The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, May 02, 1849, Image 2
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Praia tho Edgefield Advertiser.
SENATOR BUTLER'S REMARKS.
In offering a synopsis of the remarks of
Judge Butler at the dinner on Thursday last.
Mnnnl linna In do Justice to bis manlv and
Senators! effort. We cannot give much more
than the current of his remarks. We trust
we have not failed to impnrt the fitir and dispassionate
spirit in which they were delivered.
Mr. B. adverted to the change that had taken
place in the government since its formation.
Tho thirteen original Stales were actuated
by a common impulse of feeling and interest.
But seventeen new States have been
added, introducing new and diverse interests,
which have given rise to much conflict of opinion
and feeling, and have brought into operation
new elements of policy. A "majority"
has formed itself during the conflict, with a
self.sustaining force ; which, by the mere num*
ber of its votes, has the power to confiscate our
properly. It is a majority originating in local
sympathy, and. directed by ambition, is looking
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io wintn preiermem nnu nctmumi h?fiiuu?w.
What security have we against its aggressions
on our institutions ? We have the security of a
minority claiming the protection of a written
and solemn compact, which is given way to
falae construction and crumbling compromises.
The Republic has passed through serious
troubles, which have been only partially or
temDorarily averted by the introduction of compromises.
Wise statesmen have had recourse
to these means to adjust the growing differ
ences between the two great sections of the
country?whether wisely or not, cannot now,
under the circumstances which gave rise to
tbem, he well determined.
But this much is certain?out of the Ordinance
of 1797, and the Missouri compromise,
have sprung up the seeds of that hostility which
is now so greatly disturbing the country. The
Ordinance of 1787 was a blunder of Mr. Jefferson
who, doubtless, was actuated by the pre.
ailing spirit of the day, or by the dictates of a
lilwral and benerolent mind that relied two
much on the obligations of good faith and honor.
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principle wax established, which has led to a
violation of the protecting power of the constitution.
It took its origin in the State of New
York, in which slavery was abolished in the
year 1821. From that ?ime the New York
poJitigiaM, guided by a selfish policy, have been
most violent against the institution.
A feeling of fanaticism, has been long prevailing
in the Northern States. Rut it is within
a comparatively short period that selfish and
misrbietous politicians have given it a more
dangerous direction. Legislative enactments
and statutory provisions are the most imposing
evidences oif the opinion that now prevails.?
A law has recently passed in Massachusetts
imposing high penalties of all public officers
who shaH assist an owner in apprehending his
fugitive slave? and that, too, in the face oj the
constitution, which imposes a positive duty on
lb? Status to deliver up fugitive slaves. Laws
of exactly the same import have been passed in
Vermont and Rhode Island, and of similar
operation in all the Northern Slates. The
feeling which these proceedings evince, lias
found its way into O ogress, and is insultingly
exhibited whenever any occ6sion or pretext will
allow it.
Another strong indication of the dangerous
tendency of this fanaticism, is the election
to the United States Senate from New York of
exUovernor Seward; who, white uovprnor i
of that State, in a cont roversj with Virginia,
sanctioned the proposition?that the stealing or
inveigling of a slave in Virginia, would not be
held as a telony by the authorities of New York
so far as to impose an obligation under the con.
stitution on the Executive to deliver the offender
up as a fugitive from justice. This position
was repudiated by the Legislature. But within
the fast two years the Legislature of that
State has given, the most unequivocal evidences
of the dangerous progress of opinion in that
State. Th* free soil agitation is moved with
the force of party organization. It has its ex.
ponent m the Senate, and will make the proceedings
of that body a scene for its aggressions.
The federal government is to become the ve.
bicle of incendiary assaults ou some of the par
ties toiL
This is not, it is true, the universal sentiment
at the North. There are many liberal mi* ded
men who go for protecting the constitutional
rights of the South. It was with pleasure he
alluded to the liberal policy of Mr. Webster
on this subject. On a very trying occasion,
(his distinguished statesman maintained that
Southern slaves, as a mass, could not lie better
ed by emancipation ; that Congress, instead of
in'erfearing with, ought to pass laws sanctioning
the constitutional provisions for the protection
of slaveholders. But even he, influenced by
the feeling of his constituents, has said that
slavery should not exist one inch beyond the
slaveholding States." No representative, how
distinguished soever, who is liberal in his views
can go back to his State, and resist the strong
current of popular indignation against slavery.
They who have attempted it have been sacri.
fired. And this anti-slavery feeling is still
rapidly on the increase. In a short lime the
frer soil party-will be ihe predominant party at
the north. So much for the North.
How stands the question in the Northwestern
States? The very best men'rom this section,
who are disposed to adhere faithfully to the
spirit of the Constitution in protecting Southern
rights, were orriginally from the Slave States.
Much the largest portion of these Northwestern
Stales, under the operation of Ordinance of
1787, .belong naturally and really to the free
soil |Arty. Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and
Wisconsin among the States, and Iowa, Min.
esota ami Nebraska Territories, are ami will be
non-slaveholding, while only Arkansas and
Louisiana fall within the limits allowed to
slavery.
The general popular sentiment among all
these States is, that the Constitution should be
changed, to order to extend the area of freedom;
that in its original form it is vol suited to the
country in its present advanced and growing
stale.
Added lo these, is another powerful influence
at work in the "free soil " States. It is the
rres* | COnO'JCicu wiwi ^rrai onu ?'/un^^
and sustained by large moneyed interests. Its
influence is tremendous?-not only from the
ability and moneyed power which control it,
but likawtM the great tact evinctd in its management.'
All Southern Newspapers are cautiously
excluded from the reading circle. In a
large reading room at Washington not a paper
South of Ihe Potomac is to be obtained. In
another, a New Orleans pnper is taken ; which
may be accounted for by the tact, that the city
of New Orleans is in character eery cosmopoli
tan, and that it takes its politics, in s great
measure, from the States lying NortttfbT the
waters of tba Mississippi, with which rat city, I
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by means of an extensive trade, is in constant
communication.
j Another powerful influence in favor of the
"Free States" is the patronage of the President,
who has the distribution of 840,000.000 in the
way of bestowing offices, appointments, ect.,
much the largest portion of which is given at
the North and in the Northwest. All aspirants
for the Presidency?and they are becoming
extremely common?will more or less comply
with, or accommodate themselves to, the pre
judicies of a non-slaveholding majority.
These are the general elements of power by
which the "free States" can control the legis.
lation of the country; but in the Wimot Proviso.
they arc likely to acquire a specific power;
which will greatly increase their influence.
There is no doubt thai the free soil party are
determined to carry out, if possible, the principles
of this odious measure. Nothing but this
prevented, at the late session of Congress, a
a government Iteing given to the newly acquired
Territory. The Northern men would
assent to nothing that did not fully acknowl
edge the principles they contend (or. They
have gained boldness by their success in attaching
the VVilrnot Proviso to the Oregon Bill.?
That event, it is to be feared, will prove fatal
to Southern rights. Since the passage of that
bill, the free soil men do not scruple to bring
forward the most insulting propositions. Gid
dings got up a resolution, and obtained for it
74 votes, "that all persons in the District of
I Columbia, including slaves themselves, should
decide whether or not the slaves in that Districh
should be free.
The fact. therefore, that dan/rers threaten
the South, cannot he avoided. I* the real issues
like to come up ? It was ro thought, and a
Southern move was made in Congress, which
resulted in the Southern Address. To Mr.
Downs of Louisiana, belong, perhaps, the hon.
or of first suggesting a Southern meeting.-?
But Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, from Parliamen*
tary courtesy, was made Chairman of the Coin
mittee to which ihesubjert was referred being
the mover of that committee. It wa? a source
of cordial feeling that he was made Chairman.
It was highly desirable that an address on
the subject should come from a member froin
Georgia?a State, from its local situation and
interests, deeply concerned in the issue. But
it so happened that the task of drawing the address
devolved on Mr. Calhoun. His experi.
ence and abilities fitted liirn fir such an office.
He was sincerely desirous of acquitting himself
of the duty to produce unanimity ; and
hence the original draft?not at all too strong
in tone?underwent various modifications.?
Both its author and the Address have been snh.
jected to various oblique influences and assaults.
An enlightened and consuming public opinion
will refute and rebuke them. Mr. Calhoiin
could have had no temptation to consult selfish
consideration. History will award to him a
reputation to bo valued, and which the detraction
of rivals and adversaries cannot withhold.
He has mingled the aspiration of his ambition
with the enduring glory of his country. His lessons
and warning may not be heeded until events .
shall give to them a melancholy verification.?
[t is to be regretted, as the greatest of misfortunes,
that discordant views, upon more occasions
than one, have sprung up among Southern
members.
Mr. B. said he would not, if he could, say
anything to aggravate such feeling. On the
contrary, ho was willing to make any sacrifice
to heal division and to produce unanimity among
ourselves. But let us accept no more compromises
from parties that have proved faithless to
all that have been made.
Gen. Taylor, doubtless, will avert all the
issues in his power. He is honest, and may
succeed; but late events show the great difficulties
in his way. The California question
must come up. It was staved off at the late
session by trying to refer it to the people of the
Territories to decide upon their becoming a
State. The people there do not desire to take
this responsibility. It was an evasion of the
question to contend that California can become
a State by the mere fiat of CongressWill
Gen. Taylor veto? No one can say ;
Gen. Taylor knows how to keep his secrets.
But if given, the veto of the President will
avail little. And are our rights to depend upon
a mere Presidential Veto? They are secured
to us by Constitution, and nothing short of its
observance ought to satisfy us.
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issues are coming upon us. In this very month
events arc transpiring to make up a fearless
issue for the country, and they will go on with
a rapidity almost inconceivable. It is a sacred
duty, which the Southern people owe to selfrespect,
to resell', the wrongs growing out of
violated compacts and disregarded compromi
ses ; to maintain the covenant that secures thpm
and above all to make no resolutions that they
will not maintain. Submission to acknowl.
edged wrong is wilful degradation. Public
sentiment should not lie allowed to sleep over
lurking dangers. Any movement to bo efTectnal
should be conducted with the dignity of
purpose, and with temperate and intelligent
concert. Positions of difficulty and responsibility
should not be avoided.
Gporge Mason, whom John Randolph char,
acterized as the eagle eyed, and most gifted
statesman that Virginia ever bred, has a clause
in his will full of instruction. It is to this pur.
port: "That a private station, from his experience,
is one that he would recommend as
most conducive to happiness; but upon the
Meaning of a parent, I charge my cnuuren.
should any public trust or duty devolve upon
them by the necesily of the limes, to suffer no
fear of any danger whatever?the fear of death,
nor the fear of disgrace or poverty, to deter
them from maintaining the rights to which they
were born.
Our ancestors were a grave, wise and dctermined
sort of people, and have left us both
example and precept.
Mr. Butler concluded by offering tho follow*
ing sentiment :
John Hancock and Christopher Gadsden:?
When hiMory shall repudiate the lessons incul.
ca'cd by their example, resistance to the iiijustire
of violated compacts, and tho oppression
of numbers, will be a crime !
Pretty Correct Sentiments.?It will bo
well for Southern statesmen to be prepared for
the attempt to revive a protective tariff. Next
to a direct attack upon our institution", no measure
would be more destructive to the interests
and prosperity of the South than a high tariff.
Tk?rn urn indications, however, that even the |
entire Whig parly will not be unanimous in
their action upon this question. Mr. Thompson,
Whig member from Kentucky, said recently,
in a sppech in Congress, that ''whatever may
be the effort to repeal the tariff*act ot 1847, or
substitute that of 1842 in its stead, I anticipate,
afipr much discussion, such modifications of the
existing laws only will be made as to dissatisfy
none except those so greedy and growing for a
particular interest, or so moonstruck with some
peculiar theory, that eternal dissatisfaction is
their manifest destiny at Lest. Protection for
protection's sake, absolute prohibition, are now,
or ought to be, obsolete commercial regulations,
and unadvocated. Like perfect free trade, and
a resort to direct taxes, their day of false doc.
trine is pacing by or gone. Enough of general
principles and sound theory seems to be
concurred in by the sound common sense of the
nation to construct an almost unexceptionable
scale of duties upon imports."
South Carolinian.
THE CAMDEN JOURNAL
Wednesday Morning, May 2, 1849.
W. THURLOW CASTOX, EDITOR.
Sons oi "Temperance.
The Grand Division of the Song of Temperance
held its second quarterly meeting in Co.
lumbia on last Thursday and Friday. We understand
it was a highly interesting one. Henry
Summer, Esq., of Newberry, and that indefatigable
champion of the cause, Judge O'Neall,
delivered orations in the Methodist Church on
Friday evening.
Rev. Mr. Osborn a Presbyterian Divine from
Philadelphia, has preached in the various
churches in our town for many days past, and
seems likely to effect good in bringing about
an union among the different hranches of the
christian denominations in carrying the gospel
to the spiritually destitute around them.
Blind Mechanic.
We direct attention to the advertisement of
Theodore Dntton, in another column, a poor
uufortunato blind boy of our Town about the
age of 18 years, who has undertaken to earn a
livelihood by putting cane bottoms in chairs. He
has claims upon the community, raispd as he
has been in their midst, and those who have
need of that kind of work, would be performing
an act of charity to employ him, as well as
getting neat and substantial bottoms to their
chairs. Specimens of his skill can he seen at
the store of If. Levy, Esq. Call and examine
and order all your old chairs to be re-filled.
Senator Batter's Speech.
We give in to-day's paper, the able speech
of Senator Butler, delivered at a dinner given
him at Edgefield Court House on (he 12th ult.
We need not ask our renders to give it an attentive
perusal. His devotion to the interest
of the South, his manly delence of her institutions,
and the deductions of his powerful mind,
drawn from the exciting scenes lately occurring
in Congress, of which he could say magna pars
fui, will secure for his remarks the closest at.
tention. He had the confidence of theentire
State, and Well has he come up to its son.
gnine expectations. "The feeling of fanaticism"
he describes as spreading at an enormous
rate at the North and North-west, and forewarns
the South to be prppared lor the "grave issups"
before her. Let our State take warning from
her faithful sentinel, and gird up her loins for
the approaching crisis.
Steam Saw Mill in Lancaster District.
As an evidence of a growing spirit of enterprise
among our people, and a newly.awakened
determination to foster home production and
developa the vast resources of the South, we
point with pride to the Mills about to be put
into operation by our reighbors of Lancaster.
A company of gentlemen, Col. T. W. Huey,
S. B. Massey, Rev. P. T. Hammond and Wm.
Stevens havo led the way into this new field
of industry, and have erected a Saw Mill to be
propellpd by steam, about 5 or 0 miles east of
the Village, in (he very heart of the pinpy
woods?surrounded by a forest of the finest
timber. All the parts of the machinery for
sawing are. up, in a building 60 feet long by
53 fpet wido and 3 stories high. Their erigino
!q of an horso nower?with a stroke of 3 feet,
designed (o revolve one circular saw 4fi0 limes
in a minute, and to move one vertical saw that
will in the same time make 180 strokes; whpn
both are in operation, they can saw in each day
8000 feet of lumber, sufficient to supply any
demand that may bo made upon them. The
Mill is located in I ho centre of a large body of
land, which the Company lately purchased,
covered with the largest pines, and capable of
furnishing the whole country with plank for the
next half a century. The people seem to
appreciate fully the enterprise, and large bills
for lumber we understand, have already been
presented to be filled up. Scarcity of plank
and lumber has hitherto proved a serious obsta.
cle in that region, in the way of those disposed
to improve and beautify their dotnicils, but now
that difficulty being removed, a new aspect
will be presented in the improved appearance
of homesteads and buildings generally. Mr.
St. Clair, a skillful millwright, who served
his timo itt London, has direction of the machinery,
under whose supervision the Company
are preparing to put up a grist and a flour mill,
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ments are in contemplation. If they succeed,
they expect to erect a Cotton Factory at some
future day to he propelled hy the same engine,
and one of the Company Col. Huey is now in
Charleston, contracting for machinery to plana
plank, groove and prepare it, ready to be nailed
on by the Carpenter. Tho estimated cost of
the buildings and machinery is about $5,500.
Our Town is directly interested in this enter,
prise, and our carpenters and mechanics will
doubtless find it greatly to their advantage to
purchase their lumber from this Company, and
not as heretofore, as we have known it to be
done, procure it in Lexing'on District, to be
transported across two rivers, paying the Rail
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Koacl price lor ireigm. i Ills mill IS uui iaruierthan
35 miles from Camden, in a direct line
above it, on the main road leading to the Providence
settlement in North Carolina.
We directed attention some weeks since to
the subject of Plank Roads from here to Charlotte,
and should the suggestion ever be adopted
these Mills will ronder the undertaking immea
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wrably easier to be accomplished. Their
erection at this time seems indeed to invite an
experiment, in the new way of making roads.
They can furnish any quantity of the right sort
of plank at the shortest notice, and at the low.
est rates. We wish our enterprising friends
ev.-ry success in their new undertaking, and
trtst that large bills and prompt payments will
avard them for their energy, and perseverance.
The Late Cold.
The late cold weather, we learn from numerots
exchanges, did immense harm all over the
Union. Not a mail has arrived since the snow
aid the late heavy frosts, but what brings further
intelligence ot damage don' to the crops.
Ir many sections of the South west, stands of
Cbrn and Cotton have been utterly ruined. In
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana and as far
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[ u) (he (Mississippi vaiiey ns uriio ?nu uuiiaim,
farmers are ploughing up three-fourths of their
fields, and feel a pressing want of seed to replant.
Our Alabama exchanges inform us,
ihat in that State especially in Marengo Counly,
so great is the scarcity that planters are
offering a bushel of corn for a bushel of cotton
sped. If all the statements prove true, it seems
impossible for average crops to be raised this
YEAIt.
Rain.
After weeks of dry, dusty weather, a plentiful
slower of rain fell in our town last Friday eveni?g,
thoroughly wetting the ground and reviving
the drooping energies of vegetation. The
upp*r Districts a Tew evenings betore, were
visited by heavy showers.
Tothe gardens, crops and blighted trees, so
greatly injured by the late cold weather, these
grateful rains have come most opportunely, and
blasted vegptation give evident signs already,
of recovering much ot that freshness nipped
| away by the pinching cold.
Baptist Triennial Convention.
The Southern Baptist Convention, whicli
was to havo met to-day, in Nashville, (Tenn\]
has been changed, in consequence of the repor.
ted prevalence of the cholera theie. The meeting
will take place in Charleston on Wednes
day, the 23d inst. The ensuing Convention
in 1852, will be held at Nashville, at whicl
time it is expected the Rail Road will be com
pleted.
Hon. Henhy Baily, late Attorney Genera
of this State, died in Charleston on Saturday
last.
The Sooth-Carolinian.
We have received the weekly issue of the
Carolinian, handsomely printed, on a largf
sheet, designed for country subscrilx?rs. Thf
tri-iceekly for towns and the large weekly for thf
country, should certainly secure an exlensivt
patronage. We heartily wish our friends o
iho PnrnlinSnti abundant success in their eflbrt.<
lo improve their spirited paper.
Riot in Canada.
Late telegraphic despatches announce that a
terrible riot had taken place in Montreal, ir
consequence of the governor's signing the frn
demnity Kill. The lories burned down the
Parliament buildings, containing all the public
documents and the valuable library of the
House.
Mr. Mofitt, a distinguished member of thf
House, has been arrested on a charge of high
treason. Mr. Blake, the Solicitor General
spoke in the Legisla'.ure, in strong terms agains
annexation, and his speech was received wit!
lout cheers from all quarters of the House.
Small Pox.
The late papers state that the small pox wa:
in Macon and in other places in Georgia.?
Some cases have occurred about Augusta.
Jaretl Sparks is to be inaugurated as Presi
dent of Harvard University in the latter par
of next June.
Correspondence of the Camden Journal.
CitARLKSTON, April 2Slh, 1S49.
Mij Dear Sir.?After two or three ineftec
tual attempts, I have at length nerved mysel
to the task of setting down to manufacturr
something fur the entertainment of your read
ers. The "Empire City" of the South Easi
furnishes nothing however at this season sa
vouring much of novelty, the more atlrac
live atmosphere of the woods and fields, having
allured from its precints almost all who car
muster any thing in the shapn of a transieni
country retreat from its dust and noise.
I must begin with giving "tho Journal" s
sound scolding for its treatment of my first let
ter. It was extremely difficult for mo to rocog
nizn it in print, as a copy of my manuscript
and were my reputation either as an Orthngri
pher or Snytactic.ian, founded upon that lettet
as printed, it would be high time for mo to des
pair of ever attaining that self-satisfied impor
tance which so peculiarly characterizes all
newspaper correspondents. The mischief has
however, been already done?your unluckj
Reporter has doubtless received his full share
of abuse for the erratic freaks of your types
aiid let this be printed as it may, nobody wil
believe but that ho has led school long enougl
to forget all his spelling-lessons. It will be
useless to make any attempt at an "Erra'a," i
there is a possibility of the corrections them
selves being "spoiled in the making," and I
will not therefore venture upon such an under
taking. Let me only express tho hope that mj
second will make a belter impression on papei
than the first.
Tho papers, North, South, East, and YVes
have no doubt deluged your Office with particu
lars of the late storm. The farmers in oui
vicinity look, a* you may wen imagine, -con
sidnrably down in tho mouth" at the prospect
So remarkable a season, is within the memorj
of precious low of them?and what with sleet
snow, hail, dust and?every thing but rain?
the one thing needlul in Agricultural economy?
they have reason to regard it as one of unpar
nllelled novelty. The Diary of our Cilj
Register can show scarcely a passing shower o
any consequence for three or four months past
?and tho Bull-Frogs have croaked so long fo
rain to no purpose, that they have at lengtl
decided in caucus to "suspend their opinions'
I on the subject and to "watch and wail" fo
' further devejopements."
We had yesterday a Public Inspection ofjfcft
Fire Companies, by the Mayor and Aldermenv- -?
Their usual Exercises with the Hose were ic
ordered to be postponed in consequence of the a
great scarcity of water in the Wells, much to P
the regret of these active and useful citizens w
and many friends, who were desirous of wit. g
nessing the strength of their respective En- tl
gines. They are a noble body of men?and h
deserve every encouragement?Their zeal and v
industry have been well.tested?and but recent e
ly been called into (reouenl requisition against v
the destroying element. In view of the long
continued drought which has nearly exhausted
our supply of water, Council has directed a
shaft to be sunk 60 feet in one of the Fire
Wells to be kept free for the use of the public.
The census of the City prepared by author. ,j
, ity of Council has been completed and will j
shortly be published; a work of this kind has c
bpen Ions needed,?none having been under
taken for some 12 or 15 years, during which
period, we have passed through all the various jchanges
and transformations, which frequent f
Conflagrations and Brick Laws naturally bring i
about. ^
We are rivalling our Yankee brethren in an ]
important department of Mail Transportation. (
The Penny IJost, under the direction of Dr. (
John ff. Honour is in daily operation, and I
am happy to learn gives already a fair prospect j
of being sustained. The proprietor is a young
man?a native of this city?and (I speak from |
personal knowledge) well-deserving of all the |
success he has met with?and more ? it will lie t
a great convenience to a large portion of our t
citizens, whose pursuits abstract them from the <
busy scenes of "down town." |
California Emigration continues. A paitv \
of Emigrants are about purchasing a ship of j
- - i 4_ o n
the first Class lo proceed in omi rrmii;im.u >u
trade with the Gold diggers. The number is
limited to fifty, each being required to conlri- |
bute ?o00, to pnlifle to a share in the vessel, 1
a passage to California and back, and provt- j
sions for 2 years, all who unite must possess '
I the habits, manners and educatiuii of gen- .
( llemen.'' ,
I A brilliant opportunity to see the world, and <
its antique curiosities is now being offered by <
the owners of the fine barque Virginia Ann, |
which vessel is expected lo sail from this port
about the 5th of May, lo stop at Gibraltar and i
1 proceed ihence to Marseilles, Naples, Genoa, i
I Venice, or Triestp, passing through the Straits i
of Messina, and affording a chance of viewing j
. the Island of Sicily, its beautiful capital Palermo,
and Mount Etna. The expedition will be |
under the command of Captain S. C. Turner, (
1 long favorably known in our community as the \
1 Commander of the splendid ship Medo a. i
VVe have regular lines of Steamships be- (
tween this city and New York, Philadelphia, "i
and Havana?The Isabel brought us 120 pas|
sengcrs from Havana and K**y West, a few (
r duys since. . <
A few literary enterprises are in progress.
Dr. A. G. Mackpy, ono of the props of the j
Masonic Order here?is preparing a second |
edition of his valuablo work on Masonry. ,
D. K. Whitaker, the firmer Editor of the (
' Southern Quarterly, has in progress, a Bingra ,
nhv of the late revered and esteemed Dr. Fur- i
\ -J -,
man, and a collection of Mrs. W's Poems, both
of which he proposes lo publish by subscrip
' lion. The literary world owe* a debt of grati. ,
tudc to this gentleman for his past laborious j
' exertions in the cause. The Quarterly was ,
sustained for a long term of years by his perse- |
vering efforts, under the most trying and dis- (
couraging circumstances. And now that he is
l about to furnish the friends and admirer* of this i
, good man with so acceptable an offering, they J
have an excellent opportunity of testing their
appreciation both of the merits of the biogra.
! pher, and the distinguished subject, by extend'
ing the circulation of the work.
> An industrious writer in the " Evening
News," over the signature of "Observer" who
is understood to be the able Professor of Pnliti
cal Economy in our State Military Academy.
1 has been t'?r some time past advocating the
i systematic introduction of Machinery among
I us. He advances some bold and plausible
, theories which our practical men and capita'.
i<ts would do well to ponder, at this era of
Reform.
In the line of amusements, we have "The
} Bedouin Arabs," the Sable Melodists," and
an occasional Concert of a somewhat higher
order. The MissesSlmnan gnvo a Concert on
Thursday evening at the Hibernian Hall in aid
of the Congregation "Remnant of Israel" the
proceeds of which are lo be applied to the
t payment of the debt incurred in the erpction of
their place of worship in Anson street. On
Monday evening next, tho Ladies* Fair?for
iho benefit of the Female Urphan Asylum
under the care of The Slitters of Mercy?will
commence nt the Hibernian Hall,
f Last Evening, the Pic Nic for the benefit of
? the Marine Temperance Society, one of our
. noblest charities, took place at Legu's Long
I Rooms. The Washington Light Infantry
celebrated their Annual Maroon on Wednes.
day, at Hey ward's tarmon Cooper Hirer, with
f a large party of Indies and invited guest*,
i A line collection of Paintings by the Old
I Masters and Modern Artists, has been placed
for exhibition this week at the Hall of the
i Apprentices' Library Society. It comprises
. over one hundred and fifty subjects.
We have two new Churches going up, and
, two more with lofty steeples in progress. The
. Episcopal Slave Chapel, which is to be under
r the rectorship of Rev. Paul Trapier?situa.
ted at the corner of Reaufain and Wilson streets, 1
. is pretty far advanced?and an elegant edifice
I in Meeting, near the corner of Society street,
, is about being completed for one of our Pres'
hyterian congregations, under the charge ul ,
> Rev. W. C. Dana. The steeple of "old St.
, Philips" makes quite a conspicuous show from
I iho harbor. Graco Church, Wentworth St.
i (Rev. Mr. Speur's,) is one of the most ornamen*
i tal buildings in the western part of the city. Its
f beiutiful Gothic spires have already risen to a
considerable height. I will endeavor to give
I you a more minute notice of some of these pub*
lie improvements in future letters.
r The Cotton Market has been quite active
r during the past week, and prices materially im*
proved. A litllo over 5000 bales have come
t in, while the stock on hand has been reduced
by 15,000. About 5 3 4 to 7 1-2 cents may be
r quoted as the extremes of prices. In Riee, the
transactions have been limited until a few days
. since, when some 2.000 barrels were received
* * * I I *T _. L
/ and soifi at z ou to hj.s per nunarea. rsorinern
, Flour brings 5 to $5 25. About 6000 sacks of
- SaltRold at 85 to 90 cents.
Drjr Goods are selling very low, and Cloth.
ing Stores multiplying indefinitely. Our King
f Street merchants are laying in an extensive asf
sortmcnt of spring and summer norelties, to
, suit the endless caprice of their fair patrons,
r with whom shopping at this season is quito a
i pastime.
' Our city continues to enjoy a remarkable der
greo of health. The last bill of mortality reports
bat ten deaths?one botweeu TO and 80 p
fir. rf mo.. ot .hi other* of chronic 3 '*
flections. Nothing in the hape of>ift*pi^?ni ^ / f
: prevails al this time?though accustomedut
m to believe firmly in oocial mterpositmiw Z/1' '
'jondence, I am inclinrd topgree with *ome
'ho interpret the destruction of our fruit and v?e^
etuhles, as the prelude toacontemplated visUof^,
ie Cholera this summer. Should^
e the case, we shall truly ho puzzled to^findbot
rhat apparently great calamity may not in thp
nd, turn out to he a decided blessing. The
rays of Providence are certainly inscrutaWe.
Your's, Truly," "
- , .,v.
From the Charleston Mercury of Saturday --fW P-"
ARRIVALOFTHE CAMBRIA. Tho
Cambria arrived at Halifax on Wednes* ^ f
lay afternoon, with Liverpool dates to the 14th ' . "
nstant. Tho following is an abstract of her
:ommercial and political intelligence. ' 'nk
THE MARKETS.
The Cotton market was du'j during tha. w$ek
(receding the departure of the steapney, widi a
ijrther decline of 1-8 a 1-4, the closing quota*
ions being for Fair Uplands, 4 3 8; Mobile,
I 12 Orleans, 4 3 4. Sea Islands Good Fair,
10 a 11. The week's transactions amount to
>nly 2*2,000 bale* <>fwhich 5000 were taken on
iperulation, and 4,300 lor export, ,tr
The resumption of host ilitioa baa caused an "**
mprovement in Breadstuff*.
The blockade of the German ports kf the **
Danish squadron. and the difficulties in Il.aljr
tad produced much fluctuations in Consols 6tl- ' u
ing the week, but they closed firmly on ifrj./
Jay evening the 13th at 92 1-2. The revival '
if the Continental difficulties had almost paral- j
zrd every branch of trade,-and the operations of
he week had been extremely feeble, further
tccoun's from India are anxiously' expected. ^
POLITICAL. J ; ; y ' '
A decisive victory has been iraineahlr tjw
rr .L ' r'tc? njg.n?OM,notToTV 4|
Hungarian troops over the Austnan wfcesipn n ^
which the latter lost thirteen hundred men, and _ . . I
tventy.four pieces of cannon, and forty wagons. J
Fhc Austrian General,. Buckner, findinghim* fl|
self surrounded by a hostile population,'and rut fl
iff from his communications surrendered the 9
:nrnmand of his troops., and. with, thre^^tjjer 9
Gfenoral officers threw himself under (be jwjtv V
lection of the Russians, in VVajlacfiia. 1 ?
Hem, the Hungarian General, is in an al. . 1
most undbptitable possession, of Transylvania, 1 jj
tnd is making preparations (or the capture of
Constadt. the last city in the Kingdom which
is held by I h r> Austrian*.
The stale of blockade in . whi<cb. Vienna baa
been so long continued, was formaIJy. announced
to have terminated on the 81st Inarch, and ' ""
martial law was abolished. The Vienna pa- * ^
pore contain detailed accounts of the capture and I
destruction of the town of llresria by the A'da* g
lrian?, and the gen<>ral and indiscriminate g
(laugher o'ita inhabitants. t\ller a siege 'of ^
eight days, the town, or rather the ruins of
what was the town, fell into the hands of the
Austrian*. The place was Irombarded for sit
hour*, when a generrl assault wa? ordered, and
ho streets were carried it the point of the'hay[>net,
and the unresisting inhabitants were dtlren
into their dwellings, which were set bo*fire ' *'
aver their heads and bouses and Inhabitants '
were involved in one general ruin.
DENMARK AND PRDSSftt^/
Intelligence has been received nf'tBejfftnhi. A
mencement of hostilities between Denmark and Jf; . fl
Prussia. The Danish fleet, in attempting* to JH
capture the fortress nf.ReckenfnrJo, were totally
defeated, and a line of battle ship and* Wig* ^
ate fell into the hands of the Prussians*. ?ytwr*
vessels grounded, within reach of the guns of
the tort, and taking firo soon afterward* tbry
Irlew up. and all on board (seven hundred) per* ? *
i*hed A despatch dated the 3 I of April, an*
nonnces the blockade by the Danes' of all tbb
r> eh*s *Tj .
I.urmtin nnrfa
The King of Prussia had declined the Jw? ' **' '*
ceptnnce of the Imperial Crown of Germany,
and all is confusion at Frankfort.
ITALY.
Letters hare been received from Turin,.ap-, t<v.ol
r.onncing that afer Gen La Marmorv. a Pied*
montese Gencal. had bombarded Genj^a iventv
f?ur hours, and the city had been ?pI qo
fire in several places, a deputation from 4j|e .
Mnnineipalitjr had proceeded to bis camp the
6th, to request an armistice of forty, eight houra, ? ,
to give time to proceed to Turin, to armi^a a y>.
capitulation. The deputation prqcceflfd tb r
Turin, where they arri-edpo j^^^ \
A renewal of disturbances has Jalf^n placb
inserernl towns of Italy, and the people werb . ,
engaged in active preparations to resist the t>jt
further progress of Austria. V
Go the 7th in*t. Lord Palmenton received
an official notification of the blockade ofPaVfc* . r|
mo by the Neapolitan Government. The King of
Naples is making c*ten?ive preparations for w
__ ; -i!-.- ?i. ? .k:.l. k*. kStk.
an immptjixie nunc* ??u uhiiji kuk.u >w ....... ^
orto been deferred in consequence of apprehcn- _ #i> f
sions of an outbreak in Calabria. ?.?. V*. . ^ ^
FRANCB. .
France continues tranquil,'but all parties ?< ?
are preparing for an energetic electoral Wruif*
gie. There are now thirty vfccaht sett* iwSlin *
National Assembly, ill consequence of dentin
and resignations, and a great many 4?ftbo;; <v
members are detained from their seafli by in* -?
disposition. The Cholera is making aad hame *
amongst the troops which are quartered temjws
rarity in barracks in Paris. It it .generally be* *
iieved th.it the excessive dampness of (beet*
mosphere has contributed to the development
of this disease, Measures hnvn been adopted *
for the removal of the troops into more healthy
quarters. " ? v*-'.-; f i
IRELAND. '
The intelligence from Ireland is oflhU most j
distressing character. Pestilence and famine
still continue tbeir devastating operations.. Thb
report of the Poor Law Inspectors for tfielatt
year exhibits a degree of misery and suflfffinjg
almost without a precedent' in the history of
the world. In one district, whlclT'i?i?ly frur
years ago contained twelve thousand inhabl. '
tants, not six thousand remain,"and thejf '* *
little better than a state of stamtloh.
Dr. Cooley, a Catholic clergyman, died at
Droghcda o! the Cholera on me otn mataiHv ?
Now intkitcouwr Advocated i*' n6*tt* r 14 ^
Carolina.?The Hon. A. Wv Venahle\ 4 "
a member ofCongress from North Carolina, <*
cently addressed his constituents at Yanceyrflle
in which, according to the Milton CbrotoWe, ' "u
be proclaimed the following doctrine:1 V ' ;
u\Mm nlu? ititmitilnir A linlit innitm.
Disunion, <fccM die , 'came out lioldly for each
State in the South to pans Intra to prevent North,
ern men from collecting debts in the Sodth*-^->o
prohibit Northern ship* from cominginto Sooth,
ern porta?and if a Northern ehipat any time
chanced to he caught in a Southern jmiVMi.
Venable says, confiscate the property.,
This ia going even farther than the advocates 1
of non-intercourse in this State are disposed to,
go for it will he remembered that the proposition :
In Camden was merely for * wrfueiuVf" with*
drawn! of intercourse, and the prf^r?8iriOnv?i?K e
mltted by Mr. Trade well to the Committee of ^
; jti > M