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Those-d'siring to advertise by the year cando so'eloMerat terms.-it being distinctly under stood that contracts for.yearly advertising are con fined to the immediate, legitimate business of the firm or individual contracting. Transient Adver. tisements must be paid for in advance. For anrac,.cing a Candidate, Three Dollars, in advance. For Advertising Estrays Tolled, Two Dollars, to be paid by the Magistrate advertising. From the Colunibia Telegraph. -Re-Action. It is evident tha various attempts are be ing made to chill the action of this State. Those come not only from our enemies a. broad, but the most strenuous efforts are put forth in our very midst to secure the humble acquiescence of our people. Some point to the reaction in the feeling of the State, some urge a Southern confederacy, others take pains to announce their opinions that the time has not come, and doubt wheth er it ever iill come for single State action. These are falss coins, and must be nailed to the counter and reported as such. - A Southern confedercy created 'without the.action of a single State, rising and moving as some giant creature. with a perfect organ ization, is an impossibility, and the history of all confederacies, and of our own revolution should teach us that a single and bold blow will rivet the bonds of Soiuthern union more closely and surely than any schemes and ab stractions, however beautiful and extensive. It is the character of our people to put faith in individual action-it is this which gives strength to a cause, disjroportionably great to the means used, and he who relies upon the action of others to. dictate his own, is bainded with a want of mental vision, or of moral courage. To make resistance depend unou'Southern union, 'is to say, that the ate'singe-handed must and will submit; there ideno otlir just inference from the. ex pression now so com , on in the mouths of men' "nite us und.a te of submission shall never be told"-we speak plainly, we hope with all -due deference. Anain, it-is rung in the public ear, that the .ime not come; the .time never will agair come for the, government t 'inflict an equal indigaiif upon the honor, or an equal injury eyn- the-interests of the South. The time neer-will agai come; when the- edge. .ol a' s : taken of and the lofty morn Sis 6tuth has been sunk by 'ginsthievery inidst, ofi-oppression bp~epigd, but. -the sp-hit-ia gone'that~kniou moe~~ngeouq~~e 'iththeinforal toni of~otl~h dwsthroutall oni-arm' tobtaeniilace in the -tate-of aSoutl Carolins, sndithereinuitof the late.eetion 'ir tits city hasbe.brought forward.-as .the diefpro'fispoigti: Ifis, was necessarj to dispro ..he~oming from a quar. ter where the " glrious Union" is hymned from the tops of .Greenvile's ic mountains,' it could have been .conclusivel falsified by pointing to the result of the election in the State at, large. Th~at*result has given, a Iarge~ majority-whose iinas are fixed upor aitiori, and 'to wvhom even the suspicion 'of re&tion id abhorrent.. Thus to make an as. settion, noct only without a particle of prooi to sustain it, butjsitivelyi disproved by tes. tiniony in the assertor's 'possession, require! us' to suppose, either the recklessness oi despair, the blindness of fanaticism, or .the punrpose of mnisreprsesntation. As this reae. tion is a mere vision without any existence wve' leaie it to those wvho have a fancy " foa splitting hairs between South and Southwesl side," to trace the distinctions in the opiniona of snen-it is enough for us to know the general and fixed determination of the mass of.the people. But we will assert that any wvho suppose that, the city of Charleston with its com.. bined Northern and commercial spirit, is the index of State feeling have widely missed the: mark in their recikoning, as narrow cal eulation must always do. Her position is distinct from that of the State, she has taken herstand below that of the State, end has fallen .into a passive acqniescence, mark ! not into indifference for she has wvealth, talents, and t~h'e will to infuse' her spirit, end spread her opinions and fellings over the body of the State. This power, like all others, in oi out of herborder, will be met by the un yielding firmness of the State. As no threats b y Northern enemies, so no cries of ruiu at home, will draw the State from the moment one issue of her own salvation and honor. Sheihas planted her standar on the topmost ridge-of free-trade and slavery rights, and it is with 'unshaken confidence that wve trust to her detei-mination to sustain that standard a gainst any pressure from within or without. Wei have the most unlimited reliance upon the efficiency of strong measures to remove our wrdngs, anid to this we have come, that saf its bitterness destroyed, if necessary, by the shedding of blood, thatfreedomlife though~ onfer die and riches perish. CROMwELL. Charleston, April 1851. SiooL-Prepare a mixture of equal parts-ofr'fmnely sifted ashes, slaked limo, aind -saltand give an ounce or two to eaehbeflyour-cattle, horses and mulesstwice or thie a week. See that your sheej have.deces~ to sh and tar, or salt alone at all timeli, hept under cover; that al] your~ stock, arefregularly- supplied, thrice a day, with good -wholesome water, and that your working animals 'are well cur ried and brushed, or rubbed down wvith : -.sp of straw. A good cleansing of the hide, is most grateful to the, 'laboring beMand highily conducive to' health. Asmerican Farmner. A Hrr.-In " ye oden tymes" the meetint houses were fitted..wih two galleries, oni for seachsex, A minister at Newbury wal interrllpted one Sunday in his sermon b talking. H~e stoilped short in his discourse .and remarked that. he wishod that talkint would cease in the gallery, dis ~g his eyi at the same time to the womien's sidewhere apon a veneixdbIe spinster arose and said thal !t~as not in 'their galery, but on the men'" siide. "i'm 'glad qf.it, then," replied the *parson "for then itwil be likely to atop the EDGEFIELD. H. C. THURSQAY, APRIL 10, 1851. ADVERTISEMENTS. We call attention to our several foreign advertisements, if we may be permitted so to call them, and point'to the different estab lishments, from which they come, as wonder fully nice places for the ladies and gentlemen generally to visit, if they wish to procure the "foreign aid of ornament." To procure this, is certainly one of the ruling passions of the day, and not a very blameiable one after all. At SNOWDEN & SHEAR, Wn. If. CRANE and GRAY BRoTHERs, Augusta, Ga, and at M. W. CLARY'S and R. M. FULLER & Co., in this.District, imany beautiful things may be had on good terms and at modest prices. We invite attention to the advertisement of the -New Commission House " of A. M. BEisoN, Hamburg. This is a new house managed by an old hand. We hope he will get his fall share among the rest. Also, to- the notice of the clothing estab lishment of SALE & BaowN, of the same town. They are fully prepared " to clothe the naked " if not to "feed the hungry." It is not necessary to notice our own town advertisements. They are wel1 known by the people of the district to come up to what they publish. ---------- NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL LIFE INSURENCE COMPANY. Mr. G. L. PENN of this place has become an Agent for the above-named company. We are induced to believe that these compn nies are admirable institutions. This one has the merit of being Southern. Mr. P. will give further particulars by ad vertisement at another time. THE RAINS. Owing to the incessant rains of the last few days and the consequent rise of the creeks, the last up-country mail and the lIst Southern mail failed to reach us. This is a disappointment which we may not grumble at; although, as we usually reserve a column or so to be filled from those quarters, we are, editorialy, considerably fretted. These rains by the way, are producing an other effect-they are throwing our farmers back very much in -planting their cotton crops. . Many-indeed almost all have scarce ly made a beginning. Much corn is yet to be planted also. The small grain crop is generally promising a fine yield. --We were congratulating'ourself upon hav ing Toaeted in a regioi.(the sandy region,) wherethese excessive rains would be r.th alSenefit'thian an inin' - knocked this 'oinfortire --- de~terdaydy infc sandy land would suflgr me' while t~hs Iatter iiid - ni Thers is a marriage publishied on another page, tlie notice of which wats handed to us several days before the ceremony took-place. As it is near the first of April we are not certain but that some hoax may be intended. We have not heard of the consummation of the bridals, nor received any intimation of it through the usual slice of enke. But we take it for granted that all's right and publish ethe blessed clause " rough at a venture. AN IRISH BULL. One of these animals, so' indigenous to the Emerald Isle, was dropped in our village a short time since. It was thus: A gentleman called into a shioemakers shop to get a pair of boots he had ordered. Hay ng pulled off his gloves, and pulled on his boots wvhich fitted beautifully, he was going out of the door; when the -keeper of the shop (a son of Erin) observing that the gent had left his gloves upon the counter, picked them up and ran after him in haste, ex elaiming, '-Och, an this will niver do-that a gintleman's feet should be so complately shod and his hands going barefooted all-the time. Its wrong intirely.". DR. CURTIS AND THE PALalETTOES. The Reverend Dr. CUnRIS, in a lecture to the Teachers association, has misrepresented the intelligence of the Palmetto Regiment, by prononeing a majority of their number absolutely illiterate-" unable to write their own names." W~e are reminded by this inci dent of the frequency, in this day, of strong demonstrations based upon arbitraily assum ed data. Here, for instance,' the Dr. (for whom we have much respect,) having heard some one make this gross asseveration and thinking that it would admirably suit his pur puse of enforcing upon the State, the neces sity of more carefully fostering the cause of education, adopts at once the slander and publishes it to the world. Many a statement, no less absurd and groundless, is passed off upon the men of this day, and recorded in many a scrap-book as a "usingular fact." But this one of the Doctor happens to touch the pride of South Caroliniams, and may not therefore expect to share this enviable distine tion, uncontested. We, for one, give his statement the flattest possible contradiction and wish him a better guide in his future se lection of facts. Most of the volunteers wvho returned with the '96 Boys of Edgefiela we knew personally, and of not one of them is this assertion true. Indeed, from all that we can learn, from reliable sources, there were not 20 men in the Palmetto-Regiment, unable to read their own Bibles and write their own names. Many of themn..wcre gentlemen of highlyraccomplished education. .We join with our brethren of the, press, in noticing this singular mis-statement, jlest it 'might gain eredence,'coming as it does from one of some prominenee. Here are-the Doe. tor's words. "I blushed for South Carolina, when I heard of one-half of the returning Palmetto Regiment not being able to write Now even if this remark had been founded e in truth, it was certainly a most unfortunate I one, referring as it does to a noble band of soldiers almost every one of whom had ' written his name " with his best blood upon I the pages of his country's history. I JUDGE BUTLER'S SPEECH. It will be perceived that we have not even attempted an outline of this speech. Copi-T ous notes were taken with the intention of giving it in full to our renders in this week's issie of our paper; but finding that the time before us, independent of other engagements, will not suffice for preparing it properlj, and desirous of subjecting our report to the revi sion of the speak er himself, we have thought proper to postpone its appearance. Believ ing. however, that the views of our esteemed Senator upon the excitingmeasures of South Carolina legislation will be looked for with much anxiety by the people of the State, we take the liberty of giving, in advance, what occurs to us as being the sum and substance of them. He is, then, clearly of the opinion that the Federal Government is but another name for the despotism of a majority-that, under it, the Southern States have been plundered and insulted, until it has beeome their duty and only road of escape to dissolve their connex ion with it. We will say, in passing, that the Judge was eloquent indeed, when dwelling upon this point. He is, without a shadow of doubt, the advocate, under existing circum-I stances, of a dissolution of the Union. In reference to the action of South Car olina, he is convinced that secession will not be opposed by any act of war on the part of the Government at Washington. He has come to the conclusion that the State will be permitted to secede peaceably. This he con siders by far the most formidabli. danger that lies in our path. Were war a consequence of our action, he would not dread the step as much as lie does. But he looks with alarm to the indications, which are becoming palpa ble, that we will be permitted to depart with out molestation. His apprehensions of evil from this course of masterly inactivity, are based upon the dissensions which, he - fears, will spring up among our people, from the strong opposition of the commercial Interests in our midst, and from the annoyances which Federal gold may bribe . the surrounding States to inflict upon us. He fears this may render our action a failure. - Buthe firmly be lieves that if South Carolina were united, she could safely und certainly dissolve the Union at once. He expresses his determination tn- " the Convention in ..- 1othinj~eydfnt nTI brief-delineation, the fault is not ouirs.. We perceived that the Judge was laboring under some degree of restraint imposed byhis pre sent connection with the' Federal Govern ment. But for this, his views might have suited a majority of his hearers much better. We are free to declare, as faithful journalists, that our honorable Senator indicates a tempo rising policy as the one town'rds which lie leans. We of Edgefield sincerely respect his opinions; but many-very many of us wvere utterly unable to reconcile his brilliant eloquence while depicting our wrongs and powerful demonstration while arguing the futility of hoping for any good from the Gov ernnment, with the singular conclusion he de duced therefrom. We may safely (and we hope without a thought of disrespect to the distinguished Senator) assert that he left the audience al most precisely where he found them. Those who had made up their opinions saw no suf ficient reason to modify them. Those who had rot, saw nothing sufficiently express or definite to induce them to take either side. There are two fa cts that we adduce from the occasion. One is that thle speech of Judge BUTLER was in the main the best effort we have ever heard from him. The other is that the secession party of Edgefield are more determined than ever. MURMURING AND DJSSENSION. TL is beginning to be said that South Caro lina must not and cannot act, as long as there is disagreement and division in her own ranks. The same persons, who speak thus, hesitate not to say that such action would be triumph ant, if this were not so. Now we say, as we have ever said, that Union at home is indeed with us at this time, "the pearl of great price." And we further assert that the extent to which this division of opinion has gone, is principally to be attributed to those political writers and speakers who, to say the least, turn the cold shoulder upon the genuine re sistance party-that party which is but car rying out with firmness and moderation the principles and tenchings of these quondam resistance men; while at the fame time they (the quondams) are throwing themselves into the arms of the grand commercial and mer catile interest of Charleston. Talk not to us of murmuring and dissension--we are but moving steadily on to the consummation of a fixed purpose. Look to yoursolves, if ye would discover where this division commen ed, and you will find that the blame is en tirely your own. We have taken cur posi tion, you attack it-we defend ourselves, you lend the aid ad comfort of your countenace to those who seek to undermine us. You proclaim yourselvs friends to the citadel while you encourage mutiny among the garrison. You are pandering to the fears and apprehen sions of a local interest, and helping it to rule the State. *Leaders of South Carolina, or ye that have been such ! think ye that by this course you are adding laurels to your browst Can you ontinue thus to bewilder tlie.people, and to. ead them from the higii and plain couragof irinciple' and duty Would. you destroy he spirit of SotithCiolina? Would you ave hirdevotdsonsin from her Tiih. reeping and shame and humiliation, to seek n other -climes, forgetfuinesi- of her dishon r- Ifnot, then by al, that is noble in the ast'and desia'bi in thfutar stop -thiis di. ision, discountenance this schism and re tore If possible "that in)iiiitiy which we Al.hold to be .an. importanLyelement of our uccess. Men of .Charlestonlsuffer.~notmotives of aere self-interest to carry you against the on y true policy of the Stite-.eling' to the po ition of determnined, nflieling, energetic nd prompt-resiataneerwhiehthepoliticians if your choice were.wonotoay down with he most solemn asseverations.. Perchance, vay of escape may e goneiyed for your oneyed interests. , ..The,,thingis not impos ible. Hold on. yet awhile,-before giving up he good eause;' Evenait ther worst, it will >e better to risk des 'tionthan disgrace. fou bear a time-hon'iednabe -and we nust still eherish the li'peJ'spite of the de iertion of certain leade, tAi.you will help ,o hear the.Palmetto-alft in'triumph. PAUPERISAI NORTH ND SOUTH. One of the remarkable advantages of our nstitution of slavery wilt be fcund in the ve -y small. proportion- of'our-aiipers to our vhole population. No. li country on arth presents such an. ;Lount . of comfort md contentment.throughout the poorer elas es-of the community, as does ours. Take, br instance, the district ofgEdgefield as one llustration of this fact. ':Here to:a population )f thirty-nine thousand, we have at this time LHIRTY-Two paupers. "The- same ratio may be safely adopted for the whole slave-holding ountry.. What a contrast tp' thi condition and imount of pauperism ii Europe and through. 3ut the North! 'Thisia one of the happy ef rects of our domestic institutions. Among our slaves, a pauper is scarcely ev r heard of. The. master js their natural Friend and legal protector.; and he does not, in one instance out of Jivi hundred, fail to ac knowledge three.!bf these. obligations, by sustainiig hinsgedand infirm negro with' heering words ind:a&plentiful supply of the necessaries of life.. The slaves:of the:South. are'not only(in Inlst universal Tle) preserved fro presgt; ' al siffering of this kind'; bat eli pdfstaffof things i t61%n thiid"N annot nqinrg~of the hid vhich. those of their continllW -experi rdi othe helpless - . nefit'to the labor - y Wisdhwe -ni ehE~i on th eir own unh1id tons fosubsistneec The avocations by Shehh wainy of thessfbt sons not only puippoftflifeint rise to an'iride pendeney,' are never with us' reduced to so low an ebb as to be .carcelywotthpr. suit. Because the I~ populaf ion'b3 filling up the space in ourceommunity whdch would otherwise be supplied;ito ~a great extent, by white' laborers, interposes an insuperable ob stacle to any undue. increase of competition. Tere can never be '-ay real collision of in terests between free and slave labor at the South ; inasmuch as the latter is seldom quali ified to compete with the former in the arts or trades, and, for reasons of expediency, is and will continue t be generally confined to the cultivation and produeliin of cotton and the bread-stuffs. And thus the prosperity of the one interest willibe but increased by that of the other. Southern capital then in its in vestment (much the largest part of which is in land and negroes) 'so 'far from militating against the welfare of the individual white artisan, is directly promotive of his best good. Even in agi-iult'rpruits, to which slave labor is principally :applied,.there is no pros pet of the least' jalring' between the two kinds of labor, aithiough the one may be that of a free white man and the other that of a mere instrument of capital. 'The southern armer wvho is toloorto own a slave, is principally concerned: for the maintenance of himself and his fameily. If he at any time ail,' from adverse causes, to -effect this end, he feels that he is surrbunded by those who ire able and ready to yield 'hiin such assis ance as will enable i in the end, to over some the difiiculties of his situation. For, say what our enemies may, they are forced to idmit that no people 'are more remarkable fr their liberality than the people of the South. This is the-offspring to a great ex tent, of our -villified system of domestic ser vitude. And, in this light, our Southern :ountry iR peculiarly the home of the poor famer. Furthermore, in all the products of the garden, truck-puatch and ponltry yar d.(from vhichi such persons derive a main part of their annual-profita) slave-labor acarcely ever interferes with. them< They almost always have in their own~ control, the statn of the market as far as these producets are concerned. We have indeed 'many reasons for congrat ulating ourselves 'uponi the beautiful opera ion of our pectiliar social organization. 'We are free frota many of those blightinig causes, which in other cammnunities, leail directly to oontinually. in'ereiding miseryn'd degrada ion among the poc.oelasses. .We are free from those seeds of.ed6eil;dissension, which, in other comlmunities, have spruingiinto exis tene mad-sidsdangerou eemes oEf.refprm. And the rea4 cause of thiis exemption is only Lo~be found in tho -:'aaperior wisdom' of: that portion of our intornal polity, which mpaiti tains the ancient seriptual-distinction between the masteriddthe i mbn~3" INDIGNrATKON fills us. 0 t bim w len ever we see two'ladies.ising eac4h o her. It is such a wasteoqfrig anateril. OUR LOSSES. .,We recommend th'e following stateeint to the careful perusal of'oifr readers. Every. one says he knows- all' about the . extent of our losses in this government, but there are many who seem to lose sight of it altogether :at times. To refresh the memories of all, we copy the following extract. "The following statement, taken from i recent political pamphlet, "An Inquiry into the nature and results of anti-slavery agita tion," is full of food for reflection: When the peace of 1783 was concluded, the States north of Mason' and Dixon's line contained in square miles....l....164,081 The States now South............647,202 The surrender of Virginia affected the result so, that the North measured (square miles)........425,761 South.....................385,521 The next acquisition was of Louis iana. Its condition as to slavery was settled by the Missouri com promise. Tfie North then took (square miles)......... ....904,607 The South retained... ...... 284,445 The acquisition of Oregon, Florida and Texas occasioned another settlement. The North took Oregon (square miles)..........341,463 Santa Fe ountry-.................102;000 The South obtained Florida........59,268 Texas..........................212,000 The- Mexican conquests, engrossed by the North. swell her limits, in addition, (square miles).........526.000 Thus from 164,081 square miles, the North has grown to (square miles).......................2,382,903 While the South; from 647,202, has only reached to.............860,831 This table shows that in 1820 she drove us from nine-tenths of the public domain, and set up a standard of adjustment of all future dilliculties growing out of this matter, outside of the Constitution-that in 1846 she drove us from all of Oregon, and declared the princi pie that Congress should hereafter exclude us from all the public territory-that in 1850 she fully effected that exclusion, and drove us .from our entire Mexican acquisitions, and set up the standard of abolition even in the slaveholding District of Columbia. Does any man hope that she will retrace her steps, and vield again to the Constitution and to the South any part of this rich prey 1 We think we may safely assume that none so think. Are there any who think that, sat.. isfied with the past, she will give any guar antees against future wrong I THE SOUTHERN PATRIOT AND DR. FARROW. THIs paper having claimed almost all of the Spartanburg delegation to the State Con vention, as opposed to separate State action, M1r. JiMnus FARROv, one of that delegation, replies in a communication of high tone and spirit, from which we extract the -following, to show our people where Spartanburg stands. "If, as (ne of the "Spartanburg delega tion," my opinion is a subject of interest to my friends of the Patriot, I will endeavor not to "leave it altogether a matter of-detbtmb and therefore sav-that, as for myself, I ain in favor ofsecession;-'and though'[do not pro. fess to know " well and intimately" the feel ings of the delegation, I am nevertheless strngl icliedto suspeet that if the editors of tlie:PatriotswilI bestowv a secondid'xaminal titfonh the'subje6th y'irll fin'd tiit Yo is iFOR THS ADv3RTISER - 8ONG'OF THE CAROINA GIRLI - -* .Y A -LADY.' "Our hearts are with our native land, Our song is for her glory : There's many a gallant deed to tell In Carolina's story: Her valiant sons have won them names Among the great of earth; And children, from the cradle, learn To lisp of Southern birth. Our hearts are with onr native land There's none on earth above her : Hecr sons are rare-her daughters fair And then they dearly love her ! Let others boast of what they please, To heed them we're unwilling; We'll have our "Southern rights " and ease And grudge them not a shilling. We love our gallant barque of State And sadly should we mourn her, .If on her hallowv'd deck appeared The semblance of dishonor : But no ! her sons arc true as bravo And full of native feeling: The fosterings of a Southern Sun Were never fond of 'kneeling ! Our hearts are with our native land, Our song is for her glory: She hath many a name that's now unknown Will live in classic story Hecr sages and her Poets too Have lit the sacred fire; And the genius of a Southern sun Will fan its blazes higher. We love our rev'rend Fathers gray *We love our virtuous Mothers The meed of that angelic grace We will not yield to others ; For chastity and modest worth, And pure domestic bliss,. Have never worn a sweeter smile In any land than this! Our hearts are with our native land, And never shall degrade her H er flow'ry vales and sunny hills Are not for the invader; And dearly as we prize the charms Which heaven has kindly sent us, We'll give them freely, heart and hand With love to her defenders FOIa THlE ADvEaTIsER. Oh! tell me not, in mournful strains, Of joys that long have fled, Which leave behind, naught else but pains, Now reek'd among the dead. No more shall memory even dwell On the scenes of by-gcne years, No more, my muse, their pleasures tell Now all suff'used is tears 'But forever in oblivion's gulf The pastshall e'ensbe swallowed, And never shall retur:Engiiais -Those joys,.that oideje were hallowed. B~ut in the present will Ilivo, Its sweets I'll only. taste -And ne'er wecalito memoryidear, The pleasures hid in waste.. The future will my mind engage, In it, too, willYI live,e - The past with all it. " sweetest sweets," ,Ttnnai ennyB gii .:7. MEETING OF THE S. RIuHTS -SSO-ATION. The Southern IgliiAssoda5tin for Edgefield niet in the Cotf House at-this place on Monday last 40 receiventhe report of the Committee to onmidte nffieras;fo&the Association, and for other purposes. Maj. BAcoN, Chairman of that Committee, i reported a nomination.which was sanctioned by the meeting, and which is ifdliws: - President.-Col. JOHN BAUsnETT. - Vice Presidents.-Dr.- JOHN C. READT, JAMES CAMERoN, JAMEs SHEPPARD, Col. M. C. M. HAMMOND, ROBERT JENNINGS. t Recording Secretary.-AeTfU -Smms. a Corresponding Secretaries.-War. C. Mo RAGNE, E3m3IET SETBLES. The President having taken his seat de elared the Association organized-and- readr - for business. Col. CARROLL rose, stated that the Hon. , A. P. BUTLER was prepared,. in accordaie6 with the notice given, to'address the people of Edgefield at this time, and moved that'a t committee of five be appointed by the Chair t to wait upon him and notify that the meeting' were in readiness to receive him. Whilo the Committee were absent, Mr., ABNEY moved that a Committee. of ten be. appointed by the Chair, to nominate delegates to the Convention of Associations to meet in May next at the City of Charleston, whieh was concurred in. f The Chair appointed the following gentle men a committee for that purpose: Joseph Abney, Esq., Col. G. D. Mims;:L P..Brun- f son, . C. Griffin, E. H. Chamberlain, Lewis Jones, Wm. H. Moss, Dr.. J. C. Ready, Benja min Bettis and George Boswell. Judge BUTLER appeared at this. time and I upon the invitation of the President, proceed ed to speak upon the exciting political posi tion of the South and of South Carolins.a He spoke for an hour and a half with a force 1 and eloquenee which surpassed any of his previous efforts. At the conclusion of his address, the Association adjourned to meet again in the afternoon for the transaction of further business. -3 O'CLOCK, AFTERNOON. The Association met again and the Com-w mittee of ten, through the Chairman, Mr. ADNEY, reported the following nomination, (which consisted of 25 according to a previ1 ous motion.) Col. John Bauskett, Arthuri Simkins, M. C.;M. Hammond, M. W. Clary, Jas. Camme ron, Wade Holston,.A. T. Traylor, Robert Jennings, W. W. Adams, James Tompkins, Col. G. Cheatham, Thos..G. Bacon, Dr.'t:T. Mims, James Sheppard. Mathew-Gray,-Tios. I P. eGra,. s.,JesseGomillion, Did I Strother, Dr. J.:C. Ready;, CoE. Z.'W. Cartile; R. C. Griffin,Cl'.. Mims, Geo. D. Huiet, John Hu'int. t~ On motion oft~ . . 4 (The nmmber-hia not been made~fj1ia for this week's papera-their names ~lap pear in oln ieff,) *Thefildw'i'nggentfemen to 'conmpose'the Conimittees of Sfityft0r the1 District, were ojypointed unde the Ctisfitu-1 tion. -** Lower Battalion, 10th' Regiment. Wade Holstein, Felix G. Body , W Youngblood, John Ribehart, Allen Dezier, T- D. Purefoy, Josiaih Padgett, Julius Banks H. C. Herrong, Maj. E. West. - *Upper Battalion, 10th Regiment. Col. 0. Towles, Capt. J. Crumley, Dr. W. Mraynaird, Col. John Quattlebum, Dr. - Henderson, Samuel -Stevens, Dr. Thomas Lake, Maj. Z. WV. Carwile, Stanford May, J. R. Eidson. Upper Battalion, 7th Regiment. John K. Johnson, S. Christie,. Dr. A. C. Howard, John Bland, Jr., A. P. Norris, Jesse Gomillion, Giles D. Mims, 'Benj. Bettis, D. Strother, Dr. T. Croft. Lo'ccr Battalion, 7th Regiment. James Jones, T. P. Magrath,C. W. Styles, John H. Cnusby, Dr. M. Gaiphin, Maj. D. L. Shaw, A. G. Naigle, Dr. W. Samuel, Seth Butler, Thomas H. Trent. -Upper Bautalion, 9th Regiment. Elbert Devore, Cot. L. H. Mundy, Capt. John Burriss, W. B. Dorn, Maj. James A. Talbert, Cnpt. James Burton, E. H. Cham berlain, Cot; G..Cheatham,. Maij. Isaae Boles, Landon Tucker. -.9d Lowoer Battalion,9tRein. .R. P. Brunson, Maj. J. B. Holmes,. Dr. W. D. Jennings, Drury Morgan, Johm Middleton, Win. Prescott, F. WV. Burt, John Adams, George Boswell, MI. E. Hollingsworth. The Association, having finished the busi ness of the day,'adjourned to meet again on the first Monday in May next. JOHN. BAUSKETT, Pres't. A. SwriNqs, Secretary. INDIFFERENCE IN IMPORTANT CONCERNS. A eotemporaIry referring to the professed in difference of some men in the South to the momentous and v'ital consequences involved in the agitation of the slavery question, and the fast accumulating warfalre upon the South for this institution, well remarks that many fancy that because they take no interest in it, and fall to examine it, there can be nothing of moment about it. A strange infatuation is this-but it is natuiral-for if a'inan giv~e his days and nights to nothing more important than dancing, he will conme presently to con sider that the most absorbing of all human pursuits-and.to him doubtless it will be; but while it is so, the great events "of the world will go on, and Providence, throuigh its natu ral laws, will be working out its great .pur pcses. Perhaps the dancing. man may find an examnplification of this fact in an- earth quake,. which may shiver about his ears theI walls, beneathr which, he ma-be trippring It defly and daintly on1 the light farntastiettoe. Because. a man hides 'his hed danger: doek not always hide its terrors.., The -ostrieh, which runs its diminutive globeof brains into a corner, thinking that thereby it coM'(its huge, ungracefulibody from the pin'it of the- hunter, is~nnt rmade safer by the'artice. I Bociwith slave'ry. .ren cannot, by iieglet or c indifferene,lniede~the pogrisa of thesoniu. tion of the great problem which is being de -mfonstrated throuigh it.:It willfoomewhether the study to control it or no,-WIcksburg - LEWISt F. -RoBERTSON,5 esq. lia been ( appointed, by the Governor of the ;Stato. of. Mississippi, Conissionerof Deeds foi-Southhu -Tl14itorgetown Republipa nInpe1 r oyleans, his personal ap man ercsays: that which gratified us befoiId ts tiderations, is the fact that he lentical Governor now "s whenjie -o-, iat.spirited and.highly eul -which breathed forth resistance rather thai ion whatever, whenever - ded -to -him and thet |xcellency believesad f Wi t injoirity of the so gnpele hat it is infinitely iniore d nd-tauely-submit tod~nut ecause our sister States ha tppeen t o sensitive on Thatsjiqt d by theie ' g's I ,overnment-the last of whi e leets, will ca149 %h6 ehests of the peopke. "The chanfe-f ill.i fe most rapidly tt iifpla'el ill be one comionvokefos f he mountains fol.the sWaosi he time will come.toowiien 3inority of two in ongown a5 ven below that'jofhii-an1 MOD ill expunvei hf er~ We nd extraordinary notionso hato Southern Patrio AN ExEcu'oNATrr imed Blendel, wass a fortight agoi81K d to death by the Crimingl Cart* - or having, in 1848, ,iurde4ed. his a ratehmaker of ihat .city The j ras fixed for.tie 28.h a. me uthoritieq determined,~bit iisJ or what reason; to- reviV an oldist xposing prisoners condemned to ng three davs predeeing the exec o ordingly, Blendel wan placed in ! imle of the piisn,"behind a stoni . ng, and the public *ere admItte&-.liCZH rowd was so large, thatll eess; and the municipality, mno ad the extrardinary,.ealness to hat, for thireieds, the *rOj~b4 e paraded for-anhoir andF'aieTlb quares and, principal streets ofjtIfiA Dn lie day of 'execntion upward ons assembled around ' o vas erected in the sqiiai e tI" e rhe executioner :and -hisa Irunk. They atsehed theepe nan's neck, and then hauled kk ieam ; but,, as this did not-C ion, they piid violently, a till death did not ensue ; , , e hief executioner went up 4oA neans of a ladder,.andeested ith a leg ovei eah'sliiilder. he neck; but, fbr eai. rter" ore breathing is lastthe - uffiered atrocioussirouyT ed the executioner; Andi't._7 freatest difielty they jr earing him to pep tter receievoiJ a"an a the lower part fIwmsDal s againstuwkomthe wie l mech streing -eirato~ sass- been arrestadr ot~ their guilt .yinoieot af the comm .~of thrd, that the boy was iiliv-en~~l~~ to bury him, and also that the suspdeted thdaniyth~n -totdf5-ija stated, howeverginth iettebrr the blow said to have beengv orated by a fracture-of th ,l where the- negro.:said he struck hia negroes were to have.-been tried.,og last.-S-outh Carolinin,4f inst' THE ~BEGINNING OF'HEED. U thait the Collector of thisporth~~ ted by the Commissioner of CustiMiene ploy nio more slavs-toniaierevenuOfbdt. This order, we produme, ishuta aprel e~p generai system forbidding the empp oj slave labor in' any wayunae d s~e Go'femment,symihia may'soy. bii iating the weight'of its inf~enee Commissioner Ro'kwell wol ured upon- an ordezneeesarilymn&i mulatedto:excite the s.upipion sud of the Southern people, 'thout sanetion anid. concurrenee of,the r Tu Russ woR TH~Wbarw's Fi.-' Philadelphia Inquir-er daaysatagetin and his son who-desired Eto(Ofota,~ land inthe maitisteamerAf:iea now aL pool, sent to; New York to..obtai but all wvere taken. The " lhs"~~ places in some packet ship~o sait ~ - the middle and end of Aprl but-~ was taken. On trying in :Philade round the LivepolApril packets Ifesars. Cope also fully engagd-u length fortunate enough to obtain is fine ship belonging to .hj~c biessrs. Richardson & Watoi'6f to sail onthe 15thhinst. AMONGST the. .thousad-o o~ur 0* manufacturing, for. the gra.zbibitP 1851, there isone which, hwy~~ it may be in'principle, 'll ~o~ll,. rather rang in dractee Paris inechauic;'eall~ it "ii snatin," or; in plain Eniglib 96 swakens the:-sleeper. t a wvhiohhe may wish touerie-' af.# simple oontrvaneta h bed is .made .to zaelbind leeper is..llimionV ; rr .puuotiinhtyI~ SNEwN Yourinw~ ismmtlothemrY. vs. xreduoic b oWP nes raed.M o Surnnau DEMr4.2ilhel an says :-Wo learn t itizen of' Yorl~,ii' ied suddenly in '1i, hisaplade-to'ork ltV fleeted~iininitva >f 65000, in the BK