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/ r Fr . the Charleston Cour ier. S-OiYITER MEETING. . Agreeable to public notice previously given, a large ami respectable portion of the citizens of Sumter District, asscmhled at Sumterrille on tlie 31 inst. for the plir-' pose of expressing an opinion in relation 1 to the next election for Governor of the State. < * On (notion of Tuomas J. Wilder, Matiiew James, Esq, was called to the Chair, and Alester Gadden, Esq. ap, pointed Secretary. The object of the meeting being explained by the Chairman, on motion of CbJ. Wilder, a committee of twenty was appointed to report to tne meeting on mc subject. The following gentlemen were appointed on the committee: Col. Thos. J. Wildery Col. O. S. Rees, Maj. George Ballard, Col. Wm. Nettles, Col* J. K. Spann, Alaj. Wui. IJaynesworth, Beter Mellctt, Capt. J. E. Wilherspoori, John D. Sturgeon, Wm. Harris, A. G. Cropwell, W. ftl. James, Capt. Alex. Brailsford, ?. Broughton, Joseph H. Stukes, " George J. M'Cauley, Samuel B. Daris, James II. Tiftdall, Joseph Sprott. The committee reported, through their chairman, the following preamble aud re to;ut oris: The events of the few past years in our country and some portions of the civilized world, loudly admonish us and the (vliole Southern portion of this confederacy, that it is of the deepest importance to our future welfare and security, that we should preserve, if it be possible, unanimity in feeling and action. "United we stand, divided we rail," was the wis* sentiment of a wise statesman and patriot. South CaroTtna must know, feel and acknowledge its truth. But a few years ago, she was the prey of a bitter feud and party spirit, " * M- '-1 which distracted Jier councils anu uircatened to uproot the very principles of society and government itself?and certainly never was there a more tit opportunity offered to heal past differences, unite in concert and make common cause against her enemies, than the approaching election to fill the Gubernatural chair of the State. We respectfully suggest to our fellow citizens throughout the Stale that the united voice of the people in favor of the Hon. Jno. P. Richardson would bring about this happy result. Col. Richardson was our late member in Congress, as a fit man to succeed our lamenting Manning; of his general course, there, it is not necessary uow to speak, llis acts are before the people, let him he judged by them; suffice it to say that he - - - - I* ?i- __n was highly respected Dy nis ineuus, uuu his opponents have never fot nd ought to 1 charge to his discredit. Col. Richarbson was a mild, but influ~ Tpntial member of the Union party, and his was the doty in times of high excitement, . ~ to assuage and soothe the roused passions of men, and finally to conduce much to the successful result of the compromise in 1834, which was hailed by both parties . as the harbinger of peace. His stand in Congress in relation to our peculiar institution of slavery was in a high degree honorable to our .State. His principles upon the leading measures of Government, arc thoroughly de, mocratic, and when, in 1837, South Carolina's gifted son, the Hon. John C. Cal><*? : hotjn stepped forth, almost alone, the champion of that great measure of deliverance, the Independent Treasury, Col.. Richarosox was amongst the first who * - - - j 1 1 _ rr hastened to ine rescue, auu reuuereu eindent service to the cause. It was, therefore, 1. Resolved, That we highly approve the liberal spirit evinced to obliterate all old party distinctions in the State, by the nomination of Col. John P. Richardson for the office of Governor. 2 Resolved, That this meeting, without distinction of party, most cordially unite in the support of Col. Richardson, and earnestly invoke their fellow citizens in the State to participate in our efforts to preserve peace, harmony and union in the councils of the State, in repelling all future aggressions and eucroachments upon its rights. $ Resolved, That knowing, as we do, the private worth and useful qualifications i?f Col. Richardson?the soundness of his principles upon the leading politics of the lav?his nrudence and experience?we recommend him with confidence to the 60f?port of hie fellow citizens, as an officer, who may be fully relied 011 to protect the rights as well as support the interests of the Slate. ' 4 Resolved, That we regard the ungenerous and illiberal attempt to excite old party prejudice, to defeat the election of Col. Richardson, as unjust and unnecessary, and as calculated to disturb the harmony of the community. 5 Resolved, That as the candidate of the Slate Rights Independent Treasury parly, ive confidently believe that Col. Richardson will receive the cordial support of the people of ibis Slate, and thai' lis election will be the most eminent proof of lit* success of those piiuciplee. Q'Resolved, That we highly approve of the patriotic oflorts of Hie present Admin: ll?n tiliatuoL* Ztf ?lw* ! i>iraiuni iu irmiBii mv mumovo wi mv wu?-eminent, and to administer iion true Re-i publican principle, and believe that it is entitled to the cuniidcttce'aud support of the South. 7 Resulted, That the judicious nnd patriotic course of the Hon. John C. Cai.iio.in?his able defence of Southern rights and constitutional principles?his vigi-j ituce and indefatigable exertions in liiet terriec of the country end of his consti-.1 (5tu ;V ? ? * 1 *" ' . V :\. -.-"r-i*. " tuents, entitle him to their highest confidence and graiitudc. On moiion of Dr. James Haynesworth, the following resolution was added to the report of the committee: Resolved, That this meeting approve " t1 - of the congressional course 01 our representative, the Hon. Thos. D. Sumter, The question being put upon the report of tho Committee, together with the resolution offered by Dr. Haynesworth, they were unanimously adopted. The meeting then adjourned. MATHEW JAMES, Chairman. Alister Garden, Secretary. A RARE EXHIBITION?HONESTY IN A FEDERAL WHIG EDITOR? . THE HOOE CASE. The Editor of'the Lexington (Virginia) Gazette, C C. Baldwin, Esq. a decided Whig of the modern school, treats the case of Lieutenant Hooe like an honest man. He maintuins that it would have been as absurd in the President, to set aside the finding of the court convicting the accused upou charges and spccificalions to which the negro testimony was not applicable* as it would be in ah ordi nary court of criminal junsuicuon 10 sci aside a conviction of murder on one indict* ment, because improper evidence was ad* milled upon another. Having illustrated this point, he proceeds to another, as follows, viz: "2d. By the common law and the uniform practice in the navy under it, negroes are competent witnesses against white men in Virginia, because that is very properly forbidden by an express law of the State. They arc good witnesses, however, in many of the free Slates. They were, then, competent legal witnesses in the case. The question then arises, what right has the Federal Executive to repeal the laws of the land, merely because he may deem them inexpedient? Are our Whig friends?are the freemen of this land?prepared to surrender this monstrous and despotic authority into the hands of the Federal Executive? Yet this is the very principle involved in the case, for the President is universally censured by the Whig press, because he would not repeal the law of the land, authorizing negroes to give evidence against white men. As a Whig, as a Republican, intensely jealous of Federal encroachments, nay more, as an American freeman, we,' for one, enter our protest against such a monstrous usurpation of power by the Federal Executive. " Let us not be misunderstood. We are" no advocates for negro evidence' against While men* On the contrary, we are strongly op; osed to it. But let the ' loathsome, the disgraceful, the degrading ! law be repealed by Congress?by the Re-1 presenlatives of the people?not by the ! Federal Executive. What freeman can tblcrate the bare iJea of Executive legislation? Give this power to your Executive, and he is a despot, and you are his slave." Thus saiih a Whig Editor in V.rginia! Come from what quarter it may, it is true Democratic doctrine. Well, what is the point of attack against t- o.L.i i ?. ._ ,u:_ ? f, Ko Hie 1" IHSH'flll in una wsci n ia mat uv has not ALTERED THE LAW! Ilia that he has not USURPED THE RIGHTFUL POWER OF CONGRESS! Botts and Co. call on the South to oppose the President because he has not in this case become an USURPER! Yes, the very men who daily and recklessly |chargc him with usurpation, complain of him also because he does not usurp the law-making power! It is not at all remarkable that the Whig Editor of the Gazette should think it necessary to give reasons for venturing to be honest in any thing which relates to the Administration. Honesty and candor are so rare in the newspapers of that parly, that we never expect to meet with them without an apology. Llear wtiat Mr. Halriwin says: " We hare been told by some of our friends that it was very imprudent in us to express this opinion; that it might he tised to injure the Whig cause. To this we have two brief replica. First: we shall always do justice, we trust, even to our worst enemies, "tho' the heavens fall." We scorn that pusillanimous, criminal prudence, which, for party purposes, would countenance injustice even to a foe. We were taught by maternal piety that honesty was the best policy, that the right was always the most -prudent; and may the lightnings of IJeaven blast us if we ever forget the lesson. We owe a higher Jegiance to truth than to parly. "Our second reply is, that we can't help blabbing right out whatever we think. We abhor all concealment and scorn all trickery. A manly frankness, a lofty independence, an ingenuous candor, we es| timatc above all price, as one of the noblest traits of the human character. In a word, such unfortunately is our moral constitution, that IVc can't be silent and tee will not lie We hope our friends are satisfied.1 We need not say that the columns of our paper arc open to tiic freest discussion of the whole subject." From the Glebe. CARICATURE PRINTS. The Whigs have spent thousands of I i ii w a * 11 < tt Lr (hov m i a. uouars III una najr. II V H?^ take Uie taste and sense of the people, by I supposing that they are to make their] cause popular by degrading and disgusting displays of the Ppesidext, General Jackson, and others of their opponents. i They arc greatly indebted to our forbearance for not retorting upon them this sjrt of attack. Never was a party more *r ' & Jt ?,. ' p v- - 'NP > fc -k > .? ^ < " * * . . v * * open than they are to the severest retaliation. What a picture for instance, might be exhibited of their hero, and the proceed-1 ings under his selling and shipping laws.1 For the sale, let a woman be exhibited in a crowd of buyers of all colors; the auctioneer calling "out for bidders on onej side, her husband and crying children,1 and the General 'confronting het, by saying she will be taken "to a hospitable mansion of a virtuous citizen," and be reclaimed from " her vicious propensities," and advising her not to abscond from her master or mistress's service, and she will not be whipped. This would make a good picture. The whipping process would make a still better. There would be the public whipping post, with a woman tied to it, and tne constable flourishing his cowhide. In the crowd are seen her little children, and the General, with the volume of Indiana laws in his hand, giving directions to the constable. He reads; 41 On her hare back;" and she is stfipped?" Well laid on" and slash goes the cowhide. . VViiat interesting ornaments those picMires would make, hung up "in the hospitable mansions of these virtuous citi-1 zehs," who buy their servants at these] sales; and how they would , help to keep these servants in order, and reclaim them from "their vicious propensities!" In Gov. Cass's work on France is the il- - fi it ; .1 _ r .1 . 1._ me luiiuwing uuecripuon 01 uie caiacomua under the city of Paris. The author had been speaking of the frequency with which Marie Antoinette, in her earlier days, visited these dismal regions of the dead. "But I must confess, that I surveyed with surprise one place associated by tradition with her name, and which assuredly 1 should have thought presented the last scene a young, beautiful and accomplished woman would desire to visit.? This was a stone bench in the catacombs underjhe city of Paris, which our guide told us Jiad been constructed for the temporary repose of the Queen and the gay and gallant Count d'Artois, when examining that impressive repository of the mortal remains of many generations which have died in this great city. You know wiesr immense excavations exienu unuer a considerable part of the capital, and that they have no doubt furnished its building materials, since the earliest limes. They arc no longer worked, because the streets and manv of the houses having been undermined the surface of the ground, as well as buildings, occasionally fell in, and the government felt it necessary to check the farther progress of the evil.? Pillars have been constructed in the most exposed situations, and as it is some time since I have heard of any accidonts, I presume there are no farther apprehensions. The entrance is secured, and admittance is obtained with some difficulty, for in Europe, the public authorities are more careful of life than we are, and persons having been separated from the guides haye become lost and perished in this vast field of the dead. What end can be more frightful! To wander in this imkmiBA ffiisPANndail kv tkn1 iiiruou Liiai iivi'iiuuciu ouit uuuuvu uj mv most revolting emblems of mortality, to perish in the midst of departed generations, is terrible indeed, 'flhe booes are all arranged with horrible symmetry. Pillar after pillar, and wall after wall, of arms and legs and ribs hedge in the visiter <nd form a narrow path along which he follows the guide in an impressive silence. And as the torches which are carried, and which alone light up these regions impenetrable to day, shed their feeble and flickering rays upon these sad memorials of humanity, the scene is painful beyond description. And then come to the columns of sculls, and you may almost fancy, as the fitful light strikes them that they are grinning upon you with diabolical malice. The whole cavern docs resemble the Valley of the Shadow of Death so powerful ly described by the prophet, rendered still more strange by the display of a kind of taste in the arrangement of the materials. "1 breathed freer when the portal of this great tomb closed behind me." The Albert Bonnet.?Last autumn, when Prince Albert was on a visit preliminary to the British Court, the young Queen and he, used frequently to wander amongst the shady wooded walks of Windsor* On one occasion, on returning her bonnet was slightly bent back round its front, the Prince it appears had been thinking more of the woman than the Onppn. ns a crallant kniorht should, and o # o ? had, in some pressing attentions to the Queen, committed a slight tresspass upon her millinery. The young ladies of the court perceived at once the slight derangement, but were delighted tvith the improvement, and immediately as toon as etiquet e permitted, hurried to their milliners gave orders for the new fashion of bonnets with turned back fronts, and Secured their Royal Mistress in her future little wanderings from betraying appearances: for where all were alike, there could be no suspicion of particularity.? : Such was the origin of the Albert Bonnet, ; and so attractive and becoming is the fash; ion in the bright eyes of young ladies, that like its origin, it is now almost uni? i vcrsal.?English Paper. I New Orleans, Aug. 1. Criminal Court.?Dr. Hines again.-' When we entered the court yesterday, the doctor sat solitary and alone in the prisoners' dock, and as they say of the theatre, there was a perfect "jam" in the couit, occasioned by the anxiety to hear V". iij his trial. The costume of the doctor tras different from that which lie wore on the occasion of his previous appearance in public. He retained the full quantity oi wrist ruffles and shirt frill, put on, perhaps, an extra finger ring, but in every( other respect he metamorphosed himself so far as his "toggery" could do so. Instead of a frock he wore a dress coat; a light vestsupplied the place of a dark one, mlitta nsnts and dress numos took the aiiu ?rn??v |'? | f place of black pantaloons and boots. About the time of opening the court, the District Attorney informed the judge that he had received information of the indisposition of Dr/Hirres' or Walker's principal counsel, Mr. Grymes; he would therefore more that the trial be postponed to Friday of next week. Before the court would comply with the motion it was thought necessary to ask the prisoner if he was prepared to go to trial. ? He answered that the interest of the public and his own rights demanded a speedy trial, but in the absence of his coqpsrl he could not think of proceedipg with the case. One of the prisoner's counsel, Mr. N. R. Jennings, now asked the court what would be the sum otr which the prisoner, would be admitted to bail. He reminded the court that it was originally fixed at 92.5UU, and wished to know if subsequent events had any influence on the mind of the court or had determined his honor in lessening or increasing the amount. The judge said he did not remember having flxeu the bail at the sum mentioned by the gentleman: if he had done so it was through mistake. The bail should now be, however, $10,009; and from facts which have recently transpired, he regret* ted the law did not permit him to make it more. "Besides, I do not know," added the judge, "what charges, exclusive of the present one, the Attorney General may have against him." The District Attorney: "I have three charges against him, may it pkase the court: the one of slave stealing, for which he stands indicted; and I intend also to sue him for swindling and breaking jail." This brought the prisoner on his legs, who appears somewhat ambitious of indulging in oratorical display. It was true, he said, that he, in company with five Others, did last night [Wednesday night] attempt to break jail and escape?but what arc the "circumstances that led to this? One of the principal keepers of the prison had tampered with the prisoners for two days previously. lie offered to supply them with the necessary tools, to furnish them with keys, and re sorted to other chicanery, fur no other purpose that he, the prisoner, could conceive, but to continue the popular prejudice against him, and to furnish an excuse for making his eoniiuemeut more irksome and oppressive. The District Attorney asked who wob the keeper to whom he alluded. Prisoner:?" It is not one, buUthree? Mr. Labourdette, Mr. Androse and Mr. Pino. I did not break the jail, though I was the first to go out when it was broken, and your honor would hare done the same if placed i:i my.situation and oppressed by every power that has been brought t?? bear against me. 1 lear persecution, but I tremble not at justice. The malversation."-" Here the prisoner was silenced by the judge; the court could not I.ear his accueni nnr. unfounded as lie believed them to he. The Attorney General:?"Let him go on?there is no danger to be apprehended' from any thing he says; he might be speak-1 ing for tep days and six hours, and nothing j that he could say would affect the public. With regard to what he said of Mr. Labourdelte, he felt authorised to say it was a lie; but of this it was unnecessary to speak here. IIow does the court intend to treat the motion?" + The court?"To exact $10,COO of good free-hold securit), most decidedly" The prisoner's counsel trusted the judge would interpose his merciful authority, and order that no unnecessary severity might be used towards the prisoner in cou' ? i? ? 1---1 .1- ? A sequence OI wrini Iiau rcceunj uuvuncu. The judge said that the sheriff was responsible tor the prisoners in his charge, and was the best judge of the surveillance which it was necessary to use. He was then handcuffed and remanded to prison. The Tomato.?Now is the time for gathering this healthy and most desirable vegetable, which is cooked In various ways according to the peculiar taste of people. As a silud it is good?as an omlct. with butter, eggs, and crumbs of bread, capi tnl?it is good stuffed and baked?good stewed down close with a fat piece of beef and Lima beans?in short, in what position is it not good! Recently the Tomato has been successfully used in medical cases. It is good for a cough ?soothing to the lungs. Use it freely in the hot months to check the accumulation of bile. If you wish to dry and | ack them away in bags for winter, gather them when ripe and scald them to get the skin off?then boil them well with a little sugar and salt, but no water?spread them in thin cakes i t the sun, and when dry pack them away in a dry room.?iV. Y. Star. An Old Bachelor's Cut at the Ladies When we see a neat, pretty girl, with a free but innocent air?dressed tasteful yet simple?with cheeks which we can haidly help kissing, and with a pair of heavenly blue eyes, which seem to repose in perfect security beneath their silken lashes, N how can we help loving her! Bat trhe^ we see a woman whose looks seem to sty that she is sojourning somewhere about the region of 39, dressed off in pink ribbons, mock gold safety chains, and pinch[back breastpins, and mincing her steps as if treading on eggs, 6ne reminds us of an old piece ot furniture scoured op to sell. From the New York Signal. LETTER OP JOSEPH N A, PO LEON. We find the following letter in the Courier deg Etats Unis. It 'bejn date ' London, 26Ui May, 1840, and ir.ee,addressed by Count Survilliera.'to Mardhir Clauzel, by whom it was eomruunieated to the President of the Council. We do not remember seeing this letter in: attijr English paper, and, regarding it as im? portant in- a historical point of view, we lake the pains to translate it: My I>ear Marshal?I hare reed your report relative to the honors to be rendered 40 the memory of the Emperor. I know not whether yon arc aware that! in Ifilfi (ha F.mnornr remitted Ukinstt>. veral millions in state drafu, (rescrip* tions) and appropriations for his cjvil iiit, -, and to M. Perregaux, chamberlain in ser> vice, and a partner in the house of Lafitte four millions in gold, the evening of Ma departure for Malmaisoo. . * ? . * . When we arrived at Rochelprt, intent on embarking for America ip, tU(0 lifle* /-? rent vessel, he requested that I would not sail until after I had been aasureB t^athe had escaped the surveillance of the English squadron. 1 asked him what use I should make of the six millions in rescriptions which 1 had deposited with toy . \ brother-in-law, Mr. Clary. "I hope," he replied, that we snail meet in America, but if it is written that we shall not tee each other again save in another world, then, my friend, yon will make aoeh use of it as you would judge I should make myself--if I were in your place and yon in mine." The four millions in gold, for. which jjftT thawed ino the acknowledgment, he it* posited by his will with the house of Lafilte; the six millions in paper escaped-the : vigilance of the police; encksad ilt-. t strongbox, and buried under theeareof M. Clary and his faithful secretary; they were returned to me in London ie 1889, A the time of my first return front America., I have disposed of a great portion of lifese effects, (they are payable to the bettert) conformably with the intentions of the Emperor; there remains four millions. My brother Lucein received- directly-from * *1? * ttllinna r^otr hie #{?{! me EiuipcnM twu iiiiiiivuir nwm ? ? listi , Of the four millions at my disposition, I appropriated one million for the noble remnant of imperial guards, and-one mil* ! lion to replace that which youreemmission proposes over and ubove the credit already demanded, convinced that hi would have done that which \ noW'do? he who knew so well that gold is, in its last analysis, the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave. If we shall ever meet in another world, Napoleon will approve the use which I make of hi* trnst.^ I rely upon you, my dear Marshal, to present, in a suitable manner, the devoted homage* of my sentiment* to the country * whose sympathies in behalf of the man I have most loved, have touched me sensibly. Accept my assuranc of continued friendship. Your affectionate friend. JOSEPH NAPOLEON, We can no longer give credence to the adage, that ''a person can do but one thing it a time." While passing round ? cotrpon a few evenings ago. we saw a woman sitting on a stool, milking a cow, suckling a child, smoking a pipe, and singing? .' There's room enough in Paradise, * 1. _ It tl 'j here's room enongu id giori, al) at the same time. We like an energetic character, and were not a little tickled at this one, but soon became absorbed in thought on the multiplied avocations of men, and came to the concluson that he was right who said, "we cannot have t?o many irons in the fire."?Light-wood Torch. NEW SHOES. THE subscribers have just received the following kinds of SHOES, made expressly to their order in Philadelphia and Durham: f Gentlemen's best CalfckiivShoes. Ladies' American &. English Kid Slippers, Misses 44 ' 44 v 44 Ladies' Seal and Leather Walking Shoes, Misses " " 44 44 Children's4' 44 44 Bootees Also,?Boots and Shoes of every description made to order at short notice by experienced wcrkmen. JONES & HUGHSON, ' July 11. rr-p=>ii?Ticu iii:;t?Broim ' that in pursna >:t ofjhe instructions contained in the rc.oiutions passed by the citizens of Camden at the meeting held oa the 28ih of June last, the Town Council of Camden, will apply to the General At*, sembly at its next session, for an amend* ment of the charter of lite Town so far is to authorize the Council to lay a "capitalion tax on each person in the town liable to perform patrol duty; the said capitation tax.not to exceed four dollars on each per* M son. ~ Ijy order of th^ Council, R. L. WILSON, Recorder. Aug. 1, 1840- 14i36 Resolved, That the Guard do seize, on : Sunday, all Negroes who reside permanently out of the Town of Camden, and treat them as the Ordinance dii ects, with* out a legnl permit.