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ALEXANDER III. STEPHENS

The other day a motion was made in the Sen
ate to give the editors of the Southern Press seat
on the floor Of that body;it was met at once by a
proposition to give the editors of the National
Era seat also The Era is the anti-slavery or
gan, published in Washington city. This is one
OF the annoyances that sanction of sectional or
gans at Washington has prepared for the South.
The Press is established on purpose TO met the ar
guments of the Era. The South acknowledges
that the opponent is respectable, and worthy to
be met in the war of words. If Congress then
give privileges to one 1T must in all courtesy extend
them to the other. We should vote against ad-
hitting either on the floor of the Senate. We
should pay no compliment to sectionaism but if
either was admitted, we should admit both. IL
we must have such set-to, let it be fair--no
gougng.-LOuiSriLe Democrat.
The Editor of the LOUISVILLE Democrat don't
know how he would vote on this question. He
would have to ask his party leaders or masters.
In assigning us an equality with the Editor OF
the National Era the Democrat has given us a
position much above his own We have fan
more respect for the man who engages in the
chimerical scheme of making freeman of ne.
gro, than for one who, like the Editor of the
Democrat, has made in his own person slave
Of white man,
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THE FOLLOWING TABLE, carefully compiled from
official sources, exhibits the number of patents is
sued from the Patent Office at Washington during
the year ending May 2sth, 1880, 10 the several
States Of the Union. II will be observed that the
distribution is largely in favor Of the free the
slave States FIVE Of the latter having received
only single patent each, while all of them COM
bined have had less than two-thirds as many as
Massachusetts, and less than one-third the NUM-
Der awarded to New York.
The Boston Atlas, remarking upon the striking
difference between the Northern and Southern
States, as displayed in this table, very pertnently
asks, 50 whether we shall blast the enterprise of
the citizens Of the territories by the introduce
ton of an institution whose mere presence de-
stroys more than nine-tenths of the inventive
genius Of the people -
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| THE Missouri LIsE.--The important and all-
spcious move made in the Senate by Mr.. Soule,
referred 10 in the following letter OF the cores
pondent of the Charleston Courier, should be Sc
conded by every friend of the South. There
can be no doubt that If the South places herself
upon the Missouri line las an extreme conces-
sion, - the question wl,be settled. That we have
the power noto TO compel a fair and honorable
! compromise is certain and that the Missouri line
is infinitely to be preferred basis OF settle
ment, no one can deny. But TO say that we can
not get that line because the North, beng IN the
majority, will not give it to us, and we should
therefore take the committees adjustment, bad as
il is, because il is the best the North Will let us
have, is yielding our rights in manner unworthy
of freemen. What does the committee s bill give
the South 1t takes the iUh0te of California, with
nine hundred miles of coast, and territory equal
to nine OF the original thirteen States, while the
Missouri line will dipide this vast country and Sc
cure TO the South her Just share in the territory
acquired in common struggle. Who can hesi-
tate to choose between these propositions! If
there were no other features in the committees bill
rendering it sill more Objectionable, this one IN
ference to California is sufficient TO call for stern
and unyIedng resistance. But the remaining pro-
visions are equally obnoxious. The dismember-
ment Of Texas-the abolition of the slave trade
in the District of Columbia--and the offensive
clause in the bill for the recapure of fugitive
saves-these combined make it emphatically a
So bill of denominations. - The substitution of the
Missouri line will leave Texas as she is, divide
Utah and New Mexico, the latter already in pro-
cess OF organization as n free State by Executive
interference and settle forever these sectional dis
putes. The abolition Of the slave trade IN the
District is a usurpaton no Southern man should
ever sanction, and yet to advocate the committee
bill is to submit the entire question Of slavery IN
the District of Columbia to fhnaticsl majority in
Congress, for if they prohibit the slave trade,
cannot they abolish slavery Who is willing to
concede this ?-Fioridian 6, Sentinel.
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VNfI II INIfNI,
JOHN Y. MASON

NASHVILLE COMMUNICATIONS Mason IS LET
TER.-We extract the following letter of the Hon
John Y. Mason from the Fredericksburg Demo.
cratic Recorder. 1t presents such clear and
forcible vindication of the policy and propriety OF
the late Nashville Convention, that although that
body has already assembled, performed its abors,
and adjourned, we yet take great pleasure in lay
ing it before our readers.
The bare opinions of such man as Judge Ma
son, known as he is to be eminenly conserva-
tive in all his views, and ardently attached to the
preservation of the Union, is, of itself, enough tc
silence the clamors of those who opposed the
convention and sought to destroy its influence
but aided as it is in this case, by force OF rea
soning which cannot be resisted, it cannot fail o
satisfying every Just and patriotic mind of thu
wisdom, proprety, and even necessity Of such {
movement.
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We learn from Mr.. England, agent Of the
Baltimore and Washington Railroad, that thirty
eight cars, fully loaded, despatched to Wash
ington this morning, and eighteen hundred return
tickets were issued. 1t is supposed that at least
two thousand persons went down from this city
alone, including the military and citizens.
The Governor of Maryland and suite, in full
uniform, went down with the military.
OF our military the following companies were
present at the funeral in Washington, viz: Eagle
ArtiIlersts, Baltimore City Guards, Maryland
Cadets, National Blues, Washington Guards
German Yagers, Independent Greys, Independent
Blues, Sharp Shooters, Jackson Guards, Patapscc
Rilemen, Columbian Rihemen, and Mounted
Carbineers. g aa
The Association of Defenders of Baltimore il
1914, and the two Battalions from Maryland IN tn,
war with Mexico, also went down.
Four companies, composed of students of st
Timothy's Hall, in the county, also went down
this morning.
A military company from York, Pa, arrived
here early this morning, took breakfast with thu
! Independent Greys, and went TO Washington will
! them.
| The Mayor and City Council Of Baltimore also
| left here in the o. clock train.
In our city the symbols Of sorrow are seen in
every direction. The Custom House, Post Office
several Of the newspaper offices, and other build.
ings are clothed in black, AT noon the bells com.
menced tolling, minute guns were fred, and bust.
ness generally suspended. Honor to the illustri,
Gus dead.-Bah Patriot Of Saturday.
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The ApELrHl is now open, and the managers
have taken more than ordinary pains to make it,
not only an attractive, but q very comfortable
place of resort. " The fan, is IN full operation,
dering the house cool and comfortable " Ice
Wafer in abupdancei" Thus read the sssmall
bills, and we will vouch for their truth. Avery
in the list some popular names. Nobody can
beat John Dunn in g Rascal Jack" Miss Car
man, too, dances very prettly and gracefully.
Last evening the Ghost in spite of himself,
and "Rascal Jack" were performed. There
was good house, although rainy night. Sues
cess to the little Adelphi with its large fam
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soUTHERN STATES.
NoRrHERn STATES
Total Patents 1880,

Total Patents 1880, LOOT
[Phila. North .4nrericaa.
| Necessity we are told is the mother of inven-
ton. And we have no doubt that poor peo-
pie are driven by their wants to task their inge-
nuity more than richer community
The fate ofinventive genius has been almost
universally hard Authors, inventors, and dis
coverers, have been by mysterious destiny al
ways subject to great opposition and difficulty
in verifying or realizing their conceptions, and
to great ingratitude and disappointment in re-
ceiving their rewards whether of glory or of
gold.
We have no disposition to disparage or dis
courage inventive genius, which is the highest
order Of genius in the department to which it is
devoted
But the Patent Office of the United States, or
the catalogue of patents is not the criterion of
American inventive genius. From a casual ex-
animation of that Office which we have several
| times made we should say that nine out of ten,
if not forty-nine out of fifty Of the models of in
ventions there, are either no inventions at all,
or clumsy contrivances to do what is already
otherwise better done, or to do what there is no
use in doing. So that the number of patents
taken out is scarcely any evidence of the actual
useful original genius ofthe patentees.
But there is another consideration which rem
ders these patents absurd criterion Of the rel
alive inventive genius of the North and South.
IL; r.
Fly. The South agricultural Every improve
ment in machinery alteration evcn-may
| be patented. But improvements in agriculture,
in manures, in breeding stock, in feeding stock,
| in preserving vegetable and animal products, in
rotation of crops, in adaptation of soils, may all
employ the greatest scientific knowledge, and
the most vigorous faculties of generalization
for all invention is generalization, and yet not
one Of these agricultural improvements or dis
coveres is patentable. To take the Patent Of
fee therefore, as the criterion of the inventive
talent of the two sections, is about as reasonable
as to take the workshops of the country as an
evidence OF its industry, without going out to
its farms and plantations.
1t was stated a few years ago in the Edin-
burg Review, that the agriculture of England
had advanced as rapidly in the last seventy
years as its manufactures. Yet what evidence
could be found in the English patent-ofliee Of
agricultural progress compared with manufacture
ing?
When, therefore, the Boston Atlas, and the
Philadelphia North American indulge in the de-
lusun that Patent Office statistics afford the cri-
terion of the inventive genius of the two sections
and therefore sneerat the South, they only add
one more to the multitude of falacies that su-
perfcial scrbers at the North have caught at
or been caught by, and which have at length
led the North into silly, stupid, infatuated,
and arrogant crusade against people and inst-
tutions, who in the principal objects of civilized
life have been surpassed by no other
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CHOLERA AT THE WEsT.-Pa,iic al Nashville
We have received an Extra of the Nashville
Union, Gazette, Banner, and Reporter, issued
Jointly on the 9Th instant, which says: ...
THE proprietors Of the Nashville daily news
papers having suspended operations until the ex-
citemet which is now in our midst subsidies, issue
this Extra In doing which they are happy to
announce that, from the report of the interments,
the epidemic is on the decrease; and, with proper
care and attention the part of the citizens, have
strong hopes that the city and neighborhood will
soon be enabled to show clean bill of health. I"
An incomplete list is given of the deaths on the
Sd and 4th, including AZ names-and it is added
"Many of our most respectable and influential
ctizents have been stricken down by the fell de-.
strpyer-among whom we may mention MIR. Pea
body. of Union street, Mr. John Marshall Mr..
Apple, of the firm of Apple & CO., Clarke street;
Mr.. Averite, assistant to j. b. Johnson, on the
Square; Miss Goss, of College street; MIR. McClel-
land, of the Advocate ofice--and many more.
The disease is not confined to any particular loca-
tIon, but seems to have taken general range
through all quarters Of the city. The corporation
burning tar, &C., in different parts of the city,
Guns have been fred in many elevated parts.
Business is generally suspended, and everything
about the city wears settled gloom
The deaths on Friday, 9Th instant, are said to
have amounted to sixty. On the 9th there were
nearly one hundred At the prison the disease
was on the increase. 1t is more fatal, malignant
and rapid than it has ever been known there.
A number of deaths have taken place al. Drennon
Springs, Ky. .@.. .or.r.
At Memphis, July A, fears were entertained o.
the cholera. There were said to be two cases
there on Wednesday previous.
There have been 3 cases of cholera, two o
which proved fatal, at Chilicothe, Ohio.
AT various points in the West there is an occa
sional case, but almost invariably produced b.
some sort OF intemperance. Sun.
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SOUTHERN FACTORIES. Tho Macon MeSSen
ger says We see an article going the rounds
of the papers, protesting to give correct statistics
in regard to the manufactures of Georgia, Ten
nessee, and other Southern States. 1t profess
scs to be taken from the returns made to the
Treasury department. Among other things, il
states that the amount of capital invested il
Georgia is SI2l,ooo! The actual amount real.
" invested in the Georgia manufactures is not
far from 100000; and the people have begun
to turn their attention TO the Importance of tho
new branch of industry.
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RnssurH AND AmERIcA.--A Protestant mission
,rv writes from Kossuth's abiding place in Asia
Minor. 10 the New York Evangelist as follows
&c AS Protestant missionaries, we were occa-
sionaly allowed the privilege of meeting and con-
yersing with Kossuth. And nobler, truer-heart-
ed patriot, think, caDnot be found. One can
not long be in his presence--at least an American
without being reminded OF our own loved
Washington His countenance is SO impressive
of honest worth, and his manner so full ofd
nifty. AS you first meet him, he appears sad
for he has recently shown but little desire to meet
aud converse with many--he is weighed down
under his country s wrongs but as he enters into
conversation, this apparent sadness soon passes
away, and YOU see the man full of intellectual
dignity. In speaking OF the manner OF his over,
throw, one day, he remarked, ell had not hao
one or two Arnolds in my camp, my poor coun-
try had not been bleeding, but standing
among the powers an honorable nation" In ma
king mention of the sympathy expressed towards
him in America, he said, /" If one could choose his
place Of birth before he was born America, OF all
other lands, would be the place-for is the home
oflreedom--but being once born, the land of birth
is the dearest. Could not aid my fatherlapd--
in which had rather be peasant than dwell a
king eIsewhere---I should choose America as the
loved land Of my adoption.
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SAILING OF THREE STEAMSHIPS steam
ships left New York on Saturday--the Georgia
and Philadelphia for Chagres, etc.--and the City
of Glasgow for Glasgow, The Georgia takes out
between sixty and seventy passengers, including
Dr. G. p. Judd, the Prime Minister of the King
OF the Sandwich Islands, and the two princes
Liholiho and Ramehameha, to whom passage has
generously been given to San Francisco. The
Philadelphia had 206 passengers. These vessels
will convey to California the first news Of Gen
Taylor's death. The Glasgow had sc passen
uers--BaH. Sun. 81
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The PHILADELPHM FIRE.--The following is
given as the contents of the store of the Messrs.
Brock, Of Philadelphia, in which the fire origi-
mated and the explosion followed
ssSaltpetre, about $50 bags, or about $4,000
pounds; birthstone, about so barrels, or 26, 400
pounds; molasses, so hogsheads, IL tierces and
20 barrels; and of sugar, 81 bogsheads. The
saltpetre and birthstone were stored on the first
floor, and the molasses and sugar Immediately
under it, in the cellar. E
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Ertensipe Rob5eries on Travellers.

ALBANY, July ia gentleman was robbed
on board the boat last evening, of 5000, and his
gold watch was taken from his pillow AT the
depot this morning, n gentleman had his pocket
picked of $500 in bills and several thousand dol
lars in drafts. A lady was also robbed at the
depot of her purse, containing large amount
of money.
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Gorernmenf defeat IN Canasla.

TeRoNTo, July 13.--In the Provincial Parlia-
ment, last night, the government sustained
defeat on motion to fix the Postmaster Ger
erals salary at $4,000 An amendment substi-
tuting 5000, was carried by the casting vote
of tn chairman-thc decision being % against
90
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Cholera IN PiHsburg.

PrTTsBURG, July l3.-Considerable alarln IL
beginning to manifest itself here on account of
the prevalence of the cholera. Mrs. Patton, who
attended Mr.. Laying mentioned in my despatch
yesterday as having died with the cholera,) died
to-day of cholera. Two of Mr.. Layngs daugh-
tiers were also attacked with cholera; one has
since died, and the other is not expected to live
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lB@ The Kana~ha Republican of the Sd
inst, announces the temperance of the cholera
in the Kanawha Salines Seven eases had up
to that date terminated fatally, two whites and
five colored persons. .sI. g.s
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.Sozemnities IN PiHsbmgh-Heauh of he Gil,

S0zena'llzaes IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. q Ae Gag.
PITTsBURGH, July 13.-There is a total sus-
pension fall business here to-day; the bells are
tolling, and minute guns firing, in honor of Gen
eral Taylor The sympathy evinced is most
profound, and embraces all classes and all par
ties.
There was rise in the river last night Of two
feet ten inches, and it is now slowly receding.
The city is perfectly healthy.
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The Hindoo law says -" Strike not even with
blossom, a wife, though she be guilty of a
thousand faults" The English law would let
you "hit her again " With what the blossom
grows on.
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The Cholera at Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI, July l3-The Board of Health
for the "a hours ending at noon yesterday, re-
port "a deaths from cholera and 40 from other
diseases. There was a heavy thunder storm
during the afternoon.
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Hon. FL. v. Johnson's Letter.

The present crisis is bringing out some of our
ablest men, on the political issues, now before the
people.
Mr. Chappell is out with long, specious aud
well-written letter. on what we conceive, the
wrong side. We are astohished to see, from so
able and jealous supporter of State Rights
doctrines an elaborate effort like this to vindi-
cate, or at least, palliate the Clay Compromise
bill, and make acceptable to the people of Geor-
gia. He has wasted his strength in a. vain en-
deavor The Clay Compromise bill will not go
down in Georgia, with all the smoothing and
greasing its friends may bcstow on it. Its de-
formities stick out too prominently.
AS an offset to MIR. Chappell's letter in reply
to friends who have called on him for his views
for publication, we have an able and convinc-
ing letter from Judge Johnson in opposition to
the compromise. ltappears in the last Federal
Union.
Though our columns are much crowded, we
will soon find place for some material portions
of his argument.
He is in favor of the Missouri Compromise
line being rendered to the North by the South
He says:
'sLet her unite in offering it as her sine qua
non---her ulti1ndttan. So say we.-AHgusta Re
public.
Hon M. ]. WELLBoRN.--We publish to-day,
the speech of our immediate representative, on
the slavery question. 1t will be seen that Judge
WeIlborn stands upon the Missouri Compromise;
Just the position that the representative of the 2nd
Congressional District should occupy, apd more
especially, the position which it was known that
this gentleman's ability, moral integrity, and de-
termined fidelity to the interests of MS constitu
ents, would compel him to occupy, in a choice
between the three modes of adjustment now be-
fore Congress. We rejoice at the stand which
Judge Wellborn has taken on this question, as
well for the good of the country, as for his own
unbemished reputation for political sagacity and
dsinterested patriotism. He was the first to pre-
sent the Missouri Compromise at this session,
and he will be the last to abandon it, but even
should 1t be beaten down by the opposition Of its
enemies, and the treachery OF his friends, he can
never become the apologist, much less the advo-
cate of either Of the alternatives this measure
now pending in Congress. Unlike some of those
into whose hands the South has committed her
interests, he can never be brbed into her betrayal,
either by the hope Of empty national honors, or
be driven from her support by n sickly sentiment
tality which merges all sense of menliness and
honor into an indiscriminate attachment TO the
Union. Battling as he has done, and as he will
continue to do, for the rights Of the South, he
will return to a constituency proud OF ms posi-
ton, and grateful for his services, while the South
ern man who shall dare to sustain the adjustment
scheme of the Committee of Thirteen, or the ridic-
uous plan of the President, will be greeted with
Kisses at home, and consigned to merted OBJ
livion, Columbus (Ga.) Sentinel
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~" Dr. LIPscoMB President of the Missis-
sippi State Senate, died at his residence in Co
lumbus, on the 22d ult.
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Tie Reception Of he Presidents Death al Nec
Orleans.

New ORLEANS, July 1.-THE news of the
Presidents death was received here this morn
ing and produced q deep sensation. The bells
were tolled, minute guns fired, and flags hung
athalfmast. Business was partially suspended
Cotton-Thcre is but little offering to-day
The sales barely amount to 400 bales at slightly
improved prices Rice is quoted at 4 3-S.
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MEssRs. STEPHENS AND TooMBs.--.9n Unbound
ed Repot--We have received the following letter
from Mr.. STEPHENS, member of the House OF
Representatives, contradicting statement made in
the letter which we copied on Saturday from the
Philadelphia Bulletin, detailing the last illness OF
Gen TAYLOR ts