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{From the Savannah Morning News, Ist intt .)
The Cuban Expedition-
Rumors —Activity of the Government Officers —
Cruise of the Welaka—Escape of a Captive Spy
Encampments of the Expeditionists The
Rendesvoas—The Inevitable result of the Cu
ban Movements.
The cl y for several days past has been full
of rumors about the expedition said to be or
ganizing tor a descent on Cuba, but very lit
tle intelligence of a reliable nature has been
in the possession of any but the officials of th *
government, who seem detsrmined that if
Cuba is revolutionized it shall not be their
7 fault.
We mentioned the fact that on Sunday
* I nigh, last, the Welaka leit this city with the
U. S. Marshal and other officers on boari, for
the South. Since then there has been con
siderable speculation among our citizens as to
•what was the object of hsr trip, and much anx
iety has existed to know what would be the
result of her voyage. As we stated, the re
porter of this paper went with the s earner,
and we expected advices from him by the St.
Matthews, which arrived yesterday morning
with thi Southern Mail; but no letter from
him has reached us. We learn that letters
r *ve been received, in the city, by th# U. S.
sers here, the contents of which, however,
have not transpired. It is rumored that the
L ao Welaka was at St. Marys on Monday, and
* kpt remained there during Monday night, for the
|H purpose of collecting information in regard to
the expedition, and that she sailed on Tues
day morning for Jacksonville, l'ne St.
Matthews passed her on hat day in the St.
#■• John Rivers, near the latter city.
*>fb ,aeWe learn from passengers on board the So.
.a* imineatthewa, that a considerable body of men
! yp ; th (variou iy reported from 300 to 500) are en
br camped near Jacksonville, and that other
are on the St. Johns and Sacilia livers
fj tran portation to convey them to the
tur general rendezv >us of the expedition.
The young man from this city, who joined
# awlmpany of the expeditionists at Macon,
some two weeks since, with a view to obtain
information of the contemplated movement,
to be used by the Spanish Consul here, return
ed in the St. Mathews yesteruay. As well
* * as we can learn tne fac*s, he went to Macon,
where he mingled with the members of the
.company, and by professing a desire to join
l|Mthe(n f obtained their confidence and a knowi-
of their destination and plans He then re
turned to this city, in advance of the company,
who, it wi 1 be remembered, came down as
far ►■a the ninety mile station, on the Central
Railroad, and turned back. Haring commu
nicated information of the morement to the
Consul, he then returned to Macon in pursuit
his original design to betray the expedi
tionists, and accompan d them on their way
as far ; s station No. 2, on the Central Road,
where he attempted to leave them. But his
designs having been discovered, he was ar
rested by the Cubans and forced to accom
pany them, with the assurance that he should
go to Cuba in the first rank of the expedition.
As a matter of course, his situation new be
came an unpleasing one, and he watched an
opportunity on the march to effect his escape.
He made several attempts, all of which were
unsuccessful, and in one of which he was fired
on and made a narrow escape from be shot
The line of march was from the station on
the railroad, through Mclntosh, Glynn and
Camden counties to the Satilla river. The
party crossed the Atlamaha, at Fort Barring
tan, in a canoe. The prieODer acted as ferry
man, and after getting the company aeross,
he availed himself of the opportunity to es
cape in the canoe ; but after a “ hard paddle"
* ofsome three or four miles down the river, he
C was overtaken by his pursuers, who had ob
tained another b at, and carried back. The
company pursued their march, keeping a close
guard over the prisoner, until within about
eighteen miles of Bethel, in Camden county,
when a favorable opportunity presented it
self wniie on the march, m the night, and he
finally effected his escape. He traveled some
two days and nights, when he reached Bruns
wick, where he took the boat which brought
him to this city. Thus has terminated au ad
venture, which, whatever may be thought of
its propriety, came near being a vary serious
*-
The Company from which the yeung manes
[ caped, were on their way to Burnt Fott, on the
Salt.lla Rtver, which is to be the principal
, rendezvous of the expeditionists and where
they expected some 1,600 Georgians would
concentrated. It was understood that two
♦vessels with provisions and arms, were await
ing for fhem at the mouth of the river, and
would convey them to the general rendezvous
of the Exp dition, which is one of the coast
Islands in the neighborhood of Key West.and
where it was understood a large force nurn
-I?beru g some ten to fifteen thousand men would
be concentrated.
Passengers m the St. Mattews state that
bodilkof men were conn ig into camps on
the Saftilio and St. Johns from ever quarter,
■ x . artfcTthat it was rumored that a considerable
j force nad already arrived, who were waiting
a steamer to transpor them to the rendez
vous. The steamer expected, is doubtless the
game that has been captured by the Govern
ment at N w York. This capti re may prove
a serious obstacle to the expedition, as it wit j
«.derabie delay. If, howover, trans
» aii they want, we would no be
o hear that they had mad? bold to
WeUka, and such other craft as
onvemently lay their hands on.
SF A few days will tell the story ot the Cuban
Expedition. If it should fan, through the
opp. lV <tion of our government, we feel
quite that i s mission wul only be
delayed. -vA popular movement, aodeep-root
\ B i this, may be frustrated for the time, but
mUjjj evident that a spirit is aroused, however
ti£i*bie it may be, which will sooner or
ha t£e, emancipation of Cuba. It is
l“ rfo ' gorsrament to preserve the
neutrality of the nation, and to discounten- f
ance every infraction of our treaty atipula- \
tiona with Spain; but it is expecting too much
ol the administration to suppose that with all
its vigilance it can prevent what has come to
be regarded as the “ inevitable destiny” of
Cuba. The death grasp of imbecile Spain it
self must soon release its hold upon the Queen
of the Antiles, even if she is not rescued by
the strong arms and brave hearts, at home and j
abroad, who are pledged in her cause.
[From the HarverhiU {Mass ') 3an tier. \
An Abolitionist at Fault*
“ I had a brother-in-law,” said Mose Par
kins, “ who was one of the ravenest maddest,
reddest-hettest, abolitionists you ever see. I
liked the pesky critter well enough, and
should have been very glad to see him cum
to spend a day, fetchin* my sister to see me j
and my wife, if he hadn't lowd Lis tongue to j
run on so 'bout niggers and slavery, and the
equality of the races, and the duty of over- j
thro win' the Constitution of the United :
States, and a lot of other things, some
of which made me mad, arid the best part of
’em right sick. I puzzled my brains a good
deal to think how I could make him shet up
his noisy head 'bout abolition.
“ Wad, one time when brother-in-law come
over to stay, an idea struck me. I hired a
nigger to help me haying time. He was the
biggest, strongest, greasiest nigger you ever
see. * Black !’ he was blacker than a stack of
black cats and jest as shiney as a new beaver
hat. I spoke to him. ‘Jake,’ sez I, ‘when
you hear the breakfast bell ring, don’t you
say a word, but you come into the parlor and
set right down among the folks and eat your
breakfast.' The nigger’s eyes stuck out of his
head about a feet J * You're jokin' massa,’
sez he. ‘Jokin'!’ sez I, ‘l’m as sober as a
deacon.' ‘But,’ sez he, ‘I shan’t have time to
wash myself and change my shi’t.' ‘So much
the better,’ sez I, Well —breakfast come —
and so did Jake, and he set right down 'long
side my brother-in-law. He stared, but he
didn't say a word. There warn’t no mistake
about it. Shut your eyes and you’d know
it—for he was loud, I tell you. There was a
tust-rate chance to talk aoolitionism, but
brother-in-law never opened his chowder
head.
“Jake,” sed I, ‘ you be on hand at dinner
time ; and he was. He had been workin’ in
the medder all the forenoon—it was hot as
hickory and billin’ pitch—and—but I leave
the rest to your imagination.
“ Wa I—-in the afternoon—brother-in-law
come up to me, madder than a short-tailed
bull in hornet time.”
“ Mose,” said he, “ I want to speak to
you.”
“ Sing it out," sez I.
“I haint but a few words to say,” sez he,
“ but it that ’ere confounded nigger comes to
the table again while I'm stoppin here, I’ll
clear out.”
Jake ate his supper that night in the kitch
en, but from that day to this I never saw my
brother-in-law open his head about abolition
ism. When the Fugitive Slave bill was pass
ed. I thought he’d let out some, but he didn't,
tor he knoio'd that Jake teas still a workin’ on
the farm
Spirit and Peru,.— Tnere is a story, and
which I believe is a fact, of two boys going to
ajaekdaw’s nest from a hole under the belfry
window of the tower of All Saints’ Church,
Derby, England. As it was impossible to
reach it standing, and equally impossible to
reach that height from without, they resolved
to put a plank through tne window, and while
the heavier boy secured its balance by sitting
on the end within, the lighter boy was to fix
himself on the opposite end, and from that
perilous situation to reach the object of their
desire. So far the scheme answered. The
little fellow took the nest, and finding in it
five fledged young birds, announced the news
to iis companion.
“ Five are there ?" replied he ; “ then I’ll
have three/'
“ Nay," exclaimed the other, indignantly;
“ I run all the danger, and I’ll have three.”
“ Tou shall not,” still maintained the boy
inside; “ you shall not. Promise me three
or I’ll drop you.”
*• Drop me if you please,” replied the little
hero, “but I”1 promise you no more than
two” —upon which his feet slipped off the
plank.
Up tilted the end, and down went the boy,
upwards of a hundred feet from the ground.
The little fellow, at the moment of his fail,
was bolding his priza by their legs-—three in
one hand and two in the other—and they,
finding themselves-descending, fluttered out
their pinions instiuc ively. The boy, too,
had on a carter’s frock, secured around the
neck, which, filling irom beneath, buoyed
him up like a balloon, and descended smooth
ly to the ground—when, looking up, he ex
claimed to his companion—
“ Now you shall have none!” and ran
away sound in every limb, to the astonish
ment of the inhabitants, who, with inconceiv
able horror, had witnessed his descent.
| Homb Industky.— Messrs. W. &J. Arnold
have just established in the upper part of the
| city, a Rope Walk of considerable extent.
| They are now making the first quality of rope,
6 and 9 strand, from Kentucky hemp, and
can turn out ten to fifteen coil 9 a day. No
Kentucky-made rope in the market can sur
pass it for smoothness and twist. Messrs. R.
W. Smith St Co. are the agents for selling this
rope and offering it at their store on Michael
street, at the same prices as the best import
ed article. The proprietors are worthy, in
dustrious men, and will extend their works
if they meet with proper encouragement. As
there is now so general a disposition among us
to foster home industry, we hope this new en
terprise will not languish for the want of ad
equate support. —Mobile Herald.
Cadets at Labojs. —President Fillmore re
cently appointed ten Cidets at large. Five
of them are sons of officers of the Army and
Navy who were killed or who died in actual
service, two are sons of officers of the army
still living, but who were distinguished for
their gallantry during the late war ; one is
the son of an officer of the navy ; and two
are sods of persons in civil life—viz: of Hi
ram Powers, the sculptor, and of the late
Captain Whistler, who acquired so much ce
lebrity as u civil engineer.
A Rick Beggar. —Last eveuing a man
named Eiward Fitzsimmons, was arrested by
officer Banks, ot .he 15th ward, on suspicion
of having committed a petty theft, when, on
searching his person before commitment, his
• pockets were found to contain two bags of
j specie containing $650 in dimes, half dimes,
quarter dollars, aud half dollars, the weight
of which was thirty-five pounds. He also
had in his possession a small dirty pocket
book containing $25 in l’s an i 2's on the Me
chanics’ Bank, which, to all appearance, had
not seen the light of Heaven for ten years, as
they were mouldly aud matted together. By
his own co fe*sion, the whole of this treasure
was derived from begging, at which occupa
tion he had labored vigilantly for the last
twelve years. Frzsimmons is an Irishman,
an i, when first he came to this country, he
was employed on a rail-road in Massachusetts,
where re became disabled, came to New
York, and turned b.-ggar. Capt. Yoorhies, ot
the police, sent him and his fortune to the
alma house as a vagrant, having no home, and
heretofore no visible means of support. — N.
Y. Eatprttt, 2 nit.
Washington's Birth Place.
The National JLa< elligencer copies the fol
lowing interesting correspondence addressed
to the editors of the Alexandria Gazette by the
venerable George W. P. Custis;
Observing in your valuable journal, of a late
date, the notice of a stone placed on the ruins
of the house in which the beloved Washing
ton first, saw the light, permit me to offer you
* brief account of that interesting event, as it
occurred six and thirty years ago.
In June, 1815, I sailed in my own vessel,
the “ Lady of the Lake,” a fine topsail schoon
er of ninety tons, accompanied by two gentle
men, Messrs. Lewis and Grymes, bound to
Pope’s Creek, in the county of Westmore
land, carrying with us a slab of freestone, hav
ing the following inscription:
HERB,
The 11th of February, 1732, (old style,)
WASHINGTON
WAS BORW.
Our pilot approached the Westmoreland
shore cautiously, as our vessel drew nearly
eight feet water, and the pilot was but indif
ferently acquainted with 60 unfrequented a
navigation.
We anchored at some distance from the
land, and taking to our boats, we soon reach
ed the mouth of Pope’s or Brydge’s Creek,
and proceeding upwards we feel in with Mc-
Kenzie Beverly, Esq., and several gentlemen
on a fishing party, and also with the overseer
of the property that formed the object of our
visit. We were kindly received by these in
dividuals, and escorted to the spot where a
few scattered bricks alone marked the birth
place of the chief.
Desirous of making the ceremonial of lay
ing the stone as imposing as circumstances
would permit, we enveloped it in the “ Stai
Spangled Banner” of our country, and it was
borne to its resting place in the arms of the
descendants of four revolutionary patriots and
soldiers —Samuel Lewis, son of Geo. Lewis, a
captain in Baylor’s regiment of horse, and
nephew of Washington; Wm. Grymes, tne
sane of Benjamin Grymes, a gallant and dis
tinguished officer in the Life Guard; the cap
tain of the vessel, the son of a brave soldier
wounded in the battle of Guilford; and Geo.
W. P. Custis, the son of John Parke Custis,
aid-de-camp to the commander-in-chief be
fore Cambridge and Yoiktown.
We gathered together the bri ks*of the an
cient chimney that ones formed the hearth
around which Washington m his infancy had
played, and constructed a rude kind of pedes
tal, on which we reverent y placed the first
stone, commending it to the respect and pro
tection of the American people in general, and
the citizens of Westmoreland in particular.
Bidding adieu to those who had received us
so kindly, we re embarked and hoisted our
colors, and being provided with a piece of can
non and suitable ammunition, we fired a sa
lute, awakening the echoes that had slept for
ages around the hallowed spot; and while the
smoke of our martial tribute to the birth-place
of the Pater Patrice still lingered on the bo
som of the Potomac, we spread our sails to s
favwring breeze and speeded joyously to oui
homes.
Such was an act of filial lave and gratitude,
performed more than a third of a century ago;
such is the history of the firs t stone to the me
mory of Washington.
Moorish .Fcnticb —l'tie iou..wing illustra
tion of Moorish justice we ex sact from a le r
ter from the U. S. Consul at Tangier, publish
ed in the Buffalo Comineicial Advertiser:
Mr. L. an English merchant residing a s
Mcgadore, had some years ago an affray with
a party of Moors who insulted him as he was
returning from a shooting. In the r.ourse of
the scuffle the merchant accidentally Knocked
out two te» th from an old woman, who hap
pened to be in the way. Complaint was im
mediately made to the governor, who was ob
liged to rake the Christain gentleman into cus
toay, as well to protect him from the violence
of the mob, who were proceeding to revenge
in a very summary way the loss of the old la
dy’s masticators, as to see the law carried out.
Such is the strictness observed on this bead
that the merchant was sentenced to have two
of his teeth extracted—but as a mark of spe
cial favor, he was allowed to make the selec
tion, and, as it rarely happens that a person
possesses so good a set as to make it very in
convenient to spare the number required, the
Christian, after all, was probably no great suf
serer.”
As smart as Baknum. -Tiie Madison (la.)
Courier says that McElvey, the tailor, who
bought the prize ticket to Jemy Lind’s first
concert in Cincinnati, is one of the few men
in the world who are as sharp as Barnum.—
The way he worked things was this : For some
days before the concert he went around among
his friends, betting ten dollars with tnis one.
twenty dollars with that one, and so on, un
til he had a thousand dollars bet that he would
buy the prize ticket. The ticket was knock
ed down to him at five hundred and seventy
five dollars, thus leaving him four hundred
and twenty five dollars.
A Stunhbb,l-— “Sich a g ttiri up Stairs. —A
facetious writer in the Boston Post, describ
ing the playing of Strakosch at a concert in
that city, says that afer folding himself up
on the music seat, his arms and hands opened
over the keys of the piano like a twenty blad
ed-jack knife, at all possible angles. He says
that his style forcibly reminded him of Miss
Wirt's performance of the variations on “Sich
a gittin’ up stairs,” a lady so graphically de
scribed by Thackeray as a stunnor. We can
not/lo less than give our readers the account of
Miss W's highfaulutin doings on the piano,
and in Thackeray’s own inimitable style:
“She first, with great deliberation, played
the original and beautiful melody, cutting it,
as it were, out of the instrument and firing
off each note so loud that it must have been
heard in the stable. When she had banged
out the tune slowly, she began a different
manner of “gittin* up stairs,” and did so with
a fury and swiftness quite incredible. She
spun up stairs, she whuled up stairs; she gal
loped up stairs; she rattled up stairs; and tiien
having got the tune to the top landing, as it
were, she hurled it down again shrieking to
the bottom floor, where it shrang in a crash,
as if exhausted with the breathless rapidity
of the descent. Then Miss W. played the
“gittin* up stairs” with a most pathetic and
ravishing solemnity; plaintive moans and sobs
issued from the keys—you were “gittin* up
stairs,” and Miss W's, hands seemed to faint,
and wail, and die in variations. Again, and
she sent up with a savage clang and clash,and
rush of trumpets, as if Miss W. was storming
a breach, kc., ke.
Sir Isaac Newton, though so deep in al
gebra and fluxions, eouid not readily make
up a common account; and, when he was
Master of the Mint, used to get somebody to
make up his accounts for him.
A writer,in describing the last *cene of Othel
ol,has this exquisite passage: “Upon which the
Moor, seizing a bolster full of rage ana jealousy,
smothers ner.”
The editor of the B -ston Post will have his
joke out oi any thing and every holy. Speak
ing of the suicide ot a ooor son of St. Crispin
*• Out West” he says :
The pangs of unrequited love made Mr.
Hagar, shoemaker, taxe poison at Fort dee
Moines, where, as his end waxed near, he
breathed his last, and pegged out.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
(Georgia.
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 3
Southern Rights Meeting.
$
The members of the Southern Rights
Party of Richmond County , are request
ed to meet at the CIT Y HALL, in the i
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.
Democratic Southern Rights Convention*
The day generally agreed upon is Wednes
day, the 28th of May, for the meeting of this
Convention.
Coercion of a Sovereign State.
A sanguinary ferocity is displayed in many
quarters against South-Carolina, in contem
plation of her seceding from the Federal
Union. Eminent statesmen, such as Clay
and Webster, openly dec are that, should
South-Carolina secede, the laws of the Fed
eral Government will be enforced at the point
of the bayonet, upon her citizens.
These insolent threats generally proceed
from men who are federalists at heart, and
whose warmest sympathies are in favor of a
grand consolidated imperial Government, in
which the sovereign States which formed this
Federal compact, and by whose breath alone
it exists, shall be dwarfed down into petty
dependent provinces.
In the days of Jefferson and of Madison,
no such language would have been tolerated
in Republican circles. A juster appreciation
of the rights of the States and of the nature
of the federal compact then prevailed through
out the country. Especially in the was
it the case, that no man having a respectable
political influence, would venture to deny the
right of the parties to the Federal compact to
withdraw from it, or maintain that the Gen
eral Government could use the army and
navy to make war upon one of its members
for exercising this right.
The proclamation of Gen. Jackson, in 1832,
denying the right of secession, a id advocating
the use of force in such a contingency, pro
duced universal disgust and indignation in
the Southern States. To such an extent did
this feeling prevail, that a By-authority qual
ification of this Federal heresy was soon after
published in the Richmond Enquirer.
But recently, the doctrine of force against
a Sovereign State, has baen gaining favor in
circles where it was but little to be expected.
It is not surprizing that Northern anti
slavery politicians would delight in seeing the
application of it to the high mettled State of
South-Carolina; for her obstinate resistance
and defying attitude to the steadily advancing
march of abolition, has aroused a degree oi
intense hatred to her. Northern Whigs and
Free Soilers would gladly trample sover
eignty in the dust, if they could, and if they
dared to do it. It would delight them to
humble her a3 Russia humbled Poland—as
Austria, aided by Russia, humbled Hungary
—as despotic and sanguinary Spain keeps
down Cuba—to crush out from her every
spark of the spirit of resistance to the will
of the majority in Congress, whatever that
will may be. Even many of the Democratic
party at the North, carried away by their
hatred to the slave power, and forgetful of
their State Rights principles, would willingly
join the atrocious crusade.
Not only in the North does this feeling ex
ist, but even at the South, we are sorry to
say, among people of kindred institutions,
and born to the same heritage, has this doc
trine of force found favor, and this hatred to
South-Carolina found sympathisers and abet
ters. A distinguished Georgian, who, it is
generally understood, is selected by a clique
of Washington politicians, Fillmore, Clay,
Webster, Toombs, Stephens k Co., to be the
next Governer of Georgia, if the people will
only ratify the appointment, has declared his
readiness to use force against any State that
resists, even by secession, the miscalled Com
promise measures—measures which South-
Carolina looks upon as an intolerable out
rage.
How strikingly in contrast with such threats
emanating from Southern men, is the follow
ing language of a Northern politician. It is
reported as the language of Mr. Douglass, of
Illinois, in a speech, on his recent visit to
Richmond, Ya.
“ I have long been deeply impressed with
the conviction that the preservation of our
federal Union and the rights of the people and
the States all depend upon a strict and faith
ful observance of the Constitution, with all its
guarantees and compromises. It is not suffi
cient that the letter of the Constitution should
be maintained ; its genius and principles must
be cherished and sustained in the spirit of
pure patriotism and fraternal affection. Our
republican institutions can only exist so long as
they command the respect and affections ot the peo
ph. They cannot be maintained by force ; nor
can they survive amid sectional strife and
hostile legislation. The several States must
act upon the golden rule which obtains among
ail good neighbors—each minding its own bu
siness and leaving the others to regulate their
own domestic affairs in their own way.”
If this declaration be applied to the federal
compact,and the republican institutions recog
nized by it, nothing can be more true. A go
vernment not founded in consent, and sus
tained by consent, and the affection and re
spect of the parties to it, cannot be maintain
ed over a free people. It is absurd to calcu
late on the maintenance of a federal compact
of sovereign States by force.
To those who consider that it is so easy and
desirable a matter for the Federal Govern
ments to coerce South Carolina back into the
Union by force, we commend the following
common sense views of Mr. Rhett in his speech
on the 7th of April, before the State Rights
Association of Cnarleston. The question is
pertinently put, “ t ohat t can the Notrhern people
gain in such a contest V' It is but a small por
tion ot an able argument to show that if South
Carolina aces proper to secede, it ie neither the I
policy of the remaining Stat s, nor in their
power to coerce her back into the Union.
That a strong disposition would manifest it
selff at Washington City to annoy South Caro
lina by hostile legislation in every way in
which her interests can be reached —her pros
perity crippled and her pride humbled, we do
note doubt. The policy would be to victimize
hre,and make her fate a warning to other States
to deter them from following her example. —
That these ends could be partially accom
plished by her enemies, we believe. They
would be strong enough in the federal coun
cils to do this. We should be sorry to see
them enjoy the gratification of even this un
manly triumph over the weak. We hope
South Carolina will, by a prudent course, de
prive them of this sweet morsel.
It is not yet a settled question.that South Ca
rolina will secede from the Union. The proba
bilities we think are that she will not take
that step, though the policy of doing so is urged
in this very speech from which we quote, and
it is well understood that a majority of her
delegates elect to the Convention are in favor
of immediate secession. That is a matter
South Carolina is fully competent to decide
for herself, and which she has, we conceive,
an unquestionable right to decide for herself
without let or hindrance. She will weigh
and decide it in Convention, if we do not
greatly misjudge the independent and chival
rous character of her people, coolly, and with
judgment, on a calm survey of the facts of the
case, and the policy of the movement. She
will be wholly uninfluenced by the impotent
threats of her enemies, North and South, of
force and of bloodshed.
If we secede from the Union, we will se
cede during the sitting of the next Congress.
Congress alone can declare war. Congress
must vote the supplies, and authorize the use
of the army and navy againat us. One of
two alternatives Congress must chose; let us
go peaceably out of the Union, or fight m. I
believe every body gives us the very com
mon credit of not being very great laggards at
fighting. If war is made upon us, we wil
fight. On land or sea, we wiL fi'ht; and if
any one supposes that war in any form can
be made on South Carolina without fighting,
he is not worth reasoning with. Where there
is a will, there is away, in war as in other
things. We will fight—fight long; and, if
necessary, I trust, we will everlastingly,
in defence of the sovereignty of our State, and
of our dearest rights, liberties and institu
tions. What can the Northern people gain
in such a contest, but inevitable defeat and
desaster ? Give them all they can possibly ex
pect to accomplish. Suppose they are em
broiled with other nations, for lawlessly in
terrupting a commerce as much theirs as ours
and that we are a last vanquished and sub
dued —will that preserve the Union? They
oaav have a province held in subjection by
military.fflrce, but can they make us, against
our will, a State of the Uni m? Can they f< rce
as to elcet Senators or Represents ives to
Congress? By our secession, the Union is dis
solved, and will stand dissolved by our mere
non-action. But if this poliay of coercion is
pursued, will disunion be limited to South
Carolina alone? Does any man believe, that
the General Government can carry on a war
ttgainst a Southern Sia r e, for exercising her
right of seceeding from the Union, in defence
of her liberties and institutions, and that no
other Southern State will join her in the con
test? The right of secession is the right of
all. Surrender it, and th - States are no lon
ger sovereignties. They are not parties to the
Constitutional Compact; but mere provinces
of one vast Consolidated Empire, under the
absolute sway of the free State# in the North
6hr<fUgh the majority in Oongres. Tha
Southern States will have no defence, either
in the Union, or out of the Union, to stay the
strong hand of usurpation and abolition, grow
ing stronger every day;and if they suffer South
Carolina to be subjugated by the sword, her
doom must soon be theirs, with the increas
ed feroc ty they will have inspired in our
successful foes. Ido not consider it to be a
matter of doubt, that if the free States*use the
General Government to make war on South
Carolina, and she fights as becomes her ancient
renown—a Southern Confederacy is as sure
to come as the succeeding year. The North
ern people, as well as the General Govern
ment, know that this will be the result as well
as we do; and 'herefore I have no expectation
that any bill willevir pass Cotagress to
coerce South Carolina from going our, of the
Union. No such bill. I am satisfied, could
have passed the last Senate of the U. States.
Will Rhode Island, the last State to enter
the Union, or Delaware, consent to be dis
robed of their sovereignty? What are they
in the Union without it, but aristocratic fun
guses on the body politic, te 4 be cut off in the
Senate by the equalizing sword of Democracy.
Could the Northwestern Democrats, who so
lately maintained that the right of self-gov
ernment was so sacred to the people that the
emigrants in California had a right to set up a
government fur themselves throughout that
whole magnificent region,although owninglnot
a foot of the soil, deny to the peop.e of South
Carolina the right thus accorded to the peo
ple of California, and force on them a Gov
ernment they have repudiated ? Could the
Northeast Democrats, resting on the limita
tion of the Constitution, as their great leader
(Mr. Woodbury) has so long and so faithful
ly done, find any warrant in the Constitution
to coerce a State ? How many Senators from
the South are prepared to try the strength of
the General Government in coercing a South
ern State to remain in the Union? There
may be two, and you will not find it difficult
to name them.JHy friends,l am satisfied that if
South Carolina thinks proper 10 go out of the
Union, she will go without a single hostile
gun being fired, or a singla tombstone being
erected to tell a tale of martyrdom. On ex
pi easing such convict on to a distinguished
officer of our State, immediately on my return
from Washington, he exclaimed—“ No fight
in well, that is the worst news I have heard
for a long time ! How in the name of heaven,
are we to get the Southern Confederacy ?” I
answered—"By just Government and a su
perior liberty.” No. You will have no fight
ing, and I rejoice tnat the responsibility is not
with us, whether we shall have it or not. We
will hav« no fighting, not because you are lov
ed, nor from any principle, which restrains
from shedding your blood. You are hated, no
doubt, quite enough to bring on you, any
ealamnity, which unscrupulous power, avarice
or fanaticism can inflict. But there is policy
in power. There is policy in avarice. There
is policy in a fanaticism ; and all these per
ceive, that to attempt to coerce South Caro
lina in any way, it is to secure their own de
feat, and our speedy deliverance from their
degrading thraldom. Tney acquiesce only in
the necessity of things.
Deßow’s Review-
This popular and very valuable work, pub
lished monthly at New Orleans, at $5,00 per
annum is well worthy the patronage of the
mercantile and planting interests of the South
•rnd West. Its pages always display a high
degree of intellectual power, and of industry
in collecting and presenting in an intelii gent
form, valuable essays and statistics of Com
merce and Agriculture.
Mr. R. GK Barnwell, one of the editors of
the Review is now at tbe Eagle & Phasnix Ho
tel in this city,and will be pleased, during the
next two days, to enroll the names of new sub
scribrs.
Mr. Eommerer and his Juvenile Concerts
The second Concert, on Thursday night,
was not so well attended as the first. Indeed,
there was a very marked falling off, both in
numbers and enthusiasm. The novelty of the
novel entertainment was, in a measure, ex
hausted by one exhibition, and there were
not a great many who cared to go a second
time.
We have not seen, since the days of the
Yiennoise Children, a more showy and pleas
ing spectacle, than Mr. Kemmerer’s ingenuity
has afforded our community. Childhood is
always graceful, beautiful and interesting, and
it was a happy idea to group so many bright
and joyous children together, all dre sed
tastefully, and exhibit them to the public
as a band of vocalists. The performance had
a pleasing effect, and was, in ever y way, cred
itable to teacher and pupils, considering the
disadvantages accompanying the wholesale
mode of giving lessons to such a large con
course of children.
One very reprehensible plan was adopted
by Mr. Kemmerer to fill his Concert room, and
which ought not to be countenanced in any
community. This was to enlist his young
scholars, male and female, in peddling his
Concert tickets about the town, under prom
ises of reward to the most successful. This,
we conceive, was not a very suitable employ
ment, particularly for girls. It was a tempta
tion to them to be bold and pushing in their
importunities with gentlemen, even strangers
to them, to buy tickets.
We trust these remarks will not pass un
noticed in other communities visited by
We should be pleased to see him here again,
but hope he will, next time, be content to
leave his tickets for sale at the music and
book-stores, and at the Concert Hall door.
Db«vatch. —Gtooda were delivered on our
wharf last evening, from the steam r John
Randolph, oily foe days from New York.
Distreessing Occ vkub »cb. — A friend
writes us the following particulars in refer
rence to a sad affair which occurred between
two Btudents of Emory C liege, at Oxford,
on Sunday last. Several of the »i.u lents were
standing together in Bishop Andrew’s yard,
when one of them, a young man by the name
ot Middiehrook-*. commenced easing another
by the name of Jones. Alter some words had
passed between them, young Middtebrooks
picked up a stick and approached Jones for
the purpose of striking him.
Jones told him that if he came any nearer,
he would kill him. Middlebrooks disregard
ed the threat, kept approaching and finally
seized him by the collar, Jones fulfilled his
threat, drew a pistol and killed him dead up
on the spot. Neither of the young men were
over 18 years of age. Both are very respecta
bly connected.’Mr Middlebrooks'trien.is reside
in Hancock county —Mr. Jones' in Columbia.
Soon as er the fatal deed, Jon s gave himself
up and is now in custody. The affir is truly
a most melancholy one, an i of a charrater,
whah never before occurred in that peaceful
community. — Republic , Ist inst .
[Telegraphed for the Baltimore Clipper )
Farther by the Steamer Niagara*
Halifax, April 29 li p. m.
The steamer Niagara arrived here this eve
ning from Liverpool, bringing seven days later
news from all parts of E -rope.
The steamer Franklin and Arctic has arrived
out.
Tne City of Glasgow sailed on the 16th with
a heavy freight and 120 passengers, Hon. Mr.
C.emson, Minister to Brussels is among the
number.
London was rapidly filling up with stran
gers from all quarters of the world.
Tne Overland mail has arrived, but brings
nothing important.
There has been a decline of sd. in the Liv
erpool Cotton market. The sales of the week
amount to 26,400.
Breadstuff's were dull, and other articles
were unchanged.
Enqlane. —Parliament has adjourned till
after Easier Hillida s and will not meet again
on the 28th.
Capb op Good Hops.— Late accounts state
that the British forces had obtained a decided
victory over the Kaffirs at Cat River. There
was little prospect, however of a speedy ter
mination of the war.
An insurrection had broken out, headed by
the Duke of Saidinia, in Mireimpia. The in
surgents was 6,000 strong. The King had ta
ken command of the Royal troops.
Liverpool Cotton Markets.— Liverpool
19th. Ihe market for cotton is gloomy. In
fluenced by the advices of the Arctic, buyers
obtained a further concession of |d. Sales of
week 26,400 bales,
Brearstcfps —The Corn is dull. Western
Canal Flour 19s. a 20s. Wheat 5s- a 6s. Bd.
per 70 lbs. for Red, and 6s. a 6s. 2d for White.
Corn 30s. a 335. Indian Meal 14s. 6d.
Provisions. —Transactions in Beef unim
portant. Pork works slowly, Bacon is not
so active. Lard firm. Tallow unchanged.
Money Market —American Stocks remain
unchanged. English Securities very steady.
During tne week the variation does not ex
ceed Is. Bd. Consols closed at 97i. On ac
count 97 a 974.
One Hunrbb Cotton Bales Burnt. —We
learn that on Tuesday last, tne do wn frieght
train, loaded with cotton, when in a mile or
two from Station, was discovered to be
on fire.— When discovered the tire had made
such progress that it was deemed impossible
to extinguish the ilames, without more assis
tance than there was on board the cars, they,
therefore, run to the Station, but could not
procure assistance sufficient to save tne cot
ton. Three freight (Jars were burnt; also a
part of the track.
i Loss to the State, estimated at from four te
six thousand dollars. —Dalton Times, Ist inst .
Sowthnrx Bucket Factory. —VVe were a
lew days since, presented with a new and
beautiful Cedar Bucket, by our friend Mr. S.
D. Bridgeman,o f -Opatak', W tiker o mi!y
Mr. Bridgeman has just completed his bucket
factory and is now making buckets at tne
rate ot from twelve to eighteen doz*n per day.
We do not mean buckets of a common quali
ty, but decidedly the finest we have ever seen
in this market; they are made of Cedar and
beutifully polished off.
We hope our merchants will now be done
with tho blue and green buckets, manufactured
at the North, and send their bills for bueke**
to Mr. Bridgeman, where they can buy theta
as cheap as they can at the North; and aside
from this, they will be manufactured from
South sax woo© and by tne hands of Sovtm-
BRN XRX. — lb.