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"We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Libeitiei,. and If it aanst fal, w wilPeiali ailidst the Ruin" LU E .grt o. C. e, 18%. ..IU I .X . . . . - - EDGEFJELJI ADVERTISER. BY W. F. DURISOE, PROPRIETOR. NE I TE R 41S. Two DOLLARs and Fimr CENTS, per annum, ir paid in advance $3 if not paid within sis months from the date of subscription, and g4 if not paid betore the expiration of the vear. All subscriptions will be continued, unless otherwise' ordered before the expira. tion-of the year; but no paper will be discon ued until all arrearages are paid. unless at the -option of the Publisher. Any person procuring five responsible Sub scribers, shall receive the paper for one year, gratis. ADVERTISNMENTS conspicuously inserted at 75 cents per square, (12 lies, or less,) for the first.insertion, and 374 for each continuance. Those published monthly. or gnarterly. will be charged $1 per square. \dvertisenents not having the number of insertions marked on them, will be continued until ordered out, and charged accordingly. All communications, post paid, will be p-ompi ly and strictly attended to. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. ( Correspandence of the Charleston Patriot.1 WASHINGToN, Jan. 31. The Senate did not sit io-day, having again adjourned from Thursday to Mon day. In the House a hill was reported by Mr. Saunders., from the Judiciary Committee to establish a uniform Naturalizationt Law. The 1st section provides that every alien desirous of becoming a citizen. shall de clare his intention on oath, in a court of record; said declaration to be accompan ied by. a written statement, on oath, sta ting the particular place of the birth, of such applicnt. the time of the ar-rival and the State in which he had resided since his arrival. The 2nd section provides that any alien being a free white person, n ho shall have resided in the U. S. after he has mrade his declaration, and who shall have resid.ed at least five years witiii the limits (f the U. S. preceding the time of his application. nay be admitted as a citizen. The 3d section provides, that any alien being a miner, under the age of21, who shall resided within the limits of the U. S. two years next precedibn Hs arrival, at the age of twenty-one. and who slail have continued to reside therein. ti the time he may make applica-ion to he admitted a citizepq "fer_ iT . e. 1 r years within the limits of the U. S., melu diig t-he two years of hi- minoritly, he ad m1nitted as a Citizen. The 4th * Section provides. that %n hen any alien' Ito shall have complied with the specified conditionstmay die belore he is actually uatu)ralized, abc widow anil children of Such alien, i then dwelling in the U. S. slall he considered as a ciizen of the U. S. and srill he entitled to all the privileges ofsuch on nakitig ranuncia tion and oaths. And the children of all such persons as may he naturalized and become citizens, being under the age of2t1 ,at the time (if their parents being so natu ralized, and admitted to lhe rights ofa cit izet, shall if dwellin- in theiJ. S. be con sidered as citizen..-And children who have beeb., ori may be horn out of the lin its of the U. S...if any free white citizet thereof. temporarily abroad lir any pur pose of business or travel. without renun ciation of his citizenship or aillegice tn the U. S shall be deemed to be a nativc citizen of the U. S. The 7th section provides that any per son vho shall by fraud; attempt to procure his certificate of nattiralization, shall be punished by a flue not exceeding $1000. and imaprisoniient not more than six months. A resniation was adopted declaring that the Gregon debate shall ense to morrow at two o'clock. Thi. was I believe intdu <:ed by a notice by the editor of the "National .inotelligenicer" that he should not publish the speeches. The consideration of'tlie hill was then resomued inUommtittee of th- Whole After speecties from several member-., Mr. Adams took the floor. He was to favor of so sha ping the biliuas to direct the President, on its passage to notify Great Britain. thait after the proper notice. the joint occupation of the. Territory sball cease.' This was he thotught the proper course, for said he if we are to have war, let us have it based on the principles of ev erlasting right. 'fom rA.Y Afler some remarksfrmM A.Y Brown, -theo Commtittee rose and the House adjourned. Office sei-kers are becotmitng violetnt. To 4.ia ran applied to N'r. Ibow the door. ho --4for, a place atnd on being denied. went o~iand senat Mr. D. a written chtal lenge. lie wvas taken into cuistody but being drunk was- dismissed with a repri mand. ' Mr. Webster made-'asplendid argument this morning in the Supreme 'Court on thme constitu tionality of the MassaChusetts Li ceas Lass. ~AsHIN'GToN, Feb.. 1. The Senate was not in session to-day. In the House, after-the disposal of somie unimnportant miat ters, ihe consideratioo of the Oregon bill was resumed in Commt tee of the Whole. . Mr.- "Winthrop denouniced the whole discussions as calculated to do tmore harm than good.- He- wsas in' fav6r of leaving the wyhole waiter into the hands ot'the negociators, until such time as the resulh of their labors should be made knownt After some remarks Irom Messrs. Ken nedy, Morse and others, at two o'clock the debate tirminated. On motion of Mr. Winthrop the bill was amended so as to Provide that there shall I be no-slavery or involuntary servitude, ex cept for crime, within the territory. On motion of Mr. Hainmet, by a vote of 79 to 77 the bill was amdnded. so as to -lirect the President on the passage of the bill to 6iottfv Great Britain that after the expiration of the requirei 12 months, the joint occupacy of the Territory shall cease, I do not think this-will be agreed to by the House. Nunmeous proposed amendments were reported after v. hich the Committee rose; attd with a view of having the amend mentsof the Committee printed. the House adjourned.. The bjill will come up as the first busi bess on Monday. WVasutic-roY. Feb. 3. Among the Petitions in the Senita- this mornting, were several from the north in favor of the annexation of Canada in the event of the annexation of Texas. Mr Potter. in presenting one of this character, took occasion to remark, that the annexation bf Cunada would, in a inil itary point of iew, be of great impor. tance-to this country. Mr Fosier strongly objecte:l to the re ception ofany sttch peiltions. It was dis Courteous i:n ihe highest degree to Greai Britain, nod could not but he offensive. After some remarks in reply fdImn Mr. Porter, the Petition was laid ott the table. Some resolutions of enquiry having been adopted, the remainder of the day was de voted to the consideration of Mr Mlerricks Bill to reduce postage Several proposed ameudtr ents were considered and reject d after which a motion to adjourn prevailed There was no report on the Texas reso lutions. The galleries are crowded daily by persons anxiously awai-ing the result. The consideration of the Oregon Bill was then resumed, the question being on concurring in the amend inents of the Com mitte ofthe Whole. .TI.e qteation was first taken on the fol lowing amenidmeut. "Provided, ahways, T hat in cases whero liny British snbject, resident or trailing in said Territory of Oregon, shall be arrested charged with the commission of any-mis d'emeattor or felony, tWe same shall be de livered over to the nearest tribunal of the British Government having j'risdiction over the offence. TIis provison not- to apply after the period of twelve months ticle of ti e Convetition now subsisting be tween the two countries rn relation to said Territory." This was agreed to unanimously. Thte followintg amendment was also agreed to by a vote of 131 to 69: Provided however, That there shall neti ther he slavery nor involuntary servitude in said Territory, otherwise than in the pititshment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. The following additional section to tle hill was agreed to by a vote of 11 to 82. See 43. And te it further ettacted, That the President of the Utnited States be. and le is hereby, required to cause due notice to be given to the British Government of tihe U nited States to annul and abrogate ite "cor.vention with Great Britain rela live to territory on the tnrthwest coast of America, roncluded August sixth. eighteen hundred and twenty-seven," agreeably to i he provissions of the second article of that co.nvention, Provied, That nothing in this amt contained shall be so constructed or carried iinto effect by any of the officers or citizens ofthe United States, as to in terfere in any way with atny right which any of tie subjects of Great Britain may have in the territory herein inentioted, as provided for in thte cotnventiotn aforesaid, until the expiration of twelve mnonthls atfter notice shall be givetn, as above provided.. by the President of the United Stactes. . The following amtjdidmeirts were agreed . to by acclamation: "And whereas, by a conventint entered into between his Britannic Majesty and the Utti'ed States of America, it wa tp lated antd agreed that any country on the Northwest coast of Amterica, to the west ward of ithe Stony Montains, should be free atid open to die citizens anid subijects of the two powvers, it beinig competent, however, to either of the contracting ptow ers, tn case either shtould think fit at any tm after the 20tht of October. 182S. on giving due notice ofiwelve months to the other contiacting party, io~anoul and oh rogate thts conivention . ''Be it therefore enacted. That nothing itt this act shall lie s't construed as to close or obstruct any of the harbors, hays atnd creeks, or the navtgation of rivers withtin tlte territorial limits of~ the Territory hereby orgattized, o'r tub part of the etiuntry thtat may be claimed by either party on the Northwest coast of America, betwueen the 42d degree and 54th degrees 40t-minutes of north latiturle, againist the vessels, citizens anid subjects of Great Britain, qgreeahly to the provisions of- the 3rd a--tiede of, the conivention of 20t h October, 1818, bet ween the United States and Great Britaini..until the termninatiotn of the said stipulation of said conventijont.". The bill thtus amended was read a. third time atnd passed, yeas J40, nays 59:. The House then adjourned. Feb. 4. Itn thte Senate this morning, a resolution was adopte-d, calling ott the Secretary of War for a record of the magnetic experi metnts made at the Girard .College.~ Mr. Bares reported a bill, restricting the grant of pensions to widowvs. so that they shall not receive persions for the sanmotime that they weore received by their deceased hnehnndde. Mr. Evans, from the Finance Commil tee, to whom was rferred the Sub Treat ury. bill from the House, reported back th ame, with a recommendation that th bill. be indefinitely postponed. -The Oregon bill was received from th House. read twice and referred to a Selec Committee. On motion of Mr. Dayton, a resolutioi wasadopted, calling for information as tI whether Duff Green now holds any offi cial station at Texas, and if ad, what ari his instructions. Mr. Archer, from the Committee ot Foreian Relations, to whom was referred the joint resolutions of the Hlouse for the Annexation of Texas, made a long ad verse report, accompanied by a resolution recommending that the joint resolution be rejected. The report was for the present laiton the table The debategvill-com mence to-morrow. The hill in relation to the enlistment of boys in the Navy, was pa.sed. The remainder of the day was devotei to the consideration of Mr. Merrick's posi office bill. The resofution of the Senate appointing a joint committee to count the votes fot the election- of President, was taken up and adopted. The House then went into Oommittee of the Whole, and resumed the considera do . of the bill to reduce and graduate the price of public lands A long uninteresting debate arose. after which a resolution was adopted to termi naie the debate at 2 o'clock to-morrow. Afier the dispo!ition of some unimpor tant private and local bills, the dHouse ad journed. Mt. Calhoun is now sufficieutly recov ered to attend to business. This evening the President holds his asi "drawing room.' The ladies are oing by hundreds. Last night the weather moderated. and to-day, we were-visited by a snow storm. Correspondence of the Courier. WAsHmINGTo , Feb.2. The recovery of Mr. Calhoun is now spoken of as somewhat unexpected, con idring that tie has reacled his grand clinatoric. He has certainly been very dangerously ill. He was sitting this rmorn ig, and has h You %%ill, from the proceedings ofthe Senate to day. see that the Committee on Foreign Affairs have reported against the projct for the annexation of Texas. Mr. Archer made the report. It is very long and argumentativo, and was, I learn, the joint wotk of. Mr. Archer and Mr. Berrien. It was not read, but will appear the day fter to-morraw in the lntelligencer. it concludes with he following resolu tions. viz: 1. That the joint resolutions from the H-1 ise for the annexation of Texas to the Uion, be rejected. 2d. That the bills, resolutions, petitions, &e., on the subject. referred to the Com rite, be laid on the table. Thus the Committee discharge them sdlves entirely from the wholo matter close the door to all further- consideration f it-and refuse utterly every action bear ig upon it. The Committee was unanimous in favor f the report, excepting Mr. Buchanan. r. B. said that he was in f'avor of the res olnuons from the House, and would take an early ojportunity of vindicating his views. A (lay is'to be assigned for the conside ration of the hill. and it will probably oc cupy the rest of the session. Mr. Evans eported the Sob Treasury bill withm the recommendation that it do ntt >ass. Mr. Dayton offered a resolution whbich ivas agree-l ?0, calling upon the President in state whtete Duff Grmeen has any di lomatic appointment, and if so, upon whose authotity-. The postage bill was again taken up, and a greater disposition to debate it thatn to pass it was manifested. It is supposed, owever, that the Senate will pass somne ibg or other, thogh not in a form proba bly that will suit the [House. The friends of post1 office reform are inmdiffe-rent to the passage of any but a very thorough bill, which will please and benefit the public even if it cost more monmey from the Trea sry. An important amendment was adoptec to-day, on motion of Mr. Ashley, of Ar kansas, by which it is provided that ir case there he a sufficiency in the receipt! nf he department it he made up out o the public treasurv. The sum ap~proprta ted by thme hill for the aid of the post offict esta~lishmer,t is $75.000..but this is no deemed enough4 to meet the deficiency foi the first year, without curtailing mail Ca cilities. Thtere was another long debate on thn long discussed and often decided question w hether members of 'ongress should h ay! 'the privilege of fratnking to its present ex tent. The proposition w as revived to-day ad Mr. Allen, of Ohio, made an earnes Ispeech in its support. -He defended it a a democratic privilege-a popular benefi -a means of uniting the representative t the cotistituent by the .dearest.ties-ni easy means of diffusing information .thro' out the country.. .It was. of no profit to th member, Cot- it consumed his time, and re quired labor .to answer all his letters, an frank docume~nts and speeehes to his con stit uents. The House was engaged on .the bill fc the redinction and graduation of the pric r the public lands, From tie Charleston Mercury. STATE CONTROVERSIES.. In a case urged before the Supreme Court of the United States on Fridaj lat, in which. tbe right of Massachusetts to enact a ce'tain law was in question,.Mr. Webster, according to the reliorierof the Baltimore American, 'Iook occasion to make some allusion to the laws of the States affectidg the rights and privileges of personstand expressed the liope that'the Court wdoald give its view of the question. Mr. Webster desired an opinion no doubt upon such laws *as those of South Caroli na affecting the privileges, of persdns of another'State iisiling that State. He spoke of the excitement which prevailed upon important subjects in ihe cduntry, and thought it time-high time-that the Court should give an opinion upon ques lions or so much interest." We r6ndt informed as to the ligai point in otistroversy, and of couise cinndt know to wijat extent the Court should go; but it was en appeal by a citizen of Mas sachuse.is froni a decision of her own Courts, atfd would seein therefore to afford but slim ground for approaching the prin ciples iuvolved in the controversy beiween Massachdugts and South Carolina. The opinion of the Supreme Court would of course have much interest, but it would have no practical weight. It cannot con trol the mo,!ements of ihe Abolition party, and consequently can give no ptetect:on or -emody-to the Southern States. For that reason alone, if there were no other, it cannot and will not he suffered to check the defensive legislition of the States. But the Supreme Court catinot touch the real question involvcd in the law of S. Caro lina, except by deciding that Free Blacks are citizeus.of the United States, in the same sensea W hites. Among thd news-, paper discuisions of the subjject, since Mr. Hoar's expedition to these parts and his greaterexpeilition.out of them, we bave found a great abundance of every thing but law and' reason. The following in a late numbeF-of the New Haven Register, is a fortunale exception. SoUT CaoLiNA AND MASSACHUsETT'iS. 'The whigs are pouring ouc oceans of wrath, because South Carolina will iot permit M1astachusetts to interfere wini the matters of internal policy which the for mer sees fittd adopt; to 'rcetet her citi -10 , oa ., "outh--Carolina prohibits the free blacks of Massabhusetis, or any other State of the Union, from coming in to tile port df Chari-leston, otl thd ground that there is goda reason to belieire, ds she says, that these persons, if permitted to minglet smong the slaves of that country, would incite them to another St. Domingo insurrection. Tb all tihis; Massachusetts says, no matter whether these apprehen sions are well or ill-founded. the Constitu tion of the United States hai given to the citizens of the several States, all tlie priv ileges of citizens in any other State wher ever they may choose to go; and if a black citizen of Massachusetts choose to go to South Carolina, there is no power in the State to prevent him. The Constitution ..of the United States declares that, "The citi-ens of each State shall be. en-, I titled to all the privileges and immunities, i of citizens ir the several States." True, says South Carolina, but free o blacks are not citizens within the meaning i of this claus! of the Constitution ; and on a this, the couroversy between the two prin- I cipally hinips. Now before we hastily I condemn Swth Carolina, for saying that t negroes are tot "citizens" within the mean- e ing'of the Constitution, it may be well to 1 see what oir own judges have said on i this very sulject, long before it was pushed into politics. Judge Degget of this city, wats, as is w'ell known, for several years the Chief Jistice of the Supreme Court of Connecticu, and in, giving his opinion, which will se found in the 10th volume of the Connecient Reports, at pagle 349, he uses the folbwing language: "To my aind, it would be a perversion of terms, aul the well known rules of con struction, to say that slaves, free blacks, or Indians, vere citizens withitn the mean ing of the tem as used in the Constitution. God forbid hat I should add to the degra dation of ths race of men :-but I am bound by my duty to say they are not citizens." * gNo CJarliniaz has ever gone furthiert than this. -s Again, tve naturalization laws of Con gress. passd in obedienice to 'the reifuire- 1 meats of ne Constitution, have always carried thrugh the same distinction. They1 provide thi, any alien being a-fr-ee white 1 -person, ma- he admitted - to become a citi zen of the'Jnited.-States, or any of thein," excluding elacks from citizensh'rp-hj n uralizatios Whether 'this was right or wrong in or forefathers .who recognized. these distisetions, is not now the question. They psaps. felt as Chancellor Kent who was nany years at the head of the Courts in he State of Newv York, expres ties himsel in .the second volume of .his commenitafes, at page -258-: "The Aiican -race. (says the Chancel lor,) are isentially.- a degraged caste, of inferior raik. and condition-in society. Marriageabetween them and whites are forbidden in some-of the- States where slavrery dos ot exist, and they are pro h ibited-in lf-the slave, holding States; and -when notlbsolutely contrary-to law. they -ra-rrvoltig,.add-regarded as 'an oll'ence -against pulic decorum." But eva .if the free .blacks- were citi -zens- of ue United States; within the meaning V the-Constitufion, and had- the r- right to gcto-South Carblina at their plea a sure, can bey while -there, be on-any bet I me footinithan the free blacks of Sonib' Carolinda? Clianeellor Kent in the sam volume abcde; quoted, at the 70th page thus gives'his opinion: - -"The article - of the Constitution of thi United States declaring that. citizens oe each Staie i-ere edtided to- all ibe privil eges.and-lmriiiiies of eitizens in the sev eral States; aglplies ildy to natuial born o duly, 'taralized citizens; and if they re move 66ih one State to another,.they are entitl to the privilges that persons of the same ile riplion are, entitled to -il -the States-to which the reimoval is made;-arn to no etfer. The laws and usages of one Staie. cannot- be permitted to :resirbe jualiScations for citizens to be claimed aad exercised in other States in contrdvention of .4eir local policy." it this is so, Massachusetts ih any view of the subje6i thust fail in her object. Now when we see how these matters have been- coniidered by the most learned judges atthe north, such as the late Chief Juitice Daggett, of Connecticur, and the late Chancellor Kent, of New York-when nninfluenced by party prejudices, should we not rather distrust the hot zeal of those who arie laboring to make the controversy between these two States, a new'elemeut in whig politics? It may be uncharitable to sny it, but I cannot help believing,' that if South Carolina had been a whig State, Massachusetts would never have attempt id to worry her intb this controversy. She would have been treated as kindly as in the whig State of Maryland, that hasjust sent he Rev. Mr. Torrey, of Massachusetts, to he penitentiary for ten years, for.interfer ring 'ith her 'local policy"-or the-whig State of Kentucky, that has recently sent iss Webster, (of New England) to the. )enitentiary of that State for 2, similar of *ence, and had now the Rev..Mr. fair Maks, also of Nev England, in custody *or a like interference. If South Carolina iad done this, ihe Whigs-6f New England vould have bee' raving by tNis time'but when such stauncb whig Siates.as Mai-y and and ftentti*ik moves, that alter the :ase entirely. .-W. .WHY WE DESIRET-EX-AS. We have Gsaid the people of the Siates ieed Texas as a patrimonial estate, for heir children and -their children's children. Iany of our readers we have no doubt ook around their habitations and say to here-is room enough to. enter. ainded by il WR USnt bv r nterest, or circunscribed by narroW'views, may we thiuk;.-ptoit by a little attention :o the progressive increase of our popula ion, will place this question'in a strong ight. To. our purpose-Mr. Darby .twell mownto our readers as 1r Geograpirer, las composed and publish an essay, show. ng the probable .increape.of our population or the next fifty-seven-vears ;:at the end >f a hich tirfie, - 4i :willi amount to more hun' e huo'drid tiflifons of people. Will Mewj ibl ibant Teras. But this looks at fit-st so extravagait hat it rejuiies some investigatiou of' racts D prepare the mind fora reAdify belief. Jan onr population rise so rapidly to a umber so vast and astounding ? We of. er Mr. Darby's argument, and u e believe By the census of 1790, the population f the U.. States, was 8,929,827.-1800, it ras 5,305,925. This is so near an annu I increase, of three percent., that Mr. )arby has made it the basis of his calcu ition up to the year 1901. It is pleasing ) observe the correspondence of ascertain d facts with this calculation up to 1840. rhen our last census was- taken. 'The llowing is extracted from his table : By the census tables. By annual in Populaion.. creascof' 1790 3,929.827 3 per cent 1800 5,305,925 5,281,458 1810 7,095.964 1820 9,338,131 9,535,182 1830 .12,855,407 12,811,-118 1840 -17,063,368 17,217,706 1850 ' 23,128,004: 1860 . 31,095,555 1870 49,617,708 I880 54,586,795 1890 75;32.,185 1900 98,559,512 1901 .*101,553,377 Thus it will be seen, ibat wvith Mr. -D's. atio of-increase-4 per cent. pei- aonum, he census-table ahowsba surprisingly exact. onformity up to 1840. when for the-inst ifire h'i iaeettion exceeds the cetisus by small fraction. The rush -of .emigrants nto this-epuntr~ysiuce ih~n;.ii~s -unques ionably gi-tn td thie geual .population ihe' scndency, within the. last three years. ['ime andl monopoly of the lands by the vealthty, may check the'increase -in somne legree, but enough' is certain, toprove that ye shall soon have needof Texas.. We ought not to drop-thiasubject, with itut adlverting to .the flood of population xhich has and. is still pouring over .the appalachain mnouhnains, into -the, -great rent-ra1 valley of North America. The 'main spine"~ of these mountainas.in,1790,. vas beyond nine-tenths of the popu'lation f the United States. Tihey were located >n the Eanteiroipe, containing altogether, ibout 300;000 square miles of territory. l'he-great vdley~of the West, it is true, was beginning to be settled in. Western Virginia, Kentucky,.Tennbssee and a .pari >f New Yoras and Pennsylvania. But the wam whoop o the savage, and -its fearful ittendant circumstances, were tlijelot of mmany who 'ventured .into tinjs unbroken. wilderness.. Finy. years had rolled by when thecenusof 1840 was taken. The: wilderness' had hecome a nurnbir offloor ishing States, wiha geiln ion of moro than five iilironsVThed h& i spread over a cduntry more than threat times as'large as -the East'eroisopd'oEo'er I mountaids, to-the A tlantic, -d7their-zet I tle'ments brjsniied-and civilized; Iie sides r, by uid, 'ith the bedutiful hil"ntva-is of Texas. They-havegoon foward.-at*" rate of nearly thirifynyiles-Per annuor, and many have not stoppedi-ntrhe line planted their staindard and celonitzed with, our blood this fine codntry. Ad Il't-h!r'; with 4. fine'- almost: unoccupied eounrge organiied. Foa us, nd- h iddpingt u Cone that Federalism is to bid-w; AStop? esirt here thi-he umotley Mexicas arirtu-:thfaka godd iheir threaterdf fxterminalion, a'; thrust iaek our-race"with- terrible recoifIfr/ Who are thiy -id Coqdgess-bardaremakeD, this quesiion of calcularion for patyfas--. cenioucy?" - Wetgainrepeat, tba-Teiaz now itr the: custody -ad dwiibrship of-o'u-' relations andfriends risat -not-be-ull6wedd' to ,slip 'through ohr fi.-gert.- - ItIjsizndbleo patrimony,-and mustere 1ong, deseud'v.I our children. L From--th New- Orlens T ' 3k r.j -LATER ftFROM- T'X4S *e., The miiuhderst'rnding betweea the Pres ident and Gen. Greene ha-niha e-enau" justed.- A report has'-been brought to: Corpus -Christi;--hat.-Santa'Ajir -had been captured and shot'nea ' confidence -was placed in -it. Larget of anthraoite tost are saidto tav6 been. discovered near-j'i e iouresofibe.Trijnity The lon ;WmSmtb, Senaiorfroih Bert! ar, died ofthe iiffluenzasat lWashington on the 1-3ih uist. 'Seveuteen petssM'esaib d ;o- have 'died' of that sane disease-iti Washitigion within six;weeks.-The-rast ports - about Captaia- Elliotr, Abe Britikr Chaigs'il -Affairei founded sipon arset- e ment io* th-Philadlpha Ledger-tothe-' effect, fi ti le had been authorizedry'ig .i government to propose aad gueranted ithly Independince:.of Texas,.&e'&co.no.cerk tain conditions, is unhesitatingly-deered'A' by the Houst~an Telegraph -to-be totalbv.inr correct. -'The Telegraph says .'iPaptain. Elliott' has- been authorized to make no Asuch propositions." [ rom the' N. 0. PiyaeJanay:WJ - Gen. Hamiltoa -Jdrge Longstreet and% .CoLIN'Calt were in Washington.:!- '; - An arrival at Galveston from Corpus Chrisdi does-noi confirm the repnrted camure of Santa Anna. owing to the 'icarei ofspie hybau been, 6onpellid "to rturn without making "purchases. The, difficulties. on--he. Me can frontier prevent the trade'o thatflioiins Seguin :and' his.band, confine their depre dations 'entirely to the trading rotu.e be. tweet) .Bexar and the towns befow teii Presidio and above Loredo; . 7 The' Griveston 'Aegistersays, that Iie, children of Mrs Simpson, 'vh6'were-cap-. tured- at Austin 'by hostile 'Indians, are now il the possesson of the.Toweash an Wacoe iribes; in the'Wichetaw niountaird The Texas papers.-are rejoicing over escape u Mr. Navorro frbin hai ng cap tmiIty. ' The veteran has manyfriendsi that cou6try. The - Caniii&che Itdians were ot salts fied with he boundary run-by Texasin their country. The following are the Contents of the . Southern .Agricuhrurist,;for February: Address by R, W. Roper, Esq ,dclivered in Columbia, S. C., before. the Statig ricultural Society, ,on fheit Annivereary, November 28, 1844.: Theiactoy system. a.visit to Lowell; by T..S. K.- Linseed' Oil. Inisecta injurious-to the Fartier and.,.. Gardnner, by Willis yordcontiued from page 468 of vol. 1V. Autiquitv.o[ - Guno as 11 Manure, communicated by' W mn. Logan. Idc-ressed growth of Cotion. silk culture, recommended by A.C.-an -- E pp... .Artificial.Maipures& Actunblation. -of Manu-rrs,'i apractical f'armer.- Ex. perimnent8 w..th ,tgianures.- Appearaoeo os' ing Lime-rotation of ro, by .~ W. Cob filea1, by qp Economist.. ,-roge~r method of erecting'.the chimniey Tor &;.u gar, or Steam Mill .City of.-St. Louis ., Masouui.e 'iacimonth Leadline. Gar - den, vs. Field leaus. Imyroved ottoG Gins. 'Gas ight. Amnericat Provuids in Great Britain. IRot in Potatoes. 'he teorological Observations in thle city of Charleston for 1844 Cournterfeit IfalfDollara. Cnuuter feis) coin is ver'y abundgat-in Philatelphia,aanO the greatest vigilance-is 'necessatiy in-ordpy to avoid the deception.. -'We. 'were shown.-~ a half:dollar, says the Ledger. of thle new... stamp, the ring and appearanice-o(f fich1 were calculated'-to .impose ponghb up wary.. The greasy 'feelmg -totlietouchr was the readiest .mode of disbverighe true character of-thfl iece.. e-e papera of' othei'eck esa~nd the -ine or,' speak of couinterfeit. coinTinadihg-terie belief that the issue eavery large.<-l~ Domrnon. An 1npoqlr..T) 44abang&td ha nessee papears areetiewidi:Adoi.'dfjci tion to. the pubho~ i Jtfsuio.'p/, "Hacodk6Slal* .w jsehbi i)ieate countiy begging: siptios: te~e Columbia.:- daselbie deseihei aratmotreja long fietnme full-yi epgagedi:.bisikidfpula The-;ptiblic sl~odkt~bipe scaqp-~ianddttreakthemacorg~igt~~j - resident y~'o6f Y rij%'mm;n