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about four million of acres?and to move to the ozoelient country procured fur them on the Upper Mississippi, adjoining that of their old friends the Winehagoes, recently removed from Iowa. The treaty with the Meuontonies has, in effect, extinguished the Indian title to the whole cpuntry east of the Mississippi, south of , Lake Superior. Within the last four years eight important treaties have been negotiated arith different /Indian tribes, and the United States have ac# quired, at the costoffl,84S,000, 18,500,000 acres of land; about 2,100,000 acres of it have been assigned to other tribes for their perma???*'l??J a twin nnn aha roonrvurl 'lirm IC^IUCHL'C , auu ?,9l/U?UUU aiu *.ovi vxj for a similar purpose; leaving the remainder, 13,5000,000 acres, ready for immediate settlement and cultivation in the rapidly-growing States tvf Wisconsin and Iowa. There is also a prospect fbat Mississippi, as well as other Stales in which some of the Choctaws still remain, will soon he freed from them. Measures for their emigration are in progress, under modi"" ? ? SmIa niitkin tk/% Iflaf lieu nrniii^riuoiii9 rmcicu unu .??. year, which promises a favorable result. ? There are sixteen manuaMabor schools and eighty-seven boarding and district schools now in successful operation among the various Indian tribes, and the number of Indian youths attending them, according to the reports received at (he Department, is 3,682?of which 2,650 are males, and the remaining 1,0 32 are females. The schools are generally in charge of missionary societies, and are well conducted* "T ^ * ; . Fran the Richmond Times of 25th ult. ' MRsf FLOYD'S RESOLUTIONS. The following resolutions were reported in the House of Delegates on Friday, by Mr. J. B. Floyd, Chairman of the Special Committee on ?ihe Wilmot Proviso and kindred subjects." 1. Resolved, That the institution of slavery was felly discussed by the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States, and that the rights of the slaveholders were fully recognized and amply protected by its provisions; that, without the compromises then solemnly entered into, the Uni >n of the States never could have been formed; that any attempt to abridge the rights of the slaveholder, or to prohibit his free emigration with his slaves to any portion of any territory of the United States, acquired by the common blood and treasure of the whole nation, is a gross and palpabte violation of the Federal Constitution, j 2. Resolved, That Virginia cannot, in honor of In justice to herself or to posterity, think for one moment of a submission to a law of Congress, baring tor its object an abridgement of the rights secured by the Constitution to the slaveholder and to the South; and she will regard^* passage of such a law a direct infraction of the Constitution of the United States, and, consequently, a subversion of the equal rights and benefits secured by that instrument alike to all portions of the Union. 3. Resolved, That Virginia will resist such I an act of aggression to the last extremity, and I by every means which she can command. | 4. Resolved, That in the event of the passage by Congress of the Wilmot Proviso, or i any kindred measure which can or shall bare i a practical operation upon the interests and I rights of the State* holding slaves, then, and m j that case, if the Legislature shall have adjourn- I ?d, it shall be the doty of the Governor to convene the Genera' Assembly of this Common- I wealth, to lake into consideration the said act, < *s well as the mode and measure of redress. i 5. Resolved, That the Governor of the < Commonwealth be requested to send a copy of i these resolutions to each of the States of this Union, and also to oar Senators in Congress, I and each of the members of the House of Re. t preventatives. Mobe Gold?New Mexico.?Col. Emory, I of the topographical engineers, in his report of < the expedition westward from the mountains of i New Mexico, along the course ol the river t Gila, speaks of having met with gold at several t points on his route. The following in relation to the rirer Prielo, which empties into the Gila, I is interesting, and "important, if true:"? i As the story goes, the Prieto comes down 1 fmm iKn mnnnl?ini freighted with irold. ft* i o o sands are said to be full of this precious metal, f A few adventurers who ascended this river, t bunting beaver, washed the sands at night, s when they baited, and were richly rewarded f for tbeir trouble. Tempted by their success, i they made a second trip, and were attacked and f most of them killed by the Indians. My au. ( thoritv tor this statement is Landreau, who, though an illiterate man, is truthful." a a Hox. Robert J. Walker ox the Ciiol- l kra ?The Secretary of the Treasury has re- I eently written a very long letter detailing, to e certain gentlemen who solicited it. his "experi. c nee" in regard to Astatic Cholera when it j last visited this country in '32. The mode of i treatment, in Mississippi, is stated in much min- q uteness; but we observe but very few points not o over and over again embodied in the very co- c pious extracts we have given, at different times from the foreign journals, which (particularly those of England and Scotland) have been teeming several months past with all sorts of r 9 ** at-a _ _ j r. tit .i tsiatiaoie cures ana neveriauing prescriptions, n Tie Secretary, however, disagrees with the p doctors in one remarkable particular. He tl does not believe iu the use of opium, for the rea* s son that it fails to arouse the system, or accel. g lerate the action of the calomel. He highly h recommends the practice of Dr. Cartwright, of is Nalcbes, Miss., as follows: p 1. To watch the first symptoms of the disease, si and administer the proper remedies without a si moment's delay. si 2. To administer forthwith, after the first 6 symptoms, a dose composed of ten grains of cam 9 pbor, twenty grains of red pepper, twenty grains ii of calomel, to be taken in powders, if practi. d cable; if not, iu pills; 3. As soon as the dose jr was swallowed, to strip the patient and rub vi him gently but effectually with some stimulating p ointment, by as many hands as could have con. tc venient access, the rubbing to be continued so sc as not to occasion fatigue until the medicine H produced its proper effect. T 'I'hn earn u>a> rhi.-flv bv ilip nnum. I' lion of the calomel upon the liver, in changing it ibe rice water secretions to those usually pro- al duced by calomel, which generally took place lx according to my recollection, in from one to y< two hours after the dose was repeated. The In object ofthe camphor and red peper was to ac- va celerate the action of the calomel, an well as to rouse the energies ofthe system. The purpose re ofthe stimulating ointment was to maintain to warmth at the surface, to arrest the coldness of the skin, which U so marked a symptom of the he desease, to keep up the circulation of the blood, ha and to prevent that settling of the blood upon te the central organs, and its coagulation, causing be its resemblance to a tarry substance, which is Sc so marked an accompaniament of the disease, of ??? er The New Hampshire House of Represents- th< lives has passed a bill to "protect chastity." ea Fran &e Charleston Courier. p TO THE PLANTERS OF THE UNITED a STATES. c One, who is of the opinion that when the price of an article falls below the cost of pro- p UUCllon, no Class, nm pvkii me consumers, are o ultimately gainers by it, is desirous of saying a c few words to you with reference to the disposal p of this year's c?-op of Cotton, my object being u to shew that it is decidedly your interest to sell d at home, rather than consign to this country. When the Cotton belongs to the importer c he counts the cost, and has an interest in giving o his support to the market; whereas, when he receives it on consignment, his only object is cl to earn his commission, so much so that often It of late, when there has been an extraordinary t< pressure, to effect sales, nt a time when sound ti policy would dictate evidently n contrary course, h if any one asked what is the reason of this ? n the invariable reply was, '-Oh! it is consigned ti Cotton, and the holders don't care a straw for I the price, so that they realize the advance." a I appeal to? any one, who has had opporlunl z ties of observing, whether this is not the case. It is perfectly evident that nothing at the present moment tends so much to keep Cotton at such ruinous prices, as the fear that you will not sell A at home at such low rates, and that a quantify of consigned Cotton will come here and be forced on the market, thereby taking away the interest t< .1?. 1 I .1.1 I I.. ^ i uiiii an niipuiicr sinmiu iitivet 111 ouji|*uriiiig pri- u ces. and milking it his only object Id sell. * J One word more. Supply your ttiAikels as y sparingly as possible, Ariel when obliged td sell, u do so on the spot. You may depend upon it, that the consigning system is a ruinous one to g the planter, because it is the most effectual way tl of keeping down prices on this side, t may tl add that this does not emanale from a Tyro, but ti one who has knowli Ihe Cotton trade for up- 1< \V4rds of Twenty Years. tl Liverpool, Dec. 1, 1848. e c Correspondence of tire Baltimore Sun. C Washington, Dec. 23. 1849. o Agreeably to notices served during yesterday, tj a meeting of Southern members, of the two Houses, I learn, took place last evening, in the a Senate Chamber, in reference to Southern in- li tercsts, as connected with the question of slave- 1 ry. It was intended to be confinpd entirely to if members from the slaveholding States, and re- n porters and the public were excluded, though a a resolution, I understand, was adopted to pub- o lish the proceedings, officially, hereafter. Ex-Governor Metcalfe, Senator from Ken e tucky, presided, assisted by Senator Atchison s! and ex Governor Gayle, a representative from v Alabama, as Vice-Presidents, and Mr. Venable, fc representative from North Carolina, as Sec- n retary. Between sixty and seventy members a of the two Houses, I am informed, were pres- tl ent. st Mr. Bay ley, ofVirginia, offered a series of rt resolutions. I anr. informed, eoibracintr essen. m , n I I tally, in regard to the rights of the States and c< tho powers of the general governments, the L principles of the resolutions of 1796. yi These resolutions, Mr. Stephens of Georgia, al after some remarks, moved to refer to a committee of one member from each of the slave- in holding States, to report upon the whole sub- T ject involved, at an adjourned meeting to be th held 15th January ensuing. ai An animating debate ensued, in which of Messrs. Bayley, Stephens, Toombs, Foote, Pen lleton. Woodward, Butler, Tompkins, Chap- fb nan Morse, Holmes, Rusk, Calhoun, and West, ei ;ott and one or two others, whose names I have ut lot ascertained, participated. 01 Mr. Calhoun, I understand, approved of Mr. lit Bayley's resolutions, but coincided generally in in he propriety of the reference proposed by Mr. th Stephens. bt Gen. Rusk, one of the Senators from Texas, [ presume, from the information which I have, ta expressed the sentiment of the majority of the si< neeting. Like those of Mr. Calhoun, his re- te narks were listened to with the most profound be ittention. VY He was therefore obliged to the gentleman fo "rotn Georgia (Mr. Stephens) for his motion to of eler these resolutions and adjourn until the re 15th January. There was to his mind a man- w fest impropriety in passing them now, The w subject should be thoroughly investigated, and nc he resolutions and address (if such au one as m ipoken of ought to be adopted) should corres>ond with each other, and both be calm, just on ind dignified, as well as firm. He hoped there- sti bro, the proposition of the gentlemen from ac Georgia would be unanimously adopted. an The proposition of Mr. Stephens was finally wl igreed to with great unanimity. Moderate men mi i i _ ...r L~i! :ti _ _ . i mu pruuem counsels, i neueve, win prevail at sn he South, though all firmly unite in resisting to ev he utmost extent the encroachments of the fid- ci< sral government upon the constitutional rights if the slaveholding Stales, and in a&serting the thi ustice of their claim to an equal participation ge n the benefits resulting from the territory ac- fei [iii re J. In this there will be no difference of co ipinion between Southern Whigs andDemo- bu rats. in< ? ab Washington. Dbc. 24. th< The slavery question, as to this District, is apidly approaching a crisis. I had supposed soi hat it would be deferred till afler another ap. un orlionment of representatives. I have supposed fee hat the thirty second Congress would abolish ce lavery in the District, or remove the seat of Ba overnment westward. But circumstances the ave conspired to precipitate the crisis, and it Th > now probable that the (louse, at least, is pre- shi ared to act on the subject at the present ses- ted ion. The (louse has already resolved that pre laverv shall be excluded from the new posses- cat ions of the United States, by a vote of 107 to a 1 7. They have already decided, by a vote of tha 5 to 95, that the buying and selling of slaves qui i this District should cease. They have also of eclared by a vote little less than that of a ma- ' irity, that the negroes of this District should I a ote themselves free! I allude to Mr. Gidding's nei reposition to submit the question of abolition on i the vote of the slaves and free blacks them- ' ilves. The design of the abolitionists in the me [oiwe is not limited to the abolition of slavery, this 'heir object is to insult and goad the South, he] hey will not be content even with abolition, if ure is brought about by the agency of white votes tha one. They say to the South, the slaves shall all ; your masters. They shall vote you out of If a <ur properly. We will give them the ballot- or >x, and protect them against you with all the woi ist power of the free Staes. ( Of course, it was time for the South either to in t sist, or to make up their minds to unconsti- visa tional submission. dou The convention of the Southern members, cei* sld on Friday night in the Senate chamber, yon ivc met the question in a firm but conciliatory mal mper. There was perfect harmony of views con itween whigR and democrats, at the meeting, that ime were in favor of an immediate declaration pow Southern rights, and an address to the South- ^ n people ; but it was thought belter to refer er t b subject to a committee of one member from rive cb State, which committee is instructed to re- mes ort at the nejft meeting, on the 15th ot Janury. Mr. Stephen*, of Ga-, is chairman of the oinmlttee?Mr. Calhoun is a member of it. I do not know what they will propose, but robably they will adopt I he recioinniendation f the South-Carolina Legislature, and call a onvention of the Southern Slates to devise a Ian ot poacihle separation from the Union, nlc89 their rights be respected. They cannot o less than this, and they may do more, Among other measures talked of, is the retroession of the District, excepting that portion ccupied by the public buildings and grounds, to laryland. The time has passed by in which fiat scheme would quiet agitiation. "/t is too ite" for that. The consequence of retrocession j say nothing of the injurious effect on the in'.rcst of tne city?would be that the abolition its would throw off their present pretexts, and take open and undisguised war on the inslituon of slavery in the Slate of Maryland.? lowever it is a matter to he entertained and dvised upon. Aas one of tho permanent cilicns of the District, I would not oppose it. ION. MRk CALHOUN'S SPEECH, it the meeting of Southern Alerhbcrs on the Slavery Question. In my letter ofyesterday 1 allilded very briefly ) the remarks ol Mr. iCalhoun, at Hie meeting f Soiitherrt members ol the two Houses on Friay eV'ening. To day I am enabled to give ou a more elaborate report \Vhi'ch maybe relied pon as substantially Correct. He snid: The resolutions of the gentleman from Virinia (Mr. Bayley) uro good, and, considering ie length of time which he has had to prepare hem, do him great credit, but they are defec. ive in several particulars?I am, therefore, J88 unwilling to agree to the motion of the genprrin n frnm (ionm'ia ( VIr Sfpnhpns.h AllOth y ? &? \ ;?i / r consideration strongly impels to the same ourse. I am throughly impressed with the neessfty of harmonious and united nction, both on ur part and the part of the Southern communir I am opposed, however, to too great delay, nd consequently would prefer that the commit?e should report to a meeting to ho held on Oth instead of the 15th of January. The Legdatures of several of the Southern States are ow in session, and it would be well that our ddress should reach them in times to be acted n by them before their adjournment. I consider the address indispensable. What ver action is taken must proceed from the aveholding Stales. If the Constitution he iolated, and their rights encroached upon, it is >r them to determine the mode and measure of ;dress. We can only suggest and advise. We re on the theatre of action?the witnesses of te slaveholding part of the Confederacy?we ;e them plainly, we feel them deeply; they are ipid and alarming; for who believes that proasitions which have, within a few days past, ammanded the Rupport of a majority of the rower House of Congress, would even three ?ars ago have been tolerated by any respect Me portion of either House. We are in the midst of events scarcely of less report than those of our revolutionary era.? he question is, arc we to hold our position in lis confederacy upon the ground of equals, or e we to content ourselves with the condition 'colonial dependence. Sir it will be worse than colonial dependence; r who would not prefer to be taxed and govned, without pretence of representa'ioa, than ider the forms of representation, to he grievisly oppressed by measures brer which we ive no control, and against which our reonstranccs are unavailing. It is undeniable at the encroachments upon our rights have sen rapid and alarming. They must be met. I conceive that no Southern man can enter Illf lill wiic iiiwiuv.i<it ?ins iucu ui lauir oui/iuio* r>n. Tho action of the South should be uni(J, temperate, but decided?our position must : taken deliberately, but held at every hazard, 'e wage no war of aggression. We ask only r the constitution and union and government our fathers. We ask ofour Northern breth. n to leave us those rights and privileges hich our fathers held, and, without securing hich for their cilildrt n, all know they would it have entorod Into this Union, Those we ust maintain. It appears to rnc proper that we, who are here i tho theatre of action, should address our cm tuents of the blaveholding States, briefly and curatoly portray the progress of usurpation id aggression, vividly exhibit the dangers hich threaten, and leave it in their hands to irk out tho proper lino of action. What that ould he it is needless here to discuss. What, er it is, it should be temperate, mild and de> Jed. Having expressed these views, I have to say it I make no objection to the motion of the ntleinen Irom Georgia (.Mr. Stephens) to ro the whole matter to a select committee, to nsider maturely and report to a future meeting t I would rather prefer ail earlier day for that ;eling than tho 15th of January. I am, 1 ove all, for union, harmony and decision on 1 ; part of the South. 1 Mr. Pendleton's remarks (which were made netime previously to Mr. Calhoun's) are also I derstood to have been very sensible and eflive, fie expressed his general acquina. use in the resolutions of his colleague(Mr. , yley.) He did not no well, however, like ( > expression in them, "measure or redress." ( lat seemed to contemplate that the South juld wait until the wrong* had been consumaI and then undertake to redress them. He ( Terrcd rather measures of "notice and preJtion." He was willing at once to lay down ine, and let their Northern brethren know j .t they must not transcend it. He subsepntly, however, acquiesced in the proposition , Mr. Stephens. The substance of Mr. Foote's remarks was, ^ m informed, that he was ready for instanta- j" jus action, and was willing at once to vote ' the resolutions submitted by Mr. Bayley. . rho only point of difference between the . mbers in the discussion, was as to whether i was a proper time for any action. Some f d tha the South should wail until the Meas- 1 s lately threatened should become laws? a t they ought first to resort to all constitution- !} means of opposition to defeat those measures. .11 these should he unavailing, then the I imp P seperate uclion on the part of the South ild have arisen. )thers held on the contrary, that action now, E he form of notice and precaution, was ad. S ible. It would be well, they Haid, to lay P . n the line beyond which they should con- r' re it wrong to submit to the aggression be- te d that line. If afterwards they resolved to S te that aggression, the responsibility of the sequences would be theirs. The South, in ai case, would have done everything in their al 'er to avert any serious discord. >11 sides, however, held that when the prop. ime should arrive, if it had not already ar* tr d the South should take firm and decided di sures to maintain its constitutional rights. *4 ? ?! tfL-'" Mi rnin.fi t ? Correspondence of the Chariotfon Courier. T Washington, Dec. 27. A Tbd abolition fever has pretty well subsided. ? 1 It was amusing, to day, to hear the abolitionists, in private conversation, stale their grievances. By way of variety, us Well as with a view to I give interesting information, I must mention cot what they say. They say that the Southern 'Th Convention of members has overawed all their pre nominal friends. They say that there are so BC| many men of the House who want office, under pja the incoming Administration, that they cannot even get an expression of opinion against slavery in the District of Columbia. They com- ' plain, particularly, ot Messrs. Vinton, Truman bet Smith, Caleb Smith. .Winthrop, the Speaker. ?b and King and Stephens, of Geo., as having used private influence to prevent any action, by the q House, on the subject of slavery, i'hey consid- ure er that the proceedings of this day, on the sub- C(JJ ject, of slavery,have given it a quietus for this ^ session. The truth of the matter is, that those who supported Gntts' resolution have intrigued a- we gainst it." They voted With a view to make fa Vor with their alxilltioii constituents. The matter is Considered as at rest, for this session. The Southern Committee will make a report, Ca and will no doubt, report the resolutions is that l|e' CoitgrCss has no right to interfere in any mat. ('Rl ter relating to slavery. That this will also, for f?r some lime at least, lie the judgment ofCongress, on; there can be no question. un< GOVERNOR MOSELEY'S MESSAGE, to. The following extract from the message of Governor Moseley to tho Legislature of Fiori- l'ai da, forcibly presents the issuo which must be cot inevitably met by the Soiflh. No Slate is more a"< I deeply interested in it than Florida, and we Ch i .:c_j .l_. i? r> ..?u 1...1.1 ivli I MIC glUUIIUU UliU IICJ JU.XCIUIIYC laiVCd SU^ll UUiU " ana manly ground: "Rut amid the congratulations which I should S,IS not repress as to the prosperous condition of our der beloved country, I cannot consider my duty as ' wholly performed, if I werp to omit an allusion to the threatning aspect of the clouds now low- w'h ering over our Southern horizon, enveloping in darkness the future destiny of our glorious con- ' federacy. The omens are potentoin that a chn systematic and incendiary assault upon the pe- sin: culiar institutions of tho South will soon be made, with a determination and strength which < can no longer be regarded with contempt. A Jin parly is ai rayed at the North a? the "free soil" ha\ party, formidable ibr its numbers and the abili- exn lyofits leaders. The objects and designs of Br; this party are boldly avowed, and will doubtless j be executed with zealous industry. I have no Ma fears that when the issue is distinctly presented, Ric the South will be united in its resistance to 0f this wanton aggression on its rights ; and that J all the differences of opinion, upon questions of and less vitul importance, will be merged in its do- S. I termination not to submit to any outrage, the (which, from the nature of our relations, as co j equal members of the same great family of Wi States,) is as insulting as it was unprovoked.? G But the lime is, perhaps, at hand, when it be- Chi comes us, as a State, deeply interested in the preservation of the rights of the slaveholder, to 3 announce otir opinions and feelings upon this est momentous subject. pi-ii "The adoption by Congress of the so called ed VVilmot Proviso.' as a "uncial rule for all new- pw ly acquired territory, and the submission, to it got by the Southern Slates, would reduce us to a pre condition of political inequality with the North- fed era Slates, wholly inconsistent with the object* uni of the Federal Union, as well as with our rights pen rs one of the sovereign parties to that compact, felt Inequality of political rights implies inferiority, thei and can never be submitted to as long as we retain the power to bo free, and that rightful appreciation of liberty, which is 'the richest jewel in our heritage as American?.' q "To preserve the Union, so dear to us, the full South has hitherto submitted to much; and, I Sta doubt not, is ready to submit to much more, "tat when the sacrifice involves anything short of a.111^ national degredation. Hut every American, ,lfl" who appreciates as he ought his privileges and duties as such, cherishrs in the deepest rcces- ^ ses of bis heart, an undying devotion to something dearer to him even than the Union which ;\rfc ho so much love?," Con Del pi _ Maryland Slavk Difficulty in Xkw qet York.?Some of the New York papers spoke jnj; of an "exciting kiJimpping case" in that city j|jlt last Wednesday, the circumstances being that low a negro boy named Charles Belt was seized in Kei Duann street and immediately conveyed to Lou (Jraves End Beach, L. I., off which point a Mai vessel bound South was anchored, waiting a *^a; fu i, iifin/l 'I'tia Cnmmnpftial rif FpiflflV Sfl VQ 1 ....... . _v" yjj? ' This morning, in the Oyer and Terminer, ^jjs before Judge Edmonds and two aldermen, a jjjs negro hoy, named Joseph Bolt was brought up 4\. I by officer Holse, of (he 3d district police, who Nfc\ had arrested the boy at Gravesend, L. I., on a No\ warrant issued by Judge Edmonds. Tho boy N, is cla med as a runaway slave by Mr. John Lee, of Frederick county, Md., who has ano- ^ j ther negro at large somewhere in '.his locality. .^eu Judge Edmonds committed the boy to the cus- 'pex tody of tho SherifT until to morrow morning, Ver when he will hear Mr. Whiting in behalf of Vir? the cluimant." Wis The Journal of Commerce says: ,j, ' The Kidnappers have exposed themselves Tay jnderthe Statute to ten years imprisonment in Casi :he Slate Prison, and it is understood that warrants will be issued for their immediate arrest." *ea 18; Caugiit at Last.?The three swindlers igj who have been prowling about in the counties >f Moore, Cumberland, Robeson, and Rich- V nond, in North Carolina, and in Marll>orough trad District in this State, for several weeks past, past vere arrested and committed to the Jail of the Richmond county. They had succeeded in ed u massing offseveral hundred dollars in ten dollar |jes :ounterfeit bills on the Bank of Cape Fear, one firm luudred dollars ol which was paid to Mr. n0\v Charles Dry, of Union county, N. C., in the 8(j|| )istrict of Marlborough S. C., for a horse; and ce8| 1180 to Mr. Noah Gibson, of Richmond, for a prCK] ouple of horses, We have been unable to jam any of tho particulars further than the T bove, and that they had refused fo give their COrd ames or answer any questions whatever.? that 'he country is rife with such swindlers, and the 8llffti eople should bo upon the lookout. year said South Carolina.?We are glad to find the ! garb lemocratic press of the country award to the j west allant State of South Carolina the ineed of a yt raise for her political honesty which is her just mise ght. She is indeed, unlike many of her sis- Ouri xs, " unshaken, unseduccd, unterrificd." peari he is now where she ever has been?standing catal rth pre eminently the defender of State Rights cordt id constitutional guaranties. She is carped : by political writers and Free Soil funatica? it they cannot reach the moral elevation of the 1 jr position, or understand the motives of pa- stitut iotism and the fixedness of purpose which in- one, ices her consistent action.?Monfgoifiery Hoys dccrtiser, . a vol 9 HE CAMDEN JOURNAL ws Wednesday Morning, January 3, 1849. D*We are requested to call attention to the rected Mail Arrangements in to-day's paper.? ey will in all probability be permanent for the sent year, no further change in the running ledulesof the different routes being comtemted at present. I The Markets. rhe sales of cotton during the past week have in very light, at prices ranging from 4} to 03. arleston quotations, 5 to 6|. Q*The Publisher of the Journal has the pleasi of announcing to his patrons that he has se* ed the services of VV. Tncrlow Castox, Esq. tho Editorial department of the paper, and that will enter upon the discharge of his duty next ek. SOUTH CAROLINA RAIL ROAD. We understand that the Directors of the S. j rolina Rail Road Company, at a meeting ! Id on Saturday evening, the 30th ult. dcci* 1 not to declare a dividend, for reasons set th in the resolutions below, which were iniinously adopted: Resolved, That the President and Director*, ! ler present circumstance*, feel it impossible declare a dividend, either in ca-h or script. Also, wherea*, the earnings of this Company re accumulated a large amount of property, i listing ofhalf the stock oft he Camden Branch J the lots and lands bought tor depots, in ( arleston and elsewhere, the payments for j iich prevents a cash dividend now: And, ereas, the said stocks and property are not ceptible as *tich of being distributed as divi- ( tds amongst the stockholders: Be it j '1esolecd, That it be referred to a Committee , report at the next meeting of this Board. , at shall be done with the said property and ck. Resolved, also, That the said Committee he trged to report on the establishment of a king fund to meet our debts.?Char. Con. 1 Commit lee to Examine the Bank and it* I nnches.?The following joint Committees < re been appointed, by the Legislature, to imine the condition of the Bank and its I inches. I For the. Parent Bank.?Messrs. Mazyck and 1 rshall of the Senate ; and Messrs. F. I). ' :hard?on. B. J. Johnson, Charles Macbeth. 1 the House. For the Columbia Branch.?Messrs. Gist ' I Caldwell of the Senate; and Messrs. John ' Preston, E. P. Smith, and IV. A. Owens, of House. i For the. Camden Branch.? Messrs. I. D. 1 Ison and Barnes, of the Senate; and Messrs. 1 VV. William*, J. B. Witherspoon, and James ntey, of the House. i Meeting of Southern Member* of Con I sss*?Look at the solemn Let that the South- 1 memher.s of Congress have l?een constrainto meet to devise some means of saving 1 n the honor of their section. What will ? ithern Editors say now, who hare been ? aching op that all is right? How will they I now, about tho charges of treason and dis- ' on, they hare made against the pitriotir 1 pie of South Carolina, and others, who hare ' and sympathized with tin m ? We leare ' into their own reflectiois ! I Augusta Republic. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. i ^he New York Herald ? f Friday last contains a ? report of the popular vote, in detail, of every i ie, compared with the result of 1841. The ement occupies near two pages of that paper, j will be valuable as a reference at future t iec- r Ve copy the following re-c pituiation of the uhr vote by States: e Taylor. ('as* V. Du'n. Scat. baioa 30,.*>10 31-31-3 ? ? tl ansa.*, 7,583 0,300 ? ? n inecticut, 34,310 27.047 5,003 ? I, aware, 6,421 5,898 83 ? n rida, 4,-3.37 3,233 ? 19 >rgia, 47,;?44 41.782 ? ? iaua, 70.159 74,698 8,643 ? \ mis, 33,215 56,626 IV 04 ? d a, 10,557 12,051 1,120 ? itucky, 66,988 49,751 ? ? n lisiana, l%,3-)2 lo,o41 1 ?e, 25,279 40,138 12,124 24 fl ssachusetts 61,300 35,398 38,263 ? ? yland, 37.707 34,528 125 ? higan, 23.949 30,687 10,389 12 , sissippi, 25,918 26,550 - - 1 souri, 32,671 40.077 ? ? r Iatnpehire 14,784 27,763 7,500 1,112 g v York. 228,551 114,592 110,519 2.545 v Jersey 40,009 36,"?80 849 <7 i Carolina, 44,000 35,319 85 ? j, o, 138,396 155,113 35,456 111 (] nsylv'a. 186,113 172,661 11,200 ? sland, 6,778 3,646 730 ? inessec, 64,459 58,452 ? ? as, 3,777 8,795 3 * 99 *' inont, 23,122 10,948 13,837 - n dnia, 45,013 46,487 9 29 li 'conson, 13,747 15,001 10,418 ? tl otal 1,361,748 1,223,292 292324 4.008 l lor over Cass, - - . . - 138,446 a and Van Buren over Taylor. - 1551,768 ; c Increase of Voters. rs. Voters Years. Voters. 0 IB 1,162,418 1840 2,402,658 n }2 1,252,296 1844 2,702,549 li 16 1,103,298 1848 2,861,272 r V t'e are gratified in being able to date that e ban worn rather a smiling face for the e week, notwithstanding it was the season of holidays. The Cotton market has present- a n animated field, and Considerable quantlhave changed hands within a few days, at n prices. ! is hoped that the foreign news, 0 hourly expected by the Europn, w-ill give || further activity to the market, and at pri- Q nore remunerative to those engaged in its e uction.?Charleston Mercury. w Ic iirkatknkd Distke8s ix Ireland.?Ac- w ing to the latest intelligence, it is affirmed j fr the poverty and starvation will equal the h, ring of the people during the inetnoriable of 1946: Men even of rank and title are },] to be subsisting on yellow meal and the jn age of ihoir garden. A Baronet in this pj of Ireland, who had an income uf$10,000 , fr) sar, has been so reduced as to accept the 1 rable office of Collector of Poor Rates.? I cjj ng the last fortnight shooting season ep., 1 to have tet in, in good earuest, and a long ' ^ ogue of these melancholy events are re? ty td in the columns of the Irish newspapers. ntity op Elections.??Tha Bill to amend dii Oth Section of the 1st Article of the Con- er ion, ohangjng *ba time from two days to b? for holding ?jlect|ons? was lost In the py 10 of Representatives, on the ltytb jpst,, by ed p of 79 ayes, to 31 noes. Seventy nine rnmmmsB. !> not being the Constitutional majority,, the Bill was defeated. This vote, however,*mdiraW [be wishes of a largo majority of the Lfljfisltt* lure for w change, which no doubt, ere \tttt0t Elections for two dap, opens flip door fof fraudulent con lunations, bargaining and qprjtipfiob, and, in our opinion, should be cJumgfftl,.. nmrrn Stale Bunmr. Cask or CiiolUba.?The Stewher Mont, gomery arrived here yesterday morning, having on hoard the body of Mr. Jesse Jordan, ?f Macon county, who died of Cholera aboufl2 o'clock the night previous. Mr. Jordan had hern on n tour to Red River, and bad jn?t left New Orleans, und was taken some boors after leaving Mobile on the boat, fie had, we leant been suffering Ibr some days previously with a derangement of the bowels. ? /* Alabama Journal. ' m ??\\t Fugitive Slavics.?Mr. Faulkner, in fhf Virginia Legislature, is urging the impoffandfr of some determined action on the part sfilke oiaie. in regara :o fugitive slaves. Me nfiiM slave population in some sections of Ibe Slate ? is rapidly thinning out, especially sine*,the recent legislation of Pennsylvania, proclwro'mg protection to all who mny crow her-border*. He estimates the yearly loss to the Stntei through the cunnimnre of the laws of .the neighboring States, at 1^90,000. * !r'?' ^ ^ 'rj -! "?t:! >*T- r;'-i (vf "j/f Eclipses ijc 1849.?In the year 1849 th*re * a ill be four eclipses: two of the sun and UKoof the moon. One of the the lunar eclipse's-wriii be visible in the United States. The first f eclipse will lie the sun. on the 22d of F*hrtla?yl and will he visible 'In the " western portuWso| Asia an/I the northwestern portion^of North America. The second ofthc moon, orrthe'Sth of March, and will lo* veiMe in llttf United States. 'I*he third will be a total eclipse" of Ifclj sun onthel7th of August; and the fiwinh an eclipse of the moon on the 2d of September, both invisible m the United States. httfi W'J From lite Savannah (Georgian Slot nh. t r Woman is like the ro<e which Imds and blooms on the parterre of life. Ill the cradle, when a sweet had, the prance of affection fills the atmosphere around and about ber.. " When the prattle of infancy is heard from ber lips and her smiles irradiate the ejref ?f parenia! affection the fragrance increases. Kk die Imd derelopes its beauties to ibe eve aad the knit limbs allow Iter to fly alioiit the domes* tic ciicle, the joy of her parents is eofatic. There follows the developoient of heart, Httfcr ing the bud to the Imsom whence- swells soft* tenia I affection. . ' : '.'?** t'/t * Mind quickly developes its nalire enegte*, ind the heavenly spark which animates' the mortal frame adds new char-its to.the ckertabpd jbj'ct of affection. ' ",v"-" The tide of life flows on, and in 9i spring new beauties cluster around-tbe hired oar, and i few summers more she is seen at itg altar iledging her affections to one whose manly ivorth has won her pure and guileless heart;^ The early hearth is left but not fbrsalven, lug Date run I lore has matured her affection (imply liir the poor return which npany am *arthly flower yields for anxious careHer heart r* Imbued with nature which reuses to live without that pure afmosphiere kvhich so lar has warmed her lieing. and i1 ansa if ter latent beauties to expand and attract Hit! id nir.ition of the manly youth, who claims bar T his bride. Her wealth is a guileless and confiding leart, and the gentle current, along wbo?e u?uffl'd banks she has hitherto culled'tlfe swe^t?Sf OulVffft. er\uh*z *# !! liu lint- (u.r arillinirt T ? "J *" nurmur. . t* r . :?-T Her happiness is complete, iv* rrligious C*tf|b llumeg (he present and gilds the future^ wbil? nemory reviews the past without a panf froth lulies neglected or aflcctions not acknoxrfdged. ; Youth and beauty attend her steps?atl her lays arc pleasant, while peaceful contentment, nukes hrr heart exult as Hope in the vista teckons her on to joys in scenes yet-to be< InJized. But such happiness, like all thfug* which lartake of earth, is subject to the stroke of leath. The Destroyer of man's happiness .Aspects lot the young, the beautiful, or the gifted. Too often in this world they seem, like tbo lowers of Nature, which delight the cy^'IO bo nure subject to tbo scythe of the Destioyer^,,; If the ailmiiing pyp of Xatn'm's- sWeetest lower could shield from harm the fulbMowp use, its leaves would never wither, its:?* # ;ronce never die. '.-or* tr?oual If friends eoutd detain the "blooming matron n a sphere where her virtues Monro hut^o. persh, many would lire to have their uhf age irraliated by the lustre of wtdl-spmit years. "* r'A But death must come. . .... 1 7/ * Beauty, it is true, belongs In youth, but Ml n MAMlU ?lAn?V TL- M.k.t M fkjS SMVJ li Jwui u nimiot mu uuurrvii uuw w u? iosure ol l he happy circle, the charm which tires In domestic happiness the husband and he father, has beauty tub. Her heart is the centre of Unman aflrctidmerinr smile the rewaid of human hope*. Age too?virtuous age hath its boanljrw-i* Sanctified by time's sorrows, the aged tottafar n life's last brink, is beautiful, for though the tt met ions of youth hare fled-*-thc splendor of ife's uoon has ranishrd?there is a sunset ^loy upon the brow prepared to blend gradually, rith twilight of existence, succeeded. U if y Night defined to reliro before the diligence of another day.* / * The thought is pleasant that lUntuly aUond* II seasons oflife. , Bi We may mourn the early Dead, W? may lias them whon the Christmas fits biases oil n the hearth. We may feci that the leave* of le Hose, once *o su'eet and fragrant, hare pened but to wither, but though the natural ye is closed in death, there is an eye ia the >ul of the survivor which still gases upoa the ived and early Dead. 11 i* the eye or anecrtoit hich seeks the playmato ot his childhood, thb iendof his youth, the companion of his mannmI The fragrance of love is now no lotignr vlsi. e to (ho outward sen**, but there is that with, which detects the perfume exhaled from ?ko ous fealings of a once living now departed end. ' ' When prosperity beamed she wh* Vh* pant of our sports. When adversity spread ife pall upoM thes she encouraged u* Vt rUe above ^ calami-, which hung like a cloud ovey oMT wournmj* n. For her wo lived, for her wh wo#il| hav'o ed. But that early link is hrvfccn add onoili. ? i - . i l ? i _.i.i JFienq nas gone 10 a www not madman, ii4* eternal iu {be heaven*. . But abn ii ban, . Whj theu repine that Heaven baa claim. her for her own. , v . kel ?s rather be cous#)^ {efiectioi*