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A MAN GUARDING $3,000,000
WORTH OF DIAMONDS,
The most profound adman-tologist in the
world is the Duke of Brunswick. He has
iu his possession three millions of dollars
worth of Diamonds. He has just publish
ed a catalogue of his diamonds and in the
appendix there is a notice of the most cel
ebrated diamonds in the world. This cat
alogue numbers not less than 2GB
pages. It gives with great detail, a list of
Ilia white transparent, lirst white, second
white, steel white, blue white, light blue,
Black blue, light yellow, bright vellow, am
ber yellow, straw, champagne, deep rose,
rosy, light rose, opalesent, pomegranite, vi
olet, greenish, green, sea-green, brown,
light brown, deep brown, dusky black, op
aque black, London log, sandy, frosty,
black spotted, cracked, split, scratched, ill
cut, uncut, square, round, oral, oblong,
octagon, pointed, pigeon eyed, almond,
Chinese-eyed, diamonds. It relates how
this once adorned a Turkish sabre, that a
royal diadem, another p.u imperial collar, a
third a Grand Elec tonal bat ; this black
diamond was an idol’s eye, that brilliant
rosy diamond was taken from Emperor Ba
ber, at Agra, in 152 G, (it weighs 41 carats,
and is worth $80,000) those were the wais
coat buttons of the Emperor Don Pedro ;
this Diamond ring, with the Stuart coat of
anus and the cypher “M. 5.,” belonged to
Mary, Queen ol Scotts ; that pair of ear
rings hung ogee on Maria Antoinette. The
Duke of Brunswick has in his possession
fifteen ot the ninety known diamonds
weighing thirty-six carats, hut he has not
a diamond worth $200,000. He has a
plenty of diamonds worth $20,000, $30,-
000, $45,000 apiece ; he has two worth
£(50,000 each, one worth $70,000, and one
worth SBO,OOO ; but he hasn’t one worth
$200,000. He is in treaty now for two di
amonds, one of which is worth $232,000,
and the other 8050.000, and which rank in
the order of precedence stabii>hed by ad
amnnfolojsts in the sixth rank which is
next af,er the Regent's diamond, and the
fonriet in tic* eighth rank—that is, next
after the Oi fft diamond ot Russia. In his
list ot celebrated diamonds he places in the
front rank a brilliant white diamond, weigh
ing 250 carats, and belonging to some East
Indian prince, nml worth $2,500,000• next
comes tiie Koh-i-noor, which weighs 186
carats, and which he sets down as worth
$1,384,840 ; next comes the Rajah of Ma
tara’s (Borneo) diamond ; it is of the most
beautiful water conceivable ; the Governor
of Batavia offered the Rajah $150,000,
two brigs of war, armed, equipped, and
provisioned for six months, and a large
quantity of cannon balls, powder and Con
greve rockets ; the Rajah refused them all,
and preferred keeping his diamond, which
passes for a talisman ; it is worth $1,330,-
455. Next comes the Great Mogal, which
is-of a beautiful rose color, and of the shape
and size of a half a hen’s egg ; it is worth
$784,000, according to the Duke of Bruns
wick’s valuation, though Taverner, the
traveller, set it down as being worth $2,-
344,G55 ; the Ilegeut’s diamond of France
(and which by the way, belonged to Lord
Chatham’s grandfather, who brought it
from India concealed in the heel ot his
shoe) comes only in the fifth rank ; it
weighs 13G 1-2 carats —it is worth $739,-
840 ; it is the purest diamond known ; it
required two years to cut it ; before it was
cut it weighed 510 carats ; the chippings
of it were sold tor $40,000. The Duke of
Brunswick says the Orloff diamond of Rus
sia is worth only $344,360, and not $lB,-
516.589 as some persons have pretended ;
and hesavs that, the Sancy diamond, which
Prince Paul Demidoff purchased at the
price of $400,000, is worth only, $29,150;
but then the Duke of Brunswick reckons
its historical value as nothing, although it
once adorned the sword of Charles the Bold,
was found after his death on the field of
Sancv, was sold in Switzerland, carried to
Portugal and there sold belonged to King
Antonio, to Henry 111., was swallowed by
a noble to whom heconlided it—swallowed
by the faithful noble sooner than deliver it
to robbers, and was found in his body, dis
interred for the purpose of discovering it.
The Duke of Bruns vick dares not leave
Paris at any period of the. year ; his dia
monds keep him chained there. He dares
not sleep from home (some people reckon
this liberty of pillow one of the great fran
chises of Paris) a single night. Then, he
lives in a house constructed not so much
for comfort as security. It is burglar
proof, surrounded on every side by a high
wall ; the wall itself is surrounded by alof
ty iron railing, defended by innumerable
spear heads, which are so contrived .that if
any person touches any one of them, a
chime of India begins instantly to ring an
ahum ; this iron railing cost him £14.127.
11'* keeps his diamonds in a sale built in a
thick wall ; his bed is placed against it
that no burglar may break into it without
killing, oral least waking him, and that
he may amuse himself without h aving his
bed. This safe is liivetl with granite and
vrith iron ; the locks have a secret winch
must in kuowub t’ re ih v can be opr-Ued ;
H i.h< \an . ; i-u 1 v.i;h violence, adiscliarge
which jv evila
bb. ki.i the burglar, and at the same time
chime of bells in every room in his house
are set ringing. He lias but one window
in his bed room ; the sash is of the stout
est, iron ; the shutters are thick sheet iron.
The ceiling of his room is plated with iron
seyer.il inches thick, ami so is the floor.—
The and r opening into it is of solid sheet
iron, and eamiot be entered unless one be
master of the secret combination of the
1 >ek. A case of dozen six-barrelled revol
vers, loaded and capped, lies open upon a
table, within reach of his l>ed. Would you
like to be in his place ?—Paris Co’ respon
dent, N. 0. Picayune.
ALABAMA STATE CONVENTION.
Montgomery, March Id. —The Conven
tion ratified the Permanent Constitution
by a vote of eighty-seven iu favor of five
nays.
Gen. Jamison, a leading co-operation is t,
to k a bold position in favor of the ratifi
cation.
Jerry Clemens has been appointed Major
General of the Alabama army.
ZUe Hinson
A. Miller, Editor*
THOM A STON, GEORGIA.
Saturday Morniiur, March Kith. lsbl.
THE TIMES ARE SADLY OUT OF
JOINT.
No one of common sense will question
but that our national vessel is now drifting
about at sea, tossed as a mere floatsam
without pilot, rudder, chart or compass.—
While the breakers become more distinct
ly visible, the panic increases on board, the
night and the tempest gathers deeper and
deeper and the swelling billows dash more
furiously against her groaning sides. The
great, the all pervading thought ot every
true heart is not how, and when, and by
whom, she has been driven from her true
course iuto such peril, but whose skill, wis
dom and heroism can at present save her
and her rich freight of millions of immor
tal, thinking, suffering, hopeing souls from
immediate death. The solemn question is
not now, who raised the storm —but who
can pour oil on the troubled waters and
chain the unprisoned winds—not as to the
individual or section, the motive or action
of those who have stirred'the fountain of
sectional bitterness to the lowest deeps—
but who can now wield the jarring ele
ments and mould them into beauty, strength
and harmony. This now is the work, this
now is the labor. The descent to ruin is
easy—for we are told by the highest class
ical authority that the gates of hell areal
ways open night and day ; but to recal
our downward footsteps, demands years of
toil, of patience, of penitence, of prayer
and the most sincere humiliation. A slight
cold may create consumption in its most
ghastly form and a child’s finger in a mo
ment, may deface or destroy what neither
the art and genius of a Titian or Canova
could for ages restore.
The point, now, most pressing upon the
public mind is not who bankrupted the
treasury ; who exposed to sale the offices to
the lowest bidder ; who gave ingress and
egress into our common territories to squat
ters and aliens ; who by indirection and a
failure to execute the laws gave force and
vitality to the black Republican party —
these matters of disputation are well known
—for the names of the busy actors are now
on the pages of history or deeply written
on the public heart. Their popularity may
be now praised, but it will be ephemeral
and so long as rational liberty has a friend
their deeds with posterity will be linked
with duplicity and selfish ambition. It
boots not either now, to tell of the good
and evils of the African slave trade or that
other hackneyed subject, the tariff, that
like the metaphysics of the Scotchman is
—as it were, ‘‘two men talking togither,
and the ane, dinna ken what he is talking
about, and the ithercanna understand him.”
The power to originate and give to pub
lic opinion a legislative form and pressure
must necessarily be confided to a few. This
power, however, in a government like ours,
is but the reflex of popular feeling, virtue
and intelligence. If this popular will, stim
ulates civil war and anarchy, then we will
have civil war and anarchy, and all their
attendant horrors, if it gives three and di
rection to law, order and harmony, then
we can enjoy the blessings of peace and
prosperity. In this the fearful crisis in our
country, when the issues of peace or war
are equally poised in the scales, it is su
premely important that each citizen should
think and speak and act out independently
his honest convictions formed without pas
sion or prejudice and upon impartial truth
ful evidence. The causes and authors of
our present dissatisfactions should beclear
ly revealed and the remedies be understood
in every particular. If on a fair trial our
national wounds arc found to be incurable
then,and then only, should we resort to the
last argument-- revolution. To make that
—the last struggle to preserve republican
institutions successful ; and to prevent an
other and still another revolution, we must
first obtain the sympathies of the world
and next endeavor by kind words and acts
to avoid strife among those whose honor,
interests and feelings are identical with us.
We regret that crimination aud re-crimin
ation has already commenced between the
cotton and border slave states. If two
neighbors equally spirited and respectable
reproach each other with such epithets as
Abolitionist and Traitor, it will not be
long before blows will follow words.
It is said Procrustes, a tyrant of Sicily,
erected an iron bedstead oti which ho ex
tended his subjects. To make them of
equal length, ho stretched the short and
lopped the tall. The petty tyrant who
would now attempt to erect a moral and
political inquisitiou of words by which to
brim* his brother’s motives and actions to
’ bis imagined standard ot right or wrong,
exhibits all the moral depravity without
the power of the Sicilian tyrant. We now
want soft words and hard arguments—we
have had enough of the bravado of lying
demagogues and corrupt rulers. Let the
voice of the people be heard and we doubt
not but that voice will echo the words of
peace, of wisdom, of patriotism and mod
eration—the restoration of confidence and
of all our l ights and business relations
which have been so seriously injured by
agitators, North and South.
TO POLITICAL~~FRIENDS AND
FOES.
The country, every one admits, is in an
awful condition. The scent of blood shed
in civil conflict, no one can tell when, or
where, it may taint the breeze. We wish
our readers to arrive at the truth aiftl the
right, we therefore solicit short conirnuni
cations on the various subjects now upper
most in the public mind. We care not
whether wo agree or not, with the writers,
so that the communications are free from
personal attacks and party bitterness. We
believe in the freedom of the Press and it)
liberty of Speech, and as long as they are
not suppressed by tyrannical censors wheth
er jeweled Emperors or dirty Sans Cul
lotts, error never can be dangerous among
a people fit for Self-government. The vox
populi is only inferioi to the vox Dei, and
when it gives forth no uncertain sound, it
will be obeyed in spite of party dema
gogues or base usurpers.
MR. BUCHANAN.
This gentleman, for the last four years,
has been President of the United States.
Two or three weeks will close his Presiden
tial career. He is an old man, and must
soon pay the debt of nature, which we must
all soon pay. He was elected mainly by
the votes of Bouthern States. We have
had great sympathies with him and for
him. While the Government went on in
its usual way, he made a very good Presi
dent. He seemed to manifest a disposition
to administer the government in a manner
satisfactory to all sections. But when the
hour ot peril came, he lias proven himself
inadequate to meet the emergency. llis
Northern proclivities have been made man
ifest, and lie has now, at the South, scarce
ly a single friend and advocate. Fie de
nies the right of a State peaceably to se
cede from the Union, and lends his offi
cial sanction to all measures which are
necessary to prevent the peaceable seces
sion of the Southern States. We cut 1■ x >se
from him, and give him up to the Abnfi
tionists, to whom we think he properly be
longs. —Atlanta Intel! i</< ncer.
li Alas poor Yoricl: You have now no
fat offices to bestow. We think your Sou
thern friends should have “cut loose from
you” when through your Governor you
were abolitionizing Kansas, instead of com
mending your u wisdom and patriotism.”
Many hard things are now said about you.
It is said you cheated your Southern friends
and you are now about to cheat the devil
by joining the church. We think the devil
will not meet you half wav in the cheat—
as it is said he is a very smart old follow.
If however Mr. Buchanan is as bad as the
late National Democratic Party, we know
when he cheats the devil, that Butler’s
couplet will be verified—
For sure the pleasure is as <jreat ,
In h< in<j cheated, as to cheat.
The Federal Fnioii Ijmmi the ‘*2£ig!l of
Secession.”
The Federal Union in reply to the Cass
viilc Standat and and Chronicle and Sentinel ,
(which papers it seems have complained
that “the right ot secession” is not recog
nised in the constitution of the Confedera
ted States) says—
“But. to show the captious and fault
finding spirit of the two journals, we have
only to copy that clause of the United
Stales Constitution, under which the sece
ded States resumed their sovereignty. It
is, word for word, incorporated into ,he
Constitution of the Confederate States.—
We copy from the Const it ution of the Con
federate States.
“Article Ist.—Section 7ih.—“No 17.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of
certain rights shall not he construed to de
ny or disparage others retained by the peo
ple.
“No. 18. The powers not delegated to
the Confederacy by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the Slates, are reserved
to the States respectively, or to the peo
ple.”
Well, under these two clauses of the old
constitution, the “right of secession” is and
has been denied by almost the whole North
and West, and by thousands in the seced
ing States. We think it has not been more
than ten years since Mr. Cobb, the Presi
dent of the Southern Congress, Mr. Steph
ens, the Vice President of the Confederacy,
and Mr. Toombs, the Secretary of State,
did not believe in the right of secession ;
and certainly it has not been ten years
since Mr. Davis got into a most towering
passion with Toombs for saying he was a
“secessionist,” and that all in the face of
these two clauses of the old Constitution.
Now it it takes so many of the ablest men
of the country so long to find out that this
right is clearly guaranteed by those clauses,
we are afraid that twenty, or fifty years
hence there may he difficulty about it again
—and moreover we don’t know that cir
cumstances being changed these gentlemen
Clay conclude that they were wrong again:
at ail events there can he no harm in set
tling the question beyond controversy* It
was just as t asv to put. iu a clear recogni
tion of the right as to put. in these two
clauses Let us have it settled. It can’t
do any harm, and iwiv do a g’eat deal of
•rood.— Columbus Cornet Stone.
©
If secession is a constitutional right or
only revolutionary as we said some weeks
ago, it should be clearly recognized in the
Constitution of the new OonfederateStates.
If it is left to construction, the same diffi
culties will be experienced under the new,
as have been under the old Union. The
people, the States and the Confederacy
should each know their respective rights or
how can they repel encroachments ? How
can any one tell where lawful obedience
ends and rebellion begins P We say again,
let this mooted principle be forever settled
in the new Constitution. — Ed. Pilot.
For the Upson Pilot.
DOES THE SOVEREIGNTY RESIDE
IN THE PEOPLE ?
Mr. Editor :
It mav perhaps be thought strange that
the above question should be asked in a
professedly democratic Republic ; but
passing events are surely sufficient, at
least, to excite a doubt of th affirmation,
if not to confirm a b lief of the negative.
That sovereignty is the right of the people
there can be no doubt ; but it seems that
political demagogues have conspired to
wrest this right from them. It is true the
members of the Convention profess to be
the chosen representatives <t the people ;
but when we look at the circumslanees un
der which they were chosen, we cannot
fairly consider their election the voice et
the people. The people were taken by
surprise ; many ot them had but very lit
tle knowledge of wlmt they were electing
men for; and none of us perhaps had any
idea that we were electing men to assume
the right, not only to legislate, but to
frame a constitution and form of govern
ment, to be binding upon us and our chil
dren, without our approbation or consent ;
and in doing so, to load us with burdens
trrievons to be borne, while they themselves
touch not the burdens with one of their lin
gers — to fasten upon us a system ol ex
orbitant and ruinous taxation, while they
will not reduce their enormous salaries a
single farthing. The legal and reasonable
presumption was, that we were called on
to elect men to meet in convention, or as
it were, in committee to consider “all
grievances impairing or afti cting 1 he equal
ity and rights of the State •! Georgia as
a member of the United States/’ and re
port to the people a plan <>f redress, (>r
their ratification >r rejection. The Con
vention had no more right to pass any oer
mobeut act or ordinance, than a committee
appointed by the Legislature has to pass an
Act instead of reporting it to the Legisla
ture. It is true the Legislature enacted
that the Convention might “ determine the
mode, measure and time of redress which
clearly shows that they understood the
sovereignty to reside in the Legislature;
and had they have had any idea that the
Convention would wrest it from them they
would no doubt have provided for their
own security ; but it is well known that
such a Legislature as the last, was never
before convened in Georgia ;• and may God
of his infinite mercy grant that such
another may never convene again.
It remains for time to answer the ques
tion at the head of this article ; and upon
that answer hangs our future destiny. It
the sovereignty does not reside in the peo
ple, then it is to reside in an Oligarchy,
ora military despotism : either of which
will tend to make the rich richer, and the
poor poorer. If the sovereignty docs reside
in the people, then we shall si c* the present
corrupt gang of aristocratic and selfi.Ji
demagogies, politically demololud, and
superseded by men of principle and patn
otism ; and by a reconstruction of the
Government, we again become the most
prosperous and happy people that have
ever lived on envih since Adam and Eve
were exjielled from Paradise. Could the
true voice of the people, North and South
be neard, it would be, that they ‘‘consider
the Union as a main proof ol their liberty,
and t hat t lie love of the one, endears tot bin
the preservation of the other.” Rut that
voice has for the time being at least, been
stilled by five years plotting of designing
demagogues for the raising of their sell
aggrandisement upon the ruins of the
country ; plotting no less treasonable than
that of Aaron Burr, arid having the same
origin—disappointed aspiration.
It is a frequent remark that if a vote of
the people was fairly taken, they would
vote to reconstruct the Government, and
agree upon a settlement, on a just and
equitable basis, of national difficulties ;
but, it is asked, how is the voice of the
people to be ascertained ? I would answer
that it is the right and privilege of the
people of every county, in every State to
meet in primary assemblies and speak their
sentiments in trumpet tones that cannot
be misunderstood. If as much pains were
taken by true statesmen, to arouse the
common people to a proper appreciation of
their rights and interests, as have hereto
fore been taken by demagogues, to drill
them into party lines, Uie country might
yet he redeemed from ruin.
M.
A great -poet says that “the mountains
stand fixed forever,” We know however
that it is no uncommon thing for them to
slope.
Report of the Select Committee on ill#’
Correvpo*!enee between the Presi
dent ansi South faroiina Com
missioners.
Washington, Feb. 27.—'The majority
of the House Select Committee of Five,
Messrs. Howard of Michigan, Dawes of
Massachusetts, and John 11. Reynolds of
New York, made a report to the House
to-day through the last named gentleman,
relative to the correspondence between the
President and the Smith Carolina Com
missioners. who had tor the object of their
mission hither, a demand on the Govern
ment for the delivery of Fort Sumter to
the authorities of that State. The Com
mittee snv : Considering the position as
sumed by the President in his annual mes
sage in respect to the right ot a State to
i withdraw from the l nion, and the vital
absence of power on tin* part of the Exec
utive to recognize the validity of any such
attempt, they cannot but regard the mis
sion bs< if, as well as the manner in which
it had been treated by the President, ns
among the most remarkable events of the
extraordinary times in which we live.
Under Hie full convict ion that there is
not the slightest encouragement to seces
sion, the Committee cannot perceive on
what principle the President has assumed
to entertain or hold an official communica
tion of tin* character disclosed, with the
representatives of South Carolina, for it
seems to the Committee obvious enough
that under the principles announced in his
annual message, tin* gentlemen composing
the Commission, acting uikb r the sanction
of a disloyal St tie, cmtld lie regarded in no
other ligfn, than as engaged ill ar-*volution
arv effort to subvert the Government.; and
being so regarded, it would appear to have
been the plain duty of the Executive to
enforce the laws against tiny individuals,
however eminent and respectable, known
or suspected of coni’.licit) in any move
ment of a treasonable character.
The Committee are not able to imagine
any circumstaina s under which the Presi
dent would have been justified in enter
taining diplomatic intercourse with S nth
Carolina in her present attitude to ill • Gen
eral Government except upon the assump
tion that by the action of her authorities
she had succeeded in establishing the posi
tion of an independent power, owing no
duty whatever to the Government of the
United States. The reception by the
President of such a commnnication, under
such circumstances, and according the dig*
nitv of an official reply, involves, to some
extent, a rec .gnition ei the assumed posi-’
tion of the rebellious State. The Com
mittee are not prepared to give their sanc
tion to any act of the Executive Depart
ment which, in express teims or by impli
cation, may seem to place the responsible
aid'-rs and abetters of secession in any
fSiate of tin* ('nion in any other a-p.ct
than that of traitors to the l onsiitu'.i >n of
tin* United States.
The Committee say they are not able to
resist the inference that in the beginning tit
the revo!a; io.nury movements against the
Government there were relations < f an ex
tremely friendly character between those
who contemplated rebellion and those
whose duty it was to suppress it.
The? minority report, made by John
Cochrane, takers the ground that, by refer
ence to the public message of the Presi
dent, so far fiom his having admitted the
Commissioners from any seceding State to
diplomatic intercourse, he expiicii iy refused
to do so, and rightly guarded against the
presumption. He never received them
otherwise than as distinguished citizens.—
And the only reason of tin* question being
presented to Congress, as appeals from the
report, was this refusal ot the President
and the reference of whole question to that
body.
The correspondence shows that tin* Com
missioners stated, in reference to tins atti
tude of the President, that “they felt no
special solicitude as to the character
in which the President might recognize
them.”
and he report says in the whole course of
the published cot respundence it will tie ini
possinle to delect tin* most inning devia
tion from the evii.lv n; annuneiaiion by tin*
{’resident, in ills message to f mgress.’t
its■ opining, ot his “intention to defeud
with the whole power of he Covernment,”
and to conserve its lights with all its con
stitutional vig< r. The ardent- aspirations
of ati uncalculating Z‘-al have denounced
as timidity these dictates of sobriety. Re
pulsive impetuosity has derided them, and
tiie ungenerous impulses of political hos
tility have visited upon them the invect
ives of acrimonious controversy. But the
sober sense ol tin* public will inevitably
prevail over these Etcfi us stimulants of
faction and discord, hud.ultimately will be
recognized arid acknowledged as that which
palliates the shock of disunion by the
preservation of peace ; which preserves
from desolation by barricading the paths
of blood, and woos.the occasion tor concil
iation. compromise and adjustment by the
counsels of moderation and peace.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF
THIRTf -THREE.
The following are the resolutions pre
facing the report of the Committee ot
Thirty-three, which were adopted in the
United States House of Representatives on
Wednesday last, by a vote of yeas 13G,
nays 53 :
liesolved, That in the opinion of this
Committee, the existing discontents among
the Southern people, and the growing hos
tility among them to the Federal Govern- ,
rneiit, are greatly to he regretted ; and j
that, whether such discontents and host if* ,
ity are without just cause or not, any reas
onable, pioper, and Constitutional reme-!
dies, and additional and more specific and
effectual guarantees of their peculiar rights
and interests as recognized by the Consti
tution, necessary to preserve the peace of
the country and the perpetuity of the Un
ion, should be promptly and cheerfully
granted.
Et solved, by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America, in Congress assembled, That all
attempts on the part of the Legßl.itures of
any of the States to obstruct or hinder tU,
recovt ry or surrender of fugitives from***
vice or labor are in derogation of the Con
stitution of the United States, inconsistent
with the comity and good neighborhood
that should prevail among the several
States, and dangerous to the peace of the
l nion.
liesolved , That the several States here,
spectfully requesti and to cause their statutes
to be revised, with a view to ascertain if
any of them are in conflict with or tend to
i-mhatrass or hinder the execution of the
laws of the United States, made in |,is
suance of the second section of the fourth
article of the Constitution of the United
States, for the delivery up ot persons held
to labor by the laws of any State and es
caping 1 herefrom ; and the Senate and
House ot Representatives earnestly request
that all enactments having such tendency
be forthwith repealed, as required by a ju/t
sense of constitutional obligations, and bv
a due regard for the peace of the republic •
and the President of the United States is
requested to communicate these resolutions
to the Governors of the several States
with a request that they will lav the
same before the Legislatures thereof re
spectively.
j lie wived , That we recognise slavery as
now existing in fifteen of tin* United States
by the usages and laws of those Staten •
and we recognize no authority, legally or
otherwise, outside of a State where it s .,
exists, to interfere with slaves or slavnv
in such State, in disregard of the rights of
their owners.or the peace of sociitv.
llesolved, That We recognise the justice
and propriety of a faithful execution of the
Constitution, and laws made in pursuance
thereof, on tlie subject of fugitive slaves
or fugitives from service or labor, and dis
countenance .ill mobs or hindrance to the
execution of such laws, and that citizens
of each State shaii be mtithd to all the
privileges and immunities of citizens in
the several Stati s.
llesolved, That we recognise no such
conflicting elements in i:s composition, or
sufficient * au.-e from any sottixt* lor a dis
solution of ilia Government ; that w>
were not sent here to destiny, hut to sus
tain and harmonize the institutions of the
country, and to see that equal justice is
done to ali parts of tin* same; and finally,
to perpetuate its txisbn e *.n tirtns if
equality and justice to all the States.
llesoitcd, That the faithful übseivntico,
oti the part ot all the States, ot all ilit ir
Constitutional obligations to each oilier
and to the Federal Government iscsMiniul
to the peace of the country.
llesolvtd, That it is the duty of the
Federal Government to enforce the Fed
eral laws, protect the Federal property,
and preserve the Union of tin s** Statts.
lit soi.cidj That each Stale lie lejmstnl
to revise its sunutts, and, if necessary so
to atnen 1 the same as to secure, without
h gislation by Congress to citiz ns of oilier
SuiUs travelling tin rein the sanejrotci
tion as citizens of such State nijo) ; and
a'so to protect the citizens of other Safim
travelling or .soj. urni'g tier,in against
popular violence or illegal sunnu try pun
ishment, without trial in due tuimtt Ihw,
for impun and crime ; .
11 solved. That ia eh State be r.hs<> r -
spec.luily requested to enact such laws .ws
will { revent and punish an) attempt what
ever i:i such State toorraii:ze or set mi Not
the lawless invasion of any other Satie ur
Territory.
llesolved, That the President he re
quested to transmit copies of Ihe lon go
ing resolutions to the G vernors ot the
several States, with a request that tiny
be communicated to their respective L'gis
lat lues.
Rr solved, That as there are no proposi
tions limn any quarter to interfere with
slavery in the District ol Columbia, or in
places under the exclusive jurisdiction of
Congress, anil situated within the limits ot
Slates that, permit the holding ot slaves,
or to interfere wiih the inter-►•■lale slave
trade, this Committee dors not deem it
necessary to take any action on these Mtb
jects.
Tie* vote was then taken on the itmonil
*ment to the Constitution recommended by
the Committee,, which prohibits any altcr
iUi ui of the* Constitution interfering widt
slavery in the States. ‘1 he vote was yens
one hundred and twenty, nays seventy-one
A two-third vote being required in order
to recommend the amendment to the Static
lor adoption, the { reposition was there 1 m*
lost.
LEARNED ELEPHANT.
“That’s a worry knowing hanima* A
yours,” said a cockney gentleman to the
keeper of an elephant.
“Very,” was the cool rejoinder.
“He performs strange tricks an hanlit-KS
does lie?” inquired the cockney, U’ tin
the animal tluongh the glass.
“ Surprise 1” retorted the kef] er,
“we’ve learnt him to put m< ney in
box you see away up there. Try him wil 1
a dollar.
The cockney banded the ehqdHOd a del
lar, and sure enough he took it in 11
trunk, and placed it in a box high u l* 011
of reach.
“Well, that is werry hexfmore!owD/'’
hastonishin’ truly ! Now let’s st‘ e 41
take it out and hand it back.’ ,
“We never learn him that,” retortei
keeper with a rogueish leer, and ‘
turned aWay to stir up the monkeys o
punch the hyenas.
Cure for Neuralgia. —Some t jam vnc~
we published, at the request of a
receipe to cure neuralgia. Halt a < l ‘
of sal ammonia in an ounce of camp ßOi
ter, to be taken a teaspoonful at a d’ ® e ’ va ] g
the dose repeated several times, at my l ,
of five minutes, if the pain be not 1(J 1
at once. Half a dozen different. l' c 1 vel -y
have since tried the receipe, and in 1 j Q
case an immediate cure was eftectu •.
one, the sufferer, a lady, had been su >.) c
to acute pains for more than a vet
her physician was unable to R^eu “ f ull ia
sufferings, when a solution. of sal
in camphor water relieved her in a <-'*
utes. — Alta Californian.