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THE CONSTITUTION ALI ST.
JAMES GARDNER, JR.
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Son? of Autumn
I come, I come, ye may hear my song,
From hill top to valley, ’tis pealing along;
The leafless bough is my wild harp string.
And loudly and long do their echoes ring.
Ye may know ray path by the golden grain,
And the rainbow hues on my bordered train ;
By the towering maple’s scarlet tress,
And her forest sister's gorgeous dress.
The wild flower bows her gentle head,
As she hears afar my conquering tread,
And the prince of the forest doffs his crest,
Asa beggar lowly to a kingly guest.
Ve may see my power in the night waik still.
When the starlight sleeps on the mountain rill;
Where the ripples that danced the livelong day,
1 hu-h in then- wild and careless play.
And bind them fast with a chrystal chain,
That a sunbeam’s touch might break again ;
While fairy frost with her glittering gems.
Weaves me many a diadem.
Oh proudly now I career along,
And breezes are pealing my triumph song,
While earth from her garner her treasure brings,
To lay on the shrine of the Autumn king.
But listen ! I hear a note of dread.
And I see afar a hoary head,
And a freezing look from a piercing eye,
Warns me with a lightning speed to fly.
'Tis icy cold Winter, I know him well,
I have felt before hi> withering spell;
A grim old tyrant and lordly is he,
And he laughs outright when he’s conquered me.
[From the Washington Union. 11th inst .]
More Confessions of a Whi? Ally.
Whig Temporary Artifice — Whig Farandula —
Whig Organs —and the Lightning-rod Tactics
of the National Intelligencer.
tTnder the auspices of Mr. Clayton our for
eign affairs are da ly becoming more involved
in difficulty and confusion; and amidst this
difficulty and confusion a new fashion has
been adopted in our diplomatic transactions.
Hitherto the Secretary of State has conduct
ed our negotiations with foreign powers by di
plomatic despatch sent to our ministers to
guide them in their correspondence with the
governments to which they are accredited, or
by diplomatic notes addressed to the foreign
minister accredited to our government and
residing near Washington. But now it seems,
at least so far as Spain is concerned, that di
plomatic discussions are by the United States
conducted through the columns of the Na
tional Intelligencer by means of editorial pa
ragraphs understood, of course, to bo official;
and Senor Don Calderon responds on behalf
of Spain under the editorial head of La Croni
ca, the Spanish government paper, located at
New York. So far as the particular discussion
now on hand has progressed, we regret, for
the reputation of our country, to be forced to
adffiit that La Cronica and the Spanish min
ister has surpassed in facts and ability the
National Intelligencer and the Secretary of
State.
The particular discussion to which we al
lude grew out of the abduction of Key. Mr.
Clayton demanded his restitution, and several
of the whig journals exhibited a commendable
indignation at the violence which had been
perpetrated on our soil. La Cronica prompt
ly took the matter in hand, and while it de
fined and commended the principles of the
whig party, it apologised to its readers for the
dppeare.nt desertion of those principles by the
whig press in taking part with theUmted States
against a foreign government. It explained
the political necessities which surrounded the
whig party, and force it at times to resort to
<< temporary artifices” in order to sustain itself.
La Cronica urged these points with great
force; and it must have satisfied its readers
that the whig party was at heart true to its
foreign instincts, and that its defence of the
honor of our country was mere artifice —hum-
bug farandula —an affection of patriotism, in
order to enable it to gain the confidence of the
people, and to capture a portion of the demo
cratic artillery. We republished the article
from La Cronica, and called special attention
to the admissions which it contained as being
made by allies of the whigs—by associates,
confederates, and coadjuters of federalism,
agamst republicans in this and in every other
country. Since then the semi-official editorial
of the National Intelligencer appeared, to
which we have more than once alluded, which
declared that Spain ought to admit foreign na- |
tions to send “ diplomatic agents” to Havana,
and to estabiish diplomatic relations with
Cuba. We have already expressed the opin
ion that this pretension was made to be aban
doned solely to divert public attention from
the true points of difficulty and dispute be
tween our government and that of Spain, and
to conceal the intended abandonment of the
rights and honor of the United States, vio’a
ted and insulted by the abduction of Rev.—
We then held the following language : “ There
can be but little doubt that Senor Calderon regards
the article in the National Intelligencer, as far as
it complains of the Spanish government, as a \
whig artifice to create the belief that the pre
sent administration could so far yield up its
foreign instincts as to complain of the conduct
of an European monarchy, while he values it
as tantamount to an assurrnce that the Secretary "■
o f State trill take no further action on account
of the abducation of Beg, than, perhaps, to open
a negotiation relative to sending diplomatic
agents to Cuba, and thereby bring ridicule |
upon the nation.” The leading article in La !
Cronica of the Bth of this month fully sustains
us. It explains the article in the National
Intelligencer fully, and doubtless satisfactori
ly to i£* Spanish readers, by assuring them
that the apparent desertion of party principles
by the National Intelligencer is an indispen
sable recourse; that “ there is not an atom of
candor” in its complaint against Spain ; that
it is all pretence ; that at times the National
Intelligencer “isforced to modify its excellent j
principles ; and that it must conduct off the bolts
from the popular aloud. These tricks are de- ,
nominated “ the lightning-rod tactics by tbe
La Cronica, and they are resorted to by the j
National Intelligence to offset in the public
mind the extra super service able vigilance and
the over-virtuous exertions of our public func- j
tionaries in enforcing military laws against
our citizens upon mere suspicion, with the j
boi? excuse that they Jear that our neutrablity
mil If violated.
The article in La Crouacia speaks as follows;
*nd we commend it to our readers i '
(f rotn ‘La Cronica. Sept. 8.) j
The National Intelligencer of Washington
passes for a very grave paper, and, in general \
opinion, for the paper par excellence of the whig
party. Yet this paper finds itself under the |
necessity, in certain questions of international
law, to modify at times its excellent principles,
and to swim with the stream of a less sound pub
lie opinion. These deviations from the right,
these flicker ings of false light, if we may so cal!
them, from the beacon of whig opinion, are an
inexplicable wonder to those who have not
near opportunities of observing the means to j
which parties in this confederation have re
cently had recourse to smooth disagreements
in their internal politics. For some time past,
whenever the great questions of free soil, he
protective system, abolition and its adjunct;,
have been presented in the arena of public de
bate, with a full accompaniment of furious :
threats and perilous over acts, in and oui of |
Congress, the extreme party has boldly avail- !
ed itself of the want of union among the more i
reasonable to propose measures which many of '
these are obliged to acquiesce in, rather than. |
be left and lost in an insignificant minority.
This species of servileism, this apparent de
struction of party principle, is, in countries po- |
litically organized as are the United States, an 1
indispensable recourse. Without it, and an
adroit management of it by wise and prudent
men, there would in every position gaiued by
the noise and agitation of popular passion, be |
felt a want of that regulating power which can
he originated only by men of Judgment and calm
intelligence.
if ♦ ♦
In such a sta + e of things, it is plain, and
Mr. Lyeil so asserts, that many men of inde
pendent fortune and character are obliged to
retire from the political scene to escape be
coming the butt of calumny and party abuse.
But there are others, of like principles and of
no less consequence, who launch themselves
upon the arena of public debate, having made
up their minds to give up somewhat their convic
tions, and to temporize with certain popular ex
travagances, for the purpose of saving in great
and vital questions the element of order.
These latter, who may be called the conservative
elements of the republic, join themselves to the
masses in great national agitations, and are,
as it were, the lightning rods to the popular
cloud, tchose bolts they seek to draw ojf in- such a
direction as not to damage their own home, al
though the very foundations of that of their eigh
bars be shaken.
In the disputes with England these tactics
1 were very near having results fatal to the cred
it of the confederation. When the European
continental war was off the hands of the army
of Waterloo, and the English navy relieved of
the tiresome service of guarding the coasts of
the United Kingdom, Great Britain mightper
haps have made it appear that the lightning-rod
tactics will not all be successful in diverting the
storms which may threaten the commerce and the
Uery union of the United States.
They invoked the mediation of the Emp
of Russia succeeded in inclining England to
peace, and averted consequences which a long
war might have brought upon this country —
consequences which were already beginning to
show themselves in the famous convention of
the Northern States.
The same system had no better results in
Buenos Ayres and in Brazil.
All the discredit, however, which might
have been attached to it by like antecedants
vanished before the success it had in Mexico.
In such gluttony the popular appetite be
came depraved; and whenever some domestic
question of difficulty presents itself—of which
there is no lack in the Confederation —there
is raised a shout of greeting to some foreign
province, or some brag of the United States
having humiliated some other country by some
degrading infliction, when in reality nothing
whatever may have passed between government
and government, but some matter of mere vow- j
teous explanation.
This rough sketch of the course to which
certain men and certain organs of the whig party
resort in emergencies, will serve to explain v:lsal ire i
take to have been the motives of the article in the 1
National Intelligencer in relation to the Captain |
General of Cuba, and to foreign consuls in Ha
vana. •„ would be silly in ; us to seek to lec
ture rhe National Inclligencer on diplomacy
or the consular institution. In these and in
many other matters it needs lessons from no
body. In this view, however, roe must be per- \
milled to deny most roundly its candor when it
promulgates the assertion that the consuls of the
U. States in Havana should be regarded in the
light of diplomatic agents —public ministers—as
much as to say representatives between sovereign
and sovereign.
As well might Spain claim a right to hold
relation, by means of its consuls in California,
with the governor of that territory, or State
when it gets to be one, as between power and
power, without reference to the central gov
ernment at Washington. The U. States would
surely oppose its whole power against any
foreign nation which should make such an at
tack upon the federal constitution. And most
certain it is that Spain would oppose its whole
power against any foreign nation which should
undertake to make a breach in the centraliza
tion of its authority, or to erect into sovereign
ties the government of its colonics.
We have often met with this absurdity in
| various newspapers of the U. States, but we
| confess it has not appeared to us so great in
I one as when road in the columns of a periodi
cal, of "which, as the most respectable and clas
sical of America, the opinions are accustomed
to be received with universal homage.
We regret that we hardly can dare to refer
! the National Intelligencer to our article upon
the late case of the French consul in Havana,
j Haply, there would be found in it a better
sketch of the transgression of the limits of his j
functions, chargeable upon that officer, than
in the result of the inquiries which the In- !
telligencer has instituted in the matter.
But we repeat, there is not anatom of candor in 1
the article of the Naiionrl Intelligencer. It is one
of the expedients of the lightning-rod tactics
Amusements at the Springs
We find the following grap hie account o
the amusements at the Frankfort Springs, near
I Pittsburg. 'lh.py must certainly be Springs
‘of the first water The tournament must have
2 grand affair and worthy the balmy days of ,
chivalry, surpassing those gotten up* by mem
bers of the first families of Virginia, gotten up
every season at Fauquier and the White Sul
phur Springs. We cut the following from tho
Pittsburg Chronicle, of Thursday;
Fkaxkfort Springs, Aug. 4th, 1849.
Dear Sir: .Escaping by an adroit move
ment the smoke, dust and din of the Iron City,
I arrived at this delightful watering place, in
time to participate in the amusements of the
season. I found here a large number of visitors
from different par ;s of the country : among the
rest are two dissinguished politicians, four
lawyers, and a half a score of physicians and
a solitary minister of the Gospel. The fair
sex, too, is represented tolerably well. Frank
fort can boast a fine array of beauty this season.
One young lady, from the enterprising village
of Logstoxcn , who is.
a being still and bright
VV itU something of an angel’s light,
attracts great attention, and her surpassing
beauty, sprightly conversation and agreeable
manners, have won the hearts of all the bloods
and old bachelors at the Springs.
The gentlemen amuse themselves in various
ways. Some play euehre and poker from |
morning till night; others engage in the intel
lectual pastime of fighting game cocks; but '
( the vast majority spend a large portion of their 1
I time in emptying full glasses and filling empty '
ones. Nightly hops take pi are at the differ
ent ball rooms, where the quadrille, contra
dance, and reel go oil with the greatest zest;
I but the latter is, not th« only hop we have wit- |
' nessed at reels, as McGinniss’s spiritual retreat
• can testify.
On the raor ling of Friday, the day oi/as- \
' ting, wo had u horse race, which a wicked wag ')
said was curring out Oen. Taylor’s recom- |
mendation t ■ the very letter. During the j
afternoon of the same day, a grand tournament
came off in the barn-yard near our hotel. It
was a spectacle of no ordinary interest. The
j ladies arrayed in all the colors of the rain-bow
| were seated in u large hay wagon, some eating
green apples while others were regaling them
; selves with soma excellent Scotch ale. Some
| of the gentlemen were engaged in preparing
their horses and knights for the contest, and a
few of the sporting gentry were employed in
! betting ‘*two dollars and a half,” on their fa
i vontes.
All being now ready, two horsemen sud
denly appeared at the sound of a tin horn.
| Bois Gilbert issued from the interior of a dilap
idated burn, and Ivanhoe emerged from an
old stable at the other end of the yard. The
i fair umpire of the day, a rosy checked widow
| of twenty-six, from a neighboring barn, now
waved a red cotton hankerchief as a signal to
leein. The horses started at a gentle trot; the
k ' s couched their lances, the ladies clap
pe. eir hands, and the crowd of spectators
cheered. 'When the animals, by which I mean
the horses, were approaching each other, the
charger on which our modem Bois Gilbert was
seated, took in the lam a age of boatmen, a>
sudden ‘sheer,’ and made ail speed for a bun
dle of hay, which, unfortunately had been
thrown out of the stable that morning. Reach
ing it, he commenced eating with an appetite
which would do honor to a good Catholic after
keeping Lent, nor could the spur and cowhide
of Ills rider drive him away. Ivanhoe, highly
incensed, spurred furiously towards his op
: ponent, but an old hen flying from the barn,
frightened his Rosinante, and threw him head
long among the ladies seated in the wagon.
| And thus ended another farce.
(From the N. Y. Evening Post.)
Foreign Items
i The Medical Times says that the use of
chloroform has now become established in
! medical practice.
The Prince Royal of Sweden is about to
marry a Princess of Holland.
The celebrated General Georgey is a dis
tinguished chemist, and has published a work
which has been highly commended.
Mirbel, the celebrated miniature painter,
| has died at Paris.
M. Portier, Cathode Archbishop of Mobile,
has returned to Paris, from Gaeta, where he
has submitted for the sanction of the Pope,
i the acts of the Catholic Convention at Balti
tiinore.
The government of Holland is ‘about to re
| peal the duties upon all articles used in the
j construction of ships.
The English copy-right law only protects
such works us are published in England.
The Illustrated London News contains a
very fine sketch of the Peace Congress, sit
ting in Paris. The flag of the United States
i is one of the most conspicuous ornaments.
A correspondent, writing from Rome, says
that the Fr nch soldiera are the only lively indi
viduals in the place. The currency consists
chklly of paper, in sums as low as five pence,
which are sold at a discount of 25 per cent.
The daughter of the Queen of Sweden, who
is about to marry Louis Napolaon, has a dowry
of 1,4,000,000 sterling.
Portraits in oil of any size, are now taken
I by a photographic process, in a sitting of half
a minute. The process is called Photo-Pro
| sopon.
| Agassiz’s work on Zoology has been favora
j bly noticed in Europe. A critic in the London
Athencum, says of it: “In America the diffi-
I culty of beginning anything anew, is less than
lin Europe. Time has not yet incrusted their
! educational institutions, or forbidden their
j expansion.” Thus we have Mr. Agassiz
1 teaching the elements of his science in a coun
try which appreciates him.
Mr. Bubington has attacked Mr. Macaulay,
unsuccessfully we think, for his character of
the clergy in the 17th century.
The London Atheneum, critising a work
called “A Life for the Lazy,” (an American
book,') says Wherefore, Oh! American
Gleaner, is it not at all American? Why
must it be left to the periodicals of the old
country, to stir up America to a sense of her
own national strength and riches ?”
A model of a silk-worm has been exhibited
at the exposition in Paris, by which its silk
making machinery is wonderfully brought to
light.
Punch has seen, with alarm, “ ladies vests”
advertised in the newspapers. This gradual
invasion of male attire by the other sex
ought to be looked to. Punch says they have
already stolen our paletots, they now seize
upon vests. Gracious goodness! what will
they take next! What will be left us !
Scene at a fashionable watering peace.—
Speaking of incidents we were much amused
with one that took place the other day at a
fashionable sea-bathing retreat, not a hundred
miles from the dock at Whitehall. It was so
very characteristic of all parties concerned ; a
■ courteous yet decided, straight-forward land
lord of the hotel, at which it occurred, a
| purseproud milionaire sojourning th- rein with
( a numerous retinue; and one of the most dis
: tinguished and eloquent of divines; also a
j guest of a hotel alluded to. Scene, the land
| lord’s office looking out upon the beach, over
; which tiae breakers were dashing and roaring
magnificently;—time just after dinner. The
inaitre d’hotel writing, the preacher’ reading a
ne paper, eater the exquisite as from the
dim tfr table, picking his teeth and saunter
ing.
Exq. Aw-r, landlord ! a what do you
charge for coorkage r.
Land. —A dollar a bottle, sir.
Exq.—Awr r! a dollawr, ehr Ratwhther ex
trawagant, a dollawr ! To drink such wine as
I tha-at of mine, and pay a dollawr besides!
Land.—l expect to make that sum at least,
rir, on every bottle of wine that is drank at
my cable, whether it comes out of my cellar
or any one else.
Oh! yer doo, doo yer ? Wa-ell! ar sposc
yer do. Ar think ar shall go to Sarah-to-ogar
soon. ’Tis getting da-am’d fashionable there,
they say.
j Land.—Suit yourself, sir, I hope you shall
1 enjoy your visit,
Exq.(lounging out with painful ease, and
picking his teeth intensely.) Ar’ve not the
j least doubt in the wo-orld ar shall!
Preacher—(laying down Ins paper,and rais
ing his eyes to the ceiling.; Oh! the wonders
; of this world !
Lena.—(astonished,) What do jou refer
to, sir, the roar of the surf?
Preacher.—No, the scum /—-Y. Y. Minor.
Kissing —W found in the epossession of a
lady in town, the following manuscript, to jus
tify her in kissing all who might call upon her.
“Whatsoever ye would that men should do to
you, do ye even so t unto them,” “Greet ye one
another with a holy kiss.”— St. Paul. We left
her “searching the scripture'’ diligently for more
j ustification in this cracking business.- Athvili*
1 (A. C.) Messenger.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Aiujiiiita, ©torgia.
SUNDAY MORNINGi SEPT. 23.
democratic nomination.
FOR GOVERNOR,
GEORGE W. TOWNS.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
GEN. VALENTINE WALKER.
JOHN PHINIZY, JR.
Democratic Nominations for the Senate
Ist. Dis. THOMAS PURSE, of Chatham.
4th ■' Dr. THOS. R. DUNHAM, of Camden.
sth “ WILLIAM JONES, of Lowudes.
7th “ W. 11. RAWLS, ot Bulloch.
Bth “ GEO. W. BOSTON, of Etliughani.
10th “ ROBERT HIDDEN, of Laurens.
12th “ CHAS. I. MUNNEKLVN, of Decatur.
13th " RICHARD H. CLARK, of Baker.
17th “ WM. B. BRYANT, of Houston.
18th « Maj. J. W. G. SMITH, of Talbot.
20th “ SAM L. T. BAILEY, of Bibb.
21st “ R. K. DICKSON, of Jefferson.
23th “ ALBERT O. MOSELEY, of Putnam.
26th “ ALLEN COCHRAN, of Monroe.
■ 28th “ IRA E. SMITH, of Coweta.
31st “ JOHN D. STELL, ol Fayette.
32d “ DAVID J. BAILEY,of Butts.
39th “ CHAS. MURPHY, of DeKalb.
41st “ JOSEPH E. BROWN, of Cherokee.
42d “ Col. IRA R. FOSTER, of Forsyth. 1
43d “ W. B. WOFFORD, ot Habersham.
41th “ WM. WOOD, of Lumpkin.
47th “ JAS. M. SPURLOCK, of Floyd.
49th “ Col. E. CHISOLM, of Paulding.
33b illagnetie (Tclegrajjlj.
Reported for the Constitutionalist.
Seven Days Later From Europe,
ARRIVAL 0F THE
CAMI? RI V !
COTTON MARKET STEADY.
BREA I) STUFFS DULL.
POLITICAL NEWS UNIMPORTANT.
A despatch received last evening from our
Baltimore correspondent, announces the arri
val of the Steamer Cambria, at Halifax, on
Wednesday evening last, having left Liver
pool on the Bth inst. Her intelligence is not
of much importance.
Liverpool, Sept. B—The Cotton market is
unchanged, except for middlings and the
lower grades, which are a shade easier. The
sales of the week sum up 36,280 bales, of which
speculators took 8,510 bales, and exporters
5,070. The imports of the week reach 5,0 J 3
bales. The sales to day were 7000 bales, the
market closing firm. Uplands range from 4Jj
to ss, and middling Orleans 4|d.
Breadstuff's are dull, but prices remain un
changed. Corn is in better request, Yellow
is quoted at 2 ha. 6d. a 2Gs, White 2Ss. Beef
and Pork are in better demand. Lard is very
dull.
CHOLERA.
The deaths by Cholera reported in London
during the past week reach sixteen hundred
and sixty three. It was al-o raging at Dub
lin, Venice, Paris, and Comorn.
HUNGARY.
Peter Warden, still holds out, but it is said
is ready to negotiate for terms of surrender.
Several Magyar chiefs have been executed,
among them an Austrian, an ex-Minister of
Kossuth, with his mother and children.
The Pressburg Prisoners, and Georgey, have
been pardoned by the Emperor of Austria.
The Russian Troops were about leaving the
country, except enough to garrison Groswor
den Pesth.
The Beuda and Genoa confederation was to
be governed by a Directory, appointed by the
Vienna and Munich Cabinets.
FRANCE.
The French Government has refused pas
ports to German Refuges passing though
France to America.
In France nearly all the candidates hold
conservative sentiments.
ROME.
Javelli, the Popes Minister, has arrived at
Rome and installs himself at the head of the
police under the protection of the French au
thorities.
The Austrians have evacuated Piedmonte.
The Vanguard of Anti-Slavery at tho
South,
If any sane man doubts that the spirit of
Anti-Slavery is in the ascendant in the whig
party, rules it completely, and shapes its
views, and its policy, let him inquire, “ what
is the whig press doing to strengthen the sjave
power in this confederacy?” Even in the
South, the w’hig papers have chimed in with
the Anti-Slavery cry of their Northern aboli
tion “ No more territory unless
it be free.” They oppose openly and boldly
the further extension of slavery. At an early
period the Chronicle Sentinel assumed this
ground. The whig press of Georgia, with one
exception only, acquiesces in this grand con
spiracy of the national whig party, to coniine
slavery forever to its present limits, while
anti-slavery is to be allowed to spread over
all the vast, and yet unpeopled domain, of our
common country, bought Ly the common
treasure and blood of our people.
Such is the doom which whiggery proclaims
for the slave States, already in a minority in
votes and influence, and destined, under this
| policy, to sink year by year, into a still more
I hopeless and despised weakness. Already
the Northern States assume an air of insolent
dictation on this subject, being not only secure
in their own numerical strength, but doubt
less fortified and emboldened by the co-ope
ration of the Southern whigs.
The Southern democrats have been willing
and anxious to stem this strong anti-slavery
tide, which w*as sweeping the South away to
an ignoble destiny of degradation, inferiority
, and oppression, and have sought to arouse x
j spirit op RBsisTXNCE to their enemiei—»ye,
“Resistance at ale hazards, and to the !
l\st extrem[tt.” If they can carry the elec
tions in the South, then the degradation of
the South may be postponed and averted.
The application of the Wilmot Proviso, or a
kindred policy, to the new territories, is the
settled policy of the whig party of this couu- 1
try. This is the practical enforcement of the j
fiat that the whigs have sent forth, “ There I
shall be no more slave Slates. the democrats ,
deny the right of the Federal Government to !
prevent, or in any way throw obstacles in the J
way of the creation of more slave States. Not
only all the Southern democrats, but many
leading, influential, and distinguished North- j
era democrats, deny this power to Congress, J
and warmly protest against its exercise. This )
forms the strong tie of sympathy and attach- !
ment between those Northern and Southern ;
democrats. It gives them a common platform
in the doctrine of non interference. It is
this which has endeared to the democracy of
the South, such men as Cass, Dallas, Bu
chanan, Douglass, Brown, and many other
Northern statesmen, who, while they are no
advocates of the institution of slavery, (being
Northern men,) are unwilling to see the con
stitutional rights of the South trampled upon.
They, therefore, have raised their voices, and
poured forth strong and able arguments (pub
lished in few if any Southern whig papers) in
opposition to the Wilmot Proviso. They
have denied the right to Congress, and pro
tested against the policy of applying that
measure of insult and degradation to the
South, to the newly acquired territories.
On the contrary, the determination to com
mit this outrage on the South, imbues the
very soul of Northern whiggery. The assu
rance that Gen. Taylor would sign the bill,
and that Gen. Cass, if elected, would veto it,
secured for the former their support, and
made him President.
How is this policy received by the Southern
whigs? Do they know any obstacles or em
barrassments in the way ? Do they cause
Northern whiggery to falter or pause for a
moment. By no means. On the contrary,
the contract was entered into long since that
they would submit, and that their presses
would advise submission. The path is made
daily more smooth and flowery to our North
ern aggressors by the hands of Southern whigs.
Their editors at first made a show of opposi
tion to it. So did their party conventions;
and so some da now in a weak and tremulous
and puny tone, as if they did not feel what
they say and were more than half way inclin
ed to advocate what they pretend to oppose.
But the whigs in Georgia are now throw
ing off the mask, and are openly in favor of
submission.
The Southern Recorder has said so in plain
language, even while protesting against the
outrage. But the Chronicle 6$ Sentinel, “ the
vanguard of anti-slavery at the South,” goes a
step farther yet. It counsels submission as a
virtue, and ridicules even the language of in
dignation and resistance as prompted by de
rnagoguisra and unworthy of respect and sym
pathy. It evidently is delighted at the pros
pect that the Northern whigs may carry out
their favorite policy of preventing the further
extension of slavery, and that Gen. Taylor
will sign the bill. Head its article of the 19th
iust., headed “ Resistance to the Wilmot Pro
viso,” and then you will find that a gross and
insolent attack is made upon all who hesitate
to kneel down at once and passively receive the
yoke that anti-slavery is preparing to place up
on our necks. It uses the free 'soil argument
wielded by every Northern whig and abolition
ist, that the South surrendered the constitu
tional question in consenting to the incorpo
ration of the Wilmot Proviso into the Oregon
bill, and, therefore, has no right to object to
its application to territory South of the Mis
souri Compromise line. Its sympathies are
all with the free soilers. The Missouri Com
promise itself is converted by it into a sword
to assault the South instead of being branished
as a sheild for her protection.
The argument drawn from the Oregon bill,
is equally drawn from the Missouri Compro
mise hill by the free soilers. The Chronicle a-
Sentinel in its tirades against resistance to the
Wilmot Proviso, condemns Jt as “ ridiculous
bombast,” and “coutemptable demagogueisra,”
gives “aid and comfort” to the enemies of the
South, and is quoted with delight by free soil
papers at the North as evidence of its being
“the vanguard of anti-slavery at the South.” |
It is in the whig party alone, whether in Ken- i
tucky or in Georgia, that anti-slavery at the !
South has got a foothold. Whiggery alone i
countenances it. When a democrat turns |
free soiler, the democratic party at once repu
diates him and turns him over to whig sup
port.
Gold Medal for Gen. Scott.— The gold
medal voted to Gen. Scott, by Congress, has
been finished and received at the War Depart
ment. The value of the gold of which it is
made amounts to $450. One side is an excel
lent portrait of Gen. Scott, and on the reverse
is portrayed no less than seven battle scenes,
viz: Those of the city of Mexico, (which oc
cupies the centre,) Chapultepec, Vera Cruz,
Cerro Gordo, Contreras, San Antonio, Churu
busco and Molino del Hey.
[Telegraphedfor the Baltimore Sun.l
Washington, Sept. 19—9 P. M.
The Fgenoh Diplomatic Rupture.
Official Statement Forthcoming—The Offensive Lan
guage of M. Poussin—Action of President Tay
lor, SfC.
The Washington Republic of to-morrow
morning will, I understand, contain an official
statement, embracing about two columns of
correspondence, fully corroborating the facts
as stated by your Washington correspondents,
relative to the difficulty with the French Min
ister.
The Intelligencer will also contain a brief
editorial, giving no particulars, but rather of
an explanatory character, with a view to quiet !
the public mind. It states that no serious dis
turbance of the amicable relation of the two
countries is anticipated.
The offensive words in M. Poussin’s letter
are said to be as follows“I am sorry to find
that the American government is so utterly
insensible to the dignity and so ignorant of
the interests of its marine service as it has
shown itselt to be in this transaction.'*
V) hen this* letter wa* laid before {he French
government, M. de Tocqueville, the i- t
Minister of Foreign Affairs, addressed a n
to Mr. Rush, saying : “The French IN v
saw' no occasion for its action,” an 1 that " t ,
had been unnecessary recrimination and r
ed faults on botli sides.” Thus seeking u,
vide the responsibility and directly i n ,'-
our government.
On the receipt of this note the Pres ,
immediately directed that no further h-,
course be held with M. Poussin, and that •
passports be made out and placed at his
, posal. He also instructed the Secretary
State to inform M. De Tocqueville that ■
| opinion ou the conduct oi the American G
I eminent had not been solicited—-that al
and not criticism had been expected ir , m '
I and that before this despatch should re
| him M. Poussin’s passports would be pi a *,. |
I his disposal.
j On Friday night last, M. Pons-in ■ I
ports were prepared, and on P itur 'ivt
j were transmitted to the legation in Wad*-'
ton. He was in New York at the tin;,/ '
arrived here this evening.
Washington, Sept. 19, 7 p t > v j
Arrival of M Poussin, the French Min, J.
rida Outrages Disclaimed by St in in (
M. Poussin, the French minister, has
ed in the city. There are no oth ;
known in reference to the difficulty be-w
our government and him than those (
made public. 1
Dispatches have been received at th 4
Department from Florida, which state,
the chief of the Seminoles disclaims
nection with the late outrages, and ha
lo deliver the offenders over to the l"
States authorities for trial.
[ Telegraphed for the Charleston (
New Orleans, Sept. 20—5,56 p, \j
Yesterday, 1200 bales Cotton were ;i .
ed of at steady prices. New croc, n,.;
quoted at 10f ; fair 11-}.
Sales of 1400 bags new crop R >(
made at 8$ cents.
The tow boat Anglo-Saxon has arriv ; .
from Tampa Bay, she brings in
Gen. Twiggs and Capt. Casey 1 ft t
the 6th hist., with a detachment of tr,
have a talk with Billy Bow Legs. \
rumored that the latter had seat ,
sage that the murderers should be sur
en for trial, and that he was willin'- t
should be removed to the West.
New-Orleans, Sept. 21—11.21 A, y. !
Yesterday, 450 bales Cotton v. I
steady prices. Good new crop m. 1.:.; ..
ted at to 10-i.
The British steamer Severn arriv d ;• y
bile yesterday, from Vera Cruz. Mr. ( .
former Minister to Mexico, was a p .
board. It is stated that Gen.
died in the city of Mexico.
A Novel Idea.—The “ Litrrarv G«
recommends the issue, by our Govern’::
a new silver coin, of the value of .1 > .
It is a curious fact that thi> would ,
■ us to make all our change, to a farthing, v
j out the use of coppers. In our P. o. bu- te:
this would be admirable. Thus:
To pay 1 cent, give I<| dime receive 1 v„ 7 1
“ ’2 cents, give one 7 —receive .1 dim 1
“ 3 cents, give one dime—receive,,
“ 4 cents, give two 7’s—receive onr . |
“ 6 “ give two dimes—receive V\ f
“ 8 cents, give dime—receiveote'
“ 9 cents, give two 7’s—receive G.;
So, we would have no use for coppe
i The writer propose to call the new
; “ Septiccnt,” to be in unison with the c :
• clature of our federal currency. It is
, a tough name though, and would, we • I
soon become corrupted into “ Se’U'n,
short.
Better apply to President Everett, or
I one else who is “up in Greek,” &c.. and i
j in the aid of his chemical professor to do: i
i over, and get, like Epping’s Sarsaparilla, |
compound Extract, in a more highly ,
j trated form.
It might cause some trouble and 10-s, t,„
two coins so nearly ot the same size, as
| halt dune and the proposed new coic
| difference of value being so little: bin ■
j Septiccnt might be made thinner and iare
“We hope to live to see the day” w 11
| these things shall come round.—Musroc • A h
I ocrat.
I _ . ...
New Pilot Boat.—A new boat jus;
by H. F. Williuk, was launched yester |
morning, with appropriate ceremonies. ' 1
is owned by Messrs. John Fleetwood &
and is named after one of our most ent-r
ing merchants, “ Jo.'uph S. Cloyhurn.'
1 boat was built to supply the place of the !•
i Gaston, which was lost last winter on I
Island, ~~Sav. Rep. 21s^,
j No Charge for Weighing.—TheweL--. I
j three ladies, who applied to a friend oi
: yesterday to be weighed, was fou.x-i t 1 be
lbs. This is certainly “ hard to beat,
lest wo should be thought to boast t o:
of our own State, we must add, they w
from South Carolina.— lb.
Good Wheat.—Mr. James T. Owe/ |
Talbot county, brought to market yes.
150 bushels of wheat, weighing plan.
pounds to the bushel, which he sold r |
i tor's Palace Mills, for one dollar and s-'
| five cents per bushel.
| There are five prizes to be award •- j
! wheat, and we doubt not Mr. Owens
j one of them. —Muscogee Don. 20 th oa:.
Winds and Currents.—ln the Natio: 1
nual Scientific Convention, at Cam |
Mass., on the 16th, an interesting cor. j
cation was made by Lieut. M. F. Maury
his favorite theme of winds and currents,
the rcaay and hearty co-operation of tr.
chant marine, Lieut. M. has been ena B
make such arrangements that there arc j||
1,000 vessels employed ou the ocean in F' I
cuting these inves igations, without eu m
other than the preparation of the chart- I
has adopted the plan of dividing th r '1
to sections of five degrees each, with t ]
ferent seasons of the year dialing a M
color, and instituting a certain number
servations from each. The charts 1
placed in the hands of navigators have: -
; ally shortened the distance fron V,' A 1
Janeiro, hy an average of four d*
we have here an immediate and m
tant practical benefit.
ihe investigation once comment> *
led to the discovery that there was art- I
about the middle of the Atlantic, in ' J
there are monsoons not before known. I
sels have been going there at what hav j
considered good seasons, expecting to : 8.1
vorable winds ; but were met by dish 1
ment. — I his pointed out the proboi- |
longitude had almost as much to do as 1
with the winds.—Lieut. M. went on t
trate this. Vessels going from hne : |
Equator, after passing out of those J:
known as variable, get into the region 0; ,1'
and from that into the North-East trade « I
By sailing to the South they come to a
region of calms; and again leaving the--' ■
Summer, come to the region of tl. f
months simoons. Charts have been pf
for the purpose of investigating w! -t
ence longitude and latitude have up »
trade winds.
In conclusion, Lieut. M. spoke of o’ ]
appreciation of the water thernion te: , id
use of which he believe I has tended a- ■ |j
as any other cause to the cowmci'. I** 1 ** ‘
tanoe of New York.