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The southern press., 1850-10-30

New ORLEANS, Oct 28--4 P NJ.
Highly important to Ballimoreans-Th VIII
Of John McDonough. Executors, Be-
queathments, dc. .lt.. ,5f
In my despatch of yesterday informed you
of the death by cholera, on Saturday, OF John
McDonough, n well-known citizen of this place,
and native of Baltimore, reported to be worth
about ten millions of dollars. s', .r,a III M
He was a huckster, and during u long resi-
deuce in this city, accumulated the very large
amount above stated. He was very singular
man, and especially noted for his miserly pro-
pensities. He has sister now living in Balti-
more, Mrs. Cole, wife Of Mr.. John Cole, music
teacher, or who formerly kept a music store in
Baltimore.
The will of Mr. McDonough was opened and
read to-day. IL bequeaths to his sister, Mrs
Cole, of Baltimore, six thousand dollars and a
house to live in during the remainder Of her
life. Also $25,0O0 annually to the American
Bible Society, The bulk of his property,
however, has been given to citizens of New
Orleans and Baltimore for the establishment Of
schools and an asylum for the poor in both
cities. 1t also bequeaths very large sum to
the American Colonization Society. .@
Seventeen executors have been appointed,
among whom are the following from Baltimore
Benjamin G. Howard, John P. Kennedy, John
c. Smith, Brantz Mayor, Henry Didier; besides
Henry Clay, Of Kentucky, and the Hon. r. K
Greeley. .... .r
M'Donough's will, to be contested. T.
Cotton unchanged.
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Spirit Of Southern Women.

From WHlrTAKER's Magazine Of the Soulh,
a new monthly journal, we extract the following
patriotic stanzas. They are from the pen Of the
accomplished lady of the editor, true Southern
child of song. When our women read us such
lesson what man will not be ashamed to shrink
from the contest for right and equality:
Oh vain is the splendor Of blue-curtained skies,-
The pomp of tall forests that round me arise,
The rich golden harves,s adorning each plan,-
Thrice beautiful land, thy beauties are vain!
Derided, nsulted, and basely betrayed,
On thee is the foul grasp of tyranny laid;
Asonshed, the nations behold thy disgrace,
While robb'd and oppressed by bold northern
race.
Where now is the spirit heroic which gave
The country its gory,-thy warriors grave?
Which thundered on Mexico's blood-watered
field,
And taught every foeman to fly or to yield
That spirit yet lives in the heart Of the South,
And from her green borders voice has gone forth
Commanding her freemen to arm for the strife,
And battle for liberty, honor and life!
Then welcome the clarion s far peaing sound,
And war courser's neigh, as he tramples the
ground
And keen be each weapon the Southerner draws,
While defending this realm, her rights and her
laws.
Endurance is weary,-our wrongs cry aloud,
We are strangers to fear, ye fanatic crowd!
Your taunts and your threats alike we despise,
Your triumph is short, when the South shall arise.
Aye rise in her strength, like the sun in his pride,
And lonely, like him, in her grandeur abide,
Unfettered by union,-a union of shame,
Which drains her of wealth, and despoils her Of
fame. M. S. w.
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.A contrast.

We append the following extract from an edi-
tOrial in the Wilmington IN. CD Commercial.
The contrast is indeed q striking and significant
one.
The South holds fast to her plghted faith
How is it with the North? 7fa
aWe cannot but contrast the arrival of this
Frederick Douglass, hailed with such enthusiasm
by the nullifers Of Boston, with the advent OF a
very different parsonage, in the neighborhood OF
Boston, between seventy and eighty years ago.
That place was then but a decent village, in one
Of the colonies of the British crown, and its
people were snubbed at e.ery corner by men in
red coats, the livery OF their British MASTER
Goaded beyond endurance, the men of Boston
and Massachusetts committed an overt act Of
what was then called Treason, and thenceforth
there was no alternative but independence or the
gallows In this crisis arrived stranger who
had travelled more than five hundred miles for
their relief, and who, with other gentlemen from
the same region, were welcomed, in the emphatic
language OF one Of Massachusetts greatest
statesmen, aas il they had been angels from
Heaven" This stranger was one of the largest
Shareholders ofthe whole South, yet to his hands
Boston eagerly committed itselffor safety urging
him to lead the way in the war Of American In
dependence. He accepted that solemn trust,
and, but for him, Boston might still be an insig-
ni6cant colonial town. This is the city which,
saved by George Washington, the Virginia slave
holder, would repay the boon Of his matchless
guardianship by robbing his couutrymen of their
property, oyerthrowing the Republic which ex-
listed by his wisdom and valor, and humbling it
self at the feet of a depraved and filthy negro
This tendency of abolition most manifestly is,
not to raise the black to the level Of the white,
but sink the white to the level of the black. A
deeper abyss of degradation than that in which
these people would voluntarily plunge, it is i'm
possible for human imagination to conceive.
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az Mr.. DAWSON. Of Georgia, has, il seems.

sY- Dir. DAWSON, of Georgia, has, it seems,
taken the stump at home.
We find in the Augusta Chronicle d Sentinel
(adouble distilled submission sheet very eulo-
CYSTIC account Of one of his late efforts, from
which we take the following extract.
Ii Mr.. Dawson did take the positions here
credited to him, he certainly indulged in asser-
tions Oh the stump, which he never ventured to
make upon the floor of the Senate, and never
will-contradicted as they are by facts familiar
to every school-boy in Georgia, who has read
the statesmanlike speeches Of his colleague.
Z The reporter says:
"When he sat down, Mr. Dawson was loudly
called for. And such polished, dignifed,
scathing speech We never listened to before.
We felt proud that Georgia had such Senator.
Time will not permit an attempt to do justice to
this effort He shoiced that tie North from the
framing Of the Constitution, dorn, had in many
instances made noble concessions 10 the institution
Of siarery. That Congress had giren us inf
riiely than ioere 9iilng 10 take too years
ago, that Ge VViEmot Prouiso icas dead oithoa
The hope Of a resurrection. Thai the South can
not fail 10 hare justice dpdrded 70 her ,chis such
noble statesmen as Webster, Cdss and Dickinson
stand up for her constitutional rights. will
relate but two incidents, the one to prove the
force of his eloquence, the other Of his logic.
After the speech was concluded, an adopted son
of Georgia from Massachusetts, u gentleman Of
intelligence, came TO me, wipeing his eyes and
weeping for joy, saying /" | never heard that man
before, but tell you he's a horse. Georgia
ought to be proud Of him." Previous to the
meeting, an excitable friend came to me, and
said he had come to town purposely to hear Mr..
Lewis, because he was for disunion. told him
he ought TO hear both sides. "No," said he, 81
would not listen to man on the other side. "
After Mr.. Dawson had finished, said to him,
swell, you have heard speech for the Union
to-day against your will" "Yes," said he, and
am convinced, am Union man now"
The incidents" are in character with the SEN
timents which the letter contains. That san
adopted son Of Georgia" from Massachusetts! p
should shed tears of joy, and wipe his weeping
eyes, on hearing such sentiments and such doc
trne enunciated on the soil of Georgia from the
lips of one of her Senator's is natural enough
The only wonder is that Southern-born should
thus have spoken: not that Northern-born should
have applauded. Neither cain it excite surprise
that change Of conviction should have been
wrought in the mind of confding constituent
by so authoritative an exposition from his chosen
Senator-but it is indeed surprising that that
Senator should have made it.
The southern press., 1850-10-30

PUBLIC MEETNe.-Pursuant to previous no.
tice, respectable meeting of portion of the
citizens Of Lowndes county, Ala, assembled at
the Courthouse on the l2th inst, to take into
consideration the questions arising from the agi-
tation of the subject of slavery. Captain VIM.
Barksdnle being called to the chair, explained
the object of the meeting, in few pointed, stir
ring and eloquent remarks Tiam
Whereupon, on motion it was unanimously
resolved: 20 .,
That committee of six, composed equally Of
the two political parties, be appointed to draft
constitution and bylaws of n " States Rigis As
sociatiqa' TO be reported to an adjourned meet
ing, to be held at Columbus on Saturday ths
men were appointed said committee.
Eli Abbot 800, 'Wm, L. Harris.
. Calvin Perkins, w. w. Humphries.
Jas Whittlefeld, - T. I. Sharp. y -. .
b o. WILLIAM BARKSDALE, President.
The southern press., 1850-10-30

.W-N. p. Willis thus attempts to "pile up
the agony" of the Lind Jurore. In the last
Home Journal he says:
"To see such heaven as her heart unten-
anted, one longs to write the advertisement of
To Let Yet it would take polggomy to
match her for half dozen poets, two Mexican
heroes several dry goods merchants and rising
politician would hardly boil down into man
of gifts enough to be worthy of her." "taa5a,s sea
Heshould take GENINs hat-OssIAs DoDGE's
seat--and Mr.. RooT should takes his daguerreo-
type. How can they, or even Mr.. Toors, vie
with such hyperbole as his . ..str. W. .
The southern press., 1850-10-30

MAssA ~H1sETTs-The following resolves
among Others, were adopted at n meeting in
Lynn, a few evenings since, called to consider
the Fugitive Slave Law: ~...
Resolved, That every man who voted for this
atrocious bill, every one who avows his readi-
ness to execute it, and every one who justifes it
on any ground, is traitor to the rights of the
Free States, and n criminal Of the deepest
dye at the head of whom stands Millard Fill.
more, who from party or baser motives, has set
his name to a law, the provisions of which, so
far from being fitted for Christian republic, re-
mind one OF the court Of Jeffries, and the camp
of Haynau.
Resolred, That Samuel A. Eliot, of Boston, in
giving his vote for this bloodhound bill, dishon-
ored and betrayed Massachusetts aud low rs
is often the moral sense Of great city, cankered
by wealth, we rejoice to know that he misrepre-
sented his immediate constituents and we de-
mand Of them, in the name of the Old Common
wealth, to save us from the infamy OF his pre-
sence in another Congress
Mayor Hood, a distinguished Democrat, was
President of the meeting, and ID. G. Baker, one
of tho Wing Senators in the last Legislature,
was one of the Vice Presidents.
The southern press., 1850-10-30
PERFUMERY.

/, A MONG the many fresh and choice Goods
( n Just opening at PARKER $, in the Perfume
~ department, are Lubin's, Bailey, and Blues,
and Prevost's Extracts for the handkerchief,
Rose and Musk Soap, real Farnia Cologne, Pa
tey's Cold Cream, Lip Salve, Ok Marrow, Ma
CAESAR and other Oils, for beau,ifying the Hair.
Barney's TrycoPherous and Hair Washes, &C.,
&C., for sale after the 18th November, in The new
store under the National Hotel. 49,
~. PARKER IS Comb, Fancy, and
Periumery store, Penn. ave-, near National Hotyl,
oct 2S-a
The southern press., 1850-10-30

e.Y- The Hon. Mr.. Elliott, of Boston, was
selected to fill the seat vacated by Senator VIM
throp, by the Wings of Boston,, with great una
nimity. He was indeed favorite candidate, and
looked forward, as did his friends, to a long and
useful Congressional career. But Mr.. Elliott
voted to heal the agaping wounds Of the South,
including the Fugitive Slave law and in doing
so he has opened some wounds at home, in con-
sequence Of which it is said that Mr., Elliott de-
clines reelection !---A AlbGny Journal ,aua9v
The southern press., 1850-10-30

The FIGHTING LrsE--The Augusta Constitu-
fioalist thus concludes editorial after recapi-
tulating the recent proceedings Of the Northern
people:
"The veriest disunionist per cannot be other
wise than pleased at the promising way in which
things are progressing at the North. The most
accommodating SHbm;ssionis,n 10 the South will
be insufficient to keep pace with the exactions
of antislayery al.
More fighting lines will have shortly to be
drawn and deceded from, in order, TO save the
Union and the submissionists wiib kept SO busy
in the retreatipg that they will be compelled
from shere fatigue and disgust to take final
stand. VIII our approaching State Convention
say where that stand shall be I! or will it say,
Georgia should do nothing."" .rI sa.l &. ,..'
The southern press., 1850-10-30
At meeting Of the Executive Committee ON
the London industrial Exhibition,n held at the
residence Of Col. Peter Force, A,u4,l%

"a
Il AT meeting Of the Executive Committee on
the London industrial Exhibition, held at the
residence Of Col. Peter Force, A,aar14
Coz. PETER FORCE, Chairman, oe ''''' "" -.
TJosEPH HENRY, L. LID, '"'|,,
Carr. CHARLES WLKEs, u. 8. Navy,
PRoF. WALTER r. JOHNSON,
JOSEPH G. G. .KENNEDY--members.
And on inyitation--CoM WARRNGToS
and SKINNER, Of the United States Navy
After a full and free expression Of opinion with
reference to the letter the Secretary or the Navy,
to the President of the United States, a copy Of
which had been communicated to the Committee,
and in which the President acquiesces, ia the ten.
der of the use Of an American Ship to convey
American products to London, and with reference
to the suggestion Of the Secretary OF the Navy,
that the Executive Committee should indicate, as
early as possible, the kind of vessel deemed neces-
sary for the purpose Il was. on motion, .r
Resolved, That the thanks Of the Committee
be rendered to the President Of the United States
and Secretary Of the Navy, for the prompt and
satisfactory manner with which they have respond
ed to the request of the Committee for the use of
ship Of the national marine, to transport the pro-
ducts of American industry to London. '#''
Resolved, That the Executive Committee beg
leave to designate the store ship Frcdonia as one
suited for the purpose, and acceptable to the Com
mlttee. 1'' ''s@4's t'"''
Resoired, That in view of the advantages antici-
pated therefrom, to our citizens, and inasmuch as
it is desrable that the greatest possible facilities
be granted to Americans desiring to visit the Ex-
hibltion, that the propretors of several steamboat
and packet owners be recommended to reduce the
price Of passage to and from England, to those
desiring to attend the Exhibition "o'>
PETER FORCE, Chairman.
JosEPH c. G.. KENNEDY, Secretary,
Washington, October 70, 1850. -.
The southern press., 1850-10-30

~ The Wings in Rev. 0, Fowler's District,
are in close union with the Free-soilers, and yet
they do not manifest any horror thereat II was
just so in Long Jim's New Hampshire Distriet
They there united against Morrison under the
lead of a minister, but not word of rebuke was
heard from the immaculate Wings of Massachu-
setts,-Boston Post,
The southern press., 1850-10-30

HORACE MANN.-A letter from Hon. Horace
Mann, in answer to his nomination for Congress,
by the Free-soilers, has appeared. He goes for
protective tariff and other Wing measures
He reviews at length, and with much severity,
the Fugitive Slave bill, but does not denounce
those who participated in its passage. The
letter will not be unacceptable to the Wings of
the District. He goes against forcible resistance
to the law
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S2S6.O6O.676

Being nearly thirty millions more than the as
sessed last year.
The population is now estimateda t550,00o-
or about five hundred dollars each. This is
much more than the average of the people Of
the State at large, and less than the average of
people in the Southern States. But the ine-
quality of the distribution of property in the
city of New York is greater than in any of
them - - IL
The southern press., 1850-10-30

PRINCIPLES NOT SJLKs.-We perceive that
Messrs. Chittenden and Bliss, and Bowen and
McNamec, advertised that they would have Silks
but not Principles for sales. If We have been
correctly informed, these gentlemen are joint
proprietors of the Independent" rank Abol-
ton sheet, edited by Henry Ward Beecher. If
so, theirprinciples may unquestionably be bought
at sixpence a copy, retail price. We should,
however, much prefer their silks at any price
Milrnr
The southern press., 1850-10-30

EARLY WINTER.--The Portland Advertiser
of Thursday says The White Mountains have
put on their winter dress, and yesterday they
lowered above the western horizon like vast
snow heaps, contrasting finely with the many
colored autumnal foliage Of the woods in that
direction .'Is.-.. 49,. ...E .''
The southern press., 1850-10-30

~ The editor of the Richmond Enquirer
makes most undutiful fling at the editor of
tic Washington Union over our shoulders.
le Enquirer condemns our "violent and de-
nunc;ating course" towards Southerners who
differ from us, and who have lived in the South
all thei: lives. It was the Union, not the Press,
that called the Southern Ultras, a majority, by
the-by, of the Southern Delegation at the time,
]" dishonest or insane"
The Enquirer is welcome to rebuke the i'm.
petuous gentleman who is the senior editor of
the Union, but not at our expense. When the
Union lately accused the Southern Wings of
infdelity to the South, We suspected it referred
to some men who had "lived in the South all
their lives"
The southern press., 1850-10-30

The Paris correspondent of the Southern Lit
erary Messenger states that erial navigation is
all the rage in Europe, and says he should not
be astonished if we are upon the eve of dis
covering the secret oflocomotion at will through
the air. Spain, England and France, are rival
ing each other in their efforts for this magnif-
cent result '.'
The southern press., 1850-10-30

A DANGEROUS BEvERAGE.-Water is COM
posed ofcertain gases, one of them quite explo-
sive. The other night, when Professor How
land, in Pittsburg, was decomposing water and
causing terrific explosions Of its component
gases, rather free liver in the audience, ex-
claimed as he held his hand to ear, @Catch
me putting water in my brandy after tbis-I
might be blown up, like the boiler of a steam-
boofn .'... G. .. .."s .
The southern press., 1850-10-30

whether she loves il for principle or plunder. II
the former she will consent to additional guar
antees for its preservationif the latter, that is
the very reason why the South should repudate
it. u 4t.. y Iss X ss
We hope that the Nashville Convention viii
be attended by delegates from all the districts
where sensibility TO political right and wrong
exists 1t will represent . considerable portion
Of the South not included in the three States
whose own public bodies are in session II
win comprehend much ability, and will afford
facilities for consultation as to the general in
terests Of the South, not elsewhere to be found.
The conclusions Of this Convention were SO
wise, SO moderate and so patriotic that they
have received the appreciation of nineteen public
meetings out Of every twenty that have met on the
subject--an have been assailed in Congress and
out oft only by the most desperate pettifogg-
ing, and the most intrepid Inconsistency. That
Convention has won the confidence of the great
body of the South, which is awake to its safety
and its right,--it has extorted the respect of
its enemies, and its counsels will be received in
| future--and honored. n. s,.4 8.sss4r Is "
1t seems to be the more general impression
of the papers, that it should meet again in Nash
ville--and in that we cordially CONCUR l.s#
cW- The editor Of the Union says South
Carolina abaeked OUT from her @attemptto null
lify" We thought not We thought the Fed
eral Government backed out, by repeating the
law which South Carolina declared herintention
to nullify. The Federal Government repealed
il before the day arrived, which had been fixed
on by South Carolina to nullify it. We call
this any thing but backing out by South Caro-
| lima. But it is consistent in the editor of the
Union, who supported the Virginia resolutions OF
1s47, 49, 80, and then denied that he had backed
out when he supported the late Compromise
1 to accuse South Carolina of backing out. The
editor Of the Union is so much accustomed HIM
self to backing out, that he evidently regards a
movement stern-foremost, the true mode of pro-
gression-itis is what he means by stern resistance
and lookson those who 60 forward in the old
fashioned way, as going backward because they
4 are not going the way he goes.
1 We said that South Carolina had done more
i in the last twenty five years, to preserve the
federative character Of our system, than all the
other States. The editor of the Union denies
this, and contends for what Virginia has done
but refers only to the resolutions of 9s by
Mr.. JEFFERSON. Well, Were they not more
than twenty-five years ago!
The southern press., 1850-10-30
Libellous to Ladies'.

No wonder the women of the North are hold
ing conventions, and issuing new bills of rights,
when such paragraphs appear in Northern papers
as the following
at is curious fac" say some entomologists
that it is only the female musquito that tor
ments u.s." A bachelor friend says it is not at
all curious"
We do not believe the friend" referred TO,
was bachelor. Bachelors are more polite-and
besides they haven't the sad experience, which
evidently prompted the reply
Caudle lectures, and all the terrors of the
tongue, their unhappy isolation render mere le-
gends to them. Sour old bachelors fight shy
of such subjects, and the more dulcet young ones
never dream that aught but honey can be ex-
tracted from the fiowery part of creation.
The southern press., 1850-10-30

The letter of Mr.. Cornell, the whig candidate
for Lieut. Governor, to the Industrial Congress
of N. Y city, will attract attention. 1t is a
model letter, courteous but independent Mr..
Cornell nails his flag to the whig mast.
wings will repay his fidelity to them with like
fidelity to him.
The southern press., 1850-10-30
r5y-It is we'll known that the Old Hunker

rW-It is well known that the Old Hunkers
and the Barnburners, thetwo sections Of the Loco
foco party of New York, have nominally united,
each making schaterer surrender Of principles
they though requisite TO the union, but the Wings
are not at all alarmed at the movement.--Louis-
ritle Journal &t@ "N"a H"a'"@~.a a5
It is well known that the National and the
Seward Wings, the two sections of the Wing
party Of New York, have nominally united, the
National Wings only making The surrender Of
ichat they thought essential to the union Of the
States, in order 10 preserve he union Of the party
The southern press., 1850-10-30

sB- The Richmond Republican Of late has
several times essayed to be amusing, but has
only succeeded in being Aippant and spiteful.
Its gaieties are even moro ponderous than its
gravities-its puns worse than its principles.
No one can witness such heavy friskiness with
out being reminded Of the epigram on an awk-
ward dancer-which applies precisely to the
sportive gambols of the Republican; ,.
"We thought thy head was heavy
Now we greet
That head as far less heavy
Than thy feet"
So, heavy as the reasoning Of the Republican
is, its merriment is heavier still.
The southern press., 1850-10-30
BY TEL + GRAPH.
[By Telegraph-Fot the Southern Press ]

PIInADELPIuA, Oct. 29--P. NJ.
Two Of our watchmen were fired upon in
Moyamensing last night, by some desperadoes,
and both were badly wounded. One was shot
through the stomach, and is not expected to sur
vive. The perpetrators of this terrible crime
are still at large. The police are making every
exertion to effect their arrest. aa23"| Y,
learn that Admiral REEsIpE has been in New
York, negotiating with Mr.. BARsUM. to get
JENNY LIND to give two Concerts in Washing
ton city, having engaged the Catholic Churchfor
that purpose. The nightingale consents to give
two Concerts at the Capitol some time in De.
cember. &c.. +"
The southern press., 1850-10-30
BALTIMORE, Oct. 29-5 p. M.

l enclose you despatch from New Orleans,
received this day, which is highly important to
Baltimore and the county-for the very liberal
bcquests of Mr.. McDonough to the various
charitable institutions in this city and New Or
leans.
There is nothing of general interest worthy
of communication.