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The Camden Journal.
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political Ocpnvtmcut.
' Correspondence of the New York Herald.
another letter from patrick henry.
Washington, April 12, 1850.
The greatest anxiety perv ades the entire public
niind, North and South, East and West,
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throughout the length anrl bread ui 01 me reu- i
era! Union of States and Territories, in reference
to the Southern Convention, which has
been called by some States of the Sourthern
section, to meet at Nashville, in Tennessee, in
the coining month of June.
The most absurd falsehoods have appeared
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in the puDllC journals m uuui n.UUv..w, ...
ence to the motives and designs of those States
which hdtc taken an active part in favor of this
convention, and to which they have appointed
their most eminent men as delegates. The
u Washington papers have been teeming with
nonsensical editorials, and articles extracted
from other papers, attributing the most treasonable
motives to all such citizens of the republic
as are favorable to the meeting of this convention.
Without noticing these false, malicious,
aod imaginary motives, I will give a brief but
true account of the design of this convention of
Southern States, and the causes which have led
to its being culled.
For a series of years, there has been an nnjost,
partial system of general legislation pursued
at Washington, which has benefitted the
Northern at the expense of the Southern section
of the Union. The leading minds at the
South perceived the tendency of such legislation,
and that unless checked, it must, in the
end, absorb the rights and equality of the Southern
States in the Union. Until the introduction
of the Wilmot proviso discussion, this legislation
against the rights of the South had been
confined to the following causes of complaint:
1,. Unequal legislation in regard to the collection
of revenue.
2. The expenditure of the revenue in appropriations
almost exclusively for the benefit of
the free States.
3. The lack of legislation, on the part of Congress,
to secure a compliance on the part of the
Northern States, with the requirements of the
federal constitution in reference to the surreuder
of fugitive slaves.
4. An evident disposition on the part of the
representation from the non-siaveholding States,
.a. 1_ _ ' i" " oof in
composing tne majority III vuugicoo, iv uv/* ...
sectional concert, and to receive petitions to
agitate the slavery question, with the design to
abolish it in the Territories, and eventually force
the entire South to do the same in the respective
slaveholding States.
All these causes of complaint did not alarm
the South to such a degree as to cause their
delegates to act in sectional concert in Con
gress, or to forget the distinctions of party in
the more important object of concert for safety
and existence.
The introduction of the Wilmot proviso principle
into Congress, with the evident and openly
avowed design of depriving the Southern
States of all right in the Territories, aroused
that section from their lethargy, and incited
them to prompt and determined resistance. It
commenced with the issuing of tire celebrated
Southern Address bv Southern members of Con
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( gross, with the exception of such as were wedded
to party, and of keeping the ties of party
between North and South unbroken. The response
to this masterly address by the masses
of the population of the South, was very general
and very decided, it was deemed advisable
that the South should act in concert. A convention
was held at Jackson, Mississippi, in October,
1849. At this convention were many
leading men from other Southern States. The
discussion of a general convention of the Southern
States was carried on out of doors, and finally
the convention itsell decided to call a
Southern Convention for June. The movement
of Mississippi has been concurred in very generally
by all the other States; and though the
objects of this general convention at Nashville
have been ridiculed and misrepresented, there
is no question that nearly all the districts in the
Southern States will be represented at Nashville,
and that the convention will speak the
voice of the South, and that it will be re-echoed
from the people of these States..
The design of this convention is undoubtedly
to discuss freely and authentically thegrievances
of the Southern section, and to take a stand, as
a section, in favor of a remedy. There can be I
possibly no objection to tliiR coarse. Let the
South hold their convention, and then the North
can be no longer in doubt of what the South
want, or what they will have, or secede from
the Union. Better to come to a final decision
than to live along in the present excitement,
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wmuu Kiiuav vvvmuaiij cuu in uiouuivii) "wuic
the North are aware of it.
The doctrine of State rights in the federal
Union, is a doctrine that has been freely discussed
of late years; and if any thing is fully and
incontestihly established in the minds of the
people, it is this truth?that the "United States"
and "federal States" have the same meaning?
umt uju cuiinumiMiii was mri|iit'(i in tuc uuuvo
03 States?that we are not a nation of individ- !
uals, hut that wo arc a federal community of
States, each State being a sovereign. The se
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cession ui uiiu niaw wuuki ne oau enougn,
would cause inueli embarrassment, and probably
plunge the Union into a very" general civil
war. flow much better is it, then, that the entire
section of Southern Statos should meet in
convention, discuss fully and freely their causes
of complaint, and the redress they seek, and demand
it with a united and unbroken front! The
North will grant it, when they see this attitude ;
for we honestly believe that the convention at
Nashville have no design of asking for anything
which the constitution does not give them, it
they had their rights, and which it is clear they
are folly alive to now, and which if not acoorded
them, will sever the Union sooner or later.?
When the convention is held, there will bo no
longer any doubt about the true sentiments of
the South, and measures will be taken at once
which will .end the controversy and save the
Union.
I have no doubt that when the convention
meet at Nashville it will take high but just
ground. It will insist that the Southern portion
o( the Union shall not be deprived of their full
and equal rights in the territory acquired from
Mexico, or any other belonging to the Union;
atid that if the North pass any act by their majority
in Congress to do so, that they violate
tao constitution, perpetrate an act of gross injustice,
and destroy the equality of the SouthSfatne
oe mnmlura ftf fhA TTnioil. bv retard
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ing their growth and accelerating that of the
States composing the Northern portion of the
Union, and destroying the equilibrium of government.
The Nashville Convention will further
insist that the assertion that the inhabitants
of the territories have a right to form a State
wlun and how they please, without the consent
ofCongres8 previously given, is utterly destitute
of foundation; that it is derogatory to the sovereignty
of the States comprising the Union, to
which the territories are declared by the consti
tution to belong, and in whom the sovereignty
over them resides; is revolutionary and anarchical
in its character, treasonable iu its tendency,
and wholly unsustained by the practice of the
government; that to make a constitution and
form a State involve the highest powers of sovereignty,
and that it cannot of course be rightfully
performed by inhabitants residing in the
territories, without the permission of Congress,
as the representatives of the United States to
whom the territories belong, or in whom the
sovereignty over them resides; that the attempt
of the inhabitants of California to make a constitution
and form a State, without the permission
of Congress, is an offence against the joint
sovereignty of the States of the Union, and that
Hwi inctmniAnt nnrnnrtiiifr to be the constitution
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California is utterly void and of no binding
force on the inhabitants of California, uor on
this government, nor on the States it represents,
and the 60 called State, hut a name without any
reality whatever?that all acts on the part of
any department of this government, or of the citizens
of the United States, intended to encourage
or aid the inhabitants of California to make
a constitution and form a State, (if, without the
permission of Congress, there have been such
acts,) are utterly unauthorized by the constitution,
and inconsistent with the allegiance due
to the joint sovereignty of the States of the
(Tni'nn?fhnt i? la nnt within thfi constitutional
competency of Congress to give validity to the
instrument purporting to be the constitution of
California, and to admit the inhabitants of California
into the Union as a State under it, because,
according to the fundamental principles
of our system of government, constitutions derive
their validity from the people by whom, and
for whom, it they are made, and because it
would be inconsistent with, and subversive of,
this principle, to act on the assumption that Congress
could give validity to the instrument, and
make it a constitution, by the act of admitting
its inhabitants into the Union?that the States
of the Southern portion of the Union are not
opposed to the proviso, which usually bears the
name of its author, becuuse it bears it, but because
its aim is to deprive the Southern States
of their Hue share in the territories of the Union,
by a palpable violation of the constitution?by
a total disregard of every principle ol justice and
equality, to be followed if adopted, by a subversion
of their equality as members of the Union ;
and that any attempt to admit the inhabitants of
California with the intention to evade the opposition
to the proviso, ought to excite a still more
nn/l iii/lirrnaiit nnimeitinil HpPflllSP it WOuld
oivill U1IVI lllUl^nnuv ?/j/j;voiwv..j ?
accomplish the same tiling in a manner more
objectionable, and involve other constitutional
objections, peculiar to itself, and of a deeper and
graver character,if possible, than what has been
set forth above; that they are more objectionable,
because it would effect, indirectly and surreptitiously,
what the proviso proposes to effect
openlv and directly; because it would exclude
the Southern States more effectually from said
territory, by being inserted in the instrument
purporting to be a constitution, and what would
be claimed to be a constitution if Congress
should endorse it, than it would be if inserted in
the provisions of a territorial government: while
it would be equally unjust and unfair if excluded
by an insertion of the proviso by act of Congress,
inasmuch as the citizens of said Southern
States have l>een precluded from emigrating to
said territory by the action of this government,
and thereby of being a void in the formation of
said instrument The Nashville Convention
will probably resolve, also, that the time has arrived
when the States of the Southern section
owe it to themselves, and to the other States
composing the Union, to settle, fully and forever,
all the questions at issue between them and
the Northern section, and they would not adjourn
until they had done so.
That the Nashville Convention will take this
ground 1 do not doubt I know such to have
been the views and the opinions of the mighty
mind of that illustrious, far-seeing Southerner
whose remains are now resting in a vault at the
burying ground of the capital; and I doubt still
less hut that there are thousands of Southern
men who think us he thought, and who will he
present to give tone, dignity and weight to the
proceedings of the Nashville Convention.
1 cannot close my letter without doing a simple
act ot justice to one whom 1 believe a truehearted
friend of the South. 1 allude to one of
the Senators from Mississippi?General Footo.
A very erroneous impression has somehow
been made upon the public mind, as to the relations
of Mr. Calhoun audCen. Foote at the time
ot the former's death. It is believed that there
was some bitterness between them. Such was
not the fact, Mr, Calhoun told thp writer,after
the debate in the Senate, jn which he last took
part, that he had had a conversation with Mr.
Foote, who distinctly informed him " that he
meant nothing unkind in saying what he did in
the Senate; that he had the best of motives?he
wished to draw him (Mr. C.) out, to make more
full explanations in'reference to one portion of
his speech." The great lamented replied, "You
should not have done that?yoti shduld have
come to me, and had a conversation privately,
and then asked such explanations as you desired,
before speaking in the Senate on those points.
Your remarks and intentions will be misconstrued
by those presses that are opposed to interests
in which we both feel deeply interested."
And even after this interview, when his health
became more alarming, and he saw only those
few who had access to him, he spoke kindly
and warmly of Gen. Foote, and of his s*ncerity
and devotion to the great cause of Southern justice,
rights, and interests. He never believed
that Senator Foote, in pursuing the course he
did. had the slightest wish or intention to do him
injustice; but lie foresaw that opposition presses
would put that construction upon it. The
differences between Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Foote
were all of a public character, they all occurred
in the Senate, aud were settled in the Senate.
There was not the slightest intermission
of their former cordial relations, save such as
sickness interrupted, in Gen. Foote's case, as
with hundreds of others, and it is doing great
injustice to Gen. Foote, to say nothing of the
cherished memory of the great deceased, to assume
the existence of unkind or of unfriendly
feelings on the part ot Mr. Calhoun to General
Foote, at the time of his death. Such was not
the tact. ' Patkick IIen a y.
Correspondence oi the Baltimore Sun.
Washington, April 18,1850.
Now that v* \ave slept on the event of yes
terday, we are better able to judge of it A
committee has been appointed to investigate it,
and from the established character of the gentlemen
composing it, no doubt is entertained,
in anv ouarter. but that iustice will be done to
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both Gen. Footo and Col. Benton. The first
tiling that the gentlemen of the committee will
have to do, will be to ascertain why Col. Benton
left hit seat and went so abruptly and violently
towards Gen. Foote? This will explain
why General Foote left his-own, and withdrew
to the aisle in ?he middle of his unfinished
speech.
The next they will have to inquire into
is why General Foote left his seat and withdrew
from Mr. Benton as he saw him approach.
If he meant to kill Col. Benton it was
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ins policy to wan lor nun. in wiuiurowiug w
a greater distance, and throwing himself in an
attitude of defence, he certainly gavo Benton
an equal chance.
Lastly, it would strike me that, weak and
dimunitive as Gen. Foote is, his anned hand
and Mr. Benton's clenched fist are not much
more than equal match.
The occurrence is a matter of deep regret to
all who have the dignity of the Senate and the
welfare of the country at h^art It is humiliating
beyond description, and it is to be hoped
that such scenes of violence will not again be
repeated.
The Senate was engaged all in voting down
Mr. Benton's amendments, one by one. It was
aone wiin greui gusw, nuu u>t-i miciuuug ??<>,
iii which even Seward and Chase, and Hale,
separated from their leader, whose case they
considered desperate. The committee was
agreed to, by a majority of nine, and will be
ballottcd for to-morrow. It will soon report
its views in regard to the best interests of the
whole Union.
Mr. Young, the new Clerk of the House, is a
gentleman universally esteemed for his strict integrity
and moderate views on all subjects connected
with the important business now confided
to liis care. He is, in fact, universally beloved
and resiiected by his own party, and not
objected to by any of bis political opponents.?
The selection was, no doubt, a judicious one.
I owe, and hereby carefully record an apology
to the "Union" newspajier. I have, without
due reflection and consideration, charged upon
its able and patriotic editors a backwardness in
boldly avowing their opinions on the great
nuoctinn nf the dav. On rcferrinc: to the files ol
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that paper, 1 find I was mistaken, and its columns
of today furnish invincible proof of the
fact Under such circumstances, all that is left
me to do is to acknowledge my error, and to
assure the public that I am most heartily glad
to find that i was mistaken.
I really believe that the cabinet is no longer
obstinately opposed to the union of the two bills
introduced by Mr. Douglas. If the cabinet
really adopt this wise, patriotic, and at the same
time prudent and statesmanlike policy, it will
certainly retrieve itself in the opinion of the public.
Messed are the peace-makers!
fn *I?o affair of the Crawford claim there
sccnis to be a little more cry than wool just
now. X.
Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun.
Sr. Louis, April 17.
Advices linvo been received here from Los
Vegos, New Mexico, to the Gth of March, which
furnishes details of recent Indian depredations
committed in that country. The Americans
were living in constant dread, and the Indians
were daily becoming more daring. The writer
says that a runner, scut by a part of BufTalo
hunters, had arrived at Los Vegos. He reported
that the company had fallen in with a party
of Apache Indians, when an engagement ensued.
Two of the whites were killed,and three
or four badly wounded, and at the time of the
departure of the runner, their ammunition was
nearly exhausted.
The conimanderof the fortress had been called
upon to order out the military, but the Indians
having been satisfied with their booty had
retired.
About the beginnidg of March, three Mexicans
were killed at Vernal Springs on the road
Inn Vnrrna ?nd Santa Fe.
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Strong terms of disapprobation were expressed
towards Col. Monroe, who, it was alleged,
<lid not act with sufficient caution in granting
licenses to traders. It was said that many of
the traders were in the habit of selling arms and
ammunitions to hostile Indians.
Free Schools in Mississippi.?The Legislature
of Mississippi has appropriated $200,000 lor which
the people are to be taxed, to be distributed among
the several counties in proportion to the number
of children, to establish a system of free schools. 1
Steps are also being taken to procure an accurate .
return of the number of children in the State be- 1
tween the ages of six and twenty years. j
There has been a great freshet in the rivers of <
Oregon. Mills have been swept off to the value (
011175,000 ,
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CAMDEN, S. C.
TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1850.
TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE:
Charleston, April 22.
Since the reception of the Steamer's news,
Cotton has advanced fully half a cent, the demand
being principally for Spanish markets.
Nine hundred bales were sold to-day at 11 1-2
to 13 1-4. Strictly fair 13 cents. W.
We learn by a telegraphic despatch to the
Intendant, received yesterday, that the remains of
Mr. Calhoun will arrive at Charleston on Thursday
next, the 25th instant, at 10 o'clock, a. m., and
hat tha Funorjil Cprpmnnies will lake place on
that day. We are requested to state that an extra
train of cars will leave to-morrow morning, for the
accommodation of persons going down.
^ will be perceived by an advertisement
in our columns, that the Sons of Temperance are
invited to participate in the funeral ceremonies on
Thursday next
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5^ Foote's bill for a Committee of 13 to. settle
the territorial question has passed the Senate by
a vote of 34 to 22.
We refer to the letter of our California
correspondent, as containing interesting matter.
Clark Mills and his Statue.
There is, perhaps, no living man in whom South
Carolina should feel more pride, than Clarke
Mills, the native, self-taught, unequalled genius of
the South. How many of the citizens of Charleston,
who saw him when a boy, along the streets,
ever thought his name would grace the proudest
page of our country's history, and place us ahead
of Italia, the land of arts and song? When about
nineteen, he commenced the business of plastering,
in Charleston, without ever having served at the
trade. Ilis genius soon induced him to introduce
a new style of cornishing, as tasty as it was elegant,
and soon his business was such as to enable
him to hire his jobs done, and devote his talent to
something of a higher nature. He had a small
office in street, near the office of Dr. .
Day after day he labored in his new vocation, and
several small busts, the work of his own hands,
adorned his window. One day, as the Doctor was
passing, Mr. Mills called him into his. shop, and
on removing a mantle thrown over an object, the
Doctor was surprised to see an exact counterpartof
himself. Delighted, he invited others to see it,
and all pronounced it a finished piece of workmanship.
He was given job after job, until the
i.pwt artist was the theme of conversation in every
circle of society in Charleston. Soon the bust of
Calhoun was finished. There was but one word
spoken of it?" inimitable." He likewise completed
busts of VV. C. Preston, and various others. But
the old opinion, even in the fece of these evidences
against it, revived, that an artist, to be an artist,
must study under Italian masters, and beneath
Italian skies. The necessary money to bear his
expenses was offered to Mr. Mills, to go to Italy,
lie was for sometime undecided, and during that
wliile went to Washington and while there was
?' ? i<nntract urhihh lie is noW'iboUt COH
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sumating. lie has never been to Italy, and never
will go to be taught or to study a science in which
lie could teach theii ablest Masters. His studio is
now on the spot where the work of years of a celebrated
Artist was burned?between the Treasury
Department and the river, (Potomac.) A plain,
unvarnished plank structure?but enter and you
see the most admirable work of art that any age
or nation lias produced.
Mr. Mills lias a horse, (we mean a live horse,) a
splendid animal, which he has used as a copy for
his work?makingthe statute one third larger than
life. The excellency and originality of the work
consists ill its being sen-saiancea, in a rtranng jjuqturo?the
animal stands, self-supported, on the
hind feet?with fiery eye, and glaring uoetrils?
neck bent and flowing mane, he looks like the warhorse
of the Ukraim; and saw you him on the
banks of she Seine, you would fancy you heard
him neigh. Your first question is, how, if he is
not really a live horse, does lie stand in that position
1 But Mr. Mills will go in front and throw his
entire weight (156 pounds) on his fore feet, and
and still he stands. The centre of gravity being
so directly thrown over the hind feet. This is
what the European artists could never do. The
Statue of Peter the Great at St. Petersburg, approaches
nearer to it than any other, but that is
hv ?lif> tail, to a sernent. which is fasten
ed in the pedestal?and consequently destroys the
life-like look of the horse, the great object sought
The stern old hero?native of the Waxhaws?sits,
with every appearance of life that art can give?
with iron nerve and unalterable resolution.
?? !- I. I? nn o nn/loctsl 00 fVwt lliffh. in
11 Ih iU Ut* juawcu Ull a j/ouuuvwi ?V 0?,
Franklin Square, in front of the White House. It
was (and may be yet) the design of Mr. Mills to
figure on each side of the pedestal a Lady's bust
The Fjuropean artists have all along predicted that
it would be a failure?but they should recollect
that American energy and genius know no failure.
Many of them have visited Mr. Mills' Studio, and
offered their services?but they have been invariably
refused. To add still deeper interest to it,
the statue is to be cast from the brass of cannon,
captured by Jackson hhpself froq} the British.?
VT~ L ^ * in vieilintr rtr nnbfiinO*
1XU UlltJ 5UUUIU mil lu vnu n, 411 r?ww,..0
through Washington?-especially a South Carolinian.
The gentlemanly manners of Mr. Mills
would make a visit pleasant, in more ways than
one.
J. M. Barrett.?The Spartan denies most positively
that the health of this individual was injured
by imprisonment, as is falsely alleged, and
asserts that M as he stalked forth lro(fl the comfortable
lodgings with which he had been furnished,
he looked much better every way, when he came
out of prison than when he went in." It also declares
the opinion that the rumor of Barrett's :
death is unfounded, and that it has been propa- i
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gated for the purpose of evading the payroenijot
the bond for one thousand dollars given for Ws
appearance.
Editorial Gleanings.
The'L/wses of a Month.?The total amount of
loss by the destruction and injury to steamboats on
the ftiissi??ipi>i? and other western rivera, during
the month of January last, is estimated at $806r
000.
A jilted chemist defines lover, to"be composed <r
fifteen parts of Gold, tlirce of forafy and .two of at
fection.
The towns of Oregon are-rapidly increasing^
population, notwithstanding the drain of Califor*
nia. . . \
Great Deluxe in Coffee.?It will be been by
our commercial article thd&pver 8,000 bags of Eio
Cotfee have been sold within a day or two, at eight
cents per pound. Early iu February the current
rate was 14 1-2 cents, so mat tne ran 111 prices
since that time is absnt six and a half cents per
pound, or more than $10 per bag.?Exchange.
Bots.?The North American Parmer recem.
mends a dose containing a mixture of a pint ot
milk and a pint of molasses, and in fire minutes
afterwards a decoction of tobacco juice; The bote
while feasting on the milk and molasses will find
a bane in the tobacco juice which they cannot survive.
Mining on the Gil*.?A company is now forming
in Washington county, Texas, for mining on
the Gila. Tliey think that placer gold ejush; there
in as large quantities as oil the Sacramento. The
company, numbering one. hundred, will proceed
by El Paso, W /
Late Snow.?The Richmond Enquirer of
Thursday says: "It snowed for several hours yesterday,
17th instant On Sunday last we examined
several truit trees, and found that there
much fruit still untouched by the cold?we cannot
say what will be the effect of the cold weather
uinpo " i
Tennessee River.?There are now nine steamboats
plying 011 the Tennessee River above- the
Muscle Shoals, and it unexpected that the number
will be increased to sixteen or eighteen
Philadelphia and Liverpool Packets.?There are
three regular lines of packets now running between
Philadelphia and Liverpool, and each of
them have a new ship of 900 tons in progress of
building.
Fugitive Slaves.?The Pennsylvania House of
Representatives, by a vote Of 60 to90 has passed
a "bill repealing certain objectionable sections of
the law of 1847, to prevent the recovery/qffugitive
slaves.
Death of Major O'Bbieil?We regret to learn
of the death by cholera of this gallant officer, at
Indianola, Texas, on the' 3d $ustv Major, then
we b lieve Lieutenant CJBrien, was'the officer who
distinguished hiineelt so highly at Buena Vista,
in command of the artillery. -tre?
Life.?In .Longfellow's Hyperion, that carftfrt
of rare and sparkling gems, we have the following
beautiful moral deduced from the story ofhero:
M Look not mournfully at the past; it comes riot
back again. Wisely improve t&e presenr; it m
thine. Go forth to meet thy shadowy futore,witbout
fear and with a manly heart."
During a call made upon Miss JageDo, the beautiful
young Hungarian who lately 'accompanied
a number of other refugees to th&coojitry,at the
Irving House, a few days since, a purso of.#800
was made up hi that establishment,and presented
to Governor Ujhasv, who was just departing for
Iowa, in order to select a permanent location for
the future residence of the refugees..
Memphis and Charleston Railroad.?The estimated
cost of this road is $l,500,0b& Xx this
sum $8(K),(KK> have already been subscribed. The
Memphis papers are discussing the propriety of
the city taking a part of the stock.
Proud men never have ftifebds. They bate nope
in prosperity, because they ktj&tv nobody; nor in
adversity, because nobody knows them.
A Sir. Napier, of Swansea", has announced to
the Scientific Institution at that town, that he-has
discovered a new explosive substance, which he
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denominates -wuiie puwucr, uavmg ?cii huicd
the force of common gunpo wder. It is composed
of the following ingredients: One part yellowprassiate
of potash, well dried; one part sugars well
dried; two parte chloride of potash. The materials
are finely ground separately, and then, intimately
mixed.
- \ ? PfiAY
os Dn>??ome time since a person jua
committed to jail in Northampton, and placed in a
room with a maniac, who had been confined there
temporarily, previous to his being taketj to the Insane
Hospital atBrattleboro. After the iiew^cdmer
had "turned in" for the nigbtThie crazy chum ordered
him up, told him to dress himself and then
make a prayer, of he would choke him to death.
There was no way but to obey, and after making
what be supposed to be a sufficiently long prayer,
he stopped. His inquisitor told him to keep on,
and he actually kept nim praying'allnight! The
poor man was not relieved lihtil the jailer5 carried
in his breakfast."
Maryland 4*dLibkru.?-The Maryland State
Colonization Society have adcpted a series of resolutions
expressing -their determination to make a
great effort to collect funds to eoabfar.it to send out
emigrants to Liberia, and to diffuse information
concerning its objects. The whole State is to be
carefully and zealously canvassed by their agents,
not only to increase the meansofthe Society,-but
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to lay tne true state 01 me vuiuuj upiuiv mo ?n?
orcd population, and explainaway allthe unfounded
antipathies that may existamongthem relative
to the advantages of colonization. >
The sugar crop of Texas for I85Q is estimated
at 10,000 hogsheads. It is also estimated that in
less tiiart five years the crop will be increased to
25,000 hogsheads, aud that in ten years from the
present time, the quantity-grown ut Texas will
equal that of Louisiana.
The Queen has granted a pension to the wife of
the poet Moore of ?100 per annum.
Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen was unanimously
elected President ofRutger's College, New Jersey,
on the 9th lost.
Hudson, the Iriahco median, Is giving'evenings'
at Washington.
Talents t0ri(et> t9 Good Acc6.tot.-r4t is stated
that the 'proceeds 'of Mffe K^mmeVlteadingl
foe "tlie tadies' Employment Society* of New?
York, aJter deducting'expenses, and including a
donation of fifty dollars from Mr. Wm. Njbto, a?"
mqunted to #1188.
Return of q Catiforniq MiHionaire.?The Providence
Journal of ih'e"l3th says that Stephen A."
Wright, who left South Kingston several yean ago
for the West, and finally reached California, where
he was settled when the discovery of gold wp*
made, has just returned with a fortune of about
half amiUioth with which, like a sensible mam he
has come to live in th? land of his birth'. '
"Good mawning. Miss friipp-~^oj^.^ jour
neaiin Bince jruu iwr. iuc \yaiaw f ?i la
much bettaW, I thank' yrou. AJawr sqya Tin so
much 6toutaw and fresh* w, sjie 8^*0 send rne
agawn next sumnjaty."
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