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VOL. XVII.--NO. Is
The Case OF the Colored seamen.

A great deal of noise, and some indig.
nation, on a small scale, seems to be
generated by number of the anti.sla-
very Journal of the North, in relation to
the cases of imprisonment of foreign
colored sailors which now and then, take
place in Charleston, S. c., under the op.
Grafton Of law of that State. The re.
cent case of the imprisonment of a Por-
tuguese saior-a colored man, who had
been articled 10 British ship-has pro.
voked fresh outbreak of this small spe.
cies of indignation.
1t seems that Mr.. Mathews, the British
counsel at Charleston, has been engaged
for some time back in long series of
letters and correspondence with the au.
thorities Of South Carolina, relative to the
operation of this law. Mr.. Mathews, in
pursuing that plan of operations, has been
entering on diplomatic functions, and so
far went beyond the strict rights and pri.
vileges Of commercial international
agent. He was led into this error, we
believe, by the imbecility or timidity of
Mr.. Clayton, the Secretary Of State, and
Sir Henry Lyton Bulwer, the British
Minister at Washington, both of whom
wanted the courage to meet this question
positively and distinctly, and turned it
over contrary to all law and precedent,
to the local British Consul in South Car
olina. Mr.. Mathews had no authority,
under any sort of diplomatic usage, for
opening correspondence with the au.
thorities Of South Carolina on the subject
His recent appeal to the United States
Courts, however, in relation to the Portu-
guese sailor, is the proper course for him
to pursue, and it is very we'll that lie has
adopted it in the long run.
If there is anything contrary to the trea.
ties between the United States and Great
Britain in the law of South Carolina, the
United States Supreme Court is the pro.
per forum in which its illegality or JUS
tice can be ascertained. In our opinion,
the State of South Carolina has a perfect
right to pass such law, and to exclude
such seamen from landing on her shores,
come from what part of the world they
Ll a.
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A SAFE ExpER1MEST-Dr. Asllbel
Green OF Philadelphia, published in the
American some years since, the follow
ing account of his recovery from skepti-
cism, when young man;
To the Bible itself / determined to
make a final appeal. My Christian edu.
cation had already rendered Inc in
degree familiar with a large portion of
its contents; but on this l resolved to
place no dependence. | took up the
New Testament as if had never open.
ed it before; and with the single object
of looking out for the signatures of
Divinely inspired truth; and prayed as
well as half an infdel could pray, that
God, in whose existence and attributes
| believed, would help me to form a just
opinion of the truth or fallacy of that
book. Proceeding in this way, | had not
gone through the four Evangelists, till
all my skepticism left me, and to this
hour it his never returned. My mind, in
deed, has some times been harassed with
almost every species Of infdel, and even
atheistic suggestion; but have, at the
very time OF their occurrence, been
thoroughly convinced that they were
false and groundless. And
this, let me say, is in my opinion the best
way of bringing to satisfactory issue this
question of unavoidable and infinite i'm.
portance.
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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

Ny DEAR SIR: Your letter Of April
Both, containing your resignation "as
Senator in the Congress Of the United
States" was handed TO me by your son,
Col. R. D. Rhett, just as the Convention
had adjourned. A press Of business pre-
vented me from communicating with you
that evening, and the next morning re.
GREETED to learn that you. left Columbia
before | could see YOU on the subject.
I do not feel disposed, my dear sir, to
accept your resignation until have had
an opportunity Of requesting you to re.
consider the matter. do not consider
that the course of the Convention has
been such as to render you an "unft rep
resentative of the State" | am very far
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forth with grea. u".".... a.
pect to recent party divisions,) in the SOL
emn form of an "Ordinance," an embodi-
ment of the very principles which you, in
common with the State rights party OF
the State, for years have advocated.
| hope that you, upon reconsIdera'
tion of the subject, will withdraw your
resignation, and continue to occupy po'
sition which you have filled with ability
and fidelity.
I will take no action in the premises
until hear from you. An answer, how
ever, is requested at earliest convenience.
I am, dear sir, your obedient servant,
J. H. MEANS.
Hon. R. BARNwELL RnErT.
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'Poison9 do you hear?' thundered the
rontl, E,r;our1,

'FolSOn! 90 you near! tnunuereu the
youth furiously.
With shaking hand, Plumb's clerk
filed a phial and overrun the liquid on
his new inexpressibles, but not needing
this mishap he placed the significant poi.
som on the bottle, and standing on tip-toe
reached it over the top of the showcase
to his dangerous customer. Clutcbing it
fiercely the doomed young man hurled a
quarter at the clerk, and then hurried to
his lodgings.
When he reached his own room the
excitement had passed away, but it was
succeeded hy cold deliberation and de-
termination that was as absolutely blood
chilling as cold night in December.
Undressing he prepared for bed, and then
seizing the phial Of poison he drank its
contents unfalteriugly. Getting into bed
he aroused his chum, who had slept
through the whole of this terrible scene,
and babe him arise and call his parents
and also send for his false lady-love to
come and see him die. His request was
complied with. and soon his weeping pa.
rents arrived to bless their dying son.
While they were lamenting over him the
door opened, and Susan-the cruel, but
now repentaut object ofhis love-entered
the room. AS she approached the bed
side Of the expiring youth, he raised him.
self feebly up an said
Susan, for thee I dier and sunk back
helpless on his pillow.
Who shall paint the anguish, the agony
Of the lovely maiden? With the shrieks
that rent the air into shrcds aud drove the
ancient tabby from the room, she rushed
to her doomed lover aud implored his for.
giveness. She had called him every en-
dearing epithet, but alas, it was too late
too late! Fondly she embraced him
tenderly she parted the hair from his brow
and kissed his pale forehead. They were
reconcied while he was on the brink Of
eternity.
But the poison was at work within
he felt it coursing its burning way through
every vein. He was conscious that he
had but a few short moments to live,
when his chum, who had entered to bid
lim last farewell, inquired what he had
aiken. Perhaps their was an antidote.
--z9tEEgs5-no, 1ns-,r1s1er1S ute mllappy-vtc-
i'm f: 1T is too late to think OF renleureS
am almost gone. The bottle of poison
5 on the mantle; | do not know its name.
The chum seized the phia| ; he looked
It what remained of the fatal drausht-
lubiously he sighed, and extracting the
,ork applied it to his, olfactory proboscis:
Three long shifts took her aud the Phial
ell with crash from his almost palsied
,auds, while in tones Of wonder he ejacu-
atcd-
sCatnip, by thunder!
sWEati exclaimed the expiring lover,
springing bolt upright in bed.
Extract of catnip as sure as rain; you
arc not poisoned at all. .
With one bound the dying man gained
the middle of the room. His lady.love
fled in dismay at beholding him in his
scanty costume, and he, picking up the
fragments Of the phial, soon satisfied him.
self that it was indeed catnip that he had
swallowed.
The young lady was carried home on
a wheel barrow. aud the adoring lover
left in the last steamer for California.
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comes more frequently. Every year the
ratio of mortality steadily increases, and
at seventy, there are not thousand sur.
vivors. A scattered few live on to the
close of the century, and at the age of
one hundred and six the drama is ended.
The last man is dead.
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EDGEFIELD, S. c., MAY 20, 1852.

Never think that which you do for re.
ligion is time or money mispent.
Always go to meeting when you can.
Often think of death and your accoun-
liability to God.
Read over the above maxims at least
once week Sunday mighty
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They have got a new plan for the de-
molition of bed bugs in operation in
North Carolina. 1t is done by steam
cne wheel catches them by the nose, an
other draws their teeth, while a neat
piston rod punches arsenic down their
windpipe.
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REV. julius J. DrBosE.-The Oar.
lington Flag announces that this highly
esteemed citizen died on the 10th April
last, at the residence Of his brother, in
Darlington village. Mr., Dubose was
Presbyterian minister, and bid fair to be
useful and eminent; but from a disease of
the throat, was soon compelled to abandon
his labors in the pulpit. He was best
known in the State rs the able editor of
the Temperance Advocate, which, under
his administration, attained reputation
unequalled by any other temperance
journal Of that time. Since his retire.
ment from editorial life, he labored,
though afflicted with disease, in teaching
and preaching. "His death was calm
and happy"
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captains that certain classes OF people,
on entering the ports of South Carolina,
should be prevented from going ashore
there. But that State and every other
State, and the whole country, have per-
feet right to exclude-as police regu-
lation-every individual from whom trou.
BILE or agitation or sedition might be ex-
pected, and to prohibit them from enter
ing on their borders.-New York Herald.
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HOW is nation to grow -, = -.
ful9 Every one will answer--by cult.
waiting and making productive what nature
has given them. So long as their lands
remain uncultivated, no matter how rich
by nature, they are still no source of
wealth; but when they bestow labor upon
them, and begin to plow and sow the fer.
tile earth, they then become source of
profit. Now is it not precisely the same
case with the natural powers Of minds
So long as they remain uncultivated, are
they not valueless? Nature gives, it is
true, to the mind talent, but she does not
give learning or skill: just as she gives to
the soil fertility, but not wheat or corn.
In both cases, the labor of man must
make them productive. Now, this labor
applied to the mind is what we call edu.
cation: word derived from the Latin,
which means the educipg or bringing forth
the hidden powers of that to which it is
applied. In the same sense we use the
word cultivation; we say: cultivate the
mind" Just as we say cultivate the soil.
From all this we conclude that nation
has two natural sources Of wealth: one
the soil and the other the mind Of the
nation. So long as these remain unculti.
waited, they add little or nothing to wealth
or power. Agriculture makes the one
productive, education the other. Brought
under cultivation, the soil brings forth
wheat and corn and good grass, while the
weeds and briars and poisonous plants
are all rooted out: so mind, brought under
cultivation, brings forth skill and learning,
and sound knowledge, and good princi.
pies; while ignorance and prejudice, and
bad passions, and evil habits, which are
the weeds and briars and poisonous plants
of the mind, are rooted out and destroyed.
THE CHANCES OF LIFE.-Among the
interestings facts developed by the recent
census, are some in relation to the law
that governs life and death. They are
based upon returns from the State of
MARYLAND, and comparison with pre-
vious ones. The calculation it is un.
necessary to explain, but the result is a
table from which we gather the follow.
ing illustration:
lO,56S infants are born on the same
day and enter upon life simultaneously.
OF these, l,243 never reach the anniver.
sary Of their birth. 9,025 commence
the second year, but the proportion Of
deaths still continues so great, that at the
end Of the third only S,l3s, or about
four.ffths of the original.number survive.
But during the fourth year, the system
seems to acquire more strength, and the
number of deaths rapidly decreases. II
goes on decreasing until twenty.one, the
commencement of maturity and the
period OF highest health. 1874 enter
upon the activities and responsibilities OF
life-more than two.thirds of the origi
nal number. Thirty.6ve comes, the
meridian of manhood; $500 have reach.
ed it. Twenty years more, ,and the ranks
are thinned. Only 4.727. or less thar
half of those who entered life fifty-fve
years ago, arc left. And now deatl
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IN Dursu,.. ~ ..,a .sir,;t.,,ia .,,...a
the fearful breaches an angry controversy
had made in its heretofore solid phalanx.
In that spirit of courtesy and kindness,
which is the proud characteristic of our
people, the Convention acted. The past
was forgotten and forgiven, and the State
was united. Nor did this union involve
the slightest sacrifice Of those principles
which have ever been cherished as dear
amongst us. The sovereignty of the
State was as fully vindicated, as the SOL
emn ordinance OF the Convention of the
people could vindicate it. The wrongs
we had received from the Federal Gov.
ernment were acknowledged, and the
right of the State to use the remedy Of
secession, without let or 4" hindrance," !"
was fully declared.
The exercise of the right was pre-.
vented by expediency alone, and of that
expediency the State, as sovereign, has
right to judge.
must confess that the members Of the
Convention meeting together, just as we
had emerged from the most bitter and
angry controversy we have ever known,
and sacrificing all party feeling upon the
alter of their common country, exhibits
spectacle of the moral sublime, which,
as Carolinian, | cannot contemplate but
with the proudest emotions.
am sorry to inflct so long letter
upon you. / should not have said one
word on the subject Of your views as to
the action of the Convention, were it not
that silence on my part would have been
constructed into an acquiescence in them.
My only object is to express my dissent
on this point, and to endorse the action
of the Convention.
Your resignation is accepted, to take
date from to-day. Suffer me, in con-
cIusion, to express to you my high ap-
preciation of the distinguished services
YOU have rendered the State, and of the
bold and manly stand you have ever
maintained in defence of the down,trod'
den rights of the South.
Be assured, my dear sir, that you carry
into your retirement my ardent wishes Tor
your happiness and prosperity.
With high regard, am, dear sir, your
obedient servant. ). II. MEANS
10 Hon. r. B. RHETT.
TIE Washington CO. re- .,ondent, I'm
dependent" of the Philadelphia North
American writes:
1t may now be asserted, with entire
confidence that Gen. Scott, under no con-
dition Of circumstances, will change the
ground which he has occupied since his
name has been brought forward con.
spicuously in connection with the Presi,
dency, and will write no letter concern,
ing public questions unless the Wing
Convention should offer him nomina'
ton. This is understood to be the fnall.
ty of his position, as declared by his
most intimate and accredited friends, and
upon tho authority Of undoubted assur'
ances.
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bear uncomplainingly;ibound to agonies
moment by moment; bound, perhaps, to
hunger and vice; bound to a master who
knows not the meaning of the word
mercy.
Still art thou boundfto humanity, poor
little bound boy, and 5He who sees the
end from the beginning, has bound thee
to Himself by ties that the world may
tarnish but not break. for the suffering
have a father and a consoler in Jesus
Christ.
TIE UNeRATEruLs sSoN.-"T The eye
that mocketh at his father, the ravens of
the valley shall pick + out" Prov. 80,
II. This is terrible dsnunciation against
ingratitude to parentss and even in the
present day is sometimes virtually full
filed.
"Some years ago, ah eIrish gentleman,
who was an extensive contractor on our
public works, was reduced to poverty by
the profigacy and dishonesty of an un-
grateful son. The Oldham lost his wife,
and to add to his calalhity, his health fail.
ed; and, to fill The cuIof his sorrow, he
lost his sight. ThusS poor, friendless,
blind and forsaken, ls found an asylum
in the Franklin County slms.house, Penn
sylvania.
While an inmateaof this refuge for
the afflicted his wicked and ungrateful
son travelled that wayne was informed of
his fathers situation, and that his parent
wished to see him; ana although he pass.
ed within two hundredyards Of the aims
house, he refused tostbp and see the kind
father he had ruineds Now mark the
result. The vers9day he passed the
alms.house on his way to Gettysburg, in
an open carriage, he,Was overtaken by
storm and took a seyere cold which result
ed in the destructionf of his eyes. He
lay in Gettysburg iuh critical situation
until his funds were exhausted, and those
who had him in charge took him to the
Franklin County Almsshouse.
"The very day hes9as brought in, his
father, having died TIE day before, was
c., '----..t--nut in the same
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-01

and Progress we need the MAINE LAW m
this State and in all the States, Maine only
excepted. Shahwe not resolve and strive
that the year now opening shall witness its
cossummation in this and all the Free
States if possible!
Lovers of Humanity hopers for the
good time coming we must steadily, IN
tiringly WORK. Good comes by effort and
blessings are secured by Labor. This Is
the day for determination, for high re-
solves, which the following months shall
see carried into execution. To-day reminds
US that years pass rapidly away-that OP.
portunities once lost are rarely recovered
that
- Life is heeting,
And our hearts though stout and brave,
STILL, like mufled drums, are beating
Funeral marches TO the grave
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NETWORK TRIBUNE.
NEw-YORK. THURSDAY. JAN. l. 1852.


Kossuth was introduced to the President
at the White House yesterday, by Secre-
tary Webster and Senators Seward and
Shields. Previous to his visit to Mr.. Fill
more the members of the Cabiaet and a
large number of Congressman paid their
respects to the Magyar at his hotel.
Preparations for Congressional Banquet
in his honor are going forward. He has
declared his intention of remaining in
Washington about one week.
The Senate was not in Session yesterday.
The House spent the day in violent talk
ing in reference % the reception of Kos
suth. Some members resorted to various
tricks of Parliamentary iegerdemain to
prevent action some made fourishing
speeches to explain why they should vote
for the reception ; some were violently OPP
posed to giving the great Hungarian
any reception at all unless accompanied by
an insulting prOviso, and many men inclined
to dodge. The House, after a second
days disgraceful wrangle, finally adjourned
to Friday without taking any action on a
matter which might and should have been
disposed Of in ten minutes. Gentlemen
Representatives, the People are watching
you.
The French Minister at Washington
called at the State Department yesterday
to announce officially the recent despotic
change in the Government of France.
The awards of the Canal Contracts at
Albany have been made public, but the list
has not yet reached us.
Serious fears of disastrous freshet in
the Hudson River were entertained at Al
bany last evening. At Troy the ice was
broken up and the river rapidly rising.
We publish this morning the details of
another disastrous fire at Philadelphia.
On the Sixth Page will be found brief
record of the most important events of the
year Just closed, and on the Seventh an In
teresting table in regard to Emigration at
this port for 1851.
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Things I'm Philadelphia.
Of The N. v. Tribune.


PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, Dec. 81, 1851
Samuel +. Smith, Esq, President Of the
Philadelphia Bank, has resigned his situation, after
having served upward OF eleven years, with credit
and honor to himself
Our citizens are adopting measures to relieve the
necessities OF the family OF Mr. Baker, the police
man who was killed at the disastrous fire on Satur
day morning last. The family are in destitute cir
cumstances, and worthy of benevolent action IN
their behalf
10 arrive at this port from Liverpool. She sails
again for the latter port on the sth proximo.
The funeral of the remains OF the unfortunate MIR.
Haley and Mr. Baker took place non the United
States Hotel this morning. They were buried AZ
St Johns Roman Catholic Church, IN Tnirteenth-st.
The coftege was large and impressive in the extreme.
The sword voted to Brovet Brigader General
Bennett Riley of the United States Army, by the State
of Missouri for gallant services on the Western
frontier will be presented to that distinguished and
veteran officer, on Monday next at Independence
Hall The ceremonies viii doubtless be Of the most
interesting description
A heavy rain Is falling this afternoon Streets
shocking shocking shocking
The COrroS MARKETS dun, and prices rather dropping
There has been but little business done IN any
ci,ron The FLOUR parke, very quiet and the sales are
confined to small lots for ihe supply of The trade 81 1oS
and fancy Nsw-YorE and Ohio at higher prices In RVS
FLOUR and CORN MEAL, nothing doug. We quote the
former So So and the latter al 50 Dbl There Is but
little WHEAT offering Further sales OF Red have been
made al Ole. bush, which advance White 10 worth
81. RYE wanted at 12c. The markets. bare OF CORN
small sales of Pennsylvania at sac bush WHISKY Is
drp. Sales Of bbl' at $780, and tsds At sls2sci ..
psaa ssocs s'a1 s'S.sC' 'ya
Union Canal, iat 100 do. l2i $50 Long Island T. =
5000 Reading h T. ss 10 10! $500 u s. Ss lilo
S,cosS ssa,d~,Oo Reading R, sss 100 North Amer
ssns oss $500 nsSe H ss Os Penn $1,000
State So. VI; ias do. sel, sa,eee Tenn SIS. 50.