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THE ®!EnißWSya 9 Will be published every S.ITERD.I Y Afternoon, In the Tico-Story Wooden Building, at the Corner of Walnut and Fifth Street, IN THE CITV OF MACON, GA. By wm. B. H AKKISO TERMS: For the Paper, in advance, per annum, $2 if not paid iu advance, $3 00, per annum. 03*Advertisomonts will he inserted at the usual rates—and when the number of insertions de sired is not specified, they will be continued un- ; til forbid and charged accordingly, O’Advertisers by the Year will be contracted with upon the most favorable terms. O’Sales of Land by Administrators,Executors or Guardians, are required by Law, to be held on j thetirst Tuesday in the month, between the hours 0 f ten o’clock in the Forenoon and three in the afternoon, a* the Court House of the county in w hich the Property is situate. Notice of these must be given in a public gazette Silty Days previous to the day of sale. p*Sales of Negroes by Administators, Execu tors or Guardians, must be at Public Auction, on the ftrstTuesdav in the month, between the legal hoursof sale,before the Court House of the county where the LettersTestainentary ,or Administration or Guardianship may have been granted, first giv ing notice thereoffor Sixty Days, in one of the public gazettes of this State,nnil at the door of the Court House where such sales are to be held. [jj*Notice for the sale of Personal Property must be gitfcn in like manner Forty Days pre vious to the day of sale. r£}*Notice to the Debtors and Creditors olan es ate must be published for Forty Days. t £]p.Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Nc groes must be published in a public gazette in the State for Four Months, before any order absolute can be given by the Court. Lj*Citations for Letters of Administration on an Estate, granted by the Court of Ordinary, must be published Thirty Days for Letters of Dismis «ion from the administrationofan Estate,monthly pr Sir. Months —for Dismission from Guardian- s hip Forty Days. for the foreclosure of a Mortgage, must be published monthly for Four Months — for establishing lost Papers, for the full space of Three Months —for compelling Titles'from Ex ecutors, Administrators or others, where a Bond hasheen given by the deceased, the full space of Three Months. N. B. All Business of this kind shall receive prompt attention nt the SOL THERA' Tillßl .YE Olficc, and strict care will be taken that all legal Advertisements arc published according to Law. qj*AII Letters directed to this Office or the Editor on business, must be post-paiii, to in sure attention. D o 1 1 1 ita l. Extracts from Mr. Soule's Speech. O/i the Pending Measures of Compromise, delivered in the U. S. Senate, Mat) 12, ISSO. Mr. Sfiui.E said : * * # The ques tions of controversy between the North and the South may be reduced to four, all arising out of claims of constitutional rights asserted and insisted upon on one side and directly or latterally asssailed on the other. The first rela'es to the clain set up by the South to have an equal share in the Teriitories acquired from Mexico. The second grows out of the denial on the part of the South of any right in Con gress to interfere with slavery in the Dis trict of Columbia, or obstruct the slave trade between the States. The third refers to the rtght of the slave holing States to have the pn.visions of the constitution commanding and ordering the delivery of fugitive slaves effectively enforced. The fi unit embraces the boundary rights of Texas, as defined in her constitution and taws, as secured to her under the compact of annexation, and quieted of all Mexican counter-claims under the treaty of Guada lupe Hidalgo—a question more immedi ately affecting the rights of sovereignty and eminent domain of i exas, certainly, yet presenting many obvious features as well as principles which render its solution of vast moment to the South. Reversing the order in which I have mentioned these points of the controversy between the two great sections, let us sec how they have been disposed of in the 6chcme of compromise reported by the committee. The fourth comes back to tho Senate with Texas shorn of her sovereignty over not only 5J° North of the line of 36° 30', and stretching to tno Southern boundaiy lino of Oregon, upon the 42° North lati tude, hut embracing no less than of the slave territory of Texas, situate South of 36° 30', which, if tho frank expose of the honorable chairman, (Mr. Clay,) is to he trusted for the vie are to be converted into free loi ntories bv the operation of the Mexican law, a hoiishing whatever slavery may exist there now, ami prohibiting its introduction here after, in derogation not only of the compact , .-t, States and 1 exas, m between u'.e . which the South bad large interests at stake but destructive ofthe vested interest un der the compact, of the people dwelling I within the limits ofthe sunendeted tem tory—an act of power to which neither the United States nor Texas is competent, without their consent. The third returns here with provisions so c ntrived that, far fr. m remedying the evil of which the South complains, they most obviously embarrass and obstruct the exercise oflior acknowledged ligits ; so that any one, unaware of the terms of the Resolution of the honorable Senator Irorri Kentucky (Mr. Clay,) upon this subject, referred to the committee, must have con cluded that the evil complained of was not any delinnuency, on the pait o tu. ice States, in complying with a most explicit provision ot the constitution, but, on contrary, that the main evil was the abuse on tin! part of Southerners,in claiming // " men as *lare», in the exercise of the rights of reclamation of fugitives tVom service m tiie fiee Slates , tor, the only plotlaicti- THE SOUTHERN TRIBUNE. NEW SERIES —VOLUME 11. reported are such as would greatly embar rass, delay and add to the expenses of re clamation, to say nothing of the absence of all constitutional authority in this govern ment to exercise jurisdiction orerthe State Courts of the South, enlarge their jurisdic tion, assign them new duties, or require at their hands records of matters to which their functions do not pertain, and laying I aside the absence of all constitutional au ! thority in this government — beyond and I after enforcing the extradition of fugitive slaves—of exercising a federal jurisdiction | within the slave States upon the subject of i slavery, under the guise of a penal bond payable to the United States, conditioned ! for the performance of those duties of hu ! inanity and justice, to which every one of the slave States have bound themselves and their courts by their own State laws, j without the encroachment of these federal ! requisitions. The second comes back with a virtual j surrender to Congress of that vety power j and jurisdiction over slavery in the District which the South have hitherto resisted so strenuously, and which there is reason to 1 believe she will resist to the las! ; for if, under the guise of breaking up as uuisau ces the public slave marts, (which are mat ters of municipal regulation,) Congress may prohibit slaves from coming here, and may emancipate them when they come, (tho’ brought fbt the honorable purpose of being sold to pay slaveholders’just debts,) is it not an obvious assertion of a power to emancipate them, if brought here for any other purpose ? and no one who admits the power of Congress to legislate against this species of property which may be brought here for the payment of debts, and convert (without a breach of faith to wards the ceding States) this District into free territory, so far as it i elates to slaves brought here for sale by their owneis, can reasonably dispute either the power or good faith involved in making it free terri tory altogether. As to the first, after surrendering the unconditional admission of California as a State, which an honorable Senator now in my view, (Mr. Foote,) but a few days held to be a sufficient cause of active resistance on t lie part of the South, if admitted alone —after surrendering by that unconditional admission every inch of soil in the new Territories susceptible of slave settlement and culture the committee tenders to the South, as the only boon in which she is to seek a compensation for all the sacrifices extorted from her, (lie section before me, which is the tenth of the bill under debate. Such being the state of the question now presented to the Senate, 1 propose to in quire into the nature, extent and value of that compensation thus proffered to the South, as saiisfaction for her grievances and in security for her rights. The section reads as follows : And be it fur Jur enacted, That thelrgis lativc power of the Territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation consis tent with the provisions of this art ; but no law shall be passed interfering with the pri mary disposition ofthe soil, nor in respect to African slavery ; no tax shall be imposed upon the property of the United Stales, nor shall the lands or other property of non-resi dents be taxed higher than the lands or other property of residents. All the laws passed by the Legislative Assembly and Governor shall be submitted to the. Congress of the United States, ands disapproved shall be null and of no effect. What is it that this section concedes to the Sou'h I Why, nothing but the statu quo in the Territories, after the relinquish ment, required in prior sections of the bill, of all pretensions to any portion of the vast and important country embraced within the boundaries of California, and South of 36° 30'—the statu quo, with an unqualified inhibition to the Territorial Legislature from passing any law in respect to African s’avery ; and thus, besides the solemn as sertion repeated lime and again, here and elsewhere, that the Mexican law prevails in the Territories,and that by its provisions slavery is prohibited there, the committee gives the North the still further assurance that this stain quo shall never be disturbed by any law which tho Ten Uoria), I^9,2A teefton of the just lights of slaveholders, either migrating to the Territories with ( their slaves, or passing through them on.), i and hence, as to slaveiy, the Mexican laws are not only to continue in force there, but to be paramount and irrepeulable by the . . .* .* w/L.vt bo local legislature. ” , comes of all the boasted and lauded for bearance of this compromise, in saving the South’s equality, and sparing her the fla grant injustice and galling degradation oi the odious Wilmot Proviso ? were idle to tell us that the free and slave States possess equal and common t’g llls under the constitution, aud for the N‘>rtli to refuse the South that protection to her ~m pe rt,i».TcrrUor,ofllu.U..»»Wl; she affords to her own properly meic. The section of the bill now under con sideration is the hopeful progeny of the most remarkable and exceptionable ot all lo original resolutions ofthe honorable Seimloi'Vroni Kentucky. That r« U lu..o» vvas as hdlowß.. ([g sJavcnj docs no' exist by law, and is not likely to be 3 Jo any of the Tcrritones acquired by the United States from the Republic I Mexico, it is imxpedicnt for Congress provide by law either for its introduction j’ nUI or exclusion ftotnuuy parted said ici- MACON, (GA.,) SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 29, ISSO. ritory ; and that appropriate Territorial Gov ernnients ought to he established by Congress in all of said Teiritory not as signed as the boundaries of the proposed State of California, without the adoption of j any restriction or condition on the subject of slavery. * * Now the Report represents that the Wilmot Proviso is not imposed in the bill, because the coicmittee thought it teas unnecessary in this instance. * * While that portion of the bill relating to Territo ries remains as it is, it is not possible that I can afford it my sanction and support ; for I assert, what is beyond the power of refutation, and what it behooves every Southern Senator deeply to ponder on, that no Senator can cast his vote for this bill as it is,without explicitly admitting, through an irresistible implication, a power in Con gress to pass the Wilmot Proviso ! * * When our conquering armies entered Mex ico at various points, nobody doubts, I imagine, but that the constitution of the U. States and their laws, 100, so far as they were applicable to American citizens, intir sc, accompanied and abode with them du ring their sojourn there. Now what be came of the Mexican laws and constitution during the invasion, while the American armies took and held possession l The ! law of nations would pithily respond with ! die leges silent inter artna, which attests the presence of the conqueror and abide the pressure of military domination. Rut the superior humanity and characteristic forbearance of the American invaders left them in the free enjoyment of those civil and religious rights and privileges which the treaty of peace afterwards, more for mally, but just to this extent and no more, guarantied and assured to them ; and so things remained during tho hostile occu pa'ion. As to all public, political rights, whether derived from the Mexican law or the higher sovereign authority of her con stitution, l hey were of course, and of ne cessity, superseded while that occupation lasted. When on the return of peace, the American army feiired, then, and simul taneously with it, the Mexican laws and constitution resumed their political func tions, and just as they were before the in vasion, in all such parts of Mexico as were not embraced in the treaty of cession.— That is clear. Rut what were the legal consequences of the cession in the ceiled Territories? The political laws of Mexico, as well as her national constitution, were, and already had been, fiom the time ofthe invasion, and up to the very moment of the ratification of the treaty, suspended. Now, l submit trustingly to the candor of honor able Senators to fix the point of lime there after when, in their judgment, those laws and that constitution were revived within those localities and in that jurisdiction, and the constitution of the United States with- drawn from there, to give place to the constitution of Mexico 1 If revived, how? and by whom ] The whole history of ihe negotiation, as well as the treaty of cession itself, shows conclusively, as 1 shall pre sently attempt to show, that although Mex ico explicitly asked a revival of so much ofher laws and constitution as prohibited slavery, yet the United States explicitly refused it. * * * But sir, those who maintain that the Mexican laws pro hibiting African slavery still obtain in these Territories will have to encounter another startling consequence, and must rid them selves of it as best they may ; and that con sequence, i3, that the same laws which prohibit African slavery there tolerate Mexican slavery ; and so the free soilers will have to make their choice between black slavery and white slavery ! The victims of Mexican peonage are the slaves of debt ; and the dominion of the master is quite as absolute, and the prospect of the peones quite as changeless, as those of the Africans in any of the slave Stales. * * Mr. Soule then introduced an extract from the constitution of Vermont, and prov ed plainly, that all persons, male or female, ■white or black, with or without their con sent, are liable to be holden as slaves in Vermont, if within twenty-one and eigh teen years of age respectively ; with their consent, without any limitation nt all, and mnk u^Tfr,-tines, ’and tub ukc.” Yet, with this organic sanction ot while slavery, of Vermont peonage prehx j0 and as ihe very frontispiece of her constitu i tion, she deliberately announces in her legislature, and proclaims iu the Senate ! chamber of the Union, that southern slave- ryisacßiMßl „ . I Clearly, then, tlio s'lpulattons ot the i treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo contain the full •iauge of all the rights and privilege.' secured to the inhabitants of the cedet Tenitoiies. Let us. then, look into tint treatv, and see if there be any thing theie which would deprive a Southern slave holder from exercising such lights of pro perty in such Territories as he might ex ercise under the constitution of the t in ted States any where out of these bun h . and not within one of the free States, un less under a claim of extradition ot iugt- We “front service. I have that treaty » ‘ my hand ; and l beg leave to refer to he ninth article in it, vv Inch 1 will now read to the Senate: * Article. 9<A of the Amended Treaty. ••The Mexicans who, in the I cm'ones aforesaid, shall not preserve tl.o charactei of citizens of the Mexican republic, com formibly with what was stipulated in he p™o.Vu, S oriole. .h.» .l-'Ert into the Union of the United States, and be admitted at the ptoper time (to be judged of l>y the Congress of the United States) to the enjoyment of all the rights of citizens of the United States, ac , cording to the principles of the constitu tion, and, in the mean time, shall he main tained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty and property, and secured in the free exercise of their religion, with out restriction.” * * The important words, “ and the civil rights now rested in them according to the Mexican laic,” were stricken out from the original treaty, and have ceased either to devolve any duty upon tho Uni ted States, or to confer or secure to the Mexican residents any privileges or immu nities whatever in regard to them. All that is secured to them in the ratified trea ty —all that the United States are bound for—is their maintainancc and protection in the enjoyment of their liberty and p/ro ■pearly; and it would be difficult to con ceive how the enjoyment by American citizens in the Territories of their liberty and property would interfere with that of the Mexican residents, or be a breacli of faith or of duty in regard to the protec tion secured to them iu the treaty of ces sion. * * * * It will be remembered that the honora ble Senator from Kentucky, in the very able speech lie delivered at an early peri od of the session in support of his origi nal resolutions, read us, with his character istic impressiveness, an interesting extract from the confidential despatch (No. 15) of Mr. Trist to the Department of State, da ted Tueub'jya, Mexico, September 4,1847, minutely setting forth what had occurred in conference between the Mexcan com missioners and himself upon this very question of the introduction or exclusion of slavery into or from the Territories to he ceded to the United States. I agree with the honorable Senator, that this pas sage has an important bearing upon some of the issues he presented, and which arc under debate ; and 1 ask leave to refresh the memories of Senators by calling their attention to that passage once more. In reference to this part of the conference, Mr. Trist says: “Our conversation upon this subject was perfectly frank, and no less friendly; and the more effective upon their minds, inas much as I was enabled to say with perfect sincerity that, although their impressions respecting tho practical effect of slavery as it existed in the United States were, 1 had no doubt, entirely erroneous, yet there teas probably no difference between my indi vidual views and sentiments on slavery,con sidered in itself and those which they en tertained. I concluded by assuring them that the hare mention of the subject in any treaty to which the Uuited States were a party was an absolute impossibility; that no President of the United States would dare to present any such treaty to tho Sen ate ; and that if it were in their power to offer me the whole territory described in nor project, increased tenfold in value,and, in addition to that, covered afoot thick all over with pure gold, upon the single con dition that slavery should be excluded therefrom, I could not entertain the offer for a moment, nor think even of commu nica ing it to Washington. The matter ended in their being fully satisfied that this topic was one not to he touched, and it was dropped with good feeling on both sides.” The title prefixed to these instructions reads thus : “Points which must be treated of in the conferences with the United States commissioners, and must serve as the basis of those of Mexico, laid before his excel lency the President by the Minister of Foreign Relations, and approved by his excellency in a council or ministers.” Now, the 13th article of these instruc tions makesknown, iu unmistakableterms, tae deliberate and anxious purpose of Mex ico to secure the exclusion of slavery from the Territories as follows: “ The United States shrdl bind themselves not to permit that slavery be established in the territories ceded by the treaty.” These instructions hear date Me'vrre imposing names of j.optz etc oanta Anna, 1. li. Pacheco, N. Romero, Alcorta, ami Ronderu; and the whole document attests tle'solemn earnestness of Mexico upon the suiject referred to. * * * •laving established, I flatter myself, that in t»e same moment of the ratification of tho'reaty, when Mexico parted with tho ownrship and jurisdiction, the United I State mid without the lapsa of a single install required both—as the United Statesg is conceded, held exclusive juris diction |„ r j n g the whole of the period of their ho(| 0 occupancy, it would be mar vellous, Ijeed, if, by adding to their rights as invade jheir rights as conquerors, and to these tii.. i as purchasers, they di minished U nghts they had before. * * At an extpj ve Beßs j ( ,n of the Senate of the l m le Statcs, held March S, IS4B, the folU>'viiir? eruoiiiblo proceeding took place, as it staL recorded upon the jour nal of the Sen at that date. On motion nL Baldwin, to insert the following words\ w - t; “Provided theVi ia j| |j C ne ;tj, er slave ry nor involuntary - (u j o }n t]lc ton . ilo . ries heteby cm e >v crvv j ße tlia.n in pun ishment otciimes, V. eo p ( j ie ~a , ty shall have been duly co,l \ ( |,” And it was iicterniu - n ,j 10 negat i ve _ yeas 15, nays Jb. \ NUMBER 25. Those who voted in the affirmative were: Messrs. Atherton, Baldwin, Clark, Clayton, Corwin, Davis, of Massachusetts, Dayton, Dix, Green, llale, Miller, Niles, Phelps, Spruance, and Upham.—ls. Those who voted iu the negative were— Messrs. Allen, Ashley, Atchison, Bad ger, Bagby, Bell, Benton, Berrien, Brad bury, Breese, Bright, Butler, Calhoun, Cameron, Cass, Crittenden, Davis, of Mis sissippi, Dickinson, Douglass, Downs, Felch, Foote, Hanegan, Hunter, Johnson, of Maryland, Johnson, of Louisiana, John son, of Georgia, Lewis, Mangum, Moore, Pierce, Rusk, Sevier, Sturgeon, Turney, Underwood, and Yulee. * * Only look at it; out of the Sen ate of GO, it commanded but 15 votes; pre cisely one-forth of the Senators elect, and not a Senator more! And thus went down the IVilmot Proviso, in a struggle for the mastery among its friends. But time has developed that this was a sham fight, after all; the object was to disarm the South, and lull her distrust, and she joined in the acquisition. But when the 1 acquisition was made, hack came the Pro viso, galvanized into life, with anew vigor atul bolder face. The seeming rupture ex ists no more. Its friends rally fiercer and stronger than over; and although, waging war under conflicting devices, they differ in many points, they are unanimous in one —in spoliating the South of her constitu tional rights,to prevent tho expansion ofher limits and the extension ofher dominion.** Why, then, was it, that so many of the Wilmot provisoists joined the ani-proviso ists in voting it down ? But one answer occurs—the adoption of tho amendment would most undoubtedly have defeated the treaty. The ratification of a treaty requires that two-thirds of Senators pre sent shall vote in its favor; and in a Sen ate of 60, with 30 members from the free Slates, and 30 from slave States, it would have been ultetly hopeless to have looked for the consent of 40, after it had been so unacceptable and odious to southerners by the insertion of the Wilmot Proviso. The ratification immediately and abso lutely depended upon tho Southern vote of tho Senate; and not an inch of terri tory would have been acquired with it.— This every Senator knew; and the prompt and decisive rejection of Mr. Baldwin’s amendment involved an implication, and indeed a promise, as binding in conscience and justice as a formal compact, that the Wilmot Proviso should never be applied to the ceded Territories while their terri torial condition lasted. * * But, Mr. President, I must say, in all candor, that I do not see in these measures any such compromise, or indeed any com promise at all. Concessions,and many of them I see, but all of them are concessions from the South ; and this being so, where is the compromise 1 Will honorable Sen ators point out to me a single coucesssiou from the North to the South which these bills contain 1 I ask for but one. Sir, there is none. No; no not one. The characterestic features of all the measures before us are exactions on the onehandand yieldings on the other. The South gives, the North takes. In truth, unless it can be said that when the North is content to take less than all, she concedes all that she spares from the spoliation, there is not a concession in t lie whole scheme to give ev idence, l will not say of her magnanimity, hut of her justice * * Put the question to any of Northern Senators who favor the plan, and I venture the opinion that you will scarcoly find any among them who does not concur fully with the Senator from Kentucky, ihat the Mexican laws survived tho cession, and are now in force in the ceded Territories, that the introduction of slavery there, is wholly prohibited, atul that a binding obligation rests upon the Senators from the free States to admit either of the Ter ritories as a free State into the Union * * Will the South think you, be satisfied with such a piece of patchword as this ? with every point she contended for surren dered and lost to her; with every claim she presented disallowed ; stripped of ev slat ery-i vta J Uisirict, toils, icc.; with her rights to the extradition of fugi tives from labor, clogged and obstructed, gaining nothing and loosing all? I repeat it, again, sir, will the South be satisfied with this ? Never, sir; never ! * * * It is deeply painful to me, Mr. Presi dent, to part on such an issue with any of my Southern fiineds. It shall not be my fault, sir it such modifications arc ndT in serted into the plan ot the committee us will enable me conscientiously to give it my support. Should 1 fail in this, no course is left me but to stand where I am. 1 cannot support this ominous measure as it is, and have the approbation of my constituents. I cannot support it as it is,and have my own. I nintu'ly alive to all the responsibilities which surround me and weigh me down. L realize lully the perilous condition of Louisiana and the South ; but 1 will not seem to be contented when 1 am not. If we are to he crushed, let us not, at least, lose our self-respect. Brave rnen.stuggling fortheir rights.may he stricken down in the strife; but, even when all is lost, a manly resignation and gallant bearing may im part a dignity to misfoilunc which will command the respect even of an enemy, while the vain-glorious boasting of pre tenders, over attainments wrought where all has been disaster, brings upon them his sileu,t pity aud deliberate contempt. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, Will be eXecUted in the moil apjrrored style and on the best tttms.at the Office of the. SCtTTSEB.H’ TILXBTJH* —BY— WM. B. HARRISON. Mnstotloii Remains in Florida. We have been much interested ftV aft account which we fine published in t'hs Wakulla (Fla.) Times, by Mr. Geo. S. King, of the discovery of the bones of a supposed Mastodon in the great Wakulla Spring. The depth of the spring, as as certained by the line and plummet, is one hundred and fourteen feet; and the dis-* tanco across it at the surface is nearly four hundred feet. At the bottom distance across is two hundred feet. The shape of the spring at its brim is nearly or quite a regular circle, and I his shape maintained on the souih side of the bottom, on the opposite, of north side, at some distance from the surface, there is a large cavern in tlieaide,' or wall ~f ilio spring, the mouth of which is eighty-nine feet in perpendic ular height, and about two hundred Vflf breadth. Through this cavern, which Is supposed to ho horizontal, an immense amount of water flows into the main body or basin ofthe spring. Theroof.or upper part of the cavern, composed of lime rock, presents an irregular and jagged outline; and, commencing on the east and west side, at about equal distances at the depth of sixty feet, it rise?in the form of an arch to within twenty-five feet of the surface of the water. The water of this truly magnificent spring is so transparent that any bright substance, as small even as a half dime, can he seen on the bottom at its great depth. It is highly refractive, and, aided by the white sand on the bottom, every hue of the rainbow .may he ?ften distinctly seen and reflected and flashing from any subsbuicc thrown into it. , There is no preccptiblecurrentor boiling in thespring, in consequence of the great size of the inlet to it from the side, and the great quantity of water it contains. It is the principal source of Wakulla river, ai.d pleasure parties may be ofteu seen upon it in boats. There were no bones to be seen except in one spot, which was on the north-eait sido of the spring, and scattered promis cuously over an area of about thirty by eighty feet. They were lying upon the white sand, where they could be almost as distinctly seen, in consequence of the transparency'of the water, as if they had been vioVvod through an airy instead of a watery medium. Having prepaid tho necessary aparatus for raising the bones, Mr. King, assisted by Mr. Bkokenkroigh, went to work, and soon succeeded in rais ing them. The outer formation of the bones, to adopt the words of Mr. King, is for the most part enamel, of from | to J of an inch thick, generally of beautiful whiteness, and very hard—too hard to cut with a knife. The upper or lower (we cannot tell which at present) hone of each fore-leg, which were obtained, measures a little upwards 3 feet in length, 13 inches in diameter, at what appears to be the knee joint. A single joint only obtained of the vertibra, belonging either to the neck or small of the back, measures 17 inches (and was appearantly 1 to 3 indies more originally) across* one way, and 10 tho other, and the apavture which admits the spinal cord, measures 3 by 4J inches. The principal part of each hip-bone ob tained, indicate a length at least 4 feet or more. They are so much broken howev er, as to render it difficult to determine what were their real size in every particu lar. The socket alone where the hip anti thigh bones joined measures nearly 23 inch* es iu circumference, or about 8 inches in diameter. A part of one blade, bpne, and several others, were obtained. That which proved to be a part of a tusk, taken from a depth of 45 feet, when lying upon the bottom, presented a length of not less than 4 feet. '1 lie shapeof the pait of the tusk seen was, lengthwise, a little curved, and is nearly round. There was no per ceptible diminution of size for the whole length of this part—and at each end it ap peared to have been broken nearly square oft'. It is to be regretted that this piece of tusk could not have been secured entire. When it had been raised, perhaps ten feet, not having strength enough to hold its ouiTonvy thta ttke lirgfcst piece’t fie n to be seen was but lilile over a foot. This was raised again, but misfoitune still pursuing this piece of tlietusk, it fell from the hook into the boat, and broke again into many pieces. It measured 8 inches in diameter, and judging from the fact that there was an apparent diminution in size' for the length of four feet or more, and from its enormous thickness, it could not have been less than ten, and was probably near twelve or fifteen feet in length. The pieces ob tained prove t he tusk or tusks to be pure ivory, encased by enamel of almost trans parent whiteness. The weight of these tusks or tusk was beyond a doubt also en ormous. The piece which it was attempt ed to raise, and partly accomplished, was quite a heavy pull for both Mr. King and Mr. Brockenbkougu. It must have weighed 150 pounds, and the whole weight i«f the entire tusk could not have been less than 300 pounds, and it is quite probable it weighed as high as 400 pounds. Ono of the leg bonos already described weighs GO pounds, and could no A, orignally have weighed less than 75 or 80 pounds.— T bey arc more or loss hollow, and inure was a hollow in the part of the tusk secur ed of 2 1-2 to 3 inches. There were no thigh bones to he found. Their length, judging relatively, mus bo near or quite 5 feet.— Sao. Rep,