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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN. SAItt’I, Bi CRAPTOA COUNTY PRINTER. . not paid m advance. SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA. TWBAI -HAlf 4, 18SS. _ THE FLORIDIAN.] A»a*«er° U8 FeH« w Eutrapped. ' e „, h .? ve a letter from a respectable cit- 1 1 G *” SOTHB in stant, which furnishes an account of the detection and arrest of a abolition emissary -but more probably a pure Murrelite. The writer has forgotten the name of the maa hailed by, and we suppose from the tenor ot the account, that he is an entire stranger. ° On the 21st instant he went to the House of a tree negroe woman, where seems to have been, perhaps accidentally, collected several negroes and to them he opened his busmess He was full Q f comnlisera- tjon and fired with the benevolent purpose of taking them all to St. Domingo-a country where they could enjoy freedom. After a string of golden promises and a threat ot murder if they disclosed the sub ject of the interview, he appointed a ren dezvous at the same house, after night tell ing them to collect as many as could be relied on with safety, as ho wanted to take with hun all he could, both bond and free, 1 his conversation, by mere accident, was oveiheard by a lady who communicated it forthwith to Messrs. W. A. Jv’gy ^ I Love and William McClendon, and they at once took measures to entrap the ras'eal Love and McClendon secreted themselves in the house, and other citizens lay in wait outside. The negroes collected and acted as decoys. . True to his appointment, the rascal made his appearance at 9 o’clock in the evening and found a hearty welcome. The evening was chilly, and they all drew round the fire. He threw down a large bundle of cooked provisions, and called for something to eat. At fiist, he was exceedingly appre hensive and suspicious—listened very closely—declared with an oath that there was something wrong—somebody lying in wait. The negroes told him it was impos sible—the dogs were too severe and watch ful for any body to approach wiihout their knowledge. He then sent out a servant to reconnoitre, who returned and reported all right—whereupon he made the doors fast and proceeded to business. He question ed the servants closely as to their disposi tions to follow him, and becoming satisfied ot this fact, he talked of his success in pre vious operations of the kind. He said he had carried off thirteen lots of slaves—all of w horn were now free and happy, as they would be if they followed him. To an in quiry of the servants, as to whether he sometimes did not meet with difficulty he replied that he had got into one scrape, which cost him eight hundred dollars, but was too smart to be caught again ; and if detected, he eould not be taken, as consid ered himself equal to any twenty-five men that could be put upon him. Here, to test the point, Messrs. McClendon and Love suddenly made their appearance, well arm ed, and he submitted to arrest in silence. After the arrest, he avowed himself an ab olitionists—perhaps prefering that charac ter to a Murrelite, which he evidently seems to be—although no very experienced one, as we should judge from his proceedings in this case. After some consultation as to what disposition should be made of the fel low, he was surrendered to the civil lhorities, and lodged in jail. Fire.—We regret to learn that afire oc curred near Tennille, on Sunday at noon, which entirely destroyed the dwelling-house and furniture and out-houses belonging to John Ashley. Mr. Aashley and his wife had gone to church, and no one was left on the place. At the time that the fire was discovered, the house was in full blaze, and it was utterly impossible to. save anything. We regret to learn of this particularly as happeniug to Mr. Ashley, who is a poor but industrious young man, and had just finished, at some expense, a very neat dwel- ing. By this calamity,* himself and lady lost everything in the world of which they were possessed. / Such an occurrence commands the sym pathy of all, and we are glad to learn that our liberal-minded citizens have determined to contribute tothe relief of these sufferers. Any one wishing to contribute in the mat ter will leave their amounts with Mr. Z. Brantley, who will receive and forward all sums left for that purpose. Arrested.—James A Lyon and Rob?rt Cox, were arrested the past week, charged with having shot Alexander E. Lawson, on the night pt the 24th ult., and after exa mination before Justices Gilmore and Buck, Cox was discharged, and Lyons committed to Jail. He was lodged in Jail on Saturday evening, and applied for the writ of Habeas Corpus on yesterday.. au- Xmportant From Washington— Rauifesto of the S onthern Whigs Baltimore, April, 28, M. The Washington Republic of this morn ing publishes an address to the Whigs of the United States, making some three and a half columns, which is signed by Brooke of Mississippi, Morton and Cabell of Flor ida, Moore and Landry of Louisiana, Mai.- eh al of Kentucky, Gentry and Williams ot Tennessee, Outlaw and Clingman of North-Carolina, and Strother of Virginia. The address ghei a detailed narrative of the proceedings ot the W hig Congressional Cau cus aud vindicates the course of those mem bers who proffered the tinalty compromise resolution and who retired when that resolu tion was ruled out of order They deny that it was their object to distract the Whig par ty, or to open a fresh slavery Cxcitment. Their motive was to put down ihe abolition fana tics vvno desire to rule the party aud whose only hope of distinction is in the overthrow of the compromise measures, and to induce the W higs to assume a national grouud, the only position upon which statesmen and patriots can maintain the harmony of these States and preserve the existence of this government. Their object was to terminate agitation by declaring, the finality of the compromise, in the belief that to such a de collation, coming from so distinguished an assemblage, the country would enthusias tically respond. The failure to declare the compromise final, they predict will result in the deserved defeat of the Whig candidate Mysterious Affair, We understand that a negro man was found in the Oconee River, near what is known as White Bluff, in this county, a few days since, and^on being’ taken out, it was thought to have heen a.bullet hole discov ered through his head. Coroner Hansel summoned an inquest, and Drs. Brantley and Jernigan, made an examination. The Doctors say that the body must have been dead ten or twelve days, aud the body is identified as a negro who belonged to Gen, Sanford of Milledgeville, who ran away about that time, was seen by some gentle men who got dogs and chased him into the swamp. One young man who was in the chase ran to the river side but saw nothing of the negro, and the dogs after swiraing about some time, came out. This young man, Mr. Ennis, saw no gun in the crowd— knew of no pistol—hear! no report of fire arms, and thinks he would have heard any that mignt have been discharged. After such testimony the jury returned a verdict that the negro came to his death by a gunshot wound, which entered the left temple«and passed out just above the n'ghtear, and that said wound was inflicted by the hand of some person unknown to them Such is the information which we have derived from the officers and persons who attended the inquest. Supplementary Meeting, We publish in another column of this week’s paper, the proceedings of what is called a '‘Supplementary Meeting” of the Constitutional Union party, lately held at Milledgeville, The Supplement is an entire change of the original and is flatly contradictory in the most important matters which the Convention proposed to settle.— In common parlance, one would very na turally suppose that a meeting, supplemen tary in in its purposes, must add to, or cure up any defects which were overlooked in its antecedent; this has indeed added to, but the “defects” were matters of vexatious dif ference of opinion in the first meeting, and if it had been brought to a vote, would have been knocked in the head by an overwhelm ing majority. The ‘Supplemental’ knew this, and wishing to preserve harmony in the ranks, united with the majority in con- Tlie Fugitive Slave I<aw in Mas sachusetts. IT NULLIFICATION, ry law, begun there, The Massachusetts Legislature, for some days past, have had a very spirited debate upon a “bill for the further protection of personal liberty, (so called) the object of which looks directly towards the nullifica tion of the Fugitive Slave Law. They came to a vote ou Thursday evening, it seems, with what result the following from the Daily Advertiser, will show: “It will be seen on reference to our Leg islative journal, that the Senate yesterday passed, by a small majority, the hill of which we have given some notioe, soon after it was reported, to nullify the Fugitive Slave Law. This is to be done by taking from the United States authorities the juris diction of a class of questions arising ex clusively under a law of the United States, by means of the process of habeas corpus.” One of the peculiar advocates of the pas- cocting a lot of generalities, in the shape s age of this bill, the Courier informs us, General Lopez Still Alive.—The New Orleans Cresent says:—One of the return ed Cuban prisoners states that he is credi bly informed, and has reason to believe, that General Lopez was not‘ garoted. But that another individual, a notorious crimi nal, who very much resembled Lopez, was the sufferer in the tragic scene at the Plaza de Armas. Our informant states that Lopez is con fined in one of the dungeons of Havana, where, wiihout light, without clothing, soli tary and scantily fed, he is daily subjected to the most excruciating tortures. Span ish invention, it is said, has been put to the rack to invent tortures sufficiently refined for this scourge ofroyality in the' Antilles. Without endorsing the story, we give it for what it is worth. South Carolina Convention. — The committee of 21 reported Thursday morn ing, through their chairman, Hon. Lang- don Cheves. The report asserts the right of secession, but leaves it to depend on fu ture aggression. Mr. Perry, of Greenville, made a Union report and offered resolu tions. Col, Maxcy Gregg, of Columbia, stated his views in opposition. The Con vention adjourned until the next day, 10 o’clock. Cholera in the West.—The Scotia for President because the party platform (Dhio) Gazette, says that three men and will be too narrow for the patriotism of the people. Ie conclusion they express the belief that should both the great national parties fail to shape their future party or ganizing on the finality of the compromise Uie people will deroandsucb an organization as will triumph over both. i The address recommends nothing, butin- \ttes the serious consideration of the peo ple f Washington, April 23-Chevalier Hulse- aiarm has obtained leave of absence from fits government, for an idefinite period, and will shortly leave for Europe,' This has been granted him in eonsequense of his representation, that lie eould hold no inter course of any kind with Mr. Webster. IV1 i Ua . «m a- $ He one woman in the neighborhood of New Market, Highland county, died the week previous of a disease which the physicians pronunced Cholera. Several others were attacked but recovered. The whig Convention of Missouri, which assembled atSt. Louis on 19th ult.,nomi- nated Mr. Fillmore for the Presidency and nlr. Crttenden for the Vice Presidency. wdi be himself till Mr. Webstir re from the State Department. The friend Advance in Cotton.—The news by the Franklin has given quite an impulse in the Cotton market, it is quoted in New York on 29th at 8 3-4 to 9 1-8. Being an ad vance of one-eight. . - .^r^wsews? Green Corn.—The Editor of the N. 0. S overD ^nts ^^cryune was treated *to a few ears of - aro i,ot * however, interrupted. Green Corn on the 20th ult. of resolutions, which left every one to the tender mercies of his conscience. The majority, no doubt, intended faith fully to abide the issue of their resolves* but no sooner bad they left their seats—af ter resolving not to have anything to do in selecting candidates till after the other two parties had nominated, &c.—than a part of their number who urged, approved and vo ted for the ‘resolves,’ lake the seats, and in the first place affirm the Baltimore platform of 1848, and adopt as a test of faith, the Finality of the Compromise, As Con stitutional Union men, they declined acting with any party in the selection of a candi date—as Supplemental Union men, they take possession of the Democratic platform and prescribe the conditions upon which any body else oan get on. This is doing things ‘up brown’and‘at the shortest notice.’ The representative number of the Supplemental Unionj party amounts to 21 ; there were also some 8 or 7 others who were “honorary appointees numbering in all about 29. They go to Baltimore as Missionaries, and^are pledged to do their best to christianise that heathen body. In this character they may still be- long tothe Constitutional Union party,and form a very interesting branch of the busi ness of that party. We regret, however, that a party^which has exhibited such laud able philanthropy in sustaining the mis sionary cause, did not deem it necessary to extend their mission into the Whig body Philadelphia; recent developements made a characteristic harangue, just pre vious to its passage. After denouncing Daniel Webster, Judge Curtis, the Boston merchants, the Northern Whigs generally, and rejoicing that Henry Clay stood at the brink of the grave with his political aspira tions disappointed, he went beyond the grave, to attack the late Professor Stuart and Rev. Wm. M. Rogers, whose deaths he affected to believe were judgments conse quent upon their opinions upon the Com promise laws It was und#* the pressure of such tirades as these that the Nullifica tion Bill was driven through. What the next step after this will be, it is not very difficult, perhaps, to divine.—iY. York Ex press. This measure was defeated in the popu lar branch of the Legislature. After a long and warm debate it was indefinitely post poned. at shew that they are much in need of light in that quarter. It is wrong to give them over to hardness of heart that they may believe a lie and be damned, which they certainly will, if they have any idea that Gen. Scolt will be elected President. But to return to the subject. This Supplementary meeting is nothing more nor less than the secession of the min ority of the Convention; they wanted to go to Baltimore and the majority would not let them, and were afraid openly to secede; they were in a quandary—it was death if they held on, and they would be killed if they let loose—and in this predicament they concluded to tack on to both schemes. Where they will get to depends on the wind and weather. Washington as a Mason.—The Eng lish papers lately stated that the copy of the Bible used on the occasion of the ad mission of Gen. Washington to the order of Masons, was exhibited to the brethren assembled at a meeting of the Lodge of Virtue held in the Albion Hotel, Manches ter. A citizen of Fredericksburg, Va., con tradicts this story, and says that the Bible is question is still in use in the Fredericks burg Lodge, No. 4, the archives of which state that “George Washington emered” an apprentice on the “4th day of November, 1753,” was passed March 3d, 1753,” and was “raised August 4th, 1753.” He is al so recorded as “present” at subsequent meetings of the Lodge. Death of Gen. Walker.—The Augus ta Constitutionalist of the 30th ult., notices the death of Gen. Valentine Walker, an old and much respected citizen of Richmond county. He for a number of years, repre sented that county in the Legislature. jlST Some two dozen mercantile houses in New York have made up the sum of six hundred dollars, and presented the Female College at Greensboro in this State with a Philosophical apparatus. Sentence of Capt. Nagle.—Capt Hen ry R. Nagle has been sentence to four years imprisonment in the Penitentiary at Wash ington, for frauds in the prosecution of claims against the U. S. Government. The Southern Whigs. — The whole number of whig members who withdrew from the whig caucus at Washington, was seventeen. Neither Georgia, Alabama or Mississippi was represented. Shocking;—We regret to learn from some of our exchanges that Daniel'Tucfeer, who has been so frequently requested to “get out of the way,” was run over by a wagon,is short while si nee, ta Arkansas. We learn from the New York Journal of Commerce that the Georgia six per cent, bonds to be issued bv Gov. Cobb of that State, at the Bank of the Republic in New York were all taken on 22nd ult. The ex act amount, says the Commercial Adverti ser. $525,000, redeemable in 20 years, and bearing 6 per cent interest. The loan was taken by Jacob Little, E. W. Clark, Dodge <fc Do., A. Belmont, G. B. Lamar, President of the Bank of the Republic, and C. W. Lawrence, President of the Bank of the State of New York. X3Y A Havana correspondent giving an account of the embarkation of Gen. Concha, the recalled Governor of Cuba, mentions the fact that as the Spar ish steamer upen which he sailed was about to leave the wharf, the American steamer Empire City entered the harbor, crowded with passengers, and that when passing up she was saluted with loud hisses by the crowd on shore. Of course the assemblage was composed of the minions of the Government. Should they cultivate their feelings of resentment, they may bring matters to a head sooner than they anticipate. The Southern Cultivator.—We are indebted to the publishers for the Mav No. of this excellent journal. We take plea sure in commending it to the public, and especially to the farmers, as one among the best publications of that sort that are issued from the press. It has an infinite amount or instruction which may be profitable to those who are tilling the soil; and to the general reader it is quite an interesting pa per. We have in our eye, a farmer who has been taking this paper for a number of years, aDd though a man of considerable skill as a practical farmer, has appropriated much of the information which he obtained through this medium, in his plan of Agri culture, and is now one of the neatest farm ers, and makes as much or more clear mo ney to the amount of labor invested, of any man in the county. We mention this to shew that book farming is not always such a humbug as some people think. The Cultivator is published monthly by W. S. Jones, at Augusta, Ga. Price $1 per vear in advance—six copies for $5. [CORRESPONDENCE OF CENTRAL GEORGIAN.] Wilkinson County, April 28, 1852. Mr. Editor;—Mr. Willis Stapleton was killed by his nephew, Wm. M. Beck, at Spann’s store, in this county, on the 17th inst. Mr. S. was very drunk, and a quar rel arose between himself and Beck—but few words passed between Chem, when Beck drew his knife, and plunged it into Staple ton’s neck, cutting one of the principle ar teries. Stapleton fell, and lived but four or five minutes after he received the wound. He leaves a wife and two children, who are in pitiable circumstances, withoutfriends or means, and who are now suffering much from sickness. An iuquest was held over the body, and an examination made by Dr. T. Jones, of Irwinton, who stated to the jury that the wound was sufficient to have produced death. The witnesses who saw the affair, were sworn, the jury retired and returned with a verdict that the deceased was wilful ly murdered by Wm. M. Beck, who is now ^confinedin Irwinton Jail. Debate in the House of Repre sentatives—-The Whig Caucus. In the House of Representatives, Wed nesday last— Mr. HOWARD of Texas addressed the House on the subject of politics, declaring himself opposed to any thing like a central Union party, for the reason that he did not think the condition of the country made such an organization nesessary. He be lieved it necessary to keep upfthe old polit- cal organizations, because an opposite course would lead directly to^the formation of sectional parties, which could not ’ exist without destruction to the Government it self. He was in favor of adhering to the old Democratic platform, adding to it more than the absolute wants of the° country at this time might require; for when party oreeds did not answer purposes, it was as legitimate to form new ones as it was to a- dopt old ones. He then expressed himself in favor of adopting the compromise meas ures as a finality, and believed that the Democratic party were sound upon this subject. He thought it was otherwise with the Whigs, and said that President Fill more was to be sacrificed because" he had taken ground for the fugitive slave law. He understood that in the Whig caucus which took place last night these who were for standing up for the Constitution and its compromises were confined almost exclu sively to one section of the coantry/'and they were not very numerous at that." He also understood that the compromise meas ures were not only so unpopular that thev were decided out of order, but it was also decided out of order to bring in or say any thing in relation to this subject, upon which hung the peace of the country. He saw before him a great many gentlemen who were present at the caucus hist night, and he would ask them to state if what he said was so. As no gentlemen answered him, he supposed that they were all ‘‘mum” now as their candidate would be, for he took it for granted that Gen. Scott was to be their man, and he was not to be allowed to say a word. The whigs would thus fight the next canvass in the vague and indefinite way in which they went through the last Presidential contest. Mr. Penniman said that he was present, at the Whig caucus last night until its close. The only reason for ruling the res olution to which the gentlemen from Texas had referred out of order, was the same which had been assigned in the House for laying a similar resolution on the table in the Democratic caucus at the eommence- had Altered. If that gentleman attempted totake the whoie Southern Whig pa, tv under h,s direction, and also the slavery in stitution o the South, were they to be ac cused of faltering because they did not fol- The gentleman seemed to he Z™ * acrificed because they did not follow his dictation. There was no rejection of .he ^compromise resolution; he believed if it haa been entertained they would have adopted the resolution of the gentleman from Tennessee. ‘ Mr. Brooks said that this question of par liamentary law was something which- bo would not undertake to' diseuss; This was. a fact that the plain people of this country would understand without parliamentary law—that in a Whig caucus the Whig compromise resolution of the first caucal was introduced and action asked upon it whf n it was ruled out of the csucus as out of order. Mr. Stanly said that the resolution* was. ruled out of order, when it was said that it wou d he brought up. afterwards when it would be m order. The gentleman *from New York had written a letter announcing his determina tion on to leave the caucus before any de cision was made. It was contained in the New York Express received this morning signedfAn Eye on the Capitol.” He had shown it to several members,, and thev al. agreed it contained some of the very ex £ preesions used by the gentlemen from New Yorkpast night in caucus. Mr. Brooks. Is that the authority which the gentlemen takes in advance ? Has he no other authority than that? Mr. Stanley. Do von deuy writing the article ? Mr. Brooks. I do deny it before hi^h? heaven. ° . Mr. Stanly. Did you not supervise it ? Mr. Brooks. Ihe person bv whom that letter was written submitted it tome. It; contained certain harsh expressions against, the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr- Mangura) which I demanded should bo stricken ont. Mr. Stanly, Yes. Mi*. Brooks. A considerable portion of the letter I caused to bejgraset^, and for its sentiments I do not hold myself respon. sible. It the sentiments contained in the letter are similar to those which I express ed in the caucus they ace the? sentiments»of the gentleman witk"wh©m I associate*.. xMr Washburn said that he wss in the? caucus last nighty and was. also at thu &* s. caucus held at the commencementi of tt* ment of the session, to wit, that it belonged, session. The gentlemet Lm New York. to the National Convention. had said it was understood at that time that Mr. Howard could only say that if it was j it was the settled declaration of the- Whies. a caucus called for national purpose?*, it was * u -‘*' •* ~ * a singular resolution. Why uch a resolu tion should have been adopted at the first Whig caucus and been made an issue be fore the country, and then repudiated at the second caucus, could have only one moral, which was that they had repudiated what they had first done, and now they in tended to take a dift'erent position. Mr. Brooks wished to state to the gentle man from Texas why the Whig party a- dopted the resolution in the first caucus, and did not do so in the last. He would unfold the whole tale. In the prior caucus they had no record made but this settled policy of the Whig party, that the com promise measures were to be faithfully re garded as a finality. Subsequent to that, time it had been found to be the interest of tnat they were in favor of the compromise measBrtfSjfaini of affimingtheui as a liaality but since then influences- had transpire <3 which had operated to induce a chanse i o the Whig party of the North. This, h e (Mr. W ) denied entirely, In his judg ment, the Whigs of the North ©ceupi the same- positions now in relation to the compromise measures as they did thesa. The Whigs of the North of all classes— those who were- us fever of all the comp se mises, affirmatively and substantively— would vote for any President, whether % Northern or Southern man, or wheth &r Scott, Webster or Fillmore, unless it should be required of him as a test that he? blieved in all these measures*. Mr. Howard inquired of the gentleman* if his party were against the repeal of the a portion of a great body of the Whigs I fugitive slavelaw ? North and a portion of the Whigs South i Mr. Washburn replied that they were? tn rermrliata Hin=o .v . • _ .i ...... J .o repudiate those compromise measures. | d< termined not to agitate ; they were for Cnes of “That’s it,” “That’s it.”] When j quiet. [Cries of “Order ! Order I Osder!”]| a resolution was introduced by the gentle- ' He was not for submitting resolutions to man fiom Georgia (Mr. Jackson) the hearts ; the House.—[Here the honorable* gentle of the cbmpromise N&tional Whigs waver-j man’s voice was entirely lost amidst tremen^ ed because the Southern Whi wavered and did not stand by the National entirely ] column j dous^cries of “Order ! Order !”] Mr. Howard thought that it had been; Whigs. The cry was that of Napoleon at; proved that the Whig Dai ly were opnasedi Waterloo, “save himself who can.” Every to political orthodoxy. * Northern Whig, except seven, said, “save himself who can,” and repudiated the reso lution of the Whig caucus. "In the Whig caucus held last night they were not per mitted to* discuss this subject. In a caucus called for Whig purposes it was ruled out of order to speak of the compromise, or to agitate the question, until they had first de cided upon the time aud place; but there Mr. Washburn. They are very much in? favor of orthodoxy. Mr. Ho waul. They are opposed to do ing any thing— Mr. Washburn. They are opposed to- making sectional questions national ques tions. [Loud and continued cries of “Or der ! Order I”] Mr. Howard said tnat he would take twp stood behind those who were ready, the mo- j witnesses, the gentleman from New York ment they had hxed the time and place, to aud the gentleman from North Carolina. QniAllFn nr*/i t n Ho /-«<o iL _ _ »• nn < _ adjourn, and thus give Ihem no time to vote upon the compromise measures. Mr. Campbell of Ohio, wished to correct the gentleman from New York. He desi red that whatever information should be communicated in relation to what was done in the Whig caucus should be correct. The gentleman was mistaken in deciding what was the ruling of the Chair last night. A proposition was made and presented to the caucus for merely fixing the time and place ofholding the National Convention. A substitute to that resolution was offered em bodying the question of the finality of the Compromise. The presiding officer "decided that notwithstanding the proposition as a substantive proposition might or might not be entertained at another stage of the meet- ipS* yet it was not germane to the resolu tion then before the body fixing the time and place for holding the Convention; and while,the Chair was sustained, gentlemen from the North and South, from East and West expressly declared that they did not desire to shut the resolution out, but at the proper time, when introduced as an inde- p & lent substantive proposition, they would be willing to entertain it. This was the history of the matter. Air. Stanly remarked that he vtouldjsay d;stincly that there was no rejection in the Whig caucus of compromise resolutions, and never had been. He knew of bnt oiie Southern Whig who ever voted against the compromise resolutions, and that J was one of his colleagues, (Mr. Clingman,) who left the caucus last night. If there was anoth er Southern Whig against the compromise resolutions he* was not aware of it. The gentleman from New-York (Mr. P * j Brooke) had said that the Southern The gentleman from New York had told them that the Whig caucas refused to act upon the compromise question. In that gentleman’s opinion, they had changed their party tactics; being at one time in fa vor of the compromise measures, they now found it expedient to go against them. Ihe expressions which had fallen from the gentleman from North Carolina made this the more manifest; for he had said that he was opposed to Gen. Scott pleding himself upon the subject of the compromise meas ures. Mr. Stanly. I said I was opposed to his signing pledges. Mr. Howard had only one thing to say in relation to this subject; it was sufficient ly apparent what was the policy ; and as to the moral of the thing he had this to say that the man who for the first office in the world would come before twenty five mill ions of freemen and be afraid, or ashamed, or too proud to state the principles upon which he would administer the office, must live in a region high above our. institutions or must intend to cheat or gull those who take him on trust. In relation to the action of the caucus, he thought that the object of starting par liamentary law had no other motive than that of stifling action upon a resolution which was intended to evoke a party test. He was surprised that the gentleman from North Carolina would take shelter behind a question, of parliamentary law in matttera whictr involved the whole political contest, Mr. Stanly said that he believed it w«a designed to break up, and have no National Convention at all. Mr.^Howard said that if, instead of giv ing a specifie pledge, a party took sbelte