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"VIS v ,{,Ui * I THE TELEGRAPH 13 rUHLISUED EVERY Tt'I'.SDAY MORNING RY O. H. PRINCE, AT TIIRBE DOLLAU8 PER ANNUM, J jV V A IIIA 111- Y IN A D V A NCE. Advertisements «re intoned m si oo per Square for the first insertion, and 30 cents per square for each Insertion thereafter. A reasonable deduction will be made to those who adver tise by the year. rxj’S. 11. Sales of LANDS, by Administrators. Execu tors, or Guardians, are required by law, to be held an the first Tuesday in the month, between the hour* of ten in the forenoon, and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house, in the county in which the land is situated. Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazelle SIXTY DAYS pre vious to ilic day of sale. Sales of NEGROES must be made at a public auction on the (tret Tuesday of the month, between the usual lours of sale, at the plarc of public sales in the county where tb« letters of testamentary, of Administration or Guardianship, may have been granted, first giving SIXTY DAYS notic* thereof, in one of the public gazettes of this Slate, and at the door of the Court house, where such sales are to beheld. Notice for the sale of Personal Property must be given in like manner, FORTY days previous to the day of sale. Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an estate must be published FORTY days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Or dinary for leave to sell LAND, must ba published for FOUR MONTHS. Notice for leave to sell NEGROES must be published for FOUR MONTHS, before any order absolute .slisll be made thereon by the Court. Citations for letters of Administration, must he publish ed thirty days—for dismission from administration, month- lr nr. months—for dismission from Guardianship, forty days. HULKS for the foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly for four months—fur establishing lost papers .for the full space of three months—for compelling titles from Executors or Administrators, where a Bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always be continued according to these, the lr-nl requirements,unless otherwise ordered. REMITTANCES RY MAIL.—"A postmaster may en close money in a letter to the publisher of a newspaper, to pay the subscription of a tliird person, and frank the letter if without a flue or of any extra fixture to make fancy cotton. The seed arc very similar to the pure Mexi can, though rather more of a reddish brown, bdt about the same size of the Pettit Gulf seed, well coated, Ac. 1 have made but one exper iment os to the proportionate weight of seed and him with her battle-axo so hard a blow on the ear that Kettil fell with his heels in the air, and she called to him, ‘Thus we punish our dogs when they bark too loud.’ Kettil leapt to bis feet again, wanting to avenge himself, hut, in the same moment, Rolfcame up, giasped Tor- bo rrv across the nrms, and so she was obliged to surrender hersell to his power; but Rolf political* lint; this was when testing the value of the ] to surrender herse I ’ ,, i , ® , ion onlv desired that she would permit her lather cotton three years ago. I weighed out 100 °my oesirto u sue. i , f - ° - - to judge in this matter. She, therefore, ac companied him back to Upsala, and laid down pounds of seed cotton, ginned it myself, and packed it into a miniature bale weighing 25 ibs. which was sent as a present to my friends Oak- ey «fc Hawkins, of New Orleans, and is now to be seen in their office. Taking this experi ment as a test, audits yield from the seed is even greater than the Mexican. I will con clude by stating that any of your friends who should fancy to plant this cotton, can procure the seed of Messrs. Oakey &. Hawkins, New Orleans. Very respectfully, vour obedient servant, JOHN W. WEEMS. JHteceUan$. written by himself."—Amos Kendall. P.M. G. &0Vfc«Uural. From the Georgia Conslilulionarisl. Gnatimnlii Colton Sc n d. We beg to call the attention of our planting friends to the communication of Mr. John W. Weems, of Natchez, in relation to his Guati-' mala Cotton Seed. We shall endeavor to keep them informed of the varipus improvements in Agriculture, as nothing lends so much to en rich a country as the successful management of its Farmers and Planters. We have received from Mr; Weems a sample of his Cotton, which can be scon ai our office, on Washington st. opposite Finney’s Hotel, up-stairs—and also n sack of the send, which wo shall t3ke great pleasure in distributing to our planting subscri bers who feel disposed to test the experiment themselves in raising this kind of cotton. To those who wish to purchase and try it on a large scale, the seed can be had of Oakey &. Hawkins, of New Orleans. One of our enter- prizing planters, John ltabb, E>q. brought with him from that city, a sack which lie in tends to plant this spring. The price is $10 per sack of 2A bushels. To the. Editor of the Vicksburg Whig. Dear Sir:—I lake pleasure in handing you a small specimen of my Gualimula Cotton, and afewseed ns samples. It is the product of seed enclosed me by^lettcr from the Ameri. c t —l ci~t— o-——» * ■ •>_ in 1So6, and represented as picked by himself from stalks growing in the vicinity of Old Gu- ntimala, now (Antigua,) about thirteen miles from the city of Guatimala, the metropolis of that interesting country. The stocks from which my lock of cotton was picked had been in bearing 3 years. In that delightful climate of perpetual summer of the most even and dc- Jighifu! lemeraturc, the cotton stalk more re sembles a tree than a plant. I planted these rare seed in the spring of 1837, and have continued to plant their pro duct each succeeding year since, tmd the sam ples $ent is a specimen of the eighth crop. The firstand second years the stalks grew to a mammoth size. The bearing was so late that the first year 7 stalks produced only a sin gle boll of matured cotton before frost. The second year from 17 stalks I got 23 bolls only; the third year the improvement was so great as to induce a belief that it would prove valuable, and in this expectation I was encouraged by tiic opinion of Col. Maunsell White, of New Orleans, who did not hesitate to pronounce a sample exhibited to him in 1840, the most per fect specimen of cotton (of the short, staple de scription) lie had ever seen grown in the Uni on States. Encouraged by this encomium from such respectable authority, l of course deter mined that no pains should be warning on my part to test fairly the experiment of acclima tion, and to my delight, the fourth year produ ced the result, viz: as early ns the 27lh of Au gust, 120 finely opened bolls were picked from ono stalk, oiid in October following, the aston ishing number of 407 bolls were counted from another stalk, showing a thorough acclimation and adaptation cf its growth and product to our more northern climate in four years. The growth ofGuatimala is larger than the Mexican. Specimen stalks may be seen at Messrs. Oakey Sc Hawkins’ counting room, New Orleans, measuring from 2A to 4 inches in diameter. The stalk grows mote broad and spreading than high. The bolls are larg er and product greater than the Mexican, as shown already; the opening is fine, the pick, rug easy, and in this particular, the negroes prefer it to any cotton I have ever grown.— The texture and staple is richer, finer, strong er and longer, and in its every characteristic I considcrtheGautimalasuperiorto the Mexican. Until the present year I have not permitted the seed to go from my own control—desiring Honors Pnid by Napoleon to the jflc- niory of Washington. “ The First Consul, however, caused this step to be preceded by a ceremony as imposing ns it was happily conceived. Washington had just died—the death of that illustrious person, who had filled the latter end of the last centu ry with the renown of his name, was a subject of regret to all the friends of liberty in Europe. The First Consul, judging that a grand display on the subject would be opportune, addressed his armies in the following order of the day : “ Washington is dead ! that great man fought against tyranny; he consolidated the indepen dence of the country. His memory will be ever dear to the French people, as to all free men of both worlds, and most of all to French soldiers, who like him, and the soldiers of America, are fighting for equality and free dom.” In consequence of this, ten days of mourning were appointed. This mourning was to consist of a black crape suspended to all the colors of the republic. But the Fbst Consul stopped not there, he had a noble and simple solemnity prepared in the Church of the Invalids—a church called, in the ephemeral language of the day, the Temple of Alar si— The colors taken in Egypt had not yet been presented to the government; Gen. Lannes was appointed to present them on this occasion to the minister of war, under the magnificent dome raised by the great king, as a monument to aged valor. On the 9th of February—the 20th of Pluviose—all the authorities being as- sembled at the Invalids, Gen. Lannes present ed to the minister of war Bertliier, 96 colors, taken at the Pyramids, at Mount Thabor, and at Aboukir. He pronounced a brief and war like harangue. Bertliier responded in the same spirit. The latter was seated between two in valids, each of whom had attained his hundreth year; in front was the bust of Washington, shaded by a thousand colors victoriously cap tured from Europe by the armies of republican France. Not far aloof a rostrum was prepar ed—one who had been proscribed was seen to ascend it—one who owed his liberty to the policy of the First Consul; it was M. de Fon- tares, a brilliant and pure writer; the last who employed that old French language, once so perfect, but now vanished, with the eighteenth century, in the abyss ofby-gone times. M, de Fontanes pronounced in a studied, but superb style, a funeral eulogium of the hero of Ameri ca. He celebrated the warlike virtues of Washington, his valour, his wisdom, and disin- tercstedness ; far above military talent, which ««■ Ticewirj aione, lie placed Hint regene- her arms at King Erik’s feet, who was greatly delighted at this change. Shortly after, her marriage witli King Rolt was celebrated -and held in tne most honorable manner, so that ev ery man invited to it, and the festivities lasted fourteen days, after which" they all part ed, and every one returned home to his own place.—Fryxcll’s History of Siceden. The Old Church and Hie wind. “For the night wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes, and of trying with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors, and seeking out some crevice by which to enter. And, when it has got in, ns one not finding what it seeks 1 whatever it may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again; and, not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempt ing the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters; then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults. Anon, it-comes up, stealthily, and creeps along tire walls, seeming to read, in whispers, the inscriptions sacred to the dead. At some of these itbreaks- out shrilly, as with laughter, and, at others moans and cries us if it were lamenting, has a ghostly sound, too, lingering in the al ter, where it seems to chant, in its wild way, of wrong and murder done, and false gods worshiped, in defiance of the tables of the law, which look so fair and smooth, but are so flawed and broken. Ugh ! Heaven preservi us, sitting snugly round the fires! It has an awful voice, that wind at midnight, singing in a church: But high up in the steeple! There the foul blasts roars and whistles 1 High up in the steeple, where It is free to go and come through many an airy arch and loophole, and to twist and twine itself about the giddy stair, and twirl the groaning weathercock, and make the very tower shake and shiver! High up in the steeple, where the Belfry is; and iron rails are ragged with rust; and sheets of lead and copper, shrivelled by the changing weather, crackle and heave beneath the unaccustomed tread ; and birds stuff shabby nests into the corners of old oaken joists and beams; 6c dust grows old & gray*; & speckled spiders, in dolent and fat with long security, swing idly to and fro in the vibrations of the bells, and ne- ver loose their hold upon their threadspun cas ties in the air, or climb up, sailor like, in quick alarm, or drop upon the floor and ply a score of nimble legs to save a life! High up in the stee ple of an old church, far above the light and murmer of the town, and far below the flying clouds that shadow it, is the wild and dreary place at night; and high up in the old steeple dwelt the chimes I tell of.’’—Dickens's Chimes. rating genius which causes civil war to cease, heals up the wounds of countries, and gives peaCft to the world. Together with the shade of Washington, he invoked those of Calinat and of Condo, and as if speaking in the name of the great men, he uttered praises, in the most delicate and nob!e form, which were at this time full of dignity, because they' were lessons full of wisdom and sagacity. “ Yes,” cried he, as he closed his discourse, “thy counsels shall be heard. O, Washington, thou warrior, legisla tor, citizen, without reproach ! He who, while but a youth, lias surpassed thee in victories, shall close, like thee, the bleeding wounds of his country, with triumphant hands. Soon shall we see his strong will, and his warrior genius, should they be necessary’, our best de fence; soon shall the hymn of .peace re echo through the shrine of war; then shall a uni versal sentiment of joy efface the recollection of oppression and injustice; already the op pressed forget their woes, and fix their faith upon the future. The acclamations of all ages shall accompany the hero, who lavishes his be nevolent gifts on France and on the world, which she has too long harrnssed !” “ The discourse ended, black crape was ap* pended to all ihe colours, and the French re public seemed to be in mourning for the foun der of its American sister, like monarchies which put on mourning one for the other’s los ses.”—Thiers' History of the Consulate and ihe Empire. A Swedish Amazon in Pagan Timex. •‘King Erik had no son, and only one daugh ter, named Torborg. She was more beautiful and wise than most other women. She was cl ever > n ail women’s work, as it was fitting she should be, but still more, so in what benefits a knight, namely: in riding, fighting, with sword and shield, and many oth er exploits of that kind, which were her chief pleasure and delight. King Erik little liked his daughter having such masculine tastes, and begged her to sit still in her maiden chamber, as other king’s daughters used to do ; but she told him she had good need of these accom plishments, for when she should merit the kingdom from her father, it would require her best ability to defend it, against foreign enem ies. She therefore begged her father to give her al tha time some province to govern, that to be enabled to plant my own entire crop of I she might accustom herself while he yet lived it which I shall do this year, and am disposed > to rule both land and people. King Erik gave to part with what seed I shall not need. I hnve made in ail, since 1 commenced to plant the Gualimnla seed, about 75 bales. The first crop of 10 bales was sold by Messrs. Oakley, Pay no 6c Hawkins, about the 1st of February, 1S43, at 10 cents a pound, when the minimum quotations in the New Orleans Prices Current was 74 COIiiS for “good and fine.” Lato last spring it was sold at 124- by the same house, (the crop of 1813 being 40 hales,) and within ilic past week a portion of the last crop (11 bales) was sold by Messrs. Oakley & Haw kins at 10 cents a pound—the buyer intending is as a present to be sent to a manufacturing company in St. Petersburg, Russia. I am thus particular in stating these prices and facts ns the best evidence I can offer you of the standing of the Guatimala cotton, in the New Orleans market. And, nltlioiigh it has sold for these high prices, each account sale lias been accnmiranietl by a eommoniculion pro-1 nounc ng llie cotton “poorly ginned”—mystand i bei-ig an old one, much worn and broken, her, in consequence, a third of his kingdom, ns well as an estate royal called Ulleraker, in Upland, and also many a stout and bold man to Ire her champion. Torborg then set our for Ulleraker, and held her court there with much might and wisdom ; but she never could endure to hear that she was a woman, dressing herself in men’s clothes, and ordering her men to call her King Torborg. Those who came here to court her were driven away with laughter und mockery, or, if this did not suffice, witli lance and spear.” King Rolf courted this heroine in her own way ; be levied war against her, and won her hand by the sword. The termination of such a singular courtship is thus dramatically told : “Rolf called to Kettil, and bade him take Torborg prisoner, but not to wound her, as it would be shameful to use arms against a wo man. Kettil was now so near her that lie gave her a blow with the flat of his sword along the thigh, dropping at the same time some rude and contemptuous words ; but Torborg give From the Augusta Constitutionalist. Tlic Duty on Cotton. The merchants of Liverpool are following ihccxample of the brokers, who have already memorialized for a repeal of the duty on cot ton. A memorial to Sir Robert Pcei, as First Lord of the Treasury, for a repeal of the duty, from the merchants of Liverpool, lay for signa ture in the Exchange rooms,.and in a few hours mere were attacnca to it tne names oj nearly all the respectable firms in town. The memo rial says: * r TIiat the most formidable rival of the Brit ish manufacturers in this trade is found in the rapidly increasing and improved manufactures of the United States of America, which may now not only supply a great portion of their home demands, but export very largely to for eign countries. As a proof of the progress of tiie manufactures of the United States, it may be slated that the value of the exports of cot ton piece goods from that country to China, which, in 1827, amounted only to 9,000 dol lars, amounted, in three quarters of the last year, to 900,000 dollars; and the value ex ported front the United States to all other countries, including Chiua, during the nine months ending 30th June, 1S43, according to an official return laid before Congress, was 3,233,550 dollars, being upwards of four mil lions of dollars per annum. “ That the American manufacturer has not only the advantage of being near the place of production of the cotton forming the staple of his manufacture, and being thus exempt from the charges of transportation to this country, but he is also free from any tax upon the raw material to which hisBrilish competitor issubject “ That the duty of five sixteenths of a penny per lb. imposed on foreign cotton wool import ed into the United Kingdom alone amounts to upwards of 8 per cent, on the average cost of American cottons at the ports of shipment, du ring the last two years; and when it is consid ered thnt nearly six-seventh of the cotton on which this duty is paid is exported in the shape of manufactured goods to foreign markets, with out any allowance of drawback, it is manifest that thin tax on the raw material is a direct burden upon the British, and in favor of the American manufacturer. ** That although the competition which your memorialists have hitherto experienced has chiefly been met with in the coarser description of cotton goods, it must be borne in mind that those qualities form the chief weight of the ex ports, and also that the manufactures of Ameri ca are yet in their infancy, and that, in their natural progress, they will improve (as in.fact they arc improving rapidly) until they rival us in the finer kinds of goods also. This result will be materially hastened by the operation of the recent act of Parliament, permitting the free exportation of machinery, the effects of which are now only beginning to be felt. “That not only the American manufacturer, but our other principal rivals are also exempt from duty on the raw material. In Switzer land, Prussia, and all the states comprised in tire German Confederation, cotton isf.ee; and in France, though there is a tax on its impor tation, there is an equivalent drawback, or bounty, ou the expart of cotton manufactures ; while in the Hanseatic cities the duty is almost nominal. “ Your memorialists are confident that, whatever other claims may be made uppu her Majesty’s government for relief from taxation, there is none which, at so comparatively tri fling a cost, would be so extensive in its bene ficial effects as the repeal of the duty on cotton wool—a measure which, by removing an op pressive and unequal burthen upon the manu factures supplying more than one-half of the whole exports of ihe United Kingdom, would give renewed vigor to our commercial and manufacturing interests, in the benefits of which the immense body of the laboring classes de pendent on them would largely participate.” Oregon—A War willl England. The last number ofthe Plattsburgh Repub lican contains an ably written article which sets forth in a very forcible manner the short sighted policy of those who are endeavoring te defeat the bill, now before Congress, for the occupation of Oregon, on the ground that the success of that great national measure might possibly involve us in a war with England.— After contending that our right to the territo ry is indisputable, ahd dwelling on the immense value to the Union of that vast region, the | writer proceeds to say, in reference to the fears expressed by those opponents to the occu pation of Oregon who contend that it would bring about a war between this country and England: “England counts too well the cost of an un righteous war with a civilized and powerful nation. She may extend her empire through out India, reckless of morality and justice ;— she may poison a whole nation witli impunity; giving them the option to be drugged with opi um, or have their cities and towns destroyed, and their inhabitants murdered ; she may car ry fire and sword into Scindc ; she may usurp empire in Egypt, and plant her standard upon Aden, and float her war-steamers upon the Red Sea ; she may dc all this, and more—she may bully France, and dictate to Spain and Portugal, and wrap them up in Iter political web ; she may cajole Russia, and keep Austria and Prussia in her interests; she may spread her prelection over Turkey—• ■ -“Such protection as vultures give to lambs—covering and devouring;” she may do all this; but, to war with the United States—SHE DARE NOT!! The first sound of her hostile cannon would be the tocsin to a nation in arms! and its reverbera tion the knell of her own infamous death !!— The despoiler of nations would fall by her own guilty hand. A policy so suicidal she will not adopt. Well does she know that a war with this country would let loose upon her thousands of her own starving manufacturers and culti vators, who are even now baying like blood hounds upon her remoreless course, and whose hot breath almost fans her bloated cheeks! ' " A war with England ! And are we to sac- rificeour rights for such an idle fear? Who are they that deprecate our occupancy of Ore gon for fear of war? Such, ""When the clarion sounds to arms, Shrink like tortoises within their shells. To die with apprehension.” And we are to lie deterred from asserting and maintaining a national right for fear of such a result! Rather let us at once and wholly sur render up our nationality than have it wrested from us piecemeal, or negotiated away, as wasthe North Eastern Boundary, in a traf ficking spirit—and God knows at what expen diture of“sccrcf service" money to a notorious ly needy individual. It were useless waste of time to show forth the great advantages, to the people of the U. States, the occupation of Oregon presents.— From the first attempt at settlement, by John Jacob Astor, whose prescienco enabled him years ago to look toward it as a great source of private and national wealth, up to the present time, all men largely engaged in commerce have been impressed with its vast importance. The rising empires growing up in the numer ous isles of the Pacific—empire which have lately’ become of importance sufficient to tempt the cupidity of France as well as England—al ready these present markets for American pro duce and manufactures to a considerable ex- , icm; umi in me settlement of Oregon, a busy commerce in timber will spring up immediate ly, leading to various other branches of trade in articles of agricultural growth and manufac ture. Then Oregon opens the way to a more direct trade of tlx^ United States with the Pliil- lipincs, India and China, and Austral Asia; and it is no vain prediction that the child is born who will live to see a vast empire grow up under our protecting care, upon ihe shores of the Pacific, and a journey to Oregon, from the Atlantic cities, a mere plaything of time. Give it up to England, or surrender any part to her, and we cannot count the conse quences ; if not reduced to a state of vassalage in the course of years, Hie United Stales will never cease to sutler in all her commercial re lations. Secure it to ourselves, and we aro free indeed. With Texas, properly acquired, on one hand, and Oregon on another, we may bid defiance to “a world in arms.” We are not among those who believe, or affect to be lieve, that the extension of our institutions will weaken the fabric of our Republic. The secu ring of Oregon and the acquisition of Texas, will strengthen the bonds of the Union. It is not a colonization scheme, acquiring territory in foreign parts, upon distant continents and in isles far removed, like that on England, pur- sued with a rapacity outraging all justice, and knowing no rights but those of the sword. It is the establishing of great corporations, like unto the East India Company’, which, in less than a century, is found controlling nearly half the civil and military power of Great Britain, and defying the Crown. It is not the building up states in distant parts, as pursued by Eng. and, and which will drop in time, ripe in re- olt, from the mother country. But it is ex. tending ourselves within natural bounds, and tal ing advantoge of that which the great God ofNaturehns vouchsafed to us as an heritage. We have no fears of weakening, bv these means, the sinews of our strength. Rather arc they to be loosed by an American Press with European ideas, such as we hold the “Na tional Intelligencer,” et id omne genus. The growth of these United States, God grant it! Would we could stand, like Israel’s seer upon a Pisgah’s top, and look upon the promised scene. What a glorious vista would open to- our view! A Nation, of Titan growth—the Mistress of tire World !—her sons in arms, the guardians of Liberty!—a Navy, of a thousand line of battle-ships, riding at peaceful anchor in unrivalled strength, or on a crusade for the Rights of Man, with trumpets sounding notes of anticipated triumph—pennons, gaily floating in the wind, and the “Star Spangled Banner” proudly upheld by our gallant Tars, and in scribed with “Freedom to the Would !” her own lands, is therefore as fully provided for by the Constitution as was the admission of North Carolina or Rhode Island, after the adoption of that instrument. This is an im portant distinction, and shows the advantages in that respect alone, of the House resolutions over Mr. Benton’s bill. From the Washington. Constitution. English Opinions of Mr. Calliomi’s Diplomacy—the Slavery Question. In England, as in the UnitedjStates, there MACON, GA. 1 TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1845 PRESIDENT TILER. This day closes the Administration of John Tyler. This day completes a period in the annals of American history and Republican Government, that will be remembered and grow brighter and brighter with the flight of are two political parties, distinguished by well | years . This day expires, the Administration defined principles, as to the best administrative policy of the Government. Both parties, how ever, in that country, concur in preferring a monarchical to a republican form of govern ment. They concur, too, in regarding the United Slates as a great rival of the British monarchy, in all the elements which constitute a great and powerful nation. There is nothing which they dread more than the influence of our republican institutions upon the other na tions of the world. If our Union could be dis solved, and faction rule over the States, mon archy would rejoice at the catastrophe as the final prostration of repbulicanism. With such views, it is the policy of British statesmen to ascertain the weak point in our Government, in order that their energies may be constantly directed to the application of the most effectual means of our ultimate overthrow. Their opinion has been made up for several years, that our Union is more assailed through itsslavery institution than any other. Thisim- portant fact cannot be too strongly and con stantly impressed upon the minds of all Ameri- can statesmen. It will explain many impor tant movements having an indirect bearing up on our domestic institutions, and which have been adopted under the hypocritical pretext of an enlarged and universal benevolence. The famous “ World’s Convention,” which was held in London, and in which American citi zens appeared as delegates, was one of those movements designed to enlist the sympathies of all nations, and to direct a combined moral power against slavery in the United States which would finally work out a dissolution of our Union. The deep anxiety manifested by British statesmen in x’eference to the enlargement of our territory to the South baa grown partly out of the same deep laid policy, looking to the sup posed weak point in our bond of Union. If any doubt has heretofore existed on this sub ject in this country the evidence furnished in the late lending organs of the two parties in England, in their comments on Mr. Calhoun’s letter to our Minister to France, Mr. King, must remove all such doubts. When Mr. Cal houn’s letter was first published, we expressed our approbation of the bold, frank, and inde pendent tone which characterized it. We saw in that document a readiness on the part of our Secretary to meet the great slavery issue made liy Great Britain, and any ability on his part to maintain tne American side of the question, which excited our warm admiration. The open, candid, and straightforward diplomacy of Mr. Calhoun contrasted so favorably to our mind with the indirect, insincere, and hypo critical course of the BriILh Ministry, that we were astonished to find any portion of the Ame rican press halting in reference to the subject. Our Secretary saw that the issue of slavery must be met with boldness and full in the face, or the consequence must be fatal. Hence, he prepared a paper for all Europe, which has staitled the statesmen of Great Britain by its boldness as well ns its powerful discussion of the slavery question, and lias satisfied them not only iliac ilieir secret scheme of abolition of onr Union, under the pretence of universal aboli tion of slaver}’, is understood ,in this country, but that wc are prepared for the issue before the enlightened nations of the old world. Thanks to Cod, Benton —The Nashville Union contains the proceedings of a meeting of the citizens of Cannon county, Tennessee, held at the Court-house in Woodbury. The fol lowing is an exract from the proceedings - r Resolved, That Silas Wright, John C. Cal houn. Lewis Cass, James Buchanan, Martin Van Buren, Richard M. Johnson, and the much abused John Tyler, arc entitled to the thanks of this meeting, and of the whole Democratic party, for the able and efficient support they gave Polk and Dallas at the recent election. Resolved, That Thomas H (ard) Benton is eminently entitled to, and, we doubt not, has long since received, the thanks of Queen Vic toria, Louis Phillippe. tho King ofthe French, the Dictator Santa Anna, and the great defeat ed Embodiment of Whiggery, for the able and efficient support lie did not give Polk and Dal las. From the Washington Constitution, 22d ult. Mr. Colquitt’s Speech. We listened witli great pleasure to-day to the able Speech of Mr. Colquitt, in the Senate, on the Texas question. Many jiassages of it were truly eloquent. In the course of the con stitutional part of the argument, he took a dis tinction between the power to acquire foreign territory, and to admit a State into the Union, under the Constitution, which we deem a valid and important one. By the very terms of the Constitution, Congress has power to admit new States into the Union. But that is not, in a constitutional or legal sense, an acquisition of territory. To admit Texas as a State, as is contemplated by Brown’s resolutions, leaving her to pay her own debts with the proceeds of Another Young; Republic. We learn by a letter received in Boston, that Northern California, one of the States of the Mexican Repuplic, was revolutionized on the 14th of November last, and the Mexican Governor, Gen. Michiltorcn^, shut up in the little Fort at Monlery. Tho State of Southern California will go next, and will be followed by Santa Fe. Thus, one after another, in rapid succession, says the New York Sun, the States of Northern Mexico will full, unless Mexino comes to some understanding with the United States, by which, after annexing Texas, a well defined boundary shall be guaranteed to tho Republic of Mexico forever. It is the policy of England to control the whole of Northern Mexico, from the Gulfof Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, all along our Indian Frentier as a means of carrying out her designs upon the United States, and unless Texas is speedily annexed tins formidable movement will be beyond the control of both the United States and Mexico. If the Senate of the United States, through the advice of parties whoso patriotism is not beyond suspicion, shall reject the act of annexation now beforethem, they will bring upon the Uni ted States and Mexico a long train of evils that will increase with the lapse of years and lead to the mosi deplorable results. Every Senator who votes against annexation, votes for a chain of British Provinces along our who'e Southern andSouih Western frontier; he casts his vote in favour of Great Britain’s supreme command over 200.000 of the most warlike Indians in the world to scalp and murder our Southern and Western people, or the Mexican, as Eng lish policy may dictate ; he decides in favour of destroying Republican influence on this Con tinent, and virtually throws the United States, Texas and Mexico at the feet of European monarchies. Each and every Senator has be fore him a fearful responsibility to his country on this question, and one vote may decide, for weal or wo, the destiny ofthe hundred millions of our race who shall inhabit this Continent, probably within the present century. The crisis is at hand. Senators must meet the ques tion, and either rise or fall with their votes. Daily Keystone. of a man, who without the powerful auxiliary of a party, and who has been mean!}’ deserted by those who ought to have been his friends, as well as embarrassed and maligned by the bit terest opposition, has shown himself eminently equal to the great events and issues that have been crowded into the four brief years which have now elapsed since he, under the guiding hand of an all-wise and overruling Providence, was summoned to the most important executive station in the world f High as was the rank of Virginia, the true “ custodian” of the Repub lican faith, and greariy* indebted as the Demo cratic party of tho Union were for the mora] force hitherto wielded by her sons in tire great cause of free principles and enlightened Gov. ernment, John "Tyler has imposed another ob ligation upon the party throughout the country, and added fresh wreaths to the chaplet of Vir- gtnia’s undying renown. Soon after entering upon the discharge of his duties as Chief Mai gistrate of the Union, he discovered unerring signs that the federal party under schemes of delusive legislation, were preparing to engraft upon our confederated system their long cher ished plans of consolidation, which ff success, .fill, would at once destroy and overthrow every tiling valuable in our political fabric.— While therefore tiiis storm was fast approach ing, and the spirit as well as the principles of the republican party seemed for a time over whelmed by the reeling shock of federalism, maddened and drunkened with the power they then had gained—John Tyler quailed not, but stood almost alone, like Leonidas at the pass of Thermopilac, and defied the ene mies of h ; s country, with a firmness anti inflexi bility of purpose, that wifl.be remembered and admired as long as honor or courage are quali ties to attract regard among mankind. As to the Administration of President Tyler, now drawing to a close, whatever may he the opinions of others, there is not a candid or magnanimous man in the Union, no matter to which party he belongs, who will not adroit that it has been eminently successful, and marked by a lofty and ardent love of country throughout. In entering upon his duties four years ago, President Tyler found the Govern ment involved in debt and its credit impair ed, not only at home, but in every State in Eu rope. He leaves it free from all embarrassment, with a credit that would command an un limited amount of money in any market in the world. He found it engaged in complicated negotiations of boundary, which had been a fruitful source of complaint aud annoyance to our people upon the Canadian frontiers for years. He leaves it free from this entangled question with all claims satisfactorily adjusted. But the vindication of the principles ofthe re publican party in the outset of his Administra tion, nor tire settlement of these and other im portant questions during his term, are not alone the crowning glory of John Tyler’s administration; and although for a little while longer, prejudice may obscure from the vision of some the merits of the great question that will add unfading lustre to his Administration, in tiie calm but impartial pages of the future historian, we venture the prediction that the enlarged and statesmanlike sagacity that dic tated the negotiations for tire annexation of Texas, which sooner or later must and will be consummated, will yet place among the chief as well as most honored benefactors of their country, the name of John Tyler. MR. MaVOR of IJoston.—Thomas A. Davis, the native can didate, has been elected Major of Boston. This was on the eighth trial. The Democrats withdrew their candidate, leavin- the contest to the whi-s anj nsfves. ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS ON SLAVERY. Last week we called attention to the singu larity of the opinions of one of the Georgia del egation on the subject of slavery, to wit : those of Mr. Alexander H. Stephens. We then dis claimed any intention of imputing his opinion, to the political party of Georgia to which he be longs. We here renew that disclaimer. Our object was, solely to call the attention of the people of both parties alike to the opinions avowed by one of their representatives, on the floor of Congress. In this day and generation oflortg speeches, multiplied beyond the capaci ty of men to read, almost any opinion may be expressed, without exciting much attention, and frequently without being heard of, except by a laborious few whose unpleasant task it is, to search through such huge receptacles of chaff and straw, for any chance grain of information that might interest their readers. In order that Mr. Stephens should have the fill! benefit of his opinions, and that his constit uents might have an opportunity’ of knowing them fully, and deciding as to the extent of their identity with their own, we claimed for them especial attention. They deserve it. There is something novel, certainly, in the fact that a representative of Georgia should promulgate to the world his abhorrence ofthe abstract principle of slavery, when his very ti tle to a scat in Congress is based on it—and when his constituents regard it as a vital princi ple of their welfare, guarantied by the Consti tution and sanctioned by the Bible. The te merity of this person induces the mind to see* for some adequate motive for this gratuitous and uncalled for expression of opinion, so dif ferent from his constituents. Is he ambitious of the honor of foundintr a sect in the South and being to it a Wilberforce or an Adam* • Can it be only a puerile desire to be thought bold and independent in the expression of sin gular opinions ? Or is it merely the unconsci ous rashness of an infant, playing with the flame of a candle, or the tail of a serpent, ignorant ot