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Front the Chnrleston Mercury. THE ADMINISTRATION AND MR. CALHOUN. A year ago, the people of the South were called upon, urged and entreated. im the name of the great question which in volves their interest and their safety, to forget their party allinitities, and unite in thc support of that candidate for the Pres: dency who was one of themselves; whom they could trust in as a devoted friend ; whose interests and feelings were all iden tified with theirs; who, let him conie short as he might of their standard on other and inferior questions. was sure to be right on the great issue involving the independence and equality in the Union of the Southern States. If was this appeal which elected General Taylor to the Presidecy-an ap peal which ought never to have been made without better assurances, and the bitter consequences of which are now to 1all equally upon those who yielded to it, and those who raised their unavailing voices against trusting to implied pledges, where ex.licit ones were refused. From the time of the election until now the history of the President's opinions has been a blank. Apparently. iideed, the only momenta when he ever indulged in political opinions were thore curious fits of inspiration cornmemorated by his letters to Capt. Alison; and either the fine frerzy has never revisited him since the election was settled, or his communications with that mysterious relative have ;been made under an impenetrable veil of secrecy. If Capt. Alison has received any moro let. ters from his distinguished cdrrespondent, the public are not the wiser for it. The inaugural itself was a blank, save itt that one pledge against party proscription which has been so systematically and shamelessly violated from the moment it was given. For passing popularity, Gen. Tayinr had been fortunate in being the first in the order of time, to win a fresh and brilliant military fame. For enluring reputation. lie was unfortunate, in that his victories were indecisive in character, meagro in results. and humble in the display of mili, tary skill, compared with those which followed under other leaders. The tide of his military popularity lasted just long enough to carry him into the Presidency; and that greater tidle of fame, crowned with the hotors of other and more illus irious chieftains, came to swallow up its predecessor, just at the -noment that the people of the United States had submitted to the conviction that. exceptine his claims and merits as a soldier, Gen. Taylor had not a solitary title to distinction, nior a soli tary quality redeeming him from the comn moo herd of men. By common consent, lie seems to have dropped out of remem .brance-his enemies not caning to treat m as game worth ilh expenditure of r and shot, and his friends wisely that the respectability of their Id only be secured. like that of the ma, by keeping him in darkness, unding him with silence. Save and there an individual, with whom cy was a blind passion, and bilab a uncontrollable disease, Gen. Tay. scarcely been mentioned by his ta sitnco his itttrodtuction itnto oflice. residency itself has seemed as mtuch *as the political opinionis of the in. 't. It has been assert'-d itndeed, ahas been allowed a vote in the blast; but as tno effects could ever be .4aced to such an influence, the statement 'is in great need of comnfirtmtiot. - .iZ4'.But if the people of the South wrere left to conjectume whether they hatd elected a man or a shadow to the Presidetncy, they were allowed no such pri'.ilege of douha as to the chtaracter of the Administraztion they had placed in power. it was not W~hig in the closesi party sense, to the ex clusion of all that laurge botly of men who had stupported Gen. Taylor from personal preference, atnd to secure whose support, the WVhigs had dese.-ted t heir old and faith ful leader for a new man, but it became very so-)t mantifest, that, the onily strong and active spirits in the Cabinet-the men wvho constttute'd its soul-if soul it hadl, attd who were to give character and di rection to the Executive, were Nurthern men, who stood, by their own ptublic atnd reperated avowals, on the very verge of downright Abulitionism. This is iruly a charmitng result of electing a man to the Presidency merely because he nt as aslave holder ! We have been itn no haste to draw these conclusionts itn referettce to the puresent Ad ministratio)n, anid have desired thtat they should plainly show their hands before wie undertook to characterise their game. Per hops, too, it wonlid have been hardly fair 1o take the indications of the Nastiontal In telligencer anid the Natiotial Whtig as reve lations of the opinions or designs of those in power. The papers were understood not to be favorites, nd neither of them destined to fill the offido of Court Jtournal. A new paper was to be estabilished, fresh and green. like the President's political studies, which, having no hack files wvith which it could be rasped, no past charac ter to mtaintain, no pledges to make good, thus offered itself a simple tnass of dough, to be fashioned in whatever shape the wisdom or stupidity of the Administration might fancy. This paper has beetn estab lished. It is understood to Ito the or-gsn, and is called-"The Republic." On the third day of its existence, antI the first of its disclosures, in an article entitled ".-ttlantic and Pacific Railroad." this authoritative and chosen epresetuta live of the Taylor Administration, makes the following comment upon Mr. Calhouns's recently published .letter decliniu'q to at tend the Memphis Convention: "To the commit tee making the pru-para lions for this convention. Mr. Calhoun has adidressed a letter, which we copy below as a part of the history of the times. We cannot, howvever, permit it to appear with out expressing our deep and sincere regret that this gentleman shotuld lose no occa sion, however inappropriate, to throw out suggestions cotnceivedl in a spirit hostile to the perpetuity of the Union." No one can read this paragraph, without seeing by its own light, as it were. that the Republic must, in the nature of thintgs, be, what it is allirmed to he, the faithful expo nent of the Admitnistrarion. Th'is extract besars all their characteristic, their satncti unonious, preltnsions to moderation and patriotism; their malice, using eahutmny as incapacity to understand the transparency of their own crooked proceeding.- If the Republic had felt any "deed and sincere regret" at an occasion for assailing Mr. Calhoun. why did it go out of its way to pick up, from the gutter or party slender, an imputation. for which his recent letter affords no pretext. It looks rather like excessive eagerness to make occasion for decltring tite spirit and designs of the Ad ministration to be all hostile to the South, than any "deep and sincere regret" for the necessity of casting reproach upon one of its great statesmen, and conbistent defen ders. But the letter itself leaves no room to doubt, and no excuse for misrepresenting, the broad and patriotic spirit with which the writer had considered the subject of a connection betweec the Atlantic and Pa cific shores. It should be made, he says. with no reference to sectional advantages, but for the ggol of the whole country; and it is only because we are threatened by the North with forcible exclusion frotn all share in our Pacific territory, and that they detriand to make its acquisition not only a means of mere sectional aggrandizement but also an occasion for insuiiing asnl de grading the Southern States through the legislation of Conress-it is for these rea sons that Mr. Calhoun cautionq his fellow citizens to vait and determine first whether that territory is to be the scene of political justice or the spoil of sectional rapacity, before they irrevocablly pledge their means for the establishment of a communication with it. It is in~eed p new doctrine, wor thy of the political philosophers who rule in Washington, that men are disonionists because they decline to subscribe to a Railroad from which they expect no ad vantages. So gross is the violence done to the tneaning of words in the conclusion I drawn by the Republic, that it admits of 1 but one interpretatiot. This particular le:tcr of Mr. alhoun is nastiled because it is the only thing that he has written since the Taylor Admitnistration was in stalled. ar.d no time was to he lost in de nouneing as an enemy a Statesman con spictuous among the champions of the South, and thus in the most marked man tier repudiating all sympathy in her cause. From the N. 0. Picaynn. LATE FROM MEXICO. By the rrival here last evening of the brig Anna & Julia. Capt. Liston, from Vera Cruz the 7th inst we hove received files of the Arco Iris to the day of her de. parture. and from the capitol to the 1st inst. inclusive . The discovery of gold in California by our enterprising couintynen appears to have awakened tnuch of the cupidity of the Mexican character, and regrets are frequently expresced in the jourtals of that i country that the territory should have been < ceded to us. A correspondent of the .Globe," pu blished at the capital. writes from San Francisco that the arrival in that port of a Mexican schooner from Maz atlati had awakened in him and hiscom panions, other Mlexicans, hopies of a char acter very inimical to our sovereignty there. he says: The number of Mexicans has beeni doubled withtin a short atime in that region. and it would not bie extraortdinary if. by the union of Spanish Atmertcans and Eu rnjpeans who daily arrive in search of gold, this jenel iq nirested from the hatnds of t he *Los Yankees,' to fortm a great anti powerful nation, the tmistress otfible Pacific. The enterprise wotuld not he a diffcult I ore, atid the barbarous conduct of Smithi wvill he the tmentts which Providence hasa etmployed to itnitinte it. [lie here alludes to thte order of Gen. Smith interdicting diggittg at the minies to all excepting, citizetns of the U. S.) A bill has been itttroducetd into Cong~ress for sink ing $8,000,000, to come out of the indemnity to be paid by the United St ates, to he applied lotr the gradual reduciion and I payment of the internal debt of the Repub lic. The latest news received in Mexico from San Francisco is up to the 1st of'.i ay. WVollen goods htas fallen considecrably in price, in ctonseqttencu partly of their abun dance and partly thrtough the advent of , summer. Houses of business in San Fratncisco decline receiving any tmore con signents, unless of articles which corn mtatnd ready sale. They exact 11 per cm. commission and warehouse room A a shotrt time ago a stool! dwelling there was lt at $250 pter montht, on a lease of two years, anti immediately alterwards the stn of $2,500 was of'ered by the owtners atdacce pte.1 by the lessee. toannul the con ract. There was for the motnent sotme iflicuilty in collecting gold on the rivers, s thte w'aters hatd overflowed the banks. a t the dry dligginigs Ihere were eight thou- e and persons at work at one spot. It was in cotntettiplationi to hold a meeaingfor thte prpose of pasing resolutions to prevent, all whto were tnt American citizens from orkitg the mities. In the Placer del orte, ihe [tadians had dlisplayed some hos ility to ihe whites. anti some murders has ~ en committed by theta. .. I: Bra-ro ts aMssout.-The excite ent ott the slave question is getiiD high n Missouri. In Cape Girardeau county a a arge anti-Benton meeting was held, in s hicht men of both parties participated. It q s stated that nearly all the leadinag Demo rats of the country were present. They d ndorse the Legislative anti-Prouiso reso Itions to the whole extent, and declare b hat they have received Mr. Benton's 5ap eal with "mnrtifte-ttion and astonishment. A resolution approves of the course of Sen tor Atchison, and calls fur meetings troghtout the State to resist the effort "to enrol the proud andi patriot-ic State of \lissouri in the list of Barnburner States." 1 n Chariton county a meeting was held, with the samte object, but with a different I, result. The amnti-Benaton 'aesoluttions were roted down, and the Legislative resolutions t rejected. The Atesian WeL.-We leartn that Mr. ti Weltor, yesterday, in his progress to the b point wvhere pure water is expected to be j btatned, has penetrated to the depth of il 885 feet. It gives us great pleasure to say t. that those conversant with such tmatters, tl trc af opinion that the substance drawnil from this depth, gives indication thmat he is t ucar thme point where geologists conclude 3 that waoter will' be obtained.-Charleston t r'urer. EDdEFIELD C. H. WEDNESDAY JUNE 27, 1849. i7 Mr. W. G. RUSSELL and Jonu A. AD Itsonl, are our authorized Agents for the collec.. inn or all moneys dote as in the Districts of .dgefield. Abbeville, Newberry nnd Barnwell. We hope nil persons indebted to us will not it our Collectors to the trouble of calling on hem the second time. or force us to place their icconnts in the hands of Magistrates tit be col erted at their cost. We want our money and mat have it. A word tio the wise is sufficient. Ex-President Polk. The death of this distinguished man, is an vent or no ordinary moment. But yesterday to was at the head of one of the greatest na Ions on the Globe, dispensing power and pat onage almost as great as any monarch's ins khristendom, and directing the movements or in army as renowned for its gallantry, as any hat ever took the field; and at the shortest no ice, he has Leen summoned to his last restmng lace, and to his final account with his God. JAmEs K. POLK was more than an ordinary itizen; and frrom the extraordinary position ie occpied in onr government, his career will is examined by statesmen and political philnso hors, with more than common interest, and more than common ingenuity. H is adminiistrat:on was crowded with striking vents, and, in all probability, was the begin ling or a new and doulbtful policy to be pur ued by our Government. The spirit or ac jisition by cnnquest, once exciteil in the inds of our people, will not be easily re res;ed. The settlement or the Oregon contraversy, mid the war with Mexico will mark the lagt ?residential term, as the most illutstrious in our mnials since the termination of the public life of Madison. Whether the contrse of the President in the ommencement of tie Mexican war, was tin mceptionable or not, is a question not now to e determined. That the war was prosecuted ith great energy and time most eminent sue osm, after tie honor of the country had become nvolved in it, none can deny. The campaign if Gen. SCOTT, which ended withi the ratifica ion of the treaty of peace, is the most illustri us in the history or the New World; and the xploits or Gen. TAYLOR, on the Noitern ne, resemble those of the heroes or antiquity. rhe contest was brought to a happy terminna ion without a single disaster, to mar the bright ess of our escutcheon, or a single crime to ale the lustre of the American dame. Mr. POLK certainly possessed Tconserable tellectnni vigor, and had the interests and ommnr of his comuntry ov~er next ism heart. Hie was faithifii to his friends, nnd somnetimes diheredi to them nmore 'clnaely than was conas' nt with the public interest. His life was probaibly htmught to a close at be monient most auspicionsa for his fame. le had jnst udescended from the highest office ri the gift of the penple, amid their blersings ud their thamiks, andi the glory of hisi own ac' onis lighted him to the tomb. 0' The sickness of the Editor is our excuse Ir time wvant of more Editorial. If7 Those who belong to the vnlunlteer corn any tim be maisedi at this place, and those desi oms ofrjoiniing it, are requested to meet in time ~onrt H omms at 10 o'clock A. Ml., on Wednes y the 4mh or .July. IDT There will he aim examination or the tdents of Rose Cottage Academiy, at Dr.1 hni L.akes in this District, on 8atnrday the th inst. which will commence at 10 o'clock i the morning, and close in the afternoon. (17 We copy from the Charleston Mercury1 n article on Mr. CAu~uoux and time Adminis ation, not becanse we approve of the senmti ents contained in it. but because it indicates ost probably the position of the Mercury to ards time New Adminiistrationi. 0f7 A very partieular report on the Cholera d its treatment, ha been made by the Medi al Society of Souith Carolina. Time committee of physicians of which Dr. EDDIS~s is first named, strongly recommenid anatory measmires. to prevenut the ravages o'fI at fatal distemper. uncleanliness, intemper ne,'high excitement, and an unmwholesome msphere, are supposed to induce the at eks of the great destroyer, were more strong than any contagiouis qtualities of the disease .elf. The London Board of Health, also, recoin. ends a strict attention to the cleanliness and etiatinn of houses, ships, &c, instead of imrantine establishments. The prevailing notion appears to be, that sses are not so contagions as was formemly pposed, lbut are brought on and aggravated ~canses that may be removed by wvise regu tions of law. lFot THE ADVEaTISElI. No. VIL. vil influence of majorities, ani of party. We hove seen that the people, political'.i speaking, are they who exercise the a eeive franchise; amid that time taill of e people is the n ill of the iajority anti inoriy, or of a plurality and tminorities. Now in order to give proper effect toe e twill of the people, it will not do toc hor absolutely in the cause of bare ma riies. when their interests conifict with e interests oh minorities. For to allow e majority free exercise of power, under e grapimng propentsities of man's nature, I ey are sure to appropria~te -ure than 4 eir jutst share of rights and .privileges.4 an is seldom satisfied-erith his~own' He ants only~ opportunitj to take 'more.. a aud higher aspirations; you bestow in- v creased interests; you give scope to all 1l the rabid passiourof cupidity and ambi- I tion. - The love of power, like the love if I gain, is encroaching and agaressive. Both i grow upon the affectious of man with like rapacity. Tlie. majority thus appro priates what does not belong to them; and if they have more than their due, the mi- f nority are sure to have less 'han theirs. c Under Ithis spirit of encroachment, the rights .of the minority are in danger of a being icompletely absorbed. This is the i instructive lesson of history. The interests, then, of the people, that r is, of the collective population !can be pro. perly fostered only by controllimg the I movemettsofnutnericalmajorties Against c their repeated encroachments, the inie- L rests of minorities must be staunchly do- a fended. Majorities should not be allowed to judge absolutely of their own rights, and then of-the rights of minoriies-their pit. litical opponents. This would be placing dhe latter entirely at the mercy uf the former. . With like evil results is the influence of I party. True it i, a mran cannot toiform ly work for the good of the whole coun try, if he he enshackled by party ties. i Ftom the blind prrjudice and pinched i habits of thinking, excited by party rela tions, a man loses the ability of rising to I the elevated platform of the true states- I man. lie cannot, like the latter in his u broad mental vision, take in the whole h range of interests in his community or country. There is something in the very i nature of small party tactics that cramps and circumscribes the mind1. There wants the elastic bound of thought, and the blild I freedom of opinion peculiar to un- 1 trammelled genius. The mind moves in ( a limited circle of thought, described often v boy men, unfitted by naturo or education. d to grasp the principles of science, or to mark the boundaries of knowbedge. It is c a plain fact in mental plilosopihy, that tle r mind, like the natural eye, from habitual L conractedness of view, loses its expansi bility. It comes to conceive narrowly and v to feel narrowly. It goeson in its pinched P habits of thoughi and feeling, until at length r it becomes divested of all magnanimity. r Nor is party influence less powerful in I its eflects upon the outicard being of men. e How often, from the violence of party f spirit, are men forced into rash and im- C prudent conduct despite their better judg.. c ment atd resolution ! A man mny see n the good and approve it-yet so strong is c the current of this feeling, it often wnfls him along n full speed against the inclina- c lion - of his heart. and the convictions of his judgment. Ilis only chance of escape li is to fall in n ith it, or he is subjected to ( perseculion and proscription. 'It requires P more than ordinary Ifirminess to sten the fury of this dreeded current in our free country. It is all powerful to bear down every thing before it. Yet if a matn will i really act the patt of a patriot ;-if he j will put forth hi-i efflors honestly for the 1 good of his country-he will be obliged to 1, stanId up against this spirit in all its vio lence. He cannot serve his country and his party too. He must often desert the h one or the other. To desert the former , is as we have s~ared, n1o trivial mtautter- ki f a mall do. he will be often forced to r< sand alone, and. then, hie mist hatvo an i irotn soul, that can resist the shocks of[ envy, hatred ail ridicule, lHe will have i t see the weak and the unprincipled seat.. * ed above him in powrer, commanding the plaudits of the crowd below ; while he hise~ilf mnust bear, witht stern comnpo~sure, 13 the hisses of the tmultitudc, and the nep- 8 ect of all except the virtuous. [Jo will moreover, be compelled to habor against atOer, and under the shafts of rnalignmant n ridcule. But the true Statesman atud tbe il sigh souled patriot, will hear all this. o For this noble self-sacrifice, he is, how- it ever, not withouit reward. Ho bears along i ith him the approvals of conscience, and i he consolationsof Philosophyv. To stand up ht nan fully tunder a'lverse trials or opposing o ificulties, is the true dignity of virtue- o he sublimne of character. eit is the spirit p liat led the martyrs to the stake and a he gibbet-that carried to the block a e R~aligh 'atnd a Sidney. Buoyed by 'he ir acouraging hopes of a pure moarality, the ia erling hearted patriot will not yield to etporary disorders i.i the public amind, or v o transient hatred and obloquy. He will it ise superior to the uproarous clamors of a; he disappointed andI evilly disposed. Re- p ying on the high wisdom of atn Overuling A Providence, he is tught to regard all C aerrat ion of tmoral power, as anomolous and rt ransitory. He is brought to believe that b noral rule howvever erratic for a time, will ci oon regain its ascendency, and adjust its leviatiotas; that in the great mind of Otm- ti tpotence, justice always retains her sway Ci a undiftinished purity. WVeakness and er rillany may for a while be allowed to pros- p ir, to the noglect of virtue and worth. tc But the philosophic statesman, who trusts st it the eflicacy of a moral government in i he universe, will feel and know, that such it roperity is only transient ; and that vice md villainy, by their accidental elevation, I are not in reality exalted. Circumstances s< rs staon cannot change the ingrafted p nerit or demerit of mind! or heart. 51 'Pygies are Pygmies though perched on Alps, b an Pramids are Pyramids in yale,." h It may he inferred from our remarxs, hat we believe a statesman should have h to partys: which, with many, is to have ~ In political principles. T his is not our neaning. No man can be a statesman inC he just sense of the term, without certain t ixed ptinciples, touching the theory and ri administration of government. The states.. s nan must have a litne of policy to pursue, cI ar he is like the mariner without a com- tI ass. It is his province to aequaint him. eI elf profoundly with she spirit, theory, and cE ractice of his governmenlt, aud to-deduce, sI ifter much labor and reflection, a set of d~ riciples, by which that government, in S is view. may be best administered. With s5 hese, and his fund of general knowledge, mhracing always a kr.owledge of the ircumtances under whtch any particular TI neasure is to ooerate, he will be enabled roperly to judg'e of the expediency of any w it of legislation. Thou far every states- tan nsa should belong to a party. HeI should it. ave principles to govern his political con- Si lct, anal he should strive, in the most ju- -a; icious mantner, to give these.principles SI ractical efficacy. But he should never Si low himself to be drawn off from his i di arinciples. in ..,ppart of umars w-hirh b a iolate them, merely to co-operate with Je individuals or his puriy. Against such olitical delinguency, we solemnly protest. L is the frutful source of faction, and! ideed of tarly all the political calamities t our country. By an artful organitailn few political tricksters are thus enabled a rule the whole nation. They run tivea rinciple, and often change the whole arretnt of public opinion. The general ense of the people, nearly always wise nd patriotic wheni lert to its uatural de 'elop-netnt, is, in this way. made a mighty ngine of injnstice and oppression, sover uling law and often urgitg t-) deeds hocking to hImanity itself. We have inle faiih in organizd systematic party ombinatiuns. They are certainly no achaaols ither for n ielom or patriotiim. They re the b.ane of our countriy ! ONE OF TUE PEOPLE. Froa tlie Spartsnkirg Spartan. 14th inst. ARREST OF AN ABOLITIONIST. On Satuirdny morning last an expected isitor took lodgirng at Col. It. C. Poole's iotel. anti some oftour citizens being ap. rised of the fact, look such measures as vere prudent yet prompt in satisfying hemiselves as to ilte import o his tubi iesit. A letter has lcen addressed to Win. Valker. Esq. of tle Walker hotase. by )octor Fitrh of Columaa. stating ant a uinn by the nane of J. M. Barret, who ailed from Ohio, had made his escape rom Columbia ; a warrant having been isued against him--and that lae wI ould isit Spartanhurg. Sure enouglt, not only did said .. M. larrelt mnke his appenranre, but there -ere several letters directed to him fmm inacinnati Ohio, and Dublin Indiana. rhich our Postmaster thought preper to elivet it) him in person at his lodginge. Lfer this was done, several of our citizens alled on him, nad with, the luonal% ledge re-obninted tarough Dr. Fitch of Colum in, denattded a senrch. Upon investigation and examination, it ras ascerrtined that he was employed by essrs. IIarwoad & Co. ostensibly Iaor the nra1pose ofgettitg statistical itaformatioan ,r a "Gozetteer"-.ut sone of ilte letters aund in his possession proved to lae the ntvelope ofa two tuhers. directed one to Dr. ilt of Columbia. and ilhe other to T. J. ilover of Orantgeburg ; and upon opening tern it was found that the one directed > Dr. Sill ctratained two numbers of the elebrated incendiary publication, signed Brutus." avd alae other to r. J. Glover ontained only one of the same. Beion we copy lthe letter verbatim et teratim. The post marks is Cincinnati, bltio, May 12th, Directed to J. M. J3Bsrett, :sq. Spartanburg, S. C. MAY 11th, 1S49. Dear Sir-Having learned that you are avelling in South Carolina, I take the berty of requesitng you to drop into some ost Office aloang your way, the enclosed tiers. Although comparatively a stranger tyotu, I take the liberty. because I wish a Oblige a Carolinian who desires me to ike some pate of communication with is friends wlit-h will not tay tie Post lark reveal his present location. Be indl eanuel an destroy thais wheat you htave sad it. You will pardoni me for ntut sicn ig my name, buts that you nmay koaw atat atm to he relied uptont. I will jtust namne iat Mes~rs. E. Iliaravood & Co,.; have :n yotu $20, to Ctalumbiat. S. C. Anuothter letter Post Mlarkedl Dublin, tdiatna, Maty 27th, directed so Juuhna M1. at reta, Sparainaburg C. H. S. C., signed Johnson, cotttains the tollo~wihg para, raph: -Some person usuggested to mo that you, -old beconme proslaverny lay travellintg itt te Stautht but I idal them no, the principale's Truth and Rlight were ton deeply rooted your heatrt, tao ever have thema eradica d from sclftsh or othaer motives: btesidles avellintg amntg the wvrng, will I think, ave a tentdenucy to strenugahen onte's hatsredl fthis wvrong. At least I leave no tears t John lMi. Barrett coming back to Dubllina ro slaverized. I want you to take items, ud cotme back prepared to wage watt and Leranal warfare against the abomninable astitution. I hate it worse antd worse the tore I thtink of it." Int a Town Meeting on Saturday, at hicht theo said Barrett attended. atnd spoke a his own behal, it was tunani-nously greed by athe citizens presenat, that legatl roceedings shontld be taken against himn. nt Allidavat was made of thte facts before . W. H. Legg. Esq., uplont whicha a wrar ant was issued hor his arrest, and begin rought hefbre hiam tsar examtination, wias ammttitel for taial. WVe take grate plasure in stating that ae ptrisonter was treated with thte uatmnost vility, end nothinag like a disposition to ole. as seemed so lbe apprehtended by the risoner, mnade its appearaance. H e seems be a ant of great astuteness, and 'just ach an tate as it amight lbe expected woauld emtploayed by ste Northern Abolition 5s. Thcre canu be noa doubt remaining but ist thais said John Barrett, is tan emissary :ot amontgst usn to further the Hellish urpose oftthe Abolitionists, but whtether illicient proof can be adtucedh to brintg to or the penahy of the law, is to be seen ereafter. The account that said Barrett gave of maehf is simply that heo is an agent for hesars. E. Ilarwood & -Co.. New York, collect staistics anud infrmrationt for a azetteer, shortly to be puablished, atnd at he published, and that he canntot be apontsibale for any letter or documents Ut to him by Mail. Taking the whole reumstances together as gleaned front e papers foutnd ini his possessiona, thais immunity stands justified in his arrest and mmitmetnt. Inttending ontly that 'justice all be done at the same time, that they sire to show their adhereance to thea auth, and their love for her peace and fety, by acts as well as words. NORITERtv latFE.-The New York rihune oft Friday, says; " A paoor womana ttamed Bridget Connor, hose hausband died last Satueraay, was rned out ->fher apartments,225 Eldridge yesterday afternootn, by her lantdlady. 1ta-had two children, one of which was parently dying. antd the othter very sick. te fouttd hter way to the Eleventh Ward1 ation house, where one of hem children ed, and medical aid was called for the hpr. Froii uhe Charleston Courier. A CAROLINIAN IN CALIFORNIA. We nre indebted to the poliie attention of Mr. Forgeaud, of this city, for the sight of a letter from his birother. now in San, Francisco, tCalifornin.) dfated April 9th; from which we have permitted to take the extracts which n il be found below. .)octor Forgeatid, was located it St. Louis. (M issouri.) and left tlat pilace in ' Jne, 1846, for California, long before the discovery or the placers that have yielded such an nbutndance of the preciotts metil. Taking his family wit h him. he determined to locate in the new country, to grow with its growth. Of an enterprising turn of mind. ie purchased property with tite belief that it would eventually increase in value, and we nre happy to state all his anticipations have been realized far beyond his expectations. and that he is now the possessor fir an independent fortune. well deserved, for the reason that he had the energy and perseverance to entounter all the dificisbies and dangers of his then doubtful enterprise. SAx FRAtisco, April 9, 1849. 'There is 'lideed gold and muc gold in Calilornia-, but it req-uirea great sarifice of the usual, I will out say voinfort, but ne cessaries of lire to obtain it. Dulring. the winter very little can lie done by digeing gold. Fruin the mtinh of July till Octo her, the miners are exposed to the billious remittent fever-a disease which nearly cost me liy life las: summer. I have not as yt recovered from its effects. At present, a person working at the mines may make fron $I2 to $70 per Jay-but. oceasionally, a man may fied a rich spot and make as much as $500 or 2600 per day for a short time. A spot that does not yield $16 per day is not considered good. It is impossible to say how long this nill last. The expenses across lhe Isthmus are exhorbiant-much detension is experienced. Perhaps it wotlki he best for-you to take a passage oi board a vessel around the Cape. Should yot decide upon coiming. it would be well to come alone. This coihtry in its present cotiiion is no place for a family. You could not get a house for tient. Many families are ob liged to live in tents. A servant is not to be had at any price. My v;ife is con strained to her own house work and cook ing. We pay $200 per month for a very interior house. I1you come, I would ad-. vise you to take wiih you as little bagga aspossible. fespecially if yon comiih the Ishinis) and nothing for the-, of speculating. do not buy even chine-plenty lhere, better thian!,i e the States. Once here, you F find somiething to do. F this place in five or sii: lesion. The market glutted, and heavy enced by those Those who will goods will cert tiy things are ii New York. leston eI At a meeting. ing, the M~ay~ the mnelancholl of Jaimes K. ~Uniteud State, the propriety bute to the meni hail enjoyed the h pujblic, and had ablya tion of his country bo abroad. * Whereupon Alderman Tupper the following resolutions, n hich wereuo" in:ously adopted Resolved, That the City Councilof Charleston have learnt, with emotions of pain anid regret the decense of Jaui~s K. ~ POLKx, Ex- President of the United States. Resolved. That as a mark of respect to rhe memory or oce so disiinguished biy the exathed positioin hie has occupied, as well as by eminent services renidered to his country, his Honor the niayor he re quested to have the bells at St. Alichaels tolled bet ween sunirise'and sunset bo-mor row. Resnlced, That the Clerk of Council he directedl tto forward a copy or these reso lIttioins to the widow of thie deceased, ten dering the sympathies of the penople of Chtarleston in her great bereavement.) Council then adjoiurned. 'FRANCIS LANCE. Clerk of Council. We learn that the negroes Jimmy and Charles, tnow tinder sentence of death for the murder of Thomas alorriston, have ack towledfged their guilt. Jimmy, it appears grasped the victim by the throat, and hteld him, while Charles inflicted the deadly ilows. After disposing of his body, they. n~ith great deliberation proceeded to te mill, and stolo three hags of rice, which they disposed of to a Grocer on South Bay. We understand that a large quantity of Rico found on the premises of this Grocer, who has. disappearetd, has beena ottched, and nwaits the decision of the proper au. lorities. It is the intention, w~e are glad to learn, or those who sued out the writ, if successlul, to appropriate the proceeds to the benefit of Mrs. Morrison, the ntidow of' the unfurtutnate wachman.-Char. Mler. GEN. CAss -ro Rsote.--The Nash ville Baener assures its readers, upon tha most "unquestionable authority," that Generatl Cams will resign his seat in the Seniate rather thtan obey the instructions imposed upion him2 by the Legislature of* Mtlichigan. We do .not know to what resoltitions this has reference, bttt presume it must silude to the Free Soil subject. If '-hi. ie so. and his withidrawal is put upon rhis ground, then will lie have shown himself s.5,-e friend to the South, anid to the Consuittution. WVe will wait this develop rnent with some curiosity, for we have not sitherto given Mr. Cass credit foir such de rotion to our interests atnd institutioas.; . At Queen Victoria's drawing room, on he last day ofthe month, she had the honor o receive, and our Minister, Mr. hancroft,. isd the hotnor to present to her Majesty, he Hon. Edward A. Ilanniegan, Minister o the Court of Berlin, and Gales Seatori, ws. erearye of Legntion to Fr'ankford.