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Constitutionalist and Republic. UV JAMES GARDNER, JR. [From the Baltimore Sun.) ■ ao3l Report of the Secretary of the Nary. Kr a r.nuai report of the Hon. Wm.A. Gra- R, Secretary of the Navy, occupies nearly five ‘ ot - the Republic, and gives an interesting R 1 bit of the condition of the public service un- Rbis supervision. Write report commences by noting the move ■ ‘ ot JJur several naval squadrons during the 81-l-compliment* Cora. Platt, of the Albany, Rthe eiuigy he displayed at Havana, during K, aie invasion of Cuba—refers to the trip of R Mississippi to the coast of Turkey, to take Bboard Gen. Kossuth, and her return to the U. B..p—,ind announces that the Independence, rC'oiilv U- s. vessel in the Mediterranean, has H! ordered home, being unsuited for winter Brsin'’ > n that sea. Bp-e'Vriean squadron, under Com. Lavalette. B been assiduously and successfully engaged, Bv,l hv the English squadron, in suppressing B s >„ t , trade, but as Brazil has abolished the Eve'trade among her subjects, it is proposed to ■ ~r n, (i re at Britain of our determination to Bithdraw our squadron altogether from the Afri- Bn coa«t and increase it on the coast of Brazil, Btving the Horae Squadron to guard the use of ? ,i a 7, lcir the slave trade with the Spanish West Such an arrangement, it is believed, Ln, ld more certainly conduce to the suppression P t)i( , s [ ave trade, aiid at the same time promote (l e health of the otticersand crews of our vessels. E The Bainbridge, of the Brazil squadron, has L. aa ordered to relieve the Perry on the African „*. the latter being oidered home, r -fi.g [jrazil squadron is under the command of If unniodjre McKeever, and its efficiency is duly fcaiineii'led, asare also the Mediterranean squad l ’ Coin! Morgan; the Home squadron. Com. Kirker, V\acitio squadron. Com. McCauley; and •C East India squadron Com. Aulick. who is on fins way out in the Susquehanna. The Marion t.il! be relieved on the arrival out of the Susque li anna a! ,d Plymouth, and return home by the Lay of the Cape of Good Hope, bringing, it is ir x liected, valuable varieties of the seed or root ol t ,, sl ,„ ar ’ cane, and also of the teaplant, collected tinder the orders of the Department for distribu tion j„ the sections of our country adapted to their Cultivation. In all quarters of the giobe our vessels have b ell cordially received, and the officers well treated. The interests of commerce, internation al i.eace and friendship are. it is believed, prompt ed bv the v isits of our armed vessels, and the dis play of our Hag on foreign shores. It is recommended that the officers and men of [the late Grinned expedition be allowed the same |j )lV ami emoluments that were granted to those flu like positions in the late exploring expedition ko the South Seas. Mr. Grinned has offered bis [v essels again, should Congress see fit to authorise t second expedition in search of Sir John Frank Hie brig Dolphin, Lieut. Lee, has been des patched to test new routes on the ocean, pointed oat by the superintendent of the observatory, and liivorable results are anticipated. During the pear, ninety officers have been employed on the roast survey, the supervision of which it is re ronun. t'ded should be referred to the Navy De partment. The coast of the large stone dock at Brooklyn, bas been $'>,144,335 3«. It was so far complet hl in August as to be delivered tp the comuian lant of the yard. The floating sectional dock lasin and railway at Philadelphia, is reported cady (or delivery, and the one at Porsmouth, N. L, nearly ready. The balance dock, at Peiisa- K,la, will not be ready before the ensuing sum nei. The floating sectional dock on San Fran co Day has been contracted for at SOIO,OOO, md will be competed in two years from May Ist. It* location cannot be determined until the life for a navy ytrd is selected. The dock, it is digested, when not in use for the repair of naval relsels, may be used by merchant vessels. Alie nate appropriations are urged for the San Fran lisco navy yard. Messrs Wells k Gowan, of Boston, have con racted to remove the wreck of the steamer Mis ouri froWi the Bay of Gibraltar, lor the sum of 159.000, and are now performing the duty, with to doubt of success. , The report next discusses the propriety oi the nadua! increase of our navy, and the necessity if availing ourselves of all the improvements and liscoveries of the age in gunnery, ordnance, na tal architecture, and all the appliances of steam, fts an instance of the improvement of the age, t is stated that the boilers of the Mississippi, planned fifteen years ago, can now be reduced nearly one half in their dimensions and weight, md at the same time made to double the present power of the vessel with about the same quanti ;y of fuel now required. It is recommended that authority be given to wild, every year, two new vessels, one sail and he other steam, upon such models as shall be ap iroved; and as old vessels may be found unservi •eable, from fault of model or other cause, they nay he sold or broken up. The recommendation of the Chief of the Bu reau of Yards and Docks, that machinery be erected, in one or more otthe navy yards ot the country, for the building of steam engines, and construction of war steamers complete, is recom mended to the attention of Congress. \ class of small vessels is much wanted to ajve employment in command to senior lieuten ants. many of whom are kept in long and te d.ous inaction before their promotion to com- minders, and would be highly useful to cruisers. < especially those propelled by steam, by reason ol their ability to penetrate into harbors and rivers inaceesible to ships of larger class. The previous recommendation to reduce tne number of officers in the grades of captain, corn uander and lieutenant of the navy, is renewed, Abe same time that the number ol masters be increased to fifty, and the grade of second lieu tenant established. It is also urged again that the ranks of commodore and two tear admirals be legalized, to be conferred on surviving veterans who. more than a third of a century ago. illustrat ed our arms in conflicts on the ocean it woulu he a stimulant to others to emulate their exam ples. . ~ . 1 he establishment of a retired list is once more pressed upon the attention of Congress, as are also the disputed questions ol rank between the sea officers and civil officers of the navy, and be tween the several grades of officers of the army snd navy. The laws for the government of the navy, passed more than fifty years ago, have been re vised by a board of officers, and will be submit ted for the actioH of Congress. The great delect in the old laws is the failure to provide any pun ishment as a substitute for corporal chastise ment, which has lately bean abolished, to the detriment of the service. A remedy must be provided, or the consequences will become serious. .Nearly one hundred trials of enlisted men. by courts martial, have taken place since the passage of the law in question. This law cannot he el- Mtually tried until Congress shall prescribe some substitute. Whether this shall be by the adop tion of the system recommended by the board ol officers above referred to, providing that courts martial may be ordered by each officer in com mand of a ship, and summarily held to determine gu.'lt, and then graduating punishments as there in sifted, as well as holding out rewards, or by some other and more approved method, is reler red to the determination of Congress.^ The buildings at the Annapolis Naval School are in progress of erection, and the sloop-01-wai ftsbls has been attached to ths academy as a practice ship for instruction in practical seaman- J ship. An important change has been made in ■ the plan of education, so as to require a continued course of study of four years at the aca.lemy, ! without going to sea, except tiiat the vacation of three months in each year is spent in a cruise in ] the practice ship, the former course requiring two years at the academy, three at sea, and then two more at the academy. A class of fifty acting j midshipmen was admitted in October last, and 1 will constitutethe first class to which this new j system will apply. It is now believed that for all the purposes of naval education, the academy J affords advantages equal to those for military , education at West Point; and under the efficient 1 command of the present superintendent. Com-j mander Stribling, it is hoped that these advanta ges will be fully realized. The expediency of appointing ten midship men, to be made "at large,” is again urged. The Naval Observatory aiul Hydrographical Office have been in active operation during the year. A second volume of Astronomical Obser vations lias been published. The wind and cur- j rent charts planned by Lieutenant Maury, the l Superintendent of the Observatory, are being extended to the Pacific and Indian oceans. This J work has materially shortened the passage along the highways by which our commerce passes in to and through the southern hemisphere, bring- \ ing the ports of those distant parts ol the world— some ten days, and some several weeks nearer to us than before. A letter from the Superinten dent ol the Observatory states the important fact that vessels sailing from the Atlantic to the Pacific ports of the United States, with the in structions afforded hy» these charts, make the voyage in forty diys less, upon the average, than those sailing without them; and that there is rea son to hope the time may he still further re duced. The reports of St. Gillis, the Nautical Almanac of Lt. Davis, and the experiments of Professors Page and Espy, are referred to, as well as the success and condition ol our numerous mail ; steamers. The sum required lor the support of the Navy j and Marine corps for ftie year ending June 30, 18. 'ill. is estimated at .88,340.693 08, of which Si,OS.l,oao 89 is for special object*. The sum estimated for the Navy and Marine corps last year was $3,900,621, and for special objects $2,- j 210,980. There is an evetss therefore, in the present estimates of $ 173.210 89, which is occa sioned by the addition of pay tor increased ser- : vice to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, di- j rected by the act of the last session ot Congress, ■ tlie completion of the dry iioci< in Cahloruia, and some additions under the head ol improvements in navy yards, buildings and nuchi.n ry. The total expenditures ot the Department, during the year, have been $9044,397 U,ofi which $3,138, 817 91 was for special ol j 1 " l s. j The establishment ol a Bakery in New 3 ork, for the use of the Navy, is recommended as is also the repeal of the law prohibiting con nuta tion in money lor stopped rations. i The recommendation of the Chiei oft! ■ 8u- j reau of Medicine and Surgery for the inve nent in productive stocks of the navy hospital land, j and for retiring trom the list ol effective sin .eons all the officers of that corpswlioaiejici.il rent- ; ly unfitted for duty, and supplying their p'aces 'ey new appointments, a provision requi.ed in every grade of the service, are commend d to early action, and an appropriation asked to re build barracks at the various stations for the Marine corps. The Secretary closes his report, by recom mending the establishment of an additional Bu reau, to be termed the Bureau ot Orders and Discipline, to which shall he assigned the com munication of orders and instructions touching' naval service and discipline, a and the receipt and preservation or distributor! ot returns and reports pertaining to the same, in anology to the duties required of the Adjutant General s Office in the Department of War. Mr. Thrasher's Last Addross to his Coantiymon. In a Dungeon of the Punta Castle, I Havana, Aov. 21s/, 1831. J To the Government of the United States of Amer- j ica and to a a Felloui Countrymen: An Aineri- j can citizen, deprived of liberty and denied jus- ! tice, respectful: v begs leave to lay before you the ; following facts and appeal. Upon leaving the Steamer Georgia, oil tlie 16th ot October last, 1 ; was suddenly, and without previous accusation, j arrested, and taken to the office ot the police, j On searching my person, and that ot a gentleman who accomnanied me, no papers or letters ot any kind were found upon either ot us. We were then taken to the hotel, where I hoarded, ; acommpanied by the Chief of Police, who de- | manded to be shown my room. On ascertaining that I had no room there, we were taken to iny residence, and all my papers seized. Ihe gen tleman who accompanied me, was then put at liberty. Myself and all my books and papers were taken to the residence of one of the police commissaries, where four days were occupied by two go\ eminent interpreters in reading my letters. On the 21st October, I was thrown into a dungeon of the city prison, and all connnum- ■ cation of my fiiemis strictly prohibited. On the 25th, I was removed to my presen , dun ‘'eon. and the Fiscal of the Military Irihune made his appearance and began a judicial exam ination. On the 26th this was continued, and then I saw no one until the ‘lth instant, when the questioning was proceeded with; and on the 6th, I was again questioned,and tonally informed that I was accused of treason. At the same time I was required to select one from a list ol officers that was presented to me, who should . conduct my defence. Not knowing any of them, I chose one at random, supposing he would con sult with me and my legal advisers, as is usual in such cases, in regard to my defence. On the 7th instant, I was, for the first time, allowed to see my friends, and to consult with them as to the best course to pursue. I conferred with our Consui, and he passed several communications in my behalf to the government here, all ol which have been utterly disregarded, and not replied to. On the Uth, I was informed that 1 was to be brought up the next day for sentence. I immediately wrote to my nominal detender to come at once to consult with me, and to bring with him the proceedings which were in writ ing He replied, verbablly, that he would come in°the afternoon. He did not come, and I enter ed at once a protest against the proceedings, al- Wing that I had not been heard, and that neith er myself nor my legal advisers had been con sulted for a proper defence. I sent this to the President of the Military Commission that m„ht who refused to receive it. saying that it could only be admitted by the Coptain General. . The American Consul, -Mr. Owen, as soon as ■ informed of this, proceeded to the place and pro tested against sentence being pronounced,as I had : not been heard in defence. In the morning my ■ nominal defender came to my prison to mtorm . me that he had been allowed by the court only • twenty-four hours to prepare iny defence, : he had been occupied till that moment examin f ingthe proceedings, which were volut " l "T’ . and that within an hour he must reiurn them to . the Fiscal. On the 12th, 1 was taken before a i court martial, composed of a bngaoier g . and six officers of the army. The lest imony and v proceedings were read belore . was Drought in - court, which was contrary to la w and to and when brought in I w-as asked, what had to ,1 sav to the charges against me? I replied that L ir had not been furnished with a copy ol the char a 1 ges—that I had been denied access to the pro- AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1851. ceedings and testimony—that my nominal de fender had neither consulted with me nor with my counsel—and that 1 now asked that my pro test and petition for stay of proceedings should lie admitted. 1 was told by the President of the court that it should be considered. 1 was reman ded to my dungeon, and heard nothing more ol the proceedings until to-day, when 1 have been formally notified that I have been sentenced to eight years labor, in chains, at Ceuta, in Africa with payment of costs. It is unnecessary forme to enlarge upon the impropriety of bringing me before a court mar tial in a time of profound peace; on the injustice of sentencing me without a hearing; on the litter contempt of international law, civil rights, and treaty stipulations, in my trial, or upon the wil ful disregard, in the manner of proceeding, of the constitution and rules of the very court which has assumed a jurisdiction over me without right, has tried me without a crime, and sentenced me without defence. The government that has the power and tne wiil to commit these acts, is be yond the reach of reason, and my only resource is, to appeal to the physical power of our own government for that protection which its moral power has not been able to extend over me, ar.d to ask from my fellow countrymen such coun tenance as will encourage the executive in the manifestation of firmness, and carry some ap preciation of national rights and national duties to the hearts of the unscrupulous rulers of Cuba. 1 solemnly affirm that 1 have never had any connection with the parties who invaded this island, and that the only grounds for hatred to me, on the part of the government and Spanish portion ofthe population here, are, that I am an an American; that 1 refused to abjure my nation-' ality one year since, when required by this gov ernment to do so, or to abandon the business 1 was then engaged in; that I succored, so lar us I was able, those of my unfortunate countrymen who were captives here; and that, in the court, 1 had the independent spirit (they call it audaci ty) to rely upon my innocence and my rights as an American citizen. Having been denied jus tice, 1 now ask at the hands of the American Government, and the American people, that liberty of which lam so iniquitously deprived. All the horrors of the Spanish galleys are before me,and my only hopes are in the sympathies of my countrymen, and the prompt action of our nation! government. J. S. Thrasher. [Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun.) Further per Steamer Pacific. New York, Dec. 7. The steamer Pacific arrived at 10 o’clock to night, with 60 passengers, a fair freight, and three days later from Europe. On December 3d, at IP. M., in lat. 18 50, lon. II 46,she exchang ed signals with the steamer Cambria, bound east. Among the passengers of the Pacific is the Hon. Wm. C. Rives, Minister to France. Markets. —American descriptions ol cotton have advanced id. Sales of the three days, 21,000 hales, of which speculators and exporters took 5,000 bales. The London money market was easy; consols closed at 97 J for money, and 98 J on account; rail way shares were lower. England.—The steamer Pioneer sailed for N. York on Saturday. A serious collision had occurred on the North western Railway, by which many persons were injured. The cotton factory of Messrs. Dujaid, McPhail & Co., at Grcenhead, was destroyed by fire on the 20th. It employed 300 hands. Loss $20,000. The Sunderland Bank had suspended payment. France. —lntelligence from Paris announces that M. Casabianca had been appointed Minis ter of Commerce. Numerous arrests continued to be made. The Minister ofthe interior has declined be ing a candidate for the department of the Senate. The Bourse was unsettled, at a decline. Owing to the probability of further differen ces between the President and the Assembly, an article in the Constitutionelle, charging the heads of the party of order with a conspiracy against the President, had caused a great sensation. The Minister of the Interior had denied the existence of such a conspiracy. A bill had been proposed in the assembly for regulating the responsibility of the President and his Ministers. It is stated that there is a pros pect of Louis Napoleon again presenting the electoral hill recently defeated in the Assembly. Hanover. —A new Ministry, under the Presi dency of the Schaale, had been formed, which will pursue an entirely new course of policy. The new King had issued a proclamation pledg ing himself to the most sacred observance of the Constitution ot the country. Austria. —The state ot Hungary was most unsatisfatory, and the Government organs admit that it is much agitated. The system of expul sion was still carried on on a grand scale. Italy. —The Neajiolitan Government intends increasing the export duties on sulphur and oil. Turkey. —Constantinople accounts announce another ministerial crisis as at an end, and that Ali Pasha had been induced to resume his duties as foreign minister. Spain. —News from this country is unimpor- I tant. , • Two vessels had arrived at Cadiz with an other portion of the Lopez expedition on board. Prussia. —The renewal of the Commercial treaty between Prussia and Belgium had failed. The Prince of Prussia was to leave Berlin on the 23d, to take command of the army on the 1 Rhine. , Latest Intelligence, [by electric telegraph.] Paris , Wednesday, Nr.v. 26.—After post-hour on Wednesday, the Minister of the Interior said, in his reply to Mr. Creton, in an article of the Constitutionelle, “I will reply categorically.— Had we obtained proof of the existence ot such a conspiracy, you may be well assured that who ever were the men who participated in it, how ever high their rank, we would not have hesita ted to perform our duty/ 1 The Assembly then adjourned. London. Nov. 26.—Letters from Liverpool state the suspension of two firms connected with American trading—A ice, Pride & Jones, and Hamden & Co. The liabilities of the firms arc not mentioned, hut are supposed to be large. Those of the latter are supposed to amount to about £60.000 orXSO.OOO. Paris, Nov. 26.—Bourse s's closed at 91: 3s j 66 10: Exchange between England and America nominally 6 a7, leaving a small profit on the importation of gold for the United States, i Liverpool, Nov. 26. —The cotton market is ad vancin'!, and is ad higher since Friday. The Manchester market is active, with small stocks. Prices are higher. England. —The steamer City of Glasgow, from Philadelphia, arrived at Liverpool on the 23d, in 17 days. i The Europa made the passage out from Bos ton in 10 days and 3 hours. (From the N. O. Picayune, Uth insl.) Later from California, the Isthmus, and Havana. The steamship Philadelphia, Capt. W. H. . Brown, arrived here last night from Chagres and i Havana, with the California mails up to the Ist l of November. This is, however, only three days ) later than papers received from San Francisco • by the steamship Alabama a few days ago. j She brings 435 passengers, and about $50,000 l in gold dust on freight, besides a considerable ■- 1 amount in the hands of passengers. I Affairs upon the Isthmus remain in a quiet state. There is, however, a deep feeling exist ing, which a slight occasion would provoke into another collision between the whites and the foreign black population. The accounts of the late affray at Chagres, published in the papers throughout the United States, are greatly exaggerated, and but little re liance can be placed upon them. We have only space this morning for a brief summary of the news. The Southern Conven tion for the division ot the State of California, which met at Santa Barbara on the 20th of Octo ber, did not effect anything. Only a few coun ties were represented, and these were not by any means harmonious. They adopted a set ot reso lutions declaring their grievances, but disagreed about the boundary of the proposed territory, and adjourned without taking any action. The news from the mines is very lavorahle.— Gold is still found in great abundance. The San Francisco Morning Post ot the Ist inst. says that no serious disturbance exists among the Indians on the frontier. m The discovery of gold on Queen Charlottes Island, off the coast of British Oregon, in latitude 53, in considerable quantities, is announced in the late news from Oregon, in a shape we see no reason to question. The Post speaks of an expedition to the Sand wich Islands, which had excited much specula tion in San Francisco. It appears that two or three vessels had left with a considerable num ber of passengers. The steamship Tennessee arrived at Panama from San Francisco on the 16th ult., with $2,- 500,000 in gold. The contract for conveying the U. S. mails across the Isthmus was sold at Panama on the 13th ult. It was awarded to a Mr. Parades, who made the lowest hid—sll 75 per hundred pounds. We did not receive onr papers or letters from Havana last night, hut learn from passengers, who arrived in the Philadelphia, that Mr. Thrasher was to be sent to Spain in a day or two after they left. They speak ol a silly rumor which created considerable excitement in Ha vana. It was to the effect that 2,000 Ameri cans were ready to embark at Key West to in vade the Island. , m - | AUGUSTA, OA. THURSDAY MORNINO, DECEMBER 11. ' Mississippi Convention. We have been trying for some days, to make I room for the resolutions of the Mississippi Con- 1 vention, but legislative and other news, have so 1 crowded, and still crowds us, that we shall have | to give a brief synopsis of them. < The resolutions were reported by a committee ( of 13, and a minority rejiort accompanied that of the majority. • The majority report declares, that they will accept the compromise as a permanent settle- ; incut ot the slavery question, and will adhere to ' it, as long as it is adhered to by the North. 1 hat 1 they see nothing in the series of measures, that should disturb the friendly relations existing < between the general government and the people of Mississippi, that they will abide by the Union as it is, and the Constitution without amend ment. The sth resolution lays down a platform simi lar, in substance, if not in its very words, to that of the Georgia State Convention of last Decem ber. The majority declares that, to avoid agita tion, it was deemed unnecessary to submit the action of the Convention to the decision of the people for their approval or rejection- They also expressed the opinion, that the call of the Convention, by the Legislature,was unauthorized by the people, and an unwarranted assumption of power. A resolution was passed declaring ) that the agitation of the slavery question at the North was dangerous and might be attended with the most serious consequences. Such is the substance of all the resolutions adopted by the Convention, except the Ith, and one other, which was introduced to express the views of the Convention on Stale resistance. — VVe give the 4th as follows, and shall show the nature of the qualifications. Resolved further. 4th. That in the opinion of of this Con vention, the asserted rights of seces sion Irom the Union, on the part of the State, or States, is utterly unsanctioned by the Federal Constitution, which was framed to “establish” and not to destroy the Union of the States, and that no secession can in tact take place, without a subversion of the Union established, and which will not virtually amount in its effects and con sequences, to a civil revolution. This utterly denies the right of secession, a right which belongs to each State as one of the creators ol the government. We thought it was compatible with common sense even, that the creator is not weaker than the creature, and sub ject to its arbitrary will, and yet the majority of the Mississippi Convention holds such an ab surd and abject opinion. The Convention says in the sth resolution : “ Violations of the rights of the people of the State may occur which would amount to into lerable oppression, and would justify a resort to measures of resistance.” What kind of resistance ? Did not the Con vention know that aggressions might occur which would justify secession, and, yet, the ma jority held that the State had no such right, thus leaving her citizens subject to banishment, confis cations, chains and the halter, if unable to main tain, by force of arms, their withdrawal from a Union which oppressed and degraded them. Such was the platform of the majority of the i Convention, representing what is call in Mis sissippi, the Union party. The report of the minority of the committee was. of course, rejected. That represented the views of the Southern' Rights party. The minority held that “They deem it inexpedient, that the State of 1 | Mississippi should take any new position on the i subject ol slavery. They hold, that the rights j and wrongs of the Stale, have been fully set forth and expounded in the October Convention of IS4‘J. Tl at they are unwilling that any other or distinct State, should be permitted to make a position, or pledge the action of the sovereignty • of the State of Mississippi, touching the Union • or the slavery question ; as she has already de -1 veloped the piinciples upon which she can assert t the one, or vindicate the other.” ’ The minority declared that they acquiesced in the decision of the people of Mississippi, as ex- J pressed in the result of the September election, e and added: :t Yet. we feel bound to say. that we do not and cannot regard the election in September last, as an expression, by the people, in favor of the jus tice and wisdom of the whole series of these measures, but rather, as a reluctant assent to them, in preference to any course which might endan ger the Union of the States, or jeopardize the safety ol the South. A high regard for the truth of history, and a keen sense ol the rights ol the South, demand the assertion, that we consider the people as protesting against a portion ol the Compromise measures, and as being unwilling that those measures, shall ever Nereafter I-■ in voked as precedents of right against them •ne future legislation ofthe general government The minority emphatically maintained the right of State secession—the right of a State to withdraw from the Union, without being sub ject to the pains and penalties of rebels and trai* tors. Differing with the majority, they hold that the Convention was lawfully called, and asserted, that, unless such were the fact, they had no right to remain in session a single hour. We need enlarge no farther upo the views of the minority. We have shown enough to con vince those who are acquainted with the true doctrines of the ol and Republican parties, that the Union party, of Mississippi, :s with the former, and the Southern Rights or Democratic party, with the latter. State sover eignty—State secession will he the last stay and defence of the States of this Union, particu larly of the Southern States, in those dire ex tremities to which they may he reduced. Hence, it is depressing to see so large a party, in Missis sippi, offering up their State, almost as a smok ing sacrifice, to the insatiable demands of the monster of Consolidation. Our hope is. that the people, having been deceived, will yet arouse from such dreary impositions, and cast off such doctrines, as fraught with the destruction both of their rights and liberty. A friend has furnished us the following notice, of new publications, with the request that we will publish: Angklololy. —Remarks and rellections touch ing the agency and ministration of Holy Angen. By George Clayton. Henry Kernot, New York. A hook in which the author shows research, piety, and much earnestness of purpose, all tlircei perhaps, essential adjuncts to the completion ot any work designed to do better than merely please. We commend Angelology especially to our lady readers, and through them to the less easily moved portion of the human race. Caius Graf.chus —A Tragedy, by Louisa G- McCord, published by Henry Kernot, N. York. Tragedy may scarcely he supposed the fort of any lady. Yet the fair author of “ Caius Grae chus” has succeeded in producing a play of ster ling worth and interest. Os course the most moral people-folks, who won’t he seen in the dress circle of a Theatre, may read a Drama; and to all such, and to all general readers, we may recommend a perusal of this volume. A private despatch, from Savannah dated Dec. 10, 8.30, P. M., says: “ Sales to-day reach 2,400 hales. No advance.” Oregon papers contain further accounts of the discovery of gold, in large quantities, in Queen Charlotte’s Island. The gold is found on the surface of the ground near the beach, and is dug by the natives in great quantities, without any thing like a pick or shovel; having nothing hut such tools as they can make themselves, they manage to get from two to eight ounces per day to one hand. They are friendly to the whites, and are anxious to have them come and trade and dig with them. Queen Charlotte’s Island is in the North Pacific Ocean, and can be reached in about seven days’ sail from Oregon city. The prizes of the Lottery of gold ingots were drawn in Paris on the 16th ult., in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. A journey man hair dresser obtained the prize of 200,000 francs, and an engine driver on a rail way the first prize of 400,000 francs. Four persons were killed, and some twenty or thirty more or less injured, on the night of the Ith inst., in consequence ot a collision hav ing taken place on the Hudson River Railroad, near Peekskill between two passenger trains.— Several of the cars were much damaged. Another General gone. —We learn from N. Orleans Delta, that Gen. Belknap recently died on the Brazos in Texas. This is the tenth Gene- ‘ ral who has died since the Mexican war. Gen. Belknap was in the principal battles, under Get. Taylor, in the Mexican war. At the battle oi Buena Vista he was Adjutant-General, and com manded the advance. The Bank of the State of North Carolina ha s declared a Semi-annual Dividend of Five per cent —making an Annual Dividend of Ten and a quarter per cent, that this institution has declared for the year 1851. %jT At the election for Directors of the Au gusta Insurance & Banking Company, on Mon day last, the following gentlemen were elected) viz : Wm, M. D'Antignac, Haysßowdre, Lewis Cress, Lambeth Hopkins, James Hope. At a subsequent meeting of the Board, Wm. M. D’An tignac was re-elected President. An Error Corrected. —Before tho mooting of the Legislature, from all the information wo could then obtain, we bolieved there was a majority of de mocrats elected. But since the meeting of that body, from tho information obtained of tho members them selves, and from every other quarter, we are con vinced that thero is a majority of Whigs in both Houses. — Fed. Union, 9th iust. Municipal Election.— On Saturday las’,Dr. George D. Case was elected Mayor of this City, and the following gentlemen were elected Al dermen: Messrs. W. A. Harris, W. T. Wright, C. C. Carr, N. Hawkins, M. D. McComb and Peter Fair. — lb. Who has reen cheated. —We wish our friends throughout the State to remember that Mr. Toombs did not vote for the Democratic candidate for Speaker or Clerk of Congress, as it was promised he wo: Id do, when he was elec ted Senator. We wish them also to notice the important fact, that neither of the Union men from this State voted for the National Democra tic candidate for Speaker, whilst Mr. Jackson and Mr- Bailey the two Southern Rights Demo crats did vote for him. It can now be seen very plainly which is the real Democratic party in the State, and which acts with the National Demo cracy.—Federal Union. 9th imt. NEW SERIES —VOL. VI. NO. 147 [communicated.] Messrs. Editors: —As your oolumns have been used by an anonymous correspondent for the purpose of intimating, that those entrusted with the management of the Medical College, have been wanting in respect to the remains of him who contributed so much of his talent and en ergy to the foundation of the institution, it be comes proper that your readers be also put in possession of the facts on this subject. In the first place, then, your correspondent" errs in affirming, that “ it was at the urgent so licitations of the Medical Faculty, that his friends allowed his remains to be interred in the College Yard.” The Faculty were never, either collectively or individually, even consulted as to the propriety of such a step. It was done en tirely under the direction of the Mayor of the city, who was, doubtless, actuated by the lauda ble desire to do honor to the remains ol an illus trious fellow-citizen, who had just fallen a vic tim to the prevailing pestilence. In matters of taste, men are permitted’to differ, dnd, I doubt that many will now be found to concur witu the Honorable Mayor t as. to the a, propriatene? 3 of the precise spot selected.. Be this as it ma;, the grave being in front of the College edifice, the Faculty did, at one of their earliest meetings i after the sad event which left vacant the seat of one of their most respected colleagues, take into consideration, the course they should adopt, in order to do proper honor to the remains of their lamented brother. The propriety of erecting an elevated monument over the giave, was mature ly weighed, without any regard, whatever, to cost, and it was determined, as more in accord ance with good taste, as well as usage, to place near the Lecture stand, which had been so ably filled by the deceased, a nfcat tablet, upon which a suitable inscription should commemorate the leading traits of his character—and also to cover the grave with a massive slab, placed upon a firm foundation, and so near the earth as not to be liable to the dilapidation so commonly ob served in cemeteries, where they are more ele vated. The tablet, in the Lecture Room, is of the purest Italian marble, of exquisite finish, and bears the following inscription: In memory of MILTON ANTONY, M. D., Founder of this College, A martyr to humanity and to tho dutios of his profession, During the fatal Epidemic of 1839. Cheered by religious faith through the griefs and trials of this life, lie passed from tho cure of tho sick to tho sleep of tho just, Amid the tears and blessing f of tho poor. True to his own favorito maxim, That a virtuous will is almost omnipotent. Ho overcame by study tho defeats of education. And pationtly toiling to ominonco, bequeathed to postority, A noblo examplo of genius and industry, Animated and diroctod by patriotism and benovo lonco. Upon the marble slab which covers the grave, may be read the following epitaph: Mortnlc, Quidquid, llabuit, Hie, Doposuit, MILTON ANTONY, M. D., C'onditor, Collegii, Modiei, Georgiensis. Exogit, monumentum, A3ro, Perennius. Vixit, Annos, Quinquagiuta. Obiit, Dio, xix. Septcmbris, A. D. MDCCCXXXIX. Which may he translated thus: Hero repose the mortal remains of MILTON ANTONY, M. D., The foamier of the Modical College of Goorgia. He has erected a monument rnoro durable than brass, lie departed this lifo in the fiftieth year of his age, September 19, A. D., 1839. The Faculty consisted then, as it does now, of the personal friends of the deceased, and could scarcely be presumed less mindful of the respect due, in this case, to the dead, than other members of the community. They have done what they deemed most suitable, under the circumstances, and although their views of propriety and good taste may not accord with those of all other persons, they can cer tainly not be censurable for this. Mbdicvs. (Correspondence for the Baltimore Sun.) Thirty-Second Congress—First Session. Saturday, Dec. 6, 1851. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. After the reading of the Journals, several members attended, and were sworn in by the Speaker. The Treasurer's accounts were laid before the House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Evans, of Maryland, called the attention of the House, to the. report of the Coast Survey, and moved that it be laid on the t -ble and prin ted, to the extent of 10,000 copies—one-half for the use of the Coast Survey, and the other for that of the Bureau. The present document, he said, is one of unusual importance, and ap plications would be made for it by com mercial men from all parts of the globe. The coast survey had never been able to fullil the orders that had been hitherto received. He went on to show the increased importance of the present document, by which upwards of two thousand new geographical positions of the high est importance to commerce and navigation, had been determined. It was highly desirable, there fore, that it should be extensively circulated among commercial men everywhere. He con cluded by again adverting to the valuable details of the report, which it was usual to move should be printed. Mr. Bayly. of Virginia, admitted that the im portance of the report could not be over-rated, but the demand, he said, could not be met by the department or the coast survey; but must be sup plied by the chart makers. Mr. Jones, of Tennessee, contended that the report ought; to be referred to the Committee on Printing: and this being the opinion ol the Speak er, Mr. Evans agreed that his motion should lie over for that purpose, having in v ie\\ 'num ber of copies and the disposal of them, as he had proposed, t was therefore laid on the table, there being no objection, to its being referred to the committee on printing when it shall be ap !>°Mr. Stevens, of Pa., moved that the House ad journ till Tuesday, which was carried by a vote of 113 in the affirmative, and the House stands adjourned accordingly. There was no meeting of the Senate to-dajr.