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From the Dublin Freeman's Journal. IRELAND. Is this t e forever and forever lhe cry. -death! death !! death! !! We came to our office yesterday hoping that we would not have to peruse the usual amount of awful, heart-rending death lists, but need we say hat our heart sank within us, and that -our blood ran cold as we read letter after letter, and found the burden of each to be the same appalliing cry-death, death. ileath. - The hunione Protestant rector of Ballnorbe addresses Lord John Russell to-day throuah our columns, and every line of his eloquent expressive, and philan thropic letter is as a voice from the dead a voice telling of over one hundred and thirty six registered deaths occurring in one week in the poorhouse of Balliniobe! -a voice telling of the increase of the people's wretchedness and misery-a voice telling of the, poorhouse being shunued as a pestilenmial briare through "the vain hope" of the. victims "that death may not all at once-overtake them elsewhere"-a. voice telling of the deplorable fact that the people. "have had neither food nor rai ment in any way commensurate with their vinis. or even the necessities of nature, and that the painful consequence is, "they are dropping into their grave in MULTI TIJDES." Rev. Mr. Conway, the petive. zealous and Chumaue Catholic curate or the same place, writes to us-and the burden of his letter also is the same fearful cry as that which gives an awful interest to the com. munication of the compassionate Protes tant rector. He says : e "Ire have dead bodies evrerythwere. I am obliged myseil to handle them, coffin them, and put them in the earth. We cannot p'rocure a sufficiert number of men to bury the dead,'or ofcoffins to contain them. Every village had dead bodies lying un. buried for many days; almost every hovel. in the suburbs of the town has its corpse. We cannot, I repeat, get coffins, boards or men for the necessity of the moment. May God forgive our rulers for their cruel conduct toward God's creatures here !" Agati and agin we ask in anguish of spirit will men be apathetic while such is the fate of brother men ? Will creatures endowed with souls-with human hearts -be silent while the very stones, had they voices, would cry to Heaven against such appalling horrors. T uesday night we took up the evening papers, and said, here at least the cry of death .will not meet us at every line. We were mistaken. It was still the same. The wail of the destitute poor was taken up by the Conservative Packet, and Bung among our rulers with a vigorous and truthful eloquence which few could coin mand. The first thing that met our eyes in that journal, ever true to the cause of suffering bumanity, was this: "Doom or THE MERE IRIsH.--We feel it is not necessary to utter one syllable of comment when introducing the followin letter to our readers. It has been co municated to us by a highly intelligent etleman, who would be incapable of oration, and the fruits of whose tal ~arning have frequently delighted ted our readers. -are some (acts simply stated i at are terrible suggestive of the' c 'b our peasantry are reduced or onto happy, iight-'hearted peasantry. Th ciidrenl fighting for the nettles is one of these. Childhood -strufggling with childhood-struggling for such means to exist a little longer in living death ! The 'well-growno girls' .cowering before the writer is another, the agony of their shame -God help them !-surpassing the agony of their hunger. And what, in all the records of this unrelieved famine that is slaying our unhappy people. can be more demonstrative of the desert through which our correspondent passed, than the .driver's significant words, 'You won't I:ear the cry of a child from this to Litterick ?' Not a child's cry in a dlistrict once fruitful and beautiful-once peopled with life antd - bhappiness-once filled at this season wvith the hustle of harvest preparation-once musical with the mirth of young voices! Good God ! could volume sugaest a tnore , appalling change thatn the simple words, 'You won't hear the cry of a child from -this to Limerick ?" "The followinig is the let ter: 'To the Editor oft/ae .Eveeing Packet: A PRI L, '28. 1849. !Dear Sir: I have 'ceen for the last ten days throuch the Counties of Limerick, Gaiway, Clare, and across thence to the King's County. 'All attempts to depict the existing state of the misery of the mnasses beyond the Shannon must come utterly shot' of the truth. All that tract of coutiry from Kil halos to Portumna otn the Galtway side of the Shannon, is lying waste and uncultiva ted. About three out of four of the mis-, erable huts unroofed. Some of the for merinmates are dead, somnein the unuion, and some few hauddled together in one or - two of the huts still existing. 'The men generally have perished."' The correspondent of the Packet havitng described scenes of human misery on which a demon could scarcely look with ont emotion, concludes thus: "With large tracts oif land lying uncul tivated, a few miserable meni are etmploy, - ed onihe roads-at whkat i ages think you? JOe pound of yellow meal-i. c. less than -lh per diom !!! Great God, how is this tocure famine ! "If this process of depopulation goes on a few months more. you may seek an able' bodied men in vain ,for twenty or tir ty miles of count fy." Such is the testimony of an intelligent Conservaitive witness, after having visited four counties. In the name of our common humanity and our common faith, we'call upon the public, one and all, to arouse themselves toresdune their brother-men, their brother, subjects, and brother-Christians, who nowv stand on the brink ol destruction, from this devouritng sea of misery, w hose deluge en gulfs its thousands atid its tens of thousands by the week. TRE~MENOUS FIRE IN CHiNA.--News has reached Canton of a great fire at Kwvai-law, the capital of the Kwanso pro vince. It is said that upward of 4,000 hodses and shors have been destroyed, in cluding~ the Ya-mtum, or' ohicers, of the Viceroy. blany people have porishd EDGEFIELD C. H. W:DNESDAY MAY 30, 1849. Lycennm. The adjourned meeting for the formation of a I.yceam will he held on next Saturday (2d June,) in the Court House, at 9 o'clock. 7 DAN MARBLE, the delineator of Yan kee character, has died of cholera in Louisville. The Weaiher. We have had several very heavy falls of rain within the last few days accompanied by much' lightning and thunder. A few miles below this'place a severe hail fell on Saturday night last, which did great-damage to the crops Keowee Courier. The first nymber of this paper, published at Pickens C. H. has reached us. It is a neatly gotten tip sheet, and will no doubt take a highly respectable stand among the weekly Journals of the State. Naval. Capt. TiroMAs PETIGRU, of the United States sloop (if war,-Falmouth, sailed from Boston on Wednesday 16th.inst. for the Pacific. Hon, Daniel Duncan. The Hon. DAsmsr DuNCAN, of Ohio, died in Washington City on Friday evening the 18th inst. His sickness had continued from the ad journment of Congress. Destruetive Fire in St. Louis. The Western and Philadelphia papers are filled with accounts of the great Ifire in St. Louis and the very heavy lowes which have been sustained. - Washing Machine. M r. D. H. STROSL is at present in our Vil lage with " Sabin's Patent Washing Machine,'' and offers for sale the Patent for Edgefield Dis trict. The Machine is quite simple in its con struction, and is in no danger of getting out of repair. It has been successfully tried in our Village, and has been highly spoken of in' dif. ferent parts of the State. We.call the attention of our readers to the Advertisement of Mr. Strobel in another col umn of our paper. The Cholera, The Cholera is committing ravages in the Towns and Villages lying on oqr Western wa ter-essecially in New Orleans, St. Louis,-and Cn *, '' In the latter city, during one *ere'1114'ease, and in two-ds 71 In San Antonio, Texas, 100 deaths and upiid had occurred up to 26th Apil. . The Cholera has appeared likewiin. New York and Duston). . - Cr'evasses. J0Q!0 HOUSEs sURaoDN~DED, WITH WATElt. The breaches irn the Levee on the Mississip pi, and the conseqttent itiundations of the City of New Orleans and the adjacent country, are causing mtnch alarm, to the inhabitants. In the city of New Orleans four Wards were inunda ted, and-about one thousand housessurrounded by water. The Delta of the .16th May. says, ini some of the Wards, the houses are "small, one-story tenements, and inhabited by poor peo pie, whlo have been compelled to move out with all their furtniture ; others, who were foartunate enough to haav'e an upper story to their houses, remain at home, the gentlemen doing the mark etinag and the ladies their shoppinag in sktffs." Ireland, Our readers will ftind In anothmer cotumn thrilinag accounats of the great distresas in Irelanad. Hundreds arc actually dying from hunger. And this is British phailanthrophay! Enlglantd can senad out lher amissionaries at an expense of tmil ins:-Shae can contribute thouasands of pounds to the spreadirng of abolition doctrines in the United States, and keep op a large force on the African coast to saippress the Slave trade-but nothing can shec off'er to alleviate thec sufferings of thme poor Irish! Hans the English nation no sense of justice-no feelin4 'of synmpathay for fellow beings in actual distress ? Then, is her Phiilaanthropy, mere matchish sentimentality the result only of a selfish pride ! England would prefer thme honor of leading int the sup, pressiona of thae Slave trade on .thbe coastaof Africa, though it cost her millions, to the saving of a whole nation from bueggary and oppression, if no other eclat should arise, than what might result from the discharge of mere duty. - Cot, Benton's Letter. Senator BarroN, in a letter lately addresse to the people of Missouri, sthives to justify his course on the slavery question and in regard tc thme Southern Address. The Missouri Legisla ture instructed her Senators to support Mr. Calhoun's aiddress. Col. Bentonl, nmow goes be hind the Legislative athorimy, and appealstc the people of his State. 1Ho threatens to re signz, if thme peopie cotnfirm the instructions ol the Legtulature. The following is an extrac1 from his letter:. " The General Assembly of our State, at its late sessi'an, adopated certain resohapionas on the subject of slavery, and gave me instructions to obey thean. From thais command I .appeal tc the people of Mlissomti-mhe whoule body of thc people, and if they confirm the instraictions, shall give them an opportunity to fipd a Sena tor to carry their will into effect, as I cannot dc anything to dissolve4hie Union, or to carry one half of it agamnst the othmer. " I do not admit a dissolution of the Uanior to be a remedy, to be prescribed by statesmeta for the diseases of the body politic, any moore thtan 1 admit death, or suacide, to be a remedy to be prescr-ibed by physicians fort the diseases of the natural body. Cure, and not kill is the only remiedy which any mind can contemplat - at Work anongute Abolitionists, The National An!i Slavery Stand of th 17th May is filled with. the proceedti s: fti annual Meeiing of the anti-slavery h 1",yj onr Soutbet it neighbors, who are tryidg it mai it appear, that thete isno just-fonidatii fA the present movement in. irogfAnoatiber rights, will but peruse the Report qtiliosere ceedings they can no longer doubt. Onlyte "who have eyes and see not," ?aifailio b convinced of the earnestdetermitaifon of Ab olition Fanatics. Hearthe Editor of the Anti Slavery Standatd: "We do not rememlier ever to fijve know so much Anti Slavery crowtted idtn a singl week, in this city, as in the-last. In'addition I the meetings of the American Society, -ther were several evening meetings atmong the col oured people, and on Friday alke.noon an evening a discnssion on the charaqter of th Constitution of the United States-, betwee Frederick Douglass and S. IL Ward, whict we hear, was conduicted with great ability,.an to the satisfaction of a crowded audience??_ N. B.-Our readers will recollect tharFreO arick Douglass is a " nigger," antfas one0 slave! 0T The following fact is circidiied in th papers, showing the probable orinihitoragof th New-York Riot: ORIGINAToRs OF THE N. 4R o-s. The New-York M irror relates the followin sigtnificant fact: It is now ascertninul that A'ie suiis money were spent in getting up late riot. Tickets were sent to certain well kiown hauni of the rowdies, wrapped up in, hank notes. Wh-i paid the money? .We hope (lie Maya will not rest until the originators of.the riot er brouizht to light andjostice. " It is well known who wrote,"pfinted, circi lated and paid for the inflamatory Iandbill which incited the mob to the woilk of:destrui tion on Thuirsday evening; and w'.ippieln there will be no difficulty in ascertining wbie the money came from." Madness. The following rascally attempt of n' n.Aboll tionist to steal the property of a. Virginia slav( holder, was commented upon in the late Anti Slaoery Convention, as a landabli effort mad for liberty, and the "inalienable right; of man! . RIeHNOND, Wednesiay 'iaj 9. GRAT ExcnTIsstrT-An Meimpt.o Ru Negroes to the North Detccted.-A'ian name A. S. Smith, a supposed agent of ihe Abolition tionists, sent a box to Messrs. Adamns & Co express office, in this city, marked'as merchat dise, and directed "To W. P.#Villiams, But tonwood-st., Philadelphia." Thibox was pla ced on the freight cars; but, e-examinatiot it proved to contain Iwo live negro slaves, wh were supplied with cans and bla Jers of wate and other necessary contrivances to sustai them on the trip. On the diseadery bein made, a telegraphic despatchwas'sent i Fredericksburg, where~Smith was arrested an taken badk to Richmond, where:.he was-cotm mitted to jail to await an early tri01" "On the foregoing, Mr. Garrison commer> ted, as symbolizing the character of our Gov ernment and people,. and the regard here le for liberty as au " inalienable. riht " of man. N. B.4Our readers will not*%at this M Garrison is President of the A'erican Anti Slavery-Siiciety. The name af ~-Man so -de seivingff renown as IWian. -1G arrisor should,4s think. be cns .to fame We truist our readers will n'ot.. oret him! We repeat it-he is President qf the America Anti-Slavery Society!! The Northeri Press & New Yor'k Riot, The Editor of the "Newv York Tribune in summing up the various causes of the lal Riot ini New York, anys:. "Bt-tne most direct agency of disorder yet to be spoken of. We mean the licentiou: unprincipled and venal Press,-the Press whir sells its influence to the mnosst corrupt use: which sneers at benevolence and mocks at ri tigion, which has neither faith in man, rever ence for God, nor belief in anythine, whic panders to depraved appetites, traiics in false hood and caltumny, speculates on dithonoi gloats over vice, attd does its utmost to weake the tnoral setise of the public and bring th Law into contempt. Who will estimate tht part which this branch of the Newspape Press has had in bringing about'the Astos place rioti Who can tell how mtuch of th violenice there displayed was the fruit of i insiduous assaults on all that is best and mo sacredi And by wvhorn is such a Press ke pt i existence ? Thtat, too, reader, is a questio which we leave for you to reflect on." Other agencies have also been aC work I produce this great outbreak. It was not ahoni as the Tribune well remarks, the quarrel McCready and Forrest, that gave riue toi "That is the accident so to say, vjgich develoi the disease previously existing fi the systenl The elements of brutality and ruffianism, di: regard of the law, contempt for the rights others and for the peace of society, love of di. order and violence were there before ; they hr been geticrated by many and perverse infih ences; in the riot they were only combined an directed to the accomplishment of a particuh purpose." One of these many perversc influences is, witl out doubt, the leveling spirit, under th e nani of reform, which has been so rif.tously at wvor in New York for the last ten years, and in tI aggravationt of which no one has more recl hessly contributed than the deoer but WTOn headed Editor'of the Tribune, Mr. Hobrac Greely.--The City is already reaping tI legitimate results of the mobocratical doctrini of the Albany and Tammany Hall Reformer But these are only the beginining. The "ho' of disorder atid violence" will be, in the ftttur, prolific of the fruits of "brutality, rnflianisri and disregard of the Law." The peace of Ne York society, under the anarchical spirit of Ii New Reformiers, is destined to perpetnal di turbanee. The most trifling occauiotn, as in tI late Riot, will let loose the elements of"brutal ty and rzefinnismn." May God defend our liti commonwccalth from the ruinous effects of sttc piiful reforms. \VoMEN IN THE ARMY FIGHTING The late German papers say that Hut gariatn ladies are fighting with the ear enthtusiam fur freedom as their countr) men. Among one hundred atid fori Hungarian captives taken by Getn. Sin onish, there were nineteen Hungarian lh dies, with muskets in their hands, ar dressed in tmilitary uniform, A Countes of the highest rank, has raised a regimei at her own expense, arid her sister is il cnmmander bf this regtiment. FOR THE ADVERTISER. No. III. WHO ARIE THE PEOPLE ? . We have expressed the belier that the cire for the radical spirit in our country is to be applied' to the hearts 'of the People; r that health in the body politic is to be res. tored by spreading intelligence and by cor recting popular prejudices and errais. To V these ends, therefore, our humble efforts e will be earnestly directed. . The first error that claims our notice is one or much universa.lity. It is founded on the notioni, natural in despotic govern. ments, that the interests of-those holding 0 power, are separate and. distinct from the n interests of the governed. It is often said, e for excample, "the people's rights are usurp ., ed" tc ! d Who are the people? It is pretended, a that ihere is a certain class of society in Sthis country, as in the aristocratic govern-. meets of the old world, called the people, cotra-distinguished from others, who form another class by reason of entitled privi liges. In the sente here meant, this is non-sensica Ijargon. . Where is the privi liged ordr in this-country, or where the 6; individuals who.can be taken out from among the people of the nation. and placed -In a separaie priviteged class ? Socially .here wiay be a distinction; but in a politi. cal point of view, as meant in this connec-. g ion, no one can poiat to any such distitic tion. Politically we are all on an equality: we. are all the people. It is the ballot-bor, and nothing else, that gives political rank in this country. Every one who exercises r fully the elective franchise is one of the people. and no other class is known to our civil and politicalinstitutions. low are we to understand, then, the * expression,-the people's rights are usurp ed? ".Itis true the people of one section a of the .cwuunry may- array themselves against, the people of another section, and ' usurp authority; hut it would be a solecism tb call this an usurpation of the people's . rights, since the only rights that can he ifringed are the people's rights. When infringement or usurpation, takes place, therefore. it tustbe by one portion of the people over another. There exists, as we have.'stated, no separate class to usurp popular rights, how much soever it may suit the policy of demagogues to urge this notion. Legislators who make the laws tat are thought to usurp the righis of the people, are no distinct. class. They are simply agents or trustees. selected by the - people from among themselves for the dis , charge of certain duties, and are instru D mental mainly in. carrying out the wishes r of those whout they represent. For. t he " time being, it is true, they are somewhat 9 privileged; for instance, in going and d returning from our Legislative qssemblies, - and during their abode, they are fiempt from the ordinary process of law ; but this , poor privilege ceases on their return, and - after the short period of two years, without re-election ,they are once more on a po liical footing uith the plainest of their Fellow-citizens. This principle extends to all the political offices of the counryv . even to the Presidency of the United States, in its exalted dignity. Beside, public functionaries in this country are - nearly al'vays identified itn interest and in' feeling with those whom they represent. What interests can they have that conflicts with the interests-of their constituents ? If as Legislators they infringe the rights of Stheir Fellow..citizens, they will thetns,elves alter a year nr so be the party aggrieved. Isl it rational to suppose That men will take e away rights, or legislate usurpgltively whlen they kntow, that they and their post erity must become the sutfferere thterebty? But with the strong reins, held by the people over their Legislative agents it is almost impossible for these latter with any sort of vigilance on the part of the people to usurp -unauthorized power. The thing is out h of reason. If one Legislature do wrong, the people will have control over the next. "If Legislators act amiss they can he readi Sly deposed from power. indeed experi eence -enables to affirm, that in by far the r majority of cases, the action of Represen .tatives itn our country is consonant to thte afeelings and wishes uf their constituents. 5 In the first place, on all leading measures tt their opinions are not likely often to clash, " because similitude of intetests is alnst nsure to produce similitude of feeling and Ssentiment; but in the few cases in whitch *Representatives have had the moral bold ness to dilfer from their constituents, they 'have nearly always been made to stuccumb tto the latter, who hold the reins of powver. u A Representative openly refusing to carry u. out the wishes of his constituents on . prominent public measures will not he a tf Representative long. However injurious Sto the country this may often be, it is nev d ertheless true. We ,peak to .facts that come withtin the knowledge and experi d ence of every one. Toe conclusion, heat wvhich we wish in looking for the sources of Legislative tyranny or usurpation in our country, we e must in .general, go further back than to k our ILegislators and public functionaries. ea We mtust recur to the people thetmselves e. to the predominant factions in the land. We do not.pretend to deny that many .of our public men are corrupt ; hut without efaction amon h epeti orpin we conten ol be opaecratielyham sless. We will, also, not nowv utndertake to s' Lay in how far the corrupt leading men of ea the country excite and provoke faction . among the people. In thts point of view i, their influen~ce is, we believe, exceedingly v wicked and dangerous, as we will en.. a deavor to show in a succeeding essay ; but sthe fact on which we dwell as highly im Sportant, is. that misrule and mal-adminis .tration in our country are traceable, in a great degree, to factions among the people. Whatever causes may operate to excite these factions-whether they be the wor~k of designing Demagogues. or the nattral result "of common impulse of passion or - of interest," when once aroused, they are 1altoget her irresistible. Proscription would e follow soy public agent .who would un -dertake to thwart their ambition or to y check their cupidity. The bjest atnd most -virtuous men have been made victims to -their capricious tyrantny,- Jt is an unde, d niabile fact, that many of the liberal-mind s ed Statesmen of the North, but for the ~unyielding spirit of sectional jealousy or of o faction, would be disposed to allow: an e!ality of rig~hts to tho South on the threatening questions of Slavery and the Tariff. - These remirks apply- as well to ;o State, as. to the. Federal Governma . With us, also, unauthoriied legisltion'-is for the most part, the resklt of faction among the people. By faction, we uudersta'nd' in 'the lan gunge-of the Fqderalist, "a 'number of citizens-whefher amounting-to agajortay or minority of -the -whofe,' h ar- uitled and actuated by some comoO In saf, passion orof inretest e o hiii ofiother citizens:or to te aggregate interests .oftifecom 24 We venture to assertihers innotbi pointed out, since'the for'ititi' f-oou' State government, a stg2finsane, in' which the rights of the com pni~ylia$e been usurped by the Legisla1urd (if itded any usurpation has taken. place:a allwiih out the direct agency of the peip f ia faction of the people. - We do it from a'minute knowledge ofthk. live History of the Slate; ui f e character of the machinery if ato government itself; in whichlt here.sponst biliy of the Legislature to the peopl--ts..so direct and full. that usurpation of.poser. unsustained by outward faction, is-utieri out of the question. A Iegislature stand iug aloof from the people, legislating against the common good, or transcending its charter limits, would be the creature' scarcely of a day. We will not say there has been in our State no indiscreet Legislation, in which the - people, apart -from the Legislature. had little ngency. On the contrary, we could point out, much that we deein inexpedient and hasty; but the inexpe'li ency was often not discovered till* after bitter experience. It is not given to all bodies to act always in wisdom. We sboLId, therefore, not be too prompt to condemn the acts of our agents, wIken we have no reason in the world to suspect them of dishonesty. If the position we have taken be cortect, all that boisterous declamation of dema gogues, about the usurpation ofthepeople's ngts within vur State is the merest hum. bugery, without the. semblance of truth for its foundation. The thing is without reason, ard morally impossible. In the first place the Legislators, who are part and pnrcel of the people could have no .earthly interest in diminishing general or popular rights In the next place, they could not usurp, without being' su'stained by a numerous -faction extranee ous to the Legislative body. In this co~tn-. try the Legislarure is fully circultiicited' within the will of the people; for its frsit and highest rule of action is the- Canstitu tion: and the Constitution was the 'work of the people. Sd long, then, as, the Leg islature keeps within the hounds of the Constitution, it cannot usurp but it carries out the authorized will of the people. If fault be found with Legislation thus direct ed, it is chargeable upon out Constitutin-' al charter. So long as this noble sdocu ment remains in'force, it must be the.abso lute rule of Legislative action. When the people see fit to alter it in due maniter and form. the Legislature will he' bound-to comply with the change.. This nootne will deny. But until we get to possess more patriotic wisdom.. than our anceptors, let us not think of change.' Let us"'most cautiously meddle with that noble docu ment, replete with so much wisdom, and political philosophy. We recur, then, to the conclusion of our argument. if usurpation take place, it will be by one portion of the people over a not her portion)-by one interest or faction over another interest or faction. Let the people, therefore, when they hear of the usurpation of their 'rights, distin guish whether it proceed from the cor ruption of their publid men alone, or from a predominant faction among themselves. If the former. let them change their ruler. --a thing easily'done ;-if the latter, let them reform themselves-the most import tant and by far the most difficult task. K~eep purc the fountain,- out of uWgch| sp.'ring thec streams of powoer, and the streams themselves cannot long remain muddy or impure ! ONE OF THE PEoPLE. *Federalist-James Madison. From the South Carolinian, Extra, 2Mik inst. ARRIVAL OF THE CALEDONIA. A despatch just received, dated Balti more, 25th, antnotunces the arrival of the steamer Caledonia, with dates to the 12th. instant. LivERPooL, May 12. The market has beeni very steady during the. past week. Immediately after the receipt of the mails by the steamer Her maim, holders became firmer, and Ameri can descriptions advanced an id. Surats also advanced. An increasing quantity offered yester dlay, and the quotations of the brokers, at there meeting, were declared to be the same as last week : F~air Uplands and Mobiles 4k, and Fair Orleans 4j. -Sales of the week amounted to 42,600 bales. Imports 20,000 bales. Small imports, owing to unfavorable winds. The Londont Corn market was heavy. American Flour, 20s. 6d. RESIARKAiLE CAsE OF FEcUNDIr. Four Children at a Birth-Mrs. Moore, wife of David IAfoore, residing at No. 139 -Washington Market Place, Sou thwark, (Shippen st., between Crab and Fifth, north side.) yesterday, gave birth to four children! The infants are all boys, and they are as fine, pretty and healthly look ing babies as were almost ever seen. One was bortn about l0 o'clock;. A. M.. another about noon, third about 5 P. M., and the fourth abottt 7 in the evening. The third child-was delivered dead ; the others alive --and the la:ter are lively and natural to. day as many infants a monthis old. The mother, by a former husbands had twins once and triplet. at another accouch ment. Of.these five children twvo survive -one of theetwins and one of the triplets3 The woman, who is a native of Ireland, is yet under thirty years of age. The oc currence created quite a sensation in the neighberhood, and yesterday the house was run down by curious visitors. The family is very poor. and the case is one deserving of the attention, of the benevo Lahn'nr conqners every thing. From iho Charlkston Courier. BAPTIST CONVENTION. CHARLESTOR, May 23. M11Rssas. Eiroas~-The Southern Bap. tist Convention commenced its Triennial Meeting, at the .First Baptist Churcin this city. lp-day, atl2Iotclock. The ven erable Preideun, Ii. William B. Jom. son, D..D., of BSuith Carolina, having caged the meeting 11D order, commenced itu'jiroceedings by .-reading the, 2d chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Phillipias. - Prayers were offet-ed hy. the Rev.:Mrs. Kindrick,. Pastor of the First 3Baptist Churcb of Charistou. Rev, J. :Craie, of Virginia, siej as. Secretay of the Convention. iT& rresident-read the Con sritution and Rul ea-of Order, established at the first triennial meeting of the Convema tioahel51 at Richmodd, Va. A ComMiia see'dioffi~e~ 'wappointed by the Chairto iseile zaue and report upon the eDelegdtea. A question of , arose as to the authoriT tider. 'W.ii the Convention mId. its present sessiob, which gaie rise to a brief debate. It appears, that In consequence of tie supposed: prevalence of Cholera at Nashville, (Tei.) wvphere the Cobvention was, this year, to have held its regular meeting, the- President, . tith' the consent of the Boards of Foreign amil. Domestic Missions, issued; circular, ektendbg the tineand appointing' Charlesten as the' placeof meeting. The Delegates whb met at Nashville, at the regular appoitied time, held a Convention at that place, and a doubt arose as to the authority undet which the present Convention, meetirg at a different time and place, is acting. It was proposed to read the proceedings of' the Nashville meeting, as published in several Tennessee papers, and in the South ern fptist or this city, by way of infor ination, until cerrified copies of their pro ceedings should be placed, io due formo before the Convention by Delegates-not now present, who. were at the Nashville neeti tf but as-the Convention was in formefthat the Delegates, charged with ihis businees, % ould arrive, lin all p'rgba bility. by the afternoon cars, their reading was postponed, but a letter from Dr. How ell, just received, was read by thePresident shedding some light on the subject. The Committee appointed to receive the cro dentlals of Delegaies then withdrew for that- -purpooe, and the Convention, until their report should be-made, engaged in devotional exercises. ,_4 O'CLoCK, P. M.-The Convention iominenced its eiercises by singiug the 914ih :-Hymn. -T4eSecretary read the proceedings of Convention held at Nashville, Tennessee. The Secretary read the Report of the Commitiee on credentials, which was adopted. - :- .. The names of the D sgates ,iseit, were then read. The following gene elected officers of the COnAtii:. - William B. John'son, A . d Riv. Messrs.- _13 ioel J Thomas'Stock 90.'. Vice Presidetis and Re4i here Ieimain' one.V~ Forej in the eveni of Dr. Johnso'n' discourse otn ihe'cisfa enterprises of the day2-kl wa u. ed by the clearness and comprebensir or its views, aud displayed througho generous, liberal and hoperul spirit. A t the close of the sermon the President - of the Cotnventiotn announced, thsat the Reports of jComtmittees would be read to.. morrow. and that they would be interes~ig documents. He again invited all such persons as might feel disposed to do it, to attend the meetings of the Convention. It wvill be interesting to know how the South,. e Baptists htave been able to sustain themselves since their severance from their Northern brethren, and those whto listen to the reports and debates of the Convention will have opportunity toilearn what they have accomplished. There is, no doubt, a great deal of talent in this as-. sembly, and its meeting will probably be etnlivened by much that is interesting to the community at large. W. - From the Charlceon Mercury.~ StcoZnD DAY-TaUasDAr, MAT 24., Af ter prayer by Rev. Rt. Furman, the Convention proceeded to fil the vacancies in the list of officers, which resulted in the choice of Rev. W. C. Buels, of Kentucky, as Vice President, and B. M anly, jr. of' Alabama, Secretary. The teport of the Foreign Missionary Board was read by the Correspondiog Secretary, snd an abstract of tbe Treasurer's account snbmitted and referred. The following committees were appointed upon the report : On China Mtssion-J. L. Dagg, R. W. Cuishman, J. S. Bacon, H. D. Duncan, 3. H. Mullin. On Arfrican Mission.-3. B. Jeter, 3. L. Brooks, W. Crane, P. H. Mell. On New Fields of Labor.-E. Ball, 3. S. Bacon, R. Farman, J. S. McDaniel, S. S. Shernan. On Agencies.-W. H. Stokes, G. F'. Adams, J. L. Pritchard, H. A. Dunca,iJ. T. Tichenor. On Amendment of.Constitution,-J. S. Bacon, J. II. Taylor, J. Culpeper, J. J, Branttley, D. G. IDaniel. Organs of Publication.-W. T. Brant Icy, J. S. Mecins, J. H. De Vottie, A. N. Purifoy, John Turpin. To Nominate New Boards-Thomas Stocks, Hf. K. Ellison, J. 5. McDaniel, S. P. Reid, S. S. Sherman, 3. T. Tichenor. - Committee on Finance.--.Alex. Feel, C. D. Ellis, A. J. L aw ton, C. .M. Irwia, T. P. Lide. The report of the Domestic Missionary Board was then read. and ordered to be printed, and the following committees ap pointed: 1st. On Agencies. 2d. New Fiel~ls of' Labor. 3d. Colored People. 4th. Bible distribution and Colportage. 5th.- Organs of Puplication. . The Convention then adjourned aftero prayor by Rev. WV. T. Brantley, and re assembled at 4 in the afterternoon. The '* subject of's central Theological Institution was taken up, and the remainder of the day's session was appropriated especially to this objict.