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Tier remain unchanged. We quote middling fair 6& ; fair to fully fnir C| to 7 cents. FREIGHTS. —Our river is rising again. The steamers H. L. Cook and T. S. Metcalfe, left to-day with full loads of cotton. The Ivanhoe arrived this afternoon, and a steamer was in sight at dark. ID A telegraphic dispatch to the Charles ton Courier, from New York, on Monday even ing last, slates that on that day 1200 hales of cotton had hoen sold, wilh a steady market, at 7} to 7} for middling fair to fair upland. CHARLESTON, March 22—There was no change in the cotton market yesterday. The sales reached 1300 hales, at from G to 7}. principal sales 7j cents. COLUMBUS, March 17, 1819. Stock on hand, Sept. 1. 1725 Received this week, 079 “ previously, 63,407 65,811 Shipped this week, 3.563 “ previously; 38,766 Slock on hand, 23,482 The market is without change—price 5 to 6} —River bontahle, and large arrivals of goods Irom Apalachicola. MACON, March 21.—The cotton market during the week has hecn rpiile dull, wilh but little otiering. 'The Ranks are preparing for their semi-annual report, and money is ex tremely scarce. We quole extremes at 5f to t>l; principal sales of fair cottons, 6J- cents. Receipts very light. [Reported for the Raltimnrc Sun.] Cuilod Stales Senate. "H‘*ar»*Ssw,"niuuiii H). i*Tj.'V The Vice President, in accordance with the intimation given yesterday, not being present, tire Senate was called to order by the Secre tary, Mr. Dickens. Mr. Mangum rose, and after remarking that it would he perceived the Chair had been vacated wbfr a view to afford to the Senate timfiustomary President, moved that the Hon. Wav id It. Atcirison he unanimously appoint ed, which was agreed to, and Mr. Atchison was conducted to the Chair hy Messrs. Man gum ami Cass. The Journal of yesterday was then rend. On motion of Mr. Webster, the Senate then proceeded to the consideration of executive business, and confirmed file nominations of C. W. Rockwell, of Connecticut, (brother of lion. Jno. A. Rockwell, of the House of Rep resentatives,) as commissioner of customs under the new law ercnling the Homo De partment; Allen A. Hale, of Tennessee, reg ister of the treasury, in place of Mr. Graham, resigned; Jas. E. Norfleet, collector of Eden ton, N. C.; John 11. Crops, surveyor of Paw catuck, R. I.; Zebedoe Ring, surveyor of New York, in placo of Elijah F. Purdy ; and Edin Boyle, postmaster at Annapolis.' Also several promortions in the Rifle Regiment. Then, at about 1 o’clock, tiio Senate ad journed until to-morrow. War Department, March 14, 1849. The following regulations will govern in issuing arms and ammunition, under the reso lution of Congress, approved March 2, 1849. 1. Each applicant must send to the War Department an affidavit that it is his bona fide intention to emigrate to Oregon, or California, or New Mexico, as the case may be, and must state distinctly what arms and ammunition he requires. 2. On receipt of an application or affidavit as above stated, a sufficient supply of the am munition designated by him, to arm and equip each applicant, may he delivered to him, or his order, on payment of the cost thereof: provided the Government has such arms, and the same can be sold without detriment to the public service ; and, if not, then the applicant may receive such other arms and ammunition as he shall select on the same conditions. 3. Arms and ammunition, furnished as above, will be delivered to each applicant, or to his authorized agent, at the nearest or most convenient arsenal where the arms may be. The place of delivery desired by the applicant should be designated. GEO. W. CRAWFORD, Secretary of War. Liberal for a Turk. The Turkish ambassador to France instead of covering and hiding his wife, as is usual in his country, took her to a grand Ball at the Hotel ’de ville. It is the first instance of the kind since the foundation of the Ottoman em pire. She is thus described by a French pa per: “Another queen of the fete was the wife of the new Ottoman ambassador, Madame Cal limarchi, a young Grecian lady. This fair creature shone, not like tiieother ladies present, by the loads of diamonds which covered her person, but by her purity. It was the beauty of Phidins and Praxitalles, the marble of Pa ros, wonderfully softened and animated wilh life. A crowd of admirers followed'her through the drawingrooms.’ The Supreme Court terminated its session at Washington, on Tuesday week last. j£~,„o iK a mioueai treat as they will afford is seldom ever enjoyed. Dr. TrotterN Lecture. It will be seen that this gentleman will give at the City Hall, several Lectures on the very interesting subjects of Phrenology and Magne tism. His first will take place to-night. Dr. T. lias recommendations from gentlemen of high character in tiiis state, as to his ability and success in demonstrating and (caching these attractive and important sciences. Meetings have been held in York and Maibo rougli Districts (So. Ca.,) in addition to those heretofore referred to by us. We believe that nearly every District in that State has spoken on the great Southern question. Honor to South Carolina ! Her people were never made to wear fetters, or submit to a tyranny which would degrade them I “ For avtiiit Wood.” We find ill the Chronicle and Sentinel, of the 21st in t., an at tide headed "for what good," in which the Editors nftcr saying that “ mutualJorbearance" actuated our “patriotic forefathers asks “ what good then can agi tation accomplish ?” The Chronicle seems to forget that agitation against the South, at the North, is the order of the day. It is not con fined to the fanatical abolitionist, but pervades every tank and order of society, and certainly is displayed wilh great unanimity in Northern Legislatures. We presume Northern Legis latures would aflord a pretty good index to the general sentiment in that section of the Union. If we are not mistaken, resolutions to exclude with our slaves from the new Territories, Wave passed, nearly donminWiialy, Legislative bodies of almost every State north of Mason’s and Dixon’s line. The recent action of those of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, are fresh in the recollection of our readers. Action then is llie order of the day in tho non-slaveholding Stales. Wc propose to meet action thero by action here, it that is treason, distiniunism, agitation, tfe., let those who op pose it make the most of it. The Chronicle says : “Have we not seen the abolition organ in New \ork copying the ultra disorganizing doctrines of the Calhoun press of the South, and disseminating them among the abolition ists of the North and East ? What motive had these men for thus acting ? What motive had the anti-slavery men of Massachusetts for thus cordially commending the course of the South Cam illa Agitator ?” Does not the Chronicle know that this abo lition organ, published two of its agitation articles! If it published pieces from the Cal houn press, to aid in destroying the Union, what object did it have in publishing two pieces from the Chronicle and Sentinel ? We do not know what motive tho “ Aboli tion Organ” had, in “commending the course of the South Carolina Agitator.” But, perhaps, the Chronicle can inform us, what motive ano ther abolition print, in New York, had for call ing the Chronicle and Sentinel “ the vanguard of anti-slavery at the South." Perhaps that paper forgot that it was itself tiie special ob ject of compliment from an abolition print. The compliment to Mr. Calhoun was this, the resolution declared that he was bold, man ly aud honest in his support of the institu tion of fie South. Was the Chronicle com plimented in the same way! or, for being against its own section! If, as the Chronicle says, it was their object to “ increase the number of abolitionists, by copying the ultra sectional appeals of the Southern press,” what was their object in publishing two edit) rials from the Chronicle ? We have seen a copy of the National Anti- Slavery Standard, which contains them. The Chronicle incessantly declares that for the South to express its opinions on this question is to manifest a distrust of General Taylor. It does no such thing. Every man of sense and candor knows that General Tay lor cannot resist the spread bf anti-slavery doctrines at the North.* They can be resisted only by the decided action of the Southern people. No, quiet submission at the South will not save us. It would cause Gen. Tay lor, with the best intentions in the world, to loose even the moral force of his position to protect us. By action here we do not distrust or weaken General Taylor, but sustain and strengthen him rather. * Since Gen. Taylor took his seat, as Pre sident, have we seen any relaxation of North ern efforts to assail us. Nonp. And we nev er will see it from that cause. We would risk our life on it. Hence we call upon the jieople of Lite South to act for themselves. in solemn dolihom’ ! "n, have r('*ofrf'TT.~» .t [he institution of slavery is a foul blot upqfi the moral escutcheon of the country, and that no effort on their part shall he wanting to forward ila extirpation from the body politic, at the ear liest practicable period—which means, as soon as their numerical strength will place auch a project in their power. And who does not perceive that the day is not far distant, when a trial of strength will have to decide tlis ques tion in the very teeth of the guaranties of the Constitution ? In addition to these, resolutions in Various primary as well as legislative assemblies, have been adopted, declaring that under no circum stances ought the slave institution to be suffer ed to extend to the New Territories, however clearly it may bo shown to be common proper ty, and that no stone shall bo left unturned to prevent such a result. * Now, may we not ask, and ask it with all fairness and propriety, who are the blameless actors in this great agitation? Upon whose heads sh mid fall the responsibility cl agita tion, those whose rights are jeoparded by a process but little short of revolution, or upon those whoso motives spring from the worst faith to a solemn compact, and whose designs if consummated would entuil upon one half of this confederacy all the eyils incident to an untried and fitful destiny ? All that was proposed or intended bv Mr. C., so far as our reading has extended, wa- simply to urge upon the South the propriety and ne cessity for ( a joint, and if possible, a declaration of our rights, and a determination to resist every unfair infraction of thecal any, ami at nil hazards- 1 |[n This Is the front oF msTrfending, uiid fur this a change of undue “ agitation” iiV made in palpablo disregard of the leading facts. No one among us has ever doubted Gen. Tay lor on the slavery question. Nor was there a reasonable doubt that the entire Southern del egation would have agreed at all points as to the ostensible and legitimate course for the South to pursue. Nor do we believe tliero is at this moment a native resident of the slave holding States who dissents from'a single po sition assumed in the Southern “ Address” as a basis lor Southern action. When that ad dress was published it was to have been hoped that all would have assented to its sentiments, and then to huve let it take its proper course. But, in as much as it failed, for reasons alto gether alien to its appropriate character, to se cure the signatures of all 'the members who attended the meeting, to continue to denounce it, must inevitably promote, instead of allaying that which is professed to be deem d “ agita tion.” Never doubting that the guaranties of the constitution, if adhered to, will ultimately set tle the question of the South,and that, by every principle of equity and international usage, the institution of slavery may be safely intro duced by the Southern holders of that species of property into the new Territories—we shall rejoice to hear of regularly organized meetings of onr fellow-citizens from the right quarter in defence of th ir rights. California. W e give a few items from a letter publish ed in the New York Tribune, and received by “ one of the oldest, largest, and most respecta ble houses in Pearl street, New Tim writer states that the discovery of Gold is im mense, and will excite both the United States and Europe in a greater degree than any event which has happened for a century. Prices at the Mixes.—Flour pe.rlb., Boots $75 per pair, Pork $-250 per barrel, Carpenters wages $lO per day, common labor ers $8 per day, a cook S6O to SIOO per month, Brandy 4 ounces gold per bottle, Bread $2 per pound, Blankets SBO per pair. Clerks $3,000 per annum. A room at a Hotel S2OO per month ; a common hovel or shanty s3oto SGO per month. The writer and his partner had cleared upon their cargo SIOO,OOO. Two servants had run away from their mas ter and returned with $75,000. In some places the gold was so abundant and pure that there was no necessity for washing the earth; each man obtained S7OO per day. All agricultural operations had ceased| the gold is inhaustible. The Tribune tfrat the names of the writers can be had bjl appli cation at that office. i This account beats the diamond valfcys of eastern story. The President has officially “>(|Bniized Charles Varea, as Consul, and urado de los Reyes as Vice-Consul of P C rßr Cal ifornia. iic/^m 1 MU be 1 Kvnh , |Li£ “ t 11 t-fml Hiocl V i I it 1 ■.jf. wFion P Bitni- Hotiiy ■ the Bpal- , ■states Tbe South must Act. The New York Evening Post says. “ The Government of the Territories.— How stands the great question of the day ? is . tbeinqniry of all. Has it disappeared amid the tumult and confusion with which the session of Congress closed ? Have the friends of free- ' dom been defeated at this last hour, and is all lost? Nothing like it.. The victory of free dom, though delayed, is none the less sure.— The darkest hour of its struggle has passed i away, and it is unshaken. “ At the next session the question will again present itself before Congress, but perhaps in such a form as to receive an easy and prompt decision. By that time the inhabitants of the 1 territories will have expressed their deci- i ded aversion to it. No longer will it be a p'ac- , tical question, as it is not even now regaril ex-President Polk. The Southern States have within their limits a 1 Mguifavor of its exclusion. Cir ■kre will bring a sore and ■■be cause of freedom. true princi ples, while it constantly diminishes the num ber of their antagonists.” It is true that the people of the North are 1 pouring into California with great rapidity. A large number of vessels have already gone crowded with passengers from the Northern States. Lines of constant and regular com- 1 munication are establishing between Northern ports and.our Pacific acquisitions. What is , Are our people 1 liced to California by her inexhanstajle bn ires of the richest gold in the world? Are our peo ple afraid to go, or do they fold their arms in 1 abject submission and say, we hate no right to go! Are Southerners bowing their necks to the yoke and hanging their heads in deference 1 to tiieir Northern superiors'! What good will nur meetings and resolutions do unless we act? Are there any who wish to go to California; who wish to take a part of their hands, and make a thousand or two dollars to the hand, : instead of three or four bags of cotton, and two hundred pounds of bacon ? If they do, what 1 prevents their going ? Are they afraid of the North ? We hope not. Do they admit they have no right to go under the Constitution of the United Stales? llcaven protect them if they do ! The New York Post thinks a pow erful parly against slavery will soon exist in 1 the South I Why ? because we do not net, we are divided about action. We have ap pealed to tbe Souib to speak as one man. If 1 our people would do so, Northern free soilers would not gloat over their present and anticipa ted triumphs, nor stab us with the charge that we arc false to oursehes. Kailrosul to California. A Convention is to held at Memphis, Ten nessee, on the 4lh day of July next, to elicit an expression of public sentiment on the sub ject of constructing a Railroad from the valley of the Mississippi to California. With the completion of other schemes notv contempla ted, this, if carried out, will unite the two Oceans, Pacific and Atlantic, at • point central to the whole Union. Schemes of improve ment are sometimes more beautiful and grand than practicable. Emancipation' rHvKNTu Vv.—The Louis ville Journal, the leading Witig paper of Ken tucky, commenting upon Mr. Clay’s recent etter, says : 1 “We must reiterate the expression of our full conviction, that there is not at this time the slightest earthly chance that the Stale Convention, to be held next fall, will incorpo rate in the New Constitution, a provison for the emancipation of slaves. We do not believe there are ten counties that will send emanci pation delegates to the Convention, and our opinion upon this subject lias been form ’d upon free and careful consultation with the must enlightened men, members of the Legis lature and others from every couuty in the State,” _ Mu m m ary. St. Patrick's Day. —Saturday last, the anniversary of the Patron Saint of Ireland was celebrated in an appropriate manner by the “ Hibernian” and “ Irish Union Societies” at Savannah. Messrs, (’base and Linton, we learn from the Athens papers, have made a good article of wrapping paper at their paper mill, near Athens, and will, in a week or two commence manufacturing printing paper. We hope they will be successful in their laudable enterprise. The District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia, held its first session at Marietta on Monday, the 12th inst. lion. John C. Nicoll, presiding. Next term, secoud Monday in September. Can this be true ?— A New York corres pondent of the Pittsburg Gazette writes that the §IO.OOO, the proceeds of Mrs. Fanny Kem ble Butler’s reading in New England, have been remitted to New York, to frustrate an at tempt of her husband to obtain possession of the stone.— —— The election for Governor in Tennessee comes oft'in August next. From preseut in dications, it would seem that the whigs intend to run the present incumbent again—Neil S. Brown. The Savannah Georgian says, the United Kingdom, which sailed from Liverpool on the 12lh ult. for Savannah, is a ship of 1267 tons. She will b-ing 7,050 sacks of salt to Messrs. Harper & Stuart. Asa freight train on the Harlem road was approaching the tunnel on the 14th inst. an | immense rock, weighing several hundred lbs. became detached, and fell upon the track, mashing the locomotive and tender to atoms. Several men attached to the train were also crushed todeath, and others badly hurt. Gold has been discovered in Oregon on the Big Platte. The St. Louis Organ of the 7th inst. men tions ten cases of cholera in that city and vici nity, during the previous week. The bill for exempting the homestead of a family from execution, when it does not ex ceed §6OO in value, has passed the legislature of Ohio. ’ John B. Dillon, the Irish exile, was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of New York, in session at Albany. The Kilmiste Family. We have noticed many rncomiums passed upen the Kilmiste Family in our exchange pa pers, and we doubt not they will give an at tractive entertainment to-night. We have been informed that the Theatre is selected, because of a pre-engagement of the Masonic i Hall. i We learn that they bad an excellent house i last night. The Rome Bulletin. We perceive that Mr. J. Renean has changed the name of the Rome Journal to : that of the Rome Commercial Bulletin. The sheet is also enlarged and other evidence of 1 prosperity manifested which we are pleased to 1 see. The Cassville Standard. The above is the name of a new paper pub lished at Cassville by J. W. Burke. The first number which we have received is neat ly printed and filled with excellent matter. The Standard is Democratic in its politics. Contested Slaves.— The New York Sun has the following“ Two slaves were brought, about a week since, in a vessel from V irginia to this city. The vessel lay near the foot of Canal street for several days, and when aMjpyme known that slaves were on board, a were grateful for the interest taken in them, but refused to accept the offers. When the vessel left for Virginia, they returned in her to their master whom they loved.” I .and Route to California. —The dis tance from Galveston to El Passo on the Rio Grande, is short of COO miles, with an entire passable road fur waggons. The more.familiar route leads up the valley of the Colorado, striking the Gila, which takes the party near , ly to their destination. The distance from El Paso to San Diego is not far from 800 miles— making the whole distance from Galveston to the “ diggins” about 1400 miles. The cost to the emigrant cannot exceed thirty or forty ' dollars alter he is astride Itis mule or mustang —properly provided, possibly not half tin's amount. Atom* oi .Hew*, GATHERED FROM NEW ORLEANS PAPERS. The steamship Galveston, which lelt New Orleans on the 15th inst. for Cltagres, was compelled, itt consequence ot a serious acci dent, to put into Balize. Moat of the passen gers intended to proceed in vessels already chartered in that place for Cltagres. Slone and McCollum generously tendered the receipts of one night at theLeviathian Cir cus, to the relief of destitute emigrants in New Orleans. Mr. Macready, after a series of splendid theatrical triumphs,consented, upon invitation of a large committee of gentlemen, to give two readings from Shakspcare. All the rivers up the Mississippi were still rising. This new rise, before the fall of the previous one, it was feared would produce an awful destruction o( proDerty. On the evening of the 7ili, there were nine w II « I I n'l in 1 I mWi.-; 1-4. the mark. The river during the previous 2-1 hours, had risen seven inches. On the (alls, over the Indian chute, there were 6 feet seven incites water. Mr.Strackosh.who was recently in Augusta, is creating excitement in the musical circlps in New Orleans. The papers say that the critics pronounce him superior to any pianist who had ever visited the city before. A project is on foot to connect Tampico and San Louis Potosi, by building a rail road from the head of navigation of the Panuco river to the latter city. A letter writer from Mazatlan says, that hun dreds are found at every place wailing for chances to get to the “ El Dorado”—that the whole coast is crazy, as the reports of the ex tent and richness of the gold is confirmed at every step. The writer says that as many of the foreigners are armed, it is feared that some difficulty will take place between them and the Americans, if Gen. Smith persists in ex cluoing them from the territory. A whole troupe of model artists had been captured in New Orleans, and released upon giving bail to appear when called for. A letter writer states, that 200 pounds of gold, $42,000, had been lately dug out bj four men. This was called only a specimen. It was a great specimen. Bread is rare at Panama, and enormously high. Six small loaves, not larger than the fist, cost 37} cents. The expense by water incurred by a passenger, from Chaares to Gorgona or Cruces, is from SSO to SIOO. Here the land travel begins, and the price of a mule from Cruces to Panama, is rather more than $lO. Lient. Lewis paid $34 for three mules from Panama to Cruces. The merchants at Valparaiso had made en ormous prqjits on investments of goods, provi sions, &*., to California. One cargo had been sold at a clear gain ol $120,000. The war of castes was continuing in the south of Mexico. It was thought that Alva rez was in a difficulty, as 1000 men had been sent to hun, in addition to tlje six hundred readv with him. if wafVumbred, on the 24th ,nh. at TeflSneingo, that he had been wounded. Wp,made.prisoner by the Insurrectionists, but ifieVeport was pot generally credited. A war Weil 3 tea was also going on in Gua temala. Carera, the banished President, was the author and promoter of the outbreak. The northern states of Mexico are still dreadfully ravaged by the Indians. The Mexican Chamber of Deputies has vo ted to authorize the government to borrow $1,500,000 upon the faith of the next instal ment of the indemnity due by the U. Slates. There was an attempt at revolution made on : the 21st ult. in Oajaca, in favor of Santa Anna, but it was immediately quashed. The gov ernment is making an effort so to organize the military force of the National Guard of the States, that these attempts may every where be speedily put down. [For the Re WoODVILLE, WEAK S. C. ) - [corrmuED fkom oueiSst.] To the Editor of the Christian Review : But a word upon African slavery as it exists among us in the Southern States of the Amer ican Union and for which we are anathema tized by religious and irreligious at the North. Whence did this ugly, uncouth, ill-shaped mon ster arise, and whence came it amongst us. I protest that no So itherner ever yet made a slave. The institution, our puritan friends will perhaps admit, for the most part took its origin in the captures effected by the belligerent tribes of Africa themselves, and it was surely a mer cy that such captives were enslaved instead of being destroyed by their conquering brethren. But how came their descendants now among us is the question which I suppose would bring abolitionists to a stand, if not too rabid. Your correspondent being a knowing one might perhaps charge the introduction of African slaves into this country to British cupidity. And if we grant it was thus the institution arose among the puritans of the North, we again ask how it came fixed exclusively upon usin “the sunny South.” Did not our enter prising Northern neighbors, when their slaves were of no further service at home, push them off - upon without the “nnid pro value received? And now, ! tempt to wrest them from us without compen sation come with a good grace from that quar ter? Surely not! But let me suggest to your . eloqueut correspondent and his compatriots ' how the thing may be done on principles of [ equity. It is a bad rule which wII not work both ways. As the abolitionists are the sym . pathizing party, convinced that slavery is a , crying sin against God and the country, ■ j while we are not of that way of thinking, let ' I them give us our money back, and convince j us that they will better the condition of Nancy ; j ar.d Scipio Africanus, and the rest, and perhaps * if the slaves can be induced to leave, many might bo thus satisfactorily relieved from “ the scourge and the chain.” But let Inm and id omtie genus sell all they have and come over like men and vest the whole of their cash in the purchase of slaves to be ta ken from among us, and manumitted where their religious privileges, with their health and happiness, will be bettered, and we will no longer upou such practical benevolence fling tlio charge of hypocritical can'. Wo will al low them to be sincere, though we may not think them quite free from fanaticism—nor thoroughly ptad in the book of God’s revela | tion, prescribing human duties and obligations, | because of the obnoxious feature of our slavc !ry whicli they had forced upon us. Our abo lition brethren some years ago repudiated reli gious connection with us in the work of chris. tian benevolence. They now (your cor res -1 pondent at head) are resolved at all hazard, at the risk of cutting every Southern throat (ex cept Nancy’sand Scipio’s,and that class) toex- <Avemi,tiers'iitJftt tWTefffil rj l 1 '-y the blood and treasure, in which I suppose > they admit that our chivalric volunteers boro 1 equal part with theirs; and the justice of the thingistobeseen in the fact that “so much Ter ’ ritory has already been given up wholly to the South.” Well, this might seem plausible were it not for the fact that we have alwavs 1 welcomed gooj citizens from every quarter to share equally with us in the privileges and im * munilies of all our States, and thousands of 1 Northern men and women have grown and ’ and are growing rich amongst us, yea your boot cleaners and milk maids are perhaps more highly honored with us than at home, and all r we ask is to join with our Northern fellow-cit : izetis in settling up the New Territories. v Does there appear to you no semblance of . reason and justice in our demand ? In ma king it wo think conscientiously that we have I the Constitution of the Union, and still more the God of the Bible with us. Be not surprised then that the South should insist so pertina ciously upon the righteousness of this claim as 1 to make its refusal to us the fearful act of sever ing us from the American Union to which we j. have so long clung with steadfast attachment. Sir, while your correspondent’s orator, Mr. Dix, indulging in abolition cant for political es -1 feet, spoke of Northern bones bleaching upon the plains of Florida, he forgot the fact that they were commingled with an equal number of Southern bones. But in referring to the plains of Mexico, we say that the blood of the fallen ' sons of the North unites its voice with that of the blood of Southern heroes in proclaiming to the world -the trunpot-iotrgui'd n util, 111 AC the South are, equally with the North, entitled to share in the costly purchase of that blood. Yes, on making the demand, we are conscious of having on our side every principle of rea son and justice, and that legislative act of Con -1 gress which will so far trample upou equity and the Constitution as to elbow us out of the 1 New Territory, must at the same time thrust us out of the Union. How could it do other wise? For in the language of your corres pondent, “ it will be the first step towards the J final eradication of that leaven of discord, 1 slavery itself”—and so it would. For in having overleaped the barrier of tbe Constitution in taking this first, the next would be to legislate our property from us without compensation, one of the ultimate results at which rabid abo ; litionists mm. Would not this first step then necessarily throw us upon the resort to self protection. Were it not to do so, the abolition - ists themselves would think us dastardly drones, and we could not bear the reproaching voices hailing from our blood-stained battle fields—those of the old revolution for liberty, and those of the late British war for free trade and sailors rights, and those of the recent Mexican war for natisnal rights. But, Sir, I trust that if your correspondent’s orators in Congress have no more knowledge and sense of Bible principles than he has, they at least