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lose of Southern Sentiment.
We hare clipped a few extract* front our exchangee,
showing the tone and temper of the
times.
The Southern Convaimeii.?The great
Southern Convention has convened, acted, and
adjourned. After ail lite false charges of whig
presses, the false reports put fbrth, the assertions
that it would not be held, that the President
would put a stop to it, that the people of the
South would aauction no such move, that if it
was held it would be for the puroose of concocting
treason against the nation, and declaring a secession
of the Southern States from the Union,
and the hundred and one other knotting insinuations
and falsehoods, the great movement has
gone off quietly?its friends aud advocates stand
triumphantly uruuittcd before the tribunal of public
opinion to which they were arraigned by the
unit?oiUifKorttaru lira oitamiou /mnitu of lkhtn\
acknowledge their error, and do justice to the
members o( lite assembly. The South have interchanged
views, and ains Southern St ate t mew
think and feel alike. Others, who were unfortunately
unrepresented in the convention, seeing
these views, will approve them, and all soon
stand upon the same constitutional grounds.
Where is the huge monster, Disunion, which
haunted the distorted visions of Southern Whig
politicians?thul was to prowl around our capital,
arid desecrate the graves of the departed! that
was to set monarch of this body, and put patriotism
to the blush? Gone?vanished into the
airy substance that created it! The convention
met peaceably,?it adjourned peaceably, triumphing
over the arm of opposition, raised to intimidate
its deliberations. The sprit of conciliation,
and compromise, sa we predicted, brooded over its
deliberations. Disunion was denounced; the Union
groclaimednhe only safeguard of the free; the
onstitution their only sure defence. Patriotism
nerved every arm. Harmony reigned supreme.
The South Carolina "mad-caps" and the Tennessee
conciliators met, shook hands over the cause
of the Union and the South, and parted better
friends than ever before. Texas and Virginia,
the two extremes, came together?the work before
them was discharged quietly, peacefully, satisfactorily?and
all went home as loyal subjects to
the Union of '76, as when they came away.
Thus have all the predictions of Federal opposition,
of Galphin misrepresentation, failed, and
ine auempt w mane pony capnai uui ui mc
heart's blood of the Union proven abortive.
The result, all should be satisfied with. Those
who desired more, as well as those who would
have been satisfied with less, ought, for the sake
of a union of feeling among the Southern people,
to concede a portion of their desires. We
are satisfied with the proceedings. Of the address
we have spoken elsewhere. Tne-eonvention only
appealed to the North for forbearance and justice?and
counselled and advised the South to
moderation, conciliation and harmony.
It will be seen the convention is to meet again,
at the same place, on Monday, the 6th week after
the adjournment of Congress, that a more general
attendance may be secured, and a more decided
expression of Southern views given and interchanged.
This was well considered, and ought
to be acted upon by every county.?Knoxville
(Tenn.) Plebian.
The Si'bhissionists.?The man who has mind
enough to perceive the peril to which the South
and ner institutions have been brought, by the
onward march of fanaticism, operating upon,
subsidizing, and taking unlimited control of the
powers of the Federal Government; and who,
with the danger glaring him in the eye, will yet
counsel the South to trust to the action of that
Government Ibr justice and security, and browbeats
and ridicules and denounces every effort of
the South to band for its own protection?such a
man is unworthy of Jjie name of a Southerner,
an American, or a patriot. He must be a traitor,
because his intelligence rescues him from the alternative
condition of being a fool. He is blind
or knave who does not see that the time is here.
to strike a blow for Southern rights, or basely
to surrender them.
This is plain language. The occasion demands
it. It is time to speak out plainly, when every
interest that a man or a people hold dear, is in danfer
of bemg whiffled and trifled, or bartered away
y a pack of ungrateful sons, stinging ).he bosom
of the mother that nurtures them, ana slandering
the good and true men who are raising their
shields for her sacred protection. Personally interested
in the safety of our wife and children,
and in the protection of our property, all bound
up in this issue, we intend to speak plainly in
their defence; and whether our words fall harshly
on the ears of the scoundrel crew of Abolitionists
North, or the timid and craven hand of Submissionists
South, we CAre not. If a man is devoid
of sense, he is not responsible for erroneous
judgments ; if he is a Federalist and Consolidationist
in principle, he is right to uphold measures
that megre supreme power in the Certral Federal
Government, even though it crushes the institutions
of a portion of the people subject to that
Government. But if he is an intelligent Southern
man, with Southern views of the limited powers
of the General Government, and the original and
reserved rights and powers of the States as sovereignties,
and yet pronounces in flivor of the measures
now progressing in Congress, no logic or
sophistry can rescue him from tne doom of a traitor
to the South.
We know that allowances are to be made for
prejudices of long standing. We know how difficult
fbr instance, it is for an old Democrat, who
has for twenty years been reading Thos. Ritchie's
paper, and taking his doctrines and opinions as
oracular and apostolic, suddenly to see that that
old Palinurus, is at last a false pilot, and is
running the ship upon the breakers of heresy and
treason. So of a Whig, bound up in the associations
and passions of party ties. But it is the
duty of all such men, in times like these, to take
nothing on the credit of the past. Let them study
for themselves the features of this great question,
and trace, to their fearfol results, the causes in
operation to change the whole structure of the
Government and to subvert the Constitution itself,
in obedience to the demands of Northern Fanaticism.
Let them read their condition as a Southern
pebple, as forcibly and plainly laid open, in the
address of the Southern Convention, and each for
himself determine, whether it is better to sacrifice
party ties and affections and prejudices for men
and old associations, or to aid by apathy or open
hostility to the Southern cause, the consummation
of the deep wrongs and mighty desolation with
which the victory of Fanaticism will surely blast
this Southern Land.?Columbus (Ga.) Timet.
The Washington Republic asserts that Gen.
Taylor has acted wisely in not expressing his
opinions on the subject matter of the dispute
between the North and the South. Every act of
Gen. Taylor shows that he has been disposed to
settle the question, even at the total sacrifice of
the chances of the South to get a port of the new
territories.
He has distinctly enough announced that he
was in favor of immediately admitting New Mexico
and California as States, knowing they would,
if admitted so soon, become anti-slavery States.
Whv did he not Dronose the Missouri Crvmnrnm
ise fine? Was tie afraid to doit? We iirmly
believe that if he had recommended that line and
given the weight of his position to it, it would
have been carried with great ease, and the whole
difficulty Adjusted long ago. Did not the South
have a right to expect that much of hiin ? She
sustained him under the impression that, honest
by nature, if not wise by experience, he would do
j istice to his native South. But alas! alas!?
Avgwt* (Go.) Rrpublican.
Hard to Pleake.?The remarks of the various
presses North and South upon the final action of
the Nashville Convention are not a little amusing.
Those who asserted that its object and purpose
was to plot the dissolution of the Union, and
whose wish was father to the thought, admit that
it turned out by no means what they had "crack'd
it up to be"?thev now say that its proceedings
were tame, its address common place, its resolutions
a bundle of truisms, and that its work, as a
whole, is not calculated to produce an impression
upon the country. A distinguished Northern
paper, at fhult tor something to complain of
Sainel the convention, says, in anticipation of
e question, what has the convention done, "it
has adjourned!" A vindication of Southern
rights and a recommendation of an efficient mode
of redressing Southern wrongs was the last thing
in the world that the same paper desired to see.
Other Northern papers dispose of it with a sneer,
l>eeau*e it has not proved a second Hartford convention,
or joined thev conferees in the South, in
declaring that its doings will produce no effect on
the country.
The dignity, moderation, and forbearance ol
the Convention have met the just expectations ol
its friends. The Missouri Compromise is the
basis on which we have preferred that the controversy
should be settled, and if now, instead ol
raising this or that objection to it, the Southern
press would go for it with general unanimity,
instead of betraying doubts whether it could sue.
? 4?if woufa rtoo|vt manfhlly to second
?
the stand bow making by the SoutUrft members
of Congress in iie favor, the question could be
settled in thirty days upon that basis.?Mobile
Daily Mrginitr.
Gtoaou avd 36? 30'.?There is not u press in
the State, that we see aware of, opposed to an adjustment
on the basis of the Missouri Compromise.
The following Democratic journals are boldly
; sustaining it: Conatitutionalst of Augusta; Times
and Sentinel of Columbus; Tribune and Telegraph
of Macon; Patriot of Albany; Southernor of
Rome; Advocate of Marietta; Times of Daltoa;
Republican of Ringgold; Algto of Clarksville and
Advertiser of Dahlonega. The Republic of Augusta,
and Whig of Athens, Whig journals, are
not less zealous in us advocacy. The Forsyth
Bee, neutral in (kobtica, is also sustaining it. The
Georgian of Savannah, is the only Democratic ,
print in the State, of auy influence, tlvot has not
inscribed the Missouri Compromise upon its ban- '
nor- That journal has heretofore favored the '
Clay Compromise, but on the principle " It is
the beat,we can get. "?Federal Union.
New Mexico uo Teas*.?If New Mexico, ;
with her present pretensions, bs admitted ?s a
State, and then Texas and New Mexico go to
law before the United States Supreme Court upon
the question of boundary, what would be the
result, should the United' States Supreme Court
decide in favor of Texas? For that it would decide
in liivor of Texas, is certainly possible.
Texas would point to the very words with which
we went to war against Mexico in proof of the
justice of her claims. We again ask, suppose the
Supreme Court should think Texas right, and
should decide in her fuvor ? W hat would tlien
become of the Stale of New Mexico ? She would
be left, with but fifteen thousand inhabitants, half
savages at that. Would she be a Suit ? Clearly,
she would not possess the requisites. But could
we deprive her of iter State existence ? Could we
remand her to a territorial condition ? If so,
where is the authority ? And how could it be
done??Richmond Republican.
Puauc Oriviow.?The Washington party presses
have never ceased to claim the support of public
opinion at the South, in favor of one or the
other of the favorite schemes there for evading
(they call it most falsely " settling") the sluvery
question. Mr. Foote's siring of certificates has been
held evidence of the general feeling, and anonymous
letters making the most notoriously false
statements of the sentiments of the people, are paraded
with triumphant flourishes, and thrust upon
the Southern Delegations in Congress as instructions
from their constituents. Tnese things have
had, in part, the efl'ect they were designed to have.
They have created confusion and doubt; have
weakened the confidence of Southern representatives
in their constituents-, have, among the latter,
repressed the exhibition of opinion, by sowing
suspicions of each other's firmness, and the ac- i
lion and re-action has, in many places, effectually
shaken the tone of the. press. There was a time (
when weakness and hesitation seemed the strik- <
ing feutures of Southern politics, and the advice
to " take the Compromise, as the best we can
get," seemed natural enough to give, and likely
enough to be followed. That was the promising
moment for the Compromisers; when Mr. Ritchie
headed his articles with '' skies bright I" and the
letter writers counted up the anticipated majorities,
and Mr. Clay spoke of the opponents of his
bill as a small fraction of the Senate, subsisting on
his forbearance.
The aspect of things is very much changed ,
now. The real character of the Compromise
scheme has been studied by the people. The
declarations of Clay, Cass, and Webster, in effect,
that under this bill the South would be excluded
from every foot of the Territories, have
been compared with the Southern apologies for
the measure, and the irresistible conclusion
urawn mat it is a political tricx, ana no measure
of honorable settlement.
The session of the Nashville Convention has
given new spirit and determination to the people.,
ft was a noble spectacle, that meeting of chosen
champions of the South, and the effect of its dignified
bearing, its union, and the moderate, but
decided and clearly defined position it took, was
instantaneous and deep. The Southern people
are gathering around the Southern Platform. They
Will not easily desert or modify it.
In no part of the South was the labor of the
Compromise party apparently more successful
than in Georgia. It seemed as if the hifh spirit
that moved the Legislature of that State had vanished,
and in its place apathy reigned. The deceitful
apologies for the Compromise were submitted
to; the press spoke in a tone of utter discouragement,
or was silent. Those who still
faiihftillv proclaimed the true interests and defended
the sacred rights of the South, seemed
like men preaching, in the wilderness. Georgia
bears 110 such aspect now. The Southern platform
has been embraced by nearly every Democratic
press in the State, and by a part of the
Whig press. The old spirit again animates them
and nnds free expression. It finds, too, a warm
welcome with the people. It has been their spirit
all the while, only repressed and misguided by
the deceitful aspect given to Mr. Clay's scheme.
We look upon the position of Georgia now as
distinctly and decidedly hostile to that, scheme,
and it is a position she is not in a temper to
abandon or defend feebly. The reader will find
un extract from the Columbus Times in this morning's
Mercury, which illustrates the tenmer of no
small portion of the Georgia press. We mightquote
declarations scarrely less strong from the
Augusta Constitutionalist and the Federal Union,
nnnpra r?f ihp firftt nrnlf in tVi* sfnlp F.vpii thp
Savannah Georgian is, we think, fast losing its
relish for "the best we can get,"and beginning to
acknowledge that if the South chooses submission,
there is no limit to it short of utter prostration.
Every where in Georgia we see evidences of a
kindred enthusiasm for the South, that will not
be long in sending up its strong bright blaze. We
shall hear froin the people on the 4th of July.?
Charleston .Mercury.
What the South wants.?The Missouri Compromise
line from the Western boundary of
Pexoson to the Pacific ocean. Let the Compromise
be based upon this simple settlement, and all the
"wounds" will be healed. Bungle up any oilier
sort,of compromise, and all the wounds will be
left to bleed free as ever.
We believe the Wilmot Proviso, or any other
action of Congress upon the subject of slavery,
to be unconstitutional, but its constitutionality
is acted upon by the minority whenever they see
fit and we have come to believe we might as well
have the constitution for us of the South as for
thein to be continually- getting the benefit of its
abuse at the North. Therefore, let the Missouri
Compromise line be adopted, with the understanding
by express law, that slavery shall exist
south of it.
Already laws have been passed declaring it
shall not exist North. Let us profit bv the pre
cedent, however unconstitutional, and declare it'
shall exist south.
As long as the Constitution is disregarded by the
foes to it and the Sooth, the South should disregard
it also, to that extent which will guarantee
protection to het institutions, when the protection
has been so openly denied under the Constitution.
The compromise line of 36? 30' has been proposed
by the Nashville Convention and to that
let us stand up, and from that let us not recede.?-Hoi-net's
Jftst, ( Whig,) Charlotte, *\'. C.
By Magnetic Telegraph for the Keening Post.
Tremendous Storm at the West?Railroad accident
and probable lots qf lift?Damage to the shipping? j
Great break in the Canal.
Albaxt July 6, 1830.
A tremendous storm occurred here and at the |
West, last evening, which has proved very |
destructive.
In the canal there were three breaks, the first ,
one at Port Jackson, which is 250 feet in length; I
the second at the head of lock number 37, and
the third, on the serca mile level. The water at '
present is so high that it is impossible to ascer- j
tain the extent of the last two.
The Urica Railroad Bridge, known as Schenrk 'u
Bridge, near Spraker's, was carried away before
the express train which left here arrived. The
nwht being dark, and the engineer not knowing
of it, proceeded on, When the train run into the
creek.
The locomotive and baggage cars are badly
broken, and the engineer and fireman are missing, '
and supposed to be lost. A number of the passengers
were also injured.
There is no train from the West in yet.
The barn of Mr. Stephen Sharp, atUreenbush, !
was struck by lightning and destroyed, together
with a large stock of hay.
r The schooner Roekaway, with a cargo of lum'
ber, was struck and her mast shivered. The
: hull is not iiuured.
The sloop James K. Polk was also struck, and
' experienced slight damage.
The storm raged so severely, that the pavements
in the streets were torn up, sod st the cemetery
the bridges and trees ware carried sway,
and the grounds badly damaged a?d torn up.
- - Confession
of Prof. J W. Webster,
Of the Murder c/ Dr. George Parkman.
Boston, July 3, 1850.
At (he meeting of the Council, this morning,
the coee of Professor Webster was referred to a
committee.
Before the committee, at 13 o'clock, appeared
the lier. Dr. Putnam, the spiritual adviser of the
condemned, with a petition for a commutation of
punishment, together with a confession that he
killed Dr. Parkman.
The reverend gentleman prefaced the statement
with a few remarks relative to the manner in
which the confession was made to him. He stated
that he had no previous acquaintance with
Professor Webster, before being called to act in
the capacity of his spiritual adviser. In the tirat
few weeks of fcjs visits, he sought no acknowledgment
of the prisoner. At length, on the 33d
of May, he visited him in his cell, uud demanded
of hint, for his own well-being, that he should
tell die truth in regard to the matter, aud he acceded
to the request, by making a statement,
which was now submitted for the consideration
of the Council.
It was in substance as follows:
THE CONFESSION.
On Tuesday, 30th November, I sent the note
to Dr. Parkman, which, it appears, was carried
by the boy, Maxwell. I handed it to Littleiield,
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my rooms on Friday, the 33d after iny lecture.?
He bad become, of late, very imjiortunaie tor his
pay. He had threatened me with a suit; to put an
oihcer in my house, and to drive me from my professorship,
if I did not puv him. The purport of
my note was simply to ask the conference. I did
not tell hipt in it wfmt I could do, or what I had
to say about the payment. 1*wished to gain, for
those few days, a release from his solicitations, to
whtch 1 was liable every day, on occasions and
in a manner very disagreeable and alarming, and
also to avert for so long a time, at least, the fulfillment
of recent threats of severs measures. I
did not expect to be able to pay him when Friday
should arrive.
My purpose was, if he should accede to the
proposed interview, to state to liim my embarrassments
and utter inability to pay him at present?
to apologise for those things in my conduct which
had offended hint?to throw myself upon his mercy
?to beg for further time and indulgence, for the
sake of my fltmily, if not for myself, and to make
as good promises to him as I had any hope of
keeping. 1 did not hear from him on that day nor
the next, (Wednesday,) but I found on Thursday
he had been abroad in pursuit of me without finding
me. 1 imagined he had forgoten the appointment,
or else did not mean to wait for it. l feared
he would come in upon me at my lecture hour, or
while I was preparing my experiments for it;
therefore, I called at his house on that morning,
(Friday,) between eight and nine o'clock, to remind
him of my wish to see him at the College at
half past one?my lecture clbsing at one. 1
did not stop to talk with him, for 1 expected the
conversation would be a long one, and 1 had my
lecture to prepare for, for it was necessary for me
to have my time, and also to keep my mind free
from other exciting matters. Dr. Parkman agreed
to call on me, as 1 proposed. He came, accordidngly,
between half past one and two o'clock,
entering at the lecture room door.. I was engaged
in removing some glasses from my lecture room
table, into the room in the rear, called the upper
laboratory. He came rapidly down the step, and
followed me into the laboratory, lie immediately
addressed me with great energy?" Are you ready
forme, sir? Have you eot the mousy?" Ire
plied, 44 No, Dr. Parkman and was then beginning
to state my condition and my appeal to him,
but he would not listen to me, and interrupted me
with much vehemence. He called me a scoundrel
and liar, and went on heaping on me the most bitter
taunts and opprobrious epithets.
While he was speaking, lie drew a handful of
papers from his pocket, and took from among
thein my two notes, and also a letter from Dr.
Hossack, written ninny years ago, congratulating
him on his success in getting me appointed
Prof, of Chemistry. 44 You see,*' he said I got
you into your office, and now 1 will get you out
of it." He put back into his pocket all the papers
except the letter and the notes. I cannot
tell how long the torrent of threats and invectives
continued and I cannot recall to memory but u
small portion of what he said \ at first 1 kept interposing,
trying to pacify l\iui, so tliat I might
obtain the object for which I sought the interview,
but I could not stop him, and udon mv own temper
was up ; I forgot every thing, and felt nothing but
the sting of his words.
I was excited to the highest degree of passion,
and while he was speaking and gesticulating in
the most violent and menacing manner, thrusting
the letter and his fist into iny face, iu my fury I
seized whatever thing was handiest, (it was a
stick of wood,) and dealt liini an instantaneous
blow, with all the force that passion could give it.
I did not know, or think, or care where I should
hit him, or haw hard, uor what the effect would
be. It was on the side of his head, and there
was nothing to break the force of the blow. < He
fell instantly ui>on the patement. There was no
second blow ; lie did not move. I stooped down
over him, and he seemed to be lifelesB. Blood
flowed from his mouth, and I got a sponge and
wiped it away. I got some ammonia and applied
it to his nose, but without effect. Perhaps I spent
10 minutes iu attempts to resuscitate him, but 1
found he was absolutely dead. In my horror and
consternation, I ran instinctively to the doors and
boiled them, the doors of the lecture room and of
the laboratory below. And then what was 1 to do?
It never occurred to me to go out and declare what
had been done, and obtain assistance. I saw
nothing but the alternative of a successful movement
and concealment of the body on one hand,
and of infamy and destruction on the other. The
first thing I did, as noon as I could do anything,
wan to draw the body into the private room adjoining,
where 1 took off the clothes, and begun
putting them into the fire, which was burning in
the upper laboratory. They were all consumed
there that afternoon, with papers, pocket-book,
arid whatever they contained. 1 did not examine
the pockets, nor remove anything, except the
watch. I saw that or the chain of it, banging out.
I took it, and threw it over the bridge us I went
to Cambridge. My next move was to get the
body into the sink, which stands in the small private
room ; by setting the body partially erect
against the corner, and getting up into the sink
myself, I succeeded in uruwirig it up there. It
was entirely dismembered. It was quickly
done, as a work of terrible and desperate necessity.
The only instrument was the knife found by
the officers, in the tea chest, which I kept for cutting
corks. I made no use of the Turkish knife,
as it was called at the trial. That had long been
kept on my mantel-piece in Cambridge, as a curious
ornament. My daughters frequently cleaned
it, hence the marks of oil and whiting found on it.
I had lately brought it into Boston to get the silver
sheath repaired. While dismembering the body,
a stream of Cochituate water was running through
the sink, carrying off the blood in a pipe that
passed down through the lower laboratory.
There must have been n leak in the pipe, for the
ceiling below was stained immediately around it.
There was a fire burning in the furnace of the
lower laboratory. Little-field was mistaken in
thinking there hud never been a fire there. He
had probably never kindled one, but I had done it
myself several times. I hud done it that duy for
the purpose of making oxvgen gas. The head j
" nil rinrrrn wpri- nut into I fiat fliriuiff! that dav.
and the fuel heaped on, J did not examine at
night to see to what degne liny were consumed.
Home of the extremities v. ere put in there, I belivC,
on that day; the pelvis, and some of the
lintbs, perhaps, u ere ull put >timW the lid of the
lecture-room table, in what, is culled the well?a
deep sink, lined with lead; ft sVeani of Cochitu&tc
was turned Into it, and kept run ait);, through all
Friday night; the thorax was put into a smaller
well, 1 ft the lower laboratory, whfch I filled with
water, and threw in a fpuiiiftty"of potash, which I
found there. This disposition of the remains Was
Dot changed till after the visit of the officers on
Monday.
What the body bad been thus all disposed of,
I cleared away, all traces of what hail been done.
I think the stick with which the fatal blow had
been struck proved to be u piece of the stump of
a large grape vine?say two inches in diameter,
and two feet long. It was one of several pieces
which 1 had can ted in from Cambridge long before,
for Uic purpose of showing the'effect of certain
chemical fluids in coloring wood, by being
absorbed into the pores. The grape vine, being
a very porous wood, was well adapted to this purpose.
Another longer stick had been used as intended,
and exhibited to the students. This one
had not been used. I put it into the fire. I took
up the two notes either from the table or the floor,
I think the table, close by where Dr. P. had
fallen. I seized an old metalic pen lying on the
table, dashed it across the fhee and through the
signatures, and put them in my pocket. Tdo not
know why I din this rather than put them in the
firs, for I had not considered for a moment what
effect either mode of disposing of them would
h?vs qn the mortgage, or my inaebtedpeas to Dr.
P. and the other persona interested, and I had not
yet given a single though* to the auestiou as to i
what account I should give of the object or result
of my interview with Dr. Parkman. I never saw
the bled ;? hammer spoken of by Litllefield; never <
knew of its existence, at least I have no recollection
of it. 1 left the college to ?0 home, as late
as 6 o'clock. 1 collected inyselt as well 1 could,
that 1 might meet my family and others with
composure. i
On Saturday, I visited my rooms at the College,
but made no change in the disposition of the remains,
and laid no plana aa to my Aiture course.
On Saturday evening, 1 read the notice in the
Transcript, respecting his disappearance. I was
then deeply impressed with the necessity of immediately
taking some ground as to the character
of my interview with Dr. Parkman, for I saw
that it must become known that 1 had had such
an interview, as I had appointed it first by an j
unsealed note on Tuesday, and on Friday had i
myself called at his house in open day, and rati- i
fied the arrangement, and had there been seen, |
and had probably been overheard by the man
servant, and 1 know not by how many persons, i
Dr. P. might havs been seen entering my rooms, i
or how many persons he might have told by the t
way where n# was going?the interview would in
all probability be known, and I must be ready to
explain it. The question exercised me much, but i
on Sunday my course was taken. I would iro i
into Boston and be the first to declare myself tfie i
person, as yet unknown, with whom Dr. P. had i
made the appointment. I would take the ground 1
that I had invited him to tire College to pay him i
money,and that I bad paid it.?Accordingly, 1 fixed
upon the sum by taking the small note and adding ,
interest, which it appears I cast erroneously, u
I had thought of this course earlier, I should not
have deposited Pettee's check tor *90 in the
Charles River Bank on Saturday, but should have
suppressed it, as going so for to make up the sum
wnioh I was to have professed to have paid the
day before, and which Pettee knew I had by me
at the hour of interview; it had not occurred to me
that I should ever show the notes cancelled in
proof of it, or I should have destroyed the large
note, and let it be inferred that it was gone with
the missing man, and I should only have kept the
small one, which was all tlutt 1 could pretend to
have paid. My single thought was concealment
and safety; every tiling else was incidental to that.
I was in no state to consider my ulterior pecuniary
interest, Money, though 1 needed it so much,
was of no account with ute in that condition of
mind.
If 1 hud designed and premeditated the homicide
of Dr. Parkman, in order to get the possession
of the notes and cancel my debt, I not only
should not have deposited Pettee's check the next
day, but should have made some show of getting
and having the money the morning before. 1
should have drawn my money from the bank and
taken occusion to mention to the cashier that I
had a sum to make up on that day for Dr. Parkman,
and the same to Henchman, when I borrowed
the $10; 1 should have remarked that I
was so much short of a sum that I was to pay
Parkman. I borrowed the money of Henchman
as mere pocket money for the day. If I had
intended the homicide of Dr. P., I should not
have made the appointment with him twice, and
each time in so open a manner that other persons
would almost certainly know of it; and I should
not have invited him to my rooms at an hour
when the College would be foil of students and
others, and an hour when I was most likely to
receive calls fVom others, for that was the hour,
.A? .i.~ I? i
JUBI auci nit- ICUUIC, aw wiuui prrs'JHB Having
business with me or in my rooms, were always
directed to call.
1 looked into my room on Sunday afternoon.
After the first visit of the officers, 1 took the pelvis
and some of the limbs from the upper well, and
threw them into the vault and privy. I took the
thorax from the well below, una packed it in the
tea chest, as found. My own impression has
been, that this was not done until ufter the second
visit of the officers, which Was on Tuesday, but
Kinsley's testimony shows that it must have been
done sooner. The perforation of the thorax had
been made by the knife. At the time of removing
the viscera, on- Wednesday, I put on kindlings
and made a fire in the furnace below, having first
poked down die ushcs. Some of the limbs, 1
cannot remember which or how many, were consumed
at that time. This was the lust f had to do
with the remains. The tin box was designed to
receive the thorax, though 1 bad not concluded
where 1 should finally put the box. The fish
hooks, tied up as grapples, were to be used for
drawing up the parts in the vault, whenever I
should determine now to dispose of them, and get
strings enough. I had a confused double object
in ordering die box, and making the grapples, i
had before intended to get such things to send to
Payal; the box to hold the plants and other
I articles which 1 wished to protect from the suit
water and sea air, and the hooks to be tsed there
in obtaining coralline plants from the sea. It
was this previously intended use of , them that
suggested and mixed itself up with the idea of the
other application. 1 doubt, even now, to which
use thev would have been applied. 1 hod not used
the hooka at the time of the discovery. The tan
put into the tea chest wan taken from a barrel of
it that had been in the laboratory for some time.
The bag of tan brought in on* Monday was not
used or intended to be used; it belonged to a
quantity obtained by me a long time ago, for experiments
in tanning, add was sent in by the
family to get it out of the way. Its being sent in
at the time was accidental. I was not aware that
I had put the knife in the chest. The stick found
in the saucer of ink was for making coarse diaframs
on cloth. The bunch of filed keys had
een used long ago by me in Fruit street, and
thrown carelessly by Into a drawer. I never examined
them, and do not know whether they
would fit any of the locks of the college or not. If
there were other keys fitting doors with which I
had nothing to do, I supposed they must have
been all duplicates, or keys of former locks left
there by the mechanics or janitor. I know
nothing about them, and should never be likely
to nptice them amongst the multitude of articles,
large and small, of all kinds, collected in my
rooms. The janitor had furnished me with a key
to the dissecting room, for the admission of medical
friends visiting the college, but I had never
t used it.
The nitric acid on the stairs was not used to remove
<mois of blood, but was dropped by accident.
When the officers called for me on triday,
the 30th, 1 was in doubt whether I was under
arrest, or whether a more strict seurch of my
rooms was to be had, the latter hypothesis being
hardly less appalling than the former. When!
found that we went over Cragies' Bridge I thought
the arrest most probable. When I found that the
carriage was stopping at the jail, I was sure of
my fate. Before leaving the carriage, I took a
dose of strychnine front my pocket and swallowed
it. I had prepared it in the shape of a pill before
I left my laboratory on the 23d. I thought I
could not bear to survive detection. 1 thought it
was a large dose. The state of my nervous system,
probably, defeated the action partially* The
effects of the poison were terrible beyond description.
It was in operation at the College, and before
1 went there, but most severely afterwards.
I wrote but one of the anonymous letters produced
at the trial?the one mailed at East Cambridge.
The little bundles referred to in the letter detained
by the jailor contained only a bottle of nitric acid,
for domestic use. I had seen it stated in a newspaper
that I had purchased a quantity of oxalic
acid, which, it was presumed, was to be used in
removing blood stains. I wish ths parcel to be
kept untouched, that it may be shown, if there
should be occasion, what it really was that I hod
purchased. I have drawn up in separate papers,
an explanation of the use I intended to make of
the Wood sent for on Thursday, the and of
the conversation with Litilefield about the dissecting
vault.
* I think that Pettee, in his testimony at the
trial, put too strongly my words about having
settled with Dr. P. Whatever 1 did say of the
kind, was in the hope 1 entertained that I should
be able to pacify Dr. P., and make some arrangements
with him, and was said in order to quiet
Petce, who was becoming restive under the solicitations
of Dr. Parkman.
After Ur. WMKtrnaa sutreu most ot tne mcts
recorded above on the 23d May, thi* question,
with all the earnestness, solemnity, and authority
of tone that Dr. Putnam was master of, was addressed
to hiint
" Dr. Webster, in all probability your days are
numbered; you cannot, you dare not speak mlsely
to me now; yott must not die with a lie in your
mouth; so, prove to yourself that your repentance
for the sins of your past lift is sincere?tell me
the truth, then?a confidence to be kept sacred
during your lifetime, and as much longer as my
regard for the happiness of your ftmily shall
seem to me to require, and the interest of truth
and justice to permit. Search to the bottom of
your heart for the history of your motives, and
tell me, before God, did it never occur to you,
before the decease of Dr. Parkihan, that his
death, if you could bring it to pass, would be of
great advantage to you, or at least that personal
injury to him might possibly he the result of your
gpectsd conference with him * As a dying man,
?????i
I charge you to answer me truly and exactly, or
else be silent?had you not such a thought ? '
44 No, never," Mid he, with energy and feeling,
" as I live, and as God is my witness; never! I
was no more capable of such a thought than one
of my innocent children. 1 never had the remotest
ides of injuring Dr. P. until the moment
the blow was struck. Dr. P. was extremely
severe and sharp?the most provoking of men?
and I am irritable and passionate. A quickhanded
and brief violence of temper has been a
besetting sin of uiy life. I was an only child?
much indulged?and I have never acquired the
control over my passions that I ought to have acquired
early, and the consequence is all this."
" But you notified Dr. Parkraon to mest you at
a certain hour, and told hint you would pay him,
when you knew yon had not the money r "
44 No," he replied. " I did not tell him I would
pay him, and there is no evidence that I told him
so. Except my own words spoken after his disappearance,
ana after I had determined to take the
ground that I had paid him; those words were of
the miserable tissue of falsehoods to which I was
committed from the moment 1 had began to conceal
the homicide. I never had a thought of injuring
Park man. "
This was accompanied by the statement in
which Professor Webster attempts to explain aa
to his seeing Littlefield, sending for blood, and
of inquiring about gases from the vault. After
reading the statement of Dr. Putman proceeded to
argue as to its truthfttlness, Haying that it was
made when the writ of error was pending. Also,
that Professor Webster's estate was worth several
thousand dollars, and that he was not in such
a strait an to commit such a crime deliberately.
The previous petition from Professor Webster,
protesting his innocence and praying for absolute
pardon, he said, was got up oy nis family, who
were unwavering in their belief in his innocence,
until his confession was communicated to them
about a week since. He concluded in asserting
his belief that the confession was made.
From the Trenton, A*. J. Weekly True .American
The Contrast.
THE DEMAGOGUE AND THE STATESMAN,
Extract from the Speech of the Hon. D. S.
KAUFMANf of Texas, delivered before the
Literary Societies of Nassau Hall, upon the
35th June, 1850.
There is one species of the human family that
1 cannot neglect to caution you to beware of. Fly
him as you would the pestilence; avoid him as
you would contagion; crush him as you would
the adder. JuHt entering as you are upon the
threshold of human life, he will continually cross
your path. He loves to prey upon the young.
You will find him at the social board, at the
hustings, and in all the walks of private and public
life. He has existed from the beginning of the
world down to the present day, and unfortunately
flourishes most on the generous soil of our free
Republic. He is prefigured by the subtle and accursed
serpent that " producea man's first disobedience,
and brought death into the world, and all
our woe." He is represented in Holy Writ by
the reckless Esau who sold his birthright for
" potage of lentiies." His moral and physical
deformities are beautifully delineated by the poet
of the Illiad in the character of Thersites, to
whom the 6?ng of Ulysses was so appropriately
applied r?
' loquacious, loud and turbulent of tongue,
Aw'd by no shame, by no respect controlled;
In scandal busy, in reproaches bold,
His figure such ns might his soul proclaim;
One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame;
Rnlpen to mankind his envious heart noaspssed.
And much he hated all, but most the beat."
He is a hypocrite of the deepest dye, and wears
a mask to conceal his awfbl deformities. He is
the very soul of faction, and delights to swim in
its turbid waters; he is a Judas who would betray
his Saviour; he worships no other Deity but self; he
is abhorred of God, detested by man, and hardly
suited even for hell itself; he nan the malice prepense
of a murderer; he stirs up strife, envy, and
sectional discord; he arrays parents against children,
and brothers against sisters; he infuses his
deadly poison into social intercourse and disturbs
the How of the human affections.
" A monster mixed of insolence and faar,,
A dog in forehead and in heart a deer."
He would array the poor in mortal combat
against the rich, and the African against the Circassian.
He is totally destitute of shame and insensible
to the opinions of the world. He would
bluckon the purest and most spotless character if
he could thereby succeed 111 his engrossing desire
of self-promotion. He is as inconsistent and
shifting as the vane of the weathercock, or the
windH of heaven. He would sacrifice justice,
right, mercy, constitution and country to catch
the popular breeze. He pretends to an awful
zeal in behalf of the rights of those whose favor
he is courting. He claims prescience of events
and credit for bringing them about. He endeavors
to torture his own acts done for one purpose
as having been done for any other that may be
popular at the hour. He has neither soul, heart or
courage. His appetite grows with what it feeds
upon. The best men, and indeed nations, have
been his victims, and yet hio ravenous maw is
ever unsatisfied. Like Nero, he laughs when
his country is burning. Like Satan, he offers
those whom he iu tempting, " all the kingdoms
of the world and the glory of them." Iieadministered
the deadly poison to the patriot Phocion,
and the fatal hemlock to the virtuous Socrates.
He is the wooden horse who enters our
city, only to destroy it. He is the horrible monster
that will crush, if not watched, the Laocoons
and their children, who stand firmly at the altar
of the constitution? Athena fell from his subtle
machinations. He has been the bane of all the
confederations that have ever existed. He destroyed
Amphyotionic League, the Germanic confederation,
the seven united provinces, and the
old Swiss confederacy. He is still so fatally
bent 011 mischief as to be aiming his envenomed
shafts against our own glorious Union, to which
we are all bound by so many ties of interest and
recollection. I need hardly say to you that the
hideous being I have been describing is the Demagogue.
Heaven rid our land of this awful curse!
Save our institutions from this terrible sirocco?this
malaria of death! It will require watching and
Graying to tharwt his designs. He will insinuate
imseir into all the existing parties of a country,
and if he thinks he can better elfect his object, he
will create a party for himself. If a member of
the political party to which you may attach yourselves,
(for political parties are necessary incidents
of free governments,) sacrifice him as freely
as if he belonged to the osposite pnrty. An
honest independent man of tnc worst political
party, is better than the arch demagogue of the
nest. If we can succeed in checking the progress
of this monster, and frowning him out of political
existence, we will confer untold blessings upon
our country, and may predict with certainty, that
our Union will be immortal.
You have looked upon that picture, now look
upon this. You have seen the counterfeit presenment,
now examine the genuine original
You have contemplated with horror the Ihmagngue,
now view with delight the Statesman !
" See what a grace is seated on his brow.
? - ?
A combination and a form indeed,
Wliere every God does seem to set his seal,
To give the world assurance of a man,"
His whole soul is absorbed with love of country.
He knows no sections, courts no factions,
foments 110 discord. lie practices justice, acts
conciliation, and adheres rigidly to the Constitution.
" Nihil aut sensit, nut dicit, aut fncit nisi
pro patria." He treads the pnth of duty wherever
it leads, and " takes 110 step backwards."
lie wuyn w? uic ituiiuti ity, uci mtw
behind ine, Satan." A Curtms, he will throw
himself into the deadly breach to aave his chuntry.
A Regulue, he will not consent to violate a
pligheu faith, although certain political death
awaits him. An Aristides, he sacrifices expediency
to justice, interest to principle, and will do
no act, however profitable it may seem, that will
tarnish the honest reputation of liis country. A
Brutus, friendship and even gratitude must be
sacrificed if necessary, on the altar of the public
good. He ia sincere, candid and frank. He
speaks the whole truth regardless of consequences<
to self. He respects the rights, feelings, find even
the prejudices of others. He pretends to no infallibility.
He has no guide or political conduct
but the Constitution. He has no self-sufficient
standard which he chooses to designate eonseienrr,
and which lie puts above that sacred instrument.
When he swears to support it, he does it without
equivocation, mental reservation, or self-evasion
of mind whatsoever. He protects the rights of
the few against the domands of the many, with as
much alacrity as he does the right of the many
from the exactions of the few. He believes that
the majority should be controlled by the Constitution,
and thai when they go beyond it they
tread upon dangerous and forbidden ground.
I have thus finished the description of the
Statesman. It is more easy to pourtray than
that of the Demagogue. Truth is plainer than
fiction. It is more easily told,and in fewer words,
It has no circumlocution. lake the annals of the
poor, it is short and simple. Lef* me adjure you
then to support and sustain the fearless, independent,
patriotic States man. Give him a generous
confidence. lie is engaged iu a war with Anmlcck.
Stay up his hands like Aaron and Hier,
and Israer will prevail?justice will triumph. If
such should be the determination of the American
people, then as the lightning's dash, the thunder's
roar, and the strivings of the elements are followed
by the shower and the genial sunshine, to
revivify, freshen, and beautify our earth, so will
our strifes end in brightening the chain of the
Union, and in refreshing and enlivening our affections
for it.
Prom the Monmouth, N. J. Democrat.
Mm. Editor: I had the pleasure of being in
1 Princeton, on Tuesday, the 25th ult., beina the
day previous to the commencement of the Collage,
ana listened with much delight to an eloquent
address delivered before the Literary Societies of
Nassau Hall, by the Hon. David 8. Kaufman, a
Representative in Congress, from the State of
Texas. He presented to the young gentlemen
who were about to graduate, in vivid colors, the
dangers and temptations which may crowd their
paths, in their varied journeying in pursuits of
future eminence, and warned them in a voice of
fervid eloquence, to beware of the political demagogue,
of whatever party, or to whatever creed
ne may profess to belong, aud I have no doubt
but some of the wounded pigeons are fluttering
under the severe castigution which they received.
Mr. Kaufman being a Northern man by birth,
and a Southerner by adoption, gave him good
ground to make a few remarks on the slavery j
question, which now agitates the Union. He
contracted the condition of the African race in the
South and in the North, in a fair, open, and independent
manner, apd not much to the advantage
of the latter, for which he waa warmly applauded
by a large and faehionable audience?even the
venerable fathers of the College, together with
many distinguished strangers, seemed to sanction
by their smiles, the manly eloquence and energetic
style of the distinguished speaker. Well may
the lone star State be proud of her adopted son
and able representative, and I know that he will
always find a cordial welcome to the classic
bowers of his old Alma Mater.
8ELMA.
Princeton, July 1st, 1850.
Cotton Crops.?Accounts are pouring in upon
us from all section of the State, of the disastrous
appearance of the Cotton crops. The public
mind abroad has been incredulous in consequence
of statements, circulated in previous seasons, to
fluctuate prices. But the present is beyond all
matter of speculation, facts are too apparent to
admit of a doubt in regard to its present condition,
and the season is too fur udranced to build on a
hope for the ftiture. >Ve have taken particular
pains to collect the moat reliable information from
the principal cotton growing districts of the State,
and all agree in the general tenor of gloomy proapec
ts.
One writer informs us that the cotton fields in
the south-western part of the State present an appearance
of actual blight, which may be attributed
to the coldness in tne early part of the season
which deprived it of its healthy start; then the
long continued drought, which produced an unheahhy
appearance ; and now the ravages of the
lice.
We have also accounts from Louisiana, Tennesee,
Mississippi and Alabama, all of which are
equaly discouraging.
The Cotton crops, in some sections of the State,
is said to look promising, while in others'it has
suffered in consequence of the drought.?Savannah
Georgian.
The Cotton Crop.?We learn from the Shield
that a committee of the Eufaula Agricultural
Club, appointed to examine and report upon the
prospects of the crops in that vicinity, visited
about the middle of June a number of plantations
on the Chattahooche river, above and below Eufaula.
The cotton crop, it is staled, is more "backward
than was ever known at this season of the
j year?uic piam is very smaii, in many places sun
bears an unhealthy appearance, and stands generally
very deficient, on sume farms lamentably so.
This committee regards the entire cotton crop at
least three weeks later than usual, and under no
circumstances, can-more than two-thirds of a crop
be made. The planters ut that time were suffering
from drought. The best piece of cotton the
committee saw was on Mr. Roger's plantation,
f-rowing on fresh land and was only about one
oot high.
The uditor of the Commonwealth, Perry county,'
acknowledges a present of a cotton bloom. It
was pulled on the 16th inst., fra?nMr. P??rron's
prairie plantation. Mr. B.'b croffiSl three weeks
later than usual.
The Oreensborough Beacon speaks of the bollworm
as having become numerous in some sections
of Greene county?Mobile Herald, "25th.
The Tobacco CRor.?The Marlborough Gazette
says:
We aiscover that there is a difference of upwards
of three thousand hogsheads of Tobacco,
between this and the last year up to the first of
July, inspected in Baltimore. This difference will
go on increasing largely every month, aa from the
moat diligent inquiries we can make, we feel quite
sure that almost the entire crop has been sent to
market?under the impression that the spring prices
would be high, our Planters generally sent
forward their crops very early. We had always
supposed that the last year's crop was a small one,
but we are now satisfied it will prove to be one of
the shortest that was ever made in Maryland.?
This, together with the failure of a crop tnisyear,
almost every where an event now reduced quite to
a certainty, ought to have a decided influence upon
prices. The Planters should be in no hurry to sell
at the present reduced prices, as a rise in prices
mny, now, be reasonably anticipated.
The Constitutlou Against New Mexloo.
Wo referred ineidontly, yesterday, to the fact
that the organization of a Stute government in
New Mexico, according to the jiroposul of Col.
Munroc'* late Convention, would be in direct
conflict with an express provision of the Federal
Constitution. As we deem the point one
of very serious importance, we now cite the
provision alluded to in full:
Article IT., section 3. New Slates may be admitied
by the Congress into this Union ; but no
new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction
of any other State ; nor any State be formed
by the junction of two or more States, or parts
of States, without the consent of the legislatures qf
j the Statei concerned, as well as of the Congress.
The Congress shull have power to dispose of
and make all needful rules and regulations respecting
the territory or other property belonging to the
United States; and nothing in this Constitution
sfiall be so construed as tu prejudice any claims of the
United Stales or any particular State.
It is distinctly declared in this section, that to
ww State shall he formed, or erected within the jurisdiction
of any other Slate, Those who hold,
as the Richmond Whiff does, that all that part
of New Mexico which lies east of the Rio
Grande, now pertains to Texas, by virtue of
the acts of the Federal Government, cannot
that lha fifofn nf No?'
-? ?? ?MV wwwv/ V* i*?n ?iiCAlbUf nillUI
would be formed and erected by Congress giving
its assent to the State Constitution adopted
by the Santa Fo Convention, would be formed
and erected within the. jurisdiction of Texas.
They are, therefore, bound to admit that the
Federal Constitution expressly forbids Congress
to sanction the formation of the proposed State.
The section above quoted is equally cogent
against the admission of New Mexico as a
Stute, in the view of those who think the bound- 1
ary claim of Texas a tair question of dispute. '
The territory claimed by Texas, East of the Rio .
Gfuiidc and North of the boundary proposed by
the Committee of Thirteen, is estimated, in their ,
report, to contain about 125,000 square miles, i
Mr. Benton asserts, with the advantage of forty i
yejurs study of Humboldt, that the United States
now hold possession of 70,000 sauare miles
South of the committee's line, which belongs to
New Mexico just aa much as the'territory North
of the line. The lis pendens between Texas
and New Mexico, applies therefore, to 195,000
square miles of territory. The Santa Fe Convention
held upon this disputed ground, and
consisting of delegates elected chiefly by a population
inliahiting it, has formed a plan of State
government and transmitted it to Washington
for acceptance. Many may think the claim of
Texas to jurisdiction over this territory, of
doubtful validity, but none can deny that it is
urged upon grounds which are at least plausible
and worthy of respectful consideration.
We contend that it would be a gross violation
of the spirit of the constitutional guaranty,
to erect a State government upon the disputed
territory, before the question of jurisdieweu 1*
decided. Congress has no right to put one of
the parties to the contest in better condition to
litigate, tluui it is in at present. "The Supreme
Court doubtless has authority to determine the
boundary between two States, but Congress
has no such power. Neither has it power to I
curtail the boundaries established or claimed by
any one State. K is expressly prohibited from
interfering, by the formation of new States,
with the admitted jurisdiction of one of the
States. For the same reason, it is equally incompetent
to interfere, in that mode, with the
asserted jurisdiction of such States. It can
only decide the question of jeAdktion by the
consent of the State through its Legislature.
Without that conseut, it is unquestionably the
duty of Congress, to keep its hands off. If the
United States, as the proprietor of the public
domain, be incompetent (as some contend) to
sue Texas in the Supreme Court for the disputed
territory, Congress has no authority to
help the incompetency by bestowing upon the
people, who live there, the functions of State
organization and the capacity of bringing a suit.
The second clause of the 3d sectioii, 4th article
of the Constitution strongly sustains this
view, by its provision that nothing in the Constitution
shall be so construed us to prejudice
the claims of the United States or any particular
State. As Congress derives its authority solely
from tho Constitution, it is, of course, governed
- - - 1 - I. L.
by tfna restriction. Ana u can scarcely oe contended
that making New Mexico n State would
not prejudice the claims of Texas. If so, we
should not see the North so gladly welcome the
late intelligence from Santa Fe.?Richmond
Timet.
UNITED STATES HOTEL,
Washington Citf.
IL'MMEB ARRANGEMENT?BOARD fl 50 tER DAT.
THE subscriber respectfully informs the public
that from the first of July the price of board
will be reduced from $2 to $1 50 per day- and at
the same lime otters the same inducements as here
tofore (to travellers and persons visiting Washing
ton,) as regards accommodations a.id the determi
nation of the proprietor to please his guests.
The Unilea States Hotel is most conveniently
situated, being on Pennsylvania avenue, and with
in two minutes walk of the railroad depot, and
five minutes'walk of the Capitol. The hotel is
large, capable of accommodating one hundred and
fbrty persons, airy and comfortable. The flirniture
was all entirely new last fall, and the arrangements
of the hotel generally are such as will give
satisfaction.
The object of the proprietor in reducing the
price of board is to induce a fair share of patronage
; and he will at the same time assure ine community
that his table will be as well furnished,
his servants as attentive, and the accommodations
of his house generally shall eaual at least the other
hotels, which charge #2 per day.
A baggage car will attend at the railroad depot
anu sieamijuai wnan iu uuiivey uul^m^c iu me
hotel. EDW. H. FULLER, Proprietor.
A limited number of permanent boarders will be
taken low, during the summer and recess of Congress.
E. H. F.
july 1 3tawlm,&law2m.
THE THIRD ANNUAL VOLUME
or the
SOUTHERN LITERARY GAZETTE,
Wan commenced on Saturday, the 4th of May,
1850, under its original name?instead of Richards'
Weekly Gazette?as more significant of its peculiar
character, it being the only weekly organ or Literature
in the entire South! It is
Greatly Enlarged and Improved,
Containing weekly Thirty-two Columns of
matter. It ts, moreover, in an
Entirely o Dress
"from head to foot," and upon beautiful wnne
paper, no that, in mechanical excellence, it in not
surpassed by any paper whatever in the United
Stales! It conttnuen under the same Editorial
direction an heretofore, and no pnins or expense
will be spared to make it
A Choice Family Newspaper,
"an cheap as the cheapest, and as good as the
best!" Utterlv discarding the notion flint ?
Southern journal cannot compete with the Northj
cm weekuM, in cheapness and interest,
The Southern Literary Gazelle
rivals the bestxif them in all the characteristics of
a truly valuable fireside Journal. Its aim is the
diffusion of cultivuted and refined taste throughout
the community?and it embraces in its ample
folds ever species of intelligence that can tend to
this result.
Original Contributions,
from many of tne ablest writers in the Smith,
chiefly occupy its columns, but not to the exclusion
of choice miscellany, selected from the best
American and European sources.
The tone of the "Gazette" is independent .?
criticism and in the discussion of every legitimate
topic, but it is strictly
Mutral in Politics and Religion !
Its columns are occasionally embellished with
Southern Portraits and Landscapes,
engraved expressly for the work, and accompanied
by biographical and topographical sketches.
Its General Information
is copious, but carefully condensed from the
leading journals of all parts of the world.
Notwithstanding the great increase in the size
and attractions of the paper, it is still published at
Two Dollars Per Jlnnum, in Mvance !
It will be furnished to persons becoming responsible
for the whole number of conies, and having
them sent to one address, on the following terms :
Three copies, |5
Five copies, 8
Ten copies, 15
Fifteen copies, . 'JO
Twenty copies, 25
Fifty copies, 60
All orders must be accompanied with the
money, and addressed, post pai, to
WALKER &, RICHARDS.
Charleston, S. C.
PROSPECTUS OF A NEW SERIES OF
The Southern Quarterly Review.
Commenced on the 1?t or Afril, 1850, nr
Walker & Richards, Proprietors Sf Pubtsshers.
TERMS?$5.00 per annum, payable in advance.
The publishers of the Southern Quarterly
Review beg leave to entreat the attention of the
public to that Work, to return thanks for the invariable
indulgence which has stniled upon its
prugrtrm imnerio, una to express the hope that
this countenance will not be withdrawn, now that
the publication, passing from the hands of the
former publisher into their own, makes, as it
were, a fresh start in the pursuit of a well known
progess. They cannot allow themselves to doubt,
that?with ail their former contributors, with the
addition of many new ones, not less valuable and
distinguished?under the conduct still of Mr. W.
Gilmore Simms, its sole Editor during the past
year?and with the assurance which the subscribers
now bee leave to give, that the work will be
henceforward issued in a style very superior to
that of the past, on better paper, with a fine new
type, and with a regard to ueatness and finish,
which will leave it second to none in the country??
they will continue to receive that patronage which
their own endeavor and the claims of such an organ
seem reasonably to demand.
The writers for the Review include the greater
nnmber of the best and ablest names of the
country. They represent the highest literary
talent of the South, and reflect truly, with a native
earnestness, force, and fidelity, the real policy
and the peculiar institutions of our section.
We entreat the people of the South, who fl?el
the importance of such a periodical as the Review,
to excuse its deficiencies, and generously lend
themselves to its assistance. With their countenance
and concurrence, it can become the established
organ of domestic opinion?the champion
of our rights and character abroad?the guide and
counsel to intellectual progress and proper taste
at Knma 11,e nrAnA in which the better minds of
the country may always distinguish themselves,
and find the proper provocation to execution and
performance?the wholesome authority to which
we may always turn for the correction and restraint
of crude and undigested speculation. These
are all objects of the last necessity to a civilized
people, who have anything to gain by enterprise,
or any thing to lose by remissness and indifference.
Once more, we ask from the patrons of the
Review, indulgence for the past, and such sympathy
and support for the future, as are due to the
vital interests which it faithftilly serves, and the
character which it seeks to astabliah.
03- Ail communications should be addressed
WALKER A RICHARD?,
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