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arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings. purchased by Congress with the consent of the Le-islature of the State. This resolution was passed over under the rule of the House without being put to vote. The votes in favor of all these measures were cotifined to the members from the Northern States. True, there are some pairiotic members from that section who voted against all of them, and whose high sanse of justice is duly appreciated; who in the progress of the aggressions upon the South have. by their votes, sustaiied the guarantees of the Constitution, at<l of %hom % we regret to say many have been sacrificed at home by their patriotic course. - We have now brotinaht to a close a narra tive of the series if acts of aggression and encroachment, connected with the subject of this address, incluliig those that are consummated and those still in progress. They are nunerou<. great and dangertu4, and threaten with destroieion the greatest and most vital of all interests and institi tions of the South. linleed it may lie doubted whether there is a single provi sion, stipuhtinn. or guarnty if the Con stitution, intended fur the security (if the South, that has not been rendered perfect ly nugatory in all tut two States. It may even be made a serious qIuestion, whether the encroachnets already made, without the aid of any other. would not, if permit ted to operate unchecked, end ii-n ortmanei pation, and that at no distant day. Bit be that as it may, it hardly admiis of a doubt that. if the aggressious already com menced in the I louse, aittd ttow in progress, should be consummated, such in the cud would certainly be the conseqiuence. Litle. in truth, would be left to be done after we have been excluded from all the Territories. including those to be hereafrer acquired; after slavery is abolished in thtis. District, and in the numerous places dis persed all over the South, where Congress has the exclusive right of legislation. and after the other measures proposed are con summated. Every outpost and barrier would be carried, and nothing would be left but to finish the work of abolition at pleasure in the States themselves. This Disfriet, and all places over which Con. gress has exclusive power of legislation, would be asylums for fugitive slaves, where. as soon, as they placed their feet. they would become, according to the doc trines of our Northeru assailats, free; uni less there ehould be some positive enact ments to prevent it. Under such a state of things the proba bility is, that emancipation would soun 1o low, without any.final act to abolish slavo ry; The depressing effects of such meas ures on the white race at the South, and the hope they-would create in the black of a speedy emancipation, would produce a state of feeling inconsistent with the much longer continuance oPthe existing relations between the two. But be that as it may. it is certain, if emancipation did not fol low, as a matter of course, the final act -inihe btates would not long,be delayed. The "want of, constitutional power would --oppose a feeblie resistance. The great body of the North is tiited against onr M h~:e sinful,.and'the residue, with edusidera b s.lle exceptions, believe it to he wrong. * Such being the ease, it would indicate a very super6icial knowledge of humtan na ture, to think that, after aimtng at abtli * tion, systematically, for so many years, and pursuitng it wvithr such uinscrupulous disregard of Law antd Conistitutiont, that the fanatics.who have led the way, and forced( the great boidy of the North to fol low them, would, whten the fitnithing strutke only remained to be given, voluntarily suts pend it, or permit any constituttional scru ples or considerations,of justice to arrest it. To these may be added an age,ression, though nor yet eommnedt, long miedi tatedl and threatened; to prohibit what the abolhi tionists call.*d:e internal trade, meaninig thereby the transfer of slaves from onue State to another, from whatever motive done, or however effected. Their object would seem to be to rendler them worthtless by crowvding them together whlere they are, and thus hasten the work of emanci pation. There is reason for believing thtat it will soo'n follow those nowv. in progress, unless, indeed, some decisive step should be taken in '.he tmeautime to arrest thte .whole. - The question then is, will the measures of aggression proposed in the House be adopt ed? They may not, and probably will not be, this session. lint when we rake into con sideration, that there is a majority now in favor of one of them, and a strong nminority -in favor of the other, as far as the sense o1 the House has been taken; that there will be in all probability a considerable increase in the next Congress of the vote in favor of them, and that it will be largely increascd in * the next succeeding Congress. under the cen sus to be taken next year. it amounts alnost to a certainty, t bat they will be adopted, un-. less some decisive measure is taken in ad vance to prevent it. But, if even these conclusions should prove erroneous-if fanaticism and love of powier * should, contuary to their nature, for onice re spect constitutional barriers, or if the calcu,. lations of policy should retard the adoption of these measures, or even defeat them alto,. gether, there would still be left one certain way to accomplish their object, if thte deter mination avowed by the North to mnonopolise all the Territories to the exclus,ion of thec South, should be carried into eflect. That of itself would, at no distant day, add to thte North a sufficient number of States to give her three-fourths of the whole; whben, tinder the color of an amendment to the Constitu tion, she would emiancipate our slaves, how ever opposed it be might to its true intent. Thus, under e very aspect, the result is cer tain, if aggression be not promptly end deci dedly met, How it is to be met, it is for you I to decide'. Such then being the case, it would be to in-. sult you to suppose that you1 could hesitate. To destroy the existing relation betwveen the free and servile races at the South, would read to consequences unparalleled in history. They cannot be separated, and cannot live together in peace or harmony, or to their mut tu,il advantage, except in their presenlt rela tion. Under any other, wvretchedness, and misery, -and desolation would overspread the whole Seouth.. The example of the British West Indies, as bhighting as emancipation has proved to them, .furnishes a very faint picture of the calamities it woeuld bring on the South. The~circumstances under which it w'ould take place with us would be entiroly * 'different from-those wh-lich took place with 0. - them, and calculated to lead to far more dis, asterous results. There the Government of the parent country emancipated slaves in her colonial possess*ons-a Governmeit rich and pewerful, and actuated by viewq of -policy, (mistaken as they -turned out to be,) rather than fanaticism: It was, besides, dis-iosed to act justly towards the owners, even in the act of emancipating their slaves, and to protect and roster them afterwards. It accordingly appropriated ne'arly a1110,000,000 as a com pensation to them for their losses under the act, which sum, although it turned out.to be far short of the amount, was thought at the time to be liberal. Since the emancipat;on, it has kept up a sufficient m:litary and naval force to keep the blacks in an, and a num. ber of magistrates, and constablcs, and other civil officers, to keep orler in the towns and plantations, and enforce respect to their for ier ownirs. To a considerable extent, these have served as a substitute for the police formerly kept on the plantations by the own ers and their overseers, and to preserve the Eocial and political superiority of the white race. But notwithstanding all this, the Brit-P ish We-t India posseesions are ruined, im poverislied, nr.iscrable, wretched and destined probably to be abandoned to #he black race. Very diffieent would be tho circumstances under which emancipation would take pl:tce with us. If it should be effected, it will be through the agency of the Federal Govern. nient, controlled by the dominant powerof the Northern States of the Confederacy against the resistance and strugglo of the Southern. It can then only be effected by the prostra tion of the white race; and that would neces sarily engender the bitterest feeling of hos tility between th6m and the North. But the reverse would be the case between the blacks of the South and the peop!e of the North. Owing their emancipation to them, they would regard them as friends, guardians and patrons, and centre, accordingly, -all thair sympathy in them. The people of the Nortn would not fail to reciprocate and to favor them, instead of the whites. Under the in fluence of such feelings, and impelled by fa naticism and love of power, they would not stop at emancipation. Another step would be taken-to raise them to a political and social equality with their former owners, by giving them the right of voting and holding public offices under the Federal Government. We see the first step towards it in the bill already alluded to-to vest the free blacks and slaves with the right to vote on the ques tion of emtncipaticn in this District. But when once raised to an equality, they would become the fast political associates of the North, acting and voting with them or all questions, and by this political union between them holding the wh;te race at the South in complete subjection. The blacks, and profli gate whites that might unite with them, would becowe the principal recipients of federal offices and patronage, and would, in conse quence, be raised above the whites of the South in the political and social scale. We would, in a word, change conditions with them-a degradation greater than has ever yet fallen to the lot of a fice and enlightened people, and one from which we could not escape, should emancipation take place, (which it certainly will if not prevented,) but by fleeing the homes of ourselves and ancestors, and by abandoning our country, to our former slaves, to become the permanent abode of disorder. anarchy, poverty, misery and wretchedness. iti sucl4 ai prospect beforp us, ther test the attentioi of a people is presented for your consideration. What is to be done to pre vent it? It is a question belonging to you to decide. All we propose is, to give you our opinion. We then are of the opinion that the first and indispensable step, without which no. thing can be done, and with which every thing may be, is to be untied among your selves, on this greai and miost v'itah question. The want of union and concert in reterence to it has brought the South, the Union, and our syetctn of Government, to their present perilous condition. Instead of placing it above all others, we have made it subordi nate, not only to mere questions of policy, but to the preservation of party ties and en suring of party success. As high as we hold a due respect for these, we b'old them subor dinate to that and other questions itnvolving your safety and happiness. Until they are so held by the South, the North will not be lieve that you are in earnest in opposition to their encroachments, and they will con tinue to follow, one after another, until the work of abolition is finished. To cotnvince them that you are, you must prove by your acts that you hold all other questiotns subor dinate to it. If you become united, and prove yourselves in earnest, the North will be brought to a pause, atnd to a calculation of consequences; and that may lead to a change of measures, and the adoption of a course of policy, that may quietly and peace ab'y termitnate this long conflict bet ween the two sections. If it should not, nothing would remain for you but to stattd up immovebly in defence of rights, involving your all--your property, prcsperity, equality, lifoerty, and safety. As the asrailed, you-would stand justified by all laws, human arid divi,c, in repelling a b'.ow so dancerouts, wvithoiut looking to conse quences, and te resort to all means necessary for that purpose. Your assailants, and not you, would be responsible for consequences. Entertaining these opinions, w~e earnestly entreat you to bie united, and foi that purpose adopt all necessary measures. Beyond this, we think it would not be proper to go at present. We hope, if you should unite with any thing like unariniity, it may of itself a pply a remedy to this deep seatedl and dangerous disease; biut if such should nor be th'e case, the time will then hiavo conme for you to de cide what co.urse to adopt. (Signedl) Or VinotNia.--J. M. Mason, R. M. T. Hunter, TF. Atkinson, Tho. H1. Bayly, R. L. TF. Beale, II. Bedinger, TF. S. Bocock, R. K. Meade, RI. A. TIhomipson, WV. G. Brown. OF N. CAnt OLINA.-J. U. J. Daniel, A. W. Venable. Os' S. CanoLX,A.-A. P. Butler, J1. C. Calhoun, A. Ilirs, I. E. Holmes, R,. B. Rhett, RI. F. Simpson, D. Wallace. OF G EonRG A.--l. Y. Johnson, A . Iverson, 1. A. Harlson. OF FL.onIDA.-David L. Vulee. OF LoUIsIANA.--S. U. D)owns, J. H. Har manson, E. La Sore, I. E. Morse. Or TEXAs .-T. Pilshury, D. S. Kaufman. Or AnICaASA.-S,. Borland, J. K. Sebas-. tian, R. W. Johnson. Or i'ENNEssEE.--H. L. Terney, F. P. Stanton. Or Missounr.--D. R. Atchison. Or A L a aAM a.-W. R. King, B. Fitspat.. rick, J. Gayle, F. W. Bowdon, S. WV. Har ris, S. WV. Inge. Or Mzsrssrvr.-Jef. Davis, H. S. Foote, P. W. Tompkmns. A. G. Brown, 3. Thomp son, W. S. Fea therston. EDGEFIELDI. WEDNESDAY, Fimmulfa i i 81. The Add. ASS-4 V le We pnblish in this nu-, tijenAddress of EJ)~FIt'L. the. Southein Delegates to constituents. The importance of the snli gnd.the ability with which it is treated, clitim from our readers the must lively inte" District Me4tinig. Will -,old Edgefield" b4behind her sister Districts in responding to.e Address of our Southern Delegates in Congress? Fairfield Sumpter, Richland, Newbe4v anti Abbeville, nre already moving. Let our-citizens not be the last to show their deterildation to sustaiti our Southern Members inAi resistance to ri,gression. Let us haver eating without further delay. And let <u0friends from the country come tp in numbei. There will be a public meeting in the CooLse, on Mon day the 19th inst. 07 We tender our acknoWledements to the lion. D. WALLACE, and the 'ion. A. BuRT, for pamphlet copies of the Southern Address. g7 We inform our corresp Ondent at "Hig gins Ferry," that we have eiamined into the subject of his complaint, an. have reasons to believe, that, in future, the !is to his section will be better regulated. M7 We must repeat for tbe- information of correspondents, what we habefore Insisted on as a matter of some conriuence to us at least, that all communications and all letters ,ent to the Office of the Adverttser must be post paid? ArteSian -WelFI. From a letter to the Mayr, of Ciarieston, we learn that the Artesian Viell;is"rapidly ad vancing ; and that the Augeas-at'tained to the depth of 500 feet 9 inches. Temperature at that depth 731. - Herrera's Mssage. The message of the hleican r'esident at the opening of the Congress I hest of Jann. ary, has reached us through : j Pipers. It is short. sensible, and free froin t ue-sual bombast of Mexican state papers. I Iiomimends but one measure-a Nitional ,,. fir the pur pose or aiding. the flnancial erations of the Government. Under the iod te raie of Her rera, hopes of quiet and pros rity 'May be in dulged for our sister Republic. T impo..rtatiqirie to' engage at presetnt the mtost seriotns attention of all sober, mie tnd reflecting men aur the South. The first is. are we in the South threattetned by atty real datnger ? Secondly, if dang;ers beset us, whatt are the mnensnres to bla'lopted, in order to avert themt ? All thinkinj mient who love their cotuntry, mttst feel a deep itnterest in thte investigattion of these two po,ints of inquiry. First, then, do dangers acipally impend over us ? We wotuld not be regaid as anr alarmist. There is nothing we muore deprecate thtan un necessary exci'eteent; but i:, the calm0 deliber ations of jiadgmnent, we solemnly believe a crisis is at hanud, fraught wiih- serinn's danger to Sotithern' liberty. Need~ wie itnformn our readers of the grounds ';n ibli we base this conctnsion ? Need we reniind them of the sy stemiatic and obstinate attew ppns of Nor thern abolitioni fanatics, wvithiin jse last fifteen or twenity years, to assail auidi break downt the institution of slavery? Nsed we tell thoem how "aggression has follod~d aggression, atnd encroachmecnt, encrnoachmeri .' till a regard for otur peace arid safety actuail~ demamnis resist anice to this aggressive spirit of abnlitionism? On these thiings we need not dwell; for we are sure, these are facts well knowni to till who have t-iken an interest int the political affairs of the country. But if any should still doiabt of their trmth let thiem recur to the able anifdignified address of our Southern Delegates iai(Congress. Theire they will find the whole subiject dissected aind laid bare. They wvill thaere discover. in the mainly recital of tho repieazed aggressionis of abnhtion fanatucism, wh'lat is in truth the sPuied policy of the Ahiilitionists.dThere they will fitid, that f.or the last fifleern ydars, ' societies anid Newspapers at the North1:aive-been every whlere establishe"d, debating ektbs opened, lec turers employed, ptimphlets and other puablica tions, picttures niid petitioni-to) Cnngress, re gatrdtess of truth arid decency, have beet) re sorted to, to excite hatred againist slavery; while the circnlation of 'incendiary pulicationts in the Soutth. ,the agitation of te subject of abolition in Congress, and the eirrploymuent of emissaries, have been reliedi on to excite dis conttetnt anmang the slaves.' .They will see, also, tthat ab,'lition faniatacigam, -instead of sub sidinig, is actually increasing in virnience atnd madness; that "although Congress has been in sessiott hnt little more thait one month, a greater number of mteasuresfo an -aggressive character have been introducid, and they more aggravated and dangeroaus,'than have been for years before :" of which clas, may be consid ered thg insulting Resolutions offered and largely stipported, to repeal all.acts recogneizmng slavery in tlje District of Columbia ; the Reso lntionis to prohibit the 'mtroduaction of slavery into New Mexico and Cali'ornia; and other rabid and instiltinig propositions seriously ar gued by Northern members of Congress. After duly estiinating all these things, can there be any doubt, that it is the ueidcd determi nation of the North. to cheek, and if possible, to cztermninate the institutiu'nqof slavery I To doutbt 'in this matter, is to frgitt againtst one's own belief! We cannotnaoie sut. out from our ej es the fact, that ti:s fized jetermination, is gone beyond 'the mere judg4nt of t'he mind, and is fast working itself into outward actioi At this pr the next h'e-ion of Congress, the dreadful reality of an actual invasion of otu rights, may' burst with hstjuishimet upon our ninds ! There ii' but one way in the woild to avoid the catastrophe: it is to'placc oursdcc.4 in a position t i eet it with manly resistance! Truly, then, in the language of the Report, the "1 gravest and most solemnti question thi ever claimed the attention of our people. i6 presented for their consideration,"-viz: chat is to be done in order to meet the crisis, and to arert tie dangers that await us? This is a question to elicit tho earnest study of all the practical and thinking ielfds in onir midst! - It is our cor,viction, that perfi-ct untanimity amoinr our Sonthern Delegates in Congres4 would have brow:ht the ditliculty to a quiet and peaceable adjnstinit ; hut, for reasons satis factory, doubtless, to themselves, a large num ber of Southern members have failed to co-op crate In the Southern i-ovement, which, by wea'kenitm the probabilities of union amtogL the Southern people themselves, has encoura' ged the North to sustain her aggressive attitude, without as yet yielding an inh ol gronld to Soutnern rights. For this moral z.nd political defection in an iour of so great peril to their section of coutry, we leave these over-cat tious and temporizing politicians to the stings of conscience, and to the just rebukes of an indignant constitnency. We cannot, however pass by this part of the subject, without raising our feeble pen of praise and gratitude, in hon or to those noble sentinels of liberty, who, re. gardless of party, and in Full view of thu dresded power of the North, have clung fith fully to the pillars of the Temple of Southern rights, and given warning to their constituents of the approaching danger. May a gratefui peoplo reward them for their generous inie. pendence and patriotism ! In the failure, then, of Sotthern Delegates in Congress to briug the North to a pause in its aggressive encroachments on Southern rights and institutions, the people of the Sonth must full back on themselves for means and measures of defence. The only,altertiiive before them is submission or resistance. We will not so grossly insult their acknowledged brayery an independence as to suppose for a moment they will submit to these wanton itfringemnents of their rights. We cannot believe, that for want of energy and spirit, they will allow to he wrested from them witho~gt a serious struggle, that Territory, which was acquired in part by die services and lives of their own sons, who "stood among the foremost in the rank of bat tie, and were swept down by the fire of the enemy." No! The spirit of the sons lived we believe, before then& in the bosom of the fathers; dnd that ardor and zeal, which led the former to victory and death in a foreign land, will prompt the latter to shed their life blood, if necessary, in defence of their domestic altars and their household Gods. Of this, we have rio doubt! Otr people, then, we solemnly trust, are ready to act. How can it he otherwise ? Can it be thought, they hold peace.and quiet in such arty, liberty, and all their piolitical rights: No! we are ready to respond for them-they soil hare liberty, or they taill have deaoth ! All now wanting is the course-of action to be pursned. We feel our inability to indicate that coutrse. Our feeble indiviuut powers wonld succumb under the greatness of thie task. To meet the crisis witht decisive succes, reqnires all the sirength of wisdlom in council. it is at. emnergenlcy wich demuands profoutnd thonght -prompt and energetic action. Let the heads of our Fellow citizenus, then, be brotughit totgeth-* er. Let the old itn. connsel arid the youing in action harmonize. Let theta thinik atnd act w.rthy of the occasiotn. Bunt thatever thecy do et thecm do it toii/h all iheir mnight, ard a e thema be rcady to act at onace wchenever 1thc occasion calls ! SONS OF TE.iPERANCE. Extract of a Letter to a Gentlemen ini this place. *aW~e lhad a fine titne itt Camdlen, and perhaups tmore gooid huas been dotte thIere thtan by any Temporance tteetintg ever yet held itt this place. So elated are the Brothers. that I hatvo r'eceivedl n o let ets by'the last matil, both of m hemr so full of jny at their success iliat ihey are cager to) let me hear or it. They had 90 initiated members whenu i left, o)ver (one hundlretd eh:eied, antd nout the first viola tiotn of the pledige in i heir~ Divi sion. T.heyc httve received more t han a di 'zen nv 'prouposiitins since I left, nmona thtet ColI. -- wihit leads the h)istrici, with at host ofyotitg metn,ntobie anid gente runiQ, wiho once indiulged,, hut arc notw wihhin outr f,ald. One ofl the BJrothers stays. God only knotws whleun te p)reset move will amp, butt he tnks,' itt a very short time, that the wh Ie cattmumiy will lie within ithe fold anid thaet the Rumit Sellers will becomie Suits oh Temperinnee, ort leatvc Camden. fThe Order is progressing litnely, Twenty Divisions, are ntow at work in the State, anti four applications in hand wait ing; to bo organiized. Sumrpter Divisiotn, No. ]2. has 160 initiatedl membLers, anid over 200 including~ those elected-they say thaut they will have oyer 400 at thes end of the present year. People's Division. Nt,. 5, is now Intitiating from 10 to 12 of a ntithst. I think this year will more than treble the Divi sions atnd nutmbhers otf members in the St ate; and' as for Georgia and Alabama, they are perfectly crazy on the subject. Georgin has over 150 Divisions, -.d Ala bama 226 Divisious, both starte, -:ith our State, -Our own Division is taking a new start ad we elect some every night, and will now commence itnitiating in good eartnest, I hope to htear of public meetings by Wash ington Division, No7. anod that a inew im petus will be givetn to the Order in Etdge field. . Yours, in L. P. & F. Wateree, No 9, at Camden, are making arrangements to build a Hall, worth $2, 500. Sons of Temperance in Edgefieltd, see what is doing in other parts of our State, and let it reanimate you and fire you wiith fresh zeal in our good cause. Let tis see you, one and all, back in onr Division Room. Let us be as a baud of Birotlier's joined in an indissoluble leage to wage .............. . e eternal war against inteynperance. Let the watch wor bIe ever. up and onward, let not ;an inch of grodtii bo yielded. Ie firm, be consistent. Prefer not the asse-in blies of liotous men, to the orilerly meetk ingioif yooir brethreo. nor the dissipation of the hilliard saloong, to the Hlall where stands vntr altar and floats your banner with its incripiors of Purity, Fidelity and Love. Rally once more under your stand ard and forfeit not your pledge ot [ideliy 1t our cause, by giving countenance to its enemies. Let not the few who ha-e borne the heat nod burden of the day, fain for want of help, but resume .yonr armor ani your. courage, and coine up to the help of your brethren against the mighty. It is the cause or Benevolence, of hu-ani ty, of irth and under the blessing of a good Providence is destiued finally to tri uimph. R. S. From the Charleston Mercury. WASII%-rox. February 6, Mr. BUTLr. presented the folloii'g Resolutions. which were pased by both Hotses of the Legislature of Soth Caro. lina at its late session, and transmitted by Gov. SEABRooK. Resudced unanimously; That the time flir dicus-ion, by the slaveholding States, ns to their exclusion from the territory re cently acquired from Mexico, has passed and that this General Assembly. represent ing the feelings of the State 'of South ,Carolina, is prepared to co-oporate with her sister Sintes in resisting the applica. tion of the principles or the Wilmot Pro viso to such territory, at any and every haz ard. Resotved unnainously ; That the Gov ernor be reqested :o transmit a copy of this report to the Governors of each of the States of this Union, and to our Senators and Pipretatives in the Congress of the United Stntes. The Panama Bill was then made the subject (if some disenssion. In the 11ouzr.-The Naval Appopria tien Bill as it came from the Committee of the Whole passrd. except the amendment abolishing the spirit ration, which was defeated. The rollowing are the remarks of Mr. BUTLER, as reported by the Washington correspondent of the Balti;nore Son. on presetntina, in the Senate of the United Sinies. the re"olutions of the LegiSlature ofrSouth Carolina, on the Willmot Pro, viso. Mr. Butler felt bound, in presentina these re-ofilints, to say that ihey. were not the lransi,nt re:ulh of popular eteite ment. but of the deliberate, permanent convietion of the Legislatire of a .Overeian State. expressin.g the sentiments and de termination of the people ihereof. South Carolina was tint alone in this. Virgi:jia too hal spoken. iII !anguage not to bemis understood,. and Sotith Carolina wou!J stand by and sawtain her. Mr. R. @aid she'never would consent to crouch and become 'rhi ass between bur therns," in con-ietion with this, phbjeet. If the North persisted in carrying measores. to extremeities, 'it vould he, _iriminal such cie Inde, would be reducin the South from an equality, and degrad ing her in the Union, to which South Carolina would niever consent. The re solutions were ordered to be printed. From the N. 0, 1Micaysne. ust :. F RO.1M EI XlIC0. The brig Irwin, Capt. Robin.son, arrived yesterday fromt Vera Cruz, having saeted on the 20th tilt. JBy her we avet papers frm the city of Mexico to) the .i3thr, and from Jalupa to the 14th, a few days later thtan our previouts a tdvice-s. General La Vez,n arrived at Vera Cruz~ ott the 6th insi1, cit his way to TIampicoj. Gen Aletrez, the ntotoriouns commander of the Pino, hav ~i'g bee'n atccused eef ta velring the in,~tortns of rTmascailepee*, idigntanitl y deinies it in a commtia tion120 to the G,ventntt. Gen. L'embae;rdini htas been, appoitntedl Commttiatndaunte General of the Stitle of Puebla. TheiL Sta;te of' Chihoahita is ove.rrun u-ith C'amnct.hes. and the inhabttIitms :ire pe.ti tioteing th Cen(-ttril G3overnmetnt to protect ti- atrtic in,'rlto .iile " :<ico :about thte T it- .dite.ter ..i Fm .ace has: been calledl upon hvy thett Chtamb ~er tf Deie;s to lay tteore thtemt hie conttraees n ith the huste otf1 t'ogetus and'I )>r'tinm, i,: td advances upn t d o's at Citiotm heotines. tt teaittlded thieir sessiont o tt he lith in:-t. l'or thIe p'~rrpoese, beut was noet hetard, I heir attemtion being occutipied n Ii uhtome tti er grave' subhjecct. Tihe dili;;ence whtich left I he (api tal for Putebla on the ilihi was rtibbed before it Ihad pats,edl thIe GaritIa. We have letoked at the entrirs oif ship' Iping at te pot of Me eathmtt for several dayt s, andi ntttice almno-rt hily terrivals of of smatl vessels there, ht tall are M'weicant. Thfe proect of at rairtrtad to 'Tacttbnya promiskes to be enrried throotet viguorousy. Gen. Uragat, under tte' tordters of Getn. Bustamnitie, ha:s obtitinedu some ntable succe'sses over the iusurgents ol the Sierra Gotcha. A memornir of Sg Cuevas, the Mitnister of State, fitIs tneat'ly one entite number of El M~oniteor Republicaito.1 A bill hats beeni introduced into the Setn ate to appropriate it ptortion of' the next payment from the Utnited States to the purchase of sixty thousand muskets. Circulars have beent addressed by the order of the President, to the Governors of the several States, intimating that as the chotlera hiad made i,s appearatnce in Vera Crutz, it behooved themn to take all precaut tions,t1in order to mitigate its severity, when it visitetd the interioar. At Guanjoato. were caineed, during last year 41,701 doublons; $7,195,000, and $-459,900), ice smaller p)ieces of silver-in all, $8,332,116. IlOMtSTEAD E$XtEMPTIoN.-A bill has beetn itttrodutcedl it the H ouse ofReopre sentatives etf New .Jersey, to exempt $I50 worth otf the petronal piropierty of tlte heatds tnay select, from the opecration of execto tions. There seems to lie a' dispositiont toi pass5 it. A hotmstead exemption bill has also been introduced into the Neiwj York A,ssnmbly The A litionis1s and -.0. Cahoun. There w*as three days' wission in Faneuil. Hall. Boston, last week of the Garrison and Wendell Phi lips school of aboltionists. They reiterated the sterotype dieclarationl that-,tie time has come when.the Union abould be dissolved,A bit cappeg th' eli imnx by the following compliment to Mr. calhoun: "Resolved, That in openly nhd unequi vocally advocating slavery as i just, benq. licent and democratic institution, Jufin C. Cnlhoun of South Carolina is d be com. mended for his frankness and directness; that ror his 'earrnestifess. 6diiitency, in. trepidity and self-sacrifice, in 'defending and seeking to extend and perpetuate what he thus professes to regard assuperl'itively excellent, he is equally to be cot6mended." Fenzinine Occupaion.-Tii town clerks or Massachusetts in making o0i1he census, find great ditlicully in ascertai'ingtbs oc ciipaiiiin of unmarried girls did boys, as required by law, and one- of then writes to the Secretarv thus: "My vocabulary is not extensive enough to express in a single word the occupation of unmarried young ladies. .an't do bet-" ter than set it down-preparaidn for Jlatiimony !" Gen. Wallace.-We' understand that Gen. Wallace, the RepresentatNv in on gress from the Pi_ckney .Distriet, incon formity with a determination.-epressed come time since, recently forwarded to his Excellency the Governor, his resigaatioa as l1tjor General of the Fifth.:Military District. Gov. Seabrook, however, for reasons connected with- the efficiency.of our lilitia System, declined the accepb tance of the resignation, and Gen.-W.' we are happy to learn, has very properlyac' quieice. in the -Governor's wishes, and bai withdrawn it.-Mereury. CHAGRES AND PAN.AMA.-Ch in Chag. res, says The Baltimore Sun, should bi pronounced as in champion ; the. ag as in rag; and the fes, as to trees, only :iorter& Attah the g to the first iyllabli. Chag. ret. - Panama should be accented on' the last syllablm, which is pronounced exactly like Ma, when used as a substitute for mother. Attach the n to th6 first iylabi. Pan is pronounced like the Erigliih word pn. -Pan-.a-nuh. So says (and corietly) the N. Y. True Sun. Gov. CRtITTEqDEN AND TdE CABilPET4 The New-York Tribune, of. Aaturday, says: "Prirate advices from Kentucky con cur in the utiniob that .Mr..Criilndeb will freel coustrained by the stroogYappeal made t) bim from many qiuarteis to re sign his -present position, with nearly his whole four years teria unexpired, and act cept j position. in General Tiylor'S Cab' iuet- It is understood -thai- he,,,prdf ' tbe lowest. place in rank-to,the4highest..4. Gov. King of-Missouri, in 1-.isiaugUral C. Message, denies the'rijhi-of'the eneral Gouvernment to exclude slaver.9 n th new territories. but express.0 1?n toabide. th2Mh taftfairk. ^ .~* - . .Death of' an .Editor,-Thonlie trher, esq. editor 'of the Frederick (Mld4 H er'ald; died in that city on the Slot tiltimo. The nomination of Jared Sparks LL. C. to the Presidenicy of Harvard College, was nunimously conlitmned otn-Thursday~' by the Board of Overseers. Presideni Everett waus olected a Memlber::l the f icatrd ol .Overseers, in .thepaeoJbi Quincy Adamoi. epleor.hi Governor Di'ew, of Arkansds, has foi--~ mally resianed. and the duties of the en e'cutive wvill he discharged by the Hon. R. C. B~yrd, President of the Senate, until th people can choose a Governor.' Gen.- Shields was shot through the breast at Cerro Gordo, and reported **mor tally wounided," yet recovered, aud tnow tnkesidi thpce oh' Judge Breese in thdi Uuited tStates Senate. This has givetn rise it) the folwing good thming by a Sucker Somte inen have "Inst thteir heads" and lived; Butt stranger thr thtan these. 1'Te shot that passd therougth Shield's breast, lnstead of h:imz, killed Breese. The Courier of the 8t inst. says: "The Richonzd I'hrg came to -us yesterday; clad in the bnNtiimenuts of mourrfing, in raiken of respeet to the meinory of Bpnjamin' WValkinis Leigh. Esq1., wiho expired at his resi,dence in that city on Fridaiy night last; aifier a Ilong and:' pa;infuil illness. A4 tcse Governor.-Gov. Edwards of .Alisuri, recomimenids the passage of a latwi, to make the consent of a wile necese. sary to legaslize an endorsement. -. Trhe Pentnsylvania Senate on Wearless dny last voted. 18 to .10 againist extend1ing~ lie right of suhirage to all persons withotrt regard to compillexionI. Gv. Dorr.-The bill to 'restor'G.-' Dorr to the enjoiymtent of his civi[frights, was los.t int the'Rhode Island.Hiuse of Represenatatives on the 31st tilt.'by' the casting vote of the Speaker. A Thn p o f Gold in Brooklyn.-T heo Drooklyn Daily Advertise? states that a gentletman of iliat city had a piece of Vir--' gin Gold presetnted to him a rew' days since, which lie would not sell for 85,000. This is what wve call ra v'ery handsome New Year's present. So does Mrs. Gold. and the nurse. If equal quantities of laudannm' tinc-. ture of rhtubarb and tincture of camphor - are mixed together, anid eighteen' drops mixed with water be. taken every 'two hours, it is said to be the beat antidote to cholera discovered. DomesLie Bliss. -Pater famiints,. "l can not conceive, my love, what 'is the. matter with my watch; I think it must want clean-~. Pet ChIld. "Oh no ! Papa dear!f'don't think it wanits cleaning, b,ecause Baby and I biad it washin,g in the basin for ever so lung this mnornting-!" Mr. Clatfs Election.-The vote- to the Kentucky L.egislature, on the election of Mr. Clay toe the Sen,ate; stoodl as rolows Clay 92, Col. R. Mt. Johnson 45 - Comprehend tnt few- thi'ngs in iny. w-ords. but many things in few words.