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R- ELLIS & CO., Proprietors. Volume XIV. tOUIItIN ItMII. KhhKl (Id 15. IHStI. The practical ksu< of ibe Raj It cannot, be denied by any olanurv or ofthe times that uu “irreconcilable conflict” exist between the Northern ami Southern Stntes in this Tuion, tli.it 1 must inevitably result iu the independence or euhjugation of the Utter. This is no idle dream. We witness upon Hie floor fcf t’ongn ** the hostility ! Ixdwern the tw-. sections, asbitter aslhat ’between the suXori and the Gaul. Every breeze (but | poiimw from lira North hears upon its will# the *u ewssoi that party. which has tn*cril*ctupon if s ’ banner “no more slave Wishes.” Yet, we are a 1 Union R\ingpeoplu, anil.prqeluiui that we enjoy t e*|ujU right* and w ill main turn them ! The onl y I luesrion is when shall we make the Issue? When * skull wc know that the Republican*’ are [n ear ucml? When will we foul lira curd* Uiat hind us, bam oou-Uke, in the fold* of the serpent* ’ WUup ‘ shall we rise from our lethargy ami break ihe chain* that fasten ir*, “Hautt and -font V’ These ar qYtterinrrs trpon which thq .South is dd it.e rating, while the Republican army gains strength, is supplied with food and is receiving new recruit* from day to day. To those who worship a union, which the gn<">t* of our fathers would not lore werr they living spirits, idolise it for the very name's sake. We haven practical illustration of this fact ( every day in Cougar**. And whether we un called tire-an ter*, ttnitnr*. rpfcflta .r wtmt not, we 1 have the .-atDfai'tion of kflowing, that the moat i alyeci l iaoui.sts sge a large party rising into power North, and subsisting alone upon the anti * slavery aliment. This party acknowledge* n<> l | IcglanC* to tbe frqjßshtuti■ iti, but advocate a higher * law--they are l)u£ sutisfitKi with mere opposition ’ to since territory, but rather opposition to .sillV ery in the State*, and show a strong determine tom and will to extinguish it, as remorseless as that <d tile old Roman. “I**UiuUi r*t t’tfrfhsrg,,.* There arc r-outberu men who believe iu the ! honesty of their heart*, that few men would vote ’ in Cob gross against the admission ’f anew Sfafe, s/e/y upoii the ground that it* constitution. re- ‘ cognizing (so (buss the Constitution and the United I States) slavery. Ami yet. it has beeu announced 1 time and again hy Congressmen. The •piestion, however, has now a*nnied n that all can uudei*taml it Jt is nekiTowU edped by ail that tb© acquisition of t’uba is al most a political necessity—requiring no m<mc 1 demoutration to prove if, than an axiom in ‘ Mathematics. And, yet, notwithstanding hs t great importune* lo all sections, benefiting the I North to such an extent asm excite the jcnlnusv of Southern men and inducing some Southern ! journals to oppose the purchase it* had policy for I the South, we find the Kvpuld leans nr rayed { against the lull for its purchase, to a man : de monstrating the foregone conclusion that Unha is ’ but. a “side-issue” and that the all-absorbing I question i* upon that “heitt, which the progress of events are pressing upon ns.” Upon the motion to take up the bill for the pur ! chase of Cuba, on the Pth inst., In the Senate, a * Senator from Wiscm*in m reported to huve *uid : “I desire that the honorable Senator from Louisiana should understand that when we come j to lira making up .of the pleadings for that grout , issue, wo shall expect to take part in ita ibriau tioii ; and that it will uol be fur us oil this side ot j the Chamber always to wait for those leading up j on Lira other side, to choose their own battle i ground: to decide when aud where they will j strike the blow j that on this side of tins Chamber i the organization, which is now ranged umter the the mime of the Republican party 07 this i'uuiuir, i is no more opposition party : no mere Whig party | or Federal party, to oppose everything and pro posy nothing. They will find that the Republi- j cau party of to-day is a living organizatteti—the ; innrg—inrl Itrni i they will find, in the formation of the Lome fur j infill, and in the trial of that issue, there are j blows to take as well a blows to give. That battle will not I** fought upon any mere - aide issue or impriratteableitePe like tint present j attempt to acquire Cuba; but upon that all-mborli- j ing issue which the furogmss of events Is preaaing j upon us. and which must be mot: which you cannot avoid ifyou would, which, forouc. 1 would | never seek ► avoid if I aoiild.’ Again he said : ••We will join that issue, however, upon the; living issue of the present the actual, practical js j Hiram our daj ftrttl general tew. which is. uutil it i.w settled, to override ail other issues in this cuuu j try; and which tends to the solution of the two j great question* on the American continent, wor- j thy of the considoritjon of American <tu.*;siucn; : cue is the dilution <f the Anglo-America* quo*- j tion, Hie other the solntion of the Africo Amvju-aa uaestiou. Tn the sedation of these great questions j the men of our own race, fVom the temperate zones ! of the old World, mingling with us and being j AmericaulziMt, will hold, in the end, exclusive pm j se*lon of the temperate Zone* of the Nw ; while the ikutmA'lMk of the man of the tropir* id the j Old W orld now among os. will liml their homes | iu Um tropics pf the New ; and, sir, they will not , go there a* slavey, hut as tree men. t<> live among j frccuisn. iid where c.dorls no degrndtiiion. They i will go. under our instruHientidlity, not U> over turn the tiMvernraent’ to which they cm ig rale, ln*f , to aid in dovtlupiug the must productive regious of the whole earth. This question is presiug , uponnmow. Y*ui eanm.t posHj.one itloUg.il , you would. ltU > n *be progress of etenls, and it must come on.” Thi-speech i* only one of the few announcing the programme of the Republican*, ft i not from , Seward. Ho has said long since that he would live to fee the “dawn of flu* day that would wol- j coiue the last foot print* of slavery Upon the earth.” Time will test the truth of his prophecy. In the I meantime. l*t the great “i'UActu ai. nsr*” be j understood & the South -let her hunhand her re- ; source*- -culuvate a lraterual spirit among her j children -counsel harmony pf action — cherish a j love for independence, so that when the oppressor | comes, aruieil with the sceptre ami ebdlicd with the panoply of power, we will la- alle lojdmit the hue! of freemen upon his prostrate week. Marts of Trade. A Word fr <Jar S-mtkeru HcuhottrU Ptfin. We are toprawad from observations that our mrrcuntH* comumrnity in the interior town* and country are not ns uuiclt with the iro j po nance of <rur Southern ©ommereiol interest f* i our /hunter* are. We ace the hatter .sending and 1 haring their product* via: Cotton, Tobacco* Mae, Sugar. Coro. ftni Ao..sold and *hi|*ped at our Southern IMm4 commercial nitins via; Nor- j folk, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, fc>W Orleans, Galveston do, Not ao uuiversallydo the Southern j i#S*r'r ahem their disposition to iiu prove and build up our Southern trade. .Self in terest many of them *ay induces Uto go t. New i York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore to pur j chase our goods. We think investigation and | farte will not prove this position correct. The j cost of traositiou of there good* U there northern cities are a* grout, taking the average place* of ; importation and production, as to bring them f< j any of our Southern cities on the sea board — j while.the expense* of the m*roaUU> Houses in i New York, especially are three fold more than in any of our Southern commercial cities. There i? no city in the world, that in the matter of extrav agaut store expenses, equal thin commercial em porium of the North, and while our Foutbcrii 1 wholesale merchants, with credits equal to any in ] the world, can buy as cheap in the Foreign , markets and of the manufacturer or commission merchant or importer, as any Northern jobbing merchant# or importers, ami as they assure us with Hot only a disposition, hut a determination to sell as cheap and known to sell on as good terms, we cannot see, with a full supply of stocks and general variety of goods, thut there can he any self ad vantages to our interior merchants to go North—especially in thedpring reason to buy their goods, as they can visit with impunity and olii; O nhtmbit.s Ucchln , without fear of Health all, and any of our South- I • rn ‘ the Spring, and we think should do ■ ®°* NR oar Southern seaboard cities have sufler j ed frou the epidtmiic of yellow fever the last sum I nicr and fall, and their prosperity t he, ini there jhy let it not he anything more than a check, , but with the eutflciiauce of your trade say to them i go on and prosper. Rxpfitditvm Itctrcncnmcni. j is truly busy at it* work of retrench- j j went. li the <i overmmuit cannot le supported I exoept ly a modification of the tariff, this body •shows a sjdrif to curtail all expease* not actual I , ly ami absolutely nwe.s.-ary. No one can complain j that the Jt#mo< vatic iiicmilhts ol t'ongn-ss aredis- j i j*o*d to increase the alrendy heavy tux ini).o*ed by the Government. The Ifoiise of Rqrueiita- | i tives have concurred with the fomjftittce of Mays I ’ aihl Means iu striking out the following items ; i yjtlO.OilO for the luficagu of members aud dele- , ; gates of the House for next year: $10,009 lor j furniture and repairs and huge* for members ; J In* noKrly ?ra,(10ll fur Hie O.mgreaskiiuH lllolie, . ! and Mr binding tn- same, and kt l >.it ft ov ; | ceedings ; also iu cutting off ?100,0p0 for wages of the workmen and adjusters at the Sun Francisco Mint also reducing the appropriation lor work men in. the Now York Assay Office from $44,000 : to $20,900 : and reducing the appropriation for workmen at the New Orleans Hranch Mint to , . $1.1.000 : a}.*v in striking out tMMI lor the ; puri-hnae ol property ill New York, now leased for . • ’ourt joirjw.scA'f also in miding $174,000 to sup j pIMA, tbdicieiices in ]irinttng. j The bill was Ikon passed by 1(* majority. irk now lettgeiurnl*. Wo arc under obligation to Hon.d FDowdell for a copy of his speech to ‘'restore the spirit of | theorgwuio law : nsfrict the ral power; ex I *R Rtate sr.vcrcignty.*’ Also, Hon. A R Wright for his speech on tho distribution of the public i land*. | CoOMi HdiT, Tnr.Arv with Tmina. The lion. Wu. K. Red. minister t> t'hina, ha* despahdicd I l.ieut. Henry Krbn, ns bearer of the Commercial , : troaty made by huu with i'hina in Novioubcr last i witii our govern moot. Lieut. Krben arrived iu i the Asia. Mr. iieed was exf*c>ded to leave for {the}l nited i .States in the early part of Lie.-muher !• The U. S. steumvi Miuue*ota sailed from t’bi i ua for lbstiu on the With of Novemlter. )MtMi for rcr SlggerN. , The Mock Republican* begin u* show whnt tJu-v i j would do. if they hud tiie power how limy would , i override the ('uns*itutu*n aud h*>w Souliicrners i would be taxed for their pseudo— philanthropy ( for thu negro. f In the Senate a few days *icee. Mr. Thmlittlc coHsidcred that the two great question* which in j theprognvsmu of the age cannot be escaped, were I | lira Anglo-American and the African American. ‘ i lie couciudisl his remark* by oftering o substitute ■ lor the Cuban bill; to the effect that fifty mil , | lions be appropriated t purchase in YucaUu, or i Central er South .America, territory on winch a i frceiiegro nation can l*e located under the guar an lee of Ihe knifed State*. Nkui'.hf.S Couiho Soi tm. —The Weldon Our- * respondent of fcb* Express say* The crowds of negroes going South are uudiiuinishe.i, and on Saturday, a Mr. Ha vis of Richmond, disposed of purchaser took them on South. Tiie Fumtor Kepublican American) bn* ju*t I closed its fifth volume. Tiie publisher represents j his success thus fur a* being very flattering, ('has. f*. t'rawfbrd is to become associated with the present proprietor in it management, and will j make bis bow to the public next week. ! Bau. to Lout* Nahiku. A complimentary ball is to bo given in Washington on Thursday night, ! the 17th inst., to Lord and Lady Napier. Among < the anines signed to the correspondence on the j ! subject, are those nffftenators Mason, of'Virginia, | Seward, Crittenden and Toombs. I LaGjiaxuk FKVtALt Coimc<;k.- Dr. Ledlietfer ! | 1 1 . is been a|>p*iiitod agent for this institution, (in I pface of W. D Shea, resigned) to assist in raising | ! funds for the paymeut of th debt eontraeted by j ! the Georgia Conference is pun-basing the Collage, I | by KuKeitiug eontributtons for thfnt object. i lupf<ltT4,\T Vlf>M Tin JCAttKZ C A AI N KT.-~ Wl‘ I have rcliiilde .-soranees from Mexico tiiat I'rest- ! 1 dertt Juarez is not only willing but anxious to eu , * ter into a treaty with ihe I’nited State* for the 1 (irntwcHon of the frontier. AM that we ‘-otrid ! gain, as a pcAple, by an expensive rind objection i ‘ able “proteeforntc” niay thus fa- honorably ob- J ! taiued by treaty, to the mutmil satisfivetion and I advantage oT bnth govcrmnerits. and at a saving, . * instead of an increase of onr war expenditures , ■*n the Indian urfeshd Mexican frontier. 1 We have also reason to believe that ihe Anglo ’ French demands Were diminished to much in<-r* ! rea**nflMc proportions by n rensonahle bint that j ’ Mexico, {f reduced th the necessity of c hoosing j j >i dictator, Uiigbt lijqK-Ml to her great sinter of the * 1 North for pi'itoeli<<ii **r Annexation. This was a J f Vg.ptiligeney that tb alHwd admirals dared not * I assume the res-ponsibilify of forcing, and they i came down in their term*. Juarez -e.-nis to really | have a fixed policy of his own, and the nerve to . , carry it “ut. .'-’/•in-. Rr.ce of fhiauo. Woubmgtttn February 8. | j Mr. Clay, l : uited Stat* Minister to R*ru, in wri j . ting to tfra SUUe Depurturaut, say* the idea that j auy reduction iu llu |irioa at which guano is u**w I sold in the l uild Htates. can be brought about i by negotiation is abandoned, ail eumac* in Peru agreeing that as the deposits are national pmper | Ly, the governnieiit id bound *oo that they pro duce the greatest possible amount of revenue. ( There is little prospect of improvement in bu*i i nc-s transaction-, as the uiost important agencies ! ofthe Peruvian government are cntrusted to two ; j houses, who bave it in their power lor the moment, , to fix the rate *f freight, and iu Mr. Clay’s opiti (ion, can in future axe re bra a controlling influence j var the trade with foreign eountne*. 0 Util I roust Mel ting ; The citixens of Lafayette. Alabama, have held : j h meeting for the purpose of constructing a j Railroad from Opelika to Lafayette and suitable ! commit lee* appointed. The following resolutions I * wore adopted: * j Resolved, That a Committee of live be appoint j ed by tlic chair to correspond wiib tho President* j of the dilk-rent Railroad* in Georgia and Ala- < , bttinu in reference to the proposed connection by itailragdaf La Fayette with the Montgomery and i West Point Railroad at Opelika, j Remdted, That this Commit tee he instructed to | | report at an early day—that w hen this meeting I adjourn, it stand adjourned, subject to the Gjdl of aid committee. Lalrr from Mexico Xkw Qki.ka**. Feh. 12.— The steamer Tentios- I see lja* arrived from Vera Crux with dateH from , i that port to the Otb Hist, News from tlie Capital, an noun era that Zuolaga has abdicated in favor of lien. Miramon. The ’ latter was installed president on the 2d February, | I and immediately re-arrested all political prison ers liberated by Oen. Robles. He dismissed all officer* engaged in disposing Zuolaga, and sup pressed Hen* Robles’ newspaper. Miramon ordered a forced loan of one million dollars, and was preparing to march against Vera Cruz with 5,000 men. Zulaoga pfesido* a President in tho absence of Miramon. The brother of Miramon, commanding forces at Zacatecas, has met with sever# defeats. Bon. Degoldado is threatening the cnpitol with 3,000 reorganised troopi, THK 1N Ul N UV THK STATES, AMI THE SUYEKEMiNTY OF THE STATES. The capture of Macallan. Vy the Liberals is undisturbed. The French and English commanders succeed *4 in-enforcing their demands :rt Vera Cruz, and , liigli duties were restored forthwith. It i.-staled that two-lhirds of thu revenue have heen seemed ! to England and France. Tho United States . Consul promptly protcst il|gain*t such interfer i once; aud .Inure/, seemed much emVmrrasscd in I consequence of it. KallroadlMeellng ihratur |t onntj, ha At a railroad mooting hold at Hainhridgc l>e ’ eatur county, on the 11 th instaut, following resolution* were adopted to-wit: Resolved, ‘Thai we request Charles .1. Milliner ly lbto pledge the faith of the people of Hcmmir county for an additional sum ofs.o.oun subscrip tion. to the stork of the Atlantic and Cull Rail road Company, iu the event that the Hoard of Itirecfors will uecept the {terms and condition* proposed by a meeting of thveitiaens on the 7th day of August. 1858. “Resolved, That wo pledge’ ouriudves to procure from the next Legislature, an act authorizing the , intei ioc Court oi'Dueatur County, to make a sub ,*< riot ion us the HIUU of Siitt.ftuo’ i () tho Block of ’ -aid company, ami to levy an extra Tax on me people of Iterator county for the payment thereof. Resolved, That Decatur county is entitled to two ini'inbci's iu the Directory of tho Company , and that it is the sense of this meeting, (hat her l ights should be recartled by the Hoard. hoi. It roan's Itcnomluaiion. Wo must confess our surprise at tin- assertion of the Augu.-ta Constitutionalist cotnniTitiad on ’ by tiie Federal I’tiion. There can ho no doubt that throughout this section of the Htato, uinetv ; nine ineu in every hundred of thu Denmoratie : party are decidedly for llov. lirowu’s rc-noiniiui I tion. We have not seen a particle of evidence ! going to show that-the panic feeling doe* not ex i ist throughout the State. The only infiiieiice that cun by auy possibility he biiug)it to bear against him in the eonveution is that of the cities eonfrollkd by hanks. This may he l! powerful to defeat him in convention. Hnt it is iindania ble that I tie wishes aud prefereiievK ot the Dcuto <-ratte party aiul of the people of the Htuto are for , hi* i*e nomination. And we uiay usk if <ov. ■ Hrown is not to he nominated for re election, who I is to Ik* the Democratic candidate ? Who will permit himself to be used to defeat tutu ? Mari ! f-tta AUuocaU. Remount If Caucus. j There was a meeting held of the Demoeratie ; members of Congress, on thu bth inst., at Wash ington to take into consideration tho question of , expenditure’ Air. i'helps, ot Missouri, offered resolutions, dc eluriiig that the temporary neeessities of the gov eminent should he met hv ail’ extension ot the | law authorizing the issue and re-issue of Treasury i notes lor the period of two years ; that the appro i pnatioii bills ought to be ai-ted onus speedily as possible, and that the expenditures of tin- govern ineflt ought to he reduced to the lowest point, con oiatent with the want* of an economical adminis trillion of the government. Mr. Hlielps brietly argued tho importanee of immediate action to avert tho necessity fan extra session. Mr. Crawford propowi the following, as u suh stifute for Mr. Phelps’ resolutions: Itr*olt r<i. That it is inexpedient and unneces sary t* disturb the tariff of 1857. kttoli tU, That tho temporary iiocesaitie* of the tJoxerunient should be met by the re-issue of I Treasury note*. Kmiilrnl, That the President bn requeoted to convene the Cabinet, and submit to them the esti mate*- heretofore presented, for the purpose • ascertaining what deduction therefrom is practi cable. Mv. Crawford made a speech in advocacy of hi* proposition. Mr. Stephens thought it very proper that the tariff question should be discussed, a- it was of i uagiii uhl'vuiiX concern. The tariff act of 1857 becopried out on the revenue raised by U, wttff economy. He did not regard the quß'kn of rois ’ ing the tariff nor *unything counccteil with it as a test of democracy at least iiniil the National Demoeratie Lou veu lion has specially provided for the subject on iU platform of principles. Mr. Barksdale replied that he vva* for a tariff I for revenue, but between protection for the sake j of protection and direct taxation, he whs for the j latter. AD - . Hiuith, of Va v said that any reduction “I ; the expenditures ought to coiniuei* with Mem l,rrs of Congress, aud referred to the oempen ; satioii and mileage as fit subjects for retruneh- I incut. Mr. AL-Kae gave notice ofthe introdnotion of j a lution, laying down certain fundamental | constitutional principles, and proposing to instruct j ibe Conunittee of Ways and Means, o* the sense j if the e.ai'"iis, to report u bill lor levyitlg a direct | tax. [ Mr. Boyce said it was evident there must be an increase of revenue or a decrease of ©xpendi I lure*, and firarofaro thought the only security for economy would be the presence of the guthettir of ! direct taxes. i Mr- Flay was not present to dictate to the Dem ocratic (MirtV. Not long ago, lie was called only i a yearling democrat, and be was of course but htfie more than a two year old now. Hut liewisb ‘ e*| u say tiiat that tie question of a tariff4* above | all parties, one In which the intercAfci of the entire j i-iiiiiitrv an* concuniwl, He fheraforo hoped it | would be Hju*fd in necordauce wltli ibis scnti j ment. Mr. He ward thought U was impossible for I lie Government to Ira curried on wit Ij a great deal ! ley* expenditure than now estimated, and that the ! oul v solution (f the difficulty was in tiie res tom 1 non, either temporarily or permanently, of lira i tariff of iff! <. | Other Democrat* addressed the caucus, after ! which I Mr. CrawCufd’a first reselutkm, declaring it in ’ cxpcdewl andaiunecessary t® iHsturl* tho tariff was rejected by 27 against 55, sofnc members uot vo i ting. i Mr. Crawford then withdraw bis iw-remaining i resolutiops by unanimous convent. .Mr. Sickles resolution was then adopted that a i committee be appointed by this caucus, to confer with a similar committee on the |mrt of (be ben u(caucus to lake into consideration the propet -1 manner practicable for reducing the expenditure* i of tho Government. The Wanderer. We find the following in the correspondence of j (),• New York Herald, from an officer on bourd a | U. H. ship ot war. now on the coast of Africa: . -October I Ith, the day after leaving Auibrize, we bad a chase after a large *cboon©r off Fnake ’ Head, tinder susplriou* circumstance*. Hhe beat ; us sailing, however.” I -We leitrn here that the captain and liion (if tlu- Wendner, whilst out here, wore tho uniform ot tho New York Yacht Club—aasi!redly a piece -■1 bad taste upon the bimincrs they euuic lor. There is im doubt but that the Wanderer got *fe lv off with her cargo —a comment upon our fleet sailing that we could not nab her.” ••Old dull sailing vessels are entirely useless.— I (>t,)y the other day we feel in with a very suspi cious schooner, niter whom we crowded all suil ly (he wind. Wc were going knots, and yet she i li ft us as though we were at anchor, eating us out ! (,f the wind with ohs#, sparing ua her gaff topsails ami Hying jib.” ‘‘Alter remaining on the coast some time, we 1 began to think we would have nothing to do, I when, one morning, word was brought us that the Wanderer was loading with slaves. The Viiicea ms, alter fifteen leys of preparation, was dis patched to investigate the matter. We soon learned that hc Wanderer whs between us and tho Vincennes* having had the hardihood to ap proach within sixty miles of our anchorage and to anchor ufl A infinite. , “On hung duly provided therewith, wc set sail for Gobito May, with the view of spending a couple of days'for the purpose of allowing ample , ti„ M , for the Wanderer to get liar cargo of negroes ; on board, so that when we captured her there i should be the strongest proof of her character. But. upon our approach to the mouth of the bay, there was no sign of even a boat there. Leaving our ship riding safely a mile distenoe from the land, the barge, gig and whale boat aailed with their respective occupants, duly armed with knives end guns ‘for protection,’ into the bay on an ex ploring expedition. . ... 1 “After remaining a day wo stilted for Amltrm. § On arriving there, wc found that tho W anderer ’ had never been there, but hud already sailed from j the Congo with a cargo of slaves.” Obituary.— Wo learn from tho Tuscaloosa Monitor that Dr. James W. Collier, only son of ’ the late (Jov. Collier of Alabama, died at that J place on the 26th ult. of Typhoid Fever, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1859 rOLIMKiS, WKRNKMHY. KKRHI AKI iff, The Viath-Uestern Railroad The Savannah Republican says that, tho gtoek holdeiv of.this Company held a meeting in M:t eon on the ltttli inst., (i,.t)'l shares were nq>re sonteil. An election was held, and Hie old hoard was unanimously ro-ehoAon, viz: R. It. CUYLKR, President. utKKorotm : •Tno W Anderson, Win S Holt, AVm A Black, T IV Furlow, Robert A Smith. Dross earnings for fl month* end ing the :ilst of Jan.. 18;.'.) $319,445 75 Same period last year, L’01,778 23 I uerease gross turnings, sll7,Off? o 2 Xett earnings for fl months January Nett earnings for ff months, .farm ary, ISoS, 7fI,SSC 72 increase nett earnings $112,2(57 72 Six months, bales cotton, dan. .ii iv,*o<> Six months, hairs cotton, January, 1858, 59,109 Increase 80,879 hale . The Lust Rue. Among the new newspaper candidate** for nrtb lie favor and exchange, which we almost daily re . e.ive, the lust one is No. 1 of ‘ The Lust Rose of Summer,” published at Huuhanan, Botetourt Cos., N'irgiiiiu. It i* rvideiitlv a “volnahle paper.”— We copy vrrhutin). the editor’s .salutatory to his brethren of the press, and congratulate the old Dominion on this accession to its literary strength. For tho bene til of weak eye* nil the originnl mat ter of the ••Rose” is in type a* big as your fin S'T : To otir brother cdtors 1 have takn upon my sit the rccponsihiiity of editug the Lost fio* of Siotic, do most earnestly request you to honor me with yunr exchange you will red Uy perceive by this my first cdytorial that I am a man of unlimited talent and genus therefore you will perceive that you may derive immense benefit by exehangig vvih so valuable a poriotienl y*?J..Au communicators uniat be addressed to the Editor of the last ffu*c of Hinhmrr •ItunE MiT.kan. The Cleveland (Ohio) Her ftl.f says that Judge McLean's health is evidently again giving way. On hm return to the capital he was. fora few days, enabled to Vigorously pro seentehis duties, hot hy last oeeotmi* he was not able to attend t lie sitting.- ol the Supreme Court ; and it was sni*l lie would Mon return to Cincin nati. The Herald adds that Washington gossip Inis selected Judge Bartley as the successor of Mr. McLean. FOR Till. TIM KN. Thc.Scaoflce. Honor to whom Honor Is Rm*. Messrs. Editors .* \V* were of u large und a(pre ciativo audience, who witnos.sed the peiTormuucc of the above play by the Marsh Troupe, and ware most agreeably surprised. 1 The (dot is touching and pathetic. ‘The sccnc r}’ und appointments admirable, und thy rendi tion of some ofthe characters—extremely happy. Miss LortKK possesses talent of a rare order, j and exhibit* more proficiency than we have ever ! seen in one so young. Her ii.ov ements are easy, j flowing, graceful : her reading. Hear, sonorous and j musical: her perception of the character. Into to J nature, not overdone, hut lull and rounded. In | u.worj, we predict for her a earner more- or less | which she may give to nn art. for which she ox- , hibits a remarkable adaptation. Mias C'aiuiie, ulfiq, deserve* notice; her whole j bearing, being correct and life like. A little stiff j ness in the use of her hands, alone, murs the j getit-ral propriety of her delineation. Master Gkwuoe Maumu, ha* a genius for come ! dy : his suouess in that role, is certain ; be seems | untaught, ami tho humorous appears to apring spontaneously from his own brain; perhaps, however, it would be well to cheek bis comical propensities, in a pioea so tragic as the boa of lee. On one occasion, we noticed with pain, that tho less discriminating portion of tho audience vverp carried away hy his fun at a lime, when tho piny j was passing through one of it* most touching j period*. We do not Maine Master George for this, for it would be unreasonable to look for true dramatic discretion in uuo so young. But to tho management we commend those lilies of Hamlet •'Let your clown* speak no more, than is *ot down for them; this overdone, tho’ it make the unnkillfu laugh, can not but make tho judicious grieve: the censure (done of whom, must out weigh a whole Theatre full of others.” M. W. J. <5 A T*T AIV fIK NK H AI.Htl ll* OK <V|\. The last Spanish mull sets at rest, for the moment again, the periodical announcement of a change in the government.of the Island of fjuhn. The late ru mor seem* to have originated, like till others, In (Jen. Concha’s “prudent” quarterly letter asking to be relieved t the precarious tenure ol hi* office, iu the uncertainly of bpanisli politics, making the tropical climate of Cuba, about so often, pe cuiiariv unfavorable to his liver complaint. The rumor in this ease seem* to have gained more credit from the zeal with which the fre nd* of tli© t'aptuiii General seconded his request at home.—- “The lai difficulty with Garza at Tampico hod been sathd'aetartly settled by hi*prompt nndener getie action; the Island was |niet, and it wax but right, that after aerrireH so long and so arduous, h should be relieved.” This was going almost too far. and it came well nigh having mii entirely different result from what wns undoubtedly in tended, and then our neighbors of the “ever faith ful isle” would have hud the misfortune to have in place of a prudent Captain (tenoral, whose ca parity had bean proved, one of whom they knew nothing, and win* knew nothing of them.—A’ (J J*icayu tu. AgßcnoTn or rttr. British Qit.kn. The Bos ton Post toils us that a gentleman of Chelsea, near that city, who visited Knrepe last summer, delivered-an interesting narrative of his travels, in a lecture to the Chelsea Library Association lust week. In the course of his lecture he rotated the following anecdote of Queen Vic toria : If is reported that her Majesty has a sweet lit tie temper of her own, and that her omnt a)to*n, like a prndefttman, always retires before the storm, and locks himselfin his private cabinet until ibe sky is clear end sunshine again illumines the clas £ shades of St. James or Windier. After one of U,e* liltbi ebullitions, the queen gave a “thun faring knock” at the door of the room where Prince Albert badrinken refuge, and upon being asked. “Who's there responded, “The Queen !” oifho Queen cannot enter here,” responded the henpecked. After the lapse of half at) hour, a ucutle (uj) wu heard upon the door. “Who's ‘there?” askoo Prince Albert. “YonY mfn,” re sponded Victoria. “My wife is always welcome,” was tho gallant reply. Jlews items. The rumored difficulty between Messrs. Rickies and Butterworth is entirely unfounded. There has been no interruption whatever of their friend ly relations. • The .Secretary of the Treasury asks that power be given him to discontinue from tiniu to time such lighthouses as nmy baconle useless by ren son of the mutations of commerce, and to restrict the creation of new lighthouses to such tvs shall be reported on favorably by the Lighthouse j Board. The draft* (mid .uid drafts iasiied last wfek at Hie I'uitoii States Trensurv amounted to nearly $5.f100.00n. The report i* eruilitoif that (Jen. Denver will shortly resign his office of Commisaionar of In Jinn A ilk irs, with a view of returning to Cali for- The Central National Rotls* Club have resolved io withhold the puhlieatiou of their addrona to the people until Mr. Butts shall have delivered his speech, on the 22d. in New York. Tho Arizona, Mexican and Central American Association are now chartering vessels to takeout • migrants under the direction of Uunerui llen iiiugaiiu. A Furls letter, from a reliable source, says it i v ’ not probable that Preston will lm received us Spanish Minister, hut if he should he, the ffrst in tituaiion lie malic* for the pawhumu of Cul>a will be deemed sufficient ground for giving him his passports. Our (IcfYernmont, however, has no Spanish official ud vices relating to Ihe nuhjeet. Well informed eireUs say the reinshitement of Mirntnon by Zulonga to the Presidency of Me.x i> o. was made ill the instance of France and ICn g HU lit. I'tfotiTAxi iF Tin j:. A M'ashiiigton rorreta poudeut of the Times (though we know uot >n what HUtiiority) writes “ The Hou. IVm M Churchwell. of Tennessee, ‘vent to .Mexico some weeks ago as a secret agent ot flu United State* Hovernment, to make exam •nation aud report a- to the true condition of par ties there, the ability of either to sustain itsell, and the propriety of recognizing the Junivz tlov eminent of'that Republic. It was .supposed that hi* report would have been received, in part at least, hy the Tennessee mi in i last trip, but it did not come to hand in far as 1 can learn. There is little doubt tluit it will arrive by the next mail, and he followed immediately by the recognition of the Constitutional or Liberal tJoveniim ut. That done, a treaty, flic point* of which are already ful ly. tho’ informally agreed upon, will he concluded forthwith hare at Washington, in time fertile ac tion of the Cut tied Htivtcs Kenaie. before hs ad juui mucut. .Such, ut least, is the programme ut pr%cut, and it will be curried out unless soma event occur* vvfflcb ofuiqot he anticipated at this time.” Tile New fountlr*. The Miliedgevillu Recorder, iu s)ieuking of Hull's new nilt)) of Goorgia, lias the following •cry just eomment; upon the folly ofthe Lcgisln lure in uselessly establishing so many new coun ties. \Ye have looii struck with the size and shape of many of the new counties that have been uimle in the last few years by the Legislature, as-shoWu b.y Mr. Butts’ Map. rtf’ nil Im iglnanle angles, land tri-angles) sha(ies. sizes and forms for eoiin ti*s, Georgia will l>u haul to boot. Rome, to our eye, are not much larger tlmn a ilceont potato'- paleli, aud others ure so tortured into a shape, that it would make one cross-eyed to look nt them long. Now, we have no objections to new eoun lies, when there is an absolute necessity for it, and when said counties can pay move into the State Treasury than thev lake out for their members to the legislature ami for school purposes; Home of the counties in the btatc are an outrage upon all sense ol justice, as the lux books show that they are a burden ptllier than a blessing. And then the Idea of one hundred anti thirty tun Senators f Thinking men of Georgia ponder upon that fact. No wonder we Imve such legislation. Aud think of tiie puce we pay for it! Folly •lays at six dollars a day for 122 Senators amounts to the small sum of $21,(180, independent of .clerks, mes sengers and door keeper, which amounts from five to ten thousand dollars more! Wo could not help being led Lot bone reflections by looking t some of tiie smull counties created for selfish pur | poses by some few aspiring and would be logisla I tors. Mutt) A.nnii: It. Bl.oi niv An examining coin j Uiittee. says the Suvnuunh A’eic*. composed of TV. , L!';;;;:r SxiV rn. ttpAnwwtJiMtw l - S* I Southern Literary M> singer, have just awarded ! the first prize, u bllMl gold no dal, to Jennie ll'<.<-#/ | bine, alius Miss Annie R. Blount, of Augusta, Ga., Ibr the bust prize story, to be published in a South 1 eru paper. We are rejoiced at this resiflt. We I know Miss Blount well, and her success a-- a wri j ter, hot li of prose and verse, is just what her dc | cMciil taieot induced us to expect. She. is quit© j young - probably tho youngest writer of any wp utatioii iu the country. North or Houtli- and with proper study and oars, slm has much to expect ill tho future. Mate of Trade It is expected Mint in India goods, spinners will accept easier rates. j l/aeri Maeket. --Oilcans Tres Ordinaire quo i Led ut 98 francs, at the opening of the week, but | the market closed with a declining tendency. The sales of flic week wore lo,<*flo bales. Kansas News. Lkavk.kWOßTH, Kansas, Ech. 14. The legis bit lire of Kansas adjourned n Friday hint. Thgy pa*cdu general atmiesty bill, granting full pu don and iinmtiuity from proN*cutu#ti on neeonlit ofthe recent disturbaoces iu th^T*rriU*ry. True Bill agnlii'l SUHpert’ ilSlaver* Savannah, Feb. if. Tbe grand jury to-day found true bill* against ,Schwas und M.-ii-um, eon signers, and (.’assineras, t'aptain, for titling up the bark Angelita for the slave trade. Signing orthe Oregon Rill Waoiu.vutok, Fell. 14.—Tho President to day affixed his signature to the bill admitting Oregon as a State. Messrs. Lane and Smith, the new Senators from Oregon wore sworn in and took their scats in the Semite to-day, A discussion on the Inr iff'hill ami on the Indiana contested election ease occupied the time oftlie Senate until the hour of adjourn ment. Iu llm House postal affairs were discussed. Tho House refused to entertain the bill extending the Treasury note law. Know Havana. -Havana advices to the 30th ti 11,,, Imve been received. The growth of the cane is ii Inigo one, the quality excellent; but the work of getting it in is more than usually behind band. And this principally because of tho remarkably heavy rains which at a very Into season have fal len throughout the tropics, making the roads bad and Impeding tha grinding. At Havana the ar rivals bad boon so small, or the transactions there in so tew. as scarcely to give character to the market. The same is snid of Matnnxo*. where there was an unusually large nutnler of buyers on the ground. The rains, however, had been heaviest in tho eastern part f the Island, where, especially nti the largo plantations near Cardonas, the work was most behind. In Bloom. —Wo were shown, yesterday after noon, n sprig taken from a perch tree from the orchard of Mr. H. Winter, near the Arsenal, which was so swollen in the bud as to develop® its bloom. Wc may safely .v that poach trees in Columbia arc in bloom, and we regret it very much, for It is likely that the fruit may be lost to us this season. —Cotombin bulletin. Fnou Ct ha.- -By tho arrival of tho Black War rior at Nc* Orleans, we have advices from Ha vann to the Hd inst. The political new- princi pally concerns lU great question of tlm day, the purchase of the Island, the di-ciissiou of which was vigorously renewed on the dOtli. The oecn sion was the receipt of tho debate in the Hpauisb Chambers, on tho 4th, and the Went report of the CommUtuo of Foreign K elation* iu tho hot water and cold, almost at the same moment. The first is published iu full, to the great gratifi cation of our Island neighbors; the latter only in a brief analysis and accompanied with ridicule of its positions and argument. The old charges of lawlessness and territorial rapacity are also again renewed with considerable bitterness against u, and the assurance reiterated that the Island can never be alienated from the Spanish domln ions, moreover, that any further procedure iu the matter of its proposed purchase, can only bo con sidered a# a national insult. About three weeks since a cargo of Africans was landed on tho island, to the westward of Ha vana. Tho government officials succeeded iu cap turing soma of them, as also the crew of the vos sol. which was made up of Spaniards, Portuguese and I^isb. rOMMKI'S, TmimUAt. I Kimum twit. -* Karl tx, ••IlMim t.rouiul “ We copy, this uioming Iroin the New York banning /*o*f, an article under the caption of •• handwriting on the wall,” in which or* embodied statements and retiootioiiM which seem not to harmoniao so perfectly with the “rising ground” theory of Senator Hammond, ft is not at all re markable that. iu the matter of numerical strength the Northern should bo far superior to the Southern portion ofthe Confederacy. Causes, to which it | is needless to refer, which have been in ex is tense -inee the formation ofthe government, have ne cessitated that rum it. Nor do we attach any iin portiuico to the fiiet, separately considered. There i* no good reason why tWo geographical divisions of a people may not live in amity with each other, iiatwithstaiiding the great disparity in the number of their rc*|*octivo populations. A contrary ad mission, indeed, would effectually undermine the theory ofthe perpetuity of democratic institutions. Hut the fuel wears a high und commanding sig nificance when considered in connection with the rapid and overwhelming spread of anti slavery t-.o.iiirm,,. Uiiuughuut the stronger section. He must Ik* wilnilly’ ana criQitnnuy Tinrfu who uoes not ace that within the iiexcdoeude, at farthest, the goverpnient will be under the absolute control ot the eneuzio of the South. What ettyet this re sult would have upon the institution of slavery is ot course, a matter of speculation. With the Senator from South Carolina, and those who agree with him, the contemplation begets a delightful mental condition of philosophical composure. Slave labor is necessary, say they, for the produc tion of cotton, and as this is a prime necessity to the manufacturing aud commercial world, the great interests of tiu-North will protect the institution from interference within Stute limits. To give the sembiuuce of assurance, however, to this rtm •diinioii, it is necessary first to eon vino* the North of the asserted iudispensubiiity of slave labor ( tail which they deny) and, Uieu, to adduce n sin gle instance from the records of fanatieistn, which •-an give the faintest color of truth to the potu late, that the interest of its subjects was ever a harrier to the execution of their fiendish purposes. While the uueontradiuted testimony of history peal* a vvithering condemnation of this mischiev ous dogma, the South may reflect, perhaps with profit upou those half mystic, half legible charac ter* which the hand of destiny is writing upon the wull ofthe future. The i'aruguii) Kxpctlltloii. Private letters by the lute arrival from the La IMata, state that the naval expedition of the United States against Paraguay, would he sta tioned in the Roads of Buenos Ayres, and that the plenipotentiary would first proceed in a single vessel to Asuncion, to try the effect ot diploiniiev upon President Lopez. The ruuior of nn iiflV anee between lluauo* Ayres and the United States against Paraguay, gained ground evyry day. The idea of such an uiiiance was strongly reprobated by the press of Montevideo and Brazil, which threatened a counter league. The official journal < f Paraguay continues to be quite indignnnt at the demands of the United States, and threatens to fight to the lust. Hov. A. H. Stephens.- Wc regret to see it announced that Mr. Stephens positively declines it re-election to Congress, of which lie has been a member for tbedast fonrtceen or fifteen years.— While we have often had occasion to dissent from hi* views, we have been long satisfied that iu • ...Mr ~t nhilitv he is the very first mini in the such a man, from a body in wlneti ttrsi raie mi en fa We sorely needed, is little short of a public calamity. Eu/anla Spirit us tki Smith. Laggard Leg Ist at lon. Tho Si ate Legislature has been in session near ly sis weeks, but as y©thas accomplished nothing of auy liiotiieut. I‘hila. Ledger. T his i* tiie invariable eouiplaiut agauist every legislative body now in an**io|i, from Uongress down. Wasted time, neglected duties, verbose speeches, and ill-earned dollars, uro char gas which our careless legbhUors are compelled to lace by their indignant conx'iluuut*; and they M-ciii to do il bravely, without bmug pressed by the point ofthe bayonet. Petty subjects, of no eonsequeuee tb the people, personal quarrels, ah iruse questions aud exploded theories, constitute the staple of their btitfipu**, and when at leugtb the light ol their wisdom is extinguished hy linih lution, it leaves the country in darkues*, and they, like the charred wicks, are smothered iu their own oil.—A't-ir York’ Journal oj Coin merer. The Wur ijurstioii li lifrmM) The German press, leaving the Austrian jonr uale out of the guosliun, aru mainly in favor of prace, but they do not wish to mow Austria abac doiioti. Many Prussian jouruuls wish their Gov ernment. to support Austria it’ she is attacked.—- Tim libiuw, they say, must bn dufeuded ou tbo I’li ami llm Miuoio. Tin U a watte of North Germany nay* tiial Gor jany must not allow Austrian intiuuucu to besu perocdeJ by that of France. The Swubiiyu Mercury on treat Germany to look upon every attack ou Austria as upon herself, and not to wail till I In* country is compelled, be fore taking up arms. /,. .Vo til says that Prussia and Germany will remain merely spectators so long as Austria shall have only Ibe italians against her, and by that neutrality expect to force Franco to remain neu tral also, and ibe more so tbut Kngland will adopt a similar policy. As to Russia, she will take part neither for nor against Austria. Tiib Cuabxctrm or Ahi/oxa. In a recent number of the Washington I'nion. there appears some letters iu refereucu to the population and soil of this inchoate territory, entitled to notice. Mr. (Hero, the Congressional delegate from New Muxi eo, say a that, wbeu be euiiVHssed the Mcsilla val ley. two years ago.it aonlaiued from lift ecu hun dred t4# seven teen hundred voters, and n boot eight thousand inhabitants, while the resbwf Arizona contained two thousand residents, Gen. I.ane, of Oregon, says that he has traversed the region, and found the climate mild, grazing good, ami many rich, beautiful, fertile valleys, capable of producing corn, wheal, rye, outs, and vegetables sufficient to Subsist a targe population. Testimo ny to pretty much the same effbet is given by John Nugent and Col. John C Hays. Respect < ing the companies formed to work the copper, silver and gold mines, the Washington naytf: i .... “Ohio has rent oOt three or four streng, well armed, mid completely organised mining associa tions, und roricpotiding companies ary forming in Texas ami Now York. Os all these associations, the one of which Ooti, llcuningscn i.<t tho actuary, is probably on the most extensive scale. Those who Imve no capital beyond good health mid habits, put in their laborugainst the capital which -applies the uiuchinery, arms, and transportation, and thus labor shares with money, the lands and mines which thay develop. This company alrea dy owns laud enough te give every emigrant and shareholder a homestead, uud to find miuiug and mechanical employnieiit for every species of in dustry. It will he an organized community from the start, and with such a leader as Ben. Hen ningsen, ought to make its mark ou the rising for tunes of Arizona- Montt.K A*n Onto Railroah. —Tho subscrip tions recently asked in Mobile, for currying this enterprise through, already upproaoh the hand sotno sum of 9250,000, So says tha Tribune, Tm: Amrrii axs at RrßAtTai*iT..--Mr. J. K. Ho wen, the contractor for raising the sunken vessels in the harbor of Bluudopol, writes iui in (cresting letter concerning his oporidiou*. We quoto : Uur machinery was not eomidep-d until June. , • “W ••J °f June the first v essel was rais ed to tiie surface of the water tho schooner of war Nuellu.uf sixteen guns. Since that Lime 1 have raized the steamer Turk, war steamer tiro /ui.i, ir>|| sfentuor Danube, eighteen guns: brig Eneas, vateh PurLlcnnr* and cutter Strelln. - Tbc*e Vessels arc in exeellfnt condition, and eoiiifia rativelv sound. I sold the .-tea urar Turk I to the Imperial government for fllt.imu sdver rou Ides, and She will lie rUMiing iiguiii iu the course ot lour mouths. I have also sold the steamer Grozimi for 23,000 silver roubles, at public auc tion. In addition to the above, f have removed tiie 120 gm . ship t aiherine, the Imo of battle ship httgouyil, the m gun slap Paris; another 84 gun ship, the Chesiiiu, used formerly as a prison ship ; the trigate Kavarna, also a frigate which was for merly used tor u prison ship; the transport Here /.an, und the Iff gnu schooner Lashtooha. and over one.hulf of lira 1 20 gun ship Constantine. I have recently had important eomaawion* granted hy the government, having just com pleted the contract, by which they give all ihc ot last June; therefore, ull die vessels aud prqi erty recovered siuee that date belong to the cm |an\. “''joe Uow busily engaged ill v.'irion braucheH ot the work, We have sixty carpenter* on Iwo immense caisson . under the s u peri n ten deuce o| an old Hotoniii t'-.ipt. Samuel F. Holbrook. They will be completed early in the spring, when we shall raise so in o of th>’’largest ships, which are estimated to be worth L'tMi.uuw silver roubles each; aud i.f the raising of them there is no poMible qto- lion. (toDKI'tH-dOMI. Wahhinoton, Feb. |.. -Intbc Senate, to day ihe purchase ol t'uba wivs debated. Mr. t'riUen den tavoreil its ivequisiton. but Ihoiigiit the pres ent time uupropitious. iu the House, the Indian appropriation bill oomoderation. The Prwsitient, in a eommuiueatinn ll„ uw , says dmt the goy. emnreut olHeials at Hiivauiiah have been strictly wnjoiued to pt.>Hette the slaver trial* going on at that port. .Special counsel has been employed, and the .officers are inst moled to find the Wander er's negroes, identify the parties connected with her, and amvrlaiu any other Am-Is onuneeted with tue affair, and to assist in executing justice upon the otiunders. Atltllii.iual by the tmcrica. Nkvv The annexe*! are additional point* of foreign news from llalilax • I'lmra Treiicii - hip* of the-line have been or dered to proceed iinuiodiately to the Mcditer uuenn. A Congress of Foreign Power* are to assein ble hi London to deliberate nn the Italian ques tion. The London Timm say* that Austria will never con*ent to a settlement ofthe Italian question hy an European Congress*. Sixty war transport* have been ordered to he ill rendine-s at Toulon on the Ist of March. The French demand for cavalry is very ur* g e “ l - From the Southern Citizen. “lid Negroes. By this term, we mean, not the liordes in Af rica; they iu fact are not altogether wild, being oil slaves and slave-owners, without any excep tion. We mean those unfortunates in the United State* who are called “Free Negroes.” What is to tie done with them ‘f The LegislatureofAr negroes from tUi) Mate, wuieirnn* wune a select committee, consisting of some of the ablest men in that body, Imtli of whom liavereeoimtraad ud its passage. Hituilar bills have been pro|MH-d and considered iu other States; and it is evident that something must be done. Those wild crea tares are nttb'iineo, an anomaly, and indeed u distracting and deuiorolixin g dement in slave holding eoiiummitics. Now why should they not go North ? (hir Norltrarij, lireflrou love. them, invito them, and are ready to eiubraco them in the arms of univer sal philanthropy. Olrio wuuts abont a hundred thousand of them to add to her present stock : IVnnsylvairin woo* them to her fertile fields and limy towns. New York modestly urges her pre tension*, MS II StHfe deserving of their notice and patronage. M.issaefitisetf* will be jealous if the due proportion of them do not find their way to her. If she cannot get negroes honestly, she will steal them. In this condition of things, the very best course is, that each State enact a law to sell for slav es ajl masteries* negroes found within her EortUjrs on a certain day to be named ; appropriating at the same time u fund for the travelling expenses of sueli us choose to go nvvay, us far nrathe Ohio riv er and the Northern border of Maryland. It is to he apprehended, indeed, that ogr Northern brethren might not gain so large-nn accession ot useful und enterprHihig citizens h_v this nn asui. a* they would doubtless expect aud wish ; (of nio*f of the “free” fellows add forthwith attach’ tlieiiiMlve* to masters in their own State . and would bo found at their proper work on the up pointed day. But if the North do not gain, Ibo South will. Virginia alone will add to tbewaunh of the State at least Twenty millions of dollar* by the reclaiming of her wild negroes. This would be a bettor fund tliuu half a doZ< n Oyster Fiindu ms. There is no such thing as a Free Nmrro. While negroes have been ind wi*h: namely the Albi noes; but free negroes never. Negroes are born slaves: and their rights of nr'ii mean, aright to a good master. Their life, liberty aud pursuit of happiness, require notfiing hut u good master. They who deny negroes that inalienable right, who emancipate and turn them wild, ajijiress the negroes. Those who tame them agnin and set them U> their proper tusks, an* the true einanei pa tors : and this work of necessity and aerify wc take the liberty of commcudtiig to aft Southern legislators. Htilf, in deference to the Spirit of the Age, (God Ms* it!) and in compliment to our Northern brethren, if would be well to provide for u large migration of the masterless negroes right “into their midst,” ns they cull it. Several collateral advantage* would result from thin iiieaaurc, which your naturally ucutu muni, reader, will oot tail to comprehend. Death ol Dr. C J. Paine. Dr. Charles ,1. I'uiuu, un old and respected citi /.en of Millcdgeville, died on Friday morning Inst very suddenly, of u disease of the heart. He re tired on Thurshay evening about as well ms usual and died very suddenly, and apparently without pain, a few hours before day un Friday morning. Dr. Paine hud suffered a good deui, for some years, from un ufl'cclion oftlie heart : and tho’ iu feeble health, there wuh u apprehension fait by liUfriends of so sudden and immediate u termina tion of his life. He wii a quiet, grenl citizen, and leaves numerous relatives, and a large circle of friends and acquaintances, here uud tdsewhere, to mourn his sudden demise. Dr. Paine was a native of Yirgiuia, hut had been a resident of Millcdgeville for a great muuy years. He was aged about fill year.-. Fi tirrul I ‘uiuu. LoriMAVA on thk Si.Avr Tiiai>k.—The Pil lowing bill, relative to the purchase of slaves by the people of Louisiana, has been introduced into the legislature of that Htutu, and referred to the Committee on Federal Relations: Whereas, The Federal Hovornmeiit, has no power to prohibit the buying of negro slaves by the citizens of this .State; and whereas, the right of the people of Louisiana to purchase slave pro perty in any market, whether douiestie or for eign. where negroes are sold, lias never lwen alien ated from her sovereignty, or granted to the con trol of the Federal Boverment: Therefore be it enacted, £e. That any citizen or aisocialioi of tfitiaoM of this State be mid they are hereby authorized to purchase negro slaves from Cuba, Brazil and Afrieu, and to bring the said slaves*o purchased into this . w ’tate, and ta hold lire same in full right and title, for their pro per use, benefit und behoof: provided, said slaves, so purchased and imported into this State, shall be subject to the sum# regulations and tariff du ties as other species of foreign property or Im ports. PEYTON H. COiaUITT, < PIH . , JAMES W. WARDEN, \ Number 8 Rkwaiih- Toomb* —Ci.’iii.—We regret that our want or space prevent* A** from puhiishii g “ re l of Mr. Seward and Mr. Tnomba side hy side. The one is the speech of a partizan -the other <d nj'aln.d thg one is the effort of „ political M / (/actor the other ot* S.atesinun; the first is he work ot a man fighting for spoil* ,he other that ..f a Hmnttor laboring fhrfho good ofthe Ho pabhe. The first appeals to the tears, to the cw anhee aud. the pocket nerve, of the people, theoth er invokes their chivalry, their manhood and their generosity. The one smells of (he lamp, the oth er is fresh from the rich mine of impulsive gen ius. The Senator from New York is verbose, pedan tic, subservient ami insincere, ‘fhe Senator from t.eorgin is fervid, terse, logical, independent and U (.dissembling. Hhnunriek Hr raid. a* * i - Timely and Judiefou* Pardon We Intended at the time, says the Montgomery < “tifoderution, to uotiee the purdun grunted by tlov. Moore, to the four sloven of Mr. Harrison, ot Lowndes, indicted for an assault with intent !” ki !>- hutiid guilty hy the jury. The pardon itself, ns well as the prompt nianner in which it was bestowed, was in strict accordance with hu manity and mercy, and at tho same time with a Bound and discreet policy, which should govern in “’'Y.lkbAsMVithvhWp.'y^jKW'-lMVlirttar ui me -laves in qm-dii.t>, was engaged in * severe per soiui.l eon filet rightly or wrongly we. shall not stop to enquire with (wo or three others, when lie called upon these negroes, und ordered them to -trike iu hb defence. They dlteyerf AT* orders, and in doing to commit ted e, very severe battery. I’l.e point to which we desire, todraw attention i* this: tluit il would be extremely impolitic. *o say Hie least of it, to allow the slave to judge for him - -It whether an order from liis master was a legal “lie or iUit, Let thu slave understand that he in lo obey his master iw las greatest benefactor, ft ‘cn.l and protector, and if auy evil is to result let it be V isited ui>*.ii the master, aud not ihe slave, “e think it would have been a dangerous prece dent to have established the reverse In this cane, j and are glad that the Governor did not keep tho uug-rqe* long iu suspense about, it. As to tho merits of the conflict between the other parties, we know nothing. Whoever is in Die wrong lei them bo punished; bul let the slave ever bo aide to shield himself behind the order of his master. A Haiti Writing on the Wall. It may he profitable for fife candidates for the I‘residency, to direct their attention for a moment ton few statistical calculations. Our government, they arc aware, is u representative government, iu which the numerical majority has the substan tial control of the pittmirage and power. But tiiat nuiM.-ricHl majority is not, as it might be in -••me ol the other nations, stationary as to (dace. It is constantly shilling its centre of preponder ance, a> the population of the country grows or concentrate* more rapidly in one plkce than in not her: and consequently the representation in Congress is just as constantly changing its as pec Is. Iu the lirsl Cong res. of 178", for instance the Southern Slates had ”( out of (15 members, or within five ns many members us all the New Eng land and ail tb© Middle States together; and in tli- Congress ••( I Stiff they were but eleven short “f au equality with all the other ritutes—the di vfsion being 71) for the North uud 59 lor the South. At the first of these epochs there was no Western State to sh( represented ; at the set-end there were only two Western States, Tennessee and Kentucky, entitled to meml>ers : but twenty years later, in 1828. there were eight Western States iu the Union with a representation of 44 men*hers. The division then stood—for the North I'• I. und for the South W : showing an iiuiaase for the North “f 44 votes. Again, After the*ta- I. ing of the Ins: census, or in 1853, the repreficu- Citive division was as follows; New England 29 . Middle Staten <‘>ff : Southern States 61, und Wes tern States 81—or, us between the free aud slave holding States, 144 to 96. The mujority of the free States has grown to 54 members. Hut allow ing tiiat Lie same relative increase Iras beeu iuaiu t.iined in ilia different parts of the country since I*.id. and that tho same u(q><>rliouiueut ratio will testa* Yi.'.'teiSrr.’iffls {traupsr, JM& 7ft fr<oii fin* South : or, in other words, the trr-e , Suites will posse** more than double the number * ••f representatives from tiie slave Slates. Not rip-.v agreeable exhibit this, we should think, for a Lecompton r Southern Democrat to contemplate! Ten years ago there was but one trccxoil member of the Senato; live years ago rlu-rc were live; and now there arc twenty-eight; while there are only seven Northern Senators ” Democratic,” of whom two at least ant a slender • onsohitioii (•• the South, (.'onfhloriffg these facts, wc are not surprised that the Democrats have for some lime past refused to follow Mark Tploy’s fidviiH- to la) “j"U> or, that they manifest such an eagerness to bring Cuba, Central America, Mexico and everything else into the Union, which may po -ildv extend the area, and thereby en large the representation of slavery.—A’. AWu iey Font. Cotton Rbckikts at Mkmpiiih. —The Mem phis Avalanche gives the following flattering account of the cotton receipts at that port.— So much for the railroads striking out in every direction : From the most reliable snare** rtf information, we learn that the aggregate receipts ot cotton ut this port, during the present season, numbers 257.1)1") bales up to the present time. At the eor n-spmiding period last year (he number of bales received was 80,000. The increase in (he amount of ive■eipts ‘is dowbkiess beyoud the expectation wien oftiiosuwho have been most sanuguiue as U> lire eoiuuierciai*prosperity of Memphis. Klavekv in Akiiica. —A new influence is already under operalion—to erystalize und make lienuaiiout chat tel slavery in the rapidly eiviliz ing nations of Yorpba, Ntiffer, and others. We mean the introduction of cotton culture, with all the improvements by which its cultivation in America has been mink aoprofitable. Tire chiefs and rich natives of Yvruhn and Adaumwn.arc now about to learn that their of which singhi persons sometime* hold tho.isands ran he made profitable to Cottou and sugar mil lure. Human nature laiug alike, we must expo’l t lie same effects in result iu Africa as have already resulted iu the United Blatee. As tho slave be come* in<>r profitable, be will be grasped with greater tenacity. ('UltlOl'S CoIHMTIKNCK, IK NOTHIN*) MoRK.— Among the providential escapes from the North Carolina, recently destroyed by fire, was that of Dr. McCabe, of the Ascension Church, Baltimore, who had made all his arrangeiueuts to return home in the ill-fated vessel, hut by an accident only, took the Ueorgfa: “Thu revered gentleman, on Saturday night, offered up iu church a prayer of thanksgiving for the escape, uud tohl the congregation that while asleep in the snlUon of the he alarmed bis fellow passengers by crying loudly in Iris sleep, “fire. fire, fire.” which caused considerable ex citement. for a while, hut being nothing but a dream, the fears of the passengers were soon quieted. • 11, H. Irisnticr Cm MT.— But little was done in this Court yesterday. The Wanderer's ease was brought forward and submitted tethe Brand Jury, but they had not concluded the investiga tion up to the hour of adjournment. The Brand Jury found aoothwv true bill against Samuel M. Burnett for sending false writings to the Pension Office. The (rial of Koiibeu K. Ransom, fora similar offence was commauced and will be concluded to-day. .Vuiqiiu<</< /frpuk/oow, Saturday. you marry,” said a Roman consul to Iris son, “let it be a woman who has judgment and industry enough to get a meat of victuals ; tantc enough to dress neatly; pride enough to wash before breakfast; and sense enough to bold her tongue. IPir-The Mayor of Cincinnati has had a census of the drinking saloons taken, showing a total of sixteen hundred and eighty eight. It is a mar vel that poverty aud crime there abound? JT-rWe mderstand that the commission to eodifv the Laws, upon a conference, deemed it essential to the perftirmauca of tUpir duty that a Secretary or Clerk should be allowed them, and the Bovornor concurring iu the suggestion, has appointed, subject to tho ratification of the Gen eral Assembly. Col. B. B. Deßroileiireid, us this oUy.-~#W/u4 Uu!<>n,