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THE HAPPY FARMER
His home’s a cot embowered in trees,
A garden filled with fruit and flowers,
Where singing birds aud humming bees
Make gay the smiling hours.
A range of meadows green and fair.
And fields which well repay his care
With joy he greets the rising sun,
Aud gladly hastens to his toil,
In fancy sees the harvest won,
As covering with the mellow soil
The tiny wheat, which yet will bring
A glorious autumn offering.
The golden hours, how quick they fly
The happy day, how soon ’tis fled'
Then oi.W'ard doth the farmer hie.
And finds a table neatly spread
With many a dainty which the field
Aud garden plot so richly yield.
The evening too is fraught with joy.
For lov’d ones cluster round him there ;
He tastes a bliss without alloy,
Which e’en a king might sigh to share )
Then seeks his couch and finds repose.
Which only he who toileth knows.
———■———w
[From the Columbus Times, 4 th tost.]
“Mr. Foote, of Mississippi, and Mr. Cling
man, of North Carolina, have thought it neees- j
sary to write to each other through the papers i
on the slavery question. W T hen ?he South j
does think it necessary to move on this
grave subject, w e hope the movement would
commence from the people, and not from poli
ticians at Washington, who some rare excep
tions, are each beat solely upon aggrandizing
his own individual importance.”— Richmond
Times.
“W r e concur most cordially with the Times, !
and least of all should the people look to such
politicians as Messrs. Foote and Clingman,
mere rush lights, who are eternally thrusting
themselves before the country through the 1
press.”— Angusla Chronicle Sj Sentinel.
There would be something singular in this
ill-natured sneer, coming as it does, from a
Southern newspaper, and aimed at two dis- |
linguished Southern public men, if the former
course of that paper had not prepared us to !
view, without surprise, any sentiments the :
most un-southern, heretical, or treasonable.
Who are Messrs. Foote and Clingman r And
what have they done to provoke the spleen of
the Chronicle & Sentinel? They are two
Southern men occupying conspicuous places
in the Halls of Congress; and they are consult
ing together upon the subject ot the means
and prospects of a delansive union of their res
pective constituents, against wrongs and out
rage upon their rights. One is a Democrat, i
the other is a Whig. They agree in their
opinions of the nature of the wrongs, and agree
that honor, safety and manhood demand re
sistance. What is there in all this to excite
the wrath of a Southern newspaper? There
can be but one answer to the question. It is
this,that it is not the men,nor the fact that they
interchange their sentiments publicly through
the press, but it is the subject upon which
they write, and the object they have in view
—the defence of the South —that the Chroni
cle & Sentinel is opposed to. No man can
doubt that, if these gentlemen had discussed
through the papers on some public topic near
the heart of the Chronicle—if they had writ
ten praises of the glories of a Protective Tariff
—panegyrics of Gen. Taylor—had attempted
to whitewash Collaraer and Ewing—deified
Mr. Stephens or maligned Democratic men and
measures —that these gentlemen would have
been spared this rebuke, and no fault found
with their “thrusting themselves before the
country through the press,”
Qlt is the subject and the object, then, that
meets the hostility of the Chronicle & Sentinel.
We are going to speak plainly on this subject,
for the occasion demands it.We are going to de
nounce the course and position of the Chroni
cle & Sentinel as seditious, false to the instincts
of its Southern locality, at war with the har
mony and union of Southern action, upon
which alone hangs not only the safety of the
South, but the safety of the Union. The Union
never would have been in jeopardy from the
agitation of the slave question, but for the
division of the South; political abolition never
would have reached itr present pitch of daring
aggression, had the South not been shorn of
her mighty moral power, by the distractions
of party issues. And now, when there is a
prospect spanning the Soutliem heavens, like
a bright rainbow of hope, that at last, a return
ing sense of reason is dispelling the clouds of
delusion and infatuation from the Somhern
mind, and convincing it that safety and honor,
imperatively demand a burial of the party
hatchet, and a serried union against a common
danger—in such a moment is it not enough to
provoke and justify feelings of stern displeas
ure t« behold a Southern newspaper, support
ed by Southern planters, aud nourished iu the
warm bosom of Southern patronage, darting
its poisoned fangs ai every man who raises his
voice or moves a finger in Southern defence?
“Agitators,” “Disorganizes,” "Incendiaries,”
Disunionists,” are the false epithets which this
seditious print showers upon every man who
dares avow the indignation that burns in his
bosom against outrages and indignities that
tire calculated to turn a heart of stone into fire.
The holiest impulses of man’s nature —the
spirit of resistance to wrong, which is instinc
tive in every manly, bosom the amor patriee,
that feeling which causes every man to cling
to the soil that gave him being, and kindles
within him the spirit of war when his hearth
and homeastead are assailed—these, failing to
challenge the respect of the Chronicle & Senti
nel, get nothing from it but sneers, abuse and
denunciation. We call upon the reader to look
at the correspondence of Messrs. Foote & Cling
man in our columns to-day, and answer, if
there is a word there to offend any one but an
abolitionist in heart and in feeling. Nor could
even an abolitionist find fault with it, except i
that it discusses and proposes the means to
baulk the infernal designs of that faction upon
the safety of the Southern people, and the ’
peace, happiness, and prosperity of this great ;
Repub’ic.
What does the Chronicle & Sentinel mean 1
by this strange course ? What end has it in
view? What motives and influences prompt. j
it to rail at and belittle Southern champions, (
and throw a chill and blight upon the cause .
and the hopes of the South ? Will not the <
solution of these questions one day startle the i
South, like the tones of the midnight bell ? ]
The solution cannot be referable to the blind- |
BCM of party, which soj often explains acts of (
suicidalism ; because the C’.jronicleV own party f
is at this moment, making great and manly
efforts to right itself on the question. Whigs
have come forward in both, branches of the
Legislature, with strong rt solutions of South
ern fealty—the correspon lence now under
consideration, is another indication of a lively
Whig sense of Southern dagger, and even Mr.
Stephens has been heard t o admit within a j
month, that the crisis was verily at hand. It
is a loathsome thought, but we can scarcely
conjecture any other solution for the Chroni- j
cle’s course, than that it is : n insidious enemy
domesticated in our midst . nd the organ us |
abolition influences. Wed i not say it is so,
but so extraordinary, so nnnatural and so
monstrous is its course, that we find it impos- j
sible to account lor it, on .my principles of
motive or action, ordinarily governing men.
But be the motives what they may, it is
certain, that its example an 1 its support in
the heart of a slave State, ar.* potent causes of
mischief to the South. It te ids to keep alive
the notion —the fatal cause o! io much trouble
—at the North, that we are not in earnest,
when we aver that we will not submit to
Congressional abolition. It creates the belief
that a people in whose midst such an organ is
tolerated are but vaporers in speech, and will
be submissionists in deed, when the last turn
of the screw of oppression is made —.hat abo
lition has a strong, but a seci -t parrv in the
South, who will contr. 1 the i-sue wf >, it is
made, and cause the South to nabi ice the
Union and adhere to a goven met that has
lost all its claims to respect an I vei ration iu
preference to the uncertain cho ices u a poii
cal separation.
Mint or thk United States, )
Philadelphia, Nov. ‘24, 1819. j
Sir; Your communication ci the Bth inst.,
inclosing a slip ftom one of > m New-York
papers, was received two days ce. 1
quired some time, especially in v- press ol out
ness, to consider what answer si oui i r could
be made to so grave and supriing an allega
tion, the force of which is con 'ensed iu the
caption of “ false mintage.” As to accuracy
of assaying and melting, I conn lently affirm
that there is not a mint in the world which
can show a stricter faithfulness to the legal
standards than has been maintai ed here for a
long series of years,
i I have taken steps to ascertain w.iether the
j statement is true, that the Bank of England
I does not receive our gold coin, without pre
' vious melting and assay. Supp sing it to be
1 true, as I have little doubt it is, there are two
' ways of accounting for the fact, v hich should
cause any writer understanding ) s subject to
hesitate before publishing a wholesale dis
credit of the national currency, ai i wounding
the reputation and the feelings of those who
| are entrusted with its manufacture.
The first is, that within the p .st 16 years
we have had three various standards, estab
; lished by law, for our gold coin : Ist. up to
! June 1834, it was 22 carrats, or 916 2-3 thous
andths; and in January, 1837, there was a
farther change to the more simp] * proportion
of 900 thousandths, or nine-tenths. Os this
; lact I have been surprised to tin I that even
I our most intelligent dealers in foreign ex
-1 change have not a clear apprehen ion; and it
I is not, therefore, wondertul, if ihe Bank of
j England, unwilling to take the trouble oi dis
oriminating by dates and devices, should use
j the shorter course of melting Jo vn and as
saying.
The other solution, and rath* i the more
i probable, they may consu l wuh each
I other,) is that it is contrary to u age every
where, for the mint of one country io lake the
j coins of another by tale, or at the a deg. 1 hie
j ness. It is not done here; we lecei the
1 gold sovereign, not at the alleg. I tin ess,
which it does not reach, but at its us dual assay,
after melting. In a matter of this j.iud, there
| is no courtesy to be w r asted, on one side or the
other. The Bank of England, you are aware,
is the channel through which the mint of Eng
land is supplied with material, the two insti
tutions being closely connected.
You will perceive, then, that we have been
charged with false mintage, and the currency
has been disgraced, because we have followed
the various standards enacted by law, or else,
because the mint of England, like all other
mints, takes ouf coin upon their own assay,
and not upon our testimony.
Allow' me, in conclusion, to expre-s my obli
gations to you, for having made me acquaint
ed with this charge, and thus enabled me to
repel it.
Very respectfully, your faithful servant,
R. M. PATTERSON, I).rector.
Hon. J. Phillips Phirnix, Member us Con
gress.
ITEMS.
The Choctaws. —The Choctaw' Telegraph
say s the annual Council of the Choctaw na
tion met on the 3d Oct., and adjourned on
the 10th. A ten days’ session, quite short.—
But although their session was short, the Tele
graph says they passed some very important
laws, besides examining aud acting upon their
School reports. *-
Sad Mortality. —The Richmond (Ky.)
Ne vs Letter, of the 6th inst., slates that the
family of Mrs. Hana, consisting of ’ ine per
sons, had a few days previous, been attacked j
wu h the disease known as the “milk sick- I
ne. s,” and on the Bth inst., eightofthem were [
deui. Four negroes had also died from the
same cause.
Mrs. Frances Kemble has written a letter
to ihe Secretary of the St. George’s Benevo
lent Society of New York city, tendering her
sei vices at the annual concert in aid of the 1
St. George’s and British Benevolent Societies,
which is to come off on the 17th of December.
:
The Naval Court Marshal at Norfolk, to in- i
qu re into the late mutinous conduct on board
the Germantown, took up the case ot Hilliard,
and Lieut. Forrest, Ist Lieutenant of the G.,
Lt Nicholson, of the U. S. Marines, T e Act
ing Master and Captain’s Clerk have been ex
amined.
Large Tow'.—The Albany and New York
stp .cn Tug, Oswego, arrived at New Y’ork from
Albany on Wednesday evening, having forty
on. canal barges and boats in town, all deeply
laden with produce of various kinds. This is
the argest, and almost the last low of the
see on.
The New' Spanish paper, publish®- in New
Y"o L, called “ElCerreode los Dos N in ’os,’
ha- passed into the hands of some young Ha
bam rs, who mean to devote it to the advoca
cy • republican principles, and the aanexa- )
tion of Cuba to the United States.
K )PED to America. — Mr. Crouch, the cele
bn. d musical composer, his left England for
Au. ica. He is said to have eloped with a
yo>. g lady, who was one of his pupils, and to
left behind him a lady whom he has also
deio led.
). v. Dr. Pise, Roman Catholic, formerly
pat rot St. Peter's Church, in Barclay street
Ne a York, has purchased Emanuel Church,
in 1> >oklyn, recently occupied by the Epis
co, .ans.
N vVal —For California. —The store-ship
Su ly, Lt. Com. Kennedy, from Norfolk 28th,
an. dat New York on Wednesday of last
wt. k and after completing her cargo, and re
ceiv....' on board Major Gaines, Governor of
Greg - ■ and suit, will sail for San Francisco.
Passed lidshipman Oscar C. B idgei takes j
passag in the Supply, to join the \ incennes, j
on the k .cific station. 1 ]
Pennsylvania Fourth Congressional Dis
trict. —It is this district in Pennsylvania that
*n r nisben a contested seat in Congress. Mr.
I .tteli, whig, the unsuccessful candidate, is
..bout to contest Mr. Robins' The
Germantown Telegraph says Mr. Litlell will
carry with him documentary evidence of his
election by the legal votes ot his district.
Telegraph: Plough. —This is the age of
in cntion, and when there is a necessity,
there is an invention. We have just been
I “hown a species of a submarine plough, which i
will plough a furrow under the bed of a river j
; to put the telegraphic wire in, and cover the
; furrow. The wire, so to speak, is sowed in j
j the furrow by an ingenious movement in
■ machinery. All looks practicable, and if it
works, there is away found out to put tele
graphic wires, under rivers, safe from anchors.
iV. Y. Expose.
a Among the Passengers in the steamer
America, from New York for Liverpool, on
Wednesday, was Mr. T. Schrceder and family,
our charge to Stockholm; Wm. P. Robertson,
the Britith commissioner in Mexico, and a
largo party of very wealthy Mexican ladies
and gentlemen who intend wintering in
London and Paris.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
3ngusta, (Georgia.
FRIDAY MORNING. DEC. 7
Editorial Correspondence.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Dec. 5. 1849.
EXPULSION OF FREE NEGROES FROM GEORGIA. j
«• Necessity" is the tyrant’s plea. In its name
aanv outrages are committed by governments,
and in tlieir perpetration even the most despo
tic feel that tome apology is duo public senti
ment. It is the homage paid to that sense of
justice and humanity which is innate, and to
which men and governments instinctively bow
in deference.
This apology, however, meagre and unsatis- ;
factory, and often insincere as it is, does not !
exist to extenuate a piece of injustice and in- \
humanity contemplated by some honorable ;
members of the Legislature towards that help- j
less and dependent class of people, the free ne- |
groes of Georgia. It is gravely proposed to
expcll them from the State, and drive them
into the non-s'aveholding States, or to Liberia,
within a brief and limited time, by most harsh
and summary measures. Three bills have
been introduced for this purpose—two in the
lower House, and one in the Senate. Mr. Mc-
Dougald introduced one of a character so strin
gent and remorseless as to meet but little fa
vor. Mr. Walker, of Richmond, introduced
another more temperate and merciful in this,
that it allowed a grea er length of time for the
process of driving the free negroes from the
State. This met with but little success in the
special committee to which it was referred.
That committee refused to report, and Mr.
\\ aiker bring < it before the House on b*s own
responsibility.
In the Senate, yesterday, Mr. Bailey intro
duced a hill similar in its provisions. This
bill provides that all free negroes are to be re
quired to leave the State by the hrst of Feb
ruary, 1861. If found in the State after that
time, they many, on affidavit made by an in
former before a J ustice of the Peace, be brought
up, and bond and security of responsible citi
zens be required in the sum each of one thou
j sand dollars, that they will be transported to
- some non-slaveholding State within three
1 months from the dale of the bond—on failure
1 of such a bond being given, the free negro is
to be sold by the Sheriff, and one third of the
proceeds is to be paid to the informant. The
bill of Mr. Walker fixes as the limit, June the
. first, 1851. It makes provision also for in
; firm negroes over seventy years of age, to re
-1 main at the discretion and by the permission
j of the Inferior Court of the county in each
case. It also provides that the property of
free negroes, who may own any, shall be seiz
ed mud sold and the proceeds applied to their
removal to a non-slaveholding State or to Li
j bena. When there is no property, then the
amount necessary is to be supplied from a
■ fund to be appropriated for that purpose. The
5 proceeds of sales of free negroes violating the i
law by remaining after the time prescribed,after
deducting one third to be paid informants as
abi ve, are to be appropriated to the removal
of free negroes who have no property to be
applied to that purpose.
Where the amount of property owned is in
sufficient for the expense of sending away,the
: negro is to be hired out until the proceeds
added to the amount for which his property
sold, will be sufficient for his deportation.
The provisions of Mr. McDougald’s bill, it
is unnecessary here to give, as it has but few
friends.
No one will deny that this policy of expul
sion, it adopted, would be stern and rigorous
to the last degree. No one will deny that un
less there is some strong and overruling rea
son of necessity for it, it would be inhumane,
unju-1 and cruel. Such a necessity as we
speax of is not that which may be denomina
ted State policy. That term may mean merely
public convenience—public benefit—the gen
eral interest. But a desire for the accomplish
ment of these objects would not justify the
adoption of such a course as these bills point
; out. Let us inquire what would be the prac
■ leal effect ot the law? On the negroes them
■lv ,3 it would be most disastrous. A few
might succeed to a condition as good or better
than they are torn from. A few may be of
that small class,—small in any condition of
life, whether among blacks or whites, who
will be thrifty and make a living, no matter
where jou place them, and no matter what
obstacles are thrown in their way. But the
great majority, stripped of their little means,
and placed destitute in new scenes, in a strange
country, and surrounded by anpropitious cir
cumstances, would starve or become degraded
to the most squalid poverty, and wmt. Look
at the state of the free negroes in the non
slaveholdme States—the mass of that most ab- i
ject and pitiable race of beings. The accounts <
we have of them—of their destitution—their 1
utter depravity— their ignorance—the r ut
ter debasement are sickening. To such a 1
condition would the law consign our Iree ]
blacks if they were sent into those States. The (
prejudice against the free negroes is at the c
North fur stronger than it is here. It is a de- |
graded class which the interests and the p e- ,
judiees of the laboring white population are
enlisted still farther to degrade—to oppress,
and to keep out of competition with their labor.
Look at the reception given by the people of i
Ohio to the manumitted slaves of J. Randolph.
They were hunted down like wild beasts, and
driven from place to place, so as to prevent
their sett mg in that Stale. Suppose we pass
this law. We may be met with counter le
gislation, and then we drive our free negroes,
as it were, at the point of the bayonet, upon
the bayonets of an equally unfriendly people,
who are determine! not to receive what both
view as a pest. But they must go, or be made
slaves here. What right have we to mcke
slaves of them ? Have we any granted right
then to send to Africa and enslave and bring
back free negroes from there ? Have we a
right to inflict punishment when there is no
crime ? State polity would not justity it unless
there was an oven uling necessity. State policy
would not have justified Georgia in enslaving
the Creek for Cherokee Indians. The satety
—the preservation ot the Commonwealth, did
not call for so extreme a measure. Nor, lor
the same reason would Florida be justified in
making slaves of the Seminoles. The free ne
groes of Georgia have a quasi liberty recogniz
ed by the State —as clearly recognized, to the
extent of the privileges it allows, as the rights
of the Indian races among us. The State has
i the power to make slaves of the tree negroes.
So it has to exterminate them. But it would
be wanton exercise of power to do so under any
less forcible plea than necessity. Can it be
demonstrated that there is any such necessity r
There are evils incident to having a free
negro population among our slaves. This is
to be deprecated, and it is to be ameliorated
to every practicable extent by police regula
tions, and by laws preventing the possibility of
an increase of that class, by manumission or
j immigration. The number should be dimin
; ished by offering inducements for them to
| leave the State, by providing means for them
Ito do so. But the evils of a free negro popu-
I latiun have not yet risen, nor can they, in all
probability, rise to a magnitude sufficient to
make expulsion or slavery the only alterna
tives. The free negroes are too few in number
to disturb our peace and safety, or to a serious
extent corrupt our slaves, or render them dis
contented. Were they even declared enemies
of law and order, and openly bent on discord
and mischief, they are too few to excite alarm,
or render our dominion over our slaves of un
certain tenure. Their number is insignificant,
and must ever remain so. The Spartans of
old kept their Helots in subjection, though
outnumbering their masters ten to one. Slave
ry, in modern times, and the slavery of the
African, especially by the Caucasion race,
has been proved to be a stable institution,
which has been maintained in harmony and vig
oi and usefulness, both to the slave and to the
master. It has not within itself the elements
of weakness or decay, still less could the in
fusion of a small amount of free black labor
disturb, to any perceptible degree, the harmo
nious workings of the system. Let us not
weaken the institution by increasing the num
ber of us external enemies. Let us not be
provoked by the intermeddling folly and
fanaticism of our opponents into injustice
and inhumanity.
We cannot better conclude these remarks
than with the following extract of a letter on
this subject from a wise and judicious coun
sellor. Let us not bring upon ourselves the
reproach that rests upon the slaveholders of
ancient Rome, who sent their superannuated
slaves to starve and die upon a barren island
in the Mediterranean. To drive out from
among us our free negro population to starve
amidst unsympathising strangers, would be a
policy not less cruel:—
** Not being able to get hold of the aboli
tionists and fanatics, I see you are going to
take vengeance on the poor negroes. This is
wrong, and bad policy. The sympathies of the
whole world are against us, and we can make
nothing by making slavery more odious,
| and increasing enemies. Unprovoked cruelty
makes abolitionists of those who are simply
opposed to slavery in the abstract, but opposed
to any fanatical interference with our rights.
It moreover betrays weakness and a want of
confidence in our own ability to maintain the
institution consistently with the laws of hu
manity. If we could catch the guilty, we
might handle them freely, but should not, by
their misdeeds, be provoked to banish a help
less and dependent race, who it is our duty
and interest to protect. I hope you will agree
with me and seek to moderate the ardor of
our too zealous friends, who are running into
extremes on this head.”
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
REPORTED FOR THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
IN SENATE, Dec. 4 —Evening.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
By Mr. J. W. G. Smith : A bill to forbid
free negroes or free persons of color from liv
ing within the limits of this State, under cer
tain penalties. [The provisions of the bill to
morrow.]
By Mr. Edmondson ; A bill to incorporate
the town of Tunnel Hill, in the county of
Murray.
By Mr. Cochran : A bill to limit the num
ber of Secretaries to the Executive Depirt
ment, and to fix their salaries. The bill pro
posed the number three—salaries $1,600 per
annum.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Dec. 4.
The House met pursuant to adjournment.
The House reconsidered the Journal of yes
terday, in relation to its action upon some local
bills.
The bill to appropriate money for the im
provement of the Coosa River, was taken up
and discussed by Messrs. Jenkins and John A.
Jones—the first named gentleman for the bill,
the latter opposing it.
Mr. Jenkins moved to fill the blank in the
bill with slo,ooo—lost. SB,OOO was pro
posed—lost. $5,000, which was also lost,—
and on Mr. Jenkins’ motion, tbs bill was laid
on tha table for the present.
BILLS PASSED.
A bill to authorise the S. W. K. R. Company
to construct its Road through the public do
main near the corporate limits of Macon.
A hill to incorporate the North-Eastern
Plank and Rail-Road Company.
A bill to repeal the 4th and sth sections of
an act to authorise further progress upon the
work of the Western and Atlantic Rail-Road,
and to provide for a sale of said Road and the
j employment of certain convicts thereon.
' A bill to incorporate the Houston Branch
( Rail-Road Company.
Adjourned to 3 o’clock, P. M.
Thkbe o’clock, P. M.
The House met pursuant to adjournment,
and occupied the atternoon session in disposing
of local bills ; many of which were passed.
The House then adjourned till 9 o’clock
to-morrow morning.
We received no telegraphic despatches
last evening from any quarter. This will be a
great disappointment to our readers, as no
doubt, most of them, like ourselves, are anx
ious to hear of the organization of the House
of Representatives.
A New Feature.
Annual Report op the Postmaster Gen
eral.—Highly important and'interesting docu
ment. —The Baltimore Sun of the 4th {instant
•ays —We have the pleasure of lay ing before
our readers this morn'ng, on the first page, in
advance of its publication in Washington, the
able, comprehensive, and highly interesting
annual report of Postmaster General Collamer,
which will accompany the message of Presi
dent Taylor to Congress. It will be seen that
he recommends a unifo m rate of letter post
age of five cents, and comes down with almost
as much seventy as his predecessor, the Hon.
Cave Johnson, did on railroad monopolies, the
cost of carrying the mails over w hich he has
been unable to reduce, although a great saving
has been made in recent contracts by other
modes of conveyance.
Storm in New York.—The Jounvd of Com
• merce of the 3d inst. says:—“The storm
I which commenced on Sunday evening proved
I a violent North-Easter. After the snow had
covered the ground to the depth of an inch, it
commenced raining, and has continued with
out intermission up to this time. We have
not yet heard of any material damage to the
shipping from the violence of the wind. The
tides are very full, covering all the piers in
the lower part of the city. The cuter end of
Vanderbilt’s dock, pier 1, E. R., has bean lift
ed up by the tide, but is not seriously dam
aged.
“ Crowds of men, boys, and dogs, are amus
ing themselves along the docks, killing rats,
of which, a very large quantity have been de
stroyed.
“ The storm has interrupted communica
tion by the Telegraph lines East and South.
Those northward are working as far as Buf
falo. This will account for our not receiving
! our usual despatches, as also the opening pro
ceedings of tr.e 31st Congress.”
One half of the amount required to build a
Floating Dock, has been subscribed in the city
of Savannah.
Ice formed at Raleigh, N. C., for the first
time this season, on Wednesdsy of last w’eek.
We have had none in this city up to this time.
Cauliflower or Red Cabbage.
The epicures of Augusta are indebted to th<
enterprise of Mr. Lamback for many luxuries.
Since we have had a regular steam communi
cation with New York, he has kep; on hand,
when in season, the best of New Ycrk Oysters,
Cellery, &c. His man Dick, who is well known
to our citizens, as one of our most polite and
attentive waiters, entered our sanctum lasi
evening with a new article of importation, «
beautiful head of Cauliflower or Red Cabbage
Thanks friend Lamback, for your remem
brance.
Arrest of Mrs. Miller.—The X. Y. Jour
nal of Commerce, says—This depraved woman,
! who sught, by exhibiting the semblance of
suicidal preparations at Niagara Falls, to con
ceal the degradation and disgrace involved in
the abandonment of her husband and children,
to become the paramour of the villain Black
mer, was arrested, saysjthe Rochester Ameri
can of Saturday, at Syracuse.
Another Factory.—We understand, (says
the Columbus Times) that another lot has
been sold,and a cotton factory of 5000 Spindles
is to be immediately erected in this city. The
purchaser is Mr. Wm. H. Young, of Florida*
a gentleman of great business capacities,
shrewdeness and enterprize. So we go
Columbus will be a Georgia Lowel before
long, and some of these days will beat her.
Lowel never had nor never can have, the ad
vantages with which Columbus is endowed
by nature and position, for manufacturing
purposes. It is a significant circumstance that
a member of a large Philadelphia House was
here last week, soliciting consignments of
Columbus Cotton fabrics for his firm in Phila
delphia.
[communicated.]
Mr, Gardner :—Dear Sir.—l send you the
standard weights of several ai tides of Pro
duce, which will be valuable to many, if placed
in print.
Pounds.
Bushel of Wheat weighs 60
Beans 63
p eas 64
C '°™ 56
R y e 66
Barley 46
°ats 30
Potatoes 60
Clover Seed 60
Salt 70
Hemp 44
Bushel of Castor Oil Be*ns 66
Timothy Seed 56
Blue Grass Seed 14
Apples, dried 22
Peaches, dried 33
Gallon of Oil weighs 0-32
Distilled Water 10-00
Sea Water 32
9 Proof Spirits 9.3
G.
[ Reported for the Baltimore Sun.]
Thirty-First Congrcas-lst Session.
Washington, Monday, Dec, 3d, is 19.
In conformity with the Constitution of the
United States, the first session of the thirty,
first Congress commences this dav.
SENATE.
At 12 o’clock the Hon. Millard Fillmore, of
New York, Vice President of the U. State.,,
took the chair, and called the Senate to order!
The Senators present were, from
Maine —Mr. Hannibal Hamlin.
New Hampshire —Messrs. John P. Hale and
Uoses Norris, Jr.
Vermont—Messrs. S. S. Phelps and Wm.
Upham.
Massachusetts—Mr. John Davis.
Connecticut—Messrs. R. S. Baldwin and
Truman Smith.
Rhode Island—Messrs. Albert C. Greene
and John H. Clarke.
New York—Mr. Wm. Seward.
New Jersey—Mr. Jacob W. Miller.
Pennsylvania—Messrs. Daniel Sturgeon and 1
Jas. Cooper. |
Delaware —Mr. John Wales.
Maryland—Mr. Janus A. Pearce.
Virginia —Messrs James M. .VLsoa and R
M. T. Hunter.
North Carolina —Messrs. W. P. Mangutn j
and Geo. E. Badger.
South Carolina —Messrs. John C. Calhoun
and A. P. But.er.
Georgia—Mr. \V . C. Daw sou.
Missisaipp. —Messrs Jefu-isou Davis and H
S. Foote.
Louisiana —Mr. S. U. Downs.
Tennessee —Mr. John Bell.
Kentucky—Messrs. Henry Clay and Jos. R,
Underwood.
Ohio —Messrs. Thus. Corwin and S. p.
Chase.
Michigan—Messrs. Lewis Cass and Atpheus
Felch.
Illinois—Mr. James Shields.
Missouri—Messrs, Thomas H. Benton and s
D. R. Atchison.
lowa—Messrs. George W. Jones and A. C
Dodge.
Wisconsin- -Messrs. Henry Dodge and J P.
Walker.
On motion of Mr. Sturgeon, it was ordered
that the Secretary inform the House that the
Senate has assembled, and is ready to proceed
to business.
Orders lor the supply of each Senator with,
newspapers, and fixing the daily hour of meet
ing at 12 o’clock, were passed: The Senate
then adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The House met at 12 o’clock, and was called
to order by Thomas J. Campbell, the clerk oi I
the last House.
The roll was then called over by States,
when it appeared that all the members were
present except Augustine H. Sheppard, w hig
: of North Carolina ; Thomas Butler King, wnig
> of Georgia ;J Albert J. Alston, whig, and Dav.d
Hubbard, democrat, of Alabama; Albert G.
. Brown, democrat, of Mississippi; Meredith P,
* Gentry, whig, of Tennessee ; and Geo. W. Ju
■ lieu, free-soiier whig, of Indiana.
Number present,223 ; absent, 7; one vacancy
in Palfrey’s district, Massachusetts.
On motion of Mr. Boyd, the House proceed
ed to the election viva 0 ce for Speaker.
Mes.-rs. Duer, of N. Y.; Miller, of Ohio;
Hilliard, of Alabama, and strong, of Pa,, were
appointed tellers.
The House having proceeded to ballot, ths
following was the result, Vvz:
Cobb, of Ga., dem 102
Wmthrop, of Maas., wijig 96
. D. Wilmot, of Pa., Free Soil.. 3
M. P. Gentry, of Tenn., whig........ g
H. Mann, of Mass,, w hig 2
James Thompson, of Fa., dem I
t C. F. Cleveland, oi Conn., dem i I
James A. Seddon, of Va., dem 1 I.
Jos. L. Orr, of S. C., dem . I
David T. Disney, of Ohio, dem 1
Joseph M. Root, of Ohio, Free 50i1... i
221
Necessary to a choice 111.
Messis. Cobb and Winthrop did not vote
There being no election, the House proceed
ed to a second ballot. The vote resulted as
follows, viz:—Cobb, of Georgia 103; Win
thorp 96; Wilmot 8; Mann 2; Cleveland I,
Durke 1; Stanton, of Term., 1; Genliy 6;
Woodward, of South Carolina, I; Disney, of
Ohio, I; James riuxnpsou 1; Seddon, of Vir
ginia, 1; 221 votea —necessary to a choice 111.
There being no election.
A third ballot was had, when it appeared
, that Mr. Cobb received 102 votes; Wiuthorp
96; Wilmot 7; Gentry 6; Mann 2; Cleveland 2;
and scattering 9—221 voles; necessary to n
choice 111. There being no elec-.ion.
Mr. Holmes moved that the House adjourn;
and on motion ti e question was taken by tel
lers—Messrs. Cabell, of Florida, and Boyd, of
' Ky., acting as such, i'he House refused to
t adjourn by a vote of 97 in the affirmative and
10S in the negative.
, The House then proceeded to a fourth bal
lot. It resulted as follow's, vz : Cobb 10-
’ Winthrop 96; Seddon 2; Gentry 6; Cleveland | *
2; Mann 2; James Thompson 1; Stanton, I |
Tenn. 1; Booth 1; Wilmot 7; Potter I—lo 9
221. There being no choice and no prospe
of one.
1 On motion of Mr. Levin, the House agreed
1 on a count by tellers, to adjourn till to-mor
-1 row morning at 12 o’clock. There being 120
tor the adjournment, no count was taken for
the negative.
[ Telegraphedfor the Baltimore .Sim.}
Boston, Dec. I—9 P M.
DR. PARKMAN.
The discovery of the remains w as first made
by Mr. Littlefield, a porter attached to the
college,who broke through a brick wall into the
private vault, to which none but Mr. Webster
has access. The friends of the latter are con
fident of his innocence of the crime, but the
evidence is thought sufficiently strong to hold
, him tor trial, provided the remains found can
be identified. The excitement prevailing toap ; ~
very late hour, the authorities have found*! 1 |
necessary to order out the military to preves'
a popular outbreak.
Boston, Dec. 2—P. M.
Further Disclosure*. Further disclosures
have been made to-day relating to the sup
posed murder of Dr. Parkman, but nothing I M
positive has been adduced to fasten the charge
of murder upon Professor Webster. In the
Professor’s laboratory a chest has been found,
in the bottom of which, covered with tar, fur
ther remains of a mutilated body were dis
covered. The whole of tne body, w-ith tbs
exception of the head, feet and arms, has been
recovered, and the fragments are being
together in their true position. A number of
chemists and physicians are engaged in sn*
alj-fing the ashes found in the grate of the
I room.
Ihe inquest will commence on Wednesday
; next. The police assert that they have further
| information against the accused, which wid
not be divulged until the sitting of the cor-
• oner’s inquest.
From the peculiar shape of the limbs, alter
they had beeu put together, there is but little
i doubt that they belonged to Parkman.
The accused, this morning, is very quiet
I and composed.
i The military were out last night, but no
i disturbance look place.
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