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ittifa DOMESTIC. From m the Nett) York Daily Advertiser, is of the Trial of the Her. 12. K. A- nSl. square and a bit of p<inci!.^ v T|ie paper nn\i pr&dioccd is thd'siuue... Tile c#rJ ms a ’ sbir!’, line deeply buried in i’tfe ; neck, tightly draw and t'.ie knot what is called a slip knot. Af «v Synopsis of the 'i'riul of very for the Murder of Sarah Muir a Cor. inquest, tlic body was interred rp'tbetoupv- iag ground,, and p-a/ets-sultl. On-Moatlay.al- K 1 his trial lias already occupied three weeks j cr< (] ( p b.ftlv was disinterred by theei/ronei, up to Saterda v last. '1 l.c Newport Mercery is an ,j a Jury smnrfl*rit.'4 and tiie body examined.' •Jl opinion ill !i die counsel will cdtnincnce sum- , |,y VVilbor and Hooper intered the same day, moiling up on Monday; aud it was inkulutcd 0 ^ the 25_tb was again dwintered examined by timt the week would be principally occupied in heirj.iijtiie aTg linen's. Up to Friday morn ing 68 witnesses irad. been examined for die govormneut, and 104 for the prisoner.-- It ap pears that a larger number of witnesses* have i)Q -n heard than on any criminal, prosoc&tion in this country, and it is probable it will orert- py a greater length of time. The utmost lati tude has been given to counsel and .witnesses, 'every point of la*,v has been' nbly discussed, and a mass of proceedings had that can lie ol very little consequence to the public. All th it the public wish is the simple testimony, strip ped of technicalities and legal points. Instead occupying the voluminous accounts that might fill two or ditoo thousand pages, wo have made up a brief account of the .testimony, in a com pass to be read, and in such p! tin and simple garb' that the reader may obtain a clear view of the casa without jvnding through the volumes of extraneous matter. “Tile trial commenced 7th May, at Newport, before Chief Justice Samuel Eddy and Judge ’Charles Brayton and Job Darfur. Ch’insrl ibr the State—Albert C. Greene Esq. Attorney General; tho lion. Dutcc J. Pearce of Newport; and Wm. 11. Staples, Esq: of Providence. For tlic Prisoner—The Hon. Jeremiah Ma son, of Boston ; Riqltard'R. Randolph; Hury Y. Cranstouu; and J. Turner Esqrs. of New port ; and -■-Blake, of Bristol. The prisoner on being seated, tbs indictment was read, containing t'.iieo counts, charging him with clioakiiig and. strangling ^aral/Maria Cornell at Tiverton; of lying- her to a stake, and of indicting various wounds by widen she instantly died. Tho prisoner was dressed in a dark dress, on l wore.green spectacles; lie appeared liim, and answered in a distinct manner, that he was : xiot<piilty. __ Tuesday the 7th, Wednesday 8th, were prin cipally occupied in obtaining a jury principally lowing to the fact that a large portion of those “summoned had made Tip their minds.—Much time was oicupioJ in bearing counsel—at last tho jurors were empaunclled. Elcuzer Trcvett, Foreman, Janies Easton, Joseph Martin, Wdiiam Read, ■Charles Lawton, Gideon Peckhani George Tilley', Milton Hall, ^Jloratiu Taylor, Edwin AVilbor, Noah* Barker, John Sherman, ? Thursday the 9th.—Mr. Pearce opened the cause ou the part of the prosecution. After his exordium remarks on the various couuts o! indictment lie came to the history of facts, and what they on the part of the goverment, intend to make out and prove; they were simply these:—that on the morning of Friday the 2ist December, the deceased .Sarah M. Cornell was found dead hanging to a stake, some five or six feet high on the premises of John Dutlee, near a stack of hay ah mt three-quarters of a mile from the most settled part of the village of Fall River. Tim day and evening previous she had been in good health and spirits—left home about. 5 o'clock P. M.—whop she was found, suspicions wore aw.ikpncd from tho manuer in winch she lay, the adjustment of me cord around tier neck, tho fastening <&tv that it could not have been done by hoi self but that some person had suffo cated her first and than tied her $0 the stake. Tiie placo in which the corpse \Vas found was evidence of a struggle; the manner in which bar cloaked was hooked, the deportment of her-arms, the bruises on her body all conspired to show that site could not have caused her ^pwa destruction. He said hr. was well aware that 110 positive proof could be brought to sup port th, ’ charge—-but that circumstantial proof of the stK in g'* ,it character would be placed be* faro them. Thnt they expected to show a pre- vions intimacy ofCp extraordinary character.— That on the 20th December last, on a boisterous winter day, the prisoner without making known to hiS family or frtet.’ds, I.'ft his house at Bris tol, was absent all nigJtt, tha? he want to John McCurry’s thence to tlu’ Stone Bridge, thence 40 or 50 'rods on the Fat.* River read, thence over a wall to a stack nea.r a stack yard, a lonely spot, thence hack about 10 in the eve ning to Jeremiah Gifford^ liou.?e,-that sefeams and groans were heard in the course of the evening, and that-a correspondence.' Iwd been carried on between thc decease^anJ l.|lc pris oner, appointing a placo for their meeting, be sides other important incidents ahd facts' con nected with ibis most mysterious and extraor dinary mnrdcr. _ The prisoner was a clergy men of the Methodist persuasion, and the deceased a factory girl iu liftniblc life. Tho witnesses were then called. Joseph Durfec, a resident of Tiverton about half a mile from tlic Fall River bridge, stated jiut 0i2 the 21st December, about 9 A. M. ho was going y» ith his team through a lot abont 60 rods from his *o\»'.n house, near the stack yard lie saw a female hinging to a stake, her hair Av is over her laco, and no signs of lilej she had u cloak on, hookej nearly tho whole length but one, and that just below tho breast unhooked her Calash was on;,strings untied, no shoes,* feet together ns if they had been tied her knees bent forward, ho# toes on the ground her clothes under smooth, her face was against the stake. The string by which sfie was suspended was tied round about si^ iqchos from the ton oftiie stake, .and from tiie place where it tvas tied a- bout six inches from tho neck.- He called three parsons and proceeded to tnkn hot down, first fiy taking her up and then by cutting the string. Sho had gloves on her hands, her Iraifdker- chief and shoes were about 20 Inches frqm jhc spot. Took the bcrly in a wagon to his house and rilled a coroner,- went to tho house of Miss Hathaway where she boarded and obtained her trunk and bandbox; and with the key which was to the pork.it of deceased opened the for mer and found tour letters, onu pink one ‘yel low and two white; one of •which was directed • to Rev. J. M. Bidwell, Fall River, and the oth er to S. M. Coi'ncll, all of which arc tho same •s now produced. In the bandbox there was dotting, a piece of paper about four inches f the same physicians anJ again fin-illy buried. Cross-examined. On tlic previous evening* saw a man standing near thesiack yard, stand ing still. Ho bad on a broad brim hat, high crown with a dark coloured surtour, could mi: sec his face—was attracted to the spot by the blasting of a rock. Re*. Mr. Bfdwcll was tht* first one to recognize the deceased. Wm. Dane:?, one of the coroners Jury sta ged that thb cord was so dqrply indented in tiie flesh it was diflicnlt-to find it; tjiit it was pas sed'round the neck twice. The kqpt was un der tin: right ear and th' 4 nock not broken.— The cord was of common marljn,:and Secured by what is called a clove hitch. - . Seth. During, assistant Postmaster at Fall River, -saw the.body and confirmed the stafe- mont of the last witness and chat also on the 19th of November, he made up the mail to Bristol, thetf was out qne letter mailed and that v’as directed to tlic Rev. Mr. A very, the wafer appeared wet, there was two letters dropped in, the .other was to Mr. G: Ransom Woodstock, the last was produced and rccog-, nised ns his mark 10 on it. 4. L. W.. Brings Postmaster in Bristol, sta ted that on the 19th Nov. he received a lj;,rr from Fall River, cost mail'd < . C!1 , S> Jv liidi was directed to ‘f.e'Rcv. Mr. Awry,’ on the 12:!i a letter at Cents, also directed to Mr. Avery, did not recollect delivering the letters as Mr. A. had-a box hut at the end of the quar ter, Mr. Avery'paid his hill. Recollects see ing a pink-letter for E. X. Avery liut docs not recollect the time. 5.. Eiilvi Hicks, coroner of Tiverton, coa- finived the-testimony of tin* first witnesses as to the state in which the body appeared. 6. Dr. Foster Hooper, Physician of Fall River, examined, <lid not see tho body -previ ous to its burial, but on Monday' examined it. The head was thrown back, the neck indented three eighths of an inch,-the skin not-broken, the state of the lungs and .stomach healthy* knees very-dirty with scratclics and bruises, and stained 'with grass. - Above the hip there were several contusions on examination, a female child,- half grown was found ; other particulars were stated, as to the particular part, which are too gross for publi cation; Was present at the second examina tion; there were no bones broken. A. long cioss examination followed as .to the appear ance of bodies after death, by hanging, of little interest. . 7. Dr. Thomas Wilbor sworn was present at both examinations, tyid confirmed tho statement of Dr. Hooper, as to the state of the body. Said also, that deceased consulted with hint as to her health', front which he drew the conclu- s : on that she was pregnant. On his cross ex amination he stated at the first examination the principal thing that Iqd hint to suppose the violence was coimuitted by another was the tightness of the. cord, the cloak being hooked and the gloves on.tne hand. Froni all the circumstances combined, was fully satisfied that death was caused by strang ulation and thou hung up. 8. - Wm. Allen saw the body at the stack, and confirmed the statement of John Durfee. 9. Bonj. Manchester; was engaged in blast ing rocks on land belonging to Andrew Robin son, near where deceased was found—about sundoWn on the evening of the 20th December after charging a rock with powder and leaving a train lighted, as his labours were Over, set out with Abner D ivis for tlic west end of the mead ow, and .met a person with the skirts of his coat in his hand, passing towards the rock where ho might lie injured by the explosion ; we hollowed to him just as the explosion took place; tiiq tnan stopped a moment and then went off in a little different direction ; his person was rather tall and wore a dark brown surtout buttoned up snug, with a wide brimmed hat—lie resembled in every particular tho prisoner Near the placo was a cart standing which contained bags tilled with work tools, which were se-.ved .with cord similar to that found round tho stake. Saw the next day tho body in the stack yarJ, and about 20 yards distant picked up a piece of a comb which being produced' lie identified. - Cross-examined—Stated that he could dis cover no d/flerenco in size, color, or. material between the cord on the bags and that round the next of the deceased. ' ;. • , * ID. Penelope llnrton-—A lady advanced in life was present, and assisted in laying oat the deceased—stated that one knee was so much colored with green grass,.that they cotdu hard ly .wash it out, the oiltor also stained. The body was very badly bruised, and had marks of violence above the hips on the loins, by the prints of the hand. ^ 11 and 12. Riijh Burden and Dorcas FoTd-^- Both assisted in laying out deceased and con firmed the testimony of Mrs. Burtcn, and also stated additional injury on the body. 13. Susan Burden—Identified the slip of pa per produced, which was taken from Maria CprneiPsJjand box. * ' 14. Thomas Hunt—Identified tiie piece of cui?i-> found as belongin'g to'the deceased. 15. A bin. Davis, •confirmed the*testimony of Bonj. Manchester, witk whom ltd was blasting rocks. At Bristol ho picked out EpItm.K. Av ery in the.street, walkin® with two other per sons, as tho man be.scw on the cVening of the 20lii Dec. in the lot near where the girl was found: His whole appearance—hat, coat, height and all were the same, and had no doubt in his mind, that he was the same man. The string on the girTs ndek avas the same as that they hid laced tho bags- with* they used tire bags to sit on whiie drilling holes in the rocks. Soon after the murdc/ one of the'bags found without the .cord. z . 16. Richard Durfee, .tho father of John, con firmed tiis-s m's. statement. 17. Wm. I la mil tort slated that on tho eve ning of the 20lh Dec.- lie was on -his way from Taunt in to Fall River, and stopped at Mr. Hambloy’s store to get Something to' drink— on leaving the store ub >”' 9 o'clock, and cross- .ing the hollow near Jon.i Durfire’s house, lie hbaWt the scream* ami stifled, groans of a fo« maledbr sonic three .or four minutes from the -irection of the stack yard. .He thought some >ne was beating a woman, but on reaching the rising ground he could hear nothing more. -l&-'Benjainin Hambley recollected ilathii- :;»n)s calling at the store nt the tune mention ed.' .* •■* •••“.;■ . • 19. Eleanor Owen lives about a quarter of a mile from the ? stack yard—on the evening .of tbeiJOth the wind was high front that quar ter, she'heard die screams of a woman. 20. Mr. Pierce, is a ferryman at the Bristol Ferry. Avery canto down about 2 P. M. on tho 20th ; ho took him in the sail Boat: the wind blew hard; he was dressed in a brownish surtout coat and dark hat; had no spectatles, cane or bundle, as on former occasions, he wore a cloak. , * 21. Jeremiah GiflfcrJ keeper of the Bristol ferry, recollected. Avery’s crossing about 2 o’ clock on tho ‘,20th,when landed at Portsmouth, did not 'notice the course ho took. A very re- turi>6d to Ins house about 10 the same night, uftcii-jre was a bed ; got up to-let him in. lie wanted to cfoss*nnd said Brother Warren told hint he could get over at* any* time—that his family wen- very unwell, and he wanted-to get home; witness said it blow hard and that Phy sicians were in Bristol <and-eould-be called if needed. Avery said he had .been up on the island on business, and had he known lie could not get over, lie would liUVc staid at Brother Cook.’* • - Prisoner then went to bed,-lie was drrssod in a brownish coloured surtout and large brim med In the morning early lie left. 22. Wm. Anthony, lives.at Portsmouth—on the afternoon of the 20ih Dec. a person resnt- bliiig Avery passed Ids house. • 23 aud 24.'"Wm. Carr and Charles Carr, passed a person resembling Avery outlie road, on the afternoon of the 20rli Dec: near Fall river. -Win. Chaston, keeper of the Stone Bridge gate recollected a-person crossing an the 20th Dec— in the afternoon, and had nO doubt that Avery from-his dress was the man. 26 and 27. Lee and Bunhit called, but gave no testimony of the slightest consequence. 28. George Lawton ; keeper'of the Stone Bridge Tavern, saw a 'person pass who resem bled Avery in every respect. 29. Annis Norton, lives near tlfc Stone Bridge. On the afternoon of the 20th saw the prisoner pass Ida father's Infuse. 30. Gardner Coir* bar-kcer ait Lawton’S Tavern, recollected a person calling at the house about 6 P; 51. on the 20ih Dec., and getting supper.; ho jeft in a liurry hut could not swear that the prisoner was the person: 31. John Burden met a man near Fall Riv er, going.$oUth, abautUO njintvs past 9. 32 and 33. -Wm. Gifford and Jane Gifford, saw Avery''on the mor lung of the 21st, when hoxfcrne down stairs he regretted ho had not cro'ssed the uight before as his family were sick;- ■ - : , . - 34 Mrs Harriet Hathaway knew -the de ceased well; she boarded at h?r h use. Ou the afternoon of the 20ih slie sard she was going to’ John Durfee’s that she should be home soon oral tho furthest at 9 o’clock, she sat up til! 10, when site left the door open for. her and went to hod: ' Deceased worked at 51 r. Antlio ny’s mill and at noon requested to have supper ready before dark. Site, changed her frock took supper and went out in good spirits with hcf dqak and citlasli on; bad lived with her 3 weeks and alwa\’s remained at home except when she went to meeting.’ Identified the comb and letters as those she had seen the deceased ltayc. - 35. Lucy Hathaway, daughter, to Harriet worked in the milFwith deceased, who told her of her intention of leaving ar half past 5 o’ clock on the 20th. She appeared uncommon ly cheerful* when she left thb* millet-witness indentilied the letters produced as those sho-Jiad seen in her possession. Deceased told her she was tit ill health—that she had not been well since she went to Thompson's camp meeting— that something took pfrtce. there that caused her sickness—that she had seen something ve> ry Improper, between a minister (a married manj and a church member, and that she should not go there 'again/ She said as much ns that' her complaintVas tliat which applied to' fe males only. Saw the cord taken from the peck—k sbmewhat resembled those uScd iii the factory, but Was smaller. V ; . Mondav, 13th May/ 36. Harvey HartVden lives at Fall River— was one of the committee to invesiigato the circumstauccs of the death—was .at llristol at 'the first examination—ealled at 5Ir/Smith’s store for Jialf a ream ol! letter paper, which he bad on tlic 8th of. December,. _ Among it was a half sliest, which he produced In <?oftrtf which* compared with a letter on a half sheet with a microscope, the fibres and water mark correspond. Witness went in pursuit of Avery and arres- ted^iiim at the bouse of Min'd, in- Ridge, New Hampshire, described at length the ntauuef of searching the house, tlic manoer in which he was secreted behind the door, and the agitated manner of the prisoner who gave himself up without i.'ic'least rcsistence, and came willing ly ou with witubss to Rhode Island, when he was delivered up Jo tiie authority. (To be continued) * ' From the Federal Union. BASIS OF REPRESENTATION.—The seventh section of the first article of the Coif stitution of the State of Georgia, as it now stands, ordains, that ‘/die House - of Represen tatives shall be composed of members from all the counties which now are, or hereafter may be included wtliin this State, according to their respective numbers of free white persons, and including three fifths of all the people of col our;” ‘‘but each county shall have at least one and not more tliaii four members.” The Con vention proposes- to alter this part of the con stitution, by.striking out the clause which re lates to persons of colour; so as to apportion the Representatives according to the number of free white, perilous in each county. In commenting ,oa this proposed alteration, the Georgia Journal remarks, “It stifles the voice, and prostrates the influence of the. slave-hold ing, the principal tax-payiiig portion of the State t by adopting tlje Northern, aiid repudi ating the Southern principle; By the South ern-principle, we mean of course, tlic mixed basis on which stand Jlie Southern rights ih the Union.” Here is'a palpable tittcmpt to excite southern prejudices against the plan of repre sentation recommended bv the Convention: \vith how much justice we will cxaniiiio. With regard to the suliject matter.under considera tion, what is, we ask, the southern, principle? The truth is familiar to every one, that the federal constitution was-ilie result of a compro mise. founded on reciprocal concessions drum thu different portions of the Union. .Tim 6th clause of that constitution embraces a material part of that cdniproniise, in the following words: “Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may bcMiicliidcd within this Union, according to’thcir respective numbers; Which shall he determined by adding to tho whole hum bee of free persons, including those hound to «;rvico for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three, fifths of all other persons.” This clause contains nuruiil' concessions; it secures to the'slave*holding States, a concession, that ih the popular branch of the Congress of the ITniifvt Siatpi: thW ill-ill have a renresentatioii United States,' they shrill liaye tt representation greater than is proportioned tct the number of their citizens: and at the same time it secures ' Rev. lln. Averx.—Tho closisg scene of this remarkable trial is said by those who witnessed it to.po»ses3 surpassing interest. After the court had rc-asscinbled to receive the verdict an iutci*- yal occurred of ten or fifteen minutes, on account of the absence of the prisoner’s counsel; and al though the court-house was crowded toils utmost “rapacity, tlio-wudieuce preserved a profound si lence, and all were fixed in a gaze of eager aud intense curiosity. IIr. Avery biinself, says the Editor of the Boston Advocate,” daring this try ing moment of'suspense and uncertainty,.when his life or death hung on tho hrca;h of tha jury, maintained the same steadiness of nerve, an(Hm> movjhility of cQUiitcnmu-e. which have so remark- i:ily distinguished him throughout tiie whole trial. The wonder is, that, innocent-, or guilty, he has hee'u able to.sustain this awful pressure with such fortitude a'nd tfquanimity. At. otto period, when the Attorney General was minutely descri bing in thrilling language, the probable inode in which the fatal (Iced w.ndene, the prisoner fixed bis lafge eyes upon him, and scarcely moved thein, till the fearful picture was finished.” After the verdict was recorded and tho Attor ney General observed as a matter of course the defendant was pow entirely discharged, ho be came suddenly but slightly affected, and a tear Marted to hit eye.—-V. ¥• Commercial Advertiser from them a concession, that they shall pay, in the same ratio, a larger proportion pf direct faxes, those taxes which bear most heavily on the people during periods of war. This is a part of ihe fedora! compact: and the South ern States are satisfied with the bargain. In relation then to this subject, viz: the compo sition of tho house of representatives in the Congress of tho United Suites the southern principle, or more properly - southern policy, requires that* three fifths of.tne. slaves' should bo included in the enumeration. ..... Need we remark, that.the federal compact extends not-to the frame of the State-govern ments, and that the people of every State re tain the tiiicqualified right to, form their own cons'titiition,' with th.e single limitation, that it shall be republican ? In the exercise of this, right,' ne'one of the States has incorporated the federal basis into its constitution. Geor gia, in the constitution «> r 1798, adopted that part of it winch relates to representation, and rejected the' corresponding part which regu lates taxation. All her sister States of the South have entirely excluded from their.stare- constittitiontf, this feature of the federal gov ernment: and the idlest, dreamer has -never heretofore imagined, - the most artful hypocrite lias never heretofore pretended, that in framing, their own costitutions according to their own wiljs, they liaye lost* they .have weakened, they have endangered any of their rights under the federal compact. .But when ..'Georgia cx- rcises the safno right, it is pretended, that the number of tree wuite ties, according to the male inhabitants therein.” “See. 6. And tho Senators shall be appor tioned among to the number in each.” - , Extract from the Constitution oj Kentucky. ■ “Sec. 6. Representation shall be equal and uniform in this commonwealth; and shall be forever regulated aud ascertained by the num ■her of qualified electors are “every Iree male citizen,—negroes, mulattoes, and Indians ex cepted.” Extracts from the Constitution of Tennessee. Fart of the Section.—'“The number o! representatives shall, at the several periods of making-such enumeratibn* be fixed by the le gislature, apportioned among the several coun ties, according to the number of taxable inhab itants in each.” ^ ‘‘III. The number of senatorsjshail» at the several* periods of making die* enumeration, be fixed by: tlic legislature, and apportioned among the districts, formed as hereinafter di- pproachiu/ conteij Fellow c:t;Z: ns, iu tin- may expect to bo assailed on tw o points" ' ad tho Senators snvruo Jl:ivu ad “ h “ i * lho Bu ^t to be s«sccp,iy no tn„ petuuuj -aJ, ' | argument, the more honest and rnoort-.. ‘ tho several dtstucts, « 8 ponents of the plait, will make an appeal t,** ■ of free W’lnte male inhabitants r , ason . p ut ihe'ntore sanguine calculaiin’ ^° Ur appeal lo your passions. reeled, according to tiie number of taxable in habitants in each.” “IV Tlic senators shall bo cHb’sen-by dis tricts, .to be formed by the legislature, each district containing such a number of -taxable inhabitants, as shall be entitled to elect not more than.three senators.” Extracts from the. Constitution of Louisiana. “Sec. 6. Representation Shall he equal and uniform in this State; and shall be forever regulated by tin number of qualified . electors therein.’*..- ‘ V T. “*8cc f 10. The .State-ijlall be divvied into fourteen-spiiatoriai districts, which sliTtll forev er .remain indivisible, as follows,’’-^“Eacli district shall, elect a senator.”.: Extracts from the Constitution of Mississippi. “9; And the whole number of representa tives shall at did , several periods rtf making such enuineranonj. be . fixed by -the General Assembly, and appeftidjicd among- the several counties, cities, or. towns .entitled to separate representation, acdur^ing to .tlic. number of frpe white, inhabitants in eticli”-—“provided lidwever', that each county shall always be en titled to at jeast one representative.” j - “10. The whole number .of senatt^s. shall at the‘Several periods of making the .eniiineru- tion beford-mentioped* be fixed by the Gene ral Assembly, ana apportioned among the several districts to. be established, .according to the number of free white taxable inhabit ants in each.’ 1 *' Extracts from the Constitution of Alabama. “Sec. 9- The General Assehibty shall, at their first meeting, aud in the years of .one thousand jcigiu hundred a.nd twcnty-tiirce r one. thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and evorv six years thereafter, cause an eoumeraf tion to be made of ^11 the inhabitants of the State,, and the wJiole number of representa tives shall, at the next, session held; after ma king Such enumdratiotx to be fixed byrtln- Gen- ora'f-Assembly’, and apportioned. Among the several counties, citi.es, or towns entitled to separate representation,'according to tlicir ro- presomative nuinhcr of .White inhabitants.” ‘.‘Provided however; that each county shall be entitled to ait least one representative.”* Extracts from the Constitulidn of Virgiuia formed iti the year 1839/ “2. One pf these,” branches of the' Legis lature, “sliaU he called. the House of Dele- S ties, and shall consist of one? hundred ax^d lirty-four members, to lie chosen annu ally, lor and lry the several' counties; “cities towns, and boroughs of the commonwealth;. whereof fhirty-twu delcgSies shall be chosen made upon au .>|,|/tu, ,u ^unr positions, u u7 latter seems by the opposition to bethrunost * i lVbrablo point, and they have made it th,* j cct of defence by “measuring” a Iti some ot the champions of thp minority Ti party who prefer this mode of«onduetin R ti, ei i“ e t 'St, is <*hiefly composed or nun not so m U ci,'r linguisbed by any known governing principle ,r politics, as that of a systematic desire todesi the insjitutions under which We have'lone and prospered; men who would seem only tc b struggling for ihe melancholy honor, of siijZ high-at somo future time, to mourn over the ? ins of their country. These tnen cannot aptly compareil to anything at present ait W storm loving animal the -seal, w hich is saidiu- to be comfortable except in a tempest. \ B |® cation .was not decently hurkd, before il !e , ;r| ./ otic vigilance kenned out a most portentous ita in'-the ravings of a ball a dozen fmpitirs at tbe north, against which they wished all in to artn a .Southern Convention. This Quito-V hurry, p eject however had scarcely an echo. A lie' examination convinced the southern people ji'f whatever comptaints they may sometimesVvs .against their fellow citizens of tile north on oibe! subjects, that the conduct of the great bodv c f iU people there, is and ever has been enexce’ptma, ble on this. With this conviction they have uct been much, inclined I think even to permit ib t « meir-to endanger the peace and prosperity 0 f th# South, nietclyr to gratify their, agitating jwojxusj. ties, and bring fibout the truth of their own pliecies, in pruilucing.ihe very danger n hid" jZ professed to be laboring to avert. In this tress Tor want otsusteuance, tb- change ofth. change of the federal basis is seized.upon as a nioit happy ^ lief. Aye,rtliis is in Iced a mt^st portcuious aCai- and big with coming Brents ; for ih the low rf ihe federal basis is triumphantly seep a dissola- tjon of the Union. W e wili not 'insult tie undet standing of the reader, by a reference to all declamatory trash which we have noticed ,. u thit..subject, but as a fiatrering sample of ^ whole we notice an editorial of the “Georgia Times.” We make this selection the more nik ijiigly as the editor professes much hidden wi-iiom ou this subject, aud .promises fine-argeuuna« lutfire. -For th- present he only carelessly utip, to give us a hint Tor future. eettectien, £ iul ail rear the paper is not extvusivejy lead, th'ejreedet shiilj have au extract. eSjieakmg of the majehtr he says ' - * _ ' “W e would barely notice Iiere, (resenin- to ourself the intention at ourbetter couveiiieuce. ■-o! discussing i;,-) the new basis of repres^utotioc - they have adopted. They have declared that SGebrgii/dyuiauds m jhe uatioual council, a weight of uidueTiCc. On prureiples ibf-.t s h e rejects at hotne. Amv; il we "sliouiii presume to tliat our fellow citizens are not so bfind as tfai leaders of tin-apostate-party imagine them to be, we-do not tliiirk, we .should hp iarther from the tru.hu fbao most ot our cotemporarjes. Ue trill he generous, however, in our coudtnmaiion.— Those wJm assumed to rule iu that cotivepficg were ignorant ot ihe disastrous consequi incs re sulting (ront the adojUioii if the white basis of representation alone. H;?th aireye steadily bent on securing to their party the’ ascendancy, diet were incapable of estimating-tlfe danger to tin state iu reference to her representation in cengrcv 1 hey did not.pereeive-.tlie ivHy iloritr, ever rcniir to grasp at an advantage, wonid seize the opjxr- tuinty_ tp douiand.a retnodeliiti” ot the hus.-tof Representatives, and substitute the While bslu there for the ledcral basis now established; rod wticu.our lepreseiumives shall arise on’ the Uwr to protest ag iiust its iiijUsticof' Lb f the projCffi- iugs -bf this couvcntjun wifl bo tjinnij.'h'wlij thiowu ill their teeth, and they will be obiigtdfo submit m silence. If the aspiring loaners of t!^ Clark 1‘arty did not take the. view of the sul'jcd we liaye suggested, que that prescuts itself to every reflecting- mind, they stand convicted of incapacity in' managing J. he political interests of thestate." for aud by the twenty-six comities lyin<r west \V{i.it a getierous rescue-ofthe people of Gcor- of the Allegany. Mountains.; twenty-five for gia frorii* the -nlisastrous- conscqm uses” of the and by tlic fourteen counties lyings b:tweon j’'ignorance” of her pohtk-i,US.-li«»w grateful IK the Allegany and Blue Ridge of Mouiitaius ; ( are ,or tke woiiderlul ‘discovery of-this sapient forty-two for and by the twenty-nine counrris : e( *' ,or ol ihg necedsqiy tendency of'tbis ruitw b’ing cast of the Bid * Ridge of Mountains, and j ,“ ,c . a i u .!’! > r. Editor, would it be asking j liberty of the State, the freedom of the entire a'bovc tidewater ; : and thirtv-s-x for and bvihiiJ l ’ e, ‘" •? Irc:,,l >' so M *. . .... . ■ .i • I . . . * crciiib iu ijts uotiiicmu-utukHZ* t.> .... South,’Will be sa’crified ! We trust that the | counties, cities; tow.'is, and biironghsMying u'p- people will disregard’ the false 'clsrmourrt and ever true to the principles of democracy, Will exputige from their State constitutioii,' that ar istocratic principle winch resigVfs a greater number of representatives to tin? counties whose citizens are owners of numerous slaves than to the counties inhabited by v the poorer freemen of the country.’ Id this reform, those 3 Wners of slaves',’ w v ho arc republicans, will ieinselyes concur: they can desire no pecu liar privileges; tkcylare unwilling to be viewy odas.tlie aristocracy of the country. We subjoin' extracts from the constitution of all the other .States south of the Potomac; from which it will appear, that in relation to this subject, viz l the formation of state-consti tutions, slave representation, hr not a principle oft he South/. •. . .. ... ». • Exirdxts from the Constitution of N. Carolina. “It/ That the Senate’shall be composed nf representatives anmially ciiosen by ballot, one for eacli county.jn the Stale.”- - . ... “III. That "the JloitSo yjf Commons shall be Composed of representatives annually chosen, by ballot, two for erich bounty, and one for each of the towns of Edenton, Nowberh, Wil- mitT3{on;S«ilishury, nillshoroitgh/aqd Halifax.” Extracts from the Qonstitiiiionof S. Carolina. “Ill, The'Sevofal. election districts iff this State, shall elect tho following number of rep resentatives, viz; Charleston, iuclading St. Philip and St. Michael, fifteen members-; Christ Church, three members;” proceeding to assign three mertibers to a part of the dis tricts, and two members to eacli of tiie residue. VII. Tlic Senate shall be^composed of members to he chosen for four years','.-in ihe, lollowing proportions, by the' citizens of tins State, qualified to elect members to the Hou$° of Representatives, at the the same time, and in the same manner, and . at the same place, on the tidorWater.-—'The section thpii .procec'ds- to assign the mimbcr ofdeleQrrtcs toeach coun ty, &c. without any reference to .the- slaves which it.'niay cd'nfain/ ‘ . ‘‘3. The-other House of the General * As sembly shall be called the Senate and shall consist cf thirty-two members,-of whom, thir teen shall be chosen for and by. the couiities lying west of the. Bine Ridge pf Mountains, and nineteen for and bylhe.conn ties, cities, towns, aiid boroughs lymg east thereof, and foe tlic election of whom, the counties, cities, towns, and boroughs shall be divided into thirty-two districts, as f hereinafter provided.”—the.sec tion then proceeds.to form dip districts, with out any 'allusion to the sT^vos' u-ljicl» tboy-niay contain. '’ ighmt crons in Ins condemnation” to iinj iire iielioh*!/ uf the “ignorant ’ \\liiR is v»>ur real aie;aiii:g i;. this tira^le ol inet>in|mJhcWfktr. are fit I otil m : sn'ered, we. siiutUti be beivtljered iu moit eiolw- rassnig conjcc.ure upon this- subject.av< r<: hc no: perfectly satisfied that you ha.i no_rationalniejii- i ,f o *U -all. “(Jeotgia dernfolds in the nativud couucihi u right (Mi pi uiciples she rejects ath'irat." “They were iguiirtiut of the ilhasljtsoi coo*- From the Aufdsla -Courier. REDUCTION. . . - - M - Tho friends of Reduction, ami tho advocates of the plap proposed, by the late' Cimycntion, have heeit waiting most patiently for. the rt’rg«i : meats, by which this plan is to be’yverthrown.— The inajwrify have, since riio'adjouniinent, tiren constiiiifTy menaced with' these'fOriliroining ar guments—“W lieu more leisuro will permit,” but a» yet the more violent of the opposition have this warning editor, that Georgia was introthn*! douo little elso than “Show tlfeir t'ceth” and some alarnyng heresy into the sourhern polin’"*, linnti u'lii/ li »td. : '.G i* % make other demonstrations of au angry prejiara- tioai. We do not mean here to be understood as- alleging that up plausible urgninents can be ur ged r.'gainst the plan of, the majority. Oji .the 'cdlitrai-yrafTfie task of organizing the legislature of our stale, were original, 'and new, many im provements might be made, more ohe’diijiitto' tiro truths of political science. But what we -do iu- rist on is,..that under all the difficulties with which tiie. flfliject ft,at' present surrounded, the. present plan' is'the best that could bo obtained, and we really believe tlio'phin-to be a less objectionable one than it WMUuurgfit possible at present to ef fect. by, a'iy considerable portiiut of the people of the state. We will :ils'o remark quenccs jtsulting.fioa\ tlic adoption of the »bi* basisalouC.”- “They did not perceive tliaith wil«y north,tvonlj ^rj-e the- opportunity,” “sis 1 wh'piiLO.ur representatives Shalt-rise to protesta- gainst its iujusticu,' &e. the proceedings of this Convention will be triumphantly throe n in their teeth, ami they obliged to submit in siltr.ee,” should like also, tto be 'tgeuernus iu owrcouiic®- nation,’.but by. no stretch of generous cceclulifj can ive be made ^to believe hint so cxcrsfi'dj “igtK»i*ant’ of the institutions of oik cctuuirv*> these extracts would prove him to lie. We thick it safer to “asjnm'c” that ho knows perfectly tiut there neither is, nor bus tb-re ever betniw s.idcred, at any period of our liislery, ci'hcraf, ihc-uorth, or south, the cast or tiie west aav son of connexion betweeu the federal hnsis tVibf geni.ral, and Stofc governmeias. 8uch contiM- too was trover thought of any w here, or at mJ time titiiil it has been youjtired uji for party | ,ur * poses, to alano lire voters upon this question-"" S\ e would be led,to believe from the rernsd* 50 upon which the vital interests of tho south ■ k» , , .--xt , At ore in the where they shall void for representatives, viz: I spirit of complaint than Of reproach, that if the Charleston, including St. Philip anti St. 5Ii- present plan be objettiimaMe, at Some ot chad, two members; Christ Church, one mem ber;” proceeding to apportion ohc member to each of the other districts, except that of ches terfield, Marlborough, and Darlinton, which lias two. Extracts front the - Constitution of Missouri. “Sec. A. Tne General Assembly, at thoir- first session, and in the years one thousand eight hundred and twenty'-two* and'one thou sand eight hundred and a won ry-four, respec tively, and every fogrth year thereafter, shall cause an enumeration of jhe inhabitants of this' State to be made; and at the first session af ter ^ach enumeration, shall apportion the num its defects are to lie nttrilmtetl, to .the exorbitant demands of thrisc tvfio'nro now Oppose.! to it— who by tjie unreasonable extravagance of their own claims provoked and produced au oppo site extremity w hich in some measure defeated the honest efforts of the moderate party, -who re gardless of either party or local interest were anxious to acl for the good of the st; tc. Bot hi-fieviiig as !u fore stnteili thjit thc plait proposed is die best which is t; present within .he r cii of the people ot Georgia ; "and that it wil] meet with more opposition from party feeling thou ho nest principle : we ask evPTy citizen to'investig ate the subject o.f ratification with calmness and deliberation, and w ith a single view to the inter ests of'the People, and not the interests of those peuds. ^ I hat \yc were abandoning die princ'p'^’ upon .which the federal constitution was fifed <md therefore will have iio plausible arguntf 3 ^ to-meet any propo-aiflm u» change it.- wtfuld'be Jed to the irrctdstihlo couelusiou, d®* .«:/.it least some ol the other Southern had adopted the federal basis. Now as thisgar crons but terrilying editor, lias promised tvi* usQiul iu his “iiiss,issioit”of the question, I w®®* not impose too heavy a task on liint at euce,! for the present will auk him to inform th c lie :— 1st. Whether at the time of the formation the iederai coustitulion there was one singled^ t|i.tt hau adopted the ledcral basts tu itslocai?®* crti tiiet.iL/- ., ~ tl - hi ther there is now a single state t5qo»gi:i,-.that (i.n adopted the fe.ieral hasi* 15 iuiuiumeuti,I j,nuc!pie in us constitution ? • 3ib »> hetlter it was not 1] years alter®* doptw'u of the federal coustitulion, before cVr ^ tieorgia adopted tLis stirghlar ItaHire m A' rrct StnUilOil 1 ■ B he should answer these inquiries ,ru ^]. j; people may ths u wish .-.me oxplanatioos is'iiat^ii analogy is di^cm e. e.l note vviiien uot discovered when the couslUation w»f 11 cd Why Georgia politicians canid ou the federal Itasis m Congress withoa 1 and (Ould not note insist ou ^ - i 5 -p •trtun ber'ef representatives among the several cotih- I who are anxious to govern them. I’enccd the same eiccuinstances,'withont oettig - ^ nntly’-’. put down 1 Why their lncri have nol boeu “thrown tn tho teeth*” at - '