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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-