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Soiirs for the Poultry Yard.
Now that poultry-keeping bus become its fashion able
tti crochet and erery well-regulated young lady keeps
her Cochin-China in preference to a canurv, we may
naturallr expect the mania will soon affect the wpira
tioo of our lyric writers. We are convinced, indeed,
that aongs for the poultry-yard will be counted very
shortly with the wants of the age, and will soon
plant those senseless “ I me~U *•< -as tunc
with which tho seutiinential school haa far too long af
flicted ua. We are. tbere'bre, tempted ‘o anticipate the
national demand, and to supply at once a specimen
which anr poultry-mindedyinuacn has our full pertnia
•ion to inscribe iii her album—supposing that exploded
nuisance cun be anywhere found extant:—
Air —hath a lirami rot E#r.”
T.esbia hath some Cochin Chi
na fowls of most superior breeding;
Erery one 100 fat to (ly,
So constantly she keeps them feeding.
Daily wakened by their crows,
At some precocious hour she rise**
And while their breakfast forth she throws,
* Her pets she thus apostrophize.-*t
••O my Cochin Chin \ dear
] mean ex;eti.#fß—Cochin China;
Most Kens lay
. One egg a day,
Dot vou lay (*■, my Cochin China I”
T.esbia longi'd tit Sea the show
Held lately in tlu street railed Baber,
And So importuned me to gs,
That I at length w.is glad to take her.
Curious breeds there were on * lew,
‘•Silver penciled,” “golden-crested:
“Donble-cotubed” I noticed, too.
(I’d much prefer them double-breasted:)
And there were Cochin China here,
Vaatly costly Cochin China ;
Cbick we’re heaid
By ducks are reared.
But surely geese rear Cochin China! [ /'</* A
[From the Knickerbocker Magazine.]
Crumbs.
Avery liule gill, young enough to sleep in a crib be
the bed of her jiaroiis, aw i ke one nigh;, w hen the full
tno,,n was shining into her bed-room, end calling :i>
her lather, exclaimed:
“Father! Fat iter S Cod has forgot to blow the troon
out! Won't you open the window, aod let me blow it
out ?”
Another little girl, of nearly the same age, and living
Terr near to her, was found one evening alone in her
mother’s bed-room, wheu she very quickly rr.uaikcil
to her mother:
“1 have been having a season of prayer fi.r the poor
children at the Five Feints.” Will not such prayers
go up higher than ntawy other- lront older |x-ix>ii> ?
I have a couple of little nieces —twius—so much alike
as to render a disttociton impossible to any bu: their
parents. 1 remember once leaching one of iliesu a les
son iu t lie catechism, I commenced with the; neat inti:
“Who made vou?”
She replied correctly : “hfli” a
“Why dW he make you ?”
A correct reply, again.
“In whose image and likeness did he in;ke vou?”
“Why,” says she, -pvt,king very quit k, “ He made
hie the very Image andT likeness ot my sister Clam! ‘
A little nephew of mine, a “fire year-old.” iriinre
mind nss running ou holiday subjects, .-aid to his la
ther :
‘Tapa! does Santa Claus travel all ovet ’.lie wotltl at
Christmas?”
“Yes, my son,” was the answer.
“I should'nt think he’d go to Africa,” .■aid the child.
“Why, not?” he was asked.
•'Why, because they have go* no stockings there!”
Our little “Bddy” so met ones says queer things: most
little bovs of two rear* of age do. A lew ii’g'it* ago, !
haring Just finished .t ‘famous’ piece of pic, of winch
he is very £>id. lie was summoned bv Ins mother to j
*say his prayers’ and go to Iks!. Kma-ling ai her side. I
herepeated after her that heaven-taught petition, ‘Our 1
father which art in bearrti,’ etc., nntil she came t tiie i
passage, “Give ns this day our daily bread,'—when,
raising hit read, ami looking up into her luce, he said: !
“Oh, no, mother!— pie!—say pie.’”
A little fellow, from four to tire years old, having j
perfora'ed the knee of his trow sets, was intensely de- j
lighted with & patch his grand-mamma bad applied.— j
He would sit and gaze upon it in a sra'e ot remarkable j
admiration and iu one of these roods wdttemv ex- !
claimed :
‘Grand-ms must jmt one on t'other knee, and two I
behind, like Eddy Snath’*.”
If the bov licea, he wilt beat Governor Marry, two ‘
to one.
When “onr ’Gas,” was a “three-yesr-nSd.” lie had
been for some days anticipating with great delight a
visit to his grand-parents, who (Voided a halfday's n<le
from our home. Bni it stormed day after dar, so that
he could not go; until “hojie deferred” made his little
ficart sick. As bis iwotser saw him to his bed. -lie
•>ade him repeat Ms nstsd prayer, w hxU be did, with n
tlight ear lot* *, a* follows :
“Sour 1 lay me down to ate“p,
1 pray the Lmd my soul to Keep,
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the l.ord my sonl to take
/V y/aM,y. fo->u’ r, >.tc n.nj /”
The ParisecnTespcudeiit of the New York Tr.bvrt
•ays:
“Twenty young American physicians here in Paris,
bare made to the Russian Consul an offer of thetr s
view as surgeons in the Russian armies. Thev will
travel at the expense of the Czar, and improve” their
knowledge ol surgery at tb.- expepse <>• uis subjrr,.-.
His Jbjuty may not accept d.c-ir offer. One could
Imagine that a mlcr who phlebotomizes with thekin-Ht,
and send* delicate women to reside in Siberia, might
not care for the science of republican j liysician.-.
Withal, us he has whole human bodies at In command
to supply the waste of the war, he might prefer that
the wounded shoo'd die and he done with it. Corpses
are less expensive than invalids; a fact ihal in the i-re
scut bad state of his finance* he will be likely to consid
er. f may mention, as characteristic oi American
promptitude, that nearly all the twenty doctotu volun
teered for a Russian campaign within fen minutes .f
the first proposal marie to that efl.-ct by one o* their
number, at the close of one of M. Costa’s lectures <n
embryology. On the other hard, some Americans !
have already left, and several are going from here l<
day, ou their way Jo the Turkish camp. Among the
latter are C!. llacgrader, who d.a'inginshcd bins.-* It n
the Mexican war; Mr. (Jnincv Shaw, f Boston; nod
his brother-in-law, Mr. IVin. I*. Given, late an imlcneu i
dent Unitarianish clergyman at West Brookfield, Mass.
Augusta and Columbia Railroad.
This entei priac is attracting considerable attention
amuae our ( -dombiu neighbors, auil they sevtn to be
•eameerij’-enlisthig in the work. A writer in the Ur. -
Uniat t, sums up the advantages very briefly iu the fol
-1 owing ooutijxmiicaiion.— Any. CUrtt. t Suit.
jfiOrt. t.-ikfi*: —To insure the success of thiarnad,
it is only necessary to know if it will tntv. C.ipoaiis.s
will invest their money, if they arccmititfewt of a hand
boine return ou tfieir investment. The cities a: the
two.at.ds of (Lez-c-ad arid subscribe if tbe stock will l-c
■ease an. jn-olhicfive. The |s-op!e along the line, the
jilantevs and owners of real estate, will take on the
. anarts, if the road is not only suie to Irenefi’ tln-irprr
perty, but pay good dividends lo the stockholders.
Now, os there will be more or less way business, as
tbe cotton, corn and timlK-r along the line,and the sup
plies for tb- tewna and the planters will afford consid
erable ■freqjm, and as Hie Qitvttgh freight of bacon,
corn, flour, aft-1 otherer—tcrw’ {modwee tor IheCoUim
bia market wiil.be large; if, he-id.-s this, the Raid can
have a latge passenger travel, its productiveness will
be beyond a dan hr.
Tbat is a mere question of distance and time. If a j
shorter mate from Augusta to Washington ran be hud, !
tbe great-Soulhers Had, the Xortberu and Southern
travel, will be sure to desert the longer und eiicuitous
route, and take the shutter and mare ditvet.
Now the oistaoce fruin Manchester u* Augasta will
Fd uiilfc, wfide tbe preset it distance by -
liranoLt die is about 11A miles. This difference of go
miles is sutb-rieut to insure the mail and tl>e travel.
But the better chance is-bv -mentis of ibe Charlotte
Rood. Before tbe Augusta and Ctduß.hia Road is con
structed. there will be u coiitimums line IVora Char
lotte to Raleigh and ft. .m Raleigh to Weldon. The
distance from Augusta to W-oldmi will be To and lot:, -
and 140 audio Rules,or in all 8-yj miles. The present
distance is 115 anl aod Ikj miles, <s- in ail 4>'j
miles—makiug a cJilfeß-uce of 53 miles in favor of the j
Charlotte mure. Bjr taking the Gaston Road Inan
Raleigh to Hillsboro’, this difference will be increased
to about K 5 miles.
Either difleveute willaiuJtc cert kin the transfer of the I
mail and the travel to the Columbia and liiinibuig |
Road, and fhis travel -will be “lire to make the road
profitable to tbe siiaiuboideis.
ScvxN-LKxuran Boots.—Two remarkable experi
ments iu a: rust ut ion hatv Jrgblv eslouisbed this city. !
Os the first I did not write for 1 supposed it a hoax.
But it has been repeated since, and an eye witness lias
told me of the wonderful results. A man envclnjied ,
m a net work eontaiuirg a large number of bladders, 1
tilled with hydrogen gas, ran, turn, down
tbe Champs Elysees at tbe rate of 55 nuies an hour.—
(His leaps were enormous; the ascensional powerof the
gas was not sufficient lo carry him up, but it neuttali
ud three quarters ot his weight. Last. San day he re
- sew edits.- ex|ritnent upon an cxtemirfiimlevard with
a little moae gas. Be made forty miles an hour, and
said that with a tavoiable wind he could make
±d, and heat any locomotive without tatioue. With
the tremendous muscular power possesseddir man, it
is evident that vs oeaould in anv wav lengiheo'bis legs,
a: ’bi* invention really does, he would realize the fable
or Seven-Leagued lfoota. Caulder, the most agile
-i wn ot the circus, who was present, agictd soon with
a imilar ajiparabus lo Juujp the Seine. 1 jinder
od that a dozen machines with improvements are
now in course of fabrication, and (hat the idea of anni
—oliug apace has seizedcpoo more than one.ad ventur
ous brain As to aeronauts, tbey all acknowledge that
they may aa well burn tlieir balloons.— Par* Cur. X.
i . TrJmnt.
22T Hoii’t trifle w;th she affections of youngladies.
‘Wy ** b*etityivipns. that were never esSablished tor
.nr such purpose. If vou don’t ‘contemplate marrage
X rtilicates and tfie parson, French bedsteads, a F‘'>-i
rent, and a perspective home’- for the old folk*
t;l *e yoar hat and leave. You’ve no more right
ou trifling with amM.vg’ cal km, thou a bob’ bock
■|P to pm itself off for a roan.
MACON, GEORGIA:
WEDNESDAY, MAUCH £2, 1554.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL of THE srEAMSHIP ARABIA
Liverpool, March 4>
New York, March 15.
The Royal Mail steamship Arabia, Captain Judkins,
arrived at Halifax ou Wednesday, the 15th with Liver
i pool dates of the 4th. The Liverpool cotton mr.rket for
the week previous to sailing oj-ened heavy, hut closed
j under a better feeling, though at a decline of 1-16, with
i more sellers than buyers.
Ti to'al saivx for ihe week are 31,700 hales, of which
speculators took 17,'foOsnd exporter* 3,750ba1e5, at the
k-Howicg qtiofsttior.s, viz:
F’uir Orlenns fijx*
Middling Orleans • 13-16
Fair L" plant and Mobile
Middling I'p'and 5 12-16
The stock on hand 6-J0,50y bales, cf w hich 880,00 t)
b.des were Ameticcu.
Wheat has dectllied from three to four penci*, and
Com, Flour from two to three shillings.
Trade in Manchester i reported dull.
Consol* rinsed at I*l V,
Tin- lliivn* Coitou n-ttket r-n the Ist was s.cafly, with
sales for the Week closing on that day of 4i,150 bales.
For the previous live days the market had continued
! cry steady in pricos, and closed iu the same condition
Kastern Aliaits,
No hostilities bad yet occurred on the Danube or iu
\m.i iu consequence of the heavy snows. The weather
van now milder.
France and England insist that Rus-ia shall evacuate
lie Princi|ial!ties before April 3- th. All parties were
.till arming.
The Greek inaurrection was likely to be speedily sup
pressed.
The Vienna com-sjroudent of the London Times, un
der date ot the --1 says that an Austrian manifesto was
b.Ki‘ to announce that Austria will occupy Bosnia and
Svrvia. A panic ensued on the Vienna Bourse.
The St. Petersburg Journal says the following is the
substance of the Czar’s answer to Nai-ohoi;:
“If his imperial majesty extends his hands to me as I
extend mine, I :::i ready to forget the mortification I
have experienced, harsh though it bo. Then, but then
only, can 1 discuss the subject treated of iu his letter,
! and may perhaps arrive at an understanding. I-et the
j Fieuth flee: prevent the Turks from trans;su ;ing roin
j force.r.ents to the iltm.re of war, arnl ict them send me
1 a I’lcnij-otentiarv to negotiate, whom I will receive as
J befits bis cliaructer. The conditions made known to
| iliis conference ;,t Vienna are the sole basis ou which I
, will consent to treat.
j Tbe l'aris Bourse c:i Friday was heavy and the funds
ilcclinzcL T'io Three’s closed ut 6Ja7"c ; Four and
iLovcs tuJ-,.
A despatch from Vienna of the i'7tli says the move,
jiueiif of tnsiies to ihe S)i*.lliern frontiers continue. The
tGoveniment has decided in concert with the Western
| Bowers to summons Russia to evacuate the Brincipali
ties and if necessary to employ force to compel her to
do so.
Li’clligonco bad leached Brussels that the Russian
fleet was preparing to leave Cronsladl, proliablv to gain
the sea belme ihe arrival of the combined fleet. T!ic
negotiations between Russia and Bwee-ien were not vet
jvriuinatcd, and fears were eutertaiued at Stockholm
that Russia, in order to give weight to her demands,
will m ike a detnonstuition with her fleets against that
- ipital. Tfie Russian envoy hid a private audience
with the King on the Gist alt.
France and England continue their armament on an
immense soaie. S:r Charles Napier h.ul been appointed
commander ot die Baltic allied fleet. Admiral .Sevmour
ivas in command of ‘Jo ships which ha-1 already assem
bled at Spit head. The ice in the Baltic was already
breaking up, and the Russian fleet at Crons tad t was
liberated and ready to sad.
A doub:ful rumor was cireulatcd that the Czar had
laid an embargo on the British ships in Russian ports.
The Russians were making ostentatious preparation*
to cross the Danube, and Omar Bash a, was preparing
to cheek them. The lutks no longer occupy anv place
ou the North Danube. There has been considerable
lighting iu small parties, whenever they could come in
contact.
Another convoy of 16,000 men was preparing to leave
Constantinople for Batonm Several Bristish meu of
war had beeu ordered troin Malta to the Biraeus to
look after the Greek insurrection. The insurgents had
beeu defeated by the Tuiks nr Arta.
The Turkish Government, in concert with Eugland
and France, and Prussia, had addressed a remonstrance !
to the Greek Court. Tbe latter had apologised, and
dismissed the Minister ot Police.
• 111 England the war was quite popular. The addi
tional estimates for tbe army and navy were considered i
moderate.
France.
Napoleon opened the Legislative session on the 2d. !
ILs sjufih commenced by referring to the deficient bar- !
vest, 7,fW",i*Hj Hectolitre* of wheat had been imported
and more was on the wav. Famine had been averted
! but war was beginning. Franca had gone us far us
! honor permitted to avert the collision, but must now
; draw the sword, .'-'he has no views oi aggrandizement.
■ .he -lays of conquest are past, never to return. Eu- ‘
1 ru;>e leussuted by the moderation of the Emperor Alex
ander, ami his successor Nicholas, seemed to doubt
which by succssive encroachments embraced the north
and ti e centre of Europe, and which possesses almost
exciu.iveiy two internal seas, whence it is easy for its
armies ami fleets to launch kn th against civilization.—
But its 1-eceut unfounded demaud* iu the East has
awuketici! K.i;o; e. France has an equal interest with
Ei.gland iu preventing Russian supremacy over Coii
* antmople, tor to be supieme in Conslautinoplc is to j
be supreme in the Mediterranean.
France, therefore, was going to Constantinople to do- !
•nd the irveU-nu of the seas, as well as to pioiect the
ghts of the chnstians and France’s Just rights in the
lediterranean. She was going with Germany to aid
ei u-any, w ith Austria to defend her frontiers against
e prepouderence -if her t-Ki j-owerful neighbors. She
a* going, in short, tviih all those who desire the tri*
iq-li ut right and justice, and of civilization. Strong j
eu m She nohlcness of our case, in ihe firmness of oor j
::ance.-. and the protection of G-l, I h-q-o soon to ar- J
re at a peace which shall no longer (...pend ou the |
over of any one m.ui to -iistu: b.
Tiie English Pies* ima.immu-ly commend this speech.
Rumor assigns the command of the army iu the East
Marshal St. Antilild.
Prussia.
Russia demands that Prussia shall close her ports
-arest Rttssiu against the English and French ships.—
assist, however, is unwilling to do so.
At the regular meeting of our City Council on
c 17th resolution was adopted, authorising the
ayor to appoint delegates to represent this city iu the
pmachiDg Southern Commercial Convention at Char
ston, S. C. Wc understand, that in pursuance of
at resolution, the Mayor has nominated the following
-nticuieu as such delegates, Hon. E. A. Niabet, L. N.
hiitle, Thomas C. Nisbet and B. F. Ross.
On Monday morning, last, between six and
ven o'clock, there were two very distinct shocks of
, i earthquake felt by those of our citizens, who were
it of bed at tliat very unseasonable hour, and which
’ the jar of buildings and the rattling of small articles
furniture, which they iceasi-uied, created a very eon.
ierable alarm. There set-ins to be a difleronce of
•iniou, as to the direction from which the movcnient
me, and the length of its continuance, but we shall
air from it sg.dn so.in in some quarter of the globe.—
■e earth does move, as Gallileo protested, before the
ipe, many yeats ago.
We are reqnes'.ed to state, that R. llobbs, at :
c Post OlF.ce in this city, will receive and forward
.bscriptions to the Citizen — John Mitchell’s paper,
.blished at New A'ork. It i* ail ably edited and inter
ling weekly, and eminently deserving the support of
uthen tnen, ou account of its stiong and independent,
and bold advocacy of Southern Rights in the Territo
* of this Union.
* jg~ We refer our readers to the advertisement of
jssrs. J. M. Cooper, A Cos, agent* of the publishers
r tbe sale of Benton’s “Thirty years iu the Senate of
e United States.” We will receive the names of those
lo deaire to subscribe for the work, and deli cr them
eir copies when issued at this office.
a
V&T’ M. Jcllikk gave a Grand Concert in this city
Monday night, which delighted and aatoni-hed eve
one who had the [pleasure to attend. The Maestro
. .nself, has rather too much of the grandttignevr, but
Is full orchestra was only second to the small earth
quake with which we were visited the same d*y .
; ff” Therein u class oTclergymen at the North, who
select the mini try as £ profession, and who are e-iucal*
ed for it, as Southern youths ate prepared for the pro
fession of the lav.’ or nicdicaic, without iciercute to
their fillicit! for its duties, and Without pretension to a
higher sanction, in assuming them, than the law of tie
eessitv. They arc dull and make up fur their deficien
cy iu talent, by an ostentatious parade of a rigid or
thodoxy, bv ars excess r.f sectarian zeal, and by a supera
bundance of bitterness again?! the Fillies ot the world
and the Frailties of humanity. These are the men who
have introduced into the religious faith of New England,
the asceticism, which makes it repulsive. Or they are
bold, ardent, talented and ambitious, and finding uo
op|>ortutiity for the gratification ot their ambitious as
pirings, in the regular and prescribed path of humble
ministerial labors and duties, they are forever depart
ing from it, violating the proprieties of their position,
prostituting the pmlpit and bringing discredit upon re
ligion, by exhibiting a nervous desire for notoriety, by
Interfering with matters which neither concern them or
their charges, and which are outside of the circle of
theii duties, and by seizing upon popular subjects, in
the desk to attract crowds to hear them, and treating
them so as to command applause. These are the popu
lar preachers of the North —the men who make telling
[ sjieeehes at the dinner table, and deliver fierce and un
charitable anti-slavery lectures at the Tabernacle —the
tnen who figure conspicuously in ail the excitements lo
.vb’ch our Northern brethren arc so much inclined—
the Theodore Barkers and llenry Ward Beechers,
whose whole life is agitation, and a thirst for notoriety,
and who have introduced into the churches of the North,
that formalism—that habit of outward conformity and
intellectual assent to the truths of religion, which is
fast robbing them of their vitality, their influence and
their usefulness. It is deplorable that such men should
occupy the position of ministers of the Gospel, when we
reflect what influence it gives them in shaping the opin
ions, and controling the action of a people; and astound
ing that any intelligent people should tolerate them ;
and yet it is a simple fact, without malice or exaggera
tion. that they constitute a large class of the clergy of
the North. We are accustomed to judge our ministry
with harshness, to criticise them with uncharitable se
verity, ami to visit the slightest departure from the
straight path of their duty—with the loss of our confi
dence and respect; and we cun not understand the po
sition of this class of ihe ministry ut the North, who re
tain influence- aud preach in splendid churches to
! crowded and intelligent audiences, whilst forever inter
sering iu secular a flairs —forever striving to acquire no
toriety-—forever violating ail our ideas of propriety in
ministerial conduct. They arc strange successors to
the simple, earnest and laborious fishermen, who were
the first preachers of the word.
From this class of meu the South has nothing now to
dread. They have long since exhausted the vials of
their wrath against it; but it bus now to encounter a
more formidable danger. The clergy ol New Fugland—•
that great and powerful third estate of the North, with
out -listiuc. ion ot class or sect, is arrayed against it.—
They have become the principal actors in and promo
te! sos that fierce excitement which has been produced
at the North, by the Nebraska Bill, aud have organised
a religious crusade against the South. The occupation
of the clerical bedlamites, and monomaniacs, who have
l aved against slavery aud the South lor the last twenty
live years, is gone—they are uo longer singular—for
the Church engages in it. Such men as Kirk of Bos
ton. and Bacon of New Haven, have become their rivals,
iu stiring, bitterness and strile between tbe sections o(
this Union. At a late meeting at New Haven, (in
which several of the professors of Yale College partici
pated) Leonard Bacon, the pastor of Centre Church,
with the largest and most influential congregation in
tbe city, made a speech, denouncing the Nebraska Bill
and the South, from which wc extract the following
passage, to gire our readers some faint conception of
its bitterue>s and blind fury:
“Yes; but look into the Senate the night the bill
was passed, aud view the scene. Sir, they were drunk !
Conscience was deadened by these means. Was there
ever ad ime committed without ihe conscience beinjr
screwed up to the rtt'knj point by the same means? ’
This cold, phlegmatic, dogmatical, austere, Congre
gationulist minister, always uncharitable, always de
nunciatory and admirably fitted for an inquisitor of the
Church of Home, has the effrontery to declare that the
Senate of the United States got drunk, before they
could commit Ihe crime of passing the Nebraska Bill !
But three thousand five hundred clergyman and
theological students of New England, have memori
al iz.ed Congress against the passage of the Nebraska
Bill, and the language they employ is equally offensive.
They say—
“We protest against it as a great moral wrong; as a
breach of faith eminently injurious to the moral pi in
ciples of the community, and subversive of all confi
dence in national engagements; as a measure full of
danger to the peace, and even existence, of our beloved
Union, and exjtusing us to the righteous judgments of
the Almighty. ’
These memorialists are worthy successors of the
clergy of New England, who protested against the war
of ISl'2, and gave aid and comfort to theenemy. Their
memorial is an impertinence, couched in the most of
fensive language. It regards the question of slavery,
outside of, and above all its relations to the Constitu
tion of the United States —brings it before the forum
of conscience, andjit onounces it an unmitigated moral
wrong. Its signers, declare with a studied hypocrisy,
or ail assumption of superior wisdom and superior
righteousness, which is equally disgusting and irrita
ting, that Ihe simple recognition of the rights of slave
holders, will expose the country to the righteous judg
ments of the Almighty. And what is it, which has
caused this great excitement among the clergy of the
North, and urged them formally to rebuke the Senate
of the United States ? It is the passage of a bill, nei
ther restricting or extending slavery—but leaving it
to be allowed or prohibited by the people of tbe Terri
tories— it is the failure of the Senate to countenance
and legalise aggression upon tbe rights of the South—
it is the recognition ol the fact of the existence of slave
ry in this Union—of a state of things expressly allowed
bv God in the Theocracy of tbe Jews, and in his provi
dential administration of the affairs of the whole human
race.
The action of these clerical memorialist* is produc
ing lamentable results at the South. The consciences
ol Southerners cannot lie coerced. They resent this
effort nt dictation and intimidation ; and its only effect,
will be to create a deep, settled, und abiding feeling of
bitterness towards tbe people of tbe North, and a de
termination not to yield one inch of ground upon tbe
subject of slavery, or one tittle of their rights under the
Constitution. They con not tamely suffer rebuke from
men, whom they do not acknowledge as their superiors.
A New Invention.
Mr. Dwight Brown, of Opelika, Walker county, lias
had upon exhibition in this city, during the last week,
the model of a machine, which he calls a Railroad Ex
cavator, and which is a very ingenious and beautiful
piece of workmanship. We saw it in operation on
Saturday last, and though we have little knowledge of
Uailraad excavation or of Mechanics, and cannot say
whether it will answer the purposes for which it is de
signed, yet wc can testify to tbe fact, that it shovels
dirt and loads a car with it with very great rapidity.—
The superioi ity of this machine, over others which have
been employed lor the same purpose, is, that it is cheap,
er and simpler, mote durable, because nothing but
very light and quick work is expected of it, and less
expensive iu the labor employed about it. It can bo
run with a small engine of two or three horse power.
Practical Mechanics and Engineers who have exam
ined, have expressed very favorable opinions of it, us
destined to effect a great economy of time aud labor in
the grading ol Railroad tracks. Mr. B is a remarkably
ingenious mechanic, and we would be glad to see him
realise some practical benefit from someone of the
many, inventions he has effected.
A Fugitive Slave Rescued.
A fugitive slave the property of a citizen of Missouri,
who was arrested by the tinned States Marshal, near
Miiwatikie, Wisconsin, on the 11th inst., was taken
from the jail in which he was confined, and released
by a mob. The owner was then arrested for an al
leged assault upon the slave, and a warrant, was issued
against him, to compel him to appear and answer for
the damages sustained by the slave, in his illegal ini,
prisonment. This is the way in which the Fugitive
Slave Law is obeyed at the North, and yet, Northern
Representatives in Congress, exhibit a great deal ot vir
tuous indignation at the attempt, by the Nebraska Bill
to repeal an unconstitutional and unjust piece of legisla.
tiou, and talk loudly of the obligations of law, und of
the sacredness of compacts, aod of compromises.
President Fillmore arrived at Louisville on
Thursday of last week, and was honored with a public
reception, aud dinger by the citizens ot tbe place. He
expects to extend his tour Southward, to New Orleans
and Havana, and we may have the pleasure of welcom
ing him to Georgia, upon bis return from the latte -
phi* At.
Jlcrsttfc from tiie President oh the lii.tick
Warrior Case.
j The President of the United States, on Wcdnosdqf
| the 15th iost., sent the following message to the House
j cf Representatives, in regard to the seizure’ of the sfcatn
i er Black Warrior by the authorities of Cuba, in the port
;of Havana. It was reported from Washington by tele
! graph, on the 14th inst, that, the amplest apology had
been made by the authorities of the Island to our Gov
ernment, accompanied with an offer to pay all damages
vbich its owners had suffered by the seizure and deten
iou of the Black Warrior, and the confiscation of her
•.argo. This was a mistake, as tbe Executive has since
hen submitted the affair to Congress for its action, and
aken measures, to represent it to the Government of
-pain, and to demand indemnity for the injuries which
ave resulted from it. Congress tnay in the event of
die failure of an amicable settlement of the difficulty,
suspend our neutrality laws with Spain, and if so the
Islund of Cube, in a few months, would be our proper
ty. England and France, the allies upon whom Spain
relies, to insure her the posession of Cuba, are engaged
in a foreign war, which demands all their attention—
Spain itself is upon the verge of a revolution, aud every
thing is propitious for tbe liberation of tbe Island and
its annexation. If our neutrality laws with Spain are
once suspended, private enterprise, no longer controlled
by the obligation of treaties, or restrained by the fear of
the penalities of piracy, would soon accomplish this
work, which diplomacy and money thus far has failed
to effect:
To the Home of Representatives — In compliance with
the resolution of the House of Representatives of the
iuth inst., I herewith trausmit a report of the Secreta
ry of State, containing all the information received at
the department in relution to tbe ae'zuieof the Black
Warrior at Havana, ou tbe 2Mh ultimo. There have
been, in the course of a few years past, many other in
stances of aggression upon our commerce, violations of
the rights of American citizens, and insults to the na
tional flag, by the Spanish authorities in Cuba; and all
■attempts to obtain redress have led to protracted and as
yet fruitless negotiations. The documents in those
eases are voluminous, and when prepared w ill be scut
o Congress.
Those now transmitted relate exclusively to the sei
zure ot the Black Warrior, and present so clear a case
of wrong that it would be reasonable to expect full in
demnity therefor as soon as this unjustifiable and offen
sive conduct shall be made known to her Catholic Ma
esty’s government; but similar expectations in other
jases have not been realized. The offending party is at
our doors, with large powers for aggression, but none,
it is ullodged, for reparation. The source of redress is
in another hemisphere, and the answers to our just
complaints made to the home government are but the
repetition of excuses, rendered by inferior officials to
their superiors, in reply to representations of miscon
duct. ’ihe peculiar situation of the parties has, un
doubtedlv, much aggravated the annoyances and inju
ries which our citizens have suffered irom the Cuban
authorities, and Spain does not seem to appreciate to its
full extent her responsibility for ihe conduct of these
authorities. In giving very extraordinary powers to
them, she owes it to justice and to her friendly rela
tions w ith this government to guard with great vigi
lance against the exorbitant exercise ol these powers,
and, in case of injuries, to provide for prompt redress
1 liuve already taken measures to present to the gov
ernment of Spain the wanton injury of the Cuban au
thorities in the detention and seizure of the Black War
rior, aud to demand immediate indemnity for the injury
which has thereby resulted to our citizens.
In view of the position of Ihe Island of Cuba, its
proximity to our coast, the relations which it must ever
bear to our commercial and other interests, tt is vain to
expect that a series of unfriendly acts, infringing our
commercial rights, and the adoption of a policy threat
ening tbe honoi and security of these States, can long
consist with peaceful relations.
In cit.-e the measures taken for amicable adjustment
[of our difficulties with Spain should unfortunately fail,
1 shall not hesitate to use tbe authority aud means
which C: tigress may grant to insure the observance of
Our just rights to obtain redress for injuries received,
and to vindicate the honor of our flag, in anticipation
of (hat contingency, which I earnestly hope may not
arise, I suggest to Congress the propriety of adopting
such provisional measures as the exigency mav seem to
demand. FRANKLIN BIERCE.
Washington, March 15, 1354.
fW St. Patrick’s Day was celebrated with great
spirit and unanimity, on the 17th inst, by the Irish
esidents of our ctly. The anniversary of Irelands’ Bat
on Saint, we have read, was or ginally u religious testi
al, but it lias become In Ireland, a national hollidav,
,i which all classes of all phases of religious and politi
•and opinions participate, and in this country, an ocea
• ion for pleasant re-union among her sous, to revive the
.ecolleetions and associations of their father-land. At
leven o’clock the members of the Hibernian Society,
lat ched in procession to Concert Hall, where an ele
ant and eloquent address, appropriate to the occasion,
.as delived by Philemon Tracy, Esq. Tbe orator after
•sering to the occasion, tbe annual return of which,
aites all Irishmen in all quarters of the globe, in senti
ient and feeling, alluded to the disastrous history of
reland, and traced its unhappiness, aud misery, and
ant of success, to the policy of the English Govern
leut, and to tbe religious jealousies and divisions of its
eople. We have no time for an extended notice of
lis address, which we hope may be published, as it is
no of the few, out of many such addresses to w hich we
avc listened, which will bear publication.
In the evening there was a Ball and Supper at Ar
ide Hull, and ‘he lestivities of the day were closed, (if
■e may be pardoi el, an Irish bull in this connection,)
14 o’clock next morn ng.
The following table, prepared by I. C. riant,
sq., who has kept a weather guage for a long time,
chibits the quantity of rain which has fallen in this
lace during the months specified. The fall of rain in
eccmber was very rematkable, being about six times
reater than the usual quantity:
October 3 Inches and 14-20 of an Inch.
November 2 “ “ b-20 “ “
December 14 “ “ 10 20 “ “
January 13 “ “ 8-20 “ “
February 6 “ “ 5-20 “ “
Genernl Pierce Defeated at Home.
The great point of political interest at present, is the
•.(e New Hampshire election, its results, and its conse
uences. If the latest telegraphic despatches are to be
died upon, tbe State has gone against the Admiuistra
on, and lias elected a Legislsture which will send two
pposiiiou Senators to Washington City. Baker, the
temocnttic candidate for Governor, it is said, is elected
v a small majority, John P. Hale is returned as a
ipresentative from Dover, and has a chance to be re
irned to the Senate of the United States. General
ierces’ own ward in the City of Concord, polled a ina
nity against the Administration candidates. It is im
ossible to ascertain the causes of this untoward result,
ho Administration organs denied that the Nebraska
lestion was an issue in the contest, nnd fought it upon
ther issues, but if it shall appear that the defeat of tho
‘emocracy, was caused by a coalition of Whigs and
ree Suffers in opposition to that Bill; we shall not re
.ice at the result, but sincerely deplore it.
The Southern Democrat.
Tho Southern Democrat (published at of
le 16lh inst., makes the following announcement of
s discontinuance at that place, and temporary sus
ension :
“ We regret to have to announce lhat this is the last
umber of the Democrat we expect to issue in Ogle
lorpe. The publication of the paper will be resumed
i a few weeks, at some near point, under more favor
ble auspices, and mailed weekly to the subscribers,
airing the year our patrous will be furnished with
xtra numbers of the paper, to make up for tbe short
ispeusion. The legal advertisements will be issued
eekly, in a slip, until they run out. We shall remain
••re until vve can wind up our unsettled business— c-ol
•ct what we can, and pay off’ what we owe—during
hich lime our office will be kept open for the reception
Job Work, which we propose to execute with neat
ess aud dispatch
“ It is hardly necessary for us to state our reasons
•r pursuing this course —you know—the business of
le place cunnot sustain a newspaper. There are open
igs where we can do well —of course you will not
iame us for availing ourselves of tbe opportunity.”
A telegraph dispaich from New York to the
harlestou hie, cury, says: —
The U. S. steamship Princ.ton is under sailing or
ers, supposed for Cadiz, to take out the result ot the
abinets deliberations on the DUick 11 amor’* case,
be Princeton is getting her supplies on board, and is
,‘tulv to sail at a moment’s warning.
Baltimore, March 14.— The steamer Caroline was
urnt on Sunday near the mouth of White River, and
fly persons perished, chiefly boat hands and sick pas
•ngets.
Tbe clipper ship Lionel has arrived at New York in
> days from San Francisco —the quickest trip ou
.•cord.
It is stated that the Cuban authorities have apolo
ized for the BUvk Warrior affair, and offered ample
itnpensation, and lhat the matter will bo settled wiih
ut tbe intervention ot Cougress.
Advices from Acupulco state that the revolution
‘hich had broken out there against Santa Anna, had
mde formidable headway, and that tbe Dictator whs
mrehing there with a large force.
Tbe steamer Ge,rge Law arrived at New \ ork to-day
■oin Aspiuwull with nearly a million of gold. Among
le passengers was a portion of tbe party engaged in
,ie survey of tbe canal route ou the Isthmus ot Darien.
In Erie, on Monday, the mob tore tip the railroad
•nek, in consequence of the Company running trains
irough on a connected tract. Tbe Sheriff was present
aborting the people to desist, but they hustled him
I way. The break is about half a mile in tbe town.
New York, March 14.—Tbe steamship Star of the
ir*{ ha* arrived, with $200,000 in gold.
•* [COMMIXICATKD.]
Wonderful Progress of Internal Itnrove
incnt!
Savannah and Albany Railroad. — The increasing
business on this mad is highly flattering. The late Re
port of Mr. Iloicorube, Chief Engineer, after reviewing
the prospects of nu increased trade, urges the speedy
erection of a depot with sufficient capacity to accommo
date the growing trade. The site offered cun be pur
chased for one hundred thousand dollars.
We clip the forego;ng paragraph from the columns of
the Cotton Plant, and we are pleased to learn that the
condition of the Savannah k Albany Railroad is so em
inently prosperous. We should like to witness the
confusion oi those men who ridiculed this project at the
outset, after reading this paragraph. See what their
predictions have amounted to! While they have been
sneering and scoffing, the people of Savannah have me
once or twice in the Exchange, quietly planked up
seven or eight millions of dollars, and built the R ad.
Instead of being beggared bv the enterprise, as the op
ponents of the project expected, we now lind it stated
in the columns of a highly respectable commercial
journal, that “The increasing business of the Road is
highly flattering.’’ The Company are even compelled
to extend their accommodations, and they already feel
the necessity of “erectinga Depot with sufficient capa
city for the growing trade.” While our Savannah
friends are about it, we hope that they will not confine
themselves to the trifling sum of SIOO,OOO, but that
“after reviewing the prospects,” they will build a really
commodious and enduring Depot. We know that the
shippers in Albany are complaining that the facilities
for transportation are too limited, and it is a shame
that a great Company like the Savannah k Albany
Railroad should have so small a Depot us the one they
now use in Savannah.
There is something a little curious in the blindness
of the South-Western people in reference to this Road.
We have actually met with a number of intelligent
planters, who stoutly affirm that there is no such road
in existence, and that instead of an air line, it is a wild
line, through and through! Wc have even seen men
who instead of going from Albany to Savannah by the
Albany & Savannah Railroad, actually persist in trav
elling by stage to Oglethorpe, and thence by the South-
Western and Central Railroads! And when asked for
their reasons, they gravely answer, that they could not
find the Depot of the Savannah k Albany Company !
and that, too, when the “ business o! the road is daily
increasing,” and the project of building a New Mam
moth Depot actually on the tapis. We do not know
how to understand it at all. Can the Cotton Plant give
us light ? or cun your Savannah cotemporaries ? Is the
road really completed ? and if not, to what point are
Contractors to forward sealed proposals for building V
Really, Messrs. Editors, we have never been so puzzled,
since the famous controversy in reference to the method
of spelling the name of Koohaget. The Savannah Re
■publican helped us out then—can it do the same now ?
**** ******
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA-
Wreck of the Clipper Ship San Francisco.
The splendid new clipper ship, San Francisco, from
New York, with a large and valuable cargo of mer
chandise, is now in Rialto Cove, opposite side of the
Bav, having sunk to the water’s edge.
In coming in through the Heads, she got caught tn
the eddy, when she caine in contact with a point of
rocks on the North side of the entrance, carrying away
jib-boom, bowsprit, head, cut-water, Ac.; she then
drifted clear and let go her anchor in Riulto Cove,
where they found the ship had 13 feet of water in her
bold.
The steam-tug Ahby Holmes, Captain Welch, came
aiong side soon uftcr, and commenced operations with
her steam pump. The steam-tug Resolute also went to
her assistance, but the leak gained so rapidly on them,
they were compelled to ship her anchor, and tow her
close in shore in Rialto Cove, where she soon filled.
The passengers came up in the R->lvte.
As it is smooth, and she lays well in the cove, and if
the weather continues fine, most of her cargo will be
saved in a damaged condition. The vessel will pro
bably become a total loss, and a bad loss it is. She
was one of the finest ships that ever sailed the ocean,
built in New Y'oik by young Mr. Bell, and, as has been
seen, one of the fleetest of her class. She measured
about 1400 tons burthen.
She came consigned to Messrs. Rich and Elam, who
are themselves large owners in both ship and cargo,
and was valued at about $125,000, and her cargo about
$150,000, all of which is undoubtedly insured in tbe
East.
A number of wreckers were about the wreck of the
San Francisco on the evening of the 11th, when a gale
came up, and a number of persons estimated as high as
twenty, certainly ten or twelve, were lost.
Entire Ism of the San Francisco. —We learn that the
wreck of the San Francisco has gone entirely to pieces
in the late gale, and that the efforts made by Captaius
Wateman have ultimately resulted in saving only a
small part of the cargo, lo the amount of about $15,000.
They had purchased the wreck for $12,000.
The Chinese immigration has again commenced. In
the three vessels from Hong Kong, 809 Celestials have
arrived.
The Gadsden Treaty Territory.
The New Orleans Dc’t t, iu noticing the assertions of
some of the Northern newspapers in relation to the j
worthlessness of the territory proposed to be acquired i
by the Gadsden Treaty, gives us the following informa- i
tion:
With that utter confusion of ideas which always pos- ■
sesses Northern minds in the consideration of geogra- |
phical and territorial questions, when they do not fall
above certain latitudes, these writers persist iu con
founding the new and beautiful region which Mr. Gads
den has secured for the United States, with the large
and sterile tracts lying north of the Gila, which are
now a portion ol the territory of ihe United States.
All the remarks in the Ihrald, Erm-ess, and other
papers, apply to this region ; they would be as inappro
priate to the rich country south ol the Gila, as a sketch
of the desert of Sahara would be to tbe land of Canaan.
On this point we were fortunately furnished with in
formation of a most authentic and valuable character.
Major Stein, ot the Second Drogoons, who is now in
our city, passed two years in a th trough survey of this
whole region, and particularly of those portions south
of the Gila, in the north of Sonora, llis survey vvas
not a mere scientific one, but it was the elaborate, prac
tical aad extensive observation of a gentlemen of great
experience iu such matters. Being a North-western
man, a resident of Missouri, and a gentleman who has
no personal interest to subserve in the matter, his testi
mony is entitled to the highest weight. It is from
Major Stein we learn that the territory included in the
Gadsden purchase, is one of the most valuable ever
obtained by the United States; that instead of twenty
millions, it would be cheap at one hundred millions of
dollars; that it embraces a region which is well watered
by Ihe branches of the Gila, which is pleasantly diver
sified with mountain and valley—possesses great re
sources for agricultural purposes, tor grazing, for the
production of sugar-cane, cotton, and all other products
of those latitudes—that it is healthier than any other
part of the United States.
Besides all these recommendations, it is tbe richest
mining region in the world—gold, silver and copper,
abouua in every part of the country iu such quantities,
that he believes that in two years after its settlement by
Americans, fifty millions of metal would be sent to the
States from its inexhaustible resources ; that copper can
be extracted there at three cents a pound, and placed
in New Orleans at a cost of six cents per pound ; that
there are silver mines (many of which are kept secret
from all strangers by the Indians) from which silver
could be made as rapidly and abundantly as lead now
is at Galena; and that in certain parts of the country
gold is picked up from the surface of the earth, and is
used as the material to mould bullets by the Indians,
who have been known frequently to exchange gold for
lead bullets.
Such is the general description which Major Stein
gives of this country. Having been stationed there for
two years, he made frequent scouting and exploring
parties, und penetrated regions where neither Ameri
cans nor Mexicans had ever been before. The country
bears evidence of having been once possessed -lid cul
tivated to a considerable extent by the Mexicans; but
the constant and bitter hostilities of the Indians, who
gradually became more than the equals of the Mexicans,
even in their own mode of warfare, broke up their
settlements, destroyed many exteusive mining estab
lishments, and recouducted the country into an unpro
ductive desert. Should the treaty be ratified, and the
country opened to the United States, it is Major Stein’s
conviction that but a tew years would elapse before it
would become a State, applying for admission into the
Union.
Romance in Real Life. —Mrs. Gwin, wife of Sena
tor Gwin, of California, it is stated has just come into
possession of not less than 50,000 acres, and probably
us much as 100,000 acres of laud, in Texas, advanta
geously located, covered with settlers, and worth from
$2 to S2O per acre. The property formerly belonged
to her first husband, Mr. Logan, a wealthy citizen of
Texas, who, some years since, died suddenly, without
a will, but it had for several years beeu in the hands of
an administrator. Recently, however, a ease institu
ted by some of Mr. Logan’s lietrs, against theadminis
traotr, in tbe Supreme Court of Texas, was decided,
and Mrs. Gwin declared to be entitled to the whole es
tate. Mrs Gwin, it is also said, knew nothing of the
decision until Dr. Gwin received a letter signed “Jus
tice,” calling his attention to it and subsequently re
ceived confirmation oi the intelligence from Senator
Rusk. The New Y’oi k Times from which wo condense
the foregoing says:
“Upon inquiry, Dr. Gwin became satisfied that the
author of the anouymous letter calling his attention to
tbe right of his wife to this esiate, was Richard P.
Robinson, of Helen Jewett memory, who, as is well
known to many persons, settled in Texas years ago,
where he is a respectable and wealthy farmer, enjoying
the confidence and respect of the community where he
resides. Ue insists upon it that, many years ago, when
he was an outcast from Ihe world, which puit-ued him
with scoffing and denunciations, Dr. Gwin, then resi
ding in Mississippi, took him by the hand, and by bis
council and aid, taught him to hope. By a singular
coincidence, the lady who is now Mr. Robiusou’s wife,
was also indebted to Mrs. Gwin for kindness matt dese
ed towards her, when in trouble, years ago.”
jgf* The lady who made a dash, has since brought
her husband to ufull stop.
A .. -
TliiiiT a -TllIKI) i OKGKL&S.
FIRST SESSION.
IN SENATE
Monday, March 13.
In the Senate a debate arose on the reference to be
made of certain n. titious asking an appropriation of
public lauds to aid in tbe construction of a canal around
the Falls of Niagara, in which the course proposed by
•he friends of the object prevailed. The select commit
tec to which the subject had been referred reported a
bill for the construct ion of a railroad from ihe valley of
the Mississippi to the Pacific ocean, which was made the
ordei of the day lbr the 27 th Inst. The question of the
Y ermoot Scnatorship was then taken up, and occupied
the remainder of the sitting. Mr. Phelps concluded his
argument and Mr. Badger replied.
IN Li OUSE.
In Ihe House of Representatives a half hour or u.i re
was occupied in personal explanations in regard to mat
ters of altercation on Friday.
Mr. Chandler made an ineffectual effort to procure a
decision upon the joint resolution appropriating one
hundred thousand dollars to the rescuers oi’ the passen
gers on ihe steamer San Francisco.
The new deficiency bill was then taken up in Com
mittee of the Whole, and three speeches delivered—©ue
on the propriety cl the Democratic party’s paying some
respect to the estimates of a Democratic Administra
tion ; a second on the extravagance of custom-house ap
propriations; and the third against the Kansas-Nebras
ka bill. The session was extended until near four o’-
clock without a vote upou any portion of the Deficien
cy bill.
IN SENATE.
Tlesdav, March 14.
Mr. Everett presented a memorial signed by over
three thousand clergymen of New England, protesting
j against the passage of the Nebraska bill and Ihe repeal
of the Missouri Compromise; which was ordered to lie
on the table.
Subsequently, Mr. Douglas asked to have it taken
from the table and read; which was done. He then
’ ommented in strong terms ujtott it; and a long debate
; nsued, in which Mr. Houston. Mr. Mason, Mr. Butler,
! Ir. Adams, Mr. Pettit, Mr. Everett, aud Mr. Seward
articipated. Mr. Pettit proposed, as it raised an ecclc
iastical question, that it should be referred tothechap
iiu of the Senate, who was the ecclesiastical officer of
i ite body. It was at length laid on the table.
After some other business, the Senate went into ex
lutive session, aud soon afterwards adjourned.
IN HOUSE.
Sundry bills having been introduced and referred,
■he joint resolution explanatory of the laws regulating
he number of cadets in Ihe Military Academy at West
’oint was read a third time and passed. The Wiscon
n railroad bill was then taken up and lead a third
me. After taking the yeas and nays on a motion to
djourn, on motion of Mr. Jones of Tennessee, the bill
as laid upou the tuble by a vote of 97 to 94. The
sual motion to lay the motion to reconsider the vote
n tlie tuble was agreed to by a vote of 93 to 85; so the
.till was tiuuiiy laid upon the table. The House then
adjourned.
IN SENATE.
Wednesday, March 15.
In the Senate, after the usual morning business, the
case of Senator Phelps was further discussed by Mr.
Foot, who delivered his views in support of the report
of the Committee on the Judiciary, affirming the right
of Mr. Phelps to retain his scat. The Senate then held
an Executive session.
IN HOUSE.
The House of Representatives, at an early hour, went
into Committee of the whole upon the new Deficient?
Bill. Two hours were consumed by two speeches in
favor of the Nebraska bill, one by a member from Penn
sylvania and tbe other by a member from South Cato
lina. Mr. Breckinbridge, on behalf of the Committee
of Ways and Means, explained the reasons for separa
ting from the bill the items relating to custom-houses,
murine hospitals, Ac., and Mr. Preston moved to attach
these; but the committee rose without laking a vote.
A Message from the President of the United States
was received, in response to a call of the House made
; ome days since. It will be found in another column.
Vhe newspaper writers have been for several days pte
< iciing such extreme ground for the Message that the
ending ot it was listened to with deep silence. Mr.
iavly moved its reference to the Committee on Foreign
lelaiions, remarking that he experienced a feeling of
itisfuc'.ion in hearing its tone and spirit The Message
tid accompanying documents were accordingly refer
,;d, and an early report may be expected.
IN SENATE.
Thcrsday, March 16.
The Senate spent most of the day in further consider
tg the report of the Committee on the Judiciary sus
iiiiing the right of Mr. Phelps, of Vermont, to retain
te seat which he held by Executive appointment, not
withstanding the Legislature of his fcriate had held a
ession since the appointment was conferred. After
tnsiderable debate the question was taken, and result
ed in a decision adv erse to the right of the Senator to
.•tain his seat. Whilst we cannot entertain a doubt of
te legality of this decision, yet we cannot but feel to
re t that by it the Senate loses a member ol such high
bility and ripe experience.
IN HOUSE.
In the House of Representatives an unexpected and
remature discussion of an hour and a half arose, upon
motion of Mr. Giddings, of Ohio, to reconsider the
ote by which the President’s Message in regatd to the
teamer Black Warrior had been referred to the Cotu
tittee on Foreign Relations. Mr Bayly, the chairman,
•sponded, and urged the propriety ot awaiting a proper
. vest igat ion of the subject. The motion to reconsider
as thereupon laid upon the table.
The remainder of the sitting was occupied in Com
tiitee of the Whole upon the Deficiency Bill, the friends
f custom-house and marine hospital appropriations
.niggling to have the bill for these objects attached to
te first-named bill. The committee rose without eorn
tg to a decision.
Tite debate on these measures, though confined to
e cites of five minutes each, was very discursive, and
.•inced a want ofmutuul confidence which may require
tveral days to settle. The motiou of Mr. Preston to
uile the two bills is still pending.
[From .Mitchell’s Citizen.]
The Tabernacle.
IN TWELVE FVTTES.
A portion of the New Y’oik public has gone through
course of Anti-Slavery, in two doses—tor what vviil
eople not swallow in the proper season? Now, that
he said public has got the twelve boluses fairly down,
with hardly a wry face, we trust it (eels considerably
, asierin its nerves, or what it calls its “ conscience.”
tut that temporary alleviation will be, as we predict,
he only effect of the medicine. It is to lie repeated next
ear, if the patient still show uneasy symptoms; but
ay that time perhaps the Nebraska Bill will be passed ;
the nervous excitement will be over; and the New Y’ork
public will have got well by the effort of nature, aud
will have some other complaint (for it is a capricious
patient) requiring the exhibition of quite other applica
tions. So that this particular physic will be ready to
be thrown to the dogs.
But when the course vvas over, we were minded to
take some samples of Ihe mass,” out of which the pills
were made, and to analyze the same. We are bound
to say we found ingredients inoperative or dubious in
their effect; ingredients irritating, vicious, even plainly
unwholesome tor the constitution. Also, there was
found wanting, what ought certainly to have been pre
sent, namely, the least grain or scruple of candor or
com tesv.
in those who will not agree with them, these Lec
turers can see no possibility of an honest motive.
They assume, in the first place, that the South is mak
ing an aggression upou “the North ” —wanting to take
something from the North, to which tbe said North lias
a right, by pact and treaty, as well as in natural jus
lice. The tiling they call “the South” is, in their
eyes, the Kingdom of Darkness; and the “Slave
Lower” is the Devil himself going about like a roaring
lion, seeking whom he may devour. “He lias taken
possession of our Literature.” cries out Wendell Phil
lips—he lias devoured Bancroft, the historian; swal
lowed tbe brothers Harper at one mouthful! “ Slav
ery.’ he says, “can bay np our great men faster than
Nature can afford to make them lbr us.” Ol course,
they are all bought: for Abolition candor cannot
stretch to the admission that any man could possibly
think of vindicating the system of slave-holding unless
he had some meau and pecuniary consideration for it.
It seems the question is one between absolute self
evident right, and utter, conscious, deliberate wrong.
“They could not hide from themselves.” said Mr.
Emerson, “ this simple truth.” Here was the ques
tion —‘are you for man, for the good of man, or are you
for his hurt and harm?’ It was a question whether
man should be treated as leather —whether the race of
negroes should be us the Indians were in Spanish Ame
rica—a species of money. Whether this institution,
which is a kind of mill or factory for converting men
into monkeys, should be upheld and enlarged; and
Mr. Webster and the country went tor the quadruped
law.”
■ Zoologically, to be sure the illustration is unlucky,
| monkeys being lout-handed instead ot four-footed—l--ut
morally Mr. Emerson has no doubt ot it. Are you for
good ? he asks, or are you for hurt and harm. That’s
the question f
Nlav this horrible “Slave Power” is, in fact, the
very Devil himself and nothing less, in Mr. Parker’s
opinion : for to what other denomination, princedom,
virtue or power, in the universe, is the following de
scription applicable? “It is banded together by des
pair, for it knows that the whole world is against it.”
And there is no use in trying to escape him, or raise
bulwarks against him. “No forms,” Mr. Emerson as
sures ns, “ neither constitutions nor laws, nor cove
nants, ate of any use of themselves; the Devil nestles
I comfortably in them all.” May God be between us
I and harm!
’ “If slaveholding be a good thing,” again exclaims
(Mr Emerson, “ then arson, tlielt, murder and incest,
jure good also.” What a singular circumstance it is
I that all this was never found out by anybody in the
• world for about six thousand yea: s, until some prudent
’ English people discovered the thing, and told Massa
chusetts of it! Mr. Greeiey , howe\ er, iu his lecture,
accounted for this at once. “ Slavery, says he, “ existed
so long, not because it was just or expedient, but be
cause nobody looked iuio the matter.’ We ought to
account ourselves fortunate in not having lived during
those datk periods of history when people did not look
into matters ; but on the other hand, our great grand
fathers had cause of complaint—Why were they born
into so young and foolish a world ; before it wa- settled
wiuit was just and expedient? How wtre they to lead
u rational life, and to save their souls alive, while Exe
ter Hall was not, while the Tribune, did not yet uniuask
“frauds,” and scathe “ swindlers” trom the corner of
Spruce street!
All these lecturers, of course, dwell on what they call
‘he “Compromises” a* bt’g ns beixi e • North and
South, binding ot: the South, but not .'td.no on
North. Just consider the following p*•>•.!lei nasr-a .
—•‘The North.” says Wendell Phi! ips woud-jfoi'iv
surprised that the South does not stand ;
pact. A man who lives bv s toihno c-:it c
“bj(*ction to lying.” “ J never thought” says Theodore
I ittker, “I never thought they would keep Ihe Com
promise. I never expected them to do if. If a man
hips violated the compact which existed in his nature
with the most High God, I am not going to ask him to
respect a compact which is oat cited „ P bv politicians in
the Senaie of the United States Not I.” Now every
bargain or compact has two sales and two parties to it -
these lecturers are speaking lor one of the pat ties, the
North ; and it is against a breach of the other side not
♦heir own side of the said compact thev are so indicant
Thmr own side of the bargain thev never think of ofo
serving. Says the same Parker, in the f oc .„ rf ,
“ 1 :,< ; k - vo, ‘ to 4 sw f r b r < V Eternal God. that von will
ever boa foe to slavery, that you , r :jl ?10 r frmr ’
’ c f< ‘ t:> Eeriaiulv nor Mr. Parker -why shenld
descendants of -May flower Pilgrims, who have got a
higher law keep bargains r
One main part of “Compromises” ,'ifOnrmro
mises they be, is on ihe past of the Nntth. that Fori
mu Slaves shall be restored. Time ludniers hv.*h and
air.-eat the idea of observing th .f. Wendell Philips
if’V a £ r - •V’ r - S,,a n’- “be • I-!! US that
the Fugitive Slave-law sh, nld be obrved.'” \, and lm
Withers poor Si.arpe and Spring with hi- execration
the:( “jam. So that the case stands thus exactly- the
North disobeying a law, while it is ihe law of the land
is serving God and obeying a higher Law the So,oh’
proposing legally to repeal one low bv another law- is
fraudulent, Use, lying l The Massachusetts Ut.-r'nU
are very fond of England, but surely thev cruelly- mis
use the Liigle-n language.
One example of their Tabernacle candor we must not.
forget. An individual named John Mifchel—who Ite
was, or where he came from, signifies nothin'’ - heiew
appealed to on the very subject, had presumed to (five
his opinion, that slave-holding yvas not ncrime, nnvfhat
he, for hts pal t, woido like verv yyell to have a nlanta
tion of negroes himself-a sentiment which henow verv
heartilv repeats. Ot course, to the benevolent lecfrr
ers, tins individual could be nothing but a mere imposter
—a poor rogue, merely casting alout for wars of iwt
mg his court to some influential party or other, and so
gelling money. The idea ofanv nmii saving doing or
writing anything whatever that he would lose money
by, seemed to the benevolent sons of Pilgrims an idea
too romantic to be entertained. Thev gloat over the
individual’s mistake, indeed—they think he made a bad
speculation, and invested bis capital injudiciously— a
thing not to be forgiven, w c believe, in that Pilgrim
country, where the Dollar, says Theodore Parker, is the
Holy Ghost. And so Miss Lucy Stone disdainfully
“ tells John Miichel that if he could but see the sneer
of scorn curling the lip of a Southern gentleman at this
servile attempt to curry his (the Southern gentleman’s
favor), he would find out his mistake.” Can this young
lady conceive that it is just possible the individual she
talks of o,ay care as little for the curling Southern lip
as for the foul mouth of the Northern! Surely, all the
girls of New England, even of Granite-States', are not
hard as Miss Stone. We think yve know some who
could find it in their hearts to believe that the world
actually contains some persons who would Hatter man
for no patronage, for no favor, for no dollars—and even
woman for love only.
Mr Wendell Phillips has a theory of his own to ex
plain the behavior of that unaccouutable Irir-h exile.
He says:
“ lie endeavors to shape his ideas to please what he con
siders the character of the people anwmj whom he come.--.
Well, I blush to say that the great man to whom I al
lude, following tbe course of all the other great men
yvho have recently visited ibis country, the verv first
thing he does is to make known to t/.e lJenae v to /<• , ort
that he has no prejudice against slavery—on the vilio!-
h -would like to lie a slaveholder. All the other great
men who have visited us, with tins exception, have
kept silent upon the subject ol slavery. Thai was the
compliment that Kossuth paid us, for he said nothing
about it. What is the compliment lhat Mitchel pays
ns? ‘ Why,’ says he, ‘great American people, know
you all by these presents, that so far from having any
narrow-minded ideas averse to the despotic institution
ol slavery, I should like to be a slaveholder myself.’”
In substance tuis theory is the same as Miss Stone’s
and Mr. Beecher’s, propounded to account for the same
phenomenon. Its foundation is, that the person iti
question, having really no opinion or principle at all,
with some mean and base intention or other, affects to
hold such opinions and principles as yvould be most ac
ceptable to those whom he intended to take in A
theory which, for aught we know, may very yy ell suit
a sect which holds the tenet (see Mr. Parker) that in
America “Money is the Constitution.” “iu America
Money is God.” “In the north Money is better than
Love.'’
Parker, thou blasphemes)!—But the man means no
thing: and that is the comfort —a pooroumf rt —which
one can take to heart after reading these lectures At
first we do confess we thought it a dangerous symptom
—dangerous to the health and life of the great Ameri
can Republic—that large houses should assemble, week
after week, to bear men cursing their own country and
laws, llie tederal union of the sovereign states, and the
Constitution their fathers toiled in the sweat of tbeir
puissant broyvs to build, and cemented the same yvith
the best blood in their gallant hearts. If these shallow
traitors be right, Saratoga was a disaster— Bunkerhil!
obelisk is a monument of shame—Y’orktown was a
crowning curse. read the few sentences here foi
lowing:
“Bear with me a moment, while I go across the yva
ter, and look at the condition of classes and political
institutions there. I will not keep you long .ova. from
home. But let me remind you simply, thui ior the lust
seventy years, uuder the Governments of Europe,
which we are accustomed to consider as rotten, despotic,
aristocratic and partial, Chattel Slavery has disap
peared.” * * * “ England may proudly boast that
whether upon her African colonies or her West India
or her East ludia possessions, wherever her flag floats,
it melts the shackle. (Cheers, i Now I want you to
bear that picture in miud, and then come home tv th
me. Let us paint ourselves.”— Wendell Phillsss lec
ture.
But this is nothing. Hear Parker—
“ To this day, of all the territory which the United
States has bought or conquered since 1776, and of all
that she rescued from British oppression, there is only
one small portion that is Free Soil; where the si re
master cannot chase his runaway, and catch him by
the power of the Federal Government; and that little
piece of territory is that which Mr. Webster sum mitred
to England by the A diburton treaty. Those are the nine
steps that the Slave Power has taken within the memory
ol the oldest naan. ‘Can yon imagine anything in the
history of any nation that is so atrocious ( I think not.’ ”
Now, Mr. Parker, if he would allow his train of
thought to run on, must say in his heart, “my heavy
curse on that George Washington! Alas! and alas 1
for Trenton! May the name of Y’orktown be buried
in oblivion for ever! II our stubborn fathers had been
brought to reason in those days, we should uow be en
joying the liberties that flourish beyond the Walloos
took, the blessings that rain pieuteously upon India,
and upon Ireland! Unhappy sons of misguided la
thers! To what a condition we have ialieu—Money
our Church —the Dollar our Holy Ghost—corruption
weakening and wasting us—the black Slave-Power
striding on to devour us!”
At first, we do say, that all this appeared a rather
serious thing. We thought we had studied the lievo
1 tit ion a little; believed that we knew the meaning
which was in the hearts of iis great founders; fancied
even that we saw their idea realised, and full grown
info godlike power and immortal beauty. And lieie
now were these Tabernacle-men telling us that it was
all a vile mistake—that what we had taken for the prin
ciples of the Revolution were no principles—that the
thing we worshipped as Liberty was a foul despotism—
that ihe fathers of the Republic were blind fools, and
they, their sons, degraded wretches.
Little we thought that what seemed so formidable
and black-hearted a sedition, was “Buncombe” pure
and simple. Siam it appeared that nothing but thesta
bility and immobility and absolute safety of the Union
—nothing but the inviolable attachment of the people u>
.heir Consti ution and laws, nothing but that, and agood
liuniored tolerance of harmless nonsense, made it pos>i
ble for tlie Tabernacle to keep up Ihiscrv, “The burden
of Moab! the burden of Babylon !” and to curse all by
i:s Gods at that furious rate. The Prophets even can
not help, at times, showing their band. Mr. Patter
says:—
“In 1850 the South made the ninth great step— lire
remember the danger which the Union was in. ‘ And
the rejairi records that this stilly of sarcasm was receiv
ed wiili “ aughier andappiacte. Os course they remem
ber the danger the Union was in ; and they all laughed
consumedly to think of the same. The ti nth is, so keen
is our appetite for oratory, so urgent the desire to have
our eais tickled with fluent talk, and our fancy stimula
ted by quaint figures that we will flock to liear, though
the speaker were cursing his mother, scandalizing his
country, or blaspheming his Creator; and if he cuise
and blaspheme well we will cry biuvo!
The ultimate danger is a trifle, but ihe present evil is
great. There is nothing, pet baps, that induces so vi
efous and ill-conditioned a frame of mind, as long con
tinued efforts in the various organized plans of benevo
lence. Y’our philanthropy has giown to be not only a
weariness of the flesh, but a real enemy to human So
ciety. It is benevolence, you must know, and philan
thropy and other fine things of that balmy sort, that
bring these Lecturers to the Tabernacle.:—vet look at
tt.eii wicked sneers against all white mankind—lit ten
jto the vicious tones of their voices. Ilatken to Mr.
Emerson informing the South f. r its guidance—“that
the end tor which man was mace is not stealing: nor
crime in any form,” —which it stems is believed to be
the chief end of tnan iu those paits. “And here let me
sav,” says the benevolent apostle Parker—“here let me
sa'v, that the South is the enemy of the North. 1 say it
solemnly—the South is the einmy of the Nor li *
England is the ncal of the Noitii—always powerful,
sometimes mean and dishouorab e. The South is our
soe —more dangerous, always meaner,and likewise inure
dishonorable.’ Their hearts you see are cankered and
hardened by pure p’tr.lanthiopy.
The South, meanwhile, does not trouble itself much ;
ihere may be some irritation there, which is natural
enough, but very little uneasiness. They know well
the meaning, aud the no-meaning ot all tins rant. They
feel that the Union is safe enough. V> by, heie are for
eigners enough in the United S'ales; to “save il*e t
ion,” though Massachusetts and Somh Caiol na weie
suicidaliy bent on destroying it Every foreign immi
grant knows by instinct, that the Union rnu.-t be pre
served, that this great refuge from the turmoil oi an o.u
world rushing h> |l * and its new storm-birth, ran--:
be maintained on tbe basis given it by its immortal
founders. If any real danger, therefore, menace o'-
health of our adopted mother, we advertise out G.ves
Union- toc’ors. We can promise the professional rt t -
v ices of some millions, a whole tacitly <>i foreign docmi n
who have won their diploma iu a hard school and hate
n dear interest in the patient. They will not live to see
her torn to pieces and stripped naked to her eaeuHCs-
In seeking a shelter aud a home in the New ‘* > ■'. •
we have had the august image of the Great Bepfi
moving before us as a pillar of fire, guiding us mm .
the Pharaoh's to a radiant promised land. Ana on.
cause and watchword is not Massachusetts against Garo
lina or Kentucky against Ohio, bit Ainu tea agam
world.