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SOUTHERN TRIBUNE.!
SPITED AXD PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY
WHI . B . II AIIIBI SO A .
From the Alabama Planter.
The Northern Kcligious Press.
We gave some time ago the spirit of a
few of these papers, W e are not now
aware of a solitary sectarian journal in that
quarter which is sound on this question—
not sound, as we understand the term here
at the south, but sound enough io observe
the clearly expressed provisions of the fed
eral constitution—that, for example, which
relates to the restoration of fugitive slaves.
The Journal of Commerce shows us the
temper of a very influential paper in New
York called the “Independent,” and con
ducted by three congregational clergymen.
In a long article of the 21st ul'., review
ing Webs'er’s speech, it says :
“The people are opposed to slave catch
ing on free-soil. No enactments will be
of any use. Ten thousand Pu'pits are
very week pouring light upon tlie public
mind. Everv religious paper (save a few
whose subscribers are in the valley of vis
ions. a great army of dry bones,) is stand
ing for the right. Some few there ho that
dare not speak for the oppressed ; but they
are equally too cowardly to speak against
the public sentiment of humanity which
lives in the north. And Daniel Webster
might as well pour oil on Niagara to calm
it,as honeyed words on the true conscience
and oatbursting humanity of northern free
men and Christians, to quiet them.”
“When such men as Henry Clay, Lew
is Cast, and Daniel Webster, stand up
without a blush to declare that northern
citizens are bound to provide for catching
and restoring fugitive slaves, they separ
ate themselves from the sympathy of nine
out of every ten true men in the north and
and west. Docs Mr. Webster believe that
lie is the exponent of Massachusetts, or
of New England, in this monstrous inhu
manity ? Pass enactments enough to ill!
all the archives of the Senate, and your
slave catcher shall not budge an inch fur
ther than he now does in the North.—
Every village will spurn hint. Every yeo
man along the valleys will run the slave
and trip the shameless hunter. Bread
and shelter, protection and direction will
be the slave’s portion North of Mason &
Dixon’s line, with more certainty and ef
fect every year that elapses, until the day
of Emancipation.”
If this be true (and it would not be
courteous to doubt an assertion made by
three respectable clergymen) then nearly
the whole religious pulpit in the free
stales is engaged in preaching a violation
of the commands of the constitution. llow
these sectaries reconcile this with the law
of the apostle, of obedience to civil gov
ernment, is ra her difficult to seo. Says
“the Independent,” “man cannot plant
parchments as deep as God plants princi
ples,” and that is the plea which it and its
oo v&oxk ftviv. l wtfl. f t v ! t r.pbri bft' 1 rl wr §
conscience doctrine repeated—a doctrine
which that wily demagogue knew would
be echoed back to him i>y the pulpit of
the north and its religious press. What
the tenor of this ten thousand pulpit doc
trine is, may be seen in the following,
which the Journal of Commerce gives as
the sentiments of a clergyman in his Sun
day sermon at Brooklyn :
“As to the sincerity of Mr. Clay’s com
promise, he had no doubt. He wished he
could say as much of Mr. Webster, hut he
had acted like a fool. The manly ground
assumed by Mr. Seward vindicating uh
stract right as superior to all constitutions
made by man, he could not too highly com
mend. For himself, he was no politician.
He had no sympathy with politicans.—
Their dishonesty was universal. He be
lieved that God hated them, and he rejoi
ced that there was one man among the
host of trucklers to expediency , who dared
to stand forth (although reproved by Mr.
Cass) and do right.”
Another religious paper of New York,
the “Evangelist,” thus speaks of Mr.
Webster’s conciliatory speech :
“In tne history of the country,we hardly
know of a case, all things considered, in
which there was a more cool, deliberate,
statesman-like, dispassionate exchange of
principle for the enthronement of expedi
eticy, on a great moral question, than in
that speech.”
And again, alluding to Mr. Webster :
“Good sometimes carries a man onward
very far, before his radical unsoundnes;
comes out; he arrives at a great comman
ding position, stands upon a pinnacle for a
st amn, and then falls and falls for want of
light principle.”
The Journal of Commeice (which, by
the way, stands nobly up to the laws and
against fanaticism of all sorts) says of
these pitiable manifestations :
“The doctiine of rebellion for conscience
sake, (though we admit its correctness >in
supposable cases,) strikes at the founda
tion of all human laws. If admitted as a
justification of rebellion, probably not one
of the edifices preached in by the editors
of “The Independent” would stand three
days. Even their own lives might not be
safe. In a world as wicked as this, no
class of men owe more to the protection
of human laws than evangelical Christians,
and especially clergymen. They cannot
afford to rest that protection on a basis so
frail as conscience, which with many per
sons is synonymous with judgement or
opinion, or perhaps with will.
“It is a singular and instructive fact,
that these extra sticklers for the rights of
conscience in their own case, are of all
men in the world, the least indulgent to
wards the conscience of others. Claim
ing full liberty to over-ride the constitu
tion and laws, whenever their own con
science require it, they at the same time
set down every man who differs from
themselves, as either dishonest or con
science-seared.
The blindest intellect will at once see,
without teaching, the force of such rea
soning as this ; and the fact that it is over
looked by “ten thousand pulpits” and the
religious press is one of the most striking
dcvelopements of the age. It shows how
deeply rooted is this fanaticism at the
north—how far above I lie reach of reason
it is, and how little there is to be Imped
from it, unless it he met with a firm deter
mination of resistance. It is of such ma
terials that great moral revolutions ate
made, and it is not by any means extrava
gant to to deflate that if these “ten
thousand pulpits” be a fair exposi
tion of northern religious opinion, a cru
sade as blind and as fanatical as that start
ed by Peter the Hermit, may presently
arise atlhe north against slavery and slave
holders. We are not prepared to assert
that those pulpits are a true reflex of pub
lic opinion, but the very fact that so many
preachers of the mild precepts of the gos
pel are allowed to disseminate such doc
trines week after week with impunity,
shows that their congregations are willing
to tolerate them. It betrays also a men
tal condition which may be easily convinc
ed. If such opinions be endured, it will
not be long before they will be embraced.
The moral of this is thattbe south should
he prepared to meet the emergency which
Iho condition of northern sentiment above
depicted seems to indicate. Party should
he thrown aside as worthless when weigh
ed against this great object; southern
demagogues and the miserably selfish and
disaffected men who control some of our
presses should he checked at once, and
the people meet with earnestness to de
vise means, not to violate the laws’ hut to
vindicate them.
In f*.'j2, Hr. Cooper and Mr. T urnbull
(both southern men—the former well
known every where, and the latter the
able author of the essays entitled the
“Crisis”) declared that if the southern
states can meet in convention, the rights
nf the south w ill forever hereafter be se
cured from aggression. No purpose of
disunion or dissatisfaction with the federal
constitution suggested this remark, and its
truth w r e are sure will he recognised by
every man who lias given intelligent and
dispasionate thought to the present crisis.
It is this hope which prompted the sug
gession of the southern convention, l'lie
object w as conservative—to keep our laws
from violation, and neither to amend nor
abrogate them.
From the. Charleston Mercury.
Interesting Ijetter from Mr. Calhoun.
We are indebted to the gentleman in
the State of New York, to whom the
following letter was addressed, for a copy
to he laic) before our readers. It is es
pecially valuable, as it is probably among
l ln the last’wish
which its distinguished author expresses
every patriot cordially concur. It is to
“see our country quieted under some ar
rangement that will be satisfactory to all,
and safe to the South.”
Statk and Natiowai. Law Fchooi., }
B vn.sTON .Spa,Saratoga co., IS. V,A prill!), 'SO. y
To the Editors of tnc. Union :
I have spent much time within (be past
two years, in Washington, where l became
intimately acquainted with the late John
C. Calhoun, who bad been a familiar
friend of my father. He pet milted me the
honor of a frequent correspondence w ith
him. The following letter l received
from him just before his death. It is prob
ably the last letter he ever wrote. As ev
erything concerning him, has, by his de
mise, become doubly interesting to the
public. 1 send you this copy for publica
tion if you think best. It is a specimen
of the kind and simple familiarity of his
intercourse with the young men of his ac
quaintance, not one of whom but who
would have died to serve him. His de
parture has left a painful, heart rending
vacancy in my affection.
Most respectfully yours,
A. J. B.
Washington, Feb. 8, ISSO.
My Dear B ; —Yours of the 19th inst.,
was duly received. lam happy to learn
that you are so delighted with the plan of
the Institution and the peculiar advanta
ges it affords for rapid improvement, not.
only in the acquisition of legal knowledge,
but in a familiarity with the practice and
the impoitance of extempore speaking.
I regard this latter as one of the most es
sential features of the institution. Could
1 have enjoyed, in my preparatory course ;
as you do, the opportunity of “drilling
every day” in this great art, and the trial
and argument of causes, “under constant
and competent instruction,” 1 have no
doubt I should have been, in all the prac
tical reduisites of success, ten years in ad
vance of what l was when 1 entered the
profession. 1 well remember when con
nected with the Law School at Litchfield
Connecticut, the need we all felt of some
advantages in speaking. These constant
exercises in which you arc required to en
gage, before so la ge a number of your
fellow students, if lor nothing else than
the self-confidence which they must gradu
ally inspire, will, in the end, prove exceed
ing valuable. L shall never forget the
painful, the indescribable embarrassment
under which I labored in the delivery of
my “maiden speech” before a court—an
embarrassment which it required years of
practice to overcome. Improve then, my
dear B , the rare privileges which the
institution affords you. Be systematical
and punctual in the performance of all
your duties; and remember than the pro
fession you have chosen imposes, as a
condition precedent to success, the neces
sity for constant and arduous labor. In it
there is no disguising one's capacities or
demerits. The physician’s art is conceal
ed ; and by flippant technicalities, and the
air of professional wisdom,he may produce
the belief that he is what he is not. The
clergyman has time, a choice of subjects,
and a world of other men's thoughts to aid
him in his preparations for the pulpit. But
the lawyer, whether iti the office or before
a court and jury, can assume nothing
whi' li he does not possess. His legal
opinions are soon to he tested by the se
verest ordeal, and his pretensions as an
advocate must be real, or they will avail
him nothing. And 1 would also have you
remember, that you will he beset with con
stant temptations to swerve from the stan
dard of high moral integrity. The very
obligations of the lawyer to defend his cli
ent, right or wrong, tend to familiarize
liitn with error, and to blunt his natural ab
iiorance of depravity ; and by obligations,
I mean such as would lead him to seek
the great ends of justice. Beyond this,
even though it should result in your own
aggrandizement, 1 would not have you put
forth a single exertion. In the defence
of one whom you believe to be guilty pro
ceed no further than is necessary to elicit
the truth by an even balance of testimony.
I am aware it will often he difficult in this
respect, to draw a precise line between the
the duties you will owe to your client and
and those due to yourself and community.
But a cultivated and refined moral sense
the basis of all that is grand atid beauti
ful in human character, and which 1 trust,
above all things else, you will seek to in
corporate into your own—will generally
he a safe and accurate guide.
But I must close. This may he mv
last communication to you. 1 feel myself
sinking under the wasting power of dis
ease. My end is probably near—perhaps
very near. Before 1 reach it, I have hut
one serious wish to gratify; it is to see
my country quieted under some arrang
ment —alas! 1 know not what—that will
he satisfactory to a.l and safe to the
South.
The advertisement you sent me stales
a catalogue of your school will he sent to
any, by request directed to your presi
dent, J. W.Fowler, Esq. Please have one
sent to my address for it friend.
Most affectionately, yours,
J.C. CALHOUN.
Correspondence of tlic Charleston Courier.
Washington, April 2G.
I learn with pleasure, that the compro
mise committee and the Senate have a
greed upon the terms of their report, and
directed their Chairman, Mr. Clay, to
present their views to the Senate and
the country. The last meeting of the
Committee was on Thursday. It was then
decided that, in one hill, should be united
1'.'.:.-. •' ' ’ r •, *
the 1 exan proposition. The terms of the
Fugitive Slave hill were agreed upon.—
Mr. Cass, as 1 learn, suggested them, and
they are so favorable and well guarded as
to remove all objections of the Northern
people. They were framed w ith a view
to meet some of those objections. The
propositions are, to amend the act of
1793 so as to make it the duty of the Fed
eral Courts, in each State, to appoint com
missioners to enforce the act. The own
er of a fugitive slave or his agent, is to go
j before a magistrate in Court, in his coun
i ty, and describe the person of the fugitive,
| and state the lact of his elopement, where
upon he is to take a certificate of the facts
j which he is to present to one of the com
• misioners above named, in the Slate where
; the fugitive is found. The Commissioner
I is to arrest the slave and return him to
| tlie owner,or his agent, the latter giving a
I bond, without other than his security, to
| try the said slave upon his return home,
by a jury of the vicinage. 'J he prry is
to decide upon the identity of the fugi
tive with the person alleged to have elop
ed. These guards are to prevent the pos
sibility of anything like kidnapping.
I he other measure agreed upon regards
the slave trade in this District. Jt propos
ed simply to extend over this District the
law of Maryland, as it existed four years
ago, and will effectually suppress the slave
marts in this District.
Mr. Ci. ay returned on Friday, into the
country, in order the write the report ex
plaining and reccommending these mea
sures. He is at the mansion of Mr. Georgc
Calvert, in Maryland, and will probably
conclude his labor to day.
ihe weather has become very delight
ful, and Congress is in a better humor than
heretofore. Noonedoub's that the great
question is now to he settled.
At the I reasury, during the week end
ing yesterday, the sum of 8639.000 in U.
S. blocks, was transferred to foreigners.
The week before it was 8370,000 ° For
eigners are'selling out French funds at a
great loss, and purchasing ours at lat"e
, 1 O O
advance.
!CT Seventy-five cents a gal!” exclaim
ed Mrs. Partington, on looking at a price
current. “Why bless me, what is the
world coming to, when the gals are only
valued at seventy-five cents!” The old
lady pulled off her spectacles,threw down
the paper and went into a brown study on
the want of a proper appreciation of the
value of the female gender.
A year of pleasure passes like a floating
breeze ; hut a moment of misfortune seems
an age of pain.
What is the universe but a band flung in
space, pointing always with extended tin
i get unto God l
MACON , G A .
"Saturday "afternoon,’ may Z
Jj’Tlie Editors of die Savannah Georgian will
please accept our thanks fur a slip containing
the Foreign news.
Jj’lt will be seen by the advertisement in an
other column that Mr. Grasniss of this city, has
had a negro stolen from him. The liberal re
ward offered should secure her speedy arrest.
Holder's Magazine. —The May number of
this neat and cheap Monthly, has been received.
It fully equal in interest to any of the previous
numbers. Published monthly by \V. 11. Lleitz,
.Y. Y., at ijjil per annum, in advance.
We are indebted to the courtesy of Mr.
Benjamin F. Griffin, of this city, for a copy
of l)r. Means' admirable Address before the
Sons of Temperance last October, revised and
corrected. The pamphlet may be bad of Mr.
Griffin at 10 cents per copy, or per hun
dred.
jj- Rev 7\Vu if Ellison, L>. D , lias been
appointed to deliver the Eulogy on -'lf- Cal
hoi;n, at such time as he may designate, in this
city.
ffT* We learn that Col. Tnos. C. Howard
will deliver the Commencement Address of the
Wesleyan Female College in July next.
[PP Private Greek, of the Floyd Riflemen,
won the Gold Medal shot for by the Company
on the Ist of May.
O’VVe learn by Telegraph that Mr. G. J
Bulloch, late Cashier of the Central Railroad
Bunk, has been arrested in England,and will be
brought to Savannah without delay.
Savannah Volunteer Guards. —This hand
some corps paid our city a visit last Tuesday af
ternoon, and were received at the Depot by the
Floyd Rifles and Macon Volunteers. On May
day tlie three companies celebrated the Anni
versary of the Floyd Riflemen by public parade
and participation in a sumptuous dinner at the
Floyd House. Refreshments were served up at
the Washington Hall on Thursday in fine style,
and a Soiree given in honor ofthe Guards at the
Floyd House on Thursday evening, which was
numerously attended by the Ladies of Macon.—
On Friday the Guards returned to Savannah,
doubtless highly gratified with their enthusiastic
reception hv our Volunteer Companies and citi
zens generally. We hope the example of this
ancient corps may bn followed by the other Vol
unteer Companies ofSavannah; as an interchange
of courtesies between the citizens of Savannah
and Macon must lead to beneficial consequences
to each, by causing a unity of action in promo
ting the prosperity of both.
Below will he found a list of the Officers and
Privates of the Guards who visited our city :
OFFICERS.
C. P. RICIIA RDSONE, Captain.
Til OS. J BULLOCH, Ist Lieut.
JOHN C. IIUNTER, 2d “
A. C. DAVENPORT. Ensign.
C. \V VV. liltlbiN, Ist Sergeant.
WM F. HOLLAND, 2d “
JAMES SULLIVAN, 3d “
WM. J. BEE, 41li “
O. H. I.UFFBURROVV,Sth “
THOS. J. NAYLOR, Ist Corporal.
G. B. WELCH, 2d
J B. RIPLEY, 3d “
J. B. JACKSON, 4th
J. If. PRESTON, Lance Corporal.
PRIVATES.
P. W. Alexander, J.D. Cuhbetlge,
P. N. Box, R. Holland,
J. L. Bilbo, E. Kent,
J. 1,. Blount, G. W. Lavender,
V. Brunner, Henry Law,
Geo. Batty, T. B. Maxwell,
Win. Boardley, J. S. McDonald,
John T. Baker, John M. Millcn,
\V . Bailey, J. P. Neilnnd,
J S. Carutliers, J. L. Oliver,
R. W. Cubbedge, Andrew Oliver,
M. Carey, Dupre Postell,
Francis Clark, J. VV. Pindar,
S. M. Colding, Francis Pons,
11. M. Davenport, S. F. Ripley,
G. J. Fulton, J.T. Rowland,
L.S. Hart, Win. Taylor,
Alexander Campbell, F. E. Timmons.
HONORARY MKMBERS.
David Bell, A.J. C. Shaw.
Convention of Editors. —A convention of
Editors vvnssitting in Baltimore on the 15th ult.
One of the prominent things desired to be ac
complished was to adopt some uniform system of
advertising, so that publishers might be protect
ed. Also to take some action in regard lo the
system of cheap postage throughout the Union.
The chief object of the Conv< ntion was to con
fer together and adopt such measures as wouid
result in mutual good.
A Question. —The protectionists, in their pe
titions for high duties on iron, make it a great
point that Croat Britain has been pouring in so
many additional thousands of tons of iron, that
the manfacturers find it almost impossible to
get along at all. But as this additional iron is all
regularly consumed, does not this fact prove that
the low prices ol iron, so much complained of,
lias conferred great benefits upon a vast class of
mechanics, and upon the people generally ?
Pennsylvanian.
The Cost of Intemperance. —ln the State
of New York there are 7000 grog shops. The
money expended in them annually amounts to
.$25,000,000. In 1849, 4G,000 intemperate per
sons were arrested for crime- Nine-tenths of
the crime committed is traceable to this vice.
In Great Britain there is spent for bread £130,-
000,000; for liquors, £250,000,000—“one-half
penny worth of bread to this intolerable deal of
sack ! ’ $30,000,000 wheat are annually dis
tilled. In England there ate 110,000 gtog
ritopa
SOMETHING PARADOXICAL.
A Just and Generous Thought.— An ar
ticle in tbs Washington Republic points to ’lie
universal sorrow at tlie death of Mr. Calhoun,
ns an indication of the loyalty and devotion to
the Union cherished by the people of both the
North and the Softth. “Whatever tendencies,”
says the Republic, “have been ascribed to tlie
public conduct of Mr. Calhoun, his memory is
another bond of union.” Men remember him
now only as one united with them in holy and
indissoluble bonds. There is much truth and
much elevated and patriotic and noble feeling in
the Republic’s article.—A*. Y. Com. Adv.
There is a contradiction so palpable in the
ideas conveyed by the above extract, that it is
wonderful bow it ever could have been uttered
in a respectable journal or credited by its readers.
“ Whatever tendencies have been ascribed to
the public conduct of Mr. Calhoun, his memory
is another bond of union " To our mind, this
extract from tlie Republic embodies, short as it
is, the quintessence of unfairness, and makes one
more party fling at the man, who never, until
now, was unable te defend himself against his
enemies. “ Whatever tendencies” is the cant
phrase by which every detractor of the illustri
ous name alluded to, lias been in the habit of
disparaging his noble efforts in behalf of a pure
administration of this Government and the rights
of the States of this Union. If Mr. Calhoun’s
theory of our peculiar political organization be
as heterodox as many wiseacres and expediency
politicians would make us believe—and the
measures he has proposed, resulting from this
theory are as ruinous in their tendency, how
then does all this consist with his universal good
fame, and the profound sorrow felt throughout
this land for his loss ? No, like all other great
good men, maligned, misunderstood and misre
presented when living and striving, Mr. Cal
houn, now dead and out of envy's way, is to be
elevated to his proper niche. His memory is
not, as the Republic contends, another “boud of
union,” inasmuch as his fame is too glorious to
be appropriated by us of tlie South alone, and is
not to bp. parted icith by a division of territory,
which would divide also the honors of her sons
and henceforth make them exclusively ours.
It is no such intense admiration for the fame of
Mr. Calhoun, that makes this new “bond of
union”—(for few mortals have ever inspired
such an homage.) We doubt very much, if to
any extent, even tne name of Washington acts
as a “bond of union” in this wise. I’or if it did,
his living example and equitable appreciation of
our relative duties and responsibilities would not
prove so ineffectual in restraining those excesses
which have already strained to their utmost
pitch of tension, every “ bond of uuion” that has
held ns together.
We rather think the effect produced by the
sudden and irreparable loss of such a mind as
Mr. Calhoun’s is referable to a different cause
than the pride of the people in the exalted char
acter of one ofthe great of the land. It results
from that extorted and irrepressible veneration,
which inheres to human nature, however warped
and perverted, for what is pure and exalted and
thoroughly principled. It is in pari, owing to
that sad and chastened fueling which the erring
cannot help from coming over their hearts, when
the warning voice is no longer heard, and when
tnetr own consciences are following up ilie just
reproofs of the monitor. How often and how
long have nearly all the prominent Northern
politic'ans waged fierce and vindictive war a
gainst the doctrines and the policy advanced by
thegiea' Carolinian. In how many countless
instances have they been driven to the misera
ble shift of denouncing him as a conspirator u
gainst the integrity of the Union, and by that
means discredit tlie author of an argument they
could not answer. Where among the late race
of statesmen can he found that man who had as
many deep and full responses, coming from the
inmost heart, to what he advised and warned and
denounced as had Mr. Calhoun, and yet where
is the man who has been so wantonly opposed
and balked in his efforts to do the State service.
Take him as he was described by many—an
abstractionist—a visionary and an ambitious
agitator, and what do we see to admire ? Could
a whole people weep over tlie ashes of such a
one ? The secret ofthe generous grief over his
bier is this, that after all that the tongue of im
patient mediocrity has uttered, or a self-con
demning empiricism labored to effect, against
him—a truly great man has been removed front
us, whose pure mind unfailingly perceived and
littered the truth, and which saw always a high
er aim in doihg good than the applause of the
brief hour, or in securing the equivocal position
of a popular favorite.
Plank Road to North Carolina. —A sub.
scription lias been opened, under the act of the
last session of our Leginlature, for the capital
sock of a company to make a graded, McAdam.
jzed, or plank road from Lafayette, in Walker
county, passing through Dalton and Spring Place,
to intersect the turnpike road, now making by
North Carolina, at the State line; and we are
assured that some of our most wealthy and
enterprising citizens are now ready to take
stock.—So says the Dalton Times.
Not Bad. —The Sandusky City (Ohio,) Mir
ror is responsible for the following :
A hard case of a subscriber, to whom the
publishers of the Mirror had sent the weekly
paper on credit, was at last dropped from the
list—all ordinary measures of collection having
failed. Our agent was encountered the other
day by the delinquent's wife, who wrathfully
insisted that “she knew what was the news.pa
per law—that Mr. M ills was bound to send the
paper until all arrearages were paid !”
A Venerable Pair. —A French paper men.
tions an aged couple in Denmark, who on the
25t|i of March celebrated the G6th anniversary
of their marriago. This solemnity, at which
47 descendants of the couple assisted, is called
in Denmark, the diamond marriage. The 25th
anniversary is called the silver marriage, and
the 55th the golden tlicGGlh. which few attain
the diamond. The next day both died, find
wcio enclosed in the same tomb Tile husband
was 92 and the wife 93.
Fgreign News. —The Strainer Cambria ar
rived at Halifax on Monday afternoon, bring,
ing Liverpool dates to the 13th of April, seven
days later.
Cotton had advanced one eighth of a penny
since the sailing of the America.
Fair Orleans is quoted at 7sd. Mobile 6J
Uplands 6§d. The week's sales amount to
12,000 bales.
Flour was steady, nf previous prices.
Coffee was dull, and prices were lower.
The accounts from the Manufacturing Dig
tricts exhibit very little improvement. The pri'
ces of manufactured goods do not keep p ace
with the enhanced cost of the raw material and
several factories design resuming short time.
The Havre Cotton Market rs steady, and quo.
talions are ufre I ranged.
The bullion in the Bank of England had
slightly decreased. The rate of discount was
2-i per cent.
Rumors were prevalent that the British Min
istry, owing to* tire want of success for their
measures in Parliament, would be compelled to
resign. The Parliament is endeavoring to ettr
tail the public expenditure. Ireland is still com
plaining of her oppressors. The season has
been remarkably pleasant, and the crops were
promising.
The Pope is positively returning to Rome.
large French fleet and the A nifeficaiV squadron
are at Naples. Letters from flome slate that a
triumphal arch has been erected in honor of the
Pope.
An interchange of friendly correspondence
had taken place between tlie British and Austri
an Cabinets. Austria says she will not be the
first to disturb the peace of Europe regarding
the attitude of Prussia on the German question.
The Greek question is still unsettled, and se
rious apprehensions are entertained of a rupture
between Russia and Great Britain regarding
Greek affairs. The Emperor has assured King
Otho of assistance, provided England continues
tlie blockade, which she is determined to do.
The news lias unsettled all the Northern mar
kets.
A Word to the Wise.— A very common,
we hope it may he found a very fatal misconcep
tion, is abroad, regarding tlie ability of Spain
to hold possession of the Island of Cuda, or the
facility with which its sovereignly may be wrest
ed from her.
We deem it our duty, nay we deem it a sacred
obligation, to disabuse the minds of inexperienc
ed persons who may he disposed, at some future
•lay, to embark in exploits that may peradven.
ture involve them in personal collisions with
the military power of that nation. Spain iscon
tcmptible, it is true, in a military point of view,
when compared with France or England; but
in the Island Cuba she is sufficiently potent to
crush any petty or ill-advised attempt at inva
sion set on foot by her discontented colonists,
who, in furnishing the material of war, or the
auxiliary force needful to secure success, will,
we fear, be found sadly deficient. With a force
less than five thousand reliable men, we should
regard a descent on Cuba one of tlie wildest,
most insane and Quixotic undertakings of the
age, and one from which great suffering, if not
death, must accrue to those engaged, while the
inexorable and grinding tyranny now practised
on the miserable inhabitants, would he increas
ed an hundred fold.
Romance in Real Life. —The Cincinnati
Gazette vouches for the tliruthfulncss of the fol
lowing narration. About four years since, a
poor, miserable, intemperate woman wandered
about the streets of Cincinnati, accompauied by
a delicate bright little daughter of about six
years of age. They caiicd together at the
house of a lady then living on Broadway, and
asked charity. It was freely dispensed, and the
lady being pleased with the lovely appearance
of the child, insisted upon taking it into her
keeping, which was granted. She then went
away, and was not heard of until about one
year afterwards, when the lady who had charge
of the little girl, to whom she had now become
strongly attached was sent for to an obscure
part of the city. She there found the woman in
a filthy and dying condition, with just strength
enough to tell her that the child had an uncle,
its father’s brother, living some-where down the
river, hut whore, she knew not; also that there
was no dishonor attached to its birth. And the
woman died From that time until about one
week since, the foster-mother of the little girl
has made every effort to ascertain the truth of
the dying mother’s statement, when she suc
ceeded, and on Monday last the uncle of the Jit
tle girl came up from Louisville and took the
little Miss away. That little unfortunate is now
the sole heir of an income of fourteen hundred
dollars per annum, bequeathed to her by her
own fuller.
Extraordinary Crime in France. —A rich
proprietor, and a maire for several years passion
ately loved a young girl. The families wore
like the parents in “Romeo and Juliet,” at war;
and they could not agree. But after several
years of pressing solicitations, he obtainod the
hand of his mistress They were married a
grand party celebrated the wedding and the re
conciliation. The happy couple retired. At six
in the morning a pistol shot was heard. The liua
hand was found dead in an anti-chamber; the
young wife asleep. A letter explained the sui
cide. It was evidently written before the mar
riage. He said in it that lie had reached the
highest point of human felicity, and could not
descend. He could not hear to bo less loved,or
to love less. “I die from excess of happiness.’
Paste that is Paste. —Dissolve an ounce of
alum in a quart of warm water ; when cold add
as much flour ns will snake it the consistence of
cream; then strew in it as much powdered rosin
as will stand on a shilling, and two or three
cloves ; boil it to a consistency, stirring it all the
time. It will keep for twelve months,md when
dry may be softened with water.
Last of the Season. —Why is the Missouri
Senator Eke a petulant husband sueing his “bet
tor half” fora divorce ? Because ho is Dcnt-oa
dissolving the union.
