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AL. Cliauuce/ d.d not instantly fuiluw Mm
Eu.lace to tas sofa. He wished took at Lis
heart 40 atiL its emotions era be went further. —
Uut utto suj*‘cti uiMi that he lo\e-i her h 1101 iy,
eiu.rGy, uaJivnleJiy ; tiie sight ol her agitat.ou
encouraged Lis hope—aud advancing to the hack
of the sot a, aud ieauiug over it, he said, in the sot
test tone — - * ,
“Now that you area woman, may I r-1
the re]uest of my boyhood?—Will yi-ti to my
wife ?” i.i
.•fli-’s Eustace s;x>ke not a word. sot .on
met thos • oi her lover; —language on < ■••*• 1 Mil*
V. IS unnecessary— both felt that they If. ana
were beloved—that they were one lorm r!
Something more than a year after this eventful
mom ant, m 7. anl Mrs. Cha-nvcy wen spending
,1 s icial evening with their friends, in the sane
pie isaitt p irlor 111 w inch tinnr hearts had first be *:i
one .i.’d to each other. In the course of conversa
tion, Mrs. At kill' t.iade known the fact, that her
cousin, Mi,? 1, 'igh, was on the verge ot inatu
monv. .
••['pity herhusband." said Mr. Chauncey.
“l‘itv him 1’ cxcl.innod Mr. Atkins: “for « hat ?
I (1 ire say lie considers hhuselt one ol the most
fortunate fellows alive!”
“Undoubtedly lie does,” said Mr. Ch uincev ;
“bat it will be a miracle if lie ever enjoys douiesue
happiness.’'
“Why?” demanded Mrs. Atkins. “Surclv
Yugu-ta lias many valuable and attractive ipiali
-1 ies.”
“1 grant it,” said Mr. Chauncey. “anil no
l.uuw leitge tii.ii i once felt their force. But should
a -.vo. 11111 combine i.i her o.va character .dl the
valuable qualities in the world, she could not
secure happiness to her husband, were they allied
to a temper like hers.”
‘ Is not that ruing too far, Horace ?” asked Mr.
Atkins— ‘is it not laying -too much stress on tem
per
•f think not,” answered Mr. Chauncey. “Ear
iv in life my mother often spoke to me ol the ini
portauee of good temper. Her remarks, tvliieli
niado a deep impression, led me to coralul observa
tion—and lain convinced, that could we accurate
ly learn the detailed history of any one, from the
cradle of his infancy, to the grave in w hich lie
was laid at threescore years an 1 ten, we should
find that temper, his own, or that id’ others, had
•occasioned thre ‘-fourths ul the unhappiness lie
had endured. Neither poverty nor toil, pain nor
sickness, disappointment nor the loss of friend v—
neither, norail of tlmse together, have caused so
nnnv hours of bitterness iu this sorrowing world,
as ill-temper, ft is the scorpion among the pas
sions—-its stings the deepest, the most envenomed
won i ls that are indicted on human happiness!”
"I rather think von are right, Horace,” said
Mr. Atkins, after sitting fora few minute, in si
lent ahstraetiou—“l rather think you arc right;
and if so,” lie playfully added, “1 really sympa
thize with you 011 account of Ahby’s unhappy
temper!”
“Abhy’s unhappy temper!” repeated dir. Chnun
cev, while his eves beamed with untterable com
placency and love as they rested upon her. “Look
nt her. Charles. Picture to yourself that face in
flame 1 and distorted by passion! Imagine your
own wife so disfigured! Is not the picture horri
ble ? Who ever imagined .a woman as she should
be, without investing her with meekness, gentle
ness, patience, forb *aranco as the genuine charac
teristics of her se\ ? When destitute of these, she
denies her nature—counteracts the very design of
her creation!”
“But you w ill grant,” said Mr. Atkins, “that
some women are horn with much stronger passions
than others: will you make no allowance lor
these ?”
“Not the least,” said Mr. Chauncey. “I have
no belief in ungovernable passions. I would as
soon excuse a thief for his stealing, or a drunkard
tor his. intemperance, as a sensible woman for in
dulging a bad temper, on the score of natural in
firmity. At the point of danger, a double guard
must lie placed. Every woman owes this, not on
ly to herself, hut to her friends. She was made
to lighten care; to soothe corroded feelings; to
console the nlilicted ; to sympathize with the suf
fering; and, by her gentle iniluence, to allay the
stormy and conflicting elements that agitate tiie
more rugged nature of man! Instead of this, shall
she permit her own angry passions to be the vvliirl
w ind that shall raise the storm ? The woman who
docs this, should be disowned of her sex, like those
who abandon themselves to any other vicious in
clination. An ill tempered man is a tyrant;—
but an ill -tempered woman is a monster!”
Choice of Xames.—Wc were once acquainted
with a couple who made choice of the most noted
names of the day for all their children, some half
a dozen, and the proud mother of the yong Gracchi,
w’ould take every occasion, when strangers were
within hearing to“eall the roll” of the “great folks,”
in something like the following manner :
“You. Martha Washington come here this mo
ment and mind Andrew Jackson & William Shak
speare while Arthur Wellington helps Napoleon
Bonaparte, over the mud puddle, ami then run
■and call your daddy to dinner!”
Rather Personal. —A witness was examined
before a judge iu a slander, who required
him to repeat the precise words spoken. The w it
ness hesitated until herivetted the attention ofthc
whole court upon him, then, fixing his eves earnest
ly on the judge he began,—“Mav it please vour
honor, you lie, ami steal, and get your Jiving bv
stealing!” The face of the judge reddened, anil
he immediately exclaimed, “ Turn to the jury
sir,”
Ready II’;/.---We were exceedingly diverted
the other night with a reply made to a drunken
man by his friend. The sot was very boisterous
and abusive—saying all sorts of tilings about every
body. “You will say something to-night you
will be sorry for to-morrow.”
“No I’ll bed and if 1 do*”
“Then you mean to be drunk to-morrow.”
coolly rejoiued the other. Sam Veller himself
could not have done better.— N. Y. Sun.
Womanly Distinctions, —The Queen of Swe
den, used to say she loved men not because they
were men, bur beeau.se they were not women—
'Plie Queen of Spain says she loves men simply
because they are men.
Vanity and idle curiosity are qualities which
generality prove destructive to those wiio suffer
themselves to be governed by them.
Dand: .— \tl >e £ ltl pantaloons, with a body
and two arms—a h-ad without brains—tight boots
—a cane—a whi'e handkerchief—two broaches,
and a . tag on his littl“ finger.
The Approaching Coronation. —Active prepar- j
tinu; are being made for this august ceremony. The
etiquette to bo observed on the occasion (tor in
the crowning of a female sovereign there are
forms different from those which are part of the
ceremonial when the sovereign is a king) arc now
under the consideration «*f the Huto .if Norfolk
antrthe oilier oiticials of tiie Heralds College,
it is supposed that the forthcoming coronation
w ill outvie in splendor and magnificence even the
tar-famed one of George IV -, which, v. iien the
: mat number of foreign princes and nobles who
re to "race it with their presence is taken in to
consideration, seems far from unlikely. The Em
peror of Austria will send over 20 Hungarian no
blemen (chiefs of ancient houses) and it is rumored
iu circles likely to know the facts,that Prussia, Rus
sia and Prance will be also represented bv a depu
tatioti of their principal noblesse. To add greater
eclat, if possible, to the occurrence, the new
order, which it has long been in the contem
plation of government to institute in place of the
viuojphic distinction, now in the gift of the Kin<r
oi 'Hanover, will be established, and its first batch
of knights created. The crown with which the
youthful brow of our sovereign is to be invested
will be anew one, made expressly for the occasion,
an 1 in its structure very different from the im
perial diadem, having no colond stones whatever,
the only jewels in it being diamonds of the first wa
ter, and the. golileu band, from which the bars
spring, representing the national emblems intet
wiivii with oak foliage, the fleur-de-lis being total
ly omitted. The court trades people are begin
ning to tie very busy, the orders for new coronets,
velvets, furs, and other paraphernalia of a corona
tion being very extensive.
Columbus.— We extract the following from a
Genoa letter of recent date:—“The real locality
of the birth-place of Christopher Columbus Ims
not been hitherto known. The biographers of this
illustrious navigator, who all agree that he was born
in the .Stale of Genoa, differ as to the exact local
ity. All doubts on this subject is now r ‘moved.
Isnardi, the famous Piedmontese Archeologist, lias
discovered in archives of Genoa authentic proof
that Columbus was born at Colognetto, iu the repu
blic of Genoa. It consists in a letter written by
the government of that state, dated 6th November,
1080, to their ambassador, Doria, at Madrid, in
wife li the following passage occurs: ‘Christopher
i ’ohimbus of Colognetto, an illustrious man, as you
ought to know, being in Spain, has ordered bv his
wilt that a house shall be built at Genoa, which
shall bear his name, and lias instituted a fund for
the preservation of this building, etc. etc.”
STEAMBOAT MOSELLE.
Adoitional Particulars.
Thursday, April 20. 1 o’clock, P. M. We
have just returned from the scene of horror occa
sioned by the explosion, and the account before
published, instead of being in the slightest degree
exaggerated, (as lias the dreadful reality.) The
fragments of human bodies are now lying scatter
ed along the shore, and we saw the corpses of
many so mang! ’d and torn, that they bear scarce
ly any resemblance to the human form. We also
‘•aw several with their heads and arms entirely
plown o f ; others with only part of the head
destroyed, and others with their lower extrem
ities shivered to an apparent jelly. Fragments
of the boilers, and other portions of the boat, were
thrown from fifty to two hundred yards on the shore
some of them having passed entirely over the two
rows of building on the street, and a portion of the
boilers tearing away the gable end of a stable,
situated high up the steep hill, in rear of the hous
ses, at least 200 yards from the boat. Other parts
of the boat were driven entirely through a large
house on the street, entering through the windows
on one side and passing out at the other, it ispossf
tiveiy stated, that one man was picked up this mor
ning on the Kentucky side, having been blown
completely across the river.
The wreck of the boat lies near the steam Wa
ter Works, (about .‘l-4 of a mile below where the
accident occurred,) having her chimneys and about
half of her upper cabin above the water. A great
many persons are employed in gathering the bodies,
freight, dec. Only four bodies have to-day been
taken from the boat, viz a German woman and
her 2 children, and another small boy. The num
ber of dead and mangled bodies, altogether, that
have been recovered, is about twenty, as nearly as
has yet been ascertained. A number of persons,
severely wounded, have been sent to the hospitals,
but whose names we have not heard. One young
man by the name of Edward Sexton, from Con
necticut, wc saw in a neighboring house, dreadfully
scalded ; but Ills physician thinks he will certainly
get well.
The lower deck of the boat is yet entirely tinder
water, and when the boat shall be raised, a very
large number of persons, it is expected, will be
found.
There are no doubt more persons lost than we
stated. We conversed, a while ago, with Mr.
Broadwell, the agent of the boat, who says possi
tivelv, that thine were ninety-five deck passengers,
and thirty-five cabin, whose names w'ere entered
on the boat’s register at Pittsburg, Wheeling and
other towns on the river above this place, for Louis
ville, Ft. Louis and other places below. Here
then are one hundred and thirty passengers that
must have been on board, exclusive of the very
large number who took passage at this place. The
boat was unusually crow ded, and Mr. Broadwell
thinks the w hole number on board, at the time of
the accident, cannot be hut little, if anv, short of
Til KKK HUNDRED persons!—From the host
information we can gather it does not appear that
more than 30 or 40 of this number are known to
have been rescued. It is therefore probable, that
the w hole number drowned or destroyed is some
where in the neighborhood of TWO HUN
DRED < >K TWO HDNDRED AND THIRTY
o. x IOR 1 \ PERSONS ! It is impossible
that any accurate detail of the dead and missing
can ever he made, or the precise number ascertain
ed. Avery large portion of them were deck pas
sengers, w hose humble sphere in life, will preclude
the possibility of finding out their names.
Cincinnati Whig.
BlocX'ade of 'M-cx iran. Ports.- The Mexican gov
ernment now finds itself in an awkward predica
ment, with an inexorable creditor thundering at
its gates for the payment of its just debts, and not
a dollar in the treasury to meet the demand.
" hat will be the result is not a matter of much
doubt. The Mexicans, after a few days of dogged
obstinacy, will make a virtue of necessity, and suc
cumb to the requirements of armed justice. It
is to be hoped that other civilized nations willful
low the example of France, till that horde of bar- !
barians learn to treat foreigners with respect, by !
the only motive that can operate upor; them I
the dread of When the Uui-
Till) GEORGIA MIRROR
ted States thus vindicates her lights, the stars and
stripes w ibe found a sure protection to lier citi
zens In tht Mexican or any other seas.
‘
From the Southern Recorder.
From the current ot public events which have
been occurring for the last- few months, anil par
ticularly very recently, which prove beyond all
question that Mr. Vau Buren is totally out of the
question, in relation to the next Presidential term,
we are almost disposed to discontinue our series
of facts in further proof of his utter unfitness, for
the office, so far as the South has any concern in
the matter.
So iar as regards Mr. Van Buren and the next
picsidency, it would indeed be labbr lost, as a!!
danger of such a misfortune to the country is at
an end. Bui to stop the misrepresentation on this
subject, which some of our cotemporaries in
Georgia are still, with a fatuity and recklessness
altogether unparalleled, dbqnsed to impose upon
the credulous aud uninformed, we shall at least
subserve the cause of truth, and do a seiviccto
our own,citizens, by continuing the series of such
facts and circumstances as cannot be mistaken,
and which will effectually prevent imposition up
on flic public mind, iti regard to the vital subject
of our domestic institutions.
The following talk to the Washington Globe,
is taken from the Pennsylvania Fan >jvv, an ar
rant and run-mad abolition print; but a friend of
the Admini tr.ulon, anil an accredited icrit r for t’.io
Democratic Review, a review, by the by, got up
and sustained by the patronage of the administra
tion, aud which finds friends and subscribers in
every State i.i the Union, win style themselves
Democratic K*. publicans—a mere party tool, got
up for party purposes.
The facts which this writer so forcibly brings to
view, showing the connection of the friends of the
administration nt the north with the prevailing and
pervading spirit of that region in regard to our do
mestic institutions, are so perfectly unanswerable
and overpowering, that lie must be something
greatly worse than stupid, who after reading them
will yet pretend to be unconvinced 011 the point at
issue. The candid of all parties, we have no
doubt, w ill say that the tacts exhibited settles the
question beyond doubt and beyond question, now
and forever. We will detain our readers 110 long
er from the extract referred to:
From the Pennsylvania Freeman.
We do not pretend to understand the character
of modern democracy better than the Globe, its
accreditted ahd official organ. Tiie statements of
that paper in regard to the treachery of the great
body of “the party” to the principles of old fash
ioned democracy, is we fear, too true. But one
thing is certain—in its ext reme anxiety to secure
the favor of the slave-holding South, it lias over
looked a multitude of important facts, tending to
show that the principles of emancipation have
found a resting place even under the banners of
modern democracy. The Globe speaks of the
anti-slavery resolutions of the Vermont and Mas
sachusetts Legislatures, as Whig resolutions.—
Now is this the fact? The Van Buren candidates
for Secretary of State and Lieut. Governor of
Vermont, were both officers of Anti-Slavery so
cieties. The resolutions in question, received the
vote of both parties in the Legislature. The two
last democratic. Van Buren Conventions of that
State, have openly expressed abolition principles.
Some of the most active and influential members
of the Van Buren party iu the State, are local a
gents of the American Anti-Slavery Society.—
How is it in Massachusetts ? The Massachusetts
Legislature contained last year more than 200 Van
Buren members; of these only sir voted against
the “firebrand” resolutions. The Senate even
went beyond the House; and the Hon. Seth
Whitcinarsh, who headed the Van Buren clecto
rial ticket was one of the most eloquent and able
advocates of abolition at its board. Hon. F. Bow
man, another Van Buren member, said that he be
lieved the resolutions would be the means of dis
solving the Union, hut that he should nevertheless
give them his ro.e. Was the Editor of the Globe,
aware that the and an Buren candidate for Congress
in Boston, at the last election was Aniasa Walker,
a man almost as notorious for his Abolitionism as
Win. Loyd Garrison? Did be know that the
Hon. George Bancroft, recently appointed collec
tor ot the port ot Boston, lias long been an aboli
tionist—and that on the fourth of July, 18.16, he
maintained the incendiary doctrine before the as
sembled democracy of Hampden county? Has
the Editor read the letters of Judge Morton, Alex
ander 11. Everett, and the democratic candidates
tortlie Senate, in Massachusetts, to the inquiries
of Abolitionists ? Does he know that a large pro
portion ot the Van Buren papers of the State,
are favorable to Abolition ?
“1 hen look at Rhode Island. Who introduc
ed a gag law into the Legislature of that State ?
A V big—and Dutee J. Pierce, the Van Buren
leader in the State, used his influence acainst it.
The letter of Pierce, at 1 lie late election, to Win.
M. Chtice, Secretary of the anti-slavery Society,
is lull ot ultra “fanaticism,” and would condemn
him before any court of Judge Lynch. Even
Gov. Hill of New Hampshire, who bears about
his own person the democracy of the State, tells
the Abolitionists in a recent letter, that lie is in
favor of a State law, contravening the law of Con
gress. and granting a jury trial to persons claimed
as fugitive slaves.
“\Y hat has the Globe to say in reference to the
abolition tendencies ol the able organ of the party
in New York—the Evening Post? What of the
combined democracy and Abolition of William
Lffcgett—the ablest delender which has yet ap
peared of the Sub-Treasury Scheme? What of
r how as Morris, the Van Buren Senator of Ohio,
and the only manly advocate of immediate aboli
tion at the Senate board ?
But enough. \Y e commend the above facts to
the Editor ot the Globe, as evidence that tbe Nor
thern and Eastern friends of Martin Van Buren,
arc not all prepared to be sold in the Southern
market—and that however powerful may be the
machinery of party, truth is stronger than all.”
From the Southern Recorder,
Our political opponents of the press in this
State, have almost charged the opponents of Air.
Van Buren at the South, as abolitionists. How
stands the ease now ? How manv slave holding
States are for, and how many against Mr. Van
Buren. Let us spe. There is against him, Ma
ryland 1, Virginia 3, (we have no doubt) North
Carolina 3, South Carolina 4, Georgia 5, Tennes
see 6, Mississippi 7, Kentucky 8. Leaving per
haps to Mr. Van Duren, Alabama 1, Louisiana Q y
and Missouri 3. Three for, and eight slavehold
ing States against the present administration,
Surely, if to go against Mr. Van Buren is to go
against our domestic institutions, the great body
of the States most deeply concerned iu the mat
ter, is most singularly blind to ils own vital inter
ests.
\Y’c have one question to ask of our cotempo
rarv of tbe Constitutionalist, viz: to rejoice at
Air. Vau llureu’s overthrow in Y irginia and Ali--
sissippi. does it constitute criminal Whig rejoic
ing, übout u’hioU our cotni¥*|».»rury ha« recently SO
much complained—or is it rejoicing with our
brethren, both in regard to general politics, and
especially iu regard to our common interest iu our
peculiar domestic institutions?
From the Columbus Enquirer.
CONGRESS.
What they are doing in this uugifft body is rather
bevond the reach of mortal ken. The session is
far advanced, and nothing, so far as we can discover,
has yet been transacted calculated to advance the
great interests of the country, or elevate the char
acter ol the legislative body. One endless strug
gle for party ascendency, one ir-cessant strife for
the poor triumphs of an hour, marks the conduct
of those whose business it is, at this deplorable
crisis, to aid in the advancement of their coun
try’s' good. Are men selected from the great body
of the people and clothed with the delegated au
thority of their constituents for no other purpose
than to do battle for particular political chieltaus,
whilst the public service is neglected and forgot
ten? We put the question, with due respect,
to our readers, and would ask them it the services
of our own immediate representatives, in Congress
for tbe few years past liav • been worth their per
diem allowance ? Y’.’hat have tie y done or said,
with one or two exceptions, that was worthy the
chu.acieror conducive to the interests of the State ?
What could they do? Ah, that's the question ?
The most of them cox 'd do the bidding of tiie
i'i’esi lent and the party, ami follow the scent of
the “loaves and fishes,” with wills as good and
nose as sure as the pack of a Virginia fox hunter;
but beyond this they made no pretensions, and
dared not go. A large majority of the Adminis
tration members, with the same servility and the
same nosedntss after places, and honors, and “loaves
and fishes,” have kept equal pace in this race of
loss and gain with our miserable crew, and hence
instead of originating and perfecting liberal and
enlightened measures in this heaviest trial through
which the country has passed, instead of taking
enlarged and comprehensive views of national pol
icy, and reducing the results of a repuclirttn gov
ernment, they have frittered away their time, and
exhausted wliat little ingenuity their feeble talents
could supply, in bolstering up n sinking adminis
tration and irritating a suffering people, by petty
schemes of low ambition and hollow hearted pre
tences at untried expedients. YYith such conduct
and such men the nation has become disgusted.
So far as this State is concerned, a large p< rtion
of her citizens have no just right to complain.
In a misguided moment of high political excite
ment they discarded their talented and faithful
representatives, substituting others destitute ofa
bilities, unknown for any thing except devotion to
party, and undistinguished for any public service.
—These men were selected to carry to Wash
ington the delegated democratic principles of
their cortituents—implicit obedience to the
orders of the President, ami faithful co-workman
ship with the service crew around him. They
done their work as far as they ha I capacity to un
derstand their orders, and rendered the best ac
count they could of their faithful stewardship.
Notwithstanding all this, their feebleness has been
so apparent, their want of capacity so manifest,
and the jeers of the country rat insufferable,’ that
most of them have retired iu “dignified disgust”
and the remainder have.been kick and by their late
Convention into the “no bile of next week.”—
These tilings were, to say the least of them, ex
tremely unkind, and may serve as a warning to the
present Van Buren nominees, should they he so
unfortunate as to be elected, of what may be their
future fate.
Hereafter we will endenvor to take n peen at the
pretentions of the new candidates of the and emocra
cy, in order to see whether the State is likely to
be much beuefitted by their election.
From the Macon .1 Tcssenger.
We notice the following singular article in the
New Haven (Conn.) Hearld of May 7th. The
purport of this “Cherokee Memorial” is not stated,
but can be readily guessed, from the number that
have already been sent to Washington. It might
be suggested to these memorialists, if it would not
be as well for them, and better for the country if
they were to attend to their own business, and
leave the execution of the laws and treaties, un
disturbed to the proper authorities ! But we know
tlierc are people in that vicinity, who are not content
unless they can have a large share in tlie supervision
of their neighbors concerns; and that all advice
would be lost on them. For their satisfaction, we
can inform them, that the Treaty with the Cher
okees is now being put in execution, and will be
carried out to tbe let.er—and that these good
memoralists will have to walk over Georgia bayo
nets before it will be deviated from in the smallest
fraction. But few days will elapse before the ra
tion will be on their way to the West of the Mis
sissippi. It will be seen that the memorialists have
but three days grace from the “last day of signing,”
to the day when the Indians were to commence
emigrating. The same paper also savs that “their
country is about to be overrun by barbarians.
CHEEROKEE MEMORIAL.
Last day of Signing. — Citizens who intend to
sign the Cherokee Memorial are desired to call in
the course of to-morrow, (Tuesday.) as they
arc to be forwarded on Wednesday. Memorials
arc lodged at the following places:
B. & W. Noyes’ Bookstore, in Ohapol-st.
L. H. Young’s Bookstore, Exchange Place.
The Athenemn, Exchange Place.
Timothy Dwight’s store, corner Chapel and
•State street.
Elias Hotchkiss’ store, head of Long Wharf.
Isaac Gilbert &i Sons’ leather store, George
street. 3
J. Ritter’s marble shop, Grand street near the
canal.
Bradley A: Canfield’s store, corner of YYooster
and East street.— Connecticut Herald,
The V ashington Spy complains with great
justice, of a piece of infamous trickery practiced
upon it, most probably by the notorious William
Garrison. ! Ins man in his paper pretends that
the Southern Spy was sent him, w ith a polite re
quest to exchange. The Editor of the Spy puts
himsell to the unnecessary trouble of denying
the matter; tve say unnecessary trouble, for sure
ly the friends of the Spy cannot believe such a
charge, and judging by ourselves, we know 'hat
the opponents ol the Spy, are sure that it is onlv
one of the many falsehoods which issue from the
same Mint. Such calumnies can meet with but
one feeling in Georgia, by all parties—that of the
most sovereign contempt. Our cotemporary of
the Spv, as well as its coadjutors of the press, may
aud do", (as we think,) unfortunately differ very
w ideiy with ourselves and the party with which Ho
me associated 011 most political subjects; but on
the subject of utter and uncompromising hostility
to the incendiaries of the day. th*‘re is but one
feeling in Geer., a. and we dare say, fe’t by none
in a stronger oegree ihau our Washington cotei.,-
porary.— Recorder.
Recognition of Tc.iian Independence by En
gland— The consequent of ■ t <f Annexation and
i,ss to the United States ofthc commerce of thin
young imt growing Republic. — We have been
lavored with the perusal ofa letter from London,
dated the loth of February last, which affords
much information in regard to the subjects which
head tins article. We would promise that the
writer of the letter had every opportunity jf correct
information, and that whatever ho says is en
titled to the most explicit confidence.
It is stated that the most friendly dispositions were
evinced by the British government towards Texas.
'1 nat the delay in recognition has resulted main
ly from the outbreaking of the Canadian revolu
tion. Another cause igp.ed for tli<‘ delay, was
the expectation that Mexico would have invaded
Texas during tbe past winter—the government
believing that if ever :m invasion was attempted,
it would be at 1 Uni time or never.
The writei ev] -a -scs every confidence ot a re
cognition this spring, if no invasion bv Mexico
should tr.ko place. It is remarked further, that
the Radical or O'Connell party, oppose the tic
knuwEdgement, of Texiau independence on anti
. Every or abolition principles. Thus v.e see that
the tnnatieal prejudices which induce the Nortli
e 11 and Eastern liiembcrs of the union to oppose
tiie annexation oi Texas operate against the Young
republic every where—which circumstance should
speak volumes to the Southern and slave holding
States, it might be demonstrated with logical
certainty, that the annexation of Texas is to
them iudi.-’X'Usahle; and that upon it derails
the permanence of slavery institutions in the South
ern States: otherwise,the increasing numbers of
northern and eastern bigots, fanatics, abolitionists
and pseudo-philaiithopists may and will inflict, iu
a few years, upon the slave-holding States, the
same injustice which similar measures have
wrought on Jamaica and other slavehohling Brit
ish 1 esse. 1 ions, viz : abolish slavery and establish
the abominable apprentice system.
But here we may be wrong. They cannot e
maneipate our slaves, but they may cause the
next,greatest evil: their vexatious intermeddling,
and provocations, and insolence, might force the
South to a dissolution of the Union. It is more
overstated by the same writer, that whether Tex
ian Independence he recognized or rot. commer
cial relations are about being established between
England and Texas, ou the most liberal policy of
reciprocity. This again will defeat annexation.
The policy of Texas, being almost exclusively a
planting country, will lead to a low tariff if not
to an entire system of free trade. Eng'and will
then find it to lier advantage to monopolize the
cotton of that republic, exchanging lier manufac
tures without paving any duty upon them; ami
Texas will of course prefer receiving FnTsh
manufactures direct from Km.hi-l rather than
from this country, after they have paid no average
(tuiy ol more than 20 per cent. 'Under these cir
cumstances, the advantage of remaining indepen
dent, will force itself upon Texas! Her proposi
tion to annex herself, will he withdrawn—which
will cause to the l . 8. the loss ot the immense
•md valuable trad ot v :ti aver—and leave the
Southern inc niin ,sos the confederal yto the mer
cy of fanatical disors anizevs at the North.
Cannot—will not the Northern fanatics them
selves be themselves brought to see the importance
ol annexation ? and will not the South he untiring
and uncompromising in their efforts to promote
that object—-or wait till it be forever too late?
M e appeal to them on the subjec t with all the
fervor ofa conviction resulting from a belief of
the indispensable necessity of annexation to the
prosperity, if not to the permanence, of our polit
ical in: titutions. Application lias also been made,
we learn from the same letter, to the French court,
through the representative at London, where but
little doubt is entertained of the immediate ae
knovvedgment of Texiau independence by France.
Com. Bulletin.
Defence rs Southern Rights.— It has been the
unanimous warning ot the Southern members
in Congress, that the South has t< o long slum
bered over the volcano ot Abolitionism, which
had been secretly planting its fire under the foun
dation of our republic. The warning came in
tones of startling thunder upon us from tbe Hull
ot representatives, and from the Senate Chamber
of Congress. We w ere told the foul demon of
Abolitionism, looking with green and jaundiced
eyes upon Southern rights and property, bad be
come a, monster too terrible longer to be borne
with; yet, when wo rouse up, and condemn those
recreant and “dough faced” Southerners who
truckle and fawn upon the neck of'the monster
“now petrified into a bigotry,” as incurable as the
leprosy ol tanaiicism can show in the annuls of
the world, wc are told that it is “wrong to agitate"'
—that the South is “not prepared to go into an
agitation of the Abolition question,” What pre
posterous duplicity, and all to save Henry Clay,
aud bolster him for a third race over the Presi
dential course, where as yet, distance has been
Ins only winning!
How is the South to kill the monster Abolition—
ism, which would depopulate ami lay waste her
sunny clime, except by marking its friends, anil;
those who fawn lovingly upon the demon, whose
tender mercies are the essence of a heartless and
bigottedcruelty ? WE SHALL-OPPOSE Al>-
OIM I lONISAI on. principle, and in so doing,
shail only “asitate” those who are not true to the
oouth. Daily Free Trader.
From a.i officer m the arruj who arrived yester
day from St. Augustine in the revenue cutter
Campbell, Capt. Cos t, we hear that Col. Harney
had a sharp skirmish with Sam Jones on the 27th
uit., about 20 miles below Kev Biscayne. Sain
.Tones fled with his followers, a large portion of
whom were women and children, into the ever
glades, before Col. H. could come up w ith him- —
One squaw w r as captured, from whom Col. U
learned that Sam Jones had made a function with
the Spanish Indians on the Key-s, and that his par
ty consisted of 3-5 Mickasukies and 27 Seminoles;
that If aleck Hadjo, of Tusk egee’s tribe, who had
been sent out to bring in the Seminoles attached
to Sain Jones’ party, had been shot by Sam Jones,
which occasioned a serious difference between the
Mickasukies and the Seminoles. Col. 11. again
started on the 30th with ten days’ provisions m
pursuit of Sam Jones, and had under his com
mand one company of dragoons, and five cotm
panics of artillery— Savannah Georgian ,