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■».*! .. I! . 1,1 -■ (From the Charieston Mercury.) MR. 4CRUFFIE S OPINION. Mfiisru. Ivlitois ; At the meeting of the Barnwell Southern Highta Associa tion on the 7tli instant our taleut(‘(l young fellow citizen. Johnson Hagood, esq. when offering a Resolution in hon or of the lamented .McDuffie, referred (in the eloquent remarks that he made) to the opinions and sentiments expres sed in the extracts copied below, and in part read them. Please republish, and oblige 1 MANY FRIENDS. ... . - ; We will not, we cannot we dare not subnUt to this degradation; and our re solve Is fixed and unalterable, that a THE CHARLESTON Sl'N. We invite attention to thdlShdvertisc- ment of thi- paper, in another column. protectirtg tariff slmlllx* no longer en- . .... , . .. ’ , . ,. . , ' forced w ifhin the limits of South Caro- ! h IS da,1 >’ a '' d m the Una. M e stand upon the principles of c,t >' of Charte8teB - 11,6 S,,n w a ^ upon the |)rinciples ever lasting justice, and no human pow 1 - er shall drive us from our position. We have not the slightest apprehen sion that the (ienerai Government will attempt to force this system upon us by military power. We have warned and spirited paper, and the tow price at which it is furnished must commend it to the people. As wc have the prospect of soon having a daily mail through out vil lage, we are much indebted to the Sun for its daily issue, as we are also to the Darlington flag. DARLINGTON, S. C. %<>RWO«7r,Fdftor? WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL JO. hd. EVER SHORE, OF THE MOST HOMOOFREW'S POPULATIOR, ALL OF THE SAME BLOOD ARD LIREAGE, A SOIL THE MOST FRUITFUL, ARD A CLIMATE THE MOST LOVELV. UllT SUB MIT,—submit! The very sourd curdles the blood ir my veirs. But, O! great God, urite us, axd a tale or submission shall rever be told!—Cheves. AGENTS FOR THE DARLINGTON FLAG. S. D. IIallford, - Camden, S. C. Charles DeLokme, Sumterviile, S. C. NT Mr. R. W. Burgess is the travel ling agent of the Darlington Flag. {Extract from McDuffie’s Speeches, die “It is impossible to contemplate the conduct of our ancestors, when placed in similar circumstances without blush ing for our degeneration. They comtnen r ed tlie Revolution that secured our lib erty when their oppressions were not one huudreth part as grievous as ours. A miserable tax of three ponce a pound on tea was the extent of their grievance. Being dependent colonists, they had no organized sovereignity to protect them from the the peril of rebellion and trea son. With halters round their necks, and the stigma of treason on their forehead, nobly disdaining to count the costs of a contest which, though they should perish, was to secure liberty to their posterity, they fearleessly en countered the gigantic power of a mighty, nation. And with this glori ous example before us shall wc basely surrender the inheritance of our children Unite, and you shall form one of the from a disgraceful panic excited by im- | MOST splendid empires or which thf^sur aginary dangers l -Shall we be terrified by mere phantoms of blood, when our aucestoi s, for less cause encountered the dreadful reality ? Great God! are we the descendants of those ancestors; are wo freemen; are wo men—“grown men’’—to hr* frightened from the dis- vliarge ofour most sacred duty, and the vindication of our most sacred rights, by the mere nursery stories of rawhead and bloody bones, which even the wo men of our country laugh to scorn.” “We have hut one difficulty to pre vent us from achieving a glorious vic tory over our oppressors : it is our ow n unfortunate divisions. I have a most consoling confidence that the intelli gence and patriotism of the |>eople will overcome this. With united counsels the State cannot fail to he triumphant; but with divided and distracted counsels it will bo in vain to hope that we shall ever be relieved from our oppressions Those, therefore, who persevere in a course which shall paralize the efforts of the State to relieve our citizens from unconstitutional oppression, will as sume a tremendous responsibility.— Whatever may bo their matives, they will make themselves. We have but one course to pursue. Let us stand firm and immoveable upon our princi ples, holding out the banner of con stitutional liberty to all who choose to rally nndcr it If the State so will it, we are free. But if the public voice should decree otherw ise, and uncon ditional submission he our doom, we shall nt least have the consolation of re flecting that we have had no agency in forging chains for our children. In conclusion, gentleman, I beg leave to propose a sentimet; The City of Charleston: A melan choly monument of the withering and consuming curse of unequal and op pressive taxation; may the time speedi ly arrive when she shall rise from her rains, the cheering monument ofa reno vated commerce, freed from the shack les of unconstitutional restriction, by the sovereign power of a State, once more animated by the spirit of John Rutledge Henry Laurene, and Christopher Gads den,—Extract from Speech of Hon. Geo McDuffie, Map 1831, Charleston, “If South Carolina should be driven out of the Union, nil the other planting States, and some of the Western States would follow by an almost absolute necessity. Can it be believed that Georgia Mississippi, Tennessee, even Kentucky, would continue to pay a neavy tribute upon their consumption to the Northern States, for the privilege of being united to them, when they could receive all their supplies through the port of South Carolina, or their own iiorts, without paying a single cent of tribute. The separation of South Carolina would inevitably produce a general dissolutioqgpf the Union and as a ne lican of Columbia, for similar favors. our brethren of the consequences of ^Soulh-Carolinian sod State-Rights Rqmb- such an attempt But if notwithstan ding, such a course of madness should be pursued we here solemnly declare, that this system of oppression shall nev er prevail in South Carolina, until none hut dastards are left toil. We would infinitely prefer that the territory of the State should be the cemetery of freemen than the habitation of slaves. Actua ted by these principles and animated by these sentiments, we will cling to the pillar of the temple of our liberties, and if it must fall we will perish amidst the ruin!—Address to other States bp Conrentum of 1832. COERCION OF A STATE. We copy to-day, on our first page, an able article from the Rome (Ga.) .S'ouA- emer, on the above subject, which is now so much talked of by the administration and the abolition press of the country.— Had such a doctrine been inculcated in the earlier and better days of the Repub lic, the indignant voice of every State in the Union would have overwhelmed its advocates with shame and confusion.— But the gradual progress of consolidation which that inspired patriot and orator. Patrick Henry, foresaw and predicted in strains of superhuman eloquence, has so blinded the eyes of many that they re gard with little concern the fact that an abolition President, through his abolition Secretary, has announced to an abolition alias Union meeting in New York, that se cession and war are synonymous; in other words, that if South Carolina dares to exercise her clear and indisputable right of withdrawing from the Union, of rescinding the contract into which she en tered originally with the other States, be cause it has ceased to be beneficial to her, then she is to bo coerced into quiet submission, by the knock-down argument of federal bayonets. Almost twenty years ago, when our State was arrayed against tlie Federal Government in the memora ble struggle of ’32, a time which many of us remember as “A schoolboy’s tale—the wonder of an hour,” COTTON. The sales of cotton in Charleston up to i South Carolina was threatened with co- die 19th inst., are quoted at from 10 to ercion by President Jackson—the hero of 11 cents. many a well fought field, a man distin- i * • • ~ | guished tor his indomitable energy and ' A MERITED COMPLIMENT. j iron will. Our fathers, brothers and We perceive from the Statr-Rights Re. friends then quailed not, but stood ready publican that our highly esteemed friend, ,0 offer themselves willing sacrifices on ! paths. But heaven forbid that we shall remain longer4n this unholy und unnatu ral alliance. South Carolina has suffi- cu$ily long been the target at which the shafts of federal venom have been hurled —on which such vipers as Seward and Hale and Giddirgs have attempted to throw their slime. She has ever been the zealous champion of State Rights; she has watched with Argus eyes the pro gress of consolidation, and ever and anon she has sounded the alarm to her sister S*tes; she now stands like a chafed lion irffthe path of consolidation, and inter- fSbaes the'last barrier to its finalconsum- mation. Hence the abuse, the ridicule, the vituperation which the spaniels and curs of low degree, who “ crook the preg nant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow, fawning,” are endeavoring to cast upon her. We trust and believe that South Carolina will not forget her ancient character—the voice of our fathers cries to us, “My sons, we bled and died for liberty, and not for the Union.” May we walk in the path of duty and honor, turn ing neither to the right nor the left, re gardless of threats and entreaties, and the day will come, be assured, when we shall have our reward. AGBICLLTCRAL PAPERS. The April number of the Farmer and Planter, and the March numlier ^>f the SoiloJ the South are before us; we are 1 happy again to greet these welcome vis itors. The Farmer and Planter is the on ly journal in South Carolina devoted ex clusively to the interests of agriculture^ and we cannot too strongly recommend it to the patronage of our readers. By the by, friends, we have lost or mislaid your February number; if you have a sufficiency of extra numbers you will con fer a favor by sending us another, as we desire to file them. To those who are able and desire to patronize mme than one agricultural paper, we say, The Soil of the South is the one. For the Farmer and Planter, address Seaborn & Gilman, Pendleton, S. C. For the Soil of the South) address Wm. II. Chambers, Columbus, Georgia. Chancellor Dargan, has been appointed a delegate to the Charleston Convention by the Southern Rights Association of Fairfield District. The patriotic people of Fairfield could not have made a better selection, and we hope the Chancellor will consent to serve them; we know him to he one of the faithful. He does not the altar of their country’s rights. For tunately, concessions were made to our State; the government gave us, to use the language of Mr. Clay, “substantially what we claimed,” and the quarrel was terminated. The same game is to be at tempted again. Fillmore announces, through his Secretary, that secession is THE LINCOLN COCRIER. A staunch democratic paper, published in Lincolnton, N. C., by T. J. Eccles, comes to us with its dimensions conside rably enlarged. May the proprietor’s purse, as well as his paper, grow larger and larger. WILMINGTON RAIL AND MANCHESTER ROAD. The following resolution was passed at consider himself at all slandered by the ! war, and the spaniels of his administra- !*. ^ n " ' l! ie stockholders of J ^ NV ilmiugton and manchester Rail appellation of “ fire eater,” nor do we think he will be likely to be offended with his Greenville friend, for calling him “ Quixotic.” ANOTHER (tl IXOTIC EXPEDITION. Rumors are afioat Uiat another enter- tion catch it up and reverberate the words „ . ,, . _ throughout the length and breadth of the ’ 111 1 ^ Ul * tan ’ 1 land. Fortunately for us, it is Fillmore rP ,. t orH of this Comnanv r ^ ld< ’ nt and z rectors ol this Company, or a majority of instead of Jackson, at the head of affairs; them, be, and they are hereby authorizsd and more fortunate still, the justice ofour and empowered for and in behalf of this cause is much less doubtful than it was ^ ompany, to borrow a sum not exceeding in ’32. Who believes that Fillmore will prise is on foot in this country, by citizens attempt to coerce South Carolina ! Is he v ot of the South, with a view St conferring ! not the same Fillmore who has been ceasary consequence, the protecting system with all its pecuniary bounties to the Northern States overthrown and demolished, involving the ruin of thou sands and hundreds of thousands in the manufacturing States. By these powerful considerations connectted with their own pecuniary interests, we beseech them to pause and contemplate the disastrous conse quences which will certainly result from an obstinate perseverance on their part in maintaining the protecting sys tem. With them it is a question mere ly of pecuniary interest, connected with no shadow of right and involving Ad principle of liberty. With us it is a question involvihg our most sacred * rights; those very rights which our common ancestors left to us as a com mon inheritance, purchased by their common toils, and consecrated by their blood. It is a question of liberty on the one hand, and slavery on the other. If wiS%ubmit to this system of untonsU- tutionnl oppression we shall vohuitari- iuto slavery, and transmit timt i inherit no ce to otd* children. freedom on the Cubans. However much 1 swearing with many loud oaths and pro- we may feel interested in the progress of' testations that the fugitive law must be _ w freedom, and the prevalence of republi- carried out, or force would be used ? And | Bonds ahalfbe redeemable or payable not rywhere,and however what are the facts? One single fugitive less than ten nor more than twenty years in the aggregate eight hundred thousand dollars, (c^OO.hOO) and issue as evidence of loan or loans, as mav lie negotiated bv them by virtue of this resolution, Certifi cates or Bonds, to be signed by the Presi dent and attested by the corporate seal of this Company, which said Certificates or can institutions everywhere, propriety of our citizens interfering in (he affairs of a power with which we are at peace, the present is a period fraught with sufficient danger to our own hemes to require the presenca and the services of the brave and chivalrous. These roman tic adventurers should recollect that the sentiment is no less true in regard to Cu ba, than to our own sunny south, that “They who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.” WHO WOULD NOT BE AN EDITOR ? In one of our perambulations up Pearl street a few evening since, as the sun was slowly sinking behind the western hills, and our beautiful village with its profusion of splendid shade trees and its tastefully arranged flower gardens, presented to our enraptured eyes a scene of surpassing loveliness, we met two fair damsels, whom we suppose were walking out to inhale the balmy breath of spring. We received from the liands of one of them a mag nificent boquet of roses, culled from one of the gardens which border the street, and arranged with the most exquisite taste. This is the third favor of that kind we have received in the lei* week, and we repeat the question. Who would not bean editor? Hey whet you wH about his perplexities, there are green epots in his life which, like oases n (fetdearri. serve to lebevw, ■wfeesh end cheer the wayworn pdgrun an hie pathway. XL , TH their 1 ** •* * on | Uahrd in CahMptea. ther Too. It ttradted TUttrUFT 'Ml) paper pub- TME fOMlEim 1 of a \ lumen k| 4 Ous Taixsv, Esq- and w4» wr Mate ML oerupy an hooMabte pa idea aaaaag tfcs other pa- otAlx- Irate. Cahnatea has defer papara • 'four < been sometimes met with violence, and sometimes with vexatious and expensive law suits. But should the President be so unwise as to attempt the coersion of a sovereign State, the first gun which is fired will sound the requiem of the Union. Who so weak and timid as to suppose that the slaveholders of the South will stand as idle and unconcerned spectators, and see an abolition President, with his abolition myrmidons, using force to crush the spirit of a gallant people who are contending for the right of secession—a right invalu. ble to every Southern State—the only shield which they have to interpose be tween them and the mad tide of fanati cism and consolidation, which threatens to engulf them in one common ruin. We regard it as of little moment whether the President attempts coercion, or resorts to other means. If South Carolina is made the theatre of civil war, we think it will but hasten the formation of a Southern confederacy. If she is permitted to go out of the Union peaceably, we think the day w ill be near at hand when the other Southern States, by the imperious law of necessity, will be forced to join us. Can any ^one in his senses believe that the agitation of the subject of slavery it now to cease! as soon might we believe that every law of nature had been changed. Fanaticism, as Randolph remarked, has no stopping place short of heaven or hell.— TTie progress of abolitionism is onward; h may pause a little now, until it hopes to see the proud spirit of Carolina sink into quiet submission, and if that deplora ble state of things is brought about, then tbs whole pack of hell-hour 4s will be again turned loose, and emboldened by their recent triumph, will pursue and wor- n their victims by more open and direct much we would be gratified by the iden- (Sims) has been slipped off from Boston t their several and respective dates; shall bear interest not exceeding seven per centum per annum, payable semi-an nually. and the same shall at the plea Me of the holders thereof be convertible into the stock of this Company at its par value. That to secure the payment of the cer tificates ol loan or bonds so as aforesaid to be issued, and also of the interest ac cruing on the same, the President and Directors of this Company be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to execute a deed of mortgage, transferring all and singular the real and personal es tate, property and effects now belonging tifiration of the fortunes of Cuba with the i under the cover of night and brought southern States, kindred to them as she home, while in every other instance in is in institutions, wc yet cannot look with ! that city, the law has been openly resisted approbation on this wild and hair-brained by the populace; the owners of the slaves undertaking. To say nothing of the im-1 while in pursuit of their property have to this Company, and j subsequent deed of all the real or personal property or ef fects which may be acquired by this Com pany from the proceeds of the sales of the certificates of loan or bonds, to be is- sued as aforesaid; in which said several deeds, all such covenants, conditions, uses and trusts shall be contained as to the President and Directors shall seem expe dient and proper. - Wo learn that in pursuance «f the said resolution, General Harllee, the Presi dent of the Company, has gone on to New-York for the purpoee of negotiating the loan, and that he will be assisted in that business by Messrs. J. Eli Gregg> and Henry Nutt. HOW THEY TALI IN GEORGIA. We copy the following from the Colum- tms Times, a true Southern Rights paper, which will be gratifying to the friends of Secession, as it shows that there are ma ny faithful even among the feithlese: South Carolina.—The movements of this gallant State—the Standard-bearer of Soutliern Rights—are regarded with in tense interest, all over the Union. We have refrained from assuming to be one of South Carolina’s “outside advisers.” Our thoughts and feelings are fully enough defiend in our own mind and heart. But we are the citizens of a submission State, and do not feel at liberty to advise our neighbors to rush into the breach of an untried experiment, and incur hazards and responsibilities which Georgia has distinctly declined for the present. Our heart is with that gallant people, In what ever they do. If they take the stand and force »used kvainst them, thousands of the citizens jf tins submission State will bk ready to stand by them, when /fcnjth Carolina becomes the Thermopylfe of the noble a cause, aa ever swelled the bosoms, South. ** or noived lb: arms or men. The Union As f shadows of cori|ug events,” and j —winch once like a spell, influenced the to show the feeling of tneqjpress, we copy public mind—has lout its magic pown r, two articles to-day; one from the Charles- and is now regarded as a curse—as tin ~ ~ j i * — ton Mercury nuA the oilier from the Edge- field Adcerliscr. We.hear it currently talked of—flippantly by her foes, and re gretfully by her friends—that Carolina will not act alone; that a growing sub- miseion party will prevent a thorough un ion of her people, and that without such union, the step would be fraught with ru in and danger. This mdy be so; but we are bound to say, wo have seen no evi dence of giving back in the press—the public sentinels of the State. Their tone' is as firm now. as it was when there was hope of co-operation from Virginia and Georgia in a common cause. Citizens of Darlington District! ye who are disposed to put off the evil day—who say a little more sleep, a little more slum ber, a little more folding of the hands,— read the following, which we copy from the Eufaula (Ala.) Spirit of the South: The Prospect.—Notwithstanding the difficulties under which the Southern- Rights party has labored, every friend of the South must rejoice at the real pro gress of the movement, and of the effects which may be clearly traced to it. It is true, that the North has had bold and unscrupulous allies at the South, who have used all their power and influence to fasten the yoke of bondage upon her —who have traduced her real friends, and apulauded her enemies—who have rejoiced at each new Southern defeat, and hailed with songs of triumph, each Nor thern victory—and who would now glad ly consign to eternal vassalage, themselves and their posterity, to receive from the Federal Government some slight token of regard; or for the want of something bet ter, they would feel amply repaid by the pleasure they would enjoy, in reading ac counts of “ glorious Union meetings,” to which the “ Godlike” has deigned to send a copy of his “stereotyped song of the Union”—and which “Harry of the West,” has condescended to notice by calling their attention to the merits of his “ ad justment.” Tho South ligg 1 thus fought against both her Northern and Southern enemies, and though she lost the battle, her troops retired in good order; and since that time, havobeen w aging such a war as to pro duce great constentotion in the camp of the toe. Look at the meetings which have been held at the North to convince the South that tlte former regarded the latter with sentiments of the most unbounded affection, and hatod the abolitionists with the holiest hatred. It is true, they did not make restitution of, or offer to make compensation for^the stolen property— the only certain symptoms of repentance which robbers caagive; but they did the next thing to it;jKy endeavored to con vince the south that the property never was hers— a iidMp l* 0 ®! her “ wounded honor,” by shStnhg that Cohb, who ex pects to be PreeuJent—That Toombs, who erected the “ masked battery*—that King, who will take the “ best he can get”—and that Foote, who is better at vaulting and turning sommersete than a circus rider, have all agreed that the south has actual ly lost nothing. To establish this point of their case, however, they do not introduce Mr. Clay as a witness, w ho asserted in the Senate that the “south had lost everything but her honor.” These things only show that the busi ness men in a few of the northern cities, became really alarmed at the evidences of dissatisfaction manifested at the &outh; and all the Union jubilees over which sub- miasionists have so much rejoiced, have resulted directly from the meetings which were held South of the Potomac. The tide of abolitionism lias not been checked at the North, and if not stopped by resistance men at the South, in five years its dark stream will roll over our land, and sweep away the institutions and the rights whicn we inherited Jrom our fathers. I.ook to the events which have marked the political history of the North, since passage of the so-called “ adjustment bill.” Vermont has nullified the fugitive slave law—and in the city of Boston -it has been openly resisted by violence. In Mas sachusetts, a coalition has been formed between the democrats and free-eoilers— and Sumner, one of the abolition leaders, has been nominated as their candidate. In New Hampshire,at the recent elections, free-soilisin was triumphant In New- York, Fish, a Seward-whig-free-eoiler, has been elected to the Senate of the United States, and the same tiling has oc curred in Ohio, by the election of Wade. I» Pennsylvania and Ohio, it is under stood that a majority of the members elected to Congress are pledged to urge the repeal of the fugitive law—and. in the Legislature of the former State, a bill aiking it a oenal offence to assist in the making it a pa recapture of a fugitive slave, was laid on the table-j-and in the latter State, are so lution was passed in the House of Rep resentatives, by an overwhelming majori ty, instructing the members of Congress to use all their influence to obtain a repeal of the obnoxious bill. The attempt at the North to impede the progress of abo lition, has signally failed—it is stronger there now than ever it was—and it will increase in strength, until the South shall present a firm and unftedJRYont. We said that the resistance movement at the South was gaining ground—and let those who doubfotook at the condition of the old parties, which once ruled supremely throughout the land. An attempt may be made to reorganize them, and with some degree of success but there will still be left a noble band, who, under attffe Leonidas, will fight a Thermopvten battle for the South. Look to the position taken by South Carolina and Maaiaaippi—to the 302)00 men in Georgia who nobly rallied around the banner of the South—and to the thousands and tens of thousands, all over our country, who are bonding their ener- Go to the cceRtry—and hear oM men snd young mew—maidens and matrons engine of oppression and ihe in. iniraent of ruin. Our peoplo^liave counted its costs—and are prepared to let it perish, rather lh^sacrifice rights, in which are involve#tne future welfare of. this coun try, thein e!ves,Mhid their posterity. MISSISSIPPI AND VIRGINIA. The Students of the Virginia Univer sity may well feel proud of the com mendation of their course, which is con veyed in the greeting of the Central Association of Mississippi, which will ho found below. The names attached to that document give it a weight and a significance which suah documents seldom cany with them, for the gallant Whig gover nor of the State, Guion, heads the list, which contaivwlso names equally well known wnd rejected. jjflkUMVKiuiTY OF Virginia, April 3, 1861. To the Editors of the Southern Press: Gentlemen: In accordance with in structions from the Southern Rights Association of the University of Virgi nia, wo herewith transmit to you lor publication, the brief but eloquent Ad dress from the “Central .Southern Rights Association of Mississippi, to the Southern Rights Association of the University of Virginia.” E. C. Field, \ Corresponding A. II. Banks, { Secretaries. The Central Southern Rights Associa tion of Mississippi, to the Soutliern Rights Association of the University of Virginia: Mr^Prtmdenl and Gentlemen: With the deepest ^ensure and highest pride we perceivelyour organization, your address to die young men of the South, and your resolutions and we cannot forbear sending you our ardent gratula- tion-f Nfwave nothing adulatory to offer. We would say simply what we think and feel. Your just and clear concep tion of the rapacities and spoliations perpetrated—never to be endured—and of the greater outrage conspired; your sense of the present degradation and peril of the South; and the spirit yon pledgee! for retrievement and for future safety—all come opportunely to cheer tho heart and illumine the prospect of every patriot' We rejoice that you have, in your Alma Mater, put on the toga virilis, and that it is not to become a garment of degeneracy and submission. Emula ted be your example! Your day opens. Take charge of the wrongs and indig nities of the South, to redress them, and look to her coming destinies. You will take counsel of your senior patriots, who are In ihe arena; but we ask you not to permit Tazewell and Cheves to leave us in despair; but bring up to them, in their last hallowed hours, the Southern people united! Mississippi is with you. In conclusion of this brief salutation, allow us to say, that if Virginia shall act upon tlie repeated resolutions of her legislature, and assume and take and keep the lead of the assailed States, all will bo well—the South will unite—the compact of the States will be restored —and the hopeful Union which it form ed, sent onward to future generations; but all this depends on the future ac tion of Virginia. Jackson, Febuary 15, 1851. J. S. Guion, President. Chas Dudley, Wm. F. Austin, Vice 'residents. M. Homer Smythe^ C. P. Russell, Recording Secretaries. A. Hutchinson, C. S. Tarpley, T. J. Wharton, E. Bardsdale, Corresponding Committee. Rich. Gritfith, Treasurer. D. N. Barrows, James McDonald, R. Dickson, Finance Committee. James C. Napon, Jo. Boll, Geo. M. L. Smith, J. J. Davenport, J. S. Fitz patrick, Executive Committee. ”*4*'—— THE FUGITIVE'S SITIN' On Saturday morning last (says the Savannah Georgian.) the brig Acorn arrived at our wharves, having on board Mr. Potter’# negro, Sima, in chSrge of four Deputy U. S. Marshals and four Special Officers. The Acorn made tho run from Boston to this port in the short space of five days. We learn that Sims attempted to wake a hypocritical speech on reacbiafNiie wharf, in which he denounced the Abolitionist, and con gratulated himself that he had been once more permitted to tread the hos pitable soil of Georgia. Si/ns was brought from the brig to Justice Raifojiu’s office, where. it ap pears the Boston officers went through the form of surrendering him taihe au thorities of this city. We would have been better please' 1 if hejiad been taken directly vessel to thajail as any other negro wdfiM have been. The attaching so much importsee to affair looka supremely ridiculous. (£7“ A terrible calamity by fire o cured in Elizabeth, Harmon Count Indiana a few days since. The dwe of John Hanogan was totally eoi .r wlmt •• 10 ntah), M H. his wite, seven children, and mothe in-law, Patrick Sloan, and a man whoi name was not Wown, twelve par-on sll evincing the deepest w,teiwt,in aa J all perished in the flails,