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[From the Savannah Georgian. ]
Ye Farmers of my Native State.
Ve farmers of my native State ! a noble race are
ye !
The world contains no sounder heads, no hearts
more bold and free.
Vou love the glorious Union with affection firm
and true,
And yet of earth is Georgia far the dearest spot to
yon.
Ve’ve lived beneath her Southern sun, until his'
blazing eye
H as left upon your inmost souls the impress ot her
sky;
for Georgia's friends they softly glow as when
the days expire ;
For Georgia’s foes (and there are such) they kin
dle into fire !
Your hearts are generous as her soil from which
you dig your bread,
And never goes the stranger from your open doors
unted ;
The currents of your liie are fresh as the flowing
of her rills,
The granite of your will as firm a* her eternal
hills.
Ve farmers of m> native .Male ! ye loyal men and
true !
As ye are fond of Georgia, so is Georgia proud of
you.
She sees no manlier spirits far as day his circle
runs,
She leans upon your stalwart arms as a mother on
her sons—
And knows that when the tempest comes ye'll
stand before the blast,
A* sternly as her forest oaks uutliuchiug to the
last;
Their-while ye love the Union with artection firm
and true,
Let Georgia still of all the earth he dearest far to
you ! 11. 11. J.
[ Reported for the Haiti more American.]
THIRTIETH CONGRESS—Td Session.
Washington*, Feb. 21, 1849.
SENATE.
After the presentation of several memorials,
petitions, resolutions, aid unimportant re
ports from committees—
Mr. Westcott introduced a resolution, which
w as adopted, calling for all papers in the office
of the Secretary of State, relating to the ap
pointment of Leonard Gaple, as Examiner of
the Patent Office.
House bill to establish an additional Land
Office in Missouri was passed.
Mr. Butler, from the Judiciary Committee,
reported a joing resolution from the House,
authorising the Secretary of State to increase
the number of copies of the Laws of Congress
annually distributed to the several States and
Tirritories, with a recommendation that it be
passed.
On motion of Mr. Breese, the bill liom the
House to change the location of one of the
Land Offices in Wisconsin to Minesom, was
taken up, and Mr. Walker proposed a.t amend
ment, creating also an additional land office in
Wisconsin. The amendment was agreed to,
and the bill, as amended, was then parsed.
On motion of Mr. Atherton, the Senate then
proceeded to the consideration of the special
order—the ciyil and diplomatic appropriation
bill.
Mr. Bell resumed and concluded his re
marks, in support of his amendment, provid- 1
ing for the admission of California and New
Mexico as one State into the Union.
Mr. Berrien followed in opposition to the
amendment, as entirely out of place and un
parliamentary in an appropriation bill, and in
reply to the several positions assumed bv Mr.
Bell.
When he had concluded, the question was
taken by yeas and nays on Mr. Bell’s amend
ment. and it was rejected, 4 to 39— the ayes I
being Messrs. Bell, Downs, Douglass, and
Dodge, of lowa.
One or two further slight modifications w ic
then made to Mr. Walker’s proposed amend ,
ment, at the suggestion of Mr. Foote, and
then, the question being on its adoption, the
yeas and nays "ere ordered, when on motion, t
the Senate, 22 to 19, decided to adjourn.- 1
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. Tallmadge submitted a resolution, which
was unanimously adopted, calling on the
Secretary of the Navy to report to the House
the amount of money now due or retained by
the government, arising from unclaimed wages
ot seamen that have deserted from the Navy,
and also from seamen that have died, leaving
balance of wages, or effects that are unclaim
ed, and the names, former residence, and time
of death or desertion of such seamen.
Mr. Collins presented the Resolutions o:
the New York Legislature, relative to the
erection of a monument to General Nicholas
Herkimer. Laid upon the table and ordered
to be printed. f Congress, in 1777, authorized
the State of New York to erect such a monu
ment, as an expense not exceeding .-jJjuO.)
The bill yesterday reported by Mr. McKay,
from the Committee of Ways and Means, to
regulate the mileage of members and for other
purposes, was again taken up, when Mr. .Mc-
Kay moved the previous question, which was
sustained, and the question being first taken
on a motion to strike out the section which
provides for a deduction of pay when members
absent themselves without leave, the amend
ment was rejected, 63 to 113, and the bill was
then passed, 167 to 16.
Bill to establish a port of entry at Brazos
Santiago after debate by Mr. Thibodoux and
others, was passed.
Also bill to transfer the towns of Vinal Ha
ven, Korth Haven and Islebors, from the Col
lection District of Penobscot to that of Belfast,
in the State of Maine.
• ' A Joint Resolution.to authorize the appoint
ment of a Geologist to accompany the army
and navy officers who have been appointed to
examine the coast of California and Oregon,
was laid on the table.
Bill to grant pre-emption rights for certain
islands in the Great Miami Reserve, was pa—-
ed-
Bill from the Senate, to extend the pr.-v; - *
* ***l for carrying into effect the r- -
Utmg compacts with the States of Alabama
- and Mississippi, with regard to the 5 per cent.
* u -dand school reservations, was passed.
Bui introduced, on leave, by Mr. D ixoa ot
Connecticut, on the IStU January, and then ,
ordered to be engrossed, “to abolish the frank
ink privilege," was taken up.
Mr. Kaufman moved to lay the bill on the f i
table.—Lost, 81 to 100. i
Mr. Goggin moved to commit the bill to the
Committee of the Whole on the State of the
Union, with instructions to substitute his !
amendment to the bill reported from the Com
mittee on Post-offices and Post-Road* “to re
duce the rates of postage and for other pur
poses."
Mr. Ashmun moved to amend the instruc- '
tions, so as to require that the rate of postage,
on letters of not more than half an ounce in
weight, shall be uniformly 2 cents, pre-paid,
for all distances, within the States and ter
itories, and 2 cents for each additional half
ounce,
Mr. Goggin addressed the House at length
in favor of his substitute, in explanation of its
provisions, and to show the effect of the ex
isting laws on the revenues of the Post Of
fice Department.
Mr. Cobb followed in reply to a portion of i
Mr. Goggin’s remarks, and in opposition to
some of the features of his bill.
Mr. Palfrey moved further to amend rhe |
proposed instructions to the Committee, and
also proceeded to address the House in sup- I
port and explanation of his proposition.
He was followed by Mr. Venable, in favor of 1
promoting the circulation of the country i
press.
The question was then taken on Mr. Ash- j
rnun’s amendment, and it was negatived, 61 j
to 62.
On motion, the House then adjourned.
[From the St. Louis Republican, 1 Zth lust.]
Later from Santa Fe>
We received yesterday from our friend F.
X. Aubry, of Santa Fe, the Santa Fe Repub
lican as late as the 16th December. Mr. Au
bry, it will be recollected, left this city late
last fall, on his return to Santa Fe with a
large stock of merchandise. Many persons
supposed that he would have to encounter
great hardships in a winter trip across the
plains, but he seems, so far as he himself was
concerned, to have triumphed overall difficul
ties. We learn from an article in the paper
that Mr. Aubry left his train of wagons be
fore crossing the Ratone Mountains, and hur
ried on to Santa Fe to procure forage and ex
tra animals for the remainder of the journev.
About the Ist Decern,ber when in the vicinity
ot Red River, seven ol his men deserted, and
he was compelled to return to Santa Fe. He
could learn nothing of a satisfactory charac
ter in regard to his wagons —some reports
stating that they had been robbed by the In
dians, and others that they were at Fort Bent
or the Piquet Ware, unable to move on ac
count of the severe cold weather and unusual
drift of snow.
Mr. Newman, who left Santa Fe, on the 20th
November with a mail lor the United States,
was compelled to return after reaching the Ci
merone, on account of the depth of the snow
‘ and the coldness of the weather.
Major B. L. Beall, in command of the dra
goons at Taos, arrived at Santa Fe in the early
! part of December with several Apache Indi
| aus as prisoners. The Major was soon to take
the field against a large party of Indians, in
; the vicinity ol Red River or the Piquet Ware,
i with the determination to punish them, or to
force them to make peace.
Mr. William C. Skinner arrived in Santa Fe
in the early part of December, from Chihua
hua. He represents that the American traders,
generally, in Chihuaha, were disposing of their
merchandise at fair prices. The Indiana were
constantly committing depredations on the
inhabitant of the State of Chihuahua.
Capt. Salmon, of this State, died at Taos,
on the 20th of November, from the effects of
a wound received in the engagement between
Reynolds's troops and the Apache Indians,last
year.
! A mulatto boy by the name of John Siglon,
killed another by the name of James Adasus, ;
1 n Santa Fe, on the Bth inst. It occurred at a
i ‘bow-fling” Mexican fandango. This.the Re- I
, publican says, is the sixth or seventh murder '
I committed within the last year, none of which
have been punished. “Theft, robbery and
murder,” the paper says, “have become the
j order ot the day.”
Kit Carson was at Santa Fe about the Ist
of November.
The Republican, under the head of “expect
ed arrival,” announces as a reliable fact that a
judicial envoy from Texes was about to arrive
in Santa Fe, with the intention of entering
upon the duties of his office. That paper rid
-1 icules the pretensions of Texas to sovereignty
! over any part of New Mexico.
Mr. Newman arrived at Santa Fe on the
j 29th ox October, with a mail from the United
States.
, If. N. Smith, District Attorney, reached j
; Santa Fe, irom Washington, on the 29th of j
October.
On the 25th of September, Major Beall is- |
j sued an order suspending the operation of a 1
! previous order, issued by Gen. Price, levying j
“a duty of six per centum ad valorem, on all ;
merchandise introduced into the Territory of |
Mexico,” until instructions could be received I
. from the United States Government.
r allure.— It may be a matter of some im
portance to our mercantile friends to know, i
j that on the llth of December, Eugene Leit
! usdorfer made an assignment of all his prop
' city and effects, and also the property and es
, ice is of the late firm of E. Leitensdorfer & j
j c. 0., to Hugh N. Smith and Thomas Biggs,for j
j uenefit of his creditors. Mr. Leitensdor- 1
i o-i whh an extensive merchant in Santa Fe.
Yesterday the retroceding Whigs were
! v. ..light like “Woodcocks in their own springs.”
Vi. bill approprating money to meet the next
; ui taiment under the Mexican treaty came up
i iu ( ommiuee of the Whole, when a Whig
’ m ■ :> “er moved a substitute, authorsing the j
j lb -‘ i to negotiate with Mexico a restora- !
j v r of California and New Mexico. A most |
j uitbrtaaate movement indeed! for the Com- i
o.i tc. of the Whole, with a view of testing !
,Ui u ucstiun by yeas and nays iu the House, i
ad.ipteil Uus substitute instead of the original I
ml.. v> hen the Committee rose and went ■
In-k into the House, the reported substitute j
w,« massed on by yeas and nays, and the
Whg- could muster ten only lor it, while ‘
th- ;»• were one hundred and eighty.four
upJn.sf u. Among the ten was Mr. Stephens, |
a Georgia. Mr. Duer, of New York, ai- |
u ..u-n he had set his face at the last session '•
i ag.;.: st a recognition of the territory, also (
I joji c ! yesterday in providing for its payment, j
The ’ ill being then put upon i s passage, I
wa- c«: .»k! by yeas and nay's —yeas 188, nays j
8 only. Un which vote being announced, Mr.
Turner, <-f Illinois, rose to advise the Whigs j
against a repetition of the language they had j
employed about the acquisition ol our new (
territories. He reminded them that they Xiad j
j charged the administration with having rob- |
| bed Mexico of her lands; but as the receiver is j
j as bad as the thief, and as they had now sane- :
tioued the acquisition by consenting to pay i
I tor the territory, he hoped they would repeat
of what they had said, and no longer cant 1
about roobery and plunder. The Whigs very
quietly listened to the lecture which they re- :
reived; and we trust that upon this subject we
shall hear no more of such clamor and cant. — j
, Washington Union, 20th instant.
Tuk Leah Cellar Below the Dome at Bre
men. —This cellar has the power to prevent all
the corpses, placed into it, from corruption,
and to render them dry like leather. The !
name ii-ad cellar, is derived from the word j
“Zlrn,” (Jead) that was formerlv prepared here I
( wh*. the Dome was tiled with lead. Fowl |
that is brought here, is dried up in a se’night, | t!
and becomes like leather. , t
1. In the first coffin here, is an old English | f
Major, has been here 110 year-.
2. A student who fell in a duel. 170 years. x
3. An old Swedish countess, 140 years.
4. A Swedish General, with his aid-de- v
camp, who perished in the thirty years ’ war. a
He was wounded in his throat. His aid-de
camp got a ball.
5. A workman, w’ho fell down from the *
steeple, broke his neck in the fall, has been a
here 400 years, 1
6. An English lady, who suffered of a can- j
cer at her chin, 190 years.
7. This one is the last, a workman, Conrad 1
Ehlers. He was carried in and placed down t
here, in order to try if the cellar had still kept : \
its power; has been here 50 or 60 years.
8. In the great coffin, here is a Swedish
Chancellor, named Von Engelbrechten. It is j
opened on account of his surviving family. j
TH E i J ON ST I TUT ION A L IST |
Augusta, Georgia.
TUESDAY MOHNING. FEB 27
Mr. Calhoun’s Assailants and their Mo
tives
The bitter and scurilous abuse of Mr. Cal- ■
houn, by certain papers published in the South,
for his efforts iu behalf of Southern rights on
the slavery question, provoke the inquiry—
who are his assailants, and what are their mo- j
lives f When men attack the motives of oth
ers, and charge, with corrupt designs, those
who profess to have worthy objects in view,
I they provoke a game at which two sides can
play.
If a man’s own declarations of what he in
tends upon public matters in which he acts
are not to designate his position, but his as
sailants are to be allowed to ascribe to him de- j
signs which he disavows, he and those who
defend him have a right to tight his assailants
in the same way .
We lay down this proposition preliminary
to taking position iu defence of the motives of
Mr. Calhoun, whom we consider unjustly'and
outrageously assailed and vilified. We shall
examine the motives, as we can best infer
them, of those who arraign Mr. Calhoun’s
motives, and seek to weaken his influence and
depreciate his services. We shall give “ tit
for tat,” and inquire what is the real purpose
in view—what the end aimed at. In this dis
cussion of motives , we shall use as plain lan
guage as may be necessary to convey our j
meaning.
Few just minded men will compassionate
the worsted party who suffers by a mode of
warfare he provokes, or will pity the smash
ing of his glass house, who wantonly casts the
first stone. An enlightened sentiment of
public gratitude and respect for long tried and
eminent ability in the country’s service, will
deprive that assailant of all public aym- 1
! pathy, whose chief labor is to pull down a re- ■
putation built up by nearly a half century of
patriotic toil. Mr. Calhoun has done more to
shed lustre on the American name, and to
promote the great interests of his country,
than could ten thousand such men, were a i
spirit of true patriotism breathed into their
hearts, and their lives prolonged to tea thou- ■
sand years.
We commence our ta*k by -.tating that
j Doctor Daniel Lee, the Editor of the Augusta
\ Chronicle <y Sentinel, has been lavish ol abuse
of Mr. Calhoun—has ascribed to him want of
sincerity in his professions of devotion to the j
true interests of his country, and has charged
him, repeatedly, with keeping up agitation on ,
the slavery question for the purpose of pro
ducing a dissolution of the Union. He has
compared him with Aaron .Burr, as like him
aiming to break up the confederacy, in order
to establish a Southern Republic, and has ap
plied to him the term, " Arch Di-unionist,”
and rung charges on it in every variety of
form.
i
| We here single out and specify Dr. Lee, be
cause he is in fact the real editor ot the Chron
■ icle *• Sentinel. It is his intellect, a clear and
j strong one, and his pen, ably and adroitly
wielded, which give to the Chronicle <x Sentinel
I its present editorial celebrity, its position and j
j its induence. The proprietors and nomi
nal editors appropriate, for their own lucu
brations, but a modest share of the editorial
i columns. We recognise trom their pen
: an occasional contribution, following some
strongly abolition-tinctured editorial in their i
paper which calls forth indignant comments
I from Southern editors. In these propitia- !
tory offerings to outraged Southern senti
ment, the editorial we is assumed, and the pie
bald concern is spoken of " as Southern men,
identified by birth, education,interest and feel
ing with the South.” &e. 1 hus the real editor
is sheltered behind this editorial we, and passed
off, no doubt, upon many confiding readers of j
j the Chronicle Sentinel as a Southern man,
; "identified by birth, education, interest and
' feeling with the "south.” This being believed, j
i his motives for his bitter assaults on a pure, j
j high-minded Southern statesman like Mr. I
| Calhoun, whose great soul and intellect glow !
with honest enthusiasm for the cause of his i
beloved South, escape the suspicion of being
prompted by hostility to slavery.
\et hostility to slavery is the true key,
i we do nut doubt, to Dr. Lee’s animosity !
| to Mr. (.’alhoun. Mr. Calhoun stands before
; the world the great champion of the in- !
• stitution of slavery. While Secretary of
j State, his able letters to our embassador to
j the Court of France, Mr. King, were pub
j Ushed in Europe and this country and
i brought down upon him the tierce aui
| mosity and hate of the abolitionists of both
; hemispheres. He is t ssailed by them as the
| great Slavery Propagandist of his age and sec
tion. The political anti-slavery men of the
: North dread his influence at the South, and j
would rejoice to see him broken down at
home. They well know that as long as he
can rally the Southern people to the defence
of their constitutional rights, and induce, on
their part, a firm resistance to anti-slavery
encroachment, their designs will be defeated,
1 and the inarch of anti-slavery checked. But
let Mr. Calhoun be destroyed, and a great
blow will be struck in behalf of their cause—«
great stumbling block will be removed irocu
their path. By the same blow that strikes '
him down will be swept away ail the ultras— j
the slavery propagandists, as they term them, | \
whose attitude of resistance to Northern ag- s
gression presents -o formidable a barrier to q
l heir attacks. \
1
Such men cannot forgive Mr. Calhoun's fer- 1
vent devotion to the institution of slavery, r
and they hate him for the intellectual power I I
and its legitimate influence, which he bungs t
to its support. He is the object of hatred
alike to the fanatical bigot, a part of whose re- J
ligion it is to abhor slavery, and of the calcu- 1
lating politician of the North, whose object is ]
t » crush the man who stands in the way of i
their schemes for aggrandizing the North at i
the expense of the South. '
Behold the host ! delighting to deprave.
Who track the steps ot glory to the grave.
Watch every fault that daring genius owes
Half to the ardor which its birth bestow-.
Distort the truth—accumulate the lie,
And pile the pyramid of calumny.”
One of the captains of this host is the editor
of the Chronicle, whose editorials here on slave
ry have won for him from a Northern free soil
paper the title "The Vanguard of Anti-Slave
ry at the South.” Who is Dr. Lee ? Where
is he from—where educated, and what the
prejudices he has imbibed on the subject of
slavery r What are the associations by which
he has been surrounded all his life down to
the very recent period at which he has come
among us ? These are pertinent inquiries to
make of one who comes into the very bosom
of the South to assail the motives of one of
the greatest and ablest of all the sons ol the
South, acting on a great vital Southern ques
tion—a question involving our property, our
lives, our social existence i W hat can be
the motives of this man, who so flippantly
talks of traitors, and impugns the motives of
one whose voice has never been raised in tones
of aggression upon the North, and whose lan
guage, so offensive to his assailant’s ears, has
been only in defence of the threatened altars
and firesides of the South?
The answer is at hand. This assailant is
from the very hot-bed of abolitionism iu West
ern New York. He is from a portion of the
world where anti-slavery sentiments are im
bibed in infancy in the mother’s milk, and
breathed iu the surrounding air—where chil
dren are doubtless taught to lisp the alphabet
in spelling books garnished with wood cuts of
naked negroes writhing under the overseer’s
lash—where men of his politics are forced, ac
cording to the acknowledgment of this editor
himself, to propitiate popular favor when
seeking office, by the utterance of abolition
sentiments,and by truckling to anti-slavery so
cieties.
From this tainted political atmospl ere, Dr.
Lee has been but recently translated and
planted among us of the h>outh to lecture us
upon the value and application of slave labor,
| and the constitutional rights of the South
I connected with her slave property.
What the course of this editor on the sla
very question has been since he has been giv
ing tone to the Chronicle cs Sentinel has been
made known by us from time to time to our
readers. It early arrested our attention and
caused us to suspect him of being a Birney
■ itc, and of having voted for Birney, the aboli
tion candidate for President in 1844. Though
more than once interrogated upon the point,
he never denied having so voted, though he
replied to the articles in which the interroga
tory was put and repeated. The course of
the editor may be briefly expressed in the lan
guage a gentleman once used to his teeth.
He told the editor that he was editing the
Chronicle * Sentinel in just such away as
Joshua U. (lidding* would edit it, were he in
his place, for the purpose of preparing the
public mind South for the abolition of slave
r y.
In this view of the course of the editor we
fully coincide, and have heard many express
themselves in the same way.
With this key to many editorials on slavery
which display a shallow pompousness on the
philosophy of labor, and a transparent clap
trap about the indefinite improvableuess of
slave labor, and of slave population being
i crowded with advantage into ten-fold its pre
sent density, we are at no loss to divine the
motives inspiring this unflagging zeal with
which the war is kept up on Mr. Calhoun.
We are aware that there are other assail
ants at the South ot Mr. Calhoun. Even
i some few Southern democrats have shown a
| disposition to join iu the cry tlvat he is a dis-
I unionist. But the motive with these few is
widely different. They have yielded to an
cient grudges and jealousies treasured up or
inherited from past party conflicts, or from
being sometimes provoked and embarrassed
by the sturdy independence of the great Car
! olinian, who would not yield his opinions and
notions of duty to party exigency.
Some Southern Whig leaders have calumnia
ted his motives in like manner, because bis po
sition and influence were in the way of that
facilis descensus by which they contemplate
| sliding down into lame submission to the
I Wilmot Proviso. But we venture the asser
j tion, that wherever an assailant at the South,
j
■whether by newspaper or otherwise, of the
motives of Mr. Calhoun, excels in bitterness,
and transcends the point of abuse which
Southern Whig tactics call for, it will gene
| rally be found that he is a Northern man,
| who has not yet had the anti-slavery prejudi
j ces of his early training worn off by contact
with Southern institutions.
Men of all sections, climes and countries
are welcome among us. The Southern peo
ple are generous and hospitable, and warmly
welcome enterprising and useful citizens to
her bosom of every creed and government,
provided they come in the spirit of loyalty
to her institutions, and not of hostile propa
gandism. She considers it no crime in him
that a man from a non-slaveholding sec
tion should have been taught from infancy to
abhor slavery as a curse and an outrage upon
human rights and Christian principles. But
she expects all such who remain among us, it
t; ey do not change those opinions, to keep
them to themselves. She will not tolerate a ■
war such as the editor of the Chronicle has
commenced, upon what he calls slavery pro
pagandism, but which she considers the right
tul and necessary policy of strengthening the
•lave power in the councils of the Union, and
which she seeks to do by insisting on her eon- !
Stitutional right to a share of the newly ac
quired territories. Whoever wais again-t this,
wars against the vital interests of the South. | h<
Whoever counsel* her to yield them ami >uh- >
rait tamely to the Wilmot Proviso, counse's |
her to dishonor herself, and bow her neck to | 11
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the yoke of Northern masters.
We speak in no personal hostility to Dr. j .>
Lee. As an Agricultural writer we esteem
him an acquisition to the people ot Georgia, j 1
But when he gives v. ice to his anti-slavery
notions we are reminded of a proverb, classic i ,
in its origin but as applicable to us as in the ,
critical days of ancient Troy.
’ . it
“ Timeo L)uu>>os et dorm /eve/ite.-,. : t
We fear the Greeks though they bring ns (
gifts. '
Tennessee Flour- _ j
We learn from the Chattanooga Gazette of j ]
the 23d iust., that between 1500 and 2000 bbls. | (
Flour have been sent to the head of the State I
Rail Koad within the last two or three weeks.
That paper also states that there is plenty of
loading yet for wagons to the head of the road,
and more coming in.
President's Levee. — Lhe last levee ol j
President Polk will take place on Wednesday,
evening, the 28th inst., on which occasion it is
expected, the President elect and his lady and
family will be present.
Flying to California. — Aerial navigation, .
so long contemplated, we are now told is i
about to be realized through a flying machine ;
just constructed in New York by Rutus Poi- 1
ter —who has exhibited an operating model at i
t he Tabernacle, lie proposes by showing its j
operation in that building to prove the practi- |
cability of going to California in five day-! |
A company is constructing one to make the j
trial.
Resignation of Senator Clayton. —The j
Baltimore Clipper ol 23d inst., says “Hon. ,
John M. Clayton has transmitted to the Leg- |
isluture ot Delaware, the resignation of his
commission a-* Senator ot the United States
from that State, to take effect this day. He
has consequently consented to accept the ot
fice of Secretary of State under Gen. Taylor.
A Silver Mine in Maryland. — lhe editor
of the Boonsboro Odd Fellow states that a
friend has informed him that he has discover
ed a silver mine on Red Hill, three miles south
of Boonsboro. A specimen of the oie has
been left at the office of the Odd Fellow. It
is very heavy and resembles silver very much.
Legislative Dead Heads. —The New’ Jersey
Legislature has tollowed the example of one
of the recent Western Legislatures, in stipula
ting for their own free passage over the Pater
son and Hackensack Rail Road, before they
would pass the bill incorporating the com
pany. The mover ot the amendment, declared
his intention to move its incorporation in all
future railroad bills.
Fatal Accident. Mr. James Beard, of
Coffee county Ala., formerly of Georgia, was
accidentally killed at the town of Milton,
Santa Rosa county, Fa., on the 9th inst. It
appears that while unloading his wagon ol
cotton, a loaded ride was about falling from
one of the hales, and as he caught hold of it,
with muzzle towards his body, it was acci
dentally discharged. The ball entered the ab
domen, and killed him instantly. Mr. Beard
was about fifty years of age, and was in com
pany with his sou, a lad of about twelve or
fourteen.
Mr. Grand, the Washington correspondent
i of the Philadelphia I.edger, who has a parti
( cular intimacy with Mr. Buchanan, says no
negotiations are on foot for the annexation of
Cuba, and none are thought of.
Charles Lames, Esq., the newly appointed
Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, left
New York on Tuesday morning for Boston,
there to embark on board the U. S. ship Sa
vannah, Captain Vorhees, which was to sail
Wednesday for the Pacific; and, it is said, with
orders to relieve the Ohio, the present dag
ship on that coast.
Arrival of the Steamship Cherokee. —This
fine steamsphip arrived at Savannah on Satur
day last, in fifty-eight hours from New York.
We return our thanks to the editors of the
Savannah Georgian, for an extra issued from
that office.
A bill to modify the slave law’ of 1833 h;is
passed both branches of the Kentucky Legis
lature, and become a law’. It provides that
men may bring into Kentucky as many slaves
as they please for their own use, but requires
that they should not dispose of them for rive
years.
Proclamation of the Postage Treaty,—
In the Washington Union of the 23d inst. we
find the President’s proclamation of the po.slal
treaty between England and the United States.
The convention having been duly ratified on
both parts, and the respective ratifications ex
changed at London, on the 26th day of Janu
ary last, it now' therefore goes immediately
into effect. The treaty comprises twenty
three articles.
—
Hoax. —The tragedy in Schuler county,Mis
souri, of which an account was published a
few’ days ago, turns out to be a hoax. The
idea of a man robbing his own house, and get
ting shot by his wife, was rather romantic.
The steam ship Niagara, Capt. Stone, sailed
from Boston, at 1 o’clock on Wednesday, for
Halifax and Liverpool, with 8 passengers for |
I the former and 54 for the latter. The mails ;
which left New York on Tuesday evening did
not anive until half-past II o’clock. The :
steamer had left her dock, but the mails were j
put ou board by one of the East Boston ferry
boats. The Niagara carries upwards ot 50,- ,
000 letters.
The steam ship Southerner arrived at New
York early on Wednesday morning, having |
I experienced very boisterous weather. She
anchored off the Hook at 10 o'clock the pre- i
vious night. The letters for the Br. steamer
Niagara, did not therefore reach Boston in
time. 1
j From the Macon Journal y Messenger.]
Medical Convention.
At a meeting ot the Physicians of Macon,
leld on the 19th February. Charles Thomp
,on. M. 1>- was called to the Chair, and C. T.
4uiniar<l, M. lb, appointed Secretary.
The Chairman briefly staled, that the meti
ng had been called to make such arrangements
ts'might be thought proper for the State Medi
cal Convention, to assemble in Macon on the
20th, of March next.
Dr. James M. Green then offered the follow
in'.’:
Resolved, That we concur in the propriety
and necessity of a general convention ot the
Medical Practitioners ot this State, lor the pur
pose ot forming a “Stale Medical Association,
and for other purposes beneficial to the pro
fession,” as suggested by the Medical Society
of Augusta and Savannah; ami also, that the
citv of Macon, from its central position ai d
readiness of access, is very eligible for the as
semblage of tire convention.
This, with the following resolutions, ottered
by Dr. E. J. Strohecker, was unanimously a.M
cordially adopted:
Resolved, That we will greet those of the
Faculty who may assemble here, at ti.e time
designated, ma spirit ot courtesy, kindly con
sideration, and professional fellowship, and be
happy to co-operate with them in the enact
nunt of any measures having fur their object
the j romotioa of the interests of Medical
Science in Georgia.
Resolved, That a committee of three be ap
pointed for the purpose of procuring a Hall and
making such other arrangements as they mas
deem nec ssary lor the accomm .’dation of the
convention.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meet
ing be published in the city pa pers, in the
; March No. of the Southern Medical and Sur
; gical Journal, and that Editors generally
j throughout the State he requested to circulate
intelligence of the time and pince ui meet
ing-
The Chairman then appointed the tollow
i ing Committee of Arrangements : Drs. E. L.
Stroheeker, James M. Green and C. T. Quin
j tard.
A motion w’as made and adopted, that the
i Committee confer with the President and Di
j rector of the Central Railroad, and request
I them to unite with the officers of the State
! Railroad in reducing the f ire to the half price
! for all members of the Convention —delegates
! to pay full price in coming to the Convention,
and the President of the Convention to sign
a free return ticket.
A motion was also made and seconded,that
the Secretary transmit copies of the minutes
of this meeting to the Medical Societies of
Vugusta and Savannah.
CHARLES THOMPSON. M. D. t Ch’m.
C. T. Quintard, M. D., Secretary.
[Telegraphed for the Charleston C'ouHri ]
New York Market
: Out Baltimore correspondent writes undet
date of ” Friday afternoon,” that the sales ot
Cotton that day amounted to one thousand
bales, at a quarter of a cent advance.
Treasury Notes rose to 112.4, and New Loan
j to IHJ, w hich shows that the Money market
j was in a buoyant state.
Prom Washing-tea
lathe Senate, on Saturday. Mr. Hale ob
jected to the second reading of the Civil List
Bill. There was a debate on <» proposition
made for the temporary Government ot Cali
fornia, in which Messrs. Walker, Hale, But
ler, Webster, Calhoun, Dayton and Douglas.
, participated.
In the House, the hill granting lands to
Louisiana, and the Post Office Appropriation
Bill were passed, a discussion arising, and
I speeches made, however, on the slavery ques
tion, which appears to be brought into every
matter that becomes a subject ol debate. The
i California State Bill was taken up. Mr.
, Chapman made a speech, but no decision was
had ou any matter that would " ; vr n >.dica
tion of the feeling of the House.
There was nothing known in W ashington
1 in reference to the selection of Gen. Taylor's
. Cabinet, beyond the tact that Mr. (..’layion has
been designated as Secretary of biatc.
[From the Charlesfirn Courier, j
Arrival of the Steamer Isabel
, LATEST EROM 11A VAN A.
F Yesterday afternoon, the Steam Ship Isabel,
(’apt. Rolling, with her usual punctuality, ar
rived at this port from Havana, bringing us
files of papers and letters to the day of her
leaving that port, which was on Thursday
; last.
The steam ship Crescent City arrived at
Havana on Thursday morning last, at 7 o’clock,
from Chagrcs, and was to have sailed from
thence for New York ou Saturday. She had
but few passengers on board, and a- lar as we
; can learn, brought no news of importance
from the gold region.
The Isabel, on Friday afternoon, at 4 P. M.
passed the schr. Merchant, from Havana,
bound to this port. Oft* Indian Key spoke
ship General Perry, from New Orleans, bound
to New York. Off Florida' Light, saw bark
, Isvanhoe, bound North.
The quarantine at Havana, as far as vessels
1 from the United States are concerned, is not
enforced except from those arriving irom New
Orleans, and as the disease has subsided there,
the restriction will doubtless be immediately
taken off from them.
The Viennoise Children, it is supposed,
will go to New Orleans, intending to take
passage in the next British steamer.
The Ravel Family were playing at the Ta
con Theatre, to crowded houses.
A vessel from New’ York bound to Vera
Cruz, having a number of California passen
gers on board, t melted at Havana, and after
being supplied with fresh provisions. Ac., pro
ceeded on her voyage.
lhe weather at Havana was unusually cold
and unpleasant, shewing that the inclement
storm which pinched us so severely, in this
section of country, had extended to Cuba.
Madame Tedesco and troupe are expected to
take passage in the Isabel, on her next trip,
they being on their way to Europe, We trust
| that inducements may be offered sufficient to
i secure a short stay in our city.
Aerial Navigation —lhe Tabernacle was
filled on Wednesday night by a crowd anxious
to hear the lecture and see the operation of
the new Aerial Locomotive. The model, w’hich
was about ten feet in length, was tolerably
successful. Sometimes it would get too near
the gas-lights of the gallery, and once or twice
it was in danger from the_ cairns of me Tiling
spectators. It did not make a complete circle
through the air, but obeyed the rudder with
sufficient exactness to show ;he practicability
of the plan.—We understand that a machine
of sufficient size to carry two or three persons,
is now being constructed. This would test
j the matter thoroughly.— \ew lor I: Tribune,
Cold Weather.—Thus far, the month of
February has favored us with unusually cold
! weather. Last Sunday was a day as cold,
j dry, windy and disagreeable as we ever ex
perienced in this latitude, only exeeded by
the cold Saturday of 1835. On Monday, at
j sunrise, our Thermometer stood at ox\\y five de
grees above Zero —and another instrument of
the kind, in a more exposed situation, (as we
learn from a gentleman in this town,) indica
ted only one degree above Zero! This is colder
than it has been at any time since the “cold
j Saturday” of February, 1835. Those haring