Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

ppp^ Correspondence of the Charleston Mercury. .ind of Washington, Dec. 24, 1851. sons p **?-."tvimise discussion still drags its .1-. ..nip JUStlCt x no cutupi v<v. slow length along, but does not excite uie ? eager interest as the previous debate* on the tl" Bame question, while its passage was pending. Gens. Houston and Cass, n? well as Mr. Doug- . 3 8 las, have taken a hand in u; and Mr. Foote, vlrtu? before his depart!"*?, signalized his last day by PeoPj a bitter personal altercation with Mr. Houston, ^et t who took ground against him and his resolu- SP0"' '""i. The controversy was most undignified, n0^ "^ofsc.ter. but very \suc' and even indecent in us v.... much in unison with the parties engaged?a k,N"" perfect dog-fight. Foote was by far the most ?rn, bullying and abusive of the two: Sam kept his mS? temper admirably; and got the better of his op y?u ponent, who had been buffeted unmercifully on dls^ all sides. He'goes home very sore indeed? . baffled and beaten, and quite crestfallen. His ln 1 last hope is to attach himself as the caudal ter- ^ mination of the Democratic party, finding his loc Constitutional Union experimeuta dead failure. ?n His proceedings in Mississippi should be closewatched, for he is an inveterate mischief ma ?i,fl silenced cr de -V ker and plotter, ana can uv?t. subdued by any series of disgraces or defeats. His absence creates a pleasing void in the Sen- 6' ate Chamber?it is liko losing a troublesome termagant from a neighborhood, of which her s' shrill tongue has been the scourge. When the old Hunkers of his coalition, like Sam Houston, s assail birn, it is proof positive of his lost posi- v tion and waning inflnence. The instincts of ? honnds always lead them savagely to assail a { cripple member of the pack, and these old ' spoilsmen act under instincts as strong, and very similar. The caution displayed by General Cass in his treatment of the subject i9 very characteristic. The old gentleman, however, is getting very desperate, believing this to bo his last chance; and closely dogged by Dougla^, who he knows to be good looking to the reversion of bis influence, and prospects, is displaying the demagogue iu great perfectiou. He and Senator Walker of Wisconsin, are trying to outbid '---i a <?rnri5in and foreign each other for the raoicm vote of the Worth. But while Cass carefully bestrides the Kossuth movement, Walker boldly vaults into the saddle, and spurs the warhorse with greater energy than discretion. Tb( Wisconsinian presented in the Senate a fev days since, the Kossuth Intervention platform as the proper policy for the government t adopt?progressing to keep pace with this ag of progress. While the cautious Whig Coi servatiyes of the old school, shake in ths shoes with terror at the bold avowals of Ko tuth, and the applause they excite among ha! Orunken dinner givers in New York; while tl national Intelligencer pipes its childish trel in nervous apprehensions, Mr. Walker and I set make themselves equally ridiculous by rt ning into the other extreme, and embracing < |L wild schemes propagated by the Hungari Missionaiy. The sober judgment and cool flection of the peoplo will scorn alike to ( Hpj^^^braceeUl^^^^ne^J[Usjm^^^jep(Hye! d're-Ct tl?e energie3' the arts of peace infcf trough war. The am!reh!w paths of w faction are eonailvor8 "j?lheboP<?sofeitiiboth will find thoir pronert>tin?,t ""1 prebension. Kossuth l!L - P?Pa,ur ?p*ei"oise to rouse in Sk ) "? e^blj Mar' Republicans to tl ^ of ??rs-no red he may, and doubtfess does "lart'aI f?rdon but contributions in hit? sires, be may procure arms necessary to equip the men who only want them, to furnish him an army greater than that with which the safety of the Au 'rian capital was menaced before. His visit here, fixed on for the commencement of the next week, will be an interesting one,bat the thermometer of opinion has run down here from fever heat in his lavor, almost down to freezing point. Great dissatisfaction, not to say disgust, has been occasioned by his latest - ?developments, and the treatment which his worshippers gave the honored Judge Duer, for simply disseuting in the mildest and most courteous manner, from the wild propagandism which he and they preached up as a public duty, Things are arriving at a pretty pass in this free soil of the North, when the honest utterance of opinions, consecrated by the lessons of the fathers of our republic, is to he brutally silenced by the hisses of a mob, while the privilege denied their own fellow citizen is so libernllv flxtpndpd tn hia fnrpifrn jidvftPRarv. The ?v ; d- ~ j ' Cincinnati proceeding** also indicate the turn things are taking at the Nortb. The resolutions and speeches there are redolent of revolution?tbey out-Kossuth tbe Hungarian's programme of operations, and call for armed intervention in foreign affairs on the part of our gov. ernment and people. His reception iu tbe Northviest will be a triumphal march. Madness seems to rule tbe hour there. In the mean time, while these foreign topics f enlisting the attention of our people, with cv&- but sure strides steals upon them the great Lpestic question adroitly forwarded by it, and in the hands of the Freesoil faction a potent engine of mischeif. Every one must have remarked that the leaders of that faction in New York, have contrived to catch the popular breeze in favor of Kossuth to fan their sails. Seward in the Senate, and the Abolition editors in the Nortb, have got the start of everybody else, and made him their capital. Chief among his active ag ent* are the radicals, the agrarians, the socialists, the freesoilers, and " universal liberty,, men* They make the restoration of Hungarian freedom, subsidiary to their great scheme of universal emancipation, and boast in anticipation of their approaching triumphs, through the instrumentality of the principle they wish to establish. The feeling at the North, instead of subsiding since the passage of the Compromise measures, has gained new strength since those fatal breaches in Southern defence were made. The result of the " treason trials" in Pennsylvania, affords confirmation of this. Well has that proceeding beeu termed ** a solemn farce" by the Southern Press of this city; but it is a farce which Southern men should not smile at. The rioters and murderers of Christiaua pass unscathed through the ordeal and the loss of property life nre the forfeits which the patient FORE f Maryland must bear. But did not the ent issue a proclamation and promise ! ? and is he not a disunionist and a trait- tj)e nj it dares to murmur at the righteous ver- j ^ of Northern juries, and the blessings of lorious Union ? But, patience is a great aud tho Southern people are a patient festa( e?slow to anger, and much enduring, hem " grin and bear it," for, are not these ers " our bretheren of the North,'' and are ^ people privileged to take little liberties ^ h as robbery and murder.) with their rela- j j? Therefore, he not unreasonable South" Hotspurs," but wait the " good time com" of which Seward is the prophet, and ^ ^ r own " glorious Union" men the obedient ^ "AC! ;iples. ['here is a fearful fermentation taking place ;he Northern mind at this very hour, the re- ^ ts of which are perceptible to every eye that iks in that direction. The South slumbers in supine security, but the awakening may ^ dread and disastrous. The avalanche of ^ idition rolls on?no human hand can stay its jscent. Shall it crush a sleeping, or startle, e it falls, a people roused to a sense of dan- ~ 21? Foreign alliance is fast being added to omestic assault and internal treachery?and P till the South sleeps on. "iiofic. nrescience of Calhoun fore- ,, ne jji uj....? r aw and foretold these dangers; but, into u.v earnings of Cassandra, they were laughed to icorri. A time will shortly come, when they ihall be copions founts?not of laughter?but of tears. But this strain may be regarded as out of place. It is not: for standing on this neutral ground, the out-look is better, and the movements all around more plainly visible, than any other stand point There is always a kind of lull in business here, and a sort of recess in the transaction of public affairs, for the two weeks preceeding the New Year, and hence your correspondent, in the dearth of Congressional news, can venture a little, with your permission, to take a wider scope. From Havana.?By the Empire City, the New Orleans Crescent received several letters from its Havana correspondent, to the 19th instant, of which it gives the following as th< , substance: f He charges Commodore Parker and his of , ficers with a great want of energy in prosect 0 ting their inquiries in regard to the execution < Crittenden and his command, and the a ha a ? leged brutal ? Ser'S Ho the execution and subsequent scent I e?,it ce -"^^nhon^fd : nr^rbT^cot.ati.yon hot * 'the ComSoia %' to make thetr sta JlS ,t>. ments. j~,,t Rf.,tpg that the U. H ,?^fw"rK'port but that there is U 'rI in^ewourse between the officers and an, rUr' Owen ceased to act in an official npri fact, 011 theJo?jc^e^^|^ impression with both Americans and English Ho represents himself to be a much injurec man, and expresses his confidence in being able to show the people of the Uuited State: that ho had acted under instructions, and thai his Government was responsible for all his ini mediate acts. Our correspondent charges Mr. Owen, how ever, with even retarding the efforts of Mr Thrasher to obtain his rights, by withholding documents which had been prepared by th< latter to be presented by Gen. Concha. H< also charges Mr. Owen with retaining in hii hauds, documents necessary to the release o Mrs. Patterson's son of Mobile, threatening t( render them ineffective, unless Mrs. P. wouk j *L.i 4.1.^ T>:_ 1 1 1 i.u 1 ueuj', ui wriiiug, iijui uiu AJiaiiup uau iuiu uei , that bis (Mr. Oweu's) supineness, had cost th< lives of thirty prisoners on the fatal 16th o August The denial, our correspondent alle ges, Mr. Owen wanted for his defence. Further Mexican News.?Alteration ii the Tariff.?The Mexican Congress, at the la test advices, had the subject of an alteration o the tariff under consideration, and the follow ing plan had passed the Chamber of Deputies but its success in the Senate was doubtful: 1. To reduce the duties on all objects o general consumption. 2. To make such al terations in.the duties on articles of luxury anc liquors, as the Government |may deem proper 3. To permit the importation of raw and coarsi manufactured cotton; the former paying a du ty of over three cents a pound and the lattei six cents per yard. 4. To exempt the cotter manufactories from the taxes under which thej at present suffer, in the inierior of the Republic 5. To liquidate, call in and annull the permit! for the introduction of cotton, now outstanding and to set apart for this purpose 50 per cent from the duties. 6. That the Government cf i'ect a loan of two million and a half dollars bj public ^adjudication; (i. e. by selling it to the best bidder) giving a lien on the duties to be collected flora the articles of which the impor tution shall be permitted according to the pre ceding project, A portion of the forces of Carvnjal had at tacked the town of Cadareyta Jimenez. This place is thirty leagues from Victoria and onl} ten from Monterey. A courier sent by Gen Uraga to the authorities of Tamaulipas hac been waylaid and his dispatches taken from him. A diplomatic dinner was given to the Span ish legation at the city of Mexico, on the 19tl; ult., in honor of the birthday of the Queen.? Four of the Mexican Secretaries and the Foreign Ministers were present. Subscriptions were being taken up at the capital for the relief of the sufferers by the besieging of Mntamoras. The city council appropriated 8500. A bill was before Congress to levy a liighei tax on newspapers than that^now imposed. The Senate bad adopted a report adverse tc the proposition to construct a railroad from Acapulco to the capitol. Gen. Almonte had sent in a memorial to Congress recommending that a junta bo formed of the principal officers of the army an navy, for the permanent defence of the nation. /" / / A j advent of Kossuth ne days wonder whicaj^^fejTICS II .tention of the publioi||^^^B U n?,i nPwsDaper-.^^^^oreg ^ FKIDJI laiiuu ? ?- ?- . . 11 subside or at least I^*en es i .j iion, but the effects wi^^Kood for X and permanent influefl^^K -phis i ". y of the country. manj. his man Kossuth who bd^^&xert a Tj,e yei editor in Pesth, the ca]i^^^Ffu{ure p0rtUI>fty i finally, Parliamentary reg^H want mon city in the Hungarian Djfl^MLwyer j dQ ug ember of the governmeu?^*_arv in 1848, the HoDgari.^n?? demaDds 1 obtained from the Empei?^Mbnted convenier ponsible cabinet, to be clj^^^E)I1try sametim< 2 Hungarians?and was friends re ien the rupture occurred wi*^Kja a ble reque open appeal was made toj^HS na> subscribe ntest which ensued the Austi^^HB^Qj. troub'e t( ited on all hands. AlthoughA^^B^and and do 3 emselves and weaken their j niiwH ud a civil war amotw^B -de> " n IU OUl??. . 4 ices under the government orb"*,. liet. The eloquence of Kosi?(VHF , , nev'.' eojde almost to madness, xvlroUc^E ^ een e' linistrative ability organizett^j^K. a a? ;ept on foot large and well-ap)*:Y\BrI? :'^^r The result is known. The Iraial.H j Iriven out, and the House of Bonn iluded from the throne of HungM^B|i?vill preai state of things, the Austrian En^iT^T ry next; to his brother despot of Russia,Chesterv his assistance an army of ISO.OOuvT- Persoi tables were turned, the Hungarian?y*f forward Kossuth and some of his men tot^jtjffi^ 0f the g the territories of Turkey. The tvr^O^ demanded him to be given up?to it said the Sultan refused; detainijj^C Asia Minor for nearly two years, whBgviP * "e the Sultan relying chiefly upon thoTLaffi been England, determined to release theL n taken the threats of Austria and Russia and^M ted States offered them an assylum aiLll. vessel of war to bring them to 0Q^|j| W The Mississippi recti V CU $ nelles, and the main body arrived in her_Jjr. ., 1 York. After calling at England, Ko4pln6Ij 3 also in this country, and great ovatious ftl C1*. consequence Uniar i- The Hungarians and the people of flt ie1 i- States have been both mistaken. 11,1 jf supposing that the action of Congress 1- ted the United States to any active interff"feta s- in European affairs, whereas in fact a saiVlp0] it- honorable asylum alone was offered, andl nc s, tional vessel sent to convey the exiles he^fc, n- token of sympathy and respect. The praT jot of the United States were mistaken in siiM ird sing that Kossuth was going to settle IH fe- quietly here, forgetful of the past an unnMl spectator of events in the other hemisp&I S. He would be neither a patriot nor the main ttle take him for if he should thus desert the cif] on of his country, while a hope of her resui^ tion remains; and cerrainly nothing cam ca- more arrogant and unreasonable than thc$ the nunciationsheaped upon him by some pap : engage the United Sutes ' Jj |, td?Ctri,!e n01 ^rveotf C 'VQ 1 Kussia. in uie event 01 a second war oetwea Hungary and Austria he wants no assistant for Hungary, but simply a stand up fight jnK no Russian interference. He wants the 11 States and England to join iu guaranteeing this. We do not think that he will succeed in hi^ mission, or that the policy of the country will bo changed lor some considerable time, but it Will be chuxgedr A man might be ?ho moat peaceable and unintermedliug soul in the world, but that would be no reason why he should stand still and see two big fellows fall on one little fellow and whip bin) to death, without f lifting a finger to see fair play. Governments are but aggregations of men and represent human feelings on a large scale.?It is not in human to possess the power which this couni try will possess in a few years, and not assist . in preventing nations straggling for principles f . similar to those which guide ourselves from 1 ? ~ ? I>M namittoKA AAmhSnntiA^a ?C UUlllg uruaiicu UJ umjuuuuo Luiiiumauvno ui , despotism. The speeches of Kossuth the discussion ot f of the question in Congress and through the . public press will set the people to reflecting ] upon the subject, and a great though noiseless . revolution will be effected in public opinion ; and that expressed through the ballot box is . law. Like every other matter which is brought r forward, this will no doubt be dragged into the i political arena and although the struggle may j last for years and years, still the party of pro. gress will eventually succeed because moro 3 in consonance with the popular impulse, and f because the growing strength of the country . will take away from the arguments of their op. ponents most of the strength they now derive i from considerations of policy and a regard for ; consequences.? iVilminglon Joutaal. Conservatism Necessary to the South ?The institutions of the South are all necessurily conservative. Our security consists in . our stability, in our adherence t?? the old, to 5 what is true ill the old, lo ? > hat nus been tried f and proved by the experience ol our two hun. dred years of life in America. We dare not 1 experiment upon this experience. To a poor, i adventurous people at the North, while nothing to lose, experiment is always productive ot some r? suits. With us, a heediul veneration of , what has been transmitted from our fathers is flip uoprnf nf mil* cnfV?tv (^nr rprrinn inp.rpjlfi w... ~?- -V -B-~" ed by native growth, not by the influx of a foreign population. These are necessarily ad, venturous and experimental. They risk nothing when they call for change, and demand a progress to the unknown and the indefinite.? This is not the case with us. VVe risk every. thing by change. Our progress is necessarily slow, but it is sure / We have few fluctuations. , If we make less show than our Northern neigh, bors, our condition is more substantial. An agricultural people should be, and is always the , most conservative.?Eve, News. It has been discovered that nutmegs grow in abundance in the interior of California. Rvanre, or Fo liars 1 Eijl-^ j^R Months. J{^ ?prI ji) p the bscqnent insertif |A thirty-seven ai\ aV?' ^SShHHmqH| ^Hion. Single i n s^iod^ P8 I^BKsMSSrHekcBBC^ |^Vhe number of imer"^,^K^UMBM?0MH (j^kublished in, miistb? T*1 ^^B8TOMa|JB3y!L^Jg ^^MneniK,?. Hd to he ^^fcr^ffiu^rime as for a Ele tiisr^Hg^^ffiMHB ^^fcy-All cmnmunicationjjy mail ^^ r. Everett propose^o give a Lectaw^^/ at halApast thio o'clock, at tjptfar^ of the Presby ter^n Church, on tftefest-! ^j^^Rcience of Vocal Mvie. YVehopeftaj be j ft ^Hed with a fi^ll attendance of our c '4ose // ttt^^Bfeel an; interest jrt thie pleasii/ Hi '1 fp^^Bently asserts thathe can teachfp?Tscj I j^h^^B^who has an agreeable voice t/ aodfnj/? I ^^^H^crms aie very reasonable, Ps refe.yi, j ^j^^^ftor ability as a teacher of HP anap^ de uTapwra'Ias we ^aV< ten^der^B^B^ ?"r six years.T^^HT 0 Jhat time, fad past, it hal^^K18 ^SBj^Ben m ? cey / 1 Hi now in a jQgn thaf ejej !;ave occurr^jjB^ ^ in ourj>is|S true. The >f ?tronsp woit^ having, and wc^^W5 ' ^ otwit?ndingjJJ majority of our^^HP g ffered/tl? us tiff the policy whicti^^H^ ' t0 ac Iate, uifjj-1 have the satisfai^^^Htf v'Jng ^ h a fofeJ, isolated cases on^^^HfLr be iscontnffi, ued on account J ^w ill 0t ofn subscribers have j^4per j to warily us, and have sho^!? pable f'r. appreciating our fi te**f to rpsnect our T !i..j:,m?its. I This is all we most d<^er' ences of opinioi^^^^H _Y j[ beto^ens puny minds wh?^^M? Xreefusly ".P?n abstract questional Wsjlnot fve eerious principles. It is Mould learn wisdom from ur (nce for the future. The hoi^^^ff2jiat Jfniay well be j questioned, who ^ i J aJ1 to think as he does. irrespec^^^VY jf J<rs and sentiments. No man ^^ ^ iter of another iii matters whcr^HpY ca^j >f judging for We do not int^B^ Jengthall th's article' 1 THE CO HIMAtiON. Episcopal C ;h at Dorchester, oiflSra aklj resoii < e yduog, the gay, jfl K we, is now ist hidden by the Afl H ing evergreen ts brick walls are tiM B jd preservatio though there is nl B ;e of the inner c remaining. ?| H walls vbi^ ce echoed to the ?iW H <?anj hack the yet 8 of tbe OTgRUfjy ates of woPW ice, now answers ha lowing of jE or the scream of MfflV J bird which s 3 therein. There ime, when the j jserted village of ester, was a pi some note; enjo^E^K tficient trade tc it the appearance^RS (jely c^pantry viB id having in the ueflJjpH orhood manure ble families who b^Ebs ?nr Y# H nmnmi mtgagSKm jfpM HHV J\ deff Vfonnectcq SsIKmMEKhER |ff 0^c ig|ominiUe ^EHKHgnBrc PFen^ifromtb ^ffiSSSSi f' Lre t vilfirsfc dis SttMBMB ' fd ^ 4 flue an IffWffllwB We alfire pftBsBaHW Jtban fiMftjtt&SEjtlgBiro Ji an clfSBll gnjeTorfry UM lift Ud'Hiljl I ') H pen of Ion# De?o, tj9fEKHga?ffi9 yw0' cc0iUe?Bng P&kU J o it stAey [flst, t ore e ardiLrrlj vkie tV 2w isu] ||L i! BMIilBwara? lii Bu 4' \four ulj avar jjnd .4! | ^Kk&UffiD ere fmjlaf tirmom-filled in jggjralte h orson ? pieces 6 flSl W ^StPCC JHhsmbShHI itii [ Muter ascW#ea f ofcaftfli in