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THE MORNING NEWS.
BY JOHN M. COOPBR.
WILLIAM T. THOMPSON, EDITOR.
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TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTHERN STATES.
At a large meeting of the Southern members of
both Houses of Congress, held at the Capitol on the
evening of the 7th in -tent, Hpn. Hopkins L. Turney,
of Tennessee, having been appointed Chairman, at
a previous meeting, took tha Cnair; und on motion
ot the Hon. David Hubl^rd. of Alabama, the Hon.
Wm. J. Alston of Alabama, was appointed Secretary.
Waereupon, the Hon. A. P. Butler, of South Caroli
na, from the Committee appointed at a preliminary
meeting, reported an Address to t e Southern people,
reoomtuending the establishment, at Washington
City, ol a newspaper, to be devoted to the support
and defence of Southern interests, which was read
and with some slight modifications adopted.
The following resolution whs offered by the Hon.
Thomas I, Cliugraan, of North Carolina, and unani-
m rnsly aco ited by the meeting:
Resaioej, unanimously, That the committee, in pub
lishing the Address, be instructed to give with it the
names of the Senators und Representatives in Con
gress who concur In the proposition to establish the
Southern organ, as manifested by their subscription
to the several bodies of the plan in circulation, or
who may hereafter authorise said Committee to in
elude their names.
Maryland — Senator, Thomas G Pratt.
f irginia—Senators, R M T Hunter, J M Ma«ou,
Representatives, J A Sadden, Thos H Avarett, Paulus.
Powell, R K Meade, Alax A Hollady, Thos 8 Bocock
H A Edinunson. Jeremiah Morton.
North Corollna— Senators, Willie P Mnngum.
Re^reseualives, TA Clingman, A W Venable, WS
South Carolina.—Senators, A P Butler, F H El
more; Representatives, John M Queen, Joseph A
Woodward, Daniel Wallace, Wm F Colcocl:, James
L Orr, Armistead Btirf, Isaac E Holmes.
Georgia.—Senators, John McP Berrien, Wm C
Dawson ; Representatives, Joseph W Jackson, Alex
H Stephens, Robert Toombs, IIA Haralson, Allen F
Owen.
Alabama—Senator, J Clemens: Representatives,
David Hubbard, F W Bowden, S W luge, W J Al
ston, 8 W Harris.
Mississippi.—Senator. Jefferson Davis; Represen
tatives, Vv 8 Featherston, Jacob Thompson, A G
Brown, W McWiUie.
Louisiana.—Senators. U 8 Downs, Pierre Soule;
Representatives, J H Harmanson, E La Sere, Isaac
I! Morse.
Arkansas.—Senators, Solon Borland, W K Sebas-
tain ; Representative. William R Johnson.
Terns —Representatives, Volney E Howard, D S
Kaufman.
Mu.suu.ri —Senator, D R Atchison; Representa
tive, Juraea 3 Green.
Knt.ocky.—Representatives, R H Stanton, James
L Johnson.
Tvnuissce.—Senator, Hopkins L Turney; Repre
sentatives, James S Thomas, Frederick P Stanton, C
, H Williams. J G Harris.
Elarida— Senators, Jackson Morton, David L
Yule; Representative, E Carrington Cabell.
And upon motion, the meeting adjourned.
Hopkins L. Terney, Chairman.
Attest: Wm. J. Alston, Secretary,
Address to the people of the Southern States.
The Committee to which waa referred the duty of
S ri p iring an address to the people of the Slave-
olding States Upon the subject of a Southern or
gan, to bo established in the City of Washington,
put forth the following:
Fellow Citizens: A number of Senators and
Representatives in Congress from the Southern
States of the Confederacy, deeply impressed with a
6enseof the danger* which beset those States, have
considered carefully our means of self-defence with
in the Union and the Constitution, and have come
to the conclusion that it is highly important to estal •
lish in this city a paper which, without reference to
political party, shall bp devoted to the rights and in
terests of the South, so far ns they are involved in the
questions growing out of African slavery. To es
tablish and maintain such a paper, your support is
necessary, and accordingly we address you on the
subject.
lb the cbntest now going on. the constitutional
equality of fifteen States is put in question. Some
sixteen hundred millions worth of negro property is
involved, directly ; and, indirectly, tlrough not less
surely, aa incalculable amount of property, in other
forms. Bat to soy this, is to state leas than half the
doom that hangs over you. Your social forms and
institutions, which separate the "European and toe
African races into di.tmct classes, and assign to ca,-li
a ditferent sphere in society, are threatened with
overthrow. Whether the negro is to occupy the
tame social rank with the white man and enjoy
equally with him the rights, privileges, and immuni
ties of citizen: hip, in short, all the honors and dignities
of society, is a question of a greater moment thiinany
mere question of property cun be.
Such is the contest now going on—a contest in
which public opis.ion, if not the prevailing, is destined
tobeamost prominent force, and yet no orgm of
the united interests of those assailed has as yet been
established; nor does there exist any paper which
can be the comm in medium for an interchange of
opinions amongst the Southern Slates. Public opin
ion, as it has been formed und directed by the com
bined influence of interest and prejudice, is the force
which has beeu most potent against us in the war
now going on against the institution of negro slavery;
snd yet we have taken no effectual means to moke
and maintain that issue with it, upon which our safe
ty and jfitffhaps our social existence depends. Who
ever wfinook to the history of this question, and to
the circumstances under which we are now placed,
must see that our portion is one of imminent danger,
and one to be defended by ail the means, moral and
political, of which we can avail ourselves in the pres
ent emergtucy.
The warfare against African slavery commenced,
as it is known, with Great Britain, who, after having
contributed mainly to its establishment in the new
world, dm oted her mo.-t earnest effort*, for purpose*
not yet fully explained, to its abolition in America.
How wisely this was done so far as her own colonies
were concerned, time has determined, ana all com
ment upqp this sul ject on our part would now be en
tirely superfluous. If, however, her purpose whs to
rcacn and embarraa us on this subject, her iff ri
have not been without success. A oommen orgn, a
common language lias made the English literature
Ours to a great extent, and the efforts of tho British
Government and people to mould the public opinion
of *11 who speak the English language, have not been
vaip or fruitless. On the contrary, they Lave been
deeply felt wherever tlie English language is Epokrn,
snd tha moat efficient and dungerous, beet use, a* yet.
the South has taken no steps to appear und plead at
the bar of the world, before which f-he fessbecu turn-
hkinoned, and by which she has been tried already
Hfcvithout a hearing. Secured by constitutional giiar-
BB.nties, and independent of all the world, so far us its
^domestic institutions were concerned, the South lias
reposed uuder the consciousness of right, and iude-
psndeuce, and forborn to plead at u bar which she
knew had no jurisdiction ovor this particular subject.
In this we have been theoretically right, but practi
cally we have made a great mistake. All menus, po
litical, diplomatic, and literary, kuye been used to
concentrate the public opinion, not only of the world
at large, bat of our own country, against us; and
resting upon the undoubted truth that our domestic
institution,* were the subjects of no Government but
our own local governments, and concerned no one
but our*elves, we have been passive under these ns-
straits, until danger menaces us from every quarter.
A great party has grown up, uud is increasing in the
UniteJ Stateo, which seems to think it a duly they
own to earth und Heaven, to make war on a domes
tic institution, upon which are staked our property,
our social organization, and bur peace und safety.
Sectional feelings have been invoked, and those
who wield the power of this Government, have been
1 ample:! almost, if not qnite beyond their power of
resistance, to wage a war against our property, our
rights and our social system, wuich, successful!v
prosecuted, must end in our destruction. Every in-
ducemeui., the love of the power, the desire to accom
plish what tire, with less truth than plausibility, call
ed* “reforms," all r.re offered to teiujuthemto press
upon those who any represented, end in fact, teem to
, we
to the spoiler.
y under the Constitution isiu offset do-
sptial institutions are divided ami contemn-
lurselves treated with contumely and scorn
“ the avenues which iinve as yet been open-
‘ Re opiniou of tiw world. That these ns-
' havo had tbeir effect is not surprising,
ember that as yet hove offered no organ •
to then), find opposed but little, except
irta of members of Congress who
Red their voices ogninet what they
■jj and injarEct
It-is time that we should meetnnd maintain an issue
in which we Und ourselves involved by those who
make war upon us in regard toevery interest that is
Peculiar tous, and which isnot enjoyed in common
with them however guiratfticd by solemn compact,
and no matter how vitally involving our prosperity,
happiness mid safety. It Is time that we should take
measures to defend ourselves against assaults, which
cun end in nothing short of our destruction if wo op
pose no resistance to them. Owing to accidental cir
cumstances, nnd awantof knowledge of the true con
ditiou of things in the Southern States, the larger
portion of the press and of the political literature of
the world has been directed against us. The moral
power of public opinion enrries political strength
along with it atid, if against us, we must wrestle with
it or fall. If as we firmly believe, Truth is with us,
there is nothing to discourage in such an effort
The «ventuaf strength of an opinion is to be mea
sured not by the number who may chance to enter
tain it, but by the truth which sustains it; we believe,
nay, we know, that truth is with us. and therefore we
should not shrink from the contest We have too
much staked upon it to shrink nr to tremble—a pro
perty Interest, in all its forms of iucalcuahle amount
and value; the social organiraMon, the equality, the
libertv, nay. thecxistencoof fourteen or fifteen States
of tbj confederacy—all rest upon the remit of the
struggle in which we arc engaged. We must main
tain tneequality of our po’itieal position in the Union.
We must maintain the dignity und respectability of
our social position b fore the world; and we must
maintain mid secure our liberty and rights, so far as
our united efforts can protect rhern; and, if possible,
wo must effect all this w in r,. the pale of the Union,
and by means known to the Constitution.
Toe Union of the South up.in th»se vital interests is
nccosiary, not only for the sake of the South, but
perhaps foy the sake of the Union. We have gre nt
interests exposed to the assaults not only of the
world at large, but of those who, constituting the
majority, wield the power of our own confederated
States. We mu.-t defend those interests by all legit
imate means, or else perish either in, or without, the
efiort. To make n successful defence we must unite
with each other upon the ore vital question, and
make the most of our political strength. We must
do inori—we must go beyond our entrenchments,
and meet even the more distant and indirect, but by
no means harmless assaults, which are directed
against us. We, too, can appeal to the public opiniou.
Our assailants net upon theory—to their theory we
i nn oppose experience. They reason upon an imag
inary state of tilings; to this we may oppose truth
and actual knowledge. To do this, however, we too
must open up avenues to the public mind ; we, too
must have an o rgan through which we chu appeal to
the world, and commune with each other. The wnut
of sqph an organ heretofore, has been, perhaps one of
the leading causes of our present condition.
There is no paper at the sent of Government
through which We can hear or be heard tairly and
truly by the country. There 13 a paper here which
makes the abolition of slavery its main and para
mount end. There are other papers here which make
the maintenance of political parties their supreme
and controlling object, but none which consider the
preservation ot sixteen hundred millions of propety,
the equality and liberty of fourteen or fifteen -States,
the uroteciion of the white man against African
equality, as paramount over or even equal to the
maintuulance of some political organization which is
to secure a President; and wiio is un object of inter
est. not because he will certainly rule,, or perhaps ru
in the South, but chiefly for the reason that be will
p iwess an i bestow oliiee and spoils.
The South has a peculiar position, and her impor
tant rights nnd interests are objects of continual as
sault from the majority: nnd the party press, depen-
d nt ns it is upon the majority for its means of living,
will always be found laboring to ercuse the aseafl-
ants, and to paralyze all efforts at resistance. How is
it now! The Abolition party can always be heard
through its press at the seat of Government, but
through what organ or Press at Washington, can
Southern men communicate with the world! or with
each other, upon their own peculiar interests ? So
far from writing or permitting anything to be writ
ten, which is calculated to depend the rights of the
South, or state truly its case, the papers here are en-
g iged iu lulling the South into a tnlse security, and in.
manufacturing there are an artificial public senti
ment, exhibition for some Presidential platform
though at the expense of any and every interest you
may possess, no mutter how dear or how vital and
momentous.
This state of things remits from party obligations
and a regard to party success. And tuey but subserve
the euda of their establishment, in consulting their
own interests and the advancement of the party to
which they are pledged. You cannotlook to them as
sentinels over Interests that are repugnant to the feel-
tags of the majority of a self-sustaining party.
In the Federal Legislature, the South lias some
voice and some votes, but in the public press, as it
n w stands at the seat of Government, the North has
a controlling influence. The press of this city takes
it tone from that of the North. Even our Southern
p ess is t ubjectcd more or less to the same influence.
Our public, men, yes, our Southern men, owe fheir
public standing nnd reputation too often to the com-
mendatii n and praise of the Northern press. South
ern new papers republish from their respective purty
orgaus in this city, and in so doing reproduce, uncon
scious dcubtless in most instances of the wrong they
do. the Northern opinion in relation to public men
andmeasures. How dangerous suchastate of things
must be to the fidelity ot yuur representatives it is
needless to say I Tiny are but men, nnd it would be
unwise t“ suppose that they are beyond the reach of
tt mutations which influence the rest of mankind.
Fellow citizens: It rests with ourselves to altar this
state of things, so far as the South is concerned. We
have vast interests which we are bound by many
considerations to defend with all the moral and politi
cal means in our power. One of the first steps to
tliis great end, is to establish a Southern organ here, a
paper through which we may commune with one an
other. and the world at large. We do not propose to
meddle with political parties as they now exigt; we
wish to enlist every Southerir man in a Southern
cause, and in defence of Southern rights, be he Whig
or be he Democrat. We do not propose to disturb
him, or to shake him in his parly relations. All that,
we a.-k is, that he shall consider the constitutional
rights of tho South, which are involved in the great
abolition movement, as paramount to all party and all
otheVpolitical considerations. And surely the time
hugi come when till Southern men should unite for
purposes of self-defence. Our relative power in the
legislature of the Union is diminishing with every
census, the dangers which menace us are daily beeom
ing greater, and the chief instrument in the assaults
upon us is the public press, over which, owing to our
supineness, the North exercises a coutrolling influ
ence. So fur as the South is concerned, we can
change and reverse this state of things, it is not to
be borne that public sentiment nt the South should be
staled cr controlled by the purty press.
l.et us have a press ot our own. as the north has,—
both here nnd at home,—a press which shall he de
voted to Southern Rights, and animated by Southern
feeling; which shall Took not to the North, but to the
South for tho tone which ia to pervade it. Claiming
our share of power in federal legislation, let us nl o
claim our share of influence in the Press of the coun
try. Let us organize in every Southern town and
county, so ns to tend this paper nto every house in
the land. Let us take, too, all the necessary means
to maintain the paper by subscription, so as to in
crease its circulation, und promote the spread of
knowledge and truth.lLct every portion of the South
furnish its full quota of talent un money to sustain
a paper wllibb ought to be supported by all, because
it will be devoted to the inti-rest of every Southern
man. \ It will he the earnest effort of the Committee
who are charged with these arrangements, to prj-
c ure editors of high talent nnd standing; nnd they
will ul.-o sec that tne paper is conducted without up
potition, and without reference to the political parties
of the day. With these assurances we feel justified
in culling upon you, the people of the Southern States,
to make the necessary efforts to establish and main
tain tile proposed paper.
A. P. BUTLER.
JACKSON MORTON.
R. TOOMBS.
May 6, 1850. J. THOMPSON.
Any person wishing to become a subscriber to the
paper, the price of which will be moderate, can send
liis maiu and that of his post-office, to his Represen
tative ill Congress, without waiting for the Prospect
us to be issued.
.nr The Society for meliorating the condition of
the Jews, held its meeting in New York on the 9th
inst. Addresses were made by Rev. J. W. Murchison
and Moses Froukel, converted Israelites, from Con
stantinople. Receipts for the year, $5,641.76. Ex
pended in miauo.-i', 81,074.29. Given to Colporteurs,
8916.04. To other laborers in the cause, 8i!02.78.
S IT The Emperor of Russia has issued an official
notice to the officers ot the army of occupation, iu
Moldavia an J Wallachia. to “ally themselves iu mar
riage with the native Indies who possess landed prop
erty, whenever possible.” Present arms!
55P" In Die Senate, on Monday Mr. Dickenson
introduced a bill for the coinage of three cent pieces,
which was referred to tho finance committee
BJSfifAW'ffAIII'
Monday Morning, May 20, 1850.
LAHDEST CIltCULATION!
t'ff" The Daily Morning News lias now a c/rru-
latum larger than that of BOTH THE OTHER DAI
LIES TOGETHER, and consequently is thy hest
advertising medium. We state tills fact iii justice
to ourcelves und for the benefit of tho advertising
public.
E.-iS*** Sen first page for our rates of advertising.
• Advertisements should lie handed in at an
early hour, to insure their appearance iu the paper of
the next morning.
£-|p We have barely room to call the attention of
our renders to the fact that the managers of the A'he-
uaram Iinve, with their accustomed liberality, appoint
ed to-n!gU for the benefit ol' the Widow's Society, of
Savannah. To sny morn on such an occasion
would be to put in question the generosity and be
nevolence of our people.
The Bulloch Cnee.
A friend lias kindly furnished us with the following
statement of the points raised by Mr. Bulloch's at
torneys and argued before Judge Jackson.
The State )
vs. S Embezzlement nnd Larcery.
Geo. I. Billocii. j
Before the bills for indictment were handed to the
Grand Jury, which whs sworn and empunneled on
Monday lust counsel for prisoner challenged some
members of the Jury propter affectum, because
1st. The y were directors of the Bunk whose funds
the prisoner w*s charged with embezzling.
‘2d. That they were stockholders of the Bank.
Andchalleng id the array of the Grand Jury on the
ground
That they wi re all citizen-- of the city of Savannah,
which city omied $500,000 of the stock of said
Bunk.
It was contended for-the challenge that these facts
shewed an inte -eet in the inembars of the Jury, which
disqualified thf m from acting upon the case.
It was argue 1 against the right to challenge,
1st. That the prisoner was too late in making ob
jections to the! Jury, after it was sworn and empan-
neled.
2d. That theinterest of the Jurors was not such ns
to disqualify thtra.
The Court—podded that the objection came too
late, J imt there was no precedent for challenging a
Juror propter afliclum, or for any other cause, after
he hud been swain and empauneled. That the pen
dency of the proJicuticn wus notice to the prisoner,
and he should hive made his objections on the first
day of the term, -i-hen the jury lot was being called.
This point beingflecisive upon the motion, the Court
expressed uoofjbion as to the qualification of the Ju
rors, but directii. the bills of indictment to be laid be
fore the Grand Jiry.
For the moticato challenge, Charlton Sc Ward and
L. S. D'Lyon.
Contra, Law & Bartow and Solicitor General.
We.understam that the Grand Jury have returned
six true bills agailst Mr. Bullooh.
—2 .
New STOHE3.-SIr. O. Foley has lately erected in
Broughton-st., ajery handsome brick store, which is
one of the finest mildings in our city. It has already
been rented at $,000 a year, and will be opened in
August, ns a Fauiy Dry Goods Establishment.
Mr. F. has alsi commenced two other stores in
Barnard-et., opifisite the Planter’s Hotel. They will
be built of brid three stories high, and the fronts
will be finished tith Georgia Dry Pressed Brick.
In the burnt dstrict we notice the erection of sev.
eral brick buildhgs, and we understand that it is in
contemplation tf build seyeral very fine and commo
dious stores in his vicinity. Thus, the frame build
ings burned, wil be replaced by more valuable and
desirable structlros, which will be an ornament to
this eligible p v or{ot» of our city.
Deatl
The steamer
from Florida, brizji
of the death of,
Hibbard, who di
Thursday alternt >;
eight days. Cap]
fnvorably known
Mary's on Friday
and many friends ii
of Cupt. Ilebbard.
i. Gaston, arrived on Saturday,
tag us the melancholy intelligence
er late commander, Capt. John
d at his residence in St. Mary’s, on
m last, after an illness of nbeffit
. was about 47 years of age, and
our city. He was buried nt St.
ind leaves a wife and large family,
,n this city, to mourn liis loss.
f H
Southern Frees at Washington.
We publish ;o lay the address of the Southern
members of Cois ess to the people of the South, to
secure their aif (in establishing a paper in Washing
ton City, to bp. devoted to the advocacy of South
ern rights and tt crests.- It will be seen that the ad
dress is end ors^d >y many of the leading men of both
parties. We he*' not space to-dny for any commeuts
on this moverau , which, we perceive, has caused a
considerable se* ition in Northern political circles.
We have long !i t the necessity of an indnpondeut
Soutttern orgat pon which the people of the South
ern States mig « rely for a faithful and fearless dis
semination of la truth, regnrdlesa of the interests
of party. Had s eh a press been in existence three
years ago, the # le friends of the South would not
have witnessed I!: humiliating result which has been
shown in the late elegate elections in this State. The
strange apathy * licli our people have manifested in
regard to the 3o\ hern Convention, may be attributed
to tlie course y.rsued by the party press, who, on
either sido, havaieen unwilling that the people should
see the dangernat threatened them, ualess they be
held it through! medium that would give the' whole
subject a partjeoloring, and convert it into party
capital. • Theraran be no question, in our mind, tf
the utility of (ipress such as the one proposed, if
carried out in jod faith, and kept wholly aloof from |
partizon initiates; hut whether it is not too late in
the day to attipt to correct the errors of past neg
lect, is u doul{|in our mind, wliicli experience must
determine. Vjsh'.ngton is not the moat wholesome
atmosphere an independent press, but we see
among the cigi - s'of the address names of both polit
ical families, i lich, we think, should guarantee its
independence.
iJf* We ai
Duncan will
Trinity Churc
pers, but tlie books and papers belonging to the Sun
day School Union, nnd most of tho Records of the Port
Society. Messrs Thiermnu & Pringle saved their
books nnd papers.
Dr. Schmidt’s house was partially injured. Insur-
ed for $; 00 in tho Hartford Ins. Co. The brick
building Oil E,Bay street, own by S. Watson, and oc
copied by Johnston, Crews <fc Brawley was also coil-
Burned. Insured tor $8000 in tho 8. C. Ins. Co. The
stock of dry goods Was nlso iii-ureri~-$90,000 in Ihe
Charleston Ins. and Trust Co.; $10,000 in tlie S. C
Ins. Co.; $10,000 in the Agency of the Augu.-ln Ins.
and Bank. Co. Tho stock is partially injured. The
building on the north, occupied by R. A. Pringle was
slightly injured, ns was the stock ofboots and shoes ;
both slight. Insured A lot of merchandise in A. V.
Lawson’s Btore, uuder charge of Heckenrath, Wragg
& Co., was consumed. Insured in the Agency of the
Augusta Ins. and Banking Co., and tlie Charleston
Ins and Trust Co. Upwards of 5000 bales of cotton
and about 1100 tierce's of rice were consumed. The
major part of the cotton was in control of Jns. Adger
A: Co., and was insured for $200,000 in various com
panies ; the remainder, under control of Smith &
Collin und J. A. VViuthrop, was insured by two com
panies tn Charleston.
First Vote on (he Comiiromtac Bill.
In the Senate on Wednesday, Mr. Clny’s bill was
taken up, when Mr. Douglnss moved to lay it on the
table. The vote being taken, resulted us follows:
reas-Mesers. Baldwm, Benton, Bradbury. Cliase
Glurke, Cooper, Gonym, Davis, of Mass., Dayton,
Dodge, ot \\is„ Douglass, Rich. Greene, Haiti. Mil-
ler, Norris Seward snoil,Is. Smith, Spruance, Wales,
Winker, Webster, lulce.—24. •
JVoys—Messrs. Atchison. Bell, Berrien, Borland,
Bright, Cass, Clay, Clemens, Davis, of Miss., Daw.,on
Dickinson, Dodge, ot luwa, Elmore, Down* Foote’
Houston, Huntur, Junes, King, Mangum, Morton’
Pratt, Ru k, Soule, Sturgeon, Turney, Underwood'
Whitcomb.—28.
It will be seen that Air. Webster recorded his vote
with those of the enemies of tlie bill. To the honor
of the South but one Southern vote was cast with tlie
yeas.
Conflict of Jurisdiction in California. By
the last aci ounts trom California, it seems that there
ure two persons claiming to hold the office of harbor
muster of that port—one Mr. Ilagun, holding his ap
pointment under the State government; und the other
Air. Ring, exercising the same office by appointment
of the United Stutes authorities. Mr. Hagan de
manded of Mr. Ring the surrender of the office to
him, but he was informed that he could not he re
cognized as entitled to aet in that capacity. This
decision was confirmed by the collector of'the port
and by Commodore Jones ; the former declaring
that he should clear no vcsecI which pays fees t,(
any other harbor master than the one who hold ■
liis appointment under the government of the United
States. Buth officers were boarding vessels iu the
Harbor.
Celebration of the Pope’s Retubn.—In New
York, on Sunday last, tha Rt. Rev. Bishop Hughes,
after vespers in St. Patrick’s cathedral, preached an
eloquent sermon upon the return of the Pope, Pius
IX, to Roma, from tha wards “Sing, Oh daughter of
Zion, shout Oh I. rael, for the Lord hath taken away
thy Judgmenst,” &c. On the conclusion of the ser
mon a Te Deum was sung by a full choir in mngnfi-
cent stylo, nnd by the whole assembly, bishops,
priests nnd people, standing. A writer in the Balti
more Sun says it was a thrilling nnd sublime piece
of devotion, and had a very imposing Mfect.
American Medical Association.—This body,
which has been in session nt Cincinnati for several
days, adjourned sine die on Friday last, to meet a
Charleston in M ly next. Among others, the follow,
ing resolutions were adopted :
Resolved, That, the standard of literature in medit-
cal science he elevated, by requiring a morethorough
course of education.
Resolved, That when a phy sician resorts to patent,
medicines and nostrums, he be discharged by the
regular profession.
Resolved. That the various State and local societies
he requested to annually nppoint Boards of Examin
ation, whose duty it shall lie to procure specimens of
drugs from the stores within their limits, lor exam
ination, and report upon the same to their respective
societies, at least once every yenr.
Resolved. That the resp-'ctahle druggists nnd npo
theenries throughout the United States, be requested
to take active m -asures for suppressing the fabrica
tion nnd sale of spurious nnd adulterated drugs, nnd
that it lie rcspectiully suggested to them, whenever
practicable, to form themselves into Societies and
Colleges for the promotion of Pharmaceutical
knowledge und general improvement in their prepar
ation*.
Resolved, That a committee to be appointed, con
sisting of onemember from each State, whose duty it
shall be to collect information in regard to spurious
nnd adulterated drugs, and report the same nttlie
next annual meeting of the Association.
From Canton—Under d it i of February 21d, 18-
50, the Rev. George Loomis, Chaplain to Seamen,
writes to the office of the American Seamen’s friend
Society :
“Report is current here that Sir John Franklin has
made the northwest passage and is safe.*
“Also, thRt the Emperor of China ia dead.
“The wife'of the Rev. Mr. Whdden, of the South
ern Baptist Board was buried at Whampoa’on Thurs
day.
*No doubftlm, echo of rumors heretofore cur
rent among lis. *
r requested to state that Rev. John P.
each this (Monday) evening in the
le
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)
The Charlefn
destructive ci
morning lust,
to the amount f
shed-building
Wharf, and si
tion, consume
of Cotton on
Vunderliorst’i
and about
sured for $8
suraijfe Co.,
thut on the
covered by in
T. G2 Sill
Mutbewes &
Robfirt son, wl
ing. were lorl
papers,
The fire cxI
tgrudly injure i
son, Esq., and
Trust Co.,
chnndize ta
& Simous,
in the 8. C.
mostly raved
' The fli^nes
funning west,
DcSoussure,
C’hiirtestoii Fire.
in papers contain full details of this
c lagration, which occurred on Friday
d by v .'high property was consumed
$350 000. The tire broke out in a
i the South-east corner of Adguh’s
: extended its ravages in every direc-
between four nnd five hundred bales
it wharf, and a new brick building on
a liarf, containing a quuntity of Cotton
ierr.es of rice. The building was ta
in the Agency of the Protection In-
irtford, and the Cotton, together with
f form, (upwards of 1200 hales,) was
ranee ta the S. C. Insurance Co.
and Sons, I. Middleton and Co.,
tper, Menlove &. Lesetne, and James
se counting-rooms were in this build-
enough to snve their books nnd
site
Freshets are fashionable just now. Aprivata
dispatch to' the Charleston Courier from Cher w,
dated 16 itist., gives information that a great i'rcsl et
has been exp3rienced in the Pee Dee River nnd that
tho water is higher in that stream than if, hns been for
the past five years. The River planters will be great
sufferers by this calamity.
fyip* The Charleston Railroad Company have com
menced running accommodation trains from that city
to Aiken atid Columbia, on which passengers are char
ged hnlt price. Tills ennuot sifys the Mercury fail of
proving a grout convenience to the inhabitants nlong
the line of Road, and we have no doubt that our mar
kets will be benificinlly affected by it. ■: .
More Gold in the Pacific.—The New. York
Herald has papers of thel2tliof January from South
Australia giving furthur accounts of the discoveries
of large quantities of gold, nnd showing that heavy
companies had been formed tor washing it. It had
abated the disposition to emigrate to California, and
people who had engaged passages, were forfeiting
their passage money.
Slave Insurrection in Virginia Defeated.—
The Richmond Times learns from a private letter
from Lewisburg, that a diabolical plot was concocted
recently by a number of free negroes and slaves
against tlie lives of tho whites residing in Monroe
county. Saturday night, the 4th instant, had been
fixed upon as the time for commencing the work of
destruction. Their purpose wus to mnko a general
slaughter of the entire population and then to effect
their escupe to the State of Ohio. A colored girl,
however, gave information of the plot, nnd up to the
last accounts sixty of the ring-leaders had been ar
rested and imprisoned. 'The affair has produced
much excitement and n good deal of uneasiness.
iljkded west of the above block, nnd mn-
brick building owned by A. V. Daw-
iureff inthe Charleston Insurance und
I 00. ' There was u quantity of mer-
huflding, owned by Messrs. Matheson
Covered by un insurance of £15,000
ce Co. The goods, however, were
md the lose is consequently partial
ni reached the block of brick buildings
any of which were destroyed. J. B-
i, not only lost his own Books and pa
, foi J,
oi
ta -am
In tho Charleston Court of General Sessions
on Wednesday, in the case of the State against Levy
and Studlar for the murder of Charles Heneken, Levy
was found guilty of manslaughter, and Stadlar was
acquitted.
Earthquake.—A letter from Smyrna, dated April
6, says:—“Wo ha 1 a severe shock nt an earthquake,
which left scarcely a house uninjured, and ta some cm-
es threw them to the earth, a mass of ruins. Since
then we have had several severe shocks, but leas in
violence than the first.”
Ddstruction of tho Great Cathedral "*
ngossa, • f Sar.
Private letters from Spain give a startli
of the total destruction of the beautiful ,ra . ncc “ u Dt
Saragossa by lightning. On the 7ff, of “ athp dral 0 f
ding to the custorn/if the towus-pbonle a 8CC0r -
population, gaily attired, had assemljSa J, , wh ole
dral.to follow tlie procession of the Ho) v q lft c **the-
Tlie. crowd was imnien.se, and the acrarar »t.
preceded by a hand of mu <ic and a gun r .i .T! 0 "
Scarcely had the procession issued from t, “ 0r -
portuis ot the Catliedral, ere the hc«v n , e ^ w ivs
clothed With darkness, a huge black rlnnT?
a pall over the town, and s,fdte„Ty U,’e°^
the skies were opened, and the min'derend P a dl >" te8 «f
torrents that the whole procession was tnra, i ‘“'l
shelter within the Cathedral. The ,? ••»*
heads, nnd where overwhelmed wH, t °I ( l thej r
Cimmerian darkness which enveloped the ^ Ul e
bee. Presently there was heard a terrifin I. ^
coinpimied by a noise loud ns the rotoim? TfIL.’
It was found that the lightning had struck th^' ^
oi the Cathedral, and, entering thrbuvi, , f P lr ea
numerous interstices of the light and BfadWta of ,h «
tectum, struck dead the bell ringer nn,l , arcl| l'
to the timber roofing, which immediately li£L I "’i t ? tel
with a lury admitting of no control !,]t , eJ , funl >
bee -end continued to pour down their wl,™?' 1 'te
the burning ratters. The crowd, ureferin™ " ’*1’"“
ter to fire, rushed forth into the street M 6 ” Wa '
Which was pouring in torrents, and left tlm ,’, n Wrou ?t
ed flames to do their fiery works. The roofr's' 11 '^'
wards the afternoon, and then Ule, priests i! '"" 0 -
people to attempt the preservation of the 't®
tlie course of the llaines was at lenetbT ar ’ a,, ‘ 1
Thus has perished this nohit at specimen of “ rr f , ‘ tt ’d.
tical architecture iu all Arrngon. perhaps in all'Sp*'
Tho Washington* ~correspondent nf a
Charleston Courier says: “ 9
It is now certain flint there will be no fra
Mi- ,1 t5nuvtard Pt ’ 1,098ibly ’ ‘h™ 6 ' 1 ^ *"S»SS!S}-
The Gaiphin Committee are to report this W ,
it is known that they will commend the allow'S
interest on the claim. «uceor
The deficiency bill was finally p,is 6e d yesterdav
it is the last appropriation bill that will be na-sL'u 1
lore 'he great question of the day is di,p 0eC d of
1 be Census bill is not yet quite finished. But A*
.senate have concurred m the House ann mlmenT i.
mg the number of Representatives in the „ .
two hundred and thirty.three. That part of the al*,!
which provides for the collection of statistical i,Ff
members™ 8 wurmly opposed by many' Suutheni
e VW A man named John Givner,a regular loafer
was found dead on Sunday morning, near a limekiln*
in New York. He died Iroin suffocation, it appeared’
caused by the gases evolved from burning 0 v«t
shells. 11 y fct
The Compromise—Opinions of the Washin<j.
ton Press.—The Washington Republic express its
belief that the “great platform of compromisepropos-
ed by the committee of thirteen’’ will yet be adopted
The signs, it says, are more cheering than heretofore.
The Washington Union is assured by intelligent mem
bers of Congress, “thut tlie great platform of com-
promise proposed by tlie Committee of Thirteen may
be ultimately adopted.”
Horridle Affair.—A copy of the Bangor Whig
states that in Atkinson, Piscataquis county, (Me ) on
Monday last, Mrs. Hutchinson, formerly of Glenbum
in a tit of derangement, cut the throats of three of
her children, nnd also her own tbront. 1’wo of the
children are dend, and it is thought that Mrs. Hutchin
son will not survive. The other child, it is expected,
will recover.
C'gf The emigration from New South Wales, into
California, has been alreudy very great, and it is des
tined, it would seem, to be much extended. Out of
the Savings’ Bank of Sydney, N. S. W., £30,000
were drawn in one week in November last, by per
sons designing to try their fortunes in California and
notice was given by others of the working classes
that, in the month of December following, £70,000
would be called for. This heavy draft upon the Sav
ings Institution obliged them to seek temporary as
sistance from other banks. Connected witn this, we
1-am that at the same time there were some three
hundred houses, from tho same causes, for sale or
lease in Sydney—no applicants offered. The houses
might bo bought for the value of the materials, So
11 large influx may yet be expected from the Australi
an Colonies.
Georgia Dry Pressed Brick.—We were shown,
a few days ugo, a specimen of this brick, in its un-
burnt state, which wus ns smooth as glass. Thu beau
ty and regulurity of the brick hns fnvorably impresteJ
every one who has seen them, and induced tho belief
that they will, in due time, supercede the Northern
brick, heretofore so extensively used by our builders.
The World’s Industry.—Sir Henry Bulwerhai
addressed a letter to the Secretary of State, under in
structions from his government, in which lie soys,
“that her majesty’s commissioners have settled the
amount of space which may ba, assigned to the pro
ductions of each country in the building which is to
be erected lor the exbibitionin Hyde'Park, and that
they have nllotted to the productions of the United
States eighty thousand square feet,” one half of which
will se taken up by passages and aisles.
Jjgp’ Nearly a thousand emigrants arrived in Bosjon
on Wednesday.
Temperance Meeting.
At a meeting of the Savannah Total Abstinence So
ciety, held at the first Presbyterian Church, Brough-
tnn-Btreet. on Friday Evening, May 17th. The meet
ing was opened by prayer by tho Rev. J. B. Ross.—
The minutes of tlv* previous meeting were rend by
the Secretary and confirmed.
The audience was large, and many ladies honored
us with tlicir presence, ns if ready to assist in so no
ble a cjiu ie.. The Rev. Mr. Rambnut, of the 1st B S P'
tist Church, who so kindly consented to address the
Society, was then introduced, and warmly advocat
ed the temperance cahse and its Institutions.
The Pledge was then ottered by Vice President
King nnd Secretary Humphreys. After passing (t
through the audience, we were pleased to find tho
names of many ladies who were willing to use "'0-
man's influence in plneing unfortunate man
in his
once noble position in society nnd in the sight of ,s
Creator. The gentlemen were not backward in t e
cause, as the names of muny, since our last meetm-.
have been enrolled, ami stand ready to aid us in t m
Temperance Reformation. . ,
Vice President King addressed the Society-, o
offered the following resolution, which was nn.m
mousiy adopted. ’ ,
Resolved, That the Secretary of this Socle y
thorized to address e.very minister ot the gospe < •
ing them to preach n sermon on Temperance to ^
respective congregations,- nnd to use tlicir m u ^
in promoting the Temperance Reformation “
vnnnnh, and that a copy of the Resolution l>c ™
mitted by the Secretary to each of the minister
dressed. » ,
There being no further business before the o ■
it was cloBod with prayer by the Rev. O. C. Bar
GEO. W. ADAMS, Preside
W. Humphreys, Secretary.
r^S^OOWflie subscriber
thcr indulgence of his pntrone, on a ^ e%
sickness, until Monday next, 20th mst^ w _ra. fan io
ercines of his School will lie resumed, . f or e.
plrnje, nnd uuder the same MALL° s ’
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upon his return will receive a “l ut-. Jo bc 5
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