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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN:
THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN
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on.
()tae 'of the most distinguishing charac-
of the presept age is the rapid dis
appearance of boys and girls. History qs-
us that m farmer times there were
regular gradations of humanity, and that
it required at least twenty-ana years to de-
velope the child into the map. We are un
able to account for the phenomenon, but
the tact is evident that the race ofso-call-
ed children is rapidly disappearing. The
happy jgnorance and sweet simplicity of
childhood is now altogether confined to the
nursery. This is more particularly the case
m the city. In the country, yon will still
meet an occasional child who is worthy of
the title. Butin the city, where inhabi
tants are numbered by thousands boys and
girls are n Q longer to be found. The voune
gentleman of ten years of age is now as a-
cute and knowing in matters of trade, as
ivas his father at twenty. Arrived at fif
teen. ‘the city gent’ sports a cane, smokes
cigars, patronizes the theatre, and flirts reg
ularly with ‘young ladies’ of twelve and
thirteen, who are just ‘coming out.’ At
thw age too, h e begins to talk politics and
adds to his conversation the charms of the
most emphatic profanity. He becomes ex
ceedingly sensitive upon the point of his
personal honor, cultivates champagne and
cards, attends political meetings in compa
ny with a huge walking-stick, with which
tie is accustomed to call out the popular
speakers and is vociferous in his approba
tion of what he considers a good hit; The
'“immense applause” with which the news-
paper reports of public speeches are garn
ished, is generally produced by the heavy
canes and shrill throats of the “young sov
ereigns’’of the country, They rarely fail
to be present on all pleasure excursions on
nver or on land, and when viands or wines
are to be demolished are the first in the
charge and the last in the retreat. It is
decidedly pleasant to stand hy and witness
them dringing to the prosperity of the Na
tion and the health of the President,
while their seniors are kept in the back
ground, ohewing “the cud" of sweet and
bitter fancies, and looking npon the festive
scene rather like mourners at a funeral than
attendants upon a banquet,
The age we live in has been called the
Age of Progress, and we would not be sur
prised if conaventions was called at an ear
ly day to deliberate upon the practicability
of extending to young gentlemen of fifteen
the right of suffrage, and eligibility to all
offices, not even excepting the Governorship
and the Presidency. There will he but one
step further to be taken, and that will be to
exclude all men over thirty, from the elec
toral franchise and from eligibility to polit
ical station. We cannot just now perceive
any necessity fora law to place fathers and
mothers under the control and direction of
their children. It is obvious that general
custom has already established that state of
things.
. Nevertheless, we cannot but sigh for the
times when boys were boys; when they
did not sport large canes and smoke larger
cigars : when tho light of innocence beam-
ed from theireyes, and docility and a trac
table spirit marked their behavior. That is
a pleasant pictur,e which historv gives us
of feeling and manners, when children rose
up at the entrance of the aged, surrendered
their seats and refused to occupy them
til their seniors were
TUESDAY MARCH 30, 1852,
The Union party of this county,
meet at this place, cn Tuesday next,
BSP Our friends in Wilkinson county
are notified that Mr, F. W. Johnson will be
at Irwinton, durit g Court week, and will
receive and receipt for all amounts due this
office.
We are thankful to our numerous patrons
in Wilkinson for past favors and the pane
tual payment of their bills, which we hope
to merit in a continued intercoprse,
Superior Court.—This body adjourned
yesterday afternoon, having disposed of
most of the business of the term, Unless
litigation improves considerably it will not
require more than one week to dispose of
the business hereafter,
The criminal docket, we are sorry to no
tice, is beginingto be thoroughly crowded
The Grand Jury of September made a
sweeping presentment of all offenders upon
whom they could lav their hands, the Jurv
of the late term has not been far behind
them ; and now the criminal docket is about
the heaviest belonging to the Court-^we
are glad, however, that there are no capital
offences among them.
Temperance Lecture.—Dr. Cooper of
Hancock, lectured at this place on Sunday
night, on the subject of Temperance.-, We
had not the pleasure of hearing much of
the lecture, hut are informed by those who
did, that the Doctor fully sustained his re
putation, and clearly demonstrated that in
temperance was the greatest curse “under
the cerulean vaulted Star Spangled sunlit
heavens”—that by its enticements and al
lurements, the will of the stoutest was soon
captured, subjugated and enslaved, &c.
The Doctor had a fine opportunity the
past week, of gathering material for a dis
course of that sort. The “awful examples”
were numerous, but-we are inclined to be
lieve, from the portion of the lecture that
we heard, that he needs no such external
aid, in debating the subject, His mind’is
well stored with its truths and statistics
and he has a faculty of speech and an abund
anee of words which but lew men of bis
age possess.
un-
WI ■ - accommodated.
Wiieresuch a practice prevailed, we may
well imagine the existence of other agreea-
b e. customs similar to it; for the virtues,
like the stars, loye to be found in constella
tions. The youth of that age possessed
the greatest guide to good and the best
shield from evil—an amiable docility.
They respectedjage as well as respected
themselves What a world of vice anc anx
iety would be prevented at the present
day, if youth possessed more reverence for
station ana age, and could be persuaded to
believe that their elders were capable of
giving them instruction. No progress can
be expected from one who imagines that
he has already gone through the whole
round of learning, and that there remain
no more acquisitions to be made. Such!a
case is not more encouraging than it would
be to attempt to teach Georgrapby to a
native of China-a bigoted, narrow-mind
ed mandarin, who firmly believes that his
own country comprehends the universe.
, We would not be understood as argu
ing against a proper self-respect. That is
certainly ^most commendable. But there
® v be such a thing, particularly among
youths, as too much self-respect. There is
a want among them, too often, of a rever
ence for parents, for age and station ; and
this unaraiable trait is constantly-becoming
more and more apparent. This feature in
the character of youth partakes even of in
gratitude, the most unatural of the com-
mou vices. It is not only a censurabl e,
but generally, a viry silly thing, for a child
to attect superiority over a parent. It may
so happjb that-the child may be better ed
ucated, but does it not owe the very educa
oon, upon which it prides itself, to the ef-
fi#rts and perhaps the.privations of its par
ents. It would certain ly be strange if they
T? 8 ** thankiul this superior amount
of intelligence rather than thankless and
ungrateful. The scientific attainments of
the child may be large, but the experi-
.ence of the parent can only be gained by a
life of trial and vicissitude. .The child may
knowledge, but wisdom is better than
knowledge. Knowledge cas be obtained
- fona iUooks, but wisdom only by experi-
iti fanes And ceremonies of politeness
may he dispensed with in a rneasur , in the
rdaxattgNgg au<I intimates of one's own
fireside, but kiud attentions never.
Unpublished Writings,-—We noticed
at this place the past week, Capt. John
Dickson, of Hancock, who proposes to give
to the public, a criticism upon some of the
acts of thfe late Legislature. We did not
have an opportunity of reading !the whole
production, but have understood that it
was well spoken of by those who examined
it. It will probably be published soon
when we shall have an opportunity of giv
ing a more enlarged ^notice of it. The
Captain is a prolific writer. It has only
been a few months since, that he produced
quite a lengthy essay upon government in
general and parties in particular.
Bank Defalcation.—A despatch from
New York to the Savannah News, states
that there were rumors in that city from
Boston, of a great defalcation in the Suf
folk Bank. The book-keeper had escaped to
Europe in the Asia. The Teller had been
arrested, and an investigation was in pro
gress. The book-keeper and Teller were the
suspected parties.
The Chloroform Case.—A Washing
ton letter in the Charleston Courier thus
states the case: “The Select Committee
of the House, to which was referred the pe
titions of Drs. Morton and Jackson, desir
ing compensation for the discovery and ap
plication of Chloroform, as a inedieal a-
gent, have come to the conclusion that Dr.
Morton is entitled to the merit of having
first applied the principle, A majority of
the committee have agreed to a bill grant
ing him a hundred thousand dollars, as a
public reward, and as a compensation for
the use of his discovery in the medical ser
vice of the Army and Navy. Dr. Chas. T
Jackson, it is admitted, was the first dis
coverer of the principle, and communicated
it to Dr. Morton, who successfully applied
5t * «
Land Warrants.— Congress having
passed the bill making land warrants under
the act of September* 1850, assignable, they
are now quoted in New York at $128 a
$135 t inactive and in limited demand. The
bill will reduee their price by bringing
them freely into market.
A Heavy Gale.
On Wednesday we were visited through
this section with as heavy a gale as we have
ever experienced, the wind rising between
0 and 10 o’clock in the morning and con
tinuing through the day. Wherever the
woods happened to be qn fire there has been
a considerable destruction of fencing, we
learn that the fire was in almost every di-'
reption, apd but few has escaped some loss
who find fire out on their premises, tfie
greatest sufferer we have heard of in this
county wps Mr. Armstrong, who fiad about
tweuty-five hundred panels of fence burned.
Id Wilkinson it is said to have been equally
if nqt more destructive. Mr. John Galla?
more of that county not only lost the en
tire fencing of his plantation but fijs
dwelling and other houses,
California and Slavery.—The fugL
tive Slave Law which has passed the Cali
fornia Assembly, provides that slaves
brought into the State prioi to the adop
tion of the State Convention shall be liable
to the provisions of the Congressional fu
gitive slave law,
[It enables owners in California to bring
back their slaves to the States where slave
ry exists. The bill passed by a large ma
jority, the debate on it indicating anyfching
else tfiun abolition*feeling.j
In the California Assembly, Feb. IQ,
Mr. Peachy presented a memorialjfrom a
number of farmers or planters of South
Carolina and Florida, asking the privilege
to bring tfieir families and colored domes
tics into this State, and that they may be
protected in {their 'property. The memo
rial was referred to.a Committee on Feder
al Relations,
A bill fins also been introduced^ into the
Legislature to cal Fa Convention to revise
the constitution, the object being to divide
the State and set apart tfie southern por
tion for a slave State,
AST The Washington corespondent of
tfie “Baltimore Sun,’* says that Clays letter
in the Express, has produced considerable
uneasiness in political cirfiles, and eclipses
for the time every thing else. It is looked
upon as the last will and political testament
of the great statesman and patriot Henry
Clay,
Mr. Cfiastain and tlie Union
Parly.
In another column- of this paper will be
seen a letter from Mr. Chastain to the.Edi-
tor of the Cassville Standard, urging > the
propriety of sending delegates from the Un
ion party to the Baltimore Convention
which he conceives is the only place for
them, as he has no doubt but that this con
vention will endorse the finality of the com
promise, and that the policy of the Union
party is, to go wherever their principles
lead them ; but in no event does he seem
to think that they are likely to lead them
into the Philadelphia Convention, and but
little probability of ever being led by them
into a National Union Convention. Upon
the whole we should take it, that the Col.
intends to get into the Baltimore Conven
tion, on the finality sensa tion if possible, but
by all pieans to get in, if principles will lead
there, well and good, but if they are not
likely to do it, walk in and they wifi follow
as a matter of course. Every Union Press
iq the State of the Democratic stamp, go it
strong for Baltimore, while every Union
Whig Press is bitterly opposed to it. The
Journal & Messenger complains of the up-
feiruess of the Athens Banner, in pushipg-
this matter on the party, while it says, not
a single Whig Press has ever ventured to
advance the claims of the Philadelphia
Convention. Like the fellow who was dis
cussing the water mellon subject in a de
bating society, the Journal considers it dod
derned oagenerus.
Letter from Mr. Chastain.
Difficulty in the Cabinet.—A tele
graphic despatch to ithe Savannah Republi
can, dated at Washington the 26th inst.,
says : “A difficulty occurred in the Cabi
net on Tuesday, between Mr. Hall and Mr
Corwin. The President decided in favor of
Hall and desires Corwin’s resignation.
We find the following letter from Mr.
Chastain in the Cassville Standard, to the
editor of which it was addressed
Washington, D. C., March 10.
MafJ. W.BurJce; Dear Sir;—I have
recently received numerous letters from* a-
rious friend? in Georgia in relation to my
views upon the prospects of tfie Union par
ty of our State; and though I do not sup
pose that any recommendations of mine
can have much influence, where there are
so icqny who are far more entitled to be
heard and followed; still, in respectfully
replying to these inquiries, I feel it to be
my duty to make a candid and explicit
statement of tfie couree, which I, as one of
its humble members, think the Union Par
ty of Georgia ought to pursue.
My past political position in the State has
been, as all my friends know, in the ranks
of the Democratic party. I have never
swerved in my devotion to its principles,
and my unwavering determination to do
all in my power for their ascendency. I
have ever believed that party to be sounder
upon the great issues which are ao pecu
liarly important to the tranquility' of the
States of the South, than the other party
in the country. I have not been igno
rant of the fact, however, that a small por
tion of the Nortbetn Democracy, has yield
ed to the fanaticism of the age, and depar
ted from the true doctrines of their party.
With them I have no fellowship, and for
them no toleration. Their ultra and anti-
constitutional views, are repudiated by the
Democratic party of the country; and there
fore standing ip so contemptible a minority
as that which they now occupy, we may
rest assured that they can never become re
spectable in our ranks. We have nothing
to fear from their hostility; of this, the coun
try will soon be convinced. It is estab
lished by the record that the compromise
measures were sustained by Northern Dem-
•ocratic votes, and I am prepared to say
that at the present session of Congress,
further action will be taken, which wlU in
dicate very clearly that the dssposition of
the Northern Democracy towards these
measures, is not only favorable, but highly
of Maine—The New j satisfactory.
Such being the condition 01 the Demo
cratic party, based upon the true republi
can principles, those which were maintain-
Depopulation
York Herald says, since-the passage'of the
liquor blue law down in Maine, we under
stand that the depopulation of that State ed by Madison, Jefferson and Jackson,
World’s Fair in New York.—A char
ter has been obtained from the New York
Legislature, incorporating accompany for
an exhibition of the industry of all nations.
The arrangements are said to be pushing
on towards completion.
The Clay Medal.—The donors of the
Gold medal to Henry Clay, have ordered
another to be struck off exactly equal and
similar to the one lost. They have declin
ed the gentlemanly offer of Mr. Butler, who
desired this to be done at his private
pense.
of the U. S
War De
the Red
that
is going on very rapidlv. Every energetic! rejoice that the Union party of Georgia is
business man is trying‘to get out of it and* resolved to co-operate with it in the Balti-
3 DAnnAntiAn r |’h of OAI1PCO TO t llA An I XT
go to California, or any where, where it is
lawful to take a we’drap.
New Army and Navy Uniform.—The
Washington Telegraph states that the ad
option of the new array uniform, will be en
forced on the fourth of July next, and that
the new Navy uniform which was adopted
on the 8th of this month, will be enforced
about the same time.
Maine Liquor Law.—About one hun
dred and twenty Clergymen of the City of
Philadelphia have signed a petition to the
Pennsylvania Legislature, asking for the
enaotment of the Maine Liquor Law in that
State.
Capt. R. B. Marcy,
Army has been ordered by the
partment with his company to
River, for the purpose of exploring
hitherto almost unknown region.
E. Welch Jr. Democrat, has been
declared legally elected Treasurer of the
State of New York instead of Cook, Whig,
who now holds the office.
Mr. Clay’s health is said to be
A number of Senators and Repre
sentatives are confined to their lodgings by
indisposition. Mr. Stephens returned home
the past week and reports'Mr. Toombs con
valescent.
ESP Kossuth and suit arrived at Vicks'
burg on the 22d inst., on their way to New
Orleans. Kossuth and Madame Kossuth
paid a visit to Gov. Foote, where they- were
to remain two days.
The Fugitive- Slave Law in'Wiscon-
sin.—Reports have been presented in both
branches of the Wisconsin legislature, in
structing the Congresmen from that State,
to vote fora repeal of the Fugitive Slave
Law.
Thirty years ago a Mr. James Am
ory purchased a tract of land situated be
tween the Sixty-third and Seventy- third
streets, New York,[containing about sixty-
three acres. For this tract he paid $4,400.
Within the past month this property has
been sold at auction, having Jjeen divided
into nearly 1,000 lots, and the “purchase
money amounts[to a trifle^ovei $800,000.
Thus the original investment has doubled
every sixty days for the past thirty years.
iCSF'The Hod. E. W. Chastain will
accept our thanks for a copy of his
speech on the position of the Union party
of Georgia.
jC3T Mr. Truex, druggist of Oswego, ad
vertises four cases of genuine “Sea Ser
pent Oil,” brought in by Capt Seaburv, of
the whale ship Monongahala ! Good for
coughs, colds, &c. and sold at the moder
ate price of $4 a bottle.
Whales.—The Charleston Courier of
the 24th ^nst. says: “A gentleman at
tached to the steamer Gordon, which arriv
ed yesterday from Savannah, informs us
that he saw several whales between Stono
Breakers and the Bar. They appeared to
be tame, and it is thought might be captu
red without much difficulty.
A Large Corn Field.-—The Hon. Hen
ry S. Ellsworth, the former Commissioner
of Patents, has the largest corn fields in the
world. He resides in Indiana and culti
vated there last year, 12000 acres of corn.
He ought to have corn for sale. #
The Marshall House in Savannah, itris
said has been’ leased to a gentleman from*
Augusta, and will be opened for visitors
earlA in Mav.
The Compromise.—The Hon. Jos. W.
Jackson of this State, asked leave to intro
duce the following resolution in the House
on the 22d. Some objections being made
Mr. J. moved to suspend the rules and pen
ding the motion the House adjourned.
Resolved, That we recogniz^the bind
ing efficacy of the compromise oLJhe Con
stitution, and we believe it to bape inten
tion ofjthe people gen rally, as whereby de
clare it to be ours individually, to abide
such compromises, and to sustain the laws
necessary to carry them out—the provis
ion for the delivery of fugitive slaves, and
the act of the last Congress for that purpose
included—and that we deprecate all furth
er agitation of the questions growing out
of that provision of questions embraced in
the acts of the last Congress known as the
Compromise, and of questions generally
connected with the institution of slavery, as
unnecessary, useless, and dangerous.
Coming from a Southern Rights Demo
crat, it is hailed as a gratifying evidence of
a determination on the part of the Democ
racy, to co-opemte in the coming campaign.
Public meeting.
At a meeting of the Democratic and
States Rights party ofScriven county, held
at Bums Mills on the 20th day of March,
on motion Alexander Kemp, Esq., was cho
sen Chairman, and Win. J. Maner, Esq.,
appointed Secretary.
On motion,
Resolved, that this meeting now appoint
Delegates to consist of four gentleman, to
assemble at the State convention to be held
in Milledgeville on the 31st inst.
Resolved, that Major Willis Young, Hon
George Oliver, E. B. Gross, Esq., and J. B.
Hayne, Esq., be and they are hereby ap
pointed said delegates.
Resolved, that 4 majority of said dele
gates are required to appoint substitutes, if
it should be necessary to do so.
* *•
On motion the meeting adjourned.
ALEXANDER KEMP, Chair.
W. J. Maner, Secretery.
A man with a red face, and lookinw
rather shabby, called at a house in the coun
try on Sunday, and asked fora drink of
cider. The good lady of the house refused,
telling him that she would not. He urged
telling her that she had better, for some had
entertained angels unawares. “Yes,’’said
she, ‘I know that, but angels don.t go about
drinking cider on Sundayi”
more Convention. That course is the only
really practical one which they can pursue
under existing circumstances. That con
vention will be c omposed of men of very
different opinions—men from the South ;
equally ultra aod dangerous in their views
whilst the larger and purer portion of the
Democracy will be there to construct such
a platform of true and sound principles on
which their action is to be based as will sat
isfy the mosL conservative men in the laud ?
With these men we must unite in their pa
triotic efforts, in order to make a triumph
ant vindication of our past history which is
the surest foundation for our future suc
cess.
By remaining aloof from the Democratic
councils we can gain nothing, and lose ev
erything. Such a course would only be
followed by sectional strife and disgraceful
defeat. It is therefore highly important
that we should be represented in the Balti
more Convention—first, because the past
action of the Democratic party offers the
greatest encouragement to our Uniou with
it. It will be remembered that in the for
mation of the Constitutional Uuiou party
of Georgia it was distinctly and authorita
tively announced that we should uuite with
any party that would carry out our princi
ples, and that if neither of the great parties
would do so, our only course was to form a
party that should sustain them.
Now I appeal to the Congressional re
cords to show the uniform action of the
Democratic party, on the great issues which
are so important to us, and I might also
say, that it has been conceded by some of
the ablest Whig leaders in Georgia that
the Democracy do offer the greatest induce
mentstoour union with them.
Another very strong reason in favor of
this policy is, that we can unite with our
friends from every State in the Union, in
engrafting tfie principles of the compro
raise upon the Democratic platform, and
in placing in nomination for the office of
Chief Magistrate, a candidate, in whom we
can have full confidence for his past course,
and present position. If success shall fol
low our efforts, we can feel a just pride that
having once saved the country from disso
lution and civil war we shall have bgqn in
strumental in burying all agitations in a
permanent oblivion, and restoring to our
beloved land the blessings of peace, union
and harmony.
The formation of a National Union
Party as has been suggested, I am convinc
ed is at the present time impossible and
Utopian. Outside of at most three South
ern States, this proposition would meet
with no eucouragement whatever. Other
States have passed through no such struor
gles as have been witnessed in ours. Whilst
we have thrown aside all party connexions,
and abandoned the ancient Whig and Dem
ocratic measures and divisions, all our sis
ter States, with but a few exceptions, have
been comparatively calm. They cannot
therefore, be expected to regard a National
Union party, in the same light in which it
is regarded by many distinguished men in
Georgia. They feel no crying necessity for
casting loose the shackles by which they
have been so long united to their different
parties, and all that they can be expected to
do, is to engraft the sound principles of the
compromise upon the platform of their own
party. Our Union party standing isolated
and separate from another organization,
would soon become purely sectional in its
character, its weakness would make it al
most contemptible in the public estimation
of other States.
not but be highly dangerbus to the exis
tence of.the Government. Tue first great
patriot of America with that matchless
foresight which almost reseinbled inspira
tion itself, left to his beloved country., .the
valuable legacy of his paternal advice—
never to organize a sectional or geograph
ical -party, as Ke.. regarded that as but the
prelimioary step to the dissolution and de
struction of our Government. TSt usToI-
low this wtse advice, and in.the same spirit
which another great statesman has invoked
let us contribute with all our hearts to pre
serve our “Liberty and Union—now and
forever—one inseparable.? If we were to
remain separate from any organization,
would we not be doing that which we have
so often condemned, in the secession
ists of onr own and two or three of
our sister States ? It is well known that
the great object of the Nashville Con ven
tion and the party which supported its
measures, was to create a sectional spirit—
a spirit hostile to the Union, and to de
mand alterations of the Constitution which
could never be obtained. How can’ we
then, propose to place ourselves in that po-
ttion which we have so violently denoun
ced in our opponent ? But I hope that no
such visionary course will be pursued, and
that all of us will unite with the Democra
cy of the country, if they shall nmUo the
sacred principles which we cherish, the fun
damental doctrines of their future party ac
tion . This is the great issue of the present
time; on it the approaching Presidential
campaign will be conducted, and upon its
recognitiou they will stand or fall, who re
ject or adopt it.
My views are before yon—though not
expressed in the dear and forcible manner
which 1 would have preferred. I am, how
ever, honest and sincere in believing tbo
Democratic party the only one With which,
we can or ought to unite, and as it is the
only one that I can hope to see occupying
the principles to which I have alluded At
least, let us stand by our principles and fe -
low them wherever they may carry us by
them we will triumph or perish.
When our State Convention shall assem
ble to adopt some course of policy*, 1 hope-
that a spirit othaannony and good feelings
may govern its. deliberations. Chur pany
as it now is, has nothing to fear sbroad, if
we can,prcserve among ourselves uuanmity
of sentiment and action.
I am. respectfully youxsw
ELIJAH VV. CHASTAIN.
By Telegraph for Savannah Republic a*-
New York market.
A ew- York, March 26.—Cottoik—1,800 bales,
s d to-day. Middling Upland. 8; Orleans 8 LA
Rice— iOO casks sold, at 3.25 to 3.75.
Charleston, March, 26—1. tttP. Jffi..
Received in Savannah, March 2&—6,10 P. M.
The Earopa ha.- arrived wiih LiverpooLdata®
to 13th inst. Cotton has declined, an. i-8d.„
mo.-jily on the lower grades and.niiddliiigqu&l.
i.ie : Fair Orleans.5 5-8; Middling 5 L-ti;paiir
Upland 5 14; Middling 4 7-8. Sales of the 56^
0 JO bales. SpcVtt .tors took 17,000—expor
ters, 4,000. Western Caaal Flour 21; Ohio*
22 shillings; Yellow Coen, 29s. 6 pence;
VV Lite, 32. Consols closed at 97 5-8.
Charleston, March 26—7.30 P. M.
Additional feu Eukopa—English News..
No steamer arrived at Liverpool Since the
Patijic. Hie Kaffir war has been finished
by the unconditional submission of tha
Kaffirs. Parliament re-assembled on the
12th. i be Trade question was broached
in the House. Lord f Lyndbur-t denounced
the efforts of the Corn law league to com.—
j ql a dissolution of Parliament. The op'po-
shfon, headed by Lord J. Russell, are re
solved to vote supplies for three months
only, and then force Parliament to dissolve.
France.—A decree has been published
declaring a prescribed oath of fidelity to tins
Constitution and the President indispensa
ble, and auy person refusing is to forfeit hi*
seat iu the assembly. It is believed Cavajg-
nac will enter a protest against the aciioii
of the President, .uid ihou retire. The ex
clusive control of education is hereafter to>
be exercised by church and state. Chairs
of the Professors abolished. The arming of
Paris is progressing. More political prisoi.-
ers have been sent to C: y *nne. It ig( be
lieved that Napoleon will assume the title
of Emperor on the opening of the Cham
bers on the 29 th.
Markets, &c,—Liverpool——The depress
ion on Wheat and Flour Lai been followed
by a speculative enquiry. Frices unchang
ed since Pacific sailed, with an advancing
tendency. Decine on cotton 1-8,. ati.d in
some cases 1-4. Provisions scarce and ad
vancing. Rice 18 to 18s. 9d.
Fourth of July Oration.— The follow
ing is an extract from an oration on the
glorious Eourth of July:
“Fellow Citizens; shouts of victory come
up from the neighboring marshes; the cry of
Fredom deafens the voice of nature, and all
nature sings aloud for joy.
“On this glorious occasion, I have not
words to express the sentiments of my
mind, when I think of the great doings ot
our posteriors—how they licked the British
when my father warn’t bornd and my moth
er warn’t courted yet, and the country
was freed from British slavery by the glori
ous arras of Thomas Jeflerson apd Gen Jack-
son. On this day I call upon you to gird on
your swords and beat your spears into
plough-shares* and cry aloud and spare not
”On this day let the cannon roar aloud*
let the flags be wafted on high, let the
gleaming of your swords flash in the rays of
the midnight sunbeams* let the trumpet
send forth its blasting strains* and let the
gentleman who borrowed my umbrelly
bring it back as soon as possible.”
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An Amkard Dance,—Forwad, and hit
your partner in the bread-baaket;dos-a-dOs
turn to the right* and kick your partner 00
the shin; chassez nil; promenade .to the
1 eft, accidentally knock down two attendants
carrying Refreshments and end by
overtnr-
ning a set containing sixteeftlof thd : elitd/bf
I deprecatesection divisions, as they can- the company*