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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. jAMES GARDNER, JR. I TEBMS. iJauy, per annum, in advance #8 00 I ri- Weekly, per annum 5 00 Weekly, per annum, if paid in advance.... 2 00 These terms are offered io new subscribers and ° old subscribers who pay up all arrearages. In no ease will the weekly paper be sent at #2, unless the money accompanies the order. In no case will it be sent at £2 to an old -übseri Per in arrears. O* When the year paid for at #2 expires, the p \per.if not discontinued, or paid for in advance, will be sent on the old terms, #2,50 if paid at the office within the year, or #3 if paid after the ex piration of the year. O* Postage must be paid on all communications aad letters of business. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. One square 12 lines, 50 cents the first insertion, and 37£ cents for the next 5 insertions, and 25 cent* tor each subsequent insertion. Contracts m ide by the year, or for a less period, on reas >nable term.. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT. Sheriffs Lexnes, 30 days #2 50 per levy; 60 days, #5, Executors, Administrators and Guardians Sales Real Estate,(per square, 12 lines) #4 75 Do. do. Personal Estate ..3 25 Citation for Letters of Administraiian.....2 75 “ Di5mi55i0n..............4 50 Notice to Debtors and Creditors. 3 25 Four Months Notices 400 Rules Nisi, (monthly) #1 per square, each inser tion. 03» ALL REMITTANCES PER MAIL arx AT OUR RISK. {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.