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I will remember thee.—when morn hath hung Her banner on the hills, —and kindling dreams Os sunlight, in warm diamond showers arc flung Upon the surface of the hounding streams Which move in their exulting course along, Free as tho murmurs of their own wild song. I will remember thee, —when summer's sigh Breathes o’er tho mountains and the laughing Is zoned with roses,—- while deep melody [earth Hath in tho woods, with tho wild flowers its birth From joyous birds, who mid their green homes there Pour fourth their music on the clear blue air. I will remember thee, —through many a scene 1 Os pleasantness and solitude :—for thou Upon my dark and troubled path hath been - A vision blest and cheering,—as the how A. That spans the thunder-cloud: a thing of light, early hope's first dreaming* pure and bright. * Hora®opathy in Great Britain. In an article entitled “The Doctrine of Homoeo pathy ,” the Leader, a London weekly newspa per of a late date, while avoiding the expression of any opinion on the merits of the system, re marks, that “no doctrine has ever gained a dis tinct and indisputable footing in the world, which has not brought some great truth or half truth in its hand.” Ti e writer regards it as certain that the new system comprises, at least, the renuncia tion of some old error, if it has no other recom mendation. Twenty-one years since, homoeopathy was all but unknown in England. Now it is practised in all the large* towns, and is getting a footing in Scotland and Ireland, The number of patients in Great Britain ‘’ready to trust themselves to a homoeopathic treatment, is so large that there are already upward of one hundred and fifty practi tioners all either licensed as surgeons or posses sing orthodox degrees in medicine,” These are, according to the writer, “as well bred and learned and as capable as their allopathic brethren. The new school is establishing itself silently and slow ly,” says the journalist, “perhaps surely.” Its existence must be recognized by the medical pro fession, whether willingly or reluctantly, and by the commentators on public affairs. The writer in the Leader says: “Nor do the lay friends of this system prove to be obscure and unlettered. Archbishop Whately, the Chevalier Bunsen, and Principal Scott, of Owen’s College, constitute a trio of its literary adherents. Messrs. Cobden, Leslie and Wilson, arc fair examples of its parliamentary partizans. —Radetzky, Pulzsky, and Gen. Farquharson, rank among its military defenders. Messrs. Leaf, Sugden and Forbes, are three of its merchants. The Duke of Hamilton and the Earls of Wilton, Erne, Shrewsbury and Denbig, (to say nothing of Lords Newport, Robert Grosvenor and Kan niard,) may serve for its body guard of honor. Queen Adelaide was its patient; and the Dutch ess of Kent is the patroness of a great bazaar, to beheld for its behoof in London next June, du ring the thick of the exhibition. Even Jenny Lind is its votary. In conclusion of the w’hole matter, it is clear that homoeopathy not only spreads apace, but it also spreads in all sorts of good directions, through the present fabric of society. And this fact cer tainly conveys the idea to the mind of an unbias ed journalist, if not to a more learned medical head~ that there must be some sort of truth in homoeopathy, whether pure or mixed, whether negative or affirmative, whether critical of some thing old, or declaratory of something new.” over this list of supporters of the c doctrine, it occurs to us that there be some mistake as to one or two of them. .—TBaeAiomceopathic practice forbids blood let tingPunNiadetzsky is said to have bled his pa tents without mercy. The Late Suicide at Albany. —The Albany Atlas of the 6th instant, speaking of the late sui cide in that city, says : “ William H. Cox, of St. Louis, arrived at Congress Hall, Saturday eve ning, in the New World, from New York. Sun day morning he rode out to the Shaker Village in company with two friends and returned to Albany towards evening. He conversed with his friends, until about half-past eight o’clock, when taking a candle, he remarked that he would retire to bed. One of his friends occupied the room with him, and the other the adjoining room. At half-past nine the two friends of Mr. Cox entered his room, and found him on the bed with one of his feet resting upon the floor; his throat -was horribly cut, the windpipe, carotid artery, and jugular veins being entirely severed. His razor lay beside hie hand. The act was a deliberate one, and from the nature of the wound it is obvious that death must have resulted imme diately. A paper was found on the table, on which the following was written in pencil— “ Thomas Cox, Farmington. Iowa: Father, Mother and Brother, AJieu. “WILLIAM.” On examining the coat pocket of the deceased, a letter was found, written also in pencil. There is an error in the month and day of the month. Evening: 8 o’c., Albany, May 9, 1851. Dear Friends: lam pursued to this place by a community, charged with committing crimes of which lam not guilty—but so strong a train of circumstances which have thrown themselves around my conduct, and during my stay in New Yoik, caused by series of excesses, that I deter mined never to be taken back alive—cause, in temperance. I have heard that I am charged with robbing or accessory to it, which God knows 1 was not—but as I could not account for the way in which 1 passed one night till eleven o’clock, I cannot escape—the money which I have used was borrowed, S3O from T. W. Mar tin, andsso from J. A. Dougherty, in New Or leans. My bills at all the hotels were paid with mo ney loaned by a friend who had generously offer ed (knowyig my situation) to pay my expenses home — a dreadful piece of news to an aged parent —but I was never arrested, never j shall lie—may I be forgiven. Young men, beware of intemperance. I never | committed or contemplated a crime in ought else. Tins hour is a great one. I pray God may forgive me. To &U—farewell. |WILLIAM H. COX. Straws showing the Set of the Wind.—A very nice young gentleman once offered to ne gotiate a loan of a business man, on a piece of very “ doubtful paper, carelessly adding that he would endorse it as additional security to the len der. “ Humph” was the reply. “ the note is bad enough without the addition f This anecdote has been frequently brought to our recollection of late, on seeing in Northern papers (Free-soil included) enthusiastic notices of the C 'U nion Constitutional' J candidates in Geor gia, Alabama, and Mississippi, with warm wish es for their success. We append a small sample of their kind and quality from the Ohio State Journal. Charles C. Langdon, editor of the Mobile Ad vertiser, has accepted the nomination of the whigs of his district as their candidate for Congress.— We receive the Advertiser regularly, and regard it one of the best papers we receive from the South. Mr. Langdon will probably be elected, and will be an honor to his district and State. The Free-soil orthodoxy of this organ of Ohio Whiggery, no man in his senses will deny It knows its friends at the South. But we have yet stronger evidence to offer. The special organ of Seward in New York, (the Albany Journal.) thus u hails ' the anticipated election of Mr. Cobb to the gubernatorial chair of Georgia, “as a grateful triumph ” to itself, and u the friends of the Union every where.” Hear it. Hence, if we understand the position of things, the attachment of the citizens of Georgia to the Union is to be tested at the approaching election. And in such a contest all good citizens—all true men —all who cherish the principles and inherit the patriotismrof the fathers of the republic, ami the framers of the Constitution, will ardently de sire the success of the Union ticket. The election of Howell Cobb under such circumstances , will be hailed by the friends of the Union everywhere as a grate ful triumph. [ Southern Press. Assuming, says Fraser, the area of London to be nineteen square miles, it yields us a population tojeach square mile of 130,000 human creatures, performing within that stinted compass all the operations of life and death, mixed up in a fearful melee , of passion and interest, luxury and starva tion, debauchery and criminality, hard work and idleness; besides an infinity of occupation—useful, ornamental, and mischievous, making love, beg ging alms, picking pockets, juggling, grinding or gans, rolling in carriages, exhibiting “happy families” in the street, and returning at night to unspeakable misery at home. This population is taken on an average of the whole surface. If we descend into the more densely inhabited parts of the town we may fairly double it; from which picture the reader is requested to draw a faint picture in his thoughts of the condition of exis tence irrespective of air, cleanliness, food, and space, in which some hundreds of thousands of people eat, drink, and die in London from one year’s end to another. A quarter of a million of souls subsisting within the limits of a square mile is a spectacle of a stand-up fight against nature that cannot be rendered very intelligible by des cription. The magnitude of the wretchedness baffles us. Individual sufferings make a direct appeal to our sympathies, -while the sufferings of large masses are somewhat vague. The mind can readily admit a family group stricken on their straw pallets by famine and disease, but it can not all at once take in a whole district under going the slow agonies of deficient food and a foetid atmosphere. As the numbers crowd upon us, the distinctness of the misery diminishes. The following notice appears in the Boston Transcript: Who Wants a Child ?—Mr. Spear, the well known philanthropist, has in his care a fine little foundling boy, who much needs both a good “ lo cal habitation and a name,” Who will adopt him ? The child may be seen at Mr. Spear’s residence, No. 2 1-2 Central Court. From this it would appear that parents do not always take cave of their little responsibilities in Boston, but leave them “ lying about loose,” to fall into the hands of “ well known philanthro pists.”—Sav. News , 11 th ivst, A Tolerably Hard Hit at Sumner. —Tnthe Boston Post of the 7th instant, we find the fol lowing hard hit at Mr. Sumner, the newly elect ed Abolition Senator from Massachusetts; Love for the Union is very natural and be coming in a person chosen to the United States Senate for six years. If the Union doesn’t last, the Senator’s “ occupation's gone.” Mr. Sumner, since his election is vehement in his expressions of devotion to the Union. There is no better way to make a man a champion of the Union than to give him a present or prospec tive interest in the government,— lb. Boston Harbor.— The Governor of Massa chusetts. in a late veto message, says that the main channel in the harbor of Boston has, with in thirty years, diminished several hundred feet in width, and from three to five feet in depth.— Several large vessels have recently got aground while coming into the harbor. Death of “Dolly.” —We some months since mentioned the existence of an aged negro wo man. named “Dolly,” belonging to Dr. H. D. Holland, of this place. We now annonnee her death, on the 4th instant, at the age of 116, which year she completed on the 16th day of April last. She was remarkable for her tenacious memory of events connected with the American Revolu tion, having as we mentioned in our former no tice, acted in the capacity of cook and servant with several officers of the Southern army, and was transported by them from post to post du ring the war. She retained ‘her skill as cook al most to her last end, being full able to prepare a dinner in a style unsurpassed by any modern adept of the gastronomic art. She was venera ble and rather stately in appearance, with a bright eye. fine teeth, erect figure, and hair perfectly white. At the time of our former notice, she was prostrated, as it were, on a bed of death*and her exit momentarily expected. Her colored friends of all ages then flocked arounn her, bes towing these peculiarities which among South ern slaves is singularly superstitious; but amid incantations, prayers, and day and night watch ings, the old woman suddenly arose from her bed to greet the arrival of a female member of her master’s family who had been absent in Georgia for some months. She seemed to recuperate from that moment, and has been since about. But at last the grim messenger made his inexorable summons, and the spirit of Dolly took wing to the House of her Eternal Master.— Jacksonville (Fla.) Republican. John C. Turner. Esq., of Hinds county, says the \ icksburg Whig, one of our California corres pondents, returned a few days since, after an ab sence ol about two years. We have not seen Mr. 1 urner. though we acknowledge the receipt of a bundle of California papers brought by him. Mr. Turner took with him two negro men, who re turned on Monday morning last, as anxious to get home as any returned Californians ever could be. \V e understand they stuck to him the whole time, despite the persons of all the Abolitionists on the Pacific coast, and they are nearly as thick there as they are in the New England States. “The Underground Rail-Road.” The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in his speech at the anniversary meeting of the American and For eign Anti-Slavery Society, held in New-York, on the 6th of May, among many other things, said: “ I am amazed at the Fugitive-Slave law be cause it is so utterly unfit for the object for which it was made. The old law did not send back the slaves, not one per cent of all that escape. No more does the new law. Perhaps you are not aware, my friends, that there is an underground Rail-Road running through this city. I am not a conductor on it, but I hear of it, and I under stand that there are forty slaves who go up on it, to one who goes back. Bfit the fault is not in the law. The old law w&s weak through the flesh, and the new one proves! Independent Extra , May 10, / “ We dispute the correctness of the Register 8 denunciation of the Compromise measures. We deny that Congress, in its passage of the bill pre venting the bringing of slaves into the District of Columbia for sale , assumed the right to legis late over slavery in a manner forbidden by the Constitution.' 5 The above is from the Montgomery State Re gister of the 9th inst. In reply we shall not re sort to argument, but merely quote the first sec tion of the act itself, and let the public determine fi>r themselves, whether Congress, in this one of the lauded Compromise measures, did not “ as sume a right to legislate over slavery in a man ner forbidden by the Constitution,” and grossly unjust to, and aggressive upon, the rights of the South. Here is the material part of the bill as it passed:— [Mobile Register. Sec. 1. Be it enacted , <sr., That from and after. &c., it shall not be lawful to bring into the Dis trict of Columbia any slave whatever, for the purpose of being sold, or for the purpose of being placed in depot, to be subsequently transferred to any other State or place, to be sold as merchan dise. And if any slave shall be brought into the said District by its owner, contrary to the provi sions ot this act, such SLAVE SHALL there upon BECOME LIBERATED AND FREE. 55 Important Decision. —lt will be recollected that about eighteen months since, the schooner Mission, of Edenton, (N. C.) Capt. Cobb, while on a passage from Turk’s Island to Edenton, with a cargo of salt, was run down by the steam er Columbus, from Philadelphia,bound to Charles ton, and all on board lost except one man who succeeded in getting on board the steamer. Mr. John Sanderson, owner ol the schooner, soon atter instituted a suit against the owners of the Columbus, for the value of his vessel and cargo, which suit we learn has been decided in his favor, allowing him the full amount of his claim. We are also informed tnat the widow of Capt. Cobb will bring suit for a sum sufficient for her main tenance. Drinking Brandy on a wager—Fatal Re sult.—Coroner Geer yesterday held an inquest at the house No. 79 Eleventh street, upon the body of Michael McGovern, a native of Ireland, 36 years of age who died from the effects of a quantity of brandy which he drank on a wager. From the evidence adduced before the Coroner it appears that deceased left his home for a grog shop kept by a man named Melville, at No 97 Eleventh street, on Monday night, that while there he made a bet with one Owen Fox that he could drink a quart of liquor without stopping to take breath. Fox agreed to pay for the liquor if he succeeded in drinking it. A quart of brandy was then lurmshed the deceased by Hugh Han novan the bar tender, and he at once drank it off, and a moment after offered to drink auotherpint if Fox would pay for it. He agreed to do so ; it was lurnished, and he drank it off and then went home. His wife testified that he came in the house very much intoxicated, went to bed and was dead at 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning. Dr. E. C. Franklin made a post mortem examination of the body and found the stomach, lungs and brain, much congested and inflamed, and gave his opin ion that death was caused by drinking the liquor. The jury after investigating the case rendered the following verdict, viz: That Michael Mc- Govern came to his death by drinking an over dose ot brandy, and that such a quantity given to a person whose constitution was impaired by former habits of intemperance was the cause of his death, and that said brandy w r as given de ceased by Owen Fox and Hugh Hanovan. After the rendition of the verdict, Fox and Hanover were arrested and committed to prison by the Coroner to await the action of the Grand jury.— N. Y. Sun , 13 th inst. Indian Corn at Windsor Castle. —Mr. Stansbury, one ot the American agents to the Great Fair, in Hyde Park, London, sent Queen Victoria some specimens of his Country’s home made com bread, and of the flour of which it was made. In return he received a note from Win dsor Castle, in w hich her Majesty's Chamber lain, Major Gen. Bowles said he had "received commands to thank Mr. Stansbury for the very fine specimens alluded to and which were much admired by the Queen and Prince Albert.'’ Dicken’s Household Words contains an able article advocating the general use of this flour in England. Who will presume to turne up their noses at corn dogers and hoe-cakes now ? Donation to Mr. Calhoun.— De Bow's Re view* contains a biographical sketch of Henry W. Conner, in w*hich occurs the following state ment : “ A short time before Mr. Calhoun’s death, and about the time it was ascertained that he was de clining, it w*as resolved by a number of public spirited gentlemen to raise, by subscription a mong themselves, a sum of money sufficient to pay off some debts, that, in his devotion to the public interests, he had been obliged to contract, and furnish him w*ith ample funds to travel to Europe. The design was to demand it of him as a duty to his State, to quit Congress for a time and go abroad. He died before they had made up the amount or communicated with him upon the subject. The total sum raised was nearly $30,000. The venerable Judge Huger, M. Gour din, and Mr. Conner, were the movers in the matter, and acted as the trustees.” A Drink of Beer, Forever.— Mr. Emerson, in one of his lectures, tells a story to exemplify the stability of things in England. He says that William of Wyekham, about the year 1150, en dowed a house in the neighborhood of Winches ter, to privide a measure of beer and a sufficiency of bread to every one who asked it, forever: and when Mr. Emerson was in England he was cu rious to test this good man’s credit, and received his measures of beer and his quantum of bread, though its donor had been dead 700 years! Message of Governor Young, of Deseret. We have before us a copy of Gov. Young’s first annual message to the Legislature of De seret, delivered on the 2d of last December, vvbich gives a highly favorable and interesting pictuie of the condition of affairs in that new territory. In commencing he announces that the former Government of Deseret will continue, in all its departments, until such time as it shall be superseded by an organization contemplated under the act ot Congress, establishing a ter ritorial government. Referring to the past, he says: u We have the proud satisfaction of having sustained a quiet, yet energetic government, un der all the vicissitudes incident to new and un tried localities ; and when the General Govern ment shall have assumed to pay the expendi ture, consequent upon the Indian expeditions, of being comparatively free from debt. Unlike the golden-browed neighbors of our sister State, no agent of ours is hawking about our State bonds, to obtain the necessary means to defray the six teen dollars per diem of the allowance of the members of the Legislature. ‘‘ The cause of education is flourishing through out the territory. With the main body of the Indian tribes the most peaceful relations exist, and great efforts have been made to introduce among them the habits and customs of civilized life, but with only partial success.” The message states as an instance unparalleled in the history of the times, that not a single sol itary case was reported for trial, before the regu lar sessions of either county or supreme court, during the past year; and no offence beyond the control ot the justices of the peace seems to have been committed. Gov Young recommends in the strongest terms that the capitalists of the State should in troduce machinery for the manufacturing of all kinds of machinery that will hereafter be want ed * or * ac^o U es? kc ; , also, that stoves, and other articles of heavy importation should be manu factured by the people of that territory. The Governor states that a Rail-Road will nmbablv be constructed to Iron county, as - fCjUfnvnife termi nating at San Diego, and that whatever aid the Legislature should see fit to extend to it he shall acquiesce in, if within the range of his constitu tional duties. —Boston Journal. AUGUSTA, GA. THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 19. For Governor. Charles j. McDonald. CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION. The Convention to nominate a Southern Rights Candidate for the Eighth Congres sional District, will be held in this City on SATURDAY, the 12th day of JULY. Mr. Cobb’s Suppressed Letter. When the delegation from Clarke county went down to Milledgeville to attend the Con solidationists’ Convention, they carried with them a letter from Mr. Cobb, defining his views on the political questions of the day, to be laid before the members of that Convention. It was intended to apprise the members in advance what sort of a man they were about to nominate, it all being cut and dried, that Mr. Cobb was to be the nominee, in order that they should have no pretext afterwards for kicking out of traces and refusing to support him. The purport of the letter has transpired, as also the disposition made of it. It was found by Messrs. Toombs, Meri wether, Floyd, and others, managers of the Con vention and chief wire- workers, to whom, only, it was submitted, to be too much of a Federalist document to be allowed to meet the eye of the outside public, or even be laid before the body of the Convention. It avowed the most open Con solidation doctrines. It emphatically denied the right ot a State to secede from the Union under any circumstances, and claimed that in any such event it was the right and the duty of the Fed eral Government to make war upon her, and to subjugate her by the military and naval forces of the confederacy. It was thought very hazardous to put such views before the Convention, many of the mem bers ot which were still State Rights men, as past days, when none in Georgia but a few rank Consolidationists denied the sovereignty of the States and the right of secession. It is notorious, that there are thousands and tens of thousands ot Whigs, as also of Democrats, in the same political ranks with Messrs. Toombs, Stephens & Co., who will never subscribe to the ultra federal doctrine that a State cannot right tully interpose her sovereignty whenever she sees proper to protect her rights and institutions, and secede from a government which had be come destructive of both. They will never sur render to the slavish doctrine of u passive obe dience” to power, and agree that when a sov ereign State should in the exercise of her best judgments resume her original position as an in dependent State prior to her voluntary ac accession to the Federal Union, she exposes her selt to be conquered and subjugated at the point of the bayonet, by Northern armies, and her citi zens to be hanged as traitors by the hands of abo lition executioners. Mr. Cobb's letter was sent back to him. It was pronounced imprudent to give it to the pub lic. But, gentlemen wire workers, it is in vain ye attempt to play this game of deception and suppression. That letter will have to see the light. The people of Georgia will not be hood winked and led blind-fold to the polls. They will insist on having the opinions of the candi dates for their suffrages fully before them. The mum policy w*as tried in 1849, in the case of the Hon. Edw*ard Y. Hill, and signally failed. Let Mr. Cobb and his friends take warning from his fate. Mr. Cobb is in a bad dilemna. If he plays mum he will be beat, and if he comes out with his consolidation doctrines he is destined to the same fate. Convention of Alabama Southern Rights Asso ciations. A second Convention of Southern Rights As sociations of Alabama, was held at Montgomery on the 12th inst. There w*ere nineteen Associa tions represented, from nine counties in the State. The following Preamble and Resolutions, re ported by the Hon. Wm. L. Yancy, were unan imously adopted: a W hereas, in the opinion of this Conven tion, events of recent occurrence indicate that one of the sovereign States of this Union is placing herself in a situation to secede, and will secede from this Union. u And whereas, in the opinion of this body, any State has the right to secede, and from the very nature of the case, is the only judge of the justice and propriety of such act. " And whereas, it is not improbable that the exercise of such right by the seceding State will be opposed with arms, by the General Govern ment. Therefore be it '"Resolved, That in the event any Southern State, in the exercise of its own judgment, should see proper, for causes which now exist to secede from the Union, in the opinion of this Convention it would become the duty of this State, as of all the other States, to oppose, with force, any attempt upon the part of the General Government to coerce such seceding State.” The last resolution expresses the correct sen timent, and the majority of the Southern people w iH, should the occasion arise, respond to it. But we do not believe South-Carolina will secede. We believe if she does, no attempt will be made to coerce her. But she will be victimized by hostile legislation by the Federal Government. State of the Treasury. The New York Express says—The entire re venues for the fiscal year, ending June 30,1851, will exceed the estimates by fiive millions of dol lars, and will reach (including the receipts at California for a part of the past and the whole of the present fiscal year) fifty millions of dollars ! Os this sum, ttvo millions will be credited to California, and $48,000,000, at least, to the At. lantic ports; and of this $48,000,000 New York will have received an enormous amount; the re venue collected here for only nine months of the year being $2,375,012! The receipts from the sales of the public lands will exceed the estimates by about $600,000, and reach, for the entire year, about $2,500,000 ! And this, notwithstanding the sales through Land Bounties, Land Scrip, &c., &c. The Land Office some days since, had returns of sales exceeding two millions of dollars, (2,005,000,) and many heavy returns were to come in. Mayhem by a Boy.—' TtaSt. Louis Organ and Reveille tells of a little boy who cut off his sister’s nose. The boy had attended the exhibition of Mac Allister, the magician, and saw him cut the nose off of one of the audience, and then placed it on again as “natural as life.” This made an as tonishing impression on the boy’s mind and he requested his sister to let him try the experiment on her nose—she consented, and he got a big car ving knife and cut it off; his sister’s screams soon brought persons to the spot, and there they found the boy trying to put the nose on his sister’s face again. Fears are entertained that the little girl will not live. General Talcott’s arrest, it is said, was by order of Gen, Scott, in consequence of charges preferred by the Secretary of War, against him, ot insubordination and disrespect —principally, it is understood, in refusing to submit, for the Secretary's approval, certain contracts for casting cannon at Richmond. Remarkable Casuality. —Judge Turley of Memphis, Tenn.,one of the most eminent jurists of that State, came to his death a few days since by one of thejmost remarkable accidents we ever recollect to have heard of. which is thus related b) r the Memphis Enquirer. “It appears that Judge T. was leaning upon a small cane, while conversing with a friend,when the cane shivered with his weight, and a splin penetrated his side, resulting in his death, despite of every exertion.” “A corresponpent of the New York Day Book’ writing from Louisville, Kentucky, the State which Mr. Clay pledged to send a regiment horse dragoons into South Carolina to subjugate her people, discourseth thus: t ..“They (the Kentuckians) are willing to talk ‘L nion! every thing for Union!’ and this in good faith; but il fate should will their hopes to blast, they will stand as a pillar of the South. They seriously believe that South Carolina is about to withdraw from the Union, and should the North still cling to her Sewards and Sumners in this crisis, and the President call out the United to subdue the Palmetto, fifty thou sand Kentucky bayonets will face the music of Uncle Sam, and make Carolina's cause her own. Mark this prophecy.” The following toast was given after a dinner at Queenston, Canada, last week: "Dam your canals, blast your furnaces, sink your coalpits, down with your railroads, away with your electric telegraphs, and over with your suspension bridges.'’ Melancholy Catastrophe. We are pained to learn of one of the most melancnoly and heart-rending occurrences that it has ever befallen our lot to record, by which our worthy fellow-citizen, Gen. Thos. J. War then, lost a son and ward, in the most frightful manner. It seems that on Friday night last, the children above named, were sleeping in the up per part of an out-house on the General’s river plantation, near his dwilling when the building took fire; a negro boy sleeping in the basement of the same building aw«ke in time to see the stairway leading to the apartments wherein the children were sleeping, entirely enveloped in flames. In his bewilderment he called to the children to make their way through the burning aperture, ran for the General, who, arriving at the place, called to his son, and having no answer, he clambered up agaiast the end of the house and attempted to pull off the weather-boarding, from which position he fell, his hands having been badly blistered by contact with the heat, the fire raging more fiercely, involving the entire building and succeeded by an immediate crash, all hope was gone—they had perished, doubtless, from suffocation ere the succoring hand of the parent and friend could be reared in their behalf. Such are the circumstances as we have been en abled to learn them of this truly calamitous affair. The fire originated in the chimney place of the lower apartment, from which the stairway runs up, and was occasioned, it is supposed, by carelessness of the boy in taking a torch about the room, or by accident from the fire place. This occurred about 12 o’clock at night. By this terrible catastrophe the General has lost his only and much loved son. an interesting youth of some fourteen years, and a little boy somewhat younger, whom he had taken to rear and educate. United only by the common ties of humanity, the loss of the latter, under eirem stances not so appalling to human sensiblity, would have unmaned his generous and sympa thising heart, but when aroused at the dead hour ot night to witness tne heart-rending destruction ot an object of almost idolatrous love.snatched in the midst of life with but a moment's warning into utter nothingness, is a stroke of calamity sufficient to fell the stoutest heart and strongest nerve. But we will not harrow up parental grief already too intense, over bereavements to which human nature is the inalienble heir. Our community deeply sympathise with Gen. War then and family in this sad and melanchoiy dis pensation.—Sandcrsville Georgian , 11th inst. From Havana.— lmprisonment of a Youth. On or about the first of this month, during a pub lic the University of Havana, a youth sixteen years of age, son of Sir. don Cirilo Ponce, a wealthy citizen of Cuba, was arrested and imprisoned for the following offence: Back of the staging erected for the declamers. was a black board, on which was written, while the curtain was yet- down, in large letters with chalk, “Viva Narcisso Lopez, y Mueran los Real ists”—"Live Narcisse Lopez, and Death to the Royalists.” The audience being assembled, and the Captain General and suite having arrived, the curtain was raised for the declamers to begin their speeches. On noticing the writing on the board, the Captain GeneraTimmediately ordered the entrances to the building to be guraded, and summoned all the students to appear befere him, in order to find out which of them was the offen der. Young Ponce stepped forward and ans wered with firmness: “I am the one who wrote it.” Ihe Captain General asked him why he did it. He answered, ‘‘l wrote no more than what I wish to come to pass.” He was ordered to prison, and the public are at a loss to know what will be done with one so young for his in discretion.—Savannah Republican , 17 th imt. The Weather.—We yesterday stated that the ram on Monday evening had! set in in good earnest, and had continued without inter mission for several hours. We might indeed have . rain throughout the night, as during the twenty four hours, ending yesterday morning at 9 o’cfock there was a fall of nearly 3 5-8 inches of water which is the heaviest fall of rain that has been experienced in tins city, since the Ist of Septet oml lß^V When Xt reached 4 1-8 inches. On the .OthofMay 1848, about 5 1-4 inches fell. Ihe weather moderated at an early hour ves hiS 17 ' 3Jurin g Monda y, the wind was rather high especially during the night, when it blew at intervals very hard, but we have heard as yet ()f no marme disasters.— Ch. Courier , 18 th imt. The steamers Metamora,' Pe7k~foT Savannah and Wilmington, Sterrett,for Wilmington, were both prevented leaving port yesterday in conse quence of the North-east blow. Ihe Savannah boat due yesterday did not ar rive, being detained no doubt by the state of the weather.— Charleston Courier , 18 th inst. In Wales a fire has been raging in a coal mine ior twenty-six years, and has consumed, it is eompnted, $500,000 worth of coal. Within five years alter its commencement it w r as greatly re strained by the construction of an enormous wall which cost SBO,OOO. At present it is about pas sing this wall, threatening very extensive des truction, and learned engineers have been em ployed to consult on some new measure for arrest ing its progress. * Provoking.— Malthus, the great British wi> ter against the rapid insrease of population, has a :son who has a wife and 14 children.— Brit Pa per, |i) JHoflitrtif tflfflrdjtlj. Reported for the Constitutionalist Charleston, June 18—P. M. Cotton. —Sales to-day 500 bales, at 6 1-4 to 10 cents. Prices unchanged. New York, June 18. Cotton. —The market is firm and unchanged, and 1,000 bales sold. The Crescent City has arrived. (Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun.) St. Louis, June 14th. The steamer Sultana was burned yesterday. She had on board a full cargo for New Orleans, consisting of bacon and hemp. The boat was insured for $50,000. The fire thence communi cated to the sugar refinery of Agelrodt, which was entirely consumed. Loss $25,000, but fully covered by insurance. Mr. Burt arrived last evening from Fort Mac kay, where he had attended a convocation of In dians, numbering some 3,000. Four tribes, the Ohiemies, Caniway, Camanches, and Arapahoes, were represented, and exhibited a very friendly feeling towards the U. States. Major Fitzpatrick was met by Mr. Burt at Crow Creek. Mr. Burt thinks the Indians will not meet the Commissioners at Fort Laremie, where it was intended, this summer, to hold a grand convocation of all the tribes in that region. Mr. Burt did not meet Col. Summers and the troops under his command, but learned that they were proceeding slowly on account of the preva lence of cholera among them. Eight to ten were dying daily, and numbers deserting. Dr. Ken nedy and another Surgeon had died. The cholera had also appeared among the trains of traders, and the teamsters were deserting in the general panic. The river is slowly receding, but has only fallen 8 1-2 inches. Accounts from above state that the river was falling there. Detroit, June 14. Trial of the Rail-Road Conspirators. —The Ad vertiser says the evidence in the Rail-Road con spiracy trial becomes more and more positive and clear against Fitch, Riley, Bennett, and the remainder of the ringleaders, and there seems to be no escape lor them. Proof is made of crim inal acts and of the agency of the prisoners, as hiring and paying for their commission. Buffalo, June 14. The Outrages on Beaver Island. —The wife of Samuel Bennett was made, by the Mormons, to accompany her husband and his dead brother in the boat after the murder and outrages. They were taken to the “ Harbor,” where a jury of Mormons returned a verdict that ;i Thomrs Ben nett came to his death while resisting the law.” Cincinnati, June 14. The Constitution Election—The Cholera , sr. Considerable interest is manifested in regard to the new Constitution, which will be voted for on Tuesday next. It is probable the instrument will be adopted by a large majority. The tem perance men sustain it on account of the clause prohibiting the sale of intoxicating drinks. The city is healthy. The cholera prevails along the river to a considerable extent among the emigrants, and is unusually fatal. Toronto, June 13, Canadian Parliament. —ln the Legislative Assembly last night, Mr. Cayler moved an ad dress to the Queen praying for the restoration of that protection which Canada formerly enjoyed in the English market. After a debate the ques tion was postponed until the result of the recip rocity negotiations with the American Govern ment are known. The Council of the Toronto Board on Trade, has resolved to memorialize the Government against the project of closing the Canals to American vessels, and in favor of deferential du ties, to encourage the trade of the St. Lawrence. {Correspondence-of the Baltimore Sun.) Washington, June 15, 1851. Presentation of a Silver Pitcher to Father Ritchie— -Ihe President and Jlttorncy General present. There was a large gathering, last evening, at Father Ritcnie's, occasioned by the presentation to the old gentleman of a beautiful silver pitch er? as a token of respect and regard from the faithful persmutle of the Union office. It was a touching affair. Mr. McNerhany presented the pitcher in behalf of the office employees, and made a very happy, eloquent address ; to which Mr. Ritchie responded with much feeling and in his best style. The President of the U. States, and Mr. Crittenden were among the number of distinguished gentlemen present on the occasion. Such a testimonial of kindness and attachment on the part of political friends and foes must have been highly gratifying to Mr. Ritchie’s heart, while it atiords a strong proof that the gentler feelings and impulses of our nature are not yet destroyed by the steam-drying process of parti 'll 3 ; 11 politics. Mr. Ritchie will shortly leave for Richmond May he there, in the bosom of his family, find that peace and happiness which his many virtues so richly merit. Yours, &c., X •}j- E *P IV 1 ER AND THE Flood.—^Yesterday, or w j thm the twenty-fours from 6 o'clock on Wed nesday to 6 o’clock on Thursday, the river oppo site tins city rose faster than at any period duriiw this Hood. From 7 o'clock on Wednesday eve” mng to 0 on i hursday morning, the river rose 8 1 J inches, and from 8 a. m. until, 6 p. m. yes terday, it rose 6 1-2 inches, making a total rise, as taken by Mr. Coote, of the Engineer’s De portment, 1 leet 3 inches. So extensive is the flood, that we expect to hear complaints from every quarter of the failure of ■ ftconnotbe otherwise. lowa, Illinois and Missouri, the bridges over almost all the streams have been swept away, and the country tor miles submerged. Delays must for these causes occur in the transmission of the mails, and the people must make all proper allowances for such lailures. ht. Louis Republican , (sth insJ. Large Shipment of Specie.—Three hundred thousand dollars in specie were received by Adams & Co. s Express Agents yesterday, from 1 ennessee, to be forwaru<xl to New York and Boston, and was sent on by the above line this morning. 1 his is by far the largest shipment of specie e\ er made at this point.— Cin. Commercial , 9th inst. Jenny Lind and Barnum. —The following letter is published as an evidence that the state ments with regard to a difficulty between Jenny Find and Mr. Barnum, are incorrect: "ToT. P. Barnum , Esq. —My Dear Sir: I ac cept your proposition to close our contract to night, at the end of the 93d concert, on condi tion of my paying you $7,000, in addition to the sum I forfeit, under the condition of finishing the engagement at the end of one hundred con certs. I am, dear sir, yours truly, Jenny Lind. Philadelphia , 9th June , 18-51.” Macaulay’s charges against Wra. Penn have been reluted by the discovery of some valuable documents relating to the life of the Duke of Monmouth. Penn was accused of extorting money for negotiating pardons for persons con uemned to death. A cash book has been found by Mr. Roberts, in which it is recorded that a Mr. Pinney, an ancestor of Wm. Pinney, Esq., M. P., w r as condemned to death, and that his ransom was paid to one t; George Pennc.” Doc uments which were searched in the State Paper office by Mr. Roberts for materials for his life of the Duke of Monmouth, show that “ Mr. Penne’ 7 was in one instance intended for William Penn ; therefore, the founder of Pennsjdvania is entire ly exculpated from the serious charges made against his memory by Mr. Macaulay. Sale of Sugars.— The cargo of brig William Chase, from Mayaguez, Porto Rico, consisting of 356 hhds. Porto Rico Sugars, was sold Friday, at auction, at Georgetown, at prices ranging from $5 40 to $6 55—and 106 hhds. Molasses at 26 to 29 cts.— Baltimore American, , i| . , I