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Ly Je constitutionalism I GARDNER, JR. ~ ' Prayer- BY MRS. LOUISE WORTHEST. Prayer is th<* incense of the soul, The odor of the flower; And rises as the waters roll, To God’s controlling power ! Within the so il there would not be This in inite desire To whisper thou-hts in prayer to Thee, Had’st Thou not lit the fire. Prayer is the spirit speaking truth To Thee whose l«.ve divine, Steals gently down like dew to soothe, Or like the sun earns shine For in the humblest soul that lives, As in the lowliest flower, The dew-d op back his image gives The soul reflects His power ! At nignt.when all is hushed and still, And e’eD soft echo sleeps, A still small voice doth o’er me thrill And to each heart throb leaps; It is the spirit-pulse which beats, Foreverdeeo and true! The atom with its author meets, As sunlight greets the dew ! God is Passing by. Where the gentle streamiets flow, Where the morning dew drops glow. Where the zephyrs wing their fiight, In the cool and welcome night; Whispering through the fragrant grove To the heart that‘‘God is love.” Where the Uaht cloud skims the sky. Worship ! -‘God is passing by ! Hoary forest lugged rock. Pouring torrents, earthquake shock, And when thunder rends the sky, Tremble ! “God is passing by ! Waterloo at itfoon. THE I»AV AFTER THE BATTLE, On a surface ot two squ-re miles, it was as certained that rifty thousand men and horses were lying. The luxuries crop of ripe grain which had covered the field of battle, was re duced to litter, and beaten into the earth; and the surface trodden down by the cavalry, and furrowed deeply by the cannon wheels,strewed ► with many a relic of the fight. Helmets and cutlasses, shattered fire arms and brok-n •words, all the variety of military ornaments; lancer’s caps and highland bonnets; uniforms of every color, plume and pennon; musical instruments, the apparatus of artillery, drums, bugles; but good God ! why dwell on tne har rowing picture ot foughten tie d? Each and every ruinous display bore mute testimony to the misery of such a battle. * * * Could the melancholy appearance of this scene of death he hei,hcened, it would be by witness ing t'-e researches of the living, and 1 heir de solation, for the objects of their love. Mothers, wives and children, tor days were occupied in * that mourntui duty; and the contusion of the k corpses, triend and foe intermingled as they were, often rend r*-d the attempt at recogmz ing individuals difficult, and in some cases impossible. In many cases the deal lay four deep upon each other, marking the spot some square had occupied, when exposed for nours to the murderous fire o the Freacn battery. pggl Ou.side lancer and curassier were scattered L thick>y on the earth. Madly attempting to force tn« serried bayonets ot tne Brmsn, they had fallen in the booties* essay, by the mus kets of the inner files. Farther on you traced spot where the cavalry of France an! England hadT encountered. Chasseur and fifuzaar were intermingled; and the heavy Nor- I man horse of the Imperial Guard were inter V" spersed With the grey chargers whi;h had car ried A byn’s chivalry. Here the Highlander •ad tiralleur lay side by side togeher; and the heavy dragoon, with green Erin’s Dadge up >n hi» helmet, was grappling in death with the Polish lancer. M Oo the summit of the ridge, where the .'Vground was cumoered w.th daad and trodden deep in mud and gore, by the frequent rush ot rival cava'ry, the thick strewn corpses of the Imperial Guard, pointed out tae spot Adhere Napoleon had been defeated. Here, in column, that favored corps on which his last chance rested, had been annihilated; and the advance and repulse of the Guard was tracea ble by amass of fallen FrencUmen. In the hollow below, the last struggle of France had been vainly made; lor there the Old Guard, when the middle battailions had been forced back, attempted to meet the British, t and afford time for their disorganized com- to rally. Here the British left, which had converged upon the French center, had come up; and here the bayonet closed the con test. — Maxwell's Victories of the British Army. A Man and a Christian.— A poor parson was in the habit of every Saturday, borrowing of a friend a five dollar note, this was invaria bly returned with wonderful punctuality, early every Monday morning. What astonish ed the lender m >re than all, was the eingular fact that he was always repaid in the very same bill he lent. Being a very curious man this puzzled him amazingly. He felt sure that the parson could not want the money for house hold expenses, because the note was never tLsr changed. After a time he resolved to seize I the first opportunity of begging for an ex- I planation of so unaccountable a proceeding. pL Shortly alter the parson himself came on ; Saturday evening, and asked for the loan of a ten dollar note. His friend seized the oppor tunity of demanding the solution ot the mys tery. After a pause, the borrower said : You must know, my dear Smith, that my income is so small that I never have, at the end of the week, one cent that I can call my own. No v, some cannot preach or pray on an empty stomach; I am one who cannot do hso on an empty pocket. When I have nothing in them, I feel a poor miserable devil, and afraid to look my congregation in the face, much less to denounce their wickedness; but, .*with a five dollar bill in my pocket, I feel a man and a Cnr stian, and I preach with great eldquenee and force. Now, as the President coming to hear me to-morrow, I intend to ~ti;y the effect of tha double money power, and feel obliged by your lending me a ten dollar bill to put in my pocket for the occa sion. 1 T)xvininq Hods. —A crrespondent of the ~ B ston Camnconwealth gives the following % description of the power of peach twigs, which may be new and interesting to many: In July, 1850, I was travelling in Duchess county, New York, and entering into conver sion with an intelligent farmer, he ineident k any alluded to tne powers of divination pos- K aessed by the twigs of the peach tiee. I ex- By pressed unbounded astonishment, and, being skeptical, I expre«se i my unbelief • '£? in the instances he advanced to support assertion. Upon vvuicn he unhesi atingly fflgfcroceeded to convince me by demonstration ■pceedmg to a peach tree, he cut tnerefrom bralien, m the torm ot the letter Y, B^K ak-m^ >he r ‘ m his hands, he ado w one to point upwards. Grasping ■ tightly as possible, he commenced in a circuit amu d tlls VVl , il( of about arid, oeeas:..,n-dij a m uncut. Presently I 00.-er.ed ol l oil 111 toe U. 14, cau>ed .s u.e 1 to tne attraction ui the wa gHßHpßjne tignt grasp in whicu the twig was * "... ’ Bi’ne twio, no wever, Continued tod.s Hf'tl a V.braung motion, unit 11 pmute . 11 in wtncri position it remained per Bull until the mail stepped each lrc-ui the vein, when it quickly resumed its vertical position. This he repeated several times, each time increasing the radius around thu well, and making the circuit, without any move ment in the twig, until he arrived at a parti cular direction or line from the well. In each spot where the twig pointed downward, I stuck a stake, and after several trials we re turned to the well, and found all the stakes leading in a direct line to a high hill some dis tance off, which he know to be the source of his well, from the fact that another fine well exist* d on the same line between him and the hill, discovered, too, by means of the peach twig. South-Carolina. — We are often astonished and shocked, et the abuse heaped upon this noble State by a vernal Northern press. The history of South-Carolina is one of which any State might well be proud. There is no sac rifice she has not made for the true interest of the country ; no war in Wi_ich we have been engaged, that her aid has not been lib erally extended. But if we are shocked at the vituperation of the Northern press, what shall we say of those papers in the South, who delight in api'ig the cant of their filthy allies ; particularly those who deprecate agi tation, to see the country again restored to quietude. In the late controversy between the two sections of the Union, South-Carolina said, perhaps, as little as any other Southern State. She took no position ; she made no demands, except such as were strictly in accordance with our true interests and honor. It comes with an exceedingly bad grace from those who have proved treacherous or weak, to speak in terms of contempt of a people whose gallant bearing is co.emporaneous with their earliest ancestry, and who have never permitted sel fish considerations to deter them from pursu ing their honest, patriotic convictions. — Texas Republican. Execution in the Cherokee Nation. —The Cherokee Advocate of the 15th ult. says : Toney Watts, one of the persons convicted ot the murder of Crafford Fish, was reprieved by the Executive on the Bth inst., and was set at liberty. Jim 00-wa-hu-skee, the other person that was convicted at the same time, was executed on the 9th mst. according to the sentence of the court. The Rev. John Fletcher Boot waited on the prisoner, at intervals; d iring his confinement, and administered to him the ordinance of Baptism. A the place ot execution, very in teresting speeches were made by the Rev. Boot and Thos. Pegg, E-»q. Solicitor for the District of Tahlequ in—referring very pathe tically to the condition of the prisoner, urg.ng his case as a warning to others, and particu larly to the young and unwary. The prisoner, on the gallows, said but a few words, tie reminded the numbers who at tended his execution, - hat life wa> short to all, and warned them to turn from their wicked ness and learn righteousness. Great Triuhph. l'ue National Intelli gencer says that the greatest speed made by Prof. Page’s electro-magnetic locomotive on Tuesday, in running from Washington to Biadensburg and back, was nineteen miles an i our. The whole distance run was ten and a half miles* l'he Republic gives the annexed particulars. “The progress of the locomotive when it started was so slow that a boy was enabled to keep pace with it for several hundred feet. But tne speed was soon increased, and Bia densburg, a distance of, we believe, about five miles and a quartet, was reached in thirty nine minutes. When within two miles of that place, the power of the battery being ful ly up, the locomotive began to run, on nearly a 'evei place, at the rate of nineteen miles an hour, or seven miles faster than the greatest speed heretofore attained.—This velocity wa9 continued for a mile, when one of the cells cracked entirely open, which caused the acids to intermix ; and, as a conse quence, the propelling power was partially weakened. Two of the other cells subsequent ly met with a similar disaster. The Proiessor proceeded cautiously, fearing obstructions on the way. Seven halts were made, occupying in all forty minutes. But, notwithstanding these hindrances and delays, the trip to and from Biadensburg was accomplished in ona minute lees than two hours. The cells were made of light earthenware, for the purpose of the experiment merely, without reference to durability. This part of the apparatus can therefore easily be guarded against mishap.” The Morilb Murder—The accounts of /the murder of Hernandez,the old Cuban cigar manufacturer in Mobile, are fresh in the re collection. The trial of Eugenio Arbona and Inez Asti alia, charged with his murder, came on in Mobile on Friday last. Great difficulty was found in empanelling a jury. After the special venire of one hundred men, and the regular panel of twenty-four more had been exhausted, the Sheriff had to go into the street for s fresh supply. These and other delays caused by objections and grounds of postponement of the trial taken by the prisoners' counsel,were at length overcome, the case proceeded to evidence. The jury found both prisoners guity of murder'in the first degree,and sentenced them to the Penitentiary tor life.— N. 0. Crescent 28lA ult. Is a Basket a Box. —The question was a musingly discussed in the State Convention, which re assembled in the House of Delegates on Saturday morning. According to an order adopted, the names of the members were to be drawn out of “ a box,” and seats to be se lected, as the names came out. The old bal lot-boxes of the House of Delegates having been long discarded from use, no such furni ture was conveniently to be had. The Secre tary had resource, therefore, to a small basket, used for carrying lawyer’s books and papers. The tedious operation over, of course the “ outsiders” were not very well pleased—and one of them, Mr. Smith, of Kanawha, in a spirit of fun, raised a constitutional point, viz : tnat the order had not been legally carried out —for a basket, and not a box as the resolution prescribed, had been employed. Tne c lair having been appealed to for legislative pre cedents, Judge Mason, with great solemn ty ; but at the sametime an arch smile playing on his countenance, promptly referred to a decision ot Congress, in a contested election from len nes ee. At one of the precincts, a ballot-box not be ng convenient, the ballots were deposi ted in a g urd, a native production. The House of K-presen atives decided that in that case, a gourd should properly be construed as coming witnin the term “box”—and the elec tion was sustained. Under the influence of this precedent, a basket was regarded as tanta mount to a b x, and the dscussion dropped. Still many of the “outsHds” thought they had go ten into a bid box.— Richmond E tquirer. Montgomery and We-t Point Hail Hoad. —We understand that the cars passed through from this city to West Point on Monday lan, the 28th ult., thus still further closing the breach in the iron road between the cities ot Charleston, Savannah, and Montgomery. By tne Ist of July, we are informed, there will be bui forty milts left open, wiuen it is contem plated to close up entirely within the succeed ing twelve mouths. We congratulate the com pany and the city of Montgom ry upon the completion of tie We-t Po.nt roa being the first road of any importance ever con* ructed in our State. — Montgomery Gazette, Ist inst. THE CONSTITUTIQNAHST, 3ltigttota, ©eorgia. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 4 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. The Macon Regenoy It will be very interesting to the good peo ple of Georgia to know that they are to be blessed hereafter with A Regency in Georgia similar to the famous Albany liegency of New York, projected and managed many years with so much tact by the little magician of Kinderhook, and his immaculate junto. Ma con is to be the seat of government of the new regime , and they are to manage the affairs of our people, a la Van Buren, but without any of the corruption of that world-renowned co terie, the Albany Regency. How very grateful should the good easy people of Georgia be to those kind, pure and disinterested patriots of Macon, who have thus kindly volunteered to assume the trouble some business of managing their political af airs, ancPhave undertaken to distribute for them the various offices in their gift. What a world of trouble and expense it will save the people by enabling them to dispense with the perplexing operation of thinking for them selves, and to avoid the cumbrous and expen sive machinery of county meetings, and dis trict and State conventions. All that will be necessary in future will be for the common folks to send to the Regency located at Macon, that seat of political purity, and of all the pa triotic virtues, for instructions as each election is.at hand, and deposite their votes accordingly. Or perhaps The Regency will send around time ly circulars instructing their liege and loyal subjects how to vote, and who to vote for.— What an admirable simplification of the art of self-government! Some member of this new oligarchy, or’per haps an outsider who has got hold surrep titiously of the programme, has furnished 4 it to tae New York Herald in a letter, the political part of which will be found below. The nomination of Mr. Buchanan is a smart idea. His name is to be used to gull credu lous democrats with a view to get their votes next October for the Regency nominations.— L'his purpose accomplished, Mr. Buchanan will be laid aside, and some model Union Compromise Whig, Fillmore probably, taken up for the Presidency. It is a scheme to car ry the State over to the support of a Whig candidate next year. Mr. Buchanan’s name is used as a decoy duck to entice Democrats. He has openly repudiated this National Union Party scheme, and refuses to detach him self lrom the Nationil Democratic Party. The latter, he asserts, is the true Union Party . — Moreover, he is well known to have been in favor of the division of California by the line of 36 deg. 30 min. between the North and the South. This was a platform of compromise and settlement, that the Hon. A. H. Stephens, one of the Regency leaders, declared in a pub lic speech last November in Augusta was “the meanest and most contemptible platform ” of all that had been proposed for the South. (The italics are his very words.) Maoon, Georgia, April 11, 1851. The Macon politicians exercise the same weight and influence in the Empire State of the South, as the Albany regency did in your noble State, but without any of the corrup tion of that world renowned voterie. It is here that the Union movement first commenced ;it was in Macon that the har dest battie was fought—and it was here the fire-eater 3 received their death-blow. Mr. Howell Cobb will be the candidate of the Union party for Governor, and the con vention which nominates him will also nom inate Mr. Buchanan .for the Presidency. A Southern whig, probably Jones, of Tennessee, will be placed upon the ticket with Mr. B. Georgia will not go into a national conven tion,but act as a “guerrilla” injthe next Presi dential campaign. Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, will join in the movement, and by this means, if the election should be carried into the House, we shall control about forty votes for Mr. Buchanan, which he could not otherwise receive. Old patty lines, in this State, are wiped out, and the old issues can not bo revived. The Union party, with a ma ority of twenty thousand votes in the State, are opposed to a general system of internal improvement. They are satisfied with the tariff of 1846; but, for harmony’s sake, would acquiesce in some slight modifications. They are opposed to a bank, and to the annexation of Canada or Cuba. Upon this platform we shall rally, and, my word for it, the balance of power will be in our hands, and w f e shall exercise a controlling influence in the election. Hon. A. H. Chappell, fomerly a member of Congress from this State, will be returned from this district (the third,) in the stead of Mr. Owen, appointed Consul to Havana. The first district will probably be represented by Mr. Bartow, of Savannah. In the second, Gen. Eli Warren, of Houston, I think will be elected. From the fourth, Hon. Charles Mur phy, of Dekalb, is sooked of as a candidate. In Hackett's disiric Mr. Chastain, of Gilmer county, will be the Union candidate, and will be elected. Mr. Cobb's district will be repre sented by Mr. James Jackson, of Walton, or Mr W. H. Hull, of Athens, the first a cousin of Mr. Cobb, and the latter his bosom friend and law partner. Mr. Toombs will go back, and is the only one of the old members who wid be a candidate. f ln Stephens' district, a contest is under stood to be going on between Mr. Reese, of Morgan, and Col. A. H. Kenan, of Baldwin— I think the latter will prevail. Our whole delegation will be thoroughgoing Union Com promise men. It is l un«lerßtood among the knowing ones, that Mr. Stephens is holding back for Mr. Berrien's seat in the Senate of the United States; and if so, he stand j a fair chance of ousting tue old fox. Judge Berrien is truly an unfortunate politician, for after waiting even longer than Stephens oid last summer to see wh ch was the strong party, he missed the figure and lell on the wrong side of the fence, and is now doubted by the Fire E iters and ( penly disclaimed by the Union men. As things pr gress and come to hand, I will post up, it desira de, under the signature of Union. The Oratorio. A large audience of the moat respectable and influential members of our community, old and young, attended the Oratorio at the Baptist Church, on Friday evening. It was gratifying to see the character of (he patron age extended to this pleasing entertainment. The fine taste and effective style which marked it, were quite worthy the place, the occasion, and the motives which prompted it. The music was delightful, and we are sure none came away disappointed, unless it was agree ably cO. The performance quite surpassed the expectations of many present. Where all was so well done—-where there was so much of musical talent, and of rich vocal gifts among the amateurs—it would be invidious, and perhaps indelicate, to make distinctions. But we cannot forbear specially complimenting Mr. Shrival upon the triumph ant success of his labors in bringing out so many difficult pieces in Sacred Music, in so happy a style. His two Solos, " Jephtha’s Vow” and “ Lord remember David,” were par ticularly admired. The latter drew an en thusiastic encore. The wish is very generally expressed that, this fine Oratorio should be repeated. We hope this gratification will be extended to our citizens at an early day. F. W. Bowdon. —The Washington Union of the 30th ult., says: “ We are gratified {to learn that this gentleman, who has been so long confined to his bed in this city by a seri* ours illness, is once more able to leave his room. He will doubtless be in a condition in a short time to return to his constituents in Alabama, who will be glad to see him. Hon. Terry H. Cahal, Chancellor for Mid dle Tennessee, died at his residence near Nashville, in that Stete, on the night of the 15th. He died in the early noon oflife and prom ise of much usefulness. Appropriate tributes to the occasion have been rendered by the bench and the bar of Tennessee. [communicated.] Mr. Editor:— l was much pleased with the article which appeared in your paper yester day morning, extracted from the Savannah Georgian, commenting on the proclamaion of President Fillmore, relative to the projected CtHban expedition. I certainly do think, win the writer, that this proclamation very far ex ceeds the necessity of the case, and contains a vast deal of unnecessary condemnation of a bind of men, engaged, as they are, in the task of conferring freedom on their oppressed fedow-beings. Sir, I know not what squeam ishness has come over our administration, of late, but, certainly it does seem to me as if there had been a go d deal of wheedling going on at Washington between the Govern ment and our well-beloved Senor Calderon De Li Barca, the Spanish Minister, at whose instigation, and upon whose information, the recent measures have been taken. I have yet to learn, Mr. Editor, that it is a sin or a crime to take up arms, or even to fit out an expedi tion, with the laudable design of assisting the oppressed and enslaved to obtain constitu - tional freedom, even should the process re • quire the destruction of the oppressor, or his banishment from the soil. We proclaim our selves to be a nation of freemen, to be the bold, uncompromising friends of liberty in its widest sense —we offer our country, our soil, as a refuge to the fugitives from the iron des potism of federal tyranny; but, at the same time that we make these professions, and hold out these offers, we are engaged in assisting the despot to hold its reins—to enable tyranny, of the most abhorrent form, to maintain its hold upon its victims, and to bind them still faster in the festering shackles with which they are laden. Cast we our eyes upon the beautiful Cuba, the Queen of the Antilles, and what do we see r A people happy, contented, en joying their property, under a grateful sense of the security afforded to them by a paternal Government, and advancing in civilization and improvement ? No, Sir, no! On the contrary, we behold a people, industrious, and capable of appreciating the blessings of con stitutional freedom, ground down to the dust by the most arbitrary enactments, robbed of their property under the specious guise of legal contributions, as well as by forced taxes —holding their possessions but at the breath of a supreme vice-roy—-and denied the simplest voluntary liberty of speech or action. To those who may be sceptical on these points, I would mention a few facts which have bon imparted to me within the last week, by a gendeman, a resident of New-York, of very high standing, and of equal intelligence, who has just returned from a sojourn in the island of Cuba, during which he has had many good opportunities of ascertaining the state of the people, and of their feelings. This gentlem in states that the whole Creole popu lation of the island is ripe for a revolution, and that they are willing to nuke any sacri fice to promote it. Such is the insecurity felt with regard to property, that one gentle man, whose large sugar estates bring him in an annual income of from SIOO,OOO to $125,- 000, professed his willingness to give up ons half if he could be certain of the security of the other; and others repeatedly said that they would cheerfully surrender a large por tion of their estates in order to have the same securi y and privileges with the people of the U. States. They are constantly narrated by taxation, not fixed, but at the discretion of the Governor, on the emergency reau’ring it. And now, in the bankrupt sta e of Old Spain, Cuba is made to replenish the treasury, and pay ail demands. Last year, Cuba not only paid all the expenses of her own civil and military establishments, but remitted the sum of twenty-eight millions of dollars to Old Spain, draining her people of their life-blood, to satisfy the vampyre appetite for gold of that priest-ridden country. Every box of sugar pays from $2 to $4, excise. Every hhd. of molasses in proportion. Every ar ticle impo.ted pays most exorbitant duties. The markets are in the hands of monopolists who farm the Government revenues, so that the poor fisherman, even, has to pay a tax on his fish before he can sell them. The conse quence is, that the people haVe to pay three and four prices fer every thing which they consume. Not only foreigners have to pay some eight dollars each for permission to land on, or leave the island, but the residents, also* with them, are obliged to have a permit from the Government to enable them to proceed from one place to another, which costs one dollar and a half, and must be renewed every 15 days. Indirect contributions are levied, too, in anotner way. The Governors of the provincial cities will often send by a messen ger to all the,most prominent planters within his district, a package of tickets, say twenty or thirty to each, for a bull-fight, a lottery, or some such thing, politely asking a return of the money for the tickets sent, amounting to probably agmany doubloons. No bull-fight, or lottery takes place,but the planters dare not to refuse or complain, as these petty tyrants may denounce them as disloyalists, and put them to much trouble and expense. To this species of annoyance, they are often subjected in the course of a year, in addition to many others, but from which they can have no exemption or redress. They have no voice whatever, in the administration of govern ment. All is in the hands of the Governor General and Royal Council. The Creole pop ulation, as mentioned above, are ripe for rev olution, but they are obliged to maintain si lence and caution until demonstrations of success should be positively made ; otherwise they would lose their property, and most like ly their lives. Since the first expedition, arrests have been constantly going on. Per sons have been torn from their homes and familes, hurried to the Havana, and there, whether immured in the Moro, or put to death, or sent to Spain, is never known—the only thing known being, that their property has been confiscated to the Crown, and their families driven into poverty and misery. American citizens, too, have been, in many instances, maltreated, but no redress could be obtained,one of our consuls stating that all his representations at Washington had been dis regarded—thus bringing our nation into con tempt, and lowering our dignity abroad. So far has this been the case, that a gentleman, na turalized in this country, about to visit Cuba applied to one of the cabinet at Washington for advice as to what papers ho should take for his protection, when, altho’ a citizen of our coun try, he was adviae i to take British passports. This example has been followed by others,who allege that they have found no protection in Havana under American passports. And this is the Government whish issues the recent proclamation ! It is the generally expressed opinion in Cuba, by both foreign residents and natives, that, had Loptz maintained himself at Carde nas for twenty-four hours longer, he would have beeu successful. Or, that it he could have brought his men into collision with the Spanish troops, the same result would have occurred. The reason given for this is, that so strong was the disaffection of the Spanish troops, they would have immediately joined Lopez, who was idolized by them, for his great liberality to them in former times ; that all the troops having been withdrawn from Havana, the Capital must have fallen, and with it the island, as the Creoles would then have joined the invaders. To show that the Government distrusted the troops then employed, they have exchanged them for others, who have never known Lopez, and who, they imagine, would be deaf to his ad vances. It is generally thought in Cuba, that Alvarez, Governor of Matanzas, saved the island, by delaying purposely on his march to Cardenas. His delay was attribu ted to cowardice, and he was tried by court martial, but he asserted, on his defence, that had he carried his troops on to Cardenas before Lopez had evacuated it, they would have left him in a body, and the island would have fallen. He has since fallen in a duel, provoked by the stigma thrown on him on this occasion. Opinions differ as to the probability of suc cess on another attempt. The island is better prepared for defence, but it is conceded by all, that five thousand men, well led, could easily reduce the island, by landing on tho South side. Not less than three thousand men are mentioned by the most sanguine, which shows that the prospects of success are not so good as on the former occasion. The Spanish troops are represented as being a mos t miserable set of creatures, so deficient in ma teriel and physique, that ten well armed ro bust Kentuckians, or Georgians, would put a hundred of them/wrs de combat. Large sums of money have been raised in the island, and more was ready to a very large amount —my informant stating that $2,000,000 would be ra\sed for the purpose. Even the foreign re sidents, English and others, though not com mitting themseives openly, signified their ac quescence in the necessity for a change of things. The gentleman who has furnish ed this information, went to Cuba with a prejudice against the expeditionists, or “ Filibusteros ” as they are termed, and with his sympathies excited in behalf of Spain, thinking that the former expedition was got ten up against the wishes of the Cubans. But he now avows his error, and, from the excel lent opportunities afforded to him of learning the true State of affairs, has come to the con clusion that never were the Cubans more eager, than at present, for the American rule. Tne Creoles speak their minds freely to Ame ricans, though they can not trust each other f so many spies are amongst them. Now, sir, it is to such men tnat many of our noblest spirits would carry the same blessing which we enjoy, and are they to be stignatized for so doing, in the language of the proclama tion of the President ? It is all mealy mouth edness to talk about other nations' interfer ence. Great Britain—l suppose, is meant — Great Britain has enough do to clear her own skirts, before she can presume to dictate, or call hard names in this matcer. It ill becomes the very nation which alloweu Miranda to fit out hia expedition of men, horses and muni tions cf war in her ports for revolutionary pro jects in South America about twenty-five years ago,—which has acquired more territory in India than this country possesses, by firs instigating rebellion, and then, on pretense of quashing it, taking possession of it—which waged a most destructive war upon the poor Chinese for endeavoring to carry out their own laws, for preventing Englisatnen from break ing them, on a subject which mus, be a dire one to the pseudo-philanthropists— opium. I say, that it ill becomes such a nation to bandy hard words on the present occasion. The color of the rose is easily seen. “It will not do far Brother Jonathan to have the Key of the Gulf of Mexico and the Carribean sea” —say the Imperial London dictators. Great Britain has her designs upon Central and South A erica, and she is unwilling that we should ob tain such a position as would inevitably thwart all her movements in this direction. — It is said too, that she has a pecuniary lien upon Cuba, for money advanced to Spain, but lam certain that no one will hare the pre sumption to maintain the rights of Spain to mortgage the child for the parents misdeeds, especially when that child has been bar sole prop and treasury for so many years. As far as Great Britain is concerneJ then, there is no cause for attributing anything more than a selfish interest to her position in this mat ter, for, I verily believe, that had it not been fir this country, the British flag would now be waving over the battlements of the Moro, no matter by what means, and “ our ally” be left to chew the bitter morsel as best she might. As for France, and other countries, I deem that they have neither lot nor part in the matter. If Cuba is to change sovereignty, it must be to come under the Stars and Stripes, for it is my candid opinion that she would And it impossible to mainfain a separate and independent condition. The qnestion then arises, how is this to be effected ? Not by open war for the express purpose I grant, as that is contrary to our recognized principles of democratic government. By purchase ? No, r'er Spain would not consent to part w.th it in that way, if even we could afford to pay for it; But, sir, we do not want a good—a just —a righteous mode of acquiring Cuba—l say, acquiring Cuba, for I do not disguise my opin ion, that any movement for the liberation of Cuba mu it result in her'annexation to this country. We have it—ws have a peo ple groaning under their oppressor’s yoke— pining and suffering for the freedom which we enjoy—anxious to take that position in the world which the natural resources of their beautiful Island entitles them to —imploring us, as strongly as the Captive bird in its gil ded cage can, to come over to their help—to make them men and freemen. And shall we not doit ? Shall we, whose forefathers bled and suffered for freedom, who invoked and obtain ed the assistance of a great nation in acquir ing that freedom who have deltout the most heart-stirring, soul-exciting strains of encour agement to the patriots of Hungary, and the oppressed of Ireland, shall wa, I ask, now when an opportunity is afforded for carrying out our loud professions into practice, meanly hold back, under the flimsy pretext that such an expedition as the one projected “ must be regarded as an adventure for plunder and rob bery, which must meet the condemnation of the civilized world” and “ as a violation of the laws of nations?” If, sir, a Jittle*of the spirit and, I was going to say venom, which charac terizes these words, and others in this procla mation, for the maintainance of foreign rights and privileges, had been infused mto those respecting the extradition of fugitive slaves, and the violation of our own national compact, we of the South, might place a little more value upon the animus which dictates it, and respect it accordingly. Our own case is a much stronger one than the “ expedition” presents for the thunders of President Fill more. We are robbed of our property, or, at least it is denied to us on claiming it—cru sades and expeditions are gotten up against us, and our institutions—our citizens are har assed and wearied out by quibbles and in tri caries of State laws against Federal laws— and all this upon our own soil —under the same flag, and yet what do we have in redress ? A milk and water proclama ion—a few cham pagne and turtle speeches—but no actio n—no anathem similar to that contained in the “Cuba” proclamation—no detailing themmarin a for guards—no chartering of steamboats to car ry out the law —all tinder and no fire. “No would be showing to our Northern brethren that we were in earnest, which they do not believe now. We oannot treat the Southern States as “ a friendly power,” they are a part of us, and in the minority—but Cuba is the colony of pain, a friendly power, and if we do not make some fuss, why we may get into trouble Spain may turn “ unfriendly” and Great Britain may help her (not much fear of that, as she has enough to do), and we may get some hard knocks.” I deny, sir, that this expedition is one for robbery and plunder—the last was so stigma tized, but it belied the stigma , for, though the men had many opportunities for plunder, the Spaniards themselves testify that they be haved themselves well, —and paid for every thing obtained. AH soldiers are not saints any more than all politicians honest men, and any expedition must embrace many de perate characters. But to brand all, as was done by a paper of this city in its comments on the Proclamation, as “a band of desperadoes is a wanton insult, knowing as that paper must, that many of the most distinguished men of our country are in favor of the movement. I atn glad, sir, that this did not emanate from a Democratic journal, as I should hold it as much a renegade to its partv, as I deem the journal I have alluded to, to the South. lam also pleased, sir, to find that the Democratic press of our country, with very few excep tions, I know of none myself, if they do not encourage the expedition, do not condemn and vility it. Many speak encouregingly, and, taking this as the true index of popular opinion, I rejoice, for whenever the Democ racy of this country assumes a position, it never gives it up, but sooner or later, carries its point. Federalism smacks too much of what the expedition wish to terminate —oli- garchy. Again, the whole proceeding of the admin-. .