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SEASONS OF LOVE— by geo p. morris.
The springtime of love
Is both happy and gay,
For joy spnniues blossoms
And balm in our way)
The sky, earth and ocean
In beauty repose.
And ail the bright future
In couleur ae rose.
The gi;mmer of love
In the bloom of the heart,
When hill, grove and valley
Their musie impart:
And the pure glow of heaven
Is seen in fond eyes,
As lakes show the raiubow
That’s hung in the skies.
j The autumn of love
Is the season of cheer —
Life’s mild Indian summer,
The smile of the year ;
Which comes when the golden
Ripe harvest is stored ;
And yields its own blessings—
Repose and reward.
The winter of love
Is the beam that we win,
While the storm scowls without,
From the suusbiue within,
Love’s reign is eternal,
The heart is his throne,
And he has all season
■4 Os life for his own.
The Biot in Boston.
The following ia another affidavit of the
officer from whose custody the fugitive slave
was arrested in Boston, We think it demon
strates conclusively the hopelessness of any
«ffert to enforce the fugitive-slave law in that
community.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
SUFFOLK COUNTY.
1 Patrick Riley, of Boston, in the said
county, Counsellor at Law, having been duly
sworn, depose a.id say, that I am, and have
been, for fourteen years past, the principal
Deputy of the United States Marshal for the
District of Massachusetts .
That on Saturday morning, Feb. loth, 1851,
about twenty minutes before eight o'clock, a.
m„ I was called upon at my residence by
Frederick Warren, one of the United States
Deputy Marshals, who informed me that there
was a negro man, an alleged fugitive, to be
arrested at eight o'clock, who was supposed to
be at Taft's Cornhiii Coffee House, near the
Court House, and desired to know where the
negro should be put in case he shou’4 be ar
rested before I reached the office —that I tulu
him to place him in the United States Court
Room—and that I would come to the office
immediately— that I came down almost im
mediately to the office, where I arrived shortly
after eight o'clock, and there found Mr, W?r
ren, who informed me that the negro was un
known to Mr. Chailes Sawin, Deputy Mar
shal, to whom the warrant was handed on the
night previous, as I have been informed,
though no notice of it had been given t $ any
occupant of the Marshal’s office—and that the
negro was unknown to any one of the Mar
shal’s Deputies or assistants —that Mr. War
ren informed me that Mr. Sawin had gone to
find the man, who by previous arrangement,
was to ooint out the negro, and who had not
shown himself as agreed; that I remained ia
the Court House giving directions and making
preparations to secure ttia negro when arrest
ed, and awaiting the return of Mr. Sawin ;
that I saw him after ten o'clock, and he in
formed me that he had seen the parties in in
terest, and it bad been arranged not to attempt
the arrest until eleven o'clock—that I told
him that it should not be delayed one moment,
and directed him to notify the man who was
to point him out to come instantly—that he
left for that purpose ; and at ten minutes be
fore eleven returned, and said that the parties
were about Taft’s Coffee House, and that the
men engaged were also in readiness in that
neighborhood ; that l went immediately with
Mr. W arren, Mr. John H- Rdey, and other
deputies, to the said Coffee House, and there
found all our men, nine in number, ecaticned
in and about the place—that there were sev
eral negroes in and about the house, and I in
quired for the man who was to point out the
alleged fugitive, and was informed that he had
not arrived; that Mr. Warren and myself
went immediately into the dining hall at the
Coffee House, and to avoid suspicion, ordered
some coffee, and were waited upon by a negro,
who subsequently proved to be the alleged
fugitive; that not hearing any thing from our
assistants, we took our coffee and rose to go
out and learn why we had not heard from
them; that the negro went before ps to the
bar-room, with the money to pay for the cof
fee, and in the passage between the bar-room
and hall, Mr. Sawin. and Mr. Bryne came up,
and each took the negro by an arm, and walk
ed him out of a back passage way through a
building between the Coffee House and the
square beside the Court House to the Court
Room, as by me directed.
That I immediately, while he was entering
the Court House, went to the office of the
City Marshal, in the City Hall, in the same
square with the Court House, and there saw
Mr. Francis fukey, the City Marshal, told
him what had been done, and stated that as
there would probably be a great crowd, his
presence with the police would be needed to
preserve order, and keep the peace in and
about the Court House, which is owned by
the city, and in which all the Courts of the
Commonwealth for Suffolk county are held,
that Mr. Tukey stated that it should be at
tended to — that I told him that I should no
tify the Mayor instantly, and proceeded up
stairs to the Mayor’s office, where I found
Hon. John P. Bigelow, Mayor of the citj', and
made the same communication and request to
him which I had made to Mr. Tukey, to
which the Mayor said : “ Mr. Riley, I am
sorry for it,” and that I then left the office, at
which time it was just half-past 11 o’ciock.
That I went immediately to the Court
j£ o niße, found the negro in the United
States Court room, with the officers, and found
all n *'Ors closed, and was admitted by the
usual inside entrance—that George T. Curtis,
esq, the United S « tes Commissioner, was
Sftod, and came, ““kep
were sent for—that an t he , doora were
” er J nmi**! entrance, which
closed excepting the £i)at the Com.
was kept guarded by was
missioner informed the fugitive,
nßmpd “Shadraeh," m the warrant, of the ,
character of the businet-s, ana asked him i *»■
tented counsel, to which he sard that he did,
, 6 ad that hie friends had gone tor coun * e ‘
the room began to be filled with negvbes and
whites —that the counsellor the prisoner ap
peared, and claimed a uelay, to give them an
opportunity, to consult with their client, pen
ding which I desired Mr. Warren, the Deputy j
Marshal, to go to the Navy Yard at Charles
own, about two miles distant, and ask Com- ;
modore Downes whether, should a delay or
adjournment take place, the Navy Yard might
be used as a place of detention, the United
States not being permitted by the law of the
State to use the jail, and having none of their
own. That the examination proceeded, and
after the reading of certain documents pre
sented by the claimant’s attorney, and some
discussion, the Commissioner decided to grant
the delay until Tuesday following, the 18th
inst. That the counsel for the prisoner asked
of the Commissioner if they might not remain
and hold consultation with their client, and
examine with him the papers presented, to
which, the Commissioner assented —that the
court room was ordered to be cleared, and
was cleared of all save some fifteen officers,
being all the reliable men whom we had been
able to collect, the counsel, and some news
paper reporters —that Mr. Warren,at this time,
which was about half past 12, returned from
the Navy Yard, and informed me that he had
seen Commodore Downes, who said he could
r*ot grant my request —that I despa ched what
officers 1 could spare to ask such of their friends
to remain a3 would assist, and to procure all
the additional force possible, intending to use
the Court House as a place of detention. That
Mr. Curtis also left. That crowds of negroes
and others began to gather about the court
room and in the passage wayi leading to the
court room, that I went to one of the messen
gers who had charge of the building, and de
| fired him to have all the court house doors
! closed a* goon as possible which were not ne
| cessary.
That, at or before one o’clock. Mr. Ebenezei
1 Noyes, the messenger of the United States
Court, was despatched to the City Marshal,
whom he informed that the United States
Marshal wanted every man be could send to
keep the peace in and about the’Court
House, to which the City Marshal replied that
he had no men in, but would send them over
l as they came in. That at about two o’clock
i all the counsel had left Mr. Charles G. D .vis
and a reporter, who X learned was Elizur
Wright, one of the editors of the Common
wealth newspapers ; that as the dour was
opened for hem to leave, which opened out
wardly, the negroes withont, who had filled
the passage way on the outside, took hold of
the edges of the door as it opened, and then
a struggle ensued between the holders of the
door within and those without. That Mr.
Warren, the deputy, immediately ran »o the
City Marshall’s office, but not finding him in,
went to the Mayor’s office, and was imormed
that the Mayor had gone to dinner. That he
then stated to those ia h s office that therewas a
mob in and about the Court House, and called
i upon them to send men to help to disperse it,
That he then returned to the City Marshal’s
office, found him in his private room, imform
ed him of the trouble in the court house, and
asked him to send Mi the men he could fur
nish, and whether he (Mr. Warren} could aid
him in ge.tmg his men, to which he said that
Mr. Warren could not assist him in the mat
ter.
That, nmanvj'bUn, the struggle at the door
continued for some jaaiiiutes f and the crowd
of negroes finally succeeded ;n forcing the
1 door wide open, rusacd in iu great numbers,
! overpowered all the officers, surrounded the
| negro; and he was forced by them through
the door, down the stairs, and out of the side
j doar of the court house, and thence through
; the streets to section where most of the
| negroes of the city .reside,—?he officers were
j despatched in pursuit, but have not js<+ce£pd
| ed in finding his present abode,
j 't hat from the time of the first notice to the
: Mayor tuff City Marshal, immediately after
! the arrest, a.a heretofore stated, to the giving
| of this disposition, neither ihp >Jayor r.or the
j City Marshal has appeared, nor has a single
! officer under their direction appeared, or aided
I in attempting to disperse the mob, or in keep
ing the peace; and in my opinion, it was
the predetermined purpose of both not to do
I their duty in keeping the peace in about their
j court house; fop the City Marshal, when re
! quested by Henry S. I>aliett, esq., so disperse
j a similar mob, which had collected tffiout the
! office of his father, a United States Comnais
! sioner, during the excitement in the “ Crafts”
: case, said that he had orders not to meddle ip.
the matter, as I am informed by the said Hal
i lot, and that the City Marshal gave a similar
j answer to Watson Freeman, esq. who asked
j him, at about the same time, he did not
l disperse the mob, as I arp informed by the sgid
| Freeman.
That Charles Devens, jr. esq. the United
States Marshal for tnis District, was at the
! Zityeof the arrest, returning from Washington,
where kcjbad. gone on imperative official bu
; siness—that it is proner to state here, that
neither the Marshal nor h s ‘s Deputy is au
i thorized by law to employ a permanent force
sufficient to resist a mob; and that he has no
authority to call to his aid the troops of the
State o# of the United States.
f. RILEY,
U. S. Dep. Marshal, Massachusetts District.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Suffolk Co it
1851. Tnen personally appeared the
above named Patrick Riley, and duly swore
that the foregoing deposition by him sub
scribed is i rue, as to facts elated to be within
his personal knowledge, and that ho believes
that the statements therein given as made to
him by others are true.
HORATIO WOODMAN,
Justice, of the Peace.
Aid for Kossuth-
We have been handed the following letter
| for insertion, addressed to Major Dembinski
by Mrs. Brown. It contains important and
very interesting information in regard toKos
| suth and his family. Mrs. Brown is a widow
lady, now some 70 years of age. She is the
sister of the late Com. Former, and mother of
j John P. Brown dragoman to our legation at
Constantinople, who is now accompanying
Amin Bey on a tour of observation of our
country. Mr. Brown, in common with his
| generous and noble mother, has always taken
I a great interest in behalf of the Hungarian re
| fugees. Mrs. B. arrived a few months ago, in
| company with her son, from Constantinople,
j on a visit to her native land, after a long ab
sence, having been his companion lor many
! years in Turkey. We are very certain that
the perusal of her interesting letter will re
! awaken the interest in behalf of Kossuth and
the Hungarian refugees, which has been slum
bering for the past lew months. Last year,
upon the arrival of the first refugees who vis
ited our snores, a deep and general Sympathy
was extended to General Ujhazy and his com
panions, and money was freely raised for their
| assistance. Never has there been a time when
; the aid of the good and generous was so much
needed in behalf ot the Hungarians; and never
| was there a cause having stronger claims upon
| the hearts of the citizens of tnis country. The
j Hungarians who have arrived within the past
i year, and settled in this city, have established
j a society to aid their countrymen as they ar- j
j rive upon our shores The gen lemeu com
j prising the society hare determined to make j
j an effort to raise funds whereby they may be
enabled to extend the hand of succor to Jvos
| suth and his compatriots, and provide the
i means to relieve the daily calls made by their
j countrymen when they first land in our city,
i A great many influential citizens have propos
! efi to unite with them in getting up a benefit
for Kossuth and the Hungarian refuges; and
the meeting to carry into effect the design,
will be held at the Mercer House, corner of
Mercer and Broome streets, this evening, 28th
instant, at seven o’clock. Annexed we give
the letter of Mary P. Brown, referred to: —
Uhillicothe, Ohio, Jan. 18, 1851.
Mr. Dear Count and Countess Dembinski:—
I wrote to you both, from Washington City,
after I had received the little letter from the
Count; but since then I have not had a line
from either of you. I often think of you, and
feel desirous of knowing how you are doing,
and it you have succeeded in your business;
and 1 sincerely hope that you will write to me,
and not only tell me everything that concerns
yourselves, but all that you can inform me of
the Governor, Kossuth, and your unfortunate
exiled countrymen. Perhaps it will give you
pleasure to know that I have received a let
ter from Mr. Shauffler, Rebec, Constantinople,
who informs me that Madame Wagner, the
lady who brought the Countess Emily D. to
our house, and who returned to Vienna to
bring to Kossuth his children, ha 3 returned to
Turkey, and is now at ICutaia, with Kossuth
and his family. The Austrians had liberated
the children before Madame Wagner reached
there, and had given permission for them and
their tutor to leave Austria, if anybody would
pay their expenses to Turkey. Madame Wag
ner, hearing this, was rejoiced, and in disguise
she found her way to where the tutor and
children were staying, and gave to the tutor
the money that Kossuth had furnished her
with for that purpose; and as a public con
veyance would, in a few days be ready to take
them down the Danube, they were to be on
board in time. Madame Wagner kept herself
in strict disguise, as a high reward was offered
by the Austrians to any one who would cap
ture her, as they had learned that it was she
who had gone in search of Madame Kossuth,
in the interior of Hungary, in the midst of
those vast pasture lands, inhabited only by the
pasturers and their horned cattle, and where,
after a long search, she found her, and after
encountering unheard of difficulties, this he
roic lady passed, with her precious charge, all
the Austrian soldiers, and brought, in safety,
Madame Kossuth to her afflicted husband.
But this, my dear friends, I need not dwell
on, as you were at Shumla, and witnessed
their arrival. But I wfil now return to the
children and Madame Wagner, in Vienna.
After she had arranged that they should em
bark in the Danube stqaupr, she fell ill in a
private boarding house. She had chilis and
fevers, with spitting of blood. The day after
she took ill, while she was laying in bod, and
a friend of her sitting beside her, a stranger
lady entered her room, and addressed her. say
ing, “How do you Madame Wagner? I am
very sorry to see you so ill.” Madame Wag
ner being suspicious of her, did not reply, but
made the sign of the “secret police,” which
the stranger lady answered, convincing Ma
dame Wagner that her suspicious were well
founded; Tne stranger l?dy } seeing that she
had beirayed herself by returning the sign,
left the room immediately, and said to ihe
lady of the house that she would return in a
few minutes, with a carriage, to take Madamo
Wagner away, where she would be better
taken, care of. This lady was one of the “se
cret police,” and had she captured Madame
Wagner, she would have gained the high re
ward, and Madame Wagner would have been
hung; but a kind Providence, who watches
oyer the just, had ordered it otherwise. Tne
* lady, who was sitting beside the bed, told
Madame Wagner she had her carriage at the
door. The poor sick lady left her bed, with
only her wrapper, &o. on, went down, and
drove to a place ot safety, leaving behind her
two trunks Ailed with the valuables of Kos
suth, which she had got possession of in Hun
gary and was then tak ng to him. With dif
ficulty, lHg r*a*htti4 the same steamer that
Kossuth’s children were to go in, feffie still
had money bound round her person,and with
some of it she bribed the Austrian captain to
conceal her until he was ready to start. She
was ctiil in strict disguise, so much so that
when the children hud tutor saw her they did
not recognize her.
In a few days, she had to leave the steam
boat, as it would stop at a place where none
but those who had Austrian passports would
be permitted io pass. She wrote on a scrap
of paper the name she was going by, and also
wrote, “I am going where you are going.”
She slipped the paper into the tutor's hand,
and left the beat, get. into a very small Turkish
boat, with three or four sailors, and without a
bed or any of the comforts of life, thi3 poor
sick lady reached Constantinople. She went
immediately to Rebec, and the house of the
Rev. Mr. Shauffler. This gentleman you well
fin-ruc. He took her in; she was washed, dress
ed, and comforted; and she was restored
to health and strength, Mr. Shauifler, with
our other kind American missionary friends,
provided her with a saddle and bridle, cloth
ing, and every comfort she needed, and she
then started for Kataia, the abiding place of
poor Kossuth and his unfortunate countryman
j whpre she arrived safely, after crossing the
; sea of Marmora, *nfi from Broussa rode three
j days on horse back. The children reach
:ed there before her. She wrote from Kutaia
to Mr. Shauffler, that both Gov. Kossuth and
' his lady looked the pictures of wo and misery.
Their oiote cqufinement and distress of mind
were hastening them to tffp grave. They'
have to be strictly guarded, on account of the
Austrian assassins, who are ever lurking about
to assassinste them. The year has now expir
ed during which the Sultan intended keeping
them in. Turkey; but as no nation or people
has a? yet offered to take them off his hands,
and carry them away to a country where tffey
will be safe,he has to keep them stilJ.although
he knows that they are extremely unhappy,
and will ere long die if they are not set at
liberty. This is a sad, sad ease, after all that
the good, kind-hearted Sultan has done to
pave them Iroin the knife of the Austiran ex
ecutioner, that there is no Christian nation
offering to take them away to their country,
where they will be safe, I know' of no other
people who could so well do it as the Ameri
cans. Our government I know canno:, as it
cannot, interfere in the disputes and wars of
other nations. But why our citizens do not
give ev dence of their sympathy for the poor
unfortunate Kossuth, and his faithful follow
ers, I cannot conceive. After all that the
Sultan has done for them, ara they now to die
for the want of Christian friends? A few
thousand dollars would liberate them from
their confinement, save them from a slow and
painful death, and set them at liberty upon
the land of the free. Mr. Shauffler writes
me that none are to be so much pitied as those
who,to save themselves from starvation,“have
renounced their religion tor that of the lurks;”
as they also expect to be set at liberty to
return to Christianity at the end of the year;
but as that is not the case, they have become
desperate. But, my dear friends, I neea not
dwell on this subject to you, as you have
yourselves witnessed all that I have in I’urkey
of the distress and affliction of your unfortu
nate countrymen, while you remained under
our roof.. I sincerely hope, however, that the
time is not distant when the hearts of my
countrymen will be opened to succor yours—
when Kossuth will be brought to “the land
of the free, and the home oi the brave. And
Snow I would recount to you my own wan
derings since I worte to you from Washigton
were it necessary; but as I know that the pub
lic papers have informed # tjhe public of our
movements, it it not necessary that I should.
I am now staying with my frinds in the town
of Chilieothe, where I resided during my
married life,and where my son was bom. He,
with Mrs. Brown and Amin Bey, have gone
down to New Orleans; from there they will go
to Charleston, South Carolina, and then he
will come here for me. I hope you will very
soon write to me, and direct to “Mrs. Mary
P. Brown care of Mr. Geo. Wood, Chilieothe,
State of Ohio.” I will be here some weeks
yet.-—Your sincere friend,
Mart P. Brown.
Bank op Savannah. —The books of sub
scription to this Institution were opned on
Wednesday last, and at an early hour yester
day, $250,000 of the stock had been taken.
The charter authorizes the Bank to go into
operation with a capital of $200,000, : which
may be increased hereafter to $500,000. The
books, we learn, were closed last evening, and
a meeting of the stockholders is announced to
take place on the 3d of March next, for the
purpose of electing a Board of Directors.
{Savannah Georgian, 21 st inst.
•The Legislature of North Carolina, which
adjourned on the 29th ult. passed over three
hundred acts and resolutions, incorporated
thirteen plank road companies, eight turnpike
companies, two navigation and,.two river im
provement companies, three railroads, four
mining and four manufacturing companies,
one canal, two new Banks, four Savings In
stitutions, and six male and and three female
academies, and increased the Banking capital
of the State $1,100,000. An act authorizing an
agricultural geological, and mineralogical
survey of the State, was also passed.and anoth
er for the revision of the statutes.
Gov. Bell, of Texas, is “ catching it” for
putting the words of “ Shakspeare’s Richard
the third into the mouth of King Solomon.
In his (Gov. Bell’s) annual proclamation for
Thanksgiving, he tendered his “ congratula
tions for the general peace” of the Union, and
asked if he might not truly say, in the beau
tiful and expressive language of the Bible :
“ The winter of our discontent is gone : the rain
is over and past; the time of the springing of
the flowers is come ; and the voice of the tur
tle is heard in the land !” His Excellency
had in his head some lurking idea of the fol
lowing passage in Solomon’s Song, [chap. 2,
vs. 11 add 12]
The winter is past; the rain is over and past.
I '' The flowers appear on the earth; the time
of the singing of the birds is come, and the voice
ot the tart e is heard in our land. 77
Free and Slave States.— The Southern
Press of the 20th ult., contains an article in
refutation of statements that appeared lately
in the Albany Evening Journal, concerning
the relative increase of population in free and
slave States. The comparison instituted by
the Journal was between the “old State of
Virginia and the new St;te of Indiana”—a
comparison in every way unfair, and as the
Southern Press observes, “ about as sensible
as to compare the growth of an infant to
adolescence, with the growth of a man after
he is already grown.” The fallacy of taking
the above examples being shown, the South
ern Press goes on to remark :
“ Let us compare two old States, one slave
holding and the other not. And in selecting
them, what is more fair than to take the two
most distinguished for t.heir difference in in
stitutions, opinions and policy—South Caroli
na and Massachusetts ? In 1790, South Caro
lina had a population of 249,073—in 1840,
594,398 —an inerease in half a century of 138
per cent. In 1790 the population of Massa
! chusetts was 378,71S —in 1840 it was 737,699,
or an increase of only 95 per cent. —the in ■
crease of population in South-Carolina being
almost fifty per cent, more in fifty years than
in Massachusetts.
“ During the greater part of the period the
immigration of one large class of persons,
slaves, intoSouth-Carolma from foreign coun
tries, has been absolutely prohibited by the
Federal Government, whilst the immigration
of persons from the manufacturing nations of
Europe into Massachusetts has been unre
stricted. During the greater part of the time
also, the policy of the Federal Government
has baen to protect by bounties, and hy re
strictions, the industry and capital of Massa
chusetts at the expense of South Carolina.
So far, therefore, as inerease of population
goes, South Carolina triumphs over Massa
chusetts.
“ Let us take two new States, one of each
class. And it happens that there were two
in 1810, of nearly the same population—Ala
bama,and the favorite specimen of the Journal,
Indians, At that period the population of Ala
bama was 20 s 845,that of Indiana was greater—
-24,520. In 1840, Alabama had increased to
590,756 —Indiana, 685,866. Here is in thirty
years no great difference of increase, and that
difference, whatever it is, more than accounted
for by the greater proximity of Indiana to the
dense population of the Iforth, arid by its sim
ilarity of climate to the emigratory States of
Europe.”
Festus. —The author of this magnificent
poem, the greatest, despite its faults, for gran
deur of imagination, brilliancy of imagery,
and originality of speculation, since Milton’s
“ Paradise Lost,” is Phillip James Bailey, the
son of the proprietor of the Nottingham,(Eng.)
Mercury. The editorial department of that
paper is conducted by the poet. The writer
of a letter to the New York Tribune has re
cently seen him, and says: “He is a heavy,
thick set sort man, of a statue below the mid
dle size, complexion dark, and in years about
eight and thirty. His physiqgnomy would
be clownish in expression, if his eyes did not
redeem his other features. He spoke of “ Fes
tus,” and of its fame in America, of which he
seemed very prqud. In Ragland it has only
reached the third edition, while eight or nine
have been published in the States.”
A New Bank with a capital of $2,000,000,
has just been organized in New York, by an
association of wealthy jobbers, &c., under the
presidency of Jas.McCall, an eminent importer.
It is styled “ The Bank of the Metropolis,”
and undertakes the peculiar and highly useful
office of compelling all Banks of the State,
which circulate their notes in New York city
to redeem those notes there at ear, on the
well known isystem by which the Suffolk
Bank, at Boston, operates upon the six hun
dred country banks of the New E n g la nd
States.
A Great Discovery. —We saw some weeks
ago in a Pennsylvania paper, an announce
ment that a motive power had bee.a discovered
which would surpersede the use of steam
Some facts have recently come to light which
entitle the statement to credit. Prof. Saloma
of Harrodsburg, Ky. has successfully applied
the entire power of caronic acid gas as a substi
tute for steam in propelling enginery for every
purpose, The power of this gas has long been
known to chemists, but their inability to regu
late and govern it has prevented its use as a
propelling agent. Prof S. claims to be able to
control it with perfect safety and that it will
afford a power equal to steam in one fiftieth
of the space, and one hundreth of the expense,
dispensing, with both furnaces and boilers.
Experiments heve recently been made in Cin
cinnati which are said to be entirely satisfac
tiry.
We are on the eve of wonderful revolutions
in science and rrt. What will be thought of
a ship of the line driven around the world by
a single ton of coal!
The progress will not be divulged until pa
tent rights are secured in the different Euro
pean countries,
JTIE CONSTITUTIONALIST,
(Seorgxa.
SUNDAY MORNING. FEB. 23.
The Celebration.
The Anniversary of Washington’s birth-day
was appropriately celebrated yesterday. Cr n
cert Hall was crowded. Phe beauty and fashion
of the city were well represented, and contri
buted their attractions to the occasion. The
Oglethorpe Infantry, under the command of
Capt. Miller made their first appearance to
great advantage. It is a handsomely uniform
ed and well drilled Company.
We did not succeed in getting a seat, and
knowingly of the merits of the
oration delivered by Mr. Jackson. We have
heard it highly commended, as was also the
manner in which Washington’s Farewell Ad
dress was read by Mr. Montgomery.
Too Late. Too Late-
When Louis Phillippe’s prime minister, just
as the revolution which dethroned his Royal
master in February, 1848 was about to burst
in all its fury, announced in the Chamber of
Deputies the willingness of the King to make
concessions to popular rights which had been
too long obstinately refused, an ominous voice
cried out from the gallery, Too late 1 Too late!
The efforts now tardily made by Mr. Fill
more and Mr. Webster, two of the high priests
of Northern anti-slavery, to allay the storm
they so materially aided to raise, are now
greeted in tbe same ominous language. They
helped to make capital for the Whig party,
and for themselves out of the prejudices of the
North against slavery. They helped to stir
up strife between sections, and to swell the
cry among Northern voters against the “arro
gant domination of the slave ’power." They
helped to crush and trample down the North
ern Democrats who manfully stood up in the
midst of the wild storm of fanaticism and
boldly advocated the equal rights of the slave
holding South in the confederacy.
Mr. Fillmore truckled to the abolition so
ciety of Erie county, and courted its support
by subscribing to all their abolition views as
far back as 1838. He won his way to office and
power in New York by abolition votes.—
Whether he was then, and is now, in his in
most heart a hater of the institution o*
slavery and a bitter foe to the slave power’
or hypocritically pandered to an abolition
spirit he wished to profit by, and dared
not rebuke, we leave now to the speculations
of curious moralists. But it may be well
said that these men, Fillmore and Webster,
with glowing professions of love for the Union
warm on their lips, and zeal for the maintain
anoe of the the rights of South guarantied by
the Constitution, are too late. The disease they
helped to engender in the public mind of the
North is now too deep seated.
The Savannah Georgian, commenting on the
President’s proclamation, and Mr. Webster's
unionism, concludes thus forcibly and truly.
The speech quoted from was delivered by Mr.
Webster in Abington, Mass, in 1848.
No ! Mr. debater ! Mr. Fillmore ! your ex
ertions, however honestly put forth, are too
late! You see now ripening around you, the
fruits of your own past doings. You have
sown to the wind, you are now reaping the
whirlwind. You have raised a storm which
you can neither calm nor guide. You have
aroused a spirit which will not doum! at your
bidding. You, and your friends, first called
into being, then excited, and then pandered
to, and profitted by, this abolition feeling;
until now, it has become utterly unoontrola
ble even by yourselves.
Do we speak unadvisedly when we say this?
Let Mr. Webster himself be our witness. Hear
how complacently, yea, with how proud a
boast, he referred in 1848. to the success of
himself and friends, in exciting the North a
gainat the extension of slavery ? The reader
needs not he told that hostility to the spread
of slavery, and hostility to the Fugitive Slave
Bill, are part and parcel of the same feeling.
Mr, Webster said :
“ But by this time,” (meaning the time
when Texas was annexed,) che efforts of the
W hiqs ALONE had raised a strong excitement
in the North against the annexation of slave
territory. I say the WHIGS ALONE, for
nobody belonging to the other party, North or
South, East or West, stirred a finger in that
cause; or if there were any, they were so few
as not to be discernable in the mass until the
WHIGS of New England, Ohio and other
middle States HAD ACCOMPLISHED A
GREAT EXCITEMENT, a new feeling in
the public mind. And then this portion of
the Democracy of New York, now denomi
nated the Barnburning party, seized upon this
state of excitement thus brought about by
Whiu effort, and attached this principle to
the;r creed, to give them a pre-eminence over
their rivals,”
There it is, in Daniel Webster’s own well
chosen words; a statement made to the credit
pf Northern Whigs, that this excitement owes
its very birth and being, its growth and matu
rity, to them and their efforts.
We know where it began, but where it is to
end, who shall say ?
Ovr New Hat. —Multifarious are the uses
of an Editor's head, and some to which it
has to be applied, are oftentimes any thjng
but pleasant. But the firm of J. Tailor, Jr.
& Co., Fashionable Hatters of this city, have
happily conceived that an Editor's head would
be a suitable block to show off a stylish, well
made Hat. They yesterday sent to our sanc
tum one qi the latest style, and of unexcep
tionable material, shape, and fit. It sits light
ly and pleasantly upon sur thinking appara
tus, which will work all the better on that
account, as we plod along in our daily peram
bulations.
We have no disposition io complain of being
thus made use of,
Messrs. Taylor & Co. understand their
business, and know the value of newspapers
in promoting it. They keep extensive stocks
on hand, are polite and attentive to customers,
and accommodating in their terms. We are
pleased to learn that they are doing a smash
ing bus iness.
£§» Our telegraphic despatch, published
yesterday morning, referring to proceedings
in tbe Senate was made to say «• the Postage
Bill making the uniform rate of letters three
cent«i, and abolishing the franking privilege
was voted down.” It should have said the
Postage Bill, &c., was passed ; the clause abol
ishing the franking privilege wee voted down.
Judge of the City Court*
Wm. T. Gould, Esq., on Wednesday even
ing last, was elected by the City Council, Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas, in place of
John W. Wilde, Esq,, resigned.
(Reported for the Baltimore Clipper.)
Thirty-First Congress—Second Session
Washington, Feb. 18, 1851.
SENATE.
Mr. Cooper presented a petition signed by
the members of the Pennsylvania Legislature,
in favor of a line of steamers to Africa.
Mr. Davis’ resolution requiring the daily
debates to be printed without revision by the
Senators, was taken up, and after debate was
laid on the table.
Mr. Walker offered a resolution, declaring
as the opinion of the Senate, the expenses of
the army should be reduced.
Mr. Clay's resolution, offered yesterday,
calling on the President for information, &c.,
respecting the occurrence in Boston, was ta
ken up.
Mr. Clay denounced the mob as a gross out
rage and infamous proceeding.
After further debate, the resolution was
unanimously adop.ed.
The Senate then took up the cheap postage
bill. The amendment making a uniform rate
of two cents on .all letters to be prepaid, was
after debate, rejected—yeas 7, nays 41.
After further amendments, involving no
principle, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The Committee on Naval Affairs, (on mo
tion of Mr. Burt,) to whom the report of the
board of army and navy officers, convened by
the President of the United States, proposing
the regulation of staff commissioners and bre
vet rank was referred, were discharged from
the consideration of the subject; and that por
tion of the report relating to the navy was re
ferred to the Committee on Naval Affairs*
The same committee was discharged from
the further consideration of various memorials
which had been referred to them.
A bill for the relief of the widow of Lieut.
Col. Wm. Gray, of Arkansas, was passed.
Mr. Caldwell, of Ky., from the samp com
mittee, reported a bill authorizing the enlist
ment of teamsters, mechanics and laborers in
the Quartermaster’s Department; which waa
referred to the Committee of the Whole on
the state of the Union.
A bill from the Military Committee, amen
datory of a former act, providing for the pay
ment of household and other property de
stoyed in the military service of the United
States, was passed —yeas 128, nays 54.
Mr. Ewing, from the committee on Military
Affairs, reported back the Senate bill providing
for the classification and the equalization of
salaries of the clerks in the War Department,,
increasing the aggregate salaries from $55,800
to $65,400. He advoceted its passage.
Mr. Carter moved that the bui be referred
to the committee of the Whole on the State
of tie Union.
Mr. Jones said that if all the clerks in the
War Department should be turned out te-day
before sun-down to-morrow there would be
ten applicants for every vacancy. There were
in the city at least five hundred men who
thought themselves competent for the stations.
Speaking as to the expenses of living here, he
said that members of Congress were charged
double of what others are for clo.hing, award
ing, and everj thing else. [This occasioned
laughter.]
Mr. Burt, in the course of his remarks,
said: “So help me God, I would not go to a
boarding-house that would undertake to board
me for less than ten dollars a week. I should
fear either that the keeper would break, or
that I should be half-starved. He had paid
seven dollars a week for the boarding and
lodging of his servant; and he spoke of the
high paces of living as an argument why the
salaries of the clerks ought to be increased.
The bill was referred to the c miniuee of
the whole on the state of the Union.
The House then went into committee on the
bill making appropriations for Harbors and
Rivers.
During the debate on many of the amend
ments which were offered, there was an effort*
on one side, to show that the bill was an in
famous system of logrolling, and unconstitu
tional ; and on the other, that it wa3 the re
verse;
Mr. Stanly had denied that the measure
was sectional, and said it was the cap sheaf
to the Compromise of the last session.
Mr. Inge replied to Mr. Stanly, saying, in
effect, that that gentleman was not a friend to
the South, and that the assault would be made
and spoliation consummated before the warn
ing would come from him.
Mr. Stanly replied, that the remark justi
fied him in saying that the gentleman had
little sense and less character.
Mr. Inge retored, that this was unjust and
ungentlemanly, and came from a blackguard.
Mr. Stanly said, the member had shown
that he was ene.
The excitement which this passage of small
arms occasioned soon subsided.
A substitute was adopted for the original
bill, nearly similar, when the committee rose,
A call of the House was moved, before tak
ing the question, and at this period (half past
four o’clock) we close for the mail.
®* 8 0 clock. The bill has has passed
ayes 103, nays 87. Adjourned.
(Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.
Washington, Feb. I9th.
The River and Harbor Bill has at length
passed the House, after a severe struggle. The
opponents of the bill fought every inch of the
ground, but they contended against great
odds. Upon a test motion to lay bill on
the table, the vote was, yeas 74, nay 107. Mr
McLane’s substitute for the original bill has
passed. It cppropriates about two millions
which sum is generally distributed through
out the country. The fate of it in the Senate
is not certain. It appears that under recent
decisions of the courts, a large amount of re
turn duties must be paid out of the Treasury.
Some members estimate it at ten millions; but
it will not probably ba ao much. Should it
be half that suoßi the deficit at the end of the
fiscal year, will be at least ten or twelve mil
lions, The appropriations of the present sea
sion will exceed fifty millions.
Yesterday,.the Senate chamber was again
the scene of great interest. It was compfete
ly thronged by visitors—mostly strangers from
the Northern towos.|Mr. Clay brought up his
resolution calling on the President for infor
mation in regard to the obstruetians to the
execution o; the fugitive act, and the recent
occurrences in Boston. Mr. Clay, in his speech
expressed the deepest indignation, at the Ye-*
sistenee offered to the law in Boston, and re
sistence from whom? he asked. From the Af
rican race; from those whom he did not ac
knowledge as citizens. It was necessary that
Congress should have the facts m order that
thev might so alter the law as to render V
if possible, more effective. The occasion cat 1
ed, he thought, for the vigorous exertion of
every power of the Executive and of P on o
Mr. Davis, of Massachusetts, said that the lav
was extremely offensive to th#
the people, but that it would so
um.l it .1.0u!4 b« repealed. A
nuwraS
»•». tt«.-th«t the law off. n r~ JTih ‘
Northern people—then the lew was <***4