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SOUTHER NT RIBUNE.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY
WM. B. HAKKISOM.
VVM. B. HARRISON, i
and v Editors.
\VM. S. LAWTON, )
A Beautiful Little Story.
A CHILD OF PRAYER.
A few weeks since, in cornin'* down the
North River, l was seated in the cabin of
the magnificent steamer Isaac Newton, in
conversation with some friends. It was
becoming late in the evening, and one af
ter another, seeking repose fram the cares
and toils of the day, made preparations to
retire to their beilhs. Some, pulling off
their boots and coats, lay themselves down
to rest: others, in the attempt to make it
seem as much as possible like home, threw
off more of their clothing—each one as his
comfort, or apprehension of danger, dic
tated.
I had noticed on the deck a fine looking
little boy of about six years old, following
around a man, evidently his father, whose
appearance indictated him to be a foreign
er, probably a German—a man of medi
um height, and respectable dress. The
child was unusually fair and fine-looking,
handsomely featured, with an intelligent
and effectionate expression of countenance;
and from under his little German cap fed
his chestnut hair, in thick, clustering,
beautiful curls.
•After walking about the cabin for a
time, the father and son stopped within a
few feet of where we wete sealed, and be
gun preparations for going to bed. 1
watched them. The father adjusted and
arranged the bed the child was to occupy,
which was an upper berth, while the little
fellow was undressing himself. Having
finished this, his father tied a handkerchief
around bis head to protect bis curls,
which looked as if the sun-light from his
young happy heart always rested there
This done, I looked for him to seek bis
resting place; but instead of this, he
quietly kneeled down on the floor, put up
bis little bauds together, so beautifully
childlike and simple, and resting bis arms
on the lower berth, against which he knelt,
he began his vesper prayers.
The father sat down by bis side, and
waited the conclusion. It was, for a child,
along prayer, but well understood. 1
could bear the murmuring of his voice,
but could not distinguish the words he
spoke. But what a scene ! There were
men around him—Christian men retiring
to rest without prayer; or, if praying at all,
a kind or mental desire for protection, I
without sufficient courage or piety to kneel
down in a steamboat’s cabin before stran
gers. acknowledge the goodness of God or
ask his protecting love.
This was the training of some
mother. Where was she now ? How
many times had her kind hand been laid
on those sunny locks, as she had taught
him to lisp his prayers !
A beautiful sight it was, that child a!
prayer, in the midst of the busy, thought
less throng. He, alone, of the worldly
multitude, draws nigh to heaven. 1 think
the parental love that taught him to lisp
his evening prayer, whe'her Catholic or
Protestant, whether dead orliving,whether
far off or nigh. It did me good, it made
me better. 1 could scarce refrain from
weeping then, nor can I now. as I see a
gain that sweet child, in the cr wded tu
mult of a steamboat’s cabin, bending in
devotion before his maker.
But a litte while before I saw a crowd
of admiring listeners gathering about a
company of Italian singers, in the upper
saloon—a mother and two sons, with
voice, and harp, and violin; but no one
heeded, no one cared, for the child at
prayer.
When tlio little boy bad finished his eve
ning devotion, ho arose, and kissed his
father most effectionately, who put him in
to his berth to rest for the night, i felt a
6trong desire to speak to them but defer
red it till morning. When morning came,
the confusion of landing prevented me
from seeing them again. But, if ever 1
meeet that boy in his happy youth, in his
anxious manhood, in bis declining years,
I 11 thank him for the influence and exam,
pie of that night s devotion, and bless the
name of the mother who taught him to
pray.
Scarcely any passing incident of my
life ever made a deeper impression on my
mind. I went to my room, and thanked
God that l had witnessed it, and for its in
fluence on my heart. Who prays on a
steamboat? Who train their children to
pray, even at home ?
ll.yndsomkly Caught. —In the House,
wot long since, Mr. Morehead (whig) from
Kentucky, delivered a powerful argument
against the constitutionality of “the Wil
mot Proviso.” Mr. Campbell (free-soil
■whig)of Ohio, rose on his feet, in the way
of interruption, in which he expressed his
astonishment at the new bearing of the
gentleman from Kentucky; for he recol
lected hearing that gentleman, during the
Presidential contest, by way of inducing
the good folks of Ohio to vote for Gen.
Taylor, arguing that the proviso was not
only constitutional, but that, if enacted by
Congress, Gen. Taylor would, of couise,
stand by it. Mr. Morehead appeared not
a little confused ; and was forced to edmit,
that when addressing the people of Ham
ilton, Ohio, he had plead the constitution
ality of the proviso; but he insisted that
lie had since changed his views ! Hereto
fore, this allegation had been made at
home, on tbe Kentucky whig leaders,
who would not confess the coin. Thus
confronted by an eye-witness, however, a
denial was more than Mr. Morehead could
vaa'ure.— Enjtri. er.
Public Heeling in Charleston.
A glorious meeting has been held in
Charleston on the compromise question.
Pursuant to a call a very numerous and
enthusiastic concourse of citizens assem
bled at Hibernia Hall on the 20tli nit. to
take into consideration the repott and pro
positions of the Committee of Thirteen,
recently made to the Senate of the United
States. Chas. Macbeth and H. A. De
sassi ke presided, assisted by forty Vice
Presidents, embracing the leading men of
the city.
A committee of twenty-one reported to
the meeting the following resolutions.
1. Resolved, That the Constitution of
the United States is the fundamental law,
by which the legislation of Congress is to
be controlled, and by which the extent of
the powers conferred by the States is to be
determined; and any measures of Con
gress which are not authorized by its terms,
whatever may be their aim, can afford no
benefit to the South, the assailed and
weaker section of the Union—commensu
rate with the evil they must produce inun
settling the foundations on which its rights
repose.
2. Resolved, That the various measures
lately reported in the United States Sen
ate, on the subject of slavery, purporting
to be a compromise are in conflict with the
constitution in several particulars are de
structive of the rights and interests of the
people of the South, and ought not to re
ceive their sanction and support.
3. Resolved, That the adventurers from
all parts of the world, now sojourning or
living in the territory of California, do
not constitute the people in legal and con
stitutional language, and the sanction
by Congress of their attempt to apropri
ate to themselves a region rightfully be
longing to the sovereign States of the U
niori, and to create a State therein, will
constitute an outrage on the constitution
and practically enforce the Wilmot Piovi
so, in a most odious and insulting form.
4. Resolved, That the boundaries of
Texas, settled with Mexico in the treaty
f Guadaloup Hidalgo, are as plainly de
dermined and known as those of any ci
ther Sta'e in the Union, and Congress has
no constitutional right to to question or
change them; much lesss has it any right
to purchase a portion of the territory of a
State,in order that institutions of one sec
tion may be promoted and those of an
other section may be excluded therefrom,
i he suriender, therefore, of any portion
of Texas, in concession to such a policy,
w ill be a betrayal of the rights and inter
ests of the South
5. Resolved, That it is the duty of the
States as well as of Congress, in obedience
to the plain mandate of the Constitution,
to secure to the Southern master the ren
dition of his fugitive slave; nor would the
enforcement of this manifest duty by the
whole power, both of the Federal and
State Governments, be anything more
than a mere compliance with the obliga
tions which the Constitution strictly en
joins. When therefore this duty on the
part of Congress is not only disregarded,
but is used as a pretext for interfering
with slavery in the States, and when, as a
part of the compromise which we are
called on to support, the Southern master
is to be arraigned by his own slave, in his
own Siate, before the judicial tribunals of
the United Slates, or the State, our sur
prise is sunk in our indignation at such a
proposition ; and we can only mark it as
one of those steps in the progress of things
that too significantly indicate “ the begin
ning of the end.”
6. Resolved, That although the Consti
tution was established by mutual compro
mises, yet when once established it ceas
ed to be the subject of compromise
through the ordinary forms of Congres
sional legislation. Its provisions must be
either enforced or abandoried by Cong'ess.
The South, in teference to the subject of
slavery, asks but simple justice under the
Constitution ; and faithful herself to the
conditions on which she entered the U
nion, she now claims the full benefit of
her equal constitutional rights, and cannot
consistently with her safety or honor, rest
satisfied with any thing less.
Mr. Porter accompained the Resolu
tions with some very able and eloquent
remarks, and he was followed by Isaac
Hayne, Esq., and Hon. R. B. Rhett, in
forcible and effective speeches.
The question was then taken on the
Resolutions, and they were unanimously
adopted.
These Resolutions breathe the true
Southern sentiment, and they should re
ceive a hearty response from Mason & Dix
on’s line to the Rio Grande. The mea
sures of the Congressional committee ate
nothing but anew proposition to compro
mise the rights of the South for merely the
semblance of peace with the North ; and
we are therefore rejoiced that tbe Resolu
tions, condemning it in emphatic terms*
were unanimously adopted by so large
and intelligent a meeting.
IO“ A man travelling at the west de
clares the wind came to him so laden with
fragrance that he thought he was near a
garden of roses. He discovered that it
wa’s only 3 bevy of girls going through the
woods.
A glorious action triumphantly won at
Westminster, and a glorious victory a
chieved at Waterloo,look wonderfully fine
until the bill-is sent iu and the costs are
paid.
We ask advice, but we mean appro
libation,
The Si'prkme Court— Southere Rights.
—lt is insisted by some, that under the
compromise bill, the rights of the slave
holder to bis slaves, in the territories, could
be be decided upon by the supreme Court.
Has the North agreed to abide by the de
cision of that tribunal? If the question
were now put to the Northern members
of the Senate, or Hourse of Representa
tives, would they bind themselves to submit
to such decission ? No they would not.
But we are oppossd to leaving the ques
tion to the decision of the Court. We
really believe it would decide in favor of
the South, but it might decide the other
way.
In the first place, however, we doubt
the constitutional power of the Supreme
Court to take cognizance of the case, and,
in the second, it is abhorrent to State sov
ereignty to allow it. The idea is repulsive,
that the rights of the Southern men, of all
Southern men, to take their slaves to their
own land and use them there, shall be
submitted to the mercy of a few judges of
the Supreme Court. We might as well
submit to that body to decide whether we
could there worship God according to the
dictates of our own conscience, as whether
we could enjoy our property there, which
is recognized to be such by the constitu
tion of the United States.— Augusts. Re
public.
Slaveholders in the Territories.—
We will suppose a miserable slaveholder
is in the territory. Can he hold l»s slaves
there according to these compromises?
No. Is not the territory his own land in
patt? Yes. Are not the slaves recogni
zed to be property by the constitution ?
\ es. What then is the matter? His
rights are blown up by an old Mexican
law ! But was not that blowec up by the
constitution afler annexation! No. Can
not the glorious flag of the stripes and
stars, floating over the territory, equally
pro'ect the property of the citizen of the
South as the citizen of the North l No.
Are they equals under the constitution ?
\ es. VVby can't they be equally protect
ed then ? Because a ruthless fanaticism
and the tyranny if a majority say to the
descendants of Southern revolutionary
sires, “we hold the sceptre and you shall
bow with deference and submission to the
terms dictated by our authority and will.”
1 his may be all right,and should he agreed
to by the chivalric sons of the South,
but it will take a head which curls with
more sense than ours to see into it!— lb.
Science and the Working Man. — In
every trade and occupation there is sci
ence. Every laborer is a practical philos
opher, though often, like the bee or bea
ver, working in the dark, performing pro
digies of science without having the least
idea of his skill. This ought not to be.
Animals may work from instinct, but rea
son and science are the only proper guides
for mankind; nor should the workman be
a mere machine, moved by the skill or
philosophy of others; his mind should be
well versed with the science of his trade
as his hands is with the art; and to arrive
at this degree of knowledge is not so hard
as some suppose, because there are truth
and philosophy in every thing. Thequat
ryman, in hewing stones; the mason or
statuary in shaping them, or the poor man
in breaking them, have had volumes of
facts before their eyes, which if register
ed might have settled all theknopy points
in mineralogy. Anil the same may be
said of him who sinks mines, levels hills,
cuts through the hearts of the mountains,
or even down the gravel or pebbles in the
garden walk. How true the words, that
the thinking find.
“Tongues in trees,books in the runninghrnoks,
Sermons in the stones,and good in everything.”
We consequently see that every worker
in iron, brass, tin, copper, steel, silver, or
gol 1, is perpetually experimenting in those
meia s, and therefore an immense sphere
of natural science and philosophy glitter
ing before him. What a physiologist the
butcher ought to be! What a botanist,
entomologist, and, indeed, naturalist, farm
er’s man and dairymaid might become! —
Many of these have ten thousand more
advantages for study than Solomon. The
philosopher walks miles in pursuit of truth
but truth follows and environs the cow
herds, sheepheads, and ploughmen. The
experimentalist has to put up forges, or
furnish laborato ies, at great trouble and
expense; hut the smelte , the blacksmith,
the founder, the glass-blower and a hun
dred more mechanics and operatives, have
all this apparatus daily befote them, and
therefore, without any trouble, might
sound the depths and scan the heights of
knowledge. Nothing would be required
but a little observation.— Working Man’s
Friend.
The state or the Case. —The Model A
nterican Courier says : “We see it announced
that the young Earl of Durham, a nobleman with
an income of $350,000, has reached New York
on a visit to his hrothcr-in-luw, Lord Elgin, Gov
ernor of Canada.
We have just seen John Jones, an honest
hardworking laborer, who came in the last emia
grant ship from England, with his wife and a
cash capital of three dollars and fifty cents!—
The lord, with his immense income, represents
the upper ten, while honest John with his beg
garly pittance, represents the lower million !
Such is England, with its nobility and Church
and State establishcment, allowing overgrown,
11-gottcn wealth to grind the toiling millions in
the dust. Individuals among the wealthy, like
the gentleman aaove referred to, may he eminent
for their virtues, but they are the exponents of a
system which every feeling heart must pro.
nouncc deplorible in the extreme, When will
the remedy arrive, and hov >
MACON, G A.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 1.
Hon. H. A. Haralson will accept
our thanks for valuable public documents.
Washington Hall. — It will be seen by re
ference to the advertisement, that this commo
dious establishment lias become under the con
trol entirely of Mr. E. S. Rogers, who is fully
competent to maintain its former good reputa
tion.
Marietta Hotel —Tliis establishment is
now managed by Messrs. Arnold & Oglesby,
who are obliging and attentive gentlemen, and
are ready to receive visiters. See advertise,
ment.
EpDr. \V. VV. Marshall has been located
in Macon for several years and has been emi
nently successful in curing all kinds of cancers,
tumours, &c., without the use of the kuife. It
has been done exclusively by external applica
tions. He has many certificates of his success,
which can be produced if necessary.
Tae Weather. —During the past fortnight,
we have had no rain, and a part of the time the
weather has been excessively warm. On
Thursday we had a fine rain, and since then
we have had several showers, and some hail.
Yesterday m irning the Market House was struck
with lightning, which in passing down the rod
killed a dog which was on the ground near by.
Capt Bone was prostrated, and Judge Cook and
VV.m Holmes, were severely shocked by it, all
of whom were in the Market House at the time.
They soon recovered from the eflects of the
shock.
Accident. —One of the freight cars on the
Macon and Western Railroad ran off the track,
by which one of the hands, a negro, had his leg
broken and another was so badly scalded that
he has since died. It is very seldom that any
accident happens on this road, which is as well
managed generally, as any in the country.
O'We regret to learn that the valuable Fac
tory ,at Cedar Shoals, in Newton county, was
destroyed by fire last week, supposed to have
originated in the picker room. This Factory
has been very profitable for the last fifteen years
and was located upon one of the best sites in
Georgia. It will doubt'ess be speedily re-built.
O’A severe gale occurred at Savannah on the
30th ult.damaging fences, windows, trees, &c.
On the day previous an Irish woman named Ju
lia Sdi.livan, was killed by lightning in that
city. There were several individuals in the
room at the time, who narrowly escaped.
Another Fire in Charleston. —We regret
to learn that the most disastjous fire occurred in
Charleston on Wednesday morning last, that has
perhaps ever occurred in that city Thirteen
stores on Hayne street, all occupied by whole
sale merchants, and a large oumber of buildings
on Majket street, were consumed. The follow
ing merchants lost their stores on Hayne street,
viz :
Townsend, Arnold & Cos. dry goods, insured-
Wiley, Banks & co. “ “ “
Kelsey &. Deas, “ “ “
Gilliland & Howells, “ “ “
Ilvatt, Mcßurney & Cos. “ “
F. D. Fanning &Cos. Hat and Cap Store, “
D. F. Fleming & co., Shoe Store “
11 armll, Hare & co., Saddlery store, “
J S. Beach, Stationery Store, “
G. Z. Waldron & co., Clothing do. “
Courtney & Tennent, Hardware do. “
F. W. Grant, Grocery de. “
S. S. Mills, Grocery do “
The Charleston Hotel was on fire but saved.
The loss is estimated at about $500,000 —
which was principally insured. $36,000 falls
on the Augusta & Insurance Company.
Nashville Convention. —This patriotic as
semblage of distinguished citizens of the South
will convene at Nashville on Monday next. —
The following gentlemen have accepted the ap
pointment as Delegates from Georgia, viz : Hon.
G. M. Troup, C J. McDonald, Wm. Law, Chas.
Dougherty, W. T. Colquitt, J. H. Couper, M J
Crawford, 11. L. Benning, O C. Gibson, S.
Fouche, and Messrs. Warner, Miller, Billups,
Wingfield and McWhorter, and will attend.—
Judges Hill, Hillyer, Scarborough, Meriwether
and Gartrell have declined ! The South Caroli
na, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi delegations
will probably be full—and Maryland, Virginia!
Tennessee, Louisiana, Tezas, North Carolina
and Arkansas, will he partially represented
Great Flood. —The accounts from the West
represent the waters in the Mississippi as being
very high, and land enough has been inundated
to produce two hundred thousand bales of cotton.
At Helena, Ark., the water was higher on the
18th, than it had been since 1828—a large por
tion of the town was overflowed. For more
than a mile up and down the river si that plaee
the bank had caved in from 100 to 150 yards in
width. The water wus very high in all the prin*
cipal tributaries of the Mississippi at the lutest
dates, which must prove disastrous to the crops
in that productive section.
Latest from Europe. —The steamer Asia,
arrived at Halifax on Tuesday last, bringing
Liverpool dates to the 18th ult An advance of
}d. per lb. on fair qualities of cotton had taken
place, and the market for other descriptions was
quite animated at previous rates in Liverpool.—
48,000 bales were sold during the week.
Trade in tho manufacturing districts was very
prosperous.
The money market was easy, and provisions
unchanged.
American securities had advanced, and U. S.
Sixes were quoted'at 11£ premium.
The political intelligence is unimportant.
The Atlantic was to leave Liverpool on the
29th of May.
Brown and Shipley’s Circular by the Europa
estimates the stock of Cotton on hand at Liver
pool at five hundred and eight thousand baleß,
O’ It is said that the Southern organ to be es
tablished at Washington, is to be called the
“Crisis” Elwood Fisher and Mr. Garnett,
of Virginia, are to be the editors. Forty thou
sand dollars have, it is reported, been subscrib
ed to carry on the enterprise.
THE STATE OF THE REPUBLIC.
It is gloomy enough—and this gloom is made
still more sombre, from the fact, that a large por
tion of our people have no distinct perceptions
of a policy that ought to be and shall be pursued
to the end. When the minds of masses of men
are resolved and the stimulus of exertion to se
cure an end is upon them, it matters little what
is the emergency—what the danger—what the
labor, —all thmgs then are possible. But when
our counsels are varient, and our purposes vague
or fluctuating, we might have the stupendous
might of any or all of the elements at command
and waste it in doing nothing. We think this
purposeless sort of effort, is descriptive of our
part in the present unhappy controversy now
raging in this Government. FOrit is a shame to
us, that while we are distracted in our aims, there
is a consistency, a unity and a pertenacity in al*
that is projected by the aggressors upon our
rights that has never been exreeded. For one
moment let us remount to the sourer of the bilte r
waters that are “drowning us in perdition," and
pronounce distinctly the principle upon which
all this ruin proceeds. Simplify this complicated
question as it now stands, and what is the germ
of it? Is it a political question ? Then it must
be that slavery unjustly interferes with the rights
and interesls of those who do not have any con
cern in it. Is this the fact—is it even alleged ?
Never has the mendacity of the free suiter gone
•.hat far yet. Then it must indirectly, as an
economical question art and react upon the dif
ferent parts of our system prejudicially, and in
that way involves the North in the evil. It is
not contended seriously now by any, that so far
as the profits of the institution is concerned hut
the country isva-tly the gainer, and the whole
tribe ofNorthern casuists are delving into the
mine, of sophisticated cant, to shew how mag
nanimous and how wise it will ultimately prove
to sacrifice present gain to duty.
Then what are free soil and abolition politi.
cians after—what do they purpose and upon
wbat principle do they work ? Sift the mu ter
as you will, they are for legislating a moral re
form, upon the South—their object is to force
us to “cease to do evil and to learn to do well,”
and upon the ground that this Government
should square its action by the law of conscience
rather than by the law of the land. This is the
whole doctrine. And now, when we view the
powers which were originally conferred upon
tliis Government—the safeguards thrown around
each State to shield it from injurious interference
—the distress which this agitation has inflicted
already upon our people, and the ruin that is
certain to follow its footsteps—the gratuitous
and uncalled for misery which will he perpetra
ted upon every quarter ofa once happy and uni
ted country ; we say, looking at all tliis, can
we extenuate the diabolical spirit which still
urges on our destructien ?
We present this feebly drawn picture of the
true state of the difficulty between the North and
South, that our readers may bring their minds to
answer this momentous question : Has not the
South, in view of the past history of her wrongs
and the present aspect, of things, reached the point
where she had better test the determination of her
enemy, and the strength of her oicn arm ? Have
we not endured enough already to ask sternly of
our assailants how much farther they mean to
go? Is not the record now full enough to go to
trial ? These arc not light questions, for we
think they are big with the fate of at least eight
millions of people—of a generous, a noble peo
ple. That there should be indecision—a differ
ence of opinion among the best minds and purest
hearts of our friends is not to be wondered at.
It is not very surprising that men in the ranks
of our truest defenders should, in full view of
the wretched state of the country, be willing to
compromise with troubles that are enough to
overwhelm the stoutest heart. We should there
fore not distrust any 6uch—much less indulge
any acrimony or crimination For among some
of those who appear to be now wavering can be
singled out men who never hung back with a
plain word or a strong argument in our cause ;
and we feel assuied they now purpose to do the
best which they believe can be done for the fail
ing fortunes of the South. But yet we believe
they are wrong, and that time, and a short time,
will prove they are, when they advise us to ac
cept the present insidious overtures of misguided
friends in Congress. What will he our condi
tion, when, after we have released the North
from her old debt of good faith, contracted as
fairly as ever such debt was among men, by the
Missouri Compromise act, and strengthened her
hands by the admission of California? We shall
see the pal:ry boon for which we madethis great
concession, snatched hack from us. It will, as
sure as Northern men are faithless and venal, be
robbed from us, —and when we go North for our
mao servant and our maid servant that have fled
to them for a harborer, and hold up this new
compact, plead how we gave up the “whole of
California, with her present pretended organiza
tion,” that we might in the more peace and se
curity enjoy our old rights, we shall be laughed
to scorn, and be told that such a bargain was a
league with the devil, and in the words of the
Boston Atlas, would be a “disgrace to the age
in which we live, a libel upon the Constitution,
a living anathema against a Republican Govern
ment and a wanton violation of the law of God."
And we shali again be told that that law is a
“ dead letter in the New England States." In
any present or future compromise with the
North we have no more faith than in any future
bargain Gen. Twiggs may drive with the Semi
nole Indians. For free soilers have more law
and far less conscience than the Seminolcs to
help them through their perfidiousness. Wo
say more laio, for it is undoubtedly true that in
strict legal interpretation, one Congress is not
estopped by the action of a previous one, and
under this robber's cloak, any compromise may
lie stabbed to death. We are fully convinced
that “now's the day and now's the hour” to
meet the question. Tho North, from the first,
has been the aggressor, and now let us make her
feel it by forcing her to the wail. Nothing short
of a moral advantage will now do us the least
good, for we only put the North upon a good
appetiser for plunder, when we check her by
the short fasts of these compromises. Let her
take the back track now, fbr one'e in thirty years.
Remand California back, unconditionally t0~h77~
Territorial state—There let her tarry at J er j M
until it is fair and honest that she shall a gsu rae '
the place she now demands, tt'e can force this
upon the JYorth or stop the Government. And
when in solemn convocation of these thirty
States, from day to day, our Representatives
shall vet by it and watch its suspended animation
let them determine by their pprplexed looks and
anxious heart-ihrobbings, who is in the Kroner
All we want to bring us off “more than con.
querors," is the firm resolve never to come off
second best in the present conflict.
As to the surrender of fugitive slaves we are
notin the least anxious about it. This matter
thanks to “the nine points of the law,” we have
in our own control. If Massachusetts refuses to
deliver np to the last hair, any slave belonging
to us, we will make her rue it. Our Courts can
be closed and will be closed against her mer
chants, if the occasion calls for it And let cs
see then what party in Georgia will raise their
voice against such righteous reprisal. But never
let us say die in the present fight against Mr
Clay’s surrender report. Until the Sooth is
righted let a truce be declared to all old causes
of quarrel. Here on this neutral ground let
Whig and Democrat meet for one struggle an( j
one fate. Traitors we will have to meet in our
midst— they are here now —Faint-hearted men
and unsympathizing men will be here to balk
our efforts—A class who only sojourn among ui
who come here with inimical affinities—who stay
here with (Item, and who will go away with
them, will be ready to discourage us—but over
any or all these discouragements the true South,
ern party can triumph. To say we cannot, or
that we ought not, is to say that men do not love
their own heart's blood. And as a beginning to
organize in good earnest for the conflict, wre
second most heartily the proposition of our dis
tinguished correspondent “Southron,” published
two weeks ago Let the State of Georgia be
represented in a grand mass meeting, to be held
this summer, and as soon as possible, and then
we can number our strength. This will be fol
lowed by adjoining States, and as voice shall
answer unto voice, we will have but one heart
and that heart but one impulse. What say our
cotempuraries to tliis plan ? Suggest some
thing gentlemen that we can in the cordial and
affectionate spirit of patriots, smarting under a
common injury, unite upon. No divisions ought
to be tolerated, for here one enemy wounds us
more cruelly than a hundred could beyond our
borders. Suggest something, anything, sooner
than another experiment upon the good nature of
the South, or upon the regard of the North for
her solemn word.
Sentenced to the Penitentiart. —The
Gtiffin Whig says “Judge Starke, of the Flint
Circuit, at McDonough on Tuesday last, passed
Sentence on two criminals, one for seven, and
the other for three years. William Peteri,
alias William P. Simpson, is the man, who some
time ago, broke into the house of Mr. R. Hen
derson of Henry, and stole therefrom, about five
hundred dollars. He was pursued, overtaken
and captured iri Marietta, and brought back to
Henry county', to await his trial. The other
criminal, a lad of some 12 or 14 years ofage
was lodged in jail two or three weeks ago, for
stealing a horse. He says he was raised in the
upper part of the State. Such conduct on the part
of children, is a disgrace to the State. The
probability is, that if the boy had ever received
any edscalion, he never would have committed
such a crime. The State ought to devise a
more extended plan of educating poor children,
whose parents are totally unable to school them.
Naskviz.ee and Chattanooga Raieroab.-
We are pleased to learn that the contracts for the
remainder of the grading, masonry, bridging&c
for this Road, viz. at the juuction between Chat
tanooga and the Tennessee River, was closed on
the 21st ult. and that efficient and responsible
men have bound themselves to complete their
contracts within twenty months. The work
was let on very favorable terms, and no doubt is
entertained that, with a President and Chief
Engineer of groat ability and skill, and untire
ing energy, the stockholders will soon be in pcs
session of a valuable Road, well located and
economically and thoroughly constructed.
Cotton Burned. —The Savannah Georgian of
the27th ult, says ; “We regret to learn that the
cotton on hoard the flat in tow by the H. L
Cook, took fire yesterday, when within about
seven miles of our city. The fire was discover
ed in the bottom of the flat and had progressed
so far that all efforts to save it was unvailling.—
The flat was cut loose from the boat and scuttled-
The 11. L. Cook came on to the city with her
passengers, and for assistance, and returned up
the river immediately with, another flat, to save
if possible, any of tho cotton which might es
cape the fire. The flat had on boerd 398 bales
of cotton. —150 bales belonged to Messrs. Gar
many & C 0.—125 bales to Mr. Elliott. Tins
balance was consigned to Messrs R. A. Allen <L
Cos. We are informed that the cotton was all
insured. We learn that the H. L. Cook has re
turned having picked up thirty-eight bales of the
cotton.”
Corn Statistics. —Scott’s Paper says ; ,l T°
the kindness of Col. Snowden of the U. S. Mint,
we are indebted for the following interesting in
formation :
The amount of California gold received sinec
the last arrival, viz. Bth May, is $1,595,000
The coinage for the present month
has already reached the largo
r 1 707,540
sum of a,'*"’
Gold deposits to No. 685, inclusive, are now
payable. This number was doposited oil the
10th of April, and the payments have therefore
been made within five weeks from the time of
deposite.
The receipts and payments in the office oft o
Assistant Treasurer, for the week ending May
17th, are as follows otn 63
Receipts, 41,210 oo
D , 28,200 06
Tr ’ 1,141,8®»
Balance, * .
From the Bth lo the 14tl. of the present montn
one million and five thousand dollars of Cali ° -
nia gold was received, making a total o! t a
millions of dollars tfius fat,.
1,707,549
