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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
JAMES GARDNER, JR.
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(From the Savannah Georgian.')
Mr- Cobb and the National Union Party.
“How are the mighty fallen!” Yesterday
the Hon. Howell Cobb was an acknowledged
and admired leader of the Democratic party,
the centre of many hopes, the cynosure of all
eyes. To-day none so poor (save a few retain
ers) to do him reverence. Yesterday he glo
ried in the name of Democrat, and would
n 'style himself with exultation and pride a
Jeffersonian Republican. To-day he abjures
the faith of the father of Democracy, and
brands as traitors to the Union, men who are
still holding to the Virginia and Kentucky
Resolutions of '9B and '99, and firmly and
bravely plant themselves upon this platform.
Mr. Cobb is playing a great game, he is
doing what gamesters call paraleeing, and pres
sing in other words,he is playing high and risk
ing all upon a lew chances, he must either make
or break. His first move was to get up the
great National Union Party, which he thought
would take like wild hre throughout the coun
try, but the good people of the South, although
they were willing to acquiesce in the wrong
and injury inflicted by the North, for the sake
of the Union, which they believed still con
ferred upon them more benefits than they had
received injury, were heartily sick of the con
stant and hypocritical praise of Northern jus
tice and equity, and the poor child named be
fore it fairly came into the world, expired
shortly after its birth in the City of Washing
v, ton, Gen. Cass and other distinguished lea
ders refusing to stand sponsers for it. The
next great move of Mr. Cobb & Co. was the
great Mutual Insurance Company, which was
* to support no person for the Presidency who
\ was not sold, body and soul, in love, affection
£4 and allegiance to the Compromise measures.
But alas! Mr. Cobb having himself lost the
affection of the people of the South, could not
command them for the mistress of his heart,
and the Insurance Company is likely to do a
very small business on a very small capital.
Mr. C. having thus failed in his too former at
tempts, has now taken the character of an
alarmist, besides assuming as we shall present
ly show the very discreditable position of try
ing to shirk out of his Union party scheme
and deny his own offspring. As an alarmist,
Mr. C. makes his appearance in a letter lately
written to the Hon. A. H. Chappell and others,
in which he uses the following language. “So
long as the fiendish spirit of Fanaticism is
found warring upon the Constitution, and the
Disunionists are attempting to poison the
hearts of the people with a spirit of hatred to
the Union of our Fathers, so long will the ob
ligation rest upon all true friends of the Union
to unite their hands and hearts in defending a
common country from the treasonable assaults
of a common enemy.” After which he goes
on to prove that all Southern Rights men are
but Disunionists in disguise. This Mr. Cobb
cannot believe,,he must know better; but all
this is said as all his moves are made for effect.
There is something too in this paragraph quot
ed, too rich to be passed over without com
ment; he styles this the Union of our Fathers
(meaning doubtless our revolutionary sires)
without reflecting that during the Union of
our Fathers the fiendish spirit of Fanaticism
was not found warring upon the Constitu
tion,” breaking down its guarantees and tramp
ling under foot the rights of the South.
We also find something ridiculously incon
sistent when we contrast the two followings en
tences of his letter to Col. Chappell. “The
people of the South declared there existed no
constitutional power in the government to ex
clude them from the free and equal participa
tion of the territory acquired by the joint
blood and treasure of the whole country.
Again speaking to his Union party friends,
he says “You regard the late compromise meas
ures as the recognition of those great constitu
tional principles for which the South has
always contended.”
Now let us ask a few pertinent questions
arising from the subject matter of these oara
graphs. Has the South not been excluded
from the free and equal participation of the
common territory? Has it not been done by
the compromise.
Has it not been done through the Govern
ment that passed the Compromise? As the
Government has not a constitutional power
thus to exclude the South, must it not be an
unconstitutional power which it has exercis
ed? As the self-styled Union party “regard
the late Compromise measures as a recogni
tion ot those great constitutional principles for
which the South has always contended,” does
it not follow, if all the previous questions are
answered in the affirmative, that the Hon.
Howell Cobb has succeeded in proving the
paradox,that an unconstitutional principle may
at one and the same time bs a constitutional
one? Another note of alarm which the Hon
orable Representative has sounded is his great
fear of Northern Disunionists. Now, this is
all stuff, for Mr. C. knows as well as any man
Iff that whatever may be the sentiments of a few
\ Northern fanatics, the great Northern mass
\ would not have a dissolution for the world,
Ji they will trample upon the Constitution readi
ly enough, but they will not dissolve the
Union; they want the South to tyrannize over
and oppress, and England would as soon give
up down trodden Ireland as the North give
/bp the South.
J These are some of the points found in what
S the Savannah Republican calls the crushing
letter of Mr. Cobb, and it time and space would
llltiermit we could advert to others equally un
■Benable and absurd. In conclusion, as promis
■Ld we will show that Mr. C. is trying to dis
claim his bantling, the National Union party,
I . ince he has found out its unpopularity.
He says “success does not depend, as has
B*. ori supposed, upon the organization of a
i National Union party;” and again, “It mat-
L £ll not to you whether the organization under
■ the principle triumphs be known as
1 U ion or the Republican, or the Demo-
I nArtV” All we can say is, let not Mr.
I 1 the flattering unction to his soul that
■Pr- r
his organisation can ever bear the name of De
mocrat; if he and his party should endeavor
to take it to themselves let them remember the
fate of the whigs in 1840, when they attempt
ed to appropriate the name it would not stick,
oil and water will not mix.
VERBUM SAP.
Varieties-
Water-proof shirts are coming into fash
ion.—-The bosoms are made of sheet iron, and
the ruffle consists of a handsaw, with the
teeth set wide.
Mm is said to be a bundle of habits. What
then is woman?
In a village church yard near Thornton, is a |
stone erected to the memory of the builder of 1
the church, with this inscription:
Here lyes John Trollop,
Who made these stones to roll up,
When the Almighty took his soul up,
His body went to fill this hole up.
Good breeding is a guard upon the tongue;
the misfortune is, that we. put it on and off
with our fine clothes and visiting faces, and
do not wear it where it is wanted—at home!
An Irish counsel being questioned by a
judge to know “for whom he was concerned,’
replied —“I am concerned, my lord, for the
plaintiff, but I am employed by the defen
dant.”
The musket that kicked the boy over has
been arrested, and made to give bail. The
plea that it was “cocked” at tht time, was
ruled out of Court.
A watch consists of 992 pieces, and in
making it, 23 trades and about 2000 persons
are employed. A remarkable ini tance of the
effect of labor in augmenting the value of raw
material, is afforded by the balance-spring of
this instrument. One farthing’s worth of
iron will make 7,650 balance-springs, the
market value of which is about £924; nearly
$4,500.
A gentleman in New Orleans said the oth
er day to a servant at the Hotel where he
was stopping—
“ Bless my soul, Sambo, how black you
are: how in the name of wonder did you get
so black?”
“Why look a’heah, massa; de reason am
dis —de day dis heah chiW was born dere was
an eclipse.”
Ebony received a quarter for his satisfacto
ry explan.tion, and after grinning thanks he
continued.
“I tell you what it is, massa, dis nigga
may be brack, but he an’t green , no how!
Ya, yah! g’lang dar!”
The English Language. —ln Henry the
seventh’s time they spelt laughing in the
following ingenious manner—“lawzbeynge.”
What would the professors of phonography
say to that?
Charity of a Miser. —An illiterate person
who always volunteered to “go round with
the hat,” but was suspected of sparing his
own pocket, overhearing once a hint to that
effect, replied: “Other gentlemen puts what
they think proper, and so do I. Charity's a
private concern, and what I give is nothing to
nobody'."
The Virginia Block for the Washington
Monument is of granite, four feet by two in
size, and bears the following inscription, sur
rounded by an ornamented wreath: —“Vir-
ginia, who gave Washington to America,
gives this granite for his monument.”
An Even Mortality. —L ist year, up] to the
19th of March, just eight hundred deaths had
occurred in Boston. This year, the same
number had occurred, up to the 20th of
March, which shows an unusually even mor
tality between the two years.
Naval. —The Norfo k Argus says that or
ders have been received at the Gosport Navy
Yard to fit out the sloop-of-war Plymouth
with all possible despatch. Her destination
is supposed to be the East Indies.
Look Out, Doctors. —Mr. Gresham has
recovered SI,OOO damages of Dr. M. Tom, at
Louisville, Kentucky, formal-practice, in
causing the death of his child.
New Bishop. —The Rt. Rev. Joseph Cretin,
late Yicar General of the Rt. Rev. the Bishop
of Dubuque, and appointed to the newly
erected See of St. Paul, Territory of Minne
sota, received the Episcopal Consecration in
the domestic chapel of the Rt. Rev. the Bish
op of Belley, in France, at the hands of that
Prelate, assisted by Coadjutor Bishop of Bel
ley, and the Bishop of Lausane and Geneya,
on the 26th of January last.
New Hampshire. —The Democratic papers
of New Hampshire are figuring out a majority
of 3.271 for Dinsmoor, and the Concord Pa
triot of March 27, says: “we consider the re
election of Uinsmoor (by the Legislature)
morally certain.” The new constitution was
presented to the people in fifteen separate par
cels, every one of which was rejected by a
large majority.
Gen. Cass and the Presidency. —The Gal
veston Journal says that a gentleman of In
dianola, Texas, has received a letter from
Gen. Cass, in which he says he “ will be a
candidate for the Presidency, at the ensuing
election, if he should be nominated by the
National Convention of the Democratic par
ty.” The letter is of recent date.
The Paintings belonging to the estate of A.
B. Haxton, Esq., at New York, were sold at
auction on Friday, and brought very high
prices. Among the rest, a painting of the
Holy Family, by Corregio, was|knocked down
for $800; a painting by Demaine, $425, and a
large number of others of various artists, at
from 25 up to $l5O.
New York on Slavery. —The special com
mittee of the New York Legislature, to whom
was referred so much of the Governor’s mes*
sage as related to slavery, made a report, con
demning the fugitive slave law as unconsti
tutional, unreasonable and cruel, &c. Forci
ble resistance to the law is, however, con
demned.
The Shoe Trade enters largely into the gen
eral business ©f Norfolk, Ya. Last week, at
the extensive establishment of W. H. Ad
dington, a partner of the house of French &
Kugglea, New York, purchased $3,000 worth
for San Francisco, declaring that the terms
bothjtne price and time allowed—were far bet
ter than he could get in New York.
Gift of the Right Kind.— Dr. Zadoc
Hrwe, of Billerica, M ss., who died lately,
left $3,000 to the Bible Society, and the re
mainder of his property is to be applied to the
erection and maintenance of a high school in
Billerica. He has named as trustees four Uni
tarians, one Orthodox Congregationalist, one
Baptist and one Universalist.
Saltfbtrb Legislation. —A bill has passed
the State Senate of Pennsylvania, forbidding
the storage of Saltpetre in Philadelphia and
the surrounding districts in quantities exceed
ing one hundred pounds. The bill imposes a
heavy penalty, and it makes provision for
measures of a very summary character.
Missionaries Sailed. —Rev. C. S. Kingsley,
and wife, Rev. L. C. Woodward and wife, for
Oregon; Rev. Chas. McClay, and wife, Rev.
David A. Dryden and wife, and Rev. A. L.
Bateman, sailed on the 28th, in the Cherokee,
as missionaries of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, for California.
Cheese vs. Comnon Shot. —The greatest
ammunition that we have heard of lately, was
used by J;he celebrated Com. Coe, of the Mon
tevidian navy, who, in an engagement with
Admiral Brown, of the Buenos Ayrean ser
vice, fired every shot from his locker.
' What shall we do, sir ?’ asked his first
lieutenant,‘we've not a single shot aboard,
round, grape, canister and double-head are
all gone.'
‘ Powder gone, eh ?’ asked Coe.
‘No, sir; got lots of that yet.’
‘We had a darn’d hard cheeae—a round
Dutch one, for dessert at dinueri to-day—do
you remember it ? said Coe.
* I ought to ; I broke the carving knife in
trying to cut it, sir.’
J Are there any more aboard ?’
* About two dozen. We took them from a
drove.’
‘ Will they go into the 18 pounders ?’
By thunder, Commodore, but that’s the
idea. I’ll try’em,’ cried the first luff.
And in a few minutes the fire of the old
Santa Maria, (Coe’s ship,) which had ceased
entirely, was re-opened, and Admiral Brown
found more shot flying about his head. Di
rectly one of them struck his mainmast, and
as it did so, shattered and flew in every di
rection.
* What the devil is that which the enemy
is firing?’ asked Admiral Brown, but nobody
could tell.
Directly another came in through a port,
and killed two men who were standing near
him; and then striking the opposite bulwark,
burst into flinders.
*By Jove, this is too much; this is some
new fangled Paixhan or other ; I don't liks
'em at all,’ eried Brown; and then as four or
five more of them came slap through his sails,
he gave the order to fill a away, and actually
backed out of the fight, receiving a parting
broadside of Dutch cheeses. This is an ac
tual fact; our informant was the first lieuten
ant of Coe's ship.
‘‘What is the use of living?” asked Jack
Simmons, the other day. “We are flogged
for crying when we are babies—-flogged be
cause the master is cross when we are sehool
boys—obliged to toil, sick or well,
when we are men—to work still harder (and
j suffer something worse) when we are hus
bands, and, after exhausting life and strength
: in the service of our people, die and leave our
children to quarrel about the possession oi
father’s watch, and our wives— to catch some
body else.” “Sieh is life .”
“Do you believe what the Bible says about
the prodigal son and the fatted calf ?”
“Certainly I do.
“Well, can you tell me whether the calf
that was killed was a male or female calf.”
“Yes, it was female calf.”
“How do you know that?"
“Because, (looking the chap in the face) I
J see the male is alive now.”
Nava.l. — Orders have been received at Nor
| folk, to fit out the U. S. sloop-of-war Ply
| mouth.
The Beacon says that the Hon. R. C.
Schenck, Minister to Brazil, Franklin H.
Clack, Secretary of Legation, and the Hon.
John S. Pendleton, Charge de Affaires to the
Argentine Republic,are about che Ist of May
j to embark from that port in the steamship
j Susquehanna.
Gunner Rankin, of the U. S. ship James
i town, has been detached and ordered to the
| 17. S. steamer Susquehanna, in place of Gun
| ner William B. Brown, detached and waiting
j orders.
The Diddles ! —We learn from the Tran
| script, that a new and alarming epidemic,
known as the “ diddles," has recently broken
out among the young bloods in Boston. It
seems to correspond with a disease among
! the other sex, sometimes called “ wriggling "
| by the profane, and consisting of a motion
between the swing of a pendulum and the
shake of a mill hopper. The Transcript calls
the new method of locomotion adopted by the
“ young men about town," a teetering gait;
while the ladies —in revenge, no doubt, for
the remarks made by the men about the female
wiggle-waggle—have christened it “the did
dles." According to a learned treaties on the
malady, said to have been presented to the
Massachusetts Medical Society, the symptoms
are confined to a single class of persons—
young gentlemen between the ages of eighteen
and twenty-five. The signs of the disorder
are these: —The patient, although in appa
rent health, when at home or in the street,
as he goes to a party, and even in the dress
ing room, is suddenly and violently attacked
as he crosses the threshold of the drawing
room with what at first sight might be deem
ed an extreme nervous irritability, which is
greatly increased as he approaches and pays
his respects to the lady of the mansion, espe
cially should her pretty daughter be standing
at her side. At this stage of the disease the
body of the unfortunate diddler is bent for
ward and lifted high upon the toes at each
step, the arms dangling forward, and the head
projecting, has a perpendicular and lateral
motion, not unlike that of a Chinese Mandarin
in a tea shop.
That the diddles is an intermittent, is obvi
vious from the fact that it abates or wholly
disappears when the patient is in conversation
with gentlemen, but returns with full force
upon his addressing a lady, especially should
he invite her to polk. The most strongly
marked case yet seen was that of a young
gentleman recently from Paris, who was ?t
--tached to a faint, but rather promising mous
tache. His case was mistaken for one of St.
Vitus's dance, which it closely resembled.
We have seen quite a number of “ cases ”
of this description in Broadway recently.—
Whether the disease has been developed in
the natural way, or by innoculation from the
modern Athens, we cannot undertake to de
termine ; but if by the latter process, we call
upon the authorities to enforce the quarantine
laws, by causing all young gentlemen from
Boston, whose ages are within the limits nam
ed, to take pratigue in Connecticut. In the
land of steady habits, they may perhaps get
rid of their sane propensity to “diddle."—
N. Y. Star.
The Juvenile Concert. —A novel and
most interesting entertainment was presented
Thursday evening at the Hibernian Hall in
the vocal Concert which was given by Profes
sor Kemerer and his pupils, numbering over
three hundred children, neatly dressed, and
each with a handsome boquetof flowers, their
faces glowing with smiles. The children,
both boys and girls, appeared seated on a
stage erected for the occasion, with all the
pleasure of agreeable excitement.
In the performance, the regularity and or
der displayed, spoke well for the system which
had been adopted by the tutor. The concert
was regulated by signals, which were observ
ed with almost mechanical precision; and
among so many children the accurate observ
ance of these was a matter of astonishment to
ail. The songs were well sung, and with the
novelty of the exhibition, and the success at
tending the method of teaching, left a most
favorable impression of both the master and
his pupils.
The programme for the evening composed
thirty-three pieces of miscellaneous but choice
music, concluding with the sweet air, “ Good
Bye;" set lo appropriate words; after which
the little minstrels diabandeu, and the grati
fied audience retired, while we donned our
hataand wished them from our hearts no
darker moment of care in the brief season of
life so joyously opened to them.— Charleston
Sun.
A Gay Prelate. — A letter dated Rome,
February 16th, from the correspondent of the
Eco d’ltalia, gives the following information:
Monsignor Zamboni, son of the General,
and known as the “Handsome Prelate,” has
thrown the Pope and the College of Cardinals
into the deepest despair by eloping with a
beautiful young English woman, whom he
had converted to the Catholic faith. Pasquino,
it is said, has advised the Pope to send the
Handsome Zamboni to the court of the Sul
tan, as he might, like another Don Juan, con
vert the lovely inhabitants of the seraglio to
the Holy Church.
We read in a Sheffield paper that “the last
polish to a piece of cutlery is given by the
hand of Woman.” The same may be said of
human cutlery, that “the last polish to a
young blade is given by his mixing with fe
male society.”— Punch.
Queen Victoria has appointed Sir H. L.
Bulwer, K. C. 8., Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to the U. States of
America, to be an Ordinary Member of the
First Class of Knights Grand Cross of the Or
der of the Bath.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST,
FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 4
Candidates for Governor-
We give place to a communication this
morning, suggesting the name of a citizen of
fine abilities, and of most estimable character
a9 a suitable nominee of the Southern Rights
Party of Georgia for Governor. We will not
embark in the advocacy of any particular per
son’s nomination in advance, but will leave
the discussion of that question so far as we
have anythiug to do with it, to the Conven
tion. But we take pleasure in saying that out
of the long list of names suggested for the of
fice, of citizens conspicuous for talents, for
publio service, and private worth, there is not
one which commands higher respect than that
of Col. John Billups, of Clarke.
The following other names have been sug
gested.
The Federal Union lately suggested editorial
ly
Col. John B. Walker, of Morgan.
Dr. Geo. D. Phillips, of Habersham.
Dr. John W. Lewis, of Cherokee.
Col. Isham H. Saffold, of Washington.
Dr. Henry Branham, of Putnam.
Col. John D. Stell, of Fayette.
Maj. George Heard, of Troup.
Col. Gilbert D. Greer, of Coweta.
These gsntlemen are suggested by the Fed
eral Union , because they are intelligent citi
zens, of high character, and well known as
such, unassuming planters, and unambitious
of political honors, the election of any one of
whom would be a deserved rebuke to the
wire pulling politicians and demagogues of
Washington city.
A correspondent of that paper in the last
number suggests Ex. Gov. Charles J. Mc-
Donald .
A writer in the Griffin Jeffersonian suggests
the Hon. Hugh A. Harralson.
A writer in the Augusta Republic suggests
Hon. Obadiah Warmer.
The Columbus Times suggests Ex. Governor
Wilson Lumpkin, of Clarke.
The Dalton Times suggests the Hon. Wm.
H. Stiles, of Cass.
As we perceive that the Hou. Joseph W.
Jackson declines being a candidate for re
election to Congress, we beg leave to suggest
his name as one not less worthy than any in
the distinguished list above, for the highest
post in the gift of the people of Georgia.
On the Constitutional Union Fillmore side,
we perceive the names of Hon. Howell Cobb,
Horn Hiram Warner, Hon. Garnett Andrews,
suggested in some of the whig papers. But the
suggestion of any other name but that of Mr.
Cobb, we look upon as a mere shallow ruse.
It is probably a paltry effort of wire-workers
to throw dust in the eyes of the people. Ev
ery intelligent person must have perceived
that Mr. Cobb has already been nominated at
Washington city, by Fillmore, Clay, Webster,
Toombs, Stephens & Co. The people of Geor
gia are expected by the Whig wire-workers to
ratify their choice, and will be very badly put
out, and doubtless very indignant if the people
should be so presumptuous as to rebel and
make for themselves a different selection.
A Deserved Compliment.
We seldom have an opportunity to chro
nicle an incident among our fellow citizens,
more pleasing than the one the following
letter discloses. The compliment bestow
ed is in every way deserved, for our city
cannot boast of a more worthy citizen, or a
more public spirited and efficient fireman than
is to he found in the person of Mr. Lamback.
Long may he live to wear the belt which
has been so handsomely, and with such
delicacy, presented to him, should occasions
unhappily arise to call forth the fireman’s
skill. It will grace the form of one who has
always been among the first and foremost at
the scene of disaster when the terrifying
flames were busy among the dwellings of
our citizens.
The Belt eeme from the Hamburg Depot,
in a box directed to Mr. Lamback, accompa
nied by the note which we publish below,
and without any other indication of its source.
Mr. Lamback requests us through the me
dium of our paper, as he knows no other
mode of addressing the unknown donor,
to acknowledge the reception from “An
Old Fireman,” of the superb Fireman’s Belt;,
above referred to, presented to him as a
token of the great respect entertained for
him, for the manner in which he has con
ducted the office he has the honor to hold,
under the suffrage of his fallow-firemen.—
He requests us to say that he is insensi
ble to any humble exertions on his part, that
can give a greater share of applause than
what rightfully belongs, alone, to the noble
spirits he has the honor to command. Their
zeal, and indefatigable exertions in moments
of peril and danger, have invariably excited
in his bosom a lively sense of gratification,
nd to them, and them only, he feels indebted
for any degree of credit that may attach to
the duties of his office. The very handsome
present, however, will be worn by him on all
occasions, and all emergencies appertaining to
his office, with a grateful remembrance. He
feels a pride in observing, that so long as he
may retain the office, snmmoned by such
choice spirits as now compose the Augusta
Fire Companies, he will never have cause to
regret that his confidence was placed, and the
very handsome present made, in vain. And
he here takes occasion to assure “An Old
Fireman ,” of the lasting impressions made on
his mind by the friendly wishes expressed for
his individual prosperity, and for the future
welfare of the “ Augusta Fire Company ” :
To F. Lamback, Chief Engineer of the Fire De
partment of Augusta, Georgia.
Dear Sir :—Excuse the liberty I have
taken in addressing you these few lines, ac
companied with a Belt and Plate.
In tendering this, I do not do it for its in
trinsic value, but for the high and responsi
ble station as Chief Engineer of the Fire De
partment of Augusta, (Ga.,) which you have
so faithfully filled.
And having around you such brave and
noble spirits, a noble band of Brother Fire
men, ever ready to support you through all
perils and difficulties that may arise, you
have nothing to fear.
May prosperity attend you, individually,
and your Fire Department, collectively, is
the heartfelt desire of an
Old Fireman.
The Italian Opera-
This rich musical treat which is about to
be presented to our citizens, by the Manager
of the Charleston Theatre, should meet with a
cordial reception. It will be on a scale of grand
eur far beyond what we have been accus
tomed to hear in our city, and we trust the
remuneration may be equal to the scale of en
terprise which prompted Mr. Adams.
The Italian language, though it may not be
familiar to many, yet it is that language
which gives to music that soft blending which
constitutes its divine excellence. It is the
language with which the great composers have
identified the combined beauties of the Opera,
and which has almost driven the English from
the Operatic score.
Such musical entertainments must impart a
healthful influence to the community at large;
while, to those who have a desire to become
acquainted with the language in which they
are written, a more easy method cannot be
afforded.
We look upon the Opera, and the Drama,
as the legitimate fountains of their respective
spheres—the one exhibiting the highest ex
cellence of dramatic effect and elocutionary
power; the other, all the beauty of musical
combination, diffusing histrionic knowledge.
We have had Concert singing, but this is
only what may be considered the clippings of
music, without those harmonizing illusions
which give it effect, when produced as a whole.
Musical Artistes are prone to give concerts be
cause they are less expensive, and produced
with little or no effort. If then, the Artiste can
get as much money for his Concert, as a
whole Opera performance, he will certainly
not consider himself justified in going beyond
those limits, and thus the public suffer by the
effect of their own acts.
So far has this been carried in the United
States, that foreign Artistes are beginning to
traffic on the credulity of our people. Jenny
Lind, though she has not been first among
the reapers, carried the richest harvest. We
paid the golden tribute to gratify our won
dering propensity, to witness the divine ex
cellence of a woman that Europe had sent
us as an angel, Parodi comes next. Os
course the verdure of curiosity is coming
forth, and she must gather her portion. But
what price will the public pay for her fame ?
These things have somewhat stayed the feel
ings of our citizens for Concerts, and we are
not surprised that they have been thinly at
tended. But we feel assured, when the
Opera comes in all its grandeur, that there
will be a turn-out that will fill the Hall every
night.
We would refer our readers to the Manager’s
card, in another column, for the time of its
commencement. *
Board of V isitors to West Point. —The
following g entlemen have been appointed a
Board of Visitors to the Military Academy
at West Point for the present year :
1. Robert H. Gardiner, Esq., Maine.
2. William Dwight, Esq., Massachusetts.
3. Professor A. W. Smith, Connecticut.
4. Hon. Francis Granger, New York.
5. Gen. Geo. Cadwallader, Pennsylvania.
6. Gen. James L. Gaither, Maryland.
7. Prof. James Phillips, North Carolina.
8. Col. William P. Bowen, Georgia.
9. Anthony H. Dunlevy, Esq., Ohio.
10. Henry W. Huntington, Esq., Louisiana.
11. Dr. Samuel Breck, Alabama.
12. Hon. Thomas Randall, Florida.
13. Rev. J. H.Lathrop.L L. D., Wisconson.
Among the names of the graduates we no
tice the name of John R. Church, of this
State, a son of President Church of the Uni
versity.
Signor Vito Viti.
W e would call attention to the assortment
of French China, Bohemian Glass, and a va
riety of other fancy articles, which will be ex
hibited at Masonic Hall this afternoon, at 3
o'clock. The sale will take place on Saturday
Night.
Peach Brandy*
Messrs. Hutchinson & Thomas, will receive
our thanks for the sample of Peach Brandy
sent us yesterday. It is a good old article.
The European steamers will, after this
month,come? semi-weekly, viz: The Cunardcrs
every Saturday from Liverpool, the Collins
line every alternate Wednesday from Liver
pool, and the Southampton line on the inter
mediate Wednesdays.
The Hon. Robert M. McLane, who has rep
resented the city of Baltimore for several years
past in Congres, has written a letter to his
friends and fellow citizens of that district, de
clining te have his name again presented as «
candidate,
Bp Ma%mt\c (Eekgrapf).
Reported for the Constitutionalist.
Baltimore, April 3.
Rhode Island Election. —Allen, Dem., has
been elected Governor of Rhode Island, by
600 majority. King, Whig, and Thurston,
Dem.,elected to Congress.
( Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier .)
Baltimore, April 2.
New York Market. —Cotton has declined
one quarter of a cent —Middling Lpiands 11,
Middling Orleans 12, 1300 bales sold. Rice
steady at 3s.
Fugitive Rioters , —Eliaur Wright, and
the others engaged in rescuing the fugitive
slave Shadrach from the custody of the offi
cers in Boston, have been indicted, and their
trial fixed for the 28th April.
Daniel Webster has accepted an invitation
from the Pennsylvania Legislature, to partke
of a compromise dinner at Harrisburg, on the
Bth inst. Mr. Webster has gone to Marsh
field.
Arrival of the Alabama. —The steam ship
Alabama, from Savannah, arrived at New-
York yesterday.
The new ocean steamer Lafayette is to make
two trips from New York to Southampton
during the World’s Fair —leaving New Y'ork
on the 26th of April and 21st June.
The Camden Journal of Tuesday says:
“Our Rail Road is again all right. Passen
gers are carried over as heretofore, and the
Freight Cars pass over the Road without dif
ficulty. It is not thought that a serious deten
tion willagain eccurr.”
[communicated.]
The Candidates for ns it Governor-
Mr. Ej^utor: — We have read the sugges
tion made in several newspapers, of honorable
names for tho post of Governor of the “ Em
pire State of the South nonej of whioh are
exactly] to our notion. We would, then,
suggest the name of a gentleman ; one in eve
ry sense of the word ; one who lacks neither
the tact or the talents to fill the office with
honor to himself and pleasure and profit to
the citizens of Georgia. One who is a Southern
man in his feelings, interests, and sentiments*
and whose love of the soil that gave him
birth, is strong as that tie can be ; and we do
this upon our own responsibility, without hil
knowledge or consent. This gentleman is no
less a personage than Col. John Billups, of
Athens ; and we firmly believe tnat there are
many thousands of voters in Georgia, who
would gladly bestow their suffrages upon
him, with the fullest confidence that the in
terests of the State would remain secure,
while in such hands. The Southern R-ghts
Democratic Republican Party, must be up
and doing ; and as members of that party, we
should rejoice at the opportunity of voting for
Col B. Yours &c.,
“ Kaupkv.”
Lexington, Ga. t April 2d, 1851.
More Crevasses.—A break took place yes
terday morning in the levee at Gen. Lacoste's
plantation, a few miles below Algiers. The
river is so high and the fall of water so ajeat.
that it will take much time and trouble to
stop it.
From the Donalasonville Vigilant we leam
that a crevass has taken place at the planta
tion of Mr. Dowell, eight miles from the town
and on the opposite side of the river. All the
neighboring fields are overflowed, and the
planters along the Riviere Neuve inundated.
During three days, great efforts were made to
close the breach, but without success.— .N. Q.
Picayztne.fi
Plaquemini Inundated. —By a letter of the
27th inst. from the town of Plaquemine, we
learn that the place is overflowed and tie in
habitants are navigating the streets in skijfsv
The water has advanced to within one square
of the front levee. The disaster is owing to a
crevasse which took place on last Tuesday
night, at 11 o’clock, one mile down the bayou.
An effort was made the following morning to
stop,it by sinking a flitboat in the breach. The
levee broke, however, some forty feel above;
and yesterday the crevasse was an acre wide|
with no one attempting to stop the devasta
ting flood. Says our correspondent, “second
story rooms in the front of town are in much,
demand, and I regret that the number is so*
small.”— Ib.
The Gardanne Crevasse.— We see, *hat
Col. Spear has abandoned this crevasse. He
complains of the lethargy of the planters, & c .
We have heard statements made somewhat
different from those of the colonel, but, we
suppose, it matters not now who is to blame
the “breach” is made. The crevasse has
proved, and will prove, very destructive.—-/*.
Proe. Page’s Electro-Magneric Locomo
motive, made preliminary trial, on Thursda#
on the Washington railroad, for the purpose
of testing the best mode of attaching the bat
tery, which seems to be a difficult point, ow
ing to the jostling and oscilations of the loco
motive. The National Intelligencer Yays
“ It was run over two miles, and the best
speed on a straight track was ten miles an
hour. 11 e locomotive weighs ten and a half
tons, and has five feet drivers, with two feet
stroke We hope soon to see it under way
in full blast. It made a curious appearance
to those who happened to be on the soot it
the time, as it looks exactly like a pass*enger
CSTi
’
B. D. PBUMB & CO.
f DRUGGISTS AND APOTHE- fi
C A KIES between U. S. Hotel aud*#
Post Office corner, keep constantly on Jft
hand a full and fresh supply oi every
their line.
VPariicular attention paid to Physicians pre
scription. Medicines dispensed at all hours of
tne ms hi , and on Sundays, by calling at the 8 £
store ° U E1 i3 * St ” imtnediat<sl y in the rear ol the
1 oct.B
TO THE LADIES ’
W E RECEIVED a large lot
of beautiful China VASES, of all sizes to
which we invite the attention of the Lad? l' If
S” Croekery Store, nearly „ ppMit , L.m*
L mar 16 J> J * LATH ROP & CO. <
T U 2?ed®
Readings for Every Day in Lent, compiled from
the writings oi Bishop Jeremy Taylor.
Chf; r on u n j° f Isra ?L by Grace Asuilar.
Chnst r, Hades j a Poem, by Wm W. Lord-
Lite s Discipline, by Talvi, author of “ Heloise.’ ;
pManuahof Modern Geography and History, by
eSSOa « 9 by Quackenbost.
ti n h K Y rT sLadleS Guide to Fre “ch Composi
tion, by Chouquet. __ mar 26
SUGAR, BACON AND FLOUR,
1 A hhds, n o. sugar.
XVJ 16 hhds. BACON, choice Sides.
10 do SHOULDERS.
150 bbl . Baltimor - FLOUR
Just received and or sale *,»
mar 28 &, THOM A*