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From the South Car0iinian.
MT GA


We find the following paragraph in the Ma
tional Intelligencer:
"a South CAROLINA QUESTION. A letter
from Washington, published in the Charleston
Mercury speaking of the policy of South
Carolina taking part in the approaching Balti-
more Democratic convention, says: 'The State
has heretofore stood out against the system of
caucus nominations, as fraud upon the small
States and upon the Constitution This is not
so. The question does not concern us, nor do
we feel any particular interest in it; but AZ a
political fact it may not be impertinent in us to
inform our readers that South Carolina 'oas
represented in the Democratic conventions both
of 1874 and lS4S; in the first by Messrs.
Pickens and Elmore, and in the second by Gen.
Commander"
How the InhHigencer can put forth such a
statement we cannot well understand. 1t knows
that it is not statement Of fact. Messrs. Pick
ems and Elmore, in the convention of 1874,
after the nomination of Mr.. Polk for the Pres-
dency disclaimed being the authorized delegates
or representatives of South Carolina in that
body. In ls48 General Commander did take
his seat in the convention, but we thought that
his doing so had become such matter Of
notoriety that his position there was well un-
derstood by all parties. If we are not mistaken,
he was merely the representative of small
meeting held in Georgetown. When the Intelli
gencer Processes to state "politcal fact" it
ought to have some regard for truth in its
statement
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The Public Printing.

Just before the adjournment of the House on
Thursday, the chairman of the House Commit.
tee on Printing, thus stated the course the CON-
mittee would take:
Mr.. GORMAN | ask the gentleman from
Massachusetts, to allow me to make one remark
The House have given US directions in relation
to the public printing, and | now give notice
that we intend to execute strictly those direc-
tons, and if the House wants any of its printing
done promptly, it must give some other direc-
tons.
Mr. MASON. ! apprehend that the Clerk
can order what printing it is necessary to have
done until the committee come to some conclu-
sion.
Mr.. CARTIER. rise to question of order
desire to inquire if there is any motion before
the House?
Mr.. GORMAN. only wish to repeat what
have said, that the House have directed that
We shall let out this printing which the public
printer cannot execute after ten days advertise.
ment. Now, the public printer has not done
anything according to the contract, and give
notice that the committee will execute strictly
the directions of the House, whatever may be
the delay in procuring the printing necessary TO
be done from time to time.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-08

~M Mr.. HUNTERS recent speeches in the
Senate in relation to the Deficiency bill, have
added to his already high reputation as an orator
and statesman. His argument on the Col.
Inns line appropriation was most mastery
effort, and extorted the reluctant admiration of
those who could not concur in his conclusions
Mr.. BADGER, who was one of these. very grace.
fully and happily expressed the general verdict :
my friend from Virginia Mr.. HuErERl the
other day. took occasion to remark that he stood
almost alone upon this question most, if not
all, of those who had mingled in the debate
having taken part in support of the pending
amendment. But my friend from Virginia
should have remembered that if in number he is
Dut one, In force he is host. He stands
amongst us like Achilles upon the plains OF
Troy, driving whole battaons before him, and
requiring the concentrated energies of mighty
army to arrest his advance. Therefore, he mus,
not be surprised if, when he opposes, many OF
US should think it necessary that we should
support-well knowing that such is the weight
and force of his reasoning, the influence of his
position, the keen and skilful dexterty of his
logic, by which he is able always to make the
worse appear the better reason" it is absolutel,
necessary that we should summon up all GU,
powers 70 secure that success to this amend
ment which we believe its intrinsic merits re
Qnire"
Though many Of the great men of the las
generation have passed or are passing away, thu
country yet has some statesmen left competen
to fill their places, and among them none stant
higher than Mr. HUNTER.
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H We regret to announce the death OF
MATTHEW ST. CLAIR CLARKE, after protract-
ed illness. He died in this city on Wednesday
last. Mr.. CLARKE was the clerk Of tho Jynted
States House of Representatives during and
subsequent to the administration of j. O. Ap.
ANS. He was highly esteemed for his faithful.
ness - an officer, and for his many accomplish.
msnts ~ private citizen.
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THE PRESIDENCY.


The South cannot support General Scott, for
it is not the intention Of his friends to run him
with the expectation Of getting votes in the
South. 1t is said that but few, very few, cleo
toral votes of the South are cast for Wing
candidate, consequently he is selected emphati.
calIy as Northern candidate. And who could
they select better calculated to meet any extra
VACANT demand in his administration, than Gen
Scott? His election would be dangerous ex-
pertinent
The Democrats must select and nominate
some man who is true 10 the South and the
Constitution, or they cannot succeed with him.
The question arises, who ia the man
General Cass is not the man; he has been
tried and could not succeed His position was
not satisfactory upon the slavery question then,
and it i, less 80 now. He voted for all the
compromise measures, and the South will not
vote for any man who did so vote. They may
be willing to have the matter closed where the
compromise has left it, bat will never vote for
the man who has voted for the denominations in
that series of measures which admitted Califor-
MIA az a State, dismembered Texas at a cost of
$lO,OOO,OCO, and condtionally abolshes slavery
in the District of Columbia; and the sooner the
Cass men of the North learn that we will not
support General Cass, the better We cannot
we will not. The Democrats of the South will
unite on some Southern man with the Wings,
sooner than vote for General Cass
We can unite on Mr.. Buchanan, of Pennsyl-
vania, and no man ought to object to him. He
would make National and Constitutional Pre-.
sident, and we of the South now appeal to the
Democrats of the North to meet us and give us
candidate that we can support. They have
the majority but we ask them not TO force as 10
| The alternative of a sectional organization. Will
the Northern Democrats harken to this appeal
! from the South
| A DELEGATE TO THE BAIT CONVENTION.
| ALABAMA April 90, 1852.
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House whether they were TO obey the law OF the
instructions Of the Houss Ifthe lansy, The du1ias
of the committee were n IN end. and the eeqnait-
tee would be cempslIsd to wash their haa6e Of the
transaction. he thought i was sxsssnsly dosbt-
full whether the report could be printed by 6ouday
next
MIR. CLINGMAN hoped 10 zee The repost
placed in posto where he could cav something
upon it, though he did not mean 10 make any re-
ma, ks to-day.
statement, as he desired to correct an erroneous
impression which prevailed in the House fCries
OF " Order, ," "Order.']
Mr.. POLK hoped the gentleman would be al
lowed to print his speech. Laughter.
Mr. GORMAN demanded the pre- vious queslion
on the motion 70 postpone the report n Wednss-
day next.
The SPEAKER, in reply TO an INQUIRY. stated
that the effect OF this motion would be 10 bring
the House TO vote on the resolution reported by
the Committee on Printing.
Mr.. BROWN, of Mississippi, hoped the mo-
ton would be voted down.
Mr.; GORMAN hoped neither the gentlsnaan
from Mississippi nor the Speaker would make
speech, unless he too could be heard.
The SPEAKER called the gentleman from In
diana to order. The chair would try to keep
within bounds. ~ :,
The House then refused to second the demand
for the previous question-38 TO SO. .s,
The question being the motion to postpoce
the report until Monday next,
Mr.. BROWN, Of mississippi, gave notice tbst
at the proper time he would move the following
as substitute for the resolution Of the Commit
tee on Printing
Resolved. That the House of Representatives
have right TO direct the Committee on Printing
as to the manner in which they shall discharge
their duties in procuring the execution of the pub
lie printing and that it is the duty Of said COM
mittee to procure the printing to be done in the
manner pointed out by the House.
Mr.. STANLY hoped the gentleman would
add to his resolution the words "any law to
the contrary Notwithstanding
Mr.. BROWN. l shall do no such thing and
am prepared to show that my resolution is right.
The motion to postpone the report until We'd
nesday was then agreed to.
Mr.. McMULLEN moved that the House go
into committee on the homestead BILL
Mr.. SEYMOUR, Of Connecticut, moved that
the House 60 into committee on the private cal
endar.
The question berg first taken on the motion of
Mr. McMuLLEN, it was negatived.
PRIVATE BILLS
The motion Of Mr.. SEYMOUR was then agreed
to and the House went into Committee Of the
Whole on the private calendar, [Mr. STUART. Of
Michigan in the char] and proceeded to consid-
er the bill thereon.
The committee, after being in session upwards
OF an hour rose and reported thirteen bills to the
House with the recommendation that thew pass
The House then proceeded to the conside Grafton
of the bill for the relief Of the Raleigh and Gas
ton railroad company.
MIR. SEYMOUR, Of New York, moved to Law
the bill upon the table, which was lost-7O to II.
Pending further action on the bill
The House adjourned until Mon day.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-08

MISSISSIPPI, hpTi lOIh
| Messrs Editrs-As soon as you receive this
communication you will please change my pa
| per from -- to -.
And permit me here to say admire your
course, and hope you will not permit any con-
sideration whatever to cause you to leave your
position. You are our principal watchmen on
the walls to guard the rights of the South, and
YOU should not cease to expose the trickery OF
the Unionists, (so-called,) and the baseness OF
Northern Abolitionism-in other words, sound
your trumpet long and loud whenever you see
any evil specks or mists presenting themselves
in Abolition, or ESQ called) Union ranks; for !
consider the Union men (self-styled) the worst
enemies to our Southern slavery institutions
that our land contains, not excepting the worst
rabid Abolitionists in Yankeedom. Andas good
proof of my assertion, on our plantation in this
State, Miss, we actually had to have our SER
wants whipped to put down the impression crea.
ted by the self-styled Union men, headed by the
DIS Honorable H. s. Foote the most contempt
bic demagogue in the South. One old negro
got among a parcel of the servants in our
kitchen, aud we overheard him say to them,
Z" boys just lie toto and keep dark, this will soon
be free State the very man is elected for
President who have long time wanted. Gen.
Foote is now elected President and he will SGT
us all free He said he would do so, and he is our
friend. go in for Gen. Foote. " Just lie low
and keep dark
Oar negroes actually got so in the summer
(lasD that they quit work. They would stop the
mail boy on the road which passes near our
plantation, carrying horse mail, and ask him
for papers, and ask if Gen. Foote was elected.
Several of them boosted that they would obtain
their freedom from Gen. Foote before we got
out here from Virginia, and we would have to
hire them to pick out our cotton when we got
here We have near two hundred negroes on our
farms adjoining-and | consider that H. s.
Foote and his Union ESQ called) parties, have
done more to injure our slaves, than all the
Abotionists in the North; and when they will
If evcr) get the notions of freedom thus in
stilled into them. ont, 10 doubtful.
You can publish any portion of the above
you may think proper, if it will be of any ad
vantage to the South. 1t is all true in substance,
though not verbatim.
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Aspect Of Foreign Affairs.

The news by the Europa is favorable L
peace There is little chance, for the present
we think, of any movement of revolutionary
character. The governments are too strong for
the small party of fighting liberals, and the
masses are too discouraged and demoralized to
lend aid to their headstrong friends.
As regards France, the apathy displayed is
almost incredible, if we only consider what has
been done in that country in favor of liberty
But if we look farther into the sentiments Of
its people, we shall find shrewd calculation
that there is more to be gained by using Louis
Napoleon, and humoring his socialist and impe-
rial tendencies, than by trusting to The treach
erous or do-nothing policy of (so-called) repre-
sentative bodies.
France has tried all systems, and found them
equally wanting. Does it then matter much,
whether the former be republic or imperial, so
long as the actual business of the nation is
transacted? There is one act alone Of the
Prince Presidents rtign, which outweighs in i'm
portance to the French nation all and every
scheme of the republicans of ls4s. We alude
the relief of the agricultural interest.
1t is absurd to suppose that nations are to be
revolving at every moment for the mere gratif
cation of a few enthusiasts. They cannot afford
it. 1t isl question of the pocket quite as much
or more than of anything else. And if the
same end can be gained by backing up Louis
Napoleon, against Ledru Rolin, or Louis Blanc
against M. Theirs, the French are quite willing
to grant time for the trial.
We perceive that Fergus O'Conner the we'll
known leader of the English chartsts, is among
the passengers to this country.
His socialist experiments, it may be in the re-
collection of our readers, entirely failed-and the
honorable member was called upon in the House
Of Commons for explanations respecting the
disposal of the funds committed to his care
He cleared himself from all charges against him,
except that of having misled and ruined a mum
Der of enthusiasts Of his own stamp Mr.. Fergus
OConner has failed to discover the FL Dorad 0
of industrial prosperity and universal content
ment.
Austria lies quiet. Hungary, in chained tran
guilty. Mr.. Laws muskets are not yet re-
quired, and will certainly rust or go out OF
fashion, unless some new field can be found for
their employment. Can't Mr.. Laws friend pick
out some work for him more tangible, and more
profitable? We can easily imagine that the in.
vasion of Hungary has infinitely more romance
about it, and therefore more tempting, than the
invasion of Cuba, or Mexico, or st. Domingo
for Hungary has this attraction about tit is
farther of, and moreover, quite unget-at-able
Alderman Solomons still pursues with spirit
his claim to sit in the House of Commons. He
has appealed to high tribunal. though we fear
with little chance of success He has to con-
tend with the overwhelming influence of the
English bishops. Until these learn to practice
the pisty which they preach, we do not see
much chance for the spirited alderman.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-08

CAuoHr.-The potato spectators are wearing
long faces just now. in consequence of down
ward tendency in prices. In New York, the
market is completely slutted thousands Of bar
rels being piled upon the docks, and prices so
low that they cannot be sold at what they cost
here
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-08

Land warrants are more plenty and lower.
We quote 100 acres, $l20 Sl25; 80 acres,
1914 a sos; 40 acres, 1892 $S7-N y. Tri-
hume
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"ObsOIete Ideas"

The New York Times thus breaches up the
SEWARD doctrine of progress in the Wing party.
Every day now presents the curious spectacle
of coalitions between tho Wing and Democratic
partizans, whose principles are decidedly the
same.
The Times, in an article on platform making
says
"Within the last few years, the Wing party
has ceased to be n mere mill stone conservatism
hanging upon the popular neck, and dragging
down the national energies and has drawn life,
and vigor, and strength from new sympathies
with the wants and the struggles of the great
masses of the people. 1t is this development OF
its character which has given it success The
Wings elected their President in lS40 and in
lS48, because they represented the national in
stincts and the conscious sympathies of the
people, They carried along with them thou
sands, and tens of thousands, who had acted
with other parties-simply because they had
ceased their efforts to force obsolete ideas upon
an age which had grown beyond them In this
State, which led the van, the Wing party had
become more truly democratic-it had come to
represent more truly, and more practically, the
real rights, and interests, and sympathies of the
peoples than that party which had usurped the
name And 80 has it been in other States
and to that fact alone are its triumphs due"
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WASHINGTON CITY.


Mr.. ISRAEL E. JAMES, Of Philadelphia, Mr.
C. w. JAMES, of Cincinnati, and Mr.. HENRY M
LEWIS, of Montgomery, Alabama, and their as
sistsnts, are our only travelling agents for col
lactiOns,
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-08

a" The State printing in New York has
been given, as an act of;favor, to the Albany Al
las, the VAN buren, organ. The Evening Posi-,
another of the same school, thus rejoices over
the selection as an endorsement Of their doc.
trines Of "radical Democracy"
STATE PRINTING. secretary Of State
and comptroller Mt Albany, have disregarded all
the offers Of bonus affixed to the several pro.
posals for the publication of notices required
by law to be published in F" State paper" and
the proposals being otherwise upon the same
basis, they have awarded the publication to
Henry H. Van Dyck of the Albany Atlas. The
Democracy Of the whole State will rejoice in
seeing the advantage of having the Estate
Paper bestowed upon journal which has de-
served this mark of esteem from the hands of
the Democratic party, by faithful adherence to
the radical principles of the Democratic creed,
and Jealous efforts for the triumph of the uni
ted Democracy.
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LETTER FROM ALABAMA.

Messrs Edikors-I send you few lines
WHICH you may publish in the Southern Press
believe them to be the sentiment Of the South.
ern Democracy, Il mean large majority Of
them,) therefore think it we'll enough to let il
be made known
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-08
LETTER FROM MISSISSIPPI.

MISSISSIPPI, April 18th.
Messrs Editors-As soon as you receive THIS
communication you will please change my pa
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OUTS Respectfully.
ALEXANDER III. STEPHENS.
Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-11-05
LONDONMARKETS
THE ELECTION.

New YoRE, Nov. 4.
Orange CO., Pierce's majority 9s7.
MAINE-12S towns show Wing gains of $4,000
over the vote of 1850. Perce's majority will be
about 5000.
I'VE don't understand this, but it's precisely as
the dispatch reads.
SoUTn CARoLINA.-The Legislature met and cast
1856 votes for the Pierce electors. message was
received from the Governor relating to the deaths
of Clay and Webster, and appropriate resolutions
adopted, after which the Legislature adjourned.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 3.
MAnYLAND.-The entire State has been heard
from, except Charles and St. Mary's counties.
Perce's majority so far being $50, which will be
reduced by these counties GOO.
NoRrm CARoLINA.-Returns from several coun-
ties indicate gain for Pierce on last Gubernatorial
election, when the Democratic candidate was cleo
ted by over 5000. Cumberland county gives
Pierce II ma orty.
Sampson county 264 for Pierce, Richmond SCI
for Scott, Raleigh "a for Scott A Wing gam
since August of 25s.
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400 doz; mems and boys'
nalna lafa nf q car IN
New Fall Goods |!

TINES morning will commence opening our Fall stock
i OF Goods among which may be found the following:
DRESS SILKS
Very rich Brocadc At Silks, Plain black Gro De Rhine
Black q cold Pout lie Sole, Fancy CoOred Glaze,
Cod & blk Satin de Chine, SikTissues, Heavy and rich
Madame dc Rossi BrOcadcs : for fall wear,
entirely new, -ti Stewart Plaid Silks III en-
Gro dc Antique .a ~ tircly new designs.
French Muslin De LANES Plain and Figured
Mourning SILK and Wool MOnslin DE LANES.
French Chntzcs very beautiful.
Bombazincs Lupins make, extra. ...s5
Our assortment OF Fall Shawls is unequacd for elegance
and variety, consisting of ''tz-.''i.' 70 ''.a
Ermine fur Shawls, all colors .ti-ar a.rrs
Thibet Palm Sha,vls all colors E.l.- s1..-.. .s-.
Grape Shawls at prices, Embroidered and plain.
French Cashmere Shawls. sd o.
Bay State and French Plaid shawls.
TRIMMINGS, EMBRO1DERIES, sc.
Embroidered Flouncing in Swiss and Jaconet Msins.
Jaconet and Swiss Edgings and Inscrtings
Rich Trimmings in great variety, for dresses,
Trimming Buttons in new designs. Lf-FlH 80
Frlnges and LaCes in every width. at f..a (. rir
Wide Black and colored Velvet Ribbons.
Narrow a. do for Trimming.
Trimming Ribbons entirely style 1uL1 ~
sept3 O. w. HEISKELL d Co.
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THE BUSINESS MEN OF GAINESVILLE have resumed
the custom, according to agreement, OF closing
their stores at half past seven in the evening" from
the first inst to the first of May next. For the
sake of the clerks who desire, or should desire to
have opportunity during the long winter even
ings for mental improvement, we are almost DIS
posed to suggest revival of an effort for similar
arrangement among our business men, though 1t
once failed. The failure probably owing to
the want of united action among the clerks