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4 A Man* Walking with uis fket upwards.? We are a!i familiar with the power ot' llies to attach themselves to smooth surfaces with their feet upwards 0:1 the ceilings ot' our dwellings, and when the faculty of doing so is explained on the principle of gravitation, it is satisfactory but ' that such an operation should be performed by a ! human being we confess our incredulity is scarce- i Iv set at roil by the evidence of those who are ; s iiU to oftl-r in proof of the fact oocular demon-: slration. Vet there c:ui be ? ? mistake in the extraordinary circumstance, as narrated below, being a complete reversal of the law of gravatiuu. The article appeals in the Pittsburg t'ommcreiul Journal of Augustt), audi he statement .avouched i by respectable persons: ExiKAOUDINARV EXPERIMENT.? .1 Mail irrtlk- ! wig, head tlou'iiwml, an the crifiir/ !?Mr. John J .MeUormic gave a private txhil-ition on Thurs-! day evening, at L-ifaytto llall, of .pine a number of philosophical experiments. The mo-t j extraordinary was that of walking (by mentis; ofapair ofshocs of a peculiar construction.) in an j inverted position, tijontlie under surface of a! highly polished slab of Italian marble, nine feet j by three in dimensions, wiiich Mr. M. suce-.dvciv ; - - - - * t 1 performed?a teat never before acir.ev a i>v any man! lie afterwards explained that a flight do- ; loot in the aparatus, c.t-ily rem died render J his task more arduous than usual. After the exhibition u ;ls over Gen. Larimer made a tew | remarks, stating that "th \v had Wen called together to witness one of the strangest performances ever exhibited here or elsewhere; that Mr. J.McCormick (through his excellent friend, Caj t. James R. Ilendricson) had invited u- to be pe out on the occasion to witness his walking on the | inverted plane, <fcc., i>i obedience Jo that invita-; tion we came here to witness the great fens, and we eid witness it; J. MeCurmic d.d walk on an j inverted plane a distance of nine feet; we are wit. nesses of the tact, and it is but due to the parties ! that the public should be so advised in order that j a full sense of this meeting should bo hail, he moved that Win, M. Shinti, E*qr., a scientific ! man, take the chair. Whereupon the largo audience present organized by choosing Wm. M. Shinn' Esq., Chairman, and J. IL-ton Foster, j Secretary?when (after some remarks by Gen. Larimer) on motion of M.r II. I). King. Messrs. i E. II. Ileastings, Jos. Snowden, and W. If. Xeg-1 ley were appointed a Committee for the purpose,' and repoted the following resolutions; Resolved, 1 hat Mr.'McCormick has satisfaetor- i ily performed all that he has promised, and fu!lv | > ' ' c _ ?n.:? ...* I Ucmoiistrat- u mat nis invention ior v.,iimuK upon the polished -lab of marble, in an inverted position, is no humbug. Risulvcd, That the thanks of this meeting be tendered to Capt. IL-i. 1 rick son, for the pecuniary and other assistance he has rendered the lecturer. Risolocl, That Mr. McGSrmick be nyju sted t o deliver a public course of lectures in Pittsburg, and that this meeting pledge themselves to assist him in the prosecution of his scientific researches. . After some remarks from Gen. Lariin t, IV v. Homer J. Clark, Rev. Charles Cook"", and oth rs, the resolutions were unanimously adopted, and j J. Heron Foster appointed a Committee to piV pare the proceedings for publication. Whereas, Wc have witness'd with the greatest interest the experiments of Mr. John McCormick, the result of many years n search and labor, involving principles of philosophial intorast: Therefore, Resolved, That (in the opinion of this meeting) the th.ink.j of th!.- community arc due Mr. McCorinick, not only for his original experiments, * - ? - .v.. but lui' ttie improvements upon uir ui;-tu?<m.o j of others, which we have witnessed this evening. lira and Insurance.?The New York Mirror thus discourses on these topics: "At present the fire-question is turned off, in conversation, in the most heedless manner, fine says?'g-t insured, and trouble yourself no further.' Another shows his familiarity with great j ideas, by pronouncing some great fire 'a mere nothing in such a city as this.' The sage optimist thinks 'it will make work for poor mechanics.' The irritable man scolds awhile about incendiaries. and then forgets the matter. Tl.e man of indolent mind is sure that nothing can | be done. The masses probably see or hear of each fire a> a single event, and never think of any causes or consequences or precautions in a general way. "Cannot fires be prevented ? How can the iucerdiaiv fire a good brick building from without ? And how can he enter a house prope rly watched ? Let faithful men slc-? p in ov< ry build ing, with all facilities for defence, and cv? ry preparation for extinguishing a commencing fire, and how arc our valuable brick buildings to be destroyed by inemdiarirss ? As to accident? count up the building4: which need to be in an exposed condition. Some kinds of mantita--tur?* j * "" * * 'ill 1 I I may in sunt to involve consiueraoio uangi-i-; nm how many of our fires occur in such establish-; ments? The truth is, that for many of tli< mj there is no decent apology. Tlierc is unpardoti- j able inattention to the precautions which com-. inon sense points out as reasonable. "Now t!ie whole question of precaution need*' to bo discussed. In this inventive age, <l:-? u?i sion leads to discovery. New methods will be ; devised if the public mind is brought to b? ar j strongly upon the point. The object is a great one. Ta.k of th* growth of the country ? Sup- ! po.?e that on .some naked plain we could gather all the houses, stores, factories, churches. A:c., which are burned in one year in the baited States 1 IIow large a city would it make ?? Then increase this new city year by year, with the amount of property now annually r ?luc< ?l to ashes, and we should indeed have something to boast of. . "If the Insurance system, now so popular, i< annihilating th /rough private watchfulness. and supplying no adequate substitute, it is time to find it out. If a wr.-tch'-d locirin-', which teach ) es that to burn up the fruits *>t* human toil, and ! to diminish the amount of !'< ?l and clothing in : the world, is to benefit mankind ?if such a d'*1-1 t rine is d> -cowing the people, |.-t its ;il?-ur?litv l?e fully and unremittingly exposed. If fur more powerful municipal law is n.-ed-d, l?-t it l?<- furnish* J. if new modes of building are called for, let Am erica ii ingenuity be put t<> the task of devising them. Any thing but inditr-rnce, aflirt"d ime u.cpii:. and destructive philosophy." The Oki.^a.vs Family.?The "Washington Globe supplies the following statement of facts in reference to this matter, which will be read with Interest: Loni? Philippe, who was an ambitious man and fond of power and money, and always kept an eye to the main chance. On the day before lie moffnted the throne, in August, 1SH0, he executed a deed of gill?a dotation the French call it?iii favor of his children, of all his va-u property, amounting to about two Inindnd millions of francs, reserving to himself the usual l'ruct of it. by which ih>- conveyance remained inoperative until after his death. The reason for the deed of gift was this: liv the laws and usages of franco for a long time kick, a person coming to the throne, ceased to own private projierty. and all that he was in possession of previously, became, Ipso fad'), vested in the Crown; that is it was annexed to th ; sovereignty^ let that sovereignty he where it might. This law Louis Philippe d:?rogard-d, and thought that by his dotation lie would secure to his family all his enormous wealth. There was some' discussion about his proceeding at the- time, but 110 resistance to it, a* the "Citizen King"' was then too popular to be resisted. And so things went on during his reign of seventeen year* and a half. When ho went into exile in 1848. his dispositions in regard to his property were respected, and continued to he so uiril the 2od of Janun-y last, on which day Louis Napoleon, by a decree of about a dozen lines, eonfiseat"d to the use of the State, the whole of the estate of Louis Philipe included in his dotation, on the ground that that act was illegal, and that on his accession, his estates vested bv operation of law. in the sovereign, without respect to the person. The lawyers difter about this: but the usage and the precedents are against th dotation. Henry the Fourth attempted to d i the same thing that L >ui- Philippe did, but his designs were frustrated by the Parliaments? then judicial tribunals?and he finally ae^uies ceil in their decision. Is this T11K FniERTAIXMKNT to which WE were Invited.?Telegraphic despatches received lie re yesterday, announced that Waiter Brooke, a Whig had Keen elected to the Senate of the U. States, in place of < r.-nerai Fuote, resigned, for the term ending March, ISo-'J. and that Stejdien Adams, rniua Democrat, had been elected ti?r the unexpired term of General Davis. The Uni->n party has a majority on joint ballot of 20 voter. % It thus appears that the submission Democrats of Mississippi have refused to re-unite with the Southern 1 lights Democrats, although the latter constitute about fuur-tiflhs of what was once the Democratic party of that State, and this, notwithstanding the Southern Rights Democrats, aft- r the Convention election of the State, proposed the re-u:iion. We never did concur in tliat movement of the .Southern Rights Democrats <>f Mississippi; for we w-re satisfied that the division was deeper than Democracy, as it is commonly understood. But the experiment was tried, and has failed.? The submission Democrats however, had a plausible excuse for eh cling Fuote, for he still pretended to be a D.-mocrat; but they have now distinctly r- nourc'd and rej udiatcd re-union, by voting for and electing one Whig, in order to secure the election of one of their own men, belonging to a small fragment of the party, This result is in accordance with the policy adopt'd bv tie* Washington Uulon last summer, and that pur iH'd !; re. The offices and spoils arc to ia*, :.i. 1 -.!?.< t Bo nu'ii whrtlwr U?- y Whigs or Democrats, until th-oxpcrim'-nt could L* mail- wh'-ther the .Southern Kii^Iits men would nut agr. o to bestow t!?<* principal part of tie-in on the Compromise* I < in<<rais, as, w- presume, a sort of i ward for establishing tho Com'oromi e.? Southern Press. -i <?> > Arrest on suspicion of Kidnapping.?A white man who gave-his nam- as Win. D. Rose, arrived It-re yesterday in the Wilmingron Steamer with a negro in charge, v. Loin it appeals was ordered l?y him to remain upon the wharf while he went in search of a broker, but during hi-absence the negro, who is about 17 years of age, was questioned by l'olico oilier Daniel Twohill, who was present, and the answers such as to induce the arrest of the white man (Rose) upon his return and that of the boy. They were both taken before hi- Honor th- Mayor, to whom we are ind' bt* d for the following fads elicited during trie examination: Win. L>. Hose stated that he lived in Northampton county, North Carolina. That sometime ago a Mr. Humphrey Gums told him to catch the boy, whom he'calN Tom or Nuke; that he was a runaway; that if he would take him to Charleston and sell him, or failing to do so, would hire him to the Wimingtoii Kailr<>ad Company he would give him *o0. 1 ?umj*!ir< y Cuius lives ti\e mile- from Kicii Square, Northampton county. Rose has no documents or written authority on the subject; is himself not the owner of any slave; says he is a stranger both in Charleston and Wilmington never was at either place before, and got the Captain of steamer Wilmington, to clear the boy in the Custom House at ... ^ Wilmington. At the ivijuesi of Rose, the Mayor yesterday wrote the Magistrate M. W. Smallwood, residing next the Host Cilice at Rich Square, as above, also to Mr. Win. Cuius, to come on forthwith and attend to the matter. The negro asseverates most positively that lit is a free man, and say his nauieis William Fran C* N uhely Davis, sou x?f l?:t-y Davis, ;t free born woman m arly white. Tin- l*>y i- a music'1, am! says h<' was boumj to .service by his niotlier to Humphrey < iim.s till lie wa>'Jl; that lie had but more years to serve, when beint; ill treated by a .Mr I'ottom, to whom lie washir-d, he left, am he has been Working out since lor himself, am thai he was taken by Hose while to tting out staves near Halifax' X. (on hist Friday, am tl.al liose forced him to mount a horse (tellin? iiiin In- would take home;) but conveyed him f< to Wilmington, and theme to Charleston, am that lie was not aware be Hose that he was for sale. The affair wearing a rather supiciuus aspect his Honor has deemed it correct to detaim d hot I uni ties in custody for further emjuiry. Charleston Kvcuiny News. ? -? ??-?- . Tlio Austrian ?uvcrrim<nt have oi?J#*re?l a ] vv < i' ho.ooo ni"M f<? ivinforcf! th'j arm v. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. FRIDAY'EVEXING, FEBRUARY 27, 1852. THO. J. WARREN, Editor. TV/T-. wui luamuu YTe have no change to make in our Tuesday's quo! tations of Cotton, the prices of that day being sustainj ed. viz: f> 3-1 to 7 7-3. Charleston quotations. 0 to 8 1-4. Branch Bank of Camden. Tito following o-entleinen have heen elected Directors for this Dranch. f.?r the enming year: President?mOMAR SALMOXD. Dhrciors?A. D. Jones, John Cantev, W. Kennedy, L. L. Wh(taker. Economy. Xo one is thanked for giving advice where it is unasked. but as we have no personal end in view, or object to accomplish, consequently there can be none to thank or condemn us. we venture a few common place ideas up"n the subject which heads the remarks which follow. So far as relates to theory, we have been an economist all our life, but carry the idea out into practical matters, we arc like all others who have dealt in theories, have derived no substantial good from what we have known. Experience has proved how greatly in error we have been. This instructor is said to bo the only teacher from which a certain class, not remarkable j for wisdom will ever learn. It is not the real wants of man which cause him anx| iety and trouble. Those things only which arc cssen I tial to his being, may. by a moderate degree of industry, be acquired without great labor?they are simpleand few. Hut the causes of our great anxiety are those multitudinous etcctr.is, which make up the great aggregate. Too oftcu. however, extremes are gone into either by men being too parsimonious and mean about little things, whilst weightier matters arc uncared for. It is possible that one may be stingy and at the same time extravagant?a strange paradox to be sure, but yet, true. There is an old and safe maxim?take care of the peace, and the pounds will take care of themselves. In our vernacular, take care of the dimes, and the dollars will be sure to take care of themselves. It is poor encouragement to the industrious and economical lather, who is trying to lay up for his hopeful sou, the accumulated earnings of many years, to sec that youth spend his money for cigars and liquor; which, although small matters at the time, yet, at the closing up of each year, would make no insigniticant sum to deposit in a Savings Hank. We are told by j these precocious youths?"boy-i ien''?that we are too 1 prosy!?unfashionable! Yes, here is the wicked word. I L"nfa.-hiouable!! The rock upon which thousands have \f mlia katrn /j?v?I>orlrrw 1 iitw.ti t'nn vnr.nmi pUriSHUU. .UtlUJ VU?Vv*.??v? ?|/VrU k..v *"J?bv of life with hopes full and buoyant, their frail crafts could not resist the whirlpool of fashionable excess, and they have gone down into endless ruin. Many who are in the daily indulgences of what arc called amusements and pleasures, whom? "Foilions brightest arts decoy, V.'itli hearts distrusting ask if this be joy!" "With those whose habits arc formed and become fixed facts, it is useless to attempt to argue. There are others however, whoso young and tender minds arc open for the reception of truth. The force of example does more to keep up this fashionable extravagance than all other causes combined. and each one must bo his own judge how far ho is responsible f jr the perpetuity of this evil. A man's duty does not cease when he merely discharges those obligations which arc absolutely binding upon him, and rcpiircd as well for his own protect ion as that ofotli, ors. lie owes duties to society, and the well-bci:.g of others is measurably committed to his care as a sacred trust. It is truly said "Society is hound together by the law of reciprocal uses; every thing we do or say, has some reference to others; in fact there is no act of our life, that docs not in some way impress itself upon those- around us." Unfortunately human nature is more apt to follow the example of evil than good, and hence the necessity of those who are looked up to, setting such examples as they will never have cause to bo neliiinif-il of. Returning attain fur a short time to our text, we \vi!l tin<l Hie rule an admirable one in practical life, Never to purchase an article because it is cheap, for which we have no need. This maxim is worthy a place in the vocabulary of all household words. I'rint it upon the door posts, and impress it upon tire minds of the young and rising generation. Teach them sobriety, industry and economy, and it will "adorn them more than ermined robe or kingly diadem." Potter leave them the rich legacy, the example of a life of probity and industry, than hoards of tarnished gold, for in adverse times riches take wings and fly away, hut virtue is best when misfortunes come. There is scarcely a household which might not be rid of much useless lumber, which has accumulated from year to year. Persons arc led into the error of buying because tilings arc cheap, and tints we may become burdened with debts which arc far easier made than paid. The credit system, against which we huvo a peculiar dislike, autl would if possible wage a war of extermination, is the worst enemy against which Economy has to contend. If cash was paid for every article a person bought, there would be but little need to publish ' lldurn Day* as mat ters of general information. Northern Movements. Tito Washington Correspondent of the Charleston Courier gives the following items of news: "At tho North wo find that the excitement on the subject, of the Maine lirjuor law, has taken a political turn, and Ccn. Uoiston and Mr. P. T. Eauntm, arc | talked of as tho candidates of the Ultra-temperanc; , party, for the Presidency and Vice Presidency. "As this is the session for land projects, an old one for giving lands to the landless throughout the Union I has been revived. This bill has been brought forwart 1 in the House, under the auspices of Mr. Anuukw Joiin l j son, o!'Tennessee. It gives land to "every man. maid I J and widow," who will go and occupy it. It is advoca 1 j ted on the ground that it will release the old States o i surplus population, and will distribute the bcnelits o ' j the public domain among tho people of the old States " \v!iii are not likely to obtain any more direct boiieli ! from it. Tlie ticw .States will not oppose it, and it tin . members from tlio old States 1'uvorit, the bill will pro bably pass. An early day lias been assigned for takinj it up. "The latest intelligence from Franco does not increase tlm probability of war against Kngland, and, in the meantime, Great liritain is berome so well prcparet th tt an attempt at invasion will l?' hazardous. : Nai'OLECMT, in the midst of his power, is in n bad ! way. if il bo trtio that the condition of its tenure, is the employment of the army in a foreign war."' Safe Rule3. i The following rules observed in practical life cannot ' possibly lead us est ray. It is said that Mr. Jefferson, ' in a letter of advice to his name-sake Thomas Jefferson . Smith, in 1325, gave the nine which follow. Wc have ventured a word of comment: 1. ''Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day." An important rale, the neglect of which teaches too certainly that "procrastination is the thief of time." 2. "Never trouble others lor what vou can do yourself." 11 is even possible that our best friends may become weary ol us. 3. "Never spend your money before you have it." The credit system interferes greatly with the working of this rule. J. "Never buy what you do not want becauso it is cheap." Debts may be made, easier than paid. 5. "Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst or cold.' An expensive garment to wear, the sooner laid off the better. G. "We never repent having eaten too little." Be temperate in all things is a good motto. -1 7 u <rnnl.lfv<f?riA flint. u*e do willinylv." "Where the will is free to act, the difficulty is easily removed in ordinary cases. 8. ' Flow much pain those evils cost us which never happened." ! The imaginary ills of life frequently out number its real ones. 0. "When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred." This rule carried out would effectually preclude the possibility of a practical.demonstration of the saying? "a word and a blow"?but the blow came first. % Arthur's Home Gazette. Wo have received copies of this excellent family paper. The numbers sent us commence, and continue a story by Mr Simms, of this State, called "Marie De Bernicre." Wo hope Mr. AitTnuit intends to exchange regularly with us, as we desire to keep up this friendly intercourse. We have always admired his writings for their elevated morality, and believe they are calculated to do good. The columns of the Guzdle will bo kept free from all pernicious matter, having a tendency to lower the standard of virtue, or injure the mind. It is stated that the value of labor is so greatly enhanced in some portions of Michigan by the emigration | to California, that ?20 a month and board, is readily trim tnnm fori Within the last year forty-eight ships have heen added to the fleet of whalers belonging to New-Bedford. Nearly half the Importation of sperm and whale oil for the whole country is entered at that port. A dispatch from Washington in the New-York Herald, states that our Minister at Constantinople has coneluded and sent home a treaty'with Persia, which places the U. .S. on a footing with the most favored nations. Among the contribution recently received to the Washington Monument fund is the sum of one thousand dollars, contributed in stuns of filly dollars by mercantile lirms belonging to the city of San Francisco, California. The London Tiuw says that one of the schemes suggested in Paris, is ' for Franco to bargain with Russia for the cession of tho left bank of tho Rhine, as an equivalent for the occupation of Constantinople ly Russia." A train of ninety-live cars, drawn by two locomotives, passed over the Hudson river on the Gth inst. It w;?s more tliati-n mile in length. Anomieii Uevolutioxaky Soumek Gone.?It is a solemn scene at all times, to consign a fellow mortal to the tomb, but how much more so, wln-n called imou to lay in tlie cold grave, a revolutionary latln r of four .-core and nine, and such it wa> our privilege to wittn-ss in consigning the : . _ ,1.1., II Mr i.'lM r>'l!Ktlll*> W! liult m;iii tawi" ?. *iv? n**l Chandler, sr. who <1 *|?:irtcil this lite on the morning nf tlie lOlhof Kcbuary 1852. lie cnten (I the Brigade of Ceil. Marion in early life, and bore an active part in many of that illustrious General's encounters with the tones and B.itSh as also at. the Kutaw Springs and in every *tiaggie of his gallant little State, against the ?dir| ations of the General Government, has always s|oi)<l fir.n for Stat- Rights as in '32, so in 51' he was much mortified at the thoughts of South Carolina becoming so"Bdegenerate in Patriotism, as to wish to succumb to Northern aggression. lie leaves a widowed wife, with whom he had lived near seventy years, to deplore his loss.?Suniti r Watchman. The Magnetic Telegraph in Mexico.?We learn from our exchanges that a party of Americans have put up a line of magnetic telegraph from the city of Mexico to Napoluean, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, or halfway down to Vera Cruz, to which it is to he extended in ni.iTifltc f mm Tito Iirm j up is doing :i wry fair business, the receipts avj craging$35 per day, and the expenses about ?1"). ' , These receipts will he'largely increased when the i line is finished to Very Cruz. Another line is in i contemplation from the city of Mexico to Acapulco, on the Pacific, 300 miles further, which will connect the Atlantic and Pacific. i * * Telegraph to Cuba.?Joaquin Cnrideogo, of . j Cardenas, proposes, in a letter to the Xow-( >rleans I Courier, the construction of a floating sub-marine. , Telegraph from Cape Sable, in Florida, to Key, West, and from thence to llicacas, Cuba. The : distance from Cape Sable to II., is lf>0 miles, ,; and the cost of the wire is estimated at $300,000. Mr. (?. says "the execution of this project would | augment business and commercial relations be. ; tween the United States and Cuba immensely." 1 Shocking OcrrrtiiKNCB.?While demolishing ,! our breakfast the other morning, we were forcibly struck with the unusually rich flavor of our milk; I indeed, the event was one of such singular char' j aeter, that we determined to inform ourselt ot i the cause. At tii^t we were under the inipres3 j sion that our milkman luul read the Picayune, ' ... i. . . i . _ .i . ,i:? ii!ni ion :i latent regain i'>r un* funui, u?n ' clear up all doubt, wo despatched a telatrraphic enquiry to a friend in Orange county, asking for } an explanation. After two hours of inexprcssihie suspense, we received the following answer: ' "The pumps in this section are all frozen." ?V. J". Picayune. Gen. Cass is the great expositor of the Inter| vention doctrine in the Congress of the United State-'. lie is not, lie affirms, the advocate of ! Mmno.l intervention in the nfthirs of other coun I ; - (trie?. He abjures the use offeree in the conflicts : which now or hereafter may signalize the battle | of Democracy with Absolutism in Europe. But ( he is the supporter of what is called the moral , influence of Protests and Declarations. By the | magic of words is the effect to bo wrought which ' ! is to inspire hope 011 one side and induce despair j on the other. Now if paper pellets ever turned I aside tyranny or balked ambition, unbacked bv j physical force, there might be some potency in ! the logic of such verbal warfare, but without mili itary preparation, to sustain Declarations and i Protests, they are not merely idle?they are posi itively mischievous. They leave a sting behind. ! They rankle and produce bitter fruits at some period or other. We hope, therefore, that the Senate will have nothing to do with the generalities which have found a place in certain resolutions now before that body. *. The world is not governed by abstract declarations. Gen. Cass seeias to attach great importance to the re-affirmance of those principles of public law that protect the indopend<yice of ^ nations, ar.d impliedly exclude armed intervention. Well a combination of powerful sovereignties may do some thing to restore or preserve international principles or maxims winch are falling into disuotude or trampled upon. But what gives significance to such a combinatiou is the .l/.i?rM,cfr-ori/,,1 r\f r>/~iuv.r tr> fmtVirCC the Conclusion?. The United States are provobially averse to such military preparations as would give to their Protest any tiling tnorc than the virtue that resides in a well reasoned document. But making no exhibition of force, and standing alone-in protesting, would in the end leave us without national dignity. Our protest would be laughed at as a 1 mere bmtumfulrnen. In a joint Protest of En gland and the United States, there would be some rationality, provided there were reciprocal stipulations to back it with their united physical strength. >? The analogy sought between Mr. Monroe's Declaration and a protest or Declaration by Congress, under existing circumstances, fails in real similitude. The great political event of that day was the Holy Alliance. It had met at Verona in 1822, and France, under its sanction, had put into force its maximcs of intervention by the invasion of Spain, and the overthrow of the Spanish Constitution of the Cortes. The v apprehension was entertained that the Holy Alliance would extend their system of intervention 1 to the American continent. This led to Mr. Monroe's Declaration. Now, there is no such Alliance?no such combination. There is no part of this continent that invites attack?no insurgent colonies to recover?no scheme of colonization on foot for the implantation of principles of Absolutism. We published a declaration in 1824, that no footing should be had on this continent for monarchy^ We arc counselled to proclaim in 1851 that no interference should be pcrill FlITOIlO. Is tllCfC UnV similarity in the circumstance? Whenever the league of Absolute princes hi Europe menaces American liberty, a Protest, standing alone, would not save us. We would have to rely on our physical ability to repel attack. But a Protest against prospective dangers, unbacked by what Can alone give it efficacy, determination to take up arms if it is treated contemptuously, would be a serious injury to national character, i if it did not hazard the peace of the country. The elF'Ct. of Mr. Monroe's Declaration has been exaggerated. It alone did not keep invasion from the American continent. At tbe same time Mr. Panning gave the Holy Alliance reason to know that if they directed their arms across the Atlantic, so as to nieuce the independence of the South-American Suites Great Britain would arm in their defence.?Earning Xcics. For two or three days past, the organs of the x different political parties and abolition cliques in J this city have been discussing the cause and effect ^ 1 of certain political and social move mcnts upon 5 | the credit of certain commcricai nouses wnicn | have rcently suspended payment. Some have stated that several failures have been caused by tlie difficulties experienced in making collections at the South. It has also boon stated that the South has not paid up so well this year as usual. Now this is all nonseaso. During the pa-t two years, the South has paid up better than any other section of the country. The high price obtained by the planters for the great staple of that region, has enabled them to meet all their engagements promptly. We allude particularly to the planting interest. Prices for I breadstuff- and produce generally have ruled low; y I hardly above cost of production?and merchants 1 ! from the West have not, therefore, been able | to meet punctually their payments in full. It is J i simply absured to say that the failures which fl I have oceurod here have been causpd bv the ina- J I bilitv of Southern merchants to liquidate their fl I liabilities in full. Probably more than fifty large I i houses (principally dry goods dealars) have sus- M I uended payment, in this city, within the past ? | twelve months, and it is well known that ' nearly every failure has been directly the result ? [ of losses-realized in Cailifornia trade. Several firms I may have been pulled down by losses-from bod *11 j debts, growing out of the suspension of other J I houses; but directly of indirectly, California has jfl been the cause. It is a fact, which nearly every J j business man in this city will admit, that of every * I j one hundred failures, at last ninety five prove ; to have been produced by a deviation from a S deviation from a legitimate line of business.? M ; There are scores of mercantile firms in this city if which have confined themselves strictly to <n | the Southern trade, and have made fortunes (Hit jfl I of it. It is, at this moment, the most profitable) 9 j branch of dry goods business carried on in this city, it is so considered, at all events, by the merchants of other cities, for they have made every effort to get it away from us. It would * have been well it some ot the suspended houses had confined!hemsohvs entirely to that trade A',,,./. llrr.,1,1 "r"'1 ; , m > t French Friles.?The native of Franco, residing in Now York, have appointed a committee of twenty-one to draft an address to all the Frenchmen in the United States, suggesting the M . formation of a general association in that city, I with branches throughout the Union, in order to ?3 ! afford relief to all the political refuges who may jffl | come from Franco. w I