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THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH,
BY RAY & ROSS,
CITY* COUNTY AND STATE PRINTERS.
' TERMS—For the peperetrietly in advance.*!! 30
per annum.
The Angel’* Win*,
nr SAMUEL LOVER.
There i« a Oeraaaaapentition, that when a anddea
ail -'ire take* place in a company, an angel at that
mnmant make* a circuit around them, and the first
->rr»on who breaks tho ailonce i« anppoaod to have
•oen touched by the wing of the aerapb. For the per-
.^aooftiostry; 1 thought two peraona preferable to
many,in illustrating this very beautifol anperatition.
. " VVIien by the evening’a quiet light
There ait i*o ailrnt lover*.
-■ Theyaay, while In aocbtlanquilplight,.,.
An angel ronnd them hover*;
' And farther still oM legondatell:
The flrat who breaka the silent apell,
To aay a soft and pleasing thing,
Hath felt the passing angel's wing.
Thoa, a mnaiog minstrel stray'd
liy the snmmer ocean. .
Qaaing on a lovely maid.
With a bard’a devotion;
Yet liia love he never apoke,
Till now tbeailent apell be broke.
The hidden Are to flamo did spring.
Fann'd by the passing angel's wing.
I have loved thee welt and long.
With love of Heaven’* own making!
This is not poct'aaong,
But a tree heart's speaking;
I will love thee, still imtired!
He felt—be apoke—as one inspired; ' ,
The words did from Trnth’a fountain spring,
' _ Unwakened by the togei's wing!
' Silence ofar the maiden foil.
Her beauty lovelier makinff;
And by her blush, be knew full well
The dawn of love was breaking
It mine like sonahina over bis heart!
He felt that they should nevsr part—
fhc snnko—and ob!—the lovely thing
Had felt the passing angel's wing.
Origin of Newspapers.
Among Hie million! who are in the habit of consult-
in* the columns of a nnwapaper, doubtless there are
for-,' comparatively, who are acquainted with its
origin. According to D'laraeli, wo are indebted to
tlm Uniinns lor the idea; although in ancient Homs,
reporta of importhnt events, and the doings oftho
Senate were frequently published coder the title of
“Aota Diurnn.” The periodical prea* properly com
menced at Vienna and Aogaborg. derm any, in 1394;
the bollcrina were, however, not printed. Thirty
volames ol there minaacripl newapapen exiated in
the Magliabcrhten library. at Florence. About the
year 1 M3, at the augceatioo of the father of the cele
brated Montague, office* were firat catabliabed in
France, for the porpose ofraakin? the want* of indi
vidual* known to each other. The advertiaementa
received were pasted on.tho waits to attract atten
tion; as io the case of the Romani, this ultimately led
toaaystematic and periodical publication of adver
tisements in sheet*. Tho epoch of the Spanish Ar-
mad a is also the epoch of the firat orthodox newspa-
,ar. la the British mnaeum are several newspaper*
printed while the Spanish fleet was in the English
Channel, during tho year 133d. It was strictly the
orgnn of the government, and probably its leading
editor might have been "The great Lord Burghley;" it
was style.I, *-Tho English Mercuric." The earliest
specimen referred to in the British Mnsenra. is mark
ed Ni. 30. and ia in Homan, not in black letters; and
a*toil* cm.tents, it might almost be supposed the
model of the -'London Gnaette" of the present day.
Daring the reign of James I, newspapers in the
quarto form, were occasionally iaiued; hot daring the
thirty years' war. when the exploits of Gustavo* A-
dolphus attracted the eye* ofthe civilized world, we
lino a regular weekly paper, edited by Nathaniel But
ler. and published under the title of "The Certain
Netra of the Present Week;*'which may be regarded
at the first regular weekly newspaper.
During the civil war in England, in 1643. there
were, however, a aoore of •‘Diurnala” and ‘•Mereu
riel," in circulation. Their titles were quaint and
curie,, such as the fallowing: •• Truth* from York,”
“Warranted Tidinea from Ireland,'' “8 pedal Paata-
pc* from various Plarca," and numerous ethers of a
more Judicroo* character.
:tant an auxiliary waithepresa considered
that each of the rival armies carried a printer
i ft. In the reign of Queen Anne. 1709, there
but. one daily paper published io London, the
.. j issues. Steele introduced poli
tics as an eaporii1 * eat ofthe press, and Addison
amt ah? to devote ll '
•adt has been thee __ ,
boll) Tho-6—»j——1 hairing dreaWr., icrotwmag-
nsine. or review, was the ''Journal* dea Savants,” es-
tsblii'ied io Paris ia 1693; in England, the first month
ly of this tort appeared in 1749. From these simple
elements, baa grown op an engine, whose potency and
influence is now felt tbmnabont all classes of the civ
iiised world.—New Tork Evening Pott.
Fasiiioxidt.* Ornament* in CAi.iror.Mi —A let
ter from Sacramento City in tbe Boston Traveller,
MACO N
TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1850.
Loirndci,
Wa invite attention to the calm and patriotic ap
peal of Lowndes. in another column this morning,
addressed to tha Southern Member* of Congress.
Lowndes is no brawling politician, or office seeker.
He is a planter, and apeak* tbe sentiments of se
ven-eighths of tbo noble class to which he belongs-
Wo commend bis communication most heartily to
onr Senators aud Representative* in Cougrea*.-*-
There ia much in it on which they should reflect,
with calmness and candor, ere they mako so great
an inroad into tho institutions of their father*, as
tho new scheme of President making, called "com
promise,’’and “adjustment,” propose*.
Tbo Compromise—The people Ploring.
Wo puhlis'j in another column,* call for a meet
ing of tho people of Merriwether county, to ex
press their approval of tho proceedngs of the
Nashville Convention, end to declare their op
position to the Clay compromise. The Mariet
ta Advocate, of Thursday last, publishes a call
signed bytomoof tb* most respectable citi
zens of Cobb. for a similar meeting in that county,
on tbe 4th iust. We also learn from * friend in
Pulaiki, that the people of that county, ha*b cal
led a meeting for tbe same pnrpoee au tho 4tb inst
X'ubllc .Uvctlngs,
The reader will observe in another column a
communication suggesting the propriety of hold
ing meeting* throughout the State with tho view
to tho expression, by the people ia primary meet
ings of their opposition and utter detestation of
the so-called '-Compromise Bill’’ now before the
Senate. Wedo not infer any neceasity on onr
part, to extend these remark* with the view of
urging upon our reader* the propriety of a'ucb
meetings. It iaof great momeut that the people
should speak out. The planting and agricultural
interest* particularly hive great interests at stake
in tho question* now before Congress, and none
can be insensible of tbe importance which per
tain* to an energetic and united movement by the
masse* in defence of their right*. Lot these meet
ings be held in every county in the State and let
the people watch narrowly who are tbe true
friend* of the Suulb. The time has passed when
professions are reliable, unless backed by ac
tion.
' TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.
[KtroailD fOR THEOCOMI* TE4.EORSFR.1
WASHINGTON, Jou* 23,1850.
In the Senate on Friday Mr. Soule's amend
ment to Mr. Clsy’a bill, running tbe Missouri line
and making Califoruih two States waa rejected.—
The vote on this amendment wa* 19 for, and 36
against it. In tbe Iloose Mr. Tbompsnn'nf Iowa,
whose seat was contested was deprived of it to
day and election aent back to the people. The
peculiar iriends of tbe admission of California held
a caucus in the Capita) last night with tbe view of
making arrangements to rush California into the
Union as air independent meaaere. regardless of
all consequences. The convention ordered by
the President and called by Col. Monroe, to form'
and promnlge aconstilution lor the government of
New Mexico has been held. Tbe convention as
sembled at Santa Fe on the 15th alt. and the
session lasted eight or nine days, in which time
tbe Constitution was framed, which wonld go into
operation about July. Tho boundaries of the
State were defined, and slavery prohibited.
The constitution was adopted on the 25th of
Thirty-Si* Thirty.
Wo invite attention to an article under this cap-,
lion, copied into another column from the Now
York Herald. It tell* u* in language not to be mi*
understood that it depend* upon ourselve* alone
to got the Missouri line. This is the language of
one of the most far-seeing ami widely circulated
journal* in the North, and we bnmbly conceive
should strike the understanding of evory Southern
man with potential influence. What ncontrast is
here presented, between the language of this jour
nal and tboso Southern paper* that have «een pro
per to refer to the offer of tbe Missouri line as tbe
nltimatnnrof concession by the South, in a spirit
of cavil and sophistry unworthy of Hale or
Giddings, and have found fault with tho re
commendations of the Nashville Convention to
a manner which shows that nothing will satisfy
them but tbe degradation of the South. We call
upon the Southern people to notice these things
and brand the traitors aionnd them, who have
throughout this slavery difficulty, taken the north
ern side.
The result of the vote in the Senate?, on Mr.
Soule's amendment, is not surprising when South
ern men and Southern presses are in effect, calling
npon the North to persevere in their schemes of
aggression, by assuring them that the South will
bo aatisGed with any term* of settlement. A itu.
pid notiou baa been adopted by a *et of aaprinci.
pled political quack* and instilled into tbe general
mind that the plan of tbe Senate is “ the best we
can get.’* They say we cannot get the Missouri
Compromise. Why not! The right i* on onr aide,
end fifteen States with snch resources a* we po*.
seas, if true to their right*, aud determined to
maintain them, can never be enslaved.
But who expect* to got the Missouri line, or
any other settlement that will be jnst to the
Sooth, if we tell our eneihies in advance, that we
will be satisfied with leu. Is any oneao stupid as
not to know that a party which hat become unjust
and aggressive, i* not conscious that it is so, and
tberelore timid and cautious, or bold and reckless
iu it* aggressions, accordingly as it perceives in
the people whose right* are iuvolved, a spirit of
resistance or of tame and cowardly submission
to injustice I Tbe man who doe* not see this it
either blind, or ready for any terms that nnscru-
pulooa power may see fit to impose.. The an
cient patriot* of Holland tore down their dykes,
for tbe raging sea to overwhelm them, before they
wonld surrender to an enemy, “.Million* for de
fence, but not one cent for tribute.*’ Fortune, time,
life, every thing for the Unioo at our lather* formed
it—hot tbe Union ittell for liberty, and death iu
any form, rather thin subtnision to opprea*ion.—
Let the Southern people adopt a similar course,
whig end democrat unite, forgetting party divisions
for tbe protection of their homes, combiuing fur
their rights, a phalanx, like the anoient Spartan*,
invulnerable because compact, and all will yet be
well. J
Got. Quitman anil othrra indicted.
We learn from the New Orleans papers, that
the United States Government have indicted the
following distinguished individual,:
John A. Quitman. (Governor of Mississippi,)
Jndge Cotesworlb, Pinckney, Smith, (of the Su
preme Court of Mississippi.) John Henderson,
(late Senator from that State.) J. L. O’Sullivan,
(late editor of the Democratic Review, and son
of a former Minister to Spain.) John F, Pickett,
(late Consol at Turk’* Island.) Theodore O’Hara,
(late Major in tbe Unitod States Army.) C. R.
Wheate. Peter Smith, A. Gonzalez, Thomas T.
Hawkins, W. II. Bell, N. J. Bunch, L. J. Signr.
May; in fifteen day* afterward* an election was to ( (State 8on*tor,) Donatien Aognstio. Brigadier
take place for members of tbe Legislature. Two | General, and commander ofthe Legion, and Gen-
Senator* and Represen'ative* in Congress would ■ era ) Narcisco Lopez, making in ail, sixteen per-
also toon be elected aud efforts wonld be made *ons- Writ* wore issued for the arrest of the
A crand ball took place here yesterday—said to
have been very grand indeed. I was only an outsider,
ll cost some 690.0*0. I saw a back comb for a lady,
made of California gold, set with brilliants and speri-
m«ns, which cost not less than $300, got op expressly
for the occasion. This tort of extravagance ia very
rmcboaa par with tbe ring mania or tbe spar furor.
About every other man yon meet wears a huge ring
on some finger, weighing from one to four ounces! 1
have lately seen one made expressly for a lady. I put
it in the scales; it ovrrweighed an ounce In addition
to the quantities ofrarycftns/ballion on band, many
of our flash and fashionable gentlemen wear huge
lump* and specimens, intbe rqdosttte, jiftt a a they
were degont, far breastpins and other ornaments.—
Some errry about a pound of gold in shapes of this tort.
Tho spar furor described tbe petty madness of cer
tain Caballeros, who have been having manufactured
to order, steel spars tnlaid and streaked with silver
and gold, and of prodigious weight. They are so
heavy as tb be as clumsy a* a plow clevis. They cost
from $100 to $1 SO a pair. If tba material were notao
ltonderous.no doubt the California ladies wonld soon
be wearing golden slippers. Cinderella would be
tl r >wa Into a total eclipse; her splendor no longer fa'
The Two Flower* or Crestiox.—Women love
flowers, and flowers are like women in tbeir beauty
and sweetness, ae they ought to grow up together.
No flower-garden looks complete without a woman
in it; no woman ever seems to lovely as when she is
sonoanded by flowers. She should have her fra
grant boqnet at the party; window plants in ber par
lor; if possible, some rich and rare flowering shrubs
in her conservatory; bet; better than all these, and
supplying all, every woman sboald have a flower
garden. Every man who baa tbe least gallantry or
paternal feeling sboald make a flower garden for his
wife sad daughters. Every boose—the smallest cot
tage la the conn try as wells* tha largest mansion—
should have around it the perfame of lilacs, pinks.and
other hardy odoriferous flowers that cost no trooble,
bathring with them every year a world of beaaty
and fragrance.
r ?*Nothing la lost. The drop that mingles with
thedmod—the sand dropped on the sea shore—tho
word yea have spoken—will not be lost. Esehwill
have its influence and be felt till time shall be no
more. Ilave joe ever thought ofthe effect tint might
*‘be produced by a single word! Drop it pleasantly a-
mong a creep, and it will make a dostn happy, to re
turn to their homos to produce the same elect on a
hundred, perhaps. A bad word may areas* rk* in-
dienatiou of a whole neighborhood; ft may spread like
-Wild Bra to produce disastrous effects. As no word
it tost, he careful bow yon speak—speak right, speak
K)M]y. Tha infleenceyuo may exert by slife of kind-
oe a—by word* dropped among tbe young and the old,
is incalculable. It will not cease when yoor bodies
Ue in the grave, hut will be felt, wider and still wider
a* yaara pass nwsy. Who, then, will not exort him
self far the welfare of million*?
THE PoKTRYor THE BlSLE.—We wonder not at
the simple faith of tho old Pagan Pantheists, who
taw their ami in the glorious snn, heard him in the
wln'da whispering through the forest groves, and fait
, him in tbo silent beauty of earth and aky. To tbit
tbo Greeks addod tbe classical aretbofowy which
spraag from the ealtivated brain of (hat highly civil
ised people; sad tho Hebrews, whose religious ideas
were far in advauc* of the Greeks and ail other an
cient nations, added tho soblime conception of God
himstlf, as the active ruler and governor of natnre,
ri Jiag npon the wings ofthe wind; shaking the earth
* making the pillars thereof tremble, quieting it by
the tooth wiud, and making the morning stars sing
together far joy, wrapping himself about with thick
dm 1 -is. »ud employing the lightning arid the tbun-
deit si the ministers of his jodgoient. Tbns. in ail
the nspn tof natnre did the Hebrew recognise bis
Godtand »!:!.!• intbe sunshine, the rain, the lira *ud
the temns-t, did hahear-the voice ofthe Lord."—
Hence the soblime grandeurof the inspired Isroafidab
poets stand* not wi{b startling t rightotes from tho
inntor.nl Pantheism ofreraoto’times sad their great
tin icht* have descended through the circling flees of
the woil.l. to beaene tbe way oftroth and life to al
men.—Eliza Cook's Journal. ,
L .'"The rirmlation
to take their teat* dorieg the present evasion
Mr. St. Vrain, Judge Otero, and Henry Connel
ly. are amoag the most prominent candidates for
Governor, and Captain A. IV. Reynolds and
Major B. II. IVitman. for Senators It ia suppos
ed ttiat Hngb N. Smith, the present delegate in
Congress, would be elected to the House of Rep
resentatives.
This intelligence, together with the vote on Mr.
Sonic’s amendment has prodaced great excite
ment among the Southern members of Congress.
Health or Sataxrah.—Tbe Republican ofthe
24th ulL says.—The Sex'on’s report for the week,
ending last Wednesday, shows that but one while
person died in tbe city for a week, end tlijt one
was an infant a month old. The deaths ofcoiored
persons were, 1 aged 8(1. old age; 1 aged 32
nervous fever ; I aged 9 days, spasms.
Savanah now qontaiua a population ef about
16,000 peraona, and w# doubt if any other city of
the same size in the United States can allow as
■small a bill of mortality. We have not beard of
any deaths this week, end we feel a little pride in
the boast, a* tbe weather has been hot and dry,
with cool nights, or wbeatber that wonld bo like
ly to produce aickness, if tbe air was not pure and
wholesome.
Pensioned Letter Writers,
Tbe Washington letter writer*, aay* tbe Rich
mond Whig, ore growing furious about the Com
promise. We do not know that they ere, as as
serted by Gen. Wallace, influenced by tbe Texas
scrip, which baa been hawked abint the metro
polis for tbe last few month*. But they all urge
tbe speedy passage of the bill, and concur in re
garding tho Texas clause as "the vital point in ike
bia.” We donbt not, that clause if a matter of
life and death to many a diaintercated patriot fe
ll it fails and the Omnibns bill along with it, then
will be tbe greatest downfall of old political sta-
gera and pecuniary adventurers, ever witnessed in
any age. It will be a sight worth seeing! And
regarding a* we do, that system of legislation as
very detestable, and not considering the Compro
mise any settlement of the sectional controversy,
we pray very fervently to live to seo tbe failure
and tbe downfall.
Tit* Naevoo TcxrLx Destroyed.—A fatality
seems to attend the temple at Nanvoo. It waa fin*
ished by the Mormons in 1845, was nearly des*
troyed by fire in 1848, and on the 27lb May, a tre
mendous hurricane demolished the walls. The
Icarian communion of Socialists, under Cadet,
had purchased It and were engaged in repairing
it with a view io fitting it up for schools, study
ing and meeting balls, end a great refectory fora
thousand peraent. Tbe workmen were engaged
on it, when the storm burst forth with snch violence
that tho wallcamo tumbling down'and tho work
men bail to fly for their lives. Those walls thnt
remained standing had to be palled down. Tbe
surrounding buildings were also demolished
and in tho wash houses, where six Icarian women
tyero washing, there was so sudden an inundation
from the rising creek, that the women bad to es
capo through tho windows. Tho community are
going to nndertake tho erection of another large
and Cno building
IIP Tbo Northern Members and presses have
bocomo all at once, very hostile to compound le-
Mat ion. They insist on passing tho California
bill by itself, without, conditions or connection
with other propositions. They don’t like to think
of more than one thing at a time, and above all they
hate incongrnons bill*.
All this is very fine for a set of gentleman to
profe**, who could not two year* ago appropriate
parties, most of whom are absent from the city.
It ia said that alrongefforta will be made'to bring
these cases to trial before the adjournment of the
Court now in session in New Orleao*. and that one
of the J ndges of tbe Supreme Coart will be scut
on to assist Judge McCaleb in the trial.
Gen. Pillow’s Toast,
“The Missouri Compromise Line, we will shake
bands with tbo North over it. Bat we will not
be driven from it except at tho point of tbe bayo
net”—
Time it rapidly torning the wheel of onr desti
ny. These brief words of Gen. Follow’*, utter
ed in a social reunion of delegates at Nashville, will
“go down the lines” upon tbo polilio ear of tbe
Sooth, from State to State, and tbe answer will
come back from every true man: Ayr, Aye, Aye,
sounding like tbuuder, from tbe Atlantio to the
Pacific, and from the Siuqneltannah to the Bio
Grande. Whether the North will accept the Mis?
souri Compromise line, as a basis of settling the
great question of slavery in the territories, the
people of the Sooth sboald not stop to inquire.—
It is their compromise, not ours, and if the
Northern people are not willing to abide by it
now, let tbe consequences be opon their own
beads. If they do not adhere to it in the case of
the new territories, let alt compromises be indig
nantly spurned. For the saho of peace, wo have
acquiesced in the Missouri line for thirty year*
and are still willing to abide it, in good faith. But
we will be a party to no new Kerns of compro
mise on questions of constitutional right with men
“who keep tbeir faith a* dicers keep their oaths.”
And, if in mere recklessness of power the North
shall attempt to overstep this line, and exclude
slavery from tbe territories South of 36 30, let tbe
'South relying npon ber arseuals and ber man
hood, take such step* as will secure ber rights, and
K rotect ber institutions for tbe iutnre. Thu shun Id
e the policy of tbe Southern people, whether
their object be to preserve merely their interests
iu the territories at a property, or their equality
aud independence, at membersof the confederacy.
FROM WASHINGTON.
[CORRIBrOSDS.VCK or THE GEORGIA TELEGRATH,]
WASHINGTON, June 25,1850.
The Administration Policy— New Mexi
co—flail—The Compromise Bill—Ad«
journment—Lttnd Bill? ic.
We remember that the immortal Calhoun, two
years ago. told bis southern friends to remember that
the man who wa* farthest from them in Geographical
position, waa farthest from them in sentiment on the
slave question. This is correct as a general rule, bat
from recent developments. General Taylor, n south
era planter, i* as far from the aontb as Seward, Hale,
and others of that fraternity. It may be, however,
that his views have changed since he come hither.
Precise day and date are of little account, but it is
well known that, in this tbe present year. Col. Mon-
. roe. the Military Governor of New Mexico received
orders, upon which he acted, to preserve a “strict
neutrality” between the Texas Commissioner, Major
Neighbors, (who was engaged in organizing counties
in what was the disputed territory,) and tbe people
oINew Mexico.
Mr. Smith, a month or two ago, after waiting in vain
to be admitted to a seat in Congress, as a Delegate
from Now Mexico, was on the aye of returning home,
* when suddenly be changed bis mind, sod will tarry
here for a time longer. During bis sojourn in this
city, be ha* been busily engaged, in giving informa
tion to a certain class of politicians, leading to the
belief that slavery can never exist in New Mexico.
The effect of this is, to make the free soiter* overanx
ious for the admission of that territory at a State.—
Mr. Duer of New York, who is the leading spokes-
man for thirty four of the Whig delegation from that
state, has already given notice of bia intention to in
troduce a bill for that purpose, so that New Mexico,
may fallow close on the heels of California.
The Administration are against all schemes but
that of the President, or.rather. ofthe Cabinet. And
aathey are baMly .eqgaged in berrying in California,
on the same principle they are striving to admit the
state ofNew Mexico. You know that there is evi'
dencc in proof of this assertioq. Col. Monroe, Irepeat,
waa ordered nbt to “interfere” in the contest going
on between the Naw Mexicans and tbe state author
ities of Texas, but what do we now learn! The Gal
veston Civilian of the llth inst. contains a proclama
tion. issued by Col. Monroe, directing tbe election of
delegates to a Convention to be held far the formation
of a state constitution, which was to have been held
on the 13th of May.- Major Neighbors returned to
Austin. .After ineffectual efforts to organize tbe coun
ty ofSanta Fe. and the canse of bis failure waa tbe
interference ofthe Military Authorities of Santa Fc;
those' very aathoritiee who, previously, were directed
to remain “neutral”! Now here is a somerset, a change
a new move.” Aed the President, in reply to a reso
lution of the Senate, recently, said—“while I have no
power to decide tbe question of boundary, and no de
sire to interfere with it as a question of title. I have to
observe that, the possession of the rtrritory into which
it appears Major Neighbors has thus gone, was actu
ally-acquired by the United States from Mexico, sod
lisssioce been held by the United States, and in my
'opinion ought *o to remain, until the question ol boun
dary shall have bee‘n adjusted by soma competent au
thority. Meanwhile,.I think there i« po reason*, far
seriously spprhending that Texas will practically in
Webster, Clay and Casa-
Tho petty tricks and miserable paltering of
these men daring tbe present session of Congress,
on the slavery question, furnish a mournful proof
of tbe low ebb. to Which tho strife for office has
brought tbe standards of some of onr public men.
In proof of this, and of tho motives apparent on
tbe very surface of their conduct, we need but
point to tho record—to theirnwn reported speech
es, now part and parcel of the history of the times,
to call a blush to tho cheok of every engenions
man.
Judge Beverly Tockerof Virginia in tbe conrso
of some remarks in the Nashvillle Convention, ex'
posed the slimy sinuosities of these men with a
force and terseuess rarely equalled. A gentleman,
who was present and heard the Jadge informs os
that, his manner always perfect, was in this por
tion of his speech, striking and electric- beyond
description. To give a donble edge to the point of
the poisoned barb, there was a sneering deference
or manner—a sinking of tone—a slow distinctness'
or enunciation, which made every word toll,—
until the closing sarcasm sent tho Parthian arrow
qniveringin the breasts of bis victims. The Judge
closed as follows:
Mr. Webster, for the alleged purpose of pre
venting disunion had pat forth tbe “raw head and
bloody bones” dictum, that no secession could be
peaceable. Mr. Webster—for tbeir purposes
were different—had sought to mnkeit appear that
in case of dissolution, wars would entae. Wbat
did these calm words of Mr; Webster’s mean!—
They coaid have no other meaning,, but that if
any portion of tbe South tried to relieve itself by
secession, it would be followed by coercion on tho
partot the North! What was this bat a menace,
a mere brulemfulmen• • Yon must lay down enyour
face and suffer your pqcket to be picked, or we
will cutyonr throat; which, being interpreted,
mean i the Compromise! lie understood—for he
could not read speeches now n-days, they made
him sick—-that Mr. Clay and Mr. Cass, that “north
ern man with southern principles” said. tho same
thing. A formidable triumvirate! - All triumvi
rates were formidable! It was the position of
men (ike'Cmsar, Tcmpey, and Crassn*! Caesar
and 1’umpey bad Crassnstb hold the straw whilst
the game was played. General Cass was made
a cat's paw and did not know what be was there
for, any more than Lentnlns did, acting for Antho
ny and Augustas. Defend him from triamvirates
—from tbe plans of men coming from different
quarters, all for themselves, and “fhe devil take
tbe hindmost.” There was mischief brewing; and
one of them will be thrnst aside and never more
be heard of. Augustus had bis province, Anthony
bis. and they left something in tbe hands of the
stake-holder to play for. “When tho rognes fall
out, honest men come by their own.” Whet had
these men in common 1 Had they not been vi-
tuperating each other for year*! He did not
know wbat Mr. Clay and Webster bad between
them, hut he thought Mr. Clay knew why Mr.
Clay had not been tbe candidate of bis party re
peatedly. ‘‘While fhe grass grows, the steed
starves:” What laid the prophesy some fonr
thousand year* ago?—“Dsn shall be a serpent by
the way,—he shall bite the horse’s heels so that
the rider shall fall, backwards.” There was not
on earth a man whose heart bowed down more-
reverentially in the presence of true greatness
than hi* own; whilst lie a'bhored man worship. It
was natural for ft roan tp look up, to seek for some
thing between him nnd divinity—to make an idol
of almost anything.! " Under the the healthy in-
flueocD^of tlVis* passion, we raised onr eyes to
Thirty-six xfiirt)'.
The annexed table will be interesting to those
who have looked at tbe great national question
through the tbe medium of plum facts- At the
North we have more than n million of square miles
more of territory, above the line 3i; 3o than tho
Soath. That fact is worth remembering, when
wo are invited to a adopt Abolitionist and Cabinet
therories:
Total surfaco of old territory, east
of the Rocky Mountains, in square
miles.
Totnl in acres...
Total hew Territory West of the
Rocky Mountains in sqr. miles, ...... 8C7,741
Total in acres -—.— 555,226,240
Texas in square miles 325,520
In acres ...... ............ ...... 208,332,800
Grand total of territories and Texas,
in square miles 2,187,490
Grand total in acres 1,399,997,440
Total north of 36 deg. 30 min. in
square miles .....—............ 1,642.784
In acres... 1,051,381,769
Total south of 36 deg. 30 min. in
square miles .. — .... 546,712
In acres ............—.......... 348,615,680
LENGTH or U. S. SEA COA8T.
Atlantic coast .................. miles 1,8000
Gnlf coBSt 1,600
Pacific coast ..... 1,620
(COMMUNICATED. J
Messrs. Editors—We have just glcaced 0
speech of A. H. Stephens, published in the
orn^ecorder, and wo hand yo n the refl °- ’.
Which it has excited to bo used as you ma
proper. This is a speech glorifying his own *
dom.in having opposed the acquisition of c,l-‘'
nia and New Mexico; stating that, if .'? r '
had been followed, wo wonld have es c , *, C9
636 438 400 P r <* entd!fficDlties - Itl '* "“'l far him whose jj*
' ’ "' 8 ’ 0 dact is the erase of the present trouble, to t f
persuade the people that such wonld fi ava
case. However he may succeed in dapi,,!'^ 9
hot headed partisans, and rnen whose Yi*w f ° W
not extend farther than the present C:n ‘
in Cats, end sortie in Webster! In Mr. Clay, he
fo<) on rnan. It b&j
tflrdfo of (Jod ami the perform»ncc of
it i« hi« irreiitconjointic»n, nnd pro-
Ins greater hope of an hereafter.—
nlatkm of the Bible, '"•'bhoot note or m0 noy to treat for Mexican territory without ad-
el.ont the world.has been one of tho ■ d i Bg / prov!(0t tbnt if ic were acquired, slavery
Cfiof I should be excluded. N«r could tbo «nme class of
»tiite*men ajrree to billsfor the government of any
of tho Territories—Oregon, California, or Sew
Mexico—without adding n *imiiar proposition.
Trxns, on her admission, wna made subject to
diviiion by the line of 36 30, in order to exclude
tlnrery from the northern portion. Why was tbit
done? Becnnte of tbe Missouri compromise.—
Let the tiling be 'done with California. Divide.
j her by tho same Roe and leave the Southern por-
I tion to the South, unless it is intended to respect
I all compromises so long n* they operate in favor
I of tho North, and violate them when in favor of
J tho South.—Southern Press.
iirs hcr.«e)f off in fancy Style*
hceks, site sets unwisely to
> ht her. It is to be presumed
>r the cx\ rest j orposc of be*
• _ *■
Senator Foote Repudiated byiUissiSkippi.
Tbe MiMissippian of tbe 20:h nit. contain* the
fallowing remarks in relation to the feeling man
ifested by tbe people of that State at tbe treach
ery of Senator Foote.
Fustic Ortmos.—How. H. S. Foote.—We bare
just received the proceedings of a large aud re
spectable meeting held at Canton, ou tbe 15tb
inst.; Col. D. M. Fulton, Chairman, and James
R. Chambers secretary. Resolution, offered by
Geo. Calbonn. Esq., ami unanimously adopted de
clare the compromise of Mr. Clay unconstitutional
and derogatory, to tbo rights of the south; that
“ar, overwhelming majority of the people of Mias,
aiasippi are opposed to it;” and that if Senator
Foote will not yield to them, he rmghtnot Io retain
a position in vhich he misrepresents kit constituents.
Surprise is also manifested at the great exertion
be has made to publish tbe opinions, of poli.iciana
of ether states, while be exhibits tbo greatest
pancity in ascertaining tbe will of bis owu people.
Similar meetings would have been held in various
section of onr State, bat for onr direct appeal to
defer all expression of opinion nntit tbe pcoplo
sbonli^ act m reference to Ibn platform of tbe
Nashville convention. We bavo desired to give
Mr. Foote every opportunity to unite with our
people, deeply appreciating bis former eminent
services as a Democratic Senator, and cherishing
for him also the highest personal feelings of re
gard. The time, however, has now arrived when
wo roust consider hi* policy as fixed ; and if bo
shall take issue with the Nashville convention, the
people will no longer hesitate as to the coarse
they will pursue towards him.
The Vicktbnrg Sentinel of a late dato lets fly
at the facile little Senator, as follows:
“If onr Senator, Foote, does not abandon tbe
abominable measure he has been supporting, and
come out boldly and energetically for tbe Missouri
line—lever his present associations and ally him-
self with the Senators who sustain a plan of set
tlement acceptable to the Sontb—we advise him
not to retnre to face an indignant constituency.”
Public Sentiment in Tennessee.
The Nashville Union,-the Central Democratic
organ of Tennessee, has repudiated tho “Compro
mise” and planted itself upon the Southern plat
form. The Union accompanies the publication of
the Nashville resolutions with the following em-
pbathie remarks—
Tut Southern Platvorm.—Below wo give
the resolutions adopted by tbo Southern Con
vention, in a connected form.—They havo* here
tofore been published separately. On this plat-1
form wo take onr stand. On this rock wa plnco
onr political fortune; ‘and the gates of hell shall
not prevail against it.”
is aeaeeeisary to comment. The facts taken in con
nection. show that the government has driven Texas
from the soil, wbihe the resolutions of annexation
pledged this government to Texas to defend and pro
tect, tad which the very act with Mexico, acknowl
edged and declared to the world to be the territory of
Texas. Bat the sword decides the question at once,
and with it Texas is dismembered by the arm of “the
Comman<]er-in-Cbief of the Army and Navy of the U
nited States." The next thing wo will hear. Will be
Utah forming estate constitution, and asking-far ad-,
mission into the Union. Free soil, with jaws capa
cious as the grave, will swallow for its dinner, not
only the territory of a common country, hot will en
deavor to take all the southern state* loritt breakfast.
Tbe appetite is sharp enough already. So prepare to
repel tbe aggression, or make op yoor minds for the
first part of tbe fate of Jonah!
For the first time, wo had tbe plcssore of hearing,
to-dsy, the remarks of Mr. Soole, in the Senate:—
He was bora in France, end, escaping political peri
aecotioo more than ewvnty years ago, came to this
country,9md settled to Louisiana. His French ac
cent is very marked; ho talks deliberately, dis
tinctly, and musically. His voice is strong, and wcl
cultivated. His diction is ebaate, bis ideas wail ar-'
ranged, and his arguments powerful. Heis southern
in feeling, and utters trutlis which raonot bo contro
verted. It almost unnecessary to say the “Adjust-
meut” or “Accommodation” bill, sometimes dignified
with tbs name of "Compromise,” was under consi
deration.
People haver given up ail guesting as to when the
final vote on this bill will bo taken, and its friends
are iq worye spirit* now than before it wss reported.
Northern Senauw* in a body, having voted down
every amendment that promised the slightest justice
to the South, several southern Senators who were
understood to favor tbe bill with slight amendment*
are now understood to be strongly against it. Promi
nent among these it Mr. Berrien, of your State.—
Last week, Mr. Clay undertook to express his regret
that Mr. Berrien‘rnametbonld be used agaiqat the
“adjustment.” Mr. B. replied with greater warmth
than I have ever known him to manifest on any pre
vious occasion and in conclusion distiucty avowed
that the adoption of hit amendment was indispensa
ble to secure his support. This amendment has since
been voted down and Mr. Berrien is now coanted as
certain against tho Rill. The Hoase is waiting for
it, and have given the go-by to tbe California bill, for
the present, to debate a bill which propose! to grant
land bounties to all who have served in the several
Indian wart and in the war of 1815 with Great Bri
tain, and who have not heretofore been provided far.
Only aboot fifty millions of dollars are tbns proposed
to be taken oat of the land revennes!
Congress is expected to adjourn about the midle of
September; some think the first of October. The
sooner the better far tbe country, foe way things are
going on just now.
The abolitionists are industriously at work in this
District, stealing negroes and sending them to the
free States. METROPOLIS, i
did see something to ndmire, in Gen. Cars, some
thing, about Mr. Webster—nothing. He conld
understand why they should reverence Clay, but
in tbe “god like”—as they call him nt the North,.ho
conld not see anything. Even in Jnpiter Tenons,
when his character was debased by debauchery
aud profligacy, he conld not see anything to com
mand admiration. There was Cass ! When Achil
les was going to the Trojan war. ho received from
the oracle what meant one' thing, or another.—
Tho Nicholson letter was such a thing! It meant
something for onp aide—a different thing for an
other.
He wits sorry to wear oct his poor voice in
talking of these mutter*. He had said that Mr.
Webster’s menace wes n mere brutem fulmen! Ho
would put n case. Suppose Florida, Georgia,
Soiilh-Carf'lhia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisi
ana, should form a Southern Confederacy?
Suppose they, driven to it, shodlil be compelled to
secede T Wlnre win the power on earth to lift a
hand against it I Would New England ? Every
ou« thyt ber -necessities lor cotton would
compel her lo be quiet. :Every body knew ibat
she bad taken -from the South some ceven hun
dred millions'of dollars, aud had not left it to bo
idle. She bed rralirnl it—had put it io factories,
ships, nnd palaces. What became of these, with
I be cotton cut off' ? Her marble palaces wonld
be opru for those who choose to occupy them like
those of Venice, nnd her merchant princes would
skulk in obscure corners. Every man iu England*
j was interosted jn this questiofl too, and we sboald
1 have her capitalist swarming over here. Tbe
impossibility of having any resort to violence was
plain. If New England interfered, England and
all the world would cry out, atop! i» enable tbe
South to go on aud make cotton. Whot would
coercion do I Conld tbe Sooth be coerced back
into die Union? Cotihl you gel back S. Carolina
if she should go out-? The attempt would be of
such sucidal folly as wo never beard of. You
might as well say, that if Orpheus had been the
only man in tbe world, the wotneu wonld have
killed him. Ho did not believe thnt Tennessee
and Kentucky would permit their Northern
neighbor* to cross their territory to attack their
Southern friends! The moment that^ secession
takes place, tho moment a breach is made, that
moment the word Union loses its ctiartn. Sup
pose North Carolina, on tbit question, was met
with an iuvitatioii to join the Upi on, would she
nbt stand by ber sister-States? He beged leave
to suppose a case- Virginia is crowded in the
tnhnn’n murkhv Tvt*nfiickv nml Mia&nnri! Sun-
Total 5,120
Total length of “shoreline.” 38,063
As must have been seen, the Nashville Conven
tion has very conclusively shown that tbo great
principle for which the Southern States mean to
contend is the running oat to the Pacific the line
of 36 30. Already the promulgation of this de
mand, as tho one upon which the South wilt con
centrate ita whole strenth,* has been effectual in
proving tbe earnestness of the South upon the
greet points at issne. No political joggle has con
cocted the principle. - It catenates from tbesoala
of Southern freemen, and its operation upon the
political character of, the ffatiou'mnst bo sensibly
felt. . We perribive that thus'early it hie bid its ef
fect opon*Congress, nowattaebing vast importance
to the movement going on in the Southern- States
and which will be enccaraged by liberal and en
lightened minds in tho Northern States. There
ia something eminently practical in 36-30. It is
easily understood. No theory palsies it. The
commercial men, of which class the mass of tbe
population are formed, understand figures, and they
prefer to nso them on a great natiudal question,
rather than have the country distracted, at some
future day, by tbe involved and possibly impracti
cable schemes founded in mere theory.
Besides, all the sensible men of the North coin
cide with all the South, in tbe belief that the
Southern States are entitled to some advantage, in
behalf of their institutions, from tiie soil derived
by hard fighting from Mexico, and which wes ac
quired by tbe loss of many of tbe most valuable
lives aud the blood of the South. It is so palpa
ble a fact, that no man imbued Wiib a sense of
juatice, can deny that the Son there constitutionally,
as well as geographically, entitled .to maintain
tbeir institutions by the exercise of the popular
will. Let that will concentrate upon a;great prin
ciple—snch as this Missouri lino extended—and
tbe results now beginning to be foreshadowed and
felt at Washington, and iu other parts of tbecoun-
try, will have masterly and decisive dotermina.
tion. The intelligent politician will perceive that
this principle once fully settled down upon by the
South, will gather strengtli from its popularity in
every quarter, uot less from its own merits than
from the great revolution that must take piece
among the political parties of the country.
The inactive party of the United States forms a
majority of tbe people. It was this party that pla
ced General Taylor in tbe Presidential-chair; and
let it ODce find a nucleus, such as the great princi
pie of tbe Nashville Convention establishes, and
there will be an end to old party distinctions.
The people will rally for justice, end will decide
tbe slavery question, as their votes would decide
it to-day, by giving the South that fair answer to
its reasonable demands, to which it is eutitled by
eqnity and constitutional law.
It is very evident that, from tbe mixture of per
sonally ambition with the intrigues of the-cabiuet
Congress will be nnebiu to accomplish anything
daring the present session. It will separate.
Tbe Nashville Convention will form a new and
very powerful party—now only a sensible minori
ty, according to political reckoning—and the
great event will be justice to tbe South, and the
harmony of the confederacy.—N. Y. Herald.
in reliving himself in their opinion!. f ro .
tho author of tho present political conditi™- »***
country, no man of reflection who can tales ° -
of tho world, nor any who have any p ret , . T|ew
statesmanship, will agree with him, an( j ^. l .° a tff
say that his policy wonld liave created t, ^
more trouble. He was opposed to the a- ” ° **
of Texas, England was intriguing tecontWhk!!
destinies ; ho was opposed too to the ae ' ■ •
of California and New Mexico; end Esrixnd?*?
her eye, and was arranging also, foj i£. 1D T?
- - -- - - — ‘““sequin-
tion of California and New Mexico.
Sappoj,
Gen. Taylor nnd tbe Abolitionist*.
The Now York Tribune thu* felicitates its free
soil allies, npon tbe recent accounts from New
Mexico, where the President is endeavoring to
play the tame infamous game that was practised
towards California.
PosTCRtrr—Impor.ant .'—Since the above
was in type wo recieved, late last evening, tbo
important intelligent (via Texas) that Neighbors
has returned from New Mexico with a very fat
flea iu bia right ear, bringing tbe useful intelli
gence that be bas been unable to organize tbe
Uouuty of Santa Fe, by reason (as he says) of the
interference of tho United States military ihero
and that XJof. Munroe, ia pursuance of fresher orders
from Washington, has issued a call for a Convention
of the Ptapleof New Mexico to meet at Santa F*
in May (now past and form a Co \ - utotion !
And there is no doubt of the ready obedience of
tbe New Mexicans to this call.
This if altogether tbe most important and grati- j
tying news wo havo recieved for a long lime.
True, tbongh wo long, impatiently, nnd for a time |
confidently, expected ju»t such advices, enn- ;
not yet reconcile them with tho drift of Gen.)
Taylor’s new Special Message above quoted from
—But wo are very ready to waive Umt. If the
Administration is at Inst fairly, folly, openly
coinruiltod to tbe Independence of News Mexico
aud the maintainance of her territorial integ rity,
we are with it heart and soul. Much precious
time had been iust, but by frankness energy a d
dstermination ail may he regained. There will
of course he a new csll on tbo President for infor
mation, nnd wo look for an answer very different
in tone and hearing from that of Monday.
When it comes, lookout for hnrrictmesin Con
gress ! All we have yet had are nothing to them
If what Col. Mnnroe is reported to have done is
avowed and justified by the President, the “di
vorce betweeu him una the Inst rsmnsut of the
Slavery Propaganda” will be complete. JVe
au-ait trilh interest but no longer rrith fear, the
developments of the ensuing month. The sky brig
htens / Rejoicefriends of Freedom! and press
onward !
We commend tho foregoing extract to onr whig
cotemporarie* of Goorgia. Has Gen. Taylor ie-,
ally "divorced" himself from the last remnant of j
tho slavery “propaganda" as the Tribune is pleas
ed to term Southerners? Will not our neighbors!
in Third street, give this intelligence from New
Mexico to tbeir readers or will they adhere to their
old tactics of mam, and otter not a word of con
demnation against these high handed and shamo-
,nl proceeding*!
tobacco market by Kentucky nnd Missouri ! Sup
pose snch a Confederacy—that Clay- conld keep
Kentucky and Benton Missouri! The Southern
States would only havo to make some slight com
mercial concessions to England to get five or ten
ceuts knocked off of tbe duty-on tobacco, and
Kentucky and Missouri conld not sell a pound in
tho English market. People understand three
things! But suppose (he Confederacy embraced
all the Southern Slates, a Country from the
Chesapeake to the Gulf of Mexico aud the Rocky
Mountains; and wbat could she want? There
would 1>e a homogeneous population—lies of
blood and a harmony uninterrupted. No nation
baa ever existed with so magnificent a prospect,
as wonhl be presented by this view of tbe case.
What would be wanting Any thins in commerce—
manufactures? Virginia included coni aud water
power in abondauce. What could they want?
Suppose this thing done I Where would bo Penn
sylvania ? She bad now to sustain herself against
lue competiton of ail New England, and was
always crying about the Tariff. Yet fho had
the Southern market. Takeaway the Tariff, and
she goes to the market of the world, in opposition
to New England, and she would at once be the
work shop of the South; and instead of being on
ibn margin and contending fur tbe markets with
Now England and New York, sho would have—
all to herself. There xvns Ohio, Illinois and Indi
ana"! What Ohio would do, he did not know—
she wa* a sort of nondescript. She had industry,
skill, wealth, eommeice, and all that. But when
yon go a shore at the “Queen City”, yon would
think she was imported from Germany. There
was a little of the Irish brogue to be sure. Sbe
had all the elements of greatnes, hut she was a
problem. One of the most beautiful features of
the slavery system was Ibat the association of the
whites and blacks had elevated tbe latter. (As
sociotioDS betweeu equals would generally elevate
one class at tbe expeuseof tbe other. Ouraystem
had made tho negro pretty much of a gentleman
The Ohio man has nothing to elevate but the hog.
and he cannot make any thing of him There
was one thing Ohio reminded him o!—it was a
green and standing pnul—aye, » ecu pool.
He was coMcions that he hud tried the patience
of tile audience. A tirod man speaking to a tired
audience, was like a tired man riding a tired
horse! Ho had not said a tenth part of what he
had meant to say ! He cauie here with his mind
charged, and ho might as well attempt to drain
Lake Erie through ngoose quill as attempt to bring
out all his mind through his speech. He had said
nothing of compromi.-es, but lie would say he
was sick ofthem. He had always lost by tbein,
and they had all como from tile same quarter.
Some oftho agitation might havo been gotten up
for the sako of tho credit of paciGcation. But he
was too much fatigued to speak, aud wonld close.
Tho Chances o( tlic Compromise.
Of tbe three Senators named by its fronds,
whose support would, according to their authori
ty', surely mmve tlie bill, tbe Charleston Mercury
says, we are quite sure that one, Mr. Hunter will
not vote for it, and we very strongly doubt whether
Mr. Berrien or Mr. Monton can be brought to aid
it- All Mr. Berrien’s propositions to amend, have
been rejected—Mr. Clay will yield nothing to him
why should be yield to Mr. Clay? They have
adopted Mr. Hale’s amendment providing for tbe
prospective division of the Stale of California into
several States of cohveuieut size, hat (hey rejected
an amendment making a politic and natnral divi
sion of tbo Territory of California by the line of
36 deg. 30. min. a line which not only separates re
gion* essentially different in geographical charac
ter and population, but wbicb also divides that
population which desired tbe erection of a~ State,
from that which was unanimous fur a Territorial
Government. The devotee* of the bill have con
ceded that they do not expect that whole region to
remain as a single State, and that it ought not so
to remain. They have made provision iu the bill
for dividing it hereafter into three States. But
they refuse to divide it now when the whole thing
is in tbeir power. They insist that these embryo
States shall remain under tbe guardianship of the
Wilmot Proviso in the California Constitution.—
That while they sacrifice every thing to abolition’
they are not ashamed to entreat tho support of
Southern men, and even to threaten them with the
indignation of their constituents, if they thwart the
success of ameasnre designed to “beet the wounds
of a bleeding country.”
We see not bow Mr. Berrien can voto for this
scheme, nor do wo believe he will. Every day
adds to the odium with which it is viewed in tha
Sontb. It has no friends at the South, and never
bad. Even the Washington Union lias never ven
tured to give to it auy other approval than such as
is yielded to a nauseous dose that it is fonod nec
essary to shallow. “It is the best wo can get,’,
is it* sole justification for giving up all it has be.
fore defended, and accepting all it bas denounc.
ed and repudiated. And it is expected that time
will concentrate Southern support around a
measure thus condemed by its very advocates,
and in fnvor of which nono but cowardly aud
arguments can be urged! Instead of support,
time is maturing the opposition oftho Sontb, and
deepening ita conviction that we should insist
upon a real settlement, amlresolutely reject alike
all shams and all snrrenders.
now his wise policy had been adopted, M |j g
land had been allowed to mature her pfag, , 0
tain the control of Texas, New Mexico aa d cY
forma too. It would bo when she inrmnnds thj
world with her colonies, ridiculous to tay sh B E 5
ver pould. Circumstances ia tbo pro'rets oltk* 6 "
events might have induced her also, to hold oatJ
her claim to Oregon, or at least delayed, until b- r
plans had been matured, by negocistion. XhJ
she would have surrounded the United Stst es *
cepting the Allrniic border, which coald have hie
by hep fleets. Haw long after, would ithsvo been
before sho could have been prepared to molejt ef
factually our peaco, if not our safety? Uo "
can tell. But with the desire of independence of
the cotton, of tho ^United States, aha Woo y ^
have given a great impulse to Texas, *ad ^
the impulse that. tbo - discovery of gold would
have given to California, it would not have bae a
many years before she could, have taken a aon
formidable position against the peaco andpnuM,.
ty of the United States, tbe only nation which
ntaudsinthe way of her still farther advancement
in greatness and power. Under this view, which
is tbe natural one, and the one which would hare
come to pass, but for tbe steps taken by the dem
ocratic party, (whom Mr. Stephens chtiget with
counteracting his contracted and shortsighted pol
icy, ) to prevent such a state of affairs a* bit micro
crospic views and policy wonld bare produced.
weshonld in time have bad England thunderin'
upon us, on every side, with her rattling small
arms and roaring caunon, and with her abolition
too; ia place of a few of her abolition fustici,
and some juggling politicians now at Wsihiegton,
trying to scare the South out of her rights. Onr
trouble cornea from seeding incompetent men,
both in mind and character, to legislate for ua,ud
to preside over tbe destinies of the nation; nd
uot as the consequence of tbe policy then panned
[COMMUNICATED.)
“W'lial can tHe Natter Be ?”**.! Confpro*
mine! Eli!
Steamboat profits ur Caupornia.—A San
Francisco letter of tbe let ultimo, in the Now
York Evening Post, says:
Of alHhetjrdiDg enterprises connected with
this Califoania movement, nono seem to have been
ns profitable as tho steamboats. The Senator,
that plies three times a week betweeu hero and
Sacramento, ia sn'd to net $20,000 n week, and
$10,000 a week is a froqneut return from some of
the smaller boats. The Panama tails to-day, it is
said with 251) passengers—50 cabin and 200
steerage—nnd $1, 500, 000 in value of gold dust
tho gross receiptwill bo $75,000. I havo no donbt
that the net profit of each nf these steamers has
been tho enormous sum of $ 100,000 for the yonr.
These great profits will be checked, doubtless by
tho greater number of steamers orall kinds now
swarming here.
The Ladies ol Itlilan,
A correspondent of the New York Commercial
Advertiser, iu giving a description of the city of
Milan, says:
“The ladies of Milan dress themselves with
much’propriety. Their chief aim appears to bo
to emulate oach other in simplicity. The gay co
lors so common to Southern Italy are seldom woru
by thorn. They are accustomed to brush their
hair completely from the forehead and tbe temples.
This practice causes them to appear as neat as
Quakeresses- Capes or laco are worn fitted neat
ly to tho bust, with a narrow neck collar, hid by
a plain pink or azure colored ribbon. During tho
revolution it waa tri-color. The hats are of tho
cottage form, rather small and cot in a very modest
style.
Tho favorite flowers among the ladies are tho
Cornelia and the dahlia. Their hats have gener
ally upon tho left side a large full blown camelia
or dahlia, without any other accessary. The bo
nnets for laJies aroi principally formed of these
flowers, and tho g&rlauds aud floral offerings cast
upon tho stage to popular actresses, are of the
same composition.
Speaking about hair, it may not be amiis to say
that tbe ladies of Sorrento, the birth place of Tas-
so, braid their tresses and then arrange them in
the form or a wreath, such as artists are wont to
place upon tho brow of their favorite bard.
In Italy toward the going down of the sun, the
Indies are accustomed to repair to tbe balconies of
their habitations aud occupy them until the even
ing shades have appeared. At that pensive hour
the balconies are as frames enclosing pictures
more beautiful than any iu the noblest galleries in
tha ItaliaD'Capitals.
Lsr^IIe that pryeth into evory cloud may ho
stricken with ti thunderbolt.
And what is it I Let os see. Thirty Stiles,
alike sovereign and equal, for their general good
maintain and keep in existence oar General Got-
ernment, to do such things as the State Govern
ments could not well do while separate: This
General Government in its career acquirer ll*
Territories of California, New Mexico sad Utah.
Fifteen of the States are opposed to iltroq,
and they at first set ap openly a claim to eaferca
the \Y ilmot Proviso, which excluded the ritiini
of the slave States from carrying tlieir sltrei iito '
these Territories.
This claim on the part of the non slsreboldisg
States was so degrading to tbe slave Slates, that
unti-slavery meu, both North and Soath bud la
succumb to save the Union, aud it is profaned!?
let go.
What then ? in baclciug from the Wiloat Pro
viso, did airti-slsvery men give up theirclsiaton-
elude slave-holders from Territories ? Seres ktf
mouths have expired on tbe bands of Cuagrca
and scarcely the first measure has been thought
of much less acted ou, in which the right of the
slave-holder to migrate to this Territoiy his not
been prominent! What then ? why a compro
mise ! and a Compromise of a Committee ol
XIII, with the world wide Compromiser ia tbe
lead.
What then? why tho emigrants to Califorafa
had simply all of that, (exteuding from 32 to 42
degrees North Latitode,and covering shoot 18 or
12 such States as Georgia), appropriated it to
themselves and in their Constitution exeladrd
slaveholders from carrying their negroes Iberr—
and mind you, this California iuelndes a gold re
gion, tbe .very richest and largest in tbe world—
and on tbe 8th day of May, 1859, this Compro
mising Committee proposed to file Senate of tbe
U. S. to admit California, aud thu* to eafurc* tba*
e imo Wilmot Pioviso, under the babtismsl BM>«
of Compromise! iu which nao-alaveboklenptill
and slaveholders none.
But what else? why to make this pill slip down
slick thi# compromising Committee on the tut*
day, in the same place, propose that New Mexi
co and Utah shall hava Territorial GorenuneaHi
that shall have no right to pass a law “ia reiped
to Africau slavery," while a majority of the Coo-
mitteeareof opinion not only that slavery don
not exist there, but that it is actually forb;dd«
and this too is a compromise because the k-'
slaveholders get all and slaveholders none. Elt
what else ? why for the privilege of losing fo ^
tho.slave States, they called on the same coafro"
rnising Committee, on the same day, in the u-i
place, to help to bribe Texas, a slave State, te (-•
nish them with slave Territoiy enough to all*
two States more to be freed from the cut* 4 c
slavery.
Is this a pit of deep enough infomy ™
slaveholding States? not quite; for the
compromisers ask us in tbo came bresth,
hold still while they stench the pit with J a,t
other measures of degradation to thosfere-to l -»
States—abolish the privilege of carrying a
to tho District of Colombia and telling him. *
that Torritory received from slaw States s»
jointly owned by them, and Hill io tb« ,r
midst—and allow to an anti-slavery CoDgrroi
right to legislate as to tho manaorin wb'.ca
holders are to be permitted to maintain lie
tion of master and slave, if the negro esespe*
non-slaveholding State.
.Will yon allow meto say this is a
trntbfnl p* -
tare of the Compromise, perhaps now
tho Senate of the U. S. ? Let any man »bo ^
a shadow of donbt on his mind, k* ^
Washington Union of tho 11 tb May fast,^ ^
ho shall find it, every word of it; and
Union is the distinguished Champion ^
ter fraught with uothing less than tbe drgtj 0
and ruin of the South. And with one
mark I leave yon for the present—hew ^
descendant of the spirits of 76 can keep a *5^ rC j»
try to keep cool is an enigma to me; Mr-
xoSUBMESIOfl-"'
Lll' A boautifnl form is bettor than a beautiful
face: a.beanlifnl behavior is bolter than.a beauti
ful form. It gives higher.pleasure than statues tr
.pictures; it ia the finest ot the fine arte.
• [communicated-J
Count).Tice tints- C$sd,
Allow me to suggest to the friends of ^
and of tho Union aa our fathers fottB** 1 ibBfP
meetings at once, throughout tbe :>ta te >
pose of responding to tbe proceedings ‘ oC *
villa Convention, aud to express tbor c 0 [
of Clay’s Bill of surrender. That t ^ iree , °g e0 strl
the people of Georgia, are opposed to 1 e oe tt
scheme, I havo not a doubt. Lot them. 1 ^
at onco in tbeir respective counties, * u 88
And if auy of our representatives ia C ° a f otl)
desirous of botrn_> .re Sc.'-lr e - ' 1 f
their eyes open.