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POLITICAL. The followitg is the substance of the remarks of Mr. McDuffie on the bill to-re duce the rates of postage, &c. Mr. McDuffie, after a feiv remarks,'in distinctly heard, said he regarded ~it as his solemn duty not only to record his vote, but to protest against this m'ea'sre.. ft was-in vain to disguise Its ultimate effe'e, whatever might be itI object. 'He took it for granted and could- safely say, that whatever ingenious speculations had been heard upnu this subject in sypport of a low rate of postage as producing a large in crease of correspondence, it was very dif ferent from the theory which prevailed with the some Senators upon.anoiher sub ject, (the Tariff.) le flattered himseff that tler6 was tit a .Senator here who ehlly believed that the post office estab lishment could be maintained under the operation of this law,-without being annu ally thiown upon the national treasury to the amount'ofat least from one to two mil ie's of dollars. lie would not discuss it as a que-stion of maintaining the existina system under such modifications as would mitigate the burdens of the community, without destroying the revenue of the de partment. But he should disus it as a measure which would throw this depart ment ultimately upon the national treasury for its support. Insignificant as it might appear to some, in this respect, lie regar ded it as one of the most radical and revo lutionary movemnts in our finnicial sys tein, ever attem.ted in the United States. Aud what was the pretext-what was the ingenious disguise under which gentlemen iad presened this question to the Senate ? To relieve the people from their hurdens -the burdens of postage. He would ven - ure to say that, of all the burdens impo sed on the people by ttiq government, this was one of the least felt, and the least complained of. But how-viewing this as a question of paying the expenses of the department out of its own income, or paying them out'of the treasury-h'ow was it to relieve the people ? You relievo a citizen from paying postage, and then col lect the money from him to pay into the treasury, to indemnify the government from loss. What a delusion ? If the amount saved to the person by this reduc tion of duty be equal, fully equal, to the tax which he pays to the government, in order to enable it to defray these expen ses, he receives no benefr. What was the benefit of taxing a man to pay money into the treasury, in order to exempt him from paying postage? What did he gain ? What could any body gain by stch a poli cy as this ? It was obvinus that if the ben efit of this reduction were to accrue to the same individual who paid the money into the treasury, he could not gain by the re duction; but if the individual who was thus benefitted was not the person who paid the money into the treasury, then it was unjust. You give the officers of the gov crument the benefit of the profitable agen cy of collecthig money, and paying it into the treasury, that it may be paid out again to the persons that it was collected from in another shape, but curtailed by all tie ex aIvcVo fiTiisiijectwfidlistriii him most forcibly was, that. contenplating the efflects as they naturally were, this bill was intended to exem Pt ote larger class of -. the comm unity from the burden of postage, and to suhjeel another class to the burden of taxation in order to effect this reduction. lHe did not know the existing condition of things in the WVest. lie presumed that they were very similar to what they were in the South ; but he knew this-that his constituents, so fur from regarding their postage as a burden to be comnplainedl of, regarded it as alnost the only benefit they received from the financial or genteral ope rationas of this governmet. In the whole region of the WVest and * South the population was comparatively sparse; and in those thintly populated por tions of the country the distribution of itn telligetnce was a matter of vast imiportarice.; Hie thought the Senate had heard some thing in the early stage of this debate, .about the intpartance of catrr-natang information and intelligence to the people of the Ujnnited States. The greater pfah' of the corresponideoce in this country wsas carried on by the commnercial atnd manu facturing comnmuntity. All the agricitlt t rat portions of the Utnited States were made tip, particularly in the South and South west, of a population who wrote very few letters, anrd re-eeived v'ery few. Ile could not imagine an agriculturist who would feel the burden of postage at all-even if doutbled; and he believed he had not a constituent who did not pay a larger dtuty tupon the salt which he used atnually than upon his postage. lie spoke of the agri cultural portion. Amongst these were the cotton planters; and he would venture to say, speaking for himself, that if lie were to pay the postage directly upon every let ?er which he received annually, the duty that lie paid upon his cotton bags would be one hundred times greater than his pos tage. Now, were the people to be taxed on the first year of ibis experiment two miu tior~s, and then four mtillions; and, in the course of fifteen years from thir time, ten muillions of dollars thrown upon the public treasury, to increase the favors conferred, nnd swell the magnitude of that oppressive burden wvhich was niow thrown upon the agricultural portion of the community, for * the suppport of thte maniufacturers of the norih ? WVas this to be thrown ttpon the people nowv to relieve those manufacturers of their postage ? That wvasr-he whole matter. The man ttfacturing and- commercial portions of the Union were the' portions alone that had raised this agitatior about lowv rates of postage. it was-with them the excitement had originated, and it had been very in geniously distributed throughout the coun try. Every farmer had to pay, for the clothes- he swore, and for the articles he * ~ consumed in his family, fifty times as utch into the federal treasury, out of which that money came- to support these mano facturers, to'be paid for postage. But that the farmer regarsled as do burden at all. It was no burde. to him to pay once or twice a week twelve and a half or twenty five cents postage on a letter; anid yet he felt it more thant the $15 or $20 he pays to his (Mr. McD's) friend from Rhode Is landA Mr. Rimmans, for his calicoes. Eis objection, then, to this hill and the measure which it proposed was, that it would certainly throw the Post Office De pirtment, or the larger portion of tfs ex Oienditures, upon the Trehsury Depart ment. He knew of no reason why the postage should be reduced below'ten cents, that would inot apply 'to aboli'sig it alto geth'er. -Why has any rate at all if it was not adqquate to the ex-pe'nbls 'of rhe de. 'ph rtiridnt 1 He 'had shown ithat the effect of this bil would be to throw the burden upon those wlio ought rot to pny it, in order to relieve those who, upon every principle of'humar justice, ou'ght to pay it., This had beer very generally regarded as a question o taxation. When a 'manpn'id so tnuch into the post office for a letter, it was supposed he was paying it as a tax to the govern. rient. Now this was no such thing. He (Mr. McD.) no more paid a tax when he paid the federal go'vernment twenty-five cents to enable him to transport a lettei cheaper than he could get it Irattsported by a private company, than he paid a ta: to a wagoner or boatman to carry his cot ton. It was not paying a tax, liut paying for services which the government had rendered hiin, atnd which nobody else could perform upon terms which suited him so well. Suppose you make private contracts for the transportation of your cor respondence ; it would cost besides the in convenience of having no system at all. three times as much as you pay the gov ernmieut. This must be regarded n a general sys tem-not a -system our the benefit of one portion of the Union, but for all. And he would ask, if we vere to regard it as a tax, could the imagination of tman conceive a more just tax thtan that which levies the burden upon the person who seceives the benefit ? Who ought to pay the postage ? Thai iwas the whofe ialter. The poor m;.n, who perhaps never received a letter. and who paid ten dollars to the govern mncut in the forn of a duty on sugar, salt, or iron ? Ought he to pay his (Mr. Mc Duifflie's) letter postage? Ought lie to pay the let :er postage of the Sentor from Rhode Island ? No: they ought to pay their own postage. Let him tell gentle inen that the whole arr ount ofthis systetm would consist in relieving the nannfar turing portion of the corrmunityi and the densely populated parts of the country. from their postage, and to throw the hur :den upon the agricultural, or sparsely settled portion of the United States. Now, lie would respectfully suggest that it would be just as reasonable-and he did not know that it would not come to pass-that the manufactures in the North, who had a vdst deal of correspondence in their bu siness. should ask first, that we should en able them to keep up their establishments by the enormous duties of a protective system. 6tid then that we should raise funds to pay for the trinsportatiin of their manufactures frim Boston to New Ytork, New Orleans, &c. They had just as much iaht to come and call upon th lipeople of he South and Southwest to do that, as to call upon then to pay for the transporta tion of their letters. Now ihe people of ishment; but he was not willing to see a measure passed which would break Up one half of the post offices throughout the ontry. Under these views of the sub et, he ptotested against this as a system ending to produce a revolution in this de patmetnt grossly unjttst in the distribution f the burdetis of this ground. It was aying the foundation, in the post office de aisnent, of a system of corruption, the xtent of whtich no human sagacity eould nticipate. Already it was hawfuil foi- the end of that departtment to exercise the lar est control over 'he public opiuion of the otrty of any oficer uender the gos etrn ent. He (MJr. MclD.J looked bac-k tipon he extent of the inufluence- which he lhad btained in this department when under he admninistratiosi of that energetie and atriotic mant, (Judge McLeani) who now hd a seat in she Supreme Court of the lnitedl States; anfd he believedh, though hat gentleman was comparatively un nown when he went into the departmenct, le camse out one of the most popular men n the United States ? And how ? He as a poor man; lhe adrminiteredl that de artttment as it uever h'ad been s'Jmrntister~ed ince; and sitch was the controlling isnfiu neea which he had over the deputy post asters all over the United States, from his haracter for integrity and honesty, that lie nede those postmasters who lhad dealings ith him had a feeling towards him ap roaching almost to idolatry. No man itn the United States had the power to exer cise a greater influence than the head of shis depar:mnent, at that period. There vas never a purer man there, than Judge cLean. What the'n would' be mhe ten eey of thtis system in ten years from this ime!? A corrupt man ini that department oubil be omniipnteni. The depa-rimett hs an exclusive and independent exis ence. The Postmaster Gen'eral wields a iscretionary power. H e is given, in a ittle clause of stis bill, a discretionary ower-so raise the salary of deputf post asters throughout the Unitedi Ststes. To e sure it was limited, to some extent; but yet it wasa discretionary power ; atid ev ery Postmaster General would have the neatns of doing a favor to atny deputy post naster, or any numtber of deputy postmas ters throughout the United Stases. Upon the whole, he regarded this sys em as unjust, unsafe, and calculated to roduce the most disastrous consequences. Mr. McDuffle further opposed the bill hiefly uponothese grounds Toolhace.-Put a piece- of'lime aliout the size of a walnut, into a quart, bottle of water:- wvith this rinse the msouth two or bree times a day, and clean the teeth uising this wvater every morning. If it taste strong, dilute, it, for is should be just strong enough to taste the lime,and no stronger. I was tormented with the tooth che for some weeks sill I used' this tix ture ; but have never had it since. A-friend o whom I reccommendled it, ansd who was geat snfferrer,..bad been equally fortunate she attributed-hers to rheumatism. After few week., I- asked her how she lime ater succeeded- 'Oh' said she, 'I have ever had the rehmatismslnce.'-Htirt CONC.ESSIONASL NEWS. From the Correspondence of the Southern Patriot, WASHINTOn, Feb. 20. In the House, to-day, a message was received from the President, transmitting a letter from Mr. Wise, our Minister at Brazil, in which he sets forth that our citi zens in that 'quarter as well as those of 'Great Britain, are. extensively engaged in the slave trade. The President expresses a hoie that 'oirgress will immediately take the subject into serious consideration. The Message was, referred to the Com mittee on Foreig-n Allairs. A communication ivas also received fron the State Department, relative to the payment of the Mexican indemnity. It merely states that no definite communica tion from Mr. Shannon'on the'subject has yet ibeen received. The consideration of the General Ap propriation hill was then resumed in Com miree -of the Whole Among the amendments agreed to, was one appropriating $8,000 for continuing in operation the Magnetic Telegraph be tween this city and Baltimore. A great number of other proposed amend mients were considered and rejected. after which at a late hour the bill was reported. In the Senate a message was received from the President in answer to a resolu tion calling for copies of instructions given to our Minister at London. relative to the Oregon negotiation. The President says. at this stage of the proceedings, it will not be proper to comply with the request, but fie assures the Senato that the present as pect of affairs is favorable to lie claims of the Country. After the presentation of Ietitioins and the disposal of iher miscellaneous mat ters, the French Spoliation bill was again called up. Mr. McDuffie made .n Iong speech in opposition to the hill, and Messrs. Choate and Archer replied. The subject was again postponed till to morrow. The consideration of' the Texas resolu tion was then resumed. 51r. Colquit made a long and able speech in their favor, and Mr. Simmons followed on the other side. The subject was then laid over till to-morrow. It is now confi lently affirmed that Mr. Benton's bill will pass the Senate on or before Monday. F EB.21. In the House, several bills were received from the Senate and read twice. Anmotng them was the bill authorizing the S. C. Rail Road Company to import free of duty, sufficient iron to test the practicabil. ity df an atmospheric rail way. It was referred to tie Committee on-Commerce. After the passage of some uniinportant bills, the consideration of the General Ap propriation bill was again resumed in Cotmittee of the Whole. Mr. Holmes moved to amend by insert ing $5,000 for the Charleston Custom -louse, but the Chiir iiled it out of'order, Mr. Ibimes asked for the reasons, but the Chair said he was not compelled to give any. A very utnimary mode of dis posing of a difficult'.. Mr. C. J. Ingersoll moved to amend by Austria, Spain and Mexico. It was re jected, but at a subsequent stage it ivss in another form agreed to. This h:ai refei ece to the outfit of the niew Ministers to e appointed to those places, under the :omuing adnministration. Mr. Ingersoll then moved to ametnd by addmog "For salary of Minister to Chtina $6,000, and outfit $6,000." Mr. A dams moved to amnd by increas itg it to $9,000 salary and $9,000 out fit. T'his was agreed to ; also an item allowing~ $3,500 l'ur Secrefary and Chinese Inter reter. FB 4 In the !Iduse the consideration of the General A ppropriation [Bill was resumdd, he question being concurring in the uu terous atnmndments reported fromt Com ittee of thei Whole. T'he amnendtment approyrinting 58.000 for Morse's Telegraph between this city and Baltimore, was conctrrred if wvithout a division. 'I'he amendment appropriating $72,000 for outfit of Ministers under the coming administrationl was aigreed to,as wias also hat proviiding $9.000 outfit, and $9,00 aary for a Mitnister to China Yesterday an atmendment n $5000 was ffered by Mr. htolmes for then Charlestun ustom [louse, btut it w as rulid out of or er. Subsequently, tmowever, Mr. II. nianaged ton divert the attenlon of Mr. ave Johtnson, who objects to mtost every hing-and then succeeded in stting in thme mendment, which was tlis mnaining agreed to by the House. It will not be pposed in the Senate. Thme amendmet appropriaing $69.740 for books for memnber's, was agreed) to by a vote of 98 to 64. An amentdment appropriatn;[ $d0.000, for a fire proof- building for toe War antd I avy Departmens, was consurred in. eas 91. Nays 82. Numerous other amendmens were con- I ured in, alter n'hich the bill~vas passed. JElB. 25. TZhe excitement and auxiet; relative toi he Texas Resolutions are se great that ( ong before the hour of reeetingthe Senate hamber is besieged by hundada anxious o hear the proceedings. Wiie the lasj wenty-four hours confidete a ton the suc ess of the measure, has riseta huttd'red er cent. The let ter of Goveror' Wright,v rgng hts frends to give up thir scruples, will, it is thought, give the fisiiingstroke. ti Last nmght, Mr. McDuffie,.Ithough so weak as to be scarcely able tontand mnade a trost powerful- s'peedh ini fvor of the r iesolttions. Thlis morng14t Allenmfol- n huwed on- the sanie side with Ir, usual im-o. ressiva eloquence. Mr. Belien replied, a tier which lte Senate took' recess till a five o'clock. On re-assembhlg, the de- a ate was assumed and contintd to a late it our. . ..b The Bill for the admission il-oua and w lorida, having been reportl wiihout fi mendment, will, it is thong: pass this ri eek. .as The joint resolution directig the-See- ren retary of the Tr'easury to dedit fronm the tI land' account of defahltirng tates thme o amuntoF unpaid-interest onheir bonds tt lmelds by Governtnent, was rnd a third h timeaned npased. By the perseverance of Mr. Holmes, the Senate Bill, awuthorizing the S. C. Rail Road Co., to import free of duty, Iron to test the atmospheric railway was taken up otit-of its order, and passed.. The Senate Post Office Reform Bill was then taken up in Committee of the Whole. It was opposed by Messrs. Cobb and Yancey and defended by Mr. Dana, who contended that the increase in the number of letters would make tip the an ticipated deficiencies in t.he revenues of the Department. FEB. 26. In the Honse this morning the consider. ation of the Senate Post Ofice Bill was resumed. and under the operation of the previons question. read a third time and i ased with two amendments. One post pones Ihe operation tof the btill till July Ist, 1845, and the dther fixes the rate of post age at five cents for distances less than three hundred miles, and ten cents for all letters over that distance. The bill was then sent to the Senate for its concurrence in the amendments. The first sectin of the Bill, 'as it'now stands, amended by the House, it as fol lows: Be it enacted. 81c That, from and after the 1st of July, 1845. in lieu of the raies of postage now establisbed by law. there shall he charged tie following rates, viz: For every single letter. itn manuscript, or paper of any kind by or upon which infor mation'shall he asked for or communicated in writing, or by marks and signs, convey ed in the mail not liver ihree hundred miles, five ceints; over three hutdred miles, ten cents; and for a double letter there shall be charged double this rate; and for a treble letter treble this rate; and for a quadruple letter 'quadruple this rate ; and every letter or parcel not exceeding half a ounce in weight shall be deemed a single letter, and every additional weight of half atl ounce. or additional weighi less that half an ounce shall be charged with addi tional sitgle postage. And all drop let ter, ot letters placed in atty post office; til for transmission by mail-hut for delive'ry only, shall be charged with postage alt the rate of two cents each. And all letters which shall hereafter be advertised as re naining over in any post office shall when deliverpd out. be charged with tie costs of advertising the same, in addition i the regular ptbage, both to be accounted for as other postages now are. FIRIKIGN NEWS. Office of the N. 0 Picayune, Feb. le. LATER FROMI MEXICO. By the arrival yesterday o the schooner Creole. from Vera Cruz. we have ad vices from that city to the 3d inst.. her day of sailing. Our previous intelligence was received by wa) of Havana, and came down to the 31st of Jandary. Upon glaticing at our papers. the first thing that met our eye iias a long letter from Saita Anna, dated frdm his prison at Perote, on tbe22d of January, addressed to the Secretary of the Chamber of Depu. ties. It is one of tle most hiuimiliating documents which we ever read. -He begs for his life as pitiful as when --n his knees, Coss supplicated Sam Houslon for mercy -a degradation which Gen. Almonte. in tihe same emergency, scorned with tile spirit of a maa. in his comnmunication to the Chtambers -the substance of which we give ; Santa Antna r-ecalls to the minds of rlhe memtbers, in thle tnost vaini-glorious tmanner, the ser vics tyhich hte has renadered Mexied, lie dw~ells particularly utpotn the actions of the 11th Sept. 1829, arid the 5th of Dec. 1838. He repouiediy illudes to his wountds -re ceavedl in hattle, to his tutdtamd penrsont and prays like a bonnod that wihat little bloodl he haos in hitn may be spared lie insists that in asll his acts, frotn the very outset of the revolutiou agains.t Spantish rule, he has hadI in view Ite interests anid the glory of Mexico alonn-not personal aggrantdizement. [Oh, tn! he never once thought of himself~ while seriditig- stolent money to foreign, countries!] I-le admits that he may have erred in the adoptiotn of measures, but he claims thhi all his er rars have been those of judgetent otily. He neknowledges that thte recen1t -evciti-I iton is now consumtmated , he fitfds to rhte general wvill, renounces the Presidenacy, and is anxiouts to atone for whtatever he miay have dotte by voluntary expatriation mtd the contsequenlt loss of property amd of ~riendet. lie lauds with disgusting~ flattery, he generosity and magntatnity oif Mexia ~ans ; asserts that evena it the contest which ins resultd in his overthrow he spa red as r auc as possible Mexican bloodi;" that e mnaintained htimself at the bead of his trmy, merely to enforce wvhat lhe believed ~ uis constitutitonal rights to thte Presidencyv; hat the actionts which took place at Pttelila ~ yore mere skirmishes ; that he had diffi. ulty in restrainn thec enthusiastm of his V oldiers, and rltar he~ volunitarily gave up) r he comttmand tof thieny .n' hter they were inanimtously d'evoted to him.' H-erevives ft ais favorite comparisont of himnself with b fapoleon, htopinig that thte parallel betweena heir dareers mnay be extended by his own e xile, and at the sme time bragging thtrat r he htas not eiffected quite as much as thea ;orsieaan oan the stage of life. he has the dvantage of havmtg lost a leg ! But wea re tired of looking through this paper, it so unkmanly,'-fawsning andl false. No rue htearted soldier ctnld have dictated it As to the piobable fate of Santa Anna, re can pive nto more defitite indictition, a~n is countained in the followinug letter tom one of ouar enrrespontdents: -VEaiA CRUz, Feb. 3& 1845. * I htave only time to drop you a few lines a tenat in Perore, whtte his cauise is befotrea ie Cottgrcss contstituted io Grand Jury" t Mexico. Heo mtus thinak occasionialy n his friends the Texans. Government .i a doubt regrets that he ditd not escape, asc is desirous of beinag-generous with him, Ut at thae same time fears public opinlion, hich is stormy against the retch. htould Sanata nott lhe putuished with all the L: gor of the laws, antlher revolt against the "r ~tual Government would oo doubt he the P1 sult. Great confideuce is felt by all in i e present Government which in' mny th tinaiona will prove to he a good (oe, anti sa e first truly reptublicani otto the people fra us ever kown. re Respectring Teasn, I would, any th,.. :. C\. is ust4ess ever to expect the consent of thii Government to its annexation to the Uni. ted States. If it should be annexed, ii will make a great deal of noise here, bui nothing further than talk will result frow it in my opinion. I send you a few papers. to which I re. fer you to Santa Anna's petition to the Congress, praying for clemency-a .msi disgracefully humiliating document nurj just such a one as might he expected fromn such a cowardly dog. CosMoPotUTF REPUBLICAN OFFICE. SAVANNAH, Feb 28. LATE AND IMPORTANT FRoar BARB4DOEs, DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION: By the arrivul at this port.yesterday, ol the Br ship Britannia. Capt. Smith. from Bridgeport, Barhadoe#, we have received a file of the Barbadoes Ghhe and Official Gazette. :o the 10th Ult. The Globe ol the Gih inst. is filled with an account of n most disastrous fire, which occurred a' Bridgetown, on the night of the 3d ant morning of the 4th iost. That paper sayf " A fourth of the stone built portion of oui city is in-ruins!! Hundreds of the inhabi tants are without homes, clothes, or fer niture, and' thousands upon thot'sands ol pounds sterling wiorih of properry has beer destroyed in varions ways, or toally con. sumed by the devoitinn element! !!" The Globe then gives a list of abon1 TWO HUNDRED HOUSES burned, and a statement of the losses incurred by the fire, amounting In the aggregate to about TWO MILLIONS OF DOL LARS! Tt.! Globe, of the sarbe afternoon, adds: "All business in the city is still quite suspended, the stores closed; and every one's thoughts etgrossed by the late over whelimniug calamity. The master and iassengers of the Maid of Erin, which ar rived here the next morning fom Grenada, describe the appearauce of the coulagra tion as seen by them fifty miles at sea, to have exhibited a spectacle of fearful sub limity; but to us on .shore it was one of unmitigated horror and awe, as we could only view it in detail. and amid the dis tractions of wailing and lamentation-the bracking and roaring of the flames-the falling in of' the roofs-the cries of the workiniR parties 'o each other-the occa sional da'fetjing exiplosions of gunpowder as the houses were blown down by the Artillery--and worst. and most revolting of all, ihde' fiellish shoutings and hurrayings of the dregs of the populace rejoicing at the progress or the work 'Of destruction and The Globe thej givei the follnwin'6 re marks in regard to the cojduct of the free negroes on the occasimin. which is indeed a striking commentarj ipon the pracical workings of Abolitionisth in the British Doninions " We would willingly stop iere did not stern truth compel us to notice in the strongeat terms of indignant censure. the lmnost general disgraceful conduct of the lower classes of the assembled black male population ; iheir manifestations of delight were hideous and demoniac, they would render no useful assistance in bringing wa ter to the engines or aiding in their work inL butit nas hirhsport to them to break iio verythouse as hela-mes caught it. lash om~t shutters and windows which they miuld if necessary have easily opened, and thence fing into the NtreAt every heavy ar ielei or tfurni ure-. even to tables andh pfanos -utterly reckless of thuose whor were pass ng unider otn their lawful and benevolent stiruus, atrid after this public and wainton lestruactioti ref pre'perty descendted-stag terinag utitder the w..ight of inluabile pere. erty wuich the auilhorit ies w-ere cenerally 00 tbusily engaged1 ro detain ;and t husi im nense loss has heen superadded to the ad -eady a'illciently heavy sorrow of the tomeless and ottaset." Growth of the Northws.LTlhe Tecrrito 'j of W iscoensin was set uifrfrin Michigan tmd organized into a territorinil Govern nent in 1836 lts whole surfane is esti nated at 47.00.000 acres, of w~hich ;a ittle more than I10J,0,00 has been sur 'eyedl. - The first sales oef public lands nok plaice in 1835, the amotunat sold 'romt hat titme 'ill Jantuary. 1842, was 2,909. 18 acres, for the sum of $2.76l, 762. The end mines oh the Teriritory will lie an in. xthaustible sotirce, of weaelth' Accorditeg ii the eensus of r840 the ni hole amount C lesd produced ini the United States and ['erritories was 31,2:39,453 pounds anid be capitar invested was $1,346,756. Of Ilis amtont WNeonsint promduced neatrly nte half, or 15,120.350 piounds. and the apital employed hby her was S664.600. 'he assessed valua ionof the real andi per anal property of nll itls. couenties in the ear 1843 nountcd to $8.077. 300. Daring and Praisecorthy Act.-A fact 'a's cotnticated to us last evening, bich it affoirds us mucht gratification to ~cord, nul only that ant unusual diisreaard fpersonal feeling wan evinced by tb'e he ic cotndutct of the individual who per ermedl the be-nevolent and fearless act, ut that life was saved, atnd a frantic othier bad a favorite cheild re-stotred to her itbraces, who would otherwise have beetn lifeless corpse. It appitears that a cis rn in the fa-rd etf the Planters' HoItel had eena iuicautiotusly left openi. and a child off wont five years of age. in passing along, iI ini. The alarm was givent, and no eanas could' lie devised at the momentt to flricate it from its pterilesus situation, wheni fr. Charles H. Miott, the sotn of the aeper of the Hotel, rushed to the spot, ren off' his coat, and promptly let him If down thr'ungh the aperture, about two elt in diameter, swam around in the dark, ught the chtild and passed it up to the ixious and almost distracted spectators. ucit lpresentce of mind dese-rvee the warm. Scomnmentdatieon, atnd mist eniviablet ust be thte feelings oif himt whet was thtus strumnetatal in say mgi human life.- Char. srier, 24th ult. American aud British Ministers.--T he iudinon .lorning" Chroeniere expresses the intiona that the Ame-ricatt Minmisters at iris ar-e much tmore shrewd and watch are narrowly Americatn interests, than e British Ministers at that Court ; and ys, thait nttt onv ly id Mr. Liv'ingstona get tin the French Governmetnt all lie pe nptority demtandled, but so also did Gena. a usi: nnd now M-. Kina thle preetm Min. isier receives promises frorh the Royal lips, which are astonishing to the world. These promises are to the effect that the French Government will nnt interfere in any measures that the Uniled States may take respecting Texas and Mexico." nit avtsertistir. EDGEFIELD C . H. WEDNEsDA Y. MARCH 5, 1845. J-' "We Will cling to the Pillars ofthe Temple of our Libertzes. and ifi must fal,ewill Perish amid the Ruins.' - We learn from a gentleman of Augusta, that information has been received in that city, of the passage by the Senate. of the lhill for the an. nexation of Texas, by a majority of two. "The ?des of March, the ides of March remember."-On next Monday the Court of Common Pleas will commence at this place. Our friends and patrons will then have a most favorable opportunity af'or ded-them, to pay the several sums they owe us. We feel assured that they will not fail to do so, and thus to merit our gratitude. for twelve months or more. Delinquent subscribers who have been in arrears for two years and upwards, are pa-ticularly requested to come to a settle. ment with us, or we way be under the disagreeable necessity of placing their ac counts in the hands of an officer for col lection. This we would willingly avoid, but necessity has no law. Conriction of Fairbank. the Abolition ist.-Calvin Fairhank, the acco-nplice of Aliss Delia Webster, was tried recently at Lexington, Ken'tucky, upon three several indictments, for the abduction of slaves from their owners, and was aouvicted on all of them. 'He was scbtened to ve years imprisonmen' upcG each indictmint, (Jifteen years in all.) in the Penitentiary. British interfer-nce with Slavery.-A man by the name of Johuathan Walker, is co fined in prison at Pensacola, Florida, for carrying off certain slaves. fje re cently at'eruipted to escape, was captured, and on searchitig his person certain ld6eu metts, sg'tied by the President and Sec. ttaj f the "British Foreign and Anti. Sla'eiy Society, for tlhe abolition of sla Ivey am.1 the-stav6 tiade thrjonghzout the world." were found. These papers clearly prove the interference of the above society with slavery' 1j our country. 'They ex press great syrnpaty for Valker and Torre.y. another A bolitionist who was re cently sentettced to idiprisonment in Ma ryland. The case of Wa lker has called forth a special mes'otge from John Branch, Governor of Florida. to the Sena-te and House of Represetntatives of the Teriitory. T ributeof Repret to Dr. Jose ph John son of Charleton.--At the aurtiversary tmeeting of the Apprentices tibrafY So ciety of Chtarleston, held .on the 1'7th nIt., a Bust of Dr. Joseph Johrnsotn, the first and only President of the Society, was presented otn behalf of the Board of Trus trees to said Society. Great Southern Mail.--The Post mas ter General in a letter addressed to the Mayor of Charleston and oilier memori alistssays~ th'at the great 8'outhern Mail -will he continued on thte Raleigh and Wil mington route, as heretofore. The Com pany will atride by the contract for the tran~sportation of the Southern Mail, into which they entered for four years, com mencitng in 1843. Ample time is now al lowed them. Writ of Error.-he Providence Tran script, says that the U. S. Stpreme;Court have granted the writ of error prayed for in the petition of Thtomas WV. Dorr. The Governor atnd A ttorney General of Rhode Island have been cited in behalf of the State to appear on the first Monday of December next, to hear the question ar gned. The effect of this will be merely to try the question whether the constittu tion antd lav s have been violated bsy the action of Rhode Island in the trial of Dorr for treason.* Trnal of Fairbzak ths Abolitioniist.-.. The Rev. Mr. Fairbank, charged, in con nect ion with Miss Webster already eon. victed, with abductinig slaves in Kentucky was put upon his trial, at Lexington on the 13th inst. le at first plead not guilty but after a jury had been sworn, he enter ed a plea of guilty, and threw himself on the mercy of the court. lie made/a short address, in which he avowediinself an A holitiottist, hut pleadl the force of educa tion to palliate the enormity of his offence which he declared-was more plain to him on reflection, thtan. heretofore. He said, that ssere he again free, he would neither enunttenance nor aid the escape of slaves tince he was convinced that although the :ondlition of some might be ameliorated, nany were as happy as they are, and that wuch a course only tended to increase the misery andI discontent of those who were eft bechind. Theojury sentenced him to ive .years confinement in the Penitentiary tn each of the indictmtetts, makingffteen ,cnrs in n'l.