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Cosepndoeo Ore Now York Sub, - t~sfiaiA Feb. fkh, 15.' sd" and ure-r ris-of~w, the soit ~-A e.l and gold mines---Texaj This is ae of ite celleoiN catalogue of border doings arid.events-and you nadat cull from it whatever may be, if such there It. to mur taste. I believe you and every bod e knew before, that there re wcoal of fine quality on'thle Rio P , but-ve the pleasure of stsating hiced &JVtuminous coal outceops oni ofthe rier;o:about aml eo H nean, and that it burns, as I have freely and well even in a common Art; lace. A steamboat plying tip aid down this river, as Harry Love proved by practice, and Capt. Kingsbury by science, -s prscticable-can be supplied with con. venient and superior fuel very cheaply. So much for the most necessary weapon for regulating the Indians-a floating sentinel, Gold'and silver has been found by the gunsilitkof Fort Duncan, some six or eight miles from Eagle Pass; but the whole aiThir is kept very quiet, for some reason or other. There are abundant proofs of the existence oif richmines in northern and north-western Texa-but hitherto the Indians have kept off the whites, and the government was tot young and feeble to plant and defend settle. agents. Now, the veil is about to he with. drawn, and the world will be surprised to "lind a nearer and more inviting gold region Jhan California-though it will not equal its elder. sister in prolin vastness. Texag and New Mexico will give bread as well a: gold to their miners, and offer them bes'des autiful and healthy vales in which to plan . 11 fair homesteads. But so, too, will Califor nias' when we know her better.-Therc * imust be green ravines, and gushing springs In the furrows of those hard, rich misers the Gold Quartz Mountains. This climate is truly delightful, it is sof -and genial, yet as pure and free fron iasiha as the hills of the North. Februar% Ix the Month for planting here. Turnipr cabagil l'ettuce, awl Irish potatoes, weri blanted in January, by Baptisto Du pre, whi las set about givlig Eagle Pass a regula market garden, the first thing of the kind i1 the RIo Bravo, and everything bids fiair t them. Mr. Campbell, the senior proprieto of the pleasant valley tract, has plante< from one to two hundred fruit trees, grap vnes and ornamental shrubs, brought fron the neighboring Mexican towns, and I har kept even step with this excellent examplk We adopted the Mexican custom of plnntin, on the festival of the Candelaria, the secon of February, and the three days t-ncceeding There is every promise of success with ou trees, and so rapid is growth here tit w Mnay reasonably expect lhiat, peaches, plums ga'apes, and poinegranites, together wit sonic rruits unknnwn to the colder North a year from the coming summer-fron th year old plants just put in the ground, Thi apples will be a year later. [should obs,!rve that the art of graftin, is not understood or practised amnig th' border Mexicans, and t heir apples and pear hrekenerally small inferior flavored, lik the fruit from the natural stockb in othe places. Cherries, currants, and the ricl varieties of the plum cultivated in the olde States, I have not yet seen here, but shal make an ef ort to introduce them next yea As it is, we have planted the first fruit tree -as before we had built the first house i this county (Kinney) outside of For Duncan. This was in the beginning c IM50 sna then excepting at the site ni *ich Fort Duncan was rising, there wero a*. American families within it hundret nil Now there is a good society, realI wetnsv trade wvith Lt 1 of~Ieexico, and all the essentja ris o life at comamand--excepat a mnai tite. We have no vagabonds antd no civi ,officers: neither have we a doctor, a lawyer or a divine in the settlement; yet soul, body and estates seem in healthful security. never saw a more peaceful, well-dispose, community, and, excep)t the practice 0 kidnapping Mexicans and selling them bacd to slavety, wvhicha seems to enjoy the favo and countenance of gov-ernmnen, and t here fore is in a measure legalized, we hear no violence or infractions of the law. What we do wvant is a class of superio mnechaqics, men who are rnanly enough ti use their hands, and intelligent enougha t, use them wvith skill and efleci, in th< -erection of dwellings, mills, and welhls. The last season a direct road wa * surveyed by the citizens of Corpus Christ --ur nearest sea-port, although L~a Vascai more known and used-and thie di~stane h,1 an excellent route is not for from 2.5 mailes The government will finally adopt tha: route for transportatiotn, and then it will no have to depend on the Mexicans for coro and ay tem 1,50) a hushel for it, when bu o hs dependance, they would be gha: to supply it at 50 cents. Thle rich paroprie tors, like our friend and neighbor, DI~n Felipe do la Garrza, wiillihave three or fona .thousand bushels in their granaries, ve refuse to sell any people at less thtan thos, S exorbitant prices. EAGLE PAss. SINGULAR DE'Lso.--Not a long tim: since a respectable elder:y lady called ai the office of the Queen's Rtermembra nent London, and curtseying very low, reqnest ea few minutes' conversation with onm ofrthe cherks." She stated she was mocs anxious to know how a cause stood, in * which she was most ideeply interested; tha property to a conisiderable amount ha: been withheld fronm her family. The clerk who had been some years in thae otlico, anm 'vho was noted for his urbanaity and gentle maaply bearing, politely inquired the nanat of the cause. his suarprise and astonish ment may be conceived, when the lady ie plied: 'The Morning Star e-s. The Oh< Globe.' The property in dispusae wvas a consider able num ber- of acres of laund upoin tla p lain of Jordan, descenaded to her ini a righa lne from lat: that shte htad takens out subpatna against Adam, and tat Melchaiz deck wasn in possessiona of it, butt had nto heen able to findl him ot; anmd shte wa fearful the trial wvould comie on before Mlel chizedeck hail served the wr-i . The, cder at once perceived the lady wats laborinj under a delusion, politely turnaed to ha book, and after runnaing his finager down: th jgtojdlhe inquirer, as there minghat hb ile difficulty in finding Adam, the caus should staqd over till after Easter Tern The.1dy, enaraseying, thtanked him for hi pollenesu, and withd rew from the oflce, UEOGEAPIcAL DISCovsnY..-At a lat meoetinftheo Royal Geogra phical Sociot at London, it was announced that te Roi * D. Livirngstone, of the London Missionar1 Society, had discovered another large Itaki in South Africa, abouat 200 miles North e Ngami, which ho recently made known t. the world, The now hake containas sever at large islands, and is cotanected with tha Ngami by a rapid stream called the Teagt AL the date of the last advices, Mr. Livinag n eton was proceeding Nortbwar.-lf ha Cifr es'out his. plan of exploration, sonm kn tet esionsin African geograph Shall w Sambusl because is S itE iwlOurglifat imanalI and Weak. The burthei of taxation will fall ligltor upon the shoulders ot our citizens, under indepqqdent State government, than It does, now or ever ias done in the Union. Is lthis doubted, and call a plausible reavon be given to make the doubt worthy of boing enter tained? The complaint of our lives has been, that we are robbed of tih fruits of our labor, by a partial system of excessive taxation, which falls heaviest upon us of the South, and is scarcely of a feathers weight upon the industry of the North. We of the South have supporled the extravagant profligacy of this government, and South Carolina jays ten times more than her just tribute to minister to this bloated prolli gacy. Not half, scarcely one teeth of this tribute, now paid to this bloated tyrant, would be needed by South Carolina to sip. )ort a separate governieat. The idea that the smallness of South Carolina is an ob. jection to her separate existence, is a two penny argument. To refute it, let any one cast his eyes over the map of Europe, and see what a large proportion of govern ments are smaller in extent of territory than South Carolina; and that their positions are nut near so favorable for a strong, peaceful and prosperous government as ours. Sur rounded by tnonarchics and despotisme, Swit zerland minintains her existence, with out danger of being swallowed up by the rapacityopf her powerful neighbors. Holland, Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, and oth. er small sovereignties in the heart of Europe, stand respected and respectable be fore the world, with no constant fear of be ing crushed by more puisant powers. They are among the oldest established Govern nents in Europe, and before now have measured their swords, both on land and em, nwith the giants of the eartir. At this epoch, there are more reasons to apprehend ciril rar within the borderi of large States, than that small States will be crushed by the superior force of the large. This is eminently so in the history of the past three or four years, and will bo true, as fur as concerns the United States, before very r long, if disunion does not scatter the com i bustible materials now threatening ) initmentary ignition. Is it not known r to all, that cit il trar is a calamity' ten-fold I more to be dreaded that other wars? Once sirike fire in the Union, and n1o coc1a will live to see, posterity won't see, the end of the coaflaratin that will burst from that spark. It will be a war between races, rsections, and religions---wimh fanatics on one side, holding a religious amd political end that will fire and consuime the world in r its career, once let blood madden their hrains. Disunion, separate State secession, can now take lh:ace peaceily, and arrest and avert these threatened dangers. Abbcrillc Banner. GENF.RAL QUITMAN AND JUDGE C. P. SMiTi AT TIn ilSTRluNje JENNY LIND r ASK BA i. IN NEW OftnLE A s.-The Now Orleans Delta gives an aimiiiated accoun t of the afiaskers at this brilhait hall. It R iys. "We were iever so antused in our lives, r as we were at the interview of one of our witticet and loveliest young ladies, with r Governor Quitman, when, anniouncing I ierself "a trtia in the field," she ofrered her services to aid him in his defence e against tih ridiculous indictment iending agiainst him in one of our courts. Tosihow t her ability to discharge this difficult trust. f sie proceeded to set forth the main points a of his defence in an of'-anad'speeh, which would have been creditable to the best. deciaimer at. our bar. She described the Sbeauties of Cuba with raphic power; denounced the Spautish dlespotismi inl tnes a of burning scorn, and declared thtat the i American who wvould tact volunitteer to aid Ia people thus oppressed, ouaght to be lashted I through the world with scorpions. The Governour, houwever, here pleasaty suggested that the Cuban thraldoma was, [ peranps, somewhat softened by the fact tat time sovereign was a woman. "So imucith f the worse," exclainted the Ptortiai, "wvomcan should reign over thec hearts, not te iiinds of meit. Buit conme, Governor let's to business,-this aflhir wvill cost sontethming f-I, of course, v'olunatcer; but thaen, you know,witnfeses aire a'expesive;antd jurors, ;as they have to be freehaohlers cost paretty haigh. It think, howAeve'r, we can undertake to ptut you tharough witht fifty hoagshaeads,"~ (Th'fe Govercntr is a sugar, as well as cotton plhan ier.) in thtis way was the gallant vemerain subjected for socme inutes to a fire of wit, iwhi'ch we veintire toc assert, icoere serioucsly embharratssedl an I perpilexed im thtian te vol lays of the Mexicait a rtillehry dbal ini his ,hriliiiait stotrm if lihe city of Mfco '. The a fate of his gallant comitpeer of thes lIigh t uart of Appeals wats nearly as paitiablle. llesidles te batteries aof soic fiftv fair ;daughiters of M iss~ssippti, lae laid -'ta' lace tnmusic" of a numbt er ot ocur own facr--one h.rf wom a charming little sylp1h, annaiounaced heslfatre-eacter, andl inaively in quire'd aibouct whlact timie her services woauhld be required, to suistaicn M issassipipi ini resistatncae to anothecr ;aggressiont."' 'tnE BUNM'A fiTE lnfim.i.--I is saiid that time Boaitmpartc F"amtily arc' preparincg to pro. seciute a claimc of i weive i.llions fracncs againast Francee. Theca E'mperor Naploleon, in the days of his imcperial supjreamacy, ap-. ptroprinated to his use twelve iltilionts of pI roperty, of' wh'ich ihe wacs despoileda byv I 1 onis X V l. iThe P'residecnt of F'rcae'e hmas contsiulied emmaient counsel, nad ohtaitedm a cotusin of the Frech P'resideitt, claimis, - the Pailacce of the Elysee-a fairest nearI Paris, and a large sumn of amonev. Th'fis real esiato wans a ptresenit to his fathier fraomi ithe Empa eror, acnd thce maneey is clhai ctned as an indlemnity for estactes at Na~ples taikenc from iis facther. limiinenct lawyers hcia' -also givent faivoracble opcinains in tii is case. A NrII' Oblsinis..--- naew~ rimnibuis has b eent inatndedla'e inito I .amtdnc, seo acrranged thmat every ptassenga~er has a dooer, a seat, anad a windowv for himcself, with ac gutta tper. cla tube thiroughc which t ce'Oiy ocrders tot the end. Thie a rranigenmentt is mcocst in genious. VTe onily vdifliclmty is, tat frienids getting in have ito oppoirtunizaty of sav ing' a word to eacha other iuntil the joucrntey is tier. formied. Conanected ithil every so at, or cell, orboxwh ichevert it maybe called, is a number of passengers. g41-'The onginmeer whcohas bieen emplty od by the Tiehtcanteptec ICiilrcoad Compinlany of New Orleants tat exanino the Pacfi~c shore of fte Jsthmus in search uof a suaita. itie harbor, hams founad two spac~.iouts, edeepi and safe hiarbtors a fewv imiles sothieast oif Sthe town ofTh ntp..Tooroah to be weoll shtoltered, atal the vessel,, can e nter atnd depart wvith thto winud int aniy di. rec'tioni. 'The soundceings showa~ a dleiih of wauter varyiing fromic l8 to 51l feet aicd upl. -wards. 3 An agent of' the Shah of Persia is ntow at I Vienna, to entgaage military oflicers for his Sittmaster's service, atnd a pthysici an to take chcrge o't a aomeeliIs el ., n1 ert. THuWAY DIVISIONS ARB CREA TED IN TUH SouT.-The following article of the Niisstap tpan oqtalns a pregnant truth. In :onfirmatiOn of the last part of it, we should remarks that Mr. Owens of Georgia has re. aeived the consulship to Havana, and thus "thO pice of the noble and patriotic stand" )f his State, has been paid with creditable promptitude. We have often argued that it Is useless for the friends of the South to postpone the idoption of measures of resistance to the oppression of the Federal Government, with ho view of securmg unanimity. It is idle to expect such result, when so many causes 3xist to prevent it. Prominent among thene, is the power which the Federal Government possess of buying up with affico, loading men in our owni section. The iouceur is held out to corrupt aspiring poli. tician,, and they are sure by partizan ap peals to take wit I them to the support of the powers that be a sulliciont number to :rente the divisions which we so much lament. Thus the National Treasury which is I supplied to a great extent by taxes upon Southern labor, is used for the purpose of producing discord in the South and render ng her powerless in the hands of her oppressors. Will delay remove this obstruction in the path of resistance! Will it destroy the glitter of Federal gold or break the charm of Federal office! Hurely it will not. The nature of nman will remain the same, and the means of enticing the depraved will but increase with each revolving year. Who knows the extent oF the bribes' that were held out to the corrupt demagogues of both parties in Georgia, who deceived and misled the people of that State! The Washington correspondent of the Louis. ville Courier (Whig) openly announces that the President promised to one of them, the most lucrative oflice in his gifi. The writer says: "The consul.ship at Havana. the most lucrative consulate in the gift of the exec utive, has been placed by him at the dispo sal of the delegation from the State of Georgia, provided they present a proper 4 person for it. Th's of course they will do, as there is, no doubt, as good material for it in that State as in any other of the Union. The claims of Mr. Langdon, the whig Mayor of Mobile, were strongly urged by his friends for this consulate; and, but for the promise made by the President to the Georgia delegation, there is no doubt but what lie would have received it. From the ioble and patriotic stand, however, that Georgia took during the recent slavery excitement. in which she resisted South Cnroliina nullification, and Mississippi disunion, and successfully checked the headlng course of secession, she u as entitled not only to this. but, much more at the hands of the General Government." MORE or TIH MOBILE MUmDER.-The Mobile Herald of 11th inst, gives currency to sonic rutnors which add a mysterious interest to tie murder of the Cuban. Hiernandez, who was assassinated in that city. under circumstances of so much atrocity, on Sundy morning last. Since the residence of Hernandez in Mobile, there have been many rumors afloat as to the cause of his leaving Havana. The following account is given on the authority of a gentleman of Mobile cogn sant of a p rtion of the circumstances. A short time previous to the Cuban expedition from this country, a stupendous fraud was discovered by te authorities of Havana to have been committed against the Government, in which a number of the most wvealthy and indluential citizens were implicated. Prosecutions t'oro instituted against thema. T1he Goveranent found it out and seir~ed and confined him in prison as a witness, to preserve 1 im from the bribery, power and influence of the defen dants. They attained means, however, to communicate wvith him, andI for a large sum of mooney he agreed, when introduced as a gitness for the Government, to narrate, as fact, a statement on the trial which would exculpate them. The day of trial w"as drawing near, amid the defendants be gani to look upon hlernandez wvith deep sus picion, as they were completely in his power. They feared a betrayal of their trust, and concludled it wecre best to get hinm out of the way entim ely. Thmeyp planned his escape from prison, furnished himi with several thousand doliars, and ho was soon in this~ countiy. Dlurmig the exciting events incident to the descent uponi Cardenas, this prosecution was lost sight of. Since the appointmnt of the new Governor of Cuba it has been started afresh, and it is the intenition of the authorities to probe the matter to its found. ation. The new Go'vernor, learniinir of thme escape and flight or liernanidez. after con siderable investigation anid inquiry, located uimn in Mobile. The mnecessary steps were beinig taken by the Government to obtain his a ppearance in llavana. This the de. fendanits found out, and knmowing that it would lend to an exposure of the whole transact ion, they procu red the conuissioni of this deed. Some of the circumstances here detailed have a strong resemnbaice to the celebrated Rtey case. Onie of thme parties auspected of this murder left Mobile suddenly 0.: Monday. it was supposed for h avana, on a brig them lyimg itn the lower Bay'. Pl'nice officers were dispatched after him, but have returned without boinig able to hear anything of TnmF. CASE 01' CHAPLIN.-The ease of Mr. W. 1,. Chaplin, A bolitionist, who wvas arresteud in Montgonmery county, whilst in the act of abducting the slaves of Merars. Toomibs andl Stephens, the Baltimore P'a tro(t says, wvas to have come tup in I loward thistriwt court otn Monday; bat, as was ex-. poeted, lie failed to make his appearance,. and his bail ($ l9t.(N)) wvas forfeited to thme State of Maryland. Theli mioney, it is said, is pierfectly secure, having been depositedI mi banik. INsmAs Wait IN TExAS-The Austin State Gaz.ette says it is rumored that G;en. Brooks ists king arranigemecnts at an ear ly (lay to set in tmotion a strong cx pedition against i lie Indians, whose continued annov ainces anid outrages retider it neccessary 'to adopt some suchI decisive measures, or a. badon the frontier to their muercy. It is comntempillatedl to place the expedition tinder the cormmand of Gen. hiarney, whon had1 left for Gan Anatonmio to cotirer with the com. manadinmg general on the subljetct. la..OO.N N;ATroN.---IFt is said that a hallnoin las hnena conistriucted at Paris which obeys the htolin and can be dIriveni even against the wind by its condluctor. This mchine has miade several voyages around lie Ilippodrome, anid has been mnaio to turn im every dlirectiitnhbut its pirogressi the air line not ynt been tested anad the ut most secrecy is observed as to the mneans emlIoyed. llacnt.Ons IN GitEesN.-In the Ore gon Iegislature, Mr. McKean, "chairman of the commnittee on mairriages," reported ini favor of taxing hachelors two dollars pert year. THRE SMTER BANNERs Sumter ile, oi, Ca. .H. G. RICHARDSON, V. F. B. HAYNHWORTH, I EnITORS. WEDNESDAY) MARCH 26, 1851. U"" Mossr. A. WairTE & Co., are igenta for the Banner in Sumterville. To Ousr Cossastry Readerm. We have hadour attention called to piles if our last issue remaining in the Post-Office a this place, which will no doubt be charg J upon Us as negligence. We feel our inno once, for our numbers for the country are lways deposited in the Oflice at the proper our; the Post Master denies the fault to o his, and it must therefore be shifted upon he shoulders of the irregular carriers of the nail. The Market. In Charleston, on Saturday, the market vas firm; 300 bales of Cotton were sold at rom 81-2 to Ile Telegraphic C atelligelace. Tihe Ocean Steamship Franklin arrived at kew York, Saturday, bringing news from Averpool and London up to the 8th inst., otton was firm and during the week 5640 bales had been sold. Lord STrAN.ny, who upon the resignation if Lord Jojtv RUSSELL had been desired by he Queen to fortn a Cabinet, had been un blc to form a protectionist ministry. Lord roti RUSsE.!. hatd resumed tle tjinier hip and no alteration seemed likely to oc ur in the British ministry. The Ohio steamer brought over 93,000, 100 in gold from Ciagres. The Supper. The Ladies' supplier will come ofl before ve will have the pleasure of agairn greeting our readers. Thtn " come one, cono all " o the 'T'own Hall next Thmrsday night at o'clock, so that in our next we mnay be able o congratulate you upon the pleasant even ng you then spent. Death of a Nestor of the Press. We notice with regret the announce nent of tle rece. t decease of Maj. M. M. NoAn, the venerable Editor of the Now York Ti a es. Ills vigor anti reach of mind. is keen anti tempered wit, his extensive information and unceasing industry, com ined wi:h his unitpeached honesty of pur pose, well merited the high reputation which tie obtained as a journalist, and made his loss the more to be lamented. Fatal Roneountre. We learn that onTuesday, the 18th inst. a rencontro took pla:e in Camden, between ol0 9PIT J. LESTEt,' formerely of George. toWn and SAmUrL '. jova, of Camden, in tho course of whicihthe former received a pistol ,abet in thieAI pign, which resulted rotally -inl about eiventeen hours. The incidents of the affray are different. ly reported, so that it would be improper to axpress or to formn aniiiin as to t1te hein ausness of the deed. LovE is now int pris.. an, awaiting his trial, which will probably 1ake place next, week. Jenny Lind and Barnun. Thte Editor of the New York Hlerald sug gests that after JENNY IAN has concluded hter Amnericatn engagemts heo shtould lake Mr. BAuso.U: to Europe and show him at a dollar tfibeud. rThe Mornting St'iar proposes to BARnUo what it contceivest to be a tmore ptroitable "peculation ; tlttt hte shoutld take a two rears lease ot IIF.NNEFr-r and exhibit htim in France and Entgland at a shillintg a sight. Well advertised andi puffed, antd BIAtnsUM knows htow to do the- thing eflectively, theo ipectacle the St'ar tht.ntks would be a very (RDIN ArT Y oF Gtn EENv'tLt.E lDis'r RCT. hUTtF.nt Mellb:E. F.:sq., htas bectn elected Jrdintary of G;reentvihle D~istrict, in place of Fonls WaTSOs, I-isq., who had resigned mn accounttof ill health. Mr. Ct.A v iS ntow. en routo tot havana for he putrposie of recruitintg htts strengith and tealh. Gross Outrage. Ont Wedntesday nigt, about 10 o'clock ays te Mercury of thte 21st ins.t., as a sea tnan namted Samnuel 1). 1 lines, belotnging to schoonter fromt E-denton, N. C. was re urning thtrotugh fdlliot.st. to his vess'el, he vas accos.tod by IloenryThtompison, the bar mid bouokkeeper of a sailor boarding houtse cept by Williamu Litt, itt Bedontd's alley, md regnecstetd to assist, itt rowing a boat to vessel it theo streamn. Alter some. htesita. ion he atgreedI to do so, and acconmpamed l'hornptson and tanoter to thte ve'ssel, whticht >roved to be thte liritish jmark Joltn. Hatving iscended to thei deck. te $teamantt overhteard Ph'ltmtpson say ttt I Io mate of te hark; 'Ilere is youtr ittmn; givnt me a rece'ipt for tim;" wvhich the nte refutsed to do,, be. mose i b ad nto t broutgt. htis clotheas witht timt. 'lhtamtpson thIen hutrried o'ver time side t thte vessel into it bat, and IJitnes also lescentding. 'lThomtpsont, assistedl hy hmis cont. ederatte, attemtpted to shtake htim olT the~ attder intto thte watecr, ajpparettly with thei. tttentiont of drownting himn, butt he, byv a des. eirnte struggle. wvas entabled to frutstrate htetr elibrts. 'lThe boat thent htast ily rowetd t1f, anid I ites retaitneid te deck of Ihte ves ei, andi expllainted the~ d'cep ntn tha~tt had een pratene~td til himt. 'rTh othicers t reatedl Ito thtore, amnd ith ark snihod at htalf-'past 0, \. 31. I linecs, itn his exattintt~tion befoirre hi I (ot. tr theo Mayor, at one' o'clock I'. M . futrthter tated thtat at sectamr, who htad ben carriedi mt boardthet. bark L-y force, attemtedtt lie oro daybtreak, yesterdayv, to mattke hts es ape htv swattmong ashoro, butt wats swtept ttde'r tlhe vessel, and( idro wn ed. 'Tomnpson wtas arresited ott a warrat rotm thet Maytor, antd 'ommttittedl ott thet barge o~f k inappitg. laretty, a td ;t eiti o dlrotwn. We t rmst that these eblarges mil he thtorongbtly intvestig.atied, anid if em. ablishtd, that snech pun mishmmtntt wdil be me.. ed out, as will deter othters frotm the jpe. rationi of aMntIr nt~r va -r The Wolf an tholdies That good old moralizer, .t'9 In- one of his fables, has illustrated with great force and pathos the fraudulent sconings withi which Injustice seeks often to Invest its true designs and to Justify itself in the, per. petration of even its most cruel villainies. The Wolf meditated the destruction of the innocent, gentle, Lamb, but even lie desired to give the deed he purposed the ap. pearance of the punishment which justice inflicts on crime rather than of that of a cruel and unprovoked murder. Hie brought ac. cusations which were too absurd to be se. riously refuted; but the poor Lamb, in the vain hope of saving his life by disproving the charges, replied to them as they were made and showed that he who stood lower on the stream could not have defiled the water which flowed to him from the Wolf; but though the argument may havtdelayed his relentless foe, it only maddened his thirst for blood and redoubled the fury with which ie tore to pieces his defonceless victim. Many applications have been made of this illustration of depravity, but there is now going on the grandest, the completest enactment of the scene: uations, not indi viduals merely, are performing the parts, and our own country is the stage of action. In events which traspired years ago, and which have continued to occur ever since, it might have been seen, and it has been seen and predicted too, that the Northern section of our Union, differing in the very ground-work and frame of its social institu tions from the South, cherished no fratern al feelings, but looked upon us with envy and hatred and longed to destroy us. It has steadily gone forward towards this ob. ject. yet always endeavoring to conceal its feelings and d, signs. This much has been already accomplish. ed ; tho days of Southern prosperity, even of Southern existence, are numbered. Slavery ha been limited aud is now to work itself off; a few years more, and it will not be. But these few years are too long to wait for. The South, struck down in its last great. battle, the struggle against the Compromise, riddled with wounds and bleeding from e:ery pore, is not to be let alone to wrestle with Death for a few hours more of life. Our enemies fear the possi bility of our recovery while there is still any thing ot life in us, and they therefore are seeking for some good reason to dis patch us. The last blow is impending and what is the pretext for it! That the South, to gel the Compromise measures passed, promised a Tariff to the North! !! and that having bought what we wanted, we harc withheld the pr ce. The New-York 'Tribune. the chief Anti-Slavery organ, whose assertions with regard to the move. inents of that party are therefore to be con. sidered autiloritative ; quotes the following, entitling it " An Apt Illustration:" Tho Na.olk (Massachutts,) Democrgt repeats an miuutration ot& 'MK Calvref W ashington county, in his address at the Trremuint Temple of. the- barpan irs.Coa. gress at the last session-that Is, if the South could have the Compromise meas .ures carried throumgh, the Nor th was to have a Tariff, ie said there was a boy in his neighborhood, who after h wing eaten a full 'meal, had a spaiil dog that wvas very hun gry. lIe took a cracker, andl, holding it up, told the dog if heo wanted it, to stand up.--. The dog stood up. " Now," said the boy; "sit down." The dog sat down. "Now roil over." The dog rolled over. "Now speak." The dog spoke. Then turning round, the boy pnt the cracker in his pocket, saying,---I shall want that to make hinm do it again." So with the Tar iff. Alter carrying all the obnoxious mneasures, the South turns coolly around, kills the hill and says, "We shall want that to make them~ roll in the mud again." What could have been invented more grossly, more absurdly, untrue than this, and what malignity could be blacker than that which con Id use such a falsehood as a pretext for what that party intends to do. TheSouth knew fronm the first that the Com promiseo woul be no adjuastment of theodiffi. culty, that the North wvould not abide by it Thumghm aL poison it was too slow; the North complamned hiat it wvas too favorable to slave. ry; and coul scarcely be persuaded, by the combinimed influence of Mr. CL~AY and Mr. WV1nBTF.It, to) remain for a while content wvith it. But they are already tired of inac tin and are longing to strike at us again ; they only want a pretext for breaking up the Adjusmnut. And thi, is perhaps the on wich they will umake use of. The Sotstruggling against the Compromise, certainly never otTered to pay for its adop. tion ; but what was agreed to by those, mniscalling themselves Representatives of the South, who entered into that corrupt compact-how far they, in consideration of spoils and place, may have committed them selves to a Tariff'-we cannot tell; time will we think make some disclosures yet. Mr. BENTON from the first alledged that the TarifT was a passenger in the Omnibus. We have a melancholy fate before as. Tlhme truce will not be of long duration.-. Somet false or absurd charge will be in vetetd to justify the renewal of hostilities; the South will be as unisuccessful in argu. mnent as the L~amab; her end wvill be to be torn in pieces by the Wolf. ~'P TuE Ptorrve Si.av. Act in TuE Wxs' lxmnrs.--A meeting has been held bmy thne peolie of lharhadoos for the purpose of symrpathiismig with their brethern in Amierica on the pasage of the fugitive slave hill. Resoilutions were passed de iounciing the act, and "fliat their utmost endonvors would be usedl to collect 8 fund to aid fuigitivos in escaping fromj such injus tice. tyranny and oppression." Four hun dredl ant liity-.two re-captuiredl Africa'ts hadl arrived at Denierara from Sierra I cone. The stock jobbters of Lyons employ Swa! Iou's inistend of Carrier pigons to bringf the prices of stocks from Paris. The Swallows are taken fromi their ynung, and maternal instinct urges thenm back, wearing a ribbon mtark~ed with the nriccs in ,muestio.. ay - kta latel I ouses ? re aao aran - lefore the r otseI rith great a lnyoft as consumed with the house; another eized byts mother, but 0 .'nds1 a make her way outishelln the misatd f the flames. She was dred out, er child was lost. Anotor mall o. ucceeded in ef'actlng his way , but he fan so badly burned that he lived at r two afterwyards. The 4 a have originated from accidenti MEMPHIS AND CHTAR.ESro. Rlij !he Medmphis Eag kataa that #4bh M ecounts from New Orleans, Go; Joiet ad obtained subscriotions to the 6utift. f 0100,000 in that city, to this grat rize. A C7,1z Several of our own citizenuj ;t aper infoni'us, hid gWian issii&raet& ;ov. Jones, that Charleston is ready to. ~ ubscribe libIerally. - The opinion appears to be gaing gn " t all quarterr, evon*ilhli ho ffhOpr.5 few-Orleans asthe grea, exporti t C-" bat Charleston Is rapidly"Iecm reat importing metropolis of the 7he completion of the Road' to mf6p",h l rill divert a large portion of the tride no oin on between Western merchants rid lie Northern cities, to Charleston. CONSOLATON.-"IO1ion of the-Baltimore lun, gives the ownpr of Shadrach 'WilA. as some comfort at least, He gravely saures the claimant that the promptirescue f the negro saves him from a vast amount f expenses which he would have had to' icur in recovering him. lie -instances lie case of Henry Long, whose reclamation ur readers will remember, cost more than t negro afterwards sold for. This is paying rather dear. for justice;. nd is a fine commentary upon the beauties if the fugitive slave law, and the pledges vhich Foote and his followers made About. lie way the North would enforce it.--Mis. 5ssppian. AN INTERM:IITTENT PusIaaENT.--A in. rular instance ol the mode in which judicipi ienalties are carried into eflect at Berlin is nnounced in the journals. Theeditor .f democratic journal was recently con lemned to four mouths imprisonment; but )leading ill health it was decreed that he ;hould le examined by the medical super ntondent of prisons, Ur. Casper, who made lie report, whereupon it was decided that he condemned person should submit to' a mystem of alternation of prison and froedom - that is, he is to go into anl reimain in a our days, and then conieui ' t days, ind so on until the whole.pe U-of. -fong months imprisonment aliall be mado good. A correspondent of the Savannah Geor ri n writes from Key West, Pla.,' tiat ir 'iallory has not yet accepted the- oide. of United tates Senator, to which Ito was recently chosen over Mr. Yalee, and that in consequence.of his disapoival of tho manner of his electi6n-to ttit.'h yWhigs in connection with a frtioh.of the 'Demo ,ratic party-it is doubtful whethcr he ake his seat. A NEW KIND or Frxcaw--Mr. Jol Remington of.Montgoinery, Alian4 tleI Inventor olthe Remington' aiinae? e a pateteda dagef o Z hag biinsgranite~ by plantation hand. hcte are conveyed.to the spot r hjf is to be located, atid te two f are let into the ground E ui3,nori The cost to tho planter is Whated cents per panel of ten -res by fi inches thick--far cheaper than the . fence. It does not, or at least shaouh4 dletract from the merit of this inve that it hails from Alabama, this time, raff than from Mamne or Penn~ lvania,~r -thai the modest little town ofoiomrsn tures competition with the great bgfar.. Luring cities of thei East for the honor of originating some of the useful diecoverind of the age. NsWv STEA3M-CARRIAr. EOR THE SFREES --In the A renir Repuliicain of St. Etiemue is given an account of the appearance- -i the streets of that. town of a a new, steam.. carriagre for ordinary rends, invented g Verpilleux, of Rive-de-Gier, who, rej~e~ ted the Loire in the Constituent A enbl#. Thm carriage in question went throngh all the street, of the town withs the greatest facility, under the most perfect- optro~lo the man sitting in front, turning it to t~ right or left, or sending it backward or-. ward an he pleased. -Two eabriolet<61lleil with seome of the friends, pi the inventor, were attached to the carriage'. as was, af. terwards, a heavy cart of cenars. which ;it carried frr m La Croix-de.1'Horne to. the ihne kilns jaf Mr. -Jsekse)." The carringo weigh. two tonsi and is ofifotur-horse -pows or. Ii run, tan three wheels, and its spegd is ten English miles an hour. Its con sumption of coke is exceedingly small. A new vehicle on the sameprmciple, but of twelve horse power, is now in coptseL of construction; it will be able,.it is saidy- to' move four coal-wagons with a weight pf 12,000 kilogrammes. It is intended ihor;. ly to employ-this mode of locometion li carrying the coals of Bessage to the Rhdwe and those of Firminy to the Lyons railway. The Ulngham, Mass. . Journ il says:-~ 'We Isavi asen the giantapa veritable giant,. and nao mistake. Angus hicKaskill is -bua 19 years old. so it is said-is now nearly sigfst feet high, and Is still grow ing. 'No. is atel P'oportioned, Intelligent looking, add, by the time he attains maturity, wil 17-be -a .all one indeed. isi shoe. dre sixteepi in. :hes long, and his cap its hig round as a. rlinghiam bucket; et'esything else abdot. dim s in-thue samo pr'opottion. The en. letmen under whose charge ho is exhibatedt state, what, if a facts Is a very , remiarkukde mne, namely, that, seven years ago; thiui, rhen Angus was twelve years-oldt/he *e mown and noted na a dwamrf, he was" theni aut three feet high, and weighed but thitN y-four pounds.. Since that .time lie hams grown eight inches a year oni an averages and is not doneu yet. H~e now weighs 4(KR toundsa, and huas strength in proportion. Ho alibra to lift a couple of barrels oif flour at mece (proidcd he may b~ase thiem for Uti fing), or to forfeit their price. hins moth, tr, however, cautioned him, wheni he Jeg ome, against indulging in uncoumnrt og rtions of strength, for as yet, 'eie saaid$w Angue is atendecr boyv!'' T'he Ciitas of the town hf lanIii ho place of Daniel We~bst~er's reideejr idopted, at a meeting on - the 3d iis. reamnblo and ser'es of r'esolutioin', di' rete of 120 to prnoncngth f lave act unconstmtutional. Tihey d et& bat the haw is utterly repugan' .o. enur nel sense, a dirgreeto t thy civiliatlol (fthp gge, andI clearly at~varUn eo we h the WhNuAe anirit tii the C'hitatn f'rth Thra - Theeretarf ttrI 0 iven a lengthy de g6log as Uo sld ma lity of warrants under the born d law. It Is addressed toAh - of the land Office, beuw-*1 6 1% made public before Monda*o4 yd He reiterates his former opinion, that the law. as it stands, prohibits such assig ent, I and ridicules the Republit's Idea t the i intentions of members ot Congress can be officially noticed, and acted upon by the a Department. t Correspondence of the Charleston Courier. WASuIGTOJ, MARCU 18. * Signorian Parodi's concerts are affording V great pleasure to the musical public in this A city and Baltimore. Her first appearance t here, last night, was so successful that she will sing here again before leaving for Richmopd and Charleston. The success of Jenny Lind and Parodi will bring to this 8 country many of the most eminent foreign artists. 0 I understand that a cathedral, the largest I and most magniflcent in the Union, is to be erected in this city by the Catholic church. The site is selected and a very large suns already raised for the object. There are two large hotels and a theatre about to be commenced here. The work on the monument, the enlargement of the capitol, the improvement of the public grounds, the patent office, the grading and paving of streets and the erection of nutnerous private dwellings of a good class, all seem to give assurances of the increasing prosperity of this city, and of confidence felt in its per. petuity as the seat of the central govern. ment. Of the large sums disbursed here by the i general government, some considerable a portion will necessarily be invested in con- o tinued i.mprovements, which will, in time, a render this city attractive and agreeable as i, a residence. It is very true, however, that tl the scene could be very easily changed by 0 the removal of the seat of government, it which can be any time done by a bare ma jority. If the Western land interest, and a Western river and lake harbor improvement c interest should form a united phalanx and v demand not the possession of the lands. but t the benefits of proper public expenditure, who knows that they may not contrive to convey the seat of Government across the mountainsl Here, the goversnment is subjected to Atlantic influences, while there I it would be surrounded with Western : influences. Man% inquiries have been made here as ( to tle publication of abst racts of the census. I No provision has yet been made for their I publication, nor will the work be ready for the press till the fall. It appears from an address from Mr. Ritchie, to his subscribers, that he sold the Union office and paper, for the sum of twenty thousand dollars, which goes to his creditors, and that there is a large sum due him for subscriptions. If they pay up, it will afford him some relief, and he expresses confidence that Congress will ultimately respond to his appeal. From the same source, we learn that the Union, under its new editor, will support for the Presidency the regular nominee of the Democratc National Convention. A letter from the Secretary of the Inte rior, appears to.day, in which he persists in his lormer construction of the land bounty act-so that warrants are not to be assign able until the law shall so direct. The his of this Inatter shows that legislatioh imsbect t.nasny iicident. -- A ln a ha - nter's appraise. me4:t law. It is wI! 1 itrud It'ad "tiintime -a eit valuation of goods on which duties are to be assessed, This wilt considerable Iu crease the ratei of duties on somne articles and particularly of Iron. 'Onto.-Benjamin F. Wade has been elec ted a U. 8. Senator from Ohio for six years from the 4th of March last. Of his politics the New York Tribune says : "Judge Wade is a Freesoil Whig and a determined opponent of the F tive Slave Law, but has never perceived tht his Free Soil principles could be promoted by abon doning and opposing the Whig party, of which he was recently a pandidate in oppo aiiies to the Freesoll Party, whilch carries all before It in his section. H~e wasan ear ly and decided supprter of Qen. Taylor for President, yet he L now elected by the aid of Freesoil votes, We venture to say that the National Administration will find no firmer, no heartier supporter of all Its mneasures, based on old-.fashioned Whig principles, than Judge Wade; while for any aid it may want in the way osf slave catching, It may look with confidence to the ranks of its political adversaries, to whom the business'Is more congenial. We pre sunme there will be no present lack of help In that line. Naw IAwrra.--The New-York Tri bnuse, in summing up the results of the N. Hampshire Election remarks: "So much-be the Legislature as th-y muay-is secure. There Is a popular major ity against the fugitive slave law, and there are two memnbers of Congress chosen to ex press that sentiment from Districts manipu-. latedi expressly to do the ether thing. "Such is the general result of the first State election in 1851-a whig gain in Congress and in the State Iagislature-.-a majority against the fugitive slave law, and a decided impulse to the cause of Independ ence of party shackles. We hail it as an indication oflhealthful vigor In the body pot itic, and as auguring well for 1852." A DL'ruL Bos.--Henry C. Wright, in a recent letter to the Anti Slavery Bugle, Published at Salem, Ohio, uses the follow. ing abhorrent language : "IJf my father and mother who bore me were slaveholder., and their slaves should seek to msake their escape by cutting their throats, my sympathies and efforts should be for the slaves; I would not stand life. guard to my own mother to protect her against her slaves-.if site perished in such foul injustice."-WIil. Weekly Corn. SrnAXos DEaoCRucy.-In the new con stitutio~n of New Hanmpshire, wvhich has just i been rejected at the elect ion in that State, t the old aristocratic and intoleratnt features of landed qualification and religious test for office were intended to be abolished. 1 Thus the people of New Hampshire have< refused to confirm the liberality of their 4 late convention. We donbt not that muscis derided old Virginia will show herself far. ahsoad of them in liberal principles. Tua WV4shrNarox Uri:,N.--The Pro. prietorsip of the U/nion hsas passed from the hands of Mr. Thomas Rischie into those of Msj, A. J. Dosnelson. Mr. R. hmas beens forty.soeven years connected with the press. "Ma. Su tin," said a little fellow the oth er evening to his uister's beau, "I wish youa wouldn't praise sister Nancy's eyes any I more. You've made her an pmud now that she won't s peak to cousin n~rs, nor mind 4 mother the least bit."