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The southern press., 1851-08-09

THE lcARIAs SETTLEMENT AT NAUvoo.-Where
once the Mormon Temple stood at Nauvoo, there
is now Community Of Communists, under the
direction Of Cabet, French reformer, sod the
setilsment on the LIST Of January last numbered
$40 souls.
The Galena Advertiser says :-"They are now
engaged in erecting large building, in which
there is TO be dining hall capable Of seating 500
people at one time-and accommodate a large
number over il with sleeping apartments. IL is
built OF the refuse brick Of the old Mormon town,
Of which materials they propose to build entirely
around the old Temple, when ihey have suficint
funds accumulated. Il is expected that M. CADET,
now in Farnce, and for a short time in prison for
a political offence, ian affair which would not be
recognized offence with us, and under our
instituuons.) will bring great accession to their
numbers in a few months. M. CADET is greatly
beloved and revered by the community at Nsuvoo,
and Is highly respected wherever he is known.
The southern press., 1851-08-09

ception of the leaders, who will be executed or
sent to SPAIN Those who had raised the stand
ard Of liberty. consisted Of small parties, acting
without concert, and were easily put down by
the troops II Is said but few lives were spared
among those found with arms in their hands, AS
they were killed on the spot,
Government feels some anxiety with regard
to the loyalty of the troops, as many regiments
are supposed to be disaHfected Many of the
troops lately arrived from Spain have died from
exposure, being unable to stand the climate.
If the troops continued faithful, there was no
apprehension Of any effectual movement among
the islanders themselves, but the eyes Of the
government were directed anxiously to the
United States, from which II was supposed ef-
forts would be made to support the Insurgents.
The government however were on the alert. and
the vessels of war were on the watch at the
most exposed points.
BY the arrival the Cherokee, at New Orleans,
with later news, it would seem that these re-
ports are confirmed, though in both cases they
may rest on the authority of the official newspa-
pers. Previous to the sailing Of the Georgia, it
was reported an insurrection was attempted in
Matanzas, and troops had been ordered to march
there. The result had not been known
The southern press., 1851-08-09

tB- There is nothing in all the glorious
Union" speeches Of Messrs. CoBB, FoorE a.
Co, to equal the following burst Of patriotic en-
thusiasm, which we 6ud in the New York
Knickerbocker. AS the essence Of hogshead
of rose-leayes may be found condensed in a
small vial Of the altar" 30 the writer has given
in very small compass at once, the sum and
substance of all the arguments contained in
those appeals Of self-appointed saviors of the
country.
We shrewdly suspect plagiarism, however
on the part of the Connecticut poet, perpetrated
on brother Union bard of Alabama. Thal
bird looks wonderfully like that remarkable
plumed biped described last session by w. X.
w. Cons, of Alabama, which aplanted one
claw on the Allegheny, and the other on the
Rocky mountains, while dipping his beak in the
crystal waters of the Pacific" (We believe we
quote correctly.)
sThere is that in the ensuing effusion, says the
Knickerbocker, which cannot fail TO rouse the sum
bering patriotism of every American heart. II
was composed by Western poet, IN 'one hour
by Connecticut clock:
'"What burst this glorious Union up,
An 60 to drawin' triggers,
Just for thunderin' parcel of
Emancipated niggers'
The eagle Of Ammeriky,
That fue across thee sees,
An throwed the buddy British lion
Ker-slump upon his knees
Say shall we rend him lin from lin,
Wun wing wun way, and wun t'other, x
And every sepperit pin-fether
A flying at the otherf"
This is the kind Of spirit thatTis going TO pre-
serve our 'sgreat and gel-lorious ked-ntry" from
premature dissolution.
The southern press., 1851-08-09
THE SOUTHERN PRESS.
Thc.rsv York 8 Truee.''

The Washington correspondent Of The New
York Journahcf Commerce, lhofough-going
advocate Of thA acsmpromise" and Union"
policy, thus candidIy confesses the true char
sctsr Of the New York atruce." He also states
the surrender Of the President and some Qf not
the whole) Of his Cabinet to Senator SEWARD.
The folds of the free-so anaconda are now
tiphtened around its passive victim, who has
made but sham-fght, a mere show Of oppo-
sition throughout We will see, after having
we'll fabricated the prey, how long il will take
the monster to crush and devour it:
WASHINGTON, August 6th-
The Albany platform was, as learn, well re-.
ceiyed by. the President and Mr., Stuart, and
some others, perhaps, Of the Cabinet. Most
strange infatnation Governor Young writes
81 fear the woolly heads have got their wool
over u.s." Others, quite as shrewd, think so
too. It is part Of tbs Pennsylvania and Ohio
Wing scheme. The free-soil Wings are to take
the lead and control the nominations for the
Presidency. and in the State and National Wing
conventions. General Scott will be nominated
by the Syracuse convention on the 10Th OF Sep
tember Mark that!
The southern press., 1851-08-09

This was one Of the many ways Of keeping the
population down, and had L been persevored in,
MALrHus would never have written his celo-
brated work.
Now II the 1yi6ipse means that wIlen men are
attacked, they have right in sclf-defcnce to
take life, there is no one but will concur in tile
sentiment Attacked by wild beast, or u wild
man, Is much about the same thing, self
preservation urges to extremes But it Is not
less true, that taking life unnecessarily, with or
without judiciary forms, has been subject of dis
cussion from the earliest times. And even among
those whom we piously call heathens, and who
piousy give us the same epithet, as for instance,
the Hindoos, the taking of the life of animals and
insects is considered criminal irregious, and
immoral.
If the Tribune is desirous of being us perfect
as the Hindoo, we can assure il there will be a
few Christians sufficiently jealous Of their hu-
manity to applaud its re-assertion of such good
old principles in SO far at least as II regards their
own species.
The southern press., 1851-08-09
On Sleep Il is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole TO polel

We examined yesterday with much pleasure
an invention which promises to supersede the use
Of those cumbrous and inconvenient enclosure Of
our nightly couches, known psvilions or mos
quito nets, besides adding an agreeable and health
fll ventilation to the sleeping apartment. BY a
simple but efficient arrangement of wheels and
weights a pendulum 10 which is attached
fan, is kept in motion, and the frequency and
length Of the vibration can be regulated at plea
sure. It's movements are perfectly noiseless, it
occupies but little space, and can be attached 70
the bedpost without difficulty. This ingenious
Williams Middleton, and Il can be seen in opsrs-
ton for few days at the counting house Of Mr..
T.. Middleton, vsnderhorsts whsrf. ~ Charleston
Is. C.) Mercury.
The southern press., 1851-08-09

SPECIMENS OF CorroS IN rHE GRskr ExHmI-
rIos.-The samples Of cotton shown in the Ame-
rican department are amongst the best Of the
specimens Of raw produce, for our neighbors
across the Atlantic have determined that the sam
Piles Of their cotton should at the same time be
worthy oftheir high reputation and OF the Great
Exhibition 10 which they sent They have
consequently not merely contented themselves
with few samples Of irst-rate cotton, but have
sent over fulsize bales OF some dozen Of the prn-
cipal cottons known in commerce. The American
cottons are so well known and so.highly esteemed
sary but, nevertheless, it was by far the best
mode Of showing them.
Ii is much easier TO Judge Of the quality OF cot
ton when IL Is shown in the form Of an entire
bale and besides, u ~ much more fair 10 send
good average bale, such az might be met with in
commerce, than 70 pick out and carefully prepare
museum specimen the latter might be more
beautiful, but il would be far less instructive and
for commercial purposes il would be OF very little
value. The American cottons are evidently all
really genuine bales and they are also Of frst-rate
quality. IL would be no easy matter even for the
most ex Perienced broker TO distinguish minutely
the relative value Of the several bales The chief
cottons shown are from Georgia, Alabama, Ter
nessee, and South Carolina. Amongst the first
may be specified that shown by Mr.. Jones, OF
Burke county, which is beautifully fine, aof, and
silky; n has fault, Il il that Of being little
over ginned little cut by the teeth ofthe saw gin,
used in separating the seed from the 6brous part
OF the cotton.
The cotton from Mr.. J. b. Merriweather, Of
Montgomery, Alabama, mo. 1s4), is peculiarly
deserving Of notice il is son, strong, fine, Of good
color, well handled, and in all respects most ex-
ceent. The same also may be said Of the cot
ton from Mr.. w. Hampton, mo. l72B), Of
Charleston, South Carolins, which closely resem-
bles the preceding in all it's goodlquaites. These
two bales are probably the finest Of the whole
series, but undoubtedly some Of the others are
very nearly, n not quite, as good. The cotton
from Mr.. w. Seabrook, Of South Carolina mo
32OD), especially may be mentioned as hrst-rate.
Amongst the contributions from Tennessee, the
specimen shown by Mr.. ID. LAX, Of Memphis, ),
Shelby county, (No. 930), Mr.. @. L. Holmes,
Of the same place, (No. 3l6) Mr.. J. Pope, mo
32) and Mr.. Samuel Bond, (No. 80, also Of
Memphis, IN Shelby county, are as good as can
be desired, both as regards the quality Of the
staple, and its handling, or mode OF preparation.
Il Morning Chronicle.
The southern press., 1851-08-09
MIR. A. Whltney's Project.

Mr.. Asa WMTNEY has been astonishing the
English with his wonderful schemes of rail-
road to the Pacific. John Bull, who is very
credulous, and has more than an ordinary amount
of love for the marvellous, seems half disposed
to back our clever countryman, and give him the
pretty lot Of land he so modestly asks for
But. whatever his guilability, John breads to lay
out his money so far from home, and has some
misgivings of Yankee enterprise.
Mr.. WHIrrEY would raise the funds for SO
magnificent project in the States, (perhaps,)
should Mr.. Bull be difficult We wish he may
get them. If we ever want to build line to the
Pacific, it won't be on such plan as that pro-
posed, we feel convinced. Jonathan knows
better than to venture on SO impossible and
unpayable an undertaking.
1t may be very true that line from Canada
presents most favorable gradients, and that there
are passes across the Rocky mountains, as far
north as Oregon, which are as good as any yet
discovered; but that will not be sufficient to pay
for the line, or keep it in order when constructed
It may be equally true that it would not be a
bad direction to take for voyage to China or
Japan; but we question whether there exists in
Great Britain, or the States, a sufficient number
of persons having interests in those regions; or
travellers, who, for the pleasure of visiting the
Brother of the Sun and Moon, or the Great
Mogul, would venture across two oceans, and a
desolate, half-frozen continent.
AS for the merchants of Great Britain, they
would never consent to their well packed goods
being unshipped to railroad, and then re-shipped
again on Puget's Sound. The chances of damage
would be too great.
But there is a still greater difficulty. The
Northern waters and bays Of this continent are
frozen up every winter; and what means Of
transport, from accessible ports, can be devised
to answer all the requirements of merchants.
The fewer the charges, the better, that is quite
clear and when the ST. Lawrence is bridged
with ice, and ST. James bay rendered inaccessi.
BILE for the greater part of the year, by what
roundabout way are goods and passengers to be
| forwarded!
Can Mr.. Whitney guarantee that there shall
be no deep SHOWS between Lake Superior and
the mountains? Nine months of cold, frost,
and snow, in those inhospitable regions, win be
difficulty that no ingenuity or skill can over.
come.
We expect to see a line progressing steadily
though slowly, in a more temperate region, to-
wards the settlements Of the Mormons Every
now and then, the Western papers will announcs
that some twenty or thirty, or may be, fifty miles
more of road is constructed; until, some ter
years hence, a company viii proclaim 10 the
world its intention Of finishing up a few hun.
dred miles to meet a Mormon and Californian
road, running Eastward TO their embrace.
The southern press., 1851-08-09

ssAIL Bussrss.--We see reports in several OF
che papers Of the frequent use of postage stamps
second time The persons who descend to
such mesnness have entirely failed in their de-
signs, and subject their friends 10 whom they
write TO the full rates Of unpaid letters. So nu-
merous have these attempts to cheat the depart
msnt been at the Worcester Office, thattbs Post
rssster has issued an official notice to the effect
sh.< he shall hereafter prosecute all persons de-
tscted in such small business, TO the full extent
Of the penalty prescribed by law.
The southern press., 1851-08-09

AN AMERICAN ENrrsrANsEST TO The Queen
Of England is talked Of in Londou by the Ameri-
can visiters to the Worlds Exhibition, and the
Americans residing in London. The London
Sunday Times says;
cit would be most interesting sight to behold
the republican sons Of Columbia entertaining the
sovereignty Of their ancestral country, casting
aside the petty jealousies and absurd rivalry that
have too long subsisted between John Bull and
Brother jonathan, and, in the face OF the world,
renewing, by kindly and generous intercourse,
the ties Of blood and language that should unite
Englishmen and Americans across the broad wa
ters Of the Atlantic"
The southern press., 1851-08-09

The following touching stsnzss are from the pc.
Of Wolfe, author Of the burial ofSir John Moore
They were written soon after the death Of be
loved wife -
II had thought thou could's have died,
| might not weep for thee;
But forgot when by thy side,
That thou could ST mortal be:
II never through my mind had past,
The time would e'er be Per,
That on thee should look my last,
And thou should'st smile no morel
And still upon that face look,
And think twill smile again
And still the thought | cannot brook
That must look in vain:
But when speak, thou dost not say
What thou ne'er left'st unsaid
And hen feel, as well may,
Dear Mary thou art dead
lfthou could'st stay, cen as thou art,
All cold end all serene,
| still might press they silent heart,
And where thy smiles have been
While cen thy chill, bleak corse lave,
Thou seemest still mine own;
But as lay thee in the grave,
feel am alone
do not think, where'er thou art,
Thou hast forgotten me;
And ], perhaps, may soothe this heart
In thinking, too, OF thee;
Yet there was round thee such a dawn
Oflight ne'er seen before,
As fancy never could have drawn,
And never can restorsl
The southern press., 1851-08-09

TIE Louisville Courier states that many psrsons
are leaving that and other Western States with
view ofioining the Cuban rsvolunonists.--Th
proceed South in small parties in order not to sx-
cite suspicion.
The southern press., 1851-08-09

THE MExIcAn DEBr due to England is s5l .0O0,-
0O0,--the Spanish claim s24,6OO,OoO, and the
French claim somewhat smaller than the Spanish.
The expenses Of the Mexican government are
$ii.oo0,ooo, and her revenues ss,000,OOO. Pre-
cious small chance for the foreign creditors.
They would, no donbt, like guarantee, in the
form Of a grant Of territory or some exclusive
commercial privileges.
The southern press., 1851-08-09
DIscordanf Music.

Whilst the central Administration organ here
is playing soothing airs in consequence Of the
New York struce," the New York Mirror, a
lesser organ, whose bellows is blown by an Of
fice-holder, makes discord thus;
The exceptions" we are compelled 70 take
to this temporary platform, are--frst, II re-as-
serts the Wilmot Prosiso--that cursed dogma
from which all our slavery troubles have sprung
--and secondly, it plainly recognizes the right
to agitate for the repeal of the Fugitive-slave
law.
The southern press., 1851-08-09

A curious and aughsble exhibition at the Lon
don Fair, is bsdstead, containing spring in the
mattrass, which, being set at certain hour
wakes the sleeper, by turning him straight over
on the floor.
The southern press., 1851-08-09

An editor "Wsst," says that he hoped to be
able to present a marriage and death as original
matter for his columns but thsw broke up the
wedding, and the doctor fell sick, so the patient
recoyered
The southern press., 1851-08-09

An itinerant Peter Funk was arrested few
days ago at Memphis, for selling spurious jewelry,
and after being compelled to redeem all he had
sold, he was ordered to leave the city within
twelve hours
The southern press., 1851-08-09

The composition has become so strong on the
Western steamboats,, that passengers are carried
between Cincinnati and Louisville for fifty cents.
The southern press., 1851-08-09

INcREAsr or MoRsosIss IN ESGLAvp.--'Th
London Record gives the following statistics Of
the increase OF Mormonism in England There
were in January last, forty-two conferences, 6O9
branches, twenty-five seventies, twelve high
priests, ,76l elders $50 priests, 206 teachers,
$50 deacons, and 25,454 members, making a total
Of 3O,747 saints. During the last fourteen years
more than $4,000 had been baptised in England,
Of which nearly 1900 had emigrated from her
shores TO Zion.
The southern press., 1851-08-09

sY- The Republic is still singing peans
over {" The Truce in New York." and no one
can fail being struck with the propriety of the
term employed to designate the true character
of that arrangement.
The Republic does not pretend to style it a
reconciliation or final reunion of the two wings
of the party-it does not dare to attempt such
an imposition on public credulity--but calls it a
truce, the definition of which is, suspension of
hostilities for limited time. The time to which
this atruce" is limited, we presume, extends
only to the termination of the State elections,
after which the hostile attitude of the two fac
tons will be resumed, unless Gas would appear
by the terms of agreement) the feeble and for
lorn faction of Silver Greys," baffied, beaten,
dispirited, and deserted by the Administration,
have no longer heart or hope enough to protract
their struggle with the victorious legions of
SEWARD.
The metropolitan press understands full well
the importance of names, the power of words,
and,
III lnty CdiiIOt CudIlSc the ulluB,
At least they II change the name, sirs,"
So that nice little Albany arrangement which
the free-spoken New York papers term sur
render to the SEwARDTrEs, the Republic desig-
mates as truce! Our neighbor has been dab
bling good deal in military matters of late, and
hence we suppose its use of military terms; but
we would suggest the word capitulation as even
more appropriate on this occasion.
Like the two devils of LIE SAGE, who em-
beaced and privately swore eternal hatred, the
Silver Greys and the SEwARDIrEs will doubt
less keep up appearances as long as they can
but that cardinal principle TO the victors belong
the spoils," will be enforced by the latter most
rigidly, as soon as they can dispense with the
aid of the former, and the shadowy support OF
the sanction of the Administration; and then
they will find that they have not only commit
ted crime, but-what the French diplomat de.
clared to be worse in n political point Of view
an egregious blunder also.
The southern press., 1851-08-09
The Tribune and the Right 60 take Life

The Tribune seems nightly afraid Of being
thought too amiable in denying the right Of so.
cety 10 take away life-and in reply 10 the
Rochester American, calls upon il formally "a
retrnct its false assertion. We give The para.
graphs
The Tribune has denied " the right Of society
to take life," and would now, il lis chief editor
were at home.-Rochesisr .4msriean.
This Is an entire mistake. The Tribune has
never denied this right, either when Mr. Greeley
was at home, or when he was absent We call
upon the American formally 10 retract its false
assertion.-N Y. Tribune.
Now, there Is no particular crime in advocating
clemency, that we are aware Of Some Of the
very best Of men doubt the right Of their fel.
lows to put others 10 death in cold blood, and
call il mnrder"--and carrying their reflections
a little farther, ask the question, whether, when
murder has been committed out Of insanity OF
some sort-cold- or passionste--society
has a right deliberately and cooly, without pas
sion, impulse, interest, or temporary madness, b
make a second murder out Of IL
Indeed, some very good men do not hesitate
10 say the second murder Is worse than the first
They can excuse the first, for there is n cause, a
reason for II, perhaps; there are what the French
would call extenuating circumstances"-t there
is, 10 short, on taking all things into considera.
ton, chain Of events impelling weak. headed
man to a state Of insanity productive Of crime.
This is their argument; and whether we
choose 10 agree with IL or not, there s no posi-.
BILE harm or crime in il.
We might 90 even farther, and say, IL the
Tribune and the press generally made a point
of denying the right TO take life the effect Of the
constan' assertion Of such statement would
materially influence the moral opinion thereon
and diminish the number Of such crimes.
IL is well authenticated fact, that public
executions have a most demoralizing effect; and
great step IN the right direction has been al.
ready taken, by diminishing the number of such
punishments, and by holding them at hours or al
places incouvenient for the general public.
IL is well authenticated fact, that crimes oI
violence have diminished with the din,inution Of
capital punishment. That tells something TO a
mas of sense.
Only imagine such an amilbe announcement
appearing in our papers, as This morning
seventy men, women, boys and girls, will be
hung at such place and hour--so many guilty
OF murder--so many for vagrancy--so many for
begging, horse or sheep stealing, pickpocketing
OF laziness," &c, &c. Yet such were the every
day acts Of the good old tines An order Of 1
magistrate was enough. And many good and
true men and women, accidentally taken by the
police, were strung up without ceremony, ant
before friends could interfere 10 save them.
The southern press., 1851-08-09

tag- An ingenious friend has favored us with
the following spcculations on the right to take
life" which we think will interest, If they do
not convince our readers. For our own part,
we agree with grim old THOMAS CARLYLE. in
deprecating that sympathy for scoundrels"
which is SO prominent feature Of modern phi
lnnthropy, and entertain not the shadow Of a
doubt as to the right and duty of society TO pro-
tect the lives and property of citizens by penal
enactments proportioning the punishment to the
offence:
The southern press., 1851-08-09

eW- Welay before our readers General OUR
MANS statement of his rencountre with Mr..
FoorE. II will be seen that II varies materially
from the published account Of his antagonist,
and the General has not thought it necessary TO
dun up certificates to fortify his veracity. His
account Of the transaction il very characteristic
brief, manly and decided
The southern press., 1851-08-09

a5g- AS an evidence of the feeling enter
tained in some parts Of the Southern country
towards the Cuban movement, we append the
following article from the Savannah Ne'os.
The Ne,cs is a neutral paper, and usually very
moderate in it's tone, and guarded in its Ian.
guage. 1t is also paper of considerable in
fluence and circulation in that city Its language
on this topic our readers viii observe is very
strong: