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"We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our LierliTs, and if it must full, we will Perish amidst the Ruins." VOLUMIE XIV. TII '. 29 PULISHED EVERI'%VEDNESDAY B Y Will. F. DURISOE. P R 0 PR 1 E TO R. Nell TERM.. 1% o Do.LARuS and FIFTI CaNTs, perannum ipaid in advance-S3 if not paid withinsix months from the date of subscription. nnd $4 i f not tiaiidl before the expiration of the year. All subscriptions will be continned, unless otherwise ordered before the expira tion of the year ; but no paper will be dis continued until all nrrensrazes are paid, tin less at the option drthe Publisher. Any person procurintg five responsible Sub scibers, shall receive the paper for one year, gratis. ADVERT:SENETS Consptcntnstytnsertedat75 cent, per square. (12 lines, or less.) for the first insertion. and 37. for each continuance. Those published monthly or quarterly, will be charge-1 $1 per square. Advertisements not having the number of insertions marked on them, will b continued uutil ordered out and charged accordingly. Communications, post paid, will be prompt lv and strictiv attended to. Look Uways on the Sunny Side Wharolitie things may sweet'n life If we but view them rightly! Our dati kest moments oft are rife With plea-ures beaming rightly. The mind that wraps itself in grief And vents its woes in groaning, Would never gain oie hour's relief, For ages pass'd in moazing Look always on the sunny sie The sun is ever shining ; The shadow may lie dark and wide, But 'tis no use repining. Nay. tho' the sun seem vanish'd quite, We are not unenlightened. The glittering stars show best at night, As though by darkness brightened. Your path may be thro' deserts drenr, But springs e'en there are flnowing; Keep tip yetur spirits, never f,-ar, Heaveu still ijoy bestowing. As a bright fower that mov be found Where all besides is dreary. Seems to shed sweeter fragranco aroupd, In comfort to the weary. Just so. a joy the mourner sees ,.nAadthe.4 o9 f-srsy w% --- - Poeswses4oui e Vo.w,er to please, Afid 'sirenhiens for the morrow. Thlen let 1s al ways look for joy, E'en in our griefs invite her; And what woul.l otherwise annoy, Will helpo to make life brighier. A GOOD ONE. The Hartford (Conn.) Ga:ette tells the following good one, which well hits tiff the practice of running ourselves down itha others tie induced to compliment. Very few, as in the case of the pious Mr. H. that would like to he taken at their word: In a village not a dozen miles from Hartford the members of a religious snrie ty were in the habit of holding prayer meetings in the church in which they made a kindl of confessinn commoanly called "telling one's experience." A very pious member of the flock, Mr. H. somnetines ativited 1 r. P. who was not a* nembler, to attend the "experience meetings." At one rofthese. Mr. It. in relating his experietce, stated that he was a great sinner-that he had.sitned daily, wish his eyes open-wil. fully and kuowingly sinned-thai gondness dwelt not in his hienrt--that he was abso lutely delpraoed, rrnd that nothing but the boundless mercy and infinite goodness of Jehovah, nmanitested through ste attuniing bilood of the' Redeemer, coubil save himui from eternal perdition. Mr. P. whon had accidentally bieen placed upion the n'nxiouts seat," was calledl upont after his- neighbor H-. hail ended, ton relate his "experience."i He arose, and with great gravit y said, lie had very little to say of himself; but the hrethren would remnembter that he had livedi for twenty-nive years the ntext door nteigh bor to Mr. B. sh.t lie knew him well atnd ''it gave him great pleasitre, (becausme he cotuld do it with entire sincerity) to confirm the truth of all brtrh-r H. had cotnfessed of himself ! When Mr. P. sat dnwn uinder ste smile of the whole congiegat ion (the worthy parson not accepted,) .ilr. I1. went uip to him aind said. "You are a rascal and a liar, and Ill lick you when out of church." *Dennis. darlin', och Dennis, what is it -you're dotng !' 'o trying an exparament !' 'Murder ! what is it ?' WVhat is it, did you say 'Why it's given hot watber to the chtickenus I ami, so tha'lI be after laying boiled eggs.' 'Men are made in the image of God! ?' s Gentlemen are matnufactured by tailors, barbers, and boot blackers. Woman is the last and most pierfect work i.f God. Ladies are the producetionis' of silks worms, milliners and dressiog maid. A darkey set. to. work to cut down a very tough tree. but Ihis axe flew back, for some time, with hut little effect. A storm r occurred tmen timse, and a crashing shaft -of lightnting shattered'a hnge oak to. splin team near him. -'Bress de Lord !' exclaimed Sambo, 'dat wel done. -Spose y ou try dis one ttext .gesyou getuour match.. Mr. Calhoun at Fort HHiI. We find in the New York Ilerald ani interesting letter from a correspondent who .ad lately paid a visit to Mlr. Calhaun at Fort Iill, his residence, in Pendle:on. The extent of his plantation and the ad. mirable management everywhere observa le have perfectly enraptured the writer, and we regret our space limits us ti ex tracts while our desire is to give the who!e, as it presents our distinguished citizen in a character entirely new to mnst persons beyond she hounds of the State.-South Carolinian. "\fe reached Fort lIill about two o'clock p. m. It was nearly the dinner hour. I was introduced to his family, which at that time consisted of Mrs. Calhoun, his young est daughter, and tbree youngest son. Mr. Calhoun has seven children; ihe eldest, Andrew, isa planter in Alabama; the next Patrick, is a captain in the army, and stationed near New Oileans, the eldest daughter is in lurope, the wrife of our charge at Belgium. Mrs. Calhotn is just such a wife as a matn like Mr. Calhoun should have-sensible, domestic, and in. dustrious. She governs her household in a style that the Roman matron in the olden ames ever surpassed. Cornelia,the daugh. ier at home, is a most flrectionate comnpan ion for the mother. John is a physician, atd was married, shorily after I 1es to the daughter of a near neighbor.* ' ill make a leadling physician whi is destiny leads him to settle. Iis* he next, is a calm, quiet, thinking gain man of 20, and, in many respects. strongly res enibles his father. Willie is the youngest of all Mr. Calhoun's children, atout 18 years of age, and the pet of all. The two last are students in the South Carolinta College, ani at home during the vacation." "Towards sunset Mr. Calhoun gave me an invitationi to walk over his farim. I gladly accepted." "Hiad I not known with whom I was conersing I should have set [am dhown in my mind as the most thorough going practipil fairmer I had ever met with - There is no detail connected with it, with wihichi he is not pert'ectly ftmiliar; and as tie carries you alung with him, he poinits onst to yon. and explains every thing in the most simple imunner possible. Yon won. der, l<nodng the man, where lie got his infurmaii'n froii, anti when he had iitme tip get it, and still more when he had time to carry it imo operation. it people x- not-iinhrstand ;M: ieCa1-61111. h oi~rc. I.,..p ikts ystelti d power of con:bibations. lie-has a time and plice lir eveity ibing; itn a word, to give a vul ear qnotation, "'what Mr. Calhoo n don't know about any anr every thing, ain't wuorth a man's while to look afer.' Say what you please about Mr. Culhonn's tither qualifiations, dispute abont therm as moc as you please. whether lie is this, that or the tiher, I care not--but this as sprtion I n ill make, lohn C. Calhoun is the iest practical faritier in the United States,. anti if any m'an doubts this as'er tion, let him make a pilgrimage it Fort Hill. and fis doubts will ie lelt there." "JHv tht, way, while walking in the large coris i3ld.f asked ir. Cailho.un what gave he name of Fort Hill to this place. Ie answored my tiery by pointiing out to me a long hill about the Seneca, and remark ed: *-there was a fort stood there, built, I believe. during the war of the revolution; it was used during that titme by the Ameri cans, and called Fort Hill. It was dis. mantled with peace. but its name has been gi-en to tmy farm, on which the old fort stood.' By this time we had passed throuh the tall corn aid had reached the batk "of the river, a narrow but a rapid and very deep stream, whose head waters were libnid not forty miles from him. in fact itt sight oif his house ini the mrount ains. There wits a lotng scow tied to a tree on the hank swung ot into the stream. We both entered it, and I took a seat. Not a word was spoken for some mo ments. antd an imrpression wvas ma~de on my mind which 1 abnall uiot suoo- fitrget. Mr. Calhoun'-s clear voice for a moiment broke the spell. 'The Seneca nust be about two-thirds of tihe size of the Jordanr.' I looked up. an-i he describied the resemn blanice, probably, wvith as mnuch accuracy as if lie has seen hoth. Agai, 1. thought writh what is he not familiar. The htisto ry of an empire or republie, or the history o~f the cotton plant or lndlianr corn; these riv, era and lrooks, or JIordant and Etuphrates, and TFexas rivers. WVhile lie was giizinig Ill that plaidt stream. I gazed at him, arid I have felt an. irresistible love come oiver rre, and'a eotnsciousnesso( irresistible ipow en in himt, which I never ha~te felt behore io the presee of any created 'oeing. I have stood in sight of emperors and kinigs ini the old word at r evie ws, amid t he rolhiig mif artillery, the peals of music from hn dtds of bandis and the nmarchring of thou sands, and yet 1 never was so imapressedl with a feeling of the one man power,. as in the presence alone of John C. Calhomi,! in a boat on the Seneca river, arid during that brief period a hundred things flashed across tmy mind, wrhich I will recall agaiu. One conviction was this: that but for ig norance, downrighit stuipid ignora nce, on rte part of the people of the United States, made so andi kept so by rt-ill moro stupid, hack party papers, contented wvith the in terest of selfish, aspiring party leaders, whose interest it is to keep the mass of the peaple ignotattt of the real character of Jolhn C. Calhorun, of his glorintus and god like intellect, his lofty patriotism, and love for country, which is oinly bounded by that ecotry, and- not by any onae State or sec tion-lie wrishes but justice 'o all-of hisI his supreme contempt for dishnnet, ti-m serving politicians. tricksters, and lickspit ties; and his love for all that is grood. use fin, and patriotie ; above all, his honest3 and incorruptibilia'y or his sagaciy-hi: long experience or fory years in the high Pot seats in the councils of. the Union-anm his deep thought and friresight, which al -nake him whai he is, the greatest man it the federal Union-but for this. tie people, as one mai, would have ariseti and placet] him at the head of alTairs at Washinigtoi 1:ng ago, and lie would inare stanped thie inpress of htis miglty mind, for years to come. fir good. With so ture. so lofty and patrioic a Preidetnt, how would our government new stand before the strng gling European nations? ie woull miark his admitistrationhy act and policy ili would cause it to he blessed for a centnry to come. As it is, what has he not done, for the last twentv years only ? IIe has originated and carried more meastures, which have becoine law. and defeuted more which lie believed to he had, than all the Presidents during that period. 1- it not true, and are not the people of the United States fully conversant witi these facts ? lie has tn press to trumpet forth anti bla zon his great actions, as every other little great man has. and who consequently he come quite honored and caressed. Thesc men, and that class of men. every ione of them, know what John C. Calhoun is, and what he has done, and feel that to him they are the pigmy to i lie giant. Mr. Gal houn stands alone. ie is like the iightv chain of the Alleghanis, which loom ui nnto the clouds, 4U or (0 miles from his miansiona. When tine has passed witi him, when 40 or 60 years intervene, then, and not till then, will the people nf our country look back, and then in that dis. tanec-nbove all. will tower the memory or the acts or Calhoun. lie is like the, mountain-the grandeur ofr his mind and its conceptions caiot lie sien by those it his time. Distance will ma.k his outlines with distinctness and do hin justice-bct ter for hiu-too iate for uts. 4 What experience has been his-how long and how varied ! Six vears a mem her of' the lower hlouse of' Congress. PigtI years Secretary of War. seven 3eurs Vice President, one year Secretary of Sie, eighteen years Setiator in Congress ! For rtry years, without in:ermission, in the pulic service ; and diring periods fraught wih the greatest excileeniat and internt. in the Union. I thgrtnT r lirnung flThe iltlt party subserviency should be able it) obscure iii ouir own land an intellect n~hich would shine brilliantily in nny nit er ; and the sage o! experience never occ py his true position in our estimatian mtil afuer he leaves its; and whant does he think 4i this or of the Presideiicy ? I 'a-ked him, and as near as I can recollect I will give his reply : "'GVlii could I gain to be President ? Care and anxiety, that I nn-free fron now. I ain not anitious. The inly reward I seck is the approbation of my own con icience. I neither ask nor desire any oth. er reward than thiat. I wonld not accept the office of President on any otier terms han the most entire freedini to ref'orim abuses. aholish this system of re:iovals. and break up the spoils and phitder sys tem, arid restore the government to a healthy antl vigorous action, anod this with. rItit anty tramir.el or pledges, excepi those which the constitution imposes upon the Presideni.'" A PRAYFR BY KOSsUTn.-The follow, ing prayer offered by Kossoth will be in, teres'ing to our readers. It was ofl'ered by him kneeling amid the inltituude. at the grave of the Magyer heroes who fell in the battle of Raplaiyln;i. and was orig iially published in the Opposition a jour tnal ofjPesih. We translate front the Ger. inan. Almighty Lord ! God of the wvarriors of Arpadl ! Look downt from thy starry thrie 01on ty impl~rorinig servant, * mmu whose lipis thie prayer of miilhlionts ascenls to thy Heaven, praising the untsearcihible power of thine O:nnipotenice. O God, over moe shtities thy sun aiid bieneath mae repose the relics of tmy falle3 hteroic bre thren, abiove miy htead the sky is bilue and under tmy feet the earth is dhyeud red with the holy blood of the children of our an cestors. Let thle animnating& heamos oif th3 sun fall here ilhat flowers may sptng up from the blood so that these hitdis of tde. plartedl beings may not itnierr unaidorredl. Gotd of our fthers andl God of theo untionis! hear and bless the votice oh' our w'arriors in which the arm and the soul of brave na tions thunder to break Ihbe ironl handl of tyranny as it forges its chains. As a free mao I kneel on these fresh graves, by ihe ue'nainus of' my birothers. By such a sac. rice as theirs Thy Eh~'l would lie con. secratetd were it till- stainied with sin. O God ? ont thtis holy soil ablove these graves no race of'slave's can live. 0 Father! Fathler of our Fathlers! Mighty over tmy rinds. Almighty God of the Hjeaveni, the Earth atnd the Seas ! From the hones springs a glory whose radiance is on the brow oif my pleopile. Hallow iteir dust wtith Tihy grace that the ashes oaf tmy fil en heroic brethren may rest in peace ' Leave us not, Great Go d ofl buttes !Ini the holy name of the tnatins, praised be Thy Omnipntance. Amlen. TaE RmcOzDY.-"Oh, D)oeior,'' satid n elederly latty recently to Dr. 11--, the cele'brated bonie-seiter, ia descrihing the effectsof .t deseased spine, "I catn tneithiet lay nor se. "I should recommend, then, replied he, "t hn pronriae of' rooling. " From the.MahAnll (Texn) Republic:mi. , ARSHALL, July 3, 1&09. Ma.EiTonT.-I have drawn entirely fromn my pemory the few paragraphs of Col. Wigall's speech, whiv b are -givei llr public;ti. . shall, at some convenicint Iiiimne. gi Ou otlier parralIIs. inoril lie euuire -ch sl'all have'c been puili,be.l. Bau-rus. T',e 'Wig'arsSpeech,. The ss of the southern members. said Mlr.Wigfall. was uibjectecd to by our Senators.-beca use the original draft con tained fie dlhclaration that **the presem criis wa'5ns imporinn us that whilh led ti Ohe DJnration of.Iolepeoderce." Hotit 1r. Ber's Addres4, for which hohit Senators' Vted, and wouhd have signed, declaresiat thle question is of all si-j-e0s the 1A portant." Can lng:ua1-1e be stron;er?.J t is objertel ngolin,that tlie origioni declares ahat 'if our righti arc loot p'tectedl under the consitiiitil, it (the conliaatino) will heome "a swond for attackmaiil not a shield for defence." Is the propjsilion not self-evident ? 13t, strige;to say, neither of the Sen:aors were everlasked to vote for the orizinal draft-he oh-jecsbihaile passnes havin been strickten out. by the consent of Mr. Calhoun, &frc lhe motion was maide fAor recommitmetu, .t was the Address of the Southern,7inembers against w'hich they voted, nhd as nn excuse for it they point out seantettces whidi.they weic ncver usked to imlorse.: But the Sonut'hiern Adlress. they sny. declares hnat the aggressimis of the Norih uponl South would he tIe cause of war he tween lot *gn nations. This is langiinge which they could not tolertc-it is sneh as shoul0ot be used towards our brethren. Hilt whO''1.~r. ierrien say<,- "such inter ference wnn d iot-be llerated bet ween in. erpen4ent.'overrigntirs-it wonld le mt by reindtstraice, mi, if necessary, bg force." they see nothing objeciionaile. but vole for, iaidorse, and are willing to) sig-n it. The lame sentimenis in other p!-i.n ges. whic Were objected it by then in tle South rn Address, were shown by .1r. W inf ali t e coninineoF in .i. ierrien's, njad to h; 'received their entire sfnietion. What cor peuce, th-n, ie .aked, can he placed in eir sincerity wheii they urge the existepc ofth'ee pssees ii ihe South. rn A id e reatsi fur not sign ag I General Honton snid (M.Wcalcon. I linluedl) thiat he had beenl (uiaedl hvy .blr, Calhonn oh n'count of his Oregounvote. Wtin rave charges are inade, i i.4 i m. portant to determine the charieter of ihe accuser. lie (General Iloli i.) would rest Ii-; defence upon tie issiue of sh-o in2 bhat \lr. C;illioii was, and ever had been upon all lihe great questions which had mei uied the cuiiintry. 1hithless to the Soth, and panricu larly to Texas. Mr. Cadllo . said Mr. V., tneded tin defender. mnd hle (.\Mr. W.) could he neirher proiklied nor betraved into tle discussion of inina1s te. Gen. Hlouston's conduct, aid not Ir. Calhtoan's was tie m1n)ter tinder consile ration. Bnt as Gen. II. had rested his le fence upon the establishing of is rharnss against ir. C., they beiame impor1ant, and fbir that purpose lie would consider them. and for that only. It was impossi ble. ii ithitt the tile allowed him, to ex. plktiiii and consider in de'ail the positimils which that great siate.;mima hail oieenpied upon all lie great qutesii'ins upon which ite country had been divided dutring tile last quarter'of a century. lie %ioul.d restrict ihimself to one-lr. C's posilion as 10 Texas. lie seleeted ib it'eieus his audience were iniili.r with it, and be Cause Get. If. 1nd laid creat stress unotin it. If on this lie Could show thi Gen eral Il's poisiton 'nas unsust~tained, thle facts UpIon which he reliedh false, aol hi~s charilges utunded, then lie would callI upon the ple~~I io rej'ct his (Getn. Ii's) estionnrtiy upon nll other polinits as unweor-. thy of belief. Pulduus in uno fidsus in ont-* niliUs. [Whena a wimness wilfully mlisrep resented as to one mater hle cll bie lie lieveud as to 1none.] Genl. IlluIn, chiarge'd that iI r. C., bly llhspatchting the Joimt Res ol u'ioins, put it out of the plower of ?ir. Polk to tentder tile nhternmaive as he (Ai r. P.) had ll d hllli~lIiimoeef to do. Mt.. here asked Geineral ll. if Mir. Polk coul no111, 01 any3 time buefore the Joinat Resoln tions had beeni actedl 11pon by) a le Republic ofjTexas, have with hla wn themu and)1 substi tuted the alternative. General ii. was undlterstood ill say "he could nor." Thten. said M'1r. WV., lnt of vouor ownvr mouthi I will cond~ten iiyou. I hol itt my ham lii aI letter sinned $nam. Hoiusiton, writte six wieeks Iifter the J1no i R~esoilutionlStshad been di'patchled, andl addlressed, tol M.yjor J. Diiitsn. "1 said,"' exelaitnedl Genernl hi.. "that Mir. Polk said lie coubd not.'" If, saidl Mr. W., there are anyv other mtothfi Cationst of youtr answer to lie tmaide, I will platienitly await them. TIhere seem to be mote. Then I wvill read w'hat Geii. ii. hiou ght of~ ir. Poel k's posit ion atnd cloinrl over the Joint Rtesolu'itlis on thc 9th A pril, 1845, six weeks lifer they had passed fromn Alr. C's hands. "Now, my dlear frientd, I conjurle yout to use youra itnfluencte ittn hv. ing presentedl to thlis golveriimeni,. tire ah ternative suggested by the nrtiendmennt to Mr. Brown'~s B~ill befoire i is too late, anid while there is a remedy." It was5 not even th'n "'too halo"' for 31r. Pidk to utndo Mr. C's work. lIe might (accordinig to Gen. [H.'i still substi lute thle alternmat ive for the Jtintt Resolin tinis, anti, by wvithdtrainiig from tlie Ieo. ple the .privilege of dleciding for temn selke's, rerdeem-hig piledge, nnd thus pllace TIex~as in the hands of Mr. Bientoti and htis read GOca. H: But whatever may be the fact ns to the power of the President over J the Joint Resolitinis aifir they had been dispnilhed. that Gen. I.$l.lionionl did Iot be. lieve Ohl ir. Pola's conduct was coirll. ed by .\lr. Cationn's action is manife:,. Yet lie openly and boldly charge% it. Could lie have frorgotten the letter, oi did lie presume upon our ignorance? Bitt. agin. Gen. 1[. says that iy the Joint liesiloions slavery is'now ahilued over one third of Texas--thal the "le1al capacity there exisling to employ slave la hor" has been "1 desiroyed by Mr. Gif hioun." and Iit vast rcgion eii oIT frmi the oceupaLi im of Souihern planters nnd farmers "-lint " Mr. C. has nuillated a Southern state. and suippressed, in a large I portion of it, the doetlOic institin Salle-ti e tinil by its laiws." It has been already seen titi. acCording to his own showing, ii has been M r. Polk, anti not Mr. C., who isi idiponsible for this, if it he so. But is. 0hc siaiement Irne. that slavery is now apolir-hed in Texas? Mr. W. would no* intult ilhe tndersiading by arguing the uips'inst. Slavery exisied there. anld still eximss all over Texasi. The Federal Gov ernmnent hid no right to abolish it. Our own Legi,iure hil none. Yet Geo. II. had just siated, in ilie most solemn manneatr. ihn: it was now abolished over oue-third of the State. Mr. W. then rend the Joint Resolutions. It was plain that tlt Missouri restriction wias a mere nollity. If a state is formed above :36 deg. 30 min. slavery is to be pro hibited; but no stich state can he formed - e~xcelit "bytheconsent"ofTerus. Slavery, then, c-inout he abolished over any of Texas. except by our consent. It could have been abo16lied by our consent whether Ihe Missouri restriction had been ingrdfted it the Joint Retolulions or not. Hui with. nut ihe insertion ofthe A1issouri Compro iise the Re.solitions could never have been pas,5edl. I. tlTorded norihern democrats n xense for voting for them, and at the samte time in terlered with none ol'our righ.6- 'Tis the only compron:ise we have ever maide with tihe Norti, by which we iave lost nothing. And ror this Mr. Cal. hotitn has been denounced, and held up it) .repirobaiion." It is at tlie faihful sen. tincd the ileserter always fires as lie is pass ig. firom the cmip of his countryten into the lines of the enemy. But, said Mr. W., Gen. H. Q-ys that the line of 36 deg. 30 min. cuts oi'one-. thirld f the owte. Ile here exhibited a m.ut- wth4ti onet. iba, mt n*n toure tian a :wcITh. or n leth it most, lay above the line. It', saiil Mr. W., lie is atiempted o impnse Iupon our crcdlJity as to those matiers tl which #-very Texian inuit lie infurmed, %% hiat conlilence eau we pluce in his sltenots as to Iltse maniiirs of which we know noihing-31. Calhotin's position upon ihe Jmiak, Taril, naid hai. tronil Improve Imeit, questionts more Iliu thiirty'years no! In Gen. 11' re;y. lie said that in staing iih:ii iine-itird of the s[tic lay ave 313 deg. 30 mni. Ie ime gant degrees of latitude, ;iaid not square miles. The oiler two cbarges he left untaiched. tile reply being nimst nitirey taken tilt witlh anecdotes, U11 coitilim-,Il l tst) tile ladies. When II. took iii sent. Mr. W. rose andtt said that '-Nero had lathed while iRome was hurning." The mater uider 'iiideratisin sI- i a Seriiotis on". The charg-s lie had made wrre grave. Tiiey inivov-il the liaracter of tile Senator. A nil he had atemtied to laugh them ol ai divert niten:ion by his niecotes. lie woitl now nsk him. and hie lieued a reply-could a Texan carry his negroes above 3G eg. 30 min. in our own state Gei. I1. anwered, eecould carry them to New York if lie saw fit. That is an evasion said Mr. W. I will have a fair answer. 1i there any ''legtl incapacity ?" I do not kntow. said G,-n. II . I hasve not conisideredu thus qiiestiotn. '"You should have idoine so," s-. id 31 r. Wi., befbre hazarid ing yotur repuitatitn anud veraceity by uuak in" the statemnent. A Ni:w Co-r-roy I1n:ss.-We finid the follow intg deicri ption orai tiew Giition press in the M cibil e 'iTribunei. We would call the air enition ohf our landters tol ii. "Mr. 1). McComib', the iniventor and pa tenteg, has left ait this ollice a rrodel of it new press for ciomipressing cotigin hiay or hem p. It w ill re mini oiily fir a fe ws day s. aiid we invite plaiters atnd oilhers interested to exa mine ir, Its construtcioin, remarks the psiteii e.ius sneh as to secenre the nimttost hils sible diirablili'y; anid its locatiotn in the gin hiagse secuires lithaids and hoirses from inee mntt weaither. 'ITie bale hieiogn made in the liii r 'out, or on the samiie hunm, makes lie opieratiion v'ery' cuonvenient. The ptress ho in sn001pende, is seCtured from idecaiy. and lie hors'e operatinog ronditus centre, is en iihled to do hiis woi k wigh unprecedented caise andi speed, as hie only matkes from four t-o eight revolutionnos to the bale. It' requires. less than ai horse poiwer to reduce five hunidred pounids of cotton no shipping -ize, andu less thiasn one hur 's work of lie horse itisikinig I'ifmy b.ales, or less thtan one iu..nte to thes haue. Tis presslihts beeni fully tested in Mlis sissippi anii Louisiana, nni is considered uneqalg~ ted in its advanvisi ies iiir thle pressing pupss It is remark ably sim ple in its coinst rtuction an tiIafi er inspectling it we co uld not doubt thait iit is si great imp Irove mienit~ the iig ordiiaiy serew press. iri. McuCombi is airranginog to establish nt workshoiup in this city, iu itrdier in fill promptw ly ghe girider 'if planttets io. South A labamka, The body of M'$arshalh Biieaud was em balmeid- rind dressedl itn full uniform, with his sworrd by his side, From the Abbeville Banner. REPORT OF THE HdDGES AND FULLER INSTITUTES. Greenwood, June 27k-28th 1849. The Commimtee gave their undivided attention to the exercises of the pupils id the several depariments of these Schools, and1 expresi their entire satisfaction and aptiroval of the performances. li our report, we will notice the ordet of examination, beginninig with the Fe minale School. After an appropriate hjd' had been sung by the music teachere, at companiied with tie piano. and prayer of. rered by the Rev. J. M. Chile5, the ex ercises commenced with -pelling, primary ge::rnphy, and proceeded to the higher inusses in gpography, history of South' Uarolina, history of England. Englisi raimmnar, rheioric, arithmetic, algebra, 3s'ronomy, philosophy, and -at intervals exercises on the piano-all of which were ieard with no small degree ofpleasure.: l'he questions propounded to the yourne ladies were unusually full, and the an iwers were so promptly and correctly giver, is to satisfy us that as far as they had ad vanced, they were thoroughly aceguainted vith tie various branches upon whicli they were examined. The performanced >f the young ladies on the piano were ighly satisfactory, showing rapid improve nent, as several of irem had bit receuty :oimiimenced. Specimens of drawing antd paiting were also exhibited, which had necn executed in very neatstyle. The evening exercises were taken up with thei reading of composimons, whichl eviiiced much original thought, and were particularly marked for their moral ca't. Durin; these exercises, the Instructors anit pupils performed some admirable pices' un the piano, which wereltruly eblivening. The second day was directed to the ex rmination of the students in the classical lepartment of the Hodges Institutes. The branches of study upon which they were examined,were nunmerous: Sallust, Ho nr, Naturnl Philosophy, Botany, Latio Lessons. Mental Philosophy, Geometry, Greek Reader, Book-keeping, Aniieni G;eography, Surveying, Menial Scienc'e, Algebra, &c. The examination was ably ind faithfully conducted by the Principt rf the Institute, and the clasees acquitted hemselves with much credir, and to the entire satifaction of the Commitiee. The exerci;e? of the evening weri&eep*-. ly-111erestiig,' consisting of addressies by he several students of each department of the Institutes, a large proportion of- whicht were original, commanding the 'ppioba' lion ofull present. Ont third day, the Committee attended with interest to the examination of the Midents of the English departmeut of the llodges Institute, conducted by the in Itructor in that department. In this ex imination, the pupils evinced a farniliariit with the braniches ofstudy to hilich' they had beei attending, which s'atis6ed ilue Committee that they were tiorougbly tau ght. li conclusion, the Committee take plea ;ure in expressing their opinion, that the exercises. of the pupils in the several de part ments of the above schools, were high ly creditable to th'emselves, n'nd reflect ionor upon their instructors, and could noi oil tosttisfy the expectations of their par ents and guardians. J. S. ANTLEY, Chairmanf.' MR. CLAY ON FREE SOIL. The lion. Ilenry Clay being invited to' itendi the Convention at Cleveland, Ohio, to celebrate the anunivesary of the pas'sag ,f the ordiriance of 1787, sent the follow ing letter, in excuse fur tionaitendance:-' "ASnLtND, June 16. 1849. Gentlemen,-i receiVed your official let-' terin behalf of tihe Freemen of the R'eserv'' nvi-ir'g tme to unite with th'edi a'Cle es laid, in celebrat itg thd ariniversary of the passage of thd Ordinancee of 1787, on the 1:3 h of July next. I cotncur etntirely in npinion as to the wisdom of that greas measure, and I am glad that it has sectir ed to the State, on which it operates, ani exempltion from thme evils of Slavery. But the event of thme passage of the Ordinance has never, within mny knowledge, beens celebrated in any ohs' of thd six'ty-di1a' years which has- sinde intereided. It is proposed fur the first time to'commemor ate it. It is imposible to' disguise time. conviction, that this put pose originates' mott of the questint eowv unfortunately agi tntitng the whole Union, of thme introductioti of slavery into New Mexico and Califor tnit. Whilst no one can be more opposed* than- I am to the extension of'shavery into thoise niew territories, either by the authori ty of Congress or bytindividual enterprise, I should be unwilling- to do' dytitig U' increase thi' lrieailinig excitement. ? hopie that the question wvill be met in a sipirit of caltmness and candor, and finally settled in a mn:ner to add strength ande stabmility, instead of brimnginig any danger to thme existence of our Union.. I'- altaanr dil'ernes of opinion, we ahitrdd n'ever cease to remnembecr that we arrfbllow citi zens of onme common and glorihins countay,. nor to exercise mutual and friendly. for' hearamnce.< But, gentlemeni, evaiving all other enn' sideratios, indispensable engagemxents< will prevent my attetndance on th6 occa slotn, whicht you have dhone me the honor to inlvite me. With great respect, I am your friench atnd obhedient servantt. H. CLAY. Messrs. Juli: U. Vaughan,. Thome& Brown Comnmittee." Crows are never the whiter for wasbiag; themselves.