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COJ*TEWTION OF «rH*3 FflTIOBT
PAR^y,
tlie T EhfcrSf r f tiC 'TOg Parties of the
having made their Pre-
8ideQt ,al nominations, it becomes the duty
83 Pl ' esid ent and Vice
°f the convention of the Consti-
in^A Ja *. F^ ,on Part y> hold at Milledgeville,
, . P r ! p aSt, to fulfil the requirement con-
tamed iA the third Resolution of that body,
in obedience to this resolution, we do here
by appoint Thursday, the 15th day of July
Hfcxt, as-the time of the meeting of another
invention of the Constitutional Union
Party at Milledgeville, for the purpose of
considering the nominations for the Presi
dency and Vice Presidency, that have been
made by the Whig and Democratic Parties;
and for the purpose of taking such action
in relation to the Presidential election, as
shall be deemed proper. The Party in each
county will be entitled to send up a number
of delegates equal to the representation
which the county had in both branches of
the Legislature, under the old apportion
went. A. H. CHAPPELL,
SAM’L. FARRIS,
JAMES THOMAS.
TUESDAY JUME 2D, 1852.
Mr. E. W. Pokes is agent for this"
paper at Louisville, and will receive and re
ceipt for whatsis due us in Jefferson.-
St. Mary’s Money
In bills under $5 will be received in pay
ment of demands due this office.
J&3T Peaches and Watermelons made
their appearance in our village the past
week quite plentifully.
A Good Season.—
The Whig domination.
The nomination of'Gen. Scott as the
Whig candidate for the Presidency, has
been received with universal regret, by.his
party of this State, and it is believed by
many of the party that the nomination will
be almost entirely disclaimed. We do not
now believe it, though we have heretofore
expressed the opinion that a ticket would
not be nominated for him in this State, but
the Whig party before nominating him
Closing Scenes of the Convention
. The Baltimore papers,' says' the Savannah
News, contain full details of the closing
scenes of the -late Whig Convention. The
last day’s proceedings were rather rich and
and will no doubt be. spread at large before
the country by the political presses. Next
to the ballotting, the most exciting incident
of the day was an altercation between Mr*
Renneau, of Georgia, and several other
Southern delegates, on one side, and Mr-
After a drought of
three weeks, wo have had fine rains contin
uing from Saturday last to yesterday, the
showers fell lightly and from the indications
of the clouds extended through the country.
There was also a change in the temperature
of the atmosphere, which to yesterday
morning remained quite cool.
have adopted a platform embracing the I Raymond, editor of the Seward Free-Soil
finality of the Compromise measures, and organ in New York, ofi the other. Mr. Ray-
and a recognition of the Fugitive Slave ! mond having published in his paper of Fri-
Law, both of which, we thought, would be day a telegraphic despatch charging the
$3$° J. L. Locke, Esq. senior editor of
the Savannah Republican, arrived at Savan
nah on Tuesday last, after an absence of near
ten months. He spent most of the time
he was absent, at-Graefenberg, undergoing
the Water Cure treatment, and returns
much improved in health.
0O = The Cholera has been raging to
some extent at New Orleans and Shreve"
port. One hundred and twenty-nine death s
from that cause, were reported in New Or
leans two weeks since.
repudiated, and that Scott would be plank- delegates from the Southern States (as was
ed free for the “generous confidence” of the alleged) with bargain and corruption. Mr.
Minute of Points Decided by the
Supreme Court of Georgia at Au
gusta June Term, 1852.
Campbell vs The State.—From, Rich
mond. •
1 While the amendments to the Consti
tution of tbe Un,ited States are not immedi
ately, and were not intended to be restric
tive upon the Legislatures of the several
States, yet they are the announcements of
"great principles of Civil Liberty, which the
Legislatures of the several States cannot in
fringe.
2. The 5th Section of the amendments
to the Constitution of the United States
providing “that the accused shall be con-
irontea with the witnesses against him,” is
not infringed by the admission in evidence
bf the dying declarations of the deceased in
the. trial of a prisoner charged with the
homicide.
In order to make dying Declarations
■admissible in evidence, the deceased must
not only be actually in extremis but, he
must believe that he is dying.
4. When aprima facie case is made out,
the evidence should be admitted, leaving to
the Jury the adjudication of the question,
whether or not, the declarations were made
in immediate prospect of death.
Where the evidence on that point is
■conflicting, the Court will not interfere with
the verdict of the Jury, and grant a new
trial. " *,
John K. Jackson and A. H. H. Dawson,
for Plaintiff in Error; Attorney General
Shewmake for the Def’t.
Van Ness vs. Cheeseborough, Stearns
A Co., et. al.—From, Richmond. 1. An
exparte order granting a writ of Certiorari,
is not such a final judgment in the cause as
will enable the party to sue out a writ of Er
ror thereto.
Montgomery, for Pl’ff in Error; John K.
Jackson and A. H. H. Dawson, for Deft in
Error.
McBride, Adm'r &c vs. E. M. M. Green-
wood et.alL—From Richmond. 1. If by
a marriage contract, property is vested in
trustees, for the benefit of tbe husband and
wife and the fruit of the marriage, and sub
sequently an absolute divorce is granted to
the husband, the wife may, after the divorce,
by proper conveyance transfer all. her rights
and interests under the marriage contract
to her former husband; she being quoad hoc
& feme sole and sui jurie.
2. The parties to a marriage contract,
may by the consent of the Trustees, dispose
of their qwn interests under the contract.
They cannot defeat the interests of remain
der men, not parties to the agreement.
^* A conveyance.by the former wife of
all her right, title and interest, under the
marriage contract, does not stop her from
claiming the same property subsequently as
the heir or distributee at law of her child,
the fruit of the marriage, who took the prop
erty in fee under the marriage contract.
Schley for Pl’ff in.Error; Jenkins for Def’t
in Error.
Skrine Adm'r, dec. vs. Simmons et all,
—From Burke Court.—Demurer.—1. A
purchase by an ad ministrator-or other trus
tee, at a sale of the trust property, is not per
se void, but only voidable at the instance of
parties in interest.
2. At a judicial sale of property of an in
testate under execution, the administrator’s
purchase of such property is also voidable
for fraud or collusion between himself and
plaintiff in execution.
3* An execution against the intestate of
plamtiffia error is proceeding against his
property. At the sale the plaintiff in error
gives directions and imposes terms of sale;
requires specie or specie - paying funds. The
property is bid off for $5,500, the adminis
trator himself bidding $5,000. The pur-
chaser is unable to comply with the terms,
but offers to do so within ten days and hy
pothecate bank stock as security for his so
, property is again put up and
sold under a notice of the terms,given to the
sheriff in plaintiff’s hand writing. Th e sec
ond purchaser is unable to comply with
these terms. It is again put up and the
plaintiff in error, administrator, becomes the
purchase!' for the plaintiff in; execution. The
bill charges that the purchase was made ou
the joint account' of the administrator and
plaintiff in execution. Held: that such pur
chase cannot be sustained in a Court of Eq
uity, when attached by the partUST ininter
est, aud-defondant be required to answer.
A. J. & T. W. Miler for Plain tiffin Error*
Jenkins & Walton, for Defendant in Error’
Where is the Fault!
Some of our subscribers at Irwin’s Cross
Roads have been complaining to us terribly
at not receiving their papers. They say that
the Postmaster at that place states that the
package does not arrive. The Deputy Post
master at Tennille, informed us sometime
since, that the package for Irwiifs Cross
Roads, was regularly put into the Mail bags
and is not opened till it arrives at Irwin’s
Will the gentlemen look into the diffieul
ty a little, and right the wrong ?
people of every section; and we knew that Renneau moved the expulsion of Mr. Ray
our people had no use for him outside of | mond from the Convention. A debate en
pledges and platforms. But now that he sued in which Mr. Cabell, of Florida, took
has been planted upon the Compromise |.a part andgot rather the worst of the' *W»
measures, and confronts the people from for it ended in words and the laying of Mr.
that eminence, he is not without the pale of | Renneau’s resolution on the table. The
the Whig vote of Georgia, and we confi- objectionable paragraph in Raymond’s des-
dently look for a ticket to’be brought out | pa t c h was as f 0 ]j 0wa .
for his support, besides Judge Dawson and
JUSF" The Milledgeville Recorder says
that W. W. Snead, has been appointed
Postmaster in that city to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the death of Ezra Daggett
Mr. Snead is a deserving man and worthy
of the trust reposefd in him. He had been
acting as assistant Postmaster prior to the
death of Mr. Daggett.
Masonic Celebration.—We had the
pleasure of attending tbe celebration of St.
John’s Day, on Thursday last at Dublin.—
The Masonic Hall, which has been recently
erected in that place r was Dedicated and an
oration delivered by P. M., W. G. Parks.
The speech was a fine one, such as we should-
look for from that gentleman, and was well
received by the brethren and audience gen
erally.
After the ceremonies of the dav were
over, the Fraternity were invited to partake
of a fine dinner prepared by Capt. T. N,
Guyton. Of this every participant gave
undoubted evidence of appreciation; the ta
hies were loaded with the best of the land
and no one knows better than the Captain
“how tc prepare the well spread table ”
patch was as follows :
To-morrow, it is believed, Kentucky,
Col. oeaton Grantland, both Fillmore dele - Tennessee, Virginia, and one or two others
The Whig Ballot.—The following is the
last (53d) in the Whig National Conven
tion, by which Scott was nominated :
Scott, - - - - - - - i59
Fillmore, ------ 112
Webster, - ----- 21
appropriation, he betrays the source of U,
disapprobation by remarking that “Cnii?- 8
hought’nt to ’ave a /appropriation » °
But. even fair-minded Englishmen
fess that Mr. Collins is the greatest man ij,
eon-
his line now livin
he been born in
if ’ 1 nd , the 7 sa y that, had
England, no “mateiral
wonld *
that country to be too
honors too great, no titles *
no
If we reflect, for'anbito”, 01 '-'^ •***
lloiromAnfn • *i» 1 ’
achievements, we wiUh«e’ °° CollilVs
conception of the high position
terity will award him.
3 an approximate
pos-
England had been, for years, the acknow
r of the seas. While the
Death of Bishop Gadsden.—Bishop
Gadsden of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, and Bishop of theDiocese of South laid and influence to those of* th e fr 'anUm**
rioPAlinn /Urtrl Lin * /~11- 1 , I wllfi WPTP Konf An wink!-. ii « *
ledged mistress _
people of no country, in Europe'were wffi-
1 f g fl° a ^ kn ?V edge tbe miiitar y superiority
of the British, they would not hesitate l
confess that they were the best shm-builders
and saflors. Nation after nation had striv
en, but striven in vain, to dispute thesov-
ereignty of the seas with the proud men
who sail under the “Union-Jack.” Rich
Ant* h a d gi ven u, eit
Carolina, died at his residence in Charleston | who were bent ^on making themselves^and
on Thursday last.
! their countries famons, by beating England
r< ' on her favorite element. Rank and wealth
&3F Small Pox and Whooping Cough had been offered for even approximate suc-
gates from this State, after the nomiration will give Scott the nomination on the third
of Scott, pledged that the Whigs of Geor-1 or fourth ballot. The Northern Whigs
gia would do their utmost for him. Now I gave way on the platform, with this un
it is not probable that either of these gen-1 demanding. If Sc Dtt is not nominated,
tlemen would offer such assurances to the they will charge breach of faith
Convention unless they had some authori-1 South,
ty for doing so, or believed that the plat
r o mi , , SUC
are prevalent in New York. The Mirror] ■ t, 8 ,. ,ute Sovereign of a larg (
• . fininirfl haul - . o
says that there are over a hundred cases of woE g ? n ? . to pn - lHnd . and
small pox in one Ward.
Out for Scott.
worked as a practical shipwright, for the
pitrpose of transmitting such a knowledge
tO IllS SnhlAftfa aa nr^nl.1 -.1 .. .
‘hemin the
on the
The New York delegation are very in
form which the convention offered, was such dignant at the summary ejection of the New
as their friends in this State could honora
bly accept.
York Scott men-, and if Scott is defeated by
it, they will protest against the action of the
lo Whigs, there is nothing objectionable convention, and disavow its biding force.
In A Til I mi • .1 °
in the platform ; it is nothing more than This the Southerners contended implied
the reassertion of principles which are bargain ana corruption, for which charg
KfAn/vl! f f/inmnn/l a---.— J? ■ I • 1 1 l ^
.O The Qeorgia Gitizeo is f ront raat of ship-bmlder^ in the world A
out m favor of Scott as against Pierce. He Put these attempts had all failed’ En
looks upon Scott as the sounder man of the ^ and stld was the first maritime country fn
two, on the slavery question, and in the ^^. tvor ^ d > and > ty the lower classes in the
matter of public services—thinks Pierce a ES ° f E “ r u P6 ’ she Was even
pigmy by the side of Scott. He says also |Zthi£ ‘ Char “ ed ” P0Siti °“
that Pierce voted for the reception of Abo-1 her, and to attempt which wouldbe nemfv
.ifirm ru>fiftAnc a o .. i . I Sacrilegious. *
ption petitions, a sin which Sco tt has not
brought forward every four years, to I they demanded the author’s expulsion from
keep the party in remembrance of them, the convention. Mr. R. sustained himself
and the putting in of a new plank embra-Jiu the debate, and has been pretty well
cing the Compromise, Fugitive Slave Law,
&c,, at which Horace Greeley and his band
ot Frex.-Soilers, are “spitting” like wild
cats. We, therefore, believe^ that
sustained in the facts by the result.
• >A.Vnn»tT-n»» XT ■ . _ —. _
-tixiisr hatiukal CONVENTION UALL-
ed. A circular dated at Washington, and
■ill . r. • » , a ticket j signed bv Samuel Lewis, chairman, has been
wtllte brought oi.tfortheeupportofSeott.lis.ued.callmg -a national Convention of
Convention of the Union Party.—In
another part of this paper, will be seen a
call issued by the President and Vice Pre
sidents of the late Union Convention, for
the assembling of that party at Milledge
ville on the 15th of July, to determine upon
the course to be pursued by the Union par
ty in reference to the Presidential candi
dates who have been put upon the field.
It is hardly probable that the convention
as such, will make a choice between theWo,
as-both .parties have adopted the prerequi
sites which the April convention demanded.
The Athens J?a?m<?r says that the Union
party ^having accomplished its purpose may
now be considered as dissolved, and each
member left free to vote for whom he choos
es, and presumes that all will return to their
old party predelections.
The Savannah Republican says that fresh
delegates must be appointed, unless the old
delegates are authorized by their constitu
ents to represent them again.
Dangerous Bridge.-We referred, some
time since, to the bad condition of the bridge
which crosses the Railroad at the place
known as the “Deep Cut,” with the hope
that those who have the keeping up of the
bridge in good repair, would give it some
attention. We have learned frpm the In
ferior Court that it is a work which the Rail
road Company are under obligations to keep
up, and that if something was not done in
a-little while by the Company towards its
repair, they would proceed to let it out at
the expense of the Company. It has now
been some time since they made some
arrangements tending to that purpose, and
yet nothing has been done, and the bridg.
remains in the same precarious condition,
whereby the lives and property of the peo
ple who have to cross at that place, are
greatly jeoparded. , If the Commissioners
who have been appointed to examine and
report the condition of the bridge, fail to
do so, why not appointothers who will per
form the duty, or if the Commissioners
have reported, why has the Court delayed
action m the premises ? J
A VEi^^Th'ero'l?^rj5^ni red-
1 * • x Ml l , I 7 o w UAtlV/Ucti vOl
bD V ' ,lU J*r ra ? ans rew,ve such »»"P- delegates of the free democracy, at the city
?. 2 : r_!° P -S^ e .„ beeng ; ve “ to Webster 1 0 f Ktsburg, on Wednesday, [he eleventh
or Fillmore4-it will Tun far short. /It is
, 0 ■ : , . a day of August next, at noon, for the pur-
bad titne, now, to make oppositions as to pose of selecting candidates for the offices
whbt support such a ticket would
receive— 0 f President and Vice President of the
the party is chagrined and mortified at the United States.” Friends of the principles
result—one part of them swearing out and lii it-TF/ri P P
r c s»weaini & out, ana declared at Buffalo, at the memorable
the other tearing loose from the aiiegianee vontion of A „^’ ^848 a“e“ted°to'
to the party, but there is three and a half Lrvwri a i * T • ...
. . . . . . I send delegates. In connection with this
months to pass before the baliot is east, and U itissSted ’that the Hon hir Dark
f- Wisconsin,is determin!
be maelt modified before that time; every- Lj t0 the election of p ierce and
! h S ..’" U oId “Hasty J Hiug., Other democratic members ofCon-
to answer for. The New York Tribune, and ? utj . fa A off ’ ? n .^ e other side of the At-
Albany Evening Jonrnal, disputes this, and eoeik^nlf.S * / 0 " th
. i conceived the idea, as he thrpadfft Kio
asserts khe contrary, and refers to Congres through the busy streets, of glppMoglhe
sional Globe of Dec. 1835. I British Lion, single-handed. The idea would
[seem to others, he thought, so preposterous
that he did not mention it; but he contin-
Tiie Position of Messrs. Toombs and j
Stephens.—The Savannah Republican of'l u « d to labor, mentally and physicalV never
FrilltiTT loof core* I for R ITlOlTlftnf. Incinxv
Friday last says: I for a moment losing sight of the one "riat
“As much interest is fait in regard to the object Ij fe—that of giving to his
nAcifiAn a^ fK/ierh MApiLmAn i_ al . j country the undisDutp.flnosiLiorr t
pvsiwivu vx vlxkjoxj gcutiuiucu cOwciros tne ...' j rtu^Brs^
nomination of Gen’l Scott, it gives us much j e P ower among the nations of the
pleasure to state, upon authority from them
selves, that they are opposed to his nomi
natiou. They are in favor of the re-assem
But I find that my intense Americanism,
and my admiration of the genius of the
bling of the Union Convention, already cal- grea ^ man bV ^° so signally added to our
led, and will abide by its decision. We p OUnt, y ? ff‘. or y» kave made me forget that
Mr. 1 T F ntlUS a Jetter from New * so I
understand that such is the position of Mr.
Jenkins also.
will abruptly drop the. subject, after saying
that the civilized world now acknowledges
t.ho fl I! i n'n T m.. Aii . • O
correspondence of central GEORGIAN.] ,a s Pme of Atlantic steamships to
I be the handsomest, the fastest, and the
strongest m the world. . England, herself,
New York, June 18,1852. ^ ^ ^ ^ oerseir
Mr. Editor The Europa, which ar-1 acknowledges it, and adds thafo “If m/
VOrl hdPfi An W n/-l nnedn.. i* T • T I 1 1 . . r iUI '
Plate” will hardly look like the same man
to some of the malcontents.
gress, it‘ is said, will do the same, and
, amongst these is Dr. Townsend, of Ohio,
We roundly asserted m this place a few and the n 0 n. S. P. Chase, Senator from
days ago, our belief that a Scott ticket could
not get more than about fifty votes in the
county, when we were taken up by one who
seemed to know something about what was
goingipn, and offered a bet of one hundred
dollars that it would get one hundred votes;
and as we could not answer the argument
except with a few of Winter’s change bills,
we vamosed and knocked under, determined
to let Ephriam alone—“he is joined to his
idols.”
The nomination of the Honorable W. A
Graham, for the vice Presidency, is well re
ceived, and with a better association, would
have obtained a hearty vote from his party.
Sun Struck.
Ohio.
There is
dingin the town of Bertie, in Canada^
few. miles below Waterloo, a man named
Silas Garter, who was formerly a coachman
in the employ of Gen. Washington. His
age is 96 years, and hels in the perfect en
joyment of bis health and all his faculties
Ho settled m Canada, in the year 1800.
^“Ex-President Tyler p romises
a nearty support to Pierce and King;
About 1 o’cock yesterday
says the Savannah Mews of the 25th inst.’
laborer named Michael Weeks, who was
employed on board the bark Charles Will
iam, loading at Maruet dock, received a
stroke of the sun, from which he died in
about twenty minutes. The deceased was
a married man. The coroner held an in
quest ou the body.
This is the first case of coup de solid
which we have known to occur in this city
this season. As we have before remarked?
such occurrences are rare in the Southern
country. In the Northern cities deaths by
sunstroke are very common at this season
of the year, but even there the victims are
almost universally northern Europeans.
The case above recorded should admonish
oui laboring classes against- too great ex
posure in the heat of the day at a time like
the present, when the thermometer ranges
as it did yesterday from 88 to 90' degrees
The thermometer in Charleston on Wed
nesday at 22.0 clock stood at 91 degrees.
At about that hour a fatal case of coup de
solid occurred. The victim was a white
man—name not given;
.Murdered.—The Savannah Republican
of Saturday says : We learn from a pas
senger who came from Darien in the stage
last evening, that some of the negroes of
j Mr, James Houston, of McIntosh county,
have confessed that they murdered their
master, and have shown where the body
was buried. Mr. H. bad been missing for
more than a week, and it was feared that he
had been killed before tbe confession was
made. Some of the negroes concerned had
kept themselves concealed for some time,
and were recently brought back.
rived here on Wednesday, from Liverpool, Collins is only supported bv his government'
alter a run of 11 days, brought us no news | America will be soon in a'fair way toroon-'
of importance. Australian emigration in- opolize the ocean-carrying trade of the
creases at a rapid rate; and ship-builders world.” It will be remembered that Mr
E-tfE 1318 are P rofi £ in S hereby. The Co,Ii ns fought, unaided, against his »overn-
i AnfKo/.lr a /] T2V- 1 • i ^
Ladies’ Pistols.—A new sort of fire-
arms called ladies* pistols have made their
appearance in Cinnatti. Small and beauti
fully made, very pretty instruments fora
lady’s delicate hands—if she don’t shoot.
They look and feel much better, we should
suppose, in a satin palm, than would their
contents in a cloth-covered body. The Cin-
cinnatti Commercial suggests as a name for
novel instruments, *|LoIa Moutez popguns
give
Wheat Crop of Alabama.—The Hunts
ville Advocate, of the 16th inst., says: “The
wheat crop has been harvested in the north
ern part of the State, and is an abundant
one—larger than has been raised for years
in this section. Rain is much needed at this
time.”
The Pickensvilie Republican, of a late
date, also says: “There has been a most
abundant wheat crop made in this conntv
this year. The most of the farmers just
about this time, are harvesting their wheat
and they say there never was before a befej
rop qf this grain raised in Pickens.” 1
The Washington National Agricul
tural Convention met at Washington on
Friday last. Marshall Wilder was chosen
President. A committee was appointed
which reported a Constitution and regula
tions for the permanent organization of the
of the Society. The name-adopted was the
U. S. Agricultural Society, to meet in
Washington annually on first Monday in
February. Twent-three States were rep
resented by 154 delegates.
, There was a great Whig ratification
meeting in New York city on Thursday
night. Senator Jones of Tenn. and others
addressed the meeting.
The Baltimore Clipper (Whig) saf
there is no truth in the report that Mr. Sill
more advised his friends in the Convention
to go for Webster and thus save the Whig
party.
J&3T It is stated in our exchanges that
Judge Douglass proposes to address the peo
pie in twenty-eight of the States in .advoca
cy of Gen. Pierce's claims to the Presiden
cy: ' . ' ' '•
ter
Fast Travelling.—Arrangements have
been made by which passengers, by Rail
road, are now conveyed from New York
pity to Buffalo, i.u fourteen hours and three
quarters, a distance of about 480 miles.
English government offers to any person
who will seize Thomas F. Meagher, and
take him back to Sydney, a reward of two
pounds sterling !!! This anything but
complimentary to Meagher. The aspect
of the English markets is encouraging.
Cotton is firm; but Breadstuffs are inactive.
1 he Submarine Telegraph has been exten
ded from Holyhead toJDublin, without ac
cident. This shortens the communication
of news between London and Dublin by
six hours. ^ Three Government Commis
sioners are in Galoway Ireland, examining
the capabilities of that port for a trans-At
lantic Steamship Station.
You remember, of course, the flying visit
which Feargus O’Connor recently paid us.
Since his return to England, that eccentric
personage has acquired a good deal of no
toriety in London, by his crazy proceedings
at Westminister Hall. He went into the
Court of Exchequer, and, waving and kiss
ing his hand to the Lord Chancellor, he
laughed uproariously, and insultingly gri
maced at the barristers; until the "noise
made by- the unfortunate man necessitated
the suspension of the argument before the
Court; but, the^presiding dignitary havino-
sent a messenger for the police, Mr. O’Con 5
nor, fearing an imprisonment for contempt
of that high Court, grinned and bowed and
laughed and danced a hasty retreat from
the euraced sanctum of the law.
Gen. Changarnier, through the columns
of the London Times, formally contradicts
the assertion that he made a proposal to the
Provisional Government of 1848, for a mil
itary invasion of England by the French
forces.
We sent off quite a shipload of artistes,
on Wednesday, by the Asia, which took
out 157 passengers, and $923,794, in specie.
Among the passengers were Miss Cushman,
Miss Anderton, Mr. George Yanderhoff,
Mrs. Sinclair (late Forrest) and Signor
Benedetti and wife, &
If your readers, who live in cool and se
questered retreats in the country, should
ask me how hot the weather is, in N. York
I could only give them a very faint idea of
it. Wednesday was awfully hot; yester
day was an enlarged and intensified edition;
and to-day,^ the sun is fierce beyond all con
ception. The city papers recorded over a
dozen cases of death from sun-stroke, yes
terday, in New York, Brooklyn and Jersey
ment backed by English opponents : and
that, not until the victory has been
and acknowledged, does he ask
muneration for his mail services.
Yours Truly, PULASKI
won
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Whig Platform.
We give below the Whig Platform as
adopted by the Convention. At present
we have no room for comment ;
Evening Session, June 18, 5 P. M.
The Convention having been called to
order at five o clock.
Mr. Ashinun arose and said—I have
been instructed, Sir, by the Committee of
whl f [i° n \ e f ch f State ’. who were charged
with the duty of reporting to the Conven
tion a series of resolutions, to present a re
port which I hold in my hand. And I beo-
leave to say that, after much deliberation
conducted with the kindest and most con-
cihatory feelings, the report has been adop
ted with ve.y gr at, although not entire
^^ty’ (applause,) and sir, by leave of
the Chair, 1 will, owing to the resolutions
have been drawn up, lake a position in
wSl f Ch K air ’ ^ “ Si
M h l u aVe be , en mstru cted to present.
, Mr.Ashmunthen took a position near
he President’s chair, and read the resolu
tions as follows:
tu ®* Principles.
The Whigs of the United States in Con
veution assembled, adhering to the gloat
conservative Republican Principles^
which they are controlled and governed
and now, as ever, relying upon the intelli
gence of the American people, with ana-
biding confidence in their capacity for self-
and d : r matlOU F for the establishment
r tenaDCe ° f which tI,eir national
organization as a party is effected:
. 1 : Ike Government of the United State*
ls ofa lirmted^character, and is confined to
sary and proper for carryi^WrS
powers into full execution, "and that
all
powers not thus granted or necessarily im-
Patriotic men of all political parties are
delightea at the favor with which the neti-
tion of E. K Collins, for an additional ap
propriation, has been received bv Congress.
Not the slightest opposition has ever, to my
knowledge, been dreated against sustaining
Mr.Collins, except that which has had it!
origin m British influences. In New York
the merchant and the mechanic, the clergy-
man anfi the sportsman, the millionaireand
F 0 n r A 3Ve but ^opinion, and
that is that Colhfis must be sustained. I
leter, of course, to Americans by birth or
m feeling. Whenever au individual is heard
rash enough to provoke the anger and con
tempt of a-circle, by speaking against the
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plied are expressly r^vei
lespectively and to the people.
2. The State Governments should be
held secure in their reserved rights, and the
General Government sustained in the Con
stitutional powers, and the Union should be
revered ami watched over as “the palladi
um of our liberties.”
3. That while struggling freedom every-
where, enlists the warmest svmpatby of the
e £ 8 & ar ^’ We adhere to the doctrines
ot the bather of our Country, as announced
in his Farewell Address, of keeping our
selves free from all entangling alliances
witli foreign countries, and of never auit-
f.inn- hio 1 p. ■. ^ “
bis o wn to stand upon foreign ground.
our mission as a republic is not to
propogate our opinions, or impose on other
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counfa-ies our form ofgovernment bv thear- ,
cince or force, but to teach bjr exafople, and
<fhow by our success, moderation and justice
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