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TudeaeEdrEcp,

There is, perhaps, no one word which to an Ameri-
can calls up pleasing thoughts, delight
ful associations, than the Independence How
often has it been the fruitful of defamation to
the orator, and oft the poets theme No one can
contemplate without admiration the achievements of
fathers, when struggling against oppression for
that liberty which they transmitted to their children
Who has not felt the glow of patriotism warning the
heart, and mantling on the cheek, when calling this
happy land home
But much as we have gloried in the name, and much
has been said, truly Independent, while we
bow before the idol Fashion, and worship at her shrine
while health and happiness daily sacrificed up
on her altar Are free, while bound with worse
than iron chains to the revolving wheel of Fashions
gilded car to be whrlcd through her perpeXng abv-
rnths, expecting joy at every step, and finding nought
but disappointment in our path
Let then, the daughters of America arise, and exert
that influence which they allowed to possess
in driving from the land the tyrant who sways the
sceptre with untiring power. Let not the time be-
slowed upon by Heavenly Parent for the cult
walton of our higher powers, be spent in ornamentng
this frail tenement of clay, which must moulder
with its mother earh but rather strive bring on
ward to perfection the mind, that sparkling gem within
May emulation be to excel in proprety of dress
rather than in fashion; and, above all, NAV each en-
deavor to excel in knowledge and in virtue
Surely there duties enough devolving on each
one of us to fill the time allotted us on earth. To
watch beside the bed of the sick and dvinp-to dror
the tear of sympathy with those who mourn-to binC
up the broken heart and pour consolation into ever,
wounded bosom-to assist and encourage the friend
less wandered in returning to the path of rectitude
and point the mind by the eye of faith through ever
scene of JOY here, to a brighter world be
yond the tomb, where sorrows never come Thes
are the duties which should fill the mind and occup
the time-and these are woMANs DUTIEs-ths is he
appropriate sphere This course will weld us pleas
ure unalloyed, and will exceed, in pure and heart fel
Joy what Fashions votaries claim as far as the heaven
exceed the earth in glory.
'Let mind, that nobIer part. receive
Its proper culture at our hand;
And Virtues amaranthine flowers
Be scattered DER our happy land"
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WOid Kentnck."

A Kentuckian at the battle of New Orleans, dis
danng the restraint of soldiers lie when his name
is upon the muster-roll, preferred "gon it alone
alone hghtng on his own hook While the battle was
raging iercest and the shot flying thick as hail.
carrying death wherever they fell, "Kentuck' might
have been seen stationed under tall maple loading
and firing his rifle perfectly unconcerned as though
he WIS Pinkng in deer" Every time he brought his
rifle to his shoulder red-coat bit the dust At last
he happened to attract the attention of 'sOd Hickory
Pany, and rode up to him to bring him behind the
doubts, as he was in position that exposed his person
to the fire of the enemy.
"Halo! my man, what regiment do you belong to %
said the general
Regiment hip answered Kentuck; "hold on
yonders another of em - and bringing his shoot
ing iron to his shoulder he ran his eve along the bar
rel, flash followed; another Englishman came tumb.
ling to the ground
"Whose company do you belong to 7" again in.
quired the general.
Company the DIP was the reply Of Kentuck
as ne Dusled himself reoadng, that ar fellow with
the gold fxins on his coat and boss Jist watch ms
perforate him. ny
The general gazed in the direction indicated by hi.
rlne' and observed British Colonel riding up anc
down the advancing columns of the foe. Kentucl
pulled trigger and the gallant Brton followed his com
Panlons that his Kentuck foe had laid low in death tina
day.
"HWrah for old Kentuck 20 shouted the free fighter
as his victim came topping from his horses then turn
ing to the general, he continued: "I'm fighting on m,
nook own stranger" and he proceeded again to re
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Mobile and Ohio Railroad.

We have the qualification of announcing to o.
ders that the proposition for labor contract, =.
Mobile and Ohio Railroad in Tennessee filed Will M s
Hess, local agent of the Company, have been sc. y;
ed by the General Agent, Capt. Childe The cS,%
ton on which these propositions rested, viz ,5. ,
certain proportion Of the whole line in our State 5s
be taken) has been complied with. Letters rqese
by gentlemen in this place from Capt Chlde, J..s;
Springfield Mass, Jan. 18th, afford US this grafrs
intelligence, and further that he will be in Frs,ir
Williamson county, Tenn, by the 9Th Of FebT,-
and that the precise time for the letting of cont
in this State will be forwarded in a few DAYS ~
are in daily expectation of receiving this advert.
ment.
Thus will the enterprising contractors in West T..
nessee (who by their promptness and beratyips ,a,
ping forward to make up the deficiency of upward
100000, which was the obstacle in October 70 \.
commencement of the work in this REGION be- reFs
ed of all their doubts and anxieties We conr.n
late them, and wish them God-speed and full fat ~,
its on their undertakings, for they richly deseryq
West Tlnn Wl2
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Correspondence of the Mercury.
WASHINGTON, Fe

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 1858.
Severe sickness for days past has stopped this
correspondence, which is resumed under the same
disadvantage partially Nothing of much consequence
has been done in either House. The Senate has been
busted with matters pertaining to Mexico and the Pa
cifc Railroad chiefly, dropping the Monroe nterven-
ton doctrine for the nonce to be resumed convent
ence. Mr. MASON has brought forward his Tehuante-
pee resolutions, and enforced them by an elaborate
Speech reiteratng the views laid down in his previous
report, which Gt will be remembered) Col. BENTON
fred broadside into through the Intelligencer The
Chairman of Foreign Relations goes in strongly for
the enforcement of the Garay grant, the ground of
its involving the rights of American citizens, which
this Government is bound to protect. Originally he
seemed deslrous of making it beUi with Mexi-
CO, but the idea appears to be the annulment of
the stipuations of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hdalpo
as an offset. This is a tempting bait when it is re.
membered that the passage of that treaty was CAPT.
tai bunder, much regretted since by those who voted
for it, since under its provisions indemnity to the A.
mount of several millions for Indian depredations is
already due Mexico and the aggregate swelling eve
nv day. That treaty guarantees to Mexico security
against the savages the border; duty which would
take double the whole Regular Army of the United
States to perform partiay and good faith would seen
to require either its fulflment the indemnity. Bu
this Government never dreamed of being calico
to pay, and it is not probable Mexico will ever BIZ
in condition to enforce it. If attempted it would
only be another prodigious bonus bogus operation
surprising all previous Mexican Commissions There
fore, good faith would demand the repeal of that trea
ty, well of the Clayton Bulwer, both standing
much on the footing; in both honorable
Senators declare they were deceived into supporting
the measures through misdpprehenson of their rea
ntents and scope. But the garay grant stands on it
own footing, and should be decided solely on its owl
merits; and Of these merits candor compels your Cor
respondent to say, that Mr.. MAsoN's elaborate an,
able argument have not made much. Old Bullion Ger
tainy seems to have the best of the argument in tn
puyerising process to which he subjected that pape
claim. Col $780, who has, for some time past beel
dplomatisng in Mexico, to get grant for the Tehu
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BR1rIsn AND AMERICAN NEcor1Arroxs.-J

BR1TIsH AND AMERICAS NEGoTIATIoxs.-ItR
said the dispatches received at Washington from
the American Minister in England, propose that
joint commission shall be appointed for tie SCI.
Element of such mutual claims of American chi.
zens and British subjects upon these governments
respectively as have arisen since 1851 that SAID
commission shall consider and arrange the subject,
of reciprocal trade, the free navigation Of the $.
Lawrence and the ST. Johns, together with d..
partial throwing open of the American coastr
trade to provincial British vessels, { granting fl
this purpose American Registers land ;he mater
al extension of the list of American Manufacture,
and produce to pass free into the British province
1t is designed also that this commission shall de-
termine the Fishery question which her Majesty
Government is quite willing SHOULD p r@cea g.
basis very favorable TO this county. The rf.r
tiaton includes al, the affairs of Central An,Ics
but these are very properly to be committed 10
separate Convention.
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IMPORTANT Decision RELATIVE TO BEHEyoLEy7
SocIErrEs.-The Cayuga Lodge case. !. O. Of
some time pending in the Supreme Court Of NV
York, on demurrer, has been decided in favor Of
the plaintiffs on all the points involycdin the sscn
The principal point whether the courts viii
enforce the trust created by the constitutions ollie
order. The decision of the court sustained tie
position assumed by Cayuga Lodge, and o1e-
rules the demurrers nterposcd in behalf Of tie
members who withhold funds contributed or tie
object of bcnevoencc ana charity. IL is Therefore
an important decision not only 10 he order of ODD
Fellows, but to the Order OF Sons of Te. rcranec,
Free Masons, Marth Washington and o,!.,r char
table societies which arg not incorporated. /;
recognizes their constitutions, and maintains tia.
the courts will enforce the trusts which they ere,
ate
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The Slave Trade

Mrs. John Tyler replies with pointed :,
the subject of slavery, to 'the noble I.J Oquencso.
land" Hear her iauies Of F'%'
England not only permitted, but er,.
slave trade for period Of century snS Il.
a means of swelling her Golfers. Tho D . half
slave dealer on the shores of Africa was voice of ~
in her ears, because it was the music ~ perfect np
to the treasury, and all Merrie Enoi.nd god sod Il
Joy at the pleasant sound. The colonies ua1ced viii
ished the slave trade by the power of tbo At last s
great slave market in which England bsS ofd. n.
monopoly, was thus lost to her, and from enjoyed
she began to discover that there was sonoI: non
immoral in the traffic. Before the slave rae
stately argosy laden with treasure. The uP was
unhappy victims could not be heard oboyss 'oans
of the ocean soon after, faint CRY could Ie sure
borne on the winds from Afrca's coast az Se hea:
Parliament House resounds with the clanL;an nov Ii
chains and the cries of the victims. Of d
England, when she had the power to n-o,..-
PRODUCTION of negroes into the United Stats 'ha
stinately refused to do it; but now that sbe : '' d
of her authority, either to advise or dictate = PIN
and sheds tears, and complains of the Dipst;oo ag
wrong. The crocodile, good sisters Of F.. sd q
said to cry most piteously, but woe to the 5.Ia
traveller who is beguled by its tears uAAaP
We cannot consent that England shall n;.,
up with our concerns. When she mipbt Ia bsL neis
SO, she gave not relief We asked her for hove hove
she gave us a stone. The African under bo, 'aa !,
and by her laws became property. We desire PoA
trusion of advice as to our individual prono. 10
rights, at home or abroad. FNE
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For the Southern Standard.
MR. EDITOR ALLOW me, through the columns of
your valuable paper to suggest to the people of the
county, for their consideration the following ticket
For tie Senate, GEORGE H. YOUNG,
For the LO,Oer House, MOSES JORDAN,
THOS. /. SHARP,
WIN. BARKSDALE.
With the above names, as our standard bearers the
Democracy of old Lowndes need fear no defeat.
A VOTER.
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For The Southern Standard.

Mr.. EDITOR Il was very much pleased, with a
notice taken in the ISSUE before your last of
Unable fellow-citizen, HARDY STEVENS. In my opin-
ion, he is the man for Senatorial preferment With
him for candidate for the Senate, the Democracy
of old Lowndes, would roll up, of her old fashion
ed majorities. Hes emphatcally one of the people.
A aboring man. an honest mechanic and an industri-
and upright citizen. We always, however, go for
the nominee, out here
NITQpTN pTnCE
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"The InGdcl Mother"
BY FANNY FERN.

Can it be can you look back into the depths Of
those clear blue eyes, that seek yours in such eong
innocent trust you deck those dmpled limbs, so
"feariully and wonderfully made = can YOU watch
with him the first faint streak of light, that usher in
another happy day can you point out TO him the god
and purple sunset glory can you look upward with
him to the shining hos, place in his eager hand
the field flowers that bend their dewy eyes with CRATE
tul thanks, and never name sour Father!'
When at dead night youwatch beside his sick couch;
when you hush your every breath to listen to his pain
ed moan; when every gust of wind makes your cheek
grow pale; when you turn with trembling hand the
healing drops; when every tick of the clock seems
beating against your heart, when the little pald face
looks beseechng into yours, for the 'help YOU can
not give; oh where you turn the supphant eye
if you see not the "Great Physician I"
When health slowly returns when the eye brightens'
and the red colors lip and cheek; when the vacant
chair is again fled when the little feet again bu,
sy when loving arms in playful glee Irvine aroma
your neck; comes there from that womans heart o.
thine no burst of grateful thanks Him who notes
ven the sparrow's fall
| Suppose Death comes! You fold away the little
useless robest; you turn with filling eye from TOYS
and books and paths those little feet have tOd; you
feel ever the shadowy clasp of little hand yours
you turn heartslck from the happy mothers, who NUM-
Der no missing lamb from their focks; sunny nhs,
let, rosy cheek, or piping voice, gives your near
a death pang. You walk the busy street, and taln
49, ny when Hllle oua
calls Mother" Oh where your look for com.
fort, it you believe not that the "GoOd ShePheru
folds your lamb to His loving breast!
There is perfdy at your household hearth tne I9
are broken VOWS which you may not breath to lunaI
ear There is treachery repaid for trust ChlldhoOI
looks on with sad wonder you must 60 back~el va.
and cast the mantle of evasion the moral deil.
nifty. Whence shall strength come, to your sienGs,
shoulders to bear this heavy cross How silence y.
ready tempter's voice Where shall all those "aiI,
affections now be garnered upi OF not in Heaven
Oh ! you have no anchor no rudder or compass
your little bark is adrift at the mercy of every P
gale; the sea is dark and fearful; the pillows noun
tain high; the sky black with darkness, if you u'
from the Great Pilot Otipe Branch.
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REMOVAL.

NJ. KNAPP has removed his Jewery establishment the
building South side of Main Street heretofore occupied by Mr.
James Blair Drugstore, where he will be pleased
hie old and others who desire anything in hi
hnc See advertisement in another place.
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PITTsBuRG IRON TRADE.-Accounts from PtsOgs
represent the iron trade highly fourshng ap Ts
Pittsburg Gazette says that the stock of Alleghas
metal brought down by the late rise is nearly dsPoso
of, the balance on hand being held at an advance
firm, and that 400 tons ST. Charles sold in the sa.
part of the week at S44 per ton, six months and
facturers have all advanced the prices on bar HO er
will have to make still further advance on the man
ufacturcd article,
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NUBBIN RIDGE.
Judicial Decision.

friend has kindly furnished u.s. for publication the
following able opinion of our Vice Chancellor, the
Hon. HENRY DICKINSON. We beg all interested in
the important questions decided to read it carefully
1t is well worth reading and preserving. We are in
formed, that the in which this opinion was de-
lvered has been taken to the High Court of Errors
and Appeals.
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REMOVAL.

H. T. SHERRIIL has revoved his Daguerrean Gallery to
the upper Of A. hatchers Sor house. South side of
Main street Entrance door of Thatchcr's. See
advertisement
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LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. Is, 1853.
Niagara arrived. Cotton advanced an eighth
Weeks sales ffty-fve thousand; fair Orleans six and
three eighths. Speculation fourteen thousand OK
port FIVE thousand
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PosIrIvEs AND EATIvEs.A miser Is oisen
man-but railway collision, is closer. INV
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TEELGRAPHIC.
BY TUE NATIONAL rELEGRAPnrc LINE
FIRST DESPATCH.

Reported Expressly for the E" Southern Standard. :"
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n Ew FURNITURE wARE-ROOMs-Tb. subscribers
opened In the store recently occupied by MI VERIFY Penn
svtvsuis avenue
scted plain and Gothic furniture Of and handsome
would invite the attention Of those furnish
ns Having arrangements with the leading Manufacturers
supplied regularly and making our purchases for
retail the
h, il fNst Jutall WRIGHT CROSBY.
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nOM.T FORGET ! sNIDER, Jr.'s. Wine Dtsre, Phil
wines and Itquoss al reahDs
quality and cheap them early delivered = yoa house
Washington, free "Adamss srprs on dropping
noas BY natl OF telegraph. Dos'r ropssT
Ian A-d1
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W
be so good geosraphef as some other gsntemse-but
should he wiling have the resolution amsodsd 10 read
a. broadly ~ that TO serve general notice 10 oil the
kings and poteD,a,es OF the earth. that We have money
permit them 10 sell 10 anybody eee AN willing. II pat
rotism requires VIDE margin % that, to axrss 70 IT,
But not willing TO pick GU, Spain in this way What
has Spain DONE that she shosId be talked to In this
per IL il because she has got rich isisnd. and will not
defend with the zeal and ability thai Great Britain
wouldi wiling TO make this invidous selection
OF an individual IL notice 10 be served, when here
are 90 many other occasions for It all about us.
Besides sir, Spain old ally OF ours. old ths
revolution Spain furnished aid in that CREST struggle
by which our liberties were secured. Fsom the time OF
the treaty OF peace in 7S3 to the present time. the amcs
BILE relations existing between this country and Spain
have never been disturbed There has been conflict
no collision with her. And now, sis why turn around
10 our old frend-to her who . friend when we
needed q friend-why speak 70 that nation which has
faithfully performed all her treaty a,ipuations-wby
speak TO the nation which OF the fret TO vel
come TO the great family OF natons and 10 lend us
her treasure 10 aid in that conflict, and which has
ma ntained firm and nvioable friendship ever since
why. this time begin speak 10 her in this threaten
ing. this nsoest this tone OF superiority and
tell her she shall not do ss she peases with her
island iwhie Great Britain, with whom have crossed
arms twice-Grea britain, who has neglected 10 perform
her treaty stpulations with US, and il situated in refer
ence 10 10 in position that enables her to annoy us
dssues vastly greater than Spain could do. is omitted
am opposed to the resolution idedly opposed TO it,
unless il il made general II II shall be made general
and II The wisdom OF the Senate thinks that il 10 meet and
proper that the resolution should be then passed. and that
this notice should be served upon all mankind. will agree
10 II. With poviso that this time the resolution shall
nsver 10 oua~s and that we shall not BE- under the
nscessity Of renewing again but that all nations. for
Ill time 10 come. shall take notice that this s the only
uakss in which they dispose Of their colonies, or
eoy p9rt q them Blu! agprshend that the senator TO
iron Michigan, for whom | entertain none bat the
kndss fssngs and the mos profound respect, will not
50 . far
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friend OF ours--now longer in this body-a senator
iron MIsss.ippi tNr Footel-gave TO the word have
word say about the destiny OF tha country. about
which much has been said. The honorable senator
from Michigan qualities it, and says he will moi speak
OF manifest destiny but he says he don't want to ccum
scribe it, We want room there 10 hardly room enough for
us country too narrow. With the Atlantic
for wasn-basin, the domain 10 rather orcumscrbed for
such progressive people Sir, Dissent from
that sentiment do not think that our poGrsss should
be 10 getting territory, until We have improved what
we have got. do no think that our desires should be
TO get more people. until educate, refine, and improve
our own-aye, cir, unit, We give 10 thoss OF them who
homeless homes from the vest and immense territory
which we now possess. And ws don't want any more
territory Our business and our mission are ., home Its
to improve upon our advahtaKesi 10 advance 10
to elevate and ameliorse the condition OF mankind; 10
10 show lhs despos Of The Old World by The practical re
suite which TO follow from The experiment which
are making, that the institutions nnder which We live
those that most emlnsnily calculated TO advance
the highest interests o man, and subsssvs the great pur
poses OF social and civilized society. That 10 IT, II u
by the arts OF peace, by The multiplication OF oil
internal communication by railroads and canals by
mercs, by education by the general duaioh Of ntorma
ton, and BY all the msans which our abundant wealth
and power give Us, that we are doing what we can TO
demonstrate 10 the world that. lar a. the great puf'
poses OF the Creator may b understood in the creation
great experiment oil human probation, hArs are imood'sd
And here are eoAcenlFatsd the mosa avotaels ssscum
sancsA for thai experiment which tas world nas svss
seen,
And. sir while am up upon This Qssssion, lot ne en-
tpsas aanatoss TO considss The postion in whch - e
plaosd will take W The remark OF the honosaeas go
a,or and will ~ thai ws do live IN m spocn' saa