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AFTER DEATH.
S BT JOHN H. BRYANT.
Why should we cling to those that die ?
Why fondly mark and haunt, the place
Wheie a dear brother's ashes lie,
Amid the relics of his race ?
Why weep above the enclosing sod,
Where the loved form was laid away,
As it the spirit sent from God,
Still dwelt within the mouldering clay ?
Years as they pass, shall scatter wide,
That dust by narrow walls confined,
Where’er the ocean sends his tide,
Or earth is stvept by winnowing wind.
These trees, the harvests on these plains,
The air wc breathe, the dust we tread,
The tide of life that fills the*e veins,
y Are portions of the buried dead.
- Hath God, then, doomed, when life is o’er,
The soul to slumber in the tomb,
l| While yet the form, the limbs it wore,
f - Are on the earth, in life and bloom ?
The mind, far reaching into space,
Guages the bulk of distant spheres—
Finds out each planet’s course and place,
And measures all their days and years.
who beyond that bourne hath gazed,
At which our mortal senses fail,
Into the spirit world, or raised
'Twixt life and death the parting veil.
The deepest search of human thought,
The furthest stretch of human eye,
No tidings from the soul have brought,
Beyond the moment when we die.
With trembling hope I wait the
When thought and sight, uuclogged by sin,
Through God’s vast universe shall range,
And take the world of spirits in.
Ours be meanwhile, the cheerful creed,
That leaves the spirit free to roam,
Jj*-. By mount and river, wood and mead,
Till Heaven's kind voice shall call it home.
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Jf?" 0 (From the N. O. Picayune, Wth inst.')
Later from Mexico.
i .
By the arrival this morning of the schooner
Bonita, Capt. Sbisa, from Vera Cruz, we have
dates from that city to the Ist inst. and from
the Mexican capital to the 26th April. The
Bonita brought $1,500 in specie.
The schooner Orenis, Capt. Trenis, also ar
rived this morning from Tampico, with dates
from that city to the 4th inst. The Oregon
brought $8,475 in specie on freight.
We learn through Capt. Shisa that a man
by the name of |Oscar Roberts, a German by
birtViwhowas acting as Assistant U. States
,*»Consulat Vera Cruz for Capt. Rogers, had
collected the freight money, amounting to
$4,500, of the brig Metamora, of New York
from Mobile,together with other large amounts,
and had absconded. The Metamora took a
cargo of cotton into Vera Cruz.
The Universal of the 24th ult. says: “The
House of Representatives approved yesterday
the resolution taken by the Senate to grant
eighty days respite to the committees of both
branches, to try to effect arrangements or com
promises with the public creditors. The op
position to this was strong, for, as Messrs Me
dina and Blanco pointedly observed, unless
before coming to this resolution funds be pro-
.vided, or be known to exist, sufficient to com
™ ply with the bargains that be made with the
creditors, it would be making matters worse.
At present, knowing that no funds exist, to
•all upon them to compromise, and afterwards
aquaint them with the fact, would be a perfect
mockery. It stood on record that Senor
Aguirre in his report of the 9th inst. stated
* that in order to begin to make any settlement,
y they required, in the first instance, to obtain
lour millions of dollars, of which they were
minus.”
We understand, from another source, that
notwithstanding all their jealously of American
encroachments, it was proposed, as the only
medium of salvation, to try to negotiate a loan
from the U. States Government. They will
derive more benefit from friendly connection
with this country than some of their citizens
are willing to acknowledge.
The Mexican Government has granted a
respite of six months to the company which
was engaged to establish the line of wires for
a magnetic telegraphic communication between
itera Cruz and Mexico.
In Tampico the arrival of flour from the U.
States, under the temporary license granted
by the Mexican Government, was a matter of
public congratulation, the Noticioso saying
that it affords the people better bread than
they have been accustomed to of late. They
eomplain, however, that the bakers make no
difference in the quantity of bread they deal
~ out for a certain value when flour is cheap,
* and desire the attention of Government to this
m- point.
Gen. La. Vega, instead of proceeding direct
ly tO Yucatan to carry on the war against the
has gone to the city of Mexico we
presume &>r fr.sh instructions.
Col. Carrasco, an officer well known in the
valley of the Rio Grande during the war with
Mexico, appears to have made himself parti
cularly obnoxious to th.B authorities of Chihua-
B hua. He is accused of atrocious and cowardly
conduct, and the General Government has
been called upon to punish him severely.
The Indians continue their depredations in
pur an go and other States in the North. Near
/Cauatulo, a few weeks since, they made a
JL descent upon a large stock-raising hacienda,
far end after killing all the persons having charge
of the place, drove off a large herd of cattle
and other stock.
They have finally introduced the Schotisch
In the Mexicau capital, and the dark eyed se-
andsenoritas ate in raptures with it, if
the newspaper accounts be true.
is eiAtsd that many of the streets in the
Jl to *of Mexico jare abandoned ou account of
they can bobberies couM»it|ed, and the want of an
»ag. J 6. j polios. Jin on# of Jhs main thorough*
,* .
fares the rascally ladrones had a pitched bat
tie with the police, and overcame them.
The leatro Nacional, in the city of Mexico,
was opened for the season on the night of the
20th ult. Great complaints are made in rela
tion to the orchestra.
A company of mounted police has been dis
banded for allowing the stage coach to be
openly robbed near El Punto de la Vina.
The Legislature of the Sate of Mexico has
passed a stringent law against gambling,
many games which have heretofore been al
lowed at the religious feasts being now pro
hibited.
(From the N. O. Picayune, 14 th inst.)
From the Coast of Cuba.
Perilous Situation op thb Spanish man-of
war Steamer Colon,— -By the arrival at Mo
bile on Friday last of the schooner Rosine,
Capt. Locke, which vessel belongs to Mr. J.
Andrews of this city, we learn the following
particulars of the perilous situaiion in whiGh
the Spanish war s r eamer Colon was recently
found near Cape San Antonio, the western
point of the Island of Cuba.
Capt. Locke states that he left the Island
of Rustan, cn the Honduras coast, on the
22d ult., bound for Savannah, with a load of
cocoa nuts, fruits, &c., and that on the 26th,
when near the Colorado reefs oft' Cape San
Antonii, he described a steamer fast upon the
reefs, with a signal of distress flying. He at
once bore up for the vessel, and on coming
alongside found her to be the Spanish war
steamer Colon, hard and fast, leaking badly,
nearly full of water, and with little hope of
being saved. Her captain had even given up
all thought of getting her off, or of saving her
armament. Capt. L. went immediately to
work, and after three or four days of incessant
labor, succeeded in landing not only the ar
mament and ammunition of the Colon, but
her provisions. It seems that she had been
looking in close to the shore in search of Cu
ban invaders, and while thus engaged had
got-on the reef.
On the fourth day the Spanish wa: steamer
Pizarro, consort of the Colon, came up; but
after several fruitless attempts was enable to
get her off. Capt. Locke then set himself to
work landing her coal, and this accomplished,
the Pizarro succeeded in hauling her off the
reef. Although leaking aL the rate of four
inches an hour, after getting afloat her large
crew were enabled to keep her free.
After this, the Pizarro went inside of the
reef, and took on board the armament, coal,
&c., landed by Capt. Locke; but it was now
found tliat she was also aground, in conse
quence of being loaded too heavily, and her
commander was compelled to call upon the
captain of the Rosine to lighten her off. This
occupied another day, making five or six days
in all that Capt. Locke had been hard at work
in relieving the two vessels. That he saved
the Colon, if the facts as narrated be true, there
cannot be a doubt, and we have no reason to
question a single word that has been told to
us.
After both the Spanish steamers were afloat
with all their armament, provisions, coal, &e.,
on board, the commander of the Colon sent
for Capt. Locke to compensate him for his
services. After a few words, the Spanish
officer asked Capt. L. what he though would be
a fair price to pay him, and on being told that
twenty-five thousand dollars would be no
more than a fair salvage, the Spaniard offered
him five hundred. This pitiful sum Capt. L.
of course refused, when the commander of the
Colon,after stating that his Government would
not pay mure, offered him two hundred dol
•ars in addtion out of his own pocket. This
was also refused, and Capt. L. coolly putting
on his hat, withdrew to his schooner, and as
he was short of water, put up for Mobile,
where, as has been already stated, he arrived
on Friday last.
Such are the particulars of this affair, as
we have them from good authority. We fur
ther learn that Capt. Locke, under the advice
of an agent of the underwriters at Mobile, has
had a full statement made out and sent to
Mr. Webster, Secretary of State at Washing
ton. The Colon was built in England we be
lieve, and especially for the Spanish Govern
ment. Her cost, with her armament, was
over $300,000, and as she is not two years old
she may be said to be still as good as new.—
We believe that twenty-five per cent, is the
lowest salvage ever awarded, and even admit
ting the vessel was not worth over $300,000,
the captain of the Rosine,| according to the
laws or customs of all nations, would be en
titled to $50,000, so that his demand upon
the Spanish captain was extremely moderate.
The latter was undoubtedly anxious that his
Government should ba let off a3 cheaply as
possible, in order to cover his own misfortune
in getting the Colon ashore.
In connection with this account, we can
only say that had a small steamer, with not
more than even three hundred Fillibusters on
board, hove in sight when both the Pizarro
and Colon were aground helpless, a most ex
cellent opening would have been offered lor
a landing ; and more than this, two splendid
man-of-war steamers would have fallen easily
into their hands, and with those they could
have harrassed the Cuban coast north and
south, east and west.
We have neglected to mention that while
engaged in lightening and getting off the Co
lon, the Spanish seamen fell upon and devour
ed all the fruit Capt. Locke had on board the
Rosine, and a greater portion of his cocoa
nuts, and this without paying for them.
We shall probably hear more of this affair,
and from Washington.
Arrival from Santa Fe.—We are indebted
to our friend, Major Fogg, of the city Hotel,
for an introduction to a party of gentlemen
who arrived yesterday, in St. Loui9, from
Santa Fe. The party consists of Hon. H.
Connelly, latt Governor of the Territory, and
Messrs. S. M. Whitlock, V. Otero, Juan
Peres Jose Griturres, and S. Griturres. The
four latter gentlemen, natives of New Mexi
co. They reached the city'on the steamer
Saranak from Independence, yesterday morn
ing, and left Santa Fe the first of April, and
Begas, on the sixth.
We have conversed particularly with Mr.
Whitlock, who is a resident of Santa Fe,
whither he will return in the spring. There
is very little stirring in New Mexico. The
Apaches had been very troublesome, but a
treaty of amity had been effected with them
through their most formidable chief Chacon,
by which he obligated himself to maintain the
peace on the penalty of forfeiting his head.
The Mexicans are very well pleased with the
new gevernment, especially since the power
has been taken out of the hands of the mili
tary. Business was quite brisk at Santa Fe;
and a number of mills were under construc
tion in the neighboring towns. They were
making quite spirited preparations when the
party left, for an election of Territorial of
ficers, which was to come off in a few weeks.
The party had a delightfuljourney across
the plains. They left the train about two
hundred miles from Council Grove, and
travelled the rest of the way in carriages.
They met Aubrey at Wagon Mound, about
one hundred miles from Santa Fe, and Brown
and Russell’s train at Red River.
They met the mail on the 19th of April, at
Middle Cunnarroua. The conductor report
ed that the Arrappaho Indians had made
several demonstration} and menaces of hos
tility on the route,but had not in any instance
proceeded to the execution of their threats.
They »aw William Bent, at Fort Sod, about
twenty miles below the oroseing of the Arkan*
ess. He had sent out a dispatch to the Ca
manches and Kiowas, and expected them in
in a few days, to trade and treat with him.
A short time before the arrival of the party,
Mr. Bent’s servant, a Delaware Indian, had
strayed beyond bounds, and had been found
murdered; by what Indians there was no
means of conjecture.
The party saw but few Indians on the route
and were entirely unmolested.— Louis
Union, B th instant.
A Singular Stort. —A correspondent of
the Baltimore Sun writes the following to that 1
paper.
The recent decease of the Rev. John M.
Duncan, in your city, revives an interesting
incident in his early life. On her passage
from Ireland, the vessel in which young John
and his family were passengers was cast away.
For some time all on board were threatened
with death by famine. At length lots were
cast for a human victim to appease the pang 3
of hunger. The lot fell upon the venerable
grandmother of that noble boy—Mrs. Mar
garet Duncan. Unwilling to resort to such a
horrible remedy, the ship’s company resolv
ed to postpone the dreadful death for a few
hours. The hopeless period again arrived,
when lots were again cast for a sacrifice of
life —again the lot fell upon the same lady.
By common aonsent another respite was
granteJ, and by perfect agreement‘a third
time, the same ordeal was to be passed.
Strange to tell—the third time, that aged lady
was doomed to die. A brief space of time
being allowed for preparation, the pious wo
men perfectly resigned to her fate, made one
vow unto the Lord, that if he would avert
the impending blow, and in mercy save the
ship’s company, she would consecrate herself
more fully to his service—would, on their ar
rival at any port, erect a temple in honor of
his name, and educate and qualify, so far as
in her power, her grandson John M. Duncan
for the ministry of the gospel.
That piayer was probably heard—for as the
lady appeared on deck to render up her life, a
voice from aloft announced the welcomed tid
ings—“ Sail O!" A vessel hove in sight—
came to their relief, and in safety they all
reached Philadelphia.
In that city, the venerated grandmother
promptly performed her vows. She became a
more devoted Christian; she erected the hand
some church edifice which there bears her
name to this day—and herprandson, educat
ed and qualified for the sacred office, spent a
long life of piety and usefulness, and then
j surrendered his happy spirit surrounded by
| numerous affectionate friends.
Extremes Meet.— The New York Tribune,
the ogran of Free Soil, is nearly as much de
lighted with the Compromise as Mr. Cobb. It
says— v
The great battle of this generation, between
Freedom and S avery, has been fought, and
won by those who from 1846 to 1850 resolutely
upheld, during all the fierce conflicts of those
years, the Witmot Provico. The contest on
the Proviso secured our Mexican Territories
to Freedom. In this great result we behold
its glorious reward. We may, therefore, in the
main, be content with the fruits of that con
test. Had it not been for the agitation upon
the subject of Slavery, and the powerful de
monstration of the Free States, slaves would
now be washing the golden sands of California
and barren New Mexeio herself would be bow
ing in still more hopeless sterility before the
withering tread of African servitude. But,
thanks to the indomitable spirit of freedom in
the North, the future millions who are to in
habit the vast valleys of the Gila, the Colerado,
the San Joaquin, and Sacramento, have the
unspaakable boon of liberty for their inheri
tance. This is the animating spectacle pre
sented to our gaze as we survey the field where
on have fought for years the champions of Free
Soil. In this rich harvest true triends of liber
ty everywhere share, and may rejoice in its
abundance. They may well regard it with a
proud satisfaction, and repose in tranquility
over what is thus achieved for the cause of
humanity.
In the triumphant march of the cause of
freedom finally marked by the signal events
alluded to, we find the liveliest satisfaction.
That cause had suffered no serious interrup
tion in its career through assailed at every step
by open foes and treachersus friends. Its
course has been steadily forward, its conquests
unequivocal and glorious. The operation of
the fugitive slave law is but the picking off
here and there a straggler by the enemy. But
while even this loss is to be deplored, we can
hardly regard it as otherwise than as inevita
ble evil. The very act of moving squadrons
through an enemy’s country involves the ne
cessity of loss. The most fortunate and suc
cessful battalions do not come out of a contest
unscethed. Let us count our gains, and con
sider, but not magnify, our losses.
The violent agitations of the time upon the
law will cease, and comparative tranquility be
restored, while the rich blessings secured by
the friends ot freedom, in the late contest with
slavery, will glow with an ever increasing lus
tre, and develope from age to age in an ever
increasing magnitude.
The Law of 1850 must turn out to be an in
operative enactment. Indeed, it is practically
nullified already, when it costs, as in the case
of Sims, five thousand dollars to catch and
return a single runaway. But if it is to be
anything but a self-nullifying act, lying dead
on the Statute Book, is repeal, or essential
modification, is inevitable.
Sad and Fatal Accident. —We learn from
the Republic, that on Tuesday, the 6th inst.,
Mr. G\ B. Higginbotham, a young man living
near Canton, Wilcox county, lost his life by
one of those sad accidents that occur from
time to time by firearms. Mr. H. wa3 stand
ing near the edge of the piazza of his mother’s
house, loading one barrel of a double barrelled
gun, when the breaeh slipped off the piazza,
and the hammer of the lock striking upon the
step discharged the loaded barrel, the contents
of which were lodged in the side of the un
fortunate young man, producing death in a
few minutes.
Mr. Higginbotham was an estimable young
man, beliked by all who knew him. He had
but barely entered into the morning of exis
tence, when the ead accident that deprived
him of life occurred. He leaves many friends
and relations to mourn his untimriy end.—
Montgomery (Ala.,) Advertiser, 17 thinst.
The Fight in Alabama. —We set it noticed
in the Spirit of the South, that Mr. Benjamin
Gardner, editor of the Eufaula Shield,and now
a candidate for a seat in the Lower House of
our State Legislature, announced his willing
ness to respond to a call of the general gov
ernment to coerce and put down South Caro
lina, should she attempt to secede from the
Union. When the author of this infamous
declaration and his friends shall be ready to
put his doctrines into execution by marching
to that State, he will please inform us of the
faat, as there are a few hereabouts that will
be ready to accommodate him with a small
bit of a fight, right here in Alabama. If this
is the doctrine of the federal party, and this
the manner in which they intend to carry it
out in Alabama, then we say we are considera
bly near a civil struggle, for the right of se
cession will be sustained by arms if neeessary.
If it is to come, the sooner the better. We
are ready for the emergency. South Carolina
nor any other State cannot be coerced or sub
jugated by federal bayonets without the blood
iest struggle that the world has eve? seen.—•
Montgomery 4dv., UM imt,
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Augusta, (Georgia.
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 20.
Petticoat Politics*
We know no better term to apply to the
recent hallucinations of the Editor of the
Athens Banner, growing out of the murder
i ous assault of a crazy woman, upon Mr, Rey
nolds, the Publisher of that paper. The ab
surd conclusion of the nervous Editor, that
the woman was sane, and that she was
an instrument of his political enemies to
get so formidable and influential an antag
onist to th e fire-eaters out of the way, has
been a legitimate subject of ridicule. Had
the Editor kept silent afterwards, and borne
the squibs patiently, like a sensible man,
which his first ridiculous article, written in the
fiurry of the moment, naturally provoked, the
Editorial corps would soon have grown tired
of the amusement. Had he come out, after
reflection, and owned up, handsomely—admit
ted that he wag badly frightened I—and that,
under the impulse, he had conceived and
given utterance to this absurd theory of a
conspiracy of his political opponents, he
would actually have been complimented upon
the return of his judgment and his equanim
ity. This would have been creditable, both to
his head and heart , and would have atoned,
in a measure, for the ineffable folly, and bad
temper, of cherishing the extravagant suppo
sition, that in this free country, where free
dom of opinion is the unquestioned birth
right of every citizen, political antagonism,
was either so stupid or so malignant, as to de
scend to assassination of the Editor of a
country paper, as a means of advancing one
side or retarding the other, of a great cause,
involving the destinies of the first nation of
the world.
As it is, the Editor’s behavior illustrates the
-fable of the fly on the horn of the ox. As it
is, the Editor of the Southern Banner is fair
game, and his queer crotchet, that his mighty
highness is the marked victim of a conspira
cy, will furnish rich material with which to
enliven the dullness of the long summer
days, and give a spice of humor to the po
litical discussions. We understand that those
merry and interesting persons, the Peleg
Family, of this city, are getting up a Farce,
which will shortly be ready for rehearsal,
suggested by the peculiarities of mind and
temper, developed in this affair. It is to be
performed for the benefit of “ The Fantas
deals,” on the occasion of their next annual
parade. It is to be entitled “ The Instrument
and the Victim ; or, Is She Sane t”
As a large pordon of the editorial columns
of the last Southern Banner is devoted to the
refutation of the idea promulgated by the
Augusta Republic, that Jane Young is a mono
maniac, an idea concurred in by all the world,
and the rest of mankind, except by him who
doggedly insist that he is marked out as a
victim, we will leave the discussion of that
interesting theory to those papers. But the
following from the last Southern Banner re
quires a word from us :
The Augusta Constitutionalist ani> Jane
Young, the Assassin.— W extract the follow
ing from the Augus a Constitutionalist of the
11th inst:
“A3 to the conjecture of the Southern
Banner, that Mr. Douglass would place him
self by the side of Mr. Cobb, in an armed ex
pedition to enforce laws to which she was no
party, upon a seceding State, we have only to
express our doubts as to his correctness. We
have a better opinion of the good sense and
State Rights principles of the Senator from
Illinois. But while we would not for a mo
ment desire to see either of those distinguish
ed gentlemen, towards whom, personally, we
feel not the slightest ill-will, so silly as to put
themselves in harm’s way by going upon any
such tyrannical errand, we shouli wish them,
as we should all such invaders of any State,
whether it be South-Carolina or Massachu
setts, ‘a welcome with bloody hands to hos •
picable graves.’ Should the gallant Editor
of the Banner, even, volunteer on any such
expedition against South-Carolina, we wish
him no worse luck than to be met by a squad
or women from the banks of the Tugalo,
dressed in men’s apparel, under the command
of a second Jane Young, who shall beat him
back to Georgia side, not with rifle-bored pis
tols, and bowie knives, but with broom
sticks.”
We think the above paragraph as little
creditable to the head, as it is to the heart
of the Editor of the Constitutionalist. He
has violated the rules of editorial courtesy
and legitimate newspaper discussion, by de
scending to the low personality of gratuitous
ly supposing us to volunteer in a mil tary ex
pedition for the purpose of coercing South-
Carolina into an observance of the laws of
the Union, and tickled his imagination with
the very pleasing picture of our being repell
ed by a second edition of the murderess “Jane
Young.' Children build houses in the sand,
in order to sweep them away, but a man who
has one single generous impulse in his bosom,
would scorn the idea of encouraging assassi
nation by so flattering a notice of the mur
deress who has just attempted to commit it
upon the person of one whom he calls
“ triend. Should it ever be our pleasure,
however, to volunteer in the cause mentioned
by the Editor of the Constitutionalist, we can
assure him that we would seek higher game
than a petticoated assassin or those who sym
pathize with her in her abominable deeds.
It was no very romantic stretch of faith in
the patriotic ardor of the Editor of the Southern
Banner, in support of the theory he advo
cates, atrocious as we consider it, of the right
of the Federal Government to coerce a sov-
ereigu State into subjection, the creature
taking up arms against one of its creators,
the agent warring upon and annihilating one
of its principals, to suppose that he might
volunteer to fight as well as write, to sustain
it. There is not only editorial courtesy, but
4 compliment to his chivalry, in supposing,
gratuitously it may be, that he, after arguing
to convince his newly acquired friend, Fill
more, whom he roundly abused in 1848 as
an Abolitionist, that he has the right to co
eroe South-Carolina into ♦ubmission, would
volunteer his personal services in carrying
out the bloody theory.
Should it ever b 9 his pleasure to volunteer
in that cause, says the Editor, he will seek
higher game than Jane Young. If his nerves
should, iq that case, be half so badly disturb
ed by the higher game, as they have been by
the pettisoated assassin, his services would be
( of very little value in thi3 contemplated sec
. : and edition, of Austria against Hungary
—of a war upon American soil, under an
American Haynau. Instead of such soldiers
flogging the women, as was done under Hay
: -t.au in Hungary, the women, we believe,
would flog the soldiers !
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5 Fire Eaters and Dirt Eaters-
When the compromise measures, so unjust
and degrading to the South that they had no
justifiers and few apologists in Georgia up to
t the time of their passage, were placed on the
statute book, the question among us was,
“ shall toe resist, or shall we sub?nit
The Southern Rights party thought it would
be degrading to submit, and “submissionists”
i became a term of reproach with which they
bespattered their opponents on all occasions.
The submissionists denounced their opponents
’ as disunionists, traitors, factionists, and all that
sort of thing, and thus this intellectual game
was kept up until the election came off and the
submissionists were triumphant by an over
whelming majority.
Now if submission to the compromise would
be disgraceful last summer, we do not see how
the matter can be mended by using the more
polite term acquiescence in the compromise.
The fire-eaters have sought some palliation
for the mortification of defeat by calling their
opponents dirt-eaters; while the more mode
rate men of the Southern Rights party, the
gentlemen of tactics and expediency, seem dis
posed to pave the way to victory and power
by getting on the Constitutional Union Plat
form under the more euphonious phrase of ac
quiescing, “as citizens’ loyal to the expressed
1 will of the people of Georgia.” Now acqui
escence and submission are practically one and
the same thing. We, and our readers who
1 think with us, are not only acquiescents, but
; submissionists, if admitting that we live in,
and are loyal subjects of a submission State
— u State that has decided to acquiesce in the
compromise measures, make ua submissionists.
■ The people of Poland are submissionists to
Russian tyranny. The people of Hungary
are submissionists to Austrian rule. The Cu
bans are submissionists to Spanish oppression
> and taxation. We are submissionists to the
free soil domination established by the com
promise. The Poles and the Hungarians and
Cubans are whipped into submission and held
to it by standing armies. The Southern Rights
party have been out-voted and held to sub
mission by the strength of the ballot box. To
that extent and in that way Southern Rights
and Cons itutional Union men, fire-eaters and
dirt-eaters, are all submissionists.
But if the Southern Rights party are to be
called on to indorse the action of the Gcorgi a
Convention, and accept it as their own, then
1 we see no difference between the two parties in
reference to the Compromise measures.
The Columbus Times takes the correct view
of this point in the following remarks, being a
' portion of its comments on an article of the
Federal Union, entitled, “ The Wilkinson
1 County Platform .”
“In the Federal Union oftho6th inst. is an
article headed the “Wilkinson county Plat
form,” which we regard as unfortunate in the
spirit it manifests, and equally unfortunate in
its efforts to sustain its strange conclusions.
Its objects is to recommend the “Wilkinson
Platform” to the posessio pedis of the Southern
Rights Party. Except the fifth resoiutian,
which proposes to bow with loyal deference to
the expressed will efthe people, as contained
in the Georgia Convention of 1850—these re
solutions contain only sound principles. The
fifth we shall repudiate while we live. Our
opinion has been and is, that Georgia was dis
graced by that convention; and to acquiesce
in its positions, would be to acquiesce in the
compromise; and that is nothing more or less
than submissionism. Now the Federal Union
proposes to mount the Southern Rights Par
ty on the “Georgia Platform” and being there,
cheek by jowl, with Cobb & Toombs & Co. he
next proposes that the same party shall turn
round and beat the Subs at the Polls. What
for? For agreeing with them, to be sure. We
are first to enter their tents, break bread with
them, take their creed and then turn round
and beat them. This is sheer nonsense, which
the Federal Union commends to its “Hotspur
friends” and we, for one of them, cannot take
its counsel. If we agree to submit to the action
of the Submission convention, as the final and
irreversible voice of Georgia, we lay down our
arms and become what we denounce in our
opponents— submissionists. Our Milledgeville
cotemporary may rely on it, that we shall earn
nothing but contempt by such a course. ”
The fifth resolution of the Wilkinson Plat
form is as follows :
Resolved, That upon the agitating question
which now divides the North and South —
Georgia in her sovereign capacity by her
Convention in December last, defined her
pos tion; that as Georgians loyal to the expressed
will of the people we acquiesce in that position,
and pledge ourselves to sustain it, and do all
that we can to see that Georgia “ takes no
step backwards.”
Now, we hold that there is a loyalty due
to truth and to our own convictions as well
as to the expressed will of the people. The
good eitisen will submit to the laws of the
land while they are laws. But the free citi
zen, living in a country of freedom of thought
and freedom in the expression of it, should
always claim the privilege of protesting against
laws which he believes inflicts political degra
dation and inferiority upon him and his pos
terity. It is for this reason we hold that
the Southern Rights party of Georgia owe it
to their own consistency, to their convictions
of the truth, and to a cause holy in its pur
poses, pure in its motives, and involving as
they honesty believe, the destinies of su?
section, its institutions, its honor and all that
is dear to freemen, solemnly to protest on all
fitting occasions against the injustice and de. ,
gradation the Compromise measures inflicted
Upon the Southern people.
3*he Southern Democrat-
This is the title of a new paper, of neat
typographical appearance, and showing good
editorial ability, received at our office. It is
published at the new and flourishing town of
Oglethorpe, Macon county, Ga, It will da
battle in the cause of Democratic principles,
and the rights of the South. •'We welcome it
to the field of its labors, and wish it abund
ant success to itself, and usefulness to the
e&use.
North Carolina Rail Road. —The meeting
of the Directors of this road took place in
Raleigh on the I2ch inst. The Wilmington
Herald learns from Dr. A. J. De Rosset, Jr.
one of the Directors, who was present from
Wilmington, on the occasion, that the route
will be from a point near Goldsboro’ through
Waynesboro’, passing three or lour miles
north of Smithfield to Raleigh, which it
skirts on the south side, thence by Hillsboro’
Graham, Greensboro’, Lexington, Salisbury
and Concord to Charlottee, a distance of about
223 miles. Contracts for the entire route will
be let under the direction of the President
and Chief Engineer during the month of June,
of which due notice will be given. The meet
ing of the Stockholders will be held on the
11th July, i’i the town of Greensborough. /
A Good Dividend. —lt will be seen by
advertisement, that the Bank of Augusta has
declared a dividend of Thirty Jive per cent. —
four dollars per share in cash, and twenty-one
dollars per share in the stock of the Georgia
Rail-Road & Banking Company.
E leer to-Bio] o gry.
Professor Hale, gives his first Lecture at
Masonic Hall, this Evening, and will give a
number of amusing and extraordinary experi
ments. The low price of admission should
insure him a good attendance.
Rain (says the Camden Journal of Friday)
is needed very much in this vicinity. The
Crops will be very materially injured by th*
dry, warm weather which we have had for
several days past, unless refreshing showers
should visit us before long.
The New York Journal of Commerce states
that the steam ship Crescent City had been,on
the 13th instant, surrendered by the Govern
ment, who had retained the control of Inr for
three days. From the surrender, as well as
from other sources of information, the Journal
infers that the designs of those* concerned in
the late Cuban movement have been effectually
frustrated. The seizure of the Cleopatra seems
to have been one of the chief causes of their
misfortune. The Crescent City is advertised
to sail for Chagres on the 28th instant.
Theatre—Concert Hall-
Shakspeare’s play of “ Othello ,” was per
formed last night to a good house—Mr.
Neafie, sustaining the character of the honest,
oonfiding “ Moor,” in a manner that reflected
the highest credit upon himself. In fact, a
better performance could scarcely have been
offered upon the boards of any Theatre. The
character of “ Iago” is said to be Mr. Mason's
best. He certainly far exceeded our expecta
tions, and to the crafty villainy of that char
acter, all the life that an actor is capable of.
Miss Richardson, as “ Amelia,” was all that
the author could have pictured in his imagina- *
tions. She is an actress of the highest geni
ous, and the high encomiums which have
been pronounced upon her by the Northern
press, have not over-rated her powers. The
minor parts of the play were well sustained,
and gave the most entire satisfaction.
To-night, we are to have the thrilling play
•f “ 4 fralloosa,” taken from a Spanish story,
and dramatised for Mr. Neafie. It is said to
be the best in his role of plays. - Com.
(From the N. Y. Jour, of Commerce , \sth inst.)
By the Steamer Cambria) at Halifax.
Shipley’s Circular not having come to hand,
I send extracts of Meriott & Co. t
“ Liverpool, May 2.—During the present
week the market has remained dull, and with
a continual tendency to decline in price. The
advices per Baltic, which were received on
Tuesday, bringing continued increasing rela
tive rates on such a scale as to invalidate all
the lower estimates formed of the crop, have
shaken the confidence of holders and have in
duced a pressure to seil cotton, accompanied
by a material decline in prices. The trade,
true to their former policy, have purchased
sparingly, and thedotal sales have been 28,050
bales. The demand is somewhat more general,
several parties having made limited purcha
ses on speculation, but quite unaccompanied
bv any advance. The sales are 5,000 bales,
including 4,000 taken on speculation or for
export. American descriptions are very dull
sale, and they have declined from to
|d per pound, the qu6taions of fair qualities
being uniformily reduced per pound. The
past month opened under the influence o£
large receipts, and increasing estimates of the
crop then blooming, current in the ports of
the United States. These exercised a corres
ponding influence upon prices here, and the
same cause, seconded by a somewhat dull
state of general trade, have concurred in lim
iting the demand for cotton during the whole
of April. The trade are rigidly confirm*
their purchases to the supply of their present
wants. The home consumption is generally
maintained, and the stocks of ani ? facturei i
are no large, but the prices o^ tainable are not
general y remunerative, ind there i 8 an b _
sence of that comme-; olai acti vit y which has
us iahj attended the transactions of the pres
rMuoh advantage is confidently
anticipated from the favorable and exciting
nifiiionee of the Exhibition now open in Lon
, Virginia Convention.— The Compromise of
tne Basis Question. —We learn from the Rich
mond Times, that the committee on the Basis
question, have made he following report:
1. The House of Delegates shall consist of
150 members, 82 to be chosen from the west
and 68 from the East, making a western ma
jority of 14.
2. The Senate shall consist of 50 ir
30 from the east, and 20 from the Vest mak
ing an eastern majority of 10, *
3. In 1865, the Legislature shall re appor
tion representation in both Houses, but if it
cannot agree upoa a re-apportionment, or for
an^i^ U i 6 °ne, the sense of the
qualified voters is to be taken whether the
two Houses, or either of them, shall be bd-
Basig° U? ° n suffrage of the Mixed
4. In every tenth year after 1865, Tepiesen
tation m the two Houses shall he re appor
tioned upon the basis thus established by the
popular vote. 3
r. Richmond May 15,6 P. M.
.k V? nTentioa £o ' da y» * n committee of
the whole, voted down the mixed basis prin
ciple of representation by 1 majority. They
also rejected the compromise report, *vhi.ch
gave the West a majority of 14 in the House
of delegates, and the East 10 in the Senate,
by the same majority. Mr. Botts' compromise*
proposing to give the East and West an equal
amount of representation, was also rejected
by 5 majority. It is still hoped that an ad
justment will be made.
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