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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.