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t , .Tll£ StiHSTVamsfiS’ niU bepublished crery SATURDAYAfternoon , la the Tico-Story Wooden Building , at the Corner of Walnut and Fifth Street, IX turn CITY OV M A COX, GA. My Win. B. HARRISON. " r nmmm_L _ TERMS; l or the Paper, in advance, per annum, if not paid io advance, $3 00, per annum. willbe inserted at the usual rites—and when the number of insertions de sired is not specified, they will be continued un til forbid and charged accordingly, [Ex’ Advertisers by the Year willbe contracted with upon the most favorable terms. ICTS.tles of Land by Administrators,Executors or Guardians, are required by Law, to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours ot ten o’clock in the Forenoon and three in the Afternoon, at the Court House of the county in which the Property is situate. Notice of these Hales must be given iua public gazette Sixty Days previous to the dSy of sale. of Negroes by Administators, E<e*n tors or Guardians, must be at Public Auction, on the first Tuesday in the month, between the legal hours of sale .before the Court House of the county where the LettersTesumentary,or Administration or Guardianship may have been granted, first giv ing notice thereoffor Sixty Dais, in one of the public gazettes of this State,and at the door of the Court House where such sales are to be held. IL/ - Notice for the sale of Personal Property must be given in like manner Forty Days pre vious to the day of sale. q3»Notice to the Debtors and Creditors oi an es tate must be published for Forty Days. Notice that application will be made to the Ciurt of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Ne groes must be published in a public gazetteinthe Siate for Four Months, before any order absolute can be given by the Court. (Lj’Citittions for Letters of Administration on ati Estate, grantedby the Court ofOrdinary, must be published Thirty D«ys—for Letters of Dismis tiion from the administrationofan Estate,monthly for Six Months —fur Dismission from Guardian ship Forty Days. rj3*ltulos 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 has been given by the deceased, the full space of 'Three Months. N. B. All Business of this kind shall receive prompt atteijtiojjatthe SOUTHERN TRIBUNE Office, and strictcare will be taken thatall legal Advertisements are published according to Law. Letters directed to this Office or the Editor on business, must be rosT-PAin, to in sure attention. 2T. OTJSLET & SON, WA lIE HO USE (,■ COMMISSIONME R CHANTS WILL continue Business at their “ Fire- Proof Building-*,” on Cotton plvcnue , Macp», C*a. Thankful for past favors, they beg leave to say they will bp constantly at their post, and that no rlfbrts shall be spared to advance the interest of their patrons. _ . They respectfully ask all who have COTTOJ\ or other PRODUCE to Store, to cal) and exam ine the safety of their Buildings, before placing jt elsewhere. , (E/*Ccstom arv Advances on Cotton in Store or Shipped,and all Business transacted at the psual rates. june 2 ly DAVID ItEID, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public, MACON, G A . O.MMISSIONER OF DEEDS, Ac., for the V 7 States of Alab«j«a, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Missouri, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Penn ylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas, New Jersey, Maine, &e. _ . Depositions taken, .'iceounts probated, L'eeits and Mortgages drawn, and all documents and instruments of writing prepared and authentica ted for use and record, in any ofthe above States. Residence on Walnut Street, near the African Church. , (£j*Public Office adjoining Dr.M.S. Thomson s Bofanic Store, opposite the Floyd House. june 29 *)' WILLIAM WILSON, HOUSE CARPENTER AMD CONTRACTOR. Cherry Street near Third , Macon, Ga. d\TAKES and keeps on hand Doors, Blinds IYL and Sashes for sale. Thankful for past favors he hopes for further patroujtge. may 25 20—6 in WOOD A LOW» GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, NEW ORLEANS, LA. may 25 QO-ly Ice Cream Saloon, jColton Avenue, next door below Ross 4- Co's. OPEN from 10 o’clock, A. M. 4> 10 P. M , daily, Sundays excepted. The Ladies' Slaoon detached and fitted up for their coinfort, in a neat and pleasant style. j une 22 11. C. FREEMAN. lIALL & BRANTLEY, HAVE just received a well selected assort ment of DRY GOODS and GROCERIES, which embraces almost every article in their line of business. These floods make their stock extensive, which has been selected recently by pile of the firm, and they are determined to sell their Goods upon reasonable terms, and at the lowest prices. Whilst they are thankful for past favors, they respectfully invite their frieuds and ihe public to call at their Store on Cherry Street, and examine their Goods and prices, before pur chasing elsewhere. inarch 23 11 Macon Gundy .llanulttfloi). ritllE Subscriber still continues to inarufac’ JL ture CANDY of every variety, ppjt door below Ross & Co's, on Cotton Avenue. Hav ing increased my facilities and obtained addi tional Tools, I am now prepared to put up to order, C-3JVD IE S , of any variety, and war ranted equal to any manufactured in the South. I also manufacture a superior article ofLemon and other SYRUPS, CORDIALS\PRESERVES,i,-c. All my articles are well packed, del.vpred at any point in the City and warranted to give satisfaction. 11. C. FREEMAN, Agent, marrh 9 0 Macon Female High School. MRS. LAWTON, being thankful f»r the patr mage she has received, will commence the Second Term of her SC IIOOL on MONDAY Bth of July next Ail c inmunications directed to Mrs. L. through tho Post Office, Box No. 30, will meet with prompt attention. iitnelß ‘ °3— if THE SOUTHERN TRIBUNE. NEW SEIt 7EN—VOLUME 11. H o c t r g. * HIKESAO REPUBLICASi CH.tST. To be sung upon “three days" prior to the fall of Pekin. Ching-a-ring a chopstick—crinkum crankum ! Mouri pour la pstrie—ltopgs and gongs ! Vive la Republique— winkum wankum ! Liberty, equality,and ding-dongs ! Hereditary bondsmen, don’t you know that He that would be free must strike the blow ? Twang a-rang a ting-ring—we shall show that Cliong-chow tyranny is no go. March, brave Chinese ! —twingle twangle— ''Ta-victory, or, winki-dinki, to your graves ; Chick-chock—Kuf-Fee’s sold his mangle ; Chinamen never will be slaves ! GKAXD CHORl'g : Ching-a-ring a chopstick—crinkum crankum ! Mouri pour la patrie—hongs and gongs ! Death to the tyrant—winkum wankum ! Twang Twiddle, victory, and ding-dongs. o If t f r a l . The Admission of California. Iho Bill for the admission of California as a State into the Union, was taken up in the Senate on the 13th inst. when Mr. Davis of Miss., addressed the Senate sta ting hjs objections to the bill on several grounds. Why,he asked, were Northern men urging the admission of California ? It was not to promote their manufactures, fbr California would be free trade. It was not to preserve political power, be cause the North had a majority already. The only purpose was, therefore, to com mit an aggression upon the South. If there was now danger to the Union, it was because the North had acted unjustly to the South;and this wasthehealingmeasure that was proposed. The remonstrances ofthe South were met with indifference or contempt. This was a constitutional Union —and hose, who attempted to overthrow the constitution were the disunionists. We stand on the verge of an act that will form an era iti our history. At a moment of unparalleled excitement, we are about to do an act that u-ill overthrow the balance of power. The consequences could be foreseen. For his own part,he felt obliged to resist the measure as one pregnant with conse quences fatal to the Union. He was in structed by the Legislature of his State to oppose this bill, and ha considered it as tan. tamount to the Wilmot Proviso, and in a form more objectionable. He gave bis so lemn warning against the consummation of this act. He used no menace, but he warned the majority not to look to the South as a field w here victories were to be w’on without cost. Mr. Clemens gave a summary of his objections to the bill—the informality of the precedence, &c. Whatever his State should do he would obey her commands. States were not subjects of the action of the Government. This government could not, if it tried, subdue one State, but they ivould have the whole fourteen against them, before long. Mr. Houston vindicated his vote in sup port of the bill. Mr. Barnwell replied to some portion of Mr. Houston’s remarks, and vindicated the Nashvijle Convention. After some further conversation the bill was passed—yeas 34, nays IS, as follows. Yeas—Messrs. Baldwin, Bell, Benton, Bradbury, Bright, Cass, Chase, Cooper, Davis, of Mass., Dickinson, Dodge, of Wis.; Dodge of lowa, Douglas, Ewing, Fclch, Greene, Hale, Hamlin, Houston, Jones, Miller, Norris, I’helps, Seward, Shields, Smith, Spruance, Sturgeon, Un* I derwood, Upham, Wales, Walker, Whit comb and Winthrop—34. Nays—Messrs. Atchison, Barnwell, Berrien, Butler, Clemens, Davjs of Miss. Dawson, Foote, Hunter, King, Mason, Morton, Pratt, Rusk, Sebastian, Soule, Turney andYulep—lß. Mr. Hunter, from a portion of the mi nority, asked leave to offur a Protest a gainst the passage of the bill, which he presented on the 14th, to be entered on the journals, which is as follows : rROTE ST: We, the underaigipsd Senator*, deeply impressed with the importance of the oc casion, and with a solerrfti sense of the re sponsibility under which we arc acting, respectfully submit the following protest against the bill admitting California as a State into this Union, and request that it MACON, (GA.,) SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 24, 1850. may be entered upon the journal of the Senate. We feel that it is not enough to have resisted in debate alone, a bill 10 fraught with mischief to the Union and the States which we represent, with all the resources of argument whipb we pos sessed, but that it is also due to ourselves, the people whose interests have been en trusted to our care, and to posterity,which even in its most distant generations may feel its cousequences, to leave in whatev er form may be most solemn and enduring a memorial of this opposition which we have made to this measure, and of the res* sous by which we have been governed* upon the pages of a journal, which the Constitution requires to be kept so long as the Senate may have an existence, we de sire to place the reasons upon which we are willinn to be judged by generations living and yet to come, for our opposition to a bill whose consequences may be so du rable snd portentous as to make it an ob ject of deep interest to all who may como after us. Wehavodissented fromthis hill because it gives the sanction of law, and thus im parts validity to the unauthorized action of a portion of the inhabitants of California by which an odious discrimination is made against the property of the fifteen slave holding Slates of the Union, who are thus deprived of that position of equality which the Constitution so manifestly designs, and which constitutes the only sure and stable foundation on which this Union can re pose. Because the rights of the slaveholding States to a common and equal enjoyment of the Teriitory of the Union has been de feated, by a system of measures, which without the authority of precedent of law or of the Constitution were manifestly con trived for that purpose, and which Con gress must sanction and adopt, should this hill become a law. In sanctioning this system of measures, this Government wili admit, that the inhabitants of its territories whether permanent or transient, whether lawfully or unlawfully occupying the same —may form a State without the previous authority of lavr, without even tlio partial security of a territorial organizat ion form, ed by Congress, without any legal census or other efficient evidence of their possess ing the number of citizens necessary to authorize the representation which they may claim, ami without any of those safe guards about the ballot box which can only be provided by law, and which are neces sary to ascertain the truesenseof a people. It will admit too that Congress having re fused to provide a Government except upon the condition of excluding slavery by law, the Executive branch of this Govern ment may at its own discretion invite such inhabitants to meet in convention un der such rules as it or its agents may pre scribe, and to form a constitution affecting not only their ow n rights but those also of fifteen States of the Confederacy, by in. eluding territory with the purpose of ex cluding those States, from enjoyment, and without regard to the natural fitness of boundary or any considerations which should properly determine the limits of a State. It will also admit tljat the conven tion thuß called into existence by the Exe cutive may be paid by him, out of the funds of the United States, without the sanction of Congress, in violation not only of the plain provisions of the Constitution, but of those principles of obvious proprie ty which would forbid any act calculated to make that convention dependant upon it; and last but not least, in the series of measures which this Government must adopt and sanction in passing this bill is the release of the authority of the Uni ted States by the Executive alone to a Government thus formed, and not present ing even sufficient credence of its having the assent of a majority of the peo ple for whom it was desiuged. With a view of all those considerations the under, signed are constrained to beiicve that this Government could ppver be brought to ad mit a State presenting itself under such circumstances ts it were not for the pur pose of erclucing the people of the slave holding States from all opportunity of set tling with their property in that territory. Because to vote for a bill passed under such circumstances would be to agree to a principle which may exclude forever here, after, as does now. the Slates which we represent, from all enjoyment of the com mon territory of the Union; a principle which destroys the equal right of their con stituents, the equality of their States in the confederacy, the equal dignity of those whom they represent as men and citizens in the eye of the law, 3nd their equal pro tection of the Government and the Con stitution. Because all the propositions have been rejected which have been made to attain either a recognition of the rights of the slaveholding States to a common enjoy ment of all tho territory of the United States, or to division of that territory be tween the slaveholding and non-slavehold ing State of the Union. Every effort having failed which has been made to ob tain a fair division of the teriitory pro posed to be brought in as the State of Cal ifornia. I' Bat, lastly we dissent from this bill, and solemnly protest against, its passage, be cause in sanctioning measures so contrary to former precedent, to obvious policy, to tue spirit and interest of the Constitu tion of the United States, for the purpose of excluding the slaveholding States from the territory thus to be erect ed into a State, this Government in effect declareithat the exclusion of slavery from the territory of the United States, is an object so high and important as to justify a disregard not only of all the principles of sound policy, but also of the Constitu tion itself. Against this conclusion we must now and forever protest, as it is do structive of the sefety and liberties of those whose rights have been committed to our care, fatal to the peace and equality of tbe States which we represent, and mus: lead, if persisted in, to the dissolu tion of that confederacy in which thoslave holding States have never sought more than equality and in which they will not be content to remain with less. J. M. MASON. 1 v . R. M. T. HUNTER, } Vir g ,nia - A. P. BUTLER. 1,, n v R. B. BARNWELL, J S< Carol,na H. L. TURNEY, Tennessee. PIERRE SOULE, Louisiana. JEFFERSON DAVIS. Mississigpi. DAVIP R. ATCHISON, Missouri. JACKSON MORTON, > ~ D. L. YULEE, { Flonda - Senate Chamber, 1 August 14, 1850. t Mr. Hunter, in presenting the protest, said, that those who presented it, were aware that they had no right to demand it of the Senate ; but they asked it as a courtesy, to be permitted in that way to exptess their strong disapprobation of the measure against which they protest. Mr. Davis, of Massachusetts, was op posed to the protest being entered upon the journal. Mr. Foote was opposed to the protest- He had been instructed by his Legislature to oppose the admission of California, and he had done so ; but after the action of the Senate, he considered it his duty to cease all parliamentary opposition, and submit He felt that the placiug of this paper on the records ofthe Senate, was fraught with evil to the country, and he would there fore enter his protest against the protest. Mr. Shields was in favor of granting this courtesy to the Southern members.— This potest would go to the country and be published in the newspapers and read, whether placed upon the journal or not; and he did not consider the mere placing of this paper upon the journal, would he (he cause of any additional excitement, than would be occasioned by the mere pub lication. He regarded this as a complaint of the minority, and it was an act of cour tesy to that minority to permit them to place it upon the journal. Mr. Hunter then read front the journal to shew that a protest had beeu entered upon the journal of the House, thus fur nishing a precedent. Mr. Cass said ho should vote for it as an act of courtesy to those preposing it. Mr. Winthrop was opposed to the pro test being entered. He and other North ern ipen had desired to enter a protest in the case of the annexation. Mr. Butler said that in his own State the privilege of protest was graned to the members of the State Legislature ; that its exercise was not common ; that it was a form of shewing their strong disapproba tion of a measure ; that if this protest wa s notentereduponthejournal.it woqld go jr.to the country, be printed and exercise the same influence upon the people. Messrs. Benton, Downs and Pratt seve rally spoke against its reception. The President decided that the recep tion of a petition would not place it upon the journal. The further consideration of the subject was then postponed, NUMBER 33. A BILL, For the admission of the S’.ate of Calif or- ; nia into the Union. Whereas the people of California have presented a Constitution and asked admis sion into the Union, which Constitution was submitted to Congress by the Presi dent of the United States by message, da ted February 13, 1850, and which, on due examination, is found to be Republican in its form of Government; Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Califajniashal} bpoqe.and where by declared to be one, of the United States 1 uriimuiKu,— j >•..)• . tt • on an equal feoting with theoriginal States j in all respects whatever. Sec. 2. Aad be it further enacted, That until the Representatives in Congress shall 1 be apportioned, according to an actual! enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, the State ofColifornia shall be entitled to two Representatives in Con gress. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said State of California is admitted in to the Union upon the express condition that tho people of said State, through their legislature or otherwise, shall never inter fere with the primary disposal of public lands within its limits, and shall pass no law and no act whereby the title of the United States to, and right to dispose of the same shall be impaired or questioned ; and they shall never lay any tax or assess ment of any description whatsoever upon the public domain of tho United Stales, and in no case shall non-resident proprie tor, who are citizens of the United States, be taxed higher than residents; and that all the navigable waters within the said State shall be common highways, and for ever free, as well to the inhabitants of said State as to the inhabitants of the United States, without any tax, impost or duty therefor: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed as recogni zing or rejecting the propositions tendered by the peoplo of California as articles of compact in the ordinance adopted by the convention which formed the constitution of that State. From the Southern Press. Mediug ofthe Southern Members of the House of Representatives. At length we have to congratulate the South on the attainment of greater Utlity ampng hey Representatives than has yet been known. At a meeting held a few evenings since the following members were appointed a committee on resolutions: Mr. Toombs, Chairman. Messrs. Seddon, Thompson, Houston, Bowie, Clingman, Burt, Cabell, Hillard, Morse, Johnson, Morebead, Green, How. ard, Thomas. We understand that the deliberations of the committee resulted in almost entire unanimity, and accordingly— Mr. Toqmbs, chairman of the commitec of fifteen, reported the following resolu tions, which were adopted : 1. Rcsolxed, That we will support no territorial bill that does not provide that no citizen shall be deprived of his life, liberty or property, except by the judg ment of bis peers and laws of the land, and that the common law, aB it existed in the American Colonies on the 4th of July, 1776, and the Constitution and laws of the United States, applicable, to our territories, shall be the fundamental law of the said territory. 2. Resolved, That in the event that the non-slaveholding States object thus to put the life, liberty and property of American citizens under American laws, we will in sist upon a division of the country on the line of 36° 30' with a distinct recognition and protection of property in slaves. 3. Resolved, That we will not vote for the admission of California, unles the Southern boundary be restricted to the pa rallel *>f 06° 30' north latitude, 4. Resolved, That we will not agree to any boundary between Texas and New Mexico which proposes to cede to New Mexico any portion of he; territory south of he parallel of 36° 30' north latitude and west of the Rio Giande, prior to the adjustment of the territorial question. 5. Resolved, That the representatives of the slaveholdiug States will resist by all usual legislative and constitutional means, the admission of the State of California and the adjustment of the Texas bounda ry, until a settlemen of the territorial ques tions. 6. Resolved, That the true boundary of Texas is that defined by the act of the Texas Congress of December 10th, 1836; and it is the duty of the South to maintain the same, unless a satisfactory adjustment of it is had by the assent of the State of Texas. 7. Be it further Resolved, That tho powers and duties of the committee of fifteen Vie continued until further action of the meeting, and the Chairman of the Committee, by the concurrence of any thrjiti members thereof, may at any time call a meeting of the representatives ofthe slaveholdiug States. BOOK AND-JOB PRINTING, TFi7/ be executed *7* the most apjrro\ed styli and on the best terms, ai'ihe Office of the ' SCT7TaS2UW TBISTOTE ' —BY— ; * •’! WM. E. HARRISON. HinriiH i in i iiii i in ii ii iiiMj F.om the Charleston Merertryf*' The Progress or Things. We published yesterday, the debate iu the Senate of the Uuileu States, as to the relative powers between the States, and i l heir agency, tbe General Government, should a State secede from the Union. Mr. Clay of course took the broad ground of Federalism in ’9B and ’99, when this quos. tion arose under the enactment of the Ali en and Sedition laws. He deuies all re dress to the States,should the Federal Gov. ernment usurp the powers reserved to them by the Constitution. There is no redress by the ballot box in Congress—for the mi. nority in that body have no power to change is no rodresß~by the action ofthe aggrieved States within their limits, by nullifying tho laws of Congress; and finally,there is no re dress by going out of the Union, there is no redress against the usurpations of the General Government. It is absolute in its constructions, and absolute in enforcing them. It alone is Sovereign in the Union, The States are more counties; and should ono or man} of them think proper to go out of the Union—no longer a Union of States, but a simple consolidated des potism—it will be treason for their citi zens to oboy them, and Mr. Clay with his Kentucky executioners, will claim tho right with their hemp, to strangle the dis content. And strange enough to say, while Mv- Clay utters such doctrines in the Senate of the United States, not one Senator of the Democratic party from the Free States stands up to controvert or protest against them. They are dumb. The Washington Union is dumb. The very foundation of their party —the sovereignty of the States —is openly denounced and derided; the ink is hardly dry which the Union has shed to prove that they are the best de fenders of the South, because they stand with us on the limitations of the Constitu tion and the sovereignty of the States; when they unanimously vote against giv ing the South any share in the Territories, by establishing the Missouri Compromise line, and the very next day. they silently stand by and hear the great Federalleader denounce what has constitute*), from the time of Thomas Jefferson, the funda mental principles of the Democratic Party. They smile approval, while he threatens violeuce and bloodshed against any State that shalj *]are to act upOr. those prinpi pies. Is this the course of faithful parly asso ciates, or faithless traitors, to whom party principles are only a stock in trade, or a ladder for personal ambition ? Are these the men on whom the South is to rely to restore the Constitution and redress her wrongs? 'J'hey have leagued with Mr. Clay and with the Abolitionist of tho North, to deprive the South of all share in the Territories, by means as much at war with the Constitution, as the end is destructive of equality among the States, aud of harmony in the Uuion. Tho next step is natural enough. They will go with Mr. Clay in coercing the Southern State, to submit to this flagitious policy. Having cast aside the Constitution, for the sake of appropriating to themselves all the Terri tories, it is absurd to expect they will show it any reverence in the mode o| enforcing their injustice and usurpation. In the Free States, we now see nodiftcrence be tween parties, in their measures or their principles. They are ail Fedralists, marching against the South with Consoli dation, Abolition, arid the bayonet embla zoned on their banners. If the South succumb in this contest, she not only loses the rights for which she is contending, but shp loses free government itself. — Thenceforth the States become the mere departments of an unlimited Government. The Oldest Republic on Earth.— The American Quarterly Review contains a letter from G. W. Irving, giving a sketch of his visit to San Marino, a small repub lic in Italy, between the Appeuines, the. Po, and the Adriatic. The territory of this State is only forty miles in circumfer ence, and Us population about 70,00*). — The Republic was rounded more than 1400 years ago on moral principles, industry and equality, and has preserved itfe liberty and independence amidfet'all the wars and discords which have raged around it.— Bonaparte respected it, and sent an em bassy to express his sentiments of friend ship and fraternity. It is governed by a Captain Regent chosen every six month* by the representatves of the people, (sixty six in number,) who are chosen every six months by the people. The taxes are light, the farm houses are neat, the fields well cultivated ; on all sidoS*are sfeon com fort and peace, the happy effects of moral ity, simplicity, liberty aud justice, 1 ‘