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The Awl'ul Cruelties Practised on White Slaves
in Great Britain,
Tlie Stafford House meeting, at which the
‘•Christian affectionate” address of the ladies of
Great Britain to their dear sisters in America
was adopted, with the name of the Duchess of
Sutherland at the head, followed by her two
daughters—of Argyle and Blantyre—Duchess
of Bedford, Lady Travellyan, and many others,
has excited not only disgust on this side of the
water, but disgustand something worseathome.
The liberal journals are out on them in terrible i
sarcasm; but the most scathing invective we
have seen is a letter from Donald M’Leod, in
which, after adopting from another writer the
rebuke of “Look at Home,” he proceeds as fol
lows :
“ But I must go further, and instruct the
American ladies in what they should tell their
English sisters to look at home. They can meet
this feminine, English, Christian, affectionate
appeal with the same argument that the Canni
bal Queen met a French philosopher when he
was remonstrating with her upon the hateful,
horrifying, and forbidden practice of eating hu
man flesh, and recommending her to discontinue
and forbid the practice in her dominions.—
“Well,” replied the Cannibal Queen, “Voltaire,
what is the difference between your people and
us? You kill men and allow them to rot; we
kill men, and to drown our victory we eat them,
and find them as good for food as any other i
flesh; besides, our laws demand of us to eat
our enemies.” Now, sir, though two blacks will
never make a white, yet the American ladies j
may justly reply and ask their English sisters,
“What is the difference between you and us?
We buy black African slaves; but when we buy
them, we feed, clothe and house them. No
doubt some of us whip them at times for disobe
dience or for our own caprice ; but we heal
their stripes, and take care of them, that they
may work our work. But you, English sisters,
you make white slaves paupers and beggars;
and when you make them this, by depriving
them of all means to live by their own industry,
then you turn them adrift—you raze, plough up,
or burn down their habitations, and allow them
to die (in hundreds) the agonizing, lingering
death of starvation on the road sides, ditches,
and open fields. Dear sisters, look at the his
tory of Ireland for the last six or seven years,
and you will see how many thousands you have
allowed to die by hunger; and consider how
many thousands more you would have allowed
to die a similar death, had we not come to their
rescue, and sent them food until we could re
move them from your tender mercy and from
your territories, to feed, clothe, and house them,
and to find employment and fair remuneration
for their labor among ourselves. Look for one
instance at an Irishman arraigned at the bar of
justice for sheep-stealing, and his counsel offer
ing to prove that before he stole the sheep, three
of his children perished for want of food, and in
the case of the last of them who died, a sucking
infant, the mother peeled the flesh off of its legs
and arms; she boiled it, and both she and her
husband, the prisoner, ate it to save their own
lives, and the mother died soon after. At this
time you, our English sisters, were riding upon
the chariots, rolling smoothly over your exten
sive, uncultivated, depopulated domains, upon
the wheels of splendor and cushions of the finest
texture, and your husbands, sons, and daughters
sharing of your festivities, luxuries, and unne
cessary grandeur ; expending more money and
human food upon useless dogs and horses than
would have saved thousands of the poor useful
Irish (with the image of God upon them) from
a premature agonizing death. We have read
with horror of one of your husbands urging with
might and main upon the government (who be
stirred themselves at the time, for fear the fam
ine might cause a disease among the Irish land
lords,) to feed the people with curry powder ;
and you must recollect, when the curry powder
scheme of destroying the Irish could not be ap
proved of, that Sir A. Trevellyan was sent over
to Ireland with the test starving commission, and
conducted the Irish destruction with more hu
manity, for he allowed one pound of meal as
meat and wages for every starving Irishman,
who would work ten hours per day at making
roads, draining, and improving the estates for
Irish landlords. Ah! English sisters, though
we could bring no more against yon, the public
will iudge and decide that you should be the
defenders, and not the pursuers, in this case >
but since you began to expose us, we will ex
pose you to the letter, for there is no case or
cases brought out against us in “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin,” with all Harriet Beecher Stowe’s capa
bilities of coloring, that is equal to this. We
you emphatically, that our law would neither
sanction nor tolerate such inhuman treatment—
our religion forbids it; and any man or number
of men who would be guilty of such would be
branded with infamy and chased from our
States and from our societies as inhuman irra
tional, irreligious, and immoral monsters, un
worthy of Christian society, or to have a voice
in the civil or religious government of our coun
try. But by taking a retrospective view of the
history of your Christianized nation, we find
that inhumanity, oppression, cruelty, and extor
tion, are qualifications revuired to fit a legislator,
commander, commissioner, or any other func
tionary to whom you may safely entrust the law
making, the law administration, and the gov
ernment ot your people ; but qualifications spe
cially required to entitle them to dignified, high
sounding titles and distinction, as will be shown
afterwards.
“Uncle .Tom’s Cabin’’ has aroused the sym
pathy and compassion of the Duchesses ofSuth
erlatid, Argyle, Bedford, and Ladies Blantyre ]
and Trevellyan, and many thousands of the wo- !
men of England, over the fate of Ham’s black
children. But we would seriously advise the
Duchess of Sutherland and her host to pause
until L ncle Donald M Leod’s Cabin comes out, j
and until he himself comes across the Atlantic
with it among the thousands of those and their !
offspiing who have fled from their iron swav I
and slavery to our shores. He, poor man, has
been expostulating with you for the last twenty !
years against your cruel, unnatural, irrational,!
unctuistian, and inhuman treatment of the brave,
athlebc, Highland white sons of Japhet; but no
Lnglish 01 Scottish duchesses and ladies took
any notice ot him, nor convened a meeting to |
sympathize with him, or to remonstrate with j
Highland despotic slave-making proprietors to |
discontinue their uniighteous depopulation of
the country and their ungodly draining away of
the best blood from the nation. Hence we aver
that these ladies would never convene a sym
pathizing meeting for the benighted Africans,
should their own African chiefs, kings, and i
queens, destroy them by the thousand; but be-;
cause they sell them, and we buy them and take |
care of them, English feminine hearts sympatize j
with them. This is a fine opportunity for Don- j
aid M’Leod. Let him now speak out and make j
haste, and we promise him a quick and an ex
tensive sale of his Cabin of unvarnished faets.
The Dutchess of Sutherland got very warm j
on the subject. After she read the sympathiz
ing, remonstrating address, (which need not be j
quoted here being long ago before the public,)
she with great empasis, said, “I hope and believe
that our efforts, under God’s blessing, will not
be without some happy result; but, whether it
succeeded or fail, no one will deny that we shall
have made an attempt, which had for its begin
ning and end, “Glory to God in the highest, on
J earth and peace and good will to all men.” It
seems that effrontery is become very lofty and
high-voiced, under the protection of high-sound
ing English titles, when the Dutchess of Suth
erland could presume to mix such notorious hy
pocritical winnings as these with “Glory to God
in the highest, on earth peace and good will to
I men,” for no other cause or design than to
i whitewash from some public odium already out,
or to screen from some that is expected, come
j from what quarter it may. Surely this cannot
be the Dutchess of Sutherland who pays a visit
every year to Dunrobin Castle, who has seen
and heard so many supplicating appeals pre
sented to her husband by the poor fisherman of
Golspie, soliciting liberty to take mussels from
the Little Ferry Sands to bait their nets —a lib
erty which they were deprived of by his fac
tors, though paying yearly rent for it, yet return
ed by his Grace, with the brief deliverance that
he could do nothing for them. Can I believe
that this is the same personage who can set out
Dunrobin Castle, (her own Highland seat,) and,
after travelling from it, then can ride in one di
rection forty-four miles; in another direction (by
taking the necessary circuitous route) sixty miles,
and that over fertile glens, valleys, straths, burst
jug with fatness, which gave birth to, and where
were 1 eared forages thousands of the bravest,
the most moral, virtuous and religious men that
Europe coule boast of; ready, to a man, at a
moment’s warning from their chief to rise in de
fence ot their king, queen, and country ; anima
ted with patriotism and love to their chief, and
irresistable in the battle contest for victory—
But these valiant men had then a country, a
home, and a chief, worth the fighting for. But
I can tell her that she can now ride over these
extensive tracts in the interior of the country
without seeing the image of God upon a man
travelling these roads, with the exception of a
wandering Highland shepherd, wrapped up in
a gray plaid to the eyes, with a colly dog behind
him as a drill serjent, to traid his ewes and to
marshal his tups. There may happen to travel
over the dreary tract a geologist, a tourist, or
a lonely earlier, but these are as rare as a peli
can in the wilderness, or a camel’s convoy cara
van in the deserts of Arabia. Add to this a few
English sportsmen, with their stag-hounds, poin
ter dogs, and their servants, and put themselves
and their bravery together, ajid a company of
French soldiers would put ten thousand of them
to a disorderly flight to save their own carcass
es, leaving their ewes and tups to feed the in
vaders ! The question may arise, where those
people who inhabited this country at one period
have gone ? In America and Australia the most
of them will be found. The Sutherlands fami
ley and the nation had no need of their services ;
hence they did not regard their patriotism or
loyalty, and disregarded their past services,—
Sheep, bullock, doer, and game became more
valuable than men. Yet a remnant of them, or
in other words, a skeleton of them, is to be found
along the sea-shore, huddled together in motley
groups upon barren moors, among cliffs and
precipics, in the most impoverished, degraded,
subjugated, slavish, spiritless condition that hu
man beings could exist in. If this is really the
lady who has “Glory to God in the highest,
. peace on earth and good will to men,’’ in view,
and who is so religiosly denouncing the Ameri
can statue which “denies the slave the sanctity
of marriage, with all its joys, rights and obliga
tions—which separates, at the will of the mas
ter, the wife from the husband, the children from
the parent.” I would advise her, in God’s name,
to take a tour round the sea-skirts of Sutherland,
her own estate, beginning at Brora, then to
Helmsdale, Portskerra, Strathy, Farr, Tongue,
Durness, Eddrachillis, and Assynt, and learn
the subjugated, degraded, and impoverished, un
educated condition of the spiritless people of that
sea-beaten coast, about two hundred miles in
length, and let her with similar zeal remonstrate
with her husband, that their condition be better
ed; for the cure for all their misery and want is
lying unmolested in the fertile valleys above, and
all under his control; and to advise his Grace,
her husband, to be no longer guided by his Ahi
thopel, iMr. Loch, but to discontinue his depopu
lating schemes, which have separated many a
wife from her husband, never to meet—which
caused many a premature death, and that sepa
rated many sons and daughters, never to see
them; and by all means to withdraw that man
date of Mr. Lock, which forbids marriage on the
Sutherland estate, under the pains and penalties
of being banished from the country; for it has
been already the cause of a great amount of
! prostitution, and augmented illegitimate connec
tions and issues fifty per cent above what such
were a few years ago, before this unnatural,
j ungodly law was put in force. When the
Dutchess will do this, then, and not till then,
will I believe that she is in earnest regarding the
American slaves. Let her and the other ladies
who attend the Stafford House meeting be not
like the believers followers of Jupiter, who were
supplied with two bags each, the one bag rep
resenting their own faults, the other their neigh
bors’ faults—the one representing their neigh
bors’ faults suspended before them, and the one
representing their own faults suspended behind
them so that they could never see their own
faults, but their neighbors’ were seen at all times.
Ah ! ladies, change your Jupiter bags, that yo i
may discern your inconsistency, and connectio i ,
with those to whom you oweyour position, you. -
grandeur, your greatness and all your enjoy- ‘
ments.
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2 _ COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
SATURDAY EVENING, FEB. 19, 1853.
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A M ERICA.
Mobile, Feb. 19, 5 o'clock, I*. M.
New York, Feb. IS.—The steamship America, ar
rived at Halifax yesterday, with three days later intel
ligence. Liverpool Market firm, with a fair demand.
Sales of the week amounted to 65,000 bales; 19,000
were taken by speculators, and 9,000 by exporters.
New Orleans Middlings fid., Middling Uplands 5 3-4d.
Havre Market active with advanced prices. Sales
o’ the week reached 12,080 bales.
New Orleans Market was active yesterday, and 6,~
500 bales sold, principally for Europe. Up to 2 o’clock,
P, M., to-day, 5000 bales were sold ; prices are un
changed ; Middlings 8 3-4 e.
In Mobile, 4000 bales were sold at previous quota
tions.
[We did not receive the following dispatch until 10
o’clock on the night of 17th instant, though it bears
date Mobile, 5.20, P. M. We will be obliged to our
agent at Mobile if be will give instructions to the Tele
graph oflice not to burthen us with the expense of dis
patches, unless they are forwarded by 6 o’clock :]
Mobile, Feb. 17, 5.20 P. M.
General Pierce left Boston yesterday for New York,
and will go to Washington to-morrow.
The Senate has passed the Bill giving California
300,000 dollars, it being the amount collected by the
government of the United States for duties previous to
her admission into the'Union.
\ iee President King’s health is improving, and lie
expects to return to Washington in April
Cotton declined l-4c. in our market yesterday. Sales,
however, are active, though confined to a few buyers.
We quote Middling Fair, 9 l-2c.; Good Middling, 9
l-4c.; Middling, 8 3 4c. ; Ordinary, 7 1-4 io 7 3-4 e.
Fair demand for Cotton in New Orleans.
Slavery and the Westminster Review.
CiifFeeism, like the frogs of Egypt, has entered “our
houses, our bed chambers, and the houses of our ser
vants.'’ It has become a nuisance, so that, in the em
phatic language of scripture, the land stinks by reason
thereof.
The Westminster Review contains an elaborate no
tice of Airs. Stowe’s bad book, in which all the horrid
pictures ot that wild fiction are endorsed as liberal
fucts upon the testimony of Douglass and Brown, both
of whom are fugitive slaves, and by a book issued by
the Executive Committee of the American anti-Slavery
Society! who prove to the entire satisfaction of the
Review :
1 hat the slaves in the United States are treated with
barbarous inhumanity; that they are overworked, under
led, wretchedly clad and lodged, and have insufficient
sleep ; that they are often made to wear round their necks
iron collars armed with prongs, to drag heavy chains and
weights at their feet while working in the field, and to wear
yokes and bills and iron horns; that they are often kept
confined in the stocks day and night for weeks together,
made to wear gags in their mouths for hours or day3°; have
some oi their front teeth torn out or broken off’, that they
may be easily detected when they run away ; that they are
frequently flogged with terrible severity, have red pepper
rubbed into their lacerated flesh, and hot brine, spirits of tur
pentine, &c., poured over the gashes to increase the torture ;
that they are often stripped naked, their backs and limbs
cut with knives, bruised and mangled by scores and hun
dreds of blows with the paddle, and terribly torn by the
claws of cats drawn over them by their tormentors; that
they are often hunted by bloodhounds, and shot down like
beasts or torn to pieces by dogs ; that they are often sus
pended by the arm, and whipped and beaten till they faint
and when revived by restoratives beaten again till they
taint, and sometimes till they die ; that their ears are often
cut off; their eyes knocked out, their bones broken, their
flesh branded with red-hot irons; that they are maimed,
mutilated, and burned to death over slow fires. * * * *’
* * That such deeds are committed, but that they are
frequent; not done in corners, but before the sun ; not in
one of the slave States, but in all of them ; not perpetrated
by brutal overseers and drivers merely, but by magistrates,
by legislators, by professors of religion, by preachers of
the Gospel, by Governors of States, by gentlemen of prop
erty and standing, and by delicate females moving in the
‘highest circles of society.’ ”
Admitting these false assertions to be true, in the face
of the testimony of the whole South, and of all Eng
lishmen who have travelled among us, the writer in the
Review well says, “we have found that which has
convinced our judgment as much as it has sickened our
heart.” If the black picture here presented were a faithful
and true daguerreotype of Southern society, degraded in
deed would be the South ; and no civilized people could
mourn over her desolation. Such savage barbarism would
justify a holy crusade against us; and the Christian na
tions of Europe are recreant to the claims of God and
man in neglecting so long to sweep through our borders
with fire and sword.
It is useless for us to deny the false and calumnious
charges of the American anti-slavery Society. It is
true that slaves are sometimes murdered by their mas
ters, but not more frequently than children arc murder
;ed by their parents. It is true that slaves are some
times dreadfully abused and maltreated by their mas
ters, but not more frequently than apprentices are
abused and maltreated by theirs, in the city of West
minster. We are absolutely amazed at the unblushing
falsehoods of our revilers, and of the gullibility of the
Public, foreign and domestic. Did it never occur to
these men that self-interest, with most men, is
the controlling motive? that slaves are bought be
cause their labor is valuable ? that a well-fed
and kindly u.-_ed man is more able to make wages
than a poor, starved, maimed, scarred creature ? AA T hy,
horses and dogs are not used as badly in the South as
the abolitionists say the slave is. Has it never occurred
to these fanatics that strong and life-long attnehments
are formed between slaves and their masters, dating
back to the days of early boyhood, when they played
a.nd romped together by moon-light, and all distinction
ot color was wholly unknown, which results in after
lite in filial obedience on the part of the slave and pa
ternal solicitude on the part of the master ?
Indeed, it is common tor slaves to descend from fath
er to sou for generations, and it is not at all uncommon
to find slaves now in the same family to whom their
ancestors were sold by the British slave-traders. We
may as well once, for all, assert that next to his own
family, a Southern man’s nearest and dearest friends
are his slaves. We trust them with our money and
our keys; we place our wives and children under their
protection. All the horrid fears which, in the excited
imaginations of abolitionists, disturb the slumbers of the
master, are purely imaginary. We Ive in peace and
quiet on our plantations, we sleep with our doors and
windows open, and fear no evil. But we are repeating
a twice told tale. i ,
The Westminster Review boldly advocates an
urges upon the South the emancipation of the blacks.
Tins, certainly, fen very impudent recommendation
in the face of the experiment in Jamaica; and the
damning fact, that most of ilie so called ltee
either have or are attempting to pass laws forbidding
free negroes to imigrate into them.
But we will not pursue this subject further. M e de
sire merely to call the attention of the public to the
abolitionism of the Review , and to proscribe it as a bad
book for circulation in the South ; and more espe
cially to condemn the notice which we clip from the
Savannah Courier !
“The Westminster Review, tor January, has been hand
ed us by Col. Williams. It is needless to say anything in
praise of this conservative periodical. The present num
ber has very interesting articles on Daniel Webster, Histo
ry and Ideas of the Mormons, American Slavery and
Emancipation by the free States, Mary ludor, ar.d tie
condition and prospects of Ireland.”
We cannot believe that the Editor of that Journal
was aware of the character of the Review , or of the
very objectionable character of the article under review.
The Westminster is not conservative , but destructive
and radical. It is certainly needless to say anything
in praise of it, unless Southern men wish to sow the
seeds of abolitionism in the South. M e hope our pub
lic journals wi'l be more particular in their complimen
tary notices *f periodicals.
More Galphinism.
Towards the end of last month, General Houston
was placed at the head of a committee, instructed to ex- |
amine into charges of fraudulent practices in the erec- j
tion of the new wings of the capital, The Union says j
that, acceordingto the evidence, inferior materials have j
been used and their use concealed ; defects in the work j
have been covered over ; government property misap- !
plied ; implements and laborers used for private pur- j
poses ; an extensive system of embezzlement acted out,
by which large sums of money have been drawn for |
work never rendered; and laborers have been employ- I
ed at extravagant wages, under the agreement that they 1
! should give up a large portion of those wages after they
; were drawn from the pay agent. This system has been
s carried to such an extent, we are informed, as to swin
-1 die the government out of about three hundred tliou
! sand dollars —one half of the entire appropriation. If
I this be true, there has been no parallel to this fraud in
the history of our government; for it is formed of a
larger number of items, extending over a longer period
of time, and convicts a larger number of individuals of
carelessness and corrupt practices, than any wlf.eli has
preceded it. We hope to be able, in a few days, to lay
the evidence which lias been adduced before the Com
mittee of Investigation before our readers. We are
| unwilling to begin its publication until we can continue
jit regularly. Surely no civilized country lias been out
i raged by such an administration as that which has,
since the 4th of March, 1849, alternately mortified the
pride of the nation and outraged the public morality by
an alternation of imbecility and fraud, unrelieved by a
single instance of manly efficiency or sterling integrity.
Temperance Movement in Muscogee.
At a meeting hold in ibis city a few days ago, the
following named gentlemen were appointed delegates to
the Temperance Convention, to be held in Atlanta on
the 22<1 inslant: Messrs. Dr. A. M. Walker, Hon. G.
E. Thomas, Dr. M. Woodruff, J. Early Hurt, Dr. Jno.
J. Boswell, N. Nuckolls, James M, Chambers, Rev. J.
E. Evans, Rev. Thos. F. Scott, Dozter Thornton,
and Dr. Lovick Pierce.
Temperance Movement in Harris.
At a meeting held in Hamilton, Harris county, the
following named gentlemen were appointed d< legates
to the Atlanta Temperance Convention : Rev. J, G.
Cotton, Rev. J. J. Little, J. E. Borders, Dr. P. T.
Trammell, Jere. Reese, Rev. W. Mosely, F. J. H. Per
ry, Cos!. C. B. Black, A. DeLoaoh, “W. B. Stribling,
C. Carter, H. Kimbrough, Geo. A. B. Dozier, T. J.
Dozier, J. A. Collier, J. McGehee, L. Pratt, W. Pru
itt, Dr. Pitts, Rev. W. Snell, Dr. E. E. Hood, Wm.
Worrell, W. E. Farley, Rev. W. D, Atkinson,
Mr. Everett on the Fishery Question.
The President lias communicated to Congress a let
ter from the Secretary of State in regard to the pro
gress of the negotiations with Great Britain for the set
tlement of the Fishery Question.
Mr. Everett thinks the Fishery Question might be
easily settled upon terms satisfactory to both parties.
The proposition is to give to American fishermen a
general freedom of fishery on the waters of the British
colonies, and also the permission to dry and prepare
their fish on the adjacent coasts, on condition that like
privileges be granted to British colonists on our coasts,
and that the products of the British fisheries be ad
mitted to our markets free of duty.
Small Pox in Oglethorpe.
We regret to learn that the Editor of the Demcarat
is confined to his room by a severe attack of small pox.
We are somewhat surprised to find in the same pa
per in which the announcement is made, a certificate
from three physicians that there is no case of small pox
in Oglethorpe. They pronounce the disease merely an
aggravated form of chicken pox.
The democratic Review.
| Mr. Sanders, the fast, Editor of this fast journal, has
run his race in fast time, and offers to sell it. We
hope a slow man, with better bottom, will become the
purchaser.
The American Giant Girl.
M e visited this young Lady during her stay in this
city- She is the largest mass of flesh we ever loosed
. upon, and conies fully up to the description given of her
in the bills. Admirers of the strange and monstrous
productions of nature, will be gratified with a sight of
her.
O’ The Mississippi Democratic State Convention, to
nominate State officers and a member of Congress will
meet in Jackson on the Ist Monday in May next.
0“ Twelve hundred men are now employed on the
Ohio and Mississippi Rail Road.
O” The Town Council of Milledgeville have invited
Mr. Fillmore to visit them, and tendered him the hos
pitalities of the city.
Gov. Foote, of Mississippi, has offered reward of S3OO
for the apprehension and delivery to the sheriff of Warren
county, ot W esley Wallace, who stands charged with
the murder of a negro man belonging !o Gen. G. D.
Mitchell, wiioe overseer W aiiace was. It was first
ttiought that the negro was killed by a log roliii g over
li m ; but the corner’s inquest has fix a i the charge of
murder on Wallace, who has fled, lie i j fro n North
Carolina, and is supposed to be making his way back
there. 1;
The number of communicants in the Florida Confer
ence of the Methodist E. Church, as ,shown by statistics
submitted at the session of the Conference, is 5,567
whites, 3,534 colored—making in all, 9,184. Increase
the past year, 680. Number of local preachers, 83.
Col. Charles A. May, of the U. S. Army, was married
in New York, outlie Bth inst. to Miss Josephine, daugh
ter of George Law, Esq., the well known steamship
owner.
Under the head of “Bills introduced,” in the offi
cial report of proceedings in the Indiana Legisla
ture, tve notice the following hint to those concern
ed, on the subject of “extending the area of social
relations
“By Dr. McDonald of Louisiana, a bill to com
pel old bachelors of thirty years of age to marry,
nr pnv a fine of SSO a year into the treasury, to go
to the benefit of the first lady who shall marry after
the first of January. The provisions of the bill
apply to widowers of one year’s standing,”
The ways of the transgressor are hare.
Grace Greenwood. — The last bit. of gossip trom
Italy mentions the probable marriage ot Gmce
Greenwood with a wealthy American, whom she
| cap ured in Rome.
• From the New York Herald.
Highly Interesting from Washington.
Gomjlele cabinet for Gen. Pierce—Nominations
fer Foreign missions, Etc.
Washington, Feb. 12, 1853.
There has been for some days past, a good
deal of tribulation amongst the hunkers and
barnburners, bothin New York and in the dele
gation here, in consequence of the statement
of Mr. D. E. Sickles, who had been to Concor t,
that General Pierce spoke very much as it he
had determined to place Gov. Marcy, with the
“patch,” in his cabinet. At the solicitation of
the New York junta, even the barnbuners in.
Congress united, day before yesterday, in a
protest to General Pierce, couched in the
strongest language, against Gov, Marcy’s nom
ination. But a despatch received this morn
ing has restored harmony:
It appears that General Pierce has offered
Mr, A, C, Flagg, the present able Comptroller
of the city New York, the post of Secretary of
the Treasury, and it has leaked out inconse
quence of Mr Flagg’s consulting his friends as
to his acceptance, and consequent resignation
of the Comptrollership, The appoinment has
: given unbounded satisfaction to the barnburn
i ers delegation, who met in caucus this morn
| ing upon it,
1 stated early in the winter that Gen. Cass
had been asked to recommmend a Cabinet
officer, and that he had presented Governor
McClelland, of Michigan, for Postmaster Gen
eral*. It is ascertained on unquestionable au
thority that he has been offered the position,
and also thatMr, Buchanan has performed a
similar service, with like success, for Judge
Campbell, of Pennsylvania, Here, then, with
Mr. Cushing for the State Commodore Stock
! ton, of New Jersey, tor the Navy, M. Dobbin,
ofNorth Carolina, for the War Department, the
fog is removed beyond all doubt.
A letter has been received from General
Pierce stating that entire Cabinet is formed,
and from Mr; Flagg's selection; it is evident it
goes upon the basis of recognizing all shades
of the party.
The President has sent in several nomina
tions for foreign missions. The Senate has
determined not to act upon any of them.—
Among the number is that of Theodoye Fay,
Secretary of the Berlin Mission, charged
to Switzerland. X. Y. Z.
The First Congressional District.
A correspondent writes to the Savannah Repub
lican, from Montgomery county, as follows :
“At the convention of the Constitutional Union
party of this district held at Holraesville, on the
18th of June, 1851, it was resolved among other
matters that the same party should meet in conven
tion at that place, on the 18th of June 1853, for the
purpose of nominating a candidate for member of
Coni'r ss. That the party was too late in ’sl in
bringing out its candidate, is, I think, sufficiently
manifest.
“Would it not, therefore, be wise in us to profit
by that example, and hold our convention, and bring
out our candidate at an earlier day—say first Mon
day in April 1 In the convention ot 1851, many
of the counties were not represented. This was
owing in pa it to the season of the year m which
the convention met. It. is a season when the time
of planters are entirely absorbed in their farms, and
if we wait until the crops are made it will be too
late for the candidate to canvass the and strict, which
isyio small job, owing to the size of it.”
*This is tho first indication that we have seen of
a purpose on the part of our opponents to run a
candidate for the office of Representative from the
first District. That they would oppose tho election
of the Democrat c nominee, whether Col. Jackson
or another, we have not doubted. It is even now
uncertain what form the opposition is to take. Do
our Whig friends intend to go into the canvass as
Whigs or as Constitutional Union men 1 Wjllihe
Republican inform us I
The Democratic party will, of cour.~e, in due time—
perhaps the earlier the better—have their candi
date in the field. If Col. Jackson will consent to
run, he will doubtless be accepted as the candidate
by the unanimous voice of ihe Democracy of the
District. Whether he can be induced to serve again
we know not. He will doubtless, in due time, an
nounce his purporse to his const.tuents. lu case he
positively declines running, which we hope he will
not do, it wiil then be necessary to assemble a con
vent ion to make a nomination.
The Democrats of New Hampshire. —The
Democrats of New Hampshire, in Gen. Pierce’s
own district, who lately nominated Geo. A. Morri
son for Congress, in Convention adopted resolutions
endorsing the resolutions recently ottered by Gen.
Cass, in the Senate of the United Staley re-aflirm
hg the Monroe doctiine.
The Jury in the case of Cobb, another of the
Jerry rescuers, have failed to agree, and been dis
charged.
Church for Deaf Mutes. — The Rev. Mr. Gal
laudet, son of the late Mr. Gallaudet, of Hartford,
Ci has commenced a Sunday service in the Uni
versity Chapel, New York, for deaf mules. H s
congregation now number ab<>ut sixty 5 and it is
therp are not less than one hundred ed
ucated mutes in the city. The plan is. to build a
house, and organize a church of this interes ing
alass of people. Trinity church has appropriated
c handsome sum for the first yeaP- experiment.
We were gratified to notice last evening the
arrival in this city, of the Hon. Matthew Hall
McAllister, in good health. Mr. McAllister
has been absent from this city for nearly three
years, during which period he lis resided at
San Francisco, California. We learn that he
will remain in Savannah for a few days, and
then proceed to Washington City.— Sau. News
Feb. 17th.