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Thirty-first Congress—First Session*
Washington, June 26, 1850.
SENATE.
4 Mr. llale presented the memorial from citi-’
sens of North Carolina, asking Congress to
provide for the removal to Liberia, of free
persons of color wishing to go, and a provi
sion for their support there for one year.
Mr. Foote offered a resolution calling on
the President for information as to the rumor
ed proceedings in New Mexico, the call of a
convention by the mili ary governor of New
Mexico ; the authority under which the pro
clamation of Major Monroe for an election of
delegates was issued, &c.
Mr. Foote did not wish to assume, without
proof, that the administration were responsi
ble for the act of usurpations committed by a
military officer. But some one had been guilty
of a gross and violent act of usurpation, and
had undertaken to settle by the sword a ques
tion that was before this body for adjustment.
He hoped the friends of the administration
•would not oppose the consideration of the re
solution at this time.
At the suggestion of Mr. Webster, who ex
pressed a hope that nothing would be allow
ed to interfere with the great subject before
the Senate, the resolution was laid over.
The bill to authorize appeals from the Cir
cuit Courts of the United States, in certain
cases, (.meaning the Van Ness case,) was ta
ken up, discussed and laid aside.
At one o’clock the adjusimerrt bill was
again taken up —Mr. Soule’s amendment pend
- ing. *
Mr. Douglas replied to the argument of Mr.
goule on the subject of public domain, show
ing that the rights of the United States are
fully protected by the bill before the Senate.
The whole argument of the Senator
said, based on a sorry state of facts, and was
not sustained by any American Athorities or
precedents.
The ordinance of the Convention of Cali
fornia, Mr. Douglas said, was a refutation of
the other half of the Senator’s argument —that
the Convention premeditated a seizure of the
lands. Now in this ordinance Calitornia cedes
the lands to the government, only asking for
a small portion of the.n tor the purpose of
education.
EL Mr. took the door, and gave way
W to a motion to go into Executive session.
W Mr. that the Senate hereaf
ter meet at 11 o’clock. He said it was the
duty of the Senate, to the body and to the
country, that the Senate should decide this
question urn; proceed to other business. He
cited the example of the French Chamber, in
in which the bdl regulating elective iranchize
was passed in ten days.
Mr. Hale said he should vote against the
motion to meet at 11.
Mr. Clay. 1 hat we know.
Mr. Hale objected to this mode of mixing
up measures in one bill. That was the cause
of the delay. The example of the proceeding
in the French Cnamber ought not to be com
mended to us. If they had kept that bill un
der consideration for a longer time, it would
have been better for the people.
Mr. Clay said the Senator was laboring in
his vocation. At every stage and on every
point he had opposed the bill. He denied
that the form of the bill was a cause of de
lay. But if measures were incongruously put
together, was it any reason that there should
never he a decision.
Mr. Hale. Would not have said a word on
this subject had he not so often been charged
with delaying the public business. He (Mr.
H.) was laboring in his vocation; he would
tell .he Senator that his —the Senator’s voca
tion in lecturing him—was good for nothing.
He was not opposed to taking the vote on
this bill. He would be willing to set here all
night to get the question, and he would sleep
the better, the next day, for giving a vote
against this bill.
The motion to meet at 11 o’clock was agreed
to—yeas 30, nays 19.
The Senate went into Executive session,
and afterwards adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. Burt made an ineffectual effort to have
a joint resolution from the Senate to trans
fer the claims for arrears of extra pay from the
Paymaster’s Department to the Auditor’s,
Department in the War office.
Mr. Stanton, of Tennessee, moved a reso
lution calling upon the President for informa
tion, relative to a call of a Convention of the
people of New Mexico for the purpose of
forming a State Constitution ; and that he in
form the House whether, it such call has
k been made, the same has been ordered, ad
gA. vised, or approved of by the Executive, and
whom, or by what authority, such pro-
have been adopted to change the
|Ha)vernmcnt of said Territory.
Otis objected to the introduction of the
Hjution, audit was not admitted.
stated that this was the day for
reports of the Committee of
on the contested election horn the
Congressional district of this State of
The report of Mr. Strong, of the majority of
the committee shows that the official majority
for Mr. Thompson, the democratic member,
was 386.
The report also shows that should the con
testant's claims be conceded, as to the illegality
of certain votes, the majority of William
Thompson will be 15. The commute come to
the conclusion, that, in any aspect of the
■case, William Thompson received a majority
of the legal votes, and was duly elected a
representative from the said district. They
resolve accordingly.
Mr. Van Dyke of the minority of the com
mittee, claims some 16 legal votes for the
contestant; and lesolves according.
Mr. Miller, the contestant, was invited to
take a seat upon the floor, during the discus
sion, and to enter into it should he think pro
per.
The reports were discussed until 34 o’clock,
•when the House adjourned until to-morrow,
Washington, June 27, 1850.
SENATE.
Mr. Cass offered a resolution for an inquiry
into the expediency of prohibiting, by law, any
military officer from exercising any civil func
tion. Lies over.
The bill granting lands to the State of Mis
issippi in aid of the comption of a railroad,
•was passed.
Mr. Foote’s resolution calling upon the
President for full information in regard to in
structions and facts connected with late events
in New Mexico, was adopted.
The bill representing the prompt printing
and distribution of the commerce and naviga
tion documents was discussed, and passed.
The adjustment bill was taken up. Mr.
Soule’s amendments still pending.
Mr. Webster addressed the Senate at length
in reply to Mr. Soule’s arguments. He dwelt
on the expediency of admitting California at
once, unless some insuperable objections
should be i.rged against it. The various ob
jections urged by Mr. Soule he stated, and
proceeded to reply to them in detail.
The honoiable Senator from Lou.isi.ana (Mr.
Soule) had followed s precedent which had
,*been set here some twenty years ago, when
the same principles as to the public domain
were argued here and ref bled, and the ques
tion settled. The honorable Senator had ar
gued the question with learning and ability,
and had, like his predecessors, placed his argu
ment on principles of public law. fie showed
that the doctrines of Vattel and other writers
on public law did not apply to this case. The
U. States owned California—it was their ac
quisition; and another State or power could
not divert her from the possession.
He showed, however, that the distinction
was recognized by Vattel. The U. States could
hold land in Calitornia—but only for one pur
pose, to sell—and as soon as it was sold, it fell
under the municipal sovereignty whose it was,
•with certain exceptions as to taxing power.
The unanimous decision of the Supreme Court
•was that the compacts with the States reserv
ing the title of the U. States to the lands were
useless, and that the title of the U. States was
good without them. They had been omitted
iin regard to many States. He hoped the hon
able member from Louisiania would look to
the laws and judicature of the country, and
review his opinion. He appealed to the hon
orable gentleman to aid in the work of admit
ting California.
To the other objections of Mr. Soule, Mr.-
Webster replied, and especially to those rela
live to the boundaries of California. A better
boundary he showed, could not be found than
Xhat which California had taken,
Mr. Foote spoke with a view to explain his
position, inasmuch as the vote was to be taken
to-day- He explained the reason why he
should vote for the Missouri compromise, as
involved in the amendment, though he was
confident that the amendment would not meet
the sanction of a majority of tliis body or the
other House.
Mr. Barnwell rose and expressed some reluc
tance to engage in debate, having long been
out of practice in public assemolies, and feeling
■under embarrassment in su.-ceding so distin
guished a Senator as his predecessor. It was
impossible for any one associating with that
Senator (Mr. Calhoun) to avoid the influence
«f his opinion in many respects. His position
es to the Missouii compromise was, he pre
sumed, the same as his own. He claimed for
the South equality of rights. To their intel
lectual and moral excellence lie might appeal
us being sutih as warranted no exclusion of
them from a participation in the common
privileges of all the States.
He went on to recite the miseries which the
fjouth had endured from the Northern peo
ple—not fanatics, but celebrated and intellect
jnen —members of Congrts*. The territorial
k questions were only mdLai ions of this disease,
deeply tooted. He argued that slaves were
■property, and had been claimed as such by
Hhe liovernment—relerrin' to some ot Mr.
State papers. He was not as well ac-
quainted with the current history of the ques
tion as others were, but he would review the
grounds taken by the North on the territorial
questions, and see what right they have to say
that slaves, as property, should not be admit
ted in any territory of the U. States, as well
as any' other species of property.
He declared, in conclusion, that the South
would assent to the Missouri compromise, as
a recognition of the equal rights of the South,
but they would demand that south of the
line slavery should be protected.
Mr. Foote commented on the inexpediency
of asking legislative protection for slavery.
Mr. Butler explained Mr. Calhoun’s doc
trines as to non-intervention. His wish was
that the people should form their constitution
without any dictation as to the Missouri com
promise. Mr. Calhoun was, before California
assumed her position, willing that the Mis
souri line should be drawn by those whose
doctrines would allow them to vote for it,
though he did not vote for it himself.
Mr. Jefferson Davis rose and addressed the
Senate, declaring that from the moment when
he ascertained that the amendments he desir
ed to the bill could not be obtained, he deter
mined to say no more till the bill reached
its final stage. He proceeded to vindicate *his
position in regard to this bill—his ultimatum
which he had announced before his constitu
ents, and which the Nashville Convention had
sanctioned.
Mr. Davis alleged that, from the beginning
of the session, the country had been filled with
missives abusive of Senators and of all who
sustained the right of the South; newspapers
were employed and the more base instruments
of letter writers, to brand every Southern man
as a disunionist, who opposed the compromise.
One letter writer, he said, the basest Hessian
of them all, wa£jVow receiving pay, to traduce
him-and.«ther Southern men, as disunionists.
If any person would say that he
was a disunionist, he would answer him in
monesyllables. He had a superstitious rever
ence for the Un ; on.
Mr. Foote replied.
Mr. Davis again took the floor, but gave way
to a motion to adjourn, and the Senate ad
journed.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The house, immediately after the reading of
the journal, resumed the consideration of the
r Uma. contested eh ction »case. The matter
was further discussed by Messrs. Mcdaui hey,
Thompson of lowa, Harris of Tennessee,
Loftier of lowa, Evans of Md., and Ash.
Mr. Disney, of Oho, obtained tne floor, and
will address the House to-morrow. The ques
tion will be taken to-morrow.
The Speaker laid before the House the in
vitation of the Managers of the Washington
Monument Society, to the House of Repres
entatives, to attend the celebration on the 4th
of July next.
Mr. Stanton, of Tenn., moved that the in
vitation be accepted. It was so entered on
the journal.
Tne House then, at 3i o’clock adjourned.
Washington, June 28, 1850.
SENATE.
The Senate, on motion of Mr. Hale, went
into executive session for a few minutes.
When the doors were opened,
The adjustment bill was taken up, and Mr.
Jefferson Davis concluded his speech yesterday
commenced, lie contended that in California,
south of the line of 36, 30, slaves might be
profitably employed.
Mr. Soule reinforced his argument in sup
port of his amendment, and replied to Mr.
Webster and Mr. Douglas.
Mr. Webster and Mr. D mglas spoke briefly.
The question on Mr. Soule’s amendment
was taken and resulted as follows.
Yeas—Messrs. Atchison, Barnwell, Berrien,
Butler, Clemens, Davis, of Miss, Dawson,
Downs, Foote, Houston, Hunter, King, Ma
son, Morton, ltusk, Sebastain, Soule, Turney,
Y r u'ee —l7.
Nays—Messrs Badger, Baldwin, Bell, Ben
ton , Bright, Cass, Chase, Clarke, Clay, Coop
er,|Corwin, Davis of Mass., Dayton, Dickin
son, Douglas, Felch, Greene, Hale, Hamlin;
Jones, Miller, Norris, Pearce, Phelps, Pratt,
Seward, Shields, Smith,Sturgeon, Underwood,
Upham, Wales, Walker, Webster, Whitcomb.
—36.
Mr. John Davis, Massachusetts, addressed
the Senate at length in opposition to the bill.
Mr. Davis, without concluding, yielded to
a motion to adjourn.
Mr. Clay expressed a hope that the Senate
would agree upon a day to take the question
an the engrossment of the bill. He suggest
ed Wednesday next.
Mr. Bell objected. lie wished to give his
views, lie and others would not be able to
address the Senate, if so e irly a day was lix
ed.
Mr. Yulee laid on the table an amendment
to the bill.
After an Executive session, the Senate ad
journed.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. Parker introduced a bill respectingjthe
national armories at Springfied and Harper’s
Ferry; which was read twice and referred to
the committee an military affairs.
The House then proceeded to the considera
tion of the two contested election cases. The
discussion was continued by Messrs. Disney,
Thompson, of Pa.. Toombs, Van Dyke, Mc-
Donald and Strong.
The debate being closed, the Chair stated
that the question would first be on the reso
lution of Mr. Van Dyke to give the seat to
the contestant, moved as a substitute for the
resolution of the majority of the committee on
elections, to give it to the democratic mem
ber, Mr. Thompson.
The question -was put and decided in yeas
95, nays 94. The Chair voted in the negative.
Ss trie amendment was not agreed to.
The House is now voting, 4i o’clock, on a
motion to adjourn.
(From the N. O. Picayune, 26th ult .)
From Texas.
By our papers from Texas we learn that
the late rains extended over a wide area. From
the Guadalupe to the Sabine ail the streams
are swollen, and some of them are higher than
they have been before this season. The Bra
zos has overflowed its banks opposite Wash
ington. Fears are entertained that this fresh
et may have caused much injury. The Trini
ty and Colorado are both very high.
The crops have been very much injured by
the rain. When they set in the cotton and
ca»e were just recovering from the effects of
the previous heavy rains and the cold weather.
The planters were busily engaged clearing
their fields of the luxuriant growth of weeds,
when the rains came and drove them from
their work, and there is mush reason to fear
that the weeds will choke the plants and cane.
The accounts from all sections are exceeding
ly discouraging.
Verbal accounts represent that the late
measures in relation to the Santa Fe territory
have excited a feeling of universal indigna
tion in the country. Public meetings were
called in Austin and other places on the sub
ject. The News says that an extra session of
the Legislature will undoubtedly be called.—
Messrs. Scott and Reynolds, members from
Harris county, have published their card de
clining to represent that country in the called
session,
A letter from San Antonio, dated June 7th
represents the depredations of the Indians in
that secion as truly alarming. Their boid
nes* is so great that they have actually killed
persons within a mile of the city. Two Ger
mans, named Tollman and Dicgelman, were
killed a short distance from San Antonio, on
the Fredericksburg road.. The ranchos of F.
Guloeap and Matias Garillo were attacked
and plundered.
A San Antonio letter says:
The train for El Paso has at last started, and
there are only about eight wa ons remaining
behind. Most of the carts and wagons left
here some weeks ago, and were to stop on the
Leona, the place selected for the general ren
dezvous, and to start from there together.—
The train consists of about 150 wagons and 150
carts, besides about 30 wagons and carts of
California emigrants, l’he train will be un,
der the command of Maj. J. T, Sprague, of the
Bth Infantry, U. S. A., of Fori, Inge.
Cokonek’s Inquest. —A coroner’s inquest
was held on Thursday evening, on the body
of a free negro named Joseph Sackett, who
was engaged storing the ship Lacashire. A
hale of cotton struck him on the back of the
neck,while if? a stooping position, from which
he died in about 12 hours.
Anothek. —An inquest was held on the
body of a negro, name unknown, found
drowned in the river. From the evidence
before the jury, he was supposed to belong to
Mr. J. Barrett, of S. C,; bnt there was no
positive proof of it. A negro belonging to
Mr. Barrett ran away several years ago, and
this is believed to be his body, as he was seen
in this neighborhood a few days since.—
Savannah Republican, 29th tilt.
The growth of Milwaukic, one of the lake
cities, has been quite remarkable. Twelve
years ago the population consisted of 700 in
habitants. Now the population is about 20,-
000. In 1848, the exports of wheat were 95,-
510 bushels, and of flour 7,550 barrels, in
1849, the exports of wh,eat were 1,148,807
bushels, and of flour 201,942 barrels. During
the present year, there has been a large tn
ciease.
WoNOEiiytrx, Escape. —The Charleston ( Va,)
Spirit states that on Friday last, as the pas
senger train from Winchester was on its down
ward trip, a man was discovered but a few
feet ahead, lying across the track, with his
head resting immediately on the rail. Every
possible effort was at once made to check the
engine and cars, but it proved unavailing.
Ihe “tender," as it is conjectured, struck the
individual, who was lying entirely prostrate
from drunkenness, on the shoulder, and push
ed him immediately in the middle of the
track, the whole train passing over him with
comparatively no injury,
[ From the Banner of the Cross.]
Georgia.
LAYING OF THE COIINEK S I ONE OF THE CHURCH
OF THE ATONEMENT, AUGUSTA.
On Monday, the 27th of May, the ceremony of
laying the corner-stnne of a new Church, to be
called “ The Church of the Atonement.” in the
upper part of our rap dly growing city, at the in
tersection of Telfair and Kollock-streets. was per
formed by Bishop El iott. The inherent interest
attaching to this office was most pleasingly en
hanced, in the present instance, by several pecu
iar eircumstances. One of these was the feature
oi free sittings solemnly pledged to the contem
plated Church; the other, the honorable demon
stration of a whole-souled zeal tor “ Christ and his
Church,” offered by the authors of this holy enter
prise. Every truly devout heart in the large con
course present mus't, we are persuaded, have gone
torthin fervent prayer ‘.hat they who were thus
nobly following the spirit of him to whose honor
it was told—“ He loveth our nation, and hath built
us a synegogue,” might experience, in their fullest
import, tnose rich sp ritual blessings typified in
the temporal boon with which the good centurion’s
piety was rewarded by our blessed Lord.
At six o’clock, P. M., a processiou was formed
from the house of Edward P. Campbell, Esq.,
Senior Warc’ei of St. Paul’s, Augusta, in the vi
cinity of the new church lot, and proceeded to
the uorth-ea9t corner of the projected building.
This procession consisted of the Bishop, in the
episcopal robes, attended by the Rev. Ur. Ford,
and the Rev. B. Elliott Habersham, of the Dio
cese of Georgia, and the Rev. John H. Cornish, of
the Uiocese of South Carolina. To these suc
ceeded the Vestry of St. Paul’s, Augusta, the
Sunday school teachers and children of that par
ish, the choir and the congrcgatio . generally; the
following being the order of the services.
1. The 122 d Psalm, with Doxology—re.d an
tiphonally by the Bishop and people, as the pro
cession drew near the sj ot.
2. Exhortation by the Bishop.
3. P ayer by the Bishop.
4. The Lesson, being Ezra iii. 3—12, read by
the Rov. John H. Cornish, Rector of St. Thad
deus’ Church, Aiken, So. Ca.
5. Announcement, by the Rev. Ur. Ford, of the
contents of the box deposited with corner-stone.
Statement of l ontents of Box.
The Holy Bible. Thn Book of Common Prayer.
Journal of the General Convention of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church in the United States of
1847. with copy of Constitu.iou and Canons of,the
Church, Journal of the 27th AnnualUonveniion of
the ''rotestant Episcopal Church m the Diocese of
Georgia, held in May, 1849, with a copy of Con
stitution and Canons of said diocese. Swords’
Picket Almanac for 1850. “The Churchman”
of May 18th, 1850. ‘ The Banner of the Cross”
for May 18th, 1850. '• The Spirit of Missions” for
May, 1850. Certain proceedings of the Vestry of
St. Paul’s Church. Augusta, testifying approba
tion, and God-speed to this good work.
The ft Bowing secular papers of the city of Au
gusta : “The Daily Consti utionali-t,” ‘‘The
Dai y Chronicle and Sentinel,” •' The Tri-weekl.’
Republic,” each of May' 25th, 1850.
Also a Memorandum, of which the following is
a copy :
“ In the name of the Father and of the Son and
of the Holy Ghost. Araeu.
“ l lie corner-stone of the Church of the Atone
ment, Augu-ta, was laid in the month of May,
1050, by the Right Reverend Stephen Elliott, Jr ,
L). 1)., Bishop of the Diocese of Georgia, there
being in attendadee, the Rev. Edward E. Ford,
1). D., Rector of St. Paul’s Church. Augusta,
Presbyter, and the Rev. Barnard Elliott Haber
sham, Deacon, both of the Dioce-e of Georgia,
and Rev, John H. Cornish, Rector of St. Tltad
dens’ Church, Aiken, Presbyter of the Diocese of
South Carolina. The following being at the time
the Vestry of St. Paul’s, Augusta, viz : Edward
F. Campbell, Senior Warden,and James P. Gaird
ner, Junior Warden, and Gerard McLaughlin,
James B. Bishop, Benjamin Conly, George Par
rott, Robert Hallowed Gardiner, Jr.. Dr. Lewis
1). Ford, Ge urge W. Morgan, and John C. Car
michael, Vestiymen. Ed vard Gardiner, of Phil
adelphia, architect, and Win. H. Goodrich of Au
gusta, Ga., contractor for the building. The Hon.
Tlios. VV. Miller, being Mayor of the city. Hi-
Excellency George Washington Towns,Governor
of the State of Georgia, and his Excellency
Zachary Taylor. President of the United States.
‘ Other foundation can no man lay than that is
laid, wnich is Jesus Christ.’ ”
6. Bislip. Our help is in the name of the Lord:
Ans. Who hath made heav n and earth.
Bishop. Except the Lord build the house, their
labor is but lost that built it. In the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Amen. (The Bishop here striking the stone thrice
with n hammer.) I lay (he corner stone of an
edifice to be lieie erected by the name of the
Church of the ttonemeut,” and to be devoted to
the service of Almighty God, agreeab'y to the
principles of the Protestant Episcopal Church in
the United States of America, in its doctrines,
ministry, liturgy, rites and usages.
“Other foundation can no man lay than that is
laid, which is Jesus Christ, who is God over all.
blessed forever more, and iu whom we have re
demption through His blood, even the forgiveness
of sins.” Auieu.
Bishop. O Lord, open thou our lips:
Ans. And our mouth shall show forth Thy
praise.
Bishop. Glory b* to the Fother, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Ghost :
Aits. As it was in the beginning, is now. and
ever shall be, wond without end.
Bishop. Praise ye the Lord :
Ans. The Lord’s name be praised.
7. Address by the Bishop.
Bishop’s Audress.
Dearly lieloved of the Lord :
We have now laid the corner stone of the Church
of the Atonement in the name of he Path r, and
of t.b Son, and of the Holy Ghost. We have done
all that man can do. VVe have secured in its place
this mat rial stone; secured it with the voice of
prayer and supplication. We have claimed t, rit
the promises of God—promises that wherever He
recoids His name, He will come into that place
and bless it—we now leave it with him to make it
the corner stone of a spiritual temple, wherein
shall be offered up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable
unto Him through Jesus Christ. The corner-stone
we have just laid, is the first fruits of a thank of
fering unto the Lord; a thank offering fiom indi
viduals whom He hath blessed, ami who desire
humbly to acknowledge that blessing, sajing with
the Patriarch at Bethel—“ The Lora shall b eour
God, and this stone which we have set for a pillar
shall be God’s house, and of all that thou shalt
give us, we will surely give the tenth unto Thee.”
And what they have so humbly offered unto the
Lord, they have likewise desired to offer in har
mony ith the Church upon earth. They have
laboured to "keep the unity of the Spirit in the
bond o* peace.” and so they hare not vtntured to
approah the Lord, even with their memorial of
mercy, until they had first received the God-speed
of that holy and beautiful house where their la
thers worshipped. The resolutions which have
just been read in your hearing, and the presence
of this approving congreg tion, are the greatful re
sponse which that ancient parish has given to the
honor God l as laid "pon it, of being the fountain
and the nursi g mother of so gracious and charita
ble a work. Goon then, hand in hand, never obe
disunited! The Churcu of the Atonement is the
fitting offspring of that parish which bears his
name who determined “to know nothing among
men save Jesus Christ and him crucified.” And
now these pious individuals, having in their hum
ble and gracious temper,desired turetnrn un'o the
Lord their meed ot gratitude, they have sought to
do it in the very s irit of their Saviour—“ Freely
ye have received, freely give.” Within the walls
soon to arise upon this corner stone,it shall never
be said to the rich, “Sit thou here in good place,”
while it shall be said to he poor, "Stand thou
there or sit here under my footstool;” but it shall
be always open, free as the air, to the prayers and
supplications ot all sorts and cond tions of people.
Whatever support may be necessary for the min
istering servant of the Lord, is to be gathered from
the free-wiL offerings of God’s people Such are
toe desires—such the purpose ol its liberal found
ers: and well have they chosen its name—“ The
Church of the Atonement.” Freely was that
atonement made by God the Son: Ireely was it ac
cepted by God the Father: Freely is it offered by
God the Holy Ghost.—And man must not res rain
this freedom. Here then, we raise the bannerol'
the cross, and in !he name of a crucified Saviour
proclaim the glad tidings of great joy—“Ho every
one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he
that hath no monev, come ;e. buy and eat, yea
come buy wine and milk without money and with
out price.”
8. Hymn 25th, Ist with last four verses, by the
choir.
9. Collect, by the Bishop, being the last in Insti
tution office.
10. Gloria : n Excelsis, by the choir.
XL Benediction by the Bishop.
We add the following copy, which has been fur
nished us, of the ‘‘Proceedings of the Vestry of
St. Paul’s Church, Augusta,” referred to above.—
(Ed. Con.)
At a meeting of the Rector, Wardens and Ves
trymen of St. Paul's Church, Augusta, held on the
Ist day of May, 1850,Mr Robert Hallowed Gardi
ner, Jun., for himself, and on behalf of S. Fenwick,
his wife, and of Mary G. Jones, presented a requ -st
for leave “to ereot a Church in the upper part of
the City of Augusta, for the wor hip of Almighty
God, according to the forms of ihe Protestant
Episcopal Church in the United States—the sit
ting in said Church designed to bp and remain, for
ail coming time, free,
Whereupon the following Resolutions were
unanimously adopted, viz :
1. That n granting their assent to the foregoing
application, tile Rector, Wardens and Vestrymen
of St. Paul's Cnurch, Augusta, would be doing in
justice to th ir feelings, did they not add the ex
pression of their most hearty concurrence in Ihe
goou work in question, and their earnest desire
that, through the blessing ol the Great Head of ihe
Church, it may be carried forward to a happy and
successful issue, to the glory of His great name,
and the aalyatipn of many soijls.
2. Resolved, That did they feel the peed pf any
pledge for the realization of sijch desires, beyond
what may be found in the sol .mn promises ol the
gracious Head of the Church, they could not fail
in the case before them, to find such pledge in the
facts, within their knowledge, that the said appli
cants have not only made a tree will offering of a
valuable lot of ample dimensions, for the site of
the contemplated Church, but have also underta
ken its erection, at their own expense, at a proba
ble cost of three thousand dollars. Such a mani
testation of noble and munificent zeal for “Chirst
and His Ch ircli,” the Rector and Vestry cannot
but receive as a special earnest of success in this
praisf-worthy enterprise j while it affords ample
ground igr the devout hope which they inclul'e,
of rich blessings upon its projectors from Hjsharpls
who hath promised,with reference to This Church,
the spiritual Jerusalem—“they shall prosper that
love her."
3. Rest Iced, That a copy of the foregoing reso
lutions ho forwarded to Mr. Gardiner by the Se
cretary.
Stoum on the Lake.—Last night, about 9
o'clock, a heavy storm of wind and rain sud
denly came up, just as the mail boat was leav
ing Rass Christian, and continued to about 6
o’clock this morning. The lake was tremen
dously rough—the waves breaking violently
over the Oregon and Mobile, which were nea
ach other all night ; but, being so ably an
skillfully managed, there was no danger ap
prehended by their passengers. It must have
been very severe on smaller craft, but we
have heard of no accidents.
In the city the rain fell in one continued
torrent for hours. We have never known it
to rain harder or longer than it did last night.
—JV. O. Picayune , 26 th ult.
(From the Augusta Republic .)
What Course.
“The manly coarse of Messrs. Toombs and
Stephens will excite admiration, and meet a
cordial response in every southern heart.”
We copy the above trom the Chronicle of
Thursday last. What course of Mr. Toobs does
the Chronicle allude to?
Mr. Toombs, in one of his speeches, in re
ply to Mr. Winthrop, said “But if he (Mr.
Winthrop) supposes that, because I thought
him unfit to preside over the house, that there
fore his speeches and public career here are
exempt from my criticism, and such comments
as I may choose to make upon either, he is
mistaken.” That cannot be the manly course
to which the Chronicle alludes, for it has al
ways taken the side of Mr. Winthrop and sup
ported him.
On one occasion Mr. Toombs said,
“He owed no allegiance to any man, or par
ty, which prevents him from doing justice to
his own section. The Union will endure only
so long as it answers the purposes for which it
was formed, and no longer. Gentlemen do
not know how liberty may be maintained, and
bow it ought to be maintained.”
It was for writing and publishing such lan
guage as that, that the Chronicle charged some
people with being agitators and disorganizers!
That is, therefore, not the course it referred to,
unless it has changed its mind.
Mr. Toombs said:
“In his judgment, the right asked for, in
volving as it does political equality, is worth a
thousand such Unions as we have, even if
they were a thousand times more valuable
than this. Deprive us of this right, he said;
appropriate this common property t@ your
selves—it is then your Government not mine.
Then lam its enemy, and I am willing if I
can, to bring up my children, and mv con
stituents to the altar of liberty, and, like Hamil
car, I would swear them to eternal hostility
to your foul domination. Give us our just
rights, and we are ever ready, as heretotore,
tostand by the Union, every part of the Union,
every part of it and its every interest. Refuse
it, and I for one will strike for independence
[Several gentlemen cried: “Good!’ “good!’]
We know that the Chronicle must have
shuddered when it read that; and certainly,
therefore, that is not the manly course of Mr.
T. which it sc much approves. What then is
that course? Is it his ardent support of the
scheme for establishing a Southern Press in
Washington? It cannot be that, for the Chroni
cle has ridiculed and abused the scheme from
the beginning. It would look invidious to
say that the manly course of Mr. Toombs ex
ists in a disposition to keep in with him and
his friends!
A certain rod in the hand-i of Moses was
harmless, but as soom as he laid it down it be
came a devouring serpent. Perhaps, in the
opinion of the Chronicle this terrible agitaion
which is a mere innocent wand in Mr. T.’s
hand, is a fiery serpent in others. Mr. Toombs’
manly course would be treason in another' Is
that the solution?
Curiosities of Science. —An interesting pa
per might be written, by a competent hand,
respecting what we may call the “ Curiosities
of Science.” There are hundreds of facts,
familiar to the explorer of nature, which wou.d
startle the ordinary reader, from their appa
rent antagonism to other facts. Thus, if a
blackened card is placed upon snow or ice in
the sunshine, the frozen mass underneath
will gradually mett; while that by which it is
surrounded is but little disturbed. If, how
ever, the sun’s rays, instead of falling direct
ly on the card and snow, are reflected from a
metal surface, an exactly opposite result oc
curs, the exposed parts are the first to melt,
and the blackened card remains standir g high
above the surrounding portion. Another cu
rious fact is that, if bars of copper, zinc, brass,
and bell metal, are heated and placed so as to
cool on blocks of lead, or pewter, the bars are
thrown into a state of vibration, and produce
sounds similar to those of a ceolian harp. A
blacksmith will tell you he can press heat out
of a piece of iron, by simply beating it with a
hammer, until, at last, he will render it red
hot and be able to light a match at it, but he
will add that the s ane piece canr.ot be made
red hot again by hammering, until it has been
made red not in fire, and brought back in its
original expanded condition. The same prin
ciple which is at the bottom of this curious
fact enables fire to be obtained by the friction
of two pieces of wood.
Even unscientific readers are familiar with
the fact that ice can be formed in the hottest
summer day, by chemical means ; but few are
aware that water can be frozen in a vessel
that is a*, a red heat. But this astonishing
experiment has been fiequently per'ormed.—
If a deep platina saucer is heated red hot, and
then water and liquid sulphurous acid, which
has been preserved in the liquid state by a
freezing mixture, is proured into the vessel,
the rapid evaporation of the volatile acid,
which enters into ebullition at the freez
ing point produces such an intense could,
that ice is immediately formed, and being
thrown out, can be used to cool water.—
Tne experiments ot jugglers have proved to
all, that under ceatairx conditions, the hand
can be immersed with impunity in melted me
tal. Little more is required than to rub the
hands with soap so as to give them a polished
surface, then to plunge them in a cold solu
tion of water and Bilammoojac, and after wards
to put them into the liquid iron, lead, bronze,
or othc r metal, moving them rapidly through
it, though not too rapidly. The explanation
of this curious fact is this. When the hand
is plunged into melted metal the skin is not
in contrrct with the metal, and therefore the
heat incident upon the skin arise only from
that which is radiated from the metal. The
moisture of the skin passes into the spheroi
dol state, and reflects the rediating catorie,
so that the heat is never at the boiling point.
Heat and light exhibit, in part, through
transparent bodies, a very remarkable differ
ence. Transparent alum which is as clear as
the cleanest water, transmits only twelve per
cent of heat, while rock chrystai, which is
not more lucid, transmits ninety-seven per ct.
of heat. Black glass allows n nety-seven per
cent of heat to pass through it; while green
glass, c lored by oxide of copper, and colored
with a layer of water, will, though perfectly
transparent, almost entirely deprive the solar
ray of heat. On the principle of different
colors, the whole economy of nature, in re
ference to the absorption and radiation of
heat by the various kinds of fiowers and plants,
is carried on. Says a late writer; “ Every
tree spreading its green leaves to the sun
shine, or exposing its brown branches to the
air—every flower which lends its beauty to
the earth —possesses different absorbing and
radiating powers. The chalice-like cup of the
pure white lily floating on the lake, the varie
gated tulip, the brilliant anemone, the deli
cate rose, and the intensely colored peony, or
dahlia, have each powers peculiai to them
selves for drinking in the warming lile-stream
of the sun, and for radiating it back again to
the thirsting atmosphere.” Electricity also
performs an important function in the growth
of flowers, as is popularly known by actual
experiment. In short, the world of science
is full of curious facts, and not without poetry
of its own. Many an intellect that wastes its
time in profitless mental speculations, or loi
ters life away in the perusal of trashy books,
would find a new delight in tracing the won
der-working processes of nature, and learn
through revering nature, to adore nature’s
God. —Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
The Weather. —The Cross. —Up to the
time we write, there has no rain fallen here
to do very much if any good. The “dry spell”
is almost unprecedented. Iven’s might look
in vain for a "frog pond” about Cattanoogjj.
Many wells seem to be eking out their ’last
bucket fulls, and the whole animal and vege
table kingdom seems to be drying up. It has
tried to rain several times, but it is ar ; ued by
some of the weatherwDe, that the “signs” are
not right and it “cannot come it.”
The growing crops have been suffering for
weeks, The Corn, particularly on upland,
is "short and small.” Many fields of Oats
are not worth harvesting. The wheat crop
being more forward has suffered less—yet, it
is fou.id in many instances the heads had
nearly one-half faulty or shrivellod grains.
Vegetation ole very other kind has likewise
suffered, and nothing but a miracle can keep
corn umera for the next year from suffering
from high prices and scarcity. It is now
thought by some that Flour will be ten dol
lars a barrel, and Corn SI,OO a bushel.— Chat
tanooga Gazette, 28<A inst.
House Fired by Teleqrafh. —During a
yain on Thursday evening, a house in Norwich,
Conn, was set on fire by a current of electrici
ty from the wires of one of the telegraphTlines.
As the ignition took place at the spot were
the insulator was fastened to the corner of the
house, it is not improbable that the insulta
tion was imperfect. The air being surcharged
with electricity during the evening, a stream
of the subtle fluid was probably silently divert
ed from its legitimate highway. The firemen
were called out and soon checked the flames,.
Death of a Child from a Sum Stroke.—
Yesterday afternoon, as a child eighteen
months old, daughter of John Bernell,who re
sides at the corner of Ferry and Ann streets,
was standing bonnotleas upon fcho sidewalk,
looking upward, she received what is com
monly called a "sun stroke." She was taken
into the house and lingered in unconscious
ness until 1 o’clock this morning, when she
died. — Boston Traveller, 20 th inst.
the Baltimore Sun, 2 6th inst.)
New Mexico—Proclamation of
CoL Monroe.
From the Civilian of the 14th, we copy the
following important intelligence from Santa
Fe. Major Neighbors, as has been announced,
has returned to Austin without having been
able the organization of the county
of Santa Fe, in consequence of the interfer
ence of the U. S. military authorities station
ed there. Here is a copy of a proclamation of
Col. Monroe, brought by Major Neighbors :
Proclamation.
Whereas, the people of New Mexico, by
public meetings held in the several counties
of this Territory, have expressed a desire to
hold a convention for the formation of a
State Constitution, and to urge upon Congress
the admission of this Territory into the Union
as a State; therefore I, John Monroe, Civil
and Military Governor of said Territory nC
New Mexico, do hereby direct that the qua*P
lied electors of said Territory snail assembfe’
at the precints of the respective counties on
Monday, the 6th day of May next, between
the risingnnd the setting of the sun, to vote
by ballet for delegates to a convention to be
held at Santa Fe on Monday, the 15th day of
May next, as follows :
For the count y of Taos 3 delegates.
“ “ Rio Verba..3 “
“ “ Santa Fe... 3 “
“ “ San Migvel.3 “
“ “ Santa Anna. 2 “
“ “ Bernilillo. ..2 “
“ “ Valencia...s “
The prefects shall designate convenient pre
cincts in their respective counties, and shall
appoint three discreet persons as judges of
election in the several precincts. Other
wise said election shall be conducted in man
ner and form as prescribed in the laws of the
Territory, under the title of “ election,” ex
cept that the prefect's clerk of each county
shall, with the assistance of the prefect, ex
amine and cast up the votes given to each
candidate; shall give a certificate of elec ion
to the person having the hugest number of
votes, and shall transmit to the Secretary
within four days from the day of the election.
Given under my hand, at the Government
Hous#; in the city of Santa Fe, this 23d day
of AmU, A. D., 1860.
- *7 ~ John Monroe,
Military and Civil Gov. New Mexico.
A Queer Box.—An elderly gentleman from
Virginia was last week on a visit to Washing
ton city,enjoying its pleasant sights and sound
and on Tuesday afternoon ventured upon the
grounds adjacent to the Presidential mansion.
He was soon acccsted'in a very bland manner
by a vary bland gentleman, who declared it to
be his duty to conduct strangers about the
piemises. The elderly gentleman was pleased
with tlie stran re gentleman’s polite manners,
and the agreeable service he offered to perform,
and saunted over the greensward and beneath
umbrageous trees by his side. A third gen
tleman of equally pleasing exterior, soon ap
proached them, and desired to know if the
Patent office was yet open. The cicerone knew
all about this, it was his duty to know it. The
Patent Office was not open. The stranger
was sorry to learn this. He was abou' to pa
tent a little box. He held it in his hand, it
could not be opened by any one not initiated
into the mysterious manner of opening it. It
was intended to contain opium, which ought
not to be handled by every body. He would
let the two gentlemen see the box, and would
bet thirty dollars they could not open it.
While they examined it he tarried behind to
look at something else. The poiite guide ol
the eldery gentleman turned the box over in
his hand and opened it. He was delighted.
If he had thirty dodars he would bet with the
foolish inventor. Perhaps the elderly gentle
man had thirtv dollars.
That gentleman did happen to have that a
mount m his pocket, and as there was no
danger of losing it, it was at his new friend’s
service. The sanguine inventor now overtook
them, and he p.oduced his thirty dollars.—
The box was closed and handed to the polite
guide to open; but he could not! Neither
could the elderly gentleman. They both tried
very hard! It must have been accidently o
pened before. Many efforts were made, but
to no purpose. The box could not be open
ed. And so the winning party took his box
and his thirty dollars, and the elderly gentle
man’s thirty dollars, and the elder y gentle
man’s guidj and companion also, and depart
ed, and left the elderly gentleman to meditate
on the bad box he had been in, and the box
he could not open, and the polite friend he
had so suddenly lost, and the thirty dollars
that yent with tha: friend, and many years
of life had passed without getting a right un
derstanding of the box game ! And the eld
erly gentleman was chagrined very much, and
seemed to have made a discovery respecting
himseif which corresponds with the self
knowledge of a gteat many persons who
chance to get old in this world of box-games
and otfoer stragems and iniquities.— Washing
ton Re-fab lie.
Reas Out. —We understand that a small
coterie of the“ take-any-thing-the-North-w ill
give, -and-thank-God-it-is-no-worse,” party,
had tie Hon. Robert Toombs on the anvil
of discission, at a late meeting in this town,
and after hauling his late speech—in which
he said he was for justice to the South or dis
solution —over the coals, they found it entire
ly too Southern for their appetites—too pep
pery for their stomachs. The Honorable gen
tleman was accordingly “read out ’ —chucked
over board, as a Jonah, that would surely
sink so tender-footed and fragile a bark as
theirs. A friend at our elbow says, he would
like to hear Toombs’s speech on the question
of why this sentence should not be pronounced
against him. — Columbus Times.
PineAfflesin Florida. — We noticed the
other day on board the U. S. steamer Mon
mouth, from Indian River, Florida, a number
of Pine Apple plants growing in boxes, and
some oi them bearing good sized fruit. We
learn that the cultivation of this delightful
fruit is being extensively introduced in Flori
da, and with a good prospect ot success. It
grows rapidly, and with a little protection
.n winter, can no doubt be raised in large
quantiiies, in that State and in the southern
portions of Georgia.— Sav. News, 28th inst.
Chinese Proposals of Marriage. —When
a gentleman feels desirious of taking unto
himself a wife, he sends to a paternal head of
some family containing daughters, lor speci
mens ot the size of their feet with the prices
attached. One foot is valued at perhaps two
thousand dollars, the next smallest at five
thousand, and so forth, according to the
market. After the foot (or iady to whom it
belongs) is chosen,she is sent in a sedan chair
to the intended husband's house, he meets
her at the door, looks into the vehicle to take
a view of the fair one; and, if she suits his
taste, he aumits her. As soon as she passes
his thresh >ld, she becomes his lawtul wile;
but if he likes not the lady T , he shuts the door,
and she is carried w hither sne came.
A False Gen. Lopez. —Yesterday, a gentle
men who happens to look like Gen. Lopez,
was introduced by a wag of theFirstMunicipali
ty, to some of his Creole friends, as the real
buna fide leader of the Cuban Expedition.—
i’lie false Lopez bore the new character im
posed on him with becoming dignity, and was
immediately invited to touch glasses with
great numbers ol the Creole gentlemen of the
patriotic First. The glasses went merrily
round, and hilarity stirred up a more than
wonted modicum of enthusiasm. One' gentle
man, indeed, went so far as to make a speech
on the occasion, which was interspersed with
most choice catches of English poetry, for
getful, all the while, that the wire bearded
Lopez did not understand a word of the lan
guage of the Saxon. The orator declared
that his feelings on the occasion were not
“ raptures conjured up
To serve occasions of poetic pomp,”
but the warm outpouring of his chivalry. He
was a firm friend of freedon, and his prayer
was,
if one
Exist who would not arm for liberty,
Be he accursed when living ; and, when dead,
Let hint be buried downward with his face
Looking to hell, and o'er his coward grave
The hare skulk in his form.”
The false Lopez then made a speech in
French, which was received with most raptu
rous plaudits by the Creoles aforesaid, and
with declarations that the Gallic pronuncia
tion of the Iberian General was of the mo3t
perfect Parisian character.
After this, a gentleman wiiu spoke Spanish,
auuresscd come conversational remarks to the
General in that language, Here, how
ever, the imitation-General found himself at
fault, and both he and his aid-ile-camp sud
denly oonceived the idea that it was about
time to evacuate -he miniature Cardenas in
which they found themselves. Being unable
to answer in Spanish, they walked Spanish,
and left the case to the sucres of their enter
tainers. — N. O. Picayune, 27fA.
A telegraphic despatch from Washington
to the New York Journal of Commerce says :
“During the last w- ek, the government has
ordered ix hundred troops from differ’ent
depots for New Mexico.
Another despatch to the same paper says—
“l learn to-day a Senator received advices
from a triend in New Mexico, Mr Calhoun,
U. S. Indian agent, stating that great excite
ment prevailed there in regard to the pro
ceedings of Texas. Major Neighbors had con
ducted himself with propriety, but candidly
stated the determination of Texas to assert
her authority. He had gone home for the
purpose pf obtaining military aid. He expect
ed, with a large military force, to return to
Santa Fe in July. Mr. Calhoun earnestly
advises tjiat the Government interefere,
. “A similar despatch from Mr. Calhoun was
received at the War Department. A Cabinet
council was held to-day, on the present aspect
f things in New Mexico.’ ‘
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Georgia.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 3.
Terms of the Weekly Paper-
One year, in advance $2,00
L paid within the year .. 2,50
At tne end of the year 3,00
idP*The above terms will be rigidly enforced
Southern nights Meeting on the 4th of
July
We hope there will be an attendance of the
citizens of the city and county, on Thursday
evening next, favorable to the objects of the
meeting, commensurate with the importance
of the subject that prompts the call.
, Since our notice of Sunday morning, we
have learned that Mr. A. H. IT. Dawson, one
of the Delegates to the Nashville Convention
from this District, has returned to our city,
and will address the meeting.
The addresses of Dr. McWhorter and Mr.
Dawson will be, no doubt, fraught with inter
est, as they participated in the deliberations
of an assembly distinguished for its abilities
and weight of character, and are prepared to
give a most interesting account of its proceed
ings.
The meeting of that convention was one of
the most important political events of the day,
and its influences will be most potential upon
the future destinies of the country.
Public Opinion in Georgia.
We publish the following extracts from a
private letter received by us a few days ago,
from an intelligent and influential gentleman
residing in one of the most populous and en
lightened counties in Georgia. Our corres
pondent expressly states that it is not written
for publication, but we venture on the liberty
of giving publicity to a portion of it, as an
indication of public opinion iu Georgia.
We hope to see manifestations of this pub
lic opinion by public meetings, called to sus
tain the action of the Southern Convention at
Nashville, and to announce that there is but
one compromise that will be satisfactory to
the people of Georgia—that is, the extension
of the Missouri Compromise line to the Pa
eitte. Woe to any member of Congress from
Georgia, who gives his sanction to any scheme
of compromise in which this is not one of its
essential features. Rather than see this time
honored line rudely and scornfully rejected
again, as was done by the Northern members
in the memorable defeat of Mr. Burt’s amend
ment to the Oregen bill, they should spare no
pains and strategy to prolong the session, de
feat all appropriation bills, tariff bills, and all
bills of whatever description, and completely
lock the wheels of Government. Better no
Government at all, than one of fraud and in
justice to the South. Unless justice be done
us by the anti-slavery majority in Congress,
“ LET DISCORD lIEIGN FOREVER.”
We are pleased to see that a respectable
public meeting has been held in Walker coun
ty, which has ratified the proceedings of the
Nashville Convention. It will also be seen
by our columns, to-day, that a public meeting
for the same purpose, is called in Hancock,
and some of her most respectable citizens, as
well whigs as democrats, unite in the call.
So may it be all over the State. Let us hold
up the hands of our Southern members ot
Congress, and sustain them in all measures,
however extreme, that may be necessary
tor them to adopt, to obtain justice to the
South. Let us denounce as a traitor to the
South, every man among us, who would para
lyze the arm of Southern resistance to North
ern aggression, by appeals in behalf of the
Union,coupled with denunciations of Southern
resistance as treasonable. What true Southern
man would not, a thousand times rather see
the Union shivered into fragments, than see
the rights of the South, under that Union,
tratnpled»upon ? We should all desire to see
the Union preserved. But we should all
unite to tell the anti-slavery majority of the
North that the Southern States go for equal
ity in the Union, or for a separate confederacy.
This sort of .anguage, and a corresponding
determination manifested by our people to act
up to it, will do more to preserve tne Union,
and at the same time get a fair division of the
common Territories for the South than oceans
of ink spilled in writing fulsome eulogies to
its glories. It will secure the Missouri Com
promise line for the country, restore peace and
quiet to the public mind, and give finality
to the slavery agitation. Nothing less than
this will:
* * * “ Suffer me to assure you that the
compromise lately reported, meets with the
direct denunciation of every intelligent demo
crat, and all the liberal and well-informed
whigs of this section. The democrats decided
ly prefer the admission of California, alone,
to the present compromise: they prefer the
Wilmot Proviso to it: for either of the former,
they say, will cause the people to open their
eyes to their true situation, —whereas the
compromise is designed to effect the same ul
timately, under the imposing name of com
promise. They say, we had better let them
have all the Territories, and hold to Texas,
which is a certainty, than to accept of the
compromise, and be thereby out off from access
to the Pacific, through the medium of a slave
State, —surrender up a large portion of Texas,
to New Mexico, (or in other words, to the
North,) all to become free Territory ; for you
know that they boldly assert, that no more
slave States shall be admitted, except that
portion of Texas South of 36 deg. 30 min.,
and even that will be met with violent oppo
sition ; and then, more insulting than all the
rest, compel the South to pay Texas a large
sum, (or at least her part,) ior that portion of
her Territory thus ceded. Your friends say
that this is giving all to the non-slaveholding
States, and nothing to the South, and at the
same time, making her pay money out of her
pocket to build up and strengthen her ene
mies—-to give her additional power to erfect
her final objeet, ‘ total emancipation.’ Will
this gross plunder and invasion of the rights 1
of the South, satisiy them, and forever,
hereafter, stay the;;- onward march towards
total emancipation, or will it not most as
suredly embolden them, and lead rapidly
towards the consummation of that object?!
In a word, nothing short of 3C deg. 30 min.
to the Pacific ocean, will ever satisfy the
South, anu especially the great Democratic
party: and they look upon no man as thei?
friend nor advocate, who does not up to
that line.”
“ We must all see, that the safety and puri
ty, not only of ouy property, but of our fire
sides and homes, our wives and our children,
are directly and deeply involved in this great
question ; for the final object of our enemies
will soon be consummated, unless we unite as
one man, touching this subject, regardless of
all parties, but the true interest and security
of our country. What does the South want,
but justice, even handed justice $ It is basely
degrading to accept or take less.
“ When Texas was annexed, the old com
promise line was adopted; but when it
uits the non-slaveholding States to rob the
South of her just constitutional rights by
means of their reckless majority, then they
treat with contempt this old established line ;
and Cas3 must be highly honored by our pa
pers and editors for being the foremost and
boldest in that effort. No, air, we ought to
adhere to this line, It was an unwise surren
der in that day by which the South sustained
a heavy loss. Lot us not again show our
weakness, as a minority, by making, now, a
greater and a baser surrender, by which we
will lose all self-respect and confidence in our
selves, and be held justly in derision by the
honorable part of mankind.
“The Southern Representatives and Sena
tors should call for the yeas and nays, raise
questions of debate there, until the 4th of
March, next—longer, if necessary—and never
surrender until they can obtain justice for
theit constituents, and this is what all our
papers should concur in recommending. This
course would save the country and the Union
and sustain the dignity of the South.
“ I ana of the opinion, tnat the people are
more ripe, and prepared for action, in defence i
of their rights, than is generally imagined.
Every thinking and reading man must see
that the South must, ere long, meet the
great question, which the non-6laveholding
States are, in general, determined to press,
• total emancipation,’ at all hazards, by a
united and determined action of all parties,
at the South; or abject submission, loss of all
valuable property in the South, total blight
and ruin to the country will be the result.
Therefore, every friend of the South ought
to use every honorable effort to prepare the
public mind, and to unite the people on this
momentous subject.”
Northern Cotton Manufacturers—Th*
Cry for more Protection.
It appears to be a matter of dispute whether
the cry of distress of the Cotton Lords of
Lowell and other Northern mmufacturing
towns be one of real hard times, or a prac
tical ruse to get an increase of tariff duties,
that they may levy still heavier tribute on the
pockets of the American people. It may be
true, that their profits are not so enormous
now as they have been, and that the stoppage
of mills, the working of short time, and like
demonstrations, may be prompted by present
necessity, and not be a part of a grand panic
scheme for political effect. If the latter, the
Representatives of the American people in
Congress should treat it with scorn and con
tempt. If the former, then, it is a proof that
these manufacturers are fairly driven out of
the open field, even with the aid of an ad va
lorem tariff of 20 or 30 per cent, in their favor
against foreign competition, and it is time
they should abandon the business, and devote
their capital and attention to something else.
We publish on our first page, to-day, an
article on this subject, from the New-York
Uerald, which appeared some weeks ago. It
contains some .wholesome facts and reflec
tions, which the writer recommends that
of New England should put in
their pipes and smoke, now that their mills
are closed up, and they have a little leisure
for reflection. The article also furnishes ma
terial for the reflections of Southern peo
ple, showing them their power and resour
ces, and pointing to an effectual mode ot
bringing the Northern anti-slavery agitators
to their senses.
The Washington Union of the 18 th inst.
says that this cotton panic is a false clamor,
and likens it to the panic got up by the Bank
of the United States, in order to force Gen.
Jackson to recharter the rotten concern.—
Hence it curtailed its accommodations, ap
plied the screws to every unfortunate debtor
in its power, brought all the distress it could
on the country, and thus created a wide-spread
clamor, to produce the impression that the
people were crying aloud for a re-charter.
This game cannot be played now, success
fully, by the cotton manufacturers.
The Union makes the following statements
on this subject:
“Just so it is with the present panic, got
up by the manufacturers. They have stoj peel
their machinery lor cotton-spinning, which
they can do without much real injury to them
selves, and set their machinery for the manu
facture of panic busily at work. Hence, the
poor operatives have been discharged and
driven home, and their organs of the press set
to work to convince the people that the whole
country is suffering for the want of more tax
ation upon the people, and more monopoly to
the manufacturers, in the shape of duties
upon cotton fabrics. Yet never, in all our
history, has this country been so prosperous,
wealthy, and powerful as it is at this veiy
moment, in the midst of ail this fanciful and
fictitious suffering and distress.”
*****
“ A few days since, in order to show’ the
unfounded character of the representations of
distress put, afloat by the Northern manufac
turers, we cited the fact that new factories
were rising up in the South, and that, in that
section of the Union, those engaged in the
cotton manufacture were doing a good busi
ness. The intelligence received by the last
arrival from Europe exhibits the same state of
things in the manufacturing districts of Eng
land. Now, with these evidences of the pros
perity of the cotton manufacturing interest
in every district and country in the world,
except New England, before our eyes, we re
spectfully inquire, how it happens that the
mammoth corporations of Lowell, and other
manufacturing towns of New England, should
be in such a state of suffering and distress r
The answer is obvious: It is untrue that they
are. It is a shallow and miserable device, in
vented to enable them to get an increase of
duties, in order that their profits may be
swollen to an amount which no other business
can hope to attain. It is a gross attempt to
impose upon the people and upon Congress,
and, instead of being rewarded by an increase
of duties, it should be met with a reduction.
We have no doubt a much larger revenue
could be derived from cotton fabrics imported
into the country by a reduction of duty than
is now derived from them. Thus would the
people obtain more cloth for the same mon
and the treasury would derive more v - cnU y
Certainly, if the manufacturers wo- ’
favor from Congress, they sho- ~( be ‘ tore
that body with the truth f ln3tead of a j ie> in
their mouths. We 7,uvise them to reflect that
‘ honesty is the best policy,’ and that they
gum iiothing by shallovv and transparent
attempts to impose upon the intelligence of
the country."
Yes, that policy is the true one, by which
the people obtain more cloth for the same money,
anil the treasury would derive more revenue.
The same principles will apply to the iron
interests which are a’so raising a clamor that
the tariff is too low—that iron is selling too
low in our market—that unless Congress will
pass a bill by which the people of this country
will be forced to give higher prices for iron,
the American iron masters will be compelled
to close their iron mills. A late new Jersey
paper thus complains:
“ Under the preposterous anti-American
system, bequeathed to us by the late Admin
istration, iron mills across the Atlantic ocean
can send rails to the very doors of our iron
mills, and to the very mouths of our fur
naces and coal mines, more cheaply than they
can be bought here, and so we have this
charmirg illustration of the virtues of this
British protective system.”
Wo suppose that system would he, in the
estimation of the writer of the above sen
tence, full of virtue, which would compel the
American people to pay double prices to the
owners of th°se American iron mills for all
ho iron they consume.
The Nashville Convent'.ion.
RATIFICATION MEETINGS,
e would call the attention of our readers
throughout the State, but more particularly
those of Cobb county, to the call for a Ratifi
cation Meeting, to be held in Marietta on the
4th proj<, The ball is in motion—let it roil—
the more it ga hers the better—let every coun
ty ir. the State follow the example of Hancock,
and Walker and Cobb—let the people en masse
assemble and ratify the proceedings of the
Nashville Convention. Its proceedings arc
before the world—they are calm—moderate
just. They ask nothing but what we are en
titled to under the constitution,as left us by our
forefathers- they express a willingness to yield
to our brethren what our fathers yielded for
the salts of harmony—the Missouri line of 36,
30. In doing this, they have done all tha*
could be asked of any lover of his coup (V y"
To yield one inch more, would but sub : ect our _
selves to the demand of an eel.
Walker county has set a n jble example
one worthy of following. The proceedings of
her oilmens, without distinction of party, we
have published, T
I'OUR.IH OF July at Barnwell, C. ll.—We
l?a*m Hays the Charleston Mercury,) that the
HOn. Beverly Tucker, of Virginia, Gen. James
H. Hammond, and Hon. R. B. llhett, have
accepted invitations to attend the approach
ing Celebration of the Fourth of July at
Barnwell, C. 11. and that there will probably'
boa larger meeting of the citizens of Barnwell
and the adjoining Districts, than was ever as
sembled at that place on any' previous occa
sion.
CoxauKssMEN.—The correspondent of the
Charleston News says: “The members of
the House now present a strange appearance,
•o far as their apparel is concerned; and com
fort, instead of fashion, appears to be the mot
to. One wears a white linen coat, another a
plaid “round about;" in fact,their coats, vests
and pantaloons are of all the colors of the rain
bow. Suoh arc the glorious privileges of a
Republic. Before the summer is over, I pre
sume some of them will be taking their coats
ff,
Griffin’s Series of Southern School Books-
This series, compiled by Mrs. Sarah L.
Griffin, of Macon, Ga., has been lor several
years before the Southern public. It supplies
a desideratum of Southern schools, the im
portance of which must be continually grow
ing more apparent to our people. Northern
fanaticism assails Southern institutions by all
means, open and insidious, and not an avenue
open to its assaults is left unoccupied. Chil
dren in the Northern States are taught with
their eailiest lessons, that slavery is a foul
wrong and sin, and that one of the holiest
missions of Christianity is to abolish it.—
Hatred to slavery as it exists in the South,
is taught in their school-books, and we at the
South, have been too much in the habit of
carelessly using these very books in our prim
ary schools. There is, perhaps, not a more
thorough-paced abolitionist in the United
States than Mr. Goodrich, who (publishes
school-books under the assumed name of
Peter Pauley, and his books have been as
popular at the South as at the North. In
some of these he has stealthily introduced
abolition sentiments.
It is high time the Southern people should
open wide their eyes to this covert system of
attack, and counteract it. The opportunity is
afforded by this series of Southern school
books, They are compiled by a Southern
lady, residing in our midst, and with an ex
press view to the evil of which we have above
spoken. Her books are highly recommended
by Southern teachers, and by distinguished
citizens.
The books before us are :
The Southern Primary Reader.
Introduction to the Second Class Reader.
The Southern Second Class Rook.
A part of this series is:
The Southern First Class Rook, compiled
by M. M. Mason.
We have also before us the Southern Pic
torial Spelling Rook, by Rensselaer Rentley.
These jiookc are tor sale by J. A. Carrie &
Co.
Free School Examination-
The parents and guardians of the children
attending the Free School, and many others
of our community, assembled at the City Hall
Park, yesterday afternoon, to witness the Ex
amination and distributing of Prizes. We
arrived too late to hear the classes re'Jite hut
were informed that they acquitted V.emsolves
very creditably. We were ir jU ch pleased
with some specimens of oratory from several
juvenile speakers. The following were their
names: Masters Pritchard, Kendrick, White
Martin, Simpson, Taut and Wilson. Who
knows but they may all live
“The applause of listening Senates to command.'’
The Free School is now, and has been, in a
very flourishing condition ever since it has
been under the charge of its present efficient
teachers. The Roard of Managers have, with
a praiseworthy public spirit, given the institu
tion much of their attention, and contributed
by their efficient efforts to make it what it is.
Some of them have sent their own children to
the school, and thus aided to break down the
absurd prejudice, existing in times past, to a
fkke school. We have known a morbid and
foolish pride on the part of poor parents to
keep their children away from »his school.
They were too poor to pay for schooling their
children, and too proud to accept gratuitous
tuition.
The Managers, who are among our most es
timable citizens, and others like them who
have followed their example, have thus done
a good service to the community. They have
also acted wisely in selecting one of the very
best schools in the city for their children.
There are now in the school, in both the.
male and female departments, about 2-iO pu
pils. Since the Ist of October last,there have
been in all as many as 411 pupils entered. The
community may from this judge how useful
this institution is to our city.
e understand that its resources are crip
pled, which must,in a measure, impair its use
fulness. W e would suggest that the city
council could not appropriate a lew hundred
dollars more beneficially than to the relief of
this institution. The money will be returned,
with interest in the shape of the education <s f
the rising generation.
The Course of Mr- Toombs—The
Chronicle & Scutiucl-Th', / iU £ USt a Re
public-
Those who have , <cen a cat playlng with a
mouse, will lea u ,[y bu rem i ll( j ed Q f that crlu q
spoit by \ ea ding the article we copy to-day
from jiepubiiC' healed, “ What Course ?”
xhe Republic has long amused itself in this
way with the Chronicle. Since the disappear
ance from the columns of the Chronicle of the
intellect of Dr. Lee, an able man and skilful
partisan editor, but one wholly unsuited by
his anti-slavery sentiments for this Southern
meridian, the Republic has enjoyed almost a
monopoly of this amusement. The Republic
never seems to tire of showing up the crudi
ties and contradictions of a sheet that delights
to prate of its tJ-J” Conservatism and Ameri
canism.
The remarkable contrast between the
servatism of the Chronicle on the one Land
and its sycophancy to a popular whig lei /aor on
the other, is very well shown off by the Re
public.
The following sentence is the hardest brick
of the whole lot that has been thrown :
“It would be invidious to say that the manly
coarse of Mr. Toombs exists in a disposition (on
the part ot the Chronicle) to keep in with him
and his friends.”
This touches on the raw. Every body knows
that Mr. Toombs has been a violent ultra,disor
ganizing agitator, according to the Chronicle’s
appropriation of these terms to others-as much,
so as Ciingman or Inge, or Burt. He has
kicked completely out of the traces, and is as
little of a conservative wh.-g as the editor of the
Chronicle is a Harry Hotspur. Yet the lattei
is just shrey, d enough not to quarrel with
his bread, and butter, and dare not talk of Mr.
loov.ibs us he would of any of “the Blufton
boys” who would utter precisely the same sen
timents. In Mr. Toombs it is “« manly course.”
In a South Carolinian or a Georgia democrat it
is bluster and treason.
Mr. Toombs is a man—every inch a nin
his boldness as a politician. Ho talks right
out what he thinks, and he talks what the
Chronicle would call treason and disunion if it
dared to do so. He is no doubt disgusted at
the toadyism and hypocris.y which affect to
admire his course as “manly,” and in the,
same breath abuses Democrats for tb jt , satne
thing. His are not theonly f n which
such conduct is disgusting a- .Wninnhio
It is quite evident tliar Mr xli i ‘ B.t
ting very sick ot
but rec.l submiss onism ot - g ou thern whiggery.
Me do ue, tVer y often indulge in prophecy.
But we to predict that in less than
twe y, nion ti l9 Mr. Toombs will be out in the
*-eld against all such conservatism, as treason to
ths South, and all the sycophantic compli
ments of the anti-Southern Chronicle will not
save it from his denunciation.
The State Temperance Convention closed
its annual session, at Atlanta, on the 27th.
inst. The following are the officers for the
ensuing year:
Hon. Joseph Henry Lumpkin, President.
William King, Vice-President, Ist Dist.
Rev. L. Pierce, “ “ 2d “
Rev. S. G. Bragg, “ “ 3d “
Hon. J. J. FloyJ, “ “ 4th “
Hon. W. Ezzard, “ “ sth “
Rev. W. J. Parks, “ “ 6th “
Rev. V. Sanford, “ “ 7th “
L. D. Lallersted, “ “ Bth “
E. G. Cabiness, Corresponding Secretary.
J. W. Burke, Recording Secretary.
Rev. Y. A. Gaskill, Assistant Secretary.
Benjamin Brantly, Treasurer.
Thomas A. Brewer, )
R. F. Ousley, [
Wm. Dibble, > Executive Com-
J. 11. Ellis, I mittee.
M. E. Reylandke, J
We understand there was a numerous at
tendance, and the proceedings were conducted
with the greatest harmony.
[yGeorge J. Lansdown, who murdered Cap
tain Howard at St. Louis, has been pardon
ed.
