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[From the Savannah, Newt 24 M intt. |
Cuban Matting,
Pursuant to the adjournment on Thursday even
ing, the friends of Cuba assembled in the Mon
ument Square, last evening, at 8 o’clock. Mr.
Cohen being indisposed, Judge Harden was call
ed to the Chair.
Dr. Arnold read the preamble and resolutions
prepared by the Committee often, as follows:
Whereas information has been received that
the people of Cuba are engaged in an actual strug
gle lor Liberty, against the oppressions of the
Government of Spain, and that a revolution is
now begun which promises success at no distant
day, if success has not alrt :(y crowned the efforts
of the Cubans to be free: And whereas it is
highly becoming in the People of these United '
States to symathize with the people of all na
tions, and to offer to them the expression of such
sympathy in their attempts tothrow off the gall
ing yoke of Tyranny, which has for ages bowed
them in almost hopeless servitude: And where
as the cheering news has just reached our shores
that such succe. s liaas already followed the ris
,ng of the people of Cuba, as to leave but little
reason todoubt that the day of their deliverance
is at hand :
Be it therefore Resolved, That we hail, with sin
cere joy, the intelligence which is wafted to us
on every breeze, and conveyed to us by every ar
rival from Cuba, that the Island is in a state of
revolution under the lead of General Narciaeo
Lopez, which promises to he successful, if indeed
Cuba is not already free.
2. Resolved , That we have no sympathy with
any men’or class of men, who, from any cause,
are the enemies of Cuban Liberty —that while
we respect the rights and Qbligations of treaty
stipulations, we cun see no reason why the op
pressed subjects of old Spaif should not, without
molestation from this or » any other country,
achieve for themselves the liberty which we
wrought out for ourselves in the war of Indepen
dence.
3. Resolved, That as American citizens, proud
pi our own independence, and zealous of the
rights of all men to throw off the oppression of
tyrannical tomis of government, destructive alike
of the interest and the happiness of the people,
we sincerely hope the just principle of non-inter
lerence will be recognised and steadily pursued
by the Administration at Washington, in the
present contest in Cuba; and that any other prin
ciple, any other policy, by whatever name it may
be called, would be unjustifiable and inconsistent
with the same principle, which, by the aid of our
own strong arms and stout hearts, gained for us
our independence mid liberty.
4. Retained, Th tin the opinion of this meet
ing, the Island ot Cuba being in a state of actual
revolution, it is the right of every American citi
zen, without incurring the reproach of his con
science or thejopposition of his government, to af
ford all needful aid und encouragment to our Cu
ban brethren, and that any attempt on the part
of this government to restrain this just right of
the'eitizen, is contrary to the spirit and genius of
Republicanism, and at war with the first princi
ples of Liberty.
5. Retailed, That any deviation on the part of
the Spanish Government from the rules of civiliz
ed war. whether by putting arms into the hands
of the slaves, to be used against their masters, or
otherwise, would not only justify, but demand the
immediate interposition of the Government of
the U. States.
(1. Resolved , That in General Narcisso Lopez
we recognize a true Patriot, who in the cause of
Liberty has sacrificed a brilliant position, politi
cal and military, in the service of Spain, and a
large private fortune, and that whatever success
may attend his present efforts, he deserves the
admiration and respect of every true Republi
can.
7. Resolved, That a committee of twenty-live
be appointed by the chair, whose duty it shall be
to solicit subscriptions in aid of the Cuban Pat
riots.
The Chairman put the resolutions to the meet
ing, and they were passed with unanimous and
enthusiastic acclamations. The following gen
tlemen then addressed the assembled crowd:
Mr. Segur, of New Orleans; Mr. Thompson, of
New York; Mr. C. P. Cooper, of Florida; Col. R.
B. Hilton: John Bilbo, and H. E. Cassidy, Esqrs
Their addresses met with the most hearty res
ponse. After a protracted stay in the square, the
meeting reluctantly adjourned.
The following Committee are appointed under
the last resolution: Solomon Cohen, Esq., Capt.
J. W. Anderson, Dr. K. D. Arnold, John Lama,
Thomas H. Harden, R. B. Hilton, W. T. Thomp
son, John Bilbo, J. F. O'Byrne, Thos. Purse,
Thos. Holcombe, F. A. Tupper, Wm. Humph
reys, Jr., John Boston, O. A. Wood, George L.
Cop, Jr. J.E. Gaudry, A. B Luce, Octavus
Cohen, E. S. Kempton, Joseph D. Stebbins, Capt.
J. H. Steigin, W. M. Davidson, T. M. Rosis, J.
B. Cubbedge.
EDWARD J. HARDEN, Chairman.
J. T. Mitchell, 1 c
J. T Webb, \ Secretaries.
More of the Crops.
The following is trom the Eutaw (Ark.) De
mocrat of the 13th inst.
We are informed by a gentleman just arrived
from the neighboring farms, that the cotton crop,
instead of being benefited by the recent rain, has
been seriously injured. It has taken the rust, is
shedding its leaves and bolls very rapidly, and it
is doubtful if more than three hundred pounds
will be made to the acre. In many places the
corn crop is very light, and not enough will be
made for subsistence.
The St. Landry (La.) Whig of the 16th inst.
says that the weather continues very sultry and
dry in that parish, and the cane crops are suffer
ing very much for wantof rain. Com is beyond
redemption. Cotton is small.
The Pointe Coupee Echo of the 16th inst says:
The dry weather which we have this week
must be favorable for picking cotton: we under
stand that it opens rapidly, and very soon our
cotton planters will be actively occupied in har
vesting their crop, which, we hope, will prove a
good one.
The Farmersville (Union parish) Enquirer
says:
Since our last there have been copious rains in
this and Jackson parishes; but they come too late
to be of great benefit. The com crop is irretrie
vably spoiled, and the cotton is not much aided
by so late a rain.
Boston, Aug. 21.
Gpvebnok of Massachusetts. —The Demo-
cratic State Convention ha* nominated Governor
BoutwelLthe coalitionist, for Governor and ap
pointed Thomas Davis and H. H. Childs as del
egate* to the National Convention. —Resolutions
to support the Compromise were passed, after a
desperate opposition from the free-soil members.
AUGUSTA, GA.
Tuesday morning, august 26.
For Governor.
CHARLES J. MCDONALD.
For Congress—Eighth District,
ROBERT McMILLAN, of Elbert.
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE STATE. *
Appointments of OoL McMillan.
Col. McMillan will address his fellow-citizens
At Augusta, Tuesday, Sept. 2nd.
At Judge Neal’s Mills, Warren co., Thursday,
Sept. 4th.
Mr. Stephens.
We have shown that Mr. Toombs has calru
lated the value of the Union. We now proceed to
show that Mr. Stephens has done the same thing.
From Mr, Stephens’s speech of the 7th of Au
gust, 1848, on the Clayton Compromise bill.—
Alluding to what he called a false security offer
ed by that bill he said:
“ And this is the security for the South which
I had the temerity to reject. Would that the peo
ple of that section may ever have men on this
floor of such temerity ! I did reject it, and 1
shall continue to reject all such favors. If I get
no better compromise, I shall certainly never
take any at all. As long as I have a seat here,
I shall maintain the just and equal rights of my
section upon this as well as upon all other ques
tions. I ask nothing more, and I shall take no
thing less. All I demand is common right and
common justice; these I will have in clear
AND EXPRESS TERMS, OR I WILL HAVE NOTHING.
I speak to the North irrespective of parties. I
recognize no party association in affiliation upon
this subject. If the two parties of the North
combine, and make a sectional issue, and by their
numerical strength vote down the South, and
deny us these equal rights to which I think we
are in justice entitled, it will be for the people of
the South then to adopt such a course as they
may deem proper. Ido not stand here to make
any threats in their name, nor have I authority
to commit even my own constituents to any
course of policy. They must do that for them
selves. My commission here extends only to
the maintenance of their rights upon all questions
and measures that may come before me in this
House. And this I shall do at all hazards. Nor
shall I be awed or intimidated in the discharge
of this duty, by any of the tiembling alarms
of the official organ, that lire ‘ Union is in dan
ger’ —that, unless AGITATION on this subject
is quieted the ‘ free-soil movement’ in the North
will sweep every thing before it, and that the
government itself will be endangered. Such ap
peals may have their effects upon the hearts of
the timid. lam myself, not quite so easily terri
fied into a surrender of my rights aiu! those of my
constituents.' ’
From Mr. Stephens's speech of August the
9th, 1800, on President Fillmore's Texas Mes
sage : '
“ I repeat, I am no enemy to the Union—and
I am for its preservation, if it can be bone up
on PRINCIPLES OF EQUALITY AND JUSTICE.”
“We have heard but little from gentlemen from
that section, (the North) for eight months past
but EULOGIES UPON THE UNION.
“ If they expect the South to make all the sa
crifices, to yield everything, and to jiermit them
to carry out their sectional policy under the cry
of 1 our glorious Union” they will liml themselves
most sadly mistaken. It is time for mutual con
cessions.”
“Allegiance and protection are reciprocal;
where no protection is extended, no rightful, al
legiance can be claimed. And no people, in my
judgment, who deserve the name ot freemen,
win continue their allegiance to any government
which arrays itself, not only against their proper
ty, but against their sociul and their civil organi
zation. If you geutlemen of the North, then, in
tend to engraft upon the policy of this common
• government your anti-slavery views, and make
its action conform to your sectional purposes, it
is useless to say any thing more of compromise,
settlement, adjustment or Union.”
“ I do not place a low estimate iqioii the value
of the Union to the South; but Ido not consider
its dissolution, with all the manifold attending
evils of such an event in full view before me,
as the greatest calamity that could befall us. Far
from it. There is iro evil which can befall any
people, in my opinion, equal to that of the degra
dation which always follows submission to instill,
injury, outrage anil aggression.’’
“ Ami whenever this government is brought
in hostile array against me and mine, lam for
disunion — openly, boldly and fearlessly for revolu
tion. I speak plainly. Sir, epithets have no
terrors for me. The charge of 1 traitor’ may be
whispered in the ears of the timid and craven
hearted, it is the last appeal of tyrants.”
“ I have told you, sincerely and honestly, that
I am for peace and the Union upon any fair and
reasonable terms, it is the most cherished senti
ment of my heart.”
“ But if you deny those terms—if you continue
deaf to the voice of that spirit of justice, right
and equality, which should always characterize
the deliberations of statesmen, I know of no other
alternative that will be left the people of the
South but. sooner or later, to acquiesce in the ne
cessity of holding you, as the rest of mankind,
tiumies in war—in peace, friends.”
We have shown that Mr. Stephens very liber
ally calculated the value ok the Union.—
We will now show what he esteemed in part,
at least, the cause of Southern discontent. We
copy from his speech of the 9th of August, 1850:
“ A public domain has been acquired by the
common blood and common treasure of all, and
the South, who is charged with endeavoring to
control the government lor their purpose, ask
nothing but that the common territory which is
the public property, may be opened to the entry
and settlement and equal enjoyment of all the ci
tizens of every part of the Republic, with their pro
perty of every description ; while it is the North
who comes here and detnands that the whole of
this common domain shall be set apart exclttsive
lyfor themselves, or for themselves and such per
sons from the South as will strip themselves of a
certain species of their property, and conform
their views to the policy of the North. I submit
it to every candid man in this House, and to
every intelligent and candid man in the world
outside the House, if this is not a fair statement
of the question.'’’ 1
u If that is the basis you propose, we need say
nothing further about argument, or adjustment—
upon those terms we cannot settle.'’
u But you men of the North say that we of
the South wish to carry our slaves ami chat the
free labor of the North cannot submit to the de
gradation of being associated with slave labor.’’
We will now show what Mr. Stephens de
manded of the North.
From his speech of August the 7th, 184 S :
“In regard to these territories and rights of
the South, I hold that when the stipulations of
the late treaty shall be complied with, and the
money paid which is provided for in it, they
will constitute an acquisition made at the cost and
treasure of the whole Union, towards which the
South contributed as generously as the North,
and in which the South is entitled to a just and
equal participation; and that it is the duty of
Congress to see to it, that the just and equal
rights of my section are GUARDED, PRO
TECTED aid SECURED by all necessary le
gislation. The right to acquire and to hold ter-
; ritory brings with it the duty to govern it. The
Supreme Court has so decided, and in governing,
I it is the outt of Congress to act justly and fair
ly towards the rights and interests all who are
entitled to an equal shake in the common do
main. This, sir, is MY POSITION and upon it
I shall STAND or FALL.”
‘•Now, sir, I do not believe in compromises or
settlements that are not fully and dearly and dis
tinctly understood on BOTH SIDES at the
TIME,”
“.As long as I have a seat here, I shall main
tain the just and equal rights of my section upon
this as upon all other questions. I ask nothing
more and shall take noihtng less. All I demand
is, common right and common justtce; these I will
have in clear and express terms, or I will have
nothing. I speak to the North irrespective of
parties. I recognize no party association in af
filation upon this subject.”
From his speech of August the 9th, IS.iO.
“I am for conciliation if it can be accomplish
ed upon any reasonable and just principle. I am
also for making a dean breast of it. lam for no
partial arrangement. If we aim at peace, let us
have no temporary truce, but pennanent quiet
and repose. This in my opinion can onljr be
done by a settlement of all the questions
ing out of these territorial acquisitions upo(|F lib
eral and proper terms.
What are such terms? This is the practical
point for us to consider.” f
“The people of the South have as much right to
occupy, enjoy and colonize these territories with
theirprojrerty, as the people of the north have
with theirs. This is the basis upon which I
stand and the principles upon which it rests are
as immutable as right and justice. They are the
principles of natural law founded in natural jus
tice, as recognized by the ablest publicists who
have written upon the laws of nations and the
rights pertaining to conquests. These acquisi
tions belong to the whole people of the United
States, as conquerors. They hold them under
the Constitution, and the General Government
as common property in a corporate capacity.
“Under our constitution, the power of making
regulations for the enjoyment of the common
domain, devolves upon Congress, the common
agent of all the parties interested m it. And so
far from this common agent having any right to
exclude a portion of the people, or “to make
tinctions to their disadvantage” it is the duty of
congress to open the country by ,the removal of
all obstructions, whether they be existing laws
or any thing else and to give equal protection to
all who may avail themselves of the right to
use it.”
“Now sir. all that ice ask, or all thatj I ask. is
for Congress to ojien the entire country and give an
equal right to all the citizens of all the States to
ENTER and. colonize it with their projterty of
every kind, or to make an equitable divisimi of it.
Is this wrong'”
‘‘Well then we say, as the patriarch of old
said to his friend and kinsman, when disputes
arose between the henlmen of their rattle: Let
there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and
thee, and between my herdmen and thy herd
men, for we be brethren. Is not the whole
land before thee, separate thyself. I pray thee
from me. If thou wilt take the left hand, then
will I goto the right; or if thou wilt depart to the
right hand ,then, I will go to the left”j
“In other words, we say, if you cannot agree to
enjoy this public domain, let us divide it. Yon
take a share, and let us take a share. And I
again submit to an intelligent and canlitl world
if the proposition is not fair and just? And
w hether its rejertion does not amount to a dear
expression of your fixed determination to exclude us
entirely from any participation in this /mblie do
main:
Now, has Mr. Stephens got the equal participa
tion which he so strongly and so constantly de
manded ? Was it not REJECTED ? and yet
Mr. Stephens cannot now see iu it the “ fixkd
determination ” of the North to exclude vs
ENTIRELY FROM ANY PARTICIPATION IN THIS
public domain! Here is the proof of its RE
JECTION. The following is a part of the de
bate in the House of Representatives:
“Mr. Seildon, of Va., moved the following
amendment, to come in immediately after the
provision that the Territories when formed into
States, should he admitted with or without
slavery, as the people should in their contitutions
declare:
‘“And that prior to the formation of State con
stitutions, there shall he no prohibition by rea
son of any law or usage existing in said territory,
or by the action of the terriWWal legislature, of
the emigration of all citizens of the United States,
with any kind of property, recognized as such in
any of the States of the Union? ”
This proposition, to open the territories to the
South, was rejected by an overwhelming vote.
It met with no favor on the part of the North.
Mr. Stephens has admitted, as Mr. Toombs has
also done, that Congress refused to repeal the
Mexican laws, (which they say exclude us with
our slaves,) —that they were not repealed by the
measures of settlement over which the South is
now called uixm to rejoice by some of our presses
and politicians. •
As the stars fade, when the sun rises in the
East, so do the ingenious sophistries of those who
insist that the South has obtained her rights, or
an honorable settlement of this question, pale
before the light of truth. When men resolve on
death or justice by profession, and tamely
submit when the latter is WITHHELD, they
are not proper leaders for freemen who have
rights in jeopardy and honor at peril. Let the
people then take the protection of both into
THEIR OWN HANDS.
It will be seen that Mr. Stephens declared that
he was not to be "awed or intimidated" by
“ trembling alarms " that the “ Union is in dan
ger"—that “the Government will be endanger
ed'' He then stated, in his place, as a matter of
reproach to the members from the North, that for
i eight months they had done but little more than
pronounce “eulogies upon the Union"!
Mr. Stephens said that “ it is the duty of Con
gress to see to it, that the just and equal rights of
my section are GUARDED, PROTECTED
and SECURED, by all necessary legislation.”
“ This, sir, is MY POSITION, and upon it I shall
STAND or FALL.”
He said, “ I ask nothing more , and shall take
nothitig less" “ Now, sir, all that we ask, or all
that I ask , is for Congress to open the entire country,
and give an equal right to all the citizens of all the
States to ENIER, SETTLE and colonize it
with their property of every kind , or to make an
eqtiitable division of it. Is this wrong ?”
Again Mr. S. said, “In other words, tee say if
you cannot agree to enjoy this public domain,
let us divide it. You take a share, and let us take
a share. And I again submit to an intelligent
and candid world, if the proposition is not fair and
just ? and whether its rejection does not amount
to a clear expression of your fixed determination to
exclude us entirely from any participation in this
public domain l''
Now mark, Mr. Stephens says, a refusal to
grant us an equal participation in the territory , or
to agree to an equitable division of it, will amount
to a clear expression of a fixed determination to
EXCLUDE us.
The North has refused to divide it, and we will
demonstrate that, in his opinion, we have been
denied, also, an equal participation in it.
It will be remembered that Mr. Stephens, aid-
ed by a few others, defeated the Clayton Com
promise bill.
Upon what ground, then, did Mr. Stephens rest
his justification for defeating that bill ? He said:
“ It is my object, at this time, to speak upon
that measure which some gentlemen are pleased
to call the ‘ Compromise bill,’ but which might
be more properly entitled, articles of capitulation
on the part of the South. So far from being a
compromise, the bill proposed nothing short of
an abandonment of the position of the South,
and a surrender of the just rights of her people to
an equal participation in the new acquisition of
territory. The surrender was covert, but it was
no less complete and absolute .”
Why, then, in the opinion of Mr. Stephens,
would that bill have proven to have been a
capitulation on the part of the South; a surrender
of the rightsofher people , See. ?’ He tells us, him
self, as follows:
“Never was any measure more grossly mis
named or miscalled. It was no compromise, in
any sense of the word. A compromise is a mu
tual yielding of rights, for the purpose of adjust
ing and settling difficulties and differences. But,
in this case, there was no such mutual conces
sion. The whole question was to be left, in the
last resort, to the Supreme Court of the United
States, upon whose decision the party was to
get all or lose all. And entertaining not the
slightest doubt that, under it, the South was to
lose all, I adopted the speediest and most effec
tual means of defeating it.”
Again he said:
“It [the Clayton bill] merely prohibits the
territorial government from passing any law
upon the subject; and leaves the Southern man,
who may be inclined to go there with his slaves,
to contest his rights to the best of his abilities,
with the courts of the territory in the first in
stance, and then, if he chooses, with the Supreme
Court of the Union.”
Again Mr. Stephens said:
“ This Compromise bill, sir, did, in my opinion,
endanger and surrender the then rights of the
South by 4 a continuance of the municipal laws
of Mexico,’ which were of force at the time of
the conquest, and by which slavery was abolish
ed there.”
Again he said:
“Then, sir, what are we of the South to gain
by this compromise? Nothing but what we
would have, even with the Wilmot Proviso—
the poor privilege of carrying our slaves into a
country where the first thing to be encountered
is the certain prospect of an expensive lawsuit.
which may coat more than any slave is worth,
and, in my opinion, with the absoltUe certainty of
tdtimate defeat m the end, and with no law in the
meantime to protect our rights of property in
any way whatever.”
Now let every man remember, that Mr. Ste
phens himself admits that the Mexican laws have
not been repealed, and also that the bills establish
ing territorial governments for Utah and New
Mexico, leave the decision of the right to hold
slaves, within their limits, first to the territorial
courts, and finally to the Supreme Court.
What, then, becomes of Mr. Stephens’s lofty
demands, grandiloquent words, and sublime de
votion to the rights of the South ? He reminds
us of the dandy at the theatre, into whose hat
some one had poured a quantity of lamp oil,
which streamed over his clothes and down his
shirt collar, when he put the hat upon his sweet
ly scented head. The dandy proffered to give a
hundred dollars for information of the one who
put the oil in hia hat. A large and ferocious
looking fellow stepped up and said, “Sir, I did
it.” “ Well, sir,” said the dandy, “if you did it,
you are a” “Mind what you say, sir,” said
the club-fisted perpetiator of the deed, and he
accompanied his warning with an exhibition of
the aforesaid instrument of battle. “ Well, sir,
l say, sir—if you, sir—put, sir, that oil in my
hat, sir,” “Well, sir, and what then?”
“Why then, sir, (said the dandy,) let’s go and
take a drink.”
We leave it to a “candid world'' to say if
that is not the condition of the Hon. Mr. Ste
phens, who now proclaims that the loss of an
equal participation of the territory—of any share
of it, and the failure to get an exemption from
the vexations of a lawsuit, constitute a fair, liber
al and honorable settlement, for the South, of her
slavery and territorial difficulty with the North ?
Come, Giddings, Hale, Fillmore, let's go and
take a drink!
No mail last evening from offices North
of Charleston. This is a disappointment to us,
and no doubt will be to our readers, as the arrival
of the Cherokee at New York, with later advices
from Havana, was due and partially received at
Baltimore at our latest dates.
Storm and Bain.
We were visited on Saturday night last with a
heavy blow from the South-east. The storm
commenced about eleven o'clock, on Saturday,
and, with but little intermission, continued till
nearly the same hour on Sunday night, blowing
most of the time from the South-east. The fall
of rain, was very heavy, and was driven with
great violence. (luring most of the time by the
high wind. We are pleased to learn, so far,
that the damage has not been very great.
The river is high, the water at sundown oa
last evening was about four feet above the edge
of the lower wharves, and slowly rising. It will
be seen from our paper that there have been
heavy rains in the interior of South Carolina
and Georgia along the line of the river. There
is a prospect of a good boating rivei for two or
three weeks.
The Telegraph.
We learn that the Telegraph is out of order
South and West of this city, and North of Co
lumbia. No despatches from any quarter came
to hand last evening.
See how he was Nicked.
There were but THREE Whigs in Congress
from ALL the Northern States who voted for the Fu
gitive Slave law. One of them was Mr. Mc-
Gaughey, who represented the 7th Congressional
District of Indiana. He was defeated by Jno.
G. Davis, a FREE SOIL DEMOCRAT. Thus
have his constituents heaped approbatory honors !
upon Mr. McGaughey. He had the audacity to
vote with the South, on the Fugitive Slave ques
tion, and the Moloch of anti-slavery fanaticism
has crushed him for it. It is surprising that our
opponents dont fall right down, and kick with
fits of joy, at the signs in the North of a returning
sense of justice ! Three Whigs only, voted with
the South, and one of them has already been
pitched head foremost into the anti-slavery lake
of fire and brimstane! This same spirit that has
sacrificed him, will, after a while, wake up some
of our people from their dream of voluptuous se
curity and ease.
The N. O. Delta of the 20th inst. says—Some
of the Conchaites are getting very noisy, threat
ening, and bellicose on our streets. We would
counsel them to be a little more prudent. Their
journals may, with impunity, try to insult and
provoke our citizens, but when individuals pro
ceed to the extent, we have heard, of some of
them, we would warn them to beware and use
a little more prudence.
Safety of theJfPampero.
The Savannah Georgian of the 24th inst, says:
“By the arrival of the St. Mathews from Flori
da, we are rejoiced to learn of the safety of the
Pampero, and a number of the particulars of
the expedition of Gen. Lopez, trom the time of
his departure from New Orleans, to his landing
at Bahia Honda.
The Pampero having left New Orleans, pro
ceeded to Key West. Near there she remained
for several days,’for the purpose of evading the
vigilance of the Spanish ships.—lTrving learned
from the Key West wreckers, that the inhabi
tants of the district of Vuelta Abajo, (nearly op
posite Key West) were up in arms, Gen. Lopez
determined to avail himself of this information,
and make his landing among them.—Steering
for Bahia Honda, his purpose was to land at a
small port called Morillo. When about eighteen
leagues from Havana, the machinery of the Pam
pero got out of order, the consequence of which
was that she floated for two hours along the cur
rent of the Gulf Stream, approaching all the
while towards that city.
Before the accident was repaired, she was car
ried full in view of the Moro Castle, and even in
sight of the soldiers on the Water Battery. Get
ting up steam again, she bore away for Bahia
Honda—intercepting on the way a coasting ves
sel, from which Gen. Lopez obtained two pilots
The Pampero approached within fifty yards of
the Coast, when a landing was made without
difficulty.
Lopez and his comrades were received by the
inhabitants (who congregated in great numbers)
with open arms, and indeed with every demon
stration of favor. The planters brought forth
fruits and provisions of all kinds; and soon a
large part of Lopez’s force were mounted on
horses, the voluntary offerings of the people.
The Pampero having remained all night, left
for Key West the next morning, nearly destitute
of coal. Her want of fuel accounts for her not
having been earlier heard from. She is now in
a position of safety.
We will only add. that we have these particu
lars trom one who was on board the vessel from
the time of her departure from New Orleans.
The recent Riot in New Orleans, &c.— ln
addition to wliat we published on Saturday in
relation to the recent riot at New Orleans, we
learn from dispatches in the Savannah Republi
can of Saturday, that the Spanish Consul at New
Orleans lias been compelled to surrender to the
committee who caller! upon him, the names of
the fifty-one Americans, who, in one of the en
gagements, while making a flank movement in
boats, were captured, taken to Havana, and
executed. Several letters from some of the de
ceased wore likewise given up by the Consul at
the same time. At first he hail refused to do so.
One of the Republican's despatches states that
among the captured were “ Crittenden, James
Kerr, and Boyce, and almost all the artillery.”—
> It is also stated that five hundred Creoles had
i left Havana to join Lopez, and that the Creoles
1 were flocking to his standard from all directions.
1 Charleston Courier, 25 th inst.
<
(communicated.)
1 We are requested to announce that the follow
-1 ing list of Delegates were appointed at a meet
ing of the Southern Rights party, held in Sparta,
on Wednesday, the 20th instant, to meet the De
legates of the same party from the county of
; Baldwin, at Carr's Mill, on Town Creek, on Sa
turday the 30th instant, to nominate a candidate
for the Senate, in the 24th District. They are
authorized to nominate a candidate for the re
presentative branch of the Legislature, for Hau
cock county, if they think proper to do so,
and to nominate candidates for the various coun
ty offices. It is expected that all who see this
notice, will attend at the time and place desig
nated. The Delegates in attendance will con
sider themselves lully authorized to fill vacancies.
Members of the party generally are invited to
attend. The Delegates are Messrs. Fayette In
gram, Wm. B. Hunt, Wm. E. Bird, John Dewitt,
J. B. Johnson. Henry A. Hunt, Marcellus Sim
| mons. B. A. Jones, Alpheus Dickinson, Joseph
Lilly, John Wilcoxen, Gideon Holsey, James
Rudisill, Josiah Carr, John N. Bledsoe, John W.
Allen, Henry L. Burt, Judkins Hunt, John Bon*
; ner, Robt. H. Mapp, Jr., Peter Scott, John La
| timer, Jr.,* John Laughlin, Thomas J. Dickson,
Wm. Rachel, Wiley Arnold, Obadiah Arnold,
Wm. M. Devereaux. Wm. F. Brantley, James
Rushing. Shadrack Trawick, and Nelson White.
[communicated.]
AUGUST 18th, 1851.
Messrs. Editors: —There is something of a
novelty in the form of a meeting which was held
at a place known as Temperanceville, on the
Central Railroad, below Bethany Camp Ground,
in Jefferson county, Georgia, on the 14th ultimo.
It seems that a Constitutional Union man had
taken it upon himself to call a meeting, consist
ing entirely of men of the same political faith,
and among them the Constitutional Union can
didate for the 9th Senatorial district, Capt. P. B.
Conne'.ley. There was something strange that
these men should assemble at that place; but not
so strange when we remember that the men who
reside there had formerly acted with the Whig
party, but now refused to act with the firm of
Cobb, Toombs & Stevens.
When the crowd had assembled at the house
of one of the geritlsmen, he proposed to them to
appoint a Chairman and Secretary, and have a
regular organized meeting. One of the party,
seeing that it (the meeting) was not going to
pass off so finely as they had anticipated, moved
(no doubt to bluff him off.) to appoint two of
each, which put a stop to the organization.
The candidate then proceeded to enlighten the
audience upon the political issues of the day, by
abusing Charles J. McDonald, and extolling to
the skies the political trickster, Howell Cobb,
the man that sold his birthright for a mess of
pottage. Now imagine the candidate, as above
stated, with some fifteen or eighteen of his asso
ciates, at the house of a Southern Rights
and that under a call ol a Constitutional Union
man, in discussion with the owner of the house,
and he backed only by two- others, a young man
who lives with him, and his brother-in-law,
who lives hard by; and he showing up their
Constitutional Union candidate for Governor in
his true colors- as he had learned them from the
Chronicle & Sentinel and Savannah Republican,
which seemed to gall them very much.
They left, no doubt, sorry that the meeting
ever had been called; and I presume they will
not call another, unsolicited by the owner of the
house, where he or they can have access to his
or their files of papers, ag I am informed he read
to their full satisfaction.
Now for the effect: If they all went away
still Constitutional Union men, it was as much.
It is very evident they left three Southern Rights
men much stronger than they had found there.
I would advise them never to attack a man at
his own house again, for the purpose of influenc
ing his mind upon any subject, especially that of
politics.
I hope when they wish to get up another
meeting, they will let the rest of us in the S3nl
District know it, and we will help them, and in
vite our candidate (John T. Brown) to be pre
sent, and he will then discuss the subject to their
hearts : content.
An Old Union Man,
But not of the late firm.
(communicated.)
To John Scott, Wm. W. Sturges, S. Randolph. J
McKenzie , and S. P. Davis.
Gentlemen :—ln answer to the first question.
I say, u that the States bear the same relation to
the General Government, that the creator does
to the creature • and each State in ratifying the
Constitution retained its entire sovereignty , (sov
ereignty being indivisible ,) and delegated certain
powers to the General Government, which can
be resumed by the States, whenever the Federal
Government shall fail to answer the purposes for
which it was created.”
In answer to the second. I say, “ that the ulti
mate power of deciding upon the constitutionali
ty or unconstitutionality of any law of Congress,
is lodged exclusively in the States—they beii»jl
sovereign , and being parties to the compact IU(
Union, —they alone can judge for themselves v
any infraction upon the Constitution.”'
In answer to the first " jwrtment question." I
say. that u under existing circumstances ,” Ido sot
go for disunion; as Georgia in her sovereign ca
pacity, has decided that question.”
In answer to the second “ pertinent question'' I
say.as a States Rights man, “that Georgia had
aright to decide this question for herself, and
that as a States Rights man, I bow to the majori
ty of that decision.”
In answer to the third, I say, “ that whilst I
hold that a State has the right to dissolve her
connection with the government at her pleasure,
yet it is not to be presumed that any State would
be so foolish as to act without a cause."
To the fourth, I answer in the affirmative.
Respectfully yours,
S. VV. BLOUNT.
The Cuba F.xpedition. —Our New-Fork ex
changes learn from Capt. Coullard, of the steam
ship Winfield Scott, from New'-Orleans, August
lfith, that the steam ship Pampero, Capt. Lewis,
anchored in the harbor of Key West on the 10th
inst.. and remained there till 11 P. M., when
she departed for Cuba, with Lopez and his force
of 450 men, whom she landed at Cubanos, 40
miles West of Havana. The Pampero then re
turned to Key West, but remained in the harbor
only an hour, fearing seizure. She cruised oft
that port until the lfith inst., and then having
taken on board from 20 to 25 recruits, she left at
evening for Jacksonville, Florida, to embark
Gen. Gonzales and his company, with the in
tention, as was thought, of taking them to Cuba
to retlnorce Gen. Lopez. That Gen. Gonzales,
however, did notembark in her. is evident from
the fact, that he arrived at the Charleston Hotel
in this city on Saturday,which he left for Colum
bia yesterday morning.
The severe storm of yesterday precluded our
receiving any dispatches, otherwise doubtless we
should have been able to lay before our readers
some important intelligence, inasmuch as we
perceive from the Baltimore papers of Friday,
that the steamship Cherokee arrived on Thurs
day evening at New York, in four days from
Havana; and that the news brought by her is
important may be inferred from the following
fragment of a dispatch received by them, the con
clusion of which, in consequence of electricity
interrupting the wires, could not be obtained in
time for publication that morning.
“ The accounts from Havana are of the most
serious nature. We are indebted to the Purser
of the Cherokee for the following fearful narra
tive. The steamboat HabaneTo, while cruising
off a place called Bahia Honda, 40 miles west
of .”
Violent Storm. —Early yesterday morning
our city and its vicinity was visited with a heavy
gale, which blew all day from South to South
South-East, and caused considerable damage to
several buildings, out-houses, trees, &c. A new
two-and-a half story wooden house, at the south
west corner ot Smith and Beaufain streets, par
tially completed, was totally destroyed. The
Kitchen also, which was finished with the ex
ception of the chimney, in consequence of the
foundation giving way, came to the ground. The
premises were the property of Dr. Joseph Daw
son and brothers. A carpenter’s workshop, just
finished, owned by E. M. Curtis, in Rutledge
street, was likewise demolished. There are,
doubtless, other sufferers; but we have not been
enabled as yet to ascertain full particulars of the
damages that have been sustained. We are graft
ed, however, to state that we have not heard of
any-seiious injury occurring to the shipping in
the harbor. The steamers Calhoun, for Savan
nah, and C. Vanderbilt, for Wilmington, in con
sequence of the inclemency of the weather, were
prevented from leaving port, and, up to the hour
of our going to press, the Gordon had not arrived
from Savannah, having been detained, doubtless
from the same cause. A heavy rain prevailed
nearly the entire day.
It is rather singular that, on the 21th of August,
last year, a somewhat similar storm occurred
here, which, like the one yesterday, at one time
threatened to do damage to the shipping in port,
but subsided without causing any material inju
ry.—Charleston Courier, 2-jt/i inst.
Rain ! Rain !!—Yes, we have had rain at
last, and a delightful season it has been. On
Wednesday last we had a fine shower, and since
then, in various parts ol the District, fine rains
have fallen. Last night we a had spendid rain,
which continued falling at intervalsfduring the
night, and from appearances there will yet be
more. These rains, although too late to benefit
much the growing crops, will enable the people
to prepare to advantage their turnip lands, which
they should not fail to do extensively. Turnips
are an excellent feed for cattle and sneep in the
winter; and as provender must undoubtedly be
scarce with us next winter, those who have the
means of doing so, should sow turnips largely.—
Anderson Gazette, 20 th nut.
| Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier. I
New-Orleans, Aug. 22, 9.50 p. m.
Four hundred bales of Cotton were sold on Fri
day, part of which was of the new crop. Mid
dling was quoted at from S to 8J cents. The re
ceipts for the week compromise one thousand
bales. The total receipts at all the ports amount
to 204,000 bales ahead of last year. The stock
on hand here consists of 14,000 bales. The re
ceipts of the new crop so far amount to on*
thousand bales, against three bales at the sam;
period last year.