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THE ABMlLUl BANNER. HKNtlV 8. KERR, fcblTOR AND PROPRIETOR. OF SUBSCRIPTION. Yvro Dollars per niniuni, if paid within six Months from the liino of subscribing; Two Dollars and Firrv Cknts if not paid before the expiration of that time ; and Three Doli.ars, if payment be delayed until the end of the year. RATES OF ADVERTISING. 1 square (12 liucs or lens) for the first insertion, 75 " ? for each subsequent " 37 " " " one single " 1.00 " " monthly, or quarterly, eaoh " 1.00 For announcing a candidate for office, 5.00 Personul mutters will bo charged $1 per square, which in all cases must be paid in advance. 83" Communications designed for publication hould be written in a plain, legible hand, and upon only one side of the sheet. (TT Letters and communications should l?e adaddressed to the Proprietor (post paid) to insure nltAiitinn. QVbbcuiUc C ?). SATURDAY, APRIL 86, 1851. Daring Robuert.?Tbo house of Mr. Robert C. Coupon, who resides four miles north of this pluco. wos entered on the night of the 23d iiisL, nd between nine nud $10,000 in cash, and nbout twenty thousand in notes, were taken from his desk. It was not discovered until morning, when the place where horses hud been tied was seen and a number of clubs found. Hud Mr. Gordon been uroused, 110 doubt his life would have been taken. No clue has yet been given of the perpetrators ?f this outrage. Another.?Mr. H. W. Lawson's Tin Shop whs broken into last Sunday night, und a quantity of manufactured articles stolen. We caution our citizcus to be on the look out. QZT The attention of our citizens is railed to the advertisement of David Goff, Esq., in auothcrcoluinn. We are pleased to learn from good uuthority, that he hats made such proficiency in the art, as to rank liim among the first artists in the country. Pass him round.?A man who passes by Die name of Clark, and said he was a carpenter in hunt of work, has been lurking about this place and vicinity. Wc have evidence from whites of his procuring liquor for uegroes, and of his familiarity with them, mid strong corroborating nogro proof of his using inflammatory language to them. He is suspeclcd, although the proof is not positive, of having circulated abolition papers among them. He is said to be an Irishman, of medium height and size, and about forty-five years of age ; has received an injury in the left (shoulder, from which cause he wears his coat collar a little thrown back. lie is addicted to liquor; his appearance is bad, and had oil when last sees, a pair of yellow pants, well worn. He decamped, leaving hia hill unpaid at the "World's Iiotell." The muster of the Unrwr unhnluw I ucgiiiiciu Caii'ic OiT at McCatv b uiu fltJIU Oil ouiurday last. The clouds, which eariy in the morning foreboded a gloomy doy, dispersed, after a heavy shower?a cheering spring morning ensaed?and at the usual hour of pnrndc, it seemed that every man liable to do duty was at hiB post. The battalion was formed and carried through the usual evolutions, in a manner and spirit, both on the part of officers and privates, that we never before witnessed. Neither the exercises nor the assemblage, before or after the muster, were interrupted by the least iudecoruin?nor was any material on the ground to produce it. Only one man had "a brick in his hat," and that he brought from home; and he was so quiet, withal, that but few observed it. At the close of the review, Cot. McGowen addressed the battalion in a few spirited, appropriate, and eloquent remarks. He spoke of his gratification at the day's performance, and added some remarks complimentary of the Abbeville Light Infantry, the truth of which, our position and modesty prevent us from acknowledging. In every tiimg vise, (.we win say,; ne but expressed our opinions in better language than our own?of the officers in general, and Maj. Baswn in particular, whoso ability in the performance of his duties, was only equalled by the spirit and alacrity with which he discharged them. He spoke of the importance of military institatious at all limes us an arm of defence, and of their value to society, in imparting a nice sense of honor, high tone and gentlemanly bearing. He had been intimately awocitited with graduates of West Point ?had mingled with them in the social duties of the eamn?had < >?>? lrJn ? * - M ? ...... ~uii tii i>rejNirai'.on lor battle, their courage in the " imminent deadly breach,"?had seen them on the field of battle after the storm had pa seed, bending with sorrow and manly lean over their fallen comrade*, and administering to tbeir necessities?and he was prepared to say, that iu all the requisites which constitute the gentleman and the soldier, they would compare with any set of men that ever lived, not excepting the "old guards" of Napoleon. These remarks were nsed as a prelude, and made to bear upon the Camp Muster system, revived by the last Legislature, the object and importance of which were explained and dsfended, as important in excitinv ?nH keeping alive a military spirit, not only for the reasons above alluded to, bat ?a exerting a happy influence upon the degrading, dangerous and growing apirit of the age?the worship of the "Almighty Dollar." We will not do the Colonel the injustice to attempt even a ?ynopsi? of his speech. We have only noticed inch points as seemed to na the most striking and important. His allusion to our political position, and the project of a collision of anna, wore to the point, and be urged preparation for it, whether it oame or not And wewtil here remark, that from the footing which seemed to animate all present; as weft t? a knowledge of the material which compose the others, should South CaroBna, apjer mauve aeuoarataoo, take a atep which wiB require th*ir aervicea, that not only that battafion, fcfil every oib?c b the Dietfict-^ltboogh a ntjor(ty lira at ttta time miliar mooaj-atnaek with eo-f. ermtiam ealy will baaaaoqg tha fint, in ancwor to the qnoetioat'telli?eM "AwMaw." 5 * ' ' ^ ' c Southern Press* The following article which Wo extract from the Columbna Enquirer, whove editor is a whig to the back-bone, should be attentively read by Home of our ciliceim, who have recently withdrawn their patronage from the l'resa, and pronounced it a " humbug." Wo commend to them this extract, and a self-examination of what prompts oppomtion to a paper 60 dovotcd to the cause of Southern Rights, and a studied silence as to many others that should bo denounced throughout the land. " Some of the submission prints are rejoicing in anticipation of the downfall of the Southern Press. We hear no such rejoicing anticipations in reference to the National Era,' the rholition organ of the same city. In nothing does Southern submimionism so exhibit iU treason to home, and its aeep nepruviiy, as in the expression or its fierce tiutred to those whose crime is, devotion to the rights of the South. They can forgive anything but Southern patriotism. Strange mystery! If the South Tails she will Tall by the paracidal hands of her own sous. Such will be the verdict of the grand inquest of history, when in future ages, the rise and full of her institutions is writteu. It will he recorded that with ull the elements of a successful defence, with power and resources boundless and unrivulled, the South becaino felo de sc." Editor's Tabic. The Wandering Minstrei^o Quarterly Magazine, devoted, to Literature and the cause oj Female Education, edited by the Pupils and Alumna of the Greenville Female Collegiate Institute?Campbell & Gossktt, Printers? Greenville, S. C. Wk have received the first number of the above named neat little Quarterly, and have no hesitancy in saying that it will succeed. Talent and enenrv must always be in the ascendant, and in this little work, Dr. Simons has evidently shown that he is a large possessor of both these essential qualifications. Success to this new undertaking. Tub School Fellow?A Magazine for Boyi and GirU?Walkkr & Richards, Charleston, S.C. Tho April number of this welcome little visiter is on our table. This is a rich number, and is filled with choice matter, peculiarly adapted to suit the taste, and instruct the ininds of the youth of our country. The price is so low that it is placed within the reach of all?one dollar per annum, in advance. Blacwood's Edinburgh Magazink.?The April number of this sturdy old Magazine is before us, of all the beat that's going. [communicated.] Hon. A. Burt?DtarSir: We the undersigned, citizens of Abbeville District, feeling a deep interest in whatever concerns the honor and welfare of South Carolina?and being apprehoDsive, from v.'hat wc see and hear around ue, that the signs of the times are portentous of an approaching storm in the political elements?which causes much solicitude in our minds, to know what will be the part assigned this State in the eventful issue?have there concluded to address you, as our Representative in Congress, a few queries on the subject, in the Abbeville Banner, which, you will oblige us and many others, by answering, through the same rhnnnpl 1st. Is a profession of State Rights of any value, without the proper application of Stale Remedies 1 2d. Do you not believe that resistance or degradation in the only alternative now left the slaveholding States J 3d. Is not secession in co-operation, or alone, in the last alternative, the only effectual remedy ? 4th. Then, if all the other Southern States tamely submit, ought not South Carolina to secede alone ! 5tli. And when all these States have acted in this matter, through their constituted authorities, and shall have, like the State of Virginia?no longer Old Dominion?calmly received the chains of servitude, and apologized for their oppressors, would not the time then be, when South Carolina, in solemn convention of her people, should declare an ordinance of secession, forthwith, from this Union 1 6th. If she should secede, how would the other daveholding States and the General Government conduct inmtmmAm h? 1 ?' " iivif ?uu WUav WUIIKI probably be the consequence* of the step to Sooth Carolina? Thorn a B. Byrd, James W. Lipscomb, John R' Tarrant, Allen Vance, Thomas L. Coleman, Thomas S. Farrow, J. H. Logan, R. M. White, John Buchanan, J. K. Vance, J. Bailey, S. L Bond, M. C. Calboun, S. A. McClinton, John Logan, A. W. Funk, A. Waller, James Creswell, J. W. Clinkscsles, 1* D. Merriman, J. H. Vance, J. Thomas Parks, Milton On born, M. B. Hackctt, Martin Hackett. [rOR THE BANNER.] Mr. Editor?From the notice in the Banner of the 29th nit., we flattered ourselves that we should hovA Knil ?! ? --1?? - - m " - hid inciwni 01 seeing; fllaj. Bart, oor Representative in Congress, at Abbeville, on last sale day?to have taken him by the hand, and to have heard from him something with regard to oar Federal Relations at Washington. As a part of his constituents, we believe that he ought to let us know something as to our interests at the White House; what he has done for us at the last meeting of Congress; whether South Carolina is to be sacrificed to the ire of Filmorc and Webster, Ac., Ac. We were truly disappointed in not seeing or bearing from him. We hope that no change has taken place iu his political views rince we beard from him last falL We would have been glad to have seen a circular from him daring the last meeting of Congress, letting as know bow things were going on; bat we suppose that his duties wen so arduous as not to allow him time. But now be is at4eisare; will Maj. Bart be so good as to let na bear something through the ootomnsof the Brnnner, as mpe?U the gnat topics ot the day?Sou there Rights, Northern Aggressions, Soe,?where he Hhmhf be is for the sotiUry State action of Sooth Cwoftna in seeesnon. in ease a Southern oooStion osnnot be fona-d??Or would he icqsi* esee < the nfpnuriBns nadir which w? (short Whether there is any pi of tat at a redress of the grievances of wbieb we eoaspiata, abort tt resist uioe??Or rosy webope M see Mm at Abbeville oa seie dsy bi MyVtot, (thalfe* for tbe meetkf Jttkt > ?bini,t|?iriay ?nif u..,) sedbMr tornt tffcwrtt ??h bn*ibMjrin?? tt*ft t?n Ifot [ F. ^We ne^er wos n yaoyfo, Bfc* - V- / [rofc THK BANNER.] Mr. Editor?The name of a Patriot is an appellation which every man, who considers himself a friend to his country, would wish to appropriate to himself. Dut who is a Patriot ? This is the point to be solved. By a Patriot, we understand, one who is devoted to the welfure of his country, and who is ready to sucrifice life, property, and every thing dear, to preserve her rights and her honor. In this sense, our Rutledges. Pinckneys, GadsdenB, Pickenses, Moultries, Marions, Hugers, Butlers, Sumters, &c., were considered Patriots in time of the Revolutionary War. On the other hand, those who sided with the British?gave them comfort and fought for them?were not considered os having a particle of patriotism about them. We suppose that thero are very few southern men among us at this time, but who will reudily admit that the aggressions of the Federal Government on the South, are greater thun those of Great Britain on the Colonies, which were the cause of the Revolutionary War. What was tho three pence per pound Ion tea, in comparison to the aggressions of the Congress l?efore the Inst, on the rights of the South 7 Thos? who reBiBtcd British tyranny and achieved our independence, were patriots. Who are the southern patriots of tho present day 7 Those who are willing and ready, at every hazard, to sustain the rights and liberties of the South, against Northern aggression ? or those who aro willing to succomb to every unjust imposition laid on us by the Federal Government?sustained by Northern fanaticism? and who, in vindication of their position, are wont to soy, "the North is loo strong for ns; they will block up our ports, destroy our commerce, strip us of our property and offices, and trample us under their feet; better submit to anything than thus to suffer; huzza! for the glorious Union!" Which of the parties aro the patriots? If such things, as now held up to view, would have deterred onr forefathers from resistance, wc would still have been groaning under British oppression, we still would have been bond-men, "hewers of wood, and drawers of water." Quere?whether would it have been better to have remained bond-men to Great Britain, or to be in a state of vassalage to Northern fanaticism ? Which the best ? Which the most patriotic' Let us answer these things to our consciences. LONG CANE. [communicated.] Greenwood, S. C., April 18, 1851. STr. Editor?At a recent meeting of the Student*' and Young Men's Southern Rights Association of Greenwood, called for the purpoae of choosing Delegates to the Convention of Associations, it was found wholly inexpedient for any of its members to attend in Charleston in that capacity?most of them being students, and ckwely confined to their studies. But being full of zeal for the great doctrine of State rights, and justly appreciating the momentous interest of the question now before the people, which is soon to be decided either in abject submission to palpable, acknowledged wrong, or in manly resistance; and not at all sympathising with the narrow, petulant views of the Southern Patriot, that ycung men at school and college, should, in this crisis, ever stick to their books, and let politics alone, (which, by the by, they would do, if there were no such politicians in the State as the editors and supporters of that misnamed organ.) Therefore, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Resolved, That certain gentlemen?Delegates elect from the District Southern Rights Association?l>e appointed, and respectfully requested to represent this body in the convention of Association* in rhnrlpBlnn in "?* Rewired, That the following gentlemen be reqnested to represent tills Association: J. A. Calhoun, Edward Noble, Joel Smith, J. II. Wilson, Dr. John Logan, J. K. Vancc. J. W. HITCH, President, A. M. Rbid, Secretary. [From the Charleston Mercury.] Mr. ItlcDnffie's Opinions. Messrs. Editors : At the meeting of the Barnwell Southern Rights Association on the 7th instant, our talented young fellowcitizen, Johnson Hagood Esqr., when offering a resolution in honor of the lamented McDuffie, referred (in the eloquent remarks that he made) to the opinions and sentiments expressed in the extracts copied below, and in part read them. Please re-publish, and oblige Many Friends. Kytr arTR vnnu ' - ..w?i ?>?vA^vrrio O (jrbAtllCrDj Ac.?It is impossible lo contemplate the conduct of our ancestors, when placed in similar circumstances, without blushing for our degeneration. They commenced the Revolution that secured our liberty, when their oppressions were not one hundredth part as grievous as ours. A miserable tax of three pence a pound on tea was the extent of their grievance. Being dependent colonists, they had no organized sovereignity to protect them from the perils of rebellion and treason. With baiters round their necks, and the stigma of treason on their foreheads, nobly disdaining to count the costs of a contest which, though they should perish, was to secure liberty to their posterity, they fearlessly encountered the gi' gantic power of a mighty nation. And with this glorious example before us, shall we basely surrender the inheritance of our children, from a disgraceful panic excited by imaginary dangers! Shall we be terriBed by mere phantoms of blood, when our ancestors, for less cause, encountered the dreadful reality? Great Oodl are we the decendants of those ancestors; are we freemen ; are we men?"grown men"?to be frightened from the discharge of our moat sacred dutyj and the vindication of our most sacred rights, by the mere nursery stories of rawhead and bloody bones, which 1 even the women of our country laugh to 1 scorn." " We have but one difficulty to prevent 1 tts from achieving a glorious victory over 1 our oppressors; it is our own unfortunate j divisions. I have a most consoling confi- j denoe that the intelligence and patriotism . of the people will Overcome this. With ' united counsels, the State cannot fall to be triumphant; but with divided and distracted counsels, it will be vain to hope that we shall ever be relieved from our oddkmiW Those, therefore, who persevere in a course 1 which shall paralyse the efforts of the State I to relieve onr citizens from unconstitutional t tttorewfon, wfll Msume a tremendous respon- t IW1H// Whatever mar be their motives, they will make themselves the accomplices i of om oppwaon. We have but one coorie i to^u^ue. Let us^stand flrm^antl iramove- 1 choose to If the State so A will it, we iiro free. But if the public voice I should decree otherwise, and unconditional submission be our doom, we shall at least have the consolation of reflecting that we have had no agency in forging chains for our children. In conclusion, gentlemen, I beg leave to propose a sentiment: The City of Charleston : A melancholy monument of the withering and consuming course of unequal and oppressive taxation ; may the time speedily arrive when she shall rise from her ruins, the cheering monument of a renovated commerce, freed from the shackles of unconstitutional restriction, by the sovereign power of a State, once more animated by the spirit of John Rutledorrv . # Henry Laurens, and Christopher Gadsden. ?Extract from Speech of Hon. Oeo. McDuffie, May, 1831, Charleston. " If South Carolina should be driven out of the Union, all tho other planting States, and some of the western States would fol low, by an almost absolute necessity. Can it be believed that Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, and even Kentucky, would continue to pay a heavy tribute upon their consumption, to the Northern States, for the privilege of being united to them, when they could receive all their supplies through the ports of South Carolina, or their own ports, without paying a single cent of tribute ? The separation of South Carolina would inevitably produce a general dissolution of the Union ; and as a necessary consequence, the protecting system, with all its pecuniary bounties to the Northern States, overthrown and demolished, involving the ruin of thousands and hundreds of thousands in the manufacturing States. By these powerful considerations connected with their own pecuniary interests, we beseech them to pause and contemplate the disastrous consequences which will certai'ily result from an obstinate perseverance on their part, in maintaining the protecting system. With them it is a oupstinn mp?lo : --? vi pcc U 111" ary interest, connected with no Bhadow of right, and involving 110 principle of liberty. With us it is a ouestion involving our most sacred rights; those very rights which our common ancestors left to us as a common inheritance, purchased by their blood. It is a question of liberty on the one hand, and slavery on the other. If wo submit to this system of unconstitutional oppression, we shall voluntarily sink into slavery and transmit that ignominious inheritance to our children. We will not, we cannot, we dare not submit to this degradation; and our resolve is fixed and unalterable, that a protecting tariff shall be no longer enforced within the limits of South Carolina. We stand upon the principles of everlasttng justice, and no human power shall drive us from our position. We have not the slightest apprehension that the General Government will attempt to force tliiB system upon us by military powers. We have warned our brethren of ? c?? - ? ?uv wuoc^ugiiucs ui bucu an attempt* 15ul i if, notwithstanding, such a course of madness should be pursued, we here solemnly declare that this system of oppression shall never prevail in South Carolina, until none but dastards are left to submit to it. We would infinitely prefer that the territory of the State should be the cemetery of freemen than the habitation of slaves. Actuated by these principle and animated by these sentiments, we will cling to the pillars of the temple of our liberties, and if it must fall we will perish amidst the ruins!?Address toother States by Convention of 1832. "Its Faithful Execution''?The Reason.?A Fugitive slave, mirabile dictu, has actually been delivered up to his master in Boston 1 It is nothing more than could have been done, without the grossest and most excusable injustice. By the witnesses brought forward, he was proved, beyond any possible reach of doubt, to be the property of Potter?and nothing remained but to surrender him, or as in other cases, to eitber nullify the land or snatch the prisoner from the hands of the officers. By having the military in readiness, the mob whs intimidated and justice allowed to take its proper course. Had it not been that the lawless band of fanatics were intimidated by fear, we have no boubt, that Sims would now be like Shadrach, safe in Canada. As it is, Sims is the first fugitive delivered up in Boston during the last sixty years! He is certainly a curiosity, and we would give almost as much to see him, as any Ituua vaturce, or feejee mermaid, that was ever showed up by a travelling mountebank. There is, however, in our opinion, more evidence of policy in this surrender of Sims, fliAn nf viMinAnf A-** iKa ?1 va uu|?VVU IV/ i>UO IOTVO U1 tut} I29IIU* It is well known that the trade of Boston suffered largely, after the riot in the case of Shadrach, and that the loss of Southern trade on account of those disgraceful proceedings, is estimated to amount to more than a million of dollars. We do not wonder, therefore, that Sims was given up. The pocket nerve of the Boston people was touched at last, and we have, in the surrender of this fugitive, the first evidence of its sensitiveness. They can afford to render up a few fugitives, for the sake of getting back so large an amount of trade diverted from them. Such a speculation cannot fail to be most profitable. Four cases so far, under the new law, have come up in Boston. In f?BA nf tllOAA 4 *? ?A .u .nu VI vuu UWIIOIB UT lilt) MgtJIIll) for the owners, were arrested on the most trivial charges, held Ifcr bail in enormons sums, snd at last compelled to leave the city without their property. In another case, the fugitive slave while being tried in a court of justice, was snatched from the heads of the officers bv a wild and lawless mob, , in open day. The last case is the case of Sims, the result of which is already known, rhe sum of profit and loss to the South can { be easily worked out by the rule of three.? j Augutia Jtebublic. The Accent Cerreit. We are not of those who would make the i >road shuuldora of a negro Atlas support i he burden of the Universe, by making the j ecovcry of a particular negro a test qnes- < ion. We have abundantly defied our bo- I ition, and given a reason for the faftii that i i in us, m uncompromising disnaionista, and < re nedd not now reiterate our view*. ft the \ Jnion was natural, oqual and jait, ifiteif- 4 weed us to no seettawd burdens or J a&tages now; and threatened qs with no i laDgers in the fliture, we would support It f I even with the admission of incidental ills and disadvantages. Some men arguo as if the Union was only formed to catch runaway negroes, and that as long as this is done, all is right?but we find in the Union as established, other purposes; and our guaranty as to the fugitives t'rom labor, was only a condition precedent required by the South. This guaranty we contend is obligatory on the States separately and individually, and in spite of the weight of names against us, and the charges of presumption tliat have been brought, we cannot see how the contrary can be maintained but in principles of the most hititudinarian construction, in the first place, the clause in question is neither connected with a limitation on the States, or with a grant of power to Congress; the Ian- | gunge aiso cieariy indicates our construction a9 will be seen at once. " No person held to labor or service?in one State?under the laws thereof?escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation thereof, be discharged from such .service or labor, but shall be delivered lip on claim of the party to whom such service or claim may bo due."* Hero is clearly an obligation assumed by each State on entering the Union ; and no torturing or interpreting can make out of tho above clause, a grant of power to Congress. We shall comment hereafter on this provision of the Constitution, in connection with tho anti-slavery affinities of our government; but for the present we forbear. Our construction of this clause is favored again by a reference to the analogous clause providing for the reclamation of fugitives from justice, the execution of which we believe has always been regarded a matter of international arrangement between the States, not within the scope of Congressional action. Let us admit, however, this wooly-headed test to which silver grays North, silver voiced submissionists South, would bring a govern mum iney proiessto adore'; admit that the fugitive question is a crucial and decisive test, and that a black vomit only is needed to cure all tlie ills of the body politic?and to what conclusion are we brought? What has the compromise done after all the boastings and exultations which ushered it in?the booming of cannon at Washington, the "Bunkum" gatherings at Castle Garden, the chowder parties at Mobile, and warm shaking of hands between the venerable accoucheura and sponsors of the bantling. Take the naked question of reclamation, and the sinfle State of Massachusetts?a small State y the way?and iet us see the account current. The State of Massachu&ctts in account with the Constitution* Dr. To hundred of runaway slaves harbored and sheltered. To hundred enticed by her citizens, under the sanction of doctrines promulgated by her, in defiance of the Constitution. I To Shadrach De Bree compromised into Canada. To William Crafts, and Ellen, Lis wife, compromised to Liverpool. Cr. By Thomas Sims, returned by stratagem, under cover of night. The debit side of the account could bo extended, and the items specified with more particularity, if we had the records at linnd, while on the credit side we have stated everything that she has yet given us, unless we are seriously expected to take Mr. Fillmore's proclamations, and Mr. Webster's post-prandial pronuneiamentoes as a 1-iral tender in lieu of our negroes. Wv tliink, however, the mast prejudiced com t in Christendom would award better damnges in a petty case of trover, and it is rather too soon for us to withdraw our plea, and take, as Rubmissionists advise a nominal verdirt, which leaves the costs to us, and is nothing better than a nonsuit.?Columbia Telegraph. How are the Mighty Fallen. In January, 1840, if we are not mistaken, Virginia entered upon her legislative records, and sent as an earnest of her purpose to her Southern Bisters, the lollowing resolutions: uResolved, That we regard the passage of a law by the Congress of the United States, abolishing slavery or the slave trade in the District of Columbia, as a direct attack 1 upon the institutions of the Southern States, ; to be resisted at every hazard. TKof in *Vn-? ? -.wv^rvvw^ M.3.*tau III bUC C*UIH Ul Hie piu>3nge by Congress of tbe 'Wilmot Proviso,'or ( any law abolishing slavery or the slave trade > in the District of Columbia, the Governor , of this Commonwealth is requested immedi- | ately to convene the Legislature of this State, | (if it shall have adjourned,) to consider the mode and measures of redress." < Well, a law abolishing the slave trade t in the District of Columbia did dobs, and tbe , Governor of Virginia did not call the Legislature together. As the regular session, bowev- , er, was approaching, though our expectations | were dampened by the tone of the party j presses at Richmond, we imagined Virginia 4 would not prove false to such a solemn de- j claration as the above. Our readers know how the "Old Dominion," "the mother of j States," and the stronghold of the cardinal < doctrines of republicanism and State right* f redeemed tbe pledges given in 1840. We j gave ior uieir inionnauon ~tne mode and > measures of redress*' recently adopted by the < Legislature. Where, in all the records of t the oft-taunted braggadocio of South Carol!- ? na, are to be found two more high-sounding resolutions than the above I Nowhere; ana yet the same body who passed them and directed them to be officially sent to the States of the South with all the pomp and sanction of the sovereign authority they represented, have swallowed their own words, and have the effrontery to counsel others to submit to the "direct Attack upon the institution of the Southern States X" Virginia has drawn from the Federal pretsea the oonplimenta of u loyal to (he Union? and u true to 1*r$elf? bdtthe honest icd true-hearted, who believed that, fctfil www eiuuere pi ioe ancient spirit of bar i pjfriot sow, kept ?Uy? MDK)mrvthe rubbiU) W cliqaea, regard her ? bAviug loet m her own children mt?t Acknowledge, how ' *S? . '** ' Miytv^fji, -.^iffi, i' IVI i Vi'iiii I incut has taken prompt means to arrest and S frustrate the new expcditon against Cuba. The Spanish Minister has repeatedly stated flfl to the Secretary of State, his apprehensions, MB that an expedition would be organized for 'Sj an invasion of Cuba in May. It is not probable that this government will acain intpr fere for the protection of any of the adven- flfl turers who may fall into the hand* of the H Cuban authorities, nor will the Spanish Gov- H eminent fuel disposed to exercise any clcni- HI cncy towards them or their Cuban coadju- |R turs, if any t hoy may have. The result of these abortive attempts to revolutionize Cubn, will be to subject the Cubans to increased oppression and greater pecuniary exaction. The preparations of Spain, for the defence of the Island, since the late in- 9| vasion by Lopbz, cost a large sum of mon- 9R ey, and must be met by an increased rove- flB nue from Cuba. At the same time, such expeditions will be encouraged by the impunity with whieh they are got up in this H country. Our existing laws are inadequate S to the punishment of those who may set on H foot hostile expeditions within the United States, against countries with which tbp U- ^9 nited States are at peace.?Charleston CoilS| Faneuil Hall Refi/sed.?We learn from the Northern papers, that a few weeks since, the popular branch of the municipal government of Boston passed, almost unani mously, a resolution inviting President Fill- ' flfl more to visit the city. This resolution was laid on the table by the Board of Alder men. 9B On Monday last, some one hundred and |H thirty of the most resepectable citizens of Boston, made application to the city gov- H eminent for the use of Faneuil Hal), for the ]i\ii |)oso of giving a public reception to tlio , lion. Daniel Webster. Their petition was not acted upon at the public meeting of the H Board of Aldermen, but was referred to a secret session, when it was rejected by a vote of six nays to two yeas. On the following day a special session of the Board Ml was called, and, after a discussion of two hours and a half, with closed doors, a motion H| to reconsider the vote by which the petition was rejected, was lost by a tie. That Picture Gallxry.?The Southern Patriot treats its reader* with a likeness of Sam Houston?n fact which surprises us ve- |H ry much. We see in the adnlation paid to |H this blackguard and Scoundrel, melancholy j^E evidence of the mournful prevalence which man-worship has attained, and the unworthy objects to which it is directed. Sam H owes all his cclat to his supposed ogescy is the Texas Revolution, and especially to the battle of San Jacinto. nn?l vot fight ho was opposed to giving battle, and during the fight he was so drunk as to be utterly useless. He distinguished himself jH before he ran away from the United States, . MB by his open disregard of all restraints of decency or social laws, and we hava been told by many who knew him intimately, that he has not even the redeeming trait of physi- 'SB c?l courage, which is sometimes found even !fl| in the lowest?yet by some popular hallu- |H cination, he is looked upon as the ideal of a fl hero, and the compromisers are trying to muke something decent out of him?a task JH they will never succeed in, although they may make him President This would only S degrade the office a little, for our President* B hitherto with one exception, have been at ~ H least, gentlemen of good character in pri- H vate life, whatever faults and blunders thev H have been guilty of officially. ll Politics however, like misery, " makes us acquainted with strange bed fellows" and unionism and compromise have brought to- H getlier, persons more dissimilar in character m and history, and more diversified in exter tials than the high privates of FalstafFs eel- H ebrated regiment. We would remark in justice, that the Pa- . H triot does not launch out with much enthu- , siasin, in praise of Houston, and the editors ' we presume would only endorse his political j orthodoxy, on the compromise. If tuey will | permit us to make a suggestion for the pic- 1 flj ture gallery, we should like extremely well flfl to see prints of those "best citizens" that are about leaving the 8tate because they f think her in danger?to be . followed by a ? H| sketch of the man with "more negroes, than * flH all the editors of the State "?Columbia 9 Telegraph. wi If flB Cotton Statement.?There hare been re- ' VR ceived in Charleston during the past week ( Hj 7,671 bales, fcorreannndinir waaIt 1o?? ?? ? - ' _ o J M 4,184 bales.) Exported in the saine time to foreign ports 700 bales; coastwise 2,000 bales ; making the total exporiaof the week Iflfl 127,00 bales; and leaving on hand a stock sf 38,213 bales, inclusive of 6,080 bales on S| shipboard not cleared, against a stock of 17,408 bales same time last year. The total receipts since our last report imount to 62,013 bales, (against 40,507 >ales same week last year;) making a grand - Hi :otal since the 1st of September to the lat- ' I ?t dates of 1,082,056 bales, against 1,785,- |H )99 bales the same time last year previous. it Tho total exports to foreign ports amount R *> 1,267,112 bales, showing an increase of v> |fl 298,009 bales over those of >orts show a fciftiBg 0t J77 bales lar^j#"4ii? HIMMii ^raJ&yearrt * V; he same period. imp | [Ordinal.} I Again the genial spring ia fee*** > I ^9 The bright and lovely spriMf J gH The tender bode once more appear? - BB And flowera their fragrance bring. S| .Cold winter with his.dreary gfoop, D Again has paas'd away ; H And nature out her ley tomb, \ H Looks amiliug, rich and gay. The woodland birds in foyous gW, H Are chanting here and there ; H And many a heart i? pairing free,? - . And sweet ths ambient air. I AThe^ fr?? ; ^