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THE CONSTITLTiOMUST^
JAMFS QARDNeTr, JR.
77//? cottage home7~
L BY RET. J. K. NICHOLS.
TUNE—* Oh Susauua
I di earned a dream the other night.
When ail around was still 3
1 thought I saw my cottage white,
Upon yon flow’ry hill:
The grass plat green before the door^
The porch with vines o’er grown,
Were lovely as they were before,
\ When that cottage was my own.
CHORUS.
Oh ! rumselier, that home,
That home of thine,
That pleasant home, that happy home,
That cottage home was mine.
The gravel walks so white aud straight,
With flower banks on each side,
That led down to the wicket gate,
Where Willy used to ride ;
The locust that o’er the path that grew,
The willow boughs that swayed,
All told me with a tale most true,
That there my Marv played.
Oh! rumseller ; 4*c.
The silver lake so calm and clear.
Along whose banks I’ve strayed,
t*o often with my Lucy dear, ,
To watch the sunlight fade 3
The pearly streams that sweetly run,
The garden's foot along.
And murmuring fount, as bright as they,
All sang the mournlul song.
* * Oh! rumselier, &e.
The window toward the garden gate,
That looked out to the west,
Where that lov’d being used to wait,
. Who made my home so blest.
Was closed—the sombre curtain hung,
•« And no loved form was there,
Nor voice the evening song that sung,
"Dr breathed the evening prayer.
Oh! rumselier, Ac.
Silence hung around that happy home,
Where once so light and tree
My laughing children used to come,
And dance around my knee)
And she who was that home’s delight,
In constant beauty shone,
Around the cheerful hearthstone bright,
Now all was still and lone.
Oh ! rumselier, &c.
f , •
-Yes, that loved wife has gone to rest.
In death her heart is bound,
Her babes are sleeping on her breast,
Beneath yon grassy mound 3
And I am wandering lone and strange,
No master of my will,
My home, my happy home is changed
\ To a hui behind the still.
Oh ! rumselier, &c.
[From the Baltimore Sun.)
The Great Methodist Church Case.
This case was opened on Monday morning
in the 13. States District Court, at New York,
* before Judges Nelson and Betis. The court
room was crowded, and several Methodist cler
gymen were present. The following is an
though brief statement of the case:
The Rev. Francis Harding, a slaveholder of
the State of Virginia, was suspended by the
Baltimore Conference, which was held about
a year previous to the General Conference of
1844, for his connection with slavery. The
action of this body was afterwards confirmed
by the General Conference, which, also sus
pended Bishop Andrew from the performance
of his official duties, because of his holding
slaves whom he had obtained possession of by
marriage, and of his refusal to liberate them.
In consequence of the course taken by the
General Conference, the southern delegates
that a continued agitation of this sub
„ T'jeot would compel them either to abandon
ihe slave States or separate from the north.
The southern delegates afterwards agreed
upon what was ealled a plan of separation,
and a southern convention, held cn their re
turn home, resolved to establish a separate or
ganization; but the northern conference, which
had possession of the funds, refused to give
.any share of them to that division of the church
which now' became known as the Souii Me
thodist Church.
After this refusal, southern commissioners
► by the General Conlerence
to institute this suit for the recovery
of their proportion ol between seven and eight
hundred thousand dollars, claimed by them as
part owners of the general fund previous to
the separation, and which is at present invest
ed in the Methodist book establishments of
Ohio, New York, and the charitable fund of
Philadelphia.
The counsel employed on the part of the
f plaintiffs are Mr. D. Lord and Reverdy John*
' £ OII| a nd for the defendants Messrs George
Wood ana Rufus Choate. Mr. Thornes Ewing
has also been retained as counsel for the de
fendants in a similar suit against the branch
Methodist Book Concern of Cincinnati. The
- Hon. Daniel Webster is engaged for the plain
tiffs, but was not present.
Mr. the case recapitulating all
the facts belong on the state of the case, and,
in referring to the slaves owned by Rev. Mr.
Harding and Bishop Andrew, remarked that
they could not by the laws of Maryland and
Georgia, in which they respectively lived,
manumit them. The Express says:
One of them held by Bishop Andrew had j
been devised with directions that she should
I sent to Liberia, but she would not go, aud
the bishop, although nominally her owner, ex
ercised no acts of ownership over her, and she
went where she pleased. Mr. L. made re
■l marks in relation to the facts.
Mr. Johnson, (a son of the Hon. Reverdy
Johnson, we believe,) read a portion of the
answer, end Mr. E. L. Fancher, concluded
% the reading of the same. The reading of the
application was dispensed with.
Mr. Lord here stated that Bishop Bascotn
having died since the brining of the suit, he
had obtained a consent from ths defendants to
substitute the name of the Rev. Wm. A Smith
as one of the plaintiffs, and an order of the
Court making such substitution was accor
dingly made.
Mr. Lord commenced his argument, and bad
not finished reading the authorities upon
which his argument is to be founded, when we
left,
The New York express says of the complaint
and answer in this case above referred to:
,lThe complaint states that the church is a
yolutary institution and unincorporated. It
consists of 7 bishops, 4828 preachers—and in
bishon'** ministers and members, under the or
ganization in the U. States, 1,190,960. Os
these about 639,000 beleng to the North and
,486,000 to the Church South.
The answer denies that there was any ne
cessity for division in 1844, and that said
separatioa was unconstitutional and void,
agreeably t o the paramount rules of the church,
and made without authority of the general
conference in 1844.
* The extraordinary telegraphic dispatch,
which we noticed on Saturday morning, as a
feat unparalleled, carried the steamship Eu
ropa’s news from New York to New Orleans,
a no te by the chief operator in O Reily’s
ill Telegraphic Office, in New Orleans, to the
New Vork Office, that the news had been re
1. \ ci.od hi.-e, to three “our. and five mmute^
L\ “ *“:rpT«ebur g .LouLv,T l eanS
The dUr«BM between New York
Wmk WjUw Orleans, following the track ot tae
MM tifcfcph Lines, is about 2000 mU * B ’ a * d
gi* distance.— N. O. t,es
hmrnmmM in 11 o-11 iiiiimnii ■»—aßtth
SmpwßiCK Lamentable Destitution. —On
Saturday, an application was made to Captain
Foino, at the office of the High Constable, in
behalf of four poor children, wh<f were
brought to this city a few days ago on board
the brigantine Pedraza, from Nassuau. It
appears that they embarked with their moth
er at Liverpool, on board of the ship Cato,
which was wrecked on its passage, but were
saved and carried to Nassau by the schooners
of the wreckers. On their arrival at this
port, the mother, who had been ill for some
time, was removed to the Charity Hospital,
where she died on Saturday night. The
children being left in a state of destitution,
were kept for lour days upon the vessel, un
til it was found necessary to remove them.
On the application being made, Captain Forno
directed the poor creatures, the oldest of
which is only twelve years, to be removed to
the Second Municipality Workhouse, in
which place they are at present under the
protection of the officers of the establishment.
The children have a father who works as a
laborer in Cincinnati, named Michael Mc-
Guire, and it is probable that he will send for
them in a short time. They are very desti
tute, being without change of garments, or
other things to make them comfortable.
The ship Cato, whose loss we briefly noticed
a few days ago, left Liverpool on the 23d of
February, under the command of Captain
Robinson, bound for this port, with 300
passengers on board. On the 28th of March,
she passed the Hole-in-the-Wall about ten
o'clock at night, and passed quietly round
the Isaacs on her way to the Gulf. On the
afternoon of the 29th, while running in sight
of the Bernini Islands, she struck one of the
sunken rocks of the Muacle Shoals about three
o’clock, and soon got fast.
The scene among the poor passengers was
very confused, but in about three hours after,
a fleet of boats, belonging to the wreckers of
the Bernini Islands, came alongside, and took
the whole of the passengers off. They were
landed on the Bernini shores on Monday,
morning, the Ist of April, and here they re
mained for three days and three nights, lying
on the sand without convenience of any kind.
The people from a small town a mile and a half
from where they landed, came down to the
coast, and remained in their company until
the schooners of the wreckers were got ready
to CBrry them to Nassau. At this place they
were received with every mark of kindness
and humanity, public meetings were held,
sermons were preached, subscriptions were
entered into, and the emigrants were supplied
with every necessary. The Consul of the U.
States found them in food, and large sums
were presented to them by several benevolent
institutions. Three vessels were engaged to
convey the poor shipwrecked beings to this
port, one of which was the Pedraza, and her
humane master, Dorritie, paid every attention
to the 130 individuals under his charge, du
ring the nine days they were making their
passage to this port from Nassau. The whole
of the cargo of the Cato was taken out by the
wreckers, and they were awarded salvage dues
to the amount of fifty-five per cent, for their
exertions. — N. O. Crescent, 19 th inst.
Chattanooga, Harrison & Cleveland
Road.— The survey of a route for a Rail Road
from this place to connect with the E. T. &
Geo. Road, commenced on last Monday,under
the superintendance of Mr. Corry. With his
crops of assistants, the work was prosecuted
vigorously, and we understand reached Har
rison last night, a distance of twelve miles.
From thence, we are informed they would set
their compass in the direction of Georgetown,
i where a large gathering of the people was to
; have been held yesterday. If the route by
i Georgetown should be adopted, the road will
! run through nearly the entire length of the
| county, and intersect the E. T. & Georgia
I Rail Road. This route would be longer, and
! not in conformity to the present charter—but
jit would run through the richest part of
. Hamilton county, and afford facilities for a
very large and enterprising portion of our
people. But of course neither route will be
adopted until a full survey is made of both,
j Whichever is adopted, tAe Road will be built ;
! and it will be the most important, paying link
between Memphis and Richmond. It cannot
be otherwise.—Crossing the river at this point
—connecting with the Nashville Road, and
at the eastern terminus with the E. Tennes
see & Georgia Road, it must be profitable,—
1 Chattanooga Gazette, 23 d inst.
The Cave.— Visits continue to be made to
i * the “Lookout Cave." The last party that
; went in, left the entrance at half past 10
I o’clock in the morning, and came out at 5
i o'clock in the evening. They discovered new,
; unexplored regions, and many more objects
of attraction. In one department there was a
pure and limpid stream of water, neither the
beginning or end of it could they ascertain.
Then a large room with high walls as regular
as if they had been chisselled by the hand of
man. It would be a rich treat and profitable
research, to the curious in such things, to
j spend a week in investigations into these
wonderful subterranean passages beneath the
old Lookout. — lb.
Beautiful Extract.— lt is seldom we meet
with so sweet a sentiment, illustrated in so
appropriate a figure, and expressed in such
beautiful language, as the following:
Charity. —Night had kissed the young rose,
and it bent softly to sleep. Stars shone, and
pure dew-drops hung upon its blushing bo
som, and watched its sweetest slumbers.—
Morning came, with its dancing breezes, and
they whispered to the young rose, and it a
woke joyous and smiling. Lightly it danced
to and fro in all the loveliness of health and
youthful innocence. Then came the ardent
sun-god sweeping from the east, and he smote
the young rose with his scorching rays, and it
fainted. Deserted and almost heart-broken,
it dropped to the dust in loneliness and des
pair. Now the gentle breeze, which had been
gambolling over the sea, pushing on the home
bound bark, sweeping over the hill and dale,
by the neat cottage and still brook, turning
the old mill, fanning the brow of disease, and
frisking the curU of innocent childhood, came
tripping along on her errand of mercy and
love; and when she saw the young rose she
hastened to kiss it, and fondly bathed its fore
head in cool, refreshing showers; and the
young rose revived, looked up, and smiled in
gratitude to the kind breeze ; but she hurried
quickly away; her generous task was per
formed, yet not without reward—for she soon
perceived that a delicious fragrance had been
poured on her wings by the grateful rose; and
the kind breeze was glad in heart, and went
away singing through the trees. Thus real,
true charity, like the breeze, gathers fragrance
from the drooping flowers it refreshes, and
unconsciously reaps a reward in the perform
ances of its offices of kindness, which steals
upon the heart, like rieh perfume, to bless and
cheer,
Ex Chancellor Walworth was married re
cently at Jacksonville, Illinois, to the widow
of Col. Hardin, who was killed at the battle
cl Buena Yista.
Flogging at Sea is now a. dangerous busi
ness,since the passage 4 of the act of September
23,1860. At a suit in New York, Judge
Lynch decided that the aot demolished flog
ging on board vessels of (jommerca as well as
naval vessels, and a master of a vessel was
fined ene hundred and fifty dollar? for viola
tion of the statute.
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( Telegraphed to the Baltimore American,')
Arrival of the Africa.
New-York, May 21 lO, A. M.
The steamship Africa, from Liverpool, ar
rived this morning, bringing 93 passengers.
The Humboldt, from New-York to Havre,
was spoken by the Africa when eight days
out.
England.— Every thing with regard to the
great Exhibition progresses satisfactorily, and
the papers are filled with the wonders of
American and Continental industry.
The Liverpool Council have confirmed their
resolution not to oppose the modified bill of
the American Chamber of Commerce relative
to the dock estate.
Lord John Russell has given reason to hope
that the Hungarian refugees will shortly be
set at liberty.
In the Commons, Mr. Bailey brought for
ward his motion for a repeal of the malt tax.
He said, the effect of tax was to increase the
price of beer to the poor man, who had to
pay 500 per cent, upon his beer, and this had
the effect of diminishing the consumption.
The House then divided, when the numbeis
were, for the motion, 122; against it, 258 ;
majority against the motion 136.
Mr. Hume moved for a select committee to
inquire whether the mode of assessing and
laying the income tax might not be made more
equally equitable. Some discussion then took
place, and the motion w’as agreed to. The
other orders of the day were then agreed to,
and the House adjourned.
France. —There is little of interest be
yond the usual amount of revolutionary gos
sip. Girardin persists in his assertion that
Gen. Chargarnier proposed to invade England,
and now says that the General sent a written
proposition to Ledru Rollin to that effect, and
it is reported that the letter will be published.
Gen. Changarnier does not deny the charge.
The funds are very heavy.
Portugal. —The Queen having appointed
the Duke of Saldanha, President of the Coun
cil, the Revolution is at an end.
Germany. —Berlin advices to the sixth,
state that the Frankfort Diet will be opened
on the 12th of May.
Prussia and Austria. —The King of Prus
sia and Emperor of Austria will have a con
ference at Warsaw during the present month.
Prince Schwartzcnburg leaves Vienna for
Dresden on the 12th. The opening of the
Frankfort Diet has been postponed until the
13th.
Italy. —Great agitation prevails in the
Roman States, and throughout the whole of
Italy. The movement is expected to com
mence at Genoa. The Marquis of Daregeio,
President of the Council, has left Turin for
Genoa in order to calm the democrats if pos
sible. Piedmont and England are agaihst the
commercial league of the Italian States.
Spain. —We learn from Madrid that the
government on the Ist inst., despatched a
courier to Lisbon, with new instructions for
the Spanish Minister, '.with reference to the
success of Saldanha’s insurrection.—One of
the Madrid papers announces that Count de
Thomar has beeN accredited minister pleni
potentiary and envoy extraordinary at the
Spanish court.
From Madrid we learn that the Spanish
government is actively negotiating with
France for the adjustment of the line boun
dary between the two countries, on the Pyr
enean frontiers. The account states that the
claims for indemnity for the damages done to
various nations in consequence of the war in
Sicily, have been brought to a satisfactory
arrangementjby the mixed commission.
It was the general opinion that the cabinet
would obtain a large majority in the Pro
vinces. It is rumored that the Queen is in a
very delicate situation.
Cape of Good Hope —The steamer Helles
pont arrived at Plymouth on the Bth inst. —
She left the Cape on the 4th ult. There had
been some fighting but not very serious.—
Some of the Cape mounted rifles are said to
have gone over to the Karns.
Liverpool Market, May 10. —Cotton has
declined during the week J a £d., and the
sales for this period have been 32,700 bales,
of which speculators and imports took about
6000. Fair Orleans 6s; Middling s§. The
Manchester Cotton market is £d. lower. Bu
siness dull. Cloths 3d. a 4d. cheaper.
Breadstuffs have improved. Flour has ad
vanced 6d, The quotatians are—Western
Canal 19s. a 205., Philadelphia and Baltimore
203. 6d. a 21s , Ohio and Canada 20s. Wheat
has advanced Id. Corn being much inquired
or to meet the Irish demand, has advanced
Is. per quarter. The quotations of Friday
are—white 335. yellow 30s. 6d. to 315., mixed
30s. Corn Meal 14s.
Money Market. —Stocks closed steady—
Consols 97| to 97*; U. S. 6’s, 1862,103 a 104;
ditto ’6B, 111; Penna. s’s. 824 a 834; Md. s’s
90; Canada 6’s 107; Massachusetts s’s 105 a
106.
London Money Market . —Money is in good
demand at higher rates. Bullion is firm; Ex
chequer Bills 49 a 52 premi um.
Liverpool, 9th May, 1851. —This has been
one of the most gloomy weeks in Cotton that
we have yet had to report, with an anxiety on
the part of holders to realize such as we have
seldom witnessed, producing a further de
cline in the week of fully per lb. and com
pelling us to reduce the quotations of our
Circular of 29 th ult. 4 to fd. per lb. the mar
ket closing heavily and prices quite nominal.
Fair Orleans. 6% Fair Mo.6s Fair Up.6£d lb.
Middling.... .5$ o| 54a5|
Inf. & ord s£asg 5Ja54 sJas|
The sales of Cotton so: the week, 32,700
bales, of which speculators have taken 3010,
and Exporters 2830 bales. The stock of cot
ton in this Port was taken on the sth inst.
and proved to be 29,000 bales less than had
been previously estimated, the total stock be
ing 601,000 bales, of which 411,900 are Ameri
can, against a stock at this period of last year
of 513,000 bales, of which 333,000, were
American.
The decline in yarns has been £d per lb,
and in goods 3d to 4d per piece, which has
produced rather more demand in Manchester
during the past two days, but without caus
ing any reaction in prices.
Y'ours respectfully,
__ BROWN, SHIPLEY & CO.
Signs—Signs. —The Raleigh Register, N.
C. nominates for the next Presidency, the
following ourious ticket:
Millard Fillmore, ofNew York, Presi
dent.
Wm. A. Graham, of North Carolina,
Vice.
This nomination is proposed and followed
by a eulogy as strong as a northeast gale be
fore a rain comes down. Mr. Graham is one
of the present cabinet. The Raleigh Regis
ter is an old whig journal,heretofore conduct
ed by the father, and now by Seaton Gales,
the brother or nephew of Joseph Gales, of the
Washington Intelligencer. Thereby hangs a
tale. The nomination is pat forward at the
nod and beck of toe Southern half of the
cabinet.
The whig newspaper press, politicians and
all, are rapidly rushing into the Presidential
question, Scott has bean nominated —Web-
ster has been nominated—Fillmore is nomi
nated. Whose turn is it next? Democrats,
is it not your play?
There has been another revival of the Mil
leritag’ association; a thin attendance, having
lately convened in York. They have
now discovered the precise year of the Cruci
fixion and that the prophetic period of 2,800
years would expire on the 23d July next,
fbere is «#n<? intake’' this time, they say.
m
THE CONSTITUfIONALiSr,
Augusta, Georgia.
SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 25.
Whig Rejoicing's
The Washington Republic is a Whig pa
per—the central organ of whiggery—the
paper which is straining every nerve to rally
the Whig party in preparation for a Whig
carapagn next year, for the support of the
Whig nominee for the presidency. Yet this
paper is rejoicing at the amalgamation of
Whig and Democratic leaders and their fol
lowers in Georgia, in a new party called the
Constitutional Union party. In the following
remarks are expressed its pleasure at seeing
the progress of this movement.
Union Party in Georgia. — We observe
with great pleasure the determination and
unanimity which pervade the people of Geor
gia in the organization of the Constitutional
Union party for the approaching political cam
paign. Every mail brii gs us additional intel
ligence of the zeal and interest which the
movement excites, and there is no reason to
doubt that it will be triumphant by a majori
ty of many thousands.
Why this rejoicing at the destruction of
the Whig party, so nomine, in Georgia, and the
rearing up of a new one on its ruins ? The
answer is plain. Whiggery will survive, and
its Federal principles will flouri h in the new
party. The triumph of the Constitutional
Union party, it is plain from th s, is the tri
umph of the Whigs, and will enure to their
benefit.
Before the canvass is over, the Editors of
the Republic wiil have many reasons to doubt
the triumph of this Federalist party in Re
publican Georgia. Its consolidation doctrines
will not take with our people.
Concert Hall Theatre.
Mr. Adams’ Benefit.—lf a Lessee can es
tablish prominent claims upon this communi
ty for a liberal testimonial of its approbation,
Mr. Adams ha 3 certainly done so. He has
shown much enterprize and exhibited refined
taste in the exertions he has made, at an ex
pense, too, which we are sorry to say, has not
been remunerative, to please the lovers of
music, and the Drama, in Augusta. Who
among us, that ever attends such entertain
ments, has not enjoyed one or more very
pleasant evenings at Concert Hall this season,
by means of his enterprizing spirit ? But for
him, the sock and the buskin, long banished
from the Augusta boards, would have contin
ued but traditionary emblems of an intellect
ual and instructive pastime. But for him the
delightful notes of Mad’mes. Vietti and
Trupei and Miss Virginia Whiting, of Sig’s.
Beneventano, Forti and Rosi, might never
have broken the silence of Concert Hall. To
see Norma, Ernani, Lueretia Borsia, Barber of
Seville, and II Oiuramento, our citizens would
have been compelled to visit distant cities.
The Dramatic performances of next Mon
day evening, on which occasion Mr. Adams
takes a benefit, will be highly attractive. Tne
play selected is “The Stranger,’’ in which a
young gentleman of this city will make his
first appearance.
But, irrespective of the attractions of the
evening, it is due to the spirit of justice, and
a right appreciation of merit, that the gentle
manly Lessee should receive a bumper.
Augusta Car Factory
The completion its first Passenger Car, by
this Company was signalized yesterday after
noon by its being run on a pleasure trip up
the Georgia Railroad, in which the stock
holders, oftcers of the road, and their friends
participated.
The car is called “ The Marietta,” and is
a splendid piece of workmanship. It is manu
factured for the State Road at about S2OOO,
and is cheap at that price.
We wish this enterprzing young Company
great success. We learn that already it has
orders for over SIOO,OOO worth of work.
Such companies, and such enterprizes con
tribute greatly to the public prosperity. They
are destined to do much for our flourishing
city.
Sales of Real Estate.— The Charleston
Mercury of the 24th ins 4 , says—Quite an ex
tensive sale of real estate was made at auction
on Tuesday morning, by Col. Thomas D. Con
dy, and at prices which indicate the strongest
confidence in this species of property. We
note particularly the store and lot nearly op
posite the Charleston Hotel, which brought
$12,050, and we understand that $15,000 has
been offered tor it since. The lot is only 20£
feet front and the building such as could be
erected for $5,000. The vacant lot adjoining
Mr. Gamer’s Carriage repository brought
$7,000, which we understand is far beyond
what it has been held at till recently. It thus
appears certain that, however secession may
have shaken the minds of some men, the land
—the good old Carolina soil—faces it without
winking.
Jenny Lind continues to give concerts at
Castle Garden, New Yoik, to crowded and
delighted audiences. Her vocal powers are
as charming as ever, but they are listened to
with less excitement. The N. Y. Tribune
says:
Mr. Beale, lately the leasee of the Italian
Opera in London, will visit this country in
September next, accompanied by the celebra
ted soprano, Miss Catharine Hayes, who has
been so rapturously received in Rome during
the prst winter; Mr. Augustus Biahara, the
tenor, and a son of the veteran Braham; Mr.
Mengis, a barytone, and Mr. Richardson, a
distinguished flute-player.
We learn (says the Charleston Courier)
from a private despatch received in this oity
yesterday evening, dated New Orleans, May
23, A. M., that the steamer Union, Captain
Budd, had arrived there after a remarkably
short passage of six days and seventeen hours
from New York,
Thb Conceht — We regreTThat the want of
space will not allow us to notice at length the
entertainments of Madame Durang and Sig
nor Norvelli, We believe, however, the uni
versal opinion of all who attended the twq
Concerts on VYednescJay andfriday nights* is
that the eitisen* of Madison have never be
fore had such a treat. They were assisted by
Mr. Pease, of Augusta, who has a sweet t^nqr
gwnjpwftimni.Muiiiji \v\mnmimnn_' VgTjjppgi
voice, and on the first night by Prof. Gohren
of the Madison Female College — Madison
Visitor , 24<A mst.
Webb and Willis-
In our yesterday’s issue appeared the dis
graceful onslaught of Col. J. W. Webb, of the
New-York Courier , upon Mr. N. P. Willis,
of the Home Journal.
We intended, if we published at all, to
give at the same time, the card of Mr. Willis
in reply. But Col. Webb's article inadver
tently got in first. Taking Col. Webb’s state
ment as true, which Mr. Willis denies as
entirely false, the conduct of the former is
infamous. To gratify his malignity, and
wreak his vengeance upon a personal enemy,
he rakes from the buried past, incidents whidh
regard for the memory of his dead friend
should have made him wish forgotten forever,
to say nothing of the feelings of the su»viv
ing daughter.
Let N. P. Willis be as bad as his worst
enemy would make him, James Watson Webb
has shown himself utterly despicable.
“ Some five or six years ago, when I was
editing a daily paper in this city, I received
several letters from a young school girl, who
is now a respectable married lady, residing,
with her husband and children, in a neigh
boring State. She waa a child of a great deal
of irregular genius and eccentricity of con
duct ; but, withal, never seemed to me to
have either the idea or the consciousness of
any impropriety. She would go where she
liked, call on any gentleman whom she cared
to see, and, once, it is well known, when of
fended at home, went and offered her services
as a servant girl to a family in the city. Being
very beautilul, she was very much aimired,
but I have often said of her, and say now,
that I never knew so wild, brilliant, and appa
rently lawless a creature, who inspired so
universal a confidence in her virtue. Until
Col. Webb's calumnious publication of yes
terday, to which this is a reply, I never heard
it doubted.
This young girl had a passion for literary
fame; and if I remember rightly, wrote a novel
before her marriage. Her letters to me were
the irregular outpourings of a heart and mind
overflowing and impatient of silence;but how
ever disconnected and rhapsodical, they seem
ed to me more full than was at all common
of the unconcentrated promise of genius.
What sentiment in them was addressed to
myself, I never twice thought of, fer it is such
as is addressed often to those who are sup
posed gate-keepers to celebrity and ap
preciation. An editor’s drawer ii full of such
propitiatory compliments, and he is indeed
silly if he consider them as any thing but the
toll to the pathway of fame.
“On her return from Europe, some time af
ter, I heard that this lady was about to be
married, and a gentleman wrote to tne for an
interview and courteously applied for her let
[ ters. I had laid them aside, thinking them
■ interesting as the first irregular utterances ot
, what I thought would prove to be genius,
but promptly returned them, with no idea
that there was any thing either threatening or
! unusual in the request. Col. Webb was pres
i ent when they were delivered, and expressed
Ino dissatisfaction with me, or with them. 1
1 soon after met her father, who I understood,
1 had supposed me to be an encourager of the
j eccentricities of his daughter, and had f-lt
| unkindly to me, but, with a few words of ex
planation, we shook hands and parted, and of
that matter I never thought more.
“ Os the ‘ complete ruin' of this lady, (now
living most respectably with her husband and
children in a neighboring State,) Col. Webb
accuses me in language too gross to copy. He
begins by saying that he was, himself, a very
dear friend of her father! She has been mar
ried six years—this is the first time she has
ever been accused of guilt, privately or pub
licly, to my knowledge—and Col. Webb now
accuses me of her ruin, calling her father a
‘ very dear friend,’ whose * untimely end he
mourns.' This accusation is unqualifiedly un
true ; but even if so cruel and wilful a false
hood were true, what human heart would be
thought capable of so agonizing the living
daughter of a dead friend, as to re-parade it
to the world after it was forgotten r It wa9
because he revengefully thought that a fresh
slander of this kind would be the ‘ drop too
much' in my cup of such trouble at the time;
and—(if the public mind prefer to take sides
against innocence, without proof or reason)—
perhaps it will.”
Honors to Gen. Quitman
The festival in honor of General Quitman
prepared by his friends to welcome him back
from New Orleans after the abortive prose
cution or persecution, of the Free Soil dy
nasty at Washington, took place at Jackson,
Miss., on the 14th inst. The Mississippian
contains a glowing account of the animating
scene. It introduces the description with
the following caption:
Great Demonstration
at the State Capital, in honor op
GENERAL QUITMAN!
1,000 SOUTHERN RIGHTS MEN IN COUNCIL
When it was announced that Gen. Quit
man had been released from the custody of
the Federal authorities, it was resolved by
bis fellow-citizens of Central Mississippi to
welcome him back to the Capital of the State
in a manner which would exhibit their a
biding confidence in his patriotism, and their
joy over the signal defeat and discomfiture of
his base and malicious accusers. Wednes
day, 14th of Mav, was fixed upon as the day
on which the ceremonies should take place;
and accordingly every preparation was made
for a grand demonstration on that occasion.
We cannot give more of the proceedings,
which fill several columns. Below is a
sketch of the response of Gen. Quitman to
the address of welcome delivered by T. J,
Wharton.
We also copy the letter of Ex-Governor
Lumpkin, of this State, in reply to a letter of
invitation. The last few sentensea of the let
ter are impressively true. They are worthy
of being deeply pondered by the people of the
South,
Gen. Quitman's Response. —For nearly
two hours, the old hero and statesman rivet
ed the fcttention of his vast auditory. It
was due to himself and to the multitude who
surrounded him, that he should devote a por
tion of his remarks to the proceedings which
had been the remote occasion of this imposing
demonstration. After expressing in affecting
terms, the deep sense of gratitude that s welled
his bosom for the continued co.n&dence snd
approbation which h3d been so signally mani
fested by his fellow-citizens, he alluded to
the prosecution against him by the Govern
ment, and declared that he had no par
ticipation wtaa ever in the Cuban expedition
—that he peremptorily refused to participate
in it notwithstanding the repeated and urgent
solicitations that were made to him. He said
there was not a scintilla of evidence against
him, and those who pursued him with such
bitterness well knew it. Tb§ chiat motive
that influenced them was the bumbling of a
sovereign State before the majesty of the cen
trial government, by forcing \tg %hies executive
officer to the alternative of or per
mitting its dignity to he lowered in his per
son. The slander in connection with the
State arms was also denounced in becoming
terms. He next adverted to hi* own position
on the all-absorbing topic; of the .I vy, and
corrected the false and an warrantee con
structions which had been ptased upon his
published documents by the so-cabed “Uflton
leaders. He discusse l the momentoas ques
tions at considerable lengfco. Btic as we will
endeavor to furnish a fall report of his ape-eh
in a future number, we will not attempt to
sketch At this time ; ntit 'imits foroid it. Suffice
it to say, that it was replete with tacts and
arguments ; and when he closed, all f it that
they had listened to th® councils of a true
hearted pair oi; and exulted m the fact,
“that not a stain rests upon a single feather
in the plume that waves over hia brow.’*
>ro* oov. tv
Athbns, Qa., May 4th,\Jß6l.
Gentlemen
l have been honored with the receipt of tour
invitation in behalf of the citiz *ns of central
Mississippi, to participate in an entertainment
to be given at Jackson in honor oi their dis
tinguished fellow-citizen, Gen. J. A. Quit
man, on the 14th inst. I weuld most gladly
mingle with you, and all those who may as
semble on that occasion, but other duties will
forbid my enjoying that pleasure.
In times like the present, it i 3 a moat de
lightful duty to honor the character and ser
vices of such men as Gen. Quitman. He haa
proved himself to be able , patriotic , and firm,
both in the field of battle and the council
chamber. It often requires more moral cour
age to resist the overwhelming and blighting
heresies of a combination of selfish and de
signing politicans, such, as at this time are cor
rupting and undermining the foundations of
our political system, than to meet the well
appointed legions of the enemy, on the field
of mortal strife and combat.
Mississippi is highly favored in having so
many able and faithtul men, among the faith
lees, at the present crisis. Quitman, pavis,
Brown, Thompson, and many others, have
acted nobly. May they prove faithful to the
end.
I look with the deepest disgust and horror
on those Southern men who have abandoned
the South. Lit me suffer tear, pestilence, and
famine, rather than seh my birth-right, and
that of my confiding friends, for a little brief
distinction, notoriety, and authority. The
great question is now being forced on the
country—shall the constitutional reserved
rights of the States be maintained ? or shall
we yield to consolidation, when the will of
the majority shall govarn in all cases l This
great question embraces all the minor issues
of the day. We of the South are in a settled,
fixed, and permanent minority. And, being
slaveholders, we are under the curse and ha
tred of a large sectional majority of the If
nion. Our constitutional rights are disregar
ded, trampled on, and destroyed. Our only
alternativ s are degraded, meek,and qu\et sub
mission, or manly resistance. However, every
partriotic attempt to organize resistance to the
most grievous aggressions on o-air constitu
tional rights is met by political leaders and
papers of the South, misrepresenting and
falsifying our motives, perverting our acts, tra
ducing our characters. We are not allowed
the poor prililego of complaining of our
wrongs without being accused of treasonable
designs. But, after all that has transpired, I
feel assured that upon the slave question, and
our territorial rights, there is much unity of
sentiment among the masses of the South
ern people, and most of them have, in
some form or other, again ar d again, pledged
themselves to defend those rights, at all
hazards, and to the last extremity.-
But yet, in many instances, where the enemy
has marched up to our fighting line , upon the
ground of our own selection —official men in
our own ranks, have sounded an alarm, pro
duced a panic in our ranks, ordered a retreat
advised Cipitulation—yea humiliating, uneon
ditional submission—and greatly magnified
the strength, as well as the generosity of aur
invading enemy. Thus the South nas reced
ed and the North has advanced, But little
confidence is now reposed in Southern resolves
by the enemy; and, what is still worse, we have
lost much of our own self-respect and reliance.,
Can we yet make a stand upon our
shall all be lost in the bottomless gulf of con
solidation? Under the existing state of pub
lic affairs, there is just cause for alarm at the
attempts to form a new party at the South
styling itself, “the Union party/’ a party
wh' se only avowed principle' is to divide
amongst themselves all the offices of the coun
try. both State and Federal. I see already
enrolled in the ranks of this party, whigs n <|
democrats, slaveholders and abolitionists nu
lifiers and submissionists, and I dor/t know
how many other strange components. Some
of the organs of this party ar9 already advo
cating the doctrines of consolidation. Should
this party triumph, we have a consolidated
government, without a constitution, aithoueh
they have prefixed the word constitutional to
their party name. Is it not surpassing strange
that in this year of our Lord 1851, that a r>? r '
ty should rise up, styling themselves- Union
men, whose purpose, if successful, cannot fail
: o oni e s; h otsutr f,h,i *-*
I am, gentlemen, very truly, yours.
t a WiLSON LtJMPKIK
I offer you the following sen/dment:--
I he Sovereignty of the States, and the Union
of the States, one and indivisible. 4
Messrs. G. S. Tarploy, Geo. T. Swann Ft
N. Barrows, B. Barksdale, aa d C. il
Committee of Invitation* ey *i,
Southern Rights meeting iuUri«„ n
Pursuant to notion, a largo and n/pectable
portion of the Southern Right, party „f thi .
county, met at the Court House in 81air5,;.,,,
on the Gth lust., for the purpose of electing
Delegates to the Southern lights Con van!
tions to be held m MiUcdgeville and Kw.
ston. '
On motion, Maj. E. S. Barclay wh* „ ~ ,
to the Chair, and W. J. Conley to
act as Secretary, 0
rnotion, a Committee waa appointed by
the Chair to report the names of suitable
person, to represent this county in the Huber,
natorial and Congressional Cr,„, eiltionß ,
Milledgevihe and Kingston,
The Committee repn lcea the n , lrt93 of s
Keul, and Oapt. Alfred Butt, to the
first, and I)r. a. Young and Col. J. w
Oan&a, to the latter, with power to confer
their powers upon the Delegates of any other
county.
Alter which the following Preamble and
resolutions were submitted by Dr. A. Young
and unanimously adopted : ®*
Whereas, We deem it the privilege of the
American people to meet together, from time
to time, and freely express their sentiment© '
concerning the administration of our Gov
ernrn ent, therefore
Rasolml, That we cheerfully acquiesce in
tha purpose of the Southern Rights Party hi
Georgia, to hold a Convention and nominate
a candidate for Governor. -^annate
de£rt‘ ,, „■’** e " , ' ertain «* m0.«.,d. n ,
Tinian P er the blessings of this
Umon, in the trm V irit tfth. thnuLtion'