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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.