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Local Affairs.
A Leaf Fob Uncle Tom. —The fanatical ad- ;
mirera of Mre. Harriet Beecher Stowe and her ;
clique, wonld have been much astonished by the |
facts elicited on an examination of a breach of ;
trust case, in Recorder Winter’s Court, yesterday, j
The parties implicated in the affair wore the mem- I
bers of a negro Benevolent Society, as prosecutors i
and a free man of color, named Raymond Masses j
na, (ate, treasurer of the body, us defendant. The
charge was that the latter had committed a ;
breaehof trust, by appropriating the subscriptions
of the members to the amount of §263,'J0, It ap
peared that, in reality, the accused had no intention
of committing a fraud, but, feeling somewhat hurt
by the eleclioD of a rival in his place, determined
to give the association some trouble in the arrange
ment of their accounts, or, in his own words, “to
make them dance a little,” (les fairs Janser ) for
the money.
We were rather struck by this novel proceeding,
and took the pains to read o\or the constrilutiori of
the society, which happened to be introduced in
evidence by one of the counsel engaged in the cu-r.
It was written in French, simply,clbarly, and with
a methodic correctness which would do credit to as
sociations of far greater pretensions and repute.
The title of the organ was—“ The Society of the
Friends of Order, under the protection of Saint
Eucher.” As we do not profess to remember the
list of canonizations accurately, we willjnot bo certain
that we have given the saintly appellation in its au
thentic shape ; but that b of little consequence.—
The first rule was more intelligible. It provided
that all sittings of the body should commence and
close with praver. The particulars of admission,
membership, and official power, were then stated,
and the amount of fines, subscriptions, am! dues
specified. The sum necessary to be paid before in
itiation was fixed, if we remember rightly at §6, and
the monthly dues of each person amount to Sl.
The society numbers at present some eighteen or
twents members, varying in appearance from twi
light to midnight blackness.
And this in New Orleans, where such hideous
cruelties are practiced in the noonday, and negroes
are prevented from distinguishing one letter of the
alphabet from another ! Occurring, too, without the
assistance of that supernatural genius and piety
which characterized our “frieud and brother.” Un.
cle Tom, and actually regarded without astonish
ment by a respectable Recorder in the most impor.
tant District of the accursed city I What a pity th
Duchess of Devonshire, and .Mrs. C. Dickens can
not get a copy of the Constitution, as a model for
some such organization as a Starving Irish Peasants’
Benevolent Society, or a broken down Seamstress l
Relief Association, or the Miners’Cieneral Educa
tional Committee ! It would create sensation, and
perhaps do some good.
We have been in Ireland, and positively assert
that such an effort of intellect and humanity, as
the formation of the society existing in this city, to
which we allude, having been attempted by the
peasantry of Connemara or Skibbereen, at the
present day, would make every landlord in the
country state, and every patriot become hopeful fur
the future. It is an evidence of education and
kindly government-, which could not he found out
side of the Irish cities. You might look fur it in
the country districts in vain. And yet Mrs. C. Dick
ens &. Cos. cannot understand iho (act.
Wc have been in New York, where ladies of ice
Mrs. Stowe class have sufficient opportunities lu
realize their sentiments in practice and do some
thing tor the elevation of these nigriferous “friends
and brothers” who are wallowing in the hack streets
and lanes of the city, but wo hate never heard that
an association of tins kind exists, or lias existed
in that quarter of the United States. Outlie con
trary, wo have seen ihe negroes in New York uni
versally shunned—avoided like a pestilence—and
confined to the filthiest and most criminal portions
of the town. Wo have seen them reduced from
the attitude of reasoning animals to that of the
most currish brute—stunted in body and mind—
without religion, education, food, or hope—and ig
nored, as existences by the elegant authoiesses
who contrive to turn twenty-live thousand dollars
by unscrupulous lies neatly hound in two volumes,
and for sale at all the book-stores.
But it is useless to say more on the subject.—
Our object in writing these paragraphs was to com
mend the “Society of the Order,” which in despite
of temporary troubles, shows every symptom of a
long and vigorous existence.—.V. ‘(). Della.
Parliamentary Oration.
We are indebted to a gentleman who has been
on a brief visit to the province, for the following
outlines of a speech, delivered by Motts. m the
Provincial Legislature of New Brunswick, one of
the colonies of B. M. Victoria :
(Reported for the Courier Ac Enquirer.)
Monsieur Guvnor and do peoples oil dis House
et Monsieur Speakare—l’m very stranger on dis
places, and dis am premier time 1 am on dis
House ; but de peoples where I was belong gives
me his confiience so much zit 1 feel gratefulness
to dem for de honor dey refer on de top 6b me.
Gentleman, you not spect great deal of learn
for one people dat only sto - > two years wid one
school on house him, derefnre, you sail scu/.c my
Anglins very much. O-.e. ting I want to had a fair
play. You had one priest on dis House an jour to
make ade prayer, and dat time 1 will ho sail pray
on de French when he sail pray, as de reason are de
French prayer are non strong.
Some people was told me we was to get some
gold watch, and some gown for de vile of z -seas
belong to dis House ; and some little ting more, as
paper, de knife, de ting for pick tooth, and de ting
for make smell good. 1 must have all dose litiit
tings.
I wants to have mv hoy anew collars, and 1 u nit
to pass one laws for stop de dam march and for
sharges so mosh ; mine cncle was told me de
sharge was bomiualion high. Do mv law I want lo
make will bo tostopdem dam witch ting—l forget
what you call de tuesserizc—dat make de peoples
look as dies. Some people was told me dem teller
she’s able to make dead de people ; to make sing';
to make talk ; to make told every ting on de Hon e
—de money dat von had on your pocket: dev make
told some ting more as ten lousand mile. All wat
people wat make de morize, dat is surelv one dan
ger ting, very, and for a layv should make.
Well, dere is one more kind. You may depen
dem same foliar make rotten the points, vos dis live
aud six year; make’lame de horse; make spile de
cow ; make not grow all the gram verv mosh ; pinko
kill elide peoples all same as one good doctor do it.
Now we must hang all the whole of it.
Now Monsieur Spekare, de next ting we sail in
hands in dis Road Rail dat is speak so mosh about.
I link for me dey will tenancy for spile nil do firm.
Am tole tidy will cut open ali de ‘arm where was
l belong: and de French people have small enough
already. Buts’pose you makde Road Reailvou must
stophis damage, and only way you could done dat,you
must cut away all dem hits and let do water salt on
de mash, de mash all now stop for mow de -rass
My father was told me long as I am horn de hiv
was grow so big, dc cock no: possible for stay nude
mash. Dis arc bad law.
Now, gentreman, 1 want yon look on your consid
er, J tink We must try for stop de dam'Yankee tor
raise de wooden pig. My cousin was bought one
large shoulder behind ; I link lie weigh forty
pound; well, for look she’ll do pretty well, but for
eat shede devil. Sposede peoples have to eat dis
kmd pork, dey not live much long. Dem rascal
Yankee uius be kill.
Now dis Hinder and lightnin road, some folks
wasted me was more fast you san’t see. I link
dey will be great danger ting, suppose one people
have some steel on her pocket lor contraction de
Hinder, dey mus be kill right away. Yes. dev’l! he
made sonoff one bail puff
I want to stop every ting as make de people 1
kill; dis. ting ] make speak about, dem is de ting
I vote; for 1 tole you all on de House 1 hole my
self responsibility to do peoples for all dc law made.
Gentreinen, yon will 1 tank tor dc. contention ton
been mako upon rue ; I’m lyal subiie and belong to
de free restitutions. Hat’s all I could M iv = ilis
time.
Ihe brATt. Road- lhe Chattanooga GVt
zclte, of the 25th iust., after noticing the Tesiuna- 1
tiou of Mr. Wadlf.y, Superintendent of°the !
State Road, says lie will be suceAded bv Mr.
V ovng, of Atlanta, a gentleman of some experi- 1
encein the responsible duty that be will mulor- :
take.
Death of a student.—Died, suddenly, at
this place on Sunday night 23. inst., Mr T. B.’J.
Lam ak, of Bibb, a member of the Senior class
of Franklin College. We learn that the de
ceased attended prayers at the College Chapel
on Snndav morning and died, at 1 o’clock of the i
night of the same day, from hemorrhage of the ,
lunges. His remains were escorted on Tues- !
day morning last by the Demosthenean Society
to the Rail Road depot, to be conveyed to his
relatives in Bibb.— Sou. Banner.
MINUTES OF POINTS,
: Decided hi the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, at
Columbus. January Term, 1853.
J Retherfoko, Receiver, vs. Jones, from Muscogee.
1. The Clerk of the Superior Conrt is not authorized to
! demand the costs for making out the manuscript ot the
j Record, before transmitting the same to the Supreme court.
! Dougherty for the Motion—ll. Holt, contra.
Holliday & Wife, vs. Riokdon, Gar., from Dooly.
1 1. A party can take no advantage from an agreement,
j to which he was no party and under which he was to take
| no beneficial interest.
2. The reference in a bill in Equity, to the records ol the
Court, in which the Bill is tiled, witnout making an exhibit
hereof, does not make such records a part of die Bill.
SUozier tor Plaintiff—Lyon for Defendant.
Mercer vs. Mercer, from Sumter.
1. The action for use and occupation, does not lay ex
cept jn cases ol contract, either express or implied. In case
of a trespasser however, the owner may wave the trespass
and rue upon an implied contract. In such case the Plain
tiff must show his title—there being no proof of express te
nancy .
Sullivan, lor Plaintiffin Error.
Larvvs. Hart,from Marion.
1. In an action for money, had and received, the Plain
tiff'must show that the money, or its equivalent, has been
received by the Defendant or his Agent. Proof of culpable
neglect to the injury of the Plaintiff', will not authorize a
recovery in this fomt of action.
Downing, tor Plaintiff—Worrill,for Defendant.
Guay vs, McNeal, from Talbot.
1. In a suit upon judgments rendered in a Justices’ court
it is necessary tor the Plaintiff'to show, that the court ren
dering the judgments had jurisdiction of the cases. The
docket ot the Justices’, under the Act ot 1809, should show
the issuing ot the summons, the service, the appearance,
plea, and judgment. II the docket fails to show these sev
eral tacts, it may be supplied by parol.
Worrill, for Plff.—B. Hill, for Deft.
Andrews vs. Murphy and another, from Harris.
LA deed describing property. as “a House and Lot in,
the town ot Whitesviile, in the county of Harris, lying on
the fork of the road leading to LaGrange aud West i uint,
and running back to Calhoun’s line,” is sufficiently certain.
2. Where land belonging to three tenants in common,
is levied on and sold as the property of one of them, the
purchaser obtains title only to the interest of the tenants,
he defendant in fi fa.
3. The tact that the other tenants in common, were also
defendants in the fi fa levied, does not convey to the pur
chaser their interest, which was never levied on or sola.
4. One tenant in common, may appeal to a Court of
Equity, to comixil his co-tenant to account tor the rents, is
sues and profits ol the joint property. In such a Bill, the
defendant may he called oh to accoent for any waste com
mitted upon the common property—although he may have
committed such an ouster as would have entitled the party
toiiroeeedatl.iw:
Wellborn for Piss.—Ramsey for Deft.
Collier vs. Vason, from Baker.
I. An advertisement describing the property levied on
by a Sheriff, as “ Eight city lots in the city of Alhanv,
number not recollected, but known as Joseph Shaw’s city
lots —the same having Deensold at the. February sales, and
purchased by David .V. Vason, ” Ac.; may or may not be
sufficient compliance with the statute requiring the Sheriff
to oive a full and complete djseriplion of the pronerty le
vied on.
‘2. The statute requires the Sheriff to exercise ordinary
diligence, and to give as accurate a description as the cir
cumstances ot such ease will admit, so as to identify ,the
property levied on.
3. Whether the Sheriff has given such a description, is
a mixed question of law and fact, and should he submitted
to the Jury under the direction of the court.
Morgan, for Piff'.—R. Lyon, for Deft.
Searcy vs. Stubbs, from Talbot.
1. Where a Receiver for the Ocmnlgee Bank, departed
life life, the Judgeot the Superior Court had the right, in
dependent of the Act of 1851, to appoint another Receiver
and cause him to bo made a partv to all pending lit foation
Penning for PJff—B. Hill & Worrill, for Deft. “
Wi lljs vs. the State, from Decatur.
I. A Juror, sworn on his voire dire, in answer to the
questions prescribed by the Act ot 1813, replied in the nega
tive, bui from a knowledge ol'lu's general character, lie had
formed a had opinion of ihe man. Held, that this did not
disqualify the Juror, nor constitute a good ground of chal
lenge.
•2. The presiding Judge, on request of counsel for prisoner
should instruct the triors—that the formation of a fixed
opinion, unfavorable to the iuuocenee of the prisoner, tho’
the same had never been expressed, is not an impartial Ju
ror.
Morgan &R. Lyon for Pill—A. Allen & Sol. General
Lyon, for Deft.
The Japan Expedition.
Tho following brief and explicit reply of the
Emperor of Japan to a letter from the King of
the Netherlands, requesting him to extend to all
foreign nations the privileges hitherto enjoyed
bv Iho Dutch only, would seem to indicate that
the American exploring expedition to the do
mains of this barbarian is not likely to meet
with a hospitable reception. The emperor ap
pears to have a pretty correct conception of the
Anglo-American propensity for acquiring terri
tory, and takes warning from the fate of China
in permitting the “outside barbarism’’ to acquire
a footing in that Empire. We give the letter
entire:
The Emperor of Japan
to the. King of the Netherlands :
I have watched with attention the-events which
brought about the fundamental change in the
policy of the Chinese Empire, and these very
events, upon which you base the advice you gave
me, are for tne the most evident proof that the
kingdom can never enjoy a durable peace without
the rigorous exclusion of all foreigners. If
China had never permitted the English to estab
lish themselves on a large scale at Canton, and
to take root there, either the quarrels which
caused the war would not have taken place, or
the English would have found themselves so weak
that they would have at once sunk in the conflict.
But from the moment when China allowed her
self to be touched on one point she rendered her
self vulnerable on others. This was the rea
soning of my great ancestor when he granted
you the faculty of trading with Japan, and but
for the proof of friendship which you bad fre
quently given to our country it is certain you
would have been excluded as all the nations of
the Ui i have been. Now that von are in (tos
ses: ion of this privilege, 1 am willing that you
should continue to enjoy it; but I will take
care not to extend it to any other nations, for
it is easier to maintain a dyke in good preserva
tion, than to prevent the enlargement of the
breaches which are permitted m it. 1 have
given orders to my officers in consequence, and
the future will prove to you that our poliev is
wiser than that of the Chinese Empire.
-—— -
Cut Married.— Young man, if you have ar
rived at the right point in life for it, lot every I
consideration give way to that of getting mar
ried. Don’t think of any tiling else. Keep po
king about the rubbish of the world, till you have
stirred up a gem worth possessing, in the shape
ot a wile. Never think ot delaying the matter;
f‘>r you know delays are dangerous. A good
wire is the most faithful and constant compan
ion you can possibly have by your side, while
peiforming the journey of life—a do*>- isn’t a
touch to her. She can “smooth vouriinen and
your cares” for you—mend your trowsers and
perchance your manners—sweeten vour sour
moments as well as your tea and coflee tor you
—rutile, perhaps,your shirit bosom, but not your
temper; and instead of sowing the seeds of sor
row in your path, she will sew the buttons on
your shirts, and plant happiness instead of sor
row in your bosom. Yes; and if you are con
foundedly lazy she will chop wood and dig po
tatoes for dinner; for her love for her husband
is such that she will do anything to please him
—except receive company in her every day
clothes- ‘ J
When a woman loves, she loves with a double
distilled devotedness: and when she hates it is
on the high pressuo principle. Her love ’is as
deep as the ocean,as strong iv as a hempen halter,
and as immutable as the rock of ages, she wont
change, except it is in a very strong fit of jeal
ousy: and even then it lingers as if loth to de
part, like evening twilight at the windows of the
j west. Get married by all means. All the ex
| cuses you can fish up against doing the deed,
! ain't worth a spoonful of pigeon’s milk. Get
i mat tied, 1 lepeat, young men! Concentrate
| your affections upon one object and do not distri
i lmte them crumb by crumb among a host of Su
| sans. Marys, Lauras, Olives, Elizas, Augustas,
Betsies, and Dorothies.
Solid Rock Slide, on the N. &C. R. R On
Wednesday last a mass of rock, in almost one
entire solid form slid into one of llie cuts
on tins road about seven miles out from this
| place, breaking iron, cross ties, and every thin-r
i found in its way. On measurement by the Enoin.
eers it was found to contain over 4,000 cubic yards.
At the tune of the slide the report was heard iu the
entire neighborhood around. This occurrence will
retard the tracklaying on this end of the road fully
six weeks if not two mouths.— Chartanooga Ad
vertiser, 22 d inst.
Murder — An awful murder was committed ;
in Atlanta, on last Friday night,‘ilinst by John R.
Humphries. It seems, from what we have heard ;
of this case, that Humphries had heard that Eli
sha Tiller had threatend to kill him. They met
on the above mentioned evening, at Janies Kile’s
grocery, when Humphries asked Tiller if he in-1
tended to kill him. He answered that he did not, j
nor had he any thing against him. Humphries j
then requested him to look towards him ; and
as he turned to look, he shot him with a double
barreled shot gun. Tiller was killed so dead as j
not even to kick after he fell. Humphries hurst j
the cap of the other barrel at Kile, tho grocer,
but the gun missed fire. —Christian Telegraph.
<Lkt ank Bmimd
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 1, 1853.
The Cabinet—.lephthah and the Ephrairaites—
Mr. Cobb.
Mr. Pierce is a wise man; lie keeps his own seerets.
No man can therefore say who will be cabinet officers.
Still every body is on the qui cive ; and innumerable
are the guesses, predictions aud positive declarations of
hopeful aspirants, aud of disappointed grumblers. We
belong to neither class, and have waited patiently for
the developments of the future, resting with some con
fidence upon tho prudence, good sense, and republican
instincts of the President elect. We are not disposed to
be captious. We do not expect the Southern Rights De
mocracy to monopolize all the loaves and fishes: we are
willing to nee a Union Democrat get a slice. Some
of them are also hungry, and fought hard for the tri
umph of Democratic principles and spoils.
There is however a class of Uuion Democrats, who,
when the Democracy under the lead of their Jepph
than went up to battle against their enemies, refused
like the LfVhriamites to deliver them out of their hands.
These have no more right to office than the Ephraimites
had to share the rich spoils of the Anunonitish war. They
cannot pronounce ‘‘shibboleth.” We cannot believe,
therefore, that Mr. Pierce will elevate to office any Dem
ocrat who aided in distracting his party by running op
position tickets, or who refused to take .an active part
in the canvass. It is idle to suppose therefore that Mr.
Cobb, or any of that ilk will receive office at the hands
of the incoming administration. Indeed it would be the
sheerest folly in Mr. Pierce to cumber himself with any
politician against whom there exist well founded pre
judices among a respectable portion of his party, when
there are so many statesmen of equal ability, against
whom no such objections exist. The Southern Rights
party do not expect General Quitman to be offered a
cabinet or any’other appointment. Yet he is as true
a Democrat as Mr. Cobb or Mr. Dix, and surely be is
their equal in point of talent, and by far their superior
in point of services. Why then should he be excluded,
and Cobb or Dix taken into the confidence of the ad
ministration ?
\\ e do not mean by these reflections to proscribe Mr.
Cobb. \A o only object to having a horse in the lead
who has bolted. We believe and hope that in the fu
ture he may do good service at the wheel. And
when the time comes to test the honesty of the dec
larations contained in the Georgia Platform, we shall
proudly follow in his lead again, if he is then true to
himself, his State, and his section. There are a great
many worse men in the Democratic Party than Mr.
Cobb. Men who repudiate even the little leaven of
State Rights, which keeps the Georgia Platform from
spoiling. M e would prefer to see him in office, to all
such sheep in wolves’ clothing. Among these are Dix,
Van Buren, and many of the wild men of the west,
who seem to regard the Federal Government as a great
Corporation, whose only use is to build rail roads, dig
canals, open rivers, and build up harbors for their ac
commodation.
The truth is that the appointment of any of these men
to responsible office will weaken the administration and
divide the party.
Now Mr. Pierce is a State Rights man ; and if he
wishes his administration to harmonize with his own
political antecedents—to be a unit, around which all the
sound elements of conservative democracy may and will
rally, and a largo body also of State Rights whigs—he
ought to appoint State Rights men to every office in his
gift, except those which are offices of profit; thc-so he
might fling to the thousand hungry mendicants who will
besiege the White House, irrespective of party. In
tliis hope we advocated Mr. Pierce ; and hope tile re
sult will not disappoint our expectations.
General Dix and the Cabinet.
Independently of his abolitionism, we have a very
high regard for Senator Dix ; ho is unquestionably an
able statesman, a patritio citizen as exhibited upon the
field, and a good and true Republican. But the plague
spot of Abolition is on his brow, and like the leper, he
should be excluded from the camps of our Israel as un
clean, until he is cured of his leprosy.
The slavery question is not settled ; every administra
tion will have some questions directly or indirectly con
nected with slavery, under its consideration. The
South therefore never can give full confidence to an ad
ministration which lias a freesoiler in its confidence.
Now General Dix is known to be a freesoiler. In the
canvass of 1818, ho held quite ns ultra positions on the
slavery questions as John Van Huron, though his de
meanor was far more dignified and gentlemanly ; and
no man doubts but that if these issues were again to
arise, that he would pursue the same course. We
therefore oppose his appointment, and warn the Democ
racy of the South against the ruinous effects of his deie
vatiou to the leadership of the party. There are Mar
cy and Dicinkson, in New Y’ork, quite as able and far
loss objectionable than Dix.
Indeed we are surprised that any questionable man
has been thought of for a cabinet appointment. All
such men wiil be dead weight upon the administration.
We utterly deny and reprobate the doctrine that any
party or clique, as sueh, have any claim to posts of
honor or profit iu the Government. And we earnestly
hope, that Mr. Pierce wilt select only those men for of
ficers under him. of known ability and honesty, and
of tile faith of Jefferson. Adherence to an “ism,”
ought to be a fatal objection, to an aspirant for office.
We confess that we look forward to the action of
General Pierce in the premises with much apprehen
sion, though not without hope. He is in a great strait;
ho is pressed from every side ; aud by men who prefer
their own interests to the good of the country, or the suc
cess of his administration ; it will not surprise us if he
does not make some unfortunate appointments; hut we ;
rely upon his Democratic Republican instincts to guide j
him safely through all the perils and temptations that |
beset him ; and look forward to a bright and prosperous
future. We are confident that if the dangers of the j
coast navigation are once cleared, and the ship of state !
is once out on the broad sea we shall have a safe, pros- |
perous and profitable voyage.
Teiian Items.
Charles Fenton .fiercer.
The Galveston News urges upon the Legislature of I
Texas the propriety of paying this distinguished Gentle- i
man for his services to tile State.
Gen. Mercer is especially known to Texas as a con- i
tractor with ist former government to colonize a portion j
of the territory of the State in the region of the upper
Trinity, and who had faithfully complied with his con
tract up to the day of his estoppel by the constitutional
authorities of the government for reasons of state with
which no defalcation of his had any connection. Up to
the period when he was prohibited from the further prose
cution of his enterprise of colonization, he had introduced
some six hundred families, for which he was entitled to
receive a certain compensation in lands, the titles to
which have hitherto been withheld from him.
General Mercer says the News, is non’ a poverty
stricken, negleoted sexogenarian, confined by disease to
the garret of a third rate Hotel in Alexandria.
Hon. Mendeth P. Gentry, of Tenn.
This gentleman has deeliued a re-election to Congress. j
He is a whig, but refused to support General Scott for !
tho Presidency,and to his influence may attributed to part
the amazing defection from the whig ranks during that
elect ion. A poiitieiancan give no higher evidence of lion
esty and patriotism than to refuse to support the nomi
nees of his party for high offices. We therefore re
gret to see Mr. Gentry withdraw from Congress ; as it
is now evident that these are scarce qualities in the lati- I
tudoof the Federal oily.
Wreckers at Key West.
We find in the Sav. Courier , a very graphio discrip- j
tion of the trade of Key West. It will bo read with j
interest by our merchants, whose rich cargoes are so |
frequently exposed to the hazzard9 of the Florida Keys. ;
Key West. Jan, 22,1853.
Mr. Editor :—The wrecking season has set in and
| ships, brigs and shooners with their rich cargoes are being
j brought down daily from the reef by the hardy wrecker,
and we are begining to reap the benefit of their arrival
j by increased business and an unusual activity in every
j line of pursuit.
The lawyer has the salvage case to present to the
judge and a good round sum is his fee. He in all caees
receives the sum of sl7 for filing the libel, and then
three per cent on every dollar of salvage deereed by the
judge. In cases involving large amounts of property as
high as SBOO falls to his share of the wreck.
The Commission Merchant or Ships Consignee has
many competitors in the field. He has friends on the ,
wrecking vessels and the first boarder of the stranded
ship presents to the master the claims of his merchant,
and receives for his zeal a handsome reward if he se
cures the consignment. The rates of wharfage and
storage on a bale of Cotton are sl. The commission
allowed for receiving and disbursing money on account
of vessel and cargo is 5 per cent, and when the same is
re-shipped or forwarded in the same vessel 1-4 per
cent on the valuation of the cargo is always ruleable,—
So the strife for these fat pickings sometimes rages
high, even to a fighting pitch.
The consignment of a ship now ashore on the reef will
pay the Consignee over $9,000.
The Clerk of the Admirality Court also gets his fees,
which arc large when salvage is great—he receiv
ing as much as the lawyer. The District Attorney gets
a fee. The TJnited Suites Marshal, if cargo is sold, gets
his per eentage, and the mechanic is paid well for his
work, and the laborers get $2 per day lor storing the
cargo. All classes of our population arc directly or in
directly benefitted by the wrecks ; and when news ar
rives in town that a ship is ashore you will see more
happy faces than in Wall street when tlic Fancies
have advanced.
A correspondent of the Sav, News of the 23d, states
that within the past 20 days, 10 vessels have been
wrecked, or arrived in distress, which, with their cargo
es, were valued at over $500,000, and that the larger
portion of this amount will be saved through the instru
mentality of the wreckers. lie then very gravely an
nounces that, “Tho new year has opened with an abun
dance of fine wrecks, and our only fear is, that after
those now in port are settled we shall have no more.’*
Abolition Entertainment.
‘‘Senator Seward, on Wednesday, gave a large din
ner party in Washington to Gen. Scott, John M. Botts,
Fitz Henry Warren, General Hale and others.”
We are not surprised that John P. Hale, the Abo
litionist, and Fitz Henry Warren, the desperate parti
san and office hunter, should sit down to the table of
William 11. Seward ; but we confess that we were cha
grined to see it announced in the public prints, that Gen.
Scott, the leader of the armies of the Republic, and J. M.
Botts, tho honored Representative of a southern State,
and both sons of Ya., should partake of the hospitalities of
an arch-demagogue and Abolitionist. It is no excuse to
allege private friendship existing between the parties as
the cause of the intimacy. The existence of friend
ship between the parties, is the foundation of our cen
sure. An honest man cannot take the hand of a rogue ;
a patriot cannot receive a traitor to his bosom ; neither
can a sound true hearted southern man partake of the
hospitalities of an abolitionist, who unites in his own
person the traitor, the robber, and the incendiary; the
traitor, because he tramples under foot tho constitution
aud laws of his country, which guarantee the rights of
the south in slave property; the robber, because ho would
if he could, take our property away from us by violence; j
the incendiary, because his schemes if carried out, would
convert this fair garden of the South into a parched des
olation. Can any man conceive of a thing so absurd as
Calhoun’s sitting down to a social board with on
one hand, and Seward on the other! He never so
much as spoke to them. And why should Scott and
Botts feel less acutely, the foul wrongs and insults
which these men daily heap upon tho South ?
It may be that theso views will be regarded as nar
row and sectional, by some of our readers. We are
sorry if such is the case. Wc havo been bred in that
school of Republicanism which regards an insult to our
country as a personal injury ; a wrong to our section as
‘a persona! wrong ; and the agents concerned in inflic
ting it as personal enemies with whom we are to have
no intercourse. And we confess that we doubt the
sectional soundness of any southern statesman who aots
upon different principles or cherishes, different feelings.
The sentinel who exchanges courtesy with the foe, is
derelict in liis duty, and ought, to be watched. He may
betray his trust.
Objections to the Spirit Happing-s.
The clergy of New York have takou this Bull by
the horns. The Rev. Professor Mattison, in a lecture
delivered at the Tabernacle, said, “the time was come
to examine this shrieking, shivering ghost of infidelity,” to
seize upon this fire-ship and scuttle her, and send her
down to the regions whero tho “Age of Reason,”
and the “Book of Mormon,” sleep together. The
worthy Professor lias evidently come to the desperate
resolve of the Prince of Denmark.
Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned,
Bring with the airs from heaven, or-blasufrom hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou com’st in such a a questionable shape,
That I will speak to the.
And right plainly does the Reverend gentleman ex
press his opinions upon the merits of “Rapology.”—
Money, he said, was at tho bottom of Ghostology ; and
the overthrow of the church, the great object of its pro
fessors.
Some of his objections are however curious and
amusing. He thinks it a great outrage, that one of
the spirits should assign old John Banyan, the place of
a grog shop keeper in the other world; and will not
countenance the revelation, that the ladies are to have
the privilege of selecting husbands without waiting to
be asked—that the Bloomer costume is to be tho pre
vailing dress—aud that the vulgar custom of eating and
drinking is to be done away with altogether.
Wo confess eur inability to comprehend why old
John Banyan should keeep a grog shop, if there is to
be no drinking. The old man had a bad time in this
world, tinkering and lying in prison together, and if the
spirit rappers report truly', he is still worse off in the
next ; to keep a grog shop, and have no customers is
certainly worse than tinkering, or even answering to
Bench warrants for preaching on the commons of Eng
land. Another objection of the Reve aed speaker is,
that Napoleon and Wellington, are according to the
spiritual rappers quarreling over tho battle of Waterloo,
and propose to have the fight over again when all tho
broken arms, legs and heads are reunited after the gone-
I ral resurrection. This objection we think is not so
well founded, as they were both exceeding fond of hard
kuooks while living, and would reasonably indulge in
| the same sport in the next world if opportunity offers.
As spiritual rappers have appeared at Griffin, Geo.,
; we hope this brief notice of the objections, which have
j been made to their revelations will not be considered ir
j relevant.
Arrival of the Isabel. |
i Health of Mb. King—The Small Pox—Havanna
’ Market.
The Isabel has arrived, and brings dates from Havan
na up to tho 22d inst. The Steamer Fulton arrived at
Key West the Saturday preceding, with Vice President
King on board, whose health is said to be hotter than
when he left Norfolk. He will remain in the city seve
ral days if the weather is congenial.
The returns from the Hospital of Sail Juan de Dios
show that the Small Pox is on the deoreas© in the city.
The number of cases in December were 71 ; and in
January, up to 21st inst., only 26 ; of these 21 occurred
iu the twelve first days of the month, leaving only five
i cases for the remaining nine days.
YV e learn from the correspondent of the Sar. Courier ,
; that Rice has advanced. The Galnaces cargo was re
| tailed at 11 1-4 rials. Tho Sugar crop of the Island
j is promising and anticipations are in favor of buyers.—
Sales of Lumber have taken place at $29 for scantling
and boards, and $26 for Timber.
The Campbells.
We refer our roaders, to the announcement of thoso
Gelebrated Minstrels, in our advertising columns. They
will commenoe their concerts on Monday, 31st, inst.
We anticipate a rich feast of song from them.
From the N. Y’ Tribune.
The Electic Telegraph—Sounds rs Signs.
The great feature of Prof. Morse’s invention, and that
which distinguished it from the electro-magnetic tele
graphs in England and other parts of Europe, called the
“Needle Telegraph,” was this—the electro-magnetic bar
or needle had been used merely to point to letters or make
signs for telegraphic purposes. It occurred to Prof.
Morse that the motion thus obtained might be used to
make dots and straight lines of unequal lengths on paper,
moved by clock-work, and that these marks might stand
as representatives of the letters of the alphabet.
The Company owning the Telegraplqrunning from Buf
falo to Milwaukee, called “the Erie and Michigan Tele
graph Company,” working uuder Morse's patent, have
for some times past discontinued tho practice of record
ing the signs produced by the process above mentioned,
and have instead thereof received their messages by sound.
This they have done for the last two years, without in
terruption, having found that they could receive three
messages by sound in the same time which would be oc
cupied in receiving two under the other system ; and
moreover, that in receiving by sound they made fewer
mistakes than they were liable to in the use of the dots
aud dashes, and also dispensed with half the number of
operators.
The mode of receiving messages by sound is very sim
pie, and one operator is sufficient instead of two, who are
required when the signs are recorded. The operator sits
by his table in any part of the room where the message is
received, and writes it down as the sounds are produced.-
The different sounds are made by the striking of the pen
lever upon a piece of brass: thus, three raps in rapid sue**
cession are made for the letter A, two raps, an interval,
and then two raps more, are made for B, and so forth.
Mobile ancl Ohio Rail Road.
It has taken three years to extend this road thirty -
two miles ; and though the road has received a magnifi
cent donation of lands from the Government of the
United States, we learn from the Mobile Evening Jour
nal that the company has determined to build the road
gradually, surely, safely, by subscriptions, and then sell
the land donated at a price equivalent to the whole cost
of the road. There seems to us, to be a great deal
more shrewdness than honesty in this determination of
the company. The lands were donated because the
early completion of the road was thought to be impor
tant to the public; and the company is therefore bound
to hold and dispose of the public property for the ad
vancement of the public interest by making it available
in the speedy completion of the road ; and not in en
hancing the private fortunes of the stockholders. If
the work progresses in future, only at the rate of 11
miles a year as heretofore, the grand children of the
present generation will hardly-live long enough to en
oy its benefits.
Puplic Charity.
We are requested to call public attention to the cor
respondence between the Mayor, and the “Fakir of Siva”
who proposes to give an exhibition for tho Benefit of
the Factory operotors on Friday night, 28th, inst. We
would also invite attention to tho “Fakirs” advertise
ment for Satnrday (29th, inst.,) night. He offers large
inducement to those who will attend his exhibition on
that occasion.
To His Honor , the Mayor of the City of Columhus :
Sir:—Having been informed that a considerable num
ber of male and female operatives lately engaged in the
Factories of your city, have by the serious calamity of
a freshet, and the consequent stoppage of the works,
been placed in needy circumstances, and learning the ac
tive part, ihe generosity and good feelings, that yourself
and the citizens of Columbus have taken in their behalf,
and ever appreciating the motives of kindness that have
prompted you thus to act, and to facilitate your opera
tions of Benevolence, I cheerfully tender to you in their
behalf, my professional services, any night this week
3ou may select as the most desirable or convenient to
give a Benefit for the abovo cause. With high conside
rations of respect, I remain, sir, ,
Respectfully, your o’bed’t serv’t. 4
FAKIR OF SIVA.
Oglethorpe House, January 27th, 1853.
To the “Fakir op Siva”— Present.
Columbus, Jan. 27, 1553.
Sir : I acknowledge tho receipt of your note of this
date, in which you generously offer a benefit for the
poor Factory operatives of this city, and desire me to
designate a night when the same shall take place.
I appoint to-morrow night for that purposo; and
shall select some of our citizens to act as a committee
and superintend said Charity Benefit.
With a duo appreciation of the motives which have
induced you to make tho tender alluded to,
l am yours, &e.
JOSEPH L. MORTON, Mayor.
[From tho Chareston Papers.]
A rrival ofthe Empire City at New Orleans
Later fiom Mexico, &c.
New Orleans, Jan. 24.
The U. S. mail steamship Empire City arrived at New
Orleans at seven o’clock on Monday morning, from New
York via Havana, with forty passengers. She left Havana
on the 20th inst., but brings no news from Cuba, with
the exception that the Secretary of the Captain General
has been removed, and that his successor was expected by
the next steamer.
Tho Empire City brings us advices from Vera Cruz to the
13th inst., wliiohjstate that Arista finding Congress re
fused to grant him extraordinary power had resigned the
left the city of Mexico Carvallos, President of
the Supreme Court of Justice had been made President ad
interim , and had named the following as Ministers : Gen
era] Blanco, Minister of War; Aterbide, Minister of the
Treasury ;[J. Guerara, Minister of Foreign Relations, and
laantey, Minister of Justice.
Thu Govennent troops under General Miren had been
entirely routed by Uraga, and the revolutionists were
everywhere triumphant. The new Ministry will probably
be of short duration
Bounty Lund Act.
We learn from a letter of Hon. Junius Hillyer to the
Southern Banner, that the Commissioner of Pensions has
reversed the interpretation first given to the act of 1852,
so that the widows and minor children of officers and
soldiers who died before the passage of the act, can
now obtain bounty land upon making application there
for. The following is the reply of the Commissioner to
Mr. Hillyor’s letter to him on the subject
Pension Office, Jan. 13, 1853.
Sir : Iu answer to the inquiry in your letter of the 3d.
inst. I have to reply that the act of March 22, 1852,
has Ibeen construed by the Department to include the
widows and minor children of deceased officers and sol
diers, as under the net of September 28,1850.
I have tho tionor to be.
Very respectfully,
Your ob’t. servant,
J. E. HEATH. Comm.
Hon. Junius llillytk, H. R.
In noticing the return of the Commissioners who were
sent to Mexico to search for the mines of Dr. Gardiner and
Mr. Mears, the Alexandria Gazette says :
“We understand that “Lagumllias,” the township in
which the pretended mines were located, has been thor
oughly explored ; and not only has no mine been discov
ered, buqno person could ho found who had ever heard
of a mine of silver or queiksilver within tile entire, De
partment of Rio \ r erde,to which department the township
of Ligunillias (less in extent than the District of Colum
bia) belongs. The result of this mission confirms in everv
partielar the official 1 report of Mr. George W. Slocum,
United States Agent, to the Department of State, on the
ITthofMay last and recently published by tho select Com
mitteeof the House of Represetatfves - ”
Gas Light.
At a meeting of the Gas Light Company, held on the
27th inst., Mr, Henry T. Hall was elected President,
to supply the vacancy occasioned by tho resignation of
John Forsyth, Esq. Tho Company will commence
operations immediately. The Engineer is in town, and
the greater part of the Gas works are now on the way.
We are informed that the city will bo lighted with
Gas by the first of July.
Fclo de sc. —W# learn from the Vade Mecum, that
the oorenors inquest, composed principally of Editors,
which was held over the dead body of the South-West
Georgian, returned a verdict that the deceased came to
its death “fclo de se,” by taking too a large dose of Cred
it System, which, in the opinion of said inquest, is more
poisonous to newspapers than arsenic and prussic acid
combined.
Another Rail Road. —The Virginia House of Dele
gates, has passed by a decided vote, tho bill incorpo
rating the Board of Public Works for the construction
of a rail road from Covington to the Ohio River, at a
point not lower than the mouth of Big Sandy nor higher
than Point Pleasant. The bill apprpriates a million of
dollars for tho purpose.
Sleet in Savannah,
The Evening News says, that there was a slight fall
of sleet at Savannah on the evening of the 23d inst. We
have enjoyed here a pure, bracing atmosphere, and
“glorious” sunshine for a week past, Ice is abundant,
but no Snow or Sleet.
Governor of Alabama.
4 meeting of the citizens of Autauga, was held at
Autaugaville, at which resolutions were adopted, recom
mending Col. Albert J. Picket as a suitable person
to be run as a candidate for Governor of the State.
Colonel Picket is the well known author of the
“History of Alabama.” He is a sound and true South
ern man ; is a native of the state, a planter, and posses
ses every necessary qualification for the office. We
know of no man whom we would prefer to see succeed
the present incumbent.
Artificial Teeth.
We have been shown an entire jaw of artificial teeth,
the manufacture of Mr. Cushman, D. D. S., of this
city, which we think worthy of special notice. The ease
we are told was a very nice one, and had been refused
on account of the peculiar difficulties to be overcome.
There was great devastation of the bone of the jaw which
in the specimen was supplied by raising the bed in which
the teeth are set so as exactly to resemble nature. The
teeth arc not riveted upon a plate, but each separate
tooth is firmly attached to a piece of gold which runs
up its side and gives great strength and finish to the
manufacture. Indeed we have never seen so finished,
natural and elegant a piece of dental manufacture as this
of Dr. Cushman, and cheerfully commend him to those
who need his services as a most skillful and finished
operator. This workmanship is natural, elegant, strong,
and scientific, and we take it upon ourselves to warrant
that a complete set of his artificial teeth will grind quite
as well and briskly as the best natural mill.
J. M. 11. Beale.
Ibis gentleman, who has for some time represented
the 14th Congressional District ofVa„ has declined an
other election. The Union says, he was “unobtrusive
in his pretensions.” So much so, that most people,
never heard of him before, though he says ho has de
voted his “earnest, but humble efforts to keep within the
pale of the written Constitution, to sustain the Union of
our Fathers, and to claim that Virginia has a common
property in the Public lands. Sic transit gioria mundi.
Gerritt .Smith.
A Correspondent of the Delta thus describes this
famous Abolitionist, who has paid out more money, in
the fartherance of his philanthropic whims, than any
man of his day.
“Gerritt Smith made his appearance in the Hall to
day, in woolly-head corner. He is a large, jolly look
ing, red faced man, with nothing of the malice of his
notorious abolitionism visible in his eye, the cast of his
countenance or demeanor, lie looks far more like a
“tuokyhoe” (Va.) planter, than like just what he is.”
The Fakir of Siva.
We understand that the exhibition of the Fakir, was
largely attended, notwithstanding the discouraging cir
cumstances under which he appeared in our communi
ty ; and that his performances gavo general satisfaction.
SsjpM-orwxf
The Supreme Court commenced its session in this
city, on Monday tho 24th, inst. Judges Lumpkin,
Warner and Nisbet, presiding.
There are forty cases on tho Docket, and a large num
ber of Attornies in attendance. It will probably re
quire two weeks to dispose of the Docket- We expect
to report the head notes of the decisions as they are
made.
Louisiana.
E. R. Moise, of New Orleans, lias been elected Spea
ker of the House of Representatives, and Le Sere, of
the Courier, State Printer. Gov. Walker is opposed
to the negro basis, and recommends the passage of free
Banking Laws.
Opinions ol the Press.
Soil of the South, This work for Jan. sustains it
good character, and merits the patronage of our planting
community, who no doubt will send on their dollar and
procure the work lor 1852.— State Guard.
Soil [of the South.
Our book table has been so crowded lately that we have
overlooked our agricultural visitors. But the Soil still
maintains its high character, and the high estimation in
which it is held. There can be no better time than the
commencement of anew year to commence a subscrip
tion tea good agricultural work, which every farmer and
planter should make it a point to subscribe for. They will
find the Soil all that it professes to’be. The price is on
ly $1 a year, and we are glad to see that the publishers,
cash principle. It is the only one that does well in any
thing, and it is the only one that will do at all in any sor
of a publication at one dollar a year. Reader, go and
subscribe for it.— Macon Republican.
Soil of the South.
Die number of this periodical for January comes to us
with an aspect strikingly improved, and as both the edi
tors are engaged in the cultivation of the soil ofthe South,
as well as in the conduct of the journal that bears that
name, every Southern man will find it an invaluable com
panion,— Southerner.
The Soil ofthe South.
For January ofthe new year, comes to us in anew and
improved form, whiehspeaks well for the prosperity ofthat
excellent planter’s^Journal. We have hastily run through
ts pages, and find it teeming with original articles from
home contributors. Now is the time to subscribe'for the
new volume. $1 sent toT. Lomax & Cos., Columbus Ga.,
will secure the work.— Chattanooga Adt.
Soil of the South.
We have received the^January numberof the Soil of
the South. It is well filled with interesting agricullural in
formation, Th is paper cannot be too highly recommend
cd,to, or patronised by the southern farmer, and sl.outhem
people. It is a work which strikes home to their interest.
Were we farmers,; we would not be without the Soil
of the South for twenty times the price |of subscription.
As it is. we miss it from our table, when it fails to arrive
punctually, more than any of our exchanges It has been
enlarged and improved in form. The Soil gives information
about gardening that should be secured and treasured by
every person whojdesires to hare fine vegetables and plenty
of them. .Jas. M. Chambers, Esq., is the Agricultural
editor. Mr. Charles A. Peabody edits the Horticultural
department. Termes SI.OO per year in advanco. Sub
scribe liberally ; deserves it.
Shocking. —The Cairo. Illinois, correspondent of the
Evansville Journal, relates the following :
“Not many months ago, a small boy, belonging to a
German family in this county, took sick and died. His
step-father purchased at the nearest store a boot box in
which to bury him. It proved too short by six inches,
so one ot the two tilings had to bo done to make it
answer—lenghten the box or shorten the corpse. The
inhuman step father choose the latter alternative, and dis
regarding the remonstrances of the mother, sawed off six
l nches of the child’s legs!. We will let the reader comment.
Correspondence of the Times & Sentinel.
Washington, Jan. 22d, 1853.
Although opposed, generally, to all projects of amat
gat,on or coalitions, I cannot bnt congratulate vou and
your reader, on the nuptials of the Tones and Sentinel
lor many reason, the union w## a ‘
must be a happy one ; and though divided, both man
aged not to fall, yet united, they 4
f , 4 - , fail to Stand
strongly and in a healthy condition. The 011 j v r
which the change excites in the minds of
arises from the loss of one of the able Editors, q,, ‘
John Forsyth, or dwell on his high tide to .v™’ ~
speet, confidence and admiration of every trne li-JL”
Southron, would be indeed superfluous. Though
er filling so high a National position as his distinguish,
ed father, of whom he has proved a worthy son ),
yet has had the superior fortune of stamping his nam e
and fame more permanently on the records of his ow„
State aud section. Ilis labors have filled even a wider
space, and hereafter, when the fruits of this compromise
quarrel more fnlly develope themselves, his labors, and
those of the “few, but faithful,” who co-operated in the
same cause will be properly appreciated. But though
Mr Forsyth is out of the ring just at present, his South
ern friend, cannot permit him to remain so. Talent,
and acquirements, such as his, and an experience so
thorough, would be wasted in the privacy of such a life
as that he has chosen. His political friends as well as
the public, properly appreciate his services and his
claims upon them. The mantle he has dropped will
be worthily worn, we all know; but you will have a
hard fight yet, though, upparently, tho beat of the bat
tie is over.
Indication, of this grow more palpable each day.
Not alone do tho abolitionists keep up their warfare
with a stubborn pertinacity in a political way, but that
fell fanaticism gathers strength every day. Mrs.
Stowe s book has sapped and ruined some of our strtmg.
est supports. The Northern mind, as well as foreign
sympathies, have been saturated with that poison ad
ministered in all the honey of a seductive style. The
re-action and recoil are already coming back upon us
in the shape of appeals from the Ladies of Great Britain
of inumerable protests against slavery in foreign domes
tic papers in the shape of critiques of Uncle Tom’s
Cabin—of public meetings in Ireland—of stampedes ot
slave, from the border State.—and the denial of recog
nition of the rights of slaveholders even during a passage in
transitu through the “infected districts” of the entire
North. This social danger is the deepest and it taints
the actions of otherwise conscientious individuals i sl
their private relations, while powerfully exhibiting it.
self in legislation.
A proof of this is given in the recent attempts to in
troduce some mitigation in the rule which was so strin
gently enforced in the Lemmon case. A Hunker
Democrat in the New York Legislature, a Mr. Tay
lor, as much for the purpose of embarrassing his Barn
burner foes as for any other, introduced 3 proposition
re-enacting the law abrogated during the Governor
ship of Seward, allowing the right of pnssage in transi
tu. But even he added a proviso that the limit of
time during which the slave should be retained in cus
tody if his master should be thirty days. If longer re
tained within the limits of the State, lie should be free.
Thus denying the vital principle which alone was
worth anything to us. But the Barnburners declaring
it to be a mere political trick, played back in similar
style. They introduced the resolutions of the Balti
more Convention, denunciatory of a re-opening
of any questions connected with slavery, and
brought the Hunkers to a check-mate. And so things
stand there. Even were such a resolution passed, how
ever. as proposed by Mr. Taylor, every sensible man
in the South knows it would practically be worth just
about as much as the Fugitive Slave law—the net val
ue of which may be estimated at 0. Laws, in this
country are not worth the paper they are written up
on, if antagonistic to the settled convictions and senti
ments of the communities which are to put them in ex
ecution. And so with all these slave-eatching and
slave* holding enactments of the North. Mrs. Stowe and
Uncle Tom are “higher laws” than those of Congress,
from Ohio, East, and from New York down to Mason
& Dixon’s line. One distinct indication of the condi
tion of publio sentiment at the Mprth afforded by the
palmy condition of the central Abolition press k
the National .Era—which is now bolder aud more in
fluential than ever, while the Southern Press ha3 been
permitted to burn out for lack of fuel, and not even a
glimmering spark can be raked up from its cold ashes—
much less a Phenix—The rival press, the organ of Abo
lition, has doubled its subscription list in the last
year, and now numbers 28,000 paying subscribers, with
daily increments aud increasing popularity. One signifi-
cant fact may also be stated which may startle the more
reflecting persons ht the North. It is the fact, that in
Southern circulation is steadily and rapidly increasing
—and the last number contains not only correspondence
from the South, but contributions also. Further than
this, a native North Carolinian, now a resident of that
State, answers a South Caroiinian’B comments on Mrs.
Stowe’s incendiary publication, and boldly preaches
doctrines which would once have been dangerous for
any Southern man to avow. This is progress with a
vengeance. Yet we are daily called upon by the offi
ciating High Priests, who sold us to our enemies, to
offer up thanksgiving to them for the peace and safety
their patriotic efforts hare given to the South—aud
called on to denounce and proscribe the men who warned
tile South of the danger, and resisted the surrender to
the last. Seed-time is well over, but harvesting has
not come. \Y hen it does, we shall see and can judge
of the actual character of the crop.
The National Era, which now represents what calls
itself the “Free Democracy,” made up of the Hale and
Chase coalition, backed by all the Abolitionistß of ali
sects and colors, goes in for the indefinite extension of
free territory. Its first grab is at Canada. Senator Hale
led off in a speech on the subject the other day, and
said we must and would have it. The N. Y. Tribune
waiving the question of extension, to which it is oppos
ed. goes iu for the choking process at home, and thus
defines the Abolition faith, in an article part of which
will suffice to show its spirits.
The Tribune says:
YY e have probably a hundred times disclaimed all right
of Legislative intermeddling, whether by Congress or
the tree States, with the domestic institutions of the Slave
Suites. YY’e have again and again explained that each
State makes and changes its own Constitution and laws
at pleasure, and that other States, having no control over
its actions iu the premises, are uowise responsible for the
character ofthat action. YY e have as often remonstrated
against the mischief and wrong, in view of the nature
and spirit of our Federal Compact, of voting against a
candidate for President because he resides in a Slave
State, or even is personally a slaveholder. YVe have wor
ried out the patience of some of our readers in explaining
that we seek to exert no other than a moral influence up
on Slavery in the States that cherish it, and that we only
invoke Political opposition to the establishment of Slavery
in Territories where it had previously no legal existence
or the increase of its power in onr Union by ike annexa
tion of territory in which it is already planted.
And thus concludes its confession of Faith ;
YY e never proposed to build up a national party on Sla
very or Anti-Slavery. YY’hat we did and do insist on is.
liberty for every YY'hig to hold sueh opinions respecting
Slavery, as to him shall seem just, and to act on those
opinions without being therefore, put under the ban ofthe
party. Perhaps this may be refused, but we do not hope
to live long enough to see the YiY'hig party triumph on
any narrower platform. Keep cool and see 1
All that tho burglar asks is the largest liberty of ac
tion. YY’e don’t want you to legalize house-breaking,
but don’t “put us under the ban” of your laws—that’s
all 1 YY’hiie our Northern “friends” are moving one
way. taking steps forwards, onr Southern friends see
moving too—taking steps backwards, ns usual. Virgin
ia leads the van. She is showing symptoms of shirki
ness to the audacious and advancing enemy, by ignor
ing the Lemmon case, and legislating against her own
free negroes—poor devils that they are.
Tho Union, of this morning, contains a pargTJfh to
this effect:
It is stated that the house of delegates of Virginia has
belt re it a bill providing for the appointment of overseers
who arc to be required to hire ont, at pnbiic auction, si
free persons of color, to the highest bidder, and to pay
into the State treasury the sums acoruiug from such hire.
These sums are to bo devoted iu future to sending free
persons of color beyond tho limits of the State. At the
expiration of five years, all free persons of color runain
ing in the State are to be sold into slavery to the highest
bidder, at public auction, the proceeds of such sales to be
paid into the public treasury, provided that said free per
sons of color shall bo allowed the privilege of becoming
the slaves of any free white persons whom they may so“
ect, on the payment by such persons of a fair price.
“I ean’t lick you,” said the aggressive urchid to bis
aggressor, “but I will make mouths at your sister 1 *ee
if don’t I”