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eM ceeflaltew swe From the South Carolinian. Democratic Republican Mecting. King's Mountain Celebration. An invitation from the Democratic Re publicans or Lincoln, N. Carolius, having been extended to the citizens of York, to join with them in celebrating the Anniver sary of the King's Mountain Battle, on the ground upon which it was fought, a Meetine of the citizens of York was con vened, ou the 7tb September, when Col. W. C. Beaty, was called to the Chair, and W. J. Clawson appointed Secretary. After a short, but appropriate address, from Col. 1. D. Witherspoon. explaining the object of the meeting, it was unani inously Resolved, That the citizens of York, meet the citizens of Lincoln, at the King's Mlountain Battle Ground, on the 7th of October next, to join in celebration with them, on that day. It was farther Resolved, That a committee of Five be appointed, to take into consideration the measures necessary to be adopted, for the celebration of the day: Whereupon, Col. J. A. Alston, Col. J. D. Witherspoou, G. W. Williams, Esq. James H. Postell. and James Kuykendal, Esq., were appointed that committee; who reported the follow ing Resolutions: 1. Resolved, That the meeting appoint thirteen persons. to join with the coin mittee of N. Carolina, to extend invita -tions. The following are the names of the per -sons appointed ~under this Resolution: Col.J. A. Alston. Col. J. D. Wit herspoon, G. W. Williams, Esq., J. Kuykendal, Esq-, J. Brian, Jr, W. P. Thomason, Dr. R. T. Allison, Dr. J. Chambers, E. H. Cunning. J. Boltan Smith, Esq.. F. H. Simril. Thomas Warren, and W. J. Clawson, Esq. Resolved, That a committee of Twen ty-six be appointed, to constitute a Com nittee of Arrangements, to unite with the committee of North Carolina. The following were the persons appoin trd. Capt. J. A. Black, Maj, E. Bird, J. 1-. .Postell, Esq., Hugh Allison, Esq., Dr. J. B. Hunter. Duncan M'Collum, A. Har din, Esq. Richard Pressley. Col. J. Dun lay, Joho, II. Barry, Dr. S. J. Shrewsbu ry, Jas. Moore, (J. L.) Col. J. S. Sit greaves, A. S. Williamson, Maj. A. S. Iltutchinson, M, G. Simril, Esq,, J. H. Adams. Dr. Wm. Moore. Col. James M, Love, Capt. Jacob Starnes, Col. Jas, M. Harris, and 3aj, S. H. Dinkins. 3. Resolved, That the Committee of Arrangetneuss meet at the Battle Ground af King's Mountain, on the 28th of Sep tember, for the purpose of meeting the committee orNorth Carolina, and making suitable arrangements. 4. Resolved, That a committee of Three, be appointed, as a Committee of Correspondence, to inform the citizens of Lincoln, of the above resolutions, and to communicate with them in relation to the celebration. The fol.iwing are the persons appointed under this Rcwtouion:-S. D. Barrou.E-q. Dr. John H. Williams, and Dr. Alexau der Moore. 5. Resolved, further. That the proceed ings of the meeting be published in the South-Carolinian, with a request to the dilferent Democratic Republienn papers in the State of South and North Carolina, to publish the same. W. C. BEATTY, Chairman. W. 3. CrAWSON. Secretary. Yorkville Sept. 12, 1840. From the Newo York Evening Post One of the Evening papers remarks tht tnone of the democratic journals have ieeplicd to Mr. Clay's attack upon Mr Ed ward Livingston. We have no doubt that t he silence of others is ascribable to the samec reasons as our own. We stood aghast at the atrocity of the nttaick. Is nothing sacred from this ap p.ailing frenzy of party spirit? Can not the dead-not even the illustrious dead cepose secure from partisan malevolence? The whole speech of Mr. Clay seemed to uts unholy; his profane invocation of the .Mtmighty; his prodigious falsehoods seem vd to us all or a piece with this attack upon one or the greatest and best men that the country has produced. W~e shrank from the whole suoject. Another reasou caused oursilence. We thoutght a reply titterly uncalled for. We coul not believe for a moment that any on~e wvas so profoundly ignoranit, so wholly :uinformned of the past as to suppose that M r. Clay spoke in good faith, and that Mr. Livingston was really a defaulter. Per haps itn this we wore wrong; perhaps evemts have crowded on each other so thickly as to djim the recollection of this now some wihat remote period. What then are thte eiirnmatances? A defaulter wve take to be. oine who applies to his owit use goi ern ment futnds received by him on trust for otherI purposes. This was never charged, tucrer surmnised never hinted of Mr. Liv img-o~nt. It was always known that the ,h-ficititt his accottnts was occasioned by the negliaence or dishonesty of others for whonm Ito was, if legally, by no means siuorally responsible. What followed? ~Why he assigned his property to pay the debts; left New York and left it poor, but tteitded by the respect and affection of huis llow citizens-went to New Orleans, devoted himself to his profession, made a fortutne, and paid this debt by the sacrifice ofa large amonut of real estate. Hlisstu dies in the higher nlud truly scientific prin ciplcs oif his professiotn, made him a Eu rujpean ropuitationi, and after many years hid elaplsed, lie came again into the ser viec of the Federal government, with the tl :'iest unaimfous appirobation of the cotun trv -went abroad onily to assert the rights r'he: nation in lie cotnest wvith France, anud thus ended his toilsome and useful ca re :r. .'ial it is this tman of lahorious habits de~voted to scientific studies, indliff'erent to ph-a;:a:re, careless of accumulation, whom M1r. C lay presents as a defaulter and whom Ih b an atrocious calumtny associates in ihe -.ame paragraph with one of the most re< !Jess andh desperate speculators of the Do such charges need denial? Is there no sutch thing as country left. Is there .. .-'aino~n f~me no' ths li ving, _ n mem.. ry of the dead in whIch we can take pride as Americans? around which as a united country we can rally to honor and pro tect it? All the facts to which we have thus hastily referred will, of course, much more fully appear in the statement which, as the Globe stated, is now preparing. For our selves, we have but one word more. It may be safely said of Mr. Clay, that he has uttered the most false and malignant libel to which even this contest pregnant in such things has given birth. Long may he wear his honors. THE REAsoN Wur.-We have heard some Bank advocates ask:-Why should the Banks make money scarce at one time, and plenty at another? Why should they desire to keep things in an unsteady and fluctuating condition, so that property is high to-day. and worth little or nothing to morrow? The Banks. say they, do not deal in stocks or property, so as to profit by its fluctuations in value. Well, grant ing that the Banks do not, although some of them do, there is a certain set called Stockholders, and there are such honora ble worthies as Presidents and Directors, who deal at times in peculations when the opportunity is aflirded by their own "fi nancial transactions;" and these are the gentry who profit. But the following par agraph throws some light on the how and wherefore of the Banks making money scarce and plenty. Voltaire, the French Philosopher, gives the manner of his getting rich in this way, without much troibleor labor. We are not so fortunate in having - a frienl" to tell us of "coming events": "1 have a frietid,' said he, "who is a Director in the Bank of France, who writes to me when they are going to make mo ney plenty, and make Stock rise, and then I give orders to my broker to sell; and he writes to me when they are going to make money scarce, and Stocks fall, and then I write to my broker to buy; and thus, at a hundred leagues from Paris, and with out moving from my chair, I make mo ney."-Salisberry Carolinian. In a table published in a late Messen ger, Mr. Van Btgen isallowed seven States in November next, viz: New Hampshire, Maine, Alabama, Illinois, Missouri Ar kansas and South Carolina,-47 votes; and 3 doubtful viz: Tennessee, Pennsyl vania and Mississippi-49! This is full as liberal as we could have expect from the Messenger-it is liberaler! Only a few weeks ago, the Messenger published a table by Han. Mr. Talmatige of N. Y. who proclaimed that he had great and un surpassable facilities for acquiring infor mation and opport unies for judtint of the result, wherein he only gave Mr Van Bu ren three States! He even apologised for giving him those three, as only one of them was certain. and thought that ex tremely doubtful! So even according to the Messenger's authority, Mr. Van Buren is on rising ground. From almost nothing, a few weeks ago, he has got seven States certain! If he keeps on gaining at this rate. ie will have twents certain, by the first Monday in Noveinter! whi1:h is as manty as V- via,;- rur tlam.-lacon Tele graph. Accepted Testimony.-As the Federal party have accepted the testimony of Col. Richard M. Johnson as unimpeachable. let them take the following along with the rest of his evidence. In his speech at Chillicothe, Ohio, lie said. "lHe had been acquainte-d with Martin Van Buren for twenty-eight years, and that for the last twenty years he had been on terms of the greatest intimacy-and it ;ave him pleasure to state that in the whtole of his polit ical connections he never knew one mnote upright in Principle or of purer morals, and very few possessing ta ent of a higher otder than Murmin Van Bu en. No stronger advocate of the war policy was to be found in 1809, and no abier'defender of it in 1S12, than Martin Van Bur-en. lHe spoke of what he knew and what he felt to he true, and of which he entertained not the least doubt." We need not go far, or go back, for roof of the pregnant truth of one of the :bartzes anainst the Harrison party in Mr. eDuifie's letter to the Greenville meet ing. The last tmail bring us th~e particu ars of the great Whlig celebration at Bos otn, which was composed of delegates from 17 States. No less thatn NINF. of the ban iers paraded in their procession, bore such mottoes as the following: "aVE DEMAND A PROTECTIVE T ARi IFF."-Chrleston Mercury. A THrd gofor the Swigs.-At the dlem cratic meeug in Wheeling on 27th ul timno, while Mr. Allen wvas speaking he marked that while Col. Croghian was he r-ically defending Fort St.ephenson against vastly sup~erior numbhers, Gen. Harrison was lying in safety andI idleness eight miles distat.. This umave great dissatis faction to the Federal bullies andI black guards in attendamnce. Mr. A. was dec nouted as a liar and a scotnndrel, andi loud calls were made upon Col. Johnsoni to give his version of the transaction. Trhe Col. stated that his friend Allen was in deed mistaken in what he had said: that insteadl of 8, Gen. Harrison was at least 12 miles from the scene of action!!! In fifteen minutes the whigs had every one sneaked off. Trmperance in Ireland-The following anecdote is related as illustrative of the progress of the Temperance reform of Ireland One day in the streets of Cork, a man of the name of Barry, a corn dealer, on his way to the Saving's Bank, wtas met by a tavern keeper named Murphy; the latter said to him, "Why do yon not come to see me as often as you tused?" To this the other answered," I cannot do any such thingv now, as Father Mathew has desired me to keep nut ofthetway of temptation.'' "I am sorry to see you looking so very badly," said the tutvern keeper, "why your quiite yellowv." "Whiy."said Barry, "if my face be yellow, so is my pockets too, thank God." and lie pulled out of his pocket four sovereigns, wihich lie wvas go tng to lay up in the Savings' Batnk. Not less than four hundred new b~ooks have been opened in the Cork Savings' bank Nom te Sasanas Oorgian Spt. 12. Faom FLoRIDA.-By the steam packet Foiester, Capt, Wray, we have received from our Jacksonville correspondent the Advocate of Tuesday last, and the St Au gustine News of the 4th. Weextract from these papers particu lars of Indian intelligence heretofore noti ced, and other transactions not heretofore transpired. JACKsONVILLE, Sept. S-Inlian--On Sunday, the 30th, the Express Rider be tween Pilatka and Firt King, was shot in the rist, when about 8 miles from the for mer place. There were five Indians. A scout was sent in pursuit, but the trail leading towards the Oclawha, became indistinct and the scout returned. On Monday 31st, a aick soldier, under the escort often men, was being conveyed from Fort Taver to Micanopy, and were fired upon by the Indians. Three of the escort were killed upon the spot; the rest. with the invalled, escaped unhurt. The sick man; during the conflict discharged his musket at an Indian who came to the back part of the wagon. which wounded him severly. They burned the wagon and one mule. The Indians where in considerable force; On the afternoon of Wednesday. the 2d. Hillary Parsons, a young man of about 18, was shot by a party of Indians, about seven miles from Black Creek, on the Newnanville Road. Upon the first fire of the Indians. he was perforated by five ball&. He had been hunting, in company with his step-rather, a Mr. Tucker, and re Itrning, when their dogs ran towards a branch and commenced a furious barking. Parsons went to ascertain the cause, when the Indians, numbering about -1.5, rose from their concealment, and fire upon him. After shooting him, they mangled his body in a horrid manner. Tucker escaped. ST. Auc UsTI NE, Sept. 4.-A private of .l Dragoons, who was taken by the In dians sotme time since, when the corn fields were destroyed, escaped, and haa returned to the post at Fort Reed. He was one of the guard left with the horses; his compan ion being killed, and himself tied to a tree, after being a prisoner seven days, to be shot. Their guns missed for several times, when the party was alarmed by the near opproach of Lietenant Lawton, 2d Dra goons, on a scout. The ludians fleeing, left him bound, and after somedifficulty, he succeeded in getting free from his cords.Fur fourteen days he had been wonderingabout, and his mind is said to be dcstroyed, as well as the suff'ering endured bave reduced him into a mere skeleton. We learn that he states that there was a mulato and a white man with the Indians. On Sunday, the 22d uit., a small party f mechanics left the depot at Pilatka, in a sail boat. On returning, they met with a heavy head wvind, and having no oars on board, they fell down to Post No. 10, an abandoned for the purpose of following the river's course home. The distance being twenty-two miles, and very circuit ,us, they struck an old trail leadjng for Black Creek. This they abandoned and were lost. After wandering about for five days without fiod, they found th. 9'ek to No. 10. where, in an eiiFusi state they hailed the steamboat'Cincinnati, which boat conveyed them to Pilatka. They saw a large party of Indians, and ivere about to give themselves up to their :,nerosity. One objected and they returned is above stated. A few instances of this kind will serve as lessons of experieuce to hose ,tnacquainted with the woods in an mnemy's country. Pilatka is healthy. The Depot is in ra id progress, under the superi ntendance of r. F. llunt, an efficient and intelligent fficer. FORT Hor~xrrs, Sept. 5, 1810. Sir-The express has~ just arrived from he west, and says that Capt. Beall. 2d Dragonna. has taken three young warriors prisoneirs, fifteen miles N. W. of Fort Dinch-every little helps. Excuse haste, as I write while the orses are changing. The Greenville Mountaineer of the 18th nit, says: "Ott Thursday night of last veck the Store of J. B. WVallace & Co. n the upper part of this District, was de troyed biy fire, supposedl to be the work >f an incendiary. The loss to Mir. Wal ace is very heavy-between two and three housand dollars worth of goods, and all is books of accounts,amtounting toea great. ~r sutm. WVe understand that Mr. Wal ace had a small portion ($1500) insured. "As a matter of importance to Mir. Wal ace, we take this occasiun to say, that he s very desirous for those persons indebted o his Store to call anid settle their ac rounts, by note or otherwise, immediately, whilst they mnay remember witht some ac uracy what is owing by them. We are mre this ap~peal will not be in vain to all rinest and fair djealers. "Mr. Wall-aee olTers a reward of 8100 or the detection of the incendiary." Te.ras Crops.-An Austin paper of 12th ut. says or Cotton: -'Of the prospects of he present crop of Cotton I can speak very favora'ly. Few of our farmners, however, have embarked very extensively in its culture, owing to the great influx of emigrants, which creates a corresponding demattd for corn. The export of this sea son will probably not exceed 750 bales from Jackson county. The corn erops5 were also extremely promising, and it was supposed prices would not exceed 2~5 to 37Ac. per bushel. MOBILE, Sept. 6. Couton Crop.-We learn by a letter from Wetumpka, which baa kindly been shown to us, that the prospects of the crop in that section oIf country, trading wvith that place, are much better than those we have received from other parts of the State. "The Platnters." says the letter, "have comma'enced picking, and are doing fair ly.' WVe have no doubt that when the accounts are generally received, we shall Gand the apparent contradiction in the cur rent rumors in regard to the extetnt of the coming crop, reconciled. by the diffecrence in the nature of the soil in thme variouts sc tions. The late rains being generally as advantageous upon sandy lands as disas rons in 'he Prairies and Canebrakes. The Corn crop appears to be abtundant avoi-vkhra-Register. Prom the N. V. Herudd, Sept. 13. TWO DAYS LATER FROM ENGLANI] Attempted Revolution in France-Captur of Louis Napoleon-Departure of It French A mbasador from Fngland. By the arrival of the packet ship Eng land, Capt. Waite, we have received Lon -don papers to the 7th of August, and Liv erpoul to the 8th of August inclusive. The only important news is, that of7 mail and unsuccessful attempt to revolu lionize France by Prince Louis Napoleon He hired an English steamer and landei at Bologne with 50 soldiers, mostly stal officers. They were all taken, young Na poleon included. M. Guizot, the French Ambassador has lefl England. It is said by some tha he will return; but others who from thei position are likely to be well informed or the subject, say that M. Guizot will no return to London immediately, and Rd< that the King of the French have had au interview with the Dnc de Broglie, whici it is conjectured is preparatory to the de parture of the latter on a special mission tc Great Britain. The tone of the articles in French pa. pers on the alleg'ed treaty of the four pow. ers which they contain is, with the excep tion of one published in the "Miessager,' much more mild, and infinitely less vitu perative, than those in which'they indulg ed during the preceeding ten days. Some flutter took place in the Englisl funds on the arrival of Louis Napoleon', adventure and its result; but they soon ral liel and resumed a stebdy tone, FOUR DAYS LATER FROM ENGLAND Louis Napoleon in Prison.-By the ar rival of the packet ship Quebec, Capt. He. bard, we have received files of Londot papers to 11th of August inclusive. Louis Napoleon is in prison. The in tentions of Louis Napoleon were known ro. several days to the French Government atid preparations were made to recciv4 him at Calais. Boulogne, and Dieppe, a! it was uncertain at which of the three pla ces his Imperial Majesty was to effee a landing. No doubt the French polici was at work, and people were sent over t persuade him that a large party was pre pared to declare in his favor, as the pos session of his person relieves Louis Philij ofone great source of confuion and om barrassment at this moment. His inten lions were also known to the journals it his interest at Paris, as one of them, re markable for its devotion to the name o Napoleon, a few days since informed it! readers that Lord Palmnerston visited anc passed two htours with Prince Louis a Carlton Gardens, and this paragraph wa inserted with the evident purpose of ma king it be believed that the English gov ernmeut was patronizing LouisBonaparte antd so the hint was taken, but we gladli perceive that it made no impression on th< French public, and one of the papers o Saturday gives it the coup de grace, h asserting that the French cabinet receive( the first information of youtng Louis's ma( project from our ministry. . Baron de Bourguency was acting as charge d'affaires for the French govern ment, in London. Our City.-The cheerful sound of Yo heauc-,jo again salutes our cars. The beautiful packets are arriving frorr the North full of merchandise, while tha monument of Savannah's patriotism-th Central Rail Road-contributes material ly to forward their cargoes to the enterior Our river also is high, which we could noi say last year, at this season. Health toc co'nfers its blessings on the city, while the country, in many instancies, we reeret tn state, is more or less visited with dlisease. We already begin to antticipate the grasp of friendly recognition with those of out valued citizena whto have quit us for a sea. son, and in a few, very few weeks. the zeal for politics will vield to the claitms el social life, and all will again be "merry as a marriage bell." In mentioning the Rail Road, we would state that we learn the receipts for fteight of goods forwarded upd the cotuntry have been one third more the last tmonth than the corresponditng month of last year, antd have so continued up to this titme. Georgian. Weo learn from A bbeville that WV. W. Stark. Esq. President of thme Hatnbura Bank, who was nominatetd at the Hatrri~ son meeting in that district to tan againsi the Hion. P. W. Pickens for Congress, ad. dressed thte people at the Court flouse otr Sale day, and declined the honor. D. L. Wardlawv and A. Burt E'qs. alse deliveredl addresses on the same day. The administrationt party who had tec candidates in the fieltd; have eff'ected an ar rangemnent by which five are withdrawn so that there is now just a full ticket or each side. There is no doubt of the result The political missonaries, Messers Preston and Thompsotn, were to have ad dressetd the people of Abbeville at the muster ground of the Saluda regiment or Tuesday last. A dinner was to be pre pared by the Harrison ment, but the can ditdates on other side were not invited. Discussion would not be allowed. We learn further, from that district, thal the citizens propose to furnish a public din tier to their distingished representative it Congress, on Wednestlay the 23d inst. al Greenwood.-Pendleton !lessenger. A letter to the Postmaster of ibis city (says the Baltimore American) from ar agent of the Post Ottice Department, datet Columbus, Ohio, September 10th, 1840 states that the indivitdual who robbed thi United States Mail, cast of Springfield Othio on the night of the 10th of Aarch last has been arrested, and six thousand dot hars of thme money recovered Charles Bos terick,the driver of the mtail stage, turns ou to be a robber. The Crops.--rom all quarters wve havi news of injury to cotton. The ritts atm froshet did sieriouts datn,ago, and the worrr attd caterpillarare now at work in all di rections. Letters from the wes are fre quent infortming us of sweeping elrect front theta-and the probability is that much less crop than utsual will be the re sult.-If so, there mtay lhe a prospect o better prices for the ttext year. The Corn crops are good generall: throughout out state--and the wheat croi htas turned out better than expected ('aro~inn PLantecr. Commeications= SUNNERHILL, 19th Sept. 1840. Mr. Editor, In your list of Candidates of the 17th inst. I notice my namu as a Candidate for Congress. This mistake I prenume, is founded on the fuct of uy having been nominated a Candidate, by the anti-Van Buren party of Abkeville and Edgefield Districts. In the address which I had the honor to make on last sale-day at Abbe. ville Court House, I stated to my political friends, that I was compelled to decline the nomination. My neighbors all know that I am not a Candidate. Please in your next number, to state that I have declined the nomination. Very respectfully, WV. W. STARKE. Mr. Editor, I perceive by the list of the names of the Can didates for the Legislature in this District, that there are two gentlemen of the same name N. L. Griffin, Esq., and Dr. R. C, Griffin. and it may not be improper to call the attention of the Voters and Managers of the Election to the necessity of discriminating in the tickets be. tweene the natnes of these Candidates otherwise their votes might be thrown away. A VOTER. To the Editor of the Edgefeld Adrertiser. Sta:-In a late number of your paper. I read with surprize the fullowing article taken from the Alabama press. -Rebuke ofthe Abolitionists-Tbe Bap tist Churches at Fellowship in Wilcox, and Carlowville. in Dallashave withdrawn from all connexion or intercourse, with the American Baptist Missionary Society, ou account of the circulation of Abolition papers by that body. The resolutions of the Churches are justly severe upon the fa natical wretches, who would deluge our country in blood, to accomplish their mad schemes." The writer of the above has fallen into a mistake, which I ask leave to correct by the liollowiug quotation from the proceed ings of one of those churches, (which are in substance the proceedings of both) as published in the Recorder and] Watchman. --A meeting or metnbers ofthe Fellowship Baptist Church, Wilcox County, Ala., together with a number of the brethren from neighboring Churches and some gen tlemen of the vicinity, was, this day, held at the Fello%%shipi Church, to take into consideration -An address to the Southern Baptists." issued by the "American Bap tist Ati-Slavery Convention." holding its session in New York, April, 1840. "The address above alluded to, was read. and a number of speeches delivered ex pressing our sincere disapprobaiion of the sentitents contained therein. After which, Elder Jesse Hartwell introduced and ad vocated the following PREAMBLE AND REsoLUTION: "Whereas a certain paper called "The Chrisiain Reflector Extra," has been for warded to many among us, as Pastors of ..i..~.e r..i.::- r---r -annaina% senti mieuts abhorrent to our views, and certain threats against us as hdders of slaves. We feel that it is our duty to express our views on this suhject. We think ourselves coimpelled, the rather, to speak, because, the President of the Convention, issuing said "Address." is one of the Vice Presi deuts of the American Baptist Board of Foreign Missions. The sentiments con tained in said "Address" are such as to present insuperall obstacles to further co operation in the foreign missionary depart mentC. "Resolved 2r1. That we recommend to our brethren of the South to adopt meas ures for opening a channel hy which our cheerful benefactions may he carried to the perishting heathetn, that they may receive the word of life." It appears from these proceedings, thait onte of the Vice Presidents of thte Baptist Board of Foreign Missions (not of the IAmerican Baiptist tlissioaary Society) d id preside in the meeting of the American Haptist Anti Slavery Convcntion and did sign the address to the Southerns Baptists, the viewsand threats of which constitute the only alleged grotund of the withdrawmnent of these Churches from further co-operation in the Foreign Missionary Department. It is true that Rev. Elon Galusha. a Vice President of the Baptist Board of Forign Mission did do as is stated above. But he d id not so act as Vice President of the Board of Missions. About the time of the meeting of that Anti-Slavery Conven - tion in New York, the Board of Misasions was in nession there also. Yet, as to any thitng, that I have seen or heard, Elon G~ilusha was the ouly member of that Board, found in that Convention. 1t was any honor and privilege to be a membher of the Baptism Conventint in 1814, which orgatnized the Baptist Trien nial Missonary Convention for the United States, and to he a member also of the Board for the transaction of its butsiness. Anad I have the htonor yet to belontg to both these Bodies With the proceedings of these Bodies, I have been intimately ac quainted thronighout the whtole period of their existecelC. And I now affirm, that neither the Csonventiota, tnor the Board has at any time written, printed, circulated or given countenance to, any Abolition pub lications whatever. 1 trust, therefore, Mr. Editor, that the Iinaccuracy of the article copied intto your paper from the Alabama Press, its made evident. and the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions is relieved of the odious and un just charge of circulating A bolition papers. W. B. JoHNsoN. -Edgeflehd C. HI S. C. Sept. 18410. The papers. which have copied the a have article of the Alhabama Press, antd the Alabama Press itself, is requested to pub lishted the above remarks ou it, .Ma, EmrroR:--The Edgefield Baptist . Association held its recent anniversary at SHardy's Meeting House itt this District. SW. B. Johnson wvaq elected, Modleratort .John Hewit Clerk, and R. G. Mays Treas r ure. T1he wvhole numbter of the Churches. (37) was recpresented. Thte weather was fine, thte Congregations large,the preaching good, atnd the deliberations of the Body - harmnonious. To the followving corres nneing lttcr. ndr rcsnlutinn of the As=n ciation. I request ybti to give publicity W your columus. Respectfully W. B. JOHNSson. The Edgfield Baptist Association, To Sister Corresponding Asosciations, Sendetl Christian Salution. BLOVyD iETuIEM-. suiject of very grave importance now forces itself upon the attention ofSoutheru Bapsists, demanding the full exercise of that wisdom, which coneth from above, and which is )rofitable to direct. We refer tothe course, har n Body of Baptists at the North, with whom we have been lou associated in the general ef:>rts of benevolence, have recent ly taken. It is ktionn to you. brethren, that an Anti-Slavery Convention was held inNew York in April last, styled $-The American Baptist Anti-Slavery Conven. tion," from which an Addrcss to Southern Baptists was issued, signed by the Rev. E. Galusha, the President of the meeting, whoisone ofthe V. Presidentsofthe,Bap tist Board of Foreign Miission, In nhich Address, we, at the South, are warned of the heinous guilt of holding slaves, and urged to purge ourselves or it, by emanci pating them. if, however, wi do not take the warning, and continue to hold our slaves, we are informed by the Convention, that our people shall be excluded from their communion tables, and our Ministers from their pulpits. It is to be presumed, that, what our Bibles have not taught us to do, the threats of our brethren at the North will assuredly fail to accomplish, and therefore the exclusion will follow as a matier of course. If there existed no general concert or ac .ion between these brethren and us, this high handed measure would be painful. mortifying, deeply distressing. But, when it is known that, for more than twenty years, the Northern and Southern Baptists have been united in the grand Missicnary en terprise, and that God's blessing has been most manifestly shed down.upon our uni ted efforts, such a Measure is appalling, and most sincerely to be deplored. What the result will he as to fartherconnexion be tween the Northern and Southern Baptists generally. in the grand schemes of M11ission arv, Bible, and Tract effiris is known to Him only, who "sees the end from the be gining." Some Churches of our Denomination 19 Alabama have already declared, that an insuperable barrier is raised, by the course above mentioned, to their farther co-ope ration in the Foreien Missionary Depart inent, with their Northern brethren, and have advised all their brethren at the South to seek a different channel for the trans mission of their benevolent contributions to the heathen. If this course shall be generally adopted, we are at once a dis severed people. But before this shall he adopted, let us ponder well upon its prop: eiy. It is true, that the President of the Ao ti-Slavery Convention and signer of the Address, is one of the Vice Presidents, of the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions, bur he acted in his individual character, and not as the Representative or exponent of the Board of Missions or Convention. Now ai the Baptist General Missionary Convention will assemble at Baltimore naxt April, would it not be more prudent and more in accordance with the spirit bf the Gospel, to wait until that Body shall assemble, and know whether it will sustain the views and principles or the Address or not? If that Body shall disavow those principles and views, though an individ val officer maintain them, why should we separate, and seek a new channel for our contributions to the heathen? If they shall sustain them, our course ofaction wil be clear and unavoidable. We must sepa rate, and form a new Missionary Body. Permit us. then, brethren respect fully to suggest, that no action be had on this subject before April next: that the South ern Delegation to the missionary Conven tion be then full, and that they take such steps, as they may deem proper for ob taining an expression of the sentiments of :hat Boady on this waiter, and on their re tnt n, inform their constitnents ofthe result, that they tmay then act, as the nature of of the case shall require. The representation of our churches has beetn full. But the greater part of them complain of coldntess and sterility. Our deliberations have been harmonious, the preaching good, and the weather most fa vorable. We remain, respectfully yours in Gospel Botnds. Whereas a Body of Northern Bap tists, forming the American Baptist Anti Slavery Convenition, in the city of New York in A pril last, did issue an Address, signed by Rev. Elon Galusha, President of the meeting, who is one of the Vice Presidents of the Baptist Board of For sian Missiotns, w arning the Southern Bap tists of the sin of holding slaves, and of the duty of emancipating them, and threa tening their brethren at the South with exclusiion from their communjion tables and their pulpits, if they should not take lhe admonition and set their slave', free, Resolued, Thtat our Delegates to the Baptist General Missionary Convention he instructed to obtain from that Body at its next meeting, an expression of its appro bation or disapprobation of the views and sentiments contained in that A ddress. To the end, that if that Body shall approve of of the views and threats contained in that Address, the Southern Baptists may take measures for forming a separate Mission - Wr od. I. B. .Jotssoz', Moderator JoaN HEWIT, Clerk. For the Advertiser. A SONG. Respectfolly dedicated to the deluded wor shippers of the invincible Hero. Air-Jim Broren. 0!I am a free nigger, tanies be to Arter Tappia, And to "de ole Ace" wvoi like. in "log eabbin,"' Good-by butckrow-mnan, as de fly tote de spider, For I am sot free, jist to drink hard cider. Tipy Tip, Tipy Tip. I'll vote for "de Gineral" wot hilem in"logecalbin" An wheni we gits"de bank" wvi Ill be a grabbin; Den ininy will be plenty ind our pockets be de wider, An ebry body will be flush, wvid muny and hard cider. "De Gineral" is a brave man, in his papersyou wvill find, But when the ought to fit, wvi den he did "e sign." Being all in de' sarvice lie thot lie wood retire, To drink "lhard cider" in "log cabin" by do ire. Tipy Tip, Tiny Tin.