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From the e mw ota e - .od a b o preaclher, a6 - t -oessedof e gif~lted wit .him, pqc( r4 v-any. -: But-' upfortunately r.aped.eb undary of his laken- frund;*the- occup a. phohby a. character of so high is wcll patloulated to prejudice post ltorests, the dearest rights of j$cwnn-1d-the beautiful, the sunny (ulh. he TiCconclusions he draws, as tuof segeshion are wholly and ZV' ip j incorrect. kn st prove ruinous-the General rnment williput it down-Char rd the Stato will be ruined-all sacrificed-the green hills, the egl~ai plains, tho chrystal streams, d o cypress shaded graves efmouldering _ptriots, the, hearth-stone of the wife, .,tryting .treo of the daughter will be ,.Q.1e4 in blood. These are his con. sions. Nw let us examine them a moment. e wo might argue the right of tale to secede, but it is beyond 1hte because, when the conditions uqter which the States entered into . Union -are violated with regard to ''l r. of, them, the State injured is : b- ve d from her allegiance to the overnment, and has a right to secede rld'ndfm k elaws, and form a constitution 0e.rnment- for her self. Chalest'on be ruined if South aseoded? We answer em. A ally-No. Very dif1'reut would 4, 1,...sult Many a ship and boat, i and steamn now flout and ter ports, would then wave and th blue waters of her uib'av. South Carolina RecedeR she will 6rnwe a star,.the brightest in liberty's a.iimont-a star whose rav will "4 'ddn. the hearts of all mankind egav~hose beam will illumine the kj4thof the nations ofearth on their way $ohe temple or liberty. $ouh ,Carolina Recedes, will the of thej'ncendiary, as the Bishop be fied to the dwellings of sons and daughters? No the hand ca-,not that would dare, or could, s6. the torch to the portals of those o inherit the spirit and patriotism of e whose names thrill the heart of it.,essons of freedom, and are en. med on the page of immortelity. 41 fpouih Carolina secedes, any attempt prgvention by Government would C"Oet by the whole South witlh feelings "P.io deepest indignation. And it is well known that there are thousands of ids and-hearts ready to resist such aft.1lempt to the death. A4ilow then can secession prove dinoDusi e must secede, or be forever . +,4 vwrl-an'object: of laughter and 4ern to tho world. It is unnecesary tan nI'gument to show that ~d ,bp.ar' ic be causo the t7*eso ever 5iihz Sta;O , es : $4~~arete flag ofeliberty cun a ,orn for..the oppressed, wvhere ~AIRTIyE OF A FIRE ON A CHINFsE Ii h n e-missionar reports from Olinrtaa-quoted in the IKalnische Zeitung, geriie the terrible ravages of a tire -f htook place on the 1st of .January, it.alouquang, during the prevalence - b'in undation. The fire, which broke ~qpmong the shipping, was of unpnralleled r, I order to form an idea of it, we m niimagine the, scene of its devastations. Along~ thfe shore of Ki ang, for the distance ofeseveral miles, so many vessels are * . usually lying-at anchor that wvhen seenI from .;ho opposite bank they resemible a tliq l fost, but regarded from a near point * ~ th 'rinck like an illimitable, populous city, fip ng upon the water. At a still greater dt anice, thong~not so crowded together, d il'yo other vessels -lie at the samie aneboring ground. The whole forms a lnghmarbor, extending many miles, filled ith~. ani immense number of ships, and 4, pr-optng a spectacle of which 1no onel w Iqbs not seen it can form a conception. On, bhm night in question a furious gale stfhdk ths mnultudinous fleet, and in the b'ofifuibb that ensued one of tihe vessels was found to be on fire. Increased at onice fly thIOJwin~d, and fed by thle tar and other co ilustible materials with which a great tumppber of thQ essels wvere loaided, the fire 110 rd like: utning to the nleighiboring ~vespile rhe ~ olence and of the storm the coil edthe burning ships. Scattered by tbhi ng lirricane in every direction. ihoimet-ery' where spread 'devastation, * tmiing into flanme wvhatever they touched, * an4. idlding tile devouring fire inl a moment -i- in oger vessels. In tile midst. of thlis 'tbrilomea of fire was hcard the shrieks * SntYm rohnts of an immense numiber of men, who4tyon over to despair, tossed by tihe st yrsued by the flames, and es by thle raging waves, were at Sa crisp b the fire, or up in thme wil abyss ot the a m: The Ki.ang for a great distance - resemblled a sea of fire, and 'a the space of ~hr[efottrs all those0 vessels, with the ~n6 ppy mon en board, misera bly perished. -~i~od on all hlands that tile number of v~w i~~rditng toea mtoderate estimiate, ~ii o inore than three thousaud. h'i#Cnlboats, as is well known, even 'thd4- pare. infgbited by th e family of .4 pf jidoether with tile crow. Indemed, Saro whole honsehlolds, wvhose members l'nriboard, whlere tihey live arid die ~A~fjIi~ ~wng to what country they IJ~ii~P~eaCe, into the world - to~ ting abode of their parents founds Amon~g the vessels reial large ships. Many of hdifromw forty to fily and sixty k~obodice mutilated and~ Sfifp, which were drawn 4 * o ee erto sixt .siereAt proyinces. 'hs nmy. show tile - - al. ardgnetal beroaverment caused 1pc~ Il tfegible conflngiatIon 6ill Blot way in Chine, - r has been finingthd rmolhants of -Ne It for obstrmiding tno (side 4 @r ros, bales, and barre's ol' Istablilahment of the mayor, who is Ljgpi f ho 110s 6ppyets nap Ing, entere a tlitl befor' r i hno w ea he readily In W- lf threq lun dollars. O3'e Cuban Prolecutions. We some days sincho nnouaneed the fact h1it the case whith hap bodn on trial so long in Now Orleans- bi tween the United States vs. Gen. Henderson line been at length dismissed, the jury not being able to igree, eleven, onl the last trial, being for icquital, and .one for conviction. Notlle prose.-quis were then noved by the Attorney General in all the other cases, viz: Qluitman, Lopez, &c. It will be romein bored that the Government had already made one mistrial in the case of (en. Ien. orrkmn before Gov. Quitnan was arrested: they could not have failed to contemplate the strong probability of the very result which has taken place, and of their own course in that event. Why, then, if the prosecution of all the other trials was made to rest on the success of that of Gen. Hen. dorson, wau Gov. Quitman harrassed, dragooned and forced to New Orleans before the termination of that trial! It will not be forgotten, that Gov. Quitman offered any amount of bail to appear at New Orleans after his term of oflice should have expired, icxt November.) One hundred thousand ollars would have been given, if demanded. But no! this would not kuit the fastidious, law-loving President Fdhlnore, (who has the law executed in Mississippi, but not in Massachusetts,) and Gov. Quitman must be ateistud and carried off to New Orleans, to be held bail in the enormous sum of $ 1000, just to await the termination of the trial of Gen. Henderson, and upon its failure to be discharged! There never has occurred a case so outrageous in all its bearings and proceedings since the foundation of the Glovernment. There is nothing so odious under the monstrosities of the Alien and Sedition Acts, not even in the trials of those cases for which Judge Chase was tried upon an impeacihment. There is nothing in the whole range of the prosecutions o the British Govert - from the days of Robert Emmet to to -esent time, which partakes more of an %.r disregard of the libertv and convenience of the citizens of down-trodden Ireland, or of the rights and honor of that oppressed con try itself, ti.no has been exhibited in the ca'e of Gov. Quitulan and the State of Aissiesippi. ( Nashville A nerican.) FATAL AFrRA is L 0 rrrmcn.--We learn the following particulars of a horrid shooting afitir. wh'ch occurred in .dgeficod District, on thq 2:>th inst. The parties en aged in it were Elbert lardin. Win. I'roadway, Wi. Vilson, and Stephen Wilsen. It appears that the d.flicults arose between the Wilsons and ti! other two persons mentioned. in regard to the line lence between their plantations. The Wilsons proceeded to move the fence further in on their own land, when Airs. Hardin discovered it, and fin-lnde them threatenin', at the nanoo time, to cut oil'the hands of the negroes, who wore muoving the rails. The Visons ordered the negroes to procced, which tlboy did. Mrs. Iardin then sent oil'for IIardin an I Treadway. .On their arrival, it seiems they resisted the moving of the fence-lirdin attacking the Wiions withl a rail, Wn. Wilson and'Treadway being armed with run.- TiI. two latter exchangcd shots. Vilson's taking elfbet. upon Treadway, wvho ".'"n fell,- ag lyi etl then fired att him, the shot taking etyect in one eye, and also in his face, breast and arm. Since the above was wvritten, we have heard that. Treadway did not discharge his gun, but that it was fired afterwards by IIardin at Wilson, as rstated above. Treadway has since diied fruom the wounds inflicted--Ilardin is not. dead, but lie wvounds are representedl to be very severe. We utnderstand that Wmu~. WVilson'dehvered himself uip in lluimbnrg yesterdayu, arid was admitted to hail.--A ugusta Repjubic, 27d it. Otmo ANt) Mississrrrr t RAn.inoAn.-Thie organization of the westernt buranmchi of the Ohio and Mlississipp;i r~mI iouil accourd in g to the charter of Illinois arnd Al isonri, was- to take place on Satrdaru lust at St. Louis. The Cincinnati Gazetitc says: "Theo prospect is that the city of St. Lou is, in its corpo(rat e capac'ity, will subscribe $500,0ttt0, aind that lar ne' private subilscripltions will imitudbateiv he tunade. Books< will ho opened ini tiS cit'y for fuart her priwate subscriptions. We *i!--a learn that large amomunts will lbe obtinettd alonug the route. TIhere hats beeni a great ch a ''e int public opinion since the charters have been obtained for the great lite of railrol, nal the way from Ilaltimore. Alarylandi~, to the wvestern limits of Mlisiotnrt. Tis lite ot railroad does not vary oIver tifteeni miiles from a stnaigiht lite fromt liiltunore to Missouri, and its comple:tin will make Cincotnati just what Nittnre designedo her to be, the greatest inlantd cityv of the whole continent of Atterica. A Ncew NAun: i:eni S' Ewany.-ThI'lr Wash ington cor respotulint ol the New.% York Mirror, lbestows upjon Sewairdl he highly appropriiate nutitm oft Uriahi I eep was'ver 'umle,' yeut lul fiil that hie has some Ipowe'r', andi let mie tvll Vholt the( power of' WVill iaim Ii. Se waird, is'Ilar fitl to destroy, but no't to intcri'a-a--, is embrace is as dead!y' us the A ni-ia',i his kiss as traoito rolus as that of .1 udais. WVoo to him that trusts him. All whio have read 'D)avid Copper fiel, will be struck wvitht the" liken'tess h~et wt''i the cringing yet venomouits Urtiahl, anud thme cold atnd subtle Sentour frisin New Y'ork. WVe hope that lie ay~ len like Uritah in the defea~ut o1r his it 'porpses as in htis character.---ichmond Re. publican. Ctntous PounTcul. l'uonma: m.-- u w Dollars Reu-arrd.-Since the elcion' of hlamilton Fish to the $tenate of the I linie Stateq, and the firing orl lhe It a ilred gnot at the Battery by th fre~ sio.l iitertest, in: glorificatin of lbh-it greit tevenit, hitt iniore patrtienilarly since lie cad ar.,ene-mtt of .. hlas ariseni wheiithir tIho a lmilnstrat 'fm hi:s gone over to Howatrd. or N. wmrd t.> the~ theo enthiusinstit: re'ept un i .\hir. Us :rd at the Asitor Jlotnse dinnetr, ib t athei aboun.i. tration, inchidinug theI' lt'ridet andl eahieg nn I all their luggege, hati ( g ne ovir a tl surrendered to thei chl.in-o ttof iwho iei hthrr law,'' wilbagi tt take puct lhmk anti be i tik. fuf. H -ow i~s itl-whtich is it! Iue dlblrs re vardl will be given, on apphoe ti t this nfice, for any olieial Il ---I ~is fa (-t- i nm.. mattion oin theosaubject. Ilias S 'ward ge ovwgr to t h.i dmni st rat iot, or hn the -ial. misration, gi' over to Su.- .: d 'ye I IMI . F H i M 1 T T01- u WED8giA IL 9~ 1851. i: .ir Messrs. A. WHITE & Co., are Agents for the. Banner in Sustervjille, C The lW n'Cg " &n CottoN.-There Was a.good omand for .1 Cotton in .CharlSan turd0y,.at a d. cided improvement on the advance reported < on the preceding day. The transactions. I reached fully 2200 bales, as follows, vii: 10 bale# at8; 82 at 8 1.2; 46 at 8 8-4; 126 I at 9;60 at 9 1.2;157 at 9 3.4; 36 at10;.1.30 t at 10 1.4; '73 at 30 1.2; 242 af 10 5.8, 212' 1 at 10 3-4; 93 at 10.13-16; 284 at 11; 50 at I 11 1-8; 35 at 11 3-16; .91 at 11 14; 31. at i 11 3-8; 86.at 11 2;'80.t 115.8; 11at I 11.3-4;'78 a,t 12 1-8; arid 67 bales at 12 1.4. Our Court. The Court of Common Pleas for this District, Judge 'WITHERS presiding, com menced Its session on Monday morning: We are pleased that we can announce that but few cases appear on the criminal dock ets and those for minor offences. Earliest of the Season. A pod of Green Peas bas been shewn to f us from, as we understand, the garden of Mrs. P. M. BUTLR of Clarendon. If dili. gence and attention were bestowed upon our gardens we have no doubt that their delicious prodncts might be enjoyed several weeks earlier than we now do. WE are requested by the President of the Southern Rights Association of Claremont County to announce the following gentle. men as delegates to the Convention in Charleston in May next: SEBASTIAN SUMTER, W. W. ANDERSON, WILLIAM NETTLES, EZRA J. PUGH, F. J MOSES, A. C. SPAIN, M. IOSES, WILLIAM HARRIS, T. B. FRASER, THOMAS R. ENGLISH, JOHN W. IROWNFIELD. Union Meeting in Miasslppl. T'n- prediction of an event is very often m its cause. ThO is most especially the I case with regard to what Mr. Foor has r said of the course Mississippi will pursue. I Ile was resolute in lils purpose to delude a the Mississippians into the holief tha' the Compromise, the true object of which was l to keep the Union in existenoce for the ben- I eit of Harpy politicians; is:really what was . needed to rest en -a eMrestless up hearmng waveis smootied and quiete-I cdown beneath its (Entl itifluenco's until, far as the eye could extendl its view, no -ruffle marred the placid siurface, J ds usiadow of angry, unhoiy strife rested on it, but the sun light glanced and glittered ever it and the blue heavens above hay mirrored in its gentle bosom. Such peaceful antici pations filled Mlr. FOO-rE'S soul with joy, the morc esp~ecially as lie thought that over such a sea it. were but a jaunt of pleasure to sail to the haven of his dearest ambtition, his most cherished hopes, To ensure all thiese happy results it was only necessary that the patient should imiagine the Com-. piroisea to be a cool, delicious, healing drauoght, and to imagine would be to enjoy it. lin the case of his own State however his resolution had1( to deal with sturdy ob stinacy, anid any other than lie would have lieen driven to acknowledge ignorance of the const itution anid temperament of hus piatient. Aleetings and Conventions of the peopile expressed their dlissatisfact ion with the course Mir. F'ooTE was pursuing, but hae declaired that such were not thie seiiti. mients of the people. TPhe Legislature ccon ienred Mir. F'oorE but lie asserted that they unmsrepresented their constituenits. TJhe whole iniatter was a terribile piece of invo iiiioii amid we at ac distanno were in great suspense atml aiixiety with regard to thetuii. hapy, imaniacal coiwilition or'our heloved sister, Missssippi. 11ecr peuiple wecre not The l 'eniple, nor kiiew the mitnds cof Theli I 'eaople, and her Le.giislatuire conl no mt have exiibited iiore igiioranca' of the~ inhabitanits of thme booii thtan of the true senmtimients of The ['eople. It is a maitter of congratulation that Th'le Pl'e ha~ve at last bieen found ; Mr. FoorE hias, lie mnerit cif discovcering thieiii; t hey live inii I roi Couamnty and congregate at Jack :on ; what is imost to be reje ied oiver is that they are* just sneh asi Mr. F'ooTE' fonidly hopeda they woiild beL--ca'd y chmbat ed oh the:r ju;dgmieiits aiid so credulous as to be. li eve t hit t hey lhavo thiemselves fiirimied ''piioniis which havey becen insinuated into thwir own m-nds by others. A lar~re and ciithuisias'ic mieeting was held at Jac kson, on thle 10tth ult., rat which rall thle precincts in I hind County were represented. Tihe I e(opIe, ini that implos iig aissemb~lage con. ve.'ned, wercefrienpds of //w Uoion, aind they iion iiatedl WV. L,. Smnigy, II ENJY S. IiTE cnand A .tos Rt..losros, biy acchaiima t ion, as dele;&ates~ to thle State Convention. lii~itar S. F'ooTE~ and Judge S:IA iEss to lire in a Convention calleld to imai ntini ihe honior of Mi ssissipipi ! ! Andl TIheo 'Co. pi- didi thiis I Pity that Thle People had tbeeni founid ; hectter that they 1ha I cotntinued lost. A bal lotting was had on the 237th tit., in the 6th llrignde (foir Fatirhilid and Chiester) to till the vacancy occasioned lay the resig. ni:ati of rigaidier Gaeneral M as, which resuilted in ac tie hezwoni Captaiuis 11L 1(. Aino: aind Jii:~ N. Snm n SoT. Senator from:Texas. )-verfg. otfur.jeara the le put up .uct1ii d id bought t vIt n toney Urhi i toj&e rvas a trade#41) erpet lIy gofiik a61mmnedintely bering pan, th great bargain ' elet11 o f 857!9oer landdsjd then'4iultitujdinfus Ickoysl viewoiftlie contest, nre erving [ieir energies and laying their plans and oining their pretences. It is or should he, umiliating etiottgh to a people to have el vated to superior station, .tq rulo over ienisebves, ole whose Incrit is not eni ent; but they must bp far gono in degra. ation if fore-warned they should call to resig4e over -their rights and liberties .4 'e iric'ksteli whoe latest act wias to des oil and dishonor thein. We do not hesi ate tonsseirt that Senntor, HOUSTON gave i' aid to' tlheoconmprtnisn ain a bid for 'residential honors; .it was iunforturate or him I hat his company was so large and hat too ilany iltood on the. a-tmne platform vith him. But if adroitness and cunning an separate him front the crqwdof em ous aspimnnts and give him precedence in he race General IIOUSTON mHlay le expect d to wave the sceptre fron the Presiden. mal throne. Some of the Union Journals ave already swung out his sign ; notices if his remarkable sayings' mnd doinge, dis reet puffs, and enlogristic alluijons to his nrmer heroic exploits are skipping about ron paper to paper, ind Hditors quote from Ad answer each other to the eTect that his iomnination meets with e.pecial favor in va. inusparts of couintry. We find that the Hero 9 about to try a new ruse. lie purposes totwithdrawing himself temporarliy from oublic life no doubt with the laudable ob. ect of demonstrating to the good people of his Union how necessary lie is to them. rhe Batoi Rouge Adrocalc states that this ernarkable personage was in Baton Rouge mn the Lth ilt., and deliver-d a temper.. 3nco lecture at the request of the ' Sons, " md it wakatien communicated to the Ad ocqe tha't-ho, General is about to retire Perianentitlo the shades of.private life. le lids been profanely called the Texian Vashington: how giatifying it would be to Dimi, to haveT.ilike Washington, the highest onors of;hisdAountry carried to hits retire. nent and pressed upon his reluctant broav 1 3lut if such as lie shall-bo honored by this Jiion as Washington was, then who so redulous as to believe it to he the Union Vaishington loved and prayed us to pro. erve f Bkeo oWhat point of inifarnty has hisUnion cspeemned. The choice for the ext Preqid-nt seems to be probably coit. ined to M H4s llousToN. SE WA nD, FoTe nd Dom9n 'Us,'and we coufess to sonie in. liffibrence p what soeltion is made. )ur orily.g lln iis the desire that this tutoghal caend to a scramble as to hi.mpirrants shall have thd 4 tnw qge of. the at 44. mal jobbhingv hlcb now .ecrns to be the rdinary bisieas of this GJovernmnent. Tenaessee asemd Soiutlaeraa Rligla ts. Though Tenniessee appeared 1o such, dis dvantage in the' last m:00ing of the Nash 'ille Convention vet we n mst not too soon ~oncede~ her to theo suibmiissinis. WVe ontico wvithi p!easumre th~ tlelity to the ights of the~ South displayedl by tha.Nah-li 'ille Ame'ric-m, th:' leading lihmocratie >aper of that Stat~e, whomseci ifin ce, if it i 4Inal to the ability with which it is con.. lucted, muist ho cont rotting. It ha~s been ecenitly miuchi increaswed in si:ze onm! is nisa ,ne of wtie largest sheets published in the umisheid E~d tor-s aeem, to Iiae incireased vith eiven pace. W~e wi -'. them1 mo.--t *ompjlete success and hope that thei prini-i plses and sentimwent s they a dvocate may lie lear-tily emabraced bwy the people of their State; we shaill the.n ha veo waeasion to h)arge Tenniewssee with playi ing thie lag. gardh in intii:aingc~ thie righs aind hon~or of lie South. Narrow flscape. )n Friday thme ;lHth ulIt., as wc learn rein the T'I'm. Rmgpibicrn, a negron hoiy be ongig to ( 'sit... .1. WV.u4:O, b'camew entian yled in thie Iaacinmery in the tmrmu Foiun trv 'C .Messr~.. .l:-r-rs & SuN ini (;horg'etowni. Thie skcirt of his t un as cang t ini the fly vbaeel shaft which . tie tio was revolv. wig riapidty, dhrawis n lie boy to it uiul pe-r orning sonme forty orI liity revol wt utins be ore the miach iiery couhl beh stopped.... hien lie wa;s ext rica ted it wais foun d thiet ho onily ap~pa r it inojurei ;ha t he hidl re e vedl wee the frictuwr' oif an arm and~ a og awnd ithe di h.m:at in ufa ai;nele. \Vhen we wacs la. h.rdl from lie was aithve :and l or the Smwmter Rouaor. At a imnet ing of th e ('larendmion Souwthernu JrdwEN'i.utt sti'Leh onu- ;ithe1thin.Th Reisolrd', Thaw~t wycee ccr ina thle C onven. ion proposed to hbe till iniI C lhson iin \)iay next lif d!e:tt . fromc thei several tricts ofteStait ;~ an d t ha t the I 'resi le'nt of t his Aimeriation hbe remItiw:ed to aip. oinwt thriei dulegate tot rep remenit us in m le Whnr-eupon4 th e P'restiin a ppo1intJ Ca.ipt WX'a. I.. Ib :vsmii~i , Ih-.. .1 l ic Rtc'ieniu'm, I!. 1'. 1 ~V4lsraiinmnI 4. WA. Wirirnit:M'.,o st rLepre.ent this Ai. co ciation in samh'idwConent ion. T1hwe Pres 'ident lid lbefore- thle A mcoeia ion a letter frm- th" 14 itemr of thi Augus a~ WVewkly I npubbe I of ( 4eorgiam, after thle endingr of whliebl Maj. W. Wim. Ow-'s suab. wnitted the folitng rsi~ ohin. I'.s-,irtl, TPhit ihe A mwyusta Weclyv eteniic or (4'om:., fr, it. Mil r..nd en ,itledt tl I d r it a of Y U.ofze . o tie 1 the Ali do .iin aid '1Ih O ra of l prawlt go 1.sQ* h tafta to ThR osoUli 'Ywa . irimusldadopt. Dd. Adjourned M. M. XENDONW,.Soc'y. is ~ ~ .--...1 T1im VIrghr9itn 'esoltttiens. ln i. Tlq Macon (Ga.0) 'elograph thus com. ina~sslpon ttioi ate self-.ttirying action ill W of the Virginia Legislature.. We are nortilted' t th'is Hoad ori -A wni 'r of Virginia spirit. These resolutions, like th tile resolutions of our own State Convention tr are nothiing buta God speed to Abolition. ism.-, They declare that the-people of Vir- of ginia.will sUDIT-yoa sxtr-that is the it# Word, to.theCoinprinise'. 661 Virgrinia is lts backed out froin her platform of 1849. pc Wlhat effentwill'nny-future attitude of re- fri sistance, though everso inpoaing, assumed et by such a State 'produce upon the North? 'as Why, iothii -b tit deridion and ridicule.- cc We trust .in God the thy for resolutions is. to rapidly passi.ng away.. AtLany rate we in hope th South ii dono'withs them, If we g do iot mean to regist the aggressions of I ith North, let fnf, hi God'g 'name, submit ti in silence, and -not'add to our other di gra- ar ces.the character of biusterurs and cow. ti ards. CA Correpoidence of the Charleston Courier. WASIsINorO. Arnatr. 4. The Fane 6f the French 31 inister's furni ture. &c , was very fully and fashionably q attended yesterday. lany of tlie articles wer in e.xcellet. taste and sold very high. Several persdns' chine fron Baltimore to purchase articles. Tho foreign ninisters not unfrequently iell -off their furniture, wines, curriages, &c., and as they are im. ported tree of duty, there is n1o loss ill tile transaction. a Another sale of Mrs. Madison's efects is C to tnke place, and the list of. art:eles is very, curious. There are sottm beautifully wrought pieccs of plate,, and somi ricihi china; also old fashioised jew%4elrv; and in d tie cataloue I notice' a cradle. Mrs. Madison's housa on Laxfayctte square. ha;sb 3cen sold at private sale, for elevet thousand dollars. to Capt. wilkes of the Navy. General Scoit is to be received at Cincin nati, with tilitary horitor, and also at Pittsburg. This tour, though not so inten adcd, will necessarily have sorne political Tile new bankingv'law pf Virgi'nt, Is about to go into partial operation; and the books rare opened in"Alexandria for the 1l.Bank. of the Old J)ininjo.," to bI estah. t islied in that city. The subscriptions are to be in money, in State stocks, or stocks C gtuartnteeild ly the State. The naxittni ainittnt of capital of the new banks thtus authori.e'd, is but A:3.)o,(M00; .but rifterthe expiration (ot the charters of the old hantds inl I17, the ndw'svstein 'v ill be tuch ex tended. , t ..It rekinaills uncertain as yet, wlether the VirginiaL Counvention wil adopt tle white basis of represAentation, or li federal or mixed lnsiA. But Western Virginia will ' iltimately insist upotithe represeriation of hliks pttpuaton alone. 6"di, of RI i ty ewon go* ogo o Ae a Whtat has so-lontf btfen predicted as ioe e the reault of excesisive imrporiaiions htas came to pase-the~ matrket is glutted wihm I dry goods, a~nd prices rare falling, and buyers' ohay, and iaporters ruined, and a general panmic tikely to prevail. Thea importations' into Ncw Yocrk, for the last two mount It, lhave baeen very ceessive-exceeding, by tve muillions, the amaont of imnports during thae samte months in eithier of the two past I yars. TIhae chaief nrtiale's of imports are silks ad othter statlD foir ladies' weoar. Mr. Wal4h, in a recent letter froam Paris, refets II to) antinquiay masle ini Flurope, wh'ly thte pleL oft tlie U. S. are anot silk gzrowersl I 'The quest iaan hias haeretofore been solved. j Salk growers tare every where amnong the aml the~ peop~le e'of he ). 8. lhave more praoitable emtploymetnts in growintg Cotton, Wol nndl i f yoni lase. Flax, liut a fe w years henace, theire wall be, in this country, very extenasive anad inumterous factories "of autshin e hainaws, a fabric universally reiaired, atn e~cellent and haand.,omeo article will bae mai~alo with thtree-fourthts cotton and onte-fumurth woot, that can be scald at tweonty centis y yard. It is aissertedf by experientced antd practic;Ialtmen, that a ftory' of thaese anousol'inas,* with a capaital of' htalt a iillion, wdll unake a arofit car t wenty per cenat a year.1 A Step Backward. A bii l hs bceen iantru' -ed ianto thle Senate of Maiuvachueits by .\l r. Ihackiatgama, ;,n miathial memb uaier, to Nuohlly iandirectly thea lFugii tv Slave Ila'w, lay paraohibiting all mem~bers ofi the Mlilitia of the State fromi aiditag thea II. S. Mlarshal car his deputies in jI exc:ulbi ag thait law aamtler penalty of reimoval 'I taroma athiee ami punaishament, anid sitbjects to h1mt- noth lamprisonmen~at all persons whoa shall . as i i removian' fuagit've slaves, or comte amio. the corneat hhrt ait liaeir that puirpose. It col thatoriloatlait y of iss;,inag a writ of Iabaas aorpua uiapon every' justice oaf the teace of t h ('omaantawe.th i; an auathiority wich, a~sccept in special cases, rarely c- I curm'aie, is, hay thea existiang laws, and always laos been, reserved oaaly to thae jaustices of thea supjremeac juidicial coutrt. It auathaorizes a theaa seriee aof such' writ by a cotastabale, ast well ais by a sheriff'or hias deputy; andl it seemsit, byV viruat of the writ thits issued, to ) t4!m th Ia a of ovary fugiaitv slave otti af the hand~l of thto alicer by whm lhe mnay lhe :arrest Iaa aon the wa rrantt of a caommtissiori er af the ii:ed Stateos, nad out of thae cen tral aof ah lommi~oaassconer. Th'iis is .Niililietiun, call it by wheat niamie youi willI, :an it l iers froam thlat of our owni State int thlas f'eattire, t hat Natil laet iott was dbrect anda an~iay, whilst this is covert atnd lcoatempit)tle. he bat iis iiot yet malturedl mio :a aw; bitt intstent of repealing thec hf rtitr euietmeaant'-a gainsa~t the J'ugcitiv'e lveAct, t hait nilbiral a signaificantt signl ait MAlasawhosecrtta is pre'paredl to dishtiure laer si t aute hooak wvith trosh paroofti of ree Solbsia and coiatempat ofl the Cotnstitutiona. Elre. Ketes. N r~w VoXae, Alarch 25-.2 P. M. intelligente received lay thae ateamer S'romeaat hieus froma i. vana, cotnfirans the i rep->)rtedh haattle betiween thi' San Saador. inms and Guateahianas.-The contest was very~ blood~y, aundi resutltedl ht the defeat of a thea foramer with th'e losse of Ii -e hunadred killed atd twao haumired prnisonters; Ontto thlouandaa sitandl 1 oras tadSo foil into lcosession of the victo~s. The town of lItans, in the Alosquiti~ingdom, wIP fired bys a Sputanilh iaacentdiary, and neoarly de~str'oyedh. Tho etnraged itnhabititat caught '1 the villaita n-a trm-niy tia m ain jt .- - . Crtaina0t. y~) haw repurh etrines, &c. ma has 01nly iept a#6 y, itld her whole pOP; . a I ,ved her own wordsman4:st ho If, her legislators at leas't 4n >rk for her. Let froesoilers and pboli a rejoice--)ot thegnpk ' M melancholy exposure to old Atfier of Stit'e 6d utinf npromiso jue--ut truo1 S0U 0TI II teo aln act othdrwise, d it a e '1 d .Aphet,. wtvR4. trisg, (;! gwa~ k verently -back wards, nnd throw the man- 1 of charity -and oblivion ov.zr a sedne so < fing to a noble, or a filial heart. , .. The Washington monument Is to be built contributions from all the States-beforo 9 completion the Union Will no longer ex- I 1, or will only exist as a consolidated des. I tism, built up on the rights -abstracted I -m the-Stato.'' That monument can thus i abaln the memory of the derted Unlos. .1 .wl, daof Wasliiigtdn- - lA e fAis untmn I4 trdgfia M Ist1d46,1 thaetUnlon once glorious. That aiofnU*'A enit will stand. as,the .ronoria-.or t 'Vir' nha, the mohaer-of Washington and of enry"-the endbrl i the iovolntion ind I e old 'cohfedotrn~4h Ilesdet'.nyfta , ing the donstitutioit,"(and the ?fist. W i row hersolf proitrately pb'ectly.aqi 1I0nr )nditionally, 4t,the foot o t ie "monst ,rrendum, ingens, defort,, 2iddi Ea ng and soulless despotism ee(4qdas art of Na chadnezar'a.iniagenwhtin eI .ll .ithiful minions of.tlheogea - ngMy .ired to worship.-Telegrap. Pull PatrticaJars of thae Losst of tle SteamOr-LoselE -L PfrTJtbit b arch 28. We yesterday received. :n a tl1 Ian who nW'n'preeirA the etilfi ee tending the collision betweeni theistdanim rs Lowell and *. P. Vinton, both" f -hich were at the , ime heavily laden. 'he accident.~took place near Latiin T: Iid, tiekiw WhlmedinA ,t abiout 1plf-v past D o'clock -at nig-t. The-intght' was very ark, and a'soon no.lhe. pijts ofIo btfid erceived each other tho ells woretapped;. ut, through omo unforttunate nistake or. cdimdent. the I4inell ran'aicross the'bo of le Vinton, which struck tier-ft.. of heir, oiler. -.: The force of it e collision wap j e icndous, 'anid tihe Vinion hoi6 oat, carrying houitiiind huale on4 nd having prothiblythbe strenn o( ny boat on the river, that-the .4ehjlsgu.k about thirty aeclonds af-er: the ;colliaio ie cabin parting. from - the h'ull aildeft osting. The ctbhin pasv#ri" ard the rew escnpel (many of thom'dfhirknight lothes) to the top orithodurrieine ddk. The- first :engmp19e3, two firenn* - d wvelve deckpr'enrers were iIr)wn '-. 'lie nameg af t , remen nid dek p5s.., engors nre unknown, they having'been Iken on brard-itPittpJurg, andLhe-.qjock. mt huviipg onjqrpd ,their nAmes. sten . A lnrgl (aniyilyeopejstin in wife, and -.hildreh ,rnt , ifr ntheir way W~eihtamong t &hi6 crished. -'r 4ie tt wa rpr b e f rid excellqnetolfieer, Mir. So4jcitor, Fair lhe defbence was condiucted Wiath greaa. bility by Messrs. Smart & Shanndiefin hhe charge oas deliveredi tp th6ju79ty irs Honor, nind thd Jury after bomig et or neairly twenty hours, retuernet).aserdic[ f Guilty, accomnespied by a recmnidnia onn to miercy. .'otice of alnappoal liea enn'givent by thre Defentce. - On Tlhursday,. Samoel WilsenIMe the aither om R'imiuel Ji=.Love,.who was indict. d for aiding and abetting. his son'ut the murderof Mr. Lestdr, was tried' by ihe amne Jury, nnd dlaftindhd by the sarnd .'unisel. Hie wias acquitted u pen this -erdict: 'WVe find the defendaunt Saml. W. .'ve, guilty of excusable Homicide.' NIEW-YORK, MARCli, P. M. The suit oft Broelks, .proprietor of. ,Ahe Vew-York Exres against. theo Magnetic i'elegraph Comapan~y, fo' wthhaiding a len'patch,. was dlecidled to day by-awcrding bree hnndred dollars datmages for the >lua tiff. ., . It apears that some considerable time go, while air. F'rench weis President of heo 'agnetic Teleraph Company, owning lie Morse line between Wadshingtont aned o~w-York, a message was offered- at the illice in Was.hingtn for the New-York -axpress. Thie mnssage was received by he operator in WVashington and forwarded n New-York. Owinig to some previous hfieulty with the Expreasa, with reference o the rnles of the Company, Mr-.. Frenen mad given orders to the operatora' not to itieany m ore messanges for theu Expyress, tlteproperietor of said -paper had "enmplied with thme Conpany's rules. ['lie operator, however, who received, and orwarde~d the message from - WaVshilngton, iad ntot [beren ao aware df MNi Fren~ch's idiomrs, andl +thns lie sent, the message o) New-York. The operators in New-York, ineving been wume of Mr. Fremnche's orders, and' acting a lhe believed under instructions, notified ho proprietors of 'thie 'Ixpress, that message head been received for them, which they ciould havite by complying wyith he~ terms of the comtpany andt theC ordor. of lie Prcoiident, which waus to paIy the amoit f halla demnandled for it. TM:: the Express ei~usedl, antd thte imosgo was detained'in he Tonlograph O)tice until its value wams lestroyedl by bceincg sutpercced. .Thua the troprieturs of t he paper bronght suit to re-. toever thiuna'ges for destroying the message. Ilhe difllenilty seemts to have A-ison fromn heu operator ini undertaking to transmit he metssage. Pz.AQuI:3mn s lt~.t.fln --ly a letter or ha 2J7i h insat., fromi the town of Plaquee. nime, we learn tat thie place is overflowed mnd than inihabuitants are navigat ing thme streets in skil's. Tihme waitor has advanced 0 within omie sqpare of thie front, levee 'hmo disaster is uowing to a crevasse wshIth ook place ont last iesdy ig~ht at 1M i'cloe k. onco iile down the bayou.e Anmti. aert was mnade thefilhowing. morting (W dop) it by simhmrg a flatboat in the ,breach., ['le levee broke, htowve toind forty faet hove; aneterd ials Sai a acro wide, with 00w e : & Ain lie deavatlin' loodas 'oudent, nspc91eypu , tfl if the town mro nm t~rt thdt ifm$ J(L 1 I IF I ." 7nJ*N, - ' rN"V4 [ id audle600 of oh itd half Am& sditi, to th re ind, to the' Wni~eee lk' iwf.W Perfect impuniy. Bat-the,,,Ewpor wag econd plitl ait thd back o h ~t~gi fterwardu dQsehud -iAl- icea nother-part of hnrwt nhrofc~ Produced s.capjta l T houso ndfrancowas naed stegrd he'Evperor, PAnndthre;~ 44Zra iqual. uing fr. te -frightI &Mr gWentypgk 110jrg a ac oxteod by a watchmAni' ito Nbi in h ilhn rtor? 3a lb ho., "Wrhat is your na rui#,slrji 'OFiv hil*~" 'Whiere d yu DWIe "Ot-o %be Kng'a Yar. lb~t ~ ia"~ hqrv. roi'U' d a re"ogofor yo ur ears,7 "FI' officlou is Kiiardihnof t hthiaaw iuficeit rp,~totk iht71 told.Jhis worshp Ithat as to the! firsti iqoebi tioi',iiVith WU 1hh1&M6dn4l rekaid t4tl~d5fnd, lie- lived i iteIr. tdin; withregid totAhethird,-h had; beeu6 taking-a glass'of wine-with -a friend;Abd. and 'bid Mi 4vb godrigL~ dom paper.:: 4~*A _ARTI1AGJA.-Ia Cattjb,6 h hitid 'arrived. Inttrdy W iIormed ths a a.,'# iOWC k w4o *W 01, j r11 ~eP di~