Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, February 11, 1851, Image 2
Corres.Tonilcnce ?f t'"-' Neflrs, .
Washington, Fob. 1, 1H51
In the Senate, a hill was repotted by ]
Rusk, glinting the right of way for a telegri
from the Mississippi ttf the Pacific ocean,
appears that a company is ready to estubl
?the lineaprovid^. tbey*bnn b% secured from
competition f4rX$ttfoin number of years.
Mr. Mj&oh iutl?Aioed a bi|l providiftg
the ftirth^ "phtisffiijicn of Virginia mild
land warrnutS^Svhich was referred.
nrmrtnnort n rf?anlntIoTl. !)V V
u 1?I ! * VUIIiyj|lluivuuvvv? % . ,
. .of arfleudnjenttq^tbe one heretofore offered
as to authorise ihe^presenting of swords to
sev^K Mnjpr^Jenerals and Brigadier Geuei
of the ariny who served in Mexico.
The Seoate then took up the resolutior
Mr. Vinson, instructing the Committee on 1
eign relations to inquire into the expedienc;
providing bv law, pursuant to the recomm
dation of President Polk, for the payment
the claim of certain Spaniards arising ou
the "Amistad" case.
Mr. Chase went into the particulars of
Amistad affair, aryj denied that the owr
have any just claiift for compensation aris
out of the condemnation of the vessel.
* Mr. Hale followed, on the same tide,
argued that the claims of the owners of the 1
sel were wholly groundless. He did not tli
the idea of makiug the Government an insu
I 111.- ?
io all engaged in the slave traae, couiu uo eu
tained. Besides, this question revived the
cussion on the subject of slavery, notwiihsta
ing the powerful niircotie administered by
compromise bills of last session. Senal
new declared, that agitators had T>een
down, and that the country was in peace,
such propositions as these would show tl
was a great mistake. Although a calm mi
appear on the surface, yet the high moral 1
iug of a large portion of the people against
existence of slavery still dwelt at the hot
fcith rifl'fts Btrength, if such resolutions
these were to be calJed up for consideratioi;
Mr. Clay said the resolution was one ot
quiry only. Ho was not at present favori
to the payment of these ckims. Ou the c
trarv, hi* opinions inclined the other way,
though his mind was not fully made up.
was not, however, surprised at the opposi
to the resolution. The fact was, the Sen!
who had just spoken and his friends, knew
all agitation on the subject of domestic slav
was at an end. They therefore seized u
every topic connected with foreign sla\
which they could in order to renew the aii
tion; and it was obvious that they did not c
about questions affecting the foreign si
trade unless they cdhld connect drune&tic si:
ry with thjn. He concluded bv express
his belief, ?hat by the compromise bills of
l^st session, the Senator and all his coadju
bad been destined to remain at the "botU
1V?C?VI
9 Mr. Hale rejoined, and said Mr. Cbij cf
apeak feelingly about people being at the "I
torn," having hod experience in the matter I;
self. He then declared it as bis firm opir
that any man who should present himself i
candidate for office, relying upon the autl
ship of the Compromise bills of last sess
such a man would hud himself in the posi
of the man mentioned in the Greek fable, \
being shipwrecked, instead of catching hoi
a plank to keep him from going to the !><>tt
seized and leaped overboard with the antSuch
a fate, he prophesied, was in reserve
the Senator from Kentucky.
-The Chair hero interfered, and said the
bate could not proceed, as the Comproi
bills were not before the Senate, lie n
therefore arrest the discussion of all mat
connected with them.
After an ineffectual motion to lay the res
tion on tho table, it was adopted?yeas
nays G.
The bill providing for the settlement of I
fornia laud titles, was discussed during the
mouider of the day.
In the House the bill to establish a lira
Mint at New York, and an Assavor's oliic
San Francisco, was again taken up in Conn
tee of the Whole. The debate on the re.-j
tive merits of New York ami Philadelphia
resumed and continued until tinee o\l<
when, in accordance witu a previous rcsolnl
the discussion ceased.
The question on the motion of .Mr.
Dyke, to locate the Mint in Jersey < ity.iusl
of at New York, was put and negatived.
On motion of Mr. Cable, ail amendment
adopted requiring tho gold coinage t.? cot
of a greater proportion of small coins I
largo 1'iira, aa nau uuuoi iw uvjuii uic t aav.
said the report of the last year would show
the coiuago of the year was $28,901),000 v
in double eagles, $2,GOO,000 in eagle.*,
only 81,500,000 in the smaller coin. The
ject of this, he contended, was to draw f
the people the circulation of gold coin, in oi
that it might not come into competition \
the shinplasters of the speculators and broh
Mr. Holmes moved to amend by provii
for a Branch Mint at Charleston, S. (.*.
said he would he candid enough to admit,
if it were not necessary to have a Mint at (
* fornia it was not necessary to have
at Charleston; but if it was necessary to hut
Mint at New York it was necessary to 1,
one at Charleston.
The Chair ruled the amendment out of
der. Mr. Holmes appealed, but the dccisio
the Chair was sustained.
The consideration of the bill will be rosui
to-morrow.
A short time after the adjournment of
House, Mr. K auffinan, one of the members fi
Texas, was taken suddenly ill while stain
at the door of his hotel, lie retired to his rc
and in five minutes was a corpse.
Yesterday evening the wind suddenly el
ged to the North, and we had a spell of weal
which would have done honor to CJreonl:
The frost has done irreparable mischief to
fruit trees, some kinds ol which the previ
unusually warm days had caused to hud.
The order requiring the Clerks ol the Ti
aury Department to work eight hours perd
has now been extended to other branches,
would bo all well enough, say the clerki
the Heads of Departments would set theoxs
pie, hut they think it hard that the privi
hoold be required to remain after tho Cenei
4
hare, quitted the field.- Were it not lor the J
wolves outside there would be an emcute; but i
Mr: an^ffiee-seekiug animal, with jaws extended |
iph just at the door, is a warning not to be despised.
It rfhe lectures at the Institute are
lish now so supremely dull, thttTrrre* empty benches
all have thgcinnjority, and last evening there was A:
pqjjqe officer in attendance to preserve order,
for Probably not one scientific man in twenty possesscs
tiie faculty of communicating his knowledge
in an acceptable manner." .
ray The larilT men are now generally among
, so themselves like bees in a strange hive. They
tiie blame Mr.; Strong for his silly movement the ]
rals other day in attempting to graft the subject
on the Deficiency ltill. They contend that more
> of ! votes could have been procured bad the question
'oi'- come up on its own merits.
yof | i?
ten- ; Vv ashingto.v, Feb. 2, 1851.
of.: In tiie Senate, after the presentation of peti^
?' I tioas, Mr. Hunter offered a resolution, which
! was adopted, directing the Finance Committee
1 j to report on the expediency of authorizing the
'.ers ' coinage of half dollar and quarter dollar pieces,
iin" | to he composed of gold and silver.
The dcatii of .Mr. Kauftinau being then an!U
j iiouuced by Mr. Husk, who paid an eloquent
! tribute to the deceased, the Senate, after the
1,11,1 adoption ol the customary resolutions, adjoururer'!
cd'
J;1'* i In the House, the sad tribute was paid bv
.Messrs. Howard and Morse.
, j It appears that the deceased did not die so
1110 j suddenly as was represented, but that he Jintors
jrCrei| <or nearly two hours from the time he
I)Ut was lirst attacked. After the vital spark had
'jUt lied his countenance looked so unlike death,
,lcre that, under the directions of his wife and sister
attempts to resuscitate him were continued the
tJC'" I whole night, the body remaining warm until a
l'ie i late hour this morning. His remains are placed
i in a metallic cottia, and after the funeral cereas
I monies on Monday, will, it is said, be conveyed
1*. ! to his native village in Pennsylvania.
,l1*1 Wise, the balloon man, has not succeeded in
l'''? j obtaining a report on bis memorial from the
!0,J" j Senate Committee. He says ho could throw
! from bis balloon a sulficient nuinber of destruc.
tivo u?issile3 as would destroy a large army in
',0:' I an hour. This would oeein to be the perfection
ltor | of the engines of death. The weapons which
['iat armed Achilles' and Hector's tierce wrath, were
er-v ! as school boys' woodon sabres in comparison
pon j wjt|j the inventions of these latter days. With
fry j tlieso 02i ial engines of Wise, we shall realize
>'*a" j something of what the mythological poets were
:;irtf j forced to describe only among the gods: giants
'ave i heaving mountains at the head of Jupiter, and
l.ve* I the tluinderer thowing down fierce bolls and
iinu i H.uvi/iO in lint tUli I'liCiilt I\i' fluid! liifiP.
*?? Htllllvo III IV.^11 ?-???( wnv. I V JU?I> \J I V1JV*9V IV?"
t',e Jul inventions is, that men are now staggered
lor? at tlio thought of war. In the sauio pro),u
portion that the apparatus of slaughter and
death has become, the more fearfully complete,
)U^ is the reluctance for conflict increased. War's
riot- terrqrs indirectly promote peace,
urn- The small coins are uow so scarce, thatonr
iio:i city postmaster has issued an oider requiring
:l all persons applying for letters to bring money
lior- whicb does not require ehatiging.
>o"> On Monday Theopbilus Fisk commences a
1,0,1 course of lectures on Electro-Biology. lie
lV^? was formerly a Unitarian minister.
A large number of free negroes, who have
mn* failed to give the required surety for good con',0!
duct, are now in jail. Our Mayor is deter'or
mined to carry out Lite law.
Judge McLean, of New York, is here entlt>*
, Jcavoiing to get the appointment of L". C>. Judge
in California.
,Ur!t It i> understood that I'entou is ready to
ters promise, that if elected to the Presidency, lm
will not be a candidate for a second term,
olu- Several of the laige iron manufacturers of
1J, Pennsylvania, v.lio have been here for some
j time urging an umeiidmeut of the tarili* law,
<a"* have at last gone home in despair.
! re" it is now generally conceded that the steami
er Atlantic will not lie heard Iroai.
ncli J
e.:,t| Washington, Feb. 5,1851.
l,l|L Among the petitions presented to tlie Senate
?ee- : w;is one by .Mr. Atchison, from Margaret
u:,s Drew, of Platte county. Missouri, asking inK*k,
doiiinitv for a fugitive slave. It appears that
ion, j j|Vr slave was in the employ of the I . S.
Quarter Master at Fort Leavenworth, and that
Van ii ...n I.;.. ......I;.. ,> ....a ..c?i o:
? i iiiiwii-ii in-? iav 4111vi iii.it vi uit* uiuui'ia
-'. ill i of tin* Fort, tlit? slave escaped.
After pome explanatory remarks Mr. Atchiwas
son moved tliat the petition he referred to the
' -i-t j Judiciary Committee. '
han ! Mr. Halo jumped up, ready for battle, and
"? ' declared that according to the usual practice
that; the petition ought to lie on the table^He ac?ere
cordingly made a motion to that effects'
and Alter further discus-ion, the petition was renli
. ferred to the Committee on Claims,
roni j .Messrs. Hale and W iulhrop then presented
rt'l*r numerous petitions, asking the repeal ol the
villi Fugitive .Slave Law, all of which weie forth rs.
witii laid on the table.
lin" 1 M r. I'm land presented the joint resolution ol
the Legislature of Arkansas, asking Congress
that I to take immediate steps lor the ucipiMtioii of
'ali- Cuba. It was, without debate, referred to the
one Committee on Foreign Relations. It is now
'e a considered certain that the acquisition of Cuba
lave j and Canada will by important elements in the
contest lor the next Presidency,
or- | .Mr. Holland pre.se.iteil a petition from the
" ol inhabitants of White County, Arkansas, to the
J effect that Samuel Washington, a relative of
110(1 I (leoiiro Washington uml wlin tiritciiitfinl L\
O # O ? vv*
tlie United States tho sworcl of his illustrious
the kiiisiiiau, and tlie cane of Franklin, is residing
rom in that country in destitute circumstances, and
ling asking a donation of public land for his relief.
>oin It was referred to the Committee on Public
Lands.
inn Mr. Portree presented a memorial from the
tlier j Constitutional Convention of Maryland, urging
tnd. the establishment of a line of steamers to conthe
vey free negroes to Africa,
ous The hill lor the appointment of appraisers
at large, as amended by the Committee on Fi ea
nance, was taken up, explained, and finally
lay, pavsed.
It The remainder of the day was devoted to
bit the consideration of the bill providing for the
im- adjustment of private land claims in California,
ites In the House, the bill providing for a Branch
r?'tla Miutat New York and another at .San Francis
co, together with an Assayed office, was
again taken np in Committee of the Whole*
j, In the course of the discussion on various
proposed amendments, Mr. Schenck contended
that we have already more Branch .Mints than
aie actually needed. Hence he wat opposed
to the increase. He said Great Britain and
'France had but one Mint each, and we needed
but one.
Mr. Iving declared that the Philadelphia
Mint with all its improvements, has shown it
self incapable of coining a sufficient amount of
pieces wbich the wants of the country require,
it was in fact not equal to one Jwlf the demand.
* '
Mr. Eriggs alluded to a statement made
; some time since; and in a letter from Mr. Pat|
tersou, the Director of the Mint at Philadel
phia, to the effect that within ten days after
! bullion leaves New York, it will hereafter be
i returned from Philadelphia to New York in
' the shape of coin. Now said Mr. Briggs, I
: pronounce this statement of the Director a de!
liberate falsehood, for the purpose ol prejuj
dicing the minds of members against the bill.
Mr. Baylv then offered a substitute lor the
whole bill, which was agreed to bv a vote of
101 to 92.
The substitute provides that the bars audioi
gots of gold from the Assayer's office in CaliI
forilia, under the Act of September, 1850,
j shall be receivable in California and Oregon,
! for the term of five years, in payment of all
I Government dues, at the value stamped tbere|
on.
The bill was then reported to the House,
when Mr. C'abel moved to lay it on the table.
This motion was negatived?yeas 70, nays
100. Pending the demand of the previou*
question, tho House in great uproar adjourned.
Washing rox, Feb. G, 1851.
I In the Senate, Mr. Dodge, of Wisconsin,
i npuai?iiti?il resolutions of the Legislature of
! Wisconsin, repealing so much of their rcsolu:
tiotis of March, 1849, as censured Mr. Walker,
, and instructed him to resign his seat.
It will be recollected that the crime of .Mr.
Walker, at that period, was a motion to amend
tiie Civil List bill, by providing for the extension
of the laws aud C onstitution of the llui|
ted States into California. For this he was
assailed by the Free Soil press of the country,
; and denounced in the most extravagant terms.
Messrs. Seward, Hamlin, and Chase tired the
! usual broadside of anti-fugitive slave petitions,
: hut they were disposed of in the usually sum
mary mode. *
| Mr. Borland present resolutions of the Ar;
kansas Legislature, asking the establishment
of a Military Academy in the South West
Mr. Rusk presented the memorial of Barna;
has Bates, the agent of the New York Postage
1 Reform Association, offering to carry the mails
at a much lower rate than at present proposed
i by the pending bill.
.Mr. Fuote, from the Committee on Foreign
Relations, to whom had been relerred various
i memorials asking that some plan may be devised
of settling national ilitferences instead of
war, reported a resolution setting forth that
in the judgment of the Senato it will be prop
; or aiut iK'Sinioie lor mo uovernment, wiienevj
er practicable, to secure in all its treaties with
other nations, a proviso, referring to the decision
of umpires ail future misunderstandings that
cannot be satisfactorily adjusted bv amicable
negotiations in the first instance before a resort
to hostilities shall lie had.
'1 h*rosolution lies over, and will not in all
probability be called up again during the present
session.
After the disposal of some unimportant matters,
a vigorous attempt was made by Mr. Turney
to take up the bill to amend the patent
1 i\vs, but without success. There is evidently
1 a disposition to allow the subject to sleep.
, The bill for the adjustment of California private
land claims was, in its amended form ordered
to be engrossed for a third reading.
| The remainder of the day was devoted to
; the consideration of the joint resolution ma|
king bounty land warrants assignable, its
passage appears to be extremely doubtful.
I In the House the Branch .Mint bill was again
1 t.ikeu by .Mr. Bayly, and adopted in Commit'
lee, was non-concurred in?Yeas 03, Nays
i 103.
The question then recurring on ordering
I the original bill to a third reading. Mr. Strong
j moved to lay it on the table. The motion pre
1 vailed?Yeas 107, Nays 02. So there was an
; end of the whole matter. The friends of the
Philadelphia Mint consider that they have a,
chieved a great victory over the New York
brethren, and are extremely elated.
J ho remainder ol the day was occupied by
the transaction of unimportant business relating
to the tcrritoiics.
Correspondence of the Charleston Mercury.
Washington, Feb. 9.
Gen. Sam Houston says here that be knows
South Carolina will submit. To some the
! scornful estimate of such a man may seem
! a matter of m uncut; but fresh as he is from that
bargain in which a part of his own State was
traded away to the North for money, and the
! power of the South in the Senate irrecoverably
lost by the admission of California, can hardly
be a good judge of what a brave man and high
minded people will do. He says also that bo
has the host chance for the Presidency; and in
this be may be right; for such a man to preside
over it. Ho aided to despoil the South,
and if she is weak enough to submit to the robbery,
why not finish by submitting to him al!
sof Houston's chances aro. however smlli
? , J
i darkened by his being a Democrat, at least in
; name. This party is doomed. North and South.
In Massachusetts it has coalesced with tho Ab|
olitionists, and in Now York it bus taken as its
candidate for the Senate, Mr. Dix, a man
, thoroughly identified with tho Van Buret) par.
ty. Between the Sewardite, Mr. Fish, and trie
Burenite, Mr. Dix, there is indeed no diftercnco
so far as the South is concerned. What sort of a
DtMiioi'.ia'iu party can be made out of such stuff?
On the other hand, at tho South the poor
Democrats who have boon shouting for the
Union and tho party, are, by these events, reduced
to the last extremity. Their Northern
allies, for whoso sake they dosertqd the cause of
their constituents, have now thrown them aside,
[ for the Freesoilers. Where can these South*
| ern Unionists take refuge ?
A Distinguished general officer from LouisiI
ana, who has seen some service, writes to a
i member of Congress here, that the only hope
! of the South is in South Carolina?and that if
I she secedes, and the General Government sha'l
attempt to coerco Jfefr,' thirty 'thousand men
'from the Southwest will ma;eh to her defence
and the defence of the rights o; the Smdi, at
their own charge and expense. You may rely
on thisj' although 1 am not at liberty to mention
i naniesi Every gallant spirit of the South is
watching the couise of your State with e iger
hope and interest. I give yon this as a set oft'
I to Gen.. Sam. Houston's derisive judgment of
j your future course.
Gen. Hamilton is here, still after the Texas
j Modus. Another Uenpral from your state is
i also here, al ter something of the same kind, it is
i said. He iscalledThompson?Waddy Thompj
son. I believe, a small man, and very brisk
about the lobbies of the Houso and Senate.
THE TEXAS DKBT.
A meeting of the creditors of Texas, holding
securities, for which duties on imports were
i specially pledged, as provided for in the reserI
vation of the live millions iu the late boundary
settlement, is invited by Gen. Hamilton to be
j held in Wa;hington City on the first Monday
! of February. The object is to ascertain from
i the Secretary and Treasury what class of cred
itors are entitled to the benefit, and what de|
scription of release he will require to be tilled
under the act.
j Some of the creditors of Texas have already
made a composition with the St ite, and receivj
ed new certificates, at the rate of seventy doli
lars for a hundred of the old debts These
! arc particularly requested to be present iu per|
son oriiy proxv.
Gen. Hamilton appears to think that the di.i
tv ot adjusting tiie amount of indebtedness of
Texas, against which the United States retainI
ed five millions of the sum appropriated in the
boundary bill, and of obtaining the release of
the creditors, is to bo done at the Treasury of
the United States. This may admit of a reai
sonable doubt, and Texas is not likely to con!
sent to that construction. It is true that the
| act directs that the stock for five millions skill
; not be issued until the creditors of the Sta'e
: holding bonds or other certificates of debt "for
which duties on imports wore specially pledged,"
"shall first tile in proper form at the Treasury
of the United fttaitos releases of all claims
against the United States on account ot such
bonds or certificates." But this does not iu
terms authorise the Treasury to settle with the
uieuiiuis, ui tu uutu any ucuuu 1.1 u?u uujuatI
ment ofthe debt. All that belongs to the State
| of Texas to do for herself; and when her prop:
erly constituted authorities have determined
| how much is due to each claimant, lie will rei
ceive it out of Texas funds which the United
| States, on that settlement, issues the stock as
' stipulated, taking a full release to pre-.out any
! liability hereaftoi! This seems to us the ra:
tional explanation. Any other would transfer
\ to the United States what has nowhere been
! conceded by Texas in terms, and is consistent
I with her light of action as a State, the power
of adjusting purely domestic questions of contract
and finance.?.V. (J. PL'ayune.
. ----The
Peoi'lk Ijethavku.? We have to an'
nounce tiiu humilitaing fact, that a majority of
I the Senate of North Carolina have vi.tually declared
that there is no suo'i thing as slate sovereignty,
and that our good old commonwealth
| instead of being an independent party to a g.eat
. league of States, nothing more than a poor piti
| ful dependency of a central government of unr
limited powers. In a word, the Senate have
decided, that North Carolina has surrendered
j (not delegated) to the Federal Government eerj
tain powers, which she has uo right, under any
i infraction of the compact, to resume! The
I people have always bion under the impression
UiiU sovereignty, iroin us very nature, is indivisible,
and that it it resides in the States, it cannot
possibly belong to the Federal Government,
but it seems these Senators aio wiser than the
i people. The right of secession is inseparable
! from State sovereignty; if we deny the former,
I the latter is but an empty name. It is "a right
! inestimable to lieemen, and formidable to''?the
| craven minions of power only.
But what adds to our mortification in an!
nouncing this result, is the fact, that it has been
brought about by the aid of Democrats (?)?
men professing to be disciples of JeffCrson, Madison
and the other fathers of the republican
school, and pretending to derive their political
creed from tho immortal resolutions of 'OS and
'99. Yes, by the aid of such men as Weldou
Edwards, Thomas Cameron, and George Bower
has this shame been put upon North Carolina.
Let the people know it, and let them visit
the recreants with tho execrations which their
treachery, deserves.
As for our Senator, Capt. Hoke, ho lias
fought a good tight; and we believe we hut utter
the sentiments of his constituents in greeting
him witli a hearty well done.?Lincoln Courier.
Southey's Advice to Renders.?Tho poet
Southev, in one of his letters, says:
" The advice I would give any one who is
disposed really to read lor the sake of knowledge,
is that he should have two or three books
in course of roadimr at the same time. He
will read a great deal more in that time, and
with much greater profit. All travels are
worth reading, as subsidiary to reading, and in
fact essential parts of it; old or r.ew it matteis
not?something is to be learned from all. And
the custom of making brief notes cf references
to every thing of interest or importance would
be exceedingly useful."
In the town of M., Vermont, there lives a
man who is well known for his gloomy disposition,
and most unlucky of mortals. Let what*
j ever may for entertaining a settled notion that
I lie is the happen to him, he considers the event
a disaster, and always-grumbles, "Just my
; eussed luck!" In spite of his hopelessness, the
man is a universalist in his religious belief; but
being a littlo shaken in his faith, one day, by
the arguments of a neighbor, ho exclaimed;
"Well, I don't much believo there is a hell, but
if there is one, it will be just my enssod luck to
get into it!"
THE CAMDEN JOURNAL, i
j THO. J. WARREN & O. A. PRICE, Editors. "|
| TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY II, 1851. "
Oar Market.
The mark* t of yesterday tanged from 9 3A % V
j to 12-1-8, (not strictly fine.) Com 95 a 100,
j Outs 021-2 to 75. ' ^
D" There will be a meeting of the Southern
Rights Association, for Kershaw, at the Court
House in Camden, on Wednesday, (to-morrow)
the 12th itist. John Cantey, Pres'L
Will bourn Carolina Act 7
This question is one difficult to he answered, .
after all that has been said, written, and doner *
I We are as far from a conclusion to-day, as to the fu!
ture ccursa our state will take, as we were many
i years ago, notwithstanding however, the jealousJ
iesthat already exist in other States to wards ours,
; and the probability that these jealousies might btf
' augmented, by South Carolina attempting seces*
; sion single handed and alone. \N e cannot see
! how?or by what means, our honor as a Slab c-nr
be maintained?if the trial is not made. If SouilF <
i Carolina is not absolutely pledged by.her legislature,
or the voice of her people in solemn forcer
! or in so inany words?there is an implied pledge
on our part?from what has heretofore been said
i and done in every part of the State, that final ac!
tion was held in view, at soms day or other, at
! least after all reasonable etTorts had been made to
j obtain co-operation; else, why talk so much about
' our giievnnces; form associations for ibe proteci
tion ot Southern Rights. If it wa3 never con!
teraplated to make the issue ourselves; if uo
i other Southern State would take the van?to our
| minds, there is but one course to be pursued, that
i course is to exhaust all the reatunable time, and
means, contemplated in the "watch and -waj^
policy, when the fact is fully ascertn?ftW,"that 6tfr
hopes are only ideal, which We fear will prove real.,
of obtaining co-operation, let us cut loose opr
moorings, pile on the canvass that our ship of
Slate may take her chance upon tlie tempestuous
ocean ol'adventure. What else can we do!
Speech making and Southern Rights movements
have brought us to this point. Men have bqen
made SecessionitU or Fire-eaUrs, through these
instrumentalities. We are unwilling to ihruitour
opinions upon the public as law and gospel-r-thoy
are nevertheless our*?and have the sanction lof
our best judgment and sober reflection; (etlhtnu
go tor all they are worth. We are Scce'siidtihbt
or Fire-etibrs, per se., and unhesitatingly of opui?
ion, that the Stale must act alone, if help cannot .
be obtained. We prefer the appellation pf./'ireeutrr
to Word aler, under any and every circuws.ance.
We think "nutstaupe qt ail hazards, and
to thu last extremity" better?than fhe adoption
of the "grand retrograde wnceuienl honorable?
?-i?" Wo call attention to the correspondence
of the Mercury in another column. Again we
say the destiny of the South is inike hands of
South Carolina, if we tamely and baselyyield,
the curses of a degenerated posterity Will be
heaped upon our heads; but if we nobly step
into the breach, we w in tor the Sooth, the libetty
she so much deserves. "We would ratlier .you
would not secede" remarked a distinguished Kentuckian
to us not long since, "but depend upon it,
if you will, you may rely upon Kentucky espojis*
ingyour cause." "Lead the way" said.oua'of
Mississippi's most gallant and distinguished sons
"and by our common, high, and holy rights, we
swear to stand by your side." Let us act tbdu as
those, to whom the destinies of earth's choicest
people are referred, and not as timid slaves, that
the tirst tear whips back into submission.
We have a certificate of scholarship, fee
either the Law, or Medical College, of Memphis,
Tennessee, which we will sell on very reasonable
errns. These Colleges are in a high state of
prosperity, and the chairs of different professorships
filled by able men. A young gentleman intending
to locate westward, would do well to
graduate there.
The Grave. ; ll ->j
It is a delightful thought, that no sorrow cau
go beyond the grave. They may pursue us to its
very verge, and extort from us then a sigh, but not
beyond, can its fading breath affect?and yet mankind
seem to dread the 'grave, and look upon it ^
with horror and fear. This jp, because of the
beyond. We never look with displeasure ppon
the gate which enters us into some delightful
city, whose opening unfolds to us the dazzling of
silver fbuntaiue, whose sportive jets, forma thousand
rainbows, as they leap in the golden sunlight?and
from whence, come the poothing strains
of gentle toned music, as if borne upon the fra?
grance of the world of flowers, which bloom
\viinui us wans , on, no: we can ntne portal ot
joy?and long to see it opened, that we may enter.
But on the gate of the gloomy dungeon, through
whose grated windows we hear the clanging of
j chains, and see peering the faces of the miserable,
j we look with shuddering fear. Thus it is *ith
the grave?it is the gate, to the gardens of the *
\ blest?or the dark entrance, to the darker beytnd. m
We make it that which it is to us?either, then ^
sorrow^flies affrighted back, as we are seized by a
more horrid phantom?or, retires before the light
of those pure spirits which light the tomb with
their love.
Creed and Conduct.?To make speculative
belief the rule absolute of conduct is not easy.
.in ?n l ? ...j ? tr .
I 1 DC "nOSIl reui'ia nnu u*ci(wwcra U?, xut ^
! even in defeat the intellect vindicates its so!
perioritv, and finds the best possible reasons
for its defeat. A Spanish priest, once exhort*
ing the soldiers to tight like lions, added, la the
ardor of enthusiasm: Reflect, my brethren, that
whosoever fulls to-day in battle, sups to night '
in Paradise. Thunders of applause followed
: the sentiment
The fight began, the faulty wavered, the
priest took to his a soldier s^{>cd
j him, reproachfully referred 'to the promised
I supper $ fttidlte; son, true, said
| the priest, *btrt T never eat suppers.'