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EBITFD AND PUBLISHEO FF.tKir, BY
lIAKKISOX & MVEKS,
CITY PRINTE It S .
roll THE SOUTHERN MUSEUM.
fKAG ME N TS.-Bt s. k t .
The Seasons.
Stern Winter, bo often deemed “ the grave
of the year,” fallows and fertilizes the fields of
earth with its circumambient frosts and snows.
Roar-cheeked Spring breathes with its gently
glowing inspirations upon the frozen hearts and
pulseless forms of vegetable millions, and quick
ens them into renewed life and activity.
Warm-hearted Summer, like a fostering ma
tron, receives the tender nurselings under her
guardian care, and rears them into the perfect
firms and adaptations of comeliness and utility.
Then comes Autumn, like a jewelled mon
arch upon his chariot throne in his annual cir
cuit around the world, to gather his golden fruits
and celebrate the festivities of his “ harvest
home.”
Thus, like a royal landlord, he sways the
sceptre of empire over the revolving year, w Idle
nil his predeces-or?, like tributary, princely ten
ants with their train of serfs and ministers, wait
upon his pleasure and crowd his garners with
their accumulated treasures. All the realms of
Mature are laid under contribution to swell llte
abundance of his riches. For him the Sun, with
diffusive beams, warms the heart of Earth, quick
ens its pulsations, nnd folds his gorgeous dra.
pery of light about its ruggid form. For him
the gentle dews are distilled from the “breath
of Night” over the prolific realms of Ceres and
Pomona. For him the modest, queenly Moon
dispenses her smiles to cheer the world, until
her absent Lord return. For him Old Ocean
breathes his vapory exhalations into the clouds,
and the generous Heavens discharge again these
treasured stores, to fertilize his fieh and pasture
grounds, to augment his revenues, and multiply
the badges of his grandeur and opulence.
War.
“ Grim visaged War'’ stalks abroad, shaking
the kingdoms and empires of Earth with most
fearful convulsions, lift fiat leaps in thunder
tones from the cannon’s mouth, and at his word
whole squadrons lie prostrate at his feet, lie
bends his lurid eye upon stately piles where
crowded millions dwell, and his glance like a
burning lens converts them into a heap of ashes,
which he leaves, as his footprint, to tell the na
tions where lies his desolated pathway. He
waves the wand oil enchantment over the green
fields of earth, and lo 1 the fruits, nnd flowers,
und verdure of to-day become the arid wastes of
to-morrow. His palsy-touch paralyzes the bloat
ed arm of Tyranny ; and like a Demon God, by
the spirit of his maddening inspirations, he con
founds the language of confederate powers and
disappoints theirevi! machinations. The leagues
of centuries are dissolved by his very presence,
and new alliances, governments and dynasties
•pring up and flourish in his retiring footprints.
He breathes upon the proudest fabrics of ages,
nnd they “ melt away like frostwork before the
beams of morning.”
“Alltliy works shall praise thee, O Lord.'*
To honor thee, the leafy trees
Their vestments wave before the breeze,
And flovv’rs consume their fleeting days
In smiling bloom, to speak thy praise.
For then the birds, in festive choirs,
Chirp on with voice that never tires,
And every beast and creeping thing,
Though mute, thy ceaseless praises sing.
The rivers roll their stores along,
The brooks pour fortli their rippling song
On mountain side, in fertile dell,
Thv wondrous praises, Lord, to tell.
The Ocean breathes —its incense flies
In humble tribute to the skies;
The clouds on earth their treasures pour,
And, thus, the Lord of all adore.
Revolving worlds, through ceaseless years,
Praise thee with music of the spheres,
And Nature nil, with bounding rays
Reflects thy image and thy praise.
And man shall praise thee. Happy he
Whose themes thy Love, thy Mercy be !
Alas ! for him constrained to show
Thy Justice in the realms of wo !
The Duty of Government is Education.—
A universal system of education cannot other
wise be established than by the government, h
would be about as hopeless for individuals, so
cieties, or communities, as such, to undertake
the establishment of a system which should ed
ucato the entire mass, as it has been since the
days of King James of England, for different re
ligious sects to introduce their own translations
of the Bible, as authoritative throughout Chris
tendom. But the government having jurisdic
tion ovor all its people, has the power to legis
late upon all subjects pertaining to their interests.
And the proper education of the people being
confessedly important to the interests of the
commonwealth, comes legitimately within the
purview of legislation. Indeed, since church
and state in our republican government ate sep
arated from each other, as they ought always to
hr fur the interest? of both, the proper education
of’the people is the most important subject that
remains upon which to legislate.
Government is in duty bound to provide for
the education of its subjects, from considerations
of both duty and interest. It can accomplish
for the people in relation to education, what no
other agency can accompish And by educating
the people, it not only promotes their interests us
individuals, and as communities, but its own
inte o -ts ns a State. It promotes the wealth, the
intelligence, the virtue, and the reputation of the
State. Borid .'s, it is eh. aier for government to
educate the people, than to pay the expenses of
crime which will exist in every community
whero such education is not enjoyed.—“ Pre
vention is better than cure, is a true adage.
The judicial system of a country usually costs
more than thcco iij e ent edni at on ot the mass
es of the people. But thi re is much evil in
ih ■ community which is neither tiled nor pun
id,, and by civil law, and which sufficient whole
some education will in a great u e isure remove.
Self-Made Mix.—“ If you ; re to be an ex
ceptioo,’’ said Mr. Crabbe to his young fr eed,
“you will be the first in all my observation and
experim e. You may take ilie wholr popula
tion of Maryland, and select from it fifty men
wlm are most distinguished for talent?, or any
description of public usefulness, and I will an
swer for it, they are all, every one of them, men
who began the world without n dollar. Look
into the public councils of the nation, and who
are they that take the lead there > They are
men who made their own fortune—self-made
men, whobegnn with nothing. The rule is uni
versal. It pervades our Courts, State nnd FeJ
crnl, from the highest to the lowest. It is true
of its professions. It is so now ; it has been so
at any time since I have known the public men
of this State or the nation ; and it will be so
while our present institutions continue. You
muitthrow a man upon bis own resources to bring
him out. The struggle which is to result in em
inence is too arduous, and must becontioued too
long, to be encountered and maintained volun
tarily, or unless as a matter of life and death.
He who has fortune to fall back upon will soon
slacken from bis efforts, and finally retire from
the competition. With me it is a question w heth
er it is desirable that a parent should leave bis
son any property at all. You will have a large
fortune, and lam sorry for it, ns it will be the
spoiling of a good lawyer. These are iny de
liberate sentiments, and 1 shall be rejoiced to
find, in) our instance, 1 shall be mistaken.
An Ancient City.— The famous city of Pet
ra, Arabia, has been a theme of admiration and
astonishment to all the tourists of recent times;
but another town apparently far more ancient,
and of greater extent still, exists in the north of
Affglianistan, and is known throughout the East
by the name of Bameean. The city consists of
a great number of apartments cut out of the solid
rock. It is said that in many of them the walls
were adorned with paintings which look still
fresh, after ccntuiies of desertion and solitude ;
some of them are adorned with the richest carv
ed work. There are supposed to be more than
twelve thousand of such habitations in liamec
an ; but the natives who are mostly Mohame
dans, entertain a superstitious prejudice against
inhabiting such homes. They have old tradi
tions which declare them to have been the first
habitations of mankind; and that strange city is
casually mentioned by some of the classic au
thors ; yet, by whom its rock abodes were exca
vated, who were its inhabitants, or what their
history—all have passed from the recollection of
the world, und exists only in fabulous or uncer
tain tales— Scientific American.
MACON, G A .
SATURDAY MORNING, FEB. 10, 184!).
NOTICE.—TiIe “SOUTHERN MUSEUM ’
Olticc lias been remove,! to the Itrlck Ituilit
tiiK, ot tlic Corner of Cotton Avenue and
First Street, formerly occupied as tUe “Ke
pubiic’’ Office.
(Ur’VYe 'earn from Washington that the lion.
Ai.frf.h Iverson and 11. A. llakralson, of
Georgia, and D. S. Kaufman, of Texas, have
signed Mr. Calhoun's Address, in addition to
those published in our last, making a total of
flirty eight members.
(IT’D gives us pleasure to acknowledge the re
ceipt of “ M’Mnkin s Model American Courier,”
Philadelphia. Terms, $2 00, in advance.—
This paper is so well known throughout the
Union that it is quite unnecessary to say that it
is one of our best literary journals.
Gen. Taylor’s Family. — airs. Tayi.or, Ma
jor Bliss and Lady, and Major Hunter and
Lady, arrived in this city on Sunday morning
last, and left in the Central Railroad cars on
Monday, cn route for Washington. The hos
pitalities of the city were tendered to them, but
declined.
Gen. Taylor lias gone up the Mississippi, and
will probably meet bis family in Washington
during the ensuing week.
South Western Railroad Company. —At a
meeting of the Stockholders of the Soutli West
ern Railroad Company, held in this city on the
8. It instant, the following gentlemen wo re elect
ed Officers of the Company for the ensuing year:
L. O. Reysos.hs, President, in place ol Elam
Alexander, who declined a re-election.
Board of Directors :
R. R. Cuyler, William A. Black,
John W Anderson, James A. Nisbet,
David Kiddoo.
William S. Holt, Secretary and Treasurer ,
in place of 11. L. Jewett, resigned.
The affairs of the Company are represented
as being in a prosperous condition, and the
means are fully provided to complete tiie work
ou the road from fifty to sixty miles The city
of Savannah is to furnish the iron for that dis
tance.
O’Wc learn that a meeting was recently held
at Albany, Ga , to raise $150,000, so as to extend
the South Western Railroad, or a branch thereof,
to Albany, Baker county. A subscription, not
to be binding until the whole sum was raised,
was authorized, nnd $19,000 were forthwith sub
scribed by the persons present.
Macon and Western Telegraph Compa
ny.—The Griffin Jeffersonian, of the Bth inst.
says : “The Company organized for the purpose
of building a Telegraph from Macon by Griffin
to At.'anta, met in this place on the 3d inst. and
chose a President and Directors, to wit: Emer
son Foote, President, and Reuben Cone, Rich
ard Peters, Miles G. Dobbins, and D. E. Bccman,
Directors. Astor appointing a Committee to
draft by-laws for the government of the Compa
ny the meeting adjourned to meet ngafn on the
last Wednesday in March. We understand the
general agent, Mr. llaily, has already gone to
work, and is having the posts got out, and the
Telegraph is expected to be in operation in the
course of ninety days or sooner.”
O’Tha Milledgeville “Presbyterian,’’ of the
7th inst. says : “Gov. Towns has recently been
quite ill, supposed at times dangerously so. We
are happy, however, to announce that he is now
convalescent, and will doubtless soon be restored
to his wonted health.”
O’The Charleston Courierstates that the ship
Othello, left that port on the 31st ult. fur Califor
nia, with fifty passengers on board, eight of
wkon were from Augusta, two from Atlanta and
one from Villa ftieca, in this State.
How they Go ! —The four vessels which sail
ed from New York for California on Tuesday
and Wednesday last, took out in the aggregate
three hundred and forty-two passengers, as fol
lows: The ship South Carolina, 163, ship Pa
cific, 100, barque Ilcrsilea 50, and the barque
Mazeppa 20
Public Meeting in regard to tbc Abolition
Movements in Congress.
Below will be found the proceedings of a pre
liminary meeting, without party distinctions,
held in this city on Saturday last, in reference to
the slavery question
We are pleased to see the index of union in
the names of the Committee appointed to draft
a report and resolutions for consideration at the
adjourned meeting.
We suggested a few weeks since, that the
South should cease the expression of opinion
upon this question, and that we should now act
through our Representatives. A majority of the
late meeting of the Southern members of Con
gress have taken such action as their experi
enced and enlightened judgments deemed the
urgency of the case to require. In so doing,
they have called for an expression of opinion
from their constituents. As they rely thus upon
us for support, and will piobably delay further
action until it is given, let us give it with a hear
ty good will. Nothing could fill us with greater
satisfaction than the information that the South
is, to a man, united on this question, or the in
tclligenee that every city, village and hamlet is
uttering a voice in response to the call of our
Representatives. And we hope that the meet
ing in this city on last Saturday and the one to
be held to-day, will give direction and impetus
to this matter throughout Georgia.
The peculiar circumstances surrounding us
will not permit the South, since the promulga
tion of the Addresses of our Representatives, to
‘ halt between two opinions.’
At a public meeting held at the Court House
to-day, in reference to Abolition and the Slavery
queition,on motion, Col. A. H. Chappell was
called to the Chair, and L. N. Whittle and Jas.
M. Green, were appointed Secretaries.
The meeting being organized, its objects were
explained by the Chairman, and after some dis
cussion between the Chairman, Messrs S. B.
Blake, L. N. Whittle, J. J. Jones, and R.
Collins, the following resolutions vfere proposed
and adopted :
Besotted, That this meeting adjourn until 10
o’clock next Saturday, when the citizens of Bibb
county, generally, are requested to assemble at
tbc Court House, to take what action may be ne
cessary respecting the recent alarming progress
of abolition in Congress.
Resulted , That the chairman appoint a com
mittee of ten, for the purpose of preparing a
suitable report and resolutions, to be submitted
to said meeting and to suggest any other business
that may be advisable.
On moiion, a resolution was adopted, that Col.
Chatpell be added to that committee and act
as its chairman.
Under this resolution, the following gentlemen
were appointed the committc : —Geo. W. Fish,
John J. Gresham, Samuel J Ray, S. 11. Blake,
R. A. L. Atkinson, 8. 'l’ Chapman, John J.
Jones, J. M. Green, Win. 11. Anderson, Thomas
Hardeman, Senior.
On motion, resolved, that the proceedings of
tliis meeting be published in the city papers.
The meeting then adjourned
A. 11. CIIAITELL, Chairman.
1,. N. Whittle, )
JM. Green, $ Secretanes.
Macon, February 3d, 1849.
Slaves. —The policy of prohibiting the impor
•ation of slaves into the State, except under cer
tain conditions, is now engaging the minds and
pens of some oft our able editors. In another
column will be found an article on the subject
adopted by tbe Federal Union from the Savan
nah Republican.
If we are capable of being taught by past his
tory', nothing has been more certainly learned
than that the diminution of the number of slaves
in the more Northern slave States will the soon
er make 1 Item free Slates. A tinod market for
their sale in more Southern States, has drawn
thousands from Maryland, Virginia and Ken
tucky. Each of these formerly received slaves
from those States now clamorous for emancipa
tion throughout the Union ; and it is to be feared
that two of the States mentioned will soon join
in this cry, if the Southern States proper will
only be so liberal as to prepare them for enter
ing upon tliis crusade by first purchasing all
their slaves. We can at least delay this result;
and although the present system may be of some
pecuniary benefit to planters, yet they should
forego a present slight advantage to prevent a
future great loss in the value of their slave pro
perty, and so serious an evil to us as speedy
emancipation in other States.
O’The Vicksburg Sentinel says, a meeting of
the citizens of Madison county, was recently
held at Vernon, Mississippi, and resolutions
were passed recommending a called session of
the Legislature, for the purpose of passing laws
to prohibit the importation of Slaves into that
State. The object appears to be to compel the
more Northern Slave States to stand by the
South in the coming constitutional struggle.
The meeting also recommended meetings to be
held throughout the State.
Emancipation in Kentucky. —The Maysvilie
Eagle publishes the following project as that
which meets the views of most of those in Ken
tucky who desire the emancipation of their
slaves.
Ist Let nil slaves now in existence, or born in
Kentucky before the first of January, 1860, re
main slaves for life.
2d. Let all male slaves born after January,
1860, be free at twenty-five, and all females born
after the same period be free at twenty-one—pro
vided, that upon reaching that age, they shall
be hired out, for two years, or longer if neces
sary, until a fund shall be accumulated sufficient
to transport them to Liberia, and give them a
start in that colony.
3d. No slave thus emancipated shall remain in
Kentucky as a freeman.
U. S. Senators. —Tiie following gentlemen
have been elected Senators from the 4tli of March
next: Henry Clay, from Kentucky ; Wm. 11.
Seward, from New Y'ork ; and J. F. Walker,
from Wisconsin.
O’ Mr. Clifford,our Minister to Mexico, with
his family and Secretary of Legation, sailed from
Pensacola on the 15th instant for Vera Cruz, on
board the revenue cutler Walker.
Hit. BERRIEN'S ADDKES?.
We deem it due to our readers, because of the
grave importance of the subject discussed, to
publish a portion of Mr. Berrien s Address to
the people of the United States on the Slavery
question.
Air. Berrien adopted the larger portion of Mr
Calhoun’s Address, omitting or modifying those
parts unsuited lo his design of enlisting the
thinking men of the North in opposition to
the anti-Slavcry movements. It is not necessary,
therefore, that we publish more than the closing ,
paragraphs of Mr. Berrien’s Address.
“We have now brought to a close a narrativeof
measures connected with the subject of this ad
dress, including those which are consummated,
as well as those which are in progress; and we
think it will nut be denied that the consumma
tion of the latter would afford just cause ot ap
prehension to the people of the slaveholding
States. If slavery were abolished in the Dis |
trict of Columbia, and in the numerous and dis
persed places in the South, over which Congress
lias exclusive jurisdiction—if to these measures
bo added the exclusion of the people of the
Southern States from the Territories of the Un
ion, now or hereafter to be acquired, every out
post and barrier would be carried, and even in
the States themselves the institution of domes
tic slavery would be at the mercy ot those who
bad so fur successfully prosecuted their assault
upon it
We forbear to present to you a detailed view
of the evils which must result from these meas
ures, even in their progress, and yet more in their
consummation ; operating first on the people of
the South,and eventually on the American peo
ple at large. Happily those measures are not
consummated. There remains a locus penitiee ;
there is yet time to pause—a moment of which
intelligent, patriotic, conservative men in every
quarter of the Union, aloof from the influence
of party on such a subject, and effacing all sec
tional lines of division, may avail themselves to
consider, if there be any duty to be fulfilled—if
there be any interest to be advanced—it there
be any object to be attained by the prosecution
of these measures, which will justify the hazard
( however remote they may believe it to lie) ol
jeoparding the pence and harmony of theUuion.
All will admit ihat the institution of domestic
slavery is one which belongs exclusively to
the States in which it exists, to establish, to reg
ulate, to continue, or to abolish. Any arid every
interference with it by the citizens of other
States, whether direct or indirect, is therefore
a wrong which becomes aggravated when it is
committed by those with whom we are for cer
tain purposes united as one people, and who a
vail themselves of this relation to make that in
terference more hurtful. If slavery be a sin, lie
who is not a slaveholder i free from the guiit of
it. Why should hedesire tobecomc his brother 6
keeper? Is there no feeling—no thought—no
act of his own, which requires his care, and
which would better reward his vigilance ? Is an
opinion, a sentiment, a measure of sectional
policy, to be urged and enforced at the hazard
of disturbing the peaceful relations of twenty
millions of people? Why may not this contro
versy he adjusted ? Does the District of Co
lumbia present the obstacle ? Cannot some mode
be devised to withdraw this disturbing question
from the national legislature ? Is it a question
in relation to the territories? The wisdom of
lb se who have gone before us was competent to
the restoration of harmony in 1820: why should
we not follow in their steps? The intense ex
citement of that day was allayed by it, and its
beneficient influences were felt during the next
twenty years of our political existence. V» ben
the questions connected with the annexation of
Texas seemed likely to revive that excitement,
the same American feeling prevailed, and the
danger was averted. Why should it not lie c
qutilly efficacious now? Has our love of coun
try diminished—is it limited to a section—or
does it not embrace our whole country ? If the
territories which we have acquired are unfitted
to the institutions of the South—if they cannot
exist there—why the denunciation of them? If
it be said that the South is contending for an ab
straction, because the right which she claims, if
it were conceded, could not be exercised iri these
territories, is it not yet more obvious that those
who insist upon the express denial of the right,
are themselves pursuing a phanthom. Are they
not insisting upon the solemn legislative denial
-of xvl.i.li /I liny llii.HKflvpa lll'illir I III'
judges,) whether it be affirmed or denied, can
never lie exercised ? But the denial is not con
fined to the territories now held by the United
States; it extends also to those wliialt may be
hereafter acquired, however peculiarly such Ter
ritories may be adapted to slave labor; may even
although iiiey should be Territories in which
slavery exists. Is the claim of the South to par
ticipate in such Territories an abstraction ? And
again : the assertion of that right, even where it
cannot be exercised, cannot be an abstraction,
unless the political equality which lies at the
foundation of our government may be deemed
so. But can the peace and harmony of the U
nion be jeoparded by considerations like these?
We have done. Our desire has been to place
before the American people the facts necessary
to enable them to stay this controversy —to exer
cise the restrained influence which they alone
possess to give harmony to our counsels and
prosperity to our country. We, too, constituea
portion of that people ; and speedily resuming
nur places among them, will unite our efforts for
the accomplishment of this beneficial result.”
uj’ From Yucatan.— By a late arrival from
Sisal, the New Orleans papers have news from
Yucatan. Several battles have been fought by
the volunteers from New Orleans and the Indi
ans of Yucatan. On the 24th ult., Col. White's
regiment, under command ofLt. Col. Besancon,
encountered a large body of Indians, and a se
vere contest ensued. Capt. Kelly and Lt. Camp
bell were severely—the latter dangerously—
wounded. One private was killed. The Ameri
can force numbered 300, the Indian force from
6000 to 8000.
On the 25th, the Indians made an attack upon
the town of Tihosuco; Col. Wliitecame up and
drove them frointiie fluid, after a hard fought ac
tion. The regiment lost 38, killed and wound
ed ; in this fight Lt. Gallagher, ofNew Orleans,
received three mortal shots while leading his
men to the charge. On the 27th, Col. White
with a detachment of Y r uca:ecos and American
volunteers, amounting to about 700 men, took
up his march for Tela, a town not far from Tiho
suco. They had a running fight all the way,
but they succeeded in capturing the village about
2 o'clock, P. M., and remained there till next
morning, when they burnt the village and re
turned to Tihosuco, having lost eight men in the
expedition.
QjF The Boston Courier states that Mr. John
Daggett, of that city, lias taken great pains to
collect the numbers of Dr. Franklin's “ Pour
Richard's Almanac,” commencing in 1733 and
terminating in 1758, ( twenty-five years.) He
is said to be the only person who lias the whole
series complete. The Courier gives very copious
extracts from the Doctor’s sayings, which art
all in his peculiar vein of wisdom and waggery.
Farther Particulars by the Canada.
The H on. Alfred Harley, while detained for
debt in the Queen’s prison, became, by the death
of his father, Earl of Oxford. He then demand
ed his discharge from prison, and was discharg
ed. The lawyers are much puzzled to know, if
the judgments having been satisfied by liis im
prisonment, lie can still be held fer his debts.
The gross revenue derived from the Liverpool
Custom House lor 1848 was £3,481,796, an in
crease of £250,875 on the previous year.
It is stated that the Repeal Association will
renew its operations as soon as the suspension
of the habeas corpus shall be ended. The debt*
have all been paid off; the newspapers accepted
4s. in the pound, and there is a balance of £24
to commence with.
Experiments have been made at Folkestone,
on tbe practicability of a submarine telegraph
across the Channel. It was proved practicable
to insulate the wires under water, leaving, the
Liverpool Journal says, “ its extension across
the Channel, merely a question of detail." It is
to be apprehended that, in this case, as tn many
similar cases, the wicre details will render, the
work impossible. Its estimated cost is £SOOO.
M. de Linguevill, a Frenchman, who died
lately at the age of 110, Imd been married ten
tunes, espoused his last helpmate at 99, and had
a son at 110.
FRANCE..
There is no disquitude among tbe French peo
ple. The President receives with favor eminent
men of every shade of political opinion, and the
populace exhibit to him every demonstration of
respect due to bis high station of chief Magis
trate of the French Republic. There had been
some slight disturbances in the vicinity of Paris,
but they were merely local in their character.—
The French funds were rather lower. Trade
had greatly improved.
Our last despatch, giving the latest telegraphic
information from France, 12th inst., states that
the President had determined that Odillon Bar
rot, Doulav and De Ladurthe should be candid
ates for tbe Vice Presidency. Barrrot, it is said,
will undoub edly he elected by the Assembly.
Lassarre will probably succeed him in the Cabi
net. The project of dissolving the National As
sembly grows in favor.
IRELAND.
lly special express from Dublin, it is ascer
tained tiiat there has as yet been no trial of Duf
fy'. It was contended that he could not be tried
for any charge of .reason for felonious publica
tions issued after his arrest. Oil Tuesday, the
16th inst., the Judges were to promulgate their
decision on the writ of error brought by O'Bri
en, Meagher, and others. It is supposed that
they will be equally divided n opinion.
ROME.
It is stated on information obtained from min
isterial circles in Palis, that an intervention will
take place by ihe Catholic powers of Europe for
tbe restoration of the Pope to power.
SPAIN.
The Carlists have blockaded Calcona.
CHOLERA.
This disease is said to have disappeared from
almost all points where it lias previouly pre
vailed .
Death of Com. De Kay.— George C. De-
Kay, Esq , commonly known as Commodore De-
Kiiy, from his having held that rank in one of
the South American navies, died yesterday, after
a protracted illness. It will be remembered that
he commanded tbe frigate Macedonian, on her
voyage of benificenee to Ireland.
Arrival oe Released Sympathisers —Mr.
James Bergen and Dr. Ryan, the alleged Ameri
can sympathisers, so long imprisoned in Ireland,
and released by the intercession of our Minister,
arrived at New York on Wednesday, in the ship
Princeton. They will be complimented by a
ball and supper in a few days.
(LTD isstated in the Houston Telegraph, that a
Texan hunter has discovered anew Pass through
the Anahuac and Cordilleras mountains, from
tiie vaiiey of the RurGratide to the valley of the
Iliaqui. This Pass, he says, resembles the South
West Pass discovered by Fremont, and the
ascent to the summit of the table lands of Mexi
co is there so gradual that it appears like an ex
tended plain, and carriages nnd loaded wagons
can pass from the valley of the Rio Grande to
the vally of the Hiaqni as easily as they can pass
over the undulating prairies of Western Texas.
The distance from one valley to the other he es
timates at only five hundred miles. This Pass,
he says, (about in the latitude of twenty-nine
degrees,) extends between the valleys of Mon
clova and the Cochos.
The Methodist Church Property Ques
tion. —The committee consisting of Messrs. G.
Lane, Levi Scott, Leroy Wormstedt, and John
11. Power, appointed by tbe last Methodist Epis
copal General Conference, held at Pittsburg, to
whom was referred the proposition of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South, relative to the
division of the Church property, have come to
the following decision :
“ Having taken the advice of eminent legr.l
counsel, in compliance with the direction of the
late General Conference of the Methodist Epis
copal Church, we are satisfied that no power
which we possess, whether corporate or other
wise, will warrant us to submit the claim made
by you in behalf of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, to a portion of the property of
the Book Concern of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, to the decision of arbiters.”
A suit at law for the recovery of property
claimed, is now the proposed remedy of the
Church South, and the case will, therefore, spee.
dily come before the Circuit Court of Ohio or
New York, and anon find its way to the Su
preme Court of the United States.
This question of Arbitration was discussed at
the last National Conference, and a considerable
portion of the Delegates were for the common
distribution of a property which had been ob*
tained front a common source.
The Hon Daniel Webster and Reverdy John,
son are retained for the Southern, and Rufus
Choate for the Northern division of the Church,
it is said
03” Kendall, in one his letters to the Picayune,
says that at the “grand review” which took
place in Paris shortly after the new President’s
maiigiiiatinn, toe prominent shouts in the vas
crowd were Vite Napoleon and Vive I'Empereur
The lately popular Fire Rr/rubliejue was seldom
and faintly lit ered. Kendall evidently thinks
ihere is something significant in this, ns he says
lie “ noticed it well with both ears open.” Tbe
'•■view itself was one of the most brilliant af
fairs of its kind which Paris has witnessed since
the days of the great Emperor.— V. Sent,
Tiie Importation of Slaves Into Georg!*.
We take great pleasure in laying before our
readers, the following article upon the subject
of the importation of Slaves into Georgia, f om
the Savannah Republican of the 30th ult. The
subject is masterly handled, and cannot f i( j| ot
impressing the minds of our citizens with the
importance of vigilance and zeal on the part of
our Judicial authorities, if they would preserve
their ow n interests intact, and the Laws of the
State inviolate :— Fed. Union.
The Importation of Slaves into Georgia
We took occasion spme eight or ten days since
to express our views somew hat at length on the
propriety of prohibiting any further importations
of slaves from Maryland, Virginia und Kentuc
ky. We return to the subject to-day principally
for the purpose of keeping it before the people
It will not be considered improper, we hope to
remark in this connection, that we have noticed
but two other papers in the State, the Chronicle
and Sentinel and the Federal Union, which have
taken hold of the subject, the former some weeks
ago, and the latter recently. * * * #
Instead of endeavoring to work the public mind
into a state of feverish excitement in re»ard to
the insane movements of a few rabid Abolition
ists and ultraisis about Washington City, and
sowing broadcast in the community incendiary
and disunion sentiments, there are other presses
in Georgia which might “do the stale some ser
vice” by turning to the question. It is a subject
of much importance to the people of the South
and the integrity of our institutions, and well
worthy of the best efforts of the press. We
have had enough of “ alarms” and “ crises,” „f
“agitation” and “disunion,’ and of corrupt
party schemes, tn dissolve the Union long since
if it could be done by tbe popinjay demagogues
and hotspurs of the day; and we should be glad
to see the press not only in Georgia, but in the
other Southern Slates, turn their attention to the
subject as one of real importance.
We showed in our previous article that Vir
ginia, Maryland, Kentucky, and we may include
Missouri,are rapidly ridding themselves of their
slaves b sending them further South. As soon
as they shall have disposed of the younger and
more saleable portion of them, they'will be wil
ling enough to imitate the Northern States and
emancipate tbe remnant, which may be left on
hand. In this way they will soon beconn free
Stales, whereas it is our interest that they should
remain as they are ; nnd insipid of there Icing
fifteen slave holding and fifteen non-slave bold
ing States, as there now aie, we shall have nine
teen oft the latter and but eleven oft tlie former.
In addition lo ibis, w e showed that the value of
our slaves and ol tlicir luher must suffer in pro
portion to tiie importations from abroad. If we
already have slaves enough for the agricultural
wants of the State, the more we permit lobe
imported the less valuable most those become
which we now have.
i lie Penal Code of 1833 prohibits any intro
duction of slaves from other States except by
persons residing in the State, or such as are mov
ing into it with a view to become residents.
The penalty annexed to the vio ution of the
Statute, is a fine of SSOO and imprisonment in
the Penitentiary from one to three years foreverv
slave thus brought into the State, and is applica
ble, alike to the seller and the purchaser. Not
wiihstanding the severity of this punishment,
the law is constantly evaded by corrupt specu
lu.ors, and hundreds oft negroesnre annually in
troduced and sold. It is a practice among these
speculators, after having agreed w ith their sever
al purchasers upon the prices to he paid to take
the Rni l Road or stage to the nearest point in
Alabama or South Carolina, and their make out
and sign their bills ot sale. 11 is not unfrequently
the case that even residents in the State intro
duce large numbers of slaves for purposes of
sale. They first take them to their plantations
as if for the purpose oft employing them, and af
ter keeping them there a few weeks to evade this
law, they offer them for sale. All this is a cor
nipt violation of the laws; and as no bodv is
particularly benefitted by such proceedings ex
cept the speculators, than whom there is not a
mine vile and unfeeling class oft people in the
whole country, we hope it will not longer he per
mitted Flic law should be so amended as to
reach every ease ; and until this can be done, wo
respectfully suggest to the Judical authorities
throughout the State, and especially to the Grand
Juries in the several counties, to bring to notice
every violation oft it that may come w ithin their
knowledge We think the Judges in each dis
trict would do well to call the attention oft the
juries to this section oft the code, and to impress
upon them the necessity oft preferrin** indict
ments in all cases, without fear or favor?
From the New Orleans Crescent , fid inst.
IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO.
By the arrival of the U. S. steamer Telegraph
yesterday from Tampico, which place she left
on the 23d ult., we have important intelligence
concerning difficulties which have arisen be
tween the American Quartermaster and the au
thorties at Tampico. Capt. Carr, Q. M. U. S.
Army, it will be recollected, was left a) Tampi.
co in charge of a quantity of Government stores.
According to the treaty of peace with Mexico,
a certain time was to be allowed for the removal
of these effects. Whether the time had expired
or not, we cannot say ; hut, at all events, the
Mexican commander, General Garay, ordered
Capt. Onrr to leave within a specified time, and
i( the order was not complied w ith voluntarily
he was given to understand that force would be
used. Under these circumstances, Capt. Carr,
Capt. Chase, and the Commander of the U. S.
sloop-of-war Saratoga, then lying at Tampico,
held a conference, at which it was decided that
the Quartermaster should not recede from his
position. Capt. Carr left for Vera Cruz in order
to see Commodore Wilkinsnn. It was thought
that the whole -quadron would shortly be at
Tampico, prepared to enforce respect to our flag.
O’We learn from the Savannah Georgian,
that the steam ship Falcon took the mail from
that city off Ty bee on the4<li inst and proceed
ed to Chagress. She had on board 1800 trunks
of baggage, and 315 passengers, among whom
were Messrs. James Williams and Charles Lip
pitt, of Savannah. The freight and passage
money of the Falcon amounted to $60,000.
O’The ship Nylon sailed from Baltimore on
the 3d inst. for California. She carries out to
the “ Land of Promise,” one hundred and forty
passegers. The freight and passage money a-,
mounted to over $36,000.
irTTlie St. Louis New Era denies that there
is any constitutional hairier to Gen. Shields
taking his seat as a United States Senator from
Illinois
O’ One of thp most curious of the investments
about to he made in California, for New York, is
in a hotel A building has been prepared, com
plete in all its parts, and shipped on hoard a ves
sel hound to San Francisco It will acromion
date two hundred persons when finished AH
its furniture goes with it, beds and bedding, car
pets, and the complete fixtures of a first rate ho
tel. The entire rost of this verture is $70,000.
A gentleman of high worth nnd murh experi
ence goeb out in charge of it lnt.