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SOUTHERN SENTINEL.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA:
THURSDAY MORNING, JTJLY 4, 1850.
order to give all hands an opportunity
to participate in the celebration of the 4th, we
issue this week’s edition, one day earlier than
usual.
Latest from Europe.
The Steamer Pacific reached Halifax on tbe
morning of the 29th. bringing Liverpool dates
to the 19th ult., being four days later than those
brought by the Niagara. The cotton market was
firm at the Niagara’s quotations, and the sales for
the three days immediately proceeding the sail
ing ot the Steamer amounted to 15,000 bales.
Parties.
What has the South to hope from the present or
ganization of parties ? If we are to labor alone for par
ty triumph, or if the spoils of victory are to constitute
the sole element of onr devotion to party, then we
need only look to head quarters for directions, as
to the course we are to pursue • but if our attachment
to party is upon principle, and if we are to strive for
party ascendency, merely as a means of serving the
country, then it is well to analyze its principles and
inquire how far those principles are calculated to pro
mote the public good. How will the present party
organizations of the country’ stand the test of this an
alysis. W r e mean to make no disparaging contrasts
between the Whig and Democratic parties; so far as
any practical good to the south is concerned, they are
alike objectionable, or if there is a difference it is one
of degree, not of principle. What affinity of principle
exists between Southern Democracy and Northern
Democracy, or between Southern Whiggery and
Northern Whiggery ? The old issues upon which
parties have been heretofore divided, are confessedly
obsolete, or at least they have been so overshadowed
by the magnitude of other questions, that they forma
very inconsiderable element of party organization.—
There is but one question before the country; that in
volving the relations existing between the Northern
and Southern sections of this confederacy. Upon that
question, the North as one man, stands upon one side,
and the South, upon the other side of the dividing
line. With what shadow of reason, then can it be
said that there is any identity of principle between
the different branches of either the Whig or Demo
crat party.- The farewell admonition of the Father of
his Country, in waming ( his fellew citizens of the dan
ger of sectional parties, is as wise to day as when it
first fell from his pen, and the South has been the last
to forget it; but the fact, that a sectional party at the
North does exist, can not be deni and, nor <an we make
it less a fact by decrying the evil or closing our eyes
to its existence. The entire North, Whig and Dem
ocrat is anti-slavery. War upon the institutions of
the South, is the great paramount principle in North
ern politics ; it is the leaven which leavens the whole
lump; it is the test of orthodoxy with all parties.—
How then can Northern and Southern men stand to
gether at the ballot box ? They can not, without con
cession from one side or the other, and we have only
to recur to the past history of parties to satisfy us on
which side this concession is to be made. We'have
suffered much from the partial legislation of the gen
eral government, but we have suffered four fold more
in the caucuses and conventions of parties. In our
anxiety to erect a platform upon which all might stand,
wc have seriously compromised the rights of that
section whose influence was least to be courted at the
ballot box. While then we should ceaselessly watch
the movements of our Representatives upon the floors
of Congress, we should with equal care, guard our in
terests from those more silent but more dangerous
incursions, which are planned behind the curtain of
party conventions. Let us stand aloof from all such
conferences. The South can never be safe, so long
as she meets in party conventions with the North ;
not that our wire workers are less shrewd or less sel
fish than those of the North, but submission to North
ern dictation is held up as an indispensable prerequisite
to national preferment, and while these conventions are
enabled to sanction their authority, with the disposal
of those tempting baits in the shape of national honors,
we will always find unprincipled men enough, who
are willing to barter away honor, and rights and every
thing else for the sake of place.
In truth, the inevitable tendency of these national
conventions is, to place preeminently in the
advance, the claims of those who have most signal
ized themselves in treachery’ to their own section,
and to keep those in the back ground, who have stood
up with disinterested zeal, in behalf of their own por
tion of the Union. It is this very defection to the
interests of the South, that introduces the traitors to
her cause, to the support of northern men. It has
come to tins, that he can. have no national reputation
who has any love for his own section, and he is an un
safo repository of power, who has the audacity to
think that the South has any rights except those
which the grasping avarice of the North, graeiously
ncknowledges. How are we to pat a stop to these
things ? The answer is plain, Let us meet in no
more party conventions with the North ; let os have
no more Baltimore or Philadelphia conventions; lot
the North meet for presidential nominations if she
chooses, but let no Southern man go there to be sac
rificed, and no Southern traitor’s name be introduced
there, as a reward for his treachery. We will then
hold the balance of power, and that power will not
fail to be eourted. If we accomplish no other good,
we will cheek that insatiate thirst for national repu
tation which has tempted so many of our Southern
men, to forgetfulness of those paramount obligations
which they owe to their own section.
American Art-l nion.
We have received from the publishers, Nos. 1 and
2, of the Bulletin of the American Art-Union, the
monthly publication of the society of that name in
New York. We extract from the work before us,
the following synopsis of the object and plan of oper
ations of the Association:
The American Art-Union, in the City of New
York, was incorporated by the Legislature of the
State of New York, for the promotion of the Fine
Arts is the United States. It is managed by’
gentlemen who are chosen annually by the members,
and receive no compensation. To accomplish a tru
ly national object, uniting great public good with
private gratification at small individual expense, in a
manner best suited to the situation and institutions of
our country, and the wants, habits and tastes of our
people, the Committee have adopted the following
PLAN :
Every subscriber of five dollars is a member for the
year, and is entitled to all its privileges.
The money thus obtained, (after paying nccessary
expenses,) is supplied,
First. — To the production of a large and cosily
Original Engraving from an American painting, to
gether with a set of outlines , or some other similar
Work of Art.
Os these, every momber receives a copy for every
five dollars paid by him.
Members who subscribe for more than one share,
are entitled for every five dollars paid, to a set of En
gravings and Outlines issued in any one year, and are
at liberty to select from the Engravings and Outlines
of previous years, except the u Artist's Dream,'’ from
which no more good impressions can be taken.
The plates and copyright of all Engravings and
other publications belong to the Institution, and are
used solely for its benefit.
Every member also reoeives an Annual Report of
the “Transactions,” &e., of the institution.
Second.— Each member will also be entitled, from
the date of his subscription, to the numbers of the
“Bulletin of the American Art%Union,” issued
therefrom during the year.
This is a monthly publication, containing 16 pages,
es. three columns each, of interesting reading matter,
on flubjects relating to Art, in this oountry and in
Europe. Each number will be illustrated with an
Engraving of Etching.
Third.— To the purchase of Paintings and Sculp
tures. Statuettes in bronze , and Medals, by native
or resident artists.
These last mentioned Works of Art are exhibited
at the Gallery of the Art-Union till the annual meet
ing in December, when they are publicly distributed
by lot among the menbers, each member having one
share for every five dollars paid by him.
Each member is thus certain of receiving in return
at least the value of the five dollars paid, and may,
also, receive a painting or other Work of Art of great
value.
Fourth. —The Office and Rooms of the Institution,
with its Free Picture Galleries, are located at 497
Broadway, in the city of New York. These Galler
ies are always open, and adorned witli fine Paintings
and other Works of Art, where the members in New
York receive their Engravings, Paintings, &c. and
where the business of the Institution is transacted.
Dr. Jacob Fogle, is the Honorary Secretary for
this city, and will receive and forward the subscrip
tions of those who desire to become members.
The Cuban Expedition.
The Grand Jury in the United States District
Court at New Orleans have returned true bills of
indictment for violation of the act of Congress of 1818,
by setting on foot an expedition against the island of
Cuba, against John A. Quitman, (Governor of Mis
sissippi,) Judge Cotesworth Pinckney Smith, (of the
Supreme Court of Mississippi,) John Henderson, (late
Senator from that State,) J. L. O’Sullivan, (late edi
tor of the Democratic Review, and son of a former
Minister to Spain,) John F. Pickett, (late Consul at
Turks’ Island,) Theodore O’Hara, (late Major in the
United States Army,) C. R. Wheat?, Peter Smith,
A. Gonzales, Thomas Theodore Hawkins, W\ 11.
Bell, N. J. Bunch, L. J. Sigur, (State Senator,)
Donatien Augustin, Brigadier General, and comman
der of the Legion, and General Narciso Lopez, ma
king in all, sixteen persons.
W rits were issued for the arrest of the parties,
most of whom were absent from the city. It was
thought that efforts would be made to bring on the
trial before the adjournment of the Court, and that
one of the Judges of the Supreme Court would be
sent on to New Orleans to assist the District Judge
iu the trial.
To the Point. —We find the following u card ” in
the Columbus Times. The writer is known through
out the State as one of the boldest, most intelligent
and purest men in it, and the course which he has
pursued will be ascribed alone, by those who know
him, to an honest purpose to do that which lie be
lieves to he his duty. For our neighbors of the En
quirer, as gentlemen, we entertain nothing but good
will, but we regard the stand which that Journal has
taken on the questions of the day, wielding as it does,
an immense influence upon public opinion in Wes
tern Georgia, as dangerous in the extreme, and we
can but rejoice that it is beginning to excite the dis
trust and opposition of its readers.
A Card.
Columbus, June 26tli, 1850.
Editor of the Columbus Times :
Dear Sir—l ask of you the favor to give a plaee, in
your columns, to the accompanying communication
addressed to the Editors of the Columbus Enquirer,
which they have declined publishing. The conclu
ding paragraph of my letter explains my motive for
desiring its publication.
Yours, respectfully,
11. S. SMITH.
Columbus, June 20th, 1850.
Editors of the Columbus Enquirer :
Gentlemen—l have been a subscriber to the “Co
lumbus Enquirer” since the publication of the first
number, to the present time, and have generally ap
proved the tone of its political articles.
I have considered myself identified with the party,
whose doctrines it has advocated up to the period,
when, in my opinion, a portion of the leading men and
presses of that party (among the latter is the Enqui
rer,) took grounds antagonistic to what I conceived to
be, a due regard for the just rights of the Southern
States, guarantied them by the constitution.
I now profess to belong to no party but the party
that demands and contends for justice and equality
to the South. I have noticed for some time past
your editorials upon the questions at issue between
the North and the South with regret, because, I con
ceived them to be doing more barm to the cause of
the latter, than could be accomplished by hosts of
such men as Seward, Giddings, & Cos. Their opin
ions have no weight with our own people. Under
these convictions, a due regard for my own feelings,
which of late, have been frequently outraged by your
strictures upon the honest efforts of those who were
fearlessly and firmly contending for the just rights of
the South only, demands that I should request you to
discontinue my paper from this date, and to give place
in your columns to this communication, that my
friends may understand iny position, and to relieve
myself from the charge of having “changed my poli
tics and joined the Democracy.”
I ant,’Gentlemen,
Respectfully,
’ll. S. SMITH.
Public Opinion—Hon. 11. S. Foote. —We have
just received the proceedings of a large and respecta
ble meeting held at Canton, on the 15th inst.; Col.
D. M. Fulton chairman, and James R. Chambers
secretary. Resolutions, offered by Geo. Calhoon,
Esq., and unanimously adopted, declare the compro
mise of Mr. Clay “unconstitutional and derogatory to
the rights and honor of the south that “an over
whelming majority of the people of Mississippi are op
posed to it;” and that if Senator Foote will not yield
to them, he ought not to retain a position in which
he misrepresents his constituents. Surprise is also
manifested at the great exertion he has made to pub
lish the opinions of politicians of other States, while
ho exhibits the greatest paucity in ascertaining the
will of his own people. Similar meetings wonld have
been held iu various sections of our State, but for our
direct appeal to defer all expression of opinion until
the people sbould act in reference to the platform of
the Nashville convention. We have desired to give
Mr. Foote every opportunity to unite with our people,
deeply appreciating his former eminent services as a
democratic Senator, and cherishing for him also the
highest personal feelings of regard. The time, how
ever, has now arrived when we must consider his
policy as fixed: and If he shall take issuo with the
Nashville convention, the people will no longer hesi
tate as to the course they will pursue towards him.
[Mississippian.
SrANisii Insolence.— The Savannah “Republican,”
of the 27th ult., says:
“The schooner Gen. Taylor , Capt. Wright, from
Chagres, bound to Turks Islands, 30 days out, put into
this port yesterday for water and ballast. The Captain
states that when off Cape Antoine, he was boarded by
a Spanish man-of-war (name not given) whose
commander sent aboard two officers and eight men
who searched the vessel thoroughly, and insolently
demanded his crew list and other papers, not being sat
isfied with the report which the Captain gave. The
schooner was in company with brig Nevius, of Beverly,
Mass, bound from Mansanello, (Cuba,) to Boston. This
brig was also searched.”
We hope Gen. Taylor will be as prompt in repelling
an insult to our flag, as he was to defend that of Spain.
A proper regard for the faith of treaties is undoubtedly
our true policy, and] we will be the last to cen
sure the Executive for the use of all the pow
er which the Constitution places at his command for
this purpose, but when the desire to “be at peace with
all the nations of the world, and to maintain our cher
ished relations of amity, with the rest of mankind,” is
enforced at the expense of our national honor, it be
comes a sin, far outweighing a disregard of our treaty
stipulations. We do not say that such will be Gen. Tay
lor’s policy; it would certainly be very’ unlike the Hero of
Buena Vista, but W’e shall see whether his demand for re
dress of this outrage upon our national name, will be pros
ecuted with the promptness and determination which
marked his defence of imperial Spain, and his prose
cution of those who participated in the expedition
against the Island of Cuba. Spain should be made to
feel that she cannot thus with impunity insult an Amer
ican vessel upon the high seas. Foi this, among other
causes, we went to war with England in 1313, and we
then gave the haughty mistress of the seas, a lesson in
international law which has not since been forgotten,
and we may have to impress some of the same ideas
upon other European powers; not however by war, but
by a rigid and inflexible determination to have all our
rights respected.
Texas and the General Government.
Recent intelligence from the West is developing a
state of affairs that not only strongly implicates the
honor of the administration, but seriously threatens to
disturb the peace of the country. Mr. Neighbours,
the commissioner of the State of Texas, had proceed
ed to Santa Fe under instructions from that State,
with the view to organise that country as a part of
Texas, when he was interrupted by Col. Monroe, the
Military Governor of New Mexico, with the follow
ing proclamation, calling on the people to meet in con
vention, for the purpose of forming a State constitu
tion. Os course, Col. Monroe acted by virtue of au
thority conferred by the Executive of the United
States. The following is the Proclamation :
“Whereas, the people of New Mexico, by pub
lic meetings held in the several counties of this
territory, have expressed a desire to hold a con
vention for the formation of a State constitution’
and to urge upon Congress the admission of this
territory into the Union as a State ; therefore
I, John Monroe, civil and military governor of
said Territory of New Mexico y do hereby direct
that the qualified electors of said territory shall
assemble at the precincts of the respective coun
ties on Monday, the 16th day of May next, be
tween the rising and the setting of the sun, to
vote by ballot for delegates to a convention to be
held at Santa Fe on Monday, the 15th of May
next, as follows:
Counties. Delegates.
Taos 3
Rio Verbra ----3
Santa Fe 3
San Miguel ----3
Santa Anna 2
Bernilillo 2
Valencia 5
“The prefects shall designate convenient pre
cincts in their respective counties, and shall ap
point three discreet persons as judges of election
in the several precincts. Otherwise said elec
tion shall be conducted in manner and form as
prescribed in the laws of the territory, under the
title of “election,” except the prefect’s clerk of
each county shall, with the assistance of the pre
fect, examine and cast up the votes given to
each candidate ; shall give a certificate of elec
tion to the person having the largest number of
votes, and shall transmit to the Secretary of the
Territory a fair abstract of all the votes given,
within four days from the day of the election.
“Given under my hand at the government
house, in the city of Santa Fe, this 23d day of
April, A. D., 1850.
JOHN MONROE,
“Military and Civil Gov., New Mexico.”
In accordance with the foregoing proclamation, we
perceive from the following letter in the Baltimore
Sun, that the people had actually met in convention,
and formed a State constitution prohibiting slavery :
Santa Fe. May 25,1850.
A Convention of Delegates has been'called and
held, which formed and promulgated a Consti
tution for the government of the State of New
Mexico—The convention assembled at Santa Fe
on the 15th of May, and the session lasted eight
or nine days, in which time the Convention was
framed, which would go into operation about
July. The boundaries of the State were defined,
and slavery prohibited.
The constitution was adopted on the 25th of
May ; in fifteen days afterwards an election was
to take place for members of Legislature. Two
Senators and Representatives in Congress
would also soon be elected and efforts would be
made to take their seats during the present ses
sion.
Mr. St. Vrain, Judge Otero, and Henry Con
nelly, are among the most prominent candidates
for Governor, and Captain A. W. Reynolds and
Major R. H. Witman. for Senators. It is sup
posed that Hugh N. Smith, the present delegate
in Congress, would be elected to the House of
Representatives.
So much for the facts in the case, and in view’ of
them, w’e submit that Gen. Taylor is either innocent
of any participation in the transaction, and if so, a
miserably ignorant, impotent, and inefficient chief
magistrate, or, that all w’bich Col. Monroe has done,
has been done under instructions from Washington,
and if so, that the President has been guilty of a most
base and unwarrantable outrage upon a sovereign
State of this Union. It may be that Santa Fe was
not rightfully embraced within the jurisdiction of
Texas, but this Government is estopped from denying
that jurisdiction. Texas claimed that her boundary
extended to the Rio Grande, and that Santa Fe w'as
embraced within her limits. In the annexation of
that State, we annexed her with all the Territory
she claimed, subject only to future negotiation with
Mexico. To enforce those very claims, we went to
w'ar with Mexico, and finally conquered her. In the
treaty of peace, concluded between the two countries,
Mexico ceded to the United States all that Texas ever
laid claim to-, and is it for the United States now to
take the place of Mexico in the controversy about
boundary, and appropriate to herself all that was de
nied to Texas. It is, as if A. should demand SIOO
of 8., the latter insisting that he owed but $75. A.
employs C. to prosecute the claim, and C., after suc
ceeding in recovering the entire amount, turns upon
A. and refuses to- pay him more than $75., on the
ground that he w’as never entitled to more at the
hands of B. It is now too late to go into the origi
nals of Texas’ claim to the Rio Grande ; she claimed
that ifiver as her Western boundary’, and this Gov
ernment maintained that claim at the expense of a
protracted sanguinary struggle.
And what is to be the consequence of this usurpa
tion, to the Southern States of this confederacy. The
people of New Mexico have the same inherent right
to form a State Government, and demand admission
into the Union, as had the people of California. Nay’,
there is a greater propriety in the exercise of such a
right on the part of the people of New’ Mexico. They
are generally permanent residents of the Territory,
while those who organised the State of California were
transient adventurers, and in no sense identified with
the soil for which they assumed the right to legislate.
True, New Mexico has but a few thousands of inhab
itants, but inherent political right is not dependent up
on numbers. Five thousand have the same right to
make a State, according to this doctrine, as one hun
dred thousand, and those who favor the admission of
California on her present application, dare not interpose
this objection, lest it might argue the right iu the
general government to make qualifications to the de
mand of a State for admission into the Union. How
forcibly does thie new application, expose the sham set
up by the advocates of California. The opponents of
that measure might in vain have racked their imagi
nations, for a more complete burlesque of the ridiculous
pretensions made by the State of California.
Washington Monument.
We are pleased to learn that Mr. R. P. Spencer
of our city, who is the agent of the Monument
Society, will be in attendance at the approaching
celebration of the 4th, for the purpose of receiv
ing whatever those present may be disposed to
give for this enterprise. Asa work, intended
to be commemorative of the immortal Washing
ton, it should enlist the cordial cooperation of all
who are proud of the name of Americans, and it
is the design of the society rather that the entire
people should build it by small contributions
from each, that it should be erected by large do
nations from a few.
We thank Hon Lewis Cass, Hon. Jere.
Clemens, Hon. M. J. Wellborn and llon. 11.
W, Hilliard for pubic documents.
Matthew L. Davis.
One of the oldest and most distinguished pub
lic men of N. York, and Father of Capt. John E.
Davis of our city, died in New York on the 21st,
ult. He was well known to the literary world
as the confidential friend and biographer of Aaron
Burr, and as the author of the celebrated let
ters to the New York Courier & Enquirer, over
the Signature of the Spy in Washington.
Macon Female College.—We have received
from some friend, a “Catalogue of the Trustees,
Faculty, and students, of the Wesleyan Female
Colege at Macon Ga. for the scholastic year 18*
49—50,” from which we gather the following
interesting facts. The Faculty consists of a Pre
sident and Professor of Mathematics; a Professor
of Engish Literature; a Professor of Languages;
a Prof333or of Mu;ic; a Governess and Teacher
of the Ornamental Branches; and an Instruc
tress in the Primary Department. There are at
present, 176 young ladies in the institution, 161
of whom are from Georgia, and the remaining
5 from the adjoining States. The necessary
expenses per. annum are apout $175 including
tuition, board &c. &c. The Ornamental Branch
es of Music, painting and embroidery, cost $125
per annum. The commencement exercises will
begin on Monday the Bth inst., and be continu
ed till the succeeding Thursday. The annual
address will be delivered by Hon. Thomas C.
Howard.
Hon. M. J. Wellborn. —Our immediate Rep
resentative has made another speecli in the
House, sustaining the Missouri Compromise.—
We hope to receive a revised Copy of his
speech in a few days, and -will lay it before our
readers. To Judge Wellborn belongs the honor
of having first introduced the Missouri Compro.
mise into Congress, at this session, and it must
be a source of gratification, not more to him than
to his constituents, that the position he then oc
cupied, is now becoming the rallying point of the
entire South.
Congress.
Both Houses are mainly occupied in the dis
cussion of slavery. In the Senate, Mr. Soule
has introduced an amendment which will be
found in another place. His speech on the
amendment is characterisad as one of the ablest
which has been delivered this session, and its
effect upon the prospects of the committee com
promise, is said to have been any thing but sat
isfactory to the friends of that measnre. It has
brought out Mr. Webster in labored reply. In
private letters which we have received from
Washington, we are assured that the fate of the
omnibus bill is sealed.
Mr. Foote has introduced in the Senate a Res
olution calling on the President for information
relative to his interference in the affairs ot Mex
ico, and similar resolutions have been introduc
ed in the House by Mr. Stanton of Tennessee.
The Senate has recently confirmed several im
portant Executive appointments, among others,
those of Abbott Lawrence as Minister to England,
Baile Peyton as Minister to Chili, and George P.
Marsh as Minister to Constantinople.
THE SPIRIT OE CHEROKEE GA.
The Dalton Times, speaking of the compro
mise of 36. 30. says:
The division of the territory acquired from
Mexico, by the extension of this line to the Pa
cific oceen, as insisted upon by the Southern
Convention, is fully recognised as the ne plus ul
tra of Southern compromise, if we judge from the
tone and ’spirit ofour cotemporaries. Neverthe
less, there are not wanting, even among us here
at home, a few—though, thank Haaven, but a
few—infatuated panderers to the fanatical senti
ment of northern ambition, who turn away de
risively from the modest demand of the South,
as if indeed, it were the height of presumption,
and the very quinteseence of diplomatic folly, to
seek, by this means, the final settlement of the
slavery question.
As is ever the case with the timeserving de
magogue, skilled in all the baseborn tricks of
low chicanery, and more than willing to employ
them as well to mask their real motives, as to sub
serve the accomplishment of their unholy pur
poses, these darkly dyed apostates from the hon
or of the South would fain cloak the perfidy of
their course, by assuming the absolute necessi
ties to which they are driven as an apology.—
Hence, cringing, with serf-like servility under
the unscrupulous dicta, and yielding with scarce
a murmur, to the most unrighteously exorbitant
exactions of our Northern oppressors, they trai
torously reject the only possible plan of adjust
ing existing difficulties, securing contested rights
and vindicating insulted honor, with the profit
less design of making to themselves friends of
the household of free-soilism.
At a meeting of the Citizens of Walker Cos. at
Ringgold on the 26th ult, the following Resolu
tions were adopted:
Resolved, That the resolutions adopted by the
Nashville Convention meet with our warmest ap
probation, and that we stand pledged to sustain
them.
Resolved, That in this momentous crisis, we
sincerely hope that no division of sentiment will
exist among us, in reference to that great ques
tion which is now agitating the councils o f the
nation.
Resolved, That when our opponents shall
cease to liear argument, we will be prepored to
maintain our constitutional rights “at all hazards
and to the last extremity.”
The Cherokee Advocate says:
We place before our readers the Series of Res
olutions adopted by the Nashville Convention,
only a portion of which we published last weeks
We hope that they and the Address will receive
a hearty approval. They are mild, temperate
and just. Now that the reasonable requirements
of the South have been promulgated, every pa
triot of every latitude should see to their accom
plishment, and harmony would be restored to
this broad country.
The Rome Southerner is of course with'us, and
with us too, actively, ably, and efficiently. No
journal in the South has stood up more boldly
or more uniformly in defence of her rights.—
Situated in the very midst of influences, more
antagonistic to the southern movement, than are
to be found in any other part of the State, it lias
all along, born itself bravely and with a power
ful arm in the conflict which has been so,warmly
raged about its head. The Southerner merits
the support of true Southern men, and if there
are disaffected Democrats in Cherokee who turn
the cold shoulder upon it, the Democrats of other
sections should see to it, that it does not snffe
in the advocacy of their rights.
DEMOCRATIC CONSISTENCY.
“Some of the Democratic papers are abusing
Gen. Taylor as a traitor to the South in the very
articles in which they still laud General Cass to
the skies. Such unharmonious inconsistent
clack want do. We do not find fault with them
for disagreeing with general Taylor. We do
that without hesitation ourselves. But we call
upon these papers to show how it is that they
can censure General Taylor and stick to Gen.
Cass. The latter lias explained for himself what
he meant by his Nicholson Letter, and he tells us
flatly, he meant to say, that slavery is excluded
from the territories by a Mexican Law, and also,
that the territorial legislatures have the right to
exclude it by legislation!
Gen. Taylor entertains the same opinion as to
the Mexican law, but he has never yielded such
a power to the territorial Legislatures.”
We extract the foregoing from the Augusta
Republic, and we do so for the purpose of giving
it our cordial second. We confess we have been
deluded in our understanding of Gen. Cass’ doc
trine of non intervention, and we see no difference
uow between his position and that of Gen. Tay -
lor, and while they stand together upon a plat
form which in our estimation is destructive to
the rights of the South, the fact that one is a
Democrat and the other a Whig shall not induce
us to discriminate in our denunciation of then
position. Rightly understood, we still declare
our firm adherence to, and our decided prefer
ence for, the doctrine of non intervention, but the
idea of inherent political jurisdiction of this ques
tion of Slavery, in the people of the Territories,
is an abominable heresy which we can neversup
port whether advocated by a whig or democratic
president. On this question then, w-e see no
difference between Gen. Taylor and Gen. Cass,
and with the Republic, we deprecate that invid
ious spirit of party which determines the ortho„
doxy of a political opinion, by the party associ
ation of the man who entertains it. It is to us a
matter of indifference on which side of the old
party lines, men may now stand. There is now
but one test of party, and by that test must men
stand or fall, before the people of the South.
[YANKEE CORRESPONDENCE.]
Boston, June 24, 1850.
Anniversary of Bunker Hill—Great Storm in the
North—Another in Chelsea Church Militant —
Forrest's Assault on Willis, of the Home Jour
nal— The Knockings—Mad Doctors—Steamer
Burnt—Great Fortification — Paine's Light, cj-c.
Last Monday the anniversary of the battle of Bun
ker Hill, fought in 1775, was celebrated round the
Monument in Charlestown. The ceremonies consis
ted of a procession, an oration, and a dinner. The
day was very fine and very hot; flags were flying
everywhere, and bells were ringing at intervals. The
procession began at 11 o’clock and proceeded through
the principal streets and round the monumental hill.
First marched several military companies, then suc
ceeded and brought up the rear the clubs, societies,
fire companies, and delegations belonging to Charles
town, Boston, Roxbury, Cambridge, and half a dozen
other places in our vicinity, all with flags, drums, in
struments of music and personal decorations.—
Charlestown was crowded with gala folk—and along
the course oi’ the pageant were erected a multitude of
little stands and booths, furnishing a great variety of
refreshment and diversion to the perspiring public.
The Ship House in the Navy Yard was the place
where Mr. Everett's oration was delivered, to an au
dience of over 10,000 persons. It was very appro
priate and very eloquent, setting forth the well known
history and the old sentiments in a renovated manner.
Towards the close it contained some admirable aspi
rations for a perfect union and fraternity of these
States, which were very warmly applauded. The
dinner guests then walked in procession into Boston,
where, at the Fitchburg Railway Depot, they enjoy
ed the banquet and tile toasts which succeeded it.
Several of the toasts exhibited that love of the Union
and strong wish to preserve it, which shall never
cease to be the dominant sentiments here. Among
other letters read after dinner, was one from Daniel
Webster, advocating a calm, compromising spirit of
brotherhood, in his own earnest and memorable
way.
The weather here has been very’ warm, for the
past week—thermometer up to 98 or so. • But just
as we were at the hottest, and flinging off every lin
gering remnant of our Spring liabilaments, came a
storm —a terrible storm of thunder, lightning and
rain, which appeared to have swept all the States of
this Northern seaboard. It took place here on Thurs
day 7. The lightning struck several persons and
things in Boston, running down chimnies, along bell
ropes, between people’s legs, and picking astonishing
holes in floors. It knocked down three Irishmen,
near Blue Ili! 1 ., who, for a moment, thought they
were in the fair of Ballinasloe, when the buying and
selling is over, and the other business generally be
gins. But they found they were completely unin
jured, and consequently knew, at once, that it could
not be the fair of Ballinasloe. In New Hampshire
the streams rose, and the embankment of the Chesh
ire railway were broken in several places; factories
and barns were blown over, and hailstones battered
the roofs and windows like grape shot. At Concord
in this State there was a snug audience under a mon
ster tent, looking at the pleasant business of a circus.
But the tempest blew the tent about their ears and
they ran away like half drowned rats. Wild work of
the same kind in Maine and several other States.
There was a perfect tornado in New York. Houses
were blown down, masts of ships swept away, trees
torn up by the roots, boats upset, and several persons
drowned. A great amount of mischief has been
done, but, as is usually the ease with anything moth
er Nature performs, the general compensation far
outweighs the detriment. Vegetation and the hopes
which it holds forth have grown brighter and fresher
from this uproar of the elements.
We have had a case of holy warfare here, which
amuses the ungodly very much. Scene, a church.
Time, Sunday evening. Belligerents, a Captain and
a Rector —partisans, attendants, Ac. A smart fel
low could make as much of this reading desk , in
St. Lukes Church, in Chelsea, as Boileau Despreaux
did of his (the Lutrin) long ago. The case has come
before the Police Court, and the facts are as follows :
St. Lukes is an Episcopalian chureli, of which the
Rev. Mr. Jenks is the Rector, acknowledged by the
parish, but disallowed by the proprietors, who built
up the edifice from a mere hall. Os these last is
Captain Thayer. Not being able to agree about the
church, both parties referred their dispute to the
i Supreme Court, and gave the key of the edifice to
the Town Clerk, to abide the result. But, last Sun
day, the proprietors got into the church the back
way, and threw it open for service. The men of
Jenks heard this, and their wrath was kindled. In
the evening, when the proprietors were to have the
church open again, a body of parishioners marched,
headed by Mr. Jenks, into it and up the aisle. They
found a young layman officiating. Mr. Jenks, the
Rector, in full canonicals, moved upon the reading
desk, according to the.canon. He was met by Capt.
Thayer, who asked him what he wanted, and gave
gave him an effective thrust in the stomach, which
pitched his reverence into the arms of his followers.
A mcllee followed, in which Mr. Jenks’ gown was
torn up the back, and he himself left in a very un
clerical condition. The old proverb was reversed—
cedit annee toga. In the meantime, people had run
for the sheriff, who came, and in the midst of much
clamor, put both parties out of the church and the
key in Ills pocket, like Cromwell, after dissolving the
long Parliament. So the matter stands. Mr. Thay
er has given bail to answer the charge of doubling
up the clergyman, before a jury, in July.
Talking of fighting and fisticuffs, I suppose you
have heard how Edwin Forrest, the tragedian, beat
N. P. Willis, the poet, one of the editors of the
Home Journal. Forrest asserted that he had a dire
grievance to urge him on—the bloodiest outrage the
human heart could rise against—the seduction of his
wife, by Willis ; and he comes, sideways and sudden
ly, upon the latter and licks him with a cane after he
has knocked him down! That was not exactly the
way to requite such a terrible wrong, supposing
(which has not been shown at all,) that Willis perpe
trated it. An opener and a manlier course —a duel
at six paces, or muzzle to muzzle—would have best
suited such an emergency. The fact that Willis is a
small man and Forrest a big man, makes this beat
ing still more reprehensible. Willis forebore to lodge
any complaint against Forrest. It is not improbable
the former will proceed against the assailant for heavy
damages.
The Rochester Kuockings, of which I have already
spoken to you. are apparently about to be knocked on
the head. The editor of the New York Commercial,
who went to hear these noises and see the ladies that
preside over them, seems to express the sentiment of
the majority, when he declares that “a bolder or
more contemptible humbug that had ihe least con
nection with respectable parties, he never knew.”
He hints that if he could investigate why the ladies
sat so close together, lie might be able to bring some
thing to light—meaning by this terrible way of speak
ing, that if he could only—we can scarcely write the
words—could only rummage the dresses of the la
dies, he might be able to discover something!
Well, if that’s not audacity, I don’t know what is!
The fact is, the desperado believes the knocks come
from some place between the floor and the table, at
which the ladies sit; he has no faith in the floor ! It
is very well the ladies have a couple of young fellows
to watch over them in the room—otherwise, some
visitor, with a soul perforated as it were, by a sherry 7
cobler, might be for finding cleetrie machinery un
der their wardrobes! I hope ihe money making im
posture will not be blown up before these cunning
gypsies shall have come to Boston.
Mr. Webster has written another letter on the
great topic of the day, to several persons in Gardiner,
Augusta, HalloweU, and Bath, in the State of Maine.
It goes to show that the Wilmot Proviso would be
an absurdity as applied to New Mexico. Referring
to the prospect of settlement, he says : “on this point
I am happy to say I can speak with hope, if not with
confidence. I think I see indications that the public
judgment will, ere long, be brought to bear upon
these troublesome and exciting questions, and that
the voice of a majority of the people will hush other
discordant voices.” By the way, Soule’s amend
ment regarding the admission of Utah, adopted by a
vote of 38 to 12, seems to settle the fate of the Wil
mot Proviso in the Senate.. lam sure we should all
be very much rejoiced to know that the evil spirit,
IV ilmot Proviso, was banished for ever from amongst
us, and laid quietly in the Red Sea, where all the oth
er troublesome ghosts are laid.
We have had a convention of mad doctors here, for
the last week. Don’t misunderstand me. 1 don’t
mean that the M. D’s. were lunatics. It is a matter
of reason and congfuity, that
“Who drives fat oxen, should himself be fat
but it is not held, at all, necessary that
Who keep mad people, should themselves be mad.
No, sir ; I only meant to say that over one hundred
and sixty-five medical superintendants of Asylums for
the insane, have been in session here for some days,
discussing everything pertaining to the physical and
moral treatment fittest for the well being of those un
der their charge. They came from all parts of the
Union and the British Provinces. They have en
lightened and benefitted each other a good deal, and
will carry back with them to their respective localities,
the various excellent suggestions and ideas given out
at their meetings. The Mayor, Bigelow, and the
City authorities, took them out to the mouth of our
old Bay in a steamer, the day before yesterday, to
give them a mouthful of cool air and refresh them af
ter their discussions. They took something more
than mouthfuls of air, though ; “can a man fill his
belly with the east wind ?” The corporation thought
not, and so they had provided a variety of knick
knaekeries in the gastronomic way, for their guests
as a sort of solid basis on which to rest their admira
tion of our Yankee Archipelago.
In the midst of the hundred islands in our harbor,
is Governor’s Island, where, for the last twenty
years, a large and formidable fort has been in progress
of construction. A million of dollars have been al
ready expended upon it. It commands the entrance
to our harbor, completely. Its guns could hit a sea
gull if he attempted to force his way through the
space, against the will of the garrison. But it has
no garrison as yet. It will require about §300,000
mors to finish it. When completed it will be a per
fect Gibraltar. As it is, it does a fighting man’s heart
good to see its massive masonry, breastworks, arches,
stairways, vaults, &c. I hope it will be complete be
fore we go to war with Spain and England, about the
possession of Cuba.
The burning of the steamer “Griffith,” 17th inst.,
on Lake Erie, with a number of emigrants on board,
is one of the most melancholy things of the kind that
we have heard for a long time. The emigrants were
chigfly Germans, and over thirty Englishmen. The
fire spread so rapidly that, at 600 yards from the
shore where the ship was grounded, men, women and
children, leaped in masses into the water. They
dragged each other down, and it is thought that 300
persons perished in this way, among whom were the
Captain’ and his wife. The neglect and recklessness
of ship-owners and captains are dreadful, and it is a
deep reproach that the State Legislatures or the Su
preme Government, will not make stringent enact
ments op the subject, for the protection of society
against this headlong spirit of speculation, which holds
human life so cheap.
Mr. Paine's Hydro-Electric light still continues to
be variously discussed, and a good deal of disbelief is
expressed concerning it. It is stated by the New,
York Herald, that Paine will iutroduee this light into
the Abtor House on the 4th of July next. Several
statements appear in the papers, to the effect that he
is not a man to be relied on—that he is somewhat of
a. visionary. There may be something in this. But,
then, Columbus was the greatest visionary of his time,
and so was Roger Bacon. However, whether Paine
be successful or not, this theory of fire from water is
a true one, and the proper machine to produce it
must shortly be discovered. We cannot yet believe
that there is nothing in a contrivance by which Paine
has made inflammable gas to light his own room. We
shall shortly know whether he can perform all he
promises.
The migration of our wealthiest citizens to the sea
shore, to watering places, and rural hotels, is going on
at a great rate. We must be content with what By
ron would call “a vegetable puncheon”—the Com
mon, and thank God for the Frog Pond and its jet.
The Connecticut Legislature has brought in a bill
under which clergymen or magistrates who shall
marry white people to blacks shall be fined—as who
should say—vou-Co.nnect-I-cut ! After this, I must
vanish!
YANKEE DOODLE.
[EW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.]
Introductory—Collision between Forrest and Willis
—“ The Spirits ” at Barnum's—Death of old
Hays—Steam Communication between Galway
and New York—The Weather—Health of the
City—Celebration of St. John s Day — Literary
Intelligence — sc.
New York, June 25, 1850.
In making my debut, Mr. Editor, in the Southern
Sentinel as your metropolitan Correspondent, I would
have both you and j our readers imagine me as mak-
very low bow, and extending over the thousand
miles (more or less) that separate us, one of the larg
est and friendliest of hands, for a fraternal grip.
While the Sentinel maintains its stately tread at its
accustomed post, your humble servant is for the future
to be stationed on the “outer wall” ; and here, in
this great Empire City, to be on a perpetual qui vive
to challenge whatever comes along, and to see that
no news, tun, or folly of the day, pass the gates
without reporting itself at head-quarters. He hopes,
by never sleeping at his po3t, to merit speedy promo
tion in the good opinion of his commanding officers,
the public.
The engrossing subject of conversation here for the
last two weeks, particularly in bar-rooms and senti
mental drawing-rooms, has been the late collision be
tween Forrest and Willis, in consequence of the gross
familiarities of the latter with Mrs. Forrest. As the
occurrence is now’ more than a week old, the new’s of
it must have reached you, and I will not repeat the
particulars except to say that poor Willis, at the Sta
tion House was a most piteous object to behold—that
Broadway coat of his, quite ruined, and his pet mous
tache rather bedraggled. Willis is said to have chal
lenged his assailant, and it is generally believed that
a hostile meeting is arranged to take place in Canada,
this summer. Another rumor says that Forrest has
refused the challenge, but this Ido not credit. The
general opinion of the public seems to be teat, although
Willis no doubt deserved all he got, Forrest has been
guilty of a gross outrage—particularly, if, as alledged
by several witnesses, he struck him from behind.
And now my friends, for knockings of a different
kind. Were you aware that the “Rochester knock
ings” have been transferred to New York, and that
the spirits have taken wing from the quiet banks of the
Genesee, and found a resting place f6r their incorpo
real essence in his busy city ? It is even so; the
veritable Fish family are here, staying at Barnum’s
Hotel, where they have received, and are receiving,
a number of curious visitors (say about fifty daily) at a
dollar a head. We were somewhat surprised, on the
occasion of our visit, to see a number of clergymen
present. The knockings were loud, in various parts
of the room, and so violent as palpably to shake the
chairs, tables, and other furniture—a fact which is
conclusive evidence against their being produced by
ventriloquism. One gentleman, who was in commun
ion with them, and mentally expressed the wish that
they would knock on his feet, was gratified by three
distinct knocks, a little harder than he had bargained
for. Their answers to questions, even when only
mentally asked, were in most cases astonishingly ac
curate. Indeed there is a mystery about the subject,
which none of the hundreds who have visited them,
and among them some of our most eminent men, can
.explain.
Jacob Hays, every where known as “Old ITays,”
died on Thursday last of old age, in his 79th year.—
Mr. Hays was the oldest police officer in the country,
and had been high” Constable of the city for nearly
half a century. He may justly be denominated the
Fouehe of America, and a detailed history of his a
ehievements would possess as absorbing an interest as
the wildest romance. He was a inan of rare abilities
in his peculiar business, and knew every rogue by
heart.
Friday evening last was quite an occasion for our
Irish citizens, who took that opportunity of celebrat
ing the arrival of the first steam-ship that ever reach
ed this country from an Irish port. The arrival of
the “Viceroy” is the commencement of a direct steam
communication between Galway and New York, and
must be regarded as ail important era in Atlantic
navigation. The advantages of this over other routes
are numerous and manifest. The dangers and delays
of the Channel navigation will thus be avoided ; while
the Harbor of Galway, one of the largest, safest, and
most commodious on the Atlantic coast, completely
free from fogs, and guarded by three light-houses,
affords one of the most desirable havens in the world
for vessels even of the largest class. When the great
Western Railway to Dublin, now in active progress,
shall have been completed, there will be the addition
al advantage of greater dispatch, as London will thus
be brought within eight days of Halifax, nine days of
Boston, and ten days of New York. It will be seen
at once, therefore, that this is a highly important
movement.
Yfiu are aware that wc have had here at the North
a very backward spring: so much so that we arc
hardly yet at the height of our strawberry season, and
cherries have not done more than just make their ap
pearance in market. Since the warm weather has
set in, however, it has come “with a will” : last week
the mercury was up to 93 deg., which is considerable
for our climate. I have noticed this summer a great
er amount of electricity in the air than we have had
for several preceeding years. This has manifested it
self more than once in severe thunder storms. Onu
of these visited our city on Thursday last, and one
again on Sunday. The wind did considerable dan age
in our harbor, on both occasions; and the electric
fluid struck and damaged several buildings, perform
ing a variety of queer freaks.
’ The health of our city continues astonishingly good,
the deaths for the weekending June 22d, being only
238. No cases of Cholera have appeared, and diar
rhoea and dysentery, which are here scarcely less fatal,
have together carried oft’only eight victims.
Yesterday was St. John’s Day, and was celebrat
ed by the Free MasonsJ a honor of their patron saint,
in the usual manner. The colored Masons turned
out in lull force ; their march afforded entertainment
to a great crowd who thronged the streets through
which they passed: as for myself, I have rarely seen
a more entertaining spectacle. The gravity of the el
der negroes as they marched along with brilliant col
lars, stainless aprons, and here and there a dignitary
with drawn sword, presented an irresistible contias',
to the numberless wenches, who accompanied the pro
cession as outsiders, and cast many an admiring look
at their lords, as they threaded their way through a
labyrinth of omnibuses, —not to mention the mirthful
countenances of the younger brethren, who, even ar
rayed in their regalia, could not refrain from combin
ing with their march, a regular Ethiopian break
down.
Summer is always a season of inactivity 7 for the
publishing houses. The Messrs. Harper, nevertheless
arc going on with their fine edition of Gibbon’s Histo
ry, which they have put at the moderate price of fifty
cents per volume. They have also issued during the
past week Dr. Lardner’s late work on Railroad Econ
omy, and a translation of one of Lamartine’s political
tracts. Frm Stringer and Townsend’s press we have
a supplement to Frank Forrester’s “Fish und Fish
ing”—a work which, as now completed, is an admir
able manual which evepy sportsman ought to possess.
The sixth number of the “Gallery of Illustrious Amer
icans” has been issued; it is devoted to Colonel Fre
mont. An eloquent sketch of his career from the pen
of C. Edwards Lester accompanies an admirable
likeness from one of Brady’s daguerreotypes.
James Fennimore Cooper has been making a short
visit in our city. He is said to be the author of a play
lately brought out with considerable suceesat Burton’s
Theatre. Yours j>. Q.
SIR. SOULE’S AMENDMENT.
In the Senate on the 24th u!t:
Mr. Soule brought forward a substitute for
that part of the bill which provides for the ad
mission of California as follows:
I st that when California shall, by her Legisla
ture, signify her acceptance of the parallel of 36
30, North latitude, called the Missouri line, as
her Southern boundary, and relinquish all claim
to the public domain in her limits, the President of
the U. States shall deelare her to be one of the
States of this Union, and on equal footing with
the original States;
2d. That the sum collected by the United
States from the customs in the ports of Califor
nia be returned to the treasury of the State.
3d. That the Senators and Representatives
elect from California receive mileage and pav, e
qual to that allowed to the delegates from” the
Territory of Oregon.
4th. that the Territory of South California, bo
organized with the same provisions as those pre
scribed for Utah; and that when the people there
of shall form a State constitution, the State may
be admitted with or without slavery, as the peo
ple may provide.
Mr. Soule spoke at great length in of
this substitute. He devoted much of the first
portion of the argument to the purpose of show
ing that, without the relinquishment, by Califor
nia, belore her admission as a State, of the right
to make any primary disposal of the soil, the do
main will pass to her, California was not a party
to the condition imposed upon her by the bill
from the committee of thirteen, and it would not
bind her, after she became a state. If one leg
islature accepted the condition, the next might
reverse it. It was necessary that she must pass
an ordinance before her admission protecting
the rights of the United States in the public
lands.
He showed that the ordinance passed by the
California Convention respecting the lands, re
linquished only the vacant lands. After having
appropriated eleven hundred thousand acres for
the use of schools, there would be few vacant or
unoccupied tracts that would be good
for anything, after 200,000 settlers had seized on
them.