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THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH.
News Summary.
u I'rmhc* are all subsiding Last
Mi--ouri, at St. Louis, hail fallen six
mUville and Cinrinatti the Ohio was
Thv \% file
Wednesday tb
in- ««•-. and atj
rapidly.
Tlif Mormon-,.— l lie Now York Tribune, of the
v Ain't, has u letter from its special corrc-spoudeni
in l tab. which i- dr - iderlly unfavorable as to peace
with the Aloniiona. In the opinion of -aid corres-
j. ndcirt, except there Is war now, there will baa
W“t-r «'ion for it h( reader. Singular enough,
,l1 "’ * "L K*ne, who was lauded by the newspapers
as a peace maker and patriot, is now condemned as
a traitor to his country, it having leaked out that he
himself U a full-blooded Mormon, lie was baptized
anew into the Monnon church while in Salt Lake
City, and received what are called the endowments,
or higher degrees of Mormonisra. Brigham Voting
told the people at Provo, that Kane would be back
again in sixty days after leaving the valley.
The G Am shoppers in Obit*—Mr. Sehenck*
of Franklin, \\ arren county, Ohio, writes to the Ohio
Farmer, that the grasshoppers are making their ap
pearance there in vast numbers- He says: “Last
year we had millions of them- this year we have
hundreds cf millions.” For dre years, he saya, they
have been increasing on his farm, and fears that un"
less some means are discovered for their destruction,
they will totally rnln his own and his neighbor’s clo
ver fields.
The Right of Gearch—Dwpatchw from
Kaglnml.—Despatches have been received at the
Stato Department from Mr. Dallas, our Minister at
Hie Court of St. James, covering the response of the
British Government to the letters of Secretary Cass
upon tho recent searches of American vessels in tho
Golf. The pith of these despatches is, that, while
England disavows all authority for any offensive
aeU that may have been committed, and while stand,
lug ready to make all the reparation that may be re
quired. she it not at ike tame time, vi/ling to abandon
the right of visiting alt rteeth that mag be numttUi
of being engaged in the traffic in date*. In other
Hards, the meet effect ire mrairret rcill Hill be used for iu
t .ijtpreuion. It is, however*. the desire of the British
Government that these visits may he made in the
moat acceptable manner; and to secure this, the
English .Minister for Foreign Affairs would ho pk-as-
• For the Georgia Telegraph
The Slave Trade.
Mr. Clisbt :—The speech of Col. Hunter
the last Telegraph, and your comments
therou, demand a word from me, who am in
rinculis "to support and defend the constitu
tion,” for I sec that no one else will in this
particular ; and this I regret, for I would es
chew any political controversy. The propo
sition is, that the Acts of Congress prohibiting
the slave trade, are constitutional. That I
deny, and hold all such J» cts « 6 r0SS usurpa
tion—nay more, a viol*d° n of the constitution.
Where is power granted to Congress to regu
late the morality of mankind ?—to say that it
is wicked t>’ trade in or hold any species of
property- and therefore prohibit it ? To say
that 1 shall not rob my neighbor prior to 1803
gives me license to do it after that year 1 I
this theru/e of construing treaties andcousti
tut ions ? It is no answer to say, that Congress
has often exercised this right. They have of
ten violated the constitution—they have pass
ed a Missouri Compromise—they have pro
hibited slavery in the territories, and done ma
ny other acts calculated to alarm honest pa
triots, and destroy' all confidence in cither their
wisdom or virtue. Don’t misunderstand me,
that I approve of the slave trade. That is not
the question. If it is wrong or immoral, it is
the business of the States to see to and prohib
it it. This, all the States, except South Caro
lina, had done prior to 1803. The Constitu
tion of Georgia of 1798 prohibits their importa
tion into this State. Bat does not every re
flecting man see the alarming consequence of
surrendering such a power to a confederacy of
States; whose notions of right and wrong, of
religion and morality, must of necessity be
discordant ? Admit such a doctrine, and how
long can the South live, with the free States
and all Europe again.-1 her? And that, too,
vhen they are moved and governed by fanat-
.1 to receive i-uch suggesti ons as the Cabinet of the | ical hypocrites, who, in all ages, are cheered
Unitod Slates may bo disposed to make. The tenor by the sight of human blood, provided-it is the
. ® dcs P“, che * ‘ntirely unlooked for, has blood of heretics. This crusade against sla-
CTt llted on llttlA fAolIniv nn ‘ha n*«4 nftho DsosUant I , . . °
very is the best illustration of it. Slavery has
existed in all ages—God ordained it—Christ
created no little feeling on the part of tho President,
who, it la confidently predicted, will insist at once,
upon the abandonment of the position which Eng
land asserts her intention of adhering to. In other I sanctioned it—the common law of England
words, the right of vial*, wili not be conceded by Air.
Buchanan in any shape whatever.
Heavy 1‘iirclin-c by t» Free N’rgro.—• At lb
ervilie, La., at a public sate recently, a f. in. c. be
came the purchaser of a sugar plantation in that pa
rish, at the price ot 8240,00), making him the owner
altogether, of 4,500 acres oi land and 200 negroes.
Cairo.—This place, at the junction of the Ohio
ana Missouri, which in the recent fresh was sub-
merged to the depth of twelve to sixteen feet and
pretty much destroyed, is principally owned by a
Company represented by st ick to the amount of 84,-
ooo.voo, of which George Peabody owns 87oo,ooo,
having purchased tho ™nw daring u»rM i n this
country last year.
I.os-c- by Flood.—The Herald estimates the
sum total of loss by storm and flood in all parts of
the oountry during the par,l two months at thirty-
three millions of dollars.
A Windfall.—The brig Caroline, 165 miles out
maintained it, as sacredly as the relation of pa
rent and child in every age, until within the
last two centuries. Nay, there are now in
the world at least five hundred millions of hu
man beings in worse slavery than any negro
in Georgia, and they of our white brothers and
sisters! Yet worse, the Christian powers of
Europe, only as yesterday, combined in a
bloody war against Russia, because she sought
to protect the Christian Greeks against the
most barbarous bondage the world ever wit-
nooood, by tho infltlol ami oorago Turl« T ami
that too, while those Turks were daily ship
ping white slaves from the Caucassian moun
tains, under the protection of those very Chris
tian flags! And they do it still, without a mur
mur from the hypocrites who are so distressed
Judge Ellsworth, the great jurist and patri
ot from Connecticut, maintained in the Con
vention. <hat this power over slavery and the
slave trade, never had, and never ought to be
long to the Federal Government—that it had
no power to legislate upon the moral law.
That such power belonged to the State Gov
ernments. But he added, and every intelli
gent statesman and moralist must agree with
him in his logic, that if it, (the slave trade.)
was to be considered in a morel light we ought
to go further and free those already in the
country.
Yes, no sophistry can get round the astound
ing axiom ; if the importation of slaves is mor
ally wrong, it is equally wrong to hold those
already imported. The South, when she
agreed to the declaration making the slave
trade piracj', surrendered the whole question.
She virtually pronounced every slaveholder a
pirate. Our mothers taught us the legal max
im, that “the receiver of stolen goods is as bad
as the thief,” no matter if he does buy them.—
As I have often declared, I once more repeat,
if the South has been constantly betrayed, her
own sons have been the traitors.
As to our treaties with Great Britain touch
ing the slave trade, they are all a disgrace to
an independent people. What business is it
to Great Britain to see to our virtue, and bind
us to keep the moral law ? But really, this
business of binding us to enforce the catechism
along the African lagoons, partakes largely
of the ludicrous as well as the grave. It is
the fable of the fox and the curs over again.
While she sets us to barking up the tree at
monkeys, she slips round the Cape of Good
Hope, and enslaves one hundred and fifty mil-’
lions of Hindoos, and as many Chinese as she
can catch! Charging the saints of Exeter
Hall to watch us the while, and cuff our ears if
we abate our barking! Certainly this world,
as old Marius said, is governed by grown-up
boys, and generally dunces at that.
JOHN HAMPDEN.
nvr^ooisr, gk^.,
Tuesday Morning, June 29, 1858.
Utah Aflairs Belore the Cabinet.
Brigham Young Suspected of Treachery—
Troops to he sent Forward—Affairs tciOi
Great Britain— The English Government In
different!
Washington, June 23.-It is understood that
the Cabinet was in session yesterday consider
ing the present complicated condition of affairs
in Utah. Much anxiety is felt for further in
telligence, and the indications here are that ad
ditional troops and supplies will beat once sent
forward.-Personsfamiliar with Brigham Young
express the opinion that Governor Cumming
has been deceived, and that the hegira south
ward was confined entirely to the useless pop
ulation, while the Danites were fortifying the
canons and mountain passes.
Tne English guTciuLucni appear Indifferent
in regard to the recent outrages on our com
merce. They express themselves solicitous to
stop the slave trade, and desire that some ar
rangement shall be made by which the charac
ter of suspected slavers may be ascertained
Fourth July Ceremonials., -
In consequence of tbe fact that the ceremo
ny of laying the Corner Stone of the Asylum
for tho Blind is appointed for Monday next,
we are informed that the military and civic pro
cession, and the oration of Mr. Anderson, an
nounced in our last, will take place on Satur
day, the 3d. i
Baying of the Corner Stouc of the
GEORGIA BLIND ACADEMY.
We are requested to say, that it is arranged
that the Ceremonies of laying the Corner Stone S uracnt , and a weighty one, as to the true intent
and meaning of that instrument. If they did not
know what they meant by it, who does? If they
Hampden on the Slave Trade Fro-
HIBITION.
The Telegraph, we suppose, should also hold it
self “in vinculis” for a counter protest against
Hampden and all the newlights on constitutiona
construction begotten of the schemes for renewing
the African Slave trade ; but we have neither time
nor space for argumentation. In fact, we can feel
no special responsibility about the matter. Hamp
den is not arraigning our opinions, so much a
runuing a tilt against all authority and precedent.
Docs he cite Mad’non, in evidence that the Con
vention intended to deny this power to the Federal
Government, in taco of the fact that Madison him
self was among the foremost to recognize and ex
ercise it in signing the treaty of Ghent as Presi
dent of the United States ? Did Madison stultify
himself in that way ? And following the entire
line of patriotic framers, exponents and defenders
of the Constitution to the last of the illustrious
company, where is there one who ever set up the
construction of this article contended for by Hamp
den? Even Air. Calhoun himself, the most jealous
conservator of State Rights among them all—even
he never entertained or expressed a doubt that the
Constitution confers upon the Congress the power
to prohibit the slave trade; for, as cited by Mr.
Hunter in the spceeli published last week, we find
Mr. Calhoun congratulating the country that it had
been exercised in the Ashburton treaty.
We are compelled to differ with Hampden, and
to assert, on the contrary, that the universal and
heretofore unquestioned practice of the Govern
ment, founded in the assent and concurrence of the
most illustrious framers of the Constitution it an ar-
will be performed by tbe M. W. Grand Master
F. A. M. of the State of Georgia, Wm.S. Rock
well, and that a meeting of the Grand Lodge
will be opened for that purpose. The officers
and members of the several subordinate Lodges
are invited to attend. The procession is to be
formed on Second between Mulberry and Cher
ry streets, at 9 o’ clock A. M.
Tonus’ America at Atlauta.
Young America Fire Company, No. 3, will
make an excursion to Atlanta next Monday,
starting in the early train at one o’clock, and
returning next day. They will take along
their “Mersheen,” about fifty members, and
tbe famous Macon Brass Band, whoso soul
stirring music will make the blue ctherial.can
opy of the starry decked heavens ring with ce
lestial harmony. Our Atlanta friends will
find No. 3 a splendid corps, and a body of
young gentlemen which Macon may be justly
proud of—fine, intelligent, genteel and good
looking young fellows, patterns of propriety,
[be on your good behavior after that, Young
America] and, moreover, they and their ma
chine bear the laurels of the Macon Fire De
partment this year. They rauk A, No. I, al
though numbered 3. Foreman, Jos. D. Van
Valkenburgh; Assistant Foreman, C. W,
Ells; S. W. Walker, Secretary ; Robert Mor
ris, Treasurer ; John Streyer, Engineer.
of New York, on her voyage to Aspinwall, fell in I about the bondageofthe happy stupid negroes.
wilt the brig Isabel Beurman, from New York, for
Port au Prince, with a valuable cargo, abandoned,
and just about sinking from the effect of n collision
which had stove in her bows below tbe waterline.'
The Caroline relieved be? of water, covered her
leaks with canvass, and pat three of her crew on
board, who succeeded in safely navigating the ves
sel to New 5 oik. Tho Beurman and cargo were
worth 840,000—the most of which will accrue to the
Caroline for salvage.
The French African “Emigrant*.**
They boast of the Caucassian blood, as the
purest stock of Adam, and yet can see, unmo
ved, ship load after ship load sold into slavery
in all the Turkish marts, while the sale of a
wooly savage from Africa throws the Taber
nacle in New York and Exeter Hall in London
into hysterical spasms.
I recur to this disgusting state of the world
for no other purpose, than to warn the Sonth-
Frencb vessel, the Regina Coeli, near Monrovia, | ern P eo P^ e °f ‘be great peril they incur, in
laying in a cargo of “emigrants’’ for the island of I ‘bus conceding to Congress any power to leg-
Cotton Planter’s Convention.
At the session of the Convention in MacoD,
Ga., on the second Tuesday in June, it was
“Resolved, That the President, in the forma- _ _
tion of the several Committees, by the forego- I trip, and among its stiring incidents, rumor,
Return of the Volunteers.
A WEDDING IN CAMP—HIGH-HANDED PRO
CEEDINGS
The Macon Volunteers returned from their
week’s excursion to Indian Spring last Satur
day morning. They were delighted with the
ing Resolution required, be allowed to do so
during the vacation of the Convention. The
President shall notify the Chairman of each
Committee, (at the earliest convenience,) of his
before their arrival, had heralded one. of a most
extraordinary character. We took occasion
last week, in announcing their departure, to
appointment, and of the names of those who. a caution in reference to a practice of in-
“Ke uulon,” (late Bourbon,) in the absence of a por
tion of her officers and crew, waa lately seized by
the negroes on board aud tbe remaining whites mur
dered. She was afterwards taken possession of by
tho British steamer. Ethiope, and 270 negroes found
on board, 100 having previously left. It was found
that the negroes had been bought and manacled in
the way usual with the Spanish slaves, except a por
tion who had been enticed on board as laborers, and
then secured, put in irons and stowed in the hold.—
A full narative of the affair is published in the Lon
don Times. With the English accounts of French
African emigration and tbe French accounts of the
English Cootie trade, one gets a lively idea of Euro
pean abolition philanthropy.
Tornado in New York City.—There was a
severe squall, which the papers can a tornado, in
York City last Tuesday. Several buildings were in
jured—some chimneys blown down—some houses
and trees struck by lightning, and one woman killed.
Importniit from Ifeaics...Great Excite-
nirzif muon" Ilio Forri^nm—..Hr. Forayih
hi* I*n«»|ioriB.—New Orleans, June
25.—The steamship Tennessee is quarantined below.
She brings important news, her dotes from Mexico
being to the 19th inst.
Admiral Kerman of the Mexican navy comes pas-
• sengor in the Tennessee.
The forced loan from foreign capitalists was crea
ting great excitement, and all foreigners who shall re
fute compliance have been ordered to leoro U,o . „„ „
try. The goods of aome of Ibe American merchants
had been seixed on account of their refusal.
Mr. Forsyth, the American Minister, had demand
ed and received his passports.
The Liberals were everywhere strengthening.
President Kuloaga was going to Tampico as a place
of refuge
Hard Times in Kirnuni..—The Kansas Herald
of Freedom gives a discouraging view of the times
in Kansas. It says: “We pity the man who is com
pelled to raise money now in Kansas. We were told
by a money lender the other day, that he was recei
ving from to to 90 percent, per mouth for the nso of
money, and had been paid at the rate of SO, 25 and
30 per cent, per month to discount notes. Tho low-*
est rates, on good security, for tho use of money,
seem to range between three and five per cent, per
month. Business in nearly all our Kansas towns is
nearly suspended. Men with twenty or twenty-five
thousand dollars cannot sell property at any price
to realise even a few hundred dollars. Real Estate
can be bought at ruinous rates, persons fooling com
pelled to sell to realise ready money, perhaps to save
their credit Hardly any branch of business is sus
taining itself.
Exnitiiuntiou of llir .Senior Class,—The fi
nal examination of the Senior Class, of Franklin
College, commenced on Tuesday last and will con
clude to morrow. The honors and speaker’s places
will be awarded on Saturday.—[Athens (Ga.) Ban
ner, June 24.
;viii> oii, On.—Tits census recently taken of the
city of Macon, Georgia, makes the resident popula
tion about 1,000.—[Charleston Mercury.
Wo suppose the "Mercury” intended to say 10,000.
Tbe omission ot a cipher mokes quite a difference.—
[8av. News.
Domestic 4 *otton Blaritccs.—New York, June
25.—Cotton sales 1000 bales, market quiet. Flonr
aides l.7,000 bbls. firm. Wheat tales 40,000 bushels,
buoyant. Southern whitest 61 27. New wheat $ 1,-
45; Red at 81 10. Com soles 14,000 bushels, buoy
ant; White at 75 a 78c.; Yellow at 81 a 82c. Tur
pentine heavy at 13c. Rico steady at 3 a 3j.
Exchange ItnnU ofGriflin.—Tho Gridin Em
pire Stato of tho 94th inst., says in regard to this
suspended concern:
Exchange Bank.—This institution has suspended
specie payment. Wo know hut little o'fits affairs*
of our own knowledge. Those who have had tho
management of it, inform us that tho liabilities are
small, not exceeding 830,000. ami that tho suspen-
simiIk "idy of temporary duration. We would
suggest to bill holders not to dispose of their bill* at.
a very great sacrifice.—[ I
islatc upon tbe subject of slavery in any par
ticular. any farther than tefprotcct slaves as
property. Their safety requires that all stand
upon this platform, whatever their opinion as
to the right or wrong of slavery.
I will now show that the Convention, espc
dally the members from the South, never in
tended to confer on Congress the power to pro
hibit the slave trade, without an amendment
of the Constitution.
On the Gth of August, 1787, Mr. Rutledge,
ofS. C., as Chairman of the “Committee of
detail,” reported to the Convention a draft of
a Constitution ; the 4th Section of the 7th Ar
ticle of which reads as follows: “No taxor
duty shall be laid by tho Legislature on arti
cles exported from any State, nor on the mi
gration or importation of such persons, as the
several States shall think proper to admit;
nor shall such migration or importation be
prohibited.” Madison papers, 2d Vol., 1233.
This draft was debated and amended, but
was left substantially as our present Constitu-
compose tbe Committee. And the President
is hereby authorized to fill all vacancies which
may occur in any of said Committees, upon be
ing informed of said vacancies.”
In conformity with the foregoing *Resolu-
discriminate flirtation when abroad, in a rep
utation for which the well known gallantry of
that corps lias involved them ; but we had no
idea of urging them into the opposite extremo of
tions, I have made the following appointmentswedding young ladies in haste—against consent
1. Committee on the Colton Power.—John H.
Ragin, Chairman ; William B. Davis, Barnett
II. Holliman, Lewis S. Rumph, James -W.
Belvin.
2. Committee on the Cotton Power as an A-
meriean Power.—Nathan Bass, Chairman; J.
B. Wiley, Benjamin H. Rutherford, Pulaski
S. Holt, James Tinley.
3. Committee on die Cotton Power as a Union
Power—William B. Davis, Chairman; Syl
vanus S. Bryan, Jesse D. Havis, James W.
Belvin, Lewis M. Houser.
4. Committee on die Cotton Power as a South
ern Power.—William F. Brown, Chairman ;
JamesS. Bealle, SamuelP. Jones, E. Taylor,
J. A. Redding.
of relatives and by force of military organiza
tion. But the fact appears to admit of no
question, that on Thursday Evening last, while
the company were in Camp at Fort McIntosh,
in Butts County, one of the members who
some time previous had formed the accquaint-
ance of a young lady in the vicinity, but un
fortunately without the approval of her parents,
made arrangements for a summary union, in
which the company participated. The young
lady found at the hotels some fair companions
of her own sex, who were thoughtless enough
to countenance the step, as bridesmaids, and tbe
are not the best authority on a question of contem
poraneous construction, whew is a better ? Hamp
den's own argument strikes our obtuser perceptions
osperfcctly suicidal.
For example : The legislative department of the
new government is under consideration in the
Convention. Mr. Rutledge brings forward a pro
position that the Legislature (Congress) shall not
prohibit or tax migration or importation, &c. The
proposition was debated, amended, and left sub
stantially as it now stands, in the Constitution, to
wit: “The migration or importation of such per
sons,” Ac., “shall not be prohibited by the Con
gress prior to the year One Thousand Eight Hundred
and Eight, BUT a tax may be imposed,” &c. Now
that, says Hampden, was intended to prohibit an
amendment of the Constitution granting such power
to Congress, until 1808. What, then, have the
Convention suddenly left the subject matter under
discussion, to wit: the powers of the legislature.
aud gone into a question of Constitutional amend
ments ? Worse still, have they in the present Con
stitution actually incorporated a clause prohibitin,
Constitutional amendments in au article upon the
Legislative poteen of Congress ( This is a despe
rate supposition, indeed. No. The proposition of
Mr. Rutledge was, that the Legislature should have
no power to prohibit the migration, and the Con
vention amended it by providing that they should
have no power until 1808.
And then what are we to do with the right to
tax? Mr. Rutledge proposed that the Legislature
should not tax, but his proposition w^s lost, and
the right to lay a tax granted with the qualifica
tion that the tax should not exceed ten dollars per
capitum. Thus Mr. Rutledge was defeated on both
points—the right to prohibit and the right to tax.
Both were granted under qualification, although
he proposed to prohibit both. Both were proposed
to be denied to ’ the Legislature (Congress) in one
clause—but both were granted in one clause and
tiie grant stands so recorded in the Constitution.—
Now a construction of this one clause which should
tear it to tatters and base the exercise of one of its
grants upon a preliminary amendment of the Con
stitution, while the other might be exercised in-
stantcr—both grants being in same clause of same
section, defining the powers of Congress and only
divided by a single comma, affords the strongest
example of violent construction we ever read of.
And what aid in sustaining such unheard-of con
stitutional construction as this, is obtained from the
ubsequent objection of Mr. Rutledge to Mr. Madi
son’s article upon Amendments to tho Constitu-
[Froin the Journal & Messenger of last Wednesday.]
The People Moving.
An immense meeting was held in Philadelphia
last week by the friends of Home Industry and
governmental reform. We are glad to see this move
ment thus early, as it will not be viewed as a strict
ly party expedient to secure the Executive in I860,
but to purge the legislative department in advance
of the Presidential struggle, and correct at once leg
islative abuses. Most of the Philadelphia papers ( in
cluding Korney’s Press.) notice approvingly the
movement. A series of resolutions in favor of pro
tection to American industry were passed, and
speeches were made by Senators Collamer, Simmons
and Cameron, by Representatives Humphrey Mar
shall, Covode, E. .Toy Morris, and by Richard W.
Thompson, of Indiana.
The Baltimore Patriot thus notices this move
ment :
We look upon tins imposing, practical convoca
tion in our sister city, as the beginning of a great
end, pregnant with glorious results. It was begun
in the right quarter and in the right way. It de
monstrates that the honest people, the bone and the
sinew, are rising in defence of their own rights and
those of our country. They are sickened with sec
tionalism and extreme demagoguism—slavery and
anti-slavery are no longer elements of their political
creed.
They go for protection to that mighty source of
wealtu ami means of subsistence—home industry
which has been paralyzed and endangered bv radi
calism, destructive democracy, and an imbecile
democratic admlnisrtration. They wish to guard the
Union from danger, by establishing a great conserv
ative power of people in its defence, whose voice
shall be heard through the ballot b'X. As well
might Tom Thumb attempt to dam aj. the cataract of
Niagara with bull rushes, as for Tlmrlow Weed, of
tho Albany Journal
Courier, and other old lobbying fogies of extreme
political proclivities elsewhere, to set their face3
against this unconquerable phalanx. Its march is
onward and excelsior.
„ sert s
- end an
uch *.<H*pl»y a ,7‘
trifle
called thi;
n an?
The Nicaragua Tra n , u rtnm
Washington, June 24 The sv , U ’ e:
with an air of authority that th„‘
of the United States Jfi’ he
to Nicaragua, or make i
convince England and Fra^tw'our w
our Pacific possessions shall not a
with. 1 0
There is probably more real dang
peace of the country i u what ij ^
“ Central American embrigli 0 » ^
other question now existing, an j pV*
thing else of that nature, complicate?
ery month’s delay. This busy pjjv!*
under the euphonious style of “M V> ''
who has recently effected a treatv Jn.' M] ?''
ly placing the Isthmus in possession ofi' %
may, or may not be. an authorized * Ce ’
that Government, and, j n po j nt Q r
acts and doings will probably receive *
to receive the sanction of the Eaper*
they are regarded by this Gon *’ , **
meanwhile, current rumor a53erU
buster force is preparing another deJ,
those regions, which may offer an
the armed foreign intervention invofcJf’*
three States in this so-called treatv »„ ,!le
rusnes, as lor xnunow w eeu.oi e i rc „ ms f nnf . p „ •>’ All (J),
al. Col. Wobb, of the New York circum^ances appear to indicate ’
' propriety of such a decisive
5. Committee on die Cotton Power as a Peace 7 0UD S gentleman in camp, after much solid-
njnr»- >iai«*.
•Muriln- in Hull Couiify.
\\ e have received a communication from the
Superior Court Clerk, the Sheriff and Deputy
Shenff of Hall county, stating that Edward
Wiley, on the evening of the 15th inst., killed
John Non is in tho neighborhood of Poplar
>1 rings, in Hall county, 'll,,, murderer made
Iff; escape- He is described as being five feet
sci ci: or eight inches high, oi dark complexion,
coarse black hair and black eyes, and weighs
about one hundred aud forty-five pounds, it
is hoped that the press and the people will take
au active interest in his apprehension.—Athens
IIiitchman, Junt 24.
tion.
On the lOtli of September, Mr. Madison
moved tlic fiMlurruig nmniiliiiciit •
The Legislature of the United States,
whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem
necessary, or on the application of two-thirds
of the Legislatures of the several States, shall
propose amondments to the Constitution,
which shall be valid to nil intents and purpo
ses, as part thereof, when the same shall have
been ratified by three-fourths at least of the
Legislatures of the several States, or by Con
vention in three-fourths thereof, as one or the
other mode of ratification may be proposed by
the Legislature of tho United States.” Mr.
Hamilton seconded tbemotion. Mr. Rutledge
said “he never could agree to give a power, by
which die Articles relating to slaves might be
altered hy die Stales not interested in that prop
erty and prejudiced against it." In order to
obviate this objection, these words were added
to the proposition : “ provided that no amend
ments, which may be made prior to 1803, shall
in any manner affect the fourth and fifth sec
tions of the 7th Article.”
This Amendment was agreed to by nine
States yea, and one nay, Delaware.
So that we now hare for this 4 th Section of
the 7th Article of ibe Draft, and for this
Amendment of Mr. Madison as amended by
Mr. Rutledge, the 9th Section of the 1st Arti
cle, and Article 5th of the present Constitu
tion : clearly showing, as I think, that the
Convention intended only to prohibit any
amendment of the Constitution giving power
to Congress to prohibit the slave trade prior to
1803, and never dreamed that they were giv
ing Congress power to do it after that period.
They only intended to leave the Constitution
subject to be amended in that regard after
le08. There would be more plausibility iu
the supposition that they were patting a veto
on the power of Congress until 1808, aud leav
ing them free to exercise the right afterwards,
if Congress had either possessed or exercised
such power under the Confederation. But no
one had ever claimed such power. And the
Articles of Confederation, being only a league
of alliance between the sovereign States for
their mutual protection, left all such domestic
matters to be regulated by each sovereign to
suit itself. And when that league was bro
ken up, and a new one made, care was taken
to declare, that all powers not ceded were re
turned by each sovereign ; aud certainly they
have never ceded this dangerous power. They
have only said, aud every Southern patriot
ought to tremble as he reads : That after 1808
the Constitution may be so amended, as to give
Congress power to abolish both the slave trade I
and slavery itself.
Power.—GcorgeS. D. Rice, Chairman; Wil
liam B. Davis, John H. Ragin, James W.
Belvin, Lewis S. Rumph.
G. Committee on the Cotton Potcer as an anti-
Abolilion Power.—Isaac C. West, Chairman;
Jesse D. Havis, William B. Davis, Syilvanus
S. Bryan, Lewis S. Rumph.
Committee on the Bank.—James W. Arm
strong, Chairman; Nathan Bass, Samuel Hun
ter, John V. Price, Thomas J. Cater.
8. Committee on Agents.—Jesse. D. Havis,
Chairman ; Isaac C. West Lewis M. Houser,
JSarnett XX. Iloliimnnt John IL Ragin.
9. Committee on the operations of the Planta
tions.—Benjamin II. Ruthford, Chairman;
James W. Armstrong, Samuel Hunter, Thom
as J. Cater, Peter Corbin.
10. Committee on Direct Trade.—Johu S.
Thomas, Chairman; James S. Bealle, John
Barton, William F. Brown, Samuel P. Jones.
1J. Committee on Matters nolspccially refer
red.—James S. Bealle, Chairman; William F.
Brown, Samuel P. Jones, J. A. Redding, Mo
ses West.
It was further “Resolved, That the forego
ing Committees be and they are hereby in
structed, to make detailed repsrts oa the sev
eral subjects referred to their consideration,
aud that they report on die second Tuesday in
September next.
HOWELL COBB, President.
Prnity, Houston Co., Ga., June 15,1858.
J. C. Massik, M. D., or Texas, and the E
clectic Medical Institions of Cincinnati,
0.—Wc learn that some changes have recently
been made iu tbe Faculty of this College for the
coining session, which will commence early in
October. J. Cam. Massie, M. D., of Houston,
Texas, has been appointed to the Professorship
of Theory aud Practice of Medicine. Dr. Mas
sie, wc understand, is a gentleman possessed
of a high order of talent, with an extensive ex
perience as a practitioner of medicine and an
ardent student of those sciences kindred to his
profession. He is the author of the “Eclectic
Southern Practice of Medicine,” a work which
has had an extensive sale, and done much to
disseminate throughout the South the doctrines
and practice peculiar to this branch of the med
ical profession. From his extensive acquaint
ance in the South, aud his influence as a scien
tific practitioner of medicine, he will no doubt
attract many students from that section of our
country; and we congratulate the friends of
this old and well-established Medical College
on this accession to the ranks of its faculty.
We understand that the Professor and iiis fam
ily will be in our city early in the fall, when
all the friends of Eclecticism will have an op
portunity of becoming acquainted with him.—
Cincinnati Timt s.
Miles Standish.—The old homestead of
that valiant man of war, Captain Miles Stand
ish, lias been exhumed from the dust of two
countries, in Duxbury, where he resided, and
portions of the timber of the house were found
in nearly a perfect state. It was consumed by
fire in 1G5G and never rebuilt.
Large Field of Pine Apples.—In Libe-
i ‘a, a few miles north from Monrovia, towards
Cape Mount, is a tract of land, ten miles in ex
tent, (nicely con red xcith pint apples. The
fruit buds out in April aud ripens in August
and September. It is of a delicious flavor. The
apples are taken to Monrovia in considerable
qualities, where they are sold as low as two
for acent.-l J iue apples grow wild in the woods,
aud thousands of them are seen in half an hour’s
walk.
tation, and upon what representation of facts
we know not, obtained the consent of his offi
cers, a staff of grooms in military dress to escort
him, and, worse still, the services of our neigh
bor, the senior of the Journal &• Messenger,
Simri Rose, Esq., as magistrate to perfoipi the
ceremony. All things being in readiness, tbe
parties came into camp and were received by
the company, drawn up in line. A rumor of
the contemplated proceedings got abroad de
spite all the secresy observed, and the Fort was
considerably thronged with people. Tbe fair
young bride was magnificently arrayed not
withstanding her stealthy flight from tbe pa
rental roof, as she had been favored with un
stinted recourse upon the wardrobes of the
ladies at the Hotels. She was lovely, thougl:
pale aud agitated from the novelty of her posi
tion, and a consciousness of the extraordinary
character of the part she was acting. ’Squire
Rose took the book and had made cousidcra-
progress in the ceremony, when the whole
camp aud assembly were thrown into confu
sion by the sudden and unexpected arrival of
the outraged father of the bride. He sprang
from a horse reeking with the foam of hot pur
suit, and commenced a tirade of abuse, which
furnished but too good an apology for what
followed. ■ The blood of the Volunteers was
roused—they put him under arrest, and the
ceremony was allowed to proceed in spite of
his ravings aud protestations.
This summary proceeding excited no little
sensation in the crowd. Some, tho older por
tion principally, joined iu the protestations of
the father and thought it foul wrong; but the
youuger, and more numerous, naturally sym
pathised with the young people aud admired
the spunk of the Volunteers. After the cere
mony was all over and retraction too late,
they released the old gentleman from con
finement, and we have even been informed
that they were so fortunate, after long effort,
as to mollify his wrath, and reconcile him to
the union, there being really no important or
even reasonable objection to it. We hope
this may be the case, for upon the facts st.i
ted to us by Mr. Rose, we should imagine
the Volunteers and the magistrate might look
for exemplary damages in an action at law.
Wc suppress the names of the parties married
for obvious reasons.
tion and the consequent alteration thereof? None
at all, and it is amazing that Hampden should have
thought he had obtained any. nc do- ,3 not state
the real point, or leaves Mr. Rutledge satisfied with
sop. Mr. Madison proposed that the “Legisla
ture of the United States, whenever two-thirds of
both houses shall deem necessary, or onapplication
of tiro-thirds of the Legislatures of the several States.
shall propose amendments to the Constitution,” &c.
Mr. Rutledge objected to giving “a power by which
the articles relating to slaves might be altered by
the States not interested in that property,'' See.—
Now, what kind of an answer to this objection was
the proviso “That no amendment prior to the year
180S” should affect tho clauses about the importa
tion of slaves and taxing by the census ? Wc sav
was no answer at all, or if it any way met Mr.
utledge’s objection, it did so for the spaee of only
few years. If Mr. Rutledge was satisfied with
that, be was cheaply Ratified!
But let us show a better answer. Ilis objection
was evidently and reasonably met in the provision
for amending the Constitution actually adopted,
whicli was that Congress on the application of two-
thirds of the States should not propose tiie amend
ments, hut “call a Convention for proposing a-
mendments,” and the proviso added had no bear
ing upon iiis remark. The proviso was designed
only to restrain such Constitutional amendments as
might bo proposed, from conflicting with the origi
nal provisions on that subject until 180S. Now,
friend Haiilpdcii, the attempt to interpret Mr. Rut
ledge’s understanding of a clause in the Constitu
tion, relating to the poircrs of Congress, by an ob
jection advanced by him against a distinct aud
specific provision for Constitutional admend/nents,
which objection was met and satisfied, strikes us
as another violent aud unnatural attempt at con
struction.
But “where is the power granted to Congress to
regulate tlic morality of mankind ?” No where,
That is not tiie question. The power given to
Congress to prohibit the importation cf slaves,
If our neighbor of the Journal & Messengerwere
more of the humorist, we should suspect at once a
covert but very pungent irony in the foregoing.—
An “honest people’s party” headed by Simon
Cameron! The “bone and sinew” reforming and
purging tiie country from “demagogueism” under
Humphrey Marshall!! and Forney, heretofore
branded as the embodiment of all that was corrupt
in political morals and practice, the great Exponent
and Apostle of tiie Reformation!!! Collamer, of
Vermont, at the head of the Phalanx to “guard the
Union from danger”!! 1! If our neighbor, who is
so fond of things “decidedly rich” can discover a
more luscious and creamy spectacle than his honest
people’s party under these worn out, black repub
lican old stagers, wc hope it will be produced. Ho
is “glad to see this movement,” and so is the Tri-’
bune Philadelphia correspondent, who calls it the
great ball set in motion to defeat the Lecompton
party, or in 9thcr words, to set up black republi
can rule. The affected invocation of opposition
from the black ’republican organs is mere stuff—
for it is a black republican movement and nothing
more. If the Journal & Messenger chooses to
play bob to such a Northern abolition kite as that,
he can do so on his own responsibility, but wc im
agine he will find few followers in Georgia or the
South.
Sale of Sonora—A Marc’s Nest, Pro
BABLY.
A “special” Washington despatch to the Herald
asserts that a sale or cession of thirty-nine millions
acres of land in Sonora was effected under tbe
Comonfort Administration in Mexico, or that which
preceded it, to an American Company, whose head
quarters are in New York—and that the late visit
of Comonfort is to be set down to that account.—
That “some of the leading Southern fire caters are
involved in the enterprise, the objects with them
being to make of Sonora a powerful slave State, in
connection with her vast mineral resources, and
with the Western terminus of the Pacific Railroad
in her borders on the Gulf of California. In fact,
the whole thing may be considered a Southern
movement, and as contemplating the rapid absorp
tion of the rest oi Mexico.” To this movement is
charged the abandonment in tiie Senate of tiie
bill for the organization of Arizonia—the point be
to wait for larger acquisitions and to have no
“popular sovereignty” inthe territory till the South
gets readj - for it.
that quarter by our Government, as J’n ia
to the world that we mean to tolerat ^
ropean monopolies or protectorate, 0
quarter.’ 68 ln ‘tat
Tiie Home Sosithenu^. % .,
TKBR. -taller.
This excellent paper is offered for«). n,
has more business on his hands than h *
properly attend to, and wishes l 0 darJT
attention to the jobbing business exchff ;
The paper baa 1000 subscribers, 5S
exchanges, is handsomely provided throtH- 1 ' 1
with hew type, has a fine advertizing 0^?°^
age, and offers a favorable opportunity for “‘
adventure in the newspaper publishing b n ?
The Sorrows of Dillayc.
We have received from Mr. Stephen D. Dillaye
pamphlet copy of a letter addressed “to Hon.
Howell Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury,” in which
the latter is solemnly arraigned and charged with
the small crimes of lying, dissimulation, hypocrisy
and treason, committed in the course of appointing
successor to Dillaye as General Appraiser, at N.
York. Dillaye shows in the style of his letter that
the Secretary committed a very grave error in re
taining him so long. Indeed, we are inclined to
think the true policy of tiie administration would
have been to have filled the government npoint-
ments in New York from abroad, and turned the
cold shoulder on all tho prominent, corrupt and
trading politicians of that place who annoy tho
country with their growls, contentions and feuds
over the government spoils. This policy might
have whipped them into better manners and more
modesty.
Capital Punishment.
The recent execution of Radford J. Crocket, in
Fulton county, has drawn from several of our
Georgia contemporaries opinions altogether averse
to capital punishment; and, indeed, it is impossi
ble to read the sickening details of the deliberate
slaughter of a human being, even by the officers of
the law and iu pursuance of a righteous verdict,
without stirring every sympathy of a common hu
manity into revolt. But the abolition of capital
punishment, so far as it has been tried, like almos
every other modern reformatory sensation, ha;
been found to work badly in practice. Michi,
wc believe, is the only State of the Union which
has abolished capital punishment, and there, after
the experience of a very few years, it was restored
with no great amount of opposition.
Tile Search Question.
The General Despatch from Wash™**.
tbe New York press of last Wednesday "
“ The official advices received by iuT
arrival from England, are of a more fwLw
character than has been represented Tw
reiterate friendly sentiments towards
country, and disavow intentional offe-T
against our flag, and mention tbe fact Z
prompt orders have been issued to discomZ
the visits which have giver, rise to theory--
difficulties. Her Majesty’s govenweK
not insist on visitation or search as a riefct-
but as both nations are solicitous to put’s?
end to the African slave trade, it desires
mutual understanding or arrangement is t-
the proper aud most acceptable manner of ^
certaining the character of suspected slavers
This is the mooted point. The tenor of tie
despatches is far from being unsatis&ctorv
in _fact, the doctrine so long main tinned br
our government js considered as practical]?
acknowledged by Great Britain. r fhe differ
ences between the two countries are not sacb
as cannot be amicably accommodated.
Affaire out West.
A travelling correspondent of tbe the Tri
bune of last Tuesday, gives a gloomy accent
of them. He dates from Cairo, and says;
I came down from Pittsburgh by boatatd
raii. Foliage looks splendidly, and that is ah
there is about it. Very little spring crop
have been planted; none has been attended
Bottom lands are all drowned out, and viols
wheat is rusting aud fly-blasted badly. Wes-
teni farmers will hardly average half xerty
this season. They will not starve here, fa )
they have enough ’57 grain to carry the* i
through; but we commercial men of tbe list
might as well understand the fact that tbe
West can’t pay for goods this year. If trav
eling’ is any indication of finances, & pena
has but to go in any direction oat here to*-
certain he is about the only passenger. T
cars, a quarter filled, on an express train bit
Cincinnati! No boats get a living freight, ml
large proportion are already laid up for lie
eason. Capt. Mather, of the Woodford,re
marked to me he had been thirty years * tbe
rivers, and never saw things half so stsgnat
and blue.”
Aud that “down east” they are no better,
e learn from the same authority, in a letter
from Boston, which says:
“ Business is excessively dull here. I d«
not feel capable of speculating as totbean-
ses of the stagnation of trade. Tbe Both*
Courier attributes it to "fanaticism,” wbiri,
it says, “has been at work among us foryesa.
“Our political philantlirophy,” it says, "inter
feres with the course of “trade and mams
living.” I fear this is true.
Death of Mayor Wayne.
I he Republican of yesterday, comes to us in
mourning on account of the death of l>r. Rich
ard Wayne, Mayor of Savannah. He died at
half past five Sunday morning, after one week’s
illness.
The Savannah Steamships.
The Savannah side-wheel steamships have
reduced their fare to 815 00. Wy shall be
sorry if the Savannah steamship lines kill out
one another.
The Ocean Telegraph.
We were in hope to have learned the result
of the great enterprise of laying the Ocean
Telegraph Cable, before the present issue, but
see no tidings from the expedition. The result,
we fear, is extremely doubtful-
however, is found in the Constitution, and it
not been exorcised illegally. It is no usurpation.
The morality of the traffic is a question wc have
not considered—tbe policy ot re-establishing it is a
point upon which, we arc glad to believe, both of
ns would agree. 4\ e hold It to bo a most unprom-
sing speculation every way, and one of its mischie
vous beginnings is the setting up of woe-be"one
Constitutional constructions like this, as a sort of
political and sectional test and bug bear. A fair
legitimate construction of the Constitution is of the
first importance to the maintenance of our civil in
stitutions, but beyond the concern a good citi
zen ought to feel for these,-wp see no occasion for
“trembling ’ about any construction or any her
The South holds her rights of property,
manly in the ability to maintain them by force, if
needful, and she will not be divested of that bv
any conglomeration of heresies that may be set up
North or South.
'sy.
Ac.,
The Eruptiou ot Vesuvius.
Vesuvius, from accounts to the 10th, was
yet in full blast. A letter writer of that date
describing it, says:
“The spectacle from Naples is as grand as
it can be. Vesuvius is girdled with fire, and
from this girdle seem to drop down jewels of
tho utmost brilliancy. At times one spot be
comes much more brilliant than the others,
and then a dense cloud rises up; there lias
been either a fresli gush of lava, or a mass has
fallen off from tiie blackened exterior. Inthe
intervals between the streams appear a thou
sand little lights as though they were glow
worms. _ These arc the torches which visitors
carry with them, but the journey is now very
limited. Swiss guards are on the mountain,
and it is impossible to get to the Hermitage.
Palmieri, the director of the Observatory, has
fled, and the instruments are removed, for de
struction is threatened to it by tiie stream at
the back which is flowing into the Fosso di Fa-
Fame. So high is it rising that a very litt!
more will send it over the Observatory.”
Tli«“ Bight ol Search Altnurfoiictl.
I he 1 lerald of the 23d, announces that Lord
Malmesbury ims officially recognized the cor
rectness of the doctrines on this subject, laid
down in Gen, Cass’s letter to Lord Napier of
19th April last. The “right” of search or vis
itation is at last formally abandoned by the
British government.
Jail Burnt and Prisoner Sufeocated.—
We learn from a letter to the Columbus Times,
that on the night of the 23d instant, t lie jail of
Crawford county was discovered to be on tire,
and before relief could be given, the only occu
pant, a negro, was suffocated. It is supposed
that the prisoner fired the building in hopes of
escaping iu the noise and confusion. He had
but recently been arrested and several passes
were on his person, one which authorises the
conductor on the Central Rail Hoad to pass
him to Savannah ; another is dated June 32d,
1858, and signed, “J. C. Wilburn.”
Large Sale of Prov isions--Mistake
CORRECTED.
The Bainbridge Argus called attention to
the sale of over 758 bbls. Flour, besides other
articles, by one of our Grocery houses, (Glass,
Laws & Co.) The South-Western News in
noticing this paragraph, states that Thompson,
Kendrick & Co., of Americas, sold over 2000
bbis. of the same article lust season. Our
brother Russell neglected to state that tiie
sales by Glass, Laws & Co., were made be
tween the 1st of January and the 1st of May,
1858, for rush, and the quantity was 208,001)
lbs., making one thousand and forty barrels.
This would be at the rate of over four thou
sand barrels per annum. Besides this house,
there are several others in Albany doing a
handsome Grocery business. Iu tact, we are
selling every thing very low to our planting
friends.—Patriot.
An Eastern Editor says that a man got
himselt into trouble by marrying two wives.
A 4\ estern editor replies by assuring his con
temporary that agood many meu in that section
have done the same thing by marrying one-
A Northern editor retorts, quite a number of
iiis acquaintances found trouble enough by
barely.promising to marry, without going any
further. A Southern editor says that a friend
of his was bothered enough by simply being
found in company with another man's wife.
Sumter Mineral Spring*.
These springs, situated some 12 miles
of Americus, are now being fitted npisigo*
oral place of resort for the young folli
everybody in general, by our muchesttra-s
and enterprising fellow-citizen, G. C l-* 1 ’
michael. We learn that he is putting a P*
general hotel, which will shortly beretdj ‘ cr
the reception of visitors.—The bathing ta®
will be finished in a day or two. These sprit?
are becoming every day more and more mtJ
notice; they are being visited by number*
persons throughout the State. We learn that
there are between two and tlii’ci'
tors there at this time. It is a pleasant pi-i*
aud the water is a certain cure for many cM -
The folly of fleeing to tbe North,
Cherokee country, to spend the ■■■f
months, has been demonstrated. Wov*®
the assertion that we of Sumter, for in.?------
suffer less from heat during the Sou®*
ontlis, than we would at the North, or in •
upper part of the State. It has longs-' '
observed that the thermometer rescba»*l>*P
er range at the North during tiie
months, than with us. In fact. *»T cr - c ;
has ever tested the matter, will ackno ; '«-^
that no atmosphere can rival i®
agreable temperature, our own favored ■
Delightfully refreshing are the breezes
fan our brows; and luxurious the ‘ L ' m P .
atmosphere we inhale. Let our people- , ^
instead of going North to seek^ i - r 1
stay at home, and visit our own SprujS®’ ^
they can find as much comfort audp - 1
au be found abroad. , -. .
Accommodations can always be ^
place to convey persons out to tbe P -
We will take occasion to speak >-ior.-
Springs hereafter.—Ameriv > lap*’
’alette* *
Effect of Hit' British Dcsps
WASHINGTON.
The correspondent of the Tribune tth c r ‘ t
from Washington as follows : . ,, ;
Dispatches from England were recent
laid before the Cabinet yesterday. , ^
not in any substantial form correspo ^ .
expectations of the administration, oi -• .
ions authorized by Lord Napie’ = a ,f
While they disclaim authority ,or ’! u j’ ■■ 7 t jjd
acts on the part of the cruisf^ 1111 ,L .
are prepared to make rep £rat L on 0 r
they insist upon the purpose or topp ' . ;
slave trade by determined ana efteenu -.
A disposition to exer- iso the rignt o ,, ;
most acceptable manner is avowe . t
end Malmesbury Expresses his " J1 -y rj(n a.
desire to receive any suggestmnj, .
American Government. TheuntaH-■ ..
of these despatches has made mucb« 1; : ,
■ the Cabinet aud it is believed oj , .
with England must assume a differcu
ter from what has heretofore existed-
Market ReporU- i, ;
N -:w York, Judc 20'.—The CotER • ^
was quiet to-day, Middling Eplam■’ ^
cents. Flour heavy, with sales ot • • ’
rels ; Southern 8’1 45 a 84 75 jVI '
ant, sales 70,000 bushels ; old South
$1 25. Corn buoyant, sales 10, 00 , v .
White 77 a 78 cents. Turpentine; ste -
SiCvannah, June 20.—Sales of -
only 27 bales at 12b cents-