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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.