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s-s THE MORNING NEWS. BY JOHN M. COOPBR. WILLIAM T. THOMPSON, EDITOR. TERMS: Daily Paper, 84,op.-:::; tri-weekly, $3 00 All new Advertisimcnta appear in both papers. * ADDRESS 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 ioa i< ) 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 ’ Jfnay 14 rP O It THAI T I’AINTX^v ^j wiii *■"& JACKSON, No. 121 Broughton rt. M filao taka Plaster Paris Casts ot uerr eotyp 05 ) *from which, (tar better than Iron* 1 8 J it c-likfv likenesses may be p«mtcd. -^ ISOMETRIC DRAFTING.—Ihe . 61 A Fr o»- upon his return will receive a “l ut-. Jo bc 5 pectus may be had at the Book ® t0 . re Hf , fjFLBCH- Gooper. J euw-ft may 8