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The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-17
LIFE OF JOHN RANDOLPH


ID. Appleton d Co., 200 Broadoay Nev York
Have now ready the fourth edition.
r IFE OF JOHN RANDOLPHO OF ROANOKE.
IL BY Hugh A. Garland. Two volumes l2mo
Portraits; SO So
" Mr.. Garland has given us daguerreotype of
a character more eccentric and variable than IRA
nus itself, and wthal, two volumes of exceedingly
choice historical reading. - Republic.
The biography of Randolph has greater charms
than the most exciting fiction. - Charleston .uer-
curry
"a good life Of this remarkable man has long
been desired. Mr.. Garland has furnished an ex-
tremely readable book the two volumes not only
contain the history of his life, and analysis of his
character, but an interesting account of the poll
tics and the public men of the day. ~ Crescent.
Since Kennedy's life of William Writ, we
have had no biography, certainly no American-b-
ography, which will at all compare in interest with
this work. 1t must be read by multiludes with in
tense interest. "-[-"e,oark Daily advertiser.
Mr.. Garland has made good use of his mate
rial, and has given striking and accurate por-
trature OF the erratc and brilliant subject of his
pen. ~ .Nsio Orleans Delta.
AS biography, it is marked by directness
and unity of purpose, and by comprehensiven
and variety of manner - Boston Post
cit Is one of the most interesting American BIZ
ographies with which we acquainted ~ Ere
ming Post.
1.-The work is written with taste and vigor, and
It's biographical portions is well constructed aud
full Of interest. FL Journal of Commerce.
:" This book fills blank in the biographical no.
tees of distinguished Americans. The two vol
umes gives us a faithful account of his whole ca
reer, an analysis of his celebrated speeches, &c.
philadelphia Enquirer.
The work ID written IN an easy and beautiful
style, and is repIete with striking passages The
author is intimately acquainted with American
literature, and the great men who, at different
times, have played distinguished part in the
drama Of the Republic. 1t forms valuable addi-
ton to our national history. - Democratic Repiec.
March l7-d.tW-W,
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The Washington Union.

We publish to-day the announcement of the
sale of this establishment, the approaching re-
tirement of the present editor, and the accession
of Hon. A. J. DoNELsoN of Tennessee.
Mr.. DoNELsoN is a gentleman of distinguished
ability-having been appointed private Secre-
tary by General JACKSON, Charge des Affairs to
Texas by Mr. TYLER, and Minister to Berlin by
Mr.. Polk. He had ample opportunities for ar
extensive acquaintance with public men-and is
gentleman of agreeable manners and amiable
disposition. We welcome him to the corps
editorial, AMI anticipate in him, pleasant and
amicable accession to the fraternity.
Mr.. RrrcmE has our good wishes in his re.
tirement
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-17
The Kanawha, Va, Republican notes the cor

The Kauawha, Va, Republican notes the com
mencement of the m .nuiacture Of salt at the
newly located town of West Columbia, on the
Ohio River, in Mason County, Va. About 80
barrels are turned out daily. The town has
sprung up with astonishing ripidity, having been
in existence less tn IN two years IL numbers
81 houses, foundry, Touring mill, n saw mill,
and five stores The coal field Mt West Column
bia Is known TO extend over an area back from
the river of not less than tweigs or fifteen hun
dred acres. The stratum is from feet 10
INCHES to 81 feet thick. A company is now en-
gagged shipping it to New Orleans, where they
have contracted TO furnish 10000 bushels per
week.
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GREAT ELECTORAL HESSlAN
STATE LOAN
Of 6,725,OOO Dollars.


THIS Loan is guaranteed by the Government.
/ and contracted by the eminent Banking
House of Messrs. M. A. Won RorHscH,Lp AND
Sous, in Frankfort-on the Maine. The following
capital Prizes must be gained, viz:
IA of 40 900 Dollars GO Of 1000 Dollars
% $4,000 60 (" 1000
"a $4,000 100 f." 500
60 4" 5000 &c" 1870 " 900
&C., &c. The smallest Prize is IS Dollars.
The next drawing takes place irrevocably on the
LIST of June, 1851.
The price Of the Tickets is as Joilo,cs:
ticket for 5 Dollars 6 tickets for 25 Dollars
80 Z" 100 /" 65 {" 200
Remittances can be made in Bank Notes. Bills
or Drafts on Europe, &c. Each shareholder will
ttreve, free Of expense, the Prospectus, with full
particulars; and AFTER the drawing, the list of the
successful numbers, which will also be published
in the leading journals. The Prizes will be paid
In cash at Frankfort-on-the- Maine, Paris Lon
don, New York, or New Orleans.
Apply, without delay, to MoRIz SrIEBEL,
Sous, Bankers and Merchants, Frankfort-on-the-
Maine, Germany; or those who prefer it can d.
rect their letters to the care Of Messrs s. STIEBEL
Co., Merchants, 80, Nicholas Lane, Lombard
street, London.
p. s. Remttances which arrive too late will be
returned to the sender or, if he prefers it, shares
for the following distribution will be forwarded
March l7--d-t-w-w
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A Pork TnAKsAcIios.---Mes John Singer.
son and Il. Matthews, pork dealers OF this city,
sold yesterday, in one lot and to one party, five
hundred barrels of NJ. O., and fourteen thousand
five hundred barrels Of mess pork the M. o. at
y III ,25-the mess at BIZ, payable in six months
bills upon New York The sale amounted to
Sl79,625. About three Thousand barrels of
pork are now here, small portion on the way
to New Orleans; the residue, and gecafer part,
to be delivered at points above. This is the
largest transaction in pork known to the West,
or most likely the largest single sale ever made
in this Union, and comprises, it is thought, near
one-third of the amount that will be shipped from
this point this season.-Si Louis Intel
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-17

A WORKING LEGIsLATURE.-In mentioning
the adjournment sine die, on the Sd inst, of the
Legislature Of Missouri, the St Louis RepublI-
can pays the following compliment to the indus
try of its members;
"No legislature has ever worked as faithfully,
whatever may be the judgment upon the result
of their deliberations. They usually assembled
at A. NJ, sat until IL, adjourned for dinner, sat
In the afternoon, and again after tea. 1t WINS a
subject Of comment by those who had witnessed
former legislatures, the many hours devoted by
the members to labor; and their committee du-
ties were aud Gus rs their attendance upor
the session. There were, it may be, individual
exceptions, but they were few and unmportan
as affecting the general result
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-17
Ybe Worlds Fatr and Slavery.


We publish to-day an article from the London
Morning Advertiser, paper said to be second
only to the London Times in circulation. II
recommends that the occasion of the Worlds
Fair ut London should be used TO make de-
monstration against slavery, in the persons Of
clergymen and others who defend it, and who
may visit England at that time.
The institution of slavery is now subject TO 4
combined domestic and foreign assault, poiiti-
cally, socially, relgiously, morally, and fnan-
cially 1t has just been prescribed from its own
territory by its own governmental has been
dcfed and outraged in Boston and in Vermont
1T is the theme of popular denunciation in the
North-and now it is proposed by leading
journal in the commercial metropolis of the
world, to subject it to public insult and anathe-
ma in the presence of the representatives OF all
christendom, and perhaps of moslemism and
paganism.
We are told by HOMER that Jove, indignant
Mt the carnage on the fields of Troy turned
"To Samsthracia FROM the fields of fight
Those eyes that shed insufferabla light,
To where the Mysians prove Their martial force,
And where the Thracinns tame the savage horse,
And where the far-famed Hippemolgan strays,
Renowned for justice and for length of days.
Thrice happy race, that innocent OF blood,
From milk innoxious draw their simple food,
love sees delighted, and avoids the scene
OF guilty Troy, of arms and fighting men,
So, il n real phianthropist could ascend ths
tower of London, or of ST. Paurs, and sweey
with a telescope of sufficient power the region.
of the habitable world, his eye would rest de-
lighted on the verdant landscape Of the South
crn States He would behold ten millions o.
kpsople Of two races living in the enjoyment o.
= greater amount Of the blessings of life thar
eny ether on the globe--and with less Of moral Of
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-17

ANIMAL MAGNETrsM-Sir David Brewster, of
Edinburgh, has expressed his conviction of the
truth of Electro Biology, or that part of Animal
Magnetism which subjects the imagination of the
patient to the will of the operator. He describes
some remarkable experiments made before sew
eral scientific gentlemen, and concludes with the
following statement:
"They were all as well convinced rs | was,
that the phenomena we witnessed were real phe-
nomena, and as well established as any other
facts In physical science. The process by which
the operator produces them, = the mode by
which that process acts upon the mind of the
patient,--and the reference of the phenomena
to some general law in the constitution Of man,
may long remain unknown; but it is not diff
6cult to see in the recent discoveries of NJ Du-
bois, Raymond and Motteucia, and In the laws
which regulate the relative intensity Of the ex-
ternal and internal impressions on the nerves of
sensation, some not very indstnct indications
of that remarkable process by which minds of
peculiar sensibity are temporarily placed under
the dominion of physical influences, directed and
developed by some living agent.
With this testimony of so distinguished phil
osopher as Sir David Brewster, to an order of
facts peculiarly liable to abuse, we may see the
improperly Of their being tempered with the
quacks and charlatans for the purposes of gain,
or the qualification cf an idle curiosity.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-17

FREsHeT IN THE APPoMArrox Friday was
day Of incessant rain, and on Saturday morn
ing, the Appomattox at this place was within
about IA inches of the highest mark il has ever
reached. A portion of the embankment of the
Southside railroad, running from Bath Island to
the Mills, no where to be seen.-P etersburg
(Va.) Inteligencer
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-17

THE LAST NEW PLANET-It will be remem-
bered that Mr.. Hind, the English Astronomer,
discovered planet in September last, to which
he gave the name Of Victoria. American as
tronomers, with the exception of Mr.. Bond, of
Cambridge, objected to this name, as violating
the principle in accordance with which the name
Georgium Sidus, proposed by Sir VIM. Herschel,
was rejected, and compelled to give place to the
more appropriate name Uranus. Mr.. Hind in
letter to the American Astronomical Journal,
defended the name he had proposed, by stating
that it referred not to Queen Victoria, but to
the NEUROLOGICAL goddess Of that name and
stated that if it should not be adopted by Ameri-
can astronomers, he hoped they would use the
name Clio. This name was Immediately ac-
cepted by the astronomers of the United States,
and has since been used by them, though in va
rance with the rest of the astronomical world.
But since the commencement of the year 1851
the French Academy of Science--the highest
scientific authorty--has followed the example of
our own astronomers-thus, in all probability,
definitely settling the question. In the Comics
Rendus of Jan. Is, 1851, appears the following
from NJ. WON Villarceau, distinguished French
astronomer
"NoTE-Mr Gould writes from Cambridge,
that the astronomers of the United States of
America have, after delberation, adopted the
name of Clio, suggested by Mr.. Hind himself
Should this title finally prevail in England, the
nomenclature of the planets would contain N.Y.
biological names only. In fact, the Georgium
Sidus has given place to Uranus in the Nautical
Almanac for 1851"
In all the publications of the French Academy
since the commencement of the present year,
the name Clio has been used for this planet. 1t
is highly honorable to the science of a country
still so young as ours, that it dared boldly and
alone to object to a name which is at once so
Extensively national, so repugnant to republican
feelings, and so contrary to proper usage; and
il is still more honorable that the unaided nflu-
ence of American savans has sufficed to carry
the day.-N. Y Tribune.
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RioToUs Observation-Disclosures Of Armed
Negroes,-During the examination of the case
of the fugitive slaves of Mr.. Perdue, of Balt-
more county, on "Wednesday night, in Philadel-
phia, the avenues to the State-house became so
blocked up with negroes, that the marshal of
police was ordered to dispense them, which was
promptly effected The Bulletin of Thursday,
however, says
A short time afterwards, a number of riot
ously disposed blacks-most of them young
men and half grown boys--returned, and stand
ing in small groups in the vicinity of Fifth and
Chestnut, and Sixth and Chestnut, and Sixth and
Walnut streets. give the police some trouble
and some dozen Of them were arrested, and
locked up. Nearly every one OF the prisoners
was found to be armed with deadly weapons.
The following were the most important ar
rests made: John Simpson, n black boy, lurking
in Independence square, after the closing of the
gates He had climbed over the railing. A
murderous slupg shot was taken from him.
Jesse Wilson, black man, for disorderly con-
duct in Sixth street. above Walnut Found on
his person butcher knife, a razor and cane
John Rhoad, a lad, for using threatening and vio-
lent language calculated to excite to riot. Took
from his person n long dirk knife. Richaraa
Brown, for refusing to dispense, when ordered
to do So Was armed with large stick. Geo.
Houston, for the same offence. Samuel Hamp-
son. for refusing to dispense. A dirk knife and
club was found on him. Thomss Ryan, for in
citing To riot He was armed with short
heavy hickory bluAgeon and jack knife.
Five of the prisoners: Wilson, Brown, Samp-
son, Houston, and Ryan, had a hearing before
Aid. Mckinley, and were committed in default
Of $500 bail, each TO answer the charge Of car
ryip2 concealed deadly weapons. Rhoad WAS
committed in default of $500 bail on the same
charge. Sampson was sent to prison by Aid.
White. The rest Of the prisoners were dis
charged at the Msrshals Office with reprimand.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-17
The Norfolk Beacon of Tuesday has the 70

Inc NOrfolk beacon OF luesuaJ HAS INC io'
lowing paragraph;
ACCIDENT TO THE STEAMSHIP SoUTHERNER.
The steamship Southerner Captain Dickin-
son, three days from Charleston, bound to New
York, put into this port on Sunday. On Satur-
day morning, at 3 o'clock, 40 miles north OF
Cape Hatteras, she broke the strap to the cross
tail end Of the stnrboard side lever. The damage
was repaired yesterday. at the Gcsport Iron
Works, and the steamer will leave here to-day
for New York A part Of her passengers and
the mails left for Baltimore at IL o'clock on
Sunday night, in the steamer Curtis Peck, Capt
John Davis.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-17
Life OF John Randolph.

We publish to-day the advertisement of
Messrs. Appleton g. Co., the publishers of this
work We have had an opportunity oflooking
over the first thirty or forty pages, and find it
Astounding in valuable and interesting facts.
Few men deserve to be more studied than John
Randolph.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-17
- STEELE.-SOuthern Halter.
23l King ST. Charleston, S. c.
ZA GENTLEMEN wishing to purch-
Il l.ou.. c..l IL. G.

VI ase beautiful new style Spring
Hat for 1851, made in Southern State, are invited
to call as above.
French Imported Hats.
few cases Of fine light French Hats, import |
for my fashionable retail trade.
Sfraw Department.
This department comprelends all the newest
styles of Panamas and Leghorns for gentlemen,
youths, and infants, of new styles, manufactured
under my own direction.
STEELE'S HAT HALL,
March S-4tsw Charleston, s. C..
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G. a. 4. l.. KERRISON IL co.
Direct Importers of
L O r T. G. N DR. Y-G o o ID S

In Charleston, South Carolina,
MOULD respectfully inform their friends, and
w those who purchase Dry-Goods in their
city, that they prepared, and are offering
very large and well assorted stock OF Foreign and
Domestic, Staple, aud Fancy Dry Goods, selected
for and particularly adapted to the Southern trade.
Importing direct, they feel assured Of being able
to sell goods as low in Charleston, az they can bs
bought in any other market in the United States
They would call particular attention to Linen
Goods, OF every description; the make will be
found of best finish, and perfectly free from any
smirfue Of cotton. Also to their stock of DIS
Goods, which will be found second to none in the
market.
Terms Cash, or city ncceptances
G. q +. l.. KERRISON, & co.
No. 300 King, northwest corner King and Marke
Feb. 10. streets
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MorUMEkI 10 Coa CHAuHcEy-A monu-
ment to be placed over the remains of the late
Commodore Chauncey, in the Congressional
Burying Ground, Washington, has just been
completed
The base is of granite, four feet square by
one and quarter feet high; the remainder is
OF marble, consisting Of a moulding three feet
square and one and quarter feet high, on which
Is cut CHAUNcEY, in raised antique capitals a
panelled dye, two feet five inches square, and
three feet high, with richly moulded cap, on
which stands square cone, one foot ten inches
ut the base, majesticaly tapering for nine feet
on the top of which is an deliberately wrought
urn, partially covered with drapery and wreath
of flowers. On the front side Of the cone is
also elegantly wrought in bas-relief combined
wreath of oak and myrtle, surrounding a sword
and scabbard. On the front of the panelled
edge, is AN inscription to Com Chauncey, who
died in Washington, January 81, 1850, aged
sixty-seven. On the right panel is an inscrip-
ton to the memory Of his son, Charles w., of
the navy, who died at Anton Lizardo, August
10, l847, while commander of the steamer Spit
fire. On the left panel are inscriptions, Augusta
A. and Catherine NJ, daughters of the Commo-
dore, the former of whom died in 1924, the latter
in 1897; also of Edward Preble. an infant son,
who died in 1912. The whole is highly APP
propriate and finished piece of sculpture.
From PoRT-AU-PRINcE.--Ac correspondent of
the New York Herald, writing from Port-au-
Prince on the 10th ut., says:
About three weeks since, the house of Messrs
Louis Ponilh & Co., was robbed of thirty thou
sand Haytien dollars Information was given
Immediately to the chief of police, who, upon the
whole, is smart fellow He is the son of the
former emperor, Desselein, after whom he is
named. He, with his force, instituted search
for the money, and recovered about ~, 100 ; but
quantity of papers, the correspondence of very
extensive conspiracy against the present gov
eminent, and they are arresting some of the
most influential men in every part Of the empire.
But there has not n mulatto yet been arrested,
as the letters have not implicated any persons
of that color, which, for that class Of persons, is
a very lucky circumstance, rs then it would
have been good preteXt to annihilate that race
Of people The brother of Francisque, the
grand Judge, has been arrested and on Friday,
the l4th, the grand Judge was removed, and an
other appointed. 1t is said that he is a prisoner
If you remember, Soulouque has had General
Maximium in prison for about two years he is
afraid to shoot him, he Isl great favori,e with
the black population He was to have been the
leader in this conspiracy, and suppose, event
ually, at the head of the government. But 10
Judge from his former actions, he is blood
thirsty villain; therefore, bad as the affairs of this
government are, think the change would have
been for the worse.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-17

a senator who did not address the Senate, but
spoke in terms which reached my ear, said the
universal sentiment" strengthening the asser-
ton of the senator from Massachusetts. If it
be so, then il follows that the law is dead, as to
that particular State. As to the particular case
which has occurred, | regret it as much as any
one. regret it, because it is an evidence of that
downward tendency in the people OF the United
States, which seems to manifest that they are
unworthy of the government they have inner
tied. It is government which is wholly mop
erative whenever the people cease to be sufl
GENTLY pure to execute it. Whenever mobs can
rule. and law is silenced beneath their tumult,
this is wholly an impracticabe government. 1t
is not organized as one of force. Its strength
is moral, ard moral only.
aThe government Of the United States has
power to suppress insurreotion and to repe in
vasion What instruction do you suppose Is
contemplated! Only instruction against the
authority Of State, in which civil government
shall be paralyzed by the power Of the multi
tudc. The occasion, too, must be sudden and
eplIemeral If the masses of any State choose,
they have the power, and it is undeniable, to
change their whole form of government. An
insurrection, then, must be one against State,
and State must seek the aid OF the federal
government to Justify it In interposing its power
for the purpose C. snDoressing it. In the ear
ler) may not say the purer') days of the
Republic, the militia Of the States were relied
upon for the enforcement of the laws against
those vino resisted them within the borders Of
the States Tins, General Washington's Secre-
tary Of War called on the militia of Pennsyl-
vania to put down the Whiskey insurrectlon.
He did not call on the army and navy of the
United States.
"But, air. the case in Boston seems to be the
legitimate result Of an event which occurred not
long since, when the officers failed to do their
duty, and the marshal who so failed was not re.
Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1851-03-27
CHAS. H. MILTON,
SUCCESSOR TO IHOS. ANDRE WS.)

(SUCCESSUR ~ iHOS. ANDkE WS'
wv Err IN STOVES AND HOLLOW
WARE; manufacturer Of Copper, Japaned
and plain Tin and Sheet Iron Wares, No. II
North Second street, few doors south of the
Monroe House, sign of the Gilt Stove, has
constantly on hand a variety Of the heaviest
and hest constructed Cooking Stoves; also
Coal and Wood heating stoves. Particular
attention paid to the selecting of the best ma.
terial and manufacture of Wares for the city
or country trade. All work fully guaranteed,
The subscriber would respectfully announce
to his old customers, as well as the former pa
irons of Thomas Andrews, that he is fully
prepared to fill all orders in the shortest pos
sible time, and on the most reasonable terms;
and hopes by proper attention TO his business
to give entire satisfaction to all who may fa-
vor him with their patronage
St. Louis, Feb, l3-6m.