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I hd arlestoa Mercury. i County, Alabama. ht"A atgo and enthusiatile meetitig of the Sb6thert Righte party held at Enon, ' aoV Co. -Ala., on Saturday, the 21st of the following preamble and resolutions brotght forword by.Wm. A. McCarty, eeq Iohairman of the committee, and sue bhim In. an eloquent, patriotic i utlirring speech, were unanimously 4committee to whom was referred the I of the delegates of the Southern glzti Associations of South Carolina, as sembleo in Charleston, to the Southern RightaiAsociations of the other Southern - 4.o, beg leave to report that they have i ithe sime under consideration, and that they cordially approve of the principles discussed, and the spirit manifested by said add se. And for the purpose of giving a gUral and united response to the call of tho5M~tlorn Rights Asseciations of South Carolina, we would respect fully recommend the considoration of this subject to the Con vention 6f delegates from all of the South Win Rights Associations of Alabama, to be ld in the "city of Montgomery. on the d Monday of June next. In the meanwhile, this Association cannot forbear to discuss sone of the principles set forth in the adiress, and to indicate to South Carolin ths,.curse.that we have determined upon, hould she. in the exercise of her sov. i.-determine to leave the Union. V Wed! fully in the fact, as set *%o~ Ie address, that the aggres slopq, of the past are sufficient to justify resistance;: indeed, if we intend to live as freemen ourselves', and leave to our thild'en after us, our cherislhed institutions and liberties, there is no election left us. The:sectional free-soil and abolition ma. jrjtii#sairayed against us in every branch odib Government, present to our nminds the Wist ad most dangerous features of ab sohitionism, ever known in the history of tyramy. We are well assured that this sectional, majority, encouraged by the vie toid.sfof the past, and the tame spirit of subtmision in the South, and urged for iward by fanaticism, will stop at no bounds this side of the utter abolition of African slavery in the States.--But will "the spirit 'f thi vassal rise in proportion to the indig nitie'a ieaped upon his head?" We be. 'lleve- that it will not. There are even now -.mong us huidreds and thousands of true tearted Southrons, who feel the oppressions of thd government as keenly and as sensi tively as we, who believe tihe North to be so vedded to fanaticism that she would not allow the Southern States peaceably to exercise the right of secession; and looking to the -position and circumstances of the Southern States, they fear that we should tie-unable to "cope with so formidable aft * adversary" or power. Thus hundrede,-6d .thousands, among us. are alreadysbowed eiiithe dust and dispirited, and if remain in the Union, under existing cirqi stances, fofmany years to come, We a orced to the :reluctant, . but overwhe thing and humiliating conviction, thath- Southern States will tamely and Pbnitssitvly yield tothe North in one fiatal ourt ) r property in the States, 1 tealsohir$ta sovereignities. In. looking around pon the soutieron States in this emergay, we deeply rirei -that most of them livided In sentinlotf and engaged inco ehtions among bemi. selves, whfile thle ' em'y Is" gloating over thespoils of the i anyand gather. Ing up his energ 9 fr a now onslaught upon 6' .5 tution. -Under the crushingdealiig of a icture rsindicated for Sent rol n by -ot a great reel: om a weary land," under which the institutions of the sauth may repose in safety, or around which the true-heoarted Southron of every State may rally, to vindicate his lost honor and to recover and maintain his rights. Notwithstanding South Carolina has been tautnted and jeered by Abolitionists of the North, and by demagogues of the South, T wcrare pleased to see her moving on in the even tenor of her way, refusir.g to return ratiling for railing, denmanding but .imtple justice irom her oppressors, and at every step proclaiming her utter wmilingnetics, by her earnest desire for an honorable adjust ment of the pending dilliculties. And weo -cherish the hope, that if South Carolina even, with what aid she mnuy receive from the Southern Rights Associations of the *other Southern States, will but stanid firmly to the position assumed, demandineg in. demunity for the past and security for the future, she may recover for herself and for her.sister States of the South all that has been lost. Why not? The North has no real interest to serve in striking down our institution; but she has a real piractical und felt interest in t he preservation of the Union, arid she must see that whetnever Sonth Carolina shall heave the Unioni that, every Southern State nmust sooner or bier rally under the free institutions of South Carolina, rather thtan remain under the crushuitn despotism of the Free Soil and Abolition Statt~s. Verily if it has already cotne to that, that the Northern States love their cherished notions of A bolition better thiatn their owvn great interests in the preservation of the Unmioun, it is surely time for the South ~to tu?: out new safe guards for her owvn in terow.'. If the North will deliberately deny justice and equality to the Sotthiern States, with the serious fact of secessin and the consequent loss of property, before them, it would afford to the Somth new and overwhelming evidenco oif their do. termination to crush us, and our institut ions In one common reign: and it would call upon the South with an appealitng voice that would arouse every aSouthern man, having. a Southern heart in his bosom, to vindicate the course of South Carolina at every hazard.I In this view of the subject, the members of this Associat'on are sincerely rejoiced that *South Carolina is to move forward and de mand thme recovery of our just rights, aud security against future aggressions. South Carolina is overy way the fittest chiampion *of Southern honor and Southern righ ts. This proud position is cordially awarded to her, because of her past sacrifices in the -cause of her country, and becauso of thme Ananimity of her citizens in their deter minatIon to resist the encroachmnents of the North. We are glad that the South is to have a loader so firm and reliable, in this the' hour of her peril, and we are ready to a.enlist under the Palmetto Banner, and link otir.fortunea with the destiny of South Carolina, but we knowv that we .should not offend against the patriotic and deternmiined spirit of that State, when we assure tihem that we would not be willing to follow, even In the course oif South Carolina, shoul d that cqurse lead to submission. lHe it therefore 'KResolved. That the right of socession ~'Sesults from the Sovereignty of thie States, and is clear and indisputable. 2. Should Soth Carolina, now one of the' -aovereignties forming the Union, cboose. to wjtidraw from thoe General Gov., stamnrent her delegated powers; and should hat Fedeal Gov...m..t on tat acco-.t, or for any other reas, n afictilngthe conimo Interest of the Southeri States, ttemptth'e use of force against South Caroli1e, we, as citizens'of Alabhnra, will use all lawful ox. ertions to bring to the aid of South Carollu, all the resources of Alabama. -8. Should the State of Alabama, re gardless of her own honor and rights, refuse a suech an emergency to co-operate with Sonth Carolina, (the fear of which we do not for a moment entertain] then, and In that event, we should feel at liberty to transfer our citizenship, and consequently our allegiance, to the State of South Carolina. Commiue.-W. A. McCarty, A. D. Cleckley. Henry Ware, John F. Trentleni, Thomas Morton, Thomas Randie, Jatns Randle, D. A. Ridgway, Martin Howard, S. Geer, A. B Shehee, W. H. Fields, F. C. Adams, George Tutman, Nicholas Cachet, Osband Reynolds, Wm. Cox, C. E. Trentlen, John L. Cleckley, E. Sharp, Ttinothy Quin, J. W. Thweast, J. A. Mosely, Ilarvey King, Joiathan Di vis, M. A. Clec.-kley, F. G. Thweat, .J. T. Crawford, Geo. Greer, George Coleman, Charles-Coleman, T. B. Simpei.n, John Davis, Joseph Cox, Granville White, D. E. Anthony D. M. A. C. Stevens, Saan'l. Greenwood, Chas. Seals, Win. M. Lainkin, i., M. Thweatt, Eubankes, U. W. Morton, J Cash. Lawrence O'Keefe. Wiley Jolhnston, J. Miller, Hardy Crawford, Wvsley Tarver, Lee T. Davis, Fountam White. On motion or A. D. Cleckley, Esq., the Secrtsary was requested to forward a copy of the abxve preamble ao.d resolutions to the Committee of tihe Southern tRights As. sociation of Charleston, the Columbus Times, and Spirit crf the South, and solicit all papers favorable to Southern rights to copy. JOS. A. HOLLAND, President. HERVEY M1. CLEcKLEY, Secretary. DIVING FOR SHELLS.--The following extract from "Rovings in the Pacific," a new work, relates the manner of diving for shells at the "Bow Island," so named by Cook. "On arriving at the reef or knoll, the boat was secured by its painter to a pro jecting branch; and the divers proceeded to dive froin it in all directions, and, as they brought up the shells, so they threw them into the shallow water on the knoll until the shells became scarce, or they became tired and wanted to pull into another station. Shell-tish of various descril'tiona are attached to and wedged in the coral branches, appar ently having grown with their growth. On a still calm day you may see to the bottom at ten or twelve fat homs, and the shellfish when feeding reflects tints of the inost brilliant and beautiful hue; and fish of evej y6rxcnqahle form and color niay Ie seen sponi g n the interstics of the coral branches. It isa cUrious sight to watch the divers; withi sIarcely a mhovoment they wall dart to the bottom like an arrow, examine beneath every protruding rock, and, on continuing their investigations, by a simple movement of the arm will propel themselves horizon. Itally.through the water, ant this at the deptlinf seven or eight fathoms. I tined 6veril by the watch; and the longest period -4-kinw any of them to keep beneath the *ater was a minute and a quarter, and there weae only two who accomplished this feat. One of them, fmm his great skill, was nick named by his companions the "Ofai," (stone. Rather less than a minute was the usual duration. In fine % eather they can see the shells,, when, if the waer is deep, they dive at an' amrlo rir themn; an4 as the sh'ells adhere~ lirmly to. the corall strong a tord.i itIt&A . n om. O1 * . e .1e3"4at; g a;. , after one or i :II t uni attenapaN to tear away a large o:ser, a i his legs beneath him, and getting a purchase with his feet against the coral, use both his hands and fairly drag it ofT When they dive in very deep water, they complain of pains in the ears, and they sometimes come ump with their noses bleed. inag; but it Is rarely that you can get them to attempt such diving, as let the shells be so abundant, they willI come up and swear there are none; the exert ion, from the great pressure, is too painfully distressing. It has frequently happened. after a set of worn-out (livers have sworn that no more shtells could be obtained, that a fresh set hast como and procured from fifty to sixty tonms, withoujt difficulty." BATHrNG IN THlE DE.AD SEA.-Heated! awl fatigued, wve prepared for a general hat he--as a private paarty; for thec pilgrims dletermined to reserve their energies for the sacred Jordan, the lake of Sodomn being held bmy them in horror and abomnina tion. Thm.' had odor in which the lake was hmeld, didl not, htowe'ver, deter us and haaving cal'ed a htalt, we pltung d like younmg ditcks into the liquid element, Patulo chuckling like an old lien on the banl~s. WVe pltuntred! Diiastrous was the plttnge rapidly enougj.h henad a fi hiead p'ppetd tup from the execrahale waters--hair mnatted, eyes smuart ing, anti titgues butrtning froma the intenF sutlphu~routs bitter saltns ot'5 c the deteatible liqtuid inl which we' were im. ptressed; water it wats not, nor b'itunutn, tnor salt, nor enu'phur, hut a disgtusting coms poumnd of all fotur. A hongshad of it would serve as an emetic for all Asia Minor, and leave somne gallons to spare aginist the next epidemic; you could neither sink noer swim in it. Talk of a fly in molasses, or a wasp int a hbarrel of tar--I can find no parallel for a bath in thte Dlead Sea. Bitt thec sufferings of may comapanionsa were a trifle to whtat I felt; cut and miaimted itt consoequee of moy superior htorsemaanship, I jumopedh into the water as raw as a beef stake, andl jumped otut of it-as if I wvere flavedl alive. Ilow. ever, let mec he just to 'thin abominable tmixtutre: if I smarted for it, my woundits were etTectuainly canterized, comphletely skinaned over-the cure was perfect to a miracle. We dressed with ithe comfortable sensation of tmen wvho hail been well cotted with mutton suet, stiff, greasy andI ext reinely ot of sorts, with a tingling, creeping feeling over the akin; and renmounting, tiuraned our steps to the fords of the Jordan. IEATEN UP nY CANNIA i.s.-The boats crew of the Frenach corvetto Ahcmtenr* were set on the 29th Novemnaer last to lindl a passage for her oin thec w estern side of New Caledonia, in the Pacifie. As they dhid not retuirn, t he btarge was tdispachedn, anti fotund that. they land haeen killed ad eaten lay the Menetma anti Bellep tr'oes, except tharee who were mnade prisoners, and forcead to wvitnests the feast. These men were given up whean the barge trrived. The hiitte, p1 an tatomnts anid canaoesa or th P" <anntibala were dlestroayed; sotne personts tken, and twety ethers shoat. THtE FIRs'T CoL~OnRE CIacLFas.--In onie of thec New York Couir's, otn Thursday I tt Mary Ki , a free colored wotmtan, recover .$0 damanges from Miles Smtith, for bareach of promise of mtarriage. The heart broken plaintiff, (whoa suedl for 83, .%0O.) ia a mrantua maker in West Broatdway, andi the faithtlesst swain possesses a handsome roertyr mterville, so. Ca. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, EDiToR. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1851. "r Messrs. A. Wnr & Co., are Agents for the Banner in Surmterville. The M~arket. COTToqjr-Ti'lhe transactions in Cabries ton on Saturd-,y last were limited to 500 bales, at extremes rangin.' from 6 to 10c. Price abou the same as pr&viously reported. The Weather. On Monday evening 'ast -, rain common. ced falling, accorpnnied by a North Eas terly wind, and continued on remi.day. producing a great change in the tempiera. ture and rendering fires and winter cloth ing necessary to comfort. arlest of the sea.n We believe that two of our own citizens are entitled to the palm in South Carolina of the earlie.et cotton blooms. We havo seen a stalk from the plantation of Capt. t. C. RicuARDsoN which was in bloom on the 11th. and one from that or Capt. P. M. BUTLER which had flowered on the 8th. - We have also seen a stalk from the plantation of J. M. JENNixos, Esq., which flowered on the 14th. We invite especial attention to the ro. ceedings of the meeting at Macon County. Alabama, in our columns this morning. It is the second response of that State to the inquiry of South Carolina " how shall we protect our rights " What is exciting this spirit, what is advancing the cause of the South in the South, but the apparent determination of this State to secede I Wimington and Manchester Rati Road. We invite attention to the advertiseinent of Messrs. Wnsow, LANWER & Co., in our columns this inorning. As agents for the Company, they ni' now receiving pro. posals for the pua bs eof the Company's bonds. We feel a?'used that no more sale or advantageons investment could be made than this, especially to our own people. A loan of 6300,000, secured by a mortgage of the whole road, with the privilege at any time of changing the debt into stock is thus proposed to be effected. This amount is to be expended in furthering the road to completion by the purchase of iron, locomo tives &c.. rand added to the amounts al. ready laid ont and the stock not yet paid in, will make the property of the Company equal to about 81300.,000, to aecure the payment of S:200,0). Nothing short, therefore, of the most improbable disasters can impair the security of the investment. There is no doubt in our mind that a year or wowill greatly Icrease the market vslue of these bonds. .:This roaad, wthjiy ral h~amici thirotigb wlkcc wdIlpass the transportation and travel collected at its ex. tremities by the various roads ramifying North and WVest of it, and, passing through a well settled and opulent country whose various products will give it constant and profitable occupation, its stock, by its own merits, wvill rise far above its par value, and the privilege will indeed prove a valuable one to the fortunate bond-holder, (after hav. ing received every hal; year his 7 per cent interest.) as soon as the road goes into suc cessful opaeration, andl renadora ample returns to the Stockhoalers, to limve the option of comnig into thea owne, h-p of the road on0 an equal footing with the. e wvho have borne the heat anal brunt of this great enterprize from its projection to its comcpletion. WVe woud add, that it as desirab~le, in ever)' point of view, that South Carolinians abould thus become the creditors of the road, and reap all the advantages and wiohl rail the mniluenee which would result from this proposed connection. Messrs. LtNDSAY d& BLAcKISTON have forweaded to us the June number of the Medical Examtiner, a monthly record of M~edlical Science published bay these gentle. mem~ in P~hiladelphia at $3 (00 per :atnann, I and edited bay D~rs. Fat s GURNiv Sattri. and Jons B. UtnDr.E. TFhe' saubjects, treated' upon are of itmpor. trance and interest aind are discussed with abaility. lIn this age of active anid intense investigation the importa nce of Journals, devoted to the various sciences, can scarce. ly be over estimnated. By them thme beone fits of a valuable discovery rare widely ad rapidly dilt'used,. while errors ofuepinion and falsities of theory are quickly broughat to view and exposed. But of all the classes of periodical Jiterature the interest of man. kin~d are mnost especially fuarthered b3 that conntected with the medical science, with prolonging life andl relieving paain. GtDF.Y's Lady'sa Book has been~ given up, for this mninth, to the hly contributors, atnd is therefoare ieo than usael'y interesting. Amoecng the haennoafoi engr avings in the' Jn ly numaber is onte The ).'. Equestrian, teo wihwe hiaeve ;- si' -a -toun, ias r .thei. treniching~ upnci :: -. .t, of our own m. Eveni in ridini.v w hiava nat hathertoa coce. ded tunere, an ihe Ifati, andei that was te one. aided compjromen~. fer in''aiunj was given m i return ; but the ' Fair lIaa--,rcam,"' of this plate, has dotnned tho seck ;i th le wvell lifttig vest and lhas neatly' nted a Byron collar ove'ra lore oef a cra vat, and looks soc chaearminegly wvithah theat we ceaaimot find it in our hear: tea say nou. Bait, when, the ludies ride thus arid walk a-la Bloomer, wvhaat are we to do ? We can think of no other re sort than tea the flowing robes and beards of Patriarchal times. TH m SoUTHEN REPUSLItC, at least, that estnalishedl in Camedent, under the direction among "the powers thit be." We *ish it prosperity. Union CoIvnuon in Georgia. On the 2n I irgt., delegates to a Constitu. tional Union Convention assembled in Mil. ledgeville and organised themselves. 'The Honorable R. Toomns, who some months since declaimed against the cry of Union' as a masked battery from behind which the rights of the South were to be assailed, was a prominent member of this Union Conven tion and, an Chairman of the Committee of thirty-three, reported the following resolu. lions: Resolved, 'hat the Constitutional Union party of Georgia, devoted to the Union of the Atates and the sovereignty of the States hereby re-affirm the report and resolutions of the Georgia Convention of 1850. Resored, That we have witnessed with profound regret -the opposition to these principles by the Convention of out oppo. nents recently assembled at this place, because that opposition is calculated to destroy the moral force of the position which our State has taken before her sister States and before the world-to create di. visions and dissensions among our own people upon a great and momentous subject, on wich we should be, and on which we have been united, and by such divisions and diesensions thus weakening us, to invite a renoval of aggressions upon Southern rights, whicth may end in the overthrow of our Union, in the destruction of our free and happy government, entailing on our selves and children the consequences of revolution. The Committee recommend to the Con. vention to proceed to the nomination of a canditate of thn Constitutional Union Par. ty for Governor of Georgia. A very singular fear is here expressed, that opposition by one part of the people of Georgia to submission, by another port, to aggressions upon their rights, w'as such a divisinn and dissension as weakened them and would invite a renewal of those aggres. sions. The world has hitherto been in profnnd ignorance of the tron mode of re sisting aggressions ; it is, to submit to them. We freely acknowledge that we never be fore had the alightest conception of how irresistible was "the moral force " of a pootion of acquiesence under encroach. ments. Where did Mr. Toomas stumble upon this important political truth? Bo. hind that " masked battery ?" TIhere are sone suspicious persons in tlhis world, who, if the matter were not ex. plained tin them, would conclude that, as Mr. ToomeBs is now crying "Union, Umon,' he is, himself, somehow, on the wrong side (of that battery, as respects the South, and himself, is now assailing her rights from behind it. AIR. WEBSTER, on the 20th of May, made two speeches at Syracuse. Fro the sepond, which seemed to have beer elicited by the convivilalities of the day ani to have well illustrated the maxim, "In Vin< Veritas,". we make the aubjoined extract. He VWil say. that " it in in the nature o thingstifne ..w' -n to se Convent m'g t Constitution, every tihing, that, under its prov!sions, could be advantageous to the North, she demanded, and gl~e s&ry) yielded al that." And since that time, aL moost every thing, that, under or contrary to the provisions of the Constitutio~n. the North has deemed to her interest, she 1sa demr~~.de anud the South has yielded all that. Ar,!, tht now the North "has carried hrer tl.e -d over the world " and the po' . er of -ii neighty government, wielded by her, threattens the destruction of every State Rrhit, and existence, happiness anid hornor, ili, depend on this issue, shall that oness brief sentence comiprise our whole his tory. -The South yielded all that~ 1" These things are all hiatorical. It is in tire nature oit things that mnen go on from a-tep toastep according to tire exigency of the case. They found a Union wvas neces sary--a conimron commercial system neces aary---ind all these things were provided for itn the Constitution under which we live. If we look at it we shall see it is a teatter sor comiprorusise and agreemnent from tkst to last. %cm~ Northern States were commer cial an! 'Lit had they togain! They had to gamt a~ ;.recte~d commerce abroad, and an exclur.ne right of the coasting trade, and of the dlentic trade of the country, as a. gainst forety aI influenced. The south yield edl all th:- They agreed to place in Con gre..s I hu eire control over the commerce so: theo coustry both domestic anid foreign. And' therefore we all know the first Con. eress that ever assesnhled, placed the entire coastiog trade of the country in American hands. Blrrtmhu ships could! rnot after that, trade between Boston arid Virginia. Arnd at that day tho commerce was mnostly New Englandcorneur.ce and so it hias remaitned to ltmis day . A mmd nocw it emrploy. a vast tonnageandtl rhoursiarnds of ishipsi. An.t ali of r'., Iromi :stanei. to C;.mblrnira, is ~onrtined to Amierir.' vessels. No foreignier inter. fe,. Thwa~ conhIl carry tnnch cheaper arnd he mrr,,e usefi int southrern consumer. For it n:a fsirtthau the vessels of northern Enrop~ 'w ''den, and the Hanso Towns, navign.' the seas cheaper than we cars, be caiuse I': not payv sri muchm wages to ther handsis as we do. nor feed them so well. All this is preseirved unrder this Consatit u tionm to thne conmercial interest of the North. Well, tihs is the great boon which omy contrr of New Englaund has received from~ the Gov*ernmewnt. Mihe has carried her flag ill o'v'r the world RAtILo RAm Bonos-We perceive b~y thei palper4 that the~ Seaboard and Roanoke Rail-oad Ionds, which have recently ben adveirt-sd in New York by Winslow, lAtier '. (h', have been advantageously 'lo~osaaI'hsey brourght from 87' 5 to 9J '20 nrn th.' I dar. Total arrounit of bids 8609,00-me~si doublo the amount re utniredl. If thee- tnds have met with so ready a sale, nid .ichl an evcess of bidderst how rearso'nablle Is it to suppose that the Bonds of tihe Wilnington and Manchester Rail Road Company, covered by undoubted security, will meet with an equally ready mnvestment. We are inclined to the opinion thast soe of the bids, will overtop thne mraximurn of the Seaboard Company. Wil. Hlerald. A mong the other high sounding titles the King of Ara has that of "Lord of twenty tour Umbrellas." This looks as if he was prepna for a lng ein. Ma. EToz;' It If a custow 6flong standing In this country Mid should always be the brileel (fesple,e tslect and nominate either in District meetinis or in elgbborhood councild suitable men to represent them in their law-making do. partment or other deliberating bodies, and if there was ever a period in the history of our country that required care and wisdom in the selection of men, It will be when we are called on by the actio of the &uth to elect members'of a Southern Cong'es. FRANCIs H. KanmaDy, Fasq., is in every respect a suitable person to represent, In part, the Congressional District in which Sumter is included-Claremont claims the suggestion of some liberal writer, who a few weeks agoave it as his opinion that one ofthe members to the Southern Con gress should go from Claremont. Mr. Kamamxy's talents are of a high order, but what Is of more importance his politics are of the right stamp. The large amount of slave property own ed by himself, his mother, his wife's father and grandfather, In all of which he is irmme. diately interested, to say nothing about other large estates In the family in which Mr. K. is more remotely interested. in, ample evi dence of his soundness in reference to the Institution of slavery. Mr. KNmDir is In the prime of life, with a healthy vigorous intellect and constitu tion, which blended with his experience in and out of the councils of the country, can. not fail to render him acceptable to the Congressional District as a nominee from CLAREhMONT. :f" The Black River Watchman will please copy. For thn Banner. It seems our town Council have ordered the strict enforcement of the ordinance for the taking up cattle in the street and ex torting money from their owners to redeem them-or if not selling them. The ordi nance was passed I believe last year, but has been sufrered to remain a dead letter till now, for some cause,-! would fain be lieve because of the repugnance of the members to do so serious an injury to their neighbors, when 'there is no possible good to be derived from it. But now it seems we are no longer to be indulged with that exemption,--however useless, (for I have inquired what good reason could be given for such a law and have heard none which is not absolutely ridiculous) however an noying and injurious, we are to have it forced upon us. I hope the citizeno, will interfere in some way to effect an abate ment of the nuisance, for I can call by no softer a name the interference with the private affairs of individuals, unnecessarily olfor insufficient cause. I have been a serious suffirer from the hog-law, it having cost me % pretty gang.of hog, which I preferred to send oir to the coun t a 'w rahr tan ke trial of temiper. )iut- cannot 'io without fowsner ean they he kept eut of the street. nesata cost far beyond their vaiuo,--eo that I have before me the pleasant antici pation of constant annoyance and constant extortion. And for what 2 A 8UTFFERER. The Right to Seoede. The Chronicle 4- &entinel (Ga.) refer ring to the pmoceedings of the Constitution al Union Convention of that State, says, in relation to the issue of the right af a 8tate to secede : "Nor will they permit themselves to be drawn aside from the consideration of the great question at issue, by any intriguing effort to mntroduce speculative theories up on abstract propositions-the determination of which are not pertinient to the present canvass. "The issue now distinctly presented to the people of Georgia, is Union or Disnn ion, and they are expected to decide accord ingly." The -Augusta Con stit utionalist, cor.. meriting upon this, takes the follow ing Dtrong position : If the, issue be Union or Disunion, then the propositic~n, has a State the righ' to se cedeI is not an abstract one. The theory that a State has the rigrt is not merely speculative, but practical, and its dete: m ation is pertinent to the preseni canvass. The fact is, the right of a State to se cede, whether the issue in Georgia be "iln ion or Disunion," or not, is a question ner tinent at all times and of grea~t practical importance to the people of Georgia. They may never desire to exercise the right. But let thenideny the right, or remain ii. lent, and thereby acquiesce, while the right is emphatically denied by anti-s.layqry Fed. eraliuts at the North, and.Sibm' unists at homes and the State prosphis-.herseif, tied hand and foot, completely in th6 power of the anti-slavery majority in Congress. She virtually places halters around the necks of her citIzens, and tells the No: ihern people wielding the Federal arms, to hang them up like dogs, if they dare resist aggressions, however atrocious. A State, calling hieraectf sovereign, would grossly stultify herself by such a course. Among the diabolical acts of the despe radoes im Michigan, recently arrested, was an a:ttem pt to poison the passengers -of the Central Rail rood,.against which corporation the malice of the gang wvas particularly di rected. A western clergyman now atton-. ding the meetting of the General Assembly at Utica, writes to the New York Journal of Commerce, that he Is still ill fromi the effects of sonme poison which the pa. sengers ate or drank at Marshall, one of the stations on this road. ,A CuRous Pu~cE or WORKarANSHJP,-A..A singular illustratIon of the ductility and tenacity of iron. has been produced at the1 establishment of G. Dowvning, Esq., the Crown Iron Works, Smethwick. It is in 1 the form of a book the leaves of which are I of Iron, rolled so fine that trhey are no thick er than a piece of thin paper. The book is neatly bound in red morocco, and con tains forty-four of these Iron leaves, the whole being only the fifteenth of an inch< thiek. This curious book is the work of< Charles Hood, who is in Mr. Downing's em-1 ployment; was rolled In the ordinary sheet iron rolls, and ta a singular Illustration of a the extreme tenacity of Iron.--BirmiA. '6+ The followinls -ed froma I zi Veed John Raopj In rep to Patrick Mnry, on the sub Rights. It may be found in' rt . sime of Garland's recent Life of Randotb It must be recollected that the speech which this is an extract, was delivered.441 rar back as IO: "Should the federal government. there. fore attempt to exercise powers that do not belong to It; and those that do belong to it are few, specified well defined-all others being reserved.to the people and to the 8~tates-should it step beyond its pro. vince, and encroach on rights that have not been delegated, it is the duty of the states to interpose. There is no other power that can interpose. The counter weight, the opposing force of the State, is tthe nly check to over-acts known to the system. "In questions of meum et tuum, where rights of property are concerned, and some other cases speclfied in the Constitution, I grant you that the federal judiciary may pronounce on the validity of the law. But in questions involving the right to power, whetherthis or that power has been dele& gated or reserved, they cannot and ought not to be the arbiter; that question has been left, as It always was, and always must be left, to be determined among sovereignties in the best way they can. Political wis doin has not yet discovered any infallible mathematical rule, by which to determine the assumption of power between those who know no other law or limitation save that imposed upon them by their own con sent, and which they can abrogate at pleas. ure. Pray let me ask the gentleman, and no one knows better than himself-who ordained this Constitution? Who defined Its power, and said, thus far shalt thou go, but no farther? Was it not the people of the States in their sovereign capacityl Did they commit an act of suicide by so doing ?-an act of self.annihilation? No, thanik God, they did not; but are still alive, and, I trust, are becoming sensible of that importance of those rights reseryed to them and prohiilited to that government which they ordained for their common de fence. Shall the creature of the States be the sole judges of their authority to claim and exercise it? Does not all-power seek to enlarge itself ?-grow on that it f.ieds upon? IHas not that been the histo ry of ull encroachments, all its depart. ments, then, if it is to be the sole judge of its own usurpations, neither the people nor the States in a short time, will have any thing to contend for; and this creature of their making will become their sovereign, and the result of the labors of our revolu. tionary heroes, in which patriotic band this venerable gentieman was most conspicu ous, will have been a change of our mas. tors-New England for Old England; foi which change I cannot find it in my heari to thank them." ItRACULOUS ESCAPE.-We learn that, on Tuesday last while the steamer Dai ling. ton was endeaving to bring her lighter through Mother Griffin, Capt. Brock mos miraculously eacaped drowning. It ap pears that the Das lington, with one of hei lighters along sido, headed up into th< "Suck," where she was kept stationary by working her engines, while an attempt wa .made to pass lines to her other lighters In doing this the yawl was capsized , witI five hands aboard near the stem of the boat The accident callod all haitls aft to rescut those In the wanter. Capt. Brock was leil th ~ h~ h il1llay ond course, ha ito pass under the steamtr'% wheel, which was making about thirty rev olutions in a minute., This he did, it is wonderful to say, with but a slight bruise, :gate heni upon finding himself in, the wthemade an eflbrt to get hold of a fendert biut frontitelarge size, and the force of the current ho missed his hold, then the conviction flashed across his mind that he had no hope of escaping but by diving. But even in this there immiment danger; for should he not dive early enough and deep enough, or risc too soon. his fate was sealed -and he had little time for calculation, as the current was irresistible. He did cal. culate though, and -with correctness, that he was struck with but one bucket, and that slightly. We call this a most miraculous escape, as it is not probable that one in a hundred, under the circumstances, could pasthrough the difficulty without loss of lie Ithas been but a few weeks since a hand on board the Win..B. Mearts lost his life under similarcirdogmstances.-her.aw Gazette. ~- ..... - A Wong or Anv.-A London corres pondent of the World's Fair, says: 'It is the on dit at the Chrystal Palace, that the celebrated Amazon group, by Md. Kiss, has been purchased by an American pa rty for 83,000, and is to be taken to the United Sta for exhibition. The Queen, it seems, was among the biers for the beautiful group, and the Duke of Devon. shire, niao; but both fell back before the zeal of our countrymen. I hope this is true, for neither in this exhibition, nor in Europe. is there a piece of statuary that can com~pare with it. The . tiger hnas just sprung' .upon~the horse, and has fastened upon hiIs chest and neck wvith merciless ferooity. .The horse, in his agony, is rearing and plunging in the vain endeavor to release himself from his destroyer. These two points alone, the anatomical correctness of both the steed and the tiger, and the fine muscular power of both, would immortalize the art ist. But above these, in all that dis lays the genius of the one who conceived the whole idea, is the figure, attitude, :arriage, snanner and developement of the rider; to the finest conception of limbs and arms, and bust, and figure, there is .added. such a face of exquisite beauty in pool, do termmied revenge, i.never sow. 'No do. icription-can gate'-yoany.idea of its won. lerful artistic poWer?. LvleonaURG ,AFFRAY--We learn with rrestt pain, from a gentleman who left Lynchburg Fridlay morning by the Charlot :eaville stage, that both the combatants in he late terrible aff'ray have died of their vounds. Mr. Saunders lived not more than tight hours after the rencontre, and Mr. I'erry idid not long survive him. Thtus atally has terminated this unhappy afF'air. At the time our informant left Lynchburg, .he situation of Mr. Biggers, the constable irho recqived two wounds in endeavoring o separate the parties, was represented to >e such as to justify the apprehensions of us friends. One of the bullets had sever id a large artery, and his advanced ago did tot favor his recovery. Since the above was in type, we have ceen a private letter to a gentleman in this ity, which states that Terry was not doed mn Friday morning, though very faint hopeo yore entertained of. his reejuvery, Gre'at xcitement was felt in INynohburg, ai& he day of the unfortnut* ceotterence', bus' teas was almost totally supendd,.Ric4. of TWI sentine o to militayli naturally became who had bui down in coldbM who belonged to stationed- inthe if any one.. Priipe had neer promised to obey the dine I. backward and ferw =hT ears open to the 1 4 accustotydp rhou0,t ging from a clum of which -.he landed., levelled his piece and cAO; "Who go dar. owe bangI hailing and Ar, FA The aim taken .by p oqion was true,, d i the poi was so longer ex Yankee Blade. ItET DkoUaojT n permitted (says the N. 0..;iay p make the following ektract fro . dated Zacatecar, Muy 12th,toacni house of this city: "We are In a m'st ibrabT at present. - W~i have had consequence sIlnCe August a':je country is actually unit upti roads are irapassablofr;Wa a ter. q Corn is 8O,50 per S~g,(aoz4o pounds,) and in some parta oE Zacatecas is selling- at *9. ground down is worth #200 and other things in propo of animals wonid not b' e other place. We know of'6mge which lost 1,400 bead ofahe 1 W u last, and it has been wdrse course there is literally no I n t9 as the people are either muit charity, or are eating every comes in their way. Every:dya rains will be worse, and wq caoor any commercial prosperityu and a good harvest of Jndian -af gathered.- On th6 25thn lt.we6hd ashaqv frost,.which has injured the h This Is produced a irrigation "a caught in the ear.i KEY VI.5T-FLaozo..-. largest sense, a Missionary m in the last four years it has on to administer the consolation, udis, or sacraments of religion, to the i of least 12 different natipns adit the same period, ministered t. tives frnm almost ever dioeia land. It has plantGso Fpel in heart which have $ing into every habitable mari our globe; while God's reended ingracipes showe i have remained behin& Vdau i of Misuionsfar'Jue, 1851 "'Tss Gnusst uir L v amuingacenntofa genteiam~ ted a-barrel of lard to hea~ni o k arrival ofthe)Ilowraithttpej and su' asy. Js amid noiselessly uptojsti the 'great staple of Ohln a i~gj "L.a-r-d have mercy on at'-- 't TirE DISE~asE, Or pestilecstjsmj times called, wh, hans for affbected the orange trees In Plti ,seems to be passing away. !The 1 sonville, News of the 17th ult, says that next all and winter will exhibit quite "a at!,1 in tde orange business in Florida. OFFIcE Wn., & aw I. Marion C. IH.S. C, June Jlth The Stockhoders of theWilu age~ Manchester Rail -RoadCmpn by notified, that the TENTH Idtsaht fimve Dollars per shard~on thei submsrp-. tion. is required to be pid~ ~ a of July 1851., H X~AI Tres'r W. &.bl C June 18th, 1851 34' f EF Watchman Copy., For sale by June 18th, 181513 Bargajins ing LREU Kid Slippers~ The subiscriber is now oilughirsnendu stod of LADIES' KID SIPPE S at low price for Cua. Ladies in want of the artists wNl da iwell to call. .OS8M June 17th, 1851 34 - f WATEREF 01UsL ( LA TE PL AN1'eRU HO L, CAMIDEN &. C~ T HE Subscriber having piurchased extensive and well known Establss~u and having added largely to its oovenisabe and comfort, by a new'additioinMf~ir.naure and thorough and complete epirs, bg leave to inform the Public, tat lie p repared to entertain all whii mna' or hm with a call, in a mannebbIthto unknown in the town of Caann, ' lHe deems it unpocesary t~a pledges, only so far as to satitIIT a will be supplied daily as we* iah State; attended by polite tt btr Servants. , - .lis S-aT4Irue, will be bonnttympti with Provender and attended yt best Hlostlers, No pains wm he paredjp and orderly House. H.I HO Camden, Juno 4, I1 Shoes!Bh Ladles' black and el Kind and Gem'san JJIOW GE QSfGE P -t