will be able to make the distance between the two cities inside of eight hours Sav. Rep. Still another fugitive case.—Two fugi tive slaves from Virginia were arrested and examined last week at Uniontown, Penayl vania. Daring the trial, a dispatch was receiv ed from Brownsville, announcing that an armed body of men would proceed from that place to rescue the fugitives. Upon the re ceipt of this intelligence, the sheriff of Union town ordered out a company of volunteers, and a large number of citizens shouldered their muskets and entered the company. Tin United States flag was displayed—tho com pany joined by the patriotic citizens, marched through the streets, headed by a band of fine music—and confidence was soon established in every heart that the law would be executed faithfully and fearlessly. The disorganizes from Brownsville were met on their arrival by tho volunteer company and citizens. But notwithstanding they had come some distance to assist the fugitives, they were not so philan thropic as to fight for them—so they backed out, or as they say in the west, vamosed. The further hearing of the case was post poned. The patriotic bearing of the people of Uoiontown shows that their place baa its proper name.— Sav. Repub. The Burnt Railroad Depot. —There was no one killed by the burning of tho largo rail road depot at •pringfield. Mas*., ou the 17tb, as at first thought. Os the thirty on the roof when it fell in, about ten or twelve wore taken oat inj ired—none, it is believed, fatally. One had his arm and another his leg broken. The building was old and of wood. Remains or a Mammoth.—ln excavating on the railroad, about six miles from Wheeling, Va , was discovered a tusk of a gigantic aui mal, embedded in sand about 16 feel. Tho tusk was not less than 6£ feet long, and at the large end measured 18 inches in circumference. Spinal ffiotixeg. JjT Singing 1 Class.—-By request, Mr. Buck has charge of a class of beginners in Vocal Music— a few more can be received at $5 for 25 lessons. Meetings TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS, 7* P. M., at his school room, mh23 CHARLES BERI'FF) PORTRAIT AND MINIATURE PAINTER, Room No. 4, Masonic Hall , HAVING located in Augusta, with tho purpose of pursuing his Profession, will be pleased te receive the calls of those who may favor him with their patronage. Mr. Rebuff will teach (he principles of the art, if a class should be formed for that purpose. ja7-6m J. M. NEWBY & CO. O’Haveonhand a large lot of fine Black Cloth Dress and Frock COATS; fine Black and figured Cassimere PANTS; Black Salin, and all other styles of VESTS; SHIRTS, DRAWERS, SUSPENDERS, GLOVES, die., <&c, To which they invite the aßention of purchasers. They have a few heavy OVER-COATS, SACKS, &t 5., &c., that will be sold very low, to make room for Spring Goods. Call and see them. jal7 From the Fall River Monitor, Mass. O’ WistAs g Balaam of Wild Cherry— This medicine, prepared by a long experienced ami skillful physician,- tested and approved by a great number of intelligent, distinguished and respectable persons in various part* of the country, is now re ceived, and used with entire confidence and with great *acr-e >y those afflicted with pulmonary com plaints. It ia also recommended as a valuable me dicine for other disease?, such as colds, coughs, and particularly diseases whose tendency is to consump tion. IMPORTANT FROM CANADA. Quebec, July 24, 1848. To all who are afflicted with Asthma : I have at different times been afflicted with severe colds, which produces in my case the Asthma. I have, on these occasions, used Dr, Wistar’s Balsam es Wild Cherry. Two years ago I was quite sick, so much so that I could not rest nights. I procur ed of the agent of this city, a bottle of this Balsam of Wild Cherry. Before I had taken the whole of it I felt relieved. I continued taking it, until 1 had used three or four bottles, which completely cured me. The present season I took another severe cold, and immediately resorted to this Balsam, and a part of one bottle had the desired effect. I therefore cheerfully recommend my friends and all others who need it, to try f" ia medicine for their coughs and colds, and particularly the Asthma. Respectfully, yours, WM. McGRATH. without the written signature of I. BUTT& on the wrapper, if you would avoid imposi tion; 84,6 b y Carter & Co., Havilapd, Risley & Co., D. B. Plumb & Co., W. K. Kitchen and P. A. Moise, Augusta. By H. C. Seymour & Co., Madison. By Die. Reese Ware, Athens. By T. M. Turner & Co., Savannah. By Dr. P. M. Cohen, Charleston ; and by Seth W. Powle’s Agents every where. mh2l-tw<fevrt SUGARS. JUST RECEIVED, by the Steamer Isabel— -15,000 fine SEOARS, 5,000 of which are very superior. For *d« by rnh22-3 G. T. EiORTIC. SEIDLITZ POWDERS. AVERY FINE article (doable weight) pre pared expressly for (he subscriber. For sale by mh22 WM. H. TUTT, Druggiat. OATS. A LOT of fine OATS for sale by mil BAKER, WILCOX * CO.
