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L TB UlWERBANNER ESDAT IYORIING & W J. FRAN61S. IARS' ii advince, Two Dollars and FiftCents At the expiration of six months, er ThrfetD0lars at the end of the year. No'ps discontinued, until all urrearages are nAIo.,vaies as tlh' option of the Proprietor. rdVerti6ements minerted atSEVENTY. FlV qCet hre, (12 lines or lesS,) for the SstadN f tit sum for each subsequent' enmber of insertions to he marked on ments or they will be published untll oeed to be discontinued, and charged 2ONE DOLLAR por square for a single inerden- Quafterly and blonthly Advern14e ments will. b ehaarged.the same as a sfrige fri-. sertion, anti eMl-moiahly the same as new ones the bills passed some years ago, it was provided. that if the State sold the lands and did not construct the road, 0thhould -refund to the Treasu ty of th1 United States whatever lmoney it had reeeived, a relation. which never should be created be, tween the -Federal and State govern. maents-if foi no other reasons than thM universal dependence -of the deb tor on the whims and caprice of the creditor. Now,-ith-all these advantages,. what good objection can exist to ma king these donations ? It does not cost you a fairthing. It does not ab stract. any '-venue from the Federal Treasury. It does" not reduce the re sources of the Treasury at all. All experiefide demonstrates that when you have constructed these railroads, the lands through which they pass will sell more readily for $2 50 an acre than they: will for $1 25 per acre without the railioads. . With this view of the case-the constitutional difficulties be ing removed-looking to the great ad vantage %ihich you can render to these States-looking to the immense boon that you can give to them without im poverishing yourselves--I ask, wihat good reason can be given tbr not pass ing the bill and making the donation? We ask that therbil shall be put up on its passage now, without going to the Conimittee of the Whole on the state of the Union. Those memnber-s who are at all familiar with proceedings here know, if I rany 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 1Tnion, unles it is a universal favorite or an appropriation bill, it has gone to "that ujidiscovered country from whose lourne no traveler ever returns." Every member who has had any expe rience here knows this to be a fiet. I have now, I believe, presented most of the Niews of this matter that I desird -to- present, and all I have to say iri*oncusion ;is,that I truit the. ousail..:eal- liberally and gener )y 19wVM& ow-r..Air..dCrga nf the y aid e;have no idoubt that we sftall ns'ver baSe cause to be ashamed of or to repudiate tihymi. Mon BRITISH PHIIANui7TOP.-The British papers announce that 'the town of Lagos, dri the ivest coast of Africa, was almost totally destroyed by the British-stpadron on the 26th and 27th xemnber. The English ships, how ever, sustained severe losses, haiving 30 killed and 66 wounded. This great1 easifty was caused by one of the steamers having grounded within range of a battery of 13-gurns. These hostil i ties wertu ndertaken in consequence] of the King having refused to ratify a treaty of peace for the suppression .f * he slave, trade. An immense number of natives were -killed during the t wo< days' fighting, and the King or Chief was deposed, and another one substi-t outed.' 1lre we have a~ striking exemplifi cation of the philanthropy of the Brit ish government. The King of Lagos, as lhe is called, who, it is to be presum ed, knows no more of a treaty than that paragon of ignorance, 'the man in the moon,' for refusing to ratify one dictating by the commander of a Brit- t i-sh n val torce, is attacked by that< dougnty diplomatist sword in humd, an immense number of the nat ives kill.. crd, the town destroyed, anad imsnelf deposed. All this was done on the score of philanthropy, and to arrest the slave trade in that .quarter. A town is destroyed, and a hundred En glishmen killed and, wounded, b~esides an immense number of negroes, to pre vent asarrall number ofI negroes being made slaves. John Bull will certain ly reformn the world, bty a process of depopulation, as he has done in Iutin. dostan and Ireland.-Southecrn Precss. P 'The (U-nd J uray for- Anderson D)istrict In their presentment laid be foire the Court of Commaon Pleas, at' Its recent Session at Anderson C. IH.. state thiat although not coming in the , ordimary course of their duty, they ' would beg nevertheless to call the at tention of the public to the policy of extending the Greenville and Colnum bia Rail Road to the valley of' the . ,oat west by way of' the Itabun Gap. hesegar-d. suelb an einterprise as onet eminently calculated. to promote the t interests of the whole State, and as suchi 'feel no hesitation in recommending that - measures should at once h~e adopt ed by I * the people of this State to seenre its speedy completion. Though upposed to the State engaging in internal improve *ments alone,-yot as far as grand jurors are allowed to express their opinions as citizenls, they warmly recommend -that the State gover-nment should lend .a willing and liber-al hand to this great enterprise, As Mrs. Mowatt was returning to Boston on -1?iday from an excursion on horse -the horse reared and1 fell upori ,lbreaking thrco ribs. It .is expected (hat the lady will rcov~er1 iT~lu-It'ar I-.le Thi Puce of Cotton. Mr. J. G. Gamble, in the last num ber of Dellow's Review, has a long artiele on cotton and cotton nuiufalc tures, from which we extract the fol. lowing suggestions relative to regula ting the price of the great staple. His 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 one. - Thus, a crop 2,200,000' bales yields the sum of $110,000,000, while a crop of 2,800,000 bales only yields $60, 000,000. Whether the suggestions made are practicable or not, is yet to be 'determined: The dogma "that prices must and will be regulated by the relations of supply and demand," is. by many deemed conclusive refutation of all hope of success, But the question to be solved is "whether the supply canl not be regulated as to secure regular and.iemurierating pries?"' If it can, the remedy is found. ..If the cotton crop of the United States belonged to one man, remedy would be. obvious. Naming his, price, he would .sell only so much as is required for consumption, and leave the residue under his cotton shed, to supply deficiency in the crop of next year; and if the surplus was large, he would plant less next year. Such a course would be efficient 'for the object; and the only obstacle to similar action by the cotton planters general ly, is the difficulty of procuring concert of action. The difficulty is great, but I think not insuperable. Besides the loss attendant upon a large crop, the planter is often subject ed to loss upon a small one, because of his ignorance of the extent of the crop country. Cotton is the agricultural staple of some eight or ten States, covering a vast extent of country. Seasons are'often favorable in sonie districts, and . unfavorable in others. Dealers in cotton take measures to ilforin themselves, with sufficient ae curacy, of the extent of the crop, and are prepared to go into the market with a knowledge of its value. It is their interest, too, to exaggerate its extent; and this is annually done by publication of what purports to be extracts of letters written in cotton States, but really fabricated for that purpose. The planter, ignorant of its real amount, and influenced by such statements, disposes of his crop at low prices,. before the falsehood is discovered. For low prices, a remey Would be found in an agreement to plant 'ess 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 might also' so- -reduce the sup ply, as to throw out of employment a large portion of eapirnit, 'and of opera. tives now engaged- in its manufacture. Such a state of thinigs would be deplorable, and in the enid imjurious to the grower. His interests, and those f the manufacturer, are best sub. ierved by regular anid reasonlable prices. The first thing to be done by the C2onvention, should be the adoption fa plain fon ascertaininlg thle extent of each year's crop. -. Tis is essential :o all judicious and eflicient actionl. I >ropose to effect it by the agener -'of Planters' Societies, to be or'ganlixed in ivery counitry in the Coittonl States. Bly districting the counties, anid dis ;ributing the labor among the mnemn aers, the cr'op of' each county can b~e isceirtained by the middle of'.Januarv ivery year. The counity Societies ihould immediately thereafter report ho amount of'thc crop to a connilttee, >r somfe oflicer, residing at the seat of' lie State Govecrnmnent, wh'lo should eport the aggregate crop of' the State o a central comimit tee, to be appointed y the Cotton Planters' Conv~eti on; pon which centr'al coimmnittee should Lso devolve the labor of' obtaining 1ll attainable information re'spe4ctinmg lie probhable demanid by nmnufhetu? ~rs, at home aiid ablroad-the supplies vhbich may lie expected from other ountries-anmd, generally, all the niormationa in its powe'r, 'onnuiecd v'ith the production and consumuptionl if c:ottonl. Thel information referred to. and the -epor'ts f'romn the State connuiitteces, nay be in possession of' the central Aimmlittee by the 1st of' April in ~ach year, and should be published; mid the planters adlvised what pr'o >ortioni of t heir resp~ective c'ropsi shoumld >e sohi. and whbat retained. Bhit inasm'uch as~ a considerable 'crtion of' the er'op is a11nally' old before the repor't of' the central. oimmiittee could be made, I prIopose n agreemnen t amo ng the plaiiters, "lnt o sell more than two-thlird(s of their espective crIops befI're receipt of' .aidi report, and not to sell any for prIice less thani agreed uponi." And iirther, "not to sell more of the re er'vedl (one-third, than shall lie ad vised y the central commnittee."' For' illus rationi of my meaning: Suppf osi ng he crop 2,700,000 bales, flhe sales of wo-thirds(1 would amlounut to I ,800,000 -'-leaving 9)00,000 b~ales 0on hand1(. If' dvised that the coinsmopi~tion) of A nleicani cottoni w~ouiIildie onmly i' 200,000 bialesa, eachl plan ter shmddle lien soil only fo~ur out (if everyv nine ales which had beenu reservedl, and1( re 'an the remaining five bales iuider us5 cott.on shed, to await~ Siitu~re demnud, >r suppily deficiencies in future crops. Experece has shown,~ that a ero p >f 2,700,000 bales, thrown upon the rnarket, wvill reduce the prices oectton o0 about five cents; whrea~s a crop of mlly 2,200,000 bles will: raise it to :hiirteen cenits, or more. Thuese are ~xtreme prices; the first not remuianera where. 'The interests -of all parties, producers, and manufacturers and consumers, will be best served by moderate and regular prices-say, a bout ten cents per pound. At that price, two-thirds o his crop will put more. money into the planter's pocket than would the whole crop sold at'six cents. I have said that the difficulty of obtaining concert of action among planters, so widely separated from each other, is great; but my confidence in its practicability is based upon their obvious interest, and their good common sense. Although less expert at figures than the speculators in their staple, the least informed among them can see that ten bales of cotton, sold at- ten cents, will yield more money than fifteen - bales, sold at six cents. And, aided by past ex perience of the evils resulthig from want of organization, it demands no extraordinary faith in their good sense to believe that concert may be ob tained. The only objection ever made to this plan is, "that the planters will not act in good faith, but will secretly sell more than their portion of the crops." Now, without claiming for cotton planters a higher character for honor and integrity, I may say that they pOsScss as much of those qualities as any other class of our population. And although some iay and will act basely, the number will be small, and their unfiithfulness will but little afleet the result. I may say the same ofanot her small class found in every community -Solomons, in their own conceit, who make it a point of honor never to think or act like their neighbors; and who will, perhaps, refuse to enter into the agreement. But if the plan sug gested be tried, breaches of faith will be fewer and fewer every year; and where a sense of ionor will not restrain, fear of exposure and shame will. Without some general concert of action,.no plan can succeed; and that now proposed presents as few obstacles as any other. It proposes no advance of money-no risk (if loss-and no change in the pursuits of the plaint er. If adopted, it must do good. It can do no harm. You have. in the preceding, my plan for regulating the price of cotton. CALIFoaNIA AND SLvERY.-Trhe Fu gitive Slave law, which has lately passed the California Assembly, pro vides that slaves brought in the State prior to the adoption of the State Con stitution, shall be liable to the pro visions of the Congressional Fugitive Slave law. This, it is alleged, is an infraction of the Constitution, which says that neither slavery no in voluntary servitude, except for crime, shall ever be tolerated in the Stute. In the California Assembly, Feb ruary 10th, Mr. Penchy presented a memorial froth a number ofifarmers or planters of South Carolina and Florida, asking the privilege to bring their famsilies and colored domnestic~s into that State, and that they may bie protectedl in their property. The memtuorial was referred to a Cotmmittec on Federal Relations. A bill has also been introduced into the Legislature to call a (If'covetIin to revise the Constituitionm, the object heinig to divide the State, and set apart the Southern portion thr a Slave State. Tumr Fu SsCu JL.CT-rox.-The apathy which characterized the late F'rench election is a subject of serious annoyance to Louis Nap oleoni. lin Paris, out of' three hundred anid thlistv three thousand voters, one hiundr&'d thousad abstained fi-omn the polls. In mnuy of' the rural districts the se indhitlerence as to the electionis has beeni muanife'sted, thoutghi int toi so great aui exteint. Thle return o~f Ca vaignae, and the heavy vote polled f'or Carnot, have also irritated the P'resi (lent, though one of hiw creature editors has dclared that such indications ofj the revolutionary spirit call fhr contin ued repression. On the whole, the state of France may bse considered e'x tremely unsettled. The sullen apathy ofn so large a inor 'ity' of the people is the most ftal incident that has vet at tended Louis Napoleoni's rule. 'J'he sign is omuinous in anot11heir respect. War is coinfessedly the last card of the Prince President; he is only holding it back for the inevitable cr'isis; and the p~resent con ~dit ion of' alfiirs looks as if' he would be compilelled to play~ his trump soon, or lose the game. Indif ferenace, we muist r'co~illeet., men('us as muchud ini Frnc(e a1s (oftehnposition lsewhere'. It is the prl ude to dIisas ter and disgrace, and~ this ILouis Na pole on evidently knows.-Phtiladel phsia Bullestin. Got. A (2us.--We mentioned in our last, says the Ahhleville Banner of the 1 9thI inst., that thle minoii so suc eetssfuilly woirked by Mr. Dornm, was ini Edgefield, sine then we have seen iMr. Doirn himrself, who iniformis us the mine is in this (listrict, and that in ten wveeks heo has realized the sum of' ten thousand dollars andl up~wards from his opleraitioni with eight hiansds. 'The work of' two days alone vielded him something over three thousand dlollars. Independent of* the gold, there is ait this mine inexhauustible qiuantities of magansise, which conmnands a ready' sale, in the Norther'n markets, and ~f' itself would be a fortune. Gold has been, discovered in various por'tions of' our Distriet; ands we liave no doubt, when cotton ceases to occupy so? mucih of the attention otfour ihrmers, mnines. will he tiumd wvithins our borders which will blss with their golden treasur-es the lucky ownsers. NloNEY iEla8AmniD.-All who have lost nmoney in transmitting it by nmail lhed bsetter apply to the Post Ofice Department, as ten thousand dollars hue bhen fAmrn in te dad.. lette THE SUMTER BANNER. Sumiterville, so. Ca. JOHN T. GREEN, EDITrn. TUESDAY, MARCH, 80, 1852. On Princlple%. T7ere one on on which there egn be no diversity qf *nian in the South among those .* ho qre true to her, or wok hare Mad's ap' their uminds nOf to be slaves; that is if woe should be forced to choosebetween resistance and submisasin wee should take resistance at all hazards." CALHOUN. " To do that, concert of action must be necessa ry, not to save the Union, for i would then be too late, but to save ourselves. Thus in m viaew, concert ts the one thing needful.."-CA.IouN. " What is the remedy ? I answer secession, united secession of the slaveholding States, or a large number q/ thesm. Nothi else mil be wvise nothing else will be practirbe."-Cuvxs. gW" Mesmrm. A. WHITE & Co., are Agents for the Banner in Sumterville. n WE have received the last number of GODEY's Lady Book. It is equal, if it does not surpass any of the previous numbers. New Arrangenteat. On and after the first of next month there will be a stage line running be tween Mayes' Turn Out on the Wil mington and Manchester Rail Road and Darlington C. 11. Next President. 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 (if 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 oflicers 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 W higs or Democrats as a party, who does not believe the comproniise measure ought to be a permanent-arrangement of the great question between the North and the South. Now it is uniques tionably true, that no man hold ing such opinions. n..receive the sup port of South Carolia-a% -her deliberate choice, yet there inay be a chain of evils; we might prefer WEnsTER to IIoUs'ToN, or DOUGLAS to ('.tss, or BIueInaxx to either of them. We have seen a speech of' Mr. Sniurn, of' Alabama, in wvhich lie desires Mr. Cass to retire from the contest. If' we were to glive advic it wol 'e bu the same as that advanced by Mr. S~.wr W'e think it is the dlutyv of' this State to east lier' vote ini the coining electioni, because we are yet oine oif the States which make up this G3overinent, we'4 arc vet ini the Union and whilst we com plain that the Federal Gover'nment has utterly thiled in perfbrmning its duties to the .eparate States, we schuld be car'eful lest the impuitation should be succtessful ly made against us-that we arc wanting in perf'orming~ our du~1ities towards the general Government. We do no. t think it prudent or necessary toe express an opJiniionl in regamrd to any of the nameas yet brought, ihrward as canidites. The pairties will make nomliinations, and it, will hbe all that we can do, to, choose between those whose names have been brought beitbre thei people. Acrording to present indlica tion~s lkelusAN orc D~oror..is wiil be the inmiee of' the Democratic party'. We will awvait the development which time and tricikeryv may make. IloninIILE I )N:s'rrIu'oN (iF TwO At5ToN, GA., A.lanen 12.-(On Satur day last thle citizenis of Upso n eonty had a fiireible ill ustratioii of' thle iniiiis penlsible necessityv of' well endowecd Luniat ie Asyhuiis. A respectable la iconiths ago attemtpted to comnit sui eide, in a fit of' insanlit y, by enitt ing her thro. at; but rcecoverinig fr'om the effZets cCfite woundc~, she remiainied ini a imen tacl co ndit ion, somectinmes better, and somletimnes wvorse, until Saturdari last, whenm she w as snlpposedl to be~ ' beter than usual. OIn t hat day, taking her fbur little chiuldr'ein, the' eldest "being a bouit five or six years ocfage, she went to Potter's Mill-pond, about three miles distant, and pluinged thie mI al inc, imtendmig to drowvn herself. Fortun ately, a young imani by the inme oif Alfred Wilson, (whoe deserves a great dheal of' credit,) was fisingu at a coiisidl erable (distanice, and was attracted by the crlies of the children, ie huatenl ed( to their assistnce, and heroically pluniged into the wa'iter, which was v'er'y deep, and su(eeed~ in saving the lives of' two o f'the childrenci, recovering thle dead body of' thme third. and rescuiing the unhappy womnn. All attempts to find the- beody of' the smallest child were f'ruitless.--Macona Teerap. Gr s CASS as ViuoiNIA.--The demo crats of Brooke county, Vam., have adopted resolutiens in favor of G'c'. Correspondenoe of the Courier. WASHINGTON, MARCH 19. Governor Jones, of Tennessee, de- e livered his -first speech in the Senate, 9 to-day, and drew a considerable- numn- I ber of abditors to the chamber. His a subject was the resolutions against in tervention, offered by Mr. Clarke. Gov. Jones has had a high reputation as an orator in the West, and he was, therefore, well attended to, though little interest is felt in the subject. 1 Kossuth may speak and M. Pulikey write, but the people are farther from i intervention in foreign affairs than they were, even, in the time of Washington. Mr. Jones delivered the same f views, on the subject, which Mr. Clay entertains, and has expressed. The resolutions offered by Mr. Clarke, were shown to and approved by Mr. F Clay before they were offbred. The i Senate will soon drop a' discussion which is no longer of a practical i character. The House is engaged, nominally,' in a discussion of the deficiency bill, but the speeches made are upon the 4 subject of' party polities. There ire two hundred bills already before the Senate, and as many on the calendar of the Ilouse, and many more are to be added. The loss of Mr. Clay's medal can be easily repaired, because the d'e is in existence. A duplicate of the med al can be struck fhr the' mere cost of the gold. The expense and merit of a medal is in the die-which is cut with a diamoned on hardened steel. The die of the medal presented by Congress to General Taylor, cost three thousand dollars. The die of the Clay med al cost two thousand. It is a singular eireinnstance-, though, that the medal should be exposed to. the chance of being stolen. Some suppose that the thief iuist have followed the carpet bag, in which it was deposited, from this city, till he saw it thrown on the top of an omnibus or some other place where it could be captured. The bag was found cut open and the medal gone. Mr. Clay's letter, urging the nom ination of Mr. Fillmore for the Pres idency, was addressed, it is said, to Mr. Ullman, and transmitted to him at the same time that the medal was sent to him. Mr. Clay wishes it, undoubtedly, to be published, for lie is not a muan who wishes to conceal his views. Ie has many devoted personal and political friends in New-York who would wish to know and would respect his opinions on this subject; and the vote of the New-York delegation in the Whig Convention, will, no doubt, govern the selection by that body. WASHINGTON, MARCH 20. Gel. Cass has explained at length his Nicholson letter, and vindicated it from the strictures of Col.' Jefferson Davis, who, in. a letter recently published, puts upon the - Nicholse letter a construction which Geni. Cas does not assent to. When the Nicl. olson letter appeared Mr. Calhoun and and Mr. Rlhett took widely difierent views of it. Mr. Calhoun putt a construction upon it oft a character uin tavorabjle to the South. Mr. Rlhett, as I have understood, took another view ofthte meaning of the letter, and it is ev idlent that South-Carolina had also, for she gave her vote to General Cass. T1hme Nicholsoni letter is capable of two con~strutctionts, but it is now quite certaint that Gen. Cass is. to be uin derst od as taking "uch gr(ounid as wvill be atppro.ved by the South. Gen. (Cass is now the leading can didate of the democratic party, as every one here admits. lie will undoubtedly have a ma jority on the first ballot; but it is not a question whether the two-thirds rule is to b~e adopted or niot, for it was adoptedl as a permanent rule at the last laltimnore Convention, and must he reseindedl, if not atplied. Thus, Gent. Cass may be thrown out of the lists. The public will be glad to learn that, af ter long hesitation and delay, C'on. gress have fintally passed a bill ren dering the bounty land warrants as Tlhe G'overnmentt ouf Mexico has tenidered to this G.ov-ertunent a project ofatreaty in re.gard to the right of wayero ss the Isthnnus of Tenuantepee. The termts are different from those of the unratified treatv-. A treaty is now" near about to lbe concludedl het ween the British Minister ad this Government in relation to the itnterests of the parties in Central A. mecrica. Correspnd~enic- of the Southern standard. W AsmstO-roN, March 17, 1852. Thei Senate have at last passed the bills gratnting alternate sections of the public lands to aid in the conistruetion oif railroads. Nearly all the States havitig public lands within their limiits are includedl in the bills. G~ov. Jotnes, of Tennessee, made his debut in the Senate to-day, on the doctritne of iuntervention. hie opposed it with much energy, and in the course of his speech animnadverted, in terms of urmusutal severity, on thme equiivocalitng policy of Genetral Cass. Thle IHouse has spent most of this week in discussing the Presidential election, and in defining the positions of parties in the South. Mr. Hlyllier, of Georgia, spoke on Wednesday-ap proved the Union organization in Georgia, but disagreed with Mr. Stephens as to the propriety of going itoi the Baltimore Convention, lie wvas of opinion that the Union party should send delegates or ambassadors to that meeting. Col. Jackson, of that State, dlefended the State Rights men and Governor McDonald.. Mr. Ap pleton, of Maine, yesterday made a speech in fauvor of Buhumn; Mr. Goddinigs a ranting free soil anti fug. tive slave law speech. Ho says that they intend agitating until theyi eflfect n the same strain. He is the succes or of Root. I am of 'kpinion,- how ver, they will be a long while in .onu ummuating their purpo ie 4Thore can oe no doubt to any unpr.j4dioed ob. erver here that Northena sentinient >n the subject of slavery -o nuchtnore onservative than it nas been for rears past, and there is a fixed pur oose on the minds of a large majority if the Representatives and Senators ,ere to have the law Aiithfully ex. cuted. This moy suirprise y6u but it a nevertheless true, and the highst vidence of its reality Is to be found in he open declarations of many, now avorable to its execution, who origin. 1ly opposed and voted against it. I vill venture another opinion, -which nay surprise you. The doctrine of ;tate Rights is stronger to-day than it las been since the days of Gen. lackson's proclamation, and the Wash ngton Union has reakened its In luence with every section ofthe Dom >eracy, (save the Union pafty,) b ts cordial endorsement of the hIh fed ral doctrines which that celebrated state paper avows, and which was )xplained and modified through the xolums of the Globe,.some time after it was issued, seni-officially repudi atiig its most objectionable features. It is very probable that the Union will nIot get the census printing on Aedount Dfits continued - warfare upon State qights. . The House waq to-day entertained by two rather remarkable speeches. Mr. Smith, of Alabama, a Union Dem ocrat, discussed the Census printing and the Presidency. According to his calculation, if the resolution offered some two months since from the Com mittee on Printing, to give the job to Donelson & Armstrong, of the Union, had passed, those gentlemen would have made a nett profit on the job of eig ht hundred thousand dollars-the whle cost reaching $1.400,000. That would have been quite a handsome operation. The Committee on Prin ting is composed of three member. -two D1emnocrats, and one Whigs The Democrats are Gonnan, of in diana, and Stanton, of Kentucky; the Whig, M'r. Haven, of New-York. Mr. Gorman has not elevated his position by the avowal lie made, on introducing the resolution, that they had given in the resolution the job to the editors of the Union, because they were Dem, ocrats. Mr. Smith said it sounded very nearly like an unfortunate ex pression of Gov. Marcy, of New York, which had been a reproach for years upon the party, that "to the victors belong the spoils." Mr. Smith pitched into Cass and Butler. lie said that it was due to the country,-and to Gen. Cass' own personal dignity, that he should decline voluntarily. and not force his friends to reject him, which they would do. lie went for Young' America, but "wrrmit -ua irt.tood tlw* it wea mat a Douglas speech he was making. Mr. Nabers, i followed him; ho was ppoused to l oung Am. criea. lie spoke of Mississippi poli tics, the duty of thq Democracy, &c. lie is the most perfect original in the H ouse. His gesticulation reminds one of a theatrical pertrmance; but he is certainly a well tempered man, and is doubtlesi, invincible on the stump. lie kept the House in a perfect uproar of .laughter during his hour. Marshall, of Kecntiieky followed haimi, and entered into an alaborate detfence of Fillmore and his Edministration. Fillmore's prospects for the niomini ation are improving. Douglass' friends are "confident, against tie world in arms." Gov. Cobb, of Georgia, i~ here, but it is very likely his missionS will not result as happily for him ori his as sociate-s as he anticipated on i leavin Weorgia. The N~o-thwestern Dem-i eracy are determined to t ke no step, the effect of which would be to draw off the Southern State ruen from the party, for they hamt the strength of the party a ai that organization. ODSERvER. Correspondence of the &muthern Standard. W Asmsio-roN, March 20, I852. The speech of Gov. Jones against ntervenition has taken remarkable well, mad his assault upon Gen. Cass is not egarded as at all misplaced. Tfhe >ld General had to explain, and now mis non-intervention is the most barn. ess antd inoffensive thing in all nature. lie read a speech on Friday as a coim nentairy upon the late Letter of Jeffe ion Davis. Hie thanked Davis for iaying that he did not deceive the South in his Nicholson letter. You knowv Davis was one of the few Southern non who repudiated the Nicholson let er when first published, and the con trucetion subsequently placed upon that etter by the partisans of Gen. Cass in lhe South is a striking illustration of lhe danger of supporting an objectiona ale man. They first disowned the principle, next apologized for it, and astly perversed and advocated it. He -citerates his doctrine of "squatter moverignty." He intimates in the ipeech that no man of common capaci ;y could over have construed his letter :o mean anything else than squatter bovereignty, as it has been sneeringly lubbed. The H~ouso was engaged on the pr-i. rate calendar, on Friday, on the claim >f Gen. Watson; and to-day they had ipeoches from Johnson, of Arkansas, und Brooks, of New York. The 1-atter gentleman imade an elaborate detence >f the present administration, and aharged that the heavy expouses iur,. red had been devolved, upon- thisi by the preceding, administrations, and growmng out off the Menlean war.. This ipeech, in connetionm with a late one by Mr. Marshall, of Kentucky, (a Whig,) in defence of Mr. Filhnore,.in bicate-s very clearly that a- powersh, aeoere MmdaWhig miininat~onix I lie gets the nominationr itS enepajig 4 helieved that th.whole ofthe rat- a' m Whigs will r11 to bl su *; with seai iand en usia-mi. S ) Toombs, CObell, et id nome genu.w I heartIly susalhlw. As an -indication of the lndispiltion. of the -Suth,'s1l most umiversally, to re-opet. theee"k m: pomise uestion, and as anJidekioffiz the popuarity of the: "finality" o those measures let me say to y64 that there was arivalry between Mar' shall and Bailey, of Virginia, as to-t I W paternity, Marshall insising thate-the* compromise was a Whig measure JtI Bailey that iwas, Doioeratie.i. Ib 'r absurd, then, was the pretence of 'thi % SecessionistA- of -your State, that wher. South Carolina seceded others jild join her standard; ~wiren'tley'are- no only satisfied with it, but are othefi to eulogize it. Heaven grant thatthe have not naad6 a fataT mistake in he ging the "grand cheat to their bosoms: e had a snow storni 1at night, but most of it has been carried away by to-day's sun. Mr. Clay's health is again worse. There are some twenty Senators and lepresentatives confned to their. lod ings by indisposition. ThefHouse wil ly finish the detceetie bilda ~'uesday. It is very-probable. that a resolution of inquiry will be offered or. Monday.n the House, requesting the Vrsvto inform the House the, objects and.,pur poses of the expedition fitting out fpr Japan. The preparation is, qvidently warlike in character, and unless Cqh gress takes some action in the premi ses, our government will in all proba 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 Conge OnERVER. The Wakulla (Fla.) Times thus refers to the Indian troubles in that State: "TI INDIAN DELEOAloN.- We learn that the Seminole delegation from Arkansas, left Sara Soto .fur Cal loosahatchee on the 27th, md probably arrived at the latter place on the. 1st instant, from whence they were to Proceed immediately into the nation. The delegates laugh at the predictions which have been made, that' they would be put to' death as soon as they enter the nation. Jumper, 1Wb is now ating as principal chief of the nation, old Abram, and a sister of Billy Bow Legs, are among the del-I egates. They are confident. of being able to induce Billy Bow Legs and Sam Jones to emigrate. As an in ducement, Jumper will pledd to' Bow Legs that his slaves shall be restored to him, and that ho"ll .mjjinauth orirre G"hi~f -1& 1iiit as soon as they arfive ih thie'- Wst. it is supposed that Billy'* sister will have considerable influence pver h Capt. Jernigan has -gbi:wn whh a sinall party to drive the 'out-hiers into the nation, or elsc captures them. It is not his intention to go ints. the nation with his pafty." BL.OODY A FFR AY IN ETeY- v EQRAL. PEasoS KH.LED.-The Louisville: Courier gives an account of' a bloody affray which occured near -Lancaster, Ky., on the 13th inst., between iiussell Isaiah and Frederick Hill, and two or three of their sons, on one side,: and.* party who had fortified themselves in tobacco house on the other. Nothing is said as to the origin of the affray, cx." cept that as the Hills ar'rived opposite the house, they were fired on and Rus sell Hill killed. The account in the Courier then goes on to say: The Hills then charged upon thp house, and Isaiah Hill1 was killed just as, he wasi getting over the fence. ,The, door of the house was forced byte re-. maining Ihills, and the fh innued with short 'wie mives. .J'.m Se ffers wa shot by a son or Isaiah lill, (twvelve or fourteen Years of age,) and fell and expired after hav ing received live other shots throngh the head. Wma. Crisiman wvas-shot by the same boy, 'when in the act of stab.. binug Frederick Hill 'with. a bowie knife. Crismnan died, having on his. body one- pistol shot and fifty-three. wounds infieted with a knife. A man by the name of Alverson, and. anothqr by the name of Samuel Sellers, (of te< house party,) were slightly wounded. Two of the boys (Hills) were wounded with rifle shots, and one of them, a mere boy, lies in a critical condition4 The Ruthaerfordton (N.C.). Banne thus records the opening of a home' placer: A NOTnER L ARGE LuUMP.-Dr. Ley.' enthrope showed us another "golden. specimen" last week, whiehshe had just. found at hisa mines near this place. It weighs 27 penny weights, and 'with the-: exception of a few small pieces so, quartz mingled in it, is remarkably clean and pure. WVe rejoice atth doctor's good fortune, for though man may be more needy no one iS maoreif serving--unless necessity be made th& test ol desert. This is the second large piece the r.. has found this winter, and the fourth that has been found in the same egon within less than two years past 'Oe. found byMrs. Greer weighed 60 penny weights, one by Mr. Bradiey 6 wo. believe, and the former, ouind by~ Drm L~., .38. There must be a "pile" of' it some where there. Sour people will stay at home Call fornia may conm to then yt. Auouawe.--The- Hambuj RepublIcan States that the-ease of T..Buler, vs. James Jones and J. .1,. Keunedy, for the weoovery oft toll paid; at the South Caroihma end of the AugWf tag ridge, tried in a Magistrate's Courtmn haabecuidecidc d mido sely to the tlah.. atil