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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
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JAMES GARDNER, JR
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( From the N . O. Picayune , Ist inst.)
From Texas*
By the arrival yes'erday of the U. S. Mail
ateam-ahip Louisiana, Capt. Lawless, we have
Galveston dates to tne 28th ult. and Browns
ville dates to the 24th uit.
The anniversary of the battle of San Jacinto
was celebrated at R chmond, on the Brazos,
by a grand ball and Bupper, at which 300 per
sona were present.
A atartling report had reached Brownsville
that ft Roma, on the Rio Grand, some per
sons, being displeased with certain revenue
restrictions in regard to carrying hides to the
Mexican side, mounted a swivel gun on the
Texan bank of the river, and fired it at the
Mexican guard opposite, w< unding severa .
Orders were despatched to Camargo by the
Mexicans, for a reinforcement of 160 men.
Mr The San Augustine Herald says that Gen.
Houston and Gen. Ru®k had arrived in that
town, and that the former spoke of not re
turning to the Senate.
The Brazos river is still overflowing and the
rive'T rising. In many places the overflow
extend? through the bottoms for many miles.
Considerable injury to the crops is now deem
ed inevitable. Similar information ia had con
cerning the Trinity and Colorado. The heavy
4 £nd long-o mtinued rains are the cause.
In Western Texas the crops, both of corn
and cotton, are in a forward state, and there
ia every probability of an unusually large
yit Id thia year.
The* members of the Order of Odd Fellows
in Brownsville were to celebrate the thirty
second anniversary of the order on the 26th
ult. , ,
Capt. G. K. Lewis, who was lately arrested
at Manmoros by the Mexican authorities ef
fected hia escape from prison on the 16th ult
It was rumored that he was to be taken to
Victoria for trial; and as the captain has many
enemies among the Mexicans—he was, though
etill quite young, a Mier prisoner and a veter-
An Texan ranger —he concluded that it was
best Co get home as soon as possible.
" The recently quiet and orderly c ty ot San
Antonio ha? again become the scene of iaw
less acts. Among the principal desperadoes is
one George Vincent, alias “Little Red, well
w - > known on the frontiers as a desperate charac
ter,
tij the r'signation of Judge Beard, of the
JSI venth Texas Judicial District, the ci izens
of El Paso county are left without any legal
tribunal 10 adjudicate their civil rights or to
punish criminals.
On a late trip of the steamer Mentoria from
Brownsville to Brszas Santiago, a mimmotn
fish, weighing 601$ pounds, was caught with
m ordinary hook and line.
Rio Grande ci y is steadily improving, al
though business is dull, es the Mexican au
thomies, on the opposite bmk of the river,
•re most rigidly etuorcing their system of du
ties.
Two runaway slaves were caught a tew days
•ince in the Biaz s bottom. They were en
sconced on a log, completely surrounds! by
water, and couid not get to -he high land.
They had not tasted tood for four days.
An assassination was committed in Cren
ham. Washington county, on the night of the
19'h mat. A Mr. Neal Bowen, whilst in a
grocery with two other gentlemen, was shot
down with a rifle by some unknown hand,
end died the next morning. Tne individual
who perpetrated this murderous dee l shot
him through the window ot the grocery, and
was seen to mount his hon»e and rule off. Sus
picion rests on certain individuals, on whom,
should the least circumstantial ev dence tail,
•n excitement wili be created that will not be
JL, stayed until blood has ireely flown.
Ljjl ( Correspondence of the Morn ng News')
* • New York, April 29, 1851.
w Th* seizure of ttif* steamer Cleopatra, and
the arr^* c of the leaders m the
marauding expedition against Cuba, have, no
doubt, effectually Irustrated their intentions,
at least for the present. The old steamer has
become an object of great curiosity, and cer
tainly she has an ocid look, lying in the mi ist
of her peacetui neighbors* with armed senti
/nels, pacing the gangway. That she was en
(gaged »«> the business is beyond all question,
ior else why were 26 kegs of gun powder se
ftretly stowed away; and other stores, not or
dinarily required lor vessels employed on our
quiet waters. The persons arrested are well
known here, and tome of them were engaged
in th last affair of the same kind. Others of
the partv took the alarm on Baturdiy after
noon, and started suddenly Southward, I hear.
Th> y are all on bail now, and the evidence
will ba placed before the next Grand Jury of
the U. States Court. They treat the matter
▼ery lightly, and apparently glory in being
prosecuted in such a cause. It is very eviden.
that they rely upon the insufficiency of the
evidence, and the impunity with which Lo
pes, and his follows violated our laws of neu
trality before. lam told, however, that the
proof against these parties is very strong, and
that there is no douot of i.heir being indicated.
If oonvicted no doubt they will leel the full
seventy of the law. [Charlemac.
New Orleans and Jacks ;N Railroad. —
The committee, appointed by the late Con
vention, *o draw up au agreement for the char
ter and organization ot a company for this en
terp:ise, hive reported that, after Ik 1 most
earnest efforts, they have been utterly unable
devise any means for forming an organiza
f tion, under the present legislation of the S.ate,
that will afford the slightest prospect of sue-
I eass. The laws of Louisiana, as they now
stand, interpose so many impediments to the
formation ot such a corporation, that they
amount to a prohibition. The committee ad
viae that a charter be framed, and subscrip
tions obtained thereto, to be valied when sanc
tioned by the Legislature, which is to be memo
ir Jr riaHsed for a change of the laws.— Mob tie 21#-
J. peter, 2d met.
m—i ■——
Decatur and Barron. —The Richmond’
Whig, explaining a previous article in relation
to the late Commodore Barron, makes known
the following particular* of what took place
between that officer and the lamented Deca
tur, after the unfortunate duel between them:
“It might have been inferred, from what
we said in reference to the duel between De
catur and himself, that the d fficulty origi
nated from a charge of cowardice made by
the former upon his conduct on that occasion
1 his was not so. Shortly a ter the verdict of
> the court, which suspended him for five years,
Lummodore Barron went abroad, and did not
return to this country until some time after
the war 1812. It was in refetenceto this that
Decatur used those disparsg ng rem rks which
led to the unfortunate duel between them.—
After the exchange of shots, and when both
were wounded—mortally as was then sup
posed—they were brought together by their
friend*, and mu ual explanations took place.
Decatur asked him why he did not return
from C penhagen when the war broke out,
and take part in the struggle in which his
country was engaged. Commodore Barron
replied tha’ he was really so poor that he had
not the means to pay his passage home. The
gallant and generous Decatur then said, Why
did you not tell me of thi» before?—no differ
ence couid then have occurred between u*.
It is melancholy to reflect that a misapprehen
sion of such a character should have < aused
the loss to his country of one of her noblest
defenders."
Weather and Cr* rs.— Louisiana. —The
Pointe Coupee Echo says that the rain in the
latter part of last week was of great service to
the crops in that parish. The Alexandria
(Rapides) Republican of tho 26th ult. says :
We nave experience! some right cold
weather lately, which must, we fear, materially
injure the crops. Rain has b ß en very much
needed by both sugar and cotton planters; bu"
the cotd rains we have had were not the sort
wanted, as they do much more injury than
benefit to your cotton. The sugar crop must
be short under any circumstances, as a great
deal of plant cane was planted in overflowed
lands, and has been killed. The stubble cane
has not come up well, as many planters have
not, until lately, had rain to bring it up.
Ohio. —The State Journal says the wheat
crop through the northwestern part of the
State promises well, the season is unusually
ferward, and nothing but severe drought can
prevent favorable harvests.
Illinois.— The Springfield Register learns
that the winter wheat throughout the central
part of Illinois is very promising. But very
little has been winter killed, and the crop
comes forward, offering a prospect of a very
abundant harvest.
Instinct op thb Turtle,— It hss been ob
served that turtles cross the ocean from the
Bay of Honduras to the Cayman Isles, near
Jamaica, a distance of 460 miles, with an ac
curacy superior to the chart and compass of
human skill; for i s affirmed that vessels which
have lost their latitude in hazy weather, have
steered entirely by the nose of the turtles in
swimming. The object of their voyage, as in
the case of the migration of birds, is for the
purpose of laying eggs on a spot peculiarly
favorable.— Bishop Stanley on Bfrds,
In the U. States there are upwards of a
hundred thousand females, who do little else
than read novels and thump on the piano, and
who know comparatively nothing about do
mestic duties.
An old edition ot Morse’s Geography says
—“Albany has four hundred dwelling houses,
with two thousand tour hundred inhabitants -
all standing with their gable ends to the
street."
Contribution op Chemistry to the Heal
ing Art. — Tne sac that Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral
is a chemical discovery, may explain why the
distinguished Professors of that Science, (Sil
•i nan, Hitchcock, Webster, and Cleveland,)
have given their certificates in its favor. None
could better judge 01 its meriti than these
eminent men, and their names would be a
suffic ent guarantee of its value, if experience
had not already proven to the public that it is
one ot the most effectual remedies for affec
tions of he throat and lungs ever before them.
Scientific Review.
Singular Casualty — A little girl, aged
twelve years, daugnter ol Mr. H. John, ot
Muscatine, lowa, died in that city about two
we*'ks ago, from the effects ot jumping the
rope in the usual way two hundred and six
teen times without ce-sation.
The California legislature has passed Judge
H ydenfeldt's bill in relation to common
schools, and it is very popu ar in the oouatry.
We hope to seethe Judge along this way pre
sently to take his seat in the U S. Senate.
Very late from the Bahama Islands.—
The propeller Freeman Kawdon, Capt. Brown
arrived here on Saturday morning last, in
seventy nine hours from Nassau, N P. The
Freeman Riwdon is bound to New York, and
put in here for a supply of coal. She is des
tined for the use of the “Maryland Mining
Company."
We are indebted to the kindess of our iriend
Capt. B. for late Nassau papers, but as usual
these colonies present few oojects of interest
under the present paralyzed condition of
things.
We notice that the Takings of salt have
turned out well in the Bahamas, and that (a
thing likely to happen und r *uch circum
st-nces) the crops in some places were almost
ruined for the want ot rain. This is paticular
ly the case in the islands of Exams and El
euthera. At Inagua the salt product was
immense.
The American barque Brenda,of Gloucester,
Mass.,Pousland master,from Boston bound for
JUew-Or ens with a cargo of ice and hay, was
totally lost at the Pickett Rock®, near Gun
Cay, on the night of the Isth ult.— Saaannah
Republican , sth inst.
The U. S. revenue cutter Taney, arrived
here on S tuaday, form New York, in 6 days.
The following are a list of her officers: Thomas
C. Rudolph, Captain; Francis Martin, Ist
Lieut-, Wmfied Scott Bell, 2nd Lieut,; J. H.
Kellog; 3rd Lieut.; H. Donnal.y, Boatswain;
H. McDurald, Carpen’er; James Robinson,
Gunner. —It is uncertain for what purpos*
she is sent to th-s port, but we presume it has
something to do with the Cuban excitement.
She left here yesterday, supposed to be bound
South. — Jb.
Cincinnati Candles. —The editor of the
Boston Post is endeavoring to throw some
light upon Cincinnati candles. Hear him:
The candle manufacture in Cincinnati
amounts to $2,500,000 a year, and the city
council have pissed an ordinance to prevent
the makers from passing off 13, 14 and 15
ounces for the pound, as they have heretofore
done. They say they were compelled to give
light weight in order to compete with the
eastern manfacturerl In fact the candle makers
of Cincinnoti had adopted a protective tariff
of their own. by which they cheated tha con
sumer and enriched themselves.
{Telegraphedfor the Charleston Courier .)
May 5, 6 26 P. M,
The Market. — Tne demand for Cotton is
brisk at the advance of last week of a quarter
to three eights of a cent. One hundred and
eighty nine bale* sold at • to 19 ssnts,
THE CONSTITUTIOmiSr.
2t«gnota, Georgia.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 7*
EP’Our Letter Shaet Prices Current wd
be ready or delivery this morning, at 9 o’-
clock. Orders will be supplied if left early a
the office.
A Sectional Party*
It is due to consistency, that me Constitu
tional Union Party of Georgia, should ceas*
their invectives against their opponents, tht
Democratic Southern Right 3 Party, as
a sectional party.
What is this Constitutional Union party,
by tbeir own showing, their own declarations
and avowed purposes, but a sectional party:
It disclaims all association with the Nation*
Whig party and the National Democrats
party. It proteases to aim to get up a part;
like itself in Alabama and Mississippi, which
it succ issful in the three States, is to run ai
independent candidate for President, who.«<
capital stock in trade can be, at best, but *
handful of votes in the electoral colieg .
This is predicated on the idea, prevale' t
in those States, that neither the Nation*]
Whig party, nor the National Union party, it
sound enough to be trusted on the slaverj
question. Yet, the Whigs, constituting, &>
they do, the vast majority of this Constitu
tional Union party in Georgia, denounce th
Southern Right* men as factionists and dit
organiiers—as men seeking a dissolution o
the Union, by creating sectional parties, an«
thus alienating sections —for taking the sarm
position. W ashington's inj unctions and vi am -
ings against sectional parties, are freely quo
ted and pathetically commented on, in re
buke to Southern Rights men, by thesi
very " Unionists at all hazards, and to th,
last extremity.” Yet, they too, are organiz
ingon an avowedly seotional basis.
If they are sincere in their intention o;
keeping up their separate sectional organize
tion, they should cease to rail against the De
mocratic Southern Rights Party, for doin*
the same thing under the same oonvictions o
the necessity ©f it.
But the fact is, there is no sincerity in the
movement. The Constitutional Union part)
is to be tacked on to the National Whigs. It
is organized in Southern States, where the
Democrats are in a decided majority, and, i)
successful, will earry those States for a Whig
candidate for the Presidency. If, however,
they honestly intend to support Mr. Buchan
an, whom the Southern Whigs used to abuse
so roundly, and whose political principles
they denounced so bitterly, it is a great tri
umph of Democracy over Whiggery. Had
the Southern Whigs come to the support ol
Mr. Buchanan a little sooner, and held up the
hands of Northern Democrats, who, like him,
were battling for the rights of the South
against the hosts of Abolition Whigs aod
Free-Soilers at the North, California might,
this day, have been divided by the line of 36
30 —the institutions of the South been plant*
, ed on the shores of the Pacific, and the calam
ity of being hemmed in forever by a cordon
of free-soil States which has been entailed
on her by the Compromise measures, would
have been averted.
But this new-born affection of the Georgia
Whigs for Mr. Buchauan, is but a ruse. It is
to enure to the benefit of some model North
ern Union Wnig in the canvass for the Presi
dency.
Should the Democratic Southern Rights
Party take the Whigs at their word, and
agree to support Mr. Buchanan, the Whig*
will probably drop him like a hot potatoe.
If they hang on to him in good faith, i; will
be a glorious triumph to the Democratic
party of the South, and an annihilation oi
Whig principles among us.
Medical Convention.
This Convention was to asatmb e in Charles
ton on Tuesday. A number of Delegates had
arrived, and many more were expected by
the steamers Southerner and We
will publish the proceedings as they come to
hand.
The Cause of Cuba-
We have another communication from
*• Ssrutator which we will publish in a day
or two. His article on the subject of Cuba,
her wrongs and the prospects of her libera
tion, published by us on Sunday, has excited
much attention among our citizens, among
whom the oppressed people of that beautiful
Island have many warm friends and sympa
thisers.
We fervently hope the day is not distant
when the flag of freedom will be unfurled in
Cuba, and wave in triumph over Moro Castle,
and over every stronghold of despotism now
occupied by its armed myrmadons in the fair
Queen of the Antilles.
E3T We are requested to call attention to
the sale in Hamburg, this day, by Messrs
Hutchinson & Thomas, and A. Lafitte, of the
stock of Groceries and store Fixtures of Mr.
Trent.
Wasibiugton Hall—Atlanta*
We would cali attention of Travellers to this
public house, kept at Atlanta by Mr. James
Lloyd, under the superintendence of Mr. Geo.
R. Frazer, formerly of this city. We have had
the pleasure of stopping at this house several
times, and always found a well soread table,
an attentive landlord and good waiters. It is
convenient to the Rail Road, and passengers
have ample time to partake of breakfast and
dinner.
Lotlnspbotobs.— Maj. Isham Thompson,
for the first and second wards, and Mr. Daniel
Bush, for the third and fourth wards, were
appointed Lot Inspectors by the City Council
on Saturday last.
Turnixo th Ta»l*.— A young married ,
lady of Philadelphia, only eighteen year* of
age, haa been bound over on the charge of (
•educing a young manl The father of the i
latter brought the auit. i
In a late list of aalea at auction we notioe a '
"mahogany child’s chair.” The father of the 1
child, doubtless, belonged to tho Wood family. <
AUGUSTA WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT MAY 7. 1851.
AiLTIUL.ES. -Par.) Wholesale. Duty
9A G OINO —Gu nny, (ct 15 ~ ~
Kentucky 00 0 00 P r * ct *
SALE ROPE Jute., fc 8 0 9 a _ ,
Kentucky. 80 8£ -25pr.ct
HACON— Hams 11 0 12^
Sides 10 @ 10j > on
Shoulder *• 80 8* >2opr.ct.
I UTTER— Goshen,prime fe 2J 025 *
Country 12£0 20 20pr. ct.
H EES WAX 19 0
JANDLES— Spermacetti. .... 40 045
Georgia made .... 15 0 18* -opr. ct.
Northern “
'HEESE —Northern 90 9£ >
.JOFFEE— Cuba li|® l’J P r * u
Rio 11J® 12 j
Java 14 015 )-fre«.
Lagyura... 0
f Shirtings, brown, 3-4. yd. 6 0 J
„ “ 7-8 7 0
“ yd. wide .... 80 9
; Sheetings, brown, 5-4 12 015
bleached,s-4 .... 13 018
3 | Checks 11 0 16
1 I (led Tick 10 0 18
a Osnaourgs Boz 10 0 11
l Yarn (assorted).• ib 19 020
?ISH —Mackerel, No. 1... bbl.
Do. No. 2 11 0 114 £2opr <*•
Do. No. 3 8 0 84 >
0 UH—Canal,... 640 8 )
Augu ta Canal 6 0 7. l s /20pr. ct.
Georgia, good.. SJO 74 J
LEATHERS, live geese.. ib 33 035 20 pr> ct>
TRAIN— Corn, loose bus. 85 090 )
Do. sack r.... 0
fUNPOWOER — Steg 505 25 30 pr> ct
(IDES —Dry 8 0 9
Dry,salted ♦*• ®*° 20pr.ct
rnny Pig .100. (w )
Swedes, assorted, ten 04| 30 pr. ct.
Hoop 100. 5 0 6 30 pr. ct
Sheet & 104® 11 120 pr ct.
Nail Rods •••• 5 0 6 )
LEAD— Pig and Bar 100. 10 011
White Lead 740 9 )
r .TME— bbl ® > 20 pr. ct.
rjJRT) • ft 11 012 '
40LASSES —Cuba gal.. 24 025
N. Orleans .... 36 037 i3O nr '•t*
VAILS —Cut, 4d to 20d....... 3 750 4 00j j pr * cr
“ EXPORTS OF COTTON TO FOREIGN AND COASTWISE PORTS. COMMENCING IST SEPTEMBER
SAVANNAH CHARLESTON. ~ MOBILE: N. UitLEANsT~~ NEVV YURIC OTHER PORTS~ TOTAL ~
whither EXPORTED. 1851 ., 13 o .j 185_L. 1850. 1851.11850- 185 L 1850- 1851. 1850 185l7! 1850 1851.(1850.
dverpool ..7 i *lo6', 82,937 141,990 104,0 9 150,394. 96,799: 355,803 240,742 > 118,690 90,514 3T,826j 25,415 77.777717777777.
llasgow and Greenock 7,595 8,814 10,562 j 10,148 10,857 2,545 3,074
lork and a Market j ■ 7,385 j 8,39- : j _ 1,695; 3,986 185 j ; j
Total to Great Britain 113,795: 91,751 j 155,114! 115,088 160,608 107,361 367,846 255,585 121,235 93,773 31,826 25,415 950,424 688,873
lavre ' 11,236)~1 MOO 21,719 25,748 40,914 ~ 37,739 H 33555 "" 82,245 59,004 “T1',489 ! MOSTT7T.T7 ,7.....
Total to France 11,826 11,400 ; 23,028 26,325 4 LB]6 37,739 120,€32; 86,872 59,827 56,503 , 6,405 ...7TT7. 263,534 "278^9
Amsterdam 77777777 77777 814 *“2,068 ; 777777 77777 “mT; 572 M 45
Rotterdam * .| j 3,001 1,481 .*
Antwerp 2,641 4,130, 1,203; 8,383 7,739 8,747 4,389
ambur g ! ! I 142 5,150 2,131
Iremen j 1 10, 242 916 5,277 610
Barcelona. I 12,572| 5,767 ........ 2 016 ji *
lavana, &c | 1 j 25,673 35,756 154 ji
renoa, Triesta, &c 4>6 78 1,848 16,182 8,673 3,630) 2,293 35,27*1 24,678: 4.705 107
rhent, &c i : 1,351 1 j 442 357 1
Other Ports | 6>496 2 ,746: 2,314 250| 10,452 7,570 7,187 3,800 j 8,764 7,561;
Total to other Foreign Ports.... 4,678, ~ 1,848 ~26j33 ~17/)17 i 21,070 8,315 “91,977 79,389 36,008 15,455 | 8,764 j ~188'63Q ~120,I8&
J ork ” " 96,942 101,248 82,584 “80)949 21,033 27~416' "“36)409 65,075; 1........ “l j ~22,846 “20)064 7.
Providence 1>633 0,3*4 j 2,451 3)214 5,918 10,755 I '! 3,911, 8)770 ”
P a 9,160 10,6611 8,201 13,125 1,806 1,999 12,439 9,888 || 59! 1,447 i *
2 > 53S 1,711 | 6,112 7,960 969 3,190 2,080 3,155 : 1,277 2,686 ’
Jtner Ports 2 865 9,924 ! 152; 22,008 9,349 1 230 ij 7,045 6,305
Total Coastwise ' 132,0.33 ~150,895 T 13,688 125,315 ~70,188 77,341 ~14,329 177,375 j 7777 ~ ' 49,884) ~60,981 480,122 591,887
Grand Total 862,
Southern Rights Meeting 1 ■
Pursuant to public notice, a meeting of the
Southern Rights Party, took place at the City
Hall, at 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon.
On motion of Jas. Gardner, Jr., Esq., the
meeting was organized by a cali upon the
Hon. Wm. Schley to take the Chair, and S.
H. Oliver requested to act as Secretary.
The following resolutions were offered by
John Phinizy, Jr., Fsq.:
Resolved, That the Chairman appoint a
Committee of Four, to report to this meeting,
tour suitable persons to represent the South
ern Rights Party of Richmond County, in
the approaching Gubernatorial Convention, to
be held in Miiledgeville, on the 28ch inst.
Resolved, That said Committee report the
names of four suitable persons, to represent
said party in the Congressional Convention.
Resolved, That we recommend Augusta as
the place for the meeting of the Congression
al Convention, and the time the second Satur
day (12th) in July next; and that the several
counties composing the Eighth Congressional
District be requested to send Delegates to
sai 1 Convention.
Resolved, That the several delegations have
power to fill all vacancies that may occur in
tneir respective delegations.
The resolutions having been read and put
before the meeting, were unanimously adopt
ed.
The Chairman named the following gentle
men to act under the first resolutions as a
Committee to nominate:
J. C. Snead, S. H. Oliver, S. M.Thompson,
H. D. Bell.
The Committee reported as Delegates to
I e Milledg-ville Convent ; on:
Turner Clanton, J. M. Smythe, Jno. Schley,
Jas. Gardner, Jr., Esqs.
And as Delegates to nominate a candidate
for the Eighth Congressional District:
Dr. A. Cunningham, Law. T. Shopp, Dr.
«Vm. E Dearing, Wm. R. McLaws, Esq.
Which nominations were accepted by the
meeting.
On motion it was
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meet
ing be published in the Constitutionalist and
Republic of this city.
The meeting then adjourned.
WM. SCHLEY, Chairman.
S. H. Oliver, Secretary.
The Cuban Expedition Abandoned, —On
Saturday (says the Savannah News of the
sth inst ) a considerable number of men sup
posed to be connected with the Cuba expedi
tion arrived in this city from the South. This
circumstance together with other indications,
has led to the belief here that the expedition,
so far as the organization on our coast is con
cerned, has been abandoned, at least for the
present. The watchfulness and active inter
fernce of our own government, together with
the system of espionage that has been institu
ted by the Spanish authorities, it would seem
has frustrated the plans of the expeditionists
and prevented a concentration and organisa
tion of th*eir forces, leaving them no alterna
tive but to disband.
We learn from Florida that the men who
wore at Jacksonville, are dispersing, and that
butjfew are in that neighborhood at present.
Where the men are who came down from the
interior of this State to join the expedition is
not known, but it is supposed that they have
returned to their homes.
There are many in this country who not
only believe that the Cubans ara an oppressed
and downtrodden pe pie, and that the Spanish
rule of the Island is one of the most odious,
tyranical and degrading systems of govern
ment that ever cursed a country, but who
alae regard the late movement as a patriotie
ARTICLES. Per. Wholesale. Duty.
OlLS —Sperm,W.Strained .... 1 50 0 free
Fall strained 1 30 0 1 40
Summer do 1 00 0 1 12
Linseed bbl. 90 0 1 00:20 pr ct.
Tanners 60 0
Lard 1 00 0 1 12
' POTATOES. bbl. 0
PIPES 62 0 1 00
PORTER doz. 2 25 0 3 50
PEPPER fc 11 0124
PIMENTO. 160
RAISINS— Malaga,, box. 2 25 0 2 75 )
Muscate, ! 0 j4O pr. ct,
RICE— Ordinary 100. 3J 0 4
Fair 4 00 0 4 50
Good and Prime 0
f Frencn Brandies gal. 150 0 2 100 Dr. ct.
LegerFreres .275 0 3
■Ji Holland Gin 125 ® 150 100 pr. ct.
Si American Gin. 38 040
5 Jamaica Ruin 1500 200 100 pr. ct.
£ N.E.Rum, hds. &. brls 36 038
23 Whiskey,Phil. & Balt 30 033
Do. New Orleans 30 033
Peach Brandy 1000 125 100 pr.et. !
Muscovado fc 6AO 8
PR.& St Croix .... 70 84
Havana, white @ j
New Orleans ... .... 70 7| >3O pr. ct.
Clarified Brown ....
White .... 90 94
Lump 10 011 )
SALT— Liverpool sack 1 05 0 1 10 1 *0 pr. ct.
Loose bus. 0 40
SOAP —American, yellow fc 5 OW> 30 pr. ct.
SflOT —All sizes 1 62 0 1 7520 pr. ct.
S EGAR S—Spanish....... M 20 000 30 00 40 pr. ct
TALLO W— American 90 10 10 pr ct.
TOBACCO —Georgia fc 0 )
Cavendish 25 050 v *>o pr ct
TWlNE —Bagging 20 025 )
Seine 30 050 ( «>u pr. et.
TEAS— Pouchong 50 075 "i
Gunp der & Imp 75 0 J 00 1
Hyson 70 080 f fre®.
Young Hyson 70 075 J
WlNES —Madeira gal. 2 00 0 2 25 30 pr. ct.
Claret, Mars’lles caskl 25 060 40 pr. ct.
Do. Bordeaux dozJ3 00 0 3 50 40 pr. ct.
Champagne |9 00 015 00 40 pr. ct.
Malaga. I 50 062 40 pr. ct.
find juatifiaale effort on tae part of the people
of Cuba, by the only means in their power to
effect their emancipation. To such the failure
of the expedition, if it has failed will prore a
mortifying disappointment.
Thb Cotton Crop of 1851.—The Columbus
Times of the 3d instant, says : “ If Jack Frost
has been as bnsy in other neighborhoods as he
has been in this, we think the avenues of com
merce in other markets will exhibit as it does
here, a horrible elongation in the physiogno
my of planters, and a corresponding foreshor
tening in the countenances of the cotton hold
ers of the 2d May, 1851. We are infored up
on good authority, that the effects of the frost
on the 2d inst., has been very, injurious to
the growing crop; and judging from the varia
bleness and backwardness of the season, as
we have personally experienced it, we can on
ly say that if the crop of 1851 is not a short
one, it is because the Plant is totally indepen
dent of seasons. One Fifty acre Field nine
miles from Columbus, has been entirely des
troved by the late frost and we judge that this
is but a foreshadowing of the news to reach
us from this onward.
Arrival of the Alabama.—A private des
patch from the avent, dated Savannah, May
6, 8:20, p. m., says—“ The sieamer Alabama,
from New York, is coming up the river."
The Southern Highca Convention*
This body commenced its sessi> n yesterday.
At the hour appointed for the meeting, the
Hill was already filled—an indication of the
earnest spirit that actuated the delegates,
which all the subsequent proceedings con
firmed. Four hundred and thirty-one regis
tered their names, and although all the mem
bers of the Convention had not arrived, every
part of the State was represented, and we have
never seen a body ot men assembled, the as
pect of which was more calculated to impress
the beholder with res t ect, and with the con
viction that here might be looked for the dis
play of manly sincerity, calm courage, and an
unfalteung persistance in the cause they are
pledged to uphold.
Tne Convention w-s temporarily organized
by calling Gen. Buchanan, of Fairfield, to the
Chair—a post which he filled with great pro
priety and uignity, and the prelirai ary busi
ness ot organization was effected in a manner,
vi e believe, sa iefactory to all. Ex-Governor
John P. Richardson was chosen President,
and on taking the chair, delivered an impres
sive address. In the course of his speech, the
President dwelt upon the long-t.ied and well
proved devotion ot the people of Sout i Caro
lina to the Union; the sacrifices they had made
to defend its honor and advance its prosperity.
Nothing short of long-continued and gross
wrongs, could have withered up such devo
tion, and destroyed the sentiment of loyalty
to the Union in the hearts of our people. He
pointed to the unequal operation of the Gov
ernment, which for a long series had made the
fruits of the industry of one section the food
to satiate the greedy cravings of the other.
But the aggressions of the North did n< t end
here. The Federal Government, under its
control, has invaded the institution of the
South, and put in peril the security of pro
perty and of domestic peace. By depriving
'lhe Southern States of all Bhare in the com
mon territories, their equality in the Union
ihas been denied; while by abolishing the slave
trade in the District of Columbia under pen
alty of emancipation, the Federal Govern
ment has assumed jurisdiction over slavery
where it already exists, and established a pre
cedent for aggressive interference, the end of
whieh, if not resisted in tim , must be the ut
ter subversion of our institutions.
We have made no attempt to report Gov.
Richardson’s addiess, and have only touched a
lew of his topics, for the purpose of indicating
the spirit of his remarks. He was listened to
with profound attention, and all his bold pos
itions iu favor of resistance were greeted with
bursts of applause that seemed to spring warm
ly from the hearts of the whole assembly.
The Convention promisee to do its work
ifaithtuliy and firmly, and to give to ita deois-
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ROB’T. HABERSHAM, President.
C. GREEN, Ist Vice President.
EDVV’D. PADELFORD, 2nd Vice President
OCTAVUS COHEN. Secretary a’u* Treasurer
I ions the force of a unanimity beyond what
we had ventured to expect. May the end
prove that this hope is not idly indulged.
Charleston Mercury , 6th inst.
Official Dignity at Covets.—The two
highest officers in England are the Lord Hi >h
Constable, and the Earl Marshal; the former
now only created ‘for temporary occasions at
the pleasure of the crown, the latter heredi
tary in the Duke of Norfolk, who stands at
the head of the English nobility. The proper
business of this high and puissant officer origi
nally was to provide stabling and provender for
the king’s horses. Indeed, all the great offi
cers about the courts ®f princes, such as the
great Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the
Horse, the first Lord of the Bed-chamber,
See. was originally charged with the most me
nial duties, such as our servants perform for
their masters. Among the claims brought
forward at the coronation of James the Second,
and repeated at every succeeding one, was that
of the hereditary Lord High Chamberlain to
“ carry the king, nis shirt and clothes 4c.”—
For this service he claimed “ forty yards of
crimson velvet for a robe j aiso the king’s bed
and bedding, with the furniture of his cham
ber.” He a’so claimed “to serve the king
with water before and after dinner, and to
have the basin and towel, and cup of assay”
for his pains. All which was allowed, except
the cup of assay.
The Master of the Horse, another high and
puissant officer of the king’s household, claim
ed “to attend at tne cornation as Sergeant of
the king's scullery, and to have all the dishea
and plates served that day at the kind’s ta
ble with the fees thereunto belonging, and to
take assay of the king’s meat at the kitchen
dresser bar.” Referring to the kir g, who “wav
pleased to allow the said service and ees as
the Duke of Albemarle enjoyed them at the
coronation of Charles the Seiond, by virtue
of the same post.”
The Duke of Norfolk, or Earl of Arundel,
and Lord of Kenningsall manor, claimed to
perform the office of Chief Butler of England,
and to have for his fees the oest gold cup and
cover, with all the vessels and wine remaining
u«der the bar, and all the pots and cups, ex
cept those of gold and silver in the wine-cel
ler after dinner. •« Allowed, with only the
fee of the cup and ewer.” These, and other
still more paltry services and rewards are
claimed at every coronation by the highest of
the English nobility. The name of Butler,
Duke es Osmond, is derived from the fact of
one of his ancestors having had the honor of
drawing small- beer for Brian Borheime. Thus
these proud nobles derive a portion of their
rank, dignity, and importance from the per
formance of menial duties, which a Southern
planter would only demand of his slave. One
would think it was high time to bantsh these
fooleries, which cost the nation hundred and
thousands for the support of the “dignity of
the crown.”— Southern Pr ss.
Dry Goods in Charleston, S. C.
C & E. L. KkiidnlaON & CO.,
KING STKCKT, corner of Market, invtte the
attention of MERCHANTS, PLANTERS
and FAMILIES, to their well seeded stock of
Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, mostly of their
own Dili EC I' IMPORTATIONS, and compris
ing the newest styles and richest designs m ail
FANCY DRESS GOODS, ivith a full assort
ment of HOUSEKEEPING ARTICLES and
PLANTERS SUPPLIES, among which will ba»
found all the SOUTHERN FACTORY GOODS.
Our busines being done on the principle of
ONE PRICE ONLY, our friends can depend on
finding til Goods to be a; represented and at the
LOWEST MARKET PRICES.
Terms cash, or c*ty acceptance.
C. & E. L KERRISON & CO.,
ap24 Corner ot Kiiig and Market sts.
JSTJTA INSURANCE AGENCY.
DR. MILLIGAN having resigned the Agency,
the undesigned has been appointed and du
ly commissioned Agent ol the Al’lNA INSU
RANCE COMPANY, and is piepared to take
Fire and Inland Navigation Risks, on as reason
able terms as any other office.
Applications left at the office of Jeffers, Coth
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tended to. H. L. JEFFERS, Ageist,
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