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SERRELL, County Surveyor. Offies over E Barnard 3c Co.’a atore, Broad St. Cslumbus, Jan. 31,1550. 5 ly W. & W F WILLIAMS, ATTOKNf.YS AT LAW, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. VYILBT WILLIAM*. WM. t. WILLIAM*. Ost. 17, 1350. *1 ts. JAMES FORT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HOLLY SPRINGS, MISS. Jsly 4, U 5. S7 Cm _ l Williams & Howard, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. g#BT. R. HOWARD. CHAS. J. WILLIAMS. April 4, ISSO. w 14 ts J. D. LENNARD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, TAI.BOTTON, CA. WILL attend to business in Talbst and th* ldjactint c*unti*. All business entrusted to his car* will meet ! with prompt attestion. April 4, I*so. 14 ly KING & WINNEMORE, Commission Merchants, j MOBILE, ALABAMA. D*. to, 1*49. [ ytoh. Trib.] 15 ts GODFREY A SOLOMONS, Factors and Commission Merchants, ! SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. JAMBS 1. SODFRET, E- W. SOLOMON*. itiruticis. BIT. JA B. RYANS, BBT. BAMUBL ANTHONY, Savannah. Tulbotton. BIDUWAY fc CUN BT, . OUBBLY A BON, Cslumbus. Vaeon. Jily S5 30 *m. THIS PAPER IS MANUFACTURED BY TUB Rock Island Factory, . i NEAR THIS CITY. C*lmbus, Feb. 23, 1850. 9 ts NORTH CAROLINA Mutual Life Insurance Company. LOCATED AT RALEIGH, X. C. r IMIE Charter of thi* company gives important advan- ; L tages to tiie assured, over most other companies. ] The husband can insure his own life for the sole use and benefit of his wife and children, free from any other , claim*. Persons who insure for life participate in the protits which are declared annually.and when the pre- ■ mium exceeds s3o.may pay one-halt in a note. Slaves are insured at’ two-thirds their value for one or ; five years. Applications for Risks inav be made to JOHN MUNN, Agent. Columbus, Ga. tis Offic* at Greenwood A Co.’a \\ arehouse. Nov. 15, 1849. ts WANTED. JA/ AAA lbs. RAGS. Cash paid for clean cot J."’ ‘•* ton or linen rags—4 cents per pound, when delivered in quantities of 100 pounds or more ; and 3i cents when deliver,*l in small quantities. For old hemp, bagging, and pieces of rope. It cents, delivered cither at Rock Island Factory >r at their store in Co lumbus, in the South corner Room of Oglethorpe House. D. ADAMS, Secretary. Columbus, Feb. 28,1850. 9 ts” i Globe Hotel, JML BUENA VISTA, MARION CO., GA. BY J. WILLIAMS. March 14, 1850. 11 ts “pOETS of America. Poets of England. The best L Compilations of Poctrv now published. For sale by B. B. ncGRAFFENRIED. Sept. 19 HUMBOLDT'S COSMOS, “the greatest book of the Age.” For sale bv B. B. deGRAFFENRIED, Sept. 19 ‘f TTASHINGTON IRVING'S Complete Works. VV For sale by B. B. deGRAFFENRIED. iVpt 19 VOL. I. [From the Phila. Dollar Newspaper.] TIIE MASKED HEART. BY M J. E. KNOX. Lat night,when song* arid smilea w*r.t round, And other hearts were gay, Half weary of the joyous sound Os mirth, I turned away. It found no echo in my heart, And one who marked my mood. Asked lightly why I rat apart, In thoughtful solitude. And then I strove to smile and speak As gladly as the rest, And rent the shadow front my cheek, To darken in my breast. He bent and talked to me of love, And told me how he sought In vain for love like that his heart To many a shrine had brought. He ‘poke of disappointed hopes— But there were others nigh. And the smile upon hi* lip belied The sadne** in his eve. And I as lightly answered him. VV ith mingled mirth and pride, And checked the git-h of gentler thought* Which woman learns to hide. Our heart* are masked, and in that hour I felt that it war Well, For oh! on mine his careless word* Like heavy hail-drop* fell. I felt a longing wish to know Jf he could care for me— A struggling hope—l crushed it down— I knew it could not be! I know for sympathy his heart Is reeking, like my own, But they must ever heat apa’t, Though each should beat alone! The Cotton Market—lts Condition and Prospects. Ed*. Picayune: —The condition and pros pect* of the cotton market are of more than ordinary interest to the planter at this season of the year. There is an evident struggle going on between the factor, with his absolute assurance of a short crop here and a light stock on the other side; and the buyer, with | his order* limited to prices so far below what the factors dare to accept, with their knowl edge of these facts. The consequence has been a staggering, and even a falling market for the last two or three days—a dangerous condition of things at this stage of the game. But one, at the same time, that will not be difficult to get over, if planters will only bear in mind that they have the said game entirely in their own hands, for once; and will act with any ordinary degree of prudence. They are well aware that the crop will be short of an average, and that considerably; and that even with something over an average crop, prices could not have fallen much. The re ceipt*, even with a picking season almost be- I yond precedent, good roads, etc., do not equal those of last year. At this date, and since Ist September,there have been received at this port, this year, 70,381 bale*; last year, 73,984 bales; with an increase in the receipts at all the ports, over those of la*t year, of 3,000 bales. This, with the large arrivals during the past two weeks, and the necessity for meeting ad vance drafts on factors, compelling sale*, has affected markets injuriously. As to the prospects on the other tide, we find the probable stock in the various ports of Groat Britain, on the 31st of December next, set down at 300,000 bales; 400,000 being the outside estimate based on the hope of high price* drawing larger supplies from India and other sources than have been sent in former years, “ Yet this amount of stock,” says the Manchester Examiner, of 18th September, “ would be far from satisfactory, and it is to be feared, would be insufficient to prevent an advance in price, if not counteracted by the hope of an average crop for this year, and of a larger amount than that ventured to be giv en in present estimate*.” And what are these “ present estimates ?” Why, “ 2,250,000 bales, and it is possible that with a continu ance of propitious weather and a late frost— a* happened for the last four years—they may shortly rise to 2,300,000, or even 2,400.000/’ And 1 have* before me a letter from a Liver pool merchant, dated 520th September, which says: “ Mr. Gwathney, from Mobile, has; talked many into a crop of ‘2,700,000 bales, or more, lie paid jCIOO down to got one half penny per bale on all above 2,300,000 —so that the coming crop must be 2,350,000 before he will get his own back. I have taken one-fourth of the bet.” He must be a knowing chap, that Mr. Gwathney, of Mo bile ! He is a buyer; knows the crop is a : decidedly short one; and wanting to buy, uses this means of influencing the market! And it will have the effect in a no trifling degree. It is a game that is being played almost daily, both here and in Liverpool, and rarely without more or less effect. At no time since the middle of July has ! there been a prospect of a crop of two mil- ! lions and a quarter of bales. Nor have I, I in common with many others, believed that it i would exceed the crop of last year. It is extremely doubtful now if it will reach that amount. Although a picking season so ex tremely favorable as this has been—not a lock having been lost—will go far to counter balance the effects of this extraordinary draft. Factors have generally been satisfied that the crop must be decidedly short. Buyers and .brokers on this side have also been most un willing believers in a shortish one. But, on | the other side, we have shown that they en ; tertained, or at least expressed a different 1 opinion. They have so long controlled the market on this, as well as the other side, that they are unwilling to give up the hope of still being able to do so, and positively limit their orders to rates at which they cannot be filled, with a seeming determination—a John Bull-like, stubborn unwillingness to be forced to give in. But it won't do, John! You will have to yield. Hear again the Manchester Examiner: | “ With a stock of -400,000 bales on the 31st of December, it is doubtful if a crop of i the above mentioned extent would be more ; than sufficient to supply the demand for next year; and to confirm this remark, we have ; only to refer to the stock left on the 31st December, 1549, after the receipt of the larg est supply ever received into this country. “In the home market the cheapness of ; food has led to an enlarged consumption of manufactured goods among the working classes, and the satisfactory accounts which ’ reach us of the results of this year’s harvest will have the same tendency. Indeed, we are already told of the great activity which has tor some time pervaded this branch of our trade. From the continent es Europe and ‘'l j ‘ ‘ : j the United States of America, the favorable accounts of the operations of the harvest lead to the expectation that for the supply of these markets there will be increased demands for our manufactures, and there is little reason to fear that in India, South America and other foreign markets there is any large ac cumulation of stock to meet the necessary and continuous consumption. “It may not be out of place to remark here, that though the amount of yarns and goods expoitnl during the first six months of ; the year were nearly the same as the first siv months of last, there was a falling off’ in the exports to the ports of the Mediterranean of about 0,000,000 pounds of yarn, and of about 45,000,000 yards of goods; or ten per cent, of the whole exports of yarn, and ■even per cent, of that of stocks held there, and which had accumulated during the early part of last year, and for some time before. Now that the markets are getting cleared, should there be an increase of trade to that quarter it will be in a heavy class of goods, and therefore lead to the manufacture of co use fabrics, and the use of a consequently I larger supply of the raw material. “ It would be premature, and perhaps out of place, to offer any opinion respecting the future state of our market. No one can be ignorant of the tendency of high prices such as those now prevailing, to weaken the con fidence of the merchant, to limit his opera tions, to lesson the means of the consumer, and therefore to restrict the trade of the dis trict; but, on the other hand, the favorable result* of the home and foreign harvest, the prospect of peace prevailing abroad, and above all, the happy results of free trade, evidently now beginning to be fully felt, favor an increase of consumption and of export much beyond that of any former year. While, therefore, uncertainty with respect to the i supply of cotton for next year may lead to buyers witholding the execution of their or ders, to a pause in the operation of our mar ket, and a consequent decline, yet it is pro bable that—orders accumulating, and the home as well as foreign demand steady, if i not increasing—the tone of the market will improve, prices in general advance, and in a short time the reaction be quite proportionate to the immediate depression, “It may be hazarding no very extreme opinion to remark, that it is quite possible the effects of free trade, tinder average circum stances, will lead to an extension of our trade beyond precedent; but it may be ques tioned if the supply of cotton from America will he in the same ratio. If not, it will at once be seen that the profits arising from a large trade and a steady demand will lie mainly absorbed by the cotton growers. If, then, one circumstance connected with the trade of this district more than another de mands the serious consideration of those in terested in its success, it is the devising and supporting of all reasonable schemes to pro mote the cultivation of cotton in other coun tries, to procure a steady and increasing sup ply for our own use, and to that extent to lessen our dependence on the fluctuating crops of the United States of America.” Now, with such a state of things on both sides, there can be no just cause for a falling market, provided planters will forward their crops or throw them on the market steadily and in moderate quantities, limiting their fac tors to fifteen cents for middling cotton. The present are, unquestionably, fair rates, when compared with past years. But with the short crops now coming in, the price I have named can be had just as readilv as a lower one. THOMAS AFFLECK. New Orleans, Oct. 19, ISSO. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. We said when this law passed, that it would not be executed,and were frequently censured by Southern submission papers, for the opin ion. W e said a few days since, that it had actually failed—only one fugitive having been arrested and recovered under its provisions— the slave Hamlet, at New York. One arrest was made at Detroit, but the excitement was so great, that the claimant compromised by taking a sum of money, and relinquished the claim. Another slave was arrested in Phila ! delphia, and there ;iGo, great demonstrations of resistance were made, but Judge Grier ‘ liberated the slave on technical grounds— ! and as the Independent, an abolition paper says, “from a leaning to freedom.” The fugitives, recovered at Harrisburg, Pennsyl vania, were arrested under the previous law. We referred to these facts a few days since, and asserted that no slaveholder would he safe in an attempt now to reclaim a runaway. ! The I iouisville Journal denied this, and as- j sorted the contrary. And now what have j we seen ? Iwo or three claimants appeared j j in Boston, to recover Crafts and his wife, ! whose escape from Georgia is somewhat no torious. They obtained warrants to arrest, j and the officer never dared to serve them. Crafts continued in open day to pass from his residence to place of business. And instead ; ol the fugitives, the claimants were three times arrested, first on an action for slander, and then for attempting to kidnap—and held to bail in a sum so large that few strangers would be able to give the requisite bail of 830,000 each. And when the bail was given, they had to hurry into a vehicle at the very portals of the temple of justice, and fly for their lives from the fury of a mob, excited against them by hand bills, denouncing them as villains, and describing their persons as felons—thus: “Slave Hunters in Boston!!! “ Authentic information has been received of the arrival in this city of a slave catcher from Macon, Georgia, named William H. Hewes, or Hughes, but who entered his name at the United States Hotel, as Wnt. Hamilton, of New ork; a short, rowdyish looking j fellow, five feet two, thirty or forty years of ! age, sandy hair, red whiskers, black short | teeth, chews and smokes. | “He said yesterday, 4 1 am the jailor at Macon; I catch negroes sometimes: I am here for William and Ellen Crafts, and no one else, and damn ’em. I will have them if I stay till eternity ; and if there are not men enough in Massachusetts to take them, I will bring them from the South. It is not the niggers I care for—it is the principle of the thing/ “ Also, a companion of the above, named John Knight, a tall, lank, lean looking fellow, five feet ten or eleven inches high, dark hair, : about twenty-eight years old. | “ Also, a third professional slave catcher, j Alfred Beal, from Norfolk, a very stout, thick . set, coarse looking man, about five feet nine inches high, sandy hair, ned whisker?*, upper COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 11, 1850. front teeth broken off, about forty-five years of age, known to be on a general hunt. “ All citizens, and especially all keepers of hotels and boarding houses, are requested to keep close watch upon them, and others : known to be in town.” ID” MEN OF BOSTON!: ! j SHALL THESE VILLAINS REMAIN HERE ? 0/7” “It is the principle of the thing j This is understood to be the work of what ; is called the committee of vigilance, consist i iug of one hundred men. Now these things | were not done in a corner or in an hour. They ! tire the work of several days of an “October sun,” in Boston, the great commercial capital of the New England States, and the seat of government of Massachusetts, and within twenty miles of Marshfield, the country seat of Mr. Webster, and whilst he was there, and after he had repeatedly written and spoken in behalf of the Compromise, of which this Fugitive law is part. It is true that a majority of tho people of; Boston did not take part in this outrage. It j was not necessary. But if a majority had ! been in favor of this law, or of law itself j when at variance with their sentiments, this law would have been enforced. The Boston Post gives the following ac- ! count of the treatment of the claimant*.* “ Criminal Matters, etc. — Additional ! Retaliatory Suits in relation to the Fugitives, j —Yesterday forenoon, John Knight, witness, and Willis H. Ilewes, agent, in search of Crafts and wife, were again arrested by depu ty sheriff Coburn, on civil suits for conspir ing to kidnap said Crafts. The damages were, as in the cases stated in our last, laid at 810,000, and the defendants furnished bail in that amount. The writs were made out by Charles List, and are returnable at the next term of the common pleas, but no one sup poses that they will ever be entered and prose cuted to judgment. The arrest caused the collection of a large crowd in Court square, consisting chiefly of white people, mixed up with whom were some colored men, who j were on hand to “ spot” the defendants. Sev- ! oral went up to Tudor’s Building, where Mr. j Coburn has his office, for this purpose. It j was intended that both defendants should leave the building by the entrance on Court square, and a carriage was brought there for that purpose, but Ilewes only had time to get into it before the rush to see who was in side became so great that the driver found it necessary to clear the track by whipping up his team and starting off at a smart pace. One man who was a little too near the off horse was spread out in front of Parker’s es tablishment, but not seriously hurt by the fall. Some of the more excited rescuers ran after the carriage, uttering various exclama tions and outcries. About twenty minutes after Ilewes was driven off, Knight got into a cab at the Court street door of the building, and was driven off’ without molestation. It was authoritatively stated yesterday, that the j badly spelt letter, purported to have been writ- | ten by him to Crafts, and so printed in some j of the papers, was neither written nor sent by him. “From six to eight last evening, court square was*again filled with an exciting multitude, chiefly colored, some of whom displayed pis tols. Another pair of writs for conspiracy had been placed in the hands of the deputy sheriff, and it was supposed that he would I again bring the defendants to his-office in ; Tudor’s building, but he arranged the matter j otherwise. It is alleged in these writs that j there was also a conspiracy to kidnap Crafts’ wife. As soon as it Was understood that tho third arrest and bailing process had been ef fected elsewhere, the crowd dispersed. One colored man, who was on horseback, talked very brave about being the first to attack Ilewes and Knight, if they should show them selves, but he did not wait long.” Finally, we take the following from the Boston Times of Monday last: “ Many of the houses in Belknap and Cambridge streets are provided with ammuni tion, among which is a very sociable ball, weighing about four ounces. Swords, dirks, &c., are plenty, and bayonets ‘right up/ The colored population are really roused in this matter, and are making their houses like barracks. In relation to entering private houses, it is understood that, on inquiry of the Marshal, Judge Sprague has intimated that the process for the arrest of a fugitive slave is in the nature of a civil process—that in serving it, an officer will not he justified in breaking open the outer door of any dwelling house—that every dwelling house is the castle of its occupants —but if the front door be opened, any inner one may be forced open. The latch strings have all been effectually pulled in in these localities, and a ‘ few more’ extra bolts inserted in those same outer doors.” Thus, it appears, that in the boasted Union loving, religion-and-morality-professing, and law-and-order-supporting city of Bosjon, justice is administered by giving to a man’s property the sanctity of the castle which no process of law can open, and hunting the owner with sheriffs and constables to the Court House, and then mobbing him from its doors —and this, too, whilst lie is merely asserting one of the plainest rights in the j Constitution, according to a law embraced in a compromise by which the South was bereft of an immense territory* as the price of this work of conciliation and harmony. This is the greeting which Massachusetts sends to Georgia when she is gathering in Convention. How will Georgia answer? Will she submit to have her citizens hunted as outlaws in the North, when asserting their constitutional rights ? j We beg to be understood, however, as not making this new issue, or any new issue. If the late measures of Congress are proper for Southern acquiescence and rejoicing, it would he folly to disturb the general harmony and affection of the Union for all the negroes that ever have, or ever will run away—particularly as the States from which they usually run are so contented. The cotton States had a peculiar interest in the territorial question. It was important to them to avert a great numerical prepon derance of the black over the white race in ; their borders. This would not only diminish the value of their great staple by over pro duction, but menace their safety. The border j States may conclude to consult their own interest, and to abandon the common terri torial rights of the South, to obtain the resti- I tution of fugitive slaves. They have paid the price—and the contract is, as usual, re pudiated by the North. We have the most unhesitating conviction that neither the proreot, nor any ether Fugi | live slave law ever will be executed in the j North. This is no longer a federative but ; consolidated Government, and as such the I majority is responsible for what they call the | sin of slavery. And with the universal sen ! timent of our “ Northern brethren” on sla j very, they never will submit to the execution ’ of a Fugitive slave law, nor to the continu ance of slavery itself in the Union much longer. It is true the submissionists of the border States are again threatening what they will do, if this law is nullified or repealed. Let not the cotton Stales be again deceived. The submissionists would not resist any thing, but they would like to have the co-operation of I the cotton States next Congress in protecting j the law, and in case of failure, as is proba ! ble, of displaying their love of Union again |by deserting again their allies and their | pledges—to be puffed in Northern papers as j patriotic nationals, and to make a little more ! capital for party, and to improve their chances ! of getting into the Federal crib. We wish it to be understood now, that we ! shall take no part i:i resisting the law to repeal |or to modify the Fugitive law. We go and j shall go for the assertion of the great body of I rights, by the maintenance of which the j ! South will have power not only to defend her- : j self, but to advance to her destiny. We are | determined never to be the supporter of a 1 whining and supplicant policy that recognizes I a superior, and accepts, as favors, what a j greedy majority may leave from time to time undevoured.— Southern Press. (Correipondenee of the N. Y. Express.] | THE BOSTON SLAVE HUNT AND THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE. Boston, Thursday, Oct. 31. | The slave hunters, Knight and Hughes, ! left the city yesterday at 2 o’clock, P. M., j fully persuaded, after a week’s trial, that all | attempts to arrest William and Ellen Crafts, ! in tho city of Boston, were worse than use ; less. ket not a blow has been struck or an ! act of violence done! As soon as it was known that they were about to take out a warrant, the Vigilance Committee was called together, and various sub-committees appointed. Among these was a committee of legal gentlemen, whose duty it was to give Cratts the benefit of every legal weapon of offence or defence. His committee consisted of S. C. Sewall, Charles Summer, R. 11. Dana, jr., John C. Park and George Minot. In addition to these gentle men, Charles G. Loring, Esq., one of the most distinguished lawyers in the State, vol unteered his services. After lull deliberation, this committee notified the Commissioners that if they acted under the la\v, they would be sued, on the ground of the unconstitution ality of their appointment, and that the same course would be taken with the Marshal and his deputies, or any other persons who should act under the direction of the Commissioners. The ground was taken that the process un der this law is a civil process, and that the outer door of a house cannot be broken in for purpose of serving it, and the Marshal was notified accordingly. Crafts moved his bed and clothing into his shop, and made it his domicil—his castle. In the meantime, Crafts, on his own re sponsibility, without advice from any parties, determined on resistance. He armed himself fully, and made up his mind to sell his free dom with his life. His shop is in tho midst of the negro population, who were in a state of intense excitement, armed and determined upon resistance. No man could approach within a hundred yards of Crafts’ shop with out being seen by a hundred eyes, and a sig nal would call a powerful body at a moment’s warning. The Marshal’s assistants made re connoisances, and are perfectly satisfied that if tho “outer-door” doctrine prevailed, tho process could not be served at all, and if that doctrine was not adhered to, tho process could only be served with bloodshed. It must be distinctly understood that this forcible resistance was a matter with which tiie Committees had no concern whatever. They confined themselves to legal measures solely. Knight and Hughes were themselves ar rested and held to bail in 810,000 each, on a charge of slander. After some difficulty they found bail. The next day they were arrest ed on a charge of conspiracy to kidnap .William Crafts, and again in the afternoon on a similar charge as to Ellen Crafts. Two arrests a day was their smallest allowance. After the last arrest, the excited crowd of negroes followed Knight’s carriage, and he took flight through Court and Leveret streets, over East Cambridge bridge, running tolls to East Cambridge and thence to Porter’s. The mob overtook and threatened him, and it was with difficulty that some of them were kept from violence, but no actual violence was inflicted. Knight was thoroughly alarm ed. A portion of the Vigilance Committee waited upon him and Hughes, and told them they had no intention to threaten them, but ! that their presence periled the peace of the | city as well as their own lives. They pro | mised to leave the city tho next morning; I but when the morning came they were not ’ gone. Several complaints were made against them, and prepared to be served—one for car rying concealed weapons; another for “ smok ing in the streets” contrary to the city ordin ance ; another under the statute against “pro fane cursing and swearing” (a plenty of which they did); another for missing toll over the bridge; and still another for fast driving through the town of Cambridge. Truly the Bostonians are a law abiding people! The combination of the tragical and the comical, the serious and the ludicrous, with theharass ment of handbills, arrests, and crowds at i their heels wherever they went, and the cer tainty that their process could not be served without bloodshed, overcame their obstinacy and they took the express train for the South, waited upon by a large and respectable com mittee. Knight and Hughes are said to be men of a low description, mere hirelings or specula- j I tors, deserving no better treatment than they j received. These various arrests, however, i were not made by the legal committee, but j were the voluntary suggestions of parties, j | taking the responsibility upon themselves. ! I The committee were prepared to serve a writ j I de homine repligiando upon the Marshal, the ‘ • moment the arrest should be made, and thus : | to raise an issue between the State and Na- j i tional tribunals. They also proposed to hold i ; Crafts to bail for debt, in order to try the ! question whether (he cer+ifkzte of the Ccm | niissioner will override the civil processes of the State, made for other purposes. Asa I last resort, Crafts was to be arrested on a I criminal charge, for violent assaults, with | dangerous weapons, if ho used them, and thus raised the final question of precedence between a criminal process of the State and the certificate of the Commissioner. If no other criminal charge could be raised, it was proposed, with his own consent, to arrest him for fornication, (which is a criminal offence in Massachusetts,) on account of the invalidi ty of his slave marriage. These various technical obstructions and contrivances were raised, not against the Con stitution, but against the odious and unconsti tutional statute. Had the statute been no more than the Constitution requires, no legal resis tance would have been made, except on the real issues between the parties. As for the forcible resistance of the negroes, how can they distinguish between the Constitution and a statute ? They only receive the simple idea that without trial or notice, father, mother, husband, wife or child, brother or sister, may j he snatched from each other, and from home, I and hurried into captivity in an unknown and I hostile land. i There are rumors that the President has ; authorized the Marshal to employ a portion of the standing army to enforce his precept, and to “ punish” offenders. We do not be lieve he has done, or intends to do any such thing. He knows that the whole standing army of the United States, which took Mexi co and Monterey, cannot break down a poor man’s outer door to serve a civil process, or “ punish” any citizen for any crime whatever. [The above letter comes from a responsi ble source, and may be relied upon as a cor rect statement of this unsuccessful Slave Hunt in the New England Metropolis,— Ed. Tribune .] (Prom tho Southern Pres*.] A FEW FACTS FOB SOUTHERN SUB MISSIONISTS. It is a fact that the Fugitive Slave bill was | passed by tho United Southern vote. It is also a fact that, although it was claimed bv the Southern compromisers, as the considera tion the South was to get for all they surren dered—in the Senate hut three Northern men sustained it. It is a fact that on the final rote in the Senate, out of sixty, (constituting the whole number) it received but twenty-seven votes! not one-half. It is a fact that twelve votes were cast against it—all from the North—and that twenty-one Senators either dodged or were absent. Here is tho record : k eas—Messrs. Atchison, Badger, Barn well, Bell, Berrien, Butler, Davis of Missis sippi, Dawson, Dodge of lowa, Downs, Foote, Houston, Hunter, Jones, King, Man gum, Mason, Pearce, Rusk, Sebastian, Soule, Spruauce, Sturgeon, Turney, Underwood, Wales, Yulee—27. Nays—Messrs. Baldwin, Bradbury, Chase, Cooper, Davis of Massachusetts, Dayton, Dodge of Wisconsin, Greene, Smith, Up ham, Walker, Winthrop—l 2. Absent or not Voting—Messrs. Benton, Borland, Bright, Clarke, Clay, Cass, Cle mens, Dickinson, Douglass, Ewing, Fetch, Hale, Hamlin, Miller, Morton, Norris, Phelps, Pratt, Ssu-ard, Shields , ‘Whitcomb— -21. “ A concession from the North,” indeed ! three Northern votes for it, and absentees enough known to be hostile to it, to repeal it (if necessary) at tho commencement of the next session. In the House tho same gam's was played, though more Northern men tentufed to vote for it. Tho fate of those from Ohio who ventur ed on the experiment, is thus commemorated in the Steubenville Union of that State : “Who are they?—-Hoagland,Democrat,and Taylor, Whig, are the only members of the present Congress who voted for the slave catching law, who were put in nomination for re-election. Iloagland’s district can give 1500 Democratic majority, and yet lie is beaten nearly 1000 votes. Taylor’s district contains a moderate Whig majority, and yet he has been re-elected. “A large part, if not all of Mr. Taylor’s district is in tho Virginia military district, and settled chiefly by \ irginians, which ac counts for his return.” It is a fact that every avowed free aotler has either been re-elected, or replaced by one equally, if not more bitter in free soil princi ples, while the new accessions, direct or by combinations and coalitions, have been nu merous. It is a fact that tho Free-soil party will be more strongly represented in the next Con gress than it ever has been. It is a fact that Seward declares himself a Union man, and considers the preservation of the Union essential to the success of Ids Abolition doctrines. It is also on record that he scoffs at the idea of Southern agitation imperilling the Union, for he regards it as stronger than slavery and stronger than the South. It is a fact that Benton also claims the credit of having raised this cry of disunion to overwhelm Southern agitation on the sub ject of slavery; and that with Mr. Clay and Mr. Webster, he repudiates the idea of any more slave States. It is a fact that Benton and Houston are the real heads of the Southern Union party, to which Mississippi has furnished the feet in two of her sons originally most noisy in their denunciations of all who'opposed the Nash ville Convention. It is a fact that “ this cry of Union is the : masked battery,” from behind which the ene mies of the South assail her. It is a fact in relation to Southern sub mission, that those who propose the thing, are ashamed to call it by its right name—and cover it up under “ this cry of Union.” It is a fact that the sayings and the speeches i of these Southern submissionists are highly • approved of. by the very presses and persons ! most bitterly denounced and discredited by 1 the same men as wholly false to the South, while the struggle was going on in Congress. It is a fact that Southern submission has strengthened the hands of the free soilers | and abolitionists—and that the only check upon them has been imposed by the “ agita- j | tors.” * It is a fact that Clay’s Compromise, which ■ i gave more of Texas to free soil than Pcarce’p j bill, was by them defeated. It is a fact that the Fugitive bill was first proposed and carried, by Mason and Butler. It is a fact that it never would otherwise have passed, ami that it would have been lost iu the Lower House, but for the dread of Southern “ agitators.” It is a fact that tho agitation at tho South has alarmed the merchants of New York and Boston into attempting a demonstration to put down the violators of the Fugitive bill. 6 It is a fact that they believe the Southern Acquiescents to tho Compromise will submit to any thing—and that they are more than half right. It is a fact the poonies and not patriotism are at tho bottom of these “ conservative” movements at the North—and that Southern “ agitation” alone has brought them to their senses. (See the New York papers passim.) It is a fact that the New York press talks with a double tongue. The Mirror, owned by an office holder under the government, savs: “The Merchants and the Union. —The New Fork merchants, whose pockets are threaten ened hy the organization now being formed at the South, binding the planters not to trade with a city represented in the Senate by an Abolitionist, arc beginning to wake up to the dangers of disunion. ’lhcy can discern, through the keen commercial sagacity for which they are so remarkable as a class, that an anti-intercourse league at the South, and a determination to stop the machinery of Government at Washington, is nothing’ less than a practical dissolution of £heUnfen. B Such a consummation would instantly convert our ! ‘ponces’ into beggars, and New York • stocks, New It ork real estate, and New York | merchants would instantly fall like Lucifer | from Heaven. I “We have abundant evidence that our com j mereial men are beginning to foresee that this ! will bo the inevitable ‘condition of things,’ if Seward and his Abolition minions are not checked in their mad career.” I hat is tho voice of the “ Mammon,• one of the two controlling spirits Listen now to the voice of tho other, the destructive Devil, Moloch. t W i tli an eye on Southern submissionists, thus contemptuously speak* he through tlw Evening Post f 1 lie Journal of Commerce sees dangor to tho Union in this excitement. IV’e see no danger to the Union, but we see much danger to the law itself; it is in danger of a speedv repeal. This is the true remedy for the state of things which tho Journal so pathetically deplores. Abolish the unjust law, and you abolish all importunate complaints; you quiet the’ excitement and silence the pulpits,” It is a fact that one of the most influential papers at the seat of Government in New k ork, thus speaks of the enforcement of that law: “It seems that the United States troops hare been ordered out in Detroit to enforce the observance of the citizens to the uncon stitutional fugitive law, I hi* is a sad spectacle, and such as in the earlier days of the Republic would have aroused the indignation and the resistance of the democrats of the school of Jefferson. No such invasion of the States has ever be fore occurred— except when President Tyler ordered the Federal troops to put down, bv force, the republican government of Rhode Island under its new Constitution.- “ The law itself provides a most formida ble force of irresponsible magistrates, and the unlimited authority of the Courts to ap point Commissioners and Assistant Marshals, is itself dangerous to liberty. This calling in of tho military power to carry into execu tion a more than doubtful law, is a still more formidable aggression upon the independence of the States and the rights of the citizens.” It is a fact that even that extreme measure did not secure the slave. To prevent blood shed his master was paid a nominal price for him. It is a fact that as yet not a single slave has been literally “ restored to service and labor under the operation of this law; and that it has failed, except in showing the rot tenness of Northern sentiment on this sub ject, and the dopth of their scorn for th® South. It is a fact ihat even tho religious papers of the North preach up the Violation of tho compromises of the Constitution, and of the rights of the South, as a religious duty. In proof of this, we copy below an extract from tho Boston Zion’s Herald, a religious paper of high standing’ in the denomination of which it is an organ, (the Methodist): ” hat is tho duty of Christian citizens respecting such a law ? We explicitly say, that such a question put to us by such a citi zen would excite our surprise and our pity. Is there a God fearing man in the North, who would hesitate to abjure such a law be fore Heaven and earth, and at any penalty? Ihe qnakcr has refused to bear arms and to pay tithe, and the world differing from his opinions, reverences the consciences of good men in a case like this. We hope that from the very outset of this enormous statute it will be found a nullity—a dead letter, doubly dead and buried beneath the curses of a free and Christian people. So shall wc treat it and wo shall treat men so. “ Tho States cannot stand under the infamy, the strangling disgrace of this bill. y* e predict that the first attempt to enforce it in New England, will shake, as it were, tho ‘ er .\ foundation of her hills ; let any one man fall its victim, any one spot of New England soil be disgraced by its enforcement, and a sensation will be produced which will shock into confusion all our present party relations, and embody henceforward the whole energy of the public mind, and attempt to annihilate, at any consequence, the slave power of tho land. We believe that such an occurrence any where in the North will send a sensation through our population which will be irresis tible by any party management.” It is a fact that under the action of the Ad justment, the North gets every foot of the vast territory in dispute for free soil. The South gets not an acre—but as an equivalent,a paper recognition of a right acknowledged in tho Constitution; and the re-affirmation of the eighth commandment. It is a fact that as soon as Southern agita tion subsides, Northern abolition becomes more aggressive and more insolent. It is a fact that Mr. Clay is a practical abolitionist, and avowed free soiler; and that the adjustment was framed to subserve his darling objects—the exclusion of the South from all new acquisitions, thus walling in slavery, for its final abolition—and secondly, the title to the “ most sweet voices” of the na tional North in a certain national election, to take place in 1852. The tithe has not yet been told; but as we imagine these will suffice for one dose, we : will reserve the remainder for a future oc casion. For the verification of these facts, we refer any one who entewaius dotffrfs, to the neeerd. NO. 40.