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?l)e Catnkn lowrnfll. ^STSiigTr? pTImtTON. SODTH-CABOUKA, JUNE 25,"1850. "" "" NUMBER 50. AN HOUR WITH GOD. One hour with Thee, xny God! when daylight J *s, breaks ; Over a world thy guardian care has kept, When the fresh soul from soothing slumber wakes,. To praise the love that watched me while I slept; ' Wheu with new strength my blood is bounding j tree, The first, best, sweetest hour, I'll give to Thee, j One hour with Thee, when busy day begins Her never ceasing round of bustling care, When I must meet with toil, and pain, and sins, And through them all thy cross must bear; O, then, to arm me for tlie strife, to be Faithful to death, Til kneel an hour to Thee. hour with Thee, when rides the glorious sun High in mid heaven,and panting nature Jeds Xifrless and overpowered, and man has done For one short hour with urging life's swift wheels: In that deep pause my soul from rare shall flee, To make that hour of rest one hour with Thee. One hour with Thee, when saddened twilight fiings Her soothing charm o'er lawn, and vale, and grove. When there breaths up from all created things The sweet enthralling sense of thy deep love; And when its softening power descends on me, My swelling heart shall spend an hour with Thee, One hour with Thee, my God! when softly night Climbs the high heaven with solemn step and slow. When thy sweet stirs, unutterably bright, Are telling forth thy praise to men below ; O then, while far from earth my thoughts would v ? - * - " * UL fl TU spend in prayer one joyiui nour wim mer. THE BOUNDARIES OF TEXAS. Ix the Senate debate of Wednesday, Gen. Houston, of Texas, made the following remarks, which, with the exception of one illnatured fling at a Southern Senator, are highspirited, finely expressed, and indicate truly, as we believe, the tenijier of his State. All the information we have, confirms what we have before published, that Toxhr will neither be bullied nor bought out of her territory. Mr. Houston. Mr. President, I have entertained great anxiety for the progress of the business of the Senate, and it is therefore with ' great reluctance that I intrude myself in this ' discussion; but some remarks have fallen from aa honorable gentleman this morning, respecting Texas, which, as a co-representative of that Stale, 1 cauuot permit to pass without noVf ~ -'inxtn mlitlit l.a ituumoil cnhmiccinn .HOC* Wf aiiv/iivv uti^u* */v wvvimvv to au indignity. The honorable Senator from New York, (Mr." Seward) has thought proper to give an opinion upon the title of Texas to the boundary which she claims, and wo have been asked to dhow the authority by which that boundary has been claimed. I will not enter into the discussion of that subject after the arguments which have been submitted by gentlemen who have participated in this debate, amongst whom is tny very able colleague, who has left nothing ma ?n csoit IF hp hns fstilpd to convince the Senator from New York, I certainly do not expect to succeed in convincing him that the title of Texas extends beyond the Sabine. Yet, sir, the Government of the United States must be placed tc peculiar circumstances in relation to the national honor, if Texas has not a claim even beyond the Nueces. It was not objected after die annexation of Texas to the United States that Corpus Christi was then a territory at Texas-; and it will be admitted that the war grew out of the position taken hy the Mexicans opposite Matamoros on the Rio Grande. But, sir, Texas was annexed with her declared boundaries of the Rio Grande from its mouth to its source. No question then arose respecting the boundary which we declared in 1830. Texas then conceded to the United States the right to settle the question of boundary with Mexico, bat she did not concede the right, alter tlie acquisition of ell the territory which the United States acquired from Mexico, of adjusting it between Mexico and the United States. The United States was the agent of Texas, and as such acquired limits beyond the boundary which Texas claimed, and consequently secured to her all she had assumed for herself. If, however, this bill should pass, it will not be decisive with Texas, as the subject will bo referred to her Legislature to judge of the fitness of disposing of this territory or retaining it, as she may think proper. It imposes nty obligation upon Texas, it infringes none of her rights, it amam liortn nn snhmiwinn to the action of Congress; but it recognizes all the (rights which she originally possessed Gentleman say this is an. indignity, aud indeed the honorable gentleman from Florida was so kind as to remark that it would be prostituting Texas if she submitted to such degradation, 1 will, with great deference to the honorable gentleman, assure him that I think all Texas will return him thanks, and in the name of Texas I return him my thanks, for becoming the special guardian of her purity and her honor; and 1 hope it will suffer no clanger from his friendly interposition, ?,1 u? j I c i ue genueujau ??? t?*uiuwm a, wgrpe ui t>w licitude that would have been favorable to Texu? at one period, when she was surrounded by temptations and difficulties, and when she was wooed on all sides, and was in a situation to yield to solicitations. The honorable gentleman then steps forward and exhorts her to maintain h*r purity, and also to maintain her standard unsullied by prostitution. Sir, Texas has never hrcu prostituted. If she were incapable of vi idi rating bar rights here, through her represent tives, the colleetjye wisdom of Texas, in her deliberative assemblies, will baye the progo. 1 sition submitted to them; and Texas, through her agents, can then say whether it is conformable to her wish that she should relinquish her right to this territory, or whether slia will main, i taiti it It will be a matter of discretion with 1 her, and I tryst she wjJJ not stoop so low as to humi'iate or degrade herself to a state of prostitution. Texas is surrounded on the one hand by sympathy and on the other by menace and reproach. Honorable gentlemen have threatened her with expulsion from her territory which she claims, and which none other has ever claimed. Sir, it is said that Texas has asserted her light to that territory or has preferred a claim to it She has never preferred a claim to it In the face of eight millions of people she has asserted her right She has no claim to advance. Her light has been asserted from the very beginning of the independence of Texas. The Executive of the United States and the nominal delegate from New Mexico are, I believe, the most ostensible personages that have alleged that Texas has set up a claim to this territory. An adverse claim to the right of Texas has been set up, but Texas has set up no claim adverse to any other. She has asserted no claim which 6he did not contend for through years of revolution. If Mexico, at any neriod in the Texan revolutionary conflict, had ( offered, it" Texas would relinquish her title to the country beyond the Nueces, to recognise her sovercigntyand independence-, Texas would have spurned it; every man within her borders that had a heart would have bit the dust in defence of that territory. And now it is said that she has set up a claim. Trace her history down to annexation, and that right remains unchanged and undisputed by Mexico. Her coutest was for the Sabine boundary and never for the Nueces; but she subsequently ceded the right of Texas to all the territory East of the "'! ? l?A??Ai?nkln rrnnllnmnn A'Ain iviu wiuiiui;* a iic iiuuwiauic gviiuviuuu ??vi? New Jersey, the other dnv, apjieared to think that the Central Government ? yes, sir, the Central Government, which means. I suppose, the Government at Washington ? bad power and right, and of right ought to expel Texas from her territory, if she were in peaceable possession of what is called New Mexico. He appeared to think that the troops of the United States should expel them under the direction of the Federal, or as he styled it, the Central Government. That is an ungracious word to Texas ears. Mr. Davton. Will the Texan representative permit ui?* to remind him that he is entirely mistaken ? I do not say that if Texas were l ight fully in possession of .Now Mexico, the Central (loverinnent should expel her from her Territory. But I said that, if Texas went there with a view to take possession of that territory hv force, which I hold to be the territory of the United States, they would find the UuitedStates in their way and ready to repel them from that forcible possession,if they attempted to make it. Mr. Houston. Texas, so far as 1 am acquainted with her history has never threatened violence to the officers of the United States, nor has she threatened to take the territory by force, ihe sent her commissioner, a single individual, unguarded?not a corporal's guard with him ?and the oeoule of New Mexico have acquiesced in the authority of Texas, conveyed by that single individual. But will the honorable gentleman say that his language conveyed no menace, no vaunting, no threat to Texas ? Sir, we were told that if we attempted to hike possession of our borders, and to fill what had been our claim from our inception as a nation, WP should hud a lion in our path. But we haveinet no lion; we have inet no adversary hunting without our borders. We have not been a warlike people, but we have resisted aggression and repelled injury, when it was attempted to be ? 1 * IT I . euiorceu upon us. ?t o nave no sworuio sinae at our assailants. The Constitution, I presume, has uo clause to allow the United States to strike tlieir swords at a people in the possession of their rights, Our shield is justice, to repel aggression, and we will be carried from our fields upon that shield before we w ill surrender one constitutional right* It is our cegis, and we will have it to the inch. A Central Government, indeed! The honorable Seuxtor here speaking of a Central Governinent! A Central Government for what 1? To coerce Texas to submit to aggression. To tell Texas that she must surrender her rights before adjudication ! To tell her that she must surrender rights for which the United States as her guardiau went to war, after she herself had merged her powers of resistance to a foreign Government in the United Suites! Because she occupies that territory in a peaceable manner, is she to be threatened by the myrmidons of power ? i tell them that they have a lesson to learn from Texas. She never goes beyond her borders. She resists no constitutional requirement, and will submit to no aggression from any power under Heaven. She will have the rights to which she is entitled, or the wrong qoer must soon near tncir requiem. I would say to gentlemen, then, with all deference aud good feeling, that when they wish to indulge in tropes, and figures, and dashing metaphors, they will keep "lions" and " Central Governments" out of the path, I do not like to encounter them, "A lion!" I am no Samson, (Laughter,) \ "Central Government!" I have heeu accustomed to resistance to Central Governments, Texas keeps her warriors at home to defend her women and cmiureii against. uie savages, one senus none of her warriors liere; hut let a Central Govern ment lay a rude hand upon her banner, and that star will never bo eclipsed, though gentlemen by treading on stars here, may not seem to think much of it, Our banner douts on the wind, and I would lot gentlemen remember that from the darkest clouds of revolution, it has led Us to association with this Union, which we are ready to contribute the lust drop of our blood to maintain?faithful to the Union, faithful to the Constitution, and faithful to Texas}. Any difficulty between two parties can bo readily adjusted, if one of them can he prevailed upon to surrender every thing worth contending for! i THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE PATROL. Through the kindness of A. Herbemont, Esq. j Clerk of Appeal, we are enabled to lay before ! our readers, the following opinion of our Law Court of Appeals, on a matter of general interest and great importance. It may be relied on, of course, as a correct exposition of the law ; while the spirit which it manifests is equally creditable to that law, and to those who have expounded it?Eds. Telegraph. Spring Term, 1850. The State ) vs. / Withers, J. Washington Boozer and others. ) Opinion,?The defendants are convicted under the Act of 1841, which punishes, as for a i misdemeanor, any person who shall "unlawful! ly whip or beat any slave, (not under his or her j charge) without sufficient provocation, by word | or act" The defence was rested upon their rights as Putr/il onil it nrnonoild nnrm flip irlon flint. t.liPV . ~ > ?'V. .V J , were engaged in dispersing an uulawful afesemj bly of slaves; for the notion is preposterous that : the slaves whipped were "under the charge" of the patrol who were punishing them in the sense of the Act The slaves who were whipped were on the premises of a citizen, himself a slave-owner, by his consent, and with tickets from their master. The occasion was a perfectly innocent one, even meritorious; for Hunter's negro woman had obtained his permission to call in assistance towards the construction of a quilt for her bed, or some bed; and it is to be hoped ?> r* Sit fltrt Cf nfn tirrvtiM I I <1 t?/l /loniik/1 mat uu uia^ici 111 UJC uiaiu wuuiu ?u?w usmvu sucli an indulgence, when he had no motive to suspect that it was contrived to cover up some evil design. How many of us have permitted to our slaves the enjoyment of a wedding party and ceremony, in imitation of the custom of the higher class, and even contributed, liberally, to the good cheer of the occasion ? It is surely no novelty among slave owners, that, by the consent of all parties, one slave should obtain the assistance of his neighbor to gather his little crop, even though it be on a Saturday night, or to erect or improve his cabin. It would be painful to find that the law forbids masters to permit, or to encourage the slave in honoring the humble virtues that may be consistent with his condition, whether the same may take the direction of social relations and intercourse among themselves, or the advancement of household comforts. The true spirit of our law does not aim at such an end, where the mode of attaining it presents no conflic t with the interests, the peace and security of the public. These, undoubtedly, must be regarded at all hazards ; and no police regulations, subserving that high policy, can be justly branded as cruel or tyrannical, To ascertain whether the slaves punished by the defendants were caught in the violation of any law, wc must look to the statutes. Our fundamental code, now time-honored, Is that of 1740. It was enacted soon after a violent, barbarous and. somewhat bloody servile outbreak at Stono. Not a few of its provisions took their hue from the exigency of the occasion, and that it has failed somewhat jn the lapse of time is only the usual inevitable consoquonoo of all police systems, in the shape of positive terms, which cannot have the quality to keep up with the advai|<K*ii|(M|t of a community. An attentive examination, however, of our slave law will show, that there are few occasions where a slave is supposed to need the interposition of police dicipline, whether wielded by the private or the public arm, when Ids errand front home is known to his owner, and permit, ted by him in writing. By the 7th section, Act 1740, a magistrate was authorized, personally or by warrant to another, to call the posse and disperse "any assembly ormeeting of slaves which may disturb the peace or endanger the safety of His Majesty's subjects." By the 43rd section, any person was authorized to apprehend and chastise, within a limit, a body of "men slaves exceeding seven in number" who were seen "to travel together in any high road." How often this section would work mischievously, at this da}*, if indiscreetly enforced according to the letter, will occur to everybody. fim y??l, ?':= <?m. jl^uv uig uuin atxuwu vi niv oaiiiv att ta ouj# posed to be the only one that can have the semblance of application to this case. It is too long to be incorporated bere. Hut the object of the provision was declared to be the safety of the Province. It would seem simply ridiculous to suppose that the safety of the State or any of its inhabitants, was implicated by such an assemblage as that at Hu.ntkks's composed of a few males; more females; with tickets from the owners ; in the kitchen of a citizen; by bis consent; not impudent nor disorderly, by the adnrssion of the defendants; assembled at a quilting; and no evidence of a carousal by eating or drinking. The said section aeciareu mat une care suouiu oo laKen 10 restrain the "wanderings" and meetings oi" negroes and other slaves?"more especially 011 Saturday nights, Sunday's and other holidays," aid the using and carrying certain dangerous weapons, drums, horn* and other loud instruments?and to prevent the meeting of negroes under such circumstances, anybody was authorized to arrest and disarm one out of his master's premises, "not being on lawful business and with a letter Iroin his master, or a ticket or not having a white person with him." This was all - t- ? - * - t L I qcsignca as precaution ; to preui sucn wanderings and meetings before denounced. Then follows the material provisions, to wit ^ "And what soever master, owner, or overseer shall permit or suffer his or their negro or other slave or sj/ives, to beat drums, blow horns, or use any other loud instruments ; or whosoever shall fer ?nd countenance any public jneeting or feasting of strange negroes or slaves in their plantations shall forfe't,'- : Wo cannot pereeiV'e (fiat the assembly of negroes ai before described, with whicfy these defendants interfered, can be made to answer the terms of the foregoing quotation, according to their usual import, and still loss when taken in connection with what was recited as the danger to be guarded against?the mischief to be remedied. We do not mean to affirm (what seems to have been the Circuit Judge's impression) that if it had been such an assembly the patrol may not have dispersed it, notwithstanding the liability to a pecuniary penalty ot him who suffered and encouraged it Nor do we mean to trench, in any degree, upon the vigorous administration by the patrol of the important police power entrusted to them, within the orbit prescribed for their action. Let them exercise, with judicious freedom, the power to disperse unlawful assemblies, as they are expressly empowered to do by the 13th section of the patrol law, in relation to slaves, free ne grocs, muluttoes, and mnstizoos; such/for example, as are found in disorderly houses; such as are described in the 11th "section of that Act; but a judicious freedom of administration in our police law for the lower order must always have respect to the confidence which the law reposes in the discretion of the master, the presence of the proprietor, his loyalty to the sympathies and the policy that involve our common interests, peace and safety. Let the patrol always act in the spirit that should guide the discreet, sedate, intelligent, and humane owner of slaves, and they will find the judicial arm of the government nerved to sustain them?if indeed it could be presumed that in such case the}' would ever need it. Thus guided, they may often find occasions?no doubt they will? to overlook a harmless violation, a venial transgression, of the strict letter?to construe in a spirit of mildness?to concede something to the sacredness of domicil, the quiet of a family at the midnight hour?to recognize, what is eminently the negro's quality, the love of social intercourse, with no object beyond it, and no time to indulge it but the night?to distinguish between the premises of the quiet, orderly citizen, and of liiin whose very business of life is to corrupt the slave in his morals and his allegiance. This very case may illustrate what is I meant: sunnosinir that this assembly was an unlawful one, could it not have been dispersed just as readily and without flogging as with it ? Why therefore chastise negroes who seem to have had no idea that thev were doing wrong; who were at the place where they were found by the consent and written license of their master ; when the proprietor came out to add his own authority and consent; when, as we presume, he was not a suspicious person or engaged in suspicious traffic ? We are mindful, however, that the statute of 1740. ju the 53d section, enjoins, that every portion of it "shall be construed most largely and beneficially for the promoting and carrying into execution this Act and for the encouragement and justification of all persons to be employed in the execution thereof;"?and since we are persuaded that it is probable these defendants had no deliberate purpose to commit an outrage upon the rights of others, we arc gratified to learn from the Judge who preside on Circuit that it has not been his design to inflict any exemplary punishment. As already intimated, jt would be agreeable to us to be always a! la to sustain so useful and important a body as the patrol; but perceiving no error in the conviction of the present parties we are constrained to order, that their motion he dismissed. YV e concur. Josiaii J. Evans. D. L. Warsaw, Edw.ako Fuost. A CARD TO THE PUBLIC. Summoned to Washington City, to aid Mr. Fisher, in conducting the Southern Press, and animated by the hope of being useful to the great cause, which so long has enlisted my mind and pen, I am reluctantly constrained, for a time, to leave my nijtjvp State, and to resign into the hands of my collogue, Mr. Carlisle, the control of the Telegraph. It is, however, neither my design nor my desire to forfeit, my domicil in Carolina, nor to 1!.. ! .1. lit tliA #/V?/??rwmstv%1t fllAll IT 1A rt'lIIHJUlSlJ III J 11111*1 irai in mc a ri^ruy/ftj uivugu the term of my abscence will depend upon the exigencies of the times, and the need of my hutnhle sendees at Washington?and I feel assured, that my friends and fellow citizens at home, will appreciate the sacrifice which I make, even while availing myself of a mark of confidence from the Southern members of Congress, as flattering as it is unmerited. As they have passed by others more worthy, to select me, I would prove mvself unworthy, qf that signal compliment, were I to permit any reasons of a mere personal character, to prevent my acceptance otso delicate and miucuua irusi? and have, therefore, accepted it, in the same spirit in which it was tendered. In ni}' absence, I bespeak for the little Tele, graph?the Benjamin of my affections?the same generous support and kind indulgence which has cheered and sustained my labors, and those of my colleague hitherto; andean confidently promise that the change will enhance rather than diminish its claims to public patronage. The Editorial conduct of the paper (owing to my protracted absence at Washington) lias been for many months past in the hands of my ' ?? - l I colleague?who will continue to tasit ms energies and abilities in its behalf?and his facilities for obtaining the earliest and most reliable news from Washington will not ho fastened hereafter. Mv duty conipejs me to work in any harness which may J^e thought best adapted to my powerrand in making this change I defer tq the judgment of others, fully conscious of my own deficiencies, for which a conscientious earnestness of purpose may possibly compensate. realty I |}Cvt-r hqve .>sked a favor of piy State, or of my fellow citizens?but if they think that my course and labors merit anything at their hands, let them sustain, In my absence, the paper I have established?which, as a link binding nie to my home, I cannot resign, and to tlio conduct of which I hope hereafter to return when the exigencies now existing are dispelled, or have assumed aless threatening shape. When that change will take place?or how soon?no human prescience can now foretell? but whatever may betide, South Carolina will ever claim a citizen in EDWIN DeLEON. Washington, June 13th, 1850. OCT My cotemporaries of the Press throughout the State will confer a favor by giving thja Card an iusertion in their respective papers, ^ (?r The announcement above made will bo read by the readers of the Telegraph with re' ? 1 lfl ?? ?? ?* rw t7 ?*>uaoa l ri grei, WI111U IU UJU iuiii<tiuiii?? uuiiui, WIIUXI tercourse with his colleague thus retiring for a season, was still more intimate, it must cause still deeper regret so far as his own feelings tiro concerned. The circumstances however which have oc. casioned the event afford at the same time some mitigation of the pangs of parting, and we can but acquiesce in the call which has removed a colleague to a sphere in which his exertions may be of more avail to the causo which we have at heart, and to which the Telegraph has been devoted. To the advocacy of that cause it is still pledged, and whatever falling off kind patrons and readers may perceive in ability, there shall be no change in zeal, fidelity, or honest endeavors to : ?!i i_i x : viuuicatu H caubt; wuusu nxutrruiit juauirc uaii give strength even to the feeblest advocate. TO WIVES. The first inquiry of a woman after marriage should be, " How shall I continue the love I have inspired ? How shall I preserve the heart 1 have won v 1. Endeavor to make your husband's habitation alluring and delightful to him. Let it bo to him a sanctuary to which his heart may always turn from the calamities of life. Make it a repose from his cares, a shelter from the world, a home not for his person only, but for his heart He may meet with pleasures in other houses, but let him find pleasures in his own. Should he be dejected, sootho him; should he be silent and thoughtful do not heedlessly disturb him; should he be studious, favor him with all practicable facilities; or should he be peevish make allowances for human nature, and by \ our sweetness, gentleness and good humor, urge him continually to talk, though he may not say it, " this woman is a comfort to me?I cannot but love her and requite such gentleness and affections as they deserve," 2. Invariably adorn yourself with delicacy and modest}'. These, to a man of refinement, are attractions the most highly captivating; while their opposite never fails to inspire disgust. Let the delicacy and modesty of the bride be always, jn a great degree supported by the wife. * 3. If it be possible, let your husband suppose you think him a good husband, and it will be a strong stiinulous of his being so. As long as he thinks he possesses the reputation he will take some pains to deserve it; but when he has once lost the name, he will he apt to abandon the reality. . 4. Cultivate and exhibit with the greatest caro and constancy, cheerfulness and good hunior. They give beauty to the finest face; and impart charms whore charms are not- Qo the contrary, a gloomy, dissatificd manner, is chilling and repulsive to his feelings; he will be very apt to seek elsewhere for those smiles and that cheerfulness which he finds not at his own house. 5. In the article of dress, study your husband's taste. The opinion of others on this subject is of but very little consequence if he approve. t>. Particularly shun what the world calls, in ridicule, "curtain lectures." When you shut your door at night, endeavor to shut out at the same moment all discord and contention, and look on your chamber as a retreat from the vexations of the world, a shelter sacred to peace 11 nd nffunt! nil How indecorous, offensive and sinful it is for a woman to exercise authority ovpr her bushand's, and to say " I will have it so. It shall he as I like!" But I trust that the number of those who adopt this unbecoming and disgraceful manner, is so small as to render it unnecessary for me to enlarge on the subject. 7. Be careful never to join in a jest and laugh against your husband. Conceal his faults and nnl? nC bio mnpito Shun mvprv anoroacli to extravagance especially if you are not more than wel} off. The want of eeonqmy has involved millions in misery. Be neat, lj(Jy, orderly, methodical. If jso early, breakfast early, and have a place for everything, and everything in its place. 8. Few things please a man more than seeing his wife notable and clever in the management ot her household. A knowledge of cookery, as well as every other bra noli in housekeeping, is indispensable in a fema|c, and a wife should always endeavor to support wjth applause the character of the lady aqd the housewife. Vyiicu a man's skqll is very thick, itishard to put j<|eas into it; but, when once jn, of course they will not readily get out. That is. the reason that when a thick.-skulled person has been once made to believe l>e is agreaf tpaoj jtisso dilficult to get Ihe idea out of his headr Small Pox.?-Tho small pox ia racing to such an extent in Colqipbus, Ohio* that it i3 ipost probable the St tte Convention to> arpeud the Constitution, now in session there, will qfijourn to some other place.