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SOUTHERN SENTINEL,
COtUMBUS, GEORGIA:
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 30,1850.
The case of Bulloch at Savannah has been
continued to the next (January) term of Court.
Convicted.— The Jury in the case of the
State rs. Geo, W. Evans and Martha Stevens
have returned a verdict of murder against the
lormcr, and manslaughter against the latter.
I lon. Walter T. Colquitt left yesterday for
111 .‘Nashville Convention; Col. Henry L. Ben
ning and Martin J. Crawford Esq. left on Mon
day Evening last.
Our Book Table.
The Philosophy of Electrical Psycolooy ; in a
course of nine lectures by John Bovee Dods. —Such
ik the title of a work of 168 pages which we hove re
ceived from those cuterpriaing publishers, Fowlers
and Wells of NT. Turk. As its name imports, it is a
philosophical examination of the science of “Psycolo
gy” embraced in n series of lectures, which at the
request of several U. S. Senators, were delivered in
the capitol at Washington in February last. Dr. Dods
is 2 pioneer in this new science, and accounts, satis-
MCtory to himself at least, for its starling develope
icents. \\ e have not yet had time to examine his lec
tures thoroughly, but we shall read them with a great
deal of interest, as we do every thing connected with
the mysterious subject of which they treat. We are
rather surprised, by the way, that none of our sellers
in this city have the agency for Fowler’s publications.
r I h* ir press teems with works of interest.
Ihe Student.—At e have received the firth nuni- ‘
!>• r of anew monthly bearing this name, published in
N t ork by Fowler's and Wells. Is is designed for
the young, arid if the number before us is to be taken
as a specimen, it is more than worth the subscription
price of s]. Its pages are adorned with handsome]
wood engravings, and its columns well filled, not with j
wishy-washy talcs, blit wholesome intellectual food, j
Hunts “Merchants Magazine.— lt would be vain ‘■
to say aught in commendation of this established and j
deservedly popular magazine. The number on our j
ta! ie lullv sustains the character which the work lias j
maintained ever since we knew it. To the banker. I
the merehaut and business men generally, it is inval- j
nable. Its pages are stored with valuable information j
on all subjects of interest to the commercial world.—
To the lawyer it is not less useful, embracing as it
does monthly, all the important decisions on questions
of commercial law.
A Treat.—We are indebted to Mr. Chap. A.
t kacody for a basket of decidedly the finest straw
berries we have ever seen or tasted. In size and fla
vor, the “ Horcy's Seedling” which he has introduced
and successfully cultivates, are unequalled by any
thing in this section, and unsurpassed by the fruit
of any garden in the country. So much for horticul
tural skill. Mr. I’eabody informs us, and indeed we
know, that ten years ago, it was regarded extremely
difficult to cultivate this delicious fruit in this neigh
borhood. Ihe ‘“Hovey’s seedling” were abandoned
io every body but him as altogether unsuited to our
soil and climate, ilia garden now will vie with that
of any horticulturist in the land.
The Compromise.
I lie reports of the Washington letter wri
fers as to the probable fate of this measure,
are very contradictory. The able correspon
dent of the Baltimore Sun , over tho signa
ture of “‘X,’ who has lately beccrne the es
pecial eulogist of Henry Clay and the cham
pion of compromise and anti-southern senti
ment. generally, is in ecstacies at the fancied
indications of its success, while other, and
not less sagacious letter writers predict its
certain defeat. We are decidedly of opinion
that it can not pass. There will go up to
M ashington such unmistakeable evidences of
its unpopularity throughout the South, that
Southern men in Congress will not dare sup
port it. Among all the expressions of opin
ion, which we have haerd, in regard to it,
there has not been one which received it as
an honorable and perfectly just settlement
for the South. There are those who are
willing to abide by it, as the best icc can get,
and who take this for fear of being forced to
take something worse. We have no sort of
patience with men who talk thus. The best
wc can get ! Our doctrine is, if we can’t get
what we are entitled to, we will not have any
thing. For fear of something worse ! If we
are to have the dose administered, let it be
the most sickening, nauseous compound
which northern magnanimity can concoct
something that w ill stir up the bile at once,
and not a slow, insidious poison which secret
ly and silently, but not less certainly, eats
out our vitals, and totally emasculates us be
fore we are aware of our danger.
Non-Action vs. Non-Intervention.
The G overnment Organ, in vindicating the
President’s ten itoi ial policy, expresses’ some
surprise at the inconsistency of those, who ad
vocated in 18-18, the doctrine of non-interten.
tion, and now oppose the executive recom
mendation of non-action. Indeed, the strong
est argument which the Organ makes in de
fence of this policy, is based upon its suppos- !
ed acceptability to those, who had been com
mitted to the doctrine of non-intervention.
Now it may be, that in the eyes of the ad
mir.i'tration there is no difference between
the two, but we must confess that we are un- j
able to discover any similarity between non
intervention and non-action ; aud as a friend
of the former, we propose to vindicate it from
the ridicule which we think, attaches to the
latter policy.
Ry non-intervention, we understand the ;
doa “ine which demands that Congress shall
provide governments for the Terrritories, but
in doiiyr so, it is to leave the question of sla
very unt niched, to be regulated by the peo- !
pie of the, e Territories when they come to i
form State constitutions, preparatory to their j
admission hr to the Union.
Bv non-a, ‘tion, we understand that policy \
which reconu nends that Cotigress shall not
legislate at all v’ dr the Territories, not even to
provide govema ‘®nts for them, leaving them
in the condition o\f lawless dependencies, un
til, by the accumut ‘tion of a sufficient popu
lation, they are “cnU ‘lccT’ to admission into
the Union, as States. \
They are altogether dissimilar, and more
especially in their results, so far as the rights
I prretv of Congress providing go vernments
W Territories which are mhabK > and d ’ but not
sufficiently populated to allow them to form
State governments, there can be no question.
By the constitution, Congress is invested with
exclusive legislative power over the Territo
ries, and unless the general government pro
vides laws for their regulation, it is clear that
they are to be left without even an authorita
tive police, until by a succession of years,
they acquire a sufficient population to enable
them to frame a government for themselves.
W hile they remain in this embryo condition*
is it not the duty of Congress to provide for
them ? And is this undoubted obligation on
the part of the general government to be eva
ded, lest in the discharge of it, a tyrannical
majority should seek to fetter its action by
unlawful restrictions ? To say the least of it,
the policy is time-serving and unjust. Con
gress must act, and it must act within the
bounds of its authority. If it has come to
this, that the government can not perform its
functions without performing them improper
ly, it is high time that the government should
be abandoned. If our national legislature is
powerless save for evil, it is time that we look
to another tribunal for the exercise of its
functions. Let Territorial governments be
provided, but let them not be clogged with re
strictions unjust to those interested in their
adoption.
But it is in their results respectively, upon
| the interests of the South, that the difference
; between the two policies, mainly consists.
In the history of the case of California, we
are furnished with a ready demonstration of
the operation of the principle of non-action-
I he mineral and other resources of that coun
! try have attracted crowds of emigrants from
I the Atlantic States. It, lias been left without
a territorial government, and now the people
| claim the privilege ot taking their affairs into
j their own hands, and demand admission into
] tne Union. In the meantime, the anti-slave
i r .V kuvs ot .Mexico have been held in tcrrorcni
j over the South, effectually checking emigra
tion from the slave States, and thus keeping
Southern men out ot the convention which
met to organize the State government And
thus it would be with Utah and New .Mexi
co, if they are left, by the operation of this
doctrine of non-action, without any Ter
ritorial government But what would be the
consequence of the non-intervention policy?
Suppose Congress should provide govern
ments for those Territories, without the Wil
mot Proviso, is it certain that there would not
be made a slave State out of one of them ?
So far from it, we believe it is almost certain
mat, one, if not both of them would become
slave States. \V. h u not 1 Men may rant
about philanthropy; the question of slavery
j as °nc oi interest merely. If slave labor were
•profitable in New England, there would not
be a free State between the St. Lawrence and
Hudson Rivers in twelve months from to-day.
I here is not an instance in all the history of
the tree States, in which slavery was abolish
ed until it ceased to pay. It will be abolish
ed in Georgia when it ceases to be profitable,
and it will exist in every Territory of this gov
ernment where it can be profitably employed
unless it isjirohibited by law. And would it
not be profitable in California, New Mexico,
and Utah ? There is not a spot on the globe
where slave labor would pay so well as in the
valley of the Sacramento. If it is profitable
in the production of cotton at ten cents, sure
ly it will be in digging gold at $25 or SSO
per day. Leave the question open and every
toot of land we own on the Pacific would be
covered with negro labor, si ti not then al
together an abstraction that we contend for in
insisting upon our rights in California.
This is the difference between non-inter
vention and non-action, a difference as clear
as noon-day, and involving consequences as !
important to the South as the U nion itself.
[YANKEE CORRESPONDENCE.j
Boston, May It), 1850. ]
Exhumation of a Dead Body—The Inquest—The !
Havana Opera Troupe—Cuba and the Invaders — I
Foreign News-w—William Wordsworth — Mrs. Os- j
good—Romance of a Sea Captain , <j-c.
A remarkable case of exhumation and bringing
away of tho body is making a noise in Boston just
now. The body belonged to a respectable young wo
man, a foreigner, in the prime of life, thus destined to
minister to the eager and unscrupulous curiosity of !
human science. It is in proper custody, aDd a pub- j
lie enquiry into the matter will take plaee in the 1
course of a fortnight, and, it is hoped, throw satisfac- !
forv light upon this grave transaction.
I
Horrified Sentinel ! I shall talk to you, w ithout
ambages. There’s a mummy ! an Egyptian mum
my, to bo unrolled before our subscribing citizens, in
the first week of June ! Mr. Gliddon, the exhibitor j
and expositor of the Panorama of the Nile, now in j
Boston, received it through the friendly agency of I
Mr. Harris. The mummy is a young lady, daughter, I
as her hieroglyphical label declares, of a High Priest
of Thebes, named Got-Thoth-i. She lived about the
time Moses was obliged to quit the country, after kill
ing an Egyptian—over 3,000 years ago. .Being one
of the aristocracy—the “Upper Ten” of her native
city, it is thought she will have a good deal of trink
ets, papyri and antique ornaments swathed up along
with her osteology. Her name begins with A nch—
and has a termination of consonants and stars. Mr.
Gliddon, who has ChampollioD and Young at his fin
ger's ends, and knows how to treat these human pre
serves, is to perform the delicate manipulating task of
stripping this venerable spinster, before a promiscu
ous crowd of ladies and learned men. He requires
300 subscribers, to pay $5 each before he will unroll
the withered gypsey ; and I have no doubt he will
get them, particularly as each subscriber can admit
three others. I shall have a peep at her ladyship,
and tell ypu what I think of her.
The Havana Opera company have been for some
nights performing favorite operas at the Howard
! Athenaeum, and Steffanoni, Salvi, Bediali, Bosic, and
Marini, have been winning favorable opinions from
i the newspaper critics and the cognoscenti. But af
ter all is said, and all due praise rendered where
praise is undoubtedly due, these opera singers do not
draw. Boston is not educated up to the refinements
of operatic melody. The Transcript, which is warm
in its patronage of the strangers, has had some sar
castic paragraphs reflecting on the popular tastes.
The gymnastics aud jugglery, of the Ravel Family,
are nightly witnessed by double those of
the Athenaeum. But the Havana Troupe are not do
ing badly after all; and they might have done worse,
if they had stayed in Havana, where, at this moment,
I see (somewhat after the fashion of the wizard, who
warns Loehiel,) Lopez and Quitman tearing over the
j defences of the town at the head of a torrent of los
Americanos, supported in the rear by an infuriated
I mob of Creoles, while half ll>e Spanish garrison is fly
ing in one direction, and the other three quarters fra
ternising with the invaders and the people, and sing
j ing “Ca Ira,” and “Old Tan Tucker I” That expe
dition was prepared with wondered secrecy, and if it
i can escape the U. S. cruisers, may come upon the
] Dons by surprise. But I fear our executive will ef
fectively interfere to thwart the plan of revolution in
Cuba. England and the United States have bound
themselves by treaty to guarantee to Spain the pos
-1 session of this last remnant of her once magnificent
j dominion in the new hemisphere; and unless the Cre
ole population will make a desperate insurrection in
the interior, the assistance of foreign volunteers will
! not avail much. It is an unworthy spectacle to see
1 this republican government agreeing with the two
despotic monarchies of Europe to perpetuate the sla
very of Cuba under the vile rule of old Spain. But
parchment treaties will not long avail against the en
] ergy of democratic progress. Cuba must belong to
this Federation. It lies within our seas, and holds
the key of the Gulf of Mexieo. The cause of human
liberty requires that Cuba shall become a State of this
Union, and its geographical position completes the ne
cessity of annexation.
W e have got the last foreign mail. It is refresh
ing to find that the extreme republicans of Paris have
elected Eugene Sue, instead of Le Clerc, the govern
ment candidate. This shows that the great mass of
the people are opposed to any monarchist or imperial
reactions. The stock market, that political barome
ter, has subsided several figures, and the councils of
Louis Napoleon are troubled. It is said he is half in
clined to quit his place, in consequence of which,
Generals Cavaignac, Lamoriciere, and other patriotic
republicans have resolved to unite their influence for
the purpose of saving the republic from any sudden
revolution or check to the existing government.
The last mail brought us the news of ‘William
Wordsworth’s death. He was a fine old fellow, over
eighty years of age, and, for the last fifty years one of
the recognised poets of England. lie was the patri
arch of what was called the Lake School of poets, and.
tile leader of that literary revolution which set aside
the conventional rules and monotonous regularity of
British poetry, fashioned after the manner of Pope
and liis imitators. Wordsworth resolved to bring po
etry to the humblest things and themes, and made
uso of a bold simplicity in his earliest publications,
and indeed in several succeeding ones, which earned
for him the loud laugh of the critical World. But he
went on never minding, and it was soon found that
there were enough intrinsic beauties and true things
in his verse to redeem twice the amount of its puerili
ties ; and by the time his poetic nealogy had become
chastened and improved by a riper taste, he found
that the fashion and spirit of British poetry had very
much veered round to his side. He has written
some noble and exquisite things which will last as
long as rocks and daisies, and Christian churches.
On the death of Robert Southey, he received the
bays
“Which Dryden’s laureate brow supremely wore
but which l’yc, Tate, Whitehead, and other small
deer had, on the whole, made little desirable by the
taller children of Parnassus.
Mrs. Osgood, our American poetess, is also gone.
She died last week in New York, of consumption,
and was buried a day or two ago in the beautiful cem
try of Auburn, near this city, of which she was a na
tive. She was a Miss Locke. Her husband went
last year to California, and had just brought home
money euough to make her and her two young
daughters happy in an elegant home— sed deis alitcr
visum ; fate had decreed otherwise, and
“After life’s fitfid fever she sleeps well.”
The Swedish man-of-war Najadin, is still here. A
good, and withal, true story is reported of her cap
tain, Lillichook. About twenty-five years ago, a
Swede applied to Mr. Bangs, one of our merchants,
for a berth in one of his ships as a sailor. He got it,
and went several voyages in the Boston ship, where
his conduct was so excellent, that he was taken from
the forecastle and put in a State room by the captain.
The consequence was, that he had to fight the affvont
ted crew, all round ; and he did so, or very nearly,
and punished his men in the most vigorous way.
Then the ship's discontent subsided, and the Swede
had rest. But at the close of the voyage ho left, and
was forgotten. A day or two ago an imposing per
sonage, with buttons, frogs and epaulettes., walked in
to Mr. Bangs’ counting room, and asked him if he did
not know him. This was Lillichoo’/., captain of the
Najadin. And Air. Bangs was certainly surprised to
find the old Swedish sailor of a quarter of a century
ago so metamorphosed ! He had come from Sweden
to learn his business in our mercantile marine, and
had learned it to some purpose—fighting and all.
Mr. Bangs gave Lillichook and his officers a supper,
and thus concludes the little romance of the Swedish
sea-captain.
This Najadin is a curious little fighter—l2o Swed
ish feet long by 30 broad, and carries eighteen 21 lb.
earronades. Each gun has a percussion lock, and it
is fired by pulling a string. The armament of guns,
pistols, and cutlasses, seems far inferior to those of our
ships. Her crew are d.rest in blue woolen shirts,
duck trowsers and sho< s. Her marines in uniform
look for all the world lik i the pictures of Roman sol
diers. Crowds of ladrcr and gentlemen go on board,
and are received very politely by the large epau
letted officers, who speak very courteously, if not en
tirely grammatically.
I conclude, with a pray er for the success of our
military propagandists in CuQa, or thereabouts.
YANKEE DOODLE.
[EUROPEAN CORRESE ONDENCE.]
We havo been permitted to make the following
extract from a private letter received in this city, from
an American gentleman now in Europo. The wri
ter never expected it to meet the public eye :
“I crowded so much into ir y brief stay in Paris, as
to jade body and brain. Such a succession of won
ders pealed, clap after clap i lpon me, that I was fain
to cry enough ; such a cont inued strain of magnifi
cences, that my sated curio tity asked for something
common, by way of relief. I was in a painful state of
tensity ; I began to fear that my eyes would not relax
to their usual diameter, and that I should present my
self in quiet Geneva with a couple of protruding eye
balls, as though I .vere fresh from some soul-harrow
ing fright. By r ight it was the same ; gaudy equip
ages made a highway of my brain ; miles of pictures,
on walking fry mes, marched slowly, making me obei
sance ; whole palaces danced a polka without shak
ing down a ’oriek, and perhaps you won’t believe it,
but more tl lan once I woke to find my palate suf
fused in floods of saliva, which imaginary delicacies
had evoked. Thus it was weariness by day and fe
ver by ni fat, aud I was as hot in the morning as if I
had ?le;>t over Landlord Will’s bakery; and
I grew’ fashionable too, in Paris —kept late hours, and
tried to go the elegant trifling, &c., &c. Why not ?
he who Las five dollars to spend is as rich and impor
tant a i long as that lasts, (and his manner of spend
ing it suggests more,) as he who has 5,000. It is not
the reality of the thing, you perceive, nor the self
satis /action, that yon are what you claim to be, which
measures a man’s comfort, but public opinion—the
estimation of others. Candor never requires a man
to confess himself a dunce, if the world confess him a
i Crichton. So I rung the hotel bell multitudinously,
called Gar con up something less than 300 stairs, to
; scold him about the boots, yawned into the breakfast
room at 10 o’clock, sipped my coffee and called for
“Galignani ,” took my wine at dinner as though -
had been used to it, and patrolled the streets till midi
night. The true Parisian never sees the sun rise ;
he takes his coffee and roll, perhaps in bed, certainly
in his room, breakfasts on a chop at 11 o’clock, gen
erally at a case , where he collects the morning gos
sip, then goes and gets shaved and perfumed by his
barber, takes a saunter on the Boulevards , then a
drive on the Champs Elysees, comes home to dinner,
and here bis morning commences; from this time
til! 3 o’clock past midnight, he is in his element; gay,
brisk, vivacious, gliding from opera to theatre, and
from that to ball, till his bed rests him for the same
inane life another day. All Paris is alive in the ev-‘
ening ; the gay. the simple, the vile, the mere gazer
like myself, the sharper, the rcrolutionaire, stately
dames and ambitious politicians are all abroad. Shops
are brilliant, streets buzz with the many voices, the
pavement patters to the many sounding feet, gas
lights glitter, the false fair assail you at every step,
the cafe's resound with laughter, dice aud domino.
Every hell of amusement is crowded —the salons
sparkle with the bright array ; fashionable lolly rules
triumphant in every corner. On Sunday is this par
ticularly so; then the devil and all his imps have
holiday, and they keep it in Taris. Every body
seems frantically determined to do all he dares in the
face of Heaven, and affronts the Great King more
than he would dare an Earthly Potentate. There
was opposite to my hotel, a very fashionable maga
zine, or dry goods store as we call such. On Sunday
it had, what was called a “ display ,”.i. e., the ample
halls were thrown open, decorated most tastefully
with the richest goods the world affords, to the in
spection of the public. I watched the scene from my
window. The rain fell in torrents, yet the street from
one end to the other was jammed in with fashionable
carriages, disemboguing their costly clothed inmates
at or near the door of this temple of fashion. But
this was a mere innocency, to some other things I
could mention. At the same time, the churches are
devotionally full. What a life, what a life! Ido not
see how the French, whose characteristic is insane
love of pleasure, can be any thing but frivolous, hol
low-hearted, unsubstantial, incapable of any thing that
is great or immortal.
My letter was minute enough about the great sights
of Paris. I may mention one or two little things
which would seem trifling, but in a letter to a sister.
The bread for instance. I never saw any yeasty
compound that can compare with it; absolutely some
of it would shame snow for purity, or might stand in
the world’s metaphor for a standard of whiteness;
white as Paris bread ! Upon my word 1 thought I
never could eat enough. It is a famous staple in
Paris, forming, with sour wine, the sole (almost)
subsistence of half the population. It is one of the
articles which government insists on keeping cheap,
for a hungry Parisian populace would be a dangerous
thing to deal with. Therefore, you may see it fes
tooning windows (eating houses,) in all manner of
complex and inviting forms ; it is trunaled through
; the streets ; you see ragged urchins munching it at
street corners, loafers as you know immediately;
i emphatically the stall’ of life here, for I have seen a
man lugging along a huge post of bread—the price of
a few sous , on which he could well lean as a crutch—
or you’ll see it in a rim-form big as a cart-wheel, or
else in a loaf large enough for a cannon target. At
the hotels it is brought to you in rolls about eight
inches in length, with a brown crisp crust —this,
with coffee, is fit for the lips of the Grand Turk, and
I wish no other breakfast. But as I said before,
there is, with the Parisian, a difference between cof
fee and breakfast—one is “coffee” per sc, taken in de
licious loneliness, and the other is technically “break
fast.” But we Americans at the Hotel combine the
two after calling for a steak. The Americans are
perhaps the only nation who breakfast heartily. You
are aware perhaps that the Paris Hotels have only one
regular meal per day, the dinner or table d’ hote at
five or six o’clock. The morning meal is taken eith
er at the cases , or if at the Hotel, only as called for
from Bto 12 o’clock, not two persons ever being seen
to breakfast together. The table d’ hole is the meal
which concentrates the Frenchman’s utmost of cere
mony, style, and taste in cooking. It is the custom
for many Parisians to dine daily at a particular table
d’ hote , paying every day for their meal as they go
out; here again are the comforts of a home ! don't
you say so ? This tabic d’ hote is managed with the
most exquisite nicety, on the principle of making a
little go a great ways. Course follows course in quick
succession, each being prepared at a side table, so
that for each course you can take only so large a
piece as is prepared for you •, hardly two things are
served together, bread being the great offset for every
thing. Even po mines de ierre are served lip alone,
and as for management, I can tell you, I have seen a
couple of chickens (one of the courses) serve 15 peo
ple, so minutely calculated is every thing. One As
ter dinner would keep a Parisian table d’ hole a
week ; yes, what is wasted on it in unscientific carv
ing. Yet, every body feels after dining, that he has
eaten enough, he hardly knows of what. The price
of a good table d’ hote is five francs, one dollar near
ly. I ate ignorantly in Paris, not knowing now one
half that nourished or vitiated, as the case might
be, my blood ; I was a little squeamish at first, but
soon found it was no use, and finally went into every
thing boldly. I do recollect one thing though. I
one day ate twelve cabbage heads, and you know I
detest cabbage; yet, I could have eaten twenty-four
more ; how do you suppose ? I was speaking of bread,
but the butter is a curiosity. Not a particle of salt ever
touches it; it is made every day, and is as white as
the driven snow ; is brought into the breakfast, (never
dinner table,) in little thin pats of about a dollar’s size,
exquisite little nothings, of which an American stom
ach could store a dozen ; but stop, each pot has its
price affixed, and before one is long in Paris, he
learns to content himself with one or two. Do not
think, by the way, that these non-essentials are put
on to your table in abundance, of which you can take
or leave. No; so much, and if you call for more, pay
for it. Mite by mite the coral insect builds its palace,
and ounce by ounce the Paris cuisinier or maitre d’
hotel makes his money. Every mouthful has its
carefully computed value, and be very careful how
you eat, for behind the door of a little side room, is
remorselessly going the omniscient pen, and francs in
your bill will afford you a very fair estimate of just
how many bites you have taken during your sojourn
in the hotel. I paid for every ounce of blood which
I manufactured in Paris. Frenchmen do not eat
much better, and especially do they not like salt in it.
Ah, yes, another charge ; no hotel furnishes soap—
not knowing this on your arrival, you ring for a piece
—you leave in three days—call for your bill, and
there you find charged a cake of soap, one franc ; no
use disputing—you must pay. That same piece of
soap is removed from the room, and serves to multi
ply francs in the same way again and again. Why,
it is the inexhaustible sixpence. Again, as you are
going through the provinces, stop at a hotel; you
take a light to bed with you of course ; next morning
you find one franc for bougie , (wax candle, as they
facetiously call them,) pay you must, though you have :
burnt butone half inch. Ifyoustay long at a hotel, your
bougie is numbered according to yonr room, and you
use the same every night. Os course, in the fonner
ease, the same bougie answers fra do:en individuals,
and a half franc’s worth thus brings to the hotel
keeper 200 per cent; but travellers soon find this out,
and do as I did, before I had been te©g rn France—on
leaving in the morning, pocket the candle ! So the
sugar at a case; a quantity is brought you—you ]
take a piece or two, but are charged for the whole ; ]
but after being three or four days in Paris, you learn !
to empty the sugar that you don’t use into your pock- I
et. Funny things you see in this world.”
correspondence of the “southern sentinel.”
New Orleans, May 22, 1850.
Dear Sir: The Spanish Steamer, Gaudel
quiver, arrived at this port day before yesterday i
making the passage from Havana to the Belize j
in three days. She brings despatches to the i
Spanish Consul resident in this city, the pur
port of which has not as yet transpired. She :
brings no tidings from those gallant fellows
who left here some weeks ago under Gen.
Lopez, that hardy old veteran, but we are in
hopes that upon tle return of the Creole, which
is anxiously expected, to hear that the adven
turous and liberty loving men have been emi
nently successful in their daring attempt, and j
that the beautiful banner of Cuba has not paled
beneath the “yellow rag” of Spain, but has been ]
triumphant, and gallantly hoisted over the high- j
est battlement of the dark and frowning Moro. !
I have the greatest confidence that the expe
dition will terminate successfully, and the trod
den down Cubanos liberated from that tyranny
under which they have groaned for years. Many
of the young men who volunteered from this city,
were intimate friends of mine, men whom I know
to be of true bravery and gallantry. By exam
ining the reports of officers upon the battles du
ring our late war with Mexico, you will find the
j names of many who have gone upon the Cuban
Expedition, to have distinguished themselves in
j fields that reeked with carage and bloodshed,
| and who have publicly received the thanks of
! our own countrymen.
! The course pursued by your cotemporary of
i the “Bulletin ” of this city, in relation to the affair,
; meets with disapproval by every one. It forcibly
reminds one of the story of the Irishman’s llee—
“put your finger on him and he aim thar.” One
day in favor of the movement, and in a few
days afterwards out with a strong leader in de
cided opposition. I will advise you immediate
ly upon the receipt of any definite and reliable
news.
The advices from the up country in relation
to the cotton crop, a r e truly deplorable. By tie
last arrivals I learn that the crop that had been
planted, has been almost entirely destroyed by
the recent freshet and overflows of the rivers.—
Many planters are plowing up the first seed, and
planting over again, in hopes to realize another
crop, but hundreds of the smaller farmers who
did not supply themselves with a sufficient
quantity of seed for replanting, will be almost
wholly ruined, and in consequence it may be
reasonably expected that there will be great dis
tress throughout the country during the ensu
ing fall and winter. The cotton crop will un
doubtedly be cut short to a most alarming ex
tent, and in consequence, the article is expected
to advance in price, higher than it has been for
many years past.
The favorable advices received per the Hiber
nia at Boston,have not had the effect on our mark
et which was anticipated. Since the receipt of,
those advices, the demand has been very limited
very little enquiry and unusually small sales. I
quotemiddling Ilsa 12, and good middling
12* a 124 c.
The weather during the past week has been
more pleasant than for some time past. Our
mornings and nights are cool and delightful,
and before 12 o’clock at night it is cold enough
for blankets. About noonday it is as “hot as
blazes,” and we are compelled to keep indoors
as much as possible.
Last night a most magnificent display of fire
works “went oft” in La Fayette Square, the pro
ceeds for the benefit of the Firemen’s Charitable
Association, an institution formed for the sup
port of the widows and orphans of deceased fire
men, and for the benefit of those who have been
►maimed or wounded while on duty at fires which
have or may occur. Avery handsome amount
was collected ; the whole square and adjoining
streets were crowded with people viewing the
grand display, which was gotten up by Mr.
Catoir, to whom great credit is due for exertions
in this humane and benevolent cause.
Strakosch and Wallace’s last grand concert,,
which came off a few evenings ago, was attend
ed by decidedly the most fashionable audience I
have seen this season—all the beauty and elite
of the famed Crescent City were there, and the
dark, penseroso eyes of the Creole boauties, as
they flashed around the room, gave additional
brilliancy to the gas lighted chandalier, of the
Lyceum Hall. The music was beautiful The
songs by Mad. Carini were eminently well exe
cuted, and her notes sounded “like music steal
ing from the chambers of the heart.”
From the signs of the times it
we will soon have amongst us agaiSJ Col. A. C.
Bullitt, the late senior of the “Republic” at
Washington. Col. B. is one of the readiest
writers in the country, and as he has never re
linquished his interest in the “Picayune.” of this
city, his brilliant and forcible pen, we hope soon
to see adorning the columns of that print.
Old Summer is rapidly furling his hot and sul
try wing around us, and the city is growing dul
ler every day. Steamers leave our levee every
hour crowded with passengers who are on their
tvay to the cool North to luxuriate at the pleas
ant watering places and gay cities, while we poor
Orleannois must “grin and bear it,” here.
Gov. Walker is sojourning in the city for a
few days. He reviewed the Louisiana Legion on
Sunday morning iirthe Place de Arms, and ap
peared much pleased with the efficiency and
descipline of that accomplished corps.
Truly Yours. KOSMOS.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE “SOUTHERN SENTINEL.”
Eatonton, May 23d, 1850
My Dear C : Since Tuesday evening our town hsa
been a scene of melancholy gloom. Our delegate to
the General Conference, the Rev. Isaac Boring, was
expected here on tlu.t evening, and his family and
friends, were awaiting in glad expectation to welcome
him once more to his home. Instead of his coming
however, there came a letter wearing the black seal
of death, which told that the monster had once more
leveled his shaft against a “shining mark.” Mr
Boring had died in St. Louis of the cholera, and in
stead of returning to the bosom of his family, he ha s
been consigned to the bosom of his mother earth. In
the death of this good man the church has lost one of
her brightest ornaments, the community one of its
most useful members and the social circle one of its
especial favorites. The masons here have already
honored the memory of their deceased brother, and
the Sons of Tempcranco will do so at their next meet
ing.
We are all speculating here on the effect to be pro
duced by the proposed establishment af a Southern
Organ at the city of Washington. That there should
be such a paper at the seat of government, no one
can deny. Yet the question is, one conducted upon the
plan contemplated have the desired effect ? I my
self think it very doubtful. In order to render such
a journal efficient, it must be untrammeled. It must
be at liberty to attack any man, or any party of men
whose conduct is such as to prevent the object for
which the paper is established. Now what is the
proposed object? It is to combat abolitionism in all its
aspects, and to defend the institution of slavery.
To do this effectually it must condemn any whig
whose couduet on the subject of slavery is censurable,
and it must pursue the same course towards any 7 Dem
ocrat guilty of a like offence.
Now it cannot be denied by any man, that many’ of
the southern members to Congress have acted with
reference to the subject of slavery in such a way as
not to serve their section, but to serve their party and
themselves. What true hearted Southern man can
approve, for instance, the course of Aleck Ste
phens on the one hand, or of Howell Cobb on the
other ? Would not their conduct deserve eastigatiga
tion at the hands of the Southern Organ ? And would
it dare administer the caustic, if established upon the
proposed plan ? of course not, because it would be a
kind of mongrel half-breed animal with a colar around
its neck bearing the idscription “Our dog,” and sign
ed by both Whigs and Democrats. Should it dare
yelp at the conduct of a Whig, Whiggery would kick
it to the devil. Should it whine at the course of a
Democrat, the unterrified, not to be outdone by the
opposite party in deeds of kindness would perform for
their half of the animal the same deed of “noble dar
ing.” Thus, my dear C. instead of this papei’s bting
a Southern Cerebus, ready to lay hold with bull-dog
gripe upon a any one, either, Whig or Democrat,
who should dare invave the domain he was appointed
to guard, it would be a mangy cur chained down to a
stake, unable to go more than the length of his chain
from the post that confined him, and only permitted
to whine and snarl in the abstract l
Let the paper be established at Washington by all
means. But for the sake of the prostrate bleeding
South, do not fetter or trammel it in its course by its
being made the property of partisans. When Aleek
Stephens moves to lay on the table a compromise ap
proved of by such men as Berrien, Butler and Cal
houn for the sake of throwing obstacles in the way of
a Democratic administration, let its bolts be hurled at
such detestable conduct. When Howell Cobb, for
the sake of being made speaker, extends the right
hand of fellowship to Freesoilism, let the sword of
j usticc, in the hand of the southern Organ, lop off the
arm which is ready to strike a blow at the vitals of
southern equality. Let the proposed journal level its
thunders at the treachery of Benton, the half-traitor
ous course of Clay, Houston and Foote, and the tem
porizing policy of the “Union” and “Intelligencer.”
Let it tell the people the truth and the whole truth in
reference to the corruption and the political gaming,
cheating, lying and swindling of their party k-aders
in M ashingtou. Let it tell them that ns soon as they
elect a man to Congress, instead of going there with
his heart bent upon serving the best interests of his
constituents and the state he represents he is squaring
his conduct in such a way as to obtain some office urn
der the Federal Govcnnment.
It is a notorious fact that so soon as a man is sent
to Washington, he becomes Federalized —if I may
use the word. He forgets states rights, and remem
bers nothing but the loaves and fishes he expects at
the hands of the General government. W hat cares
lie about his state when the great consolidated cen
tral power presents so much brighter halo in which
he can repose his desire for glory, ambition and self
aggrandizement ? Does that power propose to strike
down any important right of his state ? It must
be done. He is not going to throw himself between
his home and the impending blow. Does the Feder
al Government propose to cut off slavery by piece
meal ? He is not going to sacrifice his prospects, for
the good of the South or his section. Does his state
require his counsel in her own legislature ? He scorns
the degradation, and leaves such low and dirty work
to men whose knowledge of law-making is as limited
as his own patriotism. Should not the southern Or
gan tell of all these things ? BANQUO.
The Muscogee & Russell Agricult utal Society,
We publish below the the constitution which has been
adopted by its members, for the government of the
aseociation. We do so, because we know that many
have been deterred from becoming members, through
a misapprehension of the nature and objects of the
society. It will be seen that the tax imposed is very
inconsiderable, and the obligations incurred by mem
bership are very light. Some may not understand
the necessity for any tax upon the members ; a very
few words will suffice to explain the feature. One of
the principal means which the society expects to use
for the promotion of agriculture, ir the offering of
premiums for the exhibition of superior productions
in the various branches of husbandry. To do this, the
society must have funds, and they must be raised of
course, if at all, from the members. The amount rc
i quired of each, $3, is so small, that every man who is
j interested in planting can well afford to become a
j member. A meeting will be called at an early day,
! of which due notice will be given, and we hope on
| that occasion to see a number of our friends from the
| country present*.
Constitution of Muscogee and Russell
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
Article Ist. This Society shall be call
j ed the Muscogee and Russel Agricultural So
| ciety. Its object shall be to encourage the
| application es science, skill, and taste, to the
| improvement of Agriculture, and all its kin
j red arts, in this portion of the South.
Art. 2d. Any citizen of this, or the ad
j joining countries, may become a member by
j paying three dollars, and may retain hismem
j bership by paying annually thereafter the
sum of two dollars. The payment of twenty
five dollars at any one time shall constitute a
m@wflber for life.
Art. 3d. The. officers of this St>cl^ty.
shall consist of a President, five Vice Presi
dents, a Treasurer, Corresponding and Re
cording Secretary.
Art. 4th. The President shall preside at
all meetings, and in case of his absence one
of the Vice Presidents. The Recording Se
cretary shall keep a faithful record of all pro
ceedings, shall keep a list of all the members
names, shall collect and pay over to the Treas
urer all moneys due the Society. The Cor
responding secretaey shall carry on all cor
respondence with other Societies or with in
dividuals; and shall take charge of all books,
j seeds, plants, or models which may from time
to time be transmitted to the Society, shall
have charge of all papers designed for pub
lication, and shall arrange and correct the
same.
Art. sth. There shall be an annual meet-
I ing of the Society, on 4th Monday in October,
at which time the officers shall he elected by
a plurality of votes by ballot.
Art. 6th. The President shall appoint
I five, as a board of managers, whose duty it
shall be to provide suitable places for meet
i ing, to make all necessary arrangements for
j premiums, and exhibitions, and who shall have
power to fill an}’ vacancy which may occur
in the offices during the year. Honorary
members may be elected by the unanimous
vote of the board of managers.
Art. 7th. All competitors for prizes must
become members of the Society.
Art. Bth. The President may call special
meetings at the written request of five mem
bers of the Society.
Art. Oth. There shall be an address de
livered before the Society at its auaual meet
ings, upon the Agricultural interests of the
country, and it shall be the duty of the board
! of managers to provide a competent person to
deliver the address.
Art. 10th. The Treasurer shall make a
showing at each regular meeting of all funds
on hand, and of all disbursement All orders
upon the treasury must be signed by the Re
cording Secretary, countersiged by the Pres
ident.
We publish below the Resolutions which were
adopted at the public meeting held in this city
ou Saturday evening the 18th inst. and also the
Resolutions which were introduced by Col. Iline-
Holt and voted down be the meeting. The read,
er will not fail to observe the issue which is made
by two sets of Resolutions. They speak for
themselves, and need no explanatory comments
from us. The original Resolutions were sus
tained bra vote of 105 against 75. We were
unable to publish these Resolutions last week:
Whereas, it is a high porogative of fieemen to
meet together and express their opinions of men
and measures ; and eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty, we deem it important and our bound
en duty, in view of the present conjuncture of af
fairs at Washington, to exercise this privilege ;
and make known our purposes and determina
tions.
Therefore be it Resolved Ist: That the South
lias a right to a share of California and New
Mexico—a right to the boundary line claimed by
Texas—a right to the creation out of Texas, (she
being willing) of as many as four additional slave
States—a right to the delivery to her by the North
offi igitive slaves, on demand—a right to enjoy
ment of property in slaves in the District of Co
lumbia, undisturbed and unrestricted by the
North.
2d That the North denies these rights.
3d That any measures which propose to set
tle the issues made, by giving to the North in
form and in substance, all of California; equally
in substance if not in form, all of New Mexico,
by transferring to the North 125,000 square miles
of Texas, and by depriving the South of its right
of buying and selling slaves in the district ofCo
lumbia, and so distributing and restricting the
right of property in slaves, is a measure not ol
compromise to the South, but of total and hu
miliating surrender.
That the character of such a measure is no t
redeemed by a stipulation to pay to “exas, a
money consideration tor the land she loses, be
cause first, of the amount for that consideration,
the greater part will be raised out of the South
herself. Secondly, the receipt of money is no
equivalent for being shorne of political power. —
Thirdly, the loss of such power will be a loss not
to Texas only, but to the whole South.
Nor by a stipulation to abstian from applying
the Wilmot Proviso to New Mexico and Utah,
because: Ist, the Proviso is by confession as to
“those regions a moral abstraction,” wholly des
titute of any practical import. Secondly, the
stipulation is not concurred in, by those whose
concurrence is indispensable to its observance
in good faith, viz: the masses of the North.
Nor by a stipulation for the admission into the
Union of additional slave States, to be formed
out of Texas at her option, because, firstly, to this
the North is already bound by a stipulation equal
ly strong and precise, viz : that contained in ths
the resolutions annexing Texas.
2d, And this too is not concurred in by the
masses of the North.
Nor by astipulation to make further legal pro
visions for the recovery, by the South, of fugitive
slaves, because the mischief in that matter is not
the want of legal remedies, but is a determina
tion on the part of the North not to regard legal
or even constitutional rights.
sth And the masses of the North on whom it
is to operate, reject it with scorn. .
6th That the measure which has been lately
reported to the Senate of the U. S. by a majority
ol committee of 13, is such a measure.
7th T hat this acceptance by the South would
not only be a total and humiliating surrender of
the points in issue, but would be attended with
a great decrease of political power on the part
of the South, and a corresponding increase on?
the part of the North, and that there is no earth
ly thing more to be deprecated,, than the dis
proportionable increase of political power of tire
North, because it is no longer to be denied as we
are painfully forced to admit, that the will is all
the North now lacks, to make her at once decree
abolition, and in the language of Mr. Clay’s re
port, speaking on the subject “experience in’
public affairs has too often shown that where
there is a desire to do a particular thing, the
power to aecompiish it, sooner or later will be
found or assumed.”
Slh That the warmest thanks of the whole
South are due, and those of this meeting are now
tendered to Senators Berrien, Mason, Yulee,
Clemens Davis, Downs and Borland, for their
prompt and decided opposition to a scheme
fraught with so much of evil to the South, on
its first announcement.
Oth 1 hat in the compromise on the Missouri
line, solemnly made between the North and
South 30 years ago, the South surrendered her
right to hold slave property North of 36 degs.
30m.—that she is content to abide by that line,
extended to the Pacific, but will take no less.
10th That California is particularly adapted to
slave labor, and the tenure of slave property in
all that part of it lying below 3G—3O, being by
such an arrangement secured, slavery would
rapidly flow thither and would permanently set
tle there, and thus would be greatly augmented
what now most needs augmenting, the political
power of the South while at the same time the
value of slave property would also be every
where greatly increased.
11 1 hat in view of the recent equivocal or
hostile course of the newspaper press of both
political parties, at the seat of Fedepal Govern
ment, we approve of the proposal of 64 South
ern members of Congress to establish a Press at
Washington, devoted exclusively to this advoca
cy of the interests and rights of the South, and
will gixe it our hearty countenance and sup
port.
12th That the South will see to it that those
Representatives, who, for the sake of better
ing their chances before the North for high of
fice, are willing to strengthen her political power
at the expense of the South and thus to put in
peril the life of every Southern man, woman and
child, and the honor of every Southern woman,,
‘besides $1*200,000,000 worth of property, shall
have their reward.
13th That our attachment to the Union of the
S.ates is unabated that we willjadhere to it and de
fend it, so long as it continues to be such an Un
ion as our fathers made it—a Union of justice,
fraternity and equality ; and that we will do ev
ery thing to preserve it, except surrender the
rights secured by it.
The resolutions being read by the secretarv,
James Johnson Esq., obtained the floor, but yield
ed it to Col. Hines Holt, who then offered the
following resolutions, as a substitute for those of
the committee. They were read by the secreta
ry, and were as follows:
Resolved, That for the present we are content
to leave the settlement of all questions affecting
our rights, where we, under the Constitution
have, in our sovereign capacity entrusted it to the
wisdom, integrity and patriotism of our Senators
and Representatives in Congress.
Resolved, That if this tribunal shall fail to ac
complish such adjustment of existing questions
as will secure to us our Constitutional rights
it will then be the privilege as well as the dutv
of the people of the South, to provide, at every
hazard, for the redress of their wrongs.
Resolved, Until this hope of adjustment is at
an end, we deprecate all conventions and all ag
itation, the tendency of which, in the opinion of
this meeting, is rather to enlarge than heal the
division which to the regret of every patriot, ex
ists in our country.
Resolved, That in the event of the passage of
the Wilmot Proviso by Congress—the abolition,
of slavery in the District of Columbia, or the con
tinued refusal of the non-slaveholding States to
deliver up fugitive slaves, as provided in the
Constitution, or of any legislation by Congress
denying to us “rights of property and political
equality,” we will advocate a Convention of the
people of our State, to take into consideration
the mode and measure of our redress: and that
we are unwilling to leave this high and impor
tant duty to any other than such Convention.
Resolved, That we entertain an ardent feeling
of devotion to the Union of the States, which can
alone yield to such encroachments on our rights
by the unconstitutional action and legislation of
Congress as to which subnfission would be de
grading, resistance a duty, commanded alike by
our interest and our self respect,
Arrival of the Asia.
SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
The new steamer Asia, arrived at Halifax
on the 27th inst., bringing Liverpooll dates
of the 18th inst. There is a conflict in the
accounts received by telegraph in this city.
One dispatch states, “market firm at former
quotations—no advance except on Fair and
Good Fair, which had advanced l-Bd.” An
other says, “all qualities had advanced l-Bd.
and a larger advance on fair cottons.” Sales
4,800 bales. Trade in manufacturing dis
tricts, healthy.
Premium Engraving.— The proprietors of Gra
ham’s Magazine have issued to their subscribers the
1 premium Kngraving for the current volume, the sub
ject of which is, “the first prayer.” A young
mother is represented as teaching her first born to
raise his infant hands in prayer. The engraving is
one of exquisite finish, worthy the design which is ad
mirable pxecuted. This is one the snperb engravings
i which is furnished to $3 subscribers to this monthly.
Full News from the Caban Expedition.
The Isabel, whose arrival from Havana has
I been looked for with so much anxiety for the
past few days, reached our port Saturday morn
ing about 4 o’clock, bringing Havana dates to
the 22d instant. She also brings as passengers
General Lor ez and Staff, with several of the
volunteer officers of the expidition.
From a member of the General’s staff we re
ceived the following particulars ofthe movements
of the expedition.
Gen. Lopez sailed from Now Orleans in the
steamer Creole, with a portion of his force, on
the 7th inst, and landed at the Isle of Woman,
on the 14th, where he remained two days. Pre
vious to leaving that Island on the 17th, the
General learned that there were some 20 or 30
men who were unwilling to proceed with him,
on which he issued an order that all who were
dissatisfied might return to New Orleans in the
bark Georgiana, on board which vessel, passage,,
etc. was provided for them. About thirty men “
availed themselves of this opportunity to with
draw from the expidition, and the General sailed
on the 17th, with 600 men rank and file, for Car
denas, which place he reached on Sunday Jhe
19th, effecting a landing about 4 o'clock in tke.
morning.