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JOURN AL MESSENGER
S. T. CH APMAN A; S. ROSE, Editors.
V stiir i nrr Preacher.
The New York correspondent of the Ohronotype, in
reviewingsonieot the proceedingsot snniversary week,
introduc s a preacher who appears to have some of the
gifts ot the uposlles of old. lie says : One of the
best tilings in all these nnnivetaaries was the speech of
Rev. Mr. M a goon, of Cincinnati, at the Baptist Bible
•Society on Finlay. He is a live man, and moat have
made a stir among the fixed and skrtetonic gentlemen
with whom he was apparently acting.
Rev. Mr Maooo.Nof Cincinnati wasthen introdu
ced an I held the an lienee between smiles nnd lears
lor half an hour, lie said in sub lance: This is ilie
grand festival of hobhy-horswal reports and nonsensi
cal speeches—every Secretary straining ins imagination
to invite out a ca< —very Treasurer raking the coder*
to make out a balance—every speaker compassing hea
ven and earth to exalt hie p miliar society. II moved
that the great Valley ot the West is an inviiinjt held j
which will amply repay cultivation. Eastern clmrac- i
ter, said lie, is w mdrously transformed in the \\ est
Let your Yankee start tor that promised land,sleep the !
first night in Albany ; the next in Buffalo, which he ,
would Hilda dreadful nice village; go to Niagara, ill :
whose awful tones he would hear the first k *y note ot
tiic great anthem of tire \\ eat; let him step on board a
steamer, and go iiiteen hundred and c nv - five miles
up to Chicago, and hy the time he iiad arrive 1 there he ‘
would get aume n. w ideas ; let him go lorih to tin ae j
boundless praities, spang ed with flowers and .pillowy
with tile luxuriant grass, over which the voices of a
thousauf feathered warblers make melody, and through I
which countless myriads 01 b rffaloes and deers roan
those m iguiii .'eiit pr crieslo winch th ■ steppes id As.a
and tits ptinpus U S"Ut:i A'lieiica hear no comparison 1
—those hmitlesa prairies, in whose verdure the sun lies I
down to his evening rear, over which lire horizon rite, s
without a bound—and he mighi well feel new ideas ot
grandeur and glory. Lei him go down the Mississip- j
pi, and behold at N'W-Orleansihi supoi everynatoi
uivJ r the su.i, and seethe men and hear ihe
of every divisionol our species; let him go back, hig
gingup to the smoke snick or the shady side of lire
wheel-house, as the weather may be, whirling and spec
ulating, and pumping every passenger dry with hie in
terminable questions—let him stop at Cincinnani, the
heart oi tile mighty g ant the hem of whose garment
only lie had aee„ —on him see this, and he will see a
fraction of that valley which tnigiit make a corona oi
Slate, til to gem t.i diadem of the worl I—h will see
room for all the exiled Kings of thisw .rid to pitch their
tents—room, even lor Victoria to give ample (arms to
all her children, past, present, and prospective, av,
though God should biess h-r for all time to com with
the fullness. He has vouchsafed to h j r for the past six
or eight years. Let your Yankee see all this, mid his
idea- will begin to expand—he becomes* Yankee, en
larged— So iiiurli fur the extent of this Western field
The growth of the West is talked of—always talked of
—talked to death Innumerable myriad, are cms sul
ly goitw over the blue summits of the All g-mes. with
ttie ultimate purpose to scale even the steiile peaks id
the Kockv Mountains—to make their homes over all
the broad country, from the snows of the North to the ,
balrnv breezes aid elf urinate luxurtousness of the \
South. No less than one and a halt millions of the rie
ecendants ot the Puritans are now in our West, culti
vating their farms and I Hiking aller the dimes. Ac
cording loa statement inadeby a M-lilli'rofC aigro-.
in IH6O there will be thirty-one millions of souls in this
Union, eighteen millions of whom will he in the great
Valley of the West. The increase in that region tor
ten years, 1.H30 to IHIO was 74 per cent, and in the
Northwest no less than HH per cent. At this rate of
increase, in less than ten years this valley w !l possess
the power and control the destinies ol ihe Republic.—
A prominent feature in the West is lire <1 ■ e ity ol
character tltere tomi i. Many New iuigiandvra me
there—some tine, noble-heailed men, an,i same tiie
meanest men I ever knew.
There is the open-souied and generous Irishman : the
keen, cool, crafty Scotchmen ; the Englishman, stiff as
his owti sturey oak, and some of them ns sound at the
corn as the old monarch of the forest: the hekle and
shilling (tenple of Middle Europe : and riiat wonderful
Magician of the North, who will smoke and drink,
nnd, living on sour beer, will cha c e a Greek particle
through ;ril known literature—the erudii • philologist
who smokes nn I thinks, and thinks, a id writes; md.r
ous folios that would h-eak a common skull W net)
these smaigaiiiat,*. ns th a v eventually w ill, th- y will l
form oh’ what a glorious amalgam! 11 '"S’ ne Ito r vo- j
lutionizr, to renovate nnd bless the world, ike must
also consider the enterprise of the West. Take t in-I
cinnati, for example. In 1*47 h-r imports and exports 1
amounted to—how much? how much do you think.;
von who live on the little pa-eR this side the m aintains
Mid fancy you own all creation 1 Why. on* hundred
and seven millions of dollars’ But h a r edneatio yi it
ter-st is her greatest glorv The best models ot B -
ton s -hool-houses onlv s i.— her. the lies! t -achers only
k-e employed by her. 111.170 of her children enjoy ac
cess to her h'gbe schools And at th's tiiomeiit she is
leading lire world in ihe pipct of th* fine arts—Sen p
ture. and in the strictest of the exact Sciences—A
tronutny. Opulence is there to supprot the—■ enlerirri
aes. ■ iid haslstelv o;rencd a Gallery ol ihe K ite Arts -
which may aittlv chiillenge tire continent for u* supe
rior Th people of the West are all enterprise I
know* man who worked totheageof 40yenrs to feel 1 ,
himself a breathing-place in the woods, and ilien went j
with hitfon * son-in-law and sat l>y ‘hem in Miain Uni ■
veraity to attaina classical education He wussucees#- )
ful, for he sai I. “without ini liigence T ran never l>e in- I
ftueniial *’ There are no drones in tie- Wear nnless
they are imported : in and around Cincinnati there are
fewer loafers than in anv plan- I ever knew. Every
man, women and child Ins something to do. Thnsr i
who can’t work—those who can't think should stay |
away from the West; for there the people n-r walking
i rward with a lock-step over the shoals an I quirk sands
ol Time to the Judgement seat In ttiat \V.-si, he ,
has the greatest influence who cun touch the chords
t the human heart and make them thrill t.i the music ,
of his own soul.—But there is a ilill.euliy,—a great
difficulty to heremoved Roman so. the everlasting
deaths head-and-mnrfnw-hones t disenssion—endless
discussion.a great portion of which I verily treliev- run
stitutea the most perfect humbug of the ege. If Cnlh-,
oiics are fellow-men nn the high road to ruin if they j
ar” eterouv-bou” 1, IH’-V>jncl creatures wbv ‘. ,t
meet them, quietly meet them and lead them to J sur
They ar mostiy foreign'is and 1 bold oor nliusc
of them is at the ! art ungrateful Every College in
New-England has Is men lowed Kv for. igners—the ‘
first priming pres® pulled in the Colonies was n dona
tion from Holland—the n ihlr*t structure and -voted to;
Literature in our nation wns erected ly a for ighner
who never even saw the United Stntes. I kii-.w th-.t
some of the best citizens of the West are (. aihohes.
and I see no reason why, with the blessing of trod in
their hearts, they may hot he as devout ns anv may.
It seems string- t< m- ‘hat we scrape every “-nt
we can reach to send the Gospel to our v- y n (ipode*.
and forget those who erane to our own land tt make
theirhomes D” th” Cit holies build schools nnd col
leges I We may do the same L't us meet th-in in
kindness, in philanthropy. in diseusaion. and w n them I
Should a Cntholic build on one corner nt my lot. an
Infidel on another, and a Jew in front, when I came
forth from my morning devotional would sav o*o I
day, to each, and ptay that C,n l would ble them all
When another speaker tol-.l of the jv*raecut - Tl” of Ban* :
listsliv the French King, he might have gone further—‘ie
might have told how a man lose iti Paris nn I hauled
nobly and soecesslully for their eause, and that in in
was a foreigner everywhere—it wasCrem ens. tin- Jew
—subsequently called in the Providence of God to he
Minister of Justice It ia on: privilege to give ad men I
freedom to worship God It they are in error, we may
pity them, but we should never abuse But the greit- j
est obstacle to be removed is defunct Prot smnt-sm—
Evangelism congealrd. Some men nine to the West
who had tiie odor of sanctity, who hud perhaps Itern i
active olaes-leader* • n this si le the mountains, hut they
hid left all the Christian heat they ever had behind
them —they were volcanoes burnt out They would
stop in some devoted place rind settle down, the select
wheat of God’s harvest, predestinated from all eternity
to sit iu their infernal laziness while the world was per
ishing around them They are the fossil remains .if
Pharaoh's lean kins ; p -ancwed of a eta inertia almost
sufficient to Stop the wheels of the Almighty's chariot
of Meiey.and banish every rsy ol his glory from man—
Tliese are the one* who discourage our efforts to
bring around that great brotherhood of the Church
which all Christiana desue—ln the third place, tins
field will richly reward nil culture h-alowed upon it
But men who go there want i hameter; no I they want
three kind* of sens.—common sense, cuinvnU-d sense,
hut most of all a divine sense learned rtr the school of
Christ and emanating from a broken cross Some of
our young men I sin aware, graduate from a New Uri
gland College, their ordinary habiliment* scarce snffi
ring to hold thsirsngnsl persons, with great proficien
cy m the application of Lann terms, armed with the
President's diploma sad recoumieii lutory Idler*, all
which in*v he well; hut this is not what the West re
quires—tin re he ould he risked to du for ran da i the
only talent there demanded
“The education soaked In from the outside, Irk* n
Thompsonian hath. I* ut- less tliero. There is no field
for such preacher* Black-board knowledge ami Lai
in roots.rmptlnem in lire head, green gli-c- over tiie
eyes dvate ;>“i in the stomach, and u diploma in lim
hand, donut suit the |a*op!e—they wain wltnt the Sc melt
csll'gunipiion —they wnlit men like Ringgold's flying
artillery, who know how to load and lire in tiie hottest
of the fight There i* no need to wait tor arhurrh to
cal! a pastor iu tire West ; lie can cull lire church him
self With a log cabin for a vestry, he can havesfound
him a enlhedial whore arches were wrought anil
weeathe.l whose read was u-lor tied mthe wav lire bill
plrs of Greece n. ver km-w—th<- blue skv i* viadile
through ns dome, the selling sun streams in hr ween us
pillsis.Bud llwie, in s garb * simple as the autrl-inc
truth he tslls, he can preach the Word of Lile ; there is
no need ot fine linen m double qtianrity—linen under
Slid linen over his garmem—hv will not want two
shirts”
With such men we should do nobly-Oh I that w<-
had thrill, East, West. North South, m i > * In re .with |
such men the people would turn to God, uml pul their ‘
trust in Hun. It is nol only for our cotemporniie#
desire this hut f-ri lire myriads whose fatiren. at. y.
nnhom—lor ihroe who will fix their temple-domes on
Ihe peaks of the Rocky Mountains, in that gold, nag
of Ihe Anglo-Haxoii rare, sod g*ie over an I .nipire o.
three honored mill .oils of Christians, ami hear tie unit
iniir of the Pacific and the roar of the Atlantic join in
the mighty jul.dee of lone and glory toGod tlrougfi si;
that Mighty Valley of the West Then would the
present laborers in this field behold the ini-;s akidilr
glory of which lliey are now sowing tiie seed,'to come
to fulness—
"When wrapt in fire the retime of either glow,
And lies veil's lost thunder shek.-s the world below ‘
The resolution **as cat rod, and itw audtrrir.- dismvjed
MACON, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY, Jl NE 1848.
FOR PRESIDENT,
GEN. ZACHARY TAYLOR.
D'lcgatcs frsm the State at largr tv the Sat.onnl Convention.
Geurue VV. Crawicrd, James A Meriwether.
Ele~tors for the State at Large.
Dr. William Terrell, Seaton Grantlanp.
Districts. Delegate. Elertort.
Ist. Thos. Butier King* Jann als Seward.
2nd. Willard Boynton, W. 11. Crawford
3rJ. E. G. Cabamss, Anderson W. Bedding.
4ih. E. V r . Hill, Wiiiiam Mostly.
sth. W. V Harwell, Warren Akin.
Cth. H. D. Moore, Anhinv Iluii.
7th. N. G. Foster, \ I’. King.
Bth. L. J. Gurtrell, George Stapleton.
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The <'eitri%! Railroad*
We areextreme'y gratified t • hear K rumored that the
Central Bond has during ihe post fix months done n
most pn sjierous bnsinew, and tlint, after paying all
the expenses of the R iad, of repair-, new machinery
&c, &,c ,the Company will he enabled to pay the pre
ferred sStorkholJera i per cent on the f*5W COO worth of
Stock “wme.l hy ihnn,aiiJ to pay the regular Stockhol
ders a dividend of per rent, Ircsidesh aving a turplus
of over forty thousand dollars !
Tiie board has already ordered new nn l very h -avy
iron enough to re-!ay some ten or eleven miles of the
track and which they will probably have hud down in ,
lime lor the next crop. These results are extremely
■ ttisfaeiory and require no labored comment to prove
that the affairs of the company have for the last year
been managed w.th very decided ability.
Another Curiosity*
Let none of ur readers neglect to rend the adver
ti-*enient of Messrs. Beattie tStOo in another column.
After doing so, they can call at No 35. Mulberry Street,
under the Floyd House, w here they will be show none
of the simplest, neatest and in<st convenient contrivan
ces which they have ever reen. We have no doubt
that th *r eelebrnied 41 candlesticks are destined to
come into very general use, as they are calculated to
save much time and trouble, as well as expense.
The Orphean Family*
The Muscogee Democrat cautions the Prcssandpuh
he against patronizing the Ot plica ground that
they attempted to have Columbus without paying
their Bills. The primers of Macon were happily ex
empt from this annoyance in part at least ; but they
were swindled by the same parties in a difterem way.—
They did not patronize them at all; hut carried with •
them a batch of Programmes printed in Tennessee, in
which it was gravely announced that certain of their !
s mgs w ere repeated by special requ st. Strolling min
st'ls, are becoming very numerous, and we think that
eveiy community should refuse to encourage them un-
possess superior merit or unless they leave a
por; o i ot their earnings wherever they go. ‘Phot the Or
p.:ea'i*are genuine Vankeesno oue err doubt ; and
they ought ot least to be toughr to both patronize
nnd pry the printers wherever they go.
V lew Movement in .Mexico Contemplated.
Fro.n the New Orleans Bulletin we learn the follow
ing pi- ce of inteiligei ce of the contemplated forma
tion of on Independent Republic of tJu Nor them Stales
ol Mexico. The idea has been bioacin and b-fore, but it
seems now to be seriously entertained.
“ A gentleman ot this city, who has very lately been
in Tampico, and who came passenger in the Tay. in
forms us that reliable persons bring in that
place stated t<* him, that it peace w.isdeciared between
the United States nnd Mexico, they would get up a
revolution against the latter country, and declare them
selves independent. Their scheme is to unite w ith the
Slate* of Tnuiaulipas, Uoahu.ta, Zacatecas and Sun
Lms,anJ declare tor a Republic—invite a t-w thou
sand Americana to join in with them, and by blocking
up the ui Mjiitaiii passes , beat oH the foe ut all point*,
and compel Mexico to ackUowicdge her as an indepen
dent nation. ‘1 heir plan though a wild one, h-.s a
h-*i of suppliers, wiho have even gone so far, av to
form a national dag, a fancy affair, w .th the letters R
S M , K-public ol Sierra Maare, and to nominate
Gen. .Shields as President,”
The Peace with Mexico*
(t seems to Is* reduced t*> a certainty that we nre st
last to have at least a quasi peace with Mexico. Mr
Polk and his party have had lh*ii own way in the
management ol the war a* wdl as the negotiations.—
The whigs have ifo m not only men and mon- 1
ey, but have done a large proportion of the fighting
Tii y have allowed Mr Polk to select his own agents !
on all oceasioiis ;und even granted him r.n nppropria- I
lion of three millions, to enable him to buy a peace
which lie setmed to fear he could not conquer. He ac
cord.ugly sent Mr. Tritu u|mii the mission of pence
aid the remit is now before ihe world. A ie.u e we
htv? ; but what ortof |K-ce ! A wing eotemporary !
has said that 4 * uis a peace which every one seems to be i
glad ol but which no true Amerieun can be proud of.’ i
Tins seems m la* the opinion too, of honest Denurcrats ;
in Mexico. Even tlu* Mexican Correspondent of the ,
Columbus Times, w riting, under u late date, from the
Halls of the Montezum; a. speaks, of the end of this Dem
ocratic war ill the follow mg terms :
‘•'Pile Treaty of ‘Prist ia emphatically a tristeafiair, 1
in two senses of the w ord, it n* a stock-jobbing con
cern of Mclntosh, the English Consul, bucked by the
“peace und war-making power” of the Rothschilds.
The former as i.** well known, is agent ot the latter,
with unlimited ktiers of cred t. The tools of Mclninwh
and the Juduscsol their respective countries, are Ro
s Secretary of Slate, and the Commlaaionera of the
two Republic*. Chanty, however, entreat* ua kindly
to exempt our own Coiiimisioner from this digracefj
category,nnd we will doao, by stating, candidly, that
facts, so far as developed, only lead to shrewd susfiic j
ions An nstute Mexican gentleman said, the othet
day, that he would give a million to stand in the shoes
of Trial! a ratlier high estimate of the value of Mr.
Trial, and n correspondingly mean one of the sagacity
of his purchaser*. ’’
What more natural than thnt.n man interested hy
the President with the business of bribing other* should j
himself be liable to “shrewd susjnci n V M r . Polk
having recognized this new Democratic principle in
diplomacy, is it very astonishing that Mr. Trial should
himself practice upon it 7 If instead of buying up the
Mexicans ut a cost of three millions, lie u enabled to
pockqtu million himaell and to strike a barg.nu which
will involve the people of the United States in the puy # -
merit ot twenty millions to Mexioo and p rimps twice
that Bum to British claimants in California,what boots H
lie only carries out the gient Democratic principle inid
down by Mr Polk nnd the whole amount wdl of course
lie moat eheeilull) paid by the p*qile of the United I
States mi account of their love und admiration ot the 1
gieat, progressive, tiiovement ol th ■ ag<*!
So much for Polk and Democracy. Tin* war is en
ded, and we nre now f iliavi* anew edition of th old
stry under the more inviting caption of ( ass and Bit
LIR.
The Mngnetle Te'r*ntfli.
We se plenn-d to see m the ( harleston ('mirier of
the Ist inst , a vriy ful! and satisfartory letter from Mr
French in winch he announce* his filed l*t*riniriaituhi
to compel u reform U|mn th • Telegraphic line, or dis
miss the pieseni employee* of th- • uupony
That reform ia needed and gicuily Hee led, we have
not a doubt. Whether a greater niieiKion to tfu ir bu- 1
aineas, a gieater cptrii of accouiinodatioii or a more en- 1
larged eipruetce on llu- pull ol ihe oprraioisbe want
ing, we uu- unable toss) One thing is u rtnin, there
u gieat rtMtin for inipiovemeiit lor msUmcr flu- For
eign new* hy lilt* Niagara on Kilmdsy lu*t wn* iu pij.
vale hands m this city, lor ti'*niiy six bouts before our
tegular pubiio UespHteh reached tins ofiice. On itiqu.-
ry at UharlestiHi, we wen* tint die delay wa
occusu lu and by error* in tis driqtateh bevi u i tlmt phis ,
which made it itet**Muiry to send it la. k lot rcrteciiisi
A ptivate letter friaii our agents there, ink tins u* that
M tlie entire delay wac occasioned by the i'rnpaeuy nf
the operators on tin* line si sue where between Peters
burg and Coluubi.i uml pniticuiurly nt C!i raw.*
Herr now 14 a chanoe for Mr Futn hto reform his
line if hr aeea pu|* r to attempt it and we tels him
plainly that aometlung is nrccssuty ml* done and iht|
at an early day b’ sh for 11w interest ol the line and of
tire pnbbc. A refimii is gteaily needed, not only in
regnril lo ilie promptness and corn, tores with which !
the tinebigeticc is coiiiiiiimicated, but also in regard to !
prices The preaent charges are enoniuMins nnd rrn* i
der the Telegraph pcrftTt 1 y ntrlea* an mean* es com |
j mumcntion to at len-t seven tenths of the community.
if the Trustees or Stockholders intend lo make it ei
j ther us*'ful to the public or profitable to themselves
j there must be on entire,change otihcir in ii itolky
The .Sotitli ( urolimi Hattlts*
Two weeks hive elapsed since wv published a state- i
ment ot the condition o| the Carolina Banks, accompa-1
iitil by a lew mild but plain coinm nL* upon tlicir sol
vency. Tiie figures m that Btmein -.it w:re Liken from
a Carv-linn State paper, maile ut under oath hy the
otiiceis of th - Banks, and published hy authority ot
law, over tin* aig.iatureof the Cos npt .iller General.
It wrf to be supposed ‘hat if there had been uny mil*- ‘
lake in 111 1 * uts us sworn to by the Rank otli'*en*, I
or in the publication rna Je hy the Uomptroller Gener > i, I
mat trie Cri.irlert'o i p-ipeit*, or th<* B inks thenr-i-lvei-, |
would,e’ei this, nave favored tiie public with 11 contra- •
diet t II
Common honi'siy w-uid In w di’ ian and such a course,!
because, if tiie Hunks of ( aroltna ore to it sound i
condition, a shotemg to that cjiect could easily I
he made ly rc*i<otisibU men ! Has this been dime
Not at ail. In.-tend <>l meeting lie ;ssu.* open y,
hohlly and fmnkly we find them moving secretly
i at distant points, tor the purpose of alloying popui ir
appreh *i:si>,i in reg rd to th ‘irmability n meet the.,
i engagements. Articles hive accordingly ippejiei in
the Tallahassee and Mdledgeviile papers, evidently
either coined in Carolina oi instigated hy Carolina feel- ‘
ingnnd Cuioiitm Buu vm th •doru t meet |
tiie issue. They deal in generalities; because they’
dare not come to the figures As an evidence ot the ‘
1 means re**ited toby tlieise Banks m rover up their con-!
, dition, we give place loth,* followii g extract from the
last Miiledgeville federal Union. Th** Editorsnys; 1
‘l lu* l.t Macon Journal and by a great j
parade of figures endeavors to show , that certain B ulks !
ol South Carolina 44 are no better than they sliould he i
in other words, that according to the published state- :
; mental then condition,they could not promptly* us-
I tain tiie shock ot a sudden and simultaneous run upon
’ them. It is somewhat amusing to those wh * hav * not •
| forgotteiuhe eventlul iiistoii* sos the Bank of Macon, j
! of the Ocmalgee and the Commercial Bank, that a
Journal located in a city where they figured and fell,!
should be raising its warning voice against the Bank*
, ol South Carolina—Banks, most of w hich have lived
and flourished without a blot upon them for more than
half a century,atid which are located in a State where
with t’ e single exception of the Bank of Cheiaw, by!
none of her Banking Institutions has there ever been,
a dollar lost. We throw aside tlwu all the
of our eotemporary, and on the mime principle that vte
believe the sun will rise to-morrow, because it has risen
for the last s-x thousand year*, we wdl conunu tx*
leleve the ,South Carolina Banks will promptly !*-
deera all their liabilities. These ore our figures, aid
in our estimation they are an ample offset to all ttie Si
bored calculations of the Journal and Messenger,”
What a commentary is this upon the cond tion of die
institutions which the sapient editor of tin* Fedrool
Union, is thus feebly attempting to advocate! 11. op
come to this that the credit of the Carolina Banks is tobe
based upon the fait hos David C Camtbkll i t ttnr
solvency, instead ol upon the amount of specie m t air
vaults, as exhibited by the sworn statements of tJhfir
own officers! These statements show:
Ist, That the Carol,no Barks have five dollars sand pa
per in circulation, for every dollar of specie in 6eiu
vaults!
2nd. That tiu ir capitoi is only $5,9‘J2,7d2, and
yet that they have the enormous sum of fcfi,50357
loaned out upon personal security, and upon pledges f
Stock!"!
Now, if any Georgia Bank were t m ike such a
shewing as this, its door 9 w ould I>e < 10-*t*d m less ihr®. a
week. W hy, even she lotion Banks ol Macou, xto
vviiich tiie Editoroi the Union bo feelingly alludes, and
in the management ns well as the breaking ol mmc
ol which n is sagely surmised he himaell had same
little agency were in no w'otse condition w hen jh-y
filled. Had the press then been faithful to ns duty, uui
to th • public, ir.st ad of listening lo tiie of
such men as the Editor ol the Federal Union. :lu
---sandsund hundreds of ihousundsot dollars would In ve
been saved to the country. The planters would ot
Have been shoved andswindied,stockholders would ant
have bern bankrupted, and even private reputajivu
woul.i h- \e been s?iv<*d.
How then can the Editor ol the Union advise the
pooipe to continue their confidence in th* (.iaroisia
Banks! Wnh what degree ol reason or couinmi
sense, does he say to the people ; away with figur> f !
away with sirorn statement.; —come! b;<-e y ur c*m
fidence u}:o'i tiie jiitth ol die Hd.torol the Uedeial i Tn
io.i, himself a: the preset t moment tiie s.!e din cn i of
the Central Bank—i concern which has lor years b *en
a stench in the iu o! the px-nple of Gi u g,a ”
Wt have long beiieved ifiut our cot nipoi ny >i and e
Lilian was a suit of Millerite m his politics \ b.ve
even fancied Inni seated in Ins financial roU await jig
patiently the great Mmt Drop Muienium, tor. told by
Senator Benton! but we li.ve always hitheito given !
! him credit for a little more consistency than hue gener
ally been accorded u Joe Bimiii. VYe wcie not pre
wired to fin i an uvowel advocate of a specie cmrency,
1 ibubing the present Georgia Banks for nit extending
; their credit, t i l exp Hiding ihe.r circulation ! Ahiave
, all, wv Wi n* in i piepared to find him npologiz ng K r a
**et ol institutioM which have pushed tneir cretlit to a
1 dangerous extent,and which have Jire dollars of u .rih
j less paper mcireulation lor every dollar oi specie iu
I tneir vaults.
Really from ihe whole tenor of the article in tiie Fud
i eral Union , we are nlmost foiced lo the commi ,<,
j that our eotemporary is m search of a Bank acconuuo
| da lion, or has some other equally potent reason for ins
defence oi theCaiolinu B ulks and hisibas.* ot tlr **
ol his adopted Btate 1 It hm oljec*t is lo delciid Uk*
Carolina Banks, wiiy does he not conic to th-*
iccord \ Why does he not show that the tigurv*
are wrong—that they were not correctly given by
tiie Bank Officers and the Comptroller General ot
Carolina, or that we have in.s-statcd them in a ei igie
part.cuiar l Why doesn’ t the Charleston Mercury,
1 come up to the issue I Why couteut itself w .th repub- j
( lishiug, us a soil oi salvo, the article from the Union,
jand pronouncing it a triumphant vindication of the
Banks ol Carolina, when the Editor iiiut kmne, that it
was no vindication at all f
The reason of ail this ia obvious. They are afraid
• of the issue—they know ihe weaku ss of th*ir i,i.ilo
tions, and hence then attempt lo bolster them up, upon
iht ir funner character ! Just us well might u mer
chant who Jails to meet his bills, or whose uss. is ate as 1
1 one lo fire, co pined with his iiabtiitics, attempt lo ‘
persuade Ins creditors that he is not hank rapt, lie
cause lor fifty years previously,\ws hud never (ailed to
meet an engagement!
We conclude, by repeating thut it gives un no pleas
ure to cxpoiH* ihe condition ol the Cnronns Banks,
and eveiy assertion or insinuation, that we are prompted
by tteiingM ol jealousy towards them, or of uu lie* par
tiality tor the institutions ol our own State, tssbso
iuteiy and pnlpabiy false. Wc me prompted we trust
by a higher settse ol duty to the public. Wc wmh to
save the uiis.impeding thousands wito have been uki.ig
j these bills, in comw*qit'*uce of their taith In the former
j character l the Carolina Banks, from lbs biases winch
i may accrue upon them. Jl the Bills arc now returned
j and the Bunk** are n-ady to redeem them till will be
well. If on the contrary they -fiould h- i u,i l, ns we
have altown ila-m, to be we..k, the Billhokiers will be
| saved, and the loimms will tall upon the M tckli>>|Jer*.
1 On ihe contrary, tl their condition t concealed hy it
’ terested or timid Editors tli**ir lie uns wifi be squander
-1 ed in fiunless dibits to bolster up llu ii cicdd, mid
triisltv the losses will be llueelold, and even th bill*
lioldets w ill t* unable to s< cure any temunrration We
urr no eieini* s to B ink*, so long as lin y ituitMicl bust*
liens upon proper p iucipb-s . but wti ii they come to
j extend their credit. os those ol Carolina fiuv< do,.c, to
j ifis extent of fee and six dollars ol piper to oar dohar*
in s/tecie, rl is time lo *am ihe jieople ug uont ilieiu, mid
iliat iiiuii or th I Editor, wiio fails to do Ins da y.is ivcu *
ant to theilUert at of tin- |s >pU*,and dcseives .* t to eli*
joy tiieir o uili lencc or mltoua.
|
The souih n trn> and.
When we penned • briefarti.'Jc imtweck nj a t'
probuhh l übridoimcMf oi tin* S utu by lie- D uiocm’ic
i Conveniiou, w- were not aware tint the very n \t
i in id woui i bung a tub confirm nr hi ol our anticqn*
j umis. it wdl b** rei.iem ***rcd that ill tin- oi
In* proc e.i.ng •, Mr. Forman of G -oigui, m><vt and
;** tin fut • ‘me nIiSM npu lists the principles ■ fit
Wis uml t’ronf Tins product and in*a i v t • ..e in.
Mi l Mi. F. wj- Ir uniy pt> vabeJ u|hii tt wuhdiuw it
luf a mat.on ol JritiK 4'oni., appointing u Co.ani ii *
ol onafiom each Bt *e lo i.’cniia s. , us ot n s
tor the action ot the Convention.
Tin* commuter through Mr Cose, accordingly oi
j th* last day ol the Convent on, mid • a very long and ‘
| r*'|Hit, setting forth ail the dortrilten o the j
I pi'ty. lui urtcring not one sylhtUe is rtfaid (nth \
iiatsful mnn.to. Th • y aiiU3io:i to the subject
slavery, was ihe following
Air noised, That Cootfreashns no power under th*
c uistiiutioii to int oleiv with or o ntrol the done t ie
institutions of the several States, and that such States
ur.* the sob* and proper judgei ol everything appertain
inglotheir'own aflijir*, not prohibited by the constitu
t on ; that alleliorts of the abolilionifts or others made
to induce Congress tointerf?re wit i questions of slave
ry, or to take in • pient steps ii rel tion thereto, are
c r culated to l<*a J to the most alarming utid dangerous
CxUiHcquencrs; and that alisueh efforts have uti inevit
able teud< :iey to diminish th happiness of the pimple,
mid th • lability and permanency of the Uni
t.i, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend o*
*ur poirf .cn! institutions.
Mr. Yancey, of Alabama, unwilling flint the South
f*!i uldbethu3 trn.Hjerie I neck nnd heels, to Mes-rs.
Wn.mot, Hamilton llami.in, ami Marcus Murton,
presented a minority report which conclude J with the
following distinct avowal, viz:
Resolved, T iat |li * d'clime \ non-intorfi-Tence
w ith the riglitsof property of any p irtmnof the people
of this c onfederacy, he it m the Slates or Tmitorits !
thereof, by any oilier than t!u* purlieu inte.vmcd in
them, is the true r<publican doctrine recognized by
tltis bo!y.
T he passage of this rc olution Mr. Yancey ndvocs
t i i.i a BjH*ecfi ol great cioqneu .* * and übiiity. “lie
contended that the re.-oiuiion *, though goirj enough as
faros tlu-y went, di 1 not meet the exigencies of the
t'.ines, that they did not touch the ulamiing k'o -trines
advocated hy the piovisoisia. He wished to place the
. iuzens of the South and the North upon an eq.iiiity—
sjth u they might carry then properly whitSicnHN-ver j
they w .siied. He contended taut even tic- modified
vi v*ot Gen. Cass were uol sound on tin* subject ol |
the proviso—that his proclaimed opinion** upon that i
subject would exclude hie Citizi*n ot the South from*
t -niioiy acquired, or lo be acquired, because he icusa
slave holder.”
Tliese remarks anJ the resolution brought the ques
tion of the Wilmot Proviso burly behre the Conven
tion. Ii was ini|ioaaible to escape the vote and the re
solution of Mr. Yam ev was r.c orduigly rejected—3ti
to2l6—as follows:
Yeas—*Maryland 1, South Carolina 9, Georgia 9,
Florida J. AUbama‘J, Arkansas 3, Tennessee I,Ken
tucky i—36.
Nays-*.Maine 9, New Hampshire 6, Massachusetts
12, Vermont 6. Rhode Hand J, Conni'cticut 6, New
Jersey 7, New York—. Pennsylvania 26, Delaware 3,
Maryland 6, Virginia 17, North Carolina 11, Missis
sippi 6, Louisiana 6, Texas 1, Tennessee I*J. K*n
tucky 11, Ohio 23, Indiana 12, lliiuo.s 9, .Michigan 5,
low ia 4, Missouri 7, Wisconsin 4 —216.
Thus did the National D’ uj4craiic Convention by a
formal vote refute to express any opinion upon the pro
viso. They have therefore abandoned the South to her
fate, and virtually avowed the doctrine thut party is
superior to Southern interests. No wonder the nom
ination of the Convention is received w th such mark
ed coolness m the Southern States. No wonder the
Chari • ston Mercury should denounce it as a betrayal
of t'.te true interests of tiie South.
What is to the condition of the people of Georgia
i:i a contest of this kind l Will they blindly oilow their
leaders into the Berboninn Bog of Wilmot proviso ism ?
W.ii they c iitaeiit to tli • nominee oi a Conven
tion which rs used to recognize the rights of South- j
ern cifizen* 1 Will they sustain a ticket ora party:
who haw allowed themselves to le dictated to by such J
men as Marcus Morton, Hamlin, Wi.mot and their j
co-workers in mischief!
The time has been when such a Convention an.l its i
nominees wouid have been repudiated in G orgia with- ;
out u dissenting voice. It remains to b. seeu whether j
the p ain, practical men ut the State, the boiteatid mi- j
ew of the country, will sanction the sacrifice of their
rights and iuUresta made by their leaders in ihe Bilti j
mo e Convention. We nave no apprehensions lor the ;
r *s i!t, especially if tiie \V tvig Convention this day to i
a-s mhle m Baltimore, w- ll present as good, as great, i
.*i9 reliahie a man as Zachary Tayix>r to the people ot j
the nation as their candidate for the Presidency.
<ien. < ass and the Wilmot Proviso.
In the minority report ol Mr. \ anccy and others to
the (Jalti.noie Convention those genl.t men say :
4 * The nominee of this convention is understood to
entertain the opinion, that Congress lias no right loin- |
telere with the question or slavery iu the States and j
Territories, tut that the people inhabiting a territory
have ihe exclunce right to exclude it therefrom”
The Richmond Times, commenting upon the above j
says:
“ In dr * effort to procure a declaration from the con
vention against th - light of tiie people of u t rritory
to exclude slavery, so as to prevent ** the avncced opin
ions of their nominee.” from being look’ and to ns em
bodying” tiie views u. tiie great Democratic pa:ty ” Mr
Yancey obtained only thirty-six votes in the whole!
holy for his propost ion. ‘lhe convention thus at the \
same time adm.tted Mr. Yancey’s inteqnetatioti and
Mr. C isVs opinions,and refused to declare any and ssent I
from them.”
N*'W the Demrc acy of Alabama, Georgia FlorilnJ
nnd other Southern Stan-* have expressly declared that
tiny will not support any man for the Presidency or ;
*.c Presidency wlio not opposed to tiie Wilmot
Proviso. The vi.waol Gen. according to the
C harleston Mercury a;e more mischievous than thos**
ot Wilmot himself. That paper has already denounced
him usaii“eq , .iv.ealb< trayer ois uthernrights How
then can the consistent, honest Democrats oi the south
countenance to. one moment the support of Geu. Cassl
Will not such & course ic, to all intents and purpo.<e
equivoient to an abandonment ot Southern rights on
then part I Are they prepared tor this l Have they
forgotten how they denounced in 18i4 the whigs even
lor th< ir support of Henry Clay. \N id they now sup
port a candidate wno is a thousand times loss reliable
than Mr. Clay on this subject 1 Will they alter so
long professing to be the peculiar friends of the South
now abandon every thing to their anti-siavery allien ?
We do notbcleive it. There are hundreds and thou
sands of the honest Democratic yoemanry of Georgia
who will not affix th- i. seal to anya ich infamous bai
gain. They will trample underfoot party lilies party
leaders, and party destinction first—they will ruliy
b**s.de South Carolina and repudiate the Baltimore
Convention first—th<*y will in fine rather than sanction
auch a proerhedure dissolve nil existing party and
seek anew and sejwruie organization. We know
there are hundred* ‘c!i who only seek a fitting op
portunity to manifest their unalterable determination.
Professor .Loomis’* Lccturv *•
We are gratified to state, thit Professor Loomis will
continue tor n tew evenings longer, hi very interesting
Lectures and Experiment* in Natural Science. Ilia
simple and unatfected manner, Ins instructive style ami
hi* successful experiments and illustrations have already
secured fur him a moat enviable populauty and a nightly
itim-aw ot auditors Indeed we ate omy astonished
that so hupp) combination ot the mstiuctiveand tinning
as is presented by these entertainment*, lwa not !,nd the
eflt ct ot drawing overwhelming ln>u •.during the en
ure week A (oca* or u Muukry *hw, affording one
hull the Minus uunt, and none ot the instruction,
would hav Nttracii and thousand*. May we not Imp* that
in future the It lends ol rational ainuaeinent und ot act
eut lie improvement, will at least encourage I'rufrwof
b with their presence and tluir puuoiibgc !
Prop sor L also prop, ms to tench a private Class,
as w ill tie seen by In-advertisement hi unotuer column.
Maine Me n tor*
The I) uiocrney ol Maine, notwithstanding their
pi oft-seed borioi ol John P I liie, hive jut elected Has*
II,T i.* Hamm*, n notorious Abolitionist and Wi.mot
I'ruviao l)en<KJi.il, to till the vjicuii* y m the I'nited
Mum* Senate, urea stoned by tire death of Htiato r
Faibiiu.u! Will the lhiiociarat>l Ce rgia, “ atit k a
pm ihere, H il they please, to tnc credit ot Can and
Democracy t
‘i tn 31**imrv out M.Miiot (Jen* t no.
We dust llmt no man whatever may Is- hi - party
pr dil tions, will tnl to read th *at tide copied in uno*
tit r coiuinn from ilc Churlrßlnn M'lCUitf under the
caption of the * lit Itimorv Convention” assn organ ol
i Kinoc ruey ui the Mouth and tie utt unw-vuermg udvo
ci. i hootberit In-tilts lions, ili* Mncury in ut least
• lit t|.-d lon fesjwc fit Im mi mg and tl.ow who dcaire
to utvl r-imd die view* ot the hdilor wii| of emirs*
Is* t areful to re J the article 111 (pMMlton. || it lie tru
that an rttt- n pi has tsyrn made to brtray Houthrni in”
tctesla, mid It ilie proof! ol lint attempt ate so pi!pi*
hie wm to utivesiicli a pres* ns tin* MticHty Iruni it*
Dam crsltc moorings, is it not time lor the people to
r iiiin.ne into the matter tor th<*msch< * arid to be ex
credulit y ratttlone bow they commit themselves to
the nominee of such a convention as that which r* *
c*~ntly assembled at fbdtitnor*- !
From the Journal Me esenger Extra of June 2.
(by magnetic telborapu.
LATE FROM EUROPE.
AKRIRAL OF STEAMSHIP UNITED STATES.
Slight Improvement in Cotton.
Bv o Telegmphic Ucaontch from Baltimore, ilated
the 31st inst we h ive news two days later date fro
Europe.
France had been greatly ngitaled by a grand demot
strution ol the lower clnsaeH in Paris, in favor of Polon
They n sac in bled in procession, in great numbers, at
enteied the Chambered the National Assembly.
M II rbert proclaimed a dissolution ol the Assen ■ i
bly m the name of the people, bat the proclamation w . j
apparently disregarded.
Three of the agitators, Plauxn e.Cortais and Respai
were arrested ; the limb was turbulunt, but no actu
collision occurred, and at the latest dates, the Assen
<;y was proc- edmg undisturbed, with its business, ai
the excitement had somewhat subsided.
There has been a severe conflict between the An
Irian* tm l 1 ialinns near Verona in which both parti
(ought with gieat obstinacy and heroism. The |,rß<
• >ih sides was very severe anil particularly so with tl
forces under Marshal Radeliski. The Austrian Gen
crnl f .Sales, war. killed.
Ireland wis quiet. Mitchell luid been arrested mid
n new indictm -nt an : tit • trial o! Oiiue.i and Meagi
era w is progressing.
Spain was tranquil and Madrid quiet. No eviden
ces of the anticipated disturbances.
Confidence in England somewhat improved. Ti.
Cotton market belt r. All under sld. had advanced i
Sales 5900 bales per and .y, nt full rates.
Journal Messenger Extra , June 3.
FI VIS DVYd LITER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA.
The Steamer yiagara arrived at Boston, Friday,
A M., with Liverpool dates to the 20th ult. France
was quiet and th# Republican system considered as ful
ly established.
In the early part of the week there was considerable
firmness in the Liverpool Cotton Market, but the heavy
imports subsequently caused a decline of Id. The
sales tor the week 29,730 ba1e5,26,04*0 of which were
American imports. We quote as follows:
Fair Uplands lid, good II I, Fair Louisianua, 41 J,
good jl (a, 6d. Fair Mobiles, 41.
Charleston June 3. 8. p. m.
The market has been inactive to day with
salt sol only 217 halt s, at prices ranging from
G,| to Gj cents lor Fair and fully fair. Sales
altogether ol* the finer grades.
Lite rice market quiet without change oi
prices.
LATER FROM MEXICO.
PEACE!PEACE!
We received this evening a despatch from ]
ihc Delta ortire containing important news
from Mexico by the steamship Edith, which I
arrived this morning at New Orleans. Let
tt rs from ‘ Mustang” were received up to the
31st inst.. from the city of Mexico.
I’h Treaty was ratified by the Chamber
ol Deputies on the 19th inst., at 6jj o’clock.
р. m. The vote on it was fifty-one. to thirty- ,
live. In the other branch ol Congress there]
is no doubt that it will be approved by a com- j
puratively much larger vote.
Orders li id been issued tor the calling in of
the outposts of the army, and they were ex-’
pected to march for the coast between the Ist 1
and 13th of June.
Gen. I’orstlbr F Smith had been appoint
ed superintendent for tiro einbarcation of the
threes at Vera Cruz, and iie was to leave the
eity of Mexico lor the purpose of entering on
this duty oil the 21th inst.
This importont news is beyond question,
and we take great pleasure in laying it bclore
our readers. J
The .\'r,'-Orleans Bulletin, after announcing the
news of the ratification of the Treaty of Peace with
Mexico, adds :
“ We also leam, that a very considerable portion of
the volunteers will probably reman in Mexico after the
peace on they owi. hook. It is said, that the Mexican
Govt - nnient evi n entertains ihe plan to embody a con
siderable military force ol Americans, m order to guard
against the continued outbreaks and revolutions that
the Mexican army has always created or promoted,
that ibis ioice will beoigsntzed (roni the American
troops now in Mexico, and that ihe parties to form it,
will, (whrn the army is lobe withdrawn ufter the peace;
с. ati.l receive their discharge in Mexico, and at
once be organized us part and parcel of the Mexican
army. X
Yet Another Telegraph.
We copy from a London paper of April 15ih, the fol
lowing notice of a newly invented telegraph machine “
w hich scents to be ns much more wonderful, in its opera- ,
nou, than that of Mr. House, as tire latter is than that
of Mr. Mors.-:
“ We have this week seen a specimen of wrting by *
the copying telegraph, invented by Mr. F. C. Bakewell,
wherein wi rds traced from the original were legibly
copied on paper by an instrument that had no connec- .
I,on with one to hich the transmitted message was
applied, excepting by the usual wires from the voltaic
battery. ‘I he letters traced on the paper appear of a
pale color, on a park ground formed by numerous lines
diuwn close together. The communications thus trac
ed w e understand may be transmitted at the rate ot 500
lettere ot rite alphabet per minute of ordinary writing;
and were sltort hand symbols employed, the rapidity of ‘
transmission would be quadrupled. Wher. this means
of correspondence is in operation, instead of dropping
a letter into the poel-otiice and waiting Jays for an an
swer, we mny apply itdirectly lo thecopyingtelegraph,
have it copied at the distant town in a minute or less,
and receive a reply in our correspondent’s hand-writing
almost as soon us the ink is dry with which it was
penned. There are various means, too, for preserving
ihe secrecy of correspondence; the curious of which is
tliai the writing may be rendered nearly invisible in all
parts but the direction, until its delivery to the person
for whom it is designed.
“ The operations of the copying telegraph are not
limited to the tracing of written characters. Letter
press printing tuay he copied with even greater rapidi
ty than wntuig.aiid tac similie copies of the inortuug
papers may thus be transmitted to Liverpooland Man
chester long before tits papers themselves are delivered
to tlieir readers m Loudon. The means l>y which these
astonishing eticcls arc produced we are not at presrnt
permitted lo state.as ihe invention ta not yet protected,
but we are assured that the method is simple, and
that the mechanism is neither costly nor likely to get
out ol order. It is, indeed, oik of the peculiar features
ol the copying telegraph thut it cannot commit errors,
been us-- tlie communications n transmits are lac-suni
lies of tlie original writing.”
lien. C u.
‘file Alcxmubni lliui tu-suys: “ With ill due re
apc-a lor Inin (til n Cum) ■ K-'iitlriimn—illd we shall
we hope, never (nil to treat him with all r-apeci, con*
•latent with the free and lull diwuaaiuii of huiiiierita and
uUniia o the alatioii lor wlneh hr m now u unididaie—
we yet do nut heauate to auy.that neither In point ol
uieni'i,auane.i) , eona.ieney, ur Ilf.miens, la he worihy
ol tli” ollie ■ of fie.i.lent. He hue, in i/iyi/'imury heen
kilocked lu-ela over head hy Welmter; und In afafee
mmakip, tl-sired, over find over again, hy Calhoun.—
Asa tmity man, hr lin* wulelie I the vaiynitf pliawa id
poll’ c>. and aliup.il Inr router toauilllir tiniee trim-
hie aaila to tile )iopular hrrear. Hut no one hue
or ran look to him lie a pilot to weather the Morin, or
rnpuhle ol uj the lirlm of the aliip ofetatr.in
i uara of i merge nc tee.
The IVieciMiein Victory,
Tli* Drmooralie preaara at* rejoining t ihrlalr tri
umph ol their Democratic All)** In Wisconsin. li op
p- ira tliul in til* (teorrai Convention which nouiino.
ted the -uocomMl can lidairw, Mr. I'ai mi of Wal
worth introduced tile 10110w in* reeohitioit*
“ /irgo.ved flint nil territory tmw tavld or hereafter
lobe aU|UUed hy the United Si lea, 111II.t ur .inn it.*
m i rat. rraaitoßV ; and In accordance with the
apintot oir Declaration of Independence, and of the
ordinance of IT -7, tlutrrt or uivataiilar) aereituiir
a.Wu.'d orr-r ‘ll aUvtcrJ, rscr/it ana puntalnaentJw
ernri#.”
A motion wa mi le to alrike out thin revolution ;
which received 3 affirmative vote* lo ti ueiintive, and
the restitution -lien passril by Iw.-nly-aevan votrangainsi
nin-\”
Tins is the more significant as Wisconsin the home
ol Gov Dodge, a leading Democrat and fora time,
a prominent aspirant for a nomination for the lVsi
idency.
T ht- Nashville Railroad tasc.
Tlie Chancery Court at Nashville was engag-d se
veral days ol last week in the trial of tliecase of T-iom
-11b Claiborne and olheis, upon a lull filed to enjoin the
Corporation from currying out the subscription of $S *>,-
<KXI to the Nashville and Chattanooga Rnilroad. We
learn from the Union ilial the decision was in fovo:
of the Corporation—Chaneeller Cabal hnving, at tlie
cl a-e ot tlie argument, gone fully into the question in
volved,and decided that the subscription was constitu
tional and valid.
The case will he taken to the Supreme Court.
The llalllmorc otivetitioti.
In pursuance of ottr promise we resume the
subject ot’ the lute Convention of tile Demo
cratic party in Baltimore.
The proceedings of that bo ly have fallen
like the slurtling tones ol'nn alarm bell on the
cars o| th - South. Its nomination of Gen.
Gau.-j —its resolution about slavery — its cm ire
proceedings, from beginning t-> end, till us
with ttppr- Itetivioa utmost amounting to dis
may. Ihe opinions ot G.*n. ('ass proui alga -
led in his late letter—that the inhabitants of
a territ iry. be tore they are invested wit ; the
attributes of s- If-government and sown igntv
— tea i• iol the public lands nt the 1.-r
----unce t the States—mere squatters, have the
right to appropriate the territory tl a, may he
acquired by the treasure or the gallantry of
all the States, and to exclude from its limits
the property of fourteen of the States —bail
been repudiated by the press and the people
ot the whole South, il is adoetrine too mon
strous to he tolerated, tut ostraeism too de
grading to he endured. The Democratic
Conventions of Virginia, Alabama and Flor
ida. had unanmimously denounced with indig
nation this flagrant heresy. And yet Virgin
ia and Alabama, to say nothing of Georgia,
so fir as their delegates in tire Baltimore
Convention nail bind them, are pledged to ap
prove and sustain the nomination of one who
tints insults and degrades the South from its
constitutional equality with tlie North in the
common property of both.
But il the opinions of Gen. Cass are thus
objectionable, what shall be thought of the res
olutions and proceedings of the Convention it
self which has nominated hint and made him
the standard-bearer of the Democracy. Do
they—idle and ridiculous as are such proceed
ings—mere traps to cateh confiding and hon
est people—do they, we ask, provide n plat
form on which the South can stand without
utter dishonor ?
This Convention gravely promulgates the
doctrine that Congress has no right to inter
fere in the States, with State policy and State
institutions. Is not this the whole scope and
purport of the resolution ? Let any honest
or honorable man read, and then ask him
self il it means anything more. It refuses
to allirm by the adoption of Mr. Yanui.y’s
resolution, that Congress has not tlie right to
interfere with slavery in the territories. Why,
Giddings never asserted the contrary, an
Hannibal Hamlin agreed to the resolutions
of the Convention. Was there ever a mock
ery more barefaced and unblushing ? And
Virginia and Alabama, with their resolutions
fresh in tlie memory of the South, tire called
on by tlieir delegates to consent to this be
trayal of their rights and repudiation of their
principles.
We cannot in sincerity say that we ever
suppose,l the Convention would uphold the
rights of the South. We knew that an hon
est and frank avowal of opinion upon slavery.
by any Presidential aspirant, or any Conven
tion, would drive off either the North or the
South. We anticipated an attempt to sur
render the South to the North, as we k tew
tlie North would yield nothing to justice or tlie
Constitution. But we supposed that at least
a pretext would be resorted to in order that
tlie sacrifice should he made with ordinary
decency.
But the harmony of the party was to he
preserved, and this could only be* nff-eted by
the prostration of the rights ol the South.—
Will the people ratify this shameless conces
sion ? Will they how their necks like beasts
of burden to this yoke, which irresponsible of
fice seekers have prepared for them and pro
claimed that they shall wear ? When it is
rerollected that the members of the Conven
tion that nominated Mr. Polk have already
received more than term hundred thousand
dollars in the distribution ol'Exee itive patron
age. the inducements of n Convention like
that at Baltimore lo preserve the hnrnwnt ol
the Party may he seen and appreciated. But
what boots party to the people? When
trampling under toot their constitutional rights,
party becomes an uiis-rupulou- combination for
the distribution of spoils torn from the hands
of honest and patient industry. Let the N mtlt
—the people of the South, reject this wick
ed coat;ivance to betray and deliver tin in
like sheep in the shambles, bound hand and
foot in the power of the North. If they have
the spirit of freemen—of men—let tin in - hear
it not.” — Charleston Mercury.
South Carolina nml Thu Do nun-ratio Con
vention,
The coolest piece of impudence we linve
seen since 1840. has just beenenucted at Bal
timore, preluded by that trickery and bolster
ing which is ever most needed when honesty
and fair play are to he put under foot. We
did not believe at the time, that all the Irater
nizaton and the patting on the back of Mr.
Commander and his small meeting at George
town. by the Federal Union ol Georgia, and
some others, was without its special object.—
We never doubted lor a moment that the
Itucker fraud was to be re-enacted and we were
to have new editions, enlarged and improved
for the forthcoming of which, the management
of our affairs had been taken in hand hy the
Georgia editor and his coadjutors. But much
as our expectations were raised, we were not
prepared tiir that dazzling burst of genius and
unparalleled impudence displayed at the llal
timore Convention hy the Georgetown Dele
gate. Gen Santa Anna bus heen considered
a great man tor his extraordinary facility in
creating armies to light the Americans, but
he is eclipsed by this vast creative talent of our
own Santa Anna. The Mexican Imd men
and materials to work on. and all lie had in do
was to mould and fashion them; hut our-hero
has made a great State out of some nine or
ten men. and putting it into his pocket, gone
off to Baltimore in search of “Cowes umlu
market.”
He says, in Ids speech, to which us n curi
osity in South Carolina, we invite special at
tentio i, “ the members of the party from all
parts of the State were invited to be present,
and that he was elected a Delegate hy that
meeting or Conrcntun to represent the Stitc
ill the National Dcio-i. r.iti Convention , i rith
the underetaadiuf that he alumld diet the nine
tote* which the State wan entitled to.”
Now. this unheard ofinvitatio t to •• all parts
of the State seem - to have been responded t > hy
none eight or ten persons of the neighborhood
from whom lie got tin- understanding lie was
to east the nine votes of the Stale We
have looked over the list of those in at
tendance at this •• Convention “ and the only
out-we heard of la-hne was. D. 1,. .VI eK vv
Ksq. the Chairman a rcs|iect aide genth-tu in
whose name laid liecnme particularly well
known iuul valued, hy his having been fre
ipientk sent to iis as voucher lor eerimn suh
acriplious lo the I/- cure ui the but loin of ci r
tain eertilieales of ilidebteihica-, nod proniis- s
lo pay issued by the I’revldenl and Director
of the Ihwik of Georgetown. We have o ily
to ay lo uur excellent friend the I’ret ideui
that w could Imrdly have su-pceled him < f
issuing countcrli it*, had Ins mime noth, ci, i
tin h iii >:.i o. ilie Mil And iv. bop y t be v. ill
disavow Ihe | hser- ililahle du, cry •• I uj Id
lobe pallia and olfontlu-Balti.mil'. Convention
an-1 the country.
But really w- have laughed I eartily over j
this huiuhu ;gi ig. V\ hot a e-nu nent un on
such convention* I To the p ope of Mouth
Carolina i,'they needl'd it Isl ne tin re will
not again he need of pointing out tilt* hollow
ness and tre u-hory lo whieh they ar ■ li -Id.
in msemhlics got up like thin one. They, the
people of South C irolini, r*pf> ent--d hy a
m;m tint ninety-nine hundred-hs t ■
never heard o— e ! e . i 1~, , nf them
•'j’ not lf-electe l ‘"*•
eland foisted upoa
ne tol Georgetown the F,, d V’ ! ” ‘ 1
and the Baltimore u'} ,i ’ J * ‘/
Ihaßn I tun ire Convent ion of lain 10
the language by one new wo .1 i, j C:,ri
hint it has nsv< rb t lo*t; ‘tV' ; ‘ -
110 longer hold u disput'd „ Ku ' k, '“--a
only one expr- ssive, j, ■ tl,
ow trail i and petty ri-ket vl-v wl i', |, 1,1 l! ’
1,,u 111 “ witl-out merit or auttit -itv ‘V*
“f ,t 8 I Mray the honor , f
Das, that South Caoltaa !ai -
parallel ‘■—Charleston Mercury <t
latWMdiny fa. _
< -etg-e- - have ju-i par,, | .. ‘
: the net ol 1815 relative to
PostnntKtt rs. The new act , *
; Ho! eoiiimissions, author, zed. ‘i w
l ostrnas-ers by the first s.-etioa n r ."jf ‘l
shall he allowed and paid n, ,i,’ fo't,
amount nf pottage received i n “” >£
of the year, and in due proportion t> f
! ‘“** lj ** ‘him a quarlt r, last,ad of k : ‘
lowe-l and , aid on the amount
year, ns was by mistake proviildd ■ ,r 't
act: 1 “” win said
Fee. 2. And be il further enacted Th-a n
I ottaiasters, whose t.omuihsio !w |,, T a| l
diminished by tlieir b, mg allowed
the amount of postage receivid • ill P a ‘do
shall hepermitt. and in resettle and
account according to the first sect.,.! c T' r
act. and shall be allowed and paid ,° ,1 '”
f.s may he justly found their due on B nV u ®
settlement ol iheir accounts. “'ire
-1 Sec. 3. And be it further enacts t,
t.ie Postmaster General he iiiul lU rj 2( ,, 1 ', T11iU
ploy, temporarily, such additional clll
. may be lound neressary for the res, nl h ‘ **
I regularly to arrive between the hours „r ; “
o clock at night and five i., ,| le morni “"’
commission ot, the first hundred dollar? <
l< I’ted in one quarter may he increasedL v th.
I ostmaster General toa sum nut ,
silty percent.
, r . S '*"‘ners it, the Pacilic.
Ihe Washington Union publishes letter,
stating that there is bituminous real, in abun.
and ince.at \ at,convert Island, for tl.cltaeoi “w
■ i te ol steamers about to be established b
j tween 1 .mama and the Columbia rnv;
is notiiouhted that this coal can be nuHmJi
t; he ‘fr'r Ui, > c °^ n y
reasonable terms. 1
; The (jjie of steamers now in operation on
the 1 -tctlic coast make monthly tripabetween
Valparaiso and Panama, and the British (in
ernment pays the Company SIOO,OOO u-r an
-1111,11 1 the transportation ol the mails. The
av, rage receipts tor passengers and freight,
each trip, from Panama and bark, tire about
olaO'dO, and each ho.tt carries Irom D3 u
18J passengers.— Halt. Patriot.
Peach Trees.
A writer in the Hortic-ilrist thinks that the short
ing in mode ot pruning and lie use -f athe, Wl || j r ,
t int most fatal malady to p ac'i trees—tbe yi-li„ii~
out of tin* country, ilcjitivati.n can be brought tu -
mate their to.nt value. He ns.*-* wool ashes. e.i.*e
leached or ualeached—half a ul tlie tor
h ill a bushel ot the umeuched, lor n y-iung n,-e ,
gi-miag to bear. The best time for ‘. plyingit is,-
tuber, but it lia been found to answer adiu.
late as June. It Is best toprune ,n- peaeb curly, at
thew riu-r bisse- u no bad ,-ls ct 1: ..i -a.,:- .; ~.
as tale as tie middle o: May, ana a.- i > ; ,„s ,
have nut per or,lied lint opnaii-M .Itiea.i.
knile in hand, and sally futih unuieJ-.ate;y.
Myron’s Saperatitiou.
Tiie following is ant xeiiing narat.ve. :s
• rative of tin-.-, roitg p.opvi.M \! , sap
wlnc.i I'imriu t. .izr.i U.e giviii ~> tu A,
“Ves.” said Lyro i • ,vc nm-, ada.i, ...t
there is a power unseta. Wni-mo. u.m ... i
what or whi r-’ and who any o.'usma . ‘
da}’ ten years ? .Napoleon railed i -a >.. y
and a terrible thing fie found Irish s.i.y m <i
I year's s.iow. tin greater the jiereo.i re
tm- highi-rwe are : me vas.cr tuc nu.ub.-r m
i ran sway, tlie inure tiercel) the s, ini >■---■
. gles in its taiglit the more t rnlir is:;, ii - *
of s.i,u ri ieiiniiie.it si.ivism.es-:. li-.-_ria.-i .j
m ireii ia military state, a million o! nr uai ri
arm- ions arls mime- u ..
civil a id military genius could cun.-, -
se • and i Xecute was his . he had eius.-,d El
rope with his moviag world to wl.om 1.-ei
was h.tv ; hi la) down to sleep omniputt: :•
ue woke a powerhss puppet u ln-Ijih-ss :,i
iumsi Ifi.nl all that tnig,.._. multitude tin - :
they could no break. All u isecn. uitUJ
l.n xoraliU- loree tia.l I . the silent night -■
ii[i that host to wl.om nis will was law—S
will! wln-rc was it ! He tn.iy commnuJ. >
who can obey ! lie lias found there e-a
thing mightier than him.”
*■ ill., hum of roller should have rw'ri
him ’said ; - 1 wonder what truth 1*
is in his belief in a genius.”
” It is not only possible, hut probable
I • flint Bonaparte is a stij*-rstiu-msou
He was bred up at a time when there >i
religion taught; he tell, as Lord 1!) •” ■'!
all men of high aspirations must leu. >
great as tin-) are there is a greater, that tat
are hounds appointed to tin m that tie) >'*
not pass ; lie called it lute, and las tate J
done sin h win alt mis tilings for him lie k ■ -
so much was the ellect of LI limstiuiei
wlii’ li he hnl no coatro! t was inq'ossiklt’®
he should not h.-VC a sii i islitmn ilreailJ
file winch had done so lnueli, tm-iuuig 1,1
again. It is very lik ly that lie does I, >
in that red banshee, or some such tiMtiser.-
*• Sailors are always snet-ringly calM
js-fstilions.” said Lord” Byron. “ iut wh>
at it ! It is only the iiievitahlt- homage v. - 1
sitimtion to that which the) let! *;•’
stand not. lam a sailor myself. atl
wlm. the eoinntaiuh r of a strip, tlie
lilt-of aught ei eated h) mail's hands : ki
what lie leels as In- proudly strj s tin ‘te'
makes that whole to move anti torn lin “ “
a nl go as he ordains —that intrinsic ct
nf ropes and | tilh )s. and iiuirimirni.' 111 ’
brutal men. heroine instinct with n-o , W’
and sense at Ins nod ; he trend • thill d' l
proudest despot 111 the universe: IUIt ’ ll l#
no I, gger titan a mint’s hand appe® lu ,
tar ml horizon the waters surge— 1
howl tliedri.nl pi, i utsor—a gait -'j? (
and what is man / wliat are his works •
and stilt on yonder in k In- If *—t..at 1“
ruler chief—Mint tiling of lilt-lie rule’
is it > Here a timber, tin rc u sail—•’
eil to the waves .uni winds. And cal* 110
it siq vi - titiou in these lin n lo ie.” 111 ‘ ‘
this dread loree 11 .it I neikis tbetn 11
strength so weak /” , .. n jot
l’ot tsnre | rivilegetl ’’said
turn ivltul is Itlisurh into tine setae.'’ (
ali tiiul dot s not make the ,uj ersim’
more rational or h ss mjitriotis
‘ Is tlu-re n-y one ’ snid Kinnatr 1 ■
if they were Ititved tospiak boat’s 1 ')
not eiiiift-ss In- had Ins own sti, i sti"“’
•• <th I” snid . “)ouS'oirlt!'‘‘; il
to seeottil sight and g'-osls uu-l - 1 1 ‘ „
■ I suppose it is; hi least I llif |i" u<
das Mieti, ‘ s.ud Lord 1 ) i *> * ’ ll ’ j iiU
a proof of in) l-ieoteli h o*kJ Ibid
tti.i) ’ —lie paused tmj I'Mik-’d t
las eounti imnee was nt tl* l- ,3
agreeable than 1 think 1 ever sa”
alter ; n laid liimi the s< riot"’ 1,1,1 ’ iJ;
of oia eo..versuuontill eXalud ‘x| ■ i
tali) opp-isite to that insoa ltl s .
all) la longed to it minl there w •“ •'* (||l( ,..
nr “i at -i sort ol )millilul• ontid ”’, 1 |( , <
dm ti at wis for-i moinenl real- “ \ ,
iag ii iin-it ol l.oimr. m and t ll ’ j
\\ |,e ‘ 1 War aboil! liltiell 1 dri'-l'-’
u s \.a-flaps 111 -i wood, and >' l w! . r
-in !id under my leel : sud'h' ll ", ‘’
up Innoit- tile n- I*l u verb* 1
per.f ,1 I saw u sjiuee laid bare, ‘* , t,s
a : -tl) s|ieetaele —u corpse i 1
ol n y-mog man, lull li ’imurtue. 1 ~,
, t ,de o 1 youth ; hisiirns wits rs v
I is hair, tiiul the ground u bi*U 1
, lolled gom. mill a hideous won
seemed hle-ding still. I 1 " 1 ”" 111