The Atlanta weekly intelligencer. (Atlanta, Ga.) 184?-1855, June 07, 1855, Image 2
TUESDAY, JUNE
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The Telegraph.
We learn from the Athens Banner, that
there was a meeting of the Augusta, Atlan
ta and Nashville Telegraph Company, some
time since, at Athens, at which Wm. L.
Mitchell, Esq., was elected President, and
Geo. Young, W. P. Pbintup, C. E. Norton,
A. Clark, E. W. Holland, A. D. Hammet
and H. F. Phillips, Directors. At the re
quest of the President, an executive board
was also appointed consisting of J. II. New
ton, H. Hull, jr. and Albon Chase. We
sincerely trust that this new administration
may succeed in resuscitating the sinking
condition of the line. For the lost 12 months
it has been of no conceivable service either
to the business community or to thecompany,
and during much the greater portion of this
time it has not been in operation at all.—
Let the line be completed between Augusta
and Nashville and let skillful and reliable
operators be placed at the different stations
along the route, and there is little doubt but
that the line may be made to yield a fair
profit, particularly if the endeavors to remove
the relay office of the Washington and N. O.
Telegrali Company from Columbia to Augus
ta, shall succeed. And we would here take
occasion to give our hearty endorsement to
the position of the Savannah aud Augusta
press in regard to the advisability of the lo
cation of the relay office and the "disfcribut-
ing agency of the associated press in Au
gusta.
The latter place has, unquestionably, all
the advantages in point of centrality and
convenience, over either Charleston or Co
lumbia, and if the convenience of the South
ern press and the Southern business com
munity, generally, is consulted, the location
will be made at Augusta.
The Virginia Election.
The Richmond Enquirer of Friday morn
ing publishes returns from 139 counties,
which give Wise a majority of 10,159 over
Flournoy. There are but six counties j et
to hear from, which gave Gen. Pierce a
majority of 90. Returns from the Congres
sional Districts show the election of the entire
Democratic Delegation. They are as fol
lows: John S. Caskie, John S. Millson,
Thos., II. Bayly, Chas., J. Faulkner, Poulus
Powell, Wm. 0. Goode, Thos., S. Boeoch,
II. A. Edmonson, John Letcher, Zedekiah
Ividwell, Fayette McMullen, Wm. Smith.
The Convention.
The Democratic State Convention, for the
nomination of a candidate for Governor, as
sembles in Milledgeville to day. Its action
is awaited with much more than the ordina
ry interest felt on similar occasions, by all
parties and political interests throughout
the State, as it isthcsignal for thecommence-
ment of what promises to be one of the most
interesting and exciting political campaigns
that Georgia has seen for many a day. The
Democracy will be well represented from
all parts of the State, and we have an abi
ding confidence that the deliberations of the
assembled delegates will be of such a char
acter as to bring to the support of the nom
inee even more than the wonted strength of
the party, and ensure a glorious Democratic
and anti- Know Nothing victory in October
next.
[Correspondence of the Atlanta Daily Intelligencer .J
New York Affairs.
New York, May 2‘J, 1855.
To be sure our agricultural operations here in
town arc on n small scale, hut in point of time
they are in advance of our country cousins. Our
inlying season is over, and the weather being
highly propitious the entire crop is under cover.
One morning last week, before the dews were ex
haled, tho click of a whetstone upon a solitary
scythe might have been heard by an early lounger
in the Park, and before tho dews of the next eve
ning fell diminutive liny ceoks dotted the chain-
enclosed plats, and weary John Smith, taking an
omnibus from his shop in Front street to his house
in 25th, actually caught a smell like to the smell
of the meadows of his infancy and wasycmindcil,
like Mrs. Slcinton, of “nature and cows.’’
All this brushing up was merely preparatory (o
a novelty—the review of some J,000 of the police
by tho Mayor on Saturday last—a. thing never be
fore done in this city. About 15,000 spectators
were on the ground who testified a lively interest
in tlie proceedings and lost no chance to exalt
Mayor Wood by approving demonstrations of
all sorts. He (the Mayor) inspected every man
of the whole posse, taking the name and address
•*f those who particularly pleased or disploascd
him—made a speech sensible and to the point,
urging each member to feel he occupied a responsi
ble situation and < ( uito plainly intimatod that each
man must do his duly, aud hotter than ail the rest,
he gave medals to those who, during his adminis
tration, have dono deserving acts. The idea of
tho medal is his own and it is intended to form a
sort of legion of honor by its hestowment. The
police made a fine show ; much in contrast, 1 am
of opinion, to what it would have been one year
ago. Tho stars of tho old and new regime are of
very different magnitude. instead of loafing
slovens, dozing on the “shady side" in summer
and toasting their shins in subterranean groggcr-
ics iu winter, we have active vigilant men who, if
they want the stimulus of pride, are not insensible
to that of fear of the Mayor. I noticed, as the
ranks filed past, rather more than a fair propor
tion of Irish profiles, but so long as they keep
awake on beat and get upon the ground within 15
minutes after a row is over, I will uphold them,
and show no K. N. propensities.
Apropos of foreigners the K. N’s. might find
some strong arguments in the number of aliens
who figure in the courts of justice. Of forty
“ Cyprians ” who were arrested one evening
recently upon the street, 37 were Irish and Eng
lish and only 2 Americans, licccnt disclosures
also show that the most dangerous of our rogues
are from London, who, driven to a new field by
the energy of the English police, have selected this
as the most promising. But these gentry will find
their plans of operation thwarted by a police sys
tem which is now fast becoming to tiiis city what
the French has been to Paris, an almost certain
safeguard to life and property.
The anti-prohibitionists arc skillfully perfecting
their organizations to oppose the operation of the
now law. On the 23d inst. the Liquor Dealers
Society passed resolutions for ward organizations,
and instructing their officers to employ counsel to
defend any member charged with violating the
law. Their means arc said to he ample and fight
ing ; with the desperation of men whose pockets
are in peril they will no doubt die hard.
We alluded in a recent letter to the ridiculous
practice of paying foreign singers such exhorbi-
tant salaries as we are doing. Notwithstanding
the tightness of tho times and the alleged want of
patronage of the fine arts on this side the water,
Madame LaGrange, the present Primn Donna of
the Academy troupe, is securing $4,000 per month,
equal to $18,000 per year ! The lesser lights get
from 2j to 3J. thousand per month, making tho
aggregate expenses of the Academy not less than
$25,000 per month. And because we do not com
placently fork over this “ tribute of acknowledge
ment to deserving merit,” we must figure in the
court and literary journnls of our trans-ni'. .tic
neighbors as a nation of barbarians with no . .dti-
vaied taste, no refinement, no love of the beauti
ful. Well, bo it so. While wo educate even tho
poorest of our citizens, and extend the blessings of
our manifold inventions to these same natious
whose highest products are sixpenny princes and
an occasional artist, we can afford to laugh in our
national sleeve at sucli fustian pomposity.
Tho “ very nice business,” which our friend
Burton calls it iu the Wandering Minstrel, which
numerous vagabonds about the city aro in the
hnbit of driving “in tho dog way,” consisting in
stealing poodles, etc., and when a reward is of
fered in tho morning papers, returning them “like
an honest man,” being rather unprofitable just
now, the same busy citizens, abhorring idleness,
have taken to follow tho newspaper carriers at
adventurers a profit of full cent per cent, to say
nothing of the entire absence of risk in the in
vestment, but if the line of business be closely
followed wc fear that many a breakfast will prove
indigestible from .the egg and coffee lacking the
flavor of the morning news.
Wc arc to have more markets, up-town markets,
perhaps on a grand scale like those of the olden
cities of Europe. We cannot boast of any very
splendid markets here, although the supply of food
is always equal to the demand, nor do the muni
cipal relations respecting them keep in view with
half care enough the health of the people. We
hope soon to sec our city in this respect rival any
in the world.
Tho late attempt on the turf to trot twenty
miles an hour, which resulted in the permanent
[For the Atlanta Daily Intelligencer.]
The Principle of Naturalization.
ings of experience could ever convince the
rulers of mankind that in national as indi
vidual concerns, unauthorized meddling is .... » .. v
always presumptuous and may be dangerous. the appearance of the Know Nothing
History in many instances confirms my P ar ^J in fi^fi of American politics,
words, and to go no further back than three opens for discussion a subject not directly
score years and ten, what have the inhabi- involved in any mere question of policy,
tants of Great Britain gained by Quixoti- still less in any appeal to the generous and
cally and always m a thankless cause launch- , . ‘ . ... .
ing themselves upon the broad sea of battle, I huraanc feelings of our natures; and th.s is
, day. In 1790, three years after the adop
tion of our constitution, tho population of
the United States was estimated to he about
4,000,000; these were distributed on an area
of territory comprising 1,000,000 square
miles, an average of 4 inhabitants to the
square mile. By the returns of the last
census we find the population of the United
murder'^nd Sudden "^death^but a°crushiiig ! the right of the foreigner to naturalization, j States to be 23,000,000, on a territory em-
debt which it dizzies the brain to reckon, j and the consequent duty on the part of the bracing 3,-3C,5i_ square miles, an average
and a continental unpopularity which fifty Government to administer it. The discus-
alliances can never extinguish. sion of this subject will be mainly assisted
Be persuaded then in time, that all tor- , . ,, , , ,. ,
eign interference is an ill paid trade, that I b ? considering the mode by which our an-
the sooner it is abandoned in the East the ! testers gained a title to tne country, which
better it will be for you, and that the less it | we now occupy. This view of it will, per-
injury of the noble animal entered for tho cruel | is practised in the West the more prospe-; haps, be all sufficient for the determination
feat, smacks so much of barbarism that it ought ! rous will be your condition
to bo classed among tho bull-baiting and cock
fights of older times and less civilized countries.
A fair race between two trained horses, to test the
comparative speed and bottom of the candidates,
within certain limits which insures the safety of
life and limb, finds something to excuse it even
now, but to set a Herculean labor for a dumb beast
to perform and then urge it ou till its overstrained
veins absolutely burst from the exertion, is sav
age atrocity indeed. ***
The United States and Russia.
The following is the letter to the London
Times, which called forth the bitter remarks
of that Journal on American sympatny.—
The authorship is ascribed by the Philadel
phia Ledger to Mr. Cliilde, an American
residend of Paris:
To the editor of the London Times.
Sir: Since the commencement of the war
with Russia there has now and then ap
peared in the English papers an expression
of surprise, real or affected, that the Amer
icans in their sympathies are not on your
side. It has been attemped to be shown
how by every calculation of self-interest
they ought to set their faces against the
Czar and pray for blessings on his enemies.
They have been repeatedly told how poor
and limited is their commerce with the
barbarians of the North, and how rich and
boundless is their intercourse with those
who are fighting the battles of liberty and
civilization. On the one hand, motives the
most mercenary are presented to a people
who if greedy of gain are lavish of expense,
and on the other, the most Jesuitical war
nings are uttered against the c'ontagion of
a despotic Government, when the English
themselves are in closest contack with an
other Government which is not a whit less
despotic either in theory or in practice.
Without stopping to decide whether Amer-
cans are more benevolently inclined to Rus
sia than to those who, in spite of negative
protestations, are evidently straining every
nerve to humiliate her, it is not difficult to
comprehend why such disposition should
he not uncommon throughout the States.—
Respectfully your obedient servant,
Paris A “States” Man.
The Grand Eruption ot VeauTiu*.
A letter dated Naples, May 10, gives a
thrilling account of the progress of the
eruption of Vesuvius, of which we have al
ready had accounts, and which was absorb
ing general attention, the king, ministers,
| of the American people. We, the children,
density of 7.2 to the square mile. Here,
although the number of inhabitants to the
square mile has, during this period, nearly
doubled, yet has the increase been immate
rial, as we shall see by considering the
number on those parts of the earth consid
ered densely populated. Massachusetts has
people, and all being on the spot. The lava
nas advanced ten miles from its source, and
is doing immense damage. The lettersays:
Just at the base of it, a lake of fire has
been formed, which looks like a red sea in
can never disavow the acts of our fathers, j * population of 127.49 to the square mile,
on that occasion ; nor can the government j Rhode Island, 112.97 ; Ireland, - > e '
abnigatea principle to which it owes its ! gium, 345. With the density of Massa-
very existence. Rights are, or are supposed j chusetts, the population of the United States
to be, determinable, otherwise than by the j would be 411,897,517 ; of Ireland, 694,06b,-
sword, and the rights under which the ear- j 019 ; of Belgium,. 1,111,060,184, excelling
lier settlers planted a foothold in this coun- j ^ho entire population of the globe, and 49
of two years, which period of disability
seems to be attached rather for the purpose
of testing the genuineness of the residences
than any other. The subsequent acts ren
dering it incumbent in the foreigner to de
clare his intention of becoming a citizen,
three years before admission, tacity allows
the right of citizenship, when a bona fide
residence shall have been, by this means
established. But leaving this matter aside,
it must be admitted by all, who have any
knowledge of the meaning of terms, that
the individual who has fixed his residence
in a country, is an inhabitant of that coun
try, and if there be a community extending
its influence over him, he is one of
the people who composed that commu
nity, and if on the other hand ours
is a government of the people, as the
preamble of our constitution and the very
meaning of the term expressly declare, it
then follows as an inevitable consequence,
that resident foreigners—and naturalization,
we contend, is nothing more then the proof
of residence—are an integral part of our
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6.
try, rests on other foundations, or it rests ! t> mes g reat€r than ouf owu - Probably our
not at all: if on none, then arc we usurpers j territories may never be able to sustain a
in the land, and any act by which we ex- j population so dense as any of these. Yet
elude others from it, admits of no defence, j * needs n0 ‘ fi S u , res satlsf > ever y lnte h ' , . .
an undulatory state. In the very centre of j if, on the other hand, our fathers had a I g ent man that the Y have not uow their du , e tho essential basis of our institutions. De-
this has opened another crater, which is w cla i m to settlement here it remains to proportion. Until the happening of such j mocracy is a government of the people. The
zi : * *i,o J “ ’ ... c an occurrence, or at least something nearer ! existence of a large body of the people with-
be seen how far the acceded principles ot |. , , , , J .
v ... , r • , , it than our present state, we see no excuse ; m a government, who are not allowed to
Retaliatory Legislation.
We notice in our Now Orleans exchanges
a suggestion made by tho Bulletin, endorsed
by the Picayune, and copied approvingly by
many Southern papers, recommending a
general system of non-intercourse with
Massachusetts, in view of the late nullifica
tion of the Fugitive Slave Law by the Leg
islature of that State. The article alluded
to urges Southern merchants, shippers and
importers to hold public meetings, pledging
themselves not to ship freight in Massachu
setts vessels, or to buy any kind of manu
factured articles from that State, or in any
manner to pay money into the pockets of
Massachusetts capitalists. In short, it is
the old song of non-intercourse revived, to
be effected through the bluster of indigna
tion meetings and the voluntary pledges of
individuals,— a course of proceeding utter
ly powerless to accomplish the object of its
design. The remedy is in no wise adapted
to the disease. We may hold indignation
in it. Any principle in contradiction of
this, must, in its influence, be subversive of
throwing out red hot stones. On the morn
ing of the 7 th, thecrater at the very summit
fired, as it were, two heavy cannonades ;
and after sending forth lightning, flames
and stones, broke up altogether. In the
been
1 Ju°71 * 0t arG C ° j S1B T ' for the existence of the Know Nothing par- j participate in it is directly contradictive of
' Tlt ., ,, a * V .^ n omiaranfl nnhnh’ ! country is sufficiently broad and j the very name and essential features of a 1
middle of the cone ten craters have been j t ° . sessions on the North American ; fertlle > without inconvenience to those al- ■ Demociacy. Under such circumstances, it
formed, and from these the lava pours forth j . . . . , * ., . j ready here, to support, for years to come, all , becomes an aristocracy, or at best, if we
like a river, and runs on the side of the i lnen > T15 [' 1 ® J conques , i e J who may be forced by hunger and oppres- I may be allowed to form a term, a merocacy.
Cavallo as far as the Minatore. Here four : discovery, and another more subtle, but no ; gion t0 flee from other lands , Vattel lays it ! We have thus briefly attempted to explain
other craters have been formed, which ! less valid, which, upon the principle that , . • , , , , ... , , t ,
throw up bitumen in the manner of pyra-; the earth wa , made f or man allows him to j d °.™ a9 v P riDC1 P le ’ thafc a ma 1 b Y be “S what we believe to be a correct principle. | Massachusetts is not the crazy
mids and resemble cieantic exhibitions of; . - ’ . , exiled or banished does not lose his quanty | We have very possibly failed m establish- -.P art T ? 7 ,
fire-works. The whole of the summit of the ' S 3 - 1 " a sustenance rom any unoccupi per- j ag a man and consequently his right to j ing our position, if so, it is we who are at i y avings of aboll * lon n ’ obs ’ but that tb ? leg '
crater is, therefoie, like a sponge, and must j t.on of it. By the first of these it can with ; dweU on any other part of the earth.”- ! fault, the principle is as immutable as the i lslatlve P ower of the State has been wielded
inevitably fall in. The thin crust trembles : scarcely a show of reason be pretended, that ; Thig right Qn the part of the individua i | soM earth which we treadj it has its i against the South in such a manner as to
tremendous^movement — ! ^ ^ “ "j ^ ^ i” 2 , i necessarily implies a corresponding duty on j foundation in truth and human rights. This ! destr0 ? the reraotest <*anee of a Southern
government, and are entitled to participate ; meet ‘ n S s by tbe score adopt the most
' threatening of paper resolutious, and tume
and fret and vow all manner of individual
non-intercourse, and yet all this will fall far
short, in its effects, of the end aimed at,
and the same old system of aggression and
insult will go on as heretofore. The difficul
ty lies in the utter impossibility, in any
such way, of bringing about that entire
unanimity and concert of purpose, and we
may add, certainty of action, among the
people, which would be absolutely necessa
ry to make the movement at all effectual.
What we have now to complain of, on
THURSDAY, JUNE 7.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON,
OF BALDWIN.
under your feet,
dance wi '
The part
dance ' vlU | m tb gd ^® n J a aan “ 0 t ^ n ^ ter j of conquest, in its best condition, can beue- the part of the nation among whom he j it is which a wise and just philanthropy, in j man getting the rights, which all allow are
- , , ) tinon fn riA nntmnrr mnrp than fl kind OI : t . r* _ _ a.. • i • iiti , .... . . . ! minvnnfian frt him r\xr tna (inncfitnturn nf tnA
looks like the sides of a heated copper boiler.! fined to be noth,n g more than a kind of appiies f or adm i S sion to receive him. What j opposition to tyrany and political casuistry, ! guarantied to him by the Constitution of the
Such is a true statement of what is going on j compensation ‘'detained as an equivalent ; difference will any but a mere casuist find j f ias through all ages of the world, endeav- United States, within the limits of that
at the summit. There are reports of an ! for what is due by the enemy, for expenses ; between the condition and rights of those
opening towards Pompeii, which is not un- j and damages w liich he has occasioned.” In | who are exiled by law and those whose des .
likely, and of another toward Russia, butl J this case there was no W ar, nor consequent- ; perate condition is thus described in an ar-
have not been up for some days, as the dan
ger is now very great,
over the other, crackling, and grinding, and
grating: and when from the very face of it,
a large lump fell off, the appearance was
that of an iron furnace when the iron is
being drawn.
To make the resemblance more complete
T , T ^ ~. , . , ders of the village had fallen; in one, thirty
If I mistake not, there exists a strong Qr peop i e ij ved- A small chapel was
general conviction among disinterested per-1 r „ r i —
sons that the present frightful struggle be
tween Christain nations inarms is a disgrace
to the 19th century; that the object of it is
as unattainable and unwise as it is indefen
sible, that no contingent or prospective
danger to Europe or to India was sufficiently
menacing tojustify in the sight of God the
slaughter of His chief handiwork on earth
at the rate of two hundred thousand souls a
year, or in the sight of man the destruction
of hard earnings, so as to outstrip the almost
miraculous productiveness of the present
day ; and that when Russia consents, as she
has (lone, to the demands of the Allies con
cerning the Sultan’s Greek subjects, the
protectorate of the Principalities, and the
navigation of tho Danube, to require her, in
the plenitude of her strength and the height
of her pride to assist in tying herown hands
is an indignity to which none wouM submit
save a fool who is more than one half cow
ard, Is it, to be wondered at, then, if among
other impartial observers some Americans
be found who seeing Russia banned as an
annexationist by the Allies, call upon these,
as another set of self-rightous accusers were
once exhorted, to “cast the first stone.”
If American sympathies do indeed lean
toward him against whom, single handed as
he flights, are handed the hosts of the West,
some good reasons may perhaps be suggested
for what is in your esteem an unnatural
state of feeling.* While English diplomatists
and Consuls have been unwearied in their
efforts to circumvent and destroy American
influence on American territory, the Rus
sian Government has not only always main
tained amicable relations with that of the
U. S. but it has never attempted to thwart
American agents in the performance of their
duties. Nor has Russian Minister of For
eign Affairs at any time ever formally and
deliberately enunciated, as did Lord Claren
don, an intention to undertake the super
vision of matters on the other side of the At
lantic, itwas not Russian, but englisli accred
ited agents who, aided by French officials,
have within a few years succeeded in baf
fling the U. S. Government in disigns which
if accomplished, would have benefitted the
commerce of all nations.
The Sandwich Islands, St. Domingo, and
the State of Ecuador on the Pacific, bear
witness to their mischievous and clever
machinations. England, likewise, through
her representative, tried to force upon the
Central American Government of Guate
mala a Belgian colonization treaty, execrat
ed and repudiated by that Government, she
herself being under bonds to the United
Stales not to settle any of her own subjects
in that quarter of tlie world.
Then again the English Press, not to be
slack in offending those whom it is bound
by duty and interest to conciliate, never lets
slip an opportunity for abusing and ridicul
ing tlie Americans, not even when to do so
it is necessary to confound a few outlawed
men, aliens for the most part, with the
whole nation. Whether it be tlie atrocious
seizure of a harmless trading-ship by Cuban
underlings or the untoward arrest of a
]y damage sustained, for which to claim
The^writer,* after an absence of two days, j such compensation. Not only did no cause
revisited, after night the vicinity of the i for dispute exist, between the American
natives and the European people, prior to
the latter establishing themselves in the
country of the former, but the existence
of each was almost unknown to the other.
At no time have our fathers, or we after
them, pretended to a title derived in this
eruption, and thus describes what he saw :
Where I walked on Sunday night was
now a sea of fire. The side road by which
I had come down into the main stream from
Pollena and Mussa di Somme, was now full
of blackened coke. The houses on the bor-
ticle iu a late Irish paper.
Extermination of the Irish Race.—A
Scotch millionaire, named Pollock, purchas
ed two immense estates in the county Gal
way, under the Incumbered Estates Court,
and one of the first acts of the be
nevolent gentleman was to serve all
the hapless tenants with a notice to
quit. There are 2,700 men, women and
children of the Irish race living upon the
— .. — i j manner, but on the contrary, have repeat- | esta tes Mr Pollock prefers stocking his
swallowed up, a gentleman 8 villa, and a sad ; .... , . . , x , t property with bullocks and sheep : the pres-
extent of vineyard and garden ground. On j et ^y disowned it, as in every instance w en - gta ^ e 0 f } aw enables him “to do what
the other side of the great lava bed, another ! we have remunerated the Indians for their , be i;jj eg with his own:” and so the unhap-
stream branched off to San Sebastiano. The j l a nds. Still less was legal possession in j pv wretches must follow many a thousand
fire had begun to enter the burial ground of j t j dg CftSe to bc established on the “-round 0 f of their kindred to the poorhouse, the emi-
the little town, but was diverted from its | _ ,. , „ ..., , ” j grant ship, the bridewell, or the grave.
course by a wall. On the opposite side of j f rst dl ^ ov f? ’ a law * A ye to the Bridewell or the grave, but
the stream, were the King and all the royal j have defined to exist only when a nation . emigrant shiD In connection
family. The banks on either side were J finds a country uninhabited, and without a j ® 4 0 ,
thronged with curious and anxious multi- \ master.” Upon the third ground alone, can j ' wl “ 1 tals wc copy the following trom the
tudes, whose faces were lighted up with the j be justified the occupancy of this continent ! Bost °n Post :
blaze of hundreds of torches and with the ; the EuropeanS) and here we have a title ! Sent Back.—A poor Irish woman was
more resplendent flame of the rapidly de- r , . v A v . v A i yesterday sent on board the ship Daniel
seending iava. Since the morning it had clearly valid in law and ethics Vattel ad- ^ ebster f for Liverpool> to be ret P rned to
moved a mile. It was like a vast river of nuts this right m the following language:— 1 - - - — -
glowing coke. As it moved on, the tens of “We have already observed,” says that
thousands of lumps ^rolled and tumbled one w - r jter, “in establishing the obligation to
cultivate the earth, that these nations can
not exclusively appropriate to themselves
more land than they have occasion for, and
which they are unable to settle and culti
vate. * * * * We have already said
State. Why should we not, then, rely on
legislative power at home for our defence ?—
If our Legislatures are made of the right
at such times, men darted forward with : tbat tbe ear t b be longs to the human race in
long poles taken trom the neighboring , ,rl -
yards, and pulled out great masses of lava,
in which they imbedded money for sale.—
What struck me at first, and still strikes me
as the most majestic feature in the whole
scene, is the slow, silent, irresistable motion
of that fiery flood. Active almighty power
without an effort!^ Sweeping everything be
fore it, overcoming every obstaclo, growing
up against intervening walls or houses, aud
devouring them bodily, and then marching
on in the same silent, unrelenting, irresis
tible manner as before. There was a spot
beneath my feet where a fall of mason work
had been built to break the violence uf the
winter floods ; to this spot all eyes were di
rected. The fiery river would fall over it
in an hour: as yet it was distant from it
seventy yards, perhaps. Gradually it rose
in bight, and swelled out its vast propor
tions, and then vast masses fell off and rolled
forward; then it swelled again as fresh
matter came pressing down behind, and so
it broke, and on it rolled again and again,
till it had arrived at the very edge. There
was a general buz and murmur of voices.
The royal family stood opposite to me, look
ing on with intense anxiety. At last it j
broke, not hurriedly, still with a certain !
show of majesty.
At first a few small lumps fell down ; j
general, and was designed to furnish it with
subsistence ; if each nation had resolved i
from the beginning, to appropriate to itself
a vast country, that the people might live
only by hunting, fishing, and wild fruits,
our globe would not be sufficient to main
tain one-tenth part of its present inhabi
tants.” This principle based as it is upon
the inherent rights of man to the occupancy
of the earth, can never be effected by any
question of civilization or barbarism, govern
ment or no government. Our ancestors in
beginning, found the North American In
dians possessed of a more extensive ter
ritory than their wants required; they
properly came iu and occupied tbe sur
plus, and without interfering with the
welfare of others, subjected the earth to its
natural design, the sustenance of man; but
they in their turn, becoming masters of the
soil, found themselves placed in a similar
situation, the same causes of the right un
der which they gained possession of the
land of the New World, still existed with
reference to others who might wish to come
upon them, i. e., a vast territory with an
then poured over a pure liquid of metal,
like thick treacle, clinging sometimes mass ■ insufficient population. What better right
to mass, from its glutinous character, and j had they, than had the original inhabit-
b ^j Is . a ^| ants, to exclusively appropriate the entire
i continent to themselves? If savage barba
rians were unjustifiable indevotingto them-
scorioe. Then on it moved once more in its
silent, regular course, swelling up and
spreading over the vinyards on either side,
and now there was a rush for the road
which traverses this lava-bed. Houses and
the bridge border the road, the carriages
were ordered off, and the bridge was being
broken down—we were being cut off com
pletely. We had therefore to retrace our
steps and make a long circuit through the
open country, and over walls, came round
selves a needless amount of the earth’s sur
face, so also, will an honest judgment an
swer, would be civilized Christians; such a
policy adopted by either, would result in
the same ruinous consequences to the hu
man races. In either case, in the words of
Vattel, “ Our Globe might not be ^suffi-
to the top of the bridge “run,’’said the sen- j c j en t to maintain one tenth part of itspres-
tinels, “or you will be too late.” We | . ] ,.
crossed the narrow parapet which was still 1 en in ia ^ au s
The European colonists
Plenipotentiary, the occasion is pounced j remaining, and soon afterwards down went! came i n on a vast an( I almost uninhabited
upon with a rapidness which shows how ; the whole fabric. In this way it is hoped ; tract of land, and established themselves
venomous is the intent which lies behind. | the lava will be diverted from the town- j into a nation; having done so, a vast and
I know your reply will be, as it has been, j ships of St, Sebastian, Massa di Somme, a i mos t uninhabited tract of land still re-
tliat you arc iu the habit ot roughly band- • and Pollena, which stand on either side,
line your own Government and Governors, j and have as yet suffered partially. Cerco-
lo, through which, however, the stream is
rolling, will be sacrificed. The expectation
not excepting even royalty itself, when by
chance a “truant disposition” untimeously
appears, and that therefore you are quite at
liberty to speak your mind about others.- •
But there is a wide difference between one
who is at liberty to answer and one who has
no organ of communication.
Some people have fancied that there is
another good cause for loving you less and
the Russians more. They believe that be
fore now had you and the French Emperor
bad Russia on your hands Spain, like Tur
key, would have become a stalking horse of
tlie two first maritime powers of Europe for
the prosecution of a Crimean expedition in
the Western Hemisphere. Whatever credit
may have been due to the surmise matters
very little at present, with your impossible
task before you, since it is pretty clear that
no contrivance and no application of physi
cal force can permanently deprive Russia of
a predominance in the Black Sea, for which
she is indebted to nature and circumslances
that aro independent of the durable control
of her enemies. Austria, you may be sure,
will never draw a sword to destroy it, her
own constitution and condition of existence
being too dependent on Russian influence
to encourage her in an act so bold. From
the beginning, not thorough wantonness but
weakness, she lias been playing fast and
loose with the two Allies of the West, whose
diplomatic agents, however, to do them just
ice. knowing the ticklish and dangerous na
ture of tlie party, adroitly humored her, as
one does a nervous horse who may do as he
is bid or free himself of the harness at a
jump. Whatever may be the cause there is
no denying that Austria has never gone
heartily with you, and at your utmost need,
rely upon it, she will be found wanting. If
Russia were not sure of this, do you imag
ine that she would dare to reject your con
ditions of peace?—that she would be mad
enough to resist a world in arms such as
would he Austria, England, France and Tur
key united in head, hand and heart?
Allow me to repeat, in tlie only journal
whose universal currency tempts one to ad
dress it, that if there he any hostile senti
ment in America towards the allies, apart
from the justice or injustice of their cause,
it is in a great measure owing to the intri-
roapectable distance, in tboir rounds through the : gues of foreign agents and to the calumnies
more retired streets, and raking after all that is } of a foreign press. In the course of time
littered by the way. The gleanings sold in tho j the latter bane may furnish its own appro-
fcusier thoroughfares must pay tho enterprising i priate antidote; hut it seems as if QO teach*
mained: under such circumstances, with
out a direct repudiation of the justice of
their own acts, they could not refuse to
is that the lava, should the eruption eontin-1 other people likewise to establish themselves
i-U~ Y> TIT . J ’ 1 : I _ r 1
ue, will flow down to the Ponte Madualoni,
and into the sea. So grand and so destruc
tive an eruption has not been known for
many years, and even now we cannot tell
how it will terminate. The mountain is
literally seamed with lava, and many fear
a violent explosion as the final scene of the
tragedy.
Mr. Ericcson, the “caloric” engine in-1
venter, is out in a long letter denying the
truth of the report that he has abandoned
liis invention as impracticable. He says :
“The late British Association in England
discussed the matter at length, the inferiori
ty of steam as a moter being fully establish
ed.” It is a curious commentary on the j coming populated, and this territory, under
faith that Mr. Ericcson has in his invention ] thefostering careof the republic, wouldsoon-
that his caloric ship has had the air heaters | er become the cultivated honje of man _ a
reason ridiculously absurd had we confined
into a nation, or receive them into the folds
of their own : they did the latter, and the
naturalization law was an act not less of
wisdom than justice. However lost sight of
amid the increasing grandeurs of a great
empire, the principle which we have endeav
ored to explain lias been tacitly admitted,
and acted upon during every stage of our
government. In that constant acquisition
of territory, which has marked our course
through its whole progress, we have given
it as a sufficient reason for thus extending
our boundaries, that America was fast be-
converted into steam boilers.
Baltimore, May 31.—The boiler of the i that population to decendants of the origi-
engine attached to the freight tram on the nal three mmio ns who composed the inhab-
Ireland. She was from the town of Mon-
son, in this State, where she was probably a
pauper. Iler cries were piteous, and her
reluctance to be sent away was of the most
extreme character. “She went, hut not
alone”—a little child a few weeks old, a na
tive of Massachusetts, has been sent with
her into the horrors of poverty, a doom
worse than slavery, and not one interposing
native American voice was raised to prevent
it. Several other paupers were sent back
in the vessel.
Literally, yet we hope not irreverently,
man we say “the foxes have holes, the birds
of the air have nests, but the son of man
hath no where to lay his head.”
We are aware that it will be objected, to
what we have hitherto said on this subject;
that the policy of the Know Nothing party
is not to prevent emigration, but by a repeal
of the naturalization laws, to exclude for
eigners from a participation in the govern
ment. Their acts disprove such assertions ;
for leaving entirely out of view the action
of the Massachusetts Legislature, by which,
under a specious law against paupers, infe
rior magistrates are armed with extraordi
nary power to return, from whence they
came, emigrants who land upon their shores,
the general tone of the press, and the indi
vidual action of many who compose the
party, display a rancorous and malignant
hatred against the entire foreign popula
tion, which far from contenting itself with
excluding them from the government, would
carry the spirit of persecution into ail the
social relations of life. The effect of their
policy—nor do they scruple to declare such
to be their intent—is to discourage and im
pede emigration to our shores; and their in
fluence has, in a great measure, already ef
fected their object; for not only has emigra
tion almost entirely ceased, but thousands,
who were already here, disgusted an<^ hor
rified, have returned, preferring the politi
cal oppression of a tyranical government to
actual social wrongs, though perpetrated
under the standard of a Republic. What
can he the difference between two acts, the
effects of which are the same, with the only
exception that one is declared and the other
obvious ? The policy of the Know Nothing
party as effectually excludes emigration, as
would any act passed with that direct de
sign. If foreigners have a right to settle in
this country, as we believe, and have en
deavored to prove they have, any act which
impedes the free exercise of that right, is in
violation of it.
One other view of this subject—Naturali
zation—we contend, is necessary to the per
fection of the right of residence in a foreign
country. Since the abolition of villanage,
a system under which man was regarded
rather as a part of the soil upon which he
was born, than an intellectual being en
dowed with social rights, tbe principle of
expatriation has been gradually developing
itself; it remained, however, for the Ameri
can people to recognize it in its fullest and
most beneficial extent. Under the opera
tion this law—and a more correct one civi
lization never introduced—man becomes a
part—not of the government under which
he was born—but of that under which he
lives. This was but reverting to the prin-
ored to establish : the right of the man in
the government. So long as the cause for the
support of which our fathers pledged their , , „ , . . ,
“lives” their “fortunes” and their “sacred ! f T uff ’ ™ have ampie means of bringing the
honor,” is espoused by us their children, j Massachusetts fanatics to their senses, and
long is the government of the United States : that > too > Wltll0ut followm S tbe ' 1 ' ? sam P le
hound to extend to all, over whom it may ; and S oing into unconstitutional legislation,
extend its influences, the right of a free and ! But even on the score of constitutionality,
fair representation in it. M. 1 ma J weil be doubted whether justice
—— ; would demand that tlie Southern States
Libel Siuit. Lhe suit of Mathews vs. the sbou [ d square their legislation to the strict
Beachs of the New York thin newspaper, : lett6r of the com p a ct (already violated by
to recover damages for an alleged libel, in i the ag g re ssor) in their work of self defence
publishing a report some five years ago, was ) aga j ngt t he unconstitutional acts of a State
concluded on Thursday morning in the Su- i wb ; cb ba8 virtually placed herself beyond
perior Court, by a verdict for the defend- tbe pale of tbc Confederacy. When Mas-
ants - sachuselts repudiates the compact she for-
Issue of Land Warrants.— I he Pension j f e ;t s b g r claims to its protection. But we
Office was to have issued on Thursday last, ; do uot propose to go beyond the limits of
two thousand land warrants, under the late tlie constitution. We do, however, propose
law of Congress, and afterwards at the rate ; that every Southern State in this emergency
of two hundred a day.
Voice from the Sontli West.
Sam was brought to a showing in the
Early County, on Wednesday the 28th inst.
At an election held then and there for the
office of Sheriff, the Democratic candidate
received considerably over two hundred votes
—the Know Nothing getting just thirty five
in the whole county. In two precincts
where the Whigs usually poll about fifty
votes, the Know Nothings found not one
supporter. We receive this information
from a resident of the County. Well done
for Early.—Macon Telegraph.
A Dilemma.
In the capture of Constantina, in Algiers,
a French sub-lieutenant, who fought by the
side of General Dumremont, was returned
as killed, and a certificate of his death was
j should rely upon her Legislature for pro
tection, and not indignation meetings, or
other inefficient demonstrations.
Our remedy, and wc believe it to be the
only effectual remedy short of disunion, is,
that the Legislature of every Southern State
that feels itself aggrieved by tho action of
Massachusetts, should go quietly to work
and pass a law suspending the use of the
State Courts for the collection of all liabili
ties on the part of citizens of the State to
citizens of Massachusetts, incurred after a
certain date subsequent to the passage of
the act, the operation of the law to continue
until the obnoxious law shall be repealed by
tho Massachusetts Legislature. Let the
same course bo pursued towards every other
sent to the widow, who resided at Nantes | Northern State that may choose to try its
Two years afterwards she married a wood . . * . .
engraver, and went to reside with him at hand at repudiation ot the Constitution.
Turin. Some months ago she had occasion We will stake our reputation as prophets,
to take up her residinee at Lyons, on busi- that a single session of the Massachusetts
ness. After a stay of two months in that ; Legislature would uot pass by without ef-
city, she was astonished at receiving a let- c - u „. c ..
^ , , . , facing the “nullification law trom the
ter from her second husband, announcing t
that the first had appeared to claim her.— ! statute books, after such action had been
She hastened hack, and found at Turin the j taken, even by the single State of Georgia,
ex-lieutenant. It was determined, after !
discussion between the parties, that the tri
bunals should be appealed to, to decide
whose wife she really is: and until judge
ment slial be given the ex-lieutenant was
invited to take up his residence in the
house of the engraver. The woman and
her two husbands have since continued to
live together on the very best terms.
France and Poland.—M. de Persigny
has been appointed the French Ambassador
at tho Court of St. James, in the place of
Count Walewski. Tlie new minister to
England is understood to be friendly to the
resuscitation of the kingdom of Poland as a
bulwark against Russian encroachments.—
This change in the council of Napoleon III.
is regarded as a triumph by tho friends of
Polish nationality. The steps recently
road between Baltimore and Philadelphia,
burst this afternoon at Havre de Grace, kil
ling the Engineer and Fireman.
There was no mail through from Phila-
itants of this country at the time of the
formation of the government. But within
the last twelve months a new and powerful
delphia this afternoon, in consequence of j party has gained a foothold in this country,
obstruction caused by the accident
Hartford, Ct., May 31.—The bill allow
ing an extension of sufirage to negroes, was
defeated in the House of Representatives to
day by a majority of 20.
Home Squadron.—The Secretary of the
Navy has appointed Commodore Paulding
to the command of the Home Squadron in
place of Commodore McCauley who has had
temporary command.
The United States Expedition for the re
lease of Dr. Kane left the New York Navy
Yard at 1, P. M., on Thursday, the Release
in tow of her coDsort, the propeller Arctic.
As the two vessels sailed jiway on their mer
ciful errand, the crews of the South Caro
lina and Congress manned the rigging, and
the result of the ascendancy of whose prin
ciples will be an entire revolution in the past
policy of this government, an open repudi
ation of the uci- iji' our ancestors—classing
them with marauders and thieves—and a
denial that we, their progeny, have any ti
tle to the soil upon which wo live—under
the specious pretence that Americans shall
rule America, they ignore the just existence
of such a people. We say that these are
tho unavoidable results of the ascendaucy
of the Know Nothing party to power, unless
we can be shown that a new state of affairs
have sprung into existence inconsistent with
the exercise of that right under which the
first emigrants established themselves in this
continent. That principle, wo will remem
ber, is this : that no small body of people
[From the Savannah Rupublican.]
Messrs. Steplicns aud Cobb, aud
Know Nothings.
Tlie reader have failed to notice several i taken for the organization of a Polish legion
articles which we have published within ' arc regarded as pointing to the same con-
the last few days, from diflerent portions of j clusion Bufc as the ^-establishment of
the State, reviewing the late letter ot the : . , ,, , „ . .
lion. Alexander H Stephens against the : Poland would be a “revolutionary move-
American party. We observe with pleas- I inent,” these inferences are to be taken
ure the tone of respect, and the freedom I with several grains of allowance.
from personal invective, which character- ! ——; :—;——
ise these communications, and trust that ! Barnum s baby show isn t quite so popu-
the example set by the writers who have j lar with the abolitionists since they have
already occupied our columns, will be im- j learned that he has decided to exclude the
Hon. Howell Cobb,
Will address the people of the Sixth 0
gressional District, at the following tiiji° & '
and places: a 01e8 >
Saturday, June 16th, Monroe, Walton p
Monday, June 18th, Lawrenceville
nett county. ’ ltl-
Wednesday, June 20th, Oummino-, p
syth county. 0t '
Friday, Juno 22d, Dahlonega, Lumpy
county. 11 ln
Monday, June 2oth, Blairsville, Um
county. ’ on
Telegraphic Relay Station.—At a meet
ing of the Savannah Chamber of Commerce
on the 1st inst., it was resolved that the
President be instructed to address a l etter
to the lion. Amos Kendall at Washington
setting forth the general advantages which
would ensue from tlie removal of the I e ] e
graphic Relay Office from Columbia, S f>
to Augusta, Ga.
Betting on Elections.—Among thegra^
jury presentments before the Circuit Comt
of Petersburg are the Allowing: F. C. Stain,
back, Esq., Flour Inspector of Petersburg
and Alex. Leak, Esq., of Washington Cit-
for betting on the chances of Henry
Wise and Thomas S. Flournoy to the Gov
ernorship of Virginia.
Busted cp !—We learn, says the M 01U .
gomery (Ala.) Journal, that a Know Noth
ing council in Autauga county, went by the
board a few days ago. At its last meeting
the members had a hot discussion on the
question of dissolving, and it was tin ally
carried by an almost unanimous vote.—
Thereupon the book was brought out and
each member came forward and expunged
his name from tlie roll—when an amusing
scramble took place to get to the “f ou [
record” first, some not awaiting for a pen
but dipping their fingers to the ink to draw
the biaclc line over their autographs.
J8@P*The Presbytery of Shenago, Wis., of
the Associate Presbyterian Church, at a
meeting held on the ITtli ultimo, adopted
the following resolution with reference v,
secret societies.
Resolved, That in the judgment of this Pres-
bytery, the principles of our church exclude
from communion the members of the secret
society called Know Nothings, and the
members of all such secret societies, and
that the Presbytery direct sesssons to
enforce this opinion.
Expected Decline in Flocr.—The Au
gusta Constitutionalist says :—A letter from
Rome, Ga., saysthatthe wheat is now beiim
cut in many places. So you may expect a
rapid decline in flour. The article can he
purchased by the single sack, of one hun
dred pounds at this market, for 84 50. We
of Augusta pay ?G and over. An inferior
article of corn is SI 50, though none offer
ing. Bacon 9 to 1L cents.
In 1834, the State of Georgia appropria
ted S15.000 for the erection of a Lazaretto
in Savannah, but no measures were taken
by the corporate authorities of the city to
carry into effect the purposes of the Legisla
ture. At a meeting of the Council on
Thursday last, it was resolved to apply this
$15,000, together with the interest which
has accrued upon it since 1834, to the pur
poses designed.
A Great Pile of Specie.—The steamer
Baltic took out from New York on Wednes
day evening for Europe, an enormous spe
cie export—1,700,000 : a cargo such as the
old Spanish galleons used to carry—hut we
have nothing else to export justnow. Better
export specie than flour or any other kind
of food.
Newspaper Change.—We have inadver
tantly omitted to notice that Dr. James R.
Smith has retired from the Editorial chair
of the Atlanta Republican. Messrs. J.
Norcross, W. G. Forsyth aud L. Dean are
the new proprietors. The paper will con
tinue to advocate the claims of the Tem
perance candidate, Mr. B. II. Overby.
[From the N T . O. Picayune, 31it ult.]
Mr. Soule ou Mr. Perry.
An omission having occurred in our pub
lication last evening of the subjoined letters
we repeat them in this morning’s paper:
To the Editors of tlie Picayune:
New Orleans, May 29, 1855.
Gentlemen :—You will much oblige the
undersigned by inserting in your next num
ber the enclosed letter, which I have just
transmitted by mail to the editors of the
National Intelligencer and the New York
Herald. Very Respectfully, &e.,
Pierre Soule.
itated by others who may take part in the
discussion, whether for or against the new
party.
We would express the hope in this con
nection, that the American party will wage
no war against Mr. Stephens, nor oppose
his re election to Congress. Neither Geor
gia nor the South can offord to lose the ser
vices of such men at this time. It requires
no ordinary sagacity to foresee the mani
fold dangers now preparing for the Union
and the South, or to appreciate the neces
sity of bringing into tlie public service all
the intellect, and patriotism, and curage, at
our command. Tis true Mr. Stephens has
dealt the party a heavy blow ; but let that
go : if the party is as strong as it is repre
sented to be, it would require several such
blows to fell it to the ground. Besides, as
between himself and the party, there is no
reason to believe, liis letter has damaged
the writer more than those at whom it was
aimed
“little niggers.” Barnum’s motto is that
of Horace—“Ilic niger est, hunc caveto!”
[For the Atlanta Daily Intelligencer.]
Tlie Fourth of July!
Messrs. Editors: Laying aside all politi
cal prejudices, I propose that the citizens of
Atlanta show their love for the independ
ence of their country by celebrating the
4th of July in a manner becoming tho sons
of their revolutionary sires; and, also, pro
pose that the Mayor and Council call a
meeting for the purpose of making suitable
arrangements for tbe occasion.
We all talk much of the love we have for
our country and the reverence we have for
the privileges we enjoy as freemen and re
publicans, yet we have almost permitted
the anniversaries of our independence topass
together with a multitude of persons on the
wharves and piers sent six hearty hurras i has a right, by an exclusive appropriation
after them. These were returned with ■ of an unnecessary amount of territory to keep
equal spirit by the gallant sailors of the Ex- it fro™ the general uses of mankind.
pedition. J Let us see how stands the case in this
cannot be questioned. Indeed, no member
of either House of Congress, from the South,
ciples upon which societies were formed— occupies so commanding a position as. he
a community of individuals each free and | does ; nor have we acliampion so well suited
ii. j x v a , e as he, to grapple with the difficulties now
equal, bound together for the benefit of the | I(J0mi ^ u * p j^the distance, and to protect
whole. Naturalization, we say, is an ele- ; and de f end us . The party, therefore, which
mental part of expatriation; without it the prevents the return of such a man to Con-
individual who leaves the government under gress, at so critical a period, takes upon it
self a fearful responsibility.
That the reader may not suspect us of
being influenced by old Wihg attachments,
we desire to express the hope, at the same
time and for the reasons that no opposition
will be made to the election of Mr. Cobb.—
The welfare, not of Georgia alone, nor of
the South, but of the whole Union, impera
tively demand the return of these men to
Congress. Indeed, we have never known a
period when the country was threatened
with greater dangers than it is at this
time. The wild and rampant fanaticism of
tbe North, the civil war in Kansas, and the
question of the admission of slave States
in the Union, will lead to an agitation at no
distant day, the like of which lias never
been witnessed in this country. Let South
ern men then, bear and forbear. Let them
off entirely unnoticed or unthought of. If
Be this as it may, the party would inflict J there is a spark of the irue spirit of ’76 in
a much greater injury on itself than Mr. | £ be breas (; g 0 f our citizens let us indicate it
Stephens has done, by preventing his return j , . ..
to Congress, especially if itshould send some h J an observance of the anniversary o' a
second rate man in his place. It is this ! day made glorious by the Declaration of the
very mistake—the election of inferior men, j Independence of our glorious Republic!—
—that has damned the party in New Eng- j AYhat say you, Messrs. Editors?
land ; and the same cause will produce the i " \ AYIIIG.
same effect in Georgia, unless the common
sense which so generally characterises the
party, shall rule tlie hour instead of folly
and passion.
Mr. ‘Stephens has done the State some
service.’ He is a man of great abilities, and
his patriotism and devotion to the South
The New Y'ork Herald has thonght
i it worth while to put the biography of Geo.
Law in four columns, after the manner of
Plutarch ? Out of it all the Heiald deduces
that as the hero has shown “ vast adminis
trative ability” in managing rocks, bridges,
railrords, steamboats and capitalists, he
must therefore be the man who will manage
the political concerns of the country to the
country’s best advantage.
which he was b rn. leaves society: he be
comes an Mb- - ■ v rid, a condition
of affairs totai ■ with the first
principles of go\• ..iental union, a commu
nity of interests when the rights of each are
represented in the ruling power. The
foreign emigrant arriving on our shores
with an intent to remain, looses the rights
and renounces the duties of a citizen or
subject of the government from whence he
came, and becomes a citizen or an inhabi
tant of this country. This is his commu
nity, and he is one of the people who com
pose it, and as such he is entitled to be rep
resented in it. Our various acts of legisla
tion prescribing a term of years duriug
which the emigrant must remain before he \ P u * tbe ‘ r aad wi ff f men at f tbobe i“’
becomes entitled to the right of naturaliza- f and lf tbo noble sh, P. of 8tate “ ust
tion, so far from refuting, confirms our ar
gument. The first act, passed on thiR sub
ject, March 26,1840, prescribes a residence
they cannot reproach themselves with her
loss.
Senator Toombs, of 6a., accompanied by bis
family, arrived in Weehingtoa City on Thursday.
The New Orleans Delta saj's that an
extended system of fraud and forgery has
been successfully carried out in Texas and
Louisiana, in the fabrication of fictitious
Texan Land Warrants, and that a large
number of these warrants are now in circu
lation, which, upon presentation, liaveproved
to bo forgeries.
The Weather and the Crofs.—Rain lias
at last come I We had, on Sunday morning
last a shower, and have had several show
ers this morning, and judging from the
prospects now, we think that we will have
rain abundance.
The oats crop through this country has
been, up to the present time, very sorry, but
we thinK that the present rains will bring
them out, and make an average yield.
The wheat crop looks as promising as we
ever saw it in this country, and corn, not
withstanding the dry weather which wehave
had, is in a growing state, and looks well.
Wo now have every prospect of a better
crop in this country, than we have had for
two years past .--Dalton Timet 81st ult.
[Copy.]
To the Editors of the National Intelligencer,
and of the New York Herald:
New Orleans, May 29, 1S55.
Gentlemen—I do not intend at present to
notice tbe letter published over the signa
ture of Horatio J. Perry in your number of
the22d (and 23d) inst., otherwise than by
stating that there is not a word of truth »
it.
The baseness and tbe impudence of tie
writer are only equaled by liis hypocrisy
and cowardice.
Indeed, this last production of liis, sweat?
the Jesuit aud the felon all over.
I shall take occasion to draw up a picture
of this gentleman’s doing, during niy mis
sion to Spain, in the history which I am pre
paring of it for the press; and, while un
sealing the secret of his treachery, give 3
clue to the encouragement and support
which it has secured him in tlie State 1'^
partment at Washington.
Your obedient servant,
Pierre Soule.
Tlie Law of Libel.
A verdict of $800 damages, given again 5 '
the Sun, for copying a police report trom
the regular returns, was set aside on T‘ iur :'
day last, by the Supreme Court in Philadel
phia, and judgement given for defendants).
Remarking upon this, the Baltimore Aim n '
can says—
In no point has the law been farther re
moved from the boasted "perfection of coO)
mon sense” than in all that relate-) to t
law of libel. Its inconsistency and.injosn
in this respect has been exposed time up
time, but they have been clung to witn
pertinacity that seemed to increase m PR
portion to the clearness with which tlm
absurdity was exposed. Latterly, Rwevep-
the dogma that “the greater the truth
greater the libel,” has failed to be «
versal acceptance, and liberal judge* un
intelligent juries have proved that tins mu>
legal feature was not impregnable.
blow has recently been struck at ithyJu o
Bosworth, of the New York Superior Gt ‘
who, in deciding a libel case agamy .
New York Sun, laid down with g ra ]' • J
distinctness a most important princtpl •
He said, “tlie rule is that a party "i'° .■'
tifies the publishing of ajibel, I'V at e L
ing to prove that what was pubhshe ^
true, must show that in its substance
meaning tlie facts were as tlie article s '
and although every part of an article
med to be libbllous as a whole, is yj
to be true by the defence, yet if"’| ,at '\m e
is not of itself libellous, the deft-me ls ‘
out. * * * * Tho law allows a ^
to publish anything of another—P r0 '-. ^
is true—and it is complete defence
article is true.”
Proposals.—The attention of roauer*
invited to the card of Mr. J- Camac
our advertising columns, by which t
be seen that proposals for furnishing a
amount of lumber are invited, the -“®
to be delivered at the Fair Ground
U by tbs lotb of July*