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.?L- ?*'.' IMIMMM? The Camden Journal. rUBLISUKD BY tHO. J. WARREN & C. A. PRICE, uiwrivt* ?-vn PROPRIETORS ? ? . -?: i . i ' . TBK.MS. { . For iho Scim-Weekly, Three Hollar* nnd Fifty Cent* | if paid iu advance, or Four Hollar* if payment is delayed three months. For the Weekly, Two Dollars and Fifty Cent* in advance, or Tiirco Hollars after the expiration of three month*. .....eaga??pM political Ocpnvtmcut. ' Correspondence of the New York Herald. another letter from patrick henry. Washington, April 12, 1850. The greatest anxiety perv ades the entire public niind, North and South, East and West, ? ' *3. j throughout the length anrl bread ui 01 me reu- i era! Union of States and Territories, in reference to the Southern Convention, which has been called by some States of the Sourthern section, to meet at Nashville, in Tennessee, in the coining month of June. The most absurd falsehoods have appeared 1 * * c in r^ffir in the puDllC journals m uuui n.UUv..w, ... ence to the motives and designs of those States which hdtc taken an active part in favor of this convention, and to which they have appointed their most eminent men as delegates. The u Washington papers have been teeming with nonsensical editorials, and articles extracted from other papers, attributing the most treasonable motives to all such citizens of the republic as are favorable to the meeting of this convention. Without noticing these false, malicious, aod imaginary motives, I will give a brief but true account of the design of this convention of Southern States, and the causes which have led to its being culled. For a series of years, there has been an nnjost, partial system of general legislation pursued at Washington, which has benefitted the Northern at the expense of the Southern section of the Union. The leading minds at the South perceived the tendency of such legislation, and that unless checked, it must, in the end, absorb the rights and equality of the Southern States in the Union. Until the introduction of the Wilmot proviso discussion, this legislation against the rights of the South had been confined to the following causes of complaint: 1,. Unequal legislation in regard to the collection of revenue. 2. The expenditure of the revenue in appropriations almost exclusively for the benefit of the free States. 3. The lack of legislation, on the part of Congress, to secure a compliance on the part of the Northern States, with the requirements of the federal constitution in reference to the surreuder of fugitive slaves. 4. An evident disposition on the part of the representation from the non-siaveholding States, .a. 1_ _ ' i" " oof in composing tne majority III vuugicoo, iv uv/* ... sectional concert, and to receive petitions to agitate the slavery question, with the design to abolish it in the Territories, and eventually force the entire South to do the same in the respective slaveholding States. All these causes of complaint did not alarm the South to such a degree as to cause their delegates to act in sectional concert in Con gress, or to forget the distinctions of party in the more important object of concert for safety and existence. The introduction of the Wilmot proviso principle into Congress, with the evident and openly avowed design of depriving the Southern States of all right in the Territories, aroused that section from their lethargy, and incited them to prompt and determined resistance. It commenced with the issuing of tire celebrated Southern Address bv Southern members of Con *" " ' %f ( gross, with the exception of such as were wedded to party, and of keeping the ties of party between North and South unbroken. The response to this masterly address by the masses of the population of the South, was very general and very decided, it was deemed advisable that the South should act in concert. A convention was held at Jackson, Mississippi, in October, 1849. At this convention were many leading men from other Southern States. The discussion of a general convention of the Southern States was carried on out of doors, and finally the convention itsell decided to call a Southern Convention for June. The movement of Mississippi has been concurred in very generally by all the other States; and though the objects of this general convention at Nashville have been ridiculed and misrepresented, there is no question that nearly all the districts in the Southern States will be represented at Nashville, and that the convention will speak the voice of the South, and that it will be re-echoed from the people of these States.. The design of this convention is undoubtedly to discuss freely and authentically thegrievances of the Southern section, and to take a stand, as a section, in favor of a remedy. There can be I possibly no objection to tliiR coarse. Let the South hold their convention, and then the North can be no longer in doubt of what the South want, or what they will have, or secede from the Union. Better to come to a final decision than to live along in the present excitement, * *.'.,.11.. i wmuu Kiiuav vvvmuaiij cuu in uiouuivii) "wuic the North are aware of it. The doctrine of State rights in the federal Union, is a doctrine that has been freely discussed of late years; and if any thing is fully and incontestihly established in the minds of the people, it is this truth?that the "United States" and "federal States" have the same meaning? umt uju cuiinumiMiii was mri|iit'(i in tuc uuuvo 03 States?that we are not a nation of individ- ! uals, hut that wo arc a federal community of States, each State being a sovereign. The se _ ?r i t v i _ i l cession ui uiiu niaw wuuki ne oau enougn, would cause inueli embarrassment, and probably plunge the Union into a very" general civil war. flow much better is it, then, that the entire section of Southern Statos should meet in convention, discuss fully and freely their causes of complaint, and the redress they seek, and demand it with a united and unbroken front! The North will grant it, when they see this attitude ; for we honestly believe that the convention at Nashville have no design of asking for anything which the constitution does not give them, it they had their rights, and which it is clear they are folly alive to now, and which if not acoorded them, will sever the Union sooner or later.? When the convention is held, there will bo no longer any doubt about the true sentiments of the South, and measures will be taken at once which will .end the controversy and save the Union. I have no doubt that when the convention meet at Nashville it will take high but just ground. It will insist that the Southern portion o( the Union shall not be deprived of their full and equal rights in the territory acquired from Mexico, or any other belonging to the Union; atid that if the North pass any act by their majority in Congress to do so, that they violate tao constitution, perpetrate an act of gross injustice, and destroy the equality of the SouthSfatne oe mnmlura ftf fhA TTnioil. bv retard V... ... ? ing their growth and accelerating that of the States composing the Northern portion of the Union, and destroying the equilibrium of government. The Nashville Convention will further insist that the assertion that the inhabitants of the territories have a right to form a State wlun and how they please, without the consent ofCongres8 previously given, is utterly destitute of foundation; that it is derogatory to the sovereignty of the States comprising the Union, to which the territories are declared by the consti tution to belong, and in whom the sovereignty over them resides; is revolutionary and anarchical in its character, treasonable iu its tendency, and wholly unsustained by the practice of the government; that to make a constitution and form a State involve the highest powers of sovereignty, and that it cannot of course be rightfully performed by inhabitants residing in the territories, without the permission of Congress, as the representatives of the United States to whom the territories belong, or in whom the sovereignty over them resides; that the attempt of the inhabitants of California to make a constitution and form a State, without the permission of Congress, is an offence against the joint sovereignty of the States of the Union, and that Hwi inctmniAnt nnrnnrtiiifr to be the constitution ...v I I O - - of California is utterly void and of no binding force on the inhabitants of California, uor on this government, nor on the States it represents, and the 60 called State, hut a name without any reality whatever?that all acts on the part of any department of this government, or of the citizens of the United States, intended to encourage or aid the inhabitants of California to make a constitution and form a State, (if, without the permission of Congress, there have been such acts,) are utterly unauthorized by the constitution, and inconsistent with the allegiance due to the joint sovereignty of the States of the (Tni'nn?fhnt i? la nnt within thfi constitutional competency of Congress to give validity to the instrument purporting to be the constitution of California, and to admit the inhabitants of California into the Union as a State under it, because, according to the fundamental principles of our system of government, constitutions derive their validity from the people by whom, and for whom, it they are made, and because it would be inconsistent with, and subversive of, this principle, to act on the assumption that Congress could give validity to the instrument, and make it a constitution, by the act of admitting its inhabitants into the Union?that the States of the Southern portion of the Union are not opposed to the proviso, which usually bears the name of its author, becuuse it bears it, but because its aim is to deprive the Southern States of their Hue share in the territories of the Union, by a palpable violation of the constitution?by a total disregard of every principle ol justice and equality, to be followed if adopted, by a subversion of their equality as members of the Union ; and that any attempt to admit the inhabitants of California with the intention to evade the opposition to the proviso, ought to excite a still more nn/l iii/lirrnaiit nnimeitinil HpPflllSP it WOuld oivill U1IVI lllUl^nnuv ?/j/j;voiwv..j ? accomplish the same tiling in a manner more objectionable, and involve other constitutional objections, peculiar to itself, and of a deeper and graver character,if possible, than what has been set forth above; that they are more objectionable, because it would effect, indirectly and surreptitiously, what the proviso proposes to effect openlv and directly; because it would exclude the Southern States more effectually from said territory, by being inserted in the instrument purporting to be a constitution, and what would be claimed to be a constitution if Congress should endorse it, than it would be if inserted in the provisions of a territorial government: while it would be equally unjust and unfair if excluded by an insertion of the proviso by act of Congress, inasmuch as the citizens of said Southern States have l>een precluded from emigrating to said territory by the action of this government, and thereby of being a void in the formation of said instrument The Nashville Convention will probably resolve, also, that the time has arrived when the States of the Southern section owe it to themselves, and to the other States composing the Union, to settle, fully and forever, all the questions at issue between them and the Northern section, and they would not adjourn until they had done so. That the Nashville Convention will take this ground 1 do not doubt I know such to have been the views and the opinions of the mighty mind of that illustrious, far-seeing Southerner whose remains are now resting in a vault at the burying ground of the capital; and I doubt still less hut that there are thousands of Southern men who think us he thought, and who will he present to give tone, dignity and weight to the proceedings of the Nashville Convention. 1 cannot close my letter without doing a simple act ot justice to one whom 1 believe a truehearted friend of the South. 1 allude to one of the Senators from Mississippi?General Footo. A very erroneous impression has somehow been made upon the public mind, as to the relations of Mr. Calhoun audCen. Foote at the time ot the former's death. It is believed that there was some bitterness between them. Such was not the fact, Mr, Calhoun told thp writer,after the debate in the Senate, jn which he last took part, that he had had a conversation with Mr. Foote, who distinctly informed him " that he meant nothing unkind in saying what he did in the Senate; that he had the best of motives?he wished to draw him (Mr. C.) out, to make more full explanations in'reference to one portion of his speech." The great lamented replied, "You should not have done that?yoti shduld have come to me, and had a conversation privately, and then asked such explanations as you desired, before speaking in the Senate on those points. Your remarks and intentions will be misconstrued by those presses that are opposed to interests in which we both feel deeply interested." And even after this interview, when his health became more alarming, and he saw only those few who had access to him, he spoke kindly and warmly of Gen. Foote, and of his s*ncerity and devotion to the great cause of Southern justice, rights, and interests. He never believed that Senator Foote, in pursuing the course he did. had the slightest wish or intention to do him injustice; but lie foresaw that opposition presses would put that construction upon it. The differences between Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Foote were all of a public character, they all occurred in the Senate, aud were settled in the Senate. There was not the slightest intermission of their former cordial relations, save such as sickness interrupted, in Gen. Foote's case, as with hundreds of others, and it is doing great injustice to Gen. Foote, to say nothing of the cherished memory of the great deceased, to assume the existence of unkind or of unfriendly feelings on the part ot Mr. Calhoun to General Foote, at the time of his death. Such was not the tact. ' Patkick IIen a y. Correspondence oi the Baltimore Sun. Washington, April 18,1850. Now that v* \ave slept on the event of yes terday, we are better able to judge of it A committee has been appointed to investigate it, and from the established character of the gentlemen composing it, no doubt is entertained, in anv ouarter. but that iustice will be done to w ' *? both Gen. Footo and Col. Benton. The first tiling that the gentlemen of the committee will have to do, will be to ascertain why Col. Benton left hit seat and went so abruptly and violently towards Gen. Foote? This will explain why General Foote left his-own, and withdrew to the aisle in ?he middle of his unfinished speech. The next they will have to inquire into is why General Foote left his seat and withdrew from Mr. Benton as he saw him approach. If he meant to kill Col. Benton it was I_ !iLJ ! ins policy to wan lor nun. in wiuiurowiug w a greater distance, and throwing himself in an attitude of defence, he certainly gavo Benton an equal chance. Lastly, it would strike me that, weak and dimunitive as Gen. Foote is, his anned hand and Mr. Benton's clenched fist are not much more than equal match. The occurrence is a matter of deep regret to all who have the dignity of the Senate and the welfare of the country at h^art It is humiliating beyond description, and it is to be hoped that such scenes of violence will not again be repeated. The Senate was engaged all in voting down Mr. Benton's amendments, one by one. It was aone wiin greui gusw, nuu u>t-i miciuuug ??<>, iii which even Seward and Chase, and Hale, separated from their leader, whose case they considered desperate. The committee was agreed to, by a majority of nine, and will be ballottcd for to-morrow. It will soon report its views in regard to the best interests of the whole Union. Mr. Young, the new Clerk of the House, is a gentleman universally esteemed for his strict integrity and moderate views on all subjects connected with the important business now confided to liis care. He is, in fact, universally beloved and resiiected by his own party, and not objected to by any of bis political opponents.? The selection was, no doubt, a judicious one. I owe, and hereby carefully record an apology to the "Union" newspajier. I have, without due reflection and consideration, charged upon its able and patriotic editors a backwardness in boldly avowing their opinions on the great nuoctinn nf the dav. On rcferrinc: to the files ol 'I"- ? J - ? that paper, 1 find I was mistaken, and its columns of today furnish invincible proof of the fact Under such circumstances, all that is left me to do is to acknowledge my error, and to assure the public that I am most heartily glad to find that i was mistaken. I really believe that the cabinet is no longer obstinately opposed to the union of the two bills introduced by Mr. Douglas. If the cabinet really adopt this wise, patriotic, and at the same time prudent and statesmanlike policy, it will certainly retrieve itself in the opinion of the public. Messed are the peace-makers! fn *I?o affair of the Crawford claim there sccnis to be a little more cry than wool just now. X. Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun. Sr. Louis, April 17. Advices linvo been received here from Los Vegos, New Mexico, to the Gth of March, which furnishes details of recent Indian depredations committed in that country. The Americans were living in constant dread, and the Indians were daily becoming more daring. The writer says that a runner, scut by a part of BufTalo hunters, had arrived at Los Vegos. He reported that the company had fallen in with a party of Apache Indians, when an engagement ensued. Two of the whites were killed,and three or four badly wounded, and at the time of the departure of the runner, their ammunition was nearly exhausted. The conimanderof the fortress had been called upon to order out the military, but the Indians having been satisfied with their booty had retired. About the beginnidg of March, three Mexicans were killed at Vernal Springs on the road Inn Vnrrna ?nd Santa Fe. WVVWVVU AJUO ? V Q.rw ... Strong terms of disapprobation were expressed towards Col. Monroe, who, it was alleged, <lid not act with sufficient caution in granting licenses to traders. It was said that many of the traders were in the habit of selling arms and ammunitions to hostile Indians. Free Schools in Mississippi.?The Legislature of Mississippi has appropriated $200,000 lor which the people are to be taxed, to be distributed among the several counties in proportion to the number of children, to establish a system of free schools. 1 Steps are also being taken to procure an accurate . return of the number of children in the State be- 1 tween the ages of six and twenty years. j There has been a great freshet in the rivers of < Oregon. Mills have been swept off to the value ( 011175,000 , '' '" i i i OTSS CAMDEN, S. C. TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1850. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE: Charleston, April 22. Since the reception of the Steamer's news, Cotton has advanced fully half a cent, the demand being principally for Spanish markets. Nine hundred bales were sold to-day at 11 1-2 to 13 1-4. Strictly fair 13 cents. W. We learn by a telegraphic despatch to the Intendant, received yesterday, that the remains of Mr. Calhoun will arrive at Charleston on Thursday next, the 25th instant, at 10 o'clock, a. m., and hat tha Funorjil Cprpmnnies will lake place on that day. We are requested to state that an extra train of cars will leave to-morrow morning, for the accommodation of persons going down. ^ will be perceived by an advertisement in our columns, that the Sons of Temperance are invited to participate in the funeral ceremonies on Thursday next " Ti 5^ Foote's bill for a Committee of 13 to. settle the territorial question has passed the Senate by a vote of 34 to 22. We refer to the letter of our California correspondent, as containing interesting matter. Clark Mills and his Statue. There is, perhaps, no living man in whom South Carolina should feel more pride, than Clarke Mills, the native, self-taught, unequalled genius of the South. How many of the citizens of Charleston, who saw him when a boy, along the streets, ever thought his name would grace the proudest page of our country's history, and place us ahead of Italia, the land of arts and song? When about nineteen, he commenced the business of plastering, in Charleston, without ever having served at the trade. Ilis genius soon induced him to introduce a new style of cornishing, as tasty as it was elegant, and soon his business was such as to enable him to hire his jobs done, and devote his talent to something of a higher nature. He had a small office in street, near the office of Dr. . Day after day he labored in his new vocation, and several small busts, the work of his own hands, adorned his window. One day, as the Doctor was passing, Mr. Mills called him into his. shop, and on removing a mantle thrown over an object, the Doctor was surprised to see an exact counterpartof himself. Delighted, he invited others to see it, and all pronounced it a finished piece of workmanship. He was given job after job, until the i.pwt artist was the theme of conversation in every circle of society in Charleston. Soon the bust of Calhoun was finished. There was but one word spoken of it?" inimitable." He likewise completed busts of VV. C. Preston, and various others. But the old opinion, even in the fece of these evidences against it, revived, that an artist, to be an artist, must study under Italian masters, and beneath Italian skies. The necessary money to bear his expenses was offered to Mr. Mills, to go to Italy, lie was for sometime undecided, and during that wliile went to Washington and while there was ?' ? i<nntract urhihh lie is noW'iboUt COH UIICIWU "IV VVI...1.V. .. ...... sumating. lie has never been to Italy, and never will go to be taught or to study a science in which lie could teach theii ablest Masters. His studio is now on the spot where the work of years of a celebrated Artist was burned?between the Treasury Department and the river, (Potomac.) A plain, unvarnished plank structure?but enter and you see the most admirable work of art that any age or nation lias produced. Mr. Mills lias a horse, (we mean a live horse,) a splendid animal, which he has used as a copy for his work?makingthe statute one third larger than life. The excellency and originality of the work consists ill its being sen-saiancea, in a rtranng jjuqturo?the animal stands, self-supported, on the hind feet?with fiery eye, and glaring uoetrils? neck bent and flowing mane, he looks like the warhorse of the Ukraim; and saw you him on the banks of she Seine, you would fancy you heard him neigh. Your first question is, how, if he is not really a live horse, does lie stand in that position 1 But Mr. Mills will go in front and throw his entire weight (156 pounds) on his fore feet, and and still he stands. The centre of gravity being so directly thrown over the hind feet. This is what the European artists could never do. The Statue of Peter the Great at St. Petersburg, approaches nearer to it than any other, but that is hv ?lif> tail, to a sernent. which is fasten ed in the pedestal?and consequently destroys the life-like look of the horse, the great object sought The stern old hero?native of the Waxhaws?sits, with every appearance of life that art can give? with iron nerve and unalterable resolution. ?? !- I. I? nn o nn/loctsl 00 fVwt lliffh. in 11 Ih iU Ut* juawcu Ull a j/ouuuvwi ?V 0?, Franklin Square, in front of the White House. It was (and may be yet) the design of Mr. Mills to figure on each side of the pedestal a Lady's bust The Fjuropean artists have all along predicted that it would be a failure?but they should recollect that American energy and genius know no failure. Many of them have visited Mr. Mills' Studio, and offered their services?but they have been invariably refused. To add still deeper interest to it, the statue is to be cast from the brass of cannon, captured by Jackson hhpself froq} the British.? VT~ L ^ * in vieilintr rtr nnbfiinO* 1XU UlltJ 5UUUIU mil lu vnu n, 411 r?ww,..0 through Washington?-especially a South Carolinian. The gentlemanly manners of Mr. Mills would make a visit pleasant, in more ways than one. J. M. Barrett.?The Spartan denies most positively that the health of this individual was injured by imprisonment, as is falsely alleged, and asserts that M as he stalked forth lro(fl the comfortable lodgings with which he had been furnished, he looked much better every way, when he came out of prison than when he went in." It also declares the opinion that the rumor of Barrett's : death is unfounded, and that it has been propa- i ? gated for the purpose of evading the payroenijot the bond for one thousand dollars given for Ws appearance. Editorial Gleanings. The'L/wses of a Month.?The total amount of loss by the destruction and injury to steamboats on the ftiissi??ipi>i? and other western rivera, during the month of January last, is estimated at $806r 000. A jilted chemist defines lover, to"be composed <r fifteen parts of Gold, tlirce of forafy and .two of at fection. The towns of Oregon are-rapidly increasing^ population, notwithstanding the drain of Califor* nia. . . \ Great Deluxe in Coffee.?It will be been by our commercial article thd&pver 8,000 bags of Eio Cotfee have been sold within a day or two, at eight cents per pound. Early iu February the current rate was 14 1-2 cents, so mat tne ran 111 prices since that time is absnt six and a half cents per pound, or more than $10 per bag.?Exchange. Bots.?The North American Parmer recem. mends a dose containing a mixture of a pint ot milk and a pint of molasses, and in fire minutes afterwards a decoction of tobacco juice; The bote while feasting on the milk and molasses will find a bane in the tobacco juice which they cannot survive. Mining on the Gil*.?A company is now forming in Washington county, Texas, for mining on the Gila. Tliey think that placer gold ejush; there in as large quantities as oil the Sacramento. The company, numbering one. hundred, will proceed by El Paso, W / Late Snow.?The Richmond Enquirer of Thursday says: "It snowed for several hours yesterday, 17th instant On Sunday last we examined several truit trees, and found that there much fruit still untouched by the cold?we cannot say what will be the effect of the cold weather uinpo " i Tennessee River.?There are now nine steamboats plying 011 the Tennessee River above- the Muscle Shoals, and it unexpected that the number will be increased to sixteen or eighteen Philadelphia and Liverpool Packets.?There are three regular lines of packets now running between Philadelphia and Liverpool, and each of them have a new ship of 900 tons in progress of building. Fugitive Slaves.?The Pennsylvania House of Representatives, by a vote Of 60 to90 has passed a "bill repealing certain objectionable sections of the law of 1847, to prevent the recovery/qffugitive slaves. Death of Major O'Bbieil?We regret to learn of the death by cholera of this gallant officer, at Indianola, Texas, on the' 3d $ustv Major, then we b lieve Lieutenant CJBrien, was'the officer who distinguished hiineelt so highly at Buena Vista, in command of the artillery. -tre? Life.?In .Longfellow's Hyperion, that carftfrt of rare and sparkling gems, we have the following beautiful moral deduced from the story ofhero: M Look not mournfully at the past; it comes riot back again. Wisely improve t&e presenr; it m thine. Go forth to meet thy shadowy futore,witbout fear and with a manly heart." During a call made upon Miss JageDo, the beautiful young Hungarian who lately 'accompanied a number of other refugees to th&coojitry,at the Irving House, a few days since, a purso of.#800 was made up hi that establishment,and presented to Governor Ujhasv, who was just departing for Iowa, in order to select a permanent location for the future residence of the refugees.. Memphis and Charleston Railroad.?The estimated cost of this road is $l,500,0b& Xx this sum $8(K),(KK> have already been subscribed. The Memphis papers are discussing the propriety of the city taking a part of the stock. Proud men never have ftifebds. They bate nope in prosperity, because they ktj&tv nobody; nor in adversity, because nobody knows them. A Sir. Napier, of Swansea", has announced to the Scientific Institution at that town, that he-has discovered a new explosive substance, which he ? * " -L!?- ?J--* ? denominates -wuiie puwucr, uavmg ?cii huicd the force of common gunpo wder. It is composed of the following ingredients: One part yellowprassiate of potash, well dried; one part sugars well dried; two parte chloride of potash. The materials are finely ground separately, and then, intimately mixed. - \ ? PfiAY os Dn>??ome time since a person jua committed to jail in Northampton, and placed in a room with a maniac, who had been confined there temporarily, previous to his being taketj to the Insane Hospital atBrattleboro. After the iiew^cdmer had "turned in" for the nigbtThie crazy chum ordered him up, told him to dress himself and then make a prayer, of he would choke him to death. There was no way but to obey, and after making what be supposed to be a sufficiently long prayer, he stopped. His inquisitor told him to keep on, and he actually kept nim praying'allnight! The poor man was not relieved lihtil the jailer5 carried in his breakfast." Maryland 4*dLibkru.?-The Maryland State Colonization Society have adcpted a series of resolutions expressing -their determination to make a great effort to collect funds to eoabfar.it to send out emigrants to Liberia, and to diffuse information concerning its objects. The whole State is to be carefully and zealously canvassed by their agents, not only to increase the meansofthe Society,-but ' n.i ,1.. t to lay tne true state 01 me vuiuuj upiuiv mo ?n? orcd population, and explainaway allthe unfounded antipathies that may existamongthem relative to the advantages of colonization. > The sugar crop of Texas for I85Q is estimated at 10,000 hogsheads. It is also estimated that in less tiiart five years the crop will be increased to 25,000 hogsheads, aud that in ten years from the present time, the quantity-grown ut Texas will equal that of Louisiana. The Queen has granted a pension to the wife of the poet Moore of ?100 per annum. Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen was unanimously elected President ofRutger's College, New Jersey, on the 9th lost. Hudson, the Iriahco median, Is giving'evenings' at Washington. Talents t0ri(et> t9 Good Acc6.tot.-r4t is stated that the 'proceeds 'of Mffe K^mmeVlteadingl foe "tlie tadies' Employment Society* of New? York, aJter deducting'expenses, and including a donation of fifty dollars from Mr. Wm. Njbto, a?" mqunted to #1188. Return of q Catiforniq MiHionaire.?The Providence Journal of ih'e"l3th says that Stephen A." Wright, who left South Kingston several yean ago for the West, and finally reached California, where he was settled when the discovery of gold wp* made, has just returned with a fortune of about half amiUioth with which, like a sensible mam he has come to live in th? land of his birth'. ' "Good mawning. Miss friipp-~^oj^.^ jour neaiin Bince jruu iwr. iuc \yaiaw f ?i la much bettaW, I thank' yrou. AJawr sqya Tin so much 6toutaw and fresh* w, sjie 8^*0 send rne agawn next sumnjaty." />