The New York Herald Newspaper, May 16, 1851, Page 3

INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE. Our Washington Correspondence. Wasntnaron, May 14, 1851. The Crescent City Expetition—The Florida Claim— Opinion of the Attorney General, §¢., §c- Tn the telographic despatch of Monday, contra- dicting the report ofthe chartering of a steamer, I only intended to deny that any had been chartered “to cruise along the Southern coast,” or that it had reference to the Cuba or Southern Carolina move- ments. The whole foundation of the matter was an inquiry by the Quartermaster’s Department, as to whether a vessel eould bo procured, if needed, to convey some troops, at present stationed near New York, to other posts; but it being afterwards de- cided not 40 make tho transfer, the matter was dropped. As for Cuba, South Carolina, or the Mexican boundary, they had not the most remote ‘connection with those circumstances. much has been written about the Florida laim cases, now prosecuting before the ‘Treasury Departinent, and so little truth has been elicited i he inquiry, that a briet statement of the facts, if jnot important, on ay other account, will, at all events, be interesting for their novelty. They have been rc prosented 4s involving the came principle as in the “ Galphin case ;” but such is not the fact. he Galphin case was the payment of interest on claim for debt, the amount of which had been as- | certained, and afterwards interest allowed till it was Florida claims are under the treaty exe- ith Spain in 1819, in which the United States bound itself to cauge satisfaction to be made for in- juries, ifany, which, ‘by process of law, shall have been established to bave been suffered by the Spanish ofliccys, and individual Spanish inhabitants, . 5 sisi lawyer in by the lato operations of the American army in and Di Plgae Loengialaboglh MY chen 'y Bt ida.” The claim: hat, in as Fi souri. He was among the first of the emigrants i claimante ask that, in ascertaining | yi) eft the United States for California, in 1835, their losses, a certain amount of interest, by way of ¢ aimages, shall be allowed ‘This, it appears, has fiways been allowed, and the recent awards of the exicaa Commiesioners are an instance gen in point. Jt will at once be seen that the allow- nee of damages” in the shape of “ interest } very different matter from the ascertainment, as | [ in the (ialphin case, of the indebtedness of the g rernment, and then adding interest to it—then, in | jact, allowing intcrest wi interest. The opinion of the Attorney General, alread: nade up but not yet promulged, is, it is said, hat the ascertainment of the amount due the llaimants “by process of law,” ion of the Tlorida federal cour: Prritorial courts of Florida not having been a sufti ient tribunal, it is necessary either that the cases ould go back to the federal court thero, or that bey should be eubmitted for the action of Congress. large nuinber of the cases have been decided hvorabiy upon by the territorial courts, before lorida was admitted as @ State; but the Attorney eneral is of opinion that such tribunals were not binpetent courts. It appears to -be merely a question of time, the ight under the treaty to elaim damages or ‘‘inter- t” not being doubted or denied. t mere bag of wind. he wonderful discovery of a | erct plot between Governor Johnston and the | resident, by which Scott is to be headed, &c., is a | t jore fantasy, laughed at on all sides here. ‘That nator Cooper and his friends are bitterly opposed Lewis, is beyond doubt; but that the whig party hil the administration are all to go to the devil be- use of the Philadelphia collectorship, is a small | 1 it of heunbug. Who cares a straw about Lewis | ¢, lis enemies, out of the city of “brotherly love.” | You have been misinformed as to Postmastor bneral Hall’s affinities for Seward. far from ing his friend, it is a master notorious here, that | ir. Tull curries his dislike to Seward even to per- | nal hostility. He is decidedly snd b abt the most anti-Seward man in the cabinet. uvderstand that the Assistant Secretary of the awsury, Mr. Hodge, will leave here for > 1k ard Boston to-morrow, w sted with the De ment, Mr. Corwin having nimed yesterday the duties of his office. Our Southern Correspond. New Onugans. May 5, 1851. € Mvrder—Neavs from Tampico—The Collector of | Mck:tevey, Gc. $c. ‘here is no doubt of the fact that the real ocenr- oes of lifeofien exceed the wildest inventions o! imagiaation. It is only because tho secret acts men so seldom become exposed, that we are tled ut times by the developemont of transac- | ns which frequently disclose circumstances of the iclul tribunals that we are indebted for , nging to light the darkest and most romant: ds (hat have ever been recorded. sl mentioned in my letter of yesterday, a suit ¢ on fer trial, last week, in one of our courts, attending cireumstances of which are of the most resting and singular character. It appears that é Wise, the wife of Alphonse Stagni, an Italian, ght an action against tho ostate of the Count ky, whom ehe claims to have purchased from | © Vrancvise Cournant, a free woman of color, even bundred dollgrs, and exhibited an act of |, assed before a notary, confirming the samo. pe and heirs of the estate resist the ac- | be ground that the act of sale was a fraud ted between the plaintiff and the deceased, | it is averred, lived in concubinage together, | that rhe had no means, or income, whatever, | rewith to purehuse theslave. They also except} » the plaintiff's right of action, on the ground ehe wae not fice, The case was first tried on | psception; and a witness by the naroe of Mar- | it Wise, © quadroon, was introduced by tho pila nts ated that eho was a half sister of t hat they were both born of one mo- county, Missouri, who was # light da slave ot the timc; that the wit- iff were bronght to this country when | and sold to the Coant de Gaalon. It ho witness was not free, and in- and the Coart held that as forth in the excepti was a colored woman, it was pr » white woinaa until the oor re showa; and the exeeptioa was over- case then proceeded on the merits. util appeared in court with her husband, ulabont a yearold. She is a very a white ‘woman, with blue eyes. a nd ab ghieon yeurs old: She was born of German parents, in her father and mother died when yg, aod thata friend of her father's issouri, and loft her in charge of a woman, who brought her ap. It aj ¢ testimony, that when the plaintiff leven years of age, she was brought to city with the quadroon girl Margaret, by » nat ck Martin, who co'd the quadroon alon The latter, on s« wl who she wes, iroon, | ing the orp in bis alon was absent ben the plaintiff! attained ber » alon seduced her, and bad # During thivtime, Matame ¢ and wus living in the same house The plaintiff was treat and they took their meals to- ule. When her child was born, th May, 1899, De Canton, bad Las tho hatural isene of Eliza | nay th ated, was a free woman of colc dw itted to the Recorder that it was his own 1% Ganlam, at this time, was between sixty care ofare. Afterwards, in 1859, hi the plaintiff’e present husband to marry epresonting lier aa his ward, whom he h htiup. In of that year, he ma 10 of the courts to be appointed cur . for the purpose of assisting his ward, « minor, " go with her present hushand, and wae afterwards duly solemnized. anold free quadroon womaa, about 9 red that she sobd tiff, and that De Hn paid ber for Uhe . ‘The witness waa no eprecatetion of leg Merriles’—her oyes still bright, and had # wildlook. She was enhietory of the wd the acts of De i) | and for hours in tho air, they will sail round in a cir- cle, without any pereeptible motion cithor of wings or tail. ve fn 4 n hie will, had made epe- ff, aod his natural ebitt | . Shiv, tt was considered by the defendant’ | 1, wns enfiielent to ehow that the deed of sale | had been made in fracd of the rights | and was, therefe , null and void. nti wegucd that the rea. on never we the plains vendor. Aad ing that the ( for the p peo that it wesa done belies, That if Gaalon wlking, inaewit te recover the slave, be net Le permitted to chow that he furnisved e her. ‘The mystery of the girl's birth is tery ; Vat there is nyt a doubt Wut that che was ner of Circus and Common streets. drunken frolic at @ coffee house. name of McCord killed James perney o and bed Patrick Farrel in the back with a fact is, the police of the Second Municipality is worse than none. that it is becoming dangerou; to walk the streets at night without betas armed. we have sunshine and br: us dates up to the 26th ult. There had been a bull fight at Tampico, at which it was advertised that two bulls were to be killed; but the manager contented himself with simply wounding a couple of them, present retired performanee which was a di must have cans are improving in their tastes, and advancing towards civilization. the lower house, establishin Alacranes. another resolut who took pee in the revolution in Guanajuato, un- der Gen. tion to all soldiers who have been rendered inca- be a lon; Customs at Monterey, California, has arrived from Washington, and leaves to-morrow in tho steamer for Vera Cruz. Col. Ruseel i and wi ‘This is his fifth trip across Mexico, from the Atlan- tie to tho Pacific by his beautiful and accomplished yout who will cross the country with her fat b undertaking for a young girl. They go from Vera Acapulco, and then take the steamer. President’s proclamation, which sty jes them plun- derers and robbers. and love of freedom deserve a better name, and claim to put themselves on a par with Lafayette, Pulaski, and others. assist any people in throwing off the shackles of pendence. A Miscellancous Epistl—Carolina Peculiarities— northerly latitudes will see many curious and re- The great fuss with regard to Collector Lewis is | markable things. has failed to observe it—that from Baltimore, by down even to Florida, the coast country is flat, bar- ren, monotonous, sparsely inhabited, lonesome—a continuous succession of old fields and pine barrens. rice, which contribute som chant princes of New York, and sterile is the long distance he has travelled, so population, resources or improvement. nately, through Virginia and North Carolina, the Southern Centra! Railroad runs through the districts; and stil) more unfortunately, at the low A | speed of ten or twelve miles to the hour, Aad the mn business con- | evidences of neglect and decay, through these old- settled and wasted lands, are easily accounted for. Virginia and the Carolinas, f have been engaged in by South-west. old ones of the’ unee in Roal Life—-Singwar Tria!—Another | population, and there has been no foreign immigra- tion to fill the vacuum. But the tide is turning. The census of 1850 exhibits it, and the census of 1860, if the Union holds together, will show a tre- mendous gain in the Southern States over the gain and commercial resources, developed and developing. B track with the ‘apparent satiquity of the eity--its st extraordinary and mysterious nature. It ix | Seshions of many of the old buildings, the elaborate gingerbread work on some of the ancient public edificee, and with tho number, massivencss, and be gratified with the cleanliness of tho streets, the politeness will be disappe ladies from the he will bo somewhat enli; in the number of pri | street, in which the fair denizens of Charleston go out shopping. s, able, but it would doubtloss be better for the health lon, fur the possession of a female slave, named of the Charleston belles and ride los. however, not to be disregurdod; and we mact yield the point to the climate, everythi the United *t « Ciaaton had even | hase of the slave, | Cy . cortiinly of a very extraordinary na | The Court took the case Another murder took place last n’gt at the cor- ‘t occurred in a A maa by the a Tho nif. We are so infested with villains ‘The weather cleared wy gesterday afternoon, and it skies once more. ‘We have a late asrivel’ from Tampico, bringing The local news is entirely without interest. nd the few spectators in disgust in the very middle of a T Defensor de Tampico says acle. The performance ingly bad, or elge the Mexi- igreaahlo ON OX CO ‘The Mexican Senate has approved a resolution of a lighthouse on the ‘The same body has also approved n, granting an amnesty to those aredes. A decree has just been passed, granting a dona- ble of work by wounds received in the war against United States, as well a3 those disabled in de- rence of the established government. There must list of them. Wm. H. Russel, the Collector of the here Colonel Kentuckian, Sceretury of State under Col, Colonel Russel is accompanied daughter, r—a bold “ruz to the city of Mexico, and from thence to The filibusteros are highly indignant at the They think their patriotism Chardly think it a crime to yranny, and to obtain for them freedom and inde- Orpuevs. Cuarreston, 8. C., April 29, 1851. Charleston and the Charleston Market— Vultures for scavengers—Rain Water—The Coast Cown- try— The lave Population, &c. “ Away down in Carolina,” a visiter from more Ile will observe—no traveller he overland routo, down into the heart of Georgia, le will wonder where the population is picked up or the census; where all the tobacco, cotton and ‘h to enrich the mer- js cultivated—so dreary lestitute of any satisfactory evidences of wealth, Unfortu- rest the last fifty years, ng up the West and » new States have drained these most vigorous and enterprising f the Northern, in population, capital, agriewtural aa we were about tosay, “away down ia »” a Northerner will see many remarkable To begin with Charleston; he will be | uaint, sharp, four-sided tiled roof-—the antique astefulness of tho abounding churches. He will of the peoplo, white and black, but he nted in the comparative absence of idewalks. About noon, however, htened upon this score » carriages along King This fachion may be very agrec- they would walk more The climate aay be an obstacle, ! Among the curiosities of Charleston is th citadel, built in the nullification times of 1832, revolutionary purposes, and, since, converted to poses of military education. And the railroad tion is a curiosity, from its oxtent, and t number of locomotives, cara, railroad iron, a ruins of old locomotives, that « | for the extent of halfa mile. This w the great de- pot of the great inland artery to Columbia, a branch of which is being pushed forward to Nash Q rapidly possibie, and which, when completed to | that point, will bring a lurge trade to Charles ion, from Kentuck aur anon tree Missouri, in hemp, hoger, corn, and eattlo, q jut the grewtest novelty of Charleston ia Citadel, nor the Depot, nor the | neither the Pattery, which they are reclaiming fiom the sea.and xing up after the fashion of the New York bit. y } nor the piles of cotton upon the wharves, nor the multitudes of well-behaved negroes upon the nor the quaint old buildings: but it is the ket- house marketing, marketers, | pxtend in down the of a wide street in hall-adozen squares, terminating at the wator side | in the fish Niet. Negro slaves do the relling of e butehers, the eh ar ec lors in provisions | i ness and ovder de the duty with Iness, that result ket of Charleston we rderly stomed to hogs vnd degs and market scavengers, will be struck with it this es-ential busine ned buzzards, or rather black vul- yard fowls, and protected by re they ingleaning up unbles. They ran | with a pe sort of canter ; bu they are qnick and graceful upon their broad wings, On cool mornings, they may be so in clusters upon the chimney tops, in t rhood of the market, warming themselves ‘They are an unclean b rd, but they | rk of the garbage ; and we suppose | avengers may be classified as one of the ** peculiar institutions” of Charleston. But it is a drawback to the city, that it should be dependent on the chonds and on cisterns for the water which supplies the wants of itv forty thousand ation. If the Artesian well frila, and the era of improvemont rots in as expected, there will be no alternative but to bring a supply of water from some of the rivers of the upper counter; It eannot be otherwise, than that mueh of this ern water must become unwholesome in the dog days, and thus incidentally or directly contribute to its 4 of mortality. Just now, we have no doubt, from the offic eports, that Charleston will compa i y in the Union for health. the e'sterne are full of froth water ! yapors from the sacrounding nel stagnatiog flate have n through the air. Wut it is Us region of swamps gun to diffuse the ‘The const h Carolina from the terminus of the nk Hilly near Sandy Hook, Rio Grande, all the way down the + and the flat cot the con gradual! regier on a sh V f | Curolina, wre the tice esuntrp flat, ewampy, vals } Jeet to orerdow, and recking Vth peatil in this region that the fovest trees, espe Hive oaks, a¢ we have here-ofore remarked, covercd with # specios of long Mowing moss, giving Aer @ moet grag and scpulehral aspect, deadly, gloomy, ghostly, and, indeed, ghastly. They indi- cate a sickl; Touality, truly as a stagnant swamp indicates chills and fevers. The rice count abounds with these emblems of the rave-yard. And yet the slave population get fat and live to a good old age, engaged in the rico culture, and ex- pose themselves to the heat, in the water, and to the deadly night air, Ly comparative iapanity, In this rice culture, whites, Americans, English, Duteh or Irish, Cn jally the latter, would die, a3 by the cholera. To some extent, the same may be said of the cotton culture. Ilonce the tanacity of South Carolina to the institution of slavery. ‘Her greet staples are only to be successfully produced y the black man—his constitution 's alapted to heat, and the air of a hot swampy country; and the white man cannot be acclimated to them, and the labor of the rice and cotton crops, or all experince in this ebapter is at fault. But to escape further discussion of the negro ques- tion we ask leave to close with the single rem ark, that an impartial, honest-minded Northern man, coming into South Carolina, and observing fora few days or weeks the extent of her connection with the i stitution of slavery, its adaptation to her soil, cli- mate, and products, and the dependence of her social existence upon the preservation of this insti- tution, will homeward return with something added to that spirit of patriotism enjoined by the federal constitution—that spirit of forbearance, liberalit and christianity, upon which this Union is founded, under which alone this Union can be preserved, and without which it isa mockery, ant a terror, pay a despotism A Ps eut. Adams and Lieut. Edwards, Third Artillery, stationed at I’ort Moultrie, had a hostile meeting yesterday, at Sullivan’s Island. After an exchange of shots, by which Edwards was slight; wounded in the back, the difficulty was reconcile We understand that ‘the day previously Edwards had been cuned by Adama, and hence the immedi- ate provocation to the challenge. A lady, we be- lieve, was at the bottom of the misunderstanding, ag usual, Cuantesten Horn, 8. C., May 11, 1851. The Late Convention—Present Altitude of South Carolina, the People and the S.ate—New Move ments of Vast Importance in the South—Incrpli- cable Covadition of the Presidential Question—Mis- cdlaneous Affairs—The Journey South— Hotels, ec. Revolutions ure seldom retrogressive. A long series of persecutions and oppression, through a lapse of many years, and in earlier times, through a tupse of agee, havo been required to bring a suf- fering people to the practical issue of rovolution. But then a return to the old state of things, except by force of arms, is almost hopeless. Aud where a Jong period is passed in effecting the estrangement between a people and a government, the rupture, when effected, is only the more radical and difficult of accommodation. South Carolina is in this position. Her foelings are allcnated from the Union. If history be true, there was not evenan approximation among the colonics against Great Britain, in 1776, to that unanimity which now exists in South Carolina againet the federal government and their conneo- tion with that overwhelming and overbearing Northern majority which controls it. Heretofore, fora long period, disunion was held up 7” terrorum over the heads of the North, as the last desperate alternative. It bas been considered, the con-equences cstimated, the costs counted, and the result is, that between peace in the Union, and @l the hazards ofa dissolution, if the question were submitted to the people of South Carolina to-mor- ! row morning, at least three-fourths of them, we venture the mortifying confeseion, would vote for the dissolution of the Union. In co-operation, or alone, the breaking up of this Union has become the settled policy of the State. The conservative clements of the Union are de- etroyed, and the anti-slavery sentiment ofthe North, the ine: orth, and the extend- ing sectional spirit to exercise this power against the weaker scetion, impe! South Carolina to escape from a connection which can only terminate in her ruin, from the destruction of her social system. is tolerably safe to aseume, that in a vast com- munity, composed, for example, of two geographi- cal sections, the laws, usages, customs, institutions and sentiments, of the stronger section, will natu- rally tend to absorb and supercede tho social, po- i and religious institutions of the weaker see- tion. It would also seem to be anatural conclusion that the weaker scetion, to exeape the absorption, must quit the copartnership, and assume to itself that mplete sovereignty, without which, it cannot be ure. These views, we suspect, are good and South Carolina algtractions; and while the Un and its tendene:es to Northern absorption and fede- tal consolidation, has ceased to be venerated, no- thing, we apprehend, short of a Southern confode- racy, or separate secession, will avail to satisfy this commonwealth. The people of South Carolina are & homoge- neous poople ; peculiarly so. A majority of the population are slaves—a large proportion of the whites aro slaveowners. ‘The wants ef the plan- tation, not supplied by the slaves upon it, have heretofore been supplied by foreign or Ly Northern importations. ‘Thus, home manufactures bave been excluded—there has been litle or no white immi- gration to the State, and comparatively very little emigration from it. So that, in the midst of the surrounding rush, hurry, enterprise. * confusion,” in other parts of the Union, South Care 8 the same, atteched to ber anciout traditions, usages, and eustoms, consistent and con- servative, opposed of all things to violont ¢is- twhanee, yet full of martial spirit, and ready for f revolution, in order to avert North with all the appliances ic ineurrection. » people, so situated, and thus edu- readily account for their continaed fate adjustment of Mr. Ge. sto get out of the cated, we ma) indignation at the and thoir very manifest de Union, Wo have remarked alveady upon the sip *pivit of ananimity of the late convention; repeat that wth the Legislature, the regular State Convention, and the mazes of the people, of the same wuterials, it is difficult to count upon sny uree for South Carolicn, except the alteruntive of it A combined solemn —— of abso- n Congress, on the slavery sibly prevent the oxpodient of ; ate action; but our approheusions aro ban our hopes ut any very specifi information, weare yet at this Late convention is to be followed corresponding movements inthis State, ther Southern States; and that they aro to chend a new organization, of a vory important bensivo obaracter. and that the project involves the or- ution of a Southern conicderation party over he South, upen the basis of State rights, State reignty, and Northern aod federal sgresdous, i with t! ct nbined movement which ne South wish South C: Malama rida, and Mise ssippi, ready n to in this movement; and it was declared, Conveution, that, in correspondence with ties, they had forcehadowed the basis of It'waa, that South Carolina should nd at all havards, and chat her atti- | ur separate cocession, would renet eo powerfully in the other cotton States, that it would form the medium organization of a al party in the & » looking to the al- | of a Southern confederacy. ced question of discussion is nage destroys, and does not create. " rm of a Southern confederacy is full of these organization the me M ble fascinations to all the passions and feelin; South. | New, si man reflect upon the present position o h Uarola--upon the emouidoring mall over the Sonth—-vpon the pro- indicated for a Southern confederation ated condition of parties in von the singularly powerless eon inistration, and then tell us, if he ea tho next President of the United end by whom, and upon what platform, and how ho iste be elected? We ehallenge Androw Jackson Davis, and all the spiritual knockers, to meet the tion. It defies, in fact, all human or diabolical Jecture. ‘Tho condition’ of Fravce is only more verplexing of ultimate solution than our own. Tho } pion, we fear, has seon its beet days, and that the ntial i i Mr. John A. fires of sec nay le bomb-sheli : Cayclina secession is. wanted to break ap MM rotten partics of the day, and . or the lon ves and fishes, and to organ- ive the South for the Sonth. Look into it, turn it ‘wert and are we not treading npon the hocly of tule than any vd resurrection a can compass gestetin consider mtr), itt party divisions, ties, all ranning to die enter moment and mag conrred ainee the advent V t human im: by the lend route, eoming found, for some years past, the at Philadelphia, as good aa the . Darnam’s and the Fxchange sre tor can require of find ns to thors fut Llotel, at Neltinoro,opporite the Ne. Ciny, for your attention: ip long time ago. Prem Paltimor the leave the teareller to his own Jer tive UlLaiiviag at fod the Actyg Hous 9 Charleston Hotel. It ig much after the style of the Astor, except the front, which is relieved by Corinthian portico or colonnade, covering the wh extent and height of the edifice. I[t is the groat feature of Charleston, and, very justly, the pride of South Carolina. Yet it is a Southern bote! upon Northern principles. The experienced proprietor, Danie! Mixer, is a Northerner. The accomplished and popular practical manager of the house, Mr. Thomas %. Nickerson, is from Massachusetts; the lite and efficient clerk, Mr. W. C. Rising, is a New Yorker, late from Sharon Springs; his as wistant, Mr. Knowlton, is a Vermonter; and the head waiter is from Albany. It is, in fact, a North- ern hotel upon Soutbern territory; combining the practical discipline and comforts of the North, with the clegancies of Southern socicty. For their flat- tering attentions and moderate charges, we end the endorsement of the travelling public of the Charleston Hotel. N.B, Fifty passengers from the Jeabct dine with us to-da: WwW. P.5. We strike southward by the land route, to morrow, Cranies , May 2, 1851 Chavlestom—White and Black Pcpuwlation—Arr of the Isabel— Passengers from Cula—The Seces- Our Eastern Correspondence. Boston, May 10, 1851. The Wiather Loss of the Amendment of the Stat | Constitution—-State Cenventon The Legisla- ture, &e. We are, for almoet the fires time this spring, in the exjoymamt of warm weathe: been with ‘we wnusually backwa: say, however, will do no harm. As I predicted in my last, the proposed amend- ments of the constitution were lost in the House. The subject has been recommitted, in the hope | that romething may yet be done; but, considering | that (he session is drawing to # close, there Is no H great chance of success for the reformers, though they may yet rush the measure through. ‘The Se- nate has passed @ bill calling a State Convention to amend the conetitution, Should this bill pass | the House, the efleet on the politics of the State will be great, not improbably destroying tho | whig par'y altogether. Tis the more astute | whigs see, and henee they oppose the call with | their utmost ability. If State Convention | should be called, it would tend to consolidate | ston Movement-—Ominous Symbol at the Mast- hecd-—The Late Medical Convention, $e. We leave here, for the interior of South Carolina, to-dey. But, a word or two beforewe go. We have found this # pleasant city for a stranger—the so- ciety hospitable and polite—the white people kind and considerate to the blacks, and the blacks under better divcipline and deportment than any that we have ever met with in apy other part of the United States. We do not suppose that there exists any where a better of more kindly understanding be- tween the two races, than is to he found in the pacific and amicable relations subsisting here be- tween the white and colored on peop The police reports, or rather the want of the materials for them, will vindicate the character of the city for the order and quiet in which its 45,009 le, between the two castes are nearly equally divided. We leave Charleston with the recollections of a pleasant so- journ among a pleasant community, and with something of regret that duty imperatively suggests the unfimshed portion of these per: We should have noticed yesterday, that amon, the ongers of tho Isabel, thore was an unusual number of Spaniards, or Cubanos, from Ilavans. Whether they are going to the North to spend the suminer, or are getting out of harin’s way in antici- pation of trouble, dees not appear. It is said, how- over, that many of them are refugees, escaping while they can. We are also apprised that the Cuba conspir wy is not abandoned nor enppressed; but that, on the other band, the organization extends from Georgia to Texas, avd that they are still extending operations for recruits. We have not heard of a solitary South Carolinian joining in the movemert. It isbecause this people expect a little affair of (beir own within a year or 60, and are too busy getting ready for it to take much interest in the afiairs of Cuba. In company with a large number of visiters, we took dinner yesterday at the Moultrie House, on Sullivan’s Island. As the boat passed out from the city wharf, wo observed a small vessel lying in the harbor, probably a pilot boat, with a singular fla, atthemasthead. It had the stripes of the flag o! the United States; but in the ae of the azure field, or the federal constellation glittering all over it, there was a white-field, with these ominous hyero- gliphics standing out in bold relief—S.*C single star, with aa S. on one side, and a C. on the other. On being asked what it meant, the captain is reported to have answered that it was 5. for Cinderella and C. for Charleaton. Is the Cinderella of Charleston, a bad | unsatisfactory explanation? Ji signified Souch Carolina setting up the “lone star” of a republic on her own account, and nothing else. ‘The National Medical Convention, which held i annual gence this year in Charleston, h rd closed its useful labors, the vumerous physicians lately here from all parts of the Union, have dis- persed. As thoy were present in the city during the sittings of the Southern Rights Convention, we havo no doubt tho medical delegates from the North will return with what seepticivm they may have had of South Carolina’s inclinations, entirely re- moved. Ben jour. X ° Our Baltimore Correspondence. Ba.timore, May 13, 1851. The Boat Roce—The Gas Mcnopoly Checked—Wa ter Gas—Deuh—The Cosden Massacre Unrare- ling, §c. ‘Tho boat race, starting from our harbor yostor+ day, was a most exciting and interesting spectacle, which was witnessed by a number of those who de- light in boating, from both New York and Phila- dolphia. Seven boats were entered for the first, second, and third prizes, consisting of a silver coffee pot, a silver goblet, and a silver cup, via. he “Baltimore,” “ Bob Tail Nag,” * Will Watch,” “Fourth of July,” “Jenny Lind,” “ Rosulio,” and “Swan.” ‘The boats all got off well, wish a strong head wind—the “ Baltimore” leading off; and she kept the lead, pasting around the white rocks eight wiles distant, and returning to the starting point at the lower end of Hound stzcet, leay evoryihing else out of eight—taking the first prize. ‘The * Will Watch” took the second prize, and tho lie” the t . “Phe ** Baltiunoy is a new at, just built by Mr. Thomas Kradyhouse, and proved herself a fast onc. ‘Lbe City Couneil, yeetorday, perfected and passed the ordinance, giving permission to the Water (ine Company to lay down their pipes through the city —a proposition which has been resisted with great carnesticss by the old gas monopoly. They pro- pose to furnish gas at one half che present cost, which will doubticss cause it to be introduced in many dwellings hoa ie the city. The old Gas Company are now building new gas works at a cost of about 00, on the completion of which, they proposed to make some reduction in the present ¢x- orbitant prices, but this was ouly with the view of preventing the councils from grunting the new company the privilege of laying down their pipes. Now that we have au ¢ | position un foot, it is proba bie tint cheap gas will be the order of the day "These old weropolies, Lowever, fight hard for their supremacy, ard 1 learn that a project is already on frot buy vut the patent of the new company by the old one its Captain Joseph Holbrook the oldest and a much | c#tectned ship master of our port, died y at the advanccd age of 8 yours. "Tn: the port is at balf-mast this morning ‘The me. ve of the Cosdeo family, in Kont county nding ite perpeteacion, is now onr of the uine now ander ariest ve made partial o each with tho hoy ing received as States evidence. The substanee of ther con is, that they bad heard that Mr. Cosden bad rec be had in his bourse: that it was after killing the fumily and obt tuhave find the bouse, and to rob the houses in the vient 1 to the fire, lowvi ihe cacap series of outrages under arrest, except Mr. Webster, the unole of Mre. Corden, partienpated in the bloody wouk. vtimons, May 4, 186% Ship Rotene of ashi A Black Ball rnd Inst itwbe catricnls, Ge. ‘The storm of rain, thunder and lights commenced at four o'clock, yesterday and continued until midnight, was, at times, truly appalling. No damsge was dono in thie vicinity, however, as fur as bes yet been ascertained. Tho ship Kobona, which was three weeks off Cape Henry, and, since her recovery, has been in- ‘in a law enit, has been sold by the partice te a gentleman of New York, and will be immedi taken to that city for repairs. She is a atwaneh versel, nearly new, and can be prt in good order for a comparatively emall exponee. A party of young mon, attached to tendom,”” consisting of F. K. Howard, Joba Uar- roll, Frank Partridge, John Armstrong, Henry Chandler, made @ brutal attack on a waschman, injaring him severely, and taking his expantoon from him. He Svally ‘obtained assistance and #uc- ceeded in eapturing the whole party, who were eatoly lodged in the Eastern Wistrict watch house, along with about a dozen white and black loafers. In the morning, the whole party were hustled off to jail, for want of security, to appear at court, but were avon relieved by their fricnds, They land just risen from a sumptucue cotertainment nto ® friend from New Yor eling in a Tom and " humor, determined ‘they would net go ill morning.” t night, 1 leas than sevonty-eight negroes, yed in ballroom attire, of both sexes, were Ieeked up at the Western Dhiatrist They bad been helding o ball, but ipe'ly Verencrated to fighting. xt anual oxhibition of the Maryland few’ Tnotitute will be held in their new aud nt Rall, now in the course of erection, and bUloey bo one of the greatest over held in The building is 185 fe length, and Tho lorgest apartment, 20 by 60, hold 6,000 persons, The next ox ene on the 2th of Ovtober nd tho managers invite contributions, not ouly from Maryland, but from the whole Union, to compete for the valuable premiums to be awarded. Mire. Farten is performing at the Holliday-street Pheatre, m the great drama of the Jowess, which bae been brought out in good style. nin Me . Which afternoon, “upper Meche the coalition, which would have a large majo- rity in such a body. It is thirty years since the last State Convention met in Massachusetts. That | Convention was @ remarkable body. Among its | members were ex- President John Adams, and Daniel Webster. Jf my memory serves me, Mr. Adams was offered the Presidency of the Convention, but declined the office, on the ground of his advanced ; age; but Jam not certain of this. Mr. Webster wasthen an advocate of property qualifications, and, | in the course of a great speech which ho made on the subject, declared that it was the part of wisdom to found government on propert Would be say sonow? Hardly, { think. Mr. Samucl Hoar, ex- Minister from Masvachusetts to South Carolina, was also a member of the Convention, and, a property qualification voters, ¢ “few but vagabonds would be exciud exervise of the right of suffrage by the adoption of such qualification. ‘This declaration was afterwards | mercilessly used against him when he was u candi. | date for Congress, and made the political fortune of William Parmenter, the democratic candidate. | But, in spite of these ‘and kindred expressions in | the Convention of 1820, that body was, on the whule, liberal in its character. That its work was well | done, is sufficiently proved by the fact that it has subtantially endure: be mages such changes as have been made since 1820 relating only to de- tails. Even now no one would have thought of proposing a State Convention, had it not been for the stupid conduet of the whigs in refusing all con- stitutional retorm. The rejection of the resolves | providing for certain amendments of the constitu- tion was the cause of the introduction of the bill calling a State Convention, which has passed the Senate. Sueh Convention will be an dy, and will play the very devil with those ne webs which the whigs so devoutly and so stupidly reverence. ‘There is, perhaps, no State of the Union in which there is more of socialism than | there is in Massachusetts, and all tho ultras would be sure to find their way into the State Convention. | ¢ should not lack excitement in that case; and the whigs would have only themselves to thank for the evil that would happen to them. By denying | a measure of reform, ubsolutely demanded by the spirit of the age and the circumstancos of the time, they would be compelled to swallow something of a decidedly revolutionary character. It is the old story of the books of the Sybil over aj for the thovsandth time in the Ristocy of polities. The world grows in years, but not much in wisdom. It is expected that the Legislature will rise in a fortnight trom to-day, but there is no certainty of it. ‘The session has been the longest ever held, and will cost a good round sum—no triflingjincident in connection with the deficit that has long existed in the treasury. Mr. Rantoul’s prospects have somewhat improved in No. luring the present week. ‘The free soilers are to hold a Convention next Tuesday, . t whi it ix generally supposed, he will be nominated. Th policy of this movement is doubted by some, as it will, suppesing Mr. Rantoul to be nominated, place him avowedly in the position of the free soil eandi- | py Which may have the effect of etirring up the er democrats to decided acts of hostility to hin, On the other band, it will waquestionably seenre tohim all the free soil votes, which are not jesa than 2.500 in umber. I have conversed with nfluence from No. 2, and they all Rantoul receives the formal nomi- r party, he will be supported by its th, and thus elected, uuless the power of the hunkers has been greatly underrated. Now the hunkers have thus far experienced much dificalty in getting up a candidate. None of their ever much they may dissent from 's views on the fugitive slave law, ling to place themselves in an attitude Hirect persoual hostility to him; for if they te him, they will be themselves ruined, and they would enter upon the contest with the chonccs against their socess. Besides this, the hunkers see that there is at least an even chance that the cralition may continue in power, and as they bove nothing to hope from the whigs, they do not seo the exact necessity that exists for their ncrifecd for the benefit of the king advantage of this state of things, the coalition is doing all it can to soothe the bunkers. No ono has more influence at court then General Cushing, who is the ablost and best of the . Mr. Phillips, an old banker de- mocrat, bas just beon appointed to the Sherifl of Leex county, many of the towns tive of of whieh connty are in the Second district. The whigs, too, with the t of tact and common sense, ar 4, and charging upon them’ the *. Sumner—a piece of folly that one could hardly have expected, evenfrom the whigs. Netwithstending the assistance they _re- | ceived frem the Koston tin the war against Mr. | r, they arc snarling end biting at thes paper ao many mad wolves Tho sepert is, that if N Rantoul should not be | ni Attorney Genoral; if he | on the place will be givea to fr. t, of whose hunkerism there can be but emall doubt. ‘Tho whigs talk of making Attorney General Clifford their next candidate for Governor, He dnot malo anything eatra in that way. New Iavex, May 1, 1451, Things» Neo Haven—Presilent Fillnoré's Visit —Cotlege Our city authorities have just passed a resolution inviting Prosident Fillmore to visit us before bis return, and (eadering to bim and his suite the hos lities of the city. New Iaven is not behind any o.ty in the country in ite devotion to the Union, and its citizens are fully determined to stand by thos whe stand by the constitution. President Villmore avd bis cabinct would receive a hearty welcome frow wen ofall parties, who fully appreciate the ated which they have taken against the fanati- all the ties that beand the and menacing the disruption ciem that was sunderi Seuth to the Noith. of our gior ‘The students have j abled, under term tions, whic emout about three weeks that is, on the Sst of July, graduates throughout the will please notioe and govern them- ly. Lundoretand that Daniel Lord, city, is expected to delircr ove of the Ovr Pritadophia Correspondence. owt, May 4, 1351 ladsiphua and rh Mititary Parad Lewis—Large Purchase—-Grant Role Acquittal ona Charge of Murder. fthe travelling Vresident and our city remarkably dull, and fs added @ considerable de- a Cdr one hia cabinet The « lott 93 ther to that dw gree of mortification at the mean display made by honor of the chief magistrate of > of our citirens who witnessed isplay of the New York citizen t blame ty a have dictated what was due the President of the United States, particularly ax he happened to know it w on the occasion f President Volk’s visit. Collector Lewis took no part in the recent de- monstration’, and gave he people good reason to C with regard to tho threats Ivania Kaidroad Company, lin chacod the Powellion estate, of ninety-thre , west of the Nehayskill, for $850,000, on ground rent, redeemable aiter two years. ‘Their depot will be built there—a much better | jon than Penn it Lobb was placed upoa t mvrder of watehmau Mooney, of Moyauien gi but the eavo had tw be abandoned from the ine bility of the prosecution to identify the prisoner. ‘Tho prisoner was charged with it by a rater who tuted State's evidenes, and subsequent the crimive! negligence of an officer of wes allow exeupe ‘ Siaves.—‘There seoma to be a sort of stampede among the slaves in this rootion of the st children fled from Me A wom , on Sanday night. Oa fthem fed from Lewis © Wore captared t teaaped fr | wre systematically neglected. proper to order ‘out. the whule division | Ce SS WS RE eS SS SSCS SSS, SSSR aE SS SBOE STS SS SS ESA TEES a SE SSE CES born of white parents. under advisement. Our Canadian Correspondence. Toronto, May 8, 1881. The English Chaurch Conference—Eart Grey's Des potch—Withdrawal of the Government Troope— Negroes in Cunada—The Feeling about Them. I alluded in my last to the commencement of the vittings in conference of lay and clerical members ofthe Church of England, with the view of devising measures to resist the proposed alienation of the clergy reserves to secular purposes. The confe= rence extended over two days, and presented features wortby, at least, of a passing notice. Not the least significant, was the emphatic manner in which seve ral of the clerical speakers referred to the United States. affording a most honorable contrast to Great Britain, with regard to the manner in whicle endowments were held saered to their original pur- pose. ‘The fact that Trinity Church, New York, has been enabled to hold undisturbed possession of property with which it was endowed prior to the revolution, that the legislation of Vermont, alienating religious endowments, was overruled by the Supreme Court, wero referred to, again ant again, us conclusive evidence that the America1 people are constitutionally protected against th» innovations which threaten to be paramount under British rule. ‘1am almost ashamed of being & British subject,” exclaimed one reverend gentle~ man, after reviewing these fucts; and so, in sub- stance, said adozen others. So frequont and de- cided were the annexationist sympathies of several of the speakers, that others found it necessary, at last, to remind the conference that, whatever ad- vantages may be possessed in the States, and what- ever the hardships that may be endured here, “churchmen are bound to be loyal to their sove- * Hurd doctrine this, and so it seemed to be considered—too hard to be swallowed easity by those who look upon loyalty as a duty binding only ko long as it is fully and fairly reciprocated. a set-off to the bright picture of American fidelity ia the matter of endowments, a few zealous souls senegies mightily to demonstrate that the great re- pubhe is, in the main, a vast field of heresy and hea- thenism—these being the only plants that can thrive. in the soil of voluptaryism; while the only oases in the whole Union are the districts which have had the fructifying benefits of old religious endowments ‘To any man who has travelled through the States, and obtained sn acquaintance with the habits and convictions of their people, this attempt to pass them off as a race over whom infidelity and super- stition exeroize an omnipotent sway, must have ap- eared as ridiculous as it was impudent. ‘one, however, presumed to question the infallibility of the diocesan council, and 40 the assertion passed un- | contradicted. ‘The despatch of Earl Grey, in relation to the civil list and other matters—the substance of which has already appeared in your columns—is exciting much di:cussion, and nota littlealarm. The ultra- loyalists, poor souls, are inamazement and horror, Jest some morning they rise from their beds | to find the city and the country in the possession of American troops, who are expected to watk im quietly, without let or hindrance, so soon as the contemplated withdrawal of imperial soldiers from the colony shall take place ‘These antique em- bodiments of a miserably narrow ** British” feeling appear to dream that they still live inthe midst of a people bound hand and foot to the throne of Vie- toria, instead of—as is the faet—amongst a people who aro gradually but surely losirg all desire to remain attached to the distant and irresponsible power, by whom their wants, wishes, and interosts Heaven grant that England and America may ae remain tincere and cordial friends. If war shall ever unhappil; arise, sure 1am that it will be both physically a morally impossible for England to retain Canada ag a colony. By all means, then, let us have Mart Grey’s proposition. We have no use, now-a-days, for regiments of red-jackets, whose presence never fails toexercise a deworalizing influence id cer- tain it is that we should not be burdened in peace with an expenditure, which, when war does come, will be found to have been utterly wasted. With regard to niggers, “Tbe cry is, still they come,” We are fast becoming = regutar ple-bald fraternity. With what feeling the irruption is re- garded by our farmers, whose notions have not beea Polluted b: the cant and gammon of the abolition- ists, may he conceived from a circumstance that took plice yeater tay, at the assizes, now being held in this city. Under'a jury law which has recently ome into operation, panels of jurors ars selected by ball t chanced that a colored man, a reed dent in this city, was uded in the ballot, and te serve at these assizes, aad took his place in the jury box on Tuesday, along with eleven white men. Yesterday, a large proportion of the petit jurors in attendance memorslized the presiding judge on the subject, setting forth their conviction that the time is not arrived in Canada wheo ao amalgation of colors and races is necessary or desirable. The judge remarked that be had uo power to interfere. ‘he jurors replied that they were aware of this; but that they deemed it dae w themselves to ex- press their repugnance to mingling with colored Persons on a footing of equality. What wil George Thomyson say concerning thi I notice that colored persous—no doubt refagees— figure prominently in the calendars of prisoners a& the assizes in various parts of the province. They appear to excel as perpetrators of rapes and bur- Qaistes. My belicf is, that the colored race will be found to be the curse of Cwnnda, Apart from the abolitionists, the only persons who epeak in their favor are these whe believe that colored soldiers be found to be the most deadly enemies of Yankee supremacy ! : A convention of the Sons of Temperance ia shortly to be held in thie city, at which the dele- ates trom the States are expected to be present. The order is making rspid progres in this provinoe. ANGLO AMERICAN. Our Naval Correspondence, U.S. Suur Fanaoona, Tawrtt, Society Ls.anps, Jan, 10, 1851, Visit to the Marquesas Islands. ship lef Honolulu on the 2hst Nov. ; visited lands of Nukohiva snd bua Pooah—two of the tho Marquesss group, aod arrived Lore on the Gol inst., “all well.” Salutes were duly interchanged with the anthorilies of the place. The Governor (Mr. Bonard) and suite ted the ship, aad re ceived the oustomary eal Last evening the captain and come of the officers dined with Madsmo d. As tho dianer, Queon Pomare was ons of An cld difficulty betweea the authori Consal bas been adjusted; and yee Konns the guests ticsand Englis » first’time in seven or eight years, the neal (Mr. Miller) hoisted his fag, whioh ly the French government, after whiok, Miation, The affair went of w ‘Ther is but littio flour In market, and held- r twelve to tw y ore a sack, Othoe high in wing 18 a Firet Lievienant; G M.White, ft Marr » do. 5 60. tles Shaler a on; John Y. Mason, Ir., at commandi r; Francia M. Veter Wager, Passed ize, do ; Wm. MeN. ward Spedden, do 5 David B. armeay, reker, | wptain’s Clerks Chas. John in; Aug. ¥. Thompeo' ker; Lewis Holmes, Carpenter. Youn Mare opist Bere rit, Commer. —'The following are the appointments made Methodis) E:pisoopal Ccoktmonee, at Newbargh, om the 13th instant: New York Distriet-- 4. Griffeo, rreelding older. City of New York—icorge et Ad te ond Journal; Jos oldich, Seoretary Soeiety; J Professor Wosleyan Universit Swedish Mission, DB. Newman; Frouch Mission, I street, J. B. Greene street MoK. John L 7 ontre st Mulberry strect, RK. S Viteh; Hedford street, A. 1x Jano street, R. Ce utney: Lightoenth street, M. D. ©. Crm Mrirtieth tect. BI rty-third street, J: bi Perry; York= ‘Tarrytown, I ; Poughkeep#! ‘de. Washington street, W. II, Ferris, Wm. Jowett, M. Richardson, sp.5 Cannon street, D. We ; Peokskill, G. Colve. | Riinebeck Diselet—J. 2. Nichols, presiding elder. Rhisebeck, T. . Me ; Mattem Le. M. Vinceut; Goshen, O. V. Amerman; She! lL. W. Peck. ‘ whurgh Distriet—S. Martindale, petting elder, Newburgh, A. M. Osborn; Kingston, | Smith. | Delaware District—S. Van Deusen, presiding ote. J. Z. Nichols was elected as an additional | delegate to the General & . Mowers . De Smith ond Benjamin (iriffe sore The next soesion of this body will be, held in tae Bedford street church, in this city. The Kasterm A ~ Am Division of this Conference, eo mp the ters of Loug Island, Tie of ( “hme “x eastern section of this os ere to m i meburg), L. 1, on the jastant cut rh inet. tem wore kied, Eour of Jica woe preorered a Saturdey Ry © fire-domp explosion, Im Chesterfield bag AT 4