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SSteliljj (! : o nstit lit 10 mi l ist. BY JAMES GARDNER. Hon. Edward Everett on Slavery. We clip from an exchange the following extract, aken from a speech delivered by Mr. Everett in Congress, in 1826, in reply to resolutions intro duced by Mr. McDuffie, to change the manner of electing the Presidential Electors. The extract embodies, in a small compass, a strong argument in favor of our institutions, and proves its author to have been thoroughly imbued with the true spirit of our Government: “ Having touched on this point, I ought, per haps, to add, that if there are any members in this House of that class of politicians to whom the gen tleman from North Carolina, (Mr. Saunders,) al luded, as having the disposition, though not the power, to disturb the compromise contained in the Constitution on this point, I am not of the num ber. Neither am I one of those citizens of the North, to whom another honorable member lately referred, in a publication to which his name was subscribed, who would think it immoral and irre ligious to join in putting down a servile insurrec tion at the South. lam no soldier, sir; my habits and education are very unmilitary; but there is no cause m which 1 would sooner buckle a knap sack to my back, and put a musket on my shoul der, than that. I would cede the whole continent to any one who would take it—to England, to France, to Spain; I would see it sunk in the bot tom of the ocean, before I would see any part of this fair America converted into a continental Hayti, by that awful process of bloodshed and desolation, by which alone such a catastrophe could be brought on. The great relation of servi tude, in some form or other, with greater or less departures from the theoretic equality of man, is inseparable from our nature. I know of no way by which the form of this servitude shall be fixed but by political institution. Domestic slavery, though I confess not that form of servitude which seems to be most beneficial to the master—certainly not that which is most beneficial to the slave—is not, in my judgment, to be set down as an immoral and irreligious relation. I cannot admit that re ligion has but one voice to the slave, and that this voice is, ‘Rise against your master.’ No, sir, the New Testament says, ‘Slaves obey your master;’ and though I know full well, that in the benignant operation of Christianity, which gathered master and slave around the same communion table, this unfortunate institution disappeared in Europe, yet I cannot admit that, while it subsists, and where it subsists, its duties are not pre-supposed and sanctioned by religion. And though I certainly am not called upon to meet the charges brought against this institution, vet truth obliges me to say a word more on the subject. 1 know the condi tion of the working classes in other countries; I am intimately acquainted with it in some other countries, and 1 have no hesitation in saying, that I believe the slaves in this country are better clothed aud fed, and less hardly worked, than the peasantry of some of the most prosperous of the continent of Europe. Consider the rneiks on population; read Malthas. w*-,,. Ifttion down ? Po. rty> wftnt> hnu all the ills of life ; it is these that check pop ulation all orer the world. Now, the slave popula tion in the United States increases faster than the white, masters included. What is the inference as to the physical condition of the two classes of society? These are opinions l have long enter tained, and long since publicly professed on this subject, and which I he e repeat, in answer to the intimations to which \ have already alluded.” The California Fugitive Slave Case. TLe newspapers brought by the Moses Taylor, at New York, contain some further points of news m regard to the negro man Archy, the fugitive sider Sly euiplcyeif in this matter. The Alta Cali itian says: “ It Will be recollected that after protracted legal proceedings in the State Courts, the ncjjro was given up to his master by a decree of the Supreme Court. Stovall attempted then to carry off his slave by the steamer of March sth, but was pre vented by a writ of habeas corpus, issued by Judge Freelon, of the Court of Sessions of San Fran cisco. The proceedings under the writ were pro longed sevprul days, and terminated by the negro being set at liberty. Uefore he could leave the Court room, however, he was re-arrested bv au thority of a process from a United States Com missioner, issued under the fugitive slavo act. Since this time the Commissioner, George Pen Johnston, has been busy, nearly every day, hear ing evidence and argument in the case. "«C. A. Stovall himself deft for Mississippi on the steamer of the 20th March. He has a brother here, howeyer, aßd regular agents, who represent him. It is now alleged that Archy is a fugitive from justice, he having stabbed a white man in Mississippi and fled : and that his master, in cross ing the plains, on his way to California for bis health, came up with his runaway slave, and re took possession of him ; and his bringing him to California was necessary, in order to get him back home. It is supposed that Stovall will procure from the authorities of Mississippi a requisition for Archy, and that he will be taken back rather as an escaped criminal than fugitive slave.” Edwin Forest’s Conversion-Character istic Fetter. The report that Edwin- Forrksv, the actor, had been converted in the religious revival, called out a letter irom a clerical friend, (the Bev. Dr. E. L. Magoox, of Albany,) full of fervent sympathy and expressions of esteem. To that letter, this, from Mr. Foiirkst, is a reply : “ Philadelphia, March 27, 1858. “ I have much pleasure in the receipt of yours of the 23rd inst. “ While. I thank you and Mrs. with all my heart for the kind hope you have expressed, that the recent rumor with regard to my highest wel fare mat be true, I am constrained to say, that rumor is in this, as in most matters which pertain to me, most pitifully in error—there is not one word of truth id it. "But in answer to your questions, my good friend —for 1 know yon are animated only by a sincere regard for my spiritual as well as for my temporal welfare—l am happy to assure you that the pain ful attack of iufl»nnatory rheumatism, with which for the last three months i have combatted, is now quite overcome, and I think I may safely say. that with the return of more genial weather, 1 shall be restored once more to a sound and pristine health. „ . , - J .1 “ Then, for the state of my mind: Ido not know the time, since, when a boy, I blew sportive blad ders in the beamy sun, that it was ever so tranquil and serene as in the present hour. Having profit ed by the leisure given me by my lengthened ill ness seriously to review the past and carefully consider the future, both for time and for eternity, I have, with a chastened spirit, beheld with many regrets, that there was much in the past that might have been improved; more, perhaps, in the acts of OBiissiun than in acts of commission, for I {eel sustained that my whole conduct has been actuated solely by an honest desire to adhere strict ly to the rule of right; that the past has been characterised, as I trust the future will be, to love my friends, to hate my enemies—for I cannot be a hypocrite—and to live in accordance with the Divine precept. ‘As ye would that men should do to you, do je also to them likewise.’ « And now for that ‘ higher welfare,’ of which you speak: I can only say that believing, as I sin cerely do, in the justice, the mercy, the wisdom, and the love of Him who knoweth the secrets ot our hearts, I hope I may, with • An unfaltering trust, approach my grave. Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams/ “ Hoping you are in the enjoyment of good health, and that you still prosper in the * good work,’ which to you I know is a labor of love, “ lam your friend, Edwin Forrest.” Mr. James Larey, of this county, had his house, kitchen, and smoke house, entirely consumed bv fire on Friday last, with all of his furniture, meat, Ac. It is supposed that a child set fire to a bed in a room adjoining which a number of women were engaged in quilting. It seems they did not have presence of mind enough to save anything. * Sparta Georgian, April 28. Speculations as to Results. j A correspondent of the Savannah Republican thus refers to one of the probable results which will follow from the continued suspension of the banks m South Carolina : “ Augusta is a point which must exert a very great influence upon Charleston, as the busi ness of the former has usually flowed into her lap; and though I regret, as a Georgian, to say it, there seems to be more good feeling existing between those two cities, than between Savannah and Au gusta. This position must be changed now, at least until the Charleston banks resume. No one can fail to comprehend the plan the Augusta banks will follow. They certainly will not take bills on Charleston, because they will issue for them their own notes, redeemable in specie, and receive in Charleston, at maturity, current funds. Is it not plain, then, that Charleston will not receive her pro portion of the cotton remaining in Augusta, and that she thereby lose more money than she will make by suspension ? The result seems to us per fectly clear that Savannah is to reap a harvest by the continued suspension of the Carolina banks, and I, for one, will rejoice to see them continue in their present state till forced out of it by legisla tion. We may casually remark to the correspondent of the Republican, that cotton is not moved for ward to market by contributions to newspapers. If the shippers and commission merchants of Sa vannah expect to “reap a harvest” from Augusta, they must send up their orders for cotton. While there is a stock of about twenty thousand bales it is in the hands of men who know how to sell it* and we have among us purchasers who are expe rienced and know where to ship it. .Sentenced. J. Dailey and Pat’k. Murphy were sentenced to hard labor in the Louisiana penitentiary, for life, by Judge Hunt, of the First District Court, in New Orleans. The former was convicted of the murder of Giuskppi Zazzi, an organ grinder, and the latter of Lorenzo Dow, a free n gro. In deliv ering his sentence, the Judge made the following allusion to the practice of carrying concealed weapons: “ This is a practice that is condemned by the law and by every consideration of justice, honor, and humanity. There is no peace or safety for the good man in any society in which it prevails. It emboldens the coward to be unmannerly and in sulting ; and the difficulties to which it thus gives rise, subjects the brave and linarmed man to the knife or pistol of the armed and cowardly assassin. “ The practice is still mere fatal to the *>eacc and happiness of society, when it is adopted 'by heed icss and inconsffierate youth. It leads to wanton mischief, to frivolous und foolish quarrels, and to bloodshed and ruin.” fg" We find the following items in the Mem phis Appeal , of the 28th instant: The River. —The river is now a grand object as it sweeps round the bluffs, its majestic volume is worthy of the fame of the mighty father of waters. The rise during the last twenty-four hours was five inches. The surface is stated to be Rix inches above the last rise and within two inches of the rise of 1850. Parties up the river state that the Arkansas is now pouring out a heavier flood than it has done before during the present season. Skiffs are now purchasing in this city for the use of places below. Froet. —There waa quite a sprinkling of this ar ticle to be observed yesterday morning, on such na^T.;,rrTrtrfi^ much damaged, if not ruined, by the untrurery visitation ; and the probability is, that the young cotton, which has just made its appearance above the earth, is totally destroyed, which will impose the necessity of a secondplanting. The fruit was not materially injured. The results will be more definitely known to-morrow. Prediction. —lt is predicted that the washing out of the bottoms by the flood will be productive of a healthful season. Lott. —Below the navy yard the line ot the bank is obliterated, and the flood extends to the bluft’ below the jail. The boundaries of Wolf river are indistinguishable. TLere is no paper upon our long list of ex changes which we read with more pleasure or to whose opinion upon any question affecting south ern interests we attach more importance than the South Side Democrat, of Petersburg, Virginia. The estruct which we subjoin is taken from an article in its issue of the 29th ult: “ Our last article on this subject, in Saturday morning’s issue, will show the temper with which we approached the proposition of the committee on conference. That article is of too recent date to require any further reference than to say that our prejudices were earnest, nay, almost violent, against the proposition of the committee. \\lth all the past before us, itiwas with unconquerable repugnance that we regarded the ideas of compro mise and concession. Under the form of compro mise we had retreated, in the shape of concession we had surrendered, until our hearts sickened at iheir recollection, and we saw but this hope of safety—to nail ourcolors to the mast, and go down, if we must, without disgrace. “With such emotions, predominant, we took up the compromise report. But for two facts, we should have thrown it away with scorn and con tempt, when we found that it was not the Senate bill, pure and simple. Those facts were these: Ist, That Senator lluater had signed and urged the report; and 2d, That the Black Republicans, horse, foot and dragoons, had wheeled into solid column against it. These alone appealed to an in stinct stronger than any prejudice, and to which even the mature conclusion of our own deliberate judgment, had we formed it, might well yield a a revision. And so poised between a prejudice and the instinct of sell-preservation, which led us to look somewhere else than among the vindictive and treacherous enemies of our people for the true ground of the South, we resolved to weigh the subject in the balance of our own mature aud de liberate reflection—carefully to compare the Sen ate bill with the report, on the one hand, and with the House amendment on the other, and see how tar it conflicted with either. It was our firm resolve, that, come what might, we would oppose it to the bitter end, if it sacrificed one principle or retreated one inch from the bold position on which the Democracy and the South had planted them selves. “The conclusion to which we arrived was, that the biU is better for the South and better for the country than the Senate bill.” Wonderful Growth of Kansas Cities. —A Kan sas correspondent, in allusion to the rapid growth of Kansas, says: The growth of western cities has always been quotedj as something marvelous, and this one of Leavenworth will not fall behind the mo>t marvel ous accounts of their progress. Less than four years ago not a building was to be seen on the spot where now resides at least eight thousand people. In the space of three years and a half, it has grown up to its present proportions, and is still increas ing rapidly. Two daily papers and three weeklies are published in this city. The various printing offices are overrun with job work, and business generally is prosperous. In addition to the pro gress in the newspaper line, the citizens are pre paring for the introduction of water into the city, and also intend lighting it with gas. A great deal of activity is apparent, arising from the pre parations being made here for the Utah expedi tion. Where Ignorance was not Bliss. —ln Cincin nati, a few days since, a man who resides within twelve miles of that city, walked into the Citizens’ Bank for the purpose of obtaining a sum of money which he had deposited there several years ago. Imagine his feelings on learning that the bank had failed six months ago ! He had not even heard of the panic which recently swept over the country with such a leveling influence. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1858 The London Times, of the 81st ult., gives us the following sensible advice in reference to the Mormon rebellion; “We know that our friends across the Atlantic are rather restive of advice, even when it is tendered in the moAt respectful and conciliatory spirit; but, with this knowledge, we still cannot refrain from stating that the pro tracted existence of the Mormon insurrection is a scandal and a disgrace to the authorities, executive as well as legislative, of the United States, and that if steps be not promptly and vigorously taken to restore the supremacy of the law, a fatal blow may be struck at the permanency and integrity of the Union.” Among the recent items of news in Texas papers, we notice the following : Powhattan Irving recently killed Wm. E. How ard, in Washington county. A Dr. Thompson murdered J. D. Carr, in Rusk county. The grasshoppers are destroying corn and fruit throughout Texas. The number of ship-owners in New Or leans who refused to load Cotton for Liverpool at a less rate than nine-sixteenths of a penny, was over sixty. Their demands were complied with on the 27th April. The advance of the previous rates was equal to about one dollar per bale. 53?” We notice statements made by Washing ton correspondents that the Secretary of the Treas ury is encouraged to believe that the receipts from customs will be so much increased during the coming fiscal year that there will be no necessity for a call upon Congress for an additional issue of treasury notes. l&r In a telegraphic dispatch to the editor of the Atlanta Intelligencer, from the Hon. Lucius J. Gartrell, it is stated that two southern Democrats voted against the Kansas compromise bill, on its passage in the House of Representatives on Friday, 30th May. accounts from several portions of the wheat region of Tennessee, state that the recent frosts and cold weather have not injured the grow ing vwheat, ‘ilthough fruit and garden vegetables have been damaged. Professor E. Gkddings, has resigned from the chair of Surgery in the Medical College of South Carolina, at Charleston. Dr. G. has been connected with that institution for more than twenty years. A Broken Leg. — Joseph A. Wood, who had his leg broken in Quebec twenty-seven ago, the same leg broken in South Carolina ten years ago, and iu New Hampshire two years ago, was de scending the stairs of a hotel in Worcester on the 10th ult., when he slipped and broke it for the fourth time. After this he concluded to have it cut off. Another Bisnop from Trinity Church.— The Rev. Sullivan H. Weston waa, on the 14th ultimo, on the first ballot, and by the unanimous vote of the Episcopal Convention, elected Bishop of Texas, Mr. Weston is Assistant Minister of Trinity V* . V last six years. In Minnesota, they have Sibley “declared” Gov ernor; Ramsey “elected” Governor; Medary “ap pointed” Governor; and Chase “acting” Gover nor. The Kansas Conference Committee. —The Washington States thus sums up the complexion of this body: On the part of the Senate— J. S. Green, Mo., Le conipton Democrat; R. M. T. Hunter, Va., Leeomp ton Democrat; W. H. Seward, N. Y., Republican. On the part of the House— Wm. H. English, Ind., anti-Lecomptou Democrat; A. 11. Stephens, Ga., Lecompton Democrat; W. A. Howard, Micb., Republican. Chicago as Seen by an Editor.— The Cleveland Plain Dealer has lately seen 4 Chicago through pecu liar spectacles: Chicago is a bustling city. It was formerly in Illinois, but now Illinois is in it. Lake Michigan is situated on Chicago. The principal produc tions of Chicago are corner lots, statistics, wind, the Democratic press, and long John Wentworth. The population of Chicago is about sixteen mil lions, and is “rapidly increasing.” The people are very unassuming aud moral—almost too much so. The real estate dealers are honorable men, like Puntus, and wouldn’t tell a lie for auvthiug. Chicago is not in the temperate zone, the habits of the people not being at all in that way. A New Dodge. — Postage Stamps. —The Boston Journal says: “ An advertisement appeared in one of the city papers, and has been editorially noticed, inviting all persons who have cancelled postage stamps to send them in to a poor boy, who is to cover a chamber wall with them, and thereby secure from some eccentric old gentleman an ample fortune. Perhaps a simpler solution to the question as to the use to be made of the cancelled stamps may be found in another process, viz.: that of extracting the canceling mark of the postmaster, which may be done by the application of the simplest chemi cals, so as to ’ ave the stamp as good as new. Un cle Sara will have to try his hand at some preven tative process, or his stamps will go the rounds un til worn out. The Latest “Great Attraction” in New York. A correspondent of the Boston Journal , writing from New York city, says : “We have a new prodigy in this city in the per son of a boy preacher. He is about fifteen years of age. His uame is Crammond Kennedy.' He is a Baptist, aud belongs to the church ot Rev. Mr. Adams, on Christopher street. He is a con vert in the late revival, has already been licensed to preach by that church, and is just now attract ing large crowds to hear him. His st} le is vehe ment; nis sermons have in them much method; he speaks wholly extemporaneously, and his sys tem of theology seems to be mature, and after the school of the’ sounder and more conseivative schools of the day. He preaches and speaks nearly every night. His houses are crowded to overflowing, and for a season he will be the great attraction of our city.” The Oceanic Telegraph. —The following is a copy of a letter recently received at the Navy De partment, from Capt. W. L. Hudson. It bears date April 9th IBSP, on board the United States steamer Niagara, at Plymouth, England: Sir: I have the honor to report that we have now coiled away four hundred and seven miles of telegraphic cable, recently manufactured at Green wich. It has been decided by the Directors, in this effort, to lay out the wire, that the Agamemnon and Niagara shall each carry one thousand f ur hundred and sixty miles of cable—some two hun dred miles more in each ship than we had on board last year. It affords me great pleasure to slate that our reception here has been a grateful one, and every disposition evinced on the part of the Admirality and Her Majesty’s officers on this station to facili tate our movements, and render such accommo dations and aid as may be required for carrying on our work. I avail myself or this occasion to state that the officers and crew are iu good health, notwithstanding the continued raiby and unplea sant weather we have had since our arrival in Keyham docks. Some of the South Carolina Banks. At the conclusion of an editorial in the Charles ton Evening /tens, of Friday the 30th April, we find published the following presentments of the grand jury of Newberry District, in South Carolina. They seem to handle the managers of the Newberry Bank rather roughly: “ The Banket Newberry. —This grand jury would further present, as a great nuisance and a crying evil to this community, the operations of the Bank of Newberry. “ The petitioners who asked the legislature of the State for a charter, to constitute a bank to be located at the town of Newberry, alone did so with the yiew of its affording banking facilities for the trade of the town and country in which it was lo cated ; and from the evidences before them they are forced to the conclusion that the Bank of New berry, with its corporated privileges, has subserv ed almost every other purpose than the one for which it was intended by those who were the means of its creation. “This grand Jury presents, that a bank properly conducted would be a source of much good to the country, and, in turn, by its accommodations, the bank would realise satisfactory profits. But a bank conducted as that of the Bank of Newberry, where its president has not only endeavored on divers times to control the price of cotton, but has absolutely dictated to parties shipping cotton to whom they should or snould not ship their cotton; and a president of a bank who regards not the decision oßthe board of directors in the discount ing of accommodation paper, assuming to himself the supreme control of such matters, as this grand jury has in evidence before them, and a president, who, to the exclusion of parties at home, sends the funds of the bank to New York, Mississippi, Ala bama and elsewhere; and a president of a bank who so far lowers the dignity of the usages of banking ak to have outsiders in the constant prac tice of picking up the notes of other banks in lieu of his own, and of turning upon them again, and demanding them to be redeemed in specie, when his own bunk had not one dollar in specie for every twenty in paper, is unfit to be the president bank constituted by the people. “They present that other charges may be pre ferred against the operations of the Bank of New berry through its president, but they will content themselves with submiting that the president has been in the habit of issuing circulars to at least some of the cotton buyers, that they must not pay more than a certain price for cotton, and in con sequence thereof the legitimate trade of Newberry has been turned away from it, and parties largely engaged in business here have suffered from such acts of tyranny on the part of the president of the Bank of Xewberry. “They farther present that the complaints of the people are loud and numerous against the manage ment of the bank, and the people cry aloud that it should be pulled down, its charter taken from it, and wound up by the legislature, or managed in a proper and legitimate manner. W. Walker, Foreman.” Liquor and Law.—The Boston Ledger is respon sible for the following: “ The reply of a prominent temperance prohibi tion law advocate to a question put to him the oth er day as to ‘how*thc controversy stood between the rum-sellers and temperance men/ was quite to the point. He said that ‘ temperance never had more law nor the rum-sellers more liquor than at present.’ This is doubtless true, and being true, is a hard commentary upon the present ‘Dlue laws’ of Massachusetts.” A New Move in Behalf of Assassination.— Fromtia Criminal Ztitung, of New York, it ap- a “ Joint Stock Company ” is about to “ Three hundred dollars are already subscribed, a gentleman in Hoboken having subscribed two thirds of this sum. A revolutionary philosopher and agitator, named Heiuzen, is said to be con cerned in the matter, and offers to avenge the en slaved nations of Europe, by killing the French Emperor. There seems, however, to exist doubts as to his sincerity, and whether it is safe to entrust him with the funds. On the part of Mr. Heinzen, it is asserted that the money is no consideration whatever, the sum being necessary to defray the expense of the means for executing the plan promised, and which, we are told, i 3 to be accom plished like a patriot, without any consideration for himself whatever!” General Walker.—The general inquiry of “ What has become of General Walker?” may be answered by the following extract from a letter, written by the New Orleans correspondent of the St. Louis Republican: “The Ex-President of Nicaragua, General Wm. Walker, is now in this city, and has been for a month past. He is coolly and contentedly waiting his trial before the United States District Court, on charges of violating the neutrality laws, which is expected to take place in May. He keeps himself secluded in his room, and writes, I understand, as industriously and continuously as if commiting to paper the" minute particulars of the last few busy and eventful years of his life. An ardent fnend and follower of the renowned tillibuster in forms me that another raid upon Nicaragua is not only contemplated, but in actual preparation, and that the confidence in its success is just as great as it ever was; aud that General Heuuingsen has been busy securing friends to the cause, arranging for recruiting, and making other preparations, and that no formidable obstacle is expected to interfere.” _ From the Osford (Miss.) Mercury, April 27. The Rain Last Monday. At an early hour on Monday morning, black, thick, aud foreboding clouds entirely covered the upper firmament, and with a sudden flash of light ning and a keen loud twang of thunder, the flood gates of heaven were opened, and from that time until midnight the rain descended in incessant torrents —hoarse thunder rolled along the vaulted sky, and vivid lightning flashed its fiery tresses through the air! There is no man living here who ever saw as much water fall in one day. It is sad to contemplate the wrecks and ruins it has left us to muse on. The trains on the Mississippi Central railroad have not made a trip since Monday morning. Mr. Sanderson, of Marshall, who came part of tneway on the train from Holly Springs Yesterday, anti walked the track the balance of the distance, in forms us that the rain swelled all the streams above here to heights never known before. The trestle work over Cold Water river, near Hudsonville, had all washed away, and other damages were done to the road at various places above Holly Springs. Mr. S. reports the water of Tallahatchee river near ly up to tue floor of the railroad bridge, and rising very fast. A vigilant force is stationed there ward ing" off the acres of drift-wood that is unceasingly coming down the river. The bridge is a strong structure, and will undoubtedly be preserved, but its strength will be tried to its utmost capacity. At Hurricane creek, about seven miles above bet •, fifty feet of trestle-work is gone. And all along the* track above here there is more or less injuries done. Below here, greater injury is supposed to have been sustained. We saw a gentleman who came up from below Water Valley on Tuesday; he swam his horse some four times before reaching here; he reports Water Valley as presenting a very Venitian appearance—water all through the town—the tres tlework of the railroad washed away—and whole plantations in that neighborhood completely under water. At Taylor’s depot, six or eight miles below here, the track is reported broken, and at nearly every cut through hills sediment is washed upon the track seveial feet deep. There is no telling when the cars will be put io motion again. It will not take long to repair the injuries above Plantations lving immediately along the Tallahatchee and Otocbalopha rivers have received incalculable in juries. Scores of fences have been carried away, and the newly planted crops washed up. There is no getting at the exact amount ot damage which has been sustained. Some planters say that they fear their prospects for making a crop this year has been seriousiy blighted. .. Pla, -i*Ribu.— Hia Excellency, save tb V? ob . lle Register, the present restless Governor or V lrgmia, is, perhaps, of all men alive, the one most tormented by an insatiable desire of notority— that being his idea of fame. Impelled by this passion, he never lets slip the occasion of making a noise, and lives in an incessant splutter of pub lic letters, and speeches, and toasts. His last ex ploit was a toast, magnified to the skies, as fol r^^ h ‘ 8 .P oliticaI y Mr. Forney, of the Philadelphia Press: Governor Wise. —Of the representative men of the present time, the distinguished Executive of the “Old Dominion” stands among the foremost. Fearlessly independent on all subjects, he takes his position upon the general issue of the day with the firery fervor of a Melancthon, and the iron will of a Luther. With stirring eloquence he gives characteristic expression to sentiments which come glowing from a mine of purest and rarest genius. He revels in a curious felicity of expression, which gives a corruscating, gem-like radiance to his thoughts. We have been peculiarly struck with the follow ing terse and exquisitely conceived toast, which we find floating among our exchanges, and which Governor Wise sent to the St. Patrick’s Day dinner at Washington. We do not believe that as much fire and patriotic feeling were ever expressed in as few words. The language fairly rings with the sound of steel and sparkles with the glitter of bayonets: “John Philpot Curran, the advocate in 1798. He was upright when honor was rebellion; he was true when integrity was treason; he stood by the accused and doomed when to pity was to par ticipate ; and he was loyal to liberty when to name her was to die.” It stirs an instinctive echo in the heart of all who sympathise with the sacred cause of liberty and free institutions.— Phila. Press. The Pennsylvanian very remorselessly strips this peacock’s plume from the chattering jackdaw that has decked himself with it; it shows that the toast is a simple theft, almost literal, from a speech of the Rev. Henry Giles, made only a year ago: A regard for truth induces us to say, that the toast in question is a fragment of the peroration to a most eloquent speech made by the Rev. Henry Giles, in the Musical Fund Hall of this city, in the year 1857, and which was characterised by the United States Gazette as one of the most powerful and impressiye discourses ever delivered in this community. Mr. Giles said, in speaking of Curran, whom he denominated “the glory of the Irish Bar :” “He was true when integrity was treason ; he was brave when honor was rebellion ; he stood by the accused and tht doomed, when to pity was to participate; and he was loyal to liberty when even to name her was to die.” A Destructive War Engine. —We mentioned some time since that two of our ingenious citizens, Messrs. Wright and Gould, had completed the model of a rotary cannon which could be fired at the rate of sixty rounds per minute. Since that announcement the inventors have been engaged in having constructed a working model for the gun, which is now finished, and was tested yester day afternoon in a vacant building on Washington street. The piece is a beautiful little brass gun of the usual shape, mounted on wheels, and so con structed that a rotary cylinder constitutes the breech, which contains four charges, replenished by means es a hoppe**, and firea ns rapidly as a man can work an ordinary lever backward and for ward. The piece is discharged by electricity, and from this results an important and valuable dis covery, which was developed after the completion of the piece. By means of the battery ana wires connecting with the cylinder by which ignition is caused the cylinder becomes perfectly electrised, which keeps it as cool as if continually bathed with ice. Some two hundred rounds were tired v* tthoni swab once," tSeljrc• cn ] much colder than when firing bonoi&fettcce! Trie 1 rapidity of the firing was much retarded by ? bad quality of the cartridge in use, but such was it was sufficient to demonstrate the r success of the invention. We understand ag soon as all arrangements are completed, the inven tors will proceed to Washington and. lay their plans before the government. Suffaln Kcprf Jt> AprU'iZ. Interesting from Utah.— \ fetter from Fort Learenworth to the -New V, rk Tinles giTe9 tbe statements of a gentleman ■ j( education and abili ty, Mr. F. Loba, who has j ust made his e9cape from Salt Lake City, an'j who furnishes very dif ferent accounts of the edition of the “ Saints” from those which ha’/e hitherto been current. He does not believe tn 6 y will fight the United States troops, if the latt er g 3 i a force sufficient to be at all formidable. He says they have no powder no, cannon, no military stores of any kind, and that all the stories of their having a large force perfect ly drilled ar,d ready for service, are all nonsense. The whole number of their men capable of being good soldiers does not exceed three thousand five hundred. He thinks that Young will have a “ special revelation,” and run away as soon as be finds that the United States is in earnest. Large Cargo.—The ship John Patten, Capt. J. Patten, was cleared at the Custom House yester day, for St. Petersburg, by Messrs. A. Low & Co., with a cargo consistiug of three thousand seven hundred and fifty bales Upland cotton, (all of which is under deck,) weighing one million seven hu idred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and twenty eight pounds, and valued here at two ! hundred and twenty thousand dollars. This is one of the largest cargoes ever taken from ' his port, by a vessel of her size, being only nine hundred and sixty tons burthen. It is ' also larger by four hundred and seventy-seven bales, or two hundred and ninety thousand four hundred and five pounds than the cargo she car ried from New Orleans. She was stowed by Sam- 1 uel Boles, a colored stevedore. ( Savannah Republican , May 1. ' From Havana.—Don Ventura Mira, and Senor don Santrago Valdes, prominent’ citizens of Ha vana, died in that city, the former on the 18th, and the latter on the 23rd inst. The Prenza says: The scarcity of silver noticea ble in our market, we perceive will soon briDg about an inundation of dimes, or American rials, such as was the case not long since, and which we believe will be gladly welcomed as an accommo dation to our public/because of the greater facility in procuring small change. The Black Warrior brought on her last trip one thousand dollars of said money. Let the dimes come; instead of oc casioning difficulty, we may retain in our purses, dow and then, the little rials which at present we gather in change for gold. Savannah Republican, April 29. Drugged too Much.—Dr. O. W. Holmes, better known as tbe funny man, in his valedictory address to the medical graduates of Harvard University, delivered recently, gives the following advice to ] medical students who were about to graduate: “ iVith regard to the exhibition of drugs, as a ! part of your medical treatment, the golden rule is, 1 oe sparing . Many remedies you give would make 1 a well person so ill that he would send for you at « once, it he had taken one of your doses accident- 1 ly. It is not quite fair to give such things to a \ sick man, unless it is clear that they will do more 1 good than the very considerable barm you know * they will cause. Be very gracious with children * especially. I have seen old men shiver at the re collection of the rhubarb and jalap of infancy. 1 You may depend upon it that the success of Ho- £ mcepathy is due to the sweet peace it has brought \ into the nursery. Between the gurgling down of t loathsome mixtures and the saccharine deliques- t cence of a minute globule, what tender mother r could hesitate?” 1 No Doubt of it. —Tho Boston Post declares that < the editor who threatened to write two columns a ' week about Kansas unless his delinquent subscri bers paid up, says that every one has squared up his account, and three hundred and seventy paid for one year in advance. Charles Lamb is reported to have perpetrated the following: “ The water-cure is neither new nor wonderful; for it is as old as the deluge, which, in my opinion, killed more than it cured.” V OL. 37-IsrO. 19 Rejoicings at the Result. The announcement that a victory had been gain ed in each branch of Congress by the true sop porters of the administration, over all factions and combinations, was spread over the metropolis in a very short time, and crowds came out to enjoy the triumph, and to exchange congratulations. Those Senators and Representatives who had aided in achieving the passage of the bill received the cor dial thanks of their fellow-citizens, and every one appeared to be in the best of humor, except an oc casional Black Republican, his “occupation gone.” The result had been so decisive, that even the most sanguine of these agitating gentlemen did not ap pear to have the leasthope that anything can “turn up to comfort them. Meanwhile the cannoniers (under the direction °‘ J* T. Hollohan) made their preparations, and soon advised our expectant friends at Alexan dria “and the rest of mankind ” that the Kansas question is banished from the halls of Congress. The “loud music of the cannon’s thunder” pealed forth a national salute of thirty-fio# guns, (one being added for the new State,) on Capitol Hill, in honor of the Senate, and as many more in honor of the House of Representatives. Another nation al salute was fired at the Central market, and the balance of one hundred guns in front of the Exe cutive Mansion. The President of the United States was then honored with the salute of twenty one guns, to which the Chief Magistrate of the Union is entitled by usoge. The salutes, of course, attracted crowds, an d warm were the congratulations exchanged, the more especially as the victory in Congress over Know Nothingism and its Republican allies is a cheering omen to the Democratic and anti-Know Nothing voters of this metropolis. The movements of Humphrey Marshall, Campbell, and other dis tinguished friends of Giddings and Howard, have been exactly the same as those of the guerrilla band which hovers around the conservative party of this metropolis, impeding its advancement, and by stealthy surprises making an occasional foray into the camp, when a wandering Democrat can be found to act as pilot. But as those who expected to defeat the Democratic party in Congress are now disappointed, so those who suppose that secret machinations and deceitful neutrality can mislead the voters of Washington, will find that they have miscalculated the patriotism and the public spirit of our citizens. Could a band have been obtained, there would have been a serenade given to the President, but the Mav ball and the concert had monopolised the musicians, and it was postponed until to-night, when a brilliant ovation may be expected. Three cheers for the votes of yesterday! Washington Union, May Ist. “ Begot by Butchers.”—Senator Hammond, of South Carolina, who recently characterised all working people as “ the mudsills of society,” is himself the son of a butcher, the blood of a ‘‘mud sill ”is in his veins. As Saxe says : Depend upon it, my snobbish friend. Your family thread you can’t aacend, Without good reason to apprehend You may find It waxed at the other end By some pleblan vocation.’’ We extract the above from the New York Eve ning Post , and present it to our readers as a speci men of Freesoil slander. It so happens that the April number of Deßow’s Review contains a me moir of Col. Marcellus Hammond, the brother of Senator Hammond, from which it will be seen the article of the Post is a vile false* 1 “ His father.” savs the memoir, “ " olonel £ Hammond, was a graduate of Dartmouth College, N. H., was distinguished in his class, and delivered a poem on fulfilling his appointment. Ho was a college mate, an intimate associate an <| friend of Daniel Web* ster. Chosen to the office of principal of an acade-\ my at a f ew miles from Newberry < Court t, e goon secured for this institution a |at Columbia*. There be niame’ Mi*- .Spann, of the large family of that name spread A over the two States of North and South Carolina, i He did not long continue to hold the Professor-▼ ship. Resigning this, he again retired to New- berry, some years before the birth of the oue of whom we write.” This younger one is the author of the articles, published in the Southern Quarterly Recictc, on the minor battles of the Mexican war. Mobile Register . G. P. R. James.—“ Belle Britain,” writing from Richmond, says of G. P. R. James, the novelist: ‘‘He has realised a fortune from his copy-rights, and is enjoying the combined luxuries or city and country life—the latter at the ‘Slash Cottage’—the birth-place of Henry Clay—some sixteen miles from Richmond, cn the railroad to Washington. He has several sons, one an engineer in the West; and ‘one fair daughter, whom he loveth passing well.’ He has written all his works through the medium of an amanuensis. His habit has been to rise at five o’clock in the morning, read six, and then walk the room and dictate until nine o’clock. He reads his composition for the first *oac in printer’s proof.” Laws and Journals.—The Columbus Times <jk Sentinel , of Tuesday, 27th inst., says : “ We have heretofore neglected to state that the Journals— four thousand in number—of the last legislature, were delivered to the proper authorities in MiL ledgeville some weeks since. We trust that they are printed in a neat and handsome style. The Laws are not quite completed. They will how ever, be finished as soon as the Index is despatched from MilledgeviJle. We have spared no pains nor expense to make both the Laws and Journals a specimen of elegant printing, and hope that our duty as public printers has been discharged with fidelity to the State and people. A Bit op Lamb.—A retired cheesemonger, who hated any allusion to the business that had enrich ed him, said to Charles Lamb in the course of a discussion on the English poor laws: “ You must bear in mind, sir, that I have got rid of that stuff which you poets call the ‘milk of human kindness.’ ” Lamb looked at him steadily, and gave his ac quiescence in these pithy words: *• Yes, I am aware of that—you turned it all into cheese, several years ago.” Exit, cheesemonger, complaining of a sudden ouch of the toothache. A gentleman having a horse that started and broke his wife’s neck, a neighboring squire told him he wished to purchase it for his wife to ride upon. “No, no,” says the other, “I will not sell the little fellow, because I intend to get mar ried again myself.” New York, April 28. — Win. Fuller has been ar rested here charged with forging a government draft for five thousand dollars, purporting to be drawn by James Reeside and accepted by O. P. Brown, treasurer of the Post Office Department. Four drafts of a similar nature have been already paid at various periods. The draft is dated Nov. 1, 1834, and both Reeside and Brown have since died, as has also Mr. Sibley, President of a bank in Georgia, who, Fuller alleges, advanced the mo ney on it at the time. With the exception of a few years it has been in the hands of Fuller, who gives no reason for not sooner presenting it for payment. A few days ago a New York broker sent it to Messrs. Riggs & Co., of Washington, for collec tion, and upon being presented at the Department for payment was pronounced a forgery. Boston, April 24.—Capt. Brown, of the ship Black Prince, of this port, (previously announced as having put into Rio, on the 27th or February,) writes to the owners here that when the vessel was thirteen days out, in consequence otsome difficul ty, he ordered one of the men to be put in irons. The man, on hearing this, drew his knife from his belt and stabbed Capt. Brown in two places. The would-be-assassin, with others, however, was eventually put in irons, but it being soon after discovered that a concerted plan to make farther trouble was on foot, Capt. Brown made for Rio, with all possible dispatch, and landed seven of the mutineers at that port. The ship then left for home on the 3d of March. Capt. Brown, though wounded severely, is not considered in a danger ous condition. , St. Louis, April 29.—The river is unchanged. The upper Mississippi is rising. The Missouri and Illinois are falling.