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SOUTHERN TRIBUNE,
W a. B. HAKHISO.V)
aid S Editors.
W.l. P. HARRISON, S
[FOR THR SOUTHERN TRIBUNE.]
Messrs. Editors .-—The Feds like a joke once
Rod a while, whenever they can get a chance
to advertise “the coffin regiment,” &c , and I
biok the sachems will be very much gratified if
they can have a song or so to regale
with, while on the melancholy passage up Sal-
River. The familiar legend below, will do ad
mirably for the opening chant after the arriva)
of the “Constitutional Union’' squad at the Cas
tle of Oblivion, situated on the banks of the
aforesaid stream. Please publish, and oblige
those inclined to FUN.
THE LEST EDITION OF
T||e House that Jack built.
L ruled Statu Government:
This is the house that Jack built.
The Public Treasury .-
This is the malt that lav in the house
That Jack built.
H'kiggery :
This is the rat that eat the malt
That lay in the house
That Jack built.
Democracy :
This is the cat that caught the rat
That eat the malt
That lay in the house
That Jack built.
Henry Clay .-
This is the dog that worried the cat
That caught the rat
That oat the malt
That lay in the house
That Jack built.
The Voice of the People .
This is the cow with the crumpled horn
That tossed the dog
That worried the cat
That caught the rat
That eat the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.
Union Humbug of 1850 :
This is the maiden all forlorn
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
That tossed the dog
That worried the cat
That caught the rat
That eat the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.
Hoieell Cobb :
This is the man all tattered and torn
That kissed the maiden all forlorn
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
That tossed the dog
That worried the cat
That caught the rat
That eat the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.
llamilcar Toombs :
This is the priest all shaven and shorn
That married the man all faltered and torn
Unto the maiden ell forlorn
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
That tosaed the dog
That worried the cat
That caught the rat
That eat the mult
That lay in the houso that Jack built.
Omuibus Party's explosion :
This it the cock that crowed in the morn
That awoke the priest all shaven and shorn
That married «he man all tattered and torn
Unto the maiden all forlorn
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
That toased the dog
That worried the cat
That caught the rat
That eat the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.
From the Southern Pns».
South Carolina ami her Position.
In our paper of yesterday, we showed
the futility of the causes assigned by the
National Intelligencer for the “discontents”
of South Carolina with the Union as it is.
That there is a deep spirit of dissatisfaction
pervading the whole South, and South
Carolina especially, we do not doubt.—
Whether it is a dissolution of the Union,
or will be content with reforming the Gov
ernment, by forcing it back within the li
nutation of the Constitution, we will not
pretend to determine. The Intelligencer
says, that South Carolina has been in “a
conspiracy” for twenty years to dissolve
the Union. If so, it is a very curious sort
of “o conspiracy for the Intelligencer im
mediately after quotes, to prove, the open
declarations of the people at public festi
vals—of ministers in the pulpit—and of
governors and statesmen in their addres
ses tp open legislatures and conventions.
Jtt i* certainly a conspiracy which has no
secrets, and walks out in the open day.
But admit the fact, that South Carolina is
on breaking the Union—that is,
going out of it herself—fur we suppose no
one imagines that she intends to interfere
with the free will of other States, which
wiah to. remain united together. She wish
es to dissolve the co-partnership for her
self, not doubting that she has a perfect
right to do so. Is not this a most startling
fact in the history of the country ? One of
the old thirteen States—that one of the old
thirteen States,which suffered most in one
revolution—which was most prosperous,
wealthy and happy under the British rule,
yet cast in her lot with Massachusetts and
her sister States, and periled all, and lost
all but liberty—that State, which by her
ktatesmen did as much in framing the Con
stitution of the United Slates, as any other
in the Union (forfromthe draft of Charles
PINCENEY in the convention the Constitu
tion arose) —that State, which stood fore
most in originating and maintaining by
her statesman the second wat for indepen
dence in 1512—and when thcTreasuiy of
United State was exhausted, not only paid
in advance all the direct taxes required of
her people, but emptied her treasury to
carry on the war and maintain the honor
of the Union—that State, which in our
very last contest with a foreign power, di*-
piayed by her militia an unflinching valor,
which veterans had cause to praise —that
State is resolved to dissolve her connexion
with the Unuin. The Intelligencer may
stuff its columns with silly conjectures
about her climate, geography, or aristoc
racy. He may call her mud—irresponsi
bly mad ; but there is not a man in the U
titon, who has any knowledge of human
nature, or any knowledgesof history, who
will not turn away with contempt at the
display of such stolidity or hypocrisy.
Does not every one know, that all men
are more prone to bear evils in govern
ment, than to resist them 1 It is this su
pineness in the people, which has always
tempted tyrants and oppressors of all
kinds, by one encroachment after another,
to sap and destroy their liberties. The
spirit of resistance is hard to arouse—
harder still to keep alive—and above all,
difficult to bring into direct action for re
dress. The cares and business and pleas
ures of life absorb the attention of the peo
ple ; whilst the hazards attending all*
changes in the Government induce mis
tule, so long as it is at all endurable.—
When any people have made up their
minds to throw off the Government under
which they live—there must be deep arid
vital causes for dissatisfaction. The evils
of the Government must not only be intol
erable, but plain and obvious.
Now what are the evils, which have
made the people of South Carolina deter
mined, (according to the authority of the
Intelligencer,) to break off their connection
w ith the oilier States of the Union ? No
one can look into their public proceedings,
the columns of their press, or the speech
es of their statesmen, but must see that
this policy is advocated on the high and
holy grounds of libeity and self protection.
They affirm “that a gigantic and uncon
stitutional fraud was perpetrated on them
by the admission of California into the
Union. At the motion of a few emigrants
in a small corner of this magnificent tet ri
tory, the whole territory, large enough
for a dozen States, was admitted as a sin
g!e Slate, for the plain and avowed pur
pose of excluding the Southern States
from occupying and settling any pottion
of it with their institution ; and this fraud
was committed in the House of Represen
tatives, by admitting members to their
seats, plainly in violation of the mandates
of the Constitution. But it is not only a
violation of the Constitution which marks
the features of this atrocious transaction.
The Constitution is violated, on account
of their institutions, and in order that they
may be ouerthroicn and rebuked. Their
power, by art increase of States, is forev
er suppressed, whilst the power of the
free States by the addition of new States
to the Union, is iorever secured. All a
bility of self government—and hope of
self-protection, is therefore forever gone
in the Union. The Constitution in the
hands of the majotity iri Congress is no
lungor in existence ; and instead of its
guarantees, the despotic will of the people
ol the ftee States is the only bond of the
Union. The Government of the Union
is therefore no longer a free Government
for them. Under the anti-slavery feelings
and policy of the free States, it is no lon
ger a safe Government. It is a dangerous
despotism, to be resisted and overthrown.
Liberty and self-protection, therefore, de
mand that they shall secede from the Union.
Now with such views and convictions
on ihe part of ‘lie people of this State,
what is done here to satisfy them that they
have mistaken the true nature < f the ex
isting Government in the Confederacy.—
Why, at the opening of this Congress,
the President of the United States recom
mends that the tax by the tariff should be
increased, in ot tier that the manufacturers
of the North might, by the instrumentality
of the Government, wrest from the peo
pie of this State a pot tion of their proper
ty for their benefit. The Intelligencer
joins in the scheme of additional robbery.
What next! Why the organs of the ad
ministration, the Intelligencer and the Re
public, plainly tell this State, in the tone
of imperial authority, that she, who en
tered into the Union of her free choice,
shall not go out of it. That she is bound
forever to the Union, as the majority in
Congress shall think proper to make it,
and shall stay in it forever by the power
,of bayonets and cannon. This is the
coarse of things in Washingtan, by which
the people of this State are to be induced
to believe, that they live under a free
Government, and that their liberties and
institutions are safo under its sway. By
such a course, slaves may be terrified,
but i's only effect in our judgment will be
to deepen the convictions of this people,
that they must break the Union, or reform
it from its very foundations. If they are
resolved, as the Intelligencer affirms, to se
cede from the Union—the Intelligencer
and its associates are doing all they can to
hasten the catastrophe. They may take
| out a patent for producing revolutions.—
| Do wrong—persist—abuse the oppressed
| —threaten—then fire the cannon—and
j the thing is done.
A Horse Story. — The Nashua Tele
graph tells the story of a horse belonging
to Joseph Haldwin, who one slippery day
last week, had much difficulty in maintain
ing his standing in society, owing to the
smoothness of his shoes, and came to some
little, bodily barm in consqirerice. When
he was unharnessed, the teamster left him
to his head, not doubting that he would
go directly to the stable, as be always did.
Instead-of doing so, however, he passed
by the stable, and went directly to the
blacksmith shop of Vincent & YVood-ward
where he had been shod some months be
fore ; in order to be shod again.
Veterinary Institutions.
In relation to this subject, Mr. Ladd,
of Boston, says:
“Let us look for a moment on what this
science has accomplished in England.—
We will take a single department. I lefer
to that ol shoeing horses. Mr. Percival
tells us that previous to the establishment
of a Veterinary College, great numbers of
horses became prematurely quite unser
viceable; I lie natui al consequence of which !
was, heavy and continual etpenditure. In
: die course <*t a long experience,it has been
ascertained that by a skilful performance
of shoeing, many of the formidable disea
ses of the loot rnay be prevented, and
others so improved as to enable the horse i
to go with ease to himself and safety to his
rider; and also preserve the animal for use
to a much longer period. On the other
hand, look at the melancholy effects result
ing from shoeing in the hands of unscien
tific rnen. Thousands of the East ludia
Company’s horses were yearly cast off for
deatli because their feet were incurably
diseased. Thrush, and its sequel, canker,
corns, greese, and all those various disor
ganzatiuus induced by mal treated disea
ses of parts within the hoof, consigned
thousands of them to the knife; whereas,
since the eye of science has guided the
hand of the smith, not a single horse has
been lost to that company through the
disease 1 have just named, and many of
them are entirely unknown.
“J ust look at the ignorance that is often
displayed in this country, in the manage
ment ol the foot, and tell me, is there no
need of reform ! How often do we see
the base totally cut away, the frog or sole
pared so thin, that the animal is liable to
be injured by the first hard substance he
treads on. I have seen the foot mangled
Htid cut to fit the shoe, and what is still
worse, the latter applied red hot. This
destructive system dries up the na'ural
moisture of the hoof and sole,prevents the
egress of morbific matter, and finally pro
ducing disorganization, incurable contrac
tion and lameness. Some men suppose
that a horse's foot is an insensible piece of
mechanism, and when they see tlie smith
cutting off large slices, and applying red
hot iron, it would seem to justify such a
conclusion. 1 grant that the horny cover
ing is void of sensibility, hut must recollect
that it setves principally as a defence to
the sensitive parts within, and that it is en
dowed with elasticity, which enables it, in
some degree to yield to the impulse of
those sensitive parts in the various mo
tions ol the animal. Hence the direct
tendency of the hot shoe is to contract the
horny covering, and of course the sensi
tive parts will be more or less compressed.
You will find, on an examination of the
loot, that it is a vvondeiful and delicate
piece of mechanism. The inside of the
hoof is lined with a beautiful set of la
minae ; these receive a similar 6et situated
on the external portion of the coffin-bone.
1 he number of laminae on these two sur
laces have been computed at one thou
sand ; each lamina lias two sides and an
edge—making three thousand articulatory
surfaces, —giving to each foot a surface
of four square feet. Hence it follows that
a horse stands oil sixteen square feet of
surface, within four hoofs. So wisely,
however, isevery part of the foot contrived
by the Divine Artist, that when it is pro
perly managed, judiciously paved, and the
shoe properly adapted to it, and when em
ployed only by a humane man, the fool
may be preserved as long as the animal is
worth using. Hence, ift lie veterinary art
be estimated as benificial and important,
in exact ratio to the value of the noble
animals to whose well-being all its objects
are directed, then your efforts should be
turned towards educating your young men
and making them acquainted with the fun
damental principles of this art.
A Great Artesian’ Well. —The fa
mous Artesian Well commenced in 1832,
at Kissengen, a city of Klieuish Bavaiiu,
is just finished. I bis immense work, of
which the workmen began to despair has
given results never before known. Kis
sengen is situated in a saline valley, at
nearly 300 metres above the level of the
Baltic sea. In the month of June, 1546,
after seventeen years of labor, they had
succeeded in reaching a depth of 500
metres; (a metre is about thirty-nine in
cites,) before getting to this it was neces
sary to cut through several beds of salt
separated by masses of granite. They thru
an iveil at a first bed of carbonic acid ga«,
followed by new masses of granite, final
ly the 11th of this month, a violent concus
sion knocked away, without injuring any
body, the scaffolding which masked the or
ifice of the well, and then was immediate
ly presented the curious spectacle of a
column of water twelve centimetres in
diameter, which rose with prodigious force
to the height of thirty metres, spreading
then on all sides like the branches of a
magnificent palm ire«v, and iim* fuming
the most extraodinary jet d’eau imaginable
1 lie water, clear as crystal, comes front a
soil of a temprature of sixty-six degrees
Fahrenheit, and givers a volume of twelve
cubic metres a minute. It is forced by an
atmosphere subterranean of carboic gas
acting with the force of fifty almos
pheres.
Cruel. —There was n great horse race
in Delaware, lately from Christiana to
Dover and back - distance S4 mi ! es.—
The downward run (42 miles) was marie
in 2 bouts and 15 minutes. On the re
turn, one of the horses dropped dead
twenty five miles from the starting place.
The other came in and died three hours
afer, making the distance in about five
hors. There was a bet pending of SIOO
a side. This was no great profit to the
iowners of the animals.
MACON, G A •
SATURDAY .MORNING, JANUARY 25.
O' The steamers Cherokee and Prometheus
arrived in New York on the 21st inst., with a
large number of passengers, and $”,250,000 in
gold, from California. Another fire at San
Francisco find consumed property to the amount
of $2011,000. Col. Fremont's chances for re
-1 election to the Senate are considered desperate,
w hile the friends of Col. Well i r are sanguine.
A party of seven Americans had been killed by
tile Indians.
Latest from Europe.—The Asia has ar
rived with Liverpool dates to the 4th inst.—
The cotton market wns steady and Baring's
circular of Jan. 3, quotes Fair Uplands at 7jd. >
Fair Mobile 8d ; Fair Orleans BJd. The sales
from the Ist to 3d, amounted to 11,000 bates.
The stock on hand wa5521,000 bales.
(UP Benton has not been elected Senator
from Missouri as yet. The last account says
his chances are waning.
Flour—The Inspector of Flour in Charles*
ton has detected, of 3,203 bhla of New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Petersburg Flour
received in that city, 387 bbls. to be deficient
either in quality or weight. 100 bbls. were de
ficient from 8 to 43 lbs. per bbl.
“How vv* Apples swim !”—The
Messenger calls the “Constitutional Union Par
ty” the party of the Democrats' “oten creation"!
This is something new to us. The Meeting
of the Delegates to the late Convention was un.
doubtedly held at the instigation of Messrs
Toombs and Stephens, and addressed bv them,
the resolution to form a Union Party, was in
troduced by Judge Underwood, of Floyd, a
Whig, and notwithstanding this, we are told
that it is the Party of Democratic creation ! I t
is easy to understand the kindness and brother*
ly affection all at once entertained towards the
Union Democrats—but it is a hopeless effort
productive of nothing to the Federalists hutdis’
appointment and defeat.
1 he New Craft Befogged.—The Colum
bus Times, of the 21st inst., says : “The ‘Nine
ty-five’ self-constituted delegates to attend, a
‘Union Constitutional' convention to be held
somewhere, will be like‘Japhet in seach of a
Father.’ It seems they will have to go further
or shorter than Washington city to find the Mec.
ca of their adoration. We have all seen a kit
ten chasing its tail in a never ending and never
tail-catching circle. From present seeming,
our 05 delegates, will bo equally as successful
as Puss. The “Nashville Convention” was the
favorite butt of submission wit ; but nothing has
happened in modern times so comically droll as
this flash in the pan of the Milledgeville blun
derbuss. Here is formed a party, as a Western
member of Congress, wittily said, ‘like a Mexi
can army, with more officer* than soldiers.’ In
stead of a meeting of hosts, we have nothing
but a preliminary council of war. The plan of
campaign, the order of battle and the disposi
tion of the spoils are all admirably arranged;
but alas ! there is no rank and file to come up
to do the work always a» aniecedent to victory. ’’
Northern fiiior.s.—Southern people seem to
think that because Northern manufactures may
be bought for less money, that they must oj
course be cheaper. This is far from the fact.—
A good article, even though the price may he
higher is always cheaper than an inferior quali
ty for less cost. The Cherokee Advocate says
that a gentleman of Marietta found the soles ol
some negro shoes which were made at the North
composed of a thin piece of leather on the out
side, and a thick layer of wood between it and
the inner sole ! That gentleman did then, that
which he should have done at first, purchase
his supply of home manufacture
Jennv Lind.—This lady has arrived at Hava
na, without creating much excitement or curi
osity, and was to perform on the 10th inst.—the
price oftickets varied front sl7 to $2 each.
Tire.—The St. Charles Hotel, together with
the Methodist and Mr. Clapp’s Church were
destroyed by fire in New Orleans on the 11th
inst. The loss is very heavy.
O’ Rev. Francis Rutledge, Rector of St.
John's Church, Tallahassee, lias been elected
Bishop of the Diocese of Florida.
Elections.—Stephen R. Mallory, of Key
West, has been elected United States Senator
from Florida for six years, in the place of Air.
Y’ufee. Mr. Mallory differs in no particular, in
politics, with his predecessor.
Maj. John Beard has been elected Comptrol
ler ; Air. Hayward Treasurer ; John F. K. Sav
age Clerk Supreme Court ; Hon. Walker An
derson, Chief Justice, and Hon A. G. Semrnes
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; and
the former Circuit Bench has been elected in
Florida, with the exception of the Judge of the
Middle Circuit, whose place has been filled by
the election of Gen. J. Wayles Baker.
Improvement —The Ohio State Journal say s
that stones only 2-i feet in diameter are used in
the Steam Flour Mills at Columbus, which are
of the best French Burr, and grind just as fast,
and perhaps better than those of4£ fiet. Corn
meal is ground very white, and not half the
ordinary power is required for them.
Caution.— A bale ofcotton was recently car
ried into one of the Boston factories, which was
in part saturated with Linseed oil, on the voy
age from New Orleans,which caused it to ignite.
We mention this circumstance, to caution per
sons from plaeitig linseed oil and cotton togethe r
as combustion may ensue.
Oglethorpe UsivEßsny —The Milledge
ville Recorder says that this Institution has
commenced the present year under the mos*
cheering auspices. Already, we understand,
some forty new students havo been admitted
into the college, and the number will be increas.
ed in tire e.oursn of the present week, probably
to fifty. This is a cheerinn evidence of the
public confidence in this institution.
Who are the Traitors !
The intelligence of the demits of the great
“National Union Party," that was to »ave the
Union, and immortalize itselfby doing—nothing
has thrown the Union press of Georgia into
perfect consternation. The idea of success at
the National ballot-box was so captivating, and
these deluded and disappointed seekers had in
dulged such brilliant imaginations of office and
power, that the disastrous news came to them
attended by ail the fatal effects of political para
lysis. To be defeated in these hopes and ex
pectations right upon the verge of the accom
plishment of the glorious humbug, was a stroke
too hard to be endured without wry faces and
sundry pointed maledictions directed at the au
thors of this misfortune. Immediately some of
them began to coax and wheedle the Union
Democrats, begging them not to desert them in
this hour of their calamity—others addressed
pretty sage advice to the politicians at Washing
ton, who had refused to fall into ranks—and
then they all began to talk about traitors and
disunionists, trying to get up a fa'sc issue some
where, to take the popular side of it, and then
the battle would be won.
Now, as we happen to belong to that class
among the people which cannot he either capti
vated or frightened by names, we desire verv
calmly to look into this subject of treason and
disunion, in order that the old adage may be
justified that “a rogue is first to suspicion a man
of roguery.” One of the organs of Federal loy
alty, makes the issue in its Inst paper, of treason
or disunion upon the part of every man who de
sires a return to old party lines, or who will not
join the “Constitutional Union Party.” It is
certainly a very charitable aspersion to cast a
gainst that class of our people whom the Mil
ledgevilla Recorder pictures as numerous, intelli
gent and patriotic ! Avery ambiguous expres
sion, too, proceeding from a source that main
tained Liberty and Whiggery to be “one and
Inseparable," even w hen Southern Rights wer„
slandered by the Unionists and upheld by the
“Fire F.aters." The same print that so tena.
ciously field on to the old organization of the
Whigs, now declares that all are “Traitors or
Disunionists” who wish to return to these “old
distinctions.” Knowing that they have lost a
number of their former adherents, by advocating
a course of policy for the South, disastrous and
u nworthy, they now desire to keep a firm hold
upon the Democrats who were cheated into ap.
proval of their measures by the syren song ol
“Union.”
But let us see, first, who are the Traitors ?
Before betrayal, there must be confidence en
irusted. Now, what is the confidence which a
fi-ee people repose in any party or principles?
Is it not that their rights and privileges under a
Republican Government shall he held inviolate ?
Os what advantage is the name of Liberty, if we
possess it not ? How much satisfaction would
we receive in having an Executive officer enti
tled the President, when his power was abso
lutely that of a despot? What benefit would
representation in Congress he to us, when our
Congressmen could ntd cffretisTHy rontend lor
our rights ? Does the feet that Louis Napoleon
bears the soubriquet of President, make him any
the lese a Monarch, except in name ? By no
means. The object then, of the people, is not
to preserve names hut living realities —they do
not want theoretical nomenclatures, n.ir nominal
freedom, but the practical, enjoyments flowing
from their own actual sovereignty. These are
their principles, and fur these purposes they
repose the confidence of power and office. The
mail then, who adv ocatcs any cause that will
tend in anywise to destroy these privileges, is a
Traitor, because he deceives the people, and
injures them at the same moment that lie pro
fesses a reliable friendship for them.
VVe have told the people time and again, that
there is a fearful tendency in the present course
of public allairs. We have uttered our candid
belief that the centralization of the Government
is proceeding with such alarming velocity, that,
ere we are aware of it, we shall be plunged into
the fellers of a resistless monarchy. The bribes
of office and the lust of authority, when within
the reach of dishonesty and disaffection, are, to
a large number of those who look to- the public
stations at the disposal of the appointing power
tempalions llrat will not bn overcome. This
train of dependents upon the Government is
annually increasing, fearfully extending its per
nicious influences broadcast over the land, and,
unless there be sonve remedy applied,the day is
not far drstant wherr this class will bold the
balance of power in this country. Almost at
every session ofCongress,some new Department
or Bureau is added to the present number, each
tending to swell the power of the President, and
to throw around his office a charm that will se
duce two-thirds of those who aspire to the posi
tion, into reprehensible means for obtaining it.
Even the Press, the palladium of Liberty,
breathes this infectious spirit, and participates
in the emoluments of success, and the losses of
defeat. Men are bought lip, by these hopes of
subsistence from the Federal Treasury, into the
advocacy of any measures that the parly leaders
may see fit to dictate, and lend the aid of their
pens to establish the firm and indissoluble ties
of a consolidated confederacy.
VVe. look with amazement and sorrow at the
courage aaid wanton effrontery which the iner
tia of the South is daily giving to this course of
policy, so rapidly lending to the subversion of
Republicanism among us. When Southern men
are chanting the praises of a Union under the
control of Free Soilersaud fanatics; when the
presses of'the South denounce that class of our
citizens who are hauling manfully for our rights,
as traitors and foes to the country ; when aboli
tionists find apologists in our own land, what
can we say ? To see the Flag of the South
trailing in the dust beneath the unhallowed feet
of aggression, must indeed chill the heart of
any man born to Freedom's sympathies or a
Patriot’s emotions.
VVhenGEORGEIII, and his Parliament, de
sired tofasten the provinces of America secure- j
ly in his royal embrace, there were many men i
among Hie- inhabitants of this country at that
time who justified the requision, and condemned j
resistance to it. Very many, in the language of
John Dickinson, thought that “in popular Re- '
publics themselves, so necessary is
cement human society, it 1.., been requ„j,e ,
institute monarchical powers, more or less
tensive, under the names of Arcbons, Cons"
Doges, Gonfaloniers and Kings.*’ There wer,’
men found in that day ready to extol the “.| 0
rious Union” with the oligarchy of England ~
and to inculcate the most abject submisi.onu,
any and ail the exactions of the British Crown
There were men willing to give of their sub!
stance an enormous per cent, into the Treasury
of the mother country for the sake of peace
But the tax on tea, which extracted from the
colonies but SBO,OOO yearly revenue, caused a
Revolution in America which tfirew the foreign
fetters off. Yet we of the Houtli have paid an
nually, since the adoption of the Federal Con
atitution, $9,008,180 into the Federal Treasury
more than the North; and during that entirepe
riod, the immense sum of $316,492,083 more
than the Constitutional apportionment to the
South ! So we have paid above $700,000 000
to about $200,000,000 by the North, to secure
the existence of the Government, and to enable
the crusaders to persecute us, hunt us down,
and finally to exclude us from a territory secured
by our own blood and treasure !
Now, ts we demur at this course of policy :
ts we seek to check a government which is fed
by ourmoney-and which is used a. an instru
ment to fleece us of every privilege, moral or
political ; if we desire to have the foul, putrid
malaria of Abolition dissipated ; if we wish to
see the Federal Monarchy dethroned, and the
Republic preserved in its primitive grandeur,
tl.e black cockade, blue-light Hartford Conven!
lion Federalists call us—Traitors ! ! There is
an infamy, conferred by the corrupt and time
serving, which the honest man will covet;
there is a detestation possessed by those reeking
with political leprosy of all holy and pure mo
tives, which is a recommendation for him that
receives it, to the hearts and the consciences of
the good and just ; there is a scorn of the vile
which the immaculate will merit ; and a stigma
pronounced by the dastard, which the patriot
will ever secure. We shall not be frightened
from the expression of our opinions, by the fla
ming denunciations of “treason and disunion !”
We have represented the political affairs of the
country in no false light. Nor do we proclaim
disunion as the present remedy for our grievan
ces. But we believe that the time is corning,
when the policy of cowardly submission will
place us where we must become either a sepa
rate nation, or in a condition of absolute and
unmitigated subserviency to Northern Monarch
ical rule. Who the Traitors are now, or the
disunionists, we leave the people to judge.
Counterfeit —The Savannah Republican of
the 18th inst. says ; “A friend showed ua yes
terday a ten dollar bill of the Bank of Charles
ton, which the officers of the Bank of the State
of Georgia, in tfiis city, had pron-ounced a coun
terfeit. I lie one shown to us was verv well
executed, and had the appearance of having been
used for somo time.”
The .Morning News of the 22H, says : Patrick
McAvoy was arrested by the City Watch on
Sunday night, • barged with passing counterfeit
half dollars. Four piece* of the spurious coin
were found on his person. His partner, Hart,
was also arrested on Monday night, on a similar
charge. The two were turned over to Justice
Thomas forfurther examination. The pieces
were new, and had the appearance of having
been recently coined. They are lighter than
the U. S. half dollars, but arc well executed.
Accident.—Six brick buildings which were
being erected fell in New York on the 15th inst.
causing the death of si* laborers and the injury
of several others, fn removing the bricks a
little girl was found in a vault unharmed. The
lack of lime in the mortar was supposed to be
j '.he cause of the accident.
The U. S. Bank.—ln the District Court at-
Philadelphia a verdict was recently given in
favor of the Common wealth against the United
States Bank, for $1,203,750, with cost and inte
rest, in round numbers, $1,300,000 The suit
was brought to recover the hundred thousand
dollars annually, which the bank, by its charter,
agreed to pay as a bonus to the School Fund for
twenty years. The Bank has defaulted for
twelve years- The Ledger says the suit will be
carried to the Supreme Court, and will no doubt
be warmly contested, as fhose will be an effort
to make this judgment take precedence of the
assignments. For the poor »hareholders there
seems to be but littfe hope.
Caution to Smokers.—The case of John l
Daly vs. The People’s Mutual Insurance Com
pany, wliieli was recently tried in the Supreme
Judicial Court at Boston, turned, in part, upon
the question whether tFie plaintiff had not vio
lated a provision in his policy against smoking
in or about his building, being a cabinet maker's
shop. The proviso also extending to book
binders, carpenter's shops, &c. The policy was
for SI,OOO. But it appeared in evidence, that
the plaintiff and others were in the habit of
smoking pipes in the shop ; and although it was
proved that there had been neither fire, smoking
nor lights in the shop for many fmnrsbefore the
fire, yet Judge Bigelow instructed the jury that
the evidence of smoking during the existence of
the policy had rendered it null and void ; where
upon, they returned a verdict for the defend
ants.
Disasters.—The St. Louis fntelligencer of
the 7th inst. contains a list of the steamboat
disasters on the Western and Southwestern!
waters during the year 1850. The whole num
ber of accidents sum up 124, of which 49 o°'
curred from sinking, by striking snag* andothef
obstructions in the river ; 13 from, collapses
flues ; 9 from explosions ; 8 fVofR collision*; 14
from fire, and 26 from other causes. The num
ber of boats lost sum up 53. Lives, (as near a»
ascertained) 324, of which 8 were the result of
collisions, 45 from collapsing flues, 115 I’ Fon>
explosions, and 156 from fire.
Terrible. —A young lady, on opening a fifir
was shocked to find an insect burrowing in th»
core, and instantly threw the fruit into the grate
“There," exclaimed alts, “ I have burnt tS*
creature in r-i-o