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J)ocinj. Prayer lor !ie Million. God of the mountain, God of the storm, God of the flowers, G*<d of the woim! Hear us and bless us, Forgive us, redic-s us ; B:eathe on our spirits thy love and thy healing ; Teach u-content with thy fatherly dealing; I'each us to love Thee, To love one another, h;other his brother, And make us all fiee— Free fiom the shackles of ancient tradition, And show us ‘tis manly, ’ti- Godlike to labor. God of the darkness, God of the sun, God of the beautiful. God of each •tie— Clothe us and feed ns, Illumine us aid lead us ! Show us that avatice holds us in thrawl That the land is all Thine and Thou givest to all. Scatter our blindness, }l*-lp tir- to do right all the day and the night— To love mercy and kindness; Aid to cot qi cr mistal e- of tl e i art: Show us our futuie m cheer us aid aim us. The upper, the better, the mansions Thou i ast; And God of the grave, that thegiave cannot barm us. iiiisaUtutroits. 1 w-hum ai W uUrivg l'hscrs — A corresjinn (iei.t, in sj enkiiijr o! the Indies at Snrjitoon. sm\s tltev “wear tlu-ir shouiders bale so the lower edge of detMuiiin.” Ue do not pretend to know where th e lou est edge of decorum is. hut in cur travels, we once saw a lady parading the sheets, with the whole surface of ti.e deem uni exposed. e happened to he vny mucli subjected to she cold shoulder, where we were,and itailed this as a warm bosom, amid the chiiiii g circuriisfatices which surround ed us. Wt* are very fond of a fine, well mould ed. white shoulder, hut do not like to look at it, in common. Dr. Johnson used, in the time of Garrick's management of Drury Line ‘Theatre, to fsequent the Green room. Boswell says, he at last denied himself that amusement from mo ti\es of rigid viitue, saying, “I'ii come no more behind your scenes, David ; for the silk stockings anil white bosoms of your actresses ex< ite mv amorous propensities ‘’ Now the same resuit might he produced in the street; and while we do not say we would quit walking the streets on that account, yet it had better he behind the scenes. By the way, might not a compromise between the two points of decorum, ancle and bosom, be effected ? Would not the idea of bo sorris be sufficiently raised in the mind hv ex hi- i biting ancles, and of legs, by showing bosoms, j without micoveiing both at the same time?—! \i* submit this question to those women who; practice both. One of the gratest errors of fe- | male dresses, in our opinion, is. that in propor- ! tion as they tall off the shoulders, they uncover | tin legs, ll this pioelivitv to ascend and de. i sceud toward a common center continues, it j might he difficult to deteimine wheieabouts i modesty would fix her castle. Break down her outer defences, tear away her draw bridges, i and the approach of an enemy upon the last covered hatferv, as Uncle Toby says, is a work ol little difficulty.— Will’s Yalley l 3 ost. Contributions for A Lib He . —The Masons and the Odd Fellows of this city have contributed $l5O to the sufferers of Mobile, as follows: Montgomery Chapter, $200; Montgomery Lodgo, $S0); Andrew'Jackson L dge, SSO; 1.0 Odd Fellows 9105. ‘Total $l5O. Mont gomery Advertiser. 1 (KT The H on. Clias. Gayar re is announced in smii'i ol the New’ Orleans papers as an itid"- peiideut candidate to represent in Congress, the First Congressional District of this State. lien. Bolt. — \ gentleman writing from Cali fornia to a Tennessee Editor sa\s: In a conversation with Benjamin Bolt of this city at “ 1 he Uni uT’ a few days since, he confi dentially informed me that lie had no recollec- i tion ot “ Alice,” although the daily enquiry was made hv thousands ot Vlisges, ‘*don t von remem ber. dee., &c.’’ He thinks that never in all his life did iie create an e notion in the bosom of any young lady, and is positive that no “Alice” ever “wept with delight'’ when he “gave her a sin le,” or tre nbl-*d with fear “at his frown.” H 4 was so earnest in his assertion that I'm in clined to believe him. ‘■fCT \ lazv fellow up North spells Tenn e8 * see JO A C ! OCT In one sin and! town in the VVest.it is said there was but one birth during the la t year.— ‘This may he called a case of solitary confine ment. Dr. Lees, an English lecturer on terc.pet ance m idea successful speech at the temper- j ance convention in Boston. When heliad fin j islied, a reporter perpetrated the following im- j promptu : In the Bible we’re told about “wine on the lets” But a difference is here, 1 opine ; For here, on a temperance platform, each sees A reverse—it is Lies upon wine. Ruin is like death—it levels ail distinc- j tion. A member of Congress, with a “brick in j his hat,” would as soon fraternize with a chim : ney sweep as a foreign envoy. Humility —The following beautiful lines on this cardinal virtue, are by the poet Montgom ery : The bird that soars on highest wing, B lilds on the g ou.idher iowiy nest; And she that doth mo t sweetly sing , Sings in the shade when ail things rert. In lark and nightingale, ve.-ee, What honor hath hnmi ity. Or His Excellency Governor M inning has appointed Thursday, the 13th of October next, as a day of fasting, hu..filiation ami prayer, ttironghout the State of South Carolina. ( ontraband Goods. —lri.-h linens and otliei g‘’- ia wiiich Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stow* * V ,u\ “ lw, . th h * r >?B-g from England, it fc house'nlk e ‘ l * ie -N®w York custom UoUbe officers as contraband. (Times a Tib Smlirtcl. cmusTGßo^ FRIDAY MOKNIKG, SEPT. 30,1853. FOR GOVERNOR: 11EKSC 11 EL V. JOHNSON, OF HALUWIN. FOR CONGRESS: Ist. DISTRICT JAMES L. SEWARD. lid. DISTRICT A. 11. OIAM ITT. Hid. DISTRICT DAVID J. HAILEY. I Vth. DISTRICT W. 11. W. DENT. Vth. DISTRICT E. W. CHASTAIN. Vlhh DISTRICT ’IIIOS. P. SAFI'OLD. VlUtil DISTRICT J. J. JONES. riLCCCIE CCtMY EC MI NATIONS. FOR SKN.VTK, JOSEPH STURGIS. FOR KK I*RKSKN TATIVKS, ALEXANDER Me DOUGALD, MARTIN J. CRAWFORD. The Great Issue of the Canvass. Was there ever such a political canvass an the one now closing in Georgia “ v think not. Th v great leader of tlu* opposition or Conservative party had endorsed President Pieroe as a sound, safe and patriotic man, though he voted agaimt him, not twehe i.■! tlis ago ; and had given his hearty approval of the p-ineipU-a contained in hia inaugural address, within the last six months. And yet ho has been able to rally s strong party in opposition to his administration upon the single ground, that he had appointed a few objectiona ble no nto office. Waiving the inconsistency of such a position, is it not melancholy t* see leading statesnu n making the spoils the mere offal, of Government, the great end and aim of party strife? Ask Robert Toombs and bis myrmidons what piiucipk* is involved in the canvass; aid they reply, ‘‘the spoils have been- given to unworthy men.’’ Ask them what imaso?.•* is rte ommended bv Mr. Pierce, which they conch mn, and they still answer, “the spoils!’’ Sound men. therefore, in tin ir estimation are nothing ; the spoil* are every thing. and b* cause they have not been distributed ec coiding to their notions of propriety, therefore, a sound administration, ar;d a sound party must bp driven fri m power, and a corrupt man. and a corrupt party must be put in their places. We say “n corrupt man and a cor rupt party must h pi in their places,” for every body who can see the- nose on a man’s face, must know- that if the Democratic Party is beat* n, the Whig Party and Whig leaders must take their places. There it no oth er national par’y in the United States, except the Dem ocratic Party. And the Whig party, stid the Whig leaders are by Mr. Toombs’ oft repeated confessions, and assertions, corrupt, mtnstworihy, or in the lan guage of his platfoim. “faithless.” We are not at all surprised, therefore, to hear the privates in the Conser vative ranks asreit, as we haveciten done recently, that there in no honesty in politicians, and that the spoils is sd they care for. Their leaders have abandoned all thtir principles, and the * uly issue they tender in the present canvass, i “the distribution of the spoils.” The following rebuke of such low, mean, and sordid vivvtH ©f the game of politics, is from the Richmond Examiner : ” W hen did Calhoun ever raise a clamor tor the South af ter the tea's of lhe Federal sow ? v\ hen did he ever threat en the dispensing powers with lhe raw-head aud bloody bones her indignation about office, or prediot tue distur bance ot her soveieign equanimity, and serene dignity from the granting or denying this or that piece of pitiful patron age ! Yet, when did he ever fail to improve a proper oc casion t< serve her efficiently and faithfully, if only the vretched que-ti>n ot patronage was not involved ! It be comes the South, more now than during hia eventful career, to contend as he di<l, tor principles only, aud to iet men manage their own quarrels. Federal patronage concerns only men, and it i- degradation—it is worse than madness, for th* South to look on at its dispensation w-ith morbid concern and hungry countenance, growling, fretting and swaggering for a .-.hare 31 r. Everett's Letter. We publish to-day the very able and interesting re- ’ pi, 4 < I lion. Ed ward Everett to Lord .John Itusaell’s ! Disp tch, upon the subject of the annexation of Cubs to the United States. It contains a luminous defence j • f the polioy of the Uuired States ; and a crushing r< - j p!y to English and French arrogance. Indeed, it in j another Ilulsemann bit, and will teach Europeans that j American wit is as sharp ami piercing as American 1 bayonets. [From the Boston Post of the 21 t inst.J LETTER FROM HON ED77ARD EVERETT, To Lord John Russell. The following letter, in reply to the dispatch of Loid John liussell, which appeared in the public paper* some weeks ago, has been handed to u- tor publication. To the .Right Honorab e Lord John Russell. Boston*, Sept. 17, 1853. My Lord :—Your di patch of the 16th of February last to Mr Cratnpton has lately appea.ed in our public papers. A it is m reality, if not in form, a reply to my fetter of the s:rt of December, 1852, on the subject of Cuba, I legret that it was not prepared and .-ent before my retirement from the department of State. But though I must now do it as a private individual, 1 feel a? ii ii were to some extent my duty to answer it. I shall endeavor to do so in a manuei consistent with my sincere le.-pect for your pub lic character, and a lively recollection of your personal kind ess during my residence in England. Before r ina*king on the contents of your ietter, I will observe that, thou n it contains some courteous axpressions, ita tone is. upon the whole, not quite as conciliatory a might have keen expected, considering that my letter of the first of December was altogether respectful and friendly to watd the two Powers, both in form and in substance. I have heard ihat in presenting this eorre-pondence t© Par liament you indulged in ‘home sarcastic remark*,” but I have n* t seen any report of them. Your dispatch is not free Irom a snade of sarc; Pin in one or two sentences. This 1 shall end avor to avoid in reply. n*>t that it would be dif ficult to follow you in:* that th-id, but because I do not think tliat an oucoumer of wits between us would he an edifying spectacle, or one which would produce any desira ble national object. You say, that in my letter of the first ot December 1 en'e •! imo “arguments not required by the sirnp e ratuie of rile que-tfen before me and the length of my ietter has beer complained of in other qu; rters. The question pro m unde I to us wa- certainly in one sense, “simple,” as eve y quectu nis that can be answered “ Yes” or “No.” But how various, complicated, and important the interests and ie ations involved in it ! Beside,-, the organ of every aover. mn t must be the only judire of the proper length and rekva.iey of his replies to the communications of foreign powers. The proposal to winch I was returning an answer, jui tly made by two of the leading powers of Euiope, re lated to me most important subject in the circle of our foreign relations*. I tho gbt that a few paragraphs were •veil etnploied, in ‘infolding the views ot the President on this su ’jeei; and the reasons why he declined entering into compact pun o tun to hi'd the three governments for ail cumii'g time to ac* r.ain line ot policy,in a case oi so much iuinnitan (*. i You wLI recollect that thu members of our executive gov eminent do not sit in Congress. Those expositions which ! are made in your parliament by Mini-ters,—in speeches J not nnfrequently of tw o and three, —and sometimes four and I five hours in length,—must be made in this country in a i PiericL mini Messsage, (rarely ail uded to bv your press with- | ! outnicer at its length,) or an Executive Report or Des j patch. My letter of the J-t of December would make a : speech of about an hour, which does not seem to me ini- j • moderate for such a subject. 11-wever, a little greater tui ! ness of statement at:d argument, in papers expected to con e | betdiethe public, is, it must be confessed, in harmony witii j i the character of our government, and is generally indulged j ; fc.. j You observe that “the absorption or annexation ot Lou- j i ishma in IBC3, of Florida iu lbl9, ot IVxas in 1815, and j 1 California in 1848, had not escaped the two powers ; still ! less did they r> quiie to be remit ded ol the events o', the seven years’ war or ot the American war. But tacts may be mentioned tor iliustsarion or argument, as well as into illa tion Most certainly the import; ut and notorious events j named by you,—leadu g incidents 1 the history ot the 1 niteo State.- and ol the world,—cannot be su, posed t-. have es eaptd the governments ot England and brat ce, who wee pa rtien to some of the mo.t imp** tant <-4 the t ai sa* tions i question. 1 tiau no tiiounhtot “remi* >onr g**veru ineut of the events ol the teveti vears’ war and ot th* ! A met lean revolution, as matters o hi toncal tact, ot whic! ; tliey were ipnoiant ; though l really doubt,and bea to sav it w : oltence, whether there aie many individuals it goveri nn nt ot eitiiei country po*sesseu ot an accuiatt j and ineci e knovvlt dge ot ihc facts hastily sketched by me ; That sketch, however, of li e tenitorial change- which. I have taken place on this continent during the la. t century, ■ wa- intended as an illustiation ot the pioj osition, that ou ! entire history slawr it ;<> he chimerical to am mpt in ri-te i pence to rpecific measuics. to Lind up, t<>r all tutuu* tin e j the disc.ction ot a goveinn ent e.-tal ii lied in a pan ot >h* ! world ot which so much is still lying ir* a state oi nature. ’ 1 had another motive. Tbe public opinion ot Chri-ten i don*. c*eat* and in a ko* and degiee by the I’re- s.has becovne an j element ol gieat aid increasing n f’.itncein tl e con-o* ct | internatioi al affairs. Now. it is very mi th the. habit yI & con-iderafle poition or tiu L.uicpeaii p css, to speak ot tise eteaoy and rapid exttnemi-of the ter.iloiy oi the United State as the uidicatioi of a giaspir g spirit on tne part ot tbei. eoveri met t and people. ‘I he subject Ss rarely atlnd ed to by one school ol tsans atiantic pubii* writer t, tor any other'pu i use. Thus the put-lie mind ot the cFihzed world ! is poisoi ed against us. ‘J heie is iot or ly niamtesltd. on ; ;} !e p ar t ot these writers, an entire insensibility to tne oeau i ty ad prandet rot tire w o.k that is giniig on,—more bene i freer t it possible to Euioje than to us, in the r* lief it is ai fording hr. —bi twe are act* ally held ip at fnies as a na ; tion oi land pirates. It was partly mv objict to counter* ■ act this disposition ; to show that our growth had iitn a i jiatuial growth ; that oui most in portant r ecessionsiotterri tory had taken place by gnat national ti am action?, to ! which England, Trane aid F} ain bad I tin parties, and in other cases i y the operation of cau-es which necessarily j inflm nee the occuj ation aid sett!* rneni ot a rew tout try, in strict confoin ity wiiii the laws ot nations and notin vio lation of them. rT ‘ , , You say that “it occurs to Her Majesty’s government to I for what purpose are these argimerits introduced with so nui h pripaiation aid uig* and wi*h s*. nun-h ability, and i you answer the question m iho following mai ner: “it would hop ear tliat the purpose, not fully avowed hit hardly con - J crated, is to piocuie the admission oi a doctrine, that the ■ United Stale- have an inteiest in Cuba, to which Great Bri i tain snd Fiance cannot pretend.” Heie a little ui.-intmtioi ai ii justice i? done to my letter, which it is distinctly stated more than or ce, tor reasons set j forth at length and very partially controverted by you, that the goven aicnt of the United States confideiing tne cor di tiots oi Cuba, “as mainly an American question,” in which I they bad a very deep inteiest and you a very l niited one. j Not only was no atti mpt whatever made to conceal t’nia doctrine, but it wa** fully av< wed and leasoni and out in my ! letter of the first December, 1852. | To meet ore of the chief grounds on which the United | States rest this claim, that of geographical proximity, after some local allusions oi w hich I do not perceive the exact bearing you observe in efitcttbal Cuba is nearer to Jamai ca than it is to the nearest part of the United States, and you consider this as showing that we cannot have a great ! er interest in the island than you have. Now if Jarriarcii ; bore the same relation to Great Britain, w hich our States S on and near the Gulf of Mexico hear to the rest of the ; American Union, your reply to my argument would be good. But the di'ect reverse is the case. Jamaica is a distant col j ony. whose entire population, <of which no rnoie than one ; tenth is .t European origin,'t does not exceed that of an | English city of the second class. It is-, as I perceive from your speech oftha 4th of August, a burden on the imperial treasury. It must, iri i'.s p-re-em state,: land high in the iist of the colonies, which, :s-appears by Lord Grey’s recent work on the colonial policy of your adminirtration, are ro gardedbymoie than one active and influential party in England, as incumbrances of which she ought to get rid, if fhei aukt do so with credit. How different in al respects I the case with the Elates lying on the gulf of Mexico! In j extent of sea coast, in amount of valuable products furnish j ed lo the world’s commerce, in the command of rivers which | penetrate the heart of the continent, they are a most impor ; taiit as they are an integral portion ol the Union. ‘J bey j are numerically all but a sixth part of it. The very illus tration made use of by you strikingly confirms inrtead of i confuting the doctrine tliat the‘Vo. dition ot Cuba is inairi i ly an American question.” This proposition could be enforced by other strong argu | merits besidts those adduced in my letter < f December the j Ist; but as tho-e arguments, with ‘he except.on jurt com | rnented upon, have not been met by you, J. deem it nnutc ! cssary to enlarge upon the topic. ; But though the United States certainly consider that they have “an interest in t'u<- condition of Cuba, to which Great Britain aud Fiance cannot p etend,” it is not, either in my letter, nor in any other American State paper within my recollection,assumed that Great Britain and France have “no interest in rhe maintenance of present statu quo, and that the United States alone have a light to a voice in the matter.” Ot r doctrine i ,n* t rhal we have an absolutely *-xeiu ive interest iri the subject, Cut mat we have a far | deeper and more immediate interest than Fiance or Eng j land can possibly lay claim 10. A glance at the map one would think would satisfy every impartial mind ot this j truth. j In order to ertabiish for France and England an equal j inter? ? wth the United States in the condition oi Cuba, ■ 44 ay :—“Great Britain is in posses ion by treaty of the ; i-land oi Trinidad, which in the last century was a colony I oi Spain. Fiance was in possession at the commencement ; of this century of Louisiana by voluntery cession of,spain.” | It is true that Spain was compelled by France to cede Trini j dad to Great B itan by lhe tieaty of Amiens. If while this ! cession was in agitation—as it was tor some time—the United j States and any other neutiai power (if there was any j other) had excited themselves to defeat it, and had invited ! you and France to bird yourselves by a perpetual compact : never to acqui e it, the interference, l apprehend, won'd have been regarded as *orsa ’than gratuitous. 1 cannot sec why we have not as good a light to obtain, if we can, from Spain, the voluutaiy cession ot Cuba, as you had to accept the compulsory cession of Trinidad, wh eh is by position and strength the Cuba o! the southeastern Antilles. France was, as you say, at the negiuning of this century, in possession of Louisiana, by the voluntary ce-sion of Spain, j This posses ion however, (nominal at be. t) and and not take place till seven months after France had sold Louisiana to i the United States for eighty millions of francs, and it lasted 1 only from the 30th of November to the 20th of December i 180:-l. The oijeet of France in acquiring Loui iana, was | to re-establish her elfin the interior oi this country ; an ob i j ct 1 need not say as menacing to your North American j possessions as to the United States. Is it possible you can think such a possession of Louisiana for such a purpose ai sufficient ground on the part of T rance for interfering with i i oar relations with Cuba ? May .-he, a European power,’ j without consulting us obtain ij orn Spain in 1800, a cession of half the habitubl portion of Norm America, —a cession | which threw ner for fifteen hundred miles on our western i ; frontier, and r.or only shut us out iron: the Pacific, but en abled her to close the Mi-si sippi, and i< it so veiy unreason i able m us to decline her invitation to bind ourselves ibr all I j time not to aeept the cession of an i land which lies within i thirty-five leagues of our coast ? Do**s she even derive her ! right thus ,o c ntrol our relations with Luba in 1853 from | | her twenty days’ possession of Louisiana in 1803 ? VVhat : can be cicarei than that, whatever right acciued to her from that three weeks’ posiersion, (w hich was a mere cereino inal affair to give firm to th u transfer ot .he province to the United State?,) must have passed to us by that tranter, fol lowed by our actual possession and occupation for half a century. \ You observe that “Lord Malmesbury and M. Turgot put forward a? a reason lor entering into the proposed com pact, the attacks which fad been made on the island of Luba by lawless bands of adventurers from the United States, anG with the avowed design oi taking possession of taat Hand,” and to this leason, —you add, —“Mr. Everitt replies in the-e terms: Ihe P.esident is convinced that lilt conclusion ot such a treaty, instead ot putting a stop to these lawless proceedings, would give anew and powerful impulse to them,” and tm- argument you call “not only un foum -d but di. quieting.” Af.er acknowledging rather coldly I think, the conduct ot t- r *e late President in disavowing and discouraging the lawless enterprises referred to, you reproachfully pronounce my remaru jurt cried “a melancholy avowal tor the chief ot a tree State and you seem to i .timatc, without expre. s iy saying so, that it implies, on the pa; t of the Peooie of the United States, an insensibility “to the value ot the eterna, jaws ot wright and wrong, ot peace and friendship, and oi duty to our neighbor, which ought to guide every (Jh.ri tiai Nation.” You also take occasion, in reference to the same remark, to impress upon the people of tr; United Slate.- “the utility of those rule* for the observance o‘ internation ai lelations, which for centuries have been known to Eu rope by ‘.he name of the law of nations. Among the” Corn -1 meMitors on that law, vyou continue) some of the most distincuished American citizens Slave earnedi an envtabj. ! reparation, and n i. difficult to mitpoM the >■ would set the example ol abiogaling its most- ■ “ P j 1 suppose no one in Europe or America will intended force of this rebuke mitigated, oy-the. and P bmahc ; reservation contained in the last two lines. Le j enquire for a moment it it is well deserved. , | expeditions to which i ou allude as calculated to ex- , c re the “reprobation of every civilized state, _ were disco n tennaced bv the President in every Coietmitioiia;and leg. way The utmost viiiilauce was at all times employe , i but unhappily for the adventurers themselves, without ejj In tins there is matter neither tor wonder nor rt proauu. j The territory of the United States is but little less than toe ; whole of Europe ; while their population is not ; to that ol the United Kingdom, and their standing military force small, and scatteied ovei an immensely extensive non- • tier Our government, like that ol England, is one o law . i Hn d theie is a great similarity between the laws ol me rt*o countries which prohibit military expeditions against the) possessions of friendly powers. In tact your foreign en listment act of 1819 was admitted by Mr. Canning to have j b. en founded, in part, on our >.n utrality law ol the preced- i in vear Os the two, 1 believe our law# are the more i ijent;. but it is somewhat difficult 10 enforce them in both countries. These expenditures got up in the United -Mates ny a•. pa..- i h general, and supposed to indicate a lawless disposition ~j the American jeople, comprised a very small number ol j persons, some of whom weie foreigners, enjoying the same freedom ol action in the United States, that refugees from every part of the continent enjoy in Englai and. Ihe same repr ach which is cast upon us for these expeditions is at thir- moment cart upon England t>y the Continental powers. Events which have occurred in Loud on .since your despa ton was written, st’ikii gly illustrate the difficulty and the usk under constitutional governments ot preventing anuses ot that hospitality, which it is the privilege and boot ot sue.i governments to extend to all who seek it. ; ~ There is no doubt widely prevalent m this country a teei ! ii g that tl e people ot Cuba aiejustly disaffected to the gov* ■ c i,merit ot B'pain. A recent impartial French traveller I >l. Anuieie, confirms this impression. All the o and nary I political right enjoved in lice countries, are denied to the ! people of that i land*. The government is, in principle, t e won t lomi of despoti.m, viz: abfoiute authority delegated to a military vicerov, and supported hy an atmy from abroad I ‘speak of the nature ot the government, and not o’ tin- individuals by whom it is administered, for 1 have formed a very favorable opinion ol the personal character of tbs present Captain General, as ot one or two ot his pre decestois. Os the Sad faith aid the utter disiegaid ot tiea ties will) which this bad goveri rrent is administiled, your committees on the slave tiade have spoken plainly enough at the late session of Parliament, Such beii g the state of thi* gn in Cuba, ii does no! a; pear to mo v*iy extiaoidiim* ty or reproachful, that throughout the Unihd States, a handful of misguided young men should be lot nd, ready to join a paity ot loieigntrs. leaded by a hpnni h Geueial, who was aid* ! s ersuade them, not as you viewil. “bv • aina and invasion to excite the obedient to revolt, arid tne tran* ; quii to disturbance,” hut, as they were led to believe, to aid j an oppiesfcd people in their struggles for freedom. There i ia no reason to doubt, that there aie, at this moment, asrna j ~y {.essons, foreigners, as well as natives, in England, who entertain these feelings and opinions as in the United States; snd ilGieat Blitairi lay at a distance of one bundled and ten miles liom Cuba, instead of thirty-five hundred, you might not, with all your repressive force, find it easy to preyewt a small steamer i isguiesd as a Hading vessel, liom slipping of!’ lrom an outpoit in the night, on an unlawful enterprise. Ihe expedition of General Torijos in as far a> ilie ! gality is concoti ed,is the parallel of that ol General Lopez. | It was fitted out in the Thames. without interruption till I the latt moment, and though it then fell under the grasp of ! the police, its members succeeded in escaping to Spain, I where for some t,n e they found shelter at Gibraltar. Ilia | declared in the last number of the Quarteiy Review to be i “notoriou-, that associations have been foimed at London . for the subversion of dynasties with which England is at I peace ; that armehavebeen purchased and loans proposed ; i that “Central Committees’ issue oiders fitm England, and that ‘Messrs. Mazzini and Kossuth have established and j preside over boards ol regency for the Roman States and Hungary, aid for the promotion of revolution in every pa it i of the world.” I have before rne a list,purporting to beta ! ken from a Prussian policy Gazette, of fifteen assoc iations i of Continental refugeesorpmized in London and now Ln ac i tion for the above mentioned purposes. When these things are considered, the fact that in the { course i. f four or five yeais two inconsiderable and abortive J efforts have been made from the United States, though i di eply to be lamented and sternly to be condemned us & vi olation ot municipal m and imSfcuational Jaw, does not appear to me so “shocking” as it be thought by you. It does not, in my judgment, furimn any ground lor the re- I proaches which it has diaw-n upon the government arid peo ; pie ot the Unfit and States. Nor does the lemark in niv letter of the first of December, that a disposition to engage in such enterprises would b increased rather than di minished by our accession to the proposed conven tion, strike me as “a me areholy avowal,” a? you pronounce it,on the part of the President. You forget the j class liom which such adventuiers are in ail com tries en- I listed—-the young, the leckiese, the misinformed. What other effect could be expected to beproduced on this part of the population, by befog told that their own government, in di.'iegaid of the most obvious public interests, as well as of the most cherished historical traditions, had entered into e compact with two foreign powers to guarantee th* perpe tuity of the system under which Cuba now suffers l Does not Lord Howden, the English Minister at Madrid, make a | very similar avowal in his Setter of the 8. th o t May last, addressed to the Spanish minister of foreign affairs, when he says, “I cannot conclude without expieaging my deep re gret, that the course of Spain ia such as to produce a gen eral alienation in the opinion of the English public, out of which will n o t infallibly result a state of feeling which no government can control or oppose. ’’ The idea that a convention like that proposed was a measure naturally c alled lor, in consequence o! the:* law less expenditmes, t eems to rest upon an entire misconcep tion ol the present slate ot th* law in the United States, and ot our treaty relations with ISpain Our treaties with that government and the laws of trie United States forbid all ] such enterprises. The tripartite convention would have 1 added nothing to their unlawfulness. If we had L-een d* siious oi multiplying objrctions, we might well have com- j plan ed, that tiie acts ot a very small number of rash young j men, citizens and foreigners, should L® put foiwaid by two of the leading powers ot Europe, as the main reason why we should be expected to enter into a strange compact with those power.-, binding ourselves never to make a lawful and honorable acqui.-ition ol Cuba. There is no logical con nection be ween the ideas, and there is something border ing upon the offensive in their association. Consider too the recent antecedents of the powers that invite us to disable ourselves to the end of time from the ! acquisition in any way of this natural appendage to our j Continent. France within the pre ent century, to say noth i i. g of the acquisition ol Louisiana, has wre-ted a moiety j oi Europe isoin its Sovereigns: has possessed herself by forced arms,and at the time gieatly to the discontent of i England, and six hundted miles ot the northern coast of Af- ; r ca, with an indefinite extension into trie interior; and has j anpiopriated to herself one oi the most important insular j y,roupes ot the Pacific England, not to mention her other < numerous recent acquisitions in every part of the globe, has. • even since your db patch of the 16th of February was writ- j ten, annexed hall oi the Butman empire to her overgrown i Indian possessions, on giouuds—if the statements in Mr. i Cohden’s panq h et. re to be relied upon—compared with ! which the ie-cns assigned by Russia for invading Tuikey ’ are ic-pee table. The United Slates do not require to be advised of “the > utility of those rulen for the oosei vance of international re ! lutiona, wh ch lor centuries have been known to Europe, by j the name ol th* law oi nations.” 1 hey are known and I obeyed by us under the same venerable name Certain eir- I cuinstaticeß in our history have caused ‘hern to be. studied > more generally and more anxiously here than in Emope. ! hrotn ihs breaking out of the wars of the French revoiu \ fion to the year 1812, the United States knew the law of ! nations only as the victims ol its systematic violation ny * the gieat maritime powers of Europe. For these violations •n the part ol England prior to l?tM, indernn ificatiou was made unaer the seventh article oi Jav’s treaty. For simi lar injuries on the part oi Faance, we were compelled to i accept an iilusoiy set-off under the Convention of lßt>o. A • lew years only elapsed before anew warfare on our neutral ‘ right- was commenced by the two powers. One hundred I mi,lions, at least, ot American propeity were swept from tne seas,under the Britien oiuera in Council, and the Flench I Berlin and Milan decrees, i iieso orders and decrees were I at the time recip ocaLy declared to t> a contravention ol * me law oi nations by the two powers themselves, each i speaking ot the measures of the otner party, in 1831, alter ! the generation ot tne original sufferers had sunk under their i ruined to. tunes to the grave, France acknowledged her de- j creess to have been of that character, by a late and partial * meusti.e ol muemnitication. For our enormous losses un • uer the British orders in Council, we not ouiy never received liidemnincatinn, but the sacrifices and sufferings of war weie auded to those spoliations on our commerce ana invasion of our neutral rights, which led to its declaration. These or ders were at the time regarded by tne Lansdowues, the casings, ihe Broughams, and other enlightened statesmen i ot tae school io wn eh y*>u belong, as a violation of rfoht ! •nd just ce as well as ol sound policy; and within a very tew i years the distinguished Loiu Chief Justice, placed by vour- i oed at the head ot Uie tribunals ol Englai/d, has declared : mat the orders in council were greviousjy unjust to n<-u- I l f now .S entra 'ly allowed that then were eon- ! i rary t-j the law oj rations and our municwol Luin •” ! i 1 hat 1 call,my Cord, to boriow your “a rod ’ ancholy avowal” lor the chief ol the jurisprudence “ a i ffiv? !re V Acts ot its soveieign authority, counte-an- ‘’ ced by its parliament, ugidiy executed by itg fcts on every 1 < sea enforced in the courts of admiralty by a magistrate who-e learning and eloquence are among the modern glo ries of England, persisted in till the lawiul commerce of neutral and kindred nation, was annihilated, and pionoun- CB d by the highest legal authority ot the present day, con uary not merely to the iw ot nations, but your own mum- Under these circumstances, the government and the poo- Vie of the United States, who have never committed <> r sanctioned a violation of the law ot nations against any other power, may well think it outot place that they •h- u and be instiucted by an English Minister m “the utility ol tuo*- rules, which lor centuries have been known to Europe by the name ol the Law ol Nations . There a-e several other points in your some ot great public moment,which,ii i were still mo,hi o,i shomu discuss on this occasion. I have, however, dt'enied it pr per at v>res*ent, to confine myselt to such asset-nu-J nm f s,.. rv to vindicate my letter of the Ist ol December from your strictures, leaving the new aspects ot the case, winch your dispatch presents, especially in its opening and closing par agraphs, to those whose official duty it is to consider ! th You will not, I hope, mi-apprenerd the spirit in which this tetter is written. As an American citizen, 1 do not cov et the acquisition of Cuba, either peaceably or by toice of aims. When I cast mv thoughts back upon our brief hia torv as a nation, I certainly am not led to hn k. tnat the United States have reached ti e final 1 rmts ot their grow th 4 or what comes to very much the same thing, that represen tative goveri ment, religious equality, the tnal y jur>, tie freedom of the press, and the other great attributes of ou: Anvlo-Noimaii civilization aic never to gain a miner ex tension on this continent. I regard the enquiry ui der what political organization thie extension is to take place, as a vain attempt to penetrate the inscrutable n ysterns ot tn> lutuie It will, il we ar* wise, be ui der tne g’ idai ce ol our example ; 1 hope it will le in virtue ol the j eaceiul arts, by which well governed State? extend tfomseites ova runs.t tied or partially settUd continents. My voice was heaid at the first opportunity, in the Senate oi the Unittd states, m i lavot of developing the aln ost boundless resoi ices of tun ! terriloiy already in our possession, rather than kn P ; enlarge it h> aggressive wars. Still 1 cannot thii kit ua i onable,—haidlv resj ectlnl,— on the p>iirt ol Ingiaid anc i France, while they aie daily exterdii g tlnnnelves onereiy | shore and in every sea. and pushing then dominions, I y t ew ; conquests, to the uttermost ends ol the eaith, to call upon i the United States tobii and then selves! y a pt-ipemal e< n jact ! r,< ver, in der any ciicm stances, to a< mit into tl e l moi an \ ieland which lies at their doors, andiemmandsthe eutn.Lce i into the interior ol their contii ei*t. j lit main , niv loid, with the highest respect, faithfully yc um, EL WARD BVFFFTT. Cffixst 3nifUiofiia. | TELEGRAPHIC. ARRIVAL OF THE WASHINGTON. Four Day- Later from Europe. Charlebton, Sept. 29. | The steamer Washington has arrived bringing news jto the 14 th from Liverpool. Fifteen thousand bales of j cotton have been sold in the la?t four days. Prices ’ ate infavour of buyer®. Russia refuses all modification | of the Vienna note, and war is coi sidered inevituble. Utter frost Mexie*. Nsw Orleans, Sept. 26, Thr steamer Texas arrived at New Orleans on Sim j day night, bringing advices from Vera Cruz to the 22d, 1 and City of Mexico to ths 19th inst. She filings no ] intelligence from California later than the J6ih u t. j General Tornei, MinieU-r of Wav, died at Taenbaya on I the 15th inst., of apoplexy. His successor had not been I appointed. General Manuel Michel ‘jWrrena, alsa died on the 7th | iDt., in the city of Mexico. Jpf j Florida EUctione. — A Chief JilCiee and two A.| j oiate Justices of the Supreme Judges of the (Jk-- j cult Courts, Solicitors arwFCounty officers, aro to be oho i *-n as the election in Florida, which is to take place on I Monday, the third day of October next. ** * Fire in Seima. — Cahaha. Sept. 54. A fire occurred jin Selma last night. The Selma Hotel and Mr. VogeLirf i store were consumed. | Second Despatch. — Cahaba, St pi. 24.—Further ac*- ! counts from Selma state that the whole squate on which j the fire originated was consumed, except Mr. Vogeliu’s I dwelling and blacksmith shop. s HedifUatita if tk Tariff. | The following circular has been addressed by the Secret*- j ry of ihe Treasury, to a numbtr ol pi< m'm nt New A oik merchant*, which indicates that he intends to recom mend to Congress some alteration of the present Ts.riff: Trkasuhv Deeartment, Stpt. 20, 1853 Sir : The increasing revenue and accumulating amount of n * -ey in the Treasury, render it most probable tl at the tariff will be made a prominent subject ot discussion ■nd examination, with a view to rduction, during ihe ap proaching session of Congress. In the mt airtime, and at as early a day a® may be, I am desirous to obtain from the mo-t reliable sources, the best information of the j working of the present rates of duty upon the L ading { branches of industry of the country, and of the effect to j be expected from the proposed modifications. ! Understanding that you take an interest in this sub* | ject, and have given some attention to it. and perhaps have been in situations to place within your reach v< in valuable information,you will much oblige me by cemrriu® nicating to this department your views then on", and by furnishing Lsts of articles now subject to duty \vhi< li according to such views, should be duty free, and’ of such other art clea on which the present duty should e n duet and. The txiMing tariff having been designed generally and substantially for revenue and for a lair and equal op. ra tion both or between the various sections of ih*e coun rv and the various branches ot industry, the same obj.cts should undoubtedly be kept in view • and the reductions il any shall be made, should be so arranged as to afford an equal participation in the benefit to every interest and to every section. Articles which enter into our manufai - lures and those which do not come into enmpetit on \G,h American product* are those about which there will doubtless be the leaf-! question. B. side:, these objects in the proposed reduction of the tariff oi such an arrangement as will afford proportional lem-fii sr.o relief to every port on and interest of the country t “e is another which pught by no nuans to be < . I nuMn, to nbridge tiit* labors of th 6 oust* ni housee. 1 his subject will be consulted bv adding to the tree 1 st artiehs of gemrai cx-nsurrption, and aitich * rav. mg little duty, which but for this consideration niWht properly be made subjects of revenue. I am very respectfully, Jame* Guthrie Secretary of the Treasury. Office Board of Health, Mobile, Sept. 25. \ t Re i K>lt ,. of in fity of Mobile for the 24 hours ending 6 o’clock P. M. this day : - - ■ Os yellow fever O.’ other diseases ? Total ~ Hard Shell Ratification Meeting Baltimore, Sept. 27. v A J re,a ’ Hard Shell ratification meeting was held in New Tors on Monday night, at which speeches were made by Senator Dickinson and othe-s ,ho pnMm con. lor “"T 8 “ d Al ‘“ rl,e >- 6. l O’Coiiaor f rolt , t ., eir respeetive othee*. ,r Later from TexM-The Yellow Fever. r> ... t . BVt ORLBAN8 t Sept. 98. Hti arrival at JJew Orleans noi ir ,* 1 3 t v. CV-.J . . . Galveston dates to . * od U ' c uten ’•‘■O' l "' l - The yellow fever l.nuee onabated atGalveetoa, and deat!lli „ <lay. the victims are Mnin* c. j j . T> e rc aviajor Sanderson and Prof„ B or Rater. Ihe former was robbed i, i. .„ppa* ed ...lie dying. Three p.reoaa have been arr.eted charged the robbery.