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MISCELLANEOUS. From the South Carojnian. EXTRACT Of Governor hanimond's Letters on' southern - !Iavery. SILVER BLtdF. S. C., January 28, 1845. Sir:-I received a short time ago, a letter from the Rev. Villotaahby M. Dick inson, dated at your reiidence, " Phayford Hall. near Ipswich, 26th Nov., 1844," in which was inelosed acopy of your Circu tar Letter addressed to professing Chris tians in our Northern States, having no concern with Slavery, and to others i here. I presume that Mr.Dickinson's letter was writ'en with your knowledge. and the document inclosed with your consent and approbation. I therefore feel that there is no improprietyin my addressing my reply directly to yourself, especially as there is 4tothiug itn Mr. Dickiuson's ceumunica tiou, requiring serious notice. Having abundant leisure, it will be a recreation to me to devote a portion of it to an eatami -nation. and free discussion of the question of Slavery as it exists in our Southern States: and since you have. thrown down the gauntlet to me, I do -not hesitato to take it up. I do not propose, however, to defend the African Slave Trade. That is no -longer a question. Doubtless great evils arise from it as it has been, and is now conducted; unnecessary wars and cruel kidnapping in Africa: the most shoking barbarities in the Middle Passage : and perhaps :t less humane system ot slavery in countries continually supplied with fresh laborers at a cheap rate. The evils of it, however, it may he fairly presumed, are greatly exaggerated. And if I might judge of the truth of transactions stated as occurring in this trade, by that of thoso reported as trauspirirg among us, I should not hesitate to say, that a large proportion of the stories in circulation are unfounded, and tuost of the remainder highly colored. On the passage of the Act of Parlia ment prohibiting this trade to British sub jects rests what y..u esteem the glory of your life. It required twenty years of arduous agitation, and the intervening ex traordinary political events, to convince your countutrymen, and among the rest your pious King, of the expediency of th is tme sure; and it is but just to say, that no one individual rendered more essential service to the cause than you did in reflecting on the subject. you must often ask your self: What after all has been accomplish ed ; how much human suffering has been averted; h.tw many human beittgs have been rescued from rransatlantic slavery? And on the answers you can give these qoestions, must in a great measure I pre. some, depenl the happiness of'your life. In framing them, how frequently must you be retnitded of the remark of Mr. Grosvenor, in one of the early debates upon the eubj-ct, which I believe you have yourself recorded, " that .he had twenty objections to the abolition of the Slave Trade: the first was, that it was inpossi ble-ihe rest he need not give." Can you say to yourself, or to the notId, that this 'frst ri jetdon of i r., Grniaa- l. yeTfi*Er~. Ti was estitmated at the commencement of your agitation 1787, that forty fivo thousand Africans were atnally. transpoted to America and the WVest Iftdies. And the mortality of the BMIdle Passage, computed bv someo at 5, is now admtitted nott to have exceeded 9 per cent. .Notwithstandinig your Act of Parliament, the previous abtolition by the United States, antd thtat all the powers itt the world have subseqiuently prohibited this trade-sotme of thte greatest of thtem declarittg it piracy. and covering thte A fri can -eats with artmed vessels to prevetnt it -Sir 'lThomas Fowtl hioutot, a coadjtttor of yours, declared int 1840, thtat te numn her of Africans now aunnually sold into slavery beyond the sea, amnounlts, a: the very least, to one hundred and flfty thou sand sottls ; while the tmortality of the * Mliddle Passage has increased, itt conse quence of the mneasures t aken to suppress the trade, to 25 mr A0 per cent. And of the otte hundred and Grfty thtousand slaves who have been esptutjred atnd liberated by British Alemo & -.:wme the patssaee omf yottr Act, Jutdge~ Jay, anO Americanu Abo litiouist, asserts that omie hmrt.dred thbou sand. or t wo-thirdls, have perished het ween their capture and tiberam on. Does it not really seemn that Mr. Grosventor wvas a Prophet ? That though nearly all the Simpossibilities' of 1787 hatve vatnished, attd become as famtiliur facts as out house - holtd custonts, under the taae irfluence of Steam, Cotton atnd universal peace, yet this wvondecrful prtophecy still standis, defy iug time andl the etergry and genius of matnkinmd Thmousattds of valuable lives and fifty milliotts of' pouttds sterling have beett given away by your Government ttn frtuitless attempts to overturn. I hope * ~ you have not livetd too long for your own happitness, though you have been spared to see that in spite of all your toils and th~se of your fellcow lauorers" and the ac cotmplishmtett of all that human agency could do, thte A fricatn Slave Trade has in creased three ftld tttder your own eyes more raptmdly, perhaps, than any other aucient branmch of cotmmtere--andl that youtr elfort~ s:.ppress it have etfectedi nothitng-more thtatt a three-fold increase of its horrors. There is a God whto rules 'this world-All powerful-Farseeing : lie does ttot permtit Ilis creatures to foil 11lk designs. It is lHe who, for llis all wise, thtought tn us often inscrutable pur poses, throws t mpossibilities"' in the way of our foudest hopes and most streauous exerttons. Cau you doubit this! Experience having settled the point, that, thtis T rade cannot be abolished by the use of force, aml~ that blockading squa dronts serve only to. make it omore profita-. ble arnd tmore cruel, I- atm surprised that the at tempt is persisted. itt, unless it serves as a cloak to. somne othter purposes. It wvotltd be far better than it now is,, for the African, if the trade was free from alL re strictions, and left to thte mitigation and decay whtich time and competition would surely hring about.. If kidntappinmg, botli secretly atnd by w.gr made for the purpose, could be by any 1teanms preventted in Afri ca, the next greatest blessing you coutd bestowv upott that country -ottld be tn ,!.np-r its actual slaves in. comfortable vessels across the Atlantic. Though they might be perpetual bondsmen, still,.they would emerge from darkness in:o light from barbarism to civilizatio-from idol atry to christianity-in short from death-to life. -But let us leave the African slave trade, which has so signally defeated the PAil anthropy of the world, and turn to Amer ican slavery, to which you have now di rected your attention, and-against which a crusade has been preached as enthusiastic and ferocious as that of Peter the Hermit -:estinel, I believe, to be about as suc cessful. And here let me say, there is not a vast difference between 'he two, though you may not acknowledge it. The wis dom of ages has concurred in the justice and.expediency of. establishing rights by prescriptive use, however toruouzs in their origin they may have been. You would deem a man insane whose keen sense of equity would leac him to denounce jour right to the lands you holl, and which perhaps you inherited from a long line of ancestry, because your title was derived. from a Saxon or Norman conqueror, and your lands were originally wrested by vio lence from the vanquished Britons. And so would the New England Abolitionist regard any one who would insist that be should restwe his farm to the descendants of the slaughtered Red men to whom God had as clearly given it as. ie gave life and freedom to the lgdniped African. That time does not consecrate wrong, is a falla cy which all history exposes ; and which tbe best and wisest .men of all ages and professions of religious faith have practi .cally denied. The means, therefore, whatever they may have been, by which the African race now in this country have been reduced to slavery, cannot al'ect us, since they are onr-property, as your land is yours, by inheritance or purchase and prescriptive right. You willsay that man cannot hold property in man. The an swer is, that he can and actually dces hold property in his fellow all the world over, in a variety of forms, and has alrays clone so. I will show presently his authority for doing it If you were to ask me whether I was an advocate of slavery in the abstract, I should proba'aly auswer, that I am not, according -to my understanding of the question. I do not to deal in abstractions; It seldom leads to any useful ends. There are few universal truths. I do not now remember that any single moral truth universally acknowledged. We have no assurance that it is given to our finite un derstanding to comprehend abstract moral truth. Apart from Revelation and the Inspired Writings, what ideas should we have even of God. Salvation and linmor tality? Let the Heathen answer. Jus tice itself is impalpable as an abstraction, and abstract liberty the merest phantasy that over amused the imagination. This world was made for man, and man for the world. as it is. Ourselves, our relations with one one another and with all matter are real, not ideal. I might say that I am no more in favor of slavery in the abstract, than I am -of poverty, disease, deformity, idiocy or any other inequality in the con dition of the human family ; that J love perfection, and think I should enjoy a Milleniumn such as rod has ro that I would join you to set about eradiea ting those apoarently inevitable evils' of our nature, in equalizing the -condition of all mankind, consummating the perfection of our ratce, and introducing the Millen im ? fly no means. To effect these thinags helongs excltusively to a Higher Power. And it would be well for us to leave the Almighty to perfect His own works and fulfil liis own Covenants. Especially, as the history of atll the past shows how entirely futile all human ef forts have proved,~ when made for the pur-. pose of adnHiincrrying out even his revealed designs, and huw invariably le has accomplished them by unconscious instrumett, atnd in the face of human expectation. Nay muore, that every at. tempit which has'-been made by fallible matn to extort from thte world obedience to his '' ablstract"' notions of right and wvrong, hats been invariably attended with calami ties, dire andi' extended ju.-t in proportion to the breadth and vigor of the movemenit. Ott slavery itn he abstr'tct, then, it would not he amiss to have as little as possible to say. Let us contemplate it as it is And thuts contemplatintg it, the itrst question we have to, ask Iourselves is, whether it is con trary to the Will of (GoJ, as revealed to uts in [his Holy Scriptures-the only cettaitn mteans given us to ascertain his WVill. If it is, then slavery is a sin. And I adait at once that every man is bound to set his face against it,' and to emancipate his slaves should he hold any. Let us open these [Holy Scriptures. In the twentieth chapter of Exodns, seven teenth verse, I find the followinig wvords: " Thou shalt not cov'et thy neighbor's house, thou shalt covet thy neighbor's wife, tnor his man-servant nor his maid servant, ntor his ox, nor his ass, nor any tbing thait is thy neighbor's"-which is the Tenth of those commandments that de clare the essential principles of the Great Mural delivered to Moses by God Himself. Now, discarding all technical und verbal quibbling as wholly unworthy to be used in interpreting the Word of God, what is the plaitt meaning, utndnubted intent, and true spirit of this comtmandment ? Does it not emphatically and explicitly forbid you to disturb your neighbor in the etnjoy ment of his property ; and ni:ore especially of that which is here specifically mention ed as beinig lawfully and by this coinmand ment made sacredly his ? Prominent in the catalogue stands his "mnat-servat and his maid-servant," who are thus dis tincily consecrated as is properly and guaranitied to him for his exclusive heu.-flt in the most solemt manner. You attempt to avert the otherwise irresistible conclu sion:, that sl~avery was thus ordained by God, by declating that the word. "slave" is not used here, and is not to he foutnd in the Bible. And r have seen: many learned dissertations on this point frtom Abolition pens. ft is well known that both the Hebrew and Greek words translated "servant" itn the Scriptures, mean also anid most nousually "slave." The use of the one word itnstead of'the other was a mere matter of taste with the Tratislators of the Bible, as it has been with allihec commtenitators and. religious wvriters, the lateP r of whm haveA belv frP th most part adopted the term 'slave,' or used both terms indiscriminately. .1f, then, these Hebrew and Greek words include the idea of both systems of servitude, the conditi onal and unconditional. the-shdold, as the major includes the minor propnsition be always translated " slaves" unless the sense of the whole text forbids it. The real question,.then is, what idea is intend ed to be conveyed by the words used in the commandment quoted ? And it is clear tomy-mind that as no limitation is affixed to them, and the express intention was to secure to mankind the peaceful enjoyment of every species of property, that the terms " Bond-men and -Bond maids" include all classes of servants, and establish a lawful, exclusive and imlefensi ble interest equally in the '- Hebrew Brother who shall go out in the seventh year" and - the yearly hired servant," and those "purchased from the Heathen round about,' who were to be " Bondmen teorever." as the property of their fellow .man. You cannot deny that there were aong the Hehtews "Bond tmen forever." You cannot deny that God especially au -thorized his chosen people 10- purchase "Bond-men forever" from the Hetathen, as recorded in the 25th chap. of Le ticus, and that they are there designated-by the very Hebrew word used in the Tenth commandment Nor can you deity that a " Bond-man forever" is a "Slave;" yet you endeavor to hang an argument of immortal consequence upon the wretched subtcrfuge, that the precise word "slave" is not to be found in the translation of the Bible. As if the Translators were canon ical expounders of the Holy Scriptures, and their words, not God's mcenin-must be regarded as His Revelation. - It is vain to look to Christ or any of his Apostles to justify such blasphemous perversions of the word of God. Although slavery in its. most ievoltiug form was every where visible around them, no visionary notionsof piety or philanthrophy ever tempted them to gainsay the Law, even to mitigate the cruel severity of the existing system. On the contrary, regard ing slavery as. an established as well as inevitable condition of human society, they never hinted at such a thing as its termi nation on earth, any more than that" the poor man may cease out of the land," which God affirms to Moses shall 'never be: and they exhort " all servants under the yoke" to "count. their masters as worthy of all honor:" "to obey them in all things according to the flesh; not with eye sie as men-pleaser, but in single ness of heart, fearing God :" "not only the good and gentle, but also the. froward :" "for what glory is it if when ye are huffet ted for your faults ye shall take it patiently ? but if when ye do well and suffer for it ye take it patiently, this is acceptable of God." St. Paul actually apprehended a runaway slave and sent him to his master! Instead of deriving from the Gospel any sanction for the work you have undertaken, it would be difficult to imagine sentiments and conduct more strikingly in contrast than those of the Apostles and the Abolitionists. It is impossible therefore to suppose-that slavery is contrary to the Will of God. It is equally absurd tosty that American slavery ilde.,6Aa.oentrheptsto. rterier the definitionoJ our slavery, andts precepts as thr guide of our conduct. We desire nothing more. Even the right io "buffet" which is esteeed so shocking. finds its express license in the Gospel. 4 Peter vi. 20. Nay, what is more, God directs the Hebrews to " bore h'des itn the ears of their brothers" to mark if -em, when c nder eertain circumlstanlces they become pc-pet ual sluves: Lx xxi. 6. I thietk, theni matoy safely conchde, and I firmly believe, that Amnericansla very is not only not a sin. but esperally commanded by God. thtrough Mloses,and approved by Christ through His Aposles.< Ande here I might close its defence ;for what God ordairs and Christ sancifies should surely command thte respectand toleration of .31an. But I rear therehtas I growt up in our time n Transcendetalr Religioni which is throwing even Tfan scndental Philosophy into the shad-a Religiot too pure and elevated forthe Bible; which see-ks to erect among mnt a a higher standard of Moerals than the p Almighty has revealed or our -Savur cd preached ; and w-hi'eh is probably destied ~ to do more to impede the extensimt oi t God's Kiogdoem on earth than all he me Infidels who have ever lived. Erro is o error, It is as diangerous to deviate ate a right hand as the left. Anid when nn; a professing to be holy metn, and wvho aroy o tumbers so regarded, declare those thi~s ec to he sinful wvhich our Creator has expri- v ly authorized and instituted, they do tue to destroy His authority amonig manld than the most wicked can effect by p claiming that to be innocent which Ilois forbidden. To thtis self-righteous and I- at exalted-class belong all the Aholitiots m wrhose writings I have read- With ti in it is no eod of the argument to prove yr m propositions by the test of the Bitble, itn- ai preted accordina to its plain and palpe it meaning, atnd as uniderstoodl by all ttt iri kind for three thousatit years before i- w time- They are more ingetnious at c s struing and interpolating to acconmmno ye it to their new-fangled and etherial codf. to mtorals, thano ever we-re Volt;aire oar lIe' u in pickitngit to pieces to free the ,vord hr so what they considered a delusion. W' ar the Aholitiomnists proclaim "man-steai ar to be a sin, and show me that it is va written down by Goid, I admit them to of right, and shudder at the idea of suc critte. But when I showv them thadl thi hold "bond-men forever'' is ordained! kn God. they deny~ the Bible. and set up in de place a law of' their own making. I m he 'lien cease to reason wthI t hem onl t of branch of the qutestion. Our relig' ty. differs as widely as our manners. wt Great Judge in oiur dlay of final acco i must decide betweene us. ic Turnitng fromt the consideration of sla we holding in its relations to mainn as an Re coutntable beinug, let us examine it in t ifluentce on his political atid social slt wil Though. being foteiguers to us, you aretw no wise'etititled to itnterfere with the ci rat institutions of this coutntry, it has heco ing quite commotecn for yeour countrymteni of decry slavery as an eniormnous pohitiun evil to us. and evetn to declare that dnt Nrthtern States ought to withdlraw Irei the Conifederacy rather titan contiouestri be contaminated by it. The Americat Abolitionists appear to concur fully if these sentiments, and a portion at least ni them are incessantly thteatening to dis solve the Union. Nor should I he at a-l surprised if they succeed. It would not be difficult, in my opinion, to conjecture ture with region, the.North .or South, would suffer mt.st by such an event. For one I should not object, by any means, to cast my lot in a confederacy of States whose citizens might all be slave holders, I indorse without reserve the much abused sentiment of Gov. AlcDuflie, that sla very is the corner stone of our Republi can edifice;" while I repudiate, as- ridicu lously absurd., that much-lauded but no where accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that "all men are born equal." No Society has ever yet existed. and I have already incidentally quoted the highest authority to show that. none ever will exist, without a natural variety of classes. The most marked of these must in a country like ours, he the rich and the poor, :he educated and the ignorant. It wild scarcely ie disputed that the very poor have less leisure to prepare themselves for the proper discharge of public duties than the rich; and that the ignorant are wholly unfit for them at all. In all couu tries save ours these two classes, or the poor rather, who are. presumed to be ne cessarily ignorant, are by law expressly excluded from all participation in the management of public alairs. In a Re publican Government this cannot be done. Universal suffrage, though not essential in theory, seems to be in fact a necessary appendage to a Republican system. Where universal suffrage obtains it-is obvious that the governmut is- in the hands of, a numerical majority ; and it is hardly necessary to say that in every part pf the world more than half the people are ignorant and poor. Though to. one can look upon poverty as a crime, and we do not generally here regard it as any objection to a man in his individual ca pacity, still it must be ad-nittedtha1 it is a wretched and insecure government which is administered by its most ignorant ci izens, and those who have the least at stake under it. Though intelligence and wealth have great influence here as every where in keeping-in check reckless and unenlightened numbers, yet it is evident to close observers, if not to all, that these are rapidly usurping all power in the non slave holding States, and threaten a fear. ful crisis in Republican Institutions there at no remote period. .In the slave-holdittx States, however, nearly one-half of the whole population and those the poorecu and mos' ignorant, have no political influ ence whatever, because they are slaves. Of the other half a large proportion are both educated and independent in their circumstances, while those who unfortu nately are not so, being till elevated far above the mass, are higher toned and more deeply interested in preserving a stable and well ordered Government, than the same class in any other country. Hence, slavery is truly the "corner stone" and foundation of every well-designed and durable "Republican edifice." With us every citizen is concerned in the maintainance of order, and in promot tif IU iii'o ae;o our sla es ; and our habitual vigilance renders-standing armies, whether of Soldiers or Policemen. etttir-ly unnecessary. Small guatds in our cities, and occasional patrols in the country, ensure us a re-pose and security kntownt no where el-c. You cannot he ignorant that, exceptitng the United States, 'here is no cohtntrv in the world whose -xisting Government. woutld not lhe over rurted itn a motnth, bttt for its starcding trmties, tnaintaitned at alt enormous atnd iestrutctive cost to those whotm they are lesined to over-a'ne-so rampati and ombiative is t hte spirit of discontent wthere ~ver tnoial Free lahor prevails, with i's ustensive privileges and its dismal servi nile. Nor wvill it he long before the 'Free Stales" of this Utnion will he cotu cIted to introduc.- the same expensive nac-hitnery to preserve order amottg their free andl equal" cttizptns. Already has 'h iladelpthia organized a piermnanettt Ba;t iliotn fr this putrpose :New Yor k, Boston nd Cmncinnatti will soron follow her exam he ; and thetn the smaller towns attd etnsely poplled~t counties. Thte inter. ention of their rtitlitia to repress viola ons of the, peace is becotmng a dailyi Ir'air. A strotng Government, after somne, f tthe old fashions-thtough probably with - new name-susained by the force of rmted mercenaries, is the ultittate destiny ' thte non-slave-holding seetion of this mfederacy, and one which may not be ary distant.t Prom te Southern Cultivator. A FREAK OF NATURE, Mr. Camak :-Sir, The Siamese T wins t -e a great curiosity, and rendered the b ore so, as they were a freak of Nature i the humnanspecies lhave otetocom unicate, which L thin-k much greater,c idi were it not that it is from the brute a stead of human nature, it would greatly inscetnd the former, as to the interest it ' auld excite in the curious. I send this r stemnent to you, and if you think proper, P >n ttay give it a place itt your Cultiva. al r, not that it ts exactly applropriate for ch a juurntal, lint that i-t may -int rest L me of your readers, as tmatty of them a etngaged ini rearitng htorses and mules; d because, too, as a subscriber to your -~ luable paper, I wish to cast in my mnite that which might interest, On thte 29th of March, 1 hiad a mare it foaled a mnule colt, (fir colbs, 1 do not n-v which to call it,) of full size. though TF ad when l'fouud it, with two pet-feet to ads atnd necks coiming handsomely out g' one perfect body, w-ithout arty deformi antd each head atnd tneek as large as wye mid sujpose the body out to have, had a >ut one. I htad it skinnted as teatly as ould, and siuffed with bran ; and thi~ is done itt the ptresence of Dr. B. F. a; rad on. examinationi, he founid it had Jt heats atnd two stomachs, connected de h otne set of itestites, thus far fortnin. lia a distinct organizations, partly sepa e, as in the heads and tneeks, then blend tn one hody, partially thrtiugh a part di the tutern~al organs, atnd then strangelv th [tell mn one, as to the balance, such as 7t esdnes, legs, &c , &e-. lit f any one wishes to see- the skin of t his sa to call at my house in Greensbor'o and be can do so, and-after my friends have seer it. I propose to have it placed in some wel regulated Museum. Respectfully, yours. &c. W. W. D. WEAVER. Greensbor'o Ga., April 26, 1845. !C-C nteuttger., EDGEFIELD C. H. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1845. *,iO~t, '$ I i - 'We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple ) Our Liberties. and if it must fall, ce will per iss amidst the Ruins." TaEl CoNCERT -The Savanhah Georgian of May 24th, speaking; of the Hughes1Family, says: . "Of the Master Hughes, and their pecocious sister, whose archness in one so iyoung, is-as tonishinz, they far surpassed,-last evening. our highly wrought expectations To hear is to believe. To see is to wonder. The 'juvenile Apollo," (us theelder Hughes hasbeen termed,) excited our admiration in every piece he played, for on harp-or:accordianihe 'discour seth most eloquent music," while the perform. once of his brother. on the violin, was as natural as it was enchanting. The young and the old-the grave and the gay-should not permit these musical wonders to depart withoutawitnessing the developments of such extraordinary talent, increased in value by the absence of, affectation in the youthful performers." The Masters Hughes intend giving a Con cert to night, (Tuesday,) at the Court House. GOVERNOR HAMxOND's LETTER.-We pub lish in our columns to-day, copious extracts lrow the first of Governor Hammond's Letters on the subject of Slavery, to Thomas Clark. son, Esq . the great English Abolitionist. The letter is of considerable length, and we would cheerfully lay the whole of it before our read ers if our limited space would permit. We have endeavored, however. to select some-of the most interesting portions of it, though we felt great difficulty in ascertaining what were the most interesting parts of the letter-when the whole was good. It is scitrcely necessary to say, that these letters of Governor Ham mind fully sustain his high reputation for a graceful and elegant writer, and a vigorous and forcible reasoner. He has most trium. phantly vindicated our people and Southern Slavery from the foul and libellous aspersions of Abolitionists and pseudo philanthropists in Europe, and in our own country. He has pre seated an array of facts which speak so loudly ir our favor that they cannot controvert them. South Carolinaand the whole Southiare under noble defence of Slfvery We will endeavor in future numbers of our paperto make-further extracts Irom the letters. FcoRtnA.-Elections have receatily been held in this State-, which resulted in favor of the Democratic candidates for Governor. .em ber of Congress and a large democratic ma jority in both branches of tho Legislature. We have not seen fuill returns, but are satisfiedl th-at the Democratic party have carried the electinin. P. C Girien, the able and veteran edlitor of the Augursta Constiutionalist has disposed of his printing establishment to Mr. James Gard ner, rtho is repireseintad as a gentleman well rqualified foir thre editorial mantagceent of thre paper. The C'onstiutionalist as heretofore, wvill m'pport thre pr inciples of Democracy. Tuss QUEF.Nr CITv.-Jt is said that CinCin mati has increased moro rapidly thani any city in the United States. In forty-five years, her opuhrntion has growin from five hundaired to seventy thousand, and is still rapidly aug ment rag. Less than half a centutry ago, Cincinnati vas a village of log cabins in the nmidst of'a rast wvilderness. The land on whrich it stands was comparatively worth but little, now it is raltied at millions. The city has& an immrense mnmerce andi numerous madnufatcturing-es ablishmnents,. and is rioted for the wealth, re- .i nrement arid enterprise of its inhabrants. LocrsuAA Coesrrta-ron.-Ini the Constitu. on of Louisiana, which was recently adopted y the Convention, one of the provis'ons is that se Legislature cannot continue its session be end sixty days-all actin after that being ansidfered as illegal. This provision may beI wise one. It will certainly' cut off debate hieb-l might otherwise be protracted to an un ansontable length, to the great detrimrent of the a ublic interests. Business will he expeditedt id many foolish laws will fail to pass. - elegates to 1/he Souh Carolina State Temper - ace. Convention.r The Aiigusta WVashingtoniian of thre 14th stant. says: "At the recent Convention of e friends of Temperance -ira this State, as. mbled at Macon, the following gentlemen ~ are appointed to represent the State in the g emplernce Convention of South Carolina- I meet at Penadlotou C. H., on the 0th of Au, ti st naext: - Rev. Messrs. James 0. Andrews, N. Hloyt, C. Postell, WV T. Brantly, Dr. L D. Ford; a d the Hlon E. A. Nesbet rad D. C.Camnp- t II. tl Delegates were iappointed at the instance of te dge O'Neal, of Soth Carolina, who exten d the inavitation to the Georgia Society on he- cs If of his Carolina brethren." - of di Fire.-We regret to learn, that the rellisng house of Mr..James Talbert, of in is District, took fire on the night of the E ha !nstant, and was burnt down. But ec tle .of the furniture and cithinag wvere vi ved. It is not known haow the fire origi- en ted.,-A ob. Banner, 11th instant. - mi From the Courier, IMb instant. om Havana and Mflrico.-,T he Mex I icon steamer Neptune, Capt..Parkinson, arrived at this port yesterdayin :he short run of 3 days from Hlavand, bound toN. York; tut in here for supply-of fuel. We are indebted to-Capt P. for Havana papers-of the 8th inst. Capt. P. informs us that the Br. mail steamer- Medwiy. arrived at Havana on the 7th insi. from Vera Cruz, which port she left on the 1st., having on board as-pas sengers General Santa Anna. lady and lamily, who had been banished- from he Mexican elrritories. They were t.' pro. ceed to Venezuela.' The Br.'mailsteamer. Dee, also arrived at Itavanna.on ihe 7th inst. with General Bufaineate on board, on his way to Mexico, - In onoof the Havannapaper-a weod it recorded that the Frenci: Legation .had been insulted in ibe-.streets of Vera Cuz. just previous to the sailing of the Rledwafy9 and -that the Minister hd-deinaidid from. the Mexican government-reparation fTor the indiguity offered,.or the alternative of far. nishing him with his passpots. -Gen. Santa Anna ,was received with every demonstration of respeet on ftts ervri-. val at Havanna, being escorted to bls odg. ings by bands of music- while little atten. tion was paid to Gen. Bustamente, thnt showing that popular opiniod war quit unfavorable to the liewly constituted ao thorities of Mexico. We have no -positive -particulars as 'o the course pursued by the Mexican govern. ment, in banishing Santa Anna, but-Capt. Parkinson informs us that he understood that the decree -prescribed'an 'absenceof ten years-that his private properly was respected; that he had with- him a laig amount of money, and *as in good per. aon'al health and spirits.. It is stated that the aniicipaions.of war between the United States and.Mexico bad subsided; and a strong practical evideuce that such was the case. isthe:fact hat-the Neptune. had been ordered to New York to refit, which.he wouldof'coursenot iave dane if the-owners were apprehensive of such an event. From ?&c N. V. Picayune, 7th instant. LATER FROI TEXAS. The steamship New York, Wright,-mas ter, arrived at this port yesterday for.. Texas. She left Galveston on the. 4th inst., to which day she brings-us files of papers The.New York-arrived at Gal veston on the 31st uit., Gen. Lamar and Major Dooelsonheing passengers. The U. S. revenue c'itrer Woodb'ury ar rived at Galveston on the '3d inst.,.1ith despatches for _ the American Minister. We-have received verbal iatelligence by ~ this arrival to the effect that the Mexicans are really concentrating a large force on he Rio Grando, preparatory to a. ir in case Texas 'sheuld agree to .annexation. Our informant -states farther that the feel ing in the latter country is thoroughly war like-the talk is of nothing else, than :a brush with Mexico if she wishes-it-antl in addition that the propositioitsof Mexiit and England will be promptly fefected. Matry think, and with good- sho.w of-rea son, that the movement of troops owards he Rio Grne .htgae~igj land. ; . in t at the botmit h~= hooves our Governdument at onc' to march - an eficieni force to the frontiers of Texas. So long as the negotiations are peoding untl the final action of the Texas Govern neut is had upon the.propositions of the United States-not a single Mexican sol dier "should set foot on this- aide - of the. -Rio Grande. The inhabitanms of Texas are now, deliberating upotn proposals made thein by the Uniited States-it is. impera ine upon the United States to see that they aro no way molested, contrained, or overawed by foreign influences, uintil the -jnestiuot is settled. Some may say that this is an extreme course -the necessities o1f the case :lemand it. - Capt. Elliott, the British charge to Texas, reachedl Galveston on the evening of the 4th alh. in a French mon-of-war brig. The Civilian says it is ucderstond that he brought overtures fromn Mexico for an acknow ledgeint of the itndependence of Trexas. Ho proceeded .to- the- seat of government on -llonday morning.- The precise -charneter of the propositions brought is not known, butt if they be of the tature intimated,lihey -i ill pi'obably, says he Civilian, "be laid before the public in i very short time." The same paper adds: -'The decision of the question of indepen :lence or annexation belonigs e xclusively o the people, and the Government has nanifested its entire wil-lintgness to allow he mat ter to be decided by them." According to the samte paper, the Amer can squadron, und~er Cupt. Stockton, was ying at anchor off Galvestoi-on ihe 4th nst. We spoke a few dnys since of the im neuse meeting recently held at Basir-op, md of t he opinion indulgedby-many ofthe -itizens that President Jone's call-for a ;onvenuoin was a "snakey"~document. Ve give two or -three of th6 retolutions . assed on the occasion to 'show the feel legs of the inhabitants.- - Resolved, That we disapprove of the aid proclamation in each and every par moular ; that wecondemn the same asdic atorial in its nature and anf attempt, for Basons to us unknown, to frustrate-the nticip~ated action of Cocgress on this iti ortant measure. - - Resolved, TIheat in our judgmtent no con ugency has occurred that readers the mid proclamation necessary , . that our ' ~ongress is called to meet and aCt in doe Bason tir the sole cong~lumatioii of the. reat measure of annexation and to thbent ern wre submit the questions of-represeit. trion and time and place of calling a Con' ention. Resolved, That our members of Con.' resns he clothed wli pleary powers upon te subject of annexarton affirmatively. No withstanding all this,, it -was still ought that the west would eltcet delegates the Convention. - We give the following extract from a~ irrespondetnt as showing the movemets-. the noted British' Churge. The lefter Is. te Housrore, Juoe2 2, - .Eds. Pi.-The only .item of nesof portance here is the arrival of Ca..ptain liott'from Mexico, with the-acknowi -. gment. of ouv independepceA~y that go - rtumentt. The acknowledgynent is tin oditional, I ubderstand,' excepat hai rca' -c to ewhhe the yak1. rbfasr...o...e..