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TH UMTER BANNER IWPUBLIsRED A3V XHMDAY MKORNIING J7. FftAN3TS. LLARS in adiance, Two Dollars and Fiftf Cents at the- expiration of six months, or Three Dollars.at the end of the year. No'1,.Vr -discontinued, until all arrearages are ns at the' option of the Proprietor. w~r- dv~ut tnents inserted at SEVENTY FI9 Ce6 r ere, (12 lnes or Les,) for, the fBst,asuidIf sum for each subsequent; gisnu ber of insertions to he markod on a Adferiments or they will be published #until ordiied- to be discontinued, and 'charged tO E. DOLLAR per square for a single Inserieni. Qua-terly and alonthly Advertije ments wtil. e eharxed.the same as a sfngfte ri: sertion, ani semi-mHi'thly the same as':iew onos' the bills passed some years ~ago, it wvas provided. that if the State sold the lands and did not construct the roadj kjlyould -refund to the Treasu ty. of th tinited States whatever noney it had received, a relation. which never should be created be. tween the Federal and State govern .auente--if foi- no other reasons than the uni*irsal dependence of the deb tor on the whims and caprice of the vreditot. Now,:with*all these. advantages, *bat good objection can exist' to ma king these donations? It does not cost you a. farthing. It does not ab stract any revenue from the Federal Treasury. It does not reduce the re sources of the Treasury at all. All experieimee demonstrates that when you have constructed these railroads, the lands through which they pass will sell more ieadily for $2 50 an acre than they will for $1 25 per acre without the railibads, With this view of the case-the constitutional difficulties be ing removed-looking to the great ad vantage which you can render to these States-looking to the iumense boon that you can give to them without im poverishing yourselves-I ask, what good reason can be given for not pass ing the- bill and making the donation'? We ask that thwbill siall be put up on its passage now, without going to the Conimittee of the Whole on the state of the. Union. Those menibers -who are at all familiar with proceedings here know, if I may be allowed to ap ply a quotation that is used upon more solemn occasions, that when a bill is sent from this House to the Committee on the Whole on the state- of the Jnfon, unless it is a universal favorite or an appropriation bill, it has gone to "that uudiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler ever returns." Every member who has had any expo rience here knows this to be a fact. I have now, I believe, presented most of the 'iews of this matter that I desirQd to present, and all I have to say i'oc lusion; is, that I truit - the. se will. deal liberally -and gener. warrem fair- ohte of th rst, ydIkave no doubt that we &aIl nnrer laswe cause to be ashamed of or to repu<)late thymi. Mon BaRIIS PartAstnor.--lie British pagers announce that 'the town of Lagos, ori the ivest coast of Afr-ica, was almost totally destroyed by the British':squatdron on the 26th and 27th1 .lctember. The English ships, how ever, sustained sever-e losses, haiving 30 killed and 66 wounded. This great1 easunifty was caused by one of~ the steamers having grounded within range of a bat~tery of 13 guns. These hostil i ties were tm~dertaken in consequence] of the King having refused to ratify a1 treaty'of peace for the suppression ef Chec slave trade. An immnense number of natives were skilled during the twro< days' fighting, and the King or Chief, was ddposed, and another one substi-t tuted. H~ere rte have a str-iking exemplifi-t eation of the philanthropy of the Brit ish government. The King of Lagos, 1 as he is called, who, it is to b~e presum ed, knows no mnorec of a treaty than that paragon of ignorance, 'the man in the moon,' for refusing to ratify one * dictating by the cornmanidcr of a Bit-t ishI naval force, is attacked by that< doughty diplomatist sword in handi, an "immense number of the natives kill.. ced, the town destroyed, and himself i deposed. All this was done on the score of .philanthropy, and toi arrest< the slave trade in that quarter. A town is destroyed, and a hiundretd En glishmien killed and, wounded, besides a - an immense number of negroes, to pre vent ayanmall number oif negroes being made slaves. John Bull will certain ly reformn the world, b'y a process of I depopulation, ats he has done ini Iin- I dostan and Iriel and.-Southern Pr-ess. H i The Gad J ury for Anderson I District In their presentment laid be- a fore the Court of Conntnon Pleaus, at its reenut Session at Anderson C. I I.. state tilat although not comting in thet ordinary course of their duty, they- a would beg nevertheless to call the at tention of the public to the policy of extending the Greenville and C2ohni bia Rail Road to the valley of the great west by way of the lliabun Gap,. Thay regard- snch, an-enterprise as one1t eminently calcutlated to promote thet interests of the whole State, and as suchI feel no hesitation in recommendling that mneaures should at once lbe adopt ed by. - the people of this Stato to secure its specedy completion. Though opposed to the Stato engaging in inter-nal improve ments alone,'yet as far- as grand jurors are allowed to express their opinions as citizeins, they wvarmily rccommend -that the State gover-nmenit should lend a willing and Iiber-al hand to this gr-eat enterprise. As Mrs. Mowatt wvas returnaing toi Boston on 'Friday firm an excursion on horse . the horse reaired and1 fell upon* ; broakinig threo -ibs. it The Price of Cotton. Mr. J. G. Gamble, in the last num ber of DeBow's Review, has a long c article on cotton and cotton manufae- r tures, from which we extract the fol- I lowing suggestions relative to regula- I ting the price of the great staple. His I ideas are not new, but are presented in a somewhat, tangible shape. It is * strange, but nevertheless true, that experience has demonstrated that a < large crop of cotton realizes a smaller aggregate thin a .smaller oihe. - Thus, i, crop 2,200,000 bales yields the i sum of 6110,000,000, while a crop of < 2,800,000 bales only yields $00,- < 000,000. Whether the suggestions a made are practicable or not, is yet to a be 'determined: I The dogma "that prices must and i will be regulated by the relations of i supply and demand," is. by many i deemed conclusive refutation of all hope of success, But the question to be solved is "whether the supply can- 4 not be regulated as to secure regular I and.remunerating prics?" If it can, I the remedy is found. -. If the cotton crop of the United I States belonged to one man, remedy : would be obvious. Numing his, i price, he would .sell only so much as I is required f'or consumption, and leave I the residue under his cotton shed, a to supply deficiency in tho crop of I next year; and if the. surplus was large, a he would plant less next year. Such i a course would be efficient for the i object; and the only obstacle to similar i action by the cotton planters general ly, is the difficulty of procuring concert t of action. The difficulty is great, but - I think not insuperable. Besides the loss attendant upon a large crop, the planter is often subject- i ed to loss upon a small one, because of t his ignorance of the extent of the crop [ country. Cotton is the agricultural I staple of some eight or ten States, i covering a vast extent of countrv. Y Seasons ar' often favorable in sonie i districts, -and uifhvorable in others. Dealers in cotton take measures to T inform themselves, with sufficient ac- r euracy, of the extent of the crop, and < are prepared to go into the market i with a knowledge of its value. It is their interest, too, to exaggerate its I extent; and this is annually done by I publication of what purports to be t extracts of letters written in cotton States, but really fabricated for that purpose. The planter, ignorant of its j real amount, and influenced by such I statements, disposes of his crop at low prices,. before the falsehood is discovered. For low prices, a remely would be found in an agreement to plant ress cotton; but that would not prevent ir regularity in price, because good and bad seasons would still cause irregular production; and although remunerative, prices would be irregular. A bad season mi'ght also- so -reduce the sup. i ply, as to throw out of employment a i large portion of capital; 'and of opera-' I tives now engaged. in its manufacture. a Suel. a state of things would be deplorable, and in the end injurious tot the grower. i s interests, and those ' >f the manufacturer, are best sub. I served by regular and reasonlable 1 prices. The first thing to be done byt the Convention, should be the adoptiont fa plaina f'or ascertainling the extent of .1 auch year's crop. -IThis is essential- t to all judicious aind efficient actionl. I ropose to effet it by tile agency -of Planters' Societies, to he organized ill a wvery country in tile Cotton States. By districting tile counities, and dis- ~ ;ributing tihe labor amonig tile memil-i iers, tihe crop of' each counuty cain lbe t ascertained by the middle of Janluiarv ~very year~. Thle counlty Societies .I uhould immediately thereafter report ho amount of the crop to a conulnittee, >r some officer, residing at the seat of (! he State Governent, who( shold ' epor~t tile aggregate cropj of the State ~ o0 a central connnllittee', to be appointed 'I >y the CotAton lanuters' Conivention; I 11pon which en'tral coimmnitteQ shouldt also dlevolve the labor of obtalinimE 1 dll attainable inftormlation resplectilfg " rs, at hlome and abrload-thle sulpplies ' vhich mayt lie expetedi frm othert Ounmtis-andl~, genieral ly, all t he ii nirmationj inu its powe'tr, 'onnlieted a vithl the producetionl anid consump~jtionl >f(Zottonl. Thme information referred to). an~d thle 'eports froml tile State commnittees, nmay bc in possessionl of tile cntrl amun~littee b~y thle 1st of April int ~achi year, and should be published; imd tile planters advised what pro.. E >ortion of' t hiir respectivye croups should ' >e' sold, amnd what retined. liut inlasnmuch las a conlsiderab~le lortlin of' tile crop is annua mmllyi (lid before the r(eport of' tile cntral (ommllitte'e could he miade, ' propose ni agreemlenlt amflong the planlters, "11ot o sell more thanii two-thiirds of theirt espective crops before receipt of :1d( report, andl not to sell any fbr price iess thaii agreed upioni." An 'urther, "lnt to sell more of the re erved (one-third, than shall be advised ' >y the central commnitte'e." For illus ration (of my meaninlg: Suppujosing ~ he crop 2,700,000 bales. thme sailes oif wo-t hirds wouhli amlounlt to 12.00.000 -leaving '.00,000 bales oni luad. If idv'ised thait tile conIsumption)1 of' A niericanl co(tton wou I be only 2, ' 200,000 bamles, Ceh lanlt er lifinild lien sell onily fouur out (of every nine ifiles whlich had b~een reserved, an~d re sin the remaining five bales uinder as5 'otton shed, to await fihtu~re dlemnand. r supply deflciencies in future crops. Expercencc hasL' shown, that a crop if'2,700,000 bales, thrown upon tile rnlarket, wili reoduice the prices ofebt ton to about five lenits; whereas a crop of' >nly 2,200,000 bales w5ilL; raise it to 'xtremei prices; the first not remulinera :ire to thle planter, the last ten'ling too | muchd to r.,iflmi'2 m'idi.'in l rhere. The interests of all parties, roducers, and manufacturers and onsumers, will be best served by rioderate and regular. pricessay, a oout ten cents per pound. At that rice, two-thirds of his crop will out more. money into the planter's iocket than would the whole crop old at'six cents. I have said that the difficulty of obtaining concert of action among Olanters, so widely separated from sch other, is great; but my confidence a its practicability is based upon their obvious interest, and their good ommon sense. Although less expert t figures than the speculators in their taple, the least informed among hem can see that ten bales of cotton, old at- ten cents, will yield more noney than fifteen bales, sold at ix cents. And, aided by past ex crience of the evils resultihig :rom vant of organization, it demands no xtraordinary faith in their good sense o believe that concert may be ob ained. The only objection ever made to his plan is, "that the planters will not et in good faith, but will secretly sell nore than their portion of the crops." qow, without claiming for cotton olanters a higher character for honor nd integrity, I nay say that they ossess as much of those qualities as ny other class of our population. And Ithough some iiay and will act basely, lie number will be small, and their inflaithfulness will but little alieet the esult. I may say the same ofanother mall class found in every community -Solomnons, in their own conceit, who nake it a point of honor never to hink or act like their neighbors; and Vho will, perhaps, refuse to enter into he agreement. But if the plan sug ;ested be tried, breaches of faith will ic fewer and ibwer every year; and vbere a sense of honor will not estrain, fear of exposure and shame vill. Without some general concert f action ,no plan caln succeed; and that ow proposed presents as few obstacles s any other. It proposes no advance f money-no risk of loss-and o change in the pursuits of the plant r. If adopted, it must do good. t can do no harm. You have. in the >receding, my plan for regulating lie price of cotton. CA.IFORNIA AND Sl.Avvty.-The Ft ;itive Slave law, which has lately >assed the California Assembly, pro -ides that slaves brought in the State orior to the adoption of the State Con titution, shall be liable to the pro -isions of the Congressional Fugitive lave hiw. This, it is alleged, is an n1fractioll of the Constitution, which ays that neither slavery no in -oluntary servitude, except for crinme, hall ever be tolerated in the State. In the California Assembly, Feb iary 10th, Mr. Peachy presented a niemorial frofti a number of fariers or >lanters of South Carolina and Florida, sking the privilege to bring their amiilies and colored domestics into hat State, and thait they may lie irotected in their property. *The aemioial was ref'erred to a Coanunittee >n Federal Relations. A bill has also( beeni introduced into le Legishitutre to call a convetntion o) revise the Ccnstitutiont, the object ecing to divide the State, andu set aplat he Southern portion ih r a Silave Statc. TlimE FuR Ec H FLEeO N.-The pathly wihich chiaract erized thle late rench election is a subject of serious umoyance to Louis Napoleon. Ini auris, out of three hundred amid thlii tv btree thloutsantd voters, one htud red hiousand atbstained f'rom the polls. a ninny ot the rural districts the same 'idithierence as to thic elections hais 'ceen mani fested, thbough not to, so reat anm extent. Theli retun of ("a aigniae, and the heavy vote piolled f'or 'arnlot, have also irritated the P'resi ent, though one o~f his creature editors as declared that such indicat ions of 1e revo~lutionatry spirit call for conttin ed repressioti. On the whole, the tate of F'rance may he considered ex remewly imsettled. Thle sullen apathy I' so large a miinority of lie peolde is ac mo st fatal iincidet that has vet ttendhed Louis Napoleon's rule. '.The iiomnus in ainot'her respect. Vtar is conf'essedly the last card ofi the rince Presidet; he is only holding bacik for the inevitale crisis; and( ic present condition of' ailairs looks as lhe would be compell)lled to play his emnp soont, or lose the game. Indihf. -rec, we mutlst reciolleet, mieants as meith inl Fr'ance as (ften opposition'I Isewhiere. It is the p~relude to disas 21r attdo disgrace, anid t his Louis Na oleo n evid en tly knows.-Ph iladel GzoIo A GAuN.-We men'2tione~d in ur laist, says thle Ahheville Banner of oc 1 9thl inst., t hat thle mrine so sue essf'ullhy wiorked by Mr. D~orni, was inl algefield, siiie' thenm we hr~ve seen Mr. )orn hiinumself', who iniforms us the miine in this (list rict, and that ini ten reeks hec has realized the sum11 of' mt thiousmnid dlollars and~ tupwat ds from is operation with eight hammxl,. 'The fork ofi two (lays ailonme yielded himi methiing over three thousand dollars. Illdtemknt olf the gold, there is aut his mine inexhaustiblde qiuantities of lalganmise, wich'l coi tumans a ready ale, inl thle Nort hern markets, and of' tself' would be a fortune. Gold has beeni distovercd in various ortio'ns of' our D.istriet; and we have .o doubt when c'ottonl ceases to occu~tpv Ri miuch of tile atttenttioni ofour iihrmers, 1ines. wilt he i'hunmd withbin our' borders rhuich will lss with their golden reasures the hieky' ownmers. M~osE: I'uscannum.:n.--All wlho have ad better apply to the Post Oflice )epartCmenit, ats tell thouisamd dollars aye been thuunel in thn dad. ltter THU SUMTEI BANNE. Sumterville, So. Ca. JOHN T. GREEN, ErDiTr. TuESDAY, MARCH, 80, 1852. Our Prinaciples. "There s one P" on which there con be no diversity qf opinion in the South among those .who Or* true to her, or who hate made up their minds not to be slavsa; that is if te shouhl be forced to choose between resistance and suislimsion we should take resistance at all haterds." CALnouqN. " To do that, concert of action must be necesa ry, not to save the Union, for it would then be too late, but to save ourselves. Thse inmy view, concert is the one thing needful.."-CA 1.1o1N. * What is the remedy ? I answcr seression, united secession of the slaveAolding States, or a large number oj tAem. Nothing e.lse tmil be Wise not ing else wifl be practicoble."-Cuirva. to Messrs. A. WHITE & Co., nre Agents for the Banner in Sumterville. zu" Wx have received the last number of GoDrY's Lady Book. It is equal, if it does not surpass any of the previous numbers. New Arrangemacnut. On and after the first or next imonth there will be a stage line running be tween Mayes' Turn Out (in the Wil nington and Manchester Rail Road and Darlington C. H. Next Preldeant. Newspaper editors have been in dulging in speculations in regard to the next presidential election ; express ing opinions of, and concerning the chances of those who have been spoken of as likely to take a part in the race. Hence, some have proposed the policy of non-intervention to this State, advi sing us to stand aloof from this political scramble for place and power. They propose to take no part in the election of one of the highest officers known to the Constitution, for the reason that in the discharge of the duties devolving upon him he is the executive of a gov ernment, destructive of the rights of the South, and opposed to her best in terest. We believe the party test in the canvass will be the finality of the compromise-in other words-no one can receive the support of either Whigs or Democrats as a party, who does not believe the compromise measure ought to be a permanent- arrangement of the great question between the North and the South. Now it is unques tionably true, that no man hold ing such opinionse. nreceive the sup. port of South Caroliha-aaher deliberate choice, yet thero inay be a chain of evils; we might prefer WE~Ds'Ea to IIousTOn, or Douci.As to ('Ass, or BuenuAs.ts to either of them. We have sceen a spch of' Mr. Snmui, of' Alabaman, in which lie desires Mr. Cass to retire f'roma the contest. It' we were to give advice it would lie abiout the samlie as tha~t aidvanced by Mr'. SSirrn. We think it is the duityv of' this State to east hier vote in the comning eleet in, because we are ye one of the States whickh muake up this Govermenact, we are vet in the U~nioin and whilst we (cim plain that the Federal Gojvernment has utiterly thiled in perfoming its duties to the separate States, we should be c'areful lest the imputation should be sucessfully i nade agzainst us-thait we are wanting in periforingiI4Oi Iur hties towards the general G~overnment. We do not think it prudent or niecessary to express an opinion in regar'd to any oif the namues vet brought ihrward as (canidida~tes. The parties will make niomnationis, anld it will be all that we enni do, to choose buetweeni those whose names have been brought befo re th'e ple~t. Accor'dinig to present inidicai tions. IkciASAxx or D~oroL..rs wvii be the no amiee of' the Democratic larty We will aw~ait thle dlevelopimen't which time and tric'kery rnay imake. I lonimi.E I ):s-rnre-rros ori -rwo Calin.:s, liv -rui.1m AIo-rnFan-Tuiost As-roN, ( A., NAU-rne 12.-(Oni Satur day last thle citizens of1 Upson counity had a1 fthrible ill ustrat ion of t he inidi~ pednsibile neceessity of well eniduwed IlAuntie 0 Asybuniis. A re(spectable ha dy, by the naime of Alaignian, about two iamths ago at teiiipted to coinuniit si (eide, in a fit. of insianityv. by (enttinig her thro at; but reco verinig from the effr-ets of' the womiui, she remiiainled in a men tal coniditioin, somtetimnes better, and someiethnes worse, until Satur'dar last, wahen she was snpplosed to he be-tter than usual. (On t hat day, taiking her' four little chlildlreni, the' eldest being abouit five or six years ofiage, she went to Potter's Alill -pond, abiout three miiles distanit, amd pluniged themi all ini, imteninig to dlrowvn herself. F~ortun ately, a young mn h~y the name of A lfred W'ilsoni, (who deserves a great (del of credlit,) wals fishuingt at a conisid erable distanc'e, and was attracted by the cries of' the childlren. le hasten edl to their assistance, and1 heroically p jluniged into the wvater, which was ver'y deep, and succeeded ini saving the lives of two of the clild1ren, recovering the dead hody' of' the third, and r'eseuing thenunhappy woljmi. All attempts to 'efin thi bly of' the smallest child weefutless.--Macon Telegraph. (ENs. CAsa s N iuolNA.-The demo erats of Brooke county, Va., have adopted resolut inns in Ihvor of Gen'l. CorrespondeOe of the Courie Ir WASHINGTON, MARCI4 19. sc Governor Jones, of Tennessee, do- ei ivered his -first speech in the Senate, si o-day, and drew a considerable hum- b er of auditors to the chamber. His se ubject was the resolutions against in. oi ervention, offered by Mr. Glarke. 0 aov. Jones has had a high reputation y i an orator in the West, and he was, p herefore, well -attended to, though of ittle interest is felt in the subject. h Kossuth may speak and M. Pulskey e write, but the people are farther from i' ntervention in foreign affairs than they e were, even, in the time of Washington. ti Mr. Jones delivered the same fa views, on the subject, which Mr. Clay a mntertains, and has expressed. The w resolutions offered by Mr. Clarke, m were shown to and approved by Mr. S Ulay before they were offered. The Ii Senate will soon drop a discussion, J which is no longer of a practical ii eharacter. fi 'The House is engaged, nominally, o in a discussion of the deficiency bill, i1 but the speeches na(de are upon the e subject of party politics. . There are two hundred bills already e before the Senate, and as many on the c calendar of the House, and many more it are to be added. a Tle loss of Mr. Clay's medal can I be easily repaired, because the die is :t in existence. A duplicate of the med- a al can be struck for the mere cost of I the gold. The expense and merit of a medal is in the die-which is cut with t a dianmoned on hardened steel. The ] die of the niedal presented by Congress < to General Taylor, cost three thousand a dollars. 'The die of the Clav med- I al cost. two thousand. It is a singular a circumstance, though, that the medal r should ble exposed to the chance of I being stolen. Sonic suppose that I the thief imust have followed the i carpet bag, in which it was deposited, from this city, till he saw it thrown on the top of an omnibus or soine other place where it could lie captured. The bag was found cut open and the t miedal gone. Mr. Clay's letter, urging the non ination of' Mr. Filliore for the Pres idency, was addressed, it is said, to Mr. Ullinan, and transmitted to hn ( at the samte time that the medal was I sent to him. Mr. Clay wishes it, 1 undoubtedly, to be published, for lie is I not a m1an1 who wishes to conceal his t views. le has many devoted personal 4 andt political friends in New-York who , would wish to know and would respect I his opinions on this subject; and the % vote of the Now-York delegation it r tile Whig Convention, will, no doubt, I govern the selection by that body. WASHINGTON, MARCH 20. t Geid. Cass has explained at length I his Nicholson letter, and vindicated it % fron the strictures (if Col: Jefferson t Davis, who, in i; letter recently I published, puts upon the Nichols letter a construction which - Geni. Cass a does not assent to. Whien the Nich olson letter appeared Mr. Calhoun and I and Mr. Rlhett took widely different views of' it. Mir. Calhoun putt a contstruiction upon it (of a character uin- ] tfavorabile to the South. Mr. Ithett, ast I have understood, totok another view of'the menting of' the letter, and it is I e'videnlt that Southi-C.arolina had also, t for she gave her vote to General Cass. The N icho lso n letter is capabule of'i two constructions, buit it is now quite I certaint that Gen~t. Cas's is to be tin dersto od as taking such ground as wvill a be aipprov~ed by the South. Getn. ('ass is now thte leading can didate of the demnocratie party, as a every one here aidimits. li . will unldoubtedly- hatve a ma- a jfirity' on the first ballot; but it is not a qutestiotn whbether the t wo-thirdsi rutle is to bie adopted or niot, for it was r adopted 11. ai perimanent rutle att tihe s last ialtiurtnret C2onvention, aind mtust ( he rescinded, if not appldied. Tihus, c (Gen. Cazss may be thrown out of a tile lists. The public wvill be gladr to learn that, r utle' ling hitatio an deay, Cn g~ress have finially paussedl a lill ren- ii uering the b~ounity land warrants as signabt tle. The G;ovei'inment of' Me'xico las t'etdered to this G.overntmnt a project ifa iret i'regard' to the right of'. way aero is the Isthmtius o'f'Tetnuantepiee. Theln terms are diff'erent from those of a lie utnramtified treatv. r A treaty, is now' near* abou)t to be 0 conchided between the Bruitish Minister h tidi this Government ini relation to the iterests of thle parties in Central A Corres.pondence of the Southern Standard. 8 W A5ImNUOo, March 17, 1852. The Senate have at last passed the I bills granting alternate sections of' the n piublic lands to aid in the construction t' if' railroads. Neai'ly all the States s haiving public lands within their limtits lI ire iiinlued ini the bills. t. Gov. .lones, of' T1ennessee, made his t riebut in tite Senate to-day, on the F lot'trine of intervention. hie opposed p t with much energy, an d in the course Ii of his speech animnadverted, in terms r tftiustial severity, oin the equivocating a p)olicy (if General Cass. s The llouse has spent most of this t week ini discussinig the Presidential ti election, amid in delitning the positions s of' parties in the South. Mr. Hyllier, dl of Georgia, spoke on Wednesday--ap pr'oved the Union organization in v Georgia, but disagreed with Mr. c Stephlens as to the ptropriety of going s into the Baltimore Convention. Ho a was of opinion that the Union party g should send delegates or amibaesadors c to that mecetinlg. C2ol. Jackson, of'that e State, dlefended the State Rights men r and Governor McDonald.. Mr. Ap- t pleton, of' Maine, 4'esterday made a speech in. Iivor of Buchanan; Mr.. s Geddings a ranting free soil anti..fugi- I tive slave law speech. IHo says that i secuire imthe Whig noination e get. the nomination, i n* believed that the:whole ofthe rt Whig will rally- to his-, suippor0'" : with zea and' ethuslina 'St oombs, Cbell, at id-nme genu*wL heartily sustainhim. As an indication of the indisposition of the -South, 'al most universally, to reopefu theoeek Promise question, and as an dadekot, i the popularity of the.- "finality" kof those measures, let me say -to ynl that there was a-rivalry between Mar shall and Bailey, of Virginla, as to.. fti. paternity, -Marshall insisting that. .the. compromise was a Whig measure a Bailey that ivtwa* D)nhoratie.i Hw absurd, then, was the pretence ofdastW Secessionists ofyour State, that whein South Carolina seceded otherw' vMA.,hLL join her standard; 1ivfien'thIey are no only -satisfied with it, but are thelirvi to eulogize It. Heaven grant that they have not nmads a 'fataml'sake in hi gin the " and cheat to their bosoms. : snow storm lastnight, but most of it' has been earkied away by to-day's sun. Mr. Clay's health is again worse. There are some twenty Senators and tepresentatives confined t6 tleir iodg- ' ings by indisposition. The House wiZl probably finish the deffceeney biml n Tuesday. It is very probable, tliat a rsolutfin of inquiry will be offered on Mondaytii the House, requesting the Preali6to inform the House the objects and par poses of the exp.lition fitting. out fur Japan. The preparation is evidenty warlike in character, and ujijes Coi.. gress takes some action~ in the premi ses, our government will in all probe. bility soon be involved in a war:with a country whose population is not less. than fifty millions-and that war made by the President without the knowledge or consent of Congress. It is a subject of grave importance, and will no doubt,; receive the early attention of Congress. On5EnvBR2 The Wakulla (Fla.) Times thus' refers to the Indian troubles in that State: "TIE INDIAN DELEOAION.-We learn that the Seminole delegation. from Arkansas, left Sara Soto for Cal. loosahatchee on the 27th, and probably arrived at the latter place on theJ 1st instant, from whence they were to proceed immediately into the nation. The delegates laugh at the predictions. which have been made, that' 'the1. would be put to' dedth as soon as they enter the nation. Jumper, 'U:6 is now acting as principal chief of the nation, old Abram, and a sister 4'f Billy Bow Legs, are among the del.. egutes. They are confident. of being able to induce Billy Bow Legs and Sam Jones to ernigrate. As an ip duceinent, Jumper will pledige to Bow Legs that his slaves shall be restored to him,'and that hep"'tRill"' Iij atonatherity ' (Giv hif -In thi i asoon as they'- arfiva In the West it is supposed that Billy's Isister 'wil have considerable influence vert ihi Capt. Jernigan has '6Ac'owwn with a smiall party to drive the 'out-liers: into the nation, or else c'apture, them, it is not his intention to go into the -nation with his paifty." BLOODY A FFRAY IN NNUK-SY EnAL. PE~sOxs KILL~n.--The Louisville Courier gives an account of' a bloody affray which occured near 'Lancaster, Ky., on the 13th inst., betwveen Russeli, Isaiah and Frederick Hill, and two or three of their sons, on one saide,' and - party who had fortified themselves' in ai tobacco house on the other. Nothing is said as to the origin of the 'af'ray,' cx. cept that as the Hills arrived oppoisit the house, they were fired on and Rus sell 111ll killed. The account in the Courier then goes on to say: The Hills then charged upon the house, and Isaiah Hill was killed just eas, he wasq getting over the fence.'Te dooer of the house was forced by e r maining Ihills, and the iih tted gwith short jw ~ wie muies. JLhJm Selfers wras shot by a son o Isaiah Hill, (twelve or fourteen 'years. otalge,) and fell and expired after hav. ing received five other shots through the head. Wmn. Crismnan was shot by the same boy, when in the act of stab binig Frederick Hill with a bowie knife. Crisman died, having on his body one pistol shot and fifty-three . wounds inliceted with a knife. A man by the name of Alverson, and anjother by the name of Samuel Sellers, (oftl., house party,) were slightly woundeiL Two of the boys (Hills) were wounded with rifle shots, and one of thorn, a mere boy, lies in a eritical condition. The Rtuthierfordton (N. C.) Ban~ner thus records the opening of a home placer: ANOTnER LaAnoB LIgP.--Dr. J.ev. enthrope showed us ainother "golders specimen" last week, w hich~he had just found at his mines near this place, it. weighs 27 penniyweights, and with the. excepitionl of a fuw small pieces QC quartz mingled in it, is remarkably clean and piure. We rejoice at the doctor's good fortune, for though nd'ya may be more needy no one is imore servmg-unless necessity be muade the test of desert. This is the second large piece the Dr' has found this winter, and the fourth that has been found in the same rc 4ong within less than two years past." Un foiund byMrs. Gireer weighed 0' enny weights, one by Mr. Bradley 3G we believe, and the former, 'fouind by Dr. L., 38. 'There must be a "pile" of It. some where there. 1t our people will 'stay at home Oali= forsia may come to them vet. A rouas. EameoE.-The HaTmnus~ Republican States that the case of if. Tutler, vs. .Jas~ Jones and J. J~. Keenedy, fior die ueeovery of toll paidl at the south Caroliain end ofthei Aumi. ta~ Bridge, triedi in a AI agistrate's Court, has4..eeu.*dteidt d ud~ v~sly to t be plain s ill: the same strain. lie is the succes r of Root. I an of opinion, how rer, they will be a long while Ia, con mmating their purpoe glheri_ en 3 no doubt to any utprejpdioedi ob. rver here that Norther.,a sentiient i the subject of slairery 1* muchmnore muservative than It has been for mrs past, and there is a fixed pr )se on the minds of a large majority the Representatives and Senators re .to have the law - faithfully- ex ,uted. This may surprise youl but it nevertheless true, and the highest ridence -of its reality is to be fbund in ic open declarations of many, now vorable to its execution, who origin ly opposed and voted against it. I ill venture another opinion, whieh lay surprise you. The doctrine of tate Rights is stronger to-day than it is been since the days of Gen. sekson's proclamation, and the Wash. gton Union has reakened Its in ience with every section ofthe Dem .racy, (save the Union party,) by a cordial endorsemdnt of the high fed ral doctrines which that ceolirated tate paper avows,' and which was xplained and modified through the Alums of the Globe,.some time after was issued, semi-ofieially repudi ting its most objectionable features. is very probable that the Union will ot get the census printing on account fits continued -warfare upon State tights. . hile HouseAc wnq to-day entertained y two rather remarkable speeches. Ir. Smith, of Alabama, a Union Dem. icrat, discussed the Census printing .nd the Presidency. According to is calculation, if the resolution offered oie two months since from the Com. nittee on Printing, to give the job to )onelson & Armstrong, of the Union, ad passed, those gentlemen would ave made a nett profit on the job of i4ht hundred thousand dollar*-the v;le cost reaching $1,400,000. That rould have been quite a handsome operation. ie Committee on Prin ing is composed of three member. -two Doniocrats, and one Whigs ['he Democrats are Gorman, of in lians, and Stanton, of Kentucky; the Alhig, M'r. Haven, of New-York. Mr. iyorman has not elevated his position >y the avowal he made, on introducing lie resolution, that they had given in lie resolution the job to the editors of lie Union, because they were Dem >crats. hir. Smith said it sounded -ery nearly like an unfortunate ex >res'sion of Gov. Marcy, of New York, vhich had been a reproach for years ipon the party, that "to the victors elog the spoils." Mr. Smith pitched into Cass and lutler. lie said that it was due to lie country, and to Gen. Cass' own iersonial dignity, that lie should decline -oluntarily. and not force his friends o reject him, which they would do. le went for Young America, but Inrto- imnderrtood tint 4 wea enoM Douglas speech he was making. Mr. Nabrs, 'i~i s'gi, followed uim; lhe was opposed to Y oung Am. rica. lie spoke of Mississippi poli ies, the duty of thq Democracy, &c. Ie is the most perfect originail in he llouse. Hiiagesticulation reminds ne of a theatrical pertormnance; but te is certainly a well tempered man, iid is doubtlles. invincible on the Lump. .lie kept. tihe Ilouse in a 'erfet uproar or laughter during ias houmr. Marshall, of [Kentideky followed him, nd entered into an alaboramte defence *t Fillmore and his AAdministration. Fillmore's prospects for the nomnin tion are improving. Douglass' friends re "confident, against ie world in Gov. Cobb, of Georgia, i~. here, but is very likely his mission~ will not usult as happily for himn ori his as rciate~s as lie anticipated on \ leaving beorgia. The Noithwestern Dem-i eracy arc determiined to t ek no tep, the effet of which would be to raw off the Southern State men from the party, thr they limt the strength ot the party ithat organization. OBSEnvER. Correspondence of the Southern Standard. WVAsmnsoroN, March 20, 1852. Th sp)eech of Gov. Jones against itervenation has taken remarkable well, nd his assauilt upon Gein. C'ass is not agarded as at all misplaced. The Id General had to explini, and now is nion-interve-ntiomn is the most harnm ~ss anid inoffensivec thing in all nature. Fe read1 a speech on Friday as a eoin bentary upon the late letter of Jeffer n D)avis, lie thanrked Davis for iying that he did not deceive the outh in his Nicholson letter. You know )avis was one of the few Southern ion who repudiated the Nicholson let. er when first published, and the con truction subsequently placed upon that etter by the partisans of Gen. C'ass in ie South is a striking illustration of ic danger of' supporting an objectiona he man. They first disownmed the rinciple, next apologized for it, and uitly perversed and advocated it. lie aiterates his doctrine of "squatter vereignty." Hie intimates in the peech that no man of comm~n eapaci r' could ever have construed his letter >~ mean anything else than squatter vereignty, as it has been sneeringly ubbed. The House was engaged on the pri ate calendar, on Friday, on the claim fGen. Watson; and to-day they had peeche~s from Johnson, ot Arkansas, nid Brooks, ofNew York. The l-atter entlemnan made an elaborate defene f the present administration, and harged that the heavy ex.penses iur,~ sd had been devolved. upon- this by ia preceding, administrations, and rowing out of the Mesiqan war.. This pecch, in connection with. a late one y Mr., Marshall, of Kentucky, (a hbig,) in defence of Mr. Filh'mor,.in icate.s very clearly that a powetii