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UyCLIIUTIONALIST.
pBNRL GARDNER, JR.
(J'Vom the N. Y, Jour, of Commerce , 29 th ult .)
Arrival of the Canada’s Mail*.
The British Mail Steamer Canada reached
Boston at 5£ a. m.; yesterday, and her mails
were received here by the New Haven Line
last evening. The dates are to the 17th from
Liverpool, and from London to the 16th.
London, May 16th. —To-day the market
has been steady ; Consols were done at 97* for
June, and 97£ for money.
The City article of the Times of yesterday
says—“ln addition to the temporary stop
page of a firm at Liverpool yesterday, anoth
er failure to a large amount has been announ -
ced there, the house being that of Mr. Victor
Poutz, a cotton importer, whose liabilities are
reported to be for £200,000.
The failure of Messrs. W. & D. Oldenburg,
a German house at Leeds, has been announ
ced. The total liabilities are supposed to be
between £50,000 and £60,000, of which some
firms in London and Manchester are losers.—
It was not a long established house, but was
considered respectable.
The Commercial and diplomatic circles at
Berlin has teen startled by the bankruptcy
and Sight of the banker who conductel the
financial business of the Russian embassy, M.
Phillippt. The liabilties are said to amount
to 100,000 thalers ; whether there are any as
sets is not known. The chief creditors are
the house of Franckel, in Warsaw, and the
immediate family connexions of the insolvent.
Several other private persons suffer severely
by the event. One official is named who has
lost by it the whole of his property.
The “ Atlantic.”— A larger portion of the
machinery of the United States mail steam
ship Atlantic has arrived at the Huskisson
Dock, and it is expected that the vessel will
be completely ready for sea towards the end
of June. She has undergone several altera
tions and improvements since her disas er ; a
handsome dining saloon having been erected
on the deck, and that below fitted up with
berths on each side. We believe, also, tisat
the aft cabin has been rendered much light
er.
A Protectionist Shipowner. —The Daily
News gives a list of ships belonging to Mr.
D. Dunbar, Limehouse, the eminent Protec
tionist shipowner. Nor are these 29 vessels
all ; Mr. Dunbar has altogether 33 ships, the
aggregate tonnage of which is 22,000 tong, or
about 1,000 more than Messrs. Green. Near
ly the whole of these vessels have been
bought while the repeal of the Navigation
laws was under agitation, or since they were
repealed ; some of them very lately. And yet
Mr. Dunbar is the leader among those who
declare that British shipping has been and is
in a state of ruin during the whole of the pe
riod in which he has been accumulating this
enoimous mercantile tieet, the largest ever
owned by a single individual shipowner.
Emigration from South Wales. —A large
number of the best and most efficient work
men connected with the mining and iron dis
tricts of Rhymney, Biaenarvon, and Blaina
are about to leave the country in the course
of a very few weeks, intending to embark as
emigrants for the United States. Vessels are
continually sailing from various ports in south
Wales with emigrants, and ere long a large
body of Latter-day Saints will find their way,
it is said, to Br stol, Liverpool, and other out
ports, for the purpose of emigrating to the
great Mormon city or settlement on the banks
of the Great Salt Water Lake. Many of these
Mormonites are employed in the iron districts
of Glamorganshire, and comprise some of the
~st and most experienced workmen.
Thirty-two passenger vessels, with 2,546
.igrants for Canada and the United States,
*iled from Limerick between Ist January
*nd Ist May, being a period of four months.
HP The population of Limerick numbers only
There has been a decrease in the population
of 4,000 since 1841.
It is said that the census, nearly completed,
shows a diminution of two millions of inha
bitants in Ireland since 1841.
The northern papers bring accounts of the
destruction by fire of Downhill Castle, county
of Antrim, the residence of Sir Harvey Bruce,
ff and considered to be one of the finest pri
ll T ate mansions in the province of Ulster.
W- East India Cotton. —A vessel arrived at
* London, from Bombay, has brought the unu
sually large quantity of 4,592 bales and 103
half bales of cotton, of East India produc
tion, as a portion of her cargo.
Large quantities of chestnuts are being im
ported into London from New York.
Arrangements have been made for coaling
steam-vessels at St, Helena, at the rate of 150
tons a day.
No less than 10,000 tons of ice have been
imported during the past month into London
from Norway.
Lines of electric telegraph are now opened
from Munich to Paris.
A steamer is to leave Cadiz for the Spanish
a West Indies on the Ist of every month.
A letter from Rome stated that the Papal
| Government intends sending a nuncio to
Mexico, where his Holiness has not been
hitherto permanently represented.
In the Deutsche Zeitung of Breslau a corres
pondence from Vienna says that a circular note
is about to be addressed by Russia to all the
powers, parties to the treaty of 1815, in which
the cabinet of St. Petersburg will invite them
to form a congress for the settlement of several
questions, on which the very existence of
many states may depend.
France.—A French squadron, consisting of
six sail of the line, left Brest on the 6th for
Cadiz, where it is expected to remain some
time in consequence of the late events in 1 or-
tugal:
The Presse declares itself in favor of General
Gavaignac as candidate* in 1352* for the Presi
dency of the Republic. It says that the cause
of General Gavaignac is making rapid pro
gress, and has already been taken up by the
mercantile, and financial world. ••The feel
ing is becoming general,” says the Presse,
“that to vote unconstitutionally for Louis JNa
poleon Bonaparte would be to render M. Le
dru-Rollin constitutionally eligible.
Italy. —An English Company has offered
to the Sardinian Government advantageous
terms for the construction of a railway to
connect Genoa with a French line from Mau
seilles, counting upon the Indian traffic, on
the route to Alexandria, according to the cir
culations of the Company, would be thus shor
tened by five or six hours.
The Lombardo Vetjeto of the 5 th, states
that the commission named for the re-estab
lishment of the free port of Venice has con
cluded its labors, and that it h-.s adopted the
same line of demarcation which existed pre
vious to the events of 1848, and reserved the
same privileges to articles of national manufac
ture.
It has been settled at Rome between Aus
tria, the Papal Government, Tuscany, Modena
and Parma, to form a commission, which shall
reside at Modena, for the direction of all af
fairs concerning the railway from the Adriatic
to the Mediterranean.
A letter from Rome of the 4th give 3 some
Information of the plans now under considera
tion for the junction of the Adriatic with the
Tuscan sea. Venice and Irieste are to be con
nected with Leghorn by a line crossing the
Romagna; Ancona and Rome are to be con
nected by another line, to be afterwards pro
nged either to Civita Veoohia, or to Porto
d’Anzo, which if put in repair would be a
much better port than the former.
A letter from Bologna, dated the 4th in
stant, says —“The Italians in this place con
tinue their singular system of warfare against
the Austrians. They abstain from smoking,
and the military authorities are so annoyed
at their doing so, that they have even threat
ened the leaders in this new species of revolu
tionary movement. Several young men, who
were among the combatants at Rome at the
period of the French intervention, have been
arrested.”
A letter from Bologna of the 3d, in the
ConstituzionaU of Florence, states that not
withstanding the late decree of Count Nobili
against persons attempting to prevent others
from smoking, the sale of tobacco and cigats
have considerably diminished, thus causing a
great loss to the revenue; that eight young
men of good families are now in prison at
Bologna for having recommended people not
to smoke; and that a young man has been
wounded with a stiletto for having smoked
in the streets.
Letters from Rome, of the 3d, in the Corriere
Mercantile , state that on the Ist some French
soldiers, of the garrison of Castello, had a
brawl with some Italian soldiers, which ended
in a seiious conflict, in which many wounds
were inflicted, and several lives lost on both
sides.
A spirit of personal animosity not only ex
ists between the inhabitants and the French
troops, but between the Roman troops and the
French, which produces almost daily collis
ions and loss of life. The provocation generally
proceeds from the French, and the want of
dicipline in the gßoman troops immediately
brings the dispute to a sanguinary settlement;
but what is really amusing is, that the great
est insult that a French soldier can offer to a
Roman soldier is to call him a “Soldat du
Papa,” and vice versa.
The Roman correspondent of the Morning
Chronicle, thus describes the state of affairs
in the Eternal City The unsettled state of
France and Germany, the uncertain fate of
! the Ecclesi stical Bill in England, and the
deep-rooted hatred of the Romans to Papal
temporal dominion, have spread a heavy gloom
over the ministers of Pio IX., who now well
know their dangerous position, and which
they might have averted by substituting
clemency for vengeance; in the meanwhile the
Mazzini, party openly t vows its intentions,
and prepares for the shock with men, arms,
and money; but their hope of subverting the
government rests upon the chaos now reign
ing in France and Germany.
. Denmark. —A disturbance took place in Co
penhagen, on the evening of the 4th, between
the Germans and the Danes. The military
were called out and fired upon the crowd; five
persons were wounded and the riot was quell
ed.
(From the N. O. Picayune, , 27 th uU.')
Further from New IVXexico-
The St. Louis Republican of the 19th inst.
gives some further items of news from New
Mexico.
The “Santa Fe Weekly Gazette” is the
title of a new paper—they do not last very
long—started in Santa Fe. James L Collins &
Co., are the proprietors, and Neville Stewart
is publisher and editor.
The Gazette, referring to the fact that the
administration of the new Governor was
scatcely a month old, says it is universally
conceeded that he has proved himself a most
active and efficient officer.
Gov. Calhoun ha° concluded a treaty with
Chaco and his confederates, Chiefs of the
Apaches, living east of the Rio Grande. By
this treaty, the Indians are restricted to such
limits as may be assigned by our Govern
ment, and are bound to settle down in Pue
blos—and the Government engages to furnish
them faclities to till the soil.
Ceran St. Vrain and Facundo P no have
been appointed Aids-de camp of the Gover
nor, with the rank of Colonel; Robert T Brent
Auditor of Public Accounts; Louis D Sheets,
Prefect and Judge of Probate Court; John G.
Jones, Sheriff; James Stewart, Alcalde of
Santa Fe county.
On the 26th of March, Gov. Calhoun was
visited by a delegation of Indians, from the
CJtahs, who came to inform the Department
that nothing couli be learned concerning the
fate of the child and servant of Mrs. J. M.
White.
Judges Houghton and Beaublen had resign
ed thir office as District Judges.
Early in April, HughN. Smith resigned his
appointment as temporary Secretary of the
Te ritory. He will not be, it is said, a can
didate for Congress.
Dr. Christian Muller committed suicide at
Santa Fe on the 18th April.
Later from Mexico.
By an arrival yesterday we received files of
Mexican papers to the 6th inst., being three
days later than previous advices. We find
in these papers very little news.
We preceive that the rebel Meleneez is still
at large in Dajaca, but he has not succeeded
in getting up another insurrection.
Three new papers have been commenced in
Puebla: the Maquirista, the Mite, and the
Magiganga. The first two are devoted to
theatrical affairs, and the latter is an organ of
the clergy,
A fire took place in Tlaxcala on the 30th
of April, destroying the houses of the Sres.
Harrerias. Loss $20,000.
A special and exclusive privlege to use
steamboats on the lakes, canals, &c., of the
valley of Mexico, for ten years, has been
granted to Yicente Rosas and Mariano Ayl
lon.
We learn by private advices that the schoon
er M. Sears, which cleared from this port on
the 17th ult., with provisions for the Tehu
antepec surveying party, was notj permitted
to prosecute her voyage beyond Yera Cruz.
At our last advices she was still at that port.
A letter from a friend in Puebla,conversant
with affairs at the capital, and with the poli
tics of the country generally, gives us a de
plorable account of the present condition of
Mexico. He says that the Government has
succeeded in stopping temporarily the con
traband trade on the Rio Giande and at
Mazatlau; but he has no faith that the im
provement in this respect|will be lasting. The
Chambers have been discussing many expe
dient to raise funds, but have not yet ben
able to determine anything definite. The fact
is, says our correspondent, the country is in
such a state that if the prohibitions are not
abolished and the tariff changed, everything
must go to ruin. A revolution broke out at
Tampico, a few days ago, but it was soon
suppressed, and the principal persons con
cerned in the attempt will probably be shot.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs has taken
charge of the financial department, but not
much is expected from him.
We learn that there were, at last accounts,
a great many Americans in Vera Cruz, on
their way to this city.
she anniversary of the proclamation of the
French Republic was great
spirit by the French residents of Mexico.
Many Mexicans took part in the celebration.
On the 4th of April, twenty-two prisoners
succeeded in effecting their escape from the
prison of Jaiacingo, in spite of the vigilance
of fifteen guards.
We find in the newspapers, accounts of
more Indian outrages in Durango. The de
rails are not interesting.
Later from Texas*
By the arrival yesterday of the steamship J
Louisiana, we have received Galveston papers ]
to the 22d inst.
« The political canvass contines to grow
warmer, Gen, McLeod in a recent speech at
San Antonio, declared himself a Democrat.
It had previotlsly been thought that he was a
Whig. In his remarks he make a violent at
tack on Col. Howard, for his course at the
last session, on the compromise bill.
By a violent storm in Wharton county on
the 19th inst, the court-house was blown
down. A great deal of private property was
also destroyed.
A man calling himself Dr. W. Edwards al
leged that $2,790 were recently stolen from
him in San Antonio, and offered S6OO reward
for its recovery. The citizens suspected the
statement, and investigating the matter, con
cluded that he was an impostor. lhey im
mediately furnished him with marching or
ders and a passport.
Col. Barry Gillespie, a lawyer well known
in the middle counties of Texas, died at his
residence in Washington county, a few days
since.
The Democrats of Eastern Texas are to hold
a convention at Henderson, on the second
Monday in June, to nominate a candidate for
Cogrcss. There are about half a dozen Dem
ocrats, and but one Whig, running at present,
and the Democrats do no like the prosrpect.
The great train for El Paso left San Anto
nio on the 7th inst. The Western Texan
states that the train is composed of one hun
dred and seventy wagons, and two hundred
and ten men, besides the escort. Capt. Ar
tber, Ist Infantry, coommands the escort.
A letter to a commercial house in Galves
ton, from a highly respectable citizen of
Crockett, dated May sth, says:
An impromptu fight in the woods, near
Alabama between two families, resulted in all
three of one side being shot—two dead. The
others (peaceable men hitherto) are unhurt.
The name of three brothers shot is Pool; that
of the other party, a father and sons, is Click.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIS i
2iti§tiota, Georgia.
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 3
Southern Rights domination.
FOR GOVERNOR,
CHARLES JL MCDONALD,
OF COBB.
The Democratic and Southern Rights
Platform-
The time has come, in Georgia, when a
grand rally must be made for the principles
of State Rights and of Strict Construction—
when the strong tendencies of a concentra
tion of all power in a corrupt Federal Gov
ernment, must be counteracted, and the sov
ereignty of the States, associated under the
compact of Union, maintained by the popu
lar voice. The contest of 1800 is to be
fought once again. The Republican princi
ples set forth in the Virginia and Kentucky
resolutions of ’9B and '99 are assailed, and
Federalism, which, for half a century, has
been prostrated and condemned, again rears
its Gorgon head, and seeks to stamp its hide
ous features upon the National Government
and policy.
Never before were the rights of the States
and the sovereignty of the States more formid
ably assailed, than -by the party which has
sprung up in Georgia out of the agitation of
the slavery question, and was organized at
Milledgeville in December last, under the
name of the Constitutional Union Party. It
unites in its bosom all the latent elements of
Federalism and Consolidation, which hitherto
had no separate organization among us. It
invites to its support every aristocratic senti
ment which is jealous of popular power, and
doubtful of the capacity of the people to
judge and act wisely for themselves, and
therefore favors a strong government—a gov
ernment of force and not of opinion. It ral
lies to its standard every mercenary motive
which can prompt the parisite of power, and
every worshipper of station, to disdain the
humble fortunes of a Republican State, to
baik in the sunshine of Imperial splendors.
It holds fo/th inducements to the selfish poli
ticians to weaken the sacred tie 3 of affection
and pride which bind the citizen to his native
or adopted State, and make him jealous of
her rights and her honor, under the plea of
discouraging sectionalism. It seeks, under
“ the false cry of Union," to hold up the
spirit of devotion to their peculiar rights and
institutions, and a zealous determination to
defend them at all hazards from abolition en
croachment,, as a crime in the Southern peo
ple. It unites with our bitterest enemies in
the North, in maintaining, that the brute
force of numbers in this Government, is su
perior to the State sovereignties, and that the
Southern people may be lawfu’ly overwhelm
ed with carnage and devastation, should they
at any time seek, in the exercise of their
reserved rights, to escape by a peaceable
withdrawal, the giant power of the Federal
arm.
Against the influence of this new party,
which has retained, without the name, all
that was odious in Federal Whiggery, both
in men and principles, and has won to its
support every nominal Democrat in Georgia,
who was, at heart, a Federalist, it becomes
every Southern Rights man, Democrat and
Whig, to exert himself. The late Democratic
and Southern Rights Convention has placed
its principles before the people of the State
for their support. They are the principles
which once received universal assent in the
days when Georgia was a Republican State,
unless she has become, of late years, steeped
and besotted in the Federalism which made
the elder Adams, and his alien and sedition
laws alike odious, she will prove herself a
Republican State still.
Democrats, we appeal to you to support
those principles. You ! who have ever been
sticklers for a strict construction of the Con
stitution—who have ever believed that the
Utiion of the States and the Rights of the
States could in that way alone be preserved
in honor—and that the sovereignly of the
States was ultimately the supreme and only
reliable protector of the people from Federal
despotism. We appeal to you to sustain the
party and the candidate which hold these
views in common with you.
State Rights Whigs ! ye, who in past days,
a3 the State Rights party of Georgia, invoked
the honored name of Jefferson, and the prin
ciples of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolu- )
tions, to sustain you in your gallant fight
against Federal exaction and usurpation, again
lift up your honored banner and inscribe
those principles upon i s folds. It will be
unfurled in a cause as sacred, and will be
beset by foes far more formidable, for the
arms of domestic treason and fatuity are
already uplifted to strike it down. Should
the banner of State sovereignty b<vthus trail
ed in the dust, the feet of Northern Abolition
ism will trample it down with exultation.
Let the declaration go forth from the South,
that a State cannot be coerced by the military
force of the Federal Government, back into a
Union from which it had been driven by a
conviction that the rights and interests of her
people were no longer safe in it, and there is
no extremity of humiliation which anti-slave
ry selfishness, in the arrogance of its power,
will not impose upon the Southern people.
It is not to urge the exercise of the right of
secession here asserted, on account of past
wrongs inflicted upon our people, or on ac
count of the practical workings, at this time,
of the lederal system, unjust and partial as
it is, that the right itself is claimed by the
party which is restive under the fraud perpe
trated on the Southern people by the Com
promise measures. That it is emphatically
denied by the anti slavery section of the
Union, is a sufficient reason why it should be
as emphatically asserted. The Northern peo
ple desire to disarm the South of this most
effectual weapon, in the last resort, with
which to defend herself. This done, the
South is wholly at the mercy of a nu
merical majority of Abolitionists, who, it
is evident, will at no distant day, have the
control of the Government, and will wield it
to the destruction of the institution of slave
ry. But while the Southern States continue
to hold this weapon of defence—while they
claim the right to use it, the necessity of
using it may be indefinitely avoided,
Union is too valuable to the Northern people,
with all their fanaticism, to be hazarded by
them. But when the Southern States sur
render at discretion, and their citizens admit
that they are legally liable to be bayoneted as
rebels, and hung as traitors, should they se
cede from the Union, they have no rights
left but what they hold by sufferance. They
are slaves to their Northern task-masters.
These considerations give the approaching
election a practical importance. They render
apparent to every Democrat and Southern
Rights Whig, who has not unbounded confi
dence in the magnanimity of the abolitionists,
the propriety of electing to the Gubernatorial
Chair, CHARLES J. McDONALD, the expo
nent of State Rights, and of strict construction
—the candidate who, in his zeal for the Union,
does not overlook his duty to the South— one
who has never asked, and who does not seek any
favors, honors or rewards, save from the people
of the State of Georgia. Can as much be said
for his opponent that is to be ?
A Stronger Candidate Wanted.
The Chronicle <§■ Sentinel expresses a regret
that the Southern Rights party did not nomi
nate “ a stronger man.” Gov. McDonald was
strong enough to beat the favorite candidates
of that paper for Governor in 1839 and 1841.
He has always proved strong enough to be
elected to every office he wa3 ever a candidate
for in Georgia. When the votes are counted
out next October, he will be found strong
enough for all practical purposes.
Tribute to Gallantry. —The Insurance
Companies of New York have presented Cap
tain Small, of the bark Glen, the sum of sl,-
500; to Mr. Waite, he first mate, $500; to the
mother of Mr. Havens, 2d mate, who was
murdered, $500; to Wcod, $100; and to
each of the two other seamen who refused to
join in the mutiny, SSO, for their heroic con
duct in quelling the mutiny on board said ves
sel, during her voyage from Valparaiso to N.
York.
Bounty Land Warrants. —The Commis
sioner of Pensions gives notice that where
claimants have lost their warrants, or where
they miscarry when sent to them, they shou’d
immediately enter a caveat in the General
Land office, to prevent the issuing of a pa
tent to a fraudulent claimant; and should also
give six weeks public notice of the loss, and
the intention to apply for a re-issue, and also
describing the warrant minutely. The iden
tity of the applicant also should be proved.
News from the Indian Country. —The
Fort Smith Herald has a letter dated, April
28th, from the Chickasaw Nation, giving
some later news from the Indian country. —
The Camanches, high up on Red River, are
represented to be very poor and desirous of
living on friendly terms with the whites. The
past winter was very severe upon them, and
killed most of their horses. Tney still posi
tively deny being at war with the Texans, and
say that it is the Apaches who have and still
do commit depredations upon the frontier.
Some Shawnees saw among the Camanches
a white child, from the description about three
old, and as there is considerable trade and
intercourse between the Apaches and Caman
ches, they think it may be that of Mrs. J. M.
White, which wa3 captured by the former
tribe after the murder of its mother. The
Shawnees said they would endeavor to pur
chase it, and bring it in.
The writer of the letter says that he has
told them to purchase any white child or chi -
dren that the wild tribes may have, and should
they see any, and are unable to purchase to
endeavor to find out whence they were stolen.
The Shawnees report the discovery of gold
by the Delawares on the Faux Washita, in the
Chickasaw Nation.
The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Monitor of the 22d
ult. complains greatly of the want of rain
in that section, several weeks having elapsed
since there had been even a respectable show
er. Corn and cotton were suffering by this
drought, and the gardens completely parched
up. For some days past the heat had been
excessive for this season, and there were no
indications of rain.
The Steamship Cambria left Boston on
Wednesday, at noon. She takes out twenty
nine passengers for England and twenty for
Halifax, and $130,319 in specie. j i
Virginia Convention. —This body has
adopted a section making ail elections viva
voci!. The Richmond Whig says :
The 15th section was next adopted. It
provides that the Legislature shall pass no law
which embraces more than one subject, and
that to be distinctly embraced in its title. And
further, that no law shall be enacted by re
ference to the title of, or any section in any
other law, but the whole of it shall be express
ed in the act itself.
Lhe 16th section as adopted gives power to
the Legislature to pass a law prohibiting any
person concerned in a duel from holding of
fice under the Commonwealth. An ineffectual
attempt was made so to amend it as to make
it a Constitutional prohibition. A saving clause
was inserted in favor of those who have here
tofore offended.
Slaves and Free Negroes.—The whole
increase of the United States population for
the last ten years is 6,198,045, of which 5,-
472,931 are whites, 692,234 slaves, and 32,-
880 free colored.
As compared with the whole present popu
lation, says the N. Y. Commercial Adverti
ser, this is 28 78 per cent increase among the
whites, 21,77 among the slaves and only 7,84
among the free colored —a discrepancy so
striking in regard to the last mentioned as to
challenge investigation as to the cause of so
singular a variation from the general law go
verning population in this country.
The Drama'
A good audience attended at Concert Hall
last night, to witness the fifth representation
of “ The Drunkard ” The play was well per
formed throughout, and gave entire satisfac
tion. Miss Richardson proved a valuable rep
resentative of the patient and forgiving wife.
We admire the spirit of a great actress that
will thus show its versitility in pourtraying
the different ranges of character.
To night, the moral domestic Drama of
“ Rosina Meadows ,” will be performed. The
character and effect of this piece is similar to
that of “ The Drunkard ,” and cannot fail to
draw a good house.
The extracts published below Tare from th e
N. Y. Tribune, and we respectfully recom
mend a perusal of them to our Union friends,
who so positively affirm that the fugitive slave
la w will be enforced, and that by means of the
compromise, we shall receive for the future,
all that we are justly entitled to at the hands
of our Northern brethren . The editor of the
Tribune speaks of the recovery of slaves
through the agency of that law as extremely
preposterous, and tells his readers that the
Southern people no more expect to gain any
thing by it, than the North intend they shall.
We have given them the shadow ot good
things (he says,) and they are content.
He treats the idea of a demand for redress
for any infraction or total disregard of the pro
visions of the compromise measures, as by no
means to be apprehended. For, says he, if
the Southern people had ever intended to dis
solve the Union it would have been done long
ago. Bui they have no idea of such a thing.
So long as they can now and then, by great
exertion on the part of Government, and the
expenditure of large sums of money, reclaim
a runaway, they’ll be perfectly satisfied.
But hear him in his own language:
“ And what is the execution of this fugitive
slave law upon which we are gravely told the
issues of life and death to this Union and Go
V€Tnment hang ? Does not everybody know
that it amounts to nothing, practically? Does
it not cost a good deal more than it comes to
for an owner of an absconding chattel to re
possess himself thereof ? Do not the fugitives
fly in droves to Canada at its approach ? In
deed did not Mr. Speaker Cobb himself de
clare here in New York, in effect, that it was
only the name of the thing that they were as
ter, and not the runaways themselves that
they expected to get ? And did they not get
that in the passage of the law ? Don’t the
South understand that they can't get their es
caped slaves, no matter how many laws are
crowded upon the statute book, or crammed
down the unwilling throats of the North ?
Are not the flying blacks slid along to Cana
da, secreted, and otherwise kept out of the
reach of their masters? Was the Union dis
solved because Shadrach was rescued, or
would it have been if Sims had escaped ? The
rescue was made the occasion of an extra ebu
lition of Southern scoriae belched through
“Union" throats in various latitudes, and the
escape would have had the same results, but
this is all. It is no compliment that the pe
culiar friends of the South and the Union pay
their Southern brethren, when they say the
shadow of things satisfies them ; that they are
content with the rejection by Congress of the
“ Wilmot,” though they know that slavery
cannot go into New Mexico and Utah, and
that they are satisfied with the show of the
execution of the fugitive slave law, though it
does not secure the return of a single slave,
only at a cost of more time, trouble and ex
pense than he is worth. And it is a still more
significant intimation that they consider the
Southern people destitnte of all common
sense, when they declare their belief that they
will forthwith dissolve the Union if these
phantoms should cease to adorn the wall
where the shadows have been cast, to delight
while they mock them.
* * * * * * *
“If the South were in earnest in saying
they would attempt dissolution if the North
would not return their fugitive slaves, then
they would attempt it now ; they would have
attempted it long ago. For the North does
and will not return them. They hide them
and they send them to Canada,’ The South,
and the whole South, sees it, and knows it.
The fact that creatures of the Federal Govern
ment now and then dab and deliver a runaway
furnishes the South an excellent pretext for
professing satisfaction, and for an extra threat*
and threat of what they would have done if
such creatures had not been found.
" We contemn utterly the whole gasconad
ing and intimidating procees. Yet we are so
used to it that it fails to provoke the indigna
tion it is naturally calculated to excite. In
deed our wrath is mainly felt toward the
chicken-hearted crew who cower beneath it,
of whom the whispering apprehenders of dan
ger to the Union are the chief. Fo? these
who play the game of intimidation we have
in fact a kind of respect. It is a manifesta
tion of plucky impudence not altogether con
temptible and we feel that the gams is play
ed because it is fancied that some ulterior
good i o slavery may grow out it.”
Hain.— The parched was
refreshed’ on Monday evening last by the fail
of a congenial and acceptable shower of rain. It
was not half enough here, but we understand
a few miles West of this there was a eood
season. It has cleared off since and looks
like we may have some fair weather a^ain—
Laurensville Herald, 30tk ult.
Wheat Caor.-We have been shown .eve
ral samples of ripe wheat, one from Mr. James
l **’ * " ll ' * a **-•»**_ |
Bell’s plantation in the lower part of the Dis
trict, and one from Mrs. McNets’ in the upper
section, both of which are said be average
samples, which indicate fine crops of this grain
in our District. Instead, therefore, as we sup
posed last week, the wheat, though low, is
well headed, the grain large and sound, and
full crops will be made.—l 6.
Hartpord, Conn., May 29.
Balloting for U. S. Senator. —The Legisla
ture to-day went into joint convention, for
the purpose of electing a United States Sena
tor. Seymour, dem., on the first ballot re
ceived 105 votes, and Roger S. Baldwin, whig,
103 votes ; 10 scattering votes were polled for
other whigs, 3 votes for other democrats, and
2 votes for free-soil candidates. No choice.
The Convention then adjourned until to-mor
row, when the balloting will be resumed.
Hon. Stephen Branch, a well known citi
zen of Rhode Island, died at Central village,
in this State, yesterday.
(Telegraphed for the Baltimore Americcan .)
St. Louis, May 30.
Later prom the P:»ains. —A party who
left Deseret April Bth, arrived here to-day,
bringing .later advices from Salt Lake. There
was snow upon the mountains to a consider
able depth.
On the south side of the Platte River Cros
sings the party encountered a band of 200
Chienl and Sioux Indians, who were on a
war excursion in pursuit of the Pawnees.
The Salt Lake crops were in a very promis
ing condition.
The Cailfornia train was getting along well.
—The Mormons has sent out two new,
colonies, one to the lower end of the Basin
and another to Lower California.
The General Assembly of the State of De
seret, had trans ferred its power to the Terri
torial Government and adjourned.
Gov. Young was awaiting the arrival of the
Territorial officers, in order to organize the
Government.
Toronto, May 29.
Canadian Affairs . —The Governor General
has refused to communicate V the Assembly
the correspondence with the United States,
relative to the reciprocity Treaty with regard
to the duties. The Minister of Finance spoke
of retaliation and considered closing the Ca
nals as the best plan that could be adopted.
The Attorney General stated! that the Gov
ernment at the end of the prese t session
would remove to Quebec. The House has
adopted the address of the Home Government
against the reduction of duties on foreign
lumber.
New-York, May 30, 6 P. M.
Mhthodist Church Case— Brother Jona
than. — The arguments in the Methouist
Church case were closed yesterday by Rever
dy Johnson, in behalf of the plaintiffs, At
tire conclusion the Court advised the litigants
to settle the matter amicably, as best for the
interests of religion and of the i
Church. It is inferred that Vae decision of
the Judge will be in favor of the claimants.
The damage done to the Brothel Jonathan
has been already repaired, and she sails to
night for Chagres.
New York, May 30th— 10 P. M.
Failures. —A Cotton Broker and a Land
Speculator failed to-day. It is rumored that
bills to the amount of £BOO,OOO, drawn on
London by various firms here, will be, return
ed, and large reclamation made. Tnere are a
number of startling rumors flying about.
{Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.)
Baltimore, May 29.
On Thursday Cotton was heavy in the New
York market, and no sales vrere reported.—
The elecion for a U. S. Senator from Conn* .
tieut has resulted in no choice.
Baltimore, May 30
Cotton was again heavy in the N ew York
market on Friday and prices had s’.'ightly re
ceded. One thousand bales were sold.
The arguments in the Methodist Church
ease have closed. It is supposed the Judge’s
decision will be in favor of the claimants. &
The speech of Mr. Webster, on Wednesday
afternoon, at Albany, was strongly in favor of
the Compromise measures, and in the c jurse
of it he remarked that the operation of t’ne Fu
gitive Slave law must be met, and. that he
regarded it as necessary, just, expedient and
proper.
The sales of Rio Coffoe in t\ ie Baltimore
market during the week have Counted ta
seven thousahd bags, at frr, m 9 to 91 The
bag? 0n hand aUa ° Untß thousand.
t .u xr xt . Baltimore, May 81.
In the New xork market on Saturday Cot
ton was firmer, and prices had slightly ad
ihe/®1® 80f the amounted to
tvvo thousand bales, and of the week to five
thousand bales.
The steamer Franklin for Havre, has sa--, ed
with one hundred and thirty-six passe-.-I “
and a million in specie. A cotton brok „
a land speculator iailed yesterday, r. L ,
ported that Bills drawn on LondU-A amount'
ing to eight hundred thousand poa’.ndasierl n
(nearly four million of dollars,> i b *_
ed. Humors of failures amort ?tUrn
lators are dying about, g °“ 0n 3pecu -
New Okz*ea>; 8> May 30, 8,20 P. M.
Two thousand tnree hundred bales were
sold to-day in this market at previously re
ported rates. .l.ow to strict Middling is qur t
ed at from 8* to B*. The receipts afthis It
t e p S Tf b i Undred and fift y- fiv « thousand b £ les
ahead of last year. The stock on hand • ,
to one hundred and forty-eigh
bales, and the sales of the wefk / ho t usa , n(i
thousand five hundred bales. t 0 twe * Te
Ihe weather has been unujr a ~rj~~ ,
the last two weeks, the tfc erm l! . for
frequently as high as 87. ? “ nßing
dry, and nearly® eTerrt hi^® ear ; h “ ver y
dry weather. Ot\‘ )a« £ Mondavi* 161 *- by £he
had a considerable Shower • We
t 0 «« »•.??*! to any d'epth 1
“icvc“™s“'
reomTd T tw S a K »?' h-ltw
be shipped by the n 61>e °' e would
auantS»\«. * * rankhn » but 30 far, the
was sbtJ k ttt f ° r tdis P Ur P°a e is less thaa
was Ssmt by either of the last four Livernool
steamers, which sailed from this port. Fq JZten
Exchange continues firm at rates last ZoT
bc'excLd r ht r ,l 0 quiet any fears whi< * XA *y
entton dby - he rumors of failurea among
S m J\ P6ia iTeS,We m *y state that lhe three
t , k oU:ses *. whose stoppage i.s announced
■.ay.ffereinaTMy limited business, and
their biabmt es are trifling in amount.
■the stock market is generally deDressed
a ndthere are more sellers than buyers. At
the first hoard we notice sales of U. S. 6"s of
UA a JL ll i ; Penn * s’B 5 ’ 8 93 i a94 ; Erie Income
bds. 97; Erie Convertibles 95$ ; Hudson Riv
er 2d mort. 99 ; Erie R. R. 88$ a 87$ ; Har
lem 765; Reading 59$ a 595; Canton 80 a 79;
Long Island 22$ a 225; Koch & Syr 114$;
Utica 8t Sehenee. 125 ; Hudson 80, with sales*
buyers 13 mes. at 78 j Portsmouth 8$ ; Morris
16$; Alb. & Sehenee. 97 •—Journal of Com*
men*.
