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JBjjfc in The Wat theSvoil3 ark Distributed.? The Washington Unwn quotes from the Express (Now York Express, wo presume) the following description of the mode in which the public offices are gambled off, by the ^ "* ~ ?"t? nmniin \\ i q nftfi. IK/ <&tnj<jnu ii asbiaviv^,^ .?.. r? fhttf hangers "on We wonder if this lottery scheme was borrowed from 44 the earlier Presi"deints.'i. , r -v b b now psetty well understood that a lottery box ia kppt in the President's business room, into which names are dropped, and from which a drawing is had in the cabinet, and hence the unexpected character o| some ol the New York .appointments; and thus U, is, when a man goes into the box for a collectorship, he may come out a consul, or a plenipotentiary, or a marshal. The lottery,it is understood,'however, is sub ject to one essential modification, and that is this : Provided, the namo drawn for a place is not that of the gentle/ran candidate who happens to be in Washington ; then, upon its being submitted, il ls subject to .his amendment ; ' l-"? ? - ?nln tn ho Riirp ot a anu iieuct-, <i3 u gi-uciui >?.>, . - .... . thing, you must be on hand the day of the lottery. Ifyour name comes out, itis all right; if another's you can put yours in itsftead. Thus, when a marshall was made, the lottery drew H-eniy E. Da vies ; but F. A. Tallmadge happened to be OQ.hemdf and bis uamo was substituted in its sttkffcBe sure and be on hand, i f you expect to draw anything in the lottery ; and if you consent to go into it, look out fur Tinibuctoo, when joti go in for Astracan. ,jg. Is HE hoxkst, 13 he capable, is HE FaITHFtTL.e?The just standard of qualification for j public office w.as seized upon by Gen. Taylor, and published to the world as the only test he should apply to those in offic<\ and to (hose seeing office at his hands, should he be elected Ftoident* This open avowal that he would he.'guided in the dispensation of the Executiye patronage by a rule approved by all, coupled WjlJijbe declaration that be had no friends to reward and no enemies to punish, contributed in a targe degree to his elevation to the Presidency. SunDosed to possessed the honest frank * cv?~rr * i new of the soldier, as well as the manly firm-1 ness of the commander, few doubled but he who was go sparing of his pledges, would sacredly i respect the lew he made. None dared to pre- < diet that unsparing proscription, fix opinion's < sake/would form one of the chiefcharactcristics i of Gen. Taylor's administration. I Under these circumstances, it is not surprising that the whole coun'.ry should be shocked to wjjtxess the wan'on and reckless violations of 1 these pledges, which so profusely disgrace Gen. i Ijaylor's administration. The only le?t of qual- i jfication now applied to those in officp, or to thase seeking office, is, are they friends or are i tfilj enemiesl The consequence of the adop- i lion of this new test without abandoning the < former is to brand every officer holder removed < as dishonesty incapable, or unfaithful. This I dishonest, disgraceful, this contemptible course i has aroused even some of the Whig presses, i who apply the lash to the President and Ins t advisers with an unsparing hand. One of the . Mobile Whig papers, in speaking of the remo- i rals of Democratic office holders in that city, t remarks that those removed are equal in honesty, capacity and fidelity to any gentleman in i the city?that it approves of their removals be- I cqpse they ictre Democrats, hut denounces the r implied char^v.funfaithfulness, or f **- incapacity, flTrtwe and disgraceful \? ident and^flhis party.?Chcraic Guzcdc. . J. ? i I Hbnry Clay ?Reddest to Resigy.?*t*j . a meeting of the citizens of Trimble county, , t , Kjr? held on the 29ih ultimo, at the Court i c House, in the town ot Hedtoru, wrnout any i i distinction of part), the following resolutions, j offered oy John Robeit, esq. a Whig, were v . adopted^ ." 1 Be it \ further resolved. That the doctrine* t published to the world hy the Hon. Henry t Clay, in relation to emancipation, are calcula- t ted, if carried out, not only to violate the con* s stitutional rights ol this Commonwealth, hut I greatly to injure the condition ol the slaves, hy corrupting'them. } Be it further resolved, As the sense of this a meeting, that the opinions of the said Henry d CIff. now made manifest, upon the subject of j I abolition or emancipation, that he is no longer ji deemed a fit instrument to carry out the wishes d and defend the rights of the good people of this i I Commonwealth in the Senate ot the United I \ States, and therefore, as the fir*tactof the next I s Legislature of Kentucky, he, the said Henry J Clay, should be formally requested to resign his t seat in the Senate of the United States. I From the Baltimore Sun. ( Political Movements in California.? i We have had brief but indefinite reference to i the following important movement in California 1 Before, but nothing giving a true comprehension t of their character. f From the 4lta California, of March 22J, we I learn that a large number of the Delegates elect i to a'Convention proposed to be held for the for- t mation of a Provisional Government for Cali- I fornia, have addressed to their constituents a e recommendation, ?vith a view to secure the I fullest representation of the country, that the t meeting be further deferred, to meet at Monte* ( rey on the first Monday of August next. The i signers of this address have resigned the power e delegated to them ; and, looking !o the probabili- t ty (bat the number of inhabitants will very soon c be such as to require the immediate formation I of a state constitution, they also recommend i that the delegates to be elected to the proposed I Convention in August, should he vested with < full power to frame a State constitution, to be 1 submitted to the people of California. f From the same paper we make the following extracts: The meeting at San Francisco, which ad . joumed on tho eveng of the 17th of February t to the evening of tho 24th, to further consider j 1 and act upon the question of negro slavery in < the Territory of California, convened at the t appointed hour, and was organized by Capt. J. f L. Folsom, resuming the chair. | t Mr. Perkins read the first resolution, and | poke eloquently in behalf of the exclusion of 11 negro slavery in California. On his conclud* i ding; the first resolution was put to vote and t adopted. The second resolution was then brought be- i forotho meeting and agreed upon ; when-- ! ( ('apt. J. L. Kolsom vacated and called W. ; t S. Clark to the Chair, and then addressed the I meeting in a lucid, forcible and impressive manner, declaring, that the public mind being ( almost unanimous on the subject, should make I ; decided manifestation against the extension of 6 slavery into the '1'erritory of California. I After the president resumed the chair, the , remaining resolutions were put to vote, and pas , Bed unanimously. t On motion of Col. Stevenson, the fifth resn. , lution was re.considured, when that gentleman ; offered an amendment to the same, to the effect f of prohibitingjfcilid employment of apprenticed j <ft negroes in the Territory. Tho resolution as amended was adopted, ft is as follows the amendments being designated'by italic letters: iith. That the delegates who are to represent the district of San Francisco in the convention that is to be held at San Jose (or tho firmotion of a provisional constitution, are hereby desired, reqies'cd and instructed, by all honor- j al.'e means to oppose any act, measure, provision, or ordinance that is calculated to lurther the introduction of domestic slavery, or offree negroes as apprentices, bp indenture, or otherwise., to be employed in the Territory of California. Tiib Methodist Church Property Question? We learn thai the Methodist Episcopal Church South have, after some delays, commenced legal proceedings for the recovery of what they claim as their share of the church prnpeity, according lo the forms ofihe ''plan of separation" mutually agreed on hy the North and South at the General Conference in 194fi, hut ofterwards declared to be unconstitutional hy the North Church, at the General Conference in 1843. The gentlemen empowered to conduct the writ?Rev. Dr. Dascnm and others ?have caused a writ to he served on the trustees of the chartered fund of the Church, returnable at the July term of the United Slates Court lor the. Eastern District of Pennsylvania. It seems probable that the second reference to the matter hy the Church North to its annual conference will result more favorably than the first, and that the desire to arbitrate :he difficulty will be generally expressed, and the South probably design only to be ready to prosecute their claims in case of a second failure of the annual conference to authorize an amicable adjustment.?y. Y. Com. Advertiser. o'pitp ni,1 rnrinPE. U I .1 I u vi Juivy I* V* ? Mr. Canning said, in his day, that Europe ( was rapidly tending towards a war of opinion. The sagacious anticipation is now nearer reali- , zation than at any similar crisis in European ( affairs. Whilst within the last thirty years the ( antagonistic forces of Liberty and Absolutism were brought into only partial or local collision j ?whilst this Dukedom or that Principality on the Continent exhibited merely varying phases , of this conflict.?the war of opinion was on a | contracted scale. To bring the struggle to a i ( decisive issue, it most embrare powerful gov. j crnments and large divisions of the European population. ( These conditions are about to be satisfied, j The East and the West, the Cossack and the , Frenchman are, from all indications, about to ( measure weapons in the struggle. It seems impossible that France can give up Central j Europe to Scythian bayonets, any more than j j she can permit the Damihian provinces or the | maritime defences of Turkey to full under the L lorninion of the Russian Autocrat. The fields j j >f Germany must witness the issue of this coin- j . jat, and the leading parties to it must necessa- j ( ily be France and Russia. The other powers, j , is auxiliaries, or allies, have a subordinate part ! o play in this great drama of national hostilities. \bsolntisrn, represented in the Russian power, ind republicanism, in the French, will draw all - - - i | ho rest of Europe within the vortex. j ' The elections to the ngw French Assemblies, j f n connection with the late vote in the present | louse of Deputies on the resolution ofCavaig- c lac, affml a clear indication of the prevailing c eeling in France, as relates to the movement ( o the sentiment that any such armed invention ^ hotild be resisted at every hazard and expense, j hpre is almost perfect unanimity among all J dasses of French Statesmen. Whether the I a legitimist or Republican parties obtain a ma- 1 a ority in the new Chambers, the French troops 1 | vill cross the Rhine, by popular acclamation, i x n.o party of public order in France has also I j, he instinct of national safety. No French an- ( hority can maintain itself that suffers the qnes* ion, whether rational liberty or absolute rule r ball prevail in Central Europe, to be decided v >y Cossack bayonets. s It is not a title remarkable that the Russian j, Manifesto, justifying armpd interference, should r ppear precisely at the same time with the long c leinyed acknowledgment of the French Rcptih. ic* Was this done to propitiate the French maple, and disarm their opposition ? Or is it ? lone to show that Russia does not war against x lepuhlics, but only against the anarchial spirit , vhich threatens the overthrow of all existing j ocial arrangements ? t Let the pretext or palliative be what it may, s he peril to the liberties and independence of t Europe is too great to permit the settlement of . ts affairs, by armies flushed with victory?ar? . nies composed of semi-barbarians. If the bub j ince of power has not become an empty name n Europe, it is impossible for France ami ftng. | and to fold their arms, whilst Russia and Aus. | ria, having crushed the independence of Hun- . [ary, tramples out tho last spark of liberty in Italy and Germany. It appears to us, therefore nevitable that the same war cry that brings he Scythian to the shores of the Danube, will to echoed bark by the French legions which inch a movement will carry to the banks of the Rhine. Were the conflict not to embrace the wo European power which occupy the extremes jf political opinion, it would soon come, to an ssue, anil Hungary would loose its independ. tnce and Germany its liberties. But the bat. | le of principles once begun, it is easier to pre- j j lict how than when it will terminate. It may s ?e a long conflict that arms the people of conti. , lentil Europe against royalty and prerogative, >ut if civilization is not made to retrograde un- , ler Cossack sway, a compromise of opinions? | iberty tempered by order?is likely to he the iruit of tho great struggle.?Eve. News. I _ I Laughable things sometimes happen in New ( lersey. The "patent churn" just now is all | lie rage. Tho other day a certain E-quire, , ivho shall bo nameless, was showing the gaping f jrowd of natives the great wonders of the but- i or making machine. While granding out the ( Hitter and ?undry long yarns, and like the auc- { - i. Itoenolitwr tlwk IfllwiP Willi I'M rlitllC <? T . danations, a mischievous wag slipped a dab of i map sliIy into the milk.?Soon the agitated t na?s commenced frothing, and filled the churn | u overflowing, but no butter. "You see," said the ever ready expounded of ; TiysVries as he paused to catch breath, "whelh- | ;r butter comes or not. it makes three tunes as nuch buttermilk as any other churn !" i A Guxkral War. ? A Paris correspondent i )f the New.York Courier writes under date of t Way'-1st: "There is a fire kindling which is t toon to set all Europe in a blaze! It is hardly ( rermitted to doubt that we are on the eve of a ? re lie ra I war. The recent elections are of a t lature to rapidly hasten the catastrophe. It is t hey perhaps, which render it inevitable. Had lot the Democratic and Socialist party in France I ssued from the elections with so much increased r orce, the peace of Europe might hayo been r reserved." i t \ 0 From the Baltimore Sun 12th inst. Arrival of the U. ?. Ship Lexington T.ARGERST AMOUNT OF GOLD?7HRF.K QUARTER! OF A TON OF GOLD DUST. NEWS FROM CALIFORNIA. The U. S. ship Lexington, which left Sar Francisco 27th last November, ariived (as wc stateJ in tho Telegraphic despatch) at New York on Sunday morning. The L. has hern absent about 33 months, She started from San Francisco on the 23th o November, fiom Valparaiso on the Is' of March and passed the United States ship Independ price froinor intn that nort. On the 22d of Apt'i - I she sailed from Rio de Janeiro. She lias brought on freight from California twelve hundred and eighteen pounds grain goh. having Ig^ded at Valparaiso lour hundred ant fifty-eight pounds?making a total of 1,67( pound's troy weight. One of her sailors, whr shipped at San Francis-no for the voyage, bring: with him 69,000 in gold dust, which he accumulated by a few months digging. Another, we understand, had 33 lbs. (nearly 7,000.)? She has also on board a number of curiouslj wrought guns, captured from the .Mexicans, six teen composed of brass, and seven of iron? calibre, eighteen and nine pounds. She experienced delightful weather during her passage. The accounts from the gold dig. gings arc of the most satisfactory and cheering character?in fact exaggeration is out of the question, In any part of a tract of country to the extent of five or six hundred miles, the precious metal is found, and is carried about by the fortunate diggers in bags, and this is lis case with all, from the highest lady down to the humblest washer woman. When they make purchases in the stores, I hey give in exchange this uncoined gold, which is weighed in proportions according to the ralue of the articles purchased. In San Francisco every aiticle of food and clothing is enormously dear. Bologna sausages, for instance, hp 8- 12 1-2 a pnnniJ, IjiiI ni llie inu profits are considerably upwards??f200 percent. There lias been considerable sufii'iing in consi qiience of a want of shelter and other indispensable conveniencies of life; but this has been Aviated to some extent by the at rival of frame bouses and tents. At the diggings the only shelter at first was he trees, which were totally inadequate to afbrd protection against tho distressing effects of he climate. It is said that there are but three months out of the 12 in which the diggers can prosecute their labors : but by industry and )reseverenci\ a rich harvest may bo gathered u that time. This arrival, with so largo an amount of Told, will be the subject of important speculaions among tho Wall-sireet gentry, and will so ibsorb the public attention as to leave linle ime for calculating the fatal effects of the prerailing epidemic. LATER FROM THE BRAZOS. Tnu Indians.?The Brownsville American rlag, of the 2<1 ill lilt., contains the following nelancholy details of Indian ravages:? The accounts that reach us state that the Lilians have swept, tempest-like, towards their iwii homes. They bear with llicrn many cap. Ives, and thousands of horses and inules, laden u?,.? MMMMrfi if f?CKoT:itT*>n; what were once populous villa, jes are now descried, or are the seals of mourn?? This army when last heard fmm was moving dong without opposition, gathering prisoners nid taking oirproperty. My the arrival of steam loals from towns above, we learn that families vere seen along the whole line of the river, lurrying across to the .Mexican side lor protecioii. Tho river being once crossed they are afe. Their ranchos may lie burned, (heir rops destroyed, their property pillaged, their aluable stock driven otl, but their wives, them, elves and their children are safe from these erriblc savages. The accounts that have eached us o! their treatment of women and :hildren are heart-sickening. The Flag add>: Human life has been sacrificed. The pro. jress in this valley, and its prosperity and ad'ancement have been retarded. Confldenco in he capacity of our government to protect ts citizens is entirely lost, its protection is made ivident. We feel great confidence, that as oon as advices are received at Washington, mr position will receive attention. The late Administration certainly arranged matters so is to strictly keep the Indians within our own crritory. Last year before, these marauders carried heir invasions even to tho neighborhood of Sail Luis Potosi; therefore, our Government were idvised that the clause in the treaty guarantee, ng protection against Indians?or at least to e>train them within our borders, meant s.<me hing?and whilst thai treaty was negotiating, i treaty for the due execution of which an iniroased army was so evidently, absolutely ne:e?.?ary, the President declared that it was urge enough?and it was distrbuted in such a I nauncr as to bo wholly inadequate to the ac;um;di*hineiit of any useful purpose. Wo repeal that the officers of tlic army afdrd all the protection in their power to the >cop!c. Put what can be done when there are icarce men enough to man the garrison from A'hich they are sent? The Flag of tlio 2d instant lias the following elaiivo to the late party who left Brownsville in uirsuit of a marauding gang of savages. The party of men which left this place in uirsuit of tlie Indians have just returned. We earn from Capt. B. Willsey?for the recovery )f whose family, it will be recollected, the pary was organized?that the Indians have made rood their retreat with most of their captives mil plunder. This parly has been absent over wenty days, have followed the Indians to Lurelo. About twenty-five miles from Laredo they ?ame suddenly upon a small party of the savaje.s an i retook a number of mules and horses. L'apt. W. informs us that the Indians have exended their depredations far above Laredo, and lad driven off thousands of horses and mules. The Flag, of the 2d itist., also has the fdlowng intelligence from the Upper Rio Grande, jrought by Mr. Simon L. Jones : The cholera is raging with violence in the nrinity of Laredo and in the State ofCoahuila. Hie inhabitants of iMonclova and the neighborng towns are said to be dying at the rate of wenty and lliiity daily. i\lr. Jones thinks that lie remedy used there is more fatal than the Jisease. Persons when seized with this mala ly are at once taken to the. river ami there made i> undergo frequent bathing in the cold Rtroam, ivhieli in nine cases out often prove fatal. The Indians arc said to be still on the river or hundreds of miles, and in unusually large lumbers. The day before Mr. Jones left Roma i man was chased almost into the very town by i party of them. 0 . THE CAMDEN JOURNAL.' Wednesday Morning, June 20, 1849. ~W. THURLOW CASTON, EDITOR7~ 1 OUR MARKET. Only a few loads of Cotton were brought in the , past week, and were sold at 5? to 7c.. Plnnr ic in rrnr-H /Ipmanil fit fii to il3: Corn (18 * ? ?z ??? lo70c.; Fodder 80c.; Bacon 6$ to G?c. r EQUITY COUKT. . Last week the Court of Equity was hold in i j this place, Chancellor Johnston presiding. It sit longer than usual for this District, not ad- i L journing until Friday evening. Some very imI portant cases were heard, and we Believe the i ' Chancellor wrote out his Dcrress in all of them ' before he left. i _____ 5 TEMPERANCE CONVENTION. , The following gentlemen have been appoint. cd Delegates from the Washington Temper- i ' ance Society of Camden, to attend the Stale Temperance Convention to assemble on the ( 4th of July in Columbia, viz;? ^ James K. Douglas, Esq. Wm. E. Johnson, . Rev. Dr. S. S. Davis, Rev. W. T. Capers, Ri?v. 'P. 11. Russell, ('id. J. R. Kershaw. W. '' | Thnrlow Caston, Fbq., Wrn. M. Shannon, E*q. James R. McKain, Esq. Capt. A. M. Kennedy, J. C. West, E>q. \1nj. K. S. Moffat, Dr. W. J. ( McKain, Dr. F. L. Zemp, Dr. T. J. Workman, Capt, T. J, Workman, j. F. Sulhfrland, Win. E. Mnghson, D. W. Chambers, W. R. Willicrs, Esq<: Memphis Convention.?The Mercury states, that ''Inconsequence of the prevalence of Cholera on the Western rivers, the. Convention advertised to he held on the 4th of July at Memphis, to promote the construction of a Railroad from that City to the Pacific, has been postponed by the Committee of Arrange rnents, to the 15th of October. This is a judicious change, and we doubt not will increase the attendance. Ravages of the Ar>iv Worm.?In Mont, gomery County,.Tennessee, the Army Worm is sweeping vegetation before it. Whole wheal I fields have been destroyed, anJ corn has suffer- ' ed much. This scocrge, together with the 1 frost and drought, have nearly annihilated all ' hopes of any crop in some portions of that ) country, with exception of the tobacco crop. 1 / Dratix of Miss Edgewortii.?Maria Edgeworth, the celebrated Irish novelist and the 1 author of those delightful juvenile tales, which I have made her name a household word J wherever the English language is spoken, died i on the 21st May at Edgeworlh Town, in the I county of Langford, Ireland. She was in her i 83d year, and expired after only a few hours c illness^/ British Annexation.?The English have J annexed to their dominions in India, already ..4UMU';Mae?.lSe wnote oi tfce runjao. - -ttw Uaa fdon Times states that, it contains 100,000 square nnles?and a population of three mil- f lions and a half?and will yield a nett revenue f of one million sterling. J Grigg, Elmot & Co. Publishers, have laid t upon our table, Wild Western Scenes, by the j author of The Western Merchant. The cele- ( brated Boone is one of its principal characters, and those fond of rending of the trials and con. diets of a frontier life may find entertainment t in its pages, ( ? Methodist Church Difficulties.?On ^ the oth inst. great exciteme.nt prevailed at Alexandria D. C , originating in the recent di- , vision of the members of the Methodist Rpiscopal Church, on the subject of slavery, and | the organization of two official bodies. The j Church, the only one of (hat denomination in the City, was taken possession of by that portion of the members officiating with the Church t South, who claimed to be the legal representa- r tivos of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and r entitled to the building. The difficulty has ( been disposed of, for the pres?:ut, by the parties agreeing to deliver the Meeting house?into the hands- of tho Sheriff, to be retained by him until the whole matter is finally settled by the 1 legal tribunals. t 1 Cholera in Virginia.?A late Richmond , Enquirer slates, "That the Cholera has broken , out and (fatally in many cases to the negroes) on plantations in Matthews, Gloucester and ( Princess Anne. A gentleman who camo from Williamsburg says that there was a case, of Cholera on the Norfolk lioat ascending the t James River yesterday. In Richmond it is r now vory little talked of?and there are many ^ strangers in Richmond." ? r THE MISSISSIPPI OVERFLOW. , Nothing has attracted so much attention for ( the last six months, in tho papers of the Gulf J States, as the extraordinary overflow of the Mis- ' sissippi River, inundating whole plantations, | j ' covering a largo extent of land with a vast I I . expanse of water, and actually running through ! the streets and houses in the city of New Orleans. The river rose at an earlier period last winter than usual, and has kept up unusually high ever since. Crevasso after crevasse has been made by the rushing flood, all along the rirer, and levees, embankments, piles, and barricades have been forced lo y ield to the " Great Father of Waters." The citizens have held public meetings to aid the Town Council, in arresting its progress, and skilful Kngincers and Surveyors with hundreds of hands have been toiling for months with but little or no effect. Boats have been sunk, pile drivers sending home huge logs have been used, and thousands of bags of sand have been thrust into the mouth of the monster, yet tho < breeches continue to widen. Truly our neigh- ' hors of the Crescent city arc in a watery ( state, und judging from tho tone of their papers there seems to be but little concern about danger. Jukes are often perpetrated upon the Rirer Patriarch, and this thing of wading about from house to house in water, two or three feet deep, or paddling about on business through the streets in little canoes and skiffs is regarded quite con.mon. One chap is represented as sitting on a cup board in a corner, fishing fbr 44 catties," in his parlor, and an Editor tells bis distant readers, that grog is in great abundance; that the water has swallowed up some thousands of hogsheads of sugar and hunJreds of barrels of liquor, and when a drink of'toddy' is wanted all that is ne. cessary is to go out and 44 lap up." But really the -citizens of the Queen of the South are in a curious predicament, and it is well that the crevasse most to he dreaded is 14 miles above the city. It has overflowed the swamp behind it, and the water has to. tally covered its rear, wlrere the residents are generally in moderate circumstances, and have suffered immensely for the want of food and shelter. Public meetings have been held for their relief, but it would be next to an impossibility to supply all their wants. It is for hese that humanity bleeds and the throb of ympathy is felt over the union. The business part, nearer the river, on high ground is yet safe from the flood. We know tut little about the city and overflows, but we ;njoyed'lbe pleasure or rather the necessity of ahing a skifT ride about ten miles, last winter hrongh the Yazoo valley in gelling from the lills to Leflor Point on the hanks of the river, md from noticing house servants paddling ibout in the yard using canoes in gelling from he kitchen to the mpat hoase and on a Lridge if planks to tlie dining room, we can infer ihe Ireadfal waste and destruction of properly? Iip great inconvenience and hindrance to busitess, that must necessarily follow such ovewhelning inundations The early rise the past season Wns attributed o the mildness of the former part of the winter, ind the heavy rains of the north were trot frozen nto ice as usual but came rnshing down into he valley in torrents. When ?p, the meltings >f the mountain snows are sufficient to prevent ts fulling. The breaches sljotit N. Orleans vere too strong for many of the best City Surreyors, hut the able services of Mr. Dunbar, it s stated by the latest papers, aie proving sue:cssful in arresting the flood. The water is said to he slowly receding, eaving stagnant pools in the streets. The teaith of the city must be greatly endangered, it d pestilence and death seern enevitaLIy to fall ipon the inhabitants who remain in their neigh>i>rhood. The cholera has done its work there ind the unfortunate City may be the scene of tvery kind of fever and disease. Charles, a slave belonging to tho estate of lonathan Lucas, charged with the murder of riinrnas Morrison, a watchman, was tried on murmajr him, a simum < ,8 ind Freeholders in Charleston, and was found juilly. He was sentenced to be hung on the irst Friday in July next. An accomplice, Jimmy, t!.e property o[ Capt. fenkins, who was the main witness on the trial if Charles, was tried next day for the same ofence, found guilty, and sentenced to be hung on he same day. An exchange say* that the Baptists of Ivcnucky, the most numerous denomination of christians in that State, are opposed to the igilalion of Slavery in any way in the apiroaching Convention. Being anient friends >f good order and the interests of their Slate, hey are unwilling that any undue influence hould l<e secured to Northern fanaticism, or ts legitimate offspring, anti slaveryism, in ventucky. Ireland.?The Cambria brought news that he most intense misery prevails in Ireland. In >nc district the inhabitants are in such a state . C an 9r\ 1\.? n/tftmllt* nnmnnlloi) In Hinrl 11 MOI Viiiiuiij aa iu uvhjuiij VWIUJ?\ uvu ??/ twu >n tli ? corpses that are washed ashore. STOP THIS RASCALS. It will lie seen by the annexed article, which vo copy from the Spartan, that an emissary of ho abolitionists has been arrested in Spartanmrg. Doubtless there are many such in our nidst, and it is the duty of the South to watch larrowly, all suspicious characters. The citi. tens of Spartanburg will give i\Ir. Barre't eve* y necessary attention:? ABOLITIONIST ARRESTED. On Saturday morning last, en expected visi. or, took lodgings at Col. R. C. Poole's Hotel, ind some of our citizens being apprised of the act, took such measures as were prudent yet irompt in satisfying themselves as to the import >f his business. A letter had been addressed to Wm. Walker, Flsq., of the Walker House, by Dr. Fitch of Columbia, stating that a man by the name of r. M. Barrett who hailed from Ohio had made lis escape from Columbia; a warrant having ieen issued against him?and that he. would isit Spartanburg. Sure enough, not only did iaid J. M. Barrett make his appearance, but here were sevt ral letters directed to him from Jincinnnti, Ohio and Dublin, Fndiania, which )ur P. M. thought proper to deliver to him in jerson at his lodgings. After this was done, :everal of our citizens called on him, and with he knowledge pro-obtained through Dr. Fitch >f Columbia, demanded a search. Upon in* restigalion and examination it was ascertained hat ho was employed by Messrs. Harwood fc Co., ostensibly for the purpose of crtting staistical information for a Gazetteer; but somo of he letters found in his possession proved to be he envelope of two others, directed one to Dr. sill ofColumbia, and tho other to T. J. Glover of Drangeburg; and upon opening them it was bund the one directed to Dr. Sill contained two Vo's. of the celebrated incendiary publication, ligned Brutus"; and the other to T. J. Glover :onlained only one of tho same. Below we opy the letter verbatim et literatim. The Post Mark is Cincinnati, Ohio, May 12th. Db acted to J. M. Barrett, Esq., Spartanburg 3. C. May lltli 1849. Dear Sir?Having learned that you are trav. - 1 eliing In Soulb Carolina, I lake the liberty of requesting you to drop into some Post Office along your way, the enclosed letters. Although comparatively a stranger to you, I take the lib* erty, because 1 wish to oblige a Carolinian whb desires me to take some plan of commaniratich with his friends which will not by the Post Mark reveal his present location, lie kind enough. to destroy this when you have read jtf^ Yoh will pardon me for not signing my name, btft that you may know that I am to.be relied tipnik I will just name that Messrs. llarwood & Co?' have sent you $20, to Columbia S. C. Another letter Post Marked Dublin, Indiana-, * m May 27th, directed to John M..Barrett, Spar* fanhurg, C. H., S. C., and signed S. Johnsofr, ? .L / II i columns me roirowing paragrapn: Some person suggested to me that yon would become pro slavery by travelling In the South, 1 but I told them no, the principles of Truth ani Rigid were too deeply rooted in yoirr heart, to ever have them eradicated from selfish or other motives; besides travelling amongst the Vrohjf, will I think, have a tendency to strengthenone'ti hatred of this wrong. At least I have no fear* of John Al. Barrett coming (rack to Dublin pro.' slavcrized. I want you to take item* and coino back prepared to wage war and eternal warfare against the abominable institution. 1 hato it worse and worse the more ! think of it. m In a Town Meeting on Saturday, at* which * * the said Barrett attended, and spoke in his ownbehalf, it was unanimously agreed by the cili- ' zens present that legal proceedings should be t"'.en against hiin. An Affidarit waa-mftdeof t'- e facts before G. W. H. Legg, Esq., upon ^ 9 which a warrant was issued for His arrest, and being before him for examination, was commit*, ted fur trial* * ' v ' . ? nr.. ..I.. ... ? - .>. :?< i, - < iL_ ?? l" latui grrm jncusurn 111 mauu^ Mini iu? prisoner was treated with the utmost civility, and nothing like a disposition to mob, as seemed in J be apprehended by the prisoocr, made its ap.. pearanrts He seems to tie a mifin of great a*. m tuteness, and just su 1 an one as it might be ^ expected would be employed by the Northern Hive of Abolitionists. There ran be no doubt remaining but that this said John Barrett, Is an t>mb<*ary sent a-* mono*! us to further the Hellish purpose* 'of the Abolitionists, but whether sufficient proof can be adduced to bring To bear the penalty Saftbn law, is to he seen hereafter. The account that said Barrett gave nfhittH sp]f is simply that he i.snn agent for Mcssr*. 6. Harwood & Co., New York, to coUeet itaH*tics and information for a. Gatetleer, shortly to be published, and that he cannot be responsible for any letters or documents that may tie ^ sent him by mail. Taking the whole circumstances-together as gleaned from the pape>s 4 found in his possession, this community stands justified in his arrest and commitment. Intend' % ing only that justice shall lie done at the same time, that they desire to show their adherence ?? Sr.,,,}, onrl tb??ip lnre tor ber DeacC and *" | safely, by acts as well as words. We take lire following from the ^peraaSr Advocate. y*> As the Georgia State TemperatiHfr Convert, tion assembles on tho 27th of June, at Marietta* the following gentlemen will please attend si* ?# delegates from Sooth Cnro'fna: Rev. Grisham, of Pickens? Joseph N? WjfitiWSflr!;" \nderson; Or. K. (J. Thomasi of Abhettjj^H^ ^ Hon. Nathan 1*. Griffin, of Edgefield ; ?. Brown, of BarnWell: P. fcaiiewon.dSi^ t.Ol.tMKn, uwi.a, rr. Barnwett,^nfrjNW?g m fort ; James Topper, M. T. Mendenball, Win. , Gregg, Rice Dolin, and Re.v. W. JJ. Yate*,.of Charleston; Col. Wm. H. Grice, of Marion J B. D. Townsend, of Marlborough ; Julius A. Dargan, of Darlington; Col. Hugh Craig of Chesterfield; Dr. Richard E. Wylie, of Lafl- * caster ; W. Thurloxv Caston and Win. E. John. j son. of Camden; Rev. Wm. Lewis and Mont, gomery Moses, of Sumter; Andrew Wallace, John Brycr, S. S, McCulIy, and Rer.. Wm. Martin, of Columbia; Maj. Samuel G. Barkley and J, W. Cook, oF Fairfield; Dr. W. W-. Moblev and D. G. Stinson, of Chester; Tho*. J. Beil, of York; Dr. Joseph H. Dogao. of ^ Union; Simpson llobo, Esq., and Rev. John G. Landrum, of Spartanburg; Win. B. Leary and W. Butler Thoniosgi^pf Greenville ; De. John W. Simpson ana $wn P. Walts, of Lau. rens ; Henry Summerana James M. Crowon, of Newberry; Simeon Caughraan and Stmaon Corley, ol Lexington. If possible, the under* signed will also be there. , <K, ? johx bultox o'nbalu Pres't. State Temp. Socipiy.,, CaCtioV.?The Southern Christian Advo? catc of Friday says : ^ rfjfe * ''We rporri't nitremelv to bB Comnelli'd bVa sense of duty to state to the public that i*. son known as Mr. Chinley, who has been en* 1 gaged in this and neighboring communities 6*\ some time past, is making applications for money ? on various pretexts, has no connection whatever with the Missionary Society, is not authorised to make co'lections for that Or any other interest connected with the Methodist Church, and fc obviously laboring under derangement of mind, It was hoped that a card published in this paper a few weeks since would have induced him-to leave this Stale. He Is still here, howowc, and hence the necessity of the. foregoing state. ment. The Methodist E. Church, South, j# not in the slightest degree responsible for hi# character or conduct."- . jH/ii From the South Carolinian. ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA. ; SEVEN DAYS LATER FKOX EUROI'K. FRANCE. The ultra Radical parly of France have re. turned to the Assembly from two hundred and ten to two hundred and forty members. In tho Assembly, the General Amnesty Bill had been -i acted upon, and was lost by a majority of 5 votes. ltnl/A ft' 4innate. ivhn in nlill under sentence of exile, has been elected a member of the Assembly; butjit is stated that so long as his sen* tence is operative he is-ineligible, and disqaa!ified from taking his seat. The New Assembly convened on the 28th May. A scene of great excitement andconfii- sion occurred vory soon - after the opening of the session. It appears the President had ad? dressed the Assembly, and charged certain intrigues against Ledru Rollin, and that in consequence the Assembly were in danger from the mob. This was esteemed very inflammatory and rebellious, and resulted in the resigna- , tion of four secretaries, and a number of members were on the point of withdrawing from the Chamber. The President apolocized and retracted the offensive remarks, and thus preven. ted a general exolosion. HUNGARIAN AFFAIRS. We have nothing very decisive from Hungary. Immense armies of the Russians and Austrians were concent rating and advancing. Tho Hungarians had determined to retire to their fastnesses, where it is unquestionable their chances of success are much better thair upon the opeH field. The city of Budu is said to be