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THE ROME COURIER Id PUBLISHED EVEUY TIIUIISDAY MORNING BY A. Id. EDOLEJI tn. >#4 on ' 3 30 8 SO TERMS. . , TwoDm.Uns per nnnmn, II ’paid t« advance! Two Dollars ami Fifty Cents If pnld within six months | or Tlireo Dollars nt tho omi of the year. Htilua ol AdvurllllVIt* Lroal Advk*tiskmkhts will ho Inserted with strict attention to the requirements of tuo law, nt tho following rotes i Four Months Notloe, • Notice to Debtors and Creditors, Solo ol Personal Property, by Execu tors, Administrators, iso. Polos or Land or Negroes, 00 days, per square, J.ousr,,*!' citation,^ t.f ^ ^ • oharri'i’I G|Mt bo requTr'Jdln miv)’,wv° ItlKuiurts ml musing their wlvos, will bo olmigcd ft,', 01), winch most always ho paid In advance. All other mWectisomontswIUbe Inserted at One Dollar per square, of twelyo lines or loss, for the ftrst, and Fifty Cents, for cnoh subsequent inter tl0 Llboral daduotions will bn made in favor ofthoso who ndvertise by the year. 5 U0 2 73 4 00 Educuliuiiul Couv.nU Thursday, July 10, 181 The Convention met'pursuant to adjourn ment. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Jewett.. Mr. Tidwell presented a paper sotting forth a system of Common Sch >ols, which on motion was referred to the Committee of twenty-twa. Mr, Hill, of Troup, rend to the Conven tion, a paper embodying suggestions on the subject of Common School*, which on mo tion w-ns referred to the Committee of twen ty-two. On motion, the Convention took a recess until the Commilteo of twenty-two should be ready to submit their report. The Convention assembled, w lien through 3. Suitable school-houses ahull be provid ed and located by the selectmen, and furnish ed with such aparatus and fixtures bs in the pinion of the selectmen, the circumstances . tirVch school (liquid may demand. 4. 'ra* funds which each county respect ively shall ,aj S e by taxation, (hall be collect' cd by the county collectors and paid into thv county treasury subjeevtp tho draft of the solcctmen who shall inakvnn annual report to the Superintendent of th\ amount of funds raised in the county, modeM disbursment, Sic. Sic. \ 5. The sum of $———shalKe set apart by tho legislature ot tho State, winch in con nection with the poor school fund Mpill con stitute a common school fund, the interest only of which shall be used for tho purposes BUSlwBSS CARPS. B, W. ROSS, DENTIST- flome, Georgia... ..Office over N. J. Qmberg’s Clothing Store. January 16,1851. franois u. Alien. WHOLESALE ANp BETA!!. Dealer in Staple and Fancy DRY GOODS AND G ROOD HIES. fig! Receives now goods nvery wook, >4)0. Rome, Ga..January 2. 1851. LIN & BRANTLY. WARE HOUSE, COMMISSION ft PRODUCE MERCHANTS, Atlanta, Ga, (jt^-Liboral advances made on nny nrticle in Store. Nov. at), 1850. ly A. ». KING * CO, LOTTO VGlN MANUFACTURERS Rome, Georgia, MayO.lSSO, AI.EXANBBR Ac TBISinELL. ATTORNEYS AT law, ROHE. GA. . Nov. 38. 1850. DOHA. IMSDMAS. H CBAXLK1 ». nAUILTOIt. ItASllLTON & IIAKDKMA.V. Factors .& Comittissbii Mii’clmts, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA 1 12m Tl|084« hasdiii.n Oct. 3, 1850, CIUM.lt F UAX1LTON. M ... ItABDBVIAN Ac IIAMII.TO.V, Warehouse & Commission Merchants, MACON, OEOHOU. Oct 3, 1850. 1 12m. PATTON A PATTON, attorneys at law, - Rome, Geotgia. WILL Practice In all the Counties of tho Clwro kee Circuit 48 8opt. 5, 1850. A. K. VA'fTO.Y. J.F. rATTON. W.T. IVILKINS. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rome, Georgia. Ksria to Hoi), b P. POUTER, CHARLESTON, 8. U., Or b.« • , AT CAVK SPHISO, OO. '• Hon w. it. urnixRwooD, home, as. Hon. WILLIAM KZZARD, LACATOB, OA. »\ r July 19,1850 41 ty O. \V. HEAL I-, DRAPER AND TAILOR, Broad Street Rome, Ga. October 10, 1850. A. ». DICKEItSON, DRUGGIST—ROME. GEORGIA. WJIOLKVK.K AND BETAIL SKAI.KE IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, DYE STUFFS, PERFUMERY, Me. Ootober 10, 1850 Broad Street. COULTER ft COLLIE. attorn eys at law, Rome, Georgia. Feb. n, 1851. HOLLAND HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA- T HIS Lur„c and Now brick Hotel, item ihe Rail Rood Depot, la now opened. It will be kept in such Stylo that vl.itocs will not fbrgot to stop ag in. Passcngi’re oil the cats will have mom than ample time to paitake of ihu good nteols always in readi ness at tho arrival of each train. Persons yisiting the City, and stopping ut the Holland House, cup get in- .fjrnvitio'i and atslstauco in business; nnd puss ofT Htcir leisure hours in nmuseinents connected with the House • T e Post Office, Bank Agency, Br keis mid other important offices will be in he Holland House. LV 1 'Reference—A ny one who has or may step one time. ■ - A. R. KEI.LAM, Proprietor. \ «r.H. U. UNDERWOOD ft 1. W. II. UNDERWOOD. U. . WILLPRAC'IICELAW r JN nil tho Counties of the Cherokee Circuit, {ox 1- cept Dade). They will both personally attend nil k the Courts. J. W.H. UNDERWOOD will attend Courts ot Jackson and Habersham counties of the esiem Circuit. Both will attend tho sessions of the "PREMK COURT m Cauvillo and Gainesville.— business ■ntrueted to them will he promptly mid hfnlly attended to. “"F1CE next door to Hooper Jt Mltcbell. , 'Beenn House,’’ Rome, Or., at which place one or both liwnys bo found, exrept absent on professional 3. 1851 COTTON GINS AT ROME, GA. DITHSTANDING bur Shop has lets d _»d twice within tho Ian two yean, once by _ bad unco by fire, wc are again manufacturing Opener Cotton liins,nnd Imve pr. pared ourselve any uiuount of orders with wAlch we may be ■*4. We arc nut making Premium Gins,or Wa- i that b listing, any ,hnt we ure willing to l = ,do by sld.i with any made in the Uni- W>uino price, and compare qual tynud E day day with them. LJa D.KINGAr CD. Relieving it important to the best interest of theSta’e, that every citizen should re ceive a Common School education, this Cons vention, composed of Delt gates from a large majority of the counties in Georgia, after mature deliberation, adopts the following Preamide and Resolutions, to be submitted to the Legislature { Thg Convention is folly convinced that the citizens of the State desire the establish ment of a system of Common Schools, which will nfTord the opportunity to all the children of the State, to acquire such an education as will fit them to heroine useful members of society. The convention is also convinced that a largo and increasing number of cltildi on are growing up destitute of this education, nod that such is the particular character of our population, that unless provisions is made by the Legislature, this desirable object will never be secured. The Convention considers it as much the right of the ponr to he educated, as of the rich to tie protected in the possession of hi* property; and if Ihn poor man be under obli gations at thg call of his country to risk his life and to pour out his blood in defence of those institutions, which secure to the rich man his dearest rights and most valuable possessions—the rich man is under obliga tions to contribute of his wealth, to give the children of his defender an education, which will eneable them to read the character of their liberties; an education which will enn bio them, <o read the character of their sa| vatioq=rqn education which will enable them, by industiy to rise in society, and to take that social position which our Republi can Instituting? guarantee to all- The Convention, moreover, is ftilly con vinced that it is the highest interest of the State to secure to every citizen a Common School education, that the safety and stabil ity of the common wealth depend upon the general enlightehment of its inhabitants, end that the amount paid by the State tor the purposes of education in all its departments, will he more than refunded in the saving of expense in the administration of justice, ond in the increase of wealth and revenue, which will accrue from it, - The Convention is aware of the great dif ficulties in thu way of the full accomplish ment of n plan of universal Common School education in Georgia. It is conceded that some of our fellow citizens ore so situated, that the advantages of educstion cannot be ex tended to them, without effort and without some additional expenditure. But the Con vention maintain, |m>t it is the important ob ject of Goygrnment to securp to the citizens the advantages, which he cannot obtain, ivithopt the aid ot Government, ond that the Slate is under as much obligation, to call up on the citizens of Ihe more favotod portions of her territory, to ser.d the light ot know l edge, to the children in the mountain coves, or scntteied over pine barrens, as she is to call her hardy mountaineers, or her patriotic sons of the seaboard, to leave children and homes, in tho defence of Iter frontiers.— Aid the Convention is convinced that the difficulties, which have been supposed to ex ist, in adapting a universal system ol Com mon Schools, to the Stale are fearless for midable than is supposed by many. The Convention cannot doubt that the Sta’e may be laid off into districts so at rang ed, that a School can he maintained during a portion of the year in each, it is fully per suaded that a system can be adopted, which will apply to the less favored, ns wpll ga In the more formed portions of the Sffltp, and that thp expense attending its adoption will not lie so formidable as many no|y appre hend. The Ccmvenlinn believes that by the es- tahlhhment of a department of education nnd the apparlmom and suitable Supremity to pre.-ide over litis department, a system of Common .School instruction may be devised and so carried into effect, that w ithin u rea sonable time, e'veiy child in the Siqtp may he taught to read and write The Conversion therefore, earnestly re commend to tho Leg : s!alure, the establish ment of a Bureau of education and the ap pointment of some distinguished individual, who is acquainted with Ihe subject of educa tion, and who will devote his whole time, to carry into effect the system of Common School education, to he adopted by the Leg islature, upon the following plan : One school at legs’, shall tie organized and tnught in each county hi Georgia, at such place or places as the selectmen ,n.ay de,em best, in which srhool or schools the children of all the citizens of Ihe county between the ages of 6 mid 16 shall be taught free of charge nt 1 list four months in a year. 2 Said school or schools, shall tie under tlie direction of three selectmen chosen bien nially by the qunllified voters of the county and'the selectmen shall be authorized and required to lay oil tho county into as many school din nets and of sgch .dimensions as they pauy think lt\e yvants of Unpeople de mand, and the selectmen shall furnish in struction botli to the districts where it is not, upon the itinerating plan or any other that they may think proper, and shall also make a report annually to tjte superintendent of schools who shall be Appointed for the T« the Point- Senator King, in his late letter to A. B, Chlh- erall, Esq,, the editor of the West Alabami an, says u good many things which are not likely to be very palatable either to the downright secessionists, or to those oracular gentlemen who hardly know where they stud upon this much debated question.. Upon the “right ot secession,’’ Col. King says : “I am not, however, prepared to admit that the State possess either the constitu tional or the reserved right 1 to secede from tho Union. 1 consider it to be a paramount right, inherent in every people, to free them selves troin oppression, when the action of the government violates their fssetitial rights, and becomes too grievous to bg borne; snd ‘ our federative sys- * ettecliv© mo«\o to 1 claimed ail sympathy with him,” is conclu sive proof of his disaffection to. tho Union, and his desire for a “Southern Confederacy.” Let the people remember this. Hg is claim ed by Rhett—hg has not denied thg claim— and his failure to do so shows it is well founded.—Sag. Rep,. California and the Compromise.—A- mong the resolutions passed by tho Whig State Convention of California, recently held at San Francisco, is the following : "Resolved, That tho recent compromise measures adopted by Congrets receive our cordial approbation, nnd in defence of the Constitution and the Union we will ever ho found faithful and true.” ratable, provided, however, no school shali receive any portion of the funds unless the requisitions of ihe law he complied with, nnd should the amount distributed by the State, be found insufficient fur the specified purposes, then the selectmen shall levy and collect n tax in each county respectively in the manner before specified. 6. The duties of the Supeiintendant shall be prescribed by the Legislature, and his salat ry fixed by the same body. Resolved, That a Committee of three he ippoinled by the Convention, whose duty it snail be, to prepare an argument illustrative ol, qnd in support of the recommendation ol this Convention, which argument tthall be n port of the action of this body nnd shall ac company the same. Resolved, That we recommend to the Con- ren ion to appoint a Committee of three to present the action of the Convention before the next session of the Legislature, and that the Secretaries of this Convention forward to his Excellency the Governor the proceedings of the Convention with the request that he present the same to the Legislature at its next session. Mr. Vason, ottered the fol lowing resolution : Resolved, That this Convention recom mend to the Legislature, to make a liberal ap propriation for the purpose of educating teachers for Common Schools, said fund to bo placed under the direction of the Educa tional board—which was adopted. Mr Scott, offered thg following resolution, which was adopted i Resold d, That this Convention acknowl edge with pleasure and gratitude, the promptness aud zeal, with whioh the press of the State has united in the cause in which we are engaged, and that we earnestly and respectfully solicit a continuance of this ve ry important co-operation, * On motion of Mr. Montgomery, the Con vention adopted the following resolution .* Resolved, That this Convention recom mend the iormation of Educational Associa tions in each county of the State, for the purpose of discussing the subject of Common School Education. On motion of Mr. Bighnm, it was Resolved, That the members of this Con vention are hereby earnestly requested to use diligence in commending the system iidiiptcd by this Convention, to the fnvoru- ble consideration of their fgllutv-pitizpns; nnd that we a|sa request them to collect nil Lite information they can in relation to tho stute of education, and of the popular mind in re lation to it in their respective counties, and furnish the same to the Editors of Ihe Slate lor publication. 1 he President appointed Messrs. Reese, Church and Pierce a committee to prepare nn argument in favor of the recommendation of this Convention, thesnme to constitute a part of the notion of this body. On ination of Right Rev. S’ephen Elliott, Jr., the Convention nppninled as a commit- lee, ihe Hon. Eugenius A. Nisbet, Hon. Jo sepl Henry Lumpkin nnd Hon. Hiram War ner, to prepare a tiill in conformity with the action of this Convention, to be presented to the next Legislature On motion of Mr. Reese, it was Remitted, That the Secretaries of the Con vention furnish a correct and plain copy of the proceedings of the Convention for publi cation in the public gazettes of the Slntc. On motion of Mr Nightengale, (Bishop Elliott ip thp Chair) it wits Resolved, That the thanks of this Con vention lip, nnd they are hereby tendered to th.e President and Secretaries, for the man ner in which they have discharged their du ties. On motion, the thanks of the Convention « ere returned to Mr. Arnold for the use of Cherokee Hall.. On motion of Mr. Hill, the Convention after prayer by Mr. Scott, adjourned sine die. EUGENIUS A. N IN BET, Pres. Luther J. Glenn, Wm. H. Chambers, Secretaries. What a pungent rebuke to thoke puiilic pendence was - celebrated 1 in Washington ...L. a I. A L Pit if ii-Slk ■iituinnln.l nnllillalaeiM TIia Inn An Abolitionist in Georgia. Wp learn from the Augusta papers of Sun day, that one Natu*n PiRD Watjon, nn abolitionist of New Haven ,Counocticut, has been discovered in Warren county in this Slate. He was detecied in promulgating abolition sentiments, publicly nnd privately, mid in visiting negroes at night—in conso- quencti of which the people of the county assembled at the Court House mid appointed a commil.eo to escort him to the Georgia Kail-ltoad, to b,e shipped Northward. The treatment was altogether 199 mild. An abolitionist, in our midst, is w,qn<p than a pirate, and should bo treated as such. The following is a description of Watson : Description.—The said Nnthun Bird Wat- on, is oman of dark complexion, hazle eyes,, black hair, and w ears u heavy heard; mens- sures five feet eleven and three quarter inches, has a quick step and walks jrJth toes inclined inward and a little stoop.shouldered, new w-pars a check coat and White pants; says he is twenty-three years of age, but will pass for twenty-ffv.e or men who either dp no.t knpw their own minds, or cunningly endeavor to conceal their'Opinions from their constituents, is ad- misisteted In the following manly declara tion ' “Concealment of opinions, deliberately idrmed, never hn», and I trust never will constitute any part of my character, public or private. 1 shall never be deterred from giving utterance, from the apprehension that tbey may rot be in accordance with those which others entertain, or that, by making them known, 1 may affect injuriously my standing as a public man. This is well un- drrsiood by those who have known me longest and known me best. If I fall into error—to which every man is liable—when convinced af it, 1 promptly admit nnd re tract it; but much as 1 deairo to obtain the approbation of the people I have the honor to represent, I should feel that 1 was unwor thy of the position in which it has pleased them to place me, if, to gain it, 1 were to trim ray sails to every popular breeze nnd violate the obligations I owe to our common country. I condemn no man for honestly differing with me in opinion, but I have too much self-respect, and, trust, independence, to surrender my own to please any man, at set of men-”—1 us. Mon. Slump apeaklng. Ex-Gov. McDonald attended n Southern Rights mepting at Woodville on the 4th inst., ana being called out, made a uhprt speech, itt which hp said that |tp had ndontpd t|;e rule, not to makeetqmp speechps during the Can vass. He takes the ground that his opinions ate ready before the people, and ihut it is improper for him to canvass by public speak ing. 'j'ltjq may be,jn Lis estimation, a very de cent way 01 getting himself oot of n sernpo ; but he will be apt to find that it will not an swer his purpose, His views and opinions are left loo much to inference for hinr to adopt the mum policy. It is true that his views are expressed in favor of n Southern Cmgress ! und that he aaya the object ol that Congress is to provido for the IN DE PENDENCE of the South ; and also, that he believes in the right of secession and is oppose to the Cotppromisp ; jnit it is also Iraetliat he has gory studiously avoided telling the penplo in plain terms whether he is in favor of the formation of a Squlhprn Confed eracy—and if not, for what purpose he wish es Ihe meeting of a Southern Congress, and in what way lie expects it to provide for the independence of the South. He has not told us what uso I10 hag for Ihe right of se- cessiqn pppp which his parly has stuked ihe canvass. It is whispered about nnd generally believed, that he and his party are afraid '.o avow their sentiments in full upon these subjects, and have fixed upon the bare right ot secession for the issue in order, if successful, to claim his election os n decision in favor of secession and thereupon carry it not; and the people will expect to be fully informed how this is before they cast their votes. The pro-enl, is no time for buying n pig in a puke, nor making governors without n lull ana thorough acquaintance with his views. Those who brought him out are, many of them, open anduvoweddisunionisls, and they were so well pleased with his sen timents, as they understood them, that they are giving him their cordial support. There are newspapers too,in Genrgiu, which open ly, nnd withdut disguise, advocates disso lution of the Union ; and these, every one, advocate his election without nny complaint, of his opinions. If his “opinions and doc trines ure before the public,” they are be fore the public in n way to ensure thp sup port ofdisunionists in Georgia, ant) pause the secessionists of South Carolina to biigst that they have a McDonald ip Georgia, and:: a Quitman in Mississippi.' And whilp he Knows that his opinions and doctrines are understood in this light, if he is satisfied to leave it without contradiction on thn slump, ted by nil as emphatically the orator ot his time, nnd of whom I, can truly eay, “He it is who, coming after mq, is preferred before mo, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose,” you wilj. believe me guilty of no affectation when I say I feel a diffidence which is to me unusual. Still as your Grand Master, I hate a duty to perform, and 1 shrink foom no duly, un der any circumstance*, Aa Iw been the custom of our revered Order, 01* sqqh occa sions, I shall proceed, briefly, to address-yon. I am unahlo to conceive of a more- inter esting occasion than this, upon which w* ara hero assembled, on this anniversary of tho, bir.hdny of American Freedom. Hero we are—tho proud dome of our own Cnpitol towering above us—assembled to gether from tho North and the South, from miilttus Weal, to perform * duty Fourth at Jntv nt WnsliliiRlon The late Anntvers.rv of American Inda-V indfoaifoe".'’*’of ^ City with unwonted enthusiasm. Tho lay- ing ol the corner stone to ine extension of the capitol, colled together a Vast throng from every part of the Union. Wo give below, a part of the proceedings on the opcqslon.-- We hope, hereafter to treat our readers to 0 portion of Mr. Wobster’s masleily oration. Reaching tho square enst of tho fnnt of the Capitol, tho military formed in n double line, and the remainder of thoso composing tho procession marched by ti.em toward* Ihe Mile of the addition to theCapitol. film north- oast corner of tho south wingof that ediflee,) preceded hy tho Presidont of the United States, the Mayur of the city, and ex-Mayor Seaton, the Heads of tho Departments, Chiefs of Bureaus, Major Qenerql Scott nnd several*of ihe distuinguiahed officers now sitting on the military court martini, ex-Me- oretary Marcy, G W. P. Curtis, the Na tional Monument Committee, Officers of Ihe Nary, the members of the City Councils, Clergymen, nnd the Masonic Fraternity, and others, Arriving nt the site, tho gentlemen first re ferred to approached tho spot intended for, the corner stone. Tho foundation was d’tg to tho depth of about fourteen feet. The stone, we were informed, weighed between four ond five tons, and was procured several miles from the city, in the State of Virginia. Thp Architect of the building, Thomas U. Wnltpr, Esq., enused thp first stone to he lowered into its final resting place. The President of the Unitpd States then examin ed ii, and, alter settling it with ftfow strokes of a stonemason’s mallet, pronounced it laid. The Arichitect nnd the Grand Treasurer of the Grnnd Ludge of Afpsons (Robert Clarke, Esq ) depositgi) jp a cqvity rut in the heart of thp stone a glass vasp containing the arti cles enumerated below ; after which the Mn- sonic Fraternity I kewise made a deposit, and the Architect enused a heavy crowning stone to be lowered and securely placed over the cavity. The President adjusted this stone likewise and invited the Grnnd Maiitor of Masons oi the District of Columbia to see that it was well laid. Tito gran.d oigstpr thpn called upon the Grand Chaplain, Rev. C. A. Davis, to ask the blessing of God upon the work then about to bp performed by the fraternity, which was done. The Grand Muster examined the stone, ap plied the square, level and plumb, and pro nounced it properly formed, und of suituble material for the purposo for which it wus in tended, He then placed upon it the corn, wine, and oil, saying, ns he did so : M.ty tho all-bountiful Creator blrus tho people ol this nation, arpn; to them' nil the uecvssarle*, cou\v- n.enceis, and oomtort of llfu; oni<t In the creullon and completion of this edifice, preserve thu workmen from any accident and bellow upon ns all the corn ol nourshment, the wine uf refreshment, and the oil ol joy. fie '.hen said: With this gavel, which was used by the immortal Washington, nt the laying of the corner-stone of that Capitol, and clothed with the same apron that hit then wore, I now pronounce this corner-,tone of this exten sion of that Cnpitol well laid, true, anil trusty. Accompanying the last words with, three blows of the gavil. He then preseutff} to T. U. fValtgr, Esq , Ihe architect, the working tool, being the square, levpj, and p|umb, nccomnqpyipg Ihe presentation pritfi the following remarks : .Mr. Apcftiiect 1 J now with pleasure present to you thes woikliig tools of your own profession—the somite tho level, and the plumb. We, us spectilativi 'ill '■ masons, use them ... .ymbpllcully pllahctl architect! well know their use practically; von, as an aoco.in und may tho noble edifice, here to be erected under' your charge, arlre in its beautiful proportions to com pletion, in conformity with all your wi-hes: and urn) your life and heall|; fte Jorjg"continued ; and may you .-ee the work go oh mid the cop-ytd >e laid under err- outnainners as auspicious and na ’happy aa those un der which this corner stone bus now been laid. The corner stone wts lu’d at precisely 12 o’clock meridian ; and a signal being given, he cannot expect nny one but a di*nnionisl a national salute was jirc.df at the cfpitol, to be satisfied with him. Mum is the word; ™ r • and gaud policy for him loo.—Atlanta Rep. Bhett s Endorsemtnt- The Richmond Enquiter makes'ihe fol lowing remark in reference to the recent speech of Mr. Rhett, endorsing his frieuds McDonald and Quitman : “Mr. Rhett’* ‘cheering’ reference ot Quit- man nnd McDonald will excite a storm of indignation in Mississippi and Georgia—and unless those gentlemen shall promptly and empbalie.ifiy disclaim all sympathy, on their part, for the blind and reckless movements of Mr. Rhett and his brother disunionists of Soqth Carolina, 'th,eir defeat will be among the most overwhelming on record.” Has Gov. McDonald “promptly and em phatically disclaimed all sympathy tor Ihe blind aud reckless movements of Mr. Rhett Navy Yard, and Arsenal It may not be amiss to say that the build' ings to be erected arp to be each one hun dred and forty two foet eight inches iront, by two hundred and thirty-eight eight inches deep. 'They ar,e to be placed at the distance of forty-four from tho present Cnpitol on the north and south ends, nnd will bo united to it by connecting corridors. The Semite chamber will be seventy-eight feet hy ono hundred feet in the clear, and the hj»U of the House of Representatives one tiundred feel by one hundred and thirty feet; both these chambers will bo placed in the western ends of the new buildings, linians in this stale, and t<)0 man y 1 porters ot;e Tank “disunionists,” for him to do anv such thing. That is opt all. Rhett knew'his mant He itoew hi*1 aen^itiients, and would not The ceremonies on the platform were commenced by an Address from B. B. French, 'Esq., the Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge a District of Colombia, who preceded ,/fibster, at his own special request, and ns folio.ver a : My Masonic Brethren ; I rise to ad dress you on'this occasion, deeply oppressed with the circumstances which surround me. Standing as I do, in the presence of all 1 parity of this mighty nation. On the 18th day of September, 1793, was laid, hy George iVnshington, President of the United Stales nnd Grand Mnsfor of Masons, at least op that pectysion, tho cornfr sloho of the magnificent edifice before ys. It wns, doubtless, supposed that, whfiu completed, according to the plan completed, according to tho plan then odopt- ed, it would he of ample diamensions to ac commodate all thfi wants of tho people by whom it was to be oracled tor ages than lo come. Fifty-eight years have elapsed, and in that comparatively brief space in the ages of gov ernments; we are called upon to assemble here and lay t he corner stone of an addition al edifice, which shall hereafter lower up, resting firmly or. the strong foundation this day planted, adding beauty and magnitude to tlie People’s house, nnd illustrating to tbs world the firm foundation in the People's hearts ofthc principles of freedom and tho rapid growth of those principle* on this Wes tern Continent. Yes, my brethren, standing here, where, fifty eight yoars ago Washington stood, cloth- ed in tne same Masonic regalia that he then woro, using the identical gavel that he used, we have assisted in laying the foundation of anew Capitol of these United States this day, os Solomon of old laid the foundation of the temple of the living God I '.‘Now, there fore,” says the hantoriun Josephus, “the king laid the foundation of the temple very deep in the ground, and the material were tlrosef stones, and sucli as would resist the fore+e£ time;” and we, following this sublime exam ple, have laid here, deep in the ground, end of strong stones that we trust will resist the force of time, the foundations of e house wherein we hopp for lenthened years the re- jircseutnlives of a mighty people shall legis late for the glory, the happiness, end the good of thqt people I When the corner stpnp of the edifice be fore us was laid ; in 1793, the Government was justly considered nn experiment, and the prediction was again nnd ngain made, by those who,thank God, turned out to be fatso prophets, that it would fail ; “the wish was,” doudtless, “father to the thought;” but it did not .foil! The first census of the United States, in 1791, exhibited a population of less than tour millions of souls ; at the timo of laying that corner stone there were probu- lily, something over font millions ; and now, in less than sixty years,the number has in creased to upwards of twenty millions ! The predictions of failure, by the false prophets, have themselves utterly foiled, while thq prayer has been answered and the prophecy, fulfilled which Washington made on assum ing ihe duties of President, on’the 30th of April, 1789. He then oflered up liis “fer vent supplications to that ulmighty Being who rules over the Universe, who 'presidts in the councils of nations, and whoso provi dential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction would consecrate to the liberties nnd happiness of the people of tho United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essent’al purpose* ; ar.ti would enable every instrument employ ed iit its administration to execute with tucees* tile functions Allotted lo his charge. The year of the Almighty was opened to that prayer, it was recorded in leaven; and from Washington down to the present President of the United Stntoj, who to worthily, and with so much dignity and hon or, fills the proud station that Washington filled; it jujs lieon answered, and every instru ment employed in l|tp Qtjministrotiop of this Goveinulpnl has executed with sucres* the functions allotted to this chapgp. After this supplication to tlt.e Most High, Washington expressed his conviction “that the foundations of.our national policy will lo laid in the pure and immutable pnnciplei of private j moral.ty, .and the frte-ni- nence uf a free .government lie exemplified by all the attributes which can win the af fections ol its citizens, and command the re spect of tho world.’’ “I d.well,” said he, “on this prospect with every s tisfoction which an ardent love of mv country can inspire ; since there is po truth more throughly established than "that there exists in the economy anti course of na ture an indissolublu union between virtue and happiness, between duty aud advantage, between tlie genuine maxims ot an honeet nnd magnanimous policy ’and the solid re wards of public prosperity and felicity ; since- wo ougjlt to he no less persuaded that tho propitious smiles of Heaven can'never bo ex pected on it nation that disregards the eter nal rules' of srder and right w'hiciiTieaven it self had 'ortjuined ; and since the preserva tion of the sacred fire of liberty, and the des tiny of tlip republican model of government, ate justjy'considered a* deeply, perhaps as finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.’! ' This prophecy has been fulfill#,'. “The foundations of our national policy were jj®™ in the sure and immutable prineiplt* uf ~ vate morality,” and the eternal rule* * der and right having been regarded. ' pitious antjlps of Heaven have ' ' the American people,” to wl