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- We taks pleasure 10 Iaylng Gov. Mc- |

ES- We take pleasure 10 laying Gov NC
DoNALD's letter of acceptance before our readers
this morning Ii presents the issues dividing
the two parties 10 Georgia boldly and clearly
and discusses the whole question with marked
ability in a small compass.
The Southern Rights Den Of Georgia may
we'll be proud OF such standard-bearer.
The Augusta Conshitaionatst closes its edi-
torial notice of this letter thus;
aOn the right of secession. Gov Mcdonald is
explicit and to the point lie holds that II is the
right of State, By p'rtte Of as Independence and
souereignfy to secede iohenecer the people uereo,
In their sovereign capacity, shall determine such
step to be necessary to effect their safety and
happiness---a right which flows from me nature
of our governmental organization.
"On this point, as upon the merits OF the
compromise, AS a measure of Justice to the
South. which Mr.. Cobb holds to have been
wise. liberal, and Just, Gov. Mcdonald and DIR.
|ssobb are antpodes The latter denies the right
of secession, and holds that a State attempting
TO exercise it, ought to be coerced back into the
Union by federal bayonets.
"On both of these points We do not doubt
that large majority Of the people OF Georgia,
Democrats and Wings, are with Gov. Mcdonald,
and that if they follow the guidance OF their I'M
BIASED Judgments, they will so record Their
opinions in his triumphant election. This fair
expression of their sentiments can alone be de-
feated by The delusive arts of demagogues and
the parasites of federal power"
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produce II, We think ii important 10 indicate the
inevitable course Il will take II is great mis-
take to suppose--as is very common--thst South
Carolina will be powerless on the sea. 90 the
contrary, her strength will be there The intro
ducton OF ocean steam-nayigation has nullihed
the previous elements of naval force There
will probably never again be general naval en-
gagement Ocean steamers can give OF decline
battle, according to their speed. And such is
the enormous cost of n-steamlng, and the
inequality Of speed, that the wealthiest govern
ment cannot maintain fleet of steamers ON any
ton. A single steamer of superior speed may
defy the navies of the world. She may rove at
will over the wide ocean, and cut up IFS COM
merce, and nothing can interfere with her, be-
cause nothing can overtake her.
lfthen collision should occur between South
Carolina and the federal government and the
other States, the inevitable course of events will
be that she will invite into her navy both
steamers and men, and with her commission
they will have three million of tons of shipping
worth one hundred millions of dollars and
another hundred millions of cargo ahoat belong
ing to the assailing States, TO supply her navy
with prize money. And such vast and tempt
ing fund would invite almost as many auxiiaries
as California gold itself. There are all the
States of Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and
Florida, that contain such multitudes of sympha-
thisers with South Carolina. There are forty
thousand steam navigators on the Mississippi
men intensity fond of adventure, of war, of go-
ry, and of prize money. There are ship owners
of the North, of New York and Boston, who
would enter for the prizes. There would be
the enterprizing, the adventurous, the warlike
from many of the Southern States--and the
consequence would be, that in one year after
the contest began, there would be no safety in
the entire coasting trade-nor could vessel at
tempt with prudence to enter or to depart from
the harbor of New York itself
The commercial States have two hundred
millions of dollars worth of tonnage and mer-
chandize constantly exposed on the sea. Halfa
dozen rapid steamers would render this all I'M
safe. And does any man suppose that this
number of the fastest of steamers could not be
commanded by South Carolina, with such an
immense fund for remuneration
We advise, therefore, that nobody indulge the
fatal dream, that collision between the States
of this Union can ever occur without immense
and incalculable disaster. ii is so much easier,
cheaper, better, to be just and honest, that we
cannot but commend this cou, Sc to the humane
philanthropic, conscientious, peaceable, and tran
scendeutal Abolitionists, instead of muskets
and cannon, fire and sword.
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a short time since while Ralph Waldo EN-
merson was delivering a lecture at Cambridge
Mass, the meeting was disturb by number OF
persons. The Boston Commonwealth, in no.
tcing the disturbance, charged that it was Great.
ed by Southern students, from the University
whereupon communication in the following
days paper, signed ca Southerner," and dated
Cambridge, remarks
al would ask the privilege Of stating through
your columns that the Southern gentlemen OF
Harvard College have too much respect for
themselves and regard for the rights of others
"a disposition which, in these times, we could
wish was more generaD to condescend to any
such petty demonstration Of dissent The dis
turbance to which you alude, may be referred
mainly, If not entirely, to the exertions Of those
gentlemen mot Southern"D who are olrcays
eager for any such opportunity TO keep up shoe
Of fidelity 70 The Interests Of ne South"
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The Consequences of Coercion.

We observe that the New York Tribune has
lately INDUCED in some very selfcomplacent
speculations on the relative military strength of
South Carolina and the balance of the States
and has arrived very conveniently at the conclu.
sion that secession must be followed by collision,
and that South Carolina will in that event be
easily subdued. The contingency of collision
is one that we have contemplated with such re-
pugnance and revulsion that we have seldom
alluded to it. And we have seen with emotions
of astonishment and disgust this topic, recently
quite frequent, in the speeches and editorials Of
the Abolition and Freesoil leaders and organs
That party has always hitherto made high pro-
fessions of moral elevation and of moral suasion,
and has denounced war and force. Yet now,
the moment 1t fancies that it controls the physi-
cal force of the government, and can WELD the
army and navy in the accomplishment of its
plans, il luxuriates in the potency of these in
struments, with feelings like those which ami
mated Alaric, Mahomet, and Tamerlane.
We must admonish these abolition propa
gandists by fire and sword not TO be too sangune
We know there is large party in this countr,
in whom the leaven Of the federalism Of '9S pre-
dominates-men who are now, as that party ther
was, ready to employ the force of the fedora
government to coerce a sovereign State, an'
even to punish as traitors those of her citizen
who, like the Spartans of old are ready to pill
the Thermopyl@ Of her sacred soil with thei
bodies. And we admit that it is quite possible
at period when California has been robbie,
and part of Texas bought from the South, thu
this party may, as in '9s, have the control o
government. In that event the attempt may b.
made 10 overrun South Carolina, in case she Sc
cedes, by land or to blockade her by sea. Blu
in either case It will be war. And in case it b
pretended that captives taken by the fedora
forces are traitors, II will be civil, and sanguin
AIRY and DISCRIMINATING war-wsr without quarter
And now, lest foolish and infatuated notion
Of the course Of such war should provoke Q
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reckons tho number Of families owning lands or
houses at four millions eight hundred thousand,
and at four millions the number Of agricultural
propnetors.
The number of proprietors is sometimes con
founded With the number of coles," nam o
given to any piece of land, greater or smaller, of
the same quality, and taxed together. McCul-
loch, in his Commercial Dictionary, confounds
the cotes with distinct properties. The truth is
that proprietor owing hundred acres Of land
lying together may, if the land be Of even sur
face, chance TO own twenty or thirty different
cofes or tracts, taxed separately on account of
their separate quality. A hill side field produc-
ing wheat is a cote, and the neghboring prairie,
fit only for pasture ground, is also cote. OF
course small distinct properties are each never
less than cote, and the number of one bears a
certain proportion to the number of the other.
NUMBER OF coTEs OR TAXABLE PROPERTIES.
This must be, at the present tine, about
twelve millions. The progress of subdivision
has been rapid and steady since the first revolu-
ton. In 1918 the land tax was assessed
on IO,0s3,75l cotes.
In 1926, on l0,2S2946
In 1885, on l0893,528
In 1912, on ll,5Il,84l
that is, an increase of nearly one million and a
half had taken place, in the course OF twenty
seven years.
DISTRIBUTION OF REAL ESTATE AMONG PRoPRIE-
TORS.
The official statistics in France do not give
exactly the number of proprietors and the guam
tty OF land held by each. 1t is to be inferred
from the number of cotes, the registered sales
and mortgages, and number of tax payers. That
4 -. IL
may be inferred from the immense disproportion
between the smaller and the larger taxable coies.
In 1912, those paying more than fifty francs tax
numbered only l,l0l 1868, and those paying less,
numbered nearly ten and half millions, of which
seven millions paid less than ten francs and
more than five millions less thai five francs NJ.
de Chateauyieux divides the land among the diff
ferent classes of agricultural propretors as fol-
lows:
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Real Estate In France.

On another column will be found very
interesting paper on the Real Estate of
France, taken from the Commercial Advertiser.
Its correctness and general accuracy of detail
is vouched for by friend, long resident in
France and conversant with the subject, to
whom we submitted il previous to re-publica
ton. He explains the condition of Brittany, by
declaring it,.o be the most barren soil in France
and its people the most ignorant.
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sB~ We find the following item in the New
Ye rk Commercial Advertiser.

O rk COHlHeTcfuI HdfeTIiSer.
REMIrrITUR--It will be remembered that
the ships Australia Coriolanus, and Essex, were
seized at this port by the U. s. marshal some ten
or twelve days ago and their captains imprisoned,
for carrying more passengers than are allowed
by law on vessels of their tonnage. An order
was received from Washington yesterday au-
thorizng the U. s. district attorney to remit the
forfeiture Of the ships, and discharge the cap
Tins from custody on payment of twenty-five
dollars fine on each passenger beyond the legal
number, with all the costs of prosecution. The
aggregate amount of the fl es to be thus paid
by the three vessels is about $4,000. The
owners may congratulate themselves on such an
easy acquittal The masters Of eighteen other
vessels are under indictment for a similar Of
fence"
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An Englishman in California writing home,
says :" You may imagine how greatly surprised
was when ] saw in the bay of San Francisco,
greater number of ships together than had
ever before beheld. Liverpool, St GATHERINGS,
and the West and East India docks were all
outnumbered. Instead of village, beheld a
proud city"
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.Ss- The nationality" and the patriotism"
of the @Unionists" Of Worcester, Aiassachu-
sets, is as rampant and MS effervescent as that
Of the squad" in Greenville, South Carolina.
In the former place, not content with appointing
JoHs p. HALE, of New Hampshire, as their 4tb
Of July orator, they have invited JOHN VAN
buren, to participate; and the invitation has been
accepted
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s9y" The Boston Post gives the following
clue to the authorship of new novel. The
writer, we have been informed, is resident of
this city
"The new novel, "Genevrn, or the History of
a Portrait" was written by Genevieve Geneva
Fairfield, daughter of the late Sumner Lincoln
Fairfield, the poet Miss +. is said to inherit a
large portion of her fathers genius, and to be
highly accomplished and very amable young
ladyn
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TwecdIcdum and TweedIedee.

Mr. JOHN NJ. BORIS, of Virginia, gentleman
who believes the Wilmot Proviso to be consti-
tutiona, being troubled in mind at certain
passage in Mr. WEBsTER's Buffalo speech, ad-
dressed him an epistle thereon. To quiet the
uneasiness of his correspondent, the expounder
makes the following exposition of the only pas
sage that seems to have excited the mind of
Mr. BORIS:
Gentlemen, regret exceedingly that slavery
exists in the Southern States but Congress has
no power to act upon it. 1t may be, however,
that in the dispensaton of Providence, some
remedy for this evil may occur, or may be hoped
for hereafter"
According to the original report, Mr.. WEB
sTER was made to say "And that Congress
has no power to act upon it."
Well, we can see but little difference between
the original and the improved version, taking the
context into consideration.
If Mr. Boris, or Mr.. Anybody-else, enter
tains, or pretends to entertain any doubts as to
the real position of Mr.. WEBSTER, after The
avowals made in this speech, it would be idle
to waste words upon him. There are none so
blind, as those that ,oon't see"
In his letter Mr.. W. remarks
Z" 1t must be obvious to every intelligent per-
son, that if Congress possessed power over
slavery as it exists in the Southern States, any
attempt to exercise such power would break up
the Union just as surely rs would an attempt to
introduce slavery into Massachusetts. These
are subjects of mere State right and State au-
thority, intended originally to be left entirely
with the States, and they must so be left STILL if
we wish to preserve the Union"
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NUMBER OF REAL ESTATE OWNERS.

In April, 1888, M. do Rambreteau affirmed, in
n speech before the Chamber of Deputies, that
" the soil of France is possessed by more than
five millions Of proprietors, bends Of families,
and representing from TWENTY-FIVE TO twenty
five millions of the population"
NJ, de Chateauvieux, an eminent statstcisn,
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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF HAMp-

M DEN, SYDNEY COLLEGE,, RICH
M0ND, VA.-Ths thirteenth Annual Course OF
Lectures will commence on Monday, the lAth or
October, 1850, and continue until the LIST or the
ensuing March. The commencement for comforting
degrees will be ED about the middle of March.
Z. l.. BoHAxNAs, M. d., Prof. of Obstetrics
and Diseases Of Women and Children.
L. w. CHANsERLAyNE, M. d., Prof OF Mate
ria Medica and Therapeutics.
s. MAupiN, M. d., Prof. of Chemistry and
Pharmacy.
CARrTxR p. JoaAsoN, M. d., Prof. OF Anato-
my and Psychology. I'm
Dawn II. TuokEs, M. d. Prof of Theory and
ractice of Medicine.
ARTHUR f.. PEricoLAs, M. D., Demons'ra'o'
of Anatomy.
cuted with ths most ample facilities, and at very
Clinical Lectures are regularly given at the Col
Iese in6rmary and Richmond Aimshouse: Inc
inlfmexy, under the same roof with the college
and subject to the entire control Of the Faculty IS
=, all ,imes well filled with medical and surgical
cases and furnishes peculiar facilities Tor clinical
instruction Many surgical operations are per-
formed in presence of the class; and the students
being freely admitted to the wards, ENJOY, under
the guidance of the Professors, unusual oPporlu-
mites for becoming familiar with the symptoms
diagnosis and treatment OF disease.
Observation-Disclosures fee, IS. Professors
fees, SlO5, Demonstrated fee, $40. Graduauon
fee, $25. s.., ,;uh,, and
servants attendance, is usually 80 to $3a per
week. - :c>,a
The catalogue, &C., containing fuller lniorm a
ton concerning the institutions W De lorW"u w,
to those applying for it, or specific inquiries VIII
NC aus " e'es S. MAUPlN, M. D.,
Ne, o Dean of the Faculty.
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I AW AND AGENCY OFF CE. The under
| 4 signed, Attorneys and Agents, practice Law
in the Supreme Court of the United States, and
the Courts of the District of Columbia, and attend
promptly to claims against the United States, IN
GLIDING the settlement OF all accounts OF officers
and agents Of the Government, Bounty Lands,
Pensions, Return of Duties, Patents for new in
ventions, &C., &c.
They tender their services TO members of the
profession at distance, and, when the case in
prepared by local agent, will abate one half their
usual fee. All information relative to the FORMS
and usages Of BUSINESS in any of the Departments
will be furnished 10 our regular correspondents
without charge They have made arrangements
for the payment OF axes, and for the sale or oca
ton of bounty land warrants on the best Western
lands.
I{-Oflice on p. .nsylvania avenue, Lane 4
fuckers Building
DUFF GREEN.
BEN. T.. GREEN,
KlCH'D. III. CLARKE
| Oct l4-3taw3m.
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NEW PROSPECTUS
G Il t. FIC A ME RIGA N
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American statistics.

A short time past we published Some statistics
relative to the number OF soldiers supplied from
the different States to the revolutionary war. De
BOWS Commercial Review gives some tables re-
lative to this, and other subjects of equal interest
which we copy.
|. The number of soldiers furnished by the
American States during the revolution, and the
population of each State in 1890 and In le47.
2. Principal battles Of the revolution their sev-
eral dates, commanders-n.chief, ard losses on
each side.
g. Amount of continental money lssued 10 sup
port the war, and the estimated cost In spsci
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