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CON STITUTION ALIST.
BY JAMES GARDNER, JR.
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(From the Poems of Barry Cornwall.)
A deep and mighty shadow
Acres* my heart is thrown,
Like a cloud on a summer meadow,
Where the thunder wind hath blown!
The wild rose Fancy dietb,
And the sweet bird Memory flieth,
And leaveth me alone.
Alone with my hopeless sorrow;
No other mate F know !
X strive to awake to-morrow,
But the dull words will not flow!
I pray, but my prayers are driven
Aside by the angry Heaven,
And weigh me down with wo !
I call on the post to lend mo
Its songs to soothe my pain;
I bid the dim future send me
A light from its eyes—in vain !
N aught comes; but a shrill cry starteth
From Hope as she fast departeth—
“ I go and come not again ! ”
A Letter from Senator Bottler.
Sternland, near Edgefield Court House,
May 28, 1831,
To C. Tf r > Styles , Levi Hill , and A. Wray, Esqs.
Hamburg, S. C.
Gentlemen; You did me the honor yesterday,
to call on me in conformity with the following
resolution, adopted by numerous subscribers for
the call of a public meeting in Hamburg, on the
31st instant, to wit: u That C. W. Styles, Levi
Hill, and A. Wray, Esq., be appointed q commit
tde to wait on Judge Butler,and deliver the public
invitation to him to attend andq. ddresst he people
on the day named*’—the object of the meeting be
ing to consider the question of the separate
secession of South Carolina from all the other
States in the present Confederacy.
Allow me gentlemen, to thank you personally
for the acceptable and polite manner in which
you acquitted yourselves of the duty imposed up
on you,—and to return my cordial acknowledge
ments to my fellow-citizens for the nattering
compliment implied in their call on me to ad
dress them on the occasion indicated.
From intimations which I have received, it is
probable, Ijmay be called to address other meetings
of a similar character. From the best view
which I can take of my duty, having a regard for
my official relations to all the people of South
Carolina, I have come to the conclusion that it
would he better that I should not mingle in such
public meetings just at this time.
The subject of your meeting is one of great
magnitude; and one w hich w ill be discussed by
the publie. I sincerely hope that it may be so
discussed and considered, as to lead to no intes
tine or party contentions in the State itself.
The crisis is .can? which gives to your meeting
great dignity and solemnity. I have every rea
son to conclude that the result of your proceedings
will justify a high opinion of your intelligence
and patriotism.
I cannot conclude this communication with
out making a remark or two on the great sub
ject which has occasioned your meeting.
No one who looks at the certainties of the past,
and the tendencies of the future, but most regard
the crisis in w hich we are involved with anxious
concern and solicitude.
A large proportion of Southern representatives,
and several State Legislatures, by solemn reso
lutions, have declared that Southern institutions
are not safe in the hands of the present Federal
Government. They have received too many
stabs under the deceptive masks of compromises
and party organizations to look for future securi
ty Another question has presented itself for
consideration-would the non-slaveholding States,
by an adequate amendment of the Constitution,
give additional, or any guarantees, for the pro
tection of Southern rights and sectional equality ?
The manner in wrhich Mr, Calhoun’s instima
tions to prepare an amendment of the Constitu
tion w as received in Congress is a pregnant com"
mentry on this new subject.
Mr. Calhoun commenced his last speech with
the following passage:
“ I have, Senators, believed from the first that
the agitation of the subject of slavery would, if
not prevented by some timely and effective mea
sure, end in disunion. Entertaining this opin
ion, I have, on all proper occasions, endeavored to
call the attention of both of the two great parties
which divide the country to adopt some measure
to prevent so great a disaster, but without suc
cess. The agitation has been permitted to pro
ceed with almost no attempt to resist it, until it
has reached a period when it can be no longer dis
fuised or denied that the Union is in danger.—
ou have thus had forced upon you the greatest
and gravest question that can ever came under
your consideration-—How can the Union be pre
served
The mode of securing the Union, as indicated
by that experienced statesman, met with nothing
but the denunciation of an impatient majority.
What alternative then is left to the Southern
States ? Nothing but the province of taking care
of themselves. How is that to be done ? I an
swer, by the formation of an adequate Govern
ment, such a Government as could invest itself
with the powers, and discharge the duties of a
gjlitical sovereignty, among the nations of the
arth; boundless in resources, commercial, agri
cultural, and manufacturing with a numerous and
intelligent population, with Statesmen of w isdom
and experience, and with a model of the best
Constitution that ever was devised. The South
ern States have all the elements of a great Polit
ical Commonwealth. Some think that South
Carolina, by separate secession could exclusively
assume the position of an ample government for
all the purposes of national existence. There are
comparatively very few who would act on such
an opinion. It would be to sever the State npt
alone, from the Northern States, but from South
erll allies and associates, and in its operation,
would certainly require great and destructive sa
erahees. To speak of no other it would require
the sacrifice of the oniy great Sea Port City of ,
the State. What Statesman could give such ad
vice under such a juncture of affairs as exist at
the present time.
Those who are for South Carolina moving
alone, have, I suppose, objects beyond her sepa
rate existence. How and when she is to move
requires the profoundest judgment that ever has
been exerted on her destinies.
As a distinguished Georgian has remarked, |
“ South Carolina has taken a proud position; but \
she should not so occupy it, as to exclude others
from odfupying itwith her.” The Southern peo- j
pie are beginning to see their true condition. Is- j
sues have been made, and are now pending in
Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, that were J
never distinctly presented before, and, as certain
ly, as I am waiting, these issues will come to
judgment, they will be forced to judgment.—
The next Presidential contest will leave many of
the great political aspirants of the South strand
ed. At the next session of Congress, Southern
Representatives who have been so hopeful, will
have as much insult as their stomachs can bear
What was the state of public feeling among
the people three years ago ? what will it be three
years hence under the certain tendency of events’
under the divine right of usurpation and sanc
tions ol a blind majority, the conviction will be
forced on the people of the South that they must
take common counsels to avert common dangers.
The attempt to force other Southern States to fol
low our lead would be a dangerous experiment
and in my opinion would result in failure and in
disaster. One move by South Carolina, is to
bring about hopeless isolation or civil war. 1
hope it will not be regarded as egotism in me,
when I say that I have more firmness in a crisis,
than boldness to make one. When South Caro
lina does move she must be prepared for the con
sequences ; I shall help her!
1 believe that the great State Rights cause and
principles are stronger in the Southern States
than they have ever been. There is less jeal
ousy between neighboring States than formerly,
when federal preferments gave character to party!
God hath joined South Carolina and Georgia to
gether. and let no man or men put them asunder!
Those who sow the seed of discord between them
have much to answer for before the tribunal of
their common history. Georgia has had the des
tinies of the South in her hands—she will have
statesmen who will see her interests and will
pursue them. There is a spirit in that State that
would animate any Commonwealth on earth.—
The river on which you deliberate is a nominal
boundary, but a real bond of Union between the
States.
Gentlemen, in your resolutions be calm and
firm.
Yours, with true respect,
A. P. BUTLER.
Letter from the Hon. A. Burt.
OrasgeHill, May 29, 1851.
Gentlemen'. —l greatly regret that I shall be
unable to attend the meeting in your town on
the 31st of this month, to which you did me the
honor to invite me. My regret, however, is
diminished by the fact that I have recently re
monstrated. in the most resolute and emphatic
manner, against the suicidal measure to which
the most reckless and desperate efforts are ma
king, to drive the people of this State. I hear
tily concur with you, that the people -who are
to bear the burthens and fight the battles that
must result from such madness, should rebuke
the headlong indiscretion of those who would
precipitate such evils upon them.
Incontestible as I hold the right of secession
to be, those who urge the State to resort to it,
at the present juncture, do not pretend to deny
that its exercise would, probably, involve the
State in a hostile collision with the Federal
Government. This concession is abundantly
made in the address of the meeting which was
lately held in Charleston. I have never doubt
ed that such a would take place if but
one State seceedeq, and the assertion that I have
modified my opinion is wholly destitute of foun
dation fdo not perceive how any rational man
can doubt it. Those who urge us to secession,
regardless of the other States, 35,'itk but four ex
ceptions, admit, that without the aid of some of
those States, defeat would be the probable result
; of such an unequal struggle. I presume no sane
man, of respectable intelligence, could come to
any other exclusion. Indeed, it is so obvious,
> that unsparing efforts ape ipade to assure us that
> the other slaveholding Stares named, qecgsgqj-ily
become involved with us—either by having
’ their courage excited by our example, or by be
i ing dragged into it against her will,
t Again, we are told that it is pur mission to
> save the South from the doom that impends,
and that our first gun will rally the slavehold
t jug States under our banner. I tell you, gen
r tlemen that rye can drag no State into our dif
> Acuities. It is piepoteiGus to think of it.—
■ Would it he manly to do it jf we cquld? \Ve
must conceetle to the other States what vye claim
: for ourselves, intelligence to understand their
rights, and courage to defend them. Yes, we
; must take for granted that they also have some
‘ self-respect, and that they are not cowards and
cravens. lam proud of the valor and heroism
of South Carolina, but I am of opinion that other
people have these qualities glsp. And it is, in
my judgment bail policy,'as it is.had taste, to as
sume that South Carolina, alone, has the spirit
and the intelligence to defend and preserve the
1 rights of all the Southern States.
I believe I have the means of knowing the
public opinion of the slave holding States, and
I declare j with sincere sorrow, tirat qqt qpe "qf
them, nor any considerable minority in any one
of them is prepared to advise or justify the] seces
sion of South Carolina. As to public sentiment
in the other States, I take issue, and demand the
proof. I know, personally and well, the gallant
and distinguished and true men, that represent
some of them in Congress, but I know no man
amongst them that would not stay us from the
madness of secession. Let those who affirm the
contrary, name the man.
Nq, gentlemen, we have no hope, that we can
coax or coerce any other State into secession, at
the present moment.
J think we should deceive ourselves if we sup
pose we should excite the gratitude of the South
ern States, or even their admiration, by secession.
They will let us understand that it is not their
battles we shall fight, or their cause that we shall
uphold. They will not hail us as the champion
pf the South. But if the secession of this State
-—its political .separation from the other sl&vhqkb
ing States, could be effected as peaceably aqd
quietly as some have tried to make us believe—•
if it could be done without the use of a musket
or a dollar, my covictipn is, that it would he a
dire calamity to ourselves, We should be the
victms of the most extraordinary delusion that
ever ruined a country or a people. And in my
deliberate judgment all good men—all patriotic
men—should strive, without ceasing, to avert a
disaster so utter and so irreparable.
I should have been most happy, if I could have
concurred in what seems the unalterable deter,
ruination of the State. I know the consequences
of daring to dissent from those who have lead us
to the brink of the precipice, and I am prepar
ed to meet them all. Let them strike, I crave
not their forbearance or their forgiveness.
With great respect, I have the honor t to be I
your obedient servant. •
ARMSTEAD BURT.
Bostqn May 28, -—Although the new costume
lor ladies has been worn in our streets but in one !
or two cases, the matter has excited a deep in- 1
terest m the social circle, and I have understood
tha many ot our most respectable ladies seriously
intend to adopt the new style. A shop keeper 1
in Washington-st. has displayed for several days
past at his window a wax figure beautifully dress
ed a la Bloomer , winch has attracted general no
tice, and, I do not hesitate to say, general admi
ration. Crowds stand around the window
from morning till night, and I have several
times stopped to listen to the comments which
the novel exhibition calls forths, particularly from
the ladies. In no instance have I heard an ex
pression of disapproval, hut many have uttered
exclamations of admiration. This dress will yet
be popular. lam glad that you have given place
to the favorable notices of it by journals in vari
ous parts of the country. A friend of mine in
Providence, a lady of high social position, is a*
bout to adopt it. r, n.
Seventh Day Baptists.— The Legislature of
Wisconsin passed a law, in March last, which re
lieves the sect known as the Seventh Day Bap-
I fists” f rom the usual legal liabilities of the Sab
bath.
A vessel arrived at CondorTfrom Bombay, has <
brought the unusually large quantity of 4,592
bales and 103 half bales of Cotton, of East India i
production, as a portion of her cargo, j i
Lord Byron and the Monk.— A writer in a
late number of Eliza Cook's Journal, in giving a
description of Newstead Abbey, Lord Byron's
former residence, relates the following :
At the end of a gallery, a huge stone coffin met
our gaze, with several other relics of the dead,
such as bones, skulls, &c., which were drug up,
during Lord Byron’s residence at the Abbey,
from under the flagging in the cloisters. It ap
pears that one time his lordship had a strange fancy
for this species of resurrectionizing and digging
up dead men’s bones. Whether it was that he
fancied the thrifty friars had filled their coffins
with gold before taking their departure from this
neither w r orld, in order to pay their passage mo
ney, and secure a rapid transition into the next;
or whether he expected to find some brazen an
gels, or, what would be still better, the great iron
chest, filled with gold and jewels, that was re
ported to be buried or sunk somewhere either in
the grounds or lake; or whether it was a mere
curiosity for seeking up antiquarian relics, I can
not pretend to tell, though report hints at the two
former motives. However, amongst other things,
this coffin was brought to light, and with it the
skeleton of a monk. Another of the lord's strange
fancies was to have the skull of this said skeleton
cleaned, mounted with silver, and made into a
drinking cut. He then wrote the half a dozen
stanzas, which are probably well known to the
public, beginning:
Start not, nor deem my spirit fled.’’
and which engraved on the sil
ver. The cup -was shown to us by the house
keeper, and with it the following somewhat
strange and new story. Mind, I don’t say we
believed it, neither do I ask you, gentle reader
to believe it—l merely tell you the tale, as it was
told as by the worthy woman’s own lips. She
assured us it was universally credited by the !
whole household. The story is this: When By- !
ron first drank out of this cup, it was at a party .
in the large drawing-room. Some ladies were
seated beside him, laughing, talking and enjoying j
with him the festivity of the evening. Scarce, !
however, had he raised the fatal goblet to his :
lips, when lo! at the doorway appeared—■“ black,
terrific, and in dusky garb” arrayed—the head
less trunk of a human being, apparently a monk.
The ladies shrieked, fainted, and as many as
could hurried out of the room. Byron, however,
boldly faced the spectre, and demanded of him
his errand. The monk approached, and accused
him with bitter w r ords of his sin and guilt in thus
removing from their resting-place the bones of
the pious dead, and appropriating to such vile
uses the skull of a fellow-mortal who once
thought, spoke, and quafifed the wine like him
self. He concluded by fore telling him the place,
day, hour, and all the particulars of his death,
which—as the good lady assured us—all came to
pass exactly as predicted.
Thus ends this short, but strange story. But
this is but one in a hundred of the hobgoblin tales
which are told of this ancient place. Byron hirp
self believed, or pretended to believe in, a great
many of them; and to one fabled visitant espe
cially he has given the most perfect sanction by
his credence, and caused him to be recognized as
a familiar inmate of the Abbey. This is the fa
mous goblin friar, who is said to walk nightly
throught the halls and cloisters, and to have been
seen by Byron himself on several important oc
casions, always pretending evil One of these
occasions was a short time previous to his unfor
tunate marriage with Miss Milbank. How far
this report is true, I am not prepared to say. His
lordship has, however, imbodiefr the tpdition ip
a ballad, in which he thus speaks of him.
“ When an heir is born he’s heard to mourn .
And when aught is to befall
That ancient line, in the pale moonshine
He walks from hall to hall
!■ His fcrn‘f you may trace, but not his faee—
*Tie shadowned by his eov»i,
And hi 3 eyes may be seen from the folds between,
And they seem of a parted soul.”
Home and Woman.
If ever there has been a more touching and elo
quent eulogium upon the charms of home and its
dearest treasure, woman, than is contained in the
following extract from the Christian Inquirer,
it has ppt been our good fortune to meet it,
f.'Quy hopags—what is then eqrner-stpqe but
the virtue of women? And oh whut does social
well being rest but on our homes? Must we
not trace all other blessings of civilized life to
the door of our private dwellings? Are not our
hearth stones, guarded by the holy forms of con
jugal, filial, and parental love, the corner stpqea
of Church and State—Mom sgcred than either—
more necessary than both? Let our temples
crumble and our academies decay—let every
public edifice, our halls of justice, and our capitols
of State be levelled with the dust—but spare our
homes. Man did not invent and he cannot fin-,
prove or abrogate then;, A pnvgte shelter to
Cover in two hearts dearer to each other than all
the world; high walls to seclude the profane
eyes of every human being—seclusion enough for
children to feel that mother is a peculiar name—.
this is home and here is the birth of every
vituous impulse; of every sacred thought. Here
the Church and the State must come for their
ppigen and support. Qh, spare pur homes! The
love we experience there give us our faith in an
intimate goodness; the purity and disinterested
tenderness of home is our foretaste and our ear
nest of a better world. In the relations there
established and fostered do we find through life
the chief solace and joy of existeuce. " What
friends deserve the name compared with those
whom a birthright gave us! One mother is worth
$ thousand friends—one sister dearer and truer
than twenty intimate companions. We who
have played on the same hearth under the light
of smiles, who date back to the same season of
innocence and hope 4 in whose vpips mns the
same hlaqdj do we not find that years only make
more sacred and important the tie that binds us? j
Coldness may spring up, distance may separate, j
different spheres may divide; but those who cgn j
love anything, to lqve at all, must j
find that the friends who God himself gave are j
wholly unlike any we can choose for ourselves, |
and that the yearning for these is the strongest !
spark in our expiring affection.”
(From the Federal Union.)
Mr. Webster and the South.
THE NORTHERN LEAfiER 0? THE CONSTITUTIONAL
UNIQN PARTY,
This gentleman, who accompanied President
Fillmore on his late Northern tour, delivered a
labored speech at Buffalo, which Northern papers i
in favor of himself and the administration regard
as a true exposition of his and their principles on
the Southern question. About the time, last
spring, when the South was rallying her forces !
at the Nashville Convention, to take coqnsel hqw I
she should protect her rights and save the Unipn !
the •• god-like Daniel” made a speech in the Se
nate, in which he rebuked the North for her
Ufikindness to the South, and made strong pro
fessions of regard for the South, for the Constitu
tion and for the constitutional rights of the
South. The effect of that speech at the South
was electric. Coming from a quarter from which
nothing was expected, it inspired hope amppe
the desponding, and did more than every thing
else to create apathy in relation tp the Nashville
Convention. Whether it was designed as u a
Yankee trick,” to throw the South off'her guard,
to delude and deceive her, it is not our province
to determine. Yet it is nevertheless true, by it
she was thrown off her guard and has been de
luded and deceived. Who would then have be
wmfiJ i hat f°? n thereafter, Waster himself
would have had the hardihood to deliver such
sentiments as aie found in his Buffalo speech 1 *
® Ts + V h. on i y spce.fo.rthe following extracts;
™ e , wish any concession from me
y ont get it—-not a hair’s breadth of it If
tlftodo m \ h , ouse ‘ ir * WilfUtfind
+w t -ii • { V once de nothing. But I sav
*5 . 1
under the constitution, and your nents msw S rt! S
i Cfies of whSS.“ iti-
And God &mke me and my children, if \ ever
be found to falter in one or the other [Tre
mendous applause.] * * 1 #
“ My opinion remains unchanged, that it was i
not in the original scope or design of the consti
tution to admit new States out of the foreign
territory, and that, for one, I never would con
sent, and no matter what may be said at the
Syracuse Convention, or any other assemblage of
insane politicians—l never would consent that
there should be one foot of slave territory beyond
what the old thirteen States had at the time of
the formation of the Union. Never, never.
The man can’t show his face to me and say he
can prove that I ever departed from that doc
trine. He would sneak away, and slink away,
or hire a mercenary Heep, that he might say
what a mercenary apostate from liberty Daniel
Webster has become. [Laughter and cheers.]
He knows himself to be a hypocrite and falsifier.
*****
44 But when we come to speek of admitting
new States, the subject assumes a new and en
tirely different aspect. Our rights and our du
ties are then both different. The free States and
all the States are then at liberty to accept or re
ject. When it is proposed to bring new' mem
bers into this political partnership, the old mem
bers have a right to say on what terms such
partners are to come in, and what they are to
bring along with them. * * ’ *
44 Well, all that I will now say is, that, with
the blessing of God, I will not now, or hereafter,
before the country or the world, consent to be
numbered among those who introduced new
slave power into the Union. I did all in my
power to prevent it.” ] Applause.]
Had Mr. Webster avowed these sentiments in
his speech in the Senate; had the great 44 Consti
tutional expounder” then declared, that under
the Constitution no more slave States could be
admitted into the Union, “That he never would
! consent that there should be one foot of slave
| territory beyond what the old thirteen States had
at the time of the formation of the Union,” that
speech, at the South, instead of allaying the ex
; citement, would have added fuel to the flames
| then enkindled. Mr. Webster, the constitutional
! expounder, is now a constitutional Union man.
! How will his Constitutional Union allies in
Georgia relish his exposition of the Constitution ?
They, in their platform, make the rejection of a
slave State, a ground for dissolution of the Union.
He s<" r ', “the old members have a right to say
on vv. terms such partners are to come in,”
and h’s whole speech, shows that his views cor
respond with those of the dominant majority of
4 the old members,’ and that with his consent, no
other slave State will ever be added to the
Union.
The following sentence of the speech is preg
nant with meaning:
44 Gentlemen: I regret extremely that slavery
exists in the Southern States, and that Congress
has not power to act upon it. But it may be in
the dispensation of Providence some remedy
may be found for it.”
He does pot designate the remedy for the evil,
the existence of which, he “ extremely regrets.”
But he knows the remedy exists, and that it is
in the hands of the North. He knows, that the
day is not distant the addition of new
States, from territory made free by the last Con
gress, the constitution can be changed—when
Congress can have the power to act upon slave
ry in the States.
Daniel Webster and^the^ord~Mayor of
London.—The following is an extract from Mr.
Webster’s recent speech at Buffalo. The story
about the Cockney Lord Mayor is too good to he
lost:
“ Gentlemen, the commercial character so far
pervades the minds of men all over the world,
that there are many men who are very respecta
ble and intelligent, who do not seem to know
there is any part of the United States but New-
York. (Laughter.) I was iq England, and
when I was there it was asked of me, if I did
not come from New-York. (Great laughter.)
I told them my wife came from New York— (con
tinued laughter) that is something—(great
laughter.)
44 Well, gentlemen, I had the honor one day to
be invited to a state dinner by the Lord Mayor
of London. He was a portly and corpulent gen
tleman—(laughter)—he had a big Wig on his
hfqd all pondered and ribboned down behind. I
had the honor to sit between him and the Lady
Mayoress; and there were 300 guests, with all
the luxuries and gorgeousness of the Lord fav
or’s dinner. By and by, in the course of the
proceedings, his lordship thought proper, soon
after the cloth, was removed, to take notice of his
American guest. He seemed not to know' who
I was. He knew I was a Senator; but pf the
United States he seemed to have b,u,t little idea
of any place but New-York- (Laughter.) He
arose" Gentlemen ” said he, 44 f give you the
health ui Mr, Webster, a member of the upper
Senate of New-York.” (Great outbursts of
lapghter.) Well, gentlemen, it was $ greet honor
to be a member of any Senate of New-York,
but it there was ar\ upper Senate, to be a member
of that would be'a great honor, indeed,” (Tre
mendous laughter.
Adjournment of the Presbyterian General Con
ference.
_ . St. Louis, May 29th.
In the Presbyterian General Assembly to-day,
a letter was read from the General Assembly of
Ireland expressing gratification at the success
ot the Presbyterian in America, but regrettipn
there were so many nelsons connected with the
church in America who were engaged in sustain
i ipg the institution of slavery. The communica
tion was referred to a committee, who were re
quested to answer it in the proper spirit, and also
to state that the communication was received too.
late to enable the Assembly to. vote upon the an
swer. The Financial and other reports were
then submitted and the Board of Educational Di
rectors elected. The subject of cheap religious
i newspapers was referred to the next Assembly
Overtures fixup Philadelphia relative to the Rev
; Mr- Blackmoor were approved. Reliable infor
| rpation was received that the Rev. Mr. Greary
i and family had not been murdered, and the reso
i iutions on the subject previously passed were
I stricken out. The Convention tiien adjourned to
meet in Charleston,, $. C., on the 3d Thursday in
May, 1852,
We notice, says the N. Q. Delta, the marriage
of our contemporary A. C, Bullitt, Esq., of the
Picayune, to Miss Fanny Smith, of Kentucky,
on€> of the wealthiest and most accomplished
ladies in the West. Ihe hcippy event crowned
a devotion of many, many years. We hope it
may be a source of unmingled happiness to our
contemporary andjto his la if bride,
San CAgE qf Rqbbkry.-s—And elderly gentle
man, named Hines, was robbed of $3,500 on a
Mississippi steamboat, near St. Louis, on the 20th
uit. He was with his wile and live daugtlier§
going to Rock Island to settle, and is now left al
most destitute.
Ala rurk.-— One ol the New York clothing
stores advertise to furnish patterns for the new
female dress, on receiving $1 enclosed in a letter
containing the freight and other dimension*
the lady, ... - 0 f
Jenny Lind's Engagement mlk r ” un ® •
noted. —A letter from Mr, £- - jarnum Termi
tne engagement between b 4 ' states that
for 150 nights, having -nnself and Miss Lind, j
tions on which the 'amp!!' us certain condi- j
the expiration * o f si ° x S b , e terminated at
has been or a hundred concerts, it
t^SnS yd rmmed, ° Umit them to
As ninety-one have already been given there
S bul of whioi will iSgifinon
iu I'n *" ln and remainder
an , d .i Boston; commencing in
T 9th , and Boston June f 6th.
and Miss Jenny Lind are upon the same
filings ot meudship as at the time of her en
gagement.—Frida. Eve . Bulletin.
"Lh e Turks in|Washington.— -It is stated that
a mautua-maker in Washington city is engaged
m making Turkish pantaloons for six ladies, who
are to appear in them on next Wednesday af
ternoon at the capital. They will « face the mu
sic.” v j
AUGUSTA, GA.
SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 8.
For Governor.
CHARLES J. MCDONALD.
A Boston Drummer.
A friend has handed us a card of a Boston Dry
Uoods house, that of J. M. Beebe, Morgan & Co.,
which an agent for them, who is on a Southern
drumming expedition, has been distributing in
Augusta. We give this house the full benefit of
this advertisement, in our editorial columns,
gratis. But we accompany it with the expres
sion of our astonishment of the cool assurance
n hich would prompt any Boston man to come
to the South on any such expedition. It is to be
hoped the Southern people have got enough of
Boston, and the less they have to do with her
hereafter the better.
There are, doubtless, some very clever mer
chants in Boston, and the partners of this house
are, perhaps, among them. We know nothing
1,0 the contrary. But as long as the Southern
] people pour their wealth into the lap of that city,
by trading with her, they keep sheathed the
strongest W'eapon they can wield, in the Union ,
against her higher law negrophilism, and encou
rage her respectable citizens to remain idle while
ihe North tramples in the dust the laws for the
enforcement of Southern rights under the Con
stitution. Both Boston as a city, and Massachu
setts as a state, have shown themselves entitled
to hut little of the sympathy or good will of the
Southern people. We should make as few con
tracts as possible with a people who show so
little disposition to carry out the great contract
of the Constitution, in letter and spirit. Prac
tical non-intercourse with them is alike a
measure of good policy and of retributive jus
tice. No Southern man should buy, if he can
avoid it, any thing coming from Boston, or
from any one who buys goods in Boston, until
she repents of the past in sack-cloth and ashes.
This policy could be extended, with good ef
fect, to all abolition houses in New York, and to
those Southern houses , of which, we are sorry to
learn, there are still some among us, which trade
with them.
A proper self-respect and an enlightened view
of her interest, ought to induce the South to trade
as little with Northern cities as possible, for they
are all, more or less, tainted with abolitionism.
"We have just time to announce that Hon.
Howell Cobb has been nominated as the Union
candidate for Governor. We place his name at the
head of our paper with confidence that the peo
ple at the ballot-box will ratify the nomination
by at least 10,000 majority. We will give the
proceedings of the Convention next week.”—
American ( Griffin) Union.
This calculation of beating Charles J. Mc-
Donald 10,000 votes, has been made before.
We well remember a circumstance related to
us by a Whig friend, an intelligent man, but
given, to be over-sanguine, as occurring in 1841.
He was at Washington City shortly after the
nominations of Col. Wm. C. Dawson by the
Whigs, and Charles J. McDonald by the Demo
crats, for Governor, were made. He was asked
by a Whig member of Congress from Georgia,
v.’hat he thought of the election, “Ofrreplied,
he, “ Col. Dawson will beat McDonald ten
thousand votes.” 41 1 am of tfre same opin
ion,” replied the M. C.
Our friend related the con versation, to us short' 1
ly after the election was over, and added, “• j
honestly believed what I said at the time, and, so
did a great many others.”
As Col, Dawson was in Congress at t>. je time
perhaps he may recollect hearing something of
| t ire circumstance.
We will not mortify our Whig friends by
| mentioning how many thousand votes the other
way the election turned out. Suffice it, our
•! friend Col. Dawson, was not elected by 10,000 or
I b y any other number of votes. But he had the
! pleasure of drinking shortly after at the Execu
tive mansion, as the guest of our mutual friend,
Governor McDonald, m a glass of good Madeira’
“ lon S hfe and prosperity” to each other.
hUc/wd^^^ eVer cownt chi(:fccm be f ore they are
Central Rail-Road Dividend.
This Comany has declared a semi-annual divi
dend of four per cent., payable on the 16th inst.
During the months of April, 24,000 emigrants
embarked from Liverpool for the United States.
The Southern Herald.
We perceive by the last number of this honest
and fearless advocate of Southern Rights, that
i Mr. Lamkin has withdrawn from the editorship,
and his place is assumed by Mr. John H. Chris
ty. Mr. Christy was its former Editor. We
welcome him cordially to his old post, and wish
his paper hosts of new subscribers. We are
pleased to learn that its prospects are flattering.
It is published at Athens, (Ga.)
L O. O. F.
At the Annual Session of the Grand Lodge of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the
State of Georgia, held at Macon, on the 4th in
stant, the following were elected Grand Officers
for the year ensuing. 1
G. W. Adams, of Savannah, M. W- n ,
Master.
B. L. F. Andrews; Macon, R * ,
. * .W. Dep. Grand
Msister. 1
John D, Butt,
Seo. Patton, M- J ‘ ll > R ' W ' Grand Warde “-
r R . - R. W. Grand Secretary.
3iCo*» ,V 6 ” -^a 0011 : R- W. Grand Treasurer,
five “ e y> Augusta, R. W. Grand Representa-
The Earth’s Diurnal Rotation on its Axis Rendered
Visible.
Tha best and most lucid description we have
seen of the beautiful experiment of F oucault,
which is attracting so much attention in the
j scientific world, the following from the Savan
j nah Republican. It demonstrates that the ex
j periment is as conclusive as it is simple.
the earth’s diurnal rotation on its axis
rendered visible.
This experiment is one of the most beautiful,
simple and wonderful of the age in w'hich we ;
live. The sublime mind of Laplace cast about
for some ooular proof (evident to the senses) of ;
the earth’s rotation upon its axis, but did not i
happen to fall upo* it. It has been reserved for '
another Frenchman, Foucault, to illustrate it.
We published, a tew weeks since, an account of
his experiment maide in the Pantheon, in Paris.
Tha t account has ’been the subject of much spec
ulation here as wall as elsewhere. These inves
tigations have often, we believe, ended in incre
dulity.
I The experiment'- may be thus described: Bus
pend a considerable weight by a very fine wire
say thirty or forty feet long, so that it may oscil
late with perfect .freedom' Place underneath
this pendulum a table, with a graduated circle
upon it of the same diameter as the arc which
the pendulum describes, and with its centre ex
actly beneath that of the arc. The pendulum
will not continue to vibrate over the same diam
eter of that graduated circle, but will reach new
points on each side, at every vibration, so as com
pletely to traverse the circle in twenty-tom
hours. Thus, supposing the circle to be the
common clock-dial, graduated with twelve hours,
if the pendulum be started to vibrate over the
diameter from VI to XII, two hours afterwards ifc
will be found vibrating over the diameter from
VII to I.
To make this intelligible is by no means an
easy task. In order to do it. let an observer sup
pose himself to stand at the North pole of the
earth. If the time be summer, he will see the
sun travel round the horizon once in 24 hours.
In other words, such an observer being in the
axis of motion of the earth while the sun is sta
tionary, is turned quite about, returning always
to the same position in which he was first, once
every 24 hours. This is the diurnal motion of
the earth. The sun's apparent motion is the real
motion of such an observer. Now, suppose this
same observer were to remove from his post, and
place there a circular table some six or ten feet
in diameter, whose centre shall be in the axis of
the earth, or right over the spot where he stood.
This table would turn round, in like manner,
once in 24 hours, and if a vibrating pendulum
could be so supported over it so as not to partake of
the* motion of the earth and table—i. e., if it
could be made to vibrate (over the centre of the
table) so as always to keep in the same direction
or plane—then such a pendulum would appear
to pass consecutively over every part of the
periphory of the table once in 24 hours. Or, to
speak more correctly, the table which has a cir
cular movement with the earth, would present
every portion of its circnmferenee under the pen
dulum, which is always supposed to move in the
same rectilinear direction without reference to
thejmotion of the earth. Now it is possible to
suspend and cause to vibrate a pendulum in the
manner described. Therefore it is dossible to
perform the experiment.
When motion is impressed upon a pendulum,
causing it to vibrate in a certain plane, natural
laws induce it always to remain there. If the
pendulum be suspended by a strong Iran bar, it
will then constantly change its plane of vibra,-*
tion with the motion of the earth—i, e., of the
point to which it is fixed above. But thi* ts pre
cisely what it will not do if it he suspended from
a delicate silver or copper wire, for then if the
pendulum be of the weight of several pounds it*
power of vibration, or its momentum, will be so
great as to prevent it from obeying the tendency
otthe wire to turn round with the fixed point
from whfoh it is suspended. Or, in other words,
the lightness, flexibility and yielding character of
t“ e . permit a certain degree of torsion or
twisting, so that this onward and direct move
ment of the pendulum is as little disturbed (with
in certain limits) as though the pendulum were;
| absolutely independent of the rotation of tb/C
earth. e
If our observer be supposed now to set pr , .
table and pendulum in the latitude of % a r d
the same results would be observed— nr 4 i :
t,ve condition of things is
Here the vertical line passing:‘.hron S tlf } he c™ to
of the table, no longer corresponds with the axis
of the earth. It is oblur ae p . wren ine axis
obliquity is measured ’ey the a?" the , an S fe oi
90 deg. and the latitude ofT ..“ifference between
revolution of the earth ° ‘“ ls place , Butln °" e
the table still describes r ' ny Pa rt ‘™!ar point on
pendulum It is not ‘ ,“ nd ? r the
ine this, but it car le imag
round ruler, and > '** th . us P rov ? J - .Jake one
1 represent the J m f lme an ? le of 32 d «*> to
to this latte- ', eva f , T of th * P° ,e ™n“P?ndmg
firm.lv awwir - de - lake another rtuer, ana fix it
I iui • ast the first, at an angle of say 58 deg
sent ' - * d and hat end of this second ruler repre
v m circular table. Now cause the first
I™ 1 , which represents the axis of the earth, to
of olve carefully on itself, always maintaining
ne same angle, and it will be seen that a notch
made on the circular end of the other will pass
F entirely round and return back to the position
j from which it started in one revolution. What
we mean is, that this point on the circular end
ot the second ruler, will not only revolve round.
, the first ruler, but that it will have another revo
-■ lution round the axis of the ruler to which it be
longs.
Now if any heavy body be out of contact with,
the earth, it does not partake of the circular mo
tion round its axis. This body in question, hov,-.
ever, being suspended from a fixed point as ah j0 ve
is impelled by those two motions which* affect
the earth—the one carrying the planet forward
in its annual orbit round the sun, the of her that
which causes it to spin round its own axis once
a day. Hence its motion is a tangential one and
is the resultant of the two motions above indica
ted, and is a diagonal with regard to them. The
twisting only once round in twenty-four hours
oi the long and delicate wire, is a force very in
significant when compared with the vibratine
power oi a weight of several pounds. The wire
is sufficient to sustain the weight, but not to
communicate to it that rotary motion to which
its point of suspension is subjected. Though the
table below, and the point of suspension above
and indeed the whole apparatus, partake of the
motion of the earth round its axis, yet the plan
in which the pendulum vibrates is entirely ind e
pendent of this axial motion, for the reas e "
above indicated. The pendulum then wiP ons
pear to travel round all parts of the table ‘ f* 1 '
it, though in reality it only vibrates alv un .
the same plane, while it is the table thr / ays ln
round. A moves
The Pic Nic.—The compile* & tv at
given by the young men of r ary P . IC
graduating class of the t- ' £ dison to the
came off on Fridy even*' r ? iV emaie Coll r e ges,
and was quite a spirP - n S 1 own Hall,
seemed to be enim ted atfa,r - , 1 he Y oim g tolks
and during supr ytn ° themseives betbre T after
cured to mar - /er ’ and we Dekeve nothing oe-
Family Vir tke Pleasures of the evening.—
zens -d Rifles.—We understand that the citi
*•* * of Madison will be honored by a visit from
X* s cor P s on the 10th inst. They will remain,
i in town several days, in camp, and will receive
on Wednesday, the 11th, a Pic Nic at 8 o’clock.
P. M. The Rifles are said to be the best drills j
company in the State.— lb.
Louisville, June, 3
Matters in Louisville. —Five deaths occurred on
board the steamers Grand Turk and Prk\ e Q f the
West, from New Orleans for St. Loub. all ex
cepting one, deck passengers, and ’.oistly emi
grants. 3
Two or three cholera cases have occurred here
Steamer Ohio, from New Orleans, had four
cholera deaths, and Belle Key one.
The Wabash, Upper Mississippi, Illinois and
Missouri rivers overflowed, and much pro pertv
destroyed and crops injured. y
t. .. Concord, N. H., June 4.
in t “ T or g amz f™' ~The Legislature met
to-day, and organized by electing John S. Wills
dem., President of the Senate, and N. B. Baker
dem., Speaker of the House. Baker received 140
votes; Sawyer, whig, 107; and Hawes, F. S., 31.
New York, June 4th.
LraERA-rioN of Kossuth.—The Asia brings a
| report that the Cabinet of Vienna have consen
ted to the liberation of Kossuth and the other
Hungarians, on condition that they immediately
j leave Europe.
| Smlino of the Africa.—The steamship
Africa sailed to-day for Liverpool,taking out 120
passengers, among whom is Sir H, L. Bulwer
and $681,000 in specie.
Bangor, Me., June 4.
.Destructive Fire.—A occur
red here to-day, destroying a saw mill, two iron
ioundanes, seven dwellings, three ships and sever
al barques, besides a lame amnimt