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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.