Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, September 08, 1858, Image 2

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ceNT11LRD FROM FIRST PAGL LETTEl8 FROM DIRTINGlIIsiED GENTLEMEN 1n response to the inritatio u of the Cmuuittiee t atteai the comtplimentary biunwr gren ti ewr r)essentative, the Iun. M. L. )o(naxii, at E&JOidd, S. C., on the 2iiL &..tember. Aymnusoi , 1Ith August, 185. Oetlsea: A prior engagemtent prevents ne from accepting your invitation to be proseunt at a diner to be given to the lion. M. L. lBoxnam by the peeplo of Edgefield District, on the 2nd oS September. It would afford me much real gestification to be preseut and participate with you in this testimonial to your esteemed repre ntative. I have known h,in long and take pleasure in bearing my testimony to his many high qualities. Your rights could not be confided to a truer patriot or a more gallant man; he will guard them. vigilantly and defend them with manly courage upon any theatre when placed in jeo pardy. Yours is a just tribute to a true and faithful ropreseutative-.dice honorable to hiin and to his country. Long may he continue thu favorud custodiatn of your rights iii the Federal legislature! Reiterating my regrets at non-attendauce, I am very raspuesfully, Youri. &c., JAMES L. oRR. To Mussrs. S. S. Tom ,kins, E. Seibels, J. 13. Griffin, L. Butler, J. W. ,Iil, Cumittee. Cu1a:.s-TON. August 21st, 1858. Grntlemen: I regret that it will not be it my power to be present at the dinner which the citizens of E-Igetlel-l District propose giving to their immediate Representative, the lonora ble M. L. Bosn.im. It would atlord me sincere pleasure tb participate in this demonstration of confidence and respect which must be as grati. fying to ny respected colleague as it is honora ble to his constituency. A most close and cor dial intercourse with General Bojsnix, during the past Sesioz of Conre*s-(we were me.s mates together)-has enabled meo thoroughly to appreciate his high q-talities of head and heart. His ardent devution to the rihlts o the South-his supreme aallieti-' for our own dear native State-his manly independence, unitod with the most courteusa hearing-his high sense of. persioal honor (not :ow-a-day characteristic of ean in public life)-all mark him out as one whut South Carolina may well feel proud of as a Representativ in the Capi tol of the Confederacy. The intimate relations which I have had with General Boua.i justify, as they have induced, this tributo from a colleague who reels that in payingit he is uttering th-a language of simlple t.ruth and not of exaggerated panegyric. - The honor of the South and of the State can never be ii safer hands than those of your high toned and esteemed Itepresentative. With renewed expreuions of ny regret at my inability to unite with you in doing honor to him, I am, gentlemen, with great respect, Vkry faithfully, Yours, W. PORCHIEIl MILES. To Messrs S. S. Tompkins, Ennet Soibels, J. B. Griffin, Loulen Butler, J. W. Hill, Con. mittee. GL21% Spaixos, 28th Aug., 1858. Gentemen: It would give me great pleasure to bear testimony personally to the ability, fidelity and zeal, with which your distinguished Representative, Gon. BOxHM, has maintained our conguon rights in the Congresi of the United States. I had hoped, until very recontly; to be able to accept the invitation you have been kind enough to communicate to me, to the pub lie dinner toa be given to him on the 2nmd Sept., *by the citizens of Edgefleld. I regret, that I am now compelled reluctantly to forega the anticipated gratification I should derive from joining iu your complimentary apil woll deserv ed tribute. These are critical tiines, and the services of public men should be generously considered. 1 differed from Gen. B~oxuaM, during the last Session of Congress, upon one measure of pub ic policy, but - ielded to no one in: apprecia tin of hi4 high Southern spirit and lofty devo tion to the Constitutional rights of the South. . Ie who makes the Constitution of his country isi guide, and the interests of hisi constituents his parmaiount object, will always be sus tained by enlightened public opinion. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient serv't. LAURENCE M. KEITT. To Messrs Tompkins, Sembels, Griffin, Butler, ..ill, Committee.* WasHIXOoYo, Gai., Aug. 14th, 1858. Gedlemen: Your letter of the 10th inst., in siting me to the dinner to be given: by the citi zens of Edgefield to your dintimguished fellow citizen aind Rtepresenitative, lhe lion. M. Li. Box unM, has been duly received. 1 very much re gret that previous enagagemenats will prevenit mne from being present and compel mte to decline * your kind invitation. I am very Rlespectfully, yours, &c., &c. R. TOOMBiS. Messrs. S. S. Tompkins, Emnmet Seibels, .J. B. Gritlin, London Buttler, J. WV. Hill, Committee. * ~ Fon-r I1iu., August 21st, 1858. Gentlemen: I regret that I cannot accept your invitation to the dinner to be given to the Hon. M. L. BoxunrM, on the 2nd of September. independent of the high admiration I lhoe for: Glen. BoinuAx's manly, bold, and eminently Southern position in voting against the "Con a ference Bill," I have the additional inducement of friendiship, dating back to school and College days, to write ini doing honor to one, who I evr found courteous, brave, and tried. If, in the midst of such adverse times for the South, we neglect to honor the bold, honest, and pait-iotic representative, who fearlessly paerformsl. a high ddty to hi~s State, and his section, then isithe South readly for the yoke that demnons on the one side, and false friends on thme other, are pre par'ing for her once proud but docile neck. All that the true representative of South Carolina, or auy Southern State, can hope for ini honestly maintaining Southerna principles, without look ing to the promotion of paarty interest.s, is the approbation of his fellow-citizenas. As a .section, tame South is irretrievah'y and hopelessly in a minority. If triue to herself, and her own dig ity, Federal patronage can no longer be resaced . by any of her son~a. In the Electoral College the non-slaveholding States have a majority of sixty, soons to be swelled to twenty miore. A united South cannot elect a President. Bait a uniited South with a few Northern States can. To effect such a combination, will the anti Slavery States unite with us by coming to our standard of principle., or are we forced to do scend to their low political morality, anid limni ted concessions to us. That the latter is the ah tornativo presented, can ha demonstrated by the fact, that no one can be promninent, Nationally, from thme South who advocates Southern rights doctrines. They will meet you on the platform of Democracy. 'But declare yourself a Southernm rights man. Meet in Nashvillo, or Montgomery, only to.eensult, and talk over the condition of your section, and the vocabulary of invective is exhausted in proclaiming you dangerous, not to the South-but the Union. On the other hand let any Southern man afliliate with them, say nothing in behalf of the South-rkise no warnng voice to arouse his cotaitrymen to thme danger ot the volcano over which they supinely slumber -" dam with Iaint praise" some Southern nman or *uneasure-euloise the Unioa--speak tritliingly 'of devotion to the South--and at once, even if destitute of any other merit, he becomes a favo - rite with the North, and perchance a candidate for the Presidency. - The course of your ime diate representative amay noet make himi popular ins oue divion or thme Union, with Northern: amen who profess Southbern principles, but it has given him a place in thte hearts of all loyal outhern men, as a reliable and faithaful man. Fermit me to c-lose with a senmtiment: Th/e' lon. 31. L. Hloua#m-~ow alone enti tied, anug Southern members, to the g).ory of' voting ontthe aaeI~ .-.di" in a great coanjuncterp fre the South. Very respetlully, yo'vrs, ANJ)IE W P. OALIHOUl.. To Mts. F. S. 'iTompkinis, Emnmet Seibles, J .. 1. Grifilt', L.Ad'n Ein~tler, J. W. JMiJ, Oom MorGorar, ALA., 23rd Aug., 1858. Gntlenen : I have the hon'r to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 10th .inst., in viting ie to t dinner to be iven to your imme1 diate represenlative, the lion. M. L. llomu.%i, at Edgeiielt Court House, on the 2ud of Sept. next. lelieve me, Gentlemen, nothing would afford ine-mlore real plea are, than to unite with y..u .Ud your trienda inl paying due honor to your no0ble and gallant reprie-entative, at tht time and place abov, mention ; but my pecnliar sit uation and bnainess relations, preelude my per sonal presence with you. Surely, if there ever was a time, when the people of the South should stand by their rep resentatives, when they have stood by them, that time has now arrived-and since the death of -the lamented Quitinan, your immediate rep resentative stands alone in the South, aq the fathful and undaunted standard bearer of the State tights and Southern Rights flags, for in his vote on the conference bill so called, he bid defiance to the intrigues and influence of party; and maintained with patriotic firmness, the true principle of American liberly-that a people, being freemen asenibled to form a government, I ve the rights to form and adopt such govern ment as may bist please theuselves-and thiz, without control or influence from any men, or body of men. Smother this principle, and we shall not have either the name or semblance of liber ty left. For, if one congiitution does not guiaratee the right of self government, then it is not a constitution in favor of liberty, but directly destructive of it. I mneh regret to say, that in this State, there i - a divi.ion anone the people on the subject of this Conference Bill. Yet, I do not intend to say, that any one man can be found. except our Senators and Representatives in Congress, who advocate the passage or this Bastard Statute all I intend to say is, that the divisions among the people is, &i to the course proper to pursue, under existing circumstances. We all- admire our Senatori and Representatives; and hold theii as friends of ti'e South, to be men good an.1 true; and therefore a. men do not condemin them; but disapprove and condemn their vote. Yet, I do not intetid to -ay, even this is univer sal; for it is mournfully true, that we have among us, even nlow, some who believe in the infalabil ity of the Democratic party proper; and, that like any other soYereign, it "l- do no rong ;" and such peroun cat il-on true Southern meni, the epithets of Traitor, Fire-eater, a'd " Trifling Politicians." The-e inen "are joined to their Idola"-let them alone. It cannot be long, before the party now strong and increasing in powor, will control the Gov ernment-and bring with thoi principles and doctrine< so corrupting and degrading to the South, that but one voice will be heard among us: and that will be to arms. God grant I may err in this o.inion. I love the Union given by the Contitution ; but when both the Constitu tion and the consequent Union are so pervaded, as to become instruments of degradation and oppres-ions, the people who will calnly subinit, deserve not the name of freemen. Sonic of us out here, are endeavoring to add another, and we think important plank to the Democratic platform, it is, "no more compro iaes"-.this will bind us to our Constitutional Righ ts-demanding nothing more, and accept ing nothing less. This I qnderstand to be the spirit of your noble Repre-entative, and for which le is surely most justly entitled to the honors you now do him. In which I do most heartily join. Respectfully, your obedient servant, TII0. WILLIAMS. TIlE APPEARANCE OF THE SLWER. The editor of the Charleston iereury, having visited the Echo, gives the following account of the apjpeairancee of the slaver and the condition of~ tho A fricans: "Being curious to see the cargo and arrange 'nont oft lie Echo, we obtained a permit from Dr. W. C. Ravenel, the'Port Physician, and wiilh (5ne or two others accompanied Lieut. Bradford in a small boat from the wharf. Upon clamber ing up tile side of the brig a strange and start ling sight presented itself: a deck covered with native Aficans in a state of comblete nudity, with rare instances of a narrow strip of rag an inch wide round the waist. - Thesq people. were seated for the most part with their legs streehed out flat, or drawn up in front., or doubled up; some squatted on their feet and hands. A few were standing about and a few lying down. None were tied or fastened any way. The majority were very young, applarently from eight to six. teen years of age, soume younger and some older ; scarcely onme, however, over twenty-five. Some of them were abled bodied, good sized and in good care; but the greater part were half-grown children only, weak and worn. Many were much emaciated, and showed plainly the effects of their long and crowded passage in a confined ship. A feiw were evidently ill arid soon to die. All were pure black ini color except the dropsi eal, whose skins were tawny from disease. Their hair is very short and crisp. Those who were well appeared curious and pleased, some of them ogling and -giggling and chattering, and others smnokinig tokacco out of short clay pipes with eane stems, just as our own negroes do. Th'lose that were thin anid sick looked dull and brutish, but there was nothing wild or ferocious in their as p ect. They looked amiable and docile, and readi vy obeyed the commands of the person who hnd charge of them. There were 24ti males and sixty femalese, who were kept separate on deck and in the holds. The men and boys were kept on the forward deck and in the forward hold. which hit ter is fifty-live feet long, nineteen feet wide in the broadest part, and nairrow at the head, niid forty. four inches high, the floor being formed of loose b~oards, mnovable at pleasulre. i he hold for the womeni and girls is behinad this. It is of the same height, twelve feet long and niineteen wide. Unider this temporary flooring is stored the lpro visions, coinsistig of rice, peas, and the water to drink. Their food is boiled hike ' hoppinajohn,' puit in buckets twice a day, at ten andr four o'clock anid placed in the midst of. circles of eight or ten each, iundt well guarded to prevent the stroing ne. ;gro;.s fron taking m~ors than thieirshare, although allb.ro libknaly allowed. A p'nt tf water is given to each, miorumug and eveniing. Most of them sleep on deck, being pilaced in close order, spoon fatshiion, on their sides, and not permitted to turn or move duriing the night. At dayv liht they are dashed with buckets of water to wash them off. They sing songs, chlping their hands aind rock ing their bodies in time, and these songs have a great resembhance to some) of our negro spiritu. al1.. Several of the negro follows exercise au thiority very .much rifter the mainncp nf gnr dri vers, wvithi airs of authority and ridiculous gestir culation anid grimaces. Others were cookinig the 'big pot' like go d fellows, and with old breeches on, too, obtained from the sailors. The captain of the hold understands their lingo, and says they are very aiverse to going baick to Africa as the United States' law re 'uires. Our coast resembhles that they come from, anid the group of pines opposite the city on the South, looks to them like the Cocoanut trees of their native Africa." WVuor.Esa Dar Gooms Houss.--The at tenl tion of mierchlants in the interior, is particularly inavited to the advertisement of Messrs Jackson, Miller & Verdery, iln another column. The firm is one of long standing and popuharity, anid we are assured that they are prepared to offer every inducement to buyers to make their purchases without going farther thani Augusta. Within the last few days they have been receiving and open ing an usually large supply of Dry Goods of va rious description, indicating, what wre believo is the opinion of our merchants generally, thrat an active business season is in prospect. Their stock of goods for maen'swenr embhraees every. thing from the commonest Kerseys to the finest Cloths, while their assortmnt of~ prints anid .thie staple articles of Fancy Goods are unsurpassed. It would certainly be to the interest of~ our frienids in the interior to give the house a call before go ing farther.-Angusta Chronicle & Sentinel. COARuTNESHtaP.-It may iinterest our brethren of the press to know thait lDr. J. C. Ayer of Lowv ell (Cherry Pectoral anid Cathartic Pills,) has as sociated with him, his brother Frederick Ayer, Msq., long aiid faivorably known as a leadiag sejecIpnt of the West. Mr. Ayer will conduct the widely ,egey~ed business of the firm, which piow reacehes te tihe pougrripycecial nmations of both bimispheres, while the Dqetqr .will qevote him ielf to hiis seren'tif'e inv'estigationis an pur-s~its. -MAreantile Journasl. ARTHUR SIMKINS, EDITOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C. WEI)NESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1858. VILLED UP. Our shout, it will be soon, is almost entirely occu pied by iatters portaining to the complimentary din ner of Thursday last. We give place with cheerful ness, and will do so for & wok or two to comae, if desired. After that, we shall find pleasure in pre senting to our readers the different views of other gentlemen upon some of the same political points here held under discussion. .Atoli olteram. partamn. LARGE POTATO. The largest sweet potato of the season comes from Mr. J. 11. SwaAnayu:x. It is a whopper. FINE PEACHES.% Mr. J. 11. IoLL1UrWUotTI has our bot thanks for that basket of one Lemon Peaches. It was one of the richaot treats of the season. COMMENDAULE. The proprietors aof our drinking establishments, with uost commendable propriety, clored their houses. (in Thursday laat until after the political proceedings of the day were over. It is a good exanple, which deserves to be generally known. To this circuam stance, the good order and harmony of the day were doubtless owing in part. Let not the precodont be forgotten. TIIE POLITICAL LETTERS. Several of the let ters ona our first page, it will be observed, are of conasiderable length; and, queer onough, the chief ones seem to be direelly levelled at positions idlentical with thaase avowed by our Congrens man in his speech at the barbeeno. For instance, he clearly favors the co-operation of South Carolina with the Democratic Party of tle country, to the extent or sending delegates to the next Dniocratic Convention; upon Which loaition, Ma. Umtxuo and Mr. Tua.or WLL bring their whole artillery to hetr. Ile also expresses a decided hope that DOGL. t will succeed in lis present battle befure the people of Illinois; while Mr. Tu.wAaaS1.r1. makes use (af a similar expres sion of Mr. Speaker Onu to fulmuinato at that gentle mian the epithets of "a traitor " and "' renegaalo." General UouM1,1u also speaks in the highest terms of the venerable statesman who now occupies the Presi dential chair of tle Union ;--we think he spuku more fully than appears in his .puach on that point-but what is published is aMiaaly sufficient to show that ho regards Mr. 1Utc:.x.ix at worthy the confidence of the South ; Whereas Mr. Gnuaco sees in tihe Previ. dent's whole course nothing to praise, but everything to) condomn; anal even resmorts to a suppositions case to convict hinm of tle grossest species of duplicity. Indeed, it would seem that these letters and General Do1mAu's views direrge na taoU, except as to his sin gle vote on the Eaglish Conference Bill. When we stay they thus diverge, retference is had to all present practical questions. As to the letter of Gor. ADAMs, it is taken up al most entirely with the Slave Trade, which appears to absorb the Governor's thoughts somewhat to the ex elusion of other matters. We have no doubt the Governor has this question deeply at heart, being hona.tly convinced that it is a. uoet important one for the interests of the South. But he certainly goes much out of his way fur an argument when he compares the fair, honest and humano nogro-tradors of our suction to the negraa-stealors who visit the Af ricana coast on missions of plunder anid robbery. But we did naot design criticising the lotters in band. It is naat amniss however, that we shoulad in a single word express our disappointnment that Mr. Gnaco still counsels 'isolation as the bost policy of our Stato; nor can we but deeply regret Mr. TRADEnwEtt's tone of severe censure towards Messrs Doyca, Ona and others, for doing what they hold to ho their true duty to South Carolina and the South. S , ISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. p'- Mr. S. N. CARPUxtEa proposes to publish at Anderson, S. C., a new paper under the title of the "DBullar .Weekly Times," and has engaged the setrvi ces of WAnnax D. Wuiats, Esq., as Editor. Mr. W. is well known throughout the State as an able und ready writer, and we have no doubt that, under his mannagement, the Tinea will prove an excellent journal. . .' The editor of the Dallas (Ala.) Gaaerte, mod estly thus declines a conmnon title, 'Caolonel.' "Nov. er having killed a rattlesnake, or been Aid to the Governor, we have no claim to that title." p' A lady describaing an ill-na'tured man says, that, he never laughs but that he feels ashamed of it. *t The crops generally promise well in New England. Rye, oats, wheat-all cereals were never better. W' The President has returned to Washington in much improved health. W Thme famous mansioan house, built for Gover nor Bjraddock, in lo , of bsreks brought from Eng land, is still standing in Bedford, Mass. pr A Quaker having sold a hlne-kaoking, buit blind horse, aked the purchaser: aa Well, may friend. dust thou see any fault in hima " " No," was thae man awer. "Neither will he see any in thee," said old BJroadbrimn. 1W Ladies have generally a great fear of lighat ning, and this has baeen superficially aserihaed to thaeir natural timidity ; but thec truth is, it arises from thaeia eaosciousness of being attractive. E7 An effort is being made in Arkansas tao indunce the Legislatura to compel the whole colored paapula tion to leave the State. p- A child was paoionead a few dnys ago, in Chamnpion, Ohio, frmi eating a small piece of cobl':t (Sr fly stonec, whlich hnamd been pina(cad on a tabale for the purpose~ of destroying flies. Gireat enutioan should be observed in the use of soch poisonous adruga. Es Thac Lauronsvillo II/erahL stays they have not had rain faar nine weeks, with the exception of two alight showrers. Thec Ier-alal regrets to learn thaat thec Hion. Daniel Wallace is still confinead to hais house, from the attack of paralysis which he experienced Ilast full. g;|W Correction does maucha, but encouragement dloes mutch more ; encouruagenment after censure is as the sun after a shmower. At Captain lIasmj. Smecad, a practical printer, who haad bgeen topapeated with the press for upwardls of GO yetrrs-50 of which .scrp ypippt as editor and pub lisher of a newspaper-died at Bath, Steuben county, Now York, on Sunday last, aged 33 years. pm The "homestead law," recently passed by thae Minnesota Legislature, exemupts from sale by excea tion a homestead of eighty acres, and one lot in a town or city, with thec improvemnents on the same. ' ZAm The St. Louis Republican publishes a letter giving an account of newly discovered gold regions on the South Platte river, The irriter examined the country for several miles round, and~ expresses the opinion, thpt from $5 to $0 per day may he obtained by several hundred men without further discoveries. W~ The Charleston Courier notices a counterfeit bill for $100, purporting to he of the Bank of Cam-~ den, South Carolina. The bill Is made up of parts of three bills of adifferent banks, and is not very well ex ecuted. The Bank of Camden does not issue hills of $100 !|" The New Orleans )'ienyune insists that as adegs are property, no person or corporation has an therity or righnt to poison or kill thew, any more than they have authority or righat to kill horses oar comas. 3R7' The Tyler (Texas) Reporter of the 22nd uit. says that Cul. Matt. Ward of Cass eo., has been ap pointed by Governor Runnels, Unmited States Senator, to till thme vactaney occasioned by the death of the la.. nmontod Henderson. pD' Late news from Havana, says there is much sickness prevailing at Havana, and no abatemnont of 1 the epaidemnie. Sugars were dull in consequence of I the vioews of holders being above those of thne buyers. pil Look out for a well gotten up gold dollar of thme " bogus kind!," the result of the labors of an in gentious crew of rascally counterfeiters in Massaehu senn. Nom.. butstro. .ac. w..m .show.- deit. TE DINNEK OF THURSDiY LAST--THE SPEECH OF GENERAL- BONHA'--THE ATTElt'DANCE--TaIE-EXCELLENCE OF 'THE FEAST, &re., &re. Thursday last was oniof'the most beautiful days of theioason, and, as se$, .eminontly propitiour to the dinner which then eamo off in the suburbs of our village, complimental of our immediate Rlepresenta tire in Congress, on. U. L. Doxnsi. The coneourse of eitizens was largo and. respectable, numbering :ume fifteen hundredpersons at i reasonable estimate. Much of the worth, and virtue, and beauty, of our distriet, was present; and'godd-feeling, heightened by a disposition to enjoy the da, marked the occasion Ub oro ad nula. Thenusiue -of two excellent bands increased this disposition oecasionally.into a gal'a of pleas.re ; And with all the influences combined, there has seldom occurred a leene of festivity amongst-us of more brilliancy, or *hieh left behind it more agreeable memories. At 11, o'clock, General J3o inx was ree.ived at the speakers' stand, and was greeted by Major S. S. TourKIXs, inlsubstaneea fsollows: In a represcutagve dovernment, it is a privilege the people claim that theliRepresentatives should, from time to timd, givean exposition of their views upon such topics as may agitAte the public mind. The exercising of thin privilege in South Carolina, is peculiarly agreeable, both to the Representative and the constituency; fur it is our boast that we nev. er discard a public servant fdr an error of judgoment or for differences of opinion in matters of small mo ment. We claim that'we look to the tenor ot his on tire course, and that we tolerate all such errors and difrerences of opinion. In consequence of this spirit of toleration (which God grant may rver exist in our State,) we never carry false. issues into our Congres sional elections; and there Is no means by which the constituency can indicate their opinion of the course of their Representative but by public demonstrations. We, Sir, do not merely tolrate your course during the last socsion of Congress upon the English Confer once Bill, the question of the sesion, as " an error on the right side." We approve it. You, with one il lustrious exception, alone-rwith a spirit above party ties and party control-claimed of the North a direct meeting of the issue presented, which involved a prin. ciple of vast importance,ilthough it might have been triviul in iti practical effeeti. As an indication of. our approval, and of our thanks for the honor reflected on us by your course upon tkis measure, we havitendered you this festival. At the close of these rdarks, the Goneral ascended the rostrum amidst applause and proceeded to addross thue assombly. We are liappy in being able to furnish hie remarks from his'own manuscript, which he has hurriedly, and he fears imperfectly, written out from his notes, on the eve ofleaving for Laurens. He spoko as follows : FaL.Low-CmxUx's : I was prepared to thank you for the demonstration of yo,ur kindness ovinced by this public entertainment. But the complimentary man ner of my reception, by this large concourso of my fellow-citizens, far exceeds my expectations and fills my bosom with emotions which I find no adequate words to express. When I remembor too, that some who join in this testimotial do not concur with me in all the political views I amt known to entertain, that testimonial, and your endorsement of my course, be come peculiarly gratifying as proofs that you believe I have conscientiously discharged my duty. I was proceded as your Reprosentative by RonERT OODLOB IlanPBR, WN. BUTLEn, JoHn C. CALHUN, ELDnrD Simxxts, Guonos McDUFFIE, FaAxCs W. PICKE., -AnusmAn BUT and Passrox S. laooaS-a galaxy of names which would reflect lustre on any constitu ency-and the last of whom, though youngest in years and service, had a hold, on the affections of his constituents which few have equalled and nonoe'have surpassed. Well then, might I feel anxious as to my winning the approbation of a constituency whose standard was furmed upon such illustrious examples, and cold indeed would be the heart that could he in sensible to this mark of your approbation under such circumstances. The pecople of Kansas determined in 1858, in favor of calling a Convention. Accordingly in June 1857, delegates were elected. The Black Republicans re fused to vote; and by 'the well-understood laws of populae(Ieecton loiwerebound by the decision of those ahodid .i'Fh Couventiiassembled and adopted a Pro slavery Constitution. The slavery clause was submitted to a popular vote, 21st December, 1857-that clanse being the real bone of contention in Kansas. Some of the Black Republicans again stayed away from the polls. The Constitution was therefore fairly and legallf adlopted. Appended to the Constitution and adopted in the sanoe mann~r, but no part thereof, was an Ord~nance In which it Is as sumed that Kansas will have the right to tax the pub lie lands of the United States, and in which it la pro posed to surrender that right in consideration that the United Staten shall give her twenty millions acres of public lands, all Salt Springs, and Gold and other Mines, &c. On the 2nd February, 1858, the Presi dent transmitted the Constitution to the two Houses, with a message setting forth its mode of adoption, giving a history of the Kansas troubles, and ,rorny recommending the admissI'on of Kansas under it-the Lecompton Constitution. In the mean time, on the reading of the President's Message at the opening of the Session, a fire was opened on the Lecompton Con stitution by Mr. Douos..aas in the Senate, and Mr. Cox of Ohio in the House, which after Ihn lat Janua ry, was steadily kept up till the 1st A pril. On the 18th February, the Senate Bill was introduced which provided for the immediate admission of Knnsas with the Pro-slavery Leconmpton Constitution, refusing its asent to the Ordinane, but declaring the willing ness of Congress that Kansas should have the same grants as those 'made to Minnesota, which are much the esr. as those finally tendered in the Conference Dill. The Senate Bill passed that body 23.rd March, amended ly the objectionable Green Pugh Amundnnt-as muilk and water recognition of the right of the pecople of Kansas to reform their Government when they pulease, lbut disclaiming all right on the part of Con gres, to declare the construction oif a State Constitu tion, &c.; and made endurable by these qunalinientions. On 1st April, the House adopted the Crittunden-Mont gomery Amendment, thu joint production of Mr. Cnvzrxosx of the Senate, and Mr. MoNTaoxrnr of the House, in lien of the Senate Dill-the 22 Doug Ian Democrats of the North voting for it. It admits Kansas in the terms usual in the admission of ncw States. Bet eflirming that there was net a fair sub mission it therefore provides directly for a re-sub mission if the Lecompton Constitution to a popular vot.,, and if that shall be rejeted, the people may call a Convention and form another' Constitution, which the Bill requires also shall be submitted to the pee. ple, and that this new Constitution without being sent to the two Houses of Congress, may be adopted by proclamation of the President. Tpe Senato disa greed. The liouse adhered to its a~gendluym. The Conferene Committee, at, the Instance of the Senate, wan appointed on the 23d April, reported the Dill salled the Confereneo Committee or English Dill, which admits Kansas in the usual words ; hut goes on to make provisions which will appear sufficiently in the argument. The feature in the Crittonden-Montgomery Amend asent, admitting Kansas by proclamation of the Pros ident on her new Constitution, without Its being sub uitted to Congress, is peculIar to itself and in direct riulation of the Federal Constitutiop, which provides lhnt " New States may be adlmitted lby the 4longress, uto this Union," and provides no other mad. The Crittendon-Montgomery Amendment and the Donfonce Bill, both ?bandon the State Rights ground, that the State Convention of Kansas had the -ight to submit the Constitution or not, ably main. :ined in the discussions in the Senate, by the whole Democratic psrty in -Congress for four months, with st a dissenting voice--the Douglas Democrata ex opted ; and submit each to the people-the one di cetly, the other virtually-the Lecompton Constitu ion for ratification or rejetion. One need not go be rond the Conference Bill itself- to see this as to that neasure. The first clause provides that "the ques. ion of adssisson, with the following proposition in ieu of the Ordinance framed at Lecompton, be sub nitted to a vote of the people," and gees on to give he amended Ordinane, restricting Kansas to 4,000,. >00 acres of land, Ac. Can any thing be meant han admIssion under thel Lecompton Constitution ? iurther, if it. wan not intended' to submit back the inestles of admission nder the Lecompton Conastitu. the amended Ordinance It so many words for aecep tanes or rejection ? The Bill also goes on to provide for the formation by the people of Kansas of another Constitution, if the "proposition" should be rejected. How could this be if the Bill did not contemplate sub mitting the Constitution virtually for ratification or rejection ? Mr. EXcsusi, the author of the Conference Bill, fore-shadowed that Bill in his speech of 9th March, on the Senate Bill, when he said, the "people ought to ratify, or at least, have a fair opportunity to vote upon the Constitution." Ills construction of the Bill was also indicated beforo the Conference Committee, when according to a biographical sketch of him which appeared about that time, he said, "he had a plan in his mind based however upon the priaciple of a sub. mission of the question of admission under rhe-Le conmpton Constitution, and an amended ordinance to a fair vote of the people of Kansas." And when asked by Mr. MARSAL.L On the floor of the House, "wheth or he understan s the Bill as the gentleman from Georgia, (Mr. Saruass,") who denied the su.mis sion, he replied,-the gentleman "is competent to judge what the meaning of the Bill is." Mr. Cox, Mr. Gnosaes: and Mr. LAWRENCE of Ohio, Doug las Democrats, said, each on the door of the House, that they regarded it in efect, a submisrion of the Constitution; and Mr. L.twauxez said, "without so understanding it," "he never would have voted for it." Gan. McQuiam of this State frankly admits that the Bill "in ofect, does indirectly refer back to the people of the Territory,. the question whether they will come into the Union with the Locompton Con stitution." And, lastly, the result,-the propesition has been rejected by 9,500 votes-settles the construe tion of the Bill. It is difficult to understand how there could be two opinions. If the Conference Bill did virtually re-submit the Constitution, it is as obnoxious on that point as the Crittenden-Montgoinery Amendmont. One does in directly what the other does directly. It Is in both a palpable violation of the Kansas Nebraska Act, which leaves the people of a State, in adopting their Constitution, "free to form and regulate their domes tic institutions in their own way." A Convention is the embodied sovereignty of the people, and-no re striction being imposed by the people themselves speaking their sovoreign voice, may or not submit their Constitution before admission, and the Federal Government has no right to make It an oljectiox to admission, or to send it back to the people of the State if not submitted. Such unauthorized action ruthlessly overrides the legal action of the Convention, and Is a dangerous attack upon the sovereignty of the States. By accepting the Conferenco Bill, we give up the only territory North of 36* 30', which can ever be slave territory. It i6 suppos.d that Kansas would not have continued a slave State-evea admitted under the Senate Bill. It does not follow that the people would have amended the Constitution and have abol ished slavery once established. She stands on the same base line 30 30, with Missouri-and according to General ATCmIsoN, one of the best Informed men of that country, was well adapted to slavery. The ratio of -increase among the slaves of Missouri during the first decade of years after admission was 40 per cent. more than among the whites; whilst for the ten years preceeding, the difference was but 14 per cent. Capital invested in slaves is timid, so easily is it lost and so uncertain is its fate in A Territory. Admit. ted with the Locompton Constitution, owners with their slaves would probably have soon begun the occupation of the fertile land of Kansas. With the example of Missouri beforo usit may well be ques. tioned whether Kansas would not have continued a slave Stale. BuI, even should she have become a free State the day after her admIssion, there was involved " a prin. ciple of vital importance," and we have a right ta have had it maintained by admission. It is no an swer to say that the States would not have acted. Each should have been left to speak for Itself. The people in some of the Southern States might possibly have been found in advanca of their leaders. The view, that under the Senate bill, Kansas might have InsIsted upon the unreasonable Ordinance, never occurred to any mind before the defeat of that bill. That bill was supposed to he all we could wish ; It was never questiojied that Kansas, as did California, un der somewhat similar circumstances, would abandon her preposterous claim. It was not questioned by any one, that if admitted under the Senate BIll, the Legislature would at one assemble, and send their Senators to take their seats-and I do not doubt it. And can it be controverted that they would then have been in, under the terms of the Senate Bill, their Or dinanco a dead letter ? And who believed then or doca mow that they would have had the effrontery to set up a claim to more land than we were willing to give them ? The Senate Bill admitted the State at once. Both the Crittenden-Montgomery Amendment, and Con ference Bill purported to admit hut did not in reality. The two latter also provide for the admission ofa Slave State. This is claimed as a triumph on our part. It is a most barren vietory in the case of the Confer. ence Bill, and would have been no better in the case of the Crittenden-Montgomery Amondmcnt. The Black Bopublicans suppiorted that feature as a con ccssion to thme Southern Know Nothing and Douglas Democrats, to detach themi from the support of the Senate Dill, knowing that if they could get the Le compten Constitution again before the Black Repub. liea in Kansas, It would meet the doom it has ro eiveud under the Conference Bill. If the Conference Bill be a'better Dill than the Senate Bill I ought to have supported it, but not so regarded, I could not. A distinguished member from Tennessee, Col. Savage, has said before his constitu ents, that "lhe had voted for the English Dill as he haul for the Compromise measures of 1850, not that it was the thing lhe wanted, but that it was the best that could he done under the circunmstanees." And so said many others at the timie, who reluctantly ye. ted for it. The P'resident, althnugh anxious for its passage when the Senate Bill was defented, certainly did not regard it an a bectter measure. Time does not allow mae to go further into the ob jections to the Conforonce Bill. I have the satisfac inn of having been sustained in moy views by one whom you have long honored, and whose memory you willoever reverence, and who, when the Palnetto Flmag was planted on the Garita of Belin, stood shouldor to shoulder in its defence with your Monuro NE, your BLOCKEn, your (Gooze, your CnoomzEa and your Lvtas,-nanges which have a plneo in o:.o of the brightest pictures on the rolls of fame. The Lecompton Constitution has been defeated. The question now presents itself, will tho 93,000 pop ulation restriction be respected ? I did not support the measure but I will join heartily with those who did, In exacting a compliance with Its provisions. Presses at the North, and the Black Republicans pgrprbliero are taking the ground that the Act must be repealed and that jgansas must be admitted next winter, under some properly prepared Constitution, even without the 93,000 Foderal population. It would be an indignity to the South, little less in magnitude than tho rejection of a Slave State. Gov. DEzevIa may not convene the Legislature. If so, a Constitu tion can not well be gotten up regularly for the next Session, as the Legislature does not hold its regular Sppon till January. I am sure no such irregular ouatitution as the Topek~a will be accepted. Wenpce the ipplication any pp. hs mnade this Session. If it is, ora sih to repeal t4s ;est~iction shoul4 be intro duced the member who votes to r.opeal it, having rotp4 for tko restriction last winter, deserves the execration of the entire country. I will vote with the frIends of the Bill against the repeal at any time. And I will cheerfully support a general law to the same effect. The course of President Buchanan last winter, afterI tro disissal of Walker, was all the South could ak is firm but dignified course on the question with England, as to the exercise of the right of search, brought that question to a peaceful and satisfactory termination. With all the difficulties in his way, by bis promptness and firmness, he brought the Mormon iffiulties to a most happy conclusion without blood. ihed. The election for Senator in Illinois excites general nterest. Could Judge Breese, who is said to be an pdmnstratisn Lecompton Democrat, be elected, it night be desired. But running two democratic tick its before the people may give the Black Itepublicans im...ority4.on joint ballot or the TLeilature. As bek tween a blackRepublican, who says all free States, and down with the Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision, and Judge bouglait, who, however wrong he was on the Kanssas questit n, manfully opposes those views, we can b-it prefer the suG: cese of the latter.-The Black Republican party proper is one of the'best organized, and most daugo. roar parties which has ever arisen in our country. It has sustained a temporary check in the defeat of Fro mont and Is not so strong as in '6, but lot no one do. spise its power. It furnishes the rallying point for all the isms-the odds and ends of the broken down parties, old lineWhigs, Know Nothings, and disaf feeted free soil Democrats; and may yet some day ae quiro the power which will break up this Government. I do not believa they can carry the fall elections, and had Judge Douglas and his party not parted compa ny with the Democracy and the Administration, they could not have made an impression in 1860. I be. Heve as matters stand, they may be defeated in 1860. Their policy indicates towards the South the bitterest hostility. The declaration of Mr. Seward of blew York -the ablest of their leaders-that he hopes to live to see the day when the foot print of a slave shall not bo seen on this continent, indicates more than a mere desire to prevent slaves going into the territories. Their programme as set forth by their accredited presses viz: No more slave States, the abolition of the Supreme Court and reversal of the Dred Scott decision, prohi bition of the Slzve Trade between the States, the keeping the Southern States In the Union by force, if we should attempt to secede in defeacs of our institu tions, repeal of the fugitive slave law, and the prohi bition of slavery in the Territories ly Congress, show how dangerius would be power in their hands. I do not understand Gov. HAMMOND to recommend, should they elect the President in '60 that the South should not dissolve the Union, but to express a doubt whether they would. It would scarcely, be compatible with the dignity or the safety of the South to remain ; and I believe that the election of such a man as SawnAD, HAL, CH as and others of the same stripe, after the declarations they have made on the goor of Congress Indicating the above' programme, I care not what programme they may adopt, for the occasion,-would show such a purpose on the part of the North, to degrade us, that the Union would notlast a day. The electric spark which convoys that intelligence ought to be and will be the silent death signal of this Con federacy, come when It may. I have a high estimate of the judgment of our distinguished Senator, Gov. HAxxOND, and hnceo am reluctant to differ with him; but I confess to my mind there. is a marked distinction now, as over, be tw-en "States Rights" and "National Domocrats." National Democrats look to National parties and the General Government for the protection of the rights of the people and States-" States Rights Demo crats" look to the States themselves. We will have profitted little by the teachings of the immortal CALnOUN, who has since the days of Jzransox done more than all others to preserve that doe trino in its purity, if we cease to maintain the distinction./ The former cupported the protective Tariffs of 1828, 1832 and 1842, and will advocate a protective Tariff next winter. It is said they in Pennsylvania are now demanding protection for Iron. They advocated the proclamation and Force Bill-the latter opposed them. Many unconstitutional meas ures whose tendency was to increase the power of the Federal Government and weaken that of the States, has been advocated by the one-opposed by the other,-certainly since 1828. Having voted for VAx Bunax electors In the Leg islaturo of 1840, and sustained overy Democratic nomi nee for the Presidency since, even when TAYLOn Dem cracy ran high, I thiuk I can notbe charged with injustice in the views I shall give you as to tio course I think we should pursue. There are now but two large parties in this Confederacy, the Democrats and Black Republicans-all others affiliate with one or t'ao other. Whilst I recommend that we s'hall act with the Democratic party so long as It Is true to the Constitutional rights of the South, I earnestiy pro. test against our being abesorbed In the National Dem oeratic party. It Is an important error into which we are-prona to fall that the rights of the South are now respected, and that we are Indebted to the Demo cratic party for all that is accomplished. The Demo cratic party gave us the Fugitive Slave Law,-but that Is a dead letter. Soon after its passage amaster, in attempting to reclaim his Slaye in Pennsylvania, lost his life. The recovery of Axvnoxv BuaNe, in Boston, cost the Government many thousands of dul lars. If a master recovers his fugitive Slave and escapes wIth his own life, it costs more than the Slave is worth at home. FRED DouGtAs said tbe other day, at a Convention at Poughkeepsie, In New Ysrk, giving an account of " what he knew about the under ground Rail Road," "that there had been sixty runaway Slaves, mainly from Maryland and Delaware, pass through his house during the past sixty days." The Missouri Compromise has been repealed; but we have lost our rights in Kansas in a House of Representatives with a large Democratic majority. Moreover, these Inconsiderable advantages have been obtained at a dear price-the loss to the South of California, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia,-two acts of unmitigated injustice to the South, and against which I~m proud tosay every member from this State voted. Whilst the Democratie party passed the Compromise of 1833, it nevertheless has put upon the country every Tariff of protection sine 1824. Whatever position of advan tage the South has, the States Rights party of the South has soecured it to her. It was that party which rescued Alabama and Mississippi, after the Califoruis robbery, and its influence procured the Georgia Plat form. It was the State Rights party of the South which secured the rccognition of the Statcs Right, doctrines contained in the National Democratic P'lat form of 1852 and 1858. Nevertheless, since the failure of the State to se cede in 1852, I have been of opinion, and see nothing to change It now, that we should act, when we can, with the Democratic party ; and for these reasons : The two great parties are becoming daily more sec tional. Among the Northern Democrats there are inany tried and true men to the Constitution and the rights of the South. Such men should be "grappled" to us " with hooks of steel." The others are nearer to us than the enemy. Having failed to secede alone in 1852, we should now act with the States Rights parties in the other Southern States, among whom are to be fouwid as strong States Rights men as there are in this State. They act with the Democratic par ty. We will thus more readily secure the proper con crt when the occasion arises for the Stat-s to inter pose their sovereignty for the protection of their rights. The Democratic party is now chiefly in the South, only threo large Northern States at the last Presiden tial election having voted for a Democratic candidate. The States Rtights element In the Southern Demo ratic party is a strong and growing element, and If we can ever preserve our rights in the Union it must le b~y that oleppent's controlling the Democratic party of the country. If wp fail to presrvwur rights in the Union,. anid are constrained to try It out, we will the better accomplish that end by now making com mon cause with these who feel and act with us. I therefore think our true policy is to mn'et them In Convention, but pould recommend, In doing so, that we should not compromise a single States Rights principle. If the eisment adverse to the rights of the states sh4ould preyail again, as it once did, wo could but rptprq to the atttpde we then occupied. lnteptajing tlose vipws. Fellow-CItizens, I feel it due to make them known to you; and have only to say, In conclusion, that the great CALIOUx, whilt~ivng, taught us that upon the preorva tion of the rights of the States depended the preser ation of our liberties. And, now that he Is gone, he light to our paths is derived from his works. Guided by this light, and the best judgment which nture has endowed me with, I shall go straight for ard in that course which I shall believe to be the est for my constituents, and "leave the consequen es to God." At the conclusion of the speeh, many sentiments f which were received with high appreciation, the ompany moved off, at the sound of music, to the mple feast provided for the occasion. There was an bundance of every thing needed, and all seemed to partake to their complete satisfaction. While the ..entleen..ne .up..o..n Sa.o. ..u..nt.ath azm appetites, the ladies were very properly seomodae with an elegant table, or set of tables, laden with a variety of edibles adapted to their everysaste. After dinner, some letters were read at-the stand; And by 5 o'clook, P:M., the whole assembly had is persed, the day having been marked throughout by a propriety and decorum seldom surpassed. - At night, th's young people, with a sefllent sprink. ling of the grey heads, re-convened ab'asonle 31al1, for the Danes. We were not present, but learn that the evening was a charming one; and this testimony comes not from one or two only, but from all we have seen who were present. All together, tie festivitie o'Thursda'y were a handsome compliment to our new Congressman, and should (*b wi doubt not It will) stimulate hin to nqu tiring exortion In the politieal arena upon whihe he' has now entered. DEATH OP A PRINTER. We regret to learn from the fqpiping, taken from the Italeigh (N. C.,) Regieter, that N. G. Bnooxs,,a' printer, well-known in this place, Is .no more. Se died in Raleigh, aftera brief Illness, on the 28th August last, in the 31st year of his age. The Register says: - The deceased was a native of Chatham County, it. C., but was well known to the craft throughout the South, as well as North Carolina, being possessed of 0 roving disposition and a love of travel. In 1847, he wont as a volunteer in the N. C. Regiment to Mexleo, where his wit and gol humor rendered him a naiver. esl favorite. He was not without his faults, but be had many good traits of character, and let us cast the mantle of charity over his errors and remembdr only his better qualities. Some three week o, he returned to this tity. and though he had nolftlatife here to fan his fevered 'brow, or speak one wot of consolation or Aympathy, in the trying hour of death, hewas not uneared fo. ior the Advertiser. In reply to the card of Mr. Guonos GArsu, in your last issue, I will simply say, that Iam In posses. slon of Mr. GALPXn's acount passed on the Arst Monday in August last, for $1L5, as stated In my report. . It is true that Mr. GA.purx has not recolved the money, and from the simple fact that ie has not ap plied for it. It-has been in my hande subjiet to his order over since last November. 6f course, my busi. ness is-to pay over the money when applied' for, and not to hunt up the Teachers to receive their duis. I hope this explan ation will satisfy Mr. GAirnm. The original acceount'is subject to pbblircIspec tion. ' Respectfully,. x. T. WRidIT. FRoM U-rA.-By the arrival of the*milD from Salt Lake City, we have received dates one wedk later from Utah-to July'30. The latest news from the camp of the army is to the 23d ultimo. Preparations for th'd' Tirritdrial election were going forward in Utah, -and the Gentile residents were to vote on an- indepen dent ticket for candidates to fill the officet ndw occupied by members of the Mormon, ' rt hood. A " fusion" ticket for Territorial and County officers had been put in nomination in Salt Lake City, the more liberal and influential Mormons being placed on the ticket with Gen tile candidates. Politics were quite lively at the-date of our last advices. emdiation of the Mormon currency-the notes of the "Des eret Currency Association"-was thelast move ment of the Mormon leaders, and the effect of the measure was great dissatisfaction ameng the people, - the. Gentile storekeepers' refusing to receive the notes, which formerly passed durunt in payment for trade. The recent rumor that Brigham Young and a few of lis friends hid fled from the Territory, is corrected~ Brigham left the city for a pleasure excursion but had returned. From the army, at Camp Flywe learn that the Volunteer Battalion hdbeen dismissed, and left on the 19th nIt., for 'Fort Leavenworth, where it is to be disbanded. An army order, issued by General Johdiaton, speaks in complimentary terms of the offiers audnmen of this battalion. Another order disconnects the battalion of mounted -riflemen -and the Third Infantry from Gen. Johnston's~ command, and ordere those corps to Newr Mekico. The army remaning In camp was in ercelisat con dition.-Oharleston Courier. - Nzw Yona, 8etubrf. RIOT at STATEN IsLAND.-On Wednsa night, a mob of about one thousand armed men destroyed a portion of the quarantine buildings' at Staten Island, and the rensinder, including the cottages and five dwellings of the health officers, were burnt bythe incendiarles. On Thursday night the female hospital, con taining seventy-five patients, was burnt. The' patients were removed into the open air, and three of the poor creatures died from expsre. A guard of marines was sent down, for te pro tection of the Government property. POnT RIOvAL RArLROAD.-We see by the Charleston Mercurg that Col. George P. Elliott is to address the people of Barnwell district at various points, on the subject of the Port a railroad. The project of this rqad is to put Augusta In contact with the deep water of Por-t Royal harbor, by a road estimated at one hundred a~d ten miles in length. It will appear that this project is one of/'some moment to the city of Augusta, and w~ hope that public attention will be called to this jaat ter.-Augusta Constitutiouialist, FATAL AccInEN.-Peter Wallae living In 7 Kanawh'a county, Vs., died In a well on. the 24c inst.. from the mephitic air therein. Relost his lire by going Into the well to rescuie another man who was overcome by the fout air. The rescue was effected, but before the i'ope could be let down again Wallace himself was dead. J. DEN~rs.-The marsaparilla manufactured by him is so superior, that he is kept busy in in filflng orders from the North and South. The reputation he has gained for the manufacture of this article is well earned, and if industry, and. care in its preparations will maintain its p resent reputation, DEuNs' Georgia Sarsaparilla will continue to be tought after by invalids.-Au gusta Dispatch._____ A R EnEDY.-A child was bitten in the neighbore hood, on the 20th instantb a pilot snake, which is as poisonous as any reptile. The child,- how- - ever, is now considered out of danger. The rem. edy used is aplant, known as "Gaul of the Earth." It was bruised and applied to the part bitten as - well as inwardly. Whiskey was also administered. -Keorcee Courier. THE Onors.-We have recently had occasion to visit various portions of our District, and we re gret to state that the Cotton crop, we -think has been materially in'ur~ed by the drought. In many sections the pla has ceased to g 'w and the yugfruit is ri''ay falling frmte stalk.2 - We have also har many ofbe paters 'coin plain of rii -.lbvjle anne1' 2iga). GJinmrqs LEFT 11 HpnE.-Uon. Jggbua l. Giddings, after twent years, unintertuptedl anji consecutive service in h e House of Representa tives, has at last been droppe by his republican . constituents. The telegraph app *ed us a few day ago that the old veteran is to heleft at home and a Mr. Hutchings sent to Washington in his stead. The retirement of Icr. Giddings from the political stage, and the reappearance of Mr. Cors win upon it, are very significant political events, when taken together. The pwer of the old ab: Dlitionl dlynary hstas y lininQlp liasts as a State.-,The Uuioq, also., it; r y oteNwYork Times, gives views of the ana qston as follows: "The Legislature will meet-on the sAmt Mon day in January next. Granting that it shall-au thorize the election of a convention, It will re quire more than a month and a half to notify the election, to go through withit, gtthe returns, and decide upon them, organise te convention, deliberate frame a constitution, publish it to the elcalanother election to ratify and confirm tygthereturnsthereof proclaintheremaltand,it being favorable, send frward all the papejrs- to (ones, befr the session closes. " e votes cast at the recent election indicate hat there is now a opulatiou in the ' rery nearly apahng seventy-Eve .t which the conmng season will'run up h4 e the representative ratio of 'irehbi~ thus mmouin all obetoato thi4iasin Kansas by tienext . "ss .