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1 he Awful Cruellies Practised on Whiteslaves I ,
in Great Britain.
I lie Stafford House meeting, at which the ‘
‘•Christian affectionate” address of tlie ladies of 1
Great Britain to their dear sisters in America ;
was adopted, with the name of the Duchess of
Sutherland at the head, followed by her two
daughters—of Argyle and Tllantyre—Duchess
of Bedford, Lady Travellyan, and many others,
has excited not only disgust on this side of the
water, but disgust and something worse at home.
The liberal journals are out on them in terrible
sarcasm; but the most scathing invective we
have seen is a letter from Donald M’Leod, in
which, alter adopting from another writer the
rebuke of “Look at Home,” he proceeds as fol
lows :
“ But I must go further, and instruct the
American ladies in what they should tell their
English sisters to look at home. They can meet
this feminine, English, Christian, affectionate
appeal with the same argument that the Canni
bal Queen met a French philosopher when lie
was remonstrating with her upon the hateful,
horrifying, and forbidden practice of eating hu
man flesh, and recommending her to discontinue
and forbid the practice in her dominions. —
“Well,” replied the Cannibal Queen, “Voltaire,
what is the difference between your people and
us? You kill men and allow them to rot; we
kill men, and to drown our victory we eat them,
and find them as good for food as any other
flesh; besides,our laws demand of ns to eat
our enemies.” Now, sir, though two blacks will
never make a white, yet the American ladies
may justly reply and ask their English sisters,
“What is the difference between you and us?
We buy black African slaves; but when we buy
them, we feed, clothe and house them. No
doubt some of us whip them at times for disobe
dience or for our own caprice ; hut we heal
their stripes, and take care of them, that they
may work our work. But you. Englisii sisters,
you make white slaves paupers and beggars;
and when you make them this, by depriving
them of all means to live by their own industry,
then you turn them adrift—you raze, plougn up,
or burn down their habitations, and allow them
to die (in hundreds) the agonizing, lingering
death of starvation on the road sides, ditches,
and open fields. Dear sisters, look at the his
tory of Ireland for the last six or seven years,
and you will see how many thousands you have
allowed to die by hunger; and consider how
many thousands more you would have allowed
to die a*similar death, had we not come to their
rescue, and sent them food until we could re
move them from your tender mercy and from
your territories, to feed, clothe, and house them,
and to find employment and fair remuneration
for their labor among ourselves. Look for one
instance at an Irishman arraigned at the bar of
justice for sheep-stealing, and Ids counsel offer
ing to prove that before he stole the sheep, three
of his children perished for want of food, and in
the case of the last of them who died, a sucking
infant, the mother peeled the flesh o(f of its legs
and arms; she boiled it, and both she and her
husband, the prisoner, ate it to save their own
lives, and the mother died soon after. At this
time you, our English sisters, were riding upon
the chariots, rolling smoothly over your exten
sive, uncultivated, depopulated domains, upon
the wheels ol splendor and cushions of the finest
texture, and your husbands, sous, and daughters
sharing of your festivities, luxuries, and unne
cessary grandeur; expending more money and
human food upon useless dogs and horses than
would have saved thousands of the poor useful
Irish (with the image of God upon them) from
a premature agonizing death. We have read
with horror of one of your husbands urging with
might and main upon the-government (who be
stirred themselves at the time, for fear the fam
ine might cause a disease among the lush land
lords,) to feed the people with curry powd r;
and you must recollect, when the curry powder
scheme of destroying the Irish could not he ap
proved of, that Sir A. Trevellyan was sent over
to Ireland with the test starving commission, and
conducted the Irish destruction with more hu
manity, for he allowed one pound of meal as
meat and wages for every starving Irishman,
who would work ten hours per day at making
r Kids, draining, and imnroving the estates for
Irish landlords. Ah! English sisters, though
we could bring no more against yon, the public
will iiidge and decide that you should he the
defenders, and not the pursuers, in this case ’
but since yon began to expose us, wc will ex
pose you to the letter, for there is no ease or
cases brought out against us in “l"ncle Tom’s
Cabin,” with all Harriet Beecher Stowe’s capa
bilities of coloring, that is equal to this. We
you emphatically, that our law would - neither ,
sanction nor tolerate such inhuman treatment— j
our religion forbids it ; and any man or number j
of men who would he guilty oTsuch would he
branded with infamy and chased from our
States and from our societies as inhuman irra
tional, irreligious, and immoral monsters, un
worthy of Christian society, or to have a voice
in the civil or religious government of our conu
try. But by taking a retrospective view of the 1
history of your Christianized nation, we find
that inhumanity, oppression, cruelty, and extor
- !■■■’ • --—••• ni ui m a legislator,
commander, commissioner, or any other func
tionary to whom you may safely entrust the law
making, the law administration, ami the gov
ernment of your people ; but qualifications spe
cially required to entitle them to dignified, high
Sounding titles and distinction, as will he shown
afterwards.
’ “Uncle Tom’s Cabin*’ has aroused the sym
pathy and compassion of the Duchesses of Suth
erland, Argyll?, Bedford, and Ladies Blantyre
and Treveliyan, and many thousands of the wo
men of England, over the fate of Ham’s hlack
children. But we would seriously advise the
Duchess of Sutherland and her host to pause
until Uncle Donald M’Leod’s Cabin comes out,
and until Re himself comes across the Atlantic
with it among the thousands of those and their
offspring who have fled from their iron sway
and slavery to our shores. He, poor man, has
been expostulating with you for the last twenty
years against your cruel, lyinatural, irrational,
unchristian, and inhuman treatment of the brave,’
athletic, Highland white sons of Japhet; but no
English or Scottish duchesses and ladies took
any notice of him, nor convened a meeting to
sympathize with him, or to remonstrate with
Highland despotic slave-making proprietors to
discontinue their umighteous depopulation of
the country and their ungodly draining away of
the best blood from the nation. Hence wo aver
that these ladies would never convene a sym-
pathizing meeting for the benighted Africans,
should their own African chiels, kings, and
queens, destroy them by the thousand; but be
cause they sell them, and we buy them and take
care ot them, English feminine heartssvmpatize
with them. 1 his is a tin# opportunity for Don
ald M’Leod. Let him now speak out and make
hast e, and we promise him a quick and an ex
tensive sale of his Cabin of unvarnished facts.
The Dutchess of Sutherland got very warm
on the subject. After she read the sympathiz
ing. remonstrating address, (which need not bo
quoted here being long ago before the public.)
she with great empasis, said, “I hope and believe
that our efforts, under God’s blessing, will not
be without some happy result; but, whether it
succeeded or fail, no one will deny that we shall
have made an attempt, which had for its begin
ning and end, “Glory to Godin the highest on
earth and peace and good will to all men.” it
seems that effrontery is become very lofty and
high-voiced, under the protection of'high-sound
ing English titles, when the Dutchess of Suth
erland could presume to mix such notorious hy
pocritical winnings as these with “Glory to God
in the highest, on earth peace and good will to
men,” for no other cause or design than to
whitewash from some public odium already out
or to screen from some that is expected, come
from what quarter it may. Surely this cannot
be the Dutchess of Sutherland who pays a visit
every year to Dunrobin Castle, who has seen
and heard so many supplicating appeals pre
sented to her husband by the poor fisherman of
Golspie, soliciting liberty to take mussels from
the Little Ferry Sands to bait their nets—a lib
erty which they were deprived of by his fac
tors, though paying yearly rent for it, yet return
ed by his Grace, with the brief deliverance that
he could do nothing for them. Can 1 believe
that this is the same personage who can set out
Dunrobin Castle, (her own Highland seat,) and,
after travelling from it, then can ride in one di
rection forty-four miles; in another direction (by
taking the necessary circuitous route) sixty miles,
and that over fertile glens, valleys, straths, burst
ing with fatness, which gave birth to, and where
were i eared for ages thousands of the bravest,
the most moral, virtuous and religious men that
Europe coule boast of; ready, to a man, at a
moment’s warning from their chief to rise in de
fence of their king, queen, and country’; anima
ted with patriotism and love to their chief, and
irresistable in the battle contest for victory
But these valiant men had then a country, a
home, and a chief, worth the fighting for. But
I can tell her that she can now ride over these
extensive tracts in the interior of the country
without seeing the image of God upon a man
travelling these roads, with the exception of a
wandering Highland shepherd, wrapped up in
a gray plaid to the eyes, with a colly dog behind
him as a drill serjent, to traid his ewes and to
marshal his tups. There may happen to travel
over the dreary tract a geologist, a tourist, or
a lonely carrier, but these are as rare as a peli
can in the wilderness, or a camel’s convoy cara
van in the deserts of Arabia. Add to this a few
English sportsmen, with their stag-hounds, poin
ter dogs, and their servants, and put themselves
and their bravery together, and a company of
French soldiers would put ten thousand of them
to a disorderly flight to save their own carcass
es, leaving their ewes and tups to feed the in
vaders ! The question may ariso, where those
people who inhabited this country at one period
have gone? In America and Australia the most
of them will be found. The Sutherlands fami
ley and the nation had no need of their services;
hence they did not regard their patriotism or
loyalty, and disregarded their past services.—•
Sheep, bullock, dour, and game became more
valuable than men. Yet a remnant of them, or
in other words, a skeleton of them, is to be found
along the sea-shore, huddled together in motley
groups upon barren moors, among cliffs and
preeipics, in the most impoverished, degraded,
subjugated, slavish, spiritless condition that hu
man beings could exist in. If this is really the
lady who has “Glory to God in the highest,
peace on earth and good will to men,’’ in view,
and who is so religiosly denouncing the Ameri
can statue which “denies the slave the sanctity
of marriage, with all its joys, rights and obliga
tions—which separates, at the will of the mas
ter, the wife from the husband, the children from
the parent.” 1 would advise her, in God’s name,
to take a tour round the sea-skirts of Sutherland,
j her own estate, beginning at Brora, then to
! Helmsdale, Portskerra, Strathy, Farr, Tongue,
| Durness, Eddracliiilis, and Assynt, and learn
! the subjugated, degraded, and impoverished, un
| educated condition of the spiritless people of that
| sea-beaten coast, about two hundred miles in
I length, and let her with similar zeal remonstrate
I with her husband, that their condition he better
| ed; (or the cure for all their misery and want is
j lying unmolested in the fertile valleys above, and
j all under his control; and to advise his Grace,
| her husband, to be no longer guided by his Ahi
thopel, .Mr. Loch, but to discontinue his depopu
lating schemes, which have separated many a
wife from her husband, never to meet—which
caused many a premature death, and that sepa
j rated many sons and daughters, never to see
i them ; and by all means to withdraw that man
| date of Mr. Lock, which forbids marriage on the
I Sutherland estate, under the pains and penalties
of being banished from the country; for it has
been already the cause of a great amount of
prostitution, and augmented illegitimate connec
tions and issues fifty per cent above what such
were a few years ago, before this unnatural,
ungodly law was put in force. When the
Dutchess will do this, then, and not till then,
will 1 believe that she is in earnest regarding the
American slaves. Let her and the other ladies
who attend the Stafford House meeting he not
like the believers followers of Jupiter, who were
supplied with two bags each, the one hag rep
resenting their own faults, the other their neigh
bors’ faults—the one representing their neigh
| hors’ faults suspended before them, and the one
| representing their own faults suspended behind
j them so that they could never see their own
faults, but their neighbors’were seen at all times.
Ah ! ladies, change your Jupiter hags, that you
may discern your inconsistency, and connection
with those to whom you owe your position, your
grandeur, your greatness and all your enjoy
ments.
Imported Fowls-
Duriftf’ the last week we cniwoit ,IB pleasure
... ...apoßuug, in company with Charles Collins,
Esq., of ibis city, a large variety of curious fowls
which he has imported into this part of the country
after great trouble and expense. We were partic
ularly struck with the great number of beautiful
pigeons who went stru ting about in the sunshine,
evidently as proud of their radiant plumage as a
pretty woman is of her curls. There was the Ca
puchin with his reversed feathers forming a hood,
looking around as sanctimoniously as a Prie.-i, and
exhibiiingthe same love of good things in the bu
siness-like manner with which he eats Ids Cod.
There was (he tumbler, a species of pigeons which
liy gracefully to a certain heighth, and then fall
rapidly to the ground in a succession of sum
mersets —like many ambi'ims orators who
try flights which they cannot sustain. There, too,
was the Powtur, a bird which possesses a wonder
ful faculty of elevating bis head, and distend,ng
his craw after such a lordly fashion, as is only
equalled by a Savannah Alderman as he walks
down to the Exchange after a hearty dinner of shad.
The Oyster Bird is the leve-se of the Povvter. He
is as laehrymose in appearance as the Alderman is
when the first shad comes to Macon. The l’antail
is another beautiful variety of Pigeon. When one
ot this class stands erect, his head is partly cover
ed by tire plumage of the tail, and his breast pro
trudes ,n such a way, that one almost fancies that
lie hears him say, come on, Me Duff. Mr. Collins
lias also a rare collection of valuable poultry con
sisting of Cochin Chinas, Bahtams, Shanghais, and
many others whose names we have now forgotten.
Mr. C. assured us that he has four hens ‘Vli-ch
have y.elded him 159 eggs since the latter part of
December. On the whole, we were greatly pleas
ed and instructed by our visit—somewhat ‘on the
account of the novelty and singularity of the spec
tacle, but more, because it induced us to hope that
the example of Mr. Collins would be followed by
other gentlemen who have the time and tne
means to import into the farm yards of Georgia
valuable breeds of all descriptions of domestic an
imals from foreign countries.— Geo. (Macon)
Telegraph.
American Railroad Iron.— The Wylheville
(\ a.) Telegraph advocates the manufacture of the
ru livad iron of the Virginia and Tennessee railroad
at the company s iron works iu Lynchburg, in place
of burying English iron ; showing a dittbrence of
$8 60 per ton in favor of American iron, or or £-190,-
060 on the quantity of iron required for the whole
road.
The Bauk of Knoxville, is tire name of anew
Bank rccei.tly gonejin to operation in Knoxville, Ten
nessee, under the general Banking law of that
State. It. is owned by the Hon. VV. M. Church
well, at present a member of Congress from that
district. The Banking law of that State is the
■saute as New York and other Stales, which requires
a deposit of Slate or United State, Stocks, to be
deposited in the State Treasury, equal to tire
amount ot hills issued.— Chron. and Sentinel.
Lirekal Subscription —A gentleman from New
lork has subscribed 540:i,6u0, the whole amount
required to build a railroad from Fayetteville, N C
to the Deep river coal mines, in the same State.
(L\jt Sinus iwi Sentinel
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 22,1853.
TELEGRAPHIC
Telegraphed Expressly for the Times & Sentinel.
LATER FROM EUROPE
ARRIVAL OF THE STKAMEB
A M ERICA.
Mobile, Feb. 19, 5 o’clock, P. M.
New York, Feb. IS.—The steamship America ar
rived at Halifax yesterday, with three days later intel
ligence. Liverpool Market firm, with a fair demand.
Sales of the week amounted to 65,000 bales; 19,000
were taken by speculators, and 9,000 by exporters.
New Orleans Middlings fid., Middling Uplands 5 3-4d.
Havre Market active with advanced prices. Saks
o” the week readied 12,060 bales.
New Orleans Market was active yesterday, and 6,-
500 bales sold, principally for Europe. Up to 2 o’clock,
P, M., to-day, 5000 bales were sold ; prices are un
changed ; Middlings 8 3-4 c.
In Mobile, 4000 bales were sold at previous quota
tions.
[We did not receive the following dispatch until 10
o’clock on the night of 17th instant, though it bears
date Mobile, 5.20, P. M. We will be obliged to our
agent at Mobile if be will give instructions to the Tele
graph office not to burthen us with the expense of dis
patches, unless they are forwarded by 6 o’clock :)
Mobile, Feb. 17, 5.20 P. M.
General Pierce left Boston yesterday for New York,
and will go to Washington to-morrow.
The Senate has passed the Bill giving California
300,000 dollars, it being the amount collected by the
government of the United States for duties previous to
her admission into the Union.
Vice President King’s health is improving, and he
J expects to return to Washington in April
Cotton declined l-4c. in our market yesterday. Sales,
however, are active, though confined to a few buyers.
We quote Middling Fair, 9 l-2c.; Good Middling, 9
l-4c.; Middling, 8 3 4c. ; Ordinary, 7 1-4 to 7 3-4 c.
Fair demand for Cotton in New Orleans.
NIAGARA.
Mobile, Feb. 15, 4. 48. P. M.
The steamship Niagara arrived at New York yester
j day. bringing three days later intelligence than the At-
I lantio.
j The cotton market at Liverpool was firm. Sales
for three days prior to the sailing of the steamer amount
j ed to 55,000 bales.
Middling Orleans 5 3-4 a 5 7-Bd.
There is an advance of a 1 -16 a 1-8 of a penny, caus
ed by erroneous impressions previously entertained of
the amount of the incoming crop.
Speculators took 15,000 bales; Exporters 3,000 bales.
Sales on Friday preceeding the sailing of the steamer,
reached 9,000 bales.
There have been imported since the sailing of the
i last steamer 27,000 bales. Stock on hand 593,000 bales.
Tlie New Orleans market is dull. No sales of mo
ment to-day.
The Mobile market is also flat and sales to day arc
inconsiderable.
Fire.
About twelve o’clock, on Saturday night last, our
citizens were alarmed by the cry of lire. The Livery
Stable of Messrs. Dudley & Martin, and the old Thea
tre, used as a carriage house, and the house of enter
tainment, kept by Mrs. A. J. Hall, were entirely con
sumed. The further progress of the flames was ar
rested by the timely and efficient exertions of the fire
companies.
Steamboat Sunk.
The steamer Retrievo, Oapt. W. S. Nell, was, by
accident, driven upon a rock near Owen’s Island and
sunk in deep water, a few days since. She had on
board, we are informed, about twelve hundred bales of
cotton, most of which will be saved, though in a damaged
condition. The boat will be a total loss. It was owned
principally by Capt. Nell and C. A. Clink, the Clerk.
Disunion and the Georgia Press.
Several of our cotemporaries are still ringing the
changes upon the worn-out theme of Disunion. It is a
raw head and bloody bones, which they periodically ex
hibit lor the purpose of frightening their timid readers
aud of injuring the Southern Rights wing of the De
mocracy. Why, gentlemen, it is a very old tune, with
which the public have become disgusted long ago. It
is an old thread-bare expedient which every body un
derstands, and no one more thoroughly than the
managers who resort to it. You only make yourselves
the laughing stock of a discerning public, in allowing
them to suppose that you really expect to frighten them
with this ass in a lion’s skin. The cars are too prom
inent to impose on a boy of 10 years. And our breth
ren of the press who are guilty in the premises will
pardon us for suggesting that a repetition of the same
old story so often, exhibits a scarcity of ideas, wjiich is
trillv lmnpn*L]-
Neither the Editor of this paper nor the South
ern Rights party ever were disunionists per se. —
YA e believed that a bold and determined assertion
of our rights at all hazards was the surest and most
certain mode of preserving the Union, and of securing
our rights. YY’e publicly proclaimed that if the South
would unite in the demand of justice at the hands of
the North, that justice would be rendered. YA’e
taught that the Union was as dear to the North as it
was to the South, and that war was as terrible to them as
to ns. On all these issues we suffered an ignominious
defeat. Submission to wrong was decided to be pref
erable to a bold and manly resistance, by every South
ern State except South Carolina, and she, in the gener
al defection, thought it prudent to forbear for the pres
ent the assertion of her independence. Under these un- i
toward eircumstances, the Southern Rights Party fell
back upon the Georgia platform, ready and willing when
the emergency occurs which is contemplated by those
resolutions to buckle on our armor and rally in the
front rank around the flag stoff which the Union party
par excellence erected.
We would here, respectfully, ask the Editors who
indulge in the old cry of disunion,! wliat they meant by
the Georgia Platform ? Was it also a cheat to gull
the people ? Or was it an honest declaration warm
from the hearts of Ireetnen ? Then, if there be treason
in disunion sentiments, you are as guilty as we. You
arc prospective disunionists, if you are honest. We
were never anything more. All this is so palpable to
the most unlearned reader that we feel we encumber
our columns by referring to the subject. ‘‘Let the
dead bury their dead,'’
One more word as to our connection with the Demo
cratic Party.
The Union party had determined upon submission ;
the Southern Rights party was broken, scattered and
overwhelmed by defeat. We stood by the flag staff as
long as a rag fluttered in the breeze. But time rolled
on—and new issues were presented. We were called
on to choose between Scott, the friend of Seward and
the candidate of the abolition wing of the wider party •
and Pierce, the creation and choice of the southern de
mocracy and a statesman wlto uniformly sustained the
constitutional rights of the south both in congress and out
of congress. We could not hesitate between them.—
We threw our heart and pen into the scale of Pierce •
and if we did anything in that contest to overthrow
I ederalisnt and Abolitionism in the person of Scott and
his backers, and to elevate a man to the Presidency
whom we firmly believe to be a State Rights Republican,
we thank God, and are content to bear the consequen
ces. If this defense is not satisfactory to that part of
the press in Georgia which is disposed to censure us they
will please continue to sing “that same old tune” of
disunion until their own dull ears are tired of the
melody. We will promise them a quiet time of it in
future, though we fear their audience will be “a beggar
ly account of empty boxes.”
Conundrum.—Why is a fat duck, with its wings
clipped, line a bad cold ? Because it is easily caught -
Slavery and tlie Westminster Review.
Cuffeeisrn, like the fr.gs of Egypt, has entered “our
houses, our bed chambers, and the bouses of our ser
vants.” It lias become a nuisance, so that, in the em
phatic language of scripture, the land stinks by reason
thereof.
The Westminster Review contains an elaborate no
tice of Mrs. Stowe’s bad book, in which all the horrid
pictures of that wild fiction are endorsed as liberal
facts upon the testimony of Douglass and Brown, both
of whom are fugitive slaves, and by a book issued by
the Executive Committee of the American anti-Slavery
Society! who prove to the entire satisfaction of the
Review :
“Thai the slaves in the United States are treated with
barbarous inhumanity; that they are overworked, under
led, wretchedly clad and lodged, and have insufficient
sleep ; that they are often made to wear round their necks
iron collars armed with prongs, to drag heavy chains and
weights at their feet while working in the field, and to wear
yokes and bills and iron horns; that they are often kept
confined in the stocks day and night for weeks together,
made to wear gags in their mouths for hours or days ; have
some oi‘ their front teeth torn out or broken off, that they
may be easily detected when they run awav; that they are !
frequently flogged with terrible severity, nave red pepper
rubbed into their lacerated flesh, and hot brine, spirits of tur
pentine, &c., poured over the gashes to increase the torture ;
that they are often stripped naked, their backs and limbs
cut with knives, bruised and mangled by scores and hun
dreds of blows with the paddle, and terribly torn by the
claws of cats drawn over them by their tormentors; that
they are often hunted by bloodhounds, and shot down like
beasts, or torn to pieces by dogs; that they are often sus
pended by the arm, and whipped and beaten till they faint,
and when revived by restoratives beaten again till they
faint, and sometimes till they die ; that their ears are often
cut off; their eyes knocked out, their bones broken, their
flesh branded with red-hot irons; that they are maimed,
mutilated, and burned to death over slow fires. * * * *
* * That such deeds are committed, but that they are
frequent; not done in corners, but before the sun ; not in
one of the slave States, but in all of them ; not perpetrated
by brutal overseers and drivers merely, but by magistrates,
by legislators, by professors of religion, by preachers of
the Gospel, by Governors of States, by gentlemen of prop
erty and standing, and by delicate females moving in the
‘highest circles of society.’”
Admitting these false assertions to be true, in tlie face
of the testimony of the whole South, and of all Eng
lishmen who have travelled among us, the writer in the
Review well says, “we have found that which has
convinced our judgment as much as it has sickened our
heart.” If the black picture here presented were a faithful
and true daguerreotype of Southern society, degraded in
deed would be the South ; and no civilized people could
mourn over her desolation. Sueli savage barbarism would
justify a holy crusade against us; and the Christian na
tions of Europe are recreant to the claims of God and
man in neglecting so long to sweep through our borders
with fire and sword.
It is useless for us to deny tlie false and calumnious
charges of the American anti-slavery Society. It is
true that slaves are sometimes murdered by their mas
ters. but not more frequently than children are murder
ed by their parents. It is true that slaves are some
times dreadfully abused and maltreated by their mas
ters, but not more frequently than apprentices are
abused and maltreated by theirs, in the city of West
minster. We are absolutely amazed at the unblushing
falsehoods of our revilers, and of the gullibility of the
public, foreign and domestic. Did it never occur to
these men that self-interest, with most men, is
the controlling motive ? that slaves are bought be
cause their labor is valuable ? that a well-fed
aud kindly used man is more able to make wages
than a poor, starved, maimed, scarred creature ? Why,
horses and dogs are not used as badly in the South as
the abolitionists say the slave is. Has it never occurred
to these fanatics that strong and life-long attnehments
are formed between slaves and their masters, dating
back to the days of early boyhood, when they played
and romped together by moon-light, and all distinction
of color was wholly unknown, which results in after
life in filial obedience on the part of the slave and pa
ternal solicitude on the part of the master ?
Indeed, it is common for slaves to descend from fath
er to son for generations, and it is not at all uncommon
to find slaves now in the same family to whom their
ancestors were sold by the British slave-traders. We
may as well once, for all, assert that next to his own
family, a Southern man’s nearest and dearest friends
are his slaves. We trust them with our money and
our keys; we place our wives and children under their
protection. All the horrid fears which, in the excited
imaginations of abolitionists, disturb the slumbers of the
master, are purely imaginary. Wo live in peace and
quiet on our plantations ; we sleep with our doors and
windows open, and fear no evil. But we are repeating
a twice told tale.
The Westminster Review boldly advocates and
urges upon the South the emancipation of the blacks.
This, certainly, is a very impudent recommendation
in the face of the experiment in Jamaica; and the
damning fact, that most of the so called free States
either have or are attempting to pass laws forbidding
free negroes to imigrate into them.
But we will not pursue this subject further. We de
sire merely to call the attention of the public to the
abolitionism of the Review , and to proscribe it as a bad
hook for circulation in the Soutli ; and more espe
cially to condemn the notice which we clip from the
Savannah Courier .’
“The Westminster lievieie, for January, has been hand
ed us by Col. Williams. It is needless to say anything in
praise of this conservative periodical. The present num
ber has very interesting articles on Daniel Webster, Histo
ry and Ideas of the Mormons, American Slavery and
Emancipation by the free States, Mary Tudor, and tie
condition and prospects of Ireland.”
We cannot believe that the Editor of that Journal
was aware of the character of the Review, or of the
very objectionable character of the article under review.
The Westminster is not conservative , but destructive
and radical. It is certainly needless to say anything
in jtraise of it, unless Southern men wish to sow the
seeds of abolitionism in the South. We hope our pub
lic journals wi'l be more particular in their complimen
tary notices of periodicals.
Graham and the Abolitionists.
We have often had the pleasure of calling public at
tention to this spirited monthly. W e now do so with pe
culiar pleasure, since the manly defence of the South and
her institutions in the last issue against the slanders of
Mrs. Stowe, has brought around it a swarm of aboli
tion hornets, who are engaged in the very Christian
work of stinging it to death.
Mrs. Swisshelm, who is so great a favorite with some
Southern Editors, and whose m ine, we believe, has
never lc retofore adorned our pages, very kindly wishes
Graham may lose all his Northern subscribers.
Mr. b red. Douglass has read the aforesaid article “with
disgust I”
Another sagacious and very honest editor tells him
that he should not have published the article “in the
edition intended for Northern circulation !”
The Hartford Republican quite overwhelms him
with an array of British names which condemn his se
vere but merited criticism.
We are happy to find that Graham keeps quite cool
under these numerous assaults. He very kindly in
forms Mrs. Swisshelm that since the contraband article
appeared, he lias added over three thousand names to
his subscription list, four-fifths of whom are North of
Mason & Dixon’s lino.
Nor does he bate a jot from the censure heaped up
on this bad book in his last number. He very justly
and truly charges that “Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a bad
Book 1 It gives -an unfair and untrue picture of
Southern life. It is badly constructed, badly timed and
made up for a bad purpose. The work has been suc
cessful, peeuniariy ; but there is such a thing as ‘blood
money,’ speedily gained for nefarious doings * * * the
work is a mere distortion of facts—a stupenduous lie
and, therefore, we cannot admit its merit or join its
mob of admirers.”
These are hearty strokes upon the hornets’ nests, and
no wonder the swarm is agitated. Lay on, Mr. Gra
ham. A generous public will appreciate your honesty.
You have God and truth on your side.
But we must not close this notica without calling
public attention to Mrs. Swisshelm’s proposition to pro
scribe tile Magazine. Northern politicians have felt
the power of fanaticism, and either bowed to the blast
or been overwhelmed, with here and there a solitary
individual, who, like the unstrieken pine in the path of
the hurricane, are but the monuments of its violence.
Tlie Soutli could give no aid ; her arms were too
short. 11 e saw our friends die upon the ramparts of
the constitution, and could do no more than shed a tear
over their graves and enshrine their memories in grate
ful hearts. With literature the case is diffetent. We
can hero meet and conquer the devices of our enemies
by sending on our names and money to the honest Ed
itor, who dares to tell the truth in the face of Aboli
tionism. Let the South therefore patronize Graham
and proscribe every paper which refuses to defend truth
and the constitution.
The Duchess of Sutherland—The British Slave
System.
The hypocritical whirlings of foreign female abolition
ists have, of late, created no small stir in this new world.
And no wonder! A negro Avatar has appeared upon
earth in the person of the Duchess of Sutherland—one
of the proudest of the proud aristocracy of Great Brit
ain—an aristocracy which has trampled upon the rights
of man in the four quarters of the globe, and lias nev
er lifted its foot from the neck of humanity, until it rose
j in its might and asserted its independence by dagger and
sword, or had no more gold in its sinews and blood ; an
aristocracy which dyed its hands in the sin of the Afri
can slave trade, and had no ear either for the wailings
of the victims of its avarice, or the solemn protests of
our ancestors.
And who is this Avatar, arrayed in the jewels stolen
from the coffers of Asia, whose tears flow so freely over
the wrongs of the African ? What evidence lias she
given of her divine mission ? Her history is on re
cord. We give it from Graham's Magazine. She
has desolated happy homes; desecrated sacred hearth
stones; driven helpless peasants from their native land.
God help the slave when sueli as she are their only
friends ! But we turn to her biography :
“The great proprietors of North Britain have been
doing all in their power to exterminate and remove
their poor tenantry and dependents from the homes of
their forefathers —for the purpose of turning the vaca
ted districts into deer-parks, sheep-walks, or large farms
—a score of small farms converted into one great hold
ing for a single family. This system has been most re
morsely carried out by the Scottish land-owners. And
it is a remarkable sact —and one which all who have
read of the Stafford-House meeting of English ladies
should bear in mind, when considering the object which
brought them together—that the Duchess of Suther
land, who has now the foolish audacity to set herself up
as chief censor of our institutions, was (a few years ago)
the most wholesale exterminator in Scotland. The Duke
of Buccleueh almost rivalled her in this great outrage
against justice and society. But she was in advance of
his grace. She cast out her shoe over ‘Chattan’s lands
so wide,’ and it was filled with consternation and sor
row. Her possessions amount to nearly a million of acres.
The Highland population on these amounted to about
15,000 persons, or 3,000 families. They lived in a sim
ple, frugal way ; cultivating their barley and oats on
the arable land, and pasturing their cattle on the hills.
Tlie climate was rough ; and they had enough to do to
wrestle with the powers of nature for a bare subsistence.
They had their scattered tenments at a losv rent, (not
being worth more to them,) and paid it in money, or
labor, or game ; considering themselves happy that they
lived among their kindred, in the dwelling-places of
their forefathers. But this was not to last. The
Duchess of Sutherland began to exterminate them
in 1811; and for nine years carried on the le
gal razzia against them. They were removed
like s much vermin—without any respect for the feel
ings they might be supposed to cherish as human be
ings. All the north of Scotland was disturbed by these
proceedings. But tlie voice of complaint or indigna
tion was seldom or but inadequately heard south of the
Border. The lordly land-owners drove out their poor
dependents, giving each family an acre or two to till in
a strange place, or a small sum of money, or paying
their passage to Canada or these States. But, before
they could all he turned out, the poor people (in several
places) grew angry, and made resistance—hurling
stones against the bailiffs and the military, and swearing
they would rather be murdered near the graves of their
parents and children than be driven away from their
ancient holdings. In several of these razzias —worse,
far worse than those of the French against the Arabs in
Algiers ! —houses were burnt down, to smoke and scorch
the people out of them ; and one old woman, refusing
with imbecile obstinacy to leave the chimney-corner,
was actually roasted to death. The name of the
Duchess of Sutherland was mentioned with execration
in the Highlands, and her doings were at last trumpeted
by the English press. She tried to oppose the torrent
of public opinion by means of a pamphlet, drawn up
and published by Mr. Loch, her agent; and he hasten
tened to show, that having deprived the people of their
old homes, she offered them in remote places two acres
for each family to squat upon—two acres that had never
before been cultivated. For this boon, she charged
them with a rent of half-a-crown per acre. Many of
the poor creatures refused her offer. The clan Gunn
or Mcllarnish (inconsolable for the loss of their own
mountains and valleys of Kildonan) were among those
who, with thirty families from Strathbrora, came across
the Atlantic, and were mingled with the population of
the New World :
To Lochaber na uiair, to Lochaber na mair;
Alas! to return to Lochaber na mair!
“Mr. Izocli tried hard to soften matters. But the
hard, stern fact stood unshaken—that the Duchess of
Sutherland had diiven, forced, dragged away from tlie
hearths aud grave-stones of their forefathers 15,000 of
tlie brave and kindly Highlanders of Scotland, who
looked up to her witli confidence and pride as their
obieftoiness. That fact was not to be argued away.
Tlie territory which tlie Duchess rescued from her
clansmen was afterward divided into twenty-nine large
farms—some of these as large as counties. Each is held
by a single family—conducting the farming-business on
tlie newest and best Englisii plans. Instead of the fol
lowers of tlie clan Chattan—who had kept up their
cosy little hearths in that large tract of country—there
weie, in 1820. about 132,000 sheep ; and other livestock
in proportion. The place is now comparatively solitary.
The curling of the smoke is seen no more rising in the
valleys from the Highland shellings: the'duchess
made a solitude there, and culled it farming. She de
clares she has a right to do what she likes with her
own ; and can do so with a strong voice and a high
hand. For she is supported by the law of England ;
and kept in countenance by the steady practice of all
the other titled exterminators in the United Kingdom.
She asserts her right, because ‘the law allows itj and
the judge awards it.’ She cares very little for the
thoughts of those who have no tenants to turn out, ac
cording to the slatutes in such eases made and pro
vided ’ 1
And what a spectacle, these Scottish nobles, with
romantic names, have been presenting—a spectacle of
the most heartless cruelty and ingratitude i The an
cestors ot the poor people they extirininate supported
their chieftainship in old times with bow and brand
stood up for it on ‘llighiand-heath or Holy-rood,’ and
won for it its coronets and broad acres. The clans
men gave their chiefs’ consideration-—renown—wealth -
and, in the swovd-and-buekler days, were treated as chit’
dren, friends, and defenders. But time passed by :
Old tirnc-s were changed, old manners none •
A stranger filled tlgi Stuarts’ throne:
and when a peaceful age had come, and these hard-
handed followers were no longer needed to march un
der the pennons of their chiefs, they sunk from war
riors into tenauts, servants, serfs. And when, at last
they were considered an incumbrance on the soil to
which their claim, in justice, was as strong as that of
their landlords—all the past was forgot; and the felonious
lords and ladies of Scotland fell upon their helpless
clansfoik, and drove them out to penury and exile. The
noblest names iu the Highlands and Lowlands have
been stained by this baseness. The lingering partiality
which the deathless romance and poetry of our lan
guage made us feel for these names, is gone; and we
feel that the Scottish nobility are as rascally aud dishon
est a body as they proved themselves in the reigns of
Plantagenets and Tudors, and whenever Scotland or
Scotchmen were to be betrayed. The very jwjde of
clanship and ancestry must have faded frorff their
minds, before they could think of thus treating the
hottest men and bonny lasses of that courageous and in
telligent people. The Romans tried to drive out these
poor Celts ; but could not.
Hie Romans attempted their country to guin
Hut their ancestors fought, and they'fought not in vain!
The Plantagenets, too, failed. But the Buecleuehes,
Sutherlands, and McDonalds have succeeded. The
Highlanders—who flung such eclat over mediasval and
modern war, from the days of Montrose to the charge
ol Loohiel at M aterloo—are nearly gone. The ruin
of the Celts of Scotland has been as certain, though,
perhaps, less striking than that of their race in Ireland’.
“Such is the condition of the United Kiugdom, and
such the fate of between three aud four millions of peo
ple, degraded ns ignorant paupers, below the physical
level, and we think we may add, the moral level of our
Southern negroes. It is a hypocritical, use of conven
tional terms to call the latter slaves and look on the
British paupers as free men ! These English, Irish, and
Scottish people, are at the mercy of their task-masters
who do not whip them, to be sure, hut they starve
them—body and soul. The life of the poor Irish ten- j
ant an l his fami’y hangs on the wall of the landlord, j
who can turn them all out as soon as he pleases. Such :
helpless wretclns cannot stand on the earth and pre
tend their lives are their own. In great cities and fac
tories, the despotism of wealth is just as crushing. The !
factory hands are gem-rally paid low and inadequate
wages, and work like beasts or machines, that theimr
eantile interest may flourish, and the bloated cotton
manufacturers live in splendor. Tyrants and tyrant
laws stand betwri n the unhappy people and the sid;
stand between them and the fair livelihood which they
ought to have for their manufacturing industry. N< ar
four millions of men live like animals or slaves in the
United Kingdom, Compare the condition of the Irish
peasant with that of the negro. The latter would not
exchange with a brother so degraded—so trodden up
on, and so harassed by physical suffering.”
More Gal phi n ism.
Towards the end of last month, General Houston
was placed at the head of a committee, instructed to ex
amine into charges of fraudulent practices in the erec
tion of the new wings of the capital, Thu Union says
that, acccording to the evidence, inferior materials have
been used and their use concealed ; defects in the work
have been covered over ; government property misap- j
plied ; implements and laborers used for private pur- j
poses ; an extensive system of embezzlement acted out,
by which large sums of money have been drawn for j
work never rendered ; and laborers have been employ- 1
ed at extravagant wages, under the agreement that they 1
should give up a large portion of those wages after they
were drawn from the pay agent. This system has been
carried to such an extent, we are informed, as to swiu- ‘
die the government out of about three hundred thou- j
sand dollars—one half of the entire appropriation. If !
tills be true, there has been no parallel to this fraud in
the history of our government; for it is formed of a
larger number of items, extending over a longer period
of time, and convicts a larger number of individuals of
carelessness and corrupt practices, than any which has
preceded it. \Y r e hope to be able, in a few days, to lay
the evidence which lias been adduced before the Com
mittee of Investigation before our readers. We are
unwilling to begin its publication until we can continue
it regularly. Surely no civilized country has been out
raged by such an administration as that which has,
since the 4th of March, 1849, alternately mortified the
pride of the nation and outraged the public morality by
an alternation of imbecility and fraud, unrelieved by a
single instance of manly efficiency or sterling integrity.
Temperance .Movement in .Muscogee.
At a meeting held in this city a few days ago, the
following named gentlemen were appointed delegates to
the Temperance Convention, to be held in Atlanta on
the 22d inslant: Messrs. Dr. A. M. Walker, lion. G.
E. Thomas, Dr. M. Woodruff, ,J. Early Hurt, Dr. Jno.
J. Boswell, N. Nuckolls, James M, Chambers, Rev. J.
E. Evans, Rev. Tlios. F. Scott, Dozter Thornton,
and Dr. Lovick Pierce.
Temperance Movement in Harris.
At a meeting held in Hamilton, Harris county, the
follow ing named gentlemen were appointed delegates
to the Atlanta Temperance Convention : Rev. J. G.
Cotton, Rev. J. J. Little, J. E. Borders, Dr. P. T-
Trammell, Jere. Reese, Rev. W. Mosely, F. J. 11. Per
ry, Col. C. B. Black, A. DeLoach, W. B. Stribling,
C. Carter, 11. Kimbrough, Geo. A. B. Dozier, T. J.
Dozier, J. A. Collier, J. McGehee, L. Pratt, W. Pru
itt, Dr. Pitts, Rev. W. Sueli, Dr. E. E. Hood, Wm.
Worrell, W. E. Farley, Rev. W. D, Atkinson.
The Concert Wednesday Night.
Ole Bull was welcomed by a larger audience than
ever assembled in this city on a similar occasion.—
Ilis performances were quite as wonderful as we had
anticipated J yet splendid as they were they scarcely
elicited more applause than the sweet voice of little Patti.
NL Strakosch presided with his usual ability over the
Counterfeits.
W e are informed that a large number of counterfeit
SSO hills, on the Marine and Fire Insurance Bank of
Savannah, are in circulation. The spurious bills may
be distinguished from the genuine by measuring from
the inside of the circular dies. on tlie tops of each mar
gin, from right to left. On the genuine bills the space
between these dies is 4 8-10 inches; and on the spuri
ous bills, the distance is only 4 6-10 inches. No issue
of the old plate, with the bee-hive in the centre, has
been made since 1850, and no more will be made in the
future.
The Georgia Courier.
We long ago noticed the establishment of a very spir
ited paper in Lumpkin Geo., by Messrs. Caste i.law.
By oversight of one of our compositors, a very compli
mentary notice of the Soil of the South } taken from
that paper and published in the Times & Sentinel, was
not credited. The Editor of the Courier is very justly
offended at the oversight. He cannot regret it more
than we. The whole value of tlie notice was lost by the
omission of the proper credit. YVe assure our valued
contemporary that if we have “none of that spirit which
will raise mortals to the skies,” we certainly are free
Irom all taint of that “which would drag angels down,”
Ole Bull’s Concert.
The public will be pleased to learn that Ole Bull will
certainly give a concert in this city at Concert Hall, on
Wednesday night 10th inst. He i unquestionably the
greatest musical genius of the age. Mr. Crisp, who
had engaged the Hall for his Dramatic corps, has kind
ly consented to give way for the great Violinist. His
courtesy will be appreciated by our community. For
further particulars, see advertisement aud small bills.
Mr. Everett on the Fishery Question.
Ihe President lias communicated to Congress a let
ter from the Secretary of State in regard to the pro
gress of the negotiations with Great Britain for the set
tlement of the Fishery Question.
Mr. Everett thinks the Fishery Question might be
easily settled upon terms satisfactory to both parties.
The proposition is to give to American fishermen a
general freedom of fishery on the waters of the British
colonies, and also the permission to dry and prepare
their fish on the adjacent coasts, on condition that like
privileges be granted to British colonists on our coasts
and that the products of the British fisheries be ad
mitted to our markets free of duty.
Small Pox in Oglethorpe.
M e regret to learn that the Editor of the Demcarat
is confined to his room by a severe attack of small pox.
We at e somewhat surprised to find in the same pa
per in which the announcement is made, a certificate
from three physicians that there is no case of small pox
in Oglethorpe. They pronounce the disease merely an
aggravated form of chicken pox.
The Democratic Review.
Mr. Sanders, the fast Editor of this fast journal, has
run his race in fast time, and offers to sell it We
hope a slow man, with better bottom, will become the
purchaser.
The American Giant Girl.
Me visited this young Lady during her stay in this
city. She is the largest mass of flesh we ever loosed
upon, and comes fully up to the description given of her
m the bills. Admirers of the strange and monstrous
productions of nature, will be gratified with a sight of
Latest News.
Me learn from the Mobile papers that a large de
lineation has occurred m the Post office at that place—
lhemattor is undergoing judicia! investigation before
• . n. JJreedin U. S. Commissioner.
Mr. Litcher, U. S. Minister to Mexico has arrived at
>V ahmgton city.
The commute on Foreign Affairs in the Senate has
reported against the resolution of the Senate on the
Clayton and Buiwer Treaty.
The Badger Case Settled.
r, , ° Sel,,U ® on l * ,c ‘ ns *-, the nomination of
Badger to the Bench of the Supreme Court was post
ponod until the 4.1, March next. This is the-second
msbmoe nt the history of the Government in which the
insult of selecting a Judge who did not render in the
otreut, over which ho was to preside was ever offered
to the Arnencan people. We hope it will be the last.
e are g the Senate had moral firmness to assert a
aoun prine.ple even in the face of au associate who is
as distinguished as Mr. Badger.
New Jersey i . S. Seuetors.
John R. Thompson was elected, on Friday 11th by
the Legislature of New Jersey, as United States Sena
tor iu the place of the Hon. Robert F. Stockton, re
signed.
Congressional.
The U- S. Senate was engaged on Friday 11th, in
debating the claims of the creditors of Texas. The Hon.
Samuel Houston, of Texas, addressed the Senate and
denounced strongly the conduct of the speculators in
Texas Bonds.
Gov. Foote, ol Mississippi, has offend a reward of S3OO
for the apprehension and delivery to tlm sheriff of Warren
county, of Wesley Wallace, who stands charged with
the murder of a negro man belonging to Gen. G. D.
Mitchell, whose overseer Wallace was. It was first
thought that tlie negro was killed by a log rolling over
him; but the corner's inquest has lixi-d the charge of
murder on Wallace, who hits Bed. He is from North
Carolina, and is supposed to be making s way back
h >ro.
Compendium of News.
Louisiana. —On the 9th, the Senate of Louisiana drew
lots for the classification of its members. 9 Democrats
and 7 YY’bigs drew tickets for the shortterm, and 9 Demo
crats and 7 Whigs drew the long term-
Mr. PtKRCE introduced a resolution to amend the
Constitution so as to make the sessions of the Legislature
biennial.
Congressional.— ln the Senate, on tlie 7th, the joint
j resolution affirming the doctrine ofMonroe was taken up.
Mr. Clemens delivered an eloquent speech of an hour,
against the policy of taking Cuba, of acquiring it by pur
chase or any other way. He was content to wait with
Mr. Soule till it should come to us after a successful revo
lution by the Cubanas, because he knew that he and the
Senator would both be eoid in the grave and forgotten bc
lore that revolution was commenced, much less eomple
ed.
He dwelt with the utmost severity upon the extrmese
into which the doctrine of progress would force this na
tion. He was confident that a hundred Cubas could not
induce Great Britain to a war with the United States,
and have the bloody banner of “bread or blood*’raised by
her own starving multitudes.
Mr. Cass replied, reading some extracts from Ameri
cans in Paris, sustaining his views or. the subject.
Mr. Douglass obtained the floor and the subject was
postponed till Monday next.
In the House of Representatives of the 9th ult., the
certificate of the electors for Vive President of the United
States were read, counted, and registered in the House of
Representatives in the presence of tho members of the
two branches ot Congress. The President protein, of the
Senate, why presided on the occasion, announced that
franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, was duly elected
President, and Wiiliam R. King, N ice President of the
United States, for four years, commencing on the fourth
day of March next. In pursuance ot a joint resolution,
subsequently adopted, Mr, Hunter was appointed ou tlie
part of the Senate, and Messrs. Jones, of Tennessee, and
Hibbard, on the jia.it ot the House of Representatives, as
a committee to wait ujion General Pierce and fnforin
him of his election.
Washington, Feb. 11.—In the Senate, to-day Mr.
Mason, of the Committee on Foreign Relations, pre
sented the report of the committee relative to the es
tablishment of the B.tlizo colony. The report concludes
with a resolution, stating, in substance, that no action
is required on the subject at present—that the Clayton
and Bulwer treaty contains nothing that can be consid
ered as affecting or recognizing the right of Groat
Britain to the English settlement at Honduras.
On Saturday 12th, a fire occurred in Savannalt on
Maket square, and destroyed the store occupied by
G. Bankmann, and J. Sieliel.
The Arctic Expedition under Dr. Kane is organizing
in New York rapidly, and will be ready to sail in May
next.
inr The Mississippi Democratic State Convention, to
nominate State officers and a member of Congress will
meet in Jackson on the Ist Monday in May next.
O” Twelve hundred men are now employed on the
Ohio and Mississippi Rail Road.
O* The Town Counoil of Milledgeville have invited
Mr. Fillmore to visit them, and tendered him the hos
pitalities of the city.
Liquor Laws. —The Legislature of Rhode Island
have passed the anti-liquor law. The people of Vermont
have adopted by a heavy majority a very stringent anti
liquor law.
New Cabinet —More Rumors.
Washington, Feb. 10, 1853 -It is generally con
ceded that the Herald is the nearest right in re
gard to the cabinet. I learn that the following are
thought to be in the programme :
Caleb Cushing of Mass Secretary of State
llobt. F. Stockton, ofN. J Sec’ry the Navy.
R. McClelland, of Mich Postmaster Gen.
I send you these names pro bono publico. I know
that Cabinet rumors from this city are considered
worthless.
Congressional.
/thruary 11.—In the Senate, yesterday, resolu
tions were adopted railing for information in refer
ence ton line of mail steamers to China, and to the
proceedings of the Mexican Boundary Commission.
Several private bills were passed; and debate
followed on the Texas debt.
The House of Representatives passed the bill to
establish the territorial government of Washington,
and the bill to organize the Territory of Nebraska.
The Messrs. Bargin have loaned to Spain fifty
seven million reals, on security of National pro
perty.
Result of Cheap Fares.— lt is stated that since
the reduction of fare to Albany on tl.e Harlem road
the receipts for through business have increased 50
per cent.
Bishop Uhittingham. —Baltimore, Feb. 10.
Bishop VVhittinghani, of Maryland, leaves this city
for N. York this morning, en route to Italy, on ac
count of Ids continued ill health.
Detroit, Feb. 10.-Tl,e Maine Liquor Law
passed the Legislature yesterday, and will be sub
nutted to the people for ratification or rejection at
the special election” next July.
Vice President King.
Col. King arrived at Havana on the till.. His health
was improving.
Further by the Niagara.— lJirseh k Cos., of Rot
erdam, have failed. Their liabilities are estimated
at one hiindredjind fifty thousand pounds sterling.
The number of communicants in the Florida Confer
ence of the Methodist E. Church, ns (shown by statistics
submitted -at the session of the Conference, is 5,567
whites, 3,534 colored—making in all. 9,i54. ’ Increase
the past year, 680. Number of local preachers, 83
Col. Charles A. May, of the U. S. Army, was married
in New York, on the Bth ins!, to Miss Josephine, daugh
ter of George Law, Esq., ,h e well known steamship
owner.
Senator*.—Mr. SnSokton has tendered in his resig
nation of Ills Seat ill the Senate to the New Jersey Lfo
islature. ‘ °
There have further balloting* for U. S. Senator in
the Maine Legislature: but no choieo bad been made
at latest dates.