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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
JAMES GARDNER, JR.
■ ( From the N. T. Journal of Commerce, Bth met.')
Arrival of the Europa-
The British mail steamship Earopa, from
Liverpool, April 26th, arrived this morning,
having made the passage in less than twelve
days. She brought only 29 passengers. We
have both London and Liverpool papers of her j
day of sailing.
Tne suppression of the insurrection in Por
tugal is the chief item of political intelligence.
The commercial news is less favorable. Cot
ton had fallen f to id, Corn also had declined.
London, April 25th.—The English funds,
which closed heavily yesterday, opened this
morning with the same tendency, and subse
quently experienced a decline of mure than a
quarter per cent, in consequence of some sales,
coupled with the continued depression of
French rents, and an anticipation that the
Bank returns for the past week would show
a further considerable reduction in the bullion.
Consols were first quoted 97 Jto and they
soon receded to 96§, at which they remained
up to the termination of business, when there
"Were buyers at that price. Bank Stock left
off 210£ to 21l£ ; Reduced, 96$ to£: Thrte
and-a-Quarter per Cents, 97§ to |; Long An
nuities, 7f; India Stock, 259 to 261 ; India
Bonds, 575. to 605.; and Exchequer bills, 525.
Itsss. premium.
“ The following is an exact of a letter re
ceived this morning by the Committee of
jplFlSpanish American Bondholders from their
•JEgent, Mr. Lord, dated «La G uayra, 25th of
March, 1851:’ —
“ * The interval between this and my last,
of the 10th inst., has produced an important
movement in favor of the bondholders—viz :
the introduction in Congress of a project of
law for continuing for two years more, with
exclusive application to payment of the four
years' interest due on the foreign debt to the
Ist of April ensuing, tbe contribution extra
ordinary that has been in operation since the
2d of May, 1849, and will expire on the 2d of
May next. The law is waiting a third read
s' ing in the Lower Chamber, having, after a
long discussion, been unanimously approved
on the second reading.
“ * This contribution produced in the finan
cial years ending on the 30ih of June last, the
aum of $520,055.' '
The American Mails. —Southampton, Fri
ghd&y, April 25.—The United Statesman steam
t gifTp Hermann, Capt. E. Crabtree, (which ar
rived a: this port from Bremen on Tuesday
last,) sailed this afternoon for New York, with
the American contract mails. She takes out
between 50 and 60 passengers and a small
freight of merchandise, principally from Ger
many and France. The steamship Franklin,
from Havre, en route to New York, is to leave
Cowes on the 7th proximo.
On Friday, the 19th, there was a trial of
speed in the Channel betwern the Royal West
India mail steamer Clyde and the American
mail steamer Franklin, from New York. Both
ships were iunning up the Channel bound
for Southampton. Shortly alter day-light
the Franklin sighted the Clyde, her royal
yards having just risen. So superior was the
speed of tbe American steamer, that she ran
past the Clyde about 10 a. m., and reached
Oowes-roads nearly two hours before the W.
Inoia packet steamed through the Solent.
In consequence of the arrival of the mail
steamships from America late on Saturday
night at Liverpool, the passengers have been
subject to inconvenience through being de
tained from proceeding to their de-tination
from want of their baggage. This has been
represented to the Customs' authorities at
Liverpool, for the consideration of the Com
missioners as to whether some satisfactory ar
rangement cannot be made for the removal of
the delay.
Right Hon. Henry Lord Langdale, late
Master of the Rolls, died April I.Bth, aged 67
years.
Lord Palmerston has addressed a moderate
note of remonstrance to the Courts interested
against the prolonged occupation by Austria
and France of the Tuscan and Roman
States.
France.
The Moniteur announces that the party of
order has obtained an advantage in the elec
tions for the Municipal Council in the depart
ment of the Rhone, and in the election of the
Judge of the Commercial Courts at Riom in
the department of the Puy de Dome.
The Moniteur announces a victory over the
Arabs. They were attacked by a column of
French troops near Onad Rahl, and routed.
The French had 11 killed and 35 wounded.
Paris Bourse, April 25. —Latest Prices.—
The Five per Cents., 9lf. 55c. Three per
Cents., 56f. 75c.; Bank ot France, 2,100 f.
(From the London Times, of April 25.)
Portugal'
It would seem incredible, if the fast were
not established by abundant and indisputable
evidence, that a statesman and soldier of the
age and station of Field-Marshal the Duke of
Saldanha should have started on an expedition
which has turned out the most ridiculous
and contemptible rebellion to be found even
in the annals of Portugal. A man who has
tilled, and might again till the highest offices
of State—a General distinguished by his zeal
ous adherence to the cause of the Queen, and
who actually commanded the Royal army
against the Junta during the last civil contest,
appears all on a sudden not only as the prime
mover but the sole chief of a military insur
rection.—When first it became known that
Saldanha, whose aversion to revolutionary
measures was proverbial in Portugal, and
whose influence with the army was supposed
to be paramount, had embarked is such an un
dertaking for the removal of the existing Ad
ministration, it was naturally inferred that
that the scattered elements of the Septembriat
party and the other opponents of Costa Cabral
were at once to unite under the direction of
such a leader; and that nothing short of cer
tainty of success, joined to a strong sense of
the necessity of such measures of violence,
would have induced him to take the field and
risk his life as a traitor. But, in spite of all
such prognostications, the failure of Saldanha
has been immediate and total. —The fate of a
military insurrection is generally decided with
in 48 its commencement, and in
gg. this case the rapid and bold march of the King
of Portual on Santarem evidently struck at
the heart of the conspiracy, and probably pre
vented a considerable number of persons im
plicated in the project from declaring their
intentions. Neither party, indeed, seems to
have thought it prudent to attack the other,
or to come to actual fighting, though they
were within a few miles distance from the
well-known field cf operations of the Upper
Tagus. The troops under Joaquin Bento,
which had declared for the revolt south of the
river, had great difficulty in making their way
to the north; and Saldanha, finding himself
opposed at bantatarem, and unsupported by
the capital, fell back on Leiria and Coimbra,
A. summons in the shape of a political mani
festo was addressed by the Marshal to Count
Oasal, the General commanding at Opor o, but
£hat officer returned a decided mgitive, and
announced his intention to hold the city for
«the Queen* Throughout the insurrection the
\ oepuiar party appear to have taken no part in
it, or at least to have awaited the turn of
; military events. Saldanha addressed himself
exclusively to thu commanders of the army,
though it is hardly conceivable that a general
of his character and experience should have
endeavored to tamper with the fidelity of the
Queen’s troops, unless he had beforehand very
strong grounds to believe that a political re
volution was inevitable. But, from the lan
guage of his appeal to the Duke of Terceira,
which has been made public, and of his sum
mons to Oporto, it seems as if personal and
party hostility to the Count de Thomar, was
the only pretext of the rebellion, and that it
was begun with no real concert between the
insurgents and the constitutional Opposition.
Probably there are facts connected with the
enterprise which have not come to light; for
the attempt, as it is now described to us, is
that of a madman. The resui , therefore, was
inevitable. Rejected by the soldiery, unsup
ported by the people, and pursued by the
King, who at last summoned up strength and
courage to follow the enemy, Saldanha had
no resource but to fly the country; and he is
stated' by a telegraphic dispatch received
through Madrid, to have crossed the frontier
of Spain about a week after the commence
ment of the rebellion.
Judging from these facts, we are led to the
conclusion that the Opposition is less power
ful and the Government of Count de Thomar
less unpopular in Portugal than has been com
monly supposed in this country.
Switzerland •
Advices from Berne of the 17th inst. state
that 115 Hungarian deserters from Lombardy,
under the command of Col. Fur, have arrived
at Berne.
Germany.
Berlin, April 23.—The last Austrian note
repels the long-approved of division of power,
and declares that Austria is ready to return
to the basis of the Germanic Diet, on condi
tion that eertiin reforms shall be decreed at
Frankfort.
The following are among the reforms:—Mo
dification in the composition of the Lesser
Council, as well as in that of the Plenary As
sembly; the establishment of an Austro-Ger
man Customs Union; reform in the organiza
tion of the universities and other establish
ments for instruction throughout Germany.—
The creation of a military power which shall
secure order at home and peace abroad. It is
said that immediately after the opening of the
Diet, Austria will in a measure independently
carry out the realization of its own plans by
the constitution of a Germanic central board
of safety. This central board is to have very
great privileges, among which is the superin
tendence of the federal troops. It is to sub
sist only provisionally till he establishment
of a definitive central and executive power.—
Hamburg Courant.
The Berlin Ministerial papers the 21st inst.
state that Austria has p.oposed, incase of cer
tain events, to march 200,000 troops through
Piedmont. This proposal, which has been
submitted to the Cabinet of Turin, has made
a deep impression at Berlin.
The same papers mention a secret treaty be
tween Russia and Austria, and that they en
deavor to gain the support of Prussia.
The object of the secret Austro Russian
Treaty is to protect Europe against the re
sults of crisis which is impending in France.
Our Vienna correspondence is of the 20th
inst.
It announces the appointment of Prince
Schwarzenberg to the Governorship of Tran
sylvania, vice General Wohlgemuth, deceased.
Baron Gehringer has reiused to aeeept the
post of Stadtholder of Hungary. That post
is now to be effered to the Archduke Leopold.
Our correspondent states that a change of
measures may possibly be expected with re
gard to Hungary.
The mercantile advices from Vienna of the
20th inst. show the financial embarrassments
of the State to be seriously increasing. The
rate of exchange on London had risen to 13$,
and the premium on gold was 39, and on sil
ver 33£ per ct. No particular political event
had occurred to account for these unfavorable
circumstances, and they were chiefly attribut
ed to the notification, which was unexpected
ly sudden, of the intended emission on the
Ist of November next of the bonds to be given
in compensation for the abolition of territo
rial rights, and which will amount to a sum
equal to more than 20,000,0001. sterling.
A decree had just been issued for levying
an income tax in Lombarday, which will
commence from the 30th of June.
The Emperor, who was confined to his room
for a few days by a slight indisposition, has
again appeared in public: his brother, the
Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, is lying ill
of a fever at Trieste. The Duke of Bordeaux
is again somewhat indisposed.
The Markets*
Liverpool, April 25, 1851.
Cotton Market. —Since our iast of the 11th
inst., we have had a dull and declining mar
ket. The sales for the week ending the 17th
inst., were 26,400 bales (which include 2,500
bales burnt,) and prices were then quoted £d.
per lb. lower. Since then the anxiety shown
to sell in some quarters, (amounting almost
to panic,) has led to a further decline of about
id. per lb. without much increase in sales.
This week’s sales amount to 28,770 bales, in
cluding 2,700 bales on speculation and 3,000
bales for export. To-day's sales are about
6,000 bales, including some on speculation,the
market closing rather less heavily.
We quote:—Fair Orleans m ; d. 6£ ;
fair Mobiles 6$ ; middling 6g; fair uplands
6s; mid. 6£.
Amer’n
bales. bales, bales.
Imp into this port Jan 1 to Apl \
25, 1851 549,038 426,920 £ 8,915
Ditto, April 1850, 540,123 403,749 )
Delivered for consum’n, 1851, 405,100 596,500 i
Ditto 1850, 413,290 289,000 \ 7 ’ loo
Taken for export. 1851, 24,100 12,700 / 01 lAn
Ditto 1850, 45,200 34,400 l lou
Stocks 1851, 575,500 379,000 / n . . nn
Ditto 1850, 551,500 458,000 ] 24 ’ 109
Corn Market. —During the past fortnight
the sales of wheat and flour have been made
with a dull market, and daily falling prices.
The dullness has, (Jufing the week, in
creased to extreme depression, and barrel
flour meets little attention at 19s for Western
canal, and 20s for Ohio, in perfect condition.
Wheat is not quite so depressed, but buyers
act more cautiously in supplying their present
wants. Indian corn has been neglected, and
it is Is to Is 6d per quarter lower. There
have been liberal arrivals of grain and flour at
Cork, Falmouth and Hull. The weather has
been very favorable for vegetation, and the
appearances of the wheat at present are all
most promising. From France wp have the
same accounts, and the markets there have
been dull and drooping. To-day's market
closes very dull. Western canal flour 18s to
19s. per bbl.; Baltimore 19s 6d to 20s; Phila
delphia 19s to 19s 6d ; Canadian, superfine
inspected 19s to 19s 6d ; Ixtra fine and fine
18s to 18s 6d ; Ohio flour 19s 0d to 20s} sour
17s to 18s; Indian corn meal, white and yel
low 13s to 14s ; wheat, U. S. white 5s 8i to
5s lOd per 70 lbs.; red and mixed ditto 4s 91
to 5s 6d ; yellow Indian corn 30s to 30s 6d
per 480 lbs.j white 4o 36s to 32s ; mixed 29s
6d to 30s.
Saturday, April 26—12£ P. M.
Dear Sir: —The desire to sell is unabated,
and in many instances |<J. per lb. decline has
been submitted to to-day, making the fall in
about a week £d. per lb. The sales will be
3,000 bales including 500 for export. Rather
more business doing in Manchester, owing to
much lower rates being accepted.
Truly yours, Jambs M'Hbnrt.
«*iH v im
Accounts of the Crops ■
The Coming Citor.—The Natchez Courier
of the 29th ult., says: “In this neighborhood,
(Adams County, Miss, and its vicinity,) there
is a very general complaint among the plan
ters, and especially among those north of us,
of the untoward prospect of the cotton crops.
Many planters have been compelled to plow
up and plant over. The very cold and dry
winds, which have prevailed for some time
back, have so hardened the gyound that the
seed will not germinate. Where, the cotton
has come up, the cut worms have been very
destructive. We feel perfectly justified in as
serting that there is less cotton now up than
has been known in any previous season for
many years back.”
Tuscumbia, Ala., May 2, 1861.—Heavy frost
last night—most of the cotton killed or iniur
ed.
Grenada, Miss., May 2, 1861 We had fro3t
here on the Ist and 2d inst. Cotton very
late —bad stands—much to plant over.
Jac/cson, Miss., May 2, 1851.—A light frost
last night. Cotton blighted, and the whole
crop a great deal woree than th’s time last
year.
Glasgow, Ky., May 2, P. M.—lt is suppos
ed that all the tobacco in this section that
was up, was killed by the frost last night.
Hopkinsville, Ky., May 2, P. M.—A heavy
frost here last night has greatly injured the
tobacco crop.
Princeton, Ky., May 2, P. M.—The growing
tobacco crop has severely suffered from a
heavy frost.
Paducha , Ky.,May 2, P. M.—ln this sec
tion the killing frosts have done much injury
to the tobacco.
Vicksburg, May 2, P. M.—lt is reported by
the planters that there was a destructive frost
in this vicinity last night.
Extract of a letter received in Charleston,
dated —
Fairfield District, May 6, 1851.
“It has been many years since the Planters
of the ur per country have had such disastrous
seasons to contend with. During the entire
month of April, they have had cold and con
tinued rains to encounter. A large portion
of the seed that has been planted, has rotted
in the ground, and that which is up looks
sickly, and is dying rapidly. Many Planters
have had to plough up portions of their crop,
and to replant; and even up to this time the
weather continues cold and unfavorable.”-
Courier.
A Frost. —The Wainsborough Register of
Saturday says: “we regret to learn that on
Friday morning last, a heavy frost was visible
on most of the low grounds in the country.
Cotton we understand, shows distinctly the
injury which it has sustained. The trees be
ing well leaved we apprehend fruit generally
will escape the effects of the frost.”
The Young Crops.— The N. O. Crescent of
3rd inst., says:—From many parts of the cot
ton growing States, we have accounts unu
sually unfavorable to the prospects of a good
stand for cotton. The tendency to entertain
fears and express alarms at this tender time of
the crop’s growth is great, we are aware. But
the reasons for regret this season have been
too apparent to admit a question of their re
ality.
Nashville, May 2.
We have had heavy rains in this section
and a killing frost l?st night caused much
damage to the Cotton and Tobacco Plants.
The greater part of those already up are
thought to have been killed.
Weather, Crops, Health, &c.— The Thi
bodeaux Minerva of last Saturday states that
on Tuesday of last week that section of the
country was visited by a hail storm, but in
its effects it was nothing in comparison to that
which occurred on the 11th of May last.
The same paper says that the Asiatic Chol
era was prevailing on the plantation of Messrs
Pitre & Rose, below that place, jmd fifteen
deaths from that disease had occurred during
the week. Thibodeaux remained remarka
bly healthy.
The Minden Herald (Claiborne parish) of
the 24th ult., says the weather there for the
last few days had been damp, cold and disa
greeable, and adds that it was said that a great
deal of the young cotton in that portion of the
State was dying, from some cause or other—
probably from the cold damp weather of the
week.
Prospects op the Cotton Crop.— We learn
from gentlemen recently from the interior of
the State, that the prospects of the cotton
crop are by no means flattering. In South-
Western Georgia and all that region of coun
try beyond Macon, as well as in the north
eastern counties lying on the Savannah river,
the plant is small and unhealthy. The same
is true of Burke and Jefferson, two of the
most productive counties in the State, as wc
are enabled to speak from personal observation.
The cold weather has kept the plant from
coming up, and consequently the stand is a
poor one. In no particular, so far as we are
informed, and have observed, is thejprospect
so good as it wa3 at tflis time last year. It
will require favorable seasons and a late fall
to make so large a crop as the last.- Savannah
Republican, 1( )th inst.
The Seasons. —There has been something
peculiar in our seasons latterly. We have
had several frosts in May which is every ex
traordinary. The winter past was unusually
.wet, and the spring has been very late. It is
worthy of notice too, that lor eight or nine
weeks past we have had rain regularly every
Saturday. The cotton crop is very backward,
wheat is said to be promising, and the pros
pect ofan abundance oUtml.—Greenville (Sc ,)
Patriot, Bth inqf.
Frost.— There was a slight frost in this
section of the country on Monday night last,
but we understand that is has done no mate
rial damage to the crops.
[Athens (Ga) Banner, May 7.
Great Frost.— On the night of May Ist
the heaviest frost known, at this season, since
1834, occurred in Kentucky, and the Louis
ville Courier says the fruit crop in that region
is totally destroyed. Ice was formed three
eighths of an inch
Frosts—Fruit— The latp frqsts, it is said,
have done extensive injury to fruit trees in
Delaware. In Ohio and Kentucky the dam
age from the same cause has been very great.
In the region about Baltimore there is reason
that the lruit has experienced
great injury.— Baltimore American.
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tdP* See first page.
Address of the Convention of Southern
Rights Associations of South-Carolina.
Differences of opinion will, and do exist, in
the South, a3 to the extent and the degrading
character of the hostile action of the Federal
Government upon the rights of the Southern
people, and also as to whether any course for
redress should be adopted, and if so, what
course. While candid minds, even in the
North, frankly admit that great injustice has
been done the South, there are intelligent
Southern men, of such obliquity of mental
vision, or so devoid of those nice sensibilities
which lender a free people jealous of their
rights and their honor, and quick to resent a
wrong, who honestly contend that the South
ern people have nothing to complain of—no
wrongs to redress—no ground on which to
demand reparation for past injustice.
Others, taking counsel of their timidity,
and anxious for repose and quiet, however in
glorious, while admitting that injustice has
been done the South, are willing to submit, for
fear of greater practical evils. Others, again,
politicians by profession, knowing and appre
ciating full well all the enormity of the wrongs,
and the sure tendency of events under contin
ued submission by the South, to repeated and
redoubled outrage, have a personal interest in
quieting excitement, in lulling to a false se
curity, and in persuading the people to be
content with things as they are.
In South-Carolina, these distracting influ
ences exist to but little extent, and her people
are in a condition to view the subject in its
true bearings. Differences do exist, of a
grave character, a3 to the proper remedy ; but
opinion, in South-Carolina, is unanimous as to
the wrong.
The Address put forth by her Convention
of Southern Rights Associations, is entitled
to great weight and consideration throughout
the Union, a3 a truthful index of the senti
ment of that State. It is entitled to especial
consideration throughout the Southern States,
because it declares, in impressive terms, the
reluctance of South-Carolina to separate her
destiny from that which awaits her Southern
sisters.
The following passage deserves long to be
remembered, and may hereafter be suggestive
of bitter regrets on the part of the Southern
people:
“ We wish that the necessity for separate
action by South-Carolina, which we have con
templated, may be averted. We confide in
the gallant spirits whom we address. There
may be some hope of the assembling of
a Southern Congress, to devise measures of
redress and relief, upon whieh some of the
injured States may unite. We have hereto
fore been willing to sacrifice much for South
ern Union. Westill are. Wo do not desire
to lead, but to follow. Propose any effectual
measures for vindicating our common rights,
and providing for our common safety, and we
will heartily unite with you in carrying
them."
Had the entire South been as South-Caro
lina is, a unit as to the grossness of the fraud
sought to be perpetrated upon her in depriv
ing her of her share of the acquired territo
ries, and in denying to her the right of ever
extending the arena of slavery beyond its
present limits, the fraud would not have been
consummated.
Were the South now united a3 South-Caro
lina is, the wrong perpetrated could be, even
at this late day, in a measure, undone—the
division line of 36 30 would be run through
California to the Pacific, and all South of that
line would be opened to the South and her
slave institutions.
But there is no such union of the South,
and no immediate prospect of it. The great
majority of her people are willing to submit
to the fraud and the injustice. Virginia and
Georgia have so solemnly decided, and the
§amp decision is virtually made in nearly all
the other slaveholding States,
The Address further says \
“In all these proceedings, we think that
the citizens of South-Carolina have evinced
all proper anxiety to avoid the appearance of
arrogance or dictation, to act in concert with
the citizens of the other Southern States, and
to do nothing separately or precipitately. And
now, strongly as we have expressed our Relief
that there is no hone (or the South in the ex
isting Union, we are prepared to give a trial,
fairly and in good faith, to any effectual plan
which may be proposed by any sister Sta e of
the South, for obtaining redress to r the past
and security for the future, without a dissolu
tion of the existing Union, if there be a pos
sibility of such a consummation.”
In the face of this notorious willingness qf
the majority to submit, it is vain to call on any
body of men in the other Southern States, to
propose an effectual measure of vindication.
The Southern people have resolved not to vin
dicate their violated rights. They have ac
cepted that miserable humbug called the Fu
gitive Slave Law, the utter inefficiency of
which has already been exhibited in away
Which proved the complete tiiqmph of Aboli
tionism over the Constitution, as an equiva
lent. It is a law, which, if worth any
thing, the South was already entitled to
the Constitution, without paying for it.—
The law will stand for years npqn (fie statute
book as a mockery qf the South; for
as long as it will take five thousand dollars to
recover a slave worth one thousand dollars, the
Northern people will have no adequate mo
tive to repeal the law- The only motive to
repeal it would be to put a wanton insult upon
the humbled and degraded South, as was th e
case when they applied the Wilrnot Proviso to
the Oregon territory—a territory where slave
ry would not have gone even bad this outrage
not been committed.
As it seems a settled matter, that South-
Carolina will not get the co-operation of any
Southern State in a measure of vindication,
the next question for her to decide is, “ Will
she secede alone from the Union ?”
She, as a sovereign State, has the right,
and as an intelligent State, has the capacity
to decide this question for herself.
The whole South should rise up as one
man and maintain this right for her, and in
sist that no steps should be taken by the Gov
ernment, from which South-Carolina secedes,
if she decides to do so, to embarrass her in
its exercise, or to cripple and retard her pros
perity out of the Union.
The nob est sympathies of human nature
would be appealed to, to shield a high-spirit
ed, but comparatively feeble nation, from un
generous hostility, and from oppressive legis
lation against her commerce and her institu
tions.
In the South she should look for this sym
pathy, not from the characteristic magnan
imity alone of her people, but from the com
monest dictate of interest and seif preserva
tion: for if South Carolina were al owed to be
made a victim by anti-slavery hostility, her
fate would in time become the fate ol the other
Southern States. They should remember that
anti-slavery hates not South Carolina alone,
but slavery, and that hatred will show itself in
deeds as well as words when it gets, as it evi
dently must, the entire mastery of this gov
ernment.
Separate secession is a question of policy for
South Carolina. We see in it a formidable
and appalling array of difficulties, and we
conceive it would be no dishonor to that State
to avoid them. The Government
would not shed the blood of her citizens, but
would victimize her by hostile legislation.
It would do this not by tbe votes of Southern
members of Congress, Mr. Clay and a few such
apostates to the South excepted. But there
would be Northern anti-slavery votes enough
in Congress to do this, end the anti-slavery
section of the Union would find in Millard
Fillmore, an abolitionist and slavery hater at
heart, a willing instrument to carry out the
atrocious schemes of oppression.
If South-Carolina elects to remain in the
Union, and, true to her past history, contin
ues to fight against anti-slavery encroach
ments, contesting inch by inch, her friends in
the South will increase, until more than one
Southern State will be in full sympathy with
her. This union of Southern States will
check the Abolitionists, and save our institu
tions in the Union , or it will produce a South
ern Confederacy which will be sufficiently
strong to protect itself. Either result will be
creditable alike to the sagacity and spirit of
South-Carolina.
Oratorio at the Baptist Church.
The entertainment offered to-night at the
Baptist Church is one of rare attraction for
this community. It would not discredit the
musical taste and accomplishment of any city
in our country, as all will attest who were
present at the very successful Oratorio of the
2d inst, at the same place. Some new and
favorite'pieces will be brought out to-night,and
in a style to delight the lovers of good music.
Those who wish to secure good seats should go
early.
An Entertainment*
We are requested to state that the Ladies
belonging to the Presbyterian Sewing Society,
intend giving an Entertainment at Masonic
Hall, This Evening. Their object is a worthy
one, as we understand the funds realized are
intended for the purchase of a Bell for the new
Presbyterian Church, and to aid in the sup-.,
port of several orphan children under their
care. .
Bail-Boad Convention,
The special train of Cars arrived in our
city yesterday between 3 and 4, P. M., with
an unusually large number of citizens from
the interior. The Convention will be a very
full one. A large number of ladies have
come down to grace our city with their pres
ence.
We hope it will prove to all an agreeable j
visit.
Convention Pic Nic! '
The citizens of Augusta desirous of attend
ing the Convention Pic Nic, are informed that
they will find a Subscription List at the Book
Store of J. A. Carrie Co.
Concert Hall Theatre*
We are informed by a letter from the Les
see, that the Theatre will open on Thursday
evening, and continue for one week.
Among the additions to the Theatrical corps
are Mr. Neaffie, a young American tragedian
of distinction, and Miss liichardsqa, gq inter
esting young English lady qf superior histri
onic powers.
We may anticipate a roh of Shakspeare’s
plays during their engagement, mth a full
cast of characters.
Those who feel oppressed by the heat
and dust, will find a very pleasant palliative
in the Iced Soda served up at several of our
Drug Stores. Having thoroughly tested its
merits, we can speak in special commenda
tion of P. A. Moise’s fine Fountain, a few
doors below the corner.
Thf Weather and Crops,
We give in another column sundry extracts
from different papers published in various sec
tions of the country, in relation to the grow
ing crops, for the information of our readers.
The month of April, in our opinion, was one
qf the coldest experienced in this section for a
number of years past.
Great Sale of Domestic Goods. —A large
sale of 4,406 cases of denims, stripes and ticks,
offered at auction qn Monday, at N. Y., from
Columbian mills, by Messrs. Haggerty, Dra
per & Jones, went off in one hour and twenty
minutes, netting an amount of $300,000. The
denims sold low, as was expected, at 7i a 8f
cents, averaging under 8 cents—a full decline
of i a 4 cent. The stripes and ticks gold
better—the former at 7| a 7f; and the latter
at 6|a 7| cents. A few Brunswick Tweeds
at 7 cents, and Windham sheeting at 6f e.
Largo Defalcation at 3Zacoa
The following is an extract of a letter re
ceived by us from iiaco n, dited May 10th,
giving an account of the defalcation of the
Post Master of that city.
“Day before yesterday we had a Post Mas
ter to-day the office is in the hands of the
Clerks. Capt. Z.T. Conner left yesterday
no one knows where he went to. He is a de
faulter to a very large amount, on funds re
ceived at his Warehouse for Cottons sold, and
he is a defaulter also as Post Master. The
amount on Cotton, by report, varies from 13
to 70,000. Amount in 'the Post Office-said
to be $4,400.
“Some of the Planters in the neighboring
counties have lost their who.e crops that were
under storage in the Warehouse*”
California. Lion. —A Lion, over three feet
high, and nine feet in length, has been caught
at Brannan Ranch, near Nicojaus, in Califor
nia. It is very ferocious, and has been se
cured by ehains. It was caught in a pit trap,
and efforts were making to catch the mate
and cub, which have been seen in the viciui
ty* ’
Connecticut — Seymour Elected Governor. —
A telegraphic despatch from Hartford, an
nounces the re-election of ThomasH. Seymour,
Dem. to the office of Governor, by the Legis
lature of Connecticut, there having been no
choice by the people. In his reply to the
Circular of the Bridgeport Union Cotnmi.tee,
Mr. Seymour said, —
“My sentiments upon the agitating ques
tions which gave rise to the late plan of ad
justment have never been disguised. Seeing
that nothing else would save the Union, I
gave my support to the measures which have
received the approval of you. patriotic meet,
ing. So far as lam concerned, those measures
will continue to receive my support, in what
ever situation I may be placed.”
E durational Meeting
According to previous notice, a meeting of
the citizens of Richmond county was con
vened at the City Hall in Augusta, on Satur
day evening the Bth inst., for the purpose of
appointing delegates to represent the county
of Richmond in the convention to be held at
Marietta on the Bth of July next, “to devise
some practicable scheme of common school
education.”
The meeting was organized by calling his
Honor, the Mayor, to the Chair, and appoint
ing Alpheus M. Rodgers to act as Secretary,
The following preamble and resolutions
were then offered by Robert A. Whyte, and
passed unanimously, to wit:
Whereas,notwithstanding the interest man
ifested by our Legislature in the subject of
common School Education, and the appro
priations made on several occasions to the
support of such a system, there still exists a
necessity of so improving it ’as to render it
perfectly avaliable.
Therefore Resolved, That we hail with
pleasure the movement now making through
out the State in the cause of common school
education, believing it to be a subject of the
deepest importance to every citizen of Geor
gia.
2d. Resolved, That the adoption of a wise
and practicable system of common school
education is required for the best interests of
the people, and that ve respectfully but ear
nestly urge tho siiuject upon the attention ot
the Legislature of the State,
•Let. Resolved, That the growing importance
of Georgia, her rapidly developing resources,
her increase in population, public revenue and
private wealth, afford sufficient and gratifying
evidence that the means and advantages ot
education can be secured to evety member of
the community.
4th. Resolved, That a committee of five ba
appointed by the chair to select delegates t»
attend the proposed educational convention at
Marietta, on the Bth of July next.
sth. Resolved, That the above-named com
mittee have power to fill any vacancy which
may occur in the delegation.
Under the provisions of the 4 th~ resolution,
the Chair appointed the following gentlemen
to constitute the committee to select four suit
able persons to attend the proposed conven
tion viz: Robt. A Whyte, Ja*. Gardner, jr.
John Milledge, John Craig, and Garey F %
Parish.
The committee, after consultation, reported
| the following gentlemen, as deletes to re
! present the county of Richmond in the said
convention, viz: L. Lata3t©, Thomas Jones
Pope, James Gardner, jr., and Robert A.
Whyte.
On motion of T. C. Bridges, it was
; . Resolved, That tha proceedings of the meet
ing be published in the papers of the city.
Upon motion the meeting then adjourned.
T. W. MILLER, Chairman.
Alpheus M. Rodgers, Secretary*
g [( Telegraphed for the Char-iesiart Courier .)
New Quiosaks, May 9, 4 P. M.
Cotton & dull, and barely five thousand
have deen disposed of in two days. Since
the receict of the Europa’s advices, Low to
strict Middling has been worth from 8| to 9|.
Whisky 19£. Riee is improving, and is quot
ed at from 3| to 3s. Freights are dull—Cot
ton to Liverpool 9-16.
1 ©JED.
On the 28th oj( April, of Nervous Fever, at In's
t father’s residence in Beech island, S. C., JAMES
HEN ft If, eldest son of David and Eliza Ardis,
1 aged IS years.
: He who now no more is with us, but a few short
weeks ago i'etarned to his *• dear home” (to quote
his awo expression) full of life, and joyous with
anticipated pleasure of a sojourn amidsithe home
circle previous to his departure to College. But
alas for mortal joys and pleasures ! Even then,
death was drawing near to enfold within his chtl
ling grasp the form just verging on to manhood, to
still the pulsiis of the heart which was winding
itself even move closely* around the affections ot
relatives and friends. Could the prayers of an af
fectionate father, the tears of a fond, devoted
mother, the love of sisters, brothers, and relative*
have exercised aught, then that young'spim must
have tarried yet awhile among them. But the
numbered days wspent, the hoars of earthly
existence (Jrawn to, a close, when he who in his
love spid wisdom gave, saw fit to take his own to.
himself again. A. G.
TEACHING.—-Theory.and pyac ■
>3 lice of teaching, or the motives and methods
of good School-keeping, by David l\ Page, A. M ,
principal of the State Normal School, Albany N*
York. For sale by
may 11 T. RICHARDS &. SON.
rpEACHING A SCIENCE:
X and Artist, by B. A. Hall, A.AI.
Popular Education for the use cf parents and
teachers, by Ira Mayhew, A. M.
The School and the Schoolmaster, a Manual
bv Aionza Potter, D. D. and G. B. Emerson A
a. For sale by T. RICHARDS & SON
may 11