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TriK CONSTITUTIONALIST, j ' aAMES GARDNER, JR. [for the constitutionalist.] The Awful Story of Wire. Jane Youmg i'll sing you a song that ne’er was sung, A song full of sorrow and woe, To tell you the story of Mrs. Jane Young,l Who dwelt on the great Tugaloo. Tis a fact that is curious and notable too, Thit.the form of this lady is slight; And what is still stranger, but equally true, She’s just furti-fve .*n& her hair black as night,"2 Possessing these qualities who will deny But this woman was forned to do harm, Especially when I shall speak of her eye, Which now 1 will do to a charm. There’s danger in black eyes,there’s danger in blue? There's danger in hazel they say, And while we admit that all this may be true, Don’t lorget there’s great danger in grey. / with pistol and knife, To the city of Athens she went, Determined to take a poor editors life— No doubt to do this she was sent. 3 Not finding the editor driving his quill, Her mind underwent a slight change,— The publisher then, she determined to ki11,4 \ And thus all his plans disarrange. But the fates so decreed that he should not die. Defending the great Union cause,s So the col’s alive and the Banuer floats high, And Mrs. Young’s in hands ofthelawsfi JOKOSO. 1 This woman, evidently insane, threatened the life,ot the editor ot the Athens Banner. 2. The editor is quite minute in describing her person. There is something peculiarly ludicrous j in referring to her grey eyes. 3. The ed tor. very singularly too, thinks t lat this crazy woman was instigated by his political enemies to take his life. 4. Not finding the editor in the office, she unfor tunately wounded the publisher of the Banner by a pistol shot. 5 The editor very patriotically expresses his will ingness to die in defence ol the cause he is adro it catiug. 6. Mrs. Young is in jail awaiting her trial. {From the Southern Press.) The Georgia Platform- Almost the entire bod/ of Southern people who resolved to submit to the late compro mise,adopted or endorsed the position assumed by the Georgia Convention. They determin * e d f with a discrimination somewhat amusing ~ a nd self condemning, that, although, they could “ gracefully" submit to :he compromise l measures, they would not submit to further aggressions. An unconditional submission to the compromise seemed to be so much like uncondit’onai submission to federal power, that the convention almost involuntarily and unavoidably fell into the necessity of defining the limits of its submission. That conclusion is so important in itself, and in the principles and consequences it indicates, that it deserves a very serious consideration. One of the resolut ; ons of the convention is, that the State of Georgia wi.l resist, even to a tlsruption of the ties that bind her to the UYuon, a repeal of the Fugitive slave law, or the refusal to admit new States, whose consti i tutftkns do not prohibit slavery, or the passage of l«vs concerning slavery in the District of adverse to the peace, honor or ' safety of the South, or the prohibi ion of the inter-slave trade, &c. Here are fjur or five conditions which Georgia prescr bes as indis pensibie to her continuance in the Union. The Georgia Union convention then dis tinctly asserts the right of secession. For, if either of these further aggressions is commit ted, she repudiates tne Union —a thing which she can do only by secession. Now, it cannot for a moment that the able and V ectabie members of that body, in cage the Stringency occurs on which they renounce * " Union and they act according to their de ■ ~ nation, believe ttyty will thereby become a fulaiion of traitors, of rebels, of criminals : it i hey will be legally hunted end hanged as daws ! No, they believe on tfie contrary, M they have the right to secede, and would, ; that case, be doing right to secede, and fit any body who opposed them in doing >. #t’« wou'd be doing wrong. Vscorgia, having then, with the approbation ofelheinost Union-loving people of the South, her right, the right of a single State to secede, and to determine for herself the contingency ert which she will secede, has as serted the’right of South Carolina, or any other State to secede, and to determine the j. ckcumstances on which for herself she will eflFcise thi3 right. If, therefore, the case of South-Carolina f ession comes before the next Congress, orgia stands already pledged to oppose fed coercion—not because she may think 'uth-Carolina has adequate cause of seces n s but because Georgia, by asserting for •self the right of deciding this question for ■ ,rself, has thereby asserted the right of all ■ e other States to do the same thing.— B -orgia stands committed still further than I is. She must not only oppose any propo ■ don to employ federal torce in the coercion B f South-Carolina, she cannot permit her own I 4 money, much less her own men, to be so en ■ - Nay, she cannot tolerate the empioy ■ ment of the men or money of any State to I make a forcible attempt to crush a right I which she asserts for herself. For an attempt ■ Kj federal force to coerce South-Carolina, H * nce only on the assumption that H J j»Sftate has no right to secede, would be an MK c k on the Georgia platform itself, which ■ / Asserts the right. ■ Let us recollect that the Georgia conven- B W tionTwa* no irregular or unauthorized body W 4L oTmeat but a State convention, called by law. ■ to decide these very questions, and elected ■ at>er long and earnest discussion. The prin m elples set forth in the resolutions of that body H have the same dignity, force and sanctity, as I a biU of rights, in a State constitution. The ■ occasion was a great and solemn one. and the ■ declarations then made were put forth with H the most solemn assurances, that they would ■ be maintained to the very letter. Hence, m IT the next Congress, not only Georgia, but alt ■ the South which adopted, endorsed and «- H tolled her proceed ngs, must, if there is any II such thing as a fragment ot faith and honor ■ remaining? repudiate and resist the applies- H ° oa of force employed iu crushing the right ■ of secession. Even the last Virginia resolu- H tions in which both parties concurred so B unanimously and myster.ously, assert by m ■l evitable inference the same doctrine, lhey B declare that they differ about the justice, ex- B nediency, and constitutionality ol the ccm- B Cm.se measure,, but do not think they jus fl rifvlhe adoption of any measures tending ib WSt 1 / , n , in nof the Union. We must infer, fe, measures might be adopted that B would justify disunion, and in that event, the wouiujv* J is i aturet would be m fa gp members o did JM)t imegme M That iu such » contingency they wo»W bare H u immediately converted into a body m ■ &“J,“ perjurers and feh-ue Os the darkest ■ dy Th. only possible expedient of escapefrow Wm . t hat even the Virginia resolu- Wm by'inference the right of sasea- Bh kqften a stronger mode ol assert* ing a principle, than by direct terms,) is that j they mean what is called “ the right of revo- ! lution," But we have already unanswerably exposed the fallacy and solecism of this phrase. The truth is, the “ right of revolu tion" means, when reduced to its plainest terms, the right of being hanged, if you are | caught in the act of resisting aggiession. 1( Telegraphed to the Baltimore American.') Further per Canada. Halifax, May 26th, 12 P. M: The steamer Canada arrived here at 9, P. M. with 53 passengers, four of whom are for Bostonand ten for Halifax. She experienced very rough weather the three first days out. The news generally is unimportant. Crowds continued to press into the Crystal Palace. The Queen makes a daily private visit. The receipts of one day had been as high as £3,000. Season tickets still sell at first price. In the House of Commons, after some discussion, the further con ideration of the Ecclesiastical Titles Hills, by consent of the Premier, was ; postponed to the 19th. The Liverpool Jour ! nal says: “We believe we are in a condition ; to state that in a week or two the Ministry I will resign and Lord Stanley will accept of- I fice. We are at all events quite c. rtain that | this occurrence is expected by all the Govern ment officials to follow immediately on Mr. Bayiie’s Ceylon motion, upon which it is cal culated.the Ministry will be left in a minority. Lord Stanley is now prepared to form an ad ministration. France. —Gen. Cavaignac is now promi | nently put forward as a candidate for the j Presidency, and raceives the support of M. | Emile Girardin. The leading journals seem to iavor his views. Great preparations are | being made by parties for the approaching i election. Gen. Durreen, the government j candidate, is elected for the department of Launes. The Journal de Messages has been ! seized for announcing that fourteen regiments have been ordered to Paris, and reiterating the statement as correct. Germany. —Germany is quiet. * Italy gives signs of discontent. The evac uation of the Danubian principalities was to be completed on the 19th instant. Advices from the Cape of Good Hope to | the 4th of April have been received. Tne in telligence is most unlatisfactory, Sir Henry Smith had been compelled to fall back upon King Wiliiamstown, his force being inade quate to undertake any thing like a compre hensive military scheme. The defeat of the Kaffirs by Col. Somerset only incited the va ' rious tribes to fresh hostilities. Markets.—Cotton. —On the 16th, the de mand being large and the quantity offering reduced, prices have recovered ito fd. The I extreme point of depression is past, and busi ness will doubtless resume its course. Sales of Cotton for the week were 46,000 bales. Flour is offered on easier terms. A decline of 6d per bbl. has, in some instances, been submitted to. Indian Corn is in good demand. Cousols for June closed on account at 97§. American stocks exhibit increased activity and prices generally were better. Money was in moie request. Frieghts quiet with a downward tendency. Passengers scarce. The telegraph line between Portland and Halifax was in such bad working order that we were obliged to stop loceiving at 2 o’clock. A Picture for Bachelors. —ls in tint chair yonder—not the one your feet lie upon, but the other beside you—closer yet —were seat ed a sweet-faced girl, a bit of lace running round the threet, and the hair parted to a charm over a forehead fair as any in your dreams, and if you could reach an arm through that chair-back without fear of giving of fence, and suffer you fingers to play idly with those curls that escape down the neck, and if you would clasp with your other hand those little white taper fingers of hers, which lie so temptingly within reach, and so talk softly and low in the presence of the blaze, while the hours slip without knowledge and the winter v. histle uncared for-r-if, in short, you were no bachelor, but the husband of such sweet imagine—dream call it, rather—would it not be far pleasanter than a cold, single night sitting counting the sticks, reckoning the length of the blaze and the hight of the falling snow ? Surely imagination would be stronger and purer if it could have the playful fancies of dawning womanhood to delight it. All toil would be torn from mind labor, if but another heart grew into this present, soul quickening it, warming it, pheering it, bidding it ever Godspeed. Her face would make a halo, rich as a rainbow atop of ail such noisome things as we lonely souls call trouble. Her smiles j would illumine the blackest of crowded cares, i and darkness that now scants you despondent in your solitary chair, for days together, weav ing bitter fancies, dreaming bitter dreams, would grow light and thin, and spread and float away, chased by that beloved smile.— Your friend, poor fel'ow ! dies —never mind ; that gentle clasp of her fingers, as she steals behind you telling you not to weep—it is worth ten fiiends! Your sister s veet one, is dead—buried. The worms are busy with all her fairness. How it makes you think earth nothing but a spot to dig graves upon ! It is more. She says she will be a sister ; and the waving curls as she leans upon your shoulder, touch your cheek, and your wet eye turns to meet those other eyes—God has sent his angel, surely ! Your mother, alas for it, she is gone! Is there any bitterness to a youth, alone and homeless, iike this r You are not alone ; she is there ; her tears softening yours, her grief killing yours, and you live agaip to assuage that kind sorrow of hers. Then—these children rosy, fair haired; no, they do pet disturb you with prattle now, they are yours. Toss away there on the green sward never mind the hyacinths, the snow drops, the vio lets, if so be they are there ; the perfume < f their heathful lips is worth all the flowers of the world. No need now to gather wild boquets to love and cherish; flower, tree, gun, are all dead things ; things iivelier hold your soul. And she, the mother, sweetest and fairest of all, watching, tending, caressing, loving till your own heart grows pained with tenderest jealousy. You have no need now of a cold lecture to teach thankfulness; your heart is full of it. No need now as once, of bursting blossom trees taking leaf, and greenness, to turn thought kindly and faithfully ; for ever besides you there is fiuit lor which eye, heart and soul, are full of unknown, unspoken be cause unspeakable thank offerings. —lk Marvel. Georgetown, (S. C.) May 28. The Weather and Crop. —The temperature of the weather fqr *hp past week has been as variable a« has been the wind» whipb h r ae fanned us from every point of the compass within the time —moderately at times, and at others almost approaching a gale. The Ther mometer bps ranged as high as 91 deg., in the shade, and while we are writing this short paragraph, it is down tp 80 degrees, apd ;he sky as clear as § belle—scarcely the appear ance of a cloud to be peen. The ear th, too, is extremely dry, sat having had ra W for up wards of tw.o weeks. The upland props are thereiora suffering much, and gardens are lit erally burping up* The folio ving extract, yge malte from a let ter which we received from a large planter of Williamsburgh, dated 22d instant, and from the information we haye arrived at, may be 4 I regarded as a fair index to the crop of that | ! District: “ We are now suffering much for want of rain, and the heat is now so intense —ther- mometer standing at 88 degrees in the coolest room in the house. It is probably too early to venture a prediction as lt> the extent of the crops for the present year, but present indica tions are that the crop will be short. The stand is very bad, and what is standing, was so checked by the frosts and cold winds of April and first week in May, that it does not grow. I have never had a less promising crop.”— Republican. 'iJltrgttsta, ©sonjia. „ FRIDAY MORNING-, MAY 30 Southern Rights Nomination. FOR GOVERNOR, ciiakles j. McDonald, OF COBB. Southern Rights Convention. We received a despatch last evening from Milledgeville, that gives us the gratifying in telligence of the nomination, by acclamation, of the Hon. Chas. J. McDonald, of Cobb county, as the candidate of the Southern Rights Party, for the office of Governor, A better selection could not have been made. Fifty-four counties were represented in the Convention by 156 delegates. Henry G. Lamar, Esq., wa3 chosen Presi dent, and a Committee of 33 were appointed, of which the Hon. Jos. L. Day was Chairman, who reported resolutions strongly Republican and Southern Rights, which were unanimous ly adopted. Ex-Gov-McDonald was nominated by ac clamation . Perfect harmony prevailed, and the Cenven tion adjourned in fine spirits. Augusta Paper Manufacturing Company We are pleased to see that this Company is formed, and will soon go into operation. A Manufactory of Paper is much needed in this section, and we have no doubt the stockhold ers will realize Handsome dividends on their investments. Concert Hall- The favorite little actress, Miss Lewis, and Mr. Josephs, take their Benefit at Concert Hall, This Evening. The Bill selected is a good one, and should draw a full house. Methodist Church South.— From the sta tistics, recently published, we learn that in the twenty annual conferences composing the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church, there is a membership of 514,601; of which 375,520 are whites, 135,594 colored, and 3,487 In dians. In the ministry there are 1,582 trav elling preachers, 118 superannuated, 3,955 local preachers. During the past year, thtre has been an increase of 10,071, in the mem bership, 44 in the travelling connection, 14 on the superannuated list, and 57 local preachers. The Mammoth Steamer. —The Pittsburg Journal says that contracts have just been closed there for a mammoth steamer, whicu makes an era in Pittsburg steamboat building. This will be much the largest vessel ever built there, measuring eleven hundred and seventy-five tons, but carrying between fif teen and sixteen hundred. She is to run in the St. Louis and New-Orleans trade, and will be 310 feet long by 46 feet beam. The Pacific Rail-Road.—We learn from the St. Louis Republican that the Board of Directors of the Pacific Rail-Road Company, have ordered an advertisement for contracts for the construction of forty-five miles of the Road. It is expected that the work of con struction will be commenced in a few weeks. Cotton Factories of New England.— The depressed state of the Cotton manufacture of New England, is seen by the receipts of Cot ton at Boston, which have fallen off nearly one-half in two years. The receipts from Jan. 1, to May 15, in 1849, were 160,976 bales; during the same time in 1850, they were 157,724 bales, and in 1851, 95,936 bales. j A bright and beauttiul bird is Hope; it will come to us amid the darkness, and sings the sweetest songs when our spirits are sad dest ; and when the lone soul is weary, and longs to pass away, it warbles its sunniest notes, and tightens again the slender fibres of our hearts, that grief has been tearing away. South Western Raileoad. —The opening of the South Western Railroad to Fort Val ley (twenty-seven miles from Macon) will be celebrated on the 31st inst. The Seventh Census Complete. —We pub lish this morning from the Washington Re public, of the 22d in3t., the complete returns of the seventh census of the U. States, pub lished at the Census Bureau. From it, it will be perceived that the total population of the free States is thirteen million five hundred and thirty-three thousand three hundred and twenty-eight, while th'.t of the slave States is only six million three hundred and ninety* three thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven, of whom three million one hundred and sev enty-five thousand seven hundred and eighty three are slaves. In the districts and territories, there are one hundied and sixty thousand eight hundred and twenty-four persons, of which three thpusanfl and eighty-seven ay® slaves; making a total representation of twen ty-one million eight hundred and thirty-two thousand six-hu idred and seventy-five, re presented by two hundred and thirty-three individuals as follows:—Alabama, 7, Arkan sas 2, California 2, Connecticut 4, Delaware 1, Flo.ida 1, Georgia 8, Indiana 11, lowa 2, Il linois 9, Kentucky 10, Massachusetts 11, Mary land 8, Mississippi 4, Michigan 5, Missouri 7, New Hampshire 3, New Yoik 33, New Jer sey 5, North-Carolina 8, Qhio 21, Pennsyl vania 2s, Rhode Isfand 2, Sojith-Carolina 5, Tennessee IQ, Texas 2, Vermont 3, Virginia 13, Wisconsin 3. From which it will be seen that tfip plates Os -Alabama, Connecticut, Dela ware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Missouri, N. York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Texas have each gained a representative. # ' ' ‘• * • - • * ' | - ...... . • -a* ■■'■ The Republic understands that the correct- | ness of the returns are not yet entirely vouch- ; ed, but presumes they are sufficiently so as to ; render it probable that there will be no change j in the apportionment. New Hampshire Methodist Conference. —The Manchester Democrat says—This able body of clergymen, numbering 90, exclusive of local preachers, held its annual session at Bristol last week. The Committee appointed for the purpose, reported a series of resolutions expressive of their views upon the Fugitive Slave Law. The resolutions embody the calm, deliberate judgment of an enlightened and patriotic body of men, who as public teacher 8 of religion and guardians of the morai senti ments of our people, feel themselves called upon to express their ut er disapproval and detestation of an unjust, deplorable law “which 1 imposes upon the citizens of this State duties ! that are incompatible with the obligations and charities of the Christian religion, and puts the interests of mammen and party in contrast with, and in preference to, the highest virtues that can dignify States, and ennoble indivi dual man.” The action of the Convention was unanimous in its condemnation of the law , and in urging its repeal. Presbyterian General Assembly, (O. S.) —ln this bady at St. Louis, May 17, the di rectors were elected as follows:—Of the Wes tern Theological Seminary, Messrs. Heron, Swift, Paxton, Mclivaine, Stockton, Kerr, and Alexander. For Elders, Messrs. Larius, Al exander, Johnson, Benjamin and Williams. The reports from delegates of correspond ing bodies were then submitted, and the sub ject of the publication of a cheap religious pa per taken up and discussed at length. Finally, a resolution was adopted, declaring that, while the desirableness of the object is confessed by all, in the present state of the church and board of publication, it is not expedient to take action upon the subject, and the whole matter be therefore laid on the table. The assembly then adjourned till Monday. i The.new Three Cent pieces ordered to be ; coined by the law of the late Congress, are stated to be worth only 2 2-5 cents each. A profit of S2OO on every SIOOO. Thompson's Bank Note Reporter says:—“lt is somewhat thinner and smaller than a half dime, and while new has the appearance of silver, with rather a slippery feeling; 3,333| of these pieces make a hundred dollars, and contain $83,33 of silver, leaving a profit in the hands of the Mint of $16,67 on every $83,33. A dead swindle of full 20 per-cent. God save the Republic.” Bloody Rencontre. —On Saturday evening, i at Richmond, Ya., a sportsman named J. Mor | timer, recent’y from New York, was shot with a revolver, by a young man from Caroline county, Ya,, named A. J. Boulware. He re ceived three wounds—one in the head, and one in each The difficulty commenced in a house of ill-fame. Boulware acted inself j defence. Canadian Parliament. —At Toronto, 23d May, the government suffered a defeat in the legislative assembly, in resisting a motion to introduce a bill for preventing the expendi ture of public money not previously authoriz- i ed by Parliament, and for restraining the granting of pensions. It was the first divi sion this session, and the vote stood 26 to 25. —The address in answer to the royal speech, however, was carried without a division. Determined to be Married. —A young German girl, aged 15, who had run away from New Jersey with her lover to get mar ried, on finding him continually intoxicated after she got to Philadelphia, accepted the proposals there of another young man, and was married just before being caught by her father. Ladies a La Turk are appearing in all quar- j ters, at the North, but yet they are very few in number in each place. One has come out : at new Bedford, another at Newark, N. J. and others are preparing to follow suit. Western j New York towns, however,still take the lead, | The Presbyterian Herald learns that the j persons lately murdered on the Isthmus were the Rev. E. R. Geary and wife, and three children, who were sent out by the Presby terian Board of Missions to Oregon from Ohio, The Shoemakers in Alexandra, Va., are on j a “strike” They have adopted a scale of pri ces, but, so far, not more than one of the “bosses.” has been induced to sign them. William H. Seward.— The Whigs as the South, says the Nashville American, object when we class William H. Seward, of New York, as a whig. They say he is an aboli tionist. So he is. But he is also the leader of byffar the strongest wing of the whig party of the North. If our whigs could read Sew ard and his followers out of the Whig party of New York, they would have scarcely a handful of whigs left to swear by in that State. But they don’t want to read him out, They are glad enough to have his aid in a Presidential election, and only wish to avoid the responsibility of his course on the slavery question. Let it be remembered that the whig State Convention of New York, at its meeting last fall, pessed the following resolution by more than a two t v irds vote: “ Resolved , That our thanks are especially due to the Hon. Wm. H. SEWARD for the signal ability and fidelity with which he has sustained ? in the United States Senate, those | ifil.ved principles of pub lie policy so long cher ished by the Whigs of the Empire State: as ex pressed in State conventions, as well as in the votes and instructions of our State Legislature. Those principles are eminently national and republican, because they aje just and equitable.” A Two-Headed Living Mortal. —The Panama Herald says that “about a hundred miles from this, within the province, there Crists a native ebilej, w hi?h was born with tipo distinct heads. The child is a ißale, and is now about tea years old. It has been seen by persons residing in the city, and their ip reli*tjop to the extraordinary j | SEVENTH CENSUS. * • POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES—APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES I states. , Alabama 426 515 2,250 428.765 342,894 634 501 6 *72.289 Arkansas 126 071 587 162.658 46,983 190.848 2 3,444 California 200 000 200,000 200,010 2 12 596 Connecticut 363*189 7 415 370 604 370.604 3 *89,498 Delaware 71282 17,957 89,231 2.289 906,612 - *90612 Florida 47150 926 48.046 39.3-41 71,650 - *71,650 Georgia 513i083 2,586 515,569 362,966 733.448 7 *77 534 Indiana 983!b34 5,100 988.734 988.734 10 *sl 714 Illinois 853 059 5,239 858,298 858,298 9 20 980 lowa 191*830 292 192,12? 192,122 2 4,718 Kentucky 770061 9,667 779 728 221,768 912.788 9 *75,170 Louisiana 254 271 15685 269,955 230,807 408.440 4 33,632 Maine 581,920 1 312 583,232 583,232 6 21,020 Massachusetts 985.498 8*773 994,271 984,271 10 *57 251 Maryland 418/763 7.3 943 492,706 89, 5C0 546 586 5 *78.076 Mississippi 291.536 898 292.434 300,419 472 685 4 4,175 Michigan 393,156 2 647 395/703 395.703 5 20,895 Missouri 592.176 2 667 594 843 89,289 648.416 6 *86.204 New Hampshire 317 354 477 317.831 317 831 3 36,725 New York 3,042,574 47,448 3,090.022 2,090.022 32 *91,558 New Jersey .. 466.283 22 269 488,552 119 488,623 5 20,113 North Carolina 552,477 27*271 +580,458 288,412 753,505 8 3,889 Ohio 1.951,101 25,980 1,977,031 1,977.031 21 9,289 Pennsylvania 2,258,480 53,201 2,311,681 2,311,681 24 *62,533 Rhode Island.... 144,012 3 543 147 555 147,655 1 *53.853 South Carolina. 274.775 8,769 283 544 384,925 514.499 5 45 989 Tennessee 767,319 6280 773.599 249,519 923,310 9 *89,992 Texas 133,131 926 134.057 53,346 166,846 1 *72.362 Vermont 312,756 710 303,466 313,466 3 32 360 Virginia 894,149 53,906 948,055 473,026 1,231 870 13 13,744 Wisconsin 303,600 626 304,226 304,226’ 3 23,i20 19,517,885 409.200 District of Columbia.. 38,027 9,973 48,000 3,687 TERRITORIES. Minnesota 6.192 —j 6,192 New Mexico 61.632 61,632 Oregon 20,000 20.000 Utah 25,000 25.000 19,668,736 419,173 20,087,909 3,175,589 21,832,621 218 Representatives allowed for fractional numbers, as marked 15 Whole number of Representatives under the next apportionment.. | 233 * These ."States have a Representative added to the number ot apportionment. + Including 710 civilized Indians. g "~ ON. ==m '* Total Free i J opu- Representative . lation. av pi>pu/antm. Free ."States .7... i3~533,328 HIT 13.5 3,399 Slave States 6,393,157 3,175,783 8,299,22 6 District and Territories. 160,824 3,687 20,087,909 3,179,589 21.83^6211 Total free population 20/ 087 909 Slaves 5.17958 S 23 267,498 Ratio of Representation 93.702 ! malformation' is authentic. A well-known medical gentleman and physiologist will visit | the child for the purpose of making a scien | tific examination.” Opinions vs, Facts. —ln a trial at Plym ; outh, Mass., a day or two ago, in the Supreme Judicial Court, the testimony of three experts | who pronounced a singature to a note a ! forgery, w r as taken by the jury against the ' positive swearing of three othei’ men, that j they personally witnessed the signing of the ! name to the note by the person whose name it I bore. The jury must have thought that j opinions were more forcible than facts, or else j had no confidence in the three witnesses. America Building Ships for England.— 1 John Bull is beginning to understand that j Brother Jonathan can build better ships than he can. Webb, the ship builder of New York city, has received an order from an English house for a first-class clipper ship. Her di \ mansions are to be 170 feet in length, 36 feet j broad, and 21 deep. This order, which comes ! through Messrs. Barclay and Livingston,is the first of the kind ever received there. I A. (Jreat Deal of Whittling to be Done. ■ In the advertisement of the Clerk of the Fed j eral House of Representatives of the ner \ Congress, there is set down, among things needed, 250 doz. pen knives; about a dozen for each member—of which. 100 dozen are re quired to be “four bl&ded, pearl handled, and of the highest and best quality, and 100 do zen of two blades, pearl handled, and of the j highest finislvand best quality.” Each mem ber must have a large family of boys. Mobile and Ohio Railroad.— Nine hun- j ' dred and fourteen tons of iron have arrived at ; Mobile from Liverpool for this road. The j ; board of directors are urging upon the stock- ; j holders the necessity of paying in the install ment of tm per cent, due on the 15th inst, to ensure the easyj completion of the thiry-three mdes now in progress of construction. All the iron for this portion has been shipped, and the,third and fourth cargoes will arrive in a ; short time, so that the final preparation of | the road bed will be soon completed. Arrival of the Florida— Passage. —The U. S. mall steam ship Florida, Capt. Lyon, to Messrs. Padelford, Fay & Co., arrived at Savannah on the 27th inst. at three o’clock, in fifty-nine hours from New York to Savannah! This is the shortest trip ever made between the two places, and the best time ever made by any steamer in the south At lantic waters. Passengers going west arrived in Macon yesterday afternoon in seventy-four hours from New \ork, after having remained two and a half hours in Savannah. __ Yorkvillk, S. C., May 24. The Weather and Crops. —The weather is and has been for several days extremely warm : and dry—the thermometer ranging from 80 to 90 degrees. We have not had a drop of rain for some four or five weeks, and the need of it is fast telling on the crops—the corn is bad ly wilted, and in many places burnt—the cot ton is small, sickly and yellow; oats has Qoaie j to a dead stand—gardens are severely injured and nothing seems to be doing well but the wheat crop, which presents a fine prospect for and abundant; harvest. But with‘the excep tiop, of the heat, we have strong indications oi at least a daguerreotype likens* of ’45. Miscellany . m ___ Arrived. — We take great plea sure in announcing that the steamer Magno lia, which has been ashore in St. Cathrine’s j Sound for some days, has been got off wi h- > out injury, and that she arrived here yester day morning. She will leave on Thursday i ! for Florida, at her usual hour.— Sav . Repub li- i can, 28j!/i mst . Lonqbkt Rail R,oad.—The Erie road is the j longest in the world— 467 miles. That be- j twreen Moscow and St. Petersburg, in Russia, ! is next in length, being 42Q miles. The Rus sian government is about beginning a road from Warsaw to St, Petersburg, a distance of more than ?G0 miles, of which Major T. S. Brown, late of the Erie road, will be chief engineer. i he Crops.—The stand of cotton on|Bayous and Des Glaises, looks more promising. Time ly rains—according to accounts from that quarter—have assisted the growth of the plant, and the crops no longer bear the evidence of the protracted drought and chilly weather during the latter er.d of March, and the whole of April. A planter who has re cently visited Bayou Boeuf, and other Bayoua in its vicinity, states that the same remarks will apply to the cane and corn crops on all the Bayous throughout the upper paiishea.. The growth of rhe cane, in particular, is most luxuriant. But lo! the Prairie. For the last two months, the weather has been dry as dust— with the exception of a partial shower, barely sufficient to penetrate and cool the surface of the parched fields. The appearance of both cotton and corn, in the prairie lands, is most miserable—givino-, we are sorry to say, but little hope for tb.r, fu ture.—N. 0. Courier , 23tk inst. Battle of New Orleans.- correspon dent informs us that the late ajor Davezac, when a passenger some ye? rs a ' go on boar(i the packet ship f rcril Liverpool to New York, related the following incident il uscrative of the sbo ° tl n g at tbe batt j e of New Orleans. x* e Blated that>on the morn . mg auer the ba ale .twelve broiled rebins were placed on the breakfast table, prepared for tfener*, Jack'son and his suite, which had shot with a rifle, through the head, by one of the Kentucky Riflemen who had been in the conflict; he had tired thirteen times and mu. ed hitting his bird, in the head , only once! This circumstance being soon known, in the neighborhood, a certificate of the fact was requested of and obtained from Gen. Jackson and his aids, by the British officers, that, by such evidence, on their return t r England, they might exhibit to their Geve iU I ment the character of the enemy at Orleans.— N. Y. Courier. j , W “ ch has been said of the destitution nf i the English laboring classes, i n p i.- has lately written a work i,r w^c h a efaohio and suff rin Pi hT 18 gi^a of * he bistres, and snffarrog whrch prP amo n g the poor itL Sri,, ■ S' th<l P “' is correspondent ol ' Iv! p in ' a ’ ® ho>B **>at the condition of the wretehed with tnat ot the English laborers. j 8 Eight.—The English papers ex- I P^f , f BsUl prise at not finding in the Great Ex \hi iition, Paine’s apparatus for making gas j arom water, which was promised for the Amen. I can department. Ihe Homestead. —The homestead of every | *? an is , a hol y which no law or monopoly ; should be able to wrest from the family. Give I } he father his home, in fact, and secure, ar -i he has position, station, character, and ri r h»o worthy to defend. He is a permanent ß n £ hi taut ot the State, and he is heart and *“, £ voted to the interest of the State, ' hpr terests are his interests. But le' capitalist be able to monopolize \- h * soil J seize, almost at will, upon th SOil * an . d homestead, and we istocracy to lord it over the people as cruelly ? V f r lhe , English Aristocracy made laborers and dependents by the law of entail. The resource the masses against the sure encroachments of capital upon labor is to be founu in the exemption of the homestead, and t he guarantee of the right to i ,abor by laws founded on the natural right at man to liv ** Agricultural Fair. —We publish to day the proceedings of the State .Agricultural Me chanical and Association. It will be seen that preparations are making for a Fair to commence in this eity on the second j Wednesday in August next. The accounts from every direction are of the most cheering character, relative to the prospect of a large attendance. From everv indication it will far exceed the Fair of Central Association held in this city las* * ear The list of premiums is to be a spie'Vaid'one* Fifteen hundred dollar* are alraady pi aeec j at * the disposal of the Committee to be®m with We respectfully ask aid of our co eni porariea throughout the State, in forwarding the enterpnze; and would suggest the pro priety of societies being formed in everv coun. ty for the purpose of co-operating with u& _T Aihmta Republican , 28 th inst. We do not know where we haw met the olio wing, bnt a more beautiful, thrilling, and pathetic piece of poetry we. never read * On a log sat a f rcg y Crying for his daughter* i ears he shed till his eyes were red At d then jumped iato the water— And drowned himself