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“How rarely do we see such beautiful con
ceptions in fiction; the purest influences of
chiistianity in real life, leading to retirement,
to the fulfilling the command, that the left
hand shall not know what the right hand
doetli; that the example should be ever gui
ding onward and upward ; hut a mind capa
ble of conceiving and delineating the perfec
tion of human character, mingled with the
spirit which wit and talent produce, may do
a vast deal of good; and if you find that your
power is ready and your success encoura
ging, you must try what moral miracles you
can work with your pen.”
“Ah!” you exclaim, “how much easier to
dictate, than to effect; how much easier to
judge, than to create.”
Shall we com nitsuch thoughts as these to
the flames? Shall we destroy the record of
faith and affection, which have been'incite
ments to action and encouragements to suc
cess? No! They are immortal, and cannot
but by annihilating, die. Should the lire ap
parently consume them, should the ashes be
given to the four winds of Heaven, they would
reappear in some form of beauty and purity;
perchance the Magnolia’s blossoms or the
Lily’s petals.
Here is a packet bearing the impress of a
bolder hand. It is what is callefl a back
hand, very graceful and regular in its irregu
larities. Let us rescue these from the gen
eral doom, for alas! the writer sleeps the
great sleep in Cuba’s beauteous Isle. With
everything to enrich and adorn life—wealth,
geuLs, fiiendship and reputation—he died in
the meridian of manhood, a victim to the
destroying angel of the Northern clime, who,
borne on the eastern blast, slays its thousands
and ten thousands with remorseless cruelty.
His was the ardent temperament of Burns,
united with the passionate depth and strength
of Byron. Ii is memory was stored with the
most exquisite poetry of both, which received
an added charm from his gentle-toned, melo
dious voice. An impassioned lover of Na
ture, he loved best of ail its moonlight love
liness. His spiiit then revelled in poetic
dreams, and breathed itself in high wrought
and excited language. In early youth, ex
posed to the temptations of wealth and the
fascinations of pleasure, the world allured and
example betrayed, but bis aberrations were
short—and though he sometimes strayed be
yond the limits of virtue, he was never seen
in the known haunts of vice. Once, he ut
tered a passionate wish that lie were what
Byron was, willing to barter ail present good,
all future weal, for the possession of such
genius and fame. This wild wish elicited the
following thoughts, which, at his request,
were clothed in a poetic garb:
Thau wouldst have been that wondrous man,
Whose mighty mind no mind could scan—
Who, dark, sublime, magnificent,
Scorned from another region sent,
To give the soul’s imaginings
The form and look of breathing things.
And thou in manhood’s glorious bloom.
Who e life such brilliant hopes illume,
Would baiter laitli and joy and love,
All peace below, all heaven above,
To he that splendid, reckless thing.
Who dared his shafts at God to fling!
The crown of tire on .Etna’s brow,
Afar its dazzling light may throw,
Till starry Heaven’s resplendent host
In the superior blaze is lost;
But where’s the eye that would not turn
Front where its wasting splendors burn,
To the pure silvery light that shines,
Where love its myrtle garland twines?
Happy was it for him, that his aspirations
were directed to a holier object; that a great
er than Byron became the model, after which
his soul fashioned itself. It was as a disci
ple of Jesus he died—and the angel of
Christianity,
“With his silver wing o’ershades.
The ground now sacred by his relics made.”
Let the winds bear the flame far from these
hallowed mementoes of one, who now belongs
to memory alone. Cold is now that warm,
impulsive heart—quenched the light of that
once flashing and expressive eye. Cherished
then be the traces he has left of the genius,
mid talents, and sensibilities, which once
brightened and gladdened the circle in
which he moved.
Thanks be to God for the invention of let
ters! liow many dreary blanks they fill—
how many warm affections they perpetuate —
how many glowing thoughts they invest with
immortality ! Without them, absence would
be death, and space a grave. With them,
friends may separate in body, yet cling to
each other in soul. They are an electric
chain, on which the lightning rays of thought
dart from mind to mind, clearing away the
vapors which time has formed. Spoken sen
timents, mingle with air and pass away.—
When written, they remain a source of re
peated joy and consolation. There are cer
tain characters, which, though invisible to the
oy<?, when exposed to the influence of heat,
become dark and legible. So when the lines
grow faint in remembrance, we have only to
draw them within the burning focus of in
tense thought, and they appear strong and
distinct. No matter how widely friends may
be sundered, their mingling spirits still may
meet, triumphant over mountain, ocean, wil
derness or plain. Who has not felt their
hearts throb with quickened pulsations, as
the sound of rushing wheels announces the
coming of the mail ? Who has not felt the
glow of delight pervade their whole being,
when the eagerly desired letters were placed
in the hand, or thq chill of disappointment
when the precious communications were
withheld ?
Thanks be to God for letters ! Not only
over absence and space they triumph, but
death itself. In vain the tomb closes its mar
ble portals over the form we love. In vain
an hermetic seal is placed on the dumb
pallid lips—
'They live, they speak, they breathe what love inspires,
Warm front the soul and faithful to its fires.”
C. L. H.
O’ Why is a cat ascending a ladder like
the American Panther?
THE PRESIDENCY.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
[From the Newberry (S. C.) Sentinel.]
South Carolina cannot support the nominees of
the Democratic Convention. If she were to do so,
she would by her votes endorse the iniquitous Com
promise measures ; and surely she is not prepared
to take that “step backwards.”
[ Correspondence of the Charleston Mercury. ]
The State Eights Representatives generally seem
satisfied with the nominations, and say they will sup
port them. Very little allusion is made by them to
the platform. The New York Post, the Free Soil
Democratic organ, also gives in its adhesion.
As to the two gentlemen who have been nomi
nated, they are personally unexceptionable, but nei
ther calculated to inspire much enthusiasm, certain
ly not sufficient to counterpoise that which Gen.
Scott could create. Gtn. Pierce is a man of ability,
but not one of the great minds of the day. lie lias
never doue or said anything very remarkable be
yond hundreds of others, yet is probably equal in
ability, though not in experience, to Mr. Polk. Mr.
King is well known to the public. He is not a first
rate man, but is respectable both in his private and
public capacity. If the high talent of the country
is not to be elevated to its highest honors, these gen
tlemen are certainly unexceptionable. Gen. Pierce
is really Southern in his politics, and so is Mr. King.
The fuss and glorification over these nominations is
idle, and worse than idle. The truth wears best.
It is confidently anticipated that South Carolina will
support these nominations, though Gen. Comman
der was ruled out of the Convention. By the way,
the General wanted to make a speech on the subject,
and was inexorably silenced by a call of order. It
was generally thought that the course of the State
in not being represented was proper and dignified,
but it is thought she will come back into the Demo
cratic fold for a season.
[From the Rome (Ga.) Courier.]
Will the Union Party support the Demo
cratic Nominees? —The determination of this
question, we presume, will depend entirely upon
what may transpire at Baltimore during the ensuing
week. No Union man can object to Mr. King, the
Democratic candidate for Vice-President. Many
will object to Gen. Pierce, because he has not that
great and national reputation so important in the
Chief Magistrate of a great Nation. Many will re
gret that the ticket is not reversed, and the name of
King given the precedence. Both are, however,
believed to be entirely sound upon the Compromise,
which should be the controlling consideration with
all Union men, in the approaching canvass.
We believe, therefore, that unless the National
Whig Convention shall assume the same attitude be
fore the country, as that presented by the Democrat
ic Convention, and present as sound men upon as i
sound a platform, the Union Convention, when it
shall again meet, will affirm the nomination of Pierce
and, King and select an electoral ticket in conformity
with this position and elect it by a triumphant ma
jority over every other ticket run. Os course, if
Mr. Fillmore is nominated and the finality of the
Compromise affirmed by the Baltimore Whig Con
vention, the aspect of things will bo changed and the
support of the Union party will be divided upon two
electoral tickets. Matters are very much tangled
and confused now—they will be more so then. It
is to be hoped that the novelty of the spectacle will
keep every body in good humor—particularly as the
Republic will then be safe, and the only contest will
be to test who are the most unanimous and. legiti
mate Acquiescents.
[ From the National Intelligencer. ]
Os Mr. Pierce our readers have probably heard
more than of most people, owing to his services in sev
eral public stations, but yet less than of any other of
the gentlemen who were honored by votes in the
Democratic Convention. In the year 1833, he took
bis scat in Congress as a Representative from the
State of New I latnpshire ; and, after serving in that
capacity, be came 3 Senator from the same State, ser
ving there several years ; after which he retired to
the practice of the law. In the late Mexican War
he served as Brigadier General, resigning his com
mission at the close of the war, and again returned
to private life. His experience has, therefore,
been practical to an extent to qualify him to
administer the affairs of the. Government, should
the People call him to that trust, respectably and
in a National spirit.
Os the eminent gentleman (the Hon. Wm. R.
King) who was selected by the Convention for the
Vice Presidency , no one who knows him can say
aught in his dispraise ; still less can ice, who have
known him from the beginning of his public career.
We wonder, indeed, thinking of him as we do, that
the Convention did not seek relief from its dilemma
by selecting one so able, experienced, and unexcep
tionable, for the principal office, instead of for
the second. Without at all designing to disparage
the respectable gentleman who became the choice of
the Convention for the first office, we should have
thought it more accordant with the fitness of things,
as well as more politic, to have reversed the posi
tions of the two nominees. “King's name would have
been a tower of strength” to the party of which lie
is an ornament, or any other. Bnt the Convention
decided otherwise, and it is not for us to murmur.
[From the Athens (Ga.) Banner.]
The Convention having not only ruled down these
“resistants’’ to the Compromise, both North and
South, but having made them actually kiss the rod
which chastises them, by voting for a Compromise
which the Southern resistants denounced as “degra
dation:” and * l robhery' n of the South, these gentle
men will, it is to be hoped, for decency’s sake, if
nothing else, take down the electoral ticket which
they have put up for the friends of the Compromise
and the Union to follow. It is the natural province
and the prerogative of the victors to lead, and the
fate of the vanquished to follow in the rear.
Their place is now at the polls, and upon theustool
of repentance, and not at the head of an electoral
ticket for a National party which has not only pass
ed sentence of condemnation upon their late at
temps to “resist” the Compromise, but has compell
ed them to endorse it as a settlement net to be
disturbed.
We will barely say to cur Union friends, that a
ticket will shortly be presented to them in favor of
the nominees of the Convention, for which they can
vote botji with consistency and self-respect.
[From the Richmond Examiner.]
Gen. Pierce is peculiarly acceptable as a politician
to the Virginia Democracy. Asa politician he be
longs to tbe Virginia school. His course in Con
gress has been in conformity with the Virginia doc- !
trines as much, if not more, than that of any North- j
ern man who has held as prominent a position be- |
fore the country. On the larilF, internal improve- j
ment, and the slavery subjects, his views are accep
table to Virginia and the South generally. The-
Democracy of New Hampshire have been noted for
their conformity to Southern principles, and General
Pierce is the leader of the New Hampshire Democ
racy. Pierce belongs to the same school to which
Woodbury was attached. Their public course made
them both favorites with the South. Virginia placed
Pierce in nomination first before the Convention.
In nominating Pierce, the Democracy of the con
federacy followed the lead of the Democracy of the
Old Dominion. Virginia has secured this high
honor for her distinguished disciple. Her influ
ence brought about the nomination of General
Pierce. The influence of her time-honored princi
ples wiil be felt in his administration.
[From the New Hampshire Democrat,]
An Abolition paper—edited by J. 11. Goodale
That the Convention was solely under the control
of the pro-slavery politicians, is seen as clear as day.
Robert Faptcrul, ir. ; than wiyvm n truer Democrat
never trod the soil of New England,and who was duly
and regularly chosen the delegate from the second
Congressional District of Massachusetts, was exclu
ded from the Convention, for no other reason than
that he boldly opposes tbe Fugitive Slave Law, as
anti-democratic, and unconstitutional. True, he
represents the views of five-sixths of the Democracy
of his District, but the voice of a free constituency
must not be listened to by a Convention brought to
gether to nominate a candidate for the Presidency
who, in the language of one of its members, must be
“solemnly pledged to veto a repeal or modification of
the fugitive law, unless , indeed , such modification
should prove, necessary, to its more effectual exe
cution, AND BE GENERALLY DEMANDED BY THE
South itself.”
W e revere Democracy wherever it exists in spirit
and in truth, and watches over, with equal and im
partial care, the interests and rights of every portion
of the community. But we cannot too deeply detest,
and too earnestly oppose, a political organization,
which, adopting the name of Democracy, does the
utmost violence to its principles and practical teach
ings. Os this stamp, was the Democracy of the
Baltimore Convention, which could nominate no
candidate for the Chief Magistracy of the Union,
unless upon a platform embodying principles better
adapted to the government of Austria and Russia
than that of a great Republic.
[From tlie Milledgeville Recorder. 1
The Resolutions in regird to the Compromise, are
to the purpose, and the Convention has done its duty
to the country, to the Constitution, and to the Union,
in this behalf. So far as the Convention is concern
ed, on this important point, it has done well. It now
remains for its party in Congress and at the North to
follow in the footsteps of its Convention, and to give
once more to the country, tranquility and quiet, so
long disturbed by the invasion of the spirit of the
resolutions to which we refer and opposition to it.
\\ e hope the Whig Convention will do likewise in
this National matter. If it does, the assembling of
these influential bodies will be auspicious of the hest
interests of the country. If it refuses to do this, it
will have converted itself into a miserable abolition
faction, and the good and true men of the country,
North and South, will take up the expression of
Henry Clay, and proclaim themselves no longer
Whigs.
Resolutions of the Democratic Convention.
Resolved, That the American democracy place
their trust in the intelligence, the patriotism, and the
discriminating justice of the American people.
Resolved, That we regard this as a distinctive
of otir political creed, which we are proud to
maintain before the world as the great moral element
in a form of government springing from, and upheld
by, the popular will; and we contrast it with the
creed and practice of federalism, under whatever
name or form, which seeks to palsy the will of the
constituent, and which conceives no imposture too
1110111 1 ®us for the popular credulity.
Resolved, therefore, That, entertaining these
views, the democratic party of this Union, through
their delegates assembled in a general convention of
the States, coming together in a spirit of concord,
of devotion to the doctrines and faith of a free rep
resentative government, and appealing to their fel
low-citizens for the rectitude of their intentions, re
new and reassert before the American people the
declarations of principles avowed by them when, on
former occasions, in general convention, they pre
sented their candidates for the popular suffrages :
1. That the federal government is one of limit -
ed powers, derived solely from the constitution, and
the grants of power shown therein ought to be strict
ly constructed by all the departments and agents of
the government; and that it is inexpedient and dan
gerous to exercise doubtful constitutional powers.
2. That tbe constitution does not confer upon
the general government the power to commence and
carry on a general system of internal improvements.
3. That tile constitution does not confer authori
ty upon the federal government, directly or indirect
ly, to assume the debts of the several States contract
ed for local internal improvements or other State
purposes; nor would such assumption be just and
expedient.
4. That justice and sound policy forbid the fed
eral government to foster one branch of industry to
the detrimi nt of another, or to cherish the inter
ests of one portion to the injury of another portion
of our common country ; that every citizen, and
every section of the country, lias a right to demand
and insist upon an equality of rights and privileges
and complete and ample protection of persons and
property from domestic violence or foreign ag
gressions.
5. That it is the duty of every branch of the
government to enforce and practice the most, rigid
economy in conducting our public affairs, and that
no more revenue ought to be raised than is required
to defray the necessary expenses of the govern
ment and for the gradual but certain extinction of
the public debt.
6. That Congress has no power to elmrter a
National Bank : that we believe such an institution
one of deadly hostility to the best interests of the
country, dangerous to our republican institutions and
the liberties of the people, and calculated to [dace
the business of the country within tiie control of a
concentrated money power, and above the laws and
the will of the people ; and that the results of demo
cratic legislation, in this and all other financial mea
sures upon which issues have been made between
the two political parties of the country, have demon
strated, to candid and practical men of all parties,
their soundness, safety and utility in all business
pursuits.
7. That the separation of the moneys of the
government from banking institutions is indispensa
ble for tire safety of the funds of the government
and tbe rights of the people.
8. That the liberal principles embodied by Jef
ferson in the Declaration of Independence, and
sanctioned in the constitution, which makes ours
the laud of liberty and the asylum of the oppressed
of every nation, have ever been cardinal principles
in the democratic faith ; and every attempt to abridge
the privilege of becoming citizens and the owners
of soil among us ought to be resisted with the same
spirit which swept the alien and sedition laws from
our statute books,
9. That Congress has no power under the con
stitution to interfere with or control the domestic in
stitutions of the several States, and that such States
are the sole and proper judges of everything apper
taining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the
constitution ; that all efforts of the abolitionists or
others made to induce Congress to interfere with
questions of slavery, or to lake incipient steps in re
lation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most
alarming and dangerous consequences ; and that all
such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish
the happiness of the people and endanger the sta
bility and permanency of the Union, and ought not
to be countenanced by any friend ot our political in
stitutions.
Resolved, That the foregoing proposition covers
and was intended to embrace the whole subject of
the slavery agitation in Congress : and therefore the
democratic party of the Union, standing on this na
tional platform, will abide by and adhere to the faith
ful execution of the acts known as the compromise
measures, settled by the last Congress—the act for
returning fugitives from service or labor, included;
which act, being designed to carry out an express
provision of the constitution, cannot with fidelity
thereto be repealed or so changed as to destroy or
impair its efficacy.
Resolved, That the democratic party will resist
all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it,
the agitation on the slavery question, under whatev
er shape or color the attempt may be made.
Resolved, That the proceeds of the public lands
ought to be sacredly applied to the national objects
specified in the constitution ; and that ws a’re oppo
sed to any law for the distribution of such proceeds
among the States, as alike inexpedient in policy
and repugnant to the constitution.
Resolved, That we tire decidedly opposed to ta
king from the President the qualified veto power,
by which lie is enabled, under restrictions and re
sponsibilities amply sufficient to guard the public in
terest, to suspend the passage of a bill whose merits
cannot secure the approval of two thirds of tbe Se
nate and House of Representatives, until the judg
ment of the people can be obtained thereon, and
which has saved the American people from the
corrupt and tyrannical domination of the Bank of
the United States, and from a corrupting system of
general internal improvements.
Resolved, That the democratic party will faith
fully abide by and upheld the principles laid down
in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798,
and in the report of Mr. Madison to the Virginia
legislature in 1799 ; that it adopts those principles
as constituting one of the main foundations of its
political creed, and is r solved to carry them out in
their obvious meaning and import.
Resolved, That the war with Mexico, upon all
the principles of patriotism and the laws of nations,
was a just and necessary war on our part, in which
every American citizen should have shown himself
on the side of his country, and neither morally nor
physically, by word or deed, have given “aid and
comfort to the enemy.”
Resolved, That we rejoice at the restoration of
friendly relations with our sister Republic of Mexi
co. and earnestly desire for her all the blessings
and prosperity which we enjoy under republican
institutions; and we congratulate the American peo
ple upon the results of that war, which have so
manifestly justified the policy and conduct of the
Democratic party, and insured to the United States
“indemnity for the past, and security for the future.”
Resolved, That, in view of the condition of popu
lar institutions in the Old W orld, a high and sacred
duty is devolved, with increase 1 responsibility, upon
the Democratic party of this country, as the party
of the people, to uphold and maintain the rights of
every State and thereby the Union of the States,
and to sustain and advance among us constitutional
liberty by continuing to resist all monopolies and
exclusive legislation for the benefit of the few at the
expense of the many, and by a rgilant and constant
adherence to those principles and compromises of
the Constitution, which are broad enough and strong
enough to embrace and uphold the Union as it was,
the Union as it is, and the Union as it shall be, in
the full expansion of the energies and capacity of
this great and progressive people.
The committee to report in relation to the next
Democratic Convention reported a series of Resolu
tions, fixing the place at Cincinnati, leaving the time
to the Democratic National Committee, and provi
ding that no State sh mid send more than twice as
nutny delegates as their vote in the electoral eol.ege.
This latter provision was laid upon the table, and the
remainder of the report was adopted.
The convention, at about 7 o’clock, adjourned
sine die.
Scmt'ijiTn Scnihu'l.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA:
FRIDAY MORNING,... JUNE is, iss2.
The Law of Newspapers.
1. All subscribers who do not give express
notice to the contrary, are considered as wish
ing to continue their subscriptions.
2. It’ subscribers order the discontinuance of
their papers, the publishers may continue To
send them until arrearages are paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse taking their
papers from the offices to which they are sent,
they are held responsible till their bills are set
tled, and their papers ordered to be discontinued.
4. The Courts have decided that refusing to
take a newspaper or periodical from the office,
or removing and leaving it uncalled for, is prima
facie evidence of intentional fraud.
Home Industry.
We would call particular attention to the adver
tisement of the “Variety Works” in this city. If
we ever expect to be independent, we must patron
ize home industry. It keeps our money at h#me,
increases our population, diversifies our employments,
and op ns a market for our surplus productions.
Political Opinions o l Gen. Franklin Pierce.
In the Washington Republic of the Bt!i inst., we
find a minute history of Gen. Pierce’s congression
al action on several important political subjects. The
articles were written with the avowed purpose of
making Gen. Pierce odious to the North and West,
but we have no doubt about the accuracy of the
statements contained in them.
GENERAL PIERCE ON INTERNAL IMPROVE
MENTS BY THE FEDERAL GOVERN VI ENT.
In his second Congressional term, he distinguished
him-elf by his hostility to harbor and river improve
ments. In June, 1330, he voted against the bill “ma
king additional appropriations for the Delaware break
water, and for certain harbors, and removing obstruc
tions in and at the mouth? of certain rivers, and for oth
er purposes, tor the year 133 G.” A few days subse
quently, General Jack on signed the bill. At the same
session, Mr. Pierce voted against the bill “malting ap
propriations for the improvement of certain harbors
therein mentioned,” which was also afterwards appro
ved by General Jack-on. At the same ses ion he vo
ted against “the bill to continue the Cumberland Road
in the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.” This
was on the 29th of June, and on the 2d of July, Gen.
Jackson signed that very Cumberland Road bill.—
There is no “noise and confusion” to prevent us from ar
riving at Mr. Pierce’s opinions on this question of im
provements. He is against all improvements—of roads,
livers, and harbors —by the Federal Government : and
committed against them on the Journals of the House
po. itiveiy and repeatedly. If, in the event ot his elec
tion, he should ever be called to sign an improvement
bill of any name or nature, our Western friends may
look out for a veto, liow will it read in lowa, Illi
nois, along the Mississippi, and the great Lakes,
“Franklin Pierce and down with Internal Improve
ments !” But this is merely en passant. — Republic.
GEN. PIERCE ON THE SLAVERY QUESTION.
“On the slavery question Mr. Pierce is undoubtedly
committed to Southern views; and in his support Mr.
Rantoul and hi- associate Freesoiiera of Lynn and the
neighborhood, will have an ample opportunity of mani
fe -ting he extent to which they are willing (in Mr.
Rantoul’s language) to “eat Southern dirt.” Mr. Ran
toul was most unceremoniously ejected from a seat in
the Convention, to which he was incontestably entitled,
by the brute rorce of a relentless majority. Major Polk
did what he threatened some weeks since in the House
of Representatives; and Mr. Rantoul, we venture to say,
w ill redeem his promi-e not to be driven from the Dem
ocratic party. Ho will hold on at all events—and so
will Governor Cleavelami, and Prest n King, and Mr.
Floyd, and all the wot thy men who bullied and bluster
ed to such an extent on the floor ot the flou-e on the
strength of the tabling of the Compromise resolutions
in lire Democratic caucus.”— Republic.
GEN. PIERCE ON THE COMPROMISE
MEASURES.
Extract of a letter received from him by Maj. Lally,
dated Tremont House, Boston, May 27. 1852 It will
be seen that it was written sometime before the Balti
more Convention assembled, and in it he says, “my
name wiil not be before the Convention.”
“If the Compromise measures are not to be substanti
ally and firmly maintained, the plain rights guarantied
by the Constitution will be trampled in the dust. What
difference can it make to you or me whether the outrage
shall seem to fall on South Carolina, or Maine, or New
Hump-hire ? Are not the rights of each closely dear to
us all ? I wiil never yield to a craven spirit that, from
considerations of policy, would endanger the Union.
Entertaining these views, the action of the Convention
mu-t, in my judgment, be vital. If we of the North,
who have stood by the Constitutional rights of the
South, are to be abandoned to any time-serving policy,
the h'iues of Democracy and the Union must sink to
gether! As 1 have told you, niv name will not go be
fore the Convention, but I cannot help feeling that what
is there to be done, will be important beyond men and
parties—transcendentlv important to the hopes of De
mocracy, progress, anil public liberty.”
Boston, June 7.—The Rev. Ilosea Ballou, senior
pastor of the Second Universalist Society, died this
morning, sged SI year?.
Southern Rights Meeting.
The friends of the South in Russel! county, Ala,
have called a meeting to be held at Crawford, on Sat
urday the 19th iii3t. We hope the meeting will be
a large one, and to this end we urge every Southern
Rights man in the county to attend. The affairs of
the country have reached a crisis. The old parties
are alive again. The South and the North have
shaken hands at Baltimore. And every effort is
now made to efface all sectional issues, at least un
til the Presidential election is over. There is immi
nent danger that the Southern Rights party will
disband, under the influence of Old Party prejudices,
and that the rights of the South will be again committed
to the tender keeping of what are called “National
Parties.” Nothing would be more fatal to Southern
interests. The Millennium has not yet dawned. The
Lion will not lie down with the Kid. The abolition
ist will not protect the rights of the slaveholder.
Until this desirable result is attained, the friends of
the South must cling together. Hence the necessi
ty of the Russell meeting. Separated from each
other, there is danger of misunderstanding each oili
er. Amid the desertions of the last few months,
it is natural that Southern Rights men should be sus
picious of each other. No eft!irt will be spared by
oid party hacks to increase this distrust. The friends
of Pierce will appeal to Southern Rights Demo
crats to rally under the time honored banner of
Democracy. The friends of Fillmore will try to
entangle Southern Whigs in the old party net. These
influences and arts we must resist. The Southern
Rights party must stand shoulder to shoulder, and
still strike for their native land. Let therefore tiie
friends of Southern Rights meet in every county in
Alabama, and send delegates to Montgomery, and let
these delegates determine the course of tile party.
If neutrality is best for our section, let us be neutral.
If Southern interests can be best subserved by voting
for the nominees of the Democratic Party, let us
vote for them ; or if the nominees of the Whig par
ty be sounder on the slavery questions, let us vote
for them. But above all, let us vote together. The
organization of the party must be maintained—its
power felt—and above all. its morale preserved in
tact. The task seems to be aln rouleau one, but
we will never despair so long as a fragment of our
party remains organized in any State in the Union.
Our voice and counsels may be unheard or disre
garded during the noise of the Presidential election,
but after the storm is passed, and the work of aboli
tion aggression is renewed, we will gain the popular
ear, and thus force back the deserters into our ranks.
And once give us a clear, fixed and reliable majority
in the South, and the rights of our section will be
preserved and the Union saved.
Education at the South.
If we can teach our young men enough of Latin
and Greek to enable them, with the aid of Grammar
and Dictionary, to construe a line in Horace, we
think they are educated. In Europe, a very differ
ent system is pursued. To ride, to dance, to fence,
to sing, to perform on musical instruments, are ail
parts of a complete education. Every gift of God is
appreciated and cultivated. Their scholars are made
masters of all their varied powers. No gift is neg
lected. Among these varied gifts, none adds more
to our own comfort—none affords the beholder
greater pleasure—than an easy and graceful carriage.
We appreciate this in the horse, and give double
the money for one which moves proudly, with arch
ed neck and expanded nostrils, than for another that
shuffles along with his head between his legs. It is
somewhat singular, therefore, that more attention is
not given to dancing, the only - conceivable method
by which a graceful carriage can be acquired. We
I do not pretend here to defend public balls—we
leave them under the ban of the church—we only
defend the dancing school, and urge the propriety of
attaching it to our female academies, as a useful and
pleasant exercise for the fair creatures, who are pent
up in narrow rooms during the livelong day.
We had the pleasure, the otic r night, of dropping
in upon Mr. Cleveland's school, and were aston
ished to see little girls just in their teens, whirl
through ail the mazes of the waltz and polka, with
an accuracy and elegance which would have done
credit to any one. We congratulate Mr. Cleave
land upon his success, and commend him as an ac
complished teacher of dancing, to the people of Co
lumbus.
Chinamen in California.
Great apprehension is felt in California, lest the
swarm of emigration from the prolific hi ve of China,
should cover the land and root out the Anglo-Saxon
population. Gov. Bigler has communicated to the
Legislature his apprehensions on the subject, and re
commends the enactment of a law prohibiting the
influx of Chinamen into the State. To this commu
nication Messrs. Jlab Wa, Loug Aciiick, Sam Wo
<fc Cos., and Tou Wo & Cos., have published a very
curious, interesting arid appropriate replv, in which
much curious information is communicated respect
ing their countrymen. They state that in San
Francisco alone, there are twenty stores kept by
Chinamen, who own the lots and erected the build
ings themselves. One of the above named gentle
men, is a clerk in an American store, and boasts
that lie has sold SIO,OOO a day of China goods.
Another Celestial, Chy Lung, by name, we are told,
arrived a few days before with SIO,OOO worth of Chi
na goods, and has returned for another cargo on the
‘‘Challenge.” They further assert that Chinamen
not only freight American ships, but have bought
many of them, and will buy more. They express
themselves as much grieved that the Governor spoke
of them in his message, as “ignorant of the solemn
character of the oath,” or as “indifferent to the sol
emn obligation to speak the truth, which an oath im
poses,” and inform the Governor that though many
Chinamen tell lies, So do many Americans—even in
Conus of Justice —and proudly boast that they are
good men, who honor their parents, take care of
their children, are industrious and peaceable, trade
much, are trusted with small and large sums, pay
their debts, are honest, and of course must tell the
truth ; that there arc no Chinese drunkards in the
streets of California; no Chinese convicts in her j
prisons; no madmen in her hospitals, nor others j
who are a charge to the State.
They deny the charge of the Governor, that no !
Chinaman has ever yet applied to be naturalized, or j
Itas acquired a domicil in the United States, except in j
California, and inform him that there is a Chinaman :
now in San Francisco, who is said to be a naturali
zed citizen, and has a free white American wife;
that he wears the American dress, and is considered
a man of respectability ; and express the belief that
if the privileges of American law are open to them,
that some of them will acquire our language, habits,
ideas, feelings, morals, forms, and become citizens.
They also assert that there arc very many good Chi
na men now in California, and that a better class
will, if allowed, come hereafter—men of learning
and of wealth, bringing their families with them.’
They very respectfully inform the Governor that
he is ignorant of the import of the word “Coolees.”
lie is informed that the word “Cooly” is of for
eign extraction, and not Chinese, and means with
them simply a ‘‘common laborer, and nothing
more,” and is never used as a “designation of a
class of persons bound to labor under contracts,
which they can be forcibly compelled to comply
with.”
The ship “Challenge,” which the Governor said
brought over five hundred of the last named class of ‘■
Chinese, we are told did not bring over one who |
was under such a contract; “they were all passen
gers, and are going to work in the mines for them
selves.”
The letter impresses us with a very high opinion
of the intelligence, virtue, and subordination of the
inhabitants of China. We confess to a very lively
sympathy with the Celestials, and look forward to
the mixture of Asiatic and Anglo American blood
upon tbe shores of the Pacific, with no email cari
osity. It is said in scripture that “when the sons
of God (the Celestials?) came in unto the daughters
of men, (American women?) and they bare chil
dren unto them, the same became mighty men,
which were of old, men of renown.” Gen. vi: 4.
“The Mechanic,”
A Weekly Scientific and Practical Journal, is
the title of anew candidate*for public favor —pub-
I lished by C. E. Leonard, of New Fork—the first
| number of which lias been laid on our table. The
Editor, Mr. Leonard, is already distinguished in
that department of science to which this journal is
| devoted, which is intended to “impart to the me- I
clianie, engineer and manufacturer, a series of new !
and practical rules, with other information applicable !
to their particular line of business.” The number i
before us contains carefully written original articles
on the following subjects: Central Forces; Strength j
of Material; Fly Wheel; Comparative Cost of Water !
and Steam Power ; Mensuration; Mechanic il Arith
metic; Motion of a body in a Circular Arc; Explo- !
sinus on the Western Rivers ; Manufacturing in the ‘
Southern and South Western States. The Me
chanic is published weekly, in quarto form of 12 !
pages, at $2 per annum in advance.
Extensive Conflagration in Wetumpka.— |
We are pained to learn from a -gentleman resi
ding in Wetumpka, that a fire broke out last night, j
(11 tli inst.,) and destroyed a largo portion of the ;
city. A light was seen by some of our citizens in i
that direction about 1 o’clock at night, and shortly j
after an explosion was heard which shook the earth
considerably.
This is the second time, within a comparatively
short period, that this city has been visited by a de
structive fire. We append the names of a portion
of the individuals who sustained losses.
J. Langerman.; Me. R. Thomas & Cos.; Thomas
Sc Trice ; G. Newbouer ; Sam’l Carnoelrnan ; i
W. Cochran ; McLemore & Hill ; Milton and
Brussel- ; Tulane & Bates ; P. Connift’; E. Ragliu ; j
A. G. Campbell; Wilson A Ellis ; Mrs. Hatton ; j
C. Chapman ; Beard & Cos. ; D. Wilson & Cos. ;
W. S. Kyle Sc Cos.; P. Saunders & Cos.; F. Sim
mons ; Block & Cos. ; S. Franks ; Kerr & Price ;
MeConngha ; W. B. Pardee ; Persse, Taylor & !
Cos.; W. Doug!as3 A Cos.; Smoot & Dawson, and
J. Sulzbach
About one half of the property destroyed was
insured.
The following establishments were saved :
Ready & Houghton ; J. Leep.-r A Cos ; A. G.
Due A Cos.; C. M. Genning A Cos. ; J. A B-.
Trimble ; W. B. Cooper, and Se.nnuu A Saxon.
The National Urn, the Free-Soil paper at j
Washington, has conic out bitterly against the l)e- :
moeratic Convention and General Pierce, and do- ;
nounces the whole concern. It says of the Conven i
tion.as follows ;
The slave power reigned supreme over its delib- j
orations, and'of the few liberal Democrats present, !
who in IS IS sanctioned the principles, or supported j
the can Flutes of the Mu Lulu Convention, not one, i
by word or vote, ev need the slightest disposition to j
res.a. :!.u ovcrpo'.ve: ng influence of slavery.
[WRITTEN FOR TIIE SENTINEL.I
Iknk Notices.
Austria in 1848-’9—by Win. JI. Stiles. 2 vols.
New York : Harpers.
The results of the revolution of February are des- j
tilled to occupy a prominent place in history. Nor f
can a faithful record of them have less interest for
us. who were almost cye-witncsscs of the scene ; !
but lookers-on in such an excited stir—such dense j
and shifting smoke clouds —that while we caught j
brief ami exciting glances of actors and events, no j
adequate view of the whole field could be obtained. ;
Nothing among us has been more desired, than a :
satisfactory statement of affairs in Eastern Europe, j
during the memorable time when despotism- and
freedom struggled—the former toward consolidation,
the latter to defeat.
The position of Mr. Stiles as Charge d"Affaires at j
Vienna, made him an interested, though a silent and
inactive spectator of events, and gave him an oppor
tunity to become acquainted with the facts possessed
by few or none, b- side him. Situated as he was, his
view is, at all events, that which will suit us best, be
j cause it is from the stand-point of an American. The
j statements of the hook are full, exact and impartial,
! communicated in a simple, unambitious style. The
i author furnishes more copious and reliable informa
tion, touching the condition and revolution of Aus
tria and its provinces, than- has hitherto been acces
sible to the mass of readers.
After an introductory book, in which lie brings
down the history of Austria to the troublous times of
1848, our author proceeds to- detail the conflicts be
tween the Government and people, in Vienna, Ve
nice, Prague, Piedmont and Hungary, presenting
the most perspicuous and authentic narrative which 1
has yet fallen in our way.
His judgments of men and acts, strike us as fair
and candid. His sympathies are of course on the
side of liberty, hut this does not prevent his seeing
what good there may be among the Monarchists,
nor doing justice to their cause. The book is one,
therefore, which we most cordially commend to those
of our readers, who are interested in the affairs of j
that memorable epoch—’43-’9—in Eastern Europe. 1
Harper's Magazine for June.
Another delightful number of this monthly. One \
article in it, however, shows how publishers and au- i
thors presume upon the popularity of a man’s pen— j
namely, “The Ocean Life” of J. S. C. Abbot. Mr.
A. was doubtless much interested in his trip across
the Atlantic, in the cabin of the steamer —inlaid with i
costliest wo >ils—and tile five meals per diem ; but we
must confess, with the best disposition, we f;.-d to
be much charmed with his record of it. lie had
better keep all that stuff'for those of his own fireside, !
and the girls at Spingh-r Institute, and let the dear ‘
public off from his tea and toast narrative, inter?per- I
sed with episodes of nausea.
He more than makes amend for this dry diary of
the sea, by ifis spicy and delightful paper on Napo- :
leon, for this month. It is on-the passage of the j
Alps, and the campaign of Marengo. This Aim-ri- |
can biography of the Emperor, in wh : ch less injns j
tice is done him than ever before, is worth twice* !
the price of the Magazine. Then come Buhvors j
Novel, and Dickens’ Bleak House—each airing
the bast of their authors’ works.
This Magazine, by its wide and unexceptional'o
variety of contents, its adaptation to old and yuun <■,
grav,e and gay, commends itself as none before have
ever done, to the whole reading public, especially
to that portion of it which is styled “religious.”
Nothing is ever found in these pages which a parent,
however scrupulous, need fear to introduce to his
family.
The Maiden and Married Life of Mary Powell, af
terwards Mistress Milton. Appleton.
Another beautiful volume of the Popular Library :
of the Best Authors. “The Life ot Col. Hutchinson, i
by his wife Lucy,’’ has formed the model of many
a book, but of none more exquisite than the one lie- ;
fore us—for this biographical romance is a master
piece in its way—so naturally graceful as to im
pose on the best judges. It records all that can be
known of the marriage of Mr. John Milton. For
all our purposes, it is as authentic as if penned by
Mary herself.
Its pictures of English rural life of 1640, are ex- j
quisite and life like. You smell the hawthorn, and
tread the sward. Mr. Milton and you become well :
known, while you are the confidante of poor Mary’s i
cares and perplexities, as well as those of her father’s
household. A sweet and pleasant book is this, to bo
read in the times when the heart wants soothing, by ;
the soft, touching words of simplicity.
NEWS OF TIIE WEEL^
O’ The Whig National Convention a?3ri< ,
in Baltimore on the 16th. J. G. Chapman
ryland, was chosen President of the Coiw e , ni “”
A caucus was held previous to going into Com
tion, in which Webster and Fillmore NurtE-X
delegates united.— Dispatch to Columbus Enquire r
ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC;
Liverpool Ciitton Market,
New York, June 13, p. yf
j The American steamship Baltic arrived this day
bringing Liverpool dates to Wednesday, the 2d inst ’
j four days later than those brought by the steamer
j America.
The accounts report cotton quiet, with prices a
■ shade Kss—market closing firm. The sales of the
three days amount to 30,000 bales, of which specu
lators and exporters took 14,000 bales. Nearly all
the sales were American. The imports for the same
| time amounted to 13,500 bales. The quotations giv
en ar', for Fair Orleans six and a quarter ; for Mid
i dling five and five-sixteenths ; for Ordinary three and
! a half to four and five eighths ; for Fair Uplands
j five ad five eighths ; Middling five and an eighth
j to five and three sixteenths ; for Ordinary to four
j four and a half.
Trade in the manufacturing districts was dull,
owing to the Whitsunday holidays. The feeling, how-’
ever, was good*
The Corn market was well attended, and Wheat
and Flour found ready sales at full rates of last
week.
The Europa arrived out on the evening of the
30ili ult.
Political Affairs.
France is quiet. Great improvement had taken
place in trade throughout that country.
Tiie crops in England and Ireland are extremely
promising. *
The pope has confirmed Dr. Cullen in the Bishop
rick of Dublin.
President Napoleon’s demand of a large appro-’
priation to defray the expense of an increase of the
army had been rejected by the Commissioners ore
the Budg.-t, who had also condemned the coblisca'-
lion of the Orleans property.
Napoleon’s special envoy to the Nor hern pow
ers is reported to have been well received, but is
sard to have refused to countenance a Congress of
Sovereigns, to which England shall be invited.
Consols-had advanced to 100 1-2 a 100 5-8.
American Stocks were firm, but little doing.
The latest accounts brought by the steamship Bal
tic state tli.it Cotton dull at Liverpool.. An
j advance of two francs on Cotton had taken plact in
| the Havre market.
Sale of Stock of the Central Rail
I Road and Banking Company of Georgia.— We
; learn that the whole of the stock advertised for sale
j by this company', comprising 2330 shares, was dis
! posed of on the 10th inst. at a premium of $28,70,-
61, being an average of $1,23 per share. Offers
were received to tiie extent of $81,200, more than
the amount advertised.
The Brunswick Canal.— We learn from
the New York papers-that $200,000 worth of bonds
of the Brunswick Canal and Rail Road 60 were 6old
in that city on the 3d inst. by Simeon Draper. Tluy
averaged 73-42 per cent.
National Whig Convention.— Bultimore r
Jane 14, 10 P. M—Strangers Iron) all parts of tho
j Union are crowding by thousands into this city, to
| witness the proceedings of the National Whig Con
i vent ion. The IJon. Daniel Webster is still regarded
[ as-the compromise candidate. A platform will bo
adopted. The first caucus was held this afternoon..
It is rumored that President Fillmore, after the sec
ond ballot, w ill decline the nomination iu favor of-
Mr. Webster.
Congress.&c.— Baltimore, June 14, 5,1-5 P. Mi
—The Secretary of the Treasury made a report to-
I the Senate in favor of making a ship channel across
! the State of Florida. In the House of Represeu--
j tatives, nothing was done.
Iho New York papers- that letters have been receiv
ed by the last mail from California, giving pretty
certain information that a Filibuster movement is in
tended from California, upon the Sandwich Island*.
Montgomery Circuit Court. —Tho
Spring term of the Circuit Court for Montgomery
county commenced its session on Monday the 24th
ult., Hon. John G. Shorter presiding. Judge
Shorter makes an excellent presiding officer, and in
all his decisions and gcuerfil management of the bu--
sincss of the court exhibits the fact, that tho people
of the circuit have been most fortunate in selecting
Judge Shorter as their Judicial officer.— Stale
Guard.
First Blooms. —The Montgomery (Ala.)
Journal of the 9th inst. says ; —We received on
Monday several cotton hioorns from tee fields of Mr.
James Meriwether of tins county. They are tho
first we have seen this season. Crops, both Coru
and Cotton, we learn, are. with the exception of
those on the low lands washed and overflowed by
the resent fhsh, doing well.
Crops in South-Western Georgta. —The
crops in this section are good, considering the late
Spring. Corn crops have never been more promis
ing. Wheat was generally gathered before the re
cent rains, and was free from rust or smut. The
oat crop is hardly so full as usual. We have a spe
cimen of cotton from the plantation of P. M. Night
ingale, Esq., nearly 3 feet high, well branched, with
over fifty forms. We have also seen fine specimens
from the plantations of C. A. Svag, Es j, and F.
\V. Bivins, Esq., and we learn that some others have
specimens equally good. But these are exceptions
to the general crop. The crop is more backward
than usual for the season. The recent heavy rains
have done some injury, and we ln-ar of some com
plaint of injury from lice. — Albany (Ga.) Patriot.
The Whig Presidential Convention
At a meeting of the Whig Party of South Caroli
na last evening at the M-sonio Ilall, King street, Dr,
F. Y. Porcher in the Chair, the following gentle
men were appointed to represent this State in tho
Whig Convention to assemble in Baltimore on
Wednesday next, viz.: lion. W addy, Thompson, Dr
S. TI. Dickson, Win. Gregg. T. Tupp r. W. Wha
ley, G. W, Brown, W. Patton, 11. 11. Williams
and G. S Bryan.
A preamble and resolution were adopted, com
plimenting Fillmore and Webster, but the Delega
tion were not instructed as to their vote in the Con
vention. — Mercury, June 1!.
OfF.LiKA Road.—The polls were opened
to-day by order of City Council to decide the ques -
tion of subscription to the Op.lika Road. The vatti
stood for the subscription 244—against 85. Which,
we hope, settles the question. — Times.
A Generous Example. —Mrs. John 11.
Howard makes her acknowledgments for an anon
ymous donation of $25 for the use of the Female
Orphan Asylum of this city. A similar missive in
the same hand and with a like enclosure, was re
ceived about this time last year. Hie generous do
nor who remembers “little children,” and who dis
tributes charity without letting the left hand know
what the right hand dneth, has set an ‘example wor
thy of imitation. — Times.
has written a drama, entitled Charles Stewart,
which lias recently been purchased by Dickinson,
;he English Tragedian, for the sum us $1,009.
— ——— Mastodon Cotton. —We are informed that
thirty bales of the above Cotton, from the plantation
of Geo. R. Mc-Cafin, Esq., ot Abbeville District, S. C.,
was sold yesterday in this market for 12 1-3 cents
per round. —Const Hut ions'is tSt Rep.