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But it is the only, one comformble to reason and fact. A different construction will lead to the most maifest absurdities.— If all men were to be created equal in the sense contended for by Mr. Sum ner, and were to begin' their career as such on to-morrow, they would not remain equal twenty-four hours; and each succeeding day the inequalities among men would become more mark ed and radical.— Con*!. <t* }Rep. Mr. President, let me for a moment turn you to that clause of the Declara tion of Independence to which reference is made. What? PWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”—not bom equal, as many say and as many state it in the newspapers—“that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalien . able rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” In a speech which I made here some time ago, upon the Nebraska bill, I said that the construction put upon this clause of the Declaration of Inde pendence by .the Abolitionists of the , country, made it a self-evident lie in- I stead of a self-evident truth. From that I position I do not withdraw, but I bold ly assert it again. : Sir, Mr. Jefferson, in penning that instrument, was not talking about indi viduals; he was not talking of the Senator or his progenitors from "Massa chusetts; hey/us not talking about the white or the black race, the Caucasian or the African race; but he was talk- I ing about aggregated, congregated bod * ies, collections and associations of men. He had reference to collections of men when they had become sufficiently nu merous to form independent States.— Then it was, according to his ideas, that they, as collections, and associa tions of men, had equal political rights with all other similar associations or collections of men. In no other light did Jefferson ever dream that lie was ■ speaking in that portion of the Declar ation. Will you say to me that Mr. Jefferson, Jjiruselt a slave-holder, the descendant of a European, would stul tify himself by saying that his African negro slave, who was born his slave, created his slave, begotten his slave, who was his slave during the whole gestation, was created his, Jefferson’s equal? lie never dreamed iof such a thing. .Sir, the Senator named an African who was among the first that was slain in.the contest for freedom in the streets of Boston. I will not pretend to sav whether thafyi friean was the superior ot the Senator' from Massachusetts, or tiie Senator his "superior; but they 'MqL in niy judgment, equals in equals in death. They were nbtjhai-hioriibus and beautiful in life, nor will they be equally beautiful in death. . ' Xovvsf Shy to give this clause of the J)eclwrlticm of Inttopenclence any other <-on.stru|||)n than that wjßieh \ havq given it. -it i-- an evident, a self-evident, a palpable. He. What is the language? 'fJiat “all men are created equal. s*— 5 * — Arc ; .tM*f created equally tall, equally in-qaCequaHy long, equally short?—- Are tpey created politically equal?- Jiff they created physically equal ? ■Re' - : they -created mentally equal 'l— |Are they created morally equal? 1 jfeiy, in no one of these several instan .are all men cremated equal, You beyond tlie‘ moment \vhcn they |%t respire their native air. At. that time, you sec presented to you the imbqcjlfjN n mi nil, weak in bqdy, tl worf in si/I* f while, beside him, the, same day’s birth, you sec power, greatness,. strenJtK wisdom and bdauty. In no one UXBrnope, therefore* is there 4 perfect' Hl‘ v !W,W if you _ regard as im.ivuiuak As nations, as nt n jr l, » th, '> have a right ‘to paflltt equality as to tlje formation of thhif*qgovernment, arid the rights and doM||ie duties that shall be es t.ibl ■ them. 1 ask that Senator—:.y o ,i, ,vh<> to-.lny IMtt Oopiyonraeir—,y<™. who liavo sauUlut the - solemn oath which you took at that stand, administered I>y die 1 un dent of this body upon the holy Evan gelists of God, kissing the book, giv ing seM and sanction to vour asset eia tion—you who have said t o-dav 11 1 at you would spit upon that oath, won i 1 regard iLs obligations - Mr. Sumner. Never! Never! - •• Mr. Pettit, You, who denied it,; denied its power to bind you;..v‘»b wbb said you would hot maintain io 'Constitution of the United States— Mr. Sumner. 1 «dd I recognized no obligation in the Constitution ol the United States to bind me to. help to reduce'a inan to slavery. - Mr. Pettit. I ask you, do you claim to be the equal of your revolutionsy Ml Presiding Officer N'lio Sena tor must address the -Chair, not the Senator from Massachusetts. Mr Pettit I ask the . Chair, then, whether the Sector from Massachu setts, with this .odium on his lips, is the equal of his revolutionary sires, t do not know that he had any, pi o pcrlv speaking, Hit I take it, m a > a>e point, of view. Is he the equal o Adams of Hancock, ot \\ avren, vho was the first martyr in the great cause of liberty, of freedom, and union; whose blood was the first to cement the union of these States, on Bunker’s hill, to which he lias referred? Are you the equal of those men? Is he, sir, the equal of those men ? 1 had rather ask you, Mr. President, for I think-you would answer u no,” and lie might answer “yes.” . Now, Mr. President, I come down to later times. There is no distinction be tween moral, physical, political and mental equality, it you take the lan guage laterally as it reads. I ask that Senator then, or I ask you sir, wheth er that Senator is the equal of the late lamented Daniel W ebster, who pre ceded him here long years ago —and it would have been, well for the coun trv if he had remained here in his seat to the present day ? Is that Senator the equal, mentally, morally, physi cally, or religiously, of that deceased, and illustrious man? When will the Senator get to himself the proud repu tation of the “Expounder ot the Consti tution,” “the Godlike Daniel,” the mighty giant intellect of Webster?— lie will get to himself, instead, the odi ous withering, blighting and blistering name of “contemner and despiser ot the Constitution, who refused to main tain, support and endorse it. Does tliat Senator pretend to say, that men tally there is no difference? You might as well interpolate “mentally” as “politically.” Aou might as well say, that all men are created mentally equal, as to say that all men are creat ed politically equal. Neither of those words is in it; and, therefone, it appli es as much to mental as it does to pol itical equality. Sir, men come to tile earth, they make their. aflfrarance upon it, with mental powersMbut with no political rights, and I m"*, therefore, say with more propriety that Jefferson intended to say they were created mentally in stead of politically equal. At the ear liest creation there are evidences of men tality without any political rights what ever. Then is the Senator the equal of Webster, who has deft a name, a monument and a fame, I will not say unsurpassable, but unequalled in strength and power, arid durability, by any other American Senator ? . I believe that as a mere mental man— and I speak of him in no other capa city—Webster had not his equal on this continent, if he had in Europe, or upon any other continent. Is that Senator his equal? He might as well say, that the jackal is the equal of the lion, or that the buzzard is the equal of the eagle. When you, sir, [addressing Mr. Sum ner] find no man beneath you ; when those who are near you —your own class of men —can find no man beneath you; when you shall claim as your equal the man who rolls in the gutter, whom God has deprived in bis own or ganization and creation of all mental power and capacity; when 3 r ou shall claim that lie who wallows in the gut ter with the vilest and most worthless is your equal, then your interpretation of the doctrine is true. Let me go fur ther. If the Almighty even intended to create the Senator the equal with the mighty and lamented Webster, I must be allowed to say that He made a gross blunder and a most egregious mistake. How, then, is it that men all are equal, and are created equal? When we first see them, they are une qual, They have not equal political rights. Will that Senator say that this equality consists in political rights?— Then he says that the serf of the An to*-at of ftussia is hiS'eqtial in every thing ancl lie the serfs equal. If so, they ought to change stations, perhaps. I say they are not equal, and were not created equal. Was the Senator, created a free born citizen of Massachusetts, created as such a member pf this great Kepub lic and Confederation, and yet was he created no more than equal with the southern slave upon a southern planta tion ? Was he created precisely equal with the most ignorant of the ignorant hordes that inhabit any portion of the habitable globe? Was nc created on ly equal, with the veriest au<l lowest serfs of t]ie Kmperor Nicholas ?A When the time shall come when he avows there is no degradation, no weakness of intellect, no physical,' ino ra), or mental development beneath his °)Vp, then he may assert the truth of his dogma and Ids declaration. Sir, I am incliried to believe that, in a moral point of view, that Senator cannot find one .beneath himself, taking his own declaration to day. He who will swear here in this body, appealing to God for the truth -of what he savs, to support the Constitution of the Onion, and then boldly proclaim that lie will not do it, has sunk, in my estimation, tp a dypth of liumiUnfiph ’and degrada tion which; it would not be enviable 'the veriest serf or the lowest of broils creation to occupy. It may be gnrds nil others ns his equal; hut there are some who are not willing to regard that Senator as their equal, and who will never be coerycd into/ any such admission. THE INDKI’ 1 M 1 M I’IJKSS. , •’ N kref’ ~ EATONTON, GA. SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 15, 1851. TO SUBSCRIBERS. J3H Subscribers who do not livo in town will find their papers at tho Drug Store. We have made this arrangement ior their convenience. “ Nebraska : A Poem, personal and political. Boston: Published by John P. Jewett <£• Cos., 1854.” Such is tho title of a conglomeration which its author calls a poem. Wo saw, in a Northern pa per, some time since, an announcement of this poem as a satire which was going to produce a sen sation. Yankees wero “considerably exercised” on tho subject of Nebraska: Aunt Harriet had written a book about niggers, which, published, by Jewett & Cos., bad enriched both publishers and author : And why might not our author aLso, stir himself up, “climb upon a negro’s back,” as he says of Douglas, get the philanthropic brother Jew ett to publish his pomn, sell it a good deal, and have some money himself? Why might not lie, while the thing was agoing, and Aunt Harriet was making so much, coin “considible” out- of the fan aticism of his brethren ? He guessed he’d about as it, and so he had his poem published by brother Jewett. But the “best laid schemes o’ mice and men”—with the former may be ranked our author—are sometimes failures. We think we saw in one paper that “Nebraska, a poem” had been published, and but for the attention of our es teemed friend, the Honorable D. A. Reese, who franked us a copy, the other day, we should proba bly never have heard of it again. “Nebraska, a Poem” is in paper covers, written in blank verse—very blank indeed— containing 42 pages, 33 lines to the page, making in all 138 G lines, and 2386 lies, just 1000 more lies than lines. It is divided into 6 parts, the blank verse in eaeli part being occasionally relieved by a few verses in rhyme, which are in fact a relief; like jumping out of the frying-pan into the fire, for the sake of change, knowing you will soon jump back again. The real object of “Nebraska, a Poem” was the desire of a ’cute yankee to avail himself of the ex citement among the raw Jonathans to sell them his book and make money. It was a mere variation of tho wooden-nutmeg tune. Its ostensible object is to save Nebraska from slavery—of which it nev er was in any danger— to abuse slaveholders and Mr. Douglas, and to praise Abolitionists. I art I opens with some lines about Webster, Calhoun, and Clay—wishing they were alive to de feat the Nebraska Bill, and which are very nearly sublime. They miss it by one step—and that is the step which separates the sublime from the rediculous. The poem opens thus: ■The granite giant, whose imperial brow Shone like the moon amid his night of hair, And whose magnetic eyes pierced through the veil Which hides the future from the vulgar gaze,” Ac, We were at a loss to know whether the author refers in. those lines to some mountain, or to Bun ker Hill, or Washington Monument. But by a good deal of study lavished upon the context, we found out that he meant Webster, by the “giant granite.” _ Suppose an artist were going to trans fer this picture of Webster to canvass. He would first have to paint a giant body, made of granite- Then he would put upon its shoulders the moon for a head, .with a very black ground to represent the “night of hair.” Then his “magnetic eyes, piercing through the veil,” would be represented by posts connected by wires running out of the sockets where the eyes ought to be, and these posts and wires going on through a veil hung hung tip in another part of the picture. So that the portrait- of Mr. Webster,, as drawn by our author, is a granite body, with the moon for a head, covered by a very black cap and two lines of magnetic telegraph sparkling and whizzing, for the "eyes—resembling, to sorno extent, the man in the moon. We will- warrant the author of “Nebraska” that if he will make such an image of Mr. Webster as the one he draws, and .set it up in the territory about which he is so uneasy, it will be an effectual obstacle so carrying negroes into that country. It would be such a scare-crow, or scare-nigger, as would keep out the darkies of the South, in spite of all the blood-hounds and guns which our author’s teeming imagination can supply to slave drivers. Sambo has got no no tion of “goin whar do debil is, sure,” “Now let us climb Nebraska’s loftiest mount, , And from its summit view the scene below.” ’ So says our author, after finishing hismanglomcnt of Webster, Calhoun, Clay and “little giants.” His purpose is to give an account of Nebraska as it now is—like a runaway negro—in the woods, and unsettled. You see our theme is so full of niggers that we unconsciously draw our imagery f)om them. But to proceed. After our author- gets tip on the mountain, to “view the land of promise o’er,” he goes on to describe the territory, and he makes it a powerful nice country too—such nice trees, such pretty streams, such singing birds, and all that. llow pretty i and how original! After surveying Nebraska, unpeopled as she is, our author lias a vision in which ho sees the country all settled and tho land reduced to tillage and dot ted with schools, churches, &ci. And right hero comes in tho first jingle of rhyme in describing the loco-motive. Wo can well imagine we are at a crossing when we read, "The iron steed the train is bringing, So look out while the bell is ringing —’’ the last lino being a plagiarism from tho sign-board —a clear case of petty larceny, sir, as Thomas H. Benton would say. In a word, Nebraska is as “ fair as Eden was Before the Arnold of the fiends below Made Eve und Adam break their compromise,” s . By. Eve and Adam are represented the North and South, as wo,learn in a subsequent part of the poem, though we never before hoard of any com promise between Eve and Adam, And so ends Part I. Part II opens with the entry of the serpent [Douglas] into the before-described paradise, and abuses tho “little giant” a good deal in bad verse,' showing the venom and impoteney of the author. He, (tho author) then praises those 3000 Now England clergymen, and, in another relay of rhyme, says: '■ “Yes they would make this dark world bettor Thaq’twas tho day it gave them birth,” — And wo hope they’ll succeed; for surely tho world was very bad the day it gavo them birth. Next follows something about their protest to the-Senate, Mr. Everett’s lack of “grit”' and’lldnstoh’s being , “The champion of New England clergymen." Something about “Tho press—-tho press—tho free untramoled press,” and Whittier, the Quaker poet',' closes Part TI. Part 111 is devoted to vulgar abuse of Douglas and Cass, and praise of Benton for his treachery to the South. ? ‘ , “The grand Missourian stands pre-eminent—- I Nor threats from bullies can inUmiifofc— He stamps [not spits] upon the platforms of the age, And «hivm into spHnters every plank’’- , • looking, according ?o the‘description given by bur author, like one Os thofto steeds in fly time that are haltered and promenaded hack' and forth for exhibition, rearing, curvetting, neighing,'stamping """Tm hunter*' 1 In it occurs what Massachusetts says about it in thyme. One verse, ’given as a specimen,'' rends thus|E “Shall priest and statesman climb the tapering steeple At Concord to behold tho wondrous chase, To see black Kossuth and our own white people .Kmining a raw?” Well it is right funny no .mistake, to see some white folks climb a steeple to witness some other white folks running after a nigger. In this part occurs tho line, “An armless hand is writing on the plaster.''. If you wish to know why tt wrote on tho plaster in stead of on the wall, as other hands do, it is be cause wall does not rhymSwith, master, used in an other line, while plasteJ does. Part V is devoted to another slave-hunt, in which tho victim i,s a woman with her child. It is night and a very rainy, stormy night. Our author tells tho wind to “Blow till ye ‘split yer lungs’ and ‘crack ycr cheeks.” And our poet, “Amid tho pipings of the storm Did hear a woman's fearful cry.” lie went out, and took the nigger and her young one into his house, and “Tho dusky babe looked up and smiled On him the happiest man on earth”— and the probability is that‘our author is in tho habit of smiling and being smiled upon by “dusky babes." This picture he endeavors to make very pathetic, and wo rubbed our eyes to see if wo could not start a few tears, but they absolutely refused to come. After somethingpout. “scenting the Afric smell,” and other things equally delicate, Part V closes. Part Yl.should have been styled, “ Conclusion— wherein of men as are men, and also of men as are not men.”, ~ It abuses what it calls the dough faces that are sent from the North to Washington, speaks of some hing paradoxical, lauds Chase, Se ward, Sumner ind so on, and speaking of certain moral agencies, including “Nebraska, a Poem,” we suppose, says, “These in strum nts, and such as these have changed The current of i ur nations sentiment," We have not time to.point out the varied in stances of bad tiste, false rhythm—there is hardly anything else-frothy imagery stolen from the style of Alexan ler Smith, who is our Poet's model* and the thousand and one other errors of this Poem with not one single redeeming trait in the whole volume. One piling may be said, though, on an other. score: In spite of “Nebraska, a Poem”— in spite of its 3000 clergymen—its great Missourian —its Wades, ind Chases, and Sumners—its Qua kers and quertlousness, Nebraska a territory has been thrown qien to slave emigration so far as Congress can oo it—fugitive slaves have been re turned to their masters, and “Nebraska, a Poem” has been consigned to that oblivion it so richly merits; while lie author’s dream of Cone, if he ever aspired so ligh, has passed away with the vis ions of gold which wero to be poured into his cof fers by the salepf “Nebraska, a Poem.” The author whds up with the couplet, “God grant the Pulpit and the Press may guard Nebraska from lie onslaught of her foes”— to which we rejly that if she can survive the on slaught of such friends as our author, she need give herself no pneern about the onslaught of her foes. t “ Antajonistic Civilizations.” An idea has gotten out about “antagonistic civ ilizations,” as regards the North and the South. Its meaning is 'hat the civilization North, and civ ilization South, ; are so much opposed to each other that they caimbt exist together under the same government. This, we consider, to bo founded in prejudice rather than based upon truth. Such is the form of our national government that we be lieve if it would confine itself strictly to its dele gated powers, a republican state and absolute monarchy even, could exist, together under it, each state government, and the federal government con fining itself to its own sphere, Our Constitution does not permit a state, with any other than a republican government, to enter the Union, But we suppose that the framers oftho Constitution, in this matter were governed as much b\' their dislike to royalty as by any belief that a state with monarchical features could not exist un der our general government. We believe though that Russia herself; with her autocrat performing the functions of the state government, and confin ing himself strictly to the: “reserved rights,” leav ing the “delegated rights” in the hands of the Uni ted States, could become a member 'of this Union, and dwell together in peace with the other states. This is the beauty of our system of government: That while each statej with interests as diverse as tiie poles, is left to control its own internal affairs and regulate its police, looking to the promotion of these diverse interests, those which are general in their nature, • such as regulating commerce, coining money, establishing post routes, waging war for the common defence, &c., are left, to a government whoso agency is to attend to those things. And this government transcends its limits and under takes a duty which does not legitimately belong to it, when it attempts to' do any thing, either for or against, local interests. Hence the great mis take made by the general government when it at tempted to foster domestic manufactures. It would have been wrong even if it lmd not been favoring one section at the expenso of the other. For it was assuming a function which does not belong to the general government. It is equally foreign to the sphere of the federal government to legislate for or against local interests, even where there is no conflict of interests. With this view of tho duties of the state and general governments, there is no force in the idea of “antagonistic civilizations.” When fanatics are taught, by the halter if necessary, that no state has a right to interfere with tho local concerns of an other, and when tho general government is taught by tho states that it must make the letter of tho Constitution the limits of its action, wo shall hear no more about “antagonistic civilizations,” nullifi cations, secessions or disunions. Offensive and Defensive. The Northern press Has been in the habit of act ing upon the offensive, attacking our institutions, while the conductors of tho Southern press have contented themselves with acting upon tho defen sive. In this way, our section has been held at a disadvantage. To prove this, let two mon have a quarrel upon the street, one attacking tho other all the time, while the. latter contents himself with an swering the charges brought against him, instead of repelling them by counter attacks, and see which will got the advantage. Now suppose that the South, instead of answer ing ,tho attacks made upon the subject of slavery by defending the institution, should change her, system of warfare and pour lipt shot into the flank of the North by oxposing, through Southern news papers, the crime and poverty of Northom cities, and the cruelty with which tho Abolitionists treat theif apprentices, aiid factory operatives. .Supposo our Congress, day after day/ and session after session, to abate nuisances which have sprung up at the North, in tho shape ! of riots, trea son, murder, infidelity, Mormonism, . Millerism, ,Spiritualism, Fourierism, and concentrated Foolism. Supposo we vox the ear of our National legislature, time after time, to abolish Northern institutions which bring about these results. Suppose wo ask Congress to pass a law doing away with that svs teip of morals,«religion and education, whose aim ;secms,to oe to ind'wo men, as Sumner has done, to swear to a lie, and then boast of it in tho broad light, of day, and in tho face of high heaven. Sup pose wo do all these things—don't yc i supposo wo could pt.algng i b^ t ter than now. when we.,,confine MUTILATED COPY ourselves to defending- our institutions, instead of attacking those of our enemies ? §There is aldndtffUPaul Pryism, with the other fa of the Abolitionists, which hits induced them to trouble themsolves with our concerns, while the refinement of Southern people has prevented them front busying themselves about the titans of their Northern neighbors. Gentlemen attend to their own business, and let that, of other people alone. But thi3 need not prevent gentlemen from kicking' Paul Prys out o{ doors, and exposing them when it becomes necessary to do so. Southern writers ought, for a. while, at least, to drop the defensive, and, apt upon the offensive.. The Corner Stone. In this paper of Gth Inst., are some remarks about “the best reasons it, [the Independent Press] is cap able of understanding and appreciating,” which our Columbus cbtemporary intends to be very severe.— As to that matter, the Corner Stone knows, as eve ry body else does, that the Independent Press is cap able of understanding and appreciating any rea sons which are reasons. Hence the shaft which was winged for us, tho’ a polished one and propell ed by a skillful hand, falls harmless at our feet, be cause we are not vulnerable at tho point at which it is aimed. But nothing which can be said of us, good, bad or indifferent, shall cause us to so far do wrong as to prevent our making an explanation when we see a person laboring under misapprehension. We hold ourself bound, as a man, and as an editor, to explain, or to apologize, when circumstances re quire it. To explain is all that is necessary upon this occasion. The editor of the Corner Stone is assured that wo do not “ think so poorly of his intellect as to come to the conclusion that lie can never be right, even by accident, or so meanly of his morals as to believe that he is always wrong by design.” No such im pression has been made upon our mind. On the contrary we think well of his intellect, and believe he is never wrong by design. If we were in search of a strictly honest man, we should stop when we met General Bethune, judging from what we know of him in the conduct of his newspaper, and from common report. The argument which we used was based upon the fact that we supposed the Corner Stone to be an “ avowed disunion paper," and not upon a want of morals or intellect in its editor. Wo always sepa rate the editor from the newspaper, and speak of the latter impersonally, in any comments we make. And in this particular instance, we were actually upon the point of expressing our appreciation of the amiability and intelligence of General Bethune. while wo diilered with his paper in opinion, but deemed it a work of supererogation. Some years ago, when a boy, with our father in Milledgeville, he introduced us to General Bethune —a circumstance which the General, of course, has forgotten. But boy as wo then were, we were favorably impressed with tho quiet and honest face of our friend—if he will allow us to call him so —and we have never had the impression then made effaced from our memory And occasionally when we have since seen him in the crowd, at public places in Georgia, our mind has recurred to the time when we first looked upon his face, and we have felt a kind of attachment for it, from the sim ple fact that our father first caused us to loolc upon it, though its owner, we are aware, knows nothing about our features, having never been thrown into his company since we were grown. It is not nat ural to suppose, then, that wo would intentionally say anything disrespectful of Gen. Bethune. We do not ask Gen. Bethune to take back what lie has said, but we would lie glad to know if he receives our explanation. We have not in our short editorial career made a personal attack upon any one, and do not design doing so. Expulsion of Mr. Sumner. Under the sth section of the Ist article of the Constitution of the United States, “Each House [of Congress] may determine the rules of its pro ceeding’s, and punish its members for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member,” If the Senate does not, under the perogative with which it is invested above, expel Charles Sum ner from its ranks, its own skirts cannot be clear of Sumner’s damning sin. If perjury of the deepest dye, unblushingly and boldly avowed in the face of the world—if a crime which, committed by an hum ble citizen, would send him to the penitentiary, does not unfit a man for being Senator of the U. S. ; G od knows our government had as well be, at once, sunk into the depths of hell! Southern Ladies’ Book A few weeks ago we made enquiry after Mr. J. ,I. Jones, formerly publisher of tho Southern Ladies’ Book. - Since then we have received a letter from the above gentleman giving us pie information we sought. We have no doubt that- Mr. Jones, who is now in Baton Rouge, La,, will take pleasure in satisfying any one who has business with him.— We deem it due to him, after having made a public enquiry after him, to say what wo have said here. We have found him a gentleman. Sumner and the Darkey. Darlcey. —Good mornin’ masse? Sumner. In great ’stress dis mornin’. You see my ole masser from Georgy come alter me here. He say ho tater patcli in do grass, and he cum arter me to dig it out. Wants you to help me, sail, if you ken. Sumner —Poor oppressed, hound-driven son of toil. Tell me Afric’s sable child what can Ido for thee? My bowels yearn with compassion for thee. Darkey. —Berry sorry to hear dat your bowels hurt you, masser Sumner—berry sorry: Maybe you’s gwino to hab do cromly moblurus and den what wo poor darkies do for somebody to swear for us? Sumner. —But tell mo what you want. Darkey. —l wants you to go to do cote-house and swear by golly dat I aint do nigger dey took mo to was. 1 understand masser Sumner, you swear strong, and cheap. What will you take to swear me out o’ dis scrape ?—( Cdetain falls.) FOR TIIK INDEPENDENT PRESS. Mr. A. Lowei.l, Colporteur,having closed his labors in tho county of Putnam, left with me the follow-* ing statement, desiring that it should bo made public: YU , Number of Families visited' SSO. “ “ “ destitute, 44. “ “ Family Bibles sold, I ft. “ “ Pollyglott Bibles sold, 3. “ gin all plain Bibles sold, SI. “ “ Testament, and Psalms, sold, 3(J. “ “ Small Testaments sold, 61. “ “ 11 Bibles, donated, 36. “ “ “ Testaments “ 81. , Ho: acknowledges tho kindness of the citi zens of tho county, and thanks thorn through the medium of the Independent Press. J Respect folly, W. R. CARTER. “ Monroe’s Southern Banker And Commercial Reporter” is the title of a journal wo have received from Charleston and which Should be in the couhting-room of every banker and commercial man,’ South. $2.00 per annum in advance. , %, A' . Magazines for July, The Southern Cultivator; 'rbe Southern School Journal: ' Tho Soil of thes South: The .Georgia University Magazine : ' - eeived, with theirtiisually interesting tables of con- j tents Several notices of books* and newspapers crowd ed out of this number which will be noticed in our next, • ” v’ ufp " | LOCAL ITEMS. advertisements. , Wk have seen two monster tomatfcocs raised by Mrs. G. R. Thomas of this place—one weighing 1-2 lb. and the other 3-4 lbs. A sad tragedy was enacted on our streets on last Wednesday night. Our usually peaceful and quiet village was shocked on Thursday morning by the discovery of a body hanging from a rope upon tho public square. Upon examination it was found that life was entirely extinct. What to say upon an occasion the result of which is so .shocking to every feeling of humanity, and all fidelity to law and order, we know not. Tho perpetrators of tho font act have not yet been discovered. The only pica we can offer as an extenuation of the guilt of which our whole community must partake, is that tho corpse found suspended was that of a dog. Wc call this a very dogmatical way of doing busi ness, and consider it a fine specimen of Lynch law, inasmuch as it was near tho store of Mr. Lynch. Compared with what the weather was two weeks ago, the temperature of the atmosphere this week has been delightful. The nights have been cool enough to sleep comfortably, and we have en joyed fine breezes. Parts of the county are suffer ing for rain, however, by which crops would be benefitted, though now doing pretty well. We regret to learn that a negro boy by the name of Scott, belonging to Mrs. Martha Johnson in this county, killed another one named Dick belonging to the same lady, on Tuesday last. Scott’s wife and Dick were lighting, when Scott knocked Dick in the head with his hoe, which instantly kill ed him. Scott immediately ran away, and has not yet been apprehended. WEEKLY SUMMARY. FOREIGN. Columbia, July 10. The Baltic made the passage from Liverpool to New York in nine days and thirteen hours ! Consols closed on the day of the sailing of the steamer at 93 7-8 to 94. It is stated that the Russians have lost, since entering the principalities, 50,000 men. Gen Schilders is dead. The London papers state that the Austrian forces will immediately, en ter the province of Wallachia. The latest London papers state that the entry of the Austrians into the Prin cipalities, has been decided on, and Count Caronini, with the first division, to be followed closely by the second, is ready to descend the Danube to Gulgero, whence lie will march, to Bucharest. M. Deßruck is to communicate with the Porte, as to the steps necessary to be taken with a view to the occu pation of the Principalities by Austria. To avoid danger of collison, the Russians will retire before the advance of the Austrians. The overland mail from China and India has arrived. The Russian squad ron is supposed to have taken refuge on the coast of Kamschatka. Unfavorable advices from the inte rior of China, continue to reach Canton, seriously affecting the import trade. The provinces arc overrun by ban ditti, and it is believed that tea pick ing will be affected, arid-the supplies short. There were reports that Nicholas is more disposed towards peace, whilst other statements have put it that he is more determined than ever, and is about to raise an army of one million of troops, for the purpose of moving effectively against the Allies. It is evident, however, that he is dis appointed in the course pursued by | Austria. France and England were quiet. Sweden and Denmark were decided ly opposed to Russia. The weather throughout England and France was favorable, and the crops promised to be abundant. TIIE VERY LATEST. Liverpool, Wednesday noon.-—The Russians had removed all their heavy artillery from the Danube. The broth ers Division and Gardner Cole, bank ers of London, have failed for a large amount. The latter was heavily en gaged in the East India trade. At noon, Wednesday, in Liverpool cotton had advanced 1-16d. Sales up to that hour, 8,000 bales. Manchester trade active. The private accounts are more favor able to cotton. The Baltic's mails examined in de tail, contain little worth publishing, in addition to our full telegraphic dis patches. In a few words it mav be summed up thus: The Siege of Silis tria is raised ; • the RisSian army'YUtlie Danube, defeated, retreats beyond the j Prutli ; Austria with consent of the Allies enters the evacuated Principali ties ; the mouths of the Danube .are blockaded; the Black Sea fleets are before C roust ad t; Russia is everywhere defeated on the Circassian fronteir. [’hoar. <f- (Mu. FROM WAS DING TON. JapaN%teamkr Bill.—This Bill, which has passed the Senate, directs the lost Master General to contract, for five years, with the lowest bidder on fair competition, with security, for the carriage of monthly mails between San Francisco, in California, end Shari ga, in China;% the way of tho ; Sand wich Islands and Japan, in steam ves sels of at least 2000 tons burthen, con structed in the best manner with W gard to speed ami safety, at a cost of not more than $500,000 "pCY annum, and directs also that any deficiency in the accruing post a yes to demy the expense of the transaction, shal l be paid Yy the Treasury of the United States. In the U. s. House of Represent! forcr.ee to the erection, of a gustou, house at San Francisco ; which was re ferred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Private Senate bills were ta ken up, referred, and;- two of theta read three times and passed. The i House went into committee on the pri vate calendar. ColtYpatent-exteiisioif bill was debated at length, but the’ committee rose without reporting the’ bill,. On motion of Mr. Letcher, it, was ordered that a committee of seven members be appointed to inquire wheth er corrupt practices had been resorted t o to secure the passage or defeat of any bills in Congress: The House then j adjourned. DOMESTIC. Montgomery, Ala., July 10. The Supreme Court lias just affirm ed the decree of the Chancery Court of Mobile, in the case of .St. John, Powers & Cos., against the Bank of St. Mary’s, John G. Winter, et ciUy and in affirming it, decided that John G. & Joseph Winter are liable individ ually for the full amount of the notes of the Bank which they issued and put in circulation in Alabama; that the firm of James S. Winter & Cod is equ ally liable ; and that the extension by the Bank, on the eve of its insolvency, of tho indebtedness of James S. Win ter to it was a fraud on its creditors. The decree of tho Chancellor in Mo bile established the claim of' St. ‘'John Powers & Cos., against the Winters and the Bank of St. Mary’s for $20,000, the amount of a draft drawn by the Bank in favor of St. John, Powers k Cos., and ordered that John G. Win ter, Janies S. Winter, & Cos., and the Bank should pay the same, THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA Contemplated attach on Cronstadt—also of Sebastopol. New York, July 12. The British Mail Steamship Asia has arrived at this port with three days lat er intelligence than the Baltic. She sailed from Liverpool on the Ist Inst. OPERATIONS IN TIIE BALTIC. Advices from the Baltic fleet are to | the 27th of, June.. The British Ad miral Napier was anchored off Cron-- stadt, where he was concentrating the combined forces of the Allied fleets, preparatory to an attack upon the Rus sian fortress. The English journals arc in daily expectation of great news, from the Baltic. FROM THE EAST. The news from the Danube and the’ Black sea is of the most exciting char acter. A great attack upon the Cri mea and the Russian strongholds there, was in preparation', by the combined Turkish, English, and French forces. The Turkish army of the Danube is al ready on the march thither. The Eng lish and French were at Varna, and actively engaged in preparations to fol low. They are led by -the French Marshal, St. Arnaud, The Allied troops will co-operate and a decisive blow may soon be ex pected upon Sebastopol, and all the Russian fortresses in the Black Sea. From the Principalities.—! The Rus sians were retiring beyond the Pruth, completely evacuating Moldavia and AV allay Ilia. Austria will occupy the Principalities with an army of 200,000 men, with the design of preventing further hostilities. The official reply of Russia to the Austrian note has not yet been made public. Liverpool Colton M(iLets. —Adviees from the Liverpool market are,to the. I Is 4 insfc, Cotton was in fair demand. { Prices stiller, though not quotable higher. Lower qualities showed a slight advance. w' FURTHER BY THE ASIA. Another great Battle—Russians defeated. Oil the 23d June, the vanguard of the Turkish Army.of the Danube, 28,- 000 strong, attacked the Russian van guard in the Dobrudseha and drove it | beyond Trajan’s Wall. Condition of the Army and Navy: —ln the House of Representa tives on Thursdav, Mr. Faulkner, a member of the Military Committee, brought to the attention of the House the necessity of immediate action upon two important bills which he said he was ready to report. Referring to the present inefficiency Af the Army, lie represented it to l) mcapablqjpfprotect ing the frontier settlements. Its ranks have been so thinned by desertion and the expiration of enlistments that there is now an absolute necessity for nearly five thousand men, who cannot be ob tained at the present low. rate of pay (only $7 per month, we believe) whilst manv other employments are,so much more prod table, The bills rp,{erred to offer additional inducements t.o the soldiers, propose further regulations concerning the pay of the officers, and provide for retiring from the service of such officers as have become unfit for Yin tv. Tlic; House seemed to be impressed with the importance of those suggestions, but no day was fixed for the consideration of the subject, The importance of early 1 action upon ulilS COIlvUl mu •JAaVy \\<i> tVu\ a ( auauitt .