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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*.