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WILLIAM T. THOMPSON, EDITOR.
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From the N. Y. Evening Fott.
The t'empromlKi
The report of the Committee of Thirteen was made
yesterday by Mr. Clay, in the United States Semite.
After the generous sentiments expressed by Mr. Cluy,
in the speech which accompanied his origami propos
ition for a compromise of the slavery question, the
country had a right to expect sumo thing better than a
S ian wnich gives up every thing to sluvery, os tills
oes. The country had a right to expect that, if his
plain included a form of territorial government for
Utah und New Mexico, without the Wilmot Proviso,
It would be accompanied ly a recognition of the Mexi.
can law in favor of freedom, without which the whole
question, so far as Congress has any thing to do with
it, is decided in favor of the chive States.
lustead of uuy such recognition, the prohibition of
•lavery is magisterially declared a mere abstraction,
and slaveholders Rre sustained in their project of fram
ing the territorial governments in such a manner ns to
give them time to “get into the country," as Mr, Cal
houn said, with their shives." With a view to give this
scheme a better chance for being adopted, it is tacked
to the bill for the admission of California—a measure
which Mr. Cluy and his associates know is destined
to pass sooner or later, and the popularity of which
they employ as an engine for forcing this detestable
measure upon the North.
The country bad a right to cxpectltlint Mr. Clay
would take no step to prevent the immediate admis
sion of California into the Union ,- but, in (ruining this
report he has not only brought the meusure into un
natural conjunction with his unpopular scheme of ter
ritorial governments, but has tied up, in the same bun-
int with debate and delay, for
the territory in dispute between
or perhups more properly be
tween Texas and the government. do far, tiie plan is
unjust to California, mid an insult to the free States, to
which, under the nutne of a compromise, it denies
every thing they have hitherto claimed.
Iu proceeding with this compromise, we come upon
Mr. Mason’s bill for the encouragement of kidnapping
which we yesterday laid before our readers. This a-
trocity. the Committee of Thirteen have incorporated
with their pliui. To soften the enormity ot its uspect,
they have added a clause, by which the kidnapped
person, if he should happen to be informed ot tlio
existence of such a clause in the law, and should be
able to procure counsel iu the State to which he is
transferred, may claim a legal trial to determine the
question of his lreedcm. fie may he hurried away
hundreds of miles from hishomeimd friends—the law
makes ample provision for tliut—on the bare proofs
which his pretended owner brings in his pocket, and
on tiie certificate of a man unfit to pronounce on a
question of evidence; and, when he is set down in n
strange laud, penny lass, beyond the reach and perhaps
beyond the knowledge oi his friends, and at a dis
tance from the witness on whom he relies, lie is allow-
od to prove, if he con, his freedom in p court of jus
tice. Iu regard to a human being, the presumption of
law, in the tree State, has hitherto been that he is free;
the bill, adopting by Mr. Clay, proceeds on the pre
sumption thut, it claimed ns a slave, he is really so.
Hitherto no man has been delivered into bondage but
after a trial. The bill incorporated by Mr. Clay into
his compromise scheme, first delivers him into bon
dage, transports him to a distance from tiie proofs of
his freedom, and then, with an affectation of equity,
declars him entitled to a trial, and allows him to pro
duce the evidence which, in nine cases out of ten, it
places beyond his roach.
On that part of this Compromise scheme which de
clares that, whenever Texas pleases, she lias the right
of forcing upon Congress the admission of new slave
States carveu out of her territory, we shall inuke no
Comment here. It adopts Mr. \Y eh? tor’s vit w of (hat
iue*tion, fully worthy of the rest of the plan. Indeed,
be whole scheme is u selection of tiie worst parts of
most of the plans of compromise which have been al
ready presented.
There is not a uortliem feature in it, not a single con
cession to the claims of tile free States, not one pro
vision yielded to tiie desire of checking the extension
of fcluyery—nothing but the abandonment of one
point after another to the slave owner. The very bill,
relating to the slave trade in the District of Colum
bia, 1b but n copy of a law enforced in Maryland, a
slave State of which the District originally termed a
port In short, tho scheme is the most flagrant legi
lative humbug of tho day—a cheat which wants eve
the recommendations of tolerable plausibility.
the North is very hostile to one of the plainest pro
visions of tile Constitution, aud io order to pcrsimdo
them to submit to it, he proposes, as n compromise,
that, tiie Booth tliall surrender State sovereignty, and
allow the Abolitionists to legislate on the relations of
master and slave within our own limits. This is mu
tual concussion with a vengeance.
Increased Exports of Cotton Goods—From Mr.
Burn’s Colnniai Circular, now published, wc find
that there liaB been an increase during the past three
months In the expoit of manufactured goods over
that of last year to the following markets, viz : Cal
cutta, Madras, Singapore, Batavia. Hung Kong, and
other Chinese ports, Mauritius, Cape ot (iood Hope.
Const of Africa, Jamaica, Culm, nt. Thomas, Bra
zil, Columbia, British Nortli America, nnd tile United
States. To the latter market less has been^ scut du
ring tho past month than in January aud February.
There is n falling off in the export to Bombay, Bhang-
hae, Honduras, Chili nnd Peru, River Plate and Mexi
co. Tho most material increase is to Calcutta, 11,-
191,02’!’ yards of plain calicoes, aud 2,497,905 yards
of printed and dyed, over tho average ot tiie throe
preceding years. To Hong Kong anil Canton 5,817,-
730 yards of plain calicoes; to the Brazils, 2,43(1,194
yards plain, and 1,438.057 yards printed and dyed ;
to British North America, 1,525,450 yards plain and
3.997,328 printed nnd dyed ; and to tiie United'Stales
9,285 yards plain, nnd 4,301,636 yards printed nnd
dved. The principal increase is to Bombay, 1,751,535
yards plain; to Chili aud Peru, 3,860,063 plain, and
2,701,305yards printed; and River Plate, 1,985,627
plain, and 861,431 yards printed.
Ur. Polk—Contemplated Veto.—The editor of the
Nashville Union, liming received permission from
Mr. Polk just before his death to refer to some of Mr.
P.'s papers, with regard to his determination to veto
Territorial Bills with the Wilmot Proviso, and his
widow since his death having renewed tiie permis
sion, the veto message was found written when there
was some prospect of the Wilmot Proviso bring
tacked to a lull for giving territorial govermeuts to Cal
ifornia and New Mexico. It is a strong Southern doc
ument, anil upon it the following endorsement, in Mr.
P.’s own hand-writing:
“March, 1849. 1 took this message with me to the
cnpitol on the night of the 3d March, .1849, intending
to return to the House in which it originated, with
my objections, tiie civil nnd diplomatic bill, to which
an amendment offered by Mr. Walker, of Wisconsin,
had been adopted in the Senate, for the government
of California, lnid been amended in the House by en
grafting upon it the Wilmot Proviso. The bill with
the Wilmot Proviso altachrd did not pnss.it was
therefore unnecessary to use the message. J. K. P."
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From the Charleston Mercury.
Tlio Compromise-Tile Fugitive Bill.
Wo briefly and imperfectly noticed two of the fea
tures of Mr. Clay's scheme, when wo published his
report. Tiie immediate admission of California,—
a so-called State, formed in contempt of nil law and
reason—and the diemembenncutftf Texas, proposed
under a manifest threat, that, if she will not cotieeiIt
to sell her territory, the Uuited States will take it
from her without payment; these two features of
the plsn stand out in bolder relief than the other?
Athenjeum. The managers present a fine bill to
night. The force of the company appear in two ster
ling pieces.
The News in a New Dress.
We this morning present the News to our renders
in a handsome new dress. The use of a smaller type
has been found necessary, in order to cnuble us to
accommodate our increasing advertising patronage,
and at the same time to have sufficient available space
for the amount of reading Inatteg which we desire to
give our subscribers. * The type selected is a hand
some, compact letter, from the foundry of Bruce &
Co., New York, and will enable us, when occasion re
quires, to give, as much rending matter as is usually
contained in the lnrger dailies.
. We feel assured that our subscribers will approve
of this change, nnd that they will receive it ns another
enmest of our determination to make the Daily
even Morning News worthy of the liberal support, it
has received.
We have other improvements in contemplation,
which will he effected in due time; among them tiie
employment of an improved power press, by which
we will he enabled to throw off our large and increas
ing edition with greater rapidity than can be done on
the ordinary press.
The Compromise nncl Its Opponents.
In order thut our readers may see how wild npnrt
., „ „ , „ ., .. ^ .. ... , ■ are the altruists in their views of the Compromise
nnd naturally hrst strike the attention. We shall H .
have occasion to say much of them hereafter. I nrrnn - emi? iit, we give, in another column, two arti-
But there is another matter not so much on the
surface, to which we now call attention. It is of the
most serious import, though it is shutiicd over as if
a mere matter of form iu tiie report, and lias been
studiously kept in tho background by the letter-wri
ters in Washington. The Committee of Thirteen
reported back Mr. Mason’s bill for tiie recovery of
fugitive slaves, with nil amendment providing that
tin. slave, on his return to tiie State from which he
fled, may claim from the master a trial iiy jury on
tho question of his right of property. And the mas
ter, as a condition on which he is allowed to take
bock his sluve, i» to give bonds that he will submit
the matter to such trial. The pretext for such legis
lation is to preveiitthekHuuppingof free colored per
sons. Yet the Committee aver tlmt no instance of Hint
offence has ever come to their knowledge, nnd they
manifestly believe it one of the many slmms under
which Abolition carries on its war against the proper
ty of the South. Mr. Underwood cit Ky. in the Sen
ate a few days ngu, exposed this pretext ot kidnap
ping to merited contempt, and showed how absurd it
wnsto suppose that men would go off on a distant
expedition, to commit hii outrage equally nbhorent to
the opinion and the laws of the Sonth and North, with
tho most slender chance of succeeding in the fir-1 in
stance, and quite us little of securing their prize in
the second. He did not believe such a thing hud
ever been done, nor do wc, nor do the Abolitionists,
but it servos the latter as a point of attack, and the
more dishonest it is, the better it suits both their
spirit nnd their purposes.
But the new project gives n substantive importance
to this sham, and makes it the basis of a most extra
ordinary exercise of power on the part of Congress.
They propose to give rights to tiie slave, nnd to fix
conditions to the ownership of the master They
penetrate within the States, nnd seize upon the rela
tion of master nnd slave ns subject to their jurisdic
tion, and liable to bo modified by their legislation.
This is the first step, aud the whole North—the ma
jority iu both Houses,—urging them on in a career
oi^ aggressive measures.
The right of the States to the exclusive control of
the relation of master and slave within their own
borders, is directly invaded by this proposed law',
if the Southern States submit to it they allow to be
established a precedent of tearful import,—a preo.e.
dent tor the intrusion of Congrees within their bor-
ders, and the exercise of authority over the question
of slavery in its most domestic character. They sur-
reader themselves into the power of their enemies.
U this grossly unconstitutional exercise of power is
allowed, does any one suppose it will stop here i
1 ms beginning ot the assertion of jurisdiction over
domestic slavery ; this presuming to bestow rights
upon the slave, and to impose conditions to their
ownership on the masters, is a foundation broad c-
nough on which to establish over us a despotism of
Congress as absolute as that which turned the gard-
enstei Ban Domingo into a desert, and carried the
blight of poverty and vagrancy over the British Wist
Indies, It is a distinct assertion of power on the
part of Congress to regulate the relations of matter
and slave within the States. It is in fact letting in the
North—tho majority—to determine this momentous
matter for us. Once give them n foothold, and we
ought to know well what the consequences will he
They “ take no step backwards." They avrw that
their purpose is npthing.less than the utter destruc
tion of the domestic Institutions of the South, aud it
would indeed he a most extraordinary instance of
blindness, if we should choose this very time to in
vite them on by aa HClcwwledgPiueut of their right
to legislate for us oti the question that lies at the verv
foundation of alb
Such, then is the third feature of this Compromise
W Uch.il! to put sn end to agitation, and bring back
pa ace to a distracted country. Mr, Clay finds that.
cine, one from the N. Y. Evening Poet, a free soil ah
oliticin democratic Journal, nnd another from the
Charleston Mercury. It is plain from the course of
these papers that no middle ground, such as that as
sum'd by Mr. Clay, is destined to receive'the appro
bation of the extremes at the North and South.
It is profitable to compare these two articles, es
pecially the remarks of the editors, in relation to tlio
clause in the Compromise Bill which provides for the
recovery of fugitive slaves. A more consummate batch
of subterfuge nnd gross misrepresentation could not
well he put together, than tho paragraph from the
Tost. Tiie editor sets out with tiie assumption flint
the people of the South are a community of kidnap
pers. Up in this assumption he bases his argument,
when he knows that the most strenuous laws against
the crime of kidnapping are of force throughout the
South, and when he knows too that in every instance
where kidnapping has been attempted by Northern
men—as in n Into case iu Virginia—our authorities
liavo been prompt mid vigilant in prosecuting the
wrong doer, and in restoring the victim to his rights.
How far tiie objections of the Mercury are sustain
ed by sound reason—how lnr thy ure capricious nnd
ill founded, we leave the render to determine.
For our own part we are forcompromise on equita
ble grounds, and we believe the great majority of the
people. North nnd South, are for an immediate ad
justment of this distracting question, Politicians—
reckless demagogues, who are now using the excite
ment to bolster their own position—will doubtless
continue to throw obstacles in the way ot any settle
ment of tiie question *o long as it will serve their
purpose. It is to bo hoped, however, thut the good
sense and patriotism of the country will ultimately
prevail, nnd that the people, in the majesty of their
power, will rebuke the spirit of faction which has
brought us to the present threatening crisis. Then
will the very men who can now see no fitness in any
reasonable terms of arrangement, he the loudest in
proclaiming their own patriotism and sagacity, and
boasting to their respective sections, the immense
advantages gained by their exertions. God grant
that they may be forced to tiie alternative of making a
virtue of necessity, before they bavo wrought the
ruin of our cherished union.
Virginia Election.—The returns are now all in,
except six counties,, electing five delegates. The
Democratic net gain is six If the counties to hear
from result ns lost year, the parties in the next Legis
lature will stand os follows t
Whigs. Democrats.
Bennte 11 21
House of Delegates 55 80
66
Dem. majority on joint ballot 36
101
New York Weekly Journal;
lu another column of our paper will bo found tho
prospectus of this paper, and we take this occasion
to recommend it to all such of our readers as desire
n racy, spirited, sensible, nnd independent weekly
from the great metropolis. Besides being a hand
some, cheap, and comprehensive newspaper, the
Journal has taken decided grounds in favor of the
rights of the South, nnd ably maintains her interests
against the assaults of the Abolitionists. Such a pa
per has long been needed in New York, n press that
is not afraid to speak out against the fanaticism of tiie
day, and to tell the truth to the face of tiie vilifiers
and truduoers of tho Southern people and thpir insti'
tutions. Buell a journal has far greater claims upon
our people than any sectional organ that may be es
tablished in Washington city, to be wielded by politi
cal fnctioniets for their own selfish nnd interested
purposes. The Journal is independent in politics,
and will, of course, receive no support from politic'
inns. Upon the Southern peoplo it has strong claims,
which, we trust, will not he disregarded.
In view'of its merits anti character, we do not hes
itate to pronounce the “ Weekly Journal" tho cheap
est? and best weekly published in New York. Sub
scription price $1.
Resignation.
Hon. W. C. Preston lias resigned the Presidency
of South Carolina College, in consequence of ill
health. The withdrawal of Mr. Preston is not unex
pected, though the necessity for it is deeply lamen
ted by'the friends of the College. For the last eight
or ten years his health has been gradually failing,
nnd it 1ms been a subject of surprise that he has con
tinued to discharge the arduous duties of his office
so long. Tiie last tipie we saw Col. Preston was in
the fall of 1848, in Columbia. We had been accus
tomed to see him in his place iu the Senate, where
his commanding form and soaring eloquence made
him conspicuoua among the first rank of American
orators and statesmen. We have not forgotten and
never can forget the effect of his oratory during the
stormy session of 1834, when he, with Clay, Web
ster, Calhoun, Southard, nnd Pobtex of La.,
composed the opposition phalanx of the Senate, nnd
presented such an array of talent as has never been
nnd perhaps never will he again assembled in that
Iiall. But in a few years what a change had been
wrought by disease ! When we suW him enter the
court room at Columbia on the occasion of the meet
ing of the Bar in commemoration of the death of
Chancellor IIsarEn, we could scarcely recognize
in tiie bended and emaciated form, the palid check
and lioary head, tiie once portly nnd commanding
presence of Carolina's greatest orator.
Mr. Preston is one of the truly great men of nur
day, and Ilia loss to tile institution over which lie has
so signally presided nnd to which he has given so
much character, will be deeply lamented.
rj^A rencontre took place at Macon, Miss, n short j
time since in which Dr. A M. Clemens was shot and j
killed by James L. Stanback.
To the Learned.
A correspondent of the Mobile Tribune appeals to
the learned of that city for a translation of the follow,
ing lines of Ennius :
Aspera vincla foris proritant sidcra multa.
Fessima tela palam promittunt praclia dura.
The writer says he does not appeal to the bar, its
Lntinity being ot the species known ns canine : nor to
tin? faculty of medicine, its Lntinity being quantita
tive an d hieroglyphieal—nnd the end of both being
obolum. But, says he, shall the appeal be made in
vain to She church nnd birch ? Forbid it, shades of
Melnncthon and of Bush I Truly, these work for the
good of universal mini, without regard to ft'umma.
I count, (says the writer,) in niy well-worn black
letter copy thirteen stars. This' induces me to beg
your readers to exonerate me from any disunion in
tentions on account of any meaning thut may he at
tached to the above lines of old Ennius. He was of
the palmy days of ancient Rome, anil if treason he in
the lines, attribute the treason to fate prophetical,
and not to your correspondent.
Will some of our readers furnish us with a trans
lation ?
The Caban Invasion.
We find n great deal in our Southern exchanges
about the long-talked invasion of Cuba, which, from
what we enn gather, seems now actually to he in
process of accomplishment. According to the Mobile
Tribune, about a thousand men are now on their way
from New Orleans to Chagres, where the force is to he
very much increased by many, who, it is said, have
shipped thither from the enst for the purpose. What
number is to compose the expediticn is not stated,
but it is supposed that it will not exceed two thousand.
For these, it is also said, ample preparations iu the
way of munitions nnd means of deportation, have
been provided. It is stated, moreover, that the expe
diticn will be received at the place on the island where
it is expected to land, with open arms by the Cuban
or Spanish officers stationed there, nnd thut n well ar
ranged system of signals has been provided for the
benefit of the invaders.
This whole affair strikes us as a most absurd and
hopeless venture. If the rumors be true, and if the
invaders really have the sympathy nnd co-operation
of the Cuban people and military, still we consider the
enterprise an desperate and impolitic. Ciui it be sup
posed that England and France would quietly see a
neighboring monarchy despoiled of its domain by a
handful of men, whom they could, with some jus
tice, too, denominate as pirates nnd robbers. It would
be a much easier matter to take the Island from the
Spanish occupants, than to hold it in opposition to
the will of those powers, who would naturally sym
pathize with deposed sovereignty. England and
France, hut more especially England, arrogates to
herself the right to rob weaker nations—the lari' of
“might makes right" belongs peculiarly to tiie Brit
ish code, nnd having no disposition to see her example
imitated by others, she would he prompt in interpos
ing her might for the protection of the right iu this
case. In such an event tho conquerors would find
themselves ill a bad box, and as It would he out of the
question for our government to succor them, they
would speedily bo subjected to tiie tender mercies
of the Spanish authority, bucked by Enelish bayonets.
We are unable to discover any probabilities in
favor of tiie success of the contemplated scheme,
while we can imagine many wnys in which serious
mischief may grow out of it, not the moot remote of
which is the chance of involving us in a war with
Spain, nnd any number of allies.
John Shannon, who has been confined in the
Charleston jail for the long period of twelve years,
under suggestions of fraud, was on Tuesday dis
charged, by order of his Honor Judge O’Neal. A
collection was immediately taken up among the gen
tlemen of the bar, nnd the handsome sum of seventy
dollars contributed for the benefit of the discharged
pris oner.
From Tampa Bay.—The U. S. steamer Fashion,
Cajtain Baker, which left Tampa Bay on tho 7th insti,
arrived at New Orleans on tho 10th insti General
Twiggs was to leave Tnmpn on the 7th, in tiie steam
boat Colonel Clay, for the Carloosahntchee, with the
Seminole deligetion, to have a tal': with the Indians
•it Fort Myers.
Bread cant upon the Waters.
• Looking over our exchange for a small paragraph
with Which to “fill out" a coluinu, wo met in tiie
Charleston Courier tiie following which wo found
some eigiit years ago and published in the Madison
Miscellany. Wc have Bihoe met it, we know not how
many hundred tiliies, ns it had been drifting about on
the tide of the newspaper press. Little as we were
awere of it at the time of its perpetration, there
must he philosophy in it, or it never could linvc ob
tained such universal currency. We submit it to the
consideration of all newspaper borrowers:
"I sur Jemmy, lchd me your newspaper."
"I cant do it; you Would’nt lend me your new
coat the other day, you know."
“Nonsense; that's another thing; I only wnnt to
rend it to the Indies."
1 Cun’t come it. Jerry ; I only Wanted the wear of
your coat to see the ladies.”
WnMliiiigton Gossip,
Tho correspondent of the Charleston Courier
says :
xr P° lic y °* eome » indeed of a majority of the
Northern men in Congress, iB to defeat Mr. Clay’s
scheme, ns a whole. In lieu of it, they will pass, as
they say, a clean bill admitting California nnd do noth*
r* e * ci ^ to nu tiJ° r ize the President to ptiy the
civil list oi such governments ns the people of Dese
ret nnd New Mexico may establish.
Mr. Cloy thought that he would bo able to piiss his
bill marked A. in a week, but therein he is greatly mis-
bo heai
card in
taken. Almost every .Senator desires to .... m am
relation to it. nnd some will occupy more than olio
day nor has Mr. Clay so decided a mujority, if any,
tor bill A. as to enable to force it through by prolon-
ed sitting.
, By ih juy, tiie prospect of the ultimate pnssnge of
lull A. in tne House will he increased ; because public
opinion at the North will he brought to hear upon
those represetimtives who are now opposed to the
hill.
To morrow, it is supposed thnt, in the House, Mr.
Doty’s motion to stop debate on tile California mes
sage and hill will be pressed, and an excited sitting is
anticipated. The object will lie to report tiie Califor
nia bill mid pass it under the previous question.
Should the measure succeed, it will prove that tiie
Northern members are determined not to listen to Mr.
Clay’s s theme of compromise.
S5T Father Mathew was to takchiTfh^n—
tore from New Orleans yesterday. || l8 , nbors ' e |” r -
city have been attended with the most llatU rhi '" l
cess. Tiie citizens were making up a hand eom , S f '“ C ,’
to present to him on his departure. Ul ^
Oglethorpe Fire Company.
At n meeting of the Oglethorpe Fire Company \
held aktheir Kugine Room, May 14, i85o thal)]
ing resolutions were ottered and passed unanitad!?*
Resolved, That the warm and hospitable rccc •
which this company mot with from the PhatoW pr
Engine Co., on their recent visit to Charleston c •
ces them that hospitality and kindness, ore one nfT
principal characteristics of them, as citizens 0 f }
city. Taat the many acts of kindness -and V ‘J*
Decenej- oi* the Tribune.
We mentioned a few days since that the Agrarian
Editor ot the New York Tribune had employed the
swashing Mrs. Swis&helm as one of its Washington
correspondents, and that that woman was installed
in the gallery ot the House of Representatives, among
the politicians nnd reporters to furnish matter for the
New York “ Mud Machine.” The following is a
specimen of tho obscene scurrility dealt out by Mrs.
fSwissiielm, through the columns of the abolition
Tribune. The reader should bear in mind that Mr.
Webster’s offence consists in his noble stand in favor
of the Union nnd the Constitution. The chaste Mrs.
^wissiielm says:
“ I do not think it is prejudice tlmt makes me think
Mr. Webster’s face disagreeable; but to me it has an
expression of coarseness, as though his animal pro
pensities were rather stronger than his intellectual
powers. His face speaks the sensualist by nature—a
natural, innate vulgarity, that would require a large
amount of strict training to elevate into voluptuous
ness, such as is condemned by our people when de
scribed by Sue or liulwer. i know this opinion of
Mr. Webster will be resented by his western friends.
I have never seen any such expressed of him ; but
nearly every body knows that he sometimes drinks
to excess, and his friends here say he requires to bn
excited by wine to make him approachable—civil.
When quite sober lie is ns gruff' as a grizzly bear.
His mistresses are generally, if not always, colored
women—some of them big, black wenches, ns ugly
and vulgar as himself.”
A paper in Georgia thnt would give utterance to sudb
vulgar abuse of any public man, would bo regarded
as a nuisance, nnd would not be countenanced by our
public, and yet the Tribune nas its patrons even here,
among a people for whom it can find no terms of
abuse sufficiently expressive of its ruucourous hate.
Railroad Convention.
The Conventfcn met on Wednesday morning, nnd
adjourned after appointing n committee to investi
gate the credentials of those in attendance.
We are pleased, (says the Constitutionalist,) to see
by the reports of the President, Chief Engineer and
Superintendent of Transportation, that the affairs of
the Company are in a flourishing condition. The
gross receipts of the Road and Bank are put down at
$076,966 10, while the expenses, taxes interest, &<*.,
were only $383,606 19. From the profits, two divi
dends of 3.50 per shnre have been declared, being 7
psr cent, on the capital stock, and leaving applicable
to reserved fund, $105,066 19. The increase in re
ceipts for passengers, freight, and mails, is 44,792 42,
while the increase in expenses is $32,499 09—leaving
a net increase in profits of $12,392 34.
Effects of the'Torn ado.—The New Orleans
papers have accounts of the damage done by the late
storm in that vicinity. At Baton Rouge the steeple of
the Methodist. Church was blown down, the State
House was struck by lightning, several houses were
overturned, some of the largest oak trees were up
rooted, and a great number of horses, mules, nnd cat
tle killed. Tho sugar house of M’de Vve. Nichol, in
the parish of St. James, was blown down, nnd noth
ing left standing but the chimney. The sugar house
of M Bouery, on the adjoining plantation, was un
roofed.
Evidences of the severity of the storm were visible
at many points along the coast, large trees being up
rooted or broken off’ near the ground.
oily love we received ot their hands during our v - .
lias mode an indelible impresJlon on our heart/ j
will ever be a green spot ill our memory. That
warmest thunks are due, and hereby tendered to T
officers and members of enid company, ° ' C
Resolved, That tho thanks of this company
due, and are hereby given to tiie board of Fire Z-
ters of Charleston, for tho very elegant entertainm
given to our oilicers on the afternoon of M U y oj
for tlte honorable post assigned us in tile lit ,
annual parade, on the 3d inst. ' 0r '
Resolved, That tho thanks of this company am
due, and most cheerfully given to tho fair Lodie,”'.
Charleston, who so kindly furnished us with wrcnth 3
nnd flowers for the decoration of our engine, forth
parade, and that they will he remembered with
warmest gratitude, long, long after their favors shall
have lost their fragrance nnd Beauty, und we shall
ever pray for their healtli und happiness.
Resolved, Thnt the thanks of this compnny be th
en to the Vigilant nnd Etna Fire Engine Companies’
for their escort from and to tiie boat, and to the fire
department generally, for tho courtesies extended
to us.
Resolved, That the thanks of this company be giv
en to the Washington Fire Company of this city, for
their kindness iu escorting us to and from the boat
on our recent visit to Charleston.
JOHN OLIVER, 2d Foreman, l
MOSES Y. HENDERSON, ( Committee
CORNELIUS I). WALL. )
Savannah, May 14, 1850.
' FUNERAL INVITATION.
The Friends nnd Acquaintances of Mrs. ELIZA
BETH LEGRIEL, nnd those of Mrs. O. I.egiiel and
Family, are respectfully invited to attend the Funeral
of the former from, the residence of the latter, in
Liberty-street, this Morning, at 10 o’clock.
TEMPERANCE NOTICE.-A regular
monthly Meeting of the Savannah Total Absti
nence Society, will lie held at tiie First Presbyterian
Church, fin Brough ton-street,) on Friday Evening,
tiie 17th, at 8 o’clock. An ndddress will lie ihlivcrcd
by the Ilev.Mr. RAMBEUT.oftheFirstBnptistciiurch.
7 oonohowic and Yamassee Divisions, S. of T. are re
spectfully invited to attend in their Regalias.
By order. G. W. ADAMS, Prefd’L
W. Humphreys, Sec’ty. 3t may 15 .
n R A \V I N G, MATHEMATICAL AND
ISOMETRIC DRAFTING.—The subscriber,
upon his return will receive a few Pupils. A Pros
pectus may he hail at the Book Store of Mr. Jolm SI.
Cooper. J. Hf NFLEUlt.
may
Qt-w-tf
SCHOOL.—The subscriber begs the fur-.
L '-’s tiler indulgence of his patrons, on necotmt of
sickness, until Monday next. 20th inst, when the ex.
ercises of his School will lie resumed, iu the fume
place, nnd under the same afrnngeme nts as before.
BERNARD MALLON.
may 14 fit
P OltTRAIT PAINTING, by T. J.
JACKSON, No. 121 Broughton st Mr. J. will
also tnko Bluster Baris Casts of deceased persons,
from which, (far bettor than from Daguerreotypes)
life-like likenesses may be painted. aprl2(F-tf
I ff 1 Gov. Seabrook, of South Carolina. - !, has sug
gested to tiie Teachers throughout the State, the pro
priety of assembling together on the 12th July next,
at Columbia, to consider tile, subject of Free Schools,
the preparation of Elementary Books, and other mat
ters connected with the important subject of Educa
tion.
A similar convention in tills State, Was recently sug
gested by a writer in one of the Macon paper?. We trust
the subject has not been permitted to drop, as much
good would certainly be Ctfectcd by such a move
ment.
Railroad Convention in Augusta.—Tho an
nual meeting of the Stockholders of the Georgia
Railroad und Banking Company, took place in Au
gusta on Monday Inst. We learn from a gentleman
who arrived iu our city on Wednesday evening, tlmt
Augusta was cr owded with strangers, same 2090
having arrived on Tueedny. Accommodations were
so scarce, particularly in the sleeping line, that many
“ camped out,” nnd the evening previous a large num
ber found sleeping npartmepts on board the fine
steamer Hancock '.
The Cotton Crop in India.—The India Correspon
dent of the London Times says:
“I do not think that tiie Cotton crop of tho Deeenn
will lie good this year. I have hot heurd news of Be-
var, hut they are usually on a pur. Cotton is rising nt
Bombay, aud new Cotton is now 20 rupees a candy
higher than it was last year ut the same season. Now,
then, if the cultivators had the means of pushing tlieir
Cotton as it ripened nnd could be cleared, into the Bom
bay market, they would reap a plenteous profit; but
you know this to be impossible. The Cotton, even of
u short crop, must, tor die most part, lie over till
next season, without return, nnd gathering dirt, to be
sold after all mos:t likely at a price for less than is now
freely given. Nothing can bq done, it is evident, to
create, or rather renew, the Cotton trade, .till commu
nication is improved to theextentit ought to be, njici I
trust in the end will be.”
TURNER’S
Compound Fluid Ex-trnet of Conyza anil
Styllin$;m.
rf YIILS preparation is a Concentrated Extract, con-
1 turning all the Active Medical l’roperties of die
Conyza, (commonly known ns Black Root,) amltlic
Stvilingia, or Queen’s Delight.
These plants have been long used among our South
ern Negroes, and recently by the Medical Profo-ion,
with tiie happiest results, in cases of Chronic Rheu
matism, Ulcers of long standing, aud Secondary
Syphilis. It is much superior to any preparation of
Sarsaparilla ns an alterative, being more active nnd
prompt in its operation on the system. Those facts
have induced the subscribers to present to tho atten
tion of Physicians a fluid extract prepared strictly ac
cording to Chi inic.nl aniLBurninceutienl science, dc-
coiil oi' all the feculent and inert parts of the routs,
not doubting that' it will supersede the unscientific and
crude preparations hitherto used.
Brice—$1 per bottle, or six bottles for ?5.
Prepared and sold by TURNER A'- ODEN,
Monument-Square,
And by T. M. TURNER,
mar 29 181 Bay-street, Sovniinnli. Gn.
PASSENGERS.
Per steamer Win Senlirook, from Charleston Mw
Moyan, Mrs. I Walker, Miss Walker, L l'ickurd, B Mnr-
dica J M Dead, .1 daltmarsli.
Per Steamer David L Adams, from Augusta—
A M Kirkpatrick, D Kirkpatrick and lady, 11 >' MC '
Kitinoii and lmiy, Dr N A Long, J L Kirkpatrick, 1 ‘
Ftanton, W W Hardee, Ii Sti’obert, J T Mettgar, u
lilnkewood.
CONSIGNEES.
Per steamer Win Seabrook. from Charleston-—•
It It, Pmlclford, Fay & Co, Capt M S Miller, J «> '
liain?ou, L .1 Myers, L Cohen, W T William.on, Lot.
N Cruger, M & W Gumming. It Habersham & Son, o
E Barrie, Cohen & Fosdlek, It Dillon, A King.
Per sloop America, from flotilla—16 '
ton, Wood, &c, to G W Andersou & Bro, tuidothors
Per sloop Science, from Ogeechc-3,300 bushels
Hough Itico, to It. Habersham or Bon. . ,
I’cr se.hr Julia Eliza,' from Philadelphia '
Clagliorn ,fc Co, C A Greiner, T U.MUK-U Ckans "”'
H M Pond, Htvnttou & Dobson, T S YVayue, ,
&. Hit Co, Brooks & Tupper, N H A- . j j
Uucknell, Jr, &. Co, Turner & Oden, 1 Mi
Myers, A A Solomons & Co, I W Morrell, RE _
-S .Solomons, W T Williams, M A Cohen. }
it Co, Brigham, Kelly <fc Co, A Welles & Lo.
Solomons,'W P Hunter.
Commercial.
LATEST DATES. . ?
Liverpool, Apl 27 | Havre, Apr 24 | Havana. •
Savannah Cotton Market, Mny Oj ^
Tiie market yesterday was firm with a q
round, and. the ides reached 973 hales, as to > : t!
bales nt 11*; 17 at 115; 505 at 12; 59 at 1-f-
124; 151 at 124; 5 bales common Masterdon •
AUGUSTA, May 15.—The market during the
week has been quiet, the sales reaching * BIll f are
bales. Fnetoya are very firm in their demiw ■
offering theiretoeks sparingly, sc“ '' vU ' improved
positive orders. Yesterday there wna — j gum 1
demand, particularly for the lower grade , ull -£u}
ordinary to tPiiddling brought 11 to lit, S . „ c a tton
to 114, and rfrid. lair 12c. Little or no w . l2e .
offuring—fos this description holders nr
FREIGHTS.—’l’he River is in good flight-
We have no change to notice m tin’ r.i , „ali i>r
But little Cotton offering to cither i®>»
Charleston.
Savannah Exports, May J®* t
Havana—Per schr Lily—363 c ni *ks K'i .^^r,
Boston—Per sclir Enterprise 47,(Jon »“
5,000 feet Boards. n-Ti„nnell—3® cot “ S
K N Orleans—Per brig Leopold O Dome
Rico, 1 set Burr Stones.