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THE POOR IN TIIE HEART. BY V. I\ T. Fat far. away up a great many pair of winding stairs in her heart, was a door ca.iiy passed by, and on tliat door was written “woman.” — Boz. And so it is with the drunkard ; far away up a great many pair of winding stairs in his heart, there is a door easily passed by, and we must kuoek at that door, once, twice, seven times, yea, seventy times seven, to open it. •e-John B. Gough. He was an old man. Not so very old, either; for the wrinkles that marred his ca daverous visage were not the autograph that Time’s fingers had laid there—and the hand that placed upon the low pine table the well drained glass, did not tremble so with the weakening that age induces ; yet very old, and very wretched, looked the sole occupant of that narrow room, with its red curtain, and floor stained with tobacco saliva, and an atmosphere abundantly seasoned by the bar-room into which it opened. A hat, it must have been intended for one, half concealed the owner’s uncombed locks ; and unmistakable evidences of a familiar ac quaintance with brickbats and the gutter, did that same hat produce. There was a coat, out of whose sleeves peeped a pair of elbows in rejoicing consciousness that they “could aflbrd to be out.” Add to these, reader, a shabby pair of faded pants, and you have the “tout ensemble” of the wretched being who had just commenced his daily potations in the only “grog shop” to which ho was allow ed ingress. And yet that wretched, friend less man, that sat there under the stupefying effects of his morning dram, had a heart, and far up a great many pair of winding stairs in that heart, was a door easily passed by, and on that door, covered witli the dust and cob-webs of time and neglect, was written “Man.” But nobody dreamed of this, and when the temperance man had gone to him, and promised him employment and respecta bility if he would “sign the pledge,” and oth ers (well meaning men, too,) had rated him soundly for his evil ways, and he had turned a deaf ear to all these things, and gone back with blind pertinacity to his “cups,” everybo dy said old Bill Strong’s case was a hopeless one. Ah! none of these had patiently groped their way up the heart’s winding stairs, and read the inscription on the hidden door there. But while the unhappy man sat by the pine table that morning, the bar-keeper suddenly entered, followed by a lady with a pale high brow, mild hazel eyes, and a strangely win ning expression on her gentle face. The man looked up with a vacant stare of aston ishment as the bar-keeper tendered the lady a seat, and pointed to the occupant of the other, saying, “That’s Bill Strong, ma’am,’ and with a glance that indicated very plain- j ly his wonder at what she could want there, ■ left her alone with the astounded and now j thoroughly sobered man. The soft eyes of the lady wandered with a sad, pitying expression over old Bill's tea- 1 tures, and then, in a low, sweet voice, she ! asked, “Am I rightly informed? Do I ad dress Mr. William Strong?” Ah! with these few words, the lady had j got farther up the winding stairs, and nearer •the hidden door, than ail who had gone be fore her. “Vcs, yjat is my name, ma'am,” said old ; Bill, and he ghmced down at his shabby at- ‘■ tire, and actually to hide the elbow that was peeping out. It was a long time since he had been addressed as Mr. William Strong, and somehow it sounded yen’ pleasant to him. ‘ “I am very glad to meet you, Mr. Strong,” responded the lady; “1 have heard myfather speak of you so often, and of the days when 4 vou and he were boys together, that I al most feel as if we were old acquaintances. You surely cannot have forgotten Charles Morrison ?” “Oh! no; Charlie and I used to be great ‘Croniefc,” said old Bill, with sudden anima tion, and a light in his eye, such as had not shone there for a long time, except when rum gave it a fitful brilliancy. Ah! the lady did not know, as perhaps the angels did, that she had mounted the stairs, and was softly feeling for that unseen door. So she went on : “I almost feel, Mr. Strong, as if I could see the old spot upon which your homestead etood, I have heard my father describe it so often. The hill, with its crown of old oaks at the back of your house, and the field of yellow harvest grain that waved in front. Then there was the green grass before the front door, with the huge apple tree which threw’ its shadows across it. And the old portico, with the grape vine that climbed over it, and the white roses that peeped in at the bed room window, and the spring that went shining and babbling through Clio bed of green mint at the side of the house.” Old Bill moved uneasily hi his chair, and the muscles around bis mouth twitched oc casionally ; but unmindful of this, the lady kept on, in the same low, melting voice : “Many and many were the hours,” so fath er would say, “tnat Willie and I used to pass under the shadow of that old apple tree, playing ‘hide and seek/ or lolling on the grass, and telling each other the great things we meant to do, when we became big men, while Willie’s blue eyes would sparkle with hope and happiness, and when the sunset laid a crown of gold on the top of the oaks on the hill, Willie’s mother might be seen stand ing in the portico, with her snowy cap and her cheerful voice, calling, ‘Come, boys, come to supper.’ ” One after another the big, warm, blessed tears went rolling down old Bill’s cheeks, and falling on the pine table. (Ah ! the lady was at the door then.) “1 was always at home at Willie’s,” father would say, “and used to have my bowl of fresh milk and bread, too, and when these had disappeared, Willie would draw his little stool to his mother’s feet, and she would tel! him some pleasant story of Joseph, or David, ov seme good boy who afterwards became a great mart, and then she would part Willie’s ! brown curls from off his forehead, and say, in a trembling voice I can never forget, ‘Prom ise me, Willie, when you are a man, and the grey hairs of your mother are resting in the church-yard yonder, you will never disgrace j her memory.’ And Willie would draw up his slight form, lift his blue eyes proudly to I his mother, and say, ‘Never fear, mother, I will make a good man and a great one, too,’ . and then, after he had said his evening pray er, we would go, contented and happy as the bird that nestled in the old apple tree, to j rest. Then, just as we were sinking into | some pleasant dream, we would hear a well known foot fall on the stairs, and a kind face bending over us would enquire, ‘if we were nicely tucked up ? ’ It is a long, long time, father would say, since I heard from Willie, hut I am very sure he has never fallen into any evil ways. The words of the saint ! ed mothei w ould keep him from that.” Rap! rap! rap! went the words of the lady at the door in old Bill’s heart. Creak ! creak! creak! went the door on its rusted hinges. (Angels of God, held ye not your breath to listen ?) The lady could onlv see the subdued man bury his face in his clasped hands, and while his frame shook like an .as pen leaf, she heard him murmur, amid child like sobs, “my mother! oh! mv mother!” and she knew the tears that were washing those wrinkled cheeks, were washing out a dark record of old Bill’s past life; so with a silent prayer of thankfulness, she resumed : “But there was one tiling my father loved to talk of better than all the rest. It was of the morning you were married, Mr. Strong. ‘lt w as enough to do fine’s eyes good to look at them, as they walked up the old church aisle—he, w ith his proud, manly tread, and : she, a delicate, fragile creature, fair as the i orange blossoms that trembled in her hair. I remember how clear and confident Wil i flam’s voice sounded through the old church, as lie promised to love, protect, and to cher ish the bright, confiding creature at his side, and I knew’ he thought, -as he looked down upon her, that the winds of Heaven should never visit her too roughly; and then my father would tell us of your pleasant home, and of the bright-eyed boy and the fair hair ed girl that came after awdiile to gladden it, and then } r ou know he removed to the West, Mr. Strong, and lost sight of you.” Once again the lady paused, for the agony of the strong man before her was fearful to behold, and then, in a lower tone, she spoke : “1 did not forget the promise I made to mv father, previous to his death, that if I ever visited his native State, I would seek out his old friend. But when I enquired for you, they unfolded a terrible story to me, Mr. Strong. They told me of a desolate and broken household. Os a blue-eyed boy, that a father’s heart might so well delight in, w ho had left his home in disgust and despair, for one on the homeless waters ; of the gentle, suffering wife, who, faithful to the last, went down, with a prayer on her lips for her erring husband, broken-hearted, to the grave; and of the fair-haired orphan girl, who followed her mother in a little while. Oh! it is a sad, sad story I have heard of my father’s old friend!”’ “It was I! it was l that did it! I killed them !” cried old Bill, lifting his lowed head, and gazing on the lady, every feature expressive of such wild agony and helpless remorse, that she shuddered at the despair her own w'ords had aroused. (Wide, wide open stood the door then, and the lady passed.) A soft hand was laid soothingly on old Bill’s arm, and a voice, full of hope, murmur ed, “E veil for all this there is redemption, and von well know’ the first step towards it. Sign the pledge. In the name of the last prayer of your dying w ife, and of the child that sleeps by her side, I ask you, will you do it?” “I will,” said old Bill, while he brought down his closed hand with such force on the rickety pine table, that it rocked beneath it, and a gleam of hope lighted up his features, as he seized the pen and paper the lady placed before him, which paper contained a pledge, binding all who signed it to abstain from the use of intoxicating drinks, and when he returned it to her, the name of William Stuong lay in bold, legible characters be neath it. There w as an expression almost ludicrous from its intenseness of curiosity on the bar keeper’s physiognomy, as the lady, after her long interview with old Bill, passed quietly through the shop, and the expression was not lessened, when old Bill, a few moments after, walked through without taking another glass of grog; and he never passed over the thresh hold again. Earnest hearted reader, von whose soul may he glowing with sympathy for your erring brother man, who would gladly raise him from the depths of sin and degradation, and point him to the highway of peace and prosperity, remember there is a door in every human breast. See that you pass by it. Boat. Mr. Twombly’s Mistake. —Mr. Thom as Twombly had drank but six glasses of brandy and water, when, being a man of discretion, he returned home at the seasona hie hour of 1, A. M., and went soberly to bed. Mrs. Twombly was too accustomed to the comings and goings of said Thomas, to be much disturbed by the trifling noise he made on retiring; but when she discovered that he had his boots on, she requested him to remove them, or keep his feet out of the bed. “My dear,” said Mr. Twombly, in an apol ogetic tone, “skuse me. How I came to forget the boots, I can’t conceive, for I’m just as sober as ever I was in my life!” Mr. Twombly sat on the side of his bed, and made an effort to pull off his right boot. The attempt was successful, though it Drought j him to the floor. On regaining his feet, Mr. ; Twombly thought he saw the door open. As i he was sure he shut the door on coming in, ! he was astonished, and, dark as it w'as in the , room, he couldn’t be mistaken, he felt certain. I ■ Mr. Twombly staggered towards the door to close it; when, to his still greater surprise, he saw a figure approach from beyond. Twombly stopped—the figure stopped.— Twombly advanced again, and the figure did the same. Twombly raised his right hand— the figure raised its left, j “Who’s there ?” roared Twombly, begin ning to be frightened. The object made no reply. Twombly raised his boot in a mena cing attitude. The figure defied him by sha king a similar object. “By the Lord!” cried Twombly ; “I’ll find out who you be, you sneakin’ cuss!” He hurled the boot full at the head of his myste rious object, when—crash ! went the big look ing-glass, which Twombly had mistaken for the door. Smtlijmt Scnliiul. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: THURSDAY MORNING,..SEPT. 23, 1852. Dancing School. By reference to advertisement, onr readers will see that Mr. Cleveland will open his school on the first day of October, in this city. Mr. C. has spent the Summer at the North, accomplishing himself in all the newest styles of Dancing, and will be pre pared to give thorough instruction in them. Nomination of Troup for President. No event has occurred in the political world, since the Southern Rights party was overwhelmed and the banner of the South trampled in the dust, which has stirred such varied and profound emo tions in our bosoms, as the nomination of Troup for President and Quitman for Vice-President of the United States, by tlie remnant of the Southern Rights Party which lately assembled in Alabama. In point of numbers, the Convention was inconsider able ; but we arc persuaded that there was not a man in that body, who would not willingly immolate upon the altar of the country, his heart’s most cher ished treasures. As to the probable effect of this nomination upon the result of the struggle now go ing on for the Presidency and the spoils, no man can cherish even a hope that it can make a sensible impression ; yet it is a solemn protest against the encroachments of national parties upon the constitu tion, and the rights of the South. Nor are the candidates selected by the Convention unworthy of the proud position to which their friends would ele vate them. Their brows are already entwined with a halo so bright that the bauble of the Presidency could add nothing to its brilliancy. The name of Troup is associated in the minds of men with those of Washington, and Marion, and Sumter, and Calhoun. We teach our children 10 pronounce it with reverence, and we never mention it ourselves but to illustrate exalted civic virtue, unimpeachable integrity, and an unconquerable hostility to every form of tyranny. The honors of Quitman are green er than those which adorn the venerable form of his illustrious colleague; but he is equally entitled to the homage ts his countrymen. In camp and cabinet, he has served his country with single-hearted devo tion, without fear and without r< proach, and has immolated his ambition by flinging himself in the van of the small body of incorruptible patriots who war in the almost desperate contest with Northern fanaticism. If, therefore, we had been allowed to choose cur candidates for the Presidency, we would have pre ferred Troup and Quitman before all the other great and pure men, whose virtues and services have made them the idols of the Southern people. But the strife is hopeless. All the great leaders of public opinion in the South have committed them selves to the support of other candidates. The Southern Rights party is virtually dissolved as a political organization, and the only question now left for the people to decide is the relative sound ness of Pierce and Scott upon the absorbing ques tions which have so long divided the Southern mind. We have no idea that Troup will consent to en ter tile Presidential arena. But we wait with im patience his letter of acceptance or declination of the honor conferred upon him. lie is known to be a supporter of Pierce for the Presidency. How far that support was conditional, we have no means of ascertaining. If he shall consent to run, and thus place himself at the head of an active, living, fighting Southern party, we cannot find it in our hearts to oppose him ; nay, he shall have the aid of our poor ability in tho contest. We could not live in peace with the sin of having voted against the bravest, and purest, and greatest patriot th t ->ver trod the soil of Georgia, resting upon our conscience. But if Gov. Troup shall consent to run merely to at liw certain disaffected politicians to throw away their votes on him, we will have nothing to do with the contest; but continue in the more practical work of proving to the Southern people, that in a strugg'e between Pierce and Scott, they are bound by the highest considerations to vote for Pierce. An American citizen has no right to throw away his vote. The elective franchise is the richest heritage of freedom. W e hold it in trust for posterity; and are bound to use it in such way as will best sub serve the interest of our country. Eagle Cotton and Wool Factory. The Cotton and Wool Factory owned by the “Eagle Manufacturing Company” of this city, is now in complete operation. The Factory buildings were erected a year since in the most substantial manner. The first Loom was put in operation in February last. All the modern improvements have been adopted by this company, for labor-saving in the operations of the machinery, for the use of steam in every case where heat is required, and in the arrangements made for the security of the buildings against fire.— No trouble or expense has been spared, either in building or machinery, to make the establishment complete in every respect. The company have five thousand spindles and one hundred and fifty Looms in operation. There is a surplus of spinning machinery, to enable them to meet the demand for cotton yarn. They will manufacture fifteen hundred hales of cotton, and one hundred thousand pounds of wool, per annum. The demand for their woolen fabrics is B'i great that they propose to double their wool machinery by another season. Their machinery is so arranged that they can manufacture all the various styles of coarse goods, both cotton and woolen, and plain and colored. They will therefore be able to supply the demand in this and the adjoining States for such goods, and to this home demand they look for encouragement in their enterprise. Their arrangements for dyeing wool and cotton are complete; an experienced Dyer is employed in this department. This establishment is now turning out a great va riety of goods. Linseys, plain aDd twilled, of vari ous colors; a very heavy ar'’-jle of Cotton Stripes, of many different patterns v colors; Sheetings, Shirtings and Osnaburgs, of a “vy superior quality. Two hundred and fifty men, women and children, are employed in this Factory. Five hundred per sons receive their support from it. We notice several young gentlemen in the city have adorned their petuons with the “Cotton Stripes,” ; and as the winter comes on, we hope to see others bedeck themselves in the “Wiregrass Jeans.” “Why should not Columbus Fashions be substituted for Boston Notions ? The Atlanta Meeting. We regret that the pressure upon our columns prevents us from giving the official proceedings of this, as well as almost every other political meeting. The Convention met at Atlanta on the 17th iust. A committee of nineteen was appointed to report business. After a day’s and liberation, the Committee reported, through Judge llenrv R. Jackson, their I Chairman, that they had opened a correspondence with the Executive Committee of the Southern Rights j wing of the Democracy, for the purpose of effecting a reorganization of the Electoral Ticket. The Ex ecutive committee, in reply, assured them of their willingness to remodel the ticket, if they had the power to do so ; but as the Democratic Convention had appointed not only Electors, but alternates, and left to the Committee only the power of supplying a vacancy in case both Elector and alternate declin ed, the Committee could do no more than promise that if a contingency should arise, in which they should be called on to fill vacancies, they would exercise their power “in a manner entirely accepta ble to our Union Democratic fri- nds.” This reply was far from satisfactory to the Union Democrats, but as they cherished sincere devotion to Democratic principles, and a profound anxiety for the election of Pierce and King, the Committee re commend that the Convention “east no obstacle in the way of concentrating upon the present Electoral j ticket, all the strengtn and votes which can be brought to its support.” This report was adopted almost unanimously. Capt. Wm. T. Wofford offered a substitute, in i which he proposed to bring out a Union Democratic Electoral Ticket, which was lost. lion. R. M. Charlton, John 11. Lumpkin, Henry R. Jack . son, E. W. Chastain, and other distinguished gen tlemen, were present and participated in the meeting. The Public Lands—Whig, Democratic, and Websterian Policy in reference thereto. The great body of the public lands lie West of the Mississippi river, and were acquired either by pur ; chase from France, or by treaty with Mexico. In both cases, money was taken from the treasury of the United States, which had been raised by taxes, and given in exchange for them. The lands, there fore, are the substitute for the tax money, and when sold, the proceeds should be returned to the treasu ry, and used in defraying the current expenses of the Government, and thereby lessening tho burthen of the taxes now imposed upon the commerce of the country. With tl lis view, the VI. resolution of the Demo cratic Platform agrees. It is in these words: VI. Resolved, That the proceeds of the Public Lands i ought to be sacredly applied to the national objects specified in the Constitution ; and that we are opposed to any law for the distribution of such proceeds among the States, as alike inexpedient in policy and repugnant I to the Constitution. The doctrine contained in this resolution is sound, conservative and republican. Congress has no pow er to appropriate money, vvhe'her raised by taxes or the sale of land, to any other objects than those I specified in the Constitution. Any other construc . lion of the power of Congress, in this respect, will : change tho whole theory of tho Federal Govern ment, and make it one of unlimited power. Give | the Federal Government money, and allow it to ap i propriate it at discretion, and the rights of the States, ; and of the people, will soon be obliterated an 1 tram pled upon by the hungry horde of spoilsmen, who will gather around the public crib. No extrava gance will alarm men who share in it—no tyranny will be resisted by men who make money out of it. No pensioner of a government was ever known to seek its overthrow. Nor is this principle confined to individuals —it applies with equal force to commu nilies and States. I Hence we deplore the position taken by the Geor gia Convention which nominated Webs per for Pres ident. Tho 10th resolution of the Platform adopted 1 by that Convention, is in these words : 10. Regarding the public lands as the joint and com mon property of the several States, and holding that par tial appropriations, either of them or their proceeds, to particular States,for general or specified objects, are un wise and unjust to the other members ot the Confedera cy, we are in favor of a just and eq in! distribution of said lands, or their proceeds, among all the States. We cordially agree with the Convention in the ! i opinion that “partial appropriations, either of them ] (the public lands) or their proceeds, to particular States, for general or specified objects, are unwise ! and unjust to the other members of the Confedera , ey.” “Joint and common property” ought to be ; enjoyed by all the copartners. Any other disposi tion of such property is downright knavery. But we equally condemn the policy which proposes to “distribute the public lands, or their proceeds, among all the States.” ‘I he only reason assigned for this disposition of the public lands or their proceeds, is, that they are “the joint and common property of the several States.” So are the ships of war, the forts, arsenals, and dockyards—and, indeed, the whole treasury of the United States. Shall they, too, be equal'y dis tributed among all the States? If not, why distrib ute the public lands or their proceeds ? Has the Federal Government no use for them ? Does it owe no debts? Has it no use for money? Why, then, this anxiety to get clear of the proceeds of the public lands ? We can well understand why Massachusetts, or any other manufacturing State, should favor this policy. She would thereby fill her own treasury, and force an increase of taxation on imports, where by greater protection would bt accorded to her own manufactures. But why do Georgians desire to withdraw so much money from the public treasury ? ; Why do they desire an increase of taxation ? The i great body of the people of Georgia, and of the South, are farmers, whose taxes are necessarily in creased, and whose markets are circumscribed, by every increase of duties. The position of the several candidates upon this question is well known. General Pierce stands upon the Democratic Platform, and is specially flat-lb.;tel and erect upon this plank of it. Ho never voted in his l.fo fur an appropriation of the public funds, that we are aware j of, where there was the least doubt upon the con- | stitutionality of the appropriation. Indeed, he has gone so far in the opposite extreme, that his oppo nents charge him with meanness. They are wel come to all the capital they can make out of this ob jection to him. Liberal, almost to extravagance, with his own money, he has always been extremely econ miic&l with that which belonged to other people. General Scott, on the other hand, is extrava gant both in public and private life. We never heard of his objecting to any kind of appropriation. He seems to think money was made to spend, and is never satisfied to keep a dollar on hand for future exigencies. In his letter of the 25th October, 1841, I he say* : “If I had had the honor of a vote on the occasion, it would have been given in favor of the Land Distribution bill.” Mr. Webster is, in this respect, the counterpart of General Scott. His chiefest pleasure consists in spending money. Though engaged in the most lucrative practice for 40 years, he has never laid up a dollar, and has been all bis life long troubled with duns. In his public capacity, he is equally extrava gant. lie will be found voting for almost every measure which appropriated money. He was in favor of distributing the proceeds of the public lands among the States, when this was the j favorite policy—now he takes a larger view. lie in troduced a bill into the Senate a few years ago, giv ing the public lands to actual settlers—thus lending the influence of his great name to the agrarian doc- i trine of the red republicans. We don’t know which position is the most repre hensible. Give the public lands to the States, and you make them pensioners of the Federal Govern ment, and destroy their ability to resist Federal eu- | croachments. Give them to the people, and you ; transfer their allegiance from th S;ate—to which ‘ it properly belongs—to the Federal Government, and make it omnipotent and overshadowing. In a contest involving such consequences, the true posi tion of a Southern man cannot be matter of doubt. The South is in a minority in the Federal Govern ment. Her policy therefore, is, to advocate every measure which increases the importance of the States, and to oppose every one which adds to tbo influence and power of the Federal Government, j While, therefore, Southern men cannot vote for either , Webster or Scott, they may vote for Pierce. j A Plea for Home Education in the South. ! An Address, delivered by E. C. Bullock, Esq., be fore the East Alabama Female College. \ Every enterprise which proposes to promote the ! prosperity, increase the happiness, elevate the intel lect, purify the morals, or add to the renown of the Southern people, is eminently worthy of the attention of Southern Rights men. If our soil is unproduc ; tive; if the demand for our produce declines; if ! any portion of our people are uneducated or vicious ; if, in every field of endeavor, we are not superior to i all other people—our kind neighbors of the North are stone blind to the circumstances which have j probably produced these results, and pertinaciously i attribute them all to u the blighting curse of slave - I ry.” We are therefore peculiarly sensitive to what ever blemishes may exist in Southern society, and would leave no remedy untried which would probably remove them. We 1 lave long been convinced, that the greatest evil in our domestic economy, is the practice of edu cating our children at the North. It is the settled conviction of the Yankee, that all the world is in ferior to New England—in culture, in morals, and all the other elements of a christianized civilization ; and that the South, above all other portions of the globe, is the most benighted and barbarous. This lesson is not only taught in the school book, but in the social circle, the pulpit, the rostrum, and the professor’s chair. These inlluences are all brought to bear upon the susceptible mind of our youth ; and they necessarily return home to us from their Alma Maters .with ill concealed contempt for Southern so ciety, and strong prejudices against Southern insti tutions. This is no fancy sketch, but the result of our own observations. We hail, therefore, with extreme delight, the speech of Mr. Bullock, on this very important sub ject. In reference to the evil which we have just no ticed and deprecated, Mr. Bullock uses the follow ing strong but felicitous language: Every’ y'ear our maidens and young tnen are sent to Northern schools and universities Every summer, Northern watering places borrow half their attractions from Southern beauty, and wring more than half their | profits from Southern pockets, while the most charming and picturesque spots of our own section, are compara tively deserted and unknown. Our school-books are nearly all the work of Northern authors, most of whom could not do us justice if they would, and would not if they couid, and who, if they do not, as often hap pens, indulge in covert and insidious attacks upon our institutions, are necessarily biased by prejudices, which it is not in the nature of tilings for them to overcome. In the works of history', in which our children learn the glorious achievements of their revolutionary ancestors, while the part which the North bore in that memorable struggle is amplified and exaggerated, the equal suffer ings and devotion of the South a, c disparaged and un derrated. The.battles which occurred in the Northern States are dwelt upon with elaborate and laudatory commen's, while scarce a single page is devoted to some of the most brilliant actions et the war whicii hap pened in the Soulh. If one of our authors writes a book, the chances are j ten to one, that he finds it necessary to introduce it to | the public under the auspices of some fashionable North ! ern publisher ; and what newspaper at home is half so j spicy or grateful to Southern taste, as that which is per i fumed by tlio.e delicious Northern breezes, winch never ! descend this side of the l’otomac ? So prone are we to j follow Northern precedent, that we have ejpn allowed | that leairied and indefatigable lex.cogra-iherTbut dating innovator, Noah Webster, to fasid'it, j ponderous Die- I tionary upon us as ri\; st-mdard'de.iYgo >d Engli It ; j when, in truth, one of his'chief cares seems to have been | to give an odor of nationality to thot%,ovineiahsins of the Eastern States, and to Connectu r r.c —if I may be ; permitted to follow his example anci'Jym a word—the I noble old vernacular of our doubt ! less, that New England might mo* appropriately in | corporate among her other thrivingßranches of home industiy, the manufacture of New English. In short, i no matter what our wants, whether a bonnet or a mag j azine, a coat or a plough, a carriag® or a song, we al ’ ways turn to the North with the same steadfast devo tion that the pious Mussulman pruftrates himself be- I fore the rising sun. j i out Mr. Bullock spurns this vassalage, and vin i dieates alike the intellect and the valor of the South, i her peculiar institutions and our genial climate, from | the aspersions of our enemies. The following beau tiful extract commends itself to every true Southern heart, not more by the classic purity and beauty of the style, than by the wholesome truths which it contains: And yet is there one within the sound of’ my voice, who is prepared to acknowledge any natural or social inferiority on the part of the people of oor section ? Are J ! we not sprung from the same great Anglo-Saxon stock | with our Northern brethren, and does not the same blood flow in our veins? Have we not vindicated our 1 claims to at least a perfect equality with them on every battle-field, from Fort Moultrie to the gates of Mexico ? Is there one of us, that remembers without a thrill of patriotic pride, that when at Buena Vista, a Northern regiment inglorionsly threw down its arms and Hod in j confusion from the field, it was Southern valor that tur I ned the tide of defeat and saved die honor of our flag? j and that again at Churubusco, when the troops of’ the ! boasted Empire State of the North cowered and fa I- j tered under the heavy fire of the enemy, it was a South- | ern regiment that stood in the deadly breach, and left j more than halt its numbers among the wounded and ! slain ? Nor have we been less fortunate in the nobler I contest of mind with mind. In no one of the many j sectional contests of the Senate house, has the South i had cause to blush for her champions ; and from Wash- I ington and Patrick Henry, to Calhoun and Clay, her { sta esmen and orators have always held the front ! rank in the confederacy. i Where then shall we look for the eau -of oar help leasness! I- it, as some would have us believe, that the peculiar and striking feature of our social system is an element of weakness and demoralization, and must we therefore transport our children to sit at the feet of Ga maliel in purer and better climes ? Let the experience of the past answer. It was with institutions like ours, different only in not being justified by like fixed and un alterable distinctions of race, that Rome conquered and Greece civilized the world; and not only was polished and slaveholding Athens the renowned seat of refinement and learning, but in its bosom was nurtured the grandest literature of ancient times. At no period of the woild have the temperate Southern latitudes been deemed un favorable to the highest mental and moral culture, and history shows that while barbarism has generally owed its origin to the North, the South has been not unfre quently the favored home of letters and the fine arts.— Nor is there anything in our peculiar circumstances to make us an exception to the rule. In sound morality and reverence for law, we are in no wise inferior to the people of the Northern States, and violations of both are far move frequent there than here. It is not very many years, since, in sight of Hunker Hill, a convent was given to the flames, and the defenceless women and I children who were its inmates, driven at the hour of midnight, by a pitiless mob, from its protecting shelter. Its blackened wails jtill stand a monument of the secta- ! rian prejudice of the sons of the Puritans. It is but a little more than three years since the Astor Place riots. ; having their origin in no higher cause than the rivalry of two popular actors, were attended with great loss of life, and only suppressed by the entire military force : of the city of New York. How often in the last few ; years, mobs have been marshaled in Northern cities, in- : eluding Boston itself, in successful defiance of an act of j Congress and a plain provision of the Constitution, is ! quite within the recollection of us all. In Philadelphia, : which, by a strange misnomer, bears the name of broth- i erly love, riots are of weekly, and sometimes even ; daily occurrence ; while the great State of New York has been but recently shaken to its centre by anti-rent disturbances ; and in nearly all the Northern States, outbreaks of complaining operatives, clamoring for high er wages, the fruit of a frightful collision between labor and capital, are no uncommon spectacles. It is, too, worthy of note, that Fourierism, Millerism, Mormonism,Spiritual Rapping-qand other wild vagaries of hair-brained fanaticism, not to speak of those minor absurdities in the way of diet at which everv well reg ulated stomach instinctively revolts, have not only originated, but found all their disciples, in the North. There is a practical and conservative good sense about our people, which saves them fiorn such inflictions, as well as from that vulgar idolatry, which, indiffer ent as to an object, finds vent one month in a prepos terous devotion to Kossuth, and the next in a frantic at- j taehment to Jenny Lind. The illustrious Magyar, and j the unrivalled Queen of Song, have both found among its the respect and admirati ju due to their undoubted tal ents, without occasioning the extravagances and lollies which marked the conduct of their Northern friends, and doubtless excited their own disgust. I have lingered upon this subject not in a boastful spirit, nor for the purpose of exciting sectional prejudice, but simply to enforce the proposition that there is noth ing in our relative natural, social, or moral condition, to warrant the slavish dependence which we have so long endured ; and because, in my poor judgment, the j first Commencement of a Southern College atibrds no inappropriate occasion for the performance of such a task. If ever a people had great and peculiar reasons for • developing their own resources, and especially for sus- j taining their own institutions of learning, we are that people. With one of the fairest lands that the sun ev er shone upon, every consideration of pride, patriotism and interest, appeals to us to arouse from our lethargy, and abandon the suicidal policy which has so long rob- j bed it of its own. We wish our limits enabled us to give the whole speed). There is not a line in it which we have not read with relish, not a sentiment which we can not endorse, not an aspiration which we do not cherish. Escaped from Jai!—An Ontrage. W e learn from the Literary Vademecum that the boy Sam, charged with an attempt to commit a rape upon a white girl, escaped from the jail of Ma rion county, on Monday of last week. ITe was pur sued by Dr. Jeter, and overtaken, but before he could secure him, a white man rushed to the rescue i of the negro, and presenting a pistol at Dr. Jeter. : I threatened to blow his brains out, if he did not 1 release him. Sam and his rescuer then mounted a I couple of horses, which another white man held for ! ! them, and escaped. They made their way towards Alabama. The Sheriff of Marion county has offer ed a reward of fifty dollars, each, for the apprehon | sion of the white men engaged in this outrage, and fifty dollars for the negro. Sam belongs to Mr. Sheffield, of Sumter county, Ga., is five feet six inches high, spare built, thin visnged, has a sullen ■ look, and is impudent in his speech and manner. Pierce and King Chib. One of the largest, and by far the most enthnsias j tie meeting of the Club, which has yet been held, i convened at the call of the President, at Temper | nnee Hall, on Monday night the 20th instant, to | hear an address from the Hon. W. 15. Pryor, of LaGrange—when that gentleman, in his usual . spirited style and manner, for an hour and a half en chained the attention of his audience, amid repeated bursts of applause. After which the Hon. M. J. Crawford was lustily ! called for. This gentleman acknowledged the call, and promised to address the Club on some future evening—declining at the time on account of the lateness of the hour. Mr. Crawford has been distinguished in past par ty politics as a Y\ big, having represented for a num ber of years, that party in our State Legislature. | He now gives his hearty support to Pierce and King, believing them to be the safest men for tile South at this crisis. JOHN QUIN, President. M. N. Clarke, See’y. Washington Correspondence of the Sentinel. Washington, September 16, 1852. I propose to-day to give you a bird’s-eye view of ihe last movements of our Northern brethren, who are renewing the anti slavery agitation with fresh zeal and energy. The nomination of Hale and Ju lian, by the Pittsburg Convention, seems to have in spired them with new ardor, and Uncle Tom’s Cab- j in and Sumner’s speech, together with Durkee’s, j are their manuals. Hale has accepted the nomina- ! tion in a pithy letter. It is to the point, and his final I ’ flap at the Van Eure ns and others who have taken steps backwards, is very characteristic. lie is evi- i dently determined to make war to the knife, and j : has started already to stump it in the West, as the I 1 Abolitionists of the Western Reserve in Ohio, un- ! der the persuasions of Greeley and other supporters j of Scott, have shown a disposition to support the j Whig nominee as a safe man for them. Whether it is the secret purpose of Ifale to aid in this eon summation, directly or indirectly, is impossible to as- I certain, for that party always acts by indirection. One thing is certain, he has old scores to pay off against Pierce, who has been the cans.- of his down- i fall- Cassius M. Clay is stumping it openly in Ken- i tucky, for the Free Soil ticket. This is a proof of i progress certainly. Some years since, his Aboli- i tion tendencies came near costing, him his life in that ‘ State. Now, he stumps it with impunity. Central : committees and organizations of the abolitionists also | are to be found in Maryland, and in tins District.— That in this Uitv, disseminates documents exten sively, and makes no secret of its operations. This, too, is a stride, s.i e.- ihe National Era office was mobbed four years ago. Virginia, also, was repre sented in the late I’itNhurg Convention. The head quarters of ihe Abolition revival, however, are in tiie North-East and North- West. In the Middle States, although numbering many voters, they do not hold so preponderating an influence. Probably Vermont, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Wisconsin, are entitled to the bad eminence of being their banner States.— Y\ hen it is remembered that the Free Soilers in the last election polled 140.000 votes for Van Buren. this t lenient cannot safely be ignored or despised in any calculation to be made of the chances at the ensu ing elections. Strenuous efforts are making by the Northern supporters of Scott, to draw over the Ab olition influence to him. They are dropping the mask, since the contest lias assumed so sectional a shape, and it has become evident that Pierce and King will sweep the South. The extreme North, with but few exceptions, will go for Scott, the ex treme South for Pierce, and the Middle States will hold the balance. Hale’s men are working hard to form the nucleus of the balance-of-power party. In New Hampshire, they are calling a Convention.— I'h t Independent Democrat , of Concord, the paper which originated the New Boston slander against Pierce, is very busy in tins work. In a late number it gives a call for a State Convention, which says: A State Convention of the Friends of Freedom, and all friendly to the election of Hale and Julian to the offices of President and Vice President of the Uni ted States, will beholden at the State House, Concord, on Thursday the 23d instant, at fl o’clock in the fore noon, for the purpose of nominating an Electoral Tick- j ot, and effecting a thorough and efficient organization, ] preparatory to the coming election. It is earnestly de- ; sired that every part of the State be represented. The same print, in a longeditori.il, headed “Gen. ! Pierce’s I)e Leon Letter and the Record,” abuses j the Democratic candidate roundly and at length, j From that article, the following extracts are taken, ! which will show at once its temper, and the settled purpose of that fanatical and mischievous faction : We have heretofore expressed the opinion that all Gen. Pierce’s political opponents were not capable of, doing half so much towards his defeat, as his addle- j headed advisers here are doing every day, hy their mis- ! ; e ,able sv-tem of “certificates.” If any thing were want ed to finish up the work, and make his defeat a dead ! . certainty, it was just such a letter as the one we pub- ‘ li-hed last week, to that nullifying fire-eater, De Leon, i In that letter, intended for the South Carolina market, : Gen. Pierce says : “My action and ; y language in New Hampshire touching this matter (slavery) have been at all times ‘ and under all circumstances in entire accordance \ with my action and language at Washington.” ’ After commenting on this, the Democrat eon : eludes with this warning, sounding like the ominous whir of the rattlesnake : Let thc.sc “covenanters” for oppression beware. The earthquake they fancied they had bound, is bound to scatter their covenants and their platforms as the whirlwind “scatters the leaves in Vallambrosa.” The day that sees the close of the next Presidential elec tion shail see the birth of anew epoch in the history ot American politics. For that new epoch let every true man .stand true and make ready As between the two parties, both pledged soul and bo dy to slavery, we cannot say there is much chance of choice for the friends of freedom. If we have a choice, it is founded in the different capacities of the two par ties for evil, rather than any disposition for good in ei ther. On that ground, if any, will the people decide ; giving power to the weakest, rather than the strongest of the two. So, we predict, will the resu/l ot the elec tion show. The people will prefer King Log to a | King Serpent, if they can he sure which is which. Which it considers “the weakest of the two, ’ it needs no Daniel to interpet. The intimation squints , strongly of a secret understanding, with its brethren, i Greeley and the other Scottites, to cripple the other party and its nominee, the force of whose opposition the Democrat and its master have felt at home, and whose record it has so bitterly and unsparingly de nounced for months past. Its “King Log” is evidently Scott. “The colored people of Ohio,” have holding a Convention at Cleveland, at which 500 were present. Their chief j avowed object waa “to improve their own condition, ! especially by instruction in the Mechanical Trades to which they have now great difficulty in gaining access, owing to the bitter prejudices against them.” The quotation is from an Abolition print, and the admission is a striking commentary on the profes sions of their Northern brethren, who are willing to accord them full liberty— to starve. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin ’ with them is the workhouse or jail. The first guns from the Northern elections, show the ut ter confusion of parties. Both in Vermont and Maine, the cross-cutting has been so great as to con fuse all calculations. Vermont goes Whig, as usual. It. is one of the few strong holds that party has now i left, but the abolition odor is stronger still. It will be remembered that \ ormont deliberately nullified the Fugitive Slave law at the last session, by Legis lative enactment. Returns from 218 towns show that there has been no popular choice for Governor. The Whig Legislature will doubtless elect the Whig candidate, Fairbanks. Tiie Senate stands, Whigs 25]; Democrats 5. House, Whigs 93; Democrats and Free Soilers together, but S3 —giving a clear Whig majority on joint ballot. The Whigs and Free Soilers, however, are hard to separate. The Maine fight was a quadrangular one, and turned entirely on local issues, chiefly on the Liquor Law question, which swallows up ail others there, at | present. In the Presidential election, it will be large |ly Democratic, as is conceded on all sides. There | ‘ vas f° r Governor, a Democratic M. L. candidate —a Democratic anti M. L—a Whig and Free Soil. | The result, as heard up to to day, was as follows; Portland, Me., Sept. 14. —The returns come in slow ly, but sufficient has been received to render it certain that Hubbard, the democratic candidate, falls over 3,001) short of an election by the people. The democrats, however, have a small majority in the Legislature, which will secure the election of their candidate. The elec tion of three whig and three democratic Congressmen has been confirmed. As before stated, these elections turned on local issues, mainly, and therefore are not fair indications of the Presidential canvass. Enclosed. I send you editorials fiom the N. York Tribune, which will show how the Northern Scott V\ bigs are carrying < n the canvass. It will bo seen that they strenuously insist upon it, that Gen. Pierce is the pro slavery candidate, and Scott the reverse. The Alabama Convention, however, appear to have had other lights on the subject. Their action has excited great astonishment here, both to their friends and foes. Surely this is no time for idle parade, or for jeoparding tiie success of one of the very few Northern men who, under good and evil report, have stood faithful to the Compromises of the Con stitution and the principles of the Republican party, as expounded by Calhoun. But until the proceed ings of that Convention reach here, everybody must be at fault, it is so difficult to comprehend its action, or the motives that could have induced it. The Whigs and Free-Soilers are both much elated at it; for they hope it may serve to divide and weak en the Southern phalanx, hitherto so confidently counted on as one unit for Pierce and Kiug. But when the full proceedings are had, light may be thrown on this very hazy proceeding. When men’s enemies applaud them, it is rather an equivocal proof of the wisdom or the benefit of the course that calls forth such approval. Verb, sap. sat. NEWS OF THE WEEK. [From the Daily Morning News. J Four Days Later from Europe. ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC. New York, Sept. 18. The American steamship Pacific has just arrived at her wharf. She brings Liverpool dates to the Bth inst., four days later than the accounts received by the Niagara. Liverpool Cotton Market. —The sales of the three days—sth, 6th and 7th—comprise 30,5t>0, of which speculators took 2,000. The following are the quotations which prevailed at. the sailing of the Pa cific : Fair Orleans. G 3-8.1. ; Middling. 5 S-8d ; Fair Mobiles and Uplands, 6d ; Middlings, 5 1-2 pence. Liverpool Corn Market. —The market for corn was quiet. W heat continued dull, and had receded Id. per 70 lbs. from previous quotations. Good Flour was selling at 21s. a 21s. fid. per bbl. Coin was scarce prime yellow commanded 29 a 295. 6d.; white 30s. sd. per. 480 lbs. Provisions were dull ; Bacon was in good demand ; Lard was improving; Turpentine was greatly in demand; common rosin sold at 3s. 4d. a 3s. 6d per cvvt. Trade in the manufacturing districts was less buoyant than at former advices. Consols closed at 100 a 100 1-2. The crops throughout England and the Continent are more than usually promising. The Africa arrived at Liverpool oil the 4th inst., and her news had a depressing effect on the market. France. —Business in France had been greatly disturbed in consequence of the commercial con vention with Belgium. A remonstrance had been presented to the French Chamber of Commerce on the subject. The Dutch markets are generally in an impro ved condition. We note sales at Antwerp of 300 tierces of Carolina Rice at 13 1-4 a 14. Political. —The West India mail arrived on the sth inst., with $1,200,000 in gold, but no important news. There has been a serious misunderstanding be tween England and Turkey in consequence of the Turks having fired into two English vessels while passing through the Dardanelles. The English have demanded an explanation, and threatened hostilities if it is refused. Exclusive preparations are being made for the pro posed tour of Louis Napoleon to Vienna. It is now said that his marriage with the Frincess Wa ais only temporarily postponed on account of ill heul.h. It is also confidently affirmed that he intends to proclaim his imperial power at an early day, and that fie will convoke the Senate for the purpose of ascertaining the decision of the people on the subject. The French minister at the Hague has been re called. The Journal des Dehats strongly con demns the course of England in seizing French ves sels on the fishing stations without previous notice. The Austrian Envoy at Brussels has addressed a strong note to the Belgian Government relative to the indignity offered to Ilaynau, the celebrated Hun garian “Butcher.” The Lowndes County Chronicle, the Dallas Ga zelte, ami the Spirit of the South, have hoisted the names of Troup and Quitman. A Worthy Act. — Messrs. Roger Stewart and ! R. Purvis, of Mobile, Ala., have purchased the ship j Mersey for $2,500. They intend to moor her in Mo i bile Bay, to hoist a light upon her mainmast, and i convert her into a “Bethel” and hospital for tho j use of the sailors. It is the intention of the benevo : lent gentlemen to employ a resident surgeon to at tend to the siek, and to have divine service perform ed regularly on board. Scott Mass Meeting at Atlanta. —Thero were only about five hundred people present, more than half of whom were citizens of Atlanta. Hon. VV. C. Dawson and Maj. Harris were the speakers. The Scott papers say they were listened to with patient attention, and have no doubt some good was effected. Doubted. Cotton Worm.— We learu from the Telegraph Register, of the 10th inst., that these destructive insects have been committing ravages on the planta tions around Houston, Texas. They had been at work for three weeks, and were as numerous as ever. Their ravages were, however, confined to the lo.v grounds. The paper estimates, that not more than a third of a crop could be made on the river lands, while the up-lands would produce twice as much a* Isrt year.