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From the Baltimoie Sun, July, 29t/t, L-TER FROM EUROPE. The postscript in the European Times says that tue accounts from Paris, dated July 13th. are again of an uusutisfactory eharacter. A rtport is etrrent to the ef feet that a serious division prevails in the governnent. Evidence has been obtained, it is said, which so bravely inculpated cer tain members of the late government, that it has been judged by some of the present government to be uuavoidable to apply to the Assembly for permission to prosecute thetm. Another party in the government is firmly opposed to this, not on grounds coneected n.irh the merits of the question, but from reasons of expediency. Gen. Cavaignac himself is included itt this latter party-the greatest activity has continued to be observed in the depart ments of the War Office-the Etat-Major of the National Guard, the Minister of the Iaterior, and the Prefectute of the Po lice. It appears certain that attempts at excavation have been attempted in nutmer ous places; one of these is close to the Chamber, another on the Boulevard Ital ians, uear the Rue Louis le Grande, and another near the Faubourg Tttsisooiere; much alarm continues to be felt, and it is very remarkable how fe,v persons are visi ble in the streets or public walks, although the weather is fine ; the officers of Etats 3Major have been warned by Gen. Cavaig nac to adopt extraordinary precautions, for attempts would be made to assassinate them at their respective homes. From the London Times. 15th. LATER INTELLIGENCE. Nota ithstanding art otfirial announce mteut by the government that no danger of at outhreak exi-ted, the Paris papers of yesteiday show that much apprehen sion frcvailed throughout the Freurh Cap ital. A:I the political prisoners were mov ed on Thursday night, from the prisons of Paris to the detached ports ; several esca ped on the way. 'Ite National Guard and the garrison were under artms at the departure of our express, and catton were planted at various points. Our correspon dent expresses his conviction, nevertheless, that no movement of the disaffected would take place. The following are samles of the re ports in circulation: Oo is, that a gener al murder of the members of the Acscm, bly is intended, nteans being org.anized of executing tlis simultaneously at their re spective places of abode. Auo:her is that an organized assault will be made on the boarding schools, where young persons of the one and the other sex are educated ; that these shall be captured and kept as hostages. to be delivered tap only on the payment of a ransom of .money, and the concession of such political measures as the insurgents nay require; other repor ted project. bavr for their ends the blowing up.of portions of the Capital. by means of gunpowder deposited in the quarters of the Catecombs, sewers, pipes. cellars, and other excavations,. which already exist, be sides Axcavations expressly executed for t ne...purpose.. t, .is understood that tlhe Pensiones and other-establishments for ed;. ucation v .ebeen ut under, cpreful.sur veillanceo-: n .~gita w iff mand peremaptorily to be fed or to be shot. - IR E LAND. The crisis:iv now .fast approaching. n. each party is girdinag itself for tte conflic The governmeaat, by a vigorous conasor ship of the press, the arrest of the con federate mnissionaries, the etmploytment of spies, and thte augmentationa of its armed resorces: and the people by parodigiotus ac tivity in the enrollment of clubs, teestab lishmnent of the League. te distribution of arms, the most cotmple fr;aternizatiott of all classes, anal boundless resolutiont and enalausiasm. Otn Sa..urday night Mr. Dulfy, of the Nation, wa appreheonde.l on a charge or tretasont and felony, atad coamit edeon the like chatge, thae n hole of whomn will be tred at the tmissisa. en the 8th prox. Mr. Dougherty was arrested in Casbel on Monday, atnd Mr. Meagher in Water ford on Tuesday, on charges of sedition, anad will be tired tat tlhe presenat assizes in Tripperary and Limnerick. Mr. .ileag her's apprehentsion caused thte utmnest ex citement In Waterford. Thte chapel bells ware ruug; ahousatnd of confederates us sembled,. and it required tall alae authority and inauence of the guifted and chaivironts cataive. aided bay te Cataholic clergymten, to prevent the penople froma fialling ulpon the mtillitary and poslice. As it wa:s thecy statr ed tbe authorities, analdcut oali one body of he tro;ops from the other. They created a formidable barricade, whaich impeded thte parogress of thte escort, and for miles, hanrassed anal htuntedl thae procassiona. baut thappily no live was lost. During thu week also, a Mr. Darcy McGee anda Mir. Hlaywtood were ;also, arrestetd for qeaditiaon but the bills were a bron n outr by the Wick low grand jury on Thaursaday. Thte ex ciament, not otnly in Dattublin, hut tharouagh out Irelatnd, is tnow everywhere itatetase, atad the note oaf parepa-rationa is e' erywhecre sounded. The noag of revolution htas ex tendetd to Engelatnd. Thte nuited repealers and chtartists are rapidly orgatnizing atnd arming. 'The Na tion, not wiahastanading its [reclamation, tans appeared this mornirng. On Monadaty, the convicted chartists in London, were sentenceed etacht to two years, imprisonment, with securIty for futuregood candutet Thte Queen's Mitaister's haave abeandon. ed thteir intenttiotn ot permittng her to visit Ireland in the course of ttext montha. Front Cuba.-The brig Columabia. Capt. Holmes arrived at Satvanntah on Wednltes. daya. from Cardenas, in athe short passage of four days. Capt. H-. reports every thing as being quiet. atnd ntothing indicated the exis'tence of revolutiontary disturbance. --Charleston Courior. Datniel Wadsworth. perhaps the wealth.. iest mana in Coannecticut. died oan Friday morning, 28th ula., at. liatford. in atho 77th year of his age.--Char. Courier. Mr. Trist, late Cotmmissiotner to Mexi Correspondene of 'the Charieston-CourTer. Pants, July 14,1848. Time Oas wheu. all goveruments were in advance of the people they governed time is when all people are in advance of the governments which are over them; and, unfortunately for France, her sons are so impelled by communism, as to excite the most liveiy apprehensions of her well. wishers and the hopes of those who fear and envy her. The great body of the ta tion is undoubtedly satisfied with the exis tiug state of things,'and the prospects of a permanent government ; hut there is a large party here in Paris who are allured by the prospects of " Rape and Pilage." inscribed on the bloody flag of the Repub lique Rogue. They were defeated in the last struggle, but the snake is schoched, not killed. Every day we hear of discov ered conspiracies-of asaassingtions-of plo:s, and of liscovered arms, while the immense military force, (120,000 regu lars.) show that Gen. Cavaignac is by no means sure of his ability to maintain or der. Lamartine, I am happy to say, has cleared himself from any connexion with the anarchists, but will never regain his original popularity. Thiers gains ground, and recommends a national poor law as the panacea which is toquiet the ouvriers, one feature of which is a fund which will give a pension to all the sick or infirm, who shall have contributed to it one,twen tieth of their earnings. The legitimists have lost their staunch champion and loyal adherent. the Viscount do Chateauhriand, who has been sinking since the loss of his wife last year. and died with that quiet resignation which one might espect from his writings. CAUSSIDIERE TIlE CHIEF-DIS COVERIES. In the best informed quarters, the gen eral opinion prevails that the real chief of the last insurrection was Caussidiere. It is said that things were not unknown to Louis Blanc, but that he shrunk from any active share. The evidence already obtained by the Committee of Inquiry as to the insurree tion, goes to show that on tie day before the insurrection, (on Thu:sdy.) during the whole day, the chiefs of each of the principal sections of the insurgents exam ined the places that each of their sections was to oc upy, and that those who were to command received their instruc!ions. The orgauizatiuo of sections and brigades were already made, for it corresponded with that of the ateliers nationaux; there were lieutenants, brigadiers, and chiefs of detachments. Independently of these or rangetments. the chiefs all met on Thurs day evening. to confer and etcourage each other for the meeting of the following day. important discoveries appear to have been made by the magistrates on the events of the insurrection. Documenis of the highest iunportance have been seized. which will show whence proceeded the money distributed, and who were really the chiefs of the insurrection. The com mittee has already heard numerous wit. tesses. and collected a great quatrtity of documents. The inquiry has for its object to a conspiracy that every one knew exist ed; and whaf motive to neglect such. mea.. 22d June. There are now 60.000 Hundreds of respectable perstuns, liter ary men, airttsts, genttlemen. educated perw sons, are mutissina, who were not killed in the ranks of the National Guard.' They w'etc amntg the insurgents, w hose orgatui zation has nlready recommnenced. Sig nals were exchanged contitnnally from htouse to hotuse, and thte cxtempore iee graphs were at work. During the whole of the insurrection the chiefs learnt what was piassing from the telegraphs erected on the. sntmmi:s of lofty houses, and corres ponding with houses writhin the circle of itnsurrection .-A ug usia Constiuiionalist. rom thec Newo Oricans Dedta Jniu, 23. CUBA-PROSPECT OF A RtEVOLUTION. We learn from a source on which we place reliance, that many arrest of per sonis of influence and tdistitnction htave Ia-. tely taken place; that in the dead of night, files of soldiers are sent to the resi detices of the suspected, who are dragged frotn their bteds and incarcerated; and that this work has bteen catried ton to an extett little dreamt of on this side of the Gulf. The chat,e on which these persons are ar rested, is. we undehrstand, that they are en gagedl itn, or cognizanit uf, sotme cotnspiracy, which threatens theo overthrow ef Spanish rule and domitnion, anti a repudiation of the title of --ever faithifu!," so hung and frequetntly lavished on tihe Cubatnos, for thte val'uabtle consitderation they ren tIer to the Spantish Goveruumetnt. Among others. wye unmterstatnd a General Officer was arr ested in Hiavatna aJ few night Vf.:ay INron-rAyr.-Withut further prefatce. we lay before otur tenders the fi-l lowing impo)trtant intelligence, which we have received from a reliable source; The 24th Jutne, last was fixed tupon by the friends of independence in Cuba, as the day on which the people were to revolt against Spanish anthority, and to declate in favor oh the itndependence of the Island, antd its annexation to the United States! Circumstances nocturred (unnecesbary to particularize) which prevented the plan to revolt frmm beitng carried itnto efl'ect at thte specified time, in this etate ofraffaris, Don Gabriel Sauchez informed the Go vernor of Trinidad of the conspiracy, at the head of which was Gen. Nayeiso Lo pez. who succeeded in making his escape via Maranzae, otn board a vessel bound to thte Uni.ted States. 1mn consequence of the information (nrnished' to the athorities, many arrests were tmade ofmen of wealh mid station in the Island. At the pi-eset time, or at all events, only a few days ago, as we ware informed, Don Jose Ma ria Satichez Istraga and'Don Jose-Diez Villhegas, gentlemetn of considerable wealth were, among othiers, confined io the fort Principe at Hlavana, and Don Jose Jose' Jeongtin Verdilueus%as detained in the fort of Cienfuegos; These prisoniers, 'we furthernleara, are to appear"and answer t he charges laid .against them, before .a military commisin, ofwhich Col: Chris toval Ztita.is.appointed President. -What their fate wirl be.:under the mild adminis tration of law by a Spanish: Military Tri, bunal, we can easily conceivei We further-learnt tat;Aineri in Cuba is in iavery unita"bI top. T 'h e:'i ar'e'all o>jects of M coi ar' movenentsAr.c eoninoulN g an hotf NoAmerijcncitizet? r can go our of-Havr .a to .anj the Island, unless he .first s84ears. tia a Roman Catholic and a pcetio (- d fame, and !he .American Cons ceixifies that he is. so. Even then. hu'sLjaqo security for his gond behv -;s Our information is tr a s u. ae could wish, but it is sulficient oow tliat 'he spirit of independence is 6ed iii Cuba, anu that the authoritie$ e'using strong means -to .iptess it. Thdenl is not yet. One a.ilure w ill nOt t uritohse who aspire to freedom and~ind enuce. The day of reckening will c nif'Cu' ba will ere long shake off the of'sub jectiou. From the Mobile Herald f 7ribu j%yi29. IMPORTANT FROM ;C . Insurrection-Great SloukYr'$bcl lion crushed-A few days ago-vrrpublish, ed an article from the New-OrladDelia, giving some account of the d tentts in Cuba, and stating that there wa?n insur rection expected on the 24th une. This news is confirmed by an rrival at Pensacola from Key West. T e;olow ing is an extract of a letter PENsacoCI,- lth. '-News reached here to. ' be schooner Gov. Bennett. Capth r. four days from Key West. A +m, ad ar rived there from Havana, b. ''eports that an insurrection was to out on the 20th. The ennspirators it into the stores and- taken amt:unit efore they had matured their plans- vernor discovered it. Five hundred 'insur gents were slain, and the rents; Ied to the mountains." The Pensacola Democrat s this intelligence as follows : " We learn by Captain T" Mi nor, of the schooner Gov. Be ihat a smack arrived at Key West,, sy on which he left for this port, orted that an insurrection was to taken place at Havana on the 20tb outh. But fortunately the Govern'o io ap prised of it, and took precautto stepa to arrest it, the insurrectiouist rceiv ing that the conspiracy was 7iike into the 9tores, and forcibly them selve-+ of ammunition, &0 upon tho Governor called out th uil oops. and the insurrection was st res after the slaughter of five hundr of-t sur rectionists, the rcmainder-ereH trito the mountains." From the Charleston Me The nomination of Gedis by a portion of the Democratic pa har leston has come down upon h ocra cy of the country like tho ":ti the night." What is to-be uning and the end of this' mov hat are the results to follow fr tus now, beforo we enter in . tiest which must begin to-a eI e at!e, look honestly into the art ' nation of Gen. Cass byrhe on vention was distasteful ['t'; 'iric pa.ty of South Car)lita.a si e a e. enO contrary, was very popttl the State ; and, as -an itidep ~ adidate, would have ben almostC. to habe received the electoral.vote ~ as the first scet6e itn the politicaL Now mark the progress of events n.,Tay or at first las no fixed opit thea lie becomes a moderate Whtin,he ~n writes bis Allison letter. renouncing ihe to pow er ; he then declines (it is so u derstood) the nomitnationi of the Iidepend io Ma-~ ryland ; and, lastly. areepts t nomitna tio,n of the Whigs, made at P iladelphiia. lHe-re, then, is a Whig -party aw tisatinig -a WVhig fur President ; and the -enmocrats of South Carolinia are called u n to sup port this nomination. H-ow-ia I-at man ner-and for what purpose!? it likely should the Whbigs elect their ca idate. that a tnew complexiotn will be gi n to their hitherto obnoxious doctri'nes b ibiis fusiom of Carolitta D)emocracy 1 Ii likely that the WVhigs will recede from the long cher i,.hed op)inions-from th'eir i ibed ban ners, which they have been . nting be forte high hoaven for thte last t9lye yours -frotm their faith, their prin les. their great leaders ;-will they re@t uce all these, for the honor of the stup Jof w h-it will prove btut a forlorn hope ~'the De. moeracy of South Carolinta ?I u it not having too much vatnity to siu 'ose this ? Wh!at then? Their ca~didate en. TFay lor. elected. For what good 1 'he veto, the only exercise of power in lprernga tive which could be of benefit ~his Ca-n linian Democratic allies, he has spudiatd. H[is principles. and those of th Vhige, a-e what they have been fightin ' agsinst The result of this movement ii eertaiu di' ater. The sante destiny will lehall then that has befallco the nullinecati dIissentenl of Georgia: they will becoine pelessi.3 merged and swallowed up by he greas W-hig party of the Utnion. 9 fe is the cothesioni betw~een the Charleitj .Demo-3 crata anal General Taylor. the Wi& nt neec? A single tie-a single 'hd holds them together, which maghb apped at any moment, either by hi-deaIl 1r his vo lition. He is a slaveholder. Is tis s suf Scient reason why the Democatiac shave holders of the South should' reninee all thteir farmer principles; and'e pr~n notec tion from the Whigs and thetudhampion against their Democratic alties'? If rte slave question is ~to be the t~t i then no man, however prejuidiced bedfly be, but must ackniowledge thsanhoNo ihernt Dem crats have generally fought . us-the Northern Whias alwqys agni is is1 it just that we should expect ilhe ,mocracy of the North to he fightitng ouritles, and we reject their chauipion for. tDPr'esidbn cy, simply becauise ho is tnota s-aeholder ? is it- reason ? -Is it' wisdom eorts. to lay down the doctrine that none b ~lvehold-. era shall hie President'-rthate go for is slaveholder,hbehWiig or.De itrist If tis is to be the fdture-ereedea oe-Soutlir the result is as-fixed'cs- fste,Miliiig ca'n avert it. Ther great landma nfparty and faith will become oblit r iJ.setio' al feelinigs and secilnaiul paine t revail, ad:this giet4fabiie9f -Rep nGov. erament will crunmble into r Uponi this. questione ofefsl 3we are frae toncnfess that- 'ye.arenn t.lingitha 'our rights should depend .apon the well :wisies_ or opinions :of-any-rnag:or set:or ren" wbatever -Put not your trust in; Princes," sas' the god _book ; and:.we 'would add, nor in-Presider.ts eithet. - The ilmotProviso is a question which should arouse the South to united action ; and ev ery .Southerner, from-the Potomac to the Rio Grande, should arise with his arns in his hand, and stand prepared to cut. loose the bands which bind him to a Union to which he is held by so degrading a tenure. 'Soutb Carolina and the Old Dominion hold their place'in the American Lninn by toL erance. Awake. 0 Sword of the' South! Our honor-our rights-our institutions, must be in our own keeping. The Wilmot Proviso is one qte;ti: u The advocacy of the Whig candidate by the Democracy ol .South Carolina is another. We may keep alouf; but we cannot join the Whigs in this contest, and come back to our original position with our arms untarnisl-ed. A I3LUFFTON DEMOCRAT. (Correspondence of the M rcury.] WAi4HeNtToN July 27. /84 The Conpromise bill passed the Senate this morning at 8 o'clock, alter a sitting ol 21 hours. The vote on its engrossment was 33 to 22-a majority of 11. If you analyze the vo e, you will find that out of 8 Southern Whigs who voted, 4 were for, and 4 were against the bill, as follows: Yeas, Berrien. of Ga. Johnson, of Md., Johoson of La. and Mangham of N. C. Nays, Badger, of N. C. Bell of Tenn. Un derwood and Metcalf of Ky. Pearce oh Md was opposed to the bill, but did not vote. The western democrats were 4 for, and 5 against the hill, as follows: Yeas, Hannegan and Bright, of la. and Breeze Douglass of ill.; nays. Allen of O. Dodge and Walker of Wisconsin, and Felch and Fitzgerald. of Michino. Mr. Felch said, however, in debate, that if his vote was necessary to carry the hill, he would give it. All the Southern Democrats voted for the bill. North of Dnlaware, which is a slave State still. but one whig voted for the hill-Mr. Phelps, of Vermont-all the rest agaiinst it. Of the Northern Demo crats excluding the Bartburners, iMlessrs. Dix and Niles, three voted for it-Messrs. Sturgeon of Pa., Dickinson of N. Y. and Atherton of N. H. to wnom Cameron of Pa. would have been added had he been present, and two ag-inst it. Bradbury and Hamlin, of Me. The assault of the whole seems to 'e this: the Southern Democrats gave the strongest support to the bill, be ing unanimous, and the Northern Whigs the strongest opposition to it. In the South and the Nortl a majority of the De morrats wcnt for the bill, and it'would have been the same in the West, had Mr. Fitzeerald', vote been necessary to save the bill. And in every section, South, West and North, a majority of the Whigs were opposed to it. This is a lesson you may ponder over and learn something from at the South. This morning just before the vote was taken-in the Senate, Mr. Bright, of Indi ane, passed a high and beautiful euloginin on Mre''Calhouo. He said that be, in con and~ itti many others, .had entertained srogdoubts as to Mr. Calhoua's attach. n& hUt ipjut he. iow felt it' due to courae to ti "SelectCommittee, an on theoflnor, he had exhibited a spiritnso fair,.s.sjtst.. so n)oble and patriotic.,-as to win the heartfelt admiration and esteem of all who acted with him. Mr. Bright made a very able speceh in support of the bill. -From the Charleston Mercury. THE CO.MlPROM SE BILL IN TIlE hlOUSE. The analysis of the vote in thte House, on the motion to lay the Comtpromuuise Bill on the table, pareseuas somrtt facts that are assuredly worthay to be well paondecred lby the Sotathern pteople. In a paractical shape. the quaestionr of thte organtiz;ation of the' new Territories was brought up fair the first time by thtis haill, Of all titmes, this, theta, was thte most fortunate for the settlement of in. The country had beena lit tle agita ted as yet, while the symptoms of a fear ful excitena etat were rapidly anti every wvhere developing thaemselves. To leave the quJestionI open, was to make it the pro dlentsinating source of divisiotn, swalloawitng tap all nordintary interests, and turnitng the Presidlential election inato a futrious msttggle het weent tbe Soudla anti the Ahbolititarisns 'he formter fear exisaence, atnd thec latter for a triumph over the Coanstitutioan oand the Unaiun.. This conditata of thainag, and this danger. must have baeen familiar to eve y~ membier of t.ranaress. We believe, too that it wvas known that a pterfect and de termitned union oaf thte Southerna men could secure the settlemnsart of thte question. From the debtates of the Senate, and the high tone of all the Southaern specakers, we supposed that such a unioan had been of focted, and rejoiced in it, not merely as thse pasurance that this measure would succeed. but as-a signal andl most cheering proof ihat the Southa had a cause strong enough to biring tall her sus to her defence. Trhe charm was broken by the vote itn he Senate. Four Sututhern WVhig Sena.. nrs stepped out of the ranks oaf their bietha 'en, and voted with thte A bolitionists againast he bill. We cana as lit tle divinte alhe mo ives t,hat led to ibis desertion, as we Cant le feelings nith whicha thtey enterrainedl their owvn hearts whaile standing side by tie with Dix, of New*York,.and Hale, of hw Hampshire, on an issue to try the rita of the South to a share in the 'prop ey of the Utaio. We will noot even uta ddake to conjecture witth what soart of %vcome thte Abolitionists anad te Blarn buters received ahamn into their ranks, or wIther there was anything of derision in thaeitile that accoampanied their recogni tioti But it is nearly certain that this de- i sertk oaf the four Whig Senators defeat ed tibill. Thtey did not prevent its pas-- I singbe Senate,- but they destroyed the moragower-of thec Southernt union and I madelawful for whoever pleased to foi-, I luaw tar exanple in the House. The pire cedenwas not* lost. A Georgia Whsig I .made e motion in the House to lay the bill onte table. -Eight SoutIher Whigs i v'oted i this -ni)tion, and it was carried :hy a v*whicha would have been reversed if they td: gone -with the South. Every SothelDemoci-at voted againui this mo- e tion. lery Northern' Whig voted for it. i1 .The iof thiat this.iIill proposed an ad t saisfactory to the Soutb, is Atpl we -have ,the testimony -of all the Sout hern Democrats and half_.the Southern-Whigs of-the Senate to thi. We have.a ,liko teitimony on the par of- the Southern Members of the House. '-And this is for thcr strengthened by the bitter rage with which it was assailed by all the fanatics of the North, in and out nf Cngress-all that rabble of political ruliians who live by stir ring up war against us. Wl'at had a Vir ginian. a Kentuckian, a Georgian. to do with aiding these miscreants to mature their plots against the Slaveholding States? And, after giving us such proofs of what Southern Whigs can do, with what assu rance do they ask the South to vote for a man whose only pledge of fidelity as yet is, that he is a Southern Vhig ? Correspondence of the Courier. VAstNGTo.f July 31. The intention of Mr. Hlannegan to bring forward another bill to establish territorial governments in Oregon, California, and New Mexico, was abandoned by him for the reasou that he stated, to day, that there is no hope of the passage of any such bill by Congress at this session. It is said that Mr. Hetneean intended to ofler a project making Oregon a free territory and leaving the slavery question in the tther two terri" tories to the results of time and the wishes of their population. But he became con vinced that, after the failure of the project of the Senate Committee no other project could succeed. But Mr. Bento, introdu ced a bill to establish a temporary Govern ment over Oregon, California, and. New Mexico, after the plan of the government established by the Act of 1804, at ttte re commend ation of. Mr. Jefferson, over Louis. iana. If nothing better could be done, Mr Benton said he would bring up this scheme. But there is little disposition on the part of Cougress to adopt a temporary or any act on the subject till after the Pres idential election shall he over. At the next session, it is supposed by some, that the slavery question can, with more ease and safety, be adjusted. A great man.y of the Northern, members of the lIouse profess to be afraid to vote for any compromise of the slavery question lest it should give strength to the " free soil " party. But after Mr. Van Buren and his allies shall be beaten and discomfitted. then, they say. they will be ready to settle the matter in a liberal and permanent mode. The House has concurred in the Senate Resolution to terminate the session on Monday, at 12 meredian, the 14tb August. THE FEELING AT TUt. NoRT.-The New York Herald, a paper friendly to the South, uses the following forcible lan guage in relation to tl-e Free Soil move it ents throughout the North and North west: -'The agitation.of this question in.the Senate and in the House -of Represenin tives only increases the movement amoag the people of the North. The bill which is called the *"Compromise." and which was introduced by Mr. Clayton. is very generally objected to foits cowardly cha racter, either one way or the other. -The people' are getting exiited on' this subject, ind .are les.vmg the usual topictsof a Pre ry. The mass to eiing led-i day in this city..will onl9.inctease.th'e ex citemnent, - and spread it throughout the North, until the great Convetiion meets at BunFntlo, in the present motth'of Au gust. That hbady will then have the whole field before thetn, with all this agitation to urge them on; andi the prob)ability is, according to all appearanes, that the tno mination which they may put forth, will ca-rry a much greater wveightt anti have a heavier force thtan the two parties ima gine. . We hear it said, also, that .Mr. Van Suren, uotwithstanding his notmination by the Utica Conventiott. will probably be set aside in the BttlTamlo meeting, and that maost likely John McLean of Ohio, may he adopted; a man whose character anal reputation are less liable to the charge of selfishtness and ingratittude thtan that of Mr. Van Buren. Whatever nomination be matde then, we tmuch fear, from every thing wve see taking place arotund tis, that the Cnnvention to meet at IBulTalo will lead to results of the most extraordinary importance to the fmattre utmtn anti htappi. ness tof thtese States. No otto seems to care tmuch) for the tasnal Presitdential elec tiott-they are waitittg for thte action at BoiTalo. rTiings begin to look as if the next Preuidetncy were to bie thrown into the House of Representatives." I1aROITANT TELE:GRAPHJC ITsPRtovg. agTe.-The Batitmo.te Sutn thus notices a new Telegraphic Improvement: "WVe have hatd the pleasure of exatmining a mo del of an electro-magnetic registering in tatnent, which was being taken to the Patent Office by the inventor, forjrhe pur. pose of receiving the adsantases of his improvement, which he alleges had fully triumphed over the hitherto supposed im polssib)ility of registering legible atud dura ble communications by meanq of the pri mary curreat alone. The inventor has chuarge of an interior telegraphic station in the State of New York, whtere he has had his instrttment working for some time, being merely contne'-eted with the main line of wire, htence doing awvay w'ith all the trouible attd expense of a local hatter,. A cotmmon metalic pen is firmly fixed in a htolder, attd is regularly fed with ink by most ingenions c-ontrivance. whtile the ilter or paper is drawn under it at n short I listance below the point, while a nicely >aianc-ed lever acted tupon by an electron- ~ nagnet placed withitn the prittary current, 1 rommumenates its pulsations to thte paper, - ausing it to ap)pronch and recedle from, he point of ite petn. freon which it receives ho telegraphic character, durably and te- e ;ibly written witht ink-the principle of. *I is action being the fact that a fillet of >aper can be cansed to' vibrate with' as ittle power as catn the vibrations necessa" ci ary to make the connexions he'ween the , ales of a local battery, while the petn be-n Olg stationary is easily kept supplied wvitht dn ok by a very simple and- 'certain appara-d is. P Governor Johnson--A letter recently re elved in ColumbIa, represents the Gover- sa or as doing well, 'antd we confidenti, trust toi iat-in a short time he will here' entire ac recovererd from the eflacta of his faln 11 Ebe ftbetitget. EDGEFIELD C. 11. WEDt9ESDaiY, AUGUST 9, 1848. We are requested to say that Mr. Lzv.r R. Wn.soN. is et a candidate for Tax Collector. Congress -It appears tftat Congrese will not adjourn till the 14th of this month. Perhaps not then. A Barbecue will be given to the Volunteers on the 25th inst.. at the Old Steam Mills, near Co'em'in's a Roads. Lieut. John Simktns.-We are' hap13y to annonnee the arrival of Lie-"t. Jors Sauxiss-of the 12th Infantry. Regular Army, at this plafe: M. L. Botrta,. Col. of the 12th Regimeit; U. S. A. returned to his family at this placer Sunday last. We welcome him back into our midst. We have before us a copy of the adirAu* ; speech of the Hon. Judge BERRtiS U. S..Sen4, ator from Georgia, upon the Oregon bill. We; will endeavor-hortly, to.publish some estracis . We have received several letters 'written b gentlemen. who were invited to the Dinner(gi en to the Volunteers at Centre Springs. Thy; are unavoidably postponed, but shall appear int. out next. We are indebted to the Ron. Anaus?sny Buav, for a copy of the Message: of the Presi dent. on the Mexican War, with the eorrespon.. dence between the Secretary of War and other, Officers of the Government. Warm and Dry Weather.-The section of country immediately. atound this place, has suffered considerably from drought. Thecorn crop will be cut off greatly. The:drought has extended .to other portion,.of the District, but, _ we learn, certain neighborhoods.and localities," have scarcely suffered at all. Barbecue at Red HrU.-On the 3d iiist., a Barbecue was given at Red Hillin this Dis trict, in honor of our returned Volunteers. 8y request, Major Taos. BAcoN made some re.. marks appropriate to the occasion, and.Le.rtaing Candidates for the Legislature who were prir. sent, being celled upon, also addr'essed".the assemnbly. The Dinner wae-served up in-eiit cellent style, and ample )provision' was' maje for a large num!er of ladies-aId^':igetlf ir; ' who were'liresent. The utinot'ordr d. % harniony-ptevailed. -Procession of Soh, of Tc*irane.-On Yr ay iiningig o16fi place.- A Praceeiun was-foned to the BantIsi Chin iiwir~S Ad res wast delivered by JaxIlTUrPER, GrddWor'thy Patriarch. It is no tmore than justice to say, that the Address was highly elognent and jun pressive, .characterized by -sound reasoning, language chaste and beautiful, and happy ilnas.' tration. It was delivered in a very pleasing mtanner and was well received. A consideia~ b,le number of lauies and gentlemea 's rc in attendance. Attention Volunteer,s!-The stubjoined letter which will beTiund belowv, relates to a matter par'ticularly concerning metabers of the Pal.. metto Regiment. HUUsE oF EaPRESENTATIVEs, lyf 27. Si a :-Thte return of the Psimei to Reg iment induces rme to ask the publicati,n of thist ltte'r, by which those who are entitled to pension, and houmty laud, rnay-save the expease of employing ana Agent in' this City. I have sent instructions and forms ror the prepanration of spplications to the Clerk of 'he Court. in each District. Any intelligent person can prepare the applia tion by them. The paper, should- be ad dteesed to "J. L. EDWAaDs. Esq. Con missioner of Pensions, Washington Cityn" The postage need not be paid. The orig iial certificate of discharge or -pension, should accompany the applicstion 1 sent to ine during the Session of Congress, such applications shall receive imamediate at ten nun. Your ob'c serv't. ARMISTEAD BURT. Meetings at Stone Mountain, Ga.-On the 15th of this month, a Mass Meeting of the Democrats of Ga., will be held at Stone Moun. ain, Ga. The occasion doubtless will be. otie' if great interest. On the 16th a great Agri :nitural Mleeting and Fair, will be held at the' inme place. This also will be an ocdasronf nterest. We had the pleasure last amuir 6 attending an Agriculzural' M~eeting .aths lace, and we're hiuhty pleased. Doubtless lie contemplated Meeting will furnish as many ttractions as usual. The accomnmodations at he Mountain, we believe, will be excelleiit. I:he Rail Road Companies, have redaded theo tre on the Roads leading to the Stone Moun. tin to 2 cents per mile for the occasion. Pas. us sugers will be allowed to return free. Ths~ 'at e from Augusta to. Stone Mountain, will-be 'hree Dollar's-tickets not good after the 18th. 'ickets not transferable. They cad be pur. eased on the 14th andI 15th inst. Thie'exci.. on will be quite a pleasant otie. Mr. Van Buren.--This gentleman has con. nded to accept the nomination of the " free >il' patty for the Presidency. We have >wv at lteast three cindidates for the Presie :ncy. - Some of our cotemporari&.liely ablished a list of about one dozen. 2 Shortest Passage to England.-T he last'pas.. ge of4he Steamer Herman franm NewYrk Southangton, is, the shortest ever made ross the Atlantic. The runiigtime was dand2 hou...