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TI1K SOUTHERN PRESS.
WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, August 9, 185i. ?
Valedictory.
Witli line number, the publication of the
Southern I'ren ceases.
The main cause of this result is the delinquency
of its subscribers. There are now over
forty thousand dollars due the paper for subscriptions,
and this is only the beginning of its
third year. And if this sum were now all paid
in hand, it would not indemnify the proprietor
and senior editor for his pecuniary advances,
liabilities and services in the undertaking. But
by the stoppage the receipts and liabilities
for the current year are stopped. It was
not, however, we believe, ever seriously expected
that subscriptions alone would sustain
such a paper. No paper has been attempted here
on auch a basis. And as this paper could not expect
a share even of the business advertising of
the place, or of the government printing; and us
its subscriptions must proceed from one section
of the Union only, and that the less populous,
ana in Iact trom a portion oniy 01 mat, n impendence
on subscriptions alone, was out of the
question. It was accordingly suggested and
supposed, that a fund would be provided, but
that was never done. But it was urged on the
senior editor to assume the responsibility of the
publication, with an assurance that whatever
funda might be found necessary, would be forthcoming.
But when such funds were wanted
they were not to be had, except tiiat about the
close of the first year, or beginning of the second,
some seven thousand dollars were contributed
by a few gentlemen iu South Carolina,
the greater part of which was obtuined by the
personal solicitation of his colleague, Mr. He
Lion, a part of it as an advance for future subscriptions.
The senior editor deems a statement of these
facta an act of justice to himself, because he has
been reproached, not so much in the North as
by the minions of Submission in the South, as
a hireling, or a mercenary, who assumed the conduct
of this paper for speculation or for pay ;
whereas neither his habits, circumstances, nor
opinions oould have induced him to seek to make
money out of a newspaper. He has al ways looked
on an investment of cspital, skill or labor in
a newspaper, as the most desperate of all the
games of hazard?more so than s lottery. Still
he admits tbV^he thought such a paper as
the Southern Press might support itself, and
might even pay. He saw that was the case with
the Abolition paper heie, and did not dream
that a Southern paper would be inferior to that
in support?although no probable amount of
auch support, could have been any temptation to
him.
But six months naa not eispsea uiier me ursi
number was issued, before it was apparent not
only that the paper would not pay, but that it
would not support itself. The South was divided,
and a Urge majority agreed to rejoice, to
submit, or to acquiesce, in measures which we
regarded and still regard with abhorence, and
hence our position became one of antagonism
Jontv of the Southern States and
people. It was then evident that this paper
would have to be sustained in part by the extra
aid of those in favor of the position it had stedfaatly
maintained from the beginning. And it
was soon equally apparent that this aid waa uncertain
and inadequate. The senior editor resolved
then thst he would contribute to sustain
the enterprise to m great an amount as any man
in the South?tlthougb there are many there
of much greater wealth than himaelf, and who
had besides, what he had not, a direct interest in
lave property. That resolution he has more
than fulfilled. He has now contributed, not
merely of time, or of labor, but of money, not
only more than any other man in the Sooth, ao
far as he ia informed, but more than all the men,
and all the State* of the 8outh put together,
Jar the common raute nf tne ivwirn. nay more
than any person did in the revolution of which
he haa read, certainly more than Gen. Wash
motor did, in the name time. It is true that
the senior editor had a personal interest, and
personal pride in this particular undertaking, beyond
others?and hence haa been led to go
further than perhaps he would have done otherwise.
Bat it is also due to himself to say that
for the last eight yeara he has been deeply impressed
with the danger to hie native land, resulting
from the progress of abolition is the
North, and hence resolved that in any struggle
for its rights ^nd asfsty, he would perform the
whole duty %bich devolved on s son of the
South?so that he would feel entirely absolved
from ail responsibility for her fate.
The Southern people are divided from the
Northern by a distinct geographical line?bj
difference of institution#, manners, climate, pur
suits, literature, and politics. The two oectmni
do not agree ia the meaning of the compact bj
which they are united. But above, all they an
divided in opinion in moral sen'imeot, on i
a question, in which the existence of the wholi
Southern system of eoclety, and the safety o
its hearths, ita wives and daughters anc
children, is Involved. And the North haa tin
majority, and this haa become a majority gov
eminent In such a atsts of things a conflict i<
sa inevitable as destiny. But the conflict migS
be a moral "one exclusively. and certainly wouli
be at first In such a conflict the newspaper i
the great engine of the straggle. And a news
paper at the seat of the common governmenl
to make the defeoce of the Month against the in
rnsant aasaslts of the Northern press and c
the hostile Dreaa of the District, ia ohviou-lv rnr
portent.
To this position Ui? two editor* of thi? pre*
were called. Speaking now for himself, th
senior editor haa to say that he could not hav
refoaed aoch a call wHhoot aelf-reproach. Sac
pre** had for year* been a darling object r
\ Mr. Calhoum, who had ateadily in?i*ted thi
the aenior editor of thia paper ahould rondo*
it. He undertook the taak, not to defend alar*
property alone, but all property?and to d<
fend the whole ayeteai of Southern enr.iet
which he eonaidered the beat, the world had y<
eeen on an extensive acale. Yet, in thia po?
tjon he haa not received the material aid, or U
uctnal aympathy which ia extended to To
Htkr or Yakkkk Suluvaji in their pngilint
eon teat* Kither of them conld at any tim
miy, each tham haa. when he wanted it, T<
reived more peraniary aid front hie barker*.
Nay, GaaifT Suith, a eingie man, haa eoi
jnI.nied mora money for the stealing of thn
negroes from this District, than all the South
' baa done for the defence here of a property in
three millioue.
But wo relied on no favors. We asked our
subscribers to pay up?not according to the
terms of the paper, which required payment in
advance?but to pay at the end of the year, when
lie had furnished thein the paper in advance.
They knew we had been meanly deprived of the
executive printing, which was ours by law. They
knew we were proscribed by Congress. They
knew we were proscribed by the business interest
of tho city. We had assured them it was
impossible by any corps of collectors we could
find to call on all of them in any reasonable period,
even at great expense. And hence the
| debts due the paper really became debts of
honor. And when, finally, all the Southern
members resolved to reunite with the Democratic
party, and to "adhere to and abide by
the faithful execution" of the compromise measures,
we knew that all parties were hostile to us
because they knew we would expose their shufU
ings, equivocations ai}d,bumbug8. We, therefore,
turned to our subscribers and requested them,
in such terms as one gentleman uses to others,
to transmit their arrearages. Wo have received,
indeed, a largo number of letters, all endorsing |
I the course of the senior editor of this paper in
refusing to assume a party position, but out of
| the whole amount now due, wo have not receivI
ed, in the course of the last month, three hundred
dollars. Of course, many of our delinquent I
subscribers did not mean not to pay. They
were only negligent; but that was tho case with i
the five foolish virgine. We could not wait indefinitely,
and pay indefinitely, until they concluded
to wake up and look for oil.
Mr. Bukkf. said about sixty years ago that
the ago of chivalry had passed. lie was mistaken?or
at least if it had passed, it has returned.
But it re appears under a new aspect?
with a reversed aspect. Of old it was the custom
of men who were knights, to go about and combat
for the relief of the weaker sex?to rescue
j distressed damsels from the power and passions
of tyrants and bandits. Now the very women
have seized the lance. We dreaded the social
system of Massachusetts which allotted fifty
thousand of the women to toil?twelve thousand
maidens in Lowell alone?whilst their lovers
went oil" to the fisheries, to the West and to
California. But we did not anticipate the full
j extent of the evil. Now we ehull be in dread
that Aunt Harriett Belcher Stoyve will
some of these days lead down into the sunny
; cotton fields of the South, a host of Massachusetts
young women armed with broomsticks to
rescue from captivity the dark skinned George
Harrises, whom she has so elegantly described in
Uncle TorrCt Cabin, as more beautiful, brave,
gallant, liberal, intelligent, and moral than their
masters.
If her descriptions are true, and they are so
considered in the North, who can tell what visions
of love and romauce will fire the bosoms
of the now deserted daughters of Massachusetts?
The Saracens carried their conquering
arms to th?^|^b?^uropean capitals, fighting
with 4 valor. jBBJpd by the faith of Hying at
once the arms of ilouris, if death came on
the field of battle. But what sort of incentive
was that, compared with the hope, not only of
I overthrowing the accursed system of slavery;
1 not *-?ly of bidding the oppressed go free ; not
only of knocking off iron chains, but of patting
on silken chains, the chains of matrimony on s
! ?... l..j j >l j ? i 1
en nuuureu muuwi.u 01 n.masome, accomplished
and sentimental black and molatto young
fellows like George Harris ? And against such
an onset as the maidens of Massachusetts, snd
other New England States, may make, we
tremble for the traditional chivalif of the South,
I after what we have seen of it.
The views of Mr. Calhou* on the question
of slavery have now all been vindicated by
events. His speeches were prophecies. Yet,
except from his own State, he was almost universally
opposed and denounced. We have repeatedly
seen him deserted in Congress by all
his professed friends. He was a man the most
hopeful, and of the moat amiable disposition
; and equanimity we ever knew, but one. Yet
we have heard from his own lips on such occasions,
the language of a spirit, stricken with that
sentiment the most terrible of all, the loaa of
! faith in fellow-men. It was quite the fashion
among Southern members to show their great
' independence and profundity by differing fron
\ him, and presenting plans of Southern polie' of
! their own. And now the Smith h?? m?/i. the
i ! haUj, ^jHhc haa displayed her sagacity by the
variv^' if her expedient*, and the conuaion of
> I her coanaels. Continual divisions h?va characi
Leriaed her tactics, and her only aeiievement i?
I ' defeat Bat eho haa at laat reached a grand
desrderalum. Sha haa arrival at the long da>
I aired Union of the Sooth. .*nd that ha* been
' ' found in aobmieeion?-ubm^aion, not to power,
not to law, not to neceauty, which binda all
' j men and Statoa, witb <v without tlx-ir will?
1 i bot ehe haa pronoaneed her own voluntary de*
deration of op;nion h faror of tobmisaion?o(
1 "abiding by an 1 adhering to" measure* w'nrh
* the once unanimntnly 'i^ooBW'"i, and for whkh
f several of Iter Statea contemplated disunion.?
I ' Such waa the beheat of parly, and aoch ti.e
* power of party.
And to this even Sooth Carolina appears to
1 ham hie her?-lf.
t And does abe aoppoae ahe will fnd in caae of
1 Democratic aooceea, her ahare of rffice or apoil*
I ?doea abe expect to realixe froir the chaw* ol
" a chance, an equivalent for the (ignity, conaiab
tenry, and character ahe hid !?ahe that
' yeaterday proclaimed the compiamiae to h *uch
^ a robbery ard outrage?doea rf,e now ' adhere
*" to and abide by ita faiibfol o:ecotion T" W<
1 can tell 8ooth Carolina and al the Sooth thert
" ia no eqaivaleat. The worf of a state, of i
* ' people, of a section ia more inportant than tha
* of a man?more than the cbiatity of a woman
h We, pestilence, and famin* fire and flood , maj
visit a coontry arid from a'l these effect* it mat
't recover H it a HamnriLi)'.! nurinin nrinn
;t dom ve-viaite, and day never dawna on the i gh
*- of their ahame. ( Booth Carolina ie a very goo<
" ' head of a State right* party.y She never can b
J' anything hut the tail of a national Demoerati
st one, and a tail that will M continually trodde
on.
16 We cannot conclude without returning on
* moat cordial thaQka to the author of the article
* which have appeared in thi* paper, from w
e, Northern man and a triend to the L'nioo," an
for all hie " Relica of Scrape and Muainga."
the Southern Prtt* had done nothing n>' re tha
n- to publieh theee, it would have aeeoropliahe
?e the mieaion ita original friend* aaaigned it. TV
#
^
- as-.smUJ* jitarfmiMiHfa MIIiIUm Hi l
! au'hor of these article* is the la*t of Northern
' men who haa performed to the common country
| the dulies of a patriot and statesman with the
superadded abilities of a scholar and philosopher.
Those in arrears to the Southern Press will
please remit without delay. The very few who
have paid in advance for the current yeur, will
huve their money returned.
The senior editor and proprietor has
announced the discontinuance of the Southern
Press. My valedictory shall be brief. Wo
have differed and still differ on a question of
policy?on principles never. My own views
were so fully expressed on the 3d of July, as
not to need repetition. Subsequent events
have but confirmed my convictions on those
' points, but my difference with my colleague
could not change my relations to the Press, so
long as 1 could consistently adhere to it. As I
fca^y its cradle so 1 have followed its hearse.
I have neither regrets nor reproaches for the
past?for the future the Southern people must
provide, and if they are content to be without
j voie# or organ here, in the federal metropolis,
theirs must be the responsibility, theirs the peril
and theirs the consequences, Eor five years 1
have devoted all my means, my time and my
energies to the advocacy of the Southern cause.
The sense of duty performed has been my roIo
reward ; and whatever my sacrifices or sufferings
may tiave been, that conviction lias supported,
and can still support me, against the active hos.
tility of enemies, and the cold comfort of professing
friends. In so far as the Southern Pi ess
is concerned, ray mission is ended. In any other
field of labor in the same cause 1 am still will
ing and anxious to engage.
It is unnecessary for me to add to this short,
and as I trust, distinct exposition of my present
position, that preference for the Democratic
ticket and the success of its nominees comprises
the entire difference between myself and my
associate. EDWIN De LEON.
Washington, August 8, 1852.
The Age of Cant.
The editor of the New York Tribune recently
received and published from some citizen of the
i 1 ? ?l ? i l.ll.. < ii _ l
wjisuui auu a Biu?cuuiuor, a ,ul,fc5 lontrr, mil Ul
Admiration for the Tribune and its editor, and
full of condemnation of slavery. The writer
says he intends to remove to Illinois.
We wish every man in the South who is a
slaveholder and yet opposed to slavery would
move out of it. We have no respect for anybody
who lives in the daily commission of what
he considers a sin, particularly when his chief
motive must be avarice. As for the pretended
difficulty of getting clear of slavery which such
men urge, it is all affectation. Any man who
holds slaves may easily get rid of slavery by
emancipating them and removing them and himself
to the North. And any such man has
enough landed and personal property to pay the
expense of the migration. As for the slave
holders who are friends of emancipation and yet
wait for some general and feasible scheme of
emancipation, and the meanwhile hold their
slaves, we have as little respect for them. A
drunkard might as well wait for the discovery
of somo universal plan of temperance, and yet
continue to get drunk. Not much more respect1
have we for those who contend for emancipation
ami lament the evils of slavery, and lay the
blame on the mother country for inflicting it
upon us, and yet postpone until death the emancipation
of their own slaves. Much morality is
little better than to spend a life of robbery and
fraud, and bequeath the proceeds to churches
and charities.
The editor of the Tribune is right in one
| unng. ne suya inai u slavery is wrong, II
J ought to be abolished immediately by ail the
parties coocerged. 80 say we.
Bat the editor of the Tribune says slavery it
wrong. He either drn't understand himself, or
he is grosaly inconstant. And to prove it, we
new put to him ? couple of questions, which
we dare and deO hira to answer: la war wrong?
If it is, onghtme,/to United State*, to abolish it
at once?a#! to disband our army, lay up oar
nary, and molt up our ordnance? Now wo
know tb- editor of the Tribune cannot answer |
these locations at all?dare not. And hence
his ? hole system is absurd.
1'be troth is, r.either war nor alarery is an
nil, but is the remedy and correction of evils
, to some extent Bleeding and purging are not
evils, but the remedies of disease.
From the Wxst Ihdieb.?By the barque
Princeton, CapC Swlev, we have a file of the
Georgetown (British Gainra) (iazette, to the
I 1 ftth of Jaly, but it contains little information
I of value in this meridian. The custom hou e
returns of produce, on which the export duty
has been levied at Georgetown, during the six
month ending June 30, were as follows
'JO 900 hhd*., 1,269 tc?M 3,804 hb's. sugar; 300
pun., 15 hhds., 1 bbl. molaaae-; 1,"25 pan., 309
hhds . I A3 bbla. rum.
M. Vidal de Lingendoa, attorney gemralof
French Gnisna, had arrived at Georgetown, on
| hia way to France, which he waa about to vi#?l
with a hope of improvannnt to hia iaspairrd
!>oalth. I la atatad that the colony waa perfectly
healthy whan ha Wt The new penal colony,
formed hp daaaae of the PreeHent of the Fr* nrh
republic, waa exciting grmt internal. This ia.
landa of Royals and 8t. Joeeph, of which it i?
I compoaed, are twelve leagues to the went ward
i of Cayenne, and were already inhabited by fifteen
hundred of the tran*porte. The locition,
however, ia only temporary, it being the intcnJ
tion of the governor to eelect one more suitable
for the intended purpose. That portion of the
' I transports condemned for political offences are
to be confined on one of the Romire Islands,
which are nearer than the others to Cayenne.
TTie editor of the Charleston Courier has
1 seen a sample of what the Indians of the Aim'
(M call 'Ziminma." It ia the production of
a tree growing'wild in that valley, and used by
. its inhabitants for their fine textures. It somewhat
resembles in appearance and fineness our
1 costly Sea Island cottons, but with much less
' strength of staple. The above sample wss sent
- J to Charleston by Lieutenant Maury, United
f States nsvy, who is now devoting himself to the
. development of the immense resources of that
' fertile region, with the earnest hope of making
| them subservient to the mercantile purposes of
1 I this country.
Jj ?
e A writer in the ?VWion*l frUtlligrneer estimates
c the value of coffee consumed in the United States,
n England, and France, at $59,000,000, tea in Europe
and America at $35,000,000, and indigo $31 ,r
000,000. He states that the genuine tea tree, in
^ it* full perfection, grows to a height of forty oi
- fifty feet, and is cultivated from latitude 370 deg
to 33 deg. north latitude, under sever* frosts anc
I?now?, iin4 rnnny of the monnUina, high upoi
whoae aide* the plant grow*, are capped witl
"J perpetual anow. Th# idee that tea will onl]
flourieh in a hot climau appear* to be erroneona
lie recommend* the cultivation of both tea am
- ?'?
F
indigo, for which the cliuiale and eoil of different
section* of this country are well adapted, lie
say* :
Tea can he procured in this country under seven
cent* a pound, calculating labor at fifty cents per
diein. A tea plantation requires care the first and
second years, utter which it in a most hardy plant, |
and will yield tea for twenty-five to thirty years, i
So the only trouble is plucking the leaves and dry- |
ing them, which is labor for women and children.
A man actively engaged ten hours of the day may
collect fifty to sixty pounds of green leaf, and
another would manufacture them, and the (plan
tity of drieu ten would be twelve and a half to I
fifteen pounds. A fair plantation would produce j
300 pounds per acre. I have made us much on
480 pounds per acre in the year on some land I
held on the west of China.
Of indigo he in equally sanguine, and denies
that its cultivation is unhealthy; nor is that its
character where il is known and cultivated. I le
is of opinion that it can be produced here under
thirty cente per pound. Prices of indigo for the
last forty years vary from #1 to $2 per pound.
Fur the Su uUiera Prtss.
Kelica of Scrap* and Musings.
No. 105.
THE ANTMIHNTEIIS OF NEW VOltK.
It will be seen by a murder committed?
through mistake?that is, mistaking one innocent
man for another?that the Anti-Renters
still continue to triuin) h over the laws of the
State of New York. Cut) anyone wonder tit
this, when it is recollected that (iovernor Hunt
owes his election to their votes; that the Whig
nartv in that State is denendent. in a ureal men
?"?" ?t?ir Bnnunrt. und that of the Abolitionists,
und that the late Governor Young, who wan
the first who openly appealed to the Anti lientors,
and by that means secured his election,
waa nfterwarda oppointed by the President, and
the appointment ratified by the Senate of the
United Stated, receiver generul of the public
revei. uos at the port of New Yoik, one of the
moat responsible and honorable offices under
the government ? In addition to these honors,
the ex governor was almost canonized as a
saint, in a glowing panegyric in one of the newspaper!'.
Out nil nisi bonum, tf-c.
This anti-rentism is becoming a Herious affair
in the Empire Stuto. It is said they can poll
ten thousand votes, and ten thousand votes are
decisive in a contested election, consequently
we have for some years past seen appeals either
indirectly by impunity for their past outrages,
or directly by promises or at least encouragement
of the like impunity for futuro ones, in
order to secure the support of these outlaws to
that parly which ia moat indulgent to their excesses.
The resulr is becoming every day more
evident. They are too strong for the civil power,
and nothing now remains but either for the
State to compound with the proprietors of these
old manors at the expense of the people, or assert
their rights by calling out a military force'
and compelling obedience at the point of the
bayonet, llad prompt measures beeu taken in
the first instance to arrest the spirit of anli-rentiam
by inflicting exemplary punishment on the
offenders,such an alternative could never have
presented itself. But instead of this, the violators
of the laws were supported in their part j
and encouraged to now excesses by unprincipled
politicians, such as Goveriioijfpung, and Governor
Ifuat, a! 1 great Jljroli of the higher;
law, who aspires to make not only governors j
but Presidents. These selfish demagogues care j
not what injuries they iniiict on the rights of
property *r the groat general Interests of their
fellow citizens, provided they can thus gratify
their grovelling lickspittle ambition, for offices
they cannot aspirg lo on the ground of their own i
merits or s rvicss. They have thus placed the i
great Statu of New Vork in a position before
the sister States and tiie world, where the onlv
alternative is, either to concede to there outlaw ,
all their unreasonable demand', end thus estab- <
lish a precedent which will justify every man in
refasing to pay his rent, or vindicate the major- ,
ity of the iaw at the expense of the blood of its
citizens.
THE NEW CONSTITUTION.
I observe that the devotees of the com promise
have dignified it with the appellation of ' The
new Constitution." This is a capital iJe?, and
will, if generally adopted, answer all the purposes
of lite "higher law." A majority in Congress
may then make a new constitution when
it pleases, without going through the tedious
process prescribed by that instrument, and it
will becone as flexible as the oommon law,
whose grsat excellence is said to bo Uist like a
weathercock, it adapts its* If to every wind that |
blow;. tyr this new method of making constitutions,
oraltering them by a vote of Congress*
the arnent of three-fourth* of Uio State* in their
sovereign lap icity?which they ut leant are permitted
to exercise in thin instance?will no Ion
ger be nvtessary, aud constitutional objection*
become "pure gammon,'1 a* the member* say
Ins'-oad ot appealing to constitution*, we mu*>
{ appeal to the compromise, which will be "a final!
ity"?until another c impromise is made and
mother finality established?foe the time being.
Congress will tbu* become, like the Parliament
of Kngland, omnipotent; there will be no more
occasion for a supreme court to docido constitutionsl
question*; and no other power in the
government hot that of legislation. Thoee great
balance* whieh are indiepenaible to the prevention
of despotism, In all government* whatever
rum* or form they may aaaume, will be utterly
annihilated, and the maxim that "the king caa
do no wrong," apply with much greater force
to our legislator*. Truly we are making great
uprogreea." It reeros to me we are going at
aoch a rate that we thai I eoon make the circle,
and come back agpin to the dirine right of legi*
lation as a substitute for the dirine right of
: king*. Thua as 8hsk*peare, the great port, and
f still greater philosopher saya: "From time to
i time we ripe and ripe, and then from time to
! time we rot and rot?and thereby hangs a tale."
CREDULITY.
It is difficult to say which is most crednlous
in this age of progress,ignoranee or knowledge.
Both alike seem to believe alt things possible.
What one ascribe# to neen mancy, or supernatural
agency, the other accounts for orf scientific
principles", and thus those who know nothing,
. and those who pretend to know a great deai,
harmoniously unite in all sorts of superstitions.
One believes in spiritual, the other material
i agency, and what ignorance atcribes to the an
, preme power, acience places to the credit of
chemistry and electricity. The only difference
- is that ons deals in first, the other in second
1 causes. F ir my part, I belong to the former
sett, and if I must believe in spiritual knock|
ings, spiritual visitations, spiritual biae lights
and spiritual poetry w ithout any spirit, I srn for
, Sfn'nK directly to the fountain head without
f having anything to do with chimeatry, galvin.
iam, electricity or arty other second-hand agonJ
ey.
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Latkr I'Rom Buknos Ayrls.? By the air
val of the ship Paruna, at New York, we liav
advices froru Buenoa Ayres to the 12th of Juiu
'l'here has been u meeting of the representative
of the diH^rent provinces of the Argentine Hi
public, at which ton of the provinces wore repn
si*ntod by their governors in person. Thro
were not represented.
Urt|iiizi look the outli of office,assumed tli
functions of general in chief, and made an ad
dress promising to inuintiiin the rights and libei
ties, and preserve lire internal and externa
peace of the Argentine confederation, it close
than;
"My political progrnmm, whie.li is founded o
the p.inciples of order, fraternity, and oblivioi
of all the past, and all the acts of my public lift
are the guaranty that I give you of the promis
which I have just made, and witli it you ma;
rest assured, that when tile nutionul congrchue
sanctioned the constitution of the State, am
the confederate communities have entered inti
the constitutional path, I will deliver tip to i
the deposit you have confided to me, with i
tram)ail conscience, and without louring the vcr
diet of public opinion, or the judgment of pos
terity."
'I'll? national document agreed upon by tin
national conference, recognises the treaty t>
January 4, 1831, and charges the representalivi
of the foreign relation!), with its due obaerVann
throughout the republic. It provides for abolish
ing the transit duties, and for the uhscmbliige o
a congress at Santa Fo during the prosen
month. This congress is to consist of tw<
delegates from each province, to be elected b)
the popular voice, to be untrammelled by in
ntr Hi'J ifnia. nn/1 flm mSrt/\i?itvf
dee-iaion of llio nuiyritv- wiiiuiut dissent or pro
tent. I his Lody ih to decide C7T7T pcriDflTTBn
location of the constituent congress.
To defray the national expenses, the province!
ngroed to contribute in proportion to the pro
duct of their foreign custom houses, and thai
the punuumcnt establishment of the nations
exports shall be fixed by the congress.
To secure the internal order and peace o
the republic, the high contracting powers en
gage to combine their efforts In preventing oper
hoalilities, or putting down artued insurrections
and the better to promote these objects, (Jen
Urquiza is recognised as general in chief of ih<
armies of ,tlie confederation with the title ol
"Provi ionai director of the Argentine confede
ration."
It was agreed to invite the unrepresented pro
vinces, Cordoba, Sal la and Jujuy, to give ir
their adherence to, the arrangements.
Beef akd Politics.?We learn from thi
Louisville Courier that a well known butchei
of th it city, the other morning, bought a couple
of fine bceveH weighing 1531 pounds net, at
5 3-4 cents per pound. This, in the aggregate,
amounted to $88 04. .Soon after he made the
purchase, a couple of Democrats, in a spirit ol
banter, ( tiered to give him 15 cent per pound,
for the cattle, payable on the election of Gen,
Scott to the Presidency. He at onee took the
banter, transferred the cattle, and received their
notes as per contract.
The Bangor Mercury reports the following
instnnce of remarkable respect for treaty stipulations,
and property rights:
" A Codfish, supposed to have wandered
from the fishing-grounds, was taken off Mon
In gan, a day or two since, but the letters V R
being found upon him, it was clear that he belonged
to Her jVTigisty Victoria, and accordingly
his captors let him go. There conscientious
regard for the rights of others will be ap
predated, when it is stated that there was no
British cruiser in sight. The Hah also bore u
distinct impression of two large ears, supposed
to be the private mark of the Earl of Derby."
t-rSf" Call not that man wretched who, what
ever else lie suffers as to pain inflicted, pleasure
denied, has a child for whom ho hopes, and on
whom lie dotes, i'overty may grind him to the
dust, obscurity may cant ita ilnikebl lliailtle < # r
him, the song of the gay may be far from his own
dwelling, his face may be unknown to his neighbor*,
and his voice mny be unheeded among
Lho*e with whom ho dwell*,?even pain may
rr.ck his joints, and sleep flee from his pillow;
but he has a gem with which he would not part
wealth defying computation, for fame tilling a
world's ear, for the luxury of the highest wealth.
i>r ti.e sweetest sleep that ever sal upon a nn>roye.?(
Coleridge.
The TELt&raphis California.?The P!arrT
Timer, of lhe30lh of June, says:?"Messrs.
I'.nrnham and Allen obtained from the last
legislature, a charter for the construction of a
line of telegraph from this city to Marysville,
via Han Jose, H'ockton and Hncrmmento. The
ft gives these gentlemen the exclusive right to
construct s line over the route specified, and to
u o it for the period of fifteen years. Mcsar'.
Bnrnliain and Allen hnve perfected their arrange,
ment* for an en ly completion of the work, if
Kufficiufit Indue, nrctita should bo given by S.th
Francisco, and the towns through w hich the line
is intended Ui j?a?*, to justify such an undorlsk
ing, which we believe will lie the case. Itook*
imve Ireen opened in tlifd city for anbscripiion
to the stock of the company.
Threat to NWallow a Htsam Boiler ?
Twenty seven years sgo a committee of the
I louse of Commons was appointed to exmiine
into the slate of steam navigation. I<ord Htenl?y
was chairman of that committee, and on Mr.
?. ibert Stephenson, the eminent engineer,speaking
of lbs probability of ctesmshipi crossing the
Atlantic., Lord Stanley rote from his seat and
exclaimed, " (iood heavens ! what do yon any ?
If Mteainship* cross llm Atlantic, I will cat the
boiler of the firkt ship! H
Buffalo, August 3, 1852.
TheCholera still prevails in this city and several
deaths have occored, but only in pjrticnlai
neighborhoods, sod from local causes. The mnr
laiily of the city is greater than usual, but there
is no panic, nor much fear of the dieer se spreading.
The weather is clear, and the air pore. Hun
day waa the most fetal day; but since then, ttu
caaee have been more mild ami scarce. The die
es?.t at first, appeared mors virulent than for
marl '. many having died vary atohienly writ
rmly three or four hours' illness. Tire teiegaphi(
dUp.tch from Albany exaggerate* the mntter
The Toledo ft >hio) Republican contains th?
following paragraph.
A Fugitive Slavr ir Chf.murg.?Havara
Chemung county, Friday, Jaly 28 ?A week ag<
Inst Hundav a fugitive who had lived ft yesra n
Penn, fled from hereto Canada. The eonstsbli
of this place had p.iper* for him, but while hi
was hunting for hia prey and #100 reward, tin
frienda of the man were bn*y. Money was rai*
ed and the fogilive put beyond pursuit. (Jo
J people are thunder-stmck to think that so be*
a tiling liven in town as a slave iinnter. No fa
gitive can be taken from hare, and no mm ra
live here who has pocketed a reward for takin
one. Had our constable succeeded, the fngitiv
would have been re*med, and the constabl
wearing a coat of a different stripe.
TaKF. Mr Hat.? White Miss I.ndlnm a dsi
seu*o at the Cleveland theatre, was delightin
an audience with her fantastic gyrations a fe
nights since, n < tator, in the height of h
joy, cast his wnlte beaver at her feet. Th
dancer picked it up and retired amid thnnde
ing applause, leaving the generous doner co
er*d with glory, but without a hat.
APJUPTMBST OK Till r JSH*RY LJIFFICi; LT V.Wc
are enabled lo announce npon what we r
gsrd a* entirely satisfactory authority that tl
subject of the recent excitement in regard totl
New England fisheries has been arranged b
t ween Mr. Web'ter and Mr. Crarnpton in a ma
ner that will prove whollv satisfactory to t!
American people.? Wn*h Ttlfgraph.
The Eco Afl Cnnurcio, of Vera Cruz, sb
that a company has been formed in the capil
to purchase two steamships to make month
trips between Vera Cruz and New York ca
ing at the porta of Tampion, New Orleans, II
vans and Charleston.
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mmmmmmmt Winn i n r rM? aii.aan i, .m
i '1'nfc Prku oi America.?We make the fol
e lowing eloquent and truthful exlracta from the
). oration recently pronounced by lion. Robt. C.
m W intbrop, before tlie " Association of Aluiuni"
>- of Harvard College:
s- And then, the proas of America?the period ie
cvl press, the pamphlet press, the light literature
press, and above pll, the uewspuper press of
e America?that tremendous enginery which
1 throws a fresh broadeidu at morning and noon
- duy and evening, beneath utmost ever r< <
il the Republic, and whose competition oftt ,
m betray it into fatal compliance* with i - prejudices,
tlie passions, and even tlie prof '?:c;e? of
n its supporters. Who can estimate tin .I.k-iio.'
n of stieh an enginery upon our social end moral
i, condition 1 Who can calculate the ?rnii ,<>us
e effect upon the comtbunity of a aingfu ctrrropl,
y licentious newspaper, coining blunders like it
s mint, changing phases like the moon, ''with 3(>5
1 opinions in a year," upon every bill ject which ii
i treats, spicing its daily and its nightly potions
t with cv ry variety of piccene and sensual stimu^
lant, controlled by no sense of responsibility,
. (hiding its taby way to the knowledge and peru
. eal of tlie young, the ignorant, and the incxpuri
unced. and ininistitrmrr mid nuiidnrimr ir.
- -- n ( -..Mwiryg ''' vnv II
? diseased tastes and depraved appetites? And
f who can cnlculute, on the other hand, the ii flu)
eneo which misfit be produced?nay, let, mo nay,
> which is produced, tor I have in my mind, 1 thank
. Heaven, more than one example?by audi an
(' engine, in the hand* of upright, intelligent, in.
t dependent, and eoiiseieiiliona men?tv penning
> and advocating neither ultrabm nor criticisms,
i neither a wild fanaticism nor a bigoted eonaer
. viflisin?w ilh the fear of God before their eyes.
i wiih the love of truth in their hearts, and by
whom the advancement of knowledge, of tnor
I utt?/! ut-tit, ?'* Ii^rm ??rrvi u? *i?ut,oi inno-u, ,
not hold subordinate to the popularity of the
i hour, or to the etate of the subscription lint. .
The present accomplished and eloquent prime
t mini-ter of Midland, who In;s been personally
I known and cste. ntcd by so many of us in this
country as well ae hi* own, has recently deI
elarcd somcv h it emphatically, on the floor of
Parliament, that "as in these days the Engli-di
i press aspires to jJ ; re the influence of suites,
men, so also it uin-d share the repoiisibiliiie* ol
. statesmen." If would In* niore true in tlii
> country, I fear, to speak of statesmen aspiring
I to share tlie influence of the press. Hut, how.
ever it may he as to tlie point of relative aspiration,
there can be little question as to that of
comparative responsibility. Certainly, if rei
aponsibility ia to be measured by power, the
responsibility of the pre?s ia greater than that
of any sUteamau under tlmsun, however ex'
alted h4 d^iy be. WhtS haw fof|rotton that
' splendid exclamation of another- gre it English
> minister and orator, io 1810, when he challenged
and defied uli the authorities of the
i realm to contend against the power of the press?
i "Give them," said he, "a corrupt House of
Lords ; give them a vernal House of Commons;
, give them a tyrannical prince; give them u truck
. ling court; and let me but h-.ve an unlettered
i press?I will defy them to encroach a hair's
breadth upon thai liberties of Kngland." Yes,
an unfettered paps is a match, and an overmatch,
for alukat anything human. Neither
tyranny nor midotn can stand agaiust it.
Neither corru|8j8& nor virtue can survive its
systematic amUBBtvering assaults, it may be
rendered all JmtSBfni potent for evil; it may be
rendered all &|p;tJJ^nipoterit for good, according
to the ends to which it ia directed, and the
influence by which it is controlled. And the
only reliable, earthly influence to which we can
look for safety, is a sense of responsibility,
moral and religious responsibility, on the part
of its controller^
A case has beei^decided in the Dis'rict Court
for the county of ir. in Texas, which, if confirmed
in ilie Supreme Court, will operate, it is
said, to declare several thousands of blacks free,
who have been held heretofore aa slaves. A
slave woman was carried from the U. States
?o Auriin'nOviuii;, )> Texas, m ioan. oiavery
was not recognized by the laws of Mexico at the
time. The constitution of Coahuila and Texis
was proclaimed early in 1827, and the woman
the sut ject of suit, daughlt^Luf the original slave,
was born.on the Brazos an- ut the middle of
1827. When the constitution of 183G, was
adopted by the Republic of Texas, slavery was
established, and the mother slave was of the
class enumerated in that constitution as slaves.
Th? daughter having been born in the country,
wait not incladed by the provisions of the constitution.
In a suit, involving the question of the free
d>>ra of this girl, it has been decided that the
condition of blacks in the country during the
existence of the Mexican law was that of freedom,
and that the act of sovereign power in remanding
ilium to the original condition of slaves,
which they held when imported from the United
Stale*, did not ift'.ct their offspring born in the
country, before the adoption of the coiiatitution
of ihu Republic, who are consequently Irce.
I'aui khism is Kv;i.asi>.?From a recent Iv
glish work, * Paahluy <>n Pauperism and the
l'oor Liws." we glean the following facts: ?
The number of person# in Knglsnd and Wales
who receive parish relief, at some time during
the year, la three millions.
The number receiving relief throughout the
year is one million.
Out of this million, the nn ruber of sble bodied
adult male pauper*?men willing and physically
able to earn their daily bread, but unable to obtain
employment?ia upward* of three hnnd.cd
thousand.
The cumber of pauper children under the ?gr
of sixteen who are entirely dipsndent on pariah
relief, i? three hundred and filly thousand.
Daring the last century, the population ol
England has increased in the proportion of three
to one; bat the pauperism of Kngland has in'
creased in the proportion of eight to one.
A hundred'years ago, the outlay in relief ot
> the poor was little more than two shillings s
. head on the whole population; it now amount*
to nearly six shillings.
ALPHABKTICAL ADVICE.
i oow, rt,
A. Always attond to your avocation, avoid alehouses
and artful women.
B. Be benevolent but net prnfltgsl; bury all
1 bickerings In the bosom of forgetfulneae.
C. Contrive to collect cash nnd keep it.
< D. Do you duty and defy the devil.
> E. Etrly endear- r to eradicate every error, of
1 both head and hi art.
1 F. Fight fairly when you fight; but the b< t I
B ter way is nut to fight at all. Fidale for no
k fools.
P G. Grace, goodness, gumption, and s little
r goose grease, enable a man to slip through the
p w..rld mighty easy. (Jet them and glory in
them.
n II. Ilirbor hope in your^esrt, if you would
K be ha; py ; but bark ye, hope can't render rotten
e the rope of the hangman.
* I. InquimlivtrTies* u insuflVrnble; indulge not
in it.
1 J. Juleps m.iv be called th?. lil'oo rif tni n**A
g the yeast of jest; but let them alone, for too
w orach joking often destroys the joviality of the
J social circle . 7
|e K. Kindness kindlea the fire of friendship. A
r kiaa al vaya avails more than a kick.
Ii. L'.ve the ladies?look before y>u leap ;
eschew loalerism.
M. Make not mivhiefby middling with other
? folk a1 business.
e N. Never be caught napping except in the
tp night time.
ie U. Order is Heaven's first law ;obcy it.
e- ? ? - - -??
" Havassaii, August 3.?A disastrous confla
gration occurred here.this afternoon, destroying
70 houses, and involving a lose of $76,000 tr
ya $100,000. The flsmes swept everything freer
i?l Hah v street north to Margaret atrset, south si
ly far as l.aurel street, and east to Canal street
IT. The houses wore principally of wood, sod thui
In- the progress of the fire was with ditficnlty sr
Treated. One hundred families art left homeless
e5?6=:--i?*w -?^a. .y.
I ~~ J111.
BY AMNiB BRADY OK.D.
When llie days were long end golden
Where the truant jchool-boy laid f
Snares to catch the tunid rabbit,
And the cattle nought the ahade ;
When Ajuid the grain, the reapers
With Ujeir cheery songa and blithl
Kent a livtjy,grsc?ful ineaeure
To the RwS^gmg of tlie scythe ; ?
Who the)Wt?> * ij, yh|?f yi d a
With delight (tu .'itl whe'tne.
b tiif hia surging, u '"?jj^utt
'Mid the boughe elni
Wiien ebovenfin iiuittf^, (l
And beyouu Utf poplars
Hung the clouds like
From the brig hi \ky'& .aphire v
* In the homtm of* maul
Love was trembling, like the glea'i ^
That through the forest shadows stee
Liver on the shaded streams ; ^Jk Jjj'
i-ur, a nouie neart nail lound lier,
And with words of loy? and truth,
Won Iter Bweet and gentle spirit
In the freshness of its youth.
Soft and still the July moonlight
Lielli on the sloping IiiIIh,
And fnrdown the wooded valleys
Swiftly pass thegluncing rills,
'Neath the nspen tils a mother
With a fair child at her knee, J '
Looking up to unit the angles y
With an absent one to be. fc4ji
Willi liiin many a huppy summer ffljjraH
She hatl heard the linnet sing, ' ? j
And the Oriole that budded
In the birch above the spring ; \
With him she had watched the whi l a
Close above the blessed eyes up'"
- "Utt- - To
the fotu in 1'aradise. ^
But each heavy blast of sorrow?
Though a bending reed, and frail? '
She had borne with patient firmness
Till his cheek grew thin and pale
And now while afar he seeketh
Health in softer Southern air,
That the blessing may be granted
Is the burthen of her prayer.
High agutn above the hickories.
And beyond the poplars tall,|.
Hang the clouds like pirit banntTS'
From the br'ght sk Vsaphire wall ;
And a wild and stricken mourner
With a fair child at her knee,
Gazeth up, if 'mid their foldings
She an angel face may see.
In an untamed Southern forest,
Where the fed flamingo gleams
Like a meteor, and the white swan
Floateth down the silent streams,
Where amid the tangled bushes
Shines toe savage cougar's eye,
And the timid wild deer starteth
At the fierce Paducah's cry ;
Where the white and fragrant bloss. inj
Of the grand magnolia lie
'Alid the foliage, like angels
Just descended from the sky ;
Where the moc.kmg-bird is singing,
And the long gray mosses wave.
From the drooping forest branches,
They have uug the stranger's grave(.Yeu>
OrUans Hrrtcni.)
What I saw at the Diggings.?(Hy one ,
who has mentally visited them.)?1 saw things, >
which, us a gentleman ol England, living at home
at eas<, 1 should luve dreamed uiyrrlt perhdpa
electro-biulogised to dream of:?
I saw husbands buitonless, but ui < < tnplaiuing.
t
I hhw halchelors of niisogyuit- seduVo-j 1
lously rot-king tbo cradle.
1 saw several member* of the Met ? i-'-'typ'*
ly diligently minding their own busint .- st?bJ 4
of everybody else's.
I saw many a social bore?boring.!. : Sy?i^" JL
some purpose here.
I saw lots of London loungers eiijo) ag the ,
utter reverse of "olium ct/rn din."
t taw several of my '-used ud" I ' **
periencing quite a new sensation In tj i . \ .
I naw that gourmand Guttler pit ; n- /
tented ly into a kangaroo chop.
I saw the ex-fop, Swellikqtor, d:
coduroys and highlowc, and moat co ; !:>
intent upon washing out hia last w '
(For I mentally italicised that emph '
lar)
1 raw many an emigrated pauper y.tdaing vp ,
a decent living for himself, here, m ety u it*
hia pickax*. 1
1 naw many an expatriated Mavnt ? \
deemed gold to be "the root of all evil," cer- o
lainly proved himself tnoat zealous in Assisting
to eradicate it.
And finally, I naw on all sides shot int e.vi- *
dence to show that one of the riches: h -Ids fur
-rpr I-. , v II'. A ill Gold Field t, ^
LOTTEKIEI. V
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r i) w/ \ r <>r / /. //./: > oi m i.v: /.,
I lit M AI I Ol MAIIYI.ANP. f'(MjJ
MARION & CO.,
I:, L""I Arrow, Off! r i ^
Street, Baltimore, Maryland
The f.. : ?wfri- ?r?'"! nnd Mnniificen i >r
rr 11 <rl. nlarly u <> y .if the a tie. , I |>e 1
public, comprising noma of tfce moat ' hllUnt
Schemes ever drawn in the Untied Stales.
To li v h't want IV.. -a, w e say ?' .. '
the Lottery you wish to purchase ricl i in >t,
en. ' ise t'te ' nah to us. and we wdl i .<?; i
tend you a handxomi pri/.e ; I
maxim says "no I and a mg r> VMfl
lay with us may
nl lo trait I'rize sellera
M ARION A ^
I:. ?, .Vat ai. J. V
LOOK! LOOK! HERE THEY \RR. ^ I
To l>e Capitala Price of Price of cer. < Pack, of I
drawn Ticket* Wholes Hall Ctuarttra |
Aug 9. i'< | >110 |5 . |S},40 fl
" II, :<?, i- "I
* ?>o :i l&.Of 111
" 14. |5 <4 |( > Jfl
" 7? ,) fffl
<>o^M
" U\ .m.000 ](| I'M c j o^B
Mi
" 24 00,000 ,4 ?> fl
" r; 7.:,oo a 3o j: y I
n moo i i. I
" :il 4,ooo I : 1 >? fl
TO Rk?I I fl
By tending ua |50, we win for*'
of 11 krin in any deaignated L" 'Ktll
amount of a 100* fl
1 I fl
' fl
For >2 .VI do ' do do I
do l??
Thu* we indemnify, i? the worm e fl
rnatnmer* again* *" fl
in the dollar. fl
Wr irf aware of the reapinaihility at "ii
in making thin offer. Iiot a confiding I
brilliant i ofo?o famed and truly fl
I one im ,,nr o.lv L* v We hav flfl
known a leM to enaue, while we have r i : I
wnneaae'1 ihe moat gloriotta reaulla , fl
Hjt" We keep the atrine* ' " fl
aiwW" m p 11 y, and the drawir ttMn
farly, and have a< I'ri/e. than ' fl
render* in the United siaieo ?fl
1 1 ' ! ^ I 1 1 l I I 1 > *i ' rk JH
mall Fry) w ill her
"t' ? 1 ,lil I I. A i K . !? ?!,) ?
< lu?irai (in, A full Carlifirata of 2.1 ' W
Ticket* in thin famou* litila 8ehama will t *' j
flHi, Ilalva* $8, Huartars #4, and a aingl' ' V
aga ran draw ilia lour higheat I'rizaa in I i r ! </
taiy. A Honiara to nartira rha earliaiil a ?u J
,,, ' - ?\,
\ K f ? .1 ,|| S?'? I r ., I, mil.a fi.r u-ardad
. , i', oid " graa' l'i -a Ag?
MARION A J
' Raliimore, Mtf A
ia --'nr fi?n, j- I
. duly arriifra-l In il.a Sim.- ( ..a > f
< will ? ?"> r.. . < i ?'?ly ' at ' < ?)- '< i
*; lar.al.L
result. > I?
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