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! THE CAROLINA SPARTAN. by cavis ft trimmer. Dnwtefc to Souli)tm Bigljts, politics, &q;ri culture, unit fftiscdlaviy, 2 per annum. I VOL. XIV. SPARTANBURG, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 96, 1857. NO 5. T1TE nAR.OT.TWA SPAUTAW ! ?v*. T ? * 1 BY CAVIS & TRIMM1EJR. t. 0. p. vernon, Aisooiate Editor. i " Frico Two Dollars pop annum lit advance, or at the ond of the your. Ifttot paid until after tile year expires *3.00. Payment Will be considered in advance if made within three months. No subscription taken for less than six months. ( Money may bo remitted through postmasters at our risk. Advertisements inserted at the usual rates, and contracts made on reasonable terms. i The Spartan oiroulates largely over this nnd / adjoining districts, and offers an admirable medium to oar friends to reach customers. Job work of all kinds promptly oxecutcd. Blanks, Law and Equity, continually on hand or primed to order. CAROLINA SPARTAN j THE THREE NUMBERS. ; The annals of the police of all countries , present the darkest pictures. Take any civilized government?and the greater the I civilization the greater the crime?examine j | its records, uol forgetting those of dreadful I acts which, though known to iho authorities, have escaped the punishment of hu- ^ man laws, read, and shudder. No one can long hold office which brings him face to ^ r face with crime, without coming to the t, painful conclusion, however unwillingly, that there is nothing possible that man?ay, w or woman either?will not do. If a pas- p ion be once permitted to take a linn hold of the humau mind, thero is no gulf, how- o ever deep, ioto which that passion's slave j may not bo dragged. It has been said of the police of France a that iu officers are better informed than those who sit in the confessional; for the guilty, whether of vice, baseness, or crime, do not tell their own story?which very j, few relale without adding, almost uncon ' nciously, some favorable coloring?but have j ft told for them by agents of every rank of . life, who afe on the watch, and seem to j have the receipt of fern-seed, and walk invisible. The French police was, and is, sel dom at fault. Under some of its chiefs it j. seemed omuiscient. The universal know- J ledgo and precision of the police at Paris, , under the lieutenancy of M. do Surtines, ^ Were exemplified by a story that made some j impression at the time. A provincial mag- t istiate of experience and talent, who was dining with the lieutenant, expressed his , doubts as to the efficiency of the system, j and declared his conviction that the machinery was far from being so complete as M. do Surtines hdidved it to ho. His host as- ' sured hiin that he was mistaken; but, warmed by the good wine, he roundly asserted | that he would be in the capital without the knowledge of M. de Surtines. The controversy ended by the guest backing his opiu(nn tiMili u n'n ...I.ml. \l I- i.1 - ---- - ^ x ku It n a^?;i, nuiCU i*l. UU OJUUIifb HC ? rep tod; and tho magistrate departed, saying, j( n- he took leave of his liost, that he was as ^ s .re of the louis which were staked, as if he { oad thera in his purse. "We shall see," j. said M. de Sartines. ( Tho magistrate left tho city soon afterwards, and remained fur some lime in the (] country. Ho then took every precaution, j disguised himself, and arrived alone, late at night, at an obscure hotel in the outskirts of Paris. After taking a slight refection (| he went to bed. Next morning, before he j rose, he received from M. de Sarlinos a din- y nor invitation for that day. ^ But though the guilty seldom escaped, j instances were not wanting of perpetrators j of the most atrocious crimes eluding tho v t grasp of the police to whom they were v sometimes, though very rarely, unknown, j till after they were beyond the reach of any j human tribunal. One of theso rare install- | ^ cos we shall now narrate. Iu the year 1807, awoiking shoemaker j ^ named Picaud, lived at Paris. On a Sunday, and dressed in his hest holiday suit, ' the young and very nearly handsomo bach- v elor presented himself to a small coffeehouse keeper, his equal in rank and age, but richer, and unfavorably known for his ^ envy of all who prospered around him. Matlhieu Loupian, like Picaud, was born j at Nismos, like him had come to try his fortune in the great city, aud had set up ^ his establishment near tire Place Saint Op v pertune, where ho had v?rv lie was a widower, and had two children? ^ somehow or other few Frenchmen have ' more?left to him by his deceased wife. ' Three of his neighbors and f'iends, all ri from the dejxirtement du Gurd, were with ^ him. I ^ "What's all this?" said tho master of the '* house. "Eh, Picauu. How fine you are; ; one would declare that you were going to a JftnC? treilkas11 "I an; ^oing to do better, my Loupian: I are going to bo ipanied." I 8| "And whom have you chosen to plant sl r the matrimonial appendages on you head?" > "j1 ,aaid one of the auditors, named Allut. "Not the second daughier of your moth- I e' er-jp-law, for in that family they do it so j *1 clumsily that yours hare broken through ' your hat." The rest looked, and beheld a cons.'dera- ? bio solution of the continuation of tbo fro.ot I1 of thecrowu of the bat of Allut. The laugh j l, was. loud and long, and with tho gay 6hoomaker. Truth wounds, and Allut did not laugh. I' 'poking apart," said Loupian, "who is 1 ft your intended, Ficaudl" tL "La de Vigouroux." 1 c; "What! Tire rich Margaret?" "Tho same." ai "But she has a hundred thousand francs," lo cried Loupian. se "I will pay her in love and happiness; tli and I invite you ail, gentlemen, to the mass, si which will be said at St. Leu, and to tho ol dance afterwards, which will take place' at lu the Bosquets de Venus, rue aux Ours." si The fopr friends could hardly mutter w their thanks. &o confounded wero they by ni the good fortune of their comrade. w "When are you to he married?" inquired at Loupian. e< "Next Tueeday." d "Tuesday ?" 7 w, ? vwuiik UJIUII JVU H!l. 1 mil gOltlg 1 II1 to the mayoralty, and thence to tho house in llit of M. le Curel" and away hurried Picaud. hones Those whom ho hnd loft looked after him, advati and then at each other. antry "Is he lucky, this droll?** good "Lie is a sorcerer." either "Such a beautiful, such a rich girl!" that t "To bo married to a cobbler!" ?tha "And Tuesday is to bo the marriage yearsday." marrii "Yes, throe days hence." by hit "I'll lay you a wager," said Loupian, erty, i .villi a black look, "that I will retard the of the etc." J os "Why, what will you do?" furlhe "Oh, a bit of sport." bo exj "What, pray?" inquir "A charming pleasantry. Tho comrnis- names aire is coming this way. Til tell him that said t< suspect Picaud of being an agent of tho young English: you understand? Upon this they gotten rill send for him, and interrogate him. lie "N? vill be in a fright, and for e:ght days at the ne east tho marriage must wait." tain A "Loupian," said Allut, "this is beyond a presen tike: it is a bad game. You don't know speak, ficaud; if he finds you out, he is capable of "I l evonging himself severely." was a "Bali! bah!" said the others; "one must "lit avc some amusement in tho carnival." native "As you please; but I warn you that I "To avo nothing to do with it: every one to his and b< uste." it was "Oli," replied Loupian, sharply, "I don't "Yo under at thy head ornaments: thou art a mos, f< npon." Nex "1 am an honest man?thou art an envi- by a t us one. I shall live peaceably?thou wilt rather ie wretchedly! Good night." From With this, Allut turned on his heel; and Itlione s soon as ho was gone tho trio encouraged it at tl ach other not to alandon so pleasant an an Ita lea; and Loupian, the inventor of the pro- for the ositiou, promised his friends to make them of tho nigh a ventre dchou tonne, Two hours af- went i erwards the commissary of police, before wcll-k iOupiau had let his tongue run, did his du- once i v like a vigilant officer. Out of the prat- come < lo of the cafelicr he composed a supeib ro- as con >ort in true commissary style, and handed in ouri t in tohis superior. Tho fatal nolo was ta difierii ten to the Due do Rovigo; it coincided with some ho revelations of the movements of J.a Yen- who \i lee. No doubt I'icaud was the go between Baldii telween the south and the west, lie must found >e a person of impoiinnce, and his assumed and, i lade only served as a mask to tho gentle Antoil nan of Languedoe. In short, in the night Chate; >etween Sunday and Monday, the unhappy otfenci 'icaud wu apprehended in his chamber with .1 nth buch mystery that no one saw him de- which >art, but t'lom that day all trace of him was gretlc ompletely lost, llis relations, his friends, "At ould not obtain any tidings of him, aud at ( bach el rrst ceased to inquire about him. ho cij ever 1 'Time rolls its ceaseless course;" 1814 whom rrives; tho Imperial Government falls; and was a rotti tho Castle of Ferrestrelle descends, caud.' bout tho 15th of April, a man, bowed by All udering and age stricken, more by despair regard Iran by lime. In seven years, one who "Vc :uew him ami looked upon him might say to All hat ho had lived half a century. Hut no | "H, no will know him; for ho does not reoog- j fellow iiso himself when, for the first time since and in is iucarceraliotr, he views himself in a look- of his ag-glass at the wretched innof Koneslrolle. "Ill This man, who iu his prison tvenl hv tire tested mine of Joseph Lucher, had served, more cannol ike a son than a servant, a rich Milanese ; Alii cclesiaslic, who, indignant at the conduct ucd ? f his relatives, who had abandoned him in 1 "As lis affliction, in tiro hope that it would soon < pied h io its work, and leave them in possession [ tip lii: f his great fortune, had trot trusted them would villi the credits which lie possessed in the arrest, lank of Hamburg, nor willr those which with t 0 had placed in the llank of Hngland. 1 in lh< loroover, he had disposed of tiro chief por j which ion of his domains to one of the great dig- i you tl: itaries of Italy, and the annual rent was ' reinrti ay Able to a hanker in AmslerJarn, who prison ?i... 1 - - - vunijjtu iv iraiisiim ine money to a l'icaui realthy prisoner. ' s;itid f Tl?ia noble Italian, who died on the 1th "lit f January, 1S14, had inado the pour Jo- Iv tho epli Lucher tho sole heir to about seven " \V liliion francs of property, besides impart- "found ag to him the secret of a hidden treasure me to f about twelve hundred thousand francs end w j diamonds, and of at least throe millions compii i specie, iu tho form of Milanese ducats, uie enilian florins, Spanish nieces of eight, that v 'tench louis, and Knglish guineas. honor Joseph Lucher, liberated at last, travelled either, spidly towards Turin, ami soon arrived at judge iilau. lie acted with caution and pru* tho ni ence, and at the end of a few days found this iinself iu possession of the treasure which revelal e had como to seek, with the addition of clared ntiquo gems and admirable cameos, all of Antoii i? highest value. noonci From Milan, Joseph Lucher wont to Ain- ty 8',! erdain, Hamburg, and London in succes- my be on, and during this journey collected wealth by tho illiciout for the colters of a king. Moreover, but 1 i uclier instructed by his master and ben- ceivinj factor with regard to the aocrcl springs of confuh leculation, knew so well how to dispose of regard is property that, alter resorving his din - , have u londs and a million, ho created an income p'?*? H f six bundled thousand francs, payable plrte t artly by the Hank of England, partly by to ?>b. 10 German Bank, tho liaukof France, and "if bi ,at of Italy. vault; This clone, ho turned his faco towards v?'C ' aris, whero ho arrived on the loth of Fob- ' lsm0 tary, 1815, eiglit years, day for day, after ccn<j? le disappearance of tho unfortunate I'i- loh' tud. I100 Joseph Lucher, on tho morning alter his 111 ,ny rrival at Paris, as lie was without any fol 1,1 ' 1 wing?witliout oven a valet?caused him- 1 ilf to ho taken to a maison de suntr. On P(!aes ; in return of NTanoIoon. I.ncli?r ?vna dtu Ghost ck, and so continued during the detention ' s,ored tho emperor in tho Islo of Elba. As ,nywM ng as Napoleon remained in France, the w'''ch ck man postponed his convalescence; but l>n,r10' hen the second Restoration .scorned defi- j ,no?d. itely to have consolidated the monarchy?' As hich appears to bo as impossible in France Baldir i a republic?nnd to have firmly establish-: die fin I Lonia XVIII, the Kabitut of the maison j size ? a sante quitted it, and boot his steps to the Uo ha nartier Saint-Opportune. I spoke or? lio heard of Ibe disappearance? fi > month cf February, 1807?of an n t young ahoctnakor, about to be most o itagcously married; but that a pltw- / of tlireo of his friends lmd marred his c fortune, and that tiro poor fellow had h fled or boon carried off. Finally, ti 10 one knew what had become of him p t his intended lamented him for two 8| ?and then, fatigued with weeping, p od the cifctier, Loupian, who, having i marriage added greatly to his prop- a low possessed on the Boulevards one 0 best frequented cafes in l'aris. v eph Lucher heard this story with no p r show of interest than what might s| lected from such a narrative; but he p cd, naturally enough, what were the t of those pleasant people who were h i have caused the misfortune of the n [shoemaker. His informants had for- H i the names of these persons. u jvcrtheless," added ouo of those whom ji iw comer interrogated, "there is a cer- n .ntoine Allut, who boasted in my co that ho knew those of whom you h f? mow a man named Allut in Italy: he y native of Nismes." w ) of whom wo aro talking is also a a of Nismes." h is Allut lent mo a hundred crowns, e< jgged mo to repay them, as soon as f\ convenient, to his cousin Antoine." V u can send the sum to him at Nis- u ir he has retired there." t< ;t morning a cknisc de pustc, preceded ourier, what paid triple guides, flew n than rolle<l on the road to Lyons. (\ Lyons, the carriage followed the |t i by ibe Marseilles road, an J quitted a, ?o bridgo of the llolv Ghost. I hero ( lian abbe descended from the carriage , fr ) first time since the commencement a journey, lie hired a small vehicle, o lown to Nistnes, and alighted at the noxvn Hotel du Luxemborg, and at | ;i nquired of the people what had he 1 ci >f Antoine Allut! This name, nearly n imon in that country as "Smith" is ! ? i, is there borne bv many families ; iijj in tank, fortune, and religion; and n, lime elapsed before the individual ras the object of the visit of the Abbe * ii was ascertained. At last the abbe |, his man, was formally introduced, j, after certain preliminaries, informed p no that, being imprisoned at the 0 au de RKuf, at Naples, for n political (1 e, he, the abbe, had become acquainted w in excellent companion, whose death, t| look place in 1811, he deeply to Si ll- . , litis lime," said the abbe, "lie was a (, or of some thirty years of age; and p >ired, still lamenting his country for j |, ost to hiin, but pardoning those of M he had just right to complain. IK* j native of Nistnos?his name was l'i- f, ut could not suppress a cry. The abbe v led Iiiin with an astonished look. e in knew, then, this Picaud J" said he 0( ut. J ; was one of my good friends. Poor sl ! and he died far from his country, ,, i misery i llut do you know the cause arrest f" ' Cl j did not know it himself, and lie at- c>, his ignorance with such oaths that I ? L doubt that ho knew it not." | C( Jt sighed heavily. The ubbe coiilin U i long as he lived, one sole idea oeeuis mind, lie would, lie said, give \ s hopes of heaven to any one who name the author or authors ot his u This fi >.ed idea insnired Piomid ! I i CI ho thought which found expression u 3 singular testamentary disposition he made. Hut tirst, 1 ought to tell Sc ml in tlio prison I'icaud had rendered jk kable services to an Englishman, a j er, as lie was, who at his death left :t 1 a diamond worth at least fifty thou jj iancs " i a > was luck)*," interrupted A Hut. ''Fif- ^ usand Francs! It is a fortune!" V( hen I'icaud," continued the abbe, i I himself on his death-bed, he caused w he summoned, and said to me?'My ill be tranquil, if you promise to ac- r) ish iny wishes. Will you promise '1 swear,' said I, 'to do so, persuaded C( oti will exact nothing contrary to | and religion.' 'Nothing contrary to u ' said lie: 'hear mo, and you will J for yourself. 1 never could discover c tmes of thoso who have plunged me |, place of torment; but 1 have had a IT .ion. A voice from heaven has de to me that one of my compatriots, S{ 10 Allot, of Nismes, knows who do p 011 me. (?o to him when your liber j rll be restored, and present him, on j;| half, with a diamond which 1 possess w beneficence of Sir Herbert Newton ; old one condition : it is, that on ro- j ? the diamond 'from you, ho will 3 to you the names of those whom 1 as my assassins. When ho shall M lamed them, you will return to Na H\ ml having inscribed their name* on a ri if lead, you inust place the plate in my d Here are four thousand sequins for |c trial in a church, and in a separate a here, too, are sixteen hundred se.juiiis J: ror tho expenses of your journey to w s?hI 1 this I possoss from the boned- iv c>f iny dear master, Sir ileiheil New- t| Touched by pity, 1 solemnly swore aj rule his wishes faithfully. He placed hands tho diamond and the money, ^ ed in peace. Prisoner though I was, V( cd his desire to bo fultilled lie ro Si it Naples, in tho church of the Holy | C( ; an I as soon as iny liberty was ro , |J( i<? me, I carno to Kranco to ac<juit ^ ' with fidelity of tho engagement into j, I had untered with your jioor com- |, L liere am I, and hero is the diu it bo uttered tho last words, tho Ahbo li waved his hand, and from his mid- ^ ger sparkled a solitaire whoso water, (| nd brilliancy announced its value. N d certainly not exaggerated when he D of this admirablo stone being worth | n fty thousand francs, for if sold in a goo* larkol it would havo brought at least Iron ighty to ninety thousand francs. An loin vllut contemplated the brilliant with th yes of n falcon ; a cold sweat stood upoi is brow ; his moutli was frightfully con meted ; and as ho made a gesture of rejec Ion, the shudder which agitated his bod, liowed what a combat between avarice an* rudence raged in his heart. At this moment bis wife entered, will visage that boro the unrnistakeable trace f recent and violent chagrin. She tra erred the chamber with rapidity, and stop ing short before licr husband, who wa .ill overwhelmed by the discourse of th lalian abbe? "My man," said she, "you bad better g> ide yourself; and I may ?s well never ahov iv fuco in the town again. Your broltie nd sister will crush us with the insolonc* f their fortune. Know that they havi ist received by the diligence a windfall o venly thousand francs." "Twenty thousand francs!" repeated he ushaud, in consternation; "and whence!" "It it quite a history. Your brother, ; ear ago, saved from drowning a I)atn< ho had come to fee the Curate Oe Kantzau t Avignon. The stranger, after lliankiiq ira, departed, and now this noble acknowl Igineot arrives all in the shape of beauti il lonis d'or. Won't they bo intolerable Von't they look down upon us and crusl s?your younger brother, toy younger sis ?r? (lb. I slioll cprinitilo ..r . - - ? ; J ?"? ?' tt'"31''And more especially, uiadame, at th lomont when monsieur, your husband, re jscs a legacy of fifty thousand francs a ast, which a dying fiiend has left him, dded the abbe, "What! docs ho refuse fifty thousant ancs?" cried tlio wife, with such a lool nd gesture as subdued or guilty husband uly can appreciate. 4\Sn, at least, it seems to me," said th Idie (juietlv; and he recommenced the re ital of the story which he had already t.dj ot without displaying the i'?g, which evertheless, ipiitled not his finder. It would have required a different char cter from that possessed tn Anloino A1 lu ) defend himself against the terrible a&saul diicli had attacked him. Knvious of others ke loo many small and little-minded poo le, and also like loo many great ones, tin rospcrity of his brother interned to him hi ulrage on his poverty. I lis wife itnmedi tely ran to fetch a neighboring jewelloi dio, having examined the stone, declare lat lie would givo for it -ixty thieo thou iiid seven hundred and forty-nine fianc leven centimes, provided .hat they wouh ;ke in deduction a charming fmne oriu loJucing an income of l<- > th n'sau l nin umlred and ninety (ranc*, and which, t< stile the affair, ho would put with li !iom at a valuation of fifty live thousam ancs. The man and his wife appeared to bo ah .ilutely crazy with joy; and Madame Allut specially, could not contain herself. Shi Otninitled a thousand extravagances, ant mild ij.it resist embracing the abbe, win ibinilled to tlie operation with ii- good j race as bo could command. As tor An >ine A hit, carried away bv the uiiexpect il lice ! of piospeiity, he at once ackin.wl Jged tiiat he knew and would declare lie auies required?not, however, without i jld fit of hesitation and a secret feeling o nror. Hut his wife was there?a', his die ttion the ahbe wrote the following names iKUYAlS L'll Yl'HAKD, Gl'lMIKM So LA III [ Mil 11KI Luiiman. The ring was now 11a11 < 1 < 1 lo Allut, and p<?u the terms proposed, hecame the prop rty of the jeweller, who settled the busitier port the spot; and four months afterward> the eternal despair of Allut and hi- wife >ld the gem to a Turkish merchant for ; nndted and two thousand franca. < >f all the malignant passions, rcvongi lone involves pleasurable sensations,-hoi t ved as they are. Knvy, anger, hatrc 1 nd tho rest, are all accompanied by pain at it has passed into a proverb that re enge is sweet. l>ifhjren<_o of price in the morenntih orld, e-pccially if it be sudden, often oc isions stiange clianges. One speculuto ses on tho ruin of another, lie who yes rday revelled in pomp and luxury bo mcs a pauper today. lie who i- uu now ri and despised one week?e-speeiaib i bubble-time?shines a millionaire in tin ext. In the case before us, the diil'crenci nisod a murder, and the ruin of Allut am is wife. Tho jeweller was found in hi itrdun, slabbed to tho heart; and when, or i-pieion arising, Allut and his wife wen night for, they were nowhere to be found ime wore on: the niurdeiers of the jewel r were never brought to justice, ami tin ist that was heard of Allut and his wif as that they wore living in wretchcdnes i Greece. | ro iik co\(M.i t?r:i> | A Mexican I(aiiomKrKit,?On board tin fexican steamer is a barometer of tho rnos tuple construction, but tho greatest necu icy. It consi-ts only of a long -trip ot ce ir, very thill, about two ami a half feel it ngth, about an inch wide, cut with tin rain, and set in a block, or foot. This ce :tr strip is backed, or lined, with one ?> liitu pine, cut across tho grain, and tin to are tightly glued together. To ben< ie*e when dry i- to snap litem, hut on tin [>proach of bad weather tho cedar enrh tor until tho top at limes tenches tin lottud. t his simple instrument is the in unlion of a Mexican guitar maker, am ich is its accuracy that it will indicate tin miing on of a "Norther full twenty foil; ours hoforo any other kind of baromcte nown on the coast. Had this been tin induction of Yniikee ingenuity it had beci alentcd long ago, ami a foituriu made In s inventor. \faint* Ii><n*i>r < All extensive planter who ha* recenth (Hnnncil a largo number of plantations u ie paiisli (.f St. Mary's, La., assures tin 0\v Orleans P?e? that the prospect of tin ext sugar crop is luagnitictnt, and \va over finer than at present. j From the New York Evening I'ust. ? Supreme Court of the United Slate \ ? The dangers apprehended from tlio orjj gatiic tendencies of tlio Supreme Court to j . engross tiro legislative power of the federal ^ ! government, which Jefferson foresaw and t j so often warned his countrymen against, are y no longer imaginary. They are upon us. " , The docisieus rendered by that body yes- J s terday, in the case of a negro who had ap- , pealed to it for assistance in asserting his j ' right to share the promises of the Declara- c s lion of Independence, has struck at the t very roots of the past legislative policy of 1 a this country in reference to slavery. It has s r changed the very bloo 1 of the Constitution, ? r I'toin which we derive our political exi-.l- (] 0 ence, and has given to our government a , a direction and a purpose its novel as it is bar- l f batons and humiliating. t In the first place, il litis annihilated, at a t r single blow, tlio citizenship of the entire v colored population of the country, and with t 1 it all laws and constitutional provisions of c a the different States for the protection of v , thoso rights. fl ; In the next phieo, it has stripped Con- ^ gress of a power to exclude slavery from h - the territories, which has been exercised by c ? every 1'resident of the United -States from ^ i Washington down to Pillirn re; and which | has had an effect in shaping the political and domestic institutions of more than half , 0 the territory of the United Stales. The or j i- dinance of 1787, with the passage or tie | t fence of which the names of the most emi- f " nent American statesmen have been imper- , isltably associated, is riot only pionounced ^ 1 unconstitutional, but the power to enact any v lv law which contemplates a rc-triction upon s s ; the right to buy, hold and sell slaves in out , f ! teriitories is distinctly denied. | t e Nor is this all. The doctrine which lias j | been recognised wherever the common law | I, prevails, since the days of Lord Manstleld, I | , | that when a slave is taken by bis master ; j into the jurisdiction of r State which pro- \ t - j Iiibits slavery, he is from that moment free, ' "] t is not only set aside, but tlio power is tie- 1 t I nied to the State of this Union to prohibit j j i...k>c>9 uiiugiiig siuves will)ui Uieir juiis , diction, provided they do not enter il with , e the intention of establishing a permanent a 1 residence there. f All of these positions aro now in the jn- j \ ; ridical histoir of tlie country; the law in , I ; reference to all <>f them was settled by a , i long line of judicial decisions by the high* y - est mbunals of the several Slates, and tin- } s I , til within the last twelve years was regard- J ? ? ed as much beyond the reach of con trover I N 0 1 sy as the right of the people of tlie United 1 t j [ States to a republican form of government. 8 > j If precedent, usage, public acquiescence i t 1 tould hallow any doctrines of constitution- I I a! interpretation, then were those doctrines j s hallowed which have been ruthlessly sub t , verted by the Supreme Court, i- It is with feelings of more than ordinary j 1 , solemnity that we record the decision, for v ,? its consequences are beyond the teach of f k human calculation. Wo are not so much 1 i - | concerned at the invasion of the laws and j, - ' constitution of the country, both of w hich a il accomplishes?f r the American people, f is we have no doubt, will take care of their s i rights in spite of the Supremo Court?as ' l: f we are. in being forced to the melancholy | |, conviction that the moral authority and! j : consequent usefulness of that tribunal un- ? , der its present organization, is soiiou-ly im- ! t. paired, if not destroyed. |; The time which is chosen for thisjuridi j s cal revolution?just after the adjournment | f, s | of that department of the government most | , injured by the decision, and at tin- emu I , incuccnient of ;i new administration, when r, i all the patronage of the nation can l>o used c to tliu best advantage in reconciling the people to its docilities?shows, when taken in connection with the doctrines them ,] , selve>, and the ccnstitulion u! the court, 0 ; , that a majoiily of its members have con- t sen ted to become puilics to a combination f', with lh? administration to transfer the po ? ^ litical control of litis government to the ) hands of the slave oligarchy, beyond the /, r possibility of a recovery by the free States of 1 j - their fair ?huit< <>f uitlueiice. So long as the subject was within the J - | range of Congressional action, so long the , i- voice of the people could be hoard, and their wishes Could impress the legislation of a the country. .To get the subject beyond} 1 the reach of these influences; to make every : s judicial tiibunal in the nation and every , i lawyer a swotn ally of slavery propagau a distu, it was only ueces-ary to secure the , co operation of the Supreme Coait, and j ihat lias been done. A conspiracy has a been entered into ol the most treasonable ( a character; the justices of the Supreme Court ( > and the leading members of the new ad ministration are parlies to it. One who rims may read the evidence of it in every ' revt laliou liotn the capital. iifcotiiso the moment this conviction J * ' takes possessi, n of the public imiid, there 1 i- an end of ti.e Supremo '\?url; (>>r a ju li !l cial tribunal, which i- not tooled in the * 1 confidence of the people, will soon citliei ^ * be disregarded as an authority or over- ; r turned. ' Which of those fates is in store for the ' court at Washington, wo do not caie now I ' to spivulato about -ptrihajH both: olio ' l :. i uhiit, However, i> perfectly certain? that I ' its ancient and proper authority with the 1 J people and willi t'otiTivNS is gone beyond 1 tecovory. I lie lu-.t objection l<> tli>? olec- 1 ' lion of the judges of this court by the peo- ' jili- is now removed. Its members have li r Ion/ 1> one hut an indiiloit-ut reputation foi I 1 learning un?l ability, but it has boon usual 1 i l> to concede to theni independence an.I in- j ' ' scnsibili y to (lie political influences which ' i swayed the other branches of the govern- , ' ntent. It now appears that they are but a 1 branch of the Executive, and liko the fa- 1 ; moun Lite de Justice of Franco before the i i revolution, merely assist in lending a ju i u diciai junction to tlie policy dictated by the t r 6 Executive or his adviseis from the othei end * 8 of tho capital. Such an alliance will not bo t permitted to continue. I c From the New Haven (C?>nn ) Register. Fi Constitutional Law l,'? The Supreme Court of the United States wjJel iave decided that the African race, whether lave or free, are not citizens of the United ^ n itales within the meaning of the Constu ion. It was decided the same way several (ju?8 ears ago, l>y the Superior Court of Con- jeVa lecticut, in the Prudence Crandall case, ^ he late Judge Daggett being then on the ?ench, and pronouncing the judgment of (jo|)s ho Court. So that this Connecticut law ^ ^ m-t now been adopted by the highest judi- ^ ial tiibunal of the country, as the constitu- ^ ional law of the United States, Mr. Marc?, h|'1|l|| lie late Secretary of Stale, came to the jm|U| atne conclusion, when applied to for pass *pi,js torts for a company of negro minstrels gcU|j ;oing abroad. He gave tbein certificates f their being inhabitants or residents of CQOjtJ lie United States, but not as citizens, in onj he constitutional sense of that term, lie jn_ ? Liok the same view as Judge Daggett had js a , akeu. Son;e of the political priesthood, rho undertake to make laws and constitu- yj ions for the whole country, through the .. olutnns of the N. Y. Independent, and |t| tber kindred prints, were very indignant . t Secretary Marcy's decision, and the Rev. slj(u( lr. Kulloch, of Boston, was particularly -j- rrj hocked at the ofllcial wickedness that . ^ ould so determine. The same reverend ;enlteman will no doubt send forth a fresh jy ulinination at the Supreme Court, for their lecision, whenever tho Jury that have him low in charge shall restore him to his pul>it. There are probably some others nearer j, mine, who will uot let the opportunity slip or wailing and gnashing their teeth over a C.1B1X< locision which does not recognise blacks as ? icing on the same footing-a* to citizenship . . villi tlio whites?though they have been \ c^ls 1 U(I1T) leeptng over the same law in Connecticut J = or tho last quarter of a century, without ?jl" ' iver dreaming of being disturbed by it. 8 a*e iii Mie same case, the Supreme Court a "" iave decide*] further?that Congress has 10 authority under the Constitution to leg P:ir*J slate on the subject of slavery in the Tern *>'*ye ories, either to establish it or exclude it. l0l,e) I his leaves each territorial community free jong' 0 determine that question for itself, when L forms its own Constitution, and becomes WHS 1 member of the family of Slates, united aul,n inder our constitutional system. It fully nul'1 ustains the course taken by Messrs. Toucey lrcfis md Ingersoll, in voting for the Nebraska PRrl3 vansas bill, and for which Senator Toucey ,U1SS vas hung in effigy, and both were villilied and to 1 ibused without stint l?y the abolition presses ind electioneerers. Will those who were ,n ,l! o abusive then, now turn upon the Su- ! irvme Court, and hang them in effigy too, en*j vith the venerable Chief Justice Taney at *01 heir head? Or will they, with Garrison tod his gang, denounce General Washing- ruon on and those jvho worked wi th him in j 8aQ!1 luilding up tho Constitution of the United l'vo itatesl V*e incline to think they wilt take <^rl ho latter course. anc* Ilenrv Ward Beecher, a year ago, said or n tho North Church of this city, that it ^ vas the Constitution itself t at was "the P1 atlier and fountain" of our troubles?and r. J lint it was to be blowu up like the fortresses l|on? it Seba?topol, scatteiing bombs and rocks J.lon aid broken fragments in all directions, llis [l. olloweis, with all their hatred to the Con- W'I1C illation, have more recently taken the ?"ate lame of the "Union parly," tlie better to 0 ou litlo their designs. Hut their Union" i uiiiciplos have held fellowship with Gnrri- w,t'' on, l'aiker and 1'hillips, and when an lectio*! has pressed hard this liio Come .? * icie to enlighten us. They have already owed the seeJ, aud are looking out for the R. . utuie harvest. * lhe 1 Siiame! Shame! Siiame!?The Huston ^ns 'iironicle, an uuihoiizud organ and expo lent of Massachusetts "UepuhlicHu"-isin, R0 , ointaeniiiig upon the Drcd Scott decision, fratl< told* the following outrageous language: i?l ?ci "Attorney-General Cushing and Chief ?*er notice 1'aiiey passed compliments to each j llier on the occasion ot the letireinent of > lie foiuier from ollice. It is a great mis- A urtline that the Supreme Court cannot he been ;ot rid of as easily as Cushing. ..1 major i- | the i / of its members ore as great scoundrels as plac* < is, and that is the woisl us well as the ! gene nii-t thing lh.il can he said of llieiu." h?r li 1 lie Boston Atlas (another Republican j "go* nulla!) employs epithets quite as revolt : istuij "? 11 ol the Judges as men whose . unde iame* aie in the same category as that of! cogn 1 niul<is the Traitor. \ whie Wo know ii lias I eon common hitherto ^U'1' u li the Abolitionists to call llio Constitu- ; VonM ion "an atiociotis bargain," an?J thy Union * 111 (self a "league with death and a covenant i c 1<?.a villi hell," but wo believe that thoy have I"11" lever tdl now ventured so far as to stigma ,,KO r the venerable Judges of the Supreme '",u' r'uurt great scoundrels!?JWie York Her- i4 ',,c M. " | The late decision, or rather the series of' lecisions, of the Supreme Court ol the Uni- 3.rilc ?d States in the l>ied Scott Case, is of more ,UcIl| it.d iu)|K)rthnce in reference to the settle j nent of the slavery question than any or ( dl the other acts and proceeding* on the J ,nac| object?legislative or judicial, Stale or ; j)o u Yd.-ral?since the organization of the Gene- w i( i. al Government. ' | a(j(ll| This Supreme and final hibunal in tlu> the i nterprelaiion of the constitution and the chin* aws, has decreed that negroes or men of whic he African race, whether bond or free, arc chini i<?t citizens of the United States by the publi 'Ydural Constitution; that the ordinance of, ohint < o i ?? ? Buperseiieu uy me Constitution', will ! lint tlio Missouri Compromise of 1821) was j famil ,n unconstitutional net; that slaveholders $12, lavo the light to carry their slaves into the dolla Vri itoric*; that the legal condition of a slave njer n a slave State is not affected by his tctnpora steel v sojourn in a free State; and that Congress chint ias no |K>wer over the question of slavery &tf\n< n a Teriitoiy, and cannot delegate any macl >ower over the subject to the Territorial stiicl legislatures. jnob The importanco and comprehensive bear- liflce ngs of these decisions cannot bo overes'.i-1 n vied?they cover h11 the disturbing paily in<] sectional issues u]>on tlio slavery con- j It roversy, and strike at the root of the mis-1 Hen bief in every case. I (in, t ; 1 rst, the supreme judicial tribunal of Union decides that, according to tba titulion, negroes ara not citizens, her free men or slaves. In other words, is the white man's Constitution, and egro as a citizen is absolutely ignored, consequence is, that ail the existing tilutions and laxs of tba free Statea ting negroes to the rights aftd pi ivilef ciii.enship are null and Void; for, id iuthoritatively declared mtanihg of the titulion, to be a citizen of a State is to citizen of tbe United States, inasmuch e Constitution expressly ordains (Art, 2.) that the "citizens of each Stats be entitled to all the privileges and unities of citizens in the several States." decision, therefore, settles the old dif> y between Maasachusct s and South lina concerning the fiee colored citizen * and seamen of the former, treated as dangerous free negroes upon enteral ts of the latter Stale. The decisioif ?ilist Massachusetts and iitr free colorlizens, and ip favor of South Carolina. ie decisions concerning the Federal ofico of 1787 and the Missouti Coniproof 1820, establish the full validity of Kansas-Nebraska bill, as the true conional policy in regard to slavery in lbs lories. Tbe decision concerning slaves ransitu through n free State, or the orary sojourn of a Southern slave in a state, settles the Leunnon case, and all like that of Mr. Wheeler, of North lina, whose slaves, at Philadelphia, so unceremoniously spirited away; and I such cases the supreme decree is dei of the slaveholder's constitutional s to his slave properly, it the most important of these supreme ions, in a political party view, is the inent that Congress has no jiower, and lelegate no power, over the question of ry in the Territories. This decision, at ?i^ ?.i? -i.: %J\KJ , oil I verb me nnu slavery platof tbe late great Northern Republican r into atoms. The policy of legislating ry out of Kansas and the other Terris of the Union l>y Congress will no' er avail thorn. Congress has no power e premises. That is settled. What in doubt is in doubt no longer. The ;rne law is expounded by the supreme nrity, and disobedience- is rebellion, oq and revolution. Tbe Republican bencefoilb uiusl choose betweeu subion and revolution?loyalty or?treason lie Government. The gall and bitterof the New York Tribune are betrayed i mad assertion that theso vital and fajecisions of our Supreme Judges are itled to just so much moral weight as Id be the judgment of a majority of 3 congregnled in any Washington l>ar1." But this madness of our Sevfard ofwill avail nothing. Tlieonly nlterndto tbe anti-slavery factions of tbe b, front tbe Garrison to (be Seward original Van Buren factions, is loyalty eason. submission or rebellion, nquestior.ablv this bombshell from tbe eiue Court, together with tbe inaugumd the Cabinet of the new administrawill at once reopen tbe slavery agitaiti all its length and breadth; but henceslavery in the Territories is an issue h must be dcciJed by the laws of clii, products, races, and the natural laws ir population and emigration; for Coni henceforth can have nothing to do the subject. Meantime tb? ?/t. stration, relieved o? the precedents of disiouri Compromise, the Wilinot Proand all other unconstitutional laws proceedings of the Government during ast fony years on the slavery question, its couise plainly nnd authoritatively ced out. In this respect Mr. Buchanparticularly fortunate, and his adminisjn will, we dare say, be singularly sallory and successful for the people are loyal to the Constitution ami the laws, A Family Sewing Machine. cheap faiuil) sewing machine lias long n desideratum fur the price at which Machines now in market are held has rd thein beyond the reach of families rally. To supply the want, a ten do)jachiue was introduced some months but unfoi lunally it infringed upon exij patents, and tbe scie has becu, as we rsland, stopped by injunction. Rc> i?ing the want of a sewing machine h shall be within the reach of every ly, Mr. 8. l'\ Pratt, of this cily, has inid and perfected a beautiful machine, h combines simplicity, strength and pne>s, and which, from a thorough eolation and tiial. we predict will come general use. Wo have one of theso tine", which has now been in operation ?t daily for three weeks, and although * been used by inexperienced bauds, it iiuos in perfect order, and does exeelwork. From the simplicity of its conlion, and tbe perfection of the move ,s, it is not liable to get out of repair, wo can sec no icason why it will not or year*. .ynother advantage of this lii.e is, that ordinary spool thread may Ned without rewinding. It will sew en, cotton or linen, and will embroider i'ably with the chain stitch. It in uluntion of the maker to te*t every inn ) i.tiuio it is sold upoj: linca clolb, ii is llie most severo test a sewing maj can he put to. We congratulate the ic upon the intiodtyciion of this ma\ having iho utmost coutidenco that it supply the want of a good ami cheap ly sewing machine. It will bo sold for $15 and $25. The twelve and fitieep r machine* work by hand. The for* has an iron, and the latter a brass an?l stand. The twenty five dollar ma* 3 is mounted upon a neat bronzed 1, and works with a treadle. The hand tines will sew about four bundrod ies per minute. The foot machine* caa ably be ran at the tate of twelve to in hundred stitches per minnte. [ Botton Journal. is said that Hon. James 11. Clay, sod of ry Clay.h u declined the mission to j&ey* endorvd hirs bv Piesidelit Uucharan,