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flllfe . f ' VOLUME XXI. ?7 FfB,l?60j CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, TUE^Y MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, I860. . NUMBER 6. ' 1 f ~ : ~ = I^c^rFTTT" T ( ! ~~ i k,,i;?,.n ,,f I ??ol Much ol' a Joke. I Don't Depend on Father, ^ ^ CHESS ?COX-tJ^LISr or tiie CAMDEN JOURNAL. Tuesday, February 7, I860. PROBLEM NO. 11 BY "C. B. B." r v OF TIIE CAMDEN CIIESS CLUB. ; _ . white. \Vhito to play, and Checkmate in three moves. $.o!ulioii to Problem UTo. 13, WHITE. j black. ? is Xt. io K XL 5. 1. X to Q 2. 3. X to Q B 5. 2. X to Q B. 3. X to Q B G. 3. K to Q Kt I Q to K 7. 4. KtoQR2. 5. Q takes B (eh.) >. 5. X to R. 6. Q to Q XL 7. mate. w 1 . , 1. . 2. , 2. B to Q 3, (eh.) 3. X takes B. 3. P to X B 4. <L Q to X 8, (eh.) 4. X to Q Xt. 2. S. Q to Q B 8r mate. ' j)tCnntkii Ittokiq Snuriml. ^ . Tue?d?y, February 7, 1860. ? " ~T= J". W. GAXjL, Associate Editor. The Yorkyille Enquirer. The corps editorial of this excellent paper lias received a valuable accession in the person of J. Wood Di. vnfcox, Es.i- already well known to the reading public as an able and finished writer. Apologetic. The alienee of the Associate Editor for a few days, tnnst.be the excuse for lack of editorial, and news items r,,. in tliis column. Next week,-he will be at his post aud report for duty with news, we hope, in abundance from the City. Recovering. "We learn from Cnpt S. D. Hough, tiiat Mr. Btrvell. Outlaw, recently wounded in an affray with Mr. ^Nelson Newman-, is better, and it is supposed, will re"* cover. Ilia recovery under the circumsLmces, will be almost miraculous. H - A Good Book, for I'oang House keepcra. i^tl^ last at this place, to attentive congregations. He will, Providence permitting, preacli in St. John's * 'Academy, on one Sabbath in every month. We learn with much pleasure that it is in contemplation t? erect amEpiscopal Church at this place. We hope it will be done. Wo will give timely notice of Mr. Davis' appointments,?Southerner?Darlington: Cheering Words. We owe many thanks to the Charleston Mtrcu^JoT 0 r- its kind expressions in our favor, and especially for the Kr . following from a recent paper: "Tjie Comdex Journal.?If there be one journal in South Carolina that deserves its present prosperity, it Is the CamdeD Journal Sound in the faith and earnest :? flit* tvpII ftstiblhlied or-ran of that large tract of country between the Wateree and Lynch "s Creek. We commend the Journal most decidedly to tlio Charleston merchants, as reaching a ricli and prosperous communit}', who deal much in this city. An advertisement appears in another column." Union Meeting In Lairell Mass: A great Union Meeting was recently held at Lowell where the following Resolutions were preseuted | by I)r. J. C. Ayku. as Chairnuin of the Committc appointed for that purpose:'* ** Whereas, It is alleged that the people of the North I favor tlto seditious teachings, and countenance the treasonable acts thftt have culminated in an invasion of S sovereign State of this confederacy, and that we de' sign, by our political action, to infringe upon the guaranteed rights of the Southerri 'States; therefore. Resolved, That we, the'citizens of Lowell, view with Utter detestation the nets and designs of .John Brown and his confederates, aadbolieve that they suffered but , the just penalty of their crimes. "Resolved, That we disapprove of anj- and .all attempts to interfere with the rights and internal policy of our gister States. - Riaolved, That wo discountenanco- sectional fanaticism, and will resist it, its teachings ancl purposes, by oil legitimate means. ' Resolved, That we hold the perpetuity of the Federal Union paramount to all other p diticnl considerations, as betntr the chief basis of the liberties we have inherit -pd fronT our fathers, end that it is a duty we owe to ? ourselves, to our children, as we'd as to the cause of liberty throughout the world. to<runsrnit it unimpaired |o posterity." These resolutions were passed without a dissenting | voice, when Dr. Aykr, whom Lowell looks upon a3 its j representative man, addressed the mcetiug with his I accustomed elotfucnce and energy. Harper's Weekly. Wc find the following paragraph going the rounds of our oxchanges, taken from the Ea?t Floridian, published at Fernacdina: "We desire to call attention to the fact that among t the advertisements to be found it tlic recent mirrilwft of the above paper is one recommending Helper's tissue jf of lies, "The Impending Crisis." This should, ofitself sufficient to render this sheet odious in the eves of true Southern men. For some time past the leading articles in Harper's Weekly have had a gradual tendency to some of the most objectionable features in Riack Republicanism. This is not to be wondered at when it is stated that G. W. Cur is, a notorious and ranting. Abolitionist, is one of the principal editors. This paper, from the able manner with which it has been heretofore conducted, and from the impression k which has prevailed of its being strictly neutral and conservative on the subject of politics, has found its way into thousands offuniilies,"and has obtaiued a very largo circulation at the South. If the amount which jijjs been paid out by Southerners for tho support of the 'Snoa nmiop Imrl h;*>n devoted to the establishment of ? j~ - ft similar sheet in one of our Soutlieni cities wo should 'wve 'm<* a journal quite as interesting and far more ffl [ |W deserving of our support." m^W We havo not noticed the advertisement alluded to. but independently of this fact, wo refer to the matter llir^ simply to endorse the comments of the bioridian in ^ relation to the support of Southern papers. The Field and Fireside, of Augusta, the Southern Literary Jfos. enger and Russell' Magazine, could all three be supported handsomely by the amount paid weekly for Harper in the Southern States.?So. Guardian. We join hands with you brother Guardian, and are happy to say, that oar people are taking the right course with such documents, iivt four Harper k.?out of a ^ " large number heretofore taken, are now received at curi Post Office, and these, vfc arc reliably informed, fill soon bo discontinued. HT I. , Madame Bishop's Concert. !t will be seen from a notice m our paper to-day, that Madame Bishop will give a grand Concert a) Temperance Hall to-morrow evening. Her reputation is world-wide, and we cap add nothing to it were we tojnako the effort. The Charleston Evening Sews, ol the 1st instant, snvs: Madame Bishop's Concert lost night, at tlio Institute Hall, drew together a large number of those who bore pleasant remembrances of her charms of vocalization, nothing loth to have those pleasurable associations renewed. She fully realized every expectation, ner voice has lost nothing of its freshness or mellowness. Uniting the peculiarities, so rarely combined, of the ballad and operatic styles of singing, her fine musical modulation imparted increased effect to that expression which forms the cbdf characteristic of her vocal powers. We have rarely known the ballads she snug, rendered with equal sweetness, while her more artificial efforts?the perfect intonation of the highly cnltur ou unisie, was ninny oienucu wun me etnouomn pari of her performance. Her excellence never was exhibited in passages requiring: great vocal power, but her lower notes always presented that- range of melodious utterance, which captivates by unrivalled liquid sweetness and graceful modulation. Her cadences fall delightfully on the ear, because they are the fruit of taste and sensibility?of artistic cultivation and natural feeling. In all of her songs she was recalled, and in one of them, such was the spell of her melody, she was twice recalled. Mr. Sanderson is a brilliant pianist. His execution last night was that of a cultured proficient. His handling of tlio keys unites the utmost rapidity of movement with delicacy of touch. Signor Rudolphsen is evidently a vocalist of much accomplishment, both. as an artist and one imbued with dramatic power. His voice is that of a barritone, clear hi its notes, flexible and under good management SELECTED POETRY. Prayer. Prayer is the ineense of the soul, The odor of the flower; And rises as the waters roll, To God's controlling power 1 "Within the soul there would not be This infinite desire To whisper thoughts in prayer to thee, Hadst thou not lit the fire. Prayer is tlio spirit speaking truth To thee, whose love divine Ste:$s gently down like dew to soothe, Or jike the sunbeams shine ; For in the humblest soul tlrnt lives, As in the lowliest flower, The dew drop back his image gives, The soul reflects his power. At night when all is hushed and still, And e'en soft echo sleeps, A still small voice doth o'er tuc thrill. Atid to each heart-throb leaps; It is the spirit pulse that heats Forever deep and true; The storm with its author meets, sunlight greets the dew. Watch, Mother. The fo'k wing is beautiful?one of those little gems u-1iir.il tnupli tlio linnrt Mother! watch the little feet Climbing o'er the garden wall. Bounding through the busy street, , Rouging cellar, shed and hall. Never mind the moments, lost? ^Neyer mir^lm time^t^o^ts; Making houses in the sand. Tossing up the fragraut Imv. Never dare the question ask, ' "Why to me the weary Disk ?" These same little hands may prove Messengers of light and love. Mother! watch the little tonguePrating eloquent and wild? What is said and'what is sung By the joyous,*liappv child. Catch the word while yet unspoken, Stop tho vow before 'tis broken: This same tongue may vet proclaim Blessings in tho Saviour's name. Mother! watch the little heart, Beating soft and warm for you; Wholesome lessons now impart, Keep, Oh, keep that young heart true? Extricating ever weed, Sowing good and precious seed ; Harvest rich you theu inay see Ripen for eternity. MISCELLANEOUS. Giving up the Argument. A little debate in the Scuatft on Tuesday, shows to what straits the anti-shivery party are now reduced* Senator Doolittlc, of Wisconsin, notable to reply to the convincing argument that "slavery" for the negro is his proper and natural condition, endeavored to get out of a bad position by charging that Southern men were in favor of slavery for white men. This brought Senators Clay, of Alabama, Brown, of Mississippi, and Chcsnut, of South Carolina,- to their feet at once, who indignantly denied the imputation, and demanded proof. This, however, was not forthcoming, except that Mr. Doolittle pretended he IiaJ one or two extracts from a Southern paper which supported his assertion; Mr. (jliesnut made a noble and truthful statement, when he said that ever} white man at the South stood on an equal footing, and that the people at the South did not despise the white laborer. Perhaps there is no slander so constantly repeated, or, in fact, t so generally believed at the North, as this story of the Black Republicans, that all labor at the South is considered disreputable, and that a working white is not considered any better than a negro. We know it. is absurdly false, but the story is nevertheless industriously pio: pagated. We are glad to note that distinguished Southern Senators have stamped it with falsehood. It is worthy of remark in this connection, however, that the "Republican" party must be hard pushed when it does not attempt to defend its own principles, but in lieu of it resorts to misrepresenting its opponents. Why | do not the "Republican" Senators defend the ! political equality of negroes with white men ! j Why not attack the principlesof.Mr. O'Connor's | recent speech I Not only they, but their or gans seem afraid to take up the issue thrown ( down to them. After all their boasting that ' 110 one at the North would dare to defend nc! gro "slavery," they show themselves too cow! ardly to grapple with their antagonists. We i have seen a few sneers and misrepresentations of Mr. O'Connor, but not an anti-slavery journal has yet had the manliness to undertake a reply ! to him. Like Mr. Doolittle, we suppose they I will now try to make out that the Democratic i party uphold the slavery of white men! As ihey have a great contempt for the intelligence of the people, they may think there are fools enough who will believe this, to make it an object for them to pronch it; Imt we shall take the liberty of doubting whether thoy will make a paying business of it, i Ne'ij l ot k Dou Book. Beat this who can ??On Mr, William ' Jenkins, premises in Jasper County, is a van] ornament, a Cedar Tree, thirteen years old, measuring six feet high and and fifty feet in cirI cumfcrcnec, is alive and the foliage perfectly green.?Macon (Ga.) T'.lcjr.tjpk. \ Our Colored Code?Debate in ihc Senate. As our Senators, Messrs. Hammond and i Chesnut, linvo dcerneJ it worth while to correct and remove the studious and deliberate mis representations of Abolition onitors concerning the laws of South Carolina, affecting negro , sailors, we quote from the Globe a report of their remarks, _ In the Senate, on Thursday, pending a speech of Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts:? Mr. Hammond said : I do not feel disposed , to interrupt the Senator, or say anything on ?..i,. I..,. .... _ ........ ...:n mat aiiujun , uul uu a jjiujjui uiaJSimuu a ?iii be very easy to show that that is perfectly warranted. We passed a police law in South Carolina for our own personal protection.? Certain classes of people came there and interfered with our domestic affairs. Was it an aggression to repel them, or put them under surveillance, or do what wc pleased with them, while they were there ? We did not bring them there. Thev came voluntarily. Mr. Wilson. I shall be very glad, Mr. President, to have the Senator from South Carolina, on a fit occasion, endeavor to vindicate the policy of that law. Let inc say, however, to that Senator now, in passing, that when South Carolina passes laws to protect herself, she lias no right to infringe upon the constitutional rights of others. ]f any persons go into that State and violate her laws, she will punish them. Of that I do not complain; but, sir, what right has South Carolina to pass an act that colored citizens of Massachusetts, when they go into the harbor of Charleston, who are innocent of crime, shall, merely because they happen to be colored men, be taken and imprisoned before they commit any offei.ce ? Mr. Hammond. All this grows out of the peculiar differences in the domestic institutions of the North and the South. Different laws must be made to suit different systems. Colored people are not citizens in South Carolina. W? can not recognise them either as citizens of South Carolina or citizens of Massachusetts ; and the Supreme Court has since decided that they are not citizens of the United States.? They are therefore not entitled to the constitutiAnol ni'Avicinti tlinf rJonnc tin* oitiTniic nf the different States on an equality within e/ich other's limits. We had reason to believe that it was dangerous to the peace of our community and to our peculiar institutions to permit tlieni to come there. Let - me say again, that all this grows out of what the Senators on the other side do not seem at all to comprehend : that we live under distinctly different social systems, and must have peculiar laws. Without intending to aggress upon anybody else, or to infringe on the rights of any individual, much less of any State or of any section, wo must be allowed to take enre of ourselves.? That law to which the Senator alludes, lues been, materially modified. It lias been aseer- j; taincd that it was unnecessarily severe, and instead of incarcerating the colored persons in I jail, they are now kept under snrve'llancc, < perhaps al Ip wed to stop'on their vessels j I do < not recollect the exact modification, but they arc no longer subject to the. same impositions I thev were before. This South Carolina lias ! i done voluntarily, and thus South Carolina and i i all the South would ameliorate the condition of the slaves if-thcy^wi;re let alone. It has ; I 'bccji dune. T|^y nrc^ under different social system* and they must I have their way of protecting themselves. W ell, sir, I am willing that they shall protect themselves; but m protecting themselves 1 say they have no right to infringe on the rights of otli crs. W lint are we to think ot a social system ( that requires this sacrifice of the rights of ( others ? i Mr. Chcsnut. Let rue say to the Senator from Massachusetts that the ground we assume in South Carolina on that point, the ground which has been sustained hv the courts, is that ^ every State has a constitutional right to pass ; such police laws as will protect itself against . any trouble. You pass your police laws in i New Yo'lc, and in every seaport town in the i country ; you quarantine vessels; you raise all i sorts of harriers of protection against evils I which you anticipate. Now, in South C-'aro- : linn wc liavn tin* same rid it and it has been so i decided by the courts, nisd?*r the ride of police regulations, to protect ourselves againt interference with our rights and interests by the Senator from Massachusetts and bis people. I put it upon the broad principle that he has 110 right to claim for a negro from Massachusetts or ior , a negro from elsewhere, that lie shall become his emissary under the pretended rights guaranteed bv the Constitution to the citizens of this country?that he shall insinuate him upon us under any such pretence. We claim that as a right of sovereignty belonging to all free people, tbc right of self-protection by police regulations and otherwise. Mr. Wilson. 1 want to call the attention of the Senators from South Carolina to the precise and exact issue. In Massachusetts, and in several of our States, the colored men are regarded, and ever have been regarded, as citizens. They have all the rights of citizens.? They fought tbc bitttles of the Revolution.? They help to make the laws; they obey Uny' laws. In 1820 South Carolina passed this act. William Wirt* then Attorney-General of the United States, pronounced it unconstitutional.Mr. Chesmit. Docs not the Senator know that the Attorney-General, Mr. l?crrien, pronounced it constitutional; Mr Wilson. 'Yes, sir, I do ; but William Wii-t pronounced it unconstitutional. At that time Judge Johnson, of South Carolina, was on the bench of the Supreme Court of-the United States, and he pronounced it unconstitutional. Under these circumstances, men were imprisoned, were punished, and some of them i sold into slavery. Massachusetts sent a lawyer to South Caroli^ft, to do what ? To tula? that case belbrc the judicial tribunals to he pronounced upon. Mr. Cliosnut. Will the Senator permit me there to make a suggestion ? Mr. Wilson. Yes, sir. j Mr. ( hesnnt. The view which governed the people ot' South Carolina in the action i which they took upon that subject was this, and it was warranted : a long and relentless warfare had heen made by the citizens of Massachusetts upon the rights the interests and . the safety of the people of South Carolina. I ! say it was a long and relentless, and I will add perfidious and insidious warfare under cover of the Constitution. The State found it uecessara, for self-protection, to pass these police regulations to prevent those persons who were hostile towards us from manifesting their hostility hy the transmission o? their emissaries through the pretended rights of citizens under the Constitution. The State felt it due to herself, to her own safety, to ?|>nsidcr, and she. was authorized to cousidgf^tliat this was but another mode to bring thfft\4jncstioii before the Supreme Court, wIicKmvo did not know how it would be decided, and did not care ; wc knew the right to pass such laws was inherent in the sovereignty of the State, and we did not intend tn submit it to any tribunal. J Jut, sir, we be- i lieve our action to be constitutional. I know it to be constitutional on all grounds of consti> tutionnl reasoning. The cxcitemont which prevailed in South Carolina at that time ' was owing to the action of the people of ' Massachusetts themselves; and if the pooI pie of South Carolina I*f--induced, under tin's degree of excitcmenfcOj<ict the agent of Massachusetts for makingiiat lie supposed, or what ho intended to be, i Imnor against the f State, the fault, is one of the citi i zons of South Carolina, be willing to i carry it to the Supreme Qrt, but not that the < State should permit it to gjhcrc. This state ' cf things was brought abouas well as has been all the subsequent iiostilitvftween the sections, by the action of Massacbjetcs itself. If the people of any of the Boutin*States act under j excitement, and transgress'what may be the i limits of calmness, who i{o blame ? TI.tisc who make war upon us. Ijas a constitutional j law; and if the atrent o^Jassachusetts was 1 invited to leave the Statfhs he was?for he i was "not ejected, though4. might well have < been?under thecircumstecs and excitement then prevailing in CbarleHn', tlic people were induced to that exciteinei by the acts, of the people of Massachusetts' ?ig anterior, which ! ivIint'A ltAcftln ti/r ntwl dangerous to our rffi&tjWMwfiCy: iMr Wilson. Mr. the Senator says this law grew out of n^jWfon. TUi? law was passed^ in 1820. =? Mr. Chesnut. I "g" of y?"r messenger grew out dtty^pferioiis condition , of excitement, and thA?$* degree of excitement there was impose^ Vfl&the people by the action of Mnssuch icttsfotig before and continually. ' <?%' Mr. Wilson. -Mr. ] -mdeht? Mr. Haminondl- .It j&|Sciiator will allow mc to say one^ivord shall liave done. Mr. Wilson." Cert}uSf Mr. Ilainmond. Ifso viappcns that I was Governor of Uie StateteftttJMr. Hoar came. I had known him beforemj^ongress, and heliad often avowed to me tl^t&e was not an Aboli tioinst, lie was a plgffimt, kind old gentleman, well informed, a sort of friendship for him during the jjiort time that I sat near him in Congress. 'be came, and sent me his commission uudeftr ;e broad seal of the State of Massachusetts^ knowing that perhaps there might be some vidunce done, I took.care that no violence shonld; be done towards him; and although he was, you may say. ejected from the State, he wai&uly told* the situation and circumstances ofaf&rs, and politely asked, and escorted by some cr'.the first gentlemen of Charleston,(o tbe boat. Why did Massachusetts send us a Commission^ but for an incendiary purpose? If she wisljto jo try the constitutionality of-that law, bl/L could have got lawyers euougli in Charleston^! Mr. Wilson. Shelfced. Mr. Hammond. \Vtjl, then, if the could not get a lawyer tlujre, she ought to have known that the state v!; public feeling was sncli that sending a commisfS^mer there was an act of aggression; and wfcitfTigl.it had she to send a commissioner there jLbprodnce an abolition excitement, in the (b't4i>t Charleston ! Mr. Wilson. Mr. l'lAidvut, I am very glad r>t tlie expose we 'lii^Ilioi'e to-dav 1roni South Carolina, in regard trij|b?. law? Air. iiniiiinotid at all aware of the [act lliut site coiiJd f./^tt a lavvyer there. 1 douht wry liiucii wli^.rer it is so. She could j not have tried all 1 h-'Vunyvers. J here are law- i vers istioegli liOU' xyLMoflMo it and *1 be- I .eve always weix-. M ,J|r. \\ jys1111. '^i!t-i,i, * Soi:th Carolina j "tmi ' I " ict as counsel m sucJ^aSWpnTTsttne iaw vo.rr ic'ore inc. f a case. I have the law t i Mr. Jlnnunond. ' ^ Mr. Wilson. It was after this. t Mr. Mannnond. Als. ( Mr. Wilson. Now, d in consequnce of it. Icrstand each other. Mr. President, let us unJarolinaf Mr. Cliesnul J he senator Irom South nent in 18-14 was owiiijsavs that this exciteMr. Chesnut. SlinUfc to the aggressions? Mr. Wilson. CertaJ answer? iMr. t.'Jiysnnr. wxbiuij. ivcre of the most palpA*, sir, the aggressi .ns ; icter by the people oitble ami continual cl?:i - _ Abolitionists of Massat Massachusetts, bv the new llepuhlicaii partwhusetts. 1 suppose 1 ie name, had not appeal, under its rebaptisnu , [eachcr at whose font cd ; but Gnrrwon, t > '> lized in His ideas oi'lil die gentleman was '?JP ion of the. Constitution ertv?a man whose o]an-. it is a league with tleai of the witli ; hell?tliat very ten c lie h undirfffth the gentle- j man, as appeared-^ w'as read ln.re yesterday, had takeivWTlessons 0f patriotism,.: of devotion to the coin nrv nlKf to liberty; that very man, and all his ]jaj i>oen cNci'ing the people, sending :i Volition emissaries, dis-, tribiiting abolition doc iments to us. That was 1 the agression of the c tizens- of Massachusetts, 1 which the people of South Carolina had a ; right to protect themselves against Mr. Wilson. \\ ell,i Mr. President, the Sena- i " - I ? . ? i... i tor rose lor me purpoku ot telling me wiwu > aggressions lmd been! perpetrated upon his own State, and lie states no aggression : lie has none to state. Thcj people of Massachusetts never made an aggression on the people of | South Carolina to this! hour, and that Senator cannot put his finger oVi a solitary one 1 defy liipt to do it. ' Mr. Chesnut. If tl'fc> Senator's defiance is rfirown out, I ask him Sf he considers the decided and deliberate action of the Legislature of Massachusetts, which brings to nought a constitutional law passed by the Congress of the United States, which jaw is to carry out the rights guaranteed by t'Jie Constitution to the people of South CaroIHa, as well as to the people of other Southern ! Jtates, is no aggression on the rights of Soufli 1 Carolina? If the Senator considers a nullification of that act, and the manner in which it- h?fbecn done, as- 110 aggression, (and he calls\jpon mc to point out an act of aggression to tl js day,) I do not know what it is. If thcSfnator thinks that the Constitution is no butt .p than it has been described by his teacher, Ly the" one from whom he was proud to receive lessons, we differ as to the nature of the Cons ftntion of this country and 1 he obligations we owe to it. He asked me for the aggressions. J told him I knew instances, and everybody knows them. It is not required that we should put our fingers 011 them. I would point him, however, to the transmission through the mails 0 'the common country, from Massachusetts, her cili/.eiis and her people constantly attempting tlo flood our country, of incendiary documents, ntended to stir up servile war, and to tlic to; tellings of jier orators and the fnInline.lions In nn Iter desecrated pulpits. Are these no ag irruMoons? They are, in inv judgment, and a; such '\vV are bound to resist then:, and exclude all their vile emissaries and spies,-and we will d0 jt. Mr. Wilson. The Senator from South Carolina rises in hisplae ? here, and undertakes to say that the agent sol it by Massachusetts to South Carolina to test'an Act in 1844 was driven from the State, 0r ordered trmn the 'State, because Massaehu ;utts had made aggressions upon South Carolii ni. I have called upon him to specify what the v were. I do not find llieni specified. Mr. llamniond. But one word. I do not like the imputation to hi. made upon the State of South Carolina that : :>y bona Ji lc citizen of Massachusetts, or of any (part- of the world, cannot get a lawyer there Iq defend him and to protect his rights. A fricjnd has just mentioned | to me ft fact that (.id not occur to nic before, . because I do not keep p(^kkg?or public cJiromj clcs. I go straight f,,rw^8gBt[ally, to what is corning, and let the dcHEBBBhe dead. But r I is - is... Is! Sii julv a lew years ago a eiu^w-n, x v. Massachusetts, was supposed to be tampering with tbe ncgros in the lower part of South Carolina. He was taken lip, flogged, and otherwise maltreated. He went to Charleston and employed the man who stands at the very head of the bar in South Carolina, who instituted a suit and recovered before a South Carolina jury r2500 damages. I*b6tievc the same thing would occur under anv circumstances. Justice is done in South Carolina ; and tltc.ministers of justice, the judges, the juries, and thedawyers, lire always ready. Mr. Wilson. The Senator from South Carolina, [Mr. Chesnut,] to whom I was replying, made this statement, and I want to hold him to it, and I mean to hold him to it here, tliat the driving off ot' Mr. Hoar, who went to South Carolina in 1844 to test the constitutionality of the Act of 1820, was owing to the outrages, the wrongs perpetrated by the State of Massachusetts. Y\~here is the evidence of those wrongs perpetrated in 1843 or 1844, by Massachusetts upon SouthjG?Hdina ? When he presents the specific acts, I shall accept them, not till then. It is not enough Mr. Chcsnnt. Did the Senator never hear, never know, of any interference by the citizens if Massachusetts any attempts upon their part to induce hostile feeling among the slaves, to incite them to insurrection, to inculcate upon them disobedience to their masters, the right to liberty, and the right to assert their liberty? If he does not, it seems to me lie must have shut his eyes to everything that passed around him. The world knows it, and I think the Senator must know it. Ancestral Pride. In Australia the pride of ancestry, it appears, is in having had a convict for a father?the ''stock" being considered more "plnck-y !" An article on the subject, by an English writer, says: The descendants of the old convicts arc not at all ashamed of their origin ; and considering how our own ''blue blood" piques itself on having "come in with Ihe conqueror,'' why should they be? Inside?that is,.in the first settled parts of the colony?the old prejudice against those who arc not lags or the offspring of lags, still prevails among {fcc lower orders; they are looked upon as an inferior, plueklcss race. Convicts' daughters make admirable matches in an English point of view ; and one of the last Solicitors General of New South Wales? a most agreeable, gifted, gentlemanlike young fellow?was a convict's son. And see how they talk of the same matter in California: Mankind at the East have a reverence for wealth which is here almost wholly unknown. A California!! would hardly waste a second look, save in the way of business, if Croesus himself were to appear among us. He loves money for the sake of what it will buy, butncvei' thinks of it as a means of winning respect. Family distinctions are even less heeded than those of fortune. A man who lias the good luok'to be born at all is here just as good as otic in whose veins flows "all the blood of all tiie Howards." The son of the Great .Mogul, ora descendant indirect line from Julius Caisar, j would enjoy .no higher consideration than [Faddy .YleGtiuta fresh froJ/y?vA>nnaught. He iicrils, if lie had ally, wofliu ue ALKiiuitiei^ctrf'; jnt as for his apccstors, he had bctier follow heir example and "dry up," than to make any . laims 011 their, account. Garrets. We can never enter a garret?a place where Goldsmith flourished and Cliatteiloii died without paying a tribute of reverence to the presiding deity of the place. How venerable .Iocs it appear, at least if it is a genuine garret. v,-;th singular projections, like tne lracuncs m | poor Goldsmith's face; its battered ami threadbare walls, like old Johnson's wig, and its 1111111Wless loop-holes of retreat for tlic North wind to [>eer through, and cool the poet's imagination. It was a lt?>rf.Jv garret, far removed from all connection w ith-^iyortalitv, in which Otway <mnccivod and plan*,.,) |,;s affecting tragedy of ' ^ vnict^ .Preserved ; jt Wils jn a garret .thatTro ah* the stolen roll- u.^c|, eventually terminated in his death. It'wv* j? a o-arret that poor Butler indited his inimitable Mndibras and convulsed the King and the CnmMVith laughter, while he himself writhed in the gna., iug pangs of starvation. A gentleman found Jjryden, in his old age, exposed to the ills of poverty, and pining in a garret in an obscure corner of London. "You may weep for my situation," exclaimed, the venerable poet, on seeing him, "but nevermind, mvyoung friend, the pang will be over soon." lie died a few days afterwards. Ii I (1,? "JrtMlllMW ll()V. who 1'our viiiii.ii.-i ivi.. i..v _ ,7 perished in his pride," overcome by-poverty, and stung to the quick by the heartless neglect of a bigoted aristocrat, commenced his immortality in a garret in Shore-ditch. For two days previous to his death, he had eaten nothing. Jiis landlady, pitying his desolate condition, invited him to sup with her. lie declined the invitation, and put an end to his existence by poison. The Black Republican Speaker. At tlie end of two moths the Abolition party of the North have succeeded in electing | to the the third office in the Government? second in power only to the President?one of their number. Mr. Pennington received this distinction yesterday. lie is a thorough Black Republican, and lias, like his party, steadily voted for Sherman. That lie is not one of the sixty-eight members of Congress who, upon application, endorsed by signature and circulation Helper's incendiary publication, seems to be regarded by some Southern men as a prodigious triumph of Southern statesmanship. To ! our judgment it appears a distinction entirely | without a difference. Pennington's votes for ; Sherman are sufficient proof, if any were wan' ted, of his bitter hostility to the South and her i institutions. The one is as the other?at any ! rate, both are too bad for us to scrutinise the ! degrees of enmity or abolition. As bad as I ;'i? ?]... vaka tiio better for us. The march UIUICI, 111 v ' of JJlnck Republicanism and Freesoil is onward.? Ch'irfexion Mercury. 11 a n. Road 0 (.tracks.?The Marion Star says; On Sunday night last a passenger train on the Wilmington ami Manchester Road, was | passing a plantation near Florence, some villain threw a stone or other projectile through , a window, smashing the gU>s and throwing the fragments in the face,' of a gentleman sitting near. Some of the rpasscngets were ol the opinion the window, was broken by the | firing of a gun into the train, as no stone could be found. This is'an outrage frequently per petratcd along the line of this road and merits severe punishment In the Ilouse on the 2oth January, Mr Keit., ol South Carolina, delivered an cloqucn speech, in which he said that the South sliouk pivpare for dissolution. If this is avoided, tin - South has only taken wise precaution. A gentleman gave ns the following extract, from an Alabama paper, a few Hays ago, and 1 assures us upon reliable authority that the. cir- ] cuir.stances narrated arc literally true. Names ' and places only, have been substituted.?Ed. ] Journal: . ' Down the Alabama river, in a county-Which 1 we shall name Derby, lives an enormously rich 1 and very clever young planter, who sometimes '' takes a grand frolic, and who, when whiskey, is 1 in his head, cuts up triekS"and capers nrdst fan- ' tastical that ever were generated by a heated 1 brain. I lis family, when he goes oil', invaria- I bly sends with hint a trusty "mustec'' servant, ' a stout fellow, who cares religiously for his 1 master's welfare, at times when he can't look 1 after himself. A week or two since, our Eccentric?whom *' wc shall call Iludgins?attended by "Cub," his servant, started on a general frolic, being equipped with two bottles of the "royal blood f of France." The twain travelled Southwest wardly, about fifty miles into the county of ' Cumberland, (we'll say,) where Iludgins was j unknown. Jogging along,i they came to an. 1 overseer sitting on the top rail of the fence of j a cotton Held, overseer fashion, watching his hands at some sort of work within. To stop, 1 have a chat, and treat the overseer, was the ' first impulse of the Eccentric; and speedily all ' hands were growing merry over the superior ! JBotirbon, in a corner of the fence. But in an ! evil moment an unhappy idea struck Jludgins. 1 lie would quiz the overseer by making him be- 1 lievc that lie, the Eccentric, was "one of Brown's men," and "Cub," a boy that he had stolen?so 1 he would ! And lie did, in a most confidential ! manner and with many injunctions of secrcsy, 1 related such a tale to the overseer, urging him to "join." The astMinded overseer stood a second or two with distended eyes and mouth, pale, silent, statuesque. "At length he shouted to one of his "Drivers" in the field : "Ned, come "hero and bring Big Peter and Jake." "In a trice, three stout negroes jumped over the fence. Said the overseer? "Harness that Abolitionist!" And immediately upon giving the order, himself took hold of "Cub" and quickly had his hands tied behind his back?the boy knowing his place, too well to resist. Iludgins at first was taken by surprise, and his laugh began to grow wonderfully weak, as ' the negroes seized him. "Hold on, stand off, you fools," lie said ; "I was only "bugging'' that squash-head lierc!" "Tie Him !" thundered the overseer, and they did tie him. and that in double quick time. The overseer drew a long breath, as lie surveyed his captives. Eccentric wished to explain the little joke, and told who he was and what his object was?just to have some fun.? The overseer diWnl believe one word of it?not he! V "Oh, said he to lludgiiis, now a very pale man?"it's reasonable to s'pose you'd deny it when I would'nt go in with you, you cussed white livered scoundrel that wants to make a free tiiggei^f yourself! But right off you go to Cumberland county jail? Fee been irulcliiop hoeiity-xiven days for a max like rot" ; and/ for.fern- the tnwi 1 folks'II,jot yon slip, 1*11 uiakyf start r: r ? Anil right then' and there, that trusty guar- F dian of another's property strung up Eccentric '! and made one of the negroes "draw him'' one t: hundred times with a keen cracking Driver's c whip. The yells, groans and protestations of *' Eccentric were awful to hear?lie swore lie was 11 "sound on the goose." ."Yes!" said the overseer?"uut you'll he a heap sounder when we've done yonder at town/' Mules were brought and tiie horses of Ilud- { gins and Cub led away?and themselves mount- t ed on the hybrids; and forthwith the resolute overseer trotted them, ten miles, to town, so- ' curely hound and watched hv himself and a ' trusty negro, each armed with a double barrel. '< Arrived, the Eccentric was safely jailed amid t tllC eXCLT!Ulilll!> Ol Uie puiJiiiMev ?ii<y ?. tear liim to pieces. * K: 1: * * v.- * j A lew hours only had elapse!, when liud- I gins, now duly sobered and ashamed, contrived to communicate with a friend in town, who 1 knew his family; and after a fail explanation of the affair?and his doing the overseer the jus, ticn to say, that he had only done his duty? 11 *- and Cub were released front imprisonment. i The o.-irspcr, on hearing the (Ivnmumcnl, i very, very foiAxhly ran oil, fearing vengeance ! ?hnt will no doubt return as soon as he gets over his fright and learns how his ootid net is j viewed. Mo it a i,?Never trifle with so grave a subject as iaiiH^'wigTriTTi s:av?.?. rr | of the whip, might be the reward of the jo- j ker. Long DukssesP?1The "Autocrat" of the Atlantic Monthly throws off the following: But confound the make-believe women we liave turned loose inonr streets; where do they come from Why, there isn't a beast or a bird that would drag its tail through the dirt in the way these creatures do their dresses. Because a queen or a duchess wears long robes on great occasions, a maid of-all-work, or a factory girl, i thinks she must make herself a nuisance through j the street, picking up and carrying about with her?ah! that's what I eall getting vulgarity into your bones and marrow. Making believe to lie what you are liot, is the essence of vulgarity. Show over dirt is the one attribute of vulgar people. If any man can walk behind one ot these women, anu see what she rakes up as she goes, and not feel squeamish, lie lias got a strong stomach. I wouldn't let one of them into inv house without serving them as David did Saul at the cave of the wilderness?cut off their skirts. Don't tell nie that a true lady ever sacrifices the duty of keeping all around her sweet and clean, to the wish of making a vulgar show? won't believe it of a lady. There are some things which no fashion lias any right to touch, and cleanliness is one of these things. In Charleston, Smith Carolina, there is a ! strong effort to make that city a great coni| niercial port in the process of time. It can he ! done hv great liberality of spirit, by encourag, ing literature, arts, industry, and all that tends | to make a metropolis atractive. All the ' moans of centralization must lie applied to ;! make interior merchants seek the market. An i ! article on the subject, from the Mercury, will fj he found on another page. r?. ! | j ?iii"u , ...j ! T!it> Morse telegraph patent expires in 1800, > j. and will then 1 >c free to the public. It will cause considerable extension of the telegraph lines and will give rise to a good deal of com.. petition. t j 1 ! "I don't think, husband, that -you are very 2 smart." "No, indeed, wife, bui everybody ! knows I am awfully shrewd" Stand up here, young man, and let us talk to yon. You have trusted alone to the contents ot."'father's purse," or to his fair fame for your influence or success in .business. Think you that " father" has.attained to eminence in iiis ptrol'sseion but.by unwearied industry? or that he lias amassed a fortune honestly without jnergy and activity ? You should know that the faculty requisite for the acquiring of famo md fortune is retaining of cither of these ? Suppose " father" has the" rocks", in attendance: if you never earned- anything for him, you have no more business with those " rocks" than a gosling has with Jtortoise ! and if.he allows you :o meddle with them till you have learned their value by your own industry, he perpetrates untold mischief. And if the old penllt' nan is lavish of his cash towards you while he illows you to idle away your time, you had netter leave him ; yes, run away, sooner than ac made an imbecile or a scoundrel through so corrupting an influence. Sooner or later roil must Innrn to rolv 011 vonr own resources. or you will not bo anybody. If you have ever liclped yourself at all, if you have become idle, if you have eaten fallur's bread and butter and iindkcd father's cigars cut a swell in father'i auggv, and tried to put on Jollier's influence tnd reputation, you might far better have been i poor canal boy, the son of a chimney sweep, or a boot black?and indeed we would not swap with you the situation of a poor, halfstarved motherless calf! Miserable objects you ire, that depend entirely upon your parents, playing gentleman (alias dandy, loafer.) What in the name of common sense arc you thinking of! Walk up there ! Go to work with either vour hands or vour brains, or both, and do something! Don't merely liavc it to boast that you have grown in father's house?that you have vegetated as other greenhorns 1 but let folks know that you count one. Come, off with your coat, clinch the saw, the plow handles, the scythe, the axe, the pickaxe, the spade?anything that will enable yon to stir your blood ! ' Fly round and tear your jacket," rather than be the recipient of the old gentleman's bounty. Sooner than play the dandy at dad's expense hire yourself out to some potato patch, let yourself to stop hog holes, or watch the bars; and when you think yourself entitled to a resting spell, do it on your own hook If you have no other means of having fun of your own, but with your earnings an empty barrel, and put your bead into it and holler, or get into*in and roll down hill. Don't make the old gentleman do everything, and j you live at your ease. A Look about you, you well-dressed, smooth- |jj faced, do nothing drones! "Who arc they that have worth and influence in society ??Are thev those that have depended alone 011 the old gentleman's purse ? or arc they those that have climbed their way to their position by their industry and energy ? True, the old gentleman's funds, or personal influence, may secure you the forms of respect but let him lose his property, or die, and what are you? A miserable fledgling?a bunch of flesh and hones that needs to be taken care of ? Again we say wake up?get np in the morning?turn round, at least twice before breakfast?help the old man?give him now and then a generous lift in business?learn how to ..I-rN !/??/! #???/! /!/?* *an/*l fArnv/ir nn lyrmirr ItllVir UHJ JCtlMj <illU iiwuvj/wiju ?VI v i vt VU led : -widen liow live flisciplina jyUi i*-- uei'w-vir'CT'iriir-^^i^^^--. r.T>y-v. ^ o.sess a new destiny?arul" yon may then egin to aspire to manhood. Take, off, then, iiat ring from your lilly finger, broak your anc, shave your upper lip, wipe your nose, iold up your head, and by all means, never igain eat the bread of idleness, don't depend in iwtiier! A Vale oi 8.'11 requited JLovc. The editor of the Ureka Union relates as fol?\vshow lie once fell in love, and ''got the init* en. We were never, kind reader, desperately in. ove but onec, and that with a red nosed, au>uru haired girl with a freckled complexion, ntd \n!io luiil no pretensions to beauty; but hen she had such beautiful eyes, deep, liquid .-1? c.Mil in irunnonts of * J\ U> IIIIVVI^II >1 IIIVII _ . ;onder?css looked out with a passionate fervor, indjoyous mirth flashed and sparkled with the light of a-thousand?dew drops?diamonds wo were going to say, but then we never saw a thousand diamonds. J lor name was Laura, which, when'breathed softly by a very soft lover, is a very sweet name?and her clear ringing laugh fell around you like a shower of silver bells. Moreover, she wore a dark wine-colored dress trimmed with a neat little fine coilar of lace, which is one of the prettiest dresses and has an effect to make a very plain girl look absolutely charming.?She never perforated hci ears to hang there-by a pendulum of brass and glass and the only ornament on the little hand which needed none, was a plain gold ring sacred to the memory of a maiden promise. Well one evening'?it was moonlight in tho summer time ?we sit alone in ilic porch by a cottage, holding that little white hand iira gentle pressure; one arm had stolen around her waist, and a silent song of joy, like the music of night, was in our soul. Our lips met in a sweet, delicious kiss, and bending softly to her car we whispered a tale of passionate devotion?we proposed? and the lit tie red hauled vixen refused ut. The Middle Class in* France.?Iu Aiuerk ca, it is sulHcient to say, (and there are manyAmericans who have studied the French at. home, and will confirm the assertion,) woman, is either an angel of purity, or she is the incarnation of vice. Iu France, there.is. no lack of , spotless female virtue, and there is a vast number, certainly, of unrepentant Magadalcns; hut there is a middle class, below the one and above the other. This latter class is wittily described bv Dumas himself, in one of his plays, "peaches; at fifteen sous." The idea is this : You pass, a fruit shoo, in whose window is displayed a. brisket of tempting peaches, all looking equally ; luscious. You point to one, and ask its price. ! "Thirty sous," replies the dealer. Beside this, peach liesanother, which appears quite as fresh; hut the shopman offers it to yon at half price; and, when you express surprise, he turns it over and reveals a speck of dear// on the other side The allusion needs not explanation. Paris Letter. Anxlai. Convention* ok Young Men's : Christian* Association*;?The Central Committee of Richmond, in accordance with the recommendation of the last Convention, and ! the wish of Associations, as since expressed, _ has fixed upon New Orleans as the place, and the II tlf of April next its the tiinc, for holding ! the next Annual Convention of the Confederation of American Associations. The citizens of Galveston, Texas are prepa. ring to invite the lion. Edward Everett to deliver his oration ou Washington in that city, ? There is a surplus fund of ten thousand dollars in the treasury of the Pennsylvania Stato There are a thousand hands at work upon the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. j;": ':g -?v Mr. Rembrandt Pealo ha* been restored to health. wjbd ^5 A