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THE WILMOT PROVISO, ETC. Mr. WALLAc. rose, and asked- the gene ral consent of the House, at this time. to rresent certain joint. resolutions -of the Legislatureof South Carolina. No objection being made, - Mr. Wallacr presented the joint -resolutions, as follows: The Joint Committee of the Senato and House of Representatives upon Federal 11elations, to.whicirwero referred so much - of the Governor's message as relates to the saitation ofslavery, and sundry resoln tions upon the same subject, beg leave to repQrt the iollowing resolution, as expres ming the undivided opinio-n of this Legis lat.pre upon the Wiloit proviin. anld - al similar violations of the great principle of equalily which South Carolina has so )ung and so ardently maitined should govern the action of the States and the laws of Congress upon all matters alleet ing the rights and interests of 6uy member of this Union Resolccd, unaniiously, That the time for discussion by the sluvehuldin-, States as to theIr exclusion fromii the territory re cently acquired from Mexico has passed, and that this General .Asiserly. repre senting the feelings of the State of South Carolina, is prepared to co-operate with ber sister States in rcsisting the appliea :tion of the principles of the Wilmot pro viso to such territory, at tny and every hazard. Resolred, uanimiousty, That the Cov ernor be requested to tiansmit a copy of this report to the Governor of each of the States of this Union, and to our Senators and Representatives in the Congress of the United States. Mr. W. said lie-was aware that debate was not allowed on an occasion of this kind. Gentlemen on this floor would do him the justice to.admit that during the brief period he bid had the honor of a sent here, he had tresspassed very litile on the time of the House He asked the indul gence of Iu House whilst lie made a few remarks in explanation of these resolutions. The Speaker said if there was no ob. jedon, the gentleman would proceed. No objecticn was made. The reading of the resolutions was called for, an( they were read. Mr. Wallace was about to proceed with bis remarks. - Mr. Cummins asked leave to oTer a resolntion of inquiry. Mr. Wallace said he would not detain the Houie many minutes. . The Speaker said the House by uinani mous consent had read the resolutions of the Legislature of South Carolina, and the gentleman from South Carolina was enti tied to the floor. A brief conversation followed on a pointi -.of form, touching the resolution, between ,,, Mr.,Collamer and the Speaker. -Mr. Wallace being about to proceed-. iMr. Giddiogs rose to a que'itiou oforder. Did -he (he inquired) understand that the u.jei wasdebatable? Tfi~hSpeaker said; Qletrly n9twit bout unanimous conseotn Air. Giddings., 'As.k nember of the House, I cannot (ries u --Tuu irnv, tut, ta.. The Speaker. The Chair distinctly at nounced that the gentleman from South Carolina [ ?r. W -allace could go on by unanimous consent. That consent was given. M Ar...Giddings. I did not know. The Speaker. The gentleman from South Carolina will proceed with his re marks. Mr. Wallace then addressed the House as follows: *Mr. SrI4AKER : I .rise, sir,, as I have *stated, to present to this House 'certain resolutions, which were unanimously pass edI by the General Assembly-of the St ate of Southb Carolina. in December las;, in refe -rence to the introduction of slavery into the.territorial districts of the United States; and I avail myself of thme opportunity thus afTorded tme to express my curdial concur rence in the principles thtey assert and the sentiments they express. I claim, sir, to know something of the * people whose representtatives have passed these resolutions, atnd sent them here. They need no eulogy of tnine. That etu logy which is their due is writ ten upon thte page of our country's history, in every trying scene through which that coutry h Ias passed ; and I feel, sir, that I can statnd upon this floor, in presence of the assent bled represetttatives of this Federal Union, and point with patriotic p)ride to the re cords of that history to prove the fact, thtt in'every period of their political existeonce. .they have, both at home anti abroad, in peace and in war, in jhe cabinet and the field, given the best evidence whieh patri ots can give of their devotiotn to the Con stitutiton, and for te prese-rvation of which they are at all titnes readty to lamy down their lives. And I hesitate tnt to declare, thti it is this very devotion of~ thte peoplle *of South Carolin to the Cotnstitution, and to the fundamental principles of~ political and civil liberty, which it guaranties alike to all, that has promp)ted their repreena tives to pass thte resolutions which I now have the honor to present. It would, Mr. Speaker, be a very great error to suppose 'that these resolutiotns *were passed without due consideration, in a .moment of excitemnent; that they are merely the result of a hasty e-bullit ion of feeling without suflicicnt cause, antd that the grave and importnt resolve therein em,t bodied will-be abatndoned the momnent this feeling of exciteentf shall have ptassed~ away.. . -Knowing as I do the cause which led to their enactment, it is due alike to truth atnd to canidor, that 1 should.assert, as my . deliberate op.inion, that the people of South * ~Carolina will never abandoti the positioni asenumed by these resolutions, and that they will oev-er submit to the enforcemnent of what is caHed the Wilmot proviso. * Itis due-, sir, to mryself and to this [louse, tht1should disavoow, as 1do, alintn-. tion of uttering a sentence or a word, with the view to intimidate or to thtreaten. To * either the one or rIhe other, wonld not only -be incompatible with that respect whtich is due to.this House, but wsouldl be erlually unsuited to the dignity and spirit of the people.- I represent., it is my desire "to speak the w ords of truth and soberness" ounly, upon a subject the most grave and momentous which has ever been agitated within this Hall. The - ruth can be no longer disguised that we are approaching a most rearrul conjunc ture-a coujuncture which invplves the very existence o.t'Ihe. institu-i6ns under which %ve live; and he who atiempts to disguise illis truth is an enemy to his coun try, and to the best interests of manukind,' The greatest political wisdom, the most exalted public virtue, are now demandeil, and their most active energies invoked, to avert, if it be possible, the impending dan gers which hang, dark and ominous like a runeral pll, over our future history. The history, sir, of every age of the world iench6s us. that powdr,unelecked an(: uuconitrolled is incompatible witil the existence of human liberty; it goes on from one step of misrule to another, until the liberiies of the people are swallowed up in the vortex of despo'isn. In absolute gov crurnmenis, revolution is the only mode by which the tyrant- can be overthrown. InI limited mornarchies like that of England, tie Houst of Commons-the taxing power -can compel reform by withholding the supplies which are necessary to the ad. miistration of the affitirs of government. Hot the Government under which we live differs widely from bo!h df these. Our Government is twofold. It is a govern ment of the whole, and also a government of integral parts; and the great end for which the government of the whole was formed, is to protect aud defend the parts, and not to subjugate and destroy them; and when the Government of the whole fails to accomplish the end for which it was created,and threatens to destroy that which it was formed to save, it becomes a most important subject of inquiry. What conservative principle must be resorted to, in such an emergency to interpose in ef fectual check to the tyranny of an absoltI!e majority, which overrides the Constitution, and puts in peril the liberties of the people, by convertihg a Federal Republic oT sov ereign and equal States into a consolidated despotism, against whose acts of aggres sion upon the most sacred rights of the mninority of co-States the-Constitution no longer affords even a feeble barrier? In such a case, when the ends for which the Government was formed are no longer regarded with respect; when the Constitu. tion is virtually -repented; when the sov ereign and equal parties who created it ate threatened, as they now are, with sub jugation and overthrow, there is but one way to bring back the Government to the principles upon which it was formed, and therehy to restore the Constitution to its position of paramonnt law, and to save the Union from anarchy and revolution. The States themseves-the sovereign par!ies to the compact of Union, whose rights are assailed, and whose very exist ence is :hreatened-are bound to throw thetmselves into the breach, in their- sov ereign character; not to destroy. but to save. If the effort he successful, the Government will be reformed; revolution averted; and the Constitution-and the Union saved. If the effort fails, the minority of States.will be thrown back upon the law of Relf-nrs..1 servation, and the.dul becomes paranoiut to lions. -Sir, there are those tuimber, who belive t ly approachin-g when ereign parties to thr must act-upon tIhe I tain the great etnds, t- ., ,n,r,, rnave reme, - red; not by their- repriesettativ6s in .this Halll, for that security has already most sigtally failed, but itn their sovereign char acter out of this Hlall, to arrest the progress of rggressiotns that have already beetn borne until forbearance has ceased to be a virtue. - And the friends of the Constitu tion and the Union are called upon, by every consideration of that duty whtich a patriot owes to his country, to come to thie rescue, atnd to save ftrom desecration and violation the fairest fahuic of hsuman free dom ever erectced by fallen man. Thtese, Mr. Speaker, are the high con siderations which, itn my judgment, im pelled the Legislature of Sooth Carolina to pass the resoliutins~ now presented to the cotnsiderat ion of thlis honorable body: and if it be true, as many wiser heads than ume believe, that this struggle, so impor, tant in its principles and results, must come, I take this occasiotn, onlce for all, to declare thsat I ant not in favor of. throwitng tpoi thte rising gcneratiots the continually increasing responsibility and peril of tIhe conflict. TJo tdo this wonuld be to evade the highest obligamtions of duty, and 'to act the part of a coward. It is our cause and our duly now, and we htave no right to leave t6 our childretn and to posterity an itthetitanmce so fraught with ills and bso full r danger. Our duty is plaitn. There is nothing so terrible to te independent ntitnd as a tame andI cowardly subtmission to itnsult and wrong. A people who tunderstantd and appreciate the obligatiotns of truth, otf jtus ice, atnd of dut)', will net in cotnforrmiiy to he thsigh satnctionts of them all, .wizhou.1 lokitng to conseqtuences. Mr11. W. hav~intg cotncludted The Speaker inquiredl what disposition the gemntlemanrt proposed to make of the ret,tlutionts 1 On motion of Mr. Wallace, the said resolutions were laid on the table, and ordered to be primted. - Mr. Hudson asked leave to offer a reso ltion. Mr. Ashtmun addressed the Speaker, andt said he rose upon the other motion made by thte gentletman from South Caro lina, [.\1r. Wallace.] The Speaker. Does the gentleman propose to debate that questiotn ? Mr. Ashtnun was understood to say thtat bIe did. Thte Speaker stated that the gentletman must have special liberty to proceed. Mr. A.shmun. The motion, I understand, is to print the resoltutions. The Speaker. The motion is not de batable to-day, as memori-tils and resoltt lions of State Legislatures cannot he dis ussed by general consent, or by suspen ion of te rules the day on which 'they are offered. M',r. Ashmun. Ildo not intettd to debate it, I merely ask that the first line of the irst resolution be read. M r. MecLane ob'jected. Mr. Went worth ro'se (he said) toa point 4 order. The getleman. from South Darolinsa (Mr. Wallace) had asked the in, ulgence of the House to tmake a speech npons these resolutions; the House had tridulg,d him;-nr,rie n,rerstood ,1,,,,,,at, a southern man objectedi 'tei ithern manl rose to-havoapart 223rtions read. He hoped ihat th9s'ii ourtesy would be extended. Re.li6aI hat the gentleman from Ajassach"sei biuldb allowed to go on. The Speaket stated tha 't iocs were disposed of. So the cnversation ei d a EDGEFIELDO '.C WEDNESDAY, FKBnIUA4,j18M. 0iT We tare indebted to the Ho .9A... BPT LER, the 1lon. A. BURT, and thilon. D. M. \VALLACE, fur papers and public ocuments. 0- " ANTI-BIGOTRY " has bin; received, and will appear in our r.. Remarks of Mr. Willace.. We publish the remarks. t thon. D. M. WAL.Acr in presenting tn thIe ouse of Re presentitives the South Carofini Resolutions, to which we respectfully call ialtt&fi6n. They expreis the sentiments of .ee and do honor to the man who uttere 'them Paper at Due- eVest lbvile. We have received the prospetitof a paper by the above name to be publislie&at the flour ishing institution at Due West Cornei, Abbe, ville, by Messrs. J. J. Bo.a-;xa& J. S. RinD. Success to the enterprise ! - Public Meeting in CoMnbia. We omitted in our last to notide.te meeting held at Columbia on the 16th ini.i to respond to the Southern Address. A seFs of_spirited Resolutions was adopted. Virginia Gold. A gold mine has beet discoverd in Virgin'a. near Fredericsburg, richer in aore, issaid, than any of the mines of Califoriis or South America. "The Mystic Tie." We- have on our table a apewly-published bonk, of-which the above is die title,'{treating of " Facts and opinions illusthtve of the character and tendency of Freemasonry." by ALBaRT G. MACKEY,.1. D; &c.We have not been able to read the worli;ut from the known.roputation of the anithriIt no doubt contains jnuch interesting matjer on the stab jont of which it treats, written.inaattractive The facts, learn are thiese . aun.ma uuyusa go rs. 1'osey went to thme spring, a fe w hundlred yards from the residence of her husband, from which time she had been missing, until. Sunday last, her dead body was found, artfully buried in a spot near theo spring-the mnurdering been conm mitted, from appearances, with a.iarge clib by blows npon the head. The. iero, who peipe tratedi the foul deed, has made his escape; buit had revealed the fact of killin, it seems, to an other negro on the premises, previouisly to his runnaing away. No motive islas yet known for the killing. The State.Moving, Prelimmnary meetings in -nany of the Dis. tricts of tho State, have been hecld on the sub ject ofSouthiern wroang. We naotice meetings in Hlamuburg, A bbeville, Pendletoan, Newberry, and other Districts. Ideed,. the whlole back country, seems to be alive tos.tho danger which threatens Southern inaterests. flat we see noth ing doing about the sea-bordt-Where is Charles tuai at this imapor tantamomnent? 'Are we to have1 a little more " watching.and tvaiting " at the Q)ueen City 7 If Charleston will not lead, all we hiavo to say, isi, she must fiollowo! Meeting in Mobile. From the Mobile Adver'tier of the 14th inlst. we learat, that "one of this'largest and most respectable Meetings ever assembled in Mobile met at the Court House to.respond tat the Ad-a dress of the Southern Delegates itn Congress to their constituents " . -] The meueting heartily approved thec conauct! of thae Senators and Represeantataves in Coin. gress of the Southiernt States, and j ecomamendedi to thte Legislatute of the State of Alabama to prepare the Stain to sustain.Virgiania iaa tier acij tion on the subject of S6iuther rgtst h last eczircmity.:-earghst h Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel. We have felt no littlee.disguist and indigna lion at the course'paursu6cf.by this paper, siance alhe lato agitationi cii thte.sfbject of Southeran a wrongs. The whole. teifoof its Editorials is t treason to the Sonth. Everyv paragraph is re- a plete with snarling sari-csuiat alhe views and mnovemients of the .South'ien party. Ev'ery 1 niumber is tinictaured with thie foul precepts of I abolitionismi. The paper ila very hot bed aof I traitrou.eeling to fionthern interests. Will the spirited people of Gdigia allow themselves to be impiosed upon by sentiments so vile and: treasoniable because they- are put forth in a tending Whig Journal? I1pt them briaig the matter to the -test. Let Yheui search out thec Edit or, anud if they rihould flaud that a spy is iai our camp-that a Nonrtn Aboli*ionist has steatltiy gotten upon1We''.Nachaower of our I liberties ini order to expose our weaakn'ess and to control our movements so as to favor the en.. amy--tot thean be prodpt In hatnling him down I from his "baad eaminence. - We are totha to use muci language towards a' neighiborinig Journal t aensne of daity to our section.of country, wrood render silence on such ani occasion criminairy negligent, a zV. WjIM6 Proviso, AN ABSTRACT qUESTION! It is oftenijMsserted that the Wilmot-Proviso is an abstract question-that it, in reality, I as no practical bearing on the institution of slavery in the Southern States. This notion has been taken up by some of the Newspapers of the South, and put forth with an. air df boldness to their readers as thougih it were tue. Some of(these papers-thQ Augusta Chronicle &.Sen tiricr for instance-assuming its truth, are Ia, boring to convince the people, that the ffrenmit excitement about their wrorigs is all the -result of personal amibition'; a wily scheme to support the selfiaf interests of a few leading politicians Conjectties so thoughtless and silly can ema nate onl), from an incurable stupidity, or'from a reckless.diiposition to serve paity purposes. It requires no philosophic penetration to dis cern the direct bearing of the Wilndt Proviso and the other abolition movements on South. ern slavery. The inevitable tentiency of tlie former is to ledge us in by Free-States on ev ery side. Thns while efl'ectually preventing the extension of slavery, lte abolitionists seek to destroy the institution itself by hemming our sayes in fixed limits, till they becomeo m ti merous ai.d crowded as to be entirely valneless Is this not the plain-tho certain result of the adoption of the Winutot Proviso in regard to our Western Territories I But this is not all. When we are at length completely surrounded by Free-States, oni asylum will be opened for all the futgitive slaves who riiay escape from their owners. Is this a visioiary conjecture I Has there not already been a practical viola tion of the constitution by most of the'North ern free Stateiitn passing laws against deliver ing up fugitive slaves? This is already one of the most alarming aggressions of the abolition spirit. But what will L. the measure of it rabid fury, when the flaine .of its wrath is en kitidled along the whole line of the slavehold. itng States from the Potomac to the Rio Giande? What power can resist its.lyrannous itiroads uptn oar rights? Societies and clubs will abound to entice away slaves from eyery part Df the Southern States, in the teeth of the onstitution, and despite all the remonstrances f the slave-holding States. There is one lamp by which we may be guided in the future -and that is the lamp of experience. But if 6ve are to judge of.the future by the past, the picture we have portrayed is destined some lay or other, unless a check he given to the Alind fituatacism of the day. to be presented to iur view. May God, avert lte calamity! State Traffic in Slaves. Several Southern Journas are recoimend ng the passage of laws by the different State Legislatures at the-South and West to prevent daves being carried from one State to another or the purposes of sale. This must strike eV ry practical man as .being exceedingly improp ~mnau1 i ilatm 7001 to euu ~wira,-now to revent a mian from taking advantage of this lii'erence ini price, is a serious interference vwitht the rights of trade, the impolicy of which a obvious. As well might the Northt say to ins, you shall takce 5cets. for your Cotton in tour own Country, when you can get 8 or 0 ets. in Eitgland. But 2nidly--a still more serious cottequene nust ensue. The States in wvhich ntegroes 2ow abound and rapidly multiply, must in a thort time resort to abolition itn consequence of heir negroes becoming utterly valtiless from wier-numbers. Virgintia, we believe, would e a frec State in less than twenty years, in :aso of such a law by all the Legislatures of he slave-holding States. Gold Excitement. The mania for the gold Regions seems to be is furious its ever ! If we are to believe the ttblic prints, New England, New York, atnd Phtiladelphtia, aro sendimg ont their hundred htousand inhtabitants. A multitude of vessels taye beer, sailing within the last three months rom Boston, New York, atnd Baltitnore, laden vith hardy advetnturers, about to seek their for tine in jhe distant. regions of' Californtia. Atnd hte nutber of vessels weekly advertised seems o be u.n the increase. Over our whole coun ry the ptopumlation appears to he agitated and noving towards the Gold Rtegions. And tte xcitement has passed over the Ailaittic to stir tp the enterprising people of thte old wvorld. Cuimbers from England, from France, and rom Germany are flocking to California. hatceffect this hteterogeneouis mass of the eit tens of the wvorlid wtll have nieon the state of ocicty In California is not diflicult to be con ectured. Disorder, riot, plunder, itilmorality, uust inevitably ensue. Slavery in Kentuckgr. Somtetime ago we stated that a contvention of he people int Kentucky was to be helJ for the urpose of revising the State Constittution, tnd that it was in conttenmplation to lay before to -people the proposition, whether or not icastires be forthwith takcen for. the gradual mancipation of slaves in that commonwealth. lumneromts primary meetings anmong the pteople ave taken place with a view of favouing this roposition: but the lower House of the Ken Licky Leg,islatture has past the matter to rest for de present, by passing~ untaniosly a Resolam ion, That thea subject of emancipation oiughtL not owo to be agitatcd in tat .Statc. Rome Departrment. Many of our readers are aware that a new fliee under govermtnpt, called the H-ome De'. artment, has received the vote of the lower louse of Congress, anid ntow awaits the action f the Senate. The precise nature of the de 'artment is not definuitely set forth ; but it seems > embracee an extensive business touchitig thte iterior administration 'of the Government. It all evetnts, the indumbent is to have a hand otme salary, and numerous secondary offices public treasury. Of the utility of the Office we will speak more at large, when its precis, duties are more accurately known. FoR THE ADVERTISER. - HiGeis' FERRY, Feb. 21. AIa. EDITOR.-At last we have had a touch of real winter weather-; the gennine old fashioned article. On Friday, Satur day, Sunday. Monday and ''uesday lost, it w as cold, colder. less cold, coluebt. -erg cold. At sunrise the mereury, stocid res pectively at, 30. 22, 28, ]7, and 23 de grees. It is not common for us, in this. climate, to have weather so cold and con. tin-ue so long, as .17 degrees is quite un common even for one Jay.. It has not only been very cold, but also very dry. I do not think that I ever be fore witnessed so dry a spell at rhis season, and I am sure I never saw Salada river, s low. It is as low as it generally is 'in tnid summer. Sinicerely-, i-J. A. From the -oClunbia Telegraph. - DISTRICT AJEETING. Pursuant to previous notice. a .meeling of the citizens of Ne%vherry district took place at the Court House at Newberry village, on Monday the ith inst. to res pand to the Address of the Southern roem hersof Congress, (in the subject of the anti-slavery aggressions u'f the North. On motion of Hon. F. 1. Higgins. Drayton Nance, Esj. was called 'o the Chair, and A. C. Garlington was appointed Secretary. The Chairman, having explaiea the object of the meetitg, Thos. H. Pope. Esq. moved that a committee of nine be ap.. pointed to report resolutious for the con sideration of the meiting, when the fol lowing committee was appointed by the Chair: - Thos. H. Pope. Esq., Dr. J. N. Hein; don, Capt. Jas. Mafit,Jarmes Wilson, Sr., Maj. P. Hair, Cul. U. S. Cannoo, Hon. P. C. Caldwell, Dr. J. K. Gary, R. G. Gilliam. The commitlee ha*ving retired, in a short time returned and reported the fol lowing resolutions, which, after a few re marka by Thos. Ii. Pope, Esq. and A. C. Garlingion, were unanimously adopted : 1st. Resolved, That the thanks of the whole South are due to the bouthern Dele gates fortnheir able address to their consti tuents, which contains an exposition of our rtghts, and of the encroachments upon them, and of the'dangers which beset us, so clear and forcible as to demonstrate to all the necessity of united action. 2d. Resolved, That we heartily approve the recommendaiious to th-e people of the slaveholding States contained iri -the Ad dress-to be united titnng themselves; and that the peopl.e of this District -stand ready to co-operate with the people of the other 'districts of tbis- State, and of the other slaveholding States, in resisting the proviso, and all orher kindred at any and every hazard. iolved, That a Committee of 4ppointed. to correitond iiih I of- the other Distr, is of this [th:-.- States rpose of devising th6proper *r their commoor'safety; a.id: -e power to call public meet fle .of- this District, wvhen .....dgment, it shall becomue necessary. On motion of i. C. Wiseman, it was resolved, that the Cortittee under the 3d resoluilon consist of forty menmbers; when the following persons, were appoint ed by the Chair to act as the Cotmmittee of Safety i Hon. F. B. Higgins. Thtornas [H. Pope, Esq., Henry Summter, Esq , Cot. S. Fair, HIon. P. C. Calidwell, Dr. J. N. llerflden, Natnan Whitmire, Col. Jas. WV. Duckett, Jas. Bonds, Dr. J. K. Gatry, Dt. G. WV. Glenn, MIaj. J. P. Kinard, WV. WV. Mc Mort is. Dr. Thos. J. Lyles, WV. E. H arpy, Capt. D. L. Wicker, Jos. Cald well, Mi. Su'.er, David, Capt. E. Suber, M. Barre, Daniel DeWalt, Col. John Hair, -J. Her ber.-M. M. Higgins, M. Wirts, Dr. D. Moore, Jno. H. WVilliamns. Daniel Rudd. Henry Bturton, Wash. Floyd, Col. B. F. Griffin, Mlaj. P. Hair, Josephb Davenport, Capt. James Maffit. Jatmes Wilson, Sr., John Cook, Capt. J. A. Kibler, Col. G. S. Cannon, Capt'. George Turnipseed. Ott motion it was Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the newspapers of the State, andi that copies of the same be forwarded to our Senturs and Represen tatives in Congress, On tmotion, the meeting adjourned. DRArrON NAN'CE, Chair. A. C. GARLINGTON, SeC'y. From the Cuiumbia 'Telegraph. 24th indt. LATER FROM EUROPE. AaRutvAL OF THE E UROPA. Thtrough the attentiotn of our Currespon dent, we received last evening a Tele graphic Despatch annountcing the arrival' of the Europa, which sailed on the L0th instant. The advices she brings are favortable as fatr as we have received thteni, indicating a continuatnce of confidence ott the part of Eutopeatn dealers. Trhe previous advices had occasi.mted some un pleasant for'3bod - inson account of the aspect ol* political affahirs. As tno menttion has been tmade of the political news broughlt by the EuJropa, we presume it must be unimportant. T1he steamer had only arrived at Hali fax, from whence the news was sent by express to St. Johnus, New Brunswick, and furwvarded thence by telegraph. LvERPooL MARKET. For the fortaightn previous to the Steam er's sailing, the detnand for Cotton had been extensive. The sales for the week of the 2d inst. atmou~nted -to sixty-eight thtousatnd (68.000) bales, neArly hatf of which niere American. There.*Was an active demand ror consumption and specu lation, and A N ADVANCE OF ONE HALF PENNY, The sales of the.week ending on the 9th inst. amnunted to sixmy-one thousand (61, 000) bales, of' which speculators took twlve thousaud, and exporters six thousand bales. Governot Seabrook arrived at Colum bia on -Saturday evening last, and h'as ta keri lodgings at Hunt's United States.Ho tl Suit' - en Augula Bridg4l > throngdow gathering-tntba y Jes ing" at Brown'sl Hotel. we '"M, r C or two ago, the ven.erabe Henryfhut," the founder of- the AUrerican- 'ilam nd. the plaint.if in the. great_Augsta (Georgiay Bridge case now, pending i'tie Supieme Court, in which a -nater ofnear. ly a million of dollars is involve.:Mo thiAn k quarter of a cenrur..t.law,no would think might have madea .eavyi road on an old man's s'roe'k of lif.e, bit has seemed, in Mr. Sbultz's case, th bave scarcely made at impression oilhiqn,tejtu her in mindor person.-Valk, T4on. Refornationin Ldpland.-AcCounts rl Norvay state that there is axtenivp religious movement Hmotig t'eune and vice sunken Laplanderv. The revieal commenced on the Swedish frotfierwth the labors of Sivedish .mtssionarie fall hAs already extended far into the -N*rth ern interior of Ncrwdy, ,v6f'ktng yro!dr6auj changes. The writer says: '-Not only has more than one Iapa0 der been aroused to - become a preaeher of righteousness and salvation by therbet of Chri-st, -but the reality of-the diViae work is evidenced by the fruits df 'a:ora re formatio; the proverbially drunlrdh La lander becoming sober and -tefipehl; wherever tHis ;ospel zeallhas spread,-" A Mixed Populatioi.-The recene- - sus of Mil(va-ukie dis-Tbes ibe fact, that there are in that yillage.of i.ear 1.006 souls-6,960 Americans, 5,708 Geirmanf 2,487 Irish, 135 Hollaniaera, '9Sceich 83 Norwegians, 74 French,'34 W0l4'r8 Danes and 6'Swedes. Thislit a -quter population. Babel must -be..wel repTre sented. Yet, in a very few years, jin.der the nationalizing process of common.ichdot cducation, the childern of -these inizenkA races will become American-aitached '16 - the coun'try, proud oP its institutions, many of them ivorhy df its botdro -Penn. In4 James- beard, of Coffee. co. (Al.)'ru - meriy of Georgia, was, killed t Miltoo-, (Florida). on the 6th inst., by theaciete al dischnrge of his rifle. . a3-.. i * the act ofthrowing off some VileS 6focoti ton from his wagon, whe.n taken.hlid of. the rifle by the muzzle, - It we'nt off,-lad, the contents eitered -i+6 abdomeolt.He. did not survive more tha6 ten-mintes. Among the pictuireb tsow han' ui 404 the Rotunda of the Capitol. I a -icid thik morning an aamiably biecuted, rtait of the Hon.. A. P. Buller.. It is by .a FnC Artisi, now sojourning in. this city7b6 picture is not only superbly execoted but 4 the likeness is very fine, the beanog.of the man having been happily. cag iland de; lineatd Miore old.--Weo leQ'rn rron the 'West Ten~nessee Whig that A kqld ad-silvei mitines, has been discovred 'bii iyat's ltl4. inBenton coun;y, Tenn oe is unusually. rich- ind yfilds i -o 80 p.er.cen't. ',A ieoini Us1 It6 meat p ells int the lebtibrhin% he. oivnei tehilntibifst g aid nigb b y- - aldt tnenid SieffilifoYniafwith in the .at ten..wieks, abott 0 terYu via:F,r ndwYork Wti .5,00, from. BosIdn about; 3,000,f'ri . ii'ildilphiA 166, ftom Baltimaore 391, froinmNeir Or lmans abornt 500, fro othef yoWeabdu't' 1500o. Cha,teellor Cal<dwef.--it glvabAurinecr6 pleasure to be-able to state, says the Mer cury, on the authori.ty 'of ml .frienil, that Chancellor -Cald well it ho 'fa'r restoried rdS health as to makce il probable that he will be able to Bold Court at Wei1terboro' next tweek. .i'e SoW of' Louis XVI in kisconsn.a Rev. Mr. Porter, of Gre'en Bay,. writ: ting to Rev. Mr. Peet, makes the followin; femark: "We have all been sui-prised at developeme'nts wl'ch go id 'prove ihat Rev. Mr. Williams.of this isicinity, is 1Whd son of Louis XVI of 1ran'ee." The bill to establish the "Departmen't of the Into?ioi'. and for. ..ther jturposes." was passed in te U. S. Hou.se of Repre~ sentativesi-5uh ins,--Ilsto 78--with ilW amended, so ats to read, "An Act to ebe tablish a house Deparimats, end to~prot tide for a.n Assistant Secretary of the Treasury." A Deer was killedi near:- Campliel's Bridge. Marion District S. C.. on. the 7tli inst., by Mtr. Neill-M.. Oarmiehdel, whicli weighed 150 pounds. Oni the satue day. M r. ,John Cai'nilichael su&ceeded to killed mnother, which weighted 155 pounda. The deaths in New-York for the 1isti veck, wvere 306 of which 35 weekly enn sumptiou and7 by small pox-adluts 145, :hildren 164. -The nr)mber of new - builingos eirected in New-York city last.yedl-; was ti1,4 t has been suggested by a wagi Says the Salem Observer, that It would be well for somie of those who talk of making a ettlement itn California, to conihehtE by making a settlement at home before they go. The distress- in Ireland has at fast itiva ded the mansions of the great.. We fead of many instances' where plartres flavmn& had incomes of $50,000 a g'e'ar hate actu lly becomneso poor as to seelk Ihe ib.est ffices in the gifi of the Brirtsh Governament Linen Manstacture i1 - Kentucky.--A erv liberal charter has been granted by he~Kentucky Legislature, -for the manu ~acture of linea at Mlaysville, with a capi- .. al of $200,000 in shares. of~ 6100 each,. The intention is to manufacture -liiten of' temp, though flax may be used. Gen. Taylor and. the Cherokees.-Oog he reception of the news in the CWerokee~ Iation of the election of General-Tayo, hey fired salutes and whooped (or three~ lays. -. . . The New-York Herald states'that run-. anrs have .been in cireutatioin for some. a.ys, but' esplecially at Tamman'y Ral,., hat a re-union. of the old hunkiers and arburners ma about to be consuminated, A westei-t editor says that no man who, as paid' reguilarly for his nepper awas ve known to be hitian>y-a. amdidor.