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CAST IN THY MITE.
The annexed stanzas aro teo good to be kept on
the other side of the Atlantic.— South Presbyte
rian.
He who gives a little from his store,
If little be his means,
Treads on as far, the » eavenward shore,
As he who g.ves ten times the more,
If ten times more he gains.
He may be useful here, who would,
And walk within a zone of light;
There is a treasurv of good—
Cast in thy mite.
Thou may’st not have one piece of gold
To bless the poor man’s palm ;
Dut angels will with joy behold,
If thou hast words wnicn can be told
His troubled heart to calm.
For kind words are as honeyed streams,
Ard he the walker of the sod
Who gives them to his brother, seems
A messenger from God.
There are abuse deep, and loud,
Hoarse voices shrieking “Breadl”
And there are noble spirit' bow’d
And forms that flit among the crowd
Like phantoms from the dead.
Crush but one atom of abuse,
Stay but a particle of siu,
And God will sanctify the use
Os all thy powers therein.
And if thy brother weaker be,
If folly marks his path;
And if that thou be tolly free,
If knowledge clingeth unto they,
Give not contempt nor wi ath;
But from the garner of thy worth.
And from thy store of truth and light,
To serve thy brother’s wants on earth,
Cast in thy mite.
A Story of A Nose-
ST AN OLD BACHHLOR.
lam a woman-hater; and, of course, an
old bachelor, rather eccentric—my friends
gay decidedly eccentric.
I had made up my mind at the age of sev
enteen to despise the sex. I regarded them
as interested and selfish, with but one aim,
and that was matrimony, to accomplish which,
they would make use of all sorts of decep
tions and arts, until they had secured the vic
tim, and then, and not till then, they would
exhibit their true colors. Hence, though I
had often been solicited, by my friends, to
make the acquaintance of very agreeable young
ladies, I had always strongly refused. But
n ***** "•»
I was one day walking along rather mu
singly, when I came in sudden collision with
two young ladies. I made rather a hurried
apo ogy for running against them, which they
graciously received, and then passed on. I
looked back at the young ladies, and per
ceived that one of them was looking back
also. She blushed slightly, on being discov
ered, and I blushed also, without knowing
why. There was, perhaps, something pecu
liar in her appearance. She was slightly
made, had light hair, blue eyes, rather a mel
ancholy cast of features, and a very pretty
mouth. But let me come to the centre of
attraction, which was her nose. She had one
of the inost.ravishing noses that mortal eyes
ever beheld. Header, pray do not laugh. It
was the very beau ideal of a nose : it was a Gre
cian, as indeed all her features were. I thought
I could discover in the one little organ all the
elements of thought, poetry, intellectuality,
an( j— no —not love —I hate love. I had but
a short glance at it, but it seemed, even in
that little time, that her countenance under
went a thousand changes, all of which I as
cribe to the power of her nose. On my way
home, I could think of nothing but the nose.
It was such a thoughtful nose, sucn a poeti
cal nose, such an intellectual nose, a nose
that “ knows" something; yet such a mis
chievous-looking nose, a nose up to snuff, in
short, a feature to be sneezed with, but not
to be sneezed at. I went to bed late that night
and dreamed of the nose.
I awoke next morning and determined on
having an introduction to its possessor. I was
fortunate enough to find one of my friends
who knew the lady in question, and he un
dertook to present me to her that evening.—
I was in a state of restlessness bordering on
distraction, until evening came. I ran out in
to the garden to look at the dial, for all bache
lors have dials. I like mine better than a
clock ; there was something in its circle that
reminded one of a jolly, sunny face; and its
pointer looked not unlike a huge nose.
At length evening came. I partook of a
slight supper and some fruit; I chose that pe
culiar kind oi apple called « Sheep’s nose.’ I
then took my friend’s arm, and sallied out in
a very nervous state of mind. A few minutes’
walk brought us to the domicil of the young
lady, and I was introduced to her. Her name
was Helen Somerville. I endeavored to com
mence conversation, but felt extremely awk
ward. We talked of all subjects. She laugh
ed outright at my confusion more than once.
All the time, however, I was watching her
nose. It was perfect. She jokingly asked
me if I bad ever seen the elepnant, I told her
yes, and commenced a discussion upon its
proboscis. We spoke about the classics. I
mentioned Cicero and Ovidius Naso, their
names pleased me. ‘Beautifully chiselled,’
said I, Still regarding the object of my admi
r&She* then spoke about love, and, like all
roung ladies, jested about bachelorship, say-
Jxg that the gentlemen could never get mar-
at all/ said I, the difficulty is to find
ft nose—l mean a lady, to suit, facilis descen
sus Avemi, sed relocate gradus
She fairly shrieked, and exclaimed against
those horrible elassies, and asked me if I saw
anything of the blue stocking about her.
‘Two sueh nice little holes, said I, regard
ing the nostrils, and not noticing her remarks,
but suddenly looking fiom her nose to her
feet that she might not discover my thoughts.
She seemed anxious to draw me into conver
sation, and asked me if I had ever been to
Niagara
• What a bridge!’ said I, in an under tone.
•I don't Like the bridge at all,’ said she pet
tUSudon me, Mt*\V said I, coloring, * I have
said, perhaps too much-'
She seemed .to think I had said too little.
I bade her good bye, took my leave, and
hoped to have the pleasure of a further ac
quaintance, to which she kindly responded.
The next day, I bought a treatise on nt se
ology, and being somewhat of a trigonometri
eian, took my instrument to find the precise
proportions of her nose. Having ascertained
;t to be an acute angled triangle of about
forty degrees, I sallied out for a walk, exam
ining the noses of everybody I met, so parti
cularly, that I liked to have had mine pulled
more than once during the day, for my sup
posed impertinence.
Not knowing exactly the etiquette of court
ship, I supposed the best way to conciliate my
dulcinea would be to purchase her some pre
sents. I armed myself with a beautiful bou
quet, (I prefer the country name nosegay,)
and one dozen fine handkerchiefs, and started*
for her house again. With some hesitation I?
presented my gifts. She seemed a little sur-1
prised at the handkerchiefs, but smiled gra-Sj
ciously at thebouqet; and held it to her nose.il
I trembled with delight and admiration. I !
began to feel queer. I experienced an irre
sistible desire to pull that beautiful little
nose, to see how it was fixed on. In the
midst of my trepidation, scarcely knowing
what I did, I fell upon my knees.
‘My dearest Helen/ said I, catching hold of
her hands, and looking up into her eyes, or
just a little below them, whilst Miss Helen
blushed deeply. Tam frantically, madly, de
votedly in love' —I thought I felt a slight
pressure of the hand, which encouraged me —
‘with—with an object that has not the power
to reciprocate/
‘Who told you, sir?’ said she, blushing
more deeply than before, ‘that—that object
was engaged—and had not the power to reci
procate.’
“All—everybody, my dear Helen/ I cried,
‘every anatomist —every one that knows any
thing about a nose, is aware that it does not
possess one tender feeling, except when you
pull it or have a very bad cold.’
said she, rising in evident anger, and
turning up her nose, ‘do you mean to insult
me ?’ She seemed to choke for words. ‘Can
you see no other quality to admire than my
nose ?’
‘No, my dear Miss/ said I frankly, ‘I can
see no further than your nose.'
‘Allow me to say, Sir/said she, highly ex
cited, ‘that I have been insulted, and I request
you to leave the house, and never let me see
your nose again.'
I went home rather dejected, and lit my se
gar with a couple of leaves from my Treatise
on Nosology, and then went to bed.
The next day I learnt from her physician
that Miss G. had fallen on the ice and broken
her nose, so as to spoil completely the appear
ance of that feature. Never was General so
overjoyed at the winning of a battle, as I was
on hearing this news.
I made a solemn vow that I would never
speak—think —or write kindly about women.
(From the Mobile Herald.')
Scandal and Legitimacy •
Perhaps we ought to say illegitimacy, inas
much as scandal and it are most frequently
brother and sister —for the former is masculine
and the latter feminine—according to the
g rammarians, we mean:
On these subjects, the Paris correspondent
of the Philadelphia Ledger has a piquant dis
sertation. He endeavors to show that the
Yankee is becoming a very respectable char
acter in Europe, and concludes ic is mainly
because he has lots of meney, (perhaps his abo
lition helps) for he observes that that is now
getting to be the only test of genuine nobili
ty —the other sort being so mixed up with bar
sinisters, that nobody knows who’s who, or
whence any aristocratic body’s parentage is
derived.
Wa oriraot below some interesting para
graphs:
In Europe it is a question what is legiti
mate. The head of Holland House—no mean
authority, considering, the unmentionable on
dits of scenes enacted in that p-ace—in his
memoirs, gives the following bit of scandal,
done to a turn.
“It is said that George 111 objected to any
union with that branch of the House of Bra
denburg, with an observation drawn from the
scandalous chronicle of Berlin, viz: “that none
of his children should ally themselves with
the children of Schmettan." Frederic, when
there was not much prospect of an heir in the
other branches, had placed a distinguished of
ficer of engineers of that name in the family
of Ferdinand, in the hope and expectation,
and perhaps with the express injunction that
he would supply all deficiency in the house
hold. The princess, though lofty and deco
rous in demeanor, was not long insensible to
the personal and mental charms of her cham
berlain, and Schmettan annually announced
the birth of a prince, and received some hand
some presents for the good news, till, on the
third visit, according to Mirabeau, the king,
after giving him a gold headed cane, called
him back and said, “Schmettan, trois! e’est
assez!" Such anecdotes, very currently relat
ed, raised a smile everywhere else.Jbut serious
scruples in the mind of Georgs 111. Had he,
however, been as consistant in them as in most
others, he would have objected to another al
liance of his family with the House of Bran
denburg. The exiled and Divorced Queen of
Prussia is much belied if, on her marriage
with the Duke of York, she did not observe
to the chamberlain who announced it, that it
was a good match enough for the daughter of
Miller, the musician.
.f we look at the majestic history of Lola
Montes, the affectionate disposition of Queen
Christina, and others, it will be found that le
gitimacy is as illegitimate as usual. An emi
nent person in France has no resemblance to
the rest of his family, and rumor assigns a
providential inteirventiori of the Schmettan
school as his paternity.
The unchecked licentiousness of privileged
families would soon bring the races to an end,
were not puddle-blooded men and women call
ed into the circle.
The “puddle-flooded," people here spoken
of are those who have no forefathers —that is
in heraldry—but who, by their forays on no
ble houses, manage to keep up a wholesome
circulation of pure vitality.
Modern Curiosities or Literature and
Things. —The newspapers, every day, by aid
of the telegraph, tell us the state of the
weather in Canada,at New Orleans, St. Louis,
the Lakes, and divers other places. We have
seen the copy of a correspondence, which was
as follows:—“Quebec, Jan. 30. Dear Tom.
I'm freezing. Hew are your Yofirs, Henry
Smith.” The reply was—“N. Orleans, Jan.
31. Dear Henry; I’m melting. Send ice by
telegraph. Yours, Thomas Haines." Five
years since, this would have been put down as
a Munchusen of the first water.
The money raised tor a memorial to the
late Duke of Cambridge, is to be devoted to
charitable purpases. His. merits consisted in
his having been the ieast disreputable of the
sons of George 111, in having eaten more
charitable dinners than any man on record
in spending the national allowance of £l7 -
000 per annum to the last penny, and in leav
ing two children to be supported by the public
bounty. He never contributed to the chari
ties, at whose usual dinners he presided. Mr.
English, a gentleman who wis present, tells
us, that upon one occasion he was solicited
by a committee to preside at a dinner to be
given at the Fteemason's Hotel, the object of
which was to found a new charity. Before
replying, he asked “What kind of soup will
th6t6
The Ragged School System in London now
combines labor with instruction. This be
came necessary, of which the following is an
illustration:—A clergyman was preaching
most eloquently, one Sunday evening, to a
lage audience of boys. He believed he was
making a great impression, when just as the
clock showed five minutes to eight, the au
dience rose and departed. The clergyman,
surprised, followed into the street, and asked
one of the urchins where he was going. “To
work,” was the reply. “Why this is Sun
day,” said the instructor. “Well of course,”
said the boy, “ain't the folks just a-goin’ to
come out of chapel, and we can’t afford to
lose the priggin on ’em.” The astonished
clergyman found that the work was nothing
more or less than pocket - picking .
The New Steamers.— Since our last issue,
three of the New Steamboats intended for the
Tennessee Trade, above the Muscle Shoals,
have arrived at our Wharf, viz; ThejJefferson,
Capt. NicholsonjLady of Augusta, (Japt. Wil
liams,and Atlanta, Capt. Todd. The Jefferson
got both her chimneys knocked off when com
ing throuph the Pot, inconsequence B of the
boat taking a sheer and getting amongst the
timber, the river being high. Capt. Nichol
son has since recovered one of the chimneys,
and has had one new one made here. The
Lincoln, Capt. Doss, is at the mouthjof Elk,
havng also Lad the bad luck to get both her
chimneys knocked off somewhere in Elk Riv
er, but capt. Doss was fortunate enough to
save them both. The Lincoln will be here in
a few days.
We shall forego a general description of the
three new boats which have arrived, but will
remark generally, that they are beautiful
boats of their class, being admirably adapted
both for carrying passengers and freight. Their
Cabins, State-rooms, and Berths, are fitted up
with great neatness. We are informed that
is equally well fitted up.
There are now nine Steamers in the Tennes
see Trade above the Shoals, viz: James Jack
son; Union; Ellen White; Chattanooga; Lady
of Augusta; Atlanta; Lincoln; Jefferson, and
Mary McKinney. These boats are all nearly
new, only two of them having been in service
as much as two years; and we will venture
the assertion, that nine better boats of their
class, cannot be found on any river in the
Union.— Chattanooga Advertiser , 2 6th inst.
The Railroad. —The breach in the Treste
work at the Bridge across the Estanalla,notic
ed in our last, caused by the late freshet, has
been repaired, and the Freight Trains are
again running.— lb.
Don’t you do it. —When you are offered a
great bargain, the value of which you know
nothing about, but which you are to get at
half price, “being it’s you,” don’t you do it.
When a clique of warm friends want you
to start a paper to forward a particular set of
views, and promise you a large quantity of
fortune, and fame, to be gained in the under
taking, don’t you do it.
When a young lady catches you alone,
lays violent eyes upon you, expressing “pop”
in every glance, don’t you do it.
When a petulant individual politely ob
serves to you—“ You had better eat me up,
hadn’t you?’’ don’t you do it.
When a horse kicks you, and you feel a
strong disposition to kick the horse in return,
don’t you do it.
When you are shining it very expeditiously
round town, in search of somebody with some
thing over, who can assist you with a loan,
and you are suddenly anticipated by some
body, who wants to borrow from you, don’t
you do it.
Should you happen to catch yourself whist
ling in a printing office, and the compositors
tell you to whistle louder, don’t you do it.
Ts on an odd occasion your wife should ex
claim to you—" Now, tumble ov*»r th® cradle
and break your neck, do!” don’t you do it.
When you have any business to transact
with a modern financier, and he asks you to
go and dine with him, don’t you do it.
Atlanta and West Point Railroa®.— -We
understand that the work on this rOad is at
present progressing quite rapidly. The weath
er during the last two or three months has
been rather unfavorable to the prosecution of
the work, but this obstacle being now remov
ed, the business is going ahead with dispatch.
The iron is now laid down and the road in run
ning order nearly to Palmetto, a distance of
twenty five miles from this city. It is expect
ed to be completed to Palmetto, on Saturday
next, the first of March. A regular passenger
train will then be placed upon the road, to run
between Atlanta and Palmetto, and a line of
Stages, will also commence running from the
terminus at Palmetto, to West Point. This,
it will be readily 3een, will greatly expedite
the transmission of the mails between Mont
gomery and this city, and also add much to
the present facilities of travel in the same di
rection. The contract for the Stage line be
tween Palmetto aod West Point has been ta
ken by men of energy, and we are informed
that the time will be reduced to the lowest
possible rate between those points by relays of
horses at very short intervals. The Railroad
from Montgomery, eastward, is now completed
to within about three miles of West Point,
and will in a short time be in complete run
ning order to that place. In the meantime,
the Atlanta and West Point Road will be
pushed forward towards its ultimate termi
nus with all possible despatch.— Atlanta Intel
ligencer, 27 th inst.
[From the Federal Union. J
The Macon Jubilee*
Mr. Editor—You will remember that Sa
turday last, was the dny appointed for the as
semblage of the “friends of a Constitutional
Union”—Party in Macon. This meeting was
announced through the press, and posted
everywhere. Indeed, it was to have been the
“spontaneous combustion” that was to knock
the Southern Rights Party into a cocked hat,
and obliterate forever the old lines of party
distinction. Well, that mighty mass congre
gated at the appointed time and place.—A
procession was attempted to be formed, but
when eighteen were mustered, a “knowin”
individual suggested “this will never do,”
and that it were best that each man should
take it on his own hook, and proceed by dif
ferent streets to the place of speaking.—Mr.
Powers delivered the address to the breathless
audience, numbering, all told, about fifty men.
What a tail our cat has got?
I also learn, that Mr, Kenan of Baldwin,
made a speech, who, with a distinguished gen
tleman from Savannah, incidentally present,
composed the “distinguished strangers’ pre
sent. Some sixty or seventy, I learn, dined at
the Lanier House. I do trust, that if our friend
Lanier provided for the “five thousand” who
were to have been present, the friends of this
“mighty movement will relieve him from the
responsibility occasioned by the failure.
Yours truly. STRAWS.
A new invention to prevent the explosion
of steam boilers has recently been patented.
It is called Allen’s Balance Boiler Feeder, or
Supplying Water Gage, and is thus described.
The Boiler, when empty, can be filled to
any required height by shoving in the piston
so as to bring one of the apertures in connec
**on one the feed pipes—thus saving
the labor required for pumping up after blow
ing off r.he boiler. The exhaust steam is let
mto the reservoir, which is always charged
with a sufficient quantity of boiling water to
replenish the leveler, thereby saving the fuel
necessary for heating up the boiler. The
Feeder, will work the water from the reservoir
mto the boiler, at any degree of temperature
to which water may be heated—consequently
a large amount of fuel will be saved by its use;
and besides, the oftener water is evaporated
and condensed, the softer and purer it be
comes, and the easier steam is generated from
it. It will keep the water on a level with the
piston where it enters the boiler, thus pre
venting the possibility of e flow or collapse
and explosion of the boiler from a lack of
water, which in nine cases out of ten is the
cause of the terrible explosion of steam boil
ers. Foaming of the water in the boiler will
not prevent its certain and faithful operation.
No power is required to drive it, except to
overcome a small amount of friction, and any
quantity of pressure in the boiler will affect or
prevent its easy motion and operation. The
same machine will feed any number of boilers
in connection.
The Philadelphia Statesman §ays—Private
advices from Washington state that on Thurs
day a rumor prevailed to some extent in the
streets of that city, that a serious misunder
standing had taken place between Mr. Web
ster, the Secretary of State, and the Mexican
minister, in consequence of some remarks Mr.
Webster made in the course of a conversation
he had with the minister. We do not know
whether any reliance is to be placed upon toe
rumor, however. A despatch in the New
York Herald says—
Since the recent publication of the Mexican
correspondence, M. Rosas has addressed a let
ter to Mr. Webster, which raises a question of
veracity between the two gentlemen. More
anon.
Good Business.— Mr. J. M. Dunlap, of Tus
caloosa county, whose plantation is on the
Warrior river, made the past season, with
nine hands, eighty-five bales of cotton, avei
aging 540 lbs., and three thousand bushels of
corn. At the present prices lor these articles
in ttiis maket, Mr. Dunlap’s crop is worth at
the lowest $7500. Who can beat it?
t Mobile Tribune .
A late traveller among the lonian Isles says
the first thing he met at Athens, was a Greek
girl selling ‘Morrison’s Pills.’ Had the payr
amids thrown somersets, he wouid not have
been more astonished.
Distressing Accident. — Horrible Exposure.
On Tuesday, December 17, 1850, Samuel
Brown, a young man aged 22, left the village
of Quasqueton, Buchanan Co., lowa, on horse
back, to transact some business at a grove
twelve miles distant—between the Wapsipini
con and Cedar rivers. On his return, when
about four miles from Quasqueton, while rid
ing over a strip of ice, the h< rse fell, precipi
tating Brown on his right side, and his foot
remaining tight in the stirrup, which was a
small one. The horse regained his feet before
Brown recovered himself and ran off at full
speed. To preserve his head from injury, he
clapped both hands about his right thigh, thus
in part sustaining his body, whilst his left leg
swung immediately behind the horse’s heels.
Incredible as it may seem, in this horrible po
sition he was dragged three miles. The horse,
in the mean time, by repeated kicks, had frac
tured both bones of his leg, about four inches
above the ankle, and bruised the leg from the
knee down, into a perfect jelly. At the end
of three miles, the horse becoming fatigued,
abated his speed, and by severe efforts, the
young man succeeded in extricaiing his foot
from the boot, the latter remaining in the stir
rup. He was dropped upon the open prairie,-
three miles from any house, a mile and a half
from a road, and in such a fractured, bruised
and sprained state that he was entirely unable
either to walk or crawl.
In this situation, lying flat upon his back,
he remained from Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 17,
till Saturday afternoon, Dec. 21, the earth be
ing hard and frozen, and the weather the cold
est we have had this winter, with snow upon
the ground, which was increased to five ©r six
inches in depth by the storm on Dec. 18. He
took off his overcoat and wrapped it around
his broken leg to prevent its freezing, but
without success, his leg being frozen above the
knee when he was found, as also his right
foot, hands and ears.
During the four days and nights, he neith
er ate nor drank any thing except snow, nor
elosed his eyes in sleep. The small prairie
wolves hovered around him at night, but with
out molesting him, though they approached
within a few yards. During the day he could
see teams and men passing on the public road,
a mile and a half distant. He exerted him
self to the utmost of his strength to make
himself heard by these teamsters, but without
bringing any of them to his assistance.
It was irt this way that he was heard on Sa
turday by those who were hunting for him, at
the distance of two miles, and b/ this means
he was found. His efforts at hallooing had
set his lungs to bleeding, and when found he
had crimsoned the snow for several feet a
round him with blood. He was brought back
to Quasqueton, and two weeks after the acci
cident, (out not until mortification had taken
place,) his friends succeeded, after several un
successful efforts, in getting a surgeon to am
putate the limb. He was still living at last
accounts, but with little hope of recovery.
Miner's ( Dubuque ) Express , ult.
The Last Modern Miracle.— Our read
ers will remember that a miracle, said to
have occurred in a little village in France, was
creating much excitement at the last accounts.
Drops of blood, it was said, oozed from a pic
ture of Christ crucified which was suspended
in one of the country The phe
nomenon was well calculated to excite the
superstitious feelings of the ignorant and cre
dulous peasantry, but every intelligent person
will, of course, suspect trickery. We find in
an English paper, the lollowmg plausible ex
planation of the mode of manufacturing the
miracle: ‘
“Take an oil painting of a wounded man,
cover the back of the canvass with pitch, out
out of a portion of the latter immediately be
hind the part depictured as a wound, pierce
the canvass at that part with several stabs or
a cobler’s awl, from back to front, place in the
opening made by the removed pitch a piece of
sponge saturated vith blood thinned with wa
ter, cover the opening with a plug of pitch,
the application oi a hot iron removing the ap
pearance of a seam round the plug. The
‘ miracle’ may now be worked by gentle pres
sure either from behind or in front of the pic
tured wound, which, squeezing the sponge,
causes the bloody liquid to exude through the
holes mad*.:! by the cobler’s awl, and trickle out
in the most natural and surprising manner, to
the edification of all beholders. This « mir
acle’ is capable of being produced by other
means, but upon the same principle. The ap
plication of a white handkerchief to the
wound, and with some pressure, will assist in
establishing the ‘ miracle.’
The following shows how near an Alabama
Editor came to hearing Jenny Lind. Hooper
is the man ;
Our Distress. —We wanted to hear Jenny
Lind sing. In the deepest well of our heart
we craved the celestial vocalism. According
ly we started, last week, determined to “do
or die.” We got to Cusseta—took the train !
—whizzed down to Montgomery! every
thing tended to excitement!—Cow on the
track !—what if a collision destroy the train
and send us to the harmonies above, before we
are prepared by Jenny to hear them ?— arrived
in Montgomery—waited for a friend !—-all of
a sudden, our money “ gin right eout /” I m
mediately « borried” an X and returned right
home again to the Tribune whar we Ire
prepared to do advertising and receive suh- f
scriptions on more favorable terms than ho- I
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
2lttjgttota, ©forget.
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 1.
igg* Proprietors of Augusta
and Hamburg will oblige us by having the
Cotton in their respective warehouses counted
for us this mo rning.
The Campaign of 1852—Parties and
Party Platforms*
The New-York Herald of the 18th ult., has
an editorial under this caption, in which some
shrewd speculations on the subject are in
dulged. The causes of the breaking up of old
party lines and platforms are pourtrayed, and
the prospects of new plans, new combinations,
new organizations and new platforms, dis
cussed.
The National Union Party, which was to
have been organized at Washington city on
Washington’s Birth-Day, and to which ninety
five delegates were appointed from Georgia,
is cavalierly disposed of as “an obsolete idea."
On this subject the Herald says :
“ In the settlement of the great issues of the
late adjustment, sectional interest and sectional
opinions and prejudices necessarily resulted in
sectional combinations upon the several bills ;
and it was only by a conjunction of the con
servatives —whigs and democrats—that those
combinations could be overcome. This was
the basis of the present dissolution of the
whig and democratic parties.
“If the same conservative elements could
have united in a great national party, there
would be no difficulty in predicting the result
in 1852. But the several attempts made to
this end, by the Union Safety Committee of
New York, and some of the leading compro
mise mea at Washington, have signally failed.
The idea of a Union party has become an “ob
solete idea.” The leading democrats are not
quite ready to make an assignment of their
stock in trade to the administration. They
have at least an equal chance of carrying up
or e candidate to the House ; and there the
ad vantages of a nominal majority are in their
hands. The congressional circular has failed ;
and in relinquishing the prospect of a Union
party, the question recurs, what is the pros
pect before us ?”
But the following is a portion of the edito
rial of the Herald which arrests our attention
as disclosing a project on foot among the po
liticians at Washington, about which we are
entirely in the dark. It will be news to most
of our readers:
“We are in possession of more definite and
interesting foreshadowings oi the inclinations
of the democratic party. The slavery adjust
ment, without damaging beyond restoration
this party in the North,has completely divided
it in the South. The remnant of the party in
the Southern States is formed of the Southern
ultras, the conservaties acting with the whigs,
as the Union party. It is a paramount object
to re-unite the two wings of the democracy
in the South—the conservatives and the ul
tras. It can only be done by liberal conces
sions to the more powerful faction. And these,
we understand, it is proposed to offer. The
national democratic party is to be reorganized
upon a new platform. We are informed that
some of the leaders of the party at Washing
ton, have already been consulting upon the
subjeet, and that the Southern ultras are fa
vorably inclined to a reconciliation on the
basis of the protection of Southern interests.
The platform which has been suggested is, in
addition to a positive support of the rights of
the South under the Constitution—
1. A partial reduction of the tariff of 1846.
2. A reduction of the offices of the federal
government.
3. A reduction of the naval establishment,-
4. A reduction of the salaries of federal
ces, and the abolition of sinecures.
5. A suspension of further con\ rac t s for
mail steamers.
6. A modiacation of the navigr„, ion , .
favor of the South.
7. A suspension of grants of the public
lands to internal improvem entß and £ di _
treasury. W Pr °'' Jeeds t 0 the P“ bli <=
, 8 ' pe, \ , cen ‘ age . or -‘ Sold dust extracted
from the public domain in California.
9. The acquisition of Cuba
r£Z eiß T a r bl ° a i fseld of and
reform. It was the war cry render which Gen.
Jackson was elected, when ' uh e annual expen
ses of the government, urnW JohnQ Adams,
were thirteen millions a 7 ear. Now they are
fifty millions, and constantly increasing. Re
n fOVra Wlll be good capital
rArhip? 2 * U Wll j certa ffily require all the
reductions proposed, to purchase the island of
. We ha ™, probably, further in
fomation of the movements of the democratic
merT”*** 8 Waßhm g ton before the adjourn-
Now this is a very good platform for any
party to adopt which desires Southern sup
port. If, i a addition to the ninth article, the
purchase of California south of 36 30, from
taat new State, and throwing it open to slave
immigration were added, it would probably
propitiate even the South-Carolina ultras and
make the platform complete.
But the Southern Rights party, ultras, as
they are called, will hold aloof and wait pa
tiently to see what sort of platforms will be
presented by the various national parties form
ed and forming.
-be difficulty is that no national party ex
ists dow wnich has not a large infusion of free
aoilism in it: anti-slavery influences will
control it, or seek to do so. This fact im
presses on the Southern Rights party, and
should upon every Southern man, the ne
cessity of holding aloof until they see what
are to be the principles of the several parties
which may be organized from the wreck of
old platforms and parties.
Choice Flowers and Fruit Trees*
Mr. G. Marc, who was in this city about one
year ago with a fine collection of Plants t
Flowers, ia now here, ready to serve " nd
may call upon him, at Haines’ See ‘ A who
His collection seems to be in bean' d ® tore '
Those who dealt with him on hr tiful order *
at which time his sales w * former visit ’
believe will unaDA mo « 9 i v - ’ e exteDßive * we
r °the s the Bape
z;
n ; , * yeß . terda y» v /as in the course of the
‘8 t completely filled witH water, which of
urse extinguish ed t be flames, and rendered
er cargo comparatively valueless.
fi, i j ßterdß^r^ternoon she was warped out of
the dock an d anchored in the river, prepara
tory to towed over to the other side of (
Cooper river and grounded, and her cargo dis
charged. The upper works of the vessel are
mu ch damaged by the fire, and cutting away
t'j allow water to be thrown into the hold It
ia supposed that the fire arose from accident
or carelessness, the particulars of whheh
cannot of course be asscertained.
(Charleston Courier, 28 th ult, i
Sg Magnetic <£etegraj)l).
Reported for the Constitutionalist.
One Week Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL.
EUROPA.
Another Decline in Cotton.
Baltimore, Feb. 26.
The British steamer Europe arrived at Hali
fax on Wednesday evening, wi»h 61 passen
gers. The Europa passed the American steam
ship Arctic on the 18th inst.
The American steam ship Atlantic has been
towed into Liverpool, where she is to be re
paired .
The Liverpool Cotton market has declined
from an eighth to a quarter of a penny. Mid
dling Uplands are quoted at 6|d.; Fair Mo
bile 7Jd.; Fair Orleans 7|d. The sales of the
week reach 20,700 bales. On Friday, the 14th
inst., the sales reached 4000 bales, and the
market closed with less disposition to sell on
the part of holders.
The Manchester Market was much depres
sed, Breadstuff’s were in the same condition.
Wheat is two pence lower. New Mess Beef
has advanced 1 to 25., and Lard Is. 6d.
The Free Trade system has succeeded in
England, but by a small majority only.
In France, the difficulty between the Presi
dent and the Assembly had assumed a less fa
vorable appearance.
Russia has consented that Austria and Prus
sia should re-constitute the Central German
Power, each taking the Presidency by turns.
The English Money market was easy, and
Consols were unchanged.
The political intelligence other than above
detailed, was unimportant.
Baltimore, Feb. 26.
New-York Market. —Cotton is depressed an«d
prices are irregular—soo bales sold to-dr*y.
Rice is quiet and unchanged. Flour i& alio
depressed.
Arrival of a Steamer. —The steam* ship Flor
ida, from Savannah, arrived at to
day.
Congressional.— The House, to-rlay. passed
the Civil Diplomatic Bill.
The yesterday* sul >s tituted and
passed Mr. Rusk's cheap Post* g e Bill.
Baltimore Market. —Flour d .eclined to-day,
six cents per bbl. 230 bbl 8 . New-Orleans
Molasses brought, at auction , 21 cents.
B Baltimore, Feb. 26.
New York Marker Eeb. 26.—The Cotton mar
ket is dull and looping, and only 500 bales
have been sol Other articles are unchang
ed.
Arrival 0 y Europai <*t Halifax —Congress
sional .- Btt , atn er Europa has &r
--rived at Halifax. The news will be soon
trar emitted.
The Senate, on Wedne. tday, finally passed
1 Mr. Rusk’s cheap Postage Bill.
( Reported for the Baltii nore Clipper.)
Thirty-Pint Congrress-h’econd Session
Washington, Feb. 26, 1851.
SENATE.
Messrs. Hale and Clark presented petitions
from New Hampshire and Rhou’e Is. land, pray
ing a repeal of the Fugitive Slave haw of 1850.
The River and Harbor bill wa s reported
back.
Several private billa were take in up and
passed.
Mr. Davis, of Mississippi* called up the bill
to establish an asylum for disabled .soldiers of
the U. States, and it was ordered to be en
grossed for a third reading.
The Senate took up the bill directing that
the monies collected in California as revenue
upon imports prior to the appointment of a
collector in Nov. 1849, shall be paid into the
Treasury of the U. States*
Mr. Gwin offered an aaaei .dment directing
that the monies collected firm n the date of the
treaty shall be pp.jd to Cal ifo.> rnia.
After a long debate the 1 tin endment was re
jected-yeas \l, nays 31.
Mr. Gwir. moved an amend ment appropria
ting $300.,000 to defray th e expenses of the
government of California p revious to the ad
mission of that State into tb ve Union.
A k>ng debate ensued and the amendment
was agreed to —yeas 24 nays 16.
After further debate, the Bill was ordered
to be engrossed for a third 1 eading.
The Postage bill was post poaed till to-mor
row.
The Senate, after Executive session, ad
journed.
HOUSE OF REPRE&EJJf TATIVE^
A report made by Mr. Staat, jn , of Tonnes
see, with reference to a floats g dock, basin,
and railway in ban Francisco, gave rise to
discussion, which was terminal ,ed by the ex
piration of the morning hour.
urT h i 6 Ho “ 8e * th en,in corn mitte- of the
Whole on the State of the CJn i on> took up the
bill making appropriations so r the civil anddi
plomauc expenses of the Oo* ernment tor the
year ending June 30. * 852 .
fecui^l ® t * nton ' 7 kentu.;ky. made an inef
a«ns *ion no *° amcnd the ' Ji “ by a PP r °P n *
w“ ,# J ° K>«"> rds the /: ect,on of tue
An l .Og of the P a *'*’ e nt
'-»n amendment app ropna ung SIOO,OOO
.rnishing water to the city was declared
oe out of order.
A large number of amen umentt 1 were acted
on.
Mr. Stephens, of „Pa.,J offered amend
ment proposing to increase the duite* on cer *
tain imported articles, and that after the
of April next, the|dutiea shall be levied agree
ably to the average value which similar arti
cles‘bore in Boston, Providence., New
Philadelphia, Charleston anr* New Or]p»ni.
on the Ist of December, 18' 6 , when the act of
1846 went into effect.
The Chairman said that the amendment
was out of order, and the committee sustain
ed the decision—ayes 94, noes 80.
Mr, Grinnell offered an amendment—pro
posing a home valuation and for four apprai
sers at large.
This was decided - out of order—ayes 91 noes
85. '
Mr. Grinnell subsequently offered an amend
ment for a modificatio a of the tariff; and this
too was decided to be \>ut of grder.
The committee rose* and the amendments
reported were concurred' in by the House, and
the bill was passed—yern * 127, nays 55.
The Senate's amendmet its to the Indian Ap
propriation bill were cone\ irred in.
At half-past 3 o’clock, the House took a
recess till six. m