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UNITED STATES AND AUSTRIA.
Mr. Webster’s Reply to the Austrian
Charge d’Affaires,
A spirited correspondence has lately take n
place between Mr. Hulsemann, the Charge
d'Affaires of Austria, and the Hon. Daniel
Webster, Secretary of State of the United
States, in relation to the confidential mission
of Mr. Mann, sent by den. Taylor to Vienna
1 , to gather official information of the late revo
lt lutionary movement in Hungary. Austria,
it appears, took offence at this movement of
the United States, which she considered an
undue interference in her affairs, and through
Charge protested against it. The reply of
■■■■fc. Webster, although calm and moderate, is
vindication of the eoocse pursued
HH|HPy our Government, and a withering rebuke
. ■ the heughly and insolent threats ot Austria.
Mr. Webster’s letter is too long ior our space,
but we must give a portion of it.
After referring to the denunciations of the
United States aud its free government, thirty
years ago, by the Kings and Potentates of Eu
rope, Mr. Webster says:
The power of this Republic at the present mo
ment, is spread over a region, one of the rich
est and most fertile on the globe, and of an ex
tent in comparison with which the posses
sions of the House of Hapsburg are but as a
patch on the earth’s surface. Its population,
already twenty-five millions, will exceed that
hos the Austrian empire within the period du
ring which it may be hoped that M. .Hules
mann may yet remain in the honorable dis
charge of his duties to his Government. Its
navigation and commerce are hardly exceeded
by the oldest and most commercial nations ;
its maritime means and its maritime power
may be seen by Austria herself in all seas
where she has ports, as well as it may be seen,
also, in all quarters of the globe. Life, liberty,
property, and all personal rights are amply
secured to all citizens, and protected by just
and stable laws; and credit, public and pri
vate, is as well established as in any Govern
ment of Central Europe. And the country,
in all its interests and concerns, partakes most
largely in all the improvements and progress
which distinguish the age. Certainly the U.
States may be pardoned, even by those who
profess adherence to the principles of abso
lute Governments, if they entertain an ardent
affection for those popular forms of political
organization which have so rapidly advanced
their own prosperity and happiness, and en
abled them in so short a period to bring their
country and the hemisphere to which it be
longs, to the notice and respectful regard, not
to say the admiration, of the civ lized world.
Nevertheless, the United States have abstain-
J ed, at all times, from acts of interference with
the political changes of Europe. They can
not, however, fail to cherish always a lively
interest in the fortunes of nations struggling
for institutions like their own. But this sym
pathy, so far from being necessarily a hostile
feeling toward any of the parties to these
great national struggles, is quite consistent
with amicable relations with them all. The
Hungarian people are three or four times as
\ numerous «s the inhabitants ot these United
Stetes were when the American revolution
broke out. They possess, in a distinct lan
guage and in other respects, important ele
ments of a separate nationality, which the
Anglo-Saxon race in this country did not
pessess, and i£ the United States wish success
to countries contending for popular constitu
tions and national independence, it is only be
cause they regard such constitutions and such
k national independence, not as imaginary, but
as real blessings. They claim no right, how-
Db ever, to take part in the struggles of foreign
Powers in order to promote these ends. It is
only in defence of his own Government, and
principles and character, that the under
signed has now expressed himself on this sub
ject. But when the United States behold the
people of foreign countries, without any such
interference, spontaneously moving toward
the adoption of institutions like their own, it
surely cannot be expected of them to remain
wholly indifferent spectators.
In regard to the recent very important oc
currences in, the Austrian empire, the under
signed freely admits the difficulty which ex
isted in the country, and is alluded to by Mr.
Hulsemann, of obtaining accurate informa
tion. But this difficulty is by no means to
be ascribed to what Mr. Hulsemann calls—
w with little justice, as it seems to the under
signed —“ the mendacious rumors propagated
by the American press.” For information on
this subjeet, and others of the same kind, the
American press is, of necessity, almost whol
ly dependent upon that of Europe ; and if
“ mendacious rumors” respecting Austrian
and Hungarian affairs have been any where
propagated, that propagation of falsehoods has
been most prolific on the European continent,
and in countries immediately bordering on
the Austrian empire. But, wherever these
errors may have originated, they certainly
justified the late President in seeking true
information through authentic channels.
Mr. Webster then goes on to show the rea
sons why the agent was sent on the mission
complained of—gives a correct version of his
du .ies—demonstrates that the U. States pur
sued a lawful course —and concludes as fol
lows : •
Mr. Hulsemann will observe from this state
ment that Mr. Mann’s mission was wholly
unobjectionable, and strictly within the rule
of the law of nations, and the duty of the U.
States as a neutral power. He will according
ly feel how little foundation there is for his
remark, that “those who did not hesitate to
assume the responsibility of sending Mr. Dud
ley Mann on such an errand should, inde*
pendent of considerations of propriety, have
borne in mind that they were exposing their
emissary to be treated as a spy.” A spy is a
person sent by one belligerent to gam secret
information of the forces and defences of the
other to be used for hostile purposes. Accor
ding to practice, he may use deception, under
the penalty of being lawfully hanged it de
tected. To give this odious name and charac
ter to a confidential agent of a neutral Power,
bearing the commission of his country, and
sent for a purpose fully warranted by the law
of nations, is not only to abuse language, but
also to confound all just ideas, and to announce
the wildest and most extravagant notions,
such as certainly were not to have been ex
pected in a grave diplomatic paper; and the
President directs the undersigned to say to
Mr. Hulsemann that the American Govern
ment would regard such an imputation upon
it by the Cabinet of Austria, as that it employs
spies, and that in a quarrel none of its own,
as distinctly offensive, if it did not presume,
as it is willing to presume, that the word used
in the original German was not of equivalent
meaning with “spy” in the English language,
or that iu some other way the employment of
such an opprobrious term may be explained.
Had the Imperial Government of Austria sub
jected Mr. Mann to the treatment of a spy, it
would have placed itself without the pale of
civilized nations; and the Cabinet of Vienna
may be assured that if it had carried, or at
tempted to carry, any such lawless purposes
into effect, in the case of an authorized agent
of this Government, the spirit of the people of
this country would have demanded immediate
hostilities to be waged by the utmost exertion
of the power of the Republic, military and
naval.
Mr. Hulsemann proceeds to remark that
“this extremely painful incident, therefore
might have been passed over, without any
written evidence being left on our part in the
archives of the U. States, had not Gen. Taylor
thought proper to revive the whole subject, by
communicating to the Senate, in his message
of the 18th (28th) of last March, the instruc
tions with which Mr. Mann had been furnish
ed on the occasion of his mission to Vienna.
The publicity which has been given to that
document has placed the Imperial Govern
ment under the necessity of entering a formal
protest, through its official representative,
against the proceedings of the American Gov
ernment, lest that Government should con
strue our silence into approbation, or tolera
tion even, of the principles which appear to
have guided its action and the means it has
adopted.” The undersigned re-asserts to Mr.
Hulsemann, and to the Cabinet of Vienna and
in the presence of the world, that the steps
taken by President Taylor, now protested
against by the Austrian Government, were
warranted by the law of nations and agreeable
to tne usages of civilized States. With re
pect to the communication, of Mr. Mann’s in
structions to the Senate, and the language in
which they are couched, it has already been
said, and Mr. Hulsemann must feel the jus
tice of the remark, that these are domestic af
fairs, in reference to which the Government of
the U. States cannot admit the slightest re
sponsibility to the Government of hisl mperial
Majesty. No State, deserving the appellation
of independent, can permit the language in
which it may instruct its own officers in the
discharge of their duties to itself, to be called
in question under any pretext by a foreign
Power. But, even if this were not so, Mr.
Hulsemann is in an error in stating that the
Austrian Government is called an “Iron
Rule” in Mr. Mann’s instructions. That phrase
is not found in the paper; and in respect to
the honorary epithet bestowed in Mr. Mann’s
instructions on the late chief of the Revolu
tionary Government of Hungary, Mr. Hulse
mann will bear in mind that the Government
of the U. States cannot justly be expected, in
a confidential communication to its own agent,
to withhold from an individual an epithet of
distinction of which a great part of the world
thinks him worth, merely on the ground that
his own Government regards him as a rebel.
At an early stage of the American Revolution,
while Washington was considered by the En
glish Government as a rebel chief, he was re
garded on the continent of Europe as an illus
trious hero. But the undersigned will taka
the liberty of bringing the Cabinet of Vienna
into the presence of its own predecessors, and
of citing for its consideration the conduct of
the Imperial Government itself. In the year
1776 the war of the American Reolution was
raging all over these U. estates; England was
prosecuting that war with a most resolute de
termination, and by tne exertion of ail her
military means to the fullest extent. Germa
ny was at that time at peace with England;
and yet an agent of that Congress, which was
looked upon by England in no other light
than that of a body in open rebellion, was not
only received with great respect by the Am
bassador of the Empress Queen at Paris, and
by the Minister of the Grand Duke of Tus
cany, who afterwards mounted the imperial
throne,but resided in Vienna for a considerable
time; not, indeed, officially acknowledged, but
treated with courtesy and respect; and the
Emperor suffered himself to be persuaded by
that agent to exert himself to prevent the
German Powers from turnishing troops to
England to enable her to suppress the rebellion
in America.
Neither Mr. Hulsemann, nor the Cabinet of
Vienna, it is presumed, will undertake to say
that any thing said or done by this Govern
ment in regard to the recent war between
Austria and Hungary, is not borne out, and
much more than borne out, by this example
of the imperial Court. It is believed that the
Emperor Joseph the Second habitually spoke
in terms of respect and admiration of the char
acter of Washington, as ne is known to have
done of that of Franklin; and he deemed it no
infraction of neutrality to inform him of the
progress of the Revolutionary strsuggie iu
America, nor to express his deep sense of the
merits and the talents of those illustrious men
who were then leading their country to inde
pendence and renown. The undersigned may
add, that in 1781 the Courts of Russia and
Austria proposed a diplomatic Congress of the
belligerent Powers, to which the Commis
sioners of the United States should be admit
ted.
Mr. Hulsemann thinks that in Mr. Mann's
instructions improper expressions are intro
duced in regard to Russia; but the undersign
ed has no reason to suppose that Russia her
self is of that opinion. The only observation
made in those ’instruetio .s about Russia is
that she “has chosen to assume an attitude
of interference, and her immense preparations
for invading and reducing the Hungarians to
the rule of Austria—from which they desire
to be released—gave so serious a character to
the contest as to awaken the most painful so
licitude in the minds of Americans.” The
undersigned eannoebut consider the Austrian
Cabinet as unecessarily susceptible in looking
upon language like this as “hostile demonstra
tion.” If we remember that it was address
ed by the Government to its own agent, and
has received publicity only thro’ a communi
cation from one Department of the American
Government to another, the language quoted
must be deemed moderate and inoffensive.
The comity of nations would hardly forbid
its being addressed to the two Imperial Pow
ers themselves. It is scarcely necessary for
the undersigned to say, that the relations of
the United States witu Russia have always
been of the most friendly kind, and have
never been deemed by either party to require
any compromise of their peculiar views upon
subjects of domestic or foreign polky, or the
true origin of Governments. At any rate, the
fact that Austria, iu he contest with Hungary
had an intimate and faithful ally in Russia,
cannot alter the real nature of the question
between Austria and Hungary, nor in any
way affect the neutral rights and duties of the
Government of the United States or the jus
tifiable sympathies of the American people.
It is, indeed, easy to conceive that favor
toward struggling Hungary would not be di
minished, bot increased, when it was seen
that the arm of Austria was strengthened and
upheld by a Power whose assistance threat
ened to be, and which in the end proved to be,
overwhelmingly destructive of all her hopes, j
Towards the .conclusion of his note Mr. i
Hulsemann remarks that “if the Government i
of the United States weFp think it proper j
to take an indirect part in the political move- (
znents of Europe, Amerioan policy would be I ;
exposed to acts of retaliation, and to certain
inconveniences which would not fail to affect
the commerce and industry of the two hemis
pheres.” As to this possible, fortune, this
hypothetical retaliation, the Government and
_ people of the United States are quite willing
■ to take their ehar ces and abide ttieir destiny.
Taking neither a direct nor an indirect part in
the domestic or intestine movements of Eu
; rope, they have no fear of events of the na
ture alluded to by Mr. Hulsemann. It would
i be idle now to discuss with Mr. Hulsemann
those acts of retaliation which he imagines
\ may possibly take place at some indefinite
• time hereifter. Those questions will be dis
f cussed when they arise, and Mr. Hulsemann
i and the Cabinet at Vienna may rest assured
l that, in the mean time, while performing with
i strict and exact fidelity all their neutral du
ties,nothing will deter either the Government
; or the people of the United States from exer
s citing, at their own discretion, the rights be
’ longing to them as an independent nation,
i and of forming and expressing their own
r opinions, freely and at all times, upon the
’ great political events which may transpire
i among the civilized nations of the earth.—
Their own institutions stand upon the broad
est principles of civil liberty; and believing
, those principles and the fundamental laws in
; which they are embodied to be eminently fa
■ vorable to the prosperity of States—to be, in
l fact, the only principles of government which
, meet the demands of the present enlightened
age—the President has perceived witli great
• satisfaction that, in the Constitution recently
• introduced into the Austrian empire, many of
> these great principles are recognised and ap
i plied, and he cherishes a sincere wish that
, they may 'produce the same happy effects
I. throughout his Austrian Majesty’s extensive
i dominions that they hare done in the United
1 States.
• The undersigned has the honor to repeat to
• Mr. Hulsemann the assurance of his high
consideration. Daniel Webster.
The Frozen Ship-
At this period when so much anxiety pre
vails respecting the fate of Sir John Franklin,
: every thing relating to the Polar regions is of
interest. The following sketch is one of the
[ most thrilling we have ever heard :
One serene evening in the middle of Au
i gust, 1776, Capt. Warrens, the master of the
s Greenland, whaleship, found himself becalm
ed among an immense number of icebergs, in
about 77 degrees of north latitude. On one
, side, and within a mile of his vessel, these
were closely wedged together, and a succes
i sion of snow-colored peaks appeared behind
> each other as far a9 the eye could show
i ing that the ocean was completely blocked up
i in that quarter, and that it had probably
been so for a long yeriod of time. Capt.
Warrens did not feel altogether satisfied with
; his situation; but there being no wind he
i could not move one way or the other, and he
, therefore kept a strict watch, knowing that he
f would be safe as long as the icebergs contin
i ued in their respective places.
; About midnight the wind rose to a gale, ae
. companied by thick showers of snow, while a
, succession of tremendous thundering, grind
ing, and crashing noises, gave fearful evidence
. that the ice was in motion. The vessel re
. ceived violent shocks every moment; for the
haziness of tie atmosphere prevented those
on board from discovering in what direction
the open water lay, or if there actually was
: any at all on either side of them. The night
■ was spent in tacking as often as any cause of
danger happened to present itself, and in the
morning the storm abated, and Capt. Warrens
found to his great joy that his ship had not
sustained any serious injury. He remarked
with surprise, that the accumulated icebergs,
which had on the preceding evening formed
i an impenetrable barrier, had been separated
, and disarranged by the wind, and in one place
; a canal of open sea wound its course among
them as far as the eye could discern.
It was two miles beyond the entrance of
this canal that a ship made its appearance
about noon. The sun shone brightly at the
time, and a gentle breeze blew from the north.
. At first some intervening icebergs prevented
Capt. Warrens from distinctly seeing any
thing but her masts; but he was struck with
the strange manner in which her sails were
> disposed, and with the dismantled aspect of
i her yards and rigging. She continued tq go
before the wind for a few furlongs, and then,
l grounding upoi\, the low icebergs, remained
motionless.
Capt. Warrens’s curiosity was so much ex
cited, that he immediately leaped into his
boat with several seamen, and rowed towards
her. On approaching, he observed that her
hull was miserably weather-beaten, and not a
soul appeared on the deck, which was covered
with snow to a considerable depth. He hailed
her crew several times, but no answer was re
turned. Previous to stepping on board, an
open port-hole near the main chains caught
his eye, and on looking into it, he perceived
a man reclining back on a chair, with writing
materials on a table before him, but the fee
bleness of the light made every thing indis
tinct. The party went upon deck, and having
removed the hatchway, which they found
closed, they descended to the cabin. They
first came to the apartment which Capt. War
rens viewed through the port-hole. A tre
mor seized him as he entered it. Its inmate
retained his former position, and seemed to be
insensible to strangers. He was found to be
a corpse, and a green daiqp mould had cover
ed his cheeks ana forehead, and veiled his
open eye-balls. He had a pen in his hand,
and a log- book lay before him, the last sen
tence in whose unfinished page ran thus -
“ Nov. 14, 1762. We have now been enclosed
in the ice seventeen days. The fie went out
yesterday, and our master has been trying
eversince to kindle it again without success.
His wife died this morning. There is no re
lief— ”
Capt. Warrens and his seamen hurried from
the spot without uttering a word. On enter
ing the principal cabin, the first object that
attracted their attention was the dead body of
a female reclining on a bed in an attitude ol
deep interest and attention. Her counte
nance retained the freshness of life, and a con
traction of the limb 3 showed that her form
was inanimate. Seated on the floor was the
corpse ot an apparently young man, holding a
steel in one hand, and a flint in the other, as
if in the act of striking fire upon some tinder
which lay beside him. In the fore part of the
vessel several sailors were found lying dead
in their berths, and the body of a boy was
crouched at the bottom of the gangway stairs.
Neither provision nor fuel could be discovered
any where, but Capt. Warren was prevented
by the superstitious prejudices of his seamen,
from examining the vessel as minutely as he
wished to have done. He therefore carried
away the log-book, alread mentioned, and re
turned to his own ship, and immediately steer
ed to the southward, deeply impressed with
the awful example, which he had just wit
nessed, of the danger of navigating the Polar
seas in high north ern latitudes.
On returning to England he made various
inquiries respecting vessels that had disap
peared in an unknown way, and by comparing
the results of those with information which i
was afforded by the written documents in his
possession, he ascertained the name and his
tory of the imprisoned ship and her unfortu
nate master, and found that she had been fro- <
zen thirteen years previous to the time of his <
discovering her among the ice.— Westminister \
Review . ,
(Reported for the Baltimore Sun.)
Thirty-First Congress—Second Session-
Washington, Jan. 6, 1850.
1 SENATE.
Mr. Butler presented the credentials of the
Hon. Barnwell Rhett, chosen by the Legisla
ture of South Carolina, as a Senator of the
United States for the unexpired term of the
late Hon. John C. Calhoun. The credentials
were read, and Mr. Rhett appeared and was
qualified.
A large number of petitions and memorials
were presented.
A communication from the War Depart
ment, enclosing a statement of the expendi
tures of the appropriations for the contingent
expenses of the military department, was re
ceived, read, and ordered to be printed.
A message was received from the House,
announcing the passage by that body of a
large number of private bills; which were
taken up, and referred to appropriate commit
tees.
, The resolution heretofore adopted, ordering
that the President’s message and accompany
ing documents be bound in two volumes,
was recinded.
On motion of Mr. Smith the bill to ascer
tain and satify the claims of American citizens
for spoliations by the French, prior to 1801,
, was taken up, and made the special order for
Monday next.
The Senate proceeded to the consideration
, of the resolution of Mr.Bradbury,calling forcer
■ tain information respecting removals from of
• fice by the Administration of General Taylor.
Mr. Mangum addressed the Senate in de
fence ot the removal by General Taylor of
General Lane from the post of Governor of
i Oregon, on the ground that General Lane had
impeached the personal honor and integritv
of General Taylor, growing out of the state
, ments concerning the 2d Indiana regiment, in
the official report of the battle of Buena Vis
ta. He examined the point in great detail,
and closed his speech a little after three o’-
clock, when the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. Holmes, of South Carolina, moved that
the rules of the House be suspended to ena
> ble him to introduce the following resolution,
, —that it be referred to to the committee on
military affairs to report a bill conferring the
, rank of Lieut, General on Major General
i Scott for his services during the late war with
Mexico.
The ayes and nays being ordered, the mo
tion was carried by a majority of one, there
being 79 in its favor and 78 agaiast it.
Mr. Robertson,of Indiana,from the commit
tee to whom the subject had been referred,
submitted their report, accompanied by a bill
tor ensuring the proper execution of the act
granting bounty lands to persons who had
been engaged in the military service of the
United otates —the further consideration of
which was deferred till Thursday next.
Mr. Julian, of Indiana, asked for leave to
present a memorial from the Society of
Friends in Indiana, praying for the repeal of
the fugitive slave law. Objections having
been made, he moved to suspend the rules to
enable him to submit his instructions, and to
introduce a bill repealing the law, which was
negatived by a majority of 119 to 63.
Mr. Strong, of Pennsylvania, moved that
the rules be suspended, in order to make it
the special order of the day for the 22d Janu
ary, to go into committee for the consideration
of the bill establishing a Board ot Accounts.
The Ayes and noes being ordered, 130 voted
in the affirmative, and 42 in the negative.
The rules having been dispensed with, there
fore, the special order was agreed to.
A motion was then made to adjourn, upon
which the House divided ; when the Speaker
declared there was evidently a large majority
i in the affirmative, and that the House stood
j adjourned till to-morrow.
That Diamond Watch.—Our readers have
■ no doubt seen accounts of a magnificent watch,
. richly set with diamonds, and valued at
SIO,OOO, which has been exhibited recently in
several of the cities. We believe it was visi
ble here a few weeks since. The owner took
it to New Orleans, and has been endeavoring
jto dispose of it by raffia. On Tuesday last,
I one of the revenue officers there, received a
! telegraphic message from New-York, inform
. ing him that this splendid toy had been
smuggled through the Custom House at New
| York, as a part of a gentleman's private ap
parel. The officer immediately called at the
jewelry store, where it was exhibited, and de
sired to see it. The clerk thinking he wished
to “ take a chance,” handed it to him, when
he immediately fobbed it as a lawful prize.
The Crescent understands that the duties will
| be paid on it, and the watch released.— Mobile
! Register , 4 lh inst.
J3occess op the Savannah Patent Bkick
Company.— We have been prevented by a
press of matter from noticing before the suc
cess which has attended the efforts of this
company in the application of machinery to
the process of making brick. It is generally
known that the first .oeation selected by them
for their work, proved unfavorable for their
operations, and that they were induced to re
move to Crawford’s on the canal, some four or
| five miles above the locks. Here they have
| found clay of a superior quality, wood in abun
! dance, and a healthy site for iheir works. —
The first kiln which has just been burnt, has
turned out to the fullest satisfaction of the
Company, who are now prepared to manufac
ture brick of a superior quality to any extent.
They have erected permanent buildings at
their new yard, and design putting one or two
more presses in operation, by which they ex
pect to be able to turn out from 10,000,000 to
12,000,000 of bricks per annum. The speci
men bricks which have been shown to us look
very well. They are of a good size and weigh
well for their measurement, which is 8$ by
by 24— they are close, smooth, and weilburn
ed. The grey bricks which we believe are
called the t best, are of a handsome-liace color,
mottled with dark spots. In point of dura
bility we should think they would compare
favorably with the better quality of bricks in
common use.
We are gratified a 1 the success which has
crowned the efforts of the Savannah Patent
Brick Company. They have encountered
many obstacles, and we sinceraly hope that
their perseverance and energy may receive its
merited reward. — Sav . Neios.
Re-Vaccination* — Medical men are very of
ten asked if one vaccination is sufficient to
protect the system through life, from (Small
Pox—or how often is it necessary to have the
operation performed. The late Dr. Fisher,
of Boston, for a long time gave attention to
this subject, and in January last published
with others the following propositions, which
are supported by numerous statistical facts,
and are fully relied upon by the profession:
“1. That one single and perfect vaccina
tion does nos, for all time, in all cases, deprive
the system of its susceptibility of various dis
ease."
“2. That one or more re-vaccinations do\
and that, consequently, a physician should re
commend re-vaccination, when questioned as
to its necessity.”
“3. The system is protected from variolous
contagion when it is no longer susceptible of
vaccine influence,as tested by re-vaccination.”
Every person, therefore, who would be ful
ly protected from Small Pox, should be not
only often vaccinated, but shoud have the
operation repeated, one or more times, or un
til the system ceases to be affected by the
virus. For most persons one operation would
be found sufficent while others might require
several. Re-vaccination, at least once,j[6hould
always be practiced. If this were the case
generally, this dire disease would aoou become
almost unknonw. — Prov. Johrnal.
THECONSTITUTIONALIST.
(Sstorgia.
FRIDAY MORNING, JAN- 10-
The Austrian Correspondence.
Mr. Webster's reply to the insolent protest
of the Austrian Charge in reference to the
mission of Mr. Dudley Mann, and of the in
structions give him, meets great and deserved
, favor. It must be especially gratifying to Gen.
! Cass and those who sympathized with him in
his proposition to suspend diplomatic inter
course with that arrogant, cruel and despica
ble power. If the spicy letter of Mr. Web
ster should cause this suspension, it will be a
result not to be deprecated. The mission is
but a useless piece of diplomatic mum'mery,
, as the trade is small between the two
countries. The American people have no
sympathy with that government, and can de
rive no gratification at keeping up a show of
civilty with it. It placed itself in estimation
. of Americans out of the pale of civilized
nations by its monstrous cruelties to the Hun
j. garians, and especially its unmanly and in
[ human treatment of the females of Hungary
’ who aided in the gallant struggle of that peo
ple for their liberty and ancient privileges. No
rebuke for that conduct could be too bitter
and withering to suit the American taste, and
Mr. Webster has rightly reflected the popular
sentiment, and at the sametime correctly as
serted the principle of American policy in re*
ferrence to the struggles of oppressed nations
for liberty and republicanism. He has struck
with a master hand the chords of the Ameri
can heart. All its sympathies are with the
flag of freedom wherever unfurled, and in op
position to absolutism and despotic power all
over the world, and no fear of offending ty
rants will suppress the expression of that sen
timent. No conventional rules of diplomacy
will be recognized which forbids it.
Mr. Webster’s letter will be a voice of cheer
ing and encouragement to the oppressed of al±
nations, and of warning to despots, not less
impressive than the treatment of the bloody
Haynau by the brewers of London.
A Political Humbug Exploded-
We find the following paragraph in the
Baltimore American of the 6th inst. :
“Advices from Washington say that the
Union National Convention for the 22d Feb
ruary, being deemed unnecessary by its ori
ginal friends, the movement will not be car
ried through.”
The Baltimore American is a good Whig
Constitutional Uaion, Clay Compromise paper,
and ought to know.
What will the Constitutional Union Party
of Georgia, alias the Toombs and Stephens
party, do now ? And what will those 95 dele
gates, one from each county, to this Wash
ington Convention, do ? They had, perhaps,
better hold a Convention on their own hook,
or at least the Whig members of the delega
tion, and devise some other gull-trap to entice
the Democrats into the arms of Whiggery,
under a new name. There is a class of Dem
ocrats in Georgia, Cobb, Holsey & Co., who
seem bent on giving to the great body of
Whiggery in Georgia, the political power of
the State, under the deceptive cry of saving
the Union, and putting down the Disunion
traitors. But the soheme is “no go” in other
States. The Washington Union has raised a pit
eous voice of protest under a deprecatory ar
ticle headed, “ Shall the Democratic Party be
Disbanded?” TheWeio York Globe, and other
Northern Democratic papers, scout the idea.
It will be found in Georgia that the great
body of the Democrats will adhere to the
Southern Rights Party of Georgia, it being a
party which hold* doctrines more in unison
with their sentiments than federal whiggery,
no matter under what deceitful alias it may be
cloaked. The Southern Rights Party is a State
Rights, Strict Construction Party. It will con
tinue in the spirit of the reeognized democratio
theory to keep a jealous watch and ward upon
Federal encroachments, and consider its para
mount duty is to guard the rights of Georgia
and the South alike from danger from that
quarter, and from the intrigues of her office
loving politicians and national tacticians.
Scarcity of Silver Change-
A correspondent of the New York Journal
of Commerce states that there are two thousand
persons employed in that city alone in work
ing up silver coin, and that the amoqnt thu*
used is about $50,000 daily. This k e ip
to account for the scarcity of s'Vver. He re
commends a law of Co^g reBB juaking t ke
melting of silver coin for plate and such pur
poses, a penal offence. We conceive that such
a law woql<} he arbitr^y,— an outrageous in
terference with trade, and the honest pursuits
ot a meritorious class of citizens.
Soap Stone Gkiddles.—We have heard
some inquiry made for these culinary articles,
and learn that they are not to be found in this
market. They are advertised by Thos. A. P.
Horton, 120 Meeting-street, Charleston. He
say :
A trial will convince the most sceptic of
their superiority over all Iron Griddles for ba
king buckwheat cakes—as no greasy matter is
required to prevent the cakes from adhering
to the heated surface. g
Richmond SocthbbnAughts Association.
—At a meeting of the Central Southern
Rights Association at Richmond, Ya., last
Priday night, (says the Baltimore Sun, of 7th
inst.) it was determined to invite Messrs. Ber
rien, of Georgia, (who maintains the constitu
tionality of discriminating taxation,) and Soule,
01. Louisiana, to address the Association and
to vindicate the constitutionality and expe
diency of the policy. The Richmond Enqui
rer truats that they may except the invitation.
oHir Blown up. —American Officers Killed. —
On board the Portuguese Frigate Donna Ma
ria, which was blown up at Macao, whilst ce
lebrating the Queen’s birth day, there were
several officers of the U. S. ship Marion, who
were to have dined on board, and were it is
■opposed killed.
i The Baltimore Arne: icsn of the 6th inst,
L says: “The papers at the North and East all
[ announce the prevalence of very cold weather
and in many places accompanied with snow.
• At Albany the North River was so hard frozen
over that teams were passing on the ice. The
Lowell Courier says the snow on the Eastern
and Western slope of the Green Mountains
was, last week, from four to five feet deep on
a level.
Florida. —An ineffectual attempt was made
in the Legislature of Florida, on the 19th
1 ult., to re-elect Mr. |Yulee to the U. S. Sen
ate, and a new attempt was postponed to the
23d ult. Several of the Democratic friends
of Mr. Yulee are opposed to him, and thus
the failure to elect.
Death of the Hon. Thomas Spalding.—
The venerable Ihomaa Spalding is no more!
He breathed his last calmly and peacefully on
the 4th inst., at the house of his son, Charles
Spaulding, Esq. # When he went to the Geor
gia Convention, he said he “would go it he
died on the road." He has not so died, but
he did not live to return again to the island
home which he left when he repaired to that
. Convention. The sequel shows plainly that
our venerable friend was correctly impressed
with the danger to one ol his years and feeble
health, of such a journey. His remark, when
he took his seat as President of the Conven
tion, that “it would be a graceful termination
of a long life." was prophecy. Itu>as a grace
ful termination of a life devoted to the hon-
I
or, the interests and the dignity of this State,
and of the great Union of States.— Savannah
Republican , B th inst.
(communicated O
Tribute of Respect-
At a meeting of the Rector, Wardens and
Vestrymen of St. Paul’s Church, Augusta,
convened on Tuesday, Jan. 7th, 1851, on the
occasion of the death of the Rev. Dr. Nsuf
ville, the following Resolutions were unani
mously adopted.
Resolved, That we have learned, with un
feigned sorrow, the death of the Rev. Edward
Neufville, D. D., late Rector of Christ Church*
Savannah, and Senior resident Presbyter of
the Diocess of Georgia.
Resolved , That while we bow with unfeign
ed submission to this event in the Providence*
of the all-wise and all-righteous God, we
deeply feel and deplore the loss which this
Diocess has sustained in the removal from a
mong us of a ministering servant of the
Church, identified with us from a very early
period of our Diocessan organization, and
“ whose name is in all the Churches" thereof,
as gratefully associated in their recollections,
with many a “labor of love' ’ and with an ardent
and untiring devotion to their interests, by his
agency in her annual Conventions, and espe
cially in her Standing Committee, of which
last mentioned body he had, for many years
past, successively, and with great acceptance,
filled the office of President.
Resolved , That we tender the assurance of
our lively sympathy in their bereavement, to
the ancient and highly interesting Flock, which
for nearly a quarter of a century had enjoyed
the privilege of his ministrations, and to whom
he had greatly and most deservedly endeared
himself, by a course of faithful public services,
and of kind, affectionate ana sympathizing
private intercourse.
Resolved , That, so far as we may be allowed
to approach the sacred sorrows of ihe late
home of our departed friend and brother, we
would also tender the assurance of our deep
and heart-felt sympathy to the bereaved part
ner of his bosom, and to their children : com
mending them, for support and consolation
under their sorrows, to the tender love of that
Heavenly Father, who doth not willingly
grieve or afflict his children; and especially” ta
their recollections of the Christian virtues and
excellence of him whom they mourn, and of
the glorious reward promised thereto, for
Christ Jesus’ sake, by that all -gracious God at
whose holy altars, and in whose life-giving
word he so faithfully ministered.
Resolved, That copies of the foregoing Reso
tions, signed by the Secretary, be furnished,
respectively, to the Vestry of Christ Church,
Savannah, and to the beloved and respected
relict of the deceased.
Resolved, That these proceedings be pub
lished in “ The Churchman,” and “ The Ban
ner of the Cross,” as also in “ The Chronicle
& Sentinel” and “ The Constitutionalist" of.
this oity. G. McLAUGHLIN, Sec’y.
Picked up in the Street. —Why will Bar
num, and Jenny Lind never quarrel? Be
cause she is always tor-giving, asid he for-get-,
ting—Rost Post..
Reporting in Congress.—A Washington
letter in the Charleston Evening News, »*■ !
The speeches of Senators are now r "* yS *
mainly by boys of about fourtee - e P°rted
age, who by adopting the phror . y. ears °*
tern give as faithful repots •'■'graphic sys
men who still practice the •> A as experienced
graphy. The higher c’ s y sten * of steno
prefer these verbatim '* * 0 B P ea kers always
rate members ar reports, but the second
gundents give' - * , an * lous to have thei r ar-
Were no? tv ' J Y U the ,e P orter ' B ow *r language.
' 6 10 * the latter plan frequently adorned
the couD.try would be feasted with some choice
specimens of peculiar eloquence:
The Disputed Boundary between Missou
ri and lowa, &c A dispatch from Washing
ton states that the Supreme Court, on Friday
made their decision in the case of Missouri
against lowa, that the boundary made by the
Commissioners should stand. This gives lowa
the disputed territory, and upsets the re-elec
t.on of Willard P. Hall to the next Congre*
who beats his opponent, Bomar, by votes in
the disputed territory.— Baltimore Sun ,
df Telegraphed for the Charleston Mercury ,)
New Orleans, Jan. 7, 4 p. ni*
The cotton market has been active since the
arrival of the Niagara’s advices. The sales
this morning were 5000 bales, at 4a 4 »d
vance. Fair, 14f. 5 * aa *
The bark Imogene has cleared for Charles
ton.
Curious.— The CharlestorTMeTcury savs*
We were shown yesterday a small gold ring
about two thirds of an inch in diameter, which
was found m the crop of a snipe that was shot
by a young gentleman of this city on New
Year • day. The snipe, no doubr, absorbed it
under the impression that it was a ring. worm,
h™dssd holla hsrje waiu*
if? hNAWAY from the subscriber on the -sax
and TFFP ?if ta 'f t,tWOn u Kromen DI CK, jfv*
and JLhF, the former about 28 years of 8L
age of a dark complexion; the latter of a
hvht eompiexnm, and about 2Q years of age/fe
had been purchased by me for the So. Oa R. R.
bid ' yptv Mr T S Wb £ id * e - of Hamburg, who had
F t Cent [ y *? ro,, K llt them Oom Virginia.
h v7 hß u they left new suits ofclathesofdiah
i . he above reward wilt be given for their
apprehena on and deliv ry to any of the agents of
e Co., or for their being placed in any iail where
1 can get them; aod a farther reward of 50 dollars
for proof o! their being h ir’oored hy a white per
son, or hall of that amount if harbored by a colored
person. JAB. BRETT, for So Ca. R. R. Co.
*1 flmo