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THE SOUTHERN SENTINEL Is published every Thursday Morning, IN COLUMBUS, GA. BY WILLIAM H. CHAMBERS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. To whom all communications must be directed, post paid Office on Randolph Street. Terms of Subscription. One copy twelve months, in advance, - - B*2 50 Not in advance, -3 00 “ “ Six “ “ “ - 150 ZAT Where the subscription is not paid during the ■ year, 15 eents will be charged for every month’s delay. No subscription will be received for less than six months, and none discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at the option of the proprietor. To Clubs. Five copies twelve months, ... $lO 00 Ten “ “ ... 16 00 tJfF The money from Clubs must in all cases ac company the names, or the price of a single subscription will be charged. Kates of Advertising. One Square, first insertion, - - - $1 00 “ “ Each subsequent insertion, - 50 A liberal deduction on these terms will be made in favor of those who advertise by the year. 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Publications will always be continued according to these legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered. SOUTHERN SENTINEL Job Office. HAVING received anew and extensive assortment of Job Material, we are prepared to execute at this office, all ordersfor JOB WORK,in amanner which can not be excelled in the State, on very liberal terms, and at the shortest notice. We feel confident of our ability to give entire satisfac tion in every variety of Job Printing, including Books, Business Curds, Pamphlets, Bill Heads, Circulars, Blanks of every description, Hand Bills, Bills of Lading, Posters, <s•<*. SfC. dye. In short, all descriptions of Printing which can be. ex ecuted at any office in the country, will be turned out with elegance and despatch. County Surveyor. r fMIE undersigned informs his friends and the Planters JL of Muscogee county, that he is prepared t make official surveys in Muscogee county. Letters addressed i to Post Office,Columbus, will meet with prompt atten tion. WM. F. S ERR ELL, • County Surveyor. Office over E. Barnard 5c Co.'s store, Broad_St. Columbus, Jan. 31,1850. 5 It NOTICE. rpHE firm name of “MH Dessau, Agent,” is changed, I from this date, to M. H. DESSAU, j Columbus, Feb. 7, 1830, 6 ts JAMES FORT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HOLLY STRINGS, MISS. July 4, 1350. 27 Cm Williams, Flewollen & Williams, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. May 23, 1830. 2i Williams & Howard, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. ItOBT. R. HOWARD. CHAS. J. WILLIAMS. April 4,1850. 14 ts J. D. LENNARD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, TALBOTTON, GA. WILL •attend to business in Talbot and the adjacent counties. All business entrusted to his care Will meet with prompt attention. April 4,1830. H ly KING & WINNEMORE, Commission Merchants, MOBILE, ALABAMA. Dee. 20, 1840. [Aloft. Trib.] 15 tl THIS PAPER IS MANUFACTURED BY THE Rock Island Factory, NEAR THIS CITY. Columbus, Feb. 53.1850. 9 ts M Globe Hotel, BUENA VISTA, MARION CO., GA. BY J. WILLIAMS. March 14, 1850. H ts Marble Works, East side Broad St. near the Market House, COLUMBUS, GA. HAVE constantly on hand all kinds of Grave Stones Monuments, Tombs and Tablets, of American Italian and Irish Marble. Engraving and carving done on stone in the best possible manner; and all kinds of Granite Work at the shortest notice. JOHN H. MADDEN. p. s Plaister of Paris and Cement, always on hand for sale. , Columbus, March 7, 1850. 10 ts NORTH CAROLINA Hutual Life Insurance Company. LOCATED AT RALEIGH, K. C. rpHE Charter of this company gives important advan -1 tages to the assured, over most other companies. The husband can insure his own life for the sole use and benefit of his wife and children, free trom any other claims. Persons who insure for life participate in the profits which are declared annually, ana when the pre mium exceeds §3O, tnay pay one-half in a note. Slaves arc insured at two-thirds their value tor one or five years. Applications for Risks mav be made to JOHN MUNN, Agent, Columbus, Ga. £'s7° Office at Greenwood & Co.'s Warehouse. Nov. 15,1849. ts WANTED. ■< A A AAA M*- RAGS. Cash paid for clean cot HJiLUUU ton or linen rags—l cents per pound, when delivered in quantities of 100 pounds or more ; and 3i eents when delivered in small quantities. For old hemp, bagging, and pieces of rope, 11 cents, delivered either at Rock Island Factory or at their store in Co lumbus, in the South comer Room of Oglethorpe House. D. ADAMS, Secretary. Columbus, Feb. 28,1850. 9 ts TO RENT, TILL the first day of January next. The old printing office room of the “Muscogee Democrat'” Apply at this office. 18 ts. JUST RECEIVED, - A LARGE lot ol Miscellaneous and School Books. Also a large and beautiful assortment of Stationery, line Letter and Note Paper, Envelopes, &c. ROBINSON. April 18 VOL. I. Woman. BY william legett. No star in yonder sky that shine’ Can like woman’s eye impart; The earth holds not in all its mines A gem so rich as woman’s heart; Her voice is like the music sweet Pou ed out trom air}'harp alone— Like that when storms more loudly beat, It yields a clearer, richer tone. A woman’s love’s a holy light, That brighter, brighter bums for aye; Years cannot dim its radiance bright, Nor even falsehood quench its ray: But like the star of Bethlehem, Os old to Israel’s shepherd given, It marshals with its steady flame The erring soul of man to Heaven. [NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.] Nf.w York, Sept. 2, 1850. Arrival of Jenny Lind—Her Personal Ap pearance—Enthusiasm of the Crowd — I, Splendid Serenade—Convention of Instruc tors of the Deaf and Dumb — Weaker Fruit, <Spc. My letters, Mr. Editor, have lately been very full of gossip about Jenny Lind ; when nothing else is talked about, or thought about, or written about, you may imagine that it is difficult to escape catching the epidemic. And now the grand consummation has taken place—Jenny has actually arrived, and vou will pardon me if I devote a great part of my sheet to an account of the great event. ‘J he Atlantic sailed from Liverpool on Wednesday, the 21st ult., and M’lle Lind, by embarking an hour earlier than the time announced, managed to escape the vast crowd who had gathered to witness her de parture. The number assembled on the sur rounding wharves was estimated at from 50,- \ 000 to 00,000. Captain West, in order that ; their enthusiasm might not be disappointed, i brought his boat quite near the shore, and the favorite appeared on the paddle-box amid deafening cheers. Salutes were fired from the batteries, the piers and the other vessels which happened to he in port at the time. The weather for the first three days out | was boisterous and unpleasant, but fortunate ly Miss Lind, and her cousin and companion, Miss Ahmansen, were entirely exempt from sea-sickness. On the fifth day the songstress proposed a concert for the benefit of the sail ors and firemen on board, and succeeded in raising for them about S3OO, which sum, with characteristic generosity, she considerably augmented. She conversed familiarly with all the passengers, and was foremost in the vari ous pastimes to which resort was had to vary the monotony of the trip. The Atlantic arrived at Quarantine (some j five miles below the city) about 1 o’clock on ! Saturday last, and was there boarded by Dr. Doane, the health-officer, Mr. Collins, one of j the owners of the line, and P. T. Barnum, the immortal mermaid-inventing, orangou- j tang-exhibiting, world-humbugging Barnum, to whose enterprise this visit of Jenny Lind is owing. Jenny received them with great cordiality. She was richly but simply attired in a dress of silver grey silk, with a visile of black cashmere, and a light blue silk hat. At her feet lay the parting present of Queen Victoria, a beautiful King Charles spaniel, whose ears were nearly as long as his body. She is thus described by one who was pres ent on that occasion Jenny is about twen ty-nine years of age, and rather more robust in her face and person than her portraits would indicate. Her forehead is finely form ed, shaded by waves of pale brown hair; her eyes are light-blue, and joyous, with an expression of habitual good humor, which would win her the heart of a crowd by a , single glance; her nose and mouth, though | moulded on the large Swedish type, convey an expression of benevolence which is tho roughly in keeping with the many stories we have heard of her charitable doings.” After a few moments’ delay, the noble vessel was once more on its way, and though the wind blew almost a gale, Jenny retained her position on the wheel-house, drinking in the beauties of our magnificent bay, which she pronounced the finest she had ever seen. In the mean time the rumor had spread through the city that the Atlantic was in sight, and that Jenny Lind was really here. A dense crowd of those whom Sunday turns out in search of amusement, immediately began to congregate around the Atlantic’s pier, at the foot of the canal, which grew till at last it numbered no less than 40,000 peo ple. These were kept on the upper part of the dock by a temporary gate which had been erected. Just inside the gate several triumphal arches of evergreens and flowers had been put up, with the inscription, “Wel come to Jenny Lind!” As soon as Miss Lind was conducted to the gang-way, a great rush commenced. In company with her cousin, and Messrs. Benedict and Belleti, her professional assistants, she took her seat in Mr. Barnum’s carriage, which was in wait ing inside the gate. At once there was a universal push forward to obtain a sight of the distinguished lady ; the gates groaned, the bolts had to be drawn to prevent their being forcibly overthrown. No sooner had one door been opened than the living mass | was precipitated forward. The foremost j ranks were forced with no little violence up on the ground, while those behind them were piled up upon them until a serious loss of life ; was apprehended; at the same time the cry was raised that several had been pushed over- I board. The police at length succeeded in driving back the crowd, and rescuing the sufferers, who escaped with life, it is true, but some of them not without very serious in jury. The carriage could hardly be started in consequence of the enthusiasm of the mul titude, who even clung to the wheels ; at last it succeeded in getting clear, and drove ra pidly to the Irving House, where an immense Swedish flag was hoisted on her arrival. The proprietors are said to pav Mr. Barnum SIOO a week for the privilege of having her stay at their house, and the guests that will be at tracted to it thereby; there are no less than five hundred and thirty now staying there.— The crowd were with difficulty kept from en tering the house, and immense numbers re ! mained outside till sunset. About 11 o’clock another crowd began to , assemble, for it was generally known that the Musical Fund Society intended giving Jenny a magnificent serenade at midnight.— @l)e SoHtl)crn Sentinel At the appointed time a band of two hundred made their appearance, and played several national airs beneath her windows, with which she expressed herself delighted. Jenny will accept the invitation of one of i our wealthy merchants, Gardiner G. How land, and spend a few days at his country seat on the Hudson; after which she will probably pass a day or two at Mr. Barnum’s ; oriental villa, near Bridgeport, Ct. She says j that her voice has even been improved bv her voyage, and expresses her readiness to give a concert in ten days, if Mr. Barnum can find a suitable place. Her Concert Hall will not be finished until about three weeks. You must excuse me if I .have devoted too much of my epistle this week to the “Swedish Nightingale.” You can form no conception, how great the excitement is with regard to her, and how general. Every one seems to be infected with the mania. All are deter mined to hear her, at any price, and as the seats are to he put up at auction, those who desire good ones will have to pay pretty dear for the whistle. One ot the best features of the present age seems to us to be the efforts which are every where being made for suffering humanity.— The sailor, the laboring classes generally, the needy, the sick, have all become objects ol a philanthropy to which former ages have been strangers ; nor in enumerating these hu mane efforts must we forget what has been done for the blind and deaf and dumb. The instructors of the deaf and dumb have had a very interesting convention in this city, which terminated on ti e 30th ult., after a session of three days. The leading feature of their proceedings was the adoption of measures for the establishment of a periodical to be devoted to the cause of deaf-mute instruction; it is to be issued at Hartford, under the edi torial conduct of Dr. Rae. Measures were also taken to memorialize Congress in rela tion to an appropriation of a portion of the | public lands for this cause. Though the dis ; Acuities which surround the instructors of these mutes seem almost insuperable, their persevering labor has accomplished much, and the annual examination of the pupils at the anniversary in May, proves how effective and profitable their efforts are. Well, the summer is past and autumn has | come ; it has set in with one of the most drenching rains that we have lately had, inun dating our houses and making young rivers of our streets. Fruit is remarkably fine.— Peaches have been brought in in unprece dented quantities, and have been selling at from two to four shillings a bushel, and verv good at that. Yours, P. Q. [YANKEE CORRESPONDENCE.] Boston, Sept. 1, 1850. EXECUTION OF PROF. WEBSTER. The execution of Prof. Webster took place last Friday, 39th hist., putting an end to all the surmises, doubts, and even wagers, re specting his fate, which occurred for the last nine months. One class of the population always doubted that they would hang a gen tleman ; and even after the condemned had been launched into eternity, the people out side the jail, in the streets, spread a report i that he had been reprieved. But all uncer tainty on the matter is now at an end. Prof. Webster desired that his family should not be informed of the day of his execution. : They were to pay their visit on Thursday, and go away in the expectation of more in terviews. They came on last Thursday as usual, and remained nearly five hours with him, conversing, reading and praying. What a sad and miserable scene! They went away in apparent ignorance of the next day’s fatal character. But lam of opinion that before they got home they guessed the dreadful se cret. The crowds that waited for their com ing out were greater than usual, and the de meanorof the jail officials is said to have struck them. Altogether, I cannot think but that ; they by some means or other, from the pa pers, (though they are said to have read none j but those sent from the Professor,) or in some ! other casual way, came to the knowledge of the day of execution. For some time before his death he seemed penitent, and was calm and sometimes cheer ful. On Thursday night, lie slept consecu tively, from twelve until four in the morning. He breakfasted moderately, and from that time till half past eight, remained in prayer and devotional exercises with Dr. Putnam, his spiritual adviser. He walked to the gal lows erected in the yard, with great firmness and self-possession, listening to the conversa tion of Dr. Putnam, and keeping, with an ef fort, his eyes and attention from wandering in search of anything that might appal him. He had requested to be bound with leather straps, instead of ropes, and his wish was granted. He said nothing on the platform, j except in a low voice, to Dr. Putnam. It I was observable, that the wretched man made | every effort to sustain the equanimity of a ! gentleman and an educated man. This feel- ; ing controlled him even in the ghastly pre sence of death. His compressed mouth, and eyes always cast down, showed that he still respected appearances and the public opinion, which came from one hundred and fifty per sons then present. When the rope was ad justed about his neck, whether it was the tightness hurted him, or the dreadful touch , itself had overpowered him, his face became j flushed, and tears came from his eyes. His j last words were heard to be—“ Father, into ; thy hands I commend my spirit /” Thus was j | consummated as remarkable a case of mur der as ever occurred in the New England j ; States, considering the rank of the victim, and j the convict, and the mode of the homicide, i Professor Webster was a graduate of Har- j vard University, which has been thus dis- I graced in one of its professors. But it may i not be generally known, that it lias been al- j ready far more disgraced in the circumstances I attending the death of another of its gradu ates. Indeed, I should rather have said that the disgrace belongs to all Puritan New Eng land. There was a Harvard man, executed by the instrumentality of the Reverend Cot ton Mather, in 1692, whose death was par ticularly opprobrious to the clergy and the community. This was the Rev. George Burroughs, who was hanged at Salem,in that year, for witchcraft! He died as decently as Socrates; and having prayed before they choked him, (for witchcraft,) he finished with the Lord’s Prayer, because it was believed no witch or wizard could do so. His prayer was so natural and touching, that the spec tators began to sob, whereupon the accusers said the Black Man was in presence, dicta COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1850. ting to him. When he was turned off, the Rev. Cotton Mather rode among the agitated people to bid them remember that, though the hanging man did, certainly, speak de voutly, the devil often assumed the garb of an angel of light, whereat the people were somewhat appeased ! When Borroughs was cut down, he was dragged, like a dog, by the rope, stripped and Hung into a shallow grave. This a refreshing remembrance of Cotton Mather. Thus, we see, that Profes sor Webster has not alone reflected disgrace j on Harvard. Mather was a graduate of it. I ’Tis funny to hear us now talk of the cruel j or barbarous doings of the benighted Papists, ! as contradistinguished from genuine Puritan i Protestants. Drvden is very near the truth, when he says— “ That prieFts of all religions are the same.” But, to return to Professor Webster. For some days before his death he wrote letters to several of his friends, and left books and other mementos for them. Next to the Bible, he liked to read Channing’s works. He also read Bowring’s “ Matins and Ves pers,” and from Longfellow’s “Collection of Hymns.” In the last prayer he suggested that Dr. Putnam should pray that the hearts of his fellow men may be softened towards him after he was gone ; and also that God might console the family of Dr. Parkman. i In conversation with Dr. Putnam, he said, he hoped to meet in the other world the spirit of one ot his dead children, whom he had loved tenderly. Up to the last moment, it was believed by a great many, that Webster would have taken poison, and died in his cell. But he respected public opinion too much, and de sired that the resignation and calmness of his i end should leave a favorable impression on | the world—should soften the hearts of his fellow men towards him. It is stated, that lie was familiar with all modes of dying— from study—and that he considered hanging, one of the easiest, or the easiest. While the Sheriff was reading the death-warrant on the scaffold, Dr. Putnam continued his con- ■ versation with the condemned man, to keep j his attention from wandering. He said— j “ Do not mind—do not look roundand Webster answered : “I do not; my thoughts are elsewhere.” Dr. Redford Webster, father of the cul prit, died 17 years ago, aged 72. He was an-apothecary in this city, and always bore the reputation of a respectable citizen. His unhappy son was born in May, 1793, and was, consequently, over 57 years old when he perished. Three weeks ago he wrote a letter to Dr. Francis Parkman, brother of the murdered man—chiefly to supplicate forgiveness for his “wicked and fatal ebulli tion of passion.” This letter has been print ed from the copy of it which Professor Web ster kept and handed a few days after to a friend. He says, in this letter, that “up to the time of the two or three last interviews with Dr. Parkman, he never felt anything but gratitude towards him.” He also assures Dr. ; Parkman, that his (Webster’s) family im ■ plicitly believed him innocent, till his last confession reached them ; and beseeches him i to exonerate them from anything connected with this horrible murder. He says he could not leave the world in that peace of mind for which he prays, without thus expressing his bitter anguish of soul and sincere contri tion. The gallows was so placed in the jail yard that it was visible only from the windows of some houses. These were crowded with people at the windows and on the roofs. Some of the owners of them made money on the occasion, letting out vistas of the dreary ceremony at something handsome per head. The papers generally denounce such a business, and such a curiosity as this; but very unphilosophieally. Men and wo men will and must be curious. And the best ; of the argument is, that while these papers are condemning the people, who used their | eves in the matter, they are raking up and ; furnishing for their readers everything con i nected with the convict’s looks and last mo ments —everything. I think this is not fair, on the ground of consistency. I suspect the newspaper men would be sorry to find that the government put a stop to the gratification of public curiosity, and let nobody at all re port such tilings. The fact is, if the govern ment of Massachusetts will hang persons, the public of Massachusetts will, generally speaking, go to see the tragedy. There is a i horrible fascination in such things, which draws everybody’s attention ; and our respec table public which did not go to the execu tion, compensated itself by purchasing every newspaper that said anything about it. For my part, I should walk ten miles to avoid such a throttling spectacle; but I eagerly read every paragraph commenting upon it; i and have thought and moralized on it so ? much, that I have no disposition to talk to I you about anything else, this post. The | body of Professor Webster was taken to the house of Mrs. Webster on Friday night, (Dr. Putnam having gone to break the dreadful fact to them just after the execution,) and was buried this morning, in his purchased burial place, at the Mount Auburn Cemetery. YANKEE DOODLE/ Curious Epitaph. The following curious inscription appears | in the Churchyard, Pewsey, Dorsetshire: HERK LIES THE BODY OF Lady O’Looney, Great Niece of Burke, Commonly called the Sublime. She was Bland, passionate, and deeply religious; Also, she painted In water colors, And sent several pictures To the exhibition. She was first cousin To Lady Jones, And of such Is the kingdom of Heaven. She Knew.— A hard case of a subscriber, to whom the publishers of the Mirror had sent the weekly paper on a credit, was at last dropped from the list—all ordinary meas ures for collection having failed. Our agent was encountered the other day by the de j linquent’s wife, who wrathfully insisted that j “she knew what was newspaper law—that she did. Mr. Mills was bound to send the paper until all arrearages were paid.” State Pledges. The Georgia papers are re-publishing the j Act of their last Legislature, requiring the call of a Convention of the State in certain contingencies, one of which is the admission of California into the Union. This act pass ed the House of Representatives by yeas 108, nays 12; and the Senate by yeas 31, nays 8. Few of the statutes of Georgia, or of any other State, have the authority of so general a legislative concurrence. The fol lowing is the law: An act to authorize and require the Governor of the Stale of Georgia to call a Conven tion of the people of this Slate, and to ap propriate money for the same. Whereas, the non-slaveholding States have, for a series of years, perseveringlv in- ! terfered most wrongfully with the institution i of slavery at the South, by such aggressive ! measures of intolerance as to render it no j longer a question of doubt that the Federal i Legislature will soon adopt such restrictive measures against the institution of slavery as to trammel, fetter and confine it within cer tain geographical limits, never contemplated by the original parties to the constitutional compact: And whereas Georgia, in her sovereign capacity as a State, has delegated no other power to the Federal Government than those found in the Constitution of the United States, and believing that her best interests and honor, as a sovereign and inde pendent Government, require that she should meet all encroachments in a calm and manly spirit of resistance: Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Stale of Gear ; gia in General Assembly met, and it is here | by enacted by the authority of the sum ?, That | should the Congress of the United States pass any law prohibiting slavery or involun tary servitude in any territory of the United States; or any law prohibiting the slave trade between the States where slavery may exist; or admit into the United States, as a State of this Confederacy, the sparselv peo j pled Territory of California and New Mexi i co; or should the Governor of this State re | ceive, at any time, satisfactory evidence that any slave or slaves having escaped from this State to a non-slaveholding State, and that such slave or slaves is or are refused to be given up to the proper owner by the authori ties of-the State in which such fugitive or fugitives may be found, then, or in either of the foregoittg events, it shall be, and it is hereby made the duty of the Governor of this State, within sixty days thereafter, to issue his proclamation, ordering an election to be held in each and every county, to a Conven tion of the people of this State, to convene at the seat of Government within twenty days after said election. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Counties now entitled to two Represen tatives in the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of this State, shall each be entitled and “shall elect four Dele gates to said Convention, and the Counties which are entitled to one Representative shall elect two Delegates to said Convention. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That said election for Delegates shall be conduct ed and held in the same manner as elections tor members of the Legislature are now held in this State, and that all returns of elections shall be forwarded to the Governor of this State, who shall, upon application, furnish each Delegate elected with a certificate of election. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum ot thirty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of said Convention, and that the members of said Convention shall, by vote, regulate their per diem pay and mileage. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That said Convention shall elect all officers neces j sary to their organization. Approved, Feb. 8, 1850. On the passage of the foregoing act, the yeas and nays were recorded. The next mail will, in all probability, bring us the Act of Congress which will make it incumbent on the Governor of Georgia to call this Supreme Council of the sovereign people of the State—a duty which he will not hesitate to perform. The proceedings of our own Legislature, also, though not expressly designating the admission of California, are indicative of a firm determination to meet future aggressions from the North with effective resistance. The following is part of the record: “In tiie House of Representatives, Dec. 18, 1849.—The Committee on Federal Relations, to whom was referred so much of the Governor’s Message as relates to the recommendation to the Southern States by a Convention of the people of Mississippi, to send delegates to meet at Nashville, to con sult in common, upon common rights, with a view to unity of action. And also so much of the Message as re lates to the convening the Legislature, upon the Wilmot Proviso, or any kindred mea sure becoming a law of Congress, report: That the people of this State entertain an ar dent desire, and fixed determination, to resist the lawless and unjust encroachments of Con gress on the rights of the South, and have pledged themselves, through their Legislature, to co-operate with the other Southern States, in opoosition to all such measures. They, . therefore, concur with his Excellency in the ’ belief, that South Carolina hails with delight, the proffer by the people of Mississippi, of meeting by delegates in common councils at Nashville, and will heartily and promptly send delegates there to represent them. That they concur also with his Excellency in the propriety of calling together the Legislature, should any such contingency occur as is al luded to by his Excellency, and therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That should the Wilmot Proviso, or any kindred measure, become a law of Congress, the Governor is hereby earnestly j requested to call together the Legislature, should it not be in session at the time of the passage of sach law. Resolved, That the House do agree to the Report. Ordered, That it be sept to the Senate for concurrence. By order. T. W. Glover, c.h.r. In the Senate, Dec. 19,1849. Resolved, That the Senate do concur in the Report. Ordered, That it bo returned to the House jof Representatives. By order. W. E. Martin,- c.-s.- | In name, the admission of California is not the enactment of the Wilmot Proviso, but, in effect, the most eminent patriots and states men of the South have declared that it was the same thing. The friends of that mea sure have, indeed, essentially admitted it. Mr. Clay scouted at the idea of treating Cal- I ifornia as a State, and said it could not get the character of a State but by the sanction of Congress. They have generally conceded I that the constitution of California was mere | ly a petition for the action of Congress in a I specified form, and that it had no more legal authority than any other petition. Congress, | then, in giving it this authority, has enacted it j j and every part thereof. This is the conclu- j ! sion which Judge Berrien distinctly declares in his letter published yesterday, a letter ! every word of which has been duly weighed. That eminent lawyer and senator knew well | the import of what he was saying, and the mighty consequences that might follow the I general adoption of his opinion, but he does ! | not hesitate to say, in the plainest language, j ! that the admission of California, with her i present constitution, would be the enactment |by Congress of the Wilmot Proviso. Such is known also to have been Mr. Calhoun’s j opinion, and we do not see how any enlight j ened man can hold a different one. We have but one course, then, consistent ! with honor, and, let us add, with safety. We i must meet this issue thus forced upon us. ! Such, we believe, will be the almost universal j feeling of this State. The people are pre • pared to act. They need not exciting ap | peals, and will care little for eloquent speeches, j Practical measures are now the great thing, | and a perfect organization is the all-important ! preliminary. The people of this District are ! somewhat behind many others in that respect, ! and we suggest that measures of organiza ! tion ought to be no longer delayed. If a ! meeting of the District is thought best, time ’ should be given for the general circulation of the call, so that all parts may be represented. | If it is thought better to organize by Parishes, 1 there seems no reason why we should not ! immediately set about it. Let the true men be numbered and enrolled.— Mercury. GENERAL FOOTE. Men, who, for selfish purposes, resolve to | pursue a certain course, always seek some justification in the fact that others concur in I opinion with them. This truth is more appli i cable to politicians than to any other class of j persons, and is perhaps more clearly illustra ted in the recent conduct of Senator Foote than in the conduct of any other person. In his support of the late compromise bill, and his warm admiration for the high-toned feder al, and justly odious, message of Mr. Fill | more, he seems never to have examined cith er of these measures to ascertain how far they were constitutional and proper, but hav ing separated himself from the Southern States Right Senators, and being resolved to identify himself with the fortunes of Mr. Cass, he throws himself in direct hostility to his own State, and the interest of the whole South, and seeks his justification, (not in the correctness of the principles upon which he acts,) but in the declaration that “ninety nine hundred of the people of Mississippi will sustain him.” If this be so, Senator Davis is in rather a bad category, for he has pursued a course directly the reverse of that taken by Senator Foote. It will hardly need the de ; velopinents of time to prove which of those gentlemen,is the true representative of the State of Mississippi, or how completely Gen. Foote is deluded, if he believes that his course will be sustained by any respectable number of individuals in his own State. Already the public voice has been heard in almost every country, from Marshall to Hancock, and from the Mississippi to the Tombigby rivers, condemnatory of his course. The democrat ic part} 7 , known to constitute a majority of more than 10,000 in the State, is opposed to him almost to a man. Here and there, it is Vue, a democrat may be found who sustains him, but they are so few and far between, so scattering and so uninfluential, that they are hardly worth counting. In addition to this, ev ery prominent and influential whig in the State with thousands of othersof the same party who are not so prominent, but who are equally pa triotic and true to the constitution, firmly op- I pose the course pursued by Gen. Foote, and | stand up like good and true men for the rights |of the South. Look at the papers in the • State, that constitute the best index to the j public mind, and it will be proved that there is an overwhelming preponderance in favor of the course pursued by Col. Davis. Here and there you find a little Yankee whig pa per, patronized almost exclusively by a set of Yankee merchants and Yankee lawyers, who ! cry out “disunion and treason,” and swear that Gen. Foote is decidedly a great man, simply because he has taken the Yankee side ! of the question, but the newspapers in char- S acter and standing in every part of the State | that wield any influence over the public mind, j 1 are all opposed to him, and we hazard noth ing in saying that if Gen. Foote had reversed ’ the matter and said that at least ninety-nine hundredths of the people of Mississippi were opposed to the course he was pursuing he i would have come much nearer to the | mark. Upon what ground does Gen. Foote predi | cate the opinion that he will be sustained by the people of Mississippi? So far as the i legislature expresses the popular will, he ! knows that he has acted in opposition to it, he must know that the admission of Califor nia, with its kindred measures, is opposed to the interests of the people of this State, and that the people here, like people everywhere else, are very apt to be governed by their in terests. He surely cannot rely upon the in fluence of party to sustain him, for the dem- ; j ocracy has cast off its party ties, and per- ; mitted them to be swallowed up in the great j and portentous questions of State sovereign ty, so vitally attacked by the course of Gen. ; Foote and his Northern friends in the Sen ate. If Gen. Cass were the nominee of the j j Democratic Convention for the Presidency, i | every man of sense here knows that no ticket j could be gotten up in Mississippi to support , him—no, not even though Gen. Foote were on it for the Vice Pesidency. The whigs would not support such a ticket, and hardly democrats enough could be found in the State in favor of it to constitute electors. And this is conceived to be no small merit in. the democratic party, for it is willing to give up every man opposed to the interests of the South, however much he has been regarded by it heretofore, in order that the great ques tions so vitally affecting the interests of the South should be settled in accordance with its rights. Does Gen. Foote cast his eyes over his ap probatory letters as any criterion of public opinion. Let him not be deceived. He will find, upon a furfhfir examination, that the names do not embrace a solitary man of in fluence, (we speak politfcally, and of course do not refer to the moral standing of any man, whoso name may be found on them,) of any man higher in rank than that of fourth-rate politician, menjgeneraS} 7 speaking, who could never acquire any importance in the whig party to which they belong, until by a union of the prominent men of that part} 7 with the democracy,in behalf of the rights of the South, they have been unexpectedly thrown in the front rank, and in order to exhibit their de votion to party, and to maintain their places, I congregate about the streets, and cry out that every man is a traitor and disunionist who dares to claim for she South the rights guar anteed by the constitution—men who pro claim in our midst that their allegiance to the Federal Government is superior to their ob i ligations to the State in which they live, and | that they would take up arms and head com ■ panies to coerce a sovereign State into obe dience to the constitutional mandates of a ! reckless majority ih Congress. These, and these alone, are the supporters of Gen. Foote, and thank God they are not enough to make a corporal’s guard in this State. And even | these men, wher now praise him, would not | vote for him for any office under the curt, ; if they could find a whig to fill it—verily, Mr. 1 Soule well remarked, that “the Senator from ! Mississippi had a terrible account to settle with his constituents.” — Mississippian. Juvenile Ambition. Speaking of boys, we heard a couple of pretty good anecdotes recently. Ev ery body knows how customary it is for these juvenile specimens of humanity to “crow like chanticleers” over others on every possible occasion, and especially if they are rivals at school or elsewhere, to brag down each other on the extent of their father’s possessions ; as, for example, “My pa’s got a great big house, and yours h-a-i-n-t!” “My pa’s got anew wood-shed,” and “My pa’s got a hog-pen,” and so on from buildings and lairds down to lien-coops ! and martin-boxes. In a certain down east | village, two young reprobates had been en gaged one day in a brag game of this sort, I when one of them having exhausted all his | father’s pos-essions, real, personal and mixed, was “stumped” at last—brought to a dead | stand. Meanwhile his antagonist was chuck j ling with all the ecstaey of a veteran game ster who holds the trump card. He had 1 brought up his corps de reserve in the shape | of a corn bam and an old spavined horse, and I was charging home upon our urchin with the fury of a Cossack transfixing a Pole. Our hero stood silent under his biting taunts— bis countenance the picture of blank despair. He tried to recall one, just one, additional piece of property that his pa owned; but it was like “calling spirits from the vasty deep” —it would not come. Suddenly, a bright thought struck him. “Well,” said he’, hits features brightning up, and his eyes spark ling with triumph, “1 don’t care, Jim, there’s one thing you hain’t got —you hain’t got any dead grand mother!” Itrtfvo. An amusing incident occurred the other evening at the burning of the theatre, related as follows, for a fact, by a gentleman of re spectability, who was an actor in the scene : Mr. II •■, and a party of his jolly Eng lish friends, who had been dining out, con cluded to patronize the opera on that evening, and Mr. B , whose rotundity was con siderably better filled with the sparkle than the rest, had taken a front seat, and was sa j luting the song and sentiment of the oeca j sion at every “ wait,” with “ unbounded ap plause,” by clapping hands, and vociferating ! “ bravo 1” “ bravo!” bravely. Presently, like an electric shock, came the cry of “fire!” The audience started sud denly for the door—though their retreat was I checked to good order by Mr. Rice, the | manager, who was on the stage at the time. ! Then all was confusion, and each member of the company, in endeavoring to save the property, &c., of the profession, was rush ing backwards and forward in every direc i tion across the stage. : Meanwhile our friends outside had missed their comrade, and thinking, perhaps, that he might have been injured, one of them stepped 1 up into the boxes, just as the fire was burst ing through the end of the building in full j volumes, and Rice crossing the stage with a ! side scene oil his shoulder. There sat Mr. B. solitary and alone, in the front seat, in ! perfect ecstacies, at the performances, shout ing bravo !—bravo! —a most splendid imita tion of a fire !—bravo ! bravo !! — Chicago | Journal. Irish Counting.—“ Teddy, me b’y, did ye | go to the parthy last night?” “Och! warn’t I there, darlin’? And warn’t it a fine time we had, Jemmy ?” I “How many ov the b’ys did ve ’ave : thare ?” “O only foor.” “An’ who were they ?” “Thare was mesilf, that’s one; thare was Barney Flin, that’s two ; the two Croghans, i an’ that’s thraa; an’—an’—faix, thare was | foor.” Teddy commenced his count again. “The two Croghans, is one ; mesilf, that’s two ; an’ Barney Flin is thraa —is thraa— : hut—thare was foor, oony how!” Not satisfied with three, Teddy scratched his pate, and very emphatically recommenced 1 his counting. i “Thare was Barney Flin, that’s one; an’ the two Croghans, that’s tiro ; an’ mesilf, that’s thraa —an’—an’ — he dad, thare was foor —but I can’t t'ink o’ the uthy one !” The “Lead Game” is one of the last things out in the city of New York, and as it may not be understood by our readers, we will briefly describe it. A single thickness of tin foil is stuck on a fifty cent piece with gum arabic, and pressed down so smoothly as not to expose the deception, giving to the coin an unctious feeling and a leadefi sound- when thrown on a table or counter. A person un acquainted with the deception readily bets that the piece is not genuine. It is needless to remark, in the phrase of the b’hoys, that | the dupe is “leaded.” An anecdote is told of Gov. Jones which is too good to be lost. Whilst making a speech some two years since a rowdy fellow hissed him. Immediately the cry “turn him out—turn him out,” arose from various parts of the crowd. Just at the time an ass near by commenced braying, when the Governor remarked to the audience, “let him alone, gentlemen, his father is calling him and he will soon leave.’’ NO. 38.