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M WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. \llf ITST, r- ..... " “ _ M ACfcUsiA, G*. TOEBDAT MORNING, MAY 98, I 83». “ m _ ' Vol. GO I THE CHRONICLE AXU SBXTISEL PUULISHED, DAILY, THI-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY, At No. Broad-street. terms: Daily paper, Ten Dollars per annum, in advance Tri-IVcekly paper, at Six Dollars in advanced Seven at the end of the year. Weekly paper. Three Dollars in advance, or Four at the end of year. CHRONICLE AND SKNTINKL. AUGUST A. .. MONDAY MORNING, MAY 27. The Constitutionalist of Saturday, takes the Southern Recorder severely to task for saying that the plan of reduction adopted by the Con vention, will give to the Union party an undue and improper ascendancy in the Legislature.— The Recorder stated that the Senatorial District plan ns adopted by the Convention, would leave the State Rights’ parly in a minority of 8 or In in that body. The Constitutionalist expresses its surprise and says— “We will lake the lowest number eight. To have a majority of 8 out of 46 Senators, the Union party must have 27 and the State Rights’ party 19. Union Senators must be elected from 27 Senatorial Districts. We should like the edi tors of the Recorder to point out to us the 27 districts which will elect Union Senators. We have compared the arrangement of the counties into districts, and we can ascertain only 22 for the Union party, and 22 for the State’Rights’ party, leaving two doubtful. Every citizen, who takes the trouble to examine for himself, con' ... • < WW I A llil 1I IV I'M li I 111 ijL Ilf VI ,«'jf ■“'"mmfeio.,, ■ VVi: must in return express our utter amaze ■ent at tire assertions of the Constitutionalist iß Jpmtainnd in tire above paragraph. The plan Miloptnl by the Convention was introduced into ■lint body by its author, Mr. Stringer, for the ■ avowed purpose of giving his party a fixed ma ■ jnrily in the Senate, and he so declared it public s' Jv to the Convention ! He said his party were W entitled to a majority of six at least in that body ■ when reduced to 40, because they hud majorities ■|in counties enough to give them a majority of P'l2 as the Senate is at present organized! We the notes of that speech and intend to pub lish it to the world. The Constitutionalist bases Its calculations upon its fears ot what may by fcossibility he the result of a progressive growth in the strength of our party, and a continued de cline of its own, rather than upon it's knowledge of the state of parties as they exist at present. I We shall be most happy to sec the calculation of the Constitutionalist—we want to see the “22 dis tricts in wmen me ouuc uignuj panj “ majority” and the “two doubtful districts” of which it speaks, and also the process of reason ing or calculation hy which it arrives at that con clusion. We shall look for it with some anxiety as it will be one of the curiosities of the times. In order to help the Constitutionalist in its calcu lations wc submit the following table. It is ba sed upon the actual strength of parties as tested by the two last elections, to witt for Governor in 1837 and Congress in 1838. We have given the districts by numbers and opposite each number, the majority cast for each party in the District. The following districts gave majorities for Union party in 1837. ’ Ist District 132 28th District 263 6th “ 707 30th “ 264 7th “ 545 31st “ 412 B th 358 32d “ 470 q,h “ 303 33d “ 308 ,7,h » 131 34th “ 145 18th .. 45 *36lh “ 49 19 h “ 187 37th “ 384 20. h 90 39th “ 294 21st « 27 41st “ m -23d « 257 44th “ 355 24th “ 172 45th ‘ 8 26th “ H 5 ‘ I,K 27th “ 293 * This District is composed of Houston and Macon, the latter of which has been created since 1837. We give the majority only in Houston. Last year the two counties gave about ■ Oil ma jority for the Union Congressional District. | This District is formed of Walker, Chattooga and Dade, both of,the two latter counties having been formed since the election in 1831. W e give only the majority in Walker, which was very much increased in 1838. It will he scon by the above that in 1837, the Union party Jiad majorities in 27 districts, as or ganized by the late Convention. In twenty three of those districts their yi ijority was over ONE hundred !! Now let us see the State Rights’ districts. 2d District, 436 16th District, 76 0.1 .. 521 32d “ 287 4, h “ 35 25th “ 117 SP! .< 787 29th “ 483 j, ih <• 664 35th “ 87 .. 1085 38th “ 351 12th “ 457 4.ith “ 158 13 l h « 196 42d “ 325 ,4* « 352 43d “ 1006 15th “ 63 Thus it will be seen that the Stale Rights’ party had majorities in but nineteen districts, and in only fifteen of those did their majority exceed one hundred. In the Congressional election lust year (1838), the same districts whi h had given Union ma jorities in 1837, again cave average majorities to that party, with one single exception (viz ) District No. 20, composed of Lowndes and W’arc, which gave a small majority, say fifteen or twenty, for the State Rights’ party. To offset this, District No. 36, (Jasper and Jones) which had in 1837, given 116 majority to the Slate Rights’ candidate for Governor, in 183 b. gave the Union Congressional ticket a majority of twenty-five or thirty ! Taking either election then, on u last, »wl tllu L ’“ ion l ,art > r i:l lho Con ‘ vention have appropriated to themselves 27 Dis tr,cts > and magnanimously left for their opponents, who by the same tests, had a majority of votes in the State, but 19 districts! And we are us gravely 'old that there is perfect fairness in this, as if we !• had not the brains to make calculations as well as r our adversaries and sensibility to feel indignant at t ,lle gross ’ H! *y b a»e injustice that has been done j us I Wo had the majority in the Senate last | yee.r, and we should like to know what justice I there is in gerrymandering the counties so as to I give our adversaries a majority of 8 in a reduced j Senate, equal to a majority of 16 in the present ! Senate ? We have not been disposed to make j tins a party question, but when our adversaries ' attempt to persuade us against our positive know edge that that is fair and just which is so unjust I and unfair, we can scarcely repress our resentment ! From the Richmond Compiler of the 24th. The Election. The following is the slate of the polls at their ' c ose last evening in this city, and at the Court I 1 House of Henrico county. It rained very heavilv j 1 during the morning, and the polls are conse- ! , quently kept open to-day in the city and at the I ( Court House. t RieHMorvn Cirr. FOB COVORKS3. John M. Bolts, (Whig) -? 0 c I v William Scldcn, (Adm.) |' 3 g in “ k 165 ~ FOB THE BF.NATE, James Lyons (Whig,) no opposition, 242 j* ( vr yn.ibam Rnt'orlsDi l ( J Up "oils will be opened again this mornin aml continue open till sundown. Henhico, fat the Court-houseJ ion coxohess. Bolts. 281 Selden, IPs 113 FOTi THE SENATE. Lyons, (no opposition.) 27h . HOUSE OF DELEGATES. Sherwm Mcßae (Whig) o M Win. .V Whiting, (Adm.) 174 135 From the Louisianian, of the 21 it, \ 1 Mexico. —— Wfi have received, through the kindness of „ mercantile house, the following extract of a letter oated Sacnlicios, May T, which arrived here bv’ the schooner Waterwitch. y “ Yesterday an express arrived with news of the complete route of the army of Mexia and Lrrea. The first was shot hy order of Santa Ana. Urrca and Escalnda have both lied. The Puebla. They were defeated by General Valen lia. The federal parly has embarrassed our po i tical condition for a long lime past, and w 3 rejoice at this defeat.” There is nothing impossible in this story. But it seems to us to he a ruse employed by the gov ernment generals to discourage the partizans of Mexia. Until we obtain farther confirmation, wc regard it as doubtful. We arc confirmed in our conjectures respecting the foregoing news, by a letter from Vera Cruz, dated April 30, which states, that general Mexia was not far from Perote on his way to Puebla, that the number of his troops was reduced to 700 ; with whom he was not likely to reach Puebla. The garrison of Vera Cruz was reinforced by 400 men from Campeachy.and they were actively in repairing the foitificalions. From the Columbia Telescope. We announced in our last the death of Dr Cooper, and must now say something in regard to him. His name lias been before the public, attracting a good deal of attention, for sixty years, during which time there is scarcely any depart ment of intellectual exertion with which it has not been conncncted. For the extent and nr ultifariousness of his know ledge he was indeed a very extraordinary man.— Ho published works on Law, Medicine, Medical Jurisp udencc, Political Economy, and was an habitual writer upon current politics. He trans lated Justinian and liroussais. He received an honorary diploma of doc tor of medicine from the University of Pennsylvania, and was a Judge ol the court of Common Law of that State. He was at one time Professor of Chemistry in the Col lege of Carlisle —was ottered the same chair in the University of Virginia by his friend Mr. Jeffer son, and subsequently filled it in the College ol South Carol na. Oi the last he became President, upon the death of Dr. Moxcy, and by order ol the trustees lecturtdon Chemistry, Geology, and Po litical economy. To these encyclopedia acquire ments and occupations he added a large acquain tance with elegant literature. At the age of eighteen he came from the Uni versity of Oxford, with its scholarship and its censures. He at om e associated himself (with the natural ardor of his temper and of his lime ot life) with that party in England which hailed with rapturous enthusiasm the commencement of the French revolution. How few of his associates have, like him, lived to see, after the gloomy eclipse of their hopes for so many years hy the turbulent and bloody events of that struggle, their final realization in the regeneration of Europe ! Hls hopefulness had never failed. From 18 to 80, the love of liberty never forsook him—nor a cheerful confidence in its triumph—no: a willing labor in its service. Associating h mselt with the most excited of the Anglo-Gallican party, he signal zed at once his zeal anl courage in the effort of his pen.— He entered the lists with Mr. liurke. whose prophetic spirit had penetrated in to a 1 the horrors ol the storm, but could not see through its darkness the results tor which a be nign providence permitted a season of desolation. The same eoutage which impelled Dr. Cooper in to the controversy with Mr. I'.urke, prompted him to the more hazardous adventure of denouncing Robespicre from the tribunal of the Jacobins, whither he hud been sent as a delegate from a Mancnestcr association. The versatility of his talents was <y ispieuous at this early period. Within a very short space of time he was a polit ical missionary—-a member of a committee of chemists to report upon the intensity of certain dyestuffs—and stood with Mr. Erskine at the Assizes as junior council for Mr. Walker and other gentlemen of Manchester charged with trea son. When the eloquence of Burke, the power of Pitt, ami the unspeakable atroeilies of the French revolution, had crushed the Gailician par ty in England young CMoper, in 1793, follow'd ’ I !> r ,T r, rl>- this C . ountr - V ’ wlmherthe advocates 1 ’ 1m? ' Ulrni ' l ' theu ' right from tlie > 1 r r' pec,s r ° i,c -I°°’hn 1 °°’ hn I l “ ll , tl ' e P urBUlts !" «icnce and literature with ! an “‘ t*™ participation in political allairs. He ,W C ; 'I , r ' Pripstl > i!1 llis philosophical I ? V | CBtl f t . ,onB aml u P on his death published an | tljl, °rate biography of him in two vols. | In the contest between the federal and Rcpnb " an patties ho ol course took sides with the lat ter, and signalized his adherence to it l.y the free exercise of his ready pen. For a spirited ani- I mad version upon the principle and tendency of the | of the elder Adams, he tneurred | the penalties of the sedition law by fine and im , pnsonraent. Ihe pecuniary nutlet has not been restored to him l.y the tardy justice of Congress. t he opinions which he adopted forty years since in regard to the relative rights and powers of the State and General governments, were main tained by him with perfect consistency through out his hie He efficiently sustained the admin istrations of Jefferson. Madison and Mon.oe—ad vocated the election of the great and persecuted raw lord and oppo-ed J. U. Adams. When Jackson abandoned his principles, Dr. Coo per abandoned him; and seeing no reason to ap prove in his successor what he had condemned in that extraordinary man. he continued until his death in opposition to Mr. Van Buron. In the controversy of South Carolina with the General Government, he vindicated the policy of the State witli signal zeal and ability, and contri buted. with “Brutus and the rest’ to arouse and inform public opinion. Amidst the high names which illustrated that bold and patriotic move ment, his was conspicuous. His facility of com position, his readiness to work, his ‘abundant inowledge. and the point and terseness of his “y e. gave him great influence on public opinion nnl properly entitle him to be classed among the carters in that e nlcrprizc. | . Nor Ji< l his active participation in those slir the pursuits ofsci plary sn I Professor. No one eve- performed' thosT duties with more exact punctuality. His nrc fien.ee mi he J er,ule room was as regular as the arnva nt the hour; and when there, those who heard him could scarcely have believed that he had ever occupied his mind hut with the business appropriate to that scene. He shewed great mas tery of his subject—a perfect acquaintance with every addition made to it from any quarter of the globe—and brought illustrations from the whole circle of science ami the whole field of lit emturc. His lectures were not only instructive, but beautiful, and delivered with a perspicacity and simplicity that at once adapted them to the comprehension of learners, and recommended them to the taste of the leariieil. That his abundant knowledge, and uncommon aptitude to communicate it, joined to great in dustry and activity, failed to confer upon the Col fegc that degree of prosperity which might have been expected from such a combination of quoli l.es m the Pres.dent, perhaps arose from his avow al of peculiar opinions on theological subjects— opinions which, it appears to us, he would have ,. ep " W 'f, r T 1 to have entertained, and morepru- College, the Legislature confided to him, with a liberal salary, the collection and digesting of the Statutes of the State, in the performance of which duty he died, having completed four volumes. The predominant qualities of Dr. Cooper’s in tellectual character were intrepidity ami activity. His mind coursed the whole field of learning with untiring rapidity. It incessantly sought for knowledge; not with any apparent drudgery or toil, but. up to the last moments of his life, with that youthful and fresh alacrity which belongs to the pursuit of pleasure. He did not hesitate to follow his reasoning wherever it led, and what he thought lie said. Authority had hut little weight with him. He always endeavored to aop'y the Youch-stonc of reason to every proposition, and /to judge of it by that test alone. His multifarious studies, and his uncommonly wide observation of society, had enrich, d Ids me mory with vast stores of useful and agreeable to pics; and these, combined with a cheerful temper, a social spirit ami a most pleasant style of con versation. rendered him a most delightful compa nion. He was an admirable talker— terse, epi gramic, gay and instructive. He was rarely in a company in which ho did not say the best thing that was uttered. His conversation was illustra ted by well turned anecdotes, ornamented by sparkling classical allusions, and enriched by sen sible and judicious remarks. His temper was most agreeable, and his whole manicre d >r< dis tinguished by a pervading ban homi'iie and kin dliness of nature. He was benevolent, friendly and impulsive; prompt to do a good turn, “to spread friendships and to cover heats.” He was fond of children, addicted to pets, and kind to servants. Throughout his whole behavior there was a winning simplicity and directm ss; always agreeable, but in one of his age, learning and abilities, peculiarly captivating. He resided amongst us for the last twenty years, and we doubt whether he has ever been known to mani fest a feeling of personal unkindiioss towards any individual. Whether his labors in the cause of Science and Liberty shall give a lasting memory to his name, we will not undertake tojudge; but we confident ly say that he will long be recollected by those who knew him, with affection and respect. As he honored us with his friendship, and received in return our love and adm.raiion.it was grality mgto ns to see the firmness and equanimity with which he sustained himself through a tong and painful sickness,and the resignation with which he watched the slow and certain approach of death. .Hit. HIVES’ 81*EEG tl—Concluded. So fur from there being the slightest affinity he lve* n the doctrim s ol his r< portaml those of il e Virginia report and resolutions ol '9B and ’99. ihe identity, on the other hand, in principle and aim, I at least, between it and the Sedition law, is must striking and instructive. The object of the sedi tion law, as Mr. Madison tells us in the ever me morable report of ’99, was to '‘entrench the Go vernment in penal statutes,” and so to control the free exercise of “ the electoral lights of the peo ple.” 'Fhe pervading principle and drift of this report is to “entrench the Government in official \ influence, and, by that means, to control the free j exercise of “ the electoral rights of the people.” The Virginia opposition to the sedition law ol ’9B and ’99, and the opposition we arc now making to the fatal doctrines of this report, in like man ner proceed, step by step), on the same lofty and impregnable ground. In the report of ’99. Mr. Madison, il* author, emphatically declared that the “right of electing the members of the Govern ment constitutes more particularly the essence of a free and responsible Government;” and it was ; to shield that “ great remedial right of the People” ; from the terrors of penal legislation that Virginia ! then interposed her solemn remonstrance. It is j fioiu the sa.iw sacred appreciation of tins “ iiienli- mablc right,” uml in order to shield it from a still greater danger, the violation of official interfer ence, that we are now struggling against the alarming doctrines of this report. We shall hear no more, then. I trust, Mr. President, of the sneti- Jeguma invocation of the Virginia principles of . atMl 93 > t 0 ttive a sanction to the bold and nnti-ropuhlican heresieasjf the Senator from New Jersey, and ot the Judiciary Committee, of which He is tno organ. I will now proceed, Mr. President, to say a word or two. and hut a word or two, on the con stitutional power of Congress to adopt some measure with a view to restrain the improper in terference of Federal officers with elections. 1 am aware of the difficulty of satisfactory legisla tion on such a subject, and that it would be a more a, propriate matter for Executive super vision. If the President would re-issue Mr. -Idlerson’s Circuiar. prohibiting the interference m r ederal officers in elections, under pain of jus mission from office or wonid carry out and en- Wp the principle of that Circular, 1 for one, «Mjld tie content. But if he will not do so, if, on the contrary, sm h practices are tolerated, not to say encouraged, is it not .competent for Con ****“ to K ,ve Mat pnnelpU the sanction and au thority 61 law i My views would not extend I'eyond that. Cannot Congress, whose power in the creation ol public offices is undoubted, also declare on what coneiitions those offices shall he held . (an they not say by law, that if public officers, whose places arc created by- them, shall, “contrary to the spire of the Constitution and thon dut es under it,” (to use the language of Mr. Jefferson « Circular,) interfere with the free exercise of the electoral rights of the People they shall no longer hold their offites. hut that such conduct shall deemed n forfeiture of them 1 It seems to me, sir, that there would be no stretch of power in this. But the Senator from New Jersey, in his re port. tells os Hint “Congress have no right to in termeddle, ISy law, in prescribing the i/tiul fica f elinton that (he Constitution of the declares that mornliers of the House chbson requisite rous branch, of the State Pegi l dEture7Tun^* electors of President and Vice-President “sha he appointed in such manner ns the State J.egii Injures may direct,” and that the right, therefor, ot prescribing the nun! ftcali owi aft hcturn “he longs ex lUsively to .the States, and Ss withhel from the J'bderal Government.” But what ha all tins to do with the question ? Has any on. proposed to prescribe the qualifications of ki.k Tons, or, in other words, to deprive officeholder, of the iiH.iir or von no ? On the contrary it is conceded on all hands, according to tin terms of Mr. Jirtbrsonfs. Circular, that public officers are not to lie deprived ol the isiout of votixij ; but the object is merely to restrain them from mterf. ring with, or attempting to control oi influence, the-hike exercise ol the Uiein- or B-Y OTIIF.ns. But the report again tells U s that this oaunci lie donewithout “abridging the freedom of speech imdot the press.” What docs this argument amount it> < That youcan retrain »r. i„ m ,. ten, may teappen to be the vehicle or instrument because, in retraining the act, you may incident ally put some restraint on the medium or instru ment through which the act is done. For ex ample, we have just passed a law prohibiting tin giving of a challenge within this District to sigh a duel. Now a challenge cun be given only through the medium of words spoken or written and may he given through words spoken ns wel as through words written, it follows, then, w. have no constitutional power to pass the law vrr have done for prohibiting challenges within this District to fight a duel, because, in doing so, we abridge the freedom of speech ! In like manner, bribery and corruption are perpetrated through the medium of words, spoken or written. No law, then, can he passed prohibiting bribery and corruption, because, in doing so, you abridge the freedom of speech ! I will put still another case. Could not Congress declare that if any officer ol one of its courts, judges, United Slates attorney or marshal, should improperly tamper with a jury to influence their verdict in a cause, civil or criminal, depending before them, the officer guilty of such offence should forfeit bis office! And yet such tampering would be through the me dium of word's, and it might riereiud that in pro hibiting Lt you were “abridging this freedom of speech.” These cases suggest at once, the dis tinrtion between the sedition law, the "raw head and bloody bones” of which have been flourished so dramatically before our eyes, and such legis lation to restrain the improper interference o Federal office-holders with the free electoral right! of the People, as I have supposed might be found to be within the limits of our constitutional pow ers. In the case of the sedition law. it was the “false scandalous, and malicious writing” as de scribed by the law, the word# themmdvra, which were the direct and immediate object of legisla ti«e restraint : but in tire other cases referred to, it is the act (ite challenging, the bribery, the tampering, the irmrrnper inteifcrenei) which is sought to bo restrained, and the words arc bui the mere ivcibixt or casual accompaniment. But I will not dwell on these things. I throw them out only for candid consideration. It is no part of my purpose to argue the constitutional question which has been raised. The proposition which I shall submit leaves that open for futun and more deliberate investigation. I have a imicl. higher object in view. I desire to obtain, in sotn: form or other, a negation, a solemn disavowal, by an act of the Senate, of the most dangerous and anti-republican doctrines of this report. A ma jority of *his body, by ordering a large number of copies of it to be printed, before it was duly con sidered. have given (hastily,! would fain believe) a sort of implied sanction to those fatal doctrines. In some way or other, I trust, that sanct on may lie revoked. If the doctrines of pul I cal moralny inculcated by this report shall once he re cognised and established in this country, the days of Ameri can liberty arc numbered. Let il he understood and proclaimed (as the doctrines of this report, in efleet, proclaim) that, the pub ic trusts of the na tion, won in the first instance (if the favorite motto of the “spoils of victo.y ’ is to previ i ) by B p,irty servility, arc to be retained by electioneering ac tivity—that partisan service is the required return for office, as office is to be the reward of partisan service, and you lay, at oner, the foundation of (In most odious and fatal dcs;nitism which the mind of man can conceive — of a sordid part* iifepo tism, far worse than a military nxsiuvn su, be cause, though less fatal to human lifS, ii would be infinitely more destructive to human morals, and to every manly and generous sentiment.— Your office-holders, through all the ranks of ven ality and degradation, would he 1) Av II v:II too eth er by one common principle of servility and de votion to their chief; they would vie with each other only in the merit and efficiency of their elec tioneering services; and amid the din and bustle of the official canvass, of committees, caccis >B, and co.wsHTio.vs, all organized and directed, 1,1 1 scf r ‘"tly or openly, by the agency of office-holders, I J the voice ul tlie People would be stilled, or, to use l( the more expressive language of Mr. JelferHon, II “a-'tOTiiKiti n by the enormous patronage of the Government.” You would have your Pw*to -1 Ri an ii \nns of oOirc-buidcnt at the Va pitoi., 1 anil your Lkoiunaiit armies of them in the ' mc.es, (for your sovereign States would he* 1 come deppudOnt'iirovinees,) who would dfepose ol t ie Presidency us absolute as the I'n.Kroni an 5 •"Rtis and I.cmowur armies of Rome did‘of the Imperial Purple, ' I'lie/nnn.i of your government would still be preserved; hut ol whut avail arc the norms with out the sei hit of free government ? A high au thority. indeed, has told us “that the greatest mas. ' l, ' rs ol tyranny have judged the form without the spi rit ol a free government more favorable to I their schemes of oppressions, than all the authority ! - that absolute monarchy can give.” Rome, under the debasing despotism of the Cnssars, had still her Senate, and co-uiitiu. or assemblies of the People-, public affairs w eng for a long lime, still conducted in the name ol the I o«mui. the Censor, the Augur, and the Tribune of the People. The forms ol popular eteclion were still kept up, and the bmperor himaelt was an elective magistrate. Put the spirit of liberty was extinct. The Sena toi WJ ts sunk in servility, and the servility of the Senate at length infected (he masn ol the people. W urned by these examples, it becomes us to keep alive in our bosoms that watchful jealousy ol power, and that study spirit of freedom,which fired the breasts and guided the councils of our glorious ancestors. J lie doctrines ol political morality inculcated in this report, I repeal, Mr. President, are at war with nil the cherished prin ciples of our republican fathers ; and if they shall once strike root in our soil, (hey will bn fatal t> the best hopes of American liberty. You have, hastily and without due consideration, given them an apparent sanction at least I y ordering an unu sually large number of copies ol the report to be printed for dissemination among the People. I,el ns now, in some way or other, petba-m a solemn illustration,” to.oltainap ourselves frein the rroala initiation of doctrine.* at mwe so hateful ami so dangerous. W c enu do so in no manner more appropriate and more t Hernial ihuubv a Solemn \ Jjj^dliniialiiiii »f (hr in HifTacc o( tins repent. With this view, I have prepared n resolution, which the Senate will per ceive, is expressed In the very words of Mr. Jof -1 ferson h letter to Ooverrwr McK, an, and of his , m,Mn,,r ? Wc ~rrv l ar of Ihe proudest rnonu menu. 11l niy opinion, of his principles and fame.) which columns no one on the constitutional ones !° n I l '" 1 hi,s '!* rilise 'l- ''HI leaves that open for he clehherale investigation of a con.n.itteo, anil the Inlure decision of the Senate. I trust, then, that all who pralowi themselvoa disciples of the democratic faith will he happen haring tins op portmuty nflorded them of satwrihing their ad hesion to the doetrinns of him whom the Senator from New Jersey himself has styled “ the great apostle of democracy.” tio^ 1 - ,ht '“ «übmittcdthe following resolu- VV hereas «the constitutional remedy t.y the elective principle becomes nothing, if it may 1,„ cnee of the State ami Federal Governments, and of the different branches of thosame Government, so vitally cherished hy American institutions:” Unsolved, therefore. That, in the opinion of the Sonalc, it is highly “ improper 100 officers depend ing on the Executive ot the. Thiion to attempt to control or inlluencc the free exercise of the elect ive right." Result ed, aho, That measures ought to bo adopted hy Congress, so for as their constitntional powers may extend, to restrain by law the inter ference of Federal officers with elections, other wise than by giving their own votes; and that the report of the Judiciary Committee ho committed to a select committee, with instructions to new model it according to-the principles declared in the foregoing preamble and resolutions. * These resolutions, when subsequently acted on, were voted against by all those members of the Senate claiming to lie the thorough friends of the Administration and were consequently rejected by a strict party vote. Lvsrs N* rrns;.— Mr. Thomas Camden, who occupies the farm of Gen. Johnson, at the W alla bout, on Friday evening showed us an animal production which one of his swine gave hirlh to, among a litter of nine little gninlers. on that day. j» little them st singular ol any thing of the kind wo have over seen. It was a pig which.evideoi iy united in its formation three bodies. From about mid way, the fore part ot the body was hut one, and perfect, as also the head, except that it was uncommonly large, and the mouth contained three tongues. The rear part of the pig consisted of two distinct and perfect bodies, each with its complement of hind iV-gs tail. Ac. The two bo dies united midway of the animal, and Ihe two hack bones at that point appeared to he (irmly united, Between Ilicse two bodies was a portion of a third ono. The singular production lived but a few minutes after its birth.—A'. Y. Sun. Consignees per!South Carolina Kail Hoad. Hamburg, May 25, 1839. T. Magruder, S. Kneeland & Son, (1. It Jessup & Co., Stovall, Simmons k Co , Wright & Gibson, J. Coskcry, Hungerford, Frisbie k ( 0.. B. W. Force kCo., W. K. Kitchen, 11. Piquet, J. F. Bunson, G. Parrott, Sibley A Crapon, Jeffers A B. COMMERCIAL. Latent duhs from Liverpool, Ajrrit 19 I.a lest dales from lliivre. April 17 New-Cri.eans, May 22. Cotton. —Pecci red Once I7tli instant 5,284 bales; exported to J.iverpool 1d,728 do, Havre 2,846 do' N-w-Vorlf 1,035 do, licstbn 1,323 do, Philadelphia’ 14'f'drt. liichmond2 together2o,sB3 bales ; making a further reduction In u»e stock since our last re view of 15,299 ba es. and leaving a balance on l and including all on shipboard of 97,365 bales. Just at the nutrient at which we closed our re port of the 1 Slit'ii st.. the cotton market began to exhibit some symptoms of recovery from the blow which was given it by the late Fuiopean accounts* ■■lit these favor ale indications soon disappeared, and have been succeeded by a stale of dullness full as great as before prevailed the sales since being only to the extent >f 3,(T0 hales, and at iaies that fully establish a decline of I a cent on the quota tions which we gave in onr last. There is a con siderable quantity of cotton now on the mar ket, and ho ders, in general, evince more anxiety to receive others than heretofore, particularly as there are at present so few persons who show any desire to purchase, some of the principal operators having taken their departure from the city. We notice the sales as follows, viz: 281 Louisiana and Mississippi at Hjf ; 22, M; 320, 14$ j 210, 14 1 200 13$; 96, I3{ : 199, I lA; <l6O, 14; 90, 13j cents, and 1049 Nashville 13} cents. I.m-.tieooL Gi.assihcvnoNs.—Louisiana and Mississippi, Ordinary 12j a 13; Middling 13} a 14} ; Fair 15} a 15} ; Goad hue 16 a 16} ; Good and ’ ,Lnl-x,Tn'- Ci ,' nef " tc and North Alabama,Or ! dina.v Middling,Patr,Good fair. Good and lino, 12* , a extremes ; fairerops, 14* a 11^, mat r, . , STATEMrNT Os COTTOK. 839 mlvq’i 8IOC m°" haD JI t,al¥S 8900 ISJ “, nla) 21, rec’d since 17tli 52H “ previously 536138 610422 r, 49322 “ “ exports since 17th 206*3 11 previously 431374 451957 Leaving a balance of slock of 97366 A'uydr.-.Louisiana.—Tlierc continues to be a veiy lair demand for prime sugar, but in oilier des criptions, transactions aie stif. extremely light,— 1 rime is very scarce, as there is so small a portion ot the receipts composed of this quality, but the market is abundant) supplied with inferior and common—we quote unaltered pikes, inferior and common 4to 6), lair to prime 6 a ej cents. ( n plantation, l ine aie very few sales!and Holder* eume considerable anxiety to realise at rates rang nif, from ,|» C* cents. I avana Sugars.—'l ho dc mand is limited lor both white and ! rown, and the low a ‘ OHn i e bruu K ,,t 3 shade , ’ Aimed since I <th instant erf La. 0, 6hhdj, MoUie 4 £. f "7:\ nrl :>,i hlld *» t'»“».ul6li..ria 180; fllcd.ilc 4, P londa 17, together 237 hhds. A/o/",v.vcs is ill fail demand in the city at from 35 to3b cents per gallon, and the stock in markctcon linuts veiy ngi.t. t n plantation it can now only he obtained in smal. lots, and the last sales weie at , r C "^', ' Vm „ vod sinc e *'<tli inst. 6l.9bbfs : clear., ‘■d for Mobile lb hhds, Florida 42 hbls. n ., , . Savannah May 24. r,!i° ? n Tc. rr ' V “ d Hinrc the 17,11 >"»t- 1348 bales I plain! and bl bales S. I. C otton,and cicarsd at the same lime, 6086 bales 1 plane! and lb bales b I ( otton i leaving a sto . k cn hand, inc mive of all onslnpboaid'nicdc.iraj on the 24th inst.'of 13657 hales l.piand and 463 bales sea Is and ( otton. J be demand tins «eck fov l pi„nd has been to a telde. tn, ;, and V’ 6 ™ lket <•<*'* With an u,.#.rf L, ; ,l ''' sa,cs arc *266 bales, vizi 23at 144 s U i » 801 at >■’ I 2 (, 9 at 15* , 218 at I.jjj, h . 4 at U) < i 24 at lb ( K7 at Hi*. In ,s ta 1, land » c have no sales of any import to r. poit. fl/cc.—huln,. article there has been but very ll,Sti thC <CW salcs nmdc have .Vu///!~ihc- ■ Ji • y ■>' s,,ou,de,s a , Ol 200 b,ln ‘i:»'» Eastern,on the wharf week a~l2 els • S ° oo bu * hc,s Liver P°°l sold this STATEMENT Os '‘OTTON. Stock or, famil. Ist. October. S 'Jr Ueceived this week. 2ds] £ I'o. previously. n 77(!) , fiso Exported this week, GOSC 321 183543 4733 Uo, previous'’y, 163876 3954 1C99G2 4275 Stock on hand, including all on ship board not cleared on the 24th May/ 13588 459 Cn.M»I.EBTi!?( May 25. ...-Vtejc.sterdav took an aCCOIIIMt of H.» .1,1, ~f . Cotton —A fair business has engaged dealers in Upland since our report of the 18th inst , and the operations in all descriptions reach 3712 bales. The demand, however, was chiefly confined to the low and middling qua ities, at full prices ;■ bat to wards the close of the week, holders were asking;.’ and in some instances obtained, 4 cent pec lb. ad vance on these sorts. There is in fact, a belter feeling in the market for all descriptions, and InAft ers are linn at present prices, whlcn we subjoin, viz: l.iverpool classification —ordinary to inferior, 14 a 14} ; middling to middling fair, I4j a 15.}; fair to fully fair, 10 a 16} ; good fair, 17 a 17} ; choice, IK. The sales are, 14 bale at 14 ; 74 at Ilf; 39 at 14} i 199 at I4j ; 975 at 15 ; 337 at 15}; 267 at Ifij ; 731 at 15} ; 132 at ISJ ; 49 at U>{ ; 3G4 at 1G; 292 at 16! ; 2G9 at IG} ;17 at ; 179 at 17 } 70 at 17} ; and 42 bales at Id cents peril). In long Cottons the transactions have been confined to 102 Sea Islands, at prices ranging from 50 to G 3, with several small lots Kantees, from 45 to 47 rents per lb. Hire. —loir liice market has been rather languid throughout the week —purchasers are not free buy ers at present ( rices. About G3G tierces have been •-’ld, at from 4} to 4J per 100. (/fain. —About 9000 bushels of Virginia and Noith Carolina Corn have come toliand—the greater ■ portion of which, brought 95 cents ; we quote 95 I (JO cents per bushel. About 2100 bushels of leas have abo been received, during the week, which brought $ I per bushel. oay has been selling at 1 and sl} per 100 lbs. No arrival of • ats. I lnur. —The operations of the week, in this ar ticle, have been solely to city bakers —who pur chase generally in small tots for immediate use: Western continues to command 7a7} ; 170 bbls. ilaltimoie has been taken at 7}; and a small lot do. Lr ii lit $8 per bid. o nuer.es —< ur Grocery market has been at a stand since our last. The only operations within our knowledge are about 35 hhds. Muscovado bu. gar at fiom 6 L to 9} per lb.; and ICO bags Cuba Codec at I If, with a small lot I'orlo I abello, in barrels and bags, at 12 :nd 12 5 cents per lb. Os Molasses there is none in first hands. Bacon —The sales of the week have been 11 girty, and confined chiefly to Haltimore and North ( aroli na Mams at 16 a. i’fi : , ; Baltimore Sides are worth Hall}; do. Shoulders,9s a9J ; Western Hams, 12 a 12} cents per lb. Hud. —Baltimore and North Caro’ina l ard, by the 2(1 and 50 kegs, has been .tiling at 13} a 14 cents per lb. Holt. — Ihe receipts of the week arc 1626 sacks Liver; 001, al oat b 0 of which brought 4.3 per sack, flip Aock in second hands is very light. MAKI \ E INTELLIGENCE. Chahi.eston, May 25. Arrived yesterday. —Brig Exit. .Sisson, I avaa nab ; schooner Thames, Sawyer, New- cleans.. Cleared. —Brig Cervantes, Kendrik, fcos.u;* Pavankah, Vry 25. Arrived yetlerday, —l tcamboat Lamar,Cieswell, Augusta ; steamboat Cherokee, Norris. Augusta. Departed. —Steamboat John Randolph, hugga Augusta. W. W, HAMUH, MANI EACTi RES antkdsa’aiCievery variety of Cumbs, und Importer rs Fancy < 'ullery , such as lb n and l-oeket Knives, l.nzors, KcissOis, , at le > ut cry, &c., Buttons, Needles and l ins. I crfuin ery, c ancy .-oaps, Work boxes and Dressing C uses, genuine Manor Strops, and a great variety of Karic.w t.oods, which will be disposed of to dcalets upo* accommodating terms, at his waie-housc, in rear of the retail store, 156 Kiug-strtet, sign of the lajge Ox Morn. * Orders f,om a distance carefully, attend to with punctuality. Charleston, May 18. Iy gt Vi "TICE.—The subscriber having disposed of 11 bis Grocery and Confectionary to Messrt SCHMIDT Sc TitHiH, takes pleasure in lecom mending them to his Blend* and former customers He also returns his sinceie thanks to his former patrons lor their liberal encouragement while he conducted the business. BE TER G( 1 i i May 14,1.839. , vt N. U.—All those indebted to him will please, mah- immediate payment, p_