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x - POETRY. p (COMMUNICATED.) O.\iTHE DEATH OF A SISTER. Tis hard indeed to have to part With those we fondly lore ; Hut 'tis a comfort to the heart, To know they rest above. , - ve sat and watched the evening sky Where rose the silver bow; i\ly bosom heaved, I knew not why, And tears began to llow. I've gazed upon the stary sky, And thought of those 1 love, And wished that I, like them, could die, And rest with God above. I've sat by night and watched the moon, And thought of Elia dear, With whom 1 played so oft at noon, Arid wished that site was here. Oft have I pressed her to my breast. And raised my voice in prayer, And prayed that iteaven might be her rest; j That 1 could meet her there. 1 stood beside her dying foim, And wished that tears cculd save ; llut heaveu is her happy home— Her rest is in the grave. 1 would have given thousands then, llad I the world possessed, To have a parting word from her To soothe my troubled breast. God, who is faithful, true and kind, Works ail things by his will; Hut yet it is the human mind To grieve lor loved one’s still. But On’C long year has passed away, Another’s rolling by— Perhaps before the end ol it J, too, may fade and MISCELLANEOUS. First Marriage. I The following amusing sketch of “born to goon luck,” is said to be from the pen of the lacetiYv ß Samuel Lover. Lady C. was a beautiful woman, but Lady (3 waa an extravagant woman. She was still single, though rather past extreme youth. Like most pretty females she had looked too hi „ h and estimated her own loveliness too dearly, and now she refused to believe that she was not as charming as ever. So no won der she remained unmarried. Lady G. had ,1.0:11 live thousand pounds in the world she owed about forty thousand pounds; so, wuh ail her wit and beauty, sho got into the Fleet, and was likely to remain there. Now, in the time I speak of, every lady had her l iea d .tressed by a barber, and the barber was ,|' e h iT.dsomest barber in the city of London. Hat l’mlaii was a great admiier ot the fair sex, and were’s the wonder?-sure Pat was an Irishman. It was one very fine morning, •when Pliilan was dressing her captivating head, that tier ladyship took it into her nund M talk to him, and Pat was well pleased, tor Lady C.’s teeth were the whitest, and her smife the brightest in all the world. "So you’re not married, Pat,” says she. “Divil an inch, yer honor’s ladyship,” says k e "‘And wouldn’t ye like to be married, again asks she. ' " Would a duck swimr’ “Is there any one you’d prefer?” “Maybe, madam,” says he,” you have never heard of Kathleen O'Reilly, down beyant Don er iiUi 5 Her father's cousin to O’Donaghoe, •who’s own steward to Mr. Murphy, the under agent to my Lord Kingstown; and—” “Hush,” says she, ‘ sure I don t want to know who she is. But would she have you, it you uslkfcd her.*'** “Aii, thin, I’d only wish I’d be altlier try ing that some.” • ‘And why don’t your” “Sure I’m too poor,” and Philan heaVea a prodigious s gh. “Would you like to be rich.” “Does a dog bark?” “It I make you rich, will you do as I tell your” “Mille murthcr! yer honor, don t oe tantaliz ing a poor boy." “Indeed I’m not,” said Lady C. “So listen. How would you like to marry me?” “Ah, thin, tny lady, 1 believe the King of Russia himself would be proud to do that same, lave alone a poor divil like Pat Peilan.” “Weil, Philan, if you’ll marry me to-mor row, I’ll give you one thousand pounds.” “Oh, whilaboo! whilaboo! sure I’m mad or enchanted by the good people,” roared Pat, dancing; round the room, "Hut there are conditions,” says Lady C.— “After the first day of our nuptials you must never see me .again, r.or claim me for j our W “Ydon’t like that," saps Pat, for he had been ogling her ladyship moss desperately. “Hut remenber Kathleen O Kelly. With the money, I’ll give you, you may go and marry her. ” , . . , . “That’s thruc,” said he, “but thin the biga my.” „ . “I’ll never appear against you, says her ladyship. “Only remember you must take an oath never to call me your wife after to morrow', and never to go telling all the story. ••Divil a word I’ll iver say .” “Well, then,” says she, “there’sten pounds. Go and buy a license, and leave the rest to me;” and then she explained to him where he was to go, and when he was to come, and all that. . Tne next day Pat was true to her appoint ment, and found two gentlemen already with her ladyship. “Have you got the linens ■? said she. “Here it is, my lady,” says he and he gave it to her. She handed it to one of the gentle- ■men, who viewed it attentively. Then calling in her two servants, she turned to the gen tleman, who was reading: “Perform the cere mony,” said she. And sure enough in ten minutes Pat l’hilan was the husband, the legal husband,of the lovely Lady C. “That will do,” says she, to her new hus band, as he gave her a hearty kiss; that 11 do. Mow, sir, give me my marriage certificate. The old gentleman did so, and bowing re speutlully to the five pound note she gave him, he retired with his clerK; for sure enough, I forgot to tell jou that he was a parson. , , ~ ••Go and bring me the warden, says,my lady to one of h r servants. • •Yes, my lady, says she.and presently the warden appeared. , , n “ Will you be kind enough, says-Laav u., in a voice that would call a bird off a tree,“will you bo good enough to send me a hackney coach? I wish to leave this prison immedi -1 “Your ladyship forgets, replied he, “that you must pay forty thousand before I can let you go.” . “I am a married wOttfan. You can detain my husband, but not me,” and she smiled at Ph.lan, who began rather to dislike the ap pearance of things. “Pardon me, my lady, it is well known you are single.” “I iell you I am married.” “Where’s your husband?” “There, sir!” and she pointed to the aston jailed barocr; “there he stands. Here is my marriage certificate, which you can peruse at your leisure. My servants y wider were wit nesses of the ceremony. Mow detain me, sir, one instant, at your peril. The warden was dumfounded,andnowon<fer. Poor Philan would have spoken, but neither patty would let him. The lawyer below was consulted. The result was evident. In half an nour Lady 0. was free, and Pat Philan, her legitimate husband, a prisoner for debt to the amount of forty thousand pounds. Well, sis, for some time Pat thought he was in a dream, and the creditors thought they were still worse. The following day they held a meeting, .and finding they ha been tricked, swore tin y7l detain poor iat forever. But, as they well knew that he had nothing, and would’t feel much shame in go ing through the insolvent court, they made the best of a bad bargain, and let him out. Well you must know, about a week after this, Paddy Philan was sitting by his little tire, and thinking over the wonderful things he had seen, when as sure as death, the post- j man brought him a letter, the first he ia ever received, which he took over to a fner.u of his, one Ryan, a fruit seller, because you see, he was no great hand at reading or writ in-, to decipher it for him. It ran thus: “Go down to Doneraille and marry Kath leen O'Reilly. The instant the knot is tied I fulfil my promise of msking you comforta ble for life.—Rut as you value your life and liberty, never breathe a syllable of what has passed. Remember you are in »7 P°»“ “ you tell the story,-The money will be paid £0 you directly you enclose me your mar riage erlificate. I send you £SO tor present expenses.’ 9 . , , * Oh! happy Paddy! Didn’t he etwt ne*t , day for Cork,and didn’t he marry KathLeea and touch a thousand pounds? By the powers e did. And what is more, §he took a cottage, which, perhaps you know, ie not a hundreu miles from Bcuffln, in the county of Limerick, and i’fax, he forgot his first wife, clesu and entirely, and never told any one but him self, under promise of secrecy, the story of his .first marriage. This Lsoonvenience of being Lionised. — An exchange paper has the following on the inconvenience of being lionized by one who had suffered in that way. “It is a fine thing,” says N. in his ramb ling, querulous way, “ to hurrah, and swing hats, and run beside the carriage of some dis tinguished personage, and crowd around to catch his careless words, mark his bearing, and shake his hand, so long as you can fall back at pleasure, make way for others, and go about your business ; but only think of the poor fellow who can’t quit when he has had enough of this—who must stand up to be gazed at, though weary and travel-soiled, ! when he would gladly sit down unseen ; who \ must talk when he would be silent, and be vo- ! ted a fool if he don’t make a profound re- j sponse to the remark that this is fine weath- 1 if ; who must sit up when he would gladly be in bed ; who can’t take a step without hav ing a hundred eager eyes upon him; who is not suppossed to possess any of the infirmi ties nor the requirements of our material be ing ; who must make a speech w'hen he has nothing in the world to say, and no topic start ed that suggested any thing; who must sweet ly smile because a lot of strangers are staring at him, though one of them has just set an iron heel heavily on his tenderest corn ; and who can’t be allowed the simple indulgence of staying at an inn, because somebody covets the honor of entertaining him—“No,” observes i Mr. Nokeson, waxing warm at the contein | plation of his by-gone sufferings, “ it is a 1 burning shame that, in this age of signal and increasing aversion to cruelty to animals, this habit of Lionising is not abolished or miti gated. For my own part, the temporary agony I suffered, as a mere cub, has taught me keenly to feel for any who may have been ex hibited as full grown specimens of the Royal Asiatic King of the jungle. Henceforth, whoever is pleased to do so, may take me for an ass, but wo to him who attempts to exhibit me as a lion !” {From the N. Y. Evening Post.) Later from Jamaica. By the politeness ot Captain Wilson, of the Empire City, arrived yesterday, and of Cap tain Windle, of the Cherokee, we are put m possession ol Jamaica files to the 29th inst. All eyes are turned to the culture of cot ton. The following letter, received yesterday by the Kmpiie City, reflects apparently the sentiment of the whole island: Kingston, Jamaica, August 29,1850. “I write chiefly to give you the earliest in formation about the cotton movement here. We have had an important meeting this week, at which the Chief Justice presided, for the purpose of establishing a smail experimental company fur the growth of cotton. On the day of thfii meeting, we the delight of in telligence from Manchester, in England, that a company had been established there, for the cultivation of cotton in this Island. We are now becoming all much excited, and there can be no doubt that before six months pass, there will be exportation to England ot some considerable amount. There are several hun dred of acres now in cultivation, and it is ex tending every day. The specimens already forwarded are highly esteemed. Estates and lands of ail kinds tit for cotton have been de pressed exceedingly in value, but now they must rise, and he may consider himself a for tunate m-n who obtains possession of property in here, at the present low prices. What a fine opening this Island now presents to men of delicate health in America, who arc dependent for comfort and existence on a mild climate, to | make it their place of general residence, and there is held for enterprise and exer.ion. f hey could easily do so without involving the aban donment of their country, as the distance is only six days of pleasant steam navigation. “I pray you to caution those who feel in terested about our Island, against the ,ear of not being able to find labor lor their enter prises. There is no difficulty in finding labor at twenty* five cents a day. It is not very ef fective, but then it is not very dear. Were an / considerable number of your black and ! brown population to transport themselves to j this place, how warm would be the welcome lon every side. We greatly desire them, not i so much as laborers, but as settlers. The land ! is cheap, fruitful, and varied in its produc tions; and the markets aiford highly remunera ting prices. Good American pork-breeders, and butchers and curers, couiu make much money lure. Pork sells in our markets at from twelve to eighteen cents per pound. I am hopeful that we may have many visitors I this autumn from America and England, in ( -i. U rch of health and of a good and pleasant field for agricultural enterprise.” In connection with the foregoing letter, we publish the following extract Rom an ar ticle in the Trelacony, a Jamaica paper ot con siderable influence. < “ A few weeks ago we rode round a held o. some thirty acres of cotton, in company with two other gentlemen of this town, and the gentleman in charge of the plantation stated that the peasantry appeared to like the descrip tion of labor required for its cultivation. The plants looked healthy, and st may not prove uninteresting to our readers if we give an account .of its preparation and progress. The field was ruinate land, with logwood growing upon it. Eighteen acres were clean ed, digged, an.l planted in two weeks, whicn 1 end.-.d on the 10th May last, lhe plant u.d not make its appearance above ground un til the sixth day tiffin being planted. 1 *• There was no rain until tile 26th May. and the growth of the plant after the first shower 1 was rapid. Almost every seed took, four be- in" planted in eacb bole. Hie cotton first bloomed on the 25th June, the plants being about nine inches high; the piece was thinned in the latter end of June. The cotton was ' planted in rowt cf tiz feet apart, and the holes dug twelve inches square, fiveieet apart from ; each other. The planting cf tfie remaining twelve acres was finished on the 2§th June; these, came up three days after being planted, having had the advantage of a good shower 1 immediately after the seed had been put into 1 the eurth. The pods of the first plants were 1 formed on the Ist July, and by file 9th of the same month were as large as egg*. We a.rp in formed that the gentleman who had this plan tation, intends having the cultivate n extend ed to about one hundred acres; and from all the information we have gathered on this im portant question, vjc Anticipate the happiest results.” ( From the Atlanta Intelligencer .) Mechanics’ Mass Meeting. —The last Ame rican Mechanic, published at Athens, Geor gia, recommends tnc holding of a Mechanics’ Mass Meeting at Atlanta, on the Fourth of July, 1851, to take appropriate measures for advancing the interests of this large and im portant class of population of our own and the adjoining States. A writer in the same num ber of the paper, suggests that “ the Me chanics of Atlanta hold a meeting oil the sub ject, and ascertain whether or not the sugges tion (of a general Mass Meeting in July next) will meet their approbation.” We doubt not tha much good might be effected, not only to the Mechanics’ themselves, but to the whole State, by some concerted action on their part, especially if efficient measures are adopt ed, such ae will tend to secure the greatest possible patronage to every branch of Me chanical industry in our midst. The editor of the Mechanic concludes an ar ticle on this subject in tne following words : “Every interest—every party —every whim, have their mass meetings, to concert plans for j combined effort, to infuse confidence and vigor into their friends, and to show a bold front to j their enemies. Why should not the men of j labor meet in mass, to concentrate their power and bring it to bear upon the proper point, to strengthen the feeble knee, and lilt up the hands that hang down. No better time than | the Fourth of July; it must be a Second In- j dependence day. No better place than Atlanta, j What think ye In the Wrong Pocket. — The present Whig candidate for Governor in Ohio is engaged in stumping it through the State. During a speech of his at a certain place on the Reserve, not long since, he proceeded to dh>C2nt upon the extravagance of the age, the use 02 gpld watches, fine clothes, and the like—declaring himself to be one of the plain yeomanry—that he never indulged in anything of that sort— an old silver “bull’s eye,” that cost him but ten dollars, was ail the watch he carried, and it was plenty good enough for him; and, to illustrate the fact, the Judge put fjis hand into his pocket, and drew forth not a silver “bull’s eye,”—but---a magnificent gold repeater! The shouts of the crowd am better be imagined \ than described, while the woißd-be-Governor j made a most precipitate retreat. TLersof is, j the silver watch was carried for electioneering purposes, and in the excitement of speech making, whet he went to draw it forth, he put his hand in the wrong pocket. — Wiscon sin paper. A Spec.— A youth from “way down East,” I just landed from the coaster in which he had | worked his passage to our city, dropped into a j cheap victualing cellar and called tor a bowl i of fish chowder. The savory dish was forth- ; with set belore our hungry adventurer, who dipped into it with a will. The strippling,how ever, had not got half way through his mess, | when, to his surprise, he fished up an ivory ! comb. “ Gracious golly,” whispered the j young Kennebeeker to himself, “ well, if here j ain’t a streak o’ luck, any how, to begin with; j six ce»u» for a bowl o’ chowder an’ a tine tooth comb—rej.! iv’ry, an’ wuthagood nine -1 pence any body’s money—thrown in !” Our thrifty, but not over squeamish youngster pocketed the prize, finished his chowd«r, paid six cents from his wallet —all in cents—and then went on his way refreshed and rejoicing. —Boston Post. A Humbug.—The Weeling papers speak of the woman representing herself as the mother of the late .Sumner L. Fairfield, the poet, and who is going about procuring subscribers for an alleged new edition of his works, on the ground that she has his children to sup port? as a gross deceiver. The works are never received, she tells different stories, and they declare her an impostor. {Correspondence of the Baltimore American.') Thirty-first Congress—Flirt Session. Washington, Sept. 11. SENATE. The bill to ..boiisn the slave trade in the District of Columbia was taken up. Mr. Seward’s substitute abolishing slavery in the District, with compensation to owners, I and with the pre-a»sent of legal voters, was pending. Mr. Seward rose and said he would i withdraw it, because it would embarrass the j bill, the object of which was to abolish the slave prisons. He would offer it another time. Mr. Downs objected to the withdrawal if i it was to be renewed, and it was not with drawn. Mr. Clay admitted that Congress had full and complete power over the entire subject, but it would be a gross violation of good faith while slavery exists in Maryland and Virginia. Mr. Seward spoke at some length in reply to Messrs. Dayton and Winthrop, and argued that the time had come for the abolition of slavery here; and if not, when will the time come. Mr. Winthrop replied, and Mr. Foote spoke |on the subject. Mr. Winthrop briefly spoke against laws of a stringent character in rela j tion to free negroes. In some States there ; were laws to take free negroes out of American | vessels and sell them for slaves. Mr. Ewing deprecated the discussion of an amendment which no one wished to vote for. Mr. Hale announced his determination to vote for it, and read the resolutions of the Legislature of New Hampshire, passed in 1846 and ’47. He held to the doctrines of instruc tion to this extent, that he would obey in structions if approved by his judgment and conscience, and disobey them if he did not approve them. He said he agreed with the Legislature in this matter. lie had offered the same propo sition here several years ago, and got 7 votes for it. He had read of a good deal of rejoic ing at the compromise, and of the glory ac quired by some great men by it. He, on the other hand, wished to gain ail the odium he : could by opposing these measures. He wish ed now to get his full share of odium hv voting for the abolition of slavery in this District. Mr. Foote spoke in reply to Winthrop 1 and Mr. Hale. 1 Mr. Butler replied to Mr. W.’s*emarks on 1 the object of laws of Southern States enslav -1 ing free negroes. He denied the existence laws. There was a municipal iaw in ' some of the Southern States preventing free ‘ negroes from landing and acting as ince;.di [ aries. 1 Mr. Winthrop read a letter from Capt. ' liomlett, of Boston, replying to a statement ! : made by Colonel Jefferson Davis in the Sen ate. Col. Davis stated that there had been | ’ but few eases of free colored men imprisoned j at the South. Captain liomlett says that j 1 there has been 1,200 cases in New Orleans, j 300 in Savannah, 500 in Charleston, and 500 I j in Cuba. ' Mr. Berrien said the statement was not true j as to Savannah. ’ Mr. Jefferson Davis declared that his own j ‘ statement was made on good information; and ! ' this statement of Capt. liomlett’s was evident- j 1 ly false,and it degraded the Senator who pro- ; dueed it. Mr. Winthrop said that he showed the let- i ’ ter the other day to the Senator in a kind j i spirit. The Senator did not then consider I himself degraded by reading and considering " and commenting on the letter. 1 Mr. Davis did not expect that the gentle man would pioduce it as testimony here. 1 Mr. Butler argued that Capt. liomlett’s j story was untrue, on its face, as to Charleston. : | He couid have released the men. 1 j Mr. Winthrop said that Ca itain liomlett 1 j was wrecked two days out. His colored mate | and cook fell in with an abandoned Charles i j tonyvcssel and carried her safety to port, and | for their pains were taken out of the vessel ‘ ) and thrown into jail; that he (Capt. 11.) ap ! plied for their release and it was refused. He 1 | had lost his own ve sel and could not bring 1 | them away. j Mr. Butler would answer for it, that any j one iu Charleston would have taken out the s i men, and he had no doubt they did, after their 1 I Captain had abandoned them. [ j Mr. Downs declared that the statements as I to New Orleans were untrue. There were ’ ; hundreds of free colored boatmen, who were ! never disturbed, and owned their boat?. ' | Mr. Winthrop congratulated the Senator j from Louisiana up n galvanizing himself into !|adt of oratory. Ho (M. W.) should not be 1 deterred from exposing the abuses under ’ Southern States by violence or insult, to which i Senators might resor 1 when the facts pi ess ■ too hard against them. The Senate adjourn ed. 1 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 3 The House met at 11 o’clock—the journal ‘ of yesterday was read and approved. 1 The Speaker stated that the first business " in order was the motion of the gentleman from 1 i NprthCarolina, (Mr. Venable,) to refer to the 1 I committee oi. elections the credentials of the ' i Representatives from the State of California; I anil the amendment pending thereto, offered i I by the gentleman irom Indiana, (Mr. Robin, r j son,) that the said Representatives be sworn in. • I The previous question having be- n moved, the 1 i question now was whether there be a second. 1 ! The question was put, and there was a se -1 ! cond—ayes 84, noes 28; and the main ques s tion was ordered, s The question was then taken by yea 3 and 1 nays on the amendment of Mr. Robinson, and ? it was agreed to —yeas 109, nays 59, as follows: ; Yeas.—Messrs. Albertson, Alexander, Al . i leu, Andrews, Baker, Bay, Beale, Bennett, r Bissell, Booth, Bowlin, Bowu of la., lluel, a Burrows, Butler of Fa., Butler of Ct., Cable, e Caldwin, of N. C., Calvin, Carter, Campbell, e Casey, Chandler, Cole, Corwin, Deberry, - Dickey, Disney, Doty, Duncan, Dunham, - Durkee, Elliot, Evans, of Ohio, Ewing, Fitch, - Fowler, Freedley, Fuller, Gentry, Gerry, Gid -1 dings, Gilmore, Gorman. Gott, Grinned, Hall, - Halloway, Hampton, H-rian, Hay, Hebard, t Hibbard,' Hoagiand, Howe, Hunter, Jackson, of N. Y., Julian, King of R. I, L ing of JJ. J. John A. King, of N. York, Pre3ton King, of at, Y'., Lelfler, Littlefield, Mann, of l J a., Mat te*on JJeDonald. MeKissoek, McLanahan, McLean, otEy. Meacham, Miller, Moore. Mor ris. Nelson, Olds, f'eaclee. Pitman, Potter, Putnam, Reed, Reynolds, ruc-narrison, Robin son, Root, Saekett, Sawrelle, Soheast, Sofeer merhorn, Schoolcraft, Shepperd, Silvester, Stanton, of Tenti., Sprague, Stanton, of Ky., Stetson, Sweetser, Taylor, Thompson, of Pa., Tuck, Underhill, Walden, Waldo, Watkins, Wentworth, White, Wildrick—lo9. Nays.—Messrs. Anderson, Ashe, Averett, Baylv, Bowdon, Brooks, Brown of Miss., Burt, Caldwell of liy., CUngman, Ccbb, Coloock, Edtnundson, Featherston, Green, Hamilton, Haralson, Harris, of Tenn„ Harris of Ala., Hilliard, Holladay, Holmes, Houston. Hub bard Ingle, Jackson of Ga., Johnson 01 lenn ~ > Johnson of Ivy., J ohnson ot Ark., Jones, Kaufman, Kerr, La. Sere, Mann ot Mass., Mar- ! shall. MuClernandf McWillie, Meade, Millson, Morse,Orr, Outlaw, Owen, Parker, Ross, Rum- i sey, Jr., Savage, Seddon, Stanly, Stevens of ! Pa., Thompson, of Miss., Toombs, Venable, j Vinton, Wallace, Wellborn, Williams, Wood- j ward—29. j The amendment as amended was agreed to without a division, Mr. Bovd then introduced Mr. Geo. NV. Wright and Mr. Edward Gilbert, the Repres entatives for California, and the Speaker ad ministered to them the usual oath to support the Constitution of the U. S. The Speaker announced that the next busi ness in order was the report of the Select Com- j mittee, made by the gentleman from Illinois, j [Mr. Richardson,] from the Select Committee, appointed to inquire whether Mr. Ewing, late Secretary of the nterior, had not re-opened and paid" certain accounts, and whether he had not improperly paid interest on others, &c. Sic. Mr. Brown, of Miss., ccuc!tided his remarks in censure of the conduct of the Secretary of the Interior. The debate was continued by Messrs. Bay ly, Brown, Richardson, Denham and Outlaw. Mr. Milson then obtained the floor but yielded to a motion to adjourn, (From the Washington Union, 13 th hist.) The fugitive Slave Sill Passed the House -Mr Seward’s Amendment in tho Senate voted down Mr. Seward’s amendment to the District slave bill was rejected in the Senate yesterday by a vote- of 45 to 5; and then this bill was temporarily laid upen the table, In the House of Representatives, the bll for securing ths restriction of fugitive slaves was passed by the triumphant majority of 34. It passed the House without any amendment. It is stringent in its provisions; and we trust it will be calculated, in a great degree, to se cure the rights of southern proprietors, under the guarantees of the constitution. ( Reported for the Baltimore San.) Washington, Sept. 13, 1850. SENATE. A private bill was passed, and a" message was then received from the House communi cating the proceedings on the death of Mr. Nes, a representative from Pennsylvania. Mr. Sturgean passed a eulogy cn the de ceased, and offered the following resolutions, which were adopted : Resolved, That the Senate has received with j deep sensibility the message from the House i of Representative*; announcing the death of 1 the lion. Henry Nes, a representative from Pennsylvania. Resoleed, That in token of respset for the memory of the deceased, the Senate will wear the usual badge of mourning thirty days. Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, the Senate do j now adjourn. 'L’he Senate then adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. T. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, rose and % ] announced to the House the decease of the I Hon. Henry Nes, late rtpresentative i'roW. the i 15th Congressional Hist ot Penn., who ex pired at his residence on the evening Qf the 10th inst., after a long and painful illness.— -Vlr. S. 6aid that there were few men who had such enviable popularity as that which Dr. Nes possessed among his immediate cousStu ency, and that there was no one who hud pos sessed more liable qualities of head and heart; that he had lived honored among his lWf bjr ous friends, and died, leaving not a snfg-ie enemy. He concluded by moving the usual resolutions, to testify tne respect of the House for the memory of the deceased. The reso lutions were unanimously adopted, and the House then adjourned. • ► * {From the N. O. Picayune, 11 th inst.) From Texas _JV • By the arrival last evening of the steamship Galveston we have received papers trom Gal veston city to the 7th inst. * The News of the 6th learns that in addition to the bills to which we have before alluded, there is also a joint resolution before the Le gislature, requiring the Governor to demand of the General Government the removal ot ail Indians from beyond the limits of Texas’; and also another designating a line of posts on the frontiers of Texas. Also, a bill making m ap propriation for the per diem pay and mileage of the members— amount, 5,000. The News also learns verbally that the bill authorizing the Governor to raise troops, Ac., for the suppression of the rebellion in'Santa Fe, had passed both branches of the Legisla ture. It was also understood that the Legislature had adjourned, but of this nothing was known with certainty. , At a meeting recently held in San Antonio, among other resolutions, the following were passed: llesolted, That the people of this country are devotedly attached to the Union and the con stitution of the United States, and that they wiil defend both with their blood and treasure when necessary and proper. Resolved, That Texas has a just an 4 title, to the whole of the country claim&Jr-vith -1 in Her boundaries; but with a view of enabling the Government of the United States to re move beyond her limits, and for the ptipose of enabling Texas to pay her just debts, and ■ to restore harmony to the Union, in favor of selling to the Government biates all that.part of her tire 33® of north latitude, and W?3t ! ot west longitude, for ten millions v*t .Aylars, 1 proposed by a resolution which recently pass | ed the Senate of the United States. (Floin the iV. O. Crescent.) *** Commerce of N. Orleans for the Year 1849. The Bulletin and the Price Current have published their Annual Statements jii the business of theyear. We avail ourselves of their valuable labors, and present the follow ing table of the most important articles! COTTON CROP OF THE UNITED STATES! Quantity—lb. Value. 1816 547,500,000 $12,800,000 1847 527,200,000 53,400,000 1848 814,300,000 62.000.000 1849 1,026,600,000 66 400,000 Consumption. -The crop of 1848-49 was 2,728,596 bales —consumed in Bales, I Bales. G. Britain.. 1,537.901 | United States— France 368.259 i North, p0rt5,.*18,772 N. Europe.. 385,458 Western States Ocher ports. 156 226 { (estimated)... 80,000 Crop of 1849-’SO. —Probable estimate, 2,- 080,000. Receipts at New Orleans 836,000 b.,lcs. In this are included receipts iron Mo bile end by sea. The receipts proper gyc 809,- 973 bales, showing a decrease of 281,000. Exports from New Orleans. (}. Britain.. .391,119 I Foreign rorts.llo,ll6 Fiance 117,413 | Coastwise., 3,592 Decrease in entire crop estimated at 046,- 000 bales. These figures slightly vary from those of our own commercial report. But we have preferred to use these, as the slight variance shows the general correctness of ail the esli i mates. As they say of a close horse rate, one | blanket would cover all. Receipts of New Crop in New Orleans j Sep. 1. 1050. .baits 67 | Sep. 1,1016 bates 110 1849.. 540 j 104'.... 6.816 1« 18 2.864 j 1014.... 5,720 1017.. 1,089 [ *Short Crop. SUGAR. I Crop of Hh s. | Crop of Hluls. i 1810-41 87.000 | 1015-16 -187.000 | 1041-12 90,000 | 1816-47 150,000 S 10 12.15 140,000 | 1847-48 2 40.0 0 134.5-11 100.0 0j J 840-49 220,00 U 1, 41-15 200,09'J | 1849-50 247,923 Number of productive Sugar-houses in 1849, 1455; in 1850, 1516 Probable leas by crevasses iu the crop of 1849, IS.OOOhhds; in 1850, 20,000 hhd-\ MOLASSES : Estimated crop of 1849-50.12,000,000 gallons. TOBACCO: Receipts at N. Oilcan, 1845—’50.61,050 hhds. flour: 4. 1849-50 I3bs. 1843-’49 Bbs. j Reoipts 590,000 Receipts.... 1,022,500 j Exports 200,u00 Export*,.. WHEAT! I 1819-,.so—Receipts bushels—l2s,ooo,ooo j 1348 540,000,000 cjrn: ! 1549-,so—Receipts bush. £.750,000 Exports .1,135.000 ! 1848-,49 —Receipts f,000.000 Exports ‘.600/100 New-York Money Market. —The Journal of Commerce of Monday evening say^ There is an active demand for money, and the banks have confined themselves to a mod erate business at legal rates. A large portion of the negotiations are transferred to the street. s*oßl of the paper thus discounted, «a» taken at a range from 9 to 12 per cent, tor which there is a good inquiry from capitalists. The stock market has decidedly improved; a considerable business was done in U. S. 6’s of ’67 at 116, and although they closed at 1153 , there were none offering at that price. Erie income went tip, and there was an active inquiry also for Erie and Reading Railroad stock, Exchange is steady at thu rates noticed on Saturday; Sterling 10 a 10R Francs i 23? a 5 183 for the range; Amsterdam 4!l_a 403: Hamburg 35g a 355; Bremen 79j a 79}. The demand is not very urgent and but li, tie has oecn sold for Wednesday’s steamer; the high er retas of i/itircst crowding business into the la.t days. The Chops. —Passing through the &nt re length of this (Montgomery) count t ur.d a portion of Downdes, and having taken some pains to inquire into the quality of crops in ii+ege counties, as well as those of Autaug', Coosa, Macon and Dallas, we think we are en abled to form an estimate of their probable yield, compared with last year, approximating to something like correctness. We leal pret ty confident thst the yield of the six coun ties mentioned above wid not materially vary, if at all, from that of last year. Three weeks a"o. the prairie planters were under the im pression that their ctops would be much ; larger than last year ; but the wind and inces ; iar.t rain for a week thereafter, blasted these calculation;.. The plant took a. fresh start to ! grow after the rain, sum consequently threw oif every form and bloom, and evetl Pittsdl bolls. Never have we witnessed inch a change in a crop; and we have no: seen a prairie farmer who does not reduce his esti mute at lease gne-faurth, since the 25,h of August, and many of them to a third and a half. The dry weather before this ti«i° had materially injured the sandy land that between ti f e two, wet and dry, we know j not, nor hear not, of- good crop in he county. —Montgomery AdretUser, 1 'lth its/ . On The Velocity of the Galvanic Cus- i bent. —An article of great scientific isterest j | and value will be found on the first page to- I I nay. It relates to the velocity of the galvanic I current through the telegraph wires, and was delivered before the Scientific Association at ; their recent meeting at New Haven, by Mr. B. A Gould, Jr., of Cambridge. It is known ; (to all scientific men, doubtless, that the ex- 1 i perimeuts made in England and France to de j tertmne th,e rapidity of the galvanic current through telegraphic wires have produced results greatly at variance with those fiereto : fore made in this country. Prof. Whetstone of England, making the velocity over copper wire to be not loss man 288,000 in ■» second, some French experimenters making the velocity oyer copper wire fihout 110,000 miles in a second, and oyer iron wire ?hout (2,000 miles a second, while Prof. \y piker, of the Coast (survey, made the velocity ovei iron wire to be from 16,000 to 19,000 miles per second. The object of Air, Gould’s in vestigations, the results of which aie com municated in this p3per,gojto settle the ques tion, “What is the real velocity of the gal vanic current?” His conclusion is that it is not less than 12,006 miles in a second, and not more than 20,000a second.— JS-change Pa -1 per. The Louisville Tragedy.—lt has bean sta- i ted by telegraph that a young girl, “Lizzy Sinkhorn,” was shot in a brothel at Louisville, Ky., on the 28th ult., by John Fig, who af terwards killed himself. The Louisville pa pers say that the died of her wounds on the following day at the hpme of her pprents, whom she had deserted. The Courier gives the following particulars; “There were some affecting incident* con- i nected with this affair. The girl, wtase re td name we learn is Spikewell, had folned a strong attachment for the man Fig, who sought to murder her. J T e had pers laded here to forsake her companions u,.d Ji'-e en ; tirely with him, and, in spite of the mos; bru : tal treatment on his part, she remained with him, and shared her ill-gotten gains with him. i On the day previous to the attempted mar- der, he had beaten and bruised her in such a manner that she was compelled to fly from him and seek shelter in the house of Mr«. Reniro, where she had formely resided. He watched the house from the back yard until he saw her enter a room in the basement — he followed her into the room, and without a word, sought to place the muzzle of a pistol against her breast in the region of her heart. She sought to avoid his aim by shrinking be- j hind the furniture of the room, and begged him not to shoot her. He persisted in his hel lish purpose, however, and immediately af terwards shot himself. She did not u'ter one word of complaint against him while in the hou.-e, and when they spoke of moving her, she requested that she might be permitted to see the body. After embracing the inani mate form, and gazing fondly on 'he features fora few minutes, she simply ejaculated “poor John !” and turned away, far “more in sor row then in anger.” What an unutterable fund of affection jjwas conveyed in those sim ple words, “poor John.” The Crops- The Caterpillar. —The N. O. Crescent, of the 10th inst. says : “ There can be no longer a doubt that this worm has commenced its ravages in Western Louisiana and Eastern Texas. We hear of it at Rapides, Claiborne, St. Landry', in this State, and Jasper and Har rison counties, Texas. It has made its ap pearance so late, however, that it canuot ut terly destroy the crops, though it will do much injury. The Cotton Crops in Mississippi.— During our rides through this county while engaged in taking the census, says the editor of the Fort Gibson Herald, in his paper of the 6tli ir.st.', we have had better opportunities than usual, for observing the growing crop, and as lar as our slight knowledge of this important branch of agriculture would admit, of form ing an opinion as to t:e probable result. We have never known cotton to suffer so much from drought as during the weeks which pre ceded our receSSrains. In many fields it had entirely lost its usual green appearance, and turned a sickly yellow. In mmy spots the stunted cotton seemed to have scarce vigor enough to put forth blooms, and in others, tlie boll worm had commenced its ravages. Da ring the last week the intense heat was fol lowed by heavy rains, and they by weather qold enough for the latter part of October. — What* the result of this changes will ko/iwe cannot yet determine, but it is the general 1 conviction that is cannot result in any' good, i The rains have come too late to be of any be- \ nelit, as a growth of the plant is now to be dreaded, for the reason that the period is near ly past when blooms, thus formed, wiil ma ture. The probability too, is that the change of weather will fearfully increase the ravages of the boll worm. The editor of the Rodney Gazette ot the stli inst, observes: “ While in Fayette last Monday, we con versed with a number of cotton planters, resi dents'of different portions of the county of Jef ferson, on the prospect of the growing cotton crop. The opinion of a majority of them was, that the present crop of this county will faii considerably short i f that of last year.” Oil the subject of the crop 3 in Mississippi, a correspondent of our own, at CenteviUe, Amite county, in that State, writes us under dale of September Ist, as follows: *• I see you have frequently noticed in your paper the condition ot the growing crop, and prospect it presents to the fanner, and hare concluded to say a word or two to you rela live to the ravages of the boll worm in this section. The destructive insect has been more severe on the small bolls and forms, for some three weeks past, than I have known for years. Notwithstanding the heavy fains, h ;. es, for a time, were indulged of an ordina ry yield,but they are no .v completely blasted.” —A. O. Delta. The Chocs.—The crops throughout this part of Georgia and neighboring Alabama, are very unpromising. The conclusion to which our blind is irresistibly driven, from all we have heard, is that if the cotton crop turns out two thirds of the average, it must be visited by good seasons through the ballance of the faii. The recent storm was very vio lent in the counties of Merriwether, J'roup, Harris, Heard, &e., and did a great deal of injury. It is said by old farmers to be a re markable fact, and one having intimate bear ing upon the final yield ot the crop), that since then, for the la»t two weeks, very few new forms have been pro iuced, and very few white blossome have been seen in the fields. The corn crop is not as total a failure as has been expected. It is true that much of it was levelled with the ground by the wind; but we think if farmers will be diligent, and gather it early, vetv little of what is made will be lost, and there will be enough to sup ply the wants of the country.— Lagrange {Ga) i Reporter, 1 3th inst. The Ckom.—The Houston (Texas) T'ele 'graph of the 28ih ult. says the weather, for several weeks has been favorable for cotton picking, and the planters were improving it to the best advantage. A few samples of new cotton had been brought to Houston, and the staple is uncommonly line. The Concordia Intelligencer of the 7th inst. says: We do not need to say that last week's rain has been of great service to the late planted cotton and corn. There can be no doubt but many places have been severely injured by the long protracted drought. Yet the late rain, too late to redeem and restore some fields of cotton and eo n prematurely ripened, has made a great change, and that for the better, in the appearance of many others; and ve need not say it must make a difference in counting bar rels of corn or Dales of cotton whenever the crop is gathered. The farmers in this vicinity, says the Minden Herald, seem to entertain tears that the cotton crop will yet bo much injured by worms. A certain species of fly, said to be the forerun ner of the cotton-eating caterpillar, has made its appearance. {From the Aberdeen Independent, Aug. 26.) The Crops.—The prospect in this county is for a.i average crop, at least, much greater than it was last vr-ar. We hear of the boil worm, but it Is not generally feared, unless a spell of hot weather commences, which will start them to work. It the wet will stay j away ten days, we consider the crop beyond j danger. We heard of one planter who had | started his hands to picking and destroying ' the worms, and that he had destroyed many thousand of them. From other pares of the cotton region, we hear gloo ny news. In Madison county, in this State, the account is very discouraging. It is equally so from other regions. We cal culate there will he a larcer crop made than taat cf last season; but it will be a short crop at all events. {From the Planters’ Banner, Sept. 5.) The Sugar Crop.—During tlie past few days we have conversed with several planters, respecting tho growing crop of Cane, and the general impression seems ,<> be, that the yield throughout the parish will be far short of an average crop. Ou some plantations the Cane looks well, yet the usual substance is not in it when tested. This is attributed to the ex- dry and warm weather we lisve had, and ve fe-»• iije late rain has come too l*te to be of material service. {From the Vicksburg Whig, Sept. 5.) The Worm. —We learn that the worm has appeared in great numbers on several planta tions in this county, where such a visitor was icast expected, until within a few days past. We have feared that the hopes of planters would meet with some such reverse ; and, as mi»fo?:tunes never come single, perhaps those ! who are looking for good picking late in the J season, had as well commence preparing their ; foititudo for an early frost, i {From the Savannah Republican, 13 . th t*uf] From ILvvana.—We are indebted to the Editors of the Faro Industrial for a file of their papers extending from the 19th ult., to ! the 3rd instinclusive.and for the Havana Mer- I cunfile Report ot the 24th and 3ist ult. We do not find much news in these papers ; worth transferring to our columns, j There was a terrible gale at that part of the ! i ß i an d beyond Matanza,,, on the nights of the i 21st and 22d ult., which did great injury and j involved many families in serious losses. * This gale has been felt at all points of the ! Island as far as heard from. In Havana the | HAioroeter began to fall at ih o’clock in the I afternoon of the gusts of wind recall atternoon. ; *0.1.4. In the night the jed tnv hurricane 01 1,1 * trees j rain descended iu torrents. NunuTOUS trees I were thrown down in different parts of the city. . ~ . , The Monplaisirs now 111 Mexico have mape an engagement to appeal - in Havana We observe some marching and counter marching of troops in the island, probably changes of posts for purposes of health. The Faro containg ihe history of the Stenm ! ship Savannah, of this port, the first one that crossed the Atlantic. Advices at Havana from Trinidad, an nounce the formation there of a battalion of 1 six companies of volunteers. {Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sui.) Naval Orders—Vessels Fitting Out—Humored Cuba Invasion, Ac., Washinoioh, Sept. 1£ —Qrders have been issued to several Navy Varu, to luave certain vessels of war fitted out and ready for &e£ upon the shortest notice. .At our Yard, the work ou the Vixtn and vVjter Witch, will bo vigorously prosecuted. It.is supposed that these instructions have reference to recent rumors of another expedi tion to Cuba. B. Look out for Negro Thieves. —Mr. R. 11. Raines, living near Lott's Fost Office, has furnished us with the following information respecting a white man by the name of Samu el Eldridge. We cheerfully publish it for the benefit of the public. —Edgeville Advertiser. Lott’s P. 0., Sept. 10, 1850. For several days past, tlitre has been a man who calls himself Bisel, and s nnetimes Ed- I wards, but whose correct name is known to be Samuel Eldridge, lurking about in the neighborhood of Spann's Church, on the Ridge Road leading to Columbia, endeavoring to persuade off such negroes as he could find j dissatisfied with their owners. It is thought that he belongs to a:i organized band cf Rob bers, extending through the Southern States. Said Eldridge is about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, of ruddy complexion, black whiskers, dark hair, rather good looking, about 28 or 30 years of age. He also was quite well dressed; had on a black cloth sack coat and white pants, and a pair of saddle-bags across his arm. On being suspected he put off in a brisk trot from Turner Watson’s, on Monday the 9th inst., about 12 o’clock, A. M. He was followed by a party of men with track dogs, i but owing to the length of the titne he was gone and night coming on he made his escape. It is supposed he will make for Augusta or Columbia. It is certain he is from Alabama, and left there for stealing money. He has swindled one of our citizens, out of SIOO, by making false representations about his Trunk, Baggage, &c., in Charleston. [Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.] Baltimore, Sept. 15. New York Market. —The transactions in Cot ton yesterday reached 1200 bales at very full prices. Fair Upland is worth 14. J, and Fair Orleans 14jc., and Middling 13i and 13J. — Tise week’s sales amounted to 15,000 bales.— About 500 tierces ot Rice have been sold this week at $3&. The Flour market is in a droop- j ing condition. Mess Pork is quoted at sloi. j Sterling Exchange commands 101, Coffee is j improving in value. Political. —The Hunkers and Barnburners of j New York, have fraternized, and have nomi- j nated Horatio Seymour, for Governor, Sand lord E. Church, for Lieut. Governor, and John ; C. Mather, Canal Commissioner. The Slave Trade Bill was under discussion i in the Senate yesterday. Jenny Lind’s Second Concert was more | numerously attended than the first. Steam Ship Sout/wrlß//oKtm vate telegraphic i dispatch announces that the stf-ara ship Soutli -*k | erner, Capt. Berry, having completed her le- j ! pairg, left New York on Sunday morning last, j at 9 o’clock. The Mails Again.—The mail failed last j evening beyond Charleston, making the thir : teenth failure tor the first thirteen days of this \ month. South of Ne-.v York. By enquiry at ! the office, our obliging Post Master info, ms i us, that there has baen one hundred and one failures this side of New York since first ! January Instate the present tin e,thus'averaging nearly a failure every other day, or half the time. 1 Last year, the failures for the same time j were forty-jive; and the year before, forty four. | If a single failure occurs between the cities ' of .lie North,an agoutis straightway dispstch \ied by the Department to enquire into the cause and prevent its recurrence, but to the i hundred and one failures of the South no at- 1 j tention seems to be paid. But, if we are to become vassals—serfs to the North, perhaps ! | the sooner we get used to these things the ! ; better. Maybe a day of reckoning will come. , ’ —Montgomery Advertiser, 14 th inst. Thunder.—The season has been distin- : guished beyond any we recollect, for the nun:- ! ’ ber of violent freaks and irolics of the celestial I . fluid in the house of mundane folks. Scarcely ! a rain has occurred all Summer that we have j | not had occasion to report a hole piekad ir. somebody’s roof hy the lightning. Finally we j had a touch of it ourselves. Sitting quietly j ’ at dinner on Saturday, at Sullivan’s Island, there came, without any warning of wind or ! ’ rain or notifiable darkness, an explosion har der and more deafening than the heaviest ar ' tilery, followed by a sensation as if the roof of the house had lighted on our head. The lightning had struck the house, passed down, J- then crossed the room horizontally right over the dining table and cut its way like a cannon shot through the wall. The gentleman who sat near us was looking up at the moment and saw a ball of tiro as large, he says, as his head. , | cress the room. The effects of the stroke were ; visible all over the house —glass and china ' smashed —the fire place heaped with the spoils ’ | of the chimney—walls cracked, &e. hut no ‘ ; person was injured. —Charleston Mercury, ICt/t J i hist. ' The Weather, Health, &c. —The h-t ’ weather of July and August has been suc ' ceeded, soon after this month came in. by ' ! quite autumnal weather. Latterly, we have j had a few copious rains, which have been fol lowed by cool nights . T’lie general health hi the town is good, as the bills of mortality 1 published yesterday abundantly prove. There • have been some eases of fever of very short duration, arising, no doubt, as is customary, ; from the sudden transition from heat to cold. We have heard of some cases analogous to what is termed “ broken-bone fever,” but in | these cases the “broken, hones' seem to be 1 rapidly and easily adjusted and set up— -1 ! thanks, probably, in part ;o the skill of our 1 j physicians. 5 The trade of the season just past has been followed, almost without intermission, by 1 that of the next succeeding one. Already ! country traders are in town making up their 3 assortments, and for some days our dry goods, grocery, shoe, clothing, and other establish ’ ments, have not been idle. Never before were ' so many goods shipped from the North to Sa- j vannah. Every thing coming has been full, 1 and numerous extra vessels have been called 1 into requisit : on. Merchandise is now passing ■ through town by all our channels of commu j nic.ttion to places strangely remote, and all ' I appearances indicate a prosperous trade. ! Recent rains have interfered somewhat with the rice harvest, but the weather is now j , most propitious, and appears quite settled. — j Savannah Republican, 13 th inst. The Y’s and V\”s.—“ Villiam, I vant my I j vig.” “ Vich vig. sir r “ Vy, my vite vig, in the vig-box, vich I vore last Vednesday vas a veek, ven I vent to the vidow Vuddle’s vedding." “ I am wery much wexed at your wulgar pronunciation, Mr. Walentine. You should say, wig not vig. But if you are going a i visiting you had better take your welwet cap I that you had on the last meeting of the wes try." “ Vise, you arc always vorrying me vith your criticisms on my vords. I’m not going a wisiting, as you have it; but lam going to ! take a valk along the varves around Vashing ! ton Square, and perhaps I shall go as far as j the Vater Yorks.” {From the N. Q. Picayune, nth inst.) From Mexico.— By the arrival yesterday of j the schooner Bonita, from Vera Cruz, we I have received files of papers from the city of ! Mexico to the 19th ult.. being ten days later i than our previous news. We learn from the Monitor Republicano, , | that the extraordin ry session of Congress | | had at last been opened, and it appeared that i ’ the Conservative party had a majority, which, | i the Monitor says, is in a minority in the na -1 | tion. That paper is very severe on two or j ! three Puros, who, it says, have deserted their : I principles an I j fined the Conservatives. \ j * News from Tabasco has been received to 1 j the effect that the insurgent Francisco Bel j tran, who caused so many murders and perpe | trated so many outrages m the Department of ! Picualco, was completely defeated on the 14th i ult. He lost the greater part of his muni ; tions. lie fled, but was pursued, captured j and shot. The Legislature of Tabasco pas-ed 1 a law prohibiting the inhabitants from har i boring any of the insurgents. ' \ Gen. Nicolas Mendoza has been removed ; 1 I from the Commantiancy General of Coahuiia. j Jose Maria Vazquez, supposed to he the ; i murderer of the physician Dcloze Varela, was | arrested at Lagos. It is announced that the resignation of Don ‘ j Luis de la Rosa, Minister to the United States, j has not been accepted, but leave ot absence ! has been granted to him until he can re eatab ! liah. his health. Twelve thousand dollars has been raised in ! Oajaca to provide against the ravages of the 1 cholera. At the primary elections in Puebla, the 1 liberal party triumphed. The same was the 1 case in Toluca. 'J’ke Indians have been perpetrating more outrages in the State of Durango, i | a Lienor Cuevas wrote a long article on Cuban affairs, in which he otvs that the Cu- I buns have no right to be free, the Nfoui.cr I comes down on Mr- Cuevas, and gives the j Spanish Government a blowing up. ’ A. friend of ours told us the other evening I that he hail lately encountered a curious speci i men of a Yankee Picture-Exhibitor in a town 1 - of the far’ West. Among hi:; collection was i a picture of “Daniel in the den off.ions, anc. one of his minute illustrations to his audience ; struck him as very unique.” “You see,*’ said he, “when you look at l' that itfhov iu she red cloak, which is Daniel, j ! that lie don’t care a brass fa, thin’ for the lion, j | and by lookin’ d?*t you’ll perceive that the ! 1 ' lion don’t care a tinker’s u n f or him! j 1 | ' Tjie last idea never struck us before as a j l very remarkable tie triracle ' The Department of the Interior has at last | | been filled by the appointment of Hon. A. H. Stuart, of Virginia, who has neceptod. THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. j 2lnqusta, <fi>eov<jta. WEDNESDAY J&CKN2WG, SBPT. 18. Ths Condition and Prospects of tho South, and her proper Policy. It is not in the power of language to ex aggerate tho importance of the events which have lately transpired at Washington. It is a task for the liveliest imagination to depict the full consequences, immediate and remote, of the recent action of Congress, upon the feelings, the interett3 and the destinies of the Confederated States of the American Union. The great measures of Federal ini quity and usurpation boldly foreshadowed by Mr. Clay, in his famous Resolutions, intro duced at the opening of the session, and sup ported by arguments, the speciousness of which did not blind a single intelligent Southern man. as to their utter destructive ness to Southern rights, interests and honor, iiave now been carried out. They have tri umphed in Congress by decisive votes. And what is worthy oi note and comment is, they have triumphed by the aid of Southern votes and influences. Measures, which, when first suggested, even the plausibility, the elo quence and the great personal influence of Ur. Clay, could not clothe in garbs sufficient ly enticing to win the slightest favor among the Southern people—measures which, though many weary months of toilsome intrigue and trickery were expended upon them, failed in the complex form in which they were offered as the Omnibus Scheme, have at last triumphed in the struggle. The rights of the South are prostrate at the fee; of Anti-Slavery. Tho crowning act -of fraud and usurpation—an act “conceived : in sin and brought forth in iniquity,” tub [ Aoxission of California, if tamely sub | mined to, seals forever the doom of : the South. It perpetually consigns her 1 j to political inferiority in the Union, and j 1 makes her future destiny just what the anti- ! I slavery majority in Congress may graciously 1 assign to her. The two Senators from this | new free-soil State, most unrighteously pre- j cipitated into the Confederacy, gives forever) 1 to anti-slavery the preponderating power.— Al.cady the House was anti-slavery to the ' care. Now the conservative Senate, the \ hitherto forlorn hope of the South, numbers i u majority of free-soilers. An emergency has now arrived sufficiently important for the sovereign people of Georgia to interpo-c for their own protection. It may be to institute new guards for their future se curity. The subjects for the deliberation of : the Convention of the people of Georgia .tie of high and grave import. Tho prospects o. the slaveholding States, for the future, are gloomy and alarming. The perpetual minor ity o which they are doomed in this Coined- , etacy, is d übly appalling when viewed in connection with the uniform, determined spirit of hostility to slavery which the auti siuvery States have exhibited, and tlie sure tendouev, if not the avowed purpose, of their | p ilicy to destroy the institution. The future holds out to the Southern man j a dismal prospect of hopeless struggles, on : the part of the doomed South, while she j remains in the Union, against the numerous, ! powerful and constantly increasing free-soil I States. The fi it has gone forth. There shall be no i more territorial extension of Slavery. No more slaveholding States shall be admitted into the Union. On the other hand Anti- Slavery has not prescribed to itself any limit w hatever to the number ot new Free-Soil States to be incorporated into the Union. — Miuesota, Nebraska, and Oregon of the old territories, and California, Utah and New | Mexico of the new, will he but a portion of j - lie already too formidable list. In the midst j of his powerful array of free-soil State.-, in what a helpless and deeenden conditiont will the Southern States be? lint anti-slavery will not be content sim ply with s lengthening itself by such now accessions to the confederacy. Tartly by stealing, and decoying the slaves from tho ) border States of Maryland, Virginia, and { Kentucky—partly by so legislating as to di minish the value of slave labor there,and to add ; to the iuducetneu's for those States to emanci pate their slaves, or to sell them to slave- i holders farther South, shiv y will gradually ; recede from Mason fc Dixon’s line, and slave holding Stales be converted into Free Soil States. The appropriation of ten millions of dol lars to purchase territory from slaveholding Texas to add to non-slaveholding New Mexi co, on the pretext of settling u boundary, demonstrates the strong interest felt to curtail , the area of slavery. Had New Mexico bec-n a slaveholding State, or territory, who is so j simple as to believe that this purchase would ; have found such zealous advocacy among j Northern statesmen? Verily, free soil has) played n. strong, audacious, and successful ' game ! Ic has helped itself to all the immense domain acquired by the common blood and j treasure, and out of the common treasury trikes enough money to buy an immense tract . !of slaveholding territory. What will sate its j voracious appetite? How much will fill its greedy maw ? But these things have n >t been done with out the open aid of Southern votes, and the secret aid of .-southern influences. The re- 1 cords of Congress show the melancholy fait that Southern men have been voting upon the j , side of the encroaching power, and helping to weaken their own section. Ingenuity has not been wanting in specious arguments to ( justify such votes. Sophistry has plied its utmost art to reeon- ■ ' cile Southern opinions to measures it dared not openly defend, blit which it secretly fa- , vo red. The personal ambitions of men in reference to Federal offices, and to national popularity, : have done the South irreparable injury. Pres ident-making his been a taste unwisely in- ' dulgcd in by our people, to a degree that has ; ' led them into some capital errors. It has di- ' vided them into two parties, each taking con flicting views of Southern rights, and ot the | proper course to maintain them. It has 1 caused Southern politicians to make conces- 1 sions to the Northern politicians for the sake of party harmony. It has caused Southern > whigs to concede to Northern whigs, and 1 Southern democrats to Northern democrats. The South was the loser all the time. The 1 fruits are now before us. Southern whigs were to gain !n» the South by the aid of Northern whigs in the elec- , c lion of Zachary Taylor and Mil e.rd Fill- t more, an equal share of California and s ) New Mexico. The Clayton Compromise Bill 1 i was not good enough for the South in the \ ; eyes of Southern whigs. A whig adminis- t tration would securi something much better. 1 In the eyes of Southern democrats, in the I election of General Cass and General Butler, s non-intervention would triumph, under which t Southern men, with their slaves, could freely 1 go and people the lerti'e valleys and golden j b mountains of our new possessions, in num bers sufficient to create new slaveholding ; States. llow now stands tho account ? Tho 1 i Southern whigs got Ta \ ion amj Fillmore, i ! and the Southern democrats have got a choice e | specimen of non-intervention. They have t also got Mr. Howell Cobb for Speaker of the t House. But have either got with these 11 : vvhut wf.s promised the South ? The whigs | I go t a Southern Tre.idont, whose territorial ' l ; policy was so entirely anti-Southern that it j | had not a Corporal’s guard tor its support from j r the Potomac to the llio Grande, ihev now, ; , by the death of that functionary, have a j Northern President, who has just affixed his j j signature to uius Wi*mi. cm-summ: tea grand i anti-slavery fraud by which the South is - fleeced and swindled out of every loot ot tho j acquired territory. '|’he Southern democrats did not get Gen. | Ca»s, their'Northern President, nor any part of ‘ i California; but they wonderful acqui | Miion ! non-intervention, with a Northern in- I terpreUtion, applied to New Mexico and Utah, c They get cheated out of California by a set of i r free soil squatters, who vote the country to t themselves, and expressly exclude the slave holder by a Constitution a few of them man ufacture in a burlisque Convention. But they get territorial governments for New Mexico and Utah, with non-intervention —that is to say, governments which afford no guar antee to the slaveholder that he can hold his slaves there : but on the contrary, with every assurance that if he committed tho folly of carrying slaves there, he would find neither law, nor public opinion there to protect his right of property. It is non-intervention post poned till it has not even the shadow oi prac tical value to the Southern man. it comes to him after there has been practical interven tion of the most unwarrantable kind, sanc tioned by the Executive, and confirmed by Congress, which forever excludes him from California, and will, by like process, forever exclude him from all other govrnment terri tory. The reflections suggested by tho present altitude of affairs, and the fuiure prospects of the South, bring us to the following conclu sions. First. Tne great and increasing pawi r, wealth, population, and resources, of the non slaveholding portion of this vast Confederated Republic, in which the slaveholding S ates are, and will be, aa long as they remain members of it, h helpless minority, against whose pecu liar institution the majority has a settled hos tility, instead of being a source of pride and of gratification, should be a source of anxiety, of dread, and ot tho mast appalling appre hensions, to the Southern people. Second. That any further increase in the already alarmingly gniat number of non ) slaveholding States of this Confederacy, and i of the consequent increase ot auti-slovi-rv i members of Congress, vvi’li like antagonistic ! feelings to the institution of slavery, must j add to these just apprehensions of the South | ern people. Third. That the weakness of the Southern States in the Federal councils, by which measures destructive to their rights as slave holding States and (Jo-equals with the an'.- slavery States, is not only the result of num 1 - ical inferiority, but of divisions among the x- in reference to the national panics. Fourth. That the true qf£he Southern people is to cut loose from all party alliances with national parties, and to unite together as one party, to resist the common enemy. Fifth. That the true policy for the South ern States is, for them so to direct their en ergies, their resources, and pursuits, -s to make themselves wholly independent of the non-slaveholding .States, and that our Str.o Legislatures should so shape their legislatU.il as to ((feet tills great object. Sixth. That Southern policy should b> di rected to prepare the sl&vcholding Suites for the contingency that will be forced upon her by the continued encroachments of the anti slavery majority, ol having to sustain their rights by a separate Conk leracv of slave holding States. National Parties. The U'ushitiylot t Union makes the follo'ving comments upon the result of the recent elec tions in Missouri, in which the ihmoc.uts lost their long established ascendency hv reason of their division between Bentonites and anti- Bcntonites : “Thus it would appear that. Missouri semis four whlgs to the next Congress, and one Benton man iti the person <■! Mr. Fhelps. Such is the effect of discord in Tl-i<• democratic party, and such will probably be the effect in some of the Southern States, where our party may be divided in a similar manner, or are not, sufficiently organize i for competition with the whig party, unless in re forbearance, and moderation, and discretion, should bo infused into us rank:. More purblind extremists, who are crying out. for a dissolu i m of the two great lif.tional parlies, in order to con centrate their whole force upon the slavery question, are preparing lor a startling defeat of our party. They are its worst and most suspicious enemies. If this sectional cry be kept up, seme of the dem >crats may p; are to lose their districts. We throw out the suggestion for the benefit ol the parties con cerned.” We do net expect “ some of the Southern States" will distress themselve- very mu< h in future withjriflAuusUnii ns to ihe lvi ittyc chances of or li.iiurrarij in its party sense, to or tliat Congressional District in future. Looking to the recent ac tion of Congress, it would puzzle a Southern ; mm to tell what benefit the South has ob ! tallied troin either party organization—from the whig or the democratic. The democratic party has a majority in each branch < f Congress at this time. What benefit has the South derived from this fact ? Let the late outrages perpetrated upon the | South in the passage ol Clay’s Omnibus bills > answer. Yet, who will assert that if the Wnig party hid ha>l a majority in each branch, the result would have been any better *'o the South.* We do not believe titer.■ is an intel ligent whig in the South that will say it. This cry of party, party, 'party, ha bun boozled the South long enough. Thu demo crats of the Soutii have believed, and hon i!y so until recently, that the rights and honor ol the South would bo sate in the hands of the great national democratic party. The Whigs of the South, no doubt, with equal honesty, have, until lately, believed they would be safe in the hands of the national whig party. The recent action of Congress awakens them all to a sense of their common delusion. As to other issues, not sectional —-not con nected with the great slavery qnestim, ttie Southern whiga and democrats are not very wide apart. There is no radical nntagonLm of opinion to divide them on national politics. On the old issues of Banks and Protective Ta riffs,the people of the Smith are not wide .apart. The politicians, party leaders, much divided, have tried to widen the breach all they could, but ir. vain. The p-ople of the South have al ways been oppose 1 to both National Banks and Protective Taiitfs. They are essentially State Rights people, and consequently op posed to all lstitu linsrian censtructi >ns of the Constitution. Tney hold con net demo cratic doctrine on a/i the old party issues. They cannot be invoked to divide and dis tract and paralyze the South again. There is hut one great issue now for toe South. 1: is Resistance orSubmission to Anti slavery. The great cause of Southern Rights is to be upheld at all hazards, no matter whether democrats or whigs lose seats in Congress thereby'. In compar son with that great cause, the triumphs of uuMonal democratic, or national whig parties, siuk in:o contempt. Cuhap Postag u.—A letter from a member of Congress to his friends in Ohio says, tliat the cheap postage reform will succeed the pre sent session, but that the rates will not be as low as the advocates of the measure desire. We agree with the Philadelphia Ledger that they ought not to be so low as to throw' the Post-office Department as a charge upon the Treasury. Open the door once to the Trea sury in this quarter, and there will be no end to the accumulation of the expenses of the Department. It works much snugger and better, left to support itself. Rlelanchoiy- We regret to learn that a difficulty occurred in Forsyth on the 13th inst., between the editor of the Bee and Mr. Pinkard, Clerk of the Superior Court of Monroe county, in which the latter was shot, and died in a few mo ments. We did not learn the origin of this rad affair, but understand the parties had a previous difficulty. The Democrats ot Philadelphia have nomi nated Mr. T. B. Florence, as a candidate tor Congress from the First Congressional Dis trict. The Washington Republic states that let ters have been received at the Coast Survey Office from Lieut. Wm. McArthuy, comman ding surveying schooner Ewing, dated July 17, 1850, mouth of Columbia river. Officers and crew all well. The anniversary of the birth-dav of General La Fayette was celebrated in New York, on Friday last, by the La Fayette Guards, a military company of that city, composed en tirely of Frenchmen.