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' , . .a CITATION IfOTICK. THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, i Rammr Cotstt. f Prnbute Omrt ttf safe ewtust, AmgHt Trrm, A. D. 18. To Ephra&B H. Luaibard, guardian ml tilafa of Florvoee H Pleaaaats, Hubert St. George Heni -Hl sail .Samuel Pleasant, minors. Thus. Bibb, P.,nr Bibb, Adeline Bradley, 8. A. Mill., James J. I'lawuu, Arthur M. Hopkins and Eliza Hop Kins, bis wife: 1. Uresnwell and Julia Cresswell, his wife ; W. K. Hill and Emily Hill, his wife ; Samuel Pleasants, Robert St. George Pleasants, and Florence M. Pleasants, minors above named, and all others interested in the estate of Robert T. Bibb, late of Rankin county, deceased : Vow are hereby cited to be and personally appear before die honorable Probate Court of Raskin county, at the Court House thereof, en the second Monday of November next, A. D. 1839, on the first day of the term of said court, than and there to show cause, if any yon can, why tin prayer of the petition or Wat, I). Bibb, administrator of the es tate of said Robert T. Bibb, deceased, for the sale of tit slaves aad other personal property of said estate, for the purpose of division, should not then and there be granted, and an order and decree made thereon accordingly. Wrritsss. the Hon. Win. H. Clark Judge of said Court, this second Monday of Au gust, A. u. 1S3V. issued August itf, isoy. Aug 18 'Ss ww. W. A. ALLI8T0N, Clerk INSOLVENT NOTICE. V8E estate of Joseph Spengl or, having been de L creed insolvent by the Probate Conrt of Hinds county, the creditors of said estate are here by notified to hare their claims duly probated and registered in the register kept by the Clerk of ?aid Court, by th th day of Fetjniary, I860 ; in de- . v t .1 - :n V - r i . - . taVuiv Of WBWH UNIT gwiaw wain w iwtci Ct Uovrrcu. H. SPENGLER, feblS 59 7m Adm'r of Joseph Spongier. TRUSTEE'S 8 AXE. BY virtue of the power vested in me as trustee in a deed of trust made aad executed on the 4Jk of Jew wary. 181, by James McLennan and Emily McLennan, his wife, for the benefit or Win. j Austin which deed is to be found recorded in the office of the Probst - Clerk T Bu ds County, ; beekM, pages SM-SUj, I will expose to pnblic sale for cash, ia front nf the Capitol in the Ci'y of Jaeksea, Tuesday, the sixth day of Septem ber, 1849, the following described nieces or parcels .( tM, lying aad being ia the City of Jackson imj Hale nf Mississippi, to wit : Part of Lots No. Hlt -fMKw.ier.ta ei city, si tu tted oaMisslisitad and Congress streets, beginning st the S.W. corner aad running thenee along Con gress street let feet, to the line with Mr. Swann -. thence along said line 183 feet to the line with Mr. Tarplay ; thanes North along said line and that of Mrs. Alexander, 1M feet to Mississippi street; thence along said street 14 feet to the place of beginning. J)nly such title will be con veyed as Is vested in me by virtue of the deed of trust aforesaid, la T. M. ELLIS, Trustee. NOTICE. ' I1BI3 is te notify the pulbic that sometime ia the A month of April or May I8a, R. M. Hobson gave a dne hill to Henry Coony, for two hundred and sixty-eight dollars, aad the consideration fur which having mien, i, as air agent, lorewarn any inon from trading lor saia aue Dill as I shall not nay it, unless e .mpelled to by law Ansae I'M St. ROBT.J. PAINE, Agent. COMMISSIONER'S SALE. BY VIRTUE of a Decree of the Chancery Court of the first district of Hinds County, State of Mississippi, rendered at the June Term of said Conrt, in the ease of William M. Green vs. R. H. Weller etal, I will sell on the premises, on the 29th day of August A. D. 18&9, between the hoars of 10 aad 2 o'clock at pnblic sale to the highest bidder, for cash, that parcil of ground lying in the town W Clinton, Hinds county, Mississippi, known as the Mount Solus Female Academy, being the same lots a panels of ground conveyed by Phillip P. Wirlin aad Wife to the said William M. Green. July tf. D. I PORTER, Com. "LfttSUKIPPI COLLEGE, Clinton Miss. ivJL AH the Tixt Books used in the above named College, just .received, by J. B. MORE V. may f . CARD. HAVING resiled far three years in Kansas, t fee prepared to invest advantageously in Kansas lasrtt aad locate warrants after the Land sales on the 15th July, 1859. I will invest money in Town wsyslli, on shams or for a reasonable compensation. I will locate warrants for 10 cents an acre, iddises the subscriber at Kansas City, Me. ssayll 59-3m L. 8. BOLLING. TRAVELING AGENTS WANTED, rsus ixkst mrxovMirr. ESKBGETIC young men waai.au, who will de vest their whole time and talent, to travel and solMt aiders for Smith k Wesson's celebrated Pat ent Revolvers. Salary, $40 per month, and expen ses paid. Better than all other similar agencies. For aoadifvwit, and instructions in the business, address, wtia stamp. L. M. HAKK1S, July i -aw wat. Boston UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE. VESICAL DEPARTMENT. TWElfTY.THIRD SESSION. BOAS D OF T R VST EES. BOH. JAMES GUTHRIE, President. WM. 8. VBESUS, Esq., Secretary. MEDICAL FACVLir. BENJAMIN R. PALMER, M. D. Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery. J. LAWRENCE SMITH, M. D., Professor of ifedi- ttl Cheaustry and chemical Phyliology. KOBSRf J. BRECKINRIDGE, M. IX, Professor of Mstsffci aTadlm aad Therapeutics. JOSHUA B. FLINT, M.D., Professor of Clinical T S. BELL, M. I)., Professor of the Practice of Medicine. Theory as I.LEWTLL' TN POWKLL M. D. Professor of Obs- J. W. BENSON, M. U. Professor of Anatomy and flan seal Phyrieeogy and Dean of the Faculty. j. M. gPsnSa, j. !.. Profesaor of Medical Juris- D. W.TANDELL, M. I). Professor of Clinical Med- isnwaad Pathological Anatomy. ARCHIE B. COOK, M. D. Demonstrator of Anato 7. The Medical Department of the University of fissmrririT will enter upon its twenty-third session on the trst Monday in November. Letares prelim antsy mtke renlar coarse will be delivered at tan Univertity and Marine Hospital, free of charge, and seM on the in 01 uetouer. i ue uiesen 1 arm also be ooened at that time. The 1 will dose, as heretofore, on the last of Feb ruary. Extensive opportunities will be afforded for the stndy of Clinical Medicine and Surgery. Leetare Fees $IM Watrieaiatkm i Graduation ffisayllsl Free. Fur farther particulars, address 1. W. BENSON, July it, 'it w2s. Dean of the Faculty. 01E HTjTTJBEI) thousand cuees AND NOT A SINGLE FAILURE! Xaiiri GREEN AGUE aad FETER MIXTURE Warranted to euro the Ague and Fever or Chilli snd Fever, in every oaae where the direction are fol lowed without the aid of any other Medicine. - ALSO 7- CARJflNATTVE SYRUP DIAERBOU MIXTURE, sfe and Effectual Remeur for Diarrhsea , Choiara, Infantum, ar Saatmer Coa ts of Children, Caesura Morbus, or any and all Irregularities of Law Bowels. ffVOCBAIDfl ef oortiloalss might be obtained A attesting the valae of the above remedies, but is this vicinity the are too well known, to need isiimmmilHlui. Determined to keey up the re ef ssssHslnsi so deservedly popular, are 1 iiswae ishsbs truss pare lugreuients, omy , aoa wiwu almost care, aad .kill. Uaraiag that many persons in the habit of using ' 1 issalkej, Ut Visa aaaaU to obtain now top !(, w weeds seats, the may at all times be ob . -aiaed at the Drugstore of Dr. i. S. 8IZER who is or agent for them la this city. Annie by druggists throughout the state. Dr. J. 87 SIZE E, Agent, Jackson Miss. Utters from the trade should be address to the Wjrietors, Cassell A Banghn, Canton, Miss. : a am dwell. . 1NG IN CAYUGA FOR SALEM A7WI3HISG to ehaoge my business, I offer Ja V ary slock of Goods Store House and WS. t a credit of one, two and three years: Han te a ntantation. of Goods a so si st of every article ru in a eeuntrv store, and are offered as prims cost without aiding any thing for freight or If 1 do not meet with a purchaser for the entire took before the 1st of September, I will en that knee setting sex at cost. W-gw. Ratward FOOTE. lOO CARRIAGES, UOCKAWAya aad Buggies hTgrentv. Wishing a change inVsntssss, I offer, sornasit. shovs post, for isinitssiiillsiKov. ariety. .at U Gall nasi examine at ansa. i So tf HENRY E. SIZER saJMFf UeatY MILITARY INSIlrUTK. ThJRSCTKD by a Board of Visitors apeointsd E3 fcy the State, is under the superinteodinceTf veawaoi m. is. sasswna, a West Point, and a Practi aWe Fsenlty. Mwasn, a distingBiibed graduate of eat r-ngiaew, aided by an the oonree of study is that taught in the host CoUeges, hot more extended in Mathematics. Me ceo4svMaohanoe, Cooatrnorioa. Agrlon5rol6hom acwmnanioi by daily aad regulated uwtiE' mit tune, moans, and object of proAosioaal nrl paraOon, both before and after grsiiuaMaaT Franklin Springs, ay., or the undersigned. Aug la 'S olm reeldent of thBoard. JACKSON FOUNDRY MACHINE HOT. 'IVRE above I furnish SlemB Engines and on t for Plaatatioa PS- notice, V. V can he faraish- Waastheveai set sasowboro. Also, s Portable Horse Power, that at tne last raaniag Saws, Gins, Mails, em., whiak does away with the expense of large gin houses, sTImSE is necessary la itarting them bat a pick room ON and Min GeerinTrlotcksia. WatT WheeS' Door aad Window HiBs, Linteis, ColnnaZd Woaf-, a, ftow Points, an WS bka .Southern Foundry, always i , saw miiis,bb mu uh of wacsiaati re. rt nothm. All work warranted. 1 exclusively cash, or its eauivai,t IromihessAssmrfkos. JA6. o. 8TE VtNg. -Bafiasr sa& 923EaT ualh found Ite Wl pis VOL. XXVIL THE MISSlSSIPPIAJN.!The Vick8bnr on DiB,mi011 Jackson, Friday, - - August 26. 1859 FOR THE LEGISLATI RE. y We are authorized to announce the name of Col. C. JS. HOOKER, as a caMklate for a -eat in the popular branch of the Mississippi Lccislature from Hinds Onoty. Election In October next. JOT We are authorized to announce ROBERT II. PURDOM, ESQ., as an 1 ndep.-n.lcnt candidate for a scat In the lower branch or the Mississippi L. sislatnrc, froui Hinds Connty, at the ensnine election. FOR STATE SENATOR. jaV' Wo are authorized to announce Maj. L. Ml MMS. as a eamlHHies ror siaie senator, foom Hinds Comity -- To Advkrtisf.rk. The Mississippian goes to press immediately after the arrival of the ).t past 5 o'clock cars from New 6rieans. Those wishing their advertisements iaserted would do well to bring them in before 4 o'clock on publication days. PLATFOEM OF TELE DEMOCRACY OF MISSISSIPPI DNAitntOUSLY. ADOPTED IN CONVENTION, JULY 5th 1859 : Resolved, t hat we re-announce as the basis 01 party action the platform of principles laid down !y the Dem- wra'.le party in the National Convention of 1556; and bold that th- doctrine of "non-interfe -once with ihe Institution of slavery In States, ferritoiies, or Ulstii.it Columbia, noes not nor was It Intended to conflict with the assertion of tie power of Concrees to protect the property of the citizens of the several State, who may choose to settle In the territories whfeb are tbe oromou property of all the States. Resolved, That ia tbe language of the Supreme Court of the United States "the right of property In slaves is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution" and -the only power over it conferred upon Congress, is prottc ber Muter slave-holding States in insisting upon tbe enforcement by all the departments of the federal gorernmeut of their eonstltuuonal rights as thus expounded bv the Supreme Court of the United states. Kesolvep. That In tbe event of tbe election of a Black Republican candidate to the Presidency, by the suffrages of one portion of the Union only, to rule over the whole United States, upon tbe avowed purposes or that oroanization. Mississippi will regard It as a declara tlon of hostility, and will bold herself in readiness, to co operate with her sister States of the South, in whatever measures they may deem necessary Car the maintenance of their rights as co-equal members of the confederacy. Eksolved That we feel It incumbent upon the Den.ne :y of Mississippi again todedare mat the aenuisitinn of 01 ssnwewppi again 10 oeciare mat tne acoulsltlon of rfuuRnre that look 4 tn il 4.-nmnHihnunt - nn.l f..-i we can never consent to lt appropriation bv any foreivn power. " Judson Female Institute, Marion, Ala. This school has been long established and has won a well deserved reputation as one of the best in the South. Our readers are re ferred to the advertisemeut of' its principal, in another column. C. E. Hooker, Eso. We are requested to state that Mr. Hooker will be at the appoint ments of the other candidates for the Legisla ture, to give his views on the various topics which interest most the people of the county. First Cotton. The first bale of cotton of the season was brought to our city on Tues day last from the plantation of CoL Kirkpat rick, of Rankin county, and being of superior quality, readily sold for fifteen cents, f. Bloom was the purchaser. Aaother Letter. Douglas has written another letter for the edification of the public, and the delight of his abolition followers. , His present epistle is a denunciation of the slave trade movement, and an approval of the Maine Squatter Sovereignty platform publish ed in a late number of this paper. A more effective means of checking the ex pansion of the South, and eventually destroy usst aser iaaiitnfniiia. than Uw man rfjila'ja las, could not be devised by her worst ene mies. He proposes to prevent the South from in creasing her supply of negro laborers by con tinuing in force the "death" penalty for im porting foreign slaves; and to put into practi cal operation his doctrine of Squatter Sove reignty. Thus he will deprive her of all power to compete in mere numbers with the North in the settlement of the territories ; and of all right to protection when there by the government against the brute force of anti-slavery societies. If the anti-slave trade laws were repealed, the South could bid defiance to the abolition hordes who might be poured into the territo ries by Thayer & Co., and for whose rule Douglas contends; but with the "death" pen atty in force, and Squatter Sovereignty tri umphant in the Territories, what chance has the South foi the expansion and perpetuity of her institutions ? What chance has she to maintain, or rather to restore the equilibri um of the sections, and to protect herself in the national counsels against the encroach ments o( an unfriendly majority ? Go it Ye Cripples .' A short time since, we copied a letter from the Buffalo Republic, expressing great fear that Douglas and his friends would be literally massacred at Charleston by the Southern fire eaters. It seems that the alarm has spread throughout the Douglas ranks in the North ern States, and that they are preparing for the bloody issue. The following is an extract from a Milwaukee correspondent of the Charleston News : Wisconsin will send a delegation of five hundred of her Democratic sons to accompany the delegates of the 8tate Convention to be chosen next month. These five hundred are all Douglas Democrats. Minnesota sends a delegation of three hundred Douglas men Michigan eight hundred, Iowa five hundred, Ohio one thousand, Illinois fifteen hundred, Pennsylvania one thousand, New York one thousand, and nearly all the New England States one thousand each. This is a secret plan ; and it is understood that Douglas will have at least twenty thousand friends m Charleston during the Convention. Southern Manufactures. The Philadelphia Enquirer, an able North em journal, in the folio wing article, bears tes timony to the wonderful resources of the South and her adaptability to manufacturing, and offers encouraging advice saying : Our brethren of the South ever and anon make an effort to infuse new energy into .the capitalists, planter and manufacturers of that rSw. In this, they deserved to be MM lTand commended' The resources of the rtoVthl have only been partally developed. tftZ or otheHhat stoon of the Union does not keep pace with the Northed while magnificent enterprises are constantly eess in the Northern and Middle States, Uie South does nothing more than complain. Let us hope however, that bet teV lav is coming for that portion of the TJn Why he South should not greatly m- ing the winter season, when many nor thern rivers and harbors an and as concerns the Utter, she 1 raw material, and therefore possesses a aeci ofn steamersfroms.me.ead.ng Southern port is every .We anl ve should rejoice to see it estabtehed 'ITie pre lnatrmn movements have btn rnade and we shall await the results with no httle anxiety. Imfbovk-xst ov Gbenada. The near completion of the Mississippi Central Bailroaa to Grenada, Miss., has given a new impetus to the business of that place. A large num btrof new buikhntrs are in progress of erec- tion there. o- OiT The latest ''Ihsluon'' i Europe is that of dressing very ptadT goingto church. Some of the lathes of the circles" go up to worship in ptam hca It is thus sought to encourage the attendance of the very poor, who hve hitherto withheld their presence for lack of Sunday clothes. Coha by the United States is a commercial and political . , . . - ,. necessity ,nd that we will hail with pleasure eveir properlttlon and the inauguration of its policy. The Vicksburg Whig replies at some length to Get Pettus' declaration in fitvor of dissolu tion in the event the Northern majority choose to overthrow the government of our fathers by electing a President committed to the destructive policy of the abolition party. It says: Well Col. Pettus had as well "give it up-' and "retire from the canvass," and save him self any further trouble, for he will not be sustained bv the neonle in his efforts to dis- J'-solve the Union. But we can tell Col. Pettus ana tne .uississippian, tnat u a tnousana sucn men were to traverse the State, and make disunion speeches in every village, country store, and cross-road, and as many such papers were to report, enforce, and laud tneir speecn es. it would be, to use the language of a dis tinguished friend in Bolivar county, "like wa ter poured on a duck's back," aad leave no other impression than an increased admiration for our institutions, that have not only with stood every assault from without, bat have proven themselves capable of resisting all ef forts from within, to break down and destroy the priceless inheritance bequeathed to us Vfrom our sires. , . r 717.. T'n,' M..m A. A.saimJ ,nd tn iicua M III I tl.M 1,1 . . I ' 1 lT vHfOVVW, WnWIW w MWV the language of Old Hickory, "by the Eternal! it must and shall be preserved." There is too much at stake for our children, too much for posterity, too much of the hopes and ex pectations of future civilization and freedom, "to give it up so." So, no, Col. Pettus and gentlemen of the Democratic Convention : We do not intend to let a Black Republican be elected, and thereby put your threats to the test, because we know that if we should, you will mgloriously back out, as you did in 1851, and let the matter end in bluster and bravado. The Whig speaks of Col. Pettus' "efforts to dissolve the Union;" but it knows that he is making no such attempts. The Union of justice and equality framed by the fathers of the Republic, is virtually dissolved upon the accession to 110 we r 01 an anonuon .luimnis- The party of Seward has no other avowed object no other bond of organization but the destruction of the compact of Union between the States ; and the Whig forgetting the fact, confounds with the schemes of the enemies of the South, the protective measure advanced by CoL Pettus as the Democratic candidate for Governor of Mississippi. The question which will be presented upon the happening of that event, will be, not the maintenance of the Union of the Constitution under which we have heretofore been living, but submission to the despotism of a fanatical majority, who have had the boldness to say that when they succeeded in seizing the government it shall be perverted to their purpose of overthrowing the institutions of the Southern States and reducing the South to a condition of colonial dependency and degradation. The original, true, "glorious Union"' if you will so have it, can be as easily destroyed tinder the forms of one common government, as by the violent separation of its members; and the real dis unionists are not the State Rights men of the South, who are advocating the preservation of the Constitution as it came from the hands of its revered founders, and who look to separa tion as a refuge from the consequences of its overthrow, but Seward and his disciples at the North, and his aliettors at the South, who help him on and give encouragement to his fanatical crew by telling them that if ever they obtain possession of the government to wield all its powerful machinery for the de- -trui'tinn and .logmilation of the South, hjr-r sons are such miserable cravens that they will quietly submit, or have not spirit and man hood enough even to withdraw from their as sociation. If the Whig does not think Col. Pettus will "he sustained" in the policy to which he is committing his Administration, why does it not give a practical illustration of the sinceri ity of its profession, by rallying an opposition to him? Why does it permit his election to go by default? If it believes that a majority of the people of Mississippi prefer a Black Re publican despotism administered by Seward or some other abolitionist, to separation from such a government and its consequence of in dependence and prosperity, why does it not rally its clan to the contest ? Why does it content itself with "making mouths" "solita ry and alone" at the grand army of Southern patriots marching to the defence of their rights? It is not because the principles and meas ures of the Democratic party have not been distinctly avowed in its platform and through its standard-bearers, but because the few poli ticians of the Whig school who are opposed to a resistance policy, and who arc willing to live under a Seward administration, know full well that they cannot muster a corporal's guard to their standard. They have attempted, but attempted in vain, to organize an opposition ticket ; and now when they see the triumph ant'Jiosts of the State Rights men marching to victory, in the mortification of defeat they con sole themselves by such stupid prognostica tions of evil, and such silly ravings, as the Whig exhibits. The Whig writer says that he does not intend that a Black Republican shall be elected to the Presidency. We would like for him to explain the means by which he intends to verify his declaration ; and what part he ex pects to bear in the struggle to present a re sult which all patriots cannot but deprecate. There is now but one national organization upon which the country can rely for success mi opposition to the Black Republican party. The old Whig party has ceased to exist, and the men who most adorned it in the South have connected themselves with the Demo cratic party. The "American order," too, has gone the way of other ephemeral organizations, and upon the Democratic party, is left the burden of the fight against the Black Repub lican conspirators. Does the Whig writer hope to defeat the latter by abusing and offer ing factious opposition to the former ? Desecrating the name of Jacksou by misap plying a sentiment attributed to him, the Whig writer insists that the Union can never be dissolved ; and leaves us to infer that the election of a Black Republican by the North ern majority, will afford no cause for a separa tion of the aggrieved states from the States which by such action would indicate their purpose to deprive them of their independence and equality. But what says his great exam- plar, Millard Fillmobb f In a speech de livered at Albany, N. Y., in July, 1856, the late Whig-American candidate for President and a Northern man at that, uttered these memorable words which the writers of the Vicksburg Whig school accepted as their shib boleth in the canvass of that year : "We nee a political party presenting candi dates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency, selected, for the first time, from the Free States alone, with the avowed purpose of electing these candidates by the sttffrages of one part of the Union only to rule over the whole United States Can it be possible that those who are engaged in such a measure can have seriously reflected upon the consequences which must inevitably follow in case of success T LAX IIxbji J - . .. mi a riMwaa rt, muu uor T XT HA V Cj inB JH.AU- E.Df3 un A Li a r uoo i TO BELIEVE THAT OUR SOUTHERN BRETHERN WOULD SUBMIT TO BE GOVERNED BY SUCH A CHIEF MAG ISTRATE ? Would he be required to fol low the same rule prescribed fay those who elected him, in making his appointments ? If a man living south of Mason and Dixon's line Vu r wr.rt h v to he President or Vice-Presi dent, would it be proper to select ose from the parry quarter as one of his cabinet council or ... . f sfi.ee ft! IttlVtrtT 7 Or, indeed, to collect the revenue, or adm'inis- to represent ue nation in a sustgu jr PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY JACKSON, ter the laws of the United States? Knot, what new rule is the President to adopt in se lecting men for office," that the people them selves discard in selecting them ? These are serious, but practical questions, and, in order to appreciate them fully, it is only necessary to turn the tables upon ourselves. Suppose that the South, having a majority of the elec toral votes, should declare that they would only have slaveholders for 1'resuient and Vice President, and should elect such by their ex clusive suffrages to rule over us at the North. Do 11011 think we would submit to it ? So, not for a moment ! And do yon believe that your Southern brethern arc less sensitive on this subject than you are, or less jealous of their rights ? If you do, let me tell yon that you ore mistaken. And therefore, vou must" see that if this sectional party succeeds, it leads inevil ably to the destruction of this beautiful fabri, reared by our forefather, remrnted by thei blood, and liequeathed to lis a frri'-eless inherit once." Mississippi Impudence, or Pot calling Kettle Black! Mississippi, in State Convention assembled Has unanimously resolved in lavor of a Von gressional Slave Code for the territories, and virtually in favor of opening the African Slave Tbade. - The great body of the people of the United States regard with equal detestation the doc trines of both sets of fanatics ! Mississippi Slave Codeiam is no better than northern abo litionism ; nor is the movement of Mississippi for the overthrow of that provision of the con stitution which allows the prohibition of the slave trade, and for re-opening the slave-traffic, any less treasonable than the effort of north ern abolitionism to nullify the fugitive slave provision of the constitution, and to carry on a wholes ilc system of spiriting away southern slaves. And yet, Mississippi standing before the American public, as the exact counterpart of northern abolitionism, has the effrontery to talk of bolting the Union in the event of the elec tion of a Black Republican President in 1800! when the great body of the people would be at a loss to decide which would be the greater calamity to the republic, the triumph of the Black Republican doctrines, or those of the Mississippi school of mad-caps ! Maine Age. The paper that gives vent to such calumy and vituperation as the foregoing is the lead ing organ of Donglas and his faction in Maine, who, we regret to say have obtained lull con trol of the Democratic organization in that State. There is no excuse for the fabrication that the Democracy of Mississippi declared in their State Convention "in favor of opening the slave trade," and the Age repeats it only to stir up the prejudices of the ignorant and fanatical masses who arc in the habit of read ing its columns. With no less truth doesjt assert that the Democracy of Mississippi have resolved in favor of a Congressional slave code for the territories ;" and of a piece with its ac curacy in its statement of facts is the logic of its assertion that Mississippi sentiment as ex pressed in her resolutions, is "the exact coun terpart of northern abolitionism." Of course we do not copy from the Ae with a view to a formal refutation of its false hood, sophistry and slang, because our words would never reach its readers, but to enforce the idea we have advanced in favor of a' clear and explicit declaration of the principles of the Democratic party when it meets in Conven tion at Charleston. The identical views of the Age will have their representatives in that body. If these last are Democrats of the "na tional" faith, the Mississippi Democracy are not ; and the lines must be drawn so as to place the question beyond the remotest possi bility of a doubt. Suppose the points of dif ference are held in abeyance, or kept in the back ground "for the sake of harmony" and "expediency," will not the quarrel break out sooner or later ? When Mississippi comes to ask for the protection due to the property of her citizens in the common territories, while under federal jurisdiction, will she not lie told by the codfish Democracy in whose name the Age speaks, that she is violating the platform of the party and that "the triumph of Black Republican doctrines" would be no "greater calamity" than that "of the Mississippi mad caps ?" Under such circumstances, what would a Presidential victory be worth ; would not the men of the Age school who for the sake of public plunder helped to win the clect ion.unite with the Black Republicans.to defeat the just and constitutional measures of pro tection demanded by the South ? And more than all, would they not do it as I louglas and his confederates did during the last Congress, in the abused and desecrated name of Democ racy ? If these men have resolved upon a course of hostility to the South, let them at all events be deprived of every pretext for say ing that their infamous schemes are derived from a legitimate construction of the platform of the nationoljorganizat ion. Let us have a de claration of principle suited at Charleston to the requirements of the times, the meaning of which engenuity itself cannot pervert to accomplish the aims of the wicked. The Cotton Trade - e The New York Herald says that in spite of the war and individual losses sustained here and there by the more timid holders, the cot ton year of 1858-9 (ending the 1st September next) will prove one of the most prosperous and remarkable in the history of the country. The crop, estimated at 3,700,000 bales, is the largest ever grown in the United States, and estimated at the average af about $50 per bale, it amounts to the enormous sum of$185,- 000,000. The crop, so far, has been distrimted as fol lows : Estimated crop, 3,700,000 bales Quantity exported to July 25 : BALL.-, VALUE. 1,935,000 ,S96,750,000 424,000 21,200,000 537,000 2(1,850,000 171,000 8,550,000 To Great Britian To France To other lbr'n ports Stock on hand Taken by American manufacturers To be ree'd 1st Sep 594,000 39,000 29,700,000 1,950,000 Total 3,700,000 $185,000,000 Some suppose that the present growing crop of 1859-60 may reach four millions bales, or three hundred thousand in excess of the pres ent crop. It is certainly too early to draw a reliable opinion ; but it may safely be assumed that should peace be fully establised, Cotton, no matter what may be the quantity pro duced, Willbe consumed at a remunerative price. Consumption is growing beyond the supply. Col. James Liddell- . It is our mealoncholy duty to announce the death of this venerable citizen. His demise occurred very suddenly on the morning of the 4th hist. He arose in the morning, apparent ly as well as usual, and in a very short time, even while moving about the house he was called away by the hand of death. CoL Liddell had attained a very advanced age, and had been, we understand, in a gen erally feble state of health for sometime past. This, with his advanced age, no doubt accounts for his sudden death. For many years, Col. Liddell has been a citizen of Carroll county, Miss., well known by our people, and venerated and well liked by a large circle of acquaintances, and was, at a former day in the service of the people of the county in the capacity of representative in the Legislature of the Stated CamMUm Democrat. New Cotton. The steamboat Charmer, which arrived here from Vicksburg on Satur day last, brought down 1,020 bales of new cotton. Piatfme, 23. . MORNING , ON UAflTOL S WEDNESDAY, JAUGUST 31, 1 859 What Ought the Charleston Convention n Ant The Ouiiuon r: ft northern Democratic Journal? We understand n poliu;i pworm to lie a declaration of faith by which aparty acknowl edges itself to lie gaiueil, ansja compact hy which its various members agrlfc to co-operate for the accomplishment of a cfren end in the administration of the ;overnnfct The very statement of the case suggeswfce importance of a clear, explicit and uiiamgguous form ol expression. There should baflhhe first place a distinct ami cordial agnfftnt upon the principles enunciated and fhfjpeasurcs to Ik carried out and then to avoflpll possibility of future niisunderstandingMfey should lie expressed so as to admit of IB one construc tion. It is only in this irtnp the 1 lomo cratic party can preserve itflEty. What if the exigencieaJSfj Presidential struggle compell its members fe hold in abey ance conflicting opinions and to avoid the clash of opposite interpretations of their common platform, yet sooner or later, when it is to lie practically applied in the administration of the government, the quarrel will come bringing forth its harvest of poisonous fruits. We have hut recently had a severe lesson administered on this sulject. The Adminis tration and the Democrats Xorth and South, who adhered to its policy, believed that they were carrying out in good faith, the commit tals of the Cincinnati Platform, in the Kansas controversy, while Douglas and his adherents pretended to swear by that instrument even though their construction had taken them into affiliation with the Black Republicans. Is the quarrel to be smothered until soother Presidential election is over to be renewed as it certainly would, when occasion arises for the application of the principles of the party to the territorial question ? And is it not best to settle the issue now ; to agree if we can, but separate it we must, betore we go into the contest ? Moreover, ire put it to every candid Democrat, is it patriotic, is it hon est, is it fair, for a party professing to be Na tional and addressing itself t) the intelligence j pf the people, to wear a double face and to ( speak with a forked tongue ? Is it right that j we of the South should appeal to the people here for support of our party upon a set of principles and aline of policy totally dilfcrent from the principles and policy to which its members are pledging it in Illinois or else where ? Can such a game of deception, even if it should achieve a temporary victory for its authors, fail to produce its train ol" curses in due season ? We are glad to tind ourselves sustained in these views by a Northern paper of such de cided ability and unquestioned orthodoxy as the Chicago Herald. In the course of a con clusive article on the subject, it forcibly says : SV'e hold that the Democratie platform should lie so written, in every particular, that every member of the party could comprehend it clearly so that no dispute could arise as to 'its intent and meaning." U'e want no eva sive, diplomatic expressions m a Uemocratse platform no dodging living issues no dou ble dealing ; but a straightforward, honest and perfectly plain declaration of principles. That portion of the Cincinnati Platform re ferring to the Territorial policy of the party, though the members of the Convention which adopted it might have all understood it alike, lias been tortured anil tai.-ted by interested persons to mean "Sqitaiffr Sovereignty" to mean that a few squatters in a Territory may, through their Territorial Legislature, aliollsh or prohibit slavery, regardless of the Constitu tion of the United States and the rights of the South while the true Democrats of the coun try understand it, as the Contention under stood it to mean that the people of the Ter ritories cannot prohibit slavery until they do it in forming a State Constitution. n this point of difference a division in the Democratic party has been caused, which might have been prevented had the I 'incinnati platform contained an explicit and distinct expression of the Democratic doctrine on this point such an expression as would have rendered cavil impossible. Now, we maintain, it will be imperative lor the Charleston Convention to so define this principle of Popular Sovereignty in the Ter ritories as to settle the existing dispute and determine, for all time to come, what the Democratic party understand by Popular Sov ereignty. Any attempts to avoid this duty by adopting mere "glittering generalities" would he dishonest and unworthy the Demo cratic party, and we believe the Convention will not sanction any such attempts. It will be necessary for us to know exactly what the issue is, in the next canvass. And there is no good reason why Democrats should be asham ed or afraid to avow their principles plainly. The true policy is to be plain and honest in the matter. Population of Socth Cabolina. W. K. Hunt, Deputy Secretary of State, 1ms prepar ed for the Southern Guardian, of Columbia, a comparative review of the population of South Carolina from its earliest settlement to the present time. The figures are for white pop ulation : Population. 1800 196,255 1809 217,472 1819 231,828 1829 250,943 1839 257,117 1849 280,585 1859 304,112 The returns for 1859 are not exactly full one or two small parishes not lieinc re ported. White Slavery worse than Black. The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal of Au gust 4th gives an account of a case lately treated fn the Boston hospital, of a young girl completely debilitated by the confinement of a milliner's shop. She was restored to a par tial degree of strength and sent back to ner labor. She works in an establishment for ma king ladies' visites and mantillas. At this es tablishment eighty girls were working togeth er in a single room, for ten hours daily. The apartment was badly ventilated, but it is dif ficult to conceive how a room with eighty girls in for ten hours a day could be ventilated at all. The rules of the establishment will not allow of only a half days work, and will not permit the work to be taken home. II any one dislike the employment others are ready at any moment to take their places. w-o- Docolas. A correspondent of the St, Louis Republican had said that Judge Leib, of Illinois, who opposed the election of Judge Douglas to the Senate, had repented ol Ins opposition, sought an interview with Doug las and was now his ardent friend. To this Judge Leib replies : This statement is untrue. 1 opposed J udge Douglas during tbe late canvass, boldlv de nounced his course, and should it become nec essary, would not hesitate to do so, though I stood alone. I said nothing of Judge Douglas that 1 did not know to be true, and do not take hack a single word. Then, as now, 1 believe him to be a treach erous, truthfuless, soulless man, who would sacrifice principles and party upon the altar of his ambition if he could thereby attain the Presidencv. Truly yours, CHARLES LEIB. Always consider yourself better than any body else. STREET, JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI. The Cotton Movement in Great Britain. A- According to late accounts the leading man ufacturers in Great Britain continue to perplex themselves with the possibility of some future great cotton failure in the United States, and all its serious consequences. The consump tion of this article, they contend, increases more rapidly than the growth. (By the way let those who oppose the re-opening of the slave trade on the ground that it will result in the production of an over supply of cotton, and bring down prices, note this fact.) Among the many expedients which have been con templated and resorted to, memorials were recently presented by the Manchester Cham ler of (Commerce to the Government, in which they urged the importance of extending such encouragement to Mr. Bourne's proposals for navigating the Indian rivers, as would enable the cotton grown in the interior to be trans jiorted to the coast, with adequate facility and at a moderate expense. The old East India Company consented to give to the Oriental Inland Steam Company, which lias been formed in London to carry this method of navigation into practical effect, a yearly grant of money to assist in carrying out the under taking, and which grant will, it is stated, of itself, return ten per cent, yearly on the cap ital which the company undertakes Jo expend. This concession is a much more favorable one than any which lias been granted to the In dian railways : but the necessity of adding to the British supplies of cotton from India is considered urgent, and hence the most liberal policy is advocated. The cotton manufactur ers of the United Kingdom recently formed a great association for promoting, by every means in their power, the production and sup ply of cotton : and the London journals state that in order to supply funds for accomplish ing their objects, they have assessed and made calls on, the respective fitctories, in proportion to their horse-power. - It is stated that nine tenths of the cotton of the world comes from about thirty -eight millions of acres of Ameri can land, cultivated mainly by three millions of Africans under white supervision. -A Grape Culture at the South. A The New Orleans Bulletin iejoice. at the increasing culture of the graiie at the South, and refers to the statement of a German, that the northern art of Alabama, between the Coosa and the Talapoosa, can lie better culti vated in grape than in any other product of the soil. It Is a significant fact that the Catawba, our most valuable and productive grape, which has proved so valuable North, is but little Cultivated in the region to which it is indigen ous, to-w it : Tennessee, North Carolina, and the southern arts of Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama. Where cotton begins to decline is the latitude where the Catawba most flour ishes a beneficent arrangement of Provi dence for these Siutliern States. The Bulle tin says : If wine were as cheap in the I'nited States as in France, or in the neighborhood of it, it would soon Income the prevailing beverage, with all classes, and would banish the vile compounds which are now, under the names of whisky, gin, rum, brandy, etc., found in the cabarets, and whose effects, when taken into the human system, are not les? damaging to the physical than to the moral nature. Mr. Jefferson stated the same fact and ar gument more than sixty years ago. but the temperance fanatics and the "sssillkU liave combined to prevent their carrying convic tion to the minds of the people and law-friv-ers. The Bulletin calculates the probable profits of this culture as follows : The average yield is about four hundred and fifty gallons jier acre, which at the ex tremely low price of ten cents jier gallon, is lorty-five dollars per acre, or about as profita ble as our average cotton crop ! But when we reflect that the price of a good article of wine in wis country will lor a long time be scarcely less than a dollar a gallon, the value of an acre's yield would be four hundred and fifty dollars ! ( 'ould a stronger argument in a pecuniary point of view, in favor of prompt attention to this subject on the part of people living in sections where the soil and climate are favorable to the growth of the vine be presented ? We should think it well worthy the attention of the people of our piny woods parishes. The juice of the grape readily commands 1 25 per gallon in Cincinnati, and that rate will increase rather than decline more rapidly than the production. A -. Worthy of Eeflection. An exchange paper ofTers the follow ing rea sons in favor of re-opening the African .slave trade, which are worthy of serious considera tion : "About three years ago, the energetic arm ed interference of Great Britain compelled the Government of Brazil, to practically recognise treaty stipulations providing for the suppres sion of the African slave trade, and it then became exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to land cargoes on Brazilian territory, and few if any slaves have since been imported, the authorities no longer winking at evasions of law. A friend who has justcturned from a three years' civil engineering sojourn in the empire, gives us some interesting information as to the effect of the suppression of the trade in slave property in that country. From pri ces ranging from 400 to $600 for good hands, the quotations have gone up to about the same rates that rule in this country, within less than three years. This Diet gives us some data from which to reason the results of a re-opening and vigorous prosecution of the slave trade between the South and Africa, suppos ing that it ever should be. A thirty-five to forty-five per cent, reduction in the cost of slaves might be reasonably calculated on, and this would place negro labor within the means of thousands of small agriculturists, or would be agriculturists, who cannot now command it, and the consequence would be an incalcu lable development of the productive availabili ty of the South, a checking to the tendency to monopoly of slave labor by planters of cap ital, with whom the small producer cannot compete, and the resulting ol that equaliza tion of property which is the very basis as well as fact of a sterling and immutable De mocracy." VreoiitiA Coxing to the Scratch. I am informed, upon very good authority, that John Letcher has openly avowed his purpose to hoist the flag of disunion in Virginia should a republican be elected to the Presidency in 18fVl. This report derives a strong feasiblity from Mr. L.'s avowals on the hustings. His reported sayings at different points during the late canvass, represent him as having avowed a similar intent in the contingency mentioned Ke even speaks, as I am told, of taking pos session of Fort Monroe, and holding it for pur poses of denfence connected with the formation of a Southern confederacy. That he has ex pressed the sentiments herein imputed to him there is no reason to doubt. Cor. of Ar. Y. Time. " The Boll of Honor. The following is a list of revolutionary soldiers on the rolls of the States of Georgia and Alabama, who are regularly receiving their pensions, and their age in 1859 : Mk-ajah Brooks. Polk county, Ga., 98 years of age. William Coggin, Gordon county. Ga., 104 years of age. John 1 lames, sen., Murray county, Ga., 107 years of age. John McMilhon, Habersham county, Ga, 99 years of age. John Nicholson, Union county, Ga., 96 years of age. Reuben Stevens, Chambers county, Ala., 97 years of age. Appointment of Delegates to the Char leston Convention and other Hatters. The Eastern Clarion copies with approval a communication from the Natchez Free Trader which embraces the suggestions contained in the paragraphs below in regard to,tlie appoint ment of delegates to the Charleston Conven tion : I respectfully and kindly suggest to our brother Democrats, that point delegates to Charleston, we restrict ourselves to the ap pointment of such number as will be admit ted to seats on the floor of the Convention that is two for the State at large, with two alternates to respond for our two Senators. And one from each Congressional District, and one alternate to respond ffbr each of our Representatives in Congress. This nnmber will be admitted to the floor, no greater will be. Thus apportioned, each delegate will feel not only honored in the appointment, but he will go to Charleston impressed with the proper degree of responsibility. If this advice be taken, and proper mire ia ovserved in the selection of the delegates there is every prospect that our State will be wiselv. ablv. and faithfullv represented. As to the manner of choosing delegates, I think it fairest for the Convention en masse to se lect two delegates and too alternates for the State at large, and then that the members from each Congressional District nominate from the District one delegate and one alter nate to the Convention en masse, and the defe cate and alternates so nominated, being con firmed, shall take their place as delegates to Charleston ; or if the Convention en masse, for sufficient cause, reject the nomination, then the delegates fromdhe District to make a sec ond nomination, and so on until the delegation is full. By taking this course we shall secure a higher order of men, greater responsibility, increase our influence at Charfeston, and se cure a more perfect reflex of popular senti ment throughout the State. With the correction that by the law of the National Convention, each Congressional Dis trict is entitled to two delegates instead of one, we unhesitatingly endorse the views of the writer. No one who attended the Conven tions at Baltimore and Cincinnati but must be impressed with their correctness. Out of aliout one hundred delegates in attendance at Cincin- i nati appointed by the State Convention for I Mississippi, but fourteen were admitted to J seats, and these were selected amid unpleasant liickerings and heart-burnings from the whole number present. Hereafter let the appointments be made in order, and with due consideration, at home, by the State Convention, according to the law of the National body. The suggestion that upon the delegates from each District, should lie devolved the duty of recommending to the Convention the mem bers it prefers should represent it in Charles ton, appears to us altogether w ie and proper. By tills means will be secured a fuller and fairer representation of the sentiments of the masses. We will embrace the occasion here to re mark that subordinate to the mode of appoin ting delegates to Charleston, is the necessity of discarding all personal considerations, and selecting such as will truly and faithfully re flect the wishes of the Democratic people of Mississippi in the Convention. Delegates must lie chosen who will insist upon the endorse ment of the doctrines enunciated in the Dred Scott decision, and the promulgation of those principles in a form so clear as to admit of but one construction. Delegates must be chosen who will not commit the State to the support of a candidate advocating doctrines at war with the Platform unanimoiLsly adopted by the Mississippi Democracy in July last, and which they will re-affirm in December. Mississippi will go into the Charleston Convention in good Cvith and with a firm- purpose to unite with her .Northern brethren in lnK', u such co operation can lie effected upon the principles which she holds sacred, and which the Demo cratic party was organized to preserve. Her pledge to support the decision of the Convention, is based upon the presupposition that it will not conflict in the adoption of a platform, nor in the selection of a candidate, with those princfples. The December Convention will also l re quired to select a ticket to cast the vote of the State in the electoral college. Care should be taken that this ticket lie composed of men whose views harmonize with those which pervaded the deliberations of the late Conven tion and which w ill doubtless prevail with re newed vigor in the approaching assemblage. Above all things, whatever course events may ake,letthe Democracy of Mississippi, preserve the hamony, integrity and purity of their organ ization. To secure these desirable ends we earnestly invoke the members of the party in every county to hold meetings, and appoint del egates to the December Convention, so as to se cure a large at tendance and an honest reflection of public sentiment . The Practical Naturalization Question. The Liverpool Times intimates that the American Government has taken up the case of the naturalized Hanoverian who was re cently draughted on his return to Germany, and has peremptorily demanded his release ; that other German powers were informed by the United States Government that naturaliz ed citizens of American States should not be subjected to such dictation ; and that our sim ple demand, even with but a meagre army and navy, will he submitted to at once. We do not know what authority it has for the specific statement, but the world knows what the American character is. Ex-President Pierce. In the spirited letters of Col. Hiram Fuller late editor of the New York Mirror pub lished in the New York Express, and writ ten from London and Paris, he pays the fol lowing happy compliment to Kx-President Pierce : "But of all the strangers of distinction in Rome, none is more courted or more respected than our much abused Ex-President, Frank lin Pierce. Modest, affable, and courteous, everybody is seeking his society with as much eagerness as he avoids publicity. He refuses all invitations i except it lie to join a few Americans ; and then, for instance at a 'cod fish dinner' at Harry Stone's, we find him the most entertaining and the most agreeable of companies. He will leave soon for Eng land, which he has never visited, and where he will find il difficult to avoid all the honors that await him. I see some of the American papers are urging General Pierce's name as a candidate for the next Presidential term, but it is utterly useless. Nothing can induce him to accept a second nomination, nor a public office of any grade. Notwithstanding my own ofticia 1 head' was one of the first to roll into the bushel under General Pierce's admin istration, yet I cannot forbear saying, in all sincerity and truth, that I would sum up his biography in these brief words : He was a brave general ; a patriotic President ; an hon est man. His enemies found it easy to abuse but impossible to impeach him." It Cures at Once. The qufekest and the surest remedy is ol course, the best, hence, in such disorders as piles, salt rheum, scrofula, and in fact, every kind of cutaneous eruptions, cuts, wounds, bruises, old sores Erysipelas, and all of the same genus, DALLEY'S MAGICAL PAIN EXTRACTOR is the only real quick and ef fectual cure to be obtained. Try it once, and you will never be without it. For Sale in New Orleans, wholesale and re tail, by J. WRIGHT & CO., 21 and 151 Chartres street. Sole agents for the Southern States, and to whom au orders should be addressed. For sale by all Druggists, Aug 9 '59-lm saw . NUMBER 37. The Fear of French Invasion It may not be uninteresting to our readers to know that the present undignified fear of French invasion, which seems to have so firm a hold upon the English mind, is an exact par allel to the state of feeling which existed one hundred years ago. WTe quote from a book published in London in 1758, called "An Es timate of the Manners and Principles of the Tiroes" : "Our effeminate manners and defect of principles have weakened the natural capacity and spirit of defence. 'Tis from an outward enemy, aa has been observed, that danger is most to lie apprehended. The French in land armies are far our superiors ; they arc making large and dreadful strides to wards us in naval power. Should the French, then, possess themselves of North America, what eye can lie so weak as not to see the consequences. Must not a naval pow er come upon us. equal, if not superior, to our own '! Thus, by a gradual and nnperceived decline, we seem gliding down to ruin. We laugh, we sing, we feast, we play : we adopt every vanity, and catch at every lure thrown out to us by the nation that is planning our destruction, and while late is hanging over us, we are sightless, and hence secure. "Were we but as innocent as blind, we should, in our fondness for French manners, completely resemble the lamb described by the poet: 1 . " 'The lamb tby riot dooasa to Llue.1 to-day, , " 'Had be thy rea-ir.n, would he skip snd play I " 'Pleased to the lait, he crnij the flowery food, "Ami licks the hand ilial'.' raised to shed nis blood.' "In the meantime, we may just ly conclude, from this argument, that the ex orbitant trade and wealth of England suffi ciently account for its present effeminacy. Virtue may rise on the ruins of corruption, and a despairing nation yet be saved by the wisdom, the integrity and un shaken courage of some great minister." It is difficult to realize that the present ab surd and childish cry of fear that breaks from every English voice is a mere echo of this wail of a hundred years ago ; and it is easy to be lieve that a people so badly off in their own estimation a century ago are no worse; no more effeminate or powerless now, .but that they are, notwithstanding their absurd clam or, as capable ol a new Waterloo or a new- Trafalgar as they were in 1758, when they supposed themselves "corrupt and despairing," and "adopting the vanities" and "catching at the snares" of "the nation that was planning their destruction." Free Negroism a Failure. The South is vindicated, fie is vindicated by the workings of the African slave system within her own borders. She is vindicated by the failure of the opposite system which lias been tested by other governments. Great Britain lias tried negro emancipation and ne gro capacity lor the enjoyment of the same measure of freedom to which the white race is entitled, only to lie convinced of her error. Here are the results of the twenty-five years experiment in the West Indies, graphically portrayed by the London Times, the great or gan and reflex of British sentiments : "There is no blinking the truth. Years of bitter experience years of hope deferred, of self-devotion unrequited, of poverty, of humil iation, of prayers unanswered, of sufferings derided, of insults unresented, of contumely patiently endured have convinced us of the truth. It must be spoken out, loudly and energetieally.despite the wild mocking of'howl . ing cant' The freed West India negro slave will not till soil for wages, the free son of the ex-slave is obstinate as his sire. He will cul tivate lands which he has not taught for his own yams, mangoes and plaintains. These satisfy his wants ; he does not care or yours. Cotton, sugar, coffee and tobacco he cares lit tle for them. And what matters it to him that the Englishman has sunk his thousands and tens of thousands on mills, machinery and plant, which now totter on the languishing es tate that for years has only returned beggary and debts, lie eats his yams and sniggirs at "Buckra." "We know not why this. should be: but it is so. The negro lias been taught with a price the price of English taxation and English toil. He has been 'redeemed from bondage' by the sweat snd travail of some millions of hard-working Englishmen. Twenty millions of pounds sterling one hundred millions of dollars liave been distilled from the brains and muscles of the free English laborer, of ev ery degree, to fashion the West Indian negro into a 'free and independent laborer.' 'Free and independent' enough he lias become, God knows : but fatarcr he is not so for as w e can sec, never will be. He will sing hymns and quote texts, but honest, steady industry, he not only detests, but despises. We wish to Heaven that some people in England neither government people, nor parsons, nor clergymen but some just-minded, honest hearted and clear-sighted men, would go out to some of the islands say Jamacia. Domini ca, or Antigua no for a month, or three months, but for a year would watch the pre cious protege of English philanthropy, the freed negro, in his daily habits would watch him as he lazily plants his little squatting would see hi in as he proudly rejects agricultural or domestic service, or accepts it only at wages ludicrously disproportionate to the value of his work. We wish, too, they would watch him while, with a hide thicker than tliat of a hippopotamus, and a body to which fervid heat is a comfort rather than an annoyance.he droningly lounges over the prescribed task on which the intrepid Englishman, uninurcd to the burning sun, consumes his impatient en ergy, and too often sacrifices his life. We wish they would go out and view the negro in all the blazonry of his idleness, his pride, his in gratitude, contemptuously sneering at the in dustry of that race which made him free, and then come home and teach the memorable les son of their experience to the fanatics who have perverted him mtoVhat he is." Public Speaking:. We learn from the Raymond Gazette that the candidates on the Repeal Ticket (Court Question,) to represent ninds county, in the Legislature, will address the people of the county, at the following times and places. They invite all other candidate? to participate in the discussions : Brownsville Tuesday September 9 Edwards' Depot . . Wednesday Auburn Thursdav 10 a 12 13 1(5 17 18 10 20 Cayuga Friday Ltica Burnett's Well . . Dry Grove Terry Depot . . . Byram's Depot. . Saturday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Monday Tuesday (. lint on Raymond ...... Jackson. Hon. John J. HcRae, Democratic candidate for Congress, 5th Dis trict, Mississippi, will address Use people at the times and places following: Winchester, Wayne, Friday, Aug. M Lcaksville, Green, Monday, " 88 Augusta, Perry, Wednesd'y " !H lillisville, Jones, Thursday, Sept, 1 Williamsburg Covington, Friday, " 2 Mt. Carmel. " Saturday, " 3 Wcstvillc, Simpson, Monday, " 6 MonticeHo.. Lawrence, Wed'day, " 7 Gallatin, Port Gibson. Fayette, Natchez, Mcadville, Woodville, CenterviUe, Liberty, Ilolmesville, China Grove. Columbia Riceville, (iainesville, Copiah, Friday, " Claiborne, Monday. " 12 Jefferson, Wed'day, " 14 Adams, Friday, 16 Franklin, Monday, " 19 Wilkinson, Wed'day, " 21 I nday Amite, Saturday, " Monday, " Tuesday, " Wed'day, " Friday, " Saturday ,Act. 24 20 27 28 .10 1 Pike, Marion, Hancock, 05" A thick-headed squire, being worsted by Sidney Smith in an argument, took his re venge by exclaiming, "If I had a son who was an ediot, by Jove, I'd make him a parson." "Very probably," replied Sidney, "but I see your father was of a different mind." The Tneonstitutionality of the Federal Acta Prohibiting the Slave Trade. The following unanswerable arguments on this subject, are from a late speech of Col. L. T. Wigfall, of Texas. We appeal to our rea ders of all parties to give them a calm and im partial hearing. Let them lay aside precon ceived opinions and weigh all the facts with impartial minds. We presume that truth is the great aim of every patriotic citizen, and it is only in this way that it can be reached : Slavery may or may not be a great evil : but until it can be shown that the Federal Government has jurisdiction over it, it is for bidden ground for Federal footsteps. It is a matter of State welfare, with which the States alone can deal. The premises being granted, I am answered that the first clause of tbe ninth section of the first article conveys the power: "The migration, or iinportatkm of such-persons," etc., "shall not be prohibited by Con gress, prior to the year 1808." The language of the Constitution is free from ambiguityand tautology. Migration and importation have different meanings, and apply to very dilfcrent classes of persons. Tbe freeman migrates, the slave is imported. Will any one contend that Congress can now, under this clause, pro hibit the migration of the European to our shores, who seeks them in quest of liberty ' Even Know Nothingtsm never went thus far; yet the power is the same as to both. Is the Democracy, ere the smoke of battle has yet cleared from the field, to disarm, and after driving the enemy from the out-posta, surren der the citadel V It is but yesterday that in tensified Americanism warred on the right of naturalized citizens-, under the plea of extend ing the time of naturalization. Shall we, who held the shield of the Constitution over those rights, invite another attack, by admitting that Congress lias the power, not only to ex clude from the ballot-box, but from the coun try the lirothers, the fathers, and the sons of the very men who stood shoulder to shoulder w ith us in that great Constitutional battle ? But waiving this, what is the true cooatruc tion of this clause, according to the Demo cratic rule of construction ? It must ho re membered that though the debates of the con vention are conclusive, as to the opinions of tho members of the convention that drafted the Constitution, they aronot equally so as to the understanding of the States that ratified it. When the Constitution was submitted to tho different States there was great diversity I of opinion as to the true meaning of it. There r , - .l.i i wits an cspecuu apprenension itiat, oy con struction, powers would be assumed which were never delegated, nor intended to be del egated, and that in time the Federal Republic, established by the Constitution, would be con verted into a consolidated despotism. To avoid this evil, and guard against all possible danger, the tenth amendment was recommen ded at the time of the ratification, and was subsequently adopted and made a part of the Constitution. Since then it has been the au thoritative, Constitutional rule of construction. It declares "that the fJbwers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Where, I ask, is the delegation of power to prohibit the migration of white men, or the importation of black ones, after the year 1808? Certainly not in the clause quoted. That prohibits Congress from prohibiting before 1808 ; but it goes no further. If the clause were anywhere else than precisely in tbe place where it is, there might be some plausibility m the argument An individual can do as be pleases' unless restrained. When he is res trained for a specified time, the presumption arises that, at the expiration of the time, he may do the act. 1 his mode of reasoning is called by logicians, the "negative pregnant" argument This reasoning applies to constru ing State Constitutions. Before tbe tenth amendment was adopted, it might have ap plied to the t ederal Constitution. 1 hose who drafted it might have supposed tbe power ves ted after 1808. But when the States, the parties between whom tbe Constitution was binding, declared that no power should be as sumed, and all powers not delegated were re served, what liecomes of this "negative preg nant" mode of reasoning? If falls to the ground. The clause simply prohibits the pro hibition before 1808. and makes no provision after that time. Article five prohibits the States from conveying the power before 1808. The tenth amendment declares that, till the power is delegated it shall not be used. The conclusion I draw is, that the States determin ed to keep open the slave trade till 1808, and that after that time, if they desired it closed, they would delegate the power, and that till the power was delegated, the Federal Govern ment had no jurisdiction, unless it can be de rived from the power "to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes," (third clause of the eighth section of the first article.) Have they the power under this ? The exprcssio unius is the excl sio alterius. There beiug a provision expressly on the sub ject of the slave trade, jurisdiction over the subject cannot be inferred from a general pro vision as to another matter, though, without the special provision, it might have been in cluded in it. Then, agnfn, to regulate is not to destroy. Can Congress prevent the tea, or coffee, or sugar trade ? If it can prohibit one branch of trade it can all. It becomes a mere matter of legislative discretion. Such a con struction will hardly lie contended for by a Democrat It is known it was proposed in the convention to vest in Congress the power of prohibition, and it was refused. The latter part of the first clause of the eighth section of the first article, was in these words : "But all data1 . prohibitions, imposts, and excises, shall lie uniform throughout the United States. ' The word "prohibitions" was strick en out. But if, under the power to regulate com merce "with foreign nations," Congress can suppress the slave trade, does it not follow that it has the same control over the trade "among the several States ?" 1 see no way of admitting the power "with foreign nations,'' and denying it "among the several States." Are we prepared to go that far ? But the Supreme Court of the United States has de nied that Congress has control over the slave trade "among the several States." Must they not, whenever the question is made, ap ply the same rule to the trade "with foreign nations ?" But it is said that under the power to pun ish piracy, the Government, by denning the slave trade to be piracy, may prohibit it The vice of this argument is, tnat the slave trade is not piracy, and cannot be made so, by the process of definition. The term piracy has a definite technical meaning. It is robbery on the high seas. The ingredients of robbery are, an assault a putting in fear, and actual taking possession of the property of another the animnfuraiidi is the main ingredient South ern men will hardly deny, in this day aad generation, that man can hold property in man. With what propriety of language can the mere transportation of property from the coast of Africa to the United States be called robbery? Greater violence would not be done to the meaning of words, if the transportation of cotton from Galveston to Liverpool were "de fined" to be robbery. 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