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MISCELLANEOUS. From the Charleston Mercury. THE LAST SESSION OF CONGRESS THE TWENTY-FIRST RULE. We pursue our review of -the course of The Democratic party. And here it is pro per to notice .an article in the Globe of Friday night, in which it notices at-length the matters we have assigned as among the causes of Mr. Van Buren's defeat-es pecially the action of the party on the Tt.riff and the 21st Rule. That paper re vives its old and absurd charge against the free trade mo of the south that they were the cause of the defeat of McKay's Tariff bill. If the Globe believes that, nobody else does. It was knoten that a much larger majority would have voted against the passage of that bill than voted to lay it on the table. There nas no manner of doubt about the matter at the time, anti if there had been. the subsrquent course of the party in Ne w York. Pennsyl vania and other manufneturing States would-have set it at rest. They relused to go into the Presidential election or. the issue-a revenue tariff, or protection, and maintained that Mr. Polk was a better protective tariff man than Mr. Clay. The other charge of the Globe is, that we have assigned as one of the causes of the distrust of Mr. Vat Buren and his par ty, the repeal of the 21st Rule, which did not take till last winter, six months after the nomination of Mr. Polk ! This is the Globe's winding up, and with the privi lege of making the facts, anybody may close an argument triumphantly. Nobo dy knows better than the Globe ought to know, that the Rule was repealed at the precelina - Session on a direct vote,-and that -the certain y of a rupture in the party and the utter destruction of the hopes of the Northern candidates in consequence of such action going before the Southern pei pie, were the real and* sole cause of the retraction of -that vote.and the 'laying on the table the whole subject of a revisal of the Rules of the [louse (John Q. Adams Chairman of the Committee on Rules by appointment of a " sterling " Democratic Speaker!!) This left ie -old Rules in force, and as the hostile vote had not been carried -into effect, the people were never thoroughly alive to its deep significance. It was slurred even as the Globe now siurs it. if it was mentiotied at all, it too, like the vote on 'the Tariff was treated as a harmless maneuvre to outv-it the Whigs and prevent Mr. -Clay from absorbing the vote of the Abelitionists. We were re minded that the repeal of the Rule had not been carried- out--which was proof - that the party was all right. Let theta get over the Presidential election. and we should still see that they were still faithful to right principles and -to their -pledges. So men reasoned, and the mass believed. Those who saw deeper, knew that such were baseless. They held it as settled that ot the first opportunity the Northern Dem ocrats. uniting 'with the Whigs, would abolish ihe Rule and opeu the doors-of the House wide to Abolition agitatien. The sings were many aud indubitable,:to those who saw the whole. .They took this grouad before the people in several of the great States, and even or. Texas ttey sus tained the position of the Baltinore Con vention on Abolition grounds, where Abo lition .did not .tempt them to go against Texas entirely. -They maintained that -Anuexation would aid and accelerate the exituction of slavery,-by draining Mary ryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri, of their black population. And then, Tlexas coming in as a Territory, undler the con trol of Congress, (the onily form in which Annexation bad thent been presented) the Nortbern majority might modify and limit it, an'd by giving one or two States to the Sonth, tinght appropriate all the rest to themselves. Texas was thus mystified, whilst the certain repeal of theo 21st Rule by the D)emuocrastic party, tmadeo a great division in'their favor among the Abolitiontists, and led thousands of thetm eit her to vote an itt dependent ticket or to support the Demo cratic candidates. The effect of sach procceditrgs in the Presidential canivass, soon shewed its.ell on the meeting of Congress, with little deference to the Baltimore Resolution. On the third day of the Session, the 21st Rule was repealed, but four votes North of the Potomac being given to retain it. Whbatever the People of the South ex pected to the contrary, anid whatever was said - during the Presidential Election, to foster such expectatios,-it is plan the politicians at WVashington kntew the repeal of the. Rule was settled as a matter of course. if they had any assurance at all of the Democratic party, it was the assur ance of its defection- fromn the South,-of irs hostility. To reasoin against fanaticism, or to talk againist time, they felt to-be equally useless, and the 21st Rule was re pealed w ithout a word or an efforIt to ar rest its fate. The Northern politicians had certainly been at no pains to deceive anybody on this poin,-unless indeed The Baltimore Resolution could be supposed to -mean something ; anid so it might, standing by itself, but 'he practical coommentary on it at the prec-ing Session. (for it was verba in the Batimnore Resolution of 1840,) is an answer to that, amid plainly shew s 'hat they meant niothing. If we vote confidence in themi after such an intepretation of their pledge, so much the worse for us. A will in.g dupe is no at all. Grosas Assaul.-On Monday- last a most gross and villianous attack, was- made up on Mr-. David Lesly, of. this place, in front of tile Court Hottse, by a fellon whose name we learn, is Richardson. . It ap .pears from good authority,-that this aissas smt was hired by some one moire base than himself, to iLoamit the assault, for the pit iful sum of len dollars! Mr.' Lesly is a zealous advocate in the cause of temper ance, -by his praise-worthy 'exertions, anad that of his fellow mtembers of the Council, have succeeded in abolishing in our Vil lage ~those sinks of perdition, known as groceries, or grog-shops, which have been and still are a nuisance to any community where they dre~permitted to exist. This has greatly excited the ire of sorrie, and this is .the dastardly and villianous imner in which they would :avenge themselves. Abb esdile BRne Apri 9Q OFFICIAL. . THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPRE Post Office Depairtment. Msrch 29,.1845. lb The* appropriation of $8,0007. meet expenses of the -Magnetic-Teleg'r.aph be.' tween Washington and Baltimore beitig placed. under the charge and direction of 9 the Post Master Gener.-t; and it -appear A ing that, under a previous appropriation u embracing t .e sarne objeet, -% hich was P made for the purpose of testing the prac to ticability and utility of said Telegraph. the Secretary of the Treasur'y.under the e authority conferred by net of Congress, q had appointed 8. F. B. Morse superinten- 1 dent, at a salary of $2,000 a vear, and to t%- o assistants, Messrs. Alfred Vail and h Henry J. Rogers together with keepers of P laboratory and inspectors of wires, at a further allowance of at least $3,000 a year Ordered. That said amountts be disbursed out of'said appropriations to wit. To said S. F. B. Morse. superintendant at the rate of $2,000 a year. To said Alfred Vail, assistant 1,400 do. Y D,. [I. J. Rogers, do. 1,000 do. C Do. Two keepers of labora tory anti inspectors of wires, at $300 each 600 do. And that tb salaries be paid the of. cers noithly. from the time of their qual ification, by the Chitf Ulerk of the Depart- - ment a the elerks are now paid, and itat said superintendent and assistants take the oath required by the act of 1825 see tion 2. It is further directed that the offices of the said superintendent and assistants be' kept in the po: offices at Washington and Baltimore, and that the magnetic line be extended from the dep..t in Baltimore to the post office as early as practicalle, and that-it he used at its present location until ihat is effected; that thu offices in Balti tore and Wasthingtotn be kept open for the reception and transmission of des-g p)atclies from eight o'clock A. M.; fron one P. M. until three o'clock P. M..and from five till seven o'clock P. 31, Sundays excepted. For the transmission ofeach despatch there shall be paid, itt advance, at the of flee frot n hich it is sent, .by the appIt ati one qualter of a cent for eacn tele graphic character. Upon the reception of. t despaich at either oilice, it shall be the duty of the officers to have the stne trans lated in fair landwriting, carefuly envel oied and sealed, and ihe inagnetic char acters immediately destroyed, and to place the despatch in the handso'the penny-post for delivery, who shall be.enlitled to re ceive the same ctompensation therefor a, for the delivery oflet ters transmitted now by mail. It is ftttther ordered that the said super intendei and assistants in no case con Itmunicate to, or permit to be seen by, any person, the contents of atty despatch, ex cept the individual or individuals to wbom it may be addressed. It is further ordered that the expenses attenditng the extension or the telegraph line to the post oflice in B tltimore, as well as 'ill other con utngent and incideulal ex penses, be paid.upon a statetnent of t he ex penses, and a certificate of the correctness thereof, by the superintendent. upon the order of the Postmaster GeneraL - It is further ordered that -the superinten dentt keep art accurate account of rhe in come, as well as the expenditures, end re port the same, at the :end of each fiscal quarter, to the Postmaster Getteral.to be applied to the pa) iment of the expenses of the establisbrrient, or so much as may be necessary; and that t he superintendent pay the sanme, under ihte rules and regulations ntow applicable tn paymtent by postmnasters. leit considerittion oh the fac'ilities allowedl by the railroad com puny to t he su pertn - tendent and his assistanms in attending to the business of the telearaph, it is further ordered that the free use if' the telegraph be conceded to said company for the trans missiotn at' commtunications relating to te business of' their road C.,JOHNSON. Post master General. Alabama Medical btstitute.-We un dlerstatndl that the Legislature of Alabama at their recent session have passed an act iicurpiiratittg ttnder tie above title, a Be tanico Medical Institulion, with a board of 9 or 11 trustees-whoese duty it will lbe to eleet a Faculty of Medical Professors antd make all needful arrngements to open the Institution, for the delivery of a cottrse of Lectures by thte 1st Monday of Novem her next. Wetutnpk-a is spoken of as the probable site of the College. We hail with joy all such indications of improvement int thte science of medicine, and the advance nment of thte new schtoo mnent in the pathi of reform in matters appertaining to life. and health. Thotugh brought up in the' old school, of' Medicine, yet we have lang since learned to -look upon it as a narrowv predjudice which can se-e nothing good I save itt t he system we may have ottrselves beeni taught. Sutccess, then, we say to the Alabama Medical Institute, and all others having~ in view the improvement of Medical Science and the atnelioration of the sutlferintgs of the humuan race. While on this subject wve ought perhaps to notice tthe existence of a Botanico Mled cal Schtool att Foirsyt h, in otur ow State, and a New Medical Journal from t he same pilace. Our informatio'n, is however, so limited, that .we are unable to speak d~e finitely of either the School or the Journal. Muscogee Democrat., Fire.-On Saturday last, about 5 o' clock. P. M., a fire occurred in the upper part of the Trowa, whtich consumed the dwellittg of a Mr..F~etoer. All the family of Mr. Fetuer were absent at the tirtie .The fire occurred, and we regret to aadd that besides the bttilding. which we understand was not insturetd, Mr. F. lost all his furni tur'e. Mr. Fetner is a ponor but very res pectable atnd worthy citizent of oar Town. atnd will feel very settsibly the 5: rious loss he htab sustained. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary, and suspicion has fixed itself upon a negro womtan who sias the otnly person on the premises at the. time of th~e occurrence of the fire. The woman is now in cus tody. but we understand that very little, if any testimotny can he procui'ed towards her conviction-South Carolinian A pril 10. "Oh thou munificent dispenser of blesstmgs." I as the turkey buzzard said to the Railroad car. 1 From the Christian Index. REACTION. We discover that many of our Northern rethren are much dissatisfied,. with the unanimous" decision of the Boston- Board -but it becomes un to look - well into the rounds of their dissatisfaction..before we utter oersqlves that they sympathizd with and are williig to admit -us to equal rivileges with themselves. ~ They object Sihe action of the Board merely because eydlecided the "vexed question"-be iuse they answered candidly the plain uestion propounded - to them. -They. ould have them, we suppose, continue act deceitfully towards ie:South, by olding out the idea that they are not dis osed to make distinctions bedWeen the ro-slavery and anti-slavery'brother, uihile iey carefully avoid giving an agency, or )tn asub-agency to a slaveholder. The' bjections to the action of.4* Boston 'oard, so far as we have become acquain .d with-them, are tot pased uon the in istice 'done us in disfranchisingius. but p) n what they conceive to beihe impru ence of the Board and the inpolicy of ieir action We are surprized that any ai the South hould view the query involved,1in.the Al bana resolutions as purely hypotheticaln -it had as much reference to agents am to issionaries. The most influential min iters in S. Carolina, Georgia. Alabama ud Mississippi, are slavebolders; anJ, vielding more influence thati others, are he best qualified to act as agents in the iuuth-they would be tnost- successful genis. We repeat, we-arelsurprized ve are astonished beyond measure, - tht iny slave-holder-Tmat any Southern nan, should' consider -Ite question, --Do ou consider me eligible to office?" a pretty iypothetical one We doubt not action will..be takin at he North to endeavor to prevent if possible he proposed convention in 'flguaa, or, siling In this, to distract otir deliberations - to divide that they may conquer.. . We tope our brethren ir. the South will be on heir guard, & not suffer themdelves to lie leceived, as they have heretofore been, y the soft speeches and equibital- -repre eutations of Forthern men 'ii- their se ret allies in the South. tu 'lie present mteergency, the tian who has-ony inter. sts at the North-fame or friendship-to ie jeopardized by a separation is not to e trusted, viihout scrutinizing well his tosition and the ultimate bearing of the neasures he may advocate. Homcide.-We understiand from a entlemdn who resides in' Qrangeburg, hat anit affray occurred on Saturday last, it Capt. Kitchen's Muster Ground, at the 3luh House on Dean Swamp. . which re ulted in the death of Daniel .J. Smithe art. From the testimony .taken. before he Magistrate, who acted as 'Coroner ou he inquest, we learn that Smithehatt at acked -by Mr. John Ward witout provo atioo. knocked him dowi'aind -choked iim-after which he was pulled iff by dr. James Walker.. He made a second ittack, and again knocked Mr. Ward own. Mr. Ward is a small effeminate veak man and is entirely inoffensive. Af Dr this Smithehart pursued him about.one indred yards-when Mr. .4rdi warned iim not to approach, but he .ijl. -per~isted a pursuing .him with the.'a6tentiot ofr eating hi-a again. Mr. Wqil. etreated tillrfurther from .him,'- when Smithehnrt u6hed on him-' Mr. Ward fired -when ie came to within five paces of hin, and mithart received the .conteuts of -the hot gun-int his left breabt, and -fell dead to he ground* A.Jury was empanneled 'immediately 'y Jstmes Garvin, Esq., who acted ats Juruner on the occasio. They returned verdict of Justifia ble Homicide, and Mr. Vard was immediately released.-bSouth ~arolinian, ApriL 10. 'THE NEW POSTAGE SYSTE.M.. We have always hein in favor of a re Drmt in the postage system of the U. S.; ut not of -such a reformi as wias mrade by he last Congress. The newv postage sys Bin may work nell-we hope it will, but ear very much it will rnot. It was gui ip by agitations in. the northern cities, motag ahe mercantile and ma-nufactutirinig lasses of' the north ;-no agitation on the ttbject was ever heard n -the South. And ile the authors of this postage reform ave been clambering for low postage, as means of increasing the reventue of' the 'ost Office Department, the very same ten have been equally clamorous for' high utica ott foreign imports, as a means of icreating the revenue of the govertnment. Lre they consistent I If low postage will ucrease the revenue of the Post Office es ablishment, will not low duties increase he revenue of' the government!? Thte irinciple is -the same precisely, in both eses. But we fear our northern friends -'ish to speculate-on usin a double sense : aK us on the tariff, and in order to keep ip this burden, cut down the postage sys-. ema, so as to throw that branch of govertn neat on the treasury for support. Trhent ye have to pay the postage, atnd pay theta tariff tribute beside.. This is our vie w if the matter. We hope we ,may he la toritng under a mistake.-Meck. Jeffer'n. Naval Movemets.-Rumors have been urrent for some dayis, says the N. York ommercial Advertiser, 8th inst., that or lers had been givens for a concent ration of taval forces in the Gulf of Mexico ; that he Princeten's trip to Europe had been ountermanded, and that vessel with soy ral others, directed to proceed immitedi ately to the coast of Mexico.. We are as iured this mnorning, by an oflicer of the ~avy, that the rumors are well founded." The Madisonian newspaper establlish nent of this city has passed into the hands if Messrs. Theophilus Fisk and Jesse E. tlow, who propose. to issue, in lieu of'it, a iew daily, semi weekly, and weekly 'Demtocratic" paper, under the title of -The Constellation.-Nat, IateLigencer. The Washington Constitution says', that irumor is current and generally accredi ed, in that city, that the British Minister, dir.Packenham, is charged with the ne ;ociation ofa treaty with the .Uited Sta es,~ 'based upon reciproca.l advantages to the >roductsof each country. in their respective narkmat"- na Pnatr, .Ari 1 ltlh. From the N- Y. Tribune, April 5. RHQDE IL ANI. We have return fromall but one town of this State, indicatinc the follow1ihg re. Charles Jackson,. Whig and Law and Order, hut in favor of the unconditional liberation of Dorr, is chosen- Governor by ab'out 150 majority over James Fenner, the Democratic Law and Order.incum bent, who is opposed to the liberation of Dorr. Jackson's clear majority will be about 125 votes. Lieut. Gov. Duacan, and all the rest of the regular Law and 'Order State ticket, are re-elected over the candidates suppo'r ted by those in favor of liberating Dorr, by about 400 majority. Hin. Henry Y. Cranston, Whig and Law and Order, has been re-elected to Congress from the Eastern District with out apposition. lie has over 5000 votes to 100 scattering. Ex-Governor Lemuel H. Arnold. inde pendent Whig, has-run. nut Hon. E. R. Poter, original Democrat and regular La w and Order candidate, by more thau -300 majority. The Legislature is strougly Law and Order and Whig. To the Senate 21 Law and Order, 10 Dorr men are returned elected. -To the. House 43 Law and Order, 24 Dorrites -are returned ; 2 no choice in South Kingstown, where seperate Whig, Law and Order and Dorr tickets were run, nod no choice. (Law and Order, 186 ; Whig, 106; Dorr, 174.) The :Legislature s -therefdre nearly two to one Law and Order. CONN.ECTICUT ELECTION. We have returns from all the towns in the State, except eighteen. The result is thatitoger S. Bald%% in, Whig, is re-elected Governor by a majority of about 1500 over all other persons, and by a pleurality over Toucey. Dem. of from 3000 to 3600. All the WAig candidates for State officers. and for Congress. are chosen, and there is a-decided Whig majority in both. branches of the-Legislature.. Afembers-of Congress Elected.-lst Dis. -Hartford- -and Tolland, James Dixou, Whig. 24. New Haven and MiddleseiSam -uel D. Hubbard, Whig. 3rd. New London and Windham, John A. Rockwell. Whig-. - 4th. Fairfield and' Litchfield, Truman Smith, Whig. Last Congrcss, all Democrais. A Whig gain of four. Legislature.-There will be a Whig. majority of eleven or Iwelve in the Senate, and abettt thirty in the llouse. NEw YORK, Meaich 9.' City Election.-Our annual .election of Municipal officers .came off yesterday. Perfect order prevaired. afid every man entitled -to-vote, itad oppbrtuuity to do 6. Tne result is as* might have been forseen -frdm the determination of the Whigs to run a seperate ticket at all hiazrds. Wm. P. Heyemayer, the Democratic candidate, is elected Mayor, by a pleurality of full 6000 votes, counting only his excess above ihe highest opposing candidate in each Ward. Harper, (A in.- Rep.) 558; Selden, (W.) 00; Heyemeyer, (D.) 6945. Heyetneyer's iajority in the city 6387. Common Council.-In the Common Council too the Democrats have made nearly a clean sweep. Out of 17 Wurds they Ihave carried 15. In the 3rd & 15th, the Whig candidates are elected. - Brooklyn Helction.-tn -Brooklyn, too, the Deomecrats are victorious-having ef~etd Tlhomtas G. Tallmrage,'their can ditdate for Mayor, arid a tmajority (lt0 out of$8) of the members of the Coimimon Couucil. Tfhgre, as here, the Whiig and Atm.Republicani run seperate tickets. Vote fo-r Mayor. Demn. Whig. Atm. Repub 2978 1685 1409 Democratic majority as far as heard fromr for Mayor over t he W hies. 1293, liver the American Repubilican. 1569. - Board of Aldermen.- Democratic ma jority in thn Board of Aldermen, over Whigs and A merican, Re publicaus, two. GREAT BRITAIN. FRANCE AND TIIE I.. STATEs. The New York Courier translates the following from the- Paris Constitutional: rThe Duke de Brogle will leave Paris for London, towards the endi of the week. The Duke and Dr. Lushtingtn will imme d~itely comm ietce their labors. We have been assured that thte question of the right of soarch will not be the only one exam inedl by the plenipotentaries. and that two other questi nos will occupy much more of their attention, namely the emancipation of the slaves in the French colonies, and the annexation of Texas. It would ap pear that the British Ministers are rather inclined to give up the right of visitation, if they can obtain t wo new compensations; the ote at the exp)ense of our colonies, that is, a prompt emanlCipation of the slaver ; and the other at the expense of America, that is, an interventiotn, diplotmatical at first, of France against the United States, in the affairs of Texas." -Immenhsity of Numbers.- We never hear of the wandering Jew, (says the Spirit of the Times,) but we mentally itn qi ire what was thte sentence of his punish ment ? Perhaps it was calculatiotn. Per haps lhe was told to walk the earth until be counted e trillion. But, will some folks say, heocouald not count that number. We fear they would not; Suppose a man to count one every second of time. day and night, without stopping to rest, to eat, to sleep, it would .take thirty-two years to count a billion, or thirty-two thousand years to count a trillion ! What a limited idlea we generally entertain of the immnensity of numbers !" Gov. Dorr is at present so feeble in health as to be unable to perform any labor in the prison work-shop. The Boston. Almanac estimates the professors of religion in the Uniited States at 4,18i,202 about one half the adult pop ulation. EDnGEFIELD C. *WEDNESDAY, .APRIL 16, 1845. 04' Bu V "lVe will dling to the Pilars of the Temple of Our Liberties, and if it must fall, we tab per ish amidst the Ruins." l1T We refer the attentioi of' our'ieaders 1b. the communications of Rev. Win. B. JouNsor, D D., and Rev. L. M. CaUiS, to'be foundi iui another column of to day's-paper. CHANGEABLE NVAEt-Ef.-2-During a~consid erable portion of last week, the weather, was very warm for the season, the thermometer rising to a print not usually reached until. late in May. We have had also son'verycold days, severe enough for winter. We have sftu fered considerably from drought ind dust. It will be seen by reference io .the official order of the. Post .1astei General, that the Magnetic Telegraph firm Washington to Bal. tiniore hns become apart of the Post Office Department. SxocKING MURDER.-Mr. Ansel Talbert, Sen ,a highly res!'ectable citizen of 'this Dis trict, was on the 31st of March most unmerci fully beaten by one of his negro boys, abbat- 16 yearsof age. Mr. T. had been for some-time previously. in a feeble state o health, and was confined in bed, when'the assault, was made upon him. - He died on the 9th. of this month. The negro boy was tried for murder on the 12th instantrand found guilty. He issentenced to be hung-on Fridaythe 25t. 07*We invite the attentiot of our read ers, and more especially those of the An derson Gazette, who may be subscribers to the Advertiser, to be found in another co lumni of to-day's paper, to the Card of Messrs. Todd & Wyatt,.late Proprietors of sai i paper-but who-reeso unfortunate as to loose their eslablishment during the late destructive fire in Anderson. Tfey have ordered a.new .supply of materials, and expert to be:enabi.ed to resume the publication of their paper about the 1st of Mav. We hope their watrons will have a little paience, and ihoe indebted fork up. The Rev. 5Mr. Fairbanks, against whom an ifamous charge was preferred, was recently triaid at Boston, and acquitted. . The verdici has given general satisfaction. TwHE .tDiso itv.-M r. Jon e5, Editor of ihis paper, has.sold the establishment to Messrs. J. L. Dow nod T. Fisk. it wilt horeafter be called the Constellation. SOUTaCRn CUtT1VAvoR.-We have recei ved the April number of the Southrrn Culti vator. This periodical is published on 'tire 1st or every month, at Augusta. Ga. J. W. & W. S. Jones editors of the Chronicle & Sentinel are the proprietorS. The 'Cultivator is under the editorial control of Jas. Camnak, of Athens, Georgia. The terms are one dollar per an. num, in advance.. This periodical has reached the fourth number of the third volume. The number before us. is neat in its typographical appearance, and embraces in its pages an abundance of car elul ly selected and interesting ori-'inal matter. . The cotitents are sufficiently divers'ified to please the tastes of all who take the least interest 'm the progress or prtrsuit of Agriculture. Many of the articlesin the number before us, are worthy o'f-attetition from all. We will only refer to one, -on thie subject of "Agri. cultural Education." This article contains sev eral very important suggestions, which if car red out, would doubtless greatly benmefit the Agriculttural interests -of Georgia. -It recomn. mends that tire systern of educatIon in "the State University, shall include a Professorship of Agricultutal Chemistry and Geology-" This we consider a very important matter. and one worthy of the most serious attention in all the States Thle article to which we have refer ence, will be found on the first page of our pa per. We would be pleased to extend the cir culation'of the "Southern Cultivator,' as we believ-e it will amply repay the price of sul scription. Municipal Election.-The Camden Journa says: The election held on Monday, 7th inst. resulted in the choice of the following gentle men : Hauyman Levy, [ntendan't. J. R. McKain, J. H. Anderson, J. C. West 'and E. W. Bonney, Wardens. Municipal Election in Columbia.-On Mon d-my. A pril 7th, the election for Munmcipal Offi cers in this Town, took place, and restuhed ai fo'llows; Intendant-W. B. Stanley. Wardens.-Ward No. 1-Henry Lyons,. S. Boatwright. Ward No. 2-Joel Stevenson, Win. Glaze .Ward No. 3-Thos. Wade, R. C. Swindler The afecklenburg- Jeffersonian announce the death of Col. John -H-. Bissell, a distir guished Geologist in North Cazrolina. Th Jeffersonian says: -Col. Bissel was a gentleman of exten sive learning and indomi'able enterprize and as a scientific miner, baa for-yeen added newv life to the mnining. businest of this region, and has done more to de velope the mineral' wealth of Westeri Carolina, than any other individual in it lie -had in progress near this place, an es. tablishment. for'- extracting the precitn * als; hic, ha beabon snared to carrs it forward, would ire have n doubt, hav rodueed: - a complete revolution -ic the mining. business of this country, im a very short-fime.". L'T-rEI OF TE R0. MR. MASON Ol SLA' VEnl.-The letter of this man; who is. a For. eign Missionary, on.the institutioli of ulivery. will be round below. It-breathes ie spirit of the wiljlest fanaticism.or insanity on this sub ject. -'Thefoed of madnes catr no farthir go." Wido not know in what.terms to' speak of the cdnduct of a Minister of the Gospel, whose sacred profession ejoins upon him peace antd good.will to all ntinid nonintterference witli the jolitical instions ofany-country inwhich he wiay-reside, especially those of his-own',who, willspeak and act in so .disorganing a man ner, as Mr. Moason bs. ds. itis manv ho consecrated hiniself to the dissemination of. christianityris ictually engaged birebking its fundaentil lawp. Ife gives ioeo'as s-siin' the escape of uiees frm taerm *aters # It seems to us, that he hasnao idea of the mnoral. obligatiion'whisck-tha'hilf6jgio tihatli pros essee,' imposes hponfliin$e has ?etahsily forgot the commaadmnient,Whidofrbids steal ing the property of othermei. Wetbinkita penittntiary or State's prison would'68 a more suitable place for this Rev'd. abotiQist,.bao the' missionrystitionrit wilah he-is supported by the -geeirouscontributions ofNortkrn-and perhaps:Southern Churches. - LETTER .OE -REX. FRANCIS. MAj(SON ON THE SUBJECT OP BLAVERT The annexed-letter *is.. iiblisied~alt week in the. Christisn, Refldetor. We copy it as a matter of intelligebce of-avery peculiar-character, leaving- itoour'read ers-to: forni their-oswn :pimons of-~ioa;-. tents.-Ed. Bapdts(N ) N diocatr TAVOY, Mg.'2,184; My Dear Sir. -A .circulareigned,,by y.ourself. reached, me a year or. two ago,. and has been-lying am.oag my-unanswrtfed let ters. eversine. : have froeibiy ask ed myself if .I ought- not-o auswer t,3ut a reluctance to entertain - aqyestion in -which I am so little.conversant, t ihe di- - tance of half-tbu globe, and-in whier par' -tiee run 6o :strong,.has made''. hesitate whether I hai guy duty to-perforin I.tie matter. A present of clothing, tbdtivo lately received froin one-of the.slavesold -ig chu rcfies, ha;i, howeVer -decidid the question. I feel it incambenitupoi me to show on wfich- side m feditngs, are enlist ed.. Lhave au invincible hatred solilavery, and I shall say so.- It- is the: foulest blot on the American fiag,- atd .which mnakes i; to be sneered. at, andJustly sneered at,'by every friend of liberty .abmadin ailsHna tions. i believe it to be the greatest sin that ever-clothed itself under thiecover-of C(nristianity,-that was- ever attempted to be defended roiM'the Scriptures. it mnsta fal1, ere long. in some w ay or other, but how, I know aot. hope IL willbe brought down'by the force of :bristian principle, and that abolitionists will pursue no course but such as 4brist will approbtat- Ie -diy of judgment. It Js beter to-suf-er, th.in to do- wror'g; -but if it--besght'to run anway f-rom persecutioniaddeit iatour 'Saviour taught, surely'it Is1 ighi .or.un away rom slavery,'whic1, to. sie.6uld heno worse than death_ dihei1fre, the "leasure to edcdlose a o er -for-ten dollars on our Treasurer,.. which I:will thank you to pay over to the-Committee in New York, to ansis the escape of ram. away slaves. The money .is not sent you out of my abundance, but -because there seems to me no ground for neutrality tion,. anid I wish to show decidedly, that 1.have' no sympathy with slavery, no comprom ise to make with it whatever. My motto in this work is, * Delenda esi Cart hago." Yours very sincerely, FitANCIS MASON. Lnvis TAPPAN, Esq., Treasurer 'Ameri can and Foreign Anti-8lavery Society. The -Editors of the -Consstiuion, a Demio. cratic paper published at Washington City, thus define their position: " The Spectator, while under the con trol of one of the Edmitors of this paper, ad vocated Mr. Calhoun's claims-uo-the Presi dency, until the iiithdrawal of his- name from the canvass. Its efforts were thetn di rected in good faith, to secure the election by the Batltimore Convention of a candi datet that would insure the united and bar monious action of 'our party and the suc cess of our principles. It wvas the first pa per in the United States to place the name of James K. Polk at the masshead,-and during the campaign its columns and those of the "Young hlickory " were zealodsly and unremittingly devoted to insure ,his success. Of the value or-efficiency of thtose labors, it becomes us not to speak. Having piurchased the materials ohbf'~ Spectator, we established the Constitution as a free and independente Dihmocratic pa per. In our prospectus' we said :-We hope to* make the paper''worthy of the confidence and support of -the Deniocratic party. it shall be the. faithful- expositor of their principles, and the ever reads me dium to convey their sentiments anid wish es to the public. ,The;Dlenocratic eause is the cause of truth and justice.. Iteonrts the light. 'It shuns no investigatian. ~And we are determined- to see whether~a paper, conducted with a~ devotion' to-the~princi ciples, rather thani to the'meia, 'of our party. -to further the great cause of human pro gross, rather than the-mere. advancement of particular' individuals--will no~t corn mend itself to-the-coadence and-favor of the people." We reiterate this declara tion. We are the advocateanda theogant, not of men, but of principlesothe-pit-t pies of thehemocratic. party, asspiroiml-' gated by~Jefferson .ind .Madison in'1798; as repeated by the representatives of 'the 'Democracy in ihe Baltimore:Conveptioni 'in May.'"44; -and as sanctioned by-a ma jority of the Amnerican. people in ihe:.el. vation of their embodistent and .exponent,. James K. Polk,-to the Presidbntial Chair. ;We have the most uuboundedondence in his wisdoni;- firmness, -aud? inte rity; that "the 'Republic wiliasfer '-no detri' ment" while its destinies ase'ntrusld. his guidance; and~while .his adminita, tion of the-alfairs of this great nationwill redound to his own fame, it.wifl-perpetn"' ate the success'ofithe greai'prinsciples.sithl ' which lhi is'identified."