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oj> ni -n>tiin Texas .VnncTatinn , London, May 19.1 5 14. Whatever character the treaty lately assigned for the annexation of Texas may stamp upon the Government oi the United States, it must be confessed that American diplomacy is not conducted bv clandestine arts, and that it aspires to car ry by sheer effrontery in the face of the world, measures such as the most grasp ino- and unscrupulousstatesmanof the old world would not have attempted without all the precautions of secrecy and ve hement disavowals of their real infen- ; lions. The motives and the actionsof; the Cabinet of Washington are equally ] public: and the wisdom of the former i> j vervfairly proportioned to the probity and i tnoder ition of the latter. It should, how-1 ever, be borne in mind, that this appeal to public opinion is not only a circum stance in the case, but the main object of the whole proceeding. Mr. Tyler and his profligate Cabinet care very little whether they succeed in the annexation of Texas hy‘the aid of public opinion, but they hope to bend public opinion to their interests by the project for the an nexation of Texas. Viewed in its true li-rv.t. this act of the Republican lliehe lieus is the subiinvst point of corruption. \\ e have had many monsters in our days —monster concerts, monster meetings, the monster mortar—and thisis the m >n ster bribe a bribe offered in one huge lump to 43,000,000 or 11 000,000 of peo ple-slavery and lauds for the south, Hade and a market for the north—ag grandizement for the whole Union.— (•Vote for President Tyler, and all this is yours; or, if you accept so mighty a erjft now, common gratitude and duty must hind vou to the support of the man who his conquered for you by a few strokes of the pen, not a state, but an em pire." Such is, no doubt, the reasoning nf the Cabinet of Washington; yet it will fail to pnrsuade the senate, or even the peep'e of the United States, to conlound the desperation of weakness with the eu or_rv of true power, or the violent expe dients of a faction with the Calm and firm resolution of a patriotic government. It miy be S lid that we are imjns* to the . ca: ina.-sof the American people, if we v-apuie to them the guilt of measures which they do not approve, and of a treaty they will not ratify. The Weight of political authority in the Union is al together opposed to annexation. Gener al Jackson and .Mr. Webster, Mr. Clay ami Mr. Van Burqn, have recorded their opinions against it; the legislaturcsof Ken tucky, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maine, have rejected resolutions in favo of it; and all parties admit that the senate will refuse to ratify this compact. Nev ertheless, in ipite of these circuin sauces, we rise from the perusal even of the ad verse opinions of the principal American statesman with a very low estimate ol their political integrity, Theannexation of Texas is the project of oue ofjhe can didates for the presidency—the other candidates oppose the measure, which, :f carried, must be fatal to their own pre tentions. In either party it is ths mean est personal motive which is uppermost, r.ot the true and lofty principle of politi cal duty and prudence. To thi* remark Mr.Clay is indeed less obnoxious than Mr. Van Buren; he objects to the enlarge ment of the territory of the Union; and he deprecates the effects cf such an en largement on the internal parties now existing in the States; but his main argu ment, and Mr. Van B iren puts forward no other, is the inexpediency of consum mating this act of spoliation at the present time, betore the independence c Texas ha 1 : been acknowledged by Mexi co, since the inevitable and immediate consequence of such an act must be war between Mexico and the United States. It is hardly possible to put so important a question on so low a ground; or to at tempt to conceal an act of rapine behind so wretched a subterfuge. The whole Texas insurrection is acknowledged in these very papers to be of Am 'ricari ori- <r|:i— the contest has been carried on by American citizens. It is what they call on the other side of the Atlantic a pri vate w tr, though in the rest of the world private war, though in the rest of the world private wars are more commonly designated as piratical expeditions. - This private war became a war of iudr peuJ.mce, and the new state was recog nized by certain foreign powers; but as far as Mexico is concerned, it is still n re bellion, and a rebellion she means, if she can, to suppress. The American states men whooppose the immediate annexa tion say—“ You are too hasty; this pri vate war is doing your business, if you let it alone; we have only to wait till Texas is independent of Mexico, and she is ours; but God forbid we should break inlooui neighbor’s house to steal his chat tels, when those very chattels are strug gling to throw themselves out of his possession into our hands.” By similar reasoning, not ill adapted to the circum stances of the parties, Mr. Washington Jhi nuy complain if Mr. Jefferson Smith t ikes the slave Pompey from his ■olant.ui >n; but if Pompey escapes, with a little kind assistance, u and having recov ered his freedom, constitutes himself the slave of Mr. Jefferson Smith, then Mr. Washington Jones has no redress. VVe on our side, are very willing to recognize Pompey as a free man, but we cannot so easily recognize the right of Pompey to Sransfer himself from one master to an oilier, or of the master to hold the slave sotransfered. The message oft he president requires no elucidation from us, and its length prevents us from examining the countless mis-statements of fact and perversions of reasoning which it con tains. The threadbare and abandoned pretext tiiat the Uuind States have a li_ “a reclaim Texas as a portion of the ten in v drd by France in 1893 is seri ously rev:- J. although tile treaty of Id 19 between too American and Spanish Governments utteriy extinguished that claim, by unking the river Sabine the 1 limit of the two States, instead of the Rio del Norte. The advantages of the ! Texan territory are described with the usual verbosity of American messages, as if the value of the thing taken were the be«t apology for taking it. '“The in terests of the Union” are the supreme i law of that great people; and as they de mand that there should be no contests i and no smuggling on (he frontiers of the J states, those frontiers will eventually be I stretched, we presume, from the pole to i Panama; in fact, they can admit of no j frontiers at all. At present they must be ' extended to include Texas, because (the : reason is singular) “the United States are already almost surrounded by the poss essions of European Powers, and Texas would complete the circle.” We were not aware that any European power ex cept England had any possessions con tiguous to the territory of the Union, and those ot England are exclusively on the northern frontier and the eastern coast; hut if it were so, every state which has laud frontiers at all must be surrounded by the possessions of other powers, and Mr. Tyler forgets that when he has car ried his frontier to the utmost confines of the Texan republic, he will stiil lie “sur rounded,'’ not, indeed, by European pow ers, but by the very States to which Texas herself belonged; and that all the evils of contact, for which he seems to j entertain so lively an abhorrence, will j prevail with uudiminished, or rather with increased force, for Texas is likely to be : a better neighbor to the Union than j Mexico, from the greater similarity of; her institutions. Mr. Tyler’s message, l however, is not only a communication to the legislature of sh ? United States; it is ; also a manifesto to foreign powers; and, j as such, it contains an allusion to this i country which calls for the strongest an- j imadversiott. VVe presume that Great ) Britain has as much right to proffer her j counsels in opposition to slavery, as the I United States have to uphold that institu-: ti iu. Both countries are in the position | of third parties, not of principle, to the j matter in dispute between Mexico and j Texas; although tiiere is this difference between them—that in recommending the abolition of slavery in Texas Great Britain advocates no more than a recur rence to that state of freedom which pre vailed throughout the Mexican provinces before the Texan declaration of indepen dence, whilst, in his eagerness to uphold \ slavery, Mr. Tyler contemplates nothing short of a direct and enormous aggran disement of the United States. On this I point British policy has been at once so cautious and so op, n, that Mr. Tyler’s me-.age conveys a most unwarrantable) aspersion on her majesty’s government. * Lord Aberdeen’s despatch to Mr. Pack- j enham, of 26th December, 1843, states' in the most precise and explicit terms ; that Great Britain aspires to no dominant influence in Texas; that she presumes | not to use any undue authority over for-; eign states in her opposition to slavery, 1 and that, with referenc e to the slave-! holding states of the Union, she has ever * treated them with the same respect and ; forbearance as the other members of the j federal community. The answer—the | publfo official answer—of the President . to this most temperate assurance is an as-) sumption that the designs of England j are such as to justify him in his work of j plunder, and the extraordinary injustice i of this measure is, if possible, surpassed ( by the matchless impudence of the argu ; men’s used in defence of it.— Times • j | The arrival of the Acadia steamer has ; i put the public in possession of the intel j iigenre, so little doubted by any oue who has known the grasping conduct of the American Republic in ail its transactions the signing of a treaty for the annexation of Texas by the Government of the Uni ted States. It is, however, said that this is merely nn experiment, that the mea sure has still to make its way through the senate, and that there is every proba bility of its not being able to make its way through. This we altogether doubt. The virtue of the senate is on a par with the virtue of the populace, and, eve ) if some partial opposition for form’s sake should be laised, the treaty will be ulti nately ratified. The obvious fact is, fh.it in a republic there can be no public jii'tice, the populace are its virtual gov ernor-, the will ot'the streets sets the will of the legislature at defiance; and wethu® have paupers deciding on property, and bankrupts on justice, clamor putting down conscience, ignorance settling af fairs which demand knowledge, and rab ble prejudfo's acting with a sense of full impunity, and rabble passions threaten ing every man who has the honesty to stand up for the common principles of just ice berween nations. Theannexation of Texas will undoubtedly be scorned by all honest men, as one of the most flag rant offences ever committed by a nation i professing a respect for human rights, ! and reprobated hyall rational men as one ! of the most barefaced violations of all the | principles of reasoning. It would beon- I iy trifling with the common understand i ingot man to expose the ridiculous ar- I guments to which these argners are dri ve It is enough forthe world to know > that the republic which laid down as its fir.u principles that “all men are by nature equal” comes forward now as the formal advocate of slavery, and the only one ex cept the King of Ashantce. Slavery is for the first tune defined to be “a politi cal institution,” not a suffering and a misery; a sale of beings “ns immortal as ourselves, and the abandonment of men, be their color what it may, to the wretch edness, the vice, the cruelty, and the de spair which must lie included in all the general corruptions of transatlantic slav ery. It is enough to excite universal disgust so know that in America human being- ire actually born and reared for I exportai. .n T 'ike pigs—that creatures, capable of local attachment and natural l affections, are habitually dragged from ) the place of their birth and all their car ily associations, and sent into distant 1 countries for sale—thus incurring, from the mere avarice of their fellow-men,and the mere circumstance of being born, that separation from country and friends which marks the punishment of lelons i in Europe; or that children are actually torn from their parents, never to see or be seen by them again in this world; and all this only to put money in the pocket * of a ruffian with his mouth stuffed full with the verbiage of lilierty and philan -1 thropy. But one of the arguments of Calhoun, the Secretary of state, is, actu- I ally, that slavery is good to the negro, end that lie becomes “blind, deaf, dumb or idiotic” when tree. What the wretch : cd African may be among a slavehoiding j ' population, ora rubble of canting demo- | i crats, is nothing to the purpose. Let ihe j ! question be asked, what he is in his 1 f country ? Is he a sufferer by the loss of eyes, tongue, orunderstandingin his own j country / We have heard no more ex- j traordinary libel on freedom in the lips of an inquisitor or a gaoler. At all events ! this is the first time in which we have ever heard the continuance of slavery j justified as a “political institution, ’ ne cessary to the state, or an act ol palpable ; insult to the law of nations, justified by 1 a state convenience and an imaginary - contingency. In the great dramatist’s phrase : “ThU will nor, it cannot, come to good.” It is sufficiently striking to seethenameot Upshur so busy in those negotiations, and to remember the sweeping havoc of the American Cabinet by the bursting of the gun on board the steamer while they were in the mid-t of thi business. The catastrophe was fngiitfni and unexam pled but it was not the less expressive. As an illustration of the work of that in fernal avarice which belongs to all trade in man we give a paragraph from the Portsmouth paper:— “The Rapid iias been on the coast two years, during which time she has captur ed seven slave vessels, containing 1,288 slaves. The letter before mentioned, speaking of one of the slave vessels cap tured, states that her deck was only four feet from deck to beam, where the slaves were literally stowed in bulk, men, wo men, an J children ail huddled together; that hie effluvia ascending up the hatch way was not approachable from the ex treme tilth, heat, moisture, and stench from the slave deck, where several poor creatures were found dead, trodden un der feet by the living; that no imagina tion can paint the sufferings that these poor miserable Africans undergo; and that in general all the vessels captured partook more or less ol the deplorable condition of this one that he particulari sed. that immorality, disease, and death were prevalent in all of them. Tire Rapid was preparing for another cruise, and we understand is such a good sailer that no vessel escapes her.”— Britannia. From the A’. Y Journal of Commerce. ’.'teat Are at Unison —Twenty or Thirty build nr.s destroyed. About five o'clock last evening, [as we learn from passengers arrived this morn ing,] a frame building adjoining the wool warehouse Seneca Cults, i ludson, took fire from the sparks of the steamer Fair field, “as she was firing up,” lor N. York. The flames spread then with fearful ra pidity in a southeasterly direction to Front street, and south to the Hudson and Berkshire R. Road depot, consuming every thing in its way, except the brick | store at the corner of Front and Ferry streets, and the machine shop of Mr. Clark. Among the buildings destroyed was the large store of Seneca Butts filled with wool, estimated at various sums from 10 to $20,000— the freighting ware house of Hnrmancs & Co.—the exten sive Oil and Candle establishment of Barnard, Curtis 6c Co.—tiie lumber Yards of C. McArthur Sc Son, atid G. Powers 6c Hubbeil—Coffins & Co’s Grocery store The schooner Victory, which had just arrived from aibany, loaded with flour and grain got aground by the wharf and was destroyed. The Fairfie’d was despat died to Catskill for engines and help. Loss estimated from 2 to $300,000. A letter from Hudson, by Livingston 6c Co’s Express, dated 7 o’clock, I*. M. states that the fire was nearly subdued, and it was hoped would not extend fur ther. The pier used by the tow boat company was consumed together with the coal stored on it for the use of their steamboats. . Gov. Dorr at !m Sow Qaarier* Thomas W ilson Dorr, the hero of Che packet, arrived at Providence !a>t even ing, in the steamer lolis from Newport, | accompanied by the sheriff of Newport county, and officer Gould of Providence. Also hy his triend and counsel, Writer I S. Burgess, Flsq. His arrival at that hour was wholly uuexpecb and hy the peo j pie jf Providence, and consequently but few persons were at the wharf when he | landed. A carriage was drawn up near thedock in which Mr. D. took his seut, accompan ied by the above named individuals S While the carriage waited on the wharf, in order that a way might be made for its passage, some few of the prisoner’s triends shook hands with him. On arriving at the prison, says the Pro vidence Gazette, he walked up the steps with as cool, calm and collected a gait, as that with which he used to mount the steps of Whipple’s Buildings, on his en -1 trance to his office. He found his father and mother await ing his arrival at the prison, both of whom were greatly affected on taking leave of their son, perhaps forever. No | one was permitted to see him but them. At 9 o'clock precisely, he was com ) mil ted tohis cell in the prison, and of course subjected to all the degrading discipline of that place. j From the Providence Gazette, Friday Evening. Excitement last evening in I market square.—The arrival of Mr. Dorr m town, and his incarceration in | the State prison,produced a strong feeling among his friends throughout the city.— Before dark the news had penetrated ev ery nock and corner, and it was not long before a crowd began to collect near the bridge in market square. Though there was a strong feeling be:rayed, it hardly evinced itself above an animated conver sation. There was no attempt at all to create a confusion. The large crowd and the angry ex pressions which now and then fell from the different knots of men assembled, in duced an early appearance of the watch, while the Mayor himself was promptly on the ground. The gathering appeared to have been j prompted hy a desire to get the news, j touching the imprisonment of Mr. Dorr, 1 and the chances of his liberation Some have said that a speech was attempted by one of the crowd, mid a speech urging the recue of the prisoner, but we heard nothing of the kind. Wearetoidthat theauthoritiesanticipa ted some disturbance; in consequence of which, the armories were occupied dur ing the night by the different military companies. It might have been thought that an attempt would have been made to seize upon the arms of the companies relative to a future entente ; but we do not think that any one anticipated any thing more. It is said that the prison was guarded which we think quite like ly ; it being natural that such a precau tionary measure should have been taken by the authorities. Upon the whole it cannot bedenidthat there is great excitement among the friends of Mr. Dorr, which it is to be hoped will pass off without any violent demonstration. All along up to his ar rival in the city, it was believed hy bis friends, be would be pardoned by the General Assembly. But few of his friends thought that the sentetica would he enforced; why, however, we do not pretend to say. One thing is settled, if reports from Newport are to be relied on, Mr. Dorr will not be liberated hy the present Gen eral Assembly, until he himself petitions for a pardon; at the same time promising his allegiance to the present Constitution of tiie state. This he declares, we learn, he never will do; and hence, we see noth ing to prevent his continuing in the state prison at all events until his friends carry the elections. From ike Boston Post 29 1 k ult. Sir. Polk's acceptance ol the nomination. We present below, fromthe manuscript copies in our possession, the correspon dence between the committee of the de mocratic national convention, and its nominee for the presidency—the Hon. James K. Polk. His reply is short and appropriate. It will he seen that, if chos j en, he is determined not to be a candi ! date for a second term. This, it we | mistake not the popular feeling, will be I received as a decisive proof of the unam j bitious honesty, the purity arid the pa triotism of the democratic candidate, and will increase his wide and spreading popularity with the masses of the people. BALTIMORE, May 29, ’44 Sir—At a democratic national conven tion of delegates from the several states of this Union, convened on the 27th inst., and now sitting in the city of Baltimore, for the purpose of nominating candidates to be supported for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States at the ensuing election, the Hon. James K. Polk of Tennessee, having been designa ted, by the whole number of votes given, to he the candidate of the democratic par ! ty for President of the United States was I declared to bo unanimously nominated for that office. The undersigned were appointed by the convention, a committee to request your acceptance of the nomination thus unanimously tendered to you; and they cannot forbear to express the high grati fication on which they experience in the performance of this duty, and the hope which they confidently enteriai : i:i com mon with their coleagues of the conven tion, that the devotion to because of de mocratic principles which lias always characterized your conduct, will not su: fer you to turn a deaf ear to the call of our country, when, in a manner so hon orable to yourself, she demands your dis tinguished services. With the utmost respect and esteem, We have the honor to be, your ob’t. servants. HENRY HUBBARD, WILLIAM H. ROANE, BENJ. 11. BREWSTER, ROMULUS M. SAUNDERS, ROBERT KANTOUL, Jr., Committee of the democratic nation al convention at Baltimore. Hon J. K. Polk, Columbia Tennessee. COLUBIA, Tenn. June 12, ’44 Gentlemen—l have had the honor to receive your lettler of tiie 29th ultimo, informing me that the democratic nation al convention, then assembled at Balti more, had designated me to be the can didate of the democratic party for Pre sident of the United States, and that I had been unanimously nominated for that office. It has been well observed that the of fice of President of the U. S. should nei ther be sought nor declined. I have uev er sought it, nor shall I feel at liberty to decline it, if conferred upon me by the voluntary suffrages of my lellow-citizens. In accepting the nomination, I am deep ly impressed with the distinguished hon or which has been conferred on me by any republican friends, and am duly sen sible of the great and mighty responsibil ities which must ever devolve on any citizens who may be called to fill the high station of President of the U. States. I deem the present to be a proper oc casion to declare, that if the nomination made by the convention shall be confir med by the people and result in my elec | tion. I shall enter upon the discharge of the high and solemn duties of the office withthesettied purposeofnot beinga can didate for re-election. Iti the event of my election, it shall lie my constant aim, by a strict adherence to the old republi can landmarks, to maintain and preserve the public prosperity, and at the end of four years I am resolved to retire to pri vate life. In assuming this position 1 feel that, I only impose on myself a sal utary restraint, but that 1 take the most effective means in my power of enabling the democratic party to make a free se lection of a successor who may be best calculated to give effect to their will, and guard all the interests of our beloved country. With great respect I have the honor to he, your ob’t. servant, JAMES K. POLK. To Messrs. Henry Hubbard, William If. Roane, Benjamin H. Brewster, Romulus M. Saunders, Robert Rantotil, Jr. com mittee of the democratic national conven tion at Baltimore. r- XMMiflMvaaHMi>»•> ia. j. wnxk;»awu uwu j A932381 ® -a . M, JOaSSTOM, EDITOR. u Wot the glory of Caisar, but the ivclfare of Jlaine.” MACON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10. 1H44. FOR PRESIDENT, JAMES K. FOLK, Os Tennessee. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, GEORGE M. DALLAS. Of Pennsylvania. DO 3 'ihe office of the “American Democrat” has been removed 'o the Second Story of the Building on Mul berry Street, formerly occupied by the Branch of the Bank of Darien. It is now easy of access, and well supplied with Job-Type of every description. — Bills, pamphlets, and oil kinds of Job work will be done at the lowest ]>rices on SHORT NOTICE. A portion of the patronage of our friends and the public is respectfully solicited. THS “ DEMOCRAT'' FOR THE CAMPAIGN. The “ Democrat” will be sent to sub scribers from 1 st of June until the mid dle of November next, for one doll an in advance. Postmasters are authorized to receive and forward subscriptions. T. S. Reynolds. The I mirth of July. The sixty-eighth anniversary of Amer ican Independence was celebrated in this city as usual with the customary salutes in honor of the day. We regret, howev er, that there was no general celebration by the citizens as in most other places— The Floyd Rifles, Capt Ross ; and the Bibb Cavalry, Capt. Rylandcr; turn ed out with full ranks at half past nine o’clock, and formed a procession in front of the Floyd House, where they were joined by a number of citizens and ac companied by their band, marched to the Catholic Church, where after prayer by the Rev. Mr. Cofly, the declaration of in dependence was read by private George W. Jones of the Floyd Rifles,and att ap propriate and beautiful oration delivered by Docs. James Wood, on honorary member of the same corps. After tiie oration at the church the Fioyd Rifles and Bibb Cavalry returned to the Fioyd House and partook of a handsome collu tion given by the former corps. The lit jle9 then fired the usual salute and were u oni-sed. i'iie Macon Volunteers C apt. Holmes paraded at 5 o’clock in the morning, and after firing a'sa'ute were dismissed until five in the evening. At 5 o’clock P. M. they paraded again and marched to Camp Oglethorpe, where a chaste and patriot ic address was delivered by James S. Smith, Esq. in presence of the corps and a numerous assemblage of ladies and gen tlemen, which was listened to with much pleasure. The volunteers and their guests then partook ol a fine Pic Nic and passed the balance of the evening pleasantly in social intercourse and in wit nessing the fire works prepared for the occasion. Trias Meet:ns at the lu<li»n Springs. j We trust our friends in middle and western Georgia are preparing to be well represented at the Texas mass meeting to be held at the Indian Springs on the 25th day of the present month. Let the people go up by hundreds from every country. Let them go up with a bold front determined on victory, and let it be proclaimed there in a voice that will be re-echoed throughout the State that they asSoutherners and as Georgians will not submit in silence to the course pursued in relation to Texas by the bitter foes oi the South, “ To fight la ajust cause anil for our country’s good Is the best office cf the best of men: And to decline when these motives urg'd, Is infamy beneath a coward's baseness.” Our cause is a just one; it is the cause of the South, it is the cause of the coun try Let the friends of Texas—let the friends ct the South and cf » K '- | nn ‘ on rally then with energy and enthu siasm to the common rescue. Bibb must be there, Monroe must be there. Houston must be there, Twiggs must I.e there, P u . taski must be there, Crawford must be there, Pike must be there, Upson must l>e there, Talbot must be there, Harrij and Muscogee with all the Southern tier of country on the chattahooche must be there; all middle Georgia must he there. Gen. M. B. Lamar Ex-President of Texas arrived in this ci ty a few days ago on a visit to his kins men and friends in this section of the State. He was at the residence of Col. Chappell when the friends of that gentle man called on F’riday evening. And at the conclusion of Col. C’s speech Gen Lamar was loudly and enthusiastically called for; to which he responded in a speech of thrilling eloquence and beautv. In the course of his remarks he stated bis belief that if the next Congress did not sanction a treaty for annexation, that Texas would justly despair ot overseeing it done—that from their situation and the oppressive taxes which their struggle for their independence had entailed upon them, they would be compelled to seek repose and quiet on some terms: and if repulsed hy the Unitt and States, might turn to some other quarter. But we dare not attempt even an outline of this able speech. Let it suffice that we state ihat Gen. L.’s remarks were received with great applause by a large and highly re spectable concourse ot citizens present. Mr Ft Ik's Atceptance. We publish in to-day’s paper the cor respondence between thecommitteoof the Democratic National Convention and its nominee for the Presidency, the Hon. JAMES K. POLK of Tennessee. His reply is short and appropriate. It will be seen from this correspondence that if elected, he is determined not to be a can didate for a second term. Gen. Lamar has been requested by a large portion of his old acquaintances and fellow-citizens of this county to ad dress them on the subject of Texas on next Saturday evening at 4 o’clock. \\ e hope he will comply with the request. Col. H. Chappell lias consented to deliver an address at the Court house on to-morrow evening at 4 o'clock. We are aware that some of the whigs of this county are held in such strict allegiance to the orders of their leaders as to pre vent their attendance : to such, however, as are independent enough to think for themselves, we say come and hear Col. Chappell to-morrow. The whig convention which met in Forsyth on the 11th inst. nominated Washington Poe, Esq. ns their candidate for the third Congressional district. Tin 1 Tcxa-A Question in Ei stand. We copy to-day from the New York Herald an extract from a leading English journal in relation to the annexation of Texas. The opponents of annexation have repeated over and over again that England had no designs on Texas and iio disposition to interfere with the insti tution of slavery in that republic or in the slave holding states of this Union.— If England is not hostile to these infer e.-ts what are her motives for r sailing e A merican Government and whit such a degree of bitterness / It w:. be seen trom the letter published tin*, more than frenzied malignity which seems to animate the i ’ngli !i pubir o:: the subject; and it .springs, doubtless, not withstanding the repeated disavowals of herself, as well as her apologists in this country, from some secret and abiding motives of opposition. Gen. McDuffie, the able and eloquent anti-tariff Senator from South Carolina, addressed a large meeting at Richmond, Va. a few days ago. A short account of Ins speech on that occasion, from the Richmond Enquirer will be found in an other column. He was likewise expect ed to address his friends at Petersburg. Missouri. The Texas question is carrying every thing before it in that State, notwithstan ding Mr. Benton’s opposition to the trea ty. It is so strong that Col. Benton will probably loose his seat in the United State’s Senate in consequence of the course he has thought proper to take up on that question. If he does, lie will be powerless for good or evil—position is every thing to Mr. Benton, and if the Senatorial robe is taken from him, ‘ Othel lo’s occupation is gone/ SCrThe fare by the Wilmington route from Charleston to Baltimore has been reduced as follows : from Charleston 4o Weldon N. C. sl3 ; thence to Baltimore via Portsmouth and bay Boats (meals in eluded' **'' via Petersburg (meals in-