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MM the morning news, BY JOHN M. COOPER. WILLIAM T. THOMPSON, EDITOR. terms: Daily Paper, $4,00t:::: Tri-weekly $2.00 All new Advcrtilcment8 appear in both papers. 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." ® AVAST 53TA 21 o Friday Morning;, May 17, IS JO. LARGEST CIRCULATION! ITF*t he Daily Morni.no News has now a circu lation larger than that of BOTH THK OTHER DAI LIES TOGETHER, and consequently is the,best advertising MEDIUM. Wo state this fact in justice to ourselves und for the benefit of the advertising public. £11?" See first page for our rates of advertising. Advertisements should be lmnilrd in at an early hour, to insure their appeumnee in the paper of tile next morning. s 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.