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81/UTHERN TRIBUNE.
WU. U. IUBBISOMo
*!*D > EDITORS.
From the Augusta Constitutionalist.
Lawrkncevillk, Ga. Dec. 31, 1850.
• • • •
Jn the month of August. 1848, a capi
talial from the State of Alabama,made ar
rangements with me to go out to hk plea
sant village, ami there to overhaul his new
Cotton Factory, as he stated it was not
working well from some cause. On my
ar.ival at his place, 1 very soon discover,
cd the want of an artist, in order to pre
vent the sudden destruction by breakage
of anew and complete set of machinery
by putting the same in good running order.
By more extensive travel and intimate ac
quaintance with the people of the South, I
have become still more strongly attached
to them and their institutions, until I can
now call the South my home under the
most trying circumstances.
I was solicited early in July, 1549, to
re'urn again and settle in Georgia. On
the last of September following, 1 left Ala
bama to come to Lawrenceville, (Ga.) to
erect an entire new set of Cotton Facto
ries, as Chief Engineer of the works.
The following are the dimensions :
Main building, 20S feet long by 54 feet
wide, three full stories high, each 11 feet
in the clear, with a fine attic story 28 feet
wide, and 10 feet high in the clear. On
the front is an entrance built out 24 feet
square, five full stories high, with a water
reservoir in the fifth story, and a neat bel
fry on the top of this. Inside of the en
trance the different flights of staits are car
ried up to the attic story. These walls
sre all built with the greatest careto resist
any vibration of the building caused by
the motion of the machine!)’, and they are
of the best kind of Georgia Granite Rock
The style of masonry isgauged ruble woi k.
Tho boiler hou e is 50 feet long by 34 feet
wide, and is IS feet from the main building
connected by two walls which form the
engine house. The picker house is also
18 feet from the main building, connected
by a passage with iron doors, and shutters
to windows. Length, 46 feet by 36 feet
wide, and the main chimney is 100 fee l
high, with a flue 40 inches squate.
All the roofs on these Buildings are shin
gled and coated with three coats of Wm-
Blake’s Patent Fire Proof Paint, which
makes them equal to slated roofs at a much
less expense.
I hesc works are capable of operating
C.OOO spindles witli 200 looms complete
giving ample room for a large repair shop,
packing room and corn mill. To operate
thtfsame to the greatest profit, it requires
n capital stock of 8160,000, on which a
net profit per annum will be realized of 12
par cent. In answer to your inquiry in
relation to the SteamFactory,compared to
water power, against fire, I will state that
my opinion is, Steam Factories aro deci
dedly more safe against fire than a Water
Power I’ actory could be made without the
aid of steam. Besides having all the ad
vantage in a Steam Factory that can be
obtained from good forcing pumps, leser
voirs, pipes and leather hose, to carry wa
ter to any part of the works, as desired, 1
have pipes connected with boilers, go
ing into each room with stops and valves
in their proper places. So if a Factory
building was all in flames before dicover.
ctl, by opening certain valves from tlie
outside of tlie walls by ladders stationed
always at their place, the steam rushes in
to tbe rooms and expels the air from them;
consequently a fire cannot hum without
being fed with air. Besides all this, steam
power has a decided preference, which is
well known to every practical cat derand
k'pitmer. By the aid of steam, each room
is kept at proper temperatare of heat and
moistuie, at all seasons of the year, and
under all circumstances, which equalizes
the quality of goods produced.
Your objections to the fire under the
boiler ure easily obviated, as no spark of
fire and smoke cau escape until it has tra
versed a flue, whose length is two hundred
and fifty feet, by which time fifty above
every part of tho building in the air, should
any escape, which is not the case, for ev
ery spark is out before it teaches the top
of the chimneys.
In May. 1850, l left for the North to
purchase machinery for tlie Lawtenceville
Factory. I had occasion to travel exten
sively through the Eastern and Middle
States, which gave the opportunaty of
judging again of the extended growth and
power of the anti slavety party throughout
those several States. I cannot be deceiv
ed in relation to their desired object. Of
ten did 1 hear the assertion from the most
influential men North, that the subject
never sltould cease agitation urtil every
slave upon tlie American soil, is a freeman
mi'l Constitution of the United States
altered in relation to slavery. It was al
niost impossible to find a Northerr. man
who was not prejudiced to a greater or
less extent against tlie institutionofslavery,
and nothing but a love for the Unioa can
hold this nation together for any length of
time. Be not deceived. That parly has
now become powerful, composed of men
of wealth and influence, who are deter*
mined to break down the institution of
slavery among us, would not only retard!
our enterprise in she South, but would lead J
to our bankruptcy and ultimate ruin. Jfj
there is not a sudden stop put to their un _ j
lawful teachings, this Government will
crumble into significance ere long, and be.
come unknown.
With considerations of the highest es
teem, I remain vouis truly.
E. GUILD.
from the Southern Press.
It seems not a little singular that almost,
if not quite, ail the Union meetings—as
they are called—take place in the North
ern Slates most notorious for their aboli
tion propensities, and that they all, without
exception, proceed from a minority, few in
numbers, and without much weight or in
fluent in directing the legislative action
of these States. Thus in New York, Illi
nois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Massachusetts,&c.,
all abolition States represented in Congress
and the local legislation principally by Ab.
olitionists, we see these patriotic meetings
occasionally announced as the voice of the
people, though every body knows they are
the mere whisperings of a few friends of
the Compromise which they have substitu
ted for the Union.
1 liequestion is, do these meetings speak
the sentiments of the respective Slates?
And the answer may be found in the uni
form course of their Senators and Repte
sentatives in Congress and the proceedings
oftlieii legislatures. All without excep
tion, are represented by Abolitionists in
differnnt degrees, from the most tabid dis
ciples of Garrison to the devotees of Free
soilism. The State Convention of New
Hampshire has lately declared its devotion
to the Union, by adopting the Compromise.
Did it express the sentiments ol the State
in so doing? If it did, why is Mr. Hale
permitted to misrepresent that State, with
out any instructions from the legislature,
to arrest or check his opposition to any
measure of conciliation calculated to satis
fy one portion of the Union, and of course
bind it together ? If Wisconsin, Illinois,
Ohio. New York and Indiana, are such
friends to the Union, why do they selec:
members of Congress, and Senators, the
very men, who are most deeply pledged
to the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law,
and to every other abolition measure?—.
So with ail the New England States which
are wringing wet with Abolitionism, if
we take the sanitary Union meetings as
evidences of the popular sentiments, they
are devo'ed to the Union, and appear as
the champions of the Fugi ive Slave Law
which Virginia and some other Southern
Slates have made—or pretentended to
make—the lest question; while at the
same time it is notorious that a vast major
tty ofihe people, as well as of their legis.
lators, are determined to resist or evade
that law.eitherhy force, or legal chicanery
1 desire to call the attention ofthe peo
ple of the South to a bill introduced the
10 h January, 1851, in tlie House of As
sembly of New York, "'Jo protect free
citizens from being taken out of the S ate,
and to render it punishable by the same law
as kidnapping.” Without doubt this is an
abolition device to defeat the operation of
Fugitive Slave Law by a side-blow, in
stead of nullifying it at once openly, as has
been done in Vermont. They will see
more of this attachment to the Union, if I
don’t mistake, in many of the Northern
States, before the snows melt on the
mountains, and while Congress is quiet,
the ball will be kept rolling in the State
legislatures. This is what is called put
ting down slavery agitation.
Can not, or will not, the people of the
South see this ? Are they about to exem
plify the saying, that those whom God des
tines to ruin, he first deprives of their
senses ? Do they not see, that the cloud
is becoming every day more black and
portentous ; that their own government
has become their worst enemy, with the
exception of themselves ; that the govern
ments of England and France at e both in
close league with American Abolitionists,
and preparing to modify the law of na
tions, so as to bring it to baar against those
local laws which they have adopted for
their security ? Or do they see all this,
and seeing it, have they not the sense to
provide against, or the spirit to resist the
progress of a tempest that will ere long
prostrate them in the dust, and bring them
to irretrievable ruin ? Is it possible they
believe they can remain in the Union wi li
mit the ultimate of their
slaves, unless they at once unite in self
defence, and adopt measures for their fu
ture security against a conspiracy, not only
of America, but Europe ? But it seems
useless to point out dangers to the blind,
tit to attempt to awaken the dead, and
therefore l will say no more.
I A Northern Man 5• a Friend to thef r n>on.
Opening of the Egyptian .tltun
inies at Philadelphia.
On Friday evening, at the Philadelphia
Museum, Mr Gliddon proceeded to the
task of unwrapping the mummies of an
Egyptiau lady and child, in accordance
with previous announcement.
An audience > f about one thousand per.
sons, consisting of ladies, medical, scienti
sic an professional men, were present.—
| 1 he back pai l of tin* stage was decorated
with several mummy cases, outer and in
ner coffins, some mummies, papyrus, and
j ornaments; among them was the body of
a very la’ge and powerful man, which Mr,
G said belonged to John L. Hodge, esq.,
of Philadelphia, which was paatly unwrap
ped about twenty years ago. From the
inscriptions, it was found that his name
was I’et-isse, he who belongs to Isis, ard
that he was a priest of Isis, who died at
Thebes, about 1,500 or 2,000 years before
Christ.
Mr. Gliddon commenced the business
of the evening, by stating that he had pur
chased the female mummy which vvas a
bout to be unrolled in London, about two
years since, under the advice of Mr. Buch,
of the British Museum, and Nash, celebra
ted Egypti dist, whose opinions, as w ell as
hisowm, were that the mummy had never
been taken out of its original cgse—but he
p (inted out to the audience where the case
had been mutilated at the feet of the mum
my, most probably by custom bouse offi
cers, and frankly staled that he knew no
more of the contents than the spectators.
The second mummy, a child, obtained
from Egypt, was purchased of Mr. Harris,
of Alexandria. The child appears to be
in good condition, as far as could be seen-
It vvas swathed in linen, with the face
painted on the cloth. Mr. Gliddon said
'hat the mummies of children are very
rare. In all h;s life he has not seen more
than a dozen, and six of them were in the
British Museum. Over five hundred mil
lions of mummies are supposed to be in
Egypt, and it is strange that the bodies of
children are rarely found.
Mr. Gliddon inferred this mummy to
have been made during the Roman domin
ion. The infen ence that it was made du
ring that lime was deduced from the fact
1 hat it was not until that peiiod that the
Egyptians began to paint the full face on
lie cloth in which the mummies were
swathed. This would make the da e o.
this mummied child about front 1500 to
2000 years before Clnist, Mr. Giiutl.ff;
said he believed this was the only mummy
child in this counirv.
The inner coffin ofthe lady who was a
bout to be removed from the cloths was
richly painted and gilded, and covered
with figures of various kinds, the lines of
which were vety vivid. Mr. Gliddon said
this inner coffin was composed of a sub
stance technically called cariortaga. It
was formed of strips of linen cloth glued
together and moulded so as to fit the body ;
it was then sewed together at die hack and
covered with stucco, upon which paintings
were made.
The inscription on the outside of this
coffin showed that the body was that of
Got-mus as-ank, the daughter of Gol-har
af ank, “the justified”—the fa'hera priest
of Thebes. From the declarations on the
coffin, it was probable that the body was
richly embalmed. 1 here were three
kinds of embalming—the richest style cost
about SI2OO, the second kind S3OO, and
that used for the common kind of Egyp
tians S2O. With the richer jew
elry was often found, though the relatives
of the deceased were generally deceived
by the embalmers, who stole the jewels.—
The Arabs sometimes opened opened the
coffins of the rich mummies, take out the
jewels and put the bodies back. All these
were contingencies which might arise, and
to which the mummy in question was lia
ble. The probability was that this lady
had been embalmed from 1000 to 1500
years before Christ.
A committee, composed of Dr. H. S.
Patterson, Dr. David Gilbert, and Dr.
Wm. It. Grant, were then appointed to
superintend the unrolling, and assist Mr.
Gliddon and Mr. Moore, bis assistant.
The richly decorated inner coffin was
|aid upon a hurdle, and a section of the
head sawed off; the seam at the back utt
tipped, and the body taken out; upon in
spection, Mr. Gliddon pronounced it intact,
and as originally embalmed.
The committee then began to unwrap
the bandages. They were of linen ; and
some, with the selvage upon them, were
wrapped circularly, and then pieces op
linen placed longitudinally, and other cir.
cular bandages applied. The pappyrus—
hook of the dead—was found on the
breast, written as Mr G. announced, in
hierattic characters, the symbol writing
used by the priests. The scarahaens, or
sacred beetle, was also found on thv breast
of ihe mummy. It vvas so covered with
pitch that it was impossible to say whether
•t was accompanied by a precious jew*q
or a piece of common pottery. The leet
wete found broken and one of the less
came off at the knee; a result due to the
injuries committed by the probes of the
custom house officers.
The body was then unwrapped to th e
: last bandage, which was found to be so
tightly glued to the body that it was evi
dent that to take it off, vvas a work of
considerable lime. It was soft, however,
and showed the figuie plainly. One of
the hands was eniire. The fuilher ex
animation of this mummy was then entrust,
ed to to the committee, who will report on
Monday evening next.
The body of the child vvas then unwrap
ped. It is embalmed in better style than
the common Egyptians, with whom mat
ting vvas generally used. It vvas wrapped
in coarse cloth and embalmed in a different
manner from that of Got-mus ask-ank. —
Bitumen w as freely used, so much so as to
make it probable that a hammer and chisel
would have to be used loosen some of the
bandages. The pitch had been applied
1 old, a was supposed, some of the hair of
the head having been obtained about half
an inch long, and very soft and fine. The
examination of this mummy was also en
trusted to the committee, who will report
at the next lecture.
From the Memphis (Tenn.) Appeal.
Fall and Fusion of Pakties. —The
majority in the Georgia Convention, that
adopted the report and resolutious, met
afterwards and formed a political orUnion
party, to supercede the Whig and Dem
ocratic parlies of that State. Messts.
Toombs and Stephens were formost in the
movement. Thus has perished in Georgia
the na'ionality of two great parlies of the
country. Indications justify the belief
the same move will be made in other
S ; ates, and a national union party, com
posed of all who are opposed to the exac
tion of strict constitutional right will he
formed. The unwary are to be wheedled
into its support by the empty and indefinite
watch-word Union.
We are to he taught that the Union of the
States is paramount to every ther consid
eration and that this must be preverseil
even at the expense nfihe constitutiol lib
liberty and State rights. If those who are
in favor of huilidiug up such a party, would
reflect that the present unhappy disssen
lions that distract the country have grown
solely out of a violation niuhepart nfC' 11
gtess, of the rights of lie S ates, and that
the preservation of these is ;|i e h IJS t the
oiny preservative of the Union, they might
spare themselves the labor, we might sav
the sin, of manufacturing a party whose
most proiniiiment feature looks and leud>
to consolidation.
The old Federalists of the coutry are,
without doubt, the prime movers of this
project, atid they will all constitute
hers of the party. Its tendency is to the
accomplishment oftlieirlotigcherishetld c
trines—the dot-nines of centrality, or tin
erection of one st rog central government
out of the whole Union, obiterating Si at ■
sovereignty, ami Slate independence.
It behooves the fi lends of Sta e rights
and constitutional liberty to he on ihe alert.
I hey cannot he too vigilant in ihe presen
sta e of affairs. Under the guise of a Unio
devotion tin insidious attack is to be mad •
upon the great conservative features ofihe
Constitution, hut f>r which our forefathers
would have scorned lo enter the Con
federacy.
Correspondence of the Charleston Mercury.
Washington, Jan. 23, 1851.
I alluded in my last letter, to the grand
African Colonization Meeting, which was
held on Tuesday night. The chief ora
tois were Mr. Clay and the Rev. Dr. Ful
ler of Baltimore. They mutually exalted
eabh other by a profusion of flattering
compliments; atid the Divine and the Po
litician, each in It is own vein, worked ad
mirably to the same end, to aid in billeting
the Colonization Society, with all itstrum
pery, on the United States Treasury. Mr.
Clay urged at length, and with much ear
nestness, the propriety of Cotigres taking
in hand this business of colonizing the free
negroes, by supporting the Afiican line m
steamers. But Mr. Fuller went far be
yond Mr. Clay, in his projectson the Trea
sury. He proposed and urged that Con
gress should make an annual appropriation
to buy up tbe slaves at the South, in or
der to ship them to Africa. This is cool,
certainly. The Southern slaveholder to
furnish money, in the first place, to buy up
his own slaves, and in the second, to pay
for transporting them to Afiica. And yet
Mr.Fuller claimed to be a Southern man.io
abhor the schemes of the Abolitionists, and
to consider tbe Union in extreme danger
from the agitation ofthe slavery question,
at the very moment be was opening this
fathomless abyss of agitation. There
seems absolutely no limit to the infatua
tion of so called philanthropy, when it has
once entered tlie brain of an uuhappy
mortal.
“The Mutual Insurance Association,” as
they call the new league between certain
members of Congress, lo keep out of office
State and Federal, all who will not pledge
themselves to stand by tbe ’Compromise,’
and to appropriate all tbe said offices to
themselves, came up in the Senate yester
day. Mr.Clay and Foote were of course
head member* of the "Association.” But
only nine Democrats have taken stock in
the concern,and we may guess whai drew
Mr. Foote and Mr. Cobb into it, was the
extreme need they fell of being “insured”
by somebody. They are in a predicament
—gropi gin the most bewildering daik
ness with both hands stretched out to feel
foi the dangrrs ahead, which they fear all
the more from not being able 10 ell when
or in what precise shape they will start up.
Hence they a e trying to get up all sorts
of new platforms. The Whigs are sw al
lowing them; they feel it; they are trying
but in vain, to escape their jaws. Their
position, and their struggles to mend it,
are becoming equally ridiculous.
MACON, G A
- MORNING, FEBRUARY J.
The Weather.— For the last few days we
have cold weather in earnest. The atmosphere
has been clear, and the temperature considera
bly below the freezing point, and it is about as
much as one can do to keep warm. The re
membrance of such days as yesterday, ought lo
keep the hottest “fire-eater*' cool, even in the
middle of July.
The Lost Tribe —The Lost Tribe of Dele
gates lo the National Union Convention, are in
an uncomfortable “fix ” Some seem to think
that they are gone to California ; others say,
that they are going to make one more effort to
make ‘patriots'’ of such men as Clay, Foote
and Webster, and if they fail, why the coun
try is “smashed up. - ’ In the meantime, their
dear little protege, the Union, is in a very mel
ancholy condition indeed—symptoms of that
dreadful malady, agitation, have returned, and
Drs. Stephens and Toombs are applying peace
opium in extra large quantities whilst Professor
Ci.ay is putting Tariff blisters on the spine, and
Mother Fillmore is trying to sing it to sleep,
with “rockaby baby” rhymes. But it won't do.
The poor little thing will not be satisfied, but
cries very mournfully for its especial friends,
the Ninety-Five. The nurses at Washington
would very thankfully receive any information
respecting these Guardians of the Republic.
Remarkable Fact.—The Griffin Union says
that there is “really no difference between
Whigs and Democrats, except in mere matters
ol opinion”! This is a wonderful discovery,
truly ! There is no difference between red and
blue, only in the color !
O’ The Griffin Union of last week asks us
the follow ing questions .
“Ist. Does the Tribune believe that ‘the run
stitution of the confederacy is now considered
and obeyed as the supreme law of the land
“2d Are the Editors in their own estimation
‘ab e to maintain their rights in the Union?’ ”
W e re ply,
Ist. That the Constitution li.is been violated
and disobeyed by the “Compromise” in the first
place, and the anti-fugitive law proceedings at
the North in I In* second ; and that the Union lias
juslified the former, witliout relinking the latter.
2d. That as natives and citizens of the South,
ihat which injures her as a section, injures us
as individuals; and that, but for the misrbiev.
ous influence ofihe party to which the Union
belongs, the rights and liberties of the South
might he preserved in the Union.
Historical Relics. The tavern-keeper
who saw the butter-fly.
A plank from the “Union” platform.
A long face, part of the spoils realized by the
F (Is in the California “victory.”
A bulletin, issued by the Army of Ninetv-
Five, after they had crossed Savanna!. River.
A funeral hymn sung over the grave of tin
“Constitutional Union Party.”
South Western Railroad.—This woik is
rapidly progressing, and ihe iron will he laid on
the track to Echaconnee, about ten mis from
t is city, in a few days
U S. Senators.— Mr. Geyer (Whig,) has
been elected in place of Col. Benton from Mis.
souri; and Gov. Henry Dodge has been chosen
frotn Wisconsin.
ffJ’The trial of Gen. Henderson, for his par.
tieipation in the Cuba invasion expedition has
terminated—the jury being unable to agree
upon a verdict, have been discharged.
New Steamers.—Two new steamers called
Gordon and Calhoun, destined to run between
Savannah and Charleston, were Inunched at
New York last week.
Two steamers will shortly he built to run
from Baltimore to Charleston.
U" It has been ascertained that the Govern
ment is largely defrauded by the use of postage
stamps. They have been used two or three
times over. Stamped envelopes are proposed to
obviate the difficulty A proper and more duti
tiful care on the part of post office clerks would
be quite as effective, however.
O’ The Boston Traveller says that about
8,000 superficial feet of goods have reached that
city, from various parts of the State, intended
for the World's Exhibition at London.
O’ The select committee, to whom the mat
ter was referred, have reported back the bill to
incorporate the Cincinnati Railroad Company,
with an amendment authorizing a subscription
by the city of Cincinnati of $50(1,000, which
was agreed to, and the bill ordered to be en
grossed.
Chloroform as an Antipkriomc The
French Government has offered n prize of 4,-
OOOf, for the discovery of a substitute for Quin
ine in the treatment of fevers. Prof. Delioux,
ofßockefort recommends chloroform as a power
ful succedaneum. Periodic fevers are common
at Rochefort, and lie treated numerous cases in
the hospital there with such regularity of suc
res that lie feels warranted in recommending it
as a substitute for quinine, lie gave it in doses
of from 0 lo 30 grains, according to the severity
of symptoms, rubbed up with syrup and water
It was administered before the aecess of fever,
and its use continued fbr several day?
How to Exhaust the Treasury 1
This appear* lo be Hie subject of paramount
importance at the pres nt session of Congre s l
with the politicians of Union loving and Fedc'
ral notoriety. Subservient lo this object,
rioticm is at a premium, and love for the “dca
people in a s ate of effervescence. Scheming
plotting and hoodwinking, have each a coning!
uons part lo play in the drama. The Post Of
fice Bill is a very shrewd idea, particularly lg
emanating and endorsed in the hot-bed of p rg .‘
teclion. The Pacific Railroad project, too, ls
a masterly enterprise, calculated to cut ofFthe
revenue arising from 132 000,000 ol acres of t|, e
most valuable public lands. Then, there j»
the hill to give away if,e public lands to actual
settlers upon them. All of these measures look
very well when taken separately and without
lifting the curtain which hides the real pohey
from view-but when we reflect upon the con
sequences that will attend the consummation of
these projects, we are at a loss f0 know which
IS the greater, the ingenuity that has sospecious
• y disguised this systeth of plunder, or the po
litical depravity that prompted it.
The Post Office Bill, like the “Constitutional
Ln.on Party,” bears a very fascinating appear,
ance, but is destructive in its tendency. The
former reduction to 10 and 5 cents, was doubt
less expedient and proper, and under that ar
rangement, the amount of epistolary correspond
ence has so multiplied as to produce a larger
revenue than the smaller transactions realized
before. Thij increase enabled the Postal De
partment to support itself from its own resour
ces. But what is to he the result of the reduc
tion to 3 cents foi all distances ? Let us see
Suppose the number of letters now carried by
tbe mails to be 60,000,000 ; one-third of these
at 10 cents will amount to $2,000,000, and two.
thirds at 5 cents lo $2,000,000, so that from lei.
lers alone, tho present law produces $4,000,1.00
per annum for the support of 'he Department.
The uniform reduction to 3 cents would bring
but $ 1,800,000 Irom these sixty millions of lei.
ters. to produce the sum now raised by letter
postage, then, the number of letters would be
compelled lo reach the amount of 133,333,,
300, which, all must see at once, will not be-
Ihe case for many years, if ever. In order to'
meet the expenses of nearly 20,000 offices, and'
the transportation of the mails, $1,500,000 wiJ|.
be il.awn from tbe Treasury. This is a consid
erable item 111 “Constitutional Union” financier
iog, and squints pretty strongly at a deficiency
111 ilie public funds.
But Mr. Whitney’s plan must also have a.
place amongst these enterprises of pecuniary
depression. It is not expedient, lie says, to
build a Railroad to Calil‘ol ilia, but we must have
one to Oregon, and Government lands must be
the means nt us construe!ion. Ho requests an
extent of laud containing about 132,000,000 up
m res, worth, at $1 2-5 per acre, $165,000,000.
1 his Read will place the jYorth in possession of
direct communication by steam with the Pacific
but few and far between will be the benefits re
sulting to the South from its completion. We
will build the road, and the North will keep
the profits realized by it. Government must
furnish the land ; the land raises the means;
and the South must indemnify the Government
against loss, by making lip, in high tariff's, the
deficiency in the revenue resulting from tliisap
pnipriitinn of public property, and the North
is to derive all the advantages that the terminus
ol the Road can bring to her, besides the bene,
fils ol dulies prnliihi ory of foreign goods
U bile this is going on ton, the European seller,
driven from our markets, ceases to ben buyer of
.Southern cotton ; Northern manufacturers
the mnnagemenl of prices by furnishing the de_
maud This is ihe second feature in “glurioj*
•‘"iisli u ional Unionism!”
1 lien we must have a i-leai- sweep of tlie rev.
enue from llie sales of pulilie lands, and give
lieni away to llie aetual settlers upon iliern, ti>
create anew field lor llie propagation of üboli
uon doctrines This act will deprive ilie Treas
ury of at least $2,000,000 annually. The defi.
riency, then, in round numbers, will amount
to about $4,000,000, occasioned bv these fleecing
operations, which will sufficiently exhaust the
Treasury to create an argument for the exorbi
tant taxes levied upon imported goods. Here,
then, we have the secret of the whole matter,
without disguise or equivocation—a Protective
Tariff is the end and aim of all these efforts.—
First, reduce the Treasury, and next, increaso
the Tariff".
Yet the “Union Democrats” of last Novem
ber are to be coaxed into the support of these
iniquitous measures ! We do not believe they
will prove recreant to their political principles
anti In themselves, by connecting themselves
with (he Nondescript Union Party. If they be
lieved that the Southern Rights men would be
100 rash and precipitate in tlie Convention, that
by no means justifies the inference that they
wiii join a Party concocted by a caucus of Fed
eral office-seekers.
Texas Indians.—The government agents
have recently effected treaties with the Texan
Indians, hv which the Indians promise the res
titution of all the stolen property, and the pris
oners in their possession. Some tribes were nos
represented in the councils, particularly the Ca
manches, but the agents report strong hopes of
shortly inducing them to enter into similar con.
dilions, with more faithful compliance in future-
From Canada.—lt is generally understood
that the Parliament will be convened for a very
short session, about the latter part of February.
It will ho the fourth and last of the third Parlia
ment of United Canada. The fourth Pnrlia.
merit, it is expected, will he called in Quebec,
but many persons predict that it w ill nover again
leave Upper Canada.
Removai.ok Free Negroes. —The citizen*
of Powhatan, Va , have lmhl.B meeting to con
sider the subject ol removing the free negro pop
ulation Irom the Stale A committee, appoint
ed for the purpose, reported a resolution that
their delegates in the present Virginia Conven
tion be requested to support any measure pro
posing to give ro the Legislature of tho t-t.ite
power to remove all free negroc* resident withe
in it.