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<??? The Camden Journal. PUBLISHED BY THO? J. WARREN & C. A. PRICE, ? ?,** minnoiernit!). JSUlll'HH A.1U I ... TERMS. Eor the Senu Weekly, Three Hollars nnd Fifty Cents if paid ia advance, or Four Dollars if payment is dolayed three months. For the Weekly, Two Dollars and Fifty Cent* in advance, or Three Dollars after the expiration of three monllts. Correspondence of the Evening News. ?? - <v 1 OK/l Washington, :uay v, n?v. In the Senate, after the disposal of some unimportant business, Mr. Clay made the long expected report from the Commtttee of Thirteen, on the slavery and other questions connected therewith, which follows: COMMITTEE OF THIRTEEN. REPORT. Mr. Clay, from the Select Committe of Thirteen, to whom were referred various resolutions relating to California, to other portions of the territory recently acquired by the United States from the Republic of Mexico, and to other sub jects connected with the institution of slavery, submitted the following report:? The committee entered on the discharge of their duties with a deep sense of their great importance, and with earnest and anxious solicitude to arrive at such conclusions as might be satisfactory to the Senate and the country.? Most of the matters referred have been not only subjected to extensive and serious public dis cussion throughout the country, but to a dehate in the Senate itself, singular for its elaborateness and its duration; so that a full exposition of all those motives and views which, on the "Wwt* confided to the committee, OC?Vl ?* have determined the conclusions at which they have arrived, seems quite unnecessary. They will, therefore, restrict themselves to a few general observations, and to some reflections which grew out of those subjects. Out of our recent territorial acquisitions, and in connexion with the institution of slavery, questions most grave have sprung, which, greatly dividing and agitating tlie people of the United States, have threatened to disturb the harmony, if not to endanger the safety of the Union. The eommitte believe it to be highly desirable and necessary speedily to adjust all those questions, in a spirit of concord, and in a 1 oofl. manner to proouce, u prncuviiuic, gcwi<u o<?refaction. They think it would be un w ise to leave any of them open and unsettled, to fester in the public mind, and to prolong, if not aggravate the existing agitation. It has been their object therefore; in this report, to make such proposals and recommendations as would accomplish a general adjustment of all those questions. Among the subjects referred to the committee, which command their first attention, are the resolutions offered to the Senate by the Senator from Tennessee, Mr. Bell By a provision in the resolution of Congress annexing Texas, to the United States, it is declared that new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition * to said State of Texas, and having sufficient populotion, mav hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the said territory thereof, which shall be e.ntillal in admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution; and such States as may be formed oat of that portion of said territory lying south of 36 degrees, 30 minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri compromise line, | shall be admitted into the Union with or without slavery as the people of each State asking admission may desire. . The committee are unanimously of opinion, that whenever one or more States, formed out of the territory of Texas, not exceeding four; having sufficient population, with the consent of Texas, may apply to be admitted into the Union, they are entitled to such admission, beyond all doubt, upon the clear, unambiguous, and obsolute terms of the solemn compact contained * - ?- i - J i n _ in the resolution ot annexation auopicu oy congress and assented to by Texas. But whilst the committee conceive that the right of admission into the Union of any new States carved out of tho territory of Texas, not exceeding the number specified, and under the conditions stated, cannot be justly controverted, the committee do not think that the formation of any such new States should now originate with Congress. The initiative, in conformity with the usage which has heretofore prevailed, should be taken by a portion of the people of Texas themselves, desirous of constituting a new State, with the consent of Texas. And in the forma tion of such new State, it will be for the people composing it to decide for themselves whether they will admit or exelude slavery. And however, they may decide that purely municipal question, Congress is bound to acquiesce, and to fulfil in good faith the stipulations of the compact with Texas. The committee are aware that it has been contended that the reso lution of Congress annexing Texas, was unconstitutional. At a former epoch of our country's history, there were those (and Mr. Jeflerson, under whose auspices the treaty of Louisiana was concluded, was among them) who beiieved that the States formed out of Louisiana could not be received into the Union without an amendment of the Constitution. But the States of Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas and Iowa have been all, nevertheless, admitted.? And who would now think ot opposing the admission of Minnesota, Oregon, or other new States formed out of the ancient province of Louisiana, upon the ground of an alleged original defect of constitutional power? In grave, national transactions, while yet in their earlier or incipient stages, differences may well exist; but when they once have been decided by a constitutional majority, and are consummated, or are in a process of consummation, there can be no other safe and prudent alternative than to respect the decision already rendered, and to P.nfoi?fomlnrr tVinon tfinmn .. . tlCtJUItJJSC? iu *** JJUWI u?iuiiig mvov ticwoj a i majority of the committee do not think it necessary or proper to recommend, at this time, or prospectively, any now State or States to be formed out of the Territory of Texas.? Should any such State be hereafter formed, and present itself for admission into the Union, whether with or without the establishment of slavery, it cannot be doubted that Congress will, under a full sense of honor, of good faith, I and of all the high obligations arising out of the compact with Texas, decide, just as it will I decide under the influence of similar considera- < tions in regard to new States formed of or out ; of New Mexico and Utah, with or without the institution of slavery, according to the constitutions and judgment of the people who compose them, as to what may be best to promote their happiness. * 1 *1 A* f n/lit^iaoinn In considering ine question ui me auuuo?v.. of California as a State into the Union, a majority of the committee conceive that any irregularity by which the State was organized without the previous authority of an act of Congress, ought to be overlooked, in consideration of the omission by Congress to establish any territorial government for the people of California, and the consequent necessity which they were under to create a government for themselves best adapted to their own wants. There are various instances, prior to the case of r>_lrr.??( ?l,n nrlinioaimi nf np\v St.*ltOS ill vauiuiurO) ui tuv the Union without any previous authorization by Congress. The sole condition required by the Constitution of t'ie United States in respect to the admission of a new State is, that its constitution shall be republican in form. California presents such a constitution ; and there is no doubt of her having a greater population than that which, according to the practice of the government, has been, heretofore, deemed sufficient to receive a new State into the Union. In regard to the proposed boundaries of California, the committee would have been glad if there existed more full and accurate geographical knowledge of the territory which those boundaries include. There is reason to believe that, large as they are, they embrace no very disproportionate quantity of land adapted to cultivation. And it is known that they contain extensive ranges of mountains, deserts of sand, and much unproductive soil. It might have been, perhaps, better to have assigned to Cali fornia a more limited front on the 1'acitic; but even if there had been reserved on the shore of that ocean a portion of the boundary which it presents for any other State or States, it is not very certain that an accessible interior of sufficient extent could have been given to them to render an approach to the ocean through their own limits of any very great importance. A majority of the committee think that there [ are many and urgent concurring considerations I in favor of admitting California with the proposed boundaries, and of securing to her at this ! time the benefits of a State government? If hereafter, upon an increase of her population, a more thorough exploration of her territory, and an ascertainment of the relations which may arise between the jwople occupying its various parts, it should be found conducive to their convenience and happiness to form a new State out of California, we have every reason to believe, from past experience, that the question of its admission will be lairly considered and justly decided. A majority of the committee, therefore, recommended to the Senate, the passage of the hill reported by the Committee on Territories for the admission of California as a State into the Union. To prevent misconception, the coinmittee also recommend that the amendment reported by the same committee to' the bill be adopted, so as to leave incontcstiblo the right of the United States to the public domain and unklii* nrniuirfv ill ('nlifiirilia. Whilst a majority of the committee believe it to be necessary and proper, under actual circumstances, to admit California, they think it quite as necessary and proper to establish governments for the residue of the territory derived from Mexico, and to bring it within the pale of the Federal authority. The remoteness of that territory from the scat of the General Government; the dispersed state of its population; the variety of races?pure and mixed?of which it consists; the ignorance of some of the races ol our laws, language, and habits; their exposure i to inroads and wars of savage tribes; and the j solemn stipulations of the treaty by which we acquired dominion over them, impose upon the ! United States the imperative obligation of ex- ! tending to them protection, and of providing for ' them government and laws suited their condi- J 1 ' ? ? < 11 f.iil in tlio iv>rfiirninni>n nf i HOII. V^UII{jri.-30 MIU IUU IU ...v. |.v..? ?. a high duty il"it does not give, or attempt to give, to them the benefit of such protection, and government, and laws. They are not now and for a long time to come may not he, prepared for State government. The territorial form or the present, is best suited to their condition. A bill has been reported by the Committee on 'IVriitnries. dividing all the territory acquired I from Mexico not comprehended within the limits | I of California into two Territories, under the | names of New Mexico and Utah, and proposing I for each a territorial government. The committee recommended to the Senate the establishment of those territorial governments; and in order more certainly to secure that desirable object, they also recommend that the bill for their establishment be incorporated in the bill for the admission of California and that united together they both be passed. , The combination of the two measures in the k;ii ;0 f>l.ioct/?(l to on various irrounds. I Ot?M?V l/lli IW w?*jvv?r*.? w It is said tlmt they arc incongruous, and have j no necessary connexion with each other. A | majority of the committee think otherwise. | The object of both measures is the establishment of government- suited to the conditions, resjKJCtively, of the proposed new State and of | the new Territories. Prior to their transfer to j the United States, they both formed a part of I Mexico, where they stood in equal relations to I the government of that republic. They were ' both ceded to the United States by the sumo treaty. And in the same article of that teaty, the United States solemnly engaged to protect ' I.rtdi r'nmnmn iii their oriirin. rtliu gVffVIII ?-?WV?I. X/V?M??V? ? ? Q J common in their alienation from one foreign government to another, common in their wants nf rrnmi rrovernment. and conterminous in some v" e>' " o?j ' of their boundaries, and alike in many particulars of physical condition, they have nearly everything in common in the relations in which they stand to the rest of this Union. There is then, a general fitness and propriety in extending the parental care ol government to both in common. If California, by a sudden and extraordinary augmentation of population, has advanced so rapidly as to mature her for State government, that furnishes no reason why the less fortunate Territories of New Mexico and fi Utah should be abandoned and left ungoverned ]< by the United States, or should be disconnect- t1 ed with California, which, although she has or- a ganized for herself a State government, must r l)e legally and constitutionally regarded as a r Territory until she is actually admitted a3 a n State in tlie Union. It is further objected, that by combining the r two measures in the same bill, members who I ? . '< i :ii: may De wining 10 vote ior one ami uuwmwg w i vote for the other, would be placed in an ernbar- t rassing condition. They would be constrained j it is urged, to take or reject both. On the > other hand, there are other members who would ( be willing to vote for both united, but would j feel themselves constrained to vote against the | California bill if it stood alone. Each party t finds in the bill which it favors something which f commends it to acceptance, and in the other something which it disapproves. The true s ground, therefore, of the objection to the union ? of the measure is not any want of affinity be- t tween them, but because of the favor or disfavor i with which tfltey are respectively regarded.? < In this conflict of opinion, it seems to a majori- < ty of the coiiuntttee that a spirit of mutual con- ] cession enjoins that the two measures should i be connected together, the effect of which will i mi i A-:. %..i. ho, that neither opinion win exclusively u iumpu ; and that both may find in such an amicable i arrangement enough of good to reconcile them j to the acceptance of the combined measure. | And such a course of legislation is not at all j unusual. Few laws have ever passed in which ; there were hot parts to which exception was i taken. It is inexpedient, if not impracticable 1 to separate these parts,'and embody them ill dis- < tinct bills, so as to accommodate the diversity I of opinion which may exist < The Constitution of the United States con- i tained in it a great variety of provisions, to < some of which serious objection was made in j ? C . J U k.. /ll/T/.ennf ' U1U I'UHVt'IllIUll WHICH luniimi it UJ U1IICIW?I% I members of that body; and when it was sub- I mitted to the' ratification of the States, some of i tliem objected to some parts, and others to I other parts of the same instrument Had these 1 various parts and provisions been separately acted on in the convention, or separately sub i mitted to the people of the United States, it is by no means certain that the Constitution it- I self would ever have been adopted or ratified. Those who did not like particular provisions, found com(>cnsution in other parts of it And i in all cases of constitutions and laws, when i either is presented as a whole, the question to be decided is, whether the good it contiins is not 01 greater uuiuuni, anu uuca uui. ucuuinu& anything exceptionable in it And as nothing human is perfect, for the sake of that harmony so desirable in such a confederacy as this, we must be reconciled to secure as much as we can of what we wish, and be consoled by the reflection, that what we do not exactly like is a friendly concession, and agreeable to those who, being united with us in a common destiny, it is desirable should always live with us in peace and concord. i A majority of the committee have, therefore, been led to the recommendation to the Senate that the two measures be united. The bill for establishing the two Territories, it will be ob A W !>??*> 4- nuAirien nn flio Ann SCrVCUj (Junto tilC ?f iiiuub piuviov) vii miv vnv hand, and, on the other, makes no provision for the introduction of slavery into the Territories. That proviso has been the fruitful source of distraction and agitation. If it were adopted and applied to any Territory, it would cease to have any obligatory force as soon as such Territory were admitted as a State into the Union. There was never any occasion for it, to accomplish the professed object with which it was originally offered. This has been clearly demonstrated by the current of events. California, of all the recent territorial acquisitions from Mexico, was thai in which, if any where within thein, the introduction of slavery was most likely to take place; and the constitution of California by the unanimous vote of her convention, has expressly interdicted it. There is the highest probability that Utah and New Mexico will, when nnnui trt tin *1R SL'lfi'S. follow till? example. The proviso is, as to all these regions in common, a mere abstraction. Why should it be longer insisted 011! Totally destitute, at it is, of any practical import, it has, nevertheless, had the pernicious effect to excite se- i rious, if not alarming, consequences. It is high time that the wounds which it has inflicted should be healed up and closed; and thai to avoid, in all future time, the agitations which must be produced by the aonllict of opinion on the slavery question, existing as this institution does in some of the States and prohibited as it is in others, the true principle which . mr/nhitA thn nctiuii of Oonirress in ?? ?- ? O forming territorial governments for each newly acquired domain isio refrain from all legislation on the subject in the territory acquired, so long as it retains the territorial form of government 1 ?leaving it to the people of such Territory, i when they have attained to a condition which i entitles them to admission as a State to decide for themselves the question of tho allowance or prohibition of slavery. The committee believe that they express the anxious desire of an ( immense majority of tho people of the U. States | when they declare that it is high time that good ( feelings, harmony, and fraternal sentiments should be again revived, and the Government should be able once more 10 proceed an us great operations to promote the happiness and pros- 1 pcrity of the country undisturbed by this dis- 1 tracting cause. i As lor California, far from feeling her sensibility affected by her being associated with 1 other kindred measuresshe ought to rejoice i and bo highly gratified that, in entering into I the Union, she may have contributed to the 1 tranquility and happiness of the great family of , Suites, of which, it is to be hoped, she may ono day be a distinguished member. The committee beg leave next to report on the subject of the northern and western boundary of Texas. On tliut question a great diversity of opinion has prevailed. According to - - ' *- l? ? /* rn ono view of it, the western limit 01 lexas was tho river Nueces; according to another, it it extended as far as tho Rio Grande, and 1 stretched from its mouth to its source. A ma- ' jority of tho committee, having come to the ' conclusion of recommending an amicable ad- 1 justinent of the boundary with Texas, abstain i ' T 111 III- - ** rom expressing any opinion as to the true and sgitimale western and northern boundary, of hat State. The terms proposed for guch an djustment are contained in the bill herewith eported, and they are, with inconsiderable vaiation, the same as that reported by the Coiunittee on Territories. According to these terms, it Is proposed to rexas that her boundary b? recognised to the tio Grande and up that river to the point com* nonly called El Paso, and running thence Up hat river twenty miies, measured thereon by a itraight line, and thence eastwardly to a point vhere the hundredth degree of west longitude irosses Red River; being the south west angle n tkn litis* rloeurn <1 toA V?r>twf?pn the U. States and Vlexico, and the same angle in the line of the erritory set apart for the Indians by the United States. If this boundary be assented to by Texas, ihe will be quieted to that extent in her title.?. \nd some may suppose that, in consideration of his concession by the United States, she might without any other equivalent, relinquish any )ther claim she has beyond the proposed bounlary; that is, any claim to any part of New Vlexico. But, under the influence of a sentinent of iustice and areat liberality, the bill pro joses'to Texas, for her relinquishment of any such claim, a large pecuniary equivalent. As i consideration for it, and considering that a portion of the debt of Texas was created on a iledge to her creditors of the duties on foreign imports, transferred by the resolution of annexition to the United States, and now received wd receivable in their treasury, a majority of die committee recommend the payment of the mm of millions of dollars to Texas, to 36 applied in the first instance, to the extinction [)f that portion'of her debt for the reimbursement of which the duties 011 foreign imports were pledged as aforesaid; and the residue in such manner as she may direct The said sum is to be paid by the United States iu a stock, to be created, bearing five per cent interest annually, payable half yearly at the Treasury of the United States, and the principal reimbursable at the end of fourteen years. According to an estimate which has been made, there are included in the territory to which it id proposed that Texas shall relinquish her claim, embracing that part of New Mexico lying east of the Rio Grande, a little less than 124,933 square miles, and about 79,957,120 acres of land. From the proceeds of the sales of this land, the United States may ultimately be reimbursed a portion, if not the whole ol the nmount of what is thus proposed to be advanced to Texas. Ft cannot be supposed that Texas will decline to accede to these liberal propositions; but if she should, it is to be distinctly understood that the title of the United States to any anv territory acauired from Mexico cast of the Rio Grande will remain unimpaired and in. the same condition as if the proposals of adjustment now offered hnd not hecn made. To be concluded mi Friday. 'rail CAMDEN, S. C. TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1850. TRT.RGR APHTfl IWTELI.IGENOE. Reported for the Journal. Charleston, May 13, 8} p. v. The demand for cottoit is good, prices having made a farther advance of an eighth. There have been sales of 1300 bales, at prices varying from 10| to 13. W. Agents for the Camden Journal. Col. T. VV. IIuf.y, Jacksonham, Lancaster Dist. S. H. Rosser, Esq., LancasterviUe, S. C. C. C. McCrummen, Esq., Carthage, N. C. W. C. Moore, Esq., Camden, S. C. And Postmasters are requested to act as our agents. President Preston. The Telegraph inform# us that President Preston tendered his resignation to the Trustees of the South Carolina College, on Saturday evening last, to take effect in December?in consequence of the feebleness of his health. It was accepted, and a very complimentary resolution adopted in acknowledgment of his past labors and services. Report of the Compromise Committee. We present our readers to-day with a part o the lomr-expected Report of the compromise com mittee, submitted by Mr. Clay on the 9th instant We regret that the length of the report prevents an entire insertion of it this week; for though the several positions taken by the committee are stated in terms sufficiently brief and concise, such was the number of questions that came under its supervision, that the report occupies five closely printed columns of the Evening News, from which we copy. The committee (as will be seen) first notice the compact by which Texas entered the Union, and recommends that in pursuance thereof Congress do admit, without restriction as to slaverv enrh hp a- State or States as the people ofTeX as may hereafter form out of her territory, not exceeding four. The committee further recommends that in view of the failure of Congress to provide a suitable government for California, the irregularity connected with the formation of her State Government be overlooked, and she be admitted into the Union as a State; also that territorial bills be passed for the government of New Mexico and Utah, to comprise all the remaining territory, withnut any reference to slavery. The Report concludes by recommending the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and the enactment of effectual provisions by the Federal Gov?rnment for the arrest and delivery of fugitive slaves, asserting that if these means snau tan 10 secure that object, that the owners of such slaves ivill then have a right to demand indemnity for heir lost property from the Treasury of the United States. In short, the plan is substantially the iame as it was previously reported it would be. Mr. Phelps, of Vermont, gave notice that he would nlroduce a minority report. We give the recapi tulation contained in the fejiflft of the measures-. proposed by the Itidjbtlty of the committee: 1. The admissiort df drty new State or States formed out of Texdh* to be postponed until they shall hereafter present themselves y be received into the Union, wheh jt will be. thy duty of Con gress fairly and faithfdliy to ex^Cuteine compact with Texas by admitting sUch new State or State?. 3. The admission forthwith of .California, .into the Union, with the boundaries She has proposed. 3. The establishment of telfitorfaf gdtterfimertts. without the WilmotProvisdj fb? NeW Mexico and Utah, embracing aU the territory recently-acquired by the United States from Mexiboitot contained' in the boundaries of Californkh 4. The combination of these tWd flst-mefltfoned measures in the same bill. 5. The establishment of the wdstefn ahd northern boundary of Texas, and the exclusion ffoin herjurisdictioii of all New .Mexico, with the gfttit to Texas of a pecuniary equivalent And thesecs tion for that purpose.to be incorporated In thfe' b/11 ' admitting California and establishing territorial governments for Utah and New Mexkou > 6. More effectual enactments of law to secure the prompt delivery of petsohB boilnd.to service or labor in one States under the laws thereofc'who escape-into another State. > And 7. Abstaining from abolishing jBfayetfy; but* under a heavy penalty, prohibiting thb"Have trade in the District of Columbian . i.!v. ' California and the Committee of Thirteeth "' As will be seen by our synopsis of the report* well as a part of that document itself (aB that wtf can find mora for) which appearsdo to?day'p pa*** per, the majority of this committee have reported* as a part of their plan of compromise; in foirorof admitting California as a State, with her proposed constitution, to which we have sO strenuously and justly objected. This is the test question r thtf * matter has now assumed M a more tangible form? as some of our cotemporaries would sayand wo have either to admit California as she ia proposed* and then admit every thing else, or resist this Sg? gressive measure upon our constitutional rights. Say, anti-slavery conventionists, is there rioi)eees?--' sity for holding a Southern Convention! If you stili persist in your notions in regard'to the Impracticability of this measure, we haydno-hope for you, but must take care of ourselves, and leave - * you to your rare. 11 in very eviutan. ig ovciy miuu the tendency affaire are taking' at Washington* ' '* Those great Nationalist? who would preserve this mighty Republic by making no concession thenr* selves, and depriving the South of.her, rights, attempting to blarney, us up with compromises, are quite willing to remain in the Union; ifthey aire allowed to have every thing their own wayfie# to prohibit the extension of slavery, admit States with this prohibition, and eventually pass rimer* making total emancipatiou the final result Is there a Southern man who is willing to submit to each injustice, and still cry out nationality J. rtu: Southern Convention* The following list of delegates elected co represent South Carolina in this Convention, is takfln from the Columbia Telegraph. From the Slate at large?L. Cheves, Beaufort; R. W. Barnwell, do.; i\-IL ?bnore,-Charleston; J. H. Hammond, Barnwell. f.,V r First Congressional District (Spartanburg,Union, York, and Chester)?EX^GovemorDavid'. Johnson, Union; W.C. Beatty,York. Altornaties, Dr. Samuel Otterson, Spartanburg; John A. Bradley, Chester. Second District (Anderson, Pickens, Greenville, and Laurens)?J.-N. Whitner, Anderson; H. C. Youn^, Laurens. ' " " " ' / \ Third District (Fairfield, Kershaw,' Lancaster, si jaw; Maxcj Gregg, Richland. Altertiatse, F. Siimter, Suinter; t Laucasten ry, Darlington, Georgetown, Marion and WTifijarasburg)?R; F. W. Allston, Georgetown; W. J. H,uma, Chesterfield. : " > . Filth District (Edgefield, Afifevule, Newberry, and Lexington)?Drayton Nauce,1 NewberryiJf.. W. Pickens, Edgefield. ' Alternates, John A. Calhoun, Abbeville ? JamesJooes, jEdgefield. Sixth District (Charleston District excluding Parish of St. John's Colleton)-T-GeiwKa A. Tret*, holing Charleston; "W. DuBoee,PJneville, Seventh District (Orangeburg,'Bannwell, Beau* fort, Colleton, and Parish of St JohnVCbflefon)? R. Barnwell Rhett, Beaufort^ D, F. Jamison, Orangeburg. Bon. P. B. Simon, Our Senator in place of Mr. Calhoun,has taken his seat in the Senate of the United States. ; Steam Mm Burned. " " We regret to learn by the Carolinian of the llth instant, that the Steam Saw MTiH'hnd Turpentine Distillery of Capt V. D. V. Jamison, Oraogeburg n!afrir>t. were consumed bv firebn-^naaV morning. "We. understand" (sajrs the Carolinian) ^that no fire had been in the furnace for twadays previous. This is the second time Within a few months that Mr. Jamison has suffered in the same way." Weal Point Cadets. We learn by the papers that the following young gentlemen of this State have been announced to Cadet appointments at West Pqiht- Stephen D. Lee, of the second District, John B. Vilhpigue, of this (the third). District, and Wm. M. Dut*ut, seventh District. Virginia?Southern Convention. The opposition of a few in this State to the Nashville Convention will no doubt" prove quite a feather in the cap ofthe antt conventionists; but it is said the vote taken at Richmond is not a feir expression of*public sentiment A majority at first were in favor of the measure. The change- is said ' probably to have occurred by; the more/ favorable turn affairs were supposed to be taking at Wash, ington. It is strange, passing strange, that Southern men, in the Old Dominion, and even further South, suffer themselves to be cajoled Into such a belief. Let no man lay the flattering unction to his soul, that Northern fenatic8,ttpractical atheist** will yield us oni inrh of Southern ground until they see that we are detehiuhep to have our ? ??un.>c * RIGHTS, COST what tiibt mi> >i|isr uua wt, to expect, Soulhei ners, ofjusticeo^g^nn^ from "puling one-eyed philanthropwte,n?Io?ked up tinder cover of great Nalumnlilyjrund* <tfthe Union* We have leas to fear from such men #,Wm. Lloyd Garrison, the verySfeente and embodiment of " Whining Philanthropy," than froftr these , great " Nationalists," whose influence is more . IL