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A SONO OF LIFE—-by Charles mackat.
A traveller through a dusty road,
Strewed acorns on the lea,
And Oi e to k root and sprouted up,
And grew into a tree.
Love sought its shade at evening time,
To breathe its early vows;
And Age was pleased, in heat of noon,
i'o bask beneath its boughs ;
The d irmoiue love i its dangling twigs,
The birds, sweet music bore,
stood a g ory in its place,
ever more !
Battle spring had lost its way,
t >e arras- and tern,
HRiassing s,ranger scooped a well
weary men might turn ;
wait’d it in, and hung with care
vpjS*' t A ladle at the b ink—
7-Sg : flHe tnooght not of the deed be did,
But judged that toil might di ink.
passed again ! —andlo! the well
By summers never dried,
§jj|f* r Had cooled ten thousand parched tongue*,
111 And saved a life besi e !
i&P A dreamer drop’p a random thought,
Urßr;' ’Twa* old. and yet was new—
ggW A simple fancy of the brain,
He But strong m being true,
It shone upon a genial m nd,
jjf And, 1»! its 1 gbt became
A lamp of life, a beacon ray,
A monitory flame.
The thought was small—it -issue great,
A watch fire on the hill,
It sheds its radiance far adown,
a And cheer* the valley still!
I A nameless man, amid a crowd
v That thronged the daily mart.
Let fall a word of Hope and Love,
Unatud ed, from the heart;
A whisper on t e tumult thrown—
A transitory breath—
It raised a b.other from the dust,
It saved a son! from death.
O germ ! Olont! O work of love !
U thought at raudom cast,
Ye were but little at The first,
But mighty at the last!
| ——— . ..
I (From the Mobile Herald.)
New York, Dec. 2d, 1850.
Dear Sir : Another epoch in the history
of our country invokes the attention of every
patriot. In the brief but eventful record
which makes up our annals, must another
page be written conveying to posterity the
knowledge that secession and resistance to the
law are boldly proclaimed. Alljthen who ad
vocate fealty to the constitution and obedi
ence to the laws, cannot but view with pain
and mortification the attempt with whieh
both are regarded by a portion of the Ameri
can people. A prompt and effectual resis
tance must be made to these heresies, by all
who would protect the constitution and pre
serve unsullied the majesty of the law. The
crisis will not admit of delay. Each moment
the fatal doctrine of nullification gaiua addi
tional strength, and if not speedily condemn
ed will acquire sufficient power to overcome
the resistance which is made to its career by
wisdom and patriotism.
It is unnecessary to specify the aggressions
which have been committed upon the consti
tutional rights of the S >uth by the Northern
fanatics. They have been deepily regretted
by a large portion of our citizens; while they
are made an excuse for advocating secession in
the Southern States. Each demonstration
made by the abolitionists against the supre
macy of the law, is the signal lor renewed as
saults upon the Union party of the slavehold
ing States. The abolitionists following tne
example thus sec to them, make the intempe
rate language of their Southern allies the pre
text for another onslaught upon the conser
▼ tives of the North.
Unscrupulous candidates for office have
vastly increased the multiplication and abo
lition excitement by yielding to its demand
for the purpose of obtaining votes. The most
effectual method of arresting the evil is to
teach all aspirants for political honors that
they will loose more Union votes than they
will gain from the disorganiaers.
To correct and develope public-opinion—
arrest the tell spirit of nullification and re-es
tablish that fraternal love which once prevail
ed througout the confederacy was the design
of those patriotic men who assembled at the
Union meetings, which have been recently
held at the North. Here the demonstration
should not oe confined. The invocation in
behalf the Union, should ascend from every
city and hamlet in the land. The moral
slower which always flow from these patriotic
demonstrations is already indicated in the
more healthy tone of public sentiment of the
eity of New York.
Tne undersigned have been appointed a
corresponding committee by the “ Union
Safety Jommittee” of the city of New York.
It is our pleasant duty to open a correspon
dence with prominent men throughout the
confederacy. Great results can atone be ac
complished by large bodies of men setting in
concert.
We shall be happy to learn from you at an
early day that the inhabitants of your section
of the Union have established “ Union Safety
Committees” and proclaimed at their motto
sea ty to the constitution and obedience to the
laws.
We are very respectfully your obedient ser
vants,
George Wood, L. B. Chase,
Hiram Ketohum, T. S. Brady,
Eiward B. Butler, A. G. Beman,
George Douglass, Committee.
Mobile, Dec. 26, 1850.
Gentlemen : By yesterday’s mail I was
honored with the above letter of the 2d inst.
As its deals with matters of public concern, j
and as I am personally unknown to you, I
must be pardoned for answering it though
the medium of tne press. I have less hesi
tancy in doing so,because it is evidently a circu -
lar t and has been doubtless addressed to many
ethers in every section of the country.
While I will not question your solicitude
to preserve the Union, I cannot but admire
the skill with which you divide your censure
between the abolitionists and those of the
South who are forced so look *o accession as
the only means of escaping from compete and
utter rum. The coolness, t»o, with which
you ch irge the Southern people with making
the aggressions which have been committed
upon their constitutional rights,” an “excuse
for advocating secession,” is certainly worthy
of note. And not less so is your assertion
that “ each demonstration made by the abo
litionists against the supremacy of the law, is
the signal for renewed assaults upon the U- r
nion party of the slaveholding States.”
But you cap the climax when you allege J
that “.the abolitionists, following the example j
thus set them, make the intemperate language j
of their Southern allies the pretext for another j
onslaught upon the conservatives of the
North.”
Really, gentlemen, the sang froid with j
which you falsify history is not a little re
markable.
One would infer from your letter that the
South is answerable for the assaults upon her
rights, and that the abolitionists ht-ve com
mitted no greater sin than that of following
our bard “example.” You exhibit a want of j
candor and frankness, well calculated to
awaken doubts iu our minds as to your
fitness for the office you have assumed, viz:
to preserve the Union by correcting and de
veloping public opinion, and “re-establishing
that fraternal love which once prevailed
throughout the confederacy.”
To do this you must first learn to be just.
and your whole letter gives unmistakable evi
dence that you are not in that mood.
That you are in favor of the Union, I have
no question, for you are too well aware of its
advantages to your section to be otherwise, but
in the face of the wrongs and outrages com
mitted by Northern abolitionists and free sob
ers upon the South, it is expecting rattier too
much of us to suppose taat we should parti
cularly desire to uphold a Union that has
ceased to render us any protection.
To gentlemen so well in ormed as you are,
“it is unnecessary to specity the aggressions
which have been committed up *n the consti
tutional rights of the South by Northern fana
ticism. ’ But I would ask what have you
done to prevent these aggressions?
You are all influential men in your S ate,
and yet what have you done to prevent her
from assuming a hostile attitude towards the
South upon tvie slavery question? D.d you
make any effort to effect the repeal of the re
solutions passed by your Legislature on the
6th February, 1847, insisting upon the ap
plication of the Wumot proviso to the er
ritories? Did your endeavor to prevent the
| adoption of Mr. Raymond’s anti-slavery reso
i lutions at you last session? Have either of you
> given any evidence of a determination to up
j hold the rights of the South? It is true that
j one of your number, Mr. George Wood, pre
’ sided over ‘be late “Union meeting,” so call
ed, held in New York, but did he not vote for
Mr. Hunt for Governor, who during the cau
vass expressed his regret at the passage of the
fugitive slave bill and declared that it must
be essentially modified? It is not notorious
that Mr. Wood is a federalist of the old school
—the advocate of a strong government, and
the questioner of State rights?
Mr. Brady, if I mistake not, also participat
ed in the Union meeting, but we are ignorant
of his having at any time signaiiz d himself in
the advocacy of the “constitutional rights of
the South.” We are not to forget a Northern
man, who may have the boldness to proclaim
his determination to stand by the South in
her efforts to maintain those rights, and we
can recall no act of Mr. Brady’s that should
awken our gratitude since 1843, when he was,
I believe, a warm friend and admirer of Mr.
Calhoun, and the most prominent advocate in
New York of his political principles. His
present associations go far to authorize the
presumption that he has repudiated those
principles, and has coalesced with those who
withhold from the South her just rights.
I would ask if Mr. Brady has ever insisted
that the fugitive slave bill is just and equita
ble? Or, does he think, with Governor Hunt,
that it ought to be so emasculated as to make
it Jess obnoxious to the abolitionists?
And what are the opinions of Mr. Ketchum,
who now very kindly advises Southern men to
cultivate fraternal regard for the North? This
gentleman made hi nself quite famous in the
late Utica Convention. His spaeoh before
that body was certainly not very pregnant
with evidences of good will and respect to
wards the South. Hear him upon that oo
cca-ioni
*1 will make no boast, bi*t I should like to
gee the man who has done more from his
earliest manhood to the present moment, in
advocating the principles of abolition than the
humble individual who now addresses you;
and my principles are unchanged, entirely
unchanged.” Mark his extreme modestly, and
at the same time the firmness of his attach
ment to his principles! He then goes on to
point out the advantages of the Union to the
Northern States, and addressing himself to
the Southern people, very complacently says
to them, “Your forms of government in your
States differ from ours; we nave advanced far
ther than you, as we think; we see clearer than
you; but, as was well remarked by a friend
who preceded me, the darkness was once upon
us.” How cooiy does Ije assume superiority
over us, and with what an air does he intorm
us of it. But so great is his detestation of
slavery, that he is not content with recounting
his services as above, in the cause of abolition,
but must again revert to it, and speaks as fol
lows: “There are men here in this assembly, I
doubt not, who remember the time when sla
very existed here. I remember that I was in
at its death, and that I was associated with a
band of men to bring about the destruction of
that evil.”
True, he says that he would not interfere
with slavery in the States in which it exists
by law, but in the next breath he speaks as
follows: “There are now only six hundred
slaves in the District of Columbia, and this
number is daily diminishing. With these, we
have a right to interfere ” Mr. Ketchum
knows full well that the South has always
denied the right of Congress to interfere with
slavery in the District, and has repeatedly de
clared in the most solemn form that it will re
gard its abolition there, as a just cause of
withdrawal from the Union. And yet this
gentleman now assumes the office of advising
Southern, men as to the course they should
pursue and gravely urges them to form
“Union Safety Committees.”
A word more to Mr. Ketchum, and I am
done with him. Did he not also vote for
Governor Hunt, and was he not so pained be
cause a doubt was entertained on the sut’j'ct,
that after the election he published a note as
serting his support of Mr. Hunt at the polls?
The other gentleman on your comnit'ee,
are not so well known and therefore oanne t
be treated separately, but they ' may be pre
sumed as not differing very materially from
Mr. Ketchum in their opinions, as they have
united w ith him in your letter.
From what I have said, gentlemen, you
may readily imagine that I cannot be ins ru
mental in forming the “Safety Committees”
you suggest. I cannot therefore render you‘hap
py ’ by informing you of the establishment of
such committses. “The inhabitants of (my)
section” have no war to make against the
Union as it was designed to be—a Union of
equality—a Union in which the rights of all
were regarded—a Union regulated by the Con
stitution.
But they can have no especial reverence for
the Union you would them to uphold
a Union iu which their rights are trampled
under foot by a ruthless majority—a Union
which denies to the Southern people the right
of entry with their property into the territo
ries which are owned in common by all.the
States—a U iion into whichno n«.w slave State
will ever te allowed admission —a Union by
those who for fifteen years have incessantly
pressed their assaults upon us, and who are
determined to wield the_powers of the govern
ment to our detriment.
“The inhabitants” of ,this section acknow- ]
ledge their “fealty to the constitution, and j
obedience to the laws”—but it is to the con- J
stitution in its letter and spirit, and to laws
sanctioned by that constitution.
They desire no* to abandon, the Union, if
they can remain in it without a sacrifice of
honor and all they hold dear. These demand
their ffirst and highes allegiance. These “in
habitants” therefore insist upon a full and
complete recognition of their rights, and as
those rights have been infringed, they think
that their motto should be: The South first
—the South last—the South forever.
In conclusion, gentleman, I am “happy” to
inform you that a “ Southern Right* Associa
tion” has been formed in this city, and is rap
idly growing in power and influence. Simi
lar societies have also been organized in other
sections of the State and every indication war
rants the opinion that Alabama is ready to
maintain “at all and every haz <rd,” her rights,
dignity and equality against ‘Northern fanati
cism,” come in what shape it may.
I am, respectfully, your ob’t. svt’.,
Pjsuct Walker.
To George Wood, Hiram Kechurn, Edward
B Butler, George Douglass, L. B. Chase,
James T. Brady, aud A. G. Beman, Esqrs.,
committee.
( Reported for ths Baltimore Clipper .)
Thirty-First Congress—Second Session-
Washing-ton, Jan. 14, 1851.
SEtfAL’E.
The chair laid before the Senate a commu
nication from the executive committee of the
Industrial Exhibition to be held in London in
vune, 1851, stating what has been done to
enable c tizans of the U. State* to exhibit ar
ticles at the same, and asking that provision
may be made for agents to represent the inter
ests ol the U. States at the Fair. Referred to
the committee on commerce.
Mr. Hamlm nresenced the petition of Thom -
as Ritchie, Esq , the public printer, asking
the abrogation of the contract for printing,
and an advance of funds.
Mr. Underwood moved, and the joint reso
lurion authorising the assignment of military
land warrants was, after debate, taking up
and made the special order for Friday next.
Mr. Jones cahed up the bill amending the
ac r supplemental to the act for the admission
of lowa into the Union; the bill regulates the
place of holding the U. 3. Courts in lowa
&«., and it was ordered to be engrossed.
The Senate then proceeds l with the con
sideration of the bill to cede the public lands
to the States on certain conditions, &c.
Mr. Feiuh concluded his speech in opposi
tion to the bill.
Mr. Walker commenced a reply, and in
support of the bill, but uad not progressed far
when he yielded the floor, and the Senate ad
journed.
HOUSE OF REPRESEN TATIVES.
The House again resolved itself into a com
mittee of the vhole, on the bill for reducing
ths rats of postage.
After some discussion, and without coming
to any definite vote, the commute rose and
the House adjourned.
Washington, Jan. 15, 1851.
SENATE.
Mr. Hale presented a petition from Mont
gemery county, Pennsylvania, praying the im
m idtate repal of the Fugitive Slave Law. He
aa,id that, after the example of others, he
would comment on the petition. He pronounc
ed the Fugitive Slave law a reproach to the
age of civilization, and a perfect parody on the
Constitution.
Mr. Foote called to order. It was not in
order thus to speak of the legislation of Con
gress.
Mr. Rusk said, if speeches were allowed
on petitions, nothing could be done in tho
morning hour. t
The Chair decided that the Senator from
New Hampshire was in order:
Mr. Foote asked if the Chair decided that
the Senate was out of order.
The Chair replied in the negative.
Mr. Foote said the Senator then was at lib
erty to denounce the legislation of Congress
as long as he p' eased-
Mr. rlale said he would not go half as far
as the Sena:orfrom Mississippi did at last
session upon the legislation of Congress in
regard to the public printer. He then pro
ceeded to reply to some remarks of Mr. Clay,
when he was again called to order, and the
Chair sustained the point of order.
Mr. Whitcomb moved to lay the petition
on. the taole
Tfye veas and nays were taken—before the
vote was announced, Mr. Foote called the at
tention of the C iair to the fact that several
Senators were preheat who hai not voted.
Mr. Yulee said he had not voted, and had
a reason for not doing so.
Mr. Foote insisted on the bill being engross
ed.
Mr. Yulee, after much oonfusion, &c. ob
tained leave to state as his reason for not vot
ing that there were resolutions pending before
the Legislature of Florida, instru ting their
Senators not to vote on any question relating
to the Fugitive Slave law.
Mr. Foote insisted on the bill.
Mr. Yulee asked to be excused from voting.
Mr. Mangum asked for yeas and nays on
excusing Mr. Yulee.
Mr. Hale asked to be excused from voting
on the motion to excuse tne Senator from
Florida. The present law was that all should
vote, and he did not know whether to vote for
the enforcement of the law or wait for the
'•higher law” from Florida.
Mr. Seward said he would vote for any one
who did not desire to vote.
Mr. was surprised at the harmony be
tween the Senators from Florida, and New
York on the general doctr ne of higher law.
Mr. Berrien said the reason was not satis
factory.
After further debate,
Tne Chair decided that it was not in order
at this time to ask to be excused. Every one
shou d vote. He directed the Secretary to
call the Senator from Florida. The Secretary
called the name of dr. Yuiee, bu that gentle
man did not respond
Mr. Wini.hrop said that in the House the
pracace nad beun to call a member, and if he
retused to vote it was a case for censure, to be
acted on after the vote was over.
Mr. Butler said he was in the same position
as the Senator from Florida, he had not yoted,
nor did he intend to vote.
The vote was then announced as follows :
Yeas—Messrs. At :hison, Bell, Berrien,Bor
land, Bradbury, Cass, Clay, Clemens, Davis
of Miss., Dawson, Dickinson, Dodge of lowa,
Douglas, Downs, Feloh, Foote f Gwin, Hous
ton, Hunter, Jones, Kin/, Mangum, Mason,
Morton, Norns, Pearce, Pnelps, Knett, Rusk,
Shields, Soule, Underwood, W»les,
Whitcomb—3s.
Nays—Messrs. Baldwin, Benton, Chase,
Cooper, Davis of Mass.; Dayton, Dodge of
Wi»., Ewmg, Hale, Hamlin, Miller, Seward,
Smith, Upham, Waiker, Winthrop—l 6.
So the petition was laid on the tabie.
The Senate then went into executive ses
sion and shortly after adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The amendment proposed yesterday, just
prior to the committee rising, that the postage
on all paid letters shall be three cents, and on
all unpaid letters, of less than halt an ounce,
five cents ; and ihat no mail route or compen
sation to postmasters be discontinued in con
sequence of the passing of the act, again come
up, and was decided in the negative.
Mr. Brown, from Indiana, mowed that the
postage on all letters carried a distance less
than 300 miles be three cents, and on ail let
ters beyond that distance, in both cases, weigh
ing less than half an ounce, five cents, and
the same for every additional half ounce ; on
all drop letters two cents; which was nega
tived, 73 to 52.
It was then proposed as an amendment that i
the postage under 500 miles should be three
cents ; over 500 miles and less than 1,000, five
cents, and over 1000, ten cents ; which was
negatived, there appearing only thirty-eight
in its favor.
Several other amendments were proposed,
either the same or similar to those which were
voted down yesterday, and were lost; among
which was one for establisning a uniform rate
of five cents, there being 60 for and 76 against
its.
Mr. Potter, of Ohio, moved as an amend
ment, that the postage on a letter weighing
less than half an ounce, and so on in propor
tion, be three cents ; and that no post route
b« discontinued in censequence of the passing
of the act; which was carried, 91 to 70.
The postage on newspapers was the next
subject of consideration, and various amend
ments to the second section of the bill, were
proposed aud negativ- d; among which was
one authorising the circulation of papers of 950
square incues, throughout the United States,
upon pre-payment of half the usual rate of
postage. The object was to prom >te the cir
culation of papers published by religious and
benevolent societies, but in favor of which only
51 members voted.
An amendment pending, that papers, when
circulated in the county where published,
or within thirty miles of the place of pub
lication, be transmitted free of postage, was
carried by a vo eof 70 to 46.
It was also agreed that tiny per cent, of the
postage on magazines and other periodicals
be remitted waen postage shall have been
pre-paid.
The committee then rose and the House
adjourned.
The Cost op'Justicb. — We have alluded
several times to the expense of the recent
slave case in New York. Our first estimate
of course was a mere conjecture, founded on
the general aspect of tne struggle between
the Common Law and the “Higher Law,” or,
in other words between the law of citizens
and the law of thieves. A correspondent un
dertook to set us right and we gave place to
his corrections. We have now an authentic
statement, Dr. Parker ot Richmond, who # act
ed as the agent for the owner in pursuing his
claim, in a card published in the Enquirer,
foots up the bill thus:
“The course taken by the Union Safety
Committee, was eminently praiseworthy. The
expenses borne by the committee exceeded
11500, while the costs incurred by the claim
ant amounted to about 300, which sum,would
also, perhaps have boen paid bv the commit
tee, had it been deemed proper by the claim
ant to have made it known.”
The oost then, of recovering a slave in the
city of New York, the owner living in Rich
mond, with an amount of favorable circum
stances not likely often to concur, proves to
be over eight hundred dollars!
In the meantime the Legislature of New
York,according to the latest indications, are
preparing to add to the difficulties by a
legislative denunciation of the fugitive law,
■ and not improbab.y by direct enactments to
j obstruct its execution. —Charleston Mercury,
Writing and Gdas among tub Romans.—
| The learned Scaliger long ago asserted his
belief, that the Romans must have had a car
| sive handwriting , of which, however, no proof
I has ever been found until comparatively a re
cent date. But withiu a few years, the Aus
! trians in improving the channel ol the Danube
I came upon the to ving-path cut by the river
: in the time of and there in a cavern
I found the original Day books of the Roman
, overseer of the work, viz: boards of wood,
with hinges, each set enclosing two or four
pages and containing the names of the quar
rymen and wages due to each; all written in
a running hand.identicailylike that of modern
times, except that the clerk seems to have
been but an ordinary penman. Another
learned writer, unlike Scaliger, wrote quite a
work, to prove that the Romans were not ac
! quainted with the use of glass for windows, and
I doubtless demonstrated it to his own satisfac
tion; when lo! within the year, glass windows ,
! precisely like our own have been discovered
in Pompeii!
A Good Step. —The Mobile Advertiser con
tains the following notice:—“From and after
this date, all notiees of meetings—church, so
ciety, charitable associations, company notices,
etc., and every communication or notice in
; tended or calculated to promote any private
i enterprise or organised interest, or that is of a
| personal character, will be charged as are other
advertisements.”
| The truth is beginning to be understood,
; that editors and publishers are producers, and
that they ere entitled to some compensation
for services rendered, or for articles furnished
Iby them. A newspaper is a commodity in
i which are involved all the usual elements of
I cost, and the purchaser or consumer should
I expect to pay for it accordingly. No class of
j men expeqt to be furnished gratis with shoes,
hats, coals, Bjo. and no gentleman calls on his
neighbor after breakfast, habitually to borrow
a pair of boots. When people once learn the
simple truth that tne maker of a newspa
per looks to it for his living, the once fashiona
ble practice of borrowing newspapers, or ot
burrowing space in them, on the plea ol chari
table notices, will be discontinued. Our breth
ren of the press can do much in bringing about
a proper recognition of their rights, and we
trust they will do so speedily. Col. Telegraph.
Max Maretzek has made arrangements with
Mr. Adams, of Savannah, to commence about
the 20th of March, an opera season of 12 nights
in Charleston, and eight in Savannah., with
the most talented members of the Italian
Troupe, including Parodi, and also Mile. Fitz
James, and corps de ballet, —V. Y. Express.
Mr. Peyrot, of St. Etienne, has arranged an
electrical clock, which, at small expense, and
by means of communicating will indi
cate the same moment upon a myriad of clock
faces. In this manner, one clock will serve
a whole city, and the inhabitants may take
time into their houses, and pay by the month
as we do for gas and water.
A Hungarian Postmaster -—Among the
post offices recently established is that of New
Buda, Decatur, Co. lowa, of which Gen. La
dislaua Ujhazy, late Governor of Qonftorn, has
been appointed posthaste f*
Jbnnt Lind in Petersburg.— The Peters
burg Intelligencer touches up the good citi
zens of that quiet and ancient city for their
eager anxiety to catch a glance at the “ Swe
dish Ninghtingale,” in the following pithy
strain:
Jenny Lind.— Our city came very near
escaping the Jenny fever, and would
have done so, but for the fact that Jenny, like
her neighbors, must commit the very unsenti
mental act of eating and drinking; and she,
therefore, together with the other passengers
from the North, sat down to an excellent sup
per at Jarratt’s Hotel, on Saturday night,
about 9 o’clock. No sooner was it known
that the Nightingale had reached the Hotel,
than multitudes hooked to it/ determined, if
they could not hoar her sing, to see her eat,
The rash and crush exceeded any thing which
has ever been seen in this “ neck of woods.
Old women and young women— persons with
families, and persons “in the family way,
were then and there rustling, and tugging, to
get a sight of the fair Swede. Jenny, how
ever, took it all very philosophically, and
went to supper “ with what appetite she
had.” A gentleman who witnessed her per
formances at the supper table, tells us that
she eats remarkably well, indeed; in fact,
as well as any person whom he ever saw eat.
He went so far as to say that she chewed her
food and swallowed it, and that when she
wished to drink, she raised the cup or glass
with her hand, and placing it to her ruby
lips, imbibed. Our informant seemed to be
very enthusiastic in his description of the
scene. The Locomotive, Henry D. Bird,
drew the train in which the Nightingale left
the city, and, on starting, whistled the Bird
Song, in compliment of tnat “ angel.”
There is a report out that the cup from
which Jenny Lind drank is to be ruffled off at
SIOO a chance. Total number ot chances
100. The four horses which drew her coach
from one depot to the other have turned out
to be a great speculation. Their tails have
been shaved, and hair for a large number of
lockets and breastpins has been sold for a con
siderable sum.
THE CONSTITUriONALISr.
(Georgia.
SUNDAY MORNING, JAN- 19-
Jllagnetif lEekgrupl).
Reported forth 3 Constitutionalist.
Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL.
OF THE STEAMER
A SIA.
COTTON MA&K2T WITHOUT
CHANGE.
POLITICAL NEWS FAVORABLE.
BUSINESS IN MANCHESTER
IMPROVING.
No Tidings of Steamer Atlantic Yet-
A despatch from our Charleston correspon
dent, dated January 18, 12,30 p. in. announces
the arrival of the Steamer Asia, with advices
from Europe to the 4th inst.
The Cotton market up to that time remain
ed without alteration. The sales for four days
reached 11,000 bales. Middling Orleans at
seven and seven eighths.
The Political news was favorable.
At Manchester business was improving.
No tidings from the Atlantic yet.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Postage Bill, with the uniform rate of
three cents, has passed the House of Repre
sentatives by a vote of 130 to 75.
Charleston, Jan. 18, P. M.
Cotton. —No change to notice in prices.
Sales to-day 900 bales, at 12 to 13| cents.
Spicy Correspondence-
The reader will find a racy letter from Col.
Percy Walker, of Mobile, to the New-York
Union Committee. He deals some of these
superlatively patriotic gentlemen some hard
blows. They are all for the Union, quite en
thusiastic for the Union, as they get Union,
and expect to preserve it on their own terms.
The Union is very valuable, in a pecuniary
way, to these New-York gentlemen, and
Southern trade especially so. But in order to
have any influence with Southern people,
theseespecial guardians, vigilance men, should
show that they are disposed to give as well as
take—to make the Union, by their assistance,
the Palladium of Southern Rights, and not
an instrument in the hands of the anti-slavery
party, of exaction and fraud and injustice.
Nullification Proposed at Albany. —The
Baltimore Sun says : “ A bill, which the New
York Journal of Commerce says ought to be
entitled ‘An act to prevent the execution with
in that State of the Fugitive Slave Law pass
ed at the last session of Congress,’ was intro
duced into the New York Assembly, last Fri
day, by Mr. Coffin, of Otsego connty, and on
Saturday was read a second time, and referred
to the Judiciary Committee. It is similar to
the Vermont law, which got through the Ver
mont Legislature by stealth. Mr. Coffin is
what the New Yorkers c 11 a barn-burner, and
the Journal says he is no doubt acting in con
cert with the Seward Whigs."
North Carolina on the Tariff.—Anti
protective resolutions have been adopted by a
large vote of both parties, in the North Caro
lina Legislature. Tfte Whigs opposed further
protection, not only because of the peculiar
position of the South at present, but because
they regarded the present tariff as sufficieatiy
high, and as carrying out the proper object of
the Government, in raisin?; revenue.
( Telegraphed for the Charleston Coarier .)
New Okleans, Jan. 16, 4 50 p. m.
The Market. —The Cotton market was Re
pressed to-day, in consequence of the non-ar
rival of the steamer's news. The sa.es bare y
reached 2000 bales this morning at ic. de
cline. Middling 12$ a 12$c. There was a
sale of 100 tieirces prime Rice at s3s. Whis
ky is quoted at 27c ;fair Sugar ss; prime Mo
lasses 24£c. per gallon.
We*have heretofore neglected to notice the
Silver Pitchers, manufactured for Messrs
Grenville & Battey, of this place, to be award
ed for the best lots of Co ton exhibited here,
lhey are truly rich, and well worth the trying
ra W i n o SUCh liberalit y on the mn of Messrs.
i i 18 ver J r > commendable, and is well
calculated to excite a spirit of emulation
planters of North Alabama and
Middle lennessee. The Pitchers are now
sent aown to Alabama, to be exhibited, and
will shortly be returned to be handed over to
the successful competitors. — Chattanooga Ga
zette, \Tth inst.
We Understand A. M. Wallace, indicted in
the Bradley Circuit Court, for killing Paul
Hernford, was tried last week and fully ac
quitted. The jury was out only a short time,
and when they returned with the verdict of
acquittal, the prisoner was affected to tears
lb.
“The Game Commenced !—ln the proceed
ings of our State assembly on Thursday, as
reported by telegraph, it was rather ambigu
ously stated, that notice had been given of ‘ a
bill to prevent the removal of free cit zens
from the State, except for crime.’ The bill,
the abolition Evening Post interprets as de
signed to counteract the * unconstitu T ional’
provisions of the late law relating to the sur
render of fugitive slaves. * * *
“The fanatics in the Pennsylvania Legis
lature, too, we see, are bent on playing the
same game, as we learn from a telegraph des
patch, dated at Harrisburg, which says, ‘ A
bill has already been introduced into the Le
gislature for the repeal of the fugitive-slave
law.’
“ The present * vigilance’ committee men
of Boston are determined to keep up ihe agi
tation, it seems. They have put in circula
tion thiee petitions—one to Congress asking
for the immediate repeal of the fugitive-slave
law, and two addressed to the Legislature
of Massachusetts —in one of which they ask
the Legislature to instruct the Senators and
request their Representatives in Congress
from Massachusetts to use their influence to
secure the object, and in the other they caU
for such additional State legisla ion as shall
prevent the practical operation of the law in
that State.” — New - York Express.
Harrisburg, Jan. 14.
Election of a United States Senator. —Richard
Brodhead, democrat, was elected to-day by the
Legislature, a Senator of the United States for
six years from the 4th of March next. The
vote stood, Broadhead, 76 —for all others, 56.
Census of Muscogee County. —We have
been furnished by Col. A. S. Rutherford, with
the following particulars of the census for
this county:
Whole population 18,623
Whites ~10,447
Slaves 8,176
Showing an increase from 1840 of 6 954.
Personal property $4 466.403
Real estate .4,339 ,582
Amount of capi al invested in man
ufactures 841,517
Amount of capital invested in the
manufacture of cotton and wool, 493,000
Bales of cotton made in 1849, 8,664
Bushels of corn in 1850....395,612
City Population.
Free, 3,684
Slaves* 2,253
5,942 [Sentinel, 1 6th inst.
Attempted Murder and Robbery. —Last
Monday evening, a person genteeiy dressed,
stopped about sunset at the house of John
Mercer, in Bulloch county, about ten miles
from the Court House, and asked for accom
modations for the night, which were given
him. About three o’clock in the morning,
Mr. Mercer was awakened by steps approach
ing his bed-side, and immediately a nfle was
pointed at his head. He knocked it aside and
ran to the door, followed by the villain, who
attempted to fire, but the rifle would not go
off, when he threw it on the ground and made
his escape. He was trriled some distance,
when Mr. M. hearing in a thicket near by the
whistle of several persons, returned to his
house. The man called himself Fowler, and
left at the house a shirt tied up in a red hand
kerchief. He protested to be in search of a
place to teach school. Mr. M. believes it was
his intention to murder himself and wife, the
only other person about, and rob the house.
It will be well for our citizens to keep a good
watch for such villains. Fowler is about five
feet nine inches high, a well made man, b ack
hair and eyes, and had with him a broadcloth
over-coat. — Savannah Georgian, 17 th inst.
Information Wanted. —Are any of the
delegates appointed by the Union Constitution
al party at Milledgeviile, to attend the great
Union Convention at Washington City on the
22nd of February, making arrangements for
leaving? The place of meeting has been
changed, we understand, from the banks of
the Potomac to Humbugville, situa-ed some
where on Salt River, a point which is doubt
less so well known to most of the actors iu
this grand farce, that they will have no dif
ficulty in finding its whereabouts. An office
will be open on the premises where an exten
sive trade will be carried on in bartering emp
fty cider carrels for Texas scrip, coon skins or
oreign residences, and red pepper tor Union
drops. All persons who wish to dispose of
nullification cock ues will be confidentially
served.— Columbus Sentinel, 1 Qth inst.
The Stamford Mercury mentions a Mr, Har
ris, poulterer, of Spalding, who has at this
moment 8,000 geese seeding in his yard for
the London Christmas market. They con
sume twenty-five sacks of oats every dav, and
200 buckets of water. The tremendous’cack
ling caused by this feathered congregation to
gether with that of turkeys, guinea-fowls, and*
other fowls innumerable, is indescribable.
j SSBSSSSILL” !l Ljgg
MARRIED,
In Savannah, on Wednesday morning, the 15th
inst, by the Rev. A. T. Maun, Rev. Joseph S
Ket, of Me Georgia Conference, to Miss Susan
* , daughter of Benjamin Snider, Esq.
DIED,
At the Washington House, in Philadelphia af
ter a lingering illness, Lieut Col Patrick Henry
Galt, of the U S 1. He was a native of Virginia
On Sunday morning. 22.1 uit, at his residence in
iippah county, Mississippi, Wm. G Davis, E*o
aged 29 years; a son of the fate Judge Widiam
Dav is, of Savannah.
SPMAL NOTIt'ES.
T&6 Attention oi those suiierisg from
Rheumatism and general paiua through the sys
tem, are requested to look at the ad e tisementof
Marshall's Magical Pain Eradicator, and the letter
of Judge Hughes, in the advertising columns of
this day’s paper. Further relferenaes ean ba
seen on application at the Drug Store o!
J aD 19 3 VV. H. &J. rURPiiv.
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PUBIiIO iiVBJNIiiG PO&TPOIvijB
(o*l am again compel led to postponed my P»» g.
Uc Lvenisg this week until Friday Evemr ■ nex j
week,owing to the circumstance of
, tue room 9
Having been rented out for other pur-p oses
The Lesson Friday afternoon will be giren at
tha unsual hour, A. V. ROBISON
jan 17
UHS. J. E. &H. A. BIGNON. ~
Office on opposite Bridge Bank building,
O’Offer their pro esspnal services to the cit-
J izens <*f Augusta and its vicinity. j a „ j 4
,C f® R ; J D * MACKIfi
specffully his Professional Services to the citizens
of Augusta.
Office on Jackson street, between Broad and
Reynold streets. Grnos j 4n
n B IST, 1851. "
CO. have just opened
their Stock for the present season of Warranted
FRESH GARDEN SEEDS,
Dealers supplied on reasonable terms,
j(an3
REMEMBER “ ~~
extremity, that Dr.
M. I HQMtiON is stiil in Macon, Geo,, and
when written to, sends Medicines by mail to anv
part of the country. Don’t give up all hope with
cons lilting him. s # m *