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The American Explorers in the Arctic
Sea-
The London Spectator makes copious ex
tracts from a volume by Mr. Snow, giving a
narrative of the voyege of the Albert, the ves
sel fitted out by La iy Franklin, to go in search
ot her husband, Sir John Frankim. Mr, Snow
was a volunteer in the expedition, being a
great traveler, and wishing to bate an oppor
tunity to inspect, personally, the Arctic re
• gions. The Albert returned home without
wintering in that frozen clime; the condition
Mto( the crew being such as to reader it inex
pedient and improper to prosecute the voyage
further.
But Mr. Snow had the opportunity he
sought- Without obtaining an actual sight of
the North Pole, he saw a great deal of the
neighboring country and the circumj scent
waters —or rather mostly ice. His diserip
tiens are drawn with a r ady hand, in graphic
sketches, though rough. “ His style," says
the Spectator, M vigorous; and the scenery
and circumstances are so fresh, so wonderful
and so exciting, as to justify redaction. The
singularity of the sun at midnight, the alter
nate desolation and magnificence of Arctic
Scenery, the wonderful operations of nature
by means of avalanches, icebergs, and almost
perpetual frosts arid snows,arc not so haokney
ed as to pall.'
While m the heart of the Arctic region, the
Albert fell in with two American vessels now
engaged as then in prosecuting the search for
Sir John Franklin. Mr. Snow seems to have
been much struck with the bold demeanor of
the Americans, their spirit of daring and self
reliance. The following piquant narrative is
well told, and is creditable both to the nar
rator and to those of whom he speaks.
“ The Americana intended to push on
whenever they could, this way or that way,
as might be found best, in the direction of
Melville Island and parts adjacent, especially
and they meant to winter
wherever they might chance to be, in
the pack or out of the pack. As long as they
coul i be moving or making and progress in
any direction that might assiet in the object
for which they had come, they meant still to
be going on, and with the true characteristic
of the American, cared for no obstacles or im
pediments that might arise in their way.—
Neither fears nor the necessary caution which
might easily be alledged as an excuse for hes
itating or delay, at periods when any thing
like lancied danger appeared, was to deter
them. Happy fellows! thought I; no fair
wind nor open prospects will be lost with
W you, no dissensions or incompetency among
your executive officers exist to stay your pro
wgWSK. But upon one errand alone, your minds
je- set upon that before you embarked, no trifles
nor common danger will prevent you daring
every thing for the carrying out of your mis-
HjflSloH* do on, then, brave sons of America,
'and may at least some share of prosperity and
'**B. success attend your noble exertions !
“The Advance was most extraordinarily
fortified to resist any pressure of the ice, and
g# to enable her to force her way against such
impediments as those she encountered this
evening. Her bow was one solid mass of
timber—l believe I am right in saying from
the foremast. Her timbers were increased in
size and number, so that she might well be
said to have doubled inside as well as out. —
Her deck was also doubled, then felted and
again lined inside, while her cabin had in ad
dition, a sheathing of cork. The alter part
of the vessel was remarkably strong, and a
moveable bulkhead, which run acress the
fore part of the cabin, could at any time be
unshipped to afford a free communication fore
and alt when needed. Tne crew, if I remem
f ber rightly, lived in a strongly built round
house on deck, amidships, one end of which
was concerted into a cook house, called galley,
and another the pantry, Ten men formed
the number of working seamen; there were
Jr no * ice masters' nor regular * ice men but
' *, most of the sailors were long accustomed to
the ice. A steward and a eook campieted the
full complement of the ship.
« The Advance was manned by sixteen per
sons, officers included. Her commander,
Lieutenant de Haven, a young man about 26
years of age, had served m the U. States ex
ploring expedition under Commodore Wilkes,
in the Antarctic seas. He seemed as fine a
specimen of a seaman and rough and ready
officer, as I have ever seen. Nor was he at all
deficient in the true characteristics oi a true
' gentleman, although the cognomen is so often
misapplied and ill-understood. With a sharp,
quick eye, a countenance oronzed and app»-
rentiy mnured to all weathers, his voice gave
unmistakable signs of energy, promptitude
and decision. There was no mistaking the
man. He was undoubtedly well fitted to lead
«uch an expedition, and felt charmed to 6»e
it.*
* “ His second in command, (for they were
very differently organized from us) was still
younger, and more slim, but withal of equally
determined and sai or-like appearance. Next
to him was a junior officer, of whom I saw
but little, and that little was enough io tell
me that the executive* under Captain de
Haven would be efficient auxiliaries to him
List of all. though not least among them,
was one of whom I must be excused for say
ing a casual word to two. It was Dr- Kane,
the surgeon, uaturaliat, &c,, of the expedition.
Ot an exceedingly sum and apparently fragile
form and make, and with features far more
suited to a genial clime, and to the comforts
of a pleasant home, than to the roughness an i
hardships of an active vpy&ge, he was yet a
very old traveler, both by sea and land. His
rank, as a surgeon in the American navy, and
his appointment at three days notice to this
service were sufficient proof of his abilites and
of his being considered of enduring
all that woaid have to be gone through.
M ii ** If ever a vessel and her officers were capa-
W ** fete of going through an undertaking in which
more than ordinary difficulties had to be en
countered I hud no doubt it would be the
American \ and this was evinced to me even '
while we were on board, by the appearently
reckless way in which they dashed through
the streams of heavy ice running off from Leo
pold Island. I happened to go on deck when
they were thus engaged, and was delighted
to witness how gallantly they put aside every
impediment in their way. An officer was
standing on the heel of the bowspirit, conning
the ship and issuing her orders to the man at
the wheel, in that short, decisive, yet clear
manner which the helsman at once under
stood and promptly obeyed. There was not
a rag of canvass taken in, nor a moment's he
sitation. The way was before them; the
stream of ice had to be either gone through
boldly, or a long detour made ; and despite
the heaviness of the stream, they pushed the
vessel through in her proper course. Two or
three shocks, as she came in contact with
some large pieces, were unheeded; and the
moment the last block was past, the bow of
ficer sang out, “So steady as she goes on her
course," and c&me aft as if nothing more than
ordinary sailing had been going on. I observed
our own little bark nobiy following in the
American’s wake; and, as I afterwards learn
ed, she got through it pretty well, though not
without much doubt of the propriety ol keep
ing on in such procedure after the “ mad Yan
kee," as she was called by the mate.
“If I bad ever before doubted the daring
and enterprise of the Americans, what I saw
and heard on board of the Advance would
have removed such doubt; but these pecu
liar features in the children of the Stars and
Stripes were always appearent to me, and ad
miringly acknowledged. I was given a briei
history of their voyage to the present time, as
also an outline of their future plans.”
Cap,til Ghost Story.
Dedicated, in an Especial Manner, to all
Newspaper Readers. —A (Jhost. — That ap
paritions do not aiwas waad r without suf
ficient cause, ie provad by the we.l attested
fact which we give with the endorsement ol
the Monte-sal lranscript.—Last Tuesday
fortnight, as Mrs. (a lady of 1 terary
taste and rather studious nabits) sat reading
in her drawing room, the clock on the mantel
piece struck twelve; as the last stroke rever
berated through V 9 apartments, the door was
suddenly flung open. In the act f raising
her head to re rove the intrusions (unrung
for) of her servants, her eye rested ox the form
of her lace husband; she screamed and eli
senseless on tr e carpet. — This brought up such
members of the family as had not yet retired
to re*t; restoratives were administered, and
when Mrs. had regained possession or
her sxspended faculties, and being a woman
ot strong min s and highly cultivated intellect,
she felt disposed io consider the whole dis
tress she had undergone as the result of cer
tain associations between the melancholy tale
she had been perusing and her late loss, op
erating on a partially deranged nervous sys
tem. She, however, considered it advisable
ber maid serve-, t should repose in her chain
ber, lest any return ot what she hf-d deter
mined to consider a nervous affeetiou should
distress herself and alarm the family. Last
Tuesday night, feeling stronger and in better
spirit# than she had been for several months
past, Mrs.——dispensed with the presence
of her attendant, retiring alo< e to her cham
ber, and went to bed a littie before ten o’clock.
Exactly as the clock struck twelve she was
awakened from sleep, and distinctly beheld
he apparitii n she had before seen, advancing
from the table (on which stood her night
lamp) till it stood opposite to and drew aside
the curtains of her bed. A sense of suffoca
ting oppression deprived her of all power to
seream aloud. She describes her very b>ood
| retreating with icy chillness to her heart from
, every vein. The countenance of her beloved
in life wore not its benevolent aspect; the
eyes, once beaming with affection, were now
fixed in stern re ard on the trembling halt
dissolved being, who with the courage of des
peration, thus adjurned him: “Charles !
dear Charles ! why are you come again ?”
“Jessie,” slowly and solemnly aspirated the
shadowy form, waving in its hand a small roll
l of w it-papers, “Jessie, pay my Newspaper ac
couuts, and let merest in peace l”—Quebec
GezcUe.
Txa Useful an» The Beautiful. —The
tomb of Moses is unknown ; but the traveler
slakes his thirst at the well of Jaeob. The
gorgeous palace of the wisest and wealthiest
of monarchs, with the cedar, and gold, and
ivory, and even the great temple of Jerusalem,
hallowed by the visible glory of the Diety
himself—are gone ; bu: Solomon's reservoir
art- as perfect as ever. Os the ancient archi
tecture of the Holy City, not one stone is left
upon another ; but the pool of Bethesda com
mands the pilgrim’s reverence at the present
day. The column of Persepolls are moulder
ing into dust; but its cisterns and aqueducts
remains to challenge our admiration. The
golden house ot Nero is a mass of ruins ; but
the Aqua Claudia still pours into Borne its
limpid stream. The temple of the sun at Tad -
mor, in the wilderness, has fallen; but its
fountain sparkles as freshly in his rays, as
when thousands of worshipers thronged its
lofty colonades. It may be tha London will
share the fate of Babyion, and nothing be left
to mark its site save mounds of crumbling
brick work. The Thames will continur to
flow as it does now. And if any work of art
should still rise over the deep ocean of time,
we may well believe that it will be neither a
paiace nor a temple but some vast aqeduct or
reservoir; and it any name should i till flash
through the mist of antiquity, it will proba
bly be that of a man who in his aay sought
tne happiness of his fellow-men rather than
their gtory, and liked his memory to some
great work of national utility and benevo
lence. This is the true glory which out-lives
aii others, and shines with undying lustre
from generation to generation; imparting to
work somethin? of us own immortality, and
iu some degree rescueing them from the rum
whicn overtakes the ordinary monuments of
historical tradition or more magnificence.—
Edinburgh Review.
Poultry.— There seems to be no branch of
domestic economy less understood than profita*
biy raising poultry. When we say profitably,
we do not speak of their value in dollars and
cea .8, for we hoid that evsry dwelling, how
ever humble or splendid it may be, should
have a few chickens around them: for there are
times in almost every family, both in sickness
and in health, when money cannot buy the
lit le luxuries that tin chickens gives us.
What prod- is there in keeping fifty or one
hundred hens, without a corresponding sup
ply of eggs? Most people think that chickens
mast p»ck up their own living, and yield a
good supply of eggs in the bargain, buc we
have found that chickens forced to roau for
their daily food, have little time or inclination
to lay; and those who expect a good supply of
eggs without generous feed, may as weil plant
their choice vegetable seeds in a sand bank,
and look for tender delicious vegetables. We
have had some little experience in the u hen
ery and have found the great secret in get
ting a supply of egifs through the whole sea
son, but not in driving the hens up hill , or in
feeding them exclusively on gravel, ur in sup
plying them with chalk nest eggs. The whole
secret consists in giving them plenty of food,
grain and flesh; any of the grains wi;l answer,
as the ohieken’s mill is very convenient. For
eight or nine months in the year the chickens
will supply themselves with animal food in
the shape of insects, but the rest of the time
we feed them regularly with flesh, as well as
corn. Boiled sweet potatoes is an excellent
food for fowls, but with it they want grain of
some kind, and flesh also. In our long hot
summers, poultry are inclined to become lousy,
but if clean, good ashes are placed convenient
to the hen house, the hens will dust themsel
ves in them until the vermin disappear. Na
ture is their u cher, and hers is an unerrin
guide. A good shelter should be provided for
the chickens to roost under; the manure of
chickens properly saved, will repay all expen
ses of feeding. It is a great error to crowd
too many chickens together. We know noth
ing of paten: chicken hatching machines, but
we do know that fifty hens will lay more eggs
and raise mote chickens upon one lot or en
closure, than will one hundred. They do not
flourish in a crowded state, neither will hens
lay as well when there are great numbers to
gether. A hen is aright prudish old lady, and
affects great modesty m selecting her nest and
laying her eggs, always taking a quiet, sly
place whenever it can be found. We say then
to our readers, keep no more fowls than you
can and will feed well. Provide good shelters
tor them, save all the manure, and your gar
dens will pay in their increased productive
ness, for all your culture of chickens, and then
when beef resembles sole leather, and bacon
becomes stale, your chickens and fresh eggs
will prove a luxury indeed. —Soil of the South.
The Circasian Slavs—A Romance op Real
Life. —Perhaps the pages of uistory, present
few more remarkable incidents, than are con
nected with tne lite of Selim Pacha, a Circasi
an slave, who like Joseph of old, was "sold
into Egypt,” and like him, became a ruler over
a part, if not the whole of the country. The
Pacha of Egypt has been in the habit, as almost
every one is aware, of buying Georgian and
Oircasian slaves, which he educates for civil
and military posts. Indeed the court of Mo
nammed Aii, one of the most energetic of all
the Eastern rulers, was, as late as 1816 com
posed almost entirely of slaves thus educated,
and Or. Olm, while jou> neying through the
valley of the Nile, testifies, that he had sel
dom seen such a number oi noble looking men,
as then surrounded the viceroy. who
distinguish themselves, were immediately pro
moted to some high office, and Selim, although
at first a slave, became eventually a Governor
of Upper Egypt. But it was years before this
event occurred, that there happened a roman
tic inciden: in his life. After he had been
carried away from his father’s house and sold
into bondage, there was born to his parents, a
beautiful daughter. She grew into woman
hood and like most of the females of that re
gion, she was very lovely. She shared the
rate of her brother, whom she had never seen,
and was sold into Egyptian bondage. In the
course of time, she became her own brother's
wife. This terrible discovery was made by the
bridgroom, while at su; per on his wedding
day. The little sister whom he had never seen
and the fair haired delicate, Oircasian girl,
whom he saluted as bride, were one and the
same. What a thrill must this discovery have
sent through his heart! He found a bister,
but lost a bride. The pages of romance pre
sent few more thrilling combinations of events,
than this.
When he became a grey headed old man,
and Governor of Upper Egypt,"travelers stop
ped at Siout, on ther passage up the Nile, to
gaze upon one, esteemed for his virtues, as
well as interesting from the many romantic
incidents connected with his life. The Pyra
mids—the ancient catacombs —the sand cov
ered cities of past ages, were hardly to them
objects of greater interest. c. w.B.
Alexander Dumas relates in his travels in
Algeria, the following anecdote of Arab hos
pitality :
“Col. Daumas, who with Auzonne de Chan
cel, composed those two magnificent works
named, one the Sahara and the other the Ca
ravan, said to me:
“One evening, we asked for hospitality, one
of my friends and myself, of a man of Glea, a
small village situated to the West of Beni-
Mezal, His son, a charming boy of eight or
ten years old,* had pleased us very much, and
we had played with him a part of the day.
Towards six in the evening he disappeared.
When the father brought us our supper, sur
prised at not seeing again the child, we asked
where he wan,
We paid no attention then to the expression
of sadness which spread over the fathers's
countenance, nor to the accent of his voice
when he answered: He is lying down, he
sleeps.
The next day a3 we were making prepara
tions to leave, the father entered ouir room.
My hosts, said he, you asked last evening
where was my son.
My son, while playing with a child of his
age, and leaping from one terrace to another,
h d then just killed himself.
I answered you that my son was lying down
and sleeping, because the child had pleased
you, and you had taken him into friendship,
and I was afraid lest the truth, if told to you,
should car e you to sup badly and spend and
unpleasant night.
God will pardon me the falsehood on ac
count of the intention.
Now, you have supped well, slept well,
although death was under the Bame root with
you and I come to tell you:
My hosts, I follow the body of my only
child to tne grave; will you follow the body
with me? The anecdote needs no commenta
ries. I have never told it without tears fill
ing my eyes.”
Chops in Alabama. —The Tuscaloosa Moni
tor of the 10th in noticing the sudden and
rapid rise n tne Warrior river says:
Our river plan r ers will, of course, suTer
severely. Most of tnem had prepared their
lands for planting, and the newly ploughed
grounds must have been badly injured, wher
ever the river made a current vert* em. Ihe
middle of May will probably find most of the n
in a worse condition for the new crop than
tney were on the first of April.
The Mobile advertiser of the 16th copies a
paragraph from a Selma paper, stating that
there had been a trost at that place and adds.
For two days past the weather has been
•old, and the nights threatening frost. We
fear that killing frosts have been experienced
in the country. The prospects last night,
when our papers went to press, were very
unfavorable for vegetation, and we shall not
be surprised to hear that all the cotton in the
State which was up ia killed.
Fabm Woex. — The frequent rains and cool
weather have delayed materially all kinds of
work. Among the farmers, planting wili
generally be late. Would not our farmers all
act wiseiy not to attempt to make lnrge cot
ton crops to the negleec of grain? In almost
any part of the District a good grain crop will
be as profitable as cotton, so Jong as.cora shall
command 50 cents per bushel. The proba
bility is that grain will continue high another
season. Corn at 75 cents is equal to codon
with us at 15 cents. It would hot be so in a
hotter ciimate.
The price of tobacco is enormous. Could
not our farmers do something towards ra sing
a supply for the District, if no more? No crop
would pay better, if so well, in Greenville
Spartanburg, Pickens and Anderson. We
could prove our assertion, from ficts in our
knowledge.
The small grain crops are very promising
at this time, and we trust fruit is safe from
any further injury by frost, and that this may
be a year of plenty of all good things.
[ Greenville Mountaineer.
The Inside op a Palace.— Turin is laid out
regularly and geometrically as the city of
Philadelphia. It is a place of salubrity, con
venience and beauty. It is the capitai of the
kingdom of Sardinia, the residence of the
king and his court, and contains a population
of 120,000 inhabitants. The palace of the
king will well repay a visit. Several days
might be passed in the examination df its vast
apartments. The first saloon into which I
entered was the saloon for balls; it is rich be
yond description. The ceiling is so painted
as to represent the canopy of night, and pro
duces, when properly illuminated, an effect
truly remarkable. I was next conducted in
to a division styled the alcove, one of the
richest apartments probably in Europe. The
walls, ceiling and furniture were so rich that
had there been a heavy shower of gold from
the skies, I doubt whether a more gorgeous
display could have met the eye. I next sur
veyed the grand dining saloon, full of statu
ary and paintings, then entered into various
suits of apartments, admirably embellished,
and was afterwards ushered into the draw
ingroom of the queen: the apartment where
she passed her hours of leisure, either in sew
ing, painting or recreation. She appeared to
have le t it only a few hours ago, as her things
were dispersed in. moat graceful negligence
about the room.
I next passed into her toilet cabinet, and
then into a little closet where the queen pray
ed. This was tbe most remarkable closet that
I ever entered: it was very rich, but withal so
modestly decorated with gold and precious
things, that any body might pray there with
out thinking ol tne.n. I was next ushered
into the chamber where the queen slept—
although I had, in the course of my peregri
natious, seen many beautiful apartments for
the repose of queens, yet I must confess that
the splendor of the chamber of th# queen of
Sardinia materially exceeded every anticipa
tion. It was so grand that I coaid not help
inquiring, “whether the queen did reaily
sleep there every night?'’ I was answered
with a smile, “yes!” Her bed was covered
with the richest damask that I ever saw, the
curtains were also damask, and the canopy
was crowned with a feathery diadem. Paint'
lags of extraordinary beauty covered the
walls, and statuary of inestimable value glis
tened before tbe ey*~.
Gladly would I have lingered in eo inter
esting a place, but was hurried on to the less
pretending apartments of the late sovereign,
Charles Albert. I then passed into the hall
where the king held conference with h e min
isters, and then into the throne room. The
throne of Sardinia is only two steps h gh, and
is shaded with a crimson canopy, gemmed
with many golden ornaments, and surround
ed with a low balustrade or dazzling splendor.
In one of the apartments I was shown a very
neat affair, the interior part resembling that
of a carriage. It is so constructed as to as
cend and decend at pleasure, and serves to
convey the qut-en above and below, when
ever she wishes to avoid the fatigue of going
up and down stairs. The motion of this ve
bic eis exceedingly pleasant. I never saw
such a prodigality of gold as this proud palace
labors to reveal. Its saloons, halls and chain
bers seemed as if the auriferous waves of the
gold sea had been beating and fretting through
v very accessible avenue of the premises; and
then the gold appeared so pure and bright, as
though the deluge had only happened yester
day!
[N. Y. Commercial.
Taxing the Census. —A census taker go
ing round lasi fall, stopped at an elegant
brick dwelling house on Western Row—the
exact location of which is no business of ours.
He was received at the door by a stiff, well
dressed elderly lady, who could be easily
recognized as a widow of some years stand
ing. On learning the mission of her visitor,
the lady invited him to a seat in the hall.
Having arranged himself into a working posi
tion, he inquired for the number of persons
in the family of the lady.
‘Eight, sir,’ replied, the lady, 'including,
myself. ‘Very well —your age, madam?’
♦My age, sir,’ she replied, with a piercing,
dignified look; ‘I conceive it’s none of your
business, what my age might be—you are
inquisitive, sir.'
'The law compels me, madam, to take the
age of every person in the ward—it is my
duty to make the inquiry.’
‘Well, if the law compels you to ask, I
presume it will compel me to answer. I am
between thirty and forty.’
‘I presume that means thirty-ffve?’
‘No, sir, it means no such thing—l am on
ly thirty-three years of age.’
‘Very well, madam,’ puting down the
figures, ‘just as you say. Now for the ages
of the children, commencing with the young
est if you please.’
‘Josephine, my youngest, is ten years of
age.’
‘Josephine—pretty name—ten.’
‘Minerva was twelve last week.’
‘Minerva —captivating—twelve:’
‘Cleopatra Elvira has just turned fifteen.
‘Cleopatra Elvira—charming—fifteen.’
'Angelina is eighteen, sir—-just eighteen.’
‘Angelina—favorite name—eighteen.’
‘My eldest and only married daughter, sir,
Anna Sophia, is a little over twenty-five.’
‘Twenty-five did you say, madam?’
‘Yes, sir. Is there anything remarkable in
her being of that age ’ ’
‘Well, no, I can’t say that there is—but is
it not remark-ble that you should be her
mother when you were only eight years of ageY
Abo it tna~ time the census tak*:r was ob
served sailing out of the house, closely pur
sued by a broomstick. It was the last time
he pressed a lady to give her exact age.
Two gamins , two of those frightful little
rogues winch the surface drains of Paris ap
pear to ejeot upon the pavement, me >t on the
asphalts side walk of th-. Boulevards.
Oh! says one, what a fine cap thou hast got
there.
True enough, very fine! replies the other, I
bought it yonder at the corner shop. The
owner of it has my custom.
And how much did it cost thee, that cap?
I don’t know. When I bought it the shop
man was asleep.— Ceurier des K ate Vnis.
Beautiful thought. —There is but a breath
of air and a beat of the heart oetwixt the
world and the next. And in the jbrief inter
val of painful and awful suspend while we
feei that Death is present with us, that wo
are powerless, and he ail-powerfui and the
it’?t faint pulsation here is but the prelude of
endless life hereafter; we feel, in the midst ot
the stunning calamity about to befall us, that
earth has no compensating good to mitigate
the severity of our loss. But there is no grief
withe ut tome benefi ent provision to soften
its in tens r ness. When the good and the love
ly die, the memory of their good deeds, like
the moonbeams on the stormy ssa, lights up
our darkened hearts, and lends to the sur
rounding gloom, a beauty so ead, eo sweet,
that we would not, if we could, dispel the
darkness that environs them.
The first great requisite is absolute sinceri
ty. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and
misery-makes under whatever strength of
sympathy, or desire to prolong happy thoughts
in otners for their sake or your own only as
sympathizing with theirs, i* may originate.
All sympathy, not consistent wi h acknowl
edged virtue, is but disguised selfishness.—
Coleridge.
TBE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Augusta, ©eorgia.
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 24- -
Southern Rights Meeting*
The members of the Southern Rights
Party of Richmond County , are request
ed to meet at the CITY HALL, in the
city of Augusta , on TUESDAY, 6th of
MAY, at 4 o'clock, P. M., to appoint
Delegates to the Convention to nominate a
Candidate for Governor at the ensuing
election.
A Striking Prophecy-
The refusal ot the Board of Aldermen of
Boston, to allow the use of Faneuil Hall to
Daniel Webster, for the purpose of delivering
a speech to the people, has furnished the
theme for toms appropriate comment! by the
Charleston Mercury. It adopts the felicitous
caption, “ The Lion Kicked out of his Lair.”
\\ e quote the concluding paragraph, which
introduces an impressive prophecy by the wise
and far-seeing Calhoun. The jpophecy is al
ready realized:
“ He ought to be patient with it, if any
man. It is, in no small degree, hie work.
The consolidation principles, which it has
been the labor of his life to build up, are the
platform and campaign ground of abolition,
and that bitter hostility to the extension of
the institutions of the South, which he has
breathed into so tunny of his greatest public
effirts, is in thorough harmony with the ma
levolent passion that now seeks to destroy
him, too, because he hss shrunk from follow
ing out his teachings to the end.
“In nis spsecn in the Senate oa th® 24th
of February last, Mr, Rhett quoted with ef
fect a prophetic warning addressed by Mr,
Calhoun to Mr. Webster in a great debate in
1833. It has gained new force from recent
events, and we recall it here”:
“ If the principles you contend for are cor
rect, you will wake up a spirit of abolition ia
the North, you wiil make your people believe
they are responsible for this instuution.and the
day that that principle get* into their minds,
and that feeling into their hearts, this Union
will be at an end. And you yourself will be
the very first to feel the effects of tne doctrine
you are now maintaining by being ostracised
and scorned.”
Picquet’a Garden Ploughs
Those who wish to inspect impliments that
•ombines utility and beautiful workmanship,
are invited to call at Mr. Benjamin Picquet’ 8
Shoe Store on Broad-st., where ean be seen
two of his very popular Garden Ploughs of
fine material and finish. They are prepared
for The World’s Fair, and will be ferwarded
for exhibition to London in a few days.
The Opera Troupe
Which left our city on Tuesday, performed
The Barber of Siville in Charleston the same
evening to a crowded and brilliant bouse,
whioh closed the Opera season in that eity.
Boydell’s Illustrations of Shakspeare-
As a work of such rare merit as the above
has not before been offered to the Ameriosn
public, we take pleasure in referring to a few
facts, which may confirm the pleasing impres
sions these Engravings have already made on
those of our lellow-citizens who have exam
ined them, and which may commend them to
the attention of others. „
All Engravings, in point of merit and beau
ty,, are thus classified : 1. Line Engravings.
2. Stipple. 3. Mezzotinto. 4. Aqua-tint.—
6. Lithograph. All the Boydell Illustrations,
we observe, are in Line or Stipple, none of
them being executed in either of the three
inferior styles. Those, then, who obtain this
work, are sure of getting superior Engravings,
executed by the best Engravers of the last
seventy years, and from pictures painted by
the most celebrated painters of the same
period.
The names of West, Reynolds, Opie, Fuseli,
kc., as Painters, and Sharp, Bartolczzi, Wil
son, and Legat, as Engravers, ensure this su
periority.
(From the Smthern Recorder.')
State Fair-
Macon, April 20th, 1851.
Messrs Grieve % Orme:—l have the pleasure
to inform you that the next Annual Fair of
the State Agricultural Society, is to bp held
in Central Georgia, as will appear by the en
closed copy of a resolution passed by the Exe
cutive Committee of the Society at Atlanta,
on Saturday last. As the subject is one which
w.ll doubtless greatly interest your readers,
you can publish it if you think proper, for
their benefit. I trust we shall have your
valuable aid in getting up an exhibition, wor
thy of our Stn-.e and the occasion.
Your Friend and obedient aerv’t.
J. H. R. WASHINGTON.
Atlanta, April 19, 1851.
Resolved , That th® Executive Committee of
the Southern Central Agricultural Associa
tion,accept the proposition of Mr. Washington,
Mayor of the city of Macon, to pay .wo thorn
and dollars for the distribution of premiums and
two thousand dollars for the erection oi build
ings and fixtures upon the grounds of the
society, to be prepared, as directed by the
executive committee, by the 15th of October
next; and that, in consideration thereof, the
next Fair of said society, shall be held at Ma
caw. commonciug on Monday the 27th day of
October next, and opening to the pubdc on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday thereafter.
BENJ. E’WD. STILES,
Chn. Ex. Com., S. C. A. 3.
J. Y. Jones, Ex. Officio, 3. C. A. S.
Explosion of a Soda Fountain.— The N.
O Picayune says:
“ i'nat on Saturday, while a soda fountain
was being charged, at the corner of Orleans
and Royal streets, it exploded with the report
of a cannon, and flsv up in the air nearly
three hundred feet. It passed over the Or
leans Theatre in its coure l ?, and camo down in
Bt. Ann street. A piece of the fountain struck
against the door where a little negro girl was
standing and came within an aee of killing
her.”
Philadelphia an» Savannah.—Philadel
phia has subscribed SIIO,OOO to the new en
terprise ot opening steam communication be
tween that city and Savannah. The company
in contemplation the building of two
propellers of about 790 tens each, <*hd capable
of accommodating 100 first class passengers.
The cost of these vessels will be between
$70,000 and SBO,OOO.
UJagtutu CtUgvapl).
Reported for the Constitutionalist.
Three Days Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL,
ASIA.
COTTON DECLINED 1-8 TO 1-4 d.
Baltimore, April 23.
The steamer Asia has arrived,bringing £13,-
000 sterling freight.
Liverpool, April 12. —Money is plentiful.
The Cotton crop is estimated, from accounts
signed by every factor in New Orleans, ex
cept one, to be little over two millions of
bales. The decline is one-quaver (I) on
middling and lower qualities, one-eighth ($)
on better descriptions.
Sales of the week 28.6C0 bales. Speculators
took 1600—exporters 900 bales.
Fair bowed 7ld.
Mobile lid.
Orleans 7|.
Sales at Liverpool to-day 4,000 bales, all
to the trade. The market closed weak.
Bread stuffs generally unchanged. Corn
advanced one shilling.
Sugar and Molasses in fair demand.
Provisions slightly deobned.
Business dull in the manufacturing dis
tricts.
Charleston, April 23 P. M.
Cotton. —The market is depressed, and
prices down one quarter. The sales to-day
are7oo bales, et 81 to lit cents.
New York, April 23.
Cotton. —The merket declined to-day, one
eighth of a cent.
FwMOßue Bale op Sims —By reference to
the ietttrof our correspondent “ Charlemac,"
it will be seen that the rumor that Sims was
sold by the agent of Mr, Potrer, to a person
in Boston, is credited in New York. It is
very evident that pains was taken to circulate
this report in Boston and the Northern cities.
We doubted it from the first, but gave it in
the most authentic form in which we found
it, in order that it might be denied or confirm
ed by those who were in possession of the
facte. We learn fromjthe Republican of yes
terday, that there is no truth in the state
ment, and that Mr. Potter, so far from con
senting to any such arrangement, has declared
his unwillingness to accept any price for
lies to go back to Boston. The report was
probably put out to allay the excitement
among the abolitionists of Boston, who might
otherwise have been even more energetic in
their opposition t© the removal of Sims. Mr.
Fetridge’s assertion to the Editor of the Trans
cript, that* he had purchased Sims, w-s, it
seems, a voluntary falsehood, contributed in
support es the Constitution and laws of the
country.
—— Since writing the above we have had
an interview with Mr. Potter, by whom we
are assured that there is no grounds for the
report of the sale of Sims. Mr. Potter has not
been influenced by pecuniary considerations in
his pursuit of his slave, but has been actuated
by principle alone. He desired to test the
operation of the fugitive slave law, and to de
monstrate to the country its constitutionality,
and ita efficiency in protecting the rights of the
South. Regardless of cost, he has made the
test. He has required his property at the
hands of the law, to which even the fanati
cism of Boston has bean forced to yield re
luctant obedience. While he is gratified at
the result, as exhibiting the fidelity of the
federal and municipal authorities of Boston,
he is nevertheless opposed to any compromise
of principle with the abolitionists, and as
sures us that no amount of money which they
could offer, eould purchase his slave to be set
free among them. This is the correct princi
ple, and we conceive that Mr. Potter is enti
tled to the approbation of ail true friends of
the South and the Union, for the patriotic ex
ample he has set in this matter.— Savannah
News, 22d inst.
Freak* or Philanthropy.— A few days
since the papers contained the account of the
death of a man in a'Boston jail, who had been
put in there for some paltry defat. He was a
man of education, a graduate of one of New
England's colieges. Yet he was a white man,
and a merciless creditor enforced, not the fu
gitive law, but the law for the collection of
debts, put him in jail, where he lingered and
finally died of consumption in the felon's cell.
We heard of no rescue, or attempt to rescue.
On Saturday the telegraph informed us that
a blaek man named Sims, was arrested, charg
ing him with being a fugitive slave.
There was danger, not of nis being put in jail
and lingering as the white deb'or had linger
! p d, but there was danger of his being sent
back to the South from whence he had es
caped, under the provisions of the fugitive
law. This case excites to madness the men
who had stood by and seen the white man die
in prison for debt. They fly together. The
country is alarmed. Meetings are held in the
neighboring towns, and resolutions are passed
denouncing the law under which this arrest is
made, and offering their services to release all
b.ack men by force of arms, and to trample
the laws of ihe Union under foot to accom
plish this purpose 1
Here is consistency, for you ! Reader, what
do you think of it?— Ohio State Journal.
[ Csrrespo ndence of the Charleston Courier.)
Washington, April 20.
The Pena*ylrani* Legislature have repealed
the act obstructing the execution of the fugi
tive slave act of 1792. This was done by the
Democratic voles—nearly all the Whig mem
ber* voting against it. Most of the Whig
meHibers like the Governor, Mr. John
son, avowed themselves in iavor of Gen. Foote
as the Whig candidate for the Presidency.
Geo Foote ia now so far prominent, as the
Whig candidate, that the regular Democratic
? restes have began to indicate opposition to
him; and some of the Union Whigs have man
ifested a purpose to bring some candidate
whoa? sentiments are known and declared to
he in favor of the compromise measures*
(Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier .)
New-York, April 22. 12.2 A. M.
The Market. Cotton- 1600 bal*;s sold at a
farther reduction of one eighth, making three
eighths decline since the receipt of the ac
count* per Pacific. Rice is quoted at 3* to
3£, at which 150 ierces were sold.
New-Orl»ans, April 22, 8.30 P. M.
The Market. Iwo thousand ba es Cotton
sold to-day, at a decline of one-quarter cent.
Middling 10 te 10£-
Thc brig Tartar, Booker, for
went to aeayeaterday.