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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
JAMES GARDNER, JR.
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I From the Florida -p • ' an d Extra., August 1.)
More of tie 1. .ixu Outrages.
On Monday evening last, the Hon. J. T.
Mag bee arrived here from Tampa Bay, bring
ing intelligence of further outrages by the In
dians, and bearing a despatch from Major Mor
ns to Gov. Moseley. The intelligence was
given in an extra of the Wakulla Times as
follows;
“Late one Tuesday evening, the 17th last,
four Indians made their appearance at the In
dian store located on Peas Creek, kept by a
Mr. Payne. They desired to sleep in the store.
Mr. P. informed them that it was against the
rules of the place. They then reported hav
ing large packs for trade on the opposite side
of the river, and tried to induce him to go 1
after them, which he promised to attend to
after supper. He, together with a Mr. Whid
den and a Mr. McCullough went into the
house to supper, and had scarcely taken their
seats it the tabic, when, the Indians tired
through the door, killing dead Messrs. Payne
and Whidden, and wounding McCullough in
the shoulder. McCullough sprung to a gun,
which deterred them long enough for his wife
to catch up her child and rush from the house, j
he following. The Indians fired upon them
as they run, wounding both of them in the
legs. They secreted themselves in some pal
znettoes and escaped.
“A camp In the same neighborhood w-as fired
on, the 19th by four Indians, and a boy shot.
The whole of the East is in confusion, the set
tlers leaving as fast as possible.
“There is now not a doubt of this being a
preconcerted m vemeut of the Indians; and
their evident plan is to carr}’ on the worst of !
all wars—a guerilla war.”
Ihe despatch ot Major Morris expressed the ’
opinion that these outrages m ght have be ui ;
committed by a'few savages for the purpose of
plunder, and that he had sent a small detach
ment of men to the ground to enquire into the
matter. The following despatch, a copy oi
which was received by the Governor to-day,
gives the result of that expedition;
Fort Bkooke, Tampa, > j
July 25, 1849. > j
Sir. Lieut. J. S. Garland has just reported !
to me on his return from Peas Creek, —He saw
no Indians. The trading house, with its out
buildings, were found burned to the ground,
and a small bridge near by partially destroyed. |
The bones of Payne and Whidden were found j
on the spot where they had fallen, and were j
collected and buried.
A barrel of Whiskey was found near the ;
house, untouched. From this circumstance, ;
and the fact of there being no sign of any thing
else which had been left in the store, there is I
yet ground for hope that it may have been a I
party for the purpose of plunder. Tracks were
seen going to and fro from the store to the riv
er, as if the Indians had been engaged in bear
ing off the goods.
Whiddeu’s camp, near five miles off, was
left undisturbed, with tue exception of a small
sura of money taken.
Footpiints were seen both in going to the
Trading House, and in returning, and the In
dians were doubtless aware of the movement
of the troops. Had they been in force, and
disposed, tney might have had much advantage
in an attack on them.
Lieut. Garland performed this duty in a ra
pid and soldierlike manner. Lieut. Gibbon,
who iseouahy prompt and energetic, I have j
sent to Manatee with arms and ammunition, at
the request of the settlement for assistance and
protection.
I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient serv’t
W. W. MORRIS,
Major U. S. A. Com’g Post.
Muj. Gen. R. Jones, •
Adj. Gen. U. S. A., Washington.
In a postscript, the Major adds:
“I omitted to state iu the body of my report,
that from the testimony of the persons who
escaped from the Trading House, and Whid
dea, the Indians are believed to have been
perfectly sober on both occasions.”
It is remark able that the officer in command
at Tampa is the only one of all the correspon
dents from that quarter who seems to enter
tain d-übt as to the hostile intention of the
Indians: and it is still more remarkable that
Major Morris should base his doubt on any cir
cumstance stated in his letter to the Adjutant
General.
To all who are acquainted with the Indian
character, and with past experience in regard
to their mode ot beginning gard to their mode
ot beginning hostilities, every circumstance
related this far ten is to bring conviction that
war is the object of the traces.
To say nothing of the murders—if the f.ole
object were “plunder,” would the Indiana
have burned dwelling-houses and a store ?
would they have destroyed a bridge ! Would
they have left “untouched a barrel of whis
ky ! ”
No : the fact that they have committed all
these enormities while “ perfectly sober,”
with a barrel of whisky in their reach, too,
is incontestable proof of their design to wage
war. And the burning of the bridge —to ob
struct pursuit, either present or in future—is
one of the .'east equivocal of all the signs and
demonstrations.
The following extract from a letter received
from an intelligent gentleman of Ocala shows
the state of things in that quarter :
" Much excitement prevails among the ci
tizens South of this place ; and unless a force
sufficient to protect, the frontier is ordered in
the field, they will abandon their homes and
leave their caops and stock to the mercy of
the savages, who, from all accounts, are bet
ter prepared by far than they ever were for
carrying on offensive operations. Nothing re
cent to the two outrages of Indian River and
Peas Creek have reached our ears, but it is
apparent to all who are the least a:quainted
with the Indian character, that they are ful
ly prepared for war, and are determined to
wage it to the knife.
Throughout the counties of Benton and
Hillsborough, the people are toning Thera
seives in, as also in this county, with a lauda
ble determination-*} keep their ground until
succor van arrive.”
The following is an extract from a commu
nication of Col. Mitchel of the 10th Regiment
F. M.;
“The despatches which accompany this
will apprize you that they have manifested a
serious intention, to renew their course of
plunder and bloodshed.
Jf they persevere in this intention, and be-
n i———
come aggressive in their hostilities, the whole (
of the lower portion of East Horida will he,
abandoned, and the people as far North as this
will feel themselves insecure unless some mea
sures be adopted to insure them of protection.
Indeed, great fear begins to show itself at this i
time.
I have adopted measures to make tne res
pective companies of the 2d Bat., KTh Regt., i
fit for service, and will continue to do this un- ,
til I receive instructions from yourself.
I believe a dratt or requisition for men in j
any form will be promptly met and supplied.
In addition to the company already sent o
under Caot. Fisher, we understand that anoth
er company will be raised here, and that tne
Governor will authorize one to be ra wedin
Marion county. 1 hese. it is hoped, will fur
nish security to the settlers, and enable them
to return to their crops. It is an emergency
requiiing speedy action, and the promptness
with which the Governor has met it will com- i
mand the approbation of all who desire that
their fellow citizens should be propetly pro
tected.
He has also despatched Gen. L. A. Thomp
son and 001. B. F. Whitner, as Commissioners
to Washington, to confer with the General
Government on the subjet, and to urge some
speedy action for relieving our State from the
incubus of these savage foes.
tm (Institutionalist
Augusta, (Georgia.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUG. 8.
I>EMOCK ATI C NOMIN ATION.
FOU GOVERNOR,
GEORGE W. TOWNS.
*• The Danger of Wrong Theories.”
Under this formidable title, assumed to cre
: ate prejudices against State Rights doctrines,
I the Chronicle A Sentinel put forth on the 20th
ult., an editorial containing the rankest Fede
ral heresies that were ever promulgated in the
United. States. A few short years ago, no
man in Georgia could have been elected a d <g
whipper, who would have subscribed to the
abominable federal sentiments that this lead-
I ing organ of whiggery in Georgia, now boldly
proclaims. But with the stealthy and insidi
j ous march of corruption, which has character
! ixed, step by step, that most unscrupulous of
all parties that has ever figured in the politics
of this country, the whig party of Georgia
has veered round in those few years, from the
extreme of State Rights principles, to the ex
: treme of blue light federalism. Its abandon
i ment of those old conservative land marks of
j strict construction which so strikingly charac
terized it when no greater danger threatened the
South than the enactment of a protective ta
riff, was of itself sufficiently wanton, corrupt,
j and disgrace! x\. It showed that its political
j leaders coveted power and party success as the
highest of all desirable objects, for the attain
| ment of which the sacrifice of constitutional
: principles, and dearly cherished State Rights,
was to be unhesitatingly made. Hence, llen
! ry Clay, the great champion of the protective
system, who was once the theme of denuncia
tion of anti-tariff whigs, became the idolized
leader of these same whigs.
But shameless as was this conduct, and se
vere as was the blow to the party of strict con
struction in the South, that only safe party
for Southern rights, it was harmless, com
pared to the desertion of principles, and with
them of rights which is now contemplated
by this same whig party. Wo look to the
Chronicle & Sentinel, the leading, favorite and
most extensively patronized paper of the
Georgia whigs, as an exponent of Georgia
whiggery. It was once “ the organ of the Xul
lifiers,” and of State Rights whiggery, and was
then a favorite paper. It holds its position
still, as the favorite organ of the same men, and
the same party. When, therefore, we see
doctrines put forth by that paper, as the true
theory of Government, which are not dis
claimed by but one other of the whig papers
of the State, we conclude that it speaks the
sentiments of that party.
That editorial of the 20th July, which we
copied in our last weekly, betrays another
abandonment of the rights of the South, more
alarming and more fatal than any that has yet
occurred. It strikes a fatal stab at the re
served rights of the States, in which alone the
South relies in the last resort for safety, and
ties her hand and foot, and delivers her over
to her enemies. It is (he preparatory step to the
bargain, sale, and delivery of the South to the
anti-slavery patty of the North. It is more
than this. It is the distinct announce
ment of abject submission to the anti-slave
ry party. We mean by that term all the
Northern whigs, from Millard Fillmore, and
Collamer, Ewing, Seward, Winthrep, Cor
win, and Truman Smith, down o “ the van
guard of anti-slavery at the South,” and all
the Free Soil democrats from Martin Van
Buren and Tom Benton, down to their hum
blest follower. It is the announcement to
them that they may pursue thsq unhallowed
designs, and if the Southern people dare re
sist, in the once sacred, now despised name of
the sovereign rights of the States, they must
be put down as traitors.
It has hitherto been believed among us, that
if the anti-slavery North, which has the poli
tical power, should undertake to destroy slave
ry in the Southern Stages, either by open as
sault, or by insidious legislation, in violation
of every principle of justice, and every guar
anty of the Constitution, the South had her
protection in the reserved rights of the Sovereign
States.
This protection the whigs now deny to her. —
The whigs deny that the States are sovereign.
The Chronicle denies this, and with but one
exception, that of the Augusta Republic, the
whig press by their silence acq tiesce in this
denial.
Mr. Calhoun in his late letter says ;
“ Its (the Federal Government) power and
authority were conferred on it, not to establish
or to abolish property, or rights of any de
scription, but to protect them. To establish
or abolish belongs to the States, in their sepa
rate sovereign capacity —the capacity in whicn
they created both the general and their sepa
rate State governments.”
I This parag.aph is quoted, and most con
, temptuously commented on by the Chronicle, z
The proposition is pronounced “an absurdity
on the face of it.” The following paragraph is j
| put forth in refutation. (
“ State sovereignties 7 ' had as little to
DO IN CREATING THE NATION AL GOVERNMENT OF
this Republic as they had in creating
THEMSELVES. OIR NATIONAL CONSTITUTION
HAS ITS BEING FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE,
WHOSE VIRTUE, KNOWLEDGE AND WILL ARL
THE ONLY SUBSTANTIAL SOVEREIGNTY IN THF
LAND. Any public MAN WHO attempts to
ESTABLISH AND M AINTAIN A DIFFERENT OR AN
ANTAGONIST, SOVEREIGNTY, (SUPREME POWER)
UNDER THE N AME OF “ IST ATE RIGHTS” OR OF
“ORIGINAL EXECUTIVE RIGHTS,” AS CONTRN
| DED FOR BY PRESIDENT JaCKSON. WILL SOON
ENCOUNTER A POWER THAT WILL NULLIfVHIS
i FICTITIOUS SOVEREIGNTY. It IS IMPORTANT TO
' UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY THE POINT THAT. OUR
j national government owes its vitality no
moke to State governments than it does
TO CITY GOVERN MENTS, BECAUSE BOTH ARE OLD
ER THAN THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION. THAT
MAGNA CHARTA OF THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES
OF ALL CITIZENS BEGINS BY SAVING : “ Wk, THE
People of the Unite States,do ordain and
ESTABLISH THIS CONSTITUTION,” THE NECESSI
TY FOR ESTABLISHING V NEW SOVEREIGNTY
ABOVE AND AT THE EXPENSE OF STATE SO
j VEREIGN ITES. GROWS OUT OF THE INEFFICIENCY
of the old Confederacy «f independent
States for all national purposes.
Reader, look at this. Examine it. Scan it
closely. What does it assert ?
It asserts that “ Stale Sovereignties” did not
create this federal government.
If this assertion be true, then there are no
State sovereignties—the States ore not sove
reign. Then this government is not a confed
l eration of sovereign States.
There are but two theories us to the manner
i in which this government was formed, and as
to the nature of our Federal Union. One is
that it is a league or confederation of sovereign
States, united under a compact, each sove
i reign State delegating a portion of its sove
reign powers to the General Government,
which is the creature and common agent of
all, and reserving to itself the balance of its
i powers.
The other theory is, that it is a government
springing immediately from the w hole Ame
rican people, acting directly, and not as
State sovereignties—that it is a government
created supreme and sovereign over the States,
at the expense of the States, and that by its
creation it swallowed up and destroyed the
sovereignty of the States —that its constitu
ency to whom solely it is amenable, is “ The
American people” as one great aggregate
community, whose will is tne sovereign pow
er.
| This is the doctrine of the Consolidationists.
It is the doctrine of the old Federalists, the
blue light Federalists. It is the doctrine of
Daniel Webster, the great expounder of Fed
eralism.
The doctrine of the State Rights school,
which the whig leaders of Georgia now repu
diate is that THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED
States who formed this National Govern
ment, are the people of the separate sov
ereign Slates, each acting in its separate
capacity as a sovereign community, and as
a sovereign community announcing its acces
sion to the Federal Union. It >oas in this
wav they each acted, and in this way each
announced its accession. Sovereign and in
dependent before, they each came in, one by
one, at different times, and not in an aggre
gate mass by one act of volition. Two of these
sovereignties, North Carolina and Kho le Is
land, came in after all the rest had done so, and
alter first having refused to accede to the
Union.
Yet the doctrine that this Union is a con
j federation of sovereign States, is emphatically
denounced by the Chronicle Sentinel as “the
grand error in Mr. Calhoun’s view s of the na
ture and powers of the General Government.”
Speaking of property in slaves, Mr, Calhoun
says of the Federal Government;
“ Its power and authority were conferred on
it not to establish or abolish property, or rights
of any description, but to protect them. To
establish or abolish, belongs to the States, in
their separate sovereign capacity—the capaci
ty in which they created both the general and
their separate State governments.”
This paragraph is singled out by this lead
ing whig paper in Georgia ior especial denun
ciation and ridicule. We presume that its es
pecial hostility is provoked, because the pro
position conveys a deadly stab at the Wilmot
Proviso—a measure which the Chronicle Sen
tinel, and Toombs and Stephens, believa to he
constitutional. The proposition says: Tile
States in their respective sovereign capacities,
and they alone can establish or abolish proper
ty in slaves. The Federal Government cannot.
Unless a State is sovereign, it clearly cannot
exercise this high, attribute of sovereignty,
over slave property or any other proper
ty. Yet the sovereignty of the States is de
nied. The Federal Government is the repre
sentative of the sovereignty of this coun
try according to the new whig doctrine, —
not the State governments. We are told by
the Chroijicls “ State sovereignties had as
little to do in creating the National Gov
ernment of this Republic as they had in crea
ting themselves. Our National Constitution
has its being from the American people,
whose virtue, knowledge and will, are the
only substantial sovereignty in the land.”—
We are further told by this high whig autho
rity, “ any public mau who attempts to es
tablish and maintain a different, or an antago
nist sovereignty (supreme power) under the
name of “ State Rights,” or fK “ Original Exe
cutive Rights,” as contended for by President
Jackson, will soon encounter a power that will
nullify his fictitious sovereignty.”
“ Fictitious sovereignty.” Then the sover
eignty of the Slate is all a fiction. Even Gen.
Jackson,.with the sins of the proclamation on
his head, which aimed so deadly a blow to
State Rights, was too much of a State Rights
man for the Chronicle and Sentinel. Whoever
stands up for the sovereignty of the States, is
threatened with an encounter, with a power
that will nullify this “ fictitious sovereignty .”
What power is this ? Is it the power of the
“ conservative bayonets” of Gen Zachary Taylor,
with Fillmore, and Collamer, and Ewing, and
Corwin, and Seward, and Truman Smith, as
his Lieutenants -
This threat of power that will nullify State
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Hamburg 11*994' 8/>l3 1,55, r > 4,3<0
Bremen j 10,347] 5*409 i 147220' 17,977 •••••••* *** Vi«» ' 177777
Barcelona. , U 1,125 1,445 34,9981 40,056 ,489 J. 460 777..
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New York jj 121,899‘ ~58765l .100,018’ 51,764 37,108, 44,497. j 65,276) 61,032 •••••••: ;
Boston ' 96,288. 19,979 26,707, 17,936 40,281 38,8,9 109 499 14,5!3 5.540
Providence 3,620 7G2 4,646 3 ;743 13,u0, 11,9-1 J6W h 382 939
Philadelphia 10,9ul 4,419 15,814 13,04 i. a\dq q’v4 Vuqq) 12,317 \j7C7 ........
Baltimore 1 1,140 1,185 10.993 H'l : 8 615 2,464 2,539
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Tol d Coastwise .... 179,520 104,793
- ■ 246,913 179,958 170,042 118,533 9,934,929.2,384,009
Grand Total il 395,525 222,200 453.698* 283,866 , 521,747 421,229, 1,147,004 1,15-, -n » 7
sovereignty would be a portentous and* start
ling one, even in a Northern abolition paper.
When Northern Whig papers have talked of
whipping the South into submission if she did
not submit quietly to be voted do -.vn, it Iras
cau-ed at least indignation among us. But
when a Southern press talks of nullifying
‘•State sovereignty” by an antagonistic power, j
there is a grave significance in it which should ;
arouse the deepest apprehensions of the State '
Rights man and the slaveholder.
There is hut one step more for the Chronicle ,
and Sentinel to take in its war upon State so- j
vertignty—the great stay and prop of the
South —the sheet anchor of safety to the slave
holder. Mr. Calhoun’s two propositions are
Ist. that the States are sovereign, and 2nd,
that it belongs to them as one of the attributes
of sovereignty, and not to the federal govern
ment, to establish or to abolish property.
The first, the Chronicle and Sentinel denies.
The next step would naturally be to deny the
second. Ihe position of tno C h) omcle then,
would he : The federal government can estab
lish or abolish property. Slaves arc property.
The federal government therefore, can estab
lish or abolish property in slaves.
This is the Wilrnot Proviso platform, so far
j ;i3 the new territories are concerned. The
i X irthern Whigs and Free Soilers, claim for
the federal government the right to abolish
property in slaves in the new territories. The
Chronicle and Sentinel admits that right, in ad
mitting the right of Congress to pass the
Wilrnot Proviso. Messrs. Toombs and Ste
phens, the leaders of the Whig party, and
whose opinions are sanctioned by the Whig
party of Georgia, admit that Congress has the
right thus to abolish slavery. Neither the
Chronicle and Sentinel, nor Toombs, nor Ste- j
phena, has ever pul forth an argument or a
word, to show that Congress has not the right
to prohibit property in slaves in the new terri
tori is. On the contrary they all contend that
Congress may legislate on the subject. Ad
mitting this is yielding the whole question.
But one step more will place the Chronicle
and Sentinel on the platform of Wm. H. Seward,
a New York Whig, and the confidential friend
and adviser of the new Whig President. This
is the man that contends that slavery is
inconsistent with the fundamental principles
of liberty and of American institutions, and
should not be lecognizedas protected by the
American constitution. Ibis doctrine he
promulgated in Ohio last tall. Ihe light to
abolish slavery in the State will be the next
platform of anti-slavery. To do this they
will take the Chronicle and Sentinel's ground
that the States are not sovereign. lie
who believes that the Northern Whigs and
Free Soilers, will not next attempt to destroy
slavery in the States, is wofully stupid, or wil
fully blind. The Wilrnot Proviso, and the
abolition of slavery in the federal district, are
but entering wedges.
The danger then, from wrong theories, is that
the South is to be disarmed by them. The
Chronicle and Sentinel, with the apparent sanc
tion of the Whig party of Georgia, denies that
the States are sovereign, and threatens them
with an 41 antagonist sovereignty that will nul
lify such fictitious sovereignty, if any one of them
dare set it up in opposition.
The issue for the South is fast approaching.
It is resistance, or submission to the will of the
North on the slavery question. It is plain
that the Chronicle and Sentinel is for submis
sion, and denies the right of resistance to the
South.
This same arch abolitionist, Seward, and the
Chronicle and Sentinel seem to understand each
other perfectly, as to the power of the federal
government and the uses of “ conservative bay
onets” in nullifying the “ fictitious”
sovereignty of the States. In a late letter to a
Whig committee in Philadelphia, this man Se
ward. thus insolently talks of coercing the
j South into submission to the anti-slavery de-
I signs of THE WHIG PARTY.
j “ All enlightened, sagacious and candid
{ men, see that the period has arrived, when
! slavery ought not to bo defended, and cannot
i be protected by the power or influence of the
Federal Government, as it has been hereto
fore protected and defended, against the legi
timate constitutional efforts to coniine it with
in the States, where it is sanctioned by Con
stitutions and Laws. It is equally apparent
that the withdrawal of that protection and de
fence will rouse the spirit ox faction and se
dition. What other party than the Whig par
ty has fully adopted as its basis the inalienble
rights of man, and is, therefore, so well quali
fied to divorce the Federal Government from
slavery r What other party has so implicitly
adopted the principles of the absolute supre
macy of the laws, and therefore so well pre
pared to repress faction ?
Southern Whigs may bellow till they are
hoarse about a coalition of Southern Demo
crats with Northern Democrats and abolition
ists, to overthrow “ old Zack’s” administra
tion —to overthrow a Southern President. It
will not deceive the South. Southern Demo
crats oppose his administration, because,
though ho is a slaveholder himself, his
is necesltfirily an anti-slavery administration,
and anti-slavery counsels predominate in it
Seward in the above paragraph speaks the lan
guage of the Whig party. There is a coalition
now, as there was when Gen. Taylor was clect
j ed by their joint efforts, between the Southern
Whigs, and the Northern Whigsof whom Se
ward is a type and an exponent. To maintain
that coalition the South must be sacrificed, and
the doctrines of the Chronicle and Sentinel and
of Wm. H. Seward, are the fit preparations for
that sacrifice. They proclaim to the South,
abject, passive, submission, or submission at
the end of the “ conservative bayonets ” of the
federal government.
One word as to the contemptible Whig slang
of coalition between Southern Democrats and
Northern Democrats, and all other elements of
Northern opposition to Gen. Taylor and the
Whig party. The Northern opponents of
Gen. Taylor are at liberty to oppose that
nominal President —a mere automaton in
the hands of the Whig politicians —on what
grounds they see proper, and they are
abundant enough in ail conscience. They are
not more bitterly hostile to the South than the
Northern supporters of Gen. Taylor. But the
Southern Democrats holds no alliance, and ac
inw 'lgeno sympathy with any Northern
< i ..t does not hold that the Wilmot Provi
, ... unconstitutional. The Southern Whigs do
coalesce with Northern men who hold that the
Proviso is constitutional, and are unanimous for
it. This is one difference between us at the
South. The Southern Democrats hold that
the only coaution in which the South should
trust for safety, is in a coalition of the sovereign
States of the South, pledged to resist all en- I
croaehments by the North, on her rights, as a
slaveholding people, “at all hazards and to the
last extremity.” The Southern Whigs hold
that resistance to the federal government is
treason, and that all who speak of it are agita
tors and traitors—that the coalition between
Southern Whigs and Northern Whigs, anti
slavery men and abolitionists though they are,
should be kept up at all hazards, and the union
be preserved, even by “ eonssrvativ* bayonets
if necessary, on such terms as the Northern
Whigs may die ate.
Swords to (Jen. Twig-grs. Cols Walker
and Hardoe, and Capt Tataall
A correspondent of the Savannah Republi
can makes some inquiry as to when these
swords will ba forth-coming. Hi is disposed
to cast censure on Gov. Towns as having neg
lected to act under the resolutions of the last
Legislature on this subject. We take occasion
to set him right, and to say that the swords
are nearly finished, and will be at Miiledge
ville sometime in next month,
i We are authorized to make this statement
i by Messrs. Clark, Rackett & Co., of this city,
who have the contract, and under whose or
! ders the swords are being made at the North
' in the handsomest style.
{ Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.)
Baltimore, Aug. 5.
Further by the Cambria
The mail by the Ur. steamship Cambria, ar
rived here this day, bringing us the English
papers and letters. The following are some
, j additional items of intelligence, not previous.
I ly communicated to you.
Wilmer & Smith's Times, state that all kinds
t of American Cottons have advanced tully sd.
I per pound. Fair Uplands quoted at 5Jd; Mo
j bile Orleans s|d. Sea Island has ad
| vanced per lb. There is an active business
in the manufacturing districts.
1 The negotiations lor concluding a peace be
> tween Austria and Piedmont are suspended.
, The armistice between Prussia and Den
mark, stipulating for a suspension ot hostilities
by sea and laud for six months were ratified.
At the close of this period, if the armistice is
1 not renewed it continues for six months lon
ger. The blockade is to be raised as soon
as the German troops are removed south o*
Fiensburg. During the continuance of this
armis t ice, the Duchy of Schleswig is to be
| governed by Commissioners, of which one
member is io be nominated by the King of
Prussia, and one by Denmark. The Queen of
England is requested to nominate the third
Commissioner, to decide all questions where
the other two Commissioners cannot agree.
Northern Germany is now quiet, but the
, Southern insurgents still hold on to the Grand
Duchy of Baden, excepting the fortress of
lladstadt,which is occupied by Prussian troops.
; The lives of captive Republicans aie to be
spared, and transported to America.
. In toe fifth Congressional District of North
Carolina, Venable gains largely. In the ninth
‘ district Outlaw is certainly elected. In the
I seventh district, Ashe will probably succeed.
New York, Aug. i.
Holders of Cotton now demand an advance
of an eighth of a cent per pound.
Fayetteville, Aug. 6—9.56 P. M.
Deberry, Clingman, Jos. H. Caldwell. Shep
herd, Outlaw, Venable, Daniel. Ashe,
elected. The Stanley district is doubtful -
close.
New Orleans, Aug. I—6 50, P. M.
There was no mercantile business transacted
here yesterday, it being Fast Day.
The steam ship Falcon arrived here last night,
in six days and eleven hours from Chagres. She
brings forty-five passengers, and $170,000
worth of gold dust, all consigned to N. York
The rainy season had commenced at Chagres,
and there was much sickness both there and at
Panama.
j There were 700 emigrants at Panama, await
ing transportation. The steam ship Panama
was to leave for San Francisco on the 28th
inq., and the Oregon on the Ist of September.
The Cholera is raging at Carthagena.
The Falcon saw a wreck ashore at Provi
dence Island, supposed to be the propeller Col-
Stanton, from New Orleans bound to Chagres.
The Br. steamer Dee and steam ship Empire
City, just arrived.
There was no news from Sah Francisco later
than that brought by the Crescent City.