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SOU THE RN TRIBUNE EDITED il* PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY wm. B . HABKIIOm. [rOR THE SOUTH IRS TKIBIiKE-J NOW AND THEN. There arc moments when mind seems enshroud ed in gloom That spark of Divinly cannot relume.— When a cloud of despondence hangs over the heart. Like night o'er the earth when the sunbeams depart. Such moment tcill come, in spile of uur pow r!— At dawn, or at sundown, or noon’s zenith hour. At which we will feel we re. friendless and lone, That cv’ry hope's withered —oui joys all have flow n ! Oh! if there's a heart in this region of Light— Where knowledge has spread ’till il dazzles the sight.— Oh! if there's a spirit despondent and sad— To commune with that spirit my soul would he glad ! “ Fear not!” tho'the hour seetns darkness and gloom ! And sadness your portion, and lone'iiess your doom ! ’Tis but for a season, and then all is clear ! You hare friends to welcome and offer you cheer!— Bright prospects before you— oh ! tarry not here, But march on ahead where those prospects ap pear ! Ere life’s stage is run, 1 expect to find Someone who with me, is congenial in mind. And when the adoption of this friend I’ve tried I’ll grapple more closely this friend to my side ! GENUS lIOMO. Spirit of the Southern Press. North Carolina. —Gen, Taylor and his servile Northern minions arc sadly out of their reckoning when they talk of pre serving tho Union by fooce. It was not made by force, and it can be held togeth er only by the principles of justice, com promise, and a common affection. Nulli tication and Secession are very different results. A State or States have the right to secede, and there is no power in the Fede ral Government, the creature and agent of the States, to reduce them to subjection. A sovereign State cannot commit treason. Even if dissolution should take place,wc have no fears of invasion from the Nortti —Mr. Bissell, of Illinois, and Mr. Tha deus Stephens and Horace Mann to the contrary notwithstanding. The Yankees are as brave as any people under the sun, Jbut it is a habit of theirs to count the costs and chances of war. What could they gain by invading us 1 Suppose they were to raise an army of one hundred thousand men, how many of them would ever pass Virginia I Every plain in that gallant file' wuunt’iYcbive’ ureir -nesQ m -rteafls'; and from every bight, eveiy corner, and every ambush would they bo picked oft - by the unerring rifle. No power which the North could muster, if even led on by Zachary Taylor with Col. Bissell to aid hint, could subdue millions of brave men, fighting on their own soil in defence of their social and politicol rights,and for the preservation and security of eighteen hun dred millions worth of slave property. The Yankees know this. They may blus ter and threaten, hut that will he all. [North Caroliniz Standard. ueorcia.— me iNew York Courier and Enquirer talks editorially with great glibness of Southern traitors, and inso lently threatens the South with the armies and navies of the Federal Government, if any attempt at secession is made. There is but one word to be said in re ply to all this bullying and insulting lira vado. IheL ederal Gavernment cannot be held together by force. When affairs come to that pass that its only salvation is ‘‘by the grace of God and gunpowder,” it is already dissolved. There is not phy sical power in the whole of the remaining States of the U nion to conquer us, if the South, or any considerable portion of it, withdraw from the Union. The Presi dent is mistaken if he supposes that he can muster in the South even a Corporal’s guard, to carry out his threats. Avery small quantity of hemp well he sufficient to hang all such rraitors among us, if there oe any such, who would raise paracidal hands against their own native South. Augusta Constitutionalist. Tennessee. —At a recent meeting in Philadelphia, (not the great Democratic meeting) the following resolution was a d opted. "Resolved. That wo implore our fellow -citizens of Tennessee to save their State, the South, and our common country from the disgrace of of a second Hartford Con vention, by preventing any band of con spirators from holding their treasonable as semblages upon the soil of Tennessee.” Wc can safely answer those who make this appeal that no Hartford Convention is meditated ; and if those who thus im plore us will let us alone, and cease their insults and aggressions, there will be no need of any Convention at all. We can add, that J ennessee will yield up every thing but her honor and her vital interests to preserve the Union ; and these she will maintain “at all hazards and to the last ex tremity.” In this contest, .forced upon her against her will by ambitious and wick ed men she will stand by her Sonthern sis ters. Let these Philadelphians appeal to the I hadcaus Stevensens and other whir* leaders of their own State to let us akme’, and if they succeed they will not be under the uece =sity of making any further ap peal.— [Nashville Unions. Louisiana. —Tho North and West are stronger than the South. They have more Representatives; more electoral votes, than the South. It may he safer to threaten the latter, and ou that very ac count we do not, we cannot believe, that such language ever proceeded from Gen. Taylor. Nor would such language he be coming in any Executive of this Union. The President is no Autocrat, ruling by divine right, with armies and navies and the public purse at his command. It is a usurpation for him, without the con sent of Congress, to declare war,to threa ten blockades, of even foreign ports, much more of the ports of the sovereign States of this Union. Ilis simple duty is to see that the laws, as they are passed by Con gress, are executed. If he goes beyond this, lie is a tyrant and a traitor, We think it is a great error to imagine that the people of the South can he brow beaten into an attachment toa Union which ceases to command their affection, when it is made the means of oppressing and ruining them. These threats may not now Insufficient to drive themintodisaffection, hut they will sink into the hearts of our people, and will rankle there until the at tachment, which it is worse than idle to insinuate does not exist in every Ameri can bosom, will be converted into indiffer ence and hostility. The South is not to he ruled by threats. [A T cw> Orleans Delta. Misssissrri.— The Nashville Con vention. —We learn from the Mississip pian of the 27th ultimo, that the report of the Committe on Federal Relations was the day before unanimously adopted by the House. The report provides for the election by tho Legislature, in joint con vention, of four delegates for the State at large, and by the people of two delegates from each Congressional Districts, in ad dition to the delegates to Nashville Con vention appointed by the people in State Convention in October last. The sum of $20,000 is appropriated for the defrayal of expenses, ami the sum of $200,000 is re served in the treasury for contingencies. The 13th resolution declares that the State of Mississippi will stand by and sus tain her sister States of the South in what ever course of aciiou may ho determined on by the Convention of the slaveholding States, to he held in Nashville on the first Monday in June next. An amendment offered by Mr. Stark, and adopted, author izes the Governor of the State to issue writs of election immediately upon the approval, by him, of the resolutions. Alabama. —The information in ourlel eg.iaph news this morning touching the declrations of our President seemsincred itahle. If it he true, Gen. Taylor has ta ken the surest way to bring about the ca tastrophe which he threatens to control.— In the South it may he said, there is some die proper to he used in the presentemer gency ; hut none we believe, as to the in justice of the measures now sought to he earned by the North, or the duty of re sisting them, if they he carried. Let one blow be struck against us, as is here threat ened by General 1 aylor, and throughoui the whole of this country there will be hut one universal great idea—that of war. General 1 aylor thinks erroneously, from his life spent in camps, in the despotic drill of official power, that the freemen of these States are like the ranks of men to whom, in the army, the nod of the officer is law. There is no law to unite South to North—section to section—hut the law of light, and that, too,comprehended,and acknowledged by the States which com pose the Union. This violated, and the cohesive power which joins Stato to State falls down, and becomes inert. [Mobile Tribune. Florida. —We hero proclaim to our sister Southern States, not without sulli cient authority, that as surely as the Nash ville Convention meets, just so surely will delegates he appointed to represent Florida in that body. The Venerable la dy, who, with broom in hand, attempted to sweep bnck the ocean, heaved forward by a September’s storm, labored not more vainly than to do those who now attempt to stay and retard the movements of the Southern people for the protection of their rights and their honor. They would per haps do well to consider whether they he not in danger of being overwhelmed by the current which they are so unwisely op posi ng.— [Floridian. Texas. —This State has nobly wheeled into the Southern line, and her legislature lias passed, unanimously, strong Southern resolutions, declaring that State and peo ple “prepared to make common cause with our sister States of the South, and cordially to corporate in any manner of de fence of our constitutional rights.” The first four resolutions are verbatim, tiie same as those offered by Mr. Calhoun, in thcU. S. Senate, Feb.'lO, 1817, which brought down on him the denunciations of Col. Benton, and Gen. Houston, of Tex as. At the same time, to give point to this compliment to Mr. Calhoun, a resolu tion returning thanks to Gen. Houston, for the manner ol his discharge of his Sena torial duties, was voted down by a majori ty of two-thirds. The Legislature also authorized the Governor to appoint S dele gates (four from each Congressional Dis trict,) to the Nashville Convention. “This” (says the Charleston Mercury,) “is Texas at home, as represented by men who feel her own warm breath upon their brows. Avery different thing freui Texas as rep resented at Washington, by Gen. Hous ton, with gales from the White House, fanning his cheek.”— Columbus Times. From the Columbus Enquirer. Nashville Convention. A public meeting, in answer to the call previously made in the papers of this city, of the citizens of Muscogee county, with out distinction of party, was held in the Long Room of the Oglethorpe House, on Saturday evening, 9th inst. The meeting was organized by calling Dr. Thomas Hoxey to the Chair, and ap pointing A. H. Cooper Secretary. The room, prepared and furnished with every accommodation by the liberal hosts of that well known establishment, was soon occupied by a very large and res pectable audience. After the meeting was called to order, Mr. John Forsyth made a short address, explaining the object of the call, and offer ed the following preamble and resolution : Whereas, the Democratic members of tho Georgia Legislature foi thesecondCon gressional Distrct, in Convention at the Seat of Government, have nominated Col. Henry L. Benning of Muscogee, as one of the delegates to represent this District in the Southern Convention, to be held at Nashville, in June next— Resolved, That this meeting cordially approve of said nomination, and recom mend the nominee to the suffrages of the people of this District. Resolved, That of the county of bealsonominatedby this meeting, and recommended to the people of the Dis trict as a suitable person to represent them in the Nashville Convention. Resolved, That inasmuch as the time intervening before tho period appointed for the election of delegates by the people, is so short as to render it difficult to effect tho election of delegates in all the coun ties of tho District to a Convention, that this meeting recommend to the people of the several counties to meet and express their views of the nomination, made at Milledgeville, and by this meeting— On motion, the Chair was requested to appoint a Committee of six gentlemen of the Whig parly, to fill tho blank in the se cond resolution,with the name of some pro per and competent gentleman of that party. The Chairman appointed Hon. G. E. Thomas,H. S. Smith,.! .Johnson, P. A.Clay ton, M. J. Crawford, and Samuel W. Flournoy. [Mr. Flournoy declined acting upon the committee, and after giving his reasons, was excused by the meeting. The Chairman appointed A. S. Ruther ford to fill up the committee—which, hav ing retired for a few minutes, reported tho name of Martin J. Crawford, Esq., of Mus- cogee. The report of the committee was accep ted, agreed to, and the resolutions unani mously adopted. Upon motion of Col. S. Jones, it was. Resolved, That all the papers of this District, and also the papers of the cily of Macon, he requested to publish tho pro ceedings of this meeting. seswere delivered by"Co?. 1 "R*glories',’ M. J. Crawford, Esq. and R. J. Moses, Esq. to the patriotic sentiments of whom, the meeting enthusiastically responded. The utmost harmony and good feeling prevailed throughout the evening, and a°t a late hour the meeting adjourned. fIIOS. IIOXEY, Chairman. A. H. Cooper, Secretary. AV it v the Change ?—ls it not singular that Southern papers will suffer them selves to he misled by the merest phantoms of imagination. They are saying now, some of them, that the Northern Whigs arc opposed to the Wilmot proviso. Well for truth s sake let them add the reason. Mr. Wm. Duer, a repiesentative from New York wrote a letter to the editors of the Albany Evening Journal, dated Jan. 11, 1850, in which he said : 1 here is no diffeience of opinion amono them upon that question. It is my belief that every Whig member from the North will vote for the Wilmot proviso. Why have they given up the Wilmot proviso ? Because in tbo California ad mission scheme they expect to get every thing they want. If they did not, they would be to a man fortlie Wilmot proviso. Augusta Republic. Newi.y Invented Steam Wagon.— Tbo Galveston Journal, of the 15th ult. says :—“ The committee appointed to ex amine the newly invented steam wagon of t apt ait) Woods, of Houston, report its cost, with all appendages at SIO,OOO. It will weigh about twenty tons, and carry one hundred hales of cotton at the rate of twelve or fifteen miles per hour; hut any sized engine can he constructed on the same plan, with an effect proportionate to its dimensions. It is also the opinion of the committee, that this engine would soon so consolidate the loads that the rains would have no effect on them. The in ventor proposes, if desired, to attach to the engine a machine for ditching and making roads, capable of making two miles of good road per day.” ITT* The Wild Woman has been re cently seen again on the hanks of the Na vida, in J exas. Mr. Glascock pursued her with dogs, and threw a lasso upon her shoulders, which she eluded and escaped mto a thicket. The creature is about live feet high, and covered reddish brown hair, which is very long upon the head and neck’. It ran with the speed of a deer, and com ing to a creek, dropped a stick six feet long and polished like glass. Several set tlers who have seen tho stranger concur in believing her to he human being. Twelve years ago footmarks of three were seen together, but within the last year only the footmarks of one have been visible. It is thought some children were lost or secret ed in the woods, and have grown up wild, living upon berries and such things as they can steal from settlers. Important Report op tiie Sel retauv of War. —The Secretary of War has laid before the House of Representatives an exposition of the character of the forces employed in the Mexican war, and the losses of the respective arms of the ser vice during hostilities. One of the taular statements shows that the strength of the army at the commence ment of hostilities with the republic of Mexico, in April, 1849, was 7,24-1; the regular force on the frontier of Texas, May, 1546, present and absent, 3,554 : the number of troops that joined, the several divisions of the army in Mexico, including recruits, 27,470, of which 15,735, were of the old establishment, 11,186 new regi ments, and 548 marines—which, added to the force on the Rio Grande in May, 1846, makes the whole number of the regular at my employed everywhere in the prose cution of the war, inclusive of July 5, 1848, the date of the President’s procla mation of peace, about 31,024; 35,009 men were recruited from May Ist, 1846, to the termination of the war in IS4B ; 32,190 were put en route to Mexico, which exceeds the number joined, as reported on the rolls and returns. Recapitulation of the casualties incident to the whole number of volunteers, under various periods of service, is as follows : Discharges before the expiration of the term, 9,169, of which 7,200 were for disa bility. Deaths, 7,015, to wit:—Ordinary, 6,- 216 ; killed in battle and died of wounds, 607, accidental, 192. Resignations, 279; desertions, 3,876. Forces employed and mustered into ser vice.—Old establishment, 15,736 men. Additional force, 11,186 “ Aggregate of regular army, 26,92 2 Volunteer force.—General staff', 272 Regiments and corps, 73,260 Total regulars and volunteers, 100,454 Os the 15,736 men of the old line, 800 were either killed or mortally wounded. Os the 73,260 volunteers, 600 only were killed or mortally wounded, showing a dif ference of five to one. At Molino del Rey, in two hours, 706 men were killed and wounded. At Buena Vista, which lasted two days, Gen. Taylor’s loss was 673. 1 he former was by far the most sharply contested fight of the war. Globe. The B enefit of Advertising. —But very few ol our merchants, business men, and money seekers appreciate the full benefits of advertising. If they would but give this matter a moment’s thought, they would at once see the immense im portance of it. Who are the successful business men l Look around, and on ex amination you will see that they are the persons whoadvertisediscriminatingly and liberally. TheNew York Day Book says, that thousands of men in that city have be come millionaires just by advertising. Ww,. lltumliGili, Ot^mcilOCK and Sands, and an army of syrup and pill venders are rich. And so it is in every hianch of business. All rich men have not been large advertisers, hut all large advertisers, from ihe maker of patent cra dles and bedsteads up to the owner of a dozen steamships, are rich men. The dealer in India-rubber goods, the gold-pen manufacturer, the “silk goods” dealer, the “prints only ’ dealer—all, of every class and every trade, who have advertised ex tensively, have made money, have got rich. It appers a little strange at first; but on a moment’s reflection every trader will see that the advantage of havine his name always before the buying communi ly is more than equal to the cost of adver tising.—Albany Knickerbocker. Look out for Rogues.—The Madison Family V isitorof 2nd instant, says: “Several villains have made their ap pearance in our town during the last few days. A man calling himself Wells was found passing counterfeit money, two weeks ago to day; was apprehended, and is now in jail, awaiting his trial. His money consisted of S2O, on tho bank of Georgetown, S. C., and so well executed that no one hut the closest observer would detect it as counterfeit—and of spurious gold coin. It seems that several are con nected in this business, as on tho evening in which Wells was taken, two men passed through town who made inquiries for him, and learning his condition, passed on. One of these men proved to bo his brother and the other,a man named Eaton. They passed one of their bills in Clarke Cos., and were pursued and one of them taken ; but having none of the bills about him he was released. Eaton, who seems to be their ringleader, escaped. On last Wednesday night a watch was stolen from the room of a gentleman stop ping at the Planter’s Hotel ; and on the next morning some eight or ten dollars were stolen from tho variety store of Mr. Markham. A stranger, who had been seen in town tbe night before, was suspect ed, and accordingly search was made for him, which resulted in finding the man, but he had no money. He was released, and soon after the money was found secre ted near where he was taken. Search wa3 again made for him, and again ho was apprehended. It was proposed to rcleaso him it lie would produce the missing watch. He pointed them to a cavity in a log, by the roadside, about a mile from town, where it was found, when ho left, under cover of night and has not been heard of since. (ttr Adversity exasperates fools, dejects cowards,draws out the faculties of the wise and ingenious, puts the modest to the ne cessity of trying their skill, awes the opu lent, aud makes the idle industrious. From the Alabama Planter. Cotton Culture In Jamaica. It appears from late English papers that efforts are making to introduce tho culti vat ion of cotton in Jamaica. That the cot ton plant, remarks the London Standard, can be successfully cultivated in this island, and is capable of affording an important and valuable article of export, are facts which have been established beyond all question. The cultivation of the plant, the same paper adds, is simple and inex pensive, whilst the collection of the cotton and its conversion into an exportable arti cle, requires but a moderate outlay for la bor or machinery. That the Standard has paid vciy little attention to the progress of cotton culture, and is indeed uninformed upon tho most essential points, is, we think, abundantly manifest from the two sentences copied above. It is an established fact that tropi cal regions are not suited to the cotton plant, and tiie effort to introduce it into Jamaica upon the scale intimated, will, we doubt not prove as signal a failure as marked the experiments in India. The cotton plant, it is true had its origin in tropical regions, but it is no less true that every effort to enlarge its culture to any consid erable extent has proved fruitless. The reason is perfectly obvious to any person acquainted with the nature and habits cf the plant. From planting time to near maturity— that is, to within a short period of frost — the cotton plant requires alternations of rain and sunshine. Too much wet is as injurious, it is known, as too long a drouth. We need not inform the intelligent plan ter that continuous wet weather—heavy and frequent rains and cloudy weather—is ruinous to cotton. Such a condition in duces too rank and rapid a growth with out the formation of pods ; and although the cattcrpillar or other enemy of the plant might not follow, a short crop would in variably be the result. These facts arc well known to every person at all acquain ted with cotton culture. In the cotton region of the United States, where the planter is favored with compara tively regular alternations of the seasons, cotton is one of the most uncertain crops cultivated. This uncertainty is the result of variations from the necessary quantity of rain and sunshine. On the other hand, the year in tropical regions is divided into the dry and wet seasons. In the rainy season, the intelli gent planter can judge of the chances for a fair yield when he is informed that foi six months scarcely a day passes with heavy drenching rains. The prevailing high temperature and gieat humidity in duce a rank growth of the plant,and quick en into life myraids of insects that prey upon it. Who, then, possessed of a particle of knowledge upon the subject, would con tend for a moment that, under such cir cumstances, the cotton plant could he profitably cultivated ? It is perhaps known to some of our rea ders that in Western Texas, with a ge nial climate and an excellent soil, the few attempts made in cotton culture have been abandoned on account of the similarity of the seasons to those of the tropics. We at least have had reliable information to this effect. Again. In the most elevated portion of Yucatan, healthy and fertile, it has been found impossible to procure cotton enough to supply a mill established some years ago at ulladolid. 'I he Indians, the only field laborers in that country, are noted for their patient and untiring industry, vet with the certainty of receiving 20 a 25 cents per lb. in the seed they have been unable to supply the wants of this one mill. These Indians, we know, are far inferior in physi cal powers to the negroes, and would not be considered of much value on a South ern plantation, hut in Yucatan or the West Indies they would prove as effective as the imported Coolies or native “appren tices.” But wc have a case more directly in point. The late James Innerarity pur chased some years before his death an es tate in Cuba. He at first opened a cotton plantation. 1 lie crop there grew finely and gave promise of an abundant yield. But all of a sudden, while every thing look ed so encouragingly, the cattcrpillur came and destroyed it. 'flic cotton culture was abandoned at once and a coffee plantation formed in its stead. This is about the history of all efforts there to grow cotton. There is another reasou why cotton will never be cultivated extensively—even granting it possible—in the West Indies, Brazil, See. Sugar and coffee are more profi table aitides of culture and require less expenditure of labor. A cotton planter in the United States would laugh at the idea of the Standard that the production of cot ton is inexpensive and the preparation re quiring but a moderate outlay for labor. Why , the truth is, numbers of planters of this State would, in consequence of the never-ending toil, enormous expense, and uncertainty of yield abandon cotton plant ing entirely for that of sugar if the climate were only suitable. So strong, indeed, is this feeling that wc expect within the en suing six or eight years to sec the best por tion of the land between the coast and tltc 3-d degree of north latitude devoted to su gar. IIT The cholera is prevailing very se verely among some of the emigrants on tho Mississippi. The Natchez Courier describes it among a party of seven fami lies from Georgia. They started from Memphis in a stock boat. The cholera exhibited itself among them at Vicksburg and within six days ton wore dead from it! I ho party consisted of forty-eight whites and five negroes. M A C O N,GA. SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1850. o*The editors of the Savannah Georgian will please accept our thanks fur forwarding to us a slip containing the Foreign news per steam er Canada. Mr. Callioun's Speech. This admirable speech will he found entiro in our paper to-day, and we ask our readers to peruse it at their leisure. It has been the good fortune ofits distinguished author to identify his name with every prominent measure that has agitated the country for the last forty years and this effort adds anew laurel to his well earned wreath of fame, won in defence of the rights of the South, to which he lias been as true as the needle to the pole. By his fidelity in this respect, he has procured a name that shall go down to posterity by the side of Washington and which will live in the affections of the peo ple as long as constitutional liberty has a votary, or the Union, upon just and equitable principles, a friend—and when his envious traducers will have passed away. If, after all that he has done for the general welfare, he is destined to be misrepresented and reviled, wc can but honor him for his fidelity to the principles, which in that event, will grace his fall and make his ruin glorious. But we have no fear that such a sad fate awaits him—for, like some redolent flower of the forest, the more it is pressed the richer will be the perfume, so the more he is traduced, the brighter will his spotless character appear. Mr. Webster's Speech. \\ e have read the very able speech recently delivered in tho United States Senate, by Mr. Webstiii, and find much in it to approve as well as disapprove.—ln relation to the instilu' lion of slavery his views have undergone no change,and he caused extracts to be read from his speech in 1837, in which lie pronounced‘slavery in itselfas a great moral, social and political evil.’ * * ‘I shall do nothing, therefore, to favor or encourage its further extension.’ Now this is in perfect accordance, ns far as it goes, with the sentiments of the Abolitionists ; and with regard to liis course on the subject of the annexation of Texas, andthc Wilmot Proviso lie says, “that from the year 1836, he had uuiformly opposed the former and sustained the latter.” He said in effect that slavery never would exist in nny of the newly acquired Territories, ergo, he was opposed to the Wilmot Proviso ; but mark the sentence reader, “when any thing practical was to be effected, he might vote for it.” Now, if this he assuming Southern ground on this question wc say in all sincerity, save us from sucli friends. We have not time to notice this speech more minutely at present, but may do so hereafter— Wc ask not Air. Webster, or any other North ern man to approve of slavery, but only desire that they should not interfere with it nor restrict it, which, if we understand him, lie would do if he practically could. It would be well we think, for Southern men to examine this speech before assuming that it is all right. Why the Free Seilers of Boston even have abandoned the Wilmot Proviso, as unnecessary. Mr. Toombs’ Speech. We have read the masterly speech of Mr. Toombs, of this State,recently delivered in tlic House. It is manly and patriotic and assumes the true Southern ground that Congress has no power to exclude slavery from the Territories, and very justly asserts that “no government can stand in America, or ought to stand anywhere, which brings its powers in hostility to the pro perty of the people ;” and “the clay the South submits to a surrender of her rights in the Ter ritories, her fall will be like that ol Lucifer, nev er to rise again.” His allusion to Ihe senseless cry of“ Union,” “The Union must and shall be preserved,” now being raised among a portion of the people of the South “who are among us, but not of us,” ho very justly remarks “Wo took the Union and the Constitution together— we will have both or we will have neither.— This cry of the Union is the masked battery from behind which the Constitution and the rights of the South are to be assailed. Let the South mark the man who is for the Union at every hazard and to the last extremity ; when the day of her peril comes, he will lie the imita tor of that historical character to whom the gen tleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. McLanahan) referred, ‘the base Judean \v ho, for thiily pieces of silver, threw away a pearl richer Ilian all his tribe.” We sincerely wish that our time and limits would permit us to notice this masterly effort of Mr. Toombs, more in detail, abounding as it does in true Southern sentiment—but can not do so at present, although wc may hereafter Latest from Europe.—The steamer Canada has arrived, bringing Liverpool dates to the 23rd of February. The Cotton market in Liverpool was depressed, and Cotton had declined Sales of Uplands and Mobile Fair Orleans GJd. The sales of the week amounted to to 20,000 bales. Stock 520,000. Manufactur ing districts dull. Coffee very flat in Loudott and Liverpool. At Havre, on tho 20tli Feb., Cotton was dull, and declined five francs. Stock 60,000. for the fortnight 11,000 hales. Later from California.—The steam ship* Georgia and Empire City have arrived, bringing two weeks later intelligence from California The (icorgia lias a million of dollars worth® 1 gold dust on board. The market at San Francisco is further dc pressed, for general articles of trade. Gold abundant, and the mining prospects at 6 good. Late news from Santa Fc gives tho informa tion that Col. Calhoun has negotiated a treaty with the Eutaws. Col. Fremont ami lady arrived in the Georgia Awful Calamity.—The steamer Orlcan St John was burned last week a few miles above Bridgeport in the Alabama river, by which ac cident some thirty-six persons lost their liY fS ' seven of whom were ladies. Puiser PkJ£ e > S. N., lost $250,000 in gold dust belonging <° tlie Government, and Mr. Noland lost^1 Boat, cargo and baggage en-tirely lost. U |c boat was insured for $20,000