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VOL. I. TIIE SOUTHERN SENTINEL I* pnblished crery Thursday .Mornin?, IX COLUMBUS, GA. BY WM. H. CHAMBERS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Ofiirc up stairs, Corner of Broad and Randolph sis. Terms of Subscription. One copy twelve months, in advance, - * - £2 50 M “ “ “ At the end of the year, 300 ** “ ** “ After the year expires, 400 Rates ot Advertising* One square, first insertion, ... - SI 00 ” “ Each subsequent insertion, . . 50 Contracts will be made for advertising by the quarter, or by the year, at liberal deductions from the above rates. All obi Wary and marriage notices must be .accompanied by a responsible name, and where they exceed one square they will be charged as other advertisements. To CoaßFaroNDKvrs.—All communications must be addressed (post paid) to the Proprietor at this place. Contributions must he accompanied with the real name •of the writer. Sturgis 4V Miner, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Rttcun Vi.stn, Nlarioii county, Ua. \V r l 1.1, practice in all the conn lies of Ihe ('hat to boor bee ’ ” and adjoining counties o! the Jduut'i Western Circuit. TIIAD. STURGIS, E. XV. MILLER. Feb. IS, 1319 7 ts Daiieiii"’ Academy. Mil. R. POWKLL, (late of New York,) has the honor to announce to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Columbus, and its vicinity, that he ex pects to open a class sometime in January next, should lie receive sufficient patronage, for the purpose of giving instruction in that polite art, in all its varieties. In nd ■dition to the plain style of Dancing and Waltzing, the fol lowing FASHIONABLE AND FANCY DANCES will he taught during the season : Cachuchti, El Jaleo Xeres, La Sylphitle, Cel- Ariritis Walt/., Craeovienne, .Vltiscovienne, Re jjatta Hornpipe, Reclowa Walt/, Yarsovietitie, : Hightail-.] 1-ling, Wreath Waltz, Cing Temps, j Polka Waltz, Ate. Together with the fashionable Quadrilles of Polka Mazurka, 1-t and 2nd sets, ami now Quadrilles of 1 Iledmva, as danced in the principal eities and fash ionable watering places in the United States. l.adies who may wish to learn the more late and ■■ fashionable styles, such as Po'ka. Mazurka, Itedowa | and Cellarius Waltzing, or Polka. Mazurka, and Rdowa Quadrilles, will be wailed on at their resi lient', on day and Itour- to suit ‘heir convenience. j I*rents and guardians entrusting their children to my charge, may rely on the strictest attention | being paid to their ease, grace and general deport- I •unit. Terms, and other details may be known 0:1 appli cation to me. Dec. 20. 1810. 51 ts IMPORTANT TO MILL OWNERS AM) PLANTERS. FMT HR undersigned will contract for building j JL Rock Dams, or any kin dos rock work and I ditching, in any part ol this State or Georgia, in the j most improved manner. TIMOTHY R. COLLINS, Fort Milcht/I, Russell , Cos. Ala. 8e0.6,1949. 49 Cm. j Notice to Travellers. THAT pleasant and well known Stand formerly j occupied by James McGuire, and known as the half-way Unuse from Columbus to Lumpkin, lias been j taken by the subscriber, where lie will endeavor to , give satisfaction to all who may favor him with ‘heir | patronage. N. J. BUSSEY', j Jamestown, Jan. 10, 1350. 2I in I CT KORGIA, MUSCOGEE COUNTY -Where- j as Abner C. Flewellen, Elvira Flewellen and William 11. Chambers, apply for letters of Adminis tration upon the estate of Abner Flewellen, late of said county, deceased: These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of said deceased to show cause, (if any they have.) within the time ; prescribed by law, why the administration of said es- i tate should not be granted to the said applicants. Given under my hand this 30tlt January, 1850. J.\<_). JOHNSON, C. C. O. January 31, 1850. 5 5t North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. LOCATED AT RALEIGH, X. C. f INiIR Charier of thi* company gives important ncfvtin- X tiecuto the as.-mred, over mo*t other companies. The husband cun i i.tire hi* own life lor the sole use j ami benefit ol’ hi* wife ami children, free from n_v other claim*. Person* who insure for life participate in the I protit* which are declared annually, and when the |>re- | ini in exc.rrd- -J it), may pay one half in a note. Staves are insured at two thirds their value for one or five year*. Applications for Risk* may be made to JOII.\ MUSS, Agent, Colun.hus, da. VTT Office at Greenwood Sc Co.'s Warehouse. November ]5,1819. ts TO PHYSICIANS, DRUGGISTS AND COUNTRY MERCHANTS. DU. J. X. KEELER &. BRO. mort respectfully! nolicit attention to their fresh stock of English, French, German ami American Drugs, Medicines, Che- ! micals, Paints, Oils, Dye-stuffs, Glassware, Perfumery, i Patent Medicines, &c. Having opened anew store Xo. 294 Market-st, with a full supply of Fresh Drugs and j Medicines, we respectfully solicit country dealers to exa- i mine our stock before purchasing elsewhere, promising j one and all who may be disposed to extend us their patron age, to sell them genuine Drugs and Medicines, on as liberal terms as any other house in the city, and to faith fully execute all orders entrusted to us promptly and with dispatch. One of the proprietors being a tegular physi cian, affords ample guarantee of the genuine quality of all articles sold at their establishment. We especially invite druggists and country merchants, who may wish to become agents for Dr. Keeler’s Celebrated Family- Medicines, (standard ami popular remedies.) to forward their address. Soliciting the patronage of dealers, we respectfully remain, J. X. KEELER BRO. Wholesale Druggists, Oct. 11,1840. ly X 0.234 .Market-st. Phi Pa. Itags, Mags! Rags! The Rock Island Factory IS prepared to purchase clean LINEN, II K.MP or Cot ton RAGS, and will pay 3j cents per pound tor One Hundred Thousand pounds, delivered at the .Mills, on the Chattahoochee river, three mile* above Columbus,in quantities ol’ net less than 100 pounds. DCf*Merchants and Tinders in the surrounding country would do well to draw the attention ot theircusloir.ers to the advantage of SAVING RAGS, und exchanging them for Goods and Wares. CASH will always be paid for Rags at ‘‘Rock Island Factory.” Bv order of the Board. GEORGE W. WINTER, Sec’v. Columbus, Ga. March I, IST). 9 ts ~SSO REWARD. RAX ANN AY trotn the subscriber, about the 15th February last, a small mulatto woman, by the name of FRANCES, she is about four feet ten or ele ven inches high, speaks quick and laughs loud, with ra ther a squeaking voice, her nose and mouth project ra ther more than i6 common for mulattos; she had rings in her ears when she left, and always wears something on her head. I will pay fifty dollars for the apprehen sion and safe keeping of her so that I can get her. I will also pay a liberal reward for proof sufficient to con ”*£t any person of harboring her, aa J have reasons to be lievo aha hs coßsealed by sc~s one. „ S. 7. AUSTIN November I, THE SOUTHERN SENTINEL From the Am. Sentinel. [a sew version.] “SOME LOVE TO ROAM.” BY ALFRED FA3A. Some love to roam o’er the mountain home, Where the shrill winds whistle free ; But a chosen band, far, far from land, And a sailors life give me ! When frowns the skv, and the waves roll high, We start like the bounding roe, And swift through foam, on our ocean home, Right merrily!on we go ! Ye ho, ye ho, &c. Our watch we mark, when the night grows dark, And our joyous way we track ; And for right good cheer, on the wild waves here, Oh, why should the sailor lack ? With a s eadfast pride, the bark our bride, And a heart that fears no foe— Where wild waves dance ‘ncath the lightning's glance, Oh, merrily forth we go! Ye ho, ye ho, &e. HEAVEN’S JUSTICE. A Talc of Hungary. BY CHARLES MACFARLANE. Carolo VrtJhcchi, :t horse-dealer, on the third night alter his departure from Vienna, stopped at a quiet inn, situated in the suburbs of a small town. lie bad never been there before, but the house was comfortable, and the appearance of the people about it respectable. Having first attended to his tired horse, bo sat down to sup- ■ per with bis host and family. During the meal, j he was asked whence he came, and when he j had said from N ienna, all present were anxious j to hear the news. The host then inquired what business had carried him to Vienna. He told I them he had been there to sell some of the best horses that were ever taken to that market.— W hen he heard this, the host cast a glance at one ot the men of tlie family who seemed to be his son, which the dealer scarcely observed I lion, but which he had reason to recall afterwards.— W hen supper was finished, the fatigued travel ler requested to be shown to bis bed. The host himself took up a light, and conducted him across ; a little yard at the back of the bouse to a de tached building, which contained two rooms, j tolerably decent for a Hungarian hotel. In the inner ot these rooms was a lied, and here the ! host left him to himself. As the dealer threw ! *-H his Jacket and loosened the girdle round his ! waist where his money was deposited, he thought he might as well see whether it was all sale. Accordingly he drew out an old leather purse that contained his gold, and then a tattered parchment pocket-book that contained the Aus trian bank notes, and finding that both were j quite right, lie laid them under his bolster, ex tinguished the light, and threw himself on the ! bed, thanking God and the saints that bad car ried him thus far homeward in salt ty. 11c had no misgiving as to the character of the people j he had fallen amongst to hinder his repose, and j the poor dealer was very soon enjoying a pro found and happy sleep. I He might have been in this state of beati-! tude an hour or two, when he was disturbed by i a noise like that of an opening window, and by ; ti sudden rush of cool night air; on raising hint- ; selt on the bed, he saw peering through an open ; window, which was almost immediately above j the bed, the bead and shoulders of a man, who ! was evidently attempting to make his ingress into the room that way. As the terrified dealer ; looked, the intruding figure was withdrawn, and ‘ he heaid a rumbling noise, and the voices of! several men, as he thought, close under the i window. The most dreadful apprehensions, the ; more horrible astSey were so sudden, nowag-j itated the traveller, who scarcely knowing what lie did, but utterly despairing of preserving his j life, threw himself under the bed. lie had 1 scarcely done so, when the hard breathing of a | man was heard at the open window, and the next moment a robust fellow dropped into the room, and, after staggering across it, groped bis way by the wall to the bed. Fear bad almost deprived the horse-dealer of his senses, but yet he perceived that the intruder, whoever be might be, was drunk. There was, however, slight comfort in this, for he might only have swallow ed wine to make him the more desperate, and the traveller was convinced that he had heard j the voices of other men without, who might ! climb iutothc room to assist their brother villain j in case any resistance should be made. His as- ! tonishment, however, was great and reviving | when he heard the fellow throw oft” his jacket on ! the floor, and then toss himself upon the bed un der which he lay. Terror, however, had taken too firm a hold of Vetsheclii to be shaken off’at once—his ideas were too confused to permit his imagining any other motive for such a midnight intrusion on an unarmed man with property about him, save that i ot a robbery and assassination, and he lay quiet j where he was until he heard the fellow snoring with all the sonorousness of a diunkard. Then, ! indeed, he would have left his hiding-place, ; and gone to rou*e the people in the inn to get j another resting place instead of the bed of which ! he had been dispossessed in so singular a manner; but, just as he came to this resolution, he heard the door of the outer room open —then stealthy steps cross it—then the door of the very room he was in softly opened, and two men, one of whom was the host and the other the son,! appealed on its tTireshhokl. “Leave the light where it is,” whispered the host, “ or it may ; disturb him and give us trouble.” “There is j no fear of that,” said the younger man, also in a whisper—“we are two to one; ho lias noth ing but a little knife about him—he is dead asleep too; hear how he snores!” “Do my bidding,” said the man sternly ; “would y < u have him wake, and rouse the neighborhood with his screams ?” As it was, the horror-stricken dealer under the bed could scarcely suppress a shriek, but he saw that the son left the light in the outer room, and then, pulling the door partially after them, to screen the rays of the lamp from the bed, he saw the two murderers glide to the bed-side, and then heard a rustling motion ns of arma de scending on the bed clothes, and a hissing, and then a grating sound, that turned his soul sick, for he knew it came from knives or daggers pen etrating to the heart or vitals of a human being like Hinselt, and only a few inches above, his own body. This was followed by one sudden and violent start on the bed, accompanied by a moan. Then the bed, which was a low one, was bent by an increase of weight, caused by one or both the murderers throwing themselves upon it, until it pressed on the body of the trav eller. There was an awful silence for a mo ment or two, and then the host said: “He is finished;—l have cut him across the throat—take the money', ! saw fc:m put it under h:a bolster.” COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 14, 1850. “I have it—here it is,” said the son ; “a purse and a pocket-book.” Velshechi was then relieved trom the weight which had pressed him almost to suffocation ; and the assassins, who seemed to tremble as they went, ran out of the room, took uptho light, and.disappeared altogether from the apartment. No sooner were they fairly gone than the poor dealer crawled from under the bed, took one desperate leap, and escaped through the window by which he had seen enter the unfortunate wretch, who had evidently been murdered in hi? stead. He ran with all his horrid story and mi raculous escape to the night-watch. The night watch conducted him to the burgomaster, who was soon a.roused from his sleep, and acquaint ed him with all that had happened. In less than half an hour from the time of his escape from it, the horse-dealer was again at the murderous inn with the magistrate and a strong force of horror stricken inhabitants and the night-watch, who had all run thither in the greatest silence. In the house all seemed as still as death ; but as i the party went round to the stables they heard a j noise; cautioning the rest to surround the inn and the outhouses, the magistrate, with the travel -1 ler and some halfdozen armed men, ran to the stable door; this they opened, and found within the host and his son digging a grave. The first figure that met the eyes of the mur derers was that of the traveller. The effect of ihis on their guilty souls was too much to be I borne ; they shrieked, and threw themselves on j the ground ; and though they were immediately s seized by hard griping hands of real flesh and blood, and heard the voices of the magistrate j ; tied their friends and neighbors, denouncing them j ! as muderers, it was some minutes ere they could j believe that the figure of the traveller that stood ; among them was other than a spirit. It was the hardier villain, the father, who, on the stranger’s voice continuing in conversation with the magis trate, first gained sufficient command over himself to raise his face from the caith. He saw the stranger still pale and haggard, but evidently un hurt. The murderer’s head spun round confus edly ; hut, at length rising, he said to those who held him: “Let me see that stranger nearer; let me touch him—only let me touch him ?” The poor horse-dealer drew back in horror and dis- ! gust. “You may satisfy him in this,” said the j magistrate ; “he is unarmed and unnerved, and j we are here to prevent his doing you harm.”—; On this the traveller let the host approach him, j and pass his hand over his person, which, when j he had done, the villain exclaimed : “I am no! murderer ! Who says f am a murderer ?” “That shall we see anon,” said the traveller, who led the way to the detached apartment., followed by J the magistrate, by the two prisoners, and all the : party which had collected in the stable on hear ing what passed there. Both father and son walked with considerable confidence into the room ; but when they saw by the lamps the night-watch and others held over it, that there was a body covered with blood lying upon the bed, they cried out, “How is this ! who is this !” and rushed together to the bed-side. The lights were lowered; their rays fell full up on the ghastly face and bleeding throat of a young man. At the sight, the younger of the tnur deters turned his head, and swooned in silence; but the father, uttering a shriek so loud, so awful, that one of the eternally damned alone might equal its effect, threw himself on the gashed and bloody body, and murmuring in bis throat, “My son ! 1 have killed mine own son !” also found a temporary relief from the horrors of his situa tion in insensibility. The next minute the wretched hostess, who was innocent of all that had*passed, and who was, without knowing it, the wife of a murderer, the mother of a murderer, and the mother ofa murdered son, of a son killed by a brother and a lather, ran to the apartment, and would have increased tenfold its already insupportable hor rors by entering there, bad she not been pre vented by the honest townspeople. She had been roused from sleep by the. noise made in the stable, and then by her husband’s shriek, and was now herself shrieking and frantic, car ried back to the inn by main force. The two murderers were forthwith bound and carried to the town jail, where, on examination, which was made the next morning, it appeared from evi dence that the person murdered was the young est son ot the landlord ot the inn, and a person never suspected of any crime more serious than habitual drunkenness ; that instead of being in lied, as his father and brother had believed him, he had stolen out of the house, and joined a party of carouse is in the town ; these boon com panions, all appealed in evidence ; and two of them deposed that the deceased, being exceed ingly intoxicated, and dreading bis father’s wrath, should he rouse the house in such a state, and at that late hour, had said to them that he would get through the window into the little fle nched apartment, and sleep there,as he had often done before, and that they too accompanied him to climb to the window. The deceased had reached the window once, and as they thought would have got safe through it, but, drunk and unsteady as he was, lie slipped back; they had then some difficulty in inducing him to climb again, for, in the caprice of intoxication, he said he would rather go sleep with one of his com rades. However, he lmd at last effected his en trance ; and they, his two comrades, had gone to their respective homes. The wretched crim inals were, executed a lew weeks uftcr the com mission of the ciime. They had confessed every thing, and restored to Vetsheclii the gold and the paper mosey they had concealed, and which had led them to do a deed so much more atrocious than even they had anticipated. A Wife's Prayer. —Lord ! bless and preserve that dear person whom Thou hast chosen to he my husband ; let his liS’e be long and blessed, comforta ble and holy ; and let me also become a great blessing and comfoit unto him, a sharer in all his joys, a re freshment in all his sorrows, a meet helper for him in all the accidents and chances of the world; make rne amiable forever in his eyes, and very dear to him. Unite his heart to me in the dearer union of love and holiness, and mine to him in all sweetness, char ity and compliance. Keep Irorn me all ungentleness, all discontentedness, and unreasonableness of passion and humor; make me humble and obedient, charita ble and loviryj, patient and contented, useful and ob servant, that we may delight in each other according to Thy Hosted word and ordinance, and both of us may rejoice in Thee, having our portion of the love ad service of God forever. A Simple Rule. —To ascertain the length of the day and night at any time of the year, double the time of the sun’s ri>ing, which gives the length of the night, and double the time of setting, which gives the length of the day. O’ Dr. Johnson, being once in company with seme scandal-mongers, one of them having accused an absent friend of resorting to rouge, he observed, •‘lt is, perhaps, after all, much better tor a lady to redden her own cheeks, thaa ip tJack?a other peo ple’s characters.” Mr. Foote’s Speech. In the United States Senate, on the 23th January, the question being on the motion to print Mr. Seward’s amendment to the Bill from the Judiciary committee, to provide more effec tually for the recovery pf fugitive slaves—Mr. Foote said : Most profoundly grateful am I, Mr. Presi dent, to the honorable gentlemen who compose this august assembly, for the unanimous con sent which they have so generously awarded me of addressing them at the present moment— when, according to strict rules of parliainenta ry order, no debate upon the merits of the amendment of the honorable senator from New York [Mr. Seward] is at all allowable. I promise to take no undue advantage of the lib erality exercised towards me ; and I shall there fore exert myself so to limit the observations ; which I propose to offer for the consideration of honorable senators, as to avoid fatiguing their j patience, and to avoid also, if possible, t he do | ingot anything disgusting their good taste in ! any respect whatever. The question to which [ shall turn my attention is simply this: Is it I expedient , under all the circumstances which | surround us at the present moment, to print the | amendment of the honorable senator from New i York, as offered by him l Now, sir, I have not j been much in the habit heretofore of opposing I mere motions to print; nor should I think of! | doing so on the present occasion, but for sever- j | al special reasons which 1 shall presently pro- j ; ceetl to state. It strikes me that the amendment j is one ot a character well calculated, if \vc should print it, and thu? facilitate its general circulation, to do deep injury to the reputation of the honorable senator from New York, both in this country and in foreign lands. There is so much of the spirit of genuine demagogtiism about it—so little of elevated statesmanship— ! so little of regard for the constitution which we \ are all sworn to support—so little of that manly | respect for the rights designed to be secured in j •he great national compact which binds these j States together as equal and confederated sov. | ereignties—there is so much of mere pettifog- j ging craft apparent in same amendment— such a disposition evinced in it to propitiate the lowest, and basest, and most malevolent fanati cism, at the expense of justice, the constitutor!, those generous feelings of confraternity and mutual good will on which the Union of these States was founded, and without which that sa cred Union itself cannot continue to subsist that, as one not unfriendly to the fame ands • lure political advancement of the honorable senator from New York, I am not willing that his amendment should be formally printed by j cur order, and go forth to the world with the of- j ficial indicia of authenticity enstamped upon its face. Were I really an enemy of tlie hon orable senator from Now York—were I hostile to his fame, and anxious that his present claims to the respect of enlightened men and good cit izens, throughout this extended republic of ours, should become suddenly and forever extinct—l should rejoice, as I do not, that this amendment has been offered, and I should not fail to do all in my powei to multiply copies of it for general circulation over the whole country. For, sir, it cannot be that the American people, have yet reached a depth of degradation so profound, and have become so regardless of al! the principles of fairness, and liberality, and disinterested patriotism, as not to look upon this formal and deliberate attempt ofthc honorable senator from New York to spoliate upon the known and un deniable rights and interests of all the southern States of the confederacy with pointed disap probation, with hot contempt, with unmitiga ted loathing, and abhorrence unutterable. Sir, it does seem to me, that no one who listened to the calm, dignified, and truly national argument ofthc honorable senator from Virginia, [Mr. Mason.] this day pronounced in our hearing, and who duly appreciated the sound and states, manlike views avowed by him, can hear the amondjnent of the honorable senator from New Yotk even read, without being satisfied at once that this amendment was designed to cap the the climax of southern wrongs, to cause the cup ofottr oppression at once to overflow, and to force us of the South, whose lot it is to be the owners of slave property, to secede from the Union, or, remaining in it, to submit to a wan ton, heartless, and insulting deprivation of all our constitutional rights, such as no respectable people have ever been known patiently to en dure. Sir, I must be permitted to declare, al so, that 1 entertain most fearful apprehensions as to the destruction of tlie present popularity and influence ot the honorable senator from New York from the printing and circulation of this unfortunate amendment of his ; and as he has arrived at that period of life when ho must be presently useful and glorious, or be con strained to endure the torments which wait up on obscurity, or the still more grievous woes which spring from deserved degradation ; as he has recently assumed anew position, in which he may have it in his power to add to the reputation which he has already acquired enhance that popularity which he hits here tofore established—and, if he should be both judicious and fortunate, might even succeed in reaching higher honors than any which he has yet achieved—honors which are now glittering before his vision in the distant future, and which I suspect him of often vividly realizing both in noonday dreams of fancied rapture and in the golden visions which light up the dim ness of nocturnal slumber-—as the honorable senator, as it seems to me, has now reached ! the very climax of his fate—and may be seen ‘ distinctly balancing, as it were, upon tho very ; pivot of his destiny; as the circumstances which surround him are so full of hope and of \ encouragement on the one side, and yet so full of peril, and of desperation, and of Litter disap pointment oil the other—l do feel tho deepest regret that the honorable senator from the Em pire State should have ventured upon a move- 1 rnent so well calculated as the one in which he is now engaged to lower bis standing as a pub lic man—to overturn that popularity which it has cost him years of labor and of manage ment to establish, and to blast all those antici pations of political power and grandeur in which he has heretofore so blissfully revelled. I will explain myself moie fully ; else I may not lie perfectly understood either by tho honorable i gentleman, the Senate, or the nation. Then I mean to say, sir, that the amendment of the honorable senator is not objectionable alone upon tbe political and moral grounds NV j t h a statement of which 1 commenced these rather desultory remarks, but also on account of tv? particular ami rather ominous connection which it seems to have with several very sti iking in cidents of the honorable senator’s former life, which, if the Senate will bear with me, I will proceed to specify. And first, I beg leave to remind gentlemen of a legislative proposition introduced among us a few dats ago by the honorable senator from New Yoik for the he. stowal of lands upon certain worthy persons of foreign birth , who, from time to time, have ar rived and are arming upon our shores from I distant lands beyond the roiling ocean. Now, | sir, though this proposition of the honorable sen. ator was actually (as we all know) bor o ved, almost verbatim . literatim, et punctualun, from i a bill several weeks since introduced by the | honorable senator from Illinois, [Mr. Douglass] ! I yet is it notwithstanding true that the latter gen- j ! tlemau has, with his characteristic generosity, j ! quietly and uncomplainingly permitted liisf/mn- j j tier to be stolen by the honorable senator from the Empire State, who, for various reasons, ap. | peai’3 to have resolved to do al! in his power to | procure early and general recognition of him- I sell as the exclusive patron of all that excellent j | portion of our population that chances to be of transmarine birth and derivation, especially in ! eluding our Irish and German fellow.citizens. | Mr. President, this legislative plagiarism ap j pears to have been, so tar, quite as profitable to the honorable senator from New York as he could reasonably have anticipated ; for I find him most exhorbitantly lauded for his noble lib erality towards our Hungarian friends, and to wards others who lreve, like them, sought re. luge among us from the oppressions of the Old World; and in one or two rather leading ga zettes north of Mason and Dixon's line, ( dis cover a claim to have been set up to presiden tial honors in 1852 in behalf of the honorable senator, on account of his supposed paternity of this provident and truly democratic measure. Now, sir, I will not at all dispute that the hon orable senator from New York, in bringing for ward this new agrarian proposition of his, (it I may thus denominate a measure for which 1 fully intended to vote before [ knew whether or not it was destined to find favor in the sight of its present self-constituted god-lather)--1 say I will not at all dispute that the honorable sen ator, in advocating this proposition to secure a home in the wilderness to the unfortunate and necessitous of other climes, who are arriving in such numbers on our shores, and who, 1 trust, under such encouragement as is now held out, may come hereafter in still greater numbers, and help this nation yet more rapidly to the greatness and strength which so visibly await us in the future—was actuated to a very great extent, if not exclusively, by feelings of the purest, most generous, and most disinter ested sympathy for suflering humanity. Sir, the honorable gentleman is i\ professed philan thropist, and his diffusive sympathies are weli known not to confine themselves either to the paupers of his own Slate (numerous, and wo stricken, and cruelly unprovided for, as many of them are known to be,) nor to persons of his own race and complexion—nor even to the re. ally suffering and unhappy. No, sir. the hon. orable senator is one ol the acknowledged leaders of that notorious sect of philanthropists who are ever wailing over the fancied distress es of a race of whom and of whose true condi tion, in fact, they know but little ; who are not geographically proximate to them ; and who are undeniably the most happy class of labor, ing men and women that were ever enlisted in the pursuits of humble industry. Yes, sir, the gentleman is -a philanthropist professed; und l will therefore not question that, in urging his proposition for a donation of lands to the noble Hungarians and others, he is influenced alone by feelings of heaven-born charity. And yet, as one who feels a real solicitude tor the popu larity and solid fame of the honorable senator from New York, I regret to feel compelled to acknowledge that 1 have encountered several painful suggestions of lute, which would seem to imply more or less of suspicion that the hon orable senator, in taking it upon himself thus prominently to participate in this scheme of giv ing away large portions of our landed domain to our suffering brethren Ir rm abroad, may be more or loss instigated by a desire to prevent their becoming settlers and citizens of bis own noble State. It is certain that by bestowing upon them lands in the far-distant West, they are likely to be tempted to leave our Atlantic border in quest of these free-gift homes so kind ly provided for them ; and thus the State of New York may be relieved from the obliga tion of extending to them the rites of hospitali ty, which, by some of her citizens, it is said, are deeemed not a little burdensome. • It is with no little reluctance now, sir, that I relate an anecdote, which I have lately heard, and which, if it shall not be contradicted by the hon orable senator from New York, may tend to confirm the suspicions as to his motives, to which l have already alluded. The anecdote is as follows : A gentleman, about the height, figure, aspect, carriage, and style ofconversa tion of the honorable senator from New York, as I am informed, dropped quietly into the re- j nowned city of Richmond, whilst an honored j friend of mine, who was a few days ago Ln this j city, (Governor William Smith.) was the oc cupant of the executive mansion, located in that famous metropolis of the Ancient Domin ion. Well, sir, this personage (whoever lie I may have been) visited the chamber where the governor was engaged in the transaction of public business, and with quite a graceful and unceremonious ease and elegance of manner made his entree and annr ut’.eed his name. The name of the stranger, as announced by himself, was William H. Seward. A good deal of con versation is staled to have occurred on the oc casion, chiefly on the subject of fugitive slaves, in relation to whom the honorable senator from the Empire State has been exhibiting an in-! tense and peculiar solicitude for many years j past. I will not run the risk of wearying the J Senate by detailing all the particulars of this i remarkable colloquy, though it would be qu.te i easy to do so, and though the conversation which occurred was not at all ot a confidential character. It is sufficient, for my present pur, 1 fose, to say, that my friend, Governor Smith, is the projector of a scheme, which I consider a highly judicious one, and which I hope inny yet, under the auspices of the honorable sena tor from New \ork, and his philanthropic al lies in the North, be at some early day carried i™* execution ; that this is a scheme for colo ■ uizing-MI the free negroes of the southern States I in the Sta\v. 0 f New York and several of tho i eastern States supposed to sustain the closest affinity with this part of our southern popula tion ; that, this plan >f colonization from tho South to the Noith would seem to have been discussed on that occasion ; and that the stran ge:, w !)o was then personating an ex-governor of the Empire State, was reqnesied to state whether, if certain ship.loads of free people ot color should thereafter be sent from Virginia to New Ymk, this living cargo would be kind, ly received, and comfortably provided for. Tha illustrious visitant is reported to have respon | ded promptly and earnestly in the affirmative ; J and he is said to have added, that the Stato of j New York had suffered exceedingly for several ; years past, from tho enormous influx of immi-- i grants from foreign shores ; that the evil war | every day multiplying, and had, in fact, become j a most serious social grievance ; nnd that, for ’ one, he should be very much pleased to have all ! l he ships which might be sent from Virginia freighted with free negroes, supplied with re turn cargoes of Germans, Irish . and others of foreign nativity, easy to be picked up in the’ streets of New York. I do not charge all these tacts to be absolutely true ; but 1 do aver that I believe them to he true ; und if the hon orable senator will venture to deny them, or any one among them at all material to the pre sent issue, I will take it upon myself to estab lish the same by evidence, either now at hand or in process of collection. The honorable senator remains silent ; and well he might do so, inasmuch as these very particulars were i published some months ago, in the columns of the Union newspaper of this city, when the honorable senator and his friends were chal lenged to deny them, and when they exhibited the same significant silence at present manifes ted. And now, sir, it may be asked, what per tinency this personal anecdote can have to the question before the Senate ? To which I an swer : the amendment of the honorable senator noiv offered evinces the same sympathy for the negro race which he is described as having professed in Richmond; and if it should be printed by us, and be thus sent abroad, it is at least possible that in connection with the extra ordinary avowal at Richmond already mention ed, many might be persuaded to believe that the honorable senator from New Y'oik, ia agreeing to give away the public lands in the mode which he Ins proposed, is after all only exerting himself to relieve his own State from a species of population which he deems burden some and mischievous. And now, Mr. Presi dent, having, in quite a rambling and discur sive manner, exerted myself to save the honor able senator from the loss of fame and popular ity with which he is menaced, as the result of his own indiscreet action, I will be so far cour teous to him as to decline all further opposition to his motion to print. I.et the South Alone. It affords us real pleasure to be able to make such an extract as the following, from a North, ern paper. The N. Y. Day Book, certainly is blessed with an Editor that, has more soul than a fearful majority of his Northern brethren : “The hatred of a Southerner to an abolition, ist, is viewed with surprise by the people of the North, and they talk about ‘discussing the question with the South in a calm and impar tial manner.’ Suppose a pirate should meet a vessel at sea and ask tocorne on board and dis cuss the question with the captain, whether he or his crew had the best light to his ship and cargo? Suppose that the pirate should keep his boat alongside and insist on talking to the crew about * individual rights ’ to properly ; and upon discussing the question fairly and calmly ; would a Northern captain listen to such discussion, or would he throw a twenty, lour pounder into tbe boat and sink it at once ? “With these views and feelings is it surpris ing that the Southern members of Congress should resist any movements tending toward* the question ol Slavery ? They are acting on ly on the defensive. Their language to us i* plain and to the point: ‘Let us alone.* They are asking nothing more, they do not meddle with us, they have no disposition to in lerfere with any of our affairs. If we want slavery we can have it, if we don’t want it we can do without it. We may manufacture oqr goods or we may import them ; we may sup. j port ail our poor by a county tax or put them in j a wotk house and make them support them selves; no Southerner will meddle with ui, or say why do you do this, or you ought to do that. Whatever xve do is our own business, right or wrong, in the eyes of our neighbors; they leave it all with us, believing that we know our own business best, and can understand the pol icy and morality of it as well as they can tell us. Now, in the name of all that is just and good, can’t we extend a little charity toward* ihem ? Can’t we suppose that they know something of their own matters, that they are possessed of some moral principle, and under stand the light and wrong of questions as well as we ? In other words, can’t we let them alone? “Can’t we let them alone ? Yes, and we’ must too. Tho South has borne a great deal from the North ; it has seen us coming gradu ally nearer and nearer until wo are now ‘knocking at the door,’but we ‘can’t coma in.’ We may talk and chatter, and peep through the fence and tel) them how they ought to manage their own business, how many cows iLey ought to keep, and how their wive* and daughters should dress and behave, but when we attempt to pot our hands upon their proper. ty xve will find an opposition that is not 60 eas ily overcome. In short, we shall have to learn TO LET THEM ALONE.” Very Naughty. —The Boston Herald hoard an abolitionist say, the other day, “that he wished thiji Lord would rain down the gun-cotton prepa ration on the cotton fields of the South, let it dry in, and then send down a shaft of lightning ti> blow up the whole country to hiui ! NO. 7.