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MORNING NEWS.
BY JOHN I»I. COOPER.
T. THOMPSON, EDITOR
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LAST WISHES OF A CHILL).
All the hedges are in bloom,
And the warm west wind is blowing,
Let mo leave this stilled room,
Let me go where flowers are growing.
Look! my cheek is thin and pule,
And my pulse is very low,
Ere my sight begins to fall,
Mother dour, you’ll let me go !
Wus not that the robin's song,
Piping through the ensement wide ?
I shall not he listening long,
Tuke me to the meduw sido.
Bear mo to the willow brook—
Let mo hear the merry mill—
On the orchard 1 must look,
Ere my beating heart is still.
Faint und fainter grows my breath,
Bear mo quickly down the lane !
Mother, dear, this child of death—
I silo'll never speak again !
Still the hedges are in bloom,
And the warm west wind is blowing,
8till wo sit in silent gloom—
O’er her grave the grass is growing.
resolutions to each of the States of this Union,
and also to our Senators and Representatives
in Congress.
Naval Intelligence.—The U. S. steam frig
ate Saranac, now lying at. the navy yard,
Portsmouth, N. H., is nearly ready for sea.
Her length, from, stem to stern, is 214 feet 9
inches; length between perpendiculars.210 feet;
length of keel, 203 feei; breadth of bcum, 37
feet! depth of hold, 23 feet 3 inches. She is
built of live oak. in u thorough and workman
like manner, and is said to be a benutiml speci
men of naval architecture. Hernrmamcnt con
sists of two long pivot guns of eight inch eali-
bro. weighing eleven thousand eight hundred
and ninety pounds each, and four broadside
guns of eight inch calibro, weighing six thous
and two hundred and sixty-nine pounds each.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8. 1850.
The Virginia Resolutions.—The follow
ing are the resolutions introduced into the Vir
ginia Legislature, on Wednesday, and made the
order of the day for Tuesday last.
It will be seen, that in addition to the Nash
ville Convention, they provided for the calling
of a Convention of the people to devise the
fullest ana most decided measures of redress,
in the event of either of certain specified con-
tingences. They broadly and completely give
tho sanction of the Legislature of Virginia to
the proposed Convention at Nashville, and
stamp it with their full approbation.
Whereas, the recent action of the General
Assembly lipon the Wdmot Proviso and kind
red subjects, and in relations to fugitive slaves,
has met with no other response from the non-
slaveholding States than violent denunciation
and a systematic, perseverance in the wrongs
of which we compluined : And, whereas, it is
apparent that the inev itahle result of such a
course of action on the pari of a portion of the
Stales must be to excite bitterness, jealousy
und distrust among the rest, to kindle the an
griest passion*, to extinguish that spirit of con
cession and destroy that mutual forbearance and
fraternal affection which founded and have sus
tained our confederacy, and finally to dissolve
the Union itself,; And whereas, we are anxious,
if possible to avert the evils which threaten us,
and believe thnt the most eflectual'means of do
ing this are to bo found in tho cordial union of
the whole South for the maintainnnee of the
Constitution, and the preservation of tho Union
if it can bo preserved, and for their own pre
servation, if it cannot:
l - Be it therefore Resolved, by the General
Assembly of Virginia, Thnt upon the questions
tliUB perseveringly and recklessly forced upon
the country, Virginia has taken her position,
and thnt position will be maintained. Her loy
alty to the Union is no matter of empty pro
fession. It is stamped upon every page of her
history. No State has dono as much to form
the Union; none is prepared to do more
to perpetuate it in the spirit in which
it was formed, and in which alone it can bo pre
served. But, loyal as she is, und always has
been, it were u fatal error to suppose that Vir
ginia will ever consent thnt that Union, to
w.iic.h she has looked n as source of happiness
und honor, shall be converted into an instru
ment of degradation and oppression.
2. Resolved, That in the event of the pas
sage of the Wilmot Proviso or of any law
abolishing slavery or the slave trade in the Dis
trict of Columbia, or between ihe States, Vir
ginia will be perpared to unite with her sister
slave-holding States in Convention or otherwise,
in the adoption of any measures that may
be necessary to provide for their mutual defence
or to secure their common safety.
3. Resolved, That in the opinion of this
General Assembly, a Southern Convention, in
which the States as States, are represented,
should consist of delegates, selected by the peo
ple of the several States in Convention assem
bled, who should carry with them nil the au
thority derived from such an appointment, and
prepared to act foY those whom they represent.
4. Resolved, therefore, That upon tho hap
pening of either of the contingencies contem
plated in tho second resolution, the Governor
be authorized and requested (instead of con
vening tho Legislature) to issue his proclama
tion for the election of delegates to a State
Convention, to take into consideration the
mode and measure of redress, to appoint dele
gates to a Southern Convention, and to adopt
such measuses as the crisis may demand. The
Baid delegates to be chosen by each city, coun
ty or election district, according to its repre
sentation tn th6 House of Delegates, arid to
receive the same payment and mileage as ntem-
Bt bcisof the General Assembly.
Mr 5. Resolved, That regarding the Convention
” proposed to be held at Nashville on the first
Monday in June next, as intended to enable the
people of the South to take counsel together
us to the best and most effectual means of resist
ing the aggressions of the North, of enforcing
a compliance on their part w'uh their consti
tutional obligations, and thereby preserving the
Union of these States, now in imminent peril
by reason of the course pursued by the non-
siave holding States, and their Representative-
in Congress, in their ceaseless agitation (and
that, too, in the most unfriendly spirit) of ques
tions involving the peace, the institutions and
the very existence of the Southern States; and
approving the objects of said Convention, us
above set forth, the General Assembly doth re
commend to the good people of this Common
wealth, to send delegates thereto; and that, to
this end, they hold primary meetings in each
city, county, election district in the State, and
appoint delegates to a Convention to be held
in'each Congressional District in the month of
May next, and that the District Conventions,
Antagonism ok Color.—Tiio iato alarming
riot at Poughkeepsie, New York, it now ap
pears grew out of a quarrel between the Irish
laborers and the free negroes. We hear a
great deal of serious apprehension expressed at
the North of revolt mid violence at tho South
&,c., but we think the history of tho past few
years will show, not only that the greatest dan
ger of collision between the races exists in the
free States, but that the only protection for jbe
black man whilehe inhabits the same soil with
the whito man, is in the domestic institutions
of the South.
Even now, while the proportion of blacks
to the white population in tho Northern cities
is so small, it is with difficulty that the authori
ties cun restrain that class of whites whose
daily avocations bring them in contnct and com
petition with the blacks, from murdering them
by wholesale. Serious cellisians have already
taken place more than onco in Cincinnati, Phil
adelphia, Trenton, and New Y ork, and many
valuable lives have been lost and much pro
perty destroyed in attempts to suppress riots
which have grown out of thehostiliti between tho
races. It this is the cuse now what would it be
when the free black population bore a nearer
approximation to the whites in point of tium-
iers, when they would be strong enough to re
sist the whites—and when from the greater ne
cessity of employment they would be forced
into severer competition with the antagonist
class. Encroachment would begin with the
whites—resistance would follow from the
blacks—violence would be resorted to by the
whites—retaliation from the blacks would fol
low—the races would be arrayed against each
other, as races—blood would be shed, and tho
extermination of the colored or inferior race
would ensueas inevitably as effect follows cause.
No law, no interest, would shield them then.
The line would be drawn, and they would be
driven forth by the whites as tho Indians have
been driven, but they would not fare as the In
dians have fared. The black man is not pre
pared for the vicisitudes of savage life ; his na
turc is not adapted to the habits and modes of
Indian existence. He id a domestic being,
He could not protect himself in the fastnesses of
the wilderness, even if he had the wilderness
to fly to. There would be no such escape for
him, and while a century has been slowly tell
ing the sad story of the red man’s annihilation,
a few years would closo the melancholy history
of the helpless unfriended African.
Let the true philanthropist of the North puuse
and consider the danger of placing the two
races in an attitude of natural and inevitable an
tagonism. Let him reflect how great a wrong
he would be doing to the black man, by depriv
ing him of that protection which he finds in
his present dependent attitude, by which his
dearest interests are inseperHbly identified with
those of the white man. Tho worst enemies
of the black man, are those who would change
his present condition, giving him no security of
a better one.
Monuments and Corner Stones.—We see
it stated in the papers that the Virginia House
of Delegates have adopted a resolution making
provision for the laying of the cornet—.tone of
the Washington Monument on the 22d inst.;
and directing the Governor to invite tho Presi
dent of the United States to be present on the
occasion.
Will not some calculator of Almanacs, some
connoiseur in statistics furnish the public with
an estimate of the number of corner-stymes of
Monuments and other public works that have
been laid in this country, and that have never
been thought of afterwards.
There are, we know, many corner-stones of
Washington Monuments reposing in the ground
in various parts of theU. States and yet there are
hut two Monuments to the.Futher of his coun
try worthy of note in the Union. The one at
Bunker Hill, and that in Baltimore. The Vir
ginia Monument has been in contemplation
many years and a considerable amount of funds
had been raised to build it, but the matter had
almost been forgotten, and would probably
never have got so far as a corner-stone hut for the
ladies of that State, who took the matter in
band about a year ago, since which time they
have not ceased their exertions. And now we
seethe first fruits of their efforts.
It is said that the country is also indebted to
the ladies of Massachusetts for tho completion
of the Bunker Hill Monumuent, after'so many
years of tedious delay. The Indies of Virginia
have already erected a handsome marble statue
of HenryCIay, and now tlmt they have taken the
Monument to Washington in hand, we may ex
pect to see it steadily prosecuted to completion
Some fifteen years ago, the corner stone
of the Monument to Washington was laid with
great paraJe in the beautiful public square
which hears his name in Philadelphia, since
which time we have heard nothi ng of the structure
which was to eclipse nil the other Monuments
in the world. If we are not mistaken, the cor
ner stone of the Washington Monument was
also laid in New York some eight or ten years
since. We know the monument was erected
on paper, for we saw a b "antiful li thograph o(
t, which even excelled in magnificence the
celebrated “Dade Institute,’’ which made such
a show in the print'shops some years ago. But
we have not heard anything more of the New-
York Washington Monument.
Any other people hut us, with so much to
excite their national enthusiasm and veneration
would have studded the land over with monu
ments to the greatest and best of men, that
would have perpetuated his fume while time
existed. But the generations that come after
us, while fttey will find in digging their founda
tions, innumerable evidences of our patriotic
intentions, in the Bliape of “cornerstones,” will
find but few worthy monuments to the Father
of his country nnd his illustrious compatriots,
to whom the human family are more indebted
than to all the merely mortal men that the
woild has ever known.
From Tampa Bay—News has been receiv
ed from Tampa Bay to the 03d inst. Caplain
Casey had not returned from Oho ko nik la.
Billy Bow Legs had met Capt. Casey, according
to appointment, on 19th, but the result, of the
interview wns not positively known, but it was
still supposed at Tampa that the object of the
Indians was to induce Gen. Twiggs to establish
another trading post for them. Rumor says
that Bow Legs told Capt. Casey that lie would
go West himself, if well paid for it, but tlmt he
would not use his influence to induce his people
to go. Sam Jone3 did not'eome iti.
IP* It is said thafthe Hudson Bay Company
have made a proposition to our government
to sell all their rights and posessions in Oregon.
This proposition has been communicated to
the Senate in Executive Session. It is under
stood that the Company ask ono million of
dollars as the consideration.
IP* We learn from the Boston Traveller
that public curiosity is to be kept on the qui
vivc longer than was anticipated. It has been
arranged that the trial of Professor Webster
shall not take place before June or .)uly.
Lolla Montes.—Young Heald, the poor
milksop, who married., the King of Bavaria’s
Spanish dancing woman, Loi.la Mon
tes, seems to have “driven his pigs to a bad
market," as tho saying is. From the day she
took the poor creature in tow, she has led him
a “deuce of a dance," keeping him in hourly
dread of his life, and giving him a rattaningnow
and then, just to stir his blood and for her own
umusement. A late English paper says:
Mr. Ileald has arrived in London. The tem
per of his wife is not improved, and she is left
at Cadiz, from whence Ileald made his escape
with his English servant from the Hotel Isme-
nez (where they were staying on ChrUtmns
morning) und is supposed to have gone loGi-
bralta. 8he was furious. She went in a French
steamer that evening with iter two friends,
foreigners, who are in her party, to Alaesiras,
and sent Ismenez, another man, by land, so that
if Ileald did succeed in getting on board the
Pacha, she imped to catch him.
It is said that the unfortunate man has re
solved to embark for New-Y'ork immediately, in
order to escape from the virago. This is in
deed becoming tho land of tho refugee.
[Correapondenco of the Morning News.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, Feb. 5.
HOUSE OF representatives.
Bills Passed.—A Bill for the relief of all of
fenders ngninst the late laws of this State, pro-
hibiting the introduction of Slaves into the sume
for tiie purposes of sale, and prohibiting the
sale, offer to sell, or tho purchase of slaves
within a certain period after their introduction
into this State.
A Bill to amend tho act which authorizes
parties to compel discoveries at common law.
A Bill to repeal an act, passed 23rd Dec.
1835, authorizing the Surveyor General to have
recorded all plats of surveys on head rights.
A Bill to incorporate the Cherokee Plank or
Rail Road Company.
A Bill to make it a penal offence for any Con
ductor, Fireman, Engineer, or other Officer
conducting or managing any Rail Road Car in
this State to allow a slave to enter and travel
on the same in the absence of the owner or
overseer or employer, or without a written per
mit for thut express purpose.
A Bill to authorize the Central Rail Road
Company, the Macon arid Western Rail R 0 ad
Company and the South Western Rail Road
Company to unite their respective Rail Roais
at one common Depot, at or near the city of
Macon, and to grant to the said Companies a
quantity of land for the said purpose, on tho
public reserve, with amendments; this was a
substitute of the Senate' to the original Bill, of
House “to give a portion of the public reserve
near Macon to the South Western Rail Road
Company for a Depot.”
House adjourned till 7 o’clock, P. M.
Col. Benton seems to have gotten into a
muss with the exhibitor of tho woolly horse
who, since he is deprived of the privilege of
shovyiog up the nondescript, seems resolved
upon showing up the Colonel. The correspon
dent of the Baltimore Clipper notices the ap
pearance of a handbill in Washington, of which
the following is'a copy :
Humbug in High Places.—T. M. Coleman,
lately connected with a prosecution entered by
Col. Benton, will lecture on Monday Evening,
February 4th, at Temperance Hall, on E. street.
Subject—Malicious prosecution, and Humbug-
go ry in high places. The public are invited to
attend. Admission free. To commence 7
o’clopk, P. M.
“When Greek meets Greek, then comes, &c.”
so constituted, do each select two persons, (one
from each of the two political parties of the
country,) who shall be delegates to the said
Nashville Convention. ,,N ,
6. Resolved. That the Governor of this Com
monwealth be requested to send a copy, of thrje
Suicide.— A Coroner’s inquest wns held
yesterday, about, two miles from the city, in the
Ogeechee District, on the body of a man by
the name of John Cooper, a sli p carpenter
by trade, formerly of Aberdeen, Scottland.
It appeared in evidence before the jury that the
deceased left his boarding house on the
22dult., in a state of mental derangement, and
was not seen again until yesterday when he was
found suspended by tho neck from the limb of
a tree. The jury were of opinion that he had
committed suicide.
On the 2Gth ult., an advertisement was in
set'.ed in the Morning News, asking infor
mation of the deceased. He had been in this
city nbput two months.
Canadian Annexation.—Her Majesty’s
government seems to be getting its back up
about the proposed annexation of Canada to
this country. It is now given out, that the dis
patch which Lord Elgin has received, instead
of treating the matter with indifference, as wits
stated in the English papers brought by the
steamer before the last, is very firm and
decided in its tone against the annexationists.
Among other things, it states, “with regard to
the address of the people of Canada in favor
of annexation to the United States, I have to
inform you that her majesty approves of your
having dismissed from iter service those sign
ers of the declaration in favor of annexation.
Her Majesty considers that the act is scarcely
short of treason.
She further asserts that she confidentially re
lics on the loyalty of the great majority of her
Canadian sobjects, and that she has determined
to execute all authority that belongs to her for the
purpose of maintaining the connection of Cana
da with the government of Great Britain.
Your Lordship will therefore understand that
you are commanded by her Majesty to arr.es
to your utmost power any attempt to separate
Canada from Great Britian, and bring those
guilty before the court of justice.
We may "look for another Canada rebellion
between this-ond mid-summer.
Improvement in Telegkaphing.-A new im
provement is announced by an accomplished op
erator, in which he is enabled to control two re
cording pens at another station, working them
independently or together, at will, with'a sin
gle wire. This enabled him to from an alpha
bet with a double row of dots and lines, in suclt
a manner that all the letters are of equal length
and none of them exceeding the length of 3
dots. This uniformity obviates the chiefdiffi
culty which lias heretofore been experienced in
the application of a key-boatd to telegraphs.
The inventor believes, that with a proper ma
chine for working it, (which is now being con
structed) from 200 to 300 letters a minute can
be recorded with ease and mathematical cor
rectness.
Forintercstingdescription of President
Taylor’s Levee, see first cage.
The New York Tribune, referring to Mr.
Clay’s compromise resolution says, “No we are
not ready yet for compromise on either side.
Thus far our side has lost by compromise and
gained by struggles. The lesson must not bo
lost."
The New York Sunday Times remarks in re
ply : When will “our side" he ready for com-
protnise? Will it he when the last stage of ex
asperation has been reached, when the tocsin of
civil war has been sounded or the dissolution
of the Union is impending? It will then be
“too late-^-too late."
CP* The excavations for laying the founda
tion, nnd erecting the walls of the Astor Libra
ry, are now in progress. The corner-stone of
this edifice will, it is expected, be laid some
timo in March. Messrs. Bogart and Herrint
are the contractors. Mr. Saeltter, of Berlin, is
.the architect.
Georgetown College.—-A card has been
published by a committee of the students of
this college, stating that the late difficulty has
been amicably settled. They bear strong testi
mony to the kind treatment of the faculty of
he college.
The U. S. Treasury—The amount of
public funds in the treasury and the various de
positories, on the 28th ult., subject to the draft
of the Treasurer, was $6,308,089. Of this
amount $2,327,192 was in the hands of the as
sistant treasurer, New-York; $1,023,328, as
sistant treas. Philadelphia; $841,150, in tho
U. S. Mint, Phila., and $100,000 in the branch
mint, New-Orleans.
The total receipts of the Treasury during the
last quarter were $8,305,242 ; expenditures
$10,230,038.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Feb. 5.
IN SENACE.
A bill authorizing the Governor to call a Con
vention, after many amendments being x>f.
ferred by Mr. A. .1. Miller, and rejected, was
passed—yeas 31, nays 8.
Nays—Anderson, E. Beall, Byrd, Ferrill,
Thomas Johnson, A. J. Miller, .1. A. Miller
The memorial of Thomas R. R. Coppe, relit-
tive to digesting tho statute laws of Georgia,
was agreed to.
The resolutions of the House, relative to the
election of Delegate to the Nashville Cnnvenl
tion, was taken up, amended and agreed to, as
follows:
Both branches of the General Assembly to
meet in the Representative Hall, on Monday
next, and elect four Delegates, Two Dele
gates from each Congsessional District to be
elected on tho first Monday in April next. The
Governor to issue his proclamation making
known the day ; and "an election to be held in
the same manner for Members of the Legisla
ture. Vacancies to bo filled by the party in
which they occur.
The bill to incorporate the Manufacturer's
Bank of Macon, was lost.
The bill to amend the several acts relating to
to tho W. & A. R. Road, to provide a Board of
Directors for the government of the same, and
for other purposes, was passed. [This is Mr.
Stell’s substitution for the bill to elect the prin
cipal keeper of the Penitentiary, and chief En
gineers of the State Road, by the Legislature.
The bill of the House to amend an act to re
vive and amend the act, to incorporate the
Milledgeville R. R. Compnny.
The bill to authorize and empower the Plan
ter’s and Manufacturing Company of Butts Co.
to establish a ferry across the Ocmulgeo River
was passed.
The last Bill was amended by incorporating
James Hope, Frederick Lamback, Wm. E.
.Tin kson Rnd others into a company to engage
in Manufacturing woolen and cotton fabrics
wood, iron, nnd other metals on a tract of land
in Burke and Richmond, counties, on McBean,
Creek, to be called “tlie McBean Company. ”
The Senate adjourned till 9 o’clock to-mor
row morning.
Yours truly, C.
I
nr A letter in the New York Herald, dated
Cane Haytien, 16th January, states that the
new decree and Tariff have been declared,
which abolishes the December tariff. That the
monoply on coffee has been removed. We arc
now told that we can buy wherever we can find
it, at whatever prices we please. Already cof
fee has advanced from $29 to $60 per 100
pounds.
At Port au Prince the tnriff on flour is $58
per bbl. and on clear pork $140 per hbl.
There must ho a mistake in the above
Remarkable Sleep.—The Massachusetts
papers report that Zadock Hersey, a soldier of
the Revolution, aged 98, fell asleep at his resi-
in Pembroke, Mass., on Monday evening, the
6th Jan. at about 6 o’clock,and slept to the suc
ceeding Sunday morning, at 3 o’clock, taking
no sustenance but water. He was apparently
in a natural sleep, and no particular change took
place till 24 hours before death, when his
breath continued to grow shorter til! he phased
to brea.be.
ILP 1 The Ringgold Republican of the 2d inst.
says that tho new and splendid Locomotive, the
Toccoa, with a passenger and several box cars,
made its first trip to Chattanooga over the State
road, on Wednesday last. The road has been
re-piked and the depressions in the track, caus
ed by the unprecedented bad weather, have
been raised, Since this has been done every
thing seems to glide along with much ease and
safety.
Charleston Races.—The great Jocky club
pyrsc of $1000—four mile heats— was won on
Wednesday, by Mr. Singleton’s Capt. Minor;
he winning the two first heats. Time,1st o t
7.57—second heat, 7.59.
CP* Of die writers of Jane Eyre, and the
family of novels by the “Bells,” the London
correspondent of the National Intelligencer
gives this information :
Miss Bronte, the authoress of “Jane Eyre’
and “Shirley” is the survivor of three sisters,
Charlotte Emily, and Anne, who each have
been before the public under the Hssumed name
of Bell; Charlotte as Currer Bell, Emily as
Ellis\Bcll. and Anne! as Acton Bell. Emily
published a volume of Poems under her as
sumed name of Ellis Bell; Emily and Anne
wrote “ Wildfell Hall” as Acton Bell ; Eniily
and Anne both died consumptive, Jbut Charlotte
remains, and we hope will long continue to do
so, to amuse and instruct the world with some
more of the Incubration of Currer Bi ll.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Feb. 6, A. M.
IN SENATE.
Nothing of much importance has transpired
in each branch of the General Assembly this
afternoon. An attempt was made in the Sen
ate this morning, to reconsider the Bill passed
yestordu', authorizing the call of a Convention.
It failed most signally—yeas 10, nays 32.
Now it may be set down as certain, that
Georgia will be in the front rank with her Sis
ter’s of the South, to stay Northern nggres-ions,
and assert her full participation in all tho rights
and immunities guaranteed by the Constitution.
The Bill incoiporating the “Manufacturer
Bank of Macon,” which was lost yesterday,
has been reconsidered this morning, is now uu-
der consideration, and with some slight modi
fications will probably pass.
A meeting of both parties was held on yes
terday evening, to select suitable persons to
represent Georgia in the Nashvill Convention-
The Democrats have selected Charles J. Me*
Donald and W. J. McAlister, to be run by the
State at large. W. T, Colquitt, and H. V. John
son, as alternates. The Whig party wi.ll now*
inate this evening at two o’clock.
We have good winter weather here.
Yours truly
CP* The Augusta Constitutionalist says that
Mr. Richter, whose invention of perpetual mo
tion we mentioned a few days since has sold an
interest in his discovery to a company of gen'
tlemen of that city. Tho amount has not trans
pired. But it is several thousand dollars,
with such contingents as may realize for Mr-
Richter an ample fortune if the principle shah
prove applicable to machinery.