From California. We subjoin a vaiiety of extracts which will be read" with interest. The S.iu Francisco Herald of the 4th May has a .table showing the-arrival and departure ui passengers at the port of San Francisco fur the month of April, in which it appears that the population has increased 5.531 within that month, of which 2450, or nearly one-half, were from China. The same paper says': We learn from an authentic'source, that the Chinese arriving on the 23d by the Clipper ship Challenge, as well as most others of the immense ' numbers now about to arrive, are under bonds to serve for limited period, and at a stipulated sum. These coolies are hired-in most cases by their own countrymen, or foreign, residents of - Qhina who will-reap the benefit of their cheap V. . labor, while our own citizens are debarred from the same privilege through the failure of the Senate to pass a law on the subject. Many thousands are now on their way to California, and IB?g?' they will be thrown into every branch of uidustry by their Chinese masters, to underbid AmeA rican labor, while American citizens have their bands tied, and cannot eugage their services with any prospect of a performance of their contracts. V | Expulsion of the Chinese.?From the cor. respondence of the Sacramento Union, we learn that the expulsion of the Chinese gold diggers P has commenced in the interior. The following is the letter: ./ Mormon Bar, North Fork, Am. River, ) Sunday, May 2d, 1852. \ Messrs. Editors: The excitement in regard to 'V ' the Chinese is rapidly extending along the North ;vFork 6f the American River, and daily expulsions are taking place. This morning some sixty ^ . Americans ranged down the river some four miles driving off two hundred, quietly removing the tents, strictly respecting their persons and property, except in one instance, when a Celestial seemed inclined to be "obstreperous," his Pr . cradle was thrown into the rive. Tee same com, ,, pany intend to proceed en masse to Horse Slioe Bar this afternoon, to concert measures with the miners, there to "start" some four hundred located at that place. A band of music is engaged, to accompany the expedition. The feeling is strong, and anything but evanescent, that self-protection as a first law of nature mast and shall be enforced. Would it not -be well for your city government to take some action on the subject, for you will certainly have V. V" - . . a flood of them from above and below you soon. Jgy^ ' There is but one opinion among the miners in - * regard to the proposed monopolies and importa Ition ofChinese into the mines, and nearly all of the eighty or ninety thousand American miners are fully determined to submit no longer to have the-public lands robbed of their only treasure. Yours, in haste, as I accompany the expedition down the river. The citizens of San Francisco have memorialized the Legislature in favor of the Chinese. The memorial says: That the emigration of the Chinese to this . country is productive of great profit to us, and we . "believe of great benefit to the mining and agricultural interests in our State; that they are a ""^peaceable, industrious and law obeying people; that many of them are merchants and citizens of respectable standing and considerable capital in California; that we believe, from what some of ugt kuow who have lived in China, that the reflex iSfetion of the srold mines of California, and the system of American free principles of goveminent and trade, witnessed by these people in & our midst, will be in the highest degree beneficial to the enlightening and liberalizing of Asia; p and particularly of the immense Empire of China, lying within thirty-five days distance from our shores, and nearly as large as our country, ' and containing over 250 millions of men of highly civilized habits, of Immense trade and commerce, and capable of indefinite extension and h-*"-' expansion. That this trade and commerce, by kindness, ' liberality and generous dealings, will in a few years, under the guidance of our energetic and - enterprising countrymen, pass through the golden gates of San Francisco, and the golden hills | of California, enriching this State to an extent unconceived now by our living citizens. That KjL if we check or damage this system, just now in its infancy, by establishing ignorant or hasty laws and restrictions, we may injure ourselves to * acgree omy reparaoie ny years 01 ceju?eie?s longings, of wearying desires, of that which we . had destroyed by our folly?so common in the & affaire of States and of men, "and well known in the exjerience of this California. From the San Francisco Herald, May 3. Important Hews from the Interior. Y?v One Hunpred and Fifty Indians Killed.? "Welearn of thekilling of nearly one hundred and fifty Indians by a company of citizens of Trinity county, under the command of Sheriff Dixon, recently. It was supposed that these were the Indians who murdered Mr. Anderson a short time since. The following is the account of the affair: uThe company that went in pursuit of the Indians returned to-day, having been absent just a week. They had little difficulty in following the trail. The foot prints of the cattle / * which the Indian^bad driven off with them, together with portions of clothing of the deceased; which they had found scattered aloDg the way, and were readily recognized by his son who was in the company, showed unmi-takeable signs of the path of those whom they were pursuing.? Bat it was necessary to proceed with great caution in order not to alarm the savages, and accordingly the party generally laid by during the ft at* qpndinrr snips alipad and travelling bv nidit. ~~v --o TI*"7 V O j On Thursday afternoon, tho 22d ult. the scouts discovered the rancheria in a small valley at the L_ basa of Ehrce SojjdhlPprk_uf | Trinity river. At midnight the company started" from their encampment, Capt. Dix-?n having divided his force into three parties, so as to come upon the Indians from different quarters, and surround them. When day broke all parties were itUbe desired position, and on the signal being rifle -X'>t,'i,'-?it.-. % : v : . i 'i.'& ?? . *& . ' V" - ' . V- . t ? . _ women, and child-en nil shared the same fate; 1 none wlo flio /-Ttfnl.iivifinnc r,f nrillMlilr.a avnWPfl V'tHJ |A.V^/IV IliV UVVKII (IVIV'IM VI |/l IUV<|-'*VW V ? by them when, on former aceasions, in general convention, they presented their candidates for the popular suffrage: ul. That the federal government is oneot limited powers, derived solely from the constitution and the grants of power shown therein ought to be strictly construed by all the departments and agents of government, and that it is i.iexpendient and dangerous to exercise doubtful constitutional powers. "2. That the constitution does not confer upon the general government the power to commence and carry 011 a general system of internal improvements. "3 That the constitution docs not confer authority upon the federal government, directly to assume the debts of the several States contracted for local internal improvements orother State purposes; nor would such assumption be just aud expedient. i.ii on . ?? 1 j ?1:.... r. 1.:.1 "* iiiat justice arm suuuu pwucj' iw um mo federal government to foster one branch of industry to the detriment of another or to cherish the interest of one portion to the injury of another portion of our common country; that every citizen, and every section of the country, has a right to demand and insist upon and equality of rights and privileges and complete and ample protection of persons and property from domestic violence or foreign aggressions. " 5. That it is the duty of every branch of the government to enforce and practice the most rigid economy in conducting our public affairs, and that no more revenue ought to be raised than is required to defray the necessary expenses of the gove rnment and for a gradual but certain extinction of the public debt. I "6. That Congress has no power to charter a national bank; that we believe such an instilu tion one of deadly hostility to the best interests of the country, dangerous to our republican institutions and liberties of the people, and calculated to place the business of the country within the control of a concentrated money power, and above the laws ami the will of the people; and the results of democratic legislation, in this and all other financial measures njion which issut*? have been made 1*'tween the two political pari ties of the country, have demonstrated, to can: did and practical men of all parties, their soundness, safety and utility in all business pursuits. "7. That the separation of the moneys of the government from banking institutions is indisjtensable fur the safely of the funds of the gov- , eminent and the rights of the people. 1 8". That the liberal principles embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independance, and sanctioned in the constitution, which makes < our the land of liberty and the asylum of the op pressed of every nation have ever U-cn cardinal principles in the domocradtic faith: and every attempt to abridge the privilege of becoming citi r.ens and the owners of soil among us ought to be resisted with the same spirit which swept i the alien and sedition laws from our statute 1 books. J "9 That Congress has no power under the 1 ; constitution to interfere with or control the do- ' mestic institutions of the several States, and that ' sueli states are the sole proper judges of every- 1 1 .1.:..^ ..... I ] IIIIJIJ? Jtiu ilil'll l/nu fiuriiio, iiv/u yiv1 hibited by the constitution; that all effort of the I abolitionists or others made to induce Congress ;Jt?i intefere with questions of slavery or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated ! to lead to the most alarming and dangerous con- < sequences; and that all such efforts have an inevitable the tndency to diminish the happiness of 1 the people and endanger the stability and pcrma ] nenoy of the Union,and ought not to be counte- 1 nanced by any friend of our political institutions. < Resolved, That the foregoing proposition cov- 1 ers and was intended to embrace the whole sub- < y ct of the slavery agitation in Congress; and I therefore the democratic party of the Union. stan- ] dint; on this national platform, will abide by i and adhere to the faithful execution of the acts i known as the compromise measures settled by < the last Congress, the act for returning fugitives j . ' * 1 4 "* V" from' service, or Ihb'or included; which act, being f lesigncd to carry out an ex}-re?ls provision of the i constitution, cannot with fidelity thcrdto b<> re- j periled or so chang d as to desuoy <>r iinj air its | llicacv. Resolved, That the democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it, the agitation ou the slavery question. uri-1 :ler whatever shape or color the attempt may b-made. 1 ' Resolved, Tliat the pruci a- ??F in - public ' lands ought to be sacredly applied to the national objects specified in the constitution ; and that we are opposed to any law fur the distribution of such proceeds among the States, as alike inexpedient iu policy and repugnant to the constitution. "Resolved, That we are decidedly opposed to ! taking from the President the qualified veto pow- j ei, by which he is enabled, under restrietions j. and responsibilities amply sufficient to guard the i public interest, to suspend the passage of a bill , whose merits cannot secure the approval of two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, until the judgement of the people can be obtained thereon, and which has saved the Anier ican people from the corrupt and tyrannical do- j lililiaildll (Jl UIC VJil 11IV Ul LUC Utliuu WMHI-'I) l?.u from a corrupting system of general internal improvements. "Bcxoloed, That the democratic party will faithfully abide by and uphold the principles laid j down in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions ; of 1708, and in the report of Mr. Madison to the ! Virginia legislature in 1790; that it adopts those ' principles as constituting one of the main foundations of its political creed, and is resolved to carry thorn out in their obvious meaning and import. 44Resolved, That the war with Mexico, upon all the principles of patriotism and the laws of nations, was a just and necessary war ou our part, in which every American citizen should have shown himself on the side of his country, and neither morally nor physically, by word or deed,have given 4aid and comfort to the enemy." Rcsolvr.d That, we r joicc at the restoration of friendlv relations with our sister Republic of Mexico, and earnestly desire for her all the blessings and prosperity which we enjoy under republican institutions; and we congratulate the American people upon the results"of that war, which have so manifestly jnstifiod the policy and conduct of the Democratic nartv, and insured to the | United States "indemnity for the. past, and se j curity for the future." Resolved, That in view of the condition of ; popular institutions in the Old World, a high , and sacred duty is devolved, with ine-va-V ' responsibility, u]ays: The Whig party of Texas may now be j considered as organized and ready for action, rhis party is in the minority in Texas, but that minority is not so small in numbers or weak in aersonal influence as the statements heretofore made upon this subject would lead one to believe. Hie late conventions at Houston and Tyler, di?- i close the whiggery of a good many gentlemen of i alent and great personal worth, who have hitli- i >rto remained silent in politics or were supposed :o be Democrats.' In their nominations, the party won; enabled to pass over nearly all tneir brmer chiefs, and yet present an electoral ticket i ind a list of delegates to the National Whig 1 Convention, composed of able and intelligent ' politicians. ' \ ? tL- : f jO < - ' ' . ' - : . t,si; TBE SEMWEEKLY JOURNAL." FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1852. THO. J. WARREN, Editor. ~ ' ' Our Market. Tbere i3 no change in the quotations for CottofQ? since our last?the market has however, been mofe,[ animated. We quote at 7 1-4 to 9 3-4. . | Charleston quotations 8 1-4 to 10 3-4.?95 bales, a fancy article, brought 12 cents. Counterfeit Detecting. We were informed by Mr Vane on Tuesday last, that he will bo in Camden next week, for the purpose of teaching his rules for detecting counterfeit and altered bank notes He is now iq Columbia where he has taught with success. He placed in our hands certificates from Col. Goodwyn and other gentlemen of that place, which are ample testimony to this fact. State Affairs. We have just soothed ourselves down from the effects of a political contest of deep interest, and as exciting perhaps, as any in which the State has been engaged. The late Convention, it seems, has put an end to tlio intestine war. Separate Secession now sleeps in tho "tomb of the Capulets," and Co-operation has been handed over to the convenience of Georgia and other Southern States. While we may suppose that \ those Statesaro leisurely "chewing the cud of bitter fancies," let us employ ourselves in good works at homo. Some one has well said that it is better to wear out than to rust out?and although we have been foiled in a cherislied political purpose, still we prefer to wear ourselves a little in smaller, though useful effortsi rather than be consumed by inglorious corrosion. There aro many matters of internal interest to which we may well turn our attention; for even the optimists anions: us will hardly suppose that we have reached the point of absolute perfection in all matters whatsoever. We intena, therefore, from time to time, to throw out certain hints with the hope that they will attract the attention of wiser heads than our own. The part that the State should act in promoting popular Education?what can bo done for the agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing interests among us,?are subjects most worthy the consideration of the press, of tho people, and the government of South Carolina. These open a Held in which the harvest is plentiful, but wherein the laborers, heretofore, have been too few. Perhaps political speculation (a prolific and easy theme) has too much excluded from the mind of the country matters of practical utility?each should receive due consideration, and we propose to devote our attention hereafter a little more equally to all. We would first invito tho attention of our readers to the subject of popular education. Our own has been recently poiuted to that subject bv an intelligent correspondent of tho "Laucastcr Ledger." Tho theme is very trite, but we are not ashamed to utter the stale truism that a right moral and intellectual culture of the people should be tho first object of those who would properly diieet tho affairs of a Republican Commonwealth. M U WCI lliai lllU seilllUlOUI. IS iW OUIIUUUU tu luu mu- I guuge in which it is expressed, and lias been repeated for thousands of years?from the days of Aristotle to the time of Calhoun. Wo doubt if any young aspirant, just stretching liis unfledged wing in the genial sunlight of popular favor. over delivered himself from the stump of the sweet pains of his virgin conception, with-" out announcing with dne solemnity of voice and gesture this time-honored but over neglected truth. Of courso we will hear it often agaiu, for it is a good chord to strike, and the heart of the pooplo will always vi brate a momentary response. But this is not what we want?we do not desire to have this subject brought forth again and again, to make merely a vain parade, or (lout islrng elfort barren of good fruit We desire that it shall be pressed homo deep into the minds of the sober, reflecting, wise men ?.f ?thc country, that they may revolve the matter seriously, and strike out some plan that will yield us all the benclits of which a good plan is capable. It seems evident that the Dresent free school system of tliis State is founded on an erroneous principle. It is manifest that it works out no result of benefits at all proportionate to the mcaus employed; nor are the means employed adequate to the general purpose. For 'ear, however, of wearying the patience of our readers by a further continuance of the subject at present, we will take a future occasion for the development of these points?hoping in the meantime that some friend of the country, and of the rising generation particularly, may give us the benefit of his thoughts, and so save the public from our lucubrations. Adjournment of Congress. On Monday last the Ilouse of Representatives passed a resolution to terminate the present session of Congress on the 16th of August. Ballotting Extraordinary. The Charleston Courier says that the number of ballottirigs at the lato Baltimore Convention, being 49, were unprecedented. In 184-1, there were only 9 On that occasion, to use tho words of the Richmond Whig, Mr. Van Buren was tho favorito of the majority; but to defeat him the two-thirds rule was adopted On tho first ballot, he received 151, Cass 81. On the second, Van Buren 127, Cass 95. On tho 7th ballot, Van Buren 99, Cass 123. On the 8th, Van Buren 104, Cass 114. Polk 44. This was tho first timo Polk's nainc was mentioned. The .Now York and Virginia delegations retired and consulted together?and on the next ballot, Mr. Polk was nominated. In 1848 there were only 4 ballots. On the 1st, Cass 125, Buchanan 55, Woodbury 53. On tho 4th, Cass 173, Woodbury 35, Buchanan 33. From two or three despatches, now in this city, received during tho Mexican War from Gen. Pierce, by i his superior officers, it would seein that the telegraph is in error in giving him the II?as in thorn the signature appears us Franklin Pierce, not F. II. Piorcc. Tho following is said to be Louis Napoleon's programme : 1.800 officers out of 12,000 of tho French artnv are to be displaced, for they are suspected; the French boundary is to be extended to the Rhine; England is to be kept quiot by tho possession of Egypt and the Nile; Piedmont nnd Switzerland are to go to Austria: Mecklenburg and Saxony to Prussia and Turkey in Europe, with Constantinople, to Russia. Gonernl | Vailant is said to have admitted to a brother officer that Belgium was to bo invaded forthwith. 1 The Montgomery Advortiser says that Bochsa, who \ leads for Mndamo Bishop, is "the own half-brother oi j Louis Philippe, late King of the French, being the eon | of Philippe Egalato." A shilling subscription is to be started, it is said^.lii;i| England to raiso a ^ fund to be pi aced at the service of % ; |j ~ Potatoes are said to bo so abundant and low in the _ jm New York market that they cannot bo sold for what - .! they cost at Buffalo. "S ^ Tlre Methodist General Conference, at Boston, liavo ' passed a resolution requesting the Bishops to send a . Relegate or delegates to the British General Conference ; * The cholera has appeared with great virulence among Jjpj the recruits intended for the army in New Mexico.?. :~jM There had been nine fatal cases and forty more wero - '-'M under treatment l The City Council of Baltimore has appropriated 000 for deepening its harbour. . < Sharks?A party of young gentlemen of tJfia citr^k^Mi started yesterday morning at .fire o'clock oat jl sharks catching excursion in the Harbor, and were fortunate ljP enough between that hour and noon to take .three off . . . Castle Pinckney, while feeding on the carcaaa of a, dead horse. One measured nine feet six inches;"another nine feet, and the third eight feet The same party captured a clam cracker of unusually large dimensions- X M Charleston Courier, of Wednesday. ;- * Death from Lightning.?During the thunder stbrm'^^S that raited our city and neighborhood on Monday af- jj ternoonlast, four negroes engaged in bringing a deet^m^^H of lumber through Wappo Cut, were struck by the . 3 electric fluid, two of whom were stunned, while the yyjjjg others were instantly killed by the severity of the shock 3 Latcrfrom Eorope. J A. Kill \ Alt VJf 1K1S UKKMAJXH. Vg Baltimore, June 1. J The U. S. Mail Steam Ship Hermann, has ard J rived at New-York from Southampton, port she left ou the 26th ult. The Markets.?In Liverpool Cotton'h, sing. On Monday, May 24, the transacBpo^S 7 comprised seven thousand bales, and on therVfol-^^M [' lowing day twenty thousand changed hands, at' > an eigth of a penny advance, in consequence of \ f a demand from speculators having sprung up. "' The Manchester trade had improved. -The funds';?! . J were firm. Corn was firm aud in some instancS^^H d aad advanced, flour was more active and ^teajasBl,, dy. Floating cargoes of Wheat andX3om were r . held higher. Messrs. Maxwell's Circular saya^L J that-Flour had advanced" 3d, Wheat Id. and ?. j| Corn Is. to Is. Gd. Coffee was active and firm and "25000 bags had been sold. Bengal Rice.W * | was worth 44s. There was no Carolina in-Mark-; ^ *., et. Sugar was steady and firm. * Great Britain.?Lord John Russel announced himself at a recent meeting as a candidat^i^| for the Representation of the City of London. Kossuth's mother and family had arrived don. It is said that they intend leaving shortly . I for America. 7 France and the allied Powers.?The Em-: pero."8 of Austria and Russia have drawn tip -a manifesto, whicli sets forth that the Northera^v.^.^i powers will resist any attempt that may be. made^vv* by Louis Napoleon to found an ImperikrODynsML-5$ ty, inasmuch as they recognize the Bonrbon faraily as the sole legitimate Dynasty, regarding'Na- : poleon as a temporary Rhler only. . They .do npt,; however, object to becoming elective Emne--'i ror, provided he will observe the existing treaties^: keep within the present territorial limits, explain the political doctrines of his government, .r^ji This coalition, it is said, has caused great cbagnn^.;, i^ to the Bonapartists. M. Heckolin, who accept ^ the mission from Napoleon to .-the Emperor of ; - -i Russia, had been denied an audience. : Portugal,?The Government is about.t^r^ vise the tariff on imports. Three Days Later. , New York, June 9.?The Royal Mail Steamr V er America arrived at Halifax yesterday frohiV Liverpool, whence she sailed on the 29th ult.? . She brings 88 passengers. The Baltic had ar>rived at Liverpool. ' * Cotton was active. The sales of the week amounted to 195,000 bales, of which specula-}?^ iji tors took 23,000, and exporters 16,000 bales. r!*li r? l.ottrM1 lin/1 m I nniuii vfoentk -.J ...V -J.. w VJW**! to one eighth penny. Fair Orleans 6 l-4. Union, that he had a scorn ineffable, withering and eternal, for those miserable demagogues, ^ north and south, who seek to foist themselves in- : 3 to power upon sectionalities. If he had the power he would damn them (politically) so low, '\.M that the thunder of the last resurrection could v $j| not rouse them. j He would hang, if he had the power, every |J man opposed to this Union. Hang them as ;^l high as Haman. The office ho would seek j would be high above that of President?that of " !*1 hangman io such traitors." Bravo, Mr. Jones ! These are fine, fair words, ^ truly ; and many a man will read thein over with : Hnnroval. But von are not the best of counsel- - i lore, oven if you would make, as you say,agreat ^ hangman. At this moment you are up to your H eyes in an intrigue with the friends of Gen. \ Scott in order to make yourself 'Vice President. Who are these friends? Look around you. . * Why, almost at your side in the Senate sits the - j northern Scott leader?the man who has declared ] that there is a 44 higher law" than the Constitu- ... - *5 tion?that man is Seward. Greely is for Scott * with all the ardor of his nature; so are Thad- 1 deus Stevens and Wra. F. Johnston?and so are ' nil men who act with them against the South. Do you know, sir, that but for these men there would have been no Secession party in the South, . and really no Abolition party of the North ? And yet you are now eager and willing to unite -; -'js with these men to put into the Presidency a man j like Gen. Scott who is the notorious choice of eve- .jj ry Northern whig agitator. Sir, when you begin J to^hang -the foes of the Union, you will find the ?J first\ictims among the friends ' ^ S*~PcniMvlvanian. 1 V